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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1908. 
VOL. LXX.—No. 24. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York, 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1908, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B_ Reynolds, Secretary. 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
In outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
EDWARD A. SAMUELS. 
The announcement, in another column, of 
the death of Edward A. Samuels will bring 
surprise and sorrow to the readers of Forest 
and Stream and to sportsmen and naturalists 
everywhere. To his friends the news was not 
unexpected, for, after he had lost his eyesight, 
Air. Samuels was stricken with paralysis, and 
he as well as they knew that his days of use¬ 
fulness in this world were numbered. 
For a long time all of the papers and com¬ 
munications printed in these columns over Mr. 
Samuels’ signature had been written at his dicta¬ 
tion, and even after he had lost control of his 
body he continued to dictate matter that was 
printed in his favorite journal. He wrote of 
that region where, in days gone by, he had cast 
the fly on waters that were ever calling his 
spirit back to the beautiful Maritime Provinces, 
although his body was beyond the control of 
his strong will. It was but natural that he 
should pass away at the vernal season, when 
all nature was so beautiful. He could not see 
the foliage and the flowers, but he could hear 
the birds that sang about the home of their good 
friend in a real security that he had done so 
much to obtain for them. 
In the seventy-two years of his life Mr. 
Samuels was a powerful agent in the cause of 
game and fish protection, preservation and 
propagation. His scientific and practical knowl¬ 
edge enabled him to work intelligently and to 
write with enthusiasm. Of late years he de¬ 
voted a great deal of attention to angling mat¬ 
ters, and his opinions were received with pro¬ 
found respect by fish culturists and anglers gen¬ 
erally. We fancy, however, that his fishing ex¬ 
cursions to the best known waters of the Eastern 
States and Provinces were made, not so much 
for the actual fishing as for the environment 
and the communion with nature and his fellow 
sportsmen. 
Mr. Samuels wrote “With bly-Rod and 
Camera,” “Rod and Gun in New England and 
the Maritime Provinces,” "Ornithology and 
Oology of New England,” “Mammalia of New 
England,” “Among the Birds”; he edited “A 
Thousand-Mile Walk,” “The Living World,’ 
“Somerville Past and Present,” and contributed, 
to the columns of Forest and Stream and other 
publications, hundreds of papers of scientific and 
practical value. A very large number of the 
nature students, the hunters and the anglers 
of to-day are better men and citizens because 
of Mr. Samuels’ writings. He was, too, one 
of the pioneers in the field of photography for 
sportsmen, for through photographic reproduc 
tions he illustrated his books and papers, and 
his love of nature study and knowledge of pho¬ 
tography enabled him to “hunt without a gun 
so successfully that others were attracted to 
the pastime through reading his enthusiastic ac¬ 
counts of little journeys to the woods in search 
of material for pleasing illustrations. 
Mr. Samuels' contributions to the literature 
of angling were so well received in Great Britain 
that many of them that appeared in Forest and 
Stream were copied into the English journals 
and commented on favorably by their readers. 
He numbered among his intimate friends many 
of the best known naturalists, fish culturists, 
authors and artists of the United States. Some 
of them remain to mourn his loss, but others 
have passed away. 
FOREST AND STREAM STORIES. 
Among the articles that will appear in these 
columns during the summer months is one by 
Gilbert Onderdonk, who tells the story of “The 
Passing of the Caranchuas,” a small tribe of 
Indians who so sorely harassed the early settlers 
in Texas. Some idea of the quantities of game 
to be seen in a ride across the prairies of that 
territory in 1851 is also given. Of course there 
is one of Edmund F. L. Jenner’s stories to come, 
while P. C. Tucker will relate still another one 
of his realistic stories of hunting in the South in 
company with excitable darkies and houn 
dogs.” Dr. Charles S. Moody has contributed 
a half-humorous, wholly practical story of a 
bass fishing trip in the Coeur d'Alene region 
in Idaho. J. A. L. Waddell writes of tarpon. 
Starlight describes fishing on the "tanks in 
India. O. W. Smith relates a day’s experience 
on a Wisconsin stream. 
Francis C. Nichols will give readers an in¬ 
sight into the little things—some of them of im¬ 
portance, however—with which the hunter -in 
South America has to contend. There is a 
series, “Camping in South America, written by 
him. “J. L. D.” describes in “A Sea Trout 
River of Newfoundland,” how he and Silvei 
Mitchell happened on numbers of big trout. 
Lieut. Reaves writes of hunting in New Mexico 
and of his efforts to catch prairie dogs. 
In “The Limit in Light Equipment” Winfield 
T. Sherwood will spin a pleasing yarn of the old 
“Camp Don’t Hurry Crowd" and the Esopus. 
George A. Irwin will give some excellent ad¬ 
vice to those who hunt in Florida, regarding 
rattlesnakes and the way to avoid them. 
“Hunting in the Danish West Indies" is the 
title of a pleasing paper by J. C. DuBois. “Pis- 
cator” will tell of another one of his favorite 
trout streams in Ireland. 
These are but a few of the articles that will 
appear during the warm season. 
Press dispatches from Manitoba assert that 
deer and caribou are moving southward into 
northern Minnesota in considerable numbers. 
Various reasons are given, among them being 
the fact that the winter in Canada, as here, 
was followed by a cold spring, making food 
scarce. It seems, too, that the improvement in 
the protection of game in Minnesota has had its 
effect on deer across the border, they seeming 
to have learned in some way that they would 
be safer and find more food further south, at 
least during the greater part of the year. Big 
game as well as small very quickly realize the 
safety of life in regions where wardens are 
active and the people are law abiding. Deer 
were at one time greatly harassed in the North¬ 
ern States by both whites and Indians, and there 
is no doubt that many of them wandered further 
north, to return when the conditions showed 
improvement. 
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Stories concerning dogs appeal strongly to 
everyone, hence it was that one of these, printed 
by the newspapers recently, attracted the atten¬ 
tion of the country. It was to the effect that 
a setter, having pulled a small boy out of a 
brook, tried so hard to guide the boy’s mother 
to the place by pulling at her garments that her 
husband thought the dog was mad and cracked 
its skull with a stick. Still the animal tried to 
carry out its purpose, and according to the story 
it was followed to the creek, where the child 
was found, and where its setter friend died. 
The part of this story which may well be 
doubted, is that the dog’s owner failed to inter¬ 
pret its actions correctly. Appreciative owners 
of intelligent animals are quick to notice any¬ 
thing unusual in their behavior, and to seek at 
once for its cause. “Mad-dog scares” are not 
started by persons who understand the actions 
and wants of our four-footed friends. 
It seems that the capercailzie which were 
liberated in the Algonquin Park in Canada have 
held their own, if indeed, they have not actually 
increased in numbers. The superintendent of the 
park reports that a few of the birds have been 
seen on the island on which some of them were 
released, and others have been reported by 
sportsmen; a sufficient number to warrant the 
belief that they are actually increasing slowly 
and thriving. The surroundings are in every 
way suited to their needs, they are not molested 
by man, and if they have indeed succeeded in 
eluding their natural enemies, the success of 
the experiment seems assured. 
