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the work going on. Five miles has been com¬ 
pleted to Alta Pass, which is the highest point 
on the Carolina. Clinch field & Ohio Railway. The 
highway will pass within a mile and a half of 
Linville Falls and will go by Altamont, and along 
the Linville River to Linville City, which is a gem 
of a summer resort, with beautiful hotels and 
dwellings, all in the Swiss style, many of them 
covered with chestnut bark. There the road will 
utilize the famous Yonahlossee turnpike, passing- 
near the summit of the Grandfather, and will by 
this means get to Blowing Rock, which is the 
highest mountain resort in all that section of 
North Carolina, being above the 4,000-foot level. 
The highest point on the Yonahlossee is a statute 
mile above sea level. A seven-year lease has been 
taken on the Yonahlossee pike and it will be 
made twenty-four feet wide and macadamized. 
From Blowing Rock the highway will go to 
Boone, over a road already one of the finest in 
the state, following the New River and leading 
through wonderfully fine forests, with hardly any 
clearings. When this part of the “Crest of the 
Blue Ridge Highway” is done the construction 
force will begin to construct it from Alta Pass 
toward Asheville, and the road will pass less 
than a thousand feet below the crest of Mt. 
Mitchell and so get into Asheville, where it will 
connect with George Vanderbilt’s magnificently- 
constructed road to the high peak of Pisgah 
Mountain and then get over into Haywood 
County, which like Buncombe has a splendid sys¬ 
tem of macadam roads. There will not be a dull 
yard of all this highway, and a vast deal of it 
will be above the 4,000-foot level and not a little 
much higher, and some of the finest streams in 
the state will be alongside it. 
The writer in concluding this trip took a look 
at the eastern band -of the Cherokee Indians, 
whose reservation lies along the Oconolufty 
River, easily the most beautiful stream in all the 
South; a stream which he who sees it never for¬ 
gets. The Indians are adepts at fishing- with 
hooks baited with grasshoppers or wasp grubs 
and sometimes other larvae, or live-bait in the 
way of minnows, for there are fine bass in their 
main streams and trout in the small ones; all 
brook and no rainbow. Their streams have never 
been stocked artificially. They are very clever at 
spearing fish, using a spear with a slender handle 
twelve or fifteen feet long and three prongs or 
tines, and hardly ever miss a throw. 
It was found that five different railways have 
plans for building into the counties of Alleghany, 
Ashe, and Watauga, and that a road will in a 
few months be completed to Sunburst, in the 
Great Smoky- Mountains, above the 4,000-foot 
level, so that it seems a great deal of what is 
now a new country- will before long be thrown 
open to the world. 
Fred. A. Olds. 
Bison Shipped West 
New York.—-To repopulate the West as much 
as possible with the great animals that once 
abounded there by the thousands, fourteen Amer¬ 
ican bison have been shipped from Bronx Park 
here, where they were born, to Hot Springs, S. 
D., where they will be turned out on the Wind 
Cave National Park. 
Kerosene Antidote for Snake Bite 
Eagle Butte, S. D.—The effectiveness of 
kerosene as an antidote for snake bite has been 
at least partially demonstrated by William Fin- 
anne, a roadmaster at Trail City, who was bitten 
by a rattlesnake. He first bound his arm at a 
point above the wound, then cut open the flesh 
where the fangs had entered, and then plunged 
his arm into a pail of kerosene, keeping the 
wound submerged for several hours. His recov¬ 
ery was rapid. 
A Bunch of Congenials 
It was about as congenial a party of men 
as ever graced an eating board that sat down to 
lunch with Forest and Stream last Friday. It was 
at the close of the annual meeting of the Inter¬ 
state Association, and with a few exceptions all 
the members were present. Tom Marshall, owing 
to an engagement due to his appointment on a 
special committee, whereby Plymouth Rocks were 
substituted for Blue Rocks, was absent in toto. 
Among the genials present were Frank G. Drew, 
vice-president Winchester Repeating Arms Co.; 
John T. Skelly, vice-president Hercules Powder 
Co., Edward Banks, sales manager of the same 
company; T. E. Doremus, sales manager Du Pont 
de Nemours Powder Co.; F. B. Clark, advertis¬ 
ing-sales . manager Remington, U. M. C. Co,; 
Elmer E. Shaner, treasurer-manager Interstate 
Association; Paul North, vice-president Chamber- 
lain Cartridge and Target Co.; Tom Keller, gen¬ 
eral manager Peters Cartridge Co.; A. H. Dur- 
ston, vice-president Lefever Arms Co.; T. D. 
Richter, and A. J. Dando, of “Sporting Life”; 
E. Reed Shaner, secretary Interstate Association; 
E. P. V. Ritter, president International Exposi¬ 
tion Co.; Charles Young, treasurer Amusement 
Co.; Luther Squier, the money back man from 
Du Pont; W. J. Gallagher and W. G. Beecroft, 
of Forest and Stream. It seldom is that so many 
men in commercial competition meet and swap 
chat with so much freedom from and little 
thought of a beat—It’s as fine a body of sports¬ 
men as one could find in a lifetime. 
The Lakanoo Boat Club, of Burlington, N. 
J., at its December meeting, elected the following- 
officers for the year 1914: Commodore, Henry 
B. Fort; vice-commodore, Franklin Gauntt; cor¬ 
respondent, G. M. Halsey Holmes; purser, W. 
Edward Ridgway; quartermaster, J. Stanley 
Page; trustee, 3 years, William G. Stowell. 
Office of the Governor-General of the 
Philippine Islands 
Manila, October 29, 1913. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The recent issues of Forest and Stream have 
come to me here in Manila and are most welcome 
and gratefully appreciated. 
Please allow me to express to you my sincere 
gratitude for the editorial about my appointment 
as Governor-General of the Philippines. Nothing 
could have pleased me more than the kindly ex¬ 
pression of approval in Forest and Stream, and I 
think that to a sportsman the good will and good 
wishes of fellow sportsmen are the most appre¬ 
ciated of all. Nothing has been said to me in 
approval of my appointment which has given me 
so much genuine delight and appreciation as your 
editorial. 
(Signed) Francis Barton Harrison. 
Give the Dog a Chance 
Barcroft, Va., Nov. 28 . — Editor Forest and 
Stream: An article in your paper quoted in the 
Alexandria County Monitor says: 
“A mad dog does not rush. A mad dog does 
not attack. A mad dog does not froth at the 
mouth. A mad dog will not fight back, even 
when cornered. . . . Give the dog a chance.” 
A boy in this neighborhood was bitten by a 
mad dog, and the presence of hydrophobia in the 
dog was established by a microscopical examina¬ 
tion of its brain in the Bureau of Animal Indus¬ 
try at Washington. This dog was being chased 
by a man with a gun, and when it drew near the 
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boy, instead of telling the boy to run, he foolish¬ 
ly shouted to the boy to strike the dog with a 
stick which he held. The dog seized the stick in 
his mouth, biting it, and then bit the boy. In this 
case you might say the dog suffered the attack, 
but he certainly rushed at the boy, and did not 
have to be cornered to make him fight. 
The bulletin on rabies issued by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture states that the dog’s “in¬ 
stinctive methods of defense are nearly always 
highly developed or exaggerated, but that he sel¬ 
dom willfully attacks without provocation.” It 
also states that inability to swallow often causes 
the mouth to become frothy. I am sending you a 
copy of that bulletin. 
There has been so much absurd and supersti¬ 
tious talk about hydrophobia that it is no wonder 
people are skeptical. I myself believed for awhile 
that there was no such thing. But this was a 
matter of ignorance on my part and nothing 
more, and it is so with others. Scientists who 
are not ignorant to start with, have made careful 
researches upon this particular subject; and peo¬ 
ple who are not scientists have no rational war¬ 
rant for disputing the results of research. Op¬ 
position to sanitary precautions against this dis¬ 
ease is as unwise as in the case of any other 
deadly and painful infectious disease. 
“Give the dog a chance” is the last word of 
the article referred to. What, give the mad dog 
a chance to communicate his terrible affliction to 
men and to other animals? The proposition is 
wildly foolish. But that writer would say he 
means, give the well dog a chance. The way to 
do that is to protect him from mad dogs, by 
exterminating strays and by muzzling all dogs 
which run at large. What if they do not like to 
wear muzzles? They would better do that than 
propagate hydrophobia, with its dreadful suffer¬ 
ing for both dogs and men. I urge Forest and 
Stream, with its great influence, to uphold a 
policy founded on science and the broad interests 
of men and beasts rather than that founded on 
shortsighted indulgence to particular dogs. 
Wm. C. Lee. 
