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FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. 12, 1912 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
Florida. 
QUAIL-TURKEY—DUCK—DEER 
Located on Indian River. 174 miles south of Jacksonville. 
Dogs, guides and horses furnished. Black bass fishing. 
Reasonable rates. New management. A delightful place to 
take your wife. 
COCOA HOUSE, Cocoa, Florida 
Maine. 
MACHIAS LAKE CAMPS, Ashland, Me. 
Best Moose and Deer hunting in Maine. Remote camps. 
MACHIAS LAKE CAMPS, W. P. McNally, Prop. 
Minnesota. 
MUSCALLONGE GALORE 
Orer 40 lakes, accommodations for 80 guests. Bass 
and Muscallonge fishing at the door. Write for 
28 page booklet. Bus meets all trains at 
PINE CONE CAMP 
D amt. Hubbard County ... Minn. 
Maryland. 
BEST BASS FISHING 
On Atlantic Coast 
Kent Island Narrows - - Md. 
There are reasons, ask why. Best accommodations. 
Easy of access. :: :: :: Booklet, etc. 
FISHERMAN’S INN 
C. J. B. MITCHELL. Prop. Chester P.O., R.D.. Md 
Newfoundland. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
LOG CABIN HOTEL 
Spruce Brook ... Newfoundland 
Salmon fishing. Caribou hunting. Canoeing. 
Motor boating. Lovely scenery. Every comfort, 
but no frills. Terms moderate. Guides, licenses 
and all, provided. 
New Jersey. 
OAK COURT HOTEL, Lakewood, N. J. 
Located in the Pine Belt. A family hotel, notable for a 
quiet air of domesticity and a homelike atmosphere. 
Booklet. Open October 15th to May 15th. 
E. E. SPANGENBERG, Manager. 
New York. 
DEER AND BEAR 
Shooting for the big game man and plenty of partridge for the 
spread shot preferent; one night’s ride from New York City. 
In Heart of the Adirondacks 
This is the place for shooting in comfort, beds that rest you and 
food that is a joy to the inner man. 
BEAR MOUNTAIN CAMP 
J. M. BALDERSON, Proprietor 
Cranberry Lake - - - Wan.kena P. O., N. Y. 
DUCKSHOOTJERS —I have good accommodations for 
point shooting. The most comfortable shooting. Stay 
aboard of auxiliary sloop near feeding ground to save 
early rising if preferred. Write number in party and 
dates preferred. Ernest P. Hulse, East Moriches, L. I. 
W. J. O’Neil, proprietor, and Hammond, guide; good board and 
first-class accommodations. Good bird dogs and hounds. 
Centerville Station, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
MR. ANDREW LANG ON OTTER-HUNT¬ 
ING. 
There seems to be little connection between 
otters and the sense of right and wrong till we 
think of otter-hunting. Mr. Joseph Collinson, 
in a tact styled “The Hunted Otter,” published 
by the Animals’ Friend Society, is bent on 
arousing general hatred of otter-hunting as a 
malpractice from beginning to end, “so utterly 
silly and caddish that words fail to characterize 
it adequately.” Comparatively few people are 
familiar with this pastime, which, to be sure, 
does seem the meanest, most cowardly, and 
most cruel of all the forms of torture which 
man inflicts for his devilish amusement on the 
lower animals. But the interesting point for 
the student of human nature is that people 
whom no mortal could call cruel in other re¬ 
spects see no cruelty in otter-lnmting, but have 
been patrons of the sport. Why is it a sport? 
How can it amuse, not only boys and men, but 
girls and women? * * * Mr. Collinson says: 
"That cruel old coxcomb, Izaak Walton, the 
apostolic patron of the sad, ‘solitary vice oi 
angling,’ as Lord Byron labelled this ‘contem¬ 
plative recreation,’ wrote a vivid account of 
the otter-worry * * *” His (Walton’s) de¬ 
scription of an otter-hunt would sicken a sav¬ 
age. The savage hunter, as far as I am aware, 
wishes only to secure his emu or kangaroo for 
the sustenance of himself and family. No doubt 
he enjoys his own skill in stalking his emu or 
wallaby, but he does not want to amuse himself 
by prolonging the agony of his prey. The 
modern otter-hunter is proud and pleased when 
he has prolonged the agony of the poor beast’s 
terror for seven hours. Men and women, and 
hounds and terriers, are worrying the otter, 
driving him out of and into the water, poking 
him up with poles, and doing all manner of 
odiously cruel things, disturbing the rural peace, 
polluting the stream with their muddy boots. 
Women nowadays are as noisy and ruthless as 
schoolboys at an otter-hunt, while the quaint, 
lithe, little animal is neither injurious to man¬ 
kind, like the tiger, nor good to eat. If he 
were either he could be shot in a moment. But 
the sport consists in the delighted exercise of 
eyes and legs, of running across difficult ground, 
of wading, perhaps, in dangerous pools and 
streams. These exercises, and success in them 
(the otter-hunter has many blank days), really 
constitute the attraction of the sport, but they 
are inseparably bound up with the long death 
agony of the otter. When tamed he is the idol 
of his captors, but as a wild creature of nature 
the sportsmen and sportswomen treat him with 
as much cruelty as the Iroquois inflicted on the 
Jesuit missionaries. Perhaps there is not one 
of the hunters, male or female, who knows that 
things cruel and dastardly are being done by 
them for their diversion. The moral idea does 
not occur to them. 
In his picture of an otter-hunt, Walton 
reaches the height of ferocity when he makes 
the huntsman say: 
“Look, tis a bitch otter, and she has lately 
whelped; let’s go to the place where she was 
put down * * * hereabout it was that she 
kennelled; look you, here it was indeed, for 
her young ones, no less than five; come, let’s 
kill them all.” 
Piscator replies: “God keep you all, gentle¬ 
men, and send you meet this day with another 
bitch otter, and kill her merrily, and all her 
young ones, too.” 
“Here is devout, tender, pious Walton, 
praying that a set of total strangers may 
merrily chase, terrify, torture, and slay among 
her young a newly-delivered mother. Izaak can 
never have reflected for a moment on the mon¬ 
strous profanation of his prayer. Had he been 
asked to defend the sport he might have said 
that otters destroy both trout and grilse. I 
have seen an otter, in blazing sunlight, chase a 
grilse into shallow water, where it was cleeked 
by a human being. If otters did destroy many 
fish, which seems far from certain, there are 
less cruel and protracted modes of keeping 
down otters than by hunting them in the water 
and on the land till they become exhausted and 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
North Carolina. 
HUNTER’S LODGE! 
Good Quail Shooting! 
Choice accommodations for ladies and gentlemen. 
Best Chef south of Potomac 
Terms: $3.00 per day; $75.00 per month. 
GEN’L FRANK A. BOND - - Buies, N. C. 
GEESE, DUCK and SWAN. 
Season opens Nov. 1st. 
We are expert wildfowlers’ guides, and can find the birds. 
Good rigs and accommodations. (This property is for 
sale. Look it over.) 
L. R. & M. B. WHITE, Sea Gull, Currituck Co., N. C. 
Duck, Goose, Swan, Quail, Snipe shooting. Convenient 
for yachtsman going through Currituck. JASPER B. 
WHITE, Waterlily, N. C. (Currituck Sound). 
Property For Sale. 
A RARE INVESTMENT 
Safer than Bonds and Mortgages 
Four hundred and eighty acres of beautiful level land 
in Keith County, Nebraska. Rich black loam, six feet 
deep, which produces all kinds of big agricultural crops. 
Forty bushels of wheat to the acre, and all other crops 
in proportion. These lands are located eight miles from 
the county seat, and six miles from the thriving, bustling 
town of Brule, on the main line of the Union Pacific 
Railroad. The town has church, high school, hotels, 
all kinds of stores, grain elevator, etc., etc. I will also 
sell 160 acres adjoining Brule, fronting on the Union 
Pacific Railroad, under cultivation, with all improvements. 
The climate is unsurpassed for all lung or throat dif¬ 
ficulties. Elevation, 3,200 feet. 
For terms and particulars address 
E. H. BARTON, 32 Bank St., Batavia, N. Y. 
CURRITUCK SOUND 
The owners of the best moderate-priced gunning property 
on Currituck Sound, N. C., will sell with immediate de¬ 
livery of possession. Swan, Geese and Ducks in reason¬ 
able quantities. Club house, superintendent’s house, 
boat house, launch, boats, live and wooden decoys— 
everything ready for immediate use, without further ex¬ 
pense. Would justify a club of ten (10) members. 
Prospective purchasers can use in November on con¬ 
ditions. Apply to 
CLIFTON L. BREMER 
60 State Street, Room 517 Bostoa, Mass. 
ATTENTION SPORTSMEN! 
For Sale—About 400 acres of fine open land that has 
r.ot been in cultivation for several years, and well stocked 
with partridge and other game. Situated four (4) miles 
from Ridgeway, S. C.; three (3) miles from Blythewood, 
S. C., on Southern Railway, and twenty (20) miles north 
cf Columbia, S. C., in a beautiful rolling country and 
an ideal hunting section. This place has seven cottages, 
fine drinking water, together with several streams run¬ 
ning through the place, and would rent for sufficient to 
pay interest on the investment. Privilege could be 
secured on 1000 or more acres at a very reasonable price 
for hunting purposes. Price, $20.00 per acre. For fur¬ 
ther information address 
R. T. FEWELL, Rock Hill, S. C. 
FOR SALE —Four thousand acre farm; 500 acres 
cleared; balance has good growth of pine and gum tim¬ 
ber. Fifteen-room dwelling, with out houses. Located 
in eastern North Carolina, just half-way from Newbern 
to Morehead City, on Norfolk Southern Railroad, and on 
National Highway, in heart of the trucking section. 
Good fishing and hunting, especially quail shooting. 
Price, $7.50 per acre, with terms. 
Wadesboro Loan & Insurance Co., Wadesboro, N. C. 
Attractive Southern Home For Sale 
Fine yachting, splendid hunting and fishing. Health 
perfect. Accessible from Norfolk, Old Point, Baltimore 
and Washington, MRS. JOHN SANDERS, North P. O. 
Mathews County, Va. 
FOR. RENT 
During the hunting season, home and hunting privileges 
on 4,500 acres of land. Game plentiful. For particulars 
address B. P. THORP, JR., Oxford, N. C. Route 4. 
