The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23

some favorite book, and because our ish-
ing Jaunts were not quite so EXTENDED as
they were wont to be. and although we
would like to see the old times back we
have had small hope that through writing
TO the column we could get them there TO
stay.
And yet I believe that we all should
like to start one of the old discussions
again, and II we did and II were Of SUI
neient interest and full Of the OLD time
water chieftaln. the small mouthed black
bass most OF us would be back In the
Who is ; there of the old fellows lie that can
start such a theme7 Mr.. Editor. you
know It would take just as l know It
up And to help things along we promise
to answer any old timer that VIII start H.
Best Place for Bass. Penobscot River.
Gentlemen while we are on the subject
Of black bass we have something to tell
you. and this IL not yarn. although II
may be fish story. We have just come
back from n trip to region that we knew
for black bass. We now know that there
cannot be anything like it anywhere In the
All ye lovers of black bass listen: We
fshed at first with worms (stil fishing)
we caught two three pound small mouth
over two pounds. Next day we started
bait casting from a canoe tbait casting Is
,9 know ,hsss and we landed ys Sou ,wU
apiece and eighteen other bass (Which
were replaced) from three pounds down.
all from a canoe and with a piece of pork
rlnd.
1t all happened on the Penobscot River
In the State of Maine, Just across from
Oldtown. near Indian Island. Gentlemen.
We have covered the Eastern States from
Canada to Florida after black bass. but
get the@@to get them big and pientitui
New York, Aug. 20. BLACK BASS.
Evcrctt Law Improvement on Buck Law.
The storm over the buck law repeal
ended in the calm of a sensible compro-
mise at the Governors hearing last March !;
but II seems that white Birch" Is SO far
back in the swamps of stagnant conserv-
alton that his sensitive limbs are still torn
Yet some hope that this white Birch"
who for very good reason clings to his
anonymity, may yet be forced Into the
respectful silence which becomes the de-
feated. can be cleaned between the lines
OF an Illinois news item detailing that "ths
storm out here yesterday was so severe
blown down before"
The Everett one deer bill. substituted for
the two bucks law, provides that the evil
dence Of sex shall not be removed from
the carcass. with a fair census of the
deer slain this fall we shall be enabled to
determine reasonably accurately the mum
Der of deer killed and proportion OF sex
in the kill The contention OF the advo-
Gates Of the one deer law is that fewer
uoeb viii De kllled legally than were kllleo
Illegally under the two bucks law.
White Birch" drags in Forest and
Stream to support his position that the
Everett bill will deplete the breeders. Both
are proceeding on false premises and hence
have reached false conclusions Their
course recalls the old aneedote of the
French King who propounded to his court
savants and iunkies this problem in
physics: why is It, that when we NIL a
howl with water so full that an additional
lrop would make II overflow, may yet
drop into the Allied bowl a minnow and II
will not overhow7"
Months were spent in the attempted Bolu-
tion of the problem and the wise men gave
| II up. The King gave an empirical answer
The bowl was filed to the brim and a
minnow dropped into Il, and. OF course
there was overflow.
Now, White Birch and other archaic
adherents OF the buck law have been pro.
pounding to the public this proposition: III
you enact a law prohibiting the slaughter
Of does there will be no female deer killed
Now. as an early supporter OF the buck Law
I earnestly hoped that would prove true
But, unhappily. the test demonstrated be-
yond doubt that II was false. In fact. tc