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.iiiocuig and camping. ivTot moie tha!fi. bfie-half of it 
l is yet begun to be developed, and still ii Js alreaid|:^ d'f far 
greater value to the State than m'anufactui;irig — bVirigiiig 
i i more money. Eveii the great timber industry is small 
iiipafed with what sportsmen and vacationists bring into 
III' State, and this snotlld be doubled — ^yes, quadrupled. 
He is fight, The love of fishin* and hunting, of forest 
(life, is fflakifig rapid gfowtli ;' veritable .stl"id«?s, ill fact, and 
'Mfiiiie, havilli tlig. Mtilfal t^ppoftUriity, should draw hef 
'larfe of the betlefitS,, "With this ffoW.th of sporting Irt- 
i i Gsi: coiries iMcreased patronage of SUdh delightful papers 
idi.tte stibjeetiJs the pOREST and StremvI, atjd that paper 
- ill liola lip the tends di the Maiiie Worjd'.^ Fair Cdra- 
iiif^,sipn in the \vork they propo.se io iiHmhkke. . , 
f^^iDpfls say that fishing ,i.s quiet at Mooselie^fO Lstke. 
Mc, thotig:!i octfSfiiotially a, big one is. landed, Fisherraeii 
'AYQ making .trips to "ponds iH the wilderness."., and few 
L'une back disappointed. In^ September, tly-lishit)|t will be 
soqd again, and a nurnber of guests and camp and cotti^gi? 
ners will remain for this, fishing. Reports from the 
tngeleys mention some catches, most of which are 
■ phigged," however. At Haines' Landing, Lake Moose- 
iiuMnaguntic, last week, Miss Bessie Boswell, the four- 
Lccii-yeaf-old daughtef of J, H. SosWell, df Greenwich, 
Conn., landed a beautiful salhioil df paHrids. Wilder 
Anthony, of Sfdokiitte, Mass., also took a sslmoti cA 4j4 
peunds, ^t-the sUnije.kke last week. . Varicetoip, Me., fe- 
pdHs ihehi;iph.,go,od bass, fisi)_injg,.oh the 136'H49 ihlrcaboilts; 
White pej-'ch fishing is also hoMing put well. , 
i,L. 0. Crane, of Bostoii, njis returned fr.om the Megantic 
Preserve, where he has been spending -fl^'fi oi" six wcef<s 
with Mrs. Crar^e,, Both are fishermen all through., Mr. 
Crane has fished Big Island Pondj chiefly this year, though 
he fished L. Pond last year. He Kept 5 record .this ^.season 
,up to 1,000 trout caught, and then stopped counting, 
Other sportsmen must not hold up their hands in horror 
till he has had a chance to explain. Nearly all of these 
ti'ont were returned, unharmed, to the water. The largest 
was 15^ goiinds. Me did save gixteen beauties to bring 
Hfihig te Mi'. Weslgf, ^: HgffleHWav. his friend and busi- 
kess partiiei:. Mi^. Heineiiway says: "Tjiey Wel'e 
elegant; as firm as when they came out.of.th^ w^afei-. 
knows how much I appreciate them, chaiiied to, rriy desk 
-all summer as I have been." Spect.al. 
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GHlGAGO AND THE WEST. 
The Leaping Tfooi. 
, • It goes without sayuig, at le^st lii tliidago, ,tilaf the Moti 
Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicagp, is the red-hottest 
kind of a ,red-hpt trout fisherman. Mayor Harrison has 
been spending some time at the Huron Mountain Club. , on 
the south shore of Lake Michigan, aiid has had, very fine 
success. Last week he broke the club record, and probably 
also broke his friend Hemp. Washburhe's. heart, by, cap- 
turing a sJ^-pound brook trout in Salmon Trout River, 
which runs through the club preserve. It is not seated 
whether or not the Mayor got this trout fair on the fly of 
landed him with one of Mr. Washburne's combination 
casts, which latter includes a live minnow, a worm and a 
few other attractions. It is to be hoped that the Mayor 
adhered to his creed and killed the fish on the fly. This 
big fish eonies as poetic ittstice, for, as may be reniem- 
hered. when Mr. Washbtirne caught his .s-pound trout 
last vear in the sanie stream, he captured a fish which had 
been' located by the Mayor and angled for by him patiently 
nearlv all summer. The fiendish glee with which Mr. 
Washburne recounts evert yet to Mayor Harrison the story 
of that fight with the big trout will, it may be sup- 
posed, be somexvhat tempered when the Mayor comes 
back with a fish ^ pound better. There will be doings at 
the Wishininne Club when the Mayor and Mr. Wash- 
burne meet here in Chicago presently. 
The Leaping Tana. 
Mr. J. Greville Wilmot, of this city, asks how high' the 
Luna jumps, and is in search of some one who has had a 
taste of this famous Catalina fishing of California. _ Will 
some one tell him whether the tuna jumps, how high he 
ran jump when he is feeling good? 
The Leaping Tarpon. 
Mr. J. W. C. Haskell, of this city, shows in the windov 
of his store to-dav a mounted tarpon which weighed 17 
pounds, and which required five hours' play before it wr j 
killed. This fish was taken at Aransas Pass, near Rock . 
►port. Tex., in those Texas tarpon waters which are si | 
rapidly gaining prominence. 
The Leaping Black Bass ^ i 
Mr. W. P. Mussey and Mr. Elmer Wilkinson, of this '. 
city, figure on starting in a few days for some of the. 
small-mouthed black bass on the Mississippi River, which 
liavc been mentioned from time to time in these columns. 
I have advised these gentlemen to go to La Crosse and' 
secure their guides there, going up or down stream, as the 
guides may advise. Though no late reports are at hand 
from that locality, this magnificent sport now ought to be 
in pretty fair condition. 
'-^ ^BIRemedies for Sleeplessness. 
No. I. Lie flat on your back. Keep both eyes wide 
open and gaze steadily about you at some imaginary spot 
on the ceiling-. Concentrate your gaze and your mind on 
that one little spot up above you. 
No. 2. Assume the same position, but instead of 
focusing your gaze intently on the spot above you, roll 
both eyeballs around in the sockets as widely as you 
can make them go. Keep it up. 
No. 3. Lie in the same position. Inhale deeply and 
expel the breath slowly. Imagine that you see your 
breath in the form of white steam. Keep it up. 
One of these three remedies will nearly always induce 
sleep. If all fail, then try: 
No. 4. Go fishing. 
The philosophy oi this thing, as applied to the average 
city dweller, is this: The waste particles of the system, 
those particles ground off in the friction of high-geared 
life, lie like iron filings along the delicate telegraph wires 
of the nervous system. They irritate. When you focus, 
your attention on something else, yoyt temporarily forget 
these particles affd yott go to sleep. NoW, when you go 
fishing, you are in the open aiif, where there is much more 
of.ygcn. This ogygen burns up these iron filings from 
your Wn-t'S and leaves you with a clean Set of wii-"es. Your 
attention is jil.ist much occupied by watching the rise 
of a trout under al fenk or a bass in some deep pod as if 
is in rolling your eyes Sftd looking up in the daf^^. 
Remedy No. 4 has this additio«al advantage, that it re- 
moves the cause of sleeplessriess, whereas all these other 
remedies only make you forget if fo'f & while. 
E, Hough. 
HaMford BuiLBiNfl, Chicago, 111. 
Sauiiietti New Hampshite. 
Tt^lASHijA, N. U.—Sdiiot' P'oti^si arid Strmn: I am 
glad to say fh,at.firie cafches of tfotft pmth and pickerel 
are being made ii'3 fhe fiear-hy waters arotffid aiid in this 
eity. Tlie waters are sCMmWi swollen, hut are swiftly 
going .down to their naitural pdsitiort. A few weeks ago 
I tried foi^' iv<^\.iii aW it. Was my imliietcy^ 4ay for I only 
got three little ,oneS. liy my, recent little ffips i«fa the 
rural sections I have 5een rriiieh, of naifiife. D*eer &m pfo^- 
gering, Not many, days ago three -vYere s€tti up at Mili^ 
Falls, ajid every day ^ome feppfts that SWSe have bee« 
seeil. Of squiffels and snipe I have seen. many.. On Jutte 
§ I Weiit tfouting agaitt, and was favored with luck;. An- 
othei- fellow Jjafflfef Jstck and 1 secured forty good trotit. 
i ifaiifht the^if prie. Hti Was ahout 11 inches long, and 
a beaiifv. To jHe Nashua .spdnsttien I suppose Chase 
Brook and the Bullet .are well-fenowri spfltS, Some a'ston- 
ishing- catches have beeii taken from, these .two places. 
The Qtnitv day a weJl-known "boy" took one tha't w'cigtted 
a pound and a iHilf from .the Chase. A . J>af ty of foil f 
\\;ent over to, Robinson 3 Pond for pout, the otiler .night:. 
It faiJled, an^ they, having, no waterproof covering, had f^^ 
put in.shore tor the night, but in th? morriiffg ah , was fa.ir, 
and they got a mess of perch and pickerel.. .Many, trien 
can vouch for the Pennuchuck h^kes as good for pickef^l^ 
and. indeed, they ought to be. having been clpsed for a 
Hti.niber of years. A dozen albino salmori have been 
shipj3ed frem the United States fish hatchery in this city 
to the E,xp6§itiott at Buffalo, The fish are natural curi- 
os'ties, .heing peffectly White. They are few in num- 
ber, and Superihtehdent Hubhal-d desires that they should 
be returned to this city in order to perpetuate the breed. 
Many prominent Nashua sportsmen have returned from 
their trips to Maine lakes and streams, and report having 
fine luck. Let us hear from some other Nashua men as 
to their success with rod and gun. 
Edwin C. Hobson. 
Big: Mttscallongfe. 
Glen istANi), Qfif., Avtg. 54. — Editor Forest and 
Stream :_ Mr. Wallace Murray, of New York, who is 
sojoiirning here, has just captured a niuscallonge weigh- 
iiig HA poiihds. The fish pttt Hp a iloble fight. 
C. A. 
_ : roo Spommen's f mas. 
Some of the Queer Discoveries Made by Those Who Are 
Looking for Game or Fish. 
And now we have a batch of finds of human flotsam 
and jetsam, in which the sportsman appears as a res- 
c. - ■>! time of stress. 
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A mysterious wild woman was found by hunters in 
the woods near GordoiVs Ferry, twelve miles north of 
Dubuque, Iowa, and the press dispatches ran: She is 
described as about 20 years of age, with lithe, sinewy 
form, a receding forehead, and eyes of unnatural luster. 
Her hair was black and about three feet long. _ She was 
almost nude, and wore neither shoes nor stockings. No 
one in the neighborhood can give any information re- 
garding the strange creature, but it is stated by one of 
the old residents that four years ago the daughter of a 
farmer in a small Illinois town, Avho had been engaged 
to be married to a well-to-do farmer, had mysteriously 
' 'isappeared. because of the refusal of her parents to 
ve their consent, and has not since been seen. It is 
ipposed that she subsists on roots and herbs and lives 
'"some cave among the rocks. An effort will soon he 
lade to capture her. 
70 
Whatcom. Wash., hunters on a cruise to Jervis Inlet 
ound on Nelson Island an old man, blind and faint, 
irostrate at the entrance to a wrecked hut. He was a 
one huntsman who three days before, at nightfall, had 
come upon the cabin and sought shelter there. He went 
inside and struck a match, and a spark from it felLinto 
a half keg of powder on the floor. Avhich exploded, 
wrecked the shanty, and almost killed him. 
71 
A somewhat remarkable find was made by a party of 
men hunting for game in the Welsh mountains. The 
-^ogs. having gone to ground in a hole in a rock, un- 
earthed a man who turned out to be the master of a 
schooner who had been missing six weeks. He was in 
a very emaciated condition, and could give no account 
of how he had lived during the time he had been in the 
cave, which was only 6ft. by 4ft. in dimensions. One 
thing is. however, certain, that had he not been found 
by the dogs, or by some other ir,eans, he must soon 
have been starved to death. 
72 
Several members of the Mount Adams Gun Club, 
hunting in the vicinity of New Trenton. Ind., ran across 
a dilapidated old log cabin that looked as if it had been 
there for r. century- ft stands in the middle of 105 acres 
of as prcttv farming land as there is in that part of the 
country. The men, thinking the place uninhabited, went 
to the door and pushed it open, when, to their surprise, 
they found it occupied by two aged Avomen. gray-haired, 
Aveazen-faced and decreoit. The floor, which was the 
bare earth, was the parade ground of a lot of fowls. 
Tti one corner the roof was off, and \mder this vacant 
place was a pool of water fn which a nwmber of ducks 
were waddling and expressing their delight with loud 
quackings. In another corner was an old-fashioned 
canopy bed. The post? were seven feet high and sup- 
ported' the roof. The women became enraged at the in- 
trusion of the hunters, and, in husky voices, ordered 
them ■!.<!) i^ave^ 
Inquiry among the neighbors revealed the fact that 
the Couple are si.sters named Hayes. Mary Ann is the 
oldest, aged sixty, and Bridget is fifty-eight. The oldest 
inhabitants renie'mbef them as sisters only. No man was 
ever seen abottt the place. How they exist is a mys- 
tery. They do not farm. They have a cow, and it is, 
stlI>posed they live on milk and fowl. Bridget is the- 
more eccentric. She goes to bed in October, and never 
gets up until April, the other sister administering to her 
everv want as though she were an invahd. They will 
accept no charity, and become fearfully enraged^ when a 
male person crosses their property. The land is worth- 
$.50,000, but they resent all' propo!5als for a sale. It is 
said there is an agreement betw'een the sisters that when! 
one dies the other is to follow iWmediateiy by suicide- 
'he Menmt 
Fixiures. 
Sept. 2-5:— Toronto, Can.— Dog show of the Toronto " jEMustrialS* 
Exhibition. W. T. Fraser, Sec'y. and Supt. 
Ambulance and Picket Dogs. 
Prom the London Field. 
CVwiNG fo the enormous expenditure of ammunition", 
with Uioderri; magazine rifles in action, there is plenty of . 
scope for f/lfi trained war dog who can fulfil the duty of 
carrying article.? from the carts to the firing line, being 
more fgj'wrant of danger, far more active, and not so 
easily shot dOWfl as S man. in consequence of his smalkf 
size arid greater speed.- Most dogs easily become accus- 
tomed to gim firing, a«d the distance between the firing 
line and ffserVe ammunition by means of war dogs 
should, as it W^fe. he matefially reduced hy the animal's 
great speed. Also dur-'ftg art engagement the war dog 
can be employed in connecfiiig the different columns, as m 
the messenger service, and m l)fiftging tvord of any sudL- 
dcn development in the fight, es{>ecially on ground ina.o- 
cessible to cavalry. The dog does m\ require the mi-- 
stalment and preparation of a field telegraph, 
One of the principal duties of the war dog, for which] 
he is fitted by nature, is the seeking of the w^otiwded and! 
missing among the hedges, ditches and rocks, etc., alter.. atf 
engagement. Experiments on the Continent during Ihe^ 
last thirty years have been itfo'sf successful. The er/fW!-- 
mous improvements in the moderii Weapons of warfare;' 
have made equally large demands 61*1- the ambulance and* 
medical departments. The distances a' mtidern field' 
of battle, owing to large-range firearms, haye.in a corre-- 
sponding manner increased enormously ; arid/ if the gf otind' 
is very difficult the stretcher-bearers are eb^s'equentJj'' 
hindered and their work is rendered severe. M ife'^ everi' 
possible that the wounded, weak through loss o? Mood,- 
are unable to call for help, and, owing to the groun^li,- are- 
passed by unseen by the stretcher-bearers, or are o^y 
discovered when help is too late. Of what use, then, aiF 
the latest discoveries of medical science if the wounded 
are not found? The German general. V. Herget, an 
eminent military authority, expressed himself as follows . 
lately, while attending a trial of ambulance dogs : "How- 
ever great the progress of medical science, the latest dis- 
coveries are of not the slightest use to the wounded until 
the wounded are discovered, and the finding of the 
wounded in night attacks is extremely difficult, and often 
almost impossible, for the ambulance detachments, and, in 
many cases, without auxiliary assistance, quite impossible. 
This auxihary assistance will eventually be supplied by 
the trained ambulance war dog. If we examine the figures 
given during the Franco-German war of 1870-71, the 
number of men missing and never accounted for was 
appalling." 
In July, 1899, dogs were used for this purpose with the 
army corps under the supervision of Gen. von Blumen- 
thal. The following is the performance of one of the 
dogs: Resi, a collie bitch, regardless of the musketry 
fire, pressed on and delivered her messages, disturbed 
neither by the marching troops nor cavalry detachments. 
She also guarded baggage while her keeper went away to a 
good distance. The othcers of the Tenth Army Corps were 
very pleased with her work in finding the missing, and 
gave her unive'sai approbation. After the stretcher- 
bearers had thoroughly examined the scene of the engage- 
ment, three men were reported as missing, and not to be 
found. Resi, the collie bitch, was ordered to search for 
them in the very wide field of battle. On receiving the 
word from her keeper, "Seek wounded," the bitch rushed 
off and scoured the thick covert at the back of the targets, 
hunting keenly for the missing in the ditches covered with 
bushes. In a short time she gave signs of having dis- 
covered some one. In five minutes more she had found 
the three missing soldiers, which the stretcher-bearers or 
ambulance corps had been totally unable to do after pro- 
longed searching. They might have been left in real war- 
fare. Gen. von Blnmenthal was delighted with the dog's 
performance, and the chief of the staff in his report said : 
"I am convinced that dogs thus trained can save the liA^es 
of many poor wounded and missing lying in hilly ground." 
Sergt. Brickner. of 74th Infantry Regiment, at Coburg, 
wrote: "Bello, a collie dog, distinguished himself at 
the maneuvers. With absolute certainty he took messages 
tO' the pickets and guards — nothing put him off, neither 
game, strangers, nor other dogs — he also took messages 
across the water. In seeking the wounded he" is un- 
rivalled. We also used him on the ranges. Bello took 
messages from the firing point to the markers, 600 yards 
off. without the comp,iny having to stop firing. He also 
took messages across diificult country, doing one and a 
half kilometers in four minutes." Another collie, Tonunka, 
with the Hussar Regiment King William I., went through 
the autumn maneuvers, 1899. Her keeper said : "She 
toUowfed the squadron during the whole maneuivers, ^ncl 
