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first refused to bite, but yielded at last to the seduction 

 of grasshoppers. I caught many croppie, all very large 

 and line, weit^liinn- nbout two pounds. In another hike 

 nearby I Couii'i iiio common suniish, or sun perch, in 

 \rondCTfiil abun.l.iiiff. I caught several that would 

 wingh over a pound, the largest was li pounds. By nat- 

 ural fly-fiahing any number can be taken. They rise 

 readily to the artificial fly. but always contrive to nip 

 so gingerly as not to get harmed, whereas they swaUow 

 (lie natural fly. This'manner of bitmg appeal's to be 

 common to the whole perch family, and even bass must 

 be allowed to swallow the bait before being struck. 



MAXtSTl'CCEK, — IndianupoUs. Ind. — TliiiS Like is in 

 I lie southwest portion of Jiarshall County. Ind., 

 1 n-elve miles from Plymouth and nine miles from Argua. 

 H win be easily reached from eitber srarimi by hark lines 

 rimning baokward ana forw.ard. M;ixinrii.l;c(. is ri.iiM'il 

 from an Indian chief who \v:is ilvLiwiieil Imii; br-Cu-c 

 either you or I can remember, bul Hie uld si'ttlcrs 

 •■u-ound Ihfi-c b;ive often rckiLe.l to iiie Ou:- cironinrii.-incn,^ 

 as told In- Uioir -''andC'itbers. Tlie eiiirl's nanic \r.-is 

 Maxintuckce, and he liv.?(l with iiis .-iijuaws on tlie hanifs 

 of the lake. He met a br-autifiil princess, who came i\ irli 

 her father to fish in thp lake, as was his wonted lu:^ 

 torn every summer : and be wuoed and won not, whicli 

 t.iirew him into a fit of despondency, and now^ his re- 

 mains lie at the bottom of the lake, -where the llsh swim 

 into his boUowbody and the turtle crawls around in his 

 skull ; but little do we, the merrj', jolly lot of boys and 

 .i;-irlR, think of this poor Indian whose name we hear 

 mentioned every day. Tlie lake is surrounrled by hills 

 covered with woods, which o(T-jr some beautifid spots 

 for club-houses. The bottom is clear to a wonderful 

 depth, aiid everxwhere around the lake is a smooth, 

 -iandy slope from the shores to the center. Not a place 



§mtje §ag mid §ntt. 



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— Address all eommunications to " Forest and StreaA 

 Publishing Company, New York," 



GAME IN SEASON IN AUGUST.' 



. -ii'''' •'"" •icana. 



•',. i; <::■:■:■ f liOlHIjIlU. 



- V I i 1 . 1 1 i . I ', rc)« (VHUKieiiXte. 

 r ^■n-^'inia deer, C. vlraiiil- 



relf^-vfil, blac-k tind jrray. 



iir rUj'j l)ir-!i; I'niti-hmvir 



Woodcock, PhUohela minor. 

 Black-belliea plover, ox-eye, 



Binwhiroln hetwMffi. 

 Long-billed curlew, Sfumeninn 



TurnstoDO, or calfci) back, Sire))- 



around the whole 

 which makes it a 

 oties of fish oai 



etc., but tliose w 

 Kshing is rather 

 the last year or i 

 sport, and the 



lukr 



v\ 



there b.' bmud a •• step-olf," 

 luiisiiallv line l)alliins nl;i<--.^ Tlie vari- 

 it: (here are bass, perch, goggle-eves. 

 SO there do n<i(, lish nuicb, for'the 

 ir, it having been fished so much in 

 ). In the duck season there is good 

 ily marsh banks "f Lust Lake, the 

 lutlet of Maxintuckee, offer splendid pi-o!erii,>n Cor the 

 buider. There are eight club houses bere, ami i( is lust 

 growing to be a summer resort instead of the wild, dcso- 

 liite spot «diere the sportive bass and the nimble squir- 

 rel made their home a few years ago, and we fellows. 

 who wish for solitude, where, we can hsh, hunt and camp 

 out undisturbed, must look elsewhere hereafter. 



Frttx. 



A Bto Trout.— Cieuetortrf, Ohio, Atig., 38<7i.— Unclose 

 the following clipping from the Leadin- : "In yom- issue of 

 yesterday, you spoke of two trout just received from the 

 8aidt, measuring seventeen and eighteen and a half in- 



iiK-lies i-espetitively, and saving that your colamus are 

 open tor further s"tateim-Rfs, .Vriliiir" fonsu-ell cau-ht 

 in the Nepigon liiver and seur home la=t week a speckled 

 trout measuriug twenty-two iuches in length, and weigh- 

 ing wi.\: jiouuds two ounces when taken from the water. 

 Afiidavits of reliable parties as to weight and measm-o- 

 ment can be had if necessary. B. .S. C.'-' 



i, I was a.meniber of the uartv to wliie-h ( 'ogswel! be- 

 longed, and weigbeiJ the trout mentioned, e. lien tnkeh fi-oin 

 the water, em a pnir of seales tested both before and after 

 our trip. I am willing to lake my affidavit that it was 

 a genuine- l:a-iHik trout, ami weighed six pounds and two 

 ounces. AVe caujjbt as uear as can be esfimatetl, two 

 hundred trout (hat would weigh from three and a lialf to 

 five and a half pounds, bosicles any quantity of smaller 

 ones. This, however, was the largest. L. H. Co-svles. 



STJiU'Ri) Ha.ss Fismtno is Good.— The lisliing for 

 striped bass has been good at many points atonic fbe 

 Atlantic coast this season. Last -week Jlr. .J . AV. Little, 

 of New A'ork, eaiight hfteen in three davs at Narmgan- 

 .sett pier, the smallest of wliich weighed eight pouud.s, 

 and the largest one forty-two pounds. The latter was ex- 

 hibited at Sutherland's restaurant on faberl\' street, and 



afterwaril 



Pennsylvania papers 

 under another name, 

 plenty in the 1 )el;uvaro 

 get them of half a peai 

 bers. In foi-iner years 

 rith a bait of sturgec 



sturgeon have both gone. 



I) at that famons hostelry, 

 ii-lii-onicle rookfish (the .saiiie animal 

 and therefore just as sweet) as 

 . Even as high a.s Harrisburg thej- 

 id weight in considerable num- 

 w e nsod to take them at A1banj% 

 spawn, but alas, the bass and 



'^ New Ftsh.— Another new fish has been found by the 



U. S. Fish Commision. In a recent note from Prof. 

 Ooode he says ; ■' We have found a remarkal.le new hsh 

 of a new tJeiuis and prolialily of a newfauuly. related to 

 the family Alfleopoilidir, hit liertei only known from Ja- 

 pan, It is about tliree feet lung and Inoks like a young 

 sea serpent. It eimie from the sLeimacli of a grotind shark, 

 taken by the schooner The Gatherer, on the Grand 

 Banks. W'e liave christened it B.elorus voraginorum. 

 The description -will appear in the next signatiu-o of the 

 ]n-oeeedings uf the National Muiteiun. 



Tn!^;"l!nE (!u.l" Tuu'. — Fort Wayne, Ind.,Ai<,y.2'ith 

 — Tint foiu- of the club went. They kept no diary, but re- 

 ported bass and pickerel fishing immense. One member 

 lost in Pickerel Lake a line s]ilit bamboo rod and appur- 

 tenances. They further reported the lake very high, 

 and the gi-aylin;,;- streams loo liigh to fish while they 

 were there. They had a grand time. W. D. M. 

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S.\LMON OAMNiNtj. — Sliiximents of canned salmon from 

 the Columbia River, Oregon, this season have been mod- 

 erately active thus far. The bulk of it, 330,000 cases, 

 has been distributed to the markets of the -n'orld from 

 San Francisco. 



PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 



SctKNTiFac Success.— An Americ.111 eollegeot physicians onoe 

 olTcrefl a reward tor any authenticated iriseet Kenuiue Diabcte.5 

 which had beon untu-cly cured. The iiiei i,_ni;iiied openfurscv- 

 unilyearsand was then iviii nu-ce now, it 



could Instantly be seunred - e, i„.nejr's Safe 



Diabetes Cure, for several 1. ■ e just come 



to the notice of the Avriter. 1,1 iitul disease, 



and seldom nialiesitselt lelt exieiu li.v i(s results. Any rcaUers 

 who are suttcrlnjr from ill lieiillh. and do not know the cause, 

 should not delay, as it may be ai iho cost of life, wliich Wurnur's 

 Safe Diabetes Cure is guiu-untted to save. 



Itulled -i-eiise or pheasant, ZJo- I lin, y,iM ' 



/nse u„:h,inL<. |-Wlllet, r.ie... . . ■ .i,';ee 



i.iniiil en- pnru-idg-e. Or(|/.i'Birtfta- I Tiltller, :/' n e.--. 



lanux. VellOW-Sll.ni,.,-, ! : ,,,,;, ;,,r,>,v 



.s.irii, mil, r^t innacamXina. I 

 ■ rie en luiei-atlon is general, and ts in tiontliot wllJi mflny of 



liie Slut-, laws, 



Tiiy tiiid'i" g-ciiei-ally, indudiDg- various species oX plover, 

 sandpiper, snipe, curlew-, o.ystei^catelier, aurt bird, phalaropca, 

 avocets, elc., coming under (lie group Limaenla., or shore birds. 

 Many Snite.s permit prairie fowl (pinnated grouse) shooting after 

 Aug. l.=ith. 



Effective Game Protection.— Maine is on the right 

 track. The game laws there ai'e respected ; or, if they 

 are not re.spected, the game commissioners are quick to 

 pin-iish offenders. The Porlland Press of the 30th inst. 

 has this very encouraging repoit o£ the present condition 

 of a Hairs;— 



"Within the present year the powers and duties of the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries for Maine have been extenderl 

 (as also of wardens) so a.s to ajiply to the enforceimmt of 

 the game laws. Already thero have been many otfeiider 

 apjirpbended and lined foi' killing deer and birds during 

 close time, and one of the more rscent cases was a viola- 

 tion of the lav,- on yycodcoek. that cost the offender $40 

 and costs — a total of ^50 — shooting woodcock before Sept. 

 1st. In all these cases one lialf tlie fine is paid to the 

 prosecutor. In the instance referred to, the prosecution 

 was made by one of the commi=sioiLers. and he received 

 the amountto which he was entitled la law as prosecutor 

 (§20), but gave it to the County Treasiii-ei- for the benefit 

 of the rioor of the county in whieli the olfense was comit- 

 ted. 



"The commissioners prosecute every case of violation of 

 the fish and game laws of which they have knowledge 

 whenevertbe necessaryevidence can be procured. If the 

 Lep;islatijre of eae-li succeeding year grants tlie necessary 

 approiiriation for tlie support of this^department the fish 

 and game laws of the State will each year be as well en- 

 forced as either laws. 



" Printeil abstracts of the general law of the State rela- 

 tive to fish and game have been distributed, so that tltere 

 need be no I lansgressions thi-ougb ignorance if no change 

 is made in the existing well knnwn and excellent laws. 



'-Tiie next annual report of the Commissioners of Fish- 

 eries and Came will probably aliord some profitable reatl- 

 iug, especially for those who have been in the habit of ig- 

 noring the laws of this State." 



The foUowmg comes to us from a Portland corres- 

 pondent : — 

 Scene— Tliode Davis' Gun Store, Portland, Maine. 



Time. 1 I-. M., ,\iig. 3^tb.— Enter Dr. . Clerk— ''Doo- 



teir I who had lieen ;ifter game with an old carbine), 

 Eveiett Siuuli will be after you." Before a reply coidd be 

 nuule the Lioetor was called'aBide by a gentleman and en- 

 tered into conversation -with hini. A minute or sn 

 elapsed, when to the surprise of the clerk . Mr. Smith, ra> 

 ceimiianied with his superb setters, as usual, dropped in 

 after some sliot. While the clerk was filhng his order, 

 the liocl or turning fr.jni his rriend -ivho went out, .'id- 

 riressed the clerk in answer to his sally, and averred what 

 he would do i-egardl.'ss ef Everitt Smith. 



Ecfvalt Sm.iJh — -Sir, my name is Everett Smith, and 

 as yoii .seem to be addressing your remarks to others, I 

 inquire why you do not address me ?" The Doctor's face 

 flushed not a little, the clerk's countenanee ditto, and an 

 iutroductifrti and explanation lollo^ved. The Doctor 

 was glad for one reason that it hajipened, because he 

 now knows wlio thetiaiue .-ind i-ish <_'omiiussioner was, 

 and also that he lielievel Mr. Smith when he said that 

 vvhoever broke the la as, be he whoe\-er he may, persecu- 

 tion would follow if proof could be obtained. 



Spectator.' 



Bail Shooting.— iVew York, Siipteinber 3d.— On last 

 Tuesday evening I -went to Hackensackto catch the first 

 day of railbird shooting. I had some trouble in getting 

 a pusher, as they were almost all engaged. In the morn- 

 ing at ,i:30the tide began to rise in the meadi.ws, and we 

 started. There were altogether abiad twenty-live boats 

 out or starting at that time. The meadows,' «hieh are 

 not more than a mile long and a quarter wide, were full 

 of birds. I having 'a muzzle-loader, and missing the first 

 nine birds, only got or shot twenty-one, four of which 

 we could not fuid on accoimt of the reeds being so thick. 

 Other shooters with breech-loaders did not get less tlian 

 thirty- five. It -was very hard work for the juishers, the 

 tide being so low and the reeds very strong and close. 

 The sun also was very hot, it being altogether a verv 

 warm day. Under your heading of "Game Bag and 

 Gun" I don't see any mention of rail. Are they known 

 by any otlier name than that? As this is the first time 

 I ever shot them I don''t. of course, know much about 

 them. If you have another name will you be so kind as 

 to let me know through your paper ■:■ If any of your 

 reailers who cannot spare more than a day from their 

 business want to go, they can take the 8:13 p.m. train on 

 the Slidland railroad from Jersey City. Wheiuthey get 

 tollaokeusaek tliev can inquire for the Franklin House, 

 where they can -ei^ a imslier and sra v over night. If they 

 wish a good pusher tliey eaii inquire for Mr. Leonard 

 Terhune, who will give them a good day's sport, as he 

 knows every inlet and outlet in the meadows, upon 

 which he has shot ever since he was a boy. Can you 

 tell me where there ia a good place for quail shooting 



near here ? I am a great lover of the sport, but I have 

 not the tneans to go far, nor can I stay from my business 

 more than two days at a time. Hoping I have'not taken 

 up too much of your time, I remain, G. E. J. 



There is no quail sViooting in this vicinity at this season 

 of the year. 



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A Practical Gajib Cohstable.— iVbrtt 7'arrt/town, 

 Sept. Wi.— Editor Forest and Stream .•— In my opinion, 

 the first step toward enforcing the game la-svs is to let 

 people know the law. I would, therefeire. suggest that 

 each game proteeliye association have a number of copies 

 of the game laws printed in (loster and handbill form, 

 which can be done at a smidl eo.t, ,uid distribute the 

 same among farmers and whereyer they will do some 

 good. It would also be well for I lie Kanie protective as- 

 sociations throughout the State tei see tliat good men are 

 nominated and elected as game constables at the town 

 elections in the spruig of each year, for often there are 

 men selected only to fill up the election ticket (and I 

 knoi\ some that could not tell a partridge from a turkey, 

 or a, trout from a sucker). On the solicitation of some 

 of my sportsmen friends I neeeiited the nomination and 

 was elected to the ofiice ed' paiue constaljle at the elec- 

 tion of last sprhig. After I was suborn into ofli-ie I made 

 up my inifd to enforce the game laws if it was a jiossihle 

 thmg to do. and the first thing I did was to have the 

 laws published in the local newspapers (a thing IhatT 

 have done from time to time for a number of years), and 

 tJien I had, at my own expense, 350 copies of the law 

 printed in circular form, .and distributed the same among 

 the farmers and wherever I thought they would do some 

 good. It is -istonishing to see how much interest a good 

 many people tafre in tlie game laws since they know- 

 that there is some one looking after them. .Some of the 

 sportsmen hereabouts think that the season for woodcock 

 should not open until Sept. 1st, instead of Aug. 1st, and 

 I think thej' are right, tor tliere are a good many part- 

 ridge shot during^-Vugust while men are bunting for 

 woodcock. A Game Cosstable, 



The right man in the right place will always find some 

 means of accomplishing a desired end. The way our 

 correspondent has gone to work to perform his task 

 proves that he is the man for the position. With the 

 game laws in simple, plain shape posted in the village 

 post office, railway station, and in the baggage cars of 

 the trains, no one can plead ignorance of the provisions. 



^_CE ♦ 



SHOOTrNO Notes From Mi.mnesota.— i?airmo«<, dlinn., 

 Sept. Ut. — Editor Forest and Stream :— The recent 

 wholesale poisoning of bird-dogs in Cottonwood County, 

 and the equivocal tone of the local press (notably The 

 Windoiii Reporter) in regard thereto, are still topics of 

 pecidiar interest to non-resident sportsmen in Minnesota. 

 True, the people of AVindom, many of whom chuckled 

 over the discomfiture of "them dandy sportsmen,'' are 

 now changing their tone and explaining things away, as 

 they begin to preoeive that the dastardly act -was also a 

 lamentable blunder, for the owners of val uable dogs liave 

 not been slow to shake the mud of Windom from their 

 boots and seek their sport in less perilous regions. In 

 future the pot-hunters of Windom -ivill have things pretty 

 much their o\\r\ wa>'. but the hotels and business houses 

 of the village, as well as the neighboring farmers, wUl 

 probably nri.ss the ready cash which the average visiting 

 sportsman lavishes so profusely during the hunting 

 season. 



I Note. — It has been maintained with a good deal of 

 plausibility, that more money is annually brought into 

 the State by sportsmen tb.an the average net profit of 

 Uie wheat crop wiU amount to.] 



Prairie chickens are unusually abundan: this ye.ar. 

 Here in Martin County, notwithstanding a three weelcs' 

 fii"il-'d.' eiie e-rnuse Seem as numerous as ever, w-hile ducks 

 ■">''' : -I ready beginning to fly. jAJI things cou- 



si'l I ; lit is the best hunting center your\iorres- 



poeii ■'_!i lei- yet found. Its hotel (the Occidental), is 

 probably the best in the Western country ; new, spacious 

 and well conducted, with good livery, and well posted 

 drivers. Lucas, of St. Louis, is here with his famous 

 Irish brace, Erin and Biddy. The St. Louis Kennel Club 

 is camped a few miles soutli of. town. .Sanborn, the 

 breaker of NeUie, winner of last year's brace stakes at 

 Patoka, is training some magnificent Llewellyns, among 

 them Count Noble, Dashing Lyon and Little Ltidy, names 

 which will probahly be heard of hereafter. Whitford, 

 late kennel master and trainer of the ,St. Louis Club, is 

 also here, havin.g with iiim some t\\-enty deigs. The grouse 

 in this section -.vere rather early and are now fall-grown. 

 Their flight is about equal to liiat of a November quail", 

 demanding fair skiU on a thirty yard rise, and atfordin'' 

 fine sport. ^ Watjsee. " 



An Adirondack Tmv.— Minerva, Essece Connty, N. Y,, 

 .4f(f/asi!.lswn._Leaving New York on the 11 P.M. train Mon- 

 day last brought om- party into Albany about 6 A.M. Tues- 

 day, -ivlien we changed cars for Saratoga and again for 

 North Creek, N. Y., via Adirondack Raflroad, thence by 

 |irivate '• buck board," sixteen miles, into the -«'oods to 

 our iiresent log cabin, ''Aiden Lair Lodge," where we are 

 vei-y comfortably cared tor by the genial Tom Murphy, 

 who does his utmost for the comfort and happiness of his 

 guests. 



The past week has been devoted to fishing, witli the ex- 

 ception of one morning, when the dogs were started on a 

 deer scent, and we were stationed at the d liferent run- 

 to the Boreas River and Long Pond. An old doe 

 and fawn were started by the dogs, but they ran up the . 

 valley instead of down, as intended, so we did not get a 

 shot, but we saw the tracks and unmistakable evidence 

 of nirmerous deer within two miles of our "lodge." 



Next morning, with FredLoveland to guide, we started 

 to fish the Van De Whacken River, and such trout are 

 not often seen as we brought back — one weighing one 

 pound and a quarter, and six or seven more weighing 

 from three-quarters to a poimd each, besides tlie smaU 

 ones from two or tlu-ee ounces up. We brought back 

 fourteen pounds of brook trout, all caught within a dis- 

 tance of two miles fishing on the Van De Whacken 

 River. 



We fished one day on the Hewitt Pond (which is down 

 on Stoddard's map of the Adironilack Wilderness, and a 

 pretty accurate guide it is), where two speckled beauties 

 weighing foiu" and one-half pounds were captured by 



