March io, 1900.]' FOREST AND STREAM. 191 
"That remind* me." 
That Old Stoty of the Boy BIt»« -Black, 
. Is it my head yer hittiii' at, Brother Hopkins — ah? 
Well, here's to you, for another book lover, and per- 
haps I can help you out, as the other boys have helped me. 
To begin with, you've mixed two children up. The boy 
who dyed the other was a lad named Morton — Mort for 
short among his friends — and who, it must be confessed, 
was in at the "mort" about as often as anybody. The 
blacksmith lad was his chum, whose family up till that 
time had been rich, and whose name was Richardson — 
Rich, for common use. The experimental iron working, 
however, doesn't happen to him, but to his predecessors 
in life's race, and on -a reversal of fortune the family 
takes up the smithy again — till Rich finds his proper place 
in life as an M.D. , ■ , 
The story is not in one book alone, but several, to wit : 
"The Sophomore of Radcliffe (N. B. — Not Radcliffe-on- 
the-Charles River, Mass.. which is a girls' affair), "The 
Spark of Genius," "The Whispering Pine" (under which 
the club of lads built a camp) , "The Turning of the Tide" 
(Rich's life' work), "Winning His Spurs"' (Mort's devel- 
opment into a lawyer). The scene is located for the 
most past at Brunswick, Me.. (Bowdoin College), and 
the author is Elijah Kellogg. During college life Rich 
is still wealthy, and chops wood and teaches school solely 
to keep Mort company and because he admires his fine 
example of manliness. .' ' . 
Next! J, P. T. 
Boston. 
Washingtok, D. C, March 2.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The name of the storj' Mr. Lewis Hopkins 
want^ is "A Stout Heart, or the Student from Over the 
■ . Seasy" aijd it was ■ first. py.|)Uahed..^s a serial in "the early 
seventies.' -i ' • • ' ' " ••■ Fred Island. 
There are two next, both of the early '''6osr-"^Fipst a 
book which had as a frontispiece a cheerful picture of the 
■vHIlain shooting the heroine's guardian dog T dog" posed ac- 
commodatingly, mouth open, bright red- tongue hanging 
out, and gim muzzle poked down his throat. " Second, a 
book called "The Ringleader," with" pictured youths clad 
in those preposterous old-tiitfe' men's clothes-^coats with 
tails, and high hats, A book in which the pious hero 
is drowneid off at an early age. 
A Flock of Foxes. 
The following item was clipped from the "local news 
column of an Orange county paper: 
"Jim Gill killed seven . foxes in one shot and wounded 
the eighth one day during the past week on .the farm of 
Moses R. Shafer." .' 
The man mentioned as such a successful hunter is well 
known in a certain section of the .Wallkill "Valley as a 
good shot, though he is handicapped by the loss of an 
arm; but this tox story reminds me of the exploit of 
Dead-Shot Dan, who, "being closely pursued by In- 
dians, rode his horse over a precipice 700 feet high. Turn- 
ing in the saddle as he was falling he opened fire with his 
trusty Winchester on the Indians, who had come to the 
edge of the bluff and were looking over. He succeeded 
in killing fourteen of the red devils before he reached the 
bottom, and would have killed fifteen if the air had not 
been so filled with the red devils that he could not see to 
place the last shot effectively, so he only wounded the 
last.pne." J. Jay. 
A Plague of Cuttlefish, 
The Austrahan papers give acounts of an unpre- 
cedented plague of cuttlefish that has been ravaging the 
fisheries and for a, time entirely upsetting the fishing in- 
dustry in North Australian waters. It is said that the 
creatures Are swarming in such numbers that hundreds 
are brought up iii a single haul of the nets. As the haul 
is drawji up they cling with their tentacles to the under 
side of the boat, and have to be disengaged with axes, so 
that large- quantities of tackle have been destroyed and 
rnany boats injured. They average from 15 pounds down- 
\vard in weight, and their appearance- in such huge num- 
"jbers- has been as sudden as it has proved unpleasant. — ' 
Westminster Gazette.' . ^- 
Fa-rmef and Spoiftsman, 
The Forest and Stream of Feb. 3 contains an editorial dis- 
cvission of a subject destined to grow in interest as this country 
.grows older. It is the relation between the landowner and the 
sportsman who likes to hunt and fish. This matter has not 
bothered us up here in Maine much as j'et, because until within a 
comparatively brief time the anglers and the gunners have num- 
i)er«d but few people, and they have never ' troubled the farmers 
much. In the early days of the State, citizens were too busy 
seeking a livelihood to indulge in either sport as a pastime, and 
there grew up at that time a sort of conviction among most busy 
folks that a fellow vi-ho took the time to go fishing or hunting had 
a great deal of the vagabond in his nature, and was likely never to 
amount' to much. Then sportsmen from other sections of the 
country began 1o come to Maine for the fishing and shooting — 
men who "were successful in the professions and in business, and the 
home people who saw them and observed what good times the 
visitors apparently had began to wonder if after all they them- 
selves hadn't been missing a lot of fun for nothing. The example 
•of one influenced another, until now hundreds of Maine men 
enjoy during their annual vacation the unrivaled sport to be had 
in Maine's woods and by her lakes and streams. The number of 
"such is- increasing, too, year by year, and the time may come here 
it has come in many other States, when there will be friction 
,i).etween the farmer owning, the land on the one hand, and tlie 
■man with the gun or the rod on the jather. The- sportsman can 
largdy determine for himself t\'hat the future of the relation be- 
tween him and- the landowner shall be, If he disregards the 
.rights of the farmer, breaks down his fences and is careless of the 
ordinary courtesies of life whik in pursuit of his favorite sport, it 
Vill not" be long before here in Maine, as elsewhere, the two 
^classes will find themselves in hostile array against each other. A 
little good nature and respect of mutual rights, however, will re- 
move all danger from this source for a long time to come. — Water- 
ville. Me., Mail. . ' : - - 
The Forest and Stream is -put to press each week on Tuesday. 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
latest by Monday and as much earlier as practicable. ' 
ANGLING NOTES. 
' ; FIsfe '^atMhe Bofiton She-- 
The exhibition of fish at tue csp^rtsmen's Show of the 
Massachusetts Sportsmen's Association, in Mechanics' 
Building, Boston, is the best that I haA^e seen anywhere 
at any time at an exhibition not a permanent one, and so 
far >s the exhibition in Boston goes, it cannot, in my 
opinion, be excelled by any permanent exhibition of 
fishes in all this broad land. Here are fish gathered 
together froni the waters of the New England States, and 
practically, I believe, from the stations of the United 
States Fish Commission in Maine, and the stations of 
the New Hampshire State Commission, for an exhibi- 
tion to Idst but two weeks, and all the appointments for 
the health of the fish and convenience of the spectators 
are as perfect as though the fish were to be displayed for 
years_ instead of days. The log cabin effect is particularly 
pleasing, and by that expression I mean that the long 
rows of tanks are so placed and framed as to give the 
visitors the impression that he or she is looking in at the 
Windows of a log cabin to find fish swimming about. 
The^ whole front of the exhibit is made of bark-covered 
logs or poles of uniform size, and each tank is framed in 
the samfie material. The tanks are made of wood and 
covered on the inside with cement, and the backs slope 
away to admit light, and are covered with rocks em- 
bedded in the cement, giving a very charming and realis- 
tic effect. With air pump and excellent and abundant 
water supply, the lives of the fishes are assured as fully 
ks it is possible to ass^rj? the lives of fishes in confine- 
ment. Mr. Dimick, tlie g'efieral manager, and Mr. Rich- 
ard O. Harding, in charge of the fishes, are to be con- 
. gratulatcd upon the excellent and instructive exhibit they 
have prepcired for the visitor to the ..show. I must con- 
fess at the outset that I devoted .littl^e time to the occu- 
pants of the most of the tanks, a pag'sing glance at brook 
trout, rainbow trout, landlocked salmon, black bass, lake 
trout (big fellows, too), and to see that all were in good 
coriditiota satisfied me, for I made the journey to Boston 
chiefly to s.ee a few. ?p;?cies, and. to those .1 devoted my 
time. ' , ' ■ . . 
\ Dublin Pond Troat.; 
Of all the fish in tlie show I was perhaps most inter- 
ested in the trout from Dublin Pond, in New Hamp- 
shire, for never before had I seen them alive. I regret 
that this evening, the only time I can write this note, 
that the books of my fishing library 'have been removed 
by workmen who have taken possession of the house 
and almost driven me out, so that I cannot find anything 
that I want. My impression is that Garman has de- 
scribed this fish as a variety of the common brook 
trout (Salvelinus fontinalis Agassizii), and not a distinct 
species, but I cannot at this moment avail myself of his 
description. Some of the fish were taken out of the 
water in a net that I might examine them, and the 
differences which I noticed that distinguished them from 
the brook trout are: There are no vermiculations on the 
back, which is a solid greenish color, with silvery glints 
in certain lights: caudal fins more forward; fins paler, 
general_ pinkish hue; the back strips in fins fainter, and 
the white border a dirty white; spots lemon color, no 
halo. Fish generally more slender than the brook trout. 
While looking at the Dublin Pond trout I was for- 
tunate enough to meet Mrs. Dwight and her daughter, 
of Boston, who reside in summer at Dublin Pond, and 
they very graciously went back of the tanks to give me 
such information as they cotdd when the fish were netted 
from the water. Miss Dwight was very enthusiastic 
about the fish, and said they were fair types of the trout 
.jis she knew them at the pond, but there she had ob- 
served that the spots were orange rather than lemon, 
but the colors fade quickl3^ They average from 2 to 4 
ounces in weight, and she remarked that the fish in the 
tank were less slender than she had know them at the 
pond, but she had observed that the fish generally were 
growing deeper in the body since the introduction of 
the fresh-water shrimp, and that the fish now caught 
were found to be filled with the introduced food. Fish 
netted for spawning purposes have weighed between 2 
and 3 pounds each, and once one was taken weighing 7 
pounds. The pond is fed entirely from springs, and has 
no inlet or outlet, and the trout spawn along the shores, 
which as.a rule are very abrupt, and the water is 150 feet 
deep iii parts. When the ice goes out in the spring the 
trout are caught in water from 80 to 100 feet deep. Two 
or three weeks after the ice goes out the trout come to 
the surface, and are taken on the fly, drawn gut and 
very small flies. The fish have pink flesh and. are: par- 
ticularly delicious eating. 
Loch Leven Troot. 
The State of New York has had Loch Leven trout 
eggs and hatched them, and no one could distinguish 
the fish from brown trout, and New .York hatching 
stations are not singular in this respect. The Loch 
Leven trout never has red spots, according to the English 
t'ext books, and the brown trout is never without them, 
or perhaps -P should say. rarely without them, and it also 
has a pin border to its adipose fin. The Loch Leven 
trout exhibited by New Hampshire at the Boston show 
were the real thing if this matter of red spots is a sure 
guide. When viewed in the water, and when lifted from 
the water in the net I could not find the red spots or 
red tips to adipose fin; b«t otherwise they were good 
enough 'brown trout. I Avas very glad to see specimens of 
the Simon-pure article, for from many years' experience 
• I have al)out concluded that" the waters of this country 
had a tendency to produce red" spots on Loch Leven 
trout when they did not belong to them. 
Sunapee Saibling. 
Any one who may have seen the colored figures of 
the male Sunapee saibling in one of the reports of the 
Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission of the State 
of Ne\y. York would not recognize the fish in the. tanks 
at Boston, and yet it is the same fish, and the coloring in 
the figures in the report is correct, but the Boston show 
was held in February, and the bright hue in the books 
is peculiar to the fish in November. Otherwise the 
Boston fish and the fish in the book are identical. I 
went to Sunapee Lake with Mr. Denton to paint the fish 
T'epresented in the book, and on the spot the colors faded 
niore quickly than the artist could transfer them with 
his brushes, and it required several fish to complete tHe 
color drawing. The fish made a fine exhibit and recalled 
many days of absolute joy that I have passed in fishing 
for some of their relatives, and the other days, and nights, 
when I spread ink on paper in the controversy as to 
whether they were natives or introduced. 
Albiao Salmon. 
One tank contained some two-year-old albino land- 
locked salmon from one of the stations of the U. S. Fish 
Commission in Maine. They were a creamy white, 
through which the poor marks were distinguishable, and 
were hatched in a lot of other eggs from parents that 
were not supposed to be albinos, as Sir. Harding told me, 
and will be reared to see what may come of them. I 
have a faint recollection that I have read something 
about these fish, but am not sure, and may confuse them 
in my mind with the albino trout reared in a Western 
State. The salmon had normal eyes, with no tendency 
toward the pink found in other animals that are albinos. 
Lake Trottt. 
Once, while talking with some gentlemen and standing 
a little back from the fish tanks, I observed that the 
largest crowd stood before the tank of the lake trout, and 
I asked if any one could tell why this was, and my own 
solution was that the tank contained the largest fish, 
and if each fish had had three heads instead of one the 
_ crowd would have been still larger. Some of the lake 
trout were said to weigh 18 pounds each, and they 
looked it. 
ladiaos Spearing Salmon* 
One of the features of the sport in the tank was a 
representation of Indian spearing salmon by torch light, 
and the action of the man with the spear impressed me, 
as it always has when I have seen it, that he did not 
learn how to do it in a hall in a city where the water in 
the tank had a uniform depth of 7 feet, with no fish in 
it, nor did he learn about it from hearing his grand- 
father tell about it. 
Ice Fish, 
A letter from a very dear friend, a charming little 
woman, who is "one of the best fellows I ever knew," 
and who can shoot and tramp and camp, and who takes 
a live and intelligent interest in every healthy sport, and 
in game and fish protection, and who understands the 
whole field of sport better than lots of men, writes me: 
"Seeing your note in Forest and Stream about Lake 
Champlain ice fish, I will give you a point in regard 
to them in case you say more about the fish. Tom 
Murphy has just brought in the first large ones caught 
this year — all females, and full of roe. He says at night 
they come to the top of the water right under the ice 
by the thousands. I asked him why it was no one evei 
could get them when the lake was clear of ice, and he 
answered, 'Occasionally you can get them, but only once in 
a great while. They evidently go to' very deep water and 
like the dark, because when we take here and there one 
without ice on the lake it is in 60 to 80 feet of water, and 
then they have the dark line all the way down the back, 
like the smelt, instead of on the head only.^ Now, do 
not say a woman is only good for housekeeping." 
Bless your heart, I never said it, and never believed it 
if I have ever heard any one else say it, for I know bet- 
ter, and believe rather with old Thomas Otway: 
"O, woman, lovely woman! Nature made thee 
To temper man; we had been brutes without you. 
Angels are painted fair to look like you; 
There's in you all that we believe of heaven; 
Amazing brightness, purity and truth, 
Eternal joy, and everlasting love." 
I know the same man also said, "Destructive, dam- 
nable, deceitful woman," but it was a case of before and 
after taking, and what I have quoted first he said 
after. 
Tom Murphy is a good fisherman, and an observer as 
well, but that dark line "like the smelt" would indicate 
that I am never to be forgiven for saying the "ice fish" 
is the smelt, when I am trying hard in this column to 
always say ice fish when I mean the smelt peculiar to 
Lake Champlain, 
Some gentlemen in Boston, who had read my notes 
about the smelts that are called ice fish at Lake Cham- 
palin, told me that the smelts of Eastern waters would 
not bite until the ice formed, an.d it is quite likely that 
Toni Murphy has solved the question, when he says that 
smelts love the dark when they are ice fish in Lake 
Champlain just as much as they do when they are 
smelts down East. But I will admit that I much prefer 
to eat ice fish at Lake Champlain to eating smelts down 
East, and I have tried both within ten days. For the 
same reason I prefer broiled scrod in Boston to boiled 
codfish in New York— because it is better, and I had 
the broiled scrod last P'riday, and expect to have the 
boiled codfish next Thursday. 
Forest^ Fish and Game Commission. 
The Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission of the 
State of New York will hereafter be known as the Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission, for Senator Brown's codi- 
fication of the fish and game laws of New York became 
a law on Feb. lO, and this codification changes the title 
of the Commission. 
"'There has been much time and thought expended in 
this codification, which is now a law, and the question 
in my mind is, will the law remain clear , and not con- 
flicting, or by reason of «ndless amendments will it 
soon become a muddle, as before. 
The Fish at New York Show. 
Coming from Boston to New York, I saw the Sports- 
men's shows one directly after the other, and so could 
compare the fish exhibits at the two places if I had the de- 
sire, but I have not the desire. In Boston the United 
