OREST AND STREAM. 
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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL. THE KENNENL. 
New Methods of Angling. English Kennel Notes.—x11, 
The Creedmoor Meeting. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
Salmon Wishing in Sweden. 
“Podgers’’ Cruises Back Again: 
~ Natorau History. 
Fruit-Eating Birds. 
The Catbird Speaks, 
“Our Birds in their Haunts.”’ 
GAME Bag AND Gun. 
The Opening Day on Woodcock, 
The Ruffed Grouse. 
Goose Shooting on the Platte, 
Bullet versus Buckshot. 
Sandhill Venison. 
Maine Game. 
Rail Birds. 
Bear Hunting in the Backwoods. 
The Prairie Chickens. 
Sa anD River FIsHina. 
An Invalid’s Resort, 
Tim and Seven Ponds. 
A Morning on Salt Water. 
FISHCULTURE. 
The Decrease of Lobsters. 
THE KENNEL. 
To Inaugurate an Era of Peace. 
Treatment of Poisoned Dogs. 
Importations from Greenland, 
Sporting Dogs and Dog Shows. 
The Champion Rule. 
Kennel Notes. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Range and Gallery. 
The Creedmoor Fall Meeting. 
The Trap. 
The Alabama State Shoot. 
CANOEING. 
American Oanoe Association. 
A Boy’s Home-Made Ganoe. 
Buffalo €. C, 
Racine Canoes. 
Canoeists and the Sailing Rules. 
The Galley Fire. 
Broiling Small Fish. 
YACHTING. 
Another Singlehahder. 
Yachting on Cape Cod Bay. 
Milwaukee Y.C. Annual Matches 
Races at Mattapoisett. 
The Battle of the Sharpies. 
Hull Y. C. 
Lights on Small Boats. 
Beverly. Y. C. 
Toledo Y. C. Annual Matches. 
After the Battle. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
THE CREEDMOOR MEETING. 
(pee programmes for the annual fall meeting at Creed- 
moor are now out, and itnow depends upon the rifle- 
men throughout the country whether or not the affair be 
made a grand success. The Board has been urged into mak- 
ing more than the usual perfunctory effort, and with such en- 
thusiasts as make up the-committee on the meeting, it is 
quite certain that marksmen will have no cause to complain 
of any sins of omission, Creedmoor has, without doubt, been 
in a season of decline of late. It has not been a place of 
busy activity, but rather an out-of-the-way nook, where 
soldiers under orders were compelled to go, and to the all- 
comers matches a few lovers of target sport found their way. 
The Board has shown its belief that there are plenty of 
riflemen over the country, and has made a bid for their at- 
tendance during the second week of September to take part 
in the several matches mentioned in another column. It is 
an attractive list. No class of shooters can justly complain 
of neglect. From 100 to 1,000 yards every range may be 
fired over. Hach and every style of rifle known to the rules 
may find employment, and there is no room for the civilian 
growlers to say that the programme has been made up in the 
exclusive interest of the men in uniform. There is promise 
of plenty of pool shooting, and the committee should see to 
it that this promise is amply filled. 
Cash prizes are offered in fair abundance, and winners in 
important matches, while they may not carry off any great 
fortune, will at least have a substantial recognition of their 
skill, The Prize Committee has made a good showing, and 
has secured the co-operation of a large number of business 
houses, whose names appear in the official list of conditions 
and prizes. In comparison with such stupendous bills of 
prize fare as are spread before the marksmen at Wimbledon, 
the list at Creedmoor may not appear a very heavy one; but 
_ itis large enough to show that the present members of the 
Board are not inclined to let matters drop into a hasty de- 
cline. They have done as well as could be fairly expected 
under the largely deserved want of encouragement which 
has of late been shown by riflemen toward the N. R. A. 
There are assurances that a good attendance of National 
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Guardsmen will be seen at the meeting, Several of the 
city regiments have teams in training with envious intent 
upon the military competition, and ye old time waiter cooler 
grab games. About the regular army there may be some 
doubt, for the best shots of the several departments are just 
now pretty busy in preparing for the Division and general 
competitions, If the two sets of engagements do not clash, 
there is good reason to look for a liberal showing of Uncle 
Sam’s blue coats. 
The meeting as a whole is an inviting one, and the Board 
has a right to expect that organizations and individuals will 
come forward and take part. There is work ahead for Am- 
erican riflemen in defending the championship in small-bore 
shooting and in doing something toward redeeming our 
present very much draggled record in the matter of military 
shooting. 
NEW METHODS OF ANGLING. 
[* conversation with anglers on the streams, or in reading 
their views on the many different questions concerning 
their art, as given in the columns of FormsST AND STREAM, 
one cannot help remarking the wide differences of opinion 
which they hold on several subjects. This is not at all to 
be wondered at when we consider the number of those who 
angle and their wide diversity of temperament, and conse- 
quently of opinion. It is too much to expect that they 
should agree upon the proper color for leaders, the correct 
bend of a hook, the best make of rod, or the best points in 
the several excellent reels now made, These things are 
largely determined by individual preference, judgment, or 
prejudice, and may safely be left to be decided by the indi- 
vidual. They area fruitful theme for friendly argument, 
and probably never will be decided to the entire satisfaction 
of all, 
There are questions, howeyer, which would seem to de- 
mand the earnest thought of all lovers of angling, and which 
should be settled by some such body as the National Rod 
and Reel Association, the St.. Lawrence Angling Associa- 
tion, or other organization having the respect and confidence 
of the great body of unafiiliated anglers. One of these ques- 
tions, and it may be called a question in the ethics of angling 
is, may an angler properly follow the customs sanctioned by 
long usage in other branches of field sports and train the so- 
called lower animals to assist him in the capture of his game? 
Since the days when fair ladies sallied forth with falcon on 
wrist in the pursuit of sport, it has been usual for sportsmen 
to call in the aid of animals having superior sight, scent, or 
fieetness to aid them in the chase. Even the ferrct, an ani- 
ma] possessing none of these qualities, has been domesticated 
on account of its perseverance, which has become a proverb. 
Now, if the horse, the hound, the falcon, the pointer, setter, 
spaniel, elephant, leopard and ferret have been used to assist in 
the capture of birds and mammals, why should not the sports- 
man whose game is fish seek aid from outside sources also? 
It is true that the fisherman of China trains the cormorant to 
capture fish for him, but then the Chinaman is a heathen 
and we may not look to him to instruct usin sport. It is 
from our own glorious land that we receive the new code of 
angling, and we hasten to enlighten a benighted world in 
order that all who now own expensive fishing tackle may 
cast it into the fire and begin with the latest appliances. The 
cost to individuals will be small, but it will be the ruin of 
the large fishing tackle factories; yet they must submit to 
the changes consequent upon human progress as others have 
done, and they have our sympathy. 
The new apostle of angling is Lonoon Druilliard, and, 
according to the Lockport (N. Y.) Union, he lives at Dog 
Point. Mr. Druilliard has unfortunately found that his de- 
sire to improve on the present method of angling does not 
meet with the instant recognition which it deserves, and that 
an unsympathetic constable claims that his methods are 
wrong and cites him before an equally obdurate justice of 
the peace, who holds that he is liable for fishing without a 
license. 
The fact is that instead of fishing with either a rod ora 
hand line Mr. Druilliard utilizes his flock of thirty geese, 
“To the legs of these fowls he ~has lines and baited hooks 
attached. ‘The geese are driven into the water and are fol- 
lowed by Druilliard’s two sons, who drive them up stream, 
thus making them troll. As soon as a goose gets a bite, it 
becomes frightened, and, with a great flapping of wings and 
squaking, flies to the shore, where the fish is taken from the 
hook. The hook is again baited and the fowl placed back 
among: the others.” 
We have read of ‘‘jug-fishing”’ and also of tying a line and 
hook to the leg of a goose, but it was reserved for the genius 
of a Druilliard to take thirty geese and affix a line to each 
leg, thereby improving sixty fold on the dullard who fished 
with a line on a single leg of one goose. If Mr. Druilliard 
had owned a hundred geese at the time when he first con- 
ceived the idea of breaking the noble fowl which saved 
Rome to be the servant of man in his sports, our admiration 
for his genius would have been greater, but, had fortune 
favored him with a thousand of these birds, it would have 
been unbounded. 
If in the past we have looked up to the men who have 
written of the pleasures of rod and reel as deserving well of 
their fellow man for making him acquainted with the possi- 
bilities of sport, so in future will we sound the praises of a 
Druilliard, who will henceforward occupy the niche of the 
now dethroned Walton. For the next month the ocean 
steamers will be taking American rods and reels to countries 
which are not blessed with a Druilliard, and our great fish- 
ing tackle stores will be busy in buying and selling live 
geese. The question as to the proper color of geese to be 
used for black bass, and why the hue that is the correct 
thing for that fish should be varied for pickerel, while a 
darker or lighter shade ought to be employed for trout, is 
the topic which will absorb the angler of to-morrow; and no 
doubt Mr, Wells is already experimenting in that Jine. 
That other points of difference will arise there is no doubt; 
and ‘‘Kingfisher’ will labor to convince ‘‘Al Fresco” that 
the style of goose most successful in Florida will not do at 
all in Michigan, while ‘*S. C, C.” will advocate a new breed 
for coast fishing, We expect to hear ‘‘Piseco” arguing with 
‘‘Nessmuk” as to the proper place to attach a line, whether 
above or below the knee, and N. A. Cheney may go so far as 
to insert swivels in each web of the bird’s foot and so get 
six lines on each goose. Surely the world moves, and in the 
right direction, and we have little doubt but the next fly- 
casting tournament will be turned into a match of goose 
swimming, and the ‘‘true angler’ will be known as one who 
is sound on the goose. 
PAYING THE FIDDLER.—If the occasional confessions in 
the editorial columns of the daily press are to be taken as 
correct reflections of public sentiment, this nation is waking 
up to certain facts connected with its Indian policy, to which 
it has been strangely blinded in the past. After years. of 
skin-hunting warfare waged upon the buffalo, elk and ante- 
lope of the West, until extermination has ensued, it has 
suddenly heen discovered that the tens of thousands of car- 
casses which have been left to rot on the plains and in the 
gulches might have been utilized as a constant supply of food 
for the Indian tribes. What with Indian rings and public 
land rings, and grab and greed at Washington, the Govern- 
ment has looked idly on while the hide-hunters have com- 
pleted their work, The large game, which under a wiser 
system could have been made to yield sustenance to the 
savage wards of the nation, and could thus have reduced the 
Government expenses for Indian supplies, has been killed off 
to swell the coffers of the fur traders. To-day we are pay- 
ing for all this unseemly fiddling at a dance of death by the 
Congressional appropriations for Indian rations. As we 
have said, the people are beginning to see this, but its recog- 
nition is tardy. It is too late now to repair the reckless 
damage. The bones on the prairies are useful for sugar 
refinery processes, but they cannot be reconverted into 
game. 
MicuigAN DEER are now being killed out of season by 
wholesale. The very excellent law is of no service, for no 
one seems to care much about it. The notorious Clare 
county dwellers indulge in venison at their own sweet will; 
and some other parts of the State are not one whit better. 
Why do not the right-thinking citizens of Michigan put 
some one into the Legislature who will make it his business 
to urge the appointment of a game warden, paid by the 
people, to protect the interests of the people? 
Tor AMERICAN FormstRY Coneress will hold its annual 
meeting at Saratoga, Tuesday, Sept. 16. The topics for dis- 
cussion will include the mercantile significance of the Adi- 
rondack forests, hydraulic influences of forests, methods of 
reforestry and other allied subjects. The secretary of the 
Association is Mr, B. E. Fernow, No. 9 Pine street, New 
York. 
Tum SxetcuEs oF InpDIAN ForEst Lire will be con- 
tinued, They are fresh from the pen of a writer who has 
successfully undertaken to describe for us the incidents of 4 
forestry official's excursions for recreation. 
