THE NORTHERN LAKES. 



ever there is a stream, the temperature of which does not rise higher 

 than sixty -five or seventy degrees in summer, there trout can be 

 found in abundance. 



In the Great Lakes, next in value to the white fish comes the 

 salmon-trout, weighing often from twenty to sixty pounds. The 

 siskowit of Lake Superior is also a species of the salmon family, and 

 follows in the ratio of values. It is principally fished for on the 

 shores of Isle Royale and the Canadian North Shore. Members of the 

 pickerel family are to be found in almost all the lakes and streams; 

 also perch, bass, and wall-eyed pike. The northern lakes are al- 

 ways desirable places for summer camping. The shores are dry 

 and gravelly, and in places rather precipitous. Some are marshy 

 and full of wild rice, the delight of the sportsman on account of the 

 wild-fowl it brings. Boats and hotel accommodations are to be 

 f c und at all points of importance. 



Forest Melodies. 



Do you hear the grand outpouring 



Through the hills and leafy glades- 

 Waters rippling, streamlets purling, 



Through the deepest, darkest glades ? 



List, the music all about you, 



Harmony of mingling sound, 

 Sweetly sad, a weird-like stillness 



Seems to rest on all around: 



Loneliness almost oppressive, 



Yet there ever drifting, comes 

 Sounds of life from all directions 



Notes from busy forest homes. 



Rustling through the swaying branches, 



Crackling of dry twigs that move ; 

 Thus the passing touch of breezes, 



Gathers music from the grove. 



Birds are chirping, talking softly, 



Singing songs of triumph loud; 

 Flitting gaily through the tree-tops, 



Floating far to'rd distant cloud. 



