Pbb. 33, 1901.1 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
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destruction of pickerel at any time in waters inhabited 
by trout." 
Ovet atld over I have Wtit'en about locti Leven in Scot- 
latld as aft example of how pickerel may be kept down and 
trout made to thrive in the same water, if a determined 
effort is made to keep the stock of p-'ckerei down and the 
stock of trout up. but this will not be accomplished by in- 
action, or by wfi ing to some fish commission foi* more 
and more trout after it., is discovered that an error has 
been made. . 
I always quote from the operations at Loch Leven, be- 
cause the records kept of the fish and the fishing are so 
complete, and figures are presented instead of specula- 
tion of guesswork. The last season. 1900. at Loch Leven 
shoV^'s hat 2-3,43! trout Were taken with rod and reel, and 
for purposes of comparison i g've the riUmber of trout 
taken in the two years preceding iSqq. 20 431. and in 
1898. 19 733. The report says of tlie pike ; "The netting 
of pike during their spawning season keeps them well 
under. The largest taken in the net weighed 25 pounds. 
The heaviest caught with the rod weighed 17 pounds. 
The want of sunshine was against perch fishing, though 
softie good catches were made." In spite of the p'ke (our 
pickerel ift New York) and the perch. 6g8 more trout 
Wei'e eaught in tSgg than in 1898, and 3.000 more in igoo 
than in i8gg. Is it not wortli trying to take the piciketel 
out of a pond that contains iroUt. rather than pUt other 
fish in and so makfe a bad matter vVoi'se? 
In this country the people get fish so easily that tiiey 
do not ih all ca=es value them at their proper value, and 
they do not make a propei- ei^ort to fos er what they 
have. The sole remedy for all waters. When fishihg is 
poor, r\o matter what the condit'ons ftiav be. is to ask for 
tftofe fish to be delivered ptoiriptly. If bi-ook trout can- 
not be furnished theft send pike Csuch a letter is before 
!tte £Ls i write, but pike in ihis ift'^tance means pike- 
perch), aftd send plenty of them. I have seen very many 
applications asking for brook, brown and rainbow trout 
fry and brook, brown and rainbow trout fingerlitlgs, all 
on the same appl cation and all desired for the sslme 
stream or pond. The eternal fitness of thing's is not in 
the least considered. A fnaft is advised Uot to plant 
browh troUt ih waters dlready contain'iig the native 
bfook ti^out, and he renlies that he has already done so. 
I think l ean point to fifty iases of this sort. There will 
come a time when seme one mu<:t answer for ihe indis- 
ctiminate stocking that has been done. That aman asks for 
a certain kind of fi.sli for certain waters that are entirely 
unsuitable for the fish, it is Uo reason why the man 
should have them becaUse he is a citizen and a taxpayer 
and the fish are free. A chemist would not sell a man 
active poison simply becau'se the man was igUoraftt of the 
results from usiftg it and had' beeft impressed w'th the 
name and so fancied it for his system, bUt an hoUest 
chemist would recommend hoarliound candy instead of 
the orussic acid the man thought he wanted. 
The Commission has a le ter on file from a man whose 
ant)!ication was not filled. He said he was entitled to the 
fi.sh and he _ would have them or know the reason why, 
with other intemperate language. He was told the rea- 
s.'jh why- — ^that no man was entitled to fish until his ap- 
plication had been passed unon by the Commission, and 
ihrn if the waters were suitable for the fish and the State 
had th^m for distribution, the fish Were sent, not to the 
individual, but for the benefit of the general public who 
fi-hed the water. If the Commis'^ion propagated trout and 
fed them to pickerel there wouM. in all prohahil''y. be a 
depiand for a change in the personnel of the Comnvssion,. 
A. N. CheneY; 
lew j^nhUcHtiaif§. 
The -Curious Case of Gen. Delaney Smythe. By Lt.-Col. 
W, il. Gardner, U. S.- A., retired. The Abbey Press, 
publisher, 114 Fifth avenue. New York. 
Among the many books of the period, Col. (Dr.) Gard- 
ner's ' "Curious Case" stands out quite sili generis. No 
other novel that has appeared is constructed on similar 
lines. It will interest sportsmen in particular, for not 
only is the principal of the drama'is personce, Gen. 
$mythe, a veteran of the Asian and African jungles, but 
the author himself is a sportsman by instinct and training. 
It is quite natural, therefore, as one may believe, that 
after forty-five years of life in the wild and woolly West, 
of which thirty-seven were passed as a surgeon in the 
regular army, the Doctor's book should be threaded with 
reminiscent passages of the field and chase. But beyond 
this, a dog is the point d'appui of the narrative. The 
blood of a pointer makes the incalculable dis ress of an 
innocent man. By it he is spotted as a murderer and 
condemned to die by a Dakota court. Indeed, all the 
threads and cues to the solution of this "Curious Case" 
radiate from the hunting field. Never were canine vacil- 
lations more intima ely woven into a dramatic plot. But 
for the unexpected and fortuitous revelations of clair- 
voyance the dog the General and his faithful servant 
would all have been dead, hypothetically. if not in fact. 
Though three times wounded to death, there wa* at last 
vouchsafed to the General a modicum of earthly joy in 
company with a devoted and charming wife; which is 
very proper. The "Curious Case" is a tentative one all 
through. The situat'ons are for the most part painful 
from the firs; chapter on, but are relieved here and there 
by sunny aspects. Charles Hallock. 
The deepening of the St. Lawrence Canal system has 
had o her results than to allow the passage of ocean-going 
freightage. Following in the wake of the vessels sea 
herrings have made their appearance in Lake Ontario and 
are being eagerly captured by the fishermen. 
Like Picking Up Money. 
In every city, town and village in the I'nited States where there 
is shooting or fi.shing or yachting we want agents to. canvass for 
subscriptions for Forest and StrIeam, Every sportsman is deeply 
interested in iff .subjects, and every sportsman is glad to discuss 
his doings afield and to hear of the adventures of other sportsmen. 
Money is to !>«: made by canvasser? (or 1 or est and SfREaM, 
and those who \»'i«h to take advantage of th* opportunity we oflcr 
should send for prcminm list and circular.— PoreBt and Stream 
Publishing Compajiy, i*& Broadway^ ^'fcw yorik. 
Fixtures* 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Feb. 19-22.— New York.— Westnsiflster Kennel Club's twenty-fifth 
annual show. James Mortimer, Supt. 
March 6-9.— Pittsburg, Pa.— Diiquesrie Kennel Club's annual 
bench show. F. S. Stedman, Sec'y. 
Mareh 1316.— Chicago.— Mascoutab Kennel Club's eleventh an- 
nual show> John L. Lincoln, Sec'y. 
One Cure for a Cold* 
1 AM not going to advise any reader of the Forest 
ANB Stream to adopt the following cure; for using our 
old family phy.sician's words, "It might go the oilier 
way;" • 
Seventeen years ago this winter I was a boy on a farm 
in Canada, with no special endowment except the iove 
of nature and a good cons.itution. As sometinies 
happens to the best of us, I was about .laid on the shelf 
with a very sevefe cold, and as it grew rapidly ' worse 
my mother became alarmed and insisted on an interview 
with our fatnily physician. The good man shook his 
head, looked wise, said I was on the verge of lung fever 
and told me to rertiain in bed for a couple of weeks: and 
take a large quantity of flaxseed tea very often, with 
some other "dope" he put up that tasted like warm var- 
nish or melted gUle. ; . : . _ . . ' 
1 very dutifully gulped doWn i«(ro dosets of'ithe medicine 
and a liberal allowance of flaxseed tea for twenty-four 
hours. When the morning of the second day dawned 
there was about one foot of beautiful light snow, and it 
was perfectly calm and very cold, an ideal day for a fox 
run through the heavy growth of pine timber which 
abounded in our neighborhood. My sporting proclivite.^ 
rose with the sUn — in fact I rather think, they had old Sol 
beaten by a few minutes. At any rate, about 8 o'clock 
A. M. I retired up stairs to bed, as the family supposed. 
But suddenly there dame to me a long dismal howl from 
the direction of the drive house. Old Drive evidently 
shared my feelings, and gave yent to them in long howls. 
Old Drive was a spotted foxhound of the ordinary type, 
somewhat larger than the average and with a head and 
eyes that would have won many laurels in a bench show 
of inodern times. But in the forest or swamp he had no 
superior, ,and the sly old fox that could play funny busi- 
ness with him was a marvel. He had a lope that was 
considerable, too fast for comfort for a fox, and his power 
of endurance was certainly vyonderful even for a hound. 
He was as true a friend as a man ever had; he could not 
talk, but in the timber his voice was more inspiring than 
a brass band is to a small boy. , . . "v"'" , 
I listened to his howl once more, hesitated and was 
lost. Carefully and silently I donned a heavy suit, warm 
and heavy leather walking boots, and was ready. 
I quietly lowered the old muzzle loader out of the 
window, and mote rapidly lowered myself into a four- 
foot .snowdrift in the rear oi the house afier balancing 
myself on the window sill till I closed the -windosv-. I 
landed on all fours, right side up, grabbed my trusty 
old single barrel, and headed for the barn. I escaped 
observation and patted old Drive very affectionately to 
keep his heavy bass from arousing the neighbors for a 
few miles around. We passed out through the barnyard 
and struck a bee line for the timber a half tnile away, 
which we reached via a neighbor's, where I got a com- 
panion and a cur dog. Misery loves company — the other 
boy had tht chicken pox. On reaching the woodland I 
loosened the leash and with a roar of delight old Drive 
was off. , 
The early settlers or Indians perhaps, in clearing the 
country which runs along a large river, cleared the land 
at the front of the farm near the river, leaving the wood- 
land at the extreme end of the land, which is the regula- 
tion length of 100 acres. Every farm being so cleared 
leaves a strip of timber for miles at a distance of about 
one-half mile from the river, and varying in width fr^i.-m 
300 to 400 yards of very heavy pine and oak, thickly 
grown up with .small underbrush — an ideal runway for a 
fox. The strip of timber connects two marshes jf from 
one thousand to fifteen hundred acres each; The loarshes 
were also connected by another strip of woods further 
back, and by the frozen river in front, making thice. 
ccmplete runways, and it kept a hunter ruiming and 
gMO'.->ing v horo he would come down. I hava watched 
all day without a shot, and have seen the old dog make 
many trips between these marshes only to lose his game 
at nightfall when we brought him home if, like the Irish- 
man's flea, we could catch him. . 
On this partictdar day. soon after reaching the heavy 
timber, we s arted a cottontail, which we got on his first- 
trip around the circle. This was only a warm up for the 
dogs after a few days' idleness, and made them doubly 
keen, and away they went. For. half an- hour all was 
still; we saw the cur occasionally,. , but old Drive kept ■ 
working ahead and still until he was a- good- half inile 
to westward, and in a swamp of small size, when there - 
was a long howl followed by several shorter barks, and ^ 
we knew the fun had started. The fox had started west 
going toward the larger marsh, .and he was losing no 
time, as it was a- fresh start and a fresh dog. The music 
became fainter and fainter, and finally was lost -entirely; 
and we put in the next half-hour bagging two rabbits. 
Then we heard the old boy coming; the fox had doubled 
and was coming down the same way he had gone. 
George and the cur took the sotith side and I the north 
edge of the timber. We had been waiting for about ten 
m.inutes. and the dog was close, when I heard the report 
of a gun which was an old army musket and was harm- 
less except from the rear. George's cur, which was a 
fine fox dog. for about ten minutes began to yelp and 
head east. Then I knew the game had pas.sed us, I 
found George loading his old musket. -He had a fine 
shot at about thirty yards, but we found marks in \ht 
snow for 20 feet, except where.the fox .had been. There 
was not a hair or a sign of a shot having struck him. 
Knowing we had a good Hour to wait, we sat on a log 
ai«d ate our cold lunch, In about twenty minutes the 
cur came back with a sad expression. We soon lost 
sound of the db^, as the wind was against us now. Twice 
did the fox give us the go-by with a clean pair of heeh 
during the afternoon, but he was getting very tired, and 
the end came about 4 o'clock in a very peculiar man- 
ner. I was standing in a clump of hazel bushes beside a 
log; the dog was close and coming straight for me. 
1 leaned back to get a look around some bushes, missed 
my footing and fell over the log in llie soft snow, £ 
made no noise, and as I got my gun over the log prepar- 
ing to rise, I saw Reynard coming straight toward me 
about one hundred yards off. He was very much worn 
and was getting careless, I lay in the snow, in fa.:t 
covered with it, scarcely breathing. He came on till 
when he was about twenty-five yards away. I took care- 
ful aim and fired. The cur came at the sound of the gun. 
The fox was not dead, but he ran about fifiy yards, when 
he was overtaken and killed by the cur. 
I reached home at 5 o'clock, very tired and happy. 
My mother almost went wild, having missed me at 2 
o'clock. She also missed the gun and dog. She told the 
good old doctor all about it, and he said, "It's all right; 
but if it, had gone the other way it wuuld have killed 
him," ■; - 
My cold was all right and I lived to kill many more 
foxes before old Drive became superannuated and I left 
the farm. Terb. 
The Celebrated Drum Case* 
/'rjm the Kansas City Slaf. 
T110MA.S T. CRiTTEXDii.M, former Governor of Missouri, 
tell.'i a story about a fanmus lawsuit that grew out of the 
kdling of a foxhound. The case was in Johnson county, 
Mo., and its legal title was Charles Burden vs. Leonidas 
Hornsby, but it was known as the Dniiu case, because 
that was the dog's name. The case became known to 
nearly all the lawyers of the State. In n reniinisceiu mood 
yes.erday. Gov. Crittenden related his recollections of it. 
"It was first commenced before a justice of the peace 
and was then appealed to the Comiimn Pleas Court," 
said Gov. Crivtenden, " On the abolition of that court, it 
was passed to the Circuit Court, and from the Circuit 
Court it was appealed to the Supreme Court of the State. 
When residing at Warrensburg, Senator Cockrell and I 
were law partners. We had a large general practice, 
covering all classes of cases, from murder to dog cases. 
Among the cases that filletl our court docket was the 
Drum case. Drum was a noted fo.\ hound, owned by 
Charles Burden. Ii\ing in the western part of Johnson 
county. The dog was known far and near in that part 
of Missouri as one of the fastcsi. best-nosed, least un- 
certain, having the most singularly musical and regular 
bark, and the most tireless foxhound in the pursuit. No 
hunt of any importance vva« had in Johnson, Cass or 
Henry counties for that wily animal, in which Drum was 
not a prominent figure. He seldom opened on the trail that 
he did not run down the i^ame and modestly presented 
'the brush' to his owner, making no difference whether 
it was a gray or red f-^x. 
"The political feeling in Johnson county ran quite 
high at that time, entailing much bhterness between 
neighbor and neighbor, the remnant of the unfortunate 
war. Burden and Hornsby had been on different sides 
of the war and had differed widely on that and every 
other question. ' They seemed to be naturally antag- 
onistic to each other, almost being hatred on both sides 
at first sight. Hornsby,' for some cause useless now to 
discuss, was charged with having shot and killed Drum. 
There was much evidence tending in that direction. This 
increased the bitterness, not only between these two 
men. but also throughout the ne'ghborhood, as both had 
friends, and as men, as well as boys, have fought aiid died 
about dogs since she world began. Burden sued Hornsby 
before George Norman, a justice of the peace, Nov. 9, 
i86q, there being a hung jnry; it was tried soon there- 
after, with a like hung jury, and it was retried Jan. i, 
1870, and a verdict was had for $25. The case was then 
appealed to the Cotnmon Pleas Court, a trial had. and a 
judgment was there given for the defendant. A motion 
for a new trial was filed ]May 2. 1870. and for some cause 
it was granted, and on the 23d day of September. nfQOi. 
a tr'al was had before a jury in the Circuit Court, the 
CoiTimon Pleas Court having been abolished, and a ver- 
dict was rendered in behalf of the plaintiff for $50, the. 
amount asked for in the .^uit. 
"The ca.'=e had been before the people so long it had 
become celebrated and of intense interest. Crittenden & 
Cockrell appeared for the defendant when the case first 
appeared in the Common P'eas Court. Elliott & Blod- 
gett made their first anpearance in the case at the same 
time. Roth firms followed the rase to its close. Col, 
Blodgptt was then resid'ne at Warrensburg, and soon 
after this t^rial removed to St. Louis, becoming the gen- 
eral solicitor of the North Afi'^souri Railroad, now. the 
Wabash. He was then one of the ablest of the Rlissouri 
bar. and-bas since beconie one of the most distinguished 
cornoration ■ lawyers of the United States. nospes=;'ng all 
of the elements of a great lawyer and an admirable gen- 
tleman. 
".At this sta.ffe of the case Philips & Vest were em- 
ployed by- the nlaintift'. on Drum's side. It mav be well 
to here state tha*- bv this time both the plaintiff and the 
defendant had almost- passed out of sight and Drnm be- 
came t'^p important fio^ure of the w;ho!e trial. Philins & 
Vest. Elliott & Blodgett anoeared for lln^ plaintiff on 
the iurv trial of the cn.se. Sept. 23. iP70. and Crittenden 
& Cockrell for the defpt^dant. As both sides recognised 
it as a famous case, with larc^e costs pcndinsr. Greek be- 
in.sr arraved arra-r-.^t Greek, they went imn the trial well 
prepared, with blond in tVeir eyes, askinsr no favors, 
granM'no- tiione. T do not now rernenihpr all the srrounds 
of thp dff^nse. tlie m^-^st imnortant one brine' that even if 
the dpfendant did ki'l the doc. which was not confessed, 
il had -no m.irket ^-aUie and no suit should be based nnoii 
it. "After the evidence wa= fSrecrxited fnd the msfrnc- 
tions eiven bv the court. Jiulee Foster P. Wricht. then 
nre-siding-. allnwf^d two c^eerhes on a s'de. coverins' fotir 
honrs. sav'ner: 'T want this do<7 rase to be fuHv tried and 
e^ded" it has already evhansted too much i?me.' I think 
Col. Plndcrett made the or>pni"<r p'^eerh for D'nim. I 
followed next and t'^en Coc'-Tcll followed tre. Corkrell 
attd I thojifht we had ihe iury on o«r side, pclitically 
and symrtatheticn'lv. and »he verdict was snrc to be 
against Drytn. Blo»IJgpe^^^ had m^^a a p-eat spfebCh. \\ 
