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FOREST AND STREAM. 



I Nov, 6. 1885. 



A FAMILIAR TALK. 



With the approach ot a new year it is not necessai-y to announce any change ir> our 

 manner of conducting this journal. Just what the Fobest and Stream has been in 1885 ■w e 

 hope to make it in 1886. It will be run on the same old principles, tested by experience and 

 approved by prosperity. It wiU be just as entertaining, just as instructive, just as frank and 

 outspoken, and just as helpfiil. 



We are sometimes asked to explain the reason of the Forest and Stream's constantly 

 widening influence and prosperity. Well, there is no 



Trade-Secret 



about it, and we do not mind telling you. It is thisr We have not expended our energies in 

 preposterous spread-eagle proclamations of tremendous attractions in the dim and distant 

 futui-e, but have pinned our faith to present performance, each week, and fifty-two weeks 

 in the year. This in the kind of journalism that is bound to succeed. Nothing very occult 

 about it, you see. 



Another element of strength is the jealousy with which we have maintained the inher- 

 ent dignity and entire respectability of the pastimes discussed in these pages, and the 

 extreme care we have taken to keep the tone of the columns such as renders the paper fit 

 for any man to receive into his family. We are assured by men, whose good opinion we 

 value, that tbey do not think it necessary to make 



A Weekly Scrutiny 



of the contents of the Forest and Stream before venturing to lay it on the family table. 

 We determined, years ago, that a clean paper must win its way among sportsmen (not 

 'Jsporting men"). The fact that it has done sods now cited, not that we may boast of our 

 own prescience, but as a most gratifying evidence of the high standing of the field-sports to 

 which this journal is devoted. 



In other words, the reason why the "Forest and Stream*' is liked 

 by sportsmen is that the ^^Forest and Stream" !•« the hind of paper 

 that sportsmen like. 



This, as we have said before, is complimontary all around, A thii'd element of the paper's 

 popularity is this; It has some hundreds of correspondents and contributors, who write for 

 it because they have something to say. You have heard the story of the German professor 

 who was assigned to prepare a thesis on the elephant. Now, he had never seen an elephant, 

 so he evolved one out of his inner consciousness. Though we never read his essay, we have 

 not the slightest doubt it was a very dry one. But if the Grerman professor had ever come 

 across 



A Real Live Elephant 



in an African jungle, he could have written a thesis on the beast that would have had some 

 animation in it. That is just the secret of the interest of the Forest and Stream's continbu- 

 tious. They come from men who have seen or done or heard something to write about. 

 Nothing dry in their notes and sketches and letters. They put it on paper just as entertain- 

 ingly as they would talk when gathered in camp after the hunt, or sitting about the fire and 

 comparing notes of the day's shoot. These stories and sketches come to us from sportsmen 

 who represent every pbase of life— all the professions and trades and occupations, from 

 which busy men now and then turn aside for a bit of fun by the stream or in the stubble. 



Of course the great bulk of matter appearing in this paper has related to the game and 

 fish of our own country, for that, after all, is what Forest and Stream readers ai-e most 

 interested in. And what a variety there has beeii ! SquiiTel shooting in the woods back of 

 the barn, antelope on the distant plains, quail in the wheat stubble, and "chickens" on the 

 prairie; ruJJed grouse on the wing and "parti'idge" on a limb; elk on the "hogbacks/' moose 

 in the timber, deer in the brush, caribou on the barrens and coon in the hollow. All sorts 

 of game by all sorts of methods, and in all sorts of places, and by all sorts of people. 



Give Cuvier a Bone. 



and the great naturalist could coustruct from it (or he pretended he could) the whole ot the 

 animal, living or fossil, to which it must have belonged. Give a man (say 500 years hence) 

 the file of the Forest and Stream: for 1885, and he will not need to be a natui-ahst to recon- 

 struct from its pages the animals and bii-ds and fishes of this country (and he'll find in it a 

 vast deal of curious and instructive information about the "true sportsman," too). 



So, you see, the Forest and Stream is a journal of recreation. We do not mean alone 

 that it treats of recreation, but in its columns is recreation. This is the practical nineteenth 

 century realization of the old stoi-y of • 



The Magician's Carpet, 



on which one sat cross-legged and wished himself in a lovely garden a thousand miles away. 

 With the Forest and Stream in hand you do not need to be a magician to transport yourself 

 in a second to the hemlock browse and the trout pools, the quail cover or the "chicken 

 grounds." Perhaps, after all, we should have named this first, when we began to tell you the 

 secret of Forest and Stream's success as a sportsman's paper. 



The weekly issues of the Forest and Stream form two volumes each year of twenty- 

 six numbers, or 500 pages each, and the file constitutes a library of permanent worth. 

 Twenty-four volumes have already been published. We furnish handsome file binders 

 (price §1.50) which hold twenty-six numbers. 



Subscriptions may begin at any time. Per year, $4; $2 for six months. Remit by post- 

 oflace money order, draft or registered letter. Give name, town, county and State. Address 



Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 39 Park Row, N. Y. 



J N. DODGE, 



276 & 278 Division Street, 

 Detroit. Mich. 



Manufacturer of Cedar Decoy Ducks of all kinds. 

 First quality, $9 per doz. ; second quality, 87 per 

 doz. ; third quality, $6 per doz. Also Geese, Brant, 

 Swan, Coot and Btiipe Decoys, Duck and Turkey 

 Calls. Decoys made like any pattern furnished 

 without extra charge. 



St. Claii ! I'll ^ t imtt 'I. iuacK I than the bird; 

 less than one-third I be weight of Rohd decoys The 

 exact position of a duck on wat'T at rest and un- 

 alarmed. The lightest and best decoys made. 

 Head*" in different positions; glass eyes, hollow and 

 flat bottom. Do not require weighting to keep them 

 upright. Painted the exact imitation of the natural 

 bird. $16 per doz. Sold by all gun dealers, to whom 

 I give a largp. discount, 'it your deader does not 

 keep them I will send, freight paid, on receipt of 

 price. Illustrated price list free. I aisi make solid 

 decoys after the Monroe Marsh Pattern, semi-flat 

 bottom; price $11 per doz. 



Harrison's Celebrated Fish Hooks, 



AND FOR WHICH WE USE THE FOLLOWING: 



SpRINQ STE3EL— 



Treble Hooks, brazed 

 and tapered or eyed. 

 Double Dublin Fly 



Hooks, 

 Hollow Point, Limerick 



of aU styles. 

 Cork Shape do. 

 Kinsey do. 

 Sproat do. 

 Aberdeen. 



Uew York Bass Hooks. 

 Virginia, 



Black Fish Hooks. 

 Ive Bait Hooks. Kirby and Shepherd's Crook Eel 

 Hooks. Kirby and Round Bent Sea Hooks, 

 tinned or blued, etc., etc. 

 Manufacturers also of Gut Leaders, Hooks to Gut. 

 All kinds of Artificial Flies and Baits, Brass and 

 Steel Swivels and Fishing Tackle of every descrip- 

 tion for home and export. Importers of SUk Worm 

 Gut. Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers, 



B. HARKI80N, BARTLKET & CO., 

 Metropolitan Works, Redditch, England. 

 Wholesale Only. Established 1803. 



Spring Steel— 

 Dublin Limerick. 

 Forged do. 

 Needle Eyed do. 

 Knobbed do. 

 Peculiar Eyed do. 

 O'Shaughnessy do. 

 Carlisle Kirby or Round 

 American Trout. 

 Ohestertown. 

 Roach Hooks. 

 Kendal Sneck Hook, 

 round or Kirby bend. 



SPO RTSMLA-N'S 



Camping or Fishing Tents 



OF ALL KINDS, SHAPES AND SIZES. 



Yacht and Canoe Sails of most approved styles. 

 Also awnings for store fronts, windows, yacht boats, 

 etc. New style of Canoe Tents made at low figures. 

 Flags, Burgees and covers of all kinds. Camp 

 Stoves, Camp Chaii-s, Sacking Bottoms, Hammocks, 

 all kinds of Fancy Tents, and In fact anything made 

 from canvas when an intelligent description Is given 

 of what may be needed. My beautifullj' illustrated 

 circular now ready. Send stamp for price list. Ad- 

 dress S. HEMMENWAy, 60 South St, N. Y. City. 



Schwatka's Search. 



Sledging in the Arctic in quest of the 

 FRANKLIN BECOKDS, 



— BT— 



WILLIAM H. GUILDER 



Second in, Command. 

 1 Volume, 8vo„ with Maps and Illustrations. 

 Price, 3.00. 



For sale by the 

 FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 

 39 Park Row. N. Y. 



COPIES WANTED.— JAN. 4, FEB. 1, MARCH 8. 

 1883; March 6, 1884. We are short of these 

 issues, and would be obliged if any of om* readers 

 having one or all of these numbers that they do not 

 want will send to Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 39 

 Park Row. New York City. mar26.tf 



WANTED. 



Bear, Buffalo, Deer, Wolves, Foxes, Spotted Cats, 

 Civit Cats, Lynx, Panthers, Antelope, Otter, Beav- 

 ers and other animals and birds ol all kinds. Ad- 

 dress D. H. TALBOT, Sioux City, la. 



PARKER 11J4 LB., 10 GAUGE, 32-IN. BARRELS, 

 Damascus steel, top snap, all latest improve- 

 ments; made to order; only been shot a few times. 

 Cost $95; sell for $60 cash; a grand ducking gun. 

 Address JAMES SUTHERLAND, JR., Wlnchendon, 

 Mass. nov5,lt 



FOR SALE.-A W, & C, SCOTT & SON GUN, 

 ISJ^lbs., 8-gauge, .36in. barrel, .SJ^in. drop on 

 stock, Damascus barrel, extension top rib, top snap, 

 rebounding locks, patent fore end, full pistol grip; 

 as good as new; S260gi'ade; will sell for$135: a fine 

 shooting gun. Apply to .T. J. ILLSLEY, George- 

 town, Mass. oct5J9.2t 



FERRETS FOR SALE, EITHER WHITE OR 

 colored. Per single pair. $7; per single female, 

 $4; per single male, $3.50; three pair at one ordei , 

 $18. Send money by post oflSce money order or 

 registered letter. Enclose stamp and address. 

 CHAS H. VAN VECHTEN, Victor, Ont. Co., N. 



oct29,10,t 



. Chester White, Berkshire 

 and Poland China Pigs, Fine 

 Setter Dogs, Scot«h Collies, 

 Foxhounds and Beagles, 

 Sheep and Poultry, bred and 

 ^ . >* i iJ B,-j. 5a i i ^Mfe!^aWg for sale by W. Gibbons & Co., 

 West Chester, Chester Co., Pa. Kend stamp for 

 Circular and Pi-ice List. 



FOR SALE.-INDIAN CURIOSITIES— ELK, 

 Deer, Antelope, big Horn Heads, Scalps and 

 Specimens. Price reasonable. Al^o three live 

 co.votes at .S3 each. AUGUST GOTTSCHALCK, 

 Bozemau, Montana. octS.Bt 



T J\TT? r\JJ A TT FOR SALE. IN FINE 

 Jul V XL/ Vr/ U J\LJLi condition Pa, and 

 W. Va. birds. E. B. WOODWARD, Commission 

 Merchant, 174 Chambers st., N.Y. Established 18.^8. 



FOR SALE.-HAVRE DE GRACE DUCKING 

 scow, double and single sinkbox, 500 decoys; 

 outfit complete. Address W. D. W., P. O. Box 1318, 

 Philadelphia. oct23,6t 



FOR CHARTER BY THE DAY.— A DUCKING 

 scow, fiUly found, with double and single sink 

 boxes, decoys, etc. Apply to CaPT. WM. A. 

 MYERS, Havre de Grace, Md. oct32,8c 



FOR SALE.-DOUBLE SHOTGUN, MAKER. E. 

 M. Reilly & Co., Oxford St., London, and Rue 

 Scribe, Paris, Purdy lever in bow of guard. Price 

 Lock Box 1, New Florence, Pa. no'r5,lt 



FOR SALE.-A SPENCER REPEATING SHOT- 

 gun, excellent shooter, new; $60 grade; very 

 cheap. Address H. KERR, 80 Second avenue. New 

 York, nov5,lt 



PtTRE 



SETTER 



liAVERACK 



A. ixr T lO 



IN THE STUD. 



Thoroughly broken anql a fine field animal. 



Also setter pups of first-class breeding for sale. 

 For terms, etc., apply to 



A. S, HOFFMAN, 

 Estleville, Atlantic county, N. J. 



BRADFORD RUBY. 



(Champion Lovaf>- Champion Jenny,) 

 Champion jjug dog, winner of *1 prizes, cups and 

 medals m England, Including championship Crystal 

 Palace, January, 1885: 1st, Cincinnati; Ist and spe- 

 cial, Toronto; 1st, Philadelphia. Fee $35. 



NjiPOIxEOSf (A.K.R. 8037) (Sambo-Luca)- 

 The sire of many good ones, including first and sec- 

 ond prize winners. New Haven, 1885. Fee $15. 

 Puppies for sale. CITY VIEW KENNELS, 

 Box 629, New Haven, Conn. 



IN TH£ STUD. 



Champion BERKLEY, red Irish setter (Elcbo ex 

 Loo 11.). Fee $35. 



Champion DONALD, pointer (Bob ex Sappho). 

 J^ee $35. 



Champion BOB, Gordon setter (Lang ex Floss). 

 Fee $25. 



The above-mentioned dogs are winners of many 

 prizes, and have sired some of the best dogs now 

 on the bench and in the field. For particulars ad- 

 dress A. H. MOORE, 1711 Spring Garden street, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. oct29,4t 



Mt. Pleasant Konnels. 



In the Stud— King Charles spaniel Yoimg Prince 

 Arthur, imported April, 1885. Best K. C. in Amer- 

 ica. Ist prize in Boston's late show. Full pedigree. 

 Feeg26, Charm, large, strong and stylish, black 

 and white ticked, English setter, 2d prize in N. Y., 

 sire Guy Mannering; dam, Bow Bells. Fee $15. 

 Argus, a beautiful Gordon setter; sire imp. Ajgus; 

 dam, Beaulab. FeeS15. For Sale— Two solid black 

 and tan Gordon setter puppies, beauties; full pedi- 

 grees. Also two iirsi-class English pug bitches, 8 

 mos. old. C. T. BROWNBLL, Box S35, New Bedford. 



IN THE STUD. 



KOUGH-COATED ST. BERNARD 



' IVinnings: 1st, Toronto; 1st, Philadelphia, in May, 

 and 1st, Philadelphia, Oct. 1885, and many prizes in 

 England. Fee |40. Address MAPLE FARM KEN- 

 NELS, Garrison's, N. Y. oct39,4t 



ENGLISH SETTER BITCH, WELL BROKEN, 

 fine retriever; will exchange for a first class 

 Colt or Parker breechloader. Address Lock Box 

 297, New Brunswick, N. J. nov5,lt 



FOX-TERRIER PUPS FOR SALE, 8 MOS. OLD 

 (Belvoir bl.X)d). Nettle (A.K.R. 1704) Mixture 

 (A.K.R. 2697). Gamest and most beautiful of fox- 

 terriers. Address W. H. COOKSON, Box 305, Hud- 

 son, N. Y. nov5,2t 



FOR SALE.— FOX-TERRIER STUD BOG BRIAR 

 (A.K.R. 1898) and St. Bernard Karl Bonivard 

 (A.K.R. 481). Will sell low if taken at once. Box 290, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa. nov5,lt 



WANTED.— A SPAYED BITCH (COLLIE PRE- 

 ferred) to give immediate alarm at approach 

 of strangei-s; pedigree immaterial. Box 290, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. nov5,lt 



FOR SALE. -DARK RED IRISH SETTER, 

 thoroughly trained and fine retriever. WiU 

 show him on game. Good pedigree and a handsome 

 dog. Address C, P. O. Box 1,547, Philadelphia. 



nov6,2t 



BEAGLE8.-F0UR VERY FINE DOG PUP- 

 pies, by Bannerman out of Una (A.K.R. 1324), 

 winner of lit and special at Chicago. DR. E. B. 

 WESTON, Highland Park, III. novo.lt 



ENGLISH BEAGLE HOUND PUPPIES, EITHER 

 sex; $10 each. Extra fine ones and several 

 months old. N. ELMORE, Graqby, Conn. sept24,tf 



