FOREST AND STREAM 
607 
May 9, 1914 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Vol. LXXXI1. No. 19 
CONTENTS 
A Little Nature Sentiment.By Henry Chase 613 
Dispossessing Mrs. Squirrel.By Emerson Carney 620 
Editorials . 622 
Fur, Fin and Feather. 615 
From An Angler’s Notebook. .By Robert Page Lincoln 617 
How to Camp Out in Comfort. . .By Stillman Taylor 609 
Kings of the Wilderness.By W. W. Sargood 614 
the Lady Afield.By Edward C. Crossman 619 
Trapshooting . 623 
With ’Lige and the Swedes.By Will C. Parmons 61 I 
Why Farmers’ Boys Make the Best Sportsmen. 
By Sandy Griswold 616 
battle, under similar circumstances, with a five- 
ounce six-strip and delicate tackle. The pleasure 
is largely concentrated in the strike, and the per¬ 
ception of a big fish “fast.” The watchfulness 
and labor involved in the subsequent struggle 
border closely on the confines of pain. The duc¬ 
tile wire is an essentially different means from 
a taut silk line. The fish holds the coign of van¬ 
tage; when he stands back and with bulldog per¬ 
tinacity wrenches savagely at the pliable metal— 
when he rises to the surface in a despairing leap 
for his life—the angler is at his mercy. But, 
brother of the sleave-silk and tinsel, when at last 
you gaze upon your captive lying asphyxiated on 
the surface, a synthesis of qualities that make 
a perfect fish—when you disengage him from the 
meshes of the net, and place his icy figure in 
your outstretched palms, and watch the tro- 
paeolin glow of his awakening loves soften into 
cream tints, and the cream tints pale into the 
pearl of moonstone, as the muscles of respiration 
grow feebler and more irregular in their con¬ 
traction—you will experience a peculiar thrill that 
the capture neither of ouananiche, nor fontinalis, 
nor namaycush can ever excite. It is this after¬ 
glow of pleasure, this delight of contemplation 
and speculation, of which the scientific angler 
never wearies, that lends a charm all its own to 
the pursuit of the Alpine trout. 
MINNESOTA AS AN ELK STATE. 
Twelve elk are on their way to Minnesota from 
Wyoming. They will be placed in a mile-square 
corral in Itasca park. This will be the first move 
toward restoring the prestige of Minnesota as a 
great elk state. 
The Man Who Wants It All 
The world is full of queer practices- 
survivals of early days of superstition 
when evil spirits contended, or were 
imagined to contend, against the welfare 
of man. Out of his drinking cup even 
the polished and pampered Greek and 
Roman tossed a libation to the Gods or 
to the thirsty spirits that had gone be¬ 
fore. Where is the urchin, and for that 
matter the adult, who has never performed 
the elaborate ceremony of spitting on his 
bait? Why? We are told it brings luck. 
But that is only an innocent superstition. 
When it comes down to buying smelly and 
messy oils which are supposed to lure fish 
to bite, we are dealing with plain igno¬ 
rance, and worse than that, a lack of 
sportsmanship that should condemn the 
user of such things to dwell forever out¬ 
side the pale. Leave this style of fishing 
to the only man who cares for it—the 
man who wants to exceed the legal limit 
and in whose soul the poetry of angling 
has never entered. For him the birds 
never sing, the flowers never nod, and 
life represents nothing more than a trough 
out of which to get more than his share. 
May his head be rubbed in his own vile 
messes and may he be set, Tantalus like, on 
a stream as an example for all good 
anglers to shun. 
LIVE NOTES FROM THE FIELD. 
Uniontown, Pa., May 4.—A magnificent game 
preserve of 3,300 acres in the beautiful pictur¬ 
esque country along Indian Creek, a tributary of 
the Youghiogheny river, in Fayette county, has 
been obtained by the Killarney Game Breeding 
Association, where it proposes to raise several 
thousand English and Mongolian pheasant and 
hundreds of Hungarian quail. During the sum¬ 
mer the pheasant will be kept in a large 300 by 
60 feet pen, but when October arrives, and with 
it the pheasant season, the fowls will be turned 
loose and allowed to roam about the preserve to 
provide sport for the members of the association. 
No club-house is maintained on the Killarney 
preserve. The Killarney Inn is situated near the 
center of the tract and it is the intention of the 
sportsmen to make that hostelry their headquar¬ 
ters during the summer camping and fishing and 
during the winter hunting season. R. C. English, 
proprietor of the Inn, has a state-wide reputation 
as a breeder, of prize winning Black Fells, bird 
dogs, pointers .and setters, and he will throw open 
his kennels for the use of his guests’ dogs. 
There are two fine trout streams on the pre¬ 
serve, which have been stocked with 1,400 Ger¬ 
man brown trout and other fish, including the 
ordinary brook trout. Excellent bass may be 
found in Indian Creek and the seventy-acre lake 
of the mountain 
In past years, the Killarney district was one of 
the greatest turkey sections in this part of the 
country, and lately, judging from reports, these 
birds are coming back. Also there will be shoot¬ 
ing of ruffed grouse, snipe, woodcock, migratory 
duck and wild turkey, together with the quail and 
pheasant now being raised in the preserve. 
