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March 23, 1895. 
well knew that that hunt was up. The chill of the night 
made us go to camp. 
A day or two after this, Mr. C. and I were on another 
dead-water stream at the head of the lake, and Mr. C, as 
usual, sat in the bow with rifle in hand, and as we came 
round a bend, three deer stood at the water's edge. He 
fired at one. As the ball struck the deer leaped into the 
water and swam for the opposite shore, the other two 
leaping after the first, and he finished the three before 
they could land. We hauled them on shore, loaded 
them into the canoe and started for camp. When we got 
to the lake it looked a little risky to go down the lake, but 
the wind was with us and we started. The further we 
went, the rougher the water, but we landed safely, ship- 
ping some water. 
This ended our hunt. Talk about camp life; and such 
appetites as we all had, with good big hard wood fires, 
and nothing to eat but moose, deer, caribou steak, cran- 
berry sauce, best of Maine potatoes, pork and beans, bread, 
and a variety of other eatables. Every man was sorry to 
break camp, but the time had now come, and we packed 
up and went to the foot of the lake, hoisted a gate in the 
dam that gave us water to run our canoes with, the most 
of our game, down the, stream to the next lake and met 
the teams that took us out twenty-five miles to the rail- 
road. I left the canoes and camp kit for parties that were 
coming later. 
Lowell, Me, J. Dakling. 
THE SPORTSMEN'S EXHIBITION. 
The Board of Trustees of the Sportsmen's exposition 
have received the following additions to the list of exhib- 
itors: Overman Company, Smith & Wesson Revolver Com- 
pany, Reublien Brothers, Barney & Barry Skate Com- 
pany, Outing Publishing Company, Chemical Lubricating 
Oil Company. 
This increase clearly shows the growing confidence and 
interest in the exposition, and swells the number of rented 
spaces to near.y eighty. The attention of the association 
is now bsing given to plans, by which the sportsmen and 
the general public may be taken care of when the exposi- 
tion opens and be properly handled on the several days. Ar- 
rangements are now in progress to devote one day "each to 
the several geographical sections in the vicinity of New 
York. The dates are not yet decided upon, but one day 
will be devoted to all the shooting, fishing and field clubs 
of the State of New Jersey. On this day the organiza- 
tions will reign supreme, and it will be known as New 
Jersey Day. One day will be set aside for Long Island, 
one day for New York State, one day for Westchester 
County and vicinity and one day for clubs of all the 
States. On each of these days official badges of recogni- 
tion will be issued to every club, and special courtesies 
will be tendered to them by the Association. 
Another special feature in the attendance will be a 
hotel-keeper's day, on May 13, when the convention of 
hotel-keepers of the United States will hold its meeting. 
Several thousand delegates will attend, and special ar- 
rangements will be made with the delegates to attend the 
Sportsmen's Exposition in a solid body. The event can- 
not fail to attract a large representation from every 
quarter. In the same line with this liberal policv. the 
Sportsmen's Exposition has undertaken the herculean 
task of sending by mail 200,000 circular letters giving in- 
formation regarding the exposition. These circulars will 
be sent to every known sportsman throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe, which will include 
ministers, lawyers, journalists, railroad officers and pro- 
fessional men generally, who are interested in field 
sports. This plan has been adopted as the most effective 
means by which the army of sportsmen who will, if they 
are well informed of the character and objects of the ex- 
position, be desirous of becoming associate members of 
the Sportsmen's Association, by which means they will 
be entitled to the advantages 'of special reduced travel- 
ling rates on railroad and steamship lines. In order for 
the general public to obtain the benefit of the one and one- 
third rate of the several roads, the companies require you 
to be a member of the Sportsmen's Association, and the 
association has under its constitution, a membership of 
associate members for exposition purposes only, and for 
information regarding terms of membership and railroad 
rates, address Frederic S. Webster, Sec'y, 106 E. Twenty- 
third street, New York City. 
Though this exposition is the maiden effort of the asso- 
ciation, the management has been unstinting in its ap- 
propriations and expenditures. The outlay necessary to 
promote and successfully carry out the exposition on a 
liberal and dignified basis is very large, and represents a 
sum never before devoted to the sportsmen's interest. 
, The association hopes by holding these expositions, to ac- 
complish the education of the sportsmen by gathering to- 
gether, from all climes,"the manufacturer, the dealer, the 
inventor, the hunter, the guide, the painter and the 
author, and examples of all ^the animal life which are 
worthy to be entitled game, and which are the justifica- 
tion of the existence of the sportsman, and hold conven- 
tions worthy of the cause we represent. And as we are 
seeking to serve the fraternity with a broad and liberal 
policy, we ask the sportsmen and general public not to 
commit an error by believing this exposition is intended as 
a money speculation. The association is a legally in- 
corporated body under the laws of the State of New York, 
and the idea of the association is the study and dissemina- 
tion of interest in field sports, and the holding of exposi- 
tions an d exhibitions. The assignment of assembly rc oms 
or headquarters where those interested in field sports may 
assemble, and incidentally, the founding of a sportsman's 
library in such headquarters, for the use of members and 
visitors. The vast scope and variety of the exhibition 
will make it absolutely impossible for one to see and fully 
appreciate more than a small portion in one visit, and 
those who are inclined to keep conversant with the 
modern march of inventions and improvements in the ap- 
pliances of the sportsman, must not fail to attend the ex- 
position. 
The magnitude of the undertaking is increasing each 
day. Offers for the Loan and Trophy Department are 
coming in so rapidly that w<> shall be able to select from 
the many collections only the best typical examples to 
show the resources of this great country as a paradise for 
the sportsman if properly protected. Several very valu- 
able collections have been offered for exhibition and al- 
ready accepted, Selections of atypical specimens. of 
mounted large game have been made from the collections 
of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Austin Corbin, William 
Zeigler, Archibald Rogers, G-. O. Shields, Dr. H. Rowe, 
and many well known sportsmen. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
TRY IT BY THE FIRE, PARDNER. 
Chicago, Ills., March 8.— A brutal newspaper para- 
graph has the following to say in regard to a recent at- 
tempt at Arctic exploration: "Some two months ago 
two enterprising newspaper men, representing Harper's 
Weekly, undertook a trip into the Arctic circle, going by 
way of Edmonton, for the purpose of studying and sketch- 
ing the musk ox in his northern feeding ground. A few 
days since, one of them (Heming, ot Hamilton, Out.) 
passed over the C. P. R. eastward. The cold weather had 
affected him internally, particularly in the marrow of his 
bones, and he was prevailed upon to allow his companion 
to proceed to interview the musk ox alone." 
HH AND CONAN. 
This months' McClure's Magazine has an article by A. 
Conan Doyle telling about a ski trip in Europe. Me and 
Conan are about the only great men that ever tackled 
the ski business, an' we're no skates, see? But if Conan 
will come over to Hamerica and interview Billy Hofer in 
the Rocky Mountains, Billy will teach him not to get 
himself photographed with a lot of snow chumped up 
and sticking along the bottom of his ski. That is very 
bad ski form, Conan. 
THE FIRST HOUSE IN MISSOULA. 
Mr.JWill Cave, of Missoula, Mont., writes interestingly 
below of old, old timer friend Uncle Bill Hamilton. 
"A couple of evenings since, before a meeting of the Mis- 
soula Board of Trade, Hon. Frank H. Woody, Judge of 
the judiciary district , of which Missoula county comprises 
the principal part, made a speech on the subject of "Mis- 
soula in I860 and 1895. ! ' In the course of his remarks, he - 
referred to the fact that the first house in what is now 
Missoula was built by "Uncle Bill Hamilton," or "Wild 
Cat Bill," as he was familiarly known in those days. The 
speaker also referred to the write up of "Uncle Bill Hamil- 
on" in a late issue of Forest and Stream. Mr. Woody has 
been in the valley since '56 or '58 and was well ac- 
quainted with Hamilton in the early days. I, myself, 
have lived in Missoula since '2. (The first house referred 
to was built in '64) and I'm perfectly well acquainted with 
the "first" house, but did not before know the name of 
the builder. After the close of the meeting, Mr. Woody 
told several anecdotes of "Wild Cat Bill," one of which 
was the same as the one wrote of in which Bill drove the 
"man eater" out of the saloon with the butcher knife. 
The description, however, was a little more highly 
colore 1 than was yours. Mr. Moody also declared 
Hamilton a perfect master of the Indian sign language." 
HOW TO KEEP MINNOWS ALIVE. 
Mr. E. S. Whitaker, of Carthage, O., writes as below 
of a matter of interest to those who have often had their 
legs wetted by a sloshing minnow pail or a rough road, 
and who at the end of the road had often found most of 
their minnows wrong side up in the pail. He says: 
"I have just been looking over 'the best paper on 
earth,' Forest and Stream, and in the issue of March 3, 
1894, I notice your note and query in regard to the infor- 
mation derived by Mr. Jos. Irwin, of Little Rock, Ark., 
as to the best way of transporting the minnows. 
"The best way that I have found was suggested to me in 
a conversation in 1886 with that genial sportsman, Tom 
Gaddis, who used to hold forth at the St. James Hotel, 
Cincinnati. We were having a bass fishing experience, 
meeting and exchanging notes. He had been down in 
Kentucky, and on one of his outings had overtaken a 
veritable 'old Isaac' wading the stream. He found 
he was using minnows for bait, which he carried in his 
pocket in a large-mouthed bottle that would hold five or 
six, v hich was two-thirds filled with water, and kept 
tightly corked, except when he wanted a fresh minnow 
therefrom. He was informed that minnows could be 
carried a long distance with slight loss if put in a two or 
three gallon jug two-thirds filled with water and kept 
corked. A friend and myself tried the experiment the 
next season and transported in that manner a jug full of 
minnows eighteen miles to the lake we were to camp on, 
and when we emptied the contents into the screens that 
were to be anchored for future use at the mouth of a 
brook, we found that we had lost but one minnow. It 
was a decided improvement on the old way of carrying 
in minnow buckets and changing water frequently, and 
losing perhaps one-quarter to one-third of the number at 
that. Since then when I had minnows to transport any 
distance I have adopted the jug system." 
SOMETHING NEW IN GAME LAWS. 
North Dakota has given us something new in game 
laws. Her legislature has adjourned and gone home, but 
before leaving passed the sportsmen's bill requiring $25 
license of non-resident shooters. The non-export clause 
also passed. The result of this departure from the estab- 
lished lines of game protection will be watched with a 
great deal of interest by men in many States. It shows 
the singular bound forward into general prominence of 
game legislation matters in the West this season. I do 
not doubt there will be a wail from many who have 
formerly shot free in North Dakota. For my own part, 
no State can make the killing of a bird, by a resident or a 
non-resident, too hard a matter- to suit me. Enough will 
be killed any way you can fix it. The Dakota men will 
now do themselves a further and pronounced benefit if 
they will watch closely the enforcement of the non-ship- 
ment clause. 
SOME COUNTY LEGISLATION. 
'McHenry county, Illinois, is right in line with the 
progress of modern thought in protective matters, or may 
be a few miles ahead of tiie line. Its board of supervisors 
has passed a bill establishing a bounty of twenty-five 
cents a head for woodchucks, and ten cents a head for 
crows. In the opinion of these wise men, McHenry 
county is all going to the dogs because of the terrific de- 
struction created annually by those ferocious animals, 
the woodchuck and the crow. 'There be wise men in some 
localities. In this same county of McHenry, the destrucn 
Won of game fish by- fajmers who fish through the Ice on 
the bass waters illegally, is greater than in almost any 
county of the State. Is it, then, really the wish of these 1 
wise farmers to destroy as early as possible every living 
wild creature once native to this region? 
GONE SOUTH. 
r Mr.' Ceo. E. Cole, whom I deem to have been in the< 
time of his activity, without doubt the foremost and 
most successful man in protective matters we ever had 
in Illinois, is at this writing in the South with members! 
of his family on a search for health and relaxation. He 
will be gone about six weeks, visiting Florida, Georgia; 
and other parts of the land of sunshine. 
PRETTY. 
The boat catalogue issued this season by Dan Kidney 
Son, of West De Pere, Wis. , is a pretty thing and 'de- 
scribes pretty things. E Hough. I 
A LAST DAY WITH RUFFED GROUSE | 
Fitchburg, Mass.— Your correspondent, J. Bruce I 
Payne, says in the number of Feb. 3 that he would rather J 
still-iiunt the ruffed grouse and shoot one sitting or run-! 
ning on the ground than to shoot a dozen over a dog,; I 
further he says he never shot but one flying or on the! 
wing. According to his own statement, he never shot a j 
bird over a dog. Still-hunting is all right and sometimes! 
when in the right mood I enjoy it, but it is not to be! 
mentioned in the same month w'.th hunting the king of J 
game birds, the ruffed grouse, over a thoroughly trained 1 
pointer or setter. Let Bro. Payne go with us in imagi-! 
nation as I describe our last days' grouse shooting of f 
November. 
The snow came very early, then several warm clays took! 
most of the snow away except on the northern slopes. I 
There were four of us. my shooting friend H. A. and his I 
Gordon setter Don E. and myself and my black pointer ! 
Duke C.,both dogs thoroughbred, upheaded, quick,! 
snappy workers, with brains enough in their heads to seel 
through any tricks the wily old grouse may try on.l 
These dogs are thorough grouse dogs, and a dog that can l| 
successfully circumvent the New England grouse can! 
give good shooting on any gam e bird" that flies, and a I 
sportsman who can bring to bag a good string of grouse 1 
can very easily "catch on" to most any kind of shootingrJ 
We left the city at 7 o'clock a. m. and drove out! 
about five miles, it was a lovely morning and an ideal I 
day. Arriving at the first cover, we drove off th&l 
main road a short distance, donned shooting coats, put the! 
guns together, and when all was ready, spoke to the dogs) 1 
who had been lying in the carriage, intently watching! 
every niove; and when the command "hie on" was given,! 
we were all quickly in the bush. H. A. goes to the rightl 
and I to the left, from thirty to fifty yards apart, Wei 
soon enter an open pine woods, have just entered when! 
an old grouse goes sailing away from the top of a ridgel 
ahead of us, and out of gun-shot. We are quicklyf 
through the pines, and come to the cover we are to hunt;! 
this piece is nearly square, and we hunt toward the east.I 
H. A. keeps to the right and I hunt along the north edge.I 
This is generally a good cover for birds, but a hard place! 
to shoot in, the brash is so very thick; it is a sprout lot! 
and has apple trees in it. I work my side all through! 
and never start a thing, but just as I reach the east edgel 
I hear "mark" from H. A. quite a distance to the southjl 
and immediately get ready; but no bird shows. Soil 
work up that way and meet H. A. at the upper corner, ! 
who says that a bird had gone across the corner of the] 
next pasture into the next run. So, after him we go.* 
This cover is long and narrow, just a good gun-shot! 
across; there is quite a thicket in the right hand corner,! 
and we make up our minds that the old fellow is hidingi 
in there, so we decided to hunt the rest of the cover first, 1 j 
then come back and flush the bird across the opehi 
pasture, and thus secure an open shot. H. A. takes the I 
right as before, and keeps close to the wall on the south I 
side; I follow the north edge, and we work the dogs back I 
and forth, they meeting in the centre. When about, I 
half way down the run I saw several apple trees on H. I 
A.'s side and just as I am thinking ''what a likely place I 
that is," I hear "mark" from H. A,, and at the same j 
time the roar of three grouse getting out of there as only I 
a ruffed grouse can get out. I caught a glimpse of only ; 
one just going behind one of the apple trees, and looking: I 
ahead saw a little opening between the pine trees, and as! 
I saw a flash I swing in (with the eye of faith) and "un-| 
hitch" and hear the satisfactory thud as she strikes thel 
ground some twenty yards from where I shot. I tell] 
Duke "dead bird, fetch," and in he goes after her. I hear! 
some tall fluttering, and Duke returns without the bird,! 
looking rather cheap. I give a little twist on his collar* 
and say, "fetch," and he disappears again, and very sooni 
returning with a fine bird, still alive, held very lightly in [ 
his mouth, sits down in front of me and holds it up with! 
an "hurry up and take it" expression in his eyes. Duke! 
was naturally hard-mouthed, and had recently received! 
some lessons by the force system, so when this bird! 
fluttered he was a little shy about picking her up, but! 
from that day to this he ne^er has refused to fetch any-! 
thing I have asked him to, dead or alive, and is always! 
tender-mouthed. The force system is the way to always 
insure a good retriever. 
H. A. said Don was pointing stiff as a stake under thel 
first apple tree, when up went three birds, but he couldJ 
not see them to get a shot, so we knew there was tw c! 
birds ahead of us, and on we go after them. When withJ 
in about seventy-five yards of the end of the run, DukeJ 
points, then immediately roads to the north edge, 1 cut 
around into the open just outside and saw the dog slowljl 
moving along just inside the wall. After a little he swings! 
to the right where the co^er is very thick, so I get on toj. 
of the wall about thirty yards from the east end. Duke 
is out of sight, but pretty soon I saw Don drawing down! 
toward my corner, with head high and nose out, until he! 
looked about half again his usual length; wondering! 
where Duke was, I looked and saw him following about! 
fifteen feet behind Don. This bird was a runner, and! 
this was the bird that Duke had been following alithfi 
time. Don in coming down through the thick brush! 
struck on ahead of Duke without seeing him, but Dukf I 
kept right on "sawing wood" with the result that thejl 
both came to a dead stand about ten yards from thtjl 
corner, Don ahead and Duke about six feet behind himj 
H. A. got over in the meadow at the east end; I was still 
on top of the wall on the north side, Now I tell you thaJ 
