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THE YOUNG SHAD FOR GERMANY. 



IN our issue of August Otli, wo announced the departure 

 of Fred Mather, Esq., our distinguished llsliculturist, 

 per steamer Dotiau for Bremen, having in charge some 

 100.00U young shad, At the time we wrote that the chances 

 against carrying the flak alive on their journey were very 

 great. On Saturday we received tUo following From Mr. 

 Mather:— 



On ESOAKD STE.ousn "Donah," O-Ef SotrratAMSTOlT, I. 



England, August lo, 1874; ) 

 Editor Fouest and Stueam:— 



I regret to pay that om- mis-ion lei- • :u v-en -.n:. ■..:-> hi: . u flsadied 

 U-t night of i&rmtiotl. .Mr. Anderson and myself iwve dona :'i !i 

 could be done under the circumstances; were with inem niyljl. find day; 

 gave i hem Cioron waier every hour thetlrsl nix days, and every halt hour 

 tins remaining four. Out of 1OD.0O0 Ush we had lost tni t H',0' ill at tile close 

 of ihe ninth day. Fkeu. Matiiek. 



Though this most novel experiment of transporting 

 young fish 1ms not been successful, we arc by no means 

 willing to consider it hs conclusive. We believe that it 

 will be found perfectly possible to curry young fish ou a 

 sea voyage of a moderate duration, and that before n year 

 has elapsed Mr. Mather will accomplish this feat. Let 

 any one read Mr. Living-ton Stone's most interesting ac- 

 count of the first transportation of I lie fish across our con- 

 tinent, and he will appreciate the many difficulties which 

 encompass these experiments in fish culture. W(! are cer- 

 tain that Mr. Mather, whose powers of practical observa- 

 tion are of the keenest character, has already diseovc 



where the plans were at fault, and thai he will try all 



trip, and with betlur chances of success. ft 



for us to stale thai Mr. Mather was by no mean- -anguine 



of his ability to keep Hie tisli alive, and that he told 



use Ins own ivords, that "there were ten thousand chances 



sgavust him, and but two or three in his favor." 



AVe trust to have from Mr. .Mather an account of. his ex- 

 perience, and how his novel nursery was inai aged ' ■ ' 

 doubtless will be interesting,, not only to our readers, but 

 to rl ic-ultuiiStB all over the world. In a novel experiment 

 of - us character difficulties in the way act butasinGen- 

 tiv_s to overcome them, and we again repeat that we be- 

 leivc before very long FoBEST and STREAM will publish 

 an account of how the young shad traveled all alive from 

 Xew York to Bremen. 



OUR INDIAN GALLERY 



7"E arc indebted to an officer at Fort Sill, whose cor- 

 respondence frequently graces our columns, for a 

 series of very fine photographic pictures of the various 

 Camanehe, Apache, and Kiowa braves, whose names are 

 not unknown to our readers. The pictures arc exceedingly 

 interesting from the notices of the chiefs written on the 

 back of them. We pick up a picture at random. We see 

 a noble warlike bead with an iron mouth, betokening decis- 

 ion, with a deep furrow on the brow, the eyes, however, 

 with something of a latent glare in them. Take it In a 

 Lavater sense and it is the portrait of an aristocrat, so 

 proud and defiant is it. Turn to the back, and we read 

 Hie following: "Sanlauta, sentenced to bo hung for vari- 

 ous massacres in Texas, but eventually released. Is here 

 now at Fort Sill sick, all his prestige gone, and amounts to 

 literally nothing." . The picture of "Big Tree," Saniauta's 

 comrade, shows more guile. The features are a trifle 

 sleepy, but to us there is much more of the hidden devil 

 in them. Big Tree is now a simple brave of the Dangerous 

 Eagle Band of Kiowas. His incarceration seems to have 

 broken his .spirit. Hob way's picture is a startling one. It 

 represents the features of a savage of some fifty years old. 

 The mouth is grim, the forehead is broad enough, but low, 

 and there is no end of guile, lure, and wickedness about the 

 face, The legend on the back reads: "This chief means 

 business and war in earnest. Is one of the ablest of the 

 Comanche Indians. All his people are now hostile." 

 White Horse's head also illustrates our gallery. The face 

 is pitted with smallpox, and is crafty to a degree. White 

 Horse led the party of Kiowas who murdered the Leo 

 family in '72, and, says our informant, "he is as precious a 

 scoundrel as goes unhung, yet now professes to be 

 friendly." The most superb head of all is that of Big Bow, 

 cjnef of the Kiowas. With a more lofty brow than Indi- 

 ans generally possess, the whole contour of the head is 

 grand, the eyes are thoughtful, and there is even a certain 

 amount of benignity about the features. But all signs as 

 to physiognomy fail when you look at an Indian picture, 

 for the endorsement reads as follows: "Big Bow, for years 

 a bad character, is now hero and will manage to sneak out 

 of present difficulties. He led the party committing the 

 Howard Wells massacre in 1872." Various pictures of 

 Indian girls also adorn our gallery. Mademoiselle Lone 

 Wolf, with aquiline Jewish features is absolutely pretty, 

 and her pose on a buffalo robe, with betid bent on a beau- 

 tifully rounded arm, is as good as that of a Grecian statute. 

 Arrapahoo and Comanche girls have, however, genorally to 

 our eyes few redeeming personal traits. Though graceful 

 in their movements, with small hands and feet, their 

 features are ugJyand stolid, and as to the married and 

 overworked Indian women, the homeliest creature in the 

 world is a squaw. 



Poon CiiUiDKEH'fl Picnics. Their Conclusion.— Ou 

 tugust 39lli, took place the twelfth and last of 

 the Poor Children's Picnics, At a cost of §8,874, 23,856 

 children were given a pleasant jau id oil the waler. and 

 amply fed. eared for, and provided with amusements. 

 Thus happily concluded the third season of these picnics, 

 D Children bave been entertained. From 

 some personal experience in the business, for a business it 

 is, we ate very sure that few can imagine how arduous a 

 Wsk it is to care for such a host of little ones. The suc- 

 cess achieved by Q. V. Williams Esq., the manager of these 

 Poor Children's Picnics, has been akin to the marvellous. 

 Sixty five thousand children! Can the reader even imagine 

 what an army of little ones— what a host of children— -thcs< 

 figures represent? To feed them alone is a troublesome task, 

 but to care lor their safety, is the all important thing. It is 

 safe to say, I hat if an equal number of adults had to be 

 1 i cal'ed for, more OT less accident- tO life 

 and limb would have occurred. It is then, we repeat, 

 akin to miraculous, how Mr. Williams should have so far 

 carried, through litis enterprise, and never hurt or lost a 

 child. This wonderful result, is due entirely to the admir- 

 able administrative qualities of the manager, and his cease- 

 less care and watchfulness. A balance of $693 remains 

 now on baud for next season, and Mr. Williams intends to 

 keep open the subscription in order that next year the 

 In mis in hand may be ample for this most excellent 

 charity. 



SHIPPING GAME OUT OF SEASON. 



.i-:, Ontario, Angus! 89, 1 



•\i month, allow 

 - the necessity of 

 rasa of Immense 



EuLTOtl FOBKB'J LSD - I ::!.AM:- 



lu view of thu Convention to be held at > 

 mo, through your c i 

 som ■ . islution in prevenl the Jhlpmi i ■ 

 i in: ubei.- if <ti-uii-eaiid quail during ihccl< 

 barrels of prairie chickens and qlnfllii o]>e 

 city of Toronto-fit I itcasUie Isl of April, ■ 



I "6p.>ri-m,in's" correspondence has our special attention. 

 We trust the Convention will do all in their power to sup- 

 press trapping. It is in regard to selling birds out of sea- 

 son where the Press can be of use. This year we directed 

 particular notice to pinnated grouse exposed for sale in 

 England during our close seasons. We trust our friends in 

 Canada, this coming spring, will give us names and ad- 

 dresses of all venders of game who are disposing of our 

 birds out of season. — Ed.] 



— A note from our Editor-in-Chief dated Toronto, Aug. 

 28th, states that he would leave for Muskoka on the 

 20th. C. S. Rust, Esq., Fulton, N. Y., and W. E. Wil- 

 liams, of the Fulton Times left for Muskoka on the 27th. 

 Four gentlemen who had just returned report plenty of 

 game. He acknowledges the courteous attentions roceived 

 at the Rossin House. 



^IwrUtft] Jfiu/s ft[otn JtbromL 



THE TWELFTH OF AUGUST. 



[VEOM OUK srECIAL ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT .] 



YEARS ago the 1st of September was the red letter day 

 in the sportsman's almanac; but however much the 

 modern generation esteem partridge shooting, it neverthe- 

 less holds a very secondary place in comparison with the 

 more fashionable pursuit on the Scottish moors. As regu- 

 larly as the swallows seek warmer climes, so do the tired 

 barristers of Lincoln's Inn, the jaded merchants, the bkm 

 men of pleasure, statesmen and jurists, army men and lit- 

 erttfewrs, Peers and. Commoners, with long accounts 1 at the 

 bank, seek new health and vigor in the fresh air of moor 

 and mountain. Weie the night express from Euston on 

 the eve of the 12th to run off the line, and indulge in one 

 of those smashes of rolling stock and passengers' ribs, 

 which are the result of nobody's carelessness, and often 

 traceable to a:: extra glass of gin and water, I more than 

 expect that lite speeches in the House next session 

 would be most of them maiden ones, and whilst the ex- 

 tirpation of betting and the early closing of public houses 

 remained uuadvocated. many a church would lack its bril- 

 liant sermons, and shovel hats and ecclesiastical gaiters be 

 found amongst, a debris of breech loaders and pointers. 



It is, however, now two years since Lord Walsingham 

 killed ou the Blubberhouse moors 423 brace, or 848 head 

 ol gi .I,-, io his ou n gun or guns, for of course there was 

 always a second one ready cocked and loaded for him when 

 he had killed right and left. This unprecedented season 

 saw enormous bags on other moors. The Marquis of Ri- 

 pon, at Studley Royal, brought home 2,240 head in one 

 day, and ere the sun set at Wemmergill almost as many 

 had fallen, and 700 of them to Mr. Millbanke's aim, whilst 

 finally, 2,626 head were shot at Broinhill, in the West Rid- 

 ing by Mr. Rimington Wilson and his friends. This was 

 rather -an improvement on Colonel Hawker's time, when a 

 typical day's sport realized some forty birds all told, and 

 the cripples picked up. The extraordinary crop of 1873 

 furnished many writers with arguments in favor of grouse 

 driving, then just come into vogue, and it was insisted on 

 by more than cockneys in the Strand that Sancho and Don 

 were the origin of the disease, and that by shooting over 

 dogs the old birds were allowed to escape, whilst the young- 

 ones fell. This gratifying theory was supported by the 

 fact that old cocks and barren hens are the first to fly over 

 the ambushed sportsmen, when packs of grouse are driven, 

 anil as far heavier bags were made, and there was more 

 shooting, the Londoners who cared nothing about a dog's 

 instinct, caught at this method of ensuring plenty of sport, 

 and discarded setters and took to driving. The disastrous 

 consequences of this theory, arc, I think, now becoming 

 apparent, and whilst there are not enough birds left to 

 stock a moor for the next season, wo can't eat our cake and 



have it too, though owing to the fables of the Lessors of t 

 ground — 



•'Hoik: springs eternal In the human breast; 



Man never is, tnit Dlwil) - to tli bid 

 With an ominous and sinaular unanimity the reports, when 

 CHiididam't unbiased, prophesied cksandabad 



breeding season. Grouse disease hai beta general; the 

 hatching sea-nn lifts been .scarcely unfavorable; hut some- 

 how or other the habitats of the dark flushed game are few 

 and far between, and ruefully the wealthy lessees are look- 

 ing at their check books and their "bags." As luxury and 

 effeminate habits laid Rome low. so have breech loaders, 

 driving, and other sybaritic devices for making .-hooting 

 free from fatigue and exercise, ruined sport ill the land of 

 bmwn heath and shaggy wood. The moors have left the 

 lands of the lairds of the highlands, who, bold aud active 

 mountaineers, were born sportsmen and cared not for a 

 pastime as tame as pigeon shooting now fallen to the ten- 

 der mercies of the dandies of Bund Street, whose long 

 purses enable lhem to stand behind a su'eeu in patent 

 leather boots, and whose idea of sport is to see themselves 

 in print, as having killed so many hundred brace of gri iu 

 A shooting box iu 'he north is now a sort of Oap'.tan villa, 

 on a small scale. A friend of mine more gifted with rent- 

 rolls than energy, ivottld go mad with enkui if be hadn't 

 his French duj, a billiard table, a rail I Jfoet at C'handm, 

 Habauas and Parisian novels. You are expected lo play 

 unlimited ioo, SlUOltO big regalias and " pot I lie red and 

 cannon " till at leaSt three o'clock in the morning, and then 

 ouldo the steady old "fellows who have snored peacefully 

 rolled up in their plaid for at least ten hours, whilst you 

 wake up with a headache only dispelled by a bathe, and 

 some hock asd soda water. As a writer says in the Field, 

 you can— if driving is the order of the day — sit down at 

 Jinir stand until your toitti 'ell-, you lo look out, and then 

 you ride from Btaud to stand on a pony and lire away 

 without soiling Dodgall's Athol brogue.-;, or using more 

 exertion than is required in lifting (I gun to the shoulder. 

 'ii • :u .-!• -ome aiin'i.nt of practicu is required to hit birds 

 ui.o fly as fast downwind as an average swallow or an 

 ordinarj kingflshsr, but you oeed know no more about 

 sport than a London rat catcher. My u\\ u idea about driv- 

 ing grouse is this: ll is as tame as shooting at, glass bottles. 

 I would rather shoot over poodles or Persian kittens thau go 

 in for such artificial sport. 

 The best bags read thus :— 



Aboyne — The Marquis of Huntley and two other guns, on 

 the moor of Dannett, sixty-five brace grouse, two snipe, 

 one plover, aud two rabbits. 



RMuia8, Bala, North IF«&«— Mr. Lloyd Price and friends 

 seventy brace of grouse; seventeen and a half brace killed 

 over Beau and Mallard, the field trial pointers, aud ten and 

 a half over Grecian Bend and Light. Mr. Price's old 

 Drake, purchased at Mr. Garth's sale for 150 guineas, know- 

 ing the birds were wild, went low in the heather, always 

 working for the wind, and more birds were killed to him 

 than other dog. 



On the Yorkshire moors two guns killed eight and a half 

 brace on the Caldberth ground, ancl on Penhill thirty-nine 

 brace fell to ten guns. 



The Honorables Thomas and Charles Fitzwilliam killed 

 forty-five brace, the Rev. H. Russell twenly ancPa half 

 brace, and at Edward Byer's a bag of twenty-six and a half 

 brace, and several others of twenty brace, were about tho 

 best made. 



The Earl of Stair, Honorable North Dalrymple, and an- 

 other gun killed seventy-four brace, and the best shooting 

 in Scotland seems to have been in Banffshire, Argyleahire, 

 and Wigtownshire. The Duke of Roxburgh has decided 

 to give his moors a rest iu consequence of the badness of 

 the season, and his example is followed by many of the 

 leading sportsmen. 



Tho Field says the only good bag was that made by Mr. 

 W. Canliffe Brooks, M. P., Admiral Farquharsou, Mr. 

 Thompson, Rt. Hon. W, P. Adam, and Mr. Davidson, 

 which amounted to 152 brace of grouse and twenty-two 

 various. On the Melgensen moors Messrs. Noblo ami Bay- 

 turn made a bag of eighty-seven and a half brace of grouse 

 and over 100 hares, which was better in proportion to Iho 

 guns. 



The American base ball players at Richmond had rather 

 stormy weather to contend against, but nevertheless there 

 was a large assembly of people. The Athletics won a 

 quick game. The ruus scored were-. — 



Athletics 8 2 I 0—11 



Bostons 000000 12—3 



Runs earned— Athletics, 4; Bostons, 8. Home runs— 

 Gedney, 1; Beals, 1. Double play— George W right and 

 Kent. Base ou errors— Athletics, 7 times; Bostons, G 

 times. Time of game, 1 hour 25 minutes. 



At the Crystal Palace the weather was bad, and hence 

 gpectal i d the ground being slippery the game 



was not up to its usual form. At the "Oval" cricket 

 ground the Bostons had it all their own way. It has been 

 asserted in the Times that base ball is an old English game 

 but like pall mall has subsided of late years; but I bete is 

 not much proof of this, and 1 am inclined to doubt it. 



Ihstc«k, Je. 

 ■»»♦" 



—The Irish team will sail on l he ofh of September, and 

 will be composed of the following gentlemen-.— Jame Mil- 

 ner, John Rigby, Edmund Johnson, James Wilson. Dr. 

 Hamilton, Capt. Walter, H. Forstcr, W. Waterhouse, J 

 Doyle, aud J. Kelly. 



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