Forest and Stream 
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The object of this journal will be to studiously 
promote a healthful interest in outdoor recre- 
ation, and to cultivate a refined taste for natural 
objects. Announcement in first number of 
Forest AND STREAM, Aug. 14, 1878. 
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A DARK RECORD. 
THE list of human casualties and deaths in the 
deer hunting districts for the past season is ap- 
palling, or would be so, had the public not been 
educated by the growing death lists of recent 
years, to look for just such statistics as a concom- 
itant of the hunting season. In Michigan and 
Wisconsin twenty-six deer hunters were killed, 
and thirty-five more were wounded. In the Adiron- 
dacks eleven men were killed, and an unknown 
number wounded and made cripples for life. The 
causes of these casualties were various, but there 
was no novelty in any of them. It was the same 
old story of carrying rifles so that the triggers 
caught on twigs or boat thwarts, of letting the 
weapons fall with such force that they were ex- 
ploded, and of mistaking human beings for deer 
and shooting before making certain that the ob- 
ject aimed at was a wild animal and not a man. 
To read this record of human beings shot to 
death by mistake for game one might imagine 
that the people of the Michigan and Minnesota 
and Adirondack woods had adopted the expe- 
dient the natives on the Congo practice, to rid 
themselves of their undesirable aged kinsmen. 
Major Powell-Cotton relates of them: 
“As soon as the infirmities of old age creep on 
them they are given a soothing draught and 
wrapped in a fresh antelope skin. Thus attired, 
they are carried by members of their family to a 
spot some distance from the village, and are 
abandoned in the grass close to a native track. 
The first native passing by sees what he thinks 
is an antelope, and spears it, whereupon the vic- 
tim’s family emerge from their hhiding place and 
express horror and surprise at the unfortunate 
incident.” 
RAYMOND PREFONTAINE, Canadian Minister of 
Marine and Fisheries, died suddenly in Paris on 
Dec 25. He had gone to France on business con- 
nected with the establishment of a line of 
steamers between Marseilles and Canadian ports, 
and soon after his arrival in Paris was stricken 
with heart disease. Mr. Prefontaine was ap- 
pointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries in 1902, 
and his services in that important office have 
been of great value to the Dominion. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Wiru the beginning of the sixty-sixth volume 
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The change will be acceptable to readers old and 
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special subjects to which it is devoted. The 
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larity and good will and respect. Our pro- 
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In its changed form the ForEsT AND STREAM 
will be a regular weekly issue of forty pages, 
with the issue of the first week of each month, 
beginning with that of February 3, increased to 
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year. 
Beginning with January 1 the subscription 
price is $3.00 per year. The paper will be sent 
for introduction four months for $1.00. 
Among the illustrated papers which will ap- 
pear in early issues will be: 
A Trip wiItH REINDEER IN LAPLAND. 
RATTLESNAKE LopcE—A North Carolina moun- 
tain home. 
SPORTING IN CHINA. 
TREES IN WINTER—A series of simple studies of 
our familiar trees, the first chapter of which 
is printed to-day. 
INDIAN SNOWSHOE MAKING, 
THe Loc oF A SEA ANGLER. 
Tue Brirps oF DEATH VALLEY. 
A DANCE AT SAN JUAN. 
Skt RUNNING. 
A WINTER IN FLoripa. (In the issue of Feb. 3, 
which will be a Florida number.) 
CiimBiInG Mount PopocaTEPETL. 
PICTURES OF CHEYENNE LIFE. 

THE life of Col. J. Wesley Jones, who died in 
this city last week, illustrates the fact that the 
age of romantic careers has not passed. Born in 
Philadelphia eighty-one years ago, Colonel Jones 
went West in 1850, and was placed in command 
of plainsmen charged with the duty of protecting 
prospectors between Fort Laramie and Califor- 
nia. Later, while engaged in taking the United 
States census, he was driven by hostile Indians 
into the Yosemite Valley, and was reputed to 
be the first white man who had ever entered that 
wonderland. Wounded six times by © arrows 
while bearing dispatches to Brigham Young, 
VOL. LXVI.—No. 1. 
mobbed for making anti-slavery speeches in the 
Southwest, wounded in the Civil War and in 
hospital for months, this man had his share of 
the vicissitudes of the frontier and the front. In 
1890 Colonel Jones organized the United States 
Volunteer Life Saving Corps, which now has 
14,500 members, and which has an honor roll of 
having saved thousands of lives. 
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AccorDING to the teachings of the latter day 
natural history makers, the wood folk are not, 
after all, so far away from human nature as the 
world has been imagining these many centuries. 
The moose wears hair, while the man wears wool 
or cotton or rubber; but clothes don’t make the 
man actually different from the moose. The nat- 
uralists now most popularly in vogue assure us 
that the mental factulties of man and moose are 
just about the same; and if we would understand 
how a Maine moose would feel about a given 
subject, all we have to do is to consider what 
4 man would feel. As to a fine set of antlers, for 
example—would a moose who in life is proud of 
his horns, prefer to shed them in the woods to 
be gnawed by mice and hedgehogs, or would he 
seek fame and commemoration by yielding up his 
head to the hunter, that his branching horns 
might adorn the wall of the State Dining Room 
in the White House? 
In addition to its many utilities birch bark 
lends itself admirably to artistic adaptations. We 
illustrate on another page a birch bark picture, 
the work of the late J. Henry Phair, of Frederic- 
ton, N. B. The picture was made by drawing the 
figures of the three men and the canoe on birch 
bark and cutting them out and pasting the bark 
on a bristol card, then drawing in the landscape 
on the card. The bark is a rich brown tone and 
the colors employed for the accessories har- 
monize in a most pleasing effect. The silhouetted 
birch bark stands out strong, yet so skillfully is 
the work done that the figures blend with the 
background and the picture is very life-like and 
realistic. 
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Our illustration of buffalo in harness shows 
Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, secretary of the 
American Bison Society, driving War Whoop 
and Tomahawk, a team of buffalo calves six 
months old. These calves, which, Mr. Baynes 
tells us, work equally well in the yoke and in 
double and single harness, are intelligent, power- 
ful and remarkably quick on their feet. Mr. 
Baynes reared and broke them with a view to 
showing another good reason for preserving the 
buffalo from extinction. 
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Two public services which should have the at- 
tention of Congress: The establishing of a 
national forest reserve in the Southern Appalach- 
ian Mountains, and another in the White Moun- 
tains of New Hampshire. 
