.,Aphil 6, 1901.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Notice. 
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always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 
For the Dog- on Chain. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I find in the Hampshire Gazette note of a tragedy at 
Forest Park, in Springfield, Mass. It is related that 
"Dinah, the black bear which was brought to the park 
over seven years ago, when a cub, had two cubs born 
about the first of last month. Dinah was separated from 
the other bears and given the den, runway and cage to 
herself. When the young bears were little over a week 
old the keeper noticed that the mother bear had ap- 
peared in the cage connected with the den, while before 
she had kept closely within the den. This aroused his 
suspicions, and he dropped the grating, shutting her into 
the cage. A thorough search was then made of the den, 
but the cubs had disappeared, and no trace of them could 
be found. It is supposed that Dinah yielded to what ap- 
pears to be a common impulse among bears in captivity, 
and devoured her offspring. She had been treated with 
the iitmost care, and every precaution taken against dis- 
turbing her. The only person allowed near the den was 
the keeper that brought the animal's food once a day. 
The park authorities very much regret the occurrence. 
It is rare to have cubs born in captivity, and these were 
the first youngsters that had ever been at the park. 
People are always asking, "Have you any cubs out 
there?" In a few days more the cubs would probably 
have been taken from their mother and brought up by 
hand in a separate cage." 
One thing is certain, that the keeper could have saved 
the cubs if he had not starved the dam! One meal a day 
is not near enough for the nursing mother of two cubs. 
The old bear should have had plenty of meat, besides 
cereals, fruit, nuts, or any odd thing to vary her diet and 
amuse her. Animals want playthings, especially dogs 
which are on chain. An old shoe, old hat or rag baby 
will keep them from whining and barking. After snow 
passes, the best hygiene for a hunting dog is to tie him 
to the springy limb of an apple tree, with not enough 
scope of rope or chain to allow him to get snarled up 
in it. It is like one of those children's baby jumpers. 
Charl es Hallock. 
Mascoutah Kennel Club* 
The list of judges, with the breeds assigned to each, in 
respect to the forthcoming show of the Mascoutah Ken- 
nel Club, follow: James Mortimer, Hempstead, L. I. — 
St Bernards, Newfoundlands, mastiffs, Russian wolf- 
hounds, deerhounds, greyhounds, bloodhounds, English 
fox hounds. Chesapeake Bay dogs, Dalmatians, poodles, 
bidl dogs, Boston terriers, French bull dogs, Schip- 
perkes. Chihuahuas, Italian greyhounds, pugs, Yorkshire 
terriers, toy terriers, Pomeranians, .Griffons, King 
Charles spaniels, Blenheim spaniels, ruby spaniels, Prince 
Charles spaniels, Japanese spaniels, American fox hounds 
and miscellaneous. 
T. S. Ballin, Minneapolis — Bull terriers, smooth fox 
terriers, wire fox terriers, Airedale terriers, Welsh 
terriers, Bedlington terriers, black and tan terriers. Skye 
terriers, Dandie Dinmont terriers and Scotch terriers. 
Dr. J. .S. Niven, London, Ont. — Great Danes, Clumber 
spaniels, field spaniels, cocker spaniels and Irish terriers 
J. A. Graham, St. Louis — English setters, Irish setters 
and Gordon setters, 
T. Donoghue, La Salle, III. — Pointers aiid Irish water 
spaniels. 
John A. Long, St. Louis — Collies and Old English 
sheepdogs. 
Arthur Froembliiig, Chicago — Dachshunds. ' 
Mrs. E. Oughton Giles, Stockenchurch, Bucks, Eng. — 
Beagles. 
Points and Flushes. 
The celebrated veterinarian, Mr. H. Clay Glover, of 
New York, has for some time been residing on Long 
Island, where he enjoys the freedom and advantages of 
countrj' life while still being within touch of his business 
at 1293 Broadway, New York. His dog remedies have 
won their way to the front and have long since been 
recognized throughout this country as standard. They 
are specially prepared for all the ills to which the dog 
is subject. 
Rush to the Hot Springs of Arkansas. 
It is probably due to the influences of the many cam- 
paigns in which the United States troops have been en- 
gaged in the last year or so ip. foreign climes, and the 
extremely arduous duties which they have performed 
with such distinction that the number of applications 
for treatment at the American Carlsbad — the Hot Springs 
of Arkansas — has increased to such an extent that from 
the present indications it looks as if the applicants could 
not be taken care of. Our Uncle Samuel keeps a great 
hospital there for the exclusive use of the officers and 
men of the regular and volunteer army — the Government 
Army and Navy Hospital is the way it is called, for the 
navy has a share of the benefits, too, and in the last few 
years it has become an immensely popular place. 
The world-wide reputation which this resort bears for 
the prompt and permanent^ alleviation and relief of such 
ills as service in the semi-tropic regions involves, and 
that in connection with its remarkable climate and health- 
fulness of location — its altitude is just right— and its 
easy accessibility combine to make it a spot much sought 
after by officers and men. 
The surgeon in charge of the Government Hospital esti- 
mates that the applications for admittance this year will 
be much in excess of the capacity of the hospital to care 
for them, although it has been extensively improved and 
everything done that could be done in anticipation of 
just such a rush. It looks as if at least a few of the 
applicants would be disappointod by their failure to get 
there. 
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American" Canoe Association, 1900-1901. 
Commodore, C. E. Britton, Gananoque, Can. 
Secretary-Treasurer, Herb Begg. 24 King street. West Toronto, 
Canada. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Thirty-second street ana Avenue A, 
Bayonne, N. J. 
Division Officers. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Henry M. Datei% Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Rear-Com., H. D. Hewitt, Burlington, N. J. 
Purser, Joseph F. Eastmond, 199 Madison street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., C. P. Forbush, Buffalo, N. V. 
Rear-Com., Dr. C. R. Henry. Perry, N. Y. 
Purser, Lyman P. Hubbell, Buffalo. N. Y. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., Louis A. Hall, Newton, Mass. 
Rear Com., C. M. Lamprey. Lawrence, Mass. 
Purser, A. E. Kimberly. Lawrence Experimental Station, 
Lawrence, Mass. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., G. A. Howell, Toronto. Can, 
Rear-Com., R. Easton Burns, Kingston, Ontario, Can, 
Purser, R, Norman Brown, Toronto. Can. 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., Wm, C. Jupp. Detroit, Mich. 
Rear-Com., F. B. Huntington, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Purser, Fred T. Barcroft, 408 Ferguson Building, Detroit, Mich. 
Official organ. Forest and Stream. 
'Mid Reef and Rapid —VI. 
BY F. R. WEBB. » 
Five o'clock of a summer morning in camp seems fully 
as late as 7 o'clock at home in a darkened bedroom; so 
when we turned out next morning at this seemingly 
early hour, after a good, sound, refreshing night's sleep, it 
did not seem much if any earlier to us than our usual 
hour. To the habitually late riser, the exquisite charm 
of early day — particularly in the summer — is lost. The 
rising sun; 'the fresh, dewy atmosphere; the delicious 
quiet; the feeling that all nature has been refreshed and 
purified by the night's rest — all combine to make this the 
most attractive and enjoyable part of the day. I pre- 
sume that, as a rule, the members of our party were fully 
as little accustomed, when at home, as most people are, to 
viewing and enjoying tiature at this early hour; therefore 
when we turned ont this morning in the delicious, fresh 
purity of the new-born day, and had plunged our heads, 
faces and hands in the clear, refreshing water of the 
river, from whose smooth surface the mists were rising; 
drifting away in delicate httle wreaths, and melting into 
the translucent atmosphere, just tinged by the sun's 
slanting rays, and washed the night's sleep out of our 
systems, it was with a keen sense of enjoyment that we 
took in all the beauties of the fresh, cool morning; and 
we sat down to our 6 o'clock breakfast of bacon," fried 
potatoes, soft boiled eggs and coffee with a much keener 
appetite than usually attends us at our matutinal meal at 
home iuWy two hours later. ; 
The Colonel is a quick packer, and, naturally, his tent 
was struck and his canoe packed and ready for launch- 
ing before it had occurred to the rest of us that our 
canoes were to be packed at all. While I was preparing 
breakfast, George and Lacy packed their canoes, and 
while they were washing up the breakfast things I 
packed mine,, and by 8 of clock everything was again 
afloat. 
The tljree miles from here to the Shenandoah^ at Port 
Republic, is a bea,utiful and interesting run. For the first 
mile and a half the water is still and deep, with hardly 
a ripple to break the surface. It is a beautiful sheet of 
water, flowing between soft, velvety, green banks, whose 
overhanging trees are reflected again from the mirror-like 
.surface of the water, while the long, down-stream vista 
is closed by the towering peaks of the southern end of 
the Massanutton range of mountains, which loom squarely 
across the vista and are reproduced faithfully, bottom 
upward, in the river. 
The river turns sharply to the right at the end of this 
long still reach, and an enormous fish dam, right in the 
elbow, or bend, straggles across the breadth of the river; 
which is here considerable. I am not aware that there is 
any particular advantage in this method of construction, 
but we meet with a number of dams in this river, built 
in this particular location — right in the angle of a sharp 
bend; the dam continuing across the river in a stra ght 
line with the inner bank. We usally shoot this dam near 
the right bank, where it is not more than a foot high, but 
at the present stage we were unable to find water enough 
flowing over the dam to do this, and the canoes were 
easily slid over by hand into the still water below. 
The remaining mile and a half presents a formidable 
series of rapids or falls, as the long stretches of reefs and 
ledges, with considerable drop or fall, are not inaptly 
termed in local parlance — by far the worst we have yet 
experienced, and quite as extensive and rough as most 
of those to be found in the Shenandoah below. The first 
half mile is a wilderness of reefs, extending, particularly 
for the first 200 yards below the dam, in long, regular 
parallel lines, clear across the river, slanting away con- 
siderably down-stream as they cross. At the present low 
stage inost of these reefs stood, baked hard, white and 
dry in the siin, considerably above the surface of the 
water, and as viewed from the dam the river bed pre- 
sented a bewildering conglomeration of rocks with no ap- 
parent thoroughfare. The water between each line of 
reefs is still and deep, and we easily threaded our way 
along these little terraces! taking advantage of the fre- 
quent little gaps or chance channels through the "saw- 
tooth" ledges, to drop over each ledge into the terrace 
below. Our progres's was thus quite slow, but we 
worked our way along the mazes qui^e successfully. Be- 
low the reefs_ the channel shoots swiftly to the left of a 
flat, grassy island, narrowing as it proceeds, until it 
finally ends in a nasty, crooked little pitch over a ledge, 
some three or four feet in height, with an equally nasty, 
crooked, rocky little channel below it, and we were all 
liberally thumped and banged about in here, before we 
succeeded in makinsr our escape into quiet water beIo\v, 
The next half mile is a majestic still reach of river, im- 
posing and lake-like in its dimensions; flowing between 
high, tree-clad banks on either side — a most lovely and 
impressive reach, with here and there masses of reefs 
large and small, exposing their white lime-encrusted sur- 
faces above the water, and adding picturesqueness to the 
scene. This is followed by half a mile of falls similar 
to those above, bitt steeper and rougher. 
We paddled slowly and cau iously over the calm surface 
of this lake-like reach; breaking the water into ripples 
and little furrows, as our paddles disturbed the surface 
and our sharp bows cut their way along through the 
water, which furrowed away in two long slanting Unes 
far towaixl either shore from the bow of each canoe — the 
furrows broken into confused masses of little wavelets 
where the long diverging lines chanced to cross each 
other. A sharp lookout was necessary, as great masses 
of reefs, reaching nearly to the top of the water from the 
depths below, were plentiful, and the currentless surface 
showed no indications of their presence save where the 
little furrows from the bows of the canoes broke over a 
crest but just beneath the surface, and reuniting beyond 
passed on, leaving a series of little rings of water dancing 
and lapping round it. 
A low wall of reefs and matted bush covered islands 
stretched clear across the river like a dam, below this 
reach, and marked the beginning of the last half mile of 
falls above Port Republic and the Shenandoah, down 
which the whitened waters tumbled and foamed; spark- 
ling lightly in the rays of the morning sun among the 
masses of black, ugly, grinning reefs, which everywhere 
darkened the water and obstructed its passage, while the 
dull, threatening roar sounded ominously in our ears 
as we approached, wi.h the long iron bridge at 
Port Republic stretched lightly across the end of the 
vista, outlining its slender fi aments in faint, dark tracery 
against the great green background of the Blue Ridge. 
We slipped into the narrow little boat channel between 
the two flat, grassy little islands in the middle of the 
river, and wound our way in and out among the rocks 
and ledges, along the winding Iit:le canal among the 
reefs, without touching a rock, until we passed through 
this chain; below which the water rests in a still terrace, 
100 yards in extent, before foaming and tumbling down 
a reallly formidable series of ledges and reefs. A narrow 
little boat channel, close to the right bank, two or three 
hund:'ed yards long, affords a tolerably safe passage 
through, although plentifully sprinkled with loose rocks, 
especiallly at the lower end. where it divides into two 
passage over the inevitable fall into the deep water 
below. Through this shore, still reach we now paddled, 
directing our course toward .the channel at the right, 
while George took occasion to produce his bugle and 
bray forth most unmelodious bias s thereon, with a 
view of arousing the sleepy inhabitants of Port Republic 
and notifying them of our approach. His mus'cal efforts 
were speedily rewarded by the appearance of a litttle 
crowd of men and boys, who gathered in a curious little 
group on the bridge to see us come down over the falls, 
and doubtless hoping to see some of us score a capsize 
in the attempt. 
"Now look out! This shoot is no child's play on this 
water, and we are all likely to strike at the last pitch 
down at the bottom. If any of you strike, jump out 
promptly, or there will probably be a canoe to repair!" 
said I. as we approached the head of the boat channel, 
and the long narrow lane of water could be seen, .straight 
away down hill before us, with the big waves glit ering 
and tossing their shaggy manes in the bright sunlight. 
"Hold back a little, and let each man get half way 
down the rapid before the next man enters the shoot!" 
was my parting injunction, as my canoe was caught in 
the powerful suction over the verge of the rapid, and shot 
swiftly down the race. It was a rat. ling plunge and 
headlong rush down, while my canoe rode the big waves 
like a duck. The run was made without a mishap until 
I reached the shallow foot of the shoot, when in spite 
of skill and alertness I was swept broadside over a flat 
mass of reefs, where there was not water enough to float 
me, and mj^ canoe careened helplessly over, high and dry 
on the rocks. 
Of course all that there was left for me to do was to ' 
open my 'midship hatch and step out and lift her off and 
then scramble aboard again as nimbly as I could, with the 
whirl of waters tugging at my canoe, which I succeeded 
in doing, just in time to close my hatch again with a snap, 
and Avithout waiting to see whether it was properly ad- 
justed or not, hastily jerked the waterproof apron up to my 
chin, when my canoe dived head first over the finaJ 
four-ioot fall, and was buried in the yeasty suds below. 
I paddled leisurely across the reach of still water below 
this fall toward the next and final fall of the serief, 
keeping a careful lookout for the sunken reefs which 
everywhere abounded, and which were the more difficult 
to avoid because the still surface of the river gave no 
rippling indications of their presence, and looking back 
from time to time to enjoy the predicament in which the 
other fellows were finding themselves— all in a bunch, and 
stuck on the rocks, and all in the water; finally freeing 
themselves and getting aboard their canoes again as they 
best could, in time to make the final plunge over the fall. 
Pretty well over to the left bank a channel some 50 or 
75 yards long afforded us a straight, easy shoot through 
the last of the reefs just above and under the bridge, 
which (after a final sharp dodge to the right to avoid the 
reefs just below the bridge, which lie directly in line with 
the channel and are not easy to dodge, owing to the 
swift water which sets squarely across them — the Colonel 
broke a paddle here last year, merely in sweeping the 
water, in an unsuccessful attempt to swing his canoe 
around them) brought us into the still, deep pool in front 
of the village of Port Republic, into which South iRiver 
pours its rippling wafers, and the falls were run. 
We stepped ashore, cup in hand, at the spring in the 
bank, at the foot of the main street of the village, which 
consisted of a bottomless barrel sunk in the ground, close 
to the river margin, and full to top with clear, cold water, 
which could be seen welling up in little eruptions of 
golden sands all over the bottom of the spring. 
After a .eood drink, we closed and locked our hatches 
to protect the contents of the canoes from the swarm of 
little darkies of all a.ges, sizes, sexes _ and conditions, 
previous and present, wh9 appeared to spring up out of the 
ground, sn pmtr^ptly oirh&Tid were they ^vhen we latilii^, 
