Feb. I, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
131 
1913 
Nineteenth Annual 
SPORTSMEN’S SHOW 
Third Annual Indoor 
TRAP SHOOT 
Annual 
ANGLERS’ CASTING TOURNAMENT 
February 27th to March 5th, inclusive 
Madison Square Garden 
Exhibits: —Everything the Sportsman Wants. 
Features: —Outdoor Sports and Life Acted and Pictured. 
Activities of Campers, old and young. 
Camp Exhibits and 
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Gen’l Manager 
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CHILDREN 25 CENTS 
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Business Manager 
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Publicity 
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Office: The Tower, Madison Square Garden 
Copyright Judge 
AN UNEXPECTED THUNDERSTORM 
There’s a thrill of excitement about this picture. It’s true 
to life. You can almost hear the flapping canvas of the tent. 
In common with the other pictures of the Camping Series, 
it is exquisitely colored. This series is ideal for your den. 
You can get them for 50 cents each, or four for $1.50—or, 
see special offer. 
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Persian Rivers. 
In Persia a river is generally called by the 
name of the town on its banks, and therefore 
changes its name at each town it reaches. This, 
writes Colonel Stewart in "Through Persia in 
Disguise.” makes it very difficult to learn the 
right name of the rivers. 
My groom was an Armenian, and very 
much more intelligent than ordinary Persians, 
since he had been educated at a mission school 
at Ispahan. One day he was swimming about 
in some water we passed, and I said to him, 
“No doubt you learned to swim in the Zayendeh 
Rud”—the river that flows by Ispahan. “No, 
sir,” he replied, “I did not learn to swim in 
the Zayendeh Rud but in the Ispahan River.” 
Fle actually did not know that the large river 
passing his native town was called the Zayendeh 
Rud, or, in other words, that the Ispahan River 
and the Zayendeh Rud were one and the same. 
Another instance of this confusion is shown 
by what people call the Abrishmi River. The 
name of the river is the Kal Mura, but the ma¬ 
jority of Persians and also Europeans cross it 
on the main post-road between Meshed and 
Teheran by a bridge that was built by a silk 
merchant, and that is called “Pul-Abrishmi,” or 
the silken bridge; so they call the river the 
“Abrishmi, or the Silken River, which is cer¬ 
tainly not its name. The river, which flows by 
Khusf, although at this point very slightly 
brackish, lower down becomes very salt indeed, 
and finally is lost in the desert. 
Karez, or underground canals, carry the 
water of this river in every direction over the 
countrj'. I think the wonderful patience shown 
by the Persians in the labor of excavating these 
underground channels for water is surprising. 
Every drop of water has to be bored for and 
tunneled through miles and miles of ground be¬ 
fore the precious liquid reaches the crop for 
which it is intended.—Youth’s Companion. 
Poor Sport in Georgia. 
John D. Rockefeller and a party of 
friends were taking a trip across country in 
Georgia last fall when they came to a stream 
which they had to cross by ferry. The ferry¬ 
boat was operated by a white-haired old negro, 
and, while they were floating across, Mr. 
Rockefeller tried to make conversation. 
“Jack,” he asked the old man, “have you 
caught any fish to-day?” 
“Naw, suh,” replied Jack dejectedly. 
“The fishing,” observed Rockefeller, “must 
be pretty poor.” 
“I spec’ it is,” agreed Jack sadly. 
“You haven’t caught any fish at all?” 
“Not a one.” 
“That seems strange,” continued Rocke¬ 
feller. 
“It do,” said Jack, and still his bearing was 
that of a man weighed down by woe. 
“Well,” asked Rockefeller, “why is it, do 
you think, you haven't’ caught any fish?” 
“Humph,” said Jack, still mournful, “I ain’t 
been fishing to-day.”—From the Popular Mag¬ 
azine. 
The Speed of Animals. 
According to naturalists, no animal is 
known to have exceeded the speed attained by 
the famous race-horse Sysonby. Instantaneous 
photographs show the full length of one com¬ 
plete stride as about twenty-six feet. In the 
stride of the fastest racers the hind quarters 
and limbs are raised considerably higher than 
the shoulders, and from this relatively great 
height brought downward and forward, widely 
separated from each other, as a sportsman says, 
“to avoid striking the fore legs,” The hare 
which is hunted with fast hounds has not in 
reality the speed of the dog. The dog, on the 
other hand, does not attain the speed of the 
horse. The giraffe is said to run at the rate 
of fifteen meters (yards) per second under the 
most favorable conditions. The elephant, going 
at the rate of two yards a second, carries a 
weight approximately that carried by six horses. 
—Harper’s Weekly. 
The Women Divers of Japan. 
A GRE.^T many of the pearl-divers of Japan 
are women. Along the shores of the Bay of 
Ago and that of Kokasho the thirteen- and 
fourteen-year-old girls, when they have com¬ 
pleted their primary school course, go to sea 
and learn to dive. They are, indeed, taught to 
swim almost in babyhood and spend most of 
their time in the water, except in the coldest 
season, from the end of December to the be¬ 
ginning of February. Even during the in¬ 
clement season they sometimes dive for pearls. 
These girls and women wear a special dress 
and their hair is fastened in a hard knot. Their 
eyes are protected by glasses against the en¬ 
trance of water. Tubs are suspended from their 
waists. 
A boat in command of a man is assigned to 
every five or ten girls and women to convey 
them to and from the fishing-gronnds. When 
the divers arrive on the grounds they leap into 
the water at once and begin to gather oysters 
at the bottom. The oysters are dropped into 
the tubs hung from their waists. 
When these receptacles are filled the divers 
are raised to the surface. They dive to a depth 
of from five to thirty fathoms without any 
special apparatus and retain their breath from 
one to three minutes. Their ages vary from 
thirteen to forty years, and between twenty-five 
and thirty-five they are in their prime.— 
Harper’s Weekly. 
