June 21, 1888.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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on the beach. Hastily getting my rifle, I tired at him, 

 breaking bis back. Having cleaned the deer and cooked 

 our breakfast, we started clown the lake and spent the 

 rest of the week cruising along the shore toward the 

 town, 



I would tire the reader were I to give a detailed descrip- 

 tion of every trip we took from May to January. How- 

 ever, I shall give a general outline of our expeditions. 



The next week was spent in fly-fishing in the lower end 

 of the lake and the Spokane Eiver, having a glorious 

 time with the trout. After that we formed a parly to 

 hunt deer on a table-land about 11 miles up the lake. 

 There we spent three weeks killing deer and fly-fishing, 

 From there we went to . a small lake lying on the 

 left of the Cceur d'Alene River, where the trout were 

 large, running from two to three pounds, and very gamy 

 and finely flavored. There are a great many lakes oil 

 both the Cceur d'Alene and " St. Jo" Rivers in which the 

 fishing is good, but none, compare to this particular one. 

 The game also appears more plentiful bere than on the 

 others. We killed five deer, a couple of lynx, and a large 

 silver-tip bear, and caught a great many trout. Most of 

 the dear and trout we sent to our friends in Coeur d'Alene 

 by the steamer Cceur d'Alene which makes daily trips 

 from the town to the mission on the river for passengers, 

 freight and ore from the mines; it was then in charge of 

 a most obliging gentleman, Capt. Sanborn. 



The water now being quite low, we turned our attention 

 to the " St. Jo " and St. Mary's rivers. We had a number 

 of exciting little incidents as we poled and packed the 

 canoe up the riffles, and when about four miles up the 

 "St. Jo," above the swift water, we found the best trout 

 fishing it has ever been my good luck to find, all large 

 and^gamy and very finely flavored. Higher up the river 

 we found the signs of game, or, I should say, animals, 

 plentiful. The bear, cougar and lynx keeping the deer 

 in constant readiness to jump into the river at any mo- 

 ment, but these wild animals were very shy, and Ave had 

 a good deal of trouble and luck in getting any. We also 

 saw a good many elk signs, but they were nearly all old, 

 and the elk seemed to have taken back into the hills 

 We saw a few mountain goats and had the luck to get 

 •two, the other game killed being deer, two bears, a cub 

 and a female, two cougars, three lynx, and plenty of 

 pheasants. 



Thinking we had worked pretty hard, I proposed as a 

 rest a duck and goose hunt at " St. Jo " lake and bar. 

 The ducks, geese and swan now going south, stopped 

 there in vast numbers, and for nearly five weeks we had 

 most excellent shooting. None of the game went to 

 waste as we gave all we didn't use to the " Siwashes," 

 who were there in good numbers limiting deer and fish- 

 ing, drying all they got for winter use. 



We had also some good trolling for "bull trout," get- 

 ting some very large ones, the largest being 81bs. (The 

 largest bull trout caught in the lake last year was caught 

 on a spoon by Corp. Guy Norton, Co. D, 4th IT. S. In- 

 fantry.) 



This ended our hunt with the exception of a short visit 

 to the head of Blue and Wolf Lodge Creeks, Jbut the snow- 

 being very deep we had rather indifferent success, our 

 party killing five deer in seven days. 



I wish I could give a full outline of the whole trip. I 

 am sure I could induce some of our sportsmen to forsake 

 the old fished and shot-out regions for these compara- 

 tively new fields. Should any one contemplate the trip, I 

 should be pleased to give Mm hints as to the best shoot- 

 ing and fishing points, etc. 



Let me also say that at Spirit Lake, only twelve miles 

 from Rathdrum, Idaho, on the N. P. R. R., one can find 

 elegant fishing, plenty of deer and bear. An old hunter, 

 Pete Rhoterbeck, has cabins there and will show any one 

 the best places. 



The following flies are the best in April and May: Gray 

 drake, Abbie, professor, scarlet-ibis, March-brown; on 

 hooks from 10 to 6. 



June and July: The gray-professor with yellow body is 

 best, ibis, Parmachene-belle, Seth-Green, orange-miller; 

 hooks C to 4. 



August, September: Cowdung, grizzly-king, ibis, Seth- 

 Green. Nica, 



A POCONO PARADISE. 



IF among your readers there be any who are in search 

 . of a good place to go to for wholesome air, fine 

 scenery, fair trout fishing and decidedly a surplus of 

 game if they can kill it, we would inform them that we 

 have found just such a place. It is in a region 2,500ft, 

 above the heated walls and slums of Gotham, where 

 ozone abounds in inexhaustible quantities and free to 

 all, where nature is seen in its pristine grandeur, and 

 moreover where the speckled trout gleam in the spark- 

 ling brooks, the ruffed grouse drums in the neighboring 

 eopse, "the stag at eve," does "drink his fill," Bob 

 White whistles from surrounding thickets, and bunnie 

 scurries away at sight of sly reynard's approach. Even 

 dusky bruin is not far off, and the panther is occasionally 

 an unwelcome visitor to the farmer's pets. 



On the 1:15 P. M. train, D., L. & W., from Hoboken 

 not long ago might have been seen the following party, 

 all enthusiastic members of the J. C. H. G. C. : K. , the 

 able and genial teller of a Bowery bank and the hero of 

 the slaying of two bull caribou in Maine last fall, he 

 has the head of one of the caribou, a magnificent speci- 

 men, mounted in his dining room; Dr. L, , the popular 

 clerk of the Circuit Court of this city; the versatile Jerry 

 M., the champion wild goose shot of the club, having 

 bagged thirty-eight last fall down in Maryland; and 

 lastly your hxmible servant. We were bound for a day's 

 trout fishing. Our objective point we understood was 

 Pocono Mountain or thereabouts, somewhere in the 

 wilds of Pennsylvania. We found both the mountain 

 and the wilds. 



Having got pleasantly fixed in the smoking car and 

 cigars alight, we interviewed the conductor. Now there 

 are conductors and conductors. This conductor was a 

 sportsman, therefore a gentleman. He was posted and 

 willing to post us. Long may he conduct, or until he 

 does better and perhaps superintends. Well, we rushed 

 through the State of Jersey and tits magnificent scenery 

 piled up all along the Delaware Water Gap and adjacent 

 thereto, but we have no time nor space to go into the 

 raptures; it has been done too well and too often before. 



We disembarked at Cresco station, a little one-horse 

 affair with a one-horse station master, we don't know 

 how many miles from Hoboken. The exclusion ticket 



there and back is $4.60. We wanted to take a certain 

 tram back that did not stop regularly at Cresco; the 

 station master informed us positively that he could not or 

 whs not allowed to flag that train; the superintendent of 

 the road tells us differently, and that station master is 

 lazy or unaccommodating and may get into trouble. We 

 were met at the station by Milton Price with a spanking 

 teatn . who drove us some three miles to the domicile of the 

 Price brothers, whose post-office address is Canadensis, 

 Monroe county, Pa. Here we found a capacious farm 

 house with the appurtenances owned by the brothers 

 Milton and Westley, and (very successfully) presided over 

 by their niece, Clara Price, not to forget her able assistant, 

 little black-eyed Fanny Crowe. The Prices own a farm 

 of 800 acres, 40 of which are under cultivation, situated 

 on Broadhead Creek, a tributary of the Delaware, and 

 right in the heart of the wilds of Pennsylvania. They 

 are good fishermen, good shots, and good hosts. You 

 are at home at once. Upon jumping out of the buggy 

 we were asked if we would have supper right away; it 

 was then about 6 o'clock. Supper! not much— the roar 

 of the water over the dam and the rapids just below the 

 sawmill and but a short distance from the house had 

 excited the Doctor and Jacobstaff, and the joining of 

 rods, donning of rubber boots and discussion of flies were 

 more important just then than supper. We were soon 

 at the stream, where your correspondent landed the first 

 fish, of about 4oz. It was the first one in eight years. 

 He felt good, it brought back old times. He was soon 

 followed by K. with one of about the same size, then by 

 the Doctor with a littler one, while poor Jerry, whose flies 

 and leaders had become inextricably mixed, was using 

 words akin to club language when pinocle goes wrong. 

 Then we were called to supper. Ab! what a supper, and 

 what an appetite that high mountain air had given us for 

 those biscuits, that butter and cream and coffee (that 

 was coffee) and honey and cider, to say nothing about 

 the crisp, delicious trout freshly caught from those cold 

 waters. 



We were up early in the morning after a refreshing 

 sleep on hair mattresses and spring beds. K. and Milt 

 took the buggy for the Buckill, a stream four miles away, 

 the Doctor and I a small brook near by, called the Spruce- 

 kill, while Jerry, wanting larger game, proposed to con- 

 fine himself to the main stream; and Charlie, a younger 

 brother and quite a boy, started for a stream some four 

 miles over the mountain. I need not describe our day's 

 sport nor could I do it justice. What a time we had get- 

 ting through laurel thickets and black alder brush, over 

 blackened logs and mossy stones as slippery as the eel of 

 historical note, taking a little beauty from that ripple, a 

 larger one from under that mossy stone and a bigger still 

 from just above the foam lying above that driftwood, 

 while the dull roar of muffled thunder on either moun- 

 tain side told us that there were grouse and more than 

 one in the neighborhood. Suffice is to say we bad a right 

 good day. Comparing notes we found that having a 

 guide to the manor born was a good thing, for K. with 

 Milt had beaten us two to one, and even the boy was 

 ahead of us individually, but was not that to be expected? 

 These country boys know where to go, when to go and 

 what to do when they get there, and don't you ever bet 

 that they won't beat you on their OAvn ground. 



Well, we enjoyed a good time. K. had to be in New 

 York by 8 A, M. the next day, so he started homeward 

 that evening. The rest of us did some more fishing in 

 the dusk and the dawn, and took the 6:12 train in the 

 morning, arriving in Hoboken at 9:30, well satisfied with 

 our one day's fish. 



The Price boys have a well-broken Gordon setter and a 

 black and tan hound, part beagle and part foxhound, that 

 they say it Al on the Molly Cottontails. We are going up 

 there again when the season opens in November. We 

 hope to be in time before the woodcock get away south. 

 We saw many borings, though we put up no birds. The 

 boys say there are many around there and nobody shoots 

 them. By driving only a few miles north a good deer 

 region is reached, and it is only about twelve miles, we 

 believe, from the celebrated Blooming Grove Park. We 

 are going up after the timberdooclles, grouse and Bob 

 White and the hares, and may be a deer or a bear, who 

 knows? We will tell you about it. Jacobstaff. 



MUSSEL, BOWFIN, OTTER. 



Editor Forest and Steam: 



I can add my testimony concerning the edibility of 

 the fresh-water clam. "N. A. T." need not be afraid 

 of their hurting anything but his jaws and perhaps his 

 feelings, when he finds that what looks as good to eat as 

 an oyster or salt-water clam is a rank-flavored delusion 

 and a leathery snare. 



When we boys used to go fishing at the lake we often 

 tried them, raw, stewed, fried and in soup, but a little in 

 any way was enough, if not as good as a feast, and we 

 soon gave over begrudging the muskrats all our share of 

 them. Yet tastes differ, and I have seen old Hi Potter 

 get the better of three dozen, raw on the half shell, with 

 the addition of a little salt which he had brought on pur- 

 pose in a little calico bag all the way from Monkton; and 

 he swore they were better than oysters, But his example 

 and his profanity failed to convince us. Also an ancient 

 worthy of more pleasant memory, one of the old-time 

 hunters, used to aver that if you would "bile 'em into 

 brine and fry 'em into butter they'd be good," but we 

 never tried his recipe. 



Did "N. A. T." ever examine his unios for pearls? Some 

 valuable ones have been found in the fresh-water clams 

 of the Winooski. 



I remember that not long ago the edible qualities of the 

 bowfin were discussed in your columns. I have had 

 recent experience in this matter which may possibly in- 

 terest some one now. One night this spring our men 

 went fishing for pouts in the Slang and caught a bowfin 

 of about 21bs. weight, which they brought home, and after 

 dressing it nicely and removing all traces of its identity, 

 handed it over to the womankind under the attractive 

 name of sweetfish. They marveled somewhat at this 

 heretofore unheard of fish, but fried it according to the 

 best of their skill along with bull pouts, and it was served 

 up with them. It was not ill-flavored, but it was soft 

 and yet it was not soft. It separated easily into fibers, 

 but beyond that no amount of chewing would reduce it, 



and if swallowed it must be as a bit of soft wood would 

 be, ground into a stringy pulp. Though all who partook 

 of it agreed that it might be better than no fish, if one 

 were fish-hungry, no oue asked to be helped to it a 

 second time. It was like a "chip in porridge, neither 

 good nor bad." If I could be informed in time of the 

 next impending battle of the Ichthyophagi with the un- 

 eatable, I would try to send them this' adversary, worthy 

 of their ivory if not of their stomachs. 



Of the otter killed in the township of Monkton, t ha ve 

 heard that it was somehow taken in the outlet of Bristol 

 Pond, near Hog's Back Mountain. It was a fine speci- 

 men, and the captor sold the skin in Bristol for $1& 

 A third of this he invested in illicit strong waters, and 

 therewith so loudly celebrated his good fortune, and mis- 

 taking his wife for a drum, beat her, that he was mulcted 

 in a fine of $8. His neighbor, S. L., who was never 

 guilty of a pun, says, "He hadn't ought 'er then." 



Some may think this an inglorious end of the story of 

 the last otter in the county, but many an otter of the 

 olden time went in much the same way, only in those 

 happy days a man was not fined for ever so much rejoic- 

 ing over his luck. Awahsoose. • 



Febhisbuugh, Vt. 



TREATMENT OF SNAKE BITE. 



BY DR. H. C. YARROW. 



LSeveuth and concluding paper of the Series, " Snake Bite and its 

 Antidote."! 



CAN we now in view of the results of our experiments 

 propose any plan of treatment for snake bite which 

 will afford reasonable ground for a belief that danger 

 may be averted and human lives spared? It is thought 

 the question may be answered in the affirmative, especi- 

 ally as regards those persons bitten by North American 

 species of poisonous reptiles, and the following sugges- 

 tions are offered with the earnest desire that they may 

 realize fully the hopes of the writer. 



What shall a person do who is bitten by a venomous 

 snake? The first advice to give is that he or she should 

 not lose presence of mind, and become so nervous as to 

 be incapable of cool and deliberate thoughts. If the bite 

 is upon one of the lower limbs or upon the arms, a broad 

 bandage of unyielding texture, if possible, should be 

 placed tightly around the affected member, and between 

 the bite and the heart, and be securely fastened. This 

 bandage or ligature can be made by tearing up a shirt 

 and using two or three thicknesses of the material, an 

 inelastic suspender will answer, pieces of a handkerchief 

 may be used, or if in the woods a strip of bark from a 

 sapling can be hastily slit off and applied. A leather 

 strap or thong is better than anything else, but even long- 

 grass rolled together so as to form a cord may be used hi 

 an emergency. In applying the band or ligature of what- 

 ever nature, it should be started about six inches above 

 the bite and the turns made to run downward toward 

 the puncture, and should be wrapped so tightly as to cause 

 the injured limb to become turgid with venous blood. 

 Having fastened it securely, a number of cross cuts 

 should made through the points of the puncture from 

 the snake's fangs, deep enough to pass down into the 

 muscular tissue, taking care to avoid veins which will be 

 seen standing prominently forth, anil bleeding from the 

 cuts can he encouraged by rubbing the limb gently up 

 and down below the ligature. A wide-mouthed bottle or 

 similar utensil, from which the air has been driven forth, 

 by burning some whisky or a piece of paper in it, should 

 be applied to the wound and it will act as a cupping gla^s; 

 or still better, let the bite be sucked by the patient him- 

 self, if he can get at it, or have some courageous friend 

 with a healthy mouth perform this act for him. The 

 pulse should be felt, and if it weakens, showing that pos- 

 sibly a portion of venom is reaching the general system 

 notwithstanding the constricting band, whisky should 

 be given in moderate quantities. From time to time the 

 band should be slightly loosened and then replaced so as 

 to admit of partial circulation, but as the heart flags, the 

 stimulant must again be administered. It is no use to 

 make the patient drunk, for alcoholic liquors are not 

 antidotes, in any sense they simply act as a tonic to the 

 failing circulation. 



The writer has been informed by a gentleman, long 

 resident in Texas, that the plan proposed has been con- 

 stantly employed in that State; and that few deaths re- 

 sult there from the bite of venomous snakes. Of course 

 it will be understood that these suggestions are intended 

 to meet sudden emergencies and not to take the place of 

 treatment by intelligent bystanders or physicians. Under 

 all circumstances, the ligating band should bo first ap- 

 plied and the incision made, and then if circumstances 

 will admit the following procedure, it is thought, will be 

 the best. Cupping glasses should be applied over the 

 wound, after which a 20 per cent, solution of permangan- 

 ate of potassa should be injected with a hypodermic 

 syringe directly into the wounded tissue and retained 

 there by means of the finger or compress. The flesh 

 should also be kneaded so as to distribute the solution 

 through the tissues in the immediate vicinity of the bite. 

 In addition the patient should be made to swallow 20 

 minims fluid extract of jaborandi, or its alkaloid, pilo- 

 carpine, may be used hypodermically. If the venom ap- 

 pears to be gaining ground another injection of the per- 

 manganate may be given, followed by more of the jab- 

 orandi, or pilocarpine, but the latter drug should be sus- 

 pended Avhen it is found the patient is perspiring freely 

 and when excessive salivation is produced. Carried too 

 far this remedy would weaken instead of strengthening 

 the heart. Whisky or brandy may also be used in lim- 

 ited quantities from time to time. In the absence of 

 any of the means suggested in the way of remedies the 

 primary fact tq keep in mind is the importance of the 

 ligature, incision or scarifying the affected part, and 

 the promotion of a free flow of blood. If nothing can he 

 found to use as a cupping glass or no one is courageous 

 enough to use the mouth, the old-fashioned country 

 remedy of splitting open a live chicken and applying it 

 over the wound may be tried, or as has been tried in 

 India with success, the anus of a chicken may be ap- 

 plied over the wound, using a number of different fowls 

 for the purpose. The writer recommends these methods 

 only because there is undoubted evidence of th eir efficacy. 

 A piece of porous clay might be applied as it would 

 doubtless act in the same manner as did the snake stone 

 in our experiments. It is very important to remember 

 that the ligature or constricting band cannot be allowed 

 to remain very long as gangrene would inevitably result, 



