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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Feb. 14, 1884. 



A PIG IN A POKE. 

 F^LSEWHERE appears a letter relating to remarks offered 

 J -' in these columns anent the anxiety of a certain Captain 

 Lundborg to sell out a revolution in naval architecture to 

 the United States, exact price not mentioned. We cannot 

 understand why such a letter should have been addressed to 

 us for publication. It contains nothing at all bearing upon 

 the matter, and is weak in argument and logic. As a cer- 

 tificate of Captain Lundborg's good character it is super- 

 fluous, and as a technical indorsement of the proposed revolu- 

 tion, it is without weight because of its non-professional ori- 

 gin. If merely an attempt to advertise a customer, it calls 

 for no further attention than to justify its appearance in 

 these columns, lest the charge be laid at our door of refusing 

 others access to the public. The communication in no way 

 vitiates what we have said. Accompanying the same is the 

 address of the "inventor" to Congress. This memorial is an 

 unfortunate affair, being composed of loose generalities and 

 stump oratory, appealing desperately to the "patriotism" of 

 Congress to give the revolution a lift, and set it agoing with 

 might and main. A discussion of the merits or demerits of 

 Captain Lundborg's scheme is not pertinent at present. It 

 would lead away from the principal question, nor can we 

 concede to the scheme sufficient importance or prospect of 

 success to call for further consideration. The point we 

 make is a simple ©ne. This is not a paternal government, 

 engaged in helping along needy inventors upon the strength 

 of a circular in which Washington, Jefferson, Madison and 

 other eminent persons are made to figure as canvassers for a 

 dubious revolution existing so far only on paper. There is: 

 ample opening for the use of all the capital of the country 

 and more besides in the development of the Great West at 

 more remunerative rates than can be expected from its invest. 

 ment in floating property in competition with the cheaper 

 earners of older nations. • 



There is, therefore, no reason whatever why Congress 

 should hear the appeal of a vendor of nautical revolutions 

 on "patriotic" grounds any more than similar appeals from 

 the inventors of reapers, sewing machines or quartz crishers,, 

 any one of which has far greater and more immediate and! 

 tangible application to the country's needs, than theoretical 

 improvement in the models- of ships. If the memorial of 

 Captain Lundborg should influence a grant of money direct 

 or through the medium of experiments carried out by the 

 Navy Department, an onslaught upon the Treasury might 

 be expected from the lightning rod man engaged in the 

 laudable and patriotic profession of protecting the valuable 

 lives of American citizens in their homes; and the sewin°- 

 machine agent would not be slow in setting forth his claims 

 in behalf of the oppressed class of poor girls, whose capital 

 in needles and thread would buy up our nautical interests 

 several times over. The memorial of Captain Lundborg to 1 

 Congress is nothing less than the entering wedge of a vicious 

 system seeking the advancement of personal interests at the, 

 risk and expense of the community. The commercial marine 

 of a nation is not to be restored by listening to the clamor of 

 a few subsidy beggers nor by the purchase of a pig in a poke. 

 When Captain Lundborg hints in his address that prosperity 

 awaits our nautical interests in proportion to the action Con- 

 gress takes upon his "invention," his address descends to 

 positive burlesque. As we said before, this appeal to Con- 

 gress is preposterous and should be promptly resented by 

 a large negative vote should the supplication ever reach the 

 dignity of a proposition before that body. 



Let Captain Lundborg and his revolution float or sink in 

 the world according to their worth. If his plans have half 

 the merits claimed, private enterprise is quite equal to the 

 task of testing and launching the innovation and is ready to 

 eagerly grab an invention promising a monopoly to a great 

 extent. ___ 



THE FLICKERINGS BALLOTS. 

 '"pHE numbers are disproportionate. Twenty-one hundred 

 -*- and twelve ballots, and only seven prizes. The prize 

 winners are to the others as 1 to 300. We can, however, 

 hardly suspect of sordid motives every one of those who have 

 thus cordially co-operated to make the Elickerings discus- 

 sion sosuccesslul; nor do we believe that each of the 2,105 

 who receive no prize can be classed among those familiar 

 and disagreeable personages we all know so well, the "dis- 

 appointed exhibitors." There is one consolation— every 

 vote helped to make the result what it was. And if any 

 carper be found who neither voted nor acquiesces in the re- 

 sult, he has no one but himself to thank. 



From numerous expressions, we have reason to think that 

 the voting competition has afforded pieasure to our readers. 

 Indeed, the "scheme" has been so much more cordially re- 

 ceived and acted upon than we had anticipated, that we 

 have almost determined to repeat it another year. If that 

 be done, there will be certain modifications of the plan. 

 These will be stated hereafter; perhaps next week. 



Herewith is presented the final report on the vote. Last 

 week we announced the winning stories. To-day we give 

 the names of the winning voters and their ballots. 



It was explained in our original announcement of the #on- 

 ditions of the competition that the winning ballots would be 

 those which showed the highest aggregate of story credits. 

 This is only another way of saying that those ballots would 

 win which should come nearest to the choice of all the voters. 



The relative merits of the ballots have been determined by 

 an addition of the credit units . belonging to the several 



stories on each list. The highest possible total of credits 

 would be reached by a card containing (without regard to 

 order) the ten stories which received the highest scores of 

 credits; that is, Nos. 36, 53, 31, 45, 93, 37, 42, 10, 33 and 20. 

 (See table of first fifteen in last issue.) This highest possible 

 is found to-be 39,272. The winning ballot, as will be seen 

 below, has all of the winning seven stories, and sums up the 

 remarkably high score of 37,814. 



We give the detailed scores of the first ten ballots. Of 

 these the first seven are the prize winners. 





List. 



Credits. Tota 



First— Mr. J. A. Crisp 



..93 



4,017 



(Address, Jefferson, Ohio. Card mailed 



36 



5,423 



Jan. 19. Mr. Crisp writes: "Here goes 



33 



2,928 



for first prize.") 



31 



4,480 





37 



4,105 





42 



3.301 





45 



4,246 





53 



4,735 





14 



2,067 



Second— Mr. H. \V. Gilbert 



17 

 ..37 



2,412—37,814 

 4,1.5 



(Address, Produce Exchange, New York 



93 



4.017 



city. Card mailed Jan. 5.) 



31 



4,480 





43 



2,601 





20 



2,908 





33 



2.928 





53 



4.735 





36 



5,423 





45 



4,346 



Third— Mr. William J. Smith 



76 

 ..37 



1,927-37,470 

 4,105 



(Address, No. 118 Dartmouth street, Bos- 



48 



1,886 



ton, Mass. Card mailed Jan. 3.) 



17 



2,412 





31 



4,480 





7 



2,821 





42 



3,301 





45 



4,346 





36 



5,423 





53 



4,735 



F«urth— Mr . Josiah T. Middle ton 



20 

 .93 



2,908-36,417 

 4,017 



(Address, 121 East Fiftv -first street, New 



31 



4,480 



York. Card mailed Jan. 10.) 



38 



5,423 





37 



4.105 





38 



2,558 





42 



3,301 





45 



4,340 





44 



404 





43 



2,601 



Fifth— Lieut. W. E. Hof man 



53 

 ..17 



4,735-35,970 

 2-,412 



(Address, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming 



31 



4.480 



Territory. Card mailed Jan 8.) 



36 



5,423 





53 



4,735 





20 



2,908 





38 



2,558 





42 



3.301 





93 



4,017 





76 



1,927 





37 



4,105-35,866 



Sixth— Mr. C. E. Seger 



(Address, No. 16 North Fourth street. 



..94 



2,151 



38 



2,558 



Quincy, HI. Card mailed Jan. 3.) 



93 



4,017 





53 



4.735 





45 



4,346 





43 



2,601 





42 



3,301 





36 



5,423 





31 



4,480 



Seventh— Mr. E. S. Cranston. 



23 

 ..31 



2,157—35,769 



4,480 



(Address, Willimantic, Conn. Card 



92 



1,152 



mailed Jan. 8.) 



53 



4,735 





45 



4,346 





37 



4,105 





36 



5,423 





20 



2.908 





33 



2;928 





10 



3.029 



Eighth— Mr. E. D. McConnell 



38 

 ..20 



2,558-35,664 



2.908 



(Address, P. O. Bos 180, Madison, N.J. 



43 



3,301 



Card mailed Jan. 30.) 



33 



2,928 





45 



4,346 





53 



4,735 





93 



4,017 





23 



2,157 





27 



1,362 





31 



4,480 





36 



5,423—35,657 



Ninth— Mr. M. Britton 



..93 



4,017 



(Address, Wauseon, Ohio. Card mailed 



62 



2,764 



Jan. 25,) 



63 



4,755 





45 



4,346 





36 



5,423 





37 



4,105 





29 



2,485 





31 



4,480 





17 



2,412 



Tenth— Mr. M. P. MeKoon 



25 

 ..36 



844-35,611 

 5,423 



(Address, Franklin. N. Y. Card mailed 



33 



2,928 



l'ec. 27.) 



31 



4,480 





62 



2,764 





91 



2.529 





29 



2,485 





53 



4,735 





37 



4,105 





18 



1,824 





98 



4,017—35,290 



By reference to the list of winning stories in our last num- 

 ber, it will be seen that the writer of the first prize ballot 

 named all of the seven prize stories; the second writer 

 named six; the third, six; the fourth, seven; the fifth; six; 

 the sixth, six, and the seventh, five. 



That each voter may count his or her own ballot, we sub- 

 join a complete list of the credits given to each story of the 

 ninety-six • 



COMPLETE TABLE OP STORY CREDITS. 

 49... 175 



1...1494 

 2... 388 

 3... 1317 

 4... 230 

 5 .. 660 

 6... Si 



17... 2412 

 18... 1824 

 19... 477 

 20... 2908 

 21... 79 

 22... 1533 



34.. 1272 

 35 ..1659 



51... 259 



36 ..5423t 52... 290 

 37... 4105 53 ..4735 



7... 2821* 23... 2157 

 8... 1257 24... 893 



9 ..1401 

 10... 3029 

 11... 244 

 12... 164 

 13... 1626 

 14... 2067 

 15... 1278 

 16.. .1183 



25.. 844 

 26... 350 

 27... 1362 

 28... 88 

 29... 2485 

 30... 121 

 31. ..4480 

 32... 832 



38... 2558 

 39... 291 

 40... 483 

 41... 761 

 42... 3301 

 43... 2601 

 44... 404 

 45... 4316 

 46 .. 893 

 47... 1019 

 48... 1886 



54... 150 

 55 .. 57 

 56... 1581 

 57... 197 

 58... 194 

 59... 667 

 60... 681 

 61... 988 

 62... 2764 

 63... 2350 

 64... 472 



65... 686 

 66... 213 

 67... 232 

 68... 74 

 69... 335 

 70... 173 

 71... 25 

 72... 1433 

 73... 142 

 74... 88 

 75... 558 

 76 ..1927 

 77... 550 

 78... 844 

 79... 437 

 80... 198 



81... 480 

 82... 614 

 S3-.., 317 

 84... 711 

 85... 184 

 86. ..1816 

 87.. 406 

 88... 1089 

 89... 757 

 90... 264 

 91... 2529 

 92... 1152 

 93... 4017 

 94... 2151 

 95... 116 

 96... 195 



*No. 7. By transposition of the 6 credits and the 7 credits in the 

 table last week there was an apparent increase in the score of No. 7. 

 The total is 2,821. 



tNo. 36. By the omission of a 10 credit in our table last week, No. 

 36 was credited in the first line with 1,300, when it shoud have been 

 1,310. The t'otal 5,423 was correct. 



The Writer op No. 36.— By mistake in our address book, 



we assigned the authorship of the story No. 36, to the wrong 



man. Last week we asked the writer to send us his same 



and address. We now repeat the request. The writer of 



story No. 36 will please make himself known, that he may 



receive the prize book now awaiting his order. 



BETWEEN THE LAKES. 



Fourth Paper. 

 HUNTING AND FISHING. 



HE who sits down to write a historv of events eno-aain* 

 his fancy, is apt to find himself lingering in the~by~- 

 ways of his story longer than was his original purpose He 

 is like one meeting for an evening, after years of separation 

 an old and dear friend of his youth. There is so much to 

 talk about, so much to tell and hear, and so short a time for 

 it all. Here am I, charged with the task of recording the 

 history of the summer rambling of the Judge, the Greek Pro- 

 fessor and myself, and there is so much that I could write 

 and so little room for it all that I hardly know where to 

 begin or where to leave off. Why, a rood-sized book would 

 »ot suffice lor it. This is the fourth paper of the series and 

 yet I have scarcely begun the story of the pleasant camp life 

 we led oh the Ahmeek-we-se-pe. 



Ah! how sweet the recollection of these forest and stream 

 experiences are! Here I sit by my fire with my feet on the 

 fender and the wintry winds without moan at the gables and 

 roar in the chimney throats, and the snow whirls around the 

 corners and drifts into heaps, while I, scarcely conscious of 

 it all, dream of soughing winds in pine trees, of blazinc 

 camp-fires, of leafy woods, of wimpling streams, of leaping 

 trout. Howl, ye boreal winds, and pile up, ye drifting snows* 

 I go a-fishing this very night. 



Where am I? Yes, the Judge killed a deer and he came 

 into camp with it on his back, lookine for all the world like 

 the pictures of the hunters familiar in my boyhood days 

 only the Judge did not wear a 'coon skin cap and his gun 

 did look as long as did the old hunters' guns in the pictures 

 This exploit of the Judge occurred some days after our trip 

 to ttie Seven Mile Creek, and as our venison had been out a 

 good while, and trout were not so easily taken as at the first 

 it came when most needed. Our two hunters had been hunt- 

 ing industriously for several days. The Greek Professor 

 had made a salt lick on the plan suggested to him by Con- 

 tain Jim, and while he watched his lick, the Judge took to 

 the small lakes, and finally success rewarded his efforts. His 

 deer was a small one, and for a near-sighted man, the shot 

 was a gcod one. He put the ball through its heart, but we 

 never could quite make out the distance he was from it. The 

 Greek Professor quizzed him as closely as he would a con- 

 ceited boy with a bad lesson, but about all he could learn 

 was, that the Judge had abandoned his boat and was in am- 

 bush on the shore. He was very particular in his descrip- 

 tion of its manner of running after it was shot, and the exact 

 spot where he found the first blood, but as to his distance 

 from it when he fired, not a hint would he give. The Greek 

 Professor pointed out to me a blemish in the color of the 

 hair surrounding the bullet hole and suggested that it 

 might be powder burnt, but we finally decided that the 

 blemish arose from some other cause and gave up further, 

 inquiry. 



boon after establishing our camp, tracks had been dis- 

 covered in the vicinity which occasioned some controversy. 

 1 think it was the Judge who saw them first, and he reported 

 them as being a dog's tracks, but the Greek Professor scouted 

 the idea and said they must be wolf's tracks. Not long 

 afterward the Greek Professor himself saw them, and in 

 turn he reported that they were dog's tracks, and it was 

 now the Judge's turn to scout the idea, and he was not slow 

 in doing it either. "Why, it is preposterous," said the 

 Judge, "to suppose them to be a dog's tracks. We are nine- 

 teen miles from civilization and no dog would ever wander 

 this far. No, they are wolf tracks!" 



Not long after the question was settled by seeing the 

 animal that made the hacks. We were returning 'from 

 Beaver Lake, and as we emerged from the thicket into the 

 belt of Norway pines that crowned the bluff on which was 

 our encampment, the Judge exclaimed, "We have visitors! 

 See that dog!" Sure enough, there was a white and brindle 

 spotted, medium-sized dog, busy picking up such scraps as 

 he could find around the camp. Before we had gone many 

 steps nearer he heard us, and giving us one quick, sur- 

 prised look, he ran swiftly to cover tinder some brush, 

 and we never saw him more, nor were dog tracks seen any 

 more. 



No visitors had come, and it was quite evident that the 

 dog was out on his own account. The number of times we 

 had seen his tracks indicated that what he considered his 

 home was in that neighborhood, and as four dogs were re- 

 ported to be running wild in the Jeromeville region, twenty- 

 one miles straight across the country, we came to the con- 

 clusion that probably our dog belonged to that pack. 



The Indians told us that south of Beaver Lake a couple of 

 miles, trout of large size and in great abundance could be 

 taken, and to verify their statement we made an exploration 

 of that region. Part of the way we traveled tver pictur- 

 esque hills and hollows covered with a magnificent growth 

 of haidwood timber. Then we came to a cedar swamp 

 through which ran a spring brook, in which were a few 

 small and exceedingly dark-colored brook trout. After 

 crossing the swamp a level region bearing mostly pine tim- 

 ber ensued, and then we came to the stream which in a 

 former paper I have ventured to christen the Pau-Puk- 

 Keewis, for reasons there set forth. We did not find the 

 huge trout the Indians said were there, but we did find 

 small ones, and they were quite plentiful. I am inclined to 

 think, however, that we omitted in our explorations the most 

 important part of the stream. Had we followed it do w u to a 

 point nearer the lake we might have found the Indians' big 

 trout. Be that as it may, the Judge and the Greek Profes- 

 sor set out for a visit to the Pau-Puk-Keewis one day, and 

 there occurred an event of such importance as to require a 

 careful narration. While I was not with the two men on 

 that occasion, yet I heard the story from the lips of each 

 of them so often, and told with such a degree of minuteness, 

 that I think I can enter more into the spirit of the affair than 

 if 1 had been an eye-witness to it myself. 



At rather an early hour the two set forth on their journey. 

 Their purpose was to cross Beaver Lake and tie up ttheir 

 boat on the south shore, and cross over to the headwaters of 

 the Pau Puk-Keewis and fish down that stream. For some 

 reason, however, they did not row straight across, but 

 turned up the lake toward the southeast, and when they 

 reached the shallow water they went to fishing. Not meet- 

 ing with any success, they set their prow westward and 

 moved slowly down the south shore. The Judge is quite 

 skillful in the use of the steering pole, having learned that 

 art in river navigation. He was standing in the stern of the 



