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A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
pivoTBDTO Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 
FlSaCULTURB, TUB PROTECTION OP GAMB, PRESERVATION OP FORESTS, 
AND THB INCULCATION IN MEN AND WOMEN OP A HEALTHY lNTBRBST 
in Out-Doob Recreation and Study: 
PUBLISHED BY 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1878. 
To Correspondents. 
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and be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 
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CHARLES I1ALLOCK, Editor. 
T. C. BANKS, S. H. TURRILL, Chicago, 
Business Manager. Western Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
WEEK. 
Friday, July 19.— Quincy, Mass., Yacht Club Championship Regatta.* 
Ennls-Guyon six days’ walk, at Buffalo. Trotting : Plainvllle, Conn 
Toledo, O. 
Saturday, July 20.— Nahasset, Mass., Yacht Club Open Regatta, at 
Nahant. Rutherford Park Open Amateur Regatta. Ennls-Guyon race 
completed. Running Mettlng at Saratoga. 
Monday, July 22.— Running Meeting as above. 
Tuesday, July 23.— Trotting at Gettysburgh, Pa., and Cleveland, 0„ 
Running Meeting as above. 
Wednesday, July 24.— Trotting as above. Running Meeting as above. 
Thursday, July 25.— Hanlon- Ross rowing match on the Kenebecasls. 
Trotting as above. Running Meeting as above. 
Aquatic Cobblerisms. — The “Shoes” toed the mark at 
Henley and buckled down well to their work. They might 
have walked over the course, but there was not enough bot- 
tom in awl of them to last. When Nadeau pegged out, their 
slippcr-y chances, as a slangy alle-gaitor would aver, were 
sewed up, and the crew was waxed. An Oxford-tie would 
have necessitated a rubber to determine the solo winning 
k-heel. But what boots it ? 
Doctor Carver. — Dr. Carver’s eyes are much better. The 
right eye is the most inflamed. He is able to distinguish ob- 
jects more clearly, Physically he is quite as well as ever, and 
but for bis eyes says that the da}’ after the match he could 
have repeated the feat. The occulist who is treating him 
thinks he will be all right in a few days. 
igT Forkbt and Stream will be sent for fractions of a year 
as follows : Six months, $2 ; three months, $1. To clubs of 
or more, $3 per annum 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
GARDENING AS A RECREATION. 
O F all occupations in the world gardening is the one 
which best combines repose and activity. It is rest- in- 
work, or work-in-rest. It is not idleness ; it is not stagnation, 
and yet it is perfect quietude. Like all things mortal, it has 
its failures and its disappointments, and there are some things 
hard to understand. But it is never without its rewards. 
And, perhaps, if there were nothing but successful cultiva- 
tion, the aggregate enjoyment would be less. It is all the 
better for the occasional shadows that come over the scene, 
and the discipline is most salutary ; it tries one's patience, 
and it tries one’s faith. Even in the worst of seasons, there is 
far more to reward and encourage than to dishearten 
and disappoint ; there is no day of the year without 
something to afford tranquil pleasure to the cultivator 
of flowers, something on which the mind may rest with 
profit and delight. If there is no new surprise, no 
fresh discovery, there is always something to be done. 
“The garden is a constant source of amusement to us both,’ 
wrote Dr. Arnold in one of his delightful letters — he was 
writing of himself and wife — “ there are always some little 
alterations to be made, some spot where an additional shrub 
or two would be ornamental, some plant coming into blossom, 
so that I can always delight to go round and see how things 
are going on.” In the spring and summer there is some 
pleasure — giving chaDge visible every morning, something to 
excite or fulfill expectation. And even in the winter flower- 
culture has its delights. If you have a greenhouse or conser- 
vatory, no matter how small, you have an in-door garden, in 
which you may watch some changes, and enjoy the same 
delights. In parlor or in tenement, with rich or poor, there 
are few states of life in which floriculture is not an available 
enjoyment, and in many cases a positive blessing— it is equally 
accessible to all. “As gardening,” it was observed by Sir 
William Temple, who has had a new lease of life in one of the 
best of Macauley's “ Essays, “ has been the inclination of 
kings and the choice of philosophers, so it has been the com- 
mon favorite of public and private men, a pleasure of the 
greatest, and the care of the meanest, and, indeed, an employ- 
ment and possession for which no man is too high or too low.” 
QUIBBLING TO SAVE THEMSELVES. 
Upon learning of Mr. Lee’s victory over Mr. Edwards Moss 
at Henley, and the manner in which the prize was taken by 
the latter gentleman upon a technicality, fair enough in its 
way, but not very conclusive as to his superiority, the Triton 
Club of Newark sent the American amateur the following by 
cable: 
Nbwark, July 9, 1878. 
Geoboe W. Lee, care Bell’s Life, London, England 
we wish yon to row In the Metropolitan regatta. Will you enter 7 
TRITON BOAT CLUB. 
To this an answer was received on the 15th inst.: 
London, July 15, 1S7S. 
Triton Boat Club, Newark, N. J.:— 
They will not let me enter. They are afraid of me. LEE. 
The telegrams explain themselves. Mr. Lee evidently has 
made application to row and permit him a chance to retrieve 
his mistake at Henley as well as to test his ability to claim the 
amateur championship by pulling against the two best scullers 
of Great Britain. This application has been denied. Evi- 
dently, for a time at least, our cousins’ ardor to meet Ameri- 
cans has been cooled. Lee has been barred out ; he is too 
much for them, and must return home with such satisfaction 
as he can win from a knowledge that British oarsmen must 
resort to quibbling to save themselves from defeat. 
TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. 
The late William Cullen Bryant had a whole list of words 
which belonged to the Codex Expurgatorius of the Evening 
Post. We do not wish to be purists, but if there is a word we 
dispise, and which Richard Grant White gets into a fit over, 
it is that word Donate. Though you may find it in Webster 
it is not English. “ Mr. Spriggins donated a barrel of dog 
biscuit to the Oshkosh dog show.” How much easier it is to 
say, “ Spriggins gave, or presented, a barrel of dog biscuit.” 
One string of words, correspondents love to write, is to call a 
man “ Whole-souled" — “ The genial." Sometimes it is Nog- 
gins, who keeps the little grocery, who is “ the whole-souled 
and genial Noggins.” Now t , Noggins may be really a very good 
and decent kind of a person and all that he is represented, but 
yet not be “ whole-souled and genial." We invariably run 
our pen through “the whole-souled and genial fellows,” be- 
lieving that they will pass down to futurity in the columns of 
the Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun without these 
high-sounding yet empty titles. Years ago we tried to kill 
“speckled beauties,” meaning trout, but “speckled beauties” 
refused to be stamped out. The “genial and whole-souled 
Noggins who caught the speckled beauties.” We can scotch 
a9 to the first part, but not as to the fish. Custom demands 
it now. Mr. Blackford, famous for his trout shows, once 
showed us forty-five newspaper reports of his May trout exhi- 
bition from all parts of the country, and forty-three of the 
papers had for a head line “ Speckled Beauties!” 
Another combination of words is the True Sportsman. 
“Noggins, that whole-souled and genial fellow, that true 
sportsman," makes us hate Noggins worse and worec. The 
less high-sounding words you use the better. Paschal once 
wrote a not very long article, and excused himself by saying, 
“ I had no time to be shorter.” We are the recipients of a 
vast amount of correspondence, which we ore delighted to 
give space to in our columns. We are only too glad to ac- 
knowledge our indebtedness to our contributors. Still, some- 
times it is hard to fiud the grain of wheat in the cart load of 
husk. A very intelligent person catches three trout, ana 
sometimes a story is sent us about three fingerlings quite as 
lung as if three elephants had been 9talked through jungles 
and finally slaughtered. It may be very amusing to the 
author, hut it is wearisome to the editor, and, if he prints it, 
boresome to the readers. We do exercise a good deal of 
judgment in making up this paper, and with regret are forced 
to exclude many really good articles, as far as the facts they 
contain go, because they are bundled up and smothered in 
verbiage. In this warm weather, then, tell your stories briefly, 
good friends, if you please. 
The Lasso in Fulton Street.— Seated in our chair, deep- 
ly absorbed in constructing an editorial (the office being quiet 
for the nonce), we heard a stealthy tread. We were too busy 
even to cast an eye on the intruder, and away rau the pen 
over the paper. Then we heard a little swish in the air, and 
something darted out like a loDg white snake and enveloped 
us. It was so quietly, so neatly done, that we were half un- 
consoious of what it was. Perhaps, after all, we were dozing, 
for it was so warm. Presently we felt the chair move quietly, 
and we were forthwith yanked into tho middle of the room. 
Somebody had lassoed us. Whether we were indebted for 
this favor to Dr. Carver or to Mr. John Omahondru we are 
not quite certain. Both of these gentlemen looked as inno- 
cent as lambs. The lasso was round the chair, but no one 
had the other end of the lasso in hand. We were assured by 
both these gentlemen that when a lasso has been loDg in ser- 
vice that it made loops of its own accord, and as that particu- 
lar lasso — though it had caught in its wild career many a buf- 
falo, broncho and steer— never yet had caught that strange 
hybrid a quill-driver ; so accordingly the lasso, of its own voli- 
tion, unassisted by human hands, had leaped out and en- 
tangled us. Just then the Forest and Stream and Rod and 
Gun Errand Boy, a very important personage, indeed, and dig- 
nified withal, having incautiously crossed the floor, was 
caught up by the right leg as he lifted that member from the 
floor, and the pile of copy he had in his hand was scattered. 
Mr. Omahondro offered to throw that lasso at the pen which 
stuck in the editorial inkstand ; but we declined to see this 
tour de force. “It’s the neatest thing in the world,” said 
Texas Jack; “ you don't use force, only knack.” Saying 
this, the publisher of the paper had in a trice the lasso thrown 
over his head. But. the publisher of this journal knows a 
trick or two. So seizing the lftsso where the iron ring is at- 
tached to it, he held that fast so that it couldn’t be tight- 
ened on him. “You are up to the trick," cried Dr. 
Carver. “Someone must have shown you that. Just get a 
good grip on the ring end of the lasso, and it can’t be made 
taut on you. This lasso is made of buffalo hide and is light 
and supple, but will hold all creation. On the plains we don’t 
call it a lasso, only a rope ; you never hear lasso. Now Jpck 
and I will go on the landing of the stairs here, and as there 
are crowds of people coming up to the office all the time we 
will have lots of fun for the next half hour roping them. It’s 
so hot that people might be obliged to us for helping them 
up." We positively declined this general offer of assistance. 
“ Well," said Mr. Omahondru, “suppose you let us stand at 
the office window. There is that fat woman with a basket of 
bananas. I can hitch up her basket here in three seconds, 
and the old woman to boot, if you say so. It would be a mighty 
good help if I threw the rope round the neck of that poor old 
horse that is straining at those bob-tail cars that go round 
that street there." Again we had to decline this philanthro- 
pic offer. “ We never saw such an unaccommodating set of 
people as you are," cried out both Dr. Carver and Texas Jack 
in a single breath, apparently quite disappointed ; “ are there 
not chaps that loaf round a newspaper office— fellows that bore 
you ?” asked Dr. Carver ; “there never was such a chance. 
Just you spot them for me, and we will give them the least 
bit of a choke in the world." 
MIDSUMMER JAUNTS OUT WEST. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
Jaunt the First. 
Louisville, Ky., July 3, 1878. 
Brother Editors : Last year you know I made my vaca- 
tion rambles during the waning summer and early autumn. 
The adventure was a sort of reconnaisance of the most desir- 
able fish and game resorts of the three States of Michigan, 
Wisconsin and Minnesota. It proved so attractive in a'l re- 
spects, as set forth in my letters to Forest and Stream, that I 
determined this year to revisit at least a portion of the terri- 
tory then covered at a season when angling was at its best. 
I felt almost guilty to leave you in the heat of the first torrid 
term, to navigate our craft in stress of weather, while I threw 
off the burdens and the responsibilities; but I find that the 
same fervent sun which scorches you in New York, glows in 
duplicated fervor here. Therefore, I pray you take such 
comfort as may be evolved from the companionship of misery; 
make frequent visits to the ocean surf ; and be ns happy as 
you can. For myself, I shall go north at once and leave the 
chances of to-morrow to those who pin their faith and fortunes 
on horseflesh. I have staked no money on the great event 
[Molly McCarty vs. Ten Broeck, July 4th], and it is too hot 
to stay without pecuniary inducement. Even the remon- 
strances of many friends cannot detain me here. Tbqy 
