Forest and Stream 



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» VOL. XXXin.-No. 3. 

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CONTENTS. 



E DJTORIAL. 



Desitli of "Seneca." 

 Camp Pest*. 

 Snap Shots. 

 Th Sportsman TortusT. 

 (lamps of the Ki igfisbers.— rv. 



N>TTB.3| HlSlOR-V. 



Nc«t Building nf the Sunfish. 

 Fauna of the YuKon District. 



G-MP iAO »WT> |rtTB 



Pattern and Vent t ration. 



N r r^s on th» Wnrd-ock. 



Pmall-naliber Rifles. 



lln.es— Bored ^h^teuns. 



iiow io Trap Otter-. 



Inwn Gnme Notes. 



T« n\i- ?8«*t fiamp Law; 

 C amp-Fire Feickkrixgs. 

 S3a ano KrvBH Kishj.nq. 



Camping on th° Susquehauna. 



As Tou-hirg Walton. 



Ameri' an Cin^s in Canada. 



Trout and Leei hcs. 



Chacges of Color in Fishes. 



Vancouver Island Fish and 

 Fishins. 



An Off Day on the Board man. 



C ic go anc the WVst. 



Rhoie Inland B-'SS. 



Fly-fishing for Steelhead Sal- 

 mon. 



Fish culture. 



Fish'tilture in New Hamp- 

 sh re. 

 The Kennel. 



Rosion's Vagrant Doars. 



Diseases of the Digestive Or- 

 gans.— ti. 



The Ciopping Question. 



Elmira Dog Show. 



Toledo Dig Show. 



Toronto D >g Sh w. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Novs. 



Kvnne! M tnagement. 

 Rifle asd Trap shooting. 



Range and <^n.llerv. 



Our Team Abroad. 



New Jersey's Big Shoot. 



The Irnp. 



St C itharines Tournament. 

 Yachting 



The Forty-Foot Class. 



Quake'- City Corintnian Race. 



Racing Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



W. C. A. Moet. 



Prouosed Changes in A. C. A. 



Rules. 

 The A. C. A. Meet. 

 Lsifce St. Louis Regatta. 

 Answers to Correspondents 



DEATH OF " SENECA.'" 



HENRY H. SOULE, whose pen name of "Seneca" 

 has long b' en fen wn to readers of the FOREST AND 

 Stream, died at his home in Syracuse, N. Y., last Tues 

 day evening-, Aug. ti. His asre w is thirty fi^e. 



Mr Soule was a journalist tf decided versatility; for 

 several years and up to the tiire of his death lie was the 

 managing editor of Freund's Music and Drama, of this 

 ci f y; and he was a constant contributor to the dailies of 

 New York and Washington, M-<ny bright things came 

 from his pen, but there were no subjects of which he 

 wrote with more ready sympathy than of the pursuits of 

 the field. To these pleasure* be had been devote d from 

 boyhood. Deprived of the u-e of one of his legs, and 

 compelled to go on crutches, he nevertheless, with a 

 sturdy pluck which commanded the admiration of his 

 friends, overcame this seeming obstacle' to part : cipation 

 in outdoor 1 fe, and proved himself an adept in shooting, 

 fishing, and of later years canoe and small-b >at cruising. 



The same high spirit and cheerful resolution which 

 thus triumphed over physical disability aho prompted 

 "Seneca" to make the most of his opportunities, so that 

 while busily engaged in newspaper work in New York 

 he found time to make himself familiar with all the 

 crui-ing water--, fishing resorts and camping; sites in tl e 

 vicinity. He had a penchant for exploring hidden nooks, 

 and penetrating into out of the way places; he found out 

 the by-ways. Fr un these solitary excursions he brought 

 back fresh knowledge of natural history, and often, too, 

 quaint studies of human nature there encounteted. The 

 marsh folk, the trapper, the pot hunter, the fisherman, 

 all the queer characters who haunt the borders of civiliza- 

 tion, waifs and strays of humanity left behind in the 

 eddies and on the shoals, these were picturesque subjects 

 of study whose interest for him never failed. 



"Seneca" had many characteristics of that type of 

 sportsmen of whom "Nessmuk" is a familiar example. 

 His taste for nature was pure and simple. He loved the 



forests, and the streams, and the marshes, and the lakes, 

 for themselves. With a crowd in camp he had no 

 path nee; in canoe racing he could find no pleasure; but 

 the charms of single-handed expeditions in canoe or 

 sneakboat and the witchery of the solitary camp-fire on 

 the shore lured him for days and weeks. 



Some years ago he collected in book form and published 

 under the title of "Canoe and Camp Cookery" the culin- 

 ary lore he had acquired in these outings. Within the 

 last few months our Sea and River Fishing columns have 

 contained papers from his pen descriptive of the fishing 

 resorts in the vicinity of New York. A comprehensive 

 book of hints and recipes for sportsmen was in prepara- 

 tion and nearly completed before his last illness. 



Always a bright and cheery companion and a true 

 friend, Henry H. Soule will be widely and sincerely 

 mourned. 



SOME CAMP PESTS. 



WE hear so much of the delights of life in camp that 

 those whose experience is limited are somewhat 

 given to imagine that camping is all sunshine, and that 

 not even a summer cloud rises above the horizon, to lower 

 the spirits of the woodsman by the prospects of a shower. 

 Old hands, however, those who measure the time that 

 they have spent in camp by years, and not by days or 

 weeks, know that this impression is an erroneous one, 

 and that there is no place where a man can be so utterly 

 wretched as in camp. That the past is always looked at 

 through rose-colored spectacles is due merely to the well 

 known fact that memory always brings out in strong re- 

 lief that which is pleasant, while sad and painful recol- 

 lections soon fade from the mind. And it is well that 

 tins should be so, for were men to recall the trials, disap- 

 pointments and misfortunes of life as vividly as they do 

 their past pleasures, successes and triumphs, one of Mr. 

 Mallock's queries would certainly be answered by most 

 people in the negative. But we forget in part all that is 

 dL-agreeable, or if we remember it, do so with pleasure, 

 and in our present happier circumstances laugh at past 

 miseries. 



Of the torture caused by mosquitoes, blackflies and 

 fleas; or the pronounced and sincere dejection caused by 

 traveling day after day through the rain, it is not worth 

 while to speak at length, for almost every one who has 

 lived in camp at all has been through these dismal ex- 

 periences. The sorrows of the insect-bitten wretch who 

 annomts himself with evil-smelling compounds in the 

 hope of thus escaping the attacks of his enemies, and of 

 the scarcely less unhappy mortal who for days is drenched 

 with rain, for nights has to sleep in wet blankets, and 

 whose food during all this time is cold, soggy and unat- 

 tractive, have often been recited. 



There are a number of camp annoyances, however, 

 which are not often experienced except by one whose 

 outdoor life has extended over a good deal of time, and 

 w- o has taken the rough with the smooth in many places. 

 One of these, and an extremely annoying one, especially 

 in autumn, is the plague of flies. These pests make 

 themselves felt all through the summer, but they are 

 especially annoying in the early autumn. They then be- 

 come veritable pests, spoiling , one's meat, getting into 

 d shes and food, both cooked and uncooked. But per- 

 haps the mo&t aggravating thing that these wretches do 

 is at the approach of sundown to collect inside the tent 

 and cluster in a thick black mass along the ridge pole. 

 Then as the night advances and it becomes colder, one 

 by one they lose their foothold and drop down on to the 

 faces of the individuals who are trying to go to sleep on 

 the ground below. It is really very annoying to be 

 roused just as you are stretching out your limbs before 

 dropping off to sleep by having a fly strike you on the 

 face and remain there. You shake it off, not exactly 

 kaowing what it is, and then presently one drops on the 

 blanket ju»t below your face, and then you feel your 

 next door neighbor start as one hits him. By this time 

 you have realized what the trouble is, and are in doubt 

 as to whether you had better get up and scrape all the 

 flies down from the tent or shall simply cover up your 

 head with the blanket and let them drop. In the former 

 rase you will be shivering with cold before you have 

 accomplished your task; in the latter you will be likely 

 to be kept awake half the night by the flies, which, re- 

 vived by the warmth of your body, will make little ex- 

 ploring tours under the blankets and will try to lodge 

 themselves between your clothing and your skin or to 



get into any other good warm place. The best thing to 

 do with meat when flies are troublesome is to raise it on 

 a pole as high above the ground as may be convenient. 

 On the top of a pole from 25 to 30ft. in height flies will 

 seldom find meat, and it is practically secure from their 

 attacks. 



The industrious ant too often proves himself a nuisance 

 to the camper who remains long in one spot, for unless 

 precautions are taken this small beast is likely to intro- 

 duce himself into all the receptacles in which provisions 

 are kept. This, however, is a small matter, for the in- 

 truders can be removed from such places without diffi- 

 culty. But when they swarm upon your blankets, either 

 because you have made your camp too close to their nest 

 or have incautiously dropped some fragments of food in 

 or near the tent, it is a difficult matter. It is an unques- 

 tioned fact that ants make very undesirable bedfellows, 

 and we have seen a sad-eyed lot of campers fairly driven 

 from their tent by the insects, and obliged to spread their 

 blankets, as best they could, at a distance from the can- 

 vas where they had originally sought repose. 



We have spent many a month in camp with an enthu- 

 siastic ornithologist, and when at night he would come 

 into the tent and spread out before us the treasures that 

 he had collected during the day, we have shared his de- 

 light and his enthusiasm. It has more than once hap- 

 pened, however, when we w r ere lying in camp for several 

 days, that some of his specimens had been overlooked 

 and had slipped behind some article in the tent. Then, 

 after it has lain there for a day or two, the burying 

 beetles begin to assemble. Where they come from it 

 would be hard to say. The first intimation of their pres- 

 ence is given by one of them sneaking to cover when the 

 fold of the blanket under which he has been concealed is 

 turned down. If he be found by an old hand, much pro- 

 fanity follows and a thorough clearing out of the tent. 

 As soon as the decaying specimen is removed, the trouble 

 ceases. The beetles having been expelled do not return. 

 While they are with us, however, they are very dis- 

 gusting. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



IN the current discussion of the Behring Sea seal fishery 

 question, many curious notions come to the surface. 

 Here is the Washington correspondent of the New York 

 Herald gravely asserting that the State Department is 

 disposed to adopt the theory that British captains must 

 keep their hands off because the seals breeding in 

 America's territory are "American property," no matter 

 where found. As set forth by the correspondent the con- 

 tention is this: "The seals have a habitation and breed- 

 ing ground in-shore and absolutely within the jurisdic- 

 tion of the United States. Our government could well 

 maintain that they did not lose their character as the 

 property of the United States by venturing into the high 

 seas." As a matter of fact seals are /eras natural', if they 

 leave American territory and take to the high seas we 

 have no more control than the Canadians have over 

 wild geese which breed in Canada and are killed in North 

 Carolina. Protection of the seals from water-killing in 

 Behring Sea is of the highest importance, but it will 

 never be attained by any such violation of first principles 

 as is this notion of "American property" in them. 



The formidable list of fifty-nine exempt counties named 

 in the Tennessee game law might give the impression that 

 the law must be restricted and local; but the State has 

 ninety six counties, and there still remains wide scope for 

 the law's application. Tennessee's neighbor, Georgia, has 

 no general State law, but each county is the subject of 

 special legislation. It is a large State, ana its climate is 

 diversified. In the north and west end are the mountain 

 ranges, where it is cold; in the east and south the coast 

 line and Florida borders. To the south, for instance, the 

 open season on quail and summer duck is a month earlier 

 than at Augusta. 



The communication from "Podgers" may be accepted 

 as fairly representing the sentiment of American holders 

 of Canadian fishing leases. The feeling against the sys- 

 tem is by no means universal; and we hear of one club, 

 now made up of Canadians, which is ready to enlarge its 

 membership by admitting Americans. This is the Lau- 

 rentides Club, which holds some very fine trout lakes 

 within a few hours of Quebec by rail and controls a tract 

 where there is good bear and caribou hunting. 



