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Nessmuk. 
Kelpie has sent us for reading some letters which 
were written by Nessmuk to Antler, and from them 
we are permitted to quote these characteristic para- 
graphs : 
In Pennsylvania* 
You would not know the Pennsylvania counties, of 
which you speak, at the present time. Lumber, oil, 
bark, railroads, etc., have got the lead, and the grand 
old forests are spoiled for you and me. It is well. Un- 
told wealth has waited and wasted for ages, and now 
when it is needed and can be utilized it is not to be 
expected that it will remain untouched, that a few old 
woods loafers may catch trout and kill deer occasion- 
ally. But all the same, I feel it, and hate log-butchers, 
bark-peelers, tanneries, pipe-lines, tram-roads and the 
whole cursed outfit most cordially. Well the deer and 
the trout pretty well lasted my time, and I can afford 
to keep the peace. 
In Florida. 
But the laziness of the land, the listless carelessness 
of the Cracker, is over and around me as a misty halo — 
and the days go and come, and I lose run of the week 
and even of the month, and don't care a sou marque. 
Harvey Cedars. 
Morristown, N. J., July 29. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I observe in your issue of July 16 a note from Mr. 
Leonard Hulit on New Jersey shore fishing, in which 
he says: "From Harvey Cedars the reports continue to 
be of the best. Mr. Walter Davis spent the Fourth 
there, and landed eleven red drum or channel bass, ag- 
gregating 240^1bs." 
This is an error. There were three men in the party 
with Mr. Davis: H. T. Green, J. Sullivan and L. P. 
Streeter. We fished two days and the catches were as 
follows: 
July 3. — W. W. Davis, 3 fish, 23, 24 and 22lbs.; H. T. 
Green, 1 fish, 261bs. ; J. Sullivan, 1 fish, 2olbs. ; L. P. 
Streeter, 3 fish. 22, 22, and i81bs. 
July 4. — L. P. Streeter, 2 fish, 25. 22^1bs. Total, 10 
fish, 224j41bs. I sent eight of these fish to a friend in 
Asbury Park, who distributed them among acquaint- 
ances, and somehow the report was circulated that Mr. 
Davis had caught the fish. L. P. Streeter. 
A Dictionary of Trout and Bass Flies* 
Mr. Malcolm Shipley, of Philadelphia, sends us a 
"Dictionary of Trout and Bass Flies," in which he has 
described 450 and odd flies in such a way that from the. 
particulars given one may identify the artificial flies 
of the day. The descriptions give colors of body, wings, 
hackle and tail. Thus one coachman is described: Body 
brown herl, wings white, hackle brown, no tail. The 
arrangement is a classification of body color; and a 
full index affords ease of reference. The dictionary is 
Hkolv to be well received as a convenient and useful 
guide. 
St. Clair Flats Record Bass. 
Port Huron, Mich., July 22. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Detroit Free Press of yesterday reported 
that Dan Davies, who has been bass fishing in the North 
Channel with Thomas Neal and H. A. Avery, deputy 
game warden, last Friday caught the largest small-mouth 
black bass of which there is any official record. It 
weighed 81bs. after being out of the water nearly an hour, 
was 2^y 2 m. long and I7^in. girth. It required nearly 
twenty minutes of very skillful handling on the part of 
Mr. Davi&s to land it. North Channel is at St. Clair 
Flats. J. R. C. 
Massachusetts Low Waters. 
_^ Chicopee Falls, Mass., July 27. — The Chicopee, 
Connecticut and Westfield rivers and their tributaries are 
lower than they have been in years, and fishermen are 
reaping a rich harvest. Yellow perch, pickerel, bull- 
heads and suckers are being caught in large numbers in 
the deep pools in the rivers. One party caught 163 fish 
in the Chicopee River one day last week. Fishermen say 
that the low water and the actual drying up of some of 
the smaller streams will have a disastrous effect upon the 
fish, and that they will be scarce for a year or two in 
consequence. 
Wisconsin Fishing. 
Woodruff, Wis., July 26. — J. S. Bockee and David 
G.Bockee stayed at Trout Lake thirteen days; fished ten 
days at Trout Lake, Little John, Webb, Muscallonge. 
White Sand and Olloquash lakes; caught over 100 pike 
weighing from 2 to 9lbs., mostly large; fifty black bass 
from 1 to 3lbs., and three muscallonge; could have 
caught many more fish if we had cared to fish all of the 
time. K. 
Montana Fish and Game. 
Bozeman Station, Mont, July 25. — We have had a 
cool summer so far — to-day the hottest of the season, 
86° — and most o£ the summer too cool. Trout fishing 
is now at its best, though not phenomenal, in other 
words, "hog" catches have been made. Gravling and 
whitefish ^ fishing is fairly good. Dusky grouse and 
"chickens" '(sharp-tailed grouse) promise to be plentiful. 
J, A. Henshall. 
Lake Champlain. 
Burlington. Vt, July 30.— Fishing was perhaps never- 
better in the lake, than it has been recently. The list 
of fish caught includes black bass, perch, pickerel, wall- 
eyed pike, rock bass and muscalonge. Some large 
catches of bass have been made off the docks in this 
vicinity. The best fishing grounds are reached "with 
sail or row boats* ( ^ A 
The Missouri Dogfish. 
St. Louis, July 25. — Editor Forest and Stream: I am 
encouraged to drop you a line after reading Mr. F. A. 
Lucas' enthusiastic account of his catch of a carp in 
your issue of 23d inst. I am a firm believer that the 
bass, black or green, are really the game fish of Ameri- 
can waters, tarpon, tuna, etc., to the contrary notwith- 
standing. With any kind of bait they are found to take 
hold and make a great fight for their lives or freedom. 
But there is a fish in these diggin's — Missouri swamps 
and rivers — which I hold, with many others, are equal 
to them all; that is the much-despised dogfish or grinnel, 
as many call them; another name is the cypress trout. 
If our friend of carp experience will just tackle an 8 
or Tolb. swamp angel or dogfish, as I have done, with 
a 10ft. rod and line to match, and let him "skive" around 
among the drift logs, slashing everything movable in 
his efforts for freedom, I am inclined to think he will 
give the dogfish the preference. In summer and some- 
times late spring and fall fishing they are numerous in our 
rivers. Although we do not enjoy catching them, they 
always give us a fight and keep us- guessing as to whether 
we have a big jack salmon or some other monster of 
the deep, as they never come to a show until they are 
obliged to. 
But with all his fighting qualities, we prefer to pull 
out a 2^2 or 31b. bass to a iolb. grinnel. 
John G. P. 
Florida Summer Fishing. 
Mr. Frank M. Tyler, of Fort Pierce, on the Indian 
River, Fla., writes to our correspondent, Mr. E. S. 
Young, under recent date: "Everything is lively here 
now on account of the war. Fishing is fine. I killed a 
tarpon on July 8 at Inlet; first of the season. They are 
plentiful now, and about first of August I expect to get 
one or two more." 
'he MmneL 
Fixtures. 
Sept. 7. — Manitoba Field Trials Club trials. William C. Lee, 
Sec'y, Winnipeg, Man. 
Sept. 12. — Northwestern Field Trials Club's Champion Stake, 
near Winnipeg. Thos. Johnson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 7.— Indiana Field Trials Club's trials, Bicknell, Ind. W. 
H. Dye, Sec'y. 
Nov. 11.— Eastern Field Trials Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
S. C. Bradley, Sec'y. 
Nov. 15.— International Field Trial Club's trials, Chatham. Ont. 
W. B. Wells, Sec'v. 
Dec. 0-6.— Missouri Valley Field .Trial Club's trials. C. H. 
Werner, Sec'y. 
Dec. —.—Continental Field Trial Club's trials, Lexington, N. 
C. W. B. Meares, Sec'y. 
Manitoba Derby. 
Winnipeg, July 29. — Editor Forest and Stream: I beg 
to inclose you supplementary list of our club's Derby 
stake, which were received by mail after former list was 
sent you. This makes a total of forty: 
Pedro, liv. and w. ticked pointer dog, whelped July 
23, 1897 (Virden Shot— Jessie), R. H. O'Hara, owner. 
Sancho, liv. and w. ticked pointer dog,, whelped July 
23, 1897 (Virden Shot — Jessie), D. McEwen, owner. 
Lena, b. b. w. and t. setter bitch, whelped May, 1897 
(Tony Boy — Nellie C), D. E. Rose, agent. 
Dewey, b. w. and t. setter dog, whelped May, 1897 
(Tony Boy — Nellie C), D. E. Rose, agent. 
Sampson, b. w. and t. setter dog, whelped May, 1897 
(Tony Boy — Nellie C), D. E. Rose, agent. 
Wadcleil, lem. and w. setter dog, whelped February, 
1897 (Count Gladstone— Lillian Russell), D. E. Rose, 
agent. 
Glad's Girl, lem. and w. setter bitch, whelped Feb- 
ruary, 1897 (Count Gladstone — Lillian Russell), D. E. 
Rose, agent. 
Lad of Jingo, liv. and w. pointer dog, whelped June, 
1897 (Jingo — Dot's PearlL D. E. Rose, agent. 
Dan R., liv. and w. pointer dog, whelned January, 
1S97 (Love's Kent ), D. E. Rose, agent. 
William C. Lee, Sec'y-Treas. 
Brunswick Fur Club Trials. 
Roxbury, Mass., July 25.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
I shall be greatly obliged to you if you will announce 
that the tenth annua! foxhound trials of the Brunswick 
Fur Club will be held at Barre, Mass., during the week of 
Oct. 17, 1898, Bradford S. Turpin, Sec'y. 
Points and Flushes. 
Dallas. Texas, will have a dog show in connection 
with the State Fair, Oct. 4 to 8. There will be $2,200 
in premiums. Mr. Geo. W. Clayton (P. O. Box 914, 
Chicago) is superintendent and manager. 
About 100 miles below Abbyville we passed Burcket's 
Ferry. Standing on the bank of the stream was an old 
man with a long gray beard. He supported himself 
with a stick and was trembling in every limb. 
'You see that old man," said the captain, "his right 
arm and tongue are paralyzed. The story is a sad one 
and a lesson to men who are extravagant in their 
words. The old man had been running this ferry for many 
years, but he runs it no longer. About a year ago he was 
a strong and vigorous man. He was fond of deer hunt- 
ing, and always left a horn at the ferry to be blown when 
any one desired to cross. He was on a deer hunt a 
year ago. The dogs were in the head of the chase, and 
he was thoroughly enthused, when suddenly the sound 
of the horn called him to duty. He wheeled around to 
return to the ferry, leaving the dogs to run the race 
out, and with an oath said: 
"If I don't give up that ferry, I hope to be paralyzed." 
. "As he uttered the words his right arm fell lifeless to 
his side, and his tongue refused- to articulate, He 
was paralyzed."— Atlantic Constitution. 
Fixtures, 
AUGUST. 
3-1-5. Corinthian Marbleluad, midsummer series, Mass. Bay. 
"i Tiun'con, cruise to Newport. 
3. Fall River, ladies' day, Mount Hope Bay. 
6. Chicago, race lo Mackinac Lake, Michigan. 
6. Corinthian Marblehead, open, Massachusetts Bay. 
6. Beverly, Van lvenssel;n.r cup, Marion. 
6. Hempstead Harbor, annual, Long Island Sound. 
6. Quincy, handicap, Boston Harbor. 
6. Wollaston, open, Boston Harbor. 
6-7. Winthrop, cruise, Boston Harbor. 
6. Norwalk, club, Long Island Sound. 
6. Mount Hope, open, Mount Hope Bay. 
6. Woods Holl, championship, Hadlev Harbor. 
6-8-9. Oshkosh, Green Lake cup, Felkcr cup, Oshkosh, Wis. 
6. Queen City, 16ft. class, Toronto. 
6. Royal Canadian, first and 22ft. classes, Toronto. 
6. Baltimore, McAllister cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
8. American, Newburyport day, Newburyport. 
9. Squam, open, Annisquam. 
10. East Gloucester, open, Gloucester Harbor. 
10-11. Chicago, open, Mackinaw. 
13. Beverly, sixth Corinthian, Buzzard's Bay. 
13. Queen City, 19ft. class, Toronto. 
13. Horseshoe Harbor, annual, Long Island Sound. 
13. New Jersey Ath., cup, Newark Bay. 
13. Cohasset, open, Cohasset Harbor. i 
13. Baltimore, Rear-Corn, cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
13. Corinthian Marblehead, open, Massachusetts Bay. 
13. Winthrop, evening race, Boston Harbor. 
13. Jubilee, championship, Massachusetts Bay. 
13. Burgess, cruise, Massachusetts Bay. 
13. Woods Holl, open, Woods Holl. 
13. American, cruise, Newburyport. 
13. Taunton, cruise to Newport. 
13. Shelter Island, open, Gardiner's Bay. 
13-14. Corinthian San Francisco, cruise, Port Richmond. 
13-18. Royal St. Lawrence, Seawanhaka international cup, Montreal, 
Lake St. Louis. 
13-14. East Gloucester, cruise, Gloucester. Mass. 
13. Green Bay, annual, Green Bay, Wis. 
18. Miramichi, Stewart pennant. Oak Point. 
18. Plymouth, open, Plymouth, Mass.* 
19. Kingston, open, Kingston, Mass. 
20. Huguenot, annual, Long Island Sound. 
20. Park City, annual, Long Island Sound. 
20. Duxbury, open, Duxbury, Mass. 
20. Quincy, handicap. Boston Harbor. I 
20. Winthrop, club, Boston Harbor. 
20. Woods Holl, championship, West Falmouth. i 
20. Beverly, seventh Corinthian, Buzzard's Bay. 
20. Burgess, championship, Massachusetts Bav. ; 
20. Royal Canadian, 27, 22 and skiff classes, Toronto. 
20. Baltimore,, McAllister cup, Chesapeake Bay. 
The mines in New York waters were all removed last 
week, those in the Lower Bay being lifted, all but four 
being recovered in good -condition. A number of the 
mines about Fort Schuyler and Willett's Point were ex- 
ploded, many people being present to witness the 
spectacle. A 5oolb. anchor was suspended from a raft 
over one of a group of mines connected by cables. A 
small amount of explosive was set off on the raft, drop- 
ping the anchor, which fell on the mine and canted it 
and the connected mines as well over to a horizontal 
position, causing them to explode. The restrictions on 
vessels entering or leaving the harbor have been en- 
tirely removed, and yachtsmen will have no further 
trouble. The yachts Free Lance, Restless.' Aileen and 
viking will be placed out of commission this week, their 
work of harbor patrol being ended. 
The description of the Malay prahu which we pub- 
lish this week is peculiarly interesting and appropriate 
from the fact that this strange type of craft, the fastest 
sailing boat afloat, is now practically an American insti- 
tution. It may be that we shall some clay see a gigantic 
prahu as a defender of the America Cup. 
The London Times of Aug. i announces that the 
Royal Ulster Y. C. wall shortly send a challenge for the 
America Cup. A particularly silly and improbable story 
in connection with a challenge from this club was pub- 
lished in April,- 1897, and the present report is probably 
a revival of it. 
Fox Lake Y. C 
Lake Villa — Fox Lake. 
Saturday, July 23. ■ 
The Fox Lake Y. C. sailed two races on 
free-for-all handicap in the morning, sailed 
breeze, and the fifth of the cup series in the 
practically a drift. The times of the morning 
Pistakee, 1:33; El Comancho. 1:33:17; Gadfly, 
In the afternoon race Mabelle led for a tim 
disabled by the loss of her rudder. The times 
Class A— Start 3:45. 
Finish. 
Pistakee 4 59 43 
Gadfly 5 00 13 
Louise 5 02 37 
Emily G 5 08 49 
Mabelle Did not 
Class B— Start 3:50. 
American Girl 5 19 55 
Victoria 5 24 55 
Sleepy Tom , 5 25 59 
Margaret 5 47 30 
Class C — Start 3:55. 
El Comancho ..5 18 29 
Faraway .....5 26 33 
Starling 5 28 48 
Weary Waggles 5 31 53 
Aeolus . . .w /. 5 34 28 
July 23. a 
in- a light 
afternoon, 
race were: 
1:34:23- 
e, but was 
were : 
Elapsed. 
1 14 55 
1 15 13 
1 17 37 
1-23 49 
finish. 
1 29 55 
1 34 55 
1 35 59 
1 23 29 
1 31 33 
1 33 49 
1 36 53 
1 39 2S 
Cape Cod Y. C* 
Orleans — Cape Cod Bay\ 
Saturday. July 30. 
The_ Qape Cod Y. C. sailed the second of its series 
races on the Town Cove on July 30, in a moderate S.W. 
wind. The times were: 
Length. Elaosed. Corrected. 
Ouahaug, E. Rogers 13.0$ 1 39 00 1 OS 47 
Swan, A. T. Newcomb 17.07 1 34 40 1 09 18 
Dolohin. Davenport 15.05 1 37 54 1 10 02 
Helen, A. Fulcher 18.03 1 34 45 1 10 03 
Elsie, Penniman «*J.4.Qf3 1 39 35 I 10 2? 
little Brave, G. Ryder i^lg.03 1 35 31 1 11 03 
kittle Daisy, D. Fulcher ....04.05 1 44 50 1 15 41 
