Nov, 2, xgoi.} 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
8SS 
color white, ticked, markings ' black, tan on muzzle, may- 
communicate with me. This dog. I am informed, was 
(probably) picked up in the neighborhood of Aurora 
.in the month of September during the chicken season. 
It is now on a farm near that city. I ran across this one 
in looking up a pointer of my own which a trainer lost. 
My dog was actually lost by a trainer, and he has since re- 
covered the dog for me. 
"Dog No. 2 is a rather tall, thin, white and liver 
pointer dog — lots of liver — ticked. Yesterday, in look- 
ing after snipe, I ran across this dog. A farmer near 
Worth, on the Wabash R. R., near this city, picked him up 
eight days ago. The farmer says the owner came to him 
and told him the dog was lost, and that later if the farmer 
should see the dog, the owner would make it all right 
with the farmer if he would feed and care for the animal 
-until the owner came back for the dog. This was eight 
days ago, and the farmer is getting tired of feeding the 
animal, and he asked me if dog was any good. I told 
him the animal was a valuable-looking pointer, and to 
keep him for owner by all means. He said he Avould. 
"Some dogs are lost, and many are lost in the corn 
fountrj', where looking for them is usually attended with 
about as much success as looking for the old needle in the 
haystack. Some trainers are honest." 
Philadelphia Dogf Show. 
The following specials have been received by the Phila- 
delphia Dog Show Association for their show — Nov. 
27 to 30 : 
A silver cup for the best brace of bulldogs, entered and 
owned by one exhibitor, to be won outright. Open to 
all, offered by Miss Ellen Drexel Paul. 
The Poodle Club of England offers, open to all, a silver 
medal for the best poodle dog and bitch, respectively. 
The Bull Terrier Club of America offers the Tommy 
Tickle Cup, the Dunston and Kennelly Cup, the Frank H. 
Croker Cup and its club medals. These prizes are open 
to members of the Bull Terrier Club in good standing^ 
on Nov. 20, 1901. 
Attention is directed to the following errors in the 
premium list: The Cochran Challenge Shield, offered by 
A, .De Witt Cochran, Esq., for the best Airedale dog, is 
inserted as the Carnochan Shield. The silver cup for the 
best brace of toy dogs is offered by Miss Mary Astor 
Paul, instead of Mr. James W. Paul, Jr., as announced. 
The Fox Terrier Team Medals should read : Medal 
for the best team, smooth. Medal for the best team, wire.. 
Prize schedules and entrj^ forms may be obtained by- 
application at the office of the Association, 320 Wither- 
spoon Building. Entries close Nov. 11. 
Points and Flushes. 
A remarkable proof of a dog's homing instinct is re- 
ported ,by a Welsh correspondent, and as the canine 
traveler is a celebrity, we readily give prominence to her 
latest performance. Followers of sheep-dog trials will 
remember Old Merry, a very smart bitch, owned by Mr. 
C. Rice, of Llangurig, Montgomeryshire. Although in 
•her fourteenth year, she had, up to quite lately, shown 
winning form, twice having won the Frank Thomas Cup 
at Ely. But a few weeks ago, Mr. Rice being in Cardiff, 
over a hundred miles from his home at the foot of Plyn- 
limmon, left Old Merry with a friend, being con- 
vinced, now that her working days are over, that she 
would have a comfortable home in the metropolis of 
South Wales. Old Merry, however, thought differently, 
for the other day she turned up at her old home, having 
found her way,~ unaided, from Cardiff. How she did 
this is a mystery, but Mr. Rice is quite determined that 
he will not again attempt to get rid of her. — English Stock 
Keeper. 
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American Ganoe Association, l9QO-t9Qt* , 
Commodore, C. E. Britton, Gananoque, Can. 
Secretary-Treasurer, Herb Begg, 24 King street. West Toronto, 
Canada. 
Librariar W. P. Stephens, Thirty-second street ana Avenue A, 
Bayonne, N. J. _ . 
Division Officers. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
Vice-Corn., Henry M. Dater, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Rear-Corn., 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-Corn., Dr. C. R, Henry, Perry, N. Y. 
Purser, Lyman P. Hubbell, Buffalo. N. Y. i 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
Vice-Com., Louis A. Hall, Newton, Maf' 
Rear-Com., C. M. Lamprey, Lawrence^ Mssi. F 
Purser, A. E. Kimberly, Lawrence i^xperimental 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. j 
WESTERN DIVISION. » 
Vice-Com., Wm. C. Jupp, Detroit, Mich. 
Rear-Com., F. B. Huiitington, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Purser, Fred T. Barcroft, 408 Ferguson Building, Detroit, Mich. 
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Official organ, Fokxst aks Siseak. 
'Mid Reef and Rapid.— XXVE/ 
BY F. R, WEBB. 
So late ih. the summer in this mountain climate, the 
nights are pool, no matter how hot the days rhay be, and 
last night was Unusually so, and when I crawled out of my 
.tent, rather, early, 0^ .'this bright Sunday morning, hav- 
ing, for several hours, been unable to sleep for the cold, 
..and undressed myself for the day, I pulled off a stmit coat. 
a paiir of long trousers, a heavj^ sweater and an extra 
flannel shirt, before reaching my full, daily attire, which 
had also .been put on early in the night, I had also been 
sleepmg in a tightly closed tent, under two blankets and a 
. robber .coat (and "still' I was not happy/' George re- 
jna'rked," as. he stuck his head out of his tent and saw rae 
peeling off all these garments: said' it. reminded-: him 
-of peeling the different layers off an onion). There w?^s 
a thick, heavy, white dew on everything which stood in 
beads on the tops .of our tents, and on the decks of our 
canoes, and lay like a frost on the grass, whichSvas as 
wet as a rain could have made it. ■"■ ■"• 
I found Lacy out ahead of me. He was clad in his usual 
attire, plus a heary, white sweater, and was curled up on 
his camp stool out in the sun, with a book in his hand and 
his everlasting little briarwood between his teeth, try- 
ing to extract what warmth was to be had from the early 
morning rays. When I started a fire in the camp stove 
with a view to breakfast, we were all three fain to huddle 
around it and bask in its grateful glow. 
"The river's rising again 1" I proclaimed, as I climbed 
up the steep bank, after performing my matutinal ablu- 
tions.' 
"Oh, pshaw, you don't say !" was George's disgusted ex- 
clamation. _ ■ •■ ■ 
"Yes, it has risen 6 inches since last night," I replied; 
"but it isn't muddy and it doesn't seem to be coming up ^ 
very fast, and I guess it isn't much of a rise." 
"I hope not," said Lacy. 
"So do I," added George; "we've got a beautiful stage . 
of water now, and the fishing's getting good, and a rise 
would spoil everything."' 
A quiet, restful Sunday in camp is a luxury, and we 
greatly enjoyed the Sunday spent in our pleasant camp 
here, although we found, as usual, plenty of occupation. 
Blankets, -mattresses, etc., were hung in the sun. Mess 
chest and cooking utensils were Overhauled and given an 
extra cleaning and scouring. Shaving materials were 
produced and used, and canoes and outfit generally given 
an overhauling and a general putting in oi-der. Letters 
were written to the ones at home, and the log brought up 
to date. 
Most of the afternoon was passed in oUr respective 
tents, with books, pipes and cigars, and we all of us en- 
joyed a prolonged siesta. The day was a pleasant, en- 
joyable one, and night came all too soon. 
We made a leisurely start on Monday morning, as we 
had but a ten-mile cruise in view. As the result of a little 
correspondence from Shenandoah and Riverton, the boys 
were expecting some young lady friends from Berryville 
to visit our camp at Castleman's Ferry, and the intention 
was to drop do^vn to that place and go into camp for a 
day or so, and wait for developments ; so about the middle 
of the forenoon the canoes were packed and slid down the 
steep, high bank and launched in the lovely little basin 
below the waterfall, and we were again afloat. 
We had a quiet,'uneventful, though very pleasant three 
hours' cruise, and reached our destination about 2 o'clock 
in the afternoon. We were rejoiced to find the rise but 
trifling, and the river was already falling again, and the 
fishing was as good as ever, as we proceeded. 
The river was swift, with several long reaches of bold, 
rocky rapids which, while rough, were tolerably free and 
open,, and gave us no trouble, while affording us fine sport. 
A mile above Castleman's we passed a large camping 
party, occupying several tents, which were pitched on the 
right bank, in a beautiful location. 
George's inevitable bugle brought manj^ of the people, 
both ladies and gentlemen, to the doors of the tents, who 
gazed curiously at our bright, little, flag-bedecked canoes 
as they glided rapidly .past, bttt we received no hail and 
did not land. We afterward learned that the party hailed 
from down near Washington. 
We found a beautiful, little spot for a camp at Castle- 
man's Ferry, on a turfy bank across the road from Mr. 
Osborn's fine, old-time residence, which, is located right 
on the bank of the river, and permission was readily 
granted us to pitch our camp there, and, after partaking 
of a somewhat belated and therefore unusually ample 
lunch, the canoes were unpacked and leisurely carried 
up the bank, and the camp put up, including the fly. 
The. afternoon was passed pleasantly and quietly. We 
received letters and papers here, and had letters to write 
in reply. I took a walk up the pike for a mile, toward 
Berryville, imtil I had surmounted the long hill which 
sloped gently back from the river, when I was rewarded 
with a view of the beautiful country surrounding us— 
nowhere more beautiful than down in this part of the 
broad, smiling, well-tilled valley. The old Castleman 
mansion, not far from the road, was very interesting to 
me, and I was strongly tempted to invent some errand or 
other to take me up to it and get a closer view of it. 
While ranibling across the grounds fronting the old 
mansion, a little ixiclosure containing a few grave stones, 
shaded by a few" old locusts and surrounded by a worm- 
eaten, old, picket fence, attracted my attention, and closer 
inspection revealed a flat tombstone covering a grave, on 
which was the following inscription: "Sacred to the 
memory of Mrs. Betty Carter, dau. of Mrs, Betty Lewis, 
who was a sister of Gen. George Washington," etc., "died 
1830, aged 60 years." 
When we landed alongside of the ferry boat, on reach- 
ing here, we noted several punts and rowboats moored 
under the stone wall just above the ferry, one of Avhich, a 
wretched, little affair, sharp at both ends, and with very 
little beam and too much depth, in which George and I 
would hardly care to risk ourselves to cross the river, was 
afterward pointed out to us as the boat from which Rev. 
Mr._ Brown, the unfortunate Front Royal Methodist 
minister, was drowned last June in Watson's Falls, a few 
miles above Harper's Ferrj^, while attempting a fishing 
trip from Riverton to Washington. 
He and a son were in this boat, and Mr. Maurice Castle- 
man and two other gentlemen were in a second boat. The 
river was up a few feet, as it is always liable to be in 
Jvme. and Watson's Falls — at all times a' peculiarly rough 
and dangerous place — was particularly so at this stage, and 
utterly unsafe to attempt in any kind of boat,, particularly 
an open boat. This party attempted, it, however, and Mr. 
Castleman, with- the assistance of .one .of his. friends, (the 
other man .wisely -declined the- falls,, and went ashore and 
walked -around), -sticceede4 -itf getting his boat, througii, 
although filled with water. Mr. BrowriThowever, did .not 
sitcceed in -run.ning the falls. His boat— already .half 
swamped — struck a rock-about half-way down,. .and was 
capsized, and he -and his- son were-thmwn' ont . They 
hung to the boatj- and. were -carried down the. falls some 
50 or 6oyds., when -the boat -again --hung. -On th£.":rock.s. near 
the foot- of the falls, and they w-ere torn from .their, hold 
and swept down the -remorseless- .r-apid, ..'Bot■l•}.,^jve^e .ex- 
pert swimmers, but all the skill a man might possess would 
avail him but little in such water. There was a life pre- 
server in the boat, which, previous to the descent of the 
falls, the father had insisted upon the. son budding, '. 
around him. The son, in some manner — sustained, most 
likely, by the live preserver — succeeded in getting ashore, 
but the father was unable to inaintain himself in the hor- 
ribly rough water, and was drowned. 
The evening, was spent quietly and cosily around a 
bright, little blaze of a camp-fire,, which served to render 
our evening pipes and cigars the more enjoyable. The 
calm, quiet night was impressive in its beauty. Across 
the road the lights gleamed brightly in the- Osburn man- 
sion. People came and went, and the pleasant tones of 
voices in conversation on the ample veranda, mingled with 
- merry laughter, which, with the bright strains of music 
from an excellent piano, whose keys were caressed by a 
well-trained performer, added a cheeriness to the camp 
scene quite out of the common. The tents gleamed bright- 
ly in the firelight, in which the sloping rdof.of the fly 
loomed up in relief against the darkness and the paddles, ^ 
leaning against the great timber anchor, around whose 
Avindlass was wound the heavy, wire, ferry cable, stood out 
prominently in the flickering light, while, outside the 
little, illuminated circle, thp trees loomed up in vague, 
black masses against the sky, and the river flowed still and 
mirror-like, reflecting in its calm bosom the countless 
stars in the firmament above, while, gently pervading, and 
mingling with the other sounds of the night, the musical 
murmur of the swift-flowing water, as it gurgled around' 
the outer end of the ferry boat, .fell in a drowsy, unending 
monotone on our ears. 
Next morning's mail hack brought, among other letters 
and papers, a letter for the boys, stating that their Berry- 
vifle friends would arrive that afternoon, and about 2:30, 
to the great pleasure of all of ns, a carriage drove into the 
camp, from which a]i.ghted Major Moore, the Misses 
Moore and Miss McDonald. In such pleasant society the 
tinie flew rapidly, and at 6 o'clock, on seeing a lunch 
basket approaching from the carriage, I got up steam in 
the camp stove and prepared a large pot of coffee, some 
bacon and a cheese omelette, which, with the chicken 
fixings and other supplies and delicacies discovered in the 
lunch basket, made an ample supper, which rapidly 
dwindled away under the combined, spirited attacks of the 
party. 
After supper the yotmg ladies turned to with a will, and 
washed up the dishes, to the great delight of George and 
Lacy, to whom belongs the job of a dishwash. Their 
efforts were much facilitated by the big bucket of hot 
water I prepared for them on the camp stove while we ■ 
were engaged in eating supper. Their amusement over 
the little dish-swab contrivance used by the boys wa.s 
great, and their disdain for the squeamishness which led 
to the use of such a contrivance, in preference to the 
feminine method of putting their hands in the dish water, 
was expressed with much freedom and vigor. It was ob- 
served, however, that they used it, and, before dish wash 
was over, its merits and advantages were so obvious that' 
they were fain to admit that perhaps men knew a thipg or 
two after all in regard to women's work. 
They made an attempt to wash the melted resin, coal oil. 
etc., out of the iron ladle used more for purposes of re- 
freshing the fire and patching- the canoes than for culinary 
or domestic purposes, but, after persistent and unavailing- 
use of soap and hot water, they perforce gave it up, with 
many expressions of wonder and disgust .at the use of 
such a vile cooking utensil. 
In due time the horse was hitched to the surrey and 
the part.v prepared to return to Berryville. The round of 
gayeties at Berryville held out in bright colors by the 
j'oung ladies, including a card party to-night, a tourna- 
ment to-morrow and a german to-morrow night, coupled 
with the cordial invitations of the fair visitors and backed 
by my own urging, proved too much for the boys, and 
when the party drove out of the camp, homeward bound, 
George and Lacy and the bugle went with them, after 
promising to forego the pleasures of the tourney and the 
gerrnan, and to positively return in the morning hack-, 
leaving me alone in charge of the camp for the ;.night. 
The little surrey was only built for four, and as it mean- 
dered slowly off up the hill the feet, legs and arms of the 
boys seemed to pervade the adjacent atmosphere in alarm- 
ing proximity to the wheels on every side.. 
Major Moore cast wistful glances at the tents before 
starting — the camp instinct remaining as strong as ever 
with him — and their snugness appeared so inviting to him 
that it would have taken but little persuasion to induce 
him to remain; and T would have been glad of his society 
and could have put him up comfortably in Lacy's boat, his 
boat being the beamiest of the three. I did not urge ..him, 
however, for I feared that, at best, he would find the 
narrow, coffin-like accommodations afforded by -the canoe 
entirely too circumscribed, and I also feared that the 
sharp, cool, September night would be felt by him too 
much, so he drove reluctantly away with his party. 
"There now, I knew it," I exclaimed, as I walked slowly 
back from the road to the camp, "if those trifling girls in 
their cleaning up haven't gope and left that frying pan, 
which they used for a dish pan, unwashed and full of 
stale, greasy water! A nice lot of housekeepers they'll 
make. I don't think! It's the most disagreeable thing in 
the whole outfit to wash, and I'll have the job of doing 
it myself. Well, I. won't bother with it now; I'll wait till 
morning and wash it while preparing breakfast. I ought, 
by rights, to use the Other frj'ing pan and leave this one 
for the boys to clean, after they get back, but I won't play 
such a mean trick on them." ' , 
So saying, I lit the lantern for the night,' and hung it in 
its accustomed place, at one end of the "fly, and, .after" my 
evening cigar, I walked over to MrT Osborji's, Where "l 
passed .a- couple of hours very pleasantly, listening to the 
ex,eelle.n.t piano-playing of Miss Osborn, and contributing 
.a Httle-in that line_ myself. ..At 9:30' .1 bade gooclrnight to 
niy-. kind entertainers and returned .to camp", where,"^ ai.fter 
snugly; ensconcii!g' myself in my little cabin with book anji 
cjg^ax. *I-lay anc[..read for aja houii^and a "half before.! 
doijsed,my glim and went to sle'ep foi" tlie bight... .' 
...I DID not tuir'n' ouVp'articularly early" next .morning, hav- 
ing slept better than usual, owing to the fact that . I" hak 
had the presence of mind to^' borrdw 'La'cy'V t)lankefs ' the 
-nighf^eforcj and it was considerably afjter" 7 o'clqclc when 
