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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 

 Dbtoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

 Fi*h Culture, the Protection op Game, Presrvation op Forests, 

 and the Inculcation in Men and Women op a healthy interest 

 w Oot-hdor Recreation and Study : 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, PEC. 18, 1873~ 



To Correspondents. 

 1 



AH communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 

 correspondence, must be. addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 

 lishing Company. Personal letters only, to the Manager. 



All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 

 real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 

 objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 

 £ Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 



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Ladies are especially invited to use our columns, which will be pre- 

 pared withi.areful reference to their perusal and instruction. 



Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 



become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 find our colnmns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 

 patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 

 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 

 •end to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 

 ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 

 terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department o the paper that 

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Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 



CHARLES HALLOCR, 



Managing Editor. 



ENGLAND VS. AMERICA— CHALLENGE 

 TO OWNERS OF POINTERS AND SET- 

 TERS. 



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WE take especial interest in publishing the following 

 letter from Mr. Price, of Bala, North Wales, the 

 owner of the famous pointer "Belle," with the sanction of 

 the Rev. Cumming Macdona. As yet we have had no prac- 

 tical trials or field tests of pointers and setters in the United 

 States. Yet there are many gentlemen sportsmen, who 

 own first class American bred dogs, who would be willing 

 to enter their animals for these tests in the field. Prize 

 dogs are very handsome to look at and expatiate upon, but 

 the only true criterion is public performance on the ground. 

 We must here call the attention again of English sports- 

 men and boating men to this fact, Why have we invariably 

 to cross the Atlantic to enter into trials of speed, endur- 

 ance, and breed? But in this particular instance the liber- 

 ality of the challenge is characteristic of the gentle- 

 men concerned. We would suggest to Mr. Price and Mr. 

 Macdona that they should pay us a visit. We will promise 

 birds such as the pinnated grouse and quail ad libitum. As 

 to the ground, the open prairie would be the most desir- 

 able location : — 



Great Western Hotel, Birmingham, Eng. , ) 

 November 29th, 1873. f 

 Edttor Forest and Stream : — 



We are pleased to hear that our respected cousins on the 

 other side of the Atlantic are beginning to take an interest 

 in field trials on game for pointers and setters, the newest, 

 and by many thought the most interesting of all our British 

 sports, and in order to give these sportsmen in America, 

 who have taken up shooting dogs, an opportunity of seeing 

 the best animals perform that England can produce, Mr. . 

 Macdona and myself will be glad to make a friendly match 

 against any pointers or setters now in America; not Eng- 

 lish dogs, imported for the purpose — these we can run at 

 home — but bona fide American animals. If the owners of 

 the American team consent to run in England, we will 

 gladly pay expenses, and in this case a well known sports- 

 man and master of fox hounds, Sir Watkin William Wynn, 

 of Wynnstay, will lend the requisite ground and game. I 

 should propose that a double match, brace against brace, 

 should first be run off, then two single matches to follow. 

 I would suggest as the English judge the name of Viscount 

 Combermere, a well known arbitrator at field trials, and a 

 renowned sportsman. Also, the 13th and 14th of August 

 next as the date for running off the match, and, if pre- 

 ferred, two brace from eaoh country can take part in it. 

 Your obedient servant, R. L. Price. 



Belle, the champion pointer of England, is a liver and 

 white bitch, pupped June 28th, 1870, by Lord Henry Ben 



tick's Ranger out of his dog Grous'e, and is the champion field 

 trial dog of his day. She was first in the Rhiwlas Stakes 

 for all aa;ed pointers and setters, beating Mr. Macdona's 

 Ranger, Mr. Llewellen's Countess and Flax, Mr. Statter's 

 Rob Roy, &c. Appended are the points she made in the 

 Rhiwlas Stakes: — 



VAiLK OP POINTS WHEN PERFECT. 



Name 



of 

 Dog. 



30 



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20 

 Pace and 

 style of 

 Hunting. 



20 



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15 I 10 

 Pointing, | td 

 (style and 1 g 

 steadiness) FT 



in j <*?• 



5 



Drawing 

 on game 



or 

 Eoading. 



100 



p 



E 



Belle. 



m 



20 



20 



15 



10 



5 97* 



We call the attention of the following gentlemen to the 



above challenge: — Colonel Trigg, of Glasgow, Kentucky, 



Mr. George Taylor, of Virginia; Dr. Myers, of Savannah; 



Mr. Stephen Whitney, of Morristown, New Jersey ; Mr. R. 



Robinson, of Brooklyn; Mr. Eyrich, of Mississippi; Mr. 



Raymond, of New Jersey; Mr. Scott Rodman, of New 



Jersey, and Colonel Knight, of Wisconsin. The portrait 



of "Belle" can be seen at this office. 



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OPEN AI R STIM ULANTS. 



AN earnest and sympathetic friend, whose contributions 

 frequently delight and instruct the readers of Forest 

 and Stream, addresses us privately in these truthful and 

 outspoken words: — 



" I look to manly and womanly sports, and to the culti 

 vation of natural tastes, for the only corrective to the pre- 

 sent dissipated manner in which the self-indulgent of both 

 sexes seek, in lavish and extravagant customs and ways 

 that enervate mind and body, the interest and occupation 

 that fail always, andleavedaysof pleasure-seeking to come 

 up in memory as disappointments only. Horatio Seymour 

 once said to me : ' Nature never disappoints us ; her mys- 

 teries when unravelled are always pleasant, and as one 

 grows old, natural tastes grow more and more congenial, as 

 artificial life is seen to be unsatisfying.' Your paper, as 

 now conducted, is leading in this recoil from the whirl and 

 press of city life, and the first to enjoy it will be the men 

 who are most mentally driven. The shade and rest of the 

 wild wood, the quiet impressions given by all that appeals 

 to eye and ear, are as grateful after care and haste as a 

 snug harbor is in a tempest; and many human wrecks 

 would be saved did more men cool their brains in forest 

 springs, who now cool their 'coppers' with drinks in a line 

 at Delmonico's. I think, as life driven by steam, electri- 

 city, and stimulants, becomes more complex, the reaction 

 to quiet life will gain power ; and fortunate are those men 

 who turn in time to the rest Mother Earth still gives — for- 

 tunate those, when they go to the quiet whence none re- 

 turn, who do not hold on to folly to the end." 



Although these thoughts were written for private ear 

 alone, they explain so charmingly and so concisely the phi. 

 losophy of life, that we fain would print them. And when 

 we speak of life, we do not mean existence — for that is 

 something too hard to bear at times — but that quickening 

 of those higher impulses, passions and intelligencies, inborn 

 in men, which alone makes true enjoyment here and happi- 

 ness hereafter. And what is the fulness of this enjoyment 

 but healthful vigor of body and mind? Such condition 

 neither needs nor craves' artificial stimulants. No super- 

 heated steam is required to run. the physical machine. 

 Out-door exercise supplies all the nerve-power necessary. 

 It kills the morbid craving of debauched stomachs, and 

 changes the desire for alcoholic stimulants to a repugnance 

 which revolts at taste, sight and smell thereof. It eradi- 

 cates disease and throws it off with the natural foul secre- 

 tions of the body. The system, surcharged with health, 

 with all its functions in vigorous play, may well exult over 

 and despise that casual factitious force which "rum" be- 

 gets. There is something noble and grand in the fibrous, 

 sinewy structure of the brawny backwoodsman who swings 

 his axe, or the voyageur who poles his batteau, hour after 

 hour from one week's end to another. Grog won't hurt 

 them. They may take their gill at hourly intervals, but 

 exercise, perspiration and fresh air will counteract its 

 deleterious effects. Perhaps, and doubtless, if they con- 

 tinued its use, evil results would follow; but the fact is, 

 the disposition to drink decreases with each succeeding day 

 of labor; the intervals of desire and indulgence become 

 less frequent until it is lost altogether. Most woodsmen 

 will use liquor if they have it with them ; but if they have 

 it not, they cease to feel its loss after a short, period of 

 abstinence. In the winter-camps of the hardy lumbermen 

 no strong drink is permitted ; yet no one feels or complains 

 of the deprivation. There is a glow of health and hardi- 

 hood pervading all these lusty men to that degree, that when 

 they gaze with full unflinching eye into each other's ruddy 

 faces, they feel the mettle of their manhood and rejoice in 

 mutual and self-respect. This is the triumph and exultation 

 of "minds conscious of rectitude." Vileness and depravity 

 can scarcely exist in the free atmosphere of the wild wood. 

 The associations are all purifying and ennobling. Give us 

 public parks, beautiful flowers and wide-extending lawns, 

 and wickedness will skulk away from the light into its 

 darksome reeking recesses. Give the people exercise. In- 

 struct them all, rich and poor, and give them facilities for 

 the practice of those pastimes which compel out-door ex- 

 ercise. Teach the intemperate to flee to the woods for es- 

 cape from the power that enthrals. Tell them to seek new 

 fields of recreation and change from the pestiferous atmos- 

 phere of debauching indulgence, and when they have 

 thrown off the weight that deadens the intellect, depraves 

 the taste, vitiates the blood, and shrinks the muscles, fully 

 restored, they will rise up and call you blessed. This 

 remedy is more certain and effective than inebriate asylums. 



AGASSIZ. 



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THERE died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday 

 last, the 13th of December, Louis John Rudolph 

 Agassiz, who was born at Motfers, near Neufch&tel, Switz- 

 erland, May 28th, 1807. His life and history, the various 

 strides he made, until he stood the foremost in the world 

 for ichthyological and almost cosmical knowledge, may be 

 thus briefly mentioned: At eleven, Agassiz commenced 

 his studies at the Gymn; sium of Bicnne, and four years 

 afterwards entered the College of Lausanne. In 1824 he 

 went to Zurich, and applied himself to medical instruction 

 for two years. Then he moved to Heidelberg, combining 

 his anatomical physiological pursuits with that of zoology 

 In 1827 he was matriculated in the Munich University 

 Here he studied under such illustrious men as Schil- 

 ling, Dollinger, Martius, Oken, and Fuchs. While a stu- 

 dent, Spix, a distinguished zoologist, who had in charge 

 under Professor Martius, the publication of the ichthyo- 

 logical portion of a work on Brazil, suddenly died, and the 

 work was confided to Agassiz, and almost instantly the 

 young scientist assumed a marked position. Here he 

 abandoned all idea of making a profession of medicine, and 

 from that time devoted himself to the study of icthyology 

 and kindred topics, though graduating with the highest 

 distinction as Doctor of Medicine. He now commenced 

 studying the fish of the Danube and the fossil forms in the 

 fresh water deposits of Europe, continuing without inter- 

 mission during a period of ten years the most laborious 

 researches, frequenting all the European museums in quest 

 of specimens for study and comparison. In Paris he was 

 fortunate in becoming' acquainted with Cuvier and Hum- 

 boldt, the former having expressed his admiration for the 

 accurate and artistic sketches of fish and fossils furnishe 

 by Agassiz. In 1833, Agassiz commenced the publication 

 of his wonderful folio in five volumes on fossil fish. This 

 work was met by the applause of the world, and the title 

 L.L.D. by the Universities of Dublin and Edinburgh, was 

 conferred on him. Numerous monographs followed, and 

 from 1833 to 1840 he published many exhaustive works on 

 the fish and shells of the present and past eras. During 

 the summers of most of these years, amid the Alps, Agassiz 

 studied the glacial phenomena, embodying the results of 

 researches in two works. In 1846, Agassiz, in order to fa- 

 miliarize himself with the natural history and zoology of 

 this country, visited the United States, completing a rapid 

 survey in-about a year, and lectured before the Lowell In- 

 stitute, repeating his lectures in many of the principal 

 cities. In 1847 the Scientific School in Cambridge was 

 committed to his charge, starting with but a few pupils. 

 His health suffering, in 1852 he accepted a position at the 

 Medical College in Charleston, S. C, remaining therefor 

 two years, when he returned to Boston, Sometime in 1850 

 he commenced the preparation of his "Contributions to 

 the Natural History of the United States," this work being 

 published principally by the aid given by citizens of New 

 York. The opening of Agassiz's Natural History School 

 at Penikese, due to the munificence of Mr. Anderson, was 

 an occurrence of but a few months ago*. What brilliant 

 discoveries, what bright promises of future wonders to the 

 world, might not have been expected irom this source? 

 But it was not to be. Perhaps an over-tasked brain helped 

 to carry away this great man, in the midst of his most use- 

 ful years. There are but few men in this world who can 

 take Agassiz's place. He will rank with Owen, with Wag- 

 ner, with Muller, with Liebig, Cuvier, and Humboldt, as 

 having exercised the greatest influences on the progress of 

 modern science, and America may be proud to have in- 

 duced such a man as Agassiz to have dwelt in her midst, 

 so that her people might listen to him as to a great teacher. 

 Unlike the conquests of the material world, which leave no 

 traces a few years hence, what Agassiz has achieved in 

 science must remain forever. Mr. Disraeli's words lately 

 spoken at Glasgow are pertinent on the occasion of this brief 

 notice of Agassiz. The ex-Premier of England said: "How 

 much has happened in these fifty years— a period more re- 

 markable than any, I will venture to say, in the annals of 

 mankind? I am not thinking of the rise and fall of em- 

 pires, the change of dynasties, the establishment of Gov- 

 ernments. I am thinking of those revolutions of science 

 which have had much more effect than any political 

 causes, which have changed the position and prospects of 

 mankind more than all the conquests and all the codes and 

 all the legislators that ever lived." 



THE ENGLISH SALMON HARVEST. 



IT is most gratifying to learn, from no less an authority 

 than the London Times, of the marked improvement in 

 the yield of salmon caught in the English, Scotch, Welsh, 

 and Irish waters. If in an economic sense alone, the in- 

 creased supply of food had added immensely to the welfare 

 of the English people, this augmentation deserves additional 

 notice from the fact that it is to the English fishermen, the 

 gentlemen who fish for pleasure and not for profit, that this 

 development of the fish is due. The London Times dis- 

 tinctly states that it is to the individual exertions of anglers, 

 that the laws in regard to preserving the salmon have not 

 only been originated in England but have been enforced, 

 and from being some few years ago a fishery of no great 

 importance, it promises to-day to be a source of great 

 wealth to the country at large. 



The Scotch yield of salmon was wonderfully productive. 

 The number of boxes, each box containing 112 lbs. of 

 Scotch salmon received in London last year, was 30,181; 

 the year before it was 24,464 boxes. The largest salmon 

 taken north of the Cheviot Hills weighed 64 pounds. 



