Oct. 25, 1902.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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v;hen needed. Cut some strips of canton flannel to fit 
the slot in the cleaner, and put them in any empty 
primer box. where they will remain dry until needed. 
They should be cut as large as possible, so that when 
pulled through the barrel they will fit it snugly. In 
another brass primer box put a little mercurial oiirt- 
ment for preserving the bore from rust, and in a third 
some pure vaseline. Take two pieces of flannel a few 
inches square and saturate one of them with good oil. 
Fold them separately and place them with the three 
boxes in tlie large pocket. There is^ still space in this 
pocket for a couple of boxes of cartridges, and a few 
of these should be placed in the pocket D, where they 
will be out of dust and handy when needed. 
While hunting squirrels or other small game one can 
carry the pouch on the waist-belt, in front ot at the right 
side, where it will be convenient to the right hand. The 
eyes need not be taken off the game in reloading, so 
handy is the small pocket to one's thumb and finger, 
while the empty shell, if kept for reloading, is dropped 
into the large pocket, where it will not be mistaken for 
a cartridge. 
Small game is more often frightened by one's move- 
ments than by the noise of a breaking twig or the 
crunch of one's heel on dry leaves, and searching 
through the pockets of one's coat for missing cartridges 
requires motions that are fatal to one's chances of get- 
ting a shot. By carrying the small pouch at the front, 
the motions required in reloading need be very few, and 
those such as will not frighten a squirrel or a grouse, as 
a general thing. 
Perry D. Frazer. 
mid §w^r ^iBt(ing. 
Proprietorg of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them m Fokest and Stkeam. 
100 Sportsmen' $ Tind$. 
Some ol the Queer Discoverlra Made by Those Who Are 
Looking for Game or Fish* 
"IT" 
In 1852 Wilham Hackett and Robert Pope arrived in 
'Red Bluff on a prospecting tour. The season was well 
advanced toward winter and all advised the men to defer 
their expedition until spring, but this excellent cotmsel 
was disregarded, and one day in the early part of Sep- 
tember Hackett and Pope, with a couple of burros, set 
out for the headwaters of the McCloUd River. The In- 
dians ■ that early day were troublesotne and vindic- 
tive, and resented any invasion of theif terfitofy, but 
the two friends were undeterred by thoughts of dangef, 
and after a month's tramping found themselves on a 
small branch of the McCloud, flowing northeasterly down 
the slope of Great Mt. Shasta. Here n canip \.as 
formed and a hlit built, in which it Was determined to 
remain during the winter. 
When all Was completed the search for jjold began. 
Ind cations were encouraging and slowly their pile of 
du.st increased. Winter approached and mining ceased. 
To occupy the long hours and to provide thcniselves 
with fresh meat, the men began to hunt. Game was 
abundant, and one day a bear was wounded which fled 
from the hunters, and night coming on the chase had 
to be abandoned. The next day the trail was discov- 
ered and followed for over five miles into a narrow 
cafion. Before a cave in the rocks the bear lay dead. 
With the natural instinct of prospectors the two men 
entered the cave, intending to explore it, but their at- 
tention was quickly diverted from that purpose by the 
evidences that they had unwittingly come upon a for- 
mation that indicated the presence of rich gold-bearing 
quartz in amazing quantities. After that they left the 
hut and took up their abode near the cave. All winter 
was spent in detaching the ore and separating the rich 
from the poor. When summer came Pope loaded the 
two burros with all they could carry and hastened to 
Red Bluf¥, where he sold it for $2,000. 
He inade imrr '~' preparations for a return, and, 
accompanied by 'inber of miners, started to join 
his partner, but w > . r«3out twenty miles from his desti- 
nation the party Cc'.i«upon the fleshless skeleton of 
Hacket +' 'o a buwed sapling, and showing every 
indic''*^' .laving begn tortured and mutilated by the 
Indians.'* x.. effect n*on Pope of this awful accident 
was to destroy his reason. He became violently in- 
sane, and one night disappeared and was never seen 
again. The secret of the Bear's Nest mine died with 
him, and it has been numbered with the lost. The 
search for it is still continued, and some day it may be 
rediscovered. It is a tradition of Shasta that miners 
love to dwell upon. 
Dante and the Animal Kingfdom. 
In "Dante and the Animal Kingdom," which has just 
been published through the MacmiUans, Dr. Holbrook 
says : 
Altogether Dante mentions about 100 birds, beasts, 
.fishes and monsters. His devils are, so far as can be 
determined, either the hybrid of man and some lovver 
animal, or they result from distortion, or from combin- 
ing two or more lower animals. The griffin, the 
phcenix, the dragon, to say nothing of a six-footed ser- 
pent and of a fiery adder, are monsters. Other creatures 
may have 1 normal anatomy, but they act abnorrnally. 
Such are the three beasts and other demoniacal anmials 
to be found in hell. Such, too, are the beaver, the peli- 
can and the eagle that gazes, into the sun. On the other 
hand, our poet's falcons and hawks are wholly tiatural. 
And here it is timely to remark that no other birds than 
hawks and.falcon (except, perhaps, their quarry) were 
carefully studied during the middle ages. Dante men- 
tions or describes six or seven exotic animals, the 
monkev, the lion, the ounce (some kind of leopard or a 
cheetah), the panther, the beaver, the elephant, the 
whale and die' dolphin, for these two are exotic, as they 
live in the sea. ■ Of these- it is more than likely that 
•Dante ha'd never " seen the three first named. Those 
animais-that he knew least, Dante, nevertheless, portrays 
witli the energy of genius. Ignorance hardly lessened 
kii poWerV "Those that he knew best he describes so 
jvell as-Vw surpass all otlver writers, of thf ni'ddle ages, 
The Old Way and Herb's Way. 
It is said that instinct is the sum of inherited ten- 
dencies. True it is that the love for otitdoor life and the 
pursuit and capture of game— fur, fin and leather — may 
well be called a second nature — an instinct deeply im- 
planted and transmitted with undiminished ardor from 
bygone ages, and is a sufficient proof of the truth of the 
declaration of the opening sentence. 
In early youth it was my good foftiine to have access 
to that pastoral classic penned four hundred years ago. 
"The Compleat Angler," which has been the delight of 
scholars for centuries, which gave its author immortality, 
and placed all sportsmen — particularly the brotherhood 
cf the angle — under a lasting debt of gratitude that can 
never be fully paid, 
Its perusal quickened into life the latent lov« for the 
gentle art, appreciation of the beauties of nature, and a 
longing for the day to come when I should exchange the 
restraints and drudgery of the school room for the free- 
dom and pleasures of outdoor life and the fellowship of 
the lovers of the gentle art of angling. 
My youthful companions were not of the oasthetic and 
exclusive class w'ho limit the pleasure of angling to suc- 
cess with the artificial fly, and who look down in scorn- 
ful indignation, if not condemnation, upon all who follow 
more closely in good old Izaak's footsteps, and wTio 
despise not the spfightly grasshopper, the wriggling 
angle worm, the lively chub, and the festive frog. 
With these for lures, w'e passed many pleasant boy- 
hood days, and well filled creels often attested our 
Ichowiedge of favorite waters, our persistency and suc- 
cess. When using the frog, we always endeavored to 
heed Piscator's advice: "Use hitti as though you loved 
him; that is, harm him as little as you rtiay possibly,- 
that he may live the longer." Venator and Auceps also 
contributed to our pastime and pleasure, beside the purl- 
ing stream and beneath the spreading tree, where we ate 
our noonday meal' — companions as quaint and interesting 
to-day as when they journeyed together centuries ago 
beside the gentle flowing Wye and Dove. 
But years have come and gone since Walton's day, 
the world has progressed to higher and better things, 
and the art of angling has kept pace therewith. The 
crude and silnple have given place to the superior and 
scientific as befits the age and gentle art — the primitive 
sapling and animate lure to the delicate split-bamboo 
and the seductive productions of the fly-tyer's skill. 
But, being abundantly supplied with these and all the 
accessories of the modern angler's outfit, the most expert 
and enthusiastic angler cannot alwa5'S command success 
even on waters where fish are known to be in plenty. 
The season, temperature of water, condition of the at- 
mosphere, time of da.y, abundance or scarcity of food, 
and other causes, enter as important factors for or 
against success. 
It behooves the angler, th refore, who is wedded 
to the exclusive use of the fly to be able to adapt him- 
self to untoward conditions, to the end that he may, by 
legitimate means, be able to command success and pleas- 
ure where otherwise only failure and disappointment 
would result. - 
The decades of j-ears are now lengthening since it was 
my good fortune to spend my summer vacation in the 
beautiful mountain and lake region nf northwestern 
Maine, before the woodsman's ax had wrought the 
devastation now in such painful evidence. It was mid- 
summer, and the weather was exceedinglj^ hot. There 
was not sufficient breeze to stir a ripple upon the lake, 
and not a passing cloud intervened to temper the burn- 
ing rays of the sun. My guide. Herb, who had attained 
to. the years of vigorous manhood, was a true son of the 
forest. He was left an orphan when ten vears old, and 
was then adopted by an old hunter and fisherman, who 
devoted all his time to hunting and fishing, there then 
being none of the stringent fish and game laws of the 
present time to prevent. With truth it might be said 
that Herb had passed his whole life in the woods, and 
that he was an apt pupil. It has been my good fortune 
to have camped and tramped throughout all northern 
Maine and in other parts of this country and the mari- 
time provinces — to have had many guides and good ones 
— but to none will I award the palm over Herb. In 
- woodcraft, in knowledge of the haunts and habits of fish 
and game and how best to capture it, how to paddle a 
canoe, improvise a camp, make a bough bed, cook a 
meal of victuals, make a bee line to destination through 
an unbroken wilderness by compass; in fine, genial and 
companionable, past master in all that makes camp life 
pleasant in the woods; cool and resourceful in emer- 
gencies, and you have a word picture of Herb, my guide 
on the occasion referred to, as well as on many others. 
Herb is too much of a gentleman to obtrude his opin- 
ions or to otier advice unasked, and so for days we ear- 
iiesth' essayed the gentle art and did our best for dis- 
tance, delicacy and accuracy, with very indifferent suc- 
cess, only early in- the morning and at evening twilight 
did we get sufficient small trout near the shore for the 
frying-pan. During the day our best efforts scored only 
a blank. 
In my despair I appealed to Herb, asking him if I 
must wait for cold weather before I could hope for 
sport with the large trout that w^ere known to be in the 
lake, or if he could not do something to stir them up 
to take the fly, as we had no other lure. He assured me 
that he could and would, if I so desired. 
Being assured in the affij-mative, and telling him that 1 
wished him to go just- where he pleased, do what he 
pleased, and that I would attempt faitlrfuUy to follow his 
instructions, with renewed hope we started out. He 
paddled a few miles from camp, but at his suggestion I 
desisted from casting. Arriving at a favorite spot, he 
dropped anchor in deep water. He now informed me 
that he- did not .wish me to make a cast for at least an 
hour. This seemed strange to me, but .1 proposed no in- 
terrogatory and made no cornment When about half 
that time had elapsed he took a biscuit from his pocket 
and crumbled a small portion of it at a time and dropped 
it upon the water, where it soon became water-logged 
and disappeared beneath the surface. 
This he continued at intervals until the hour passed 
away, and it seemed a day in length. The sun was burn- 
ing hot as usual, and the water of the lake like a mirror. 
He then asked me to mount a cast of the darkest and 
smallest flies that I had and cast very gently and quite" 
near to the canoe. To my great astonishment my third 
cast was rewarded by a rise, and a successful strike 
anchored me to a noble trout that made a stubborn 
fight and furnished supei'lative sport before he was 
secure in the landing net. Again and again the success 
was repeated, until fatigue supervened from the sport 
and the excessive heat of the day. We returned all to 
the water tmharmed, save only those needed at camp. 
Asked for an explanation of our experience, Herb 
said that the large trout, as we all know, seek the 
deepest water and possibly cold springs at the bottom 
during the heat of summer time. From long experience 
he knew these favorite spots in the lake, that he had 
anchored the canoe over one, tliat in dropping the an- 
chor among 'them they were startled and frightened 
away, that by remaining vety quiet for an hour or longer 
they would recover from their fright and return to the 
place from which they fled, that after a while they saw 
the crurnbs that he dropped overboard coming gently 
down, that first one trout darted upward for the food, 
then another and another, until nearly all came to the 
surface, where in their eagerness for the appetizing 
morsel," they were ready to take the tempting fly. 
Be this as it mav, it is certain that under similar con- 
ditions we had abundant success thereafter when resort 
was had to simdar expedients not only here but else- 
where in the State, and this would tend to prove that 
success does not always reward only the skill of the 
most expert angler, the finest tackle, and the most artistic 
and seductive fly. and that knowledge born of exnerience 
is quite as reliable and valuable as the learned disquisi- 
tions of the books. Geo. McAleer, 
fWORGESTER, Mass. 
Ethicsl oflf Snort* 
As Observed In California— hat Sportsmen Have Doce 
in a Few Years. 
Av.\LON, Cal., Oct. 12— Editor Forest and Stream: In 
a recent issUe of the Forest and Stream appears the fol- 
lowing reference to Satita Catalina : 
Oaring a recent contest in the waters near Catalina Island, the 
participants caught with lioolc and line more than 100 albicoie, at 
least 10,000 pounds of fish, imt as the meat is worthless, Justice 
Allen afterward characterized the tournament as wanton slaughter 
which should be prohibited by law. Fishermen and boatmen con- 
feiided that albicore were useless except as food for other hsh, and 
that they served this purpose after being caught. Ihe ethics ot 
sport have been observed here as elsewhere only m a yaglie man- 
ner Perhaps a goat hunt taken next day by fourteen boys of the 
Naval Reserve who accomplished twenty-eight kills, was not 
accurately in line with the ideal conception upheld by a large 
number of other hunters, though all the meat was afterward con- 
sumed in camp. A fair judgment would demand exact knowledge 
of local conditions. 
I think your correspondent hardly means to say "the 
ethics of sport have been observed here as elsewhere only 
ill a vague manner." as, if the truth were known, nowhere 
in the United States is there so true a sportsmanlike feel- 
hig as at Avalon, which is remarkable when it is known 
that this little town on Santa Catalina is the most im- 
portant fishing or angling locality in the country. Every 
vear nearly 100,000 persons visit this, island, and every 
inale goes fishing, and many females, hence it would oe 
singular if at times there was not some unsportsman- 
like conduct, but certainly not sufficient to justify the 
above statement that the ethics of sport are vaguely 
held. The catch of 400 albicores which is ment:oned was 
made under peculiar circumstances. All the year the one 
or two hundred boatmen or residents of Avalon mterestea 
in angling as a business, had fished with their patrons 
every day, but never had caught a fish themselves, so when 
there came an end to the season in the last of September 
and it was possible to have a rest of a week, before the 
fall season began, the boatmen and gaffers and their 
friends got up a tournament of two days, and on one day 
ran into the school of albicores and caught 400, or about 
ten to a man in one day. It was the one day in the year to 
them, and those familiar with the case are not disposed to 
criticise the men, knowing that nowhere in any country 
do boatmen so constantly maintain a high standard of 
sport. Exactly what has been done at Ayalon and was 
done to elevate the standard of sport Avas shown m a 
speech or address made by Cha?. F. Holder, at the banquet 
of the Tuna Club, when he retired from its pres dency 
some three years ago. The matter referring to the point 
in question was as follows: "It is a matter of congratu- 
lation to every member of the Tuna Club that a high 
standard of sport holds in these waters, and that every 
boatman has an interest in the cause." Mr. Holder had 
been asked to give a history of the Tuna CUib and its 
work, and the, following bears upon it: "When T first 
vis-ted Santa Catalina eighteen years ago, the splendid 
game fishes of this region were slaughtered without rhyme 
or reason. There was not a rod in use. and it was the 
custom for parties of from one to twenty to go out with 
from one to five or six hand Imes and the idea seemed to 
be for each fisherman to haul in a-; manv as possible, and 
often hundreds of pounds of cnlendid fish, as game as the 
salmon, l-anging from ten to fiftv pound'' — yellowtails. sea 
bass, albicore and others— were brought in pnly to be left 
upon the shore or towed out to sea. I believed that this 
cruld be stooped bv appealing to the latent spirit of fair 
plav for eame which every one has, and I began fishing 
with a light rod and 2T-thread line: was laughed at at first 
. by the 'cod line' hand liners, but only for a short time, as 
I soon demonstrated that I could take'the largest fishes 
with my rod. and the idea soon became prevalent that a 
'true sportsman' only used a rod, and in a remarkably 
short time the feeling was so strong that no one had the 
temerity to go out with a hand line. What was the result? 
With a light rod no one could catch a twenty-seven-pound 
yellowtail in less than ten or fifteen minutes, and it became 
a ohysicsl ?mpo?=;ibi1it%' over fish, and the average catch 
