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succeeded in bringing over thirty-five of the birds alive. 
Should they receive proper protection, they might in- 
crease, and should flourish in the mild climate of Missis- 
sippi. 
Tollcstoo Damages, 
On Jan. 11 the Circuit Court at Valparaiso, Ind.. 
awai'ded Theod'oi-e Prowl $5,000 damages in his suit 
against the Tojleston Gun Club for injuries received at 
the hands of the. club wardens. Prowl claims to have 
been injured in the imbroglio last spring, where a num- 
ber of farmers attacked four of the keepers of the club. 
The club will appeal this case. E. HbuGii. 
1206 BoYCE BuiLDliJG, Chicago. 
^^trail and Camp^re."* 
The third volume of the Book of the Boone and 
Crockett Club has just been issued; the two earlier ones, 
'.■American Big-Game Hunting" and "Hunting in Many 
Lands," having been published in 1S93 and 1895 re- 
spectively, the purpose of the club, we are told, being 
to issue one such volume every two years. 
"Ttail and Camp-Fire" we are inclined to regard the 
best of the three volumes. It is quite as entertaining as 
any of its predecessors, covers as wide a range of sub- 
jects, and at the same time it has in it more material of 
permanent value than either of the other two. We are 
quite in agreement with the remarks in the editors' 
preface, when they say: •"The two earlier volumes of 
the club's publications, though devoted chiefly to ac- 
counts of hunting adventure, contain also considerable 
matter bearing on the natural history of North American 
game and forest preservation. . In the present volume 
an eflfort_ is made to devote more space to the natural 
history side of our large animals, for the publications of 
the club should contain material of permanent value. Of 
course, any book, whether on hunting or science, should 
be interesting, but it should be something else too. 
Hunting stories should be more than merely pleasant 
reading. The purposes of the club are serious, and its 
published papers should be of a lasting character. 
* * * The big-game hunter is a man who travels 
about with his eyes open, and the more familiar he is 
with the habits of game, the greater will be his success. 
The best hunters owe their success less to their skill 
with the rifle than to the knowledge which they have 
acquired of the game that they pursue, and the closer 
a man's habits of observation, the more speedily will he 
become a hunter." 
This handsome volume of more than 350 pages is 
made up of a dozen contributions by different members 
of the Boone and Crockett Club, to which are added a 
list of books written hy members, the constitution of 
the Boone and Crockett Club, together with a list of 
the officers and members. 
At the annual meeting of the club held in January, 
1897, Mr. A. P. Low, of the Canadian Geological Sur- 
vey, talked in most interesting fashion, taking for his 
subject the Peninsula of Labrador, which he treated from 
the point of view most likely to interest sportsmen. An 
abstract of this paper, treating of the history, topogra- 
phy, human inhabitants, game and fish of Labrador, oc- 
cupies the first thirty-five pages of the book, and these 
are full of interest, for there is no one who can speak 
so authoritatively on this country as Mr. Low. He it was 
who first crossed it from one coast to the other, and his 
explorations of it have continued up to the present day. 
The interesting and amusing character sketch of' a 
conducted on a scale SD entirely different from anything 
that we know about that Ave can only accept the state- 
ments of travelers without trying to understand them. 
The illustrations of African big game found in this chap- 
ter are especially good. 
, The piece in this book which is inoSt attractive is 
the Sketch of Canadian winter hunting, by Mr, C. Grant 
La Far.ge, called "Sintamaskin." This, sketch possesses 
jar moi-e litetai-y quality . than any other found in the 
book. The reader sees what is being Avritten about, not 
because the writer laboriously strives to make him set- 
it, but because the writer is so saturated with deep feeling 
for the scenes that he is describing that, unconsciously 
and without efifprt, he brings tKeir salient points before 
death its president, Gen, Benjamin H. Bristow. An ad- 
mirable portrait of Gen. Bristow forms the frontispiece 
of the present volume, and a brief tribute to the worth 
of this accomplished lawyer, soldier and statesman ap- 
pears just before the fii-st article in the volume. 
Elsmore. 
Elsinore, Cal., Jan. t2. — Nestling amid mountains is 
pretty Elsinore Lake, thirty miles from Riverside, the 
orange garden of southern California. Pleasantly situ- 
ated on the north bank is Elsinore, a city of 300 souls, 
containing a good hotel and bathhouse, numerous hot 
sulphur springs, and a straggly main street. The re- 
THE FIRST RHINOCEROS. 
From "Tf4il and Carap-Flre." 
his reader's eyes. A paper by Mr. Grinnell, on "Wolves 
and Wolf Nature," gives much recondite information 
about Western wolves large and small, and Mr. Theo- 
dore Roosevelt, in a paper entitled "On the Little Mis- 
souri," tells in a capitalb' spirited way about the hunting 
there in modern daj's, 
From the naturalist's standpoint, the composite chap- 
ter entitled "Bear Traits" is one of the most interesung 
in the book. It has to do very little with killing bears, 
but gives the observations of four members on two spe- 
cies of bears. The sections by Dr. Merriam, Mr. Roose- 
velt and Mr. Stimson are extremely interesting. 
The Hon. W. Carey Sanger's article on "The Adiron- 
dack Deer Law." and Mr. Madison Grant's on "The Ori- 
THE BIG ELEPHANT. 
From \Vm. Lord Smith's "African TTunting Trip," in "Trail and Camp-Fix-e." 
Western mountain man, from the pen of Mr. Lewis S. 
Thompson, was recently printed in Forest and Stream, 
East Africa is a region so far away that for most 
American sportsmen it has an exceeding interest. For 
this reason Dr. William Lord Smith's narrative of his 
hunting trip into the interior from Aden will be eagerly 
read. It is hard for an American to comprehend these 
great expeditions, where the men are often numbered by 
the hundreds and camels by fifties. African hunting is 
Trail and Camp-Fire. The Book of the Boone and Crockett 
Uub. Editors, George Bird Grinnell, Theodore Roosevelt. New 
^"^ Stream Publishing Company, Illustrated. 
Price .$2.50. 
gin of the New York Zoological Society," ai-e chiefly his- 
torical, and of special interest to members of the club 
as showing the work which it has done. 
Mr. Pierce's tale of "A Newfoundland Caribou Hunt" 
is told Avith spirit, but there seems to have been more 
than enough killing by the members of this party. 
The Boone and Crockett Club is doing a good work 
in striving to raise the standard of sportsmanship in 
America. _ It does not claim perfection for all its mem- 
bers, yet it is striA'-ing always to improve matters, and its 
books ought to be in the hands of all hunters of large 
game. 
It will be remembered that in 1896 the club lost by 
mainder of the assets of the toAvn consists of memories 
of the "boom." In fact, all southern California now 
dates, not from the war, but from the boom. The tOAvn 
is scattered in an astonishing fashion, for land in "boom" 
days was too valuable to build upon, and the Elsinore 
limits could easily contain a population of 50,000 people. 
The hunter, Avhile following the lively quail in the foot- 
hills, tAvo or three miles from town, stumbles frequently 
over town lot stakes, firmly imbedded in the adobe soil. 
But in these degenei'ate days the chief excuse for the 
existence of the little city is the curative powers of the 
hot springs, the Avaters of which are efficacious in cases 
of gout and rheumatism and all diseases of the skin. 
The lake, which is three miles wide and five in length, 
SAvarms with wild fowl, and despite the efforts of the 
small boy and him of larger groAvth, who pepper away 
incessantly from the shores, and of two or three market 
hunters and a fcAV murderous night shooters, the birds 
refuse to be driven out. Spoonbills are the most numer- 
ous of the ducks, although there is a fair sprinkling of 
canvasbacks, sprigs, redheads, butterballs and black- 
jacks, with now and then a fcAv mallard or teal. Wild 
geese and brant are plentiful, and the empty spaces are 
filled in Avith mudhens, loons and divers innumerable. 
The market hunters crouch in small, flat-bottomed boats 
and use a pair of very short paddles, Avhich they work 
like a pair of flippers, the hands being under water. By 
this means it is easy to sneak near enough to a flock for 
a pot shot, and they manage to bag two or three dozen 
ducks and an occasional goose in a day's work. 
The night shooters, with their jacklights, do much 
more execution, and although against the law, no effort 
is made to bring the offenders to book. 
Although "blinds" are common enough, decoys and 
calls seem to be little used, the shooters generally being 
out for meat, not sport, and preferring to take pot shots 
at the unAvary fowl feeding in too close to shore. 
I am of the opinion that fair bags could be made from 
good blinds by the use of goose and duck decoys and 
calls. 
Quail are found in good numbers in the adjacent foot- 
hills and caflons, but cannot Avell be hunted with dogs- 
kin account of the cactus. The most ambitious dog is 
apt to lose his ardor after one or two encounters with 
this saA^age plant. One hunter came back to the hotel a 
day or two since with his knee well studded with the 
tiny spines, and though he has worked industriously 
with tweezers, some of the spears still remain under the 
skin to torment him. The valley c(uail at this season are 
of a bluish drab color conforming' closely to the color of 
the bushes. Their flight is something startling in its 
swiftness, and I have seldom seen a countenance moie 
eloquent of disgust than that of an Eastern shooter on 
his return from his first morning's hunt, with two birds 
out of fifteen acknowledged chances. 
After a couple of trials, hoAA'ever, he began to catch 
on, and is now having good success. The birds are mar- 
velous runners, and the Eastern man finds chasing them 
up the steep sides of canons and over precipitous hills, 
waist high with grease wood or sage brush, a very dif- 
ferent matter from folloAving a Avell-trained dog over a 
level, open field at home. However, if one does not get 
as much game out here, he at least gets the exhilaration 
of deep lungs full of superb mountain air and magnificent 
vi.stas of snoAV-clad ranges on every hand, and in view of 
this and the robustious appetite thus acquired, he may 
console himself with the reflection that "Not all of hunt- 
ing is in game," L, J, M. 
