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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
DHVOTKD TO FlKLD AND AQUATIC SPORT8, PRACTICAL NATURAL HISTORY, 
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
WEEK. 
Friday, Aug. 2.— Trotting at Buffalo, N. Y. ; Freeport, 111. ; Sullivan, 
I1L Base ball : Worcester vs Star, at Syracuse ; Springfield vs Buffalo 
at Buffalo. Running meeting at Saratoga. 
Saturday, Aug. 3.— Beverly Yacht Club Regatta of Swampscott . 
Duxbury Yacht Club Regatta. Base ball : Chicago vs Indianapolis, at 
St. Louis; Cincinnati vs Providence, at Providence; Milwaukee vs 
Boston, at Boston ; Worcester vs Utica, at Utica. Running meeting at 
Saratoga. 
Tuesday Aug. 6.— Chelsea-Lakeman four-oared rowing match, at 
Boston. Trotting: Richfield Spa, N. Y.; Rochester, N. Y. ; Prophets- 
town. 111. ; Plqua, O. 
Wednesday, Aug. 7.-Beverly Yacht Club Regatta, at Beverly ; North- 
western Amateur Rowing Association Regatta, Detroit, Mich. Trot- 
ting as above, and at Mansfield, O., and Charlotte, Mich. 
Thursday, Aug. 8.-Atlantlc Yacht Club Regatta, at Greenport ; N. A. 
R. A. Regatta as above. Trotting as above. 
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Ocb Young Ambbioan Naturalist.— There is no reason 
why Mr. Fred. Ober should not attain very shortly the same 
position in the United States as that now enjoyed by Mr. 
Wallace in Europe. Already well known throughout the 
country for his explorations in Florida, first published by us, 
Mr. Ober, like a second Stanley, has been pushing through the 
wilds of South America, if not combating human foes, at 
least struggling with malarial diseases quite as deadly' as 
those found in Africa. Urged by a love of natural history 
Mr. Ober lias risked his life a hundred times. 
We are pleased to announce that we have made an arrange- 
ment with Mr. Ober for the publication of his adventures and 
explorations in South America and the West Indies. These 
articles will embrace the traveler’s experiences in monkey 
hunting, in deer and wild guinea foul shooting, with hia life 
among the Caribs. The whole of his discoveries in ornithol- 
ogy will be exhaustively treated. As may have been ot ed 
in our last issue, Mr. Ober’s contributions to natural histo ry 
have been most important, as Mr. G. N. Lawrence, who has 
been engaged in arranging the birds sent by our young natural- 
ist to the Smithsonian, estimates that ten entirely new birds 
have been found by Mr. Ober. We have no doubt that these 
letters will excite general interest. We trust some time in 
September to commence this series. We may add that abroad 
the work already done by Mr. Ober has attracted general at- 
tention. At last dates our correspondent was in Martinique, 
slowly recovering from a dangerous attack of fever. 
UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
T HE following is the personnel le of the U. S. Fish Com- 
mission, now at Gloucester : Prof. Spencer F. Baird 
in charge ; Department of Invertebrates, Prof. A. E. Verrill, 
assisted by Mr. B. Rathbun ; Department of Fish and Fish- 
eries, Prof. G. Brown Goode, assisted by Dr. T. H. Bean. 
Marine plants will receive the attention of Dr. W. G. Farlow. 
The vessel, the Speedwell, will be in charge of Commander 
L. A. Beardslee, U. S. N. Dr. J. F. Brandsford is Surgeon, 
Mr. Galt, Engineer, and Mr. Drury, Paymaster. Capt. H. 
C. Chester, of Polaris fame, will have the dredgiDg operations 
in charge. Mr. H. E. Rockwell is Secretary of the Commis- 
sion. Records of temperature will be kept by Mr. A. Hall. 
Officers and men on the Speedwell number thirty-four, and 
there are fifteen members in the scientific party. 
The work is continuous. Trips are to be made every day 
in the Speedwell. On board there is ample space for study 
and examination. As a supplement, however, a loft has been 
fitted up at Fort Wharf, in Gloucester, where specimens can 
be preserved and examined at leisure. The business of 
dredging, and arrangement and study of specimens will con- 
tinue until the middle of September. Excursions will be 
made some fifteen to twenty miles out from Gloucester, and, 
if time and opportunity allow, the Georges will be visited. 
Formerly the headquarters of the Commission were at Woods 
Holl. It is quite possible that new varieties of fish not found 
in more southern waters will now come under observation. 
The importance of the work now under the direct superin- 
dence of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution can 
hardly be appreciated. The method of investigation is a 
purely scientific one, and not empirical. Nothing is left to 
hearsay. Before any fact in regard to a fish is stated, every 
circumstance having to do with the advent or departure of 
the fish is freely studied. The many complex phases which 
surround fish are compared, and all the forms of plants and 
animals which are found in the waters are observed. Micro- 
scopic observations are as useful as the more positive and 
practical details of capturing fish. It is the thorough sifting 
of a whole mass of careful observations which only finally 
brings out. the positive data. The country is to be congratu- 
lated in having at its command so much intelligence, zeal and 
perseverance. If the character of the work is, to many, ap- 
parently scientific, the results it gives us are of the mo9t 
practical character. What the U. S. Fish Commission wishes 
to do amounts simply to this : To study thoroughly the whole 
question of food fishes in American waters ; to account for 
their being plenty at one season and scarce at another, with 
the great ultimate end of increasing not only the food of our 
own people, but of the world at large. Every step we make 
in advance is of benefit to those engaged in the same 
researches abroad. We may be justly proud of the work 
already done by the U. 8. Fish Commission, and may antici- 
pate some notable results as crowning the campaign just 
opened this year at Gloucester. 
“ THE WITCHERY OF ARCHERY.” 
There is a pleasant alliteration about that phrase. It is the 
title which Mr. Maurice Thompson has given to his book on 
the game of archery, and we are inclined to believe that there 
must be a literal witchcraft about this pastime. How else 
could it have sprung so suddenly into such popular 
favor ? A year ago no one but very small boys thought 
of bows and arrows and targets. Now there are 
hundreds of archery clubs of men and women; and 
from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate enthusiastic devotees 
of the quiver have gone back to the primitive sport9 of their 
pre-historic ancestors. No sportsmen’s emporium is now 
complete without a full assortment of archery outfits, equally 
suitable for the warlike equipment of a howling, naked 
savage, or for a merry party of laughing school-girls. Great 
staring targets of blue and gold confront us on the street cor- 
ners, the monthlies make room for the narrations of archery 
experts, and the weeklies are out with full-page illustrations of 
pretty girls drawing the winged shaft to its head. Sir Izaak, 
who has hitherto held his place without a rival in the sports- 
man's calendar, must look well to his laurels and his fishing- 
hooks, or he may find his popularity shared by another canon- 
ized patron, that apostle of the twanging string, Sir Roger 
Ascham, in his day, doubtless, a very cross beau, but in these 
latter times destined to be a great favorite with the fairer sex. 
At the earnest solicitation of numerous of our readers, es- 
pecially of the ladies, whose appeal our gallantry and discre- 
tion forbid us to pass unnoticed, we have consented to devote 
to the game of archery such space as our friends may demand. 
We do this with the distinct avowal that our allegiance to the 
worthy patron of all fishermen, who presides over those 
papers which are devoted to interests piscatorial, is to be in no 
way diminished or altered. We must also express our most 
earnest hope that archery amateurs will not follow the culpa- 
ble advice of Mr. Maurice, and perfect their skill by the indis- 
criminate slaughter of our feathered friends. Besides being 
contrary to common sense, this destruction of insectivorous 
birds is happily forbidden by our laws. Wc are surprised 
that author and editor should have permitted such instruction* 
to mar what is otherwise a delightful volume. 
MIDSUMMER JAUNTS OUT WEST. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
Jaunt the Third. 
Ashland, Wisconsin. 
Messrs. Editors : After a pleasant week on Lake Winne- 
bago, which I reached by the Chicago and Northwestern 
Railroad via Janesville, I ran up here on the Wisconsin Cen- 
tral to the shores of Lake Superior, 251 miles farther north, 
where the heat of the torrid term has been tempered by gentle 
breezes. The place is thronged with visitors ; the Chequa 
megon Hotel with its supplementary cottages being filled, 
while the smaller hotels and boarding-houses are enjoying a 
fair patronage. For a region that was made accessible by rail 
and steamboat only one year ago, Ashland may well congratu- 
late herself upon the reputation which she hns already secured 
as a summer resort, and the promise held out to her of 
its permanent establishment. With increased facilities of 
communication by water between it and the Canadian shore 
and northern Michigan, no known region on the face of the 
globe will offer such numerous aud varied attractions ; and I 
predict that in the course of a brief period all the anticipations 
of the most hopeful will be realized. The Pictured Rocks 
the Apostle Islands, Thunder Cape, Isle Royal, the Nepigon,' 
and the great mines of copper and iron, will be thronged as 
the St. Lawrence and the Adirondacks never were. Yachts 
will whiten the indenting bays ; aDglers thread the rapids of 
the ice-cold water-courses which empty the wilderness lakes; 
hunters track out the paths which lead to the haunts of the 
deer and bears. Where do summer ramblers find their rest 
and quest now ? Only in the North Woods of New York • 
on the St. Lawrence ; at the White Sulphur Springs of Vir- 
ginia ; on the waters of the upper Mississippi ; and at the sea- 
side places. And are not all these circumscribed in comparison 
with that grand territorial expanse of woods and water which 
embraces Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan, with all their 
marvelous physical belongings? Their bosoms are as broad 
and trackless as briny oceans, and one may start fromColling- 
wood in Canada or Buffalo in the Empire State, and travel 
continuously on a mediterranean tour as fast as steam can 
move him, until the waxiDg moon has fulled and waned, and 
repeat no portion of the cruise. At Thunder Cape, on the 
threshold of Manitoba, is the Dawson water route which pene- 
trates to Hudson’s Bay ; at Duluth is the portal of the great 
Northwest ; there is the Georgian Bay with its multitude of 
islands ; the Sault Ste Marie which chafes the boundaries of 
two dominions ; the weird tracery of the elements upon the 
south shore rocks ; the interior lake system of norlhern Michi- 
gan ; the ancient island of Mackinaw and the old French mis- 
sion ; the Wisconsin wilderness, and the Apostle Islands, each 
of which is a little domain by itself, the smaller ones like 
coronas of foliage on pedestals of red sandstone upreared 
from the floor of the deep lake. The Grand Rapids and In- 
diana Railroad leads directly to one of the most favored points 
on the lake coast, and the Wisconsin Central to another. The 
round trip to be made by steamers from Petoskey on the 
Michigan peninsula, through the Mackinaw strait into Huron 
thence into Superior via the Sault Ste Marie ; thence along its 
entire southern shore to Duluth, touching at Marquette, 
Houghton, Ashland and other intermediate points, and return^ 
ing to the north shore, would have no parallel on either con- 
tinent. At present the route is imperfectly served, but if 
visitors multiply as they have done within a twelve-month, in- 
ducements will be ample to prepare a schedule with special 
reference to summer passenger travel and the time-tables of 
the Northern Pacific, Wisconsin Central, Chicago & North- 
western (at Marquette) and the Grand Rapids & Indiana 
roads. All these outlying railroad lines, which reach out 
from the central system like the tentacles of a cuttlefish, in 
search of sustenance, have been built at great expense to over- 
come natural obstacles; and we believe that those same 
natural attractions which prompted their construction will 
prove to be the best means of reimbursement. The prices of 
boarding and the transportation tariff are so low as to more 
than compensate for the long distances to be traveled ; so that 
it is vastly cheaper for the citizen of distant New England to 
spend two months on the lakes than at Narragansett Pier, 
Long Branch, Saratoga, Lake George, or the Thousand 
Islands. With the bottom fact that the average rates at the 
Western resorts are but $2 per day and $12 per week (!) the 
anxious inquirer can readily compute the saving to he made. 
Housekeepers can close their domiciles and make money. 
What the scenic and climatic attractions are to the tourist I 
propose to define in my present series of letters; but the 
story will be long. To make my narrative consecutive I 
must pick up my trail where I left it near Staunton, Virginia, 
last month, in my transit of the Blue Ridge on the line of the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, as described in my second letter. 
I will delay only to suggest that any Eastern sportsmen pur- 
posing to visit the coming Dog Show at St. Paul, Minnesota, 
early in September, will do well to take the lake steamers from 
Colling wood, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, etc., to Duluth. Al- 
though the time of the journey will be a trifle longer, the cost 
will be less and they can bring in their dogs in better condi- 
tion than after a long, cramped journey in a baggage car. 
They will have an opportunity to examine and select the 
