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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 22, 1907. 
Summer Shooting. 
Lake Waquekobing, Ont., June 9.— Editor 
Forest and Stream: Chief Game Warden 1 ins- 
ley’s remarks in Forest and. Stream of April 20 
on the way tourists abuse the privilege accorded 
them of being allowed to carry firearms in the 
close season through the northern part of On¬ 
tario is unfortunately too true. I recently drew 
public attention to this matter. Being m the 
woods the year round, I am in a position to 
know whereof I speak. 
North of Lake Huron lies a magnificent game 
country drained by the Mississaga River, a well 
known canoe route. Several times last summer 
tourists making this trip shot moose and deer 
in mere wantonness, leaving them to lot or teed 
the wolves. One party openly boasted to the 
writer of having shot a moose and deer and 
wounded two more deer all in twelve days. 
Making a trip on this river the end of last 
August I ran on to a fine buck stranded on a 
sand bank, freshly shot by a party ahead of me. 
Some ten pounds of meat had been cut from one 
quarter only. All regular camping places on 
this river show a most disgraceful and flagrant 
abuse of the game laws. 
Now, if the Government withdraws the pres¬ 
ent privilege of allowing ‘tourists to carry arms 
in the summer months through the best game 
sections of this province—a privilege accorded 
in no other civilized country* in which I have 
traveled outside this continent—tourists must 
bear in mind that they will have only themselves 
to blame, for the Government has no wish to 
withdraw this privilege and have tourists de¬ 
fenseless in the vast northern forest open to all 
summer and winter. From personal obserca- 
tion. extending over many years in many coun¬ 
tries, I have noticed that all true sportsmen are 
human, sympathetic and strict observers of the 
game laws of whatever country they are in, and 
that such men are in the majority speaks well 
for the future of the game and fish on this con¬ 
tinent. 
I repeat that should this privilege be with¬ 
drawn the American sportsman will have only 
the ignorant, inhuman and selfish minority to 
thank for the withdrawal of a measure that stern 
necessity will demand. Many thousands of good 
sportsmen and keen lovers of the woods and its 
beautiful fauna will deplore this, and none more 
so than the Canadian Government and' people 
John A. Hope, 
Superintendent Canadian Camp Club # 
Massachusetts Fish and Game. 
Boston, June 8.' —Editor Forest and Stream: 
In my letter of June 1 I mentioned the fact that 
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective 
Association has made a contract with the Ply¬ 
mouth Rock Trout Hatchery for 50,000 finger- 
lings for fall planting. These will be furnished 
to clubs and individuals for stocking Massachu¬ 
setts streams on the same terms as last year, 
viz.: $xo per 1,000, the association paying the 
cost of transportation. Orders have already 
been received from Worcester,' Fitchburg, Hud¬ 
son, Westfield, Hampden, Groton and several 
other places, and no special efforts have been 
made to inform the public that trout can be had 
on terms so favorable to the purchaser. While 
there are a few streams in the State that show 
decided improvement from stocking that has 
been done in a limited way by the commission¬ 
ers, the great majority of them afford but poor 
fishing in camparison with their capabilities. 
This condition is not due to any lack of interest 
on the part of those in charge, but to the fact 
that they lack facilities, being unable to carry 
the fry through the summer and rear them to 
fingerlings in but one of the four hatcheries 
maintained by the State. 
Readers will recall the shooting of Warden 
Rausch, of Lawrence, by one Cahill last fall in 
the town of Rowley. Cahill was indicted for 
shooting with attempt to kill. His trial occur¬ 
red a few days ago at Salem, and the jury ren¬ 
dered a verdict of “simple assault’’ and the judge 
gave him the limit under the verdict, two months 
in the house of correction. The judge was Hon. 
Wm. B. Stevens, of Stoneham, a sportsman of 
the finest type, and he was so incensed by the 
verdict that he reprimanded the jury with con¬ 
siderable severity. 
If the life of a deputy may be jeopardized by 
shooting for the paltry penalty of two months in 
the house of correction, men who set much by 
their lives will be slow to engage in enforcing 
game laws as long as they are able to find other 
employment. Five or six years in State prison 
would seem to be a more reasonable punishment. 
It will be remembered that Rausch’s wound 
was such that his life was despaired of for sev¬ 
eral days. It is time that officers of the State, 
responsible for the enforcement of game and 
fish laws, should be backed by public opinion 
as strongly as those in charge of the enforce- 
nent of other laws. But notwithstanding the 
risk of life and other drawbacks connected with 
a deputy's position, at a recent competitive ex¬ 
amination by our commissioners for making ap¬ 
pointments of nine additional wardens, about a 
hundred candidates appeared. At last accounts 
the appointments had not been made. The nine 
new deputies will make the force consist of 
twenty-three men on a regular stipulated salary, 
which with the assistance of a number of un¬ 
paid deputies would seem to be adequate, pro¬ 
vided a sufficient number of sportsmen’s clubs 
are organized to stimulate public sentiment re¬ 
lating to fish and game interests. 
H. H. Kimball. 
Proposed British Columbia Game 
Preserve. 
The last session of the Parliament of British 
Columbia acted on none of the various game pro¬ 
tection measures brought before it. The recom¬ 
mendation made by Messrs. Hornaday and Phil¬ 
lips for a game and forest reserve between the 
Elk and Bull rivers was referred to the Pro¬ 
vincial game warden for examination and re¬ 
port, but various matters prevented action. How¬ 
ever, the sportsmen of British Columbia believe 
in the necessity of a game refuge in the Koote- . 
nay district and there is hope that the greater 
portion of the area, which has been called “Goat 
Mountain Park,” may be so set aside. _ 
On his return from his trip into this country 
last autumn Mr. Phillips estimated that the area 
included in the proposed “Goat Mountain Park” 
now contains 1,000 goats, 200 sheep, 50 bears, 
many deer, and a few elk. 
As soon as the suggestion had been made by 
Dr. Hornaday and Mr. Phillips that this par¬ 
ticular area should be set aside a great many 
other propositions were made that other areas 
should be reserved, the local people of each sec¬ 
tion wanting to have the reservation close to 
them. The section selected by Messrs. Phillips 
and Hornaday has, however, been investigated 
much more carefully than any of the other pro¬ 
posed sections have been. No matter what other 
reservations may be set aside, Goat .Mountain 
Park should be reserved as well for its forests 
as for a refuge for game. It is to be hoped 
that next winter will witness the establishment 
of this fine refuge. 
Adirondack Deer. 
Albany, N. Y., June 12 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The protectors report the deer quite 
thin and state that the feed is not yet good in 
many places. About a week agO‘ two fawns, prob¬ 
ably twins, were found dead near the Upper An 
Sable Lake in Essex county. They had died, 
from natural causes immediately after birth, and 
the party reporting the occurrence was of the 
opinion that they had died from the effects of 
the cold. The late spring and cold summer are 
undoubtedly unfavorable for the game, but I do 
not believe there will be any very serious effect 
on the supply. John B. Burnham. 
A cablegram from Berne last week, contained 
the announcement that Walter Volz, the Swiss 
explorer, who was traveling into the interior of 
Africa by way of Liberia, had been overpow¬ 
ered by a party of natives, who bound him, 
placed him in a hut and set fire to it, burning 
him alive. A party sent out to search for Mr. 
Volz found his body. 
THE TOP RAIL. 
A couple of good stories relating to dogs are 
told by • Miss M. E. Singer, of Louisville, Ky., 
as follows : 
“We had a dog Jack, who was fond of accom¬ 
panying us to church Sunday morning. One 
Sabbath, not desiring his presence, we tied him 
up. The following Sunday he was not to-be 
seen until after church was out; then he met 
us in great glee. A week later he was chained 
up Saturday night, but after the first time this 
was also impossible, for he could not be found; 
yet always he was first to meet our gaze upon 
leaving church the next day. How he knew 
Saturday nights from others I know not, unless 
it was in the same way that he always knew 
Sunday mornings and the hour for church. 
“My father owned a hunting dog which, in a 
great many ways, displayed a knowledge that 
seemed almost equal to human intelligence. 
Whenever my father took the rifle down and 
began to make preparations for a hunt the dog 
would show his appreciation of the sport by 
jumping and barking and watching every move¬ 
ment. On one occasion my father, accompanied 
by a neighbor, started on his usual hunting ex¬ 
pedition. My mother, being busy a short dis¬ 
tance from the house, had left her infant in the 
cradle asleep; the dog, although eager to go with 
the hunters, lay down beside the cradle taking 
the role of protector without being bidden to do 
so. When my mother returned the dog bounded 
- through the door and soon disappeared through 
the timber to join the hunters.” - 
“Tripod” sends me the following paragraph 
from the San Antonio, (Tex.), Express: 
“Several negroes came into the city the other 
day from the northern section of the city with 
long strings of fish. They report that the rise 
in the river caused its water to get so muddy 
that the fish were forced to the top in order to 
get air, as the water was too. impure to allow 
them to breathe sufficiently. The negroes re¬ 
port that they took sacks, nets and in some in¬ 
stances used merely their hands to scoop the fish 
out on to the banks of the stream.” 
Tripod adds : 
“The above is not as ‘fishy’ as it may sound 
to some of the elect. In the ‘halcyon days of 
yore’ certain disrobed urchins were ‘in swim¬ 
ming’ in a small shallow pond with a soft mud 
bottom*, near Vicksburg, Miss. Urchins multum- 
in-parvo, water viscous; surface discovered 
sign of pisces. Of the fish taken by hand on 
that occasion the number is lost. [Sworn to 
and subscribed before me, etc.]” 
Cedar suitable for use in the manufacture of 
“lead” pencils is yearly becoming more scarce 
and expensive. Germany alone exports 15,166 
tons to. foreign countries every year, or about 
3,033,200,000 pencils. The difficulty and expense 
of procuring suitable wood led to careful investi¬ 
gation for a substitute, and "for some time a Ger¬ 
man company has been making pencils the core 
of which is encased in a composition _ whose 
principal ingredient is potatoes. It is said these 
pencils are a trifle heavier than those made of 
cedar, but that they are easier to sharpen, and 
the available supply of potatoes is practically in¬ 
exhaustible. A pencil of the best quality costs 
the manufacturers only $0.00928, w.hile one of 
second quality can be marketed for about half 
that figure. The possible yearly output is esti¬ 
mated at 14,000,000 pencils. 
Grizzly King. 
