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FOEEST AND STREAM. 





A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to E'ield and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

 Fish Culture, the Protection of Game, Presrvation of Forests, 

 and the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 

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Calendar of Events for the Current Week. 



Friday, Sept. 26.— Albany Fair, N. N.— Waverley Fair, N. J.— Mil- 

 waukee Fair, Wis.— Pennsylvania Central Fair, Erie, Penn.— Agricultural 

 Association, London, D. of Canada. 



Saturday, Sept. 27.— Ridgefield Rowing Association Regatta.— King- 

 ston Regatta, D. of Canada.— Tennessee Central Fair, Murfreesboro,- 

 Tenn.— Rowing clubs foot of 133d St., Harlem ,New York.— Western Fair, 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Monday, Sept. 29.— Cape Vincent Regatta, D. of Canada.— St. Joseph 

 Industrial Fair, St. Joseph, Mo.— Northern Ohio Fair Association, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio.— North Missouri Fair, Hannibal, Mo.— Southern Illinois Fair, 

 Centralia, 111.— Northern Wisconsin. Oshkosh, Wis. 



Tuesday, Sept. 30.— Deerfoot Park, Parkville, L. I.— Dexter Park Club, 

 Chicago, 111.— Deerfield Valley Fair, Charlemont, Mass.— Central Michigan 

 Fair, Lansing. Mich.— Manchester Fair, N. Hampshire.— Pennsylvania 

 State Fair, Erie, Penn. 



Wednbsday, Oct. 1.— Southern Pueblo Fair, Colorado.— Deerfield 

 Valley, Charlemont, Mass.— Dexter Park Club, Chicago, 111.— Deerfoot 

 Park, Parkville, L. I.— Annual Match Toronto Gun Club. 



Thursday, Oct. 2— .Nassau vs. Analostan Rowing Clubs, Potomac, 

 Washington, D. C— New York Squadron Regatta.— Cincinnati Industrial 

 Fair, Cincinnati, Ohio.— Northern Ohio Fair, Cleveland, Ohio.— Dexter 

 Park club, Chicago, 111. 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



THE Society has an elegant suite of rooms on Broad 

 street, near the Academy of Music, and was opened 

 with great eclat on the evening of the 16th. Delegates from 

 every State in the Union are there, representing every floral 

 and pomological society in America, under whose jurisdic- 

 tion will be placed the land set apart in Fairmount Park 

 for the Centennial Exposition. The Pennsylvania Society 

 rooms have in the centre of the main hall a temple, formed 

 of six magnificent pillars, which, in their turn, are made up 

 of innumerable bouquets, which are presented to the 

 ladies as they leave the society's rooms. In the middle of 

 this temple is a fountain, giving out jets of cologne, and 

 suspended from the interior of the dome are tube roses, 

 camelias, and other flowers, grouped in such a shape as to 

 represent the familiar old Independence bell. The cost of 

 the floral bell exceeded $200, while the expense of the temple 

 and fountain was over $1,000. The display of fruit is 

 superb, and contributed from every quarter of the land, but 

 few States having no representation. The names of the 

 parties growing the handsomest fruit are as follows : Mr. 

 Q. E. Chamberlain, of Virginia; Mr. M. Thomas, of Phila- 

 delphia; Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. ; Mr. 

 Perkins' & Son, Morristown, N. J.; William Thatcher, 



Darby, Pa. ; Mr. Hovey, Boston, Mass. ; Messrs. Smith & 

 Powell, Rochester, N. Y. ; and Hollway & Co., California. 

 There is also a table of apples, pears and plums, brought all 

 the way from Utah. The finest collection of pears by all 

 odds is that offered by Mr. Thomas Grigg, one dish of his 

 holding twelve large pears which, upon the scales, weigh 

 just twelve pounds. The fruit stands are arranged in ave- 

 nues around the room, while the central portion is taken 

 up with plants, flowers, and cut bouquets. 



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THE CLERGYMEN OF ENGLAND. 



WITH questions of orthodoxy, creed, tenet, or dogma, 

 with discussions ritualistic or rational, of High or 

 Low Church, sectarian or dissenting, the Forest and 

 Stream has nothing to do. With due respect to all such 

 topics, inclined to interfere with no man's faith, looking 

 up from Nature to Nature's God, we reverence His sacred 

 name, and think that each leaf which rustles in the forest, 

 or .wave which ripples in the stream, unites in the one great 

 pa?an of His praise. His ministers, the clergy, have our 

 unqualified esteem. As a class they are hard working, gen- 

 erally poorly paid men, who, indifferent as to worldly 

 goods, strive alone for the welfare of their flocks. 



Their spiritual condition is beyond our province. Their 

 physical state, however, we deem as legitimate to discussion 

 in our columns. Taken as a class, our clergymen are not 

 as strong nor as lusty as men following any other of the 

 liberal professions. The life of the student, the immuring 

 in the library,. the compilation of the sermon, the attendance 

 in the heated church, the calls made by the clergyman to 

 administer consolation to the afflicted, even trying though 

 they may be, are not sufficient to account for this excep- 

 tional low physical condition. This waste of strength 

 arises, we are prepared to affirm, from the want of proper 

 exercise, and certain sedentary habits which are considered 

 by clergymen as obligatory to their profession. There is 

 no question but that this state of things is forced on them. 

 Disinclined as pious men may be to anything like asceti- 

 cism, they nevertheless are influenced by the opinions 

 of an austere laity. It is, therefore, to the congregations 

 rather than to the clergymen that we address our remarks. 



There is still in our midst a remnant of that over severe 

 creed which believes that gladness and cheerfulness are at 

 variance with religion and true piety. Without going to 

 the extreme of Trappists, there are many congregations 

 believing that the least inclination on the part of a religious 

 incumbent to athletic sports, be they of the simplest kind, 

 is ungodly. To them a game of base ball or cricket played 

 by their minister, would be deemed as a profanation, and 

 as to the simple sport of battle-door and ^kuttle cock, they 

 would esteem it as. an expression of triviality of character 

 inconsistent with the sacred character of a clergyman. 



Do people think that God's chosen disciples are made of 

 different flesh, blood, muscle or fibre from other men' Are 

 they aware that the same laws of nature govern the bishop, 

 the sexton and the grave-digger? 



This frowning down of rational amusements is in itself 

 an inconsistency. They require of their clergyman ser. 

 mons. They drag from his brain his deepest thoughts; 

 they drain his intellectual faculties to the very last drop, 

 and then refuse him the only, method which nature allows 

 him by which he can recuperate his forces, and that is by 

 bringing up the body to the same condition as the brain. 

 They insist on burning the flame, basking in its light, 

 warming themselves in the fervor of its heat, but forget 

 that the elements must be furnished by which only this fire 

 can be sustained. Good sermons are certainly the united 

 products of both mental and muscular fibre. Of course 

 our remarks are not intended for older clergymen, but we 

 send forth this plea of mercy for those young in their sacred 

 calling. Take the minister fresh from his theological 

 school, with the merry shouts of the college campus still 

 ringing in his ear, with the vivid recollections of the boat 

 or the foot race still electrifying every muscle, and drop 

 him into one of those cold, unsympathising congregations 

 of doubtless good people, and mark the effect. The whole 

 being of the man is changed, all those pleasant pastimes, 

 healthful, innocent ones, must be abandoned. The physique 

 in time works on the morale. Not only does the man suf- 

 fer, but the glorious fire within him, the better, ever living 

 portion of him, smokes for awhile, at last smolders, and is 

 then extinguished. If we are educating young men for 

 theologians, giving them health and vigor by means of boat 

 clubs and athletic pastimes generally, let us not forget the 

 world in which they are to live. 



These remarks, pertinent or not, have been suggested by 

 looking over an English Cricketer's Companion. Here we 

 see among the Gentlemen of England, those whose prowess 

 makes them the best known of the hundreds of thousands 

 who play this noble game of cricket, such names as the 

 Reverend E. T. Drake, Westminster. His credentials are 

 (we copy literally,)' as follows: " A destructive slow bowler. 

 Fast run getter, and fine fielder." Then again we notice 

 the Reverend C. D. Marsham Bucks, "once famed as 

 the best gentleman bowler, and still a good player.'' 

 There are fully a dozen clergymen cited as cricketers, with 

 all their various points of particular excellence distinctly 

 mentioned. Does any one dare, with a Philistine spirit, to 

 declare that the learning, piety or broad christian humanity 

 of these gentlemen is impaired? Does it take a little from 

 their reputation because their names are heralded as lovers 

 of a manly sport. Suppose for a moment such a publica- 

 tion was made in the United States in regard to a clergyman 

 who was a good cricketer. • There would be a cry of horror 

 raised throughout the length and breadth of the land, and 



all lea con vena nee, secular, temporal and clerical, would be 

 horrified. 



Some time ago, a huge steamer full of men, women and 

 children, struck, one dark night, on the rocks near Halifax, 

 and hundreds of human beings Struggled in the water for 

 their lives. Who. was it but a clergyman who launched his 

 trail skiff into the surges and came to the rescue? Would 

 rigid church disciplinarians have found fault with him 

 then? It was not brute strength alone which kept the cler- 

 gyman's boat afloat, there was skill in it too, those whip- 

 cord muscles of his which drove the craft through Hie 

 whirls of foam had had long prior training; above all, 

 there was a brave heart which sent him on his perilous way. 

 No man could have performed a feat of this character un- 

 less with a body inured to muscular strain, and certainly 

 this good clergyman must have rowed many a mile in his 

 life for sport. 



All men, whether they be of God's annointecl, or miserable 

 sinners, must sometimes be placed under just such emer- 

 gencies, when not only their own lives but those of others 

 may depend solely on their physical powers. But putting- 

 aside this view of the advantages derived from wholesome 

 exercise, it seems to us as if smacking something of ahso- 

 late cruelty to debar so many of our fellow r beings because 

 they are clergymen, through inconsiderate clamor, from 

 enjoying the many advantages to be derived from rational 

 amusements. 



We sincerely trust the example given by English clergy- 

 men, who do not lose any of that proper respect which 

 should always be attached to their calling, will find fol- 

 lowers among our own ministers. 



EFFECTS CAUSED BY PLANTING TREES. 



IN a late number of the Gourrier ifO-ran, we find the fol- 

 lowing : "Though the period of the conquest of Alge- 

 ria is of comparatively recent date (1829-30), every thing- 

 seems to prove that, since trees have been planted, water* 

 sources have almost doubled, and in some cases quintupled 

 in certain localities. The effects of a climatic change seem 

 even probable. There is more moisture in the air, and ev- 

 ery year the rain fall is more abundant. ' ' 



What more convincing proof can we have than this ex- 

 ample ? In less than thirty years — for the subjugation of 

 Algeria by the French was hardly completed before 1845 — 

 a country known to have been arid, and wanting in water 

 is to-day, by the planting of trees, blessed with copious 

 rains, flowing streams, and consequent fruitfulness of soil. 



We are seeking to-day to double the capacity of our 

 canals, and Senate Committees on Transportation are delib- 

 erating how best they shall utilize the waters of Lake 

 Champlain and the Hudson, and such serious questions of 

 supply of water naturally present themselves. 



If we are to depend on unlimited sources of w T ater, we 

 must look at the prime causes of the supply. Legislators 

 would do well to consider all these subjects, theoretically 

 and practically, and the preservation of the forest in the up- 

 per portions of the State ought not to escape their notice. 

 There should be no near-sighted policy about it. Works of 

 the character proposed, a broad water channel, which shall 

 bring to us the great grain crops of the West, are to be con- 

 structed, not only to suffice for the wants of the present 

 citizens of the United States, but for generations yet to 

 come. We assert that in the grand study of political econ- 

 omy, with particular reference to our country, there is no 

 question so vital to its general interests as the preservation 

 of our forests. 



DUCKING ON 'CHANGE. 



THE equinoctial storm of Friday, September 19th, was 

 most disastrous on 'Change, flooding the ordinary chan 

 nel-ways, until it overflowed the banks, washed out the 

 stools of speculative sportsmen, swept off their decoys and 

 blinds, and submerged the favorite haunts of the game 

 itself, so'that they were unable to cover. Indeed the flood 

 came so suddenly and raged so fearfully, that when it had 

 partially subsided, it left many lame ducks along the mar- 

 gins of the numerous pools and high and dry among the 

 rushes on the banks. Many old sportsmen who were wont 

 to place implicit reliance upon the "points" of their favorite 

 retrievers, found them now without a scent and utterly 

 powerless to recover the fortunes^that were carried down 

 stream. Empty were the bags that day, and few the 

 ' 'flyers" that the most successful sportsmen were able to 

 wing or bring to hand. The encouraging sounds of "puts' ' 

 and "calls," as the well trained retrivers were alternately 

 sent to cover and re-summoned, were seldom heard, and 

 the only words that fell upon the ear were the grating syl- 

 lables ' k Bown — Charger In fact, the sportsman had no option 

 in the matter. He could only stand quiet, and tearfully 

 watch the precious things that took to themselves wings 

 and flew aw r ay or passively sunk. in the seething current. 



The mortality among the ducks, jays, geese, and snipe, 

 is almost unaccountable, but is supposed to have been partly 

 due to the fact that the flood left but few deposits upon the 

 banks, and that consequently they became weakened from 

 lack of feed and natural sustenance. Moreover, what has 

 been regarded the safest and best security proved but a 

 sorry refuge, leaving them to the pitiless chances of the 

 market and the slaughterers of stock. It is useless, however, 

 to venture an explanation or enter into details. The ' 'long" 

 and "short" of it is, that the disaster w-as overwhelming, 

 and its effects likely to be felt for a considerable time to 

 come. 



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