July if, 1901.] 
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fish ill the lake as ever yet. etc., because the Fish Com- 
missioners sec to it that the lake is replenished every 
yeai- with fry. 
A i5j/2 pound trolit,_ caught by Frank Kennedy the 
other day, while he was trolling for pidkerel near Bladk 
Brook, sb surprised him thilt he did not care to fish aiiy 
more that day. "Got fish enough," as he tei'sely 
expressed It. ' 
Fish Commissioner Nathaniel Wentworth was at the 
lake July 13 swapping fish stories with General Paul 
T.ang. S. H. 
San Francisco Fly-Castingf Club. 
Med.vl contests, series 1901. Saturday contest No, 7, held 
at Stow Lake. July 13. Wind, N.W. ; weather, warm and 
clear : 
Event Event Event 
No. 1, No. 2. No. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, , Event No " '■ — ^ l.tire 
Feel Per cent. Acc. % Del. % Net % Casting^ 
lt,-iHii S9 89 91. Tv.*! ' M.Z 
Hruoks 91 91 88.8 74 79.1 
livcrctt lis 91.4 89.8 77.(1 83.7 
Ciaut lOB'/i 89.8 90 74.2 82.1 
MHiisficld 91 92.8 77.fi 85.1 
Mullcr 99 94 92 74.2 83.1 
Mocker .. 91.8 74.2 82.11 ' .... 
Young 94 92.4. 92.8 76.8 84,8 
Sunday, July 14 — Wind, west; weather, perfect: 
I'.iiMu 97 90.1 N4 73.4 78.8 n(i.-3 
Htooks 108 83.8 88.8 72.6 80.7 
I!rof1icrton 121 92 86.4 7.^ SO. 8 Ml. .5 
llavcrkoscn II.5I/2 85.8 88 .SO 84 
Everett 116 ' 93.'4 ' 89 76.8 .82.10 
Grant 114 84.8- .87.4 75 81.2 
Golchcr i;!2 89.4 89.8 78.4 84 79.1 
Haight 84 88 78.8 73.3' 76 
Huyck 98 90.8 81.8 • 77.6 79.7 
l.senbruck 76 .. .. .. .. .... 
B Kcnniil 110 85.4 81 74.2 77.7 95.3 
C R Kenniff 101 89.4 87 72.6 79.'9 97 
.Mansfield 92.8 93.8 80 .Sfi.lO 89.fi 
Mocker 95 88.8 88. 8 77.6 83.1 
Mullet 98 89.8 86.4 75.10 81.1 
Young- 99 90.4 90.8 74.2 82.5 
Judges, Everett and Muller; referee, Mansfield; clerk. 
Young. 
The Kmgffishefs Are Anticipatingf. 
lull tor Fbrcst and Stream: 
"The Kingfisher gang" will hit the G. R. & I. Ry. — the 
old "fishin" line" — on July 30 for Traverse Citj'. and from 
there to Glen Lake, twenty-one miles northwest, where 
we will make our twenty-first annual summer camp in 
the North Woods. Glen Lake is not yet quite fished to 
death, and as ahvays. before a trip to the "bresh" we are 
"chuck full o' plans and expectancy" for a good time 
:ind good sport with rod and line. 
Expectancy is one of the chief comforts of the old 
angler in planning for a camp, and the j'ounger ones of 
our party are "jest a-biliiv over with it." Without the 
anticipation and preparation before the start to the woods 
■A trip would hardly be worth a "string o' white suckers." 
The tents are all packed in the old canvas bags that have 
seen many years' service ; the Cree camp stove ready in 
its box ; the frog bo.x packed full of miimow buckets ; 
reels cleaned and oiled, rods and lines and other neces- 
saries all in order, axes and hatchets ground and in the 
tool box. and so on to the end of the chapter, and we 
arc only watting for the day when w-e will take the 
trail that leads to the "smell o' the pines" and the melody 
of the rippling waters. The latch string is always out at 
the Kingfishers" camp, for ye honest angler who may 
happen along. Kingfisher. 
.'i'-pl, 2-5. 
Exhibition. 
Fixiofes. 
-Toronto, Can. — Dog show of the Toronto Industrial 
W. P. Fraser, Sec'y. and Supt,_ 
Never Talked Agfain. 
A young man of smart appearance entered a restaurant, 
followed by a French poodle that seemed intelligent above 
his race. The master selected a table and sat down 
:il one end, while the poodle sat up on a chair opposite 
lu him and waited. After conning the bill of fare the 
master ordered steak and onions. Then the dog remarked, 
"And the same for me, please." 
Nothing can astonish a waiter, but a gentleman sitting 
near by heard the dog's reinark and played double aston- 
ishment for the waiter and himself. Seeing this, the 
owner of the talking dog asked of the animal, "What 
-Avine, Mossoo?" 
"Mumm, '93," replied the poodle, laconically, looking a 
trifle bored, This was too much for the astonished gentle- 
man. He rose and, 'apologizing, said to the owner of the 
dog : 
"It is marvelous to what a pitch of perfection one can 
bring a good poodle. Eve seen some dogs in my time, but 
I've never heard one talk as plainly as yours does. Will 
3011 take $250 for him?" 
"Well," replied the voung man, "I really don't want to 
sell him." 
"Take $500?" pursued the other. 
"Well, well, if you really want him I, will. I can easily 
train another to talk in the same way." 
The bargain was made, and the dog changed hands. 
But as the new master w^as leading his purchase out of 
the restaurant by a string, the poodle cast a reproachful 
li M)k on the ventriloquist and said, with a world of pathos 
in his words. "You've sold me! You've sold me! I'll 
nc>er talk again !" 
And he didn't ! — Exchange. 
Points and Flushes* 
♦ — - 
American Ganoe Association^ J 900- J 90 J. 
Commodore, C. E. Britton, Gananoque, Can. 
Secretary-Treasurer, Herb Beggr, 24 King street. West Toronto, 
Canada. 
Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Thirty-second street anu Avenue A, 
Bayonne, N. J. 
Division Officers. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Henry M. Dater, 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. Y. 
Rear-Com., Dr. C. R, Henry, Perry, N. Y. 
Purser, Lyman P. Hubbell, Buffalo. N. Y. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Louis A. Hall, New^ton, Mass. 
Rear-Com., C. M. Lamprey. Lawrence, Mass. 
Purser, A. E. Kimberly, Lawrence Experimental Station, 
Lawrence, Mass. 
NORTHERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., 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 Stvream. 
"The Show Dog," by Mr. H. W. Huntington, of Pr()vi- 
dence. R, I., treats elaborately of all the recognized breetls 
of dogs. Their origin, uses, standards, merits and h\n\is 
are set forth in a pleasing manner. Half-tone cuts of 
jipecim?)!? 9t tl}? ^ijftff.f^t brf-eds iUustratf t\\e, work. 
'Mid Reef and Rapid.— XVL 
BY F. R. WEBB. 
Wk got an early breakfast at the hotel, on Eriday 
morning, and by. 8 o'clock were again afloat, with Key- 
ser's, at the foot of Kem()le Falls— twenty miles away — 
as our objective, where we designed spending a day in 
fishing over the exceptionally fine fishing ground afforded 
b}' the falls: 
A large party of ladies and gentlemen from the springs 
accompanied us to the river, to see our canoes, and to 
see us start; and our first pitch, down over the old mill- 
dam, was interesting and exciting to them. 
Our little stay here was a delightfully pleasant episode 
of the cruise, and our hospitable treatment will long be 
remembered and appreciated. In addition to our enter- 
tainment our failing supplies were not only freely and 
abundantly renewed, but' we were also provided with 
many little luxuries and delicacies quite foreign to our 
regular bill of fare. 
We had a rattling, lively five-mile run to Shenandoah; 
for. while this section of the river contains several broad, 
still reaches, very beautiful in their lake-like repose, with 
bold, bhtff-like banks and overhanging cliffs, this five 
miles is mostly rapids- bold, swift, rocky and very rough. 
The mile and more of rapids just above, as well as 
those opposite, .Shenandoah, are very rough; and, at the 
present stage, somewhat hazardous; and while we all 
made a briliant run — not one of us even touching a rock— 
I drew a long breath of relief when we were safely 
through and had beached the canoes on the shingly bar 
opposite the Jong, straggling, wooden village. 
. Shenandoah is not a representative old Virginia town. 
It is entirely too new, and still smacks of the "boom," ■ 
and looks more like th-e railroad town which it really is. 
The classic old town of l^uray. Front Royal, Strasburg 
and Charlestown are but a short distance inland, and 
the couicmplative canoeist in search of the picturesque 
will be well repaid for the time spent in lying by a day 
opposite each place long enough to make the trip over 
and take a stroll through their quaint, old-fashioned 
streets; and if he is the fortunate possessor of a kodak — 
and no well regulated canoeist should cruise without one — • 
he will find ample use for it in the many interesting 
subjects which will present themselves. While not so 
near the river, Winchester, the historic old town which 
changed hands more than eighty times as the fierce tide 
of war surged up and down through its streets, in which 
the dead were piled up like cordwood, and in whose ceme- 
teries the blue and the gray lie in thousands, is well 
worth a visit; and Staunton, with its fetnalc colleges and 
State institutions, while not on the river, is the place 
from which the canoeist' will make his start, and will be 
iound, very ", iifleresting; and the canoeist, on finishing 
his cruise, can well spend a day or- two at picturesque, 
historic old Harper's Ferry, with its' wealth of wondrous 
scener3% its quaint, alley-iike streets cut in the solid 
flanks of the mountain, at the foot of which it nestles, 
and up over whose gigantic shoulders of solid rock it 
climbs and straggles, and at whose feet the rippling 
■"Dau.ghter of the Stars" is lost in the glad embrace of 
the Potomac. 
We had a lively time at Shenrmdoah, as. .while here, we 
fell into the hands of old friends, who speedily helped us 
to make new ones, and the hour passed here flew quickly 
by. While here we received and mailed letters, and at 
II o'clock, we repaired to the river front 9gain, accom- 
panied by our friends, who- wished to' see the canoes, and 
to see us start. We would gladly have accepted their 
invitation, so urgently given, to stop over for dinner at 
Brown's, but it would have detained us at least three 
hours more, and we had fifteen miles of rough, difficult 
water to n.avigate in order to reach Keyser's by evening, 
so, with cordial adieus on both sides, we stepped aboard 
oiu- boats, pushed oft, and turned our bows down the 
swift flowing river, onr friends standing on the bank and 
watching us as long as we could be seen, until we turned 
a heavily wooded point, which shut us from view. 
We swept swiftly down a long, rock-studded reach to 
the left a few miles below, which carried us close in to the 
Massanittten Mountains, where, as the river swept in a 
great semi-circle to the right, squarely aroun<i Until it 
doubled on its course, it impinged against the foot of 
the mountain, M'hich rose directly out of the water in a 
steeply sloping line a couple of thousand feet or so to 
the summit of the range. This slope — if the nearly per- 
pendicular mountain wall could be called a slope — was 
densely clothed wath a perfect mat of evergreens and 
hardy, scrubby oaks and other undergrowth, whose 
fibrous, claw-like roots gripped tenaciously among the 
.points 9ntl cr^yjcc^i of the g-oliji rp?k, whjch, loosely coy^ 
ered in places with a thin, pbor soil, composes the Vast 
bulk of the mountain. It was a bold, imposing bit of 
scenei-jf, and, after we had turned our backs on it and 
wei'e stiooting swiftly dowii the long, tWo of three mile 
reach below, and directly away from it, the mountain 
loomed up tnore and more impressively, and its long, 
wall-like crest seemed to rise higher and higher Up into 
the sky. as We got further out from under its overshad- 
owing base, while light cloud-wreaths lingered caressingly 
around its beetling brow. 
We found the glare of the afternoon sun on the water 
in this reach to be most intolerable, as it was directly in 
our faces, and we quickly dived into one of those indis- 
peiLsable pockets under the cockpit coaming of each 
canoe and produced our colored glasses and put them on, 
after which we suffered no furtlier inconvenience from 
the sun. 
A. pair of colored glasses is an indispensable part of a 
canoeists outfit, for there is hardly a morning or after- 
noon when the sun shines that he will not cruise on 
reaches of the river where they will be needed. They are 
.specially useful on the Shenandoah, with its innumerable 
.series of east and west bends, and letter S loops, in its 
efforts to break through the mountain walls which licm 
it in, and buffet it back and forth, from side to side of 
the narrow valley. I recall one occasion when George 
and I were making a little cruise on Middle River, early 
in July, when the days were long; when we had to gn 
into camp at 4 in the afternoon, simply because we had 
a three or four mile reach almost 'straight away ahead 
of us, full- of reefs. and leading scpiarely against the de- 
clining sun; and, in addition to the blindhig glare, Avhicii 
speedily became unendurable, we were utterly imable U> 
distinguish the channels and gaps through the reefs, and 
were, thej-efore, unable to proceed. ' 
"Look out, there, Sommodore !" Lacy sang out. "I 
don't think we can get down that right hand channel; 
there ain't water enough. You'd better head to the left 
of that gravelly island." 
"Oh, yes we can," T replied,' as I pushed ahead. '"You 
see, in a place like this that broad reach to the left over 
there will be correspondingly shallow, while this 'narrow 
shoot to the right will have tnore water in it." 
"Y^s, that's all right; but I tell you^you can't get 
through there: there isn't enough water," he insisted. 
The river below Shenandoah is bold, swift and full of rocks. 
"Now," looisr here, l.acy," I repHed, asserting the Com- 
modorial authority; "you can't tell me anything about 
this river; I've cruised it too often. In such places as 
this, you'll always find the most water in the narrow 
shoots: it spreads out broad and shallow in the widc^ 
shoots." 
"All right, go ahead," he replied. 
"I intend to," I answered, as my canoe slipped over tlie 
head of the rift and began the descent of the swift, nar- 
row channel to the right of a flat, gravelly rapid, very 
broad on the left side. "Now you see I was " just 
then my canoe brought up all standing, hard and fast 
on the gravel bar. 
"Yes, we see," said George, dryly, as the Shenandoah 
ranged itp alon.gside, cheek by jowl with the Frankie, 
and promptly stuck fast also. 
"Yes; you'll always find the deep water in the narrow 
channels." the Colonel contributed, as the Mary Lou 
buried her nose in the gravel. 
We all sat still and looked at each other for a few 
moments without a word, while we took in the situation. 
"It's a good thing we didn't take that broad, shallow 
channel over there to the left, as I suggested," said Lacy, 
as he gravely stepped out into the two or three inches 
of water rippling down over th.e bar and around the hope- 
lessly stranded canoes; and picking up the stern of his 
canoe shoved it, bow first, down over the twenti'' or 
thirty yards of gravel reef to deeper water below, while 
the rest of us quietly followed his example. "You see," 
he continued, "you can see by that wagon crossing the 
ford there opposite us that it is quite shallow — the water 
doesn't come quite to the tops of the front wheels!" 
"Well," I put in, "I insist that the principle is cor- 
rect, even if " 
"Yes. but you busted in the application of it," inter- 
iected the Colonel. 
"That may be." I admitted. "We'll say no more about 
it. and when we get ,back to town you may order what 
you please at my expense." 
This arrangement appeared to be satisfactory, and 
the boys cons'derately let me off. 
At about one or half-past we reached the Grove Hill 
spring, where we laid by for an hour for lunch and rest. 
The Colonel surprised the party by producing a bottle of 
beer apiece from the capacious depths of his big canoe, 
which he had laVl in at Shenandoah, and which were 
.placed in the spring for half an hour before drinking, along 
with three or four nice canteloupes which George had 
picked up as we came down the river. : 
The river below^ Shenandoah is bold, swift and full of- 
r jcks. reefs and rough, heavy rapid.s— indeed, the wor.st 
part of the entire upper riyer lies in the twenty-five miles 
between Shenandoah and Massanutton, Avhich includes 
the five miles of very rough, difficult and troublesome 
river known as Kemple's Fafls and the Columbian Falls, 
whfpli He close to^^et^ft-f ^jf)4 of cour^^e. at a very low st^g? 
