Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1906, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Terms ’ $ si a X Mo a nths,° $ i C S: a CoP7 '\ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1906. 
VOL. LXVIL—No. 8. 
No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
The object of this journal will be to studiously 
promote a healthful interest in outdoor recre¬ 
ation, and to cultivate a refined taste for natural 
objects. Announcement in first number of 
Forest and Stream, Aug. 14,1873. 
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BEQUEST TO AUDUBON SOCIETIES. 
By the will of Albert Willcox, who 1 died re¬ 
cently at Seabright, N. J., the National Associa¬ 
tion of Audubon Societies for the Protection of 
Wild Birds and Animals benefits very largely. It 
has long been an open secret among persons in¬ 
terested in bird protection that the National As¬ 
sociation had been promised a gift or bequest of 
$100,000 by an unnamed friend, who was greatly 
interested in its work. Such gift has now come 
to it by Mr. Willcox’s will, which leaves to the 
Association the sum of $100,000 outright. Aside 
from some bequests to relatives aggregating only 
about $6,500 a year, the residue of his large 
estate is left by Mr. Willcox to his brother for 
life, and at the death of David Willcox is to be 
divided into two equal parts, of which one is to 
go to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In¬ 
stitute, and the other to the National Association 
of Audubon Societies. It is understood that this 
residuary estate will be very large. 
All who are familiar with the most valuable 
services to protection which have already been 
performed by the National Association of Audu¬ 
bon Societies, will rejoice that its opportunities 
are to be so greatly enlarged by the legacy of 
this large sum of money. The bequest may be 
regarded also as a reward and a tribute to Mr. 
William Dutcher, the president of the National 
Association of Audubon Societies, to whose 
enthusiasm, energy and persistence the success of 
the Association is so very largely due. 
There are now Audubon Societies in most of 
the States of the Union, and the work of these 
societies has wrought a great change in the bird 
protective sentiment of the country, and in the 
laws governing shooting practices in various 
States. For years it has been the practice of the 
societies to work with State legislatures to secure 
the enactment of the Audubon game law, which 
classifies birds as game and non-game, and pro¬ 
vides that the non-game species may not be 
killed at any time. Through the activity of the 
Society, this has been adopted by most of the 
States. 
The generous bequest of Mr. Willcox will 
enable the National Association vastly to broaden 
the work of education on which all legislation 
and all improved public sentiment depends. It 
will do much for the preservation of natural 
things, which is so greatly to be desired. 
A LOFTY CAMP. 
All campers and especially all mountain 
climbers must be greatly interested in the press 
despatch received from India, telling of the great 
success of Dr. Wm. Hunter Workman, and his 
wife Fannie Bullock Workman, in ascending one 
of the tallest peaks of the Himalaya Mountains. 
Mr. and Mrs. Workman reached the summit of 
a peak of 23,000 feet height in Numkum Range, 
and on the trip they camped for two nights at 
an altitude of 21,000 feet, which is said to be 
the record altitude for a camp. 
Mr. and Mrs. Workman are natives of Mass¬ 
achusetts, Dr. Workman having been born in 
Worcester, and his wife being a daughter of 
former Governor Bullock of that State. Both 
of them have traveled extensively in India and 
both have been successful mountain climbers, 
Dr. Workman having reached an altitude of 23,- 
394 feet in the district of Baltistan. It is to be 
hoped that before very long more details of this 
last ascent may be received. 
FATHER P RAN DO. 
A few days ago, in the west beyond the Rocky 
Mountains, there died an unknown hero. He 
was one of the men of whom the world is full, 
yet of whom the public never hears; a quiet man, 
doing his duty quietly; one of those whose lives 
strengthen our faith in human nature, and make 
us realize that all the bad things we see and 
hear and read of do not furnish a true measure 
of civilized humanity. 
Father Prando was a Jesuit priest, a native 
of Italy, who came to this country many years 
ago and soon after was sent out west to work 
in the Indian field. Though he traveled much in 
the northwest, his chief service was with the 
Blackfoot, Crow and Cheyenne. In more than 
twenty years of labor with these tribes, he learned 
to speak their languages, and thus could meet 
the Indians on their own ground, understand 
their ways of thought, and communicate directly 
to them his teachings and his reasonings. 
He shared the joys and sorrows of the people 
among whom he worked, and devoted his life 
to relieving their sufferings and to directing 
them toward better living. Possessing a knowl¬ 
edge of medicine, it was common for him to take 
to his own home some poor wounded or diseased 
mortal, whom he would tend, nurse and care 
for, and at the end send away cured, or with 
his own hands dig the grave, and read the burial 
service. If the people were starving he gave 
them what he had. He did not share his crust 
with the needy, he gave it all. 
Father Prando was the man through whose 
energy and whose persistence relief was finally 
brought to the starving Blackfeet in the terrible 
winter of 1883 and 1884, as told recently in the 
story “In the Lodges of the Blackfeet.” For a 
number of years he remained with this people, but 
later returned to the Crows. About two years 
ago, overcome by the labors and hardships, to 
which for many years he had been exposed, he 
was forced to give up work in the field and to 
go to the hospital at Spokane, where his last days 
were spent. 
For four centuries the Jesuits did their work 
in the peopling and the civilizing of this country, 
and of their toils and of their sufferings in the 
early days something is known. Father Prando 
was one of the last of a generation that still 
knew the old order of things, an order of things 
which now has passed away. 
The “Uncle Lisha’s Shop” stories by Row¬ 
land E. Robinson; the “Camps of the King¬ 
fishers,” by J. M. Hickman; “In the Lodges of 
the Blackfeet,” by Walter B. Anderson; and 
many other series and sketches have given the 
term “nature study” the wider significance of 
“human nature study” as one of the fields of 
the Forest and Stream. The story of “Uncle 
Shaw and Some Others,” of which the conclus¬ 
ion is printed to-day, is full of this human in¬ 
terest. It will be followed by other studies of 
a like entertaining character. 
Mr. Plorace Kephart, who has spent some 
months in the mountains of North Carolina, 
going there as a sportsman, has found an 
intensely interesting field of study among the 
moonshiners, and has written a series of chapters 
descriptive of the peculiar life of these peculiar 
people. 
Mr. Raymond S. Spears, whose account of his 
adventures on a trip floating down the Missis¬ 
sippi was received with so much interest, has 
found a new field of exploration on the eastern 
shore of Chesapeake Bay. What he found there 
will be told in a series running through six or 
seven numbers. There will be stories of oyster- 
men and fishermen, strange island homes and 
people, and a running account of personal ex¬ 
perience among them. The region is one most 
attractive for those who are fond of cruising 
in small boats and cabin launches, and in Mr. 
Spears’ chapters wiJJ be set forth the generous 
opportunities of the Chesapeake waters for pleas¬ 
urable life afloat. 
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The great Arch Rock of Mackinac Island, 
Mich., is one of the interesting natural objects 
familiar to voyagers on the Great lakes. It is 
a part of the cliff of the eastern side of the island, 
and has been sculptured by the elements into an 
arch of pleasing lines and impressive dimensions. 
The summit of- the arch is 149 feet above the 
surface of Lake Huron, and the height from 
base of buttress to top of rock is 49 feet. 
