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Louisiana Commission. 
New Orleans, La., July 31. —Editor Forest 
and Stream: The Game Commission and the 
Oyster Commission will be consolidated within 
the next few days under the new act passed by 
the recent Legislature. It is believed that Frank 
M. Miller will be president of the consolidated 
board; Amos L. Ponder, Attorney; C. S. Bab- 
ington, Secretary - Treasurer; Henry Jacobs, 
Superintendent of Game and Fish Wardens, and 
J. B. Dauenheauer will look after the oyster 
business with engineers, wardens and others. 
The headquarters of the new board will be in 
the Maison Blanche building for the present, but 
later on offices will be set apart in the new court 
house building in this city. 
The commission held this week its last meet¬ 
ing before consolidating with the Oyster Com¬ 
mission. It decided to stock the Jefferson parish 
preserve with Chinese pheasants and other game. 
The commission has purchased celery seed from 
a firm in Wisconsin for planting with rice seed 
to attract game in the preserve. Seventy pairs 
of Chinese pheasants have been bought in New 
York and will be used for propagating pur¬ 
poses. This preserve consists of many thou¬ 
sand acres and is the largest in this State and 
the first to receive attention. 
The commission has also decided to inaugu¬ 
rate an exhibit of fish and game which will be 
moved from place to place in Louisiana for the 
benefit of the public. The exhibit will have a 
special car and will also be available for a con¬ 
veyance on the public highways and will be 
shown at various parish fairs. The commission 
has printed 85,000 hunting license blanks to be 
issued to the sportsmen. 
The hunters are looking forward to a great 
season this fall and winter. The various clubs 
and sportsmen generally seem to be contented 
with their new laws and better regulations re¬ 
cently adopted by the Legislature. The license 
for non-resident hunters has been changed from 
$25 to $15. Wardens report game plentiful. 
F. G. G. 
The Right of Search. 
Boston, Mass., July 30. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The commissioners of fisheries and 
game and their deputies have secured an advan¬ 
tage for more complete enforcement of the laws 
during the past winter in securing the passage 
of a law relative to the right of search for game 
or fish illegally taken or held, and to the dis¬ 
position of game and fish so seized. This law 
makes important changes in one section, so that 
the commissioners and deputies and any mem¬ 
ber of the district police may, with or without 
a warrant, search any boat, car, box, locker, 
crate or package, and any building other than 
a private dwelling where he has reason to be¬ 
lieve any game or fish taken or held in viola¬ 
tion of law is to be found, and may seize and 
dispose of it. 
Another advantage comes with the addition of 
six salaried deputies to the present force. The 
effectiveness of such a body of men depends 
largely on the skill with which they are handled, 
as well as the ability and faithfulness of each 
individual in the corps; in fact, the deputy-in¬ 
chief is in many ways similar to the chief 
of police in our cities. There are yet many men 
in almost every large town and city who respect 
the laws for the protection of fish and game 
less than any others on the statute books, and 
every one knows how difficult it is to enforce 
laws that are not supported by public sentiment. 
There is no more important work for sports¬ 
men’s clubs than the development of a sentiment 
that shall lead every citizen to co-operate with 
those whose duty it is to enforce the laws. 
Henry H. Kimball. 
Fiction and Firearms. 
Another writer of popular fiction caught fool¬ 
ing with firearms. One Edwin Bliss, magazine 
fictionist, tells how his hero “slowly drew a huge 
businesslike revolver from his coat pocket, twirl¬ 
ing the cylinders about with a practiced twist of 
his thumb.” 
A huge revolver with more than one cylinder 
would be a queer if not a businesslike weapon, 
and it would be awesome to see the hero twirl¬ 
ing the cylinders with his thumb instead of cock¬ 
ing the hammer and permitting the proper action 
of the mechanism to bring a loaded chamber into 
line with the barrel. 
A little later in the story a villain fires a rifle 
bullet at a hat, held up as a decoy in a window, 
and this is what happens: The bullet knocks 
the soft hat from the hands of the man holding 
it, and when he picks it up he sees “a great 
round hole, the edges of which glow fiery for 
a second.” The man examines “the smudge of 
burned felt” and mutters “a good shot.” 
Whew! That bullet was going some to set 
fire to a felt hat by friction. But it must have 
been going slowly to knock the hat out of a 
man’s hand. Maybe the villain loaded his rifle 
with solid iron bullets heated to cherry red in 
a furnace. 
The same author in another story made his 
hero, in a great crowd on Broadway, shoot a 
ring from the finger of a man riding in a car¬ 
riage, and the bullet did not do another blessed 
thing; just went out of the story like a minor 
character for whom the author has no further 
use. 
It really seems as if the writers of fiction 
were as densely ignorant of the construction and 
function of firearms as the average policeman' 
and the newspaper reporter. A. K. 
New Publications. 
New Books Received: “How to Study 
Birds,” by Herbert K. Job; Outing Pub¬ 
lishing Company. “Salmon, Sea Trout and 
Other Fresh Water Fish,” by P. D. Malloch; 
London, A. & C. Black; New York, the Mac¬ 
millan Company. “A B C of the Motorcycle,” 
by W. E. Jackman; Chicago, the Charles C. 
Thompson Company. “Camp Cookery,” by 
Horace Kephart; Outing Publishing Company. 
“Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream,” by G. E. 
M. Skues; London, A. & C. Black; New York, 
Macmillans. “Hunting Trips in Northern Rho¬ 
desia,” by D. D. Lyell; London, Horace Cox. 
“Flying Machines, Construction and Operation,” 
by W. J. Jackman; Chicago, the Charles C. 
Thompson Company. “Houseboating on a 
Colonial Waterway,” by Frank and Cortelle 
Hutchins; Boston, L. C. Page & Co. “Boy 
Scouts of America,” by E. T. Seton and General 
Baden-Powell; New York, Doubleday, Page & 
Co. “Backwoods Surgery and Medicine,” by C. 
S. Moody; New York, the Outing Company. 
“Auction Bridge Up to Date,” by W. Dalton; 
New York, Wycil & Co. 
Adirondack Notes. 
Blue Mountain Lake, N. Y., July 23.— Editor 
Forest and Stream: Probably owing to the pro¬ 
tracted heavy rains and cold weather in May 
and early June there have not been as many visi¬ 
tors in the woods as usual. But now for some 
weeks fine weather has prevailed and more peo¬ 
ple have come. Trout, both brook and lake, are 
plenty for those who know where to go and 
what to do and how to do it when they get 
there. Deer are reported to be numerous in the 
woods. But this applies to sections. To old 
timers the mountains are like the companionship 
of dear friends. To newcomers they arouse en¬ 
thusiasm. The State cannot prize too highly its 
preserve. Juvenal. 
The Hunting Dog. 
No man who possesses a dog will need to be 
reminded that the sagacious animal is a capital 
hand at getting his owner into trouble in a va¬ 
riety of ways; but the peccadilloes of the ordi¬ 
nary dog, kept as a pet and for no particular 
object, are usually of a less serious character 
than those of an animal employed for purposes 
of sport with the gun. A shooting dog must 
of necessity be of good behavior under all 
circumstances, and, since his temptations are 
many, so also are the chances that he will not 
always bear himself with proper decorum. The 
art of dog-breaking is certainly one of the 
most difficult to acquire—indeed, the breaking 
of dogs for shooting purposes should only be 
attempted by those who have a natural gift 
for it. 
The hasty-tempered or impatient man will 
never succeed in turning out good animals, nor 
will he who lacks the very necessary qualities 
of will power and perseverance. A dog is very 
much like a child. It must be treated with kind¬ 
ness and firmness if one is to get it to do its 
best, and to succeed in training it in the path 
that it is meant to follow. Again, as suggested 
above, a dog, like a child, is naturally ready to fol¬ 
low the wrong path instead of the right one, and 
as to which of these will be chosen depends a 
great deal upon the skill of the preceptor. It 
is almost impossible to take a dog in hand too 
young—indeed, so soon as the puppy is weaned 
the first of its lessons should be entered upon. 
Obedience comes first in the list of canine 
virtues, and until some marked success in in¬ 
stilling that admirable quality is achieved, it is 
useless to persevere in any other direction. But 
the puppy should never be reduced to a state of 
terror of its teacher, or the work will be doubly 
hard later. If it be very wilful, teach it the 
difference between good and bad by rewarding 
it when it does right, and presently it will learn 
which pays it best—right or wrong. A very 
young puppy, like a very young child, should 
never be severely reprimanded, and even at a 
later stage the doctrine of “spare the rod and 
spoil the child” need seldom be followed. It is 
half the battle in dog-breaking to gain the con¬ 
fidence and respect of one’s pupil.—Shooting 
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