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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July g, 1904. 
Some Camp-Fire Dont's. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Fire every summer plays havoc in our mountain forests, 
due, in most cases, to neglected camp-fires. By the exer- 
cise of reasonable care, much of this annual waste of tim- 
ber could be prevented. 
To aid in the work of prevention the Great Northern 
Railway Company is sending out to the press a short arti- 
cle, which is inclosed. 
The question of forestry is one of the most important 
now before the country. Many States .pay bounties for 
planting trees, and the general Government is beginning 
to give the matter of forestry the deep attention it de- 
serves. A fire started from the camp of some careless 
hunter will do more damage in a day or two than a whole 
State can repair in years of time, labor, and expense. 
Commissioner W. A. Richards, of the General Land 
Office, has issued circulars warning the public against 
carelessness, inasmuch as many fires start from neglected 
camp-fires, and makes the following requests : 
1. Do not build a larger fire than you need. 
2. Do not build your fires in dense masses of pine 
leaves, duff, and other combustible material, where the 
fire is sure to spread. 
3. Do not build your fire against large logs, especially 
rotten logs, where it requires much more work and time 
to put the fire out than you are willing to expend, and 
where you are rarely quite certain that the fire is really 
and completely extinguished. 
4. In windy weather and in dangerous places, dig a fire- 
hole, and clear off a place to secure your fire. You will 
save wood and trouble. 
5. Every camp-fire should be completely put out before 
leaving the camp. 
6. Do not build fires to clear off land, and for other sim- 
ilar purposes, without informing the nearest ranger or 
the supervisor, so that he may assist you. 
F. I. Whitney. 
On the Clam Flats* 
Boston. — Joppa-by-the-Merrimac is an interesting^ place, 
and is noted for its sharps and flats, which yield a 
bountiful harvest of the most luscious clams in the sea, 
and for the most fascinating shell game in the world. A 
clammer, to be in good and regular standing, must pay 
the treasurer of Newburyport .a license fee of $5, which 
gives him the right to dig as many clams as the tides will 
allow, and which are carried to Boston and elsewhere by 
the express company in large quantities every morning. 
The supply seems inexhaustible, and the more the clam- 
mer digs, the more clamorous is the clamor for more, and 
so the business gives employment to above 200 men, .and 
sustains a large number of families besides. Their little 
weather-stained shanties line the edge of the flats just 
above high water mark. 
Unlike all fish hogs, they do hot grab everything they 
lay their mud-hooks on; the small clams are carefully 
sorted and returned to the mud to enjoy life, liberty, and 
the pursuit of happiness, for a time, at least. Moreover, 
the flats are constantly being renewed and fertilized by 
river deposits, and are of such large area that the clam- 
mers are not compelled to dig over the same ground 
oftener than once a month or more. J. C. H. 
The Frog's Provender. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
A friend and myself indulged in a frog hunt. We 
secured 80 beauties ; my 40 dressed 12 pounds 8 ounces of 
legs. I have been a student of natural history for years, 
but while dressing those frogs learned more frog lore than 
years of reading and observation had developed. After 
removing the head of a frog as a humane act previous to 
amputation, I discovered feathers protruding from the 
throat. When the stomach was opened, we found a downy 
woodpecker that measured 10 inches from tip to tip, and 
6 inches from end of bill to tip of tail. In another frog 
was the wing of a somewhat larger bird, species unrecog- 
nizable. In another a 3-inch bullhead. In others were 
crabs and water bugs, the bugs being hard-shelled and 
two sizes larger than a silver quarter. In another was a 
frog quite 4 inches long. I am wondering if the frog had 
climbed a tree and shaken the woodoeeker out. 
Did any of the Forest and Stream farr'lv ever r^~ nL 
with a similar occurrence? If so, let them rise up at once 
and help pie bear nart of th- b-rden, as people smhe a 
broad smile when I tell my story. 
A. A. Piatt, M.D. 
Suspended Animation. 
Some years ago I remember having the temerity to tell 
a story of how, when I was but a little chap, I went into 
the kitchen one day and watching some frozen smelts 
"come to life" in a pan of water, and I was so heartily 
laughed at that I never repeated the story. Mr. Chambers' 
article in the issue of May 11 gives me courage. Now I 
reassert that I certainly did see those frozen smelts swim 
and show all signs of life after being in the tepid water 
for a short time. 
I was in St. Louis last week, and met there one who for 
years had dealt largely in fish. He assured me that to his 
own knowledge bullheads frozen as stiff as a board, when 
put into water and thawed out had "come to," and showed 
all evidences of being live, up-to-date fish. He explained 
that dead fish frozen and live fish frozen are two different 
propositions. The former are dead for keeps, but the 
latter will "come to life" if given a chance. 
I would like to hear from others on this subject of 
frozen fish "coming to." Charles Cristadoro. 
Teacher Proves Jonah Story. 
Pittsburg, Pa.- — The largest Bible class in the city at 
the East Liberty Presbyterian church, is convinced that 
Jonah was swallowed by a whale and coughed up again. 
James I. Buchanan, bank president, and president of the 
Pittsburg Orchestra, is teacher of the class. Eight years 
°o he read a s f orv in a New Zealand paper to the effect 
that a seaman had been swallowed by a whale and spit 
out again alive. He questioned his cousin, George Garvis, 
who had sailed in New Zealand waters, on the story, who 
told him it was absolutely correct. Mr. Buchanan pasted 
the clipping in his Bible, and waited eight years before 
he got a chance to use it. The Jonah story was the sub- 
ject of the last Sunday lesson. Mr. Buchanan said: 
"Every anti-believer in the whale story was brought to 
believe it on the strength of that newspaper clipping after 
having doubted the Bible story." 
Native Hook from Rhodesia. 
Mr. Frank H. Kblland sends me from Northeastern 
Rhodesia a very curious native eyed fishhook used by the 
Waunga tribe (B?'." - r.e!o "East). It is wonderfully ~ood 
temper, and the method of knotting the plaited line is in- 
teresting. A fish which swallowed a bait with this hook 
in it would never get away. The pull is direct on the 
point.— London Fishing Gazette. 
100 Sportsmen's Tinas. 
Some of the Queer Discoveries Made by Those "Who Are 
Looking for Game or Fish. 
98 
West Orange, N. J.— Councilman Thomas Gannon re- 
turned yesterday from a fishing trip at the summer resi- 
dence of Councilman-at-Large Simeon H. Rollinson, 
River Farm, Pine Brook. Mr. Gannon succeeded in land- 
ing a number of the fish, including a large carp. In clean- 
ing the fish, Mr. Gannon was about to cast three hard 
lumps he excavated from the depths of the fish back into 
the water, when he noticed they bore a pinkish tint. He 
found on examination that they were three pearls, "re- 
sembling those found off the coast of India, in and around 
the Maldive and Laccadive Islands." The pearls have 
been examined by a local jeweler, and have been declared 
to be fine stones. — New York Times. 
White Bear Lake. 
Preliminary Seawanhafca Trials. 
The preliminary Seawanhaka trials that were held 
June 20, 21 and 22, went off very successfully. The 
committee was very fortunate in having three days of 
first-class wind and practically no break-downs. 
Six boats in all were entered for the trials; the only 
one from away being Wihuja, designed and built by 
Ande Peterson, of Minnetonka. She is a very power- 
ful scow, being 8ft. 2in. beam and 38ft. over all, and 
proved to be a first-class boat and superior to all 
the others in a heavy wind/ She was well sailed 
throughout the races, and it was a great pleasure to 
the White Bear men to meet old rivals after a long in- 
terval of indifference on the part of Minnetonka racing. 
The crew of Wihuja during the trial was James 
Louden, tiller; Gale Merrick, main sheet; Charles 
Chalmers, jib; and Hugh Louden, fourth man. 
In breezes under ten knots, Alpha and Beta showed 
better speed, but in anything above the larger 
and more powerful Wihuja was clearly the best. The 
other boats that took part in the races were Alpha, 
designed by C. D. Mower, and built by Gus Amundson. 
She was sailed by L. P. Ordway, with T. L. Wann 
at the main sheet, Jack Ordway, jib, and Sam Ordway, 
fourth man. The third was Beta, designed by B. B. 
Crowninshield, and built by J. O. Johnson. She was 
sailed by C. M. Griggs, with J. Johnson at the main 
* sheet, Evan Rees, jib, and W. Murray. Seeress sailed 
the first day, but after that the Beta used her sail. 
Seeress was manned by Evan Rees, R. K. Armstrong, 
William Rees and A. L. Preston. 
Moccasin was built and designed by Gus Amundson. 
She is owned by the Frye Brothers and sailed by 
Henry Frye, Robert Burns, Leslie Murray and Tom 
O'Regan. Gamma, designed by Dr. J. M. Welch and 
built by Dingle, was sailed by Dr. Welch, Leanitt 
Corning, H. H. Merrill and Carl Schuneman. 
Through unavoidable delay the large Crowninshield 
boat was not completed in time to take part in the 
preliminary races. She will be ready the first of the 
week and will be tried out against Wihuja and Alpha. 
Commencing on the 27th, the Oshkosh Club will hold 
similar trials for boats in that section. There will be 
at least four entries from Lake Winnebago and proba- 
bly one or two from neighboring lakes, so that these 
trials should be very interesting. About July 5, the 
White Bear Club will ship down to Lake Winnebago 
two or three of the boats that have made the best show- 
ing here and try out individually against the boats that 
made the best showing in the Oshkosh trials. The 
principal reason for going to this additional trouble 
and expense is to have a chance to test out boats of 
different designs and power on the larger waters of 
Lake Winnebago. Jack Ordway. 
First Day, Jane 20. 
In a 15-mile breeze the crack Minnetonka yacht won 
out in a double event over the White Bear boats in 
the first day's trials for the selection of a challenger 
for the Seawanhaka cup. Her victory is all the more 
notable from the fact that in the first race she broke 
the jaw of her gaff immediately after the start, and 
sent a man aloft to make temporary repairs while under 
full headway. 
While the White Bear men are not seeking excuses, 
and for the most part are glad of the success of the 
Minnetonka boat, certain facts as to the condition of 
some of the local boats cannot be overlooked. In the 
first race Beta went out with a sail entirely too baggy 
for good work. Gamma was seriously troubled with 
her rudders and forced to withdraw after going two 
miles. Alpha broke her jib halliard in the second rase 
while holding a position and was compelled to lay to, 
and her endeavor to race with the boats as they 
rounded the course the second time proved futile, for 
the reason that the hasty repairs would not permit 
of even fair windward work. 
The wind was blowing strong and squally from the 
W. It offered the right sort of test for the boats, and 
was just what the skippers were looking for. Two 
boats went out with one reef laid away, while the others 
went out full sail. 
The arrangement of the day was decided upon and 
the boats were paired off as follows: Moccasin was to 
sail against Beta, Alpha against Gamma and Seeress 
against Wihuja. The judges' launch anchored at the 
starting line. Tarbox fired the preparatory gun at 
2:10. Moccasin and Beta tried for position. Moccasin 
crossing 12s. after the starting gun, being 15s. ahead 
of Beta. The pressure of the wind on their sails 
showed itself immediately. Time and again they laid 
over until the lee rails were deep in the water. 
Half way down to center Griggs overhauled Fry and 
the two raced down to the first mark together. They 
turned the buoy only 4s. apart, Moccasin leading by 
two boat lengths. Pinning sheets into the wind Moc- 
casin increased her lead by several lengths, but it was 
not long before Griggs got his boat going to his liking 
and splitting tacks with Fry soon ran into the lead, 
which was held to the finish, beating Moccassin by 
4m. and 42s. 
Alpha and Gamma were started at 3:20. Gamma 
was not in position as the gun sounded, but Ordway 
waited for her. They crossed 2s. apart, with Gamma 
leading. They had gone less than a quarter of a mile 
before Ordway was seen to tear away from Dr. Welch. 
Gamma's rudders were entirely too small to keep the 
boat headed properly, and after going two miles Dr. 
Welch obtained the j udges' consent to withdraw. Alpha 
continued her course, which she completed in 56m. 
and 36s. 
Seeress and Wihuja were sent off at 3:25. Seeress 
misjudged the gun and was not in position when it 
sounded. Wihuja crossed 10s. after the gun and See- 
ress 20s, later. Seeress did not seem to gather hey 
