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Mormon LaVie, and we were soon enriching our stock with splendid 

 bass and cropple. Mr. Wimer captured one welgning five pounds. 

 Home distance east oJ this late Is the bed of nn oW creel", led by back 

 water from-the river. About every Bpring, and during tko sommer 

 and fall, trie deeper portions are ailed with fine nail left there when 

 the water recedes. The flsuiug spots are quite deep, and some are en- 

 tirely Isolated from any other body of water during the dry season 

 We could find no name for this old creek, so we dabbed It "Sausage 

 Creek" on account of Its many lloka. Mr. Kupferle here captured 

 Ave bass within ten minutes weighing from two and a half to Ave 

 poands eaen. Our first day at this place was so very productive that 

 we were all tired enoogh when we reached camp with oar leavy 

 strlDgs. The nest day we bad a wagon to aBaist the "toting," as our 

 strings were even heavier than tnose of the day previous. 



Oar cook, Geo. Washington, Esq.., had some disquietude on account 

 of his color. People of Calhoun County, 111., will not allow a negro to 

 live in their ooenry. George was made acquainted with this fact on our 

 upward trip. We nrst thought it a Joke, bat subsequent Inquiries 

 proved It the truth. One of our party had a large revolver, and, as we 

 mast nave butter and milk, it devolved on George to go 10 tie nearest 

 neighbors for these articles, an undertaking he did not relish much ; 

 but happening to see the revolver in Thome's pocket, he said : " Mister 

 Bd , len' me dat pisel and see If I don't go for milk and butter." He 

 got the •• plsol," put a double-barreled shot-gun on his shoulder, took 

 his backet, and looked like a walking arsenal as he wended his way 

 toward Auderaon's for the desired articles. 



Ten or a dozen men In one tent, and no guard over them, no enemy 

 near, can make a heap of music on the evening air, and tho trees in 

 Oar neighborhood were serenaded in strains sweet as tho owl bestows 

 on the coon : " Awho, awho, awho are you, sir ■; " cords of wood were 

 consumed, and as the logB shot out their sparks It flitted through my 

 mind how many poor would rejoice to gain possession of the fuel we 

 fed to the flames. 



: Mr. Shoctey performed a Jonah feat. Ills lino became fast below 

 the water, and in his frantic endeavors to loo3en It he missed his foot- 

 ing on the tree float upon which he stood, made a few expressions 

 that wouldn't chord well with a choir, and took a dive below. After 

 entertaining us with an exhibition of aquatic athletics, he pulled 

 ashore, and we put him to bed while we dried his cloihe3. For his 

 heroism and skill he was promoted to the captaincy, Mr. Bame being 

 our commissary, Mr. Wimer lieutenant, and Mr. Thome corporal. 

 The chief humorist w as our lieutenant, who held as muoh fun as a box 

 of monkeys ; but our commissary was the premium sinner. We broke 

 camp on Pridiy, had our traps hauled to the river bank, and were soon 

 gboard the boat that " fotched us here," homeward bound. Slopped at 

 Falmouih with freight lo unload. One of the party went out on the 

 bank for exercise, and Jumped a standing Jump for fun. A member 

 from the cojntry, rather iengihy as to limbs, built like a " grandfather- 

 long-legs," stalked along: "1 'low you jumped on Snnday. No? 

 Puny goad jump, I can beat it by two foot; do it fur two bits." 

 Challenge not accepted, he continued: " I'm the darndest follow you 

 ever seen. Why 7 I can play a tnno on an Instrument you never saw 

 any one else play on." And he played Capt. Jinks by snapping his 

 fingers, making clear, distinct tones with perfect time and expression. 

 As his molBt finger struck the palm of his hand the tones soundei out 

 clear and round. Acknowledged 1 never heard the lnslramect belore, 

 and was much interested in the unique character of tho performance, 

 and learned that the young man was a ne'er-do-well fellow named 

 Dougherty, but was truly the owner of rare musical talent. Eeiched 

 St, Louis In rare spirits, considerably enriched In avoirdupois. 



COBPOBAL. 



§tttional Hwtim$B. 



ARCHERY SCORING. 



THE good sense of the following communication ■will com- 

 mend itself to all archers. It is unnecessary for us to 

 repeat here -what Ave have already said concerning the desira- 

 bility of some uniform standard for marking scores. One 

 chief element of interest attaching to published scores in con- 

 testa of all kiads is the opportunity afforded the reader of 

 comparing them with his own work. To this end a common 

 standard is indispensable. That proposed by our correspond- 

 ent, and already adopted by a number of clubs, ia reasonable 

 and convenient. We shall keep our columns open for expres- 

 sions of opinions from others : 



CRAWJ70BJDSVTLI.B, Ind., Oct 29. 



Editor Foeest and Stream : 



I am rejoiced to see so many archers responding to your 

 kind invitation to send in their scores for publication, still 

 some of them neglect the most important point connected with 

 score publication, i. «., to give the size of the target, and the 

 number of arrows shot by each archer for a score. In England 

 there are two scores shot generally, one of seventy-two arrows 

 at 100 yards, forty-eight arrows at 80 yards, and twenty-four 

 arrows at CO yards, knowu as the "York Round," and one of 

 forty-eight arrows at GO yards, and twenty-four arrows at 50 

 yards, Known as the "National Round." The gentlemen 

 shoot the York Round, and the ladies the National Round. In 

 publishing the scores in the London Field, and in the Archery 

 Register, all explanation is obviated by simply saying "York 

 Round," or, " xMational Round." We have yet no regulation 

 round in this country, and I am certain (after much experi- 

 menting) that theKDglish York Round is not suited to general 

 use in this country, because of our lack of leisure, and the 

 great length of lime necessary to shoot a match, where say 

 twelve archers shoot 144 arrows each. Such a regulation 

 score is unwieldy, for the further reason that it necessitates the 

 shooting at three separate distances. It seems clear to me 

 that a score should be a certain number of arrows at a given 

 distance. This number, however, should be fixed, understood 

 and adopted by all archers in America. Some young clubs 

 will desire to shoot at short distances, say twenty or thirty 

 yards, more advanced clubs will prefer forty to sixty, while 

 Borne experts will prefer 60 to 100 or 120 yards. Ho be it, but 

 at whatsoever distance the shooting is done, let a certain num- 

 ber of arrows constitute a score. If this is accepted and acted 

 on, then it will only be necessary in reporting scores to give 

 the names of archers, the distance and the scores. 1 see 

 that it is recommended by the editor that the number of 

 ends be given also. To do this it would require the 

 further adoption of the number of arrows to constitute an 

 end. This, in England, is generally three arrows. 1 

 think it makes very little difference whether we adopt and 

 use this, or aDy system of "ends" in reporting, as it is 

 of very little interest to archers how many arrows are 

 shot at an end. There is a trilling advantage in shooting an 

 end of many arrows, over shooting less arrows at an end, for the 

 reason that one; £et« the range, power of the wind, Had length 



better after a few shots, but this advantage is slight in shoot- 

 ing a score. The "Wabash Merry Bowmen" have adopted, 

 and always used, an end of five arrows, and a score of thirty 

 arrows, and have found each ve>-y desirable. They have also 

 adopted a four-feet target for all distances, and find it meets 

 every want. In correspondence with the Highland Park and 

 Chicago Clubs. I find they have adopted the same target and 

 Bcore. The "Kokomo Archers," perhaps the second best club 

 in America at present, have also adopted the same score and 

 target, and have started a manufactory of the most excellent 

 targets I have ever seen, four feet in diameter, ten incuts 

 thick, and almost as firm as wood. They are formed of rolls 

 of hay placed lengthwise, bound firmly toaetber and 

 sewn through with hemp twine. The faces are then 

 cut down perfectly smooth. Over this the target face 

 proper is sewn. Having said so much as to the 

 desirability of uniformity in size of target, number of arrows 

 to an "end," and to a score I now propose the adoption of the 

 score of thirty arrows. The "end" of three arrows, and the 

 four feet target at all distances. Will archers, generally, re- 

 spond? If tho score is not desirable, then what number, SO 

 as to the end ? If these suggestions are adopted, L i 

 report scores so that any reader can tell at a glance how the 

 shooting compares with his own. Thus : 

 Orltanl Archers— co yards. 



WHolberton 120 Capt Webber 



Or if more desirable to give the ends, score and golds, re- 

 port it thus: 



Oritanl Arohera. 



Hits. Scores. Golds. Hits. Scores. Golds. 



WHolberton.... 29 lao i Capt Webber.... 28 us s 



Of course, until some such rule is adopted, we should report 

 the number of arrows, distance, hits, scoreandsizeof target, or 

 other archers will derive ho benefit from our communications. 

 I read some weeks ago in tho Fobest and Si'beam Mr. Hoi- 

 berton'B statement of how many arrows constituted an "end" 

 with the Oritana Archers, but one taking up last week's paper 

 would not know how many arrows were shot in the score re- 

 ported, unless he had been a subscriber heretofore. Let ua 

 get uniformity before next spring's contests begin. 



Akoher. 



Highland Park Aboheby Club. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: It is with great pleasure I note the active interest in 

 the glorious sport of archery taken by your paper. In this 

 quiet little suburb, in the outskirts of our Western empire 

 city, Chicago, we have organized a very thriving and healthy 

 archery club, comprising upward of 60 members, ladies aud 

 gentlemen. Professor Elisha Gray, inventor of the telephone, 

 is our President, and has done much toward developing the 

 interests of the association and bringing its members together 

 in friendly competition and social 'intercourse. Next, 10 the 

 Wabash Merry Bowmen, of Crawfordsville, aud the Kokomo 

 Archers, our club ia the oldest in the West (organized last 

 summer), and has developed some modera e degree of skill 

 with the bow. During the past three months our team, com- 

 posed of H. C. Carver (Master Bowman), F. P. Hall, 0. B. 

 Weston, W. M. Goodrich, have shot five public matches, win- 

 ning thre? and losing two, and making creditable scores. The 

 highest individual scores made at the different ranges were as 

 follows: 30 yards, 204; 40' yards, 150; 60 yards, 120. At 

 our club range on November 7 and 8 there was a handicap 

 contest, the result of which I give you below. All our shoot- 

 ing is at a regulation 45-inch target : 



H. C. Carver (60 yard*) 



W. B. D. eray (50 yard*).. 



jrows. 



Hits. 



Value 



. SO 



24 



94 



81) 



22 



84 



80 



20 



62 



80 



22 



103 



80 



23 



86 



SO 



17 



72 









180 



127 



626 



. 80 



IS 



64 



80 



20 



72 



80 



19 



83 



30 



26 



116 



80 



18 



88 



SO 



22 



104 









180 



121 



517 



30 



U 



57 



80 



4 



22 



30 



4 



10 



30 



i 



14 



120 



80 



855 



120 



66 



244 



H. C. Carver ( 80 yards) 



do (lOOvardB) 



O. B. Weston ( SO yards) 



do (lOOyards) 



H. C. Carver ( 60 yards) 120 



A. J, Orr (50 yards) 



Our desire is to stimulate the general interest in archery 

 and to induce other organizations to make public their doings 

 from time to time, that this royal and most beautiful pastime 

 may take firm and enthusiastic hold upon every refined and en- 

 lightened community in our land. Let every one realists that 

 there is no medicine so health-giving, nopleastire so delightful 

 and so fascinating. if p 



Highland Park, III, Nov. 9, 1878. 



Tub Bbbi abb the Cheapest.— A member of the Brattle- 

 boro, Vt., Archery Ciub writes to a New York dealer con- 

 cerning the Aldred bows : " We are very much pie 

 the goods you have sent us. They are admired bv all who 

 see them. Some claim that cheap bows are as good as our 

 fine ones; but I find, when the two grades are used side by 

 side, that our bows are very much more satisfactory." 



Danoinq Against Time.— Two professional dancing mas- 

 ters have just contested an " International Waltzing Match" 

 in this city. They glided through the giddy waltz for twenty 

 hours. This iB four hours better than the performance of a 

 man who danced sixteen hours last year in the same hall. 

 We are willing to match a man against all comers for a great 

 international endurance match of standing on one's head. 



The Bicycle.— A race recently contested between an Eng- 

 lish professional and an amateur rider, resulted in the defeat 

 of the former, the amateur's time being : One mile, 2m. 59s.; 

 two miles, Cm. Is.; three miles. 9m. 9s.; four miles, 12ni. 

 21s.; five miles, 15m. 12 2-5s. That's a great deal better than 

 some railroad time we know of. 



Coixe&e Foot Ball.— In the foot-ball match between 

 Yaie and Trinity, at New Haven, last Saturday, Yale won 

 with a score of two goals and ten touch downs to nothing. 

 The teams were made up as follows : Trinity— Forwards - 

 Starke, Perkins, F. P. Wilcox, Elbert, Kneeland, Williams; 

 half-backs — Potwin, Nelson, Basks, AppletoD, Washburn, F. 

 L. Wilcox. The following Yale men played with Triuity : 

 Crouch, forward ; Hill, half-back, Bacon and Wilson, for- 

 ward*. Yalo— Forwards— Farwell "19, Lamb '81, Ivea *81, 



Morehead '79, S. S. S. Eaton '81, King '80, Hull '81, Harding 

 '80; half-backs -Brown, P. G. Peters '80, Thompson '70 

 Watson '81, S. S. 8.; backs— Wakertun, Vlodtc=il 7 Nisoa 'Si 

 Badger '83. Referee, S. C. Bushnell, Yale, '74. Jud^s— 

 Trinity, Russell, '80 ; Yale, Ciark, '80. 



—The game between Pennsylvania University and Prince^ 

 ton College, played at Philadelphia, last Saturday, was won 

 by the Princeton boys. They scored two go Is and four 

 touch downs to one goal for their competitors. 



—Harvard defeated Amherst at Cambridge, Saturday, with 

 three goals and six touch-downs to nothing. The Rutgers 

 Cjllege and Stephens institute game, at Hoboken, the same 

 day, resulted in one goal for the Stephens club. 



Brooklyn Athletic Cmjb.— Fall games at Prospect PavkS 

 Nov. 7. Summary as follows: • 



Two Hundred and Twenty Yards Ran— First heat— 1? R Bourns 

 1st ; W Fisher, 2d. Time, 28fs. Second beat-Jeseph Baker 1st : 

 H Lansdell, 2d. Time, 29s. Final— F R Bourne let ; Joseph 

 Baker, 2d. Time, 253^s. v 



One-mila Walk— Charles Mackrell, let ; WD Baker. 2d • B Rich- 

 ardson, 3d. Time, 9m 26a. 



One Hundred Yards Dash— Joseph Baker, 1st ; W Fiaher 2d- 

 HLansdell, 3d. Time, lie. ' ' 



Banning High Jump— John Baker, 4ft 9in; W Armstrong, 4ft 



Rui 

 irt 3_. 



Quarter-mile Run— J G Hudson, 1st ; B Richardson, 2d-WD 

 Baker, 3d. Time, 60fs. ' ' 



Putting the Shot, 16 pounds— W Blair, 27ft lin ; J G Hudson, 



LacrosB (ball) Throw— F H Logan, 3304ft. 



Tug of War-Team 1— R Maxweil, F H Logan, Rev T R Slioar 

 H Lausdell and J G Hudson ; Team 2— W D B»k«r. John Baker 

 Joaeph Baker, Q O De Grove, Jr, and W Blair. Won by Team 

 No 1 in lm 10a. 



The games ended with a lacrosse matoh, tho captains being F 

 H Logan aud Q C Da Grove, Jr. Captain Logan's side won. 

 Score, 1—0. 



Judges— Mr Barclay and Mr Wilkinson, 



Tuft's College Athletics— Mystic Park, Boston, Nov. 7. 



—Following is the summary of the fall sports of the Tuft's 



College Athletic Association : 

 One Hundred Yards Dash— Eaton, '80, lat i time, 12». Gowing, 

 One-qaarter-mUe Run— Foles, *79, lit; time, 60Js. Friend, '81, 

 Mils Walk— Klinghammer, '79, 1st ; time, 8m 37Xs- Presho, 



Mile Ban — Gowing, '81 ; time, 5m %*. 



Throwing Heavy Hammer— Perry, '79; distance, 94ft lin ( 

 Hall, ol, 85ft. 



Potato Race, distance, 25 yards— Donovan, '80 ; time. 2m 45a. 

 Friend, '81. 2m 55s. 



Kicking Football— Hall, '81 ; diatanoe, 144ft 8J£in. Perry, '79 

 143fc 8in. 



Throwing Base Ball— Donovan, '80 ; diatanoe, 265ft 6in. Eaton 

 10 'Mil. lin. 



Three-legged Baca-Hall and Mack, '81, lat, in 14s ; Donovan 

 and Eaton, 2d 



Running High Jump— Perry, '79 ; distance, 4ft lOin. Hall, '8L, 



Standing Long Jump— HalJ, '81 ; diatanoe, 9ft llin. Parry, '79, 



Running Long Jump— Perry, '79. 15ft 2in ; Hall, '81, 15ft 

 Hop, Skip and Jump— Perry, 79, 35tt 6>^in ; Hall, 'al 35ft 

 Wheelbarrow Race— Donovan, 'so, lat ; Leonard, '81, 2d. 



Greenpoint Athletic Club.— The annual fall games of 

 the Greenpoint, L. I., Athletic Club were held at the Man- 

 hattan Club grounds, N. Y., Nov. 9. The summary of events 

 is as follows : 



Open 100-yards, h&ndioap— Thirty-eight contestants. Won by 

 J S Voorhis, Adulphi A C, handicapped 20 feet, in 10a. 



Oue mile walk, handicap— Tweuty-six entries. Won by M Chat- 

 wclc, in 7m 46>£a. actual time. 



Four hundred and forty yards— Twentv-five competitors. F W 

 Janaaen, Staten Island A C, 65 yards start, won. 



One hundred yards for club championship— Won by D H Steel 

 in 11^8. This gentlemau also won the 440 yards club champion- 

 ship in 58%s. c 



Running high jump club championship— Won by R Roden, who 

 cleared 4ft Tin. ' 



Three milea walk for olub ohampionahip— Won by W H Purdy 

 in 23m 15^6, 



lew 



The Waveblet Dictionary • An Alphabetical Arrangement 

 of all the Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Nov- 

 els. By May Rogers. Chicago : S. C. Griggs & Oo. 

 1879. 



Few people nowadays go through the whole of the thirty 

 Waverley Novels. New friends ara orowding the old ones from the 

 stager and while Scott ia read and always will be read wilb the 

 interest which a master-mind can never lose, there are compara- 

 tively few persons who can accurately looate many of the 

 Waverlay characters. In tha substantial volume before us, the 

 author has attempted to give Buch a concise and full depoription 

 of the Waverley characters that even those who have not read ih» 

 bocks shall have an intelligent conception of them and the part 

 they play in the fiction. The plan of the work is in uniformity 

 to the demands of tha time for condensed and definite informa- 

 tion. We think it will prove of great practical utility, and 

 especially commend it to students of English literature. 

 Helens : A Love Episode. By Emile Zola. Translated by 



Mary Neal Sherwood. Philadelphia : T. B. Peterson <fc 



Bros. 1878. Paper, seventy-five cents. 

 Zola is among the great fiction writers of the day. Hia books 

 go through fifty editions in Paris, and do not stop there. Readers 

 and admirers are not oonfined to France. He has many friends 

 in this country, and their number will, we think, be largely in- 

 creased by the present volume. 



Magazines ior November..— We have received i Popular 

 Science Monthly, Popular Science Monthly Supplement, Ealeciio 

 Magazine, American Naturalist, Journal of Forestry, AmarUsan 

 Antiquarian, Soribner's, Harper's, Zippincatt's, Applttoa's, 



Atlantic ' . 



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