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FOREST AND STREAM. 



,,,!,. r -mailer. Tlic second pah-weighed about e$£ OOfices 



I ftisb you could have been in our camp that night; you 



would have f mind there, where were four anglers ami 



halt— 1 count, my eight year old boy as only half an angler 

 for he naught only i wo or three of his fish with a fly 

 —and two gmplpyes, ft very good endorsement of your 

 article 1 read with hearty approval this evening about the 

 bottle nuisance. as connected with lisiw" 



I wish you a happy birthday and plenty of th.on to gome. 

 Very truly yours, 



CbOHj OliAT, 

 K'Asmsnms, D. i .. July I-'!. 



THE CONSOLATION OF OLD AGE. 



Many happy returns of the day to you, my boy. 1 remem- 

 ber well the occasion of your birth, and how I thought you, 

 when you were first shown to me, a most promising cherub. 

 You never cried, sofarasle.au recollect, but were always 

 pretty sturdy, manful, and self-respecting— rather a preco- 

 cious child in fact, Since that, time 1 have kept close track 

 of you. and have been more, than once surprised to find what, 

 a wanderer you were. 1 have happened upon you when 1 

 was, as 1 supposed, far beyond the reach of mails, have seen 

 you in the tents of campaigners, in miners' camps among 

 the mountains, on the rough fables in the cabins of loggers 

 to British Columbia, on cattle ranches and wheat, faun,-, in 

 the great Northwest, in our city clubs and on the center 

 tables of private families. In fact, my friend, you appear 

 lo force yourself everywhere, and T have sometimes asked 

 mvself whether it was by impertinent pushing or through 

 your own inherent excellence that you have made for your- 

 self so wide a circle of friends. 1 must confess that all that 

 1 see and hear makes me think if the latter. You take your 

 ground, and when you have, decided on your course, yon 

 stick toil. You seem to do not what will be best for your 

 I ipcfcet . I nit what, you believe to be right. And people appear 

 to think the better of von for it. 



It, will be ten years next October since my first printed 

 effusion appeared in your columns. Then I was compara- 

 tively a young man. " But the ten years which have only 

 served to make vou strong and lusty, and to win for you so 

 many thousands of friends, have weighed more heavily on 

 me. "Frosted temples and deepened crows' feet, and creaking 

 Joints warn me that the time will soon be here when my arm 

 shall no longer be able to support, the heavy rifle, and my 

 legs may refuse to grip, as of old, the frolicsome or vicious 

 steed. Well, 1 cannot complain, I have had my time, have 

 enjoyed it and have told you more or less about il 

 when the time comes for me to .settle down into the "'lean 

 and slippered pantaloon.' 1 no longer able to walk, or ride, or 

 shoot. 1 must do as better men have already done, and look 

 to memory and to you for my diversion. For I expect you 

 to more than last out, my time, being rather of the opinion 

 that it was of your stream that the poet laureate wrote pro- 

 phetically when he said-. 



•'Men may eonie and men may go. 

 But 1 go on forever." 



I can wish nothing better for you than that you should 

 develop us rapidly and steadily in "the future as you have m 

 the post. Yo. 



"THE BOTTLE JOKE." 

 KiUtur Fofvxi {told St/ream: 



1 want to thank vou most heartily for your editorial in 

 the issue of July 12, "The Bottle Joke." 1 frankly confess 

 that Lam one of those "anglers, law-abiding citizens, who 

 would like nothing better than to impale one of those slan- 

 derous jokers on my book, souse him into a cool stream of 

 pure trout-water, and play him there until the whisky should 

 he well washed out of his gigantic brain." 



I have never been able to understand how men could be 

 willing to joke about that which strikes at the root of 

 rational enjoyment, undermines man's physical well being, 

 and de.stroys'his moral nature. 1 have never been able to 

 understand why meu should regard the whisky bottle as a 

 necessary adjunct to their enjoyment, during a shooting en- 

 riching trip, or why, when writing about their exploits on 

 flood and field, they should be willing to give to it so large a 

 place in their narrative. It is much to be regretted that it 

 ever found its place in the pocket of the sportsman, or in 

 his literature. Much that is intended for his enttrlainment 

 is so utterly polluted by the. bottle that the effect upon the 

 young is unqualifiedly bad, Strong drink is no necessary 

 part of a spoilsman's outfit. Those who make it such miss 

 more than half the enjoyment which would come to them 

 from their outing in the woods, or by the lake or stream. 

 Nature has no voice for him whose idea of enjoyment is 

 plenty of whisky. In vain does she spread beneath his feet, 

 her carpet of green, and dot it with loveliest flowers: in vain 

 do the birds and the, brooks sing to him , in vain is the. glori- 

 ous landscape spread before him; in vain is displayed the. 

 grandeur of hill piled upon hill and mountain-top o'ertop- 

 |iing mountain-top ; he has no thought for these things — no 

 senses by which to apprehend and appieciate them, 



I want to say with all the emphasis of which I am capable 

 that Whisky and beer ti i<l onuu r/i luts, are no necessary pari, 

 of any sportsman's outfit. We bave the testimony of officers 

 of both the American and British armies that men will 

 endure hardship and fatigue, better without stimulants than 

 they can with them. 1 know that it does not heighten en- 

 joyment. By it some men arc made noisy, some silly, some 

 stupid and "some quarrelsome. Any considerable' use of 

 strong drink is always followed by unpleasant physical 

 effects. Now I submit that none of these thiugs contribute 

 in any degree to rational enjoyment; they do contribute to 

 physical and moral deterioration. 



You. Mr. Editor, deserve the thanks of all right-minded 

 men for your persistent, warfare, against the bottle fiend. 

 You have' given to your readers a literature which is whole- 

 some, one which we need not fear to put into the hands of 

 our sons. You have done your put to teach our boys and 

 the young men who are to constitute the next generation of 

 sportsmen, that the bottle is rjo bait of the outfit of a gentle- 

 man who goes into the woo.ds for pleasure and teereatiop. 

 that their enjoyment will be heightened if it be left behind 

 ' were holiest, manly words that elicited a response 

 from many a heart, "We beg leave to tell them that i1 is not 

 all of fishing, nor indeed any part of it whatever, to get 

 gloriously drunk. An angling trip is not, nowadays at least, 

 an excuse to swill whisky or beer " This may be a hard 

 lesson to teach, but the number- of those who Jntvu learned 

 it 16 yearly increasing. There is unquestionably a better 



sentiment in the minds of the men of to-day who seek pleas- 

 ure, or health, or both, with rod and gun,, than • prevailed 



i many who did the same thing twenty years ago. 

 This'is owing in part to the fact that the ranks of such men 

 have within recent years been largely augmented by the 

 addition of many of the best men of all vocations and pro- 

 fessions, and in part to your faithful teaching in tne matter, 

 to your suppression of what was impure, to your honest 

 adherence to a line of conduct, which placed before itself a 

 higher object than the gain of dollars and cents. 



All honor to Forest~and Stream for the ground it has 

 taken, for the position it occupies in this matter. If it had 

 done nothing else this were a sufficient reason for its being. 

 The benisous of all good and true meu must fall upon it as 

 it closes the first ten years of its existence, for this great step 

 in the way of right and purity. 



Co on then in your good work; cut and prune unspar- 

 ingly. Suppress whatever is unhealthy or evil in its ten- 

 dency, no matter from what, source it comes. Leave no 

 room for the bottle fiend or any other evil genius. In this 

 •uid in all your good work you will have the best wishes 

 and the hearty co-operation and support of those lovers of 

 rod and gun who are men in the best, sense of that word. 



M. 

 Pennsylvania. July IT. 



< ONOKATILATORY. 



My ih-i,' Forest and Stmife 



The lime approaches when you will reach your tenth 

 birthday. How well I remember the first copy I saw of the 

 Forest ani> StbEAM on a news-stand. It was "Volume I. No. 

 7. With what genuine pleasure 1 devoured its glowing col- 

 umns. 1 immediately sent, for No. 1, and Charles Hal- 

 lock's grand salutatory settled it. It filled the bill. 



This" is a sportsman's, not a sporting man's paper, said 

 I, not all horse; but it treats of the very thiugs a gentle- 

 man— a lover of dogs, of the field and cover, of the woods 

 and streams, "of nature in all its various moods" — wants to 

 hear and talk about. A clean paper that one can safely lay 

 on his home table Or read aloud to his family. 



I sent a communication to Mr. tfallock, which appeared in 

 No. 9. the next week. From that time how i have watched 

 with increased pleasure its success, until all its promises have 

 been more than fulfilled, and the Forest and Stream is the 

 leading sportsmen's, medium of the United States, if notof 

 the world to-day. It has been a grand success from the 

 .start. That, it" will continue in its excellence, from the 

 known talent now connected with its management I have 

 no doubt, That, the end of the next decade may find us 

 all as satisfied and congratulatory over this our first love as 

 mow, is the wish of Jacobstafp, 



Jmsicv City Heiohts, N. J., July IB, 1S83. 



Edit-ir WoresKtnd Stream: 



Nearly ten mile stones on the way of life have been 

 reached' and an additional crop of crow-foot, wrinkles have 

 graced my brow since I perused the first number of the 

 FoRBST AND Stream. Every Saturday, for years. I have 

 visited the post-office to receive my favorite journal: and if 

 ever if. failed to arri ve, I retu rued to my sanctum a disappointed 

 man — like a fish out of water. From the first its columns 

 have been replete with interesting and instructive reading, 

 audi unhesitatingly assert that it is a model sportsman 

 paper] As the, decennial number will soon lie issued, allow 

 me to congratulate you on the merited success of your 

 journal; anil may it "live longund bro.sper." Aij Fresco. 

 vvnaac, Kla... July 7. 



Allow me to shout ; 



Long life to our Forest and Stream. 



Of papers the solidest, nest, 

 With knowledge and nourishment, news. 

 It Wrings recreation and rest. 



Jerome Burnett. 



THE NEWSDEALER'S PREDICTION. 



Ten years ago I saw T Forest and Stream, Vol. I.. No. 1, 

 in a newsdealer's window. I entered, and asked to be 

 shown the paper. "Oil, that's a new paper," said the intel- 

 ligent, newsdealer, -'and you can safely bet it'll never be an 

 old one. There ain't enough men that, go shooting and fish- 

 ing to support it. It'll have to open a cock-fighting column 

 and a prize-Ting department inside of a month, or it'll go 

 under." Well, I bought the copy, and retired to a nook in 

 one of the city parks to read it. From the title to the last 

 ad. not a word did I omit, nor did 1 once lift my eyes till the 

 perusal was completed. Here was a journal after my own 

 heart — a journal treating of good, healthy out-door sport. 

 without tile usual accompaniment of prizefighting, chicken- 

 disputes, and the science of seven tip. It was too bad to 

 think that there weren't enough people who were interested 

 in the former and despised the latter to give this paper sup- 

 port. I knew a goodly number of men in my own town 

 who. I was sure, would be glad to take such a paper if it 

 were brought to their notice, and I determined to call their 

 attention to it. 1 found that il interested them as much as 

 it did me, and the newsdealer was compelled to order 

 another instalment of copies of the first number. When 1 

 got the second number I glanced through its contents, and — 

 there, was no cock-righting, no prize-ring, no seveu-up yet. 

 Nor was there in the third, nor in the fourth, nor in the 

 filth. "Well." said the newsdealer, "the paper has prob- 

 ably got some fool back of it with plenty of capital, but when 

 tha'f is pi-etly near drained dry you'll get, the cock-fighting 

 and the rest'." But the numbers ran on, and still these ob- 

 jectionable features did not show themselves. And, Heaven 

 be praised, they haven't shown themselves yell 



One portion of the newsdealer's prediction has proved 

 t rue. I can "safely bet the paper will never be an old one;" 

 for it is just as young, just as lively, just as interesting as it 

 was in the first year. There is never an article that reads 

 as if it were put in to "fill up;" and there is plain evi- 

 dence that the editorial shears have never to be used for lack 

 of original interesting matter'. 



FORKSi vni) Sthkam. as an instructor, has been of great 

 value to me. The dry (acts of geology, of botany, of 

 zoology, "I ichthyology and entomology, as expounded in 

 educational works, have" acquired a real interest from con 

 sidering them as companions of every hunting or fishing ex- 

 cursion", and my eld text-books on these subjects, long 



to oblivion, as I supposed, are now on the 

 handiest, shelf., readyfor instant reference to verify or obtain 

 further information on the point advanced by some sports- 

 man uafura list who gives his knowledge on the subject to 



,.,i. Stream. Then what a numbei 

 and fishing and boating wrinkles I have learned El 

 tie a fly, to mount s bird, to load to kill, to doctor my dog, 



to mend ray gum boots, to preserve my sails from mildew, 

 to cook my game, to brown my gun barrels, to make and 



care for an aquarium, to mount, press and preserve sea- weed 

 or alga- and all kinds of flowers— these and scores of other 

 accomplishments I owe to Forest ahtj Stream. And 

 others have profited in their purses from knowledge, 

 acquired in reading its pages. I know of one man who, 

 sigh: years ago toike Out~B decent, living built skiffs f.:.r 

 his townsmen after working hows. Happening to see a 

 copy of Forest AHD Stream, he read for the first lime of 

 canoes, sent to that, journal for descriptions, made some that 

 were pronounced good, and to-day he is one of the foremost 

 canoe builders of "this country, with more work than he can 

 do in a large shop with a number of assistants. He learned 

 something of value from Forest wsd Stream. 



That our- journal has a power which is largely felt, can 

 be instanced by such facts as the opening up of 'the fertile 

 and healthful lands of Florida by the Forest AND Stream, 

 Okeechobee and other Florida expeditions; the changes in 

 marine architecture which have resulted from a persistent 

 upholding of a pattern for safety as well as speed; the total 

 extinction of a powder company that was making a pro- 

 duct dangerous to the life of the most careful user. 'etc.. etc. 



Well, old Forest and Stream, here's my hand of con- 

 gratulation at the beginning of your second decade; to the 

 contributors who have made vour pages so interesting lo me, 

 here's my wish that they may enjoy along life to further re- 

 count their deeds by land and water; to your advertisers, 

 whose names have become as familiar to me as those of my 

 own family, here's my desire that they may ever continue 

 lire honest men I have always found them'; and to all that 

 read your pages, here's the hope that, I know will be ful- 

 filled, that tic-, may acquire an increased healthfuluess of 

 body audof mind from following in the w r ay pointed out, to 

 them by Forest akd Stream. Sekeca.. 



LE CARPON 



YY nat a picturesque ruffian he is. Sun and wind, smoke 

 and dirt have rendered his naturally swarthy complexion a 

 still darker hue, until be might easily pass for an Indian. 

 Short in stature but heavily built, bandied-legged and in-toed, 

 swinging his arms from side to side, a habit, contracted from 

 carrying a heavy pack on his back, ragged and unkempt, 

 but clinging to the 'bmmct rouyt and beef moccasins as his 

 distinguishing totem, smelling strongly of smoke always, 

 and never without his small black pipe stuck in the corner 

 of his mouth, a general hang-dog air but, with an amazing 

 volubility and an unrivalled capacity for lying. Transposed 

 to ltalv the carpon would at once become a brigand and 

 prove "himself a terror to all timid travelers. As the back- 

 woods of Canada furnishes nothing worth plucking richer 

 than an occasional fat cure, the carpon, instead of the road, 

 lakes to the bush and raids everything that flies, swims or 

 walks on four feet. He is the pot-hunter pur we!!, 

 the poacher of the great northern preserves. Such, in brief, 

 Is a description of this pirate of the bush. He violates every 

 iaw for the protection of game, and laughs to scorn any inti- 

 mation that he may some day be overtaken by justice. He 

 dwells in a little community of others of his calling at the 

 head of the beautiful Lake St. Charles, some nine inifcs north 

 of Quebec, and in the intervals from his excursions he in- 

 dulges in a grand debauch about the. village until driven to 

 sobriety by a failure of the whisky supply, he pulls himself 

 together and prepares for another raid of destruction. In 

 summer he confines himself to trout fishing, if his method of 

 capturing them may be termed fishing. 



Some little mountain lake is the scene of his infamy. Two 

 or three stakes set out in the lake mark the places he has 

 baited. At one of these his great three-log raft is tied and 

 there lies the lazy beggar on the broard of his back under 

 the mid-day. sun, andradiating from within reach of his bands, 

 like the spokes of a wheel, are bis numerous short fishing- 

 rods. The hooks baited, each with a monster night woim, 

 are wriggling on the bottom of the lake, unless gorged by a 

 trout, the news of which is soon communicated to the carpon 

 as he jigs the rods from time to time. This method of fish- 

 ing is' fearfully destructive to the fish. After a visit or two 

 from a party of carpons the lake wrll he absolutely depleted. 

 When the close season sets in and he can no longer dispose 

 of his fish on the market he salts down several barrels of 

 them for winter consumption. Snaring partridges in the 

 fall, or caribou, while away the months of September and 

 October, after which he hibernates for a, few months to reap- 

 pe.-o- in February and March, lean and hungry and as full of 

 mischief as ever. Fairchild, Jk, 



POINT BLANK. 



Editor Forest ami Stream: 



Has the publication of Forest and Stkeam been pro- 

 ductive of good? Has it been instructive as well as interest 

 iug: 1 answer it has, and this is but the public sentiment. 

 For instance, take one subject, as that of rifle shooting, cm- 

 bracing both theory and practice, and let us see what is in 

 Forest and Stream. Herein "point blank" and "point 

 blank range" have been presented by me in your columns 

 so fully and clearly, that the common ' reader now 

 understands their meaning. The former definition, ow- 

 ing to the many modern changes in firearms, has 

 been stripped of the dead and superfluous matter which 

 former ly surrounded it (incident to the change), so that it 

 now stands out, general in its. meaning and plain to under- 

 stand This is a great point gained, and one of immense 

 value to the young rifle shooter. 



Again. "Straight shooting" or "dead level shooting with 

 level sights" with the rifle, as virtually set, up and claimed 

 by a few, has received through your columns, under my 

 efforts and those of your accomplished correspondent, "P .'" 

 a knock in the head from which it, will not, recover until 

 a law of nature, ceases to exist. This is another 

 point, of great value to be known by the rifle Shooter, His 

 first lesson is to learn that the rifle does not shoot straight 

 even for one yard (or one inch) along the axis, of the bore 

 prolonged. 



Again. The high curves of some of the- breech-loading 

 lines have recently hern called to notice, also the reputed 

 unsteady shooting of this arm »eheu icing itsprcper hunting 

 ammunition, the fixed ammunition with the conical bullet. 

 Also tin;- io-i i .■■ -rutj- of a, flat curve and steady shoot- 

 ing, both combined m the same rifle, in order to have a good 

 hunting rifle, especially for all small same. 



The tine shooting qualities of the muzzle-loader have also 

 been brought to notice. Both arms are npi 

 public, and your generous columns are open tr. both -i 

 this discus; ion, .uojcl a great good may .grow out of it. 

 Point out the evil and then remedy it In the same way 

 your columns are open for all tn convey their light. This 



