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beyond providing a gunboat or two for police duty. I 
do not believe in "grandmotherly legislation," but'in a 
wise national development of our natural resources; such 
a policy, in fact, as has placed America first among the 
"ations. R. B. Marston. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
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A Reminiscence of Willewemoc Lake 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In looking back over my trouting trips of thirty or 
forty years I am often reminded of some occurrences 
which after the lapse of many years strike me as rather 
comical, although I did not so regard them at the time— 
and 1 know of none more so than a trip I took about 
1869. 
At the request of a mutual friend I had invited the 
Rev. Dr. E , a minister then living in Brooklyn. 
to join me in a two weeks' trip to the Rondout and Wil- 
lewemoc I,akc, and v/e took our trip in the month of 
June. 
We arrived at David B. Smith's on Saturdaj\ and on 
-Monday, leaving the rest of our party behind, we started 
lor the lake, which was full of lai'ge trout. After travel- 
ing some twenty miles we dismissed our team, and with 
out packs on our backs followed a trail two miles to the 
lake where a man whom I had engaged was waiting to 
serve and care for us. 
Our accommodations were ample, but quite crude; our 
shelter consisted of a shanty made from hemlock bark 
some ten feet long by eight feet deep, which was open 
10 the west, but with a profusion of hemlock boughs for 
onr bed and a large camp fire in front, we had a most 
charming home and spent a most delightful week. 
On the way some one asked the Doctor if he would 
not preach on the next Sunday, but he declined on the 
.ground that he was not well -and needed absolute rest. 
llie Doctor had brought with him a copy of the 
Bampton Lectures just issued, which I tried to master, 
but I soon found myself suffering from an acute attack 
of theological dyspepsia, and resigned the book to him. 
On Sunday morning the Doctor, after an early break- 
fast, was quietly resting in our shanty with his Bampton 
Lectures in his hand, while our man of all work had 
gone off to look for a bee tree, when I heard a man on 
horseback coming around the edge of the lake. 
Presently he drew up in front of us, and after hitch- 
ing his horse, said to the Doctor: "I have come for you 
according to your agreement to preach for us to-day." 
"I have made no agreement to preach to-day." 
"But the people in the neighborhood all understand 
that you will." 
"How far from here is the church?" 
"About two miles, and when I left, about eight o'clock 
this morning, the people were all flocking to it." 
"But how could I get there?" 
"You could ride my horse." 
"But your horse is very small, and then you have no 
saddle, and I weigh 250 pounds." 
"But there is a sheepskin on his back; I think the 
horse conld stand it if you could." 
"I am very sorry to decline to go, but if I should do 
so it might cost me my health, perhaps my life," 
Just then the man remarked that he must go to the 
spring behind the shanty for a drink, as he was very 
dry, and on coming back said to the Doctor that after 
thinking the matter over he felt that he was right, and 
that he would hurry back and scatter the people who 
were coming to hear him — and in a few minutes he had 
disappeared in the woods. 
After the man had gone the Doctor said: "It is very 
strange that anyone sho.uld expect me to preach to-day." 
To which I replied: 
"No one has expected you to preach," 
"But he said that the people were flocking to the 
church when he left." 
"Do 3'ou think the people would flock to a church at 
8 o'clock for II o'clock services?" 
"Where is this church?" 
"There is no church within six or eight miles." 
"But how about his neighbors?" 
"He has no neighbors. He lives in the woods and the 
nearest resident is fully a mile away." 
"Do you mean to say that this man was guilty of willful 
prevarication?" 
"it is all a lie, Doctor — all a lie." 
"What did he come out for, then?" 
"Simply for a drink of whiskey, that was all — I met 
him at the spring." J. S. V. C, 
POUHHKEEPSIE, N. Y , NoV 12. 
More About the Lake Trout* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In the last paragraph of an article in Forest and 
Stream of Nov. 9, page 370, in defining the distribution 
of "The Lake Trout," you include "Henry Lake, Idaho." 
This is an error, as the lake trout does not exist in 
Henry's Lake, nor elsewhere in Idaho, so far as known ; 
neither does Bulletins 16 or 47, United States National 
Museum, include Idaho as its habitat, but both mention 
Montana, which is correct. I am aware that in one of the 
Bulletins of the LInited States Fish Commission, though 
I caiinot put my finger on it at this writing, the lake 
trout is said to inhabit Henry's Lake. Idaho. The error 
occurred in this way: A number of years ago Mr. J. 
Sherwood and Mr. Sawtelle, of Henry's Lake, took 
some trout in Elk Lake. Montana, twenty miles distant, 
and on the other side of the Continental Divide, which 
were new to them. They sent some specimens to the 
Smithsonian Institution for identification, and which 
were pronounced lake or Mackinaw trout (5. namay- 
cush). I presume the gentlemen referred to did not 
specify the waters from which they were taken, and the 
presumption was that they came from the postoffice from, 
which they were forwarded — Henry's Lake, Idaho. I 
am quite familiar with both lakes, as we have auxiliary 
stations for collecting eggs near each of them. I have 
seen fine specimens of the Lake Trout from Elk Lake, 
which also contains grayling, but neither species in- 
habits Henry's Lake, which is, moreover, quite shallow. 
Ifyhile Elk Lak^ is a very de^p mountain lake. 
'Wisconsin Twenty Pourds Law. 
Relative to an item in last week's Forest and Stream, 
stating that wardens have in some instances made what 
seemed to be imwarranted seizures of fish belrnging to 
Chicago anglers en route through Milwaukee, Mr. T. A. 
Buckstaff, of Oshkosh. Wis., has the following to say, 
which is worth the attention of all Chicago anglers who 
have been subjected to what they considered impositions 
or injustice at the hands of Wisconsin wardens: 
"I was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature in '95, 
and was responsible for putting into the law the 'twenty 
pounds or two fish' clause. I was very much interested in 
protecting our waters from net fishing and one way to do 
it was to prohibit the shipping of iish out of the State. 
The bill was first drawn to limit the shipments to twenty 
pounds, but a letter from a keeper of a fishing resort in 
the northern part of the State led me to add the 'two 
fish' clause. He wrote: 'Non-residents often catch sev- 
eral mu.scallunge that weigh 25 to 35 pounds each, and, of 
course, are anxious to take them home. It costs them 
about two dollars for every pound of such fish they catch, 
and we get the two dollars.' 
"If such shipments of two fish are being seized by our 
State wardens they misinterpret the intention of the law. 
"Geo. a. Buck.staff." 
How to Use Fly Dope. 
Dr. Herbert Kent Porter has made one of those little 
discoveries which every fellow would have made for 
himself in just about fifteen minutes more. He describes 
it as below, and his tip is worth remembering. 
"Concerning iiy dope, that I believe you recommended 
in Forest and Stream a goodly number of moons back. 
I have hit on a scheme that adds to its efficiency and 
convenience — a scheme so simple that I wonder at my 
having so long used the usual wasteful and clumsy method 
of bathing in it. I think a great deal of my dope, but am 
ready to confess that it is not the most satisfactory toilet 
lotion. I find that by carrying my immediate supply in a 
bicycle screw-top oil can I can easily add a fresh coating 
whenever needed, and it is about bug proof when fresh. 
It also cuts down my supply necessary for trips about 
three-fourths. Perhaps you can help some of the blunder- 
ing 'outer.' But I think the trick must have occurred to 
hundreds before, it is so simple and self-evident." 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, III. 
Sawdust in the Tobique and Maine Streams. 
From time to time comments from sportsmen have ap- 
peared in your journal relative to the throwing of .saw- 
dust into salmon and trout streams, and I was surprised 
to find on a trip through Maine and New Brunswick, 
this year, such notorious violations of the law in this 
respect, particularly at Plaster Rock, on the Tobique 
River, where there is a sawmill, and along some of the 
smaller streams emptying into the St. John River. Also 
along some of the streams in Maine sawdust was noticed 
floating on the water. It is a wonder that the Tobique 
Salmon Club does not make a vigorous protest against 
the state of affairs at Plaster Rock. 
Camper Out. 
Rhode Island Trout Distribution. 
Providence. R. I., Nov. 17.— The close season on 
lobsters went into effect on Friday last, and from Nov. 
15 until April 15, the breeding season, it is a violation of 
the law to catch, sell, eat or even have in one's possession 
any lobsters. The effect of the law is to take them out 
of the market entirely between those dates. 
During the season just past. Fish Commissioner Will- 
iam H. Boardman has distributed more' than 5,000 young 
trout in brooks where it was deemed best in various parts 
of the outlying districts. He has now another thousand to 
distribute, and if any person knows of any brook where 
they are wanted, Mr. Boardman will be pleased to accede 
to his wishes in the distribution. W. H. M, 
Free Fishingf in New Jersey. 
Sussex countv. N. J,, voted the other da}-, and sus- 
tained by a majority of 1,000 the Roe bill to make possi- 
ble access by the public, for fishing purposes, to the fol- 
lowing lakes situate in Sussex county: Swartswood, 
area, 505 acres; Culver's Lake, 486 acres; Long Pond 
(Owassa). 209; Puder's, 117; Losee, 137; Morris Lake 
136; Reservoirs, Stanhope, 339; Cranberry, 154; Waway- 
anda. 240. 
'Tn the early days a British admiral by the name of 
Coffin, who was born in Nantucket, in returning to 
America told a fellow voyager that when he got to 
Nantucket he would show him lobsters a yard long. 
Well, the admiral's friend questioned it, and thev made a 
wager. When they reached Nantucket he could" not pro- 
duce any lobsters of the required length, so he furnishes 
himself with affidavits made by many fishermen that when 
they and the admiral were boys the lobsters in Nantucket 
were a yard long, and on the faith of those affidavits the 
admiral claimed the bet. Naturally it had to be referred 
to arbitration, and the verdict of the arbitrators was, 
■Affidavits are not lobsters.' " — A New York Campaign 
Stor}'. 
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Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Nov. 27-30.— Philadelphia, Pa,— Philadelphia Dog Show Associa- 
tion's third annual show. 
Dec. 15. — New York, N. Y. — Ladies' Kennel Association of 
America's inaugural dog show. 
1902. 
Feb. 4-6. — Providence, R. I. — Rhode Island Kennel Club's annual 
show. George D. Miller, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 20.— Manor, L. I.— Pointer Club of America's annual field 
trials, R. E. Westlake, Sec'y. 
Nov. 23.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trial Club's twenty- 
third annual trials. S. C. Bradley^ Sec'y, Greenfield Hill, Conn. 
Nov. 25.— Paris, Mo.— Missouri Field Trial Association's fifth 
annual trials. L. S. Eddins, Sec'y. 
Nov. — . — Paris, Mo.— Interstate Charnpionsbip Field Trial As- 
sociation's inaugural trials follow M. F. T. A. trials. 
Dec. 2.— Glasgow, Mo. — Western Field Trial Association's in- 
augural trials. C. W. Buttles, Sec'y. 
Dec. 4-7.— American Pointer Championship Field Trial Asso- 
ciation's inaugural trials. Robert L. Dall, Sec'y. 
Dec, 11.— Glasgow. Ky.— Kentucky Field Trial Club's second 
annual trials. Dr. F. W. Samuels, Sec'y. 
Fot Dog: Protection. 
Mr. W. G. L. Tucker, former Secretary of the Society 
for the Protection of Dogs, is now engaged in business 
in Duluth, Minn., and is already energetically engaged 
in promoting the welfare and advancement of man's 
best friend by taking the initiative in forming a new 
society. On this point the News-Tribune, of Duluth, 
states that "The object of the proposed societi'- is the 
protection of dogs and the fostering of an interest in 
their breeding, by an annual bench show to be held alter- 
nately at Duluth and West Superior, and Mr. Tucker 
thinks the organization ought to be a success. Mr. 
Tucker said: 
" 'The object of the projected society is primarily pro- 
tection for dog owners. In this State dogs are personal 
property, and taxed as such. But if a dog is stolen the 
police make no particular effort to find the thief, and the 
matter is regarded a good deal in the light of a joke. 
With all other property it is different. If thieves take a 
horse valued at $10 they are hunted down and generally 
get a term in prison. A dog may be five times as valu- 
able, but people seem to think that it is no crime to 
steal him. 
" 'The society should give no reward for the return of 
the dog, but should ofTer a reward for the detection of the 
thief or person concealing the stolen animal. This pohcy 
was found most satisfactory byi the old society. 
" 'With such a society in working condition it is next 
to impossible to steal a dog, and keep him concealed. 
The dog diagram, first used by the old society, when 
intelligently employed, is an almo-st certain tracer. 'The 
markings on the stolen dog are inserted in the diagram 
sent br,oadcast to the members oi the society and the 
police, who are thus furnished with a picture of the 
animal. This, together with the name he responds to 
and his height and weight, make identification very easy. 
In the forination of such an organization one of the 
principal things is to secure a good attorney as a mem- 
ber, one who will prosecute dog thieves to the full limit 
of the law. There are no doubt many such lawyers in this 
city and Superior, men who love a rod and a gun, and 
admire a good dog, who will employ their best efforts 
for the animal's protection. 
" 'Along with the annual bench show there might be 
annual field trials, but this is a detail which can be dis- 
cussed later. The society should be distinctly social in 
its scope and no profit whatever should be derived from 
it. The meetings would bring together a large number 
of gentlemen, lovers of animals and outdoor life, and at 
each meeting the good and bad points of a given breed 
of dogs could be discussed. This would result in great 
improvement of the canine pets in the two cities. 
" 'I hope to see the organization successfully formed, 
as I believe it is a good deal of a necessity, and will be 
of great benefit to dog oAvners in Duluth and 
Superior.' " 
Points and FIttshes* 
The second annual event of the Pointer Club of Amer- 
ica, held at Manor, L. I., last week, produced something 
sensational in the way of a winner, the latter described as 
a "yellow unknown," owned by Mr. F. E. Norton, of 
Patch ogue, L. I, Mr. W. Ferguson's Frederica won 
second, Mr. C. Carter's Fred C. won third. It was stated 
that the contestants were all anxious to learn the win- 
ner's pedigree, with a view to obtaining some of his kin, 
but they may overlook the fact that good field perform- 
ance is largely the result of actual field work, in which 
the matter of pedigree may have- but incidental value. 
The winners at the trials of the Ohio Field Trials Club, 
whose trials were held at Washington Court House, Ohioi 
are as follows: Members' Derby — ist, H. L. Brown's 
Jingo Osceola; 2d, C. W. Tway's Count Oakley; 3d, F. R. 
Murphy's Czar; 4th, W. H. Stambough's Mr. Jim. Mem- 
bers' All Age Stake— ist, C. W. Tway's Rip Tick; 2d, C. 
B. Wolfe's Queen Mab; 3d, H. L. Brown's Duchess of 
Honor Bright; 4th, Dr. D. W. Boone's Paul Boone 
Open Derby— 1st, H. J. Hoover's Mars Ben; 2d, Stock- 
dale Kennels' Cuba, Jr. ; 3d, O'Connell & Erwin's Col. 
Spot; 4th, Mendina Co. Kennels' Miss Wicklifife. Open 
All Age Stake— 1st, C. B. Wolfe's Queen Mab ; 2d, W. H 
Dillman's Glen of Noble; 3d, C. W. Tway's Rip Tick; 
4th, equal, L. Stuchmer's Count Whitestone and J. A. 
Morton's King Cyrano. 
The Michigan Field Trial Club's trials, held on Nov. 
5, resulted as folows : Derby^ist, C. M. Greenway's set- 
ter Count Holmes ; 2d, Reynold & Perkins' setter Korin 
Noble; 3d, L. Hilsendegen's Little Cassino, All Age 
Stake — 1st, Clugstone & Monroe's setter King B, ; 2d, C. 
E. Sisson's Petrel's Count; 3d, divided, F. Holmes' Hon- 
est Monk and Clugstone & Monroe's Tony's Count. 
A correspondent writes, says the London Field, that he 
has be^n aware that 4ogs' 4reft4 the dar|c, ever since his 
