forest and stream. 
beautiful rooming; the pond is still, with hardly a ruffle 
on Its bosom. It must he surely tune to hear from the dogs 
Which Hank has started a few miles to the west. The time 
AfflWS on; a few, ducks scud across the water, or dip and 
bwim around the island. A|» 1 there is the bay of tho 
hound, and then off to the right another. It is coming 
this way down around the mountain. How it swells out 
on tho air! Now it winds around and is lost upon the 
other side; the deer is not coming in this direction, but evi- 
dently, going toward Big Clear. A long silence ensues as 
the chase moves' down the west, and then afar off toward 
Big Clear comes a rifle shot. The sun is getting up higher 
and hotter, abd I become somewhat wearied with this 
Straining of eye and ear, a 9 when one watches alone he 
must have them both wide open for sight and sound. 
A breeze sweeps across the pond, and the wavelets lap 
the shore; the fish hawks are wheeling overhead, and on 
yonder point a heron gravely stalks. Ah! there is the old 
dog, as to eastward, home on the wind, comes the ough! 
ought Now it heads for the pond nearer and nearer. Con- 
found it, tho deer lias turned when not more than forty 
rods from the shore, and is going along the other side of 
that big rock. I watch to see if I cannot get a glimpse of 
him os lie passes by it, but no, lie goes to the other side, 
down deep in the glen, and the hay dies off in the distance. 
No other sounds do I hear of the chase, and the sun sinks 
lower in the west, when a halloa from the other shore tells 
me that Hapk lias come for me to go to camp by a shorter 
route across the woods. He says the dogs are all in but 
one, and that lie is probably in camp, where, he guesses, 
they have a deer; he says lie came right on a half dozen 
deer in their bods, and “the wav they got up wasn’t slow;” 
he heard them when they started, and “the dogs made 
music for thorn;” they run three, and lie was much sur- 
prised that notone run into tho pond. Hiding the boat we 
eat our fill of the blueberries, and start across the woods 
through the bushes, where Hank points out to me where 
the deer have lain down tho night before. Over logs and 
timber, through tho brush and marsh we trudge along, 
Hank with the dog chains around his wrist and his rifle ni 
his hand, striking in long-measured steps. On the side of 
a high hill wc have a fine view for miles of the vust marsh 
or plain. Now we descend and pick our way over lo»s 
and now knee deep in moss and water. “Such a gittimr 
along you never did see.” Now we pa-s logs all decayed^ 
lorn urrnrt, and strewn around, which Hank says the bears 
have done, lookiug for black ants, which they very much 
relish, and the marks of tooth and claw are seen ou some 
tree trunks. A print of a deer’s hoof marks a sandy .piece 
of ground, and the dogs seem anxious to he off, hut on we 
go, and at last reach camp, when we find S. has killed a 
big buck, and is well satisfied with his luck. 
And so the days go by until Friday morning, when we 
strike camp and are ou our way homeward. Over the pond 
wo row, cross the "carry,” stop again at Cox’s for dinner, 
and once more on the broad Saranac, ou until we arrive at 
Murtin’ 8 , on the lower lake, wheu we have a good hearty 
supper, and then to bed. Up again next morning, with an 
early breakfast dispatched, and hiring a special team to 
take us to Keesville as quickly as possible, we hid goodby 
to Hank and the other guides, Martin, genial aiul smiling, 
seeing us off. The morning is misty and cold, but our 
vehicle is inclosed, and ou we go with laugh and joke. Our 
driver is a young fellow, honost and jovial. Wc hand him 
cigars and let him look at something in a leather case with 
a cup on one end and a bottle inside. He likes looking at 
it first rale; looked at it several times; made him* quite 
jolly and communicative; tells us all the social stories and 
tales around the woods, and ends by handing out a letter 
“from his gal," “a skulo marm," he “swows,"but lie will 
let us read it, “as we are just the right sort of boys.” One 
of our parly reads it, and it is a pathetic tale of walks and 
love-making; tells how “Bhe thinks so much of him," allu- 
sions to the “sweetness of the rose," etc., with injunctions 
to “tear it right up just as soon as lie reads it,” but he says 
he guesses not. We laugh over it, aud as we pass by half a 
dozeu houses, clustered together at a gate are a couple of 
soruco-looking girls, one having greeu ribbon in her hair; 
’Lias says “that's her,” aud he nods to her and we how, 
and so on and on until we roll up at the Adirondack Hotel’ 
where wc are told that no boat goes over the lake a iT aiu 
that night, hut find that by payiug $10 we can charter the 
Water Lily, a small steamboat, to take us across the lake 
to Burlington; so engaging it at once we are driven down 
to Port Douglass, where we find the boat with steam up 
awuiting us, but the captain desires 11 s to wait until near 
sunsej, for the water is rolling high iu the lake, the wind 
is blowing hard, aud out u couple of miles the “white 
caps" are plainly Been. So we wait; the sun sinks toward 
the west, and its ruys are reflected in wide bars clearly seen 
ou tho clouds to the east, which hang over Burlington. Its 
spires and buildings Bland out clear and bl ight iu the golden 
sparkle. Now the sun rays converge like those of a cal- 
cium light aud tint the clouds with the most beautiful pink 
and violet. Again I wish I had my paints and brushes, that 
I might put this scene on canvas. ’Twas beautiful! Once 
seen, then gone forever. Then the captain cries, “All 
aboard!” and with the steam at high pressure we start out 
on the lake. Now the waters roll around us; the waves 
become larger and heavier; puff, puff, goes the engine; ou 
” 1 I 1 l ' O w 
goes our little boat, pitching and tossiug. It is most ex- 
hilarating, this “riding on the wave." Now we are high 
up on a huge roller; now we go down splash, all around us 
a foaming, seething mass of angry water! Seated with 
our backs to the wheel house we watch the captain, who 
never removes his gaze from the waters ahead as he steers 
the boat. Silent and grim he stands, hut at last as tho boat 
rolls and pilches so that the bows are but an inch above the 
water, lie speaks and says: “Boys, I don't want to drown 
you nor lose the boat ; I must put back." 80 , much disap- 
pointed, we see the boat again headed for shore. Landing 
wc And quarters for the night at the house of a maiden 
lady, and after a good night’s rest wo are up early and start 
again. The wind is still blowing hard, but much less than 
tho night, before. Again wo enjoy the exhilarating motion 
as wo dash along, rolling and tossing out iu the middle of 
the luke. It almost teemed impossible that we could get 
ueross, but at last the leu miles uru accomplished, and we 
stand on the dock at Burlington, glad we are on land again. 
We are driven to the Van Ness House, and from there, 
after good cheer, wo separate, 1 to Vurgouues and my com- 
rades to Lake George, all much pleased with our Adiron- 
dack trip. C. O. Maukiiam. 
— There is a monastery iu Turkey inhabited by twenty 
three monks, who have not aeon a woman siuce infancy, 
and one of them tolls an interviewer that he can form no 
idea of what a woman is like, 
For Forut and Strtam. 
MYSTERIOUS PROJECTILES. 
/^NE of the oldest strangest incidents in the career of 
thatState snd S!?" 8 crv i cc d,,ri "K ,he between 
?rom!LTl, ? ps of ? ffai ar y ’ 
SK.’ISS? Sg ? ftJsapS 
ceiicdHs fL P M P ° r8 WiI , 1 P T i8t in ,nisB,alia g l‘fo name,) re- 
S tin r!h ■ ‘ W 4 ° U " d ' The worthy twain, though now 
1 T g ?° d ? wordB on rhB ®ame side, had been op- 
LulVekete h an l H r ,n tb ® 8oUtb American war. Colonel 
tl Rn,n, a ’ A Hun S arwn ' «erved as Flag Lieutenant of 
While mJw n * Boaadron ■ at the period of our storv, 
while Major Henry Clare, an Irishman, who was the other 
narrator, had been first luff of the dashing Maria herself 
but subsequently had made his way to China to meet his 
former antagonist, and with him enter that famous laud 
service under General Ward. 
“How is this?" some caviller inquires: "Were these men 
“ °? ce , solders and sailors?" Good friend, they were. 
I hat s the kind of amphibian that flourishes on the China 
coast— the men who are teaching China how to form an 
army and build a navy that will laugh at those of the West- 
ern world combined. Fred Ward-rest to his gallant soul 
—was another such. Like Garibaldi in this day, like Rich- 
ard Coeur de Leon in that of the Crusades, these men are 
equally at liomc on deck or field, men who can 
389 
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FISH CULTURE; 
ITS ORIGIN, DEV ELOPMENT , AND PROGRESS. 
BY ICftTUYOS. — NUMBER THREE. 
“ Like the Red Crosn hero teach, 
Dauntless in dauireon as in breach; 
Alike to him the sea, the shore, 
The brand, the bridle, or ihe oar." 
But this is digressing. Condensing the two sides of the 
narrative into one, here it is:— 
The Paraguayan flotilla, out-numbered, out-tonned, and 
out-metaled, bad, after a plucky defense, retreated for shel- 
ter behind Ynlapi Point, above Montevideo, on which stood 
a battery occupied by Paraguayan troops under General 
Monteco, and which for a time held the Buenos Ayrean 
squadron nt bay. But the open rear of the hastily con- 
structed fort was full of uncleared growths of timber and 
chaparral, which extended away up inland. Old Admiral 
Ballestero noting this, and that the morning breeze blew 
briskly off the land, sent his boats to fire the tindery grass 
and jungle to windward of the enemy's open rear, thus ef- 
fecting a complete dislodgment without tho cost of a shot; 
for the smoke and flames blew right into it. The fort being 
thus reduced, he was preparing to beat round the point and 
renew the attack ou La Guayra’s flotilla, when out around 
the bend forming the point 'swept the gallant Maria Es- 
trena. She was bound down the river with dispatches for 
Douiingus, und DeB. had piomised Lopez to deliver “them 
dispatches” before nightfall or “take sapper with Old 
Squarefoot." Now, carried one formidable gun — a 68 - 
pounder pivot— but hadn't a solitary shot for it; nor hadn’t 
had for a matter of three weeks. The entire length of 
Yalape was one roaring sea of flame as she came spauking 
out from behind it, and then she discovered within half 
gunshot the whole Buenos Ayrean squadron working up 
right merrily with the cracking breeze. De B. look in 
the desperate situation at a glance. 
“How many of those Dutch cheeses," (they had captured 
a Buenos Ayrean storeship last up-river trip,) “are left 
aboard," he demanded of Clare. 
“Two casks, sir," replied Harry. 
“Will they go into the pivot?" 
"By Jove, Captain, the very ideal Yes, sir, they'll fit 
nicely.” 
“Fill her up to the muzzle, then, and let Ballestero have 
’em as fast as you can serve the gun. Steady, quartermas- 
ter, steady as you go, right for the centre of tkeir line." 
Away she spun, the shot from the squadron whistling 
about her cars to the tune of “Paddy Carey’s Wedding 
0 !" but she paid no more attention to them than so many 
mosquitoes until within sure range for her light ammuni- 
tion, when bang! roared her heavy pivot. Now there 
wasn’t an eight-inch iu the whole Buenos Ayrean squad- 
ron, and the Maria was held a rough customer accordingly, 
notwithstanding her insignificant broadside batteries. ° ' 
“What the mil diab'os is that?" roared old Ballestero, as 
u dozen or two of the navel projectiles came smashing 
through his bulwarks, scattering splinters in all directions^ 
and bursting worse— to look at— than so many shell. 
"Don’t know, indeed, sir; something entirely new to 
me," replied his Flag Captain. "Very destructive they ap- 
pear to be, whatever they are.” 
“Destructive! Car-r-rumba! should say so," echoed the 
Admiral, as another grist whanged into his bulwarks, rip- 
ping the light planks liko a gang of steam driven circu- 
lars, and tripping up a dozeu heels or so in the waist. 
“Please, sir," exclaimed the first luff, “I heard iu Paris 
last Summer of a new shell that explodes without powder, 
and is charged with compressed hydiogeu, or nitrogen, or 
some inflammable, suffocating gas or another, like u Chi- 
nese slink-pot, Greek fire, or— 
“These must be the very thing," bellowed Ballestero. as 
a third discharge from the huge pivot shook the seas, aud 
a third bushel of cheese came bowling through his quarter 
nettiugs, oue of which capsized the binnacle, while another 
flew into a thousand pieces as it went with a wicked spang 
against the mizzenmast after scarce clearing the old fel- 
low’s nose. “I don’t like ’em at all, earajo T some infernal 
new-fangled Congreve or Puixhan that’ll set tire to us next 
tiling. Sheer off, blu#t ’em, sheer off. Up helm, quarter- 
master, aud run to leeward out of range.” 
Of course the other craft followed luc flag ship’s exam- 
ple and left the road clear for the saucy Maria. Not until 
she had passed, still beplaslerihg their sterns with her 
cheese, did their line retorm, but by that time the breeze 
had slackened; they were uuable to weather the poiut 
against the current, and La Guayra's little flotilla was 
saved. How wo roared over the comic recital! Alas! alus! 
for those glorious Cathayan days! N. VV. Beckwith. 
—Some years ago a uew fort was commenced In the road- 
stead of Cronstadt with revolving turrets. The now fort 
is now known as Noz, aud Will be completed in tho Autumn. 
It consists of seven separate revolving turrets covered with 
14 inch cuirass armor plates. Each of the turrets will be 
armed with au 11 -iuch riUed guu. 
■ — 
—Five hundred uew buildings have been erected in JKoy 
West during the past year. 
S E TSch G S N N S ? a ™ Cry at C , alcdonia S P ri "g«. °eat 
C J fm n r /. nd “ f pi0,iee . r effort been the means of layii* 
U T , h!f arU ^ 1 indu8lry * econd onlyto.®*- 
& SSs 
p r 8 rt n e p COgn -, l ! 0 , , ‘ by l j' e learned b °dies of Europe, especial!? 
France, which conferred upon him a high honor P n com 
nection with the "Acclimatization Society,” of that country 
He is constantly making new discoveries in the art which 
more and more simplify the novel and delicate process 
connected wRh this great und rapidly increasing industry. 
11 ■ S ? k ’ a, ;, ead j 5 f q'»oteil in this paper, hut now <le- 
.'-daj 6 fisU far "‘ Bloomsbury, 
N J in 1,04, and before Ins death had built up a success- 
in rf.i 1 , 11 flsb Tl,e Doctor published a work 
on Trout Culture, which is a model manual to be consulted 
S ".iT M 0 n Dter up ®" Ush Siting. It should be 
said of both Seth Green and Dr. Slack, that they did not 
become so enthusiastic in this new art. as to believe that 
every spring or rivulet could be utilized to fish culture 
but so mingled their labors and researches with conserva- 
tism that the world has been put in possession of stern 
facts which are the only safe guides in any industrial art 
Mr. Livingstone Stone began the labor of trout culture at 
Charlestown, N. H. in 18(18, reached success iu a brief ex- 
perience, and he too in 1872 published a manual entitled 
Domesticated Trout," which is the clearest exposition of 
the art of pisciculture yet produced. Ilis fish farm has be- 
come productive and is conducted ou a scientific basis 
thus, no doubt, a model establishment to be consulted by 
those designing to engage in fish culture. 
Mr. Stone is also a deputy "Fish Commissioner” in con- 
nection with the United States Fish Commission, and eir- 
ployed in a United States fish breeding establishment iu 
California, on t lie McLeod River, a tributary of the Sacia- 
mento, where he obtains salmon ova, from the 6ahno qui- 
n-il, of the Pacific Coast, the most delicious salmon known to 
civilization, from which place they are distributed through- 
out the United States for hatching and restocking barren 
streams. Mr. N. W. Clark, of Clarkson, Michigan be^au 
a trout establishment in 1808 and continued it lor several 
years with marked success, until his efforts were directed 
to the propagation of other food fishes. Mr. Clark’s re- 
searches iu connection with pisciculture filled him to be- 
come the earliest advocate of fish culture in Michigan 
within whose borders are magnificent natural facilities 0 for 
the entire water ichtliyic fauna of the United States. Mr 
Clark early called attention to these facts in a series of 
well written articles aud pamphlets which prepared the 
public mind for the establishment of a State commission 
Michigan has more than 250 lukes, pure und sparkling re- 
servoirs tor millions of fish, and an enlightened board of 
commissioners are unselfishly stocking them with fish not 
native to the manor born, which are thriving and increas- 
ing, thus laying the foundation for a vast food resource 
for a rapidly increasing population. 
Mr. George H. Jerome, the present State Superintendent 
of Fisheries of Michigan, is also an eminent fish cultnrist 
and has accomplished much In connection with his olfleial 
position in stocking the inland waters of his State. 
The people r.re enthusiastic in this measure, und when 
their areu has been thoroughly cultured it will become a 
very paradise for anglers, even old Isaac Walton himsef if 
on earth, aud there, would fairly revel among the finny 
tribes. The policy of Michigan is worthy of imitation bv 
other States. In the Fall of 1872, Mr. H. F. Dousman of 
Waterville, Wisconsin, engaged extensively in trout 
culture, using the dry method of fecundation, ami some- 
times with this modification; that instead of obtaining con- 
tact of eggs and milt by stirring them together, he tr isied 
to the persistent and inherent impulses of the spermatozoa 
to move directly forward, and coveriug the bottoms of the 
vessel with ripe trout eggs applied the milt in several spots 
when after a few minutes it would be detected by its milky 
appearance to have diffused itself among all of the eggs, 
by the natural and iuhereut power pos eased bv this vltul- 
izting element. During the Winter of 1872, the Slate of 
Iowa, by a recommendation of Gov. Carpenter in his an- 
nual message, passed a law authorizing a Fish Commission 
aud the three Commissioners are actively engaged in sleek- 
ing the streams of that Stale with salmon, where they are 
found to grow rapidly aud thrive as well as in their native 
haunts. The State Hatchery is located at Anumosa and is 
conducted by Mr. Shaw, one of the ablest pisciculturists in 
Iowa. Several hundred thousand salmon try have already 
been planted in streams of that State, and fish culture is 
no longer an experiment us far as Iowa is concerned. Illi- 
nois is altogether in the background. Though it has a 
(/mwi-Coinuitssioner, raised to that dignity without warrant 
of law, it might as well have none, so far as advancing fish 
culture and of acquiring means of restocking its streams 
are concerned. Northern Illinois is well adapted 10 pisci- 
culture, for there are many streams in which the Irout will* 
thrive as well as iu the mountain rivulets of New England. 
There are several fish farms iu operation, which might be 
made exceedingly profitable. The Hon. David II Ham- 
mond in 1870 began to breed trout ou his large a ry fare , 
near Elgin. "111. aud has been constantly enlarging , oper- 
ations. His water facilities are superior, and capable of 
being enlarged sufficiently to admit of product ions of 
hundreds of thousands of salmou and trout annually . Lo- 
cated us he is ou a railroad running through his farm and 
connecting with Chicago, he can Bhip duily to that great 
metropolis of the Northwest, all he can breed, however 
much he may enlarge his capacity tor fish growing in the 
future. Mr. Hammond is a modest, retiring gcuilcutuu, 
but aa thoroughly conversant with the process of fish cul* 
