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| VOL. XXXII.-No. 19. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



"Recollections of an Angler." 

 Secretary Noble and the In- 

 dians. 



The sportsman Tourist. 



The. Ranch of the Palms. 



The Beautiful Ozarks. 

 Natural History. 



The Carni vora. 

 Same Bag and Gun 



Brant Shooting at Cape Cod. 



Hollow Bullets. 



Deer Hums in British Colum- 

 bia. 



The "Forest and Stream" Gun 

 Test. 



Choice of Rifles. 



A Good Day with the Ducks. 



Inc. dents in my Hunting Life. 



Notes from Oiiio. 



Chicago aud tne West. 



Minnesota Game Law. 

 Camp-Fise Flickerings. 

 Sea and Krvjfin Fishxnu. 



The, Angler's Tournament. 



Kentucky Waters. 



For Trout. 



Fishing near New York. 

 The Rangeley Trout Supply. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Large Florida Bass. 



Fishcuxture. 



Notes on Fish Commissions. 

 The Kenned. 



Coursing in Kentucky. 



American Kennel Club Meet- 

 ing. 



Grit. 



Dog Talk. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rupee and Trap shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



Illinois Shoot Announcement. 



The Dominion Tournament. 



The Minnesota Tournament. 



Trap Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Phtladt lphia C. C. Regatta. 



A Prehistoric Canoe. 

 Yachting. 



Spring Fashions. 



Beverly Y.C. 



Beawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 

 Gorilla. . „ 



Lord Dunraven's Challenge. 

 New York Y. C. and the Y. R. 



A. Rules. 

 Valk\ rie's First Races. 

 Yachting Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Captain Boutelle is said to be a splendid officer, a good 

 sportsman, and in all respects very capable. Such a 

 man cannot fail to feel in the Park a lively interest, 

 which will carry him far beyond what might be his 

 purely official duties, and there is every reason to think 

 that in the new Superintendent the friends of the Park 

 will find a most efficient coadjutor. It seems likely that 

 under his rule the natural wonders, the game and the 

 forests will receive the same continuous and intelligent 

 care and protection that they have had for the past three 

 years under Captain Harris. 



It is earnestly hoped that the Secretary of War will see 

 fit to authorize Captain Bcutelle to employ a number of 

 additional scouts. This is especially necessary just at this 

 time, when the force guarding the reservation is being 

 changed. The new troops, who are ignorant of the region 

 will "find themselves unable to cope with mountaineers 

 familiar with almost every foot of the ground in the Park, 

 and unless the different scouting parties are furnished 

 with efficient guides, much destruction of forests and 

 game may result. We have no doubt that the necessity 

 for an addition to his force of scouts will already have 

 suggested itself to Captain Boutelle, and we hope that 

 they may be allowed him. 



A NEW PARK SUPERINTENDENT. 



ORDEES have been issued by the Commander of the 

 Department of Dakota, directing the following 

 changes: Troop K, of the First Cavalry, is relieved from 

 duty at Fort Custer, and will march to Camp Sheridan 

 ana take station for service in the Yellowstone National 

 Park, while Troop M, of the same regiment, will proceed 

 to Fort Custer and take station. The result of these 

 changes is to return Captain Moses Harris to garrison 

 duty at Fort Custer, and to make Carjt. F. A. Boutelle 

 the Superintendent of the National Park. 



The reasons which governed the Secretary of War in 

 issuing this order have not been announced, but it may 

 safely be concluded that they were of a purely military 

 character. It is very probable that it was thought that 

 Troop M had been long enough stationed in the Park, 

 and that discipline required its return to the regiment; 

 that too long absence would make them lose their organ- 

 ization, and that from being soldiers they would become 

 mere police. While under so excellent an officer as 

 Captain Harris there was little danger of such a change, 

 it is readily conceivable that these a,nd similar reasons 

 might appeal with great force to the military mind. 



AH who are interested in the National Park will sin- 

 cerely regret that the exigencies of the service have 

 required that Captain Harris should be ordered back to 

 Custer. He has made a most excellent Superintendent, 

 and under his rule the Park has been cared for as it never 

 was before. He has been mild but energetic, wise but in- 

 flexible. He has ruthlessly turned out of the Park the bad 

 characters that at one time infested it, and has made his 

 command a terror to evil-doers. He has been gentle with 

 those who have offended through ignorance, and severe 

 with such as have intentionally violated the regula- 

 tions. In his superintendence- of the Park he has served 

 the public well, and all who have known him in this 

 capacity will feel a genuine sorrow that duty has called 

 him elsewhere. 



Captain F. A. Boutelle, who now takes command of 

 the National Park, will find matters there in smooth run 

 ning order, and although it may take him some little 

 time to become familiar with all the needs of the region 

 and the details of its management, our inquiries about 

 him lead us to believe that be will be a very efficient 



"RECOLLECTIONS OF AN ANGLER." 

 tt ERODOTUS tells us that in their writings the ancient 

 -tl Egyptians employed two sets of characters; one 

 which was used for ordinary subjects, and another for 

 those things which were sacred. If in these later times 

 there were a particular form of writing reserved for 

 recording recollections the most cherished, that surely 

 would be the one chosen as best suited for the chronicle 

 of our angling days. Something of this feeling at least is 

 manifested by those fishermen who prepare elaborate 

 memorials of their outings, beautifying them with all 

 that skill of artist, printer and binder can do, and mak- 

 ing them veritable tiiumphs of the bookmaker's art. 

 One of the most luxurious of these volumes, which has 

 recently come under our notice, is that in which Mr. 

 Dean Sage, of Albany, has recorded the incidents, pleas- 

 ures and mishaps of his Canadian salmon fishing. 



We have had the pleasure of looking over an angling 

 book altogether unique. It is the work of Mr. Wakeman 

 Holberton, of this city; and is a masterpiece of pencraft. 

 The style of the book is that of the old manuscripts; it is 

 done with India ink on artificial vellum, and upon it has 

 been lavished a prodigious amount of labor. Begun in 

 1883 it has taken for its completion the leisure time of 

 the years since then, as one may readily enough compre- 

 hend upon an examination of the beautiful text and illus- 

 trations. There are five full -page water color sketches, 

 thirty-two illuminated initials, forty- eight water-colors, 

 and 130 pen and sepia drawings, making a total of 215. 

 The illustrations comprise portraits of the several varie- 

 ties of game fish, and sketches of angling hauntsinmany 

 States, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 

 westward to Idaho; with Lake Geneva and other Europe an 

 waters, which have been fished by the artist-author. 



Many old and classic taverns are here pictured. Jim 

 Henry's on Broadhead's Creek, Widow Darby's on the 

 Beaverkill, and others, whose familiar scenes awaken a 

 flood of memories aB the leaves of the book are turned; 

 but which have now passed away or been altered, "modi- 

 fied and improved" past recognition. The text is made 

 up of extracts from Mr, Holberton's fishing notebook; 

 there are in it, as there must be in the recolh ctions of 

 every angler who has come to middle life, descriptions 

 of once favorite waters now no longer rewarding one's 

 most patient fishing, and mention of many an angling 

 companion who has gone over to the great majority. 



The volume will be bound in some suitable material, 

 probably a fish skin, when the right one can be found. 

 It is, as we have said, a book unique in angling literature 

 and one which is likely long to preserve individual dis- 

 tinction , for in these days there are few indeed blessed 

 with patience and diligence to perform so prodigious a task 

 of pen work as this. The possessor, if he have anything 

 of the spirit of the book collector, may rest content in the 

 fond satisf act! on that his bibliographical treasure caunot be 

 matched nor duplicated; he'may take a joy in its posses- 

 sion more perhaps than that of the American collector 

 who paid £180 the other day for a copy of the first edition 

 of Walton's "Angler;" for there are other copies of the 

 first edition of the "Angler," but of the "Recollections of 

 I an Angler" only this one* 



SECRETARY NOBLE AND THE INDIANS. 



AT the commencement exercises of the Indian Indus- 

 trial School at Carlisle, Pa., held May 22, a notable 

 address was delivered by the Secretary of the Interior, 

 Hon. John W. Noble. It was a speech remarkable for its 

 deep feeling and its eloquence; a speech that stirred those 

 who heard it and encouraged those to whom it was 

 especially addressed. It promises much for the progress 

 and development of the Indian during the next four 

 years. 



When Mr. Noble spoke of the importance of sobriety, 

 truthfulness, justice and decency among agents, inspec- 

 tors, traders and their subordinates, he showed a clear 

 comprehension of one of the main difficulties of the In. 

 dian question as it stands to-day. At the present time it 

 may safely be said that the great majority of the Indians 

 desire to improve their material condition, and that as a 

 race they accept the bitter conclusion that the only means 

 by which this condition can be improved is by work- 

 ing as the white man works. They are then willing to 

 work, and many of them do work, but in the case of the 

 so-called wild tribes their efforts are feeble and desultory. 

 Such people, still barbarians, having acquired from civili- 

 zation new vices, but as yet no new virtues, are wholly 

 dependent on the white men who are placed over them 

 cn the reservation. No matter how excellent the inten- 

 tions of the Government, no matter how liberal the 

 appropriations of food and clothing, and stock and farm, 

 ing implements, there is little hope of advancement for 

 the Indians unless the man who is in charge of the 

 agency is honest, competent and interested. During his 

 term of office he holds in his hands the fate of the tribe 

 that has been committed to his care. 



In our dealings with the Indians no subject requires 

 more judgment than the selection of those employees of 

 the Indian Bureau who are brought into immediate con- 

 tact with these people in their homes. That Secretary 

 Noble understands the importance of purifying this 

 branch of the Indian service is shown not only by his 

 speech at Carlisle, but also by his recent action in 

 promptly supplanting a dishonest agent against whom 

 charges had been brought by a staff correspondent of the • 

 Forest and Stream. These charges, made more than 

 -ix months ago, received little attention until Secretary 

 Noble took hold of them. 



We believe that Mr. Noble, besides being genuinely 

 interested in the Indians, has a keen scent for rascals, 

 and it is to be hoped that the whole Indian service may 

 be overhauled and purged of its dishonest and incompe- 

 tent employees. There are certainly agents and inspec- 

 tors who need looking after, and we trust they will get it. 



The Secretary's ringing address, which we give below, 

 will afford encouragement to all who hope for the im- 

 provement of the Indians. He said: 



Mr. Superintendent, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am to-day here as 

 a representative of the Government. Personally I have no claim 

 to the distinction of addressing you or delivering diplomas to 

 these scholars, hut as the Secretary of the Interior I may he wel- 

 c ane to announce a policy on which men of all parties will agree. 

 On behalf of our good President I say thathe takes a great interest 

 in the Indian schools, and that he proposes to secure justice to the 

 Indiaus. He would have those who are appointed Indian agents, 

 Iudian inspectors, Indian teachers, or licensed Indian traders to 

 understand that in the discharge of their duties under any com- 

 mission that he has signed, they must practice and secure sobri- 

 ety, truthfulness, morality, justice and decency within their corn- 

 mauds. It will not be sufficient to allow Indian affairs to remain 

 as they are; improvement is demanded and will be insisted upon. 



S i much I am authorized to speak for him. You will allow me 

 a few words on my own behalf, to which I commit no man, other 

 th m myself. I believe that the practice of justice is essential not 

 only to the welfare of each individual, but that it is necessary for 

 the security of any government. The idea that many men 

 possess, that we should avoid injustice chiefly because of its 

 effect upon another, is a narrow view. The truth is, as human 

 experience develops, injustice finds its chief victim in the author 

 of it. It is the rule of human conduct that the deeds done 

 return to the doer either in the way of reward or as punishment. 

 If you will look upon the career of one who has had charity in the 

 lieart. and justice, tempered with mercy, in tho conduct of life, 

 you will find it even as exhibited in yonder picture on the wall 

 [indicating the portrait of Susan Longstretb, of Philadelphia], or 

 in its living original sitting with us to-day, that a long life of 

 goodness on earth already beams from the countenance with an 

 almost heavenly radiance; but where avarice and fraud, greed, 

 inhumanity and licentiousness are practiced, even the counten- 

 ance is affected, and the individual bears the mack of his character 

 on his form. But in either case the result is left in the soul, and 

 the reward of punishment is daily felt. It was remarked to me 

 by your eminent governor [.Governor Beaver] to-day, that in the 

 faces of those who have come to this institution most recently the 

 rudeness of the wild life was visible, but in each class preceding 

 the expression had been changed into softer outlines, Gradually, 



