4 ay PMNS), TA OAT ? A pe ae 4) A ayy. ait BYR He ANTE if Aas A 7 er, < by i 4 Pt \ ya) ihrer) F ier Ms nr) OX tM ua RO An 4 Mi . “ v uN. ¥ ais 4) » Fe, “ts . She eae AP a Sori ss ee er SES NS et 2 os A> a RY: nO aa ete, ae a ee > Gt Pea ~ —" eK Pa SOLAS nies Dean ed So Se SS Priedeas eee ie HARVARD UNIVERSITY. LIBRARY OF THE ) MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 9S) 13 BEQUEST OF WILLIAM BREWSTER Mees e é f 1 th heey )) rf ‘ yy ed \ Ty 4 r oi eel os , ~ Lan 4 - fh pate V4 4 [ Pies ‘ j an f i ‘ " F a - . = ” ~ 2 " i st . + o . . . ‘ - > . ‘ S i . < ‘ > . 1 ~ ; ‘ 7 ‘ J #. Sf, i ae 5 “y art. ao te y ’ M5, VOLUME XVII. JULY, 1902 NUIIBER 1 Sirht; A Story of the Selkirks, by W. H. WRIGHT. ies in THE KING OF THE JUNGLE. PUBLISHED BY G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA) 23 WEST 241x ST., NEW YORK Z. (1) = E a4 e) QO. N Z, < S 4 jaa = < ae =) aa = en) < aa ml jaa 7 = LL. © Z. 5 a4 e) me] = 2 ae ae © Twenty-one Grizz An Account of Two Trips in North- On the Nez Perces Trail; western Idaho, illustrated. ba} A®OUF this time of year every man who ha -a drop of red blood in his veins begins to think of the fishing, hunting and camping trips, which he will make during warm weather. If there’s anything worse than not taking such an outing, it’s taking the outing without the right kind of equipment. You cannot fish or hunt or camp to the best advantage without one or all of the articles shown in the border about this page. Thesame goods in other sizes, styles and prices are shown in our folder A tree fon) the sackeinos Marble’s Sporting - Specialties are for sale by dealers, or prepaid, direct _ from factory, on receipt | of price. \, [Marble Safety Se hee \ Axe Company ~ GLADSTONE, MICH, U.S. A. RECREATION Copyright, December, 1901, by G. O. Shields A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies $1.00 A YEAR. CHO; SHIELD DS(COOMIN A), 23 WEST 24TH STREET, 10 CENTS A Copy. Editor and Manager, NEw Yor«k CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER Standing on an Old Pine Log, One Foot in the Trap, He Glared at Me ........--+.-----..04-. FRONTISPIECE PAGE Trapping a Mountain Lion. [llustrated........ .-.-.-. Leet aie ied 3 oaentae ae eee CuaAs. A. FRIEDEL 3 eed Gout ehogume an tho Desertae m-9- te oq... 52g G ee Pee ae eee. Bo eee ee ween LAWRENCE MoTT 7 innthb Wes Pecos Trail. Llastratede tS a. soa. < » oak G8 - te tne ode ee ever ec cnveccsces WESTLEY JONES 7 DOP EH UTNE PIRTINT NSS CEULE ach 2 ig ie ae Me een ame hcp ape kendecsss cadeecue sence TipD MuRRAY II Tho Mystery of a Bullet--..-.........2-..° PRO rae ain oie vale cieee amensey 2 CHARLES W. SAWYER 13 MESFET MMTITISUTALC Keke ater fa oe deine cielsis ca cicen ccbecas otis Re ee ete rerapfed weiareteietecs:2 By einichs tieeroe ores C.F; PLEAS. 16 A Deer Hunt in Lost Park ...... » BOE Se R EE ABO GTA OUR. SE aE EEE Toe Mh ra ot ee ae en a H.J.L. BARNES 19 Twenty-one Grizzlies in Sight........-...-.
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most effective rifle manufactured, Highest development of sporting rifles. Constructed to shoot six differ ent cartridges,
~er may be used asa single shot with ut the slightest change in the mechanism. Adapted for Large and Small
Game. _.303 and 30-30 Calibers.. Every. rifle thoroughly guaranteed. Awarded Grand Gold Medal at Paris in
comp.tition with all other styles of repeating rifles.’ Write for new illustrated catalogue (*‘G”).
Manufacturers of SAVAGE Magazine and Magnetic Hammers. Send for Circular.
SAVAGE ARMS CO., Utica, N. Y., U. S.A.
Pacific Coast Agents: Baker & Hamiton, San Francisco and Sacramento, California.
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with our patented automaticejector. This istheonly
automatic ejector that has been thoroughly tested
and tried, and found satisfactory in every respect.
Before purchasing a high-grade gun, or a gun with
an automatic ejector, write to us for full descrip-
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ATHLETIC
GOODS
When in need of anything in Athletic and Sporting Goods get our
quotations and catalogue, everything for outdoor and indoor sport
We are running four bright, smart and up-to-date Sporting Goods stores in Greater New
York, which enables us to buy (what we do not manufacture ) in quantities and get the
lowest price. Not like the old time Sporting Goods Stores looking for 100 per cent
profit. | We select the best and well known makes of Sporting and Athletic Goods, then
see how low and attractive we can make the price. Don’t take our word for this, see
prices of well-known goods quoted hereunder
Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Fishing Tackle, Billiards and Pool
GOL F It has always been our claim—no Golf Club ever made worth more than $1.50. Last year
we sold over threethousand of our No.1 club at $1.25. This year we offer the same club,
only better finished, a much better shaft and head, at goc.
No, 2 1s the same club finished as good as money can make it (shaft and head) either wound or
socket club for ¢1.25 Thisincludes every make of clubs, Driver, Brassie Driver, Cleek, lrons, Mashie-,
Mid Irons, Putters, Lofters and Niblicks. Right or lett hand in models of most popular styles.
TE N N IS The Pim Racket, the one used by all professionals, is probably one
‘ of the |:est Rackets made because it is the best ideas of many
players combined. We offer our Columbia or Princeton at $4.50 with this statement,
It is the exact shape and size of Pim and as good, for which you pay $7.50, if not
so return and get your money. Childs Victor 50c., Victor 80c., Cleveland $1.65,
Newport $2.00, Berkley $2.25, Ingersoll Special $3.50. Tennis Balls, Newport
Final 35c., Victor Champion 40c., Club tennis balls 23c.
BASEBALL UNIFORMS.
Five years ago we commenced manufacturing our
own Uniforms and that year cut up five thousand
yards of cloth, since which time it has grown to
40 thousand yards a season, Prices and quality
can only account for this enormous increase. The
following retail prices will compare favorably with most
jobbers’ prices. Each suit has shirt, pants, cap, belt,
stockings and 8 letters on each shirt.
Grade A, $2.50; B, $2.75; C, $3.75; D, $5.50;
E, $7.50. Special discount to clubs, Send for samples
and catalogue. Following a few quotations in supplies:
Victor League Ball, $1.00; Louisville Slugger Bat, 50c.3
Louisville Taped Wound. handle, 60c.; Black Calf Base-
ball Shoes, $2.25; full line Victor Gloves and Mits.
BILLIARDS AND POOL, 2urovess Tbs
home entertaining. Why pay a great price for billiards and pool table
and then go tothe top of house to play, when you can have both
games (and various others) and play in any room in the house? Games
with balls and cues have been in use for three hundred years, and
still growingin favor. ‘This table
is no toy, it is real Pool and
Billiards, madein sizes for both old and young. On the $6.00,
$7.00, $9.00 and $10.50 boards can be played Billiards and Pool
as well as 23 other games, with outfits to play the entire 25 games,
The smaller boards having a double face, while the larger boards,
$15.00, $18.00, $21.00, $23.00, $27.00.and $30 00 the game is
only Billiards and Pool, including’ Bottle Pool, Pin Pool and Ten
Pins, being a practical Billiard and Pool table almost full size 3x6
feet, balls, 134 and1% inch.
RODS AND REELS No house in this country can offer
* to the public a greater assoit-
ment of Rods, Reels and supplies, It is said there are two thousand
ems to us correct when we come to purchase the line, If we have
Yards ; 40 60 80 100 150
Price, 45 55 60 75 85
Mention Department 77 and Secure Baseball Score Card.
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IV ; RECKE AMON ats
HE choice of the route has much to do with the success and pleasure of an outing.
Probably nowhere in the world can a person secure more real, delightful comfort on
a railway journey than on the great trains over the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry
The splendid construction of this road, in track and equipment, and its pleasantness of route makes
every mile one of comfort and pleasure.
As a route for summer vacation travel the Lake Shore is unexcelled, reaching by its
through trains, or by direct connections, practically all the summer places east and west. |
The following books will be sent free by the undersigned: ¢ Book of rains,”’ telling
about the service; ‘* Vacation Journeys,’’ containing a select list of tours to and via the St.
Lawrence River; the Adirondack and White Mountains; the Atlantic Coast; New England ;
Niagara Falls; Lake Chautauqua, etc., with rates from Chicago, Ill., Toledo and Cleveland, O.;
and an illustrated, descriptive book about Lake Chautauqua resorts.
We shall be pleased to render any assistance and information in your vacation plans this
summer. Address A. J. Smit, G. Pp. & T. a., Cleveland, O,
| SOUTHERN RAILWAY
THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF WESTERN NORTH
Nowhere east of the Rocky Mountains is to be found anything approaching it for spring, summer
and fall, and all-year-round retreat.
ASHEVILLE AND THE SAPPHIRE COUNTRY .
With an average mean temperature of 50°, there is perfect freedom from torrid heat and the ter-
rors of wintet’$ grasp. Her skies ‘rival in their azurine tints those of Italy, and there is a vitality and
tonic in the atmosphere which makes an instant impress.on’on the visitor. I1t is aregion more
charmingly beautiful than Switzerland. Here range after range of heavily forested mountains
parallel each other like waves of the sea, where interlacing valleys are rich with verdure and
flowers, and, where silver streams murmur unceasingly-! — . aa oy
bagel HOT SPRINGS, N. C. © | | i
A place where rest and recreation can be most happily combined. The climate and baths are
especially applicable for nervous and rheumatic ‘troubles. The pure mountain air, charming
scenery and luxurious thermal baths are among the attractions which justly render Hot Springs'a
favorite resort for people seeking health and. recreation. mu LM de
Reached in 24 hours from New’ York in through Pullman-drawing-room skeping’ cars, via’Southern
ia ' Cetr phd Co setcg ee
Railway.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS CALL OR ADDRESS
New York Offices: 271 and 1185 Broadway
ALEX. S. THWEATT, Eastern Passenger Agent, 1185 Broadway, N. Y.
W.A.TurK, Pass. Traffic Mer.,.Washington, D.C. 8.H: Harvwick, Gen’l Pass. Agt.,Washington, D.C.
CAROLINA
‘‘THE LAND OF THE SKY”
ASHEVILLE, THE SAPPHIRE COUNTRY AND HOT SPRINGS
ON, BARN a (ater
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RECREATION,
The way to get the best accommodations is via the
'GREAT Rock ISLAND ROUTE }
WHY ? It is the only direct line to Colorado Springs and Manitou.
It is the popular route to Denver. It has the best Dining Car Service.
It has the finest equipment and most satisfactory schedule and in the
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIMITED
offers the best train; only one night, Chicago to Colorado. It leaves Chicago daily at 5.40 p. m.
and arrives at Denver at 8.45 Psi. Colorado Springs (Manitou) 8.30 p. m.
Another inducement to use the Feek Island will be the low round trip rates of
$25 fircm Chicago to Colorado and ${5 from Missouri River Points to Colorado, effective this
summer by that line. Ask for details and free books.
‘‘Under the Turcucise Sky” gives the breeziest and most fascinating description of
Colorado, ‘*‘Camping in Colorado’’ has full details for campers. Anglers wiil want ‘‘Fishing
in Colorado.’’
JOHN SEBASTIAN, General Passenger Agent, CHICAGO.
RECREATION.
1000 [sland house
In the midst of are «Thousand Islands,”
the so-called «Venice of America,” and
really the most charming and delight-
ful Summer Resort on the Continent.
Send us two 2-cent stamps and we will mail you a
beautifully illustrated guide book. Mention RECREATION.
O. G) o> EAP Es: poe
G. DeWITT, Owners and Proprietors
Alexandria Bay, Py. Y.
RECREATION. Vil
Tired of the city?
Sick of the heat ?
Longing for the
mountains ?
For fresh air ?
For cold water ?
For restful scenery ?
Then try
The White Mountains.
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Maplewood hotel
AND COTTAGES,
MAPLEWOOD, N.H.,
is one of the [lost Restful
and Delightful Summer
Homes in the World.
Illustrated booklets giving full in-
formation can be had at
3 Park Place, New York City,
147 Sumner Street, Boston, |
171x Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
or by writing the Managers,
CILLEY & MURRAY,
MAPLEWOOD, N. H.
Mention R&EcREATION
MAPLEWOOD PARK AND PEESIDENT!AL RANGE FROM EAST PIAZZA HOTEL
®7ITUATED on a mountain peak, commanding
wide and beautiful panoramic views of the
Highlands, Catskills and Berkshires.
Water Supply, of unexcelled quality, from a
Natural Spring. No Malaria. No Mosquitoes.
Two hours distant by rail from the Grand
Central Depot (via Dutchess Junction), and
easily reached by travelers from the West, the
South, and New England,
~ House autor obile, omnitus, or carriage, when
notified, will meet gues!s at Poughkeepsie, 15
miles or Dover Plains (Harlem R.R.), 8 miles
distant through enchanting country.
Spacious and beautiful grounds, afferding
an ple room for Outdoor Games and Pastimes
of every sort.
Superb. roads for Driving, Bicycling, or
Automobiling, Livery and stabling facilities
of the highest order :
Adjacent estates occupied" by New York mil-
lionaires, whose Summer- Homes in this region
are a guarantee of its braciag healthzu.ness.
An exclusive resort, never invaded by noisy
crowds or excursiontsts,
House Physician. Hot, cold and needle
baths.
“ Thy happy clime is free, Music by a first-class Orchestra. Concerts
And plenty knows, three times daily, A Dance every Saturday
And days ot halcyon rest.” evening after an Entertainment by noted Artists.
Telephone, Telegraph Operator, Stenogra-
pher and Typewriter, in the House. Stock
Exchange news and quotations by direct wire.
Trap-Shooting, Billiards, Library, Golf, Tennis,
C O nN a Ping-Pong, Boating and fishing nearby.
A new drive for every day in the year. Roads
as good as those of Central Park, ‘The scenery
And Cottages about Millbrook recatls the s-ftness of Devonshire
r ; and Surrev landscapes, while the horizon 7s out-
MILLBROOK, DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. = “xed by billowy mountains and serrated peaks.”
S » Mav 25 N h —Illustrated london News.
e@ason ay 2Jst to Nov. 9t Illustrated booklet sent on ppplication.
*<
HENRY F. GILLIG CQ CO., Proprietors.
Viil RE CREATION,
(CCAMPERS’ OUTFITS
Do You Know
ABERCROMBIE & FITCH
2&3 SOUTH Si NEW YOR Ga
Everything te [ake the Camper Comfortable and Happy
We can advise you where and how to go. We are practical campers and have person-
We have had twenty years’ experience in ally tested all our goods.
camping out. We guarantee everything we make to be the
We can furnish you with complete outfits. very best procurable.
We Manufacture CAMP ‘FURNITURE, TENTS, SLEEPING) BAES,
PACKS and PACK HARNESS, CLOTHING and PRO-
VISION BAGS, TUMPLINES, PNEUMATIC BEDS
and CUHSIONS, CANVAS FOLDING BUCKETS and WASH BASINS, FOLD-
ING STOVES, ALUMINUM LANTERNS, BAKERS, STOVES, CLOTHING,
MOCCASINS, ALUMINUM COOKING OUTFITS and Everything Else Used
by the Camper.
Write for Catalogue “R.”
ABERCROMBIE & FITCH? S232" New York City
RECREATION.
Twentieth Century
Electro=-Vapor
Launches
RE ideal gentlemen’s launches, free fram complications and care, and should appeal
A to the angler, the hunter, and every lover of nature, as they are designed with a
view of supplying more genuine, healthful pleasure to the square inch than any-
thing we know of. They are elegant to look at—a pleasure to ride in—easy to manage—
safe and reliable. There is no heat, no smoke, no fire, no engineer or pilot, no govern-
ment license required, no offensive odor, no noisy exhaust; under way in ten seconds.
The most simple, economical, powerful and effective outfit ever offered. There are three
thousand of these launches in use, and we ship them to all parts of the globe. They
were used exclusively at the Pan-American and Omaha Expositions, where they carried
thousands of delighted people. Why? Because they were the best. Alaunch as shown
above is 16 ft. long, and can be operated in 8 inches of water, enabling the angler and
the hunter to invade the feeding grounds with ease.
We build a 15 ft. Fishing Launch for $150
6s ss 66 TG 66 Family 66 66 200
‘6 66 “© 35 * Cabin 66 <5 1500
Also a compiete line of Steam and Sail Yachts—Row Boats—Hunting Boats—Canoes.
Our 80-page catalog tells the truth about the best boats built, and it is yours for the
asking. Send to-day and avoid the Spring rush. Adcress
Racine Boat Mfg. Co.
Riverside, Racine, Wis.
x RECREATION.
SUMMER VACATIONS IN COLORADO
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY OFFERS INDUCEMENTS IN THE WAY OF
LOW RATES AND SUPERB ACCOMMODATIONS TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
The World-Famed Resorts of Colorado Are Ideal Places for Health and Recreation—Benefits of Camping
Out—It Is Very Inexpensive—Interesting Information for the Tourist, Sportsman and Health Seeker.
T this season of the year when thou-
sands of American Tourists go abroad
to spend their summer vacations in
crowded European cities, the question
naturally arises, why do they do it, when
there are so manv attractions on this side of
the Atlantic? They return and rave over
the Alps and Apennines and have never
seen the *‘ Rockies” of their own country.
Summer resorts are numerous and hotel
and boarding house accommodations may
be obtained at most reasonable prices.
The Missouri Pacific Railway with its
connecting lines the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad and the Rio Grande Western Rail-
way will offer very low rates to all points in
Colorado during the entire summer. Itisthe
most direct route from the South and East
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO.
The mountains of Colorado are as pictur-
esque, grand and sublime as those of Switz-
erland. They rear their heignts of never-
trodden snow, the sameas the Jungfrau,
and their hidden beauties have never been
portrayed by pen, pencil or brush.
In the light of modern transportation
facilities they lie at the threshold of every
health and pleasure seeker’s door. Amid
the heat, turmoil and bustle of daily life
they expand into the infinite and extend a
cordial welcome to recreation, repose and
rest. To live among them during the sum-
mer months is to dwell in -a land of per-
petual sunshine—almost midway between
earth and heaven. ‘There are clouds and
showers at times, it is true, but just enough
to make a glorious sunset.
In that great tract along the eastern foot-
hills in which lie Denver, Colorado Springs,
Manitou, Pueblo, Trinidad,Golden, Boulder,
Fort Collins and Greeley the sun shines
sixty-two hours in every hundred in which
it is above the horizon.
via the Pueblo gateway to the famous re-
sorts of the Rocky Mountains. It has a
double daily service of fast trains from St.
Louis and Kansas City with equipment un-
surpassed by that of any other railroad in
the West. A vacation spent at the seaside
or eastern mountain resorts can not be com-
pared for a moment with the bracing and
invigorating effects derived from the free-
dom of outdoor life in Colorado. The sum-
mer climate is simply delightful, the atmos-
phere being crisp and cool during the day
and inviting to peaceful repose at night.
There are no flies or mosquitoes in the higher
altitudes. Even the cloudy days do not pre-
clude an outdoor life. They are not accom-
panied with the penetrating dampness or
rawness of the Eastern or Middle States.
A camping season in the mountains of Col-
orado is one of the greatest inducements
that can be offered to thousands of men and
women who are looking forward to and ar-
ranging for the summer vacation, which is
to give a respite and relief from the toil and
RECREATION. x1
turmoil of daily business and domestic
cares. Camp life in the Rocky Mountains
means days of rare sport and pleasure, fol-
lowed by nights of delicious repose—it
means revelry in the warm sunshine every
day with cool and sequestered nooks always
near at hand.
ON THE BANKS OF THE RIO GRANDE, COLORADO.
Camping is not expensive. Asa matter
of fact it has been demonstrated by
experience that a summer vacation spent
in this manner is much less expensive
than one spent in a large city, at the sea-
side or the average
summer resort.
Eliminating the
cost of many ar-
ticles which camp-
ers already own
and which natur-
ally they would
take with them
and those articles
which may be
made at the camp
grounds and add-
ing the fact that
fish and game will
form a good part
of the food supply,
the expense of a
trip in the moun-
tains will be found
to be very low.
During July, Au-
gust and September anyone enjoying rea-
sonable health may camp safely under can-
vas inalmost any part of Colorado. Itis then
a question of accessibility in the selection ofa
camping place. Camping outfits for two, four
or Six persons may be boughtor rented from
supply houses in Pueblo, Denver, Colorado
Springs or other prominent points at very
reasonable prices. The expense of camping
will decrease with the size of the party, the
per capita rate growing proportionately less.
The Missouri Pacific trains from St. Louis
ani Kansas City carry through Pullman
Wide Vestibuled Drawing Room Sleeping
Cars and Reclining Chair Cars (seats free)
to Colorado, Utah and Pacific Coast
points. Observation, Parlor, Café Dining
Cars in which meals are served at. all
hours, @ /a carte, are also operated on these
trains between St. Louis
and Kansas City and
Kansas City and Pueblo.
A similar service is given
on the Denver & Rio
Grande and Rio Grande
Western Railways. The
Sleeping and Dining Cars
have electric lights and
fans, Further informa-
tion and details in the
shape of descriptive and
illustrated literature on
Colorado and camping in
the Rocky Mountains will
be furnished gratuitously
by any Representative
of the above lines or by
H. C. Townsend, General
Passenger and ‘Ticket
Agent of the Missouri
Pacific Railway, on ap-
plication or by mail at
headquarters in the Equi-
table Building, St. Louis,
Mo. During the months of June,July, Au-
gust and September, the Missouri Pacific
Railway will sell round trip tourist tickets
to all points in Colorado at greatly reduced
rates. To illustrate, the round trip from St.
COLORADO SPRINGS.
Louis to Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo
will be only $21.00; from Kansas City,
$15.00; from Atchison or St. Joseph, Mo.,
$15.00; from Joplin, Mo., $16.80; from Hot
Springs, Ark., $26.10; from Memphis, Little
Rock and Texarkana, $25.00. These tickets
will be good to return until October 31st,
1902, and every inducement is offered in the
way of stop-over privileges and side trips to
make a trip to Colorado and the Rocky
Mountains an event to be recorded and
never forgotten in the annals of one’s life.
xl RECREATION.
are caught in
the Delaware
River and in
many of the
beautiful lakes
and streams
along the
PICTURESQUE
The board on which the fish are nailed is 16 inches wide. The
largest fish weighs 8 pounds 9 ounces,
Send three cents in
stamps for postage to
D. W. Cooke, Gen’!
Pass’r Ast. Erie R.R.
21 Cortlandt St., New
York, for ‘‘ Fishing on
the Picturesque Erie.”
Mention RECREATION.
Thov-
sands of
Muskal-
longelike
this are
still at
large in
Chavlav-
qua LaKe
State Wardens at the Long Point Hatcheries, Chautauqua Lake, “stripping” Muskallonge
at the spawning season.
RECREATION. xlll
AMERICAN
Food and Game Fishes
By DAVID STARR JORDAN and BARTON W. EVERMANN
So AMERICAN
FOOD &GAME FISHES
"DAVID, STARR JORDAN
IMPORTANT POINTS FOR THE ANGLER
1. Dr. Jordan, President of Leland Stanford University, and Dr. Evermann, of
the United States Fish Commission, have fished in every State and Territory of the
Union, as well as in Canada, Alaska and tropical rivers and seas.
2. They combine an exact scientific knowledge with an en-
thusiastic love of angling ; thus the book is not only scientific,
but popular and sportsmanlike. :
3. There are 1,000 species of fish described.
4. The illustrations are remarkable, over 100 species having 10 OR
been photographed from life,in the water, by A. R. Dugmore— ~21 OSe
the first successful photos of live fish ever secured. There are
also 10 superb lithographed color plates and over 200 text cuts. wi Eos.
LIFE PHOTOS
5. The identification of any fish is made extremely easy.
6. The book tells of the ‘habits of the fish, and indicates the 208
localities, the seasons, and the methods best adapted for success- TEXT CuTs
ful angling. se .
7%. Extraneous matter is introduced—verses, authenticated stories of unusual
phenomena, and anything which may be of interest to the reader.
8. The book is of royal octavo size, containing 545 pages and over 825 illustrations,
and sells for $4.00, special net. (By mail $4 36).
Ghis is the eighth in our New Nature Library, the other volumes being Nature's
Garden (Wild Flowers); Bird Neighbors; Game Birds; The Insect Book; The
Mushroom Book; Bird Homes; The Butterfly Book. Cc bawe printed 91,000
of these books to date. :
Cut out this coupon and maii to us for our full-page circular giving
full particulars, with reproductions of some of the cuts. ee
Houpleda ae pa e q (0 -4: Dousrebay, Pace & Co.: na
9 e Kindl¥‘send me full particulars of American Food
and Game Fishes.
54 Union Sq., East RA st: Pee)
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RECREATION.
‘FOR 34: YEARS A STANDARD PIANO.’?
THE Wina PIANO -
YOU NEED THIS BOO IF YOU INTEND TO BUY A PIANO. A book
—not a catalogue—that gives you all the informa-
tion possessed by experts. It makes the selection of a piano easy. If read carefully, it will make you
a judge of tone, action, workmanship, and finish; will tell you how to know good from bad. It de-
scribes the materials used ; gives pictures of all the different parts, and tells how they should be made
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Volume XVII.
JULY, 1902.
Number J,
G, 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager
iAPreinG Aw MOUNTAIN LION:
CHAS. A, FRIEDEL.
In Southern Colorado, a branch of
the Purgatory river known as the
North Fork has its source high up in
the Sangre De Christa range of moun-
tains. Along this stream and several
of its small branches, I was prospect-
ing for gold.
One day, as I was returning down
the mountain to my camp, 3 deer sud-
denly sprang from out the brush,
dashed across the path in front of me,
and bounded up the side of the moun-
tain. For a second or so I was at a
loss what to do, and could but stand
and admire their graceful movements.
After going 200 yards they separated,
the doe and the fawn going to the
right, while the other, a large buck,
came to a stand beyond a boulder,
with only his head visible above its top.
Though not in urgent need of veni-
son, the temptation to see if I could hit
the buck’s head at that distance was so
great I could not resist it. I raised
my rifle, made a slight allowance for
the drop of the bullet, and pressed
the trigger with a “don’t care if I do
miss” sort of a pull. The bullet en-
tered the deer’s head below the ear,
killing him almost instantly.
The rock was 10 feet across at the
base and about 5 feet high, with a
‘flat top. The side on which the deer
lay was sloping, and the sun being al-
most down, I thought I could do no
better than to draw the deer up on
the rock and leave him there until
morning. That, with some difficulty,
I did; then, rapidly descending, I
soon reached the trail at the bottom of
the canyon and in about an hour ar-
rived at camp,
Early the next morning I was up,
and after a hearty breakfast I buckled
the pack saddle on one of my best
burros and returned to the rock to get
Ty dec ee Ammon there, i found
someone had been before me and had
carried, or rather dragged, him away.
The thief had been unable to shoulder
the carcass, and a broad trail lay be-
fore me, down the mountain. This I
followed, but found nothing by which
I could identify the robber until I
came mer tae Cree lale Ingial julia
the deer while walking backward,
and in that way had covered his own
tracks. Near the creek, however, he
had met an obstacle in the shape of a
fallen pine. There, it appeared, he
had a great deal of trouble, and in his
efforts to get the deer over the log he
had left his own footprints. The
thief was a large mountain lion.
The creek being but a few yards
away, I began to be on my guard. I
was certain he had not been able to
draw the carcass across the stream.
Pushing through the thick under-
brush and aspen trees that lined the
stream, I came on the remains of
my deer. ‘The lion thad feasted to his
heart’s content. After devouring all
of one hind quarter, and part of the
back, he had covered the remainder
with some sticks and leaves. Being
well acquainted with the habits of the
beast, I was sure he would return to
renew his repast. I therefore made
preparations for his capture.
After removing the ‘hide, I cut up
the best portion of what meat was left
and tied it up in the skin. Then,
making a hole in one of the deer’s
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ears, I passed a piece of buckskin
through it and hung the head on a
limb of a sapling. Some 2 miles
above my camp, on Whisky creek,
was a bear trail, and near that trail a
large steel bear trap, 42 pounds in
weight, had been set 2 or 3 nights
previously for a large cinnamon bear.
He had, however, failed to accept the
invitation.
I took this trap up and carried it to
the place where the lion had had his
royal feast the night before. Removy-
ing the deer’s head from the limb, I
fastened it securely to the butt of a
small aspen tree. Then I cut down
a. tree from which 1 made a clog
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in diameter at the large end. I put
the ring of the trap chain on this clog
and fastened it with a wedge. Then
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until I had a hole about 4 inches deep
and about the size and shape of the
(ayo, lim that Inole I ollagecl wane lous
ifap, alter setting it, and covered) at
with earth and leaves.
I was up and on my way to the trap
early the next morning. The shad-
ows cast by those lofty mountains
among which my camp was placed
had not as yet been dispelled by the
rising sun, although higher up, on the
Sangre De Christa range, vast piles
of snow were glistening in his
mye, AS I imeacecl dae pllece wiere
the trap was set,I became anx-
ious to see what my luck had been.
After I had penetrated the thick un-
dergrowth, to within 50 feet of the
spot, | found I had made a capture.
The aspen trees near where the trap
had been set had the bark torn off.
The marks of teeth and claws on oth-
er trees and the trampled earth bore
evidence there had been a fierce bat-
tle between the beast and the big trap.
Stealing softly forward, I soon dis-
covered the lion. Standing on an old
pine log, one foot in the great trap, he
wlared) at ime) silent sand seiiminemele
made no motion except with his tail,
which he lashed furiously. His head
was in a line with his body as he
stood directly facing me. Not wish-
ing to make any bullet holes in his
skin, I moved forward and began to
circle around him. He made no ef-
fort to change the position of his
body, but followed me with his in-
tense gaze until I had made almost
a half circle. His head then being
out of line with his body, my chance
to fire had come. This I did with
careful aim, just above and between
those glowing eyes.
As the report of the rifle rang
through the canyon, the head of the
beast sank down and his body fell
sideways off the log. Reloading my
rifle, I stepped quickly forward, but
life was extinct before I reached him.
He was in the parlor of a St. Louis
residence while his fiancee was playing
a Chopin sonata on the piano.
Her
mother was seated almost opposite her
future son-in-law, and when the proper
opportunity presented itself she said:
“Don’t you think Edna has a great
ear for music ?’’
“TI certainly do,”
maya, dit
replied the young
you'd stretch a few strings
across it it would make a lovely guitar ’’—
But he never finished his sentence.—
N. Y. Herald.
Wik DIGOAT SHOOTING ONSITE DESEKTAS.
LAURENCE MOTT.
The yacht was lying off the town of
Funchal, Madeira. We were only to stay
2 days, as we were homeward bound and in
a hurry to get to New York; but as I had
received a tempting invitation from the
owner of the Desertas islands, which lie
20 miles to the Westward from Funchal, to
shoot over them, I decided to take the 2
days and go over to the islands after wild
goats. Leaving the yacht one morning at I
o'clock, 1. the cutter, we sailed across and
reached our destination at 7 o'clock. I say
we because I took 2 sailors with me, be-
sides a Portuguese, whom the owner of the
islands recommended as a _ good guide.
We tumbled our stuff ashore and while the
men got a fire going for breakfast I took
the glasses and climbed up 100 feet or so
on the cliffs to get a look about. It was
the most desolate sight I ever saw; no
vegetation of any kind, except here and
there a few patches of moss. Nothing but
rocks and cliffs towering some 2,000 feet
from the water’s edge. I could see no pos-
sible chance of getting to the top, as the
cliffs seemed perpendicular everywhere.
After breakfast we made everything fast
in case there should be a blow while we
were gone, and started. I had never done
any high climbing. and the altitudes both-
ered me. In some places we edged along
goat paths not 4 feet wide with the cliff on
one side and a sheer drop of 1,000 or 1,500
feet on the other. Two or 3 times on the
way up we saw goats, but they either were
too far off to attempt even stalking, or they
saw us just about the time we saw them,
and disappeared. It took us 2% hours to
reach the top, and I was nearly exhausted
when we got there.
erancisco, —)-said,
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“Find some plent’ quick now,” the guide
answered; so we trudged on, sneaking
from rock to rock and crawling on our
hands and knees whenever we came to a
turn in the path, lest there should be goats
on the other side. The native method of
hunting is primitive and tiresome. They
creep along for hours sometimes, and when
they see a goat they hide themselves com-
fortably, trusting to luck that the animal
will come toward them. The goats are
very wild and “light out” at the slightest
movement or noise on the part of the hun-
Lens
We had been dragging ourselves slowly
along for an hour when the guide, who was
ahead, suddenly dropped flat. I quickly
followed his example and awaited further
“where are the
In a few moments he mo-
tioned to me carefully, and I wriggled
along the ledge till I got to him. Follow-
ing the direction of his eyes I saw on the
edge of a cliff, some 250 yards away and
fairly well above us, 4 goats. With the
glasses I could see that one of them was
a large buck with a fine pair of horns.
They were nibbling some bits of moss and
had not discovered us. I got my Win-
chester 30-40 carefully in position and
waited for a favorable opportunity. At
last the “bigga one,” as Francisco called
him, stepped to the edge of the cliff, as
though trying to get a better view of our
position. I thought that my best chance
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shoulder as nearly as I could make it.
When I fired the buck jumped forward and
fell clear of the ledge. Down he went,
turning over and over in the air.
“Buono, buono!” ejaculated the guide;
“me get.”
Betore, © ecouldiisay, a word he was
over the edge of the path we were ly-
ing on and was going down the cliff at a
break-neck pace. I thought surely he
would kill himself, as one misstep would
have plunged him about 1,600 feet into
the water; but in another hour I heard a
faint shout, and looking over the edge I
saw him standing by the body of the goat.
While I waited for him to get back I
took the glasses, and leaving my rifle on
the ledge I climbed up to a pinnacle about
150 feet above me. From there I com-
manded a much more extensive view, and
to my delight I discovered a bunch of 6
goats around in the next chasm but one.
They were evidently out of hearing of the
shot, as they were all lying down in the
warm sunlight. I hurriedly scrambled back
to the ledge where I had left my rifle, and
leaving my pipe and tobacco pouch there to
show Francisco I would be back, I started.
It was nervous work, all alone, but in 2
hours I was within 300 yards of the bunch.
I could get no nearer, as there was no way
but a narrow ledge and that was in full
Sight#ot the coats. For half an hour I
waited, hoping they would move up to the
ledge where I could get a shot. Finaliv
they got up hurriedly and started along the
path they were on. but away from me, so
I fired at the largest buck and missed.
The bullet struck close, and the brute
must have heard it whistle, as it covered
him with sand and dirt. They all disap-
peared like a flash, and I was cursing my
poor marksmanship when something mov-
developments.
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ing caught my eye below me, and there
were the whole 6 going like the mischief
along a path about 150 yards away. They
must have got down out of my sight and
then started back again on that trail.
I threw up my rifle and holding a trifle
ahead of the buck which was in the lead,
I let him have it. He stumbled, fell and
began kicking vigorously. The rest of the
animals hesitated a moment then jumped
over their fallen leader and went on
with redoubled speed. I got down to
the wounded goat just in time to prevent
his kicking himself over the ledge. Getting
my hunting knife in his throat was quite a
job, as the ledge was not wide and I did
not fancy going down the great height into
the sea. I got a rock as big as I could
lift and managed to throw it on the goat,
which kept him quiet long enough for me
to finish him. Cutting off the head and
the skin well down on the shoulders, for
mounting purposes, I tied it on my back
by some handkerchiefs, and began my re-
turn trip.
Francisco was calmly smoking my pipe
when I got back to him and to my sur-
prise there was the whole body of a goat
aieinismreets
“Ha! Ha!’ he said, “you gooda one!
Get all ’lone! buono, buono!”
We compared the 2 heads and found
that the last one I had shot was a trifle the
larger. These goats are not very large,
weighing possibly 50 to 70 pounds. They
are dark in color, have heavy, long hair
and excellent horns, being somewhat
like the chamois in shape, but much heavier
and longer.
It was getting late and it was as cold as
winter up on the plateau, so we fastened
on our game and began the trip to camp.
We got there in 2 hours and after supper
turned in. Our beds consisted of 2 thick-
nesses of blanket between the rock and
our bodies and the same quantity over us,
but it felt like down to me. I never knew
anything more comfortable.
The next morning at 6 o’clock we loaded
ae Cohnier ame see saul sor Wonca, it
was blowing hard, but as the wind was
well abaft the beam the seas did not bother
us much. When we got about half way
across we saw the yacht coming out to pick
us up, which she did in a short time.
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AMATEUR PHOTO BY CLINTON A, SMITH.
OWLETS.
Winner of 36th Prize in REcREATION’s 6th Annyal Photo Competition.
ONT NEZ, PERehs: TRAIL.
WESTLEY JONES.
Photos by the Author.
An article recently published in REecrEa-
TION, Hunting for a Place to Hunt,” by
H. H. Todd, in which the author relates
some of the experiences of himself and
party in Central Idaho in 1899, was par-
ticularly interesting to me and has prompt-
ed me to tell the story of a recent trip
over the Nez Perces trail, in the expecta-
ing to Adams camp and leading our sad-
dle animals. We halted at White Bird to
feed the horses and take our lunch, and
were engaged in that pleasant task when
the wind storm mentioned by Mr. Todd in
his article swept over that section with
the suddenness, swiftness and destructive
power of a cyclone. The section is heav-
PACK DRAIN:
tion that it may be of interest and value
to some of the many readers of RECREA-
TION.
Viet tancisiet. “oure. of. san Pran=
cisco, and I, en route to Concord, Buffalo
Hump, Idaho, to inspect some mining
properties 1n which we are interested, met
and made the acquaintance of Messrs.
Todd and Moses soon after leaving Chi-
cago, and made the railroad, steamer and
stage journey with them to great and
growing Grangeville, where we were all
put up at the Jersey House, of which the
genial George K. Reed is proprietor. Mr.
Young and I started for the Hump, driv-
ily timbered with pine, and the trees, large
and small, were lashed, twisted, smashed
and mowed down by the score. Like most
sudden and violent atmospheric disturb-
ances, this one was of short duration, and
the weather soon became calm and clear
again. Not so the Florence road, across
which many trees had fallen which had to
be cut out before we could proceed. Had
we been on the road when the storm
struck, instead of lunching at White Bird,
we could scarcely have escaped destruction
by the falling trees.
We reached Adams camp that evening,
and the next morning, well mounted, we
3) IRIE OUIE AI IOUT
hit the Gospel Mountain trail to the Hump.
‘The distance is a little less than 25 miles,
and the greatest elevation about 8,000 feet.
The trail? Well, many better mountain
men than we had been over it, but it
snowed all day, and that doubled the diffi-
culties and halved the pleasures of the
trip, as most of the magnificent views
were shut out by the storm clouds.
We reached Concord about 9 o'clock
in the evening, having been on the trail
somewhat more than 12 hours. When
within a half mile of Concord, we nar-
rowly escaped being blown from the trail
into the canyon below by blasts which
were fired almost in our faces. At that
time our company was operating a pack
train of about 25 head between Adams
camp and Concord, and employing some
40 men in the various operations of min-
ing, building, developing town site, etc.
JTS DEVIOUS 1 Ole aAirriyall wae iPS
grave was opened on our property in Con-
cord to receive the body of the unfortu-
nate victim of a quarrel which terminated
fatally.- James P. Turner had passed the
previous winter in Concord and reported
18 feet of snow. The small log structure
in the foreground of the accompanying
picture was his only shelter and was the
first house built at Buffalo Hump.
So much has been written within the last
few years im re Central Idaho, and espe-
cially the Hump and adjacent country,
touching on the vital points of physical
and climatic conditions, mineral resources,
development, etc., that little remains to be
added until new history is made, and it is
making fast at the present time, Whe
railroad from Lewiston to Stites has cut
off about 60 miles of the stage ride over
Camas prairie to Grangeville, and a pass-
able wagon road has succeeded the Gospel
Mountain trail. Thunder mountain is now
attracting much attention, and it is expect-
ed that the tide of travel will soon set
strongly that way.
Finishing our business at Concord, we
returned to Grangeville and thence back to
Boston. I decided that in the following
vear I would approach the Hump from the
East, leave the railroad at a point in Mon-
tana and travel West over the Nez Perces
trail to Elk City. Arrangements were
made accordingly, and Monday, September
3, I leit the cars at Monida, Montana.
There I found James Blair, with whom I
had previously made several similar trips,
and his 2 assistants, John Bray and Joe
Kemp, ready for me. Blair’s outfit, 22 head
of horses, of which 14 were pack, 6 were
saddle animals and 2 were young colts, was
the handsomest and best I have ever seen.
He raises, breaks and trains his animals
himself. As a hunter, trailer or packer,
Mr. Blair probably has no superior in his
section of the country. He is efficient,
fearless and tireless when on the trail.
Our supplies, selected and shipped from
Boston, were on hand, the packs were ac-
curately weighed and prepared for the
horses, and Wednesday morning, Sep-
tember 5, with an outfit as complete and
perfect as careful thought directed by the
knowledge of long experience could as-
semble, we started on our long journey of
nearly 500 miles to Buffalo Hump. James
Blair lead the way, and he was leading in
his own bold, fearless way when we en-
tered Elk City, Idaho, 24 days later.
Our course was via Big Sheep Creek
basin, Horse prairie, Bloody Dick creek,
Big Hole, Moose creek, Trail creek, Ross
Forks to Darby, thence via Nez Perces
trail to Elk City. None of us had been
over the ground before; the trail was diffi-
cult, even dangerous, and in places blind
and impassable until with axes we cut our
way through fallen timber. We were late
in the season in starting and encountered
snows and severe cold. Heed for the
horses was scarce and on more than one
occasion lacking, and horses will travel a
long way after being turned loose, looking
for teed.) Water 1s) tombe. found wonlyarat
long intervals, and the camp at night
must be timed to water and grass. Here
is a mountain wilderness of pine, an ocean
of tree tops nearly 150 miles in extent
East and West, with little water, few, if
any, mountain meadows, so common in
other sections, and no game of account,
large or small. We saw a solitary mule
deer and half a dozen fool hens. Nothing
else. We found none of the usual tracks
or signs of game along the trail or about
the watering and feeding places. We met
two Flathead hunting parties whose camps
looked rather lean. They were having
poor success.
The first day out from Monida, when
near Lima, we narrowly escaped disaster.
The road on which we were then traveling
makes through a narrow defile with per-
pendicular walls on either side. Ahead it
narrows to a mere pass, through which
comes a spur of the railroad. Half way
between us and the pass a large drove of
cattle were feeding, many of them stand-
ing on the tracks. We were giving them
all the room we could, when through the
pass came a freight train, up grade, with
ringing bell, screeching whistle and clouds
of black smoke hanging low and blowing
straight toward us. It is impossible to de-
scribe just what followed, I was so busy
with that part which particularly interest-
ed me, namely, an endeavor to save my
own neck. ‘There was a flying wedge of
bellowing cattle and a wild dash of stam-
peded horses, snorting and bucking. The
bell, the whistle, the rush of the animals,
ON THE NEZ PERCES. TRAIL. G
the shouts of our men, the rumbling of the
cars, the black smoke, and—it was over,
with no one hurt, though slightly jarred.
The second night out we camped at the
North end of Big Sheep Creek basin, near
the ranch of Joe Smith. One horse was
picketed, 8 were hobbled, and the others
were turned loose. In the morning all
were gone except the one on the picket
rope. Blair and Bray went after them on
foot, without any preparation for a long
tramp. We did not see them again until
the night of the third day after, when they
returned with 18 head. Two belonging to
tracks of the horses ridden by the thieves
and he trailed them to their corral. Hav-
ing gathered some local traditions, he be-
lieves he knows who the men are, and |
do not care to be present when he meets
them.
During 3 days of enforced idleness I
came to understand why sheep herders be-
come so melancholy. There was one
bunch of 3,600 sheep about our camp, and
the continual bleating and that undulating
mass of waving wool drifting aimlessly
about were maddening.
an agreeable man,
Vete so bik game yt, nad
‘ & % ae f ag . ey ;
The herder was
A compensating fea-
A COSY CAMP.
Joe Kemp were missing, and as Joe had
recently sacrificed a $2,000 outfit in Alaska,
he felt his loss keenly. Our animals were
run off by horse thieves to a distance of 25
miles from our camp, finally up a steep
mountain side and down into a deep basin.
Vhe hobbles were not removed, and the
legs of the animals were terribly mangled.
They were a sorry sight when they got
back to our camp. Worse than inhuman
brutes were they who committed the out-
rage on horses and men. Blair and Bray
trailed the horses until they found and
brought them back. Blair loves a good
horse, and his wrath was dark hued and
continuous. He was able to pick out the
ture in our delay was the abundance of
sage hens, there being almost as many hens
as sheep in the basin. Bunches of 100 to
200 could always be found in the wet bot-
toms, and the young birds at that season
are equal to grouse. In the meantime I
bought a saddle horse of Joe Smith, “Bal-
dy” by name, and by nature a reliable and
sociable beast, sound and sure footed.
Resuming our journey, events ran
smoothly for a while. Our chief difficulty
was with fences. We sometimes went 3
to 5 miles out of our way to weather a
fence, and generally there was someone
present to see that we did go around in-
stead of through it. On the 14th we
10 REGIA MONG
camped at a ranch in Big Hole basin. We
took turns during the night in fighting off
a drove of hogs that were determined to
feed out of our packs. :
Sunday, the 16th, we visited Big Hole
battle ground. The thrilling story of that
historic event is so well told by the editor
of RecrREATION in his book that every
reader should have a copy. Just previous
to our arrival, a badger had dug into one
of the graves on the point and a skull and
bones lay exposed to view, thus rudely dis-
turbed after more than 20 years’ peaceful
rest. Whether white or Indian we could
not determine. The monument is much
defaced. The badger and the vandal are
on the same level of ignorance. The bad-
ger follows his instinct to burrow. The
vandal yields to a morbid desire to possess.
The vandal has had an opportunity to
learn and should know and do better.
The next day, after leaving Big Hole, we
had Sapestarulinewexpe tence aE DUNC mor
several hundred sheep had become lost,
and, seeing our horses from a distance,
came tearing along after us like mad.
Blair and I were leading the procession
down a steep incline in a narrow part of
the trail, when the bleating bunch struck
our rear guard and stampeded the pack
horses down on to us, pell mell. The con-
ditions were favorable for trouble, but we
succeeded in extricating our horses and
selves from the plunging, kicking, biting
bunch without accident, though the sheep
followed us several miles and we had
some difficulty in getting away from them.
Tuesday, the 18th, we camped at the
ranch of John Stella, just out of Darby.
Stella has a good sporting bungalow.
This season he took out the party of Mr.
Charles P. Pettus, of St. Louis, over the
Lost Horse trail. They captured deer, elk,
goat and bear.
On the 2Ist we were well into the moun-
tains on the famous Nez Perces trail, from
which we had been told we could kick the
game as we went along. How difficult it
is for one to say truly, “That was the hap-
piest day’ or “This is the sweetest mu-
sic,’ or “She is the prettiest girl!” Gen-
erally the last seems best. I can truly af-
firm that at a given point after passing
Castle mountain the scenery is the most
beautiful in extent and grandeur, breadth
and scope, ruggedness and magnificence
that I have ever seen or ever hope to see,
and my experience has been considerable.
For an hour I continually repeated to my-
self, so that my mind should be fully im-
pressed by the fact, never after to waver,
“This must be the grandest sight on
earth.”
We camped that night near a small
Flathead Indian outfit. They showed us
where to find a small spring. During the
evening we were overtaken by Messrs.
Robb and Chillson, who were making a
break to go through with us to the Little
Salmon meadows. We found them good
company, but they were a divided house;
one in favor of pushing on and the other
in favor of turning back before they were
snowed in for the winter. They eventu-
ally went with us as far as the Little Sal-
mon. The meadows, like the game, were
not to be seen. We rested in camp the
23d. There had been a snowfall of sev-
eral inches. The 24th we crossed Mc-
Gruder mountain, one of the most difficult
sections of the trail. We were profound-
ly impressed by the details of the awful
crime committed there when McGruder,
his men and mules were cruelly murdered
and their bodies thrown over the cliff.
The afternoon of the 25th we were “la-
boring heavily in a rough sea”; that is to
say, we had some doubts as to the trail.
We camped that night on the summit of
the Divide, altitude not less than 10,000
feet. Where was little feed or water, the
cold was severe, a high wind was blowing
and snow was falling. Had the storm
continued, our fate would have been set-
tled right there, but fortunately it cleared
during the night. On the 27th Messrs.
Robb and Chillson quit at Little Salmon.
They had had enough and turned back.
From Little Salmon to Elk City is about
40 miles, and easily done in 2 days. An
interesting feature of the trail is the mul-
titude of inscriptions on the trees, gener-
ally some tale of woe or hard luck story,
coupled with advice to turn back.
On the 28th we camped at the ranch of
Buster Smith, Elk City. I drove 55 miles
to the nearest railroad point, Kooskia.
Blair and outfit went back over the trail,
and narrowly escaped being snowed in for
the winter. One horse perished, and on
their last day in the mountains they en-
countered a furious snow storm that near-
ly overwhelmed them, but they finally
succeeded in breaking through to Darby
and thence back to Blair’s ranch, in Cen-
tennial valley, where I am sure you would
be a welcome visitor.
She—I understand vealhas gone up.
He—I guess that’s right;
I see the res-
taurants have raised the price of chicken
salad.—Yonkers Statesman.
JUXGKOUSGS) JEN
IRZAUING
TIDD MURRAY.
Low’ry sky an’ Southern breeze,
Sun he’s hid ahind a cloud,
Robins singin’ in th’ apple trees,
Hoppe: chirpin’ sort o’ loud.
Guess I ain't so weather blind
That I don’t know th’ token;
Reckon that thar Southern wind
Shows th’ drought is broken.
Guess I can’t get in th’ hay
1Gozeitse stne= ten fain:
Better wait till another day
When th’ signs are not ez plain.
Reckon Ill get out th’ pole
An’ dig some worms an’ hike
Down ter th’ old deep river hole
That used ter hold the pike.
What! th’ sun a burnin’ through?
Blame it! let her burn.
An Sth sky, a tunmim plie!
I don’t care; let her turn!
Might jest ez well be fishin’
Ez ter be er pitchin’ hay
When all th’ time yere wishin’
That termorrow’d be a rainy day.
AMATEUR PHOTO BY R. C. W. LETT.
A MORNING NIP.
Winner of 28th Prize in RECREATION’s 6th Annual Photo Competition.
If
AMATEUR PHOTO BY J. E, STANLEY.
A GOOD RETRIEVER.
Winner of 30th Prize in RECREATION’s 6th Annual Photo Competition
THINKING IT OVER.
Winner of 37th Prize in RECREATION’s 6th Annual Photo Competition.
12
tite VivohekyY On A BULLET.
CHARLES W. SAWYER.
One September day in 1895 John and I
were starting for our vacation in Northern
Vermont. As we walked through the city
streets on our way to the train, we saw a
sign in a gun store window, “The U. M. C.
Company’s new cartridge, 22 short smoke-
less mushroom, just received.” John had
in his hand a fancy 22 caliber single shot
rifle, and he bought a few hundred of these
new cartridges. No suspicion of the trou-
ble they would get us into shadowed our
sunny spirits while the train bore us to the
beautiful woods of the North. Forests and
fields, hills and valleys, sunlit waters and
shadowy crags passed in endless proces-
sion, until, at last, far from the towns the
conductor called ‘“Staceyville.’ At this
little railroad station the farmer we were
to board with met us, and drove us a 3
hours’ rough-and-tumble, jouncing, jolting,
bumping ride, up hill and down dale,
through woods and past clearings to the
’way-back farm that was to be our home.
In this quiet, sweet smelling, old fashioned
farm house, in the fields, pastures, and ram-
bling orchards that made up the clearing,
and in the border of the woods around the
clearing, we were for a time content. There
were ruffed grouse and squirrels for John
to shoot with his rifle and new cartridges.
There was a range sufficiently long, shel-
tered, and well lighted, whereon I could
play at target shooting with my powerful
hunting rifle. There were rest, recreation,
rustic beauty, and every attraction to
keep us at home, yet we soon became rest-
less, and strayed farther and farther away.
In going about the country we often
stopped at the outlying farms, and became
friendly with the inmates. They were a
pleasant lot of people, always ready to
stop work for a chance to gossip. There
was one of the lot, Ezekiel Withington, on
whom we did not at first call, because the
farmer with whom we boarded was at law
with him, and told us terrible tales about
him. We found, however, that some of the
other farmers spoke well of Withington, so
one day we stopped at his house. We liked
him very well. He treated us to cider, and
showed us about his farm. He had a mag-
nificent place, of some 1,500 acres, pictur-
esque buildings, herds of cattle, and a big
flock of sheep. We soon found that some
of the best small game hunting in the
country was to be had in his woods. He
was interested in John’s rifle, and examined
it and the ammunition with much care.
Then he brought out his grandfather’s
muzzle loading rifle, which was a remarka-
13
bly fine weapon, and we had some shoot-
ing. We found the man and his woods so
attractive that we spent considerable
time there. One thing seemed odd to us.
He let his cattle, with a bull in the herd,
and his sheep, with several rams among
them, roam at will about the country, al-
though a town road ran through his farm.
We asked him if it was not dangerous. He
said the bull would not hurt anybody, as he
was tame, and the sheep were all pets; but
we heard elsewhere that Withington had
sometimes had his sheep shot. The coun-
try was heavily forested, and in the fall
and winter there were numerous camps of
hunters and woodchoppers, so it was diffi-
cult to fix the blame. The loss and an-
noyance had become so great that With-
ington and other farmers had succeeded in
getting a law passed making the illegal
killing of sheep punishable by both fine and
imprisonment. In telling us about it With-
ington’s eyes snapped and his manner was
such that we could see it would go hard
with an offender if Withington could catch
him.
Soon after this we were going along the
road one morning, guns in hand, on our
way to a shooting match at the village.
John had his new rifle. As we came out
of the woods we saw Withington’s sheep,
an immense flock, feeding on both sides of
the road in the pasture. They scattered
frometisuriciteandwlert. Isican do a. little
something at imitating the calls of various
animals, and we had considerable fun in
mystifying the sheep with the plaintive
bleat of a lamb in distress, that drew them
toward us, and the deep bass of a watchful
old ram, that sent them running off again.
Suddenly there was a slight sound behind
us. I had only time to turn my head part
way round when something like a great
dirty white streak struck John in the back.
At the heavy thud my friend doubled back-
ward like a bent bow, and was thrown for-
ward bv the impact of the mass Io or 12
feet. He fell in a heap as if dead. At the
same time his assailant, an old ram, with
great curved horns, came down on his feet,
lowered his head, and stood ready ‘to
charge again at the least sign of life. I
laid down my rifle and ran at him. He
promptly wheeled and charged me. As his
ponderous head almost struck me I leaped
aside, put out one foot, and tripped him.
He was up in an instant, but before he
could get away I had him by the tail, then
by one hind leg, then, after a struggle, by
both hind legs. I tied them with a piece
14 RECREATION.
of cord, tipped him over, knelt with one
knee on his head and the other on his
body, and tied his front legs.
John, meanwhile, had got up, and was
limping along to get his rifle. The first
thing he thought of, after the edge of the
pain was off, was whether the rifle was in-
jured. It was without a scratch, for it had
fallen on soft grass. John was the sort of
fellow who would not give in to pain. He
said he was all right, but I could see he was
hurt. However, after sitting down awhile
he insisted that we go on to the shooting
match. I unfastened the ram’s front legs,
and taking his hind legs, trundled him
along, wheelbarrow fashion. We got to
Withington’s after a while, and I fastened
the ram in the sheep pen. We called at the
house to see Withington, but he was away.
I told Mrs. Withington the facts in the
case, and added that I was afraid my friend
was hurt worse than his grit would let
him acknowledge. I asked if we might
have a horse and buggy and Mrs. Withing-
ton consented.
We found a motley crowd assembled at
the range. There were boys with cheap
rifles, and men of all ages, with arms of
about every degree of poorness and excel-
lence. In spite of John’s grit he was un-
able to walk without a bad limp, and this
soon drew the query as to how he got hurt.
His hurt did not affect his shooting, or
his skill at making bull’s-eyes, and the
beauty of his rifle brought a crowd of
lookers-on. They were greatly interested
in the ammunition, for, although the bullet
was small, and the powder of little bulk, it
shot, in John’s hands, better than their
heavy charges. They championed him
strongly in the matter of the ram, and
were loud in their statements of what
they would do if they had been in our
place.
“Why,” said one old grandfather, “that
Zeke Withington haint no right on airth to
let his cattle ’n sheep run in the public road.
You orter shot that sam fishtythen an
there, an’ he never could ’a touched ye fer
it. What's more, you’ve got a case agin
him fer heavy damages. You just sue him
tem $5,000) an? lar ima ae lesson.
“That’s right,’ said half a dozen around
us. The village lawyer edged his way up,
and offered to take the case.
“You've got a clear case, gentlemen, and
if you want to trust it to me, I’ll guarantee
you good money out of it.”
We refused his offer, and John said he
thought he should let the matter drop.
When we got back with the horse and
buggy Withington had returned. There
was a snap in his eyes that told us he had ~
received the news from his wife, and con-
sidered that henceforth we were to meet
as foes. John was as pleasant as usual.
“T suppose you heard from your wife,”
he said, “that your ram assaulted us this
morning, on the road?”
Yes; said “Withinetony sandeslesup-
pose you'll have Lawyer Gibbs, down to the
village?”
oNo;” ‘said: John =. “shall snotwasues:
Withington looked as if he wondered what
kind of trick John would play.
“You and I have been good friends,
Withington, and, as far as I am concerned,
we shall remain so.”
Withington soon became like his for-
mer self, and we left on the best of terms;
yet, I had a suspicion that he thought there
was a screw loose somewhere, and that he
might yet get a rap when he was off his
guard. The spirit of revenge was inbred
in him, and in every one of the men there-
about we had chanced to meet, and he
found anything different hard to believe.
The next to the last day of our vacation
arrived, and we decided to go gunning.
We went through a stretch of oak woods
near the brow of a long hill above the pas-
ture. We thought we ought to find some
grey squirrels there, and perhaps a few
ruffed grouse, but although we kept very
quiet and exercised our utmost skill, we
did not see or hear a thing larger than
small birds. We did not even fire our
rifles, and went home saying it was the
poorest afternoon’s hunting we had had.
The next morning we went over to bid
goodbye to our neighbor to the South. The
first thing he said to us was,
“Well, boys, that was big game you got
yesterday,” and he gave us a wink. We
thought it was his joke on our not getting
any game, and wondered how he knew.
“Yes,” said I, “so big we could not get
it home.”
“How’d ye shoot it,” he asked. ‘“Acci-
dental?’ and he winked again and
grinned.
“Shoot what?” said John.
“Why, Zeke’s sheep. Haint ye heerd
about it?” with a broader grin.
“No,” said I, “we not only have not
heard about it, but we didn’t shoot it.”
“O, go ’way! You needn’t be afraid of
mess
“Tell us about it,’ said John.
“Why,” said the farmer, “last night about
_ sundown, when the sheep come home to the
pen, Zeke an’ his man, who were standin’
by the pen, noticed one of ’em was sick. It
was kind er totterin’ along, and pretty soon
it laid down. Zeke, he went up to it, and it
was dead, so quick. He turned it over, and
ther warn’t no mark on it nowhere, so they
cut it up to see what the matter was with
it. They found one o’ your queer little
holler bullets in its vitals. Must have been
shot within half an hour of when it died,
so it must have come straight from the
see BW Me
pasture side of where you fellers was gun-
nin’, ‘cause that’s ’bout half an hour’s sheep
travel from the pen. Looks ter me ’s if
Zeke’s got a clear case agin you fellers,
an’ by gosh, I’d rather ’t be you than me.
Say, why didn’t you take a likelier chance,
when it was ’way off, somewheres?”
John and I looked at each other, amazed.
“Well,” said John, at last, “let’s go over
to see Zeke.”
When we reached his house he greeted
us pleasantly.
“TI have just heard,” said John, “that one
of your sheep was shot, and that the bul-
let looks like one of mine.”
“There it is.” said Withington, produc-
ing it from his vest pocket. It certainly
looked in every detail like one of John’s.
“T do not know as you will believe me,”
said John, “but I hope you will. I did not
shoot that sheep, nor did my friend. The
first we knew of it was when we were told
this morning. Neither of us did it, either
accidentally or purposely, I pledge you my
word of honor. Will you believe me?”
Withington chewed a straw, and did not
look up or say anything for some time.
Then he smiled rather pleasantly, and said:
“My wife said she didn’t believe you did
it On purpose.”
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He talked pleasantly, and bade us good-
bye. We hardly knew what to think. On
the train going home we talked the matter
over continually. Surely, had Withington
chosen to arrest us, we should have had to
suffer on circumstantial evidence, for never
was an innocent suspect convicted on a
clearer case. First, Withington’s counsel
would mention to the jury the matter of
prejudice. Our farmer was a bitter enemy
to Withington, and never let a chance slip
to say an ill word of him. We should
naturally be prejudiced in the beginning.
Then, there was probable cause, the ram’s
assault. Strongest evidence was the bullet,
just like John’s, never seen in that country
before, none like it to be had anywhere
near, except of John. Witnesses there were
in plenty for Withington, not one for us.
“Well,” said John, in conclusion, “either
we shall yet feel the weight of his ven-
geance, or the leopard has changed his
spots.”
As time passed, and we were left in
peace, we concluded that Withington felt
we had done by him, in the matter of the
ram, as we would be done by, so he
had returned the good deed to us; but
there is yet a mystery, and that is, who
did shoot the sheep?
Bk
AMATEUR PHOTO BY E. C, THATCHER.
QUAILS IN THE STUBBLE.
Winner of 38th Prize in REcREATION’s 6th Annual Photo Competition.
COLE
PLEAS.
CE:
Not a big boa constrictor of the jungle
story, but a little one, the hero of which
is a beautiful red and dusky spotted fellow
about 2 feet long. Scientists will better
know him as Coluber guttatus, while his
common name varies in different localities.
Sometimes he is called spotted racer, and
again house snake and chicken snake; but
if you want to know his greatest aim in
life, give him a mouse or a young rat.
I started to call him our pet, but as he
never showed affection for anyone, nor
preference for one person more than an-
other, he is hardly entitled to that name.
made a noticeable change in him, particu-
larly just after a big meal, and we could
almost see him grow. He drank about like
a cow in manner, and almost as often.
We had a rat hunt in the barn one day,
and Cole played the part of executioner.
Among those caught were 9 young rats,
about a third larger than house mice. As
in the case of all other executions, a spe-
cial place was prepared for this one. A
shallow tray 16x18 inches, with a layer
of clean sand in the bottom, was put in a
public place, a few tufts of grass were
placed around the edge, a glass cover was
AMATEUR PHOTO BY C. E, PLEAS.
A FULL MEAL.
Yet from the time he was taken captive
in 1900 until given his liberty last spring,
he was as quiet and gentle, when handled,
as if he had been raised in captivity.
Our first meeting was down in the or-
chard one hot day in July. I was raking
hay; he was asleep underneath. I took
him in my hands and deposited him in a
cage prepared for such a purpose in the
barn. There he seemed fairly contented,
and greedily took his food and water when
offered. The old idea that snakes feed
only once in 3 months has long since gone
out of my mind. Possibly some do, but
my observations are different.
ply, I believe, governs the time of feeding
more than aught else.
Cole was about 16 inches long when cap-
tured, but it seemed that every mouse
The sup-_
16
provided and the next thing was the audi-
ence.
A camera with its wide angle eye was
given the best view commanding the whole
arena, and was supplied with plates on
which to take notes. Cole was then placed
in the arena, a rat turned in, and the per-
formance began. ‘The rat, of course fright-
ened, had forgotten the old fable about
snakes charming their prey, and was in too
great a hurry to investigate Cole’s mes-
meric powers, running about as fast as it
could, to find a way out.
From the way in which Cole gave pur-
suit one would judge that he had little in-
tention to charm, and he caught the rat
about as a bow legged man would catch a
pig in an alley.
I can not describe the scene that fol-
COLE. 17
lowed, it was done so quickly. The photo-
graph “In Mortal Coil,’ made during the
execution and published in June ReEcrEa-
TION, best illustrates it. The rat was held
as shown until life was extinct, when the
coils were slowly relaxed.
The remains were swallowed as shown
in the accompanying illustration. The
supply of rats held out longer than Cole’s
appetite, but his instinct to kill was so
great. that he continued to seize and
squeeze until he had executed some of
them several times over; the dead being
made to appear alive by being poked with
a thin wire. He would take dead rats in
motion, but never lying still.
Cole was given his liberty this spring,
in hopes that he would remain about the
barn and catch rats, but he proved un-
grateful, for he disappeared at once and
has not since been seen.
Single specimens of this kind have been
found measuring over 4 feet in length.
They appear to be semi-domestic in their
tastes, being frequently found making
themselves at home in some _ dwelling,
where, though innocent of harmful intent,
they are likely to cause consternation
among those who are not acquainted with
their habits.
One of these snakes innocently deprived
me of an interesting photo in the fall of
98. About 1,000 swifts had taken tempo-
rary lodging in one of our chimneys. At
sundown they swarmed around = and
dropped into the chimney in a_ black
stream. We counted several hundred, one
evening, after they had been going in for
half an hour, and we thought what an in-
teresting picture that would make; so the
next day I set the camera on the roof in
good time and waited. Dark came, but no
birds, save one or 2 stragglers that flitted
by. Mrs. Pleas had that day stepped on a
big Coluber in the room by the fireplace,
and on examination it was found to con-
tain 2 of the birds.
Thus our disappointment was explained.
AMATEUR PHOTO BY WM. H, FISHER:
HIGH AND DRY.
FERRUGINOUS ROUGH-LEG HAWK. ARCHIBUTEO FERRUGINEUS.
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EUey.
In August, 1898, I left my home at Glen-
wood Springs, Colo., for a hunt on White
river, a fine trout stream, 40 miles North
of Glenwood. All I took with me was a
frying pan, 25 pounds of flour, a little salt,
pepper, coffee and sugar, my rifle and fish-
ing rod, and one blanket besides my saddle
blanket.
The first night I reached Mud Springs,
and by noon next day was on White river.
The second night I spent at Marvine
creek, where I caught a mess of trout for
supper and breakfast. The following night
I camped at the end of the wagon road on
the North Fork of White river, just at the
mouth of Lost creek. At 5 a. m. I was 3
miles farther up North Fork and began
isis byenoone .. tad awcreel full” of
trout, among them one rainbow weighing
5% pounds.
Next morning I took my rifle, a 25-20
Winchester, and set out for Lost Park. I
had not gone far before I came on a doe
and 2 fawns. I did not fire at them, be-
cause in Colorado it is against the law to
shoot anything without horns. A little
later I saw a bunch of 4° deer, 3° bucks
and a doe. When I opened fire I had 15
shots in my Winchester; after the deer
had skipped I could find only 6 cartridges
in the gun. The rest were not in the deer
either.
Feeling pretty sore over such shooting,
ipushed ahead. As i rounded a bend 1
saw 2 bucks in a clump of small trees.
They were fully 300 yards away, and I
raised the sight to the proper notch before
I fired.
At the report the buck farthest from me
dropped; the other remained motionless.
With careful aim I fired twice at the stand-
ing deer. Then I raised the sight for 400
yards and tried again, with no result. He
must be clean out of range. I thought, and
began creeping nearer. Not until I was
within 100 yards did I discover I had been
shooting at a rock. Where I had seen a
ie roOsl PAkk,
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buck fall I found tracks leading down the
other side of the ridge. There was no
blood, however, and I did not think it worth
while to follow.
Late in the day I ran on toa pair of elks,
but elks are protected here and I had to let
them go. Well, thought I, fishing is my
best chance; I'll go back and fish. Just as
I crossed Lost creek a 6-point buck rose
from behind a log not 15 steps from me.
The Winchester cracked and the buck went
down, shot through the stomach. In
an instant he was on his feet again and off
down the creek. Two shots followed him,
but with no result. I put spurs to my
horse, and after a chase of 3 miles got an-
other shot as the buck was about to recross
the creek. That time he went down to stay.
I jumped from my horse, drew my knife,
and in a minute was at the side of a 280-
pound buck. He was still breathing, and
when the knife point touched his throat he
made one last ‘efiort to regain his feet,
knocking me backward into the creek.
I had to dress him on the ground as he
was much too heavy for a boy of 15 to lift.
I got him dressed at last, and then came
the question of how to get my game to
camp. It occurred to me that I might float
him down the creek. I tied a rope around
the deer’s neck and dragged it into the
creek. It was hard work dodging rocks
and stumps, but the worst of all was when
I came to a fall. It would never do to
let the deer go over it. I went back after
the horse, took him down and_ backed
him under the fall. Then I eased away
the rope that held the deer above until the
carcass came down on the horse, where I
managed to tie it. It was midnight before
I reached camp, tired, wet and hungry.
I remained in Lost park 18 days, hunting
and fishing. In that time I shot 2 deer, I
antelope, 1 wolf, 1 wildcat, 1 fox, 2 coyotes,
38 grouse and 19 rabbits. I also caught
81 trout, weighing over 60 pounds. The
trip, including ammunition and _ fishing
tackle, cost me only $5.90.
General :
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‘Sir! His Majesty’s 2,781st Lowlanders
We surrendered, sir!’’
NEVER run away!
—lkife:
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TWENDY_ONE GRIZZEIES INGSIGrae
W. H.
A chance conversation between Mr. Cole-
man, of New York, Dr. Penfield and me,
led to an impromptu bear hunt in which
the hunters came off second best, though
game was more than abundant. During the
trip 21 grizzlies were seen; also the tracks
of scores of others, some of the footprints
measuring 842 x 12 inches.
I had heard of a place in British Colum-
bia where bears were found in droves. On
my speaking of it. we agreed that we
3 would visit the region provided we could
start at once, the time at the doctor’s dis-
posal being limited to 10 days. According-
lv we left on an early train the next morn-
ing, and 2 days later found ourselves with-
in 20 miles of the bear country. The re-
mainder of the journey had to be made
with pack horses.
It was early for bears to be out, as the
snow was still deep, and we were advised
to remain in town a few days at least; but
as we had good tents, stoves, etc., we de-
cided to push on as far as possible and
then wait until the snow settled enough to
permit farther progress. This we did, hir-
ing a man and 5 horses to pack our outfit
while we walked. Our trail was an old
prospectors’ path leading over the steepest
and most difficult hills. No one had trav-
eled it since the year before, and there was
much down timber to be cut.
We struck the trail at 3 p. m. and fol-
lowed it 11 mules) Dhe last 2 one einailes
we made by pounding down and plowing
through soft snow 3 to 4 feet deep. By
that time we were all tired, hungry and
cross, and being then on a little side hill
free from snow and facing South, we con-
cluded to wait a while. After sending
back the man and the horses we proceeded
to make camp, no easy thing in a country
that fairly stands on end, and where there
is hardly a bit of level ground large enough
to play marbles on. -We cut logs and
boughs, drove stakes, skinned trees and at
last got our 12x20 tent erected, but at a
cruel cost to the timber of the Dominion.
The weather, which had been mild for a
few days, became colder, with an occasional
snow storm. We could do nothing beyond
beating up and clearing the trail ahead in
readiness for a move when the time came.
This state of affairs continued 2 weeks and
outlasted Dr. Penfield’s patience and leave
of absence. Early one morning he took
the trail South, promising to try again
another season.
His departure seemed to break the spell,
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for the next day warm weather began. Two
days later, when the man and horses re-
turned, we succeeded in reaching a little
bottom 6 miles farther on, where we made
our final camp. Just before getting there
we saw our first grizzly track, evidently
made the evening before.
The mountains are high, steep and hard
to climb. Every half mile or so snow
slides have left their mark, sweeping be-
fore them to the creek bottoms everything
that offered resistance. These old slides
are covered with bushes which, yielding
before the onrushing snow, have been left
to grow, slanting downward. This makes
it next to impossible to get through them
when going up, though one can slip down
easily enough. Amid the bushes are little
parklike patches covered with grass and a
yellow lily having a bulb root. It is on
grass and these lilies that the bears live.
Emerging from their dens in spring, they
make their way down to the foot of the
lowest slides. As vegetation becomes older
and tough they work up the steep and nar-
row canyons, following the snow. When
they have reached the highest divide their
bedtime has come again. If when they first
come out the grass has not started, they
nip the small and tender twigs of the
bushes, which are mostly maple.
There is no game other than bears in that
country, except on the high divides, where
caribou are said to be plentiful. We saw
none, however, nor even any tracks.
Hedgehogs were all too abundant; we
never went out without seeing a dozen or
more. They will eat anything at all salty,
or that has been handled by man. At first
we thought them cute, but changed our
minds when they began to eat the tent and
walk all over us while we lay asleep. Not
a night passed that we did not have to get
up once or oftener and knock the sawdust
out of misguided hedgehogs that insisted
on eating our shoes, hats and anything
else we had neglected to hang on the tent
pole.
There were many large timber wolves;
we saw their tracks everywhere. A band
came within 300 yards of camp. Following
the trail the next day we saw where one
had left the bunch. Out of curiosity we
tracked the lone wolf and were led to a
hole in a large cedar tree. The track went
in and out. In the hole were 4q little black
wolf pups, their eyes not yet open. We
took them to camp and returned to watch
for their dam. She did not return that
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day or the next. When she did we heard
of it, for no sooner did she miss her pups
than she raised a howl, assisted apparently
by all the wolves in the country, that made
the hills ring. We tried to raise the kid-
napped babies, feeding them condensed
milk. Two died in a few days and the
others lived but 2 weeks.
A day or so after moving camp we start-
ed out to round up some bears. ‘Two miles
back on the trail we came to a slide clear
ot snow and already green with grass. A
half mile up the slide was an open space
which we thought it well to investigate.
We entered the gulch, through which ran
a little stream, and climbed up. At the
edge of the clearing I stopped and looked
over the ground. Not 100 feet away stood
the prettiest old grizzly I have ever seen.
His head and shoulders were tawny; back
of them he was white as snow. He was
not eating, neither did he appear alarmed,
but had altogether the air of a portly old
gentleman looking over property with an
eye to making a bid.
Without looking around I motioned for
Coleman, and when he did not respond I
turned and saw him some distance to the
rear. Not until I made frantic gestures
could I attract his attention. When, at
last, he reached me the bear had vanished,
having undoubtedly winded us. We fol-
lowed him a mile or more; then as he kept
persistently in thick brush, we gave it
up.
Across the creek from camp was a high
mountain with 3 large slides on the side
facing us. Those we watched with glasses
and there we saw our next bear. He was
another overgrown old fellow, white all
over. He appeared on a little lawn half a
mile up the hill. Below him was a cliff
some 500 feet high, which we would have
tOpround: tne lorder to reach finn. VAs it
was late we decided to wait until morning
and then go up and lay for him. It took
us 3 hours to reach the place where we
had seen him, and the ground was so steep
and the brush so thick that we did not
think it worth while to wait. Often after
that we saw the old fellow from camp,
but did not attempt another campaign
against him.
By that time the snow was going in
earnest, slides were frequent, and we con-
fidently expected some real bear hunting.
Every old slide contained one or more
bears, some white, some brown, some half-
and-half. We climbed hills, cut trails,
felled foot-logs across creeks; but the bears
still stuck to the side hills, ate yrass, dug
bulbs and minded us not at all. It would
take us so long to get where we saw a
bear that there was no chance for us.
With a pack of dogs we could have cor-
nered many. After goose-chasing those
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weeks we hung up our things,
tied the tent door and walked 17 miles
back to the lake. A man lived there who
claimed to have killed many bears on our
creek, and we asked him if there was any
patented way of doing it. He said we
should have baited them and then watched
the bait. We had thought of doing that,
but it seemed like taking an unfair ad-
vantage. However, Mr. Coleman wanted
a bear and at last said he did not care how
he got it.
We went on a few miles and found a
man who had an old horse sick with the
heaves. He was going to kill the poor
beast to get rid of it, until he found there
was a market for bear bait. There was
an instant rally in equine values, but we
finally closed a deal at $20 and started
campward, leading our bait. Our progress
was slow. About every 100 yards we had
to stop 10 minutes while the old horse re-
covered his wind and composure. When
we finally reached camp with our prize we
felt that he fully deserved the death pen-
alty.
A few miles above camp was a branch
stream coming from a range of high, rough
hills to the Eastward. There was no bot-
tom land along it, the mountains running
down to its very bank. There were slides
along this creek half a mile wide at the base
and extending far back into the mountains.
There, we thought, would be the place for
our bait, as bears could hardly miss it. We
assisted the old horse to the first slide,
roped him over the creek and killed him
in a little open place near a cedar thicket.
Across the creek, about 75 yards away, we
built a blind, and cut every bush that could
intercept our view of the bait. The blind
was so arranged that we could approach it
unseen.
We cut off the horse’s head and dragged
it a mile up stream to an old deadfall.
Coleman was getting desperate and bound
to have a bear one way or another. We
fixed up the old trap, piling logs as big
as we could lift around it to make sure
bruin could not get the bait without being
pinched.
Within 3 days a bear had found it.
That we discovered one morning and the
same afternoon we watched the ‘bait from
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the blind. Next morning we again
watched, returning to camp at II. Com-
ing back at 2 we found the bait gone. We
had never seen bears around in midday;
always before 11 or after 2. This fellow
was the evident exception to the rule.
We found he had moved the bait to one
side out of sight of the blind, eaten a hearty
dinner and departed. Getting ropes we
hauled the remains back and watched until
dark. Next morning we were at the stand
by daybreak. There had been nothing
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doing over night. At 9 I returned to camp
to do some cooking. Later I relieved Cole-
man. He came back at 4 and we both
watched until dark. ;
Next morning the bait was gone. We
recovered it and watched all day. For 5
days we pulled that horse one way and the
bear nulled it the other. When there was
nothing left but bones we piled them up,
and congratulated ourselves on having had
last move in the game. To be sure our
ante was $20; but the bear earned it.
We decided to look at the trap, pack up
and pull out. When we passed the stand
Coleman looked for the bones. They were
gone!
At the trap another surprise awaited us.
A bear had carefully removed our logs,
eaten our bait and gone on his way re-
joicing.
We are going back next spring. Mean-
time we invite proposals from persons who
think they have dogs smarter than those
Selkirk grizzlies.
C *
de DONE. “ae
AMATEUR PHOTO BY C. M. HAY,
THANK YOU.
Winner of 34th Prize in RECREATION’s 6th Annual Photo Competition
hiVSe A pie With AS GREAT SORNED OWL.
Bee Gok.
In September, 1901, business calfed me
down to the Buffalo hills, of Arkansas, the
outrunners of the Ozarks, or better, the
Boston mountains. I had been led to be-
lieve that in the forests I should find deer,
turkeys and smaller game, and that in the
clear waters of the Buffalo the wily bass
were only waiting for the man with rod and
reel. Alas! the deer had been run out with
hounds years ago, andas the result of giant
powder the beautiful stream yelded so lit-
tle that even the patience of the most ar-
dent angler was overtaxed. Some quails and
turkeys were reported and occasonaly a dog
might jump a rabbit. That was all. The
tapping of the yellowhammer was about the
only sign of life, a welcome sound that
broke the dead silence of the vast forest.
SEitesmonlyathe, varmitse thats) lett. =tite
natives told me. “Rabbits? Why, hit’s the
owls and red foxes that done away with
them.”
In consequence I hung up my Savage 30-
30, my other guns and fishing tackle, and
with a deep grudge against the foxes and
owls, and especially against the 2-legged
“Vvarmits,’ my wife and I, with net and
cyanide bottle, rambled, as of old, through
the forest and beautiful valleys in search of
coleoptera and lepidoptera, a tamer sport
thatethatewithie Tod) sands eum, but withal
equally fascinating and undoubtedly a bet-
ter and more satisfactory one.
St. Valentine’s day came and with
it the first snow of the season. Who could
have stayed home on such a day?
“Bring me my Valentine,” called my
wife after me, with a dubious smile on her
lips, as I stepped out into the brisk wintry
air with my little 16 gauge Syracuse over
my shoulder, and Nemo, my beagle pup,
at my heels.
That day the unexpected happened.
Scampering along over the snowclad hill-
side came bunnie, who had evidently lost
his bearings, only to stop at the peremptory
“halt” of my gun and to find his way into
my alas, too roomy, game pocket. The rab-
bit was a measly, dyspeptic looking speci-
men, but a rabbit after all; and when, later
in the day, I succeeded in bringing down a
chicken hawk that soared high overhead, I
felt once more the jov of the hunter, the
fascination of sport. The hawk measured
4 feet I inch from tip to tip, and to-day
looks down on us from his high pedestal in
our den, much valued by my wife as her
“Arkansas valentine.”
Not many hundred yards from our house
a rocky bluff arose about Ioo teet in height,
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its summit crowned with evergreens and
crooked oaks, whose yvigantic silhouettes
stood out clearly against the sky. The
spot was extremely picturesque, and the
many crevices in the rock afforded excel-
lent hiding and nesting places for bats and
owls. The hooting of the latter could be
heard a long way in the stillness of the sur-
roundings and, judging from the deep, son-
orous tone of their voices, I concluded they
were of the same large variety that caused
the untimely death of Ernest T. Seton’s Rag-
gylug. I was to find out for myself soon after.
Snow had fallen all night, the heaviest
snow in Arkansas for 17 years. A magnifi-
ment sight met our eyes in the morning,
and soon’ we were out with our camera
among the white capped rocks and snow
bent cedars to get a few pictures of the de-
lightful landscape that stretched in all di-
rections, glistening and glittering under the
cold rays of the winter sun. The afternoon,
too, was spent in the same fashion, to
make the best of an opportunity so seldom
offered under these skies, and it was not
until the dying sun glided the tops of the
mountains that we reached home, weary
from our long and difficult tramp. I was
about to take life easy the remainder
of the evening, when, like a challenge, there
came from the rocky hillside tne deep,
long-drawn hooo, hoo, hoo, hooo of the
huge bird of darkness. The next minute
found me climbing again, that time in the
direction of the bluff. While I stood a
moment panting and gazing, a pair of great
horned owls arose from an overhanging
rock and flew up on the crest of the hill.
The distance from where I stood was too
great to justify a wing shot, but I marked
the place where the birds alighted and was
about to commence the ascent of the hill,
when one of the owls returned and made
the highest branch of the dead oak tree,
right on top of the precipice, his point of
observation. Apparently not larger than a
quail, the form of the bird stood out against
the wintry sky. In order to get a better
range, I cautiously began to advance, but
the keen eyes of the owl had esnied the
enemy, and I knew that in a moment my
prey would be gone. In an instant my gun
was at my shoulder, and when the echo of
the report rolled back from the hills, I saw
with pride and joy the mighty vird hanging
lifeless in the branches, only to roll, a
moment later, down among the boulders.
Breathless and excited I reached the
top of the cliff, but found that on account
of the circuit I had been obliged to make,
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I had lost my bearings. No trace of my
game was to be seen. Every minute it grew
darker, and had it not been for the white-
ness of the snow, I should have bee com-
pelled to postpone my search until the next
morning. The thought of it did not strike
me favorably. My hunting passion was
up and once more I pressed forward. That
time success rewarded me. ‘There, near
the edge of the precipice, lay the owl, my
game, apparently stiff and lifeless.
However, locating the bird and getting it
were 2 different things. The ground was
slippery, and the deep snow treacherous.
One false step might hurl me down over
the bluff. What should I do? Was the
prize worth the risk? Was it not satisfac-
tion enough to know that I had made a
good shot? To all these questions there
was only the same stubborn answer; “Get
your game!” With the help of saplings
and overhanging branches I slowly began
the descent, feeling the ground step by step,
until, half creeping, half sliding, I came
near enough to reach for the coveted prize.
Grasping a stout limb with my right hand
and bracing my knee against the protruding
rock, I succeeded in seizing, with my left
hand, the owl’s wing. Like lightning the
bird swung around and buried his powerful
talons in my hand. The attack was so un-
expected and the pain so intense, that I
came near losing my hold. The tables were
turned; the hunted bird had taken the of-
fensive. The yellow, malicious eyes glared
at me as big as saucers, and the continual
cracking of the sharp beak showed that
my adversary meant fight. Handicapped in
every way I instinctively tried to dash my
enemy's head against the rocks, but he
cleverly dodged time and again. My po-
sition was becoming more and more try-
ing, hanging there, so to speak, in midair,
struggling with a foe that stuck faster than
glue. To regain my strength I tried to
pause a few moments in our pass-at-arms,
but the owl evidently did not believe in an
armistice, and to make the situation clear
to me he dealt me with his free wing such
a vicious blow across my face, that I be-
came totally blinded and dazed for a few
moments.
What might have been the result of the
fight had my enemy been in possession of
his full strength, would be hard to tell. As
it was, his wounds soon began to weaken
him, his attacks grew fainter, and dashing
him with all my strength against the bould-
er, I ended the life he had so bravely de-
fended. I could but admire the pluck and
gallant fight of the owl, and I wish I could
have ended the struggle in a more sports-
manlike manner.
Worn out and bleeding, but exultant and
proud, | reached home. The owl, a beauty,
measured exactly 4% feet from tip to tip,
and was promptly mounted to remind me
in days to come that under certain condi-
tions the hunter of “small fry,” too, may
encounter a thrilling experience which he
will remember with as much pride as his
brother sportsman who can tell of hair-
breadth escapes from mountain lions and
grizzlies.
A MEMORY.
EDITH M. CHURCH.
A moon just over the hilltop,
Shining so round and bright;
Fir trees that look like spectres,
In the weird, uncertain light.
Night shadows upon the waters
That stretch away to the shores;
Half way ’twixt light and shadows
The fitful dip of oars.
A boat glides through the darkness,
Then passes forever from sight,
Lost in the Past’s great ocean,
In its deep, mysterious night.
Will no vision come in the future,
As we eagerly press to’ard the mark,
Of a boat that drifts through the shadows,
And is lost again in the dark?
OW Tih OU ATES: WHE Pies Hix VED.
DAVID BRUCE.
“T fed a little bunch of quails all winter,”
said my friend, the farmer, as I got into
his buggy. He had asked me to go to his
place with him to shoot a fox. He knew
just where to find him, he said, for he had
tracked him on the snow to a lot where a
wagon load of cornstalks had been over-
turned, and fearful of disturbing him,
had driven down for me. He said he had
no confidence in his own shooting any
more.
“Not but what my old gun would fetch
him, if he was anywhere within 15 rods;
but my eyesight aint so good as it was 20
years ago.”
He had been all around the lot and was
confident the fox hadn’t left the cornfield,
and he was sure we could have lots of
fun. His shepherd dog would hunt better
than half the hounds.
“Vow See. said he, “Iver ted a little
bunch of quails all winter. They come right
to the barn and feed with the fowls. I
like to see the little fellows. Lord! when
Iwasa boy, what a lor. used to get, “to
be sure. I hadn’t seen but one or 2 for
years. This little knot was huddled up in
the corner of my orchard fence during that
big storm we had Christmas week, and
I have fed ’em ever since. There were 8
at first, now there are only 7; but-I mean
to take care of “em and see if they won't
nest close by, for I’d like to see ’em com-
monepacaitiee Mhiss pesky. fox: must be
killed the first thing, or they won't have
much chance. Blest if I dont think we
are going to get another storm; when you
see that long) dark, streak of cloud over
old Ontario, you may be sure there’s some-
thing a coming.”
True enough, the sky looked threatening.
I certainly should not have ventured out
of my own accord, but it was not more
than 2 miles from my house, and my
friend had always been so good natured and
liberal with the produce of his orchard and
garden that I was glad to oblige him; so
we went.
“Well, we will go to the house for a
minute and see the missis, and have some
cider and apples, and get the old gun.”
This gun had done wonders in its day
with the wild pigeons and golden plover,
and.) like ‘Captain! Cuttles. wate was
“ekalled by few, and excelled by none.”
It was a really handsome old single barrel,
of Spanish make, I think. It had been
neatly converted to a percussion lock, and
was tenderly cared for and greatly valued
by its owner, who was never tired of re-
counting its wonderful performances. His
shooting yarns almost invariably ended
thus: “I blazed away at 20 rods and the
old gal made a clear sweep, for I killed the
l@in.
By the time we had crossed the big
orchard and a narrow strip of woodland,
the wind began to blow. It was past 3
o'clock, and there was every prospect of a
big storm coming We hastened into the
cornfield, though my friend’s dog was loth
to leave the woodland, which was thickly
marked with rabbit tracks. The snow
had fallen 2 days before and was nearly
a foot deep. We had but just got over the
fence when whish! came a furious snow
storm.
“If we can get to the cornstalks and have
a look around,” said my companion, “we'll
hurry back to the house, but we may have
him yet.”
“T told him to take the dog around the
snow-covered mound of stalks, and I would
be ready ih our came started; but | hadn’t
much faith in the affair, and the snow storm
Was aMMosHDlindinem by; that time. “Ele
walked a few rods to the right of me with
the dog. I heard a quick exclamation; up
went his weanon. Bang! Yes; another
laurel wreath for the old gun! There was
a fluttering and struggling for a few sec-
onds; a few feathers blew toward us. We
looked at each other, and the old man
Gaels ,
“What in hell have I done? I thought
I saw the fox’s head and, blast my picture,
I’ve shot the quails!”
Yes; he had. And the old gun, true to
its traditions, had “killed the lot”!
“Ts that the latest book you are reading,
dear?”
“Oh, no!
This book has been out since
noon yesterday.’—Ohio State Journal.
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THE EESSEReS@eAwie
ALLAN BROOKS.
Few ducks are so closely allied as the
2 species of scaup, more generally known
as blackheads or bluebills. When ex-
amples of both species are laid side by
side, the much larger and broader bill of
the greater scaup is conspicuous, as well
as the larger size of the whole bird; but
the infallible distinction between the 2
species is the pattern of the wing. In the
treme Northern rim of the Continent. It
has a decidedly more Southern range in
the breeding season than its larger rela-
tive, breeding West of the Rockies, as far
South as latitude 52 degrees.
In habits the 2 are much alike, though
the smaller species shows a decided pref-
erence for smaller bodies of water, more
often being found on fresh water lakes and
THE LESSER SCAUP. AYTHYA AFFINIS.
larger species the white bar on the sec-
ondaries is continued on the outer webs
of 6 of the primaries, or long flight feath-
ers; while these are entirely grayish in the
lesser scaup, the white being confined to
the secondaries. Even in flight this will
serve to distinguish the lesser scaup. The
white wing bar of the greater scaup appears
to extend nearly the whole length of the
wing.
The head of the adult male is glossed
with violet in the lesser and green in the
greater scaup, but really perfect specimens
showing this character to good advantage
are seldom seen, especially in fall, when
most duck shooting is done.
The lesser scaup is found throughout
North America, except, perhaps, the ex-
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ponds than on the sea coast and estuaries.
Scaup prefer to seek their food in water
about 10 feet deep, though capable of
reaching the bottom at much _ greater
depths. As a rule, they do most of their
feeding in the daytime, resting toward
night in large, densely packed flocks, gen-
erally known as rafts or beds; but
where frequenting salt water they feed ac-
cording to the tides. In the gray of the
morning they are especially active and
noisy. The cry of both species is very like
the long drawn meow of a kitten. They
also utter a harsh croak.
The lesser scaup is a late breeder, lay-
ing its eggs in some tussock of marsh
grass close to the water, late in June,
when its congeners, the canvasbacks and
SONG OF
ringbills, have their broods hatched out.
The downy young are much darker
than those of the canvasback or the ringbill,
being almost uniform dusky olive above,
with little trace of the light colored spots
so conspicuous in most ducklings.
Two or 3 mother scaups will sometimes
pool their interests. I once observed 41 duck-.
lings led by one mother, while the other 3
herded them in the rear, whipping in the
THE ROBIN. 27
young at first get all their food from the
surface, picking up flies, larvz, etc., with
incredible quickness. The young of the
ruddy duck are the only ones I have no-
ticed diving for their food.
The iris of the adult male lesser scaup
is yellow; bill pale leaden blue. In the fe-
male the iris is yellowish brown, bill vary-
ing from dark grayish to leaden blue. The
feet are plumbeous, with dusky joints and
webs in both sexes.
SONG OF Ti VOBIN:
REV. R. S. STRINGFELLOW.
stragglers. Like most diving ducks, the
Cheer up! Cheer up! Cherries are ripe!
cheer up!
High on the topmost boughs we will sup
And we'll drink the red wine from nature’s
sweet cup,
For cherries are ripe! cheer up! cheer up!
Cheer up! cheer up! The day lulls to rest,
The sunlight fades in the clouds of the
West,
My mate and my little ones sleep in their
nest.
Cheer up! cheer up! cherries are ripe!
cheer up!
Cherries are ripe! Cheer up! No trouble
to borrow,
For God will care for the things of to-
morrow.
He brings the sweet cherries and cares for
us all;
Without His fond care not a robin shall fall.
Cheer up! cheer up! cherries are ripe!
cheer up!
The clouds of the evening have fled with
their gold,
‘the echoes are still from the chimes that
were tolled,
My little ones sleep all safe in their nest,
Under sheltering wings and my little mate’s
breast.
Cheer up! cheer up! cherries are ripe!
cheer up!
Cheer up! for to-morrow will soon be here.
Never fear, the God of all Nature is watch-
ing us near;
Swift banners of light will soon be unfurled,
And again I shall sing to God and the
world.
Cheer up! cheer up! cherries are ripe!
cheer up!
So early and late my song is to all,
Through spring and through summer till
snow flakes shall fall;
Then far to the South my flight I shall
wing,
And to others in distant lands I will sing
Cheer up! cheer up! cherries are ripe!
cheer up!
“Tt’s an Ar display,” said Mr. Pitt, at the
dog show.
“Tt’s a first class exhibition,’ replied Mr.
Penn, “but you have the wrong number.”
“How sor”
“Instead of Ar it is Ko.”
—The Dog Fanciers’ Gazette.
at
AMATEUR PHOTO BY OLIVER LIPPINCOTT
YOSEMITE CREEK NEAR THE FALLS.
Snap shot in dense woods with Plastigmat F6. 8 Lens.
AN IDEAL VACATION.
C. H, DILLON,
One soft, balmy morning in early spring
my chum and I started for our annual
week with nature. By sunrise we were
within 20 miles of our destination. A fox
squirrel, out for his breakfast and an early
morning frolic, scampered along a rail
fence and vanished like a streak of dull
red into his castle. About 3 p. m. we
reached the camp ground, on the bank of
the Lamine river. A heavily wooded point
ran out into the river, and in a natural
clearing in the center we pitched our tent.
After everything was made snug for the
night, fire wood up and horses attended to,
Dan left me to the pleasant task of cook-
ing supper while he went fishing. While
busying myself about the camp I heard a
squirrel barking. I got the gun and after
a half hour’s walk succeeded in getting 3
squirrels.
Returning to camp I had nearly finished
broiling them when Dan came in with 4
large bass. We had a glorious supper,
which suited our appetites exactly. About
9 o'clock we turned in, to be lulled to sleep
by the voice of the creek.
After breakfast next morning we both
left camp and went to the place where Dan
had had such luck the evening before. We
caught a few small fry of bass and crappie
and as I made my last cast, the fly was
taken by a bass. Forty yards of line were
whirred off at once. Finally, after 20 min-
utes of hard work, I landed ‘him, a small
mouth, of 5 pounds.
That was enough for one day, so we went
back to camp for lunch. In the afternoon
we took the guns and hunted along the
river, getting 4 grey squirrels and a wood-
cock. We broiled 2 of the squirrels which,
with some hoe cake and coffee, made a
repast fit for a king. Again the pipe and
the night sounds, sleep and dreams.
Small bass that we could not use that
day we put in a little pool in a spring-
branch near. In the night we heard a com-
motion in the little pool and discovered,
too late, that minks had eaten all our fish,*
so our breakfast would be fishless.
The next day was not so beautiful. At 7
o'clock a thunder storm broke, deluging
everything and raising the river so that fish-
ing for the rest of the day was out of the
question. However, we went out in the
afternoon and killed 2 more squirrels for
supper. That night we again slept well.
The next day was bright and clear and the
prospects were good for fishing. During
the day we caught 14 small mouth bass and
crappies and 2 channel cats.
Next day we returned, arriving home
about sunset, to resume the stern realities
of -life.
* This incident is almost identical with one des-
cribed in ‘‘ The Minks’ Festival,’’ published in De-
cember, 1899, RECREATION,—EDITOR.
isha IOSUENG Sey EO Me a
W. S. JONES.
I love the woods; its solitude
My senses holds with silent charm;
There soft winds sigh, and song birds fly
From tree to tree, secure from harm.
I love the lake, its murmurs wake
A happiness within my breast;
Its low, sweet song blots out the wrong
That warps the soul with vague unrest.
I love the flowers, and bless the hours
That I have passed with them, alone;
Their sweet perfume and brilliant bloom
In mem’ry cling, when years have flown.
I love a heart that does its part
With quiet, unassuming grace.
I love the streams, the sun’s bright beams,
Sweet smiles upon fair Nature’s face,
I love the sway of friendship’s day,
Its ne’er to be forgotten hours,
And musing sweet, when mem’ries meet;
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All these I love, for they are ours.
WHERE BASS ABOUND:
J. A. BOZMAN.
A party of my friends, summering at
Lake Minnetonka wrote so _ enthusias-
tically about the good time they were
FROM MINNESOTA WATERS.
having that I determined to visit them
I gathered up bag, baggage and fish-
ing tackle and took the first train heading
Northwest. Two days and nights of riding
took me to Excelsior, on the lake.
My friends had arranged fora day with
the bass, and to that end had engaged a
steam yacht, together with a yawl and
expert boatmen. Early the next morn-
ing we were aboard the yacht, headed
Oe Wore wooo JAS ie mMiles chistarite,
towing the yawl behind us. Our boat-
men had provided 12 dozen frogs for bait.
We arrived at the fishing ground about
9 o'clock, rigged our tackle and committed
sundry unfortunate frogs to the mercy
of their finny admirers. Black bass and
pickerel jumped fairly out of the water
in their eagerness to swallow those poor
little croakers. By noon we had 48 fish.
Then we ate lunch on a little island
near, and lounged on the rocks and
sand. From 2 to 5 we fished again. We
did not count our afternoon catch, but
after reaching the hotel found we had 98
beautiful black bass, weighing in all 210
pounds. They were taken within’ 6
hours by my friends, Mr. Martin and
Mis Reeds and mie:
You apparently do not know that 210
pounds. of fish is at least 3 times the
quantity any 3 decent men_ should
take in one day. You have displayed
your bristles by loading your boat in
this way and then boasting of it. I trust
that if you are ever lucky enough to go
where fish are plentiful again, you will
stop when you get enough.—EDITOR.
Every day 13 million kind hearted
girls sit down to the piano without a
thought of the misery they are about to
inflict.—Life.
“New York is a great city for a military
parade.”
“Why so?”
“There’s hardly a street in which troops
couldn’t fall in.’—Yonkers Statesman.
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A MOUNTAIN SHEEP IN DOMESTICATION.
MOWRY BATES.
Photos by the Writer.
Enclosed find 2 photos of a young moun-
tain sheep taken at Ouray, Colorado. This
sheep is about 8 months old, and was
found nearly dead when a few days old.
A HEALTHY BABY. GROWING.
It was raised on a bottle, and is now of dom, but prefers to stay at home instead of
good size and healthy. It has perfect free- going to the hills.
AMATEUR PHOTO BY C. C. SPEIGHT.
HAIRY WOODPECKER.
Winner of 35th Prize in RECREATION’S 6th Annual Photo Competition.
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oF
A DRUGGIST IN fae PEN
This photo was given me by the man ANSWER. ia
whose mug is shown beside the dead bodies- Yes, he is meaner than any 4 legged hog”
of his 96 victims. His name is B. C. New-- that:ever lived. I often: wish, when I get
lon, a druggist of this town. In 4 days he’ such pictures as this, that.the whipping post
killed 73 rabbits, 18 grouse and 5 quails and could be revived. as a remedy for such
said if it had not rained all of one day he bloodthirsty’ butchery as this man com-
could have done better. Is he not worse’ mitted..Even Newlon’s‘own dogs-look as if
than a hog? they were ashamed of him, and: I don’t
K. C. M., Sharpsburg, Pa. wonder;. They’ ought to be—Epzror.
A SHARPSBURG RAZORBACK
llalf a loaf is better than no vacation.
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PLAYING OVER-TIME.
TO, IMPROVE THE SERVICE IN? YEVEOMW STONE Eakie
E. V. WILCOX.
The establishment and maintenance of
the Yellowstone Park are commonly sup-
posed to be for sentimental and esthetic
reasons strictly. The country included in its
boundaries is not open to settlement or for
economic use, and only 2 or 3 men have re-
tained holdings within this region, in aj semi-
private capacity. It seems, therefore, rea-
sonable to expect that this, perhaps the
most interesting park in the United States,
should be managed in such a way as to
preserve its timber, game, and natural
wonders in as nearly their present condi-
tion as possible. It is necessary, in order
that tourists may be able to visit the dif-
ferent parts of the Park conveniently, to
build roads, which are suitable for wagons,
to all parts of the Park which are of espe-
cial interest. At present the roads which
may be said to be maintained in good con-
dition simply cover the route along which
the Yellowstone Park Transportation
Company wishes to carry its passengers.
This route includes merely 4 or +5 of
the chief points of interest in the Park,
namely, Mammoth Hot Springs, Norris
Geyser basin, the Lower and Upper Gey-
ser basins, Yellowstone lake, and the Can-
yon. If for any reason one desires to
travel in other parts) ofthe: bare it us
found extremely difficult to do so with a
wagon. The road from Soda Butte to
Yancey’s is as rocky and as sidling as any
road in the mountains, and the bridge
across Lamar river, just below Soda Butte,
is in a dilapidated and dangerous condi-
tion. This portion of the Park is possessed
of much interest to tourists.
The antelope’
along the Lamar river are as numerous.
and as tame as in any other part of the
Park. The fossil forest and Big Specimen
ridge are in themselves of sufficient inter-
est to attract tourists. While it is true that
the Transportation Company allows only
5%4 days for their trip in the Park, and
therefore can not travel over longer dis-
tances than the present improved ‘roads,
there are others to be considered besides
the tourists who patronize this company.
Of the 10,500 tourists who visited the Park
during the past season, over 4,000 traveled
by means of private conveyances, and a
considerable number of such tourists en-
tered the Park by Soda Butte, Snake
river, and Riverside stations. None of
these roads are in the condition in which
they should be, until the tourist reaches
the regular circuit, around which the
Transportation Company travels. The
tourists who visit the Park in private con-
veyances are not subject to the regulations
36
of any transportation company, and they
travel where they desire. In justice to this
large body of tourists the roads which lead
to other points of interest in the Park,
aside from the chief features of this region,
should be improved so that those points
may be reached in safety.
One of the purposes for which the Park
was established is the protection of game
within its borders. Nearly all species of
game within the Park are at present in-
creasing in number, and this is a sufficient
evidence that the protection afforded by the
Park is more or less effective. Poaching
occurs, however, every year, and may be
carried on with comparative safety. It is
absolutely impossible for 2 scouts to patrol
3,600 square miles of mountain country in
summer, when the conditions of travel are
best, much less in winter, when the whole
country is deeply. covered with snow.
There are many trails which permit an
easy entrance into the Park on all sides
by means of pack trains, and these en-
trances can not possibly be guarded by 2
men. It is not practicable to impose the
duties of scout on the soldiers of the Park,
for several reasons. The soldiers do not
remain any great length of time in the
Park, and do not ‘become thoroughly ac-
quainted with the various trails by which
hunters may enter. They are, moreover,
as a rule, not satisfactory scouts, and do
not understand the habits of game to an
extent which would make it possible for
them to locate the large bodies of game at
different seasons. of the year. Hunters
may enter the Park by various trails on
the North as well as by the road from
Cooke City. On the West they may read-
ily gain entrance by Miller Creek trail,
leading from the Hoodoos, or by means of
the trail from the North Fork of Stinking
Water. On the South they may enter along
the Yellowstone river, Snake river, and by
trails at the Southwest corner of the Park.
On the West there are several entrances,
the most important being by the Madison
and Gallatin rivers. It is manifestly im-
possible for 2 men to guard all these en-
trances. Hunters may enter by one trail,
remain in the park 2 or 3 weeks, and
escape with their game without the possi-
bility of the scouts learning of their pres-
ence in the Park. At least 15 or 20 experi-
enced mountaineers should be employed
as scouts for the protection of game during
the fall and winter months. At other sea-
sons of the year a smaller number will be
required. 7
Excellent grass is found in the valleys
TO IMPROVE THE SERVICE
of the larger rivers in the Park, and these
valleys, including the famous Hayden val-
ley, serve as the winter range for the big
game which remains in the Park during
the year. The protection of game in the
Park requires that all this grass be
left standing in order to furnish winter
range for the game. It would naturally
be expected that such would be the
case. On the contrary, however, one
can not help noticing throughout the Park
that in all the meadows along river val-
leys the grass is cut for hay. MHaying
operations were in progress during the
season of 1901 along the Yellowstone and
a number of its tributaries, in Madison
valley, Hayden valley, and a number of
other localities. It was stated that this
hay was being cut for the horses of the
soldiers and of the Transportation Com-
pany. With regard to the soldiers’ horses
and the Government mules located in the
Park, it seems almost ridiculous that an
attempt should be made to practice econ-
omy by destroying the winter range of the
game. The small quantity of hay which is
required by the domestic animals belong-
ing to the Government in the Park could
easily be fed with hay bought in the open
market and shipped to Cinnabar. From
that point it could readily be freighted to
the different stations where it might be re-
quired. The labor involved in cutting the
hay and hauling it out of the valleys in the
Parke irom, which it. 1s\'cut* is, great,
and the quality of the hay is by no means
so good as that which would be obtained
in any market. It is not likely that any-
thing is really saved, from a financial
standpoint, by cutting the grass in the
Park and depriving the game of their
natural winter range. Why the Transpor-
tation Company should be given the priv-
ilege of cutting hay in the Park it is im-
possible to understand. This company has
the most valuable franchise within the Yel-
lowstone Park, and they can afford to pay
for hay. The Yellowstone Park should be
maintained for the pleasure of the citizens
of the United States, not for the profit of
the Transportation Company.
No mountain scenery, however great its
original beauty, can fail to give an im-
pression of desolation and barrenness when
the timber is burned off. It is unfortunate-
ly true that the present arrangement for
protection from fires in the Yellowstone
Park is utterly inadequate. Fires occur
within the Park as extensive and as disas--
trous as any of those which devastate the
PCV ELE OW STONE PARK.” 37
forests outside of the boundaries. These
fires occur every year, and their results are
in evidence in every part of the Park.
Around Mammoth Hot Springs nearly all
the good timber has been destroyed, and
the result is an indescribable appearance
of barrenness in this naturally beautiful
locality. During the past season 3 forest
fires occurred in the Park, 2 of which were
the direct result of unextinguished camp
fires. The other was from lightning, and
was of only slight importance. One fire
burned for a month, and destroyed enor-
mous quantities of standing timber; while
the other, which took rise in a camp fire,
burned several square miles of good timber
in the neighborhood of the Upper Geyer
basin. It is evidently impossible for the sol-
diers to patrol the camping grounds in such
a manner as to prevent these costly acci-
dents. In fact, it may be doubted whether
the duties of fire wardens should be im-
posed on the soldiers. This is not sup-
posed to be a part of the work of soldiers,
and they are not required to be especially
fitted for this duty. Their patrol duties
simply require them to ride from one sta-
tion half way to the next station, where
they meet the other patrol. They start out
on their patrol in the morning, but not
sufficiently early to inspect the camp
grounds before the camping parties have
moved on. These parties usually move
very early in the morning, and of course
travel in different directions. When the
soldiers arrive on a camping ground and
fad a camp fire not properly extinguished,
it is usually impossible to fix the responsi-
bility in the case, for the reason that there
is no evidence for identifying the offending
party. If regular fire wardens were main-
tained in connection with the Park service
it should be the duty of these men to visit
camping grounds before the camping
parties have left and see that camp fires
are properly extinguished. In the even-
ing they should visit the camping grounds
_and prevent fires being built too near stand-
ing timber or in connection with large dry
logs. It would not require any large force
to patrol the camping grounds in a thor-
oughly satisfactory and effective manner
and thus avoid the tremendous destruction
of timber which annually occurs within the
Park. It thus appears that slight additions
to the force of scouts and the establishment
of a small force of fire wardens would, at a
small cost, protect the Yellowstone Park
against the greatest dangers to which it is
at present subjected.
Why not present several of your friends
each a year’s subscription to RECREATION?
They would thank you for it 12 times.
SHERIFF, McPEE'S (BiIGwBASs:
Cc. C. HASKINS.
Old Sheriff McFee was of ‘fishing quite
fond,
In lake or in brooklet, in river or pond,
And gabe at the tavern big yarns he would
But ee ash being absent, his stories seemed —
thin
To Jonathan D., who said, says he,
“T don’t take no stock in old Sheriff Mc-
Fee.”
Now Sheriff McFee of his tackle was proud
And boasting its virtues he spoke long and
loud;
“Two hooks back to back are the catchers
for me,’
Says oe Hales old sheriff. “Oh! fiddle-
e-
Says Jonathan D. “Why don’t he use
three?
I don’t want no hooks of old Sheriff Mc-
Fee.”
Once Sheriff McFee, after fishing all day,
Sneaked homie through the alleys and every
by-way,
For fear of the roast from the boys, don’t
you see;
When crossing his path there was Jon-
athan D.
“Ah! what luck to-day, sir, how many?”
says he,
“Is that all you’ve got, sir?” says Jona-
than 9):
Says Sheriff McFee, “Yes, it has a bad
look,
But a 7 pound bass carried off my best
hook.
Up there by the walome at Davis’s dam,
He looked when he jumped like a 20 pound
ham.”
Says Jonathan D.,
“He’s a wonder,” says
he,
“I'd jest like to catch him,’ says Jona-
than D.
Now Jonathan D. e’re the sun broke his nap
Went down the next morning to catch the
big chap,
And silently baiting he made a sly cast,
When quicker than winking he had a fish
fast.
Says Jonathan D., “So I’ve got you,” says
e,
“I’d like if the sheriff was jest here to
See.
hen ena D. brought his fish to the
and,
The language he used you can well un-
derstand
When I tell you his prize weighed a pound,
just about,
And instead of a bass it was just a bull
pout.
And Jonathan D. said, “I snummy,” says
he,
“That’s the funniest bass that I ever did
”
And fast in its muzzle when Jonathan
looked,
He saw where the sheriff the same fish
had hooked ;
For his “very best hook that the world
ever saw,”
With a bit of the leader, was stuck in its
jaw.
And qoners shouted, while dancing in
glee,
“We'll have this bass stuffed as a roast
for McFee.”
Now Jonathan D. has a bar down in town,
And wishing to add to the sheriff’s re-
nown,
The fish when set up bore this legend, you
see,
AS 7, pours bass weighed by Sheriff Mc-
ee
And Jonathan he told the story to me
Of this fish that was weighed by the
scales of McFee.
“So the President is the servant of the
people, eh?” said the man from a foreign
land.
“It seems to me you treat him with
a great deal of respect and consideration
for a servant.”
ba acini lse
born.
urbs.”—Puck.
scornfully retorted the native
“IT guess you never lived in the sub-
FROM THE,GAME FIELDS.
The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman,
HANDWERKER DISGRACES HIS CLUB.
Tunica, Miss.
Editor RECREATION :
If you have room in your roasting pan
and some red hot grease, it will be a
kindness toward the good citizens of Tu-
nica county, Mississippi, if you will dump
into said pan and grease one J. G. Hand-
werker, of Memphis, Tennessee. It is pos-
sible you will have to trim off a few bris-
tles with your hatchet before he will go
into the oven, but his case demands heroic
treatment, especially as he is president of
a gun club. His last offense againt hu-
manity and the dumb creation was the kill-
ing of 135 ducks in one day.
Did he load the product of his slaughter
on the train and sneak off home after this
bloody day’s work? No! There were 27
ducks left, so he remained over night and
completed the work of annihilation the
next morning.
The one redeeming feature in the case
seems to be that members of the club of
which he is president strongly condemn his
action, and it is’ safe to say he will
not be president next year. The killing of
50, 60, 70 or even 80 ducks in one day had
occasionally been indulged in by some‘ of
the members, but it was left for Hand-
werker to bring home to them the enor-
mity of their offense. The club is known
as the Beaver Dam club, and their place
is near a small lake a short distance from
Evansville, Mississippi.
Game, such as. deer, turkeys, quails,
ducks and squirrels, was plentiful in this
part of the country a few years ago, but
the deerhound, the negro with the breech-
loader, who is at the same time a pot
shooter, and such men as Handwerker, are,
together, rapidly exterminating it. Mis-
sissippi has poor game laws, and such as it
has are not enforced.
You are doing a great work in behalf of
_ the hunted, and we will welcome your aid
in this part of the vineyard.
NORV od
J. G. Handwerker is secretary of the 3
most prominent hunting and fishing clubs
having a Memphis membership. In 2 of
the clubs 50 ducks a day is the limit. The
other one, the Beaver Dam club, has no
limit except what the decency of the in-
dividual member may determine. I am not
a member of the latter, but one who is a
member asked me to say to you that Mr.
Handwerker recently killed 139 ducks at
Beaver Dam lake in one day.
C. M. B., Memphis, Tenn.
On receipt of the foregoing letters I wrote
Mr. Handwerker as follows:
I am informed that you recently killed
139 ducks in one day. Will you kindly tell
me if this report is true?
To this letter Mr. Handwerker replied:
I regret to say that the report is not true.
J. G. Handwerker, Memphis, Tenn.
Thereupon I wrote a subscriber in Mem-
phis, asking him if he could verify the re-
port. He replied:
I have heard rumors that Handwerker
killed a great many ducks in one day, but
have thus far been unable to get definite
information in regard to it. I will, how-
ever, investigate the.matter carefully and
report to you in person in a few days.
EK. J. .M., Memphis, Tenn. ,
Imalsomwrotes «VicV> (.;% saying that Mir.
Handwerker had denied the charge. Fol-
lowing is reply:
Your favor of some time ago with refer-
ence to Handwerker’s denial has had my
attention. There is no question but that
he killed the ducks, although I now under-
stand he says the number was only 134.
Dr. J. H. Hitt, of Clayton, Mississippi,
says he heard Handwerker telling what he
did with the ducks. I have talked with
numbers of men who know that the deed
was done, but as yet I have no positive evi-
dence. Will keep hot on the trail, and
when I land a man I know saw the ducks
I will get his affidavit. You are at liberty
to command me for any work which will
_ result in the protection of game. I have al-
39
ready succeeded in getting many men to
quit shooting ducks when they have enough
for their own use, and I shall keep ever-
lastingly at it.
Weaver aninaicass Mass:
The foregoing letters are all signed by
the real names of the writers, and are on
file in this office, so that anyone interested,
who will call here, may have an oppor-
tunity of seeing them. These gentlemen,
however, desire that their real names be
withheld from publication for the present.
“E. J. M.” called here, according to
promise, and assured me that Handwerker
did kill 134 ducks in one day. He added
that a large number of members of the
Beaver Dam club had repudiated and con-
demned Handwerker’s dirty work in an
emphatic way, and that there was a pros-
pect that the president who had disgraced
the club would be invited to resign. Mr.
E. J. M. intimated that in case Mr. Dirty-
40 RECREATION.
work should refuse to resign, he would be
deposed and publicly expelled from the
club.
It is to be hoped that the Beaver Dam
club will dispense with Mr. Butcherwerk’s
services at an early date. If it should
not, it will be regarded as in a measure
condoning his offense. The club can
not afford to let this disgraceful piece
of butchery go unpunished. If I remember
correctly, the club has a provision in its by-
laws allowing any member to kill 50 ducks
a day. This is all wrong, and I said so edi-
torially some 2 or 3 years ago. Thousands
of other men have said so when hearing of
thst cule: = (hat. “any, “member oi setais
club, and more particularly the president
thereof, should so utterly ignore all mod-
ern rules of decency and sportsmanship as
to kill 134 ducks in a day is unpardonable.
Let us see what the Beaver Dam club will
do with Mr. J. G. Dirtywerk.—EDbiror.
FAVORS HOUNDING.
ake wPleasant, IN. Ye
Editor RECREATION :
In my opinion, still hunting, whether of
deer or birds, falls little short of murder.
Thousands of deer are wounded by still
hunters and linger for days or weeks until
death ends their misery. Deer should be
put on the alert, as we put up birds. You
would scorn to prowl through the woods
and shoot a grouse on a limb or a wood-
cock on the ground. You want your pointer
with you to give these feathered friends a
chance for life and to find for you those you
wound or kill.
I am opposed to the killing of does at
any time or by any method.
Deer were increasing rapidly in this lo-
cality under the old law, but we can see a
marked decrease in the last 2 years. They
are much tamer since hounding was stopped
and therefore are more easily killed.
I am a woodcock and grouse shooter. I
use a 20-gauge gun and keep as fine a pair
of pointers as there is in the State. No
man enjoys the woods and hunting more
than I do; yet if I were compelled to hunt
woodcock and grouse without my dogs I
should hang up my shot gun, as I did my
rifle when the no-hounding law went into
effect.
The last deer I killed I still hunted. I
found him after a long and tedious stalk,
auietly feeding on the margin of a stream.
There he stood, without a suspicion of dan-
ger and without a chance for his life. Even
as I fired I was ashamed of myself and
when his brief strugglé was over I would
have given my best rifle to bring the poor
animal back to life. I vowed I would
never kill another deer by still hunting,
and though that was 12 years ago I have
kept my word.
What is the difference between that kind
of murder and killing a deer at a salt lick?
What is the difference whether the deer is
feeding on salt or on lily pads? You will
say the salt is put out to entice deer to a
certain spot. I grant it; but how about
the man who knows where the lily pads
at and when deer are likely to feed on.
them? Wherein is he better than the man
who kills deer at a salt lick? The hunter
goes where he is likely to find deer, and
the deer goes where he is likely to find food.
Between them still hunting becomes the
easiest and most certain method of deer
killing.
I know whereof I speak. I have lived in
the forest 12 years continuously, never tak-
ing more than a month each winter in New
York city. There are lots of wild deer on
my place. I frequently see them from my
porches and often hunt them in my woods,
but never with any thought of killing them.
My plan to maintain the supply of deer in
the Adirondacks would be to forbid the
killing of does at any time, make the open
season on bucks September Ist to November
Ist, and permit hunting with dogs. If the
season was long there would be only a few
hunters at a time in the woods, thus giving
the deer more chance to escape.
Some hunters will ask, “How can we
know whether we are shooting at a buck or
a doe when we can see only a small part
of the animal through the brush?’ How
can those men know whether they are shoot-
ing at a fawn or even a man?- Cases of
accidental shooting were rare in hounding
days; now they are common. A still
hunter here last fall saw the tan leggings
of a fellow hunter. He fired at them and
shot his friend through the leg. Then he
fired twice after the victim fell and the
leggings had disappeared, fortunately
missing both times.
If a man can not see a deer plainly
enough to distinguish whether it has horns
or not he has no right to shoot. Three
men in this vicinity had hairbreadth es-
capes from still hunters last fall.
Stop all still hunting, and by that I mean
stop jacking, floating, stalking, watching at
salt licks and crust hunting. Then give the
hunter his dogs and a chance to kill a buck
and get it.
When the guides hunted with dogs there
were but 10 or 12 men here who were
deer hunters. They had to keep their dogs
the year around for a few weeks’ hunt-
ing and only a few could afford to do that.
Now nearly every man and boy in the
community is a still hunter and guide.
Anyone can learn a small section of the
forest, build a bark camp, buy a rifle and
boat and call himself a guide. All manage
to kill deer, and all use every device known
to the Indian and to the pot hunter. We
FROM THE GAME FIELDS. AI
never heard of salt licks in this section un-
til the dog was taken out of the hunt; now
there are lots of them. Moreover, we have
now probably 50 native hunters where we
had 10 who kept dogs and were recognized
guides. Unless a change is made, especial-
ly in the line of protection for does, the
deer of the Adirondacks will, within the
next 10 years, follow the buffalo of the
Western plains. J. D. Morley.
GAME NOTES.
On the 13th of November last, I left
Boston on my annual hunting trip in
Northern Maine. From Mattawankeag I
hired a team to carry me to James Mill-
more’s, 15 miles North on the road to
Sherman. The following morning I was
ready for the woods.
I had engaged a good guide before leav-
ig home, and found him on hand. The
deep snow made it hard walking, but once
in the woods and finding plenty of fresh
deer tracks, we forgot all hardships by the
time we started our first deer. We sSe-
cured a buck weighing 175 pounds, with
antlers spreading 20 inches. After bleed-
ing, dressing and hanging him up we re-
turned in time for dinner. The next day
we were not so successful, but the third
day we killed a handsome doe, weighing
150 pounds. As the 2 were all the law
allows, I spent my time the next few days
hunting other game, which was plentiful.
Deer are abundant in Maine and will re-
main so if the present laws are enforced.
J. C. Gilbert, Whitman, Mass.
The excellent game laws of Maine are
often praised, yet I have it from reliable
authority that they are shamelessly vio-
lated all through the summer. Numerous
camps are open all summer to accommodate
anglers and many of those anglers feel
that they would like to kill a deer. The
guides have to feed their guests and it
takes money to buy beef, so they are per-
fectly willing to have venison and rather
encourage the killing of deer. Some of the
camps have many visitors to feed and
they have venison nearly every day in
summer. I hope this will open the eyes
of the Maine authorities and I am sure
the L. A. S. will do all in its power to
break up that practice. There is abundance
of deer in Maine, but constant slaugh-
ter will soon show its ill effects. It is
estimated 15,000 deer were legally killed
in Maine in the season of 1899. Why
do not all sportsmen fall into the ranks of
the L..A.S.? .
L. A. S. No. 2088, Baltimore, Md.
No wonder game is becoming scarce in
Florida. Forest fires have been burning
here for a month past, driving game into
the open and destroying the nesting places
of the quails. Hogs, too, are running
through the woods destroying nests and
eating eggs and young birds. What this
State needs is paid wardens in every town-
ship. It is not well for private citizens
here to thrust themselves forward in game
protection work. Barns burn easily in this
country and cattle die of strange ailments;
but our native law breakers have not sand
enough to go up against a State officer.
We have a county non-resident license law
which is never enforced. ‘There should be
someone in each township with power to
grant licenses; then no one could dodge
the issue.
L. A. S. 4118, Lake Como, Fla.
I killed a big elk the other day about 35
miles from St. Petersburg, and 2 others
were killed on the same shooting ground
bv 2 friends. They were all beautiful ani-
mals and weighed about 900 pounds each.
Our shooting society has, within an hour’s
railway travel from here, over 20,000 acres
of shooting grounds well stocked with bear,
elk, deer, hares, foxes, blackcock, wood-
cock, partridge, wild turkey and water
fowl. If you have any American friends
who want to come over for the shooting
season we shall be glad to receive them.
Our season’s ticket costs $75. To-day we
had shooting and in one round there were
10 elk and in the other 16. No elk was
killea, though 2 unfortunately were wound-
ed and escaped.
P. P. Boeckel, St. Petersburg, Russia.
I am on a ranch Southeast of Medicine
Hat and near the Cypress hills. Reading
matter is scarce here. When I found a
copy of RECREATION I read it from cover
to cover. Its stand in regard to wanton
destruction of game should meet the ap-
proval of every sportsman. There is a
game law here, but it is not enforced as
it should be; and antelope, ducks and
prairie chickens are killed in such num-
bers at times that they are wasted. Ducks
breed here and are killed in the spring
when nesting. Some white hogs gather the
duck eggs to sell and to eat. The hard
storms in the winter bring the antelope
into and around the towns and ranches
and they are easy to kill.
D. Ross, Medicine Hat, N. W. T.
A merchant named Letempt, of Rileyville, Sa-
line county, was caught with 514 quails in his
possession. It seems he started for Belleville with
the birds in 2 trunks and a valise, checked as
baggage. Information was furnished a constable
at DuQuoin, who watched for Letempt. On the
arrival of the train the constable boarded it and
traveled with Letempt to Belleville. There Le-
tempt suspected he was being watched, and hur-
42 RECREATION.
riedly ordered the trunks and valise re-checked
490 Rileyville. The constable stuck closer than a
brother, and again boarded the train with him on
the return journey. Arriving at the Perry county
line, the constable arrested Letempt, and confis-
cated the birds. Letempt was placed in jail and
afterward furnished bond. He employed Wm.
S. Cantrell, of Benton, as his attorney, and threat-
ened a red-hot fight over the matter. The fines
in this case at the minimum would have aggre-
gated $12,850. But the case was compromised.
Letempt paid a fine of $250, and his lawyer’s and
court fees probably amounted to as much more.—
Pinckneyville (Ill.) Democrat.
I am employed on a ranch located on the
trail of the elk and antelope on their way
to and from the desert, and I see and hear
of a great deal of unlawful killing. Elk
are killed by hundreds along the trail
from December 1st until May and June.
Antelope the same. Many elk are also
killed for their teeth. There is no game
warden in this locality, so game is killed
the year around, mostly by non-residents.
I hear that a guide, not many miles from
here, killed 30 elk last winter. I have also
heard from reliable sources that elk are
killed on the desert in large numbers and
the meat is sold in Rock Springs and other
mining towns along the railroad.
Tenderfoot, Pinedale, Wyo.
The game laws are little observed here.
What grouse we have are killed as soon as
they can fly. Deer, which were abundant
until recently, are now scarce. Indians
and many white men kill them at all sea-
sons. It seems the intention of the In-
dians, when their reservations are thrown
open to the prospector, to clear the coun-
try of game as quickly as possible. That
has proved the case all over the State.
Pintail grouse are becoming numerous in
the Okanogan country. They are the only
thing able to hold their own against the
coyote and the pot hunter. There are few
shot guns or bird dogs here, but every boy
has a 22 rifle.
L. H. Doner, Republic, Wash.
———
I wish RECREATION could reach some of
the fur hogs who boast in other sportsmen’s
periodicals of the big killings they have
made. There are animals, such as minks,
weasels and muskrats, that seem of no
earthly use; but to kill raccoons, opossums,
skunks and foxes simply for the price of
their skins is utterly wrong. No creature
renders the farmer more valuable aid as an
insect destroyer than does the skunk. Our
Legislature recognizes that fact, and has
forbidden the killing of those animals un-
der heavy penalty. No other creature
does so little harm while furnishing as
much sport to as many people as does the
fox.
H. S. Wolf, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
Many sportsmen, when on hunting trips,
are in the habit of shooting birds that can
“in no sense be considered game, simply
for practice. Large numbers of gulls,
terns, swallows, swifts, nighthawks, which
in some sections of the country are known
as bullbats, and birds of like character are
destroyed every year. Without considering
the zsthetic side of the question, such birds
should not be killed from an economic
standpoint. They are of great value to the
public, and no true sportsman will wan-
tonly destroy them. Sportsmen should
practice and preach the gospel of protec-
tion at all times.
William Dutcher, New York City.
1 have always hunted small game and
observed the law, and I admire your plat-
form of game protection. I have been in
Northern Pennsylvania 3 years. Last year
I got 15 grouse in the whole season. We
had Lou Fleming, of Pittsburg, Pa:, and
other crack shots here last season for a
shooting tournament. They stayed one week
to hunt and the largest bag made was 5
or 6 grouse. It is hard to make a big
bag here on account of the brush. Birds
are plentiful. I contend that men who
shoot too much in open season do less
harm than is done by campers in close
season. Gr Karns, Kane, Pa.
Early last summer some animal began
playing havoc with young chickens in this
vicinity. As long as he confined his at-
tention to the hen roosts of my neighbors
I was content to suppose him a fox or a
coon. When, however, he levied toll on
my own flock, I determined to hold an
autopsy that would leave no doubt as to
the rascal’s species. I procured 8 steel
traps and set them along a trail leading to
an opening in the poultry yard fence. The
next day I found the robber fast in 2 traps,
and I was as greatly surprised as he, for
he was an 18 pound woodchuck.
L. H. Bower, Newfield.
I think A. A. W. never owned anything
in the dog line better than a yellow cur,
or he would not advocate the extermina-
tion of bird dogs as a measure to increase
game. No real sportsman feels any more
satisfaction in making a nice shot or a good
bag than in watching the work of his
pointer or setter. Moreover, % of the
birds killed are not recovered unless a dog
is used. A. A. W. likens hunting with bird
dogs to running deer with hounds. It ap-
pears to me much easier for a covey of
birds to get out of reach of a bird dog than
for a deer to get away from a hound.
HA; Gay alaizetne, “Pa.
FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 43
Fog was unusually prevalent here during
the first part of January and, because of it,
some of our hunters met with trouble.
Three members of the Chico club got
turned around on a duck marsh. At
dusk, when tired, wet, cold and hungry,
they reached a spot of dry land and de-
cided to camp there for the night. What
dead wood they could find made them a
scanty fire around which they sat all night
and talked of food, beds and such unob-
tainable things. When day broke they found
themselves only a few yards from the
county road leading to their homes.
Madge, Oroville, Cal.
A deer has been seen recently in the
fields around Sanquoit and Clayville. The
farmers’ dogs, of course, give chase now
and then and some men have, in spite of
the law, taken guns and joined in the
pursuit. The man who kills her, if she is
killed, will be exceedingly sorry. We are
bound to protect her if we can. It is the
first deer that has been seen here in 30
years. .
Does Norwood claim that the photo in
January REcREATION is of live deer? If so,
I want to quarrel with him.
W. J. King, Norwich Corners, N. Y.
I am much interested in the protection of
game, and am anxious to see more strin-
gent laws enacted and enforced. Grouse
and squirrels are fairly plentiful here, but
constant pursuit has made them exceeding-
ly wild and is steadily reducing their num-
ber. Since the removal of protection from
rabbits, they have been almost extermi-
nated by ferreters. The sportsmen of this
county favor a short open season on rab-
bits and would endorse a law making
ownership of a ferret a penal offense.
Hunter, Catherine, N. Y.
Deer are plentiful and fair hunting can
be obtained within 4 or 5 miles of this
town. Excellent hunting can be found
at Brompton lake, 15 miles from here.
The best place, however, is 30 miles down
the St. Francis river, at Drumhanville.
Good grouse shooting can be found within
2 miles of town. Coons and red foxes are
abundant. Black bear are also plentiful;
a large number were shot in the fall of
1901. Ducks and geese are rare visitors on
the river.
W. R. Damant, Richmond, Que.
Duck shooting here was good throughout
the entire season. Canvasbacks were more
plentiful than for a number of years, mal-
lards were scarce, while widgeon, pintail
and teal visited us in large numbers. Ow-
ing to dry weather and the lack of green
food, geese did not remain here in any con-
siderable number, as they did the previous
season. However, many snow geese,
checkerbreasts and honkers fed on the grain
fields in Orange county.
B. C. Hinman, Los Alamitos, Cal.
I congratulate you on the good work al-
ready done and hope you will keep it up.
It seems there is no use in trying to get
our State law on quails and grouse changed,
more especially on quails. It is too bad,
having the open season begin October
15 and close December 15. Many quails
killed after Thanksgiving are not more
than half grown. Pot hunters made our
law; let us change it to November 15 to
February I.
H. L. Manchester, Tiverton Corners, R. I.
In March RECREATION someone told of a
deer that ran into a building and lay down.
Some men secured it, took it to the woods
2 miles away and turned it loose. The
League of American Sportsmen ought to
give those men a gold medal. I hope their
pictures will be sent to RECREATION.
Geo. R. Dunahoo was evidently a tender-
foot and the old miner was filling him up
with his road runners and snake yarn.
Mrs. Ben Morss, Cottage Grove, Ore.
Deer wintered well, and are fairly abun-
dant. Mountain quails and gray squirrels
are also plentiful. Smoke from the Iron
Mountain copper mine and its smelters is
killing all the timber and brush for miles
around. It has already spoiled thousands
of acres of our best hunting ground. This
is a foothill and winter range country, and
it is a pity that game should be driven away
for the sake of a penny foundry.
C. E. Kimball, Stella, Cal.
Am a reader of RECREATION and a firm
-believer in its principles and work. Your
roasting of game hogs is all right, and well
deserved by them. We have some here
who need browning. December 26th, A.
Van Wicklen killed 68 coot and old squaw
from a battery, and the weather being
warm the next 2 days many of them
spoiled. Still such men cry, “where is the
game?”
Jasper Smith, Port Washington, N. Y.
I believe there are more quails to the
acre in this part of the State than in any
other place in the country. Since the law
prohibiting the taking of game out of the
State went into effect there has been no
hunting except a little locally. In one of
our orchards of 200 acres there were 6
bunches of more than 20 birds each. They
should make a large crop for another year.
C. S. Perry, Menlo, Ga.
44 RECREATION.
I disagree with J. N. Fisher, Jr., who,
in February RECREATION, growls at the
non-resident license laws. Take the Indi-
ana law as an example. I am sure it pre-
vented 1,000 Chicago shooters from visit-
ing the Kankakee marshes, thus saving the
lives of fully 1to,ooo ducks. Next to the
stopping of spring shooting, a good stiff
license fee is the best thing for the birds.
O. A. Corner, Chicago, III.
I think A. A. W. is wrong in contending
that dogs should not be used in hunting
grouse and quails. If he lived on Cape
Cod, he would want a dozen dogs; and if
he used them all he could not get over 6
birds a day. I own a good rabbit hound.
I went out 6 times last winter, hunted all
day each time, and my biggest day’s bag
was one bunny.
E. G. Harding, Harwich Port, Mass.
We have plenty of bears, deer, turkeys,
grouse and squirrels in this part of West
Virginia. Quails would be exceedingly
numerous if they could find food in the
winter. The rest of the year they thrive
famously. Coveys of 20 and over are the
rule. Scarcely any grain is raised in this
country, which is probably the reason so
many birds starve in winter.
Minter Jackson, Jane, W. Va.
As the result of a 5 days’ hunt in the
vicinity of Notch P. O., Pike county, last
fall, I brought out a number of grouse, a
2A6 pound (buck Vand ayibicardoes sineci-
dentally I helped extinguish a forest fire.
The game and fish wardens attend strictly
to business in those parts. They are well
supported by the residents and, as a con-
sequence, game is increasing.
P. W. Hobday, Dunmore, Pa.
I saw Mr. Van Dyke’s hunting stories in
February RECREATION. They are stories,
-and no mistake. Any deer not instantly
killed will run when hit if it sees the per-
son who fired the shot. Ifa deer dies after
being hit with a 22 caliber ball it is from
heart disease. A healthy deer would run
off with all the 22’s the U. M. C. Co. could
make in a month.
C. L. Patrick, Cedarville, Mich.
On) my ‘annual “hunt last) season. in
Northern Michigan, I killed 2) large
bucks and a small one. We have a good
‘game law now and I believe deer are in-
creasing, for I never saw so many signs
in the same length of time. RECREATION is
doing good work. Keep on until every
game hog is too ashamed of himself to
grunt.
Reuben Fish, Freeport, Mich.
Ducks of many varieties, including mal-
lards, greenheads, pintails and teal, were
exceedingly abundant last spring. Even
game hogs got all they wanted. It is a
shame that ducks are slaughtered on their
Northern flight. They are of little food
value at that season, and every one shot
then means 3 or 4 less in the fall.
CE Ee Sulton itl
I was among the first in the Adirondacks
to stand for a non-hounding law. I was
almost alone then in the North woods, but
to-day consensus of opinion in the Adir-
ondacks is against the dogs. There are
more deer here now than for 30 or 40 years.
I have seen scores of them within a few
hundred yards of the house. .
Mr. R. M. Shutts, Merrill, N. Y.
I should like to see RECREATION take up
the fight against loose dogs in the close
game season. Without doubt a few dogs
running at large through the summer will
destroy more young animals and birds than
would glut a dozen game hogs. Will not
the members of the L. A. S. take this mat-
ter into consideration?
R. W. Stout, Poolesville, Md.
Grouse were plentiful here when the
shooting season opened last fall, but they
were nearly exterminated when it closed.
Quails are abundant, because they sold so
low the market hunters could not afford to
hunt them. Foxes, I am sorry to say, are
also plentiful, and are destroying many
birds.
Wm. Leigh, Wurtsboro, N. Y.
RECREATION is doing much good here-
abouts. Keep pounding away and you'll
get things right after a while. This State
permits spring shooting at ducks, which
is a mistake. It should at least cut out the
month of April. That would result in a
great saving of birds.
E. L. Cobb, Portland, Me.
Grouse are scarce in this part of Sulli-
van county, and becoming more so each
year. Rabbits are numerous, but farmers
kill them at every opportunity, claiming
that they damage crops. Quails have in-
creased wonderfully.
Louis Boettger, Jr., Callicoon, N. Y.
We have quails, prairie chickens, jack
rabbits, cottontails, ducks, geese, brant,
snipe, plover, minks, muskrats and wolves.
There will be no open season on quails for
3 years. There are few game hogs here.
Roy Fryer, Plainview, Neb.
FISH AND
ALMANAC FOR SALT WATER FISHERMEN.
The following will be found accurate and val-
uable for the vicinity of New York City:
Kingfish—Barb, Sea-Mink, Whiting. June to
September. Haunts: The surf and deep channels
of strong tide streams. Baits: Blood worms,
shedder crabs and beach crustaceans. Time and
tide: Flood, early morning.
Plaice—Fluke, Turbot, Flounder. May 15 to
November 30. Haunts: The surf, mouth of tidal
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, killi-fish, sand
laut. ‘Time and tide: Ebb, daytime exclusively.
Spanish mackerel—Haunts: The open sea, July
to September. Baits: Menhaden, trolling—metal
and cedar squids.
Striped Bass—Rock Fish, Green Head. April to
November. Haunts: The surf, bays, estuaries and
tidal streams. Baits: Blood worms, shedder crabs,
Calico crabs, small eels, menhaden. Time and
tide. Night, half flood to flood, to half ebb.
The Drums, Red and Black. June to Novem-
ber. Haunts: The surf and mouths of large bays.
Bait: Skinner crab. Time and tide: Day, flood.
Blackfish—Tautog, April to November. Haunts:
Surf, vicinity of piling and old wrecks in bays.
Baits: Sand worm, blood worm, shedder crabs,
clams. Time and tide: Daytime, flood.
Lafayette—Spot, Goody, Cape May Goody.
August to October. Haunts: Channels of tidal
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, sand worms, clams.
Time and Tide: Day and night flood.
Croker—July to October. Haunts: Deep chan-
nels of bays. Baits: Shedder crabs, mussels.
Time and tide: Day, flood.
Snapper—Young of Blue Fish, August to No-
vember. Haunts: Rivers and all tide ways. Baits:
Spearing, and menhaden; trolling pearl squid.
Time and tide: Day, all tides.
Sheepshead—June to October Haunts: Surf
and bays, vicinity of old wrecks. Baits: Clams,
mussels, shedder crabs. Time and tide: Day,
flood only.
New England Whiting—Winter Weak-fish,
Frost-fish. November to May. Haunts: The
surf. Baits: Sand laut, spearing. Time and tide:
Night, flood.
Hake—Ling: October to June. Haunts: Open
sea surf, large bays. Baits: Clams, mussels, fish.
Time and tide: Day and night, flood.
Weak-fish—Squeteague, Squit. June to October.
Haunts: Surf, all tideways. Baits: Shedder
crabs, surf mullet, menhaden, ledge mussels, sand
laut, shrimp. Time and tide: Day and _ night,
flood preferred.
Blue Fish—Horse Hackerel. June to November
Ist. Haunts: Surf, open sea and large bays.
Baits: Menhaden, surf mullet and trolling squid.
Time and tide: Daytime; not affected by tides.
FOR ONE-ARMED ANGLERS.
Recently I was about to start for a day’s
fishing, in company with an acquaintance
who has lost his right arm, when he
warned me that I would have to bait his
hook for him. He said he was accus-
tomed to hire a boy or man to accompany
him on his fishing trips to handle his bait
for him. I went to a workbench near,
and in a few moments I made a simple de-
vice which enabled him to put a minnow,
worm or frog on his hook almost as easily
as anyone else could. The device is sim-
ply a piece of straight grained oak, 14
inches long, 1 inch wide and % inch thick,
planed smooth, and sharpened to an edge
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FISHING.
at one end like a chisel. This sharpened
end is split down about 3 inches. When
the hook is placed in the split it is firmly
held. The other end of the stick is held
under the arm, leaving one hand free to
place the bait on the hook. This idea is not
patented, but is offered freely to all anglers
who have temporarily or permanently lost
the use of an arm.
Blue Spring creek is one of the best
stocked trout streams in Missouri. This
creek is but 6 miles long, flowing from
Blue spring to the Merrimac river. It was
first stocked with rainbow trout 5 years
ago, and there have been specimens taken
out weighing 4 to 6 pounds. The Merri-
mac river affords good sport in small
mouth bass, pike, crappie, channel and
blue cat, etc. The beautiful scenery adds
to the enjoyment of a day spent on this
stream.
About 2 years ago I first saw a copy of
RECREATION. I have bought a copy every
month since. It has taught me a great deal.
Largely as a result of its teaching, I now
have a conscience concerning fish and
game. Last summer, while at my summer
home at Macatawa, Mich., I built a canvas
covered sail boat similar to the one de-
scribed in August RECREATION. I departed
from the description in some respects, but
the boat was a success. It is 15% feet
long, 52 inches beam, and has 72 square
feet of sail area. I used for planking %4-
inch pine, 134 inches wide, instead of 3-16-
inch cypress, 3 inches wide. For covering
I used 18 ounce canvas. For cockpit floor-
ing I made an inch grating, in 2 pieces.
This grating, the coaming and the narrow
strip outside, just below gunwale are paint-
ed green; inside of cockpit and spars have
spar varnish; canvas cover and rudder
have 2 coats of white lead. The “White
Duck” was generally admired by all who
saw her.
Arthur O. Garrison, St. Louis, Mo.
HOW THEY RUN IN MICHIGAN.
We have excellent yachting and fair fish-
ing in the Saginaw river and its tributaries.
A 20 mile run down takes us to the bay and
if the weather permits we can take a
limited run on it. Our favorite run is up
the river. We have the Tittabawassee, Shi-
awassee, Cass, Flint and Bad rivers, all
navigable for boats of 3 feet draft or less,
and all tributary to the Saginaw. The Tit-
tabawassee is shallow and swift, and from
June until September affords fine small
mouth bass fishing, supplemented with an
occasional t to 20 pound catfish. The
others are clear and not so swift, surround-
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ed by miles of marsh and woodland, fur-
nishing fairly good trolling for big mouth
bass and grass pike. From about Septem-
ber rst to November 15th perch are caught
in large numbers in both the. Shiawassee
and the Sagi.aw rivers. It is a sight to
behold during our perch run to see the
docks and river fairly alive with men, wom-
en and children of all ages, sizes and colors,
from every station in life, and with every
conceivable kind of tackle out for a few
hours’ sport with the little toothsome fel-
lows. I counted 216 boats filled with
anglers during a 6 mile run last September.
Commercial fishing is prohibited in the
tributaries, but in the Saginaw it com-
mences November 15 and ends April 15.
The annual catch is amazing. It consists
of suckers, mullet, perch, rock bass, sun-
fish, wall-eyed and grass pike, bullheads
and carp.
Commercial fishing has been the bone
of contention between Saginaw county
sportsmen and the market fishermen for
several years. The latter have won out at
every Legislature, except losing the tribu-
taries 7 years ago; but the sportsmen have
not lost all hope of abolishing net fishing
entirely, as the Saginaw is the only inland
stream in Michigan in which it is allowed.
We have miles of duck marsh, and over-
run land practically does away with spring
shooting here, as no waterfowl get here be-
fore the season closes, April 1oth, except a
few merganser ducks.
I thoroughly agree with Mr. W. L. Stew-
ard in February RECREATION relative to the
destruction of small fish by herons and
kingfishers. I also add the merganser, or
sawbill ducks. A friend killed a heron and
found about 30 little grass pikes in his
pouch, and I have seen half a pint of little
fish come from a merganser duck’s mouth
after he was dead and hanging head down.
Lee Mann, Saginaw, Mich.
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MY TROUTING DAY.
It was an ideal spring morning and every
thing foretold a delightful day in the woods.
A turn in the trail leading down a steep
incline took me to an old bridge be-
neath which flowed a crystal stream fed by
many cool springs. There I expected to
make my first effort at the trout.
Hastily adjusting my rod I approached
a curling patch of white foam held back by
a half submerged log, and made, with
pork for bait, my first attempt to hook a
brook trout. I cast the hook above the
eddy and like a flash a streak of mottled
beauty shot from beneath the log. With a
vigorous jerk he was thrown clear of the
water on the sand at my feet and in a mo-
ment he was mine. He was the first I had
ever seen. A second cast was equally suc-
cessful.
RECKEATION;:
With varying results I fished the wind-
ing stream as its course led through almost
impassable underbrush, occasionally throw-
ing a trout high among the branches, en-
tangling my line in overhanging limbs.
Thus the hours passed unnoticed until
hunger and fatigue reminded me that it was
time to eat. Selecting an old tree trunk
I spread my lunch and there in the quiet
depth of the forest I ate. A half hour was
given to rest during which a number of
Canada jays assembled around me and pro-
tested at my long repast. A red squirrel
ventured near, and, with curious eyes, gazed
on the intruder. His curiosity satisfied, he
scurried up a tree where he gave me an
acrobatic exhibition among the branches.
The slanting sun admonished me to re-
trace my steps, so I started on the return,
taking my time and fishing the most likely
places. They yielded an occasional prize
and at length I found myself back at the
old bridge. There I took an inventory of
my catch and found I had 14 trout. I was
proud, mosquito bitten, happy; the happi-
ness born of honest recreation and love of
nature.
Dr. C. T. Thomas, Trout Creek, Mich.
CARE OF CANVAS BOATS.
I have never noticed in RECREATION any
information as to the proper care of a
canvas folding boat, or how to repair one.
The solution, or preparation, on the outside
of my boat has partly worn off.
L. A. Place, Chicago.
ANSWER.
If your boat requires waterproofing the
best thing to use is common kettle-boiled
linseed oil of a pure quality, which can be
bought at any paint store. Use with the
oil about % a cup of burnt umber, of de-
sired color, to a quart of oil. Stir it well
and apply with a brush, being careful to ap-
ply it only to the part which is worn. One
coat is sufficient. Many people spoil their
canvas boats by continually daubing them
when the boats do not need it. This forms
such a coating that it cracks the canvas
when folded, and the waterproofing itself
becomes so thick that it cracks. The canvas
is then destroyed. Leaving the boat in the
water or on the shore where the air gets to
it does no harm. Neither does it hurt a
boat to fold it and put it away, provided it
is thoroughly dried before folding. To fold
a canvas boat while the canvas contains
more or less dampness and pack it away,
will rot the canvas. Many canvas boats are
waterproofed with a quick drying process
which does not penetrate and fill the fiber
of the canvas. Such waterproofing is not
right and will not stand. It will quickly
wear off from the surface and the boat will
leak. The waterproofing should thoroughly
fill the fibre of the canvas.—EDITor.
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FISH AND
WEST VIRGINIA WAKING UP.
Constable L. C. Jones, who was recently
appointed by Gov. A. B. White as deputy
fish and game warden for this section of
the county, prosecuted his first case at Fair-
mont.
It was remarked by many at the time
the appointment was made known that no
better person could be found in the State
to fill this position. His first victims were
John Brown and L. H. Slater, young men
living on the East side of the river. They
were dipping for fish at a point below the
first ward feed mill, when Jones went to
the place, arrested them and took posses-
sion of the fishermen’s outfit.
They were taken before Justice Benning-
ton Saturday and were fined each $25
and costs. The defendants took an appeal
to the circuit court and were released un-
til court shall convene by each furnishing
bond to the amount of $100.
The fish and game laws have been
flagrantly broken for years in this State,
especially the fish law. So open have
the violations grown to be that fishing in
the common and ordinary way, by hook and
line, trout line, etc., have practically been
abandoned, and the fish box, dynamite, etc.,
substituted.
Judge Mason instructed the grand jury
to inquire closely in regard to the viola-
tion of the fish and game laws.
I am looking forward to the days when
the L. A. S. will conquer and the bristle-
backs will be extinct.
Clifford Merrifield, Riverville, W. Va.
CARP FISHING WITH A STEEL TRAP.
Some years ago my father received from
the United States Fish Commission a new
kind of fish known as German carp, and
said to be choice. We stocked a new
pond with them, and fed them regularly
every day for 2 years. At the end of that
time the pond was full of large fish; and I
proceeded to angle for them. I soon found
that no kind of bait was tempting enough
to induce them to bite, and the frequent
sight of a fin above the water soon made me
desperate. I studied the ways of these
carp, and found that they loved to suck
at a lump of wheat dough. They would
suck it all away, without once taking the
bulk in their mouth. This gave me an idea,
which I at once executed. I procured a
large single spring steel trap and tied a
piece of tin on the frame, so that when
set the trap could not be approached from
the bottom. I tied a lump of dough on the
treadle, tied the trap on the line in place
of the hook, set it, and held it out in the
water a moment. There was a snap, a
shower of bubbles rose to the surface,
and I brought out a 5-pound carp, with
his head mashed flat. In 30 minutes I had
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30 pounds of fish, and yt being a game hog
I quit.
My thoughts when I attempted to eat
those fish are not fit sor publication; and I[
afterward blew up the pond with dynamite
to get rid of the small carp which could not
throw my steel trap.
Ed. C. Hill, Horse Cave, Ky.
HOW TO TREAT KINGFISHERS.
I have read with great interest a commu-
nication from W. L. Steward, of Monson,
Maine, in regard to the killing of fish by
the blue heron and the kingfisher. As to
the heron, I can not say. My experience
with him is limited; but the kingfisher is
without doubt one of the most destructive
enemies of the finny tribe. I have had am-
ple opportunity to study kingfishers dur-
ing my 3 years as superintendent of
hatcheries at tnis station. There is con-
tinual warfare by kingfishers against fish
during the spring and summer. We are
compelled to kill hundreds of these birds.
In spring, summer and fall I have often
seen them dart into the ponds and come up
with their bill run through a trout 4 or 5
inches long. They will also strike a large
trout that they can not handle, and wound
him. Then, fungus will set in and the fish
dies. I agree with Mr. Steward that a
bounty should be placed on this bird instead
of protecting him by law. I should also like
to hear from persons who have had oppor-
tunity to study the great merganser and
the water ousel. I have caught them both
at questionable tricks.
C. W. Morgareidge, Wolf, Wyo.
MINNESOTA WATERS.
Your magazine is properly named. I
never fail to read it. I note in February
RECREATION that Mr. Stick, of Chicago,
after successfully landing a 14-pound pick-
erel, was so delighted that he could fish
no longer, returning home with joy. In
this paradise for anglers, Minnesota, we
usually find our craving harder to satisfy.
Mr. B. and I take frequent drives during
the season to the many lakes in our vicin-
ity, and have yet failed to return with less
than 20 to 30 bass of the choicest black va-
riety. Many a 5-pounder has bent our
light Bristol and made things hum before
we had him in our landing net. Eight to 15
pickerel, weighing 6 to 15 pounds each, are
common. Lake Mary has our preference,
with its sparkling spring Water, high wood-
ed shores, abundance of fish. When we
get on the croppie we simply pull up stakes
and move on, as we find it monotonous to
continually take them off our hooks. We
have 6 lakes within a mile, and each
has its own specialty to offer in the line of
fishes.
O. S. Lowell, Watertown, Minn.
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DEFENDS HIMSELF.
My attention has been drawn to an item
in a late issue of RECREATION which is any-
thing but complimentary to my friends and
me. If you will do a little simple calcula-
tion you will see that your remarks are
uncalled for. Seven hundred (fish) dor
3 men in 8 days would not give them quite
10 fish to each rod morning and evening;
and after 3 men and 3 guides satisfy their
appetites there are not a large number of
fish to carry home.
I am personally acquainted with your in-
formant, B. R. W., Bear River, N. S., and
our party are fly fishermen, not pot hunt-
ers and bait fishermen like himself, nor
have we been known to fish through the
ice in the early spring. I have known this
party and his friends to return from Flan-
ders’ meadow, White Sand lake, Stillwater,
and the Mississippi, back of Bear River with
a catch of much greater average than ours.
I trust you will give this letter the same
prominence you gave the item referred to.
R. W. Ambrose, Sydney, C. B.
NIBBLES.
I am interested to learn what fish hatch-
ing work is in progress or in contemplation
for this year at the State hatcheries. Will
you kindly favor me with a statement of
what eggs are being hatched or are to be
hatched and at what times these operations
are likely to be in progress? Are catfish
ever artificially propagated, and if so under
what conditions.
C. J. Herrick, Granville, Ohio.
ANSWER.
The United States Fish Commission does
not hatch any species of catfish, nor does
any State Fish Commission, as far as I
am informed. No method for the arti-
ficial propagation of any species of catfish
has ever been developed. All the United
States Fish Commission has ever done is
to put adult catfish in ponds where the con-
ditions are favorable and let them spawn
naturally, then plant the young.—EDbITorR.
Please say to W. B. Halcomb that one
day when Pop Slyers and I were fishing
at the mouth of Junalice river Pop lost
several fish because, as I thought, he pulled
too soon. I said to him, “The next time a
fish takes your bait, let him go a while be-
fore you pull on him.”
He let the next one have about 4o feet
of line. Just then I had a strike that
meant business. I said to Pop:
“T have him!”
“So have 1” said Pop.
Our lines came in crossed and tangled.
I said:
“Your fish got away”
“No, I have him; our fish got away.”
When we got the fish in we both had him.
Pop took him from the hook. He was a 2
pound bass.
F. K. Middough, Harrisburg, Pa.
Last August while camping on the
Cuyahoga river, I caught a number of rock
bass, but to our surprise we found, when
cleaning them, that.they had grubs about
1-16 of an inch long on their back bone.
Can you tell me the cause of it? Will the
grubs leave the fish when cold weather
comes ?
Harry J. Hopton, Youngstown, Ohio.
ANSWER.
Ordinarily, rock bass should not be in-
fested with parasites of that kind. Prob-
ably the water was too warm, stagnant, or
impure. Anything which lowers the vi-
tality of fish renders them more open to
attacks by parasites and disease. Very
likely when the water becomes more suit-
able the fish will improve.—EbrTor.
No method of angling affords more sport
than trolling, especially on a large body of
water, free from weeds and other impedi-
ments to the free use of the line. I have
spent many summers fishing in the vicinity
of Petoskey, Mich. With a small launch
and a line not less than 300 feet long,
trolling at a moderate speed over good
fishing grounds, such as are found in the
many Northern lakes, is pure joy.
Burt lake, 20 miles Northeast of Petos- —
key, is one of the best bodies of water for
this purpose. There trolling is employed
almost exclusively, and pickerel are taken
in great numbers, weighing 2 pounds and
upward. A 28-pounder was the largest
ever taken in that lake, to my knowledge.
T. P. Wagoner, Knightstown, Ind.
On the 7th of June, 1808, at 6 p. m., I
left town with my wife and 2 little children
for a trip of 2 days at Alligator Head.
We went down at night because it was
cooler. Having only very light wind we
reached the Head next morning at 8. I
went out on the wharf in the morning and
caught 3 trout, 3 catfish and 1 shoemaker
in 20 minutes. Spent the evening resting.
Next morning (oth), I fished from 9
to Ir and caught 7 trout, weighing 16
pounds, and 2 man-eating sharks. Tried
for Jew fish (deep sea bass), but got none.
In the afternoon we returned home with
a fair, stiff, breeze; making the trip in 3
hours and 20 minutes.
H. M. Brown, Port Lavaca, Tex.
Persons who are interested in the habits
of fishes should read the article about
driftwood noises, in the Natural History
department of this issue.
GUNS AND AMMUNI11ON.
Anybody can keep on shooting all day, but it takes a gentleman to quit when he gets enougu.
SOME WORK WITH A SAVAGE.
I have had a Savage .303 about 4
months and after having given it a thor-
ough trial I consider it far the best rifle I
ever owned. It will not, of course, shoot
so strongly as a 30-40, but that is its one
point of inferiority. The .303 shell does
not seem so apt as others to stick in the
chamber and break off. The gun shoots
right where it is held and at the same time
is sighted coarser than a 30-40, which
makes it easier to catch a quick sight.
When it comes to reloading, the Savage
shell is a thing of ‘beauty and a joy for-
ever. I use a wire patched 180 grain bul-
let, made by the National Projectile Co.,
and 18 grains by weight of Savage powder.
I have been able to prove, to my own satis-
faction at least, that the wire patched bul-
let will hold up 50 yards farther than the
regular soft nose, metal patched bullet.
It wilt do quite as much crushing and
tearing as any other bullet, yet does not
damage the rifle.
Recently I shot a white tail buck at 281
paces. The bullet struck about 3 inches
back of left shoulder point and about
1-3 the way from the back bone to belly
line. It nicked one. rib a little going in
and cut 3 at point of exit, besides tearing
away a lot of flesh from the right shoulder.
The buck jumped once and went all in a
heap. I don’t see where the 30-40 could
have done better. I started with 60 U. M.
C. cartridges; 10 having burst, the rest
are still good though some have been re-
loaded 5 times. I never clean my shells in
any way except to wipe off with a greasy
rag. I tried to reload 30-40’s and on the
first reloading 21 out of 60 shells broke at
the neck.
I should like to know if any reader of
RECREATION has seen a gun like one I know
of, which was bought in Newport, R. IL,
about 45 years ago, for $25. It was a single
barrel breech loader, though it had a ram-
rod and was often used as a muzzle loader.
It was made for Western turkey shooting,
with either balls or buckshot, and used the
old percussion cap. It was lever action
with an open space behind the flat-sided
breech block, which was in 2 pieces, work-
ing on the principle of a wedge, so the hard-
er the gun recoiled the tighter it was closed.
The barrel was 12 gauge, about 24 inches in
length, and was fastened to the stock by
a bolt passing through the barrel from left
to right. The stock was extremely long and
straight, and the gun had a hammer about
4 times the ordinary size. The strangest
feature in the make of this gun was a vent
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on the right side of the breech, just beiow
the tube for the percussion cap, from which
a stream of fire nearly a foot in length
would issue every time the gun was dis-
charged. This, the makers, whose names I
do not remember, claimed made the gun
burn more powder. Was this claim true?
If so, why did not the shooting power of
the old muzzle loaders increase when their
percussion tubes became so badly burned
out that enough gas would escape through
them to blow the hammers to full cock
every time they were discharged? If I re-
member rightly, the cartridges for this little
gun contained 23 buckshot. For wild goose
shooting I never saw its equal. I have seen
it shot at a target against guns of all prices
and bores, and never saw a gun that could
equal it in range and effectiveness. Was
it the vent in this gun that caused it to
shoot with such tremendous power? The
only objectionable feature I remember about
the gun was its loud report. It roared
like a small cannon; but when kept clean
had no recoil, although it weighed only 6
pounds. Old Subscriber, Webster, Mass.
VYES,-HE PAYS: “EM.
I note that some wise men from the
East are sending up a plaintive howl, claim-
ing that the editor of RECREATION is pay-
ing his subscribers for saying complimen-
tary things about him and about his maga-
zine. I have no fault to find with this
kick, for it is a good ad for REcREATION,
and it is also true. Mr. Shields has paid
me for saying nice things about his maga-
zine, and for fighting on his side of the
fence when any little Coquinian war
chanced to come bobbing along; and |
have no doubt he has paid thousands of
others for like services.
This is how Mr. Shields has paid me.
For only $1 a year he has furnished me
a magazine from whose pages I can glean
more real information. on subjects dear
to the hearts of sportsmen than can be
found in any dozen other publications.
This alone would be pay enough, but it is
not all. He has ever treated me with uni-
form courtesy, and it is fair to assume
that he extends this courtesy to all with
whom he has any dealings, game hogs ex-
cepted. Courtesy is a good investment
for anyone, and I respectfully recommend
it to the careful consideration of the hasty-
pudding folks.
Here is some more pay that I get. Rec-
REATION, aided by the L. A. S., for whose
birth and rapid growth Mr. Shields is re-
sponsible, is trying to save the game for
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all sportsmen. This magazine has ever
stood firmly for game protection, while its
editor handles the game and fish hogs in
a commendably vigorous manner. By this
means Mr. Shields has made enemies, and
has lost subscribers innumerable, but it is
worthy of note that the circulation of
RECREATION is rapidly capering upward,
and right here I call the attention of ad-
vertisers to this fact. I am, of course,
paid fot saying all this; paid as enumer-
ated above. When some of the big gun
manufacturers and dealers pay their pa-
trons in the same coin—courtesy, and a
desire to please customers by furnishing
the best goods, they will find it will
pay, and that more cash will flow into their
strong boxes. As to sportsmen receiving
any pay, save courtesy and fair dealing,
for booming RECREATION, there is nothing
to say only that the lovers of gun and rod
are gentlemen; and as gentlemen, they
can stand with equanimity the insults of
the howlers. Those sad eyed mortals who
worry about pay would better go ’way
back and stand on their heads till sufficient
blood to properly work their brains flows
down into their think-tanks.
Gentlemen of the plaintive howl, it is up
to you either to quit the fight and retire
from the field, or else to lay down your
scalping knives and your poisoned arrows,
and take up modern weapons of warfare.
The methods and the weapons you are
now using will not go in this era. The
days of savagery are past, and real men
do not now tomahawk their enemies either
literally or verbally.
A. L. Vermilya, Columbiaville, Mich.
PREFERS THE 44-40.
All the various rifle calibers are good,
and should be used for what they were de-
signed by the originators. The way to
make this department interesting and in-
structive is to write the facts as they are,
the caliber of the rifle, the kind of ammu-
nition and the distance the game was hit,
and then let each reader judge for himself.
The 30-30 and 30-40 when used with steel
or full mantled bullets are military arms,
of course; but with soft pointed bullets
their effect on big game is deadly. In
face of the evidence that has been pro-
duced, any man who says the 38-55 is
equal or superior as a game killer to the
30-40 stamps himself as ignorant and
inexperienced. It’ also:. .makes! )amest
sportsmen tired to read about the 25-35
making a hole 4 times larger than a 45.
Those of us who have had experience with
the 30’s know such claims for the 25-35
are nonsensical. To my mind the 30 cali-
bers should not be compared with black
powder guns as they are entirely different.
My favorite is the little 44-40, but I hate to
see men ignore facts and set at naught the
merits of an arm so powerful and effective
as the 30.
The Winchester people do not say the
32-40 and 38-55 are the best all around
cartridges. Those loads were designed for
target shooting in the old Ballard rifle.
They became popular at once and soon
Stevens, Remington, Winchester and other
makers built more target rifles for those
calibers than for any others. Those cart-
ridges hold nearly all the finest rifle rec-
ords up to 500 yards; showing that the
originators knew their business. But ac-
cording to the Winchester tables the 32-40
and 38-55 as big game killers, are not in it
with most of the cartridges named on
that list. Most all the 38, 40, and 45
calibers shoot flatter, have a higher velocity
and more penetration. The 4o and 45
calibers have a much larger diameter. It
is not necessary for a hunting rifle to put
16 consecutive shots into a 2 inch circle at
200 yards. - Killing power, not extreme
accuracy, is the ihing of prime importance.
Penetration, diameter and striking power
constitute killing power. The 32-40 and
38-55 do not possess those qualities to any
great extent. We also must not forget that
go per cent. of big game killed is shot with-
in 200 yards, and almost any rifle will
shoot with enough accuracy to hit game at
or even beyond that distance. Many of the
40 and 45 calibers shoot well up to 2,000
yards. The Winchester table is both
interesting and instructive, and every
sportsman ought to get a copy and study
it. If he can reason and does not forget the
simple law of cause and effect, he must
come to the conclusion that a large bullet
that penetrates a goodly number of boards,
must be a much better killer than a small
one that penetrates fewer.
Wenzel Mashek, Kewaunee, Wis.
DENOUNCES MUTILATION.
Saylesville, R. I.
Editor RECREATION:
In reading the letters in January number
by Terry Smith and W. W. Prentice, rela-
tive to the work of the 30 caliber rifle, I
was filled with disgust at the mutilation
recorded.
I own a 30-30 rifle which I bought some
time ago, but have not yet used on game,
and, in my present frame of mind, I shall
not use it. For 6 or 7 seasons I used a
38-55 for deer shooting and found it a
perfect rifle for the work. There are, of
course, several cartridges of more or less
similar power, which’ answer almost as
well; but I caught the craze, sold my 38
and bought a “modern weapon.” How-
ever, if I can not shoot deer without
tearing 7 inch holes or disemboweling them,
I will go out of the business.
GUNS AND AMMUNITION. St
Why a man need blow off whole sections
of a deer’s head in order to kill it I can not
explain. These are simply hints as to
what those articles described.
One writer says that after seeing 2
deer almost blown to pieces his gyide be-
came a believer in the small bore rifle! I
have always thought the only use of a
rifle was to kill; simply and cleanly kill.
One might judge from many descriptions
published within the last 2 or 3 years that
total annihilation was the end to be at-
tained. Possibly, in the near future, some-
body may bring out a weapon which, at
its discharge, will destroy every vestige of
the game aimed at. Then the 30-30 will not
be in it, and there will be a mad rush for
the new gun because of its power.
I believe in using tools or weapons
adapted to the work required. Undoubted-
ly the 30 has its place and its uses, but in
its indiscriminate use, it becomes a danger
because of the great surplus power exerted.
Moreover, it is, and must always be, ex-
tremely wasteful of meat.
I am fully convinced that 4 out of every
5 of such rifles are as unnecessary for the
use they are put to as a 12 inch naval gun
would be. I have no excuse to offer for
owning, one myself except my anxiety to
be recent. If ever I use my 30 on deer it
will be with a reduced charge or low pres-
sure powder.
I wonder if anyone else is tired of hear-
ing about the wonderful, I call it horrible,
work of the 30-30. Ae jordan,
GOOD LOADS FOR THE 30-10.
Having noticed a number of inquiries in
RECREATION as to the best all around rifle,
I recommend the 30-40 Winchester as being
one of the best.
A good short range load for the 30-40
for target and small game is 9 grains Du-
Pont shot gun smokeless loose in shell;
8% or 2% Winchester primer; and Mr.
Beardsley’s bullet, No. 3086, 101 grains, or
the Ideal No. 30812, 113 grains, cast I to
to and well lubricated. Seat bullet in shell
just deep enough to cover lubrication, with
no crimp. If bullets are loose in expand-
ed shell, use a muzzle sizer. The sharp-
pointed bullet will not tear small game so
badly as the flat point. This load is clean
and accurate and about equal in power to.
a 32-20. Another load which will do fine
work and is somewhere near a 38-55 is 52
grains (Ideal measure) semi-smokeless
fffig. and a 220 grain lubricated wire
patched bullet. Those bullets are perfec-
tion and are advertised in RECREATION.
A great deal of useful information in
regard to reloading and reloading tools is
contained in the Ideal Hand Book. A good
plan for anyone using high power smoke-
less rifles is to keep an Ideal broken shell
extractor at hand. They will save trouble,
delay and bad words. But unless care and
judgment is used in experimenting with
smokeless powders a good insurance policy
is the most important thing to have on
hand.
I use Lyman receiver and ivory bead
sights. The rear sight can be instantly ad-
justed to any load. Tell A. G. Burg, Liv-
ingston, Mont., that the Ithaca No. 1 or
2 is the best medium priced gun in the
world. O. E. Raynor, Meadville, Pa.
A DOUBTING THOMAS.
In February Recreation Mr. Van Dyke
tells of his wonderful exploits with a
Stevens Favorite. Why didn’t he sign his
name Van Winkle? ‘Then the charitable
might believe that he fell asleep on some
mountain and dreamed that gun story.
Think of a 22 caliber bullet containing 45
grains of lead, with a penetration of 5 pine
boards, passing through the shoulder of a
bull elk and breaking a rib on the oppo-
site side. Think of his shooting 4 deer,
all through, or near, the heart. Imagine, if
you can, his loading and firing a single shot
rifle 4 times at a running deer. Why is he
not with Buffalo Bill? Then when he inves-
tigates he finds he has killed 4 deer with
those 4 shots while thinking there was but
one deer all the while. If Syracuse thought
some of Mr. Van Dyke’s other stories were
fishy, what does he think of this later ro-
mance? .
I have shot squirrels with a 22, but some-
times had to use 3 or 4 bullets to make
a neat finish. Mr. Van Dyke gets a bullet
stuck in the barrel of his 22 and blows
it out with another cartridge. It bulges
the barrel some. Then the poor little gun
falls under the wheels of a wagon and the
barrel is bent. Thrown away and left to
lie outdoors several months it is finally
restored to alignment and usefulness by
being hammered over a log. “Good medi-
cine for the crowbar, good medicine for
the gun.” Great!
Moral: Throw away your 30-40 and 45-
70 guns and get a 22 for big game.
E. G. Moulton, Derby Line, Vt.
A CONVERT TO MODERATION.
I have been reading RECREATION regu-
larly for some time, though I was guilty of
throwing the first copy I saw under the
table with the remark that I would not
spend my time with such rot. I had grown
up in a region where the chap that killed
the most game was the best man. I shot
26 deer in 3 weeks one season, and
thought I was a great sportsman, but after
reading your publication a while I changed
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my mind about it. Now I stand in line
to protect game in every way possible.
Therefore, I was sorry to see the Mar-
lin Co. and the Peters Cartridge Co. with-
draw their ads from RECREATION. I know
from experience that both concerns de-
serve hearty praise for protecting our game,
as I will guarantee that anyone using their
goods exclusively will be in little danger of
getting roasted as a game hog. I was out
with a party one fall for a duck hunt, and
we were unable to kill enough for the camp
table, though ducks were plentiful. Four
of us were crack wing shots, but we had
no ammunition with us except Peters’
Quick Shot cartridges. Last fall I used the
U. M. C. New Club, and, although I am
a Winchester partisan, I had to acknowl-
edge they do execution.
My gun is an old timer and will not do
good work with nitro powder, but makes
some record breaking kills with New Rival
or New Club black powder shells.
F. B. Lamb, Washburn, Wis.
REGARDING BULLETS.
In reply to Amateur, whose letter ap-
peared in Febrtiary REcREATION, I will say
that lead bullets do not develop so great
a velocity as metal patched bullets. A metal
patched bullet will give 100 feet more ve-
locity than a lead bullet with the same
quantity of powder. Accuracy can not be
maintained with a lead bullet at over 1,500
feet velocity. Another reason is that
smokeless starts a bullet much quicker than
black powder and a lead bullet is likely to
jump the rifling at the breech.
Some people use RECREATION as they
would a tin horn, to talk through. Do not
write things that people will not believe.
Mr. Van Dyke, of Red Lodge, Mont., tells
of killing a number of elk and deer with
one shot each from a Stevens 22. He says
he shot deer at 75 yards running straight
from him and the little 22 put a bullet
through the heart of every one. The
Stevens must have excellen® penetration.
There are a number of good shot guns,
but the Winchester ’97 model excels them
all. With mine, I have put 310 No. 8
shot into a 30 inch circle at 40 yards. My
load was 3 drams powder, I ounce shot.
With shot spreaders in the same load I can
put about 175 pellets into the same target.
I gave wire patched bullets a trial in
my 38-55 last fall. They are excellent for
all but game killing. They do not expand
on striking bone.
M. C. McGowan, Lawrence, Mich.
PENETRATION OF THE SAVAGE.
In March RECREATION we came across
a letter written by R. M. C., Red Lodge,
Mont., in which he mentions that the
Savage Arms Company claims the Savage
rifle will shoot into 50 inches of pine
boards. As R. M. C. mentions the 30-30,
we take this opportunity to explain that it
is our .303 full jacketed bullet cartridge
fired from a Savage rifle which penetrates
50 inches or more of clear pine. We had
an exhibition at Detroit, Boston and New
York shows, in which there are pine logs
showing this extent of penetration. The
bullets have traversed the wood end-wise,
which is a greater test than across the
grain, the wood being stronger end-wise,
and more power being required to crush the
fibers than if the bullet were going across
the grain. We have in some instances se-
cured better results than 50 inches, but
sometimes the bullet will not reach so far
as that, owing to some extra resistance in
the fibers of the wood. We have noticed
that if a wood contains much rosin it will
materially reduce the penetration.
Savage Arms Co.
PETERS’ FRIEND DISAPPROVES OF HIM.
Dover, N. H.
Peters Cartridge Co.,
Cincinnati, Ohio:
Dear Sirs:—I think you are wrong when
you accuse Mr. G. O. Shields of doing you
an injustice. The fault is probably with
the extractor of the gun being worn or the
springs weak. It certainly is not with
the shells, because I have a Winchester and
have shot at least 1,000 new Victor shells
in it. I shall be in the market later for a
lot of your goods and expect to have large
sales. I consider the Peters goods equal
to any on the market.
Yours truly, Pam Gat ahi
SMALL SHOT.
For ducking I use a 6% pound Clai-
brough, fullchoke. It will kill at 75 to8o
yards. Those who claim that black pow-
der is superior to smokeless, taking every-
thing into consideration, are mistaken.
There are good and poor smokeless pow-
ders. The 2° best are Dupont and
Laflin & Rand. I find Winchester Blue
-Rival shells with Laflin & Rand smokeless
a load which can not be bettered, and it is »
within reach of all. I am with you in your
struggle against the game hogs. We are
troubled with a few here.
S. E. Sangster, Pt. Perry, Can.
In looking over recent numbers of
RECREATION I find no mention of Stevens’
Ideal rifle No. 44. Ihave one, chambered
for the 22 long rifle cartridge, that I have
given a thorough test. It will shoot short
and long cartridges accurately up to 100
yards. When weather conditions are
favorable it will, using the long rifle
cartridge, do good work at 200 yards.
For squirrels, rabbits and other small game
GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 53
this weapon is not excelled by any other
single shot rifle in the market. Any
one wanting a first class gun at a moderate
price should select a Stevens Ideal.
A. L. Fritts, Olpe, Kans.
Is there a 22-7!4-45 cartridge made with
smokeless or semi-smokeless powder? If
so, who makes it? If there is such a cart-
ridge, have any of your readers tried it,
and if so, with what results? I have just
bought a 22 Winchester R. F. rifle and
think it all right. I have a 44 C. F. rifle
I bought last fall. Though fitted with Ly-
man sights, it does not come up to my ex-
pectation. I am going to sell it and get
either a Winchester 30-30 or a Savage
303. Which of the 2 has the flattest tra-
jectory ?
G. M. Miller, Montreal, Que.
What shell and load would you use in a
Forehand single barrel for ducks?
What is the velocity of a 32 calibre rim
fire cartridge fired from a Stevens Fa-
vorite?
E. F. Gillespie, New York City.
ANSWER.
The velocity of the 32 short rim fire
is about 980 feet a second; the 32 long
rim fire, 1,025 feet—EDIToR.
In a Forehand single barrel gun, for
ducks, I should use U. M. C. or Winches-
ter No. 4 shot.—EbirTor.
I should like to give Mr. Jones, of Slate
Hill, Pa., the benefit of my experience with
guns. I have owned 2 Colt 12 gauge, 1
Claibrough I0 gauge, 2 Greener I2 gauge
and 2 Greener 16 guage guns. I used all
more or less for game and trap shooting,
and while the 16 gauge was not quite so
effective in trap shooting it was an ideal
field gun. The last 16 I worked was an
ejector Greener, and I used it with the
greatest satisfaction on quails, snipe, and
ducks all through the South.
E. C. Hall, Ashfield, Mass.
I use a 32-40 Winchester for deer and
for that purpose prefer it to all other
calibers. I shot 4 deer last season,
securing 3 of them. The other I could
have got had there been a tracking snow.
I fired twice, hitting him back of the
shoulder and in the hip. He continued
running, and as the wounds soon stopped
bleeding, I could not follow. Of the others
2 dropped instantly and the third ran
not more than 6 or 7 rods. My favorite
for larger game is the ’76 model, 45-75
Winchester. Louis Luder, Caro, Mich.
Which is the best way to choke bore a
gun barrel for hard and close shooting? Is
the taper choke bore as good as the full
-animal.
choke for nitro powder? In the former the
barrel is cut true cylinder bore from the
breech to within an inch of the muzzle.
The muzzle is left about 1-64 inch smaller
than the rest of the barrel. Waull some one
who has used the Winchester 30-40 on big
game give me his experience? What is
a good load for shore birds?
Warren J. Barlow, Wollaston, Mass.
I should like to know the tensile strength
of the Winchester rolled steel rifle barrels.
Can you tell me?
John Bowden, Spring Valley, Minn.
The question:was forwarded to the Win-
chester people and they replied:
Nickel steel for high velocity rifle bar-
rels we buy with an elastic limit of 80,000
pounds. Steel for black powder barrels we
buy with an elastic limit of 40,000 to 45,000
pounds.
Winchester Repeating Arms Co.
I should like to find out whether the
soft nose or the full metal cased bullet is
the better for big game. I have had vary-
ing success with both. On one occasion I
shot a wolf at 200 yards with a Winchester
30-30. The bullet, a soft nose, struck the
backbone and did not pass through the
Out of 18 deer shot with hard
nose bullets, in front parts, 11 ran 34 of a
mile to 3 miles. Baio. athaca, aN2 ¥:
A year ago I wrote RECREATION asking
advice about choosing a quail gun, and was
urged to order an Ithaca 12 bore, 28
inch, weight 634 pounds left barrel
modified, right barrel cylinder. I did
so, and received a 1902 model Ithaca
gun, with the new cross bolt and fore end
ejector. I thank Recreation for helping
me find just what I wanted.
Northwest, Sioux City, Ia.
I use only Dupont smokeless powder in
shot gun, rifle and revolver. While I have
used nearly all other.makes, I consider that
the best in every way. Am now using U.
M. C. smokeless shells altogether, and their
metallics in my smaller arms. U. M. C.
goods are simply perfection.
L. D. Whittemore, Redlands, Cal.
I have seen nearly all kinds of shot
guns, and have owned a great many. Ex-
perience has taught me that there is no
better shooting gun than the Ithaca. By
ordering a gun from the Ithaca Co. you
can get just what you want, and it will be
the best of its kind.
O. J. Emerson, Kendallville, Ia.
NATURAL HISTORY.
When a bird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it.
If photographed, it may still live and its education
and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely.
WHAT CAUSED THE TAPPING SOUND.
T. F. Covert, in March ReEcrEATION asks,
“What is it?” and the same question I have
asked myself several times of late years
while on fishing expeditions, but about 2
years ago I got my first clue to the prob-
lem, which came to me just as it came to
Mr. Covert; the conditions being always as
he states them in his inquiry. It is noth-
ing more nor less than a poor, old, skinny,
bony, dried-up, demented carp, or white
sucker, the abomination of a true angler.
I do not like the name fish hog, but I
should be willing to acquire it if I could
kill all the suckers and carp in existence,
and I should be willing to be roasted by
Coquina as thoroughly as he roasted my
friend and neighbor, B. I. Jones, the duck
shooter.
In the spring of ’99 I was visiting in
the vicinity of Buckeye lake, on the banks
of, Lake rin.) At that place, the run has
been washed out in 2 or 3 pools to the
depth of 8 or 10 feet. There one spring
morning I found myself before sunrise, and
heard that tapping, or rather smacking,
sound as it was on that occasion. ‘These
pools were shaded by several large Ameri-
can elm trees and the blossoms, falling
into the water and being blown by the wind
or carried by the waves, had gathered in
large patches on the surface. These patches
were surrounded by great, big, rawboned,
slab-sided, dun-colored, flabby, bottle-
nosed carp, weighing 3 to 15 pounds, their
bodies half out of the water, sucking in
those elm blossoms by the quart. In one
patch I counted 13 of these abominable
fish and I was frantic in my appeal for
something with which to exterminate them.
I would have given my kingdom and
thrown in my best fishing rod as induce-
ment, which, in fact, is worth more than
my kingdom.
I ran to the house, about a quarter of a
mile away, got one of Paddy Marlin’s 30-
something rifles and rushed back to wreak
vengeance on those abominations. ‘They
were still at work when I returned. With
care I aimed the gun at the biggest, raw-
bonedest, slab-sidedest, dun-coloredest, and
let go. When the smoke cleared away the
water was full of the red bellied whelks,
but before I could get a stick and get any
out in order to tramp them into the mud
with my feet, they all came to life and
disappeared. But then you know a Marlin
is of no account anyway.
Some time afterward, when sitting on the
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bank of a creek, I heard that same tapping
sound, and grabbing a rock I peered over
the bank. That time I saw a poor, old,
skinny, white sucker, belly up, on the un-
der side of a root, sucking away for dear
life and squirting the dirt and sediment
through his gills as if it was good.
A number of times since I have seen the
same performance repeated. Of course I
threw that rock at the sucker. What did
you think I picked it up for?
a Thos. H. Jones, Newark, Ohio.
About 5 years ago a number of us were
camping out in the Eastern part of Iowa,
along the Maquoketa river. One day while
strolling along the bank of the river I
heard just such a noise as Mr. Covert de-
scribes. There was a sandbar about 30
feet from the bank, running parallel with
it, and at the lower end was a large pile
of drift, connecting the bar with the bank.
I examined the pool closely and failed to
find a living thing in sight in the neighbor-
hood .of the noise, but, like Mr. Covert, I
noticed that bits of drift bobbed up when-
ever I heard the noise. I, waited some
time, but finally went back to camp, wonder-
ing. The next day I visited the pool at a
different hour and I saw at least a dozen
turtles out on the logs, sunning themselves.
They were what are commonly called snap-
ping turtles. I visited the place many times,
going up quietly, in order not to frighten
the turtles, and watching them closely, but
I was never able to determine whether or
not it was the turtles that made the noise.
I do not remember seeing a turtle out of the
water when I heard the noise. I decided
that it was one of their modes of feeding,
probably gathering the snails or other ani-
mals that were on the under side of the
drift. Now I, like'Mr. Covert, would like
to know positively what made the noise. I
have never seen so many turtles in one
place before or since and never heard the
noise at any other place.
J. D. B., Colorado Springs, Colo.
From Mr. T. F. Covert’s description of
the tapping he heard, I have no hesitation
in saying that it was caused by a fish of
the sucker variety. When a boy, I was once
fishing in the Sequachee river, at the foot
of Cumberland mountain, in Tennessee. I
had chosen a quiet, shady nook, an ideal
place for fishing, but a poor place for fish,
as I’soon found. After a time I heard
this same tapping, or sucking, sound de-
scribed by Mr. Covert and determined to
NATURAL
investigate. Moving a little nearer
spot whence the sound seemed to come I
soon located it in a mass of sticks and
leaves collected by the current about a
half submerged log. The water being
clear I soon discovered fish. Going home
I rigged up a small spear and returned.
Stepping out on the log and waiting some
time I secured 2 or 3 small fishes and then
tried another place, with the same result.
Just what kind they were I am not prepared
to say, but I remember they all had sucker
mouths and I am inclined to think they
were feeding. I have heard them many
times since. Anyone who will quietly ap-
proach a drift in a stream any day in
summer and remain still a short time will
be rewarded by hearing that sound.
F. F. Mottelen, Primghar, Iowa.
Some years ago, while fishing in the
Towa river, I noticed the peculiar noise
mentioned by Mr. Covert, in a drift imme-
diately above a fallen tree. On investigat-
. ing I found that every time the noise was
made a stick or a small piece of bark could
be seen to rise and fall at intervals. I
decided that the disturbance was made by a
sucker. Wishing to be positive I placed a
small hook on my line, baited it with an
angle worm, placed a small sinker above
the hook and lowered it into the drift 4
to 6 inches below the surface of the water,
where it was in motion. In a few seconds
I landed the fish, which proved to be a
sucker. -It is} a question in my \ mind
whether these fish feed on the decaying
wood or the insects found therein, or
whether they simply make the noise for pas-
time. I have been fortunate enough, once or
twice, to see these fish sucking on the un-
der side of a drift and their body is almost
perpendicular in the water. If Mr. Covert
will take time to investigate this matter, I
feel confident he will have a counterpart of
my experience.
C. L. Bowen, Fort Dodge, Iowa.
I read many magazines and newspapers,
but none is more welcome than REcREA-
TION. I may be able to throw light on Mr.
T. F. Covert’s perplexity. I have heard
sounds such as he describes, and several
times have traced them to what I think is
_ the source. If Mr. Covert had thrust a
fish spear through the debris he would
most likely have impaled a fish of the
sucker variety. These fish feed largely on
the low vegetable and animal life that ac-
cumulates on submerged logs and drift
material. I do not know just how they
produce the sound. I have watched them
_while feeding and they seemed to attach
the circular rim of their mouth to an object
and then with a quick movement remove
it. 1 am of the opinion that they attach their
mouth to the object, and by producing a
the -
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partial vacuum by suction remove the
food and at the same time produce the
sound referred to.
Ira Lamb, Atkinson, Neb.
The drumming or thumping noise heard
by Mr. Covert was made by fish, sucking.
A number of fishes make this noise, name-
ly: the buffalo fish, the quillback or bony
carp, the German carp, the redhorse and
the different varieties of suckers. While
buffalo fish and German carp suck almost
exclusively in foam and drifted sediment,
the redhorse, quillback or bony carp, and
all the various tribes of the sucker species
suck on logs, fallen trees, etc.; in fact, on
any bulky article suspended in the water,
on the bottoms of boats, etc. The sounds
are easily distinguishable, the foam suckers
making a nois somewhat, resembling that
made by a hog drinking swill, while the log
or timber suckers make a distinct crack-
ing, or thumping, noise. The redhorse
makes a great deal more noise than any
other kind of fish. He can be heard on
still nights a distance of 200 to 300 yards
along the river.
T. H. McKinley, Wheatland, Ind.
Say to Mr. T. F. Covert that the mysteri-
ous sound he heard was a sucker, feeding.
Some years ago I was fishing in the Au-
glaize river, near where a log had lodged,
above which a lot of drift had gathered,
consisting of small pieces of bark, sticks,
rotten wood, leaves and foam. MHearing
that peculiar sound I soon located it and
noticed that small particles of drift and
foam about 2 or 3 inches square, rose each
time. While I was watching, a neighbor
came along with a gun and I called his at-
tention to the disturbance. He was as
much puzzled as I was. After watching it
for some time he concluded he would try
his rifle. He took careful aim and fired.
In a few moments a large sucker floated
out, with part of his head gone. If the
listener is close he will notice a peculiar
sucking sound accompaning the tapping Mr.
Covert describes.
D. W., Delphos, Ohio.
I have often heard the sound described
by Mr. Covert, when fishing for bass,
which, by the way, is usually after dark,
when the water is smooth and no noise is
heard except what is made in the canoe.
In paddling along by a lily bed I once heard
the sucking, or picking, sound he said came
from the drift stuff under the uprooted
tree, and on investigating with a lantern I
found that the noise was made by a black
bass, with his nose just out of water, suck-
ing flies off the edge of the leaves. When
I hear that “gnashing of teeth” I forthwith
send my white miller on its mission of al-
lurement and am usually rewarded by a
click, click, that sends a thrill along my
56 RECREATION.
spine, even to-day when the ice is on all.
the waters.
E. C. Frost, South Framingham, Mass.
There are 4 kinds of fishes that make the
same noise as a woodpecker, namely, the
sucker, the redhorse, the carp and the buffa-
lo. They get under a boom, bark, a barge,
etc., and cause the noise by sucking. How-
ever, I have noticed that their tappings are
slower than a woodpecker’s. That is one
way these fishes feed. I have had a
good chance to know as I have seen them
with half their bodies out under a house-
boat and have heard the constant tap-
ping. Some old rivermen claim _ they
even pull the calking out of barges.
Albert Roberge, San Francisco, Cal.
In answer to Mr. Covert, in March REc-
REATION, I have heard that peculiar sound
he speaks of. and have always found it to
be made by the fish called sucker. If Mr.
Covert were here and would take a run
over the logs stored in the different bays
on Black river he would find many oppor-
tunities to see and hear for himself. He
would see suckers swimming alongside a log
striking it with their mouth, thus produc-
ing the sound he spoke of. They swim on
their sides while feeding among logs, and
on their backs under driftwood.
Frank Schaller, La Crosse, Wis.
I used to fish a great deal and one day
I was attracted by the same kind of noise
described by Mr. T. F. Covert in March
RECREATION. I investigated and found the
noise came from just such a place as he
describes. I watched a while and then
dropping my baited hook where I saw the
disturbance, I pulled out a large sucker.
Whenever I saw a_ similar agitation
going on thereafter I dropped my hook and ~
pulled out another sucker. In time I caught
o. I have seen the same thing a great
many times since.
N. H. Uttie, Elmwood, Wis.
The peculiar noise Mr. T. F. Covert
heard under the foam, dirt, etc., in Little
Beaver creek was caused by the common
sucker. While I do not favor shooting fish,
if Mr. Covert will take his gun next sum-
mer and shoot at the place where the move-
ment of foam and the noise are I think he
will get a sucker. I do not know why
suckers do this, but think they are feeding.
I tind the noise they make is similar to
that made by placing the tongue to the
roof of the mouth and removing it forcibly.
J. Drueg, Elgin, Minn.
The sound referred to by Mr. T. F.
Covert in March ReEcREATION was proba-
bly made by a turtle of some kind. I have
several times heard similar sounds near old
logs or where drift had collected and, on
investigating, I have found one or more
snapping turtles (Emysaurus serpentina)
frolicking around and feasting on the in-
sects which gather about such places.
C. C. Manley, Milton, Vt.
In March Recreation Mr. T. F. Covert
says he would like to know the cause of the
pecking he heard while fishing. I have
had similar experience and on investigating
I found it to be the work of squirrels. Have
since been told it was so. It attracted my
attention while camping last summer and I,
like Mr. Covert, thought it was a wood-
pecker. PB iy Syractse, Neo
In regard to the tapping described by Mr.
cle: F. Covert, I have heard a sound similar
to it and on investigation I have found it
was made by turtles, feeding. They swim
under moss, weeds, or such debris as Mr.
Covert describes, with just the end of nose
out of water, and snap at bugs, flies, etc.,
with a decided snapping sound.
Geo. E> Blackford, Algona, Iowa.
The noise Mr. Covert heard was made Dv
German carp sucking the scum on top of
the water and around logs, driftwood, ete.
1 have speared them in the act and have
dropped a hook in their mouths. If Mr.
Covert will be quiet while watching them
he will often see their round yellow mouths
taking the scum.
F. D. Gardner, Brodhead, Wis.
If Mr. T. F. Covert will watch closely the
next time he goes near that driftwood I
think he will find that the tapping sound
he mentions is made by suckers or red-
horse feeding on the old driftwood.
I. N. Hardy, Central City, Colo.
Say to Mr. T. F. Covert that those
strange sounds he heard while fishing in
Little Beaver creek are caused by suckers
feeding on the moss and sediment that ad-
here to the drift.
Levi Ballard, Paonia, Colo.
The noise that mystified Mr. Covert was
made by a fish of the sucker variety.
J. L. Whinery, Marshalltown, Iowa.
MURDEROUS CROWS.
In February REcREATION someone asks if
any reader knows the habits of crows. In
Indiana we have many crows. I am not a
friend of the black thief, as we call them,
because they steal the bait that we use to
trap minks and skunks. Crows are wise
and cunning. They are fond of young
squirrels, birds and rabbits. I was brought
up on a farm near heavy woods, where I
could learn the habits of crows. I have
seen an old female crow find a’ squirrel’s
nest with the young in it and catch
them. She would stick her head in
the nest, take them out, and _ feed
NATURAL
them to her young crows. I have seen a
crow find a young bird on the ground, that
was unable to fly, kill it, carry it off
somewhere and eat it. I have also found
old rabbits that had been killed by crows.
I once tracked a rabbit out in a stubble field
and found where it had made a place in a
bunch of grass to sit in through the day.
Later the same rabbit was caught and killed
by crows, and all that was left were the
bones to tell the story of Mister Rabbit. I
have found many such cases in hunting
rabbits. “
H. C. Beahler, Rosland, Il.
BREEDING FUR-BEARERS.
Can beaver, otter, marten, fisher and
mink be bred in captivity? Would I be
successful if I should corral about 500
acres, with creek running through the
tract from a neighboring lake, put each
species in a separate enclosure, so each
would, have a share of the creek, and give
them their liberty? Would you advise me
to®keep the males from all the above or
from any one of them? If I kill off 2-3 of
the males each year would it be safe to let
the remainder run at large among the fe-
males? x
H. F. Shipley, Storlie, N. D.
ANSWER.
The animals named can be bred in cap-
tivity; but no man has yet found a way to
breed them at a profit. Not being a
prophet, I can not say whether you would
be successful or not in attempting to breed
fur-bearing animals on a tract of 500 acres.
The only way to find out is to try it. Dur-
ine the season of bearing and rearing young
the females should be kept separate from
the males. At other times there would be
no danger in allowing the 2 sexes to run
together.—EDITor.
FLIGHTS OF SNOWY OWLS.
I saw in April RECREATION a query from
F. S. W., Elk Rapids, Mich., about the oc-
currence of the flights of Arctic, or snowy,
owls. These flights are probably due to
storms of especial severity in the Northern
regions. About 5 years ago a number of
these owls were taken along the Hudson
river and in the Northern part of this
State and New Jersey. Some of these
owls were said to fish in the Hudson river,
diving for their prey like the osprey. This
year the birds appear remarkably numer-
ous. The New York Zoological Society
has received specimens from Minnesota
and Long Island to the number of Io.
Probably the most remarkable flight on rec-
ord was about 1850, when some 60 of these
birds were said to have rested in the rig-
ging of a ship in the North Atlantic ocean.
This story I have on good authority, it
HISTORY. 57
having been published in several standard
works on natural history.
T. Barbour, New York City.
RODENTS EAT SHED HORNS.
The inquiry in March RecreEaATIon by E.
E. Munn regarding deer horns called to
my mind several things I have noticed.
In the spring of 1880 I passed through
a grove of juniper and mahogany
trees covering about 20 acres, _ that
had been the winter quarters of a
bunch of mule deer. At that time I saw
at least 30 pairs of horns. A few years
later I passed over the same ground, and
was surprised to find only 2 or 3 horns,
and they were almost entirely eaten by
rodents. Since then I have noticed that a
pair of horns left in the woods will be
eaten in a short time. As deer are less
numerous in this locality than they were
a few years ago, it is hard to find any horns
in the woods that have lain there longer
than a year. I saw one deer killed in No-
vember with horns still in the velvet, and
have seen a few deer carrying their old
horns in April.
S. R. O., Klamath Agency, Oregon.
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES.
One day about noon I saw a peculiar
object floating in the air a short distance
away. It proved a large spider web, much
resembling a parachute. About 3 feet.be-
low it was a spider, suspended by threads
from the main body, which was about 2
feet across. I followed it on a run for
over half a mile, but it kept above my
reach, sometimes only a few feet, and at
others fully 50. Finally at the top of a
hill overlooking the Chemung river at
least 150 feet, I lost sight of the little ad-
venturer and his balloon, as he floated out
over the valley. If others of your readers
have seen spider balloonists I should be
glad to hear of it.
J. B. Bray, Waverly, N. Y.
_ Chicago.—The Illinois Audubon society is go-
ing to strike a blow at the root of the fashion
of wearing sea gulls and terns for hat decorations.
The society has decided that moral suasion with
the women is not effective, and that the people
to get after are the dealers. Every millinery
house in Chicago, wholesale and retail, is to be
served with a notice that the selling of skins of
gulls, terns and song birds is illegal under the law
of Illinois. The name of each bird which it is
forbidden to buy or sell will be given, in order
that ignorance can not be pleaded as an excuse
for law violation. A committee chosen by the
directors of the society will visit the retail milli-
ners, and after an inspection of the stocks will
point out to responsible persons the birds which
it is unlawful for them to sell. The committee
will then request that the prohibited bird skins
be returned to the supply house from which they
were bought. If the merchants agree to do this
they will avert prosecution.—Exchange.
THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN.
OFFICERS OF THE L. A. S.
President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., New
York. :
rst Vice President, E. T. Seton, 80 West
4oth St., New York.
2d Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 2969
Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y.
3a Vice-President, Dr. T. S. Palmer, Dept. of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
ath Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 6 East
38th St., New York.
5th Vice-President, Hon. W.A.Richards, Gen-
eral Land Office, Washington, D. C.
Secretary, A. F. Rice, 155 Pennington Ave.,
Passaic, N. J
Treasurer, AustinCorbin, of the Corbin Bank-
ing Co., 192 Broadway, New York City.
ARIZONA DIVISION.
M. J.Foley. Chief Warden, Jerome.
ARKANSAS DIVISION,
W. R. Blockson, Chief Warden, Mena.
CALIFORNIA DIVISION.
Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chief Warden, Leland
Stanford University. C. Barlow, Secy.-Treas., Santa
Clara.
COLORADO DIVISION.
A. Whitehead, Chief Warden, 303 Tabor Building,
Denver.
CONNECTICUT DIVISION.
Hon. F. P. Sherwood, Chief_ Warden, Southport;
Dr. H. L. Ross, Vice-Warden, Canaan; H. C. Went,
Sec.-Treas., Bridgeport.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DIVISION.
C. H. Townsend, Chief Warden, U. S. Fish Com-
mission.
FLORIDA DIVISION.
Frank Clarkson, Chief Warden, Jacksonville.
GEORGIA DIVISON.
J.J. Doughty, Chief Warden, Augusta. |
IDAHO DIVISION.
Hon. T. W. Bartley, Chief Warden, Moscow.
7 ILLINOIS DIVISION.
W.T. Jefferson, Chief Warden, Plymouth Building,
Chicago; F. M. Taber, Vice Warden, me Kinzie
St., Chicago; G. C. Davis, Sec.-Treas., 123 S. Central
Ave., Austin.
INDIANA DIVISION.
Frank L. Littleton, Chief Warden, 30% East
Washington St., Indianapolis J. J. Hildebrandt,
Vice Warden, Logansport; T. J. Carter, Sec.-Treas.,
State House, Indianapolis.
IOWA DIVISION.
Carl Quimby, Chief Warden, Des Moines; C. C.
Proper, Sec.-lreas., Des Moines.
KANSAS DIVISION,
O. B. Stocker, Chief Warden, Wichita; A. J.
Applegate, Sec.-Treas., 113 E. 1st St., Wichita.
KENTUCKY DIVISION.
Geo. C. Long, Chief Warden, Hopkinsville.
MAINE DIVISION.
Col. E. C. Farrington, Chief Warden, Augusta.
MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION.
Heman S. Fay, Chief Warden, Hazleton Block,
Marlboro; c E. Tweedy Vice Warden, North Attle-
boro; A. Lamson, Sec.-Treas., 194 Main St.,
Marlboro. ‘
MICHIGAN DIVISION.
J. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand Rapids; R.S.
Woodliffe, Vice Warden, Jackson; A. B. Richmond,
Sec.-Treas., Grand Rapids.
MINNESOTA DIVISION.
Dietrich Lange, Chief Warden, 937 York St., St.
Paul; H. A. Morgan, Vice-Warden, Albert Lea; A.R.
Bixby, Sec.-Treas., ror Baldwin St., St. Paul.
MISSOURI DIVISION.
Bryan Snyder, Chief Warden, 726 Central Bldg.,
St. Louis.
MONTANA DIVISION.
Professor M. J. Elrod, Chief Warden, Missoula;
Sidney M Logan, Vice Warden, Kalispell; R. A.
Waagner, Sec.-Treas., Bozeman.
NEBRASKA DIVISION.
Fred. E. Mockett, Chief Warden, Lincoln; P.
O’Mahony, Sec.-Treas., Lincoln.
NEVADA DIVISION.
Dr. W. H. Cavell, Chief Warden, Carson.
Geo. W. Cowing, Sec.-Treas., Carson.
NEW HAMPSHIRE DIVISION.
C.M. Brooks, Chief Warden, 105 West St., Keene,
Sidney Conant, Sec.-Treas., Keene.
NEW JERSEY DIVISION.
A. W. Van Saun, Chief Warden, Pompton Plains;
Dr. W.S. Colfax, Vice Warden, Pompton Lakes; I.
V. Dorland, Sec.-Treas., Arlington.
NEW MEXICO DIVISION.
W. P. Sanders, Chief Warden, Magdalena.
NEW YORK DIVISION.
John R. Fanning, Chief Warden, Powers’ Bldg.,
Rochester ; Col. R. E. Moss, Vice-Warden, Wallack’s
Theatre, New York City; Dr. C. C. Curtis, -Sec.-
Treas., Columbia College, New York City.
NORTH DAKOTA DIVISION.
Dr. W. D. Jones. Chief Warden, Devil’s Lake.
OHIO DIVISION.
W. EE. Gleason, Chief Warden, Mitchell Bldg.,
Cincinnati; A. C. Thatcher, Vice-Warden, Urbana.
OKLAHOMA DIVISION.
W. M. Grant, Chief Warden, Oklahoma City.
ONTARIO. DIVISION.
C. A. Hammond, Chief Warden, Box 7o1, St.
Thomas; D. L. Mells, Sec.-Treas., St. Thomas.
OREGON DIVISION.
Robert F. Kelly, Chief Warden, Box 188, The
Dalles; C. B. Cushing, Sec.-Treas., The Dalles.
PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION.
C. F. Emerson, Chief Warden, 189 N. Perry St.,
Titusville; Hon. C. B. Penrose, Vice-Warden, 1720
Spruce St., Philadelphia; E. Wager-Smith, Sec.-
Treas., 1026 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND DIVISION:
Zenas W. Bliss, Chief Warde, 49 Westminster St.,
Providence. ,
SOUTH DAKOTA DIVISION.
Burdett Moody, Chief Warden, Lead; John C.
Barber, Sec.-Treas., Lead.
TENNESSEE DIVISION.
Hon. G. C. Martin, Chief Warden, Clarksville;
Hon. Austin Peay, Jr., Sec.-Treas., Clarksville.
TEXAS DIVISION.
Prof. S. W. Stanfield, Chief Warden, San Marcos;
W.E. Heald, Sec.-Treas., San Angelo.
UTAH DIVISION.
Hon. John Sharp, Chief Warden, Salt Lake City.
VERMONT DIVISION.
W.E. Mack, Chief Warden, Woodstock; S. C.
White, Sec.-Treas., Woodstock.
VIRGINIA DIVISION.
Franklin Stearns, Chief Warden,13 N. 11th St.,
C. O. Saville, Vice Warden, Richmond; M. D. Hart,
Sec.-Treas., 1217 East Main St., Richmond.
WASHINGTON DIVISION.
F. S. Merrill, Chief Warden, Spokane; F. A. Pon-
tius, Sec.-Treas., Seattle; Munro Wyckorf, Vice War-
den, Pt. Townsend.
THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 59
WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION,
J. M. Lashley, Chief Warden, Davis.
WISCONSIN DIVISION.
James T. Drought, Chief Warden, Milwaukee; Dr.
A. Gropper, Sec.- freas., Milwaukee.
WYOMING DIVISION.
H. E. Wadsworth, Chief Warden, Lander; Frank
Bond, Sec.-Treas., Cheyenne.
Applications for membership and orders for badges
should be addressed to Arthur F, Rice, Secretary, 23 W.
24th St., New York.
LOCAL WARDENS IN NEW YORK.
County. Name of Warden. Address.
New York, Conrad L. Meyer, 4° W. Broadway.
Livingston M.DeLa Vergne, Lakeville,
ss K.S.Chamberlain, Mt. Morris.
Nassau, Willett Smith, Freeport, L. I.
Albany, C. D. Johnson, Newtonville.
ik Henry T.Newman, Albany,
Broome, yop Sullivan, Sanitaria Springs
- . R. Mathewson, Binghamton,
Cayuga, H. M. Haskell, Weedsport.
Chemung, Fred. Uhle, Hendy Creek,
s M.A. Baker, Elmira.
Cortland, Jemes Edwards, Cortland,
Erie, ae. Dorr 18 D. S. Morgan
uilding, Buffalo,
Ms Marvin H. Butler, Morilla.
Essex, W. H. Broughton, Moriah.
Franklin, Jas. Eccles, St. Regis Fails.
W. J. Martin, McColloms.
Montgomery, Charles W Scharf, Canajoharie,
Oneida, J. M. Scoville, Clinton.
Orange, Wilson Crans, | Middletown.
}. Hampton Kidd, Newburgh.
Richmond, Lewis Morris, Port Richmond.
St. Lawrence, Dr. B.W.Severance, Gouverneur.
ase
A.N. Clark, Sevey.
Schenectady, J. W.Furnside, Schenectady.
Suffolk, F. J. Fellows, Central Islip, L. I.
P. F. Taber, Orient, L. I.
Tioga, Geo. Wooa, Owego.
Washington, C.L. Allen, Se Holi
es A.S. Temple, Whitehall.
a J. E Barber, Dresden.
Westchester, George Poth, Pleasantville.
$s Chas. Seacor, 57. Pelham Road
New Rochelle.
s¢ E.G. Horton, Pleasantville.
Essex, H. E. Braman, Keene Valley.
renee A.B. Miller, Jackson’s Corners.
Orange, Thomas Harris, Port Jervis. |
Onondaga, James Lush, Memphis.
Yates, B. L. Wren, Penn Yan.
ois Symour Poineer, Branch Port.
Dutchess, Chas. H. DeLong, Pawling.
” Jacob Tompkins, Billings.
Queens, Gerard Van Nostrand, Flushing, L. I.
s W.S. Mygrant, 46 Elton Street,
Brooklyn.
43 P. A. Geepel, 473. Grand Ave.,
Astoria, L. I.
“ L. B. Drowne, II9 Somers: Street,
Brooklyn.
Ulster, M.A. DeVall, The Corners.
a Wm. S. Mead, Woodstock.
Jefferson, C.E. Van Order, Watertown.
“ Ci. Smith; ag
Herkimer, D. F. Sperry, Old Forge.
Oswego, J. E. Manning, 154 West Utica St.
Putnam, H. L. Brady, Mahopac Falls.
Schuyler, G.C. Fordham, Watkins.
Allegany, G. A. Thomas, Belvidere.
Schoharie, O.E. Eigen, Sharon Springs.
Warren, Geo. McEchron, Glen Falls.
Orleans Co., J.H. Fearby, E. Shelby.
LOCAL WARDENS IN OHIO.
Stark, A. Dangeleisen, Massillon.
Franklin, Brook L. Terry, 208 Woodward Av.,
Columbus.
Cuyahoga, A. W. Hitch, 161 Osborn St.,
Cleveland.
Clark, Fred C. Ross, 169 W. Main St.,
: : Springfield.
Erie, David Sutton, 418 pegeoy Si
andusky.
Fulton, I.. C. Berry, Swanton.
County. Name of Warden. Address.
Allen, S. W. Knisely, Lima.
Hamilton, W.C. Rippey, 4465 Eastern Ave.,
Cincinnati.
Knox, Grant Phillips, Mt. Vernon.
Lorain, T. J. Bates, Elyria.
Ottawa, Frank B. Shirley, Lakeside.
Muskingum, Frank D. Abell, Zanesville.
Scioto, J. F. Kelley, Portsmouth.
Highland, James G. Tie, Hillsboro.
LOCAL WARDENS IN CONNECTICUT.
Fairfield, George B. Bliss. 2 Park Row, Stam-
ford, Ct. -
Harvey C. Went, 11 Park St., Bridge-
port, Ct.
Fairfield Samuel Waklee, Box 373, Stratford.
Litchfield, Dr. Hie. L. Koss, O. Box_1oo, Ca-
naan, Ct.
Middlesex, Sandford Brainerd, Ivoryton.
Wilbur E. Beach, 318 Chapel Street,
New Haven,
New Haven, Ct.
ir D. J. Ryan, 188 Elizabeth St.,
Derby.
LOCAL WARDENS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, Orlando McKenzie, Norfolk.
os Je eeb lick. Wrentham.
S. W. Fuller, East Milton.
Suffolk, Capt. W. J.Stone, 4 Tremont Row,
Boston.
» LOCAL WARDENS IN NEW JERSEY.
Mercer, Jos. Ashmore, 124 Taylor St.,
Trenton
Mercer. Edw. Vanderbilt, Dentzville,
Trenton.
Ms Roland Mitchell, 739 Centre St.,
Trenton.
Morris, Joseph Peliet, Pompton Plains.
ye Chas. W. Blake, Dover.
‘ Francis E. Cook, Butler.
ie Calone Orr, Hibernta.
Somerset, G. E. Morris, Somerville.
Sussex, Isaac D. Williams, Branchville.
Union, A. H. Miller, Cranford.
C. M. Hawkins, Roselle.
Warren, eee ress } Phillipsburg.
Monmouth. Dory-Hunt, Wanague.
Hudson, A. W. Letts, 51 Newark St.,
Hoboken.
LOCAL WARDENS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
[eee On John Noll, Sykesville.
erry, Samuel Sundy, Lebo. —
Warren. F. P. Sweet, Goodwill Hill.
oi Nelson Holmes, Cornplanter.
Juniata, Clifford Singer, Oakland Mills.
ad Ezra Phillips, McAlesterville.
Venango, G. D. Benedict, Pleasantville.
Potter Ira Murphy, Coudersport.
oe Wiley Barrows, Austin.
ee Chas. Barrows, Austin.
Crawford, Jasper Tillotson, Tillotson.
- Geo. T. Meyers, Titusville.
cg J.B. Lamb, Buel.
Cambria, W. H. Lambert, 720 Coleman Ave.,
Johnstown.
Butler, F. J. Forquer, Murrinsville.
Allegheny, S. H. Allen, Natrona.
Beaver, N. H. Covert, Beaver Falls.
of W.R. Keefer, “
McKean, C. A. Duke, Duke Center.
L.P. Fessenden, Granere.
“ Wm. Holsinger, Stickney.
Lack, m. Weir, Moosic.
Carbon, Asa D. Hontz, East Mauch Chunk.
Cumberland, J.C. Gill, Mechanicsburg.
Wyoming, Cyrus Walter, Tunkhannock.
Tioga, E. B, Beaumont, Jr., Lawrenceville.
ae G. H. Simmons, Westfield.
Lycoming, Jas. J.Brennan, Oval.
: D. Kurtz, Cammal
Delaware, Walter Lusson, Ardmore
Montgomery, L.C. Parsons. Academy
Bradford, Geo. B. Loop, Sayre.
Clarion, Isaac Keener, New Bethlehem.
Cameron, Harry Hemphill, Emporium.
Clinton, M. C. Kepler, Renovo.
Northumber- {2 W. Roher,
land, 505 Anthracite St., Shamokin.
Elk, D. R. Lobaugh, Ridgway,
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LOCAL WARDENS IN MICHIGAN.
County. Name of Warden. Address.
Ottawa, W. H. Dunham, Drenthe.
Kalamazoo, C. E. Miller, Augusta.
Berrien, W.A. Palmer, Buchanan.
Cas Thomas Dewey, Dowagiac.
Eilicgale: C. A. Stone, Hillsdale.
LOCAL WARDENS IN VIRGINIA.
Mecklenburg, J.H.Ogburn, South Hill.
King William, N. ae Montague, Palls.
Smythe, J. M. Hughes, Chatham Hill.
King & Queen, R. D. Bates, Newtown.
Louisa, . P. Harris, Applegrove.
Henrico, . J. Lynham, 412 W. Marshall
Richmond.
East Rockingham, E.J.Carickhoff, Harrisonburg.
LOCAL WARDENS IN WYOMING.
Fremont, Memon feel Dubois.
: - N. Leek,
Uinta, F. L. Peterson, hy eckson:
Carbon, Kirk Dyer, Medicine Bow.
Laramie, Martin Breither, Cheyenne.
LOCAL WARDENS IN TENNESSEE.
Sumner, W.G. Harris, Gallatin.
Stewart, ee H. Lory, pear Spring.
Robertson, C. Bell, Springfield.
Montgomery, P. W. Humphrey, Clarksville.
LOCAL. WARDENS IN NEBRASKA.
Hall, E.C. Statler, Grand Island
LOCAL WARDENS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,
Cheshire, S.C. Ellis, Keene.
Sullivan, G. A. Blake, Lempster.
J. W. Davidson, Charlestown.
LOCAL WARDENS IN VERMONT.
Rutland, Wm. J. Liddle, Box 281, Fair Haven
Windsor, F, A. Tarbell, West Bridgewater.
Orleans, E.G. Moulton, Derby Line.
Essex, H. S. Lund, Granby.
LOCAL WARDENS IN ILLINOIS.
Rock Island, D.M.Slottard, 12th Ave and 17th
St.. Moline.
Iroquois, J. L. Peacock, Sheldon.
LOCAL WARDENS IN OKLAHOMA.
Kiowa and Comanche Nation, ;
Cooper, Ft. Sill.
LOCAL WARDENS IN IOWA.
Clinton, D.L. Pascol, Grand Mound.
Pattawattamie, Dr. C. Engel, Crescent.
LOCAL WARDENS IN WASHINGTON.
Okanogan, James West, Methow.
Stevens Co., Jacob Martin, Newport,
LOCAL WARDENS IN UTAH,
Washington, S. C. Goddard, New Harmony.
LOCAL CHAPTERS.
Albert Lea, Minn., H. A. Morgan, Rear Warden.
Angelica, N. Y., C. A. Lathrop,
Augusta, Mont., H. Sherman, ne
Austin, Minn., G. F. Baird, e
Austin, Pa., Ww.S. Warner, ss
Boston, Mass., Capt. W. I. Stone, oe
Buffalo, INGO: H. C. Gardiner, ¢
Cammal, Pa., B. A. Ovenshire, o
Charlestown, N. H., W. M. Buswell, ef
Cheyenne, Wyo., J. Hennessy, sie
Cincinnati, Ohio, B. W. Morris, i!
Couders ort, Pa., I1.L. Murphy, st
Cresco, lowa., } L. Platt, rr
Davis, W. Va., . Heltzen, ef
Dowagiac, Mich., W.F. Hoyt, ss
East Mauch Chunk, Pa. SE. Dany, %
Evansville, Ind., F. M. Gilbert, S¢
Fontanet, Ind., W.H. Perry, rhe
Ft. Wayne, Ind., W.L. Waltemarth ee
Great Falls, Mont., . M. Gaunt, ¢
Heron Lake, Minn., K. C. Buckeye, ef
Hollidaysb’g, Pa., H.D. Hewit, .
Hopkinsville, Ky., Hunter Wood, z
Indianapolis, Ind., Deb. E. Bell, :
Jerome, Ariz., L.A. Hawkins, “
Johnsonburg, Pa., W. J. Stebbins, .
alee Mont., John Eakright,
Keen ale, F. P. Beedle, cs
Kicubsher, Okla. A.C. Ambrose, ;
RECREATION.
Lake Co., Ind., Dr. R.C. Mackey, Rear Warden.
Loganpsort, Ind., iDiAie ys McConnell,
Ludington, Mich., G. R. Caree, ke
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dr. de . Swartz, a
Minturn, Colo., © A.B . Walter, es
New Albany, Ind., Dr. f F. Weathers, Es
New Bethlehem, Pa. a Isaac Keener,
Penn Yan, N. wae r. H. R. Phillips, in
Princeton, Ind., i A. ae er, iy
Reynoldsville, Pa. x ChE man, cf
Ridgway, Pa., T. J. Meet od
Rochester, N. Ve, C.H H. McChesney
St. Paul, Minn., Opie Denny, oe
St Thomas, Ont, L.J.H “
Schenectady, N a J. W. Ped i
Seattle, Wash., M. Kelly se
Syracuse, N. Y.., GG Timeadell: s
Terre Haute, Ind; ‘Cok: Thiede, i
The Dalles, Ore. stan Gos) Bp Peo nInes ey
Walden, N. Y., J. R. Hays el
Wichita, Kas., Gerald Vol lis, fs
Winona, Minn.,
C. M. Morse, of
DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS.
The following firms have agreed to give
members of the L. A. S.a discount of 2
per cent. to Io per cent. on all goods bought
of them. In ordering please give L. A. S.
number:
Syracuse Arms Co.,Syracuse, N. Y. Guns.
Davenport Fire Arms Co., Norwich, Conn. Shot
guns, rifles.
Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. Photographic
goods
Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N. Y.Photographic goods.
The Bostwick Gun and Sporting Goods Co., 1528
Arapahoe St., Denver, Col.
James Acheson, "Talbot St.. St: Thomas, Ontario,
Sporting goods.
Jespersen & Hines, 10 Park Place, New York City.
Ban MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE.
W. D. Ellis, 136 W. 72d street, New York City.
Rice 155 Pennington avenue, Passaic, N. J.
Dr. Gee A. Valentine, 5 W. 35th street, New York
it
A. A. Radeon. 6 E. 38th street, New York City.
A. Me Fraser, 478 Greenwich street, New York
ity.
E. S. Towne, care National Bank Book Co., Hol-
yoke, Mass.
F. G. Miller, 108 Clinton street, Defiance, Ohio.
Gen. One F. Pierson, 20 W. 52d street, New York
it
13, Ar; Sevan 80 W. goth street, New York City.
ele Seymour, 35 Wall street, New York City.
A. G. Nesbitt, Maple street, Kingston, Pa.
D. C. Beard, 204 Amity street, Flushing, L. I.
C. H. Ferry, 1720 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
Hon. ae P. Morton, 681 5th avenue, New York
Cit
H. Willams. P. O. Box 156, Butte, Mont.
D. B. Fearing, Newport, R. I.
E. H. Dickinson, Moosehead Lake, Me.
Lorenzo Blackstone, Norwich, Conn.
A. L. Prescott, 90 W. Broadway, New York City.
G. S. Edgell, 192 Broadway, New York City.
W. Mershon, Saginaw, ‘Mich.
Hon. H. W. Carey, East Lake, Mich.
George Carnegie, Fernandina, Ila.
Andrew Carnegie, 2nd, Fernandina, Fla.
Morris Carnegie, Fernandina, Fla.
W. Underwood, 52 Fulton street, Boston, Mass.
C. E. Butler, Jerome, Ariz.
Mansfield Ferry, 183 Lincoln Park, Boulevard,
Chicago, Ill.
Austin Corbin, 192 Broadway, New York City.
J. Stanford Brown, 241 pent oth street, Reading, Pa.
W.H. Smith, Bryn, Mawr,
E. B. Smith, Bourse Bldg., ’Pitiadelphia, Pas
There are thousands of men in the
United States who should be life mem-
bers. Why don’t they join? Will some-
one please take a club and wake them up?
THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 61
SENATOR HOAR WORKS WITH US.
Washington, D. C.
Editor RECREATION:
I have your letter transmitting to me
copies of 6 resolutions adopted by the
League of American Sportsmen at its an-
nual meeting, and I have given them my
careful attention. I shall do my best to
comply with the desire of your League that
the destruction of our wild animals, such
as elk, moose, buffalo and antelope, be pre-
vented. I shall also do my best to prevent
their destruction, extermination and slaugh-
ter by leagues of sportsmen. I have
no respect whatever for the pursuit of
birds, and gentle, harmless wild creatures,
like deer and antelope, as they strive to
escape their nersecutors, With broken wings
and legs, hunted with dogs, and tortured
with deadly fear, which, I suppose, is the
cruelest torture of which animal nature is
capable. I hope that the animals will not
be suppressed and that the sportsmen will.
Geo. F. Hoar.
The resolutions which Senator Hoar re-
fers to were printed in April REcREA-
TION, so that my readers are already famil.
iar with them. Senator Hoar is_ well
known to all reading Americans as a staunch
friend of the birds and wild animals. His
objections to the methods of sportsmen are
well taken, and his opposition to the kill-
ing of birds and animals under the name of
sport is shared by many thousands of good
people. I, however, recognize the fact that
it is impossible to abolish the use of fire-
arms as an adjunct of outdoor recreation.
It is impossible to entirely stop the killing
of birds; and “animals as an “adjunct of
sport. We have greatly reduced the kill-
ing, and that is what the League of Ameri-
can Sportsmen was organized for. We
have almost totally wiped out the brutal
side hunt which prevailed so generally up
to a few years ago. We have nearly
stopped the sale of game. We have abol-
ished the millinery traffic in the plumage
of song and insectivorous birds. We have
shortened the season of killing in nearly
all the States, and have, in many States,
limited the number of birds and animals
which any man may kill in a ‘day. There-
fore the venerable Massachusetts Senator
must agree that the League has done a
great work, and thus far must approve it.
In fact, he has told me in private conversa-
tion that he does approve it. We are in-
debted to him for supporting nearly every
measure which the League has put forward
fer the protection of birds and wild ani-
mals ; and while we can not agree with his
radical views as to prohibiting all killing,
we value him and honor him for what he
has done in our behalf and in behalf of the
wild creatures he so dearly loves.—EDITOor.
WHAT A MONTANA MAN SAYS OF THE
ANNUAL MEETING.
J. M. Gaunt has returned from Indianapolis,
where he represented Montana at the annual con-
vention of the League of American Sportsmen.
Mr. Gaunt reports a most enjoyable trip and
session of the League, and returns a much more
enthusiastic member of the League than ever
before.
“Although I have been a member of the
League several years,’ he said, “I never before
realized how great and powerful an organization
it is. It has had a remarkable growth in mem-
bership in the past year and it is a great power
‘in shaping needed legislation for the protection
of game of all kinds, song birds, and insectivor-
ous birds.
“The matters of probably the greatest interest
to Montana sportsmen on which the League took
action were concerning the deportation of the
Cree Indians to their native land, Canada, the
project of making all forest reservations game
preserves, and the adoption of a resolution, call-
ing on the Indian department to direct that no
Indian shall be permitted to leave a reservation
bearing arms.
“One of the most interesting features of the
meeting was the reports of progress made in the
enforcement of the Lacey game law. Dr. Palmer,
who is in charge of this enforcement, requests
all sportsmen to notify him by telegraph of any
violation of the law, and on receipt of such
notice he immediately instructs the United States
marshal who can most easily do so to confiscate
the game illegally killed, shipped or stored, and
to arrest those violating the law.
“Action of the League that was particularly
gratifying to the Western delegates was the de-
cision ‘that the next meeting, to be held next
February, shall be in St. Paul. Each year the
meeting place is moving Westward, and we may
in time get it to Montana.—Great Falls, Mont.,
Tribune.
I am sending out from my home 40 or 50
circular letters to my sportsmen friends in
able replies to some of them. I expect to
have the application of our representative
in the State Legislature, Mr. Hagenbuch,
in a day or 2. We intend if possible to
enroll 200 names in this county. We have
set our mark high, but we want to make
this the best protected county in the United
States. Mr. Gleason will help us.
A. C. Thatcher, Urbana, Ohio.
THE LEAGUE DID IT.
There are a lot of pot hunters in John-
sonburg, Pa., who for many years have
held a side hunt about Thanksgiving time.
Some months ago a good sportsman in that
town stirred up others of his kind and sent
in 41 applications for membership in the
League. A local chapter was organized and
League posters were put up throughout
the county. League literature was liberally
circulated among the pot hunters, and the
result is that the customary Thanksgiving
side hunt was cut out last year. Yet the
editor of the A. D. G. H. predicted 4 years
ago that this League would not “accomplish
any important achievement.”
FORESTRY.
EDITED BY DR. B, E, FERNOW,
Director of the New York School of Forestry, Cornell University, assisted by Dr. John C, Gifford of the same
institution.
It takes thirty years to zrow a tree and thirty minutes to cut it down and destroy it.
THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION.
The annual report for 1900 of the New
York State Forest Commission was issued
some time ago from the Government printer
at Albany. The report of the Commission
itself Wiss), brief...) not. (quiter)@umpages:
but is supplemented by reports of the su-
perintendent of forests, and a lengthy ex-
tract from the report of the assistant
superintendent.
The matter of most interest in the Com-
mission’s report is its reference to “exten-
sive experiments in tree planting, made by
the Commission, which have shown that
at a remarkably small expense these barren
places can in time be replaced by a health-
ful and valuable forest growth.”
Anyone consulting the reports of the
superintendent of forests and of his as-
sistant superintendent contained in the same
volume, will smile at the basis for the
statement of the Commission. For there
we read, that the “extensive experiments”
carried on by the Commission consisted in
the planting in the Catskills of 6,000 little
seedlings of pine and spruce, a gift of the
New York State College of Forestry, which,
with the greatest stretching, could not cover
more than 4 acres of ground, and which
were planted by the assistant superintend-
ent and his assistant with a few friends at a
“planting bee.”
No wonder that under such conditions,
the plant material a present, the labor gra-
tuitous, the expense was small.
The College of Forestry has for 3 years
been engaged in this kind of planting, has
planted 150 acres of brush and waste land
besides 105 acres of cut-over land, and set
out altogether over 230,000 seedlings; has
large nurseries established to furnish the
plant material and has sold to the Com-
mission 420,000 seedlings to continue its ex-
periments. The cost of planting seedlings
can hardly be kept below $6 to $10 an acre,
although by sowing the cost may be con-
siderably reduced.
The condemnation of the wood alcohol or
acetic acid iridustry, which the Forest, Fish
and Game Commission indulges in, while
advocating the cutting of spruce for wood
pulp, is, to say the least, inconsistent. If
the industry is a nuisance, it will be proper
to condemn it; but to suppress it because it
uses small hardwoods is peculiar. The
wood alcohol manufacturer is to the hard-
wood industry what the paper pulp
manufacturer is to the softwood industry.
Both use or can use small stuff, and it is the
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utilization of the small stuff resulting from
cleanings and thinnings and limbage in gen-
eral that makes forestry at all possible.
The dry distillation of wood, which is alse
the modern method of charcoal manufac-
ture, is an industry that needs encourage-
ment and extension in proper direction. It
does no injury to the forest; in fact, it is
essential for the utilization of forest rub-
bish. It is right to restrict all industries
which are a nuisance and which actually
do damage; but to single out the acid fac-
tory, the necessary and highly utilitarian
concomitant of the hardwood industry,
is most erratic and unjust. To recommend
the preservation of our forests for indus-
trial purposes on one page and then to
summarily condemn the manufacture of
charcoal, wood alcohol, pyroligneous and
acetic acid, etc., on another is a most in-
consistent position.
The Commission recommends in one
place that “scientific conservative forestry”
be applied to the Adirondack forest, and in
another recommends the “prevention of the
cutting of hardwoods for commercial pur-
poses.” If this is forestry, it would be
as well to leave the constitutional amend-
ment preventing all cutting just as it is,
for an indefinite period of time. The prac-
tice of forestry under such circumstances
would be little better than poor lumbering,
and worse than the let-alone policy which
is now in force. It seems a pity, also, to
prevent the cutting of hardwoods for
“commercial purposes,” and not for any
other purpose, if there is any.
Perhaps the Commission has overlooked
the recommendations of the working plan of
Township No. 40, made for the Commission
by the Bureau of Forestry of the United
States Department of Agriculture. This
working plan recommends the cutting of
softwoods down to certain diameter limits,
for purposes of revenue making, but with
silvicultural accompaniments. It also recom-
mends the “utilization of all mature and
defective hardwoods,” whenever it can be
done profitably, and suggests the construc-
tion of a mill, a dam, a railroad and acid
and other factories, if need be, to aid in
the process of judicious utilization. In fact,
the report concedes that the better prac-
tice would be to remove the hardwoods
first and the softwoods afterward.
Well meaning people often shed tears
needlessly over what appears to be denuda-
tion. It is often a good plan to cut the
forest and burn over the soil in places
FORESTRY. 63
where large masses of duff have accumu-
lated. This duff, undecomposed, is me-
chanically unable to start a healthy crop of
coniferous seedlings. It is often necessary
to expose the mineral soil to insure re-
generation. It is only in particular por-
tions, which are necessary for protective
purposes, that this process of treatment
would be detrimental, as on all the moun-
tain tops, rough mountain sides and lake
shores, which should perhaps be left un-
touched.
The truth of the whole matter is, appar-
ently, that neither the Commission, the
Legislature, nor the people of the State of
New York know just what they want in
reference to the Adirondacks, and the ad-
vice of the Governor recommending caution
until a definite policy can be evolved is
good. Nothing is more detrimental to the
practice of forestry than constant change
and uncertainty. After a definite policy is
once decided on, then the proper move
would be to stick to it in spite of public
opinion, and to take the money used in the
publication of voluminous, beautifully illus-
trated reports for the employment of a
trained, well organized body of professional
foresters, not merely natives of the region
in which they are to work, to put this policy
into execution, in spite of what hotel men,
campers, guides, hunters or other individ-
uals may think. The preserve belongs to
the whole people of the State of New
York, who have paid for it by taxation,
and not to the few who live or go there.
NEWSPAPER PAP.
The New York Herald for Sunday, Feb-
Tuary 23, contained the following interest-
ing note:
“New York State has given deep offense
to the Italians, and to persons of English
birth living in this city, and it is said the
matter has been, or will be, called to the
attention of the 2 foreign governments.
The offense was committed in the last re-
port of the Fisheries, Game-and Forest
Commission.
“In an article written by Dr. John Gif-
ford on ‘European Forest Scenes,’ refer-
ence is made to the science of forestry in
various countries. The Italian residents
of New York take great offense at what is
considered an uncalled-for attack on their
home government. Referring to Italy, Dr.
Gifford said: “The people of Italy are, on
os wwhole, good; but the government is
ad.
“It is asserted that this matter has been
robbed of its lack of importance by the fact
that it has been made an official document
by the State of New York. The Italians,
however, do not know just what action to
take, as their representative is accredited
to the United States and has nothing to do
with the State Government. On the other
hand, New York State can not well be
called to account in a matter of this sort
from Washington.
“Englishmen have a special grievance
against Dr. Gifford. He seems to believe
that the sons of old England are a de-
cone lot. Referring to them he has
said:
“With the destruction of the forests in
England have gone the stalwart men who
once worked in them, to be replaced by the
factory hand, knock-kneed, weak-lunged and
sallow. Judging from what I saw during
a recent visit to the big towns of England,
I should say that England could better af-
ford to pay $100,000,000 for foreign wood
than to lose the broad shouldered and mus-
cular men who once worked in her forests.’
“Thus far Dr. Gifford has not been called
to account and has volunteered no expla-
nation of the remarks.”
The above was probably written to fill an
aching void. Dr. Gifford has volunteered
no explanation because none is needed to
the person who reads his article with any
degree of care. To call the “Italian people
good and the government bad” is, indeed, a
peculiar offense. The writer of the news-
paper squib forgot to notice that the offense
to England was quoted from an article by
an Englishman, for which he received a
prize in England.
THE PRESIDENT ON FOREST PRESERVA-
TION.
While there is still among the public
at large a considerable misconception of
what forestry and forest preservation
involve, as is evidenced by the un-
warranted attacks on the methods of the
College of Forestry in managing its
demonstration forest, President Roosevelt,
in his annual message, put the matter in
such simple and thoroughly intelligent
words that everybody should learn them
by heart:
“The fundamental idea of forestry is the
perpetuation of forests by use. Forest pro-
tection is not an end of itself; it is a means
to increase and sustain the resources of our
country and the industries which depend
on them.”
No word of comment is needed.
Investigation shows that the Northern
dwarf mistletoe is common on the black
spruce in the Adirondacks. It is para-
Sitic, causes deformity of the tree and
in the aggregate does considerable dam-
age. The large bunches which it causes
are called witches’ brooms.
PURE AND IMPURE FOODS.
“What a Man Eats He Is,”’
Edited by C. F. LANGWORTHY, PH.D.
Author of ‘“‘On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,” ‘“‘Fish as Food,” etc.
LILY BULBS EATEN BY CHINESE.
Though we are accustomed to consider
lilies as plants for ornamental value only,
the bulbs and flowers of several species
have long been used as articles of food by
the Chinese and other orientals. Of these,
Lilium glehni forms the chief vegetable
diet of the Ainu, an aboriginal tribe now
confined to the islands of Hokaido, but
Lilium tigrinum and Lilium concolor pul-
chellum are the 2 species most commonly
cultivated by the Chinese as articles of
food. A recent investigator found the
bulbs of Lilium parrum in use by the
Washoe Indians of Nevada, and those of
Lilium pardalinum in use by Indians of
Northern California.
From the early part of December to the
latter part of August, according to a re-
cent report made by Blasdale to the De-
partment of Agriculture, there are found
in the Chinese markets of San Francisco
the bulbs of a species of Lilimm which
greatly resemble those of the well known
Lilium auratum. These are sold at 10 to
20 cents a pound. They are all imported
from Canton. The bulbs have proved iden-
tical with the ones sold by nurserymen un-
der the name of Lilium brown. This is
apparently the only species sold by the
Chinese merchants, as a large number of
bulbs purchased at different times and
from different dealers have invariably
yielded plants corresponding to this spe-
cies. Unfortunately the bulbs are often in-
fested with mites, which, either primarily
or secondarily, cause the death of the plant
before it perfects its flowers. From a col-
lection of over 100 bulbs only 10 perfect
flowers were secured.
What seems to be the same species may
also be obtained in a dry form throughout
the year, and both this and the fresh bulbs
are known under the name of “pak hop.”
The dried bulbs, as shown by analyses,
contain some I0 per cent. water, 5.6 per
cent. protein, 63 per cent. starch, and small
quantities of ash, etc. The fresh bulbs
purchased in San Francisco contained
much more water, and correspondingly
smaller quantities of nutrients.
The Chinese regard lily bulbs more as a
delicacy than as a standard article of diet,
and the customary price is considerably
above that of other vegetables in common
use by them. It is said that they are re-
garded by the Japanese as an especially
desirable food for invalids and convales-
cents. When used for this purpose the
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bulbs are only slightly cooked and are
eaten with sugar. The bulbs sold in San
Francisco, as far as was observed, were
nearly devoid of the bitter principle which
is reported to occur in several species of
Lilium. When simply boiled, they formed
a palatable food, and Blasdale believes
that Americans would soon become ac-
customed to. them yuse. , Whe cultural
conditicns. favorable to the production
of Lilium brown or of some of the
other edible species are not difficult to find
in our own country, though it is doubtful
whether they can be grown as cheaply as
our other commonly cultivated vegetables.
One valuable feature of the bulbs is the
ease with which they may be dried, the
resulting product being quite as acceptable
as the fresh bulbs. The value of lilies as
ornamental plants. under present conditions
will doubtless prevent their extended use
as food in this country.
Another unusual vegetable substance
largely used as a flavoring ingredient by
the Chinese consists of the dried flowers of
Hemerocallis fulva, the day lily of our
American gardens. This substance is
known as. “kam cham t’soi,” or the “gold-
needle vegetable.’ The flowers of Lilium
bulbiferum and Hemerocallis graminea are
also used as food by the Chinese. The
dried flower petals contain some I0 per
cent. protein and some 56 per cent. carbo-
hydrates. When judged by their composi-
tion, they are seen to possess a fairly high
food value. They are used, however, rath-
er as a condiment than as an article of diet.
THE BLUEBERRY INDUSTRY.
Although from the earliest Colonial
times the blueberry has been highly prized
as an article of food, little attention has
been given to the systematic exploitation
of this fruit. In many regions of the
Northern and Eastern United States, par-
ticularly in New England, New York,
Michigan and the mountains of Pennsylva-
nia and West Virginia, there are thousands
of acres of land which are worthless for
ordinary agricultural purposes. After the
pine is removed from such lands, an abun-
dant growth of blueberry bushes, alders,
poplars, grey birches and spireas springs
up. It is believed that by proper manage-
ment of these natural blueberry fields large
areas may be made to yield a handsome
profit to their owners, and furnish employ-
ment to a large number of people.
At the present time these lands, for the
most part, are considered public property,
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and irresponsible persons, recognizing the
fact that the blueberry crop is more abun-
dant on young bushes which spring up
after a fire, recklessly burn over vast areas,
thus destroying valuable forests for their
own selfish ends. As described by Pro-
fessor Munson, of the Maine Agricultural
Experiment Station, the method of har-
vesting blueberries is somewhat as follows:
The land is divided into several tracts,
each of which is leased to some respon-
sible party who assumes the whole care of
burning, keeping off trespassers, harvest-
ing and marketing the fruit. The owner
receives, as rental, one-half cent a quart
for all the fruit gathered. The pickers re-
ceive 1% to 3 cents a quart; those who
lease the land and haul the fruit to the
canning factory, or to the station for ship-
ment, one-half to one cent a quart; the
rating being determined, in accordance
with the market value, by the firm which
handles the product. The fruit is all
canned or shipped by one firm, which pays
the royalty to the owner.
Every year a certain section of each
lease is burned over. This burning must
be done early in the spring, before the soil
becomes dry; otherwise the fire goes too
deep, the humus is burned from the
ground and most of the bushes are killed.
Many hundred acres on what should be the
best part of the “barrens,” as the blueberry
lands are termed, have thus been ruined.
Each section is burned every third year.
By far the largest proportion of the fruit
is taken to the factories for canning.
Early in the season, however, before the
factories are opened, a considerable quan-
tity is shipped, usually in quart boxes, to
the larger cities, for use while fresh. With
the exception of currants and gooseberries,
blueberries will stand rough handling bet-
ter, and will keep longer than other small
fruits.
All the early fruit is picked by hand, and
only the ripe berries are gathered. Later
in the season, particularly on “old burns,”
that is, on areas which have not been
burned over in some time, but which are
to be burned the next year, the fruit is
gathered with a blueberry rake. This is an
implement somewhat similar to the cran-
berry rake in use on Cape Cod, and may
be likened to a dustpan, the bottom of
which is composed of stiff, parallel wire
rods. The fruit may be gathered much
more quickly and more cheaply by means
of the rake. The bushes are, however, se-
riously injured by the treatment. In no
case should the rake be used in gathering
high bush blueberries. As the berries are
gathered they are passed through a fanning
mill before being sent to the canning fac-
tory; and again at the factory, they are
submitted to a stronger winnowing. This
is usually the only preparation necessary.
ON THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
GERTRUDE F. LYNCH.
By whatever route you cross the con-
iinent, be sure that special attractions in
the way of scenery will make the trip mem-
orable; but it is safe to say that if you
select the Canadian Pacific in preference
to others, you will never regret the choice.
Railroad traveling is, as a general thing,
but a mecessary evil between 2 certain
goods—the place of departure and the place
of destination. This general rule finds its
notable exception on the Canadian Pacific,
where the traveling itself is the all impor-
tant consideration and the points of arrival
and departure sink into insignificance, for
all impressions and memories are for the
time being blotted out by those created by
the stupendous spectacles offered in this
means of transit.
We, as representatives of RECREATION,
boarded the cars of the C. P. R., at Van-
couver. We were scenery-sated, for we
had already crossed the continent and had
spent weeks amid the marvels of the world.
We believed that nothing could arouse our
calloused sensibilities; we were sure we
had not a thrill left in our whole nervous
outfit. We did, however, look about the
spacious car with its soft upholstery of
restful color, note the quiet deftness of
the attachés, as we were conducted to our
section, and the general neatness of detail
with satisfaction. One can easily exhaust
one’s power of enjoyment, but appeals to
personal comfort are rarely made in vain.
We determined, in the manner of blase
travelers that, if we felt so inclined, we
should ignore alluring prospectuses and
turn our backs on the well: advertised at-
tractions of the route in order to enloy
the comfort and repose of our temporary
home. No such inclination assailed us.
Scarcely had the train left the station when
the passengers began to leave the sleeper to
seek the observation car in the rear. A few
remained to keep us company, but they
were soon dragged away by enthusiastic
friends. We were the last to go, and fol-
lowing the example of the late comers, we
remained the last. No one, I am sure, on
that memorable trip displayed greater en-
thusiasm or has shown more unflagging
zeal in reminiscence.
Through stupendous gorges, at the edges
of canyons so deep that the head swims
looking down, scaling mountains tipped
with the everlasting snow, panting up
grades so steep that 2 and 3. engines
were brought into use, along the brink of
yawning gulches magnificently colored, in
gloomy snow sheds, reminders of the win-
ters’ wrath, we pursued our way. Words
are inadequate to describe, they can merely
suggest or perhaps invite. Nature, in this
part of the world, has been generous in her
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wrath. Chasms and steeps, ice and snow,
rugged peaks and bottomless pits are here
in abundance, with sullen grays, alluring
greens and dazzling whites. She has flung
ner challenge to man, and man, bit by bit,
here a little and there a little, has subtly
and persistently enclosed her threats with
the ring of his achievement—this ring the
Canadian Pacific Railway. It is an achieve-
ment to be proud of! An achievement to
be seen and admired.
Even to our feminine minds, untrained in
technicalities, the engineering feat of car-
rying this road through and over these
mountain fastnesses was awesome. Never
for a second did we experience a feeling
of instability or of physical dread. We
felt as safe there on the brinks of precipi-
tous cliffs as we did later on the rolling
prairies.
Strength and skill are not the only quali-
ties displayed by the makers of this road.
Everywhere is shown a keen appreciation
of its artistic possibilities. This is noted
particularly in the locations chosen for the
wayside inns where our meals. were taken,
during the first day anda half of our
journey. At these places the train remains
half or 34 of an hour, as need be. We
were ushered into flower-decked rooms
where big open fires took the chill from
the mountain air and even the scenery
was forgotten for a little while as we
gathered about the hospitably filled tables.
The prairies come just in time. One could
not stand the strain of this wonderful
journey too long. We left Banff at
night, and when we awoke we were on
the plains, as in music the composer puts
the bars of rest after the succession of
stormy harmonies. Approaching from the
West, Banff is really the climax of the
journey. From the East it is promise of that
which is to come. It has been made mem-
orable recently by the visit of the Royal
Couple, but it needs no royal approval to
emphasize its attractions. Towering moun-
tains enclose it as a gem is imbedded in its
matrix. There are charming walks and
drives, scenery which suggests Chamounix
in the Alps—that most beautiful Swiss: vil-
lage; an hotel with every possible comfort
and luxury from its cuisine to its sulphur
baths, and an interesting assortment of cos-
mopolitan guests. There are other stop-
ping points of interest where a day or 2 can
be wisely spent, Glacier notably, which has
also a fine hotel and scenery equally im-
pressive.
In a word, take the Canadian Pacific
Railroad either going or coming—both, if
possible. To say that to cross the con-
tinent merely to return by that route would
repay the traveler, is not saying too much ;
it is not saying enough.
PUBLISHER’S NOTES.
SUMMER FURNITURE.
The Old Hickory Chair Company, of
Martinsville, Ind. is turning out a
unique product. This is rustic furniture
made entirely of hickory. The hickory
groves of Indiana have long been famous,
and “tough as hickory” is a local expres-
sion which represents the limit of endur-
ance. No material could be better adapted
than hickory for the manufacture of furni-
ture suitable for country cottages, country
clubs, log cabins, or other places where
perhaps much hard usage would befall it.
This company makes a large and attractive
line of chairs, tables, settees, and other
household pieces, as well as lawn and
veranda seats, rustic bridges, summer
houses, and even log cabins, notched and
marked, ready to put up. All the frame-
work of Old Hickory furniture is made of
hickory saplings, with the bark on. This
is a soft, quiet color, giving a rustic yet
neat and artistic effect. The seats and
backs of chairs are plaited by hand, of the
inner hickory bark, which is of -: great
strength. The material is all chemically
treated, so it is free from germs and in-
sect life.
The company issues a complete and
handsome catalogue. Write them for it,
and please say you saw their ad in REcRE-
ATION.
- A NOVELTY FOR ANGLERS.
All anglers who fish much, and buy their
minnows, will save money and annoyance
by using a Fisk Aerating Minnow pail,
made by J. M. Kenyon & Co. See their
ad in this issue. The pail is so arranged
that by means of an air pump and rubber
tubes the water is constantly supplied with
frcsh air, which is necessary to keep the
minnows alive.
I have one of these pails, which I have
tested thoroughly, and find it works as the
manufacturers claim it will. The pail con-
tains a large air chamber in the bottom,
into which air can be forced under a heavy
pressure. Then it leaks out gradually into
the bottom of the water chamber of the
pail and comes up through the water,
forming a stream of small bubbles. I have
not made a test as to how long minnows
could be kept alive in one pail of water,
with this machine, but see no reason why
they should not live in it indefinitely.
I have found Messrs. Kenyon & Com-
pany thoroughly reliable people and I feel
confident that any reader of RECREATION
who may order a minnow pail from them,
and send his money in advance, will get
just what he pays for.
PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 67
A BUSINESS SUCCESS.
About 12 years ago Higgins & Seiter be-
gan business as dealers in glass and china
in a small basement in West 22d street.
Five times they have increased their room
and facilities, and last summer they erected
in conjunction with their 3 stores in West
22d street a 6 story building in 21st street.
This is now amply stocked with the goods
with which their name has become identi-
fied. The members of the firm attribute
their growth largely to persistent adver-
tising. There is not a month in the year in
which the fact that they “sell glass and
china %4 less than elsewhere,” is not kept
prominently before the public. Much of
their business is done through mail orders,
from Maine to California.
The dinner table department always has
an immense assortment of fine china and
glass, and articles that are suitable for
gifts are shown in a fascinating variety.
Not ony the choicest china and the richest
cut glass are displayed, but also statuettes
in marble and bronze, plaques, pedestals,
hall clocks, candelabra, and finally paintings
and water colors by well known artists.—
New York Daily Tribune.
THE NECESSARY KODAK.
The Canadian government has officially
recognized the Kodak as a necessary part
of a camping outfit for hunting and fishing
parties. In a circular issued by the Hon.
John McDougald, Commissioner of Cus-
toms, dated at Ottawa, Canada, July Ist,
1897, he says, “Persons visiting Canada for
health or pleasure may bring with them
such guns, fishing rods, canoes, tents,
camp equipment, cooking utensils, Kodaks,
etc., as they may require while in Canada,
etc.’ The circular goes on to provide that
such outfits may be taken into Canada by
depositing with the Collector, at the port of
entry, a sum equivalent to the regular duty
thereon, and that this sum will be refunded
to the visitor on his return from the Do-
minion on presentation of receipts origi-
naHy given him for the money by the cus-
toms officer.
This is indeed a well deserved recogni-
tion of the value of the Kodak for every
hunter, angler or pleasure seeker.
MINING IN MONTANA.
Nearly one-third of the Wonderland
book, for 1902, is devoted to mining in
Montana, which dates from the early 60’s.
The old mining days and the incidents
of the time, most dramatic, are portrayed
and photographs of the oldtime camps are
given.
Many of these old historic spots, such as
Alder Gulch, Confederate Gulch, etc., were
visited by Mr. O. D. Wheeler, who wrote
the book. The Montana mining of today,
scientific in every detail, is also shown in
its vast proportions.
To those interested in this subject and
who desire to know the great value of the
mining industry in Montana, this chapter
will prove interesting and valuable reading.
It is profusely illustrated.
If you want a copy of the book, you
have only to send 6 cents to Chas. S. Fee,
G. P. A., St. Paul, and mention REcrEas-
TION.
There was a serious mutiny in the United
States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan., in December last, in which several
of the guards were killed, a number of
the convicts killed and wounded, and some
escaped, although they were mostly re-
captured. It appears that the arms which
the guards had on that occasion failed to
work properly, and that was apparently
one of the reasons why the convicts es-
caped. Such being the fact, it was decided
by the United States authorities: to call for
sample arms for the purpose of testing, and
to equip the guards with the arm which
was most suitable and reliable. The Sav-
age Arms Company was approached for
sample arms, which were promptly shipped,
and the Savage rifle was adopted. The
order has been placed for entirely re-arm-
ing the guards with these rifles, although
it is the highest priced rifle on the market.
Columbiaville, Mich.
ithaca -Gun Co Iibaca, N.. Y-:
Dear Sirs:—The Ithaca gun which you
recently sent me on Mr. Shields’ order as
a premium for RECREATION subscribers is
at hand, and is in every way satisfactory.
I do not believe there is any other gun,
selling for anywhere near the reasonable
price of this one, that can equal it for
beauty of workmanship and for close, hard
shooting. Several of your guns are owned
by sportsmen in this place, and are well
liked. Ina letter received from Mr. Shields
a few weeks ago he assured me that your
guns are first class in every respect, which
is true. We all read REcREATION here, and
like to see your ad looming up prominently
in our favorite magazine. I shall always
take pleasure in recommending your guns.
Yours truly, A. L. Vermilya.
A remarkable invention for the con-
venience of tourists is the new Goerz
Fhoto-Stereo Binocular. This wonderful
little instrument is in size and appearance
an ordinary opera glass, and it serves that
purpose. It is also a field glass, a simple
camera and a stereoscopic camera; 4 neces-
sities in one. It is small, light, strongly
and perfectly made, and exceedingly power-
ful. It makes clear, sharp photos 134 by
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2 inches, which admit of perfect enlarge-
ment. It gives either instantaneous or
time exposures. As a field glass it magni-
fies 314 times, and as an opera glass 2%
times. The photo lenses are Goerz double
anastigmat. Write the C. P. Goerz Opti-
cal Works, 52 Union Square East, New
York, for a descriptive circular and please
mention RECREATION.
The tdeal Manufacturing Company is al-
ways on the alert to make tools and im-
plements that will meet the needs of shoot-
ers. The latest device made by this Com-
pany is the Ideal shot shell trimmer. This
is a practical implement that will properly
trim paper shells that have been fired.
With it the soft and frayed ends of shells
that have been fired a number of times
may be cut off to any length desired. This
trimmer is made for all gauges.
Every shooter should have a copy of the
latest Ideal Hand Book, full of information
to shooters. It also gives description and
price of all ideal Implements, which should
be kept by all dealers in arms and ammuni-
tion. Address Ideal Mfg. Co., New Haven,
Conn., and mention RECREATION.
Mr. E. H. Fitch has bought the interest
of A. E...Gehben in the old firm -of
DD: shoe Abercrombie é& “Co. ands the
new concern will be known as Abercrombie
& Fitch. Mr. Fitch is a gentle brother of
the angle, a big game hunter, a good wing
shot and, in fact, an all around sportsman
and lover of outdoor life. Everybody
knows Mr. Abercrombie’s qualifications for
conducting a business such as he has been
running for years, and in this new addi-
tion to his working strength the house will
be able to do everything that any reason-
able sportsman could wish done, in the
way of providing complete camping outfits.
I know Mr. Fitch personally, and bespeak
for him the good will and the confidence
of all readers of RECREATION.
E. W. Stiles, 141 Washington street,
Hartford, Conn., has issued a new and at-
tractive catalogue of goods made of buffalo
horns. These include mirrors, gun racks,
buffalo skulls mounted on shields, electric
light fixtures in great variety, silver loving
cups artistically mounted with buffalo horn
handles, etc.
These horns are genuine buffalo, picked
up on the Western plains. The articles
made in combination with these horns form
interesting and valuable American sou-
venirs of an animal now nearly extinct.
Write E. W. Stiles for a catalogue of these
unique goods and say you saw it men-
tioned in RECREATION.
The Charles Daly gun has long been
a standard. among the better class of
shooters, but the price has been be-
yond the reach of thousands of men
who have often wished they could
have one of these guns. In _ response
to this large demand, Schoverling, Daly
& Gales, of this city, have now put
on the market a Charles Daly gun which
retails at $80. It has many of the good
qualities of the high-priced Daly guns, but
ol course is not so highly finished. See
the ad of the new Daly in this issue of
RECREATION, and write the manufacturers
for full particulars. Mention RECREATION.
Jespersen & Hines have been occupying
only half of the store at 10 Park Place, New
York, with their sporting goods -business,
but it has outgrown that capacity, so they
have crowded the other man out and will
hereafter occunv the entire store. They
will add to their previous lines a full outfit
of tents, boats, camping outfits, sportsman’s
clothing and many other things they have
not heretofore kept in stock, so readers of
RECREATION may feel safe in ordering al-
most anything they may want from that
house, and their orders will always receive
prompt and careful attention.
E, S: Applevate*& Co; of Trenton, N:
J., have been compelled by increase of
business to move to still larger quarters,
and have selected a more central location,
at 17 South Broad street. They carry a
much larger stock than heretofore of bi-
cycles, guns, ammunition, fishing tackle,
sporting and athletic goods. To these they
have lately added canoes, gasoline launches
and general boating supplies. Sportsmen
would do well to write Messrs. Applegate
& Co., at their new address. Please say
you saw it in RECREATION.
Rolla O. Heikes, the veteran shooter of
the scatter gun, recently established a-new
record for long range flying target shoot-
ing at Waco, Texas. Mr. Heikes broke 99
out of 100 targets with a run of 89 breaks
without a miss, at Io yards. This work
speaks well for the uniformity in the veloc-
ity and pattern of his load—factory loaded
U. M.' G.. shells.
Sea Breeze, Fla.
Drs. H. R. Phillips and Wrean,
Penn Yana Neo
Dear Sirs: Rabbits and pedigrees arrived
safe. The rabbits are in good condition
and please me greatly. Yours truly,
C. M. Barlory.
PDITOR:S
THE PICTORIAL SIDE OF
WAR.
Many people say I talk too much about
game and fish hogs. In fact, some of my
best friends say this; but there are thou-
sands of other good people who heartily
approve everything I say and do in this
THE GAME HOG
Dr. J. S. Trotter.
569 Walden Ave.,
Bu ffalo, re - N. i) by
line. I get great numbers of letters ex-
pressing this approval..in words. Then,
the extent to which my crusade appeals to
the pictorial sense of my readers, is another
indication. Here are reproductions of a
few of the many envelopes that come to
this office, bringing encouraging messages
In 5 days return té
WILL D. JENKING,
»SECRETARY OF STATE
OLYMPIA, WASH.
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and hearty approval of my work. The first
shown is from a prominent physician in
Buffalo. Another comes from the Hon. W.
D. Jenkins, Secretary of the State of
Washington; another is from a_ well
known business man of York, Neb., and
still another from Glasgow, N. S.
(CASTER
I have reproduced in RECREATION many
pictures showing how the pork roasting
business appeals to artists in various por-
tions of the country. If I should print all of
these, reducing each to a space 2 inches
square, it would take at least 20 pages to
hold them. Meantime, I hear of thousands
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of men who still delight in slaughtering
game, but who now exercise the utmost
care in keeping their tracks covered, lest
RECREATION find them. It is amusing to
learn from the neighbors of some of these
game and fish butchers how carefully the
latter smuggle in their big bags and what
precautions they take to keep the neighbors
from. hearing of them. There are still
some who have not learned the lesson of
the past few years, and who, when they
make a big killing, rush madly to a local
photographer, string up their game, stand up
beside it, and get photographed. Then comes
the inevitable. Some friend of the game
Neu York
gets a copy of the photograph, sends it to
me, and in due time it appears in RECRE-
ATION, together with the names and ad-
dresses of the men who perpetrated the
butchery. Then these men either reform
or fall into the ranks of the skulkers and in
future, when they return from _ their
MY
slaughtering matches, they sneak up the
back alley after dark, tote their game into
the kitchen and make the members of the
household swear not to tell about it.
Ernest T. Seton tells of a case of this
kind that came under his notice in New
Mexico. A party of game hogs went from
that State across the border into Texas,
EDITOR S*CORNER.
————
and shot quails. They had what they called
glorious sport for several days. They
literally loaded their wagon with birds.
Then they drove home in triumph. When
they neared town they stopped, got out,
and strung quails all over the wagon box
RECREATION
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ACCURACY. WoT AREECTED BY WIND
RANGE NoT YET AscERTAINED
But XNOWN To BE ACROSS THE CONTINENT,
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and over the harness. They then drove
up in front of the local picture gallery, got
out some more quails, strung them over
themselves, hung large bunches on their
guns, stood about the team and had them-
selves photographed.
Meantime some decent citizen of the
town who saw the disgusting array, went
to the sheriff and reported the case to him.
He was also a decent man, and went after
the game hogs. When he questioned them
they put up a defense to the effect that
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the game was not killed in New Mexico,
but over the line in Texas. Hence, they
said, they were exempt from the New
Mexico law, and no Texas officer could
fcllow them into New Mexico to arrest
them.
“But,’ said a bystander, “just wait till
RECREATION gets a copy of this picture.”
“Who is RECREATION?” inquired one of
the butchers.
“It’s a magazine published in New York
which gives such fellows as you what you
deserve.”
A hursied consultation was held and the
game hogs decided it would be best not
to have the pictures, after all. Then they
called on the photographer again, counter-
manded the order and asked for the nega-
tive he had made. He was on to the
scheme, and said:
“Nay, nay, Pauline, the negative is mine.
I shall be glad to sell you any number
of prints you may wish, but I shall not
part with the negative. I can sell a print
from it to a certain New York editor for
many shekels.”
“But,’ said the game hogs, “we do not
want him to have a print.”
“But I do,” -said the picture maker,
“and I want his money.”
While the picture was being made, the
local editor had obtained full particulars
of the hunt, returned to his office and was
busy writing up the story. A committee
was despatched to his office to ask him to
suppress the report. He said:
“Nay, nay Pauline, this is good stuff and
I must print it.”
“But we don’t want it printed.”
“But I do,” said the editor.. “I do: not
apnrove of such slaughter of game as you
have been guilty of, and intend to give you
a column. Then [ will send a marked copy
to a certain New York editor who will give
you fellows rats.”
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By that time the game hogs were hot
all over and were down in their buckskin
wallets for money to buy the negative, and
to keep the story out of the local paper.
It took all the dust they had to suppress the
photographer and the editor.
Similar scenes are being enacted every
day, somewhere in the country. RECREA-
TION is threatened about once a month with
a libel suit or an injunction suit, as a re-
sult of its branding process; but its picture
gallery grows apace and some days 2 paces.
AND SHANLEY PAYS THE FREIGHT.
In February, 1901, I learned that grouse,
quails and woodcock were being. served at
Shanley’s restaurant, 1212 Broadway, New
York. This was 45 days after the close
of the legal season for selling these
birds; so I went to Shanleys to din-
ner one night, took 2 friends with
me, ordered quails on toast and got them.
The next day I took 3 friends to lunch
there, and we each had a woodcock. Then
the next night we dined on ruffed grouse.
The next day we took broiled quails again,
for a. change, Ineach case “i jcaretullly,
wrapped up the bones of one of the birds
and brought them away with me. We
kept on eating game until we thought we
had enough penalties chalked up against
Mr. Shanley to teach him a lesson. Then
I had my attorney draw up a complaint
against Mr. Shanley and he was summoned
to court to,answer for his illegal deeds.
As usual the case hung fire a long time and
was bandied about by the opposing counsel.
A few months ago Mr. Shanley got tired
of playing football in court, offered to con-
fess judgment and pay a penalty of $250.
Under existing circumstances the League
officers decided it would be well to accept
this proposition; so Mr. Shanley paid his
good money into court and the case was
disposed of.
Under the game and fish laws of this
State the complainant in such case gets
half of the fine imposed, after paying attor-
ney’s fees. Accordingly, I have received
from the State Treasurer a check for $100
as my moiety in this case, and have bought
with it 5,000 2-cent envelopes. These are
to be used in carrying on the League work
as Jong as they last, which will probably
be 3 or 4 months. Mr. Shanley may, there-
fore, feel assured that his money is being
put to good use. The envelopes which I
have bought with it are .now carrying
League literature all over the United States
and Canada. They are carrying copies of
this statement to thousands of hotel and
restaurant men in various tawns and cities,
to warn them as to what may hanpen to
them if they serve game in close season.
Some of these envelopes are carrying
notices to game dealers in various States
of the Union, to remind them that in sell-
ing game to hotel and restaurant men they
are perhaps contributing to the future grief
of such customers.
I trust Mr. Shanley may enjoy these re-
flections, and that in future he will en-
deavor to feed his patrons on food that
may be sold and served without violating
any law.
If the June number of RECREATION is bet-
ter than its predecessors, it is owing to the
fact that the Editor was away while it was
being made up and put to press. Of course
I roasted some pork and fixed up a few
other things for that issue before leaving
home, but the detail of the work was left
to an able corps of assistants, who, I trust,
have done their work to ‘the entire satisfac-
tion of all my readers and advertisers.
Where have I been? In the Selkirk
mountains, British Columbia. I spent a
month climbing mountains, in the hope of
regaining my health, which has been seri-
ously impaired by overwork. I am not
cured, but am a lot better off than I was.
I shall be compelled to absent myself
from business during a portion of the sum-
mer, but shall keep in close touch with the
office, and the interests of the magazine
will be carefully looked after. The League
work will also be in good hands during my
absence, and IJ trust I may get in such
shape by next fall that I can take up both
lines of work with renewed vigor.
I have received at least 100 clippings from
various newspapers telling of a large killing
of ducks, said to have been made near
Norfolk, Va., in March last, by Grover
Cleveland,Paul Van Dyke and ‘others: "ls.
wrote Mr. Cleveland, asking if the reports
were correct, and he replied, “I am glad to
say there is no approach to truth in the
story of duck butchery referred to.”
I also wrote Mr. Van Dyke, and he
answered to the same effect.
It is well known that nearly all news-
paper reporters, when talking of prominent
men who go hunting or fishing, grossly ex-
aggregate the quantity of fish caught or
game killed. In view of Mr. Cleveland’s
frank statement, it is fair to assume that
the wild-eyed reporters of Norfolk who in-
terviewed him and his friends on their re-
turn from the hunting trip are no exception
to the rule.
You would be surprised, or at least I
was, to find in the little towns up the line
_and out by the St. Lawrence river, Rec-
REATION lying on the counter of some
news stand. Itcertainly has a wide circu-
lation,
R, C. W, Lett, Ottawa, Ont,
RECREATION.
harmful.
difference lies.
POOR BEER
is easy to brew.
The materials are cheap.
The brewing may be done un-
der any sort of surroundings.
Cleanliness is not impor-
tant, for the users never see it
brewed.
Any water will do. No air
is too impure for the cooling.
No filtering, no sterilizing;
almost no ageing, for ageing ties
up money.
What is the use of expense
and care when there is no repu-
tation to defend ?—
When few people who drink
it know even the name of the
maker.
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Poor Beerys.Pure Beer
Both cost you alike, yet one costs the
maker twice as muchas the other. One
is good and good for you; the other is
Let us tell your where the
To maintain its standard, we double the nec-
essary cost of our brewing. Don't you prefer a
pure beet. a cood. beer, a. healthil beer, when
it costs no more than common?
Ask for the brewery bottling.
The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous
PURE BEER
calls for the best materials
—the best money can buy.
The brewery must be as
clean as your kitchen; the uten-
sils as clean. :
The cooling must be done
in filtered air, in a plate glass
room.
The product must be aged
for months, until thoroughly fer-
mented, else biliousness results.
The beer must be filtered,
then sterilized in the bottle.
You’re always welcome to that
brewery, the owners are proud
of it.
And the size of it proves the
eventual success of worth.
73
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RECREATION.
The magazine of the Svappa Camera is the wonder
of the photographic world. It carries 12 plates or 24
films which it changes like magic the instant the expos-
ure is made. Whether you take a picture every second
or only one a week, you always have a fresh plate or film
ready for instant use. Every exposure is entirely separate and
distinct and can be correctly developed. The
is fitted with the famous Plantograph Lens, the new Auto Shutter and every
adjustment an expert requires. If you want to understand the latest wonders
of photography you must know all about this wonderful camera. Ask
to see it at the dealers or send for an illustrated book—F REE.
Rochester Optical and Camera Co., 119 South St., Rochester, N.Y.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 75
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
“For sport the lens is better than the gun.”
I wish to make this department of the utmost
usetoamateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to
answer any questions and to print any ttems sent
me by practical amateurs relating to their expert-
ence in photography.
7th ANNUAL COMPETITION.
conducted 6 amateur
photographic competitions, all of which
have been eminently successful. The 7th
opened April Ist, 1902, and will close No-
vember 30th, 1902.
Following is a
awarded :
First prize; A Long Focus Korona Camera
5x 7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co., Roch-
ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner-Reich Anastig-
mat Lens, and listed at $85.
Second prize: A No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak,
made by the Eastman Kodak Co.. Rochester, N.
Y., fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Lens Plastig-
mat Unicum Shutter, and listed at $61.50.
Third prize: An Al-Vista-Panoramic Camera,
made by the Vultiscope and Film Co., Burlington,
Wis., and listed at $40.
Fourth prize: A Wizard C Camera, 4x5,
made by the Manhattan Optical Co. Cresskill,
N. J., with B. & L. Iris Diaphragm and Leather
Carrying Case; listed at $33.
Fifth prize: A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16,
made by D. Abercrombie & Co., New York,
and Listed at $32.
Sixth prize: A Watch;
listed at $50. |
Seventh prize:
4X 5, and made by the Blair Camera Co.,
ester, N. Y., and listed at $15.
Eighth prize: A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod,
made by the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., and
listed at $6.
The to next best pictures will each be awarded
one dozen 8x10 Carbutt Plates, made by the Car-
butt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Philadelphia,
Pa.
The ro next best pictures willeach be awarded
one dozen 5 x7 Carbutt Plates.
The to next best pictures will each be awarded
one dozen 4x 5 Carbutt Plates.
A special prize: A Goerz Binocular Field Glass,
listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picture
of a live wild animal.
Subjects are limited to wild animals,
birds, fishes, camp sccnes, and to figures or
groups of persons, or animals, repre-
senting in a truthful manner shooting, fish-
ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail-
ing or other form of outdoor or indoor
sport or recreation. Awards to be made
by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com-
petitors.
Conditions: Contestants must submit 2
mounted prints, either silver, bromide,
platinum or carbon, of each subject, which,
as well as the negative, shall become the
property of REcREATION. Negatives not to
be sent unless called for.
In submitting pictures, please write sim-
ply your full name and address on the back
of each, and number such prints as you
may send, I, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad-
dressed Photographic Editor, RECREATION,
say, for instance:
RECREATION has
list of prizes to be
Gold Hunting Case
A Tourist Hawkeve Camera,
Roch-
being used.
No. 1 is entitled 4
Made with a —— camera.
lens.
Ona plate.
Printed on paper.
Length of exposure, :
Then add any further information you
may deem of interest to the judges, or to
other amateur photographers. Same as to
Wigs. 2) 3, Cle.
This is necessary in order to save post-
age. In all cases where more than the
name and address of the sender and serial
number of picture are written on the back
of prints I am required to pay letter post-
age here. I have paid as high as $2.50 on
a single package of a dozen pictures, in
addition to that prepaid by the sender, on
account of too much writing on the prints.
Any number of subjects may be sub-
mitted.
Pictures that may have been published
elsewhere, or that may have been entered
in any other competition, not available. No
entry fee charged.
Dowt let people who pose for you look
at the camera. Occupy them in some other
way. Many otherwise fine pictures have
failed to win in the former competitions
because the makers did not heed this warn-
ing.
THE WORKROOM.
For spotting mat prints, such as Velox,
bromide, or platinum, the general practice
of using a spotting brush and India ink, is
not the only or most satisfactory method.
A brush is an unwieldy thing for one so
little accustomed to it as photographers in
general. I have been using a certain pencil
several years, and I find it superior in many
ways. The fact that this pencil is unknown
to photographers and has been introduced
only recently, probably accounts for its not
This is the “Negro” pencil,
made by Hardtmuth, of Vienna, and it can
be obtained from dealers in artists’ ma-
terials. They claim it is neither graphite
nor crayon, but keep its composition a se-
cret. It is made in 5 grades. For spot-
ting, No. 5, the hard, for light and delicate
work, and No. I or 2, soft, for blacks will
be found sufficient. Work done with these
pencils does not shine as with the graphite
or lead pencil, and it does not rub off like
crayon work; besides it is much cleaner.
Spotting is done much more quickly and
neatly in this manner, than with a brush.
An error can easily be erased with a-rub-
ber.
While developing Velox, bromide, or
other papers, it often happens that some
part of a print comes out too black, or over-
exposed, while the remainder of the print
is properly exposed. This can be avoided,
by plunging the print into clean water, or
76
blotting it on clean blotting paper, and
then with a brush, dipped into a 10 per
cent solution of bromide of potash, painting
the overprinted parts. Return to the
developer and proceed as usual. A slow
working developer is preferred. Wher-
ever the bromide of potash is applied it
checks the development; therefore care
must be taken not to apply so much as to
cause it to run where it is not desired.
A serviceable addition to the dark
room sink is made of a board, 8 or 10 inches
wide and a little shorter than the inside
width of the sink. About one inch from
each end nail 2 cross-strips or blocks, so
that one end of the board is % to 1 inch
higher than the other. This forms ‘a sort
of bench, 3 or 4 inches high, which sits
in the sink with the higher end under the
faucet. After this is complete, cover the
upper surface with carpet, or some similar
material, fold it over the edge and tack
underneath. This may form a permanent
fixture in the sink, or it can be removed
at will. It should never be quite so high as
the sides of the sink, and should be placed
so the water will strike it at the higher end.
When a negative is taken from the hypo
drop it on the board, and by the time you
have attended to a few other things it is
sufficiently washed; or if you are only de-
veloping 4 or 5 plates you will need no fur-
ther washing arrangement. The carpet cov-
ering prevents the plates from slipping, and
it holds a sheet of glass so firmly that while
cleaning old negatives or lantern slide cover
glass, you can give them a thorough scrub-
bing under running water, without fear of
slipping.
An excellent retouching medium for nega-
tives can be made by dissolving a small
quantity of light colored shoemaker’s wax
in gasoline, decanting the clear liquid and
adding spirits of turpentine.
Another good medium is made by add-
ing a small quantity of damar varnish to
spirits of turpentine. Apply a small quan-
tity of either of these to the part of the
negative to be retouched and wipe off the
surplus with a piece of muslin or your hand.
I prefer the latter, as it does not leave lint
on the negative. These formulae will per-
mit much heavy work on the negative,
especially if a fairly soft pencil is used.—
Western Camera Notes.
PRINTING IN CLOUDS
This is a good time of the year to pro-
cure a few cloud negatives, and if I or 2
are taken now and again when out picture
hunting, a valuable stock will soon accu-
mulate. If taken on films, each will give
2 views, from the fact of their being re-
versible.
The picture being printed, and the cloud
negative having been chosen for the subject,
RECREATION.
the masking of the picture while printing
in the cloud is the main point to be over-
come. The joining of the horizon lines is
often badly done, and if by chance the pic-
ture line is slightly intricate, it is generally
here that a weak point exists.
Provide yourself with a dozen or more
sheets of thin white tracing paper, cut to the
size of the plate you are working. When
you have finished printing your landscape
take it out of your frame, place it ‘on a
small board, place a piece of tracing paper
over it, and retire to the other side of the
room. You will then be able to draw with
a fine pen over the most important objects
in the picture a line from one side to the
other, following, of course, the details.
Give ample time to this part of the work,
for without it you can not succeed. When
you have finished this outline, all that is
necessary is to fill in the view with India
ink, artist’s black or vermillion,-and let it
thoroughly dry, which will take but a few
moments. Insert the cloud negative in the
printing frame, place the print, with the
mask in register, in position in the frame,
and print in the cloud to the proper depth,
If you possess a retouching desk, these
masks may be made at night from the nega-
tive. With a few pieces of stamp paper
attach the edges from front of paper to
glass side of the negative to prevent its
slipping; afterward it can be detached and
then blackened out. The hard lines are
softened to a nicetv by printing through the
tracing paper, and perhaps a little longer
time is required to print.
With a negative that has clouds, it often
happens that in printing the clouds pro-
perly the view is overdone. The tracing
paper mask is useful in such cases. In
printing on paper that gives no visible
image, such as carbon, platinotype, bromide,
etc., the paper negative and mask should be
placed well into one corner of the frame,
and a note made of it on the back of the
print, so as to provide against any chance
of mistakes. Nothing is more annoying than
to find, after all your pains, that you have
manipulated your sky upside down on the
view when you come to develop the pic-
ture.
A good white tracing paper gives no
grain that will harm a print, and care should
be taken that it is not crumpled. It deteri-
orates with age, going yellow, which makes
a long printing job; but the paper is cheap
enough for one to make a fresh mask when
required. —FErudio, in Photographic News.
MY MOST INSTRUCTIVE EXPER’ENCE.
My most instructive experience was the
result of a mistake. When I first started
making lantern slides I found difficulty in
judging the exposure to give. I exposed
many slides with only a few enon results.
PPO MINE Ab) Spat ase Pop ie we,
AMATEUR
One day in making slides by reduction and
trying to get the correct time on a nega-
tive from which I had already made a
slide, I forgot to stop down the lens before
making the exposure. The slide, therefore,
had 3 times the exposure I intended to
give, so that 1 concluded it was another
tailure. Instead of throwing the slide away,
however, I determined to see what I could
Make om it, and. therefore mixed the
following developer:
PoMMnieieee hal seser EIT SS 4 ounces.
Saturated solution sodium sulphite 4 drams.
1 TEE 0 Rg ga a i 2 drams.
op SRS iclo i ESE ae ea a a IO grains.
To this I added ro drops of a 10 per cent
solution of bromide potassium. To my
surprise the slide came up slowly and even-
ly and developed to good density without
the slightest trace of fog When thrown
on the screen it proved fairly satisfactory.
Taking advantage of this mistake I there-
after proceeded along the same lines, great-
ly over exposing the slides and so manipu-
lating them in the developer as to give the
best results. Since that lucky mistake I
have lost few slides, one exposure generally
suthcing where before I would perhaps
make 3 to 6 exposures to get a good one.
I do not think the above plan could be
followed with all developers, as the tendency
would be toward fogging; ‘but with pyro
acetone I have never had the slightest trace
of fog, and in the most contrasty nega-
tives the shadows will not clog before the
high lights and half tones gain their proper
gradation. The exposure I give at a North
window in good daylight is 3 minutes with
stop 16.
Another suggestion in regard to the fix-
‘ing of slides will perhaps prove beneficial.
It will freauently be noticed that although
there is no pinhole in the slide on removing
it from the developer, 2 or 3 will appear
when the negative is in the fixing bath.
This generally results where the slide is
fixed in a flat tray. Instead of fixing by
laying flat in a tray, get a small box, stand
the slides up on edge in the hypo and pin-
holes will be an infrequent occurrence.—
John Hadden, in Paine’s Photographic
Magazine.
ISOCHROMATIC PLATES.
Isochromatic plates are éspecially adapt-
ed for obtaining color values.
If the amateur will give a Crown plate
and an isochromatic of the same speed,
the same time and same stop, and develop
with the same developer, he will see a vast
difference, and, I believe, will use only the
isochromatic plate for any subject in the
future. The cost is only 5 cents a dozen
more, and the result is more than 5 times
better.
PHOTOGRAPHY. 77
A slow isochromatic plate is not the
best for portraits out of doors,-as 14 sec-
onds is too long, especially if any wind be
blowing. The instantaneous plate is ex-
cellent for outdoor scenes, especially if it
be stopped down to 16 F. or 32 F. For
all around work, the medium brand is a
plate hard to duplicate. The best effects.
of sea views or snow scenes can be ob-
tained on Aristo-platino paper, from these
plates. The surf and foam of the waves
show as clearly ds it is possible to get
them. These plates are not more difficult
to handle than any others. Keep all white
light from the plate, and do not keep it too
near the ruby light. A red lantern, with
no white light coming out of any small
holes or openings, is as good a lamp as
can be had. Pyro is the best developer.
It brings out things more clearly and gives
a far better negative to print from. One
need not keep his hands in the pyro all
the time. An old knife is handy in the
dark room for plates sticking in the hold-
ers and to lift the plate out of the pyro.
Here is a formula for small quantities of
developer to be made up and used as one
wishes to develop; say only 2 or 4 plates.
It can be made at a small cost, and always
full strength, giving good results:
Stir into 8 ounces of boiled water 1
drachm (60 grains) carbonate of soda, 2
drachms (120 grains) sulphur. When dis-
solved, add 3 grains of dry pyro for each
ounce of water; less pyro, less intensity.
For users of 4x5 plates, 4 ounces are
plenty.
In making hypo I have found it well to
use plain hypo and water, 4 ounces of wa-
ter to one ounce of hypo, and lay aside all
other chemicals, especially in winter.
H. P. Wightman, Evanston, III.
RESULTS OF SOME EXPERIMENTS.
ihe dry plate: orn, is .exceedinely
sensitive to light, yet people persist in over-
estimating its sensitiveness when taking a
picture and underestimating it when in the
developing room. Do not be afraid of slow
instantaneous instead of rapid instantane-
ous timing. Ruby light will fog a plate if
too near until development is well begun.
Last summer I bought a cow, thinking I
would photograph it with the children or
dogs or something playing with it; also,
would get a genuine milking scene. When-
ever I tried I got everything all right but
the cow. She came out in silhouette, and I
wasted much ammunition on that wretched
quadruped before I found that it is almost
impossible to snap a red cow at Io feet.
Finally, by using isochromatic plates and a
slow shutter, I could take my red cow
every time.
.When I began to develop I entertained
the idea that a strong developer would be
78
best, but luckily I met a man who put me
on the right track, and I got well ac-
quainted with tank development and pyro.
I have made up the pyro developer that is
prescribed for the plate I use and then I
go about it this way: I use an ounce of
each of the 2 bottles in 4 ounces of water.
to develop a dozen 4x5 plates. I fill my
rubber tank, which is an ordinary fixing
box with cover, nearly full of water, in-
cluding the 2 ounces of developer, stir it,
drop in my plates, cover, and wait 3 hours.
It is so easy I am ashamed to admit I use
it, but I have tried all the other ways for
experiment’and I do not get the results I
do with the tank. I make all my preten-
tious work in carbon. It is neither difficult
nor expensive. I often use films and, of
course, prefer them for carbon work, as
by printing through the backs I can make
carbons by single transfer that are not re-
versed. With plates I have to use the
double transfer process. You do not know
what a good print is till you have made
your red, sepia, green, blue, brown, black,
grey, etc., carbons. The process is king of
all—Edmond Pond, in the Photo-Ameri-
can.
MR. KIRSCHNER EXPLAINS.
I see in February RECREATION you
awarded a prize to Mrs. P. B. Kirschner
for a photo of a buck which was wounded
and which, from all appearances, was
taken in the close season, as it has velvet
on its horns, and the foliage indicates that
it was not in open season. The buck was
undoubtedly killed, as it was known to
weigh nearly 200 pounds. Of course I do
not think Mrs. Kirschner shot the deer,
save with her camera; but the party who
did shoot the deer ought to be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law. If that deer
was killed and weighed out of season, why
do you not find out the offending party
and see that he pays his fine?
James Clemens, Nemo, S. Dak.
On receipt of the foregoing letter I for-
warded it to Mrs. Kirschner, and her
husband replied as follows:
As I killed the deer in question, I think
it my duty to reply to the attached corre-
spondence, thereby relieving Mrs. Kirsch-
ner from all responsibility. If Mr. Clem-
ens has never seen a deer in the velvet in
September, he has yet something to learn.
His argument that ‘the foliage shown in
the photo indicates that the deer was taken
in the close season, will not hold. The
foliage shown in the photo is chiefly, if
not wholly, witchhopple, which does not
aie off in June like sage brush in Dakota,
‘ which Mr. Clemens probably had in mind.
I wounded the deer near Big Otter lake,
New York, September 3, 1901, He got
RECKE Ad TON:
away from me, and as it was getting too
dark to follow him, I left him over night,
knowing he was. badly hurt. The
next morning, together with Mrs. Kirsch-
ner and my brother, a guide, we took up
the deer’s trail and soon found him lying
down as indicated in photo, when another
shot finished him.
Any further information you may wish
regarding this matter will be cheerfully
given.
P. B. Kirschner, Lowell, Mass.
UNCLE JOSH AND THE CAMERA GIRL.
Yeh see, she wuz a summer girl, an’
when she come down tu our place tu stay
a week, she brot a thing-ma-gum she
called a Kodax with her.
It wuz a kind uv a box with a eyehole
in one end, an’ a button tu press on the
side.
When you pressed the button it tuk a
pictur. I kno’ it did, fer I saw one it tuk
uv M’ria, milkin’ th’ jersey cow, an’ it
wuz jist as nateral as life.
That gal wuz a stunner!
She wore
purty cloze, an’ she had th’ new Florodoro
hold-up way uv liftin’ her dress,
fection.
Ev’ry man in town wuld turn an’ look
after her when she past by.
Why, I'd stop buggin’ th’ pertaters any
day an’ set up at th’ corner fer an hour to
see her go crost the street.
Well, I wuz goin’ to tell yeh bout that
Kodax.
- She went round snappin’
everything she see.
She told me she liked to git Gene Ray
picturs; she sed Gene Ray picturs told a
story. They never told me any, tho’.
One day little Bobby fell in th’ soap kit-
tle an’ ruined his new pance. She tuk a
snap shot uv him an’ called it “A Sunset in
Greece.”
One day when M’ria wuz trimmin’ my
hare an’ whiskers with the sheep shears,
th’ gal tuk a pictur uv us an’ called it
“Moss from an Old Mans”; an’ one time
when she got her close fast on th’ stake-
and-rider fense, an’ I had tu go an’ hep
her down, she remarked, “Saved from
over-exposure.’
Some time I’ll tell yer about how she
tuk th’ pictur uv the yearlin’ calf—West-
ern Camera Notes.
to per-
it at most
SHOULD BE NEUTRAL.
Must sulphite of soda be exactly neutral?
I have some which is strongly alkaline. I
bring it as near neutral as I can with sul-
phuric acid and litmus paper. Is that
method correct? Does it not form a sul-
phate which is a powerful reducer or re-
strainer? How should pyro be used, kept,
etc.? How long should a plate be in pyro
SPM ALP Mae
PH it ier : ro
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAFH Y. 79
developer? Is it economical to use com-
bined developer and fixer, and is it worth
anything in your opinion? How can plates
be spotted? I mean how is it done? Can
“E. W. N.” be bought in smaller quanti-
ties? Should an acid fixer be used with
an alkaline developer? How can portraits
best be made with a 4x5 Wizard B. and
a Nehring portrait lens? My room in
which I make them has windows on the
West.
Edgar R. Thome, West Hanover, Pa.
ANSWER.
Sulphite of soda is neutral if good. A\l-
kaline sulphite disturbs the balance of
your developer, naturally.
Some only keep a stock solution of sul-
phite at 60 grains to the ounce, or even
40, and add dry pyro and dry soda as
wanted when developing.
_Boflay is good. It is, I believe, hydro-
chinone and hypo with carbonate of potash.
Send to E. W. Newcomb, Bible House,
New York City, for circular in answer to
this, no charge for directions. The 50
cent box is the least quantity sold.
Acid fixer is often used after alkaline
developer, and you will find it recommend-
ed for many plates by the makers.
Your arrangement is good.
reflecting screen to one side of and a little
in front of the sitter you will have good
results.—EDITor.
NOTHING BETTER THAN PYRO.
Does the length of time a P. O. P. print
remains in the toning bath affect the perma-
nency; whether removed quickly for red
or brown tones, or left the usual length of
time, as for purple or black?
You place pyro ahead of all other devel-
opers. I have never used it, and hesitate
now to make a change, since my work,
though not altogether satisfactory to my-
self, is fair. Do you think the results would
justify the extra trouble of using pyro,
with its staining propensities, etc.?
Is there any method of preventing the
tendency to fog, during development in hot
weather, other than using ice, where this is
hard to obtain?
Amateur, Blackstone, Va.
ANSWER.
The print, in combined bath, should re-
main only long enough to insure fixation,
regardless of the tone. In the double tones
you may tone red, purple or nearly black
in gold and then fix in hypo without affect-
ing the permanency of the print.
Pyro is absolutely the best developer
there is, and will give amateurs far better
results than so-called stainless developers,
which do stain after all. By using plate
lifters for plates and clips for film you
Eheyou.usela.
need never soil your fingers in pyro. The
sooner you use it the better it will be for
you.
Plates do not fog any more during hot
weather than cold, nor will ice stop fog. If
you mean frill, use formaldehyde in your
hypo, one dram to a pint. Jf you mean
fog, stop up the cracks in your room, re-
place your slides squarely in the holder,
do not use a leaky lamp, keep holders in
shade when out, and you will not have so
much fog.—Ep1Tor.
TO GIVE CRIMSON TONE.
Crimson prints are a new thing, that
is, as far as anything can be new in this
age of second-hand discoveries. The ton-
ing bath is made up when wanted and
used at once, and is as follows:
Sulphocyanide of ammonia ....75 grains.
hodide of potash 1s iis ie oh ZOna ¢
Niraren sb y Eb ie Styl), onde bog: a Ounces.
Chloride of gold, dissolved in 2
Gia raise wawerty iio) Beye Las 4 grains.
Wash the prints well before toning, and
see toit that they are but proof deep.
Fix full 15 minutes, as silver iodide dis-
solves less freely in hypo than silver
chloride. Toning to a bright crimson
with the above bath takes 30 to 45 minutes.
There is your formula; now if you want
to paint the town’s portraits red, go
ahead.
Blue prints are in favor again. I am
glad of it. The humble, simply made,
water-developed, permanent old chap has
not deserved to be let alone as he has
been for some years. Try a 9x14 panel
in blue, with a border of silver paint
Y inch wide around the edges. Call” it a
Venetian or a Cyanotype, or any other
name, state that it is warranted absolutely
fadeless and permanent, and charge an
extra price for it. Might be just the thing
to revive interest in some of your nega-
tives—E. W. Newcomb, in the Profes-
sional and Amateur Photographer.
HOW TO WORK URANIUM INTENSIFIER.
I inclose clipping giving formula for in-
tensifier. Will you please explain more
fully, through ReEcrEATION, how to work
rte Beach, ‘Columbia, Ada.
The clipping enclosed by Mr. Beach is
as follows:
Nitrate of uranium intensifier will give
to the thinnest negatives printing qualities
which the mercurial intensifier fails to give
on account of the red color which it im-
parts to the negative. The formula is the
following: Solution I., dilute acetic acid
with 4 times its bulk of water. To 100
parts of it add one part of nitrate of uran-
ium. Solution II. is a one per cent. solu-
tion of red prussiate of potassium. For
80 RECREATION.
use, add Solution II. to Solution I. in
equal quantities.
ANSWER. 5
The formula says to add 8 ounces of
water to 2 ounces of glacial acetic acid.
That gives 10 ounces of dilute acid. To
that, add 44 grains of nitrate of uranium.
‘Then mix 50 grains of red prussiate of
potash in 10 ounces of water. Bottle each
separately and label A and B. Use one
ounce or more of each to intensify nega-
tives and throw away this mixed intensi-
fier after use. Separately they keep, but
not mixed A and B.—EDpirTor.
TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT
Following is a good way to experiment
with the effects of the selective transmis-
sion of light produced in the negative, or
in other words the results of absorbing
partly or wholly one or more of the 3
colors, red, green and violet, which go to
make up the light that reaches the plate.
Place in a clear hypo or hypo-chrome alum
solution a plate which has been spoiled in
exposing or any plate in which there is no
free silver. A new plate is best. Leave
until every trace of the silver and bro-
mium salts has disappeared. When the
opaqueness has vanished the operation is
about 34 completed. After thoroughly
washing out the hypo dry carefully.
When the gelatine is hard lay the plate,
film down, on a clean filter or blotter and
cut it with a diamond into squares of a
size sufficient to cover the ‘lens. These
small plates will readily assume the color
of any solution into which they are placed.
Do not use a solution that will leave a
crystalline deposit on the film in drying.
Procure some of the aniline colors and mix
them to suit yourself. Varied results will
be obtained by combining one or more of
the screens or by only partially covering
the lens during exposure.
William A. Fuller, Ithaca, N. Y.
SNAP SHOTS.
Is E. W. Newcomb’s spotting medium,
mentioned in March ReEcrEATION, used for
retouching negatives? Where can I ob-
tain it? What will keep films from roll-
ing?
My husband and I enjoy RECREATION
greatly, and find much useful and inter-
esting reading matter in it.
Mrs. R. E. Sumner, Ludlow, Mass.
ANSWER.
No, Newcomb’s Ideal spotting medium
is not to retouch negatives in the sense of
smoothing out faces. It is to fill in holes,
scratches, etc. in both negative and
print. You will find the soaking solution
given in Eastman’s instructions the proper
thing to keep films from curling: Water,
I quart; glycerine, I ounce; soak 5 minutes
after washing and pin up film, right out of
soaking solution, by its 4 corners.—EDITOR.
Those who are accustomed to work the
carbon process, know that when the same
warm water has been used for developing -
several carbon prints, the dissolved gela-
tine has an unpleasant.tendency to work up
into a froth by the inevitable splashing of
the water. To skim off this froth is only
to find it replaced a few moments after-
ward. The following suggestion meets the
case: Take a piece of common yellow
kitchen soap, and pass the moist hands over
it 2 or 3 times, just enough to get a slight
lather. This, when mixed with the water,
dispels all gelatine froth as though by
magic and no harmful effects follow. A
slight trace ot soapy lather will counteract
a large quantity of gelatine froth—The
News Monger.
What will prevent ferrotype plates, that
are used for squeegeeing, from adhering?
i DBs Plymouth? Pat
ANSWER.
Make the following waxing solution and
when your ferro plates are cleaned and
polished drop a few drops on each and
rub around vigorously with a woolen cloth
until an almost unperceptible coating is se-
cured. Then squeegee your prints on and
they will never stick. Repeat at each use ot
plates.
Dissolve 2 drams yellow beeswax shav-
ings in) I .ounce, each’ /of. ether, alcohol
(95 per cent.) and benzole. Shake till dis-
solved and keep tightly corked.—EpzrTor.
Will you kindly give me a little in-
formation in regard to coloring photos?
I mean, to take the print after it 1s made
and color the dress, hair, eyes, etc. What
kind of colors are used, and what is used
to soften the print, so it will take the color?
How are colors applied, etc.?
W. W. Noble, Yazoo City, Miss.
ANSWER. :
Use Marshall’s electric colors and _ his
medium to apply before coloring, so the
color will spread. The colors and full in-
structions are to be had of A. G. Marshall,
625 Vanderbilt avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.—
EDITOR.
Will you please give me formula for
salting solution in making plain salted pa-
per? F. C. Wilbour, Austin, Minn.
ANSWER.
Ammonium chloride.............. 60 grains
Gelatime:). 5. sade, bee attemete ota 20 grains
Wraterii. Ra wte ce cen, Cees aman 20 ounces
Dissolve by gentle heat and soak paper
in the solution 2 minutes.—EDITor.
ve ee
RECREATION. 81
If it isn’t an Eastman, it isn’t a Kodak.
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A NOT UNUSUAL HEART SHOT.
B. and I were hunting deer some years
ago near French river. While returning
to camp one-evening, I shot a rabbit, and
was carrying it, walking a little behind my
friend. Suddenly B.’s rifle went to his
shoulder, and I saw a large buck standing
about 60 yards in front of us. As my com-
panion was a good shot, I remained mo-
tionless, feeling sure it was his meat. At
the crack of the rifle the deer started, his
first jump taking him out of sight. “I got
him!” cried B., “I shot him through the
heart.” “Are you sure?” I asked. “Yes,”
he said, “I had a good bead on him.” We.
went to where the buck had been standing
and found his trail, but no blood. After
beating about awhile B. cried, “Here is
blood!” and so there was, though but little.
We followed the blood stain, which grew
plainer at every step. Presently we came
to the spot where I shot the rabbit, and it
dawned on us that we had been following
our own back trail by the rabbit's blood.
Returning to the place where we saw the
deer, we found B.’s bullet embedded in a
tree. B. seldom speaks of a heart shot
since then; but when he does, the boys
laugh.
F. W. Foreshew, Sheguiandat, Ont.
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RECREATION. X1X
PERFECTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Has been secured by the use of the Al- Vista Camera.
It produces the entire panoramic view—from the
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right. The Al-Vista Camera is compact: easy to
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WENO HAWK-EYE
A DAYLIGHT LOADING FILM
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May be fitted with a glass plate attachment at
slight extra cost.
Ghe Perfect Pocket Camera
No. 3 Folding Weno Hawk-Eye, with double R. R. lens, not loaded, $15.00
Do., with single fixed focus achromatic lens, ° ° . . 13.50
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Binoculars
An article that ap7
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Take one with you,
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RECREATION. Xx1
IT’S ALL IN THE LENS
Scrics V Long Focus Korona
Can be used with equal facility for
everyday, hand-camera
Snap Shots
Photograpning Distant Views
Copying
or other work needing bellows ca-
pacity, and also with wide-angle
lenses for interiors and kindred
subjects. .
ONE CAMERA DOES IT ALL
Every adjustment is a marvel
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Note our patent auxiliary
bed for use with wide-angle
lenses, and compare it - with
the clumsy methods used to obtain this
result on other cameras.
Our patent automatic swing back op-
erates from the center according to correct
principles.
KORONA LONG FOCUS
Has a Convertible Lens, Automatic Shut-
ter, and numerous other special advantages.
Catalogue gives full information
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Mention Recreation
21 Union Square
RECREATION.
Made, not by an experienced opti-
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glasses, with the aid of Gall &
Lembke’s new Temple Attachment
Neat
Convenient
Every wearer of eyeglasses wishes occasionally
Simple
that his pince-nez were spectacles. Spectacles
stay on, however violent one’s exercise; however
warm the weather. With this little device you
carry practically both eyeglasses and spectacles
in one ordinary case.
Automobile and horseback riding, hunting,
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and all other athletic exercises can be indulged
in with perfect safety to your glasses,
Perhaps you keep one pa‘r of spectacles for
just such uses. Sometimes you forget them;
sometimes they are broken. The Temple At-
tachment will fit any of youreyeglasses. Kept
in your regular case, they always are on hand.
Price per pair in nickel - - 50 cents
Price per pair in gold plated - 75 cents
Send for circular.
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A whole city
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Has any reader of RECREATION ever shot
a turkey with a soft nose 30-30 bullet?
If not, don’t try it. While hunting in
I4exico last fall I found a bunch of 30
or 40 turkeys led by an immense gobbler.
As they were coming in my direction, I
crouched behind a rock and waited. When
they were near I opened fire and soon had
4 birds down. When I went to gather
my game I found the big gobbler blown
to bits, there being nothing left but his
breast. The other birds had been on high-
er ground and I had undershot, breaking
a leg of each. As turkeys can not fly from ~
the ground without a running start, I soon
caught the cripples. At camp that night
I explained to the boys that I had pur-
posely shot my birds in the leg in order
to save some of the meat.
Drews Te-Bush. et ae Tex.
Last night when I came home I found
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it I found one of the finest hunting knives
I ever saw, also a sheath for it. Kind-
ly accept my hearty thanks for this pre-
mium. I shall try to send you more sub-
scriptions soon, and get more of your fine
premiums.
objects?
A. R. Shafer, Baltimore, Md.
RECREATION gives me much pleasure. I
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XxiVv RECKEATION:
If it isn’t an Eastman, it isn’t a Kodak.
A new folding
KODAK
for the pocKet—almost for the vest pocKet,
at six dollars. MaKes pictures 15g x 2% inches,
loads in daylight, has a fine meniscus lens,
brilliant finder, automatic shutter—in fact, has _
the “Kodak quality” all the way through.
No. O Folding PocKet Kodak, for pictures ae x 2%
inches, - : . - - $6.00
Transparent Film Cartridge, 12 exposures, 154 x 2%, 20
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RECREATION. XXV
Photographic Talks. No. 1.
Dry Plates
No matter how perfect the camera; how
fine the lens; how expert the operator, the
success of Photography depends on the plate.
Until to-day, the trend of plate making
has been to produce a different plate for
every sort of service—an orthochromatic
plate for subjects of color; a non-halation
plate for windowed interiors; a slow plate for
copying, and a fast plate for snap shots.
While acknowledging the value of these
special plates, we have, in 25 years’ experi-
ence as the largest plate camera makers of the
world, come to recognize the growing need
for one dry plate of general utility; a plate that
would render, as far as necessary, the value
of colors; that would eliminate, as nearly as
possible, the flare of halation; that would give
the fullest depth, the most delicate definition,
and yet be rapid enough for high speed work.
We believe we have solved this problem,
and supplied the need for a universal plate.
With this knowledge we now introduce
‘DRY PLATE
Sold in all sizes Ly all dealers. Made only by
ROCHESTER OPTICAL & CAMERA CO., Rochester, N. Y.
Largest Plate Camera makers in the world,
XXV1
RECREATION.
WESTWARD WITH THE IMPERIAL.
SR.
The desire to live a little longer has
led me to quit the unwholesome climate of
the national capital, the house where wife
and children dwell, and to wander across
the continent to the mountains of Colorado,
hoping to find in their quiet solitudes, un-
der their cloudless heaven, a new lease of
life.
“A journey twice interrupted and delayed
brought me via the C. & O. and the Big
Four to Chicago, where I procured pas-
sage over the Rock Island to Denver. It
was a kind friend, whose goodness has
often, heretofore, been a gladness to me,
who directed me to that road. I take this
means to thank him for his kindnesses;
not this alone, but many others. I shall
carry to the grave a grateful sense of all
his goodness.
How shall I tell the readers of RECREA-
TION how well the officers and employés
of the Rock Island know the meaning of
courtesy? I have not always fared sump-
tuously at the hands of railroad men,
though I have many times, in the course
of much travel, found friends and genial
companions among them; but I record my
grateful thanks for a kindliness which be-
gan with John Sebastian, and ran through
every officer I met and through ali the
‘train crews, even to the dusky porter on
the chair car. This diluted son of Ham
was as watchful of the passengers under
his care as if he had been father of us all.
The conductors between Chicago and Den-
ver were changed several times, but from
their uniform kindness and courtesy they
might all have been one.
The train was of the latest, roomiest
vestibule pattern, and the roadbed was per-
fect, the train bowling along as smoothly
as if it ran on a track of glass. We left
the station in Chicago at 10.00 p. m., made
the long run of 1,083 miles, and pulled into
the Union depot at Denver on the second
morning at 7.45, not a second late.
In the great station in Chicago is a res-
taurant where one may find an excellent
meal, splendidly served, at a reasonable
price, and on the train is the dining car
where one may get as good a meal as at
Delmonico’s at a price so fair as to sur-
prise him. A lady, next seat in front of
me, said she got dn excellent breakfast for
35 cents.
Let me advise every brother of the trig-
ger cr the quill, to trust himself, in case
he should follow the Western star, to
the Rock Island. He will not regret it.
In the years gone with the past, I picked
up a smattering of palmistry. I had scraped
a casual acquaintance with a fellow trav-
eler, and offered to read his future if per-
mitted. My offer was gladly accepted and
a brief sketch of the future was rapidly
read off, A young lady sitting in the next
seat forward, overhearing my forecast,
timidly turned to me, thrust her little hand
between the chairs, and asked me to read
her fortune. I could not well decline and
when I had completed that task I found
another hand held down over my shoulder
with the request, “Tell mine, too.’ I
chanced to hit her past correctly, and gave
her a flattering picture of her future. She
was a mother in Israel, nearly or quite to
the half century mark. When I finished
her reading I found the whole end of the
car packed with a throng, all anxious to
try their fortune. Some were as gray as
I; others were not yet out of their teens,
“Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet.”
Some were marricd, some wanted to be,
and some perhaps wished they were not.
For half-an hour I held levee. Even the
staid conductor held out his kindly palm,
and the brakeman wanted to put his for-
tune to the test. Last of all came the por-
ter, patient, polite, waiting till all the
“white folks” had been read, holding to
me his broad and generous hand. I am
glad to say that he seemed happy over the
little I could:tell. One elderly lady, from
the extreme front of the car rushed to me,
held out a dainty hand, evidently unac-
quainted with toil, and asked for her horo-
scope. I chanced again to tell her of her
past, and in prediction told her that she
was the mother of a young man in whose
future her heart was deeply concerned.
“Yes,” said she, “what can you tell me
of his future?”
“Madam,” said I, “it ends in tragedy.”
I was sorry in an instant, for she caught
her hand away, and went forward to her
seat. I think she must have left the car
at the next stop, for I soon missed her.
The time passed plpeasantly en route, and
so I am housed once more in the Rockies, —
where the skies are bluer and the breezes
sweeter, to me at least, than anywhere else
on earth.
W. H. Nelson, Boulder, Colo.
I wish RECREATION would help do away
with pump guns for hunting deer. There
are fellows who will go to the woods after
deer with a gun full of bullets, and at the
first move in the brush begin shooting and
continue until the magezine is empty. If
they had to hunt with a single shot rifle
they would not shoot so recklessly, but
would wait for a sure shot, and thus, per-
haps, avoid killing a fellow hunter.
C. R. M., Trempaleau, Wis.
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RECREATION. XXVII
Food for hot weather is an important question. People can feel from ten to
twenty degrees cooler than their neighbors, by avoiding fats, cutting down the butter
ration and indulging more freely in fruits and food easy of digestion.
* An ideal meal is Grape-Nuts with cream, some fruit,a couple of slices of whole
Wheat bread, and a cup of Postum Food Coffee, hot, or if cold a little lemon juice
squeezed in; Grape-Nuts can be made the principal food of the meal, because it is a con-
centrated food, one pound having as much nourishment—that the system will absorb—as
ten pounds of beef, in addition to which it is already cooked and ready to serve. Delicious
hot weather entrees and desserts are easily made.
Try this entree :—(Salmon Croquettes with Grape-Nuts.)—Drain a can of salmon and mash the fish fine; add _ two
beaten eggs, four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one cup of bread crumbs, one-half cup of finely ground Grape-Nuts,
Six tablespoonfuls of milk; salt, cayenne pepper anda pinch of mace. Bealtoa paste. ay small spoonfuls first into
beaten egg, then in cracker dust, and shape ito croquecties. Fry a delicate brown in deep fat, and serve with
Mayonnaise dressing.
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You are constantly receiving reports
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H., our summer home, is not in the back-
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WN Ll the other. “He
seemed to be caught there. He probably
went in after fish to eat and was trying to
get out when we saw him. We did not
dare go too near, as I had my niece with
me. ‘The fish’s body resembled that of a
large eel and the motion was the same.
He seemed to have one or 2 fins on top
of his back, as well as I could see, and I
should say he was 40 to 60 feet long.
When he was going through the water from
one end of the weir to the other he was
enough to scare anybody. The water was
all foam where he lashed it.
Dr. Warren, Lynn, Mass.
NO DANGER OF BELGIAN PEST.
In January RECREATION, page 42, there
appears a communication from one R. L.
Montague, of Oroville, California, stating
that Belgian hares are running wild in
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Butte county and “have increased enor-
mously of late years.”
That statement looks much like the
old newspaper ciaims that Belgian hares
will ruin the farmers and fruit grow-
ers of the United States. Though disproved
time and time again, these articles still ap-
pear.
Belgian hares will never exist in a wild
state in this country, for 2 reasons. First,
they are a domestic animal and must de-
pend, like other domestic animals, on the
protection of man. It would be fully as
reasonable to fear that our peaceable dames-
tic hen might escape from confinement, in-
crease at an enormous rate, and ruin the
poor farmers’ crops! The Belgian hare, as
now reared by Belgian hare breeders in this
country, does not exist in a wild state in
any country, being solely a made breed, the
result of crossing several distinct species,
and upbreeding from them by careful selec-
tion. Second, the Belgian hare will cross
repeatedly with any native species of rab-
bit in North America, as“has been frequent-
ly proved; and even if the Belgian hare,
on escaping, should develop sufficient in-
stinct of self-preservation to survive, it
would be bred out in a few generations by
crossing with native species, owing to the
great preponderance of the latter. Such
crossing could only result in a slight bet-
terment of a few individuals of the native
species, making them possibly a little larger,
and their flesh and fur of a better quality.
This result, all readers of RECREATION will
agree, would be most desirable.
On noticing Mr. Montague’s article, I
wrote him asking him how many of these
Belgian hares he could supply, stating in
my letter that I would make it exceedingly
profitable for him to capture these wild
Belgians and ship them East to me. The
gentleman never replied, in spite of the
fact that I enclosed a stamped reply enve-
lope. That he received my letter is evident,
for the time for its return, if undelivered,
has long since expired. I also wrote to the
postmasters at Chico and Powelton, both
in Butte county, California, asking them
if there were any wild Belgians in that
county. The postmaster at Chico replied,
“No wild hares around this section of the
country.” The postmaster at Powelton,
wir’ €: Henry. replied, “There are no
Belgians in this country, none ever having
been imported to this section.” I also
wrote Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chief War-
den of the California L. A. S., on the same
subject. Under date of January 28, Dr.
Jordan wrote, “There las been some fear
in California that the Belgian hare would
run wild and play the same havoc in cyl-
tivated fields that its relative does in Aus-
tralia. I have, however, not heard of any
case of this kind. I will write to friends in
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Groville to find out what I can in regard
to the alleged pest in Butte county.” Again,
under date of Pebruany. 770 We. jordan
wrote: “I have locked into the matter re-
ferred to in your letter of the 24th ult., and
I find no evidence that Belgian hares are
running wild in Butte county.”
Let Mr. Montague now come forward
and defend his statement, made in January,
1902, RECREATION.
Wilmon Newell, Wooster, Ohio.
PROVIDING HOMES FOR BIRDS.
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Editor RECREATION: ee
Last year I had 15 pairs of purple mar-
tins in my 26 compartment bird house, and
who reared 45 to 60 young martins.
About 8 pairs of old birds returned early
for the season of 1902. The young birds
generally return about May tcth.
I had some trouble to get a pair of tree
swallows to nest in a separate house, year
before last, and I experimented with the
size of the entrance, until finally the swal-
lows were able to enter and the English
sparrow not, as I thought. The tree swal-
low is a fighter, and will whip a sparrow,
or, for that matter, a purple martin, in the
open; but when the sparrow once gets in-
side the house, the swallow will not follow
in, but will give up the house. The swal-
lows kept the sparrows away at first, and
the entrance being small for the English
pups, the swallows were able to raise a
brood of young. After the young swal-
lows had left the house, I one day observed
a male sparrow enter, after hard work. A
wren being also about to take possession
of the house, I drove a nail in the center
of the entrance, allowing Mr. Wren to
enter on either side of the nail, and Mr.
Sparrow gave up in disgust.
Last year I fastened a smal! flower pot
to a pole, with wire, and enlarged the
water drain hole to suit the tree swallow’s
size. The sparrows, although numerous,
never molested the swallows, who reared
a brood. The tree swallows are here
again, but the sparrows go into the flower
pots this year. Can any of your readers
give dimensions of hole which tree swal-
lows can enter, and sparrows not?
Will bluebirds enter gourds? I under-
stand sparrows will not enter nesting
places for martins, made from gourds, sus-
pended by twine, and swinging freely. As
I have no gourd at hand to make a bird
house of, I shall suspend a flower pot by
a cord for an experiment.
The sparrows drove out of their house
the only pair of bluebirds that came around
here to nest for Io years, but I shot the
sparrow that interefered, and lowered the
house so it is only about 6 feet from the
ground. ‘The sparrows did not like this,
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and am in hopes, with good luck, to raise
a set or 2 of young bluebirds, as the old
ones are again building in the house.
Following is an article I wrote to the
local Daily Journal a short time ago:
Last year I had a single house wren, who was
a bachelor, built his own nest, but apparently
could find no mate. This same thing was the
case in 1900, the bird staying about all summer.
Can any of your readers explain why the bird
failed to secure a mate? [can not say it was the
same bird both seasons, but each year only one
bird was about and each built a nest. Careful
watching and examination of the nests after the
bird left in the fall failed to show that young
birds were raised therein.
The sparrows are plentiful here, but the purple
martins, when once located, will fight them to a
finish, and whip them every time. There-appears
to be a genéral- idea that English sparrows drive
away all other birds. Careful observation for the
past I0 years goes to show that not more than
one sparrow will attack another bird at a time
and then only when both birds want the same
testing place.
Blue birds are scarce now, and scem to nest
in the woods instead of in bird houses as for-
merly.
Fred Wahl.
CONVINCED THAT LYNX DESTROY DEER.
I read in May Recreation the article
“Does the Iynx Destroy Deer.” Several
years ago, in January, my father, the late
Chief Pokagon, and I were crossing Black
river, in this State, with a yoke of oxen
and a sled. We were startled by a strange
bleating on shore to the right of us, and
at the same time we saw a whirling about
in the brush, which at first appeared like
a small wirlwind, but in a moment we saw
“suc-se”’ (a deer) struggling to free her-
self: “from © “bi-su’.. (a) Jynx)~ )-oPathes
grabbed from the sled a‘stake which he
used as a war club, and tried to beat the
brute off the deer. “Bi-su” escaped the
war club and skulked away out of sight.
Our sympathy was awakened for poor
“suc-se,’ that lay prostrate on the ground,
and we raised her up. She was a large doe,
but to our surprise she was dead. We
skinned her and found that her throat was
severed, and neck mutilated in a frightful
manner. We took the skin and saddles
home with us, after staking down the re-
mains of the animal, beside which we care-
fully set a large bear trap that we happened
to have with us.
The following morning we went back to
the battleground. We found “bi-su”
caught by one fore foot in the trap. Father
walked up toward the brute with a heavy
war club, ard : SS
i eer, Om er LAN GRIZZLY.
man and I was happy; though it was
the beginning of more trouble, for
after that they hunted us high and
low till Pike shot my Father and one
brother. He was after me, for I had
killed Radcliff. They knew me by
my big track, for I was the biggest
silvertip on the range; but the trail
I climbed was too steep for them. A
few years later Whort shot my aunt
and a cousin on Cover mountain.
Five more of us sprang steel traps at
the Stirrup ranch, and they hunted us
so hard it kept us trailing back and
forth from Black mountain to Pon-
cha. We soon got tired of that and
moved again, that time over on Bur-
roughs’ mountain. For a while we
had an easy time again, for 2-legged
critters were scarce in that part of the
mountain in those days. Only a man
named Burroughs built a cabin on
top, where feed was good, and drove
in a bunch of cattle. What a picnic
LOR US, walewiwas ao shunterm. Ele
soon gave it up and drove his cattle
down again, leaving us in possession.
We missed his cattle at first, but soon
made trails down to Arch Hall’s
ranch, then over to his brother Jim’s,
and at last down to Dan’s. It was a
little farther to go for breakfast, but
we didn’t mind that if we could live
in peace on the mountain. It began
to look as if we might. The sun be-
gan to shine again, the water seemed
clearer in the springs, and life was
becoming a pleasure once more.
mlas! S-@nerday im “the tall. as |
was going down by the old cabin for
water, I heard voices in the timber
down the trail we had made to Dan
Hall’s. I was not long in getting to
high ground and out of sight. Soon
I saw them, as they came out in the
little park just below the cabin. One
of Dan’s old bronchos was carrying
Preacher Harris, and on a spotted
Indian pony was Coyote Bill. The
preacher was spending his vacation at
Dan Hall’s ranch, and Bill had taken
him for a ride in the hills. Perhaps
Bill was telling what he knew about
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coyotes and did not know about bears,
for they would not have known I
was in the country if it had not been
for that spotted Indian pony! I had
been careful not to leave any tracks
in the mud by the springs, and I had
kept off the regular trail where they
usually came, if they came at all to
the cabin; but one can never tell
which way a preacher is coming from.
They stopped at the first water and
got a drink. Brother Harris com-
mented on the fine water and wished
he had as good in Canon City. Then
Bill took a drink and, looking around
the little parks and bunches of quak-
ing asp, he said,
“It looks like a mighty good deer
country.”
They got on their horses and rode
slowly toward the cabin, right across
Miye tate Lien that “cussed = little
spotted Indian pony put her white
nose down in the grass and snorted!
Bill was out of his saddle in no time,
exclaiming,
“When Dell snorts like that it
means bear or mountain lion!”
Then he got down on his hands
and knees in the grass, looked close
and said,
eiearr,. Dy,
I guess he was going to say “by
thunder,” or something of that sort,
but he thought of the preacher and
quit.
Iled them ‘a merry chase all that
afternoon, but they were not smart
enough for old Mose.
About that time cattle came up in
price and the ranchmen complained
more than ever. I had just killed a
mice crimes tor Arch Half. and’ that
set ’em wild. They offered big re-
wards for bears. Arch set a trap by
themedEcassesieekilled = and. I “yent
around every night and sprang it for
him. I knew how, and I warned the
rest of our outfit to let the trap alone,
but they only made sport of me.
They said Mose was getting old and
cranky; so J let ’em alone, and in
about a week Arch had a fine young
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silvertip in his trap. He took it down
to Canon to show Bill and the rest of
the boys.
The sight of that fine bear hide set
Bill’s hunting blood in motion. From
that time on, as regularly as fall
came, that spotted Indian pony and
the brindle bulldog with a spike col-
lar would be seen at some of the
ranches around Burroughs’ or Pon-
cha mountains. Every time I saw
the dog it made me ache to show him
a thing or 2. I wanted a chance to
prove that old Mose was not made of
the same stuff they build coyotes of;
and that if he ever braced up to me
as he did around wolves and coyotes
in a steel trap, I would teach an old
dog new tricks and seud him to the
canine paradise over the bear-paw trail.
I had to calm myself, however, for
Tiger always kept close to his mas-
ter’s heels; and I noticed, too, that
the boys did not hunt alone, any
more. They said they did not mind
common black bears, but that when
it came to old Mose and his country,
company was not a bad thing to have
along.
Troubles do not come singly in
bear life any more than they do in
human life. We faced a new danger;
the new smokeless rifle! The old
black powder guns were not so bad.
Every time one of them went off it
made a noise equal to a clap of thun-
der, and smoke enough for an or-
dinary storm cloud. We knew for
miles around just where the shot
came from and what to do; but when
the Savage and the 30-30 started to
do business it was “a wildcat with a
different kind of tail.” Just a little
pop, like that of a tenderfoot’s 22, and
a little puff of smoke we could not
tell from that of a cowboy’s cigarette ;
but the work it did -was a fright! I
found a deer that had been shot with
a Savage, and it was terrible. It has
made me feel uneasy ever since.
The first time I ever heard of
smokeless rifles was the year I had
my closest call. We had been staying
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a few days at the head of Joe Hall’s
guich, holding a kind of camp meet-
ing in the rose-bulb patch on this side
of Poncha. Our feed was good there,
so we had given the cattle a rest and
thought the men had given up hunt-
ing us; but no! One evening, late in
the fall, along came that dodgasted
little spotted Indian pony and another
bronk, with the open box brand,
from over on Wilson creek. That
meant Whort. They asked Sid if
there were any bears up the gulch.
Sid said,
“Yes, you bet there are. Old Mose
ran me out of there last spring, and |
haven't been back since. -Didn’t
have anything but my old ’76 Win-
chester, and concluded I hadn’t lost
any bar. -You cam have emit you
want ’em.”
The next evening Whort, with his
30-30, and Bill, with the new Savage,
struck out for Burroughs’ mountain,
expecting to stimd) me at— my sold
stamping ground. Not finding any
signs of us there, they trailed along
the side of the mountain nearly to
the head of Joe’s gulch and struck
down the steep mountain side, right
where we were holding services. I
had barely time to get the sisters and
children started up the other side and
take the main trail myself to lead the
hunters off. I knew they wouldn't
bother the other tracks when once
they had sight of mine; and so it was.
They got so close to me once it made
my old hair go straight up. I
couldn’t leave the trail, for the moun-
tain was covered with fallen timber,
and I wouldn’t have stood any show
at all in that. All I could do was to
keep on down the trail till I reached
the short grass, where they could aot
track me. I knew they expected me
to keep on down the creek, but I
didn’t. I turned off to the left, and
that night I killed a steer for Mrs.
Hodges over on Cottonwood. Whort
and Bill went back the next day and
set their traps, but I did not return
that fall,
PELE CM ris ORVA GRIZZLY,
The next year the little spotted In-
dian pony was corralled at Arch
Hall’s ranch, and Brown and old
‘“Kodunk” took a hand in the game.
They stopped at Gardner’s, and Len
gave them a big jaw steer for bait.
They started out loaded with bait and
bear traps till you would have
thought there would not be a live
bear within 100 miles of the layout;
but they didn’t cut much hay that
trip! Old Kodunk drank all the
whisky and then got lost on the
range. ‘They caught 2 eagles in their
bear traps, and Brown and Bill car-
ried a deer down to camp that had
happened along the trail and met one
of those new Savage bullets. I
wasn't stopping bullets that fall, and
had struck out for Black mountain
again as soon as I saw the spotted
pony. |
The next year Whort bought the
Stirrup ranch and moved all his traps
on to Poncha. I took 3 rounds of
his bait without springing a trap.
Then I warned the few of our outfit
that were left and we moved to the
head of Long gulch, above Summer-
ville’s; all but one fool of a cub, who
stayed behind to see if I was right
about the traps. He found out, and
Whort scored bear No. 4.
Dan Hall and Bob Foster opened
target practice on one of us after
we went to Long gulch. Dan wanted
a rug, but he did not get it, for after
they took the hide off it was so full
of holes his wife nailed it up to the
kitchen window for a fly screen.
The affair startled me a little, and
I, then alone, trailed my weary old
bones back over on the far side of
Poncha, just above the Stirrup ranch,
to my old den, near where I had
killed Radcliff. It was an open win-
ter, and I didn’t hole up for good
till after Christmas. Then I slept the
sleep of the old and weary for 2
solid months.
In the spring the spotted pony
Rests within the old corrall.
In the spring old Mose still wishes
That same broncho was in ——
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I am not much on poetry, and you
wouldn’t expect it from a bear; but
these lines of Tennyson came to me
early in March. It was the first day
I had come out after my long nap,
and I thought I would take a peep
down at the Stirrup ranch, to see what
was going on. There in the corrall,
feeding at the big hay rick, was that
same little spotted Indian pony! The
next day they rode up the side of
Poncha, toward my den, but the snow
was so deep in places I knew they
could: not reach me that trip. Be-
sides, they carried kodaks and were
taking pictures. Whort pointed out
the place where he was going to set
his new bear traps and showed Bill
where he caught the cub last fall.
Then they went back to the ranch and
took pictures of the cattle. The next
day they drove back to Canon City;
but they left the little spotted Indian
pony !
I crawled’ wearily back into my
den, but I did not stay long, for each
day it got warmer, the sun shone
brighter, little rugged points of rock
crept up through the snow on Pike’s
peak and the Sangre, and down on
the South hill side, below in the quak-
ing asp groves, little bunches of dry
grass beckoned spring to hurry. Then
I lay all day in the sunshine at the
door of my den and thought, for ant-
mals do think. I wondered how it
would be with old Mose when these
old bones should lie bleaching in the
sun on Poncha mountain and this big,
shaggy old coat of mine, all tipped
with silver, should adorn Whort’s
den at the Stirrup ranch.
Is there a Heaven for bears?
I heard Coyote Bill tell the boys
around the camp fire, one night, that
dogs went to Heaven, and that old
Tiger was going there. He said they
had a little corner off by themselves,
away from the main push, where they
chased jack rabbits and coyotes over
the green hill side and didn’t get cac-
tus in their paws.
If dogs, why not bears?
418 I OQIIBAGEI GUN.
I wonder what it will be like? Will
Mother be there? Will the sun shine
as bright and the streams be as clear
and the berries be as thick and the
deer and antelope as plentiful as they
were in my cub days back at the foot
of Hoosier pass, before the hand of
man turned our earthly heaven into
hell? Who knows?
Then I look down over the big
snow bank below my den, across the
big timber and the wonderful pile of
rocks where Nature once built a big
temple and tipped it over just to see
it fall; farther down on the little flat,
where the cedars and soap weed
grow; down over the calf pasture and
past the big feeding corralls; still far-
ther down to the beautiful meadow
in the valley below, and what do I
see? Just a little spotted Indian
pony running with the bunch of
Stirrup cow ponies; and I know they
are coming back!
It may be in a few days or it may
be weeks, but they are coming. They
will bring the Savage and the 30-30,
and life will again be a burden to
poor old Mose.
Well, it doesn’t matter much. I[
have lived about long enough. Every
bone in my body aches, day and
night. I have been driven from hill
to hill and from cave to cave for
many years. My parents, my broth-
ers and my sisters have been killed,
and I am left alone in my old age.
I am no longer active and power-
ful as I once was. I can not make
the great leaps, nor strike the terrific
blows necessary to kill a big steer.
My teeth are broken so it is difficult
for me to eat a steer, even if I could
kill it. I am therefore reduced to a
diet of roots, srubs) “ory carntonmen!
have outlived the days of my
strength, my prowess and my cun-
ning; so, come to think it all over, I
don’t care how soon some fellow puts
one of those Savage bullets into me.
* *k * + x *k x
A prospector who was working on
the mountain, a year wlater sotuncerd
skull and a few of the other large
bones of a big silvertip, evidently
a very old bear, just in front of
the cave where old Mose hung out.
The teeth were worn away and there
were several enlargements about the
joints, such as result from rheuma-
tism. No doubt those were the bones
of old Mose.
Thus the king of Battle mountain
had at last passed in his checks, and
none of his kind is left to mourn
his departure,
“We had a delightful time last week,”
said the city cousin, who was describing
the joys of metropolitan life. “One even-
ing we trolleyed out to a suburban home
and ping-ponged until nearly midnight, and
next day we automobiled to the country
and golfed until dark.”
“Well, we had a pretty good time last
week, too,” ventured the country cousin,
with a sarcastic smile. “One day we bug-
gied over to Uncle Josiah’s, and we boys
got out in the back lot and baseballed all
the afternoon, and after we had dinnered,
some of the men cidered and tobaccoed a
while.’—Baltimore American,
2 ss Oy hearly repasi, is our fervent desire.
ge The Setter is dozing a mid-winter dream
aN Ry ‘The gun hangs neglecied, in care of a nail
g he. Sun has forsaken the field with ifs Sleam,
So’ Pe Merry Christmas fo.you,Mr. Quel
Tis the sport thal you yield nol the Sourmands desire —
That sings thee awelcome on ‘mountain and plain; |
And never again in thy wake would we fire,
Were the feast but the pleasure; ah never again.
Then hie fo some forest of bramble and bush,
Away, toa sheller from winter's cold hail
Loné life and prosperily now is our wish.
au Merry Christmas to.you, Mr Quail.
_Binoriam T WILSON.
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THE BIRDS SEEM TO CENTER HERE FROM ALL OVER THE CONTINENT.
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FIRESIDE MEMORIES.
J. H,
I have just laid away the latest copy of
RECREATION, and the stories | have been
reading in it have set my mind wandering
backward. As I sit here by my winter fire-
side, puffing my cigar and looking about the
room, my eyes light on a case of mounted
birds that I have collected in the marshes
and along the rivers hereabout.
As the winter wind howls without; as
the snow banks up on the lee side of the
house; as the little pellets of sleet patter
on the window panes, marring the fantas-
tic frost pictures that Jack had already
painted there, my imagination follows the
flight of many another bird I saw on the
marsh when collecting these, and that I did
not disturb, I wanted only certain species,
more especially game birds, with a few of
their neighbors.
There were hundreds, yes thousands of
birds: and if I had been as eager to
shed blood and as thoughtless and reckless
MACKAY, M. D.
bird when the gun cracks; to see the limp
and mangled body fall to the ground; to
rush out, gather in the bird and chuckle
over its untimely taking off.
Why can not all men and all boys realize
that a bird is only valuable while it lives;
that when dead its beauty fades and its in-
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in my love of slaughter as many men are,
I could have killed hundreds of them dur-
ing the hours I sat within my blind, or
tramped about the sloughs and along the
river.
It is a strange quality of mind which so
many men and boys possess, inherited per-
haps, from our savage ancestors, and which
so many of us have not attempted to curb
or refine in any way. I might almost say
that the average man or the average boy
values a bird only when it is dead; that
he considers it a misfortune that so many
birds or animals should escape the hails
of lead sent after them. Not that these
men or boys need these wild creatures.
That is a small part of the impulse to kill;
but these thoughtless, reckless men think
it great fun to see the feathers fly from a
terest to the world at large ceases? Why
do we not all learn to hunt with a camera
instead of a gun? Why do we not learn
to find satisfaction in the study of the
habits of the birds? To admire the grace,
the beauty, the swiftness of the bird in
flight?
Birds rarely fly far at any one time if let
alone. If you flush one, or a dozen, or a
hundred of them, they are likely to circle
about you, perhaps to move away I00, 200,
or 500 yards, and settle down again within
sight and within easy walking distance.
Why not observe their movements as they
go? Why not follow them, crawl in
behind a clump of willows or a sand hill,
a tree or a rock, and see what they do in
their new quarters?
If you will try a day of this kind
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of hunting you will. enjoy it 10 times
as much as you ever enjoyed a day’s shoot-
ing in your life, and you will go home at
night with the delightful consciousness that
you have left the birds for other people to
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days; of the hush and repose of the
waters; of the gorgeous colors of plant and
shrub; of the reddened sky at sunset, and
the afterglow which painted the heaven
far into the gathering twilight.
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AND SETTLE DOWN AGAIN WITHIN
study and to enjoy. Remember, there are
thousands of men, women and boys in the
United States who never fire a gun, and
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scarcely one of them who does not love
and admire birds, to a greater or less ex-
tent. Why not consider the interests and
the desires of these hosts of people?
The birds seem to center here in Ne-
braska, from all over the continent. We
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have more bird life here in spring, summer
and fall than can be found in perhaps any
other State in the Union, and many of the
most delightful hours of my life have been
spent in watching these birds. Of course
I have killed some of them, but have never
wasted any.
I have found great delight in mounting
some of the best specimens | have killed,
and afterward in looking over these birds
and in recalling the scenes amid which I
found them. If I had not saved some of
these specimens, I should not have enjoyed
the delightful recollections that now come
to me, of the hazy, shimmering autumn
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Without these mute reminders I could
scarcely have recalled to-night the mag-
nificent plumage of the cardinal, the oriole,
‘the robin, the meadow lark or the wood
duck.
I could scarcely have recalled the waving
fields of asters, and of goldenrod. I could
scarcely have heard, as I now seem to hear,
the rustle of the dying flags and rushes
that bordered the sloughs and lakes.
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I might have forgotten the gorgeous and
erratic butterflies that lingered into the
autumn when I was collecting these birds.
I might have forgotten the cohorts of
ducks and geese and gulls that circled and
doubled over my head repeatedly, before
settling into the water.
I might have forgotten the grateful and
exhilarating chatter of these birds after
FAIRE SLIDE
finding a refuge where they could camp for
the night, without being bombarded by
shot guns from every clump of brush.
I might have forgotten the frequent
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one October afternoon beside the Platte.
Before my eyes there arises a moving pic-
ture of filtering morass, of gurgling water,
of green hillocks, of tiny ponds, reflecting
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“scaip’ of the jacksnipe, as he changed
from one part of the marsh to another in
search of a suitable place to spend the
night.
I might have forgotten the whistle of an
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occasional woodcock that seemed anxious
to be off to the South.
I might have forgotten long lines and
clumps of birds that arose at daylight in the
morning and headed for the sunny South,
realizing that the winds had grown too
chill for them in this Northern region.
But the silent watchers on the mantel
and on various brackets about the room,
recall all these things as the winds howl
over the prairie to-night. ,
Especially vivid are the recollections of
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the warm sunbeams; of watercress sway-
ing in the current of a tributary brook; of
rushes sheltered and banked with thickets
of willows, sumac and wild plum bushes;
of the bright plumage of moving birds
HEADED FOR THE SUNNY SOUTH.
mingled with the many hues of the foliage,
the brown, waving prairie grass and of late
blooming flowers.
The notes of the purple grackle, the bob-
olink and the meadow lark, the clatter of
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ducks, all come to me as clearly as they
did on that balmy autumn day, and they
help to soften the austerity of these winter
nights.
Again I can hear the swish of wings,
the rippling of water, the fare-
well message of the elusive
jacksnipe.
Again I see the beautiful
wood duck, with plumage
rivaling that of the pea-
cock, floating on the shim-
mering water.
Again I note the grace-
ful curves of the hooded
merganser, seeking
the juicy mollusk,
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pipe their distorted and discordant notes
from among the rushes. The ripeness and
satiety of nature cast a spell on all ats
creatures and they revel in the sun and in
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chorus. of frogs,
the babbling and
chattering and screaming of
birds of many kinds, make na-
ture seem jubilant.
Austere nature, with a sense
of the duty of ripened maturity
and repletion, awaits the gathering
of its treasures into its storehouse,
without a protest. The birds have
a resigned and solemn air and a lazy
note. They have lived out the day of
their usefulness here in the North. Parents
have reared their young to maturity and
strength, and all are, so to speak, folding
their tents for their Southern journey.
Those of this mighty throng which es-
caped the fusillade of firearms en route
THE SWISH OF. WINGS.
returns to the big river where he evidently
feels more at home.
Back in the thicket the grosbeak whistles
its weird notes. The thirsty quail seeks
the water and drinks daintily. A flock of
crow blackbirds and a few purple grackles
South are again in their winter quarters
and will return to us next spring, cooing
and mating, seeking suitable places for the
building of their tiny houses and for the
rearing of other broods of young. Their
songs will be far more vigorous and cheer-
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and photograph the birds about me
was a pleasant task; and _— to-night,
with the old marsh fast in “%he bonds
of winter, with the clustering snow-
drifts gathering about, with the ice
bridging pond, lake and river for months
to come, I sit dozing by the fire, and in
fancy live over again the delightful days
spent with rod, and gun, and camera.
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ment. The singers will be intent on work-
ing again the miracle of nature. Who
could be so base as to outrage the plan of
Yonder on the rug sleeps my gentle setter.
Perchance he too is dreaming of the joy
we had afield in autumn days gone
by.
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STUDYING A STRANGE FIND.
DECEMBER IN THE WOODS.
DWIGHT E. SMITH.
Bleak is the forest, still and chill.
Cold, gleaming, desolate lies the snow
Upon the hills. Night now draws near.
Far in the West, below the fleecy clouds,
The burning sun goes down. The Western
sky,
A moment flushed with red, grows white
as. steel,
Cold, bitter cold, and dead, and deathly
still.
The forest dark and grim, with towering
trees,
Stands out against the moonlit, glittering
snow.
The treetops, black and bare and motion-
less,
Are traced upon the sky like lacework fine.
The trunks below, in vistas long and gray,
Stretch out toward other vistas: all is
still.
Stern silence passes through beneath the
trees
And leaves no trace behind. All things
are dead.
Here nothing lives. The distant, gleam-
ing stars,
So coldly glittering in a sky of steel,
Gaze down upon the forest and the snow.
The moon floats by; her chill and cheer-
less light,
Vague and uncertain, hovers over all,
And all is dead and desolate and drear,
And desolate and dead and drear—and
drear!
“They caught a man robbing the public
library till in a New England town.”
“How did they punish him?”
him
“Made
read
all the historical
novels.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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| A DAY WI MUSEALONGE. IN CANADA.
DR. GEO. M ALEER.
Morning came. Dog days had not run
their course. The sun cast up red like a
ball of fire. Not a breath of air stirred to
temper the torrid heat. Swallows flitted
lazily about, and the sibilant song of lo-
custs fell drowsily on the ear. Tiny,
tleecy clouds on the horizon gave promise
of showers during the day.
During the early hours of the forenoon |
repaired to tne home of old Brissette, on
the bank of Pike river, which flows into
that portion of Lake Champlain known as
Missisquoi bay, near the village of Bed-
ford, Quebec. I was provided with a ham-
per of solids and liquids for the inner man,
and a sufficient supply of paraphernalia to
start a fishing tackle store. Brissette was
awaiting me.
“Bon jour, bon jour, mon cher amit; we
mek start rat off for quick.”
Dipping his fingers into the benitier,
which always has a conspicuous place in
the home of the habitant, Brissette de-
voutedly made the sign of the cross; and
with a wish from his wife for our success
and safe return we took our departure for
the flat water of the river, some distance
below his house.
On our way to the landing, near the
deep pool wheré the rapids end, we passed
through nooks and vistas in glade and
‘mead that gladdened the eye; where na-
ture in her seeming indifference and drowsy
neglect furnishes many artistic sights.
The timid brown thrush is start ed by our
intrusion and flits into the denser growth
beyond, and the bobolink sings his joyous,
rollicking notes in the meadow. All this
seems lost on the matter-of-fact Brissette,
the patient basket maker and_ successful
angler; perhaps because it is a part of his
everyday life.
At the landing th» trolling rod of split
bamboo is assembled, the mu tiplying reel
is well secured in its place, the threadlike,
silk waterproof enameled line is extended
t.rough the guides, and a latest pattern of
trolling spoon is attached. Brissette
scrutinized everything closely without say-
ing a word, but it required on'y an indif-
ferent mind-reader to see that he was not
favorably impressed. As we took our
places in the boat he said. _ ioe}
“Ver nice, dat tings, ver’ nice. He don't
fool ’longe, plobly, don’t he, hein?”
Feeling entirely confident of giving him
a surprise I was conte.-t to make answer,
‘Well, we'll see, Brissette, we'll see.”
The oars were in the hands of a master.
The boat moved as smoothly as a swan
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on the surface of the water. The speed
was neither too fast nor too slow. Sev-
enty-five yards of line were slowly paid
out. Every nerve was tense, and anxiety
waited on expectation. Slowly the mile
was covered, but no pirate of the waters
seized the tempting lure. My faith in the
burnished gold and silver spoon weakened
after going a few miles, and I asked Bris-
sette to desist from rowing until | mounted
a phantom minnow.
“Looks lak he no wants de jewelry mek
on de State, hein?”
“Well, Brissette, your ‘“longe may not be
so highly educated as ours, but all the
same I think I shall yet tempt one.”
“Plobly,’ answered Brissette, with deep
skepticism.
I raised and lowered the tip of the rod,
describing the tangents of a circle, but all
to no purpose. We covered 5 miles with-
out a rise or a sign. I discarded my phan-
tom minnow for a St. Lawrence gang, and
we covered more miles without encourage-
ment or reward. At the turning point we
neared a few spreading elms and I sug-
gested to Brissette that we go ashore to
eat our lunch.
Climbing the precipitous bank of the
river we saw murky clouds rolling to-
ward the zenith from the Western horizon.
They were frequently intersected and illu-
minated by zigzag chains of lightning. It
was evident that a heavy shower was not
far off and we deemed it wise to seek the
shelter of an outlying barn some distance
away. We had just begun to dispose of
our refreshments, seated on mounds of
sweet scented, newly gathered hay, when
great rain drops beat a restful tattoo on
the roof. The wind grew in intensity and
volume and soon we were in the midst
o: a blinding summer shower, punctuated
bv the flash and roar of the artillery of the
clouds. The face of nature was thor-
oughly washed, and after the passing of
the shower, vegetation appeared an intenser
green.
Luncheon was leisurely disposed of, to-
gether with something ot a liquid nature,
which had a happy effect, when Brissette
broke in with,
“Bah gosh! ah'll tole ho’ hwomans we
go for get big ‘longe; for big tam. We'll
fin’ big tam for sure!”
“Yes, but we haven’t got our big ‘lon
g ge
yet.”
“Certainement! Certainement! Des *!onge
he no lak for to heat de jewelry tings. He
lak it de chub bettaire.”’
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“Well, Brissette, I don’t know but
you are more than half right. If you will
rig up a chub for me your way, we'll try
our luck with him.” }
“Non, non, mon cher ami! Brissette
mak’ it de boat go long sof’ and easy lak.
He no feesh. Nous ne comprenons pas
for mak dat wheel machine go on dat
leetly feedle steeck.”
“Oh! You may row the boat just the
same and I will use the rod and reel. I
cnly want you to get the chub and put him
on the hook for me your way.”
Amo Jak ie de wear, ime, I sc on dé
store for melasses and de docteur he come
and he say, ‘Brissette, I go for ‘longe las’
w ek. I a n’t get one. For how you feex
it de bait on de hook for catch him: De
ministaire he say, ‘Brissette, for how you
coax de ’longe? I feesh, one, 2, 3 tam, and
don’t see ’longe at all. De Heenglishmans
in village he ver’ smart; he know every
tings. He say, “Brissette, we go feesh
wid you some tam, some day, noder day.’
Brissette no keep it de school; Brissette
he no go!”
“Very well, Brissette, I wil adopt .your
method. You rig up a bait your way, and
on our way back I will do just as you
direct.”
“Rain look mos’ gon’ by.
brook for I0, 15 minutes;
on de boat.”
The time had passed, the rain had ceased,
the air was refreshed and agreeably tem-
pered. Meeting at the boat bv appoint-
ment, J?risset e exhibited a chub at least
I) inches long, which he had caught in the
brook, . .d which he said was to be my
bait.
“Great Scott! Brissette, you don’t mean
it! Why that fish is almost large enough
ico wonmde
den you come
to carry home to stuff and bake. It will
frighten any ‘longe out of his wits!”
“You for do my way, hein? Well, Bris-
sette acquail.t wid dese ‘longe and he know
what he lak’ pour manger for him sup-
per.”
While engaged in this conversation,
Brissette was mounting the chub. He
peeled and sharpened a small sapling with
which ne made a perforation from the
head along the backbone to the rear of the
dorsal fin. Through this he passed a copper
wire which he made thoroughly secure to a
hook large enough and strong enough to
hold a shark. He then withdrew the
copper wire until the shank of the hook
was drawn into the opening made bv the
sapling, and so concealed in the body
of the fish. He next passed the point of
the hook through the body midway be-
tween the dorsal fin and the tail and gave
it a twist, or bend, which would cause
the chub to revolve when drawn through
the water. He then passed the free
end of the wire twice through the
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lips, effectually closing the mouth so the
bait would move through the water easily
and without injury; and finally he con-
nected it with the chain of swivels attached
to the end of his line.
He cast the bait thus prepared several
times into the water and drew it toward
himself to see if it revolved properly while
being drawn through the water. Every-
thing being satisfactory, Brissette said,
“We now go for beeg ‘longe; we get
him for sure.”
“Well, I am glad your courage is good,
Brissette; but I can never get that big
line ‘of yours on my reel: What shall 1
do?”
“Hole’ heem in your han’s. When big
‘longe eat him and run, let him go, pull
heem in, let heem go some more; bimeby
he ‘get ver tired: *
“Yes, but how do you.do when alone?
You can’t hold the line and row at the
same time.”
“Hol’ line in mout’. When ’longe come,
stop row, take hol’ on line.”
Diplomacy, persuasion, and importunity
were brought to bear, and after a great
deal of remonstrance and with evident mis-
giving on his part, he at last consented to
let me use my rod, reel and line, on the
strongest assurance of their strength and
reliability, and that I would be neither dis-
pleased nor disappointed if I hooked and
then lost the largest ‘longe through my
own inability or the breaking or failure
of my tackle.
With this concession and understanding,
we set out on our return trip. Obeying the
instructions of Brissette I paid out only
25 or 30 yards of line. We carefully
skirted the lily pads, giving special attention
to the deep poo!s where the water had cut
away the banks of the river, and to the
darksome reaches of water beneath the over-
hanging growth of water brush and other
foliage. Mile on mile we slowly covered,
with expectation constantly keyed up to
intensest pitch, but all to no purpose. We
came in sight of the wide and deep pool
at the place of our departure near the end
of the rapids without any attack on our
leviathan bait. Brissette’s volubility had
ceased and anxiety was depicted on _ his
countenance. We were gently sweeping
around the other side of the pool when I
ventured to say,
“Well, Brissette, it begins to look doubt-
ful if your prediction will be fulfilled to-
day. The big ’longe don’t seem to want
fo) call on ities bis veh ———4
“Hold on, Brissette, hold on! We’ve
struck a snag!”
Whiz-izz-izz-zz-z went the reel. The
fight was on, and we were launched at
once into the storm center of exciting
sport.
The mighty fish threw his weight on
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the rod and it yielded to the strain in
graceful ellipse. Away he went down
stream, pulling the boat after him as if it
was drawn by a stout pony. ‘The strain
was too great and he hurled himself de-
fiantly out of the water, the embodiment of
untamed fury and piscatorial ferocity.
“Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! but he is de
bigges’ fader of dem all! Nex’ tam he come
he eat up your leetly string and feedle
steeck and laf at Yankee man from State!
Brissette mek him cool. off and go ’iong
home wid him for sure.”
Witist wait a little,” Brissette, and “see
what the Yankee man and his fiddlestick
will do. He'll cool him off all right.”
Down to the bottom went the ‘longe to
sulk. A few gentle turns of the reel and
like a flash out again came the tiger of the
waters, shaking his head to free himself
from the cruel barb; but the multiplying
reel and the resiliency of the split bamboo
rod gave him no slack line and consequent-
ly no chance to escape.
“Sapristi, but I nevaire see like dat be-
fore me! One leetly feedle string and one
leetly feedle steeck mek hold mos’ bigges’
‘longe as ever was.”
“Oh! Ill show you before I get through
what the little fiddle string and the little
fiddle stick will do.”
Meanwhile his royal majesty made an-
other drive away from the boat with great
speed and power. To the resistance of
the drag on the wheel I added the pres-
sure of mv thumb on the line, but he never
ceased in his flight until he had taken out
Somes 40h Oi 50" yards) on line: okie ethen
_ started on a circuit’ of the pool, which I
endeavored to check by giving him the butt
of the rod and by reeling in whenever for
a moment he desisted from pulling and
tugging. Twice during the circuit he es-
sayed the aerial act, but with less im-
petuosity and violence. It was easv to
see that the severe strain of the rod was
telling on his strength. He turned about
and made another wild rush as if to pass
underneath the boat, but reeling in quick-
ly and putting pressure on the rod I frus-
trated his plan and prevented the line from
getting entangled with the oars, as would
otherwise probably have been the case.
That seemed to infuriate him anew and
again he essayed to leap out of the water
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CANADA. 433
as his only hope of escape; but he was
unable to force more than his head and
back above the surface of the water.
Alas! good fighter! Alas! mighty war-
rior! All danger is past and it is only a
question of patience, care, and time before
your royal sway is at an end.
The fight was fast and furious, permit-
ting of no conversation nor idle banter.
3rissette, while carefully managing the
boat, did not for an instant cease to regard
the, to him, unequal contest with an in-
tensity of interest bordering on enthusiasm
and amazement.
“Ah! Brissette,’ I ventured at last, “see
the big fellow is getting tired. Now what
do you think of the fiddle string and the
little fiddle stick?”
| Baby nCOsntecedicursirine sand) steediic
steeck all right when Yankee man play de
feedle. Bah gosh! I nevaire see like dat,
mex whhiss by way of compliment “and
praise, for your Frenchman is nothing if
not polite and complimentary.
“Thank you, Brissette, but we haven't
got him into the boat yet.”
“For sure, our ‘longe! I jomp in wataire
and pull him on shore.”
“Well, not just now, Brissette. He is
cooling down all right, and when all the
fight is out of him I will lead him around
tO tered ve Ofethesboat When you can
slip your thumb and fingers into his gll's
and lift him in.”
Ten minutes more passed and the strug-
cle =was) sate an ends)" Phe) terce aiehiter
could be led about as gently as a finger-
ling. I reeled in the line. As the ’longe
neared-the gunwhale the hand of Brissette
laid firm hold on the gills and soon the
monster was writhing on the bottom of
the boat. A merciful blow at the base of
the skull ended the struggle and Brissette
pulled for the shore.
As the shadows of evening gathered, a
proud procession moved through the vil-
lage street, to the surprise and wonder-
ment of passers by, who were generous
with congratulations and praise. At last
the village store was reached and the
scale registered 2814 pounds as the weight
of our prize. I returned to my home with
pleasant recollections, well content to have
spent the day on Pike river with old Bris-
Sette.
Parke—I believe in letting my son see
life, so the other day I took him through
a gambling hell.
Lane—I did practically the same ching;
I took mine across the water in an ocean
steamer,
‘IF YER DON’T GO WE SHOOT.
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Pine 1 NG;
UNDER FIRE.
A. S. DOANE.
One evening late in March, the poach-
ers pardner stood in front of the camp,
watching the Sound. He was a tall man,
weighing 185 or 190 pounds, but so finely
proportioned that he looked slight when
contrasted with the poacher’s shorter and
more bulky figure. The pardner wore long
rubber boots, an old pair of corduroys,
patched with shot bag, a red sweater and
an old shooting jacket. A tarpaulin hat
and 3 weeks’ whiskers completed his
costume. His most striking characteristic
was a missing left eye. The remaining eye
was of a peculiarly chilly, steely blue.
“You got a eye like a fish,’ the poacher
had once told him.
There was not a breath of wind, not a
ripple stirred the water. For once Sound
and sedge were both quiet. The sun had
gone and the last rays of twilight were fast
disappearing.
“What you make of it?” said the poacher,
as he joined him.
“I make nix,” said his pardner. “Not a
thing in sight except those swan,” he add-
ed, as he pointed to a long streak of white,
looking more like a vast bank of snow
than wild fowl.
“Well,” said the poacher slowly, “we kin
make a night’s work there.”
“But we got no big shot,” objected his
pardner.
“Don’t need any,” said the old man short-
lyse Il put you so clost you kin pick
"em up in your hands. Jest like ducks
when they see a light.”
“Too bad the ducks are gone,” said the
younger. “We were making all kinds of
money.”
“Yes, tis too bad, but get the light and
the guns in the skiff. We got to go and
git ‘em and be back here “fore the moon
rises. We got 5 hours yet; but they must
be all of 2 mile off.”
At a little island a mile away half a
dozen float houses were pulled up against
the marsh and half a dozen big sail boats
lay at anchor. Preparations of quite a
different kind were making for the night.
The occupants of the float houses were bat-
tery shooters. Two or 3 men were loading
Winchesters; others were loading shot gun
shells with buck shot and slugs made from
net leads, which another man was chopping
up with a hatchet. The talk was loud
and indignant. Contrary to his usual cus-
tom the poacher had kept off the club
marshes the preceding 2 months, and had
been sneaking and firelighting the raft
ducks; and so successfully that the ducks
had finally left that part of the Sound.
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Naturally the battery shooters were
wrathful; their business had been broken
up.
“Why doesn’t he stay on the marsh?”
growled one.
“It’s all that cussed pardner,’ said an-
other. “He always did stick to the marsh
until he come up here.”
“Never mind,’ said a third, “either we
git them to-night or make ’em so sick they
won't do no more lighting.”
“That's the stuff,’ chimed in a man with
a rifle, “make ‘em sick, and sick enough to
die, if we kin.”
About an hour later, with a powerful
reflecting lantern on the bow of their skiff,
the poacher and his pardner were shoving
down on the big raft of swans. It would
have been a wonderful sight for an artist.
The long, bright beam of light, gradually
widening as it left the boat, showed every-
thing with startling vividness. The brown
sedge on the edge of the marsh, the fright-
ened swans like great movable bundles of
fleece, now swimming away and now
bunching and approaching the fatal light;
even the sandy bottom of the Sound, all
were distinct. The poacher guided the
boat with his long shoving oar. His pard-
ner was forward, gun in hand. They could
see the little beady eyes of the great birds.
Silently the boat glided still nearer. The
swans bunched again.
“Now,” said the poacher, dropping the
stick and picking up his gun. The 4q re-
ports followed one another in rapid succes-
sion. Half a dozen large bunches of white,
showing plainly on the water, and 4 or 5
cripples paddling for the marsh, told of
the execution they had wrought. The
pardner picked up the stick and pushed to
the nearest bunch and the poacher pulled
it in the boat. They passed to the next,
where 3 lay together, and got them. Then
came the reports of half a dozen guns and
rifles and the air. was full of slugs, bullets
and big shot. The poacher was overboard
in an instant, only his head showing above
water. His pardner reached for his gun.
The rifles still cracked and the bullets
whistled.
“Drop it, man! Put out the light and
lay overboard,” said the poacher, quickly.
As his pardner reached for the light, a
jagged piece of lead, fired from a shot gun
did his work for him. He was at once in
the water.
“Now,” said the poacher, “git them dead
birds inter the boat and pull her on the
marsh. Maybe they'll go away.”
Both men were perfectly cool; they had
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“been there before.” The others, now the
light was out, had nothing to shoot at, but
they knew the poacher would go to the
marsh, so they shoved down hard for the
shore. They meant business.
The poacher and his pardner pulled their
skiff into a little slash, concealing it as
well as possible, and taking their guns,
squatted in the long grass, about 10 paces
from the boat. They were on a small
sedge island. Within 5 minutes their
pursuers were on the island, too, holding a
hurried consultation. It was one thing to
shoot at a light 200 or 300 yards away; but
quite a different proposition to follow up
2 desperate men, armed with shot guns,
the deadliest known weapons at close range,
through thick sedge and rushes. The
poacher was popularly supposed never to
miss a duck, no matter how dark the night;
and his pardner was believed to be a fugi-
tive from justice. The majority favored
letting things go as they were and return-
ing to their float houses. One or 2, how-
ever, proposed to burn the sedge and run
out the fugitives. The debate waxed warm.
An accident decided the question. One
man thoughtlesslv struck a match to light
his pipe. The skiff, full of dead swans,
with the shattered lantern still hanging on
the standard, was plainly visible. There
was a unanimous cry:
“Let’s take the skiff and leave ’em to
swim home.”
Willine hands seized the skiff. The
poacher and lis pardner cocked their guns.
His pardner turned his single eye on the
poacher.
“Walk to’’em,”” he whispered, briefly) “It
you don’t, I will.”
INE CIR IA ALINIOIN.
The poacher half rose and his voice was
hoarse: “See here,” he said, “you men has
messed me all up enough fur once. Now
git and don’t furgit to leave that skiff.”
He paused, and his pardner came to his
assistance, adding, in a hard metallic voice
that vibrated with half suppressed rage,
“Tf yer don’t go, we shoot.”
The pursuers were clearly at a disadvan-
tage and saw the point at once. They were
at the water’s edge and their figures showed
plainly against the sky. Their enemies were
well hidden in the thick sedge. Without
a word each man got in his skiff and
shoved off.
“Now,” said the poacher, “carry me to
the boat and shove for the main shore and
2) GOCHOIe.”
How that trip was made will never be
known. The poacher was full of big shot.
The same load that put out the light, had
sent a piece of lead through his pardner’s
left arm, making an ugly flesh wound. A
rifle ball had grazed his hip. Nevertheless,
the trip was made, and before daybreak
they were well on their way back to their
shack, Whe - poacher cursed” freely, alll
guns, gunning and gunners, particularly
battery shooters. His pardner’s only com-
ment was,
“There is a law of compensation.”
poacher broke off suddenly,
“What’s that there mean?” he asked.
sOh, “said whiss pander, cane lessivam elt
means things always break even. If the
rich man gets his ice in the summer, the
poor man gits his’n in the winter.” The
poacher grinned.
“T reckon we be pore enough, all right,
if that’s it,’ he said.
The
A swarm of bees chased Willie,
Till the boy was almost wild,
His anxious parents wondered
Why the bees pursued the child.
To diagnose, they summoned
Their physician, Dr. Ives,
el thinks:
he said,
“the reason’s clear—
Our Willie has the hives.’—Widow.
A DOE CHIME EIN, OUiCK show,
A.
Dick, waiting in front with the team,
found waiting tiresome. At times he
viewed the prospects which our trip offered
us; but mostly he watched the Eastbound
shadow of the oid dial in the garden. ‘he
afternoon was wearing along and he was
becoming anxious; for the 30-mile drive to
our destination would already, if every-
thing went well, carry us some hours into
the night.
While he was thus occupied I appeared
from around the house, bundled dog, guns
and myself into the wagon, and we at
once took the road. Up and down, past
fertile nooks and grassy hillsides we drove,
chatting the while, until the short two-
li;ht gave place to the splendor of a full
moon. Southward swept the white line
of the coast road 20 miles, and down it we
went.
Soon the horses were plunging across
luckily there was not
across, we continued
to turn mile after mile. The tide kept
steadily rising and drove us higher and
higher on the soft sand. We pushed on as
best we could until we came to the outlet of
Oso Flaco lake. Without crossing we fol-
lowed it over the sandhills to the lake it-
sclf. Another 8 miles, this time over a
good road, took us to our destination,
an ideal place, under a clump of beautiful
trees where water and fuel were in plenty.
It was not yet 10 o’cluck.
In a wonderfully short time camp was
11ade, blankets spread over our collapsed
tents, and the horses attended to.
After breakfast next morning some
little time was occupied in putting things
the Arroyo Grande;
much water. Safe
shipshape. Then with guns in hand we
sought the- ducking grounds; Dick go-
ing upstream, I downstream. The day
came slowly out of the East, and presently
the dull report of a gun came over the
marsh. The work of the day had begun;
the ducks were flying. I wondered what
Dick had shot, or shot at; but then it -was
riy turn and soon Jack was retrieving a
plump spoonbill. Some people never use
this bird, but when it has attained good
condition on a freshwater marsh, the
spoonbill, or shoveler, will rank with the
best widgeon. Then almost directly a
flock of pintails came flying over me. So
noiseless was their flight, however, that
by the time they had attracted my atten-
tion and I had brought my gun to bear
they were well nigh out of range of the
fullowing. No. 6’s.
The flight did not last long and I made
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C., GOODCHILD.
slow progress in increasing my bag. Only
one solitary widgeon did I shoot, after
walking an hour, downstream. I con-
tinued to walk leisurely down when
swish went a flock of teal some 70 yards
from me at full speed. I gave them a
salute and to my astonishment 2 responded
to the call of my left barrel. Before I
had extracted my shells some widgeons
came flying by, and in the confusion a
bulged shell stuck. Eight widgeons went
by within easy shot before I could reload.
While 1 was engaged with that vile
shell I heard the call of quails on the hill
opposite. There being no ducks in sight
I was soon scrambling up the hillside.
Jack worked all through the cover but
without finding a bird and presently I was
retracing my steps down the hill, a sadder
but a wiser man. At the foot of the hill
was a large jungle of rushes through
which ran winding passages. In these
Jack separated from me, but on finding my
way out I observed him by the water’s
edge pointing, as staunchly as could be,
some butterballs in the water. I flushed
the ducks, cut down 2 with mv right barrel,
and another with my left. For the first
2 Jack made but one trip; for though a
pointer the veteran dog does not hesitate
to retrieve from water.
Shortly after, I walked downstream.
Away, as far as I could see, several flocks
of ducks circled round and round. After
ae walle onew tock .came nearer 1 ad-
vanced with excessive caution, but unfor-
tunately did not mark them down as
well as I might have done, and they flew
their way unharmed. Presently I arrived
at a bend of the slough, and, having placed
my canvas decoys on the mud, I nestled
behind a fence which afforded an excellent
view of either side. At last I perceived
a flock of ducks, and their flight was to-
ward me. Presently 2 birds came down,
one a gadwall, the other a female mallard.
I shot the gadwall, which flew on, evi-
dently hard hit. When he had flown 100
yards a pigeon hawk appeared, flying from
right angles at full speed, struck my bird,
and sent him stone dead to the ground.
By that time it was getting near noon,
and I proceeded to shoot my way back to
camp along the water course. After a while
from behind some tules there fluttered up a
teal which, crossing me, presented an easy
shot, and I brought him to grass. Shortly
after, I got up some others, but with less
favorable results, only one finding his way
into the bag. On reaching camp I found
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Dick had succeeded in shooting quite a re-
spectable bag of ducks and a few snipe.
Among them was a magnificent redhead.
This bird used to be quite plentiful, but of
late years seems to have been supplanted
by the canvasback.
After luncheon Dick was so anxious to re-
turn to the snipe that, hurriedly supplying
myself with some light shells, I joined him.
No sooner had we begun to walk the bog
than a chuckling snipe went sailing away
from behind some high grass and out of
gun shot. Three others’ got up, and we
each got one of them. Presentiy we flushed
2 more, and I just caught a glimpse of the
hinder one as he went around a clump
of willows. I turned off to work up
wind. Dick continued down and bagged
another. Then I missed 2 long shots. A
little farther on another bird rose from
bare ground at my approach and fell, after
a twisty flight, to my second barrel. Thus
we kept on, I frequently missing. After
bagging 4 I decided to return to the duck-
ing grounds, thinking I could better attend
to ducks; nevertheless I had a merry 15
or 20 minutes with the snipe.
In making my way through the under-
growth near camp I unexpectedly came on
an open place, whence a flock of teal got
ups I ‘fired twice, ‘cuttime dowiea brace
Soon a lone widgeon came in sight, speed-
ing down the line. At my first shot he
only turned his course, but my left brought
him to the water,
I sat in my blind and watched some moor
hens on the farther side and the arrival of
a diver. It was one of those days of ex-
cessive quiet and restfulness; every cackle
of the mud hens and even the dip of the
diver were heard. At length a faint breeze
brought, of a sudden, a sound of wings to
my ears. My curiosity was aroused and I
looked up. Upstream and just out of gun
shot went flying a bunch of plover.
I pulled myself together, and almost di-
rectly there came a deafening roar, as a
mass of wild fowl like a dark cloud for a
minute obscured the sun. Then there were
alternations of darkness and light, the wind
increased to half a gale and the flight kept
on. The surf on the beach roared louder
and louder as the wind increased. The
air seemed full of ducks. The fun grew
fast and furious, and many a sprig, wid-
geon and teal made the fatal mistake of
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venturing too near. In an hour the gale
abated and the flight was over,
I pushed my way through the close tules
for the path that led to camp. On coming
suddenly into the open I surprised a flock
of geese feeding near, where wild celery
grew in profusion. They flew straight
away, then wheeled and sailed over a hill
in such a way as to indicate that they
would alight. Around the hill 1 went and
found them as I had anticipated. I tried to
reach a bush 20 yards distant that would
afford a fairly good hiding place, but be-
fore I could get there they flew away.
Right there should have ended my wild
goose chase; but, no, the afternoon wore
on to its close and I chased and chased and
the geese flew hither and thither until they
eventually disappeared in the direction of
the ocean. The sun had gone down, and
disconsolately I trudged through the swamp
to camp. .
The following morning I awoke to find
the weather cloudy, and a light wind from
the South threatening a downpour of rain.
As soon as it was light we started out.
We skirted the little wood below camp,
but kept along the water course where it
was possible. Out of a reedy pool I got a
mallard and his mate. When we neared
the beach we saw flocks of plover, avocets
and curlew.
Separated from the beach only by a
stretch of sand iie 2 freshwater ponds, and
to these we directed ou Steps: “Several
jack rabbits were seen and cottontails were
evidently plentiful. At last we reached
the sand dune next the more inland of the
ponds. As we peered over its top we saw
hundreds of canvasbacks and a flock of
white fronted geese scarcely 10 yards away;
the ones of the previous evening. It was
my turn now.
While Dick ran to get between the birds
and the sea I singled out a big goose and
fired.. Then, without releasing the trigger
or waiting to see the result, I worked the
slide until the magazine was empty.
Result, one goose and 16 misses. Mean-
time the canvasbacks and geese were
flying in the direction of Dick. At last 2,
4 and then another went toppling down al-
most before I heard the crack of his first
shell. Jack cleverly retrieved my goose.
Five hours later our buckboard again
stood in front of our home.
A theater party is a mistake:
If the play
is interesting, the people bore you; if the
people are interesting, the play bores ycu.
A FLORIDA HUNTING GROUND.
W. N.
It would be difficult to imagine a more
delightful experience than a hunting trip
to Florida in midwinter, providing always
one is fortunate in the selection of lo-
cality, boarding place, guide, etc. The
delicious Indian summerlike days, the gor-
geous sunsets and the hardly less radiant
moonlight nights; the balsamic breezes of
the pine forests, the never fading verdure
of the palms and magnolias; the wild
flowers under foot and the laughing,
dimpled lakes and lazily winding rivers;
all combine to form a picture in ‘the vivid
contrast to conditions existing at the North
during winter’s stern reign.
PLISE,
be unreservedly recommended in_ every
way. I refer to The Jolly Palms, at Mo-
hawk, Lake county, kept by Charles H.
Stokes.
Mohawk is a tiny place, situated in the
so called Apopka mountains, a chain of
sandhills 100 to 300 feet high, about 6
miles wide and 12 miles long. ‘These hills
are clothed from base to summit with long
leaf pine, with some oak intermingled,
forming open, parklike woods, carpeted
with a scant growth of wiregrass, with
here and there clumps of palmetto, plum
thickets, etc.. Many of the valleys are
occupied by lakes of varying sizes, the
KS BO AaB Ue Osi TD.
There . are large sections of the State
which are annually over hunted and others
where tourists swarm, where civilization
obtains, and from which all game worthy of
the name has long since fled. There are
other localities where game is sufficiently
plentiful to suit anyone but a hopelessly
confirmed game hog, but where “grease and
grits” and. other gastronomic horrors of
the Florida backwoods kitchen offer a bar-
rier which no self-respecting stomach can
surmount. As to guides, there are good,
bad and indifferent ones in all parts of
the. country;. but it is my good fortune
-and that of a limited number of other
readers of RECREATION to know of a sports-
men’s resort in Central Florida which can
439
waters of which are soft, pure, of crystal-
line clearness and abound with big mouth
bass, bream, perch and other fishes.
The Jolly Palms is built on the side of a
hill, with its grounds running down to the
sandy shore of one of these beautiful lakes,
from which bass of over Io pounds in
weight have been taken. A footbridge ex-
tends out about 100 feet from the shore
to a combination boat and bath house.
The bottom of the lake is of white sand
and the water is so clear it looks green in-
side the structure. To bathe in those
soft, limpid waters on rising in the morn-
ing, or after a day’s hunt afield, is an in-
vigoration and a delight which must be
experienced to be appreciated. Orange
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and other tropical fruit trees, shrubs and
vines, are scattered about the grounds,
forming a beautiful and interesting setting
for the main cottage and its anivex.
Although on a railroad and _ easily
reached from Jacksonville, Mohawk is en-
tirely off the beaten lines of tourist travel,
and is in the midst of an extensive terri-
tory which has never been overhunted.
Quails are plentiful in the surrounding
hills, and the open woods make the hunt-
ing of them easy and pleasant. ~The man
who has never hunted quails under a mid-
winter Florida sky has missed one of life’s
best chapters. There is also a fine snipe
marsh only 4 miles away on the borders
of the great Lake Apopka, the second
largest lake in the State, being 50 miles
in circumference. Large flocks of ducks
congregate on that and adjacent lakes, rab-
bits, fox squirrels and some deer are found
on the hils, while the lower and more
densely wooded tracts, hammocks and
swamps harbor wildcats, foxes, raccoons,
opossums, cat squirrels, and an occasional
panther or bear. A light cypress boat,
built to fit a wagon, makes accessible the
waters of any of the numerous lakes sur-
rounding and within easy driving distance
of Mhe Wolly Palms and) there! are wdays
when the bass in some of those lakes
would sorely tempt the staunchest mem-
Deron the Id) AV Ss io) becomesa contmured
fish hog.
Next to the pleasure of legitimately
hunting and killing one’s game is the
satisfaction of having it properly cooked
and served. This Mrs. Stokes can do in
a manner calculated to tempt the appetite
oi a dyspeptic or to satisfy the most epi-
curean taste. In fact, the dining room is
one of the strong attractions at The Jolly
Palms. It is a revelation and a delight,
not only in the variety and palatableness
of the food served, but in its scrupulous
neatness and attractiveness in all respects.
No substance from a “tin cow” appears on
that board, but instead the rich product
from genuine Jerseys, which gives to cof-
fee and breakfast cereals their choicest
flavor. Charlie Stokes himself is a past
master of the art of camp cookery, some
of the repasts al fresco over which he was
the presiding genius being among my most
cherished recollections.
Twelve miles South of Mohawk lies the
beginning of what is probably the best
hunting ground in Florida, the great Green
swamp, in which the weird and winding
Palatlakha river has its source. Although
called a swamp it is not one in the true
sense of the word or as we understand a
swamp in the North. Instead it is a vast
stretch of shallow water filled with in-
numerable islands varying in area all the
way from the fractional part of an acre to
RECREATION.
several hundreds or thousands of acres.
The water is not stagnant, but moving,
soft and pure enough for drinking, and
shallow enough in most places to admit
of wading from island to island, the bot-
tom being hard and sandy. The islands
are covered with forests, some with pine
or cypress and others with a variety of
semi-tropical trees, often overrun with a
tangle of vines and creepers, and abound
in a great variety of game; bears, panthers,
deer) wildcatsn) saccoonsw. tabbitsemcaie
squirrels, wild turkeys, quails, wood ducks
and sandhill cranes. Otters and alligators
also inhabit portions of the swamp and are
hunted for their skins by a few native
trappers who live permanently in the
swamp and know its fastnesses like a
book.
Camp hunts to this swamp are a feature
of the winter sporting season at The Jolly
Palms. A tent and full camping parapher-
nalia are taken along, and every prepara-
tion is made for comfort during a sojourn
in what one of New York’s best sports-
men has declared to be one of the finest
natural game preserves in the United
States. Such a hunt is sure to be a novel
experience to anyone from the North. The
strange cries of waterfowl, the hooting of
owls, the gobbling of wild turkeys, the
clarion whooping of sandhill cranes, the
snarling of wild animals and the occasional
bellowing of alligators, together with the
quaint vernacular and unique idioms of
speech of the native trappers, employed
as guides, will make an impression which
will linger on memory’s walls a long time.
Venison and its rival delicacy, broiled
breast of sandhill crane, with roast turkey,
quail and black bass are features of the
menu on these camp hunts.
If you are contemplating a winter vaca-
t-on in quest of rest, health, or sport, you
will not be disappointed in. The Jolly
Palms, unless you are a game hog. The
proprietor is a member of the L. A. S.,
endorses the aims and principles of that
organization and will not knowingly ex-
tend uospitality to specimens of the genus
Homo porcinus. Write in advance for ac-
commodations, as only a limited number
of persons can be cared for at one time.
Extremely modest claims are made for this
resort by its proprietor, with the result that
guests are treated to the surprise of find-
ing everything better than is promised.
Mr. Stokes is an expert photographer and
has a laboratory and dark room for the
use of guests photographically inclined.
To reach Mohawk from Jacksonville
take the Seaboard Air Line Railway to
Tavares, changing at the latter point to
the Tavares & Gulf Railway, which will
leave you at the gate of The Jolly Palms.
Seaboard Air Line trains are run from
LOOK TENG SALE AD,
New York through to Jacksonville with-
out change, making the trip between the
2 cities in abou! 30 hours.
If you wish to combire the pleasures
and benefits of a sea voyage with your trip
take passage at either Boston or New York
on one of the many fine steamers which
the Clyde S. S. Co. runs to Jacksonville.
These steamers are really floating hotels,
equipped with the conveniences and luxu-
ries of the transatlantic liners, making pas-
LOOKING AHEAD.
Cc. C. HASKINS.
Dark is the day; the fierce wind blows,
And the earth sleeps cold through the
wintry gloom;
Bare are the trees and the birds have flown
To the summer land where the roses
bloom.
Yet bright is the blazing, cheery grate,
And cosy the seat near the embers
bright ;
While over the mantel, awaiting the spring,
My camera rests through the winter
night.
The swaying limbs of the old roof-tree
Are hoarsely rasping the ice-filled eaves,
And the breezes piping their whistling song,
While snowflakes fall like the autumn
leaves.
Yet here, where the grate’s illuming fire
Bids comfort reign and the shadows
grow,
My faithful friend, old Don, is stretched,
Beside my feet in the cheerful glow.
The windows rattle in noisy glee
When the pelting hail comes swiftly
down;
And the sleighs go by with their ‘inkling
bells,
With songs and laughter and _ shouts
from town.
Yet calm in the genial crimson glow
I'm dreaming of days that will soon be
here,
When storm and winter have had their day
And spring will come with its joyous
cheer,
The leaves now sleeping will soon be born,
The flowers with fragrance will scent the
wood;
The bright plumed birds will fill the air
With color and song in their gayest
mood.
The sun with a genial warmth will shine,
The brooks will laugh through their
foamy crest,
Then noe good fellow, to hunt with the
ens,
We'll seek in the wilderness nature and
rest.
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sage on them not only comfortable but
enjoyable. A stop is made at Charleston
en route, furnishing a pleasant break in
the journey and an opportunity to view
the sights of that old and jnteresting city
of the South; and the trp up St.) John’s
river, from its mouth to Jacksonville,
is full of interesting and novel features,
to no one more so than the real sportsman
just released from environments of ice
and snow.
VAIBIas) 1a Ouse syadb le,
I hand you herewith 3 photos of a pair
of cougar kittens, which I captured a few
days ago. They are growing rapidly, and
Ji OReSehiEENAnCwNeheat = petsa. Mbmise: Dele
my first experience with young lions,
and, remembering the mother as she ap-
peared when I ran into the nest, with the
family at home, I deem it wise to dispose
of these little chaps as soon as possible. If
anyone wishes to buy them, I should be
glad to hear from him.
E. B. Simpson,
2200m North 27the ot... aacoma, Washt
Not long ago a coroner’s jury in Ireland
delivered the following verdict on the sud-
den death of a merchant who had recently
failed in business: “We, the jury, find
irOmem tae aedoctorms “statement that the
deceased came to his death from heart fail-
use, superinduced by business failure, which
was caused by speculation failure, which
was the result of failure to see far enough
ahead.”—Argonaut.
“So you are going to get an automobile?”
[cs ees doctor says I must walk
more.’—Washington Star.
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MY CHRISTMAS TURKEY.
JAS. CAMPION.
The night before Christmas I stepped
off the train at a village in Webster county,
West Virginia, in quest of turkeys. I had
received a letter from a friend stating that
turkeys were plentiful in the hills and that
if I should arrive in time I would have
some good shooting. Accordingly | packed
my Winchester .30-30 in its case and em-
barked for the mountains. At dawn Christ-
mas morning we finished our breakfast of
coffee and roast chicken and departed for
the woods, promising the women we. would,
if possible, have the king of birds on the
table for dinner. :
John went up the right fork of a small
creek and I the left. There were plenty of
turkey signs. but no birds, and the sun
was high when we emerged’ from the creek
bottoms and climbed to higher ground.
Everywhere nature was in her glory, the
warm sun bringing forth all the birds,
which darted in and out among the golden
and russet leaves of the oaks.
John had stopped to light his pipe and
was in the act of striking a match when I
heard a rustle in the bushes to the right. I
wheeled around in time to see a turkey
dash into the bushes, followed by a charge
of shot and a rifle ball, but he escaped.
It was then 10 o’clock, and we were be-
ginning to think that luck was against us.
We determined to stay in the game, how-
ever, and proceeded farther into the
woods in the direction the turkey had
taken. In about 10 minutes. we came out
in a little open spot in the woods. This
clearing in turn opened into another, and |
was walking for that when my friend
- grasped my arm.
“Down, quick, Jack!” he
dragged me into the underbrush.
yonder !”
I followed the direction of his arm, and
beheld, perched cn a tall, dead pine at the
other end of the clearing, and outlined
against the blue sky, a magnificent golden
bronze turkey. The splendid old fellow
seemed to be excited about something, and
was craning his neck to the North. The
distance was about 200 yards, a long shot.
I wished to steal up on him and lessen
the distance, but my friend would not
listen.
“T have been in these hills long enough
to know yonder bird, Jack, and if you try
Seid. aces We
“Look
-the slowly waving mass.
to crawl up on him we will be without a
Christmas dinner. Conditions are against
you. The minute you emerge from the
bushes he will see you and it will be all
over. Try him from here with that little
popgun of yours.”
I had great confidence in my ‘Winchester,
I knew that if I held it right it would do
its work. Using an old stump for a rest I
took a glimpse along the Lyman sights and
fired. A second later I was greeted with a
few choice words not in the Bible.
“You’ve missed him, Jack! Yow fellers
from the city don’t know how to shoot!”
He was partly right. We began to look
at each other uneasily. It was near the
noon hour and the stove in one West Vir-
ginia home was waiting. John shot a brace
of quails by way of something to take home,
and, giving up the turkey hunt as a bad
job, we retraced our way homeward.
The sun was directly overhead, casting its
warm rays on the hilltops, as we came out
into the creek bottoms, when we: heard the
welcome “put, put, put,’ of a turkey. It
was repeated again and again, the sound
coming from the direction of a clump of
chestnuts, and we soon made out another .
large bird. The distance was a little longer
than the first shot, and the conditions were
the same as in the first case. I crawled in
behind a pine, taking aim at the center of
The rifle had
scarcely spoken when my friend greeted
me with an altogether different cry,
> Youve got hyn) Jack!”
I saw the turkey come down like a bag of
sand. We ran up to the tree, and, great
Scott! No bird was in sight! I dropped
my gun in disgust. It seemed as if I had
hunter’s luck again, when suddenly, 100 feet
away, I saw the body of that great, proud
turkey.
The ball had entered his breast and had
come out at the other side, yet, mortally
wounded, he had covered that distance!
True Yankee courage! I felt sorry he
should die; but so is the will of the sports-
man.
It was 4 o’clock that afternoon when
John, his wife and I.sat down to a dinner .
of wild turkey, flanked with his smaller
brethren, the quails; baked sweet -potatoes,
cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. It was
indeed a dinner fit for the gods.
Uncle—How old are you, Jimmy?
vA Jimmy—lI’m 13 at home, 14 at school, and
II in the train.—Tit-Bits.
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TRAPPING THE SKUNK.
J. A. NEWTON.
The skunk is a much maligned animal
and by no means so pungent ‘and aggres-
sive as he is generally represented. On
the contrary, he is a peaceable, well mean-
ing fellow, and, normally, no more mal-
odorous than. are many rodents. True,
when driven to extreme defensive meas-
ures he does what he can, and the result is
often surprising, not to say suffocating.
Wise trappers, however, dispatch him with-
out any preliminary provocation of his
temper, and the plan has distinct advan-
tages. I have often caught and skinned
skunks all day and gone into company at
night without a betrayal of my previous
occupation.
Though the skunk contributes a large
proportion of the country’s fur crop, even
posthumous fame is denied him. Thou-
sands who would scorn to dress in skunk
skins wear his heavy, durable fur, under
the name of black marten or Alaska sable.
The skunk .is a true hibernator, strictly
nocturnal, and gregarious when denning up
for the winter. He retires about December
Ist in the Northern and New England
States. His trails are seen after that date
only during mild weather, until February,
which is mating time. When his fancy
lightly turns, a low temperature has but
little restraint on his movements; the
depth of snow alone seeming to curtail his
travel. Old deserted burrows of the wood-
chuck, fox and badger are appropriated.
These re-established habitations may be
known early in autumn» by well traveled
paths leading to them, and by signs of
nest material having been carried in.
Usually a considerable fecal deposit will
be seen near the burrows, which may be
identified as skunk sign if it contains a
mass of undigested shells of beetles and
other hard cased insects. Whese, together
with grubs are eaten in large numbers,
and form the greater portion of the ani-
mal’s food in summer.
Skunks are usually taken by trapping or
by digging them out. The latter method is
the surest and most remunerative when
they can be tracked and until the ground
becomes frozen hard. Then it is often a la-
borious task to unearth them. Traps are
more successful when the ground is bare
and tracking poor; also during Febru-
ary, when tracks are so numerous and so
many holes are visited, that it is difficult
to locate the game.
No especial care or skill is required in
taking skunks. Place the trap in the mouth
of the burrow and cover lightly with dry
_ Nor
grass or leaves. It should be stapled to
a pole so the game may be handled with
safety.
Although skunks are not credited with
shrewdness in avoiding traps, they are ex-
tremely lucky in keeping out of them at
times. I have had them step between the
jaw and pan without springing the trap.
More can be caught while entering a bur-
row than when coming out. Often I have
run one to earth, and placed the trap with
great care, only to find on the following
morning that he had escaped by going
around or over the trap, perhaps springing
it without getting fast.
I now use a No. 1% trap for them be-
cause the jaws strike higher than those of
a No. 1; and if possible I drive stakes on
each side of it against the bank, which
forces the animal to walk over the snare.
To dispatch skunks I use the 22 caliber
cartridge, shooting behind the shoulder.
This causes a less violent death than a head
shot, and often prevents any odor. In
running time the best success may be had
by setting traps in holes most frequented,
and placing a beefbone, kidney, lights, or a
rabbit’s head in the burrow just beyond
the trap.
Skunk hia ines like many other pursuits
yielding money, breeds thieves and swind-
lers: >There are men) who will dic yom
nest of skunks their neighbor has found
and stopped in, while that neighbor is in
quest of tools. Traps are robbed, pits
sunk beyond a competitor’s trap and the
spoils lifted. Sometimes amateurs get
fooled by thinking that a burrow at which
a trap is set must contain game. They
spend hours in excavating, only to discover
that their greed has. exceeded the return.
does rascality stop there. Black
skunks, those having white only on the
head, are scarce in proportion to the other
3 grades, viz., half stripe, full narrow, and
white; and are worth 50 to 75 cents apiece
more. The unscrupulous see it to their ad-
vantage to make as many black skins as
possible. Therefore the buyer must be
ever on the watch for half stripes which
have been blackened or from which so
much white has been pulled as to damage
them. A good buyer is never taken in;
skins that have been doctored are easily
detected.
A skunk catcher need not be a nuisance
to his leeward neighbors if he use proper
precaution; but if he is reckless.and in-
different the very dogs will resent and assail
him. 4
444
FROM THE-GAME
FIELDS.
The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman.
SPORTSMEN SHOULD HUSTLE.
Watertown, N. Y.
Editor RECREATION:
For years I have been trying to stop the
spring shooting of wild fowl in this county.
Last year I succeeded. Last spring our
waters were alive with wild fowl long into
June, and they became as tame as domes-
tic fowl. Many of them stayed and rested.
Others found choice feeding spots and re-
turned earlier in the fall, and in larger
numbers than ever known before. We had
the best fall duck shooting we have ever
enjoyed. We did not have to wait for cold
weather to drive the ducks down from the
North. We had them by the thousand
from the Ist of September till our waters
froze.) lt. took me 5 -yéars to: secure
this law, and I did it in the face of strong
opposition; but I do not believe there is
a duck shooter in the county who would
consent to its repeal.
The black and grey squirrels, grouse, and
woodcock,. are nearly exterminated in this
county and I am trying to get a close sea-
son.for 2 years. Will I get it? Oh no!
Why not? Everyone says, “It is a good
thing. We want it. At the end of 2 years
we shall have splendid shooting. Go ahead,
Billy, and get it. We'll back you”; but
not one in .50 of these’ enthusiastic
sportsmen will spend the necessary time
and 2 cents to write our representatives
asking them to support the bill. Last year
I turned out 2 pairs of Chinese pheasants.
They bred and raised 27 young. These
birds lived through the winter, the worst
one for snow that we have had in years,
without’ any aid by food or shelter. If
from its waters. Until the Anglers Asso-
ciation of the St. Lawrence river consents
to the taking out of these coarse fishes by
netting during the fall and winter, at a time
when the bass are in the deep waters of the
lake, their bass fishing will grow poorer
each year.
These waters and the numerous lakes
and creeks. scattered throughout our
county, make it a splendid wild fowl pre-
serve. -We have hundreds of acres of
woods and covers where a few years ago
there was an abundance of small game, and
where if the few remaining birds were
allowed to breed unmolested for a_ short
time they would make glad the heart of
the sportsman by their abundance. I pre-
- sume, however, the average sportsman of
the State is like the average sportsman of
Jefferson, he will not help get good laws,
_ or help enforce them when obtained. How
this law goes through we shall stock the —
county with pheasants. ‘Every sportsman
in the county knows this, and is anxiously
watching for news from Albany, but it is
dollars to doughnuts that not one in 50
has spent a cent in the cause.
There is no county in the State better
adapted by nature for fish and game than
Jefferson. In Chaumont bay and the waters
of Lake Ontario, from Cape Vincent to the
Oswego county line, we have the finest
small mouth black bass fishing in the
State. From Cape Vincent to the St. Law-
rence county line we have the beautiful
St. Lawrence river, with its thousand isl-
ands. Once it was famous for its black
bass and muskalonge fishing; but, owing
to a foolish law that forbids the taking of
any fish except with hook and line, it is
rapidly filling with coarse fishes, which the
angler does not care to catch,-and which, to
a large extent have driven the game fishes
445
many of you have written your representa-
tives, asking them to stop the sale of game
or the spring shooting of wild fowl? Have
you? How many of you, when you see or
hear of a violation of the game laws, notify
the nearest game protector, and help him
to prosecute the offender? Not many,
Most of you. sit around and kick because
the State protector, perhaps 50 miles away,
does not find it out and prosecute the law
breakers; but let this same fellow steal
your gun or dog, do you wait till some
officer of the law comes around and finds
it out? Oh, no! You get a hustle on and
spare no money or effort to bring the thief
to justice. Until the sportsmen for whose
especial benefit our laws for the preserva-
tion of fish and game are made, learn to
respect these laws themselves, and give
our State protector the same aid and sup-
port they give the peace officers, for the en-
forcement of the civil law, they have no
just reason to complain that our game
laws are not properly enforced. I suppose
you sportsmen who love to shoot and fish
for sport only will at once put me down as
a crank, will continue to shut your eyes,
and say nothing, keep your 2 cents in your
pocket, let a few cranks from each county
do the pushing for all of you, and then
kick because we can not push hard enough
to get what you want.
The average representative at Albany is
satishied with his job. He wants to go
back.-- If 2 or 3 cranks write him he does
nothing. If 200 or 300 sportsmen write
him that is different. He may need those
votes next fall. The sportsmen of each
county could control their representatives,
but they never will as long as there are so
many 2 cent sportsmen. W. H. Tallett.
446
NEWFOUNDLAND LAW INCOMPLETE.
Knowing your sense of fair play, and
having, for several years, watched with
approval your unremitting efforts to sup-
press game hogs, I regret noticing in your
August issue that you have put the shoe
on the wrong man’s foot when writing
about the change in the game law of New-
foundland.
The real, I might say almost the only,
criminals in the wanton slaughter of cari-
bou taking place annually in Newfound-
land, are the natives themselves. In the
winter months, when little fishing is done
and the caribou migrate to the Southern
end of the island, the natives, armed with
all sorts of weapons, from flintlocks to
huge sealing guns, make for the barrens
and there ruthlessly murder hundreds of
caribou, which are then shipped to St.
Johns and other ports to be sold at 2 or
3 cents a pound. Often the meat spoils
and is thrown, literally, to the hungry dogs.
This is not all, for oftentimes these butch-
ers are so surfeited with the meat, that they
will kill a caribou for one tidbit. I have
known of their killing 2 or 3 in order to
utilize the hides for ‘making a raft to cross
Grand pond.
For every tars killed by visiting
sportsmen, 25, aye, 50, are killed by the
natives, who pay no license. Furthermore,
the officers of the British fleet patrolling
the French shore, who pay no license fee,
are great game hogs, being proud, I am
told, of bags of 15 or 20 stags in one sea-
son.
A reasonable, conservative and well in-
formed Newfoundlander, speaking to me
last summer on the subject of game laws,
gave it as his opinion that 5,000 or more
caribou were annually slaughtered by- the.
natives. If they did this to feed them-
selves no one could object, for the poor
wretches live on cod 10 months of the year;
but they do it for the market, wherein lies
the sin. He also stated that no proper law
could be framed which would pass the
legislative house, the natives considering
it their inalienable right to kill all the
caribou they please; and any representative
daring to vote against their ideas, would
be sure to be dropped.
It is a safe statement to make that 99
out of 100 American sportsmen in New-
foundland keep to the spirit as well as
the letter of the law, and the few infrac-
tions so far known have but served as
pretexts for the passage of a most ridicu-
lous change in the game law. To charge
a sportsman $100 for a license to shoot,
while the natives and the British naval
officers pay nothing at all, and constantly
go beyond all limits of decency in the ruth-
less destruction of caribou, is but another
REC Atos
instance of the folly, of granting the
franchise and a full fledged government to
the most ignorant and most backward peo-
ple in North America.
J). G2vVan- Marter, shies
Savannah, Ga.
The new game law of Newfoundland
provides that no resident of that country
shall kill more than 3 caribou in any one
year. It also prohibits the setting of
snares, traps or pits for caribou; hunting
them with dogs or hatchet, tomahawk,
spear or with any weapon other than fire-
arms loaded with ball or bullet; or killing
them while swimming in any water,
If this new law ceria only be enforced,
it would naturally stop the terrific slaugh-
ter of which Dr. Van Marter so justly com-
plains; but’ unfortunately no money has
been appropriated for enforcing the new
law. There is no provision for the ap-
pointment of game wardens or other
officers to enforce the law. It now simply
becomes the duty of every citizen of New-
foundland to obey the game laws, as a
matter of honor. Whenever anv resident
of that island violates the game law, it be-
comes the duty of his neighbors who may
know of the fact to prosecute him and have
him properly punished, The new law will
have a wholesome effect and will greatly
reduce the killing of game, but it will not
entirely stop the slaughter. The Legisla-
lature, at its next session, should enact a
new clause prohibiting the sale of caribou
meat or skins, and should provide for the
appointment of several game wardens; also
for the payment of their salaries and trav-
eling expenses. Nothing short of this will
completely protect the caribou of that coun-
try.—EDITOR.
THE SITUATION IN MONTANA.
My interest in anything pertaining to
legitimate sport.in field, bush or stream
will never slacken. I am somewhat like
yourself, having even given up my own
time and pleasure to the good cause of
protecting game and fish. I have not fired
‘a shot for 3 years at game, and I feel that
my hunting days are past. You may rest
assured I shall always do all I can to en-
list workers for the cause of game protec-
tion; but Montana is barren ground,
I have worked like a horse for the cause;
not for any salary. I gave the State 2
years of my life without compensation. The ©
State owes me several hundred dollars
for cash expenditure which I shall proba-
bly never get back. I wanted to resign my
position as State Warden as well as my
membership in the Fish and Game Com-
mission, because I was not willing to lend
my name to a farce, such as I found our
existing game and fish laws to be. I was
asked by friends to hold on until a Legis-
lature meets that will make a law which
ean be enforced. The present law does
net stand; neither judge nor jury can
be found to enforce it; and the public is
not in sympathy with its provisions. When
I finally lay down my office I will make
statements that will surprise you.
Undoubtedly the Lacey act will give us
a good deal more ground to stand on than
we have had; but what can be accom-
plished without funds to work with? We
have no appropriation; and what can you
expect of unpaid officers. The county
wardens are mostly creatures of the county
commissioners who elect them. Only 6
counties have wardens, and the only help
we receive is from the forest rangers, who
are suspended for want of funds when
most needed.
I have tried hard to add members to the
L. A. S., but it is worse than begging for
a living. Still, I shall continue to try.
R. A. Waagner, Bozeman, Mont.
I have for a long time fully appreciated
the great difficulty under which you and
the other friends of game protection in
your State are laboring. You certainly
have about the poorest system of game and
fish laws of any State in the Union, and
this would seem to indicate that you have
about the poorest outfit of law makers to
be found anywhere on the continent. Of
course, your Legislature would not admit
this, but it is said that by their fruits ye
shall know them. It is a burning shame
that a body of representative citizens,
charged with caring for the interests of
the people of a great State should have
allowed the game which once covered Mon-
- tana to be slaughtered and driven to the
verge of extinction as it has been.. When
we realize that probably 90 per cent. of all
the farmers and ranchmen and probably 50
per cent of the business men of your State
shoot or fish more or less it seems in-
credible that they should allow their oppor-
tunities for indulging in these sports to be
swept away as they have been. Evidently
the balance of the voting power is held
by the miners and other laboring men, who
pay almost no taxes, but who can vote as
early and as often as anybody. Your law
makers are evidently swayed by this ele-
ment, and have failed to provide your
commission with a fund for enforcing such
game and fish laws as you have because
these sons of toil object to paying taxes
for such purposes.
Still you should not be discouraged.
Public sentiment among your people is
growing in the right direction and the
League is leading it and developing it
every day. Some of vour newspapers are
also doing. good work in this direction and
= FROM THE GAME FIELDS.
447
others will doubtless fall into line in time.
Keep up the agitation, and in time you
will be able to induce your Legislature to
make the needed amendments to your laws
and to appropriate money to enforce them.
—EDITOor,
The above was written in in 1901 and the
game laws of Montana have since been ma-
terially amended and improved.—EnirTor.
BIG GAME IN THE ROCKIES.
Donald, B: C.
Editor RECREATION :
Having received an invitation to visit a
friend, who was spending the winter on
his ranch, in the Rockies, M atlael stania
ed, hoping to have a week’s sport with deer
and other game. We left the train on the
Canadian Pacific railroad, at Armstrong,
for a drive of 15 miles. Our friend, George
, was awaiting us.
Early, the following morning we started
out. Jim went alone, taking a shot gun.
The rest of us hunted in pairs. My com-
panion and I found tracks so numerous
it was impossible to follow any of them,
so we simply walked. over the scrub-cov-
ered hills until noon.
As that was my first experience in deer
hunting, I was considerably discouraged.
My companion assured me we would sure-
ly see deer before long. Although we
beat the woods thoroughly all the after-
noon, it was only to be disappointed.
Toward sunset we started down the moun-
tain to camp.
Two of the hunters were already in, hav-
ing met with no better success. While
talking over the day’s hunt, a faint call
came from the woods. On going a quarter
of a mile in the direction of the call, we
saw Jim, seated on a log, the shot gun
across his knees, while at his feet lay a
puck. Together we dragged the deer to the
ranch.
I spent the greater part of the next day
following the tracks of a lynx, but without
getting a shot. George killed a buck about
4 miles from the house, but could not bring
it in alone. At daylight he and I went
after his buck.
Now it may seem an easy task for 2 men
to drag a deer 4 miles, but it was among
the mountains, over fallen timber and
through thick scrub. We tied the deer’s
legs together and ran a pole through them.
The ground proved too rough for carry-
ing such a weight, so a rope was tied to the
buck’s head, while we took turns in drag-
ging him. It was work all the way. Home
was reached late at night.
On the last day of my stay, accompanied
by another hunter, I took a new route,
farther from the ranch. Until late in the
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afternoon we tramped over mountains and
through valleys. Then a buck and a doe
were sighted. The buck was shot, but his
mate was allowed to escape. He had mag-
nificent antlers, so the head was cut off.
Fitz strapped this to his back, while I
shouldered the hindquarters of the deer.
It was then sunset, and camp 5 miles
away. Taking a straight course, as nearly
as possible, we set out. We traveled until
dark through scrub, and at times had to use
our knives to cut a passage. Then it was
across gullies, up to our knees in snow.
At midnight we acknowledged ourselves
lost, but after resting half an hour we took
up the loads and started again. It was
then too dark in the woods to see more
than a few feet ahead.
Finally on reaching the top of a hill, we
were gladdened by hearing a rifle shot in
the valley. We fired an answering shot,
which our friends did not hear, fcr we
were so much above them: However, we
soon reached the bottom of the hill, where
we stumbled into a beaten road that led
to the house. Our trials were over, and
so ended my week’s hunt.
So Hs Garsie:
MORE VANDALISM.
Nearly all the beautiful California quails
and Oriental quails and pheasants that
Frank Alling has spent years in coloniz-
ing on Fox island have disappeared, and
it is alleged they have been hunted and
trapped during the past few months by 2
worthless fellows who have been watching
their opportunity t> make a raid on the
birds.
“Tt is a long story,” said Mr. Alling, “but
I am mad through and through, and I
purpose doing all in my power to sift this
thing to the bottom.. Three or 4 years ago
2 worthless fellows arrived from Oregon
and lived in a shack near the old tile
works. They made a living chiefly by
hunting and fishing.
“While I was visiting the island a few
days ago several responsible people told
me that these 2 men had enticed into their
chicken coops the California quails I had
liberated and there they deliberately
slaughtered every one of them.
“Later I placed 16 Oriental quails, at
great expense, on the island, and in all
probability they went the way of the
others. So I was informed by residents
of the locality.
“These fellows left the island soon
after this exploit, but they returned about
16 months ago and the residents tell me
they could frequently be seen prowling
over the island with guns and game bags,
but the people had no idea they were
slaughtering any of the pheasants that
' 2 brothers
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RECREATION.
were plentiful around the tile works at
that time.”
A few days ago Alling took a party
of young people over to the island and
liberated another coop of full grown
pheasants, from the Orient... While on the
island’ he talked with several of the straw-
berry growers, inquiring how the pheasants
were showing up this spring.
“To my surprise,” said Mr. Alling, “they
told me not a bird could be found on that
side of the island in the vicinity of the tile
works. A man living near the tile works
who had been made deputy sheriff to protect
these birds, and had done some fine work
in that line before these 2 men arrived,
came to my place in Tacoma last fall and
reported to me there were over 200 birds
about his place back of the tile works.
To-day not a bird is to be found. Every
one has disappeared and these 2 brutes
have again skipped.”
Good substantial men, residents of Fox
island, feel deeply indignant over the out-
rage and want active measures set on fcot
by the county authorities to bring the
guilty parties to justice.
“IT would not have had it happen for
$5,000,” said Mr. Alling, bitterly. “For
6 years I have been at work colonizing the
island with these birds. They used to
come into Captain Mearn’s yard and feed
with the chickens, they were so tame. All
at once they disappeared. A party is under
suspicion who has been known to threaten ~
to kill any pheasants that might come into
his enclosure. The birds are a positive
benefit to an orchard, as they destroy aphis,
beetles, bugs, caterpillers and a variety of
insects.’—Tacoma, Wash., Ledger.
TWO COONS IN ONE NIGHT.
THE SENTINEL.
Fifty weeks of the year I tramp the
streets of a city within pistol shot of Bos-
ton. When my 2 weeks’ vacation comes
the Boston & Maine R. R. can not get me
to Vermont quickly enough. Last fall I
went home in October. Father having
written me he had the best coon dog in the
State, I looked for sport and was not dis-
appointed.
One night I shall not soon forget. About
2 p.m. the whole family, father, mother,
and their wives, visited an
uncle, and after a most enjoyable afternoon
the girls took the team home while father
and brothers stopped and played 7-up
until about 9, when we lighted the lantern
and started for home.
About half way home a neighbor had a
cornfield near his
was tracked all over by coons, and we were
sure of fun there.
We had barely got there when the old dog
sugar orchard, which _
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gave tongue, and those who have heard
the music of a hound on a still, clear night
know the symphony orchestra isn’t in it.
The old dog must have caught her for
we heard her squeal, but shé got away and
treed in a large elm that bent over the
brook.
When we arrived the old dog looked
up to a big limb that hung over the brook,
as much as to say, “there she is,’ and
there she was. My brother cut a club and
father took the lantern. They got down
on some stones in the brook under the
limb, while I slipped a cartridge into a
small rifle, and, getting the coon between
the moon and myself, let go. Like Davey
Crockett’s coon she came down and then
there was fun in the brook.
When she struck the water my brother
struck at the coon, but hit the water, which
flew up in father’s face. He fell off the
stone and such a mix up of man, boy, and
coon you never saw.
A lucky blow on the back finally fixed
things, when the dog, which had been coolly
sitting on the bank, waded in, took the coon
in his mouth, waded out and laid her on the
bank. She was a female 2 years old. We
went back to the corn and in half an hour
the old dog started for the sugar orchard
and by his song we knew he meant busi-
ness. We came to him at the foot of anold
maple and by the light of the lantern saw
where a coon had gone up. As we came
up the dog left and whined up another
tree about 20 yards away. That meant an-
other coon.
It was so dark in the woods we could
not see to shoot, so father proposed to take
the coon we had home, as he was too wet
to stay, and we could camp until daylight
and get the others. The sugar house was
close and by clearing out the arch we made
a fire. Then one of us took a 30 minute
stand at the foot of one of the trees, the
old dog taking care of the other, and we
waited for daylight, when we shot a fat
young coon out of each tree.
Keep on roasting the swine and you may
be sure RECREATION will be next to the
band in the magazine procession.
TO FEED THE POOR AT MARKET RATES.
It having been reported to me by sev-
eral subscribers that 4 men had killed, in
Glenn county, California, a total of 783
geese in 2 days, I wrote the persons named,
asking if the report was true. The replies
received follow:
In answer to your inquiry am pleased to
say that information you received is true.
gt ee SE Bushnell, San Francisco, Cal.
The information you have regarding the
number of geese killed by 3 friends and
me is correct.
Chas, A, Palm, Sacramento, Cal,
The number of geese killed by myself
and 3 friends in 2 days’ shooting was 623.
The total of 783 which you mention was
inclusive of those killed.by the professional
hunters with whom we were shooting.
In case you might consider this too much
slaughter, I explain that goose shooting
here is chiefly confined to a period trom
March Ist to, at the outside, April roth.
During that time the birds visit the alkali
plains of Glenn county in great numbers
to fatten on the peppergrass preparatory
to their Northern flight,
The shooting is done from pits, live and
dead birds being stooled out and an expert
caller occupying an adjoining pit to bring
the birds within range. The shooting is not
especially easy, the birds getting out of
range quickly when the shooter rises.
The shoot mentioned was a phenomenal
one, 2 men who shot after us getting only
51 birds in 2 days. None of the birds are
wasted, all being shipped to San Fran-
cisco where they provide good food for
the poorer classes at a low price.
A. D. Harrison, San Francisco, Cal.
You are different from most other Cali-
fornia goose hogs I have heard from. The
majority of them put up the plea that
geese destroy the farmers’ crops and that
‘they (the butchers) are actuated purely by
sympathy for these ranchmen in slaughter-
ing geese. You and your friends have not
even this puny excuse to palliate your
crime. According to your own story, the
geese were doing nothing worse than eat-
ing peppergrass; yet you and _ Bushnell,
Palm, and Coleman go out and slaughter
623 in 2 days.
You do make the threadbare apology about
the geese having been utilized for food for
poor people, but I would be willing to bet
a few dollars that you did not give the
geese to these poor people; that you so!d
the birds and got every penny you could
for them. Even if you had given the birds
away that would be no adequate atonement
for your crime. No matter what such
brutes as you may say in defense of such
slaughter, the real sportsmen of the coun-
try form their own estimate of your cussed-
ness when they read your confession.—
EDITOR. ;
ANOTHER GOOD INDIAN AGENT.
I took charge of this agency the first
of July. I know nothing in regard to hunt-
ing parties leaving this reservation in the
past. I assure you that none will leave in
the future. The Cree Indians from Canada
have done much damage between ithe Yel-
lowstone and the Canadian line. They
have nearly exterminated the antelope.
These Indians were, in ’96, rounded up
by Government troops and taken back to
Canada, They were back to the Yellow-
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stone sooner than the troops. This reser-
vation is an ideal game country and | am
anxious to do all I can to protect the game.
I am trying to impress on the Indians that
in hunting they should never kill females.
The bucks make good promises and I
hope to have good results in this respect.
I understand that last fall a small party
of white hunters entered the South part of
this reservation and killed over 100 deer
ir. one week. I have also learned that one
man who formerly lived in this same coun-
try, but who is now in the penitentiary. has
160 bighorn heads that he intends to mount.
I will be glad to have suggestions from
you and I assure you I am in harmony
with your organization. I should like to
become a member of the L. A. S. if pos-
sible.
S. G. Reynolds, Crow Agency, Mont.
ANSWER.
It is not only possible but extremely de-
sirable for all concerned that you should
become a member of the L. A. S. A num-
ber of Indian agents are already members
of the League and have pledged themselves
to co-operate with it, as you have done. °
No class of men in the country could pos-
sibly be of greater service than you gen-
tlemen can be, and we need your help. The
present generation has seen the buffalo,
the noblest of all American wild animals,
practically swept out of existence. Also
the wild pigeon. The antelope, the elk,
the mountain sheep, the goat, the prairie
chicken, the wild turkey, the wood duck
and the woodcock will follow within a
few years unless every possible effort on
the part of intelligent men is put forth to
save these creatures. The destruction of
the buffalo and the wild pigeon is one of
the crimes of the 19th century, and I trust
no more like it may be charged against the
people of the 2oth century. If the friends
of game protection everywhere would all
join the League and co-operate vigorously
with it in its work, all of the species last
named might be saved indefinitely; but it
is only by the rigid enforcement of whole-
some game laws everywhere that such a
result can be achieved.—EDITor.
J. £. BAREON:, DISMISSED:
Congratulations are in order over the
final outcome of the J. E. Barton case. He
was tried last year in Justice H. C. Lillie’s
court, in Visalia, for illegally having veni-
son in his possession in the close season.
Mr. Barton was, at the time, foreman of a
crew of men who were fencing and improv-
ing the General Grant Park, situated in
Tulare and Fresno counties. On or about
July 20, 1901, one of Barton’s crew killed a
deer and carried it into the main camp. It
was eaten by the crew and Mr, Barton took
RECKEATION.
occasion at the table to say he would “fire
any man in the crew that peached.” F. A.
Bullard and I, both rangers, heard of the
case. After due investigation we caused
watrants of arrest to be issued for both
Mr. James Bolton and Barton, charging the
first with illegally killing the deer and the
latter with illegally having the meat in his
possession, as he was foreman with power
to employ and discharge the men at his
pleasure. Mr. Bolton, on hearing of’ the
warrant, went to the justice’s office, and
pleaded guilty, paying a fine of $25, but
Barton stood trial and the justice discharged
him. We were not satisfied with that ac-
tion and appealed to the President of the
L. A. S., sending him a copy of the evidence
taken by the court reporter. This cost us
$25 out of our own salaries. In due time,
notice was also given to the California Fish
Commission of the action taken. This sea-
son a new superintendent was sent out ‘to
guard both the Sequoia National and the
General Grant parks, and Mr. Barton was
again employed in his former capacity as
foreman. Frequently we heard of his brag-
ging about being “in with the push” and
that no “damned spy” could work in his
camp, nor any man that wore a game wart-
den’s badge. In the meantime the L.
A. Ss. had been .at work and all at
once. Mr. J) E> Bartons: of the -push
was interviewed by Captain Frank A.
Barton, the park superintendent, with the
result that Mr. “Push” Barton was summa-
rily dismissed and discharged from all park
work in California. No greater or better
object lesson was ever shown in this section.
Now many men are respecting the law; be-
cause the L. A. S., the Secretary of the
Interior, the park superintendent, and some
rangers who are not afraid show that the
‘law must be respected. Hurrah for the
ARS) 5. LAN. Elis, Visalia Catt
MY LAST CHRISTMAS AT HOME.
For years our families had gathered at
the old home for each returning Christ-
mas, and all looked forward to each new
anniversary with delightful anticipations.
At the last Christmas meeting an incident
occurred which seemed to me mysterious,
and I present it for the fraternity’s con-
sideration.
I was recently returned, honorably dis-
charged, from the West Indies, where my
regiment had served through the Spanish-
American war. I have a hobby, ‘I love to
be in the woods with a gun; not necessarily
to shoot, but to be where I can see nature
unchanged. Accordingly, I proposed to my
elder brother a trip to Mount Dumpling
for a ruffed grouse. He readily acceded,
and together we sallied forth to the moun-
tain, distant %4 mile,
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FROM THE GAME FIELDS.
Soon after we reached our campaigning
ground we flushed a grouse, which fluttered
off among some dense hemlocks. Four
times we flushed that same bird. The third
time it flew directly toward me, knocking
off my hat and startling me so that I did
not recover in time to shoot. My brother
lost his chance from laughing at me. The
fourth time we raised the game I fired,
but, beyond a few feathers, had no trophy
to show in proof of my skill, though we
sought earnestly and long. Reluctantly we
gave it up at last and went home.
It was late when we retired that night,
but as the next day was Christmas we all
rose early, brother first. What was his
surprise to find in a sheltered nook of the
piazza a wounded grouse, which Zip, the
dog, instantly caught and brought to him,
It had received a charge of shot in the leg.
Had it not been wounded we should have
liberated it after feeding it; but it seemed
the part of mercy to kill it.
Was that bird the one I had shot at? If
so, why did it come to the house? Was it
to verify my claim to a hit?
That was my last Christmas in the dear
old home. Its successors have been passed
under these far tropic skies. Instead - of
the pine of my native land I see the frond-
ed palm; and between me and the loved
ones rolts the mightiest of oceans. I know,
however, that they wait and watch for me;
that my place is held for me, and I hope to
meet them once more when I shall have
finished my course here.
James W. B. Mannion, Manila, P. I.
DEPRECATES ALLE KILLING:
Thorold, Ont,
Editor RECREATION :
God bless you for your true sportsman-
ship! As a boy I was passionately fond
of firearms, and managed by self-denial to
advance from a Flobert rifle to the proud
possession of a 38-40 repeater. As there
was no large game here I was restricted
to target shooting until I traded the rifle
for a shot gun. That opened up a new
field of pleasure. The largest bag I ever
made was 2 ducks in one day, but I was
prouder of those than a St. Clair Flats
swell is over his boat load. You can im-
agine the anger that filled my heart when
I read in the A. D. G. H. how 2 men killed
800 ducks in 2 days,
As the years passed I became interested
in other things, and kept up my shooting
more for health than anything else. At
last I received a lesson that cost the life
of but one sparrow, yet sickened me for-
ever of siaying birds and animals. I was
with a lad who had a Stevens rifle and I
watched him as he aimed and fired at a
sparrow in the old barn we were in at the
time. The little thing dropped at my feet
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and gasped out its life on the ground;
blood spurted from its beak at every breath,
and my heart turned sick at the sight. How
many innocent lives had I ended just as
recklessly. I sold my gun, and from that
day to this I have not killed a bird
or an animal. I wish I could make a few
game hogs feel what I felt as I watched
that sparrow die—the utter, needless cru-
elty of the whole business.
There is no need for a temperate man
to reform, and if sportsmen had always pur-
sued your principles there would be no
appreciable decrease in. the number of
feathered inhabitants of the earth.
Keep on in your good work. Every re-
former offends people once in a while, and
if a man is afraid to live up to his belief
he is not worthy to hold any.
Your photo competitions are simply
grand. A perfectly natural, well balanced
man should erljoy seeing a creature in its
health and beauty more than viewing its
mangled corpse at his feet.
I hope the presses that turn out RECREA-
TION may be rushed to their fullest capac-
ity.
A Reformed Sportsman, Thorold, Ont,
OFFERS TO BREAK THE LAW.
Some time ago a complaint came to me
from Wyoming to the effect that one S.
L. Adams, of Jackson’s Hole, was killing
game in close season and encouraging
others to do so. In order to get at the
truth regarding this man’s actions, I got a
League member to write him a decoy let-
ter, which ran thus:
Dear Sir—I have seen your name in a
list of guides. Am thinking of taking a
fishing and mountain-climbing trip in the
Teton mountains this summer. Cou!d you
go with me? If so, what would you charge
a day for your own services, for saddle
horses, pack horses, etc.? My time would
be limited to July and August. Do you
think it would be safe to kill an elk or a
deer during that time? Could you suggest
any way in which I could get the heads
out of the State safely, without danger
of being caught?
Adams walked into the trap with both
feet. Here is his answer:
Dear Sir—I could no doubt give you as
good service as anyone around here. I
have been a deputy State game warden the
past 3 years, but my commission ran out
the Ist of last February, as there was a
change in State Game Warden, and I do
not expect an appointment this year. I
know the law and how it can be evaded.
If you come to me I can fix the matter you
mention all right, so there will be no dan-
ger. I will not put my plan in writing.
If you come will explain to you and guar-
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antee no trouble. I could go with you
from the 1st of July to the 20th of August,
and possibly longer.
Stephen L. Adams, ©
Jackson, Wyom.
Adams was a game warden 3 years, and
now that he is out of a job he turns around
and offers to aid others in violating the
laws he was paid to enforce. His neigh-
bors should give him about 24 hours in
which to get out of the State——EDzTor.
WERE SCEEY TACKING:
In the newspaper accounts of the killing
of Major Smylie by Judge Storrs, at Blue
Mountain lake last summer, I saw no allu-
sion to the apparently undeniable fact that
those gentlemen, one a major in thé United
States army and the other a judge of the
United States ccurts, were breaking the
laws of this State and thus; the laws of the
United States, which they above all others
were pledged to observe. There can be no
doubt, in view of the facts brought out at
the coroner’s inquest, that the whole party
were engaged in floating, or jacking, for deer.
If men holding positions of trust and horor
under the government of the ecountry can
not be relied on to observe the laws which
they have helped to make, can it be won-
dered at that a class of men such as the
natives of the North woods, lawless by
nature and ignorant as many of them are,
do not observe them? Undoubtedly 75 per
cent. of the game taken there during a year
is taken illegally. Hundreds of deer are
killed every year out of season, while the
majority of those taken in season are shot
under a jack; yet I can not recall a single
case in which an offender was brought to
justice last year. Can not something be
done to awaken the people of this State to
the fact that we have too few game war-
dens and that the few we have are appar-
ently not doing their duty?
G.7B. Wy Utiea, WNEY Ye
_ This communication relates to the kill-
ing of Major Charles A. Smylie, of New
York City, by Judge C. B. Storrs, of New
Jersey. While the sympathies of all good
men go out to Major Smylie’s family, if
he had one, no one can fail to realize that
the Major got what he deserved. It is to
be hoped the New York State Fish and
Game Commission will get a requisition for
Judge Storrs, bring him to this State and
have him punished as he deserves.—EpItTor.
IF YOU GO BE CAREFUL.
Perhaps some of your readers would
like to know where there is good caribou
hunting. Alaska is the place, and Pavloff
Coal Harbor, about 40 miles from Hugo
island, is the particular locality. Am just
returning from a prospecting trip there.
Yesterday and the day before I saw sév-
eral bands of caribou feeding, all close to
the beach and within a mile or 2 of this
stream’s regular run. Any sportsman
would be sure of getting what caribou he
might wish, also brown bear. Take steam-
er Excelsior from Seattle to Juneau, then
steamer Newport from Juneau to Pavloff
Coal Harbor, where Captain Moore will
land anyone. Sportsmen should bring a
small stove to burn coal, as there is no
wood in the country, but plenty of coal.
Paul Buckley, on board Newport.
Sportsmen who may be prompted to visit
the Alaskan peninsula to hunt caribou
there should remember that the Lacey bill
for the protection of game in Alaska has
passed both houses of Congress, has been
signed by the President and is now a law.
Under the provisions of this act, no man
is allowed to kill more than 4 caribou, 2
moose, 2 walrus, sea lions, sheep, goats or
large brown bears, -or more than 8 deer,
in any one year. No females or yearlings
' of moose, caribou, deer or sheep may be
killed at any time. The sale and shipment
of skins or heads of big game animals is
prohibited at all times, under heavy penal-
ties, and it is the duty of all marshals and
deputy marshals, collectors, and deputy col-
lectors of customs in Alaska, and all offi-
cers of revenue cutters, to assist in the en-
forcement of. this law. Alaska is a big
country, but these various officers reach all
habitable portions of it, and it will not be
safe hereafter for any man to attempt to
violate any provision of the new game
law.—EDITOorR.
A CALIFORNIAN HERD.
There was a duck hunt last Tuesday that
will be remembered for some time by the
members of the Salt River and Island gun
clubs. The day was fine and in some places
ducks were plentiful. E. Larsen, of the
Island, lead with 37 ducks. H. Bouchard
was second with 36. In the Salt River team
Bert Matthews had 29; Wm. Clark 27. The
Island had 18 men and Salt River 17, and
the official count was Salt River 293, Island
257. As this was the first time these 2
clubs met in a friendly shoot, and as there
has been some boasting on both sides, Salt
river is highly elated over the victory. The
following score was made: Salt River—
Bert Matthews 29, C. H, Matthews 12, T.°
Boyd 22, W. Boyd, 22, X. L. Boyd 21, G.
Haywood 10, Bert Leighton 23, D. Reas 12,
G. Clark, 16, W. Clark 27, Floyd Fuller 17,
B. Haywood 16, C. Peyton 13, W. Damon
17, A. Morrison 4, E. Haywood 12, H.
Briggs, 13. Island—R. H. Flowers 19, W.
Bouchard 16, H. Dillon 9,. E. Larsen 37,
H. Bonchard 36, E. West 10, A. Rasmussen
6, L. Hicks 6, T. Rasmussen 4, A, Halley
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2, G. Hansen 4, B. Goble 32, J. Goble 32, J.
Elliott 3, E. Rasmussen’9, R. Neil 14, J.
Niebur 27, C Andersen 3—Ferndale, Cal.,
paper.
Wm. Clark admits, in answer to my in-
quiry, that he killed 27 ducks and adds that
he has done better on other occasions in less
time. , Doubtless the other scores are cor-
rect as given. To help these rooters re-
member their hunt I give the record more
publicity than it could have in the columns
of a country paper. Several hundred
thousand good citizens will learn by it that
there is a drove of 35 duck hogs at Fern-
dale, Cal., tagged as per above list.—
EDIToR.
AMONG THE ORANGES.
Brother Al and I left home October 17th,
and came here to fish, hunt, read, write,
rest, loaf and recuperate.
We arrived at Bartow, our railroad ter-
minus, Thursday evening. From Bartow
to this city is 26 miles Southeast. By
trolley the distance can be covered in about
3 hours; by railroad in less than an hour.
As yet, neither are contemplated, therefore,
we came in a wagon, drawn by one horse.
and covered the distance in 7 hours and
49 minutes. We lost II minutes. feeding
man and beast, en route. The road is
through pine woods most of the way, and
sandy all the way. To induce the horse
to make better time, I walked part of the
distance and not wishing to mortify the
beast, sat down after walking a mile or 2
until he caught up. About 4.30 p. m., we
came to anchor and were welcomed by
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Carson, with whom
we intend to make a protracted stay, pro-
vided we suit them and our money holds
out.
Am writing this in my library, a tent
pitched in the front yard. Across the
road is the frost-proof orange grove, of
over 100 trees, 40 of them in full bearing,
as are also 30 grape fruit, several guava
and kumquab trees. This city has a popu-
lation of 16 men, women and children,
7 dogs, 8 cows and 20° chickens. There
are 6 lakes within 2 miles of my library.
They are the most beautiful lakes I ever
saw; not large, but just large enough to
afford all the good fishing for black bass
that anyone would or could desire.
S. H. S., Lakemont, Fla.
FULLERTON’S GOOD WORK.
We are going to prosecute Dr. Hoyt, of
St. Cloud; F. W. Randall, Superintendent
St. Cloud Reformatory, St. Cloud; Judge
Steele, Judge Simpson and Dr. Simpson, of
Minneapolis, for shooting on the White
Earth reservation before the lawful sea-
son; namely, September Ist.
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We.arrested Walter H. and S. P. Poll-
man, of St. Louis, Mo., non-residents, who
came to the State and tried to shoot with-
out a license. The next time they come
to Minnesota they will take out non-resi-
dent licenses. Also William Campbell,
George Jones, and James Brown, all of
Oshkosh, Wis., were induced to part with
the necessary fee of $25 each.
The great trouble we have to contend
with in Minnesota, is men who call them-
selves sportsmen who sneak in here with-
out conforming to our laws. We have let
them off lightly so far, but in the future
we will not only compel them to take out
licenses, but will confiscate everything they
have. Perhaps after that they will be good.
I am glad to say for the benefit of the
readers of RECREATION that the Lacey law
is doing a world of good in regard to
shipping. There are some men who go to
the “Dakotas ‘and this’ State and try to
sneak trunks full of game home with them.
They will deeply regret the trip when
Uncle Sam gets hold of them. We are.
furnishing information now to Dr. Palmer,
who is doing such good work as ‘the As-
sistant Chief of the Biological Survey, and
he is helping us in cases where the game
was shipped out of Minnesota.
Sam F. Fullerton, St. Paul, Minn.
PUT A BOUNTY ON FOXES.
Game in Massachusetts has never before
been so scarce as at present. There are 2
reasons for this; too many hunters and
too many foxes.
It does but little good to appeal to hunters
through sportsmen’s papers or magazines.
The law must say when they can hunt and
how many birds each man can _kill. In
this State shooting is permitted from Sep-
tember 15 to January 1. For 3% months
the coverts and swamps are hunted until
it is a wonder there is a grouse or wood-
cock left. Two months would be a long
enough open season under present condi-
tions. The new Sunday law has helped
some. There is but little shooting on
Sundays now compared with 2 years ago.
No man can kill RecreaTIon’s limit. of
10 birds in this county. If a good shot
gets 5 birds in a day he is doing well. Five
years ago grouse were sold in Boston for
70 to 80 cents a pair. To-day they bring
$1.50 to $1.75.
Foxes do almost as much harm as hunt-
ers. I have known whole flocks of game
to be destroyed by foxes. Foxes are thick
here. On every snow one can see where
they -have followed grouse and_ rabbit
tracks. If the State would pay a bounty
of 50 cents for foxes the farmers would
dig them out in the spring. I know one
man who got 87 foxes, 2 years ago, with
one fox terrier. Last year grouse and
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rabbits were thicker in that part of the.
county than in any other. With a shorter
open season and a bounty on foxes, our
game would increase.
Dr. S. B: Keith, Palmer, Mass.
GAME NOTES.
John F, Pletsch, of the firm of Pletsch & Sut-
ton, who, together with the other members of the
firm, was arrested by deputy game warden L. C.
Graham on the charge of having for sale quails
which had been killed out of season, pleaded
guilty before Justice Lowry, and was fined $25
and costs.
The other members of the firm, L. K. and
G. L. Sutton, were dismissed on payment of the
costs, as the evidence disclosed that they had no
knowledge of the purchase or possession of the
irds.
These were the first cases which Deputy Gra-
ham has prosecuted for the infraction of the game
laws, and he feels much elated over his success
in securing a conviction. Several other persons
whom he had arrested for violation of the fish
laws were fined-$25 and costs by Justice Helwagen.
Mr. Graham has received letters from a num-
ber of hunting and fishing clubs heartily com-
mending his course.—Columbus, O., paper.
The game business is really not what
it used to be. I look for many retirements
from that field of endeavor within a few
years.—EDITOor.
I had planned a little surprise for my
Camp Fire friends in the way of some alli-
gator steak, but since my arrival the
weather has been so cool and the rivers so
high I have not. seen a ’gator to shoot at.
Fishing is poor on account of the weather,
so there is not much to do. A flock of
quails run around the house almost every
day and they are cxtremely interesting to
watch. There are a good many ducks on
the bay, so we Lave all we want to eat,
but- we do not shoot any more than we
can use. The orange groves are looking
fine, and the backward season has been a
good thing for them, preventing the new
growth from starting and being frozen.
Next year, if we get no freeze, this section
should send a large crop of oranges to
market. H. -H. Todd; ‘Roseland, sF la:
Four years ago you roasted me to a turn.
Since then I haven’t deserved a roast. I
haven’t the slightest sign of a bristle; not
one; and to show my appreciation of the
good work your magazine is doing for
game protection I hand you herewith an
article which I hope you may be able to use
in RECREATION.
John M. Fairfield, Denver, Colo.
The story will be printed in a future
issue.— EDITOR.
In district court Henry Greenwood, a farmer
living in Sturbridge, was found guilty and paid
his fine of $100 for shooting the deer which was
shot at Leadmine and died after being run down
by dogs. Other parties were arrested, charged with
RECREATION.
being Nea ERaIEES but as no evidence was shown
to implicate them, they were discharged.—South-
bridge, Mass., paper.
Well, as long as the chief’culprit got
his dose, we will not worry about his fol-
lowers.—EDITorR.
Turkeys are fairly plenty here. Grouse,
quails, woodcocks and squirrels are scarce.
We have a few deer and “bear- “ihe
law should either prohibit the killing of
does or set the limit at one deer per man.
Game Warden Bernier, of Harrisburg, suc-
cessfully prosecuted several violators of the
deer law last winter. Here we were less
fortunate, being unable to secure positive
evidence.
fae Pecwer Me D),,. Ovaleaeae
We have more quails here than are found
in any other section on the Eastern shore
of Virginia. When we had that hard
freeze 4 years ago | fed the quails in this
vicinity ,and last February I did the same.
I am sure we have over 500 coveys within
5 miles of town.
W. T. Gladding, New Church, Vt.
Last year “Hiarry : Rash, a rancher “on
Blacktail Deer creek, captured 2 calf ante-
lopes, a male and a female. He keeps them
enclosed in a wire fence yard. When I
last saw them, which was in August, their
diet was chiefly willow leaves. Rash has
refused $50 apiece for the animals.
Carl E. Price, Dillon, Mont.
Game and fish are abundant here, but
hogs are, too, and kill in and out of season,
unmercifully. Fish are nightly dynamited.
We have pot hunters galore that do not
think they have had a good day’s sport un-
less they bag at least 50 quails a day apiece.
D. Bosley Wapanucka, Ind. Ter.
Should any of the readers of RECREATION
wish to obtain information regarding
hunting and fishing in the St. Clair river
country, I shall be glad to answer any
questions.
W. A. Miller, Dara Michigan.
Already many thousands of people are
wondering what they are going to get
for Christmas presents. Other thousands
are wondering what they are going to give
their friends. If you wish to make a pres-
ent to a man or boy who is interested in
shooting, fishing, amateur photography, 01
nature study, g give him a year’s subscription
to RECREATION. Nothing you can possibly
buy for $1 would give him so much pleas-
ure as 12 issues of this magazine. Come
early and avoid the rush. .
FISH AND FISHING.
LETTERS FROM A FISH HOG.
Petoskey, Mich., June 30.
Dear John—I’ve been over on Walloon
lake most of the time for the last 6 weeks.
Greatest bass fishing I’ve had for a long
time. Not so many bass in the lake, but I
struck the spawning season. Water’s so
clear you can see ’em right on the beds
and they'll take anything you throw at ’em.
Sometimes I got 15 or 20 in a day, and I
shipped several boxes down to my friends
along the G. R. and I. every week. Next
year I want you to come up with me about
the middle of May, and we'll get every
bass in the lake. Folks around here will
not squeal, so you needn’t be afraid.
Yours truly, js Dixon
Boyne Falls, Mich., July to.
_ Dear John—You ask me about the trout
fishing in the Boyne. It’s a fair stream, but
you are too late in the season. I slipped in
here a week before the regular season
opened, struck the river a few miles down,
and fished it to within 2 or 3 miles of
Boyne. Got the biggest haul you ever
saw. Of course I didn’t dare take ’em into
Boyne, so I hired an old farmer to box ’em
for me and haul me over to Clarion, and I
got out of the State with ’em in short or-
der. I'll give you a tip next spring and
we'll try it together.
Sincerely yours, \e 1D:
Allenville, Mich., July 25.
Dear Johnny—Been having the greatest
sport with pike and muskalonge you ever
saw. Brevoort lake is full of pike and they
are tame as pigs. Come right up to the
side of the boat and take your spoon under
your very eyes. It’s no trick at all to get a
dozen or 2 on one trip, and big fellows, too.
I stayed 10 days and went out every day.
We just had to bury a lot of ’em in the
ground to keep ’em from stinking us off
the lake, for we couldn’t eat 1-5 of what
we caught. I didn’t bother with any reel,
_for you don’t have to cast any distance to
get “em. I just took a big cane pole and a-
heavy line, and when one got on I yanked
him up by the boat and knocked him in the
head with a club. If he jerked off I flung
out and hooked another. It’s a regular
butcher shop. You must come up with me
next year and we'll have grand fun.
Yours as ever, (fea BE
Brevoort, Mich., Aucust 8.
Dear John—I was going South after
writing you from Allenville. but I got on
to something that I couldn’t let slip. There’s
a little lake up in the woods from here
45§
where the deer are almost as thick as black-
berries, and if you stand in right with some
of the natives you can kill as many deer as
you please. I got a guide and went over one
night with a jack light. We got 2 deer in
less than 2 hours. One of ’em was a good
sized buck and the other a doe. We got
what meat we wanted and hid the rest.
The guide will keep the hides safe for me
and I guess I’ll get ’em out this fall with-
out any danger. All I want now is a good
haul of trout from some of the streams
around here and I’m going home.
VOUpS eben. ear:
St. Ignace, Mich., August to.
Dear John—I found my trout all right.
There was no one around to bother him-
self as to how I caught them. Sunday last
I got a lumberman to go out with me and
we netted 2 big holes. I am shipping you a
box to-day with 2 dozen big ones in it.
The law will not allow one to ship them
out of the State, so I can’t send them di-
rectly to Toledo. I will send them to
Jones, at Alexis, which is over the Michi-
gan border, and you can drive out and get
them. Yours sincerely, J. Dixon.
DISGRACE THEIR PROFESSION.
The following item appeared in the In-
land Ocean, of West Superior, Wisconsin:
Professors E. W. Walker and C. A. Donnelly,
of the Normal school, returned from Fratt, Wis.,
where they have been enjoying a few days’ fishing.
They caught 410 trout during their trip and re-
port a pleasant time.
I wrote these gentlemen for confirmation
of the report and received the following re-
ply
Yes, it is true. Professor C. A. Donnelly
and I caught 410 trout recently. I do not
feel that the accomplishment is unusual,
however, as we spent 4 days in catching
them. Nor were they large. The largest
measured 13 inches in length. I had no
scales for weighing. The wonder is not
that we caught 410, but that we did not
catch twice that number. Expert anglers
would have done so.
-E. W. Walker, West Superior, Wis.
So you averaged 50 trout a day and
boast of it! You say expert anglers would
have caught twice the number you did. No
man who would take even as many as yeu
and your friend did is entitled to the name
of angler. That is synonymous with gen-
tleman, and you have by your conduct
ruled yourselves out of that class. So
does any man who slaughters fish as you
did and as you say expert anglers would
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have done. Suppose 100 men should fish
the stream you speak of, in the course of a
season, each staying 2 days and each tak-
ing 350 “trout Ha -sday. = Such | au cascmns
scarcely possible, but assuming that it
might be done, what would be left for oth-
ers who might see fit to fish there in fu-
ture? Can you not easily realize that the
streams would be completely cleaned out?
Does a farmer kill all his chickens, ducks,
turkeys, sheep, hogs or cattle in one
year, or does he save a few to propagate
for future years? What would be thought
of a man who, simply because he had a
chance to.sell or to give away poultry to
his friends, would go into his barnyard
and kill every fowl he found there? Would
you not consider him a fool? Most as-
suredly; but in that case, he would be
dealing with his own property, and would
not be committing a crime against his
neighbors. Men who kill all the fish in a
stream, or who do their best to accom-
plish that, are not only fools, but crimi-
nals in the eyes of their neighbors, and
should be dealt with accordingly.—EDITor.
THE MONTANA KIND.
I hand you herewith a clipping from our .
‘daily paper, and hope you will make good
use of it. The persons mentioned have been
heard from before, and, in consequence,
our fish and game is rapidly disappearing.
These fellows think nothing of catching
100 fish a day.
L. A. S., Missoula, Mont.
The clipping follows:
The Goober Club, made up of J. A. Hartley,
Ned Dorman, H. Blumberg and George Steinbren-
ner returned yesterday afternoon from Rock
creek. They went out to the creek last Thurs-
day afternoon and brought back 362 trout. ‘The
reporter is from Missouri, but the story is abso-
lutely truthful.
I wrote the persons mentioned, and re-
ceived the following replies:
The information you received is correct,
as far as number is concerned, but the time
was 2 days instead of one.
Geo. L. Steinbrenner, Missoula, Mont.
While the number of fish caught by our
party was 362, the time was 2 days instead of
one, which would make an average catch of
45 fish a day. These were brook trout, rang-
ing in size from 7 to 14 inches long. In this
part of the State we consider this a medium
catch, as the streams ‘abound with these
trout. While not a member of the L. A. S.,
I read its organ, RECREATION, and approve
the manner in which it strives to preserve
fish and game.
E. S. Dorman, Missoula, Mont.
The information you received is correct.
My friends succeeded in catching 360 and
I caught the remaining 2.
Harry Blumberg, Missoula, Mont.
There seems to be one decent man in
the crowd. Mr. Dorman says he approves
of the manner in which the League strives
to preserve the fish and game. So far, so
good; but if you approve of the League’s
efforts, why not participate in them in-
stead of fishing from daylight to dark in
order to try to clean out a stream? Why
not stop when you get a decent basket of
fish. Why not induce your companions to
do likewise? You should all be ashamed of
yourselves, even the man who claims to
have caught only 2 fish. That story of his
will bear a liberal quantity of salt——Epzrror.
MICHIGAN SHOULD PASS LIMIT LAW.
P. L. Lamoria and Menzo Gates returned from
a day’s fishing near Alexander with a big lunch
basket full of handsome brook trout. The crowd
applauded the catch and Paul and Menzo smiled
as they walked home lugging the basket and a
heavily loaded wash boiler. The
filled with trout, also, and they did not take the
trouble to count them but they say their day’s
catch amounted to about 2 bushels of speckled
jewels.—Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) News Record.
On inquiry as to the truth of this report
I received the following reply:
That which you have heard in regard
to myself and a friend catching 2 bushels
of speckled trout is the truth. We started
to fish at 6 in the morning and at 1:30 p.m.
we were on our way home. Paul Lemoria
is the name of the friend who accompanied
me on that trip. We made our catch on
Pine river ,Chippewa county.
M. Gates, Sault Ste. Marie, “Mich.
You evidently used either dynamite or a
net to catch such a large number of trout in
7 hours. Of course if you had used hooks
and lines you would have yanked the fish
out as fast as possible. Such degraded
brutes as you always do that. They care
nothing for the sport of fishing. They
simply fish for count and for the frying
pan. Still I do not believe that in any
stream in the country trout are plentiful
enough to enable 2 razorbacks to take a
bushel of trout in one day. It is to be
hoped Michigan and all other States will
soon enact laws limiting the number and
the aggregate weight of a day’s catch of
trout or other game fishes; and a jail pen-
alty should be provided for violators. This
is the only way to curb the brutal instincts .
of such swine as you.—EDITorR.
MIGHT LIVE IN WARM WATER.
Will you kindly advise what species of
fish would be best adapted to water of a
temperature of 80 degrees? We have an
artificial lake covering 7 acres, with 5 to
18 feet of water, fed by natural springs;
boiler was *
ot Lea
Be Ld. © AN OLD
but owing to exhaust water from steam
pumps the lake water is kept at a high tem-
perature in summer and seldom freezes in
winter. J22M.-Sloan, Crown; Fa:
ANSWER.
It is doubtful if you can find a fish of
much value that can live in water whose
temperature is 80 degrees continuously,
Not only is the water in itself too warm,
but the fish are enervated and rendered
liable to attack by various diseases. The
common bullhead would perhaps do as
well as any species you might select. It
would reach a weight of half a pound or
more in such a pond and is a good food
fish. If you should not wish to try bull-
heads the next best species is the bluegill
(Lepomis pallidus). It reaches half a
pound, is an excellent food fish, thrives
well in small ponds and might do fairly
well in water of that temperature. Other
species that might be tried are the rock
bass (Amblophlites rupestris) and the large
mouth black bass. Any of these species
can probably be obtained in the sluggish
streams or ponds in your neighborhood.—
EDITOR.
CAUGHT 600 TROUT IN 3 DAYS.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Will-
iam Kitchen, Miss Amy Haines and Harley \Wood
returned last Friday from a fishing trip on Trout
creek. The last named was appointed press agent
because of his undoubted veracity, and from him
were secured the following facts—also a dozen
trout, as corroborative evidence. The party fished
3 days and caught 600 fish, about half of which
were also secured the following facts—a dozen
measuring more than 6 inches. Many not more
than 5 inches long were filled with eggs.—Sumpter
(Ore.) Miner.
Coquina, how do you like that siaughter
of minnows? The above party averaged
only 100 fish each, so if they were out a
week or 2 the number caught was not ex-
cessive. It is the size of the fish taken
that every sportsman will protest against.
jibe iN. Lacoma; Wash:
I do not like it at all. In the first place,
it is probably a newspaper fake as to the
number of fish taken, but we mav safely
conclude that there is no exaggeration as
to the size of the fish, for the people who
took them would have been glad to say
the smallest weighed a pound if they had
been in a position to do so. I assume Ore-
son. has ia 6 ine trout law... 1 not, she
should enact one at an early date. If there
be such a law in effect, then these people
should be punished as they deserve.—EDI-
TOR.
THE LARGE MOUTH BLACK BASS.
In the several bays and ponds near this
city there are numerous large mouth bass
which nearly all anglers persist in calling -
mud bass. They look to me like Oswegos,
and I am anxious to know if there is a
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third variety of bass of similar character-
istics.
L. B. Hawley, M. D., Rochester, N, Y.
ANSWER.
The fish to which you refer and which ~
many of your anglers call mud bass is un-
doubtedly the large mouth wiack bass, or
Oswego bass. The best common name for
this species is the large mouth black bass,
but it is known in different parts of the
country by many different names, as for
instance, Oswego bass in New York State,
mud bass in various places in the North,
straw bass in Northern Indiana and else-
where, chub and welshman in Virginia and
North Carolina, and trout and green trout
throughout the South. There is only one
other species of black bass, namely, the
small mouth black bass.
For full descriptions of these and all
other game fishes of this country see
“American Game Fishes,” edited by G. O.
Shields.—B. W. -E.
It WAS (~A GERMAN. CARP;
A subscriber recently sent me a clipping
from a weekly paper of Monticello, N. Y,,
which stated that Mr. Crossman, of Co-
chocton, caught, in the Delaware river, a
wall-eyed pike that weighed 17% pounds. I
wrote Mr. Crossman as follows:
I am informed you recently caught a
wall-eyed pike which weighed 17% pounds.
Will you kindly advise me if this is true. It
sounds like a newspaper yarn, and I should
like to know if the fish really weighed that
much.
Mr. Crossman replied:
The fish was a German carp weighing
174% pounds, taken from the Delaware. I
have caught wall-eyed pike weighing 12
pounds and am assured that pike from 17
to 20 pounds in weight are in this vicinity,
A. Crossman, Damascus, Pa.
THE GRUNT. OF A FISH HOG.
Michael Karpen, of Chicago, a member
of the firm of S. Karpen & Bro., manu-
facturers of furniture, went fishing. On
his return he had himself photographed
with his. catch and sent the picture to a
trade journal. Unless there was something
the matter with the camera, Mike is not
exactly pretty; in fact, he looks the fish hog
he proclaims himself to be. _Lest there
should be any doubt as to his status, he
sent with the photo a lovely poem of which
the following is a sample:
“Mike Karpen once a-fishing went,
To catch fish his mind was bent.
A great fisher before the Lord is Mike:
He catches whales, carps and pike.
Here you see him, to the right he stands
With ‘ AG string of fish just pulled on
and,
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_ NIBBLES.
While walking along the shore of Calu-
met lake one day I saw 2 well dressed men
come in off the lake from fishing in a boat.
- As they neared the landing some friends
called to them, “What luck did you have
to-day?” The fishermen answered, “Fine!
Could not be better! We caught about 150
sunfish.” I saw the fish lying in the boat.
The 2 men got out, locked the boat and
started away, leaving the fish lying in the
boat, in the hot sun, to dry and spoil. An-
other man said to the fishermen, “Are you
not going to take the fish along?” “No,”
they said, “we just wanted the fun of catch-
ing them.” I do not know the names of
those fishermen, but they ought to be locked
up about 2 years apiece, to learn what true
sport is.
Herman C. Beahls, Roseland, Ill,
What is the best food for shiners when
they are kept in confinement for winter
fishing? Will they tive in close confinement?
Frank P. Matteson, Davisville, R. I.
ANSWER.
Shiners kept in confinement for winter
fishing are not apt to eat or to require
much food, especially if kept in cold water.
When earth worms can be obtained they
form the best food for minnows. Bread
crumbs and hominy, soft and chopped suffi-
ciently fine, are excellent and will be taken
readily by most minnows when at all hun-
gry. Small bits of meat are also excellent.
In feeding fish in a live-box care must be
taken not to put in at any one time more
food than the fish are able to clean up; else
the box becomes foul and unhealthful.—
EDpITor.
Byron and Foster Burch”and Arthur Schoppe
caught over 500 trout one day this week.
When my attention was called to above
clipping from a New Hampshire paper I
wrote to the men named, asking if the re-
port was true. The following answer was
made:
The report that 2 friends and I caught
over 500 trout in one day is true. We
began fishing at 8 a. m. and quit at 3. We
had the nicest mess of fish that has been
caught here this year.
Byron R. Burch, Canaan, Vt.
I take it for granted your bristles show
clear through your clothes.—EbtrTor.
A subscriber in Orion, Mich., sends me
a clipping from a Detroit newspaper con-
taining a string of fish stories. The writer
of the letter says, “The fellow’s story
would have been all right if he had left out
RECREATION.
the picture that shows him to be a genuine
fish hog,”
The picture referred to shows this b:is-
tleback standing up behind a string of
some 50 odd trout, “and if ever a nian
showed villainy in his face, the one in i‘tis
picture does. If Michigan lawmakers do
not soon pass a law to restrain such butch-
ers as this one, there will be no fish left in
their streams.—EDITOR.
Large trout are sometimes taken on
small flies. Last summer I was fishing in
the upper waters of the Beaverkill at twi-
light with 2 friends, when I took a 5 pound
brown trout, measuring 23% inches, on a
royal coachman, No. 10 hook. It took me
25 minutes to bring him to net. I useda 5
ounce split bamboo rod and a fine lead-
er, tied with single and water knots. I am
told this is the largest trout evér taken
with a fly on the Beaverkill.
Willard Spenser, DeBruce, N. Ms
This State has planted a great number
of German carp in many of our inland
waters. These fish destroy the wild celery
and rice on which game birds thrive; the
result is that duck shooting is here a thing
of. the past.’ Prevent; if. you can, other
States from making such a mistake and
planting a pest which can never be ex-
terminated.
G. E. Schulz, Milwaukee, Wis.
You will see in the lower left corner of
the picture on page 442 the line “A Day’s
Sport on the Yukon.” ‘The photographer
should have said a day’s slaughter and he
should have branded the letters G. H. on
each man’s mug before making the prints.
The Alaska game bill was not passed soon
enough. These brutes should have been
locked up in a military prison 30 days as a
proper retribution for their dastardly work.
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GUNS AND AMMUNITION.
Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman will quit when he gets enough.
ON. THE MERLIN.
MAXWELL,
SERMON
(Seah
Verily I say unto ye, Jews and Gentiles,
there was a rich man named Bellard that
sara’ to himaself;, “I will make .a guff, yea,
verily, I will make many guns. I will
make good guns, so that the shepherd may
have means to protect his flocks, the pion-
eer may have means to secure his living, to
protect the widows, the orphans, from the
savages and the wild beasts. I will make
guns to shoot once, and set an example in
moderation that it is not manly to slaughter
for the sake of seeing blood run. Yea,
verily, I will make my name great among
men of many nations.”
Then, after much prayer and fasting, he
was rewarded with great success, and his
name was blessed, and his fame was spread
over the land, and his guns, for their many
good qualities, were much sought after
from far and near.
But in his own good time the Lord took
Bellard to dwell with His elect, and said,
“Weil done, thou good and faithful serv-
ant.”
Then again it came to pass that an un-
godly man, named IMerlii, coveted the hon-
or and the riches of the good servant Bel-
lard, and said unto himself, “Behold, I will
build up a great name for myself. I will
be honored of men. I will improve on the
handiwork of the misguided Bellard.’ And
it came to pass that this ungodly man did
go to the widow and the orphans and did
trade them out of their inheritance. Then
went he to the synagogue and stood up to
be admired of men and posed as a wise
man, and did pray both long and loud. with
much self-praise. He meditated both long
and thoughtfully and said, “I will make a
gun that will shoot many times, that the
veriest game hog may exterminate all the
creatures that creep and walk on the earth;
and I will make my domain a howling wil-
derness. I will have the advantage of my
predecessor’s reputation and with mv vast
knowledge will make a gun that will ex-
terminate whole armies at one discharge;
yea, verily.”
Then it came to pass that the ungedly
Merlin sang the praise of his guns frem
the street cerners, from the heuse tops,
from the hill tops, with much leudness ef
meuth, and many were deceived and fel-
lewed the false prephet.
Then it came te pass that the wise men
of the nation said, “Wherefore this man
maketh much noise and deceiveth many, let
us investigate.” And the wise men and
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the priests weighed Merlin in the balance
and his goods, and his men servants, and
his maid servants, and his ox, and his ass,
and found them wanting; yea, muchly.
And it came to pass that the nation, be-
cause of his loud mouth and much brag-
ging, did condemn the ungodly Merlin.
Then in his wrath he said, “The nation
be dod dund. I will not repent nor 1m-
prove my evil ways. Verily, I will force
them to bow down and worship me,”
Then it camé to pass he was loudly
curc:d by men of all nations as a false
prophet, and his guns came to be a sign of
damnation to the owner thereof. And many
men lost their religion by trusting to the
handiwork of the false prophet. And again
I say unto ye, many men lost their souls
by blaspheming, because in their ignorance
they had purchased of his goods. And
when a wise priest and a leader of men.
named Coquinut, did pray with Merlin and
try to show him the evil of his way, and
with tears in his eyes did beseech the said
Merlin to follow the noble examnle of his
predecessor, the ungodly Merlin did blas-
pheme, and because of his hardness of heart
say, “Get thee behind me, thou ex-game
hog, and get a mighty move on, or I will
smite thee off the face of the earth. and all
thy tribe of sportsmen, with my jaw bone.
as Samson did with the jaw bone of another
asSae
Then the sportsmen of the nation rose up
as one man and said, “Down with the
hypocrite !”
And it came to pass that in the last days
the Lord, who loves justice, did consign the
ungodly Merlin to the bottomless pit. And
there was much rejoicing throughout the
land thereat. Amen.
HIS, FAVORITE LOADS.
Nothing but a sheet of paper or some
similar target will tell the true story of a
charge of shot. A few lucky shots at game
prove nothing. Of course, your target
must be backed with something to test
penetration. For that purpose I have never
feund anything better than soft, clear pine.
In judging smokeless pewders, strength,
quickness, cleanliness, neise, receil, smoke-
lessness and pattern are te be censidered.
Bursting strain is net censidered, for when
preperly leaded neme ef the high grade
pewders are dangereus. FE. €. makes tee
much smoke, toe much neise, has too much
recoil, is rather slow, and load for load
gives less penetration than most other
bulk powders, While liable to bunch
4Co |
sinall- shot, 4b=us ase good a ase eatiy eat
long range with coarse shot. The same
faults exist in Schulte, except in pattern.
Schultze has also a disagreeable smell. Du-
pont is all right, except a little too much
smoke and a good deal too much noise.
There are 2 points in which L. & R. needs
to be greatly improved; unburned grains
are left in the barrel and it makes alto-
gether too much noise. . Blue Ribbon I dis-
card as worthless. It has no force. I shot
a red squirrel at about 4 rods distance with
No..6 ‘shot. lt -killed- him: deadtas a door
nail. I filled him with shot and knocked
him 4 feet away from the log on which he
was running, but not a shot went through;
they lodged against the skin on the other
side. I call that a decided lack of pene-
tration. I have found that Blue Ribbon
powder will cause pitting in gun barrels
unle s extreme: care is taken in} cleaning
the weapon.
Troisdorf has the least smoke of any
powder I ever used, except Walsrode. It
makes little noise and is as quick as the.
quickest, with but light recoil. It will put
as many shot in a 30 inch circle at 40 yards
as will E. C., and with much better dis-
tribution. However, it is a soit powder
and requires careful loading. If loaded
in the following manner it will give
as good results in pattern and pene-
tration as can be obtained from any pow-
der: Winchester’s Leader shell, 25 inch;
234 or 3 drams powder, never more for
a 12 gauge gun.” On the powder put ‘a
trap wad with just 35 pounds pressure,
then a 4% and &% inch black edge wad.
Use not more than 1% ounce shot, and if
as coarse as 6's, I ounce is better. Cover
with a thin top wad, and crimp well. A
load that will kill a woodcock anywhere
inside -of a 3 foot circle at 16 yar7s is
24 drachms Troisdorf trap; 2 %-inch black
edge wads. Take B thickness card wads
and punch the center out with a 32 calibre
wad cutter; make a dipper that will hold
3% ounce of shot, No. Oo or 105 seme anua
dipperful of shot, then a punched wad. Do
this 3 times until you have 1% ounces of
shot in your shell, cover with a top wad,
and crimp. Using a cylinder bore you will
get your bird at 25 yards if you aim within
2 feet of it.
To. load buckshot: Take small size
buckshot, 234 drams powder, I trap wad,
13g inch white felt and 1 A _ thickness
card wad. Put in about 2 deep of No. 10
shot, then buckshot, placing them in the
center. Cover with fine’shot and repeat
until you have 9 or 12 buckshot in your
load, cover the last 3 wads and crimp.
Fired from a medium choke gun at 35
yards, this charge will put all the buckshot
inside an 18 inch circle.
W. E. Stoddart, Montpelier, Vt,
RECKEAI TON: | :
CONDEMNS THE REPEATING SHOT GUN.
Jamesville, Mo.
Editor RECREATION :
I have noticed many articles in RECREA-
TION in regard to the pump gun. Some
writers denounce it as a game hog’s weap-
on without going into details.
one will deny the charge and defend the
weapon by such arguments as: “It is the
strongest shooting gun in the market. I
keep my Parker to look at; my pump gun
to shoot, For a target smasher and game
getter it discounts the double barrel.”
I can not understand how any true
sportsman and advocate of game protection
.can use oer defend this monstrosity among
guns. If some one should invent a gun
that would throw a continual stream of
. shot at a flock of birds until they were out
of sight there would be instant protest
from game protectors, and probably laws
would be enacted prohibiting the use of
such a weapon. Yet who can denv that
the pump is a near approach to such an
engine of destruction; and is it not safe
to assume that a great majority of the
present users of pump guns would gladly
adopt a still more murderous arm? Many
users of this weapon give us as an excuse
that they are the only first class gun ob-
tainable at anything like the price. That
is not the case; there are many first class
hammer guns to be had at prices ranging
from $16 to $25; among them are the
Ithaca, Syracuse and Forehand. For dur-
ability and shooting qualities the guns
named are the equal to any made at any
price, hammer or hammerless.
Some advance the theory that the pump
is a humane weapon, enabling its user to
quickly put wounded birds out of misery.
Nine “out of 10 ‘users. “of \the? Tepeatime
shot gun will pump lead at a flock of birds
until they are. out of sight or until the gun
is empty. The first 2 or 3 shots kill most
of the birds hit. The last 3 make more
cripples than could ever be made with a
double barrel.. The man with the double
barrel gets in 2 shots in quick succession
at short range, thus dropping the highest
possible per cent of hit birds and before
he can reload the remainder are out of
range. In chicken shooting, when a covey
is found, only the first 2 birds that
take wing are killed; while if a pump gun
was used there would be no chance for the
remaining birds to escape while the hunter
was breaking his gun and reloading. No,
the hog behind the pump stands with finger
on trigger and 5 charges still at his com-
mand and it is a cold day if any birds es-
cape.
George Harne of Syracuse, New York,
was granted a patent on January 14th for
an automatic shot gun, This gun is prac-
Then some--
§
GUNS AND AMMUNITION.
tically the same as the pttmp gun except
that the forward and back movement is
automatic, the recoil being the motive
power. Another man has invented a similar
contrivance. The hope is already being ex-
pressed among the better class of sports-
men that these guns will not be allowed to
come into general use. There should be a
law prohibiting the’ use of both. Failing
in that, it is still the duty of every true
sportsmen and game protector to raise his
voice against the use of such murderous
weapons. Double Barrel.
This is as severe a criticism as I have
ever printed of any gun or cartridge. Now
you watch the Winchester Company and
see if it withdraws its ad from RECREATION,
or brings a libel suit against me, a la lom-
my Peters and Paddy Marlin.—Epiror. —
A NEW THEORY.
I was much interested in the article
from Edmonton, written by H. B. Spratt,
but was sorry you did not roast him as he
deserves.
I use a 16 bore shot gun and have a
.303 British rifle. I like the 16 bore the
better, as the shot flies faster and does
more effective killing. I shot a mallard
duck at 95 measured paces and hit 2 more
in the same flock. I do not like to see
men pick their shots. I never shoot at
birds less than 60 yards off, as I want to
give them a chance to get away. Of
course I often hit and lose them, but that
is the only true way not to be a pot shot or
a game hog
Last fall a shot a buck and doe, in the
Beaver hills, with one shot. They were
standing side by side and the bullet from
my .303 went through both, breaking their
shoulder blades. On the same day I killed
2 more deer with 2 shots. I quit then, as
I am no hog.
W. E. Heist, Alta, Can. -
ANSWER.
It would seem that a man would have to
push pretty hard on his gun to kill a mal-
lard at.95 steps, unless they were mighty
short steps. You say. you measured the
paces, but you do not say how long each
pace was. It might have been only a foot.
In that case, it would not have been a
notable shot; but if you stepped 32 or 34
“inches each time, that would make your
story really remarkable. Of course acci-
dents will happen, if you keep on shooting,
but if you have a gun that will kill regu-
larly at 80 yards, there are thousands of
men who would like to buy it.
I have never before heard a real sports-
man advocate the wounding of birds and
letting them get away. I had always sup-
posed the most sportsmanlike way was to
kill the birds as suddenly as possible, and
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to recover as large a percentage of those
hit as possible. ‘This theory of yours, that
the test of sportsmanship is in hitting birds
and letting them get away, instead of killing
them, is new.—EDITOoR.
ASK THE MAKER.
I have a Winchester 22, model ’90. Have
used both U. M. C. and Winchester shells,
but like the Winchester best. I find them
more accurate in my gun. While using U.
M. C. cartridges I had one stick in the
carrier. I then took 2 Winchester shells of
same caliber and putting the U. M. C. be-
tween them I placed a rule on top and
found the U. M. C,. a full 1-32 inch the
shortest. Should like to know if others
have found the same difference. The Win-
chester shell boxes are labeled 7% grains
powder and 45 grains lead, while the U.
M. C.’s read 7 grains powder and 45 lead.
Why should they be different? Where can
I procure bird lime? Have been told that
it would be just.the thing for catching
English sparrows.
G. D. Burns, Minneapolis, Minn.
ANSWER.
I have never heard of a similar difficulty
with the U. M. C. 22 rifle cartridge. It is
possible the shells used in your arm may
have had the bullets pressed deeper than
is the case with the Winchester’s. This
would make the cartridge a trifle shorter
and might cause the trouble. Write the
U. M. C. Co. direct in regard to this mat-
ter, sending them some of the defective
ammunition. They would, no doubt, be
glad to get the information and replace the
defective shells free of charge.
Bird lime for catching English sparrows
may be bought from any dealer in taxi-
dermists’ goods who advertises in RECREA-
TION.—EDITOR.
WHICH IS BEST?
There seems no end of conflicting views
regarding the all around rifle. I have
heard that Mr. Shields has done a good
bit with the rifle. I suggest that he give
us his view of an all around weapon. I
hunted for years with a rifle and got more
game than I could now with a shot gun.
Should I design a gun it would be of 38
caliber, chambered for a 350 grain solid
ball,,or a 330 grain hollow point and
7° grains of black powder, or its equiva-
lent in nitro. It would have also a second
cartridge, a 1oo-yard load, with as light
a ball as I could get, not much heavier
than a buck shot, for small game.
Why is it the U. S. Army always has a
weapon not quite so good as those in
general use? The old Springfields are not
up to the Remington single shot, nor does
tne Krag equal the Lee. Is it true that
the action of the Mauser is better than
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either? It is so claimed. Is there any
clothing really waterproof? I’ve used oil-
skin, rubber and mackintosh; all leaked
on the shoulder.
Jno. A, Elliott, M. D., Northumberland, Pa.
I prefer to leave these questions in the
hands of my readers, many of whom are
thoroughly competent to handle them.
—EDITOR.
SMALL SHOT.
For 11 years I have been traveling
through this part of Massachusetts with a
shooting gallery. A few years ago the
RECREATION readers among my patrons be-
gan asking why I did not use Peters shells,
saying they had seen them advertised in
their favorite magazine. At that time
Peters ammunition could not be bought
anywhere in Worcester county. To oblige
my friends I procured a supply from head-
quarters, and latér we induced a large con-
cern in Pittsfield and another at North
Adams to handle Peters goods. At Great
Barrington one fall my partner and I had
3 galleries, side by side, and used 20,000
Peters shells. —
That Peters goods ever found sale in
Worcester county is due wholly to the
efforts of RECREATION readers. That they
are in much less demand at present goes
without saying. I am still in the business,
and I give my patrons what they ask for.
At present they are worrying along with
U. M. C.’s and Winchesters, but the bulls-
eye bell rings about as often as ever,
Chas. Hamel, North Adams, Mass.
I have just been testing the new lubri-
cated metal patched bullets, made by the
National Projectile -Works, of this city,
and am confident there is no other projec-
tile on the market that compares favorably
with them for accurate shooting. In mv first
testing of the new wire-wound bullet I shot
5 out of 8 shots into a 1% inch circle at 50
yards, hunting sights, muzzle rest, using
25 grains Laflin & Rand’s 30 caliber smoke-
less powder, 30-30-160 Winchester lubri-
cated metal patched bullet, and my little
30-30 Winchester rifle. I firmly believe this
new bullet is an important improvement
over the dry mantled bullet now so com-
monly in use. The new bullet has been
patented, a company organized for its man-
ufacture in this city, and machines are now
being completed for making these bullets
in large quantities and at reasonable prices.
I am pleased to recommend this bullet te
all who have high velocity rifles and do
not wish to have them ruined by the use of
dry metal patched bullets.
Geo. H. Newell, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Among pump guns I have used the Win-
RECREATION.
chester, the Spencer and the Burgess. All
are good, but with none of them can I
shoot so well as with a double barrel. I
have found the 12 bore’ Pieper, $75
grade, an admirable gun. So is the $40
grade Remington, with the additional ad-
vantage of unusually lore range. For duck
shooting the Lefever 10 bore, with 32 inch
barrels, has given me great satisfaction.
Am now using a 12 gauge Smith which I
had made to order with 2 sets of barrels;
one 28, the other 32 inch. The short bar-
rels, of which one is cylinder and the other
modified choke, I use for wing shooting.
The long pair are choked to the limit. The
combination makes as good an all around
gun as one could wish. My conclusion is
that a strong, light, well balanced gun that
fits the user will give satisfaction no mat-
ter what name is stamped on it. A score
of American makers are building just that
sort of gun, and one is as good as another.
M. A. Curl, Rosehill, O..
I must add a few lines to what C. L.
Adam says of the 44-40, as I have been a
user of that gun 6 years and consider it an
excellent weapon. I am not a crack shot,
but have done satisfactory shooting with it.
I get better results with Dupont No. 2
smokeless powder than with any other.
It is certainly the cleanest powder I ever
used, and as nearly smokeless as is possible
to make. I use the same powder in a 38
caliber revolver and greatly prefer it to
black. With the latter the barrel fouls
rapidly; but with No. 2 I can fire an un-
limited number of shots, all equally accu-
rate. The old black powder guns used with
a suitable smokeless powder are as good
as the modern small bores.
I would say to A. W. Webly that the
32 hand ejector revolver would be too
light for 100 yard shooting. He wi'l find a
special heavy weight 38 a better weapon at
that range. Sportsman, Harney, Md.
In February RecreEaTION A. D. R. asks
which is best for duck shooting, a 10 or a
12 bore, and whether a 30 or a 32 inch bar-
rel is preferable. The popular gun in the
Northwest for ducks and geese is still the
IO gauge, 32 inch, 10 to 12 pounder.
I am doing plenty of execution with an 8% °
pound, 12 gauge, 32 inch gun which I had
built to order by the Ithaca Gun Co. It is
the $60 grade, with their double thick nitro
breech, chambered for 3 inch shell and
bored especially for Ne. 4 shot. I use 3%
drams Du Pont smokeless, 114 eunces No.
4 shot, and my «friends are eften surprised
at the long kills I make. A 30 inch barrel
gives as much penetration with nitro pow-
der as'a longer one, but the pattern of the
32 inch barrel is about 10 per cent better
as a rule. Pi ii tle SIO ClLyee las
NALURAL. History.
When a bird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it.
and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely.
THE MUCH NAMED WHITETAIL DEER.
W. T. HORNADAY, in the Zoological Society Bulletin.
The general zoologist, interested more in
animals than in their names, who attempts
to stand midway between the small body
of technical zoologists and the masses of
the unscientific public, is certain to be torn
by conflicting emotions. Compared with
him, Prometheus was a comfortable and
even happy man. He must cheerfully con-
front the masses with the assurance that
scientific zoology is the foundation of all
infallibility, even while. the vultures of
Nomenclature are gnawing at his vitals.
Whether he will or no, he must change the
scientific names on beasts and birds as
often as the inexorable scientific leaflet de-
mands, and without making a wry face
carry them out to 3 decimal places.
There are times, however, when the gen-
eral zoologist is filled by a wild desire to
go baersark, and say things. In his calmer
moments, he firmly resolves to cut loose
from all scientific names, and make an open
campaign with common sense as the only
issue. He writes a scorching lecture en-
titled “Popular versus Unpopular Nomen-
clature;” which so relieves his mind that
he calms down sufficiently to go out and
make a fresh lot of changes on his labels.
To-day, the name makers are in strife as
to who wields the heaviest pick and shovel.
and who can dig the deepest after fossil
names for living animals. It matters not
for how many decades, or centuries. the
name of a popular wild animal has been
in the public prints, nor how many million
people are acquainted with it. If your
hunter of fossil names discovers a particu-
larly obscure eposit of antediluvian
science, straightway he hies him to the un-
worked cemetery, and digs and explores,
regardless of the risk of being caught by
many kinds of ancient germs.
Possibly he finds that some prehistoric
nobody, whose scientific work died a-born-
ing, bestowed on some wild animal a Latin
name, or at least insinuated one, I5 minutes
“prior to the bestowal of the name by which
the millions of to-day know it. The newly
found name is tenderly taken up, scraped,
disinfected, and patched until it will hold
together. It is then brought into the light
of day, and laid as an offering at the feet
of the fetish called Priority. This means
that the familiar name, the one in universal
use, must fall down, and give place to the
newly found fossil.
But there is one source of grim satisfac-
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If photographed, it may still live and its educational
tion. Each fossil name 1s certain to be
knocked out by other fossil names.
As an illustration, take the Virginia, or
whitetail deer, a modest and unassuming
animal, and very set in its ways. To the
unassisted lay mind there is no more ex-
cuse for changing its name every year than
there would be in renaming Washington
at every session of Congress; but what do
we hear.
In 1785, right or wrong, Boddaert named
it Cervus virginianus.
In 1827 and 1835 and 1841, 3 other authors
mistakenly gave it 3 other names. with-
out effect.
From 1785 to 1884 the following authors
wrote of this animal as Cervus virgin-
1anNus:
1788, GMELIN. 1831, GODMAN.
1789, ZIMMERMAN. 1836, SCHREBER.
1792, KERR. 1842, DEKAY.
1801, SHAW. 1844, WAGNER,
1822, DEMAREST. 1851, AUDUBON.
1823, SAy. BACHMAN.
1825, HARLAN. 1857, Batrp.
1830, DouUGHTY. 1877, CATON.
During the century covered as above,
several foreign authors wrote of this ani-
mal under other names than that recog-
nized by the foregoing array of highly
respectable authorities.
With a century of general use in Amer-
ica, the name Cervus virginianus had be-
come not only widely known, but one
might suppose it to be well fixed, also.
Now mark its fall, and the result.
In 1884, by common consent, the leading
American mammalogists adopted a name
bestowed on this animal, in 1842, Cariacus
virgimianus; in 1895, Allen called it Dor-
celaphus virginianus; in 1897, Rhoades
changed it to WDorcelaphus americanus:
in 1898, in a book printed on very good
paper, Lydekker (of England) seriously
adopts for this animal Mazama americana;
in 1899, Miller dug up Odocoileus ameri-
canus; in 1902, Allen proposes to call it
Dama virginiana.
What next? In the language of the
graduating essay, whither are we drifting?
To the general zoologist, all this naming,
and re-naming, and tre-naming, of which
the above is merely a sample case, would
be amusing, if it were not so serious!
It does not phase the general public, for
through all this erratic bestowal and use
of unpopular names, the good old popular
name, whitetail deer, shines like a
beacon, permanently fixed. The bother
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comes when a zoologist is required to
write a scientific as well as popular label
and use the latest and the absolutely satis-
factory-to-all scientific name.
It looks as if the worship of the Priority
fetish has gone far enough. The situation
is becoming ridiculous. There are about
20 good men in the mammalogy line who
should stop resurrecting fossil names, get
together on a common sense, practical
basis, cremate Priority in a fiery furnace,
and give us for our most important animals
some names that will go thundering down
the ages.
AGAIN THE HAWK QUESTION.
_ In spite of the costly experience of the
State of Pennsylvania, the elaborate inves-
tigations and publications of the United
States Department of Agriculture, and the
repeated summarizing of the facts in RE-
CREATION, the ghost of the all-destroying
hawk still stalks abroad. In witness where-
of I submit the following letters:
I notice an article in ‘June RECREATION
by H. V. Shelley, who claims the crow,
hawk and owl are good friends of the
farmer and wants to have them protected
by law. Evidently this. man has never
seen a farm. If he had he would have seen
scarecrows in the fields, put there to keep
the rascal crows from pulling up all the
corn. Hawks are even more destructive.
When they pick up a chicken or young
turkey and fly away with it, the farmer
does not appreciate their friendship.
Geo. J. Lee, Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
The readers of RECREATION who live in
Western Minnesota should show that its
teaching is not in vain by declaring war
on the ‘numerous hawks that infest our
prairies. If we all did our duty, we could
materially reduce the number of these
enemies of our game birds.
I killed 6 chicken hawks here in one
day. Two I caught in the act of raiding
covies of chickens.
O. S. Lowell, Glenwood, Minn.
Once more I refer all readers of REcRE-
ATION to Bulletin No. 3, Division of Or-
nithology and Mammalogy, of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, published by the Gov-
ernment in 1893, and entitled “The Hawks
and Owls of the United States in Their Re-
lation to Agriculture,” by Dr. A. K. Fisher.
This valuable volume sets forth the long
series of investigations of the food habits
of the hawks and owls of the United States,
with full details. Thousands of stomachs
of our hawks and owls, in some cases sev-
eral hundred specimens of a single species,
were examined most carefully, and their
contents inventoried. Of the red tailed
hawk, 562 stomachs were examined, and
the results are published in full. There is
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no question about either the Aioesupinee
of the investigations, or the accuracy ot |
the result.
They establish the fact that of all the
hawks and owls in North America, only 2
species do sufficient damage, beyond the
good they accomplish, to justify their de-
struction. These are the sharp-shinned
hawk and Cooper’s hawk, and wherever
they are found, it is right to kill them. The
other hawks and owls feed chiefly on wild
mice and rats, grasshoppers, beetles and
shrews, and the actual service which they
render the farmer far more than compen-
sates him for the occasional domestic fowls
which they destroy.
For the third time, I refer to the experi-
ence of the State of Pennsylvania, which,
in the belief that all hawks and owls were
injurious to the interests of farmers, pro-
vided for the payment of bounties for their
destruction. An immense number of hawks
and owls were kilied, and immmediately
the farms were overrun by a horde of de-
structive rats, mice and insects, which in-
creased with astonishing rapidity, because
the birds which had he'd them in check had
been destroyed. After an immense amount
of damage had been inflicted to the agricul-
tural interests of the State, what is known
as the “Fool Hawk Law”, was hurriedly
repealed, and now the Pennsylvania farm-
ers know their feathered friends when they
see them.
The trouble with Mr. Lee is that he is
not taking pains to inform himself regard-
ing the food habits of the hawks which he
would destroy. He does not give them
credit for the thousands of destructive mice
and rats that they kill on his farm each
year. Thanks to the investigations that
have been so ably conducted by the De-
partment of Agriculture, there is no room
for argument on the hawk question. Ex-
cepting the 2 species named above, the
hawks and owls are among the farmers’
best friends, and should be carefully pro-
tected. W. T. Hornaday.
CAN CROWS SMELL GUNPOWDER?
The old time notion that crows smell
powder is erroneous. I have made war on
crows for nearly 30 years, and have shot as
-many as 300 ina single winter. The way I get
them is by building a blind, and hanging
near it one or 2 dead crows on a pole that
will reach above the surrounding brush.
In 2% hours I have shot 36 crows: from
one blind. Surely some of them had a
chance to smell powder, as I fired 48 times
to kill the 36. I have known them to
alight within 10 feet of where I was
hidden.
They are always on the alert, and it is
the acuteness of their sight and hearing
that makes it so difficult to approach them.
NATURAL
They are particularly suspicious of any
stealthy movement. It is often easy to
get within shot range of crows by acting
as if you did not see them and were bound
on some other business. With all their
cunning, I do not believe they can tell
a gun from a pitchfork, nor gunpowder
from sawdust.
Gilbert King, Howard, R. I.
In a recent issue of RECREATION. a cor-
respondents asks if the crow can smell gun-
powder. I answer in the negative. It
is not the smell that crows fear; it is
the sight of the gun itself. If you are
not carrying a gun you can-~often walk
in under the tree on which crows are
sitting, Then take a gun and see how
near you can get to them: They will re-
treat long before you are within gun
range, To further test this matter, take
a piece of wood, a limb or pole, about 4
feet long, throw it over your shoulder and
see how soon the crows will spot you.
The crow’s fear of a gun has become in-
stinct. Young birds taken from the nest
often become furious at the sight of a
stick in one’s hand, while they show no
fear of the person himself.
A. W. Blain, Jr., Detroit, Mich.
I see in August REcREATION that R.
Armstrong is undecided as to whether or
not crows can smell gunpowder. No,
brother, they can not. What they smell
is the strong nitro primer. Crows are as
deaf as posts and blind of both eyes, but
they have miraculous noses. I have fre-
quently observed’ them take alarm at 200
yards when approached with a gun down
wind. Use black powder primers and you
will have less trouble. If that is not pos-
sible, smear your gun with asafcetida and
stalk them up wind under cover of the
night. The latter way is the better.
W. 8S. Crolly, Hoosic Falls, N. Y.
I doubt whether crows can smell powder
to the extent of being able in that way
to detect the approach of a hunter. The
rascals were a pest here last year, and a
friend and I hunted them 3 days, killing
about 25. We vot 9g in one day by follow-
ing a large flock and calling them repeat-
edly.
I saw a white squirrel near here last
fall, and got within 6 feet of it. It was
perfectly white save for a small black spot
on top of its head and a few black hairs
ai the’ tip “ot “the tail: ~ Later. saw’ an-
other. Both resembled, in size and ac-
tions, the common chipmunk.
F. C. Muzzy, Bristol, N.-H.
THE SQUIRRELS AND THE CORN.
Avoca, Iowa, a town of 2,000 inhabitants,
probably contains more squirrels than any
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other town in the country. Just East of it
is a large grove abounding in these beauti-
ful creatures, the owner not allowing them
to be killed. Our streets are lined with
trees, and the residence portion of the town
is fairly alive with squirrels. They are
never molested and are exceedingly tame,
often taking food from one’s hand. I have
frequently seen them carry off ears of corn.
Only a few days ago one carried off, in
less than half an hour, a crockful of wal-
nuts from my kitchen. Last summer I
noticed the ground under a _ cottonwood
tree near my house was covered with
freshly fallen leaves. This proved to be
the work of squirrels. On the stem of each
cut leaf was a swelling caused by a deposit
of eggs of some insect. The squirrels had
eaten the eggs from each leaf before drop-
ping it. . Dr. C. W. Hardman, Avoca, Ia.
In the fall of 1897, I was hunting near
Carthage, N. Y. While in a piece of
maplewoods near a field of corn, I saw
something moving about 30 feet from the
ground in one of the trees. On close obser-
vation I saw it was an ear of corn and that
some animal was trying to pull it into a
hole. After waiting a few minutes I fired
directat. the ear of corn: It fell to the
ground, and out of the hole popped a grey
squirrel, which ran to the top of the tree.
I do not know why he should have tried to
carry a whole ear of corn into the hole, as
he was so near the field he could have
taken a kernel at a time and soon have
had a supply sufficient for his need.
H. Sylvester, Lima, N. Y.
IF. E. Williams, of Spring Valley, Minn.,
tells in RECREATION about gréy squirrels
carrying corn from farmers’ cribs and hid-
ing it until they have a bushel or more
stored away. I have made a close study
of the habits of squirrels, both wild and
tame, and never until last spring saw one
carry an ear of corn. In March I observed
a grey squirrel come out of a grove and
cross an open field to a corn crib. In a
few minutes he returned, carrying an ear
of corn, holding it by setting the front
lower teeth into the pith and his upper
teeth in the edge of the cob. I do not
think this is a common habit; anyway, it
was the first case I ever noticed.
W. R. Felton, Coffeyville, Kan.
I note, in August RecrEaTIon, that you
question the statement of F. E. Williams,
Spring Valley, Minn., in regard to grey
squirrels carrying off whole ears of corn.
In the early part of last June I went into
a field to see a farmer who was plowing,
about 40 rods from a barn, and between it
and an oak grove. I saw a squirrel going
across the plowed land toward the barn.
In a few minutes he came back with a
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whole ear of ccrn in his mouth. He
passed near us, so I could not mistake what
he was carrying. For my part, I should
enjoy seeing squirrels around too much to
begrudge them a little corn.
A. E. Beckwith, Cheney, Minn.
ARE WILD ANIMALS JEALOUS?
I notice in June RECREATION some re-
marks by Mr. Browne in regard to squir-
rels injuring birds’ nests, I believe it,
and from observation 1 think I have
arrived at the true reason why they do
so. I notice in all animals a great amount
of jealousy and in many cases resistance
if they think their lawful domains are about
to be usurped. The squirrel is more prone
to show this trait than any other member
of creation.
A number of years ago I was tutor to a
gentleman’s family in Ireland. He had a
tine estate and the grounds were kept in the
best trim. A private path led through a
part of the grounds called the hazel wood.
A number of large pine trees were scattered
through the hazel shrubs and this part of
the wood was fairly swarming with red
squirrels. A rustic seat was placed under
one of the pine trees and when I had time
I used to sit there a few minutes in pass-
ing and watch the fun and frolic of the lit-
tle fellows. When they got used to me and
saw I was not dangerous many would come
in the direction of the seat when they heard
my step.
One morning in approaching this spot I.
heard a terrible chatter of sparrows and
when I came up I saw the cause. Someone
had left a- few stalks of ripe wheat on the
seat; the sparrows wanted the grain and
the squirrels were guarding it like so many
little dogs. They would not let a bird
alight on the bench.
Early one season a few squirrels settled
in a large fir tree opposite the library win-
dow where I taught my pupils. The grass
was always kept short and the squirrels
amused themselves by leaping on and off
the boughs, which drooped to within a
few feet of the ground. Occasionally a
male blackbird, who seemed to live not far
away, would hop under the same tree and -
pick up insects or worms from the ground.
If seen by the large squirrels of this little
colony he was pursued and had to leave
the grounds. One morning we observed the
blackbird had this little space all to him-
self for a much longer time than usual.
He had settled down on.his breast and was
picking in the closely mown turf to his
heart’s content. On the bough right over
him I saw a squirrel almost motionless,
but apparently studying out from what po-
sition it could drop on the blackbird. At
last it dropped its paws around the bird so
RHO AT TO Ne
as to cover it completely and kept it so 4
or 5 seconds. After what appeared a fierce
struggle the bird escaped, leaving a few
feathers flying. We never saw the black-
bird under the tree again and the squirrel
seemed satisfied that no further intrusion
would occur, .
W. J. Fleming, New York City.
A CITY BIRD COLONY.
Since writing you last my biuebirds suc-
cessfully reared a brood of young, 5 or 6
in all. I only saw 4 together on my oak
tree, but I think there were one or 2 more,
as I noticed one that appeared larger and
stronger than the 4 and left the house a day
or 2 earlier. Both the old and young blue-
birds make daily visits to my yard.
June 17 a male house wren appeared
and started to build a nest in the blue-
birds’ abode in spite of the vigorous pro-
tests of the former occupants. They made
swift dashes at the wren on numerous oc-
casions, but the latter easily got out of
reach, kept on singing and nest building,
and finally succeeded in blockading the en-
trance with small sticks or twigs, effectually
excluding any bird larger than a wren. The
wren was alone for over a week, and I
thought it would be the old story of the
past 2 years, when throughout the whole
season only a male bird was about. How-
ever, a few days ago Jenny appeared and
the female is now completing the nest.
The bluebirds, who appeared to wish to
renest in their house, have given up the
idea, and are going into a flower pot house.
I hope they will raise another brood, as thev
certainly have ample time before cold
weather.
I have a pair of tree swallows. Their
brood left the house yesterday, June 29.
The old birds appear to wish to renest,
though they are said to raise only one
brood in a season.
I also have 40 purple martins, about 15
pairs of which have young. The old birds
must destroy millions of insects, as they
find the food in the air and feed the young
from daylight to dark.
All these birds find homes on a city lot.
35x 127 feet. All I do is to provide them
boxes and protect them from the English
sparrows.
An English sparrow will stand about
everything except being shot at. A good
air gun solves the problem nicely, makes
little noise, but does the work.
Frederick Wahl, Milwaukee, Wis.
NOT ONE REDEEMING TRAIT.
At last some one has been found to say a good
word for the English sparrow. According to a
report from Washington, the sparrows in that city
have been devouring the 17-year locusts, and
in this way have prevented their great spread.
NATURAL
It was first noticed, according to this despatch,
that the sparrows were not so common as_ usual
on the streets, and it was then found that they
had gathered in enormous numbers in the parks,
where the locusts were most numerous. This is a
surprise, for it has not been generally thought
that these sparrows are insect-eating birls; but
the fat grub of the 17-year locust evidently suits
their taste, and the birds are reported as growing
plump on their new diet.—Boston( Mass.) Herald.
The above clipping suggests the idea that
perhaps the English sparrow ‘is not, after
all, so black as he is painted.
M.-H. Root, Minersville, Pa.
The detested English sparrow has recent-
ly demonstrated that he can be of some use
after all. Last month the 17-year locusts
came in great numbers, and the sparrows
had a grand feast, evidently considering the
insect pests a rare delicacy. The birds ate
the bodies and left the wings untouched.
In a few days the incessant hum of the lo-
custs became fainter and soon ceased alto-
gether ,showing how thoroughly Passer
domesticus had done his work, It is gen-
erally believed he is not an insectivorous
bird, but if the locust tickles his palate why
should not other kinds of insects? If it can
be shown that these birds destroy different
forms of obnoxious insects, it might be
well to protect them; but I hardly think
this one good trait could overbalance their
many bad ones, especially that of persecut-
ing other birds.
Harry P. Hays, Hollidaysburg, Pa.
ANSWER.
Regarding this matter, A. K. Fisher. of
the U. S. Biological Survey, Washington,
We... Says:
The English sparrow, together with a
large proportion of our native birds. fed
extensively on the 17-year locusts which re-
cently swarmed in this vicinity. As this
insect is of little economic importance the
work of the sparrow can not be considered
of great value.
A LIVE SPARROW TRAP.
I notice Maude Meredith’s appeal to the
boys to take arms against the English spar-
rows and by good shooting end them.
It would be a smart boy who could beat
the record of a sparrow killer once in my
possession. This pest exterminator was a
common screech owl, caught in Cook
county, Texas. I made him a wire cage,
with a dark box in which to spend the
daytime. He soon became as gentle as
any pet could be. It was amusing to hear
his queer little screeches when he was
waiting to take food from my hands. I
fed him raw beef and sometimes rabbit
flesh. He became so tame I gave him his
liberty. Every evening just before dusk he
would perch on a dead limb in the yard,
and woe unto the rat or mouse that came
jin sight,
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Later I moved to Davis, Indian Terri-
tory, and occupied a house with a long gal-
lery in front. Between the ceiling and the
roof of that gallery lived countless spar-
rows. One day I caught one and gave it to
the owl, who fairly tore it from my hands
in his eagerness to devour it.
Soon after I let him out of his cage that
evening I heard a great commotion among
the sparrows. The owl had raided a nest,
and I found him with a young bird in each
claw and another in his beak. After that
I seldom fed him. Nevertheless, he fared
royally, catching 2 and sometimes 3 spar-
rows for a meal, for he was a voracious
little rascal. When he had devoured the
pests on my place he foraged a'l over town.
I taught him many little tricks, such as
playing dead, catching food tossed to him,
etc. His favorite trick was, when I would
allow it, to crawl into my coat pockets in
search of food. Altogether he was an in-
teresting as well as a useful pet, and if
opportunity offers I shall get another. They
are easily tamed, are cleanly, and as mouse
and rat -catchers are better than any cat.
Dan Bosley, Wapanucka, Ind. Ter.
RAISING BLACK DUCKS FOR DECOYS.
On a recent trip to Roanoke Is/and I
met Mr. Spencer Daniels, of Wauchese, N.
C., who has probably raised more Canada
geese, black ducks and mallards for decoys
than any other man in Dare county.
At the time of my visit he had about 50
geese and nearly as many ducks. Like
everyone else, he got his original start from
cripples; but the last 15 or 20 years has
been breeding from raised birds exclusive-
ly. His experience with geese is practically
the same as that outlined in my article in
November RECREATION.
In raising ducks, however, he maintains
that it is absolutely necessary they should
have fish in plenty; and until well feath-
ered should be kept from water, unless
accompanied by their parents, He usually
takes the eggs from the mother bird and
hatches them under a hen. After the young
ducks are hatched, he feeds and tends
them himself. ,
If allowed access to the water while
young, ducks are liable to get wet through
and drown. They should also be kept out
of heavy rain storms. Of 30 ducks
hatched last spring, 27 were living at the
time of my visit, 3 having been killed by
rats. These were mallard and black duck.
It is not necessary that they be fed small
fish. Mr, Daniels threw several large fish in
the pen while I was there and the young
ducks fed on the flies which soon settled on
the fish in swarms. He said that when the
fish decayed, the ducks would eat the mag-
gots, which, together with wet meal, were
their best food,
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In his pen was a female black duck
which he winged 15 or 20 years ago. This
duck has laid 12 to 30 eggs annually, and
has outlived several mates. About 2 yéars
ago her neck feathers began to turn white
and now her head is nearly all white. She
laid and hatched this year as usual and
seemed in good health.
A. S. Doane, Waterlilly, N. C.
A FLESH. EATING. SHEEP:
A most unnatural and surprising pro-
pensity developed in a young lamb owned
by John C. Fouts, of New Washington,
Ind. A ewe dropped 2 lambs one =she
refused to suckle and it was taught to
take milk from a bottle. When about a
month old it was allowed to run in the
yard, with the fowls. Mrs. Fouts missed
some of her young chickens and turkeys,
and -could -not account for their loss,
until one day on going into the yard
she discovered her pet lamb pulling to
pieces and devouring a young turkey.
She told her husband, but he declared that
such a thing was impossible. However,
he kept a sharp watch on the lamb and
one day saw-it pursuing the young chick-
ens. It caught one, pulled it to pieces and
ate it; holding the fowl to the ground with
the front feet just as a dog would do. A
number of persons were called in to wit-
ness this extraordinary case of atavism,
and Mrs. Fouts is still sacrificing chickens
and turkeys.
The Ovis of the zoologists belongs to
the Artiodactyle or paired toed ruminants.
Geologically, sheep are thought to, be
modern animals, as their horas are not
found in the tertiary beds which have
yielded abundant modifications of ante-
lope and deer. The Equus tribe not in-
frequently show atavism, eating flesh, and
developing supernumerary toes. This con-
dition can be accounted for. by exam-
ining the bones and teeth of the Eocene
Eohippus and Orohippus, which clearly in-
dicate that these early eancestors of the
horse were carnivorous; but what about
the animal that from time immemorial has
been held as an emblem of innocence, and
has furnished cuticle for a badge for all
masons? Will some zoologist please ex-
plain? W. F. Work, Chatlestown, Ind.
NATURAL HISTORY” NODES:
Mr. Henry Chaffee, of this city, informs
me that he saw a flock of 45 or more pas-
senger pigeons in the outskirts of this city
about 2 weeks ago. Mr. Chaffee is thor-
oughly familiar with the appearance of the
birds mentioned, so there is no possibility
of his being mistaken in regard to the iden-
tity of the birds. Mr. Chaffee told me he
had seen thousands of the pigeons in his
youth, but that it has been many years since
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any have been seen in this part of the
country. Perhaps they are coming back.
If so, let us not start in to bag them all,
but give them a. show.
Game is more plentiful in this locality
than for many years. Quails especially are
numerous and deer are frequently seen in
the woods and pastures. The time may
come when it will be possible to bag a deer
even if one can not afford a trip to Maine.
L. A. Perry, Putnam, Conn.
I see your readers can not agree as to
how -grouse drink. The fact of the ynatter
is that in wet weather grouse take water
from the leaves; and in dry weather drink
from springs and streams. Last tall I
camped at various spots along the Queets
river in the Olympic mountains. One
morning I went to a spring near camp to
wash dough from a pan. While I stood si-
lently watching a lot of salmon fry eat the
dough, out came a grouse from the brush,
dipped his bill in the water and drank. ex-
actly as a barnyard fowl! would do. Hay-
ing got his fill, he took a dust bath in a
spot where the loose, dry earth had been ~
pawed by an elk. Then he returned to the
spring, took another sip, and flew up the
mountain side.
G. Y. Hibbard, Queets, Wash.
Will some one please tell me how to
make a trap to catch snakes alive and
without injuring them? Is there any way
to remove the poison glands of a rattle-
snake? If the fangs alone are taken out
they will grow .again. What is the best
remedy for rattlesnake and copperhead bite?
Vo Ap dE: Albany, INeoy:
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OFFICERS OF THE L. A. S.
President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., New
York.
rst Vice-President, E. T. Seton,
40th St., New York.
2d Vice-President, WW. T. Hornaday, 2969
Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y.
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Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
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ARIZONA DIVISION.
M. J. Foley, Chief Warden, Jerome.
ARKANSAS DIVISION
W. k. Blockson, Chief Warden, Mena.
CALIFORNIA DIVISION. c
Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chief Warden, Leland
Stanford University. C. Barlow, Sec.-Treas., Santa
Clara.
COLORADO DIVISION. ‘
A. Whitehead, Chief Warden, 303 Tabor Building,
Denver.
f CONNECTICUT DIVISION,
Hon. F. P. Sherwood, Chief Warden, Southport;
Dr. H. L. Ross, Vice-Warden, Canaan; H. C. Went,
Sec.-Treas., Bridgeport.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DIVISION.
C. H. Townsend, Chief Warden, U. S. Fish Com-
mission.
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W. W.K. Decker, Chief Warden, Tarpon Springs
_ GEORGIA DIVISION.
J.J. Doughty, Chief Warden, Augusta.
IDAHO DIVISION.
L. A. Kerr, Chief Warden, Kendrick
ILLINOIS DIVISION.
M. D. Ewell, M.D., Chief Warden, 59 Clark St.,
Chicago; F. M. Taber, Vice Warden, 144 Kinzie
St., Chicago; G. C. Davis, Sec.-Treas., 123 S. Central
Ave., Austin.
INDIANA DIVISION.
Frank L. Littleton, Chief Warden, 30% East
Washington St., Indianapolis; J. J. Hildebrandt,
Vice Warden, Logansport; T. J. Carter, Sec.-Treas.,
State House, Indianapolis. 7
IOWA DIVISION.
Carl Quimby, Chief Warden, Des Moines; C. C.
Proper, Sec.-l'reas., Des Moines.
KANSAS DIVISION. .
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Applegate, Sec.-Treas., 113 E. 1st St., Wichita.
KENTUCKY DIVISION.
Geo. C. Long, Chief Warden, Hopkinsville.
R. L. Brashear, Sec.-Treas., Bowling Green.
; MAINE DIVISION.
Col. E. C. Farrington, Chief Warden, Augusta.
MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION.
Heman S. Fay, Chief Warden, Hazleton Block,
Marlboro; i E. Tweedy, Vice-Warden, North Attle-
boro; A. C. Lamson, Sec.-Treas., 194 Main St.,
Marlboro.
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MICHIGAN DIVISION.
. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand Rapids; R.S.
oodliffe, Vice-Warden, Jackson; A. B. Richmond,
Sec.-Treas., Grand Rapids.
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MINNESOTA DIVISION.
Dietrich Lange, Chief Warden, 2294 Commonwealth
ve.
St Paul; H. A. Morgan, Vice-Warden, Albert Lea;
A.R. Bixby, Sec.-Treas., 101 Baldwin St., St. Paul.
MISSOURI DIVISION.
Bryan Snyder, Chief Warden, 726 Central Bldg.,
St. Louis.
MONTANA DIVISION.
Professor M. J. Elrod, Chief Warden, Missoula;
Sidney M. Logan, Vice-Warden, Kalispell; R. A.
Waagner, Sec.-Treas., Bozeman. _
NEBRASKA DIVISION.
Fred. E. Mockett, Chief Warden, Lincoln; P.
O’Mahony, Sec.-Treas., Lincoln.
NEVADA DIVISION.
Dr. W. H. Cavell, Chief Warden, Carson.
Geo. W. Cowing, Sec.-Treas., Carson.
NEW HAMPSHIRE DIVISION.
Dr. A. F. Barrett, Sentinel Bldg., Keene,
Sidney Conant, Sec.-Treas., Keene.
NEW JERSEY DIVISION.
A. W. Van Saun, Chief Warden, Pompton Plains;
- Dr. W.S. Colfax, Vice-Warden, Pompton Lakes; I
V. Dorland, Sec.-Treas., Arlington.
: NEW MEXICO DIVISION.
W. M. Borrowdale, Chief Warden Magdalena.
NEW YORK DIVISION.
John R. Fanning, Chief Warden, Powers’ Bldg.,
Rochester; Col. KR. E. Moss, Vice-Warden, Wallack’s
Theatre, New York City; Dr. C. C. Curtis, Sec.-
Treas , Columbia College, New York City.
NORTH DAKOTA DIVISION.
Dr. W. D. Jones, Chief Warden, Devil’s Lake.
; OHIO DIVISION.
W. E. Gleason, Chief Warden, Mitchell Bldg.,
Cincinnati; A. C. Thatcher, Vice-Warden, Urbana.
OKLAHOMA DIVISION.
W. M. Grant, Chief Warden, Oklahoma City.
ONTARIO DIVISION.
C. A. Hammond, Chief Warden, Box 7or, St.
Thomas; D. L. Mells, Sec.-Treas., St. Thomas.
OREGON DIVISION.
Robert F. Kelly, Chief Warden, Box 188, The
Dalles; C. B. Cushing, Sec.-Treas., The Dalles.
PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION.
C. F. Emerson, Chief Warden, 189 N. Perry St.,
Titusville; Hon. C. B. Penrose, Vice-Warden, 1720
Spruce St., Philadelphia; E. Wager-Smith, Sec.-
Treas., 1026 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia.
RHODE ISLAND DIVISION.
Zenas W. Bliss, Chief Warden, 49 Westminster St.,
Providence.
SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION.
C. F. Dill, Chief Wa:den, Greenville.
SOUTH DAKOTA DIVISION.
D. C. Booth, Chief Warden, Spearfish; John C.
Barber, Sec.-Treas., Lead.
TENNESSEE DIVISION.
Hon. G. C. Martin, Chief Warden, Clarksville;
Hon. Austin Peay, jr., Sec.-Treas., Clarksville.
TEXAS DIVISION.
Prof. S. W. Stanfield, Chief Warden, San Marcos;
W. E. Heald, Sec.-Treas., San Angelo.
UTAH DIVISION.
Hon. John Sharp, Chief Warden, Salt Lake City.
VERMONT DIVISION.
W.E Mack, Chief Warden, Woodstock; S. C
White, Sec.-Treas., Woodstock.
VIRGINIA DIVISION.
Franklin Stearns, Chief Warden, 13 N. 11th St.,
C. O. Saville, Vice Warden, Richmond; M. D. Hart,
Sec.-Treas., 12r7 East Main St., Richmond.
WASHINGTON DIVISION.
F. S. Merrill, Chief Warden, Spokane; F. A. Pon-
tius, Sec.-Treas., Seattle; Munro Wyckoff, Vice-War-
den, Pt. Townsend.
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WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION.
E. F. Smith, Chief Warden, Hinton,
WISCONSIN DIVISION. ‘
Frank Kaufman, Chief Warden, Two Rivers; Dr.
A. Gropper, Sec.-Treas., Milwaukee. -
WYOMING DIVISION.
H. E. Wadsworth, Chief Warden, Lander; Frank
Bond, Sec.-Treas., Cheyenne.
Applications for menibership and orders for badges
shoutd be addressed to Arthur F. Rice, Secretary, 237 W.
24th St., New York.
LOCAL WARDENS IN NEW YORK.
County. Name of Warden. Address.
New York, Conrad L. Meyer, 46 W, Broadway.
Livingston M. De La Vergne, Lakeville.
= K.S.Chamberlain, Mt. Morris.
Albany, C.D. Johnson, Newtonville.
Gi Henry (.Newman, ey
Hs Kenneth E. Bender, Albany.
Broome, John Sullivan, Sanitaria Springs
ag R. R. Mathewson, Binghamton.
Cayuga, H. M. Haskell, Weedsport.
Chemung, Fred. Uhle, Hendy Creek,
ef M.A. Baker, Elmira.
Cortland, James Edwards, Cortland,
Erie, E. P. Dorr, 103 D. S. Morgan
Building, Buffalo.
us Marvin H. Butler, Morilla.
Essex, W. H. Broughton, Moriah.
Franklin, Jas. Eccles, St. Regis Fails.
Montgomery, Charles W Scharf, Canajoharie,
Oneida. J. M. Scoville, Clinton.
Orange, Wilson Crans, Middletown.
6s J. Hampton Kidd, Newburgh.
of Thomas Harris, Port Jervis.
Richmond, Jewis Morris, Port Richmond.
St. Lawience, Dr. B.W.Severance, Gouverneur.
Sp bea et. ALAN Clarks Sevey.
Schenectady, J. W.Furnside, Schenectady.
Suffolk, F. J. Fellows, Central Islip, L. I.
ne P. F. Tabor, Orient, L. I.
Tioga, Geo. Wood, Ones !
Washington, C.L. Allen, Sandy Hill.
We A.S. Temple, Whitehall.
oe J. ©. Barber, Dresden. |
Westchester, George Poth, Pleasantville.
Chas. Seacor, 57. Pelham Road,
New Rochelle.
*g E.G. Horton, Pleasantville.
OP M. W. Smith, Croton Falls.
peeSness: } A.B. Miller, Jackson’s Corners.
Onondaga, James Lush, Memphis.
Yates, B. L. Wren, Penn Yan.
me Symour Poineer, Branch Port.
Dutchess, Chas. H. DeLong, Pawling.
ao Jacob Tompkins, Billings.
Queens, Gerard Van Nostrand, Flushing, L.1.
af W.S. Mygrant, 40 Elton Street,
Brooklyn.
re P. A. Geepel, 473 Grand Ave.,
- Astoria, L. I.
me L. B. Drowne, 119 Somers Street.
Brooklyn.
Ulster, M.A. DeVall, The Corners.
te Wm. S. Mead, Woodstock.
Jefferson, C. J. Smith, Watertown.
Herkimer, D. F. Sperry, Old Forge.
Oswego, J. E. Manning, 154 West Utica St.
Putnam, H. L. Brady, Mahopac Falls.
Schuyler, G. C. Fordham, Watkins.
Allegany, G. A. Thomas, Belvidere.
Schoharie, O.E. Eigen, Sharon Springs.
Warren, Geo. McEchron, Glen Falls.
Orleans, J.H. Fearby, E. Shelby.
Greene, W. J. Soper. Windham.
LOCAL WARDENS IN OHIO.
Stark, A. Dangeleisen, Massillon.
Franklin, Brook L. Terry, 208 Woodward Av.,
Columbus.
Cuyahoga, A. W. Hitch, 161 Osborn St.,
Cleveland.
Clark, Fred C. Ross, 169 W. Main St.,
Springfield.
Erie, David Sutton, #2 Jackson St.
andusky.
Fulton, L. C. Berry, Swanton.
Hamilton, W.C. Rippey, 4465 Eastern Ave.,
Cincinnati.
RECREATION.
Name of Warden.
County. Address.
Allen, S. W. Knisely, Lima.
Knox, Grant Phillips, Mt. Vernon.
Lorain, T. J. Bates, Elyria.
Ottawa, Frank B. Shirley, Lakeside.
Muskingum, Frank D. Abell, Zanesville.
Scioto, J. F. Kelley, Portsmouth.
LOCAL WARDENS IN CONNECTICUT.
Fairfield, George B. Bliss. 2 Park Row, Stam-
ford, Ct.
Harvey C. Went, 11 Park St., Bridge-
: port, Ct.
Fairfield, Samuel Waklee, Box 373, Stratford.
Litchfield, Dr. H. L. Ross, . Box_t1oo, Ca-
: naan, Ct.
Middlesex, Sandford Brainerd, Ivoryton.
New Haven, Wilbur E. Beach, 318 Chapel Street,
New Haven, Ct.
Ss D. J. Ryan, 188 Elizabeth St.,
Derby.
LOCAL WARDENS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, Orlando McKenzie, Norfolk.
i J. J. Blick, Wrentham.
de S. W. Fuller, East Milton.
Suffolk, Capt. W. J. Stone,’ 4 Tremont Row,
Boston.
Worcester, B. H. Mosher, Athol.
LOCAL WARDENS IN NEW JERSEY.
Mercer, Jos. Ashmore, 124 Taylor St., :
Trenton.
Mercer. Edw. Vanderbilt, Dentzville,
ae Trenton.
th Roland Mitchell, 739 Centre St.,
; Trenton.
Morris, : Joseph Peliet, Pompton Plains.
¢ Chas. W. Blake, Dover.
st Francis E. Cook, Butler.
$s Calone Orr, Hibernia.
Somerset, G. E. Morris, Somerville.
Sussex, Isaac D. Williams, Branchville.
Union, A. H. Miller, Cranford.
C. i Hawians, Roselle.
acob Young, “11
Warren, hed Wenies Phillipsburg.
Monmouth. Dory-Hunt, Wanaque.
Hudson, A. W. Letts, 51 Newark St.,
Hoboken.
LOCAL WARDENS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
ieseron, John Noll, Sykesville.
erry, Samuel Sundy, Lebo. —
Warren. F. P. Sweet, Goodwill Hill.
¥ Nelson Holmes, Cornplanter.
Juniata, Clifford Singer, Oakland Mills.
v Ezra Phillips, McAlesterville.
Venango, G. D. Benedict, Pleasantville.
Potter, Ira Murphy, Coudersport.
2 Wiley Barrows, Austin.
oy Chas. Barrows, Austin.
Crawford, Jasper Tiliotson, Tillotson.
iy Geo. T. Meyers, Titusville.
: a ‘J. B. Lamb, Buel.
Cambria, W.H.Lambert, 720 Coleman Ave.,
¢ Johnstown.
Butler, F. J. Forquer, Murrinsville.
Allegheny, S. H. Allen, Natrona.
eaver, N. H. Covert, Beaver Falls.
ie W.R. Keefer, ot
McKean, C. A. Duke, Duke Center. .
, L. P. Fessenden, Granere.
‘ Wm. Holsinger, Stickney.
Lackawanna, Wm. Weir, Moosic.
“ m. Major, ce
Carbon, Asa D. Hontz, East Mauch Chunk.
Cumberland, J.C. Gill, Mechanicsburg.
Wyoming, Cyrus Walter, Tunkhannock,
Tioga, - E. B. Beaumont, Jr., Lawrenceville.
apts G. H. Simmons, Westfield.
Lycoming, + Jas.J.Brennan, Oval.
os D. Kurtz, Cammal.
Delaware, Walter Lusson, Ardmore.
Montgomery, L.C. Parsons, Academy.
Bradford, Geo. B. Loop, Sayre.
Clarion, Isaac Keener, New Bethlehem.
Cameron, Harry Hemphill, Emporium.
Clinton, M.C. Kepler Renovo.
Me Geo. L. Kepler. Renovo.
Northumber- ee W. Roher,
land). >; 505 Anthracite St., Shamokin.
Elk, D. R. Lobaugh, Ridgway. -
THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 471
LOCAL WARDENS IN MICHIGAN.
County. Name of Warden. Address.
Ottawa, W. H. Dunham, Drenthe.
Kalamazoo, C. E. Miller, Augusta.
Berrien, W.A.Palmer, Buchanan.
Cass, Thomas Dewey, Dowagiac.
Hillsdale, C. A. Stone, Hillsdale.
Lake, John Trieber, Peacock,
LOCAL WARDENS IN VIRGINIA,
Mecklenburg, J.H. Ogburn, South Hil.
King William, ak H Montague, Palls.
Smythe, J. M. Hughes, Chatham Hill.
King & Queen, R. D. Bates, Newtown:
Louisa, . P. Harris,
Henrico, . J. Lynham,
Richmond.
East Rockingham, E.J.Carickhoff, Harrisonburg.
LOCAL WARDENS IN WYOMING.
Fremont, Belen Yarnall, Dubois.
F . N. Leek,
Uinta, F. L. Peterson, \ Jackson.
Carbon, Kirk Dyer, Medicine Bow.
Laramie, Martin ABreither, Cheyenne.
LOCAL WARDENS IN TENNESSEE,
Sumner, W.G. Harris, Gallatin.
Stewart, jek H. Lory, Bear Spring.
Robertson, .C. Bell, Springfield.
Montgomery, P. W. Humphrey, Clarksville.
Madison, H. T. Rushing, Jacksor.
LOCAL WARDENS IN NEBRASKA.
Hall, E. C. Statler, Grand Island
LOCAL WARDENS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,
Cheshire, S.C. Ellis, Keene.
Sullivan, G. A. Blake, Lempster.
J. W. Davidson, Charlestown.
LOCAL WARDENS IN VERMONT.
Rutland, Wm. J. Liddle, Box 281, Fair Haven
Windsor, F. A. Tarbell, West Bridgewater.
Orleans, E.G. Moulton, Derby Line.
Essex, H. S. Lund, Granby.
LOCAL WARDENS IN ILLINOIS.
Rock Island, D.M.Slottard, 12th Ave and 17th
St., Moline.
Iroquois, J. L. Peacock, Sheldon.
LOCAL WARDENS IN OKLAHOMA.
Kiowa and Comanche Nation, i
. C. Cooper, Ft. Sill.
LOCAL WARDENS IN IOWA.
Clinton, D.L. Pascol, Grand Mound.
Pottawattamie, Dr. C. Engel, Crescent.
LOCAL WARDENS IN WASHINGTON.
Okanogan, James West, Methow.
Stevens Co., _ Jacob Martin, Newport.
LOCAL WARDENS IN UTAH,
Washington, S. C. Goddard, New Harmony.
LOCAL CHAPTERS.
Albert Lea, Minn., H. A. Morgan, Rear Warden.
Angelica, N. Y., C.A A. Lathrop,
Augusta, Mont., H. Sherman, “
Austin, Minn., G. F. Baird, “
Austin, Pa., WS. Warner, -
Boston, Mass. Capt. W. I. Stone, 7
Buffalo, N ave H. C. Gardiner, .
Cammal, Pa., B. A. Ovenshire. *
Champaign Co., O, Hy. F. MacCracken
Urbana,
Charlestown, N. H., W. M. Buswell, 04
Cheyenne, Wyo., J. Hennessy, *
Choteau, Mont., G. A. Gorham, coe
Cincinnati, Ohio, B.W. Morris, ‘
Coudersport, ‘Paap le Tes Murphy, sf
Cresco, Towa, } Ib lense ie
Davis, W. Va., Heltzen, et
Dowagiac, Mich., W.F. Hoyt, y
East Mauch Chunk, Pa. . E. F. Pry, ef
Evansville, Ind., F. M. Gilbert, fe
Fontanet, Ind., W.H. Perry, “3
Ft. Wayne, Ind., W.L. Waltemarth *
Great Falls, Mont., . M. Gaunt, Ye
Heron Lake, Minn., K.C. Buckeye,
Hollidaysb’g, Pa., H. D. Hewit, HS
Hopkinsville, Ky., Hunter Wood
ek a Ind., Deb. E. Bell, ae
erome, Ariz., A. Hawkins, is
ohnsonburg, Pa., W. J. Stebbins, es
alispell, ont., John Eakright, =
Keene, N. H.., Beedle, ss
plegrove.
we, Marshall.
Kingfisher, Okla., A.C.Ambrose
Lake Co., Ind., Dr. C. Mackey,
dio O. ‘lia Marion Miller,
Logansport, Ind., E.B. McConnell, bs
ington Mich., G. R. Cartier, a
Mechedeuinree Pa., Dr. J. H. Swartz,
Minturn, Colo., A. B. Walter, ss
New Albany, Ind., Dr. J. F. Weathers, “
New Bethlehem, Pa., Isaac Keener, a
Penn Yan, N. Y., Dr. H.R. Phillips, aa
Rear Warden.
se
Princeton, Ind., H.A. Yeager, ee
Reynoldsville, Pa., C. F. Hoffman, +
Ridgway, Pa., T. J. Maxwell, i
Rochester, N.Y... C.H McChesney i
St. Paul, Minn., O. T. Denny, Se
St Thomas, Ontijeet le eralle cf
Schenectady, N SW. J. W. Furnside, *
Seattle, Wash., M. Kelly, bay
Syracuse, N. Y., C.C. Truesdell, a
Terre Haute, Ind, C.F. Thiede, i
The Dalles, Grey SCSE: Cushing, on
Walden, N. Y., J. W. Reid, re
Wichita, Kas., Gerald Volk, : 4
Winona, Minn., C.M. Morse, z +f
DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS.
The following firms have agreed to give
members of the L. A. S.a discount of 2
per cent. to 10 per cent. on all goods bought
of them. In ordering please give L. A. S.
number:
Syracuse Arms Co.,Syracuse,N. Y. Guns. -
Davenport Fire Arms Co., "Norwich, Conn. Shot
guns, rifles.
Gena Optical Co., Rochester N- Y. Photographic
goods
Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N.Y.Photographic goods.
The Bostwick Gun and Sporting Goods Co., 1523
Arapahoe St., Denver, Col. ,
James Acheson, "Talbot St.. St. Thomas, Ontario,
Sporting goods.
Jespersen & Hines, 10 Park Place, New York City
LIFE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE.
W. D. Ellis, 136 W. 72d street, New York City.
A. F. Rice, 155 Pennington avenue, Passaic, N. J.
Dr. see A. Valentine, 5 W. 35th street, New York
ity
A. A. ene ee 6 E. 38th street, New York City.
A Ve Fraser, "478 Greenwich street, New York
ity
IBS Se ae care National Bank Book Co., Hol-
yoke, - Mass.
F. G. Miller, 108 Clinton street, Defiance, Ohio.
Ge om F. Pierson, 20 W. 52d street, New York
ity
eee ee 80 W. 4oth street, New York City.
Je He Seymour, 35 Wall street. New York City.
A. G. Nesbitt, Maple street, Kingston, Pa.
D. C. Beard, 204 Amity street, Flushing, L. I.
(Ce 18, Ferry, 1720 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, III.
Hon. ey P. Morton, 681 5th avenue, New York
ity.
H. Williams, P. O. Box 156, Butte, Mont.
DEB: Fearing, Newport, R. I.
E. H. Dickinson, Moosehead Lake, Me.
Lorenzo Blackstone, Norwich, Conn.
A. L. Prescott, 90 W. Broadway, New York City.
G. S. Edgell, 192 Broadway, New York City.
Vee: Mershon, Saginaw, Mich.
Hon. H. W. Carey, East Lake, Mich.
George Carnegie, Fernandina, Fla.
Andrew Carnegie, 2nd, Fernandina, Fla.
Morris Carnegie, Fernandina, Fla.
W. L. Underwood, 52 Fulton street, Boston, Mass.
C. E. Butler, Jerome, Ariz.
Mansfield Ferry, 183 Lincoln Park, Boulevard, °
Chicago, Ill.
Austin Corbin, 192 Broadway, New York City.
J. Stanford Brown, 489 Pith ae New York City.
W.H. Smith, Bryn Mawr,
E. B. Smith, Bourse Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa:
There are thousands of men in the
United States who should be life mem-
bers. Why don’t they join? Will some-
one please take a club and wake them up?
472 | RECREATION.
A FEW SUGGESTIONS.
Would it not be a good plan to nave a
brief summary of the fish and game laws
published in Recreation? Also for the
L. A. S. to have posters outlining the laws
sent to all the post offices in the country, so
that all might know “where they are at’?
This would result in a saving of some fish
and game and of some money to uninten-
tional offenders.
Ought not some measure be adopted to
prevent so much cutting of timber along
our streams and so much ditching and
draining of swamp land? People are get-
ting more eager for land. They cut the
fringe of willows and alders from along
the streams and clear off and drain the
swamps in order to have a few more rods
of land for pasturage or tillage. This robs
the reserve storehouses of water that
should be given during the summer’s heat
and drought. Old people here tell me there
is not half so much water in our streams
here in summer as there was 40 years ago.
Then there were plenty of trout in all the
streams; now many once famous trout
streams become dry in the summer.
I suggest, as others have done, that there
be a bounty on hawks and foxes. The fox,
especially, is a great game hog, as all sports--
men know. ‘Tell us how to trap him and
NOON lini so
The State fish hatcheries should be in-
creased in number; and they should stop
planting trout fry and put out only finger-
lines or yearling trout, Hew of tke airy
planted in our streams ever survive the
first spring freshet.
. W. Phillips, Otselic Center, N. Y.
ANSWER.
It would, of course, be a good plan to
publish a synopsis of the game laws in
RECREATION, but it would take at least 100
pages. to hold them, and I can not possibly
spare. so much space. — Any many im ‘the
United States or Canada can get a copy of
the, U. M.. C, Game Law > Book;sfree vot
charge, by addressing that company at 315
Broadway, New York. This contains a
synopsis of the game laws of all the States
and all the’ (Ganadian, » Provinces. meats
obviates the necessity of using up space in
RECREATION for printing the laws.
It would be a good plan to have posters
distributed everywhere in the United States
giving a synopsis of the game laws, but
this would cost hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and who is to pay the printer’s
pill? The League of American Sportsmen
- has printed many thousands of muslin
posters and sent them out, yet I find on
examining the membership roll that you
have thus far failed to contribute one
dollar toward this expense. Is it not as-
tonishing that any man who is at all in-
terested in the protection of game should
refuse to become a member of this League,
and thus to aid in its work.
A blank application for membership has
been sent you and I shall anxiously await
your response.—EDITOoR,
LEAGUE NOTES.
The Hon. J, J. Doughty, Chief Warden
of the Georgia Division of the L. A. S.,
is doing some great work. He has made
several addresses of late before various
organized bodies in that State, appealing
for the co-operation and : pport of the
people in protecting the game, the game
fishes, the song birds and the forests, and
is having many calls from various parts of
the State for League literature, member-
ship blanks, etc. As a result the division
is growing rapidly and the League now
has more members in Georgia than in any
Southern State except South Carolina.
Mr. Doughty has prepared a comprehen-
sive, up-to-date game and fish bill which
will be presented to the Legislature at its
next session, and a strong movement has
been organized to secure its passage.
There is every reason to believe that the
bill will be promptly passed and approved
by the Governor. Then we can say, as in
some previous instances, the League did
it; and the A. D. G. H. said the League -
would never do anything worth mentioning.
Local warden J. W. Furnside, of Schen-
ectady, N. Y., who, by the way, is a charter
member of the League, recently arrested 2
men for illegal fishing and took them be-
fore the justice of the peace, who imposed
a good round fine on them. Mr. Furnside
is a stayer,
izing a local chapter at Schenectady 3 years
ago, and from that day to this he has
never missed an opportunity to run in a
law breaker. He has a large score of them
to his credit, and. I am informed that illegal
hunting is now rarely heard of in _ his
vicinity. Game and fish hogs have learned
that it is dangerous to violate any law as
long as Furnside is on the warpath and
they are lying low in consequence.
Barber.—What do you think of this
soap?
Victim.—Never tasted better—Exchange.
I take several sportsmen’s periodicals,
but prefer RECREATION to all of them.
E. Uk Shacklito,.Marcus, Wash.
RECREATION is the best sportsmen’s
journal published.
Ge T. Phillips,’ Rutland, Vit.
He was instrumental in organ-
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FORESTRY.
EDITED BY DR
Br,
E, FERNOW,
Director of the New York School of Forestry, Cornell University, assisted by Dr. John C, Gifford of the same
institution.
It takes 30 years to grow a tree and 30 minutes to cut it down and destroy it.
FORESTRY ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA.
WILLARD W. CLARK.
Of the Philippine Forestry Service.
PARE T
In studying forest management as car-
- ried on by the British Government in India
it is advantageous to consider first the his-
tory of the development of forestry in that
country. The natives of India have been
from ages immemorial the greatest enemies
of their own forests. They possess customs
handed down from ancient times that must
be overcome before good productive forests
can be grown. The custom of burning over
the forests so as to gain more land for
pasture is perhaps the most detrimental.
Many thousand square miles where there
was once an abundance of forest growth
have been made deserts by the continual
periodic burning over by fires set by the
natives. ;
Another custom that is hard on forestry
and agriculture as well, is that of shifting
cultivation. A native will burn over a piece
of land, plant a crop in the ashes, cultivate
it several years, till the fertilizer of ashes
has been consumed, and then abandon it.
Moving to another piece of forest land he
continues his depredations, reducing the
forest to a desert. The custom of using
dried manure for fuel even where there is
an -abundance of wood, seems due to a
singular, depraved taste and is responsible
for the impoverishment of much land that
otherwise might be well fertilized by cow
manure.
Such treatment of the forests, especially
in a tropical country, has a detrimental in-
fluence. The deterioration of the climate
of whole districts and even countries has
followed the destruction of forests. The
once wooded Dalmatia is now a_- stony
desert. Persia, once one of the granaries
of the East, is barren and desolate over a
large extent of the country. North
Africa, formerly one of the chief corn pro-
ducers for Rome, is subject to the severest
droughts. Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece, and
Asia Minor have suffered greatly from de-
forestation; and finally, but not least, India
has been injured by the destruction of her
forests, especially in the Deccan and North-
western parts. The influence on the pro-
ductiveness of the country due to the de-
posit of silt’on agricultural land, is one of
the most serious results of deforestation.
The experience of France, Switzerland and
China of having many thousand acres o:.
good land made a desert by the deposit on
it of silt washed down from the hills from
which the forests have been removed, has
been repeated in India. Many streams that
were navigable for some distance from their
mouths have been filled with silt and many
millions must be spent annually to keep
them open.
The first forest management in India
was applied to the-teak. This tree has been
from ancient times considered a royal tree,
that is, belonging to the ruler of the dis-
trict, and could be cut only under his super-
vision. When the British took control of
the government the teak naturally fell under
their supervision, but its cutting was not
at first restricted. The great demand for
this fine wood for shipbuilding caused its
rapid removal so that it was feared the
teak supply would be consumed, and in
1805 the first ordinance was passed for the
protection of Indian forests. It prohibited
the cutting of teak below g inches in dia-
meter. A conservator of the forests of
India, Captain Watson, was appointed in
1806. This conservatorship, however,
proved unpopular. Many lumbermen who
had been prospering when the cutting in
the government forests was unprotected
were hindred in procuring supplies and
therefore used all their influence against
the conservatorship. Because of unpopu-
larity the conservatorship was abandoned
in 1823 and-the most unrestricted fellings
occurred immediately following that time.
In 1847 Dr. Gibson showed the govern-
ment the physical effects produced on the
country by the removal of the forests and
was appointed conservator of forests by the
Bombay government. In 1855 Lord Dal-
housie laid down for the first time the out-
line of a permanent forest policy. In 1856
Sir Diedrich Brandis was appointed super-
intendent of forests in Pegu and undertook
the carrying out of a forest policy. He
formed working plans and with the aid of
a system of native contractors was able to
exploit great forest areas and obtain suit-
able prices for the forest products. Thus
a practical system of working the forests
was created under his charge. The size
and importance of the Indian forestry serv-
ice has steadily grown since Sir Diedrich
Frandis took charge. In 1869 there were
57 forest officers. In 1882 there were 04.
At this latter date the number of forest
officers was increased to 1,000 and the
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average salary of the forest officer was also
increased. ‘Lhe service was arranged so
as to give the rangers and deputy rangers
a chance to rise in the service and the better
educated guards were given an opportunity
of becoming foresters. The whole service,
especially the provincial service, was ar-
ranged with a view of attracting the most
suitable classes. of the country, as follows:
The inspector general of forests is the
professional adviser of the government of
India and the local governments on ail im-
portant forestry subjects, controls the for-
est school, at Dehra Dun, and has charge
or general supervision of the forest surveys
and working plans. The conservator of
forests, whether in charge of the forest
management of a whole province or a circle
forming part of a province, is regarded as
the head of the department of that district
and is subject to the inspector general. The
conservator has more influence on the pros-
perity of the department under his charge
than any other officer. The director of the
forest school at Dehra Dun is a conserva-
tor of the school circle. A conservatorship,
whether of a province or a circle, is divided
into a number of divisions, each in charge
of members of the controlling staff. The
more important divisions are in charge of
officers of the imperial service, while the
minor divisions are in charge of provincial
service officers. These divisions are divided
into ranges looked after either by junior
officers of the provincial service or by rang-
ers and deputy rangers, and in some in-
stances by foresters. The ranger is the
executive officer of the tract under his
charge and is directly responsible to the
divisional officer for the protection and
management of the forest in each detat.,
Rangers should possess high technical edu-
cation. The range is divided. into a num-
ber of beats, in charge of forest guards.
The number of various officers in the forest
service is as follows:
Imperial Service.—Inspector General of
Forests, 1; Conserwvators, 19; Deputy Con-
servators, 117; Assistant Deputy Conserva-
tors, 63.
Provincial Service-—Extra Deputy Con-
servators, 5; Extra Assistant Deputy Con-
servators, 107; Rangers, 437; Deputy Rang-
ers and Foresters, 1,226; Guards, 8,533;
total, 10,508.
The British forest officers were formerly
educated in the continental forest schools.
In 1884 a national forest school was started
in connection with the Cooper’s-Hill col-
lege for engineering. The course extends
over 3 years. Most of the last year is spent
visiting the schools and forests on the conti-
nent. Dr, Schlich is the present head of the
college, Professor Fisher being his assist-
ant. A rigid physical examination must be
passed before entering the forest school.
RECREATION.
The degree of C. I. E. (Certified Indian
Engineer) is given on completion of the
course.
The Dehra Dun forest school educates
rangers and foresters for the province in-
cluded within the Bengal presidency and
Madras. There are 2 courses, one given in
English for the rangers and the other in the
vernacular for the foresters. The school
was started in 1878 as the result of the sug-
gestion of Sir D. Brandis, Capt. F. Bailey,
R. E., was the first director; J. S. Gamble
is the present director.
WHAT A GOVERNMENT FORESTER MUST
KNOW.
The interior’ department employs a force
of supervisors, superintendents, inspectors
and rangers on the forest reservations, who
are selected not by civil service examina-
tions, but are expected to be able to answer
the following questions:
What is the extent of your general education?
State whether you have received a common school,
high school, college or university education.
State fully what technical, scientific or pro-
fessional studies you have pursued.
; you have attended any scientific, profes-
sional or technical school or college, state what
school or college, the length of time you attended
each, the courses of study pursued, whether you
were graduated, and the exact date of such
graduation.
If you have any practical knowledge of a me-
chanical trade or trades, the length of time you
have worked thereat, and where, when (giving
dates) and under whom you have so worked. lf
you have served an apprenticeship, so state.
If there are any branches of the profession or
occupation for which you regard yourself as
especially expert, state what branches.
What has been your business or occupation for
each of the past five years?
State fully where, when and how long and
for whom you worked, and what particular work
you did in the following:
Have you ever felled timber with ax and saw?
State where and when.
Have you ever driven teams in the woods, skid-
ding, hauling, etc.? State where and when.
Can you handle and keep in order a crosscut
saw?
Have you ever handled steam logging devices,
skidders, pull boat, etc.? State where, when and
how long.
Have you ever built or operated chutes and
slides or flumes for timber? Where and for
whom?
Have you ever laid out logging roads for
wagens and for sleighs? s
Have you ever built such roads?
Have you ever built or operated logging rail-
ways? .
Have you ever built dams?
Have you driven logs or rafted timber?
Have you built log houses or camps?
Have you worked in saw-mills? State what,
where and when.
Have you worked at any other
State what.
Have you scaled timber and lumber, and what
scale do you know best?
Have you estimated standing timber?
where, when, how long and for whom.
What methods of estimating are you most fa-
miliar with? Here state how you usually esti-
mate.
Do you know the strip and circle methods?
Have you ever measured standing timber?
woodcraft?
State
FORESTRY,
State how, where, when and how long, and what
method you pursued.
Can you readily follow old blazed lines?
Can you run a compass course readily and
safely? : ! j
Have you practice in pacing distances?
Have you ever run and b!azed lines in the
woods?
Have you ever mapped out a piece of woods?
Have you ever marked out timber for cutting?
Do you know our common forest trees?
Have you had experience in farming? |
Have you ever handled men as boss, foreman
or employer? State where, when and undér what
circumstances.
Have you ever carried on a business of your
own? State what, where and when.
Can you keep bocks or have you had experi-
ence as a clerk? State where and how it was
obtained.
-Can you pack a horse and travel on snow-
shoes? :
Have you had experience in camping?
Can you handle a boat and canoe?
Are you safe in finding your way
woods? ; .
Have you had experience in fighting forest
fires? State where and when gained. _
Have you had experience in handling range
cattle, sheep and horses? State where and when
gained.
Give the mame and address of 3 _ persons
for whom you have worked and who could testify
to your capacity in service.
There are so far only about 100 positions
which are permanent through the year; the
number is increased to a maximum of about
400 during the summer months.
The 6 superintendents and 2 imnspec-
_ tors at present employed receive $2,000 a
year, while the variable number of rangers
receive variable salaries of $60 to $90 a
month.
The force is entirely inadequate to do
much good.
in the
TRAILS.
The value of a system of properly con-
structed trails in a country such as the
Adirondacks can not be over estimated.
They are the cheapest means of rendering
places accessible in mountainous districts.
They are of great use in the control of
forest fires. In this respect they are equal
if not, all things considered, superior to
fire lanes. A fire lane is easily neglected
and soon grows up in bushes. Fire lanes
produce a draft through the woods, and let
in the light so that weeds start and spread.
Fire lanes also consume much space. At
best a fire lane is only a point of vantage.
in case of fire and this a trail is also if
properly located. I do not, of course, refer
to railroad fire lanes, which are essential.
A trail should be so well cut that a horse
can follow it easily, on easy ground winding
around hills; following water courses with
lines of least resistance. There is little
gained by going directly over a hill when
one can go around it. People fail to realize
that the bale of a bucket is as long in a
vertical as in a horizontal position. These
trails will in time become roads. Already
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they are followed by many telephone lines,
The trail is a great labor saver. We need,
however, better trails; that is, trails which
have been laid out with some care and not
by guess, so that pack horses may be used.
SEEDLINGS.
A kind of fertilizer which is being used
more and more is wood ashes. All wood
ashes should be saved and kept in a dry
place until needed for the lawn or garden.
A coating of ashes around an old tree will
often revive it to a surprising degree. These
ashes are collected from house to house in
Canada where hard wood is burnt and are
shipped to all parts of this country. They
lack, of course, nitrogen, but other mineral
necessities of the plant are there in the
proper proportions. Wood ashes are Na-
ture’s own formula. They contain no weed
seeds and have no disagreeable qualities. If
it is not unpractical to compost the leaves
which are falling so abundantly at this time
of the year it would pay farmers to have a
special place with a hard floor for the burn-
ing of leaves and brush so that the ashes
might be saved.
A most interesting and valuable publica-
tion entitled “A History of the Lumber In-
dustry in the State of New York,” by Col.
Wm. F. Fox, has recently appeared. It
is bulletin 34 of-the Bureau of Forestry,
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.
C. Every person interested in the develop-
ment of the State of New York should own
a copy. A valuable feature of this publica-
tion is a map showing the progress of set-
tlement in the State.
A magnificent report has just been issued
by our government, relating to the proposed
Appalachian park. Although reservations
are being frequently set aside in our West-
ern country the actual purchase of this vast
territory in our Southern mountains will
be an epoch-making event in the history of
forestry in this country.
The forestry commission of Michigan is
exerting itself to accomplish something
definite in forestry in the near future. Both
the University of Michigan and the Michi-
gan Agricultural college have chairs of for-
estry and offer several courses in the sub-
FECE:
Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bu-
reau of Forestry, is now visiting the Phil-
Ippines on a forestry inspection tour, at the
request of President Roosevelt,
The students of the forestry college of
Cornell university are preparing a journal
called Forestry Quarterly, which will soon
make its appearance,
PURE AND IMPURE FOODS.
“ What a Man Euts He 1\.”’
Edited by C. F. LANGwortTny, P#.D.
Author of ‘‘On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,” ‘‘ Fish as Food,” etc.
THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE.
To many, Christmas would not be com-
plete without its roast goose, and it seems an
almost necessary part of the famous Christ-
mases of literature. Was any Christmas
dinner ever better relished than that of the
Cratchits, Tiny Tim and the others, in Dick-
ens’ “Christmas Carol,” with its roast goose,
stuffed with sage and onions and brought in
high procession from the baker’s by Master
Peter and the 2 young Cratchits, then eked
out with apple sauce and mashed potatoes,
and followed by the famous pudding boiled
in the wash-house copper? Of the goose
and its place in the diet, the following state-
ments are made by Doctor Thudichum, who,
in his writings, has combined cookery, his-
tory, and philosophy in a most agreeable
way.
“The goose was much valued in antiquity
as a delicate dish by the Egyptians, and by
the ancient Britons at the time of the in-
vasion of Julius Cesar. It was also sur-
rounded with a halo of sanctity, and used
as an authority for the authentification of an
oath by Rhadamanthus and his Lycian sub-
jects. At Rome, the goose was for a period
not eaten, but honored as the savior of the
Capitol from the besieging Gauls; but after
- Czxesar’s conquest of Gaul, geese, particularly
those from Picardy in France, were largely
imported into and consumed in Rome. A
Roman consul, Metellus Scipio, invented,
according to Pliny, the art of fattening geese
and making their livers more delicate. The
learned physician, Julius Cesar Scaliger,
had much humorous admiration for these
animals. It may be interesting to cooks to
know that the French chemist Mémery saw
a goose which had been trained by a cook
to turn a spit. It seized the handle with
its beak, and by alternately extending and
contracting its neck it did the work of a
turnspit.
“A goose intended for roasting should not
be excessively fat, as it will lose most of
its grease during roasting. In trimming
and trailing the goose, the lungs, technically
called soal, or soul, which adhere to the
chest-wall, are not .removed. The goose
may receive various kinds of stuffing, of
which that made with sage and onions has
been popular, although, owing to the essen-
tial oil of the sage, it is rather indigestible.
The best stuffing for a goose are small
Dutch, or finger potatoes, sliced fine, salted
and peppered, and mixed with the kidney
and caul fat from the interior of the goose,
finely chopped, or with half their weizht of
suet or scraped bacon, The same treatment
is applicable to chestnuts when used to stuff
a goose. Some force or sausage meat may
be mixed with them to increase their taste.
The practice of eating apple sauce with
goose has given rise to a particular kind of
Stuffing, described by Soyer, in which the
apples and the sage and onions are blended
with grated boiled potatoes. A sharp sauce
for roast goose, described by Ignotus and
Kitchener, which was to be poured into the
body of the goose, called _by the former ‘a
secret worth knowing,’ was evidently appre-
ciated by these authors.
“A goose may be braised in the plain or
stuffed condition; when well done it practi-
cally becomes roast goose, but admits of
being made more juicy. Stewed goose may
be immersed in an aciduous and savory
jelly or aspic. If the meat be boned it adds
to the convenience of the cook as well as
the consumer. :
“Where, as in the lake districts of North
Germany, hundreds of thousands of geese
are annually reared to serve as human food,
a great variety of preparations have to be
employed to make the several parts of the
animal eatable and transportable in a pre-
served state. The breast is mostly pickled
and smoked and sold as Pomeranian goose
breast. It is eaten raw in thin slices, like
Westphalian ham, with bread and butter,
and is of excellent taste. The livers are
transformed into patés. The other pieces‘of
the geese are made into a pickled and
stewed preparation, which is preserved in
fat and consumed gradually during the win-
ter. It is called Pokel-Gans, pickled goose.
A similar mode of curing, cooking, and
preserving is practised at Bayonne, in
France.”
THE IMPROVEMENT OF ORCHARDS,
The majority of persons, at least of
those who live in temperate climates, will
probably agree that in the long run no
fruit is so satisfactory as the apple. If
the dwellers in the tropics prefer other
fruits, it is perhaps because the apple does
not grow to perfection except in cooler
regions. Most.of the tropical fruits bear
transportation to temperate regions, but
the best fruits of temperate regions can
not be so successfully transported to the
tropics and marketed there. Like all fresh
fruits, the apple is not very nutritious in
proportion to its bulk, containing as it
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PURE AND IMPURE FOODS.
does some 85 per cent water in the
edible portion. The principal nutritive
material consists of carbo-hydrates, chief
ly sugars. In addition to the nutri
ents which they furnish apples are of
great value as appetizers, and the salts,
acids and other bodies which they contain
are undoubtedly beneficial. Furthermore,
they render the diet attractive, and this is
a quality which can not be measured in
chemical terms. Many apples are raised
on farms and in gardens but the crop
might be largely increased by giving proper
attention to old trees and by planting new
ones. Care should be taken to select the
well known sorts rather than the wonder-
ful varieties so often offered for sale,
which are almost always worthless. The
experiments lately made by Professor
Card, of the Rhode Island Experiment
Station, to increase the yield of an old or-
chard, are of interest.
“Tt was a home orchard of something
less than an acre, containing many va-
rieties, which had been planted about 25
years. When work was begun the trees
looked unpromising. They had made little
growth, and the trunks were covered with
lichens or moss. No fruit had been pro-
duced for several years. The treatment
given by the Station was such as any
farmer might afford.
“The first thing done was to scrape off
the rough, loose bark from the trunks and
branches, and prune the trees. This rough
bark may do little harm, but it denotes lack
of thrift, and affords a harbor for insects.
The pruning was simple in this case; only
dead branches and crowding suckers were
removed. How much to prune in other
cases will depend on the condition of the
trees. If they are old and decrepit, with
dying branches and failing strength, prun-
ing should be vigorous, An apple tree can
be renewed like a grape vine. A wealth
of suckers is its.signal that such renewal
is needed. In extreme cases a tree may
even be cut to the ground and another
built upon a young shoot which springs up.
This is seldom demanded, but with old
trees which have lost their vigor, whose
branches are diseased, and which have
made but little growth, quicker returns and
better fruit may come from heroic treat-
ment. Cut out the old branches ruthlessly.
Leave vigorous young suckers to take their
place. A new top will quickly form and
better fruit will result. If trees are not so
far on the decline such pruning will not be
needed. It may then be confined to thin-
ning out useless branches. Sunshine and
air should have free access.”
In addition to trimming the trees thor-
oughly, Professor Card had them sprayed
with Bordeaux mixture and Paris green, to
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destroy fungi and insect enemies, The soil
around the trees was cultivated and suit-
jable fertilizers were applied. ‘The effect
ion the trees was marked. Two years after
the treatment began about $80 worth of
fruit was harvested, though before Profes-
sor Card began his experiments the or-
chard had borne little, if any, fruit.
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR.
According to A. L. Winton, it is a not
uncommon practice to sell various mixtures
containing inferior wheat flour, corn flour
or other cereal products, under the name of
buckwheat flour. These mixtures are much
cheaper to prepare than genuine buckwheat
flour, but usually sell for the same price
in the retail market. While it is true, as is
sometimes urged by way of excuse for this
illegal practice, that some buyers prefer to
use a mixture of buckwheat and other flour,
it is likewise true that others prefer clear
buckwheat, and that all buyers have the
right to know exactly what they are pay-
ing for; a right which is denied them
when mixtures containing cereals are sold
to them under the name of buckwheat
flour. Such mixtures can only be legally
sold in Connecticut either under distinc-
tive names, “not. under the name of an-
other article,” or “so labeled or tagged as
plainly or correctly to show that they are
mixtures, or compounds, combinations or
blends.”
“Self-raising”. or “prepared” buckwheat
flour, put up in sealed and labeled pack-
ages, contains the requisite quantity of
baking powder and salt for cooking by
simply being mixed with water or milk.
The flour in these preparations is often a
mixture containing wheat or corn flour,
or both. Rice and barley flour are also
occasionally used. The trade names under
which pure self-raising flours are sold as
well as the information given on the pack-
ages, show that they are mixtures, and al-
though it is not always stated that various
kinds of flour are present, there is no evi-
dent intent of deception. The samples ex-
amined in Connecticut in 1901, under the
provisions of the State pure food law, may
be ciassified as follows:
Buckwheat flour not found adulterated. 63
Buckwheat flour adulterated........... 44
Adulterated with wheat flour......... 26
Adulterated with corn flour.......... fe)
Adulterated with wheat and corn flour.. 9
Prepared” or “self-raising” buckwheat
flour
opal stato sci > SMA ERS al ae ru
Under the head of unadulterated buck-
wheat flour are included all samples in
which no appreciable quantity of matter for-
eign to the buckwheat kernel was detected.
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Minute quantities of wheat starch, such as
might readily come from the dust of the
mill or warehouse, are disregarded.
The samples designated adulterated buck-
wheat flour were bought in each case for
buckwheat flour and the buyer was not
informed either by word or label that they
were mixtures. They contain in addition
to buckwheat, either wheat flour or corn
flour or both. In 2 samples rye flour ap-
peared to be present although probably
through accident rather than design.
The preparations called “prepared” or
“self-raising’ buckwheat flour were sold
in sealed packages with full instructions
for use on the label. In each case, the di-
rections stated that the flour should be
mixed with water or milk, immediately be-
fore cooking, without the addition of salt,
baking powder, yeast or other leavening
material. Microscopic examination dis-
closed the presence of wheat flour in all
these preparations and of corn flour in all
but 3. Rice and barley flour in small quan-
tity may have been contained in some of the
samples, but in the presence of buckwheat
and “wheat flour those are difficult of de-
tection.
IS NEW BREAD INDIGESTIBLE?
It is commonly said that new bread is
indigestible. Many believe, however, that
this is not necessarily the case, and that
new bread is not less thoroughly digested
than old bread, if equally well masticated.
According to The Lancet:
“A slice of stale bread on being broken
with the teeth resolves into more or less
hard, gritty particles, which, unless they
were softened by the saliva, could scarcely
be swallowed. ‘The particles would irri-
tate the throat and) oullet--)) Bhew iaet
is, therefore, that a man is compelled thor-
oughly to masticate and to impregnate
stale bread with saliva before he swallows
it. Whis act, of ‘course, partially, digests
the bread and thus makes it in a fit state
for digestion and absorption farther on in
the alimentary tract. This is why stale
*bread appears to be more digestible than
new bread. New bread, on the contrary, is
soft, doughty, or plastic, and there appears
to be no necessity to soften it with saliva,
hence it escapes the preliminary digestive
action of the ptyalin of the saliva. New
bread, in other words, is in reality ‘bolted,’
and bolting accounts for many of the ills
arising from dyspepsia. Accordingly, hot
rolls should be enjoyed for breakfast with-
out any fear of dyspepsia as long as the
bread is good and as long as pains are
taken to masticate it thoroughly.
“Tt is a curious fact that stale bread is
not more dry than new bread, for on sub-
mitting stale bread for a short time to a
RECREATION. :
high temperature it regains its condition of
newness and becomes soft or plastic; and
this in spite of the fact that some moisture
is of necessity driven off in the operation.
It is probable that in new bread there is
free water present, while in stale bread
the water is still there, but in a condition
of true chemical combination. It is this
combination which compels us thoroughly
to moisten and to masticate stale bread be-
fore we consign it to the gastric centers.
Similarly, the indigestibility of the Norfolk
dumpling is probably due to the fact that
it is of tough, doughy consistency, and,
therefore, should receive considerable mas-
tication before it is swallowed. It is a
sound physiclogical plan, therefore, to
adopt the habit of chewing each morsel a
great number of times.”
Already many thousands of people are
wondering what they are going to get
for Christmas presents. Other thousands
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I secured 15 subscriptions for RECREA-
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RECREATION, is without exception, the
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come under my notice.
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PUBLISHER’S NOTES.
WHAT DEALERS SAY OF THE CENTURY
CAMERA.
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Yours respectfully,
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I have handled Century Cameras since
they were first put on the market and have
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THE NEW SYRACUSE CATALOGUE.
The Syracuse Arms Co. has issued the
finest gun catalogue I have ever seen. It
illustrates their different grades of guns in
various positions, and there is one page il-
lustrating and numbering all the parts of
these guns. Then there is a guide to these
plates that gives the name of each part,
thus making it an easy matter for a man to
order any part of a gun which may give
out. The cuts are among the finest ever
made of guns, and are printed in brown
ink, which brings out the details of make,
finish and ornamentation in a way rarely
equaled. The descriptive and explanatory
text is full and complete, and altogether
the catalogue is necessary to the well being
of every shooter in the country. All shot
gun shooters should send for this catalogue
at once. When doing so please mention
RECREATION.
ON THE 20TH CENTURY LIMITED.
_This for the New York Central’s “Twen-
tieth Century Limited” is a moonlight
courting of the muse:
Mounting space at a wonderful rate,
Connecting the ends of the Empire State,
Rushing through forest and _ rolling
through vale,
Climbing the hills and skirting the dale;
With a wing as fleet as the god of light,
Two lines of steel to guide its flight,
A grizzled man at the lever stood,
Promising himself that he’d “make good”;
While behind him rolled in palatial style
Coaches filled with the rank and file,—
Men of finance, of letters and rail,
Ready to cheer with jovous hail
The greatest train that ever was run,
From the rising. to the setting sun.
And thusiitowas with the *T. C..T.,”
The swiftest of all on the N. Y. C.
—J. E. B. in the Buffalo Commercial.
The Southern Railway Company has is-
sued a handsomely illustrated pamphlet
telling all about where to find various kinds
of game.in the South, and how to reach
these. different localities. The book also
contains synopses of the game laws of
various Southern States. Also a list of
stations on the line of the Southern system,
and its tributaries in the vicinity of which
good shooting may be had. In this table
will be found the names of good hotels and
boarding houses; the names of responsible
guides, their wages per day; names of
business men who will give information
to intending visitors, etc.
There are many pictures in this book
which will awaken pleasant anticipations
in the minds of any sportsmen who may
chance to look at them. In case you send
for a copy of the book, please mention
RECREATION.
The N. K. Fairbank Company, Chicago,
are offering to send the Fairy calendar
for the gold circles from 10 Glycerine
Tar Soap cartons. This year’s calendar is
made up of 5 large plaques, 4 of which do
not contain any type matter but are exact
reproductions of hand painted royal Vienna
china, in 12 colcrs and gold, showing mag-
nificent heads by Ryland.
_These works of Ryland had to be copied
with the greatest care by the best artists,
then photographed, engraved on stone and
put on through 12 Successive printings, on
the highest grade of plate paper.
Those who prefer, may, instead of the
10 gold circles from Fairbank’s Glycerine
Tar Soap box fronts, send 20 cents in
stamps and secure the Fairy plate calendar
for 1903,
479
480
I have received a handsome and interest-
ing little book entitled, “Waterfowl along
the Wisconsin Genreal Railway,” which
contains a great deal of interesting data.
for sportsmen. It is illustrated with pic-
tures of many species of wild ducks and
geese, and the descriptive text is full and
complete. The book also contains a list
of the names of stations on the Central
where good shooting may be had, together
with the names of hotels and boarding
houses, rates charged by same, lakes and
streams in each vicinity, distance of each .
from stations, etc.
Copies of this pamphlet may be had
free by addressing J. C. Pond, G. P. A..,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and mentioning
RECREATION.
The Natural Food Company, Niagara
Falls, iN. Y., has: assuedi=a: book entitled
“The Vital Question,’ which should be in
the hands of every woman interested in
providing: pure and healthful food for a
family. These people make the Shredded
Wheat Biscuits, and in this book they tell
how to prepare them, and how to make
from them many delicious and _ inviting
dishes. The book is a work of art, all the
pictures being lithographed in colors, and
it is well worth the having. It will be
sent free to any woman who may ask for
it, and who will say she saw it mentioned
in RECREATION. Please send for it and do
not forget to say where and how you
learned about it.
Tle Wing Piano Co., No. 226 East 12th
street, New York, has demonstrated in a
practical way the value of honesty, energy,
and keen discrimination in the building up
of a great business. This house has been
in business nearly 50 years, and has a repu-
tation it may well feel proud of. Its great
business has been created by judicious ad-
vertising and by dealing fairly and honestly
with customers. I know several people
who have Wing pianos in their houses, and
who say they are fully up to the standard
of the oldest and best known instruments
in existence. If you have any idea of buy-
ing a piano, write Wing & Son and say you
saw their ad in RECREATION.
H. J. Putman & Co.,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Dear Sirs:
The pair of boots,. No. 678, which you
made for me last August, have proven
highly satisfactory. Thev have stood the
rough usage in this mountainous country
without any signs of wear, and are the best
boots for engineering work that I have ever
RECREATION.
worn. Their waterproof qualities are just
the thing for this climate.
Respectfully,
J. M. Belknap,
Asst. Ener., U; S:, Ener; ‘Corps:
The Conley Manufacturing Co., St.
Joseph, Mo., writes me it has discontinued
the use of rubberized duck for hunting
coats, because of certain objectionable
features that. material has; and that wine
company has adopted instead the famous
English khaki cloth, the same as used by
the War Department for army uniforms.
This material is practically noiseless in the
brush, is of lighter weight, is waterproof
and looks much better than the rubber-
ized duck. Samples sent free on receipt
of request, mentioning RECREATION.
F. C. Huyck & Sons, Albany, New York,
have issued a handsome little book describ-
ing and illustrating their steamer rugs,
sleigh rugs, automobile rugs, golf capes,
lap robes, etc. he pictures in this book
show how comfortable people may make
themselves, even in stormy weather, if pro-
vided with the right kind of goods; and
Huycks make the right kind) It would
pay you to have a copy of this little book,
and when you write for it, please say you
saw it mentioned in RECREATION.
Did you ever notice that all through the
hot weather Page fence did not sag be-
tween the posts? That is because all the
horizontal wires are coiled, or spiralled, so
they will let out and take up like a spring.
The wire must be a great deal tougher and
stronger than common Bessemer fence wire
to make a coiled spring. We make our
own wire because we have to use better
wire. Page Woven Wire Fence Co.,
Adrian, Michigan.
The Edward Smith Indian Post Trad-
ing Company, of Flagstaff, Arizona, deal-
ers in Navajo blankets, "Indian pottery,
baskets, curios, etc., with to engage several
energetic, enterprising men to act as agents
for their goods in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and Washington. The present
great interest in Indian goods throughout
the country should make the sale of them
profitable and offer a good business eRe
buinity.
Penn Yan N.Y.
West Enp FurNITURE Co.
Dear Sirs—Your gun cabinet received
and we are much pleased with it. It is a
first class piece of furniture and speaks
well for your firm.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Joel Egleston,
EDITORS: CORNER:
rib Ee PAGUE MOTD “As: DARGE
Ae k eNO Ly,
Inarsgs By -B2 Odell wwas “elected
Governor of New York by a majority
of 110,000. During the winter of
1go1-2 he secured the enactment of a
law permitting game dealers in this
State to possess game throughout the
year. This in direct opposition to the
best interests of game _ protection.
Furthermore, he vetoed a bill of which
this League had secured tle passage,
to prohibit the sale of ruffed grouse.
In the campaign just closed Gov-
ernor Odell was re-elected by a ma-
jority of less than 12,000. You can_
draw your own conclusion.
Notice is hereby served on Mr.
Odell and the Republican members
of the New York Assembly that un-
less the cold storage bill is repealed,
and unless the League bill for the -
prohibition. of--the ~sale of. -runed
grouse, woodcock and quails is en-
acted during the coming winter,
the League will swing at least 5 times
as many votes from the Republican
to the Democratic party in the next
election, as it did in this one.
MY CHRISTMAS GREETINGS.
TO MY FRIENDS,
MY ENEMIES.
TO
WOT LIKE HIS OTHER NAME.
Office of
Charles O. Jackola,
Justice of the Peace, Notary Public.
Collections and Conveyancing.
Calumet, Mich., Oct. 4th, 1902.
G. O, SHIELDS,
23 West 24th St., New York.
Sir: I have read your libelous article in
October “Recreation” under the heading
“Another Bunch of Michigarr Swine” which
refers to C. J. Wickstrom and myself of
this city. Now Mr. Shields, in the first
place go to your conscience (if you have
one) and reflect a moment on the word
“swine.” You could not have found more
libelous word in the dictionary. Now, do
you not feel a little guilty of having left
your animal nature to predominate over all
conventionality and human _ propriety ?—
Now, do not think that you are doing a
great humanitarian mission by calling peo-
ple swine.
In the first instance our communication
to you, at your own request was a private
and priviledged one and in noway intended
to fill the vacant space of your publication.
In your letter to us you did not ask any in-
formation in regard to the catch of fish for
purposes of publication. However, you have
taken the authority to do so, and have thus
violated every rule of private and privi-
ledged communications. I presume you
know that the law in this regard is very
strict; at least you ought to know that you
have no right to publish any private letters
without first obtaining permission.
After having violated the laws and cus-
tom in this regard, then you go and libel
and slander us in the most outrageous man-
ner, which deserves, and rightly so, con-
tempt and shame from every American.
It makes no difference to you, your publi-
cation or anyone else whether we caught
one or a thousand punds of fish as long as
they were caught legitimately; and you
have no right to make inferences to suit
your own fancy and then publish them un-
lawfully in a slanderous and libelous man-
ner. For you future information and knowl-
DOES
‘edge, let me tell you that we here under-
481
stand the game and fish laws as well as
you, perhaps better and enforce them when
they are violated. It might be well for you
to know also that we have the human in-
telligence to catch fish without seines or
hand lines, as you would like have the
readers of your publication to believe.. I
am ready to submit affidavits at any time
and will do it when the proper time comes.
that every fish caught by us was caught
482 RECREATION:
legitimately. Further more we can get the
game warden’s affidavit to that effect. The
game warden lives there at Lac La Belle,
where the fish was caught, and saw us fish-
ing.
We feel that you have wrongfully, ma-
liciously and unlawfully slandered and li-
belled us and done us a great injustice and
brought our names into disrespect and scan-
dal. Now, what we want is fair play in this
“matter; we want you to retract every por-
tion of your contemptuous article and make
an apology like a man. And unless you
do this we intent to push this thing to its
bitterest end.. We will give you this one
change, so decide at once what you propose
to do and wire or write to us. And remem-
ber that all our letters hereafter are not for
publication until they should come _ before
the court. Yours, etc.,
(Signed) Charles O. Jackola.
One way to avoid being called “a swine”
Wf gs
is not to be one.—EDITor,
400 QAILS SAVED FOR SEED.
In the early part of October last the
South Carolina Club, of Columbia, placed
an order with a game dealer for 400 quails
to be served at its annual banquet, which
was to be given October 30th. South
Carolina, in common with many other
States, has a law prohibiting the sale of
quails at any time. The game dealer in
question arranged to get the quails from
North Carolina, and hoped in that way to
evade the local law. North Carolina has
a law on her statute books prohibiting the
export of quails from that State. The
dealer said he could have the birds smug-
gled out of North Carolina and into the
ice box of the club without being caught
at it.
As soon as it became known that this
order for quails had been placed, Mr. C.
F. Dill, chief warden of the South Caro-
lina division of the L.A. S.. wrore- tie
president of the club calling his attention
to existing laws in the 2 States named, as
well as to those of neighboring States, and
requested that the order for quails be coun-
termanded. A long correspondence ensued .
between Mr. Dill and the club, in which
2 or 3 other people finally took a hand. I
was promptly notified of this -proposed
wholesale violation of the game laws of
North Carolina, and at once communicated
the facts to Dr. T. S. Palmer, of the Agri-
cultural Department, suggesting that he
also take steps to head.off these would-be
law breakers. He placed the matter in the
hands of the Department of Justice, and
notified the president of the South Caro-
lina Club that in case he persisted in his
efforts to walk over the statute books, he
and his associates might expect to find
themselves facing a United States judge.
For a time the president of the club
assumed a defiant attitude; but finally con-
cluded that discretion would be the better
part of valor, The quail order was ac-
cordingly countermanded and the club de-
cided to serve turkeys instead of quails.
This was a wise change of mind on the
part of the club officers. Turkeys are
good enough for any man who does not
care to go afield and kill game, and they
are much cheaper at 15 cents a pound than
quails are at $25 each. It is safe to say
that if these gentlemen had persisted in
their determination to eat quails, they
would have had to pay at least that price
for them, eventually.
Mr. Dill and Dr. Palmer are entitled to
the gratitude of every sportsman in the
country for their manly and vigorous ac-
tion in this case, and all those in North
Carolina and South Carolina would
promptly join the League if they couid be
made to realize how much they owe it for
having headed off this proposed wholesale
destruction of their quails.
Jack Barberis, who keeps an alleged res-
taurant in Seattle, Washington, was re-
cently fined $25 by Judge George for hav-
ing 7 ruffed grouse in possession, in viola-
tion of law. Game Warden Hill and
Deputy Warden Springer had previously
made a descent on Barberis’ shop, armed
with a search warrant. Barberis said em-
phatically that he had no game of any kind
in his house. The wardens were not satis-
fied with that statement and searched the
premises. They found the birds in a box,
covered with a few slabs of pork. When
they began to open the box Barberis gave
a war dance about them and reiterated the
statement that there was no game in the
box or in the house; that: there was
nothing in that box but pork. He was ar-
rested, taken to court, and then pleaded
guilty. The penalty provided by the State
law for this offence is $100, and sportsmen
interested in the case would like to have
Judge George explain why he ignored the
statute in fixing the charge at $25. It is
safe to say that all decent sportsmen in
Seattle, and those who go there in future,
-will steer clear of Barberis’ house.
A rash and rambunctious raccoon
Tried to whistle a popular tune;
But he blew out his teeth,
Both above and beneath,
And is taking his food with a spoon.
—Life.
RECREATION is the finest magazine ever
published. D. B. Kirk, Mt. Vernon, O
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RECREATION. 483
Can anyone suppose that
we would double the necessary
cost of our brewing without a
vital reason.
Would we spend so muchon cleanliness? Would
we cool the beer in plate glass rooms? Would we
filter all the air that touches it? Would we age it for
months in refrigerating rooms? Would we filter it?
Would we sterilize every bottle after it is sealed?
Can anyone suppose that
it 1s our good
. —rather than
your good —that
we serve by it?
We do it to attain absolute
purity —to avoid the remotest pos-
sibility of germs— to make Schlitz Beer healthful
— to escape the cause of biliousness ; the lack of
age and proper fermentation.
Why accept a common
beer —brewed without
any of these precautions
— when Schlitz Beer
costs no more?
Your dealer may prefer to furnish a beer that
pays a little more profit; but does it pay you to
permit it? Isn’t pure beer— Schlitz Beer —
worth asking for? Ask for the Brewery Bottlin2.
484
RECREATION.
A FAMILY HUNT.
Hot Springs, Neb.
Editor RECREATION :
Seeing an article in one of last year’s Rrc-
REATIONS, called “An Elk Hunt,” near the
Lamereux meadows, recalls a hunting trip
which my parents, brothers and I made in
89. We lived in Fremont county, Wyo-
ming, 25 miles Southwest of Lander, and
had been accustomed to plenty of small
game and small trout ever since settling
there. We had always heard of the excel-
lent hunting and fishing to be had at tie
head of the Sandies and determined to
take a trip to this hunters’ paradise, to
find out for ourselves if the reports we had
heard were true. Accordingly we started,
the 3d day of August, prepared to spend a
few days or weeks as might be necessary.
We took a spring wagon, a_ good
team. and .3 saddle horses. Our equip-
ment consisted of a tent and camp outfit, a
good supply of guns, ammunition and fish-
ing tackle. We spent a week or more in
teaching our destination, hunting and fish-
ing here and there with little success. At
ist the trails got so scarce and narrow,
-ne trees so thick and the bogs so numerous,
at we were obliged to abandon our wagon
nd proceed by pack horse, which we did
for a distance of 8 or 10 miles to a spot
where we felt sure no other white person
had ever been and where civilization would
not interfere with our sport in any way.
We camped about noon and after a hasty
lunch prepared for a raid on the trout. All
turned out, and although a shower came
up during the afternoon and drove part
of us to the shelter of the tent some stayed
out. At night we had 87 fish, large and
small. We were not hogs, Not one. of
those fish went to waste; neither did we
make any donations, for our party consisted
of 4 healthy boys and my father and
mother and we had been camping out over
a week.
Next morning at break of day my eldest
brother, Bert, started out with a 45-70
rifle, and the avowed intention of getting
an elk. Nothing was heard from him tlll
the sun was just peeping over Fremont
peak and we were sitting down to break-
fast. Then a rifle shot broke the stillness.
A few minutes later Bert came into camp
holding up a pair of bloody hands. His
one shot had been successful.
He had killed a fine 2-year old cow elk.
My father started out ofter. breakfast and
returned before 10 o'clock with the infor-
mation that he had killed another cow,
having shot but once.’ The 2 animals
were brought to camp and properly dressed
for packing. Next morning we brake
camp, for we had all the meat we wanted
and there was nothing to remain for. We
got both elk out safe. Reluctantly we
went, for it certainly was a hunters’ para-
dise.
E. T. Ussher.
TWO DOGS, A BOY AND A MINK.
When I was 9 years old I happened to
hear my father say that mink skins were
worth 50 cents to $2 each. Knowing mink
tracks when | saw them and having seen
them often, I at once determined to go
into the fur business. I tried to get next
to the old gentleman and jolly him into
buying me some traps, only to be told that
I had not gumption enough to catch a
mink in an ordinary lifetime.
Thus rebuked I slipped to bed with my
thinker working overtime. Before I slept
I had matured a scheme. I had 2 rattling
good rabbit dogs, and such was my high
opinion of their ability and adaptability
that I decided to use them as mink catch-
ers.
Old Tip was a white, black and tan
shepherd, and could whip any dog in the
county. Spring was just a yellow mon-
grel, but not to be despised. If I wanted
a chicken she would gather it in in a mo-
ment, and she could hold the biggest hog
on the place until it got tired of squealing.
The next day I went out to begin my
career as a trapper. It was no trouble to
find a mink track, but as I whistled the
dogs to it a rabbit popped out of a bush
and off we all went in his wake. I spent
an hour trying to punch bunny out from
under a ledge of rock. Then I went back
to my mink track. On the way we jumped
another cottontail and away went the dogs
again.
Thoroughly disgusted, I trailed my mink
alone. The tracks wound in and out of
the slough and finally led to higher
ground and a hole. There was no track
leading away from the hole. I considered
that mink already mine and began calculat-
ing how many traps his pelt would buy.
When the dogs returned they nosed and
dug furiously. I helped, and as the hole
was shallow, we soon had the mink in
close quarters. JI was prying out a stone
when the animal thrust his head out al-
most under my foot. Tip nailed him in a
jiffy, getting a good grip on his neck.
Spring sank his teeth in the poor mink’s
haunches. Then a tug of war ensued, both
dogs pulling their hardest. I whooped them
on. Already I possessed traps, skates,
sled and unstinted candy.
Alas! my joy was premature. With a
horrid rending sound my beautiful mink
skin was torn asunder and the dogs fell
back, each holding a shredded fragment.
Tearfully I gathered up the remnants and
trudged homeward, firmly convinced that
for mink catching purposes one dog was
better than 2. -C. L. Hart, Humeston, Ia.
J. A. Steele’s solution of the game protec-
tion problem, namely muzzle loading guns,
is the correct one. I should like to shake
hands with Mr. Steele. Game in this part
of the State is about gone.
H. M. Putnam, Fredonia, N. Y.
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486 RECREATION.
Long Focus
Century Gran
“Tite is the only camera in the market having both
front and rear extension of bellows—made in the
Cycle form, and therefore is by far the most com-
pact and portable. An idea of the DIFFERENCE in
size between the “‘ Century” and others can be obtained
when we state that the 5x 7 Long Focus Century Grand,
closed, measures only 5% x9% x 10 inches, yet has the
maximum length of bellows. Fitted with Reversible Back,
Double Swing, Double. Sliding Front, Automatic Bed
Lock, Three-focus Convertible Lens, Latest Automatic
Shutter, Triple-lens Brilliant Finder—in fact all improve-
ments that have made the *‘Centurys” famous. Itis one
of our leaders and we are proud of it. We manufacture
all kinds of cameras. Ask your dealer for catalogue or write us.
CENTURY CAMERA CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
*‘ For sport the lens is better than the gun. >
T wish to make this department of the utmost
useto amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to
answer any questions and to print any items sent
me by practical amateurs relating to their experi-
ence in photography.
MAKING THE NEGATIVE.
E, T. CALDWELL.
Without a good negative it is impossible
to turn out a perfect picture. It is, then,
important that amateurs fully understand
this first step of the photographic art.
Most brands of dry plates will yield good
negatives if properly handled. The ex-
posure, of course, has much to do with the
result. There is just that right amount of
time to expose which gives clear, crisp
plates. More time wil give flatness; less,
too thin and weak a negative. With recti-
linear lenses working with stop f. 16, I-5
second would be about the correct time.
For f. 64, 2 seconds, in bright weather.
The smaller the diaphragm the more sharp-
ness and depth will be obtained.
Pyrogallic acid is the developing agent
most generally used. Its tendency to stain
is its one objectionable feature. I find met-
o’hydrochinone gives a much better plate,
bringing out detail which it would be im-
possible to secure with other developers in
short exposures. It is cheap, keeps well, is
free from stain and can also be used for
bromide papers.
A simple form of developer is made as
follows:
No. 1 Solution.
yroeallic acid. 605. swe sa. se I ounce.
Sulphuites Soda. 5.5: ees sen. = 6 ounces.
EL Ot: Water re fe ee see 16 ounces.
No. 2 Solution.
Wratetec. (acs 2 een 50:1 St aa eet 16 ounces.
Garbonate -sodacs- = yee. 1 ee 4 ounces.
For a normal developer take of No. 1, %
ounce; of No. 2, % ounce; water, 3 ounces.
This strength is suitable for most expos-
ures. The No. 1 solution gives density;
the No. 2, detail. More water retards de-
velopment, and equal parts of one and 2
will quicken it. Heat will quicken and cold
retard its action; 60 to 70 degrees is about
the right temperature. Extreme heat will
cause the gelatine film to soften and frill.
In hot weather the developing tray may
be placed in another containing ice. De-
veloping solution may be used over and
over, and when old gives more contrast.
Keep the solution which is in use in one
bottle and strengthen as required from one
and 2.
Another good developer is made as fol-
lows: .
1. Metol ..... I ounce.
Sulphite SOM AG incre sie ee rt 3 ounces,
eooveev ee ee ee e860 &
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Dy TAVGLOCMINONE) crisis cc dlsctee ok OUNCE,
Sulphite soda..... ein lev acts aie? Or OUnC RS:
WV CES pir cated couete pidiasute creis's oe 232 OUNces.
3. Carbonate soda (sal soda).... 4 ounces.
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Take 1% of each and 3 ounces cold water
for a normal developer. This will yield
fine, soft negatives. More of No. 2 will
give density and harshness. ‘This is good
also for all platino-bromide papers,
After the plate is exposed, prepare the
hypo for fixing in one tray, in the dark
room. Four ounces water to 4 ounces
hypo is about right. Close door of dark
room and by the light of the ruby lantern
remove plate from holder. It is sometimes
best to place the plate in cold water a few
minutes before developing, making it less
liable to spot. Lay the plate in the tray,
pour the developer over it, and gently rock
the tray. In a few seconds the lighter por-
tion of the image will appear if correctly
exposed. It is best not to have the solution
work too fast. Keep it well under control,
bringing the picture out: gradually. Con-
tinue until the picture begins to fade from
its first bright appearance. Rinse in cold
water and place in hypo; leave until the
white is entirely eaten away; wash % hour,
changing the water 2 or 3 times. Then °
place in a rack to dry, preferably in a
draught of cold, dry air.
Where a plate is much under timed plac-
ing it in a solution of soda 5 minutes before
developing and then proceeding as usual
will bring out detail which can not be
obtained otherwise. The solution should
be prepared as follows: Saturated solution
of carbonate soda, % ounce; water, 6
ounces. Begin development of greatly un-
dertimed plates with a weak _ solution,
gradually increasing the strength of the
developer. If over timed, add bromide to
the weak developer. Negatives too thin
and faint may be intensified; and those too
dense and hard, reduced with the follow-
ing: Ferrocyanide of potassium, one ounce;
water, 16 ounces. To reduce, immerse the
plate a few minutes in a hypo solution of
one ounce to a pint of water, adding the
ferrocyanide a little at a time. The more
added the more the plate will be reduced.
Wash well and dry.
Orthochromatic plates are more sensitive
to orange, yellow and green. The finer de-
tails of foliage will be retained by their
use, and a distant mountain against a sky
will show better. They are developed the
same as other plates. A negative of good
density prints out best. A flat, poor nega-
tive will not yield a good print by any
process.
Plates may be reduced locally with a
camel’s hair brush wet in the reducing so-
lution,
488
WHY USE RAPID PLATES?
By using slow plates nearly all photo-
giaphic troubles would vanish into thin air.
‘the slow plate gives a greater latitude in
the exposure. Every plate has its minimum
and maximum exposure for a good nega-
tive to result, the midway between minimum
and maximum giving in all cases the best
results, provided always development: is
properly carried out. In the slow brands
of plates there is far greater range be-
tween the 2 points mentioned than there is
in the. ultra rapid ones; hence the slower
ones give a far greater latitude. For this
reason exposure with slow plates does not
need t~ be so exact as with the more rapid
ones. E
The ultra rapid series of plates require
far greater care in handling at all stages,
being more susceptible to fog, and for this
reason one’s dark room lamp must be such
that it gives a ruby light of a safe nature.
Such a ruby light is often trying to the
eyes, and more than this, one is not able to
watch development so closely as if a better
light was employed. Often one is not able,
from the use of too dim a light, to see what
is going on in time to check it. Again,
fast plates, desnite what is said to the con-
trary, are more liable to chemical fog early
in development, and are often, in any but
experienced hands, incapable of rendering
the half tones in a proper manner. In
fact, it will often be found that a maker’s
rapid plates are inferior in quality to his
slow ones.
By using a slow plate a brighter light
can be used in the dark room. For this
reason the development proceedings can *e
more plainly seen and regulated. By giv-
ing a somewhat full exposure a negative
can be produced containing a full range
of half tones, crisp and bright prints being
the result, as against the flat and foggy
prints often seen or the soot and whitewash
prints.
The greatest danger when using an
ultra rapid plate is that of over exposure,
which flashes up at once, with the result
that most amateurs get frightened, and
throw the negative into the fixing bath be-
fore it is time; result, a flat, unprintable
negative.
Hence, use for general work, except in
extreme cases, the slow or ordinary brand
of plates. Give an exposure as nearly cor-
rect as possible and use a normal developer.
—Photo Chronicle.
HOW TO USE CYKO PAPER,
I was much interested in what J. C. C.
says in May RECREATION about Cyko paper.
A year ago I was in Idaho and sent to a
Chicago concern for some Cyko paper and
Cyko developer. The paper worked nicely
until it reached the washing stage; then
RECKEATION.
trouble came in the shape of blisters. In
order to save any prints I had to ‘reduce
the time of washing to % of that specified
in the directions. I sent a blistered print
to my dealer and asked advice. Another
lot of paper was sent me, and: I was
told that the first batch might have been
an old emulsion. The new paper was
worse than the old, and began to blister
the moment it was put in water. However,
the few prints I succeeded in saving were
beautiful. Should be glad to learn more
about this paper from those who have used
it.
J. E. Bates, Spokane, Wash.
I referred the foregoing letter to an ex-
pert photographer, who replies as follows:
The blistering of prints made on Cyko
paper is most frequently caused by having
the printing frame too close to the light
while exposing, thus allowing the negative
and the paper to become heated. To ob-
tain the best results with Cyko paper this
should be avoided, and special care should
be taken to keep the fixing bath acid, as
with each sheet placed in the fixing bath a
certain quantity of alkali is carried into
the bath from the developer. As the fixing
bath is inexpensive it is advisable to pro-
cure a new bath when the one in use
shows signs of deterioration. The An-
thony & Scovill Company, 122-124 Fifth
avenue, New York, who are the general
agents for this paper, have prepared a
special manual for the manipulation of
Cyko vaper, which they will forward to
any person asking for it. This book is
complete, and contains many valuable hints
on the manipulation of developing papers.
TO CLEAN LENSES. :
Kindly advise me the best method and
material for cleaning lenses.
M. P. Staulcup, Meriden, Conn.
ANSWER, :
For removing dust and other substances
from the surfaces of lenses there is abso-
lutely nothing which equals an old, worn
linen pocket handkerchief or an old piece
of fine cotton cloth which is nearly worn
out from washing and use. The glass of
which lenses are made is usually some-
what softer than window glass, or glass
used for glass dishes and similar articles,
consequently it requires more care in
cleaning, lest the substance in the dust or
other material collected on the lens sur-
faces should cause scratches by being
rubbed across it. For ordinary cleaning the
lens surfaces may be dusted with rag first,
then breathed gently on and wiped gently
with cloth, taking care to have an abun-
dance .of the cloth between the finger and
the lens, so as not to press too hard on
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
the surface. If dirt is not removed by this
means, a cloth may be slightly moistened
and the surface gently wiped with it after-
ward being dried thoroughly with a dry
portion of the cloth. Continued gentle
wiping and polishing of the surfaces with
the cloth will generally remove all traces
of materials which may have collected. If
neither the moisture nor the ‘wiping will
remove substances the chances are that
they are of an oily or resinous nature. In
that case polish the surface of the lens with
a cloth slightly moistened with pure alcohol,
taking care not to allow it to touch the
mount. After wiping a few times polish
thoroughly with a dry portion of the cloth.
Any lens is improved by being frequently
polished with a dry cloth, first breathing
on the surface of the lens. A lens may
deteriorate considerably in speed through
the collection of a fine film of dust which
is scarcely noticeable——Epiror.
DUE TO: EXPOSURE,
What dry plates are best for photograph-
ing mountain scenery? How are ncn-hala-
tion plates for such work? What causes
the grayish and spotted whites on Velox
gloss paper? I use M. I. developer and
plenty of bromide of potassium, but can
not get good effects. I used same devel-
oper on carbon Velox and it worked all
right.
What will remove hypo stains from neg-
atives which have been improperly washed?
_ I have not missed a copy of your valua-
ble magazine in 3 years. I take great
pleasure in the pages devoted to photog-
raphy and guns and ammunition, as they
give a great deal of valuable information.
R. Ralph Garinger, Pueblo, Colo.
ANSWER.
Each plate manufacturer would claim
his plate to be the best. A non-halation
plate has nothing of advantage except
where there is halation to avoid, which
would be liable to occur in taking a moun-
tain scene. The negative being good, this
difficulty is due either to over exposure
and under development or else under ex-
posure and forced development. The fact
that you had good results on another trial
would indicate that the difficulty is due
to exposure.
I do not consider it practical to remove
hypo stains from the negative, and advise -
thorough washing so there will be no
stains.— EDITOR.
A CHEAP PRINTING PROCESS.
The photographer who desires to turn
out prints on an economical basis has
plenty of methods among which to make
his selection. Generally speaking, those
489
which employ bichromate salts will be
found the most economical. Among these
is the process recently put forward em-
ploying mercuric nitrate. It is carried out
by immersing ordinary paper in a Io per
cent solution of bichromate 5 minutes,
and drying it in the dark. When dry, it
is ready for printing, which must be done
in a good light, and which results in a
visible image of a reddish color, but not
strong. When the shadows are distinctly
visible, the printing is finished, and the
paper must be washed in water until the
whites are clear, after which it should be
immersed in a bath made by dissolving 80
grains of mercuric -nitrate and 20 grains
of potassium bichromate in an ounce of
water. This solution snould be made some
hours before use, and allowed to stand
until required, when it may be filtered, and
is then ready. The resulting liquid, which
is green, will gradually turn the picture to
a pleasant red tone, after which it may be
washed and dried. To obtain a brown tone,
treat the print with 60 minims of strong
ammonia to an ounce of water, washing
well between the mercury bath and that
containing the ammonia. These prints can
be toned in ordinary gold toning baths, in
which they gradually turn to purple—Ex-
change.
tO INTENSIFY ~NEGATIVES.
In January, 1901, RECREATION, you pub-
lished a formula for intensifying negatives.
My druggist has tried several times to
compound it for me, but can not mix the
nitrate of silver and cyanide of potash in
in the quantity named. Will you kindly
tell me how it can be done?
James H. Miller, Lowville, N. Y.
If the silver is good it will dissolve in
one dram of water. However, you can use
90 minims or more if necessary, but enough
must be left for the cyanide.
The Monckhoven formula is the best in-
tensifying material on earth. It develops
negatives and works wonders with flat,
under developed, over exposed negatives.
a OTS tiede Wapene Me. ae. oe I ounce.
Bromode» of - potash. . 2.2... . IO grains.
Bichloride of Mercury...... IO grains.
Pe AMIStiliede Watelss. oo5etess st I ounce.
Nitrate of silver............10 grains.
Gyanide-of potash -C:. Pio... IO grains.
danger that my scholars will ever be game
In making B. dissolve the silver in a
dram of the water, the cyanide in the re-
maining 7 drams. Mix, and when settled
and clear it is ready to use. Bleach the
plate in A. till white. The longer it
bleaches the more intensity will ensue.
Rinse well and blacken in B. Work in day-
light, but not near a window. Both solu-
tions are poisonous.—EDIToR.
490
SNAP SHOQTS.
I have had poor luck in taking pictures
of water. What are the proper stop and
time in taking a picture of water in bright
sunlight? In developing plates of this
kind should they: be carried in the devel-
oper until the yellow disappears from the
plate, the same as other plates? I use
Eastman’s pyro in glass tubes for all kinds
of plates. Will your answer for this apply
to taking cloud pictures? If not, please ex-
plain, as I have failed in that kind of:
work. In using a ray filter, how much
longer should the exposure be than with-
out it? :
ANSWER,
Use a small stop and rapid exposure,
1-100 second. Do not carry the develop-
ment so far that the delicate half-tones
are lost.
This advice applies also to cloud work.
In using a ray filter allow an exposure 2
to 6 times longer than without it, depend-
ing on the color of the filter—Ebprror.
I have taken several pictures indoors of
late and developed some until the image
seemed to come out as far as necessary,
but when I tried to fix the plate the image
went off as the plate cleared, ti" by the
time the plate was clear the image had al-
most disappeared. I have never had any-
thing of the kind occur with plates ex-
posed outdoors. Please let me know the
cause and the remedy. I use pyro de-
veloper.
C. E. Wilson, Mt. Carbon, Colo.
ANSWER.
You probably do not carry your plate far
enough in the developer.
For interior . work, try non-halation
plates and a full exposure, carrying devel-
opment farther than with ordinary plates.
—EDIrTor. .
What will prevent pyro from staining
the negative after fixing with plain hypo?
Is pyro the best developer for clouds?
John R. Boulle, City Island, New York.
ANSWER.
Use fresh pyro developer and rinse plate
well before fixing. Alum will lighten the
stain.
Many expert photographers recommend
pyro as the best developer, while others ad-
vise the use of different developers.—Enr-
TOR.
To reproduce a negative it is not neces-
sary to make a positive. Put negative and
a fresh plate in the printing frame, ex-
pose to daylight, say 5 seconds and the
result will be a negative from a negative,
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due to the great over exposure. It often
happens, too, that a far better negative
can be thus produced than the original by
modifying the developer to some extent,—
Exchange.
Dextrine makes an excellent mountant,
sticky and not difficult to mix. Liesegang
recommends 2 ounces of water, 20 grains
nitrate of calcium and 80 grains of dex-
trine. Another authority gives equal parts
alcohol and water, heated in a water bath,
and dextrine stirred in till the consistency
Suits.’ -Dextrine “1S, quoted’ -at~ 107-10 415
cents a pound.—The Photo-American.
Will you kindly intorm me, through
RECREATION, what camera you think is the
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answer ?—EDITorR.
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R. O. C. the Rochester
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condition of light or color
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MEXICAN ALLIGATORS.
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the right position to swallow, managing it
by throwing his head back a number of
times, with his jaw- wide open.
The ’gator has a peculiar odor, which at
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pretender. A Mexican lady from the table-
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“What smells of alligator?”
’Gators 12 or 13 feet long are considered
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by a snakelike motion of the tail. In 2
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fellow, after 5 weeks in bed, had still 5
holes in his thigh, each large enough to
admit the index finger to the first joint.
Ed. M. Williams.
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A GAMEY HOG.
G. W. SMITH.
During the fall of. 1893 I was station
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into my pocket, and, with a younger
brother and my dog, set out in quest of
game. We had gone perhaps a mile from
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point, near a hazel thicket. ‘Vold to flush,
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succeeded in grassing one with each barrel.
The others flew some 300 yards and scat-
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RECKEATION. XXXV
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