Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1907. 
The object of this journal will be to studiously 
promote a healthful interest in outdoor recre- 
ltion, and to cultivate a refined taste for natural 
Objects. Announcement in first number of 
Forest and Stream, Aug. 14,1873. 
L 
\ WHAT is in store for our readers. 
F In the next issue of Forest and Stream there 
| will be printed a description by Henry Mac- 
I dona Id who took part in it—of the great fight 
that took place between the Indians and the white 
j. settlers at the .junction of the Musselshell and 
f Missouri rivers in 1869. 
I Manly Hardy, Maine’s veteran naturalist, will 
explain the differences between the Canadian 
j] lynx and the wildcat, correct many current mis- 
j apprehensions about them, and give some terse 
facts in relation to both. 
• 
“Indian Words in Common Use” gives a list 
of a number of words which have become a 
part of our common speech, with the derivation 
and original meaning of each. 
Arthur Jerome Eddy’s timely remarks on salt 
|*water fishing with light tackle will run for sev- 
I cral weeks, and will be followed by the splendid 
series, “A Sea Angler Ashore,” by Charles Fred- 
erick Holder. Clifford Cordley, of England, ex- 
1 plains some salmon fishing problems. 
1. The Peril of Lone Man,” another one of J. 
t'W. Schultz’s Indian stories, and Edmund F. L. 
, Jenner s ‘ Toling Dog” will appear in due time, 
|I j nd other timely articles by well known writers 
will amuse and please our readers. 
j VOL. LXVIII— No. 25. 
I No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
is well known by all who have inquired into 
the matter that too often there is an element 
of the selfish and the rough among campers, 
and that if such persons going to camp dur- 
mg the closed season are provided with arms 
they are likely to use those arms on any living 
thing that may present itself. This has been the 
experience in many parts of Maine. It has been 
the experience in many parts of Canada. There 
are a few men, who when they get into their 
flannel shirts and canoes and leave the imme¬ 
diate borders of civilization, seem to feel that 
they are free from all restraints not only of law, 
but of decency, and cast their self, respect to 
the winds. It is a pity that this should be so. 
It was also hoped that during the present ses¬ 
sion the New York Legislature might pass a 
license law which should apply to residents and 
nonresidents; nonresidents, however, to pay a 
license fee higher than the residents. The 
Legislature of Connecticut has passed such a 
license act which has gone to the Governor, and 
which, if it becomes law, cannot fail to be pro¬ 
ductive of much pood. With the rowdy element, 
which is too common in our larger cities and 
with our large alien population, many restraints 
are needed now which were not needed in old 
times and which under conditions then existing 
would have been repugnant to our people. But 
conditions have largely changed. 
CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK. 
The action taken by the Connecticut Legis- 
I ature during the present session is more far- 
reaching than might at first appear. A few years 
jtgo the State of New York passed the law abol¬ 
ishing the spring shooting of ducks, and annually 
i ince then, at sessions of the Legislature, dele- 
j nations of the residents of Long Island have 
j isited Albany striving to have the law repealed. 
W argument, which appealed strongly to the 
, legislature, was that Connecticut to the north, 
nd New Jersey to the south, both permitted the 
pring shooting of ducks and that it was an 
f utrage that Long Islanders should be deprived 
Sf a privilege which was enjoyed by States on 
ither side of them. This year Connecticut has 
assed a law providing that the duck shooting 
| Jason shall close Jan, 1. which takes away from 
ie Long Islanders half of their strongest argu- 
j >ent. In view of the constantly increasing feel- 
ig among sportsmen of the better class against 
! ie very long open season for wildfowl, it may 
! 2 hoped that within a few years New Jersey 
j so will put an end to spring shooting. 
: It was thought at one time during the present 
j :ssion of the New York Legislature that the 
1 w might be passed forbidding the possession 
i firearms in the woods during the closed sea- 
! for game, but this has not been done. It 
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FIREARMS. 
The suggestion made last week that the sports¬ 
men of America should establish, under the 
auspice’s of some one of the better known clubs 
of riflemen or outdoor men, a national collec¬ 
tion of sporting firearms or hunting implements 
seems to have been received with much enthu¬ 
siasm. Big-game hunters and one naturalist of 
national reputation have written to us advocat¬ 
ing the action suggested, and speaking of the 
idea as a most excellent one. The opinion 
is expressed by one very well known big-game 
hunter that the Zoological Society will certainly 
provide space for such a collection and will ex¬ 
hibit it in its Administration building as the 
property of the Boone and Crockett Club. 
A man whose big-game hunting experience 
goes back to buffalo days has expressed a de¬ 
sire to contribute to such a collection several 
arms of interest, among them an old Hudson's 
Bay flintlock fuke, a long Kentucky rifle, carried 
by a well known plainsman in the early fifties, 
a buffalo gun captured from a Yellowstone Park 
poacher, and formerly the property of old John 
Yancey, and several other weapons. 
We do not doubt that if the matter shall be 
taken up, as has been suggested, by the Boone 
and Crockett Club, or by other clubs, a great 
number of contributions will be received, just 
as soon as the possessors of these arms, ancient 
and modern, shall'learn to whom they may be 
sent and what is to become of them. 
LAW OBSERVANCE. 
One of the New England papers, commenting 
on the situation that confronted trout fishermen 
on opening day, complains that the preserves and 
the posting of trout streams in Vermont resulted 
in the concentration of about twenty-five rods 
on one brook, and it concludes that there is no 
place left for the fisherman to “drop a hook out¬ 
side his own door yard, ’ although Vermont has 
invited summer tourists there “to enjoy the ex¬ 
ceptional fishing and hunting privileges.” It 
therefore advocates a fishing license fee, the 
money obtained to be used in stocking streams. 
Another paper indorses this idea, but a third 
asserts that Bennington county offers an object 
lesson in that its streams are attracting anglers 
from nearby and distant points, the result of 
proper legislation, careful stocking, and with a 
warden who performs his duties. 
It is somewhat curious how often new meas¬ 
ures are demanded when existing laws fail of 
enforcement. In this case, and in many similar 
ones, the license fee is believed to be the one 
thing that will remedy all evils. Nevertheless, 
men who find their greatest pleasure in wading 
brooks, rod in hand, frequently keep small trout 
or basket inordinately large numbers, thus ruin¬ 
ing their own and other anglers’ opportunities to 
catch trout large enough to retain. It seems 
that if there is a selfish streak in one’s makeup 
he cannot resist the temptation to keep all the 
trout he catches. Herein lies one fault that must 
be corrected if stocking is to become effective. 
The laws of nearly all States are reasonable 
and just. Their enforcement is difficult but not 
impossible. Their observance, however, consti¬ 
tutes no hardship to any man. 
ABOLITION OF GUN LICENSES .ABROAD. 
W ithin the year we have heard much about 
gun licenses in the United States and in the 
future are likely to hear more; but this agita¬ 
tion is not confined to this country. 
At a hunting congress, recently held in Paris, 
the suggestion was made that the cost of shoot¬ 
ing licenses should be materially reduced or 
that these licenses should be entirely abolished. 
That such action should be taken by the dele¬ 
gates of that body was hardly to be expected, if 
those discussing the question considered the pub¬ 
lished results of the suppression of shooting 
licenses in Bohemia. A French paper has sum¬ 
marized these results—for Sundays only—and 
gives the following table: Fifty persons were 
killed, 3.014 people were wounded, 24,469 domes¬ 
tic animals were shot. To offset this there were 
killed—including sparrows—1,814 head of game. 
Besides these results the shooting is reported to 
have cost 413,000 florins paid in indemnities, 
63.3,000 florins paid in damages to the persons 
wounded, 172,000 florins paid in doctors’ and 
lawyers fees, and 74.000 hours’ imprisonment. 
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