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FOREST AND STREAM 
[May 28, 1904. 
Angflingf Notes. 
Sayre, Pa., May 20. — Editor Forest ■ and Stream: 
While the tront season was late in developing, it has, 
during the past two weeks, furnished the angler with 
some exceptionally good sport. Indeed, reports indicate 
that for this particular section of country more and larger 
brook trout are being taken than for several years past. 
From Owego Creek have been taken a number of un- 
usually large trout, two or three at least weighing a bit 
over 1 pounds each. 
The streams about Harford Mills, Richford, Speeds- 
ville, Slaterville and Cortland, are all yielding plenty of 
trout, but it is seldom that large- trout are taken from 
these streams. They - are very delightful waters to fish 
from, however, and traverse a country easy to reach from 
Auburn, Ithaca, Sayre, Owego, Cortland or Elmira. The 
angler not physically robust can work that section of out- 
of-doors without much inconvenience, and at no risk of 
becoming ovet fatigued. 
In the immediate vicinity of Sayre there are no trout 
streams worth mentioning. Shrader's Creek, below To- 
v/anda, ahnually yields some good creels of fine trout, 
and" smaller streams traversing the same country as 
Shrader's, contain trout. In former days, before the 
lumberman desecrated the country with his ruthless ax, 
Shrader's Creek was famed for its trout supply, and while 
its glorv has largely departed, it still hath charms. 
A line from Ithaca advises that the local trout anglers 
have apparently forgotten the fascinations of the field rmd 
the stream, and are lost amid the excitement of hauling 
mammoth pickerel and pike from the Cayuga Lake Inlet. 
Nothing quite like the pickerel and pike fishing now pre- 
vailing at that point has been known in years. Nine and 
lo-pound pike, and pickerel scarcely less heavy, are being 
taken in large numbers. Game Protector John Vann diplo- 
matically declares that the present unsurpassed fishing, 
and the exceedingly large fish taken, are due to the rigid 
enforcement of the law in respect to the use of nets in 
the local waters. 
The pike and pickerel fishing is equally good at the 
north end of Cavuga Lake, great numbers of the above 
fish having been taken during the past fortnight below 
Cayuga village, and from the waters overflowing the 
Montezuma marsh. 
Since writing the above, word reaches me that a 17 
pound pike Was taken from the Ithaca Inlet one day this 
week. So far as I am informed, this is a record pike for 
the local waters. In fact, it is a prodigious pike for any 
waters. Chill. 
Lake Champlain Bass Fishing* 
P. O., . Lake View House, May ig.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: We have not had such good bass fishing in the 
Great Back Bay of Lake Champlain for years as we are 
having at the present time. They are running very large 
this year, and big catches of big bass is the order of the 
day. — ^" 
Rabies. 
From Hill's "The Dog, Its Management and Diseases." 
{^Continued from fage 401.) 
/Mcw&afion.— The incubative period of rabies is _ ex- 
tremely uncertain. My experience, with a few exceptions, 
has been from two to five weeks. 
"In the dog, Lafosse states that the shortest authenti- 
cated period that occurred in his experience was seven 
days, and the longest one hundred and fifty-five days. 
Roll gives, for the same animal, from three to six, and 
rarely from seven to ten weeks. Blaine asserts that the 
majority of cases occur between the third and seventh 
week, though some are protracted to three, four, or even 
a greater number of montjis. A week was the shortest 
period he had noted. Youatt has known instances in 
v/hich the first symptoms have only become manifest 
after from five to seven months, and he never knew of a 
case occurring before seventeen days intervening. Other 
authorities have related cases in which the disease was 
developed within from three to ten days after contamina- 
tion. Of nine cases which Peuch could rely upon, the 
symptoms appeared after the, bite, in each, at an interval 
of 95, 88, 35, 26, 24, 22, 18, IS, and lo days, respectively." 
■ "In 1863, Renault reported that of 68 dogs inoculated 
experimentally or bitten, the malady was developed in : 
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. "In St. Cyr's 87 cases of confirmed rabies in 1865, there 
were only 26 the date of whose inoculation could be posi- 
tively ascertained. In these the latent period was : 
Cases. Days. Cases. Days. 
...........16 I ...18 
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' "Bouley has known instances in which the latent period 
was twelve days and seven months, though they were 
rare; it was usually from six to twelve weeks. 
"According to Haubner, in 200 cases the appearance of 
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the disease within two months was 83 per cent. ; three 
t^ionths, 16 per cent. ; four months, i per cent. He men- 
tions an instance in which the incubatory period was 
from seven to eight months, and another in which it was 
fourteen months. He gives an average of three months.'" 
With such variations in the incubative period, it is lit- 
tle to be wondered at that persons, after being bitten, 
and under what condition of the animal they know not, 
should be filled with dread, and exhibit — especially those 
of nervous temperament — great mental excitement. 
What takes place during this incubatory or latent 
period we know not; but it may be confidently asserted 
that in no other malady is this interregnum more variable 
and uncertain; indeed, if we are to credit some reports, 
the duration of the latent stage is indefinite. The 
capriciousness of the virus of rabies in this respect is cer- 
tainly very remarkable and unaccountable. The wounds 
produced by rabid animals generally heal up readily, and 
leave but slight trace, and to all appearances those who 
have been injured appear to be as well as usual. True, 
in some rare instances in the human subject, pain has 
been experienced in the region of the wound for a con- 
siderable time after the receipt of the injury, and still 
more rarely a quickened pulse and slight fever have been 
present from this time until the disease became manifest. 
In other exceptional cases silent changes seemed to be 
taking place in the constitution, evidenced by general de- 
bility, a quick, weak, and easily excited pulse, sallow 
looks, and sunken eyes. But, as a rule, the health remains 
to all appearance the same as before the inoculation; and 
so subtle is the poison that, according to Van Swieten, 
persons who afterwards die of hydrophia may, in the 
incubatory stage, contract diseases of various kinds, even 
virulent_ diseases, such as variola, without the course of 
the rabies being thereby modified in the least, or its 
evolution retarded. 
"What occult influence is at work, what changes may 
be taking place previous to the manifestation of the first 
symptoms, is a matter of pure hypothesis. The venom 
of_ the cobra, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine, and other 
poisons, produce effects more or less prompt and decided, 
according to the amount introduced into the body of any 
animal, and we can exactly prognosticate not only the 
result, but the time about which it should occur. ' The 
virus of contagious diseases, and more particularly hydro- 
phobia, differs from these, inasmuch as a minute quantity 
is as potent in inducing its particular malady, in a cer- 
tain time, as a large quantity; and in the special disease 
now under consideration it may lie in a latent condition 
for_ a long period without affording the slightest indica- 
tion of its presence."" 
Duration.- — The duration of -rabies is rarely long— 
from one to ten days may be taken as the two extremes. 
A few cases have been noted over the latter period; but 
they are very exceptional instances, and attended with 
some degree of doubt. Those in my own experience have 
been from four to five days; most of them have died on 
the fifth: 
Fleming observes : "The progress of rabies in the dog 
is always very rapid, and the termination, it may well 
be said, invariably fatal." 
Its duration in no case appears to have exceeded ten 
days; and in the majority of instances death takes place 
about the fourth, fifth, or sixth day after the appearance 
of the first morbid symptoms. Of course, it also occurs 
much earlier. Out of several tables we will only refer 
to those of Professors Saint-Cyr and Peuch, of tlTe 
Lyons School, as they afford a fair idea of the duration 
of the disease in a number of cases. In 1864, fifty-four 
rabid dogs were reported. Death took place at the follow- 
ing periods : 
Two days 4 instances. 
Three 5 " 
Four 10 " 
Five 8 
Six 7 
Seven 8 
Eight 2 
Twelve . i instance. 
Thirteen i " 
The last case recovered spontaneously. The duration of 
the reniaining eight cases could not be satisfactorily 
determined. 
In the sixty-eight dogs that were rabid at the school 
in 1865, the duration of the disease was : 
Two days i instance. 
Three 6 instances. 
Four 15 " 
Five 20 " 
Six 12 
Seven 8 " 
Eight 4 
• Nine 2 " 
In 1868, in seventeen cases at the same school, it was : 
Two days 2 instances. 
Four 8 
Five 4 " 
Six . I instance. 
Seven 2 instances. 
Symptoms. — Rabies assume two forms— the furious, 
and the tranquil or dumb. 
I shall commence first with furious rabies. 
The earliest symptoms usually observed are a change in 
the dog's natural manner and habits; he becomes all at 
once sullen, or, as it were, melancholy; retires into ob- 
scure corners and dark places; when called, instead of 
obeying with his 'usual alacrity, he languidly and ap- 
parently with unwillingness approaches, and as suddenly 
slinks off again. Companionship renders him uneasy; in 
fact, throughout there is an unmistakable desire for soli- 
tude. If the eyes at this period are closely observed, a 
vacant expression will be seen in them; and immediately 
they meet the gaze of the observer they are dropped in 
a weary, sleepy manner. 
As the disease proceeds, other and more marked symp- 
toms become developed. A tendency to mischief is sud- 
denly manifested. Boots, slippers, hearth-rug, carpet, 
chair-legs, and what not, are worried. If the animal is in 
the kennel, the straw is mangled and scattered about, the 
brick-work scratched, flooring torn up, and the whole 
place, more or less, shows signs of destruction. 
The eyes assume a still more vacant e3?pre§S}on; the 
* Fleming's "Rabies and Hydrophobie." 
gaze appears to be fixed on some distant object. Then 
a change takes place : the animal proceeds to examine 
most minutely every crevice and brick round his kennel ; 
this done, he retires again into obscurity, and in a few 
minutes repeats the operation. Or the eyes are directed 
with earnest attention to some imaginary moving object, 
a? a beetle or spider, which they appear to be tracing in 
its course. Suddenly he jumps forward with a snap at 
the supposed offender; and then, as if ashamed at the 
hallucination, he crouches down, -crawls away and hides 
himself. 
A flow of tenacious saliva is now present. The ani- 
mal champs his teeth and smacks his lips. As its tenacity 
becomes greater and its secretion more rapid, he strives 
to free his mouth of it with his paws, and this latter act 
has sealed the fate of more than one individual by be- 
ing mistaken for a bone fixed in the teeth or throat.* 
Last year I was requested to visit a small toy terrier belong- 
ing to a lady of title." The messenger informed me the animal 
was supposed to have a bone in its throat. On my arrival, which 
was between 9 and 10 P. M., I found the subject, which the 
keeper's wife was n.ur.sing, sitting with mouth slightly open. 
On removing my hand, .after closing the jaws, the lower one 
again dropped half an inch. External manipulation about the 
throat produced no indications of pain or irritability. I then— 
not suspecting anything serious or unilsual .from the information 
I had received, proceeded with the aid of a candle light to examine 
the posterior part of the mouth. This.. was 'discovered to be in- 
flamed, but no bone could be detected. I then passed my two 
forefingers down, with the same result.. Thinking it possible the 
bone had passed on, and probably left some laceration behind, 
with paralysis from its long retention in a fixed position, I ordered 
a hot linseed meal or mustard poultice to the throat, and a little 
warm beef tea or broth to be given, promising to call the follow- 
ing day. This I was prevented from doing, and an assistant was 
sent instead. T, however, omitted to tell him the nature of the 
cape, but he came back with the idea, probably from being also 
told the same tale, viz., that the dog had "swallowed a bone." 
The following day I dgain visited the patient, when, upon open- 
ing the door of the room, the animal, without barking, made a 
rush at me. Pulling the door to quickly, I waited a minute or 
so. and then cautiously looked in. He was crouching in a corner 
with his eyes half closed, and his head nodding in a drowsy man- 
ner. He gave a start, or, as it were, awoke suddenlv, changed his 
position, and fell off again in the same drowsy state; the lower 
jaw still remained dropped. I immediately became impressed 
with the belief that it was a case of dumb rabies; but, to make 
the matter more certain, I ordered the animal to be placed in 
security, and carefiilly 'watched. Next morning, unmistakable 
^y"^Pl°™^ °f rabies manifested-themselves, and the dog was shot. 
Another animal, a companion, sickened in like manner, and was 
also destroyed. Fortunately, I had no abrasions on my hands, 
or 1 might have shared a similar fate. 
1 mention this case as illustrative of the great care and sus- 
picion with which such cases and their history should be received. 
[to be CONTINUED.] 
The Homing Instinct. 
WvMORE, Neb., May i4.-~Editor Forest and Stream: 
The pages of your good paper are so full of good 
reading just now, that I feel a delicacy about butting 
in; but I have a good dog story, which won't keep, and 
is right m line with the articles lately published in re- 
gard the the back-tracking instinct of animals, so I 
will give it to you. Horace Scudder and O. J. Cdllman 
have run the Paddock Hotel, at Beatrice, for a num- 
ber of years, and during all that time I have put in 
lots of my time there while attending court; and am 
well aquainted with the parties, as well as old Duke, 
the dog. 
A few months ago Horace Scudder moved to Idaho 
Springs, Colorado, taking old Duke with him. Day 
before yesterday, the following appeared in the Gage 
County Democrat, published in Beatrice: 
"Some months ago. when Horace Scudder went to 
Col orado, he took with him his old bird dog, Duke, 
A couple of weeks ago, O. J. Collman received a letter 
from Mr. Scudder, in which he said that Duke had 
disappeared, and to look out for him. Yesterday the 
old dog came into the Paddock Hotel office, tired and' 
footsore, and showed that he had not had a square' 
meal for a long time, and that he had been on a long 
tramp. 
"This is a wonderful display of animal instinct. This 
dog had been taken on the cars to Colorado, 6oo miles 
from here, and becoming home-sick, returned on foot 
and alone to his old home. 
"He will be cared for, fed up and given a needed 
rest. The dog that thinks^ enough of his old home to 
walk several hundred miles shows that he is willing to 
stand up for Nebraska, and is entitled to good treat- 
ment." 
I was in the hotel office when old Duke came in, and 
he was just as glad to see me, as though he had found 
a snake. Yesterday, the following appeared in the Ex- 
press, a rival paper, published in Beatrice: 
"O. J. Collman received a letter several weeks ago 
from Horace Scudder in Colorado Springs saying he 
was going to send Duke, his well-known hunting dog, 
back to Beatrice. Yesterday Duke, who had reached 
town, and was being kept at the home of Df, Starr, 
trotted into the hotel, having broken his leash, Mr, 
Collman, who enjoys a joke, at once exclaimed that 
Duke had walked all the way back from Colorado, 'And> 
called attention to his sore feet as evidence of the truth 
of his assertion. Now Duke's feet, worn thin by fifteen 
years of tramping over stubble field in front of would- 
be hunters, have long been in a condition to elicit the 
sympathy of observers, but this fact was not known to 
the office full of traveling men and a few others who 
are equally gullible, and now a wonderful story of how 
a dog's instinct and love of home led him to walk 6oo 
niiles to his old home where all is sunshine and joy 
and 'every prospect pleases.' It was a hot story, just 
the same, and it worked out most beautifully." 
The old Paddock seems more homelike, since oldi. 
Duke got back, and it will seem like old times, to have: 
him come up and nudge me, then go to the door and! 
wait for me to open it for him. 
Beatrice is a beautiful little city, on the banks oft 
the Big Blue River, and was the boyhood home of 
Shelley Philips, the author of the little book, "Just 
About a Boy," in which boyhood life along the Blue 
is so picturesquely described. Shelley's school mates 
tell sad tales of how he used to play hookey there. 
A. D.. McCandless. 
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