FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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die of July to freezing. These conditions 

 are largely governed by the weather. An 

 open winter gives earlier fishing, a hard 

 winter, late. These also govern the ac- 

 tions of Mr. Bruin, although the usual 

 time for his appearance is middle to the 

 last of March. That is the best time to 

 hunt them, as they then readily take bait, 

 being continually on the move hunting for 

 food. Big game hunting can best be 

 combined with fishing in September and 

 succeeding months, as all big game is 

 then in season, but fishing is good any 

 time from the opening of the springs 

 and lakes to their closing in November. 

 My charges are as follows: Head guide, 

 $5 a day; assistant, $3 a day; cook, $3 a 

 day; horses, 75 cents a day; camp outfit, 

 50 cents a day. I furnish tents, cooking 

 utensils, riding and packing saddles and 

 all necessary paraphernalia for camping. I 

 expect parties to furnish their own bedding 

 and all provisions, but can procure same 

 for them at a low price if they vyish. Par- 

 ties wishing to hunt bear should provide 

 bait. 



Thomas Dawson, Browning, Mont. 



AN ADVOCATE OF SLAUGHTER. 



A Western paper, which undertakes to 

 represent the interests of sportsmen, 

 prints a disgusting and revolting story of 

 duck slaughter written by Bryan Haywood, 

 of Denver, from which I quote: 



"The shooting was fast and furious. 

 Sometimes the ducks came singly, some- 

 times in flocks, sometimes in flocks of 

 flocks, until my arms ached with the con- 

 stant handling of the gun. * * * This 

 poor left, blistered hand was being slowly 

 cooked by the red-hot barrels, and the last 

 load in the shell box was fired. Then the 

 heaven in which I had been vanished, and 

 the stern realities of the big load of 96 

 dead ducks, and 4 hours of killing torture 

 of the homeward crawl, dawned on my 

 perception. A glance at my watch showed 

 I had been shooting but an hour. 



"The Major had his trials also, for his 

 blinds were so located that the green wings 

 hurled themselves directly into his face; 

 but he managed to secure 114 of them, 

 while Mrs. Major packed 51. She told 

 our friends afterward, with tears in her 

 eyes and a choking voice, that she shot 

 wretchedly." 



The story and the illustrations occupy 

 5 pages in this alleged sportsmen's journal, 

 and the writer makes many other state- 

 ments that must prove equally sickening 

 to decent men; yet I fail to find a line of 

 condemnation from the editor. 



What do you think of such journalism as 

 that? 



TWO GOOD RESORTS. 



This is the time when human nature de- 

 mands a rest from the toils and anxieties 

 of everyday life. I can not recall any pleas- 

 anter location for a few days' or weeks' 

 recreation than North Hero and Grand 

 Isle. These 2 islands are in Lake Cham- 

 plain. Each is about 15 miles long and va- 

 ries in width from the Indian carrying 

 place, which is only a few feet, to some 

 places which are 3 or 4 miles wide. The 

 land is rolling, with fertile meadows, and 

 fields of grain, in a high state of cultiva- 

 tion. The people in general are of high 

 character; the farmhouses are large, com- 

 modious and neat. Even a stranger is re- 

 ceived with free, open-hearted, warm cor- 

 diality. Two trim little steamers, The 

 Chateaugay, and the Maquam, touch daily 

 at wharves along the way from Plattsburgh 

 and Burlington. Bass and pickerel abound'. 

 Black ducks and mallards afford good 

 shooting in the fall, and on Gull island 

 bushels of gulls' eggs are gathered in sum- 

 mer. Dozens of islands of lesser size dot 

 the lake, and nearly all are owned by par- 

 ties from the cities, who have, in a great 

 many instances, built fine summer resi- 

 dences thereon, bringing their families, 

 friends and servants each year for a vaca- 

 tion. 



M. P. Edy, Clarenceville, Quebec. 



DISCOVERIES BY A. J. STONE. 



Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, in a recent issue of the 

 Museum Journal, says: 



Mr. A. J. Stone's expedition to Northern 

 British Columbia, Alaska, and the Arctic 

 Coast, has yielded scientific results which 

 amply repav the cost of this praiseworthy 

 undertaking. . . . 



On his long and arduous trip Mr. Stone 

 discovered and brought home 8 new species 

 of mammals, including a new caribou, and 

 obtained a large amount of valuable in- 

 formation respecting the habits and dis- 

 tribution of all the larger Arctic mammals. 

 He also made imnortant geograp^'cal dis- 

 coveries, including several new rivers 

 which flow into the Arctic ocean. He ac- 

 curately located other important points, and 

 corrected our latest hydrographic charts of 

 this region in several important particulars, 

 establishing the fact that the so-called Es- 

 kimo lake is, in reality, dry land, traversed 

 by a number of narrow lake-like channels. 

 His successful sled journey, aggregating 

 over 3,000 miles, is without a parallel in the 

 annals of Arctic travel. The results of his 

 trip include, beside a valuable collection of 

 mammals, a rich store of whollv new 

 zoological, geographical and archaeological 

 information. 



