FOREST AND STREAM 
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Destruction of Polar Bears. 211 
Editorial . 212 
Helping “Old Camper” Along With That Meal. 204 
Minneapolis Boy Scouts and Archery. .By H. H. McChesney . .215 
Oldest Fishing Club is in United States. 208 
Philadelphia-Bermuda Motor Boat Race. 213 
Reminiscences of Old Shokan. 201 
Single Shots to Eliminate Accidents. 207 
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Sportsmen Making Enforcement of Game Laws Easier. 
By Golden Gate 206 
Trap Shooting . 217 
The Chinook vs. Other Salmonids as a Game Fish. 
By W. C. Kendall 209 
The New York Motor Boat Show.By Hollis Burgess 216 
The Reverend O. Warren Smith. . . . By Robert Page Lincoln 203 
February 14, 1914 FOREST AND STREAM Vol. LXXXII. No. 7. 
TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE 
CANADIAN CAMP, TO BE HELD AT 
HOTEL ASTOR. 
A decidedly interesting program is offered at 
the annual Canadian Camp dinner to be held at 
Hotel Astor February 23. It here follows: 
SPEAKERS. 
Hon. H. T. MacLeod, M.P., Fredericton, N. B., 
“The Big Game of New Brunswick.” 
Mr. Roy C. Andrews, New York, “Seals and 
Other Animals on the Pribilof Islands in the 
Bering Sea.” 
Mr. Richard E. Follett, Detroit, “Atlantic Sal¬ 
mon and Its Instinct of Nativity,” 
Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny, Avery Island, La., 
“Birds at Avery Island.” 
Captain F. E. Kleinshmidt, New York, “Alaska 
and Siberia Big Game Hunt.” 
Mr. Carl E. Akeley, New York, “An Ele¬ 
phant Hunt in Africa.” 
CANADIAN CAMP BEATS ITS OWN 
RECORD. 
This will be the greatest of all nights in our 
Camp—a night with men who have done things 
and who by slides and motion pictures will show 
the results of their work. 
Wild animal life as it really exists in the 
South and far North will be illustrated. 
This will be a wonderful exhibition of Arctic 
life. 
You will be taken among birds, seals, walrus 
and other rare animals in a single evening and 
you will be awed by their all but human ways 
and feel everlastingly grateful to the Camp for 
this opportunity. 
You will also have an opportunity to dine off 
walrus, reindeer, polar bear, “squaw” corn and 
dther rare and toothsome delicacies. 
Officers.—President, G. Lenox Curtis, M.D.; 
vice-presidents, Henry Van Dyke, D.D.; Lieut.- 
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Hon. Theddore Roose¬ 
velt; secretary, H. T. Galpin, Ph.G.; assistant 
secretary, C. C. Chatfield. 
FASCINATION BY A CAT. 
Stories of fascination by snakes are common, 
but from India comes the opposite in an account 
of how a cat may exercise such hypnotic pow¬ 
er over a deadly serpent as to deprive it of all 
power of action. A gentleman who has lived 
forty-six years, as he says, in India, relates to a 
writer in The Field that twice his life has been 
saved by a cat. On one occasion, he says, he 
walked on to the veranda of his house and 
actually trod on a cobra that was sitting up 
ready to strike. Expecting every instant to feel 
its fangs, he wondered at the delay in the deadly 
stroke, when glancing behind him he saw his cat 
crouching and gazing intently at the reptile with 
a mesmeric effect which seemed to render it 
unable to move, so that he killed it easily. An¬ 
other time, when sleeping in a cot on this ver¬ 
anda, he awoke to find on one Side of the bed 
a huge cobra with head erect, and on the other 
side his cat, its glistening green eyes blazing at 
the snake. The man crawled out of his cover¬ 
ings, got a gun, and even poked at the cobra, 
which had remained as immovable as a stuffed 
specimen. Wishing to test the phenomenon, he 
placed -his hand in front of the eyes of the cat, 
whereupon the snake immediately showed signs 
of life and activity, but when the hand was re¬ 
moved, fell instantly into mesmeric fixity of at¬ 
titude. Then it was killed. Granting the facts, 
how much was the effect upon the snake due to 
hypnotism, and how much to paralyzing fear of 
an ancient enemy, rendering it forgetful of 
everything else in its intense watchfulness of a 
recognized danger? 
MANY GAME AND FISH BILLS IN JERSEY. 
A quantity of proposed fish and game bills 
have been introduced in the New Jersey Legis¬ 
lature recently. One of these proposed measures 
fixes the open season for suckers in the waters of 
the state above Trenton Falls from January 1 to 
March 15. Another provides that no license to 
hunt with firearms shall be issued to any person 
under sixteen years of age. Another proposes to 
amend the fish and game act relative to the catch¬ 
ing of eels, catfish and carp. Another would 
make it illegal for any unnaturalized foreign born 
person to hunt for, or capture or kill any wild 
bird or animal, either game or otherwise, except 
in defense of personal property. It also makes 
it unlawful for any such person either to own or 
be possessed of any shot gun or rifle. 
FISH-STORY ON SQUIRRELS. 
“Bud” Weeks, of Tarrytown, is a recent con¬ 
tributor to the ever-increasing lore of supernatu¬ 
ral history.' “Bud” declared that while on the 
way to his favorite fishing haunt he saw two 
squirrels eating out of a candy box labelled 
“chocolate cocktails,” and that on his return he 
saw the same couple holding cakes of ice to their 
heads. It is reported that “Bud’.’ has never seen 
this sort of thing before when he has gone 
fishing. 
Nothing cleanses the clinkers out of clogged 
business more quickly and thoroughly than hon¬ 
est advertising well done in honest mediums. 
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Advertising must be interesting and con¬ 
vincing. 
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An interesting advertisement never lacks 
readers. 
