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RECREATION 



SOUTH CAKOLINA FISHING. 



Editor Recreation : 



We have excellent sea fishing off George- 

 town; in fact, there is none better along the 

 seacoast of South Carolina. The fish caught 

 are sea bass, blackfish, sailor s choice, king- 

 fish, drum and sheepshead. We use clams 

 and shrimps for bait, and most local fisher- 

 men use a handline, but a sea rod with reel 

 to suit would often afford better sport. 



We have several steam launches that may- 

 be hired from $7 to $10 a day. Very good 

 accommodations may be obtained at the 

 Tourists' Hotel, rates $2.50 to $3 a day. 



In the way of fresh water fish, we have 

 yellow perch, black bass and German carp. 

 W. G. Harvey, Georgetown, S. C. 



MANISTEE MASCALQNGE. 



Editor Recreation : 



We have excellent bass, pike, perch, blue- 

 gills, brook trout, rock bass and mascalonge 

 fishing, and it will continue until November. 



We use as baits, artificial minnows, live 

 minnows, and frogs. On some of our lakes 

 there are boats, but to many of them you 

 must carry your own craft. 



The Dunham Hotel, at Manistee, is a com- 

 fortable hostelry; its rates are $2 to $2.50. 

 The Manistee Grand Rapid Railroad have 

 boats that they run at reasonable rates, de- 

 livering these boats at points where they are 

 to be used. The following are the names of 

 hotels on the line of the M. & G. R. railroad, 

 together with their rates, and the rivers near 

 which they are situated : 



Dunham House, Manistee, already given; 

 Metropolitan Hotel, Manistee, $1.25 (Little 

 Manistee). Marsh Camp Hotel, Tomlins, 

 $1.50 (Sauble River, Lake Manistee). M. 

 Roach Hotel, Milleton, $1.00 (Sauble River. 

 Silver, McCarthy and Black creeks). Kelly 

 House, Canfield, $1.50 (Little Manistee). 

 Matthews House, Luther, $1 (Little Manis- 

 tee, Pine River), John Nelson House, and 

 Edgett's, $1 (Pine River). Section House, 

 River Bank, $1 (Pine River). Dighton 

 House, Dighton, $1 (Highland creek, four 

 miles). 



Charles R. Harris, Manistee, Mich. 



NOT THE ONLY ONE. 



Editor Recreation : 



I want to go somewhere to have two or 

 three weeks' good fishing, if. possible, trout 

 or salmon, but cannot go away before the 

 latter part of July or August, and I know 

 from past experience that this is not as good 

 a time as either earlier or later in the season. 

 I had thought somewhat of trying Moose- 



luemaguntic Lake for the trout and salmon, 

 stopping at Bald Mt. Camp, or the Bellgrade 

 lake for bass. 



Which of these places would you advise, or 

 can you suggest some other place where you 

 think I will have just as good or better fish- 

 ing, not so far away? , I am well fixed for 

 either bait or fly fishing, so far as rods and 

 reels are concerned, but have no flies. Will 

 I need them where you suggest? 



I would like to say a whole lot of nice 

 things about the new Recreation. Wishing 

 you every success. 



Samuel Dunseith, New Jersey. 



W T e are sending you a book describing the 

 fishing at Bellgrade lakes. We think you 

 will make no mistake in going there, even as 

 late as August. There are lake trout in the 

 lakes which are taken trolling, and you can 

 get all the bass you want with bait. 



During this month (June )the bass take 

 the fly, and some heavy catches have been 

 made. 



If you wish to have trout fishing with the 

 fly in August there is excellent fishing in 

 the neighborhood of Square and Eagle lakes, 

 beyond Ashland, and in the neighborhood of 

 Ft. Kent in Aroostook County, although the 

 accommodations there will not be as good as 

 at the Bellgrade. — Editor. 



"The Tyranny of the Dark," by Hamlin 

 Garland, is a novel of the unseen and the un- 

 real. No one can resist the fascination of 

 the mysteries and real problems of this typi- 

 cal American romance. It deals in a vivid 

 fashion with certain undercurrents that con- 

 tinually stir the surface of our actual life, 

 Hamlin Garland has woven together the sun- 

 set coloring of the western mountains, the 

 social life and scientific progress of New York 

 and certain startling phases of spiritualism. 



The idyl of a young professor's love for a 

 beautiful daughter of the Rockies, who is ap- 

 parently a medium of rare psychic power, is 

 in the author's happiest vein. The real charm 

 of the novel lies, however, in the investiga- 

 tions by which the two hard, sceptical scien- 

 tists try vainly to prove the dishonesty of this 

 marvelous "psychic." 



A note upon the cover of the book adds to 

 the weird power of the story by asserting that 

 the unusual events recorded are within the. 

 personal experience of the author. So keen 

 does the interest become in following the 

 lapses of the young girl into her abnormal 

 state that the happy conclusion of her love 

 affair leaves merely a sense of bitter disap- 

 pointment, because the author has not ex- 

 plained the impossible. (Harper & Bros., 

 $1-50.) 



