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they are capable of. The remaining four are set verti- 
cally, and acting with the others complete the wonder- 
ful balancing and motive power of the fish. 
In sharp turnings the lateral action of the backbone 
shows how the driving force is communicated to the tail, 
and when extra power of stroke is wanted the anal fin 
and after part of the body really constitute the propeller. 
The adipose fin is too pliant to be of service, but in the 
pike we find this and the dorsal represented by one large 
fin set near the tail, and forming with the anal and tail, 
or caudal fin, a propeller which gives the pike the power 
of making a quicker sudden rush than any other fresh 
water fish. The long shape of the body, too, is well 
suited for the dart-like flight through the water to which 
this fish trusts for safety and the capture of its prey. 
The pectoral and ventral fins are used especially in back- 
ing water, and the fish can disappear quietly in a ghost- 
like way by their help. The rush of this fish, whether it 
be from fright or when a bait tempts it from its lair, is a 
tiling to see and remember. 
The pike has seven fins — the single dorsal, caudal, and 
anal making on occasion a splendid propeller. The four 
others, besides being used for backing water, seem to 
suggest almost walking p'ower, and are used for slow 
backward and forward progression in the water. 
We see that in the water fish have little weight, and 
the_ frightened flying fish, shot out of the water by the 
action of its tail, becomes in the air a heavy projectile. 
Its great pectorals are spread, and its leap lasts as long 
as the forward force is greater than the force of gravity. 
So it does not fly as a bird flies, but floats through the 
air like a trout in the stream. This wonderful leap, 
which for convenience we may call flight, has a disap- 
pointing finish, for it ends in an awkward fall, which 
shows plainly how unlike true wings even these great 
fins are. The sailing of a gull on different planes of air 
helps us to understand the sailing of a trout in different 
currents of water, and so we see that fins and wings are 
near relations. The great fins of a flying fish are set high 
as in a bird, and consequently, although top-heavy under 
water, this wonderful fish's center of gravity is loxyered 
the instant it leaves the water. 
Both air and water have weight, and the same creature 
may be said to be heavy or light according to the ele- 
ment it happens to be in at the time. The diving bird 
becomes light and flies with its wings under water, and 
the flying fish becomes heavy and floats on its great fins 
through the air. 
Wings for the air, fins for the water, and their action 
remains the same when the wings are used under water 
or the fins in the air. — E. F. T. Bennett in Badminton 
Magazine. 
The Successful Man. 
"Well," said the business partner of the successful 
man, "how did you enjoy your trip? Seems to me you 
don't look quite as yellow as usual." 
"I don't notice any improvement in my health myself," 
said the successful man. "Native air may suit some 
people, but it's my impression that a man has to stay in it 
all the time to get the good of it. If I'd never left 
it in the first place I'd have been all right to-day. They're 
a sleepy lot down there, though. They don't seem to 
notice that the world's moving or to care a continental 
if it does. Nine-tenths of them don't know the meaning 
of the word 'hustle.' " 
"Well, we know the meaning of it here," said the part- 
ner. "Look at that batch of contracts piled up since you 
left. Look over the papers now, will you?" 
"What's the use?" said the successful man, fretfully. 
"If you ever want to realize what a failure you are, just 
go to your home tOAvn and interview the village loafer. I 
did that. 
"I hadn't seen Billy since I left the place to come to 
Chicago. I remember him as a hulking, overgrown boy, 
about five years older than I was, and even then he 
had acquired a reputation as the triflingest, no accountest 
cub in seven counties. 
"I ran across him while I was out walking. He was 
sitting with his back against a big willow, well in the 
shade, fishing, and the minute he turned his head I knew 
-him. I said: 'Hello, Bill! What luck?' 
"He looked at me in a puzzled way and pointed to the 
string of fish he had tied to a root of the willow. Then 
I sat down by him and began to talk to him. After a 
while he hauled in a big two-pound bass. 'That's good 
enough to eat, Henry,' he says. 'It's about noon now, I 
reckon.' 
"He started a fire. Then he groped in a hollow of the 
tree and pulled out about a dozen ears of green corn and 
a fryiiig pan and some salt pork. He had some tins of 
stuff hidden there, too, and a big muskmelon and a chunk 
of bread rolled in a newspaper. First of all he coated the 
ears of unhusked corn with the mud from the bank and 
covered them with coals and then he cleaned and cut up 
the bass and got some slices of pork to frying. Next he 
shook out some corn meal on the newspaper and rolled 
the fish in it and got that to frying, and in about twenty 
minutes there was a meal ready that I'd have given $50 
10 eat. 
"I was asking him questions while he was cooking. He 
said he wasn't doin' much of anythin', specially in the 
summer. Not much of anythin' any time. He hadn't 
never married, so there wasn't no need of it. There was 
always birds in the air and fish in the river an' rabbits 
in the ground, an' there was corn growin' in the fields 
an' melons an' such. No need o' goin' hungry, and a man 
could always peddle a string o' fish or suthin' for what 
tcrbacker an' store truck he wanted. 'Winter time,' he 
lid, *I c'n do a few chores for my board an' lodgin', 
an' I play the fiddle for dances. But what's the matter 
with you Henry? Why don't you eat?' 
"I told him my diet was principally oxygenated wheat 
germs. 'What's them?' he asked. 
"I explained and told him what dyspepsia was. He 
didn't know. Happy man! 
"Then he began to eat 
"'What are you doin', Henry?' he asked, between 
mouthftils. 
"I told him, but the fact that I had been successfiil 
hardly seemed to impress him. He kept on questioning 
me. 
So you work all day from 7 or 8 o'clock in the 
mormn' an' sometimes till late o' night?' he said. 'Then 
you have to eat this truck you tell me about an' have a 
misery in your stomach half the time ! An' you lie awake 
nights an' can't git ter sleep ! Can't eat good vittles, can't 
sleep, an' work all the time I What d'ye do it fer, 
Henry?' 
'I don't know,' I said. 
"He threw away the last of the melon rind, sighed 
contentedly, and pulling a corncob pipe from his pocket, 
filled and lighted it. Then, leaving his seat on the log, 
he stretched himself out on the grass and smoked, looking 
at me thoughtfully the v/hile. Presently he took his pipe 
from his mouth and said: 'Henry, I'm mighty sorry for 
you.' 
"I've been sorry for myself ever since," concluded the 
successful man. — Chicago News. 
A Ttttthftil Angler* 
"Just throw me half a dozen of your biggest trout," 
said the man with the costly angler's outfit 
^Throw them !" exclaimed the astonished fish dealer. 
oT^u '^rf,,^^"^*^, ^ ^('P^'^^^ the party of the first part. 
then ill go home and tell mv wife I caught them I 
iiisy be a poor fisherman, but I'm no liar."— Chicago 
JN ews. ^ 
By the Sti^am. 
Where the river seeks the cover 
Of the trees whose boughs hang over, 
And the slopes are green with clover 
In the quiet month of May; 
Where the eddies meet and mingle, 
Babbling o'er the stony shingle. 
There I angle, 
There I dangle. 
All the day. 
Oh, 'tis sweet to feel the plastic 
Rod, with top and butt elastic, . 
Shoot the line in coils fantastic. 
Till, like thistle-down, the fly 
Lightly drops upon the water. 
Thirsting for the finny slaughter, 
As I angle, 
And I dangle, 
Mute and sly. 
Then I gently shake the tackle. 
Till the barbed and fatal hackle 
In its tempered jaws shall shackle 
That old trout so wary grown. 
Now I strike him!— joy elastic! 
Scouring runs! — leaps acrobatic! 
So I angle, 
So I dangle, 
AH alone. 
Then when grows the sun too fervent, 
And the lurking trouts, observant, 
Say to me, "Your humble servant! 
Now we see your treacherous hook!" 
Maud, as if by hazard wholly, 
Saunters down the pathway slowly. 
While I angle. 
There to dangle 
With her hook. 
Then somehow the rod reposes. 
And the book no page incloses; 
But I read the leaves of roses 
That unfold upon her cheek; 
And her small hand, white and tender. 
Rests in mine. Ah! what can send her 
Thus to dangle 
While I angle? 
Cupid, speak! 
— Fitz-James O'Brien. 
I 
-The A B C of the Fish School. 
/4way from imitations keep, 
Be sure you "look before you leap." 
Contrive to watch the little dun, 
Z'esist from snatching minnows spun. 
£schew the luscious worm on hook, 
For anything suspicious look. 
Great anglers fish with tackle fine. 
Holts were made for breaking his line. 
/ndependent action take, 
/ump, turn and twist, and head well shake. 
Keep using your sagacity, 
Likewise with some audacity. 
Make brave to keep among the wet, 
A''. B. — The angler has a net. 
Oh, yes! I speak with some authority, 
froved by the finny great majority, 
Quick start with prompt temerity, 
Run to your holt with all celerity. 
^■afest the trout that comes out late. 
Turn early home and master fate. 
[/nder the roots when breath is spent, 
Vive la trouty! The rod is bent. 
Wearing the gut— you know the game — 
XX or drawn — it's all the same. 
Fou're the biggest trout he ever ran, 
Zounds! list the sulphury words of man. 
— L. M. B. in London Fisiiing Gazette. 
S'pose Fish Don't Bite at Ftjst. 
S'POSE the fish don't bite at fust. 
What be you goin' to do? 
Chuck down your pole, throw out your bait, 
An' say your fishin's threw? 
Uv course you hain't; you're goin' to fish. 
An' fish, an' fish, an' wait 
Until 3'ou ve ketched your basket full, 
• An* used up all your bait. 
S'pose success don't come at fust, 
What be you goin' to dew ? 
Throw up the sponge and kick yourself. 
An' go to feelin' blue? 
TJv course you hain't; you've got to fish, 
An' bait, an' bait ag'in. 
Bimeby success will bite your hook. 
An' you will pull him in. 
— Houston Post. 
New Books Received* 
Our Feathered Game. A handbook of the North American 
game birds. By Dwight W. Huntington. Charles Scribners' 
Sons, New York. 
The Big Game Fishes of the United States. By Charles Fred- 
erick Holden. The Macmillan Co., New York. 
Musings by Camp-Fire and Wayside. By William Cunningham 
Gray. Fleming H. Revell Co., Chicago. 
Camp-Fires in the Wilderness. By E. W. Burt. National 
Sportsman Press, Boston. 
My Dogs in the Northland. By Egerton R. Young. Fleming 
H. Revell Co., Chicago. 
In and Around the Grand Canyon. By George Wharton Tames. 
Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 
Bass, Pike, Perch and Others. By James A. Henshall, M.D. 
The Macmillan Co., New York. 
The Sports of the World. Edited by F. G. Aflalo. Casseli & 
Co., New York. 
"Practical Dog Education," by Recapper (Thos. C. Abbott), 
published by the M, T, Richardson Co., is a work of 36 pages! 
devoted to the education of setters and pointers in the best 
methods of work to the gun. The inductive method of teaching 
dominates the methods of the author, while he on the other hand 
earnestly dejjrecates the unnecessary use of the whip and other 
forms of punishment. 
All communicatioos intended for Fo&est ako Stkcah should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
New York, and not to uy indiriduai connected witii the p»ptx. 
'he Mmml 
Sept. 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
. 7-10.— Toronto Industrial Exposition's thirteenth annual 
show. Dr. A. W. Bell, Sec y. 
4 an'd' g'*"^--N^^PO''t' ^- i-' Kennel Club, Newport, R. L, Sept. 
Sept. 15-17.— Ottawa, Can., Kennel Club show. Robert McAIlen 
oec y. ' 
S^!- on-.,T^^''^''y'- ,Conn., Agricultural Society's show. 
Oct. 20-23 -Frederick County, Md., Agricultural Society show. 
J. Roger McSherry, Secy. 
Nov. 17-19.— Boston, Mass., Terrier Club show. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
31.— La Salle, Man.— Western Canada Kennel Club trials. 
H. b. Rolston, Sec y, Wmmpeg, Man. 
Sept. L— Huron, S. D.— Minnesota-North Dakota Field Trial 
Association trials. Frank Richards, Sec'y, Peever, S D 
Sept. 1.— Brandon, Man., Kennel Club trials. T. P. Brisbin 
Sec y. . ' 
Sept. 8.— Carman, Man.— Manitoba Field Trial Club trials. Eric 
Hamber, SecV, Winnipeg, Man. 
Oct. 26.--aare, Mich— Sportsman's Field Trial Association 
trials. E. C. Smith, Sec'y, Midland, Mich. 
Oct. 26.-^Washington Court House, O.— Monongahela Field 
Trial Association trials. A. C. Peterson, Sec'y, Homestead, Pa. 
Oct. 27.— Paradise Valley Nev.— Nevada Field Trial Association 
trials. Dr. C. E. Wilson, Sec'y, Elko, Nev. 
Nov. 2.— Washington Court House, O.— Ohio Field Trial Asso- 
ciation trials. G. R. Haswell, Sec'y, Circleville, O. 
■ 3-6.- New York.— Annual show of Ladies' Kennel Associa- 
tion of America. 
Nov. 9.— Fourteenth annual beagle trials of the National Beagle 
Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Sec'y 
Nov. 9.— Missouri Field Trial Association trials. L. S. Eddins. 
Sec y, Sedalia, Mo. 
Nov. 9.— St. Joachim Ont.— International Field Trial Associa- 
tion trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y, Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. 9.— Hutsonville, Ill.-Independent Field Trial Club trials. 
H. S. Humphrey, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Nov. 9.— Western Irish Setter Club trials. Dr. T. L. Fenn, 
Sec y, Chicago, 111. ' 
Nov. lO.-Hampton, Conn —Connecticut Field Trial Club trials. 
r. W. Smith, Sec y, New Haven, Conn. 
16.— Robinson, in.—lllinois Field Trial Association trials. 
W. R. Green, Sec'y, Marshall, 111. 
Nov. 23.— Robinson, 111.— American Championship Field Trial 
Association trials. H. S. Humphrey, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Dec. 1.— Clay City, Ind.— Indiana Field Trial Club trials. C. F 
Young, Sec y. 
T Dec 5.— Thomasville, Ga.— Continental Field Trial Club trials. 
John White, Sec y, Hempstead, N. Y. 
Nov 16.— Holmdel, N. J.— Pointer Club of America's trials. 
C. Lewis, Sec'y, New York city. 
^ .Nov. 30.— Chase, City, Va.— Virginia Field Trial Association 
trials. Charles B. Cooke, Sec'y, Richmond, Va. 
A Bfief Friendship. 
Our near neighbor is the owner of a very affectionate 
and beautiful coach dog, which was left in the charge 
of the care taker during the winter. This spring when 
we moved down there for the first time, Rak, as wc 
called him, came over to see us at once, as though to 
bid us welcome. He came nearly every day, .and went 
to each member of the family to be petted, and then re- 
turned home. 
When we began to unpack, the dog was always on hand 
to superintend the job. Sometimes he would lie on the 
mat for a time, but never remained very long. One day 
he came with a bone wedged in his teeth, and plainly 
asked to have it removed. In fact, he made himself per- 
fectly at home with us, although we never fed him. 
When Ave found our neighbor was at his place again, 
we thought best that Rak should not come to us any 
more, and, much against our wish, we ordered him off, 
and after two or three attempts succeeded in driving 
him away. For several days after this he came to the 
gate entrance and looked up at the house with a pleading 
look on his face, and, while he slowly wagged his tail, 
said in language that was plain: "May I come up? I 
know yoit love me, and I love you. What have I done? 
We used to have good times together before you drove 
me away. Only say 'Hello, Rak !' and you will have me 
bounding to your side again." But the word was not 
.spoken, and the dog now trots past our place without 
even looking at it. E. R. W. 
Pointer CIt»b Tfials. 
New York, Aug. 21. — The fourth annual field trials 
of the Pointer Club of America will be held at Holmdel, 
Monmouth county, N. J., commencing Nov. 16. The 
historic breeding estate of Holmdel exceeding 4,000 
acres, over which the trials will be run, has been al- 
ways noted as restricted grounds, and its owners have 
boa.'ited that a gun has not been fired on the preserve 
since their occupancy. Quail have always been plentiful 
in that section, but unhunted; and the club may there- 
fore consider the concession granted it as most desir- 
able. The country thereabouts is open and free of scrub 
woods — distinctly a grain-raising section — and the field 
trials committee may therefore be congratulated on its 
selection. 
The events to be run will be a repetition of last year, 
viz.: The Derby, Members' All-Age and Championship 
stakes. Entries to all but Members' Stake will close on 
Oct. 15. With the exception of the Championship Stake, 
which is open to the world, competition in the other 
events is confined to members. Messrs. Bernard 
Waters and G. Muss-Arnolt will officiate as judges. 
C. F. Lewis, Sec'J^ 
Points and Flushes. 
The premium list of the Danburj^, Conn., Agricultural 
Society's annual dog show, to be held on Oct. 6-9, 
may be obtained on application to the secretary, Mr. 
C. E. Rundle. Mr. James Mortimer is the superinten- 
dent. Entries close on Sept. 
