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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 9, 1899- 
Canadian Angling Notes, 
The Messrs. Cove, of London, sons of the proprietor 
of tHe English Field, and Mr. Boulter are among the 
English sportsmen now hunting and fishing in the Lake 
St. John district. Lieut.-Col. Haggard, D. S. O., has 
folded his tent and done up his rods and sails in a few 
d3.ys from New York for his English home. 
Mr. B. Tift'anj' and fainily have recently returned home 
from a two-weeks' sojourn at Lake St. John. Mr. 
Tiffany killed over thirty ouananiche at the Grande 
Decharge, besides a number of very large pike. 
The trains on the line of the Quebec & Lake St. John 
Railroad have general^ been very well filled during the 
last few days with anglers anxious to have a final tussle 
with the ouananiche before the close of the season on the 
iSth inst. As a ride the specimens of the fish now being 
taken are much larger than those caught during the 
heated term. 
Mr. Bouchard, of the French sporting paper. Le Sport 
Parisien, has been on a visit to Mr. Menier's game pre- 
serve on Anticosti Island. 
There is every prospect of a most successful month's 
trout fishing during September. The season closes on the 
30th, and up to a day or two ago the heat was so intense 
that anglers began to fear it would be very late in the 
season before the fish would leave the deep holes and 
cold bottom of the water. A severe change set in on the 
last of Augu.st, however, and the temperature is nearly 
30 degrees below what it was two or three days ago. A 
day or two more of such weather will materially lower 
the temperature of the water and send the trortt to the 
shallows and to surface food. Already the fly-fishing is 
very good in many northern streams, and Mr. L. Jones, of 
the New York Journal, has returned with a fine catch of 
speckled trout from the Ouiatchouan. Local fishermen 
are leaving dailj^ in large numbers for the trout waters, 
and the Governor-General of Canada, Lord Minto, ac- 
companied by Lady Minto and the members of his staff, 
leave to-night for Lake St. John by special train. Those 
well-known sportsmen Mr. Ed son Fitch and. Mr. Pent- 
land have left on a two-weeks' fishing and hunting ex- 
cursion to the preserves of the Stadacona Fish and Game 
Chib. 
There are over a score of anglers on the territory of 
the Triton Club already, and several more are expected. 
Mr. Geo. E. Harb, the superintendent of the Waterbury 
Watch Company, has been whipping the waters of the 
Metabatchouan and Nonantum clubs with good success, 
and will wind . up with three weeks' trouting on the 
Triton tract, where he will be joined by Mr. Chase, of 
Waterbury. 
Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, v^ho was on the 
Tourilli tract, has left for home, but may return next 
week, and has left his brother, W. Preston Harrison, and 
his friend, Graham H. Harris, behind him. The Mayor 
was fortunate enough to get a S^lb. trout before leav- 
ing the woods. 
I should advise sportsmen coming here for the Septem- 
ber hunting and fishing, and intending to camp out at 
night, to bring a supplj^ of warm clothing with them, as 
the weather at night is often quite chilly here this month. 
Dark Montreal, claret, grizzly-king,, professor and scarlet- 
ibis are reported to have been very killing flies here dur- 
ing the past week. Anglers on our northern waters 
should never be without the Parmachenee-belle and some 
small Jack-Scots or silver-doctors. 
Several moose have been seen latelj' about Riviere a 
Pierre and the Belle Riviere, and red deer are rapidl};- 
increasing. The indications of caribou are very abundant, 
especially on the Triton and Tourilli tracts and in the 
neighborhood of Lake Edward. The fish and game de- 
partment of the local government is investigating the 
charges that American sportsmen killed moose in the Lake 
Temiscouata district before the season opened, and it is 
probable that prosecutions will follow, 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Quebec, Sept. 2. 
The Spruce Cabin Inn. 
I dow't count any place good enough to spend a week 
with rod and reel or with my gun, unless it shall be off 
the line of the all too frequent railway. This is one reason 
why I always have such an unmitigated good time at 
Canadensis. The Spruce Cabin Inn at that point is three 
ttiiles away from post office or railway station, in the very 
heart of that thirty-thousand-acre tract of wilderness in 
Monroe, where the straj^ troutsman is very apt to run 
across a black bear, near the deep holes along the valley 
fringed with rhododendron bushes. It was only last sum- 
mer that my friend, Mr. Stokes, of the New York Stock 
Exchange, who spends the months of June and July at 
Canadensis, with a creel full of trout encountered a good 
sized black bear half a mile down Broadhead Creek, much 
to the disgust of Broker Stokes, 
The fisherman had done well with his fly-book that dull 
morning, and it was early in June, and with his back up 
against an oak tree he fell sound asleep, leaving his 
creel a few feet away, for the wading soon makes one 
foot-weary. An unusual noise disturbed him— ^Stokes 
sleeps lightly— and jumping to his feet, his first gaze fell 
upon a black bear doing his best to get his nozzle into a 
small trout basket. The bear dropped the fish and stood 
up straight, with a well-pronounced "Whoop," unlike any- 
thing Stokes had ever heard iti the New York Stock Ex- 
change on the merriest days, 
Mr. Stokes sides with the "bear" element .af th^ stoel? 
market, and =ays he didn't dream that a live bear wouM$fj: 
make his hair stand on end. 
His fir-st impulse w«s to frighten him with ;i look. But 
Rruin showed an incisive desire ''to move _ immediately 
iiii the enemy's works," and Stokes, by this time, was 
wide awake, drorped his rod and line. crossed_the creek 
ill haste, jumtjcd the* fence, and made a straight wake 
for the house, Fie called it "double quick," The ne.xt 
day the two Price brothers, accompanied by Mr. Stokes, 
went a-bear hunting, armed with shotguns and rifles, but 
they only found a nuitilated fish basket. Empty, of 
course, but the rod and reel were in good condition. 
Stokes still fishes Bro;idhead Creek, but never goes with- 
out a horse pistol, which looks like one of the Rough 
Rid-er rifles {it San Juan. But there arQ not bears enough in 
Monroe county to scare the fishermen. The evening of 
niy second visit to the Spruce Cabin the violets were 
in bloom, and there was a human tenderness of feeling 
and the perfume of flowers in the atmosphere ; and when 
I rose in the morning, aroused by the chirping of a dozen 
red-breast robbins, the lilac tree was fragrant and beauti- 
ful with bountiful sprays of the white lilac. How sweet 
it smells ! 
Martin Price was in conunand of the hotel, as his 
brother, Wesley, Avas oft' electioneering to be treasurer of 
the county of Monroe, a desirable office in a worldly point 
of view, I told him he "had become such a fisher of men 
that I feared he would give up the trout," 
This he strenuously denied, Milton had promised to 
teach me to catch trout with a fly. This was a new 
pleasure to me, as t had hitherto been content with a 
minnow or a worm as bait. Poet Chaucer saj^s "Emily 
rose with the sun," but we beat the sun half an hour, and 
after a breakfast with coffee the color of Sammy Bettles' 
Quaker coat, troitt, broiled atid basted with butter, corn 
bread pone, maple molasses and hot cakes, we were 
off behind a pair of fine-stepping bays for a five-mile 
ride where I could find a clean sheet of water on which 
I cottld safely cast my virgin fly without the worry of 
finding an impending oak tree limb to catch my fly, 
or worse, impale my first fish. We fished. We had 
fun. My share of that morning's work was just thirty- 
three good sized, lovely, red-spotted trout. Whether my 
dear friend, Milton — ^John Milton Price — desired to flatter 
me. I know not, but "Milt" .said, "I made those bran-new 
flies skitter along the water with the hand of a master," 
and as evidence of my skill there were the thirty-three 
beautiful fish I had bagged, and I promised Milton that 
I would henceforth abjure the red worm and the lively 
minnow for the cunning fly. We had a gorgeous day — a 
bridal of the very earth and .sky; and we got home to 
dinner — I with thirty-three fly-caught trout. Pardon, dear 
Forest and Stream, the seeming repetition of this num- 
ber. 
I can see the trout now running after those new flies. 
That simply knocked the worm out of the game. Who 
would fish with a worm after such a morning? Not 
J. M. S., certainly! 
I have got a new rod and reel, to be devoted to 
Monroe county trout, and whenever I go you shall hear 
from me, for if I am at times reminiscential, I do not 
belong to the old staff of Forest and Stream back to 
Hallock's time; and we yield to no magazine on earth a 
place equal to in our sporting affections Forest and 
Stream. 
Long may she wave, a blessing to the boys of the 
county and a genuine joy to those like me who are 
slowly climbing the long road that ere many years will 
cross the "great divide." J. M. S. 
Carp in California. 
It has been observed frequently that the tendency of 
civilization generally, and particularly in wealthy Amer- 
ica, is toward centralization and metropolitan life, and 
that ineans artificial surroundings, and a great many 
other results. I think it has been computed that onlj' 
about 80 per cent, of the population of California lives in 
the cities and towns, but California is becoming more 
and more civilized, and is very young yet. After a 
while perhaps we will all centralize to such an extent that 
we can dispense with game laws, giving all outdoors over 
to undisturbed natural serenit^^ If this state of affairs 
can be brought about those of us who himt, fish and fowl 
will find it easy. 
On the other hand, if anything should happen to send 
any more people into the woods and mountains, chiefly 
for fish and game, some attention will have to be given 
to the propagation of things to hunt and fish for. The 
most successful effort at propagation yet noticeable in the 
State has been the supplying of the Sacramento River 
with carp and catfish. This principal stream is alive with 
carp from tidewater to three or four hundred miles into 
the mountains. The carp are good for hog feed and ferti- 
lization, but other fish have other various virtties that 
most people would prefer. Both the carp and the catfish 
were foreign to the Pacific Coast. Ransacker. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Record* 
Chicago, Sept, 2, — These are the scores of contest of 
Chicago Fli-Casting Club held to-day: 
Fly, 
I. D. Belasco. . . 
I. H. Bellows. .. 
C. F. Brown . . . 
H. Green wogd. . 
H. G. Hascall, , 
E. Letterman 
C, Lippincott. . . 
H. Newkirk 
F. N, Peet 
H. W. Perce... 
G. W. Salter... 
Long Distance 
Distance and Accuracy, 
Feet. 
95 
122 
85 
107 
105 
Per Cent. 
Accuracy 
and Delicacy, 
Per Cent. 
952-3 
95 
96 
962-3 
1-3 
94 
96 
93 , 
80 2-3 
1-3 
97 1-3 
921-3 
95 
95 1-6 
97 
962-3 
91 1-2 
Bait 
Casting, 
Per Cent. 
91 1-5 
96 
85 13-1 5 
90 1-5 
91 2-15 
95 4-5 
97 1-15 
96 14-15 
97 4-1S 
96 3-5 
95 1-5 
Holders of Medals. — Long distance fly, I. H, Bellows; 
distance and accuracy, LI. G, Llascall ; accuracy and deli- 
cacy. T. H. Bellows; bait-casting, F, N. Peet. 
Geo. a. MurreLLj See'y-Treas.. 
Lake George Bass, 
Sn-VER Bay, N. Y,— On Aug. 28 Mr. T. P. Hoffman, of 
Roseville. N.' Jm and Mr. li E. Burr, of East Orange, 
N. J., had a fine catch of small-mouth black bass, the 
bait I'sed being crawfish. The weights were 7%, 6J4- 5^. 
I '/> and two weighing t'^lbs. each. Catight at Silver 
liny. Lake George. 
"I guess Jim can get away for that fi.shing party all 
riglit." "What makes you think so?" "I was up to his 
house last night. ' His wife used to be an amateur elocu- 
tionist before they were married, and he asked her to 
reci*^e ! She'll never refuse him now." — Cleveland Plain 
Dealer. • 
The Truth Triumphed, 
Mrom The Denver Mvening Post. 
A silent man stood thinking in the canon of the Platte, 
His thoughts seemed almost wrecking his dollar-fifty hat, 
His hands were oft iiplifted in sort of pantomime. 
As thoiigh his active thinker was working overtime. 
Along the shore he wandered with slow and measured pace, 
A maze of thoughful wrinkles twined o'er his sun-tanned face, 
For in his troubled bosom there was a vicious fight 
As Wrong strove to deliver a knockout blow to Right, 
All day with Job-like patience he'd cast his fly for trotitj 
But not a speckled beauty had let him yank it out, 
And to his mind was clinging the boasts he'd made in town 
Of what a string he'd show them ere yet the sun went down. 
In his imagination he heard the laughing jeers 
Of taunting, teasing townsmen vibrating in his ears, 
And oft his glances wandered to ranch-boy sitting nigh. 
Who had a string of beauties he knew that he could buy. 
He was an honored deacon in Hill of Zion Church,. 
And never did a falsehood his pious lips besmirch, 
And never had the tempter got in its work so pat 
As at that trying moment up on the dashing Platte, 
"No one will ever know it," the tempter whispered low; 
"Go buy the jay-boy's captures and take them home to show, 
And all your friends and neighbors will stand with staring eyes 
And laud you as a ti-outist up to the arching skies!" 
But Right by skillful sparring got in a blow at Wrong, 
And down the grand old canon he Ashless trudged along. 
And unto all his townsmen was brave enough to say 
He never got a nibble through all the heated day. 
He told about the jay-boy who yanked the beauties out 
While he sat right beside him and never caught a trout, 
Nor offered he excuses, but freely did admit 
That as a trouting expert he reckoned he was nit. 
The people stared in wonder and thought he'd gone Insane, 
The minister embraced him again and yet again. 
The grocer on the corner assured him o'er and o'er 
His credit would be gilt-edged in future at his store. 
He soon was nominated for justice of the peace 
And beat the other fellow as slick as axle grease; 
And oft he kneels in secret and thanks the Master that 
He didn't make a purchase from that jay-boy on the Platte. 
Fixtures* 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 12-15.— Milwau.'cee, Wis.— Milwaukee Kennel Club's fifth 
annual bench show. Edward Meisenheimer, Sec'y. 
Sept. 19-21.— Rutland, Vt.— Vermont Kennel Clubs inaugural 
*^Oct. 2-6.— Dallas, Tex.— Texas Kennel Club's second annual 
bench show. Sydney Smith, Sec'y. , r. - ^ , ■ 
Oct. 3-6.— Danbury, Conn.— Danbury Agricultural Society s eight- 
eenth annual show. G. M. Rundle, Sec'y. . „^ ^ „ . . 
Oct. 10-13.— Providence, R. I.— Rhode Island State Fair Asso- 
ciation. E. M. Oldham, Supt. ci. a 
Nov. 15-18.— Philadelphia, Pa.— The Philadelphia Dog Show As- 
sociation's first annual bench show. Marcel A. Viti, Sec y. 
Nov 29-Dec 1.— New York.— American Pet Dog Club s show. 
S. C. Hodge, Supt. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 6.— Morris, Man.— Manitoba Field Trial Club's thirteenth 
annual trials. William C. Lee, Sec'y. 
Oct. 23.— National Beagle Club's tenth annual trials. O. Mifflm 
Wharton, Sec'y. . „. , , ^ . , rj- ■ 
Oct. 25.— Hampton, Conn.— Connecticut Field Trials. E. Knight 
Sperry, Hartford, Sec'y. ^, " , . 1 tt ,i j 
Oct. 31.— Greene Co., Pa.— The Monongahela Valley Game and 
Fish Protective Association's fifth annual field trial. A. C. Peter- 
son Sec'y 
Nov. 7.— Washington' C. H., O.— Ohio Field Trial Club's trials. 
C. E. Baughn, Sec'y. ^. , , . , ■ , 
Nov. 8-9.— Lakeview, Mich.— Michigan Field Trial" association s 
second annual trials., E. Rice, Sec'y. ^. , , „ . , ^, . , a: ^ 
Nov. 12.— Bicknell Ind.— Independent Field Tnal Club s first 
Annual trials. George D. Maxfield, Sec'y. . .1. 
Nov. 14.— Chatham, Ont.— International Field .rial Club 8 tenth 
annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. ^, „ 
Nov. 14-17.— Carmichaels, Pa.— Central Beagle Club's fourth an- 
nual trials. J. W. Simpson, Sec'y. ^. , , ^ ^ 
l,}ov 17.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trial Club's twenty- 
first annual trials. Simon C. Bradley, .Sec'y. , ^ . , . ... 
Nov. 21,— Lawrenceville, 111.— Illinois Field Trial Association s 
inaugural trials. O. W. Ferguson, Sec'y. _ . , - , 
Nov. 28,— , Mo,— Missouri Field Trial Association s third 
annuai trials. L. S. Eddins, Sec'y. ^ ^, ^ , 
X)ec. 8.— Newton, N. C— Continental Field Trial Club's trials. 
Thos. Sturges, Sec'y. 
1900. 
Jan. 22.— West Point, Miss.— United States Field Trial Club's 
annual trials. W. B. Stafford, Sec'y. , 
jTeb. 5.— Greenville, Ala.— Alabama Field Trial Club's fourth an- 
nual trials. T. H. Spencer, Sec'y. 
Hydrophobia a Disease Easily 
Cured* 
BY BEVERLEY OLIVER KINNEAR, M. D. 
From ike Medical Record. 
The subject of hydrophobia has attracted much attan- 
tion from the medical fraternity, especially during the 
last nineteen years. It may be fairly- divided into three 
heads: (i) Is it a disease at all? (2) Is it a nervous 
disease? (3) Is it a disease due to an absorbed poisoa? 
It appears to the writer that these three queries cover 
the present ground of discussion of this malady. The 
first question may be answered in several ways. Do 
those who take this stand infer that there is no poison 
generated in the mouth of the so-called mad animal, to 
be absorbed by the person bitten? Or do they i^fer 
that no such set of symptoms as compose an attack of 
the disease can be induced by the bite of an animal 
lacerating terminal nerves, causing an irregular _ cica- 
trix and thereby generating central nerve-cell irrita- 
tion, and responsive muscular and sensation disttkb- 
ance? Or do they mean that fright alone will excite 
all the well-recognized sjrmptoms of an attack? Or 
finally, do they suggest that the statements of a host of 
honest and intelligent observers count for naught against 
their opinions, simply because they themselves have never 
seen a case of the disorder? It would appear unneecssary 
to enter into a discussion of this query more profoundly 
until these questions are answered. 
Is it a nervous disease? Let us glance at the symp- 
