Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1877, Page 16

16 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1877-SIXTEEN PAGHS. SEWING SLACHIINES, trout, was a failure by a large majority. Since Pratt demoralized them, if the minks come out atall it ison the sly, and the erafty Stealers gave the snare a wide berth. ‘They were prob- BABES IN THE WOODS. Roundabout Ramblings . to ably plethoric with a gorge of feasting on their pillage of the night vefore, and they and on the Brule could afford to tum up noses and River. wag tails of contempt for a single morsel ia the deadfall. The early riser discovercd a porcupine squatted on a canoe, exercising his jaws on a packing-strap. He bad gnawed it badly, and would, if not then caught inthe act, have probably devoured the ‘whoie jeather. He retreated up a tree. It was in no mood of blood-thirstiness, but as a matter of justice, that his life was made to pay the Tor- feit, though five revolver shots wi required to do the business, Last evening Denison fractured his rod in two places, but preserved a gond degree of equanimity over the catastrophe. If any person thinkes itis nota strain on the temper to break a rod, or fling the hackle intoa Jimb, or tangle or kink his oil-silk line, or foul it with the other fellow’s line, just when the sport is in full play, and the fish are liveliest on the jump, he knows fitule of an angler’s mis- haps and trials or of the ills a trouter is heir to. No one has more frequent or better occasion for the exercise of all the Christianly patience and forbearance in him than each of the two men in a canoe cracking whips of rod and line inatrout stream. It isa tolerably well-discip- Jined temper that does not, at such provoking contretemps, gush into a trifle, at least, of the swearing that the army in Flanders did. Wal- ton’s advice to anglers is, to “Be patient, and forbear swearing, lest they be heard ana catch no fish.” The teaching is good, but the lesson is uot invariably heeded. Pratt and Denison tinkered and mended the broken rod so well The Jolly Good Time: of Some Chicago Babes in the Woods, In Roving, Roughing, Canoeing, Tenting, Trouling, Shooting, and Mis. cellancous So-Forths. A Diary of It All, by Jonn Lyle King. (Continued.] ‘And ifthe angler take fvsske, eurely then there ie no man merrier than he is in bis epyryte.”* —Priorees of Sonewell. 1496. Tuvxspas, 16th.—This is one of the best of camping places. Some of the sweetest of ‘our sleep and the most grateful and refreshing of our restings were those of last night. And akesed nnd me bate ee ae Athi i ey declared it was bette in before, Hees ba py See's tlle Ball neath 00 he had half a mind to smash my own rod, Bile. Either some of the freaks of our fancies ust to give them a job of mending. or the freaks of come of the animals in this Heinctena we struck the tents and left this ‘tneck of woods” and thereabouts, are eccen- | most pleasant of our greenwood homes, aud tric, decidedly. Last night Pratt was awakened } weut on our downward way, halting at yarious it i ae 3 eh | points to fish, The trout snapped briskly, and ; 5 busy to unhook our captures; and the sport was was not of that opinion, and, finding no other | an embarrass du richesses, of which the most stubble ficld than those of unshorn bearded ardent of the party beran to tire, | In the hour es ietly anda halfof actual casting in. these random bees lis aoe sed Nerpe cu fishings the party took 130. Some of these and Gent iy her nest or somewhere | tout sre voracious. One that Pratt cauzbt had else. Some of the party thought this | heen chewing acud of fish, for a smaller one Was a phantom rabbit or coiuage of disordered | was in his throat uot wholly swallowed. Along sleep, caused oy excessive pork, potatous, and | a considerable stretch, the trees on both sides Aried corn-dodger at our late supper last aight. | seemed nearfy all to have fallen or grown into But Pratt vehemently denies the phantasma- | or towards each other across the stream as if in xoria theory, and avouches it an actual i “digenous to the soil. We started at 8:50, and a friendly embrace of limbs, and it was , sometimes sharp crowding for us to pass paddied with fiving colors (metaphorically) and | or emerge from the overreaching forest. A gayly and gladly, as if our crafts were counter- | heavy thunder-shower came on and caught us parts to Coles’ in ‘* The Voyage of Life,” gliding | in its pitiless peltings. We soon landed for With [youth at the helm and pleasure at tue | dinner at Little Brule Falls,—a rather insig- prow,” for every struke of the paddle moved | nificant pitch over a few fect ledge of rock to us so much nearer 10 the Brule, and we lin- | be called “falls.” But we came here in the full ered not in our parting with the pure and sbeautcous Lake Minnie. “Our footsteps: were reality of the piseatorial conditious named in : the proverb of a fisherman's luck,—wet breeches quicker, our spirits were brighter, and the trudge over was casier and more willing than anda hungry stomach. So, when the kettle 5 ¢ boiled and the trout. was fried, all four of us those of any previous trail. When we caught | fell to with a will and a relish few diners or glimpses of the stream and heard the murmur of the water through the leaves, and then Junchers at home ever have. We felt princely, perhaps Frank excepted, who scemed a shade actually caute to the foot of the acclivity at its drink, we could imagine the greeting of the serious, possibly from reveries about doggie I i Dick in Mintesots, or perchance some Greeks, returning from their far and long ex- | object dearer even than the pup down at edition, crying, at first sight of it, with” one Chicago or somewhere. We had the customary voice, The seat the sea!” So, from all of us early afternoon lay-off, watching the quivering there was an uproarious impromptu, “the | of the leaves, listening to the chattering of the Brule! the Brule!” While we waited. there, the | red squirrels, or the Julling music of theavater feth of our carriables by the Indians, and | foaming over the rocks. Towards sunset we for the canoes to be brought over, | manned the barks and swished rods and lines. some time, of course, clapsed. Sach, however, | The canoe, with High aud Denison aboard, Was the ardor of Yrati’s piscatorial | swirled near the drop of the falls, and was impetuosity that, though the nver just there } nearly sucked under, and shipped water alarm- offered no very promising prospects Jor sport, ingly, and was on the verge of swamping or he solted up bis trousers and went in on his wrecking. Paul was just quick and skillful shanks, aud waded and splurged promiscucusly | cuough, by a masterly handling of the pole, to about the stream. splitting inte big riffles zeninst Ie legs as he moved or stoud, thereby. put fer into equilibrium again and shove her out of peril, Durmg the imminency of tne ca- though he took a half dozen, probably searing -ag mauy score of trout. Hizh, also, was keen tastrophe, the vertebral columns of the lecal to try it on. ‘He went up the banks and gentlemen were, no doubt, affected with frigid cs Sensations. At lesst, a sousing bath was .Struggied through to a rather awkward posi- | threatened. and their skins were saved dry by tron on a log; but after all, the pool he threw | just a hairbreadth excess of food luck. The w yielded him only the begzarly account of | hairon their heads gut com: d in ashort one. He returned soon, and devoted himself time, however. The day's catch 105. more successfully to literature, squatted on his blanket bundle. Denison quite ibly usefully utiized his spare time by curling up on Ais blunkets in the shade and_slceping a snvoze ofinnocenee, I found it satisfactory to pay my tribute of gladness for arrivalon the Brule in liberal objation tothe winds and propitious skies that [:ad prospered us on our way in the burning incense of wy meerschaum. About 11 we were “afloat, afloat on the dari rolling tide” of the Brule. and business commenced in esrpest with all but inyseli. We held up from ” Sonpay, 19th.—Long in the night, while we palefaces were or should have been sleeping, our native Americans were having a cheery time in their tent. The laugh and gab showed they were in jolly good spirts. I tancy they enjoy their part of the programme not far from as muchas we enjoy ours. Their night's sleep is usually precluded with palayer and fun to themselves. Are we ever the subject of their ey Je ass ug aes pul xe jokes? We know vot. None but a Menaminee Teaches a point robably Wen! ‘ight it is A igne it filles shove “the mouth of “te Y- ee linguistcould tell.. As Montaigne said of his playing with hig cut, who kuows whether the cat is most amused at the man or the man at the cat? Who of us can say if we are objects of vleasantry more to them than they appear odd or outre tous? However that be, these invaluable red fellows have now been Jong enough witb us to be considered as in full mem- bership of our forest fraternity. This being Sabbath, we spruced up considerably. Pratt shaved off a bit of his beard. High tespected the day by an unprecedented napkin at break- fast, aud by turning his slceve-cuifs out in full breadth so as to show a clean side to them. I took on a silk neckerchief or choker, neatly knotted into a Brummel tie. These touches of finery were not calculated to inspire much pride of the flesh or lust of the oye, but we thought they were tip-top. After sufiicieut time for as to feel and get the good of these toilet changes, we took down the tents, packed, and “ embarked for. further on, and as downward means with Denison now, 'Minne- sotaward, we are, every mile, nearing ‘the time and place of his Jeaving, and are anticipating where Wasa most clicible camping-tlace. {t was on x bank, bigh aud dry, embowered by a grove of the largest cedars and pines, good suriace, free of troublesome undergrowth, the ground soft with strata of fallen twigs, with abundant shade, plenty of fuel-material, and “hemlocks at hand for the ground-spread of the tents. We named it Cedar Camp. We expect to makethis a stopving-place for two or three days, and can sally out from it. up and down, and rance: all tke pools or fishing-places within easy reach. ‘The sport began auspiciously. A little over an hour's throwing brought to camp a count of fifty, and they were on the dinner-platters in Jess than an bour. We lay around, fixing tackle, ete., until 4, when Hizh and Pratt went below, “and Denison and I took the canoe for above. ‘We found that to touch a fly to the water was about sure to touch a trout, whether it was a catch tor good or not. In the first half-hour we could forecast the story of the sport on the Brule. It was only to hold, at almost any place, to find that our lines were cast in places pleasant for us. The throw on the one side of the canoe and the throw | the break in our fratermil cohesion. “That ap gn the other were cqually lucky, mostly. | petite grows with what it feeds on, Was seen in ‘The trout appeared to flit all around, and rises | Pratt. Maving had 2 taste of blowing a mink’s Were quite as plenty as bubbles. We went a | jiead off, a mania for minks possessed him, and, “short ways only, and returned with laden bas- | having the gun well slugeed for the slaughter, ‘kets, and, afteran hour and a half of fishing, | he took the forward canoe, and Tad for them. the spoils were turned over tuthe cook. The Scarecly a twig rusticd near the shores, ora in sight, that he was not evening report footed up: High, 44; Pratt, 20; | dark root protruded in si Denison, 33; King, 19. At supper we all ex- | on the quick for dead! Either Dressed, or joined jn, regrets that we were un- | the inks Kept home, it was able to bestow upon fricads at liome some of Sunday, or it was nota ‘food day, an the exeess of our lavish supply. One man’s ! how, for. minks. At noon we Waste} another man's want, here, as so | in’ for camp on the = Michigan often in other respects. Frank has chicken- shooting in| Minnesota on the brain, and arranged, before starting for here, for meeting a frend’ there fora prairie ramble. He sent his falthful setter dor “ Dick” up there, and the dog is probably sniffing all the airs that blow tor a scent of his master’s coming. Wing shooting pleases Denison more than deer-shoes. ‘ing or the best of trout-throwing, and now, when his thoughts are with the dos and oy prairie hens, he’li soon follow histhioughts there, shore, opposite the little island fronting our camp of 1875, at the head of the trail to Boot Lakes, That was a marshy ground. This is high and under the finest umbrage. The bushes and branches were cleared by the ag, and then there was a capital camping place. Boot Lake— Tather lakes, for there are three of them, sith portage from the river to the first, and portazes thence and between tue others—is on the Wis- consin side. There is a tradition of large trout in the further take, and the first lake is a noted resort for deer. The first fact. wakened al) Higl’s spirit of enterprise, and the Jatter touched a weak spot in Denison. Soa yenture with the flies and a venture with the cartridge were planned. After dinner, and putting up Fuupas, 17th.—Our dash for trouting is not so eager, now that they swim closcly at our fect, and then having it so easy. So we lagged in Inter stecpitig this morning, and it was nearly 10 when weshoved off fora take of dinner trout. | 7, Cutie for a stay over. night, ; 9 - | with Tabo and Joe “Dixon “as giisth Faget Wbe minks played it on us; got at | utility men and guides and wich a cence He ‘the fish-pan, “and stole, they stole? our trout | aud Denison. with a generous send-off of huzzas from us, put off for the tramp over. Later in the evening Pratt and I tooko water to provide 2 supper supply, and, thongh we didwt wet mnore than gunshot range froin camp, in several reaches within that distance we found the re- sult more than cheerful, for we took ninety three. ‘The fish down bere appear to average sinaller than those above, but. they make about as much sport for a troutsman, and are as Rood on the platter as the further up ones that size larger. Kakotash was in & gossiping and social mood to-nizht, and amused tts sreatly. by telling us some~ of his adventures in the woods. He has ~ been over and over all these Northern wildernesses, © with locators, prospectors, surveyors, hunters, and Ashers, and is an authority on'topographical, Ravigation, cooking, and’ sporting matters, His way of tellivg an adventure he had with a bear on Pine River was droll and funny. He and a white man undertook to capture couple of bear cubs they saw in a tree, and built a circle of fire around as a barrier against the Te- turn of the dam, but she, in fact, came tearing throngh the brush at them before thes hegan dimbing. “They had nothing but an ax ‘tor defense, and Dave, with it in lis hand, retreated backwards as fast as circumstances would away—about a hundred—and laid by, in one night's fut work of theft, in their neizhboring hole, choice spoils for their feeding. We were, therefore, troutless for breaktast, and it was re. solved, asa penalty for this wholesale sack of our fish, that deadfalls be set to snare the sneak- ing little gypsy pilferers. The trout when we ‘Went out were lively in their leaping, when we threw, but not so keen totake the fly. Only dorty were caught. by the whole Barty, but enough was 2s -good as a feast, and we ‘§ ent, ‘ouly an hour on ‘the water.” We Jay around the tent, on the bundles, with a fit of midsummer lauguor on us. Nor were we upto the mark of ‘our usual gusto for the dinner fry. Our after- Boon siesta was disturbed. by tie swarms of houseflies that went hungrily for us and pricked y. High was leaping against the mossy Toots of amammoth cedar in the shade, like beech tree, f Pleture of pareutly just lis id incly sinking into a dream, or a ean little ones at home, when’a couple of minks, Blutved with the fatiety of their rich rom Us, ran past at arm's leng! y him, playfully gamboline and Sueno dreamy coutent, and started him from his doze. Denison atonce | allow, the en i . 1: raged = brute rapidly ad- Poche ars Ue B20 reconmoitered ‘the | yauclde, the White mane ae” q APM ade petty thieves. ip ie OF re suet at the fing to” the canoe and shoving it out in scouting, But — Pratp°” fired of the | the stream as far and as fast as he could, ervinee att, | | muose. manly | a5 he went, “Get, aboard. Dave, set aboard!” and the bear rearing on her haunches so as to strike with her paws, face to ‘face almost with Dave, who, when further backing: was impos- sible, waited, with the ax drawn, and stood motionless looking the brute steadily in the ¢yes, and this cowed the bear, which, also move. Jess fora moment. fell on all fours and herself, then retreated tail foremost towards her cubs. indignation was fired at the depred ti nizht, took the eun, and a stand inthe bases with his finger on the trigger, ready fora san- goinary exploit, and waited ‘and watched ‘so iz that we thought patience was one of lis That virtue, like virtue generally, proved its own reward. The mink slyly sneaked ut of his retreat, and Pratt blew his head, off in Jess than a twinkle. ‘We knew the effect of the shot when a smell about as agreeable as that of the seventy stinks of Cologne came wafted into ‘all the nosesin the camp. When the Indians skinned him, ona post-mortem examination, a trout mess was found in_ the villain’s viscera. in the evening fishing, at first our flies were not in great demand, but an hour in sunset was a. Stirring time, and the lines were kept musically whizzing in a shower of casts, and the flies fell like raindrops. _ The figures of the day’s three hours out footed 192. , Sarunpay, 18th.—The schemes of Indians, as yell asof menand mice, “gang aft aglee.” Dare’s wWell-laid deadfall for the minks,est with Moxpar, 20th.—Pratt and T made a morning excursion with the canoe. We called at our old camping ground of 1875. It is overgrown fwith Weeds, and, being in a low, swampy situa- tion, is a dismatlooking piace. Some iconoclastic barbarian has with ruthless hand chipped away with an ax the memorials we inscribed ona tree to mark and commemorate our ablaing there. These arboreal inscriptions are customary at camping boints,—they answer to the hotel register as memorials of travel and sojourn. The little spring rill, which trickled purely andcoldy, and wasthesole. satisfying nat- ‘| zine, which he calls an “ammunition case.” ural feature in the place, is now choked up and hidden by weeds.. We recalled 2 few reminis- cences of the spot, and then willingly withdrew our footstens from it. We scooted the canoe down the stream, and skirmished here and there with the rods, and, in our various skiinmings along, relieved the Brule of thirty-seven of its trout. Going back tocamp, we found our messmates returned from their overland journeying, and with a good deal more to ‘tell of tnan_ to show for their digression to the Lakes of Boot. All they brought was a brace of part- ridges, a tribute of the powder of Denison. They brought the recollection—unfortuuately not thé corpus—of a deer ina perspective of distance, which the deer was wary enough to keep from beingforeshortened. The deer bunt with the lantern, by night, wasa failure. The trouble was, Luna put on her brightest face, such as when she shone Joycliest to meet her moon- struck, and sighing Endymion, alone, on the mountain heata. There was no playing or lay- ing a successful ambuscade for deer in such brightness of _ moon. —_ Conse- uently, Devison’s venison was all moonshine. But the story they tell of the bass, in the fur- ther lake, surpasses most of the marvels of any icthyological wonders related. The water there is crystal clear, and virtually a natural aquarium on a large scale, with. transparency enough to Teveal the thick shoals of fish that fearlessly dis- orted below. They were seen swimming in jordes. The iake isso stocked with them that itis plain there is no piscatorial Malthusian principle there to limit indefinite spawning and. propagation. The place is seldow visited, and an angler, who cau have his utmost fill of sport —that is the superlative of all fishing—on the Brule, is. scarcely apt to venture the ordeal of the trail over there. to throw away tire in the merely muscular sens: tion of heavy pulling and dragging out that tt bass fishing is. Our party caught thirty or more bass, scaling from four pounds down to one, partly by rod, mostly by trolling. High was heedless enough to try bis trout-rod tor bass, and one of the heavy Weights took the hook, but the tug was so strong that his slender taper of tip snapped like a pipe stem. Denison dropped iu a spoon with a flaming red pendant, and dangled it near the surface, and says—and a master in chancery who swears other persons to tell the truth ought to be himself truthful—that all-sized bass loomed up. into acirele around it, holding a sort of impromptu admiration society, and hung in poise there Jong enougti to satisfy thelr curiosity as to what itali meant. tHe and High soon- tired of their miraculous draught of fishes, aud, like Arabs, silently folded their tents and stole, wondering ly, away tothe Brule. There is no mendac- ity about this,—though a cousiderable story of fish, it is not a fish story. There was a bear in- cident, also at Boot Lake—a bugbear, onc may say, ot only the bare imagination of a bear, and not a real Bruin of a bear. In trailing to the Jake, High and Dennison were in front, Tabo and Dixon bringing up. the Frank suddenly exclaimed, “A bear!-a bear! “Whether or uot ‘the “lair lifted on the scalps of the hunter and fisher, history is silent. But, with commendable presence’ of mind, under alarming circumstances, they for- bore making an instant onset on the dangerous enemy, and waited the coming up of the more experienved beat-slayers. “* Where? Where?” said Tabo and Dixon, looking grave, as they do when there ig serious business on’ hand, and cautiously revomnoitering the direction pointed out. Before anybody had time to turd around, they conyulsed into ‘a loud Jaugh, and astound- ed High and Denison by explaining that Deni- son Was the victim of an immeuse optical illu- sion, which had metamorphosed and max nified a savage bear out of a pusillaui- mous porcupite boosted on a dark stump! This morning we struck ‘ta lead” in some rapids, which we worked -beautifully—Pratt and I—and_ took some of. the tinest of trout the river affords. The activities of the fish seemed more varied in their display than usual. Sometimes three fellows, as‘ if in sport themselves and in 2 leaping watch, would jump at once for the same fly.” Another one Faulted over alow clear, high and dry, as neatly as a practiced tumbler could leap a bar. This was -comical to me, but Dave says, in up creeks and smail streams. the trout. akes uo bones of tossing over logs, and that he saw a trout throwsbimsclf up over Brule Falls, a. ood three-feet jump. _ Sccing and bearing these things, I don’t ksow that it would greatly surprise me to see a trout climbing a tree. To-day's count was 164. In camp to-uight we sat in Com- mittee of the Whole. Denison’s departure in the morniug was the subject under considera- tion. That dog Dick, in Minnesota, is toomuch for us all. Denison ‘won't go back, or stay back, on the dog. As hecan only get out by canoe, two of our men, as also some one of us, must necessarily go alon. Pratt, therefore, ac cepts the Situution,—that of going,—while High and I more than willingly aceept the situation ofstaying, Our financial budget was opened, discussed, passed upon, and settled. We will leave it to the men themselves to determine the two of them to go with the departing canoe. ToxspaY, Yist.—Chickabiddy,Camp was early and busily astir for a ggpd and timely send-off of our departing comrades. Of course, we all felt—for the firstime on the trip—a little blue, asthe time was come tosay “farewell.” The intimacies of fellowship iu the woods, in the the boundless presence and solitude of nature alone,are closer and warmer, nearer‘and dearer, than ordinary association, which is strung light- er and is loosened or, severed with less rude shock. The peril passed or the pleasure had, the novelties and excitements of the varying scenes and incidents, the suspension or disuse of the mere conventionalities, which often are only masks aud shams of conyenience or policy, anit the remission to the frank, genuine, and simple courtesies aud smpromptit impulses of man- hood pure and simple, all necessitate, beget. and. minister to areal fraternity where touches of nature make all seem of kin, This was shown in the dissolution of our companionship. There is what is caifed whistling to keep our courage up. So mirth is sometimes only a mask for solemuity. We affected facetiousness on the occasion of parting, butit smacked but dis- mully of real fun. “The jokes were too weighty to be witty. The mirth Was something forced and grim. We'd rather say anything and keep it, up to the last, than say - © gooa-by,” We had found we were all such good and right fellows to be together that we ought to keep together to the end,—that, by so being tozetn- er, We bad had such’ unity’ and community of good time that to sever the fellowship now was something we ail regretted. With this regret, which I believe we all shared, notwithstanding we were actually to lose our ‘cutirety and sever into parting companies, thuse basting and those not, alike, really felt an emotion warmer and deeper than is to be breathed iu acommon or customary adieu. So averse were the men to breaking” up, that they left the dic to be cast, who was the geing and who the staying couple, to the last moment; and, as between Tabo and Dave, the matter was only settled by lot, Dave drawing the long twig, which meant go. A little after S everything was ready, and ‘all aboard” was sounded. The pressure of hands in the adieu was warm and Ingerin: with our friends, the ‘Tom King glided away in the distance. Hign’ andi both spoke of the passage in Waltou,—of the parting of Piscator and bis companion,—and felt his words and ape plied them. ° We are loth to part with you now, but, when you tell us’ you must fo" we will then wait upon ‘you with our thoughts all the miles of your way, and ‘heartily wish you. a good journey? For the kindly and: thoughtful David Kalo. tash, he of the native, and we of the foreign, race and language, we will wear, in our hearts: aliving memory... We gave hima parting “ God bless you!?’ May he live lone and prosper, and, when he dies, go to the place where dians go! if our cyes were not really, as Solomon says the eyes of his beloved were, “Jike the fish- pools of Heshbon,”—that is, I suppose, as a pool naturally would be, watery,—we at’ least chad no occusion to spend time to dry or wipe them, and thought the best thing we could do to relieve ourselves of the sense of loneliness the camp now wore .was to divert our thoughts from our. friends to the fish,” “and, to that end, we hurried out with the rods, and, as the results of a two hours? canoc-cruising, we took forty-five trout. A refreshing shower did us th ve cooling the air. Sunday and yesterday the heat Was uncomfortable, and at vight we dispensed with the usual iHumining and warming from the camp lug-heap fire, and could very well en- joy our last Smoke of meerschaums, before bed- time, in shirt-sleeves.. Iu this camp the houses Mies clagued us greatiy,—more tormentingly the good In- than ithe mosquitoes or midgets do. After. hoon spurt was spoiled for us by rain, in which there was no Iet-up, By Frank’s going away we will miss one famil- iar object, thiat is, the portable powder-maca- “at will no longer be lying around in the tent for us to stump our toes against, or to menace some or all of us with an explosion to the demnition bow-wows.” ft was uot a more cheerful companion to have around than a tor~ pedo would ‘be—that twenty-five-pound case was not—when lighted mecrschaums were 60 freely swung about, and the sparks were fying in showers from our breakfust fires, dinner fires, supper fires, and our morning and evening tent fires. Those cartridges were Denison’s two-pound paper-wrapped package of powder and laid it cue front of the. tent, to-sun. He cautioned me to be careful In smoking round there. I suppose he thousht if 1 blew up his powder it might spoil Li shooting, as We are too far from any base of supplies to get any more. There was a wasp’s nest bunched on a limb overlooking camp, which Frank first dis- covered, and, by right of discovery, he thouzht he had a special right to deal with it in his own way, which was to “bust” it with his re- volver. It was all I could do, by repeated re- monstrance, to keep him from blowing it to pieces, and setting loose on us a huge swarm of infuriated wasps. A rainy dav being good for it, we took to literature. Hizh, having an unappeasable thirst to know all about that “Mysterious Island? of Jules Verue, in its paces forgot how ihe rain was scour- ing this. nook of a Michigan wilderness. T took old Izaak Walton to’ my confidence in those charming discoursings of bis which have made the “Complete Angler” forever a classic in our language, and renewed gome of the genial old angler’s sweet spells that fascl- nated me in boyish years. The rain got heavier as the: twilight darkened, and it was by a bare majority of the chances that the fires wae not extinguisued under the drench of descend- ing rains so a8 to send us supperiess to our ber The fire for our tent is drowned out, and dampness has crept on us, and the situa- tion’ is cheerless and dreary. And the best thing we can do is to “douse the glim,”—that is. our tallow-dip in the swung Jantern,—and coil the blankets on our hemlock spread around us, and Jie down to the best sleep we can get. To-day’s trout, 6S, [Coneludedt next Sunday.] —— A LITTLE WHILE. A little while, O aching heart! Thy wounds will be untended— Some tearful days, a few sad nights, So few, and all is ended, 1 do not promise ease froin pazn, Nor that thy skies will ever smile; No words of comfort can 1 give— Jonly say, A little while, O brave young heart! © dauntiess onl! ‘The leaves are only springin; He fm the Life-blood course's on hone is gayly singing. Think not I'd warn of leaves" decay, Nor make thee wise with earthly Wile; Soar on, grasp every noble thing, But think “tis buv'a nude while. O man with furrowed, anxious brow, For carthly riches st a Vhose days are spent in worry Whose nights in hard contriv Ido not say thy cates are vai Nor yet thy purposes are For aught 1 Know, all may Yet still Teay, A little while. A litle while! Ne claims it—He, The Father pure and holy: g rth must see us for a time, We're His fore’er, His eolel A. M.D, GONE Thad a dear friend once, Who ever was kind and trie; Toxether we wept, together rejoiced, Nor contention our friendship knew, And many an honr of bliss we epent, In the Sweet content of our love: And T sometimes think that love of ours Was sent, a blest gift, from above. Ah, yest [might have known Of such a true friend the worth; But half the worth I did not know ‘Till that friend was called from Earth, But God and the Angels knew it, And led that poor soul away From earthly chaos amd durkces ‘To the light of endless day. = Sounding the Toesin, Dr, Hollick, of New York City, has sent to Mr. J..E. Mayall, of Stork’s Nest, Laucing, Sus- sex, England, a consignment of dead Colorado beetles, accompanied by the following truly dis- tressful communication: “Seeing in your papers so- much about the Colorado beetle or potato-bug, and seeing in my garden such 2 crowd of them, I thought perhaps a few genuine specimens might interest you or your friends. I gathered a handful, scalied and dried them; and here they are. Should like to take a contract to send any numberot bushels of them. They havecaten me out of potatoes, and we are now flzhting them off from the egg plants and tomatoes. ‘They attack all solanace-e, even deadly nightshade. “Principal characteristics un- boundedly protific, destructive. One will de stroy twenty times his weieht ina day. Can't Fou get a Bull from the Pope against them? ‘hey are no joke, I can tell you. I saw them this morning on the docks falling into the sca by thousands, and all heading due east; so look out. << Reliable help for weak and nervons snfferers. Chronic. painful. and fi without medicine. Pulvermacher's Electric Belts the grand desideratum. Avoid’ mitations. and Journal. with particulars, 1 er Gaivanic Co. THEATRE, Second Weck of the Brilliant Engagement of EDWIN BOOTH, Who will appear during the week in HIS GREAT IM- 1 PERSO; ATION RICHELIEU, BERTUCCIO, and THE STRANGER, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, only nights of Bulwer's grand Historical Romance, RICHELIEU. CARDINAL RICHELIF Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Nights, E BOOTH wilt appeat'in lls powerful inpersonatte BERTUCCIO, TRE JESTER, in Tom Taylor's Tragle rama, THE FOOL'S REVENGE, Saturday Matinee EDWIN BOOTH will appear as THE SHRANGER., Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Nighty and at the Saturday Matinee thie performance will conclude with the comtc sketel HASTINGS in the cast, HOOLEP'S THEATRE. SECOND AND LAST WEEK Of the Eminent ‘Tragedtan, LAWRENCE BARRETT, and Who with appear on MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAV Evenings, ‘Sept 1518, aud 19, tn his Brand finpersonation of CASSIUS, In Shakspeare's great Tragedy of ¢ ULIUS CAISAR Played by him upwards of 1,000 times in the United Stites, and acknowledged by the press of the entire country as the most. SCHOLARLY REPRESENTATION Known to thé English stege. The production wiit be rendered with HAGNIFICEN? SCENIC EFFECTS And a REY Mark Antony. Brutus ‘ r ns a. Jaines Hi, Foster Calphuraia, ‘THURSDAY EV! q DeautiZul Comedy of the WONDER, A WOMAN KEEPS A SECRET. Lawrence Barrett 8, in Feix FRIDAY and SATURDAY EVENINGS, Sept. 21 and 2% Suakspeare's Tragedy of the MERCHANT OF VENI eseseeesSD 500K and the DAVID ++ David Garrick MATL WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. ;Provrietor and Manager. MBEKI X’ JACK CON Lawrence Barrett, as. ICK. Lawrence Barrett. ADELPAL THEATRE, OF OMEN ATION AINS, Teal slut, storiscett Dolald’ Mekar.” Pict 20, Mrs. Centlivre's iks under round, Wife of Mchay—Daushter, ."trihe of Warm Spring Indians, Jack's ‘spony, Dramatic Curspany. Admission Mek a e Dries of any other theatre, All Ladies" Nigiits. Mouday Night—Chicago’s Favorite Combinations BOORNIQUE'S DANCING ACADEMDZ 128 TWENY-FOURTIH-ST., near INDIANA-AV. Open for Private Lessone. Classes reopen Saturday, Oct. 6. Send for Circular. HERSHEY MOSIC HALL, ORGAN RECITALS. HERSMEY SCHOOL OF MUSICAL ART, MI. H. CLARENCE EDDY, Organist. Firat rectzal of i885 cents; six EDUCAFIONAL. CHICKGO BUSENESS UHIVERSTY AND POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Buperion Diab ‘77 Clark-st., opposite Court: iar term will commence on Mondas, 88 COU wiil embrace Bor The busta will embrace Draw Mechapteal, ana Topographical Enel- ‘atural Sclences, the Higher Muthemattes, 629 NEWORLEANS, LA, FOR PARTICULARS ADDRESS ISON SEWING MACHINE COMPA? BROADWAY, NEW YORK GITY, CHICAGO, ILLS OR SAN FRANCISCO, CAL SRIOE GENTLEMEN—We sell our own make hand-sewed Shoes, all styles, at $7.75; machine- sewed, all styles, first quality, $5.00; second quality, $4.00; third quality, $3,00, LADIES —We sell the best Pebble Goat Button Shoe at $3,00, $3.50, and $4.00; the best Straight Goat Side Lace, 83,00, $3,50, and $4.00, Everything new store, stock, styles, and prices. STREETER & TUCK- ER, 70 East Madison-st,, ‘Pwo doors west of State. AUCTION SALE! By ELISON, POMEROY & CO,, Auctioneers, 78and 80 standoipu-st. For Tuesday's Sale. Sept, 18, at 9:30 a. At onr Stores, 78 znd SO Randolph-st., General Sale Household Goods, Carpets, Furniture, General Merchandise, Ete. ELISON, POMEROY & CO, At766 Wabash-av. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 10 o’clk, We witi sell the entire contents dwelling above number. Ganges, Parlor and Chamber Furniture Pler Mirror, Stoves, Bedding, Kitchen and Dining. room outtt. ELISUN, POMEROY & CO. PEREMPTORY SALE 500 CASES BOOTS, SHOES, and ' BUBBERS, el th and German Languaxes anteed to every student who shall have taken the regular presertbed course of two, sears, upon condition of his 9 ar in the “*CHICA: GOCOUS TING HOUSE,” where » recular set of books will ne placed under his chance and he will beshown how fo Keep them, thus making him a practical bookkeeper. qhe books represent real business, und are furnished by the business men of Chicago. N. H.-A REGULAL NIGHT SCHOOL sill be open- ed for young men who cannot attend during the day, eulur. Take the clevstor. For further in- formation apply at the college office or addres: W. A. MYERS, President, ANNOUNCEMENT. Miss Davis has reopened her Family School at No. 45 Efenteenth Toft paptls is iimited, but two or free ‘The num! will be admitted to supply vacancies in some of the el; a Puptis above 14 years specially destred. PATRONS: CORWITH, J. Me WRIGHT, % 4. CRANE, TAGER, 3 G LAL HAVEMEVER. CHICAGO ACATEMY, No. 11 Eighteenth-st, Classical and Enstish Day School. with Primary, Intermednite and Collegiate Departments. Papils of both sexes have equal advantazes, and may pre- pare for admission to any College or University or for business, Eleventh year becing Sent. 17. H.W. BABCOCK, Princinat. LAKE FOREST ACADEMY. The leading Preparatory School of the West. Its graduates innine different colleges. Presbyterian control. FALL TERM BEGINS SEPT. 13, Address ALBERT R. SARIN, Lake Forest, Tl. Principal. EXPOSITION BUILDING, Chicago Tater-State Exposition Complete in all epartmenta, and the finest representa- tive {bition of Ame: Indastry Art ever held equal in qualtey to t ; Admission—Adults, T 12 years, 15c. Excursion rates on ines. Paintings for Salc. The Art Committee of the Exposition has the pleas- ure of aunauncing thatthe tne coffect{on of Pietures now on exhibition In the Exposition. Gnileries {s for sale at moderate prices. 2 ‘The collectton ts fully equal In quality to the New York exhibit(ons of the National Academy and the Water Color Society: ia ‘Under no cireumstances wilt there this year, the artists having forbidden it. has charge of sales fn the galleries. On Special Exxhibi Wagner's great picture of the **ROMAN: RAC also Paxe’s **Shakepeare,” and “William, Prince of Orange, os . W005'S HUSEUM AND OPERA-HOUSE Tony D: ++++Proprietor and Manager, MONDAY EV) bean auction sate Miss Durfee G, Sept. 17, the Steriing Ro- mantic Actor GEORGE FRANCE, Supported by Mr. FRANK FOSTER and the trained acing dogs BRUNO and DON C.ESAR in the WIDE AWAKE! Previous tothe drama A SUPERB OLIO. The Museum Department improved, enlarged, and rejuvenated, and now a decided feature, open froma. m. tilT8 p,m. Admission, Negotiationsare pending for a suc erful attractions. NEW. CHICAGO THEATRE, SUNDAY EVENING, SEPT. 16, 1877, First appearance of MISS MATHILDE COTRELLY. COMTESSE HELENE Vaudeville in 3 Acts by Shweizer and Salingre, ALEXANDER WURSTER, Director, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE, y | MISSOURI MEDICAL COLLEGE. The tInriy-seventn reqular conrae of Lectures in this institution: will begin on Monday, the 1st of October, 1877. and continue tive month ‘The preliminary course will begin on Monday, 1th Sentember. ‘The commencement for conferring degrees will ¢ held exrly in March, 1878. For the annnal circelar and catalogne giving reg- uldtions for graduation, fees, and. other informa- tion address . GERVAIS ROBINSON, M. D., Dean, 3 Olive-st., St. Louis, Mo. HERSHEY SCHOOL \ Hall. Fall _term commences Molnaay, Sept. 17, BOOKS Ow OPEN. il Session at the Young Ladies’ College, High- commence on\the 20th September. A. unengaged, EDW. P. YLVANIA MILE ER Pa.. opens SEPT. ounds hy Instruction tn and ENG Careful a bees to Cae RLCOX, oT af the Tremont House, \hicago, or Cuil ‘ATT. President, VOU Yenc rviston. of Cadets, Institute of ihe WASHINGT my and da ADD be y eh ofeRarate class Tor tiny ompetent teaehers. | Leetures by | tawkins and Dr. Labberton. at NORTH SIDE HIGHER SCH 206 and 308 CRICAGO-AY. Classes for Boys of all azes aft or apply personlly, 12-2p. 1. after Se f., opposite Sherman House, oe Proprietor. : THIRD WEEK %. first appearance of ED. ‘Sonday, NO Of the eeason. Sept 1. the famous Comediag, CHARLES HOW ‘HAVERLY’S MINSTRELS, Inaa entirely new and fresh programme. Popular rices—75, 50 and 25 cents. Nox Ofice open dafly. Mat- Ineca Wednesday and Saturday. CHICAGO ATHENAUM, PROF. MARCHAND'S FRENCH CLASSES. Beginners, Tuesday eventog and Saturday, 10a. m. Tnerimedtage: Monday aud Thegeaaye Toa: fe toys or playthings, and his case was opened f nit i Saturday, 1p. pitener than the valise that had his novels | formate se ee ne aes Od ins ud Nobody could tell Just when an | Thursday. tt tn ead Teindletans bitéeaaj'8 go il-governed or wayward spark might play yntax, ng E pelvate the mischiet” He took one ot he 3 | pdidisiduat instruction af Athenstam and at oats The Chicago Froebel Kindergarten TRAINING SCHOOL. Room 23 Hershey Hall Building. For circulars addrd Ess Mi ALICE Ht. PUTNAM, ARA EDDY. VAN NORMAN INSTITUTE (Founded 1% WG West Fifty-cighth-st., New York; {Central Pars). Famtly ang Day School for Young’ Ladies. Speclal advaataxes for conversational French } cept 5) AN NORMAN, Princtpats, All Fresh, Seasonable Goods, Thursday, Sept. 20, at 10 o’clk. Catalocues ready and goods on exhibition morn- ing of sale. ELISON, POMEROY & Co. @ur Regular Weekly Sale, Friday, Sept. 21, at 9:30 a, m. The Largest and. Most Attractive Show. New Parlor Suits, New Chamber Seis, A Full Line Carpets. Generai Household Furnitare, new and second- hand: Parlor and Odice Desks, General Merchan- ise, etc., et Alper ebferretss ELISON, POMEROY & CO. Ps ivan ; = Saloon, Fixtures, and Liquors AT AUCTION, On Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 10 a. m., AT NO. St EAST WASHINGTON-ST. The Fixtures complete, including targe Bar-Mirror, Boards, Wines and Liquors, ete., etc. Sen eae aE Re BUTT EIS e COS auct'ra, REGULAR WEDNESDAY SALE, CARPETS. OIL CLOTH: ci WAT EDNESD. T.1% AT ‘CLOCK A. M., “RP OUI SAcES ROOMS, 113 & 120 WABASH-AV. WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctioneers. AUCTION LES. By GEO. P. GORE © 60, ~ #8 and 70 Wanash aveaue. REGULAR TRADE SALE DRY GOODS, Tuesday, Sept. (8, 9:30 agn, ‘Very important showing in well assorted lines of seasonable goods. Merchants will serve their best interests by being in attendance. GEO. P. GORE £ CO., Auctioneers, POSTPOREMEN?. Our sale in WILLINERY GOODS announced for Thursday. Sept. 20, will not take place until THURSDAY, SEPT. 27. Fell particulars of this sale will be published in these columns Sunday, Sept. 23 inst, oF GEO. P. GORE & CO... Auctioneers, BOOT AND SHOE AUCTION SALE, Wednesday, Sepi. 19, 9:30 a. m, ‘We shall offer an unusually large ang varied stock of all the leading kes of Boots and Shoes, including ‘* SucxérBoots,” Phil. adetphia Shoes, Pine Rocl\rester ‘Goods, Buyers should call and exanfiw this stock before placing orders. All ods warrant. ed. Catalogues ready M ryday, GEO. P. /GOR3 &CO., 68 faa 7H Wabash-ar, BANKRUPT SALE Sept. 19 AStock of Fine Goods in Me: Misees', which will be sold close business. sitont reserve to Parlor Suits. covered fn Silk-Plusih, Terry. Cataline, and Halr-clotn. Wancy Easy Rockers, Sofas, Lounges, Chamocfrsecs, Hall-Treet Marble-Top Tables, Walnut Bedsprads z , Sideboards, Breakfast Tables, Chat, apd Rocaers, Hair, Wool. and Excelslor) Mattresses, What: Nots, Mirrors. Beusteads, and Ts, 3 irrors, Walt ¢ chamber ects a ureaus {a the white. Carpets. OU-Cloths, ete. » Attend this sale for bargains. G. PEGORE & By WM. MOOREHO - & CO, Auctioneers, 84 and St Randblph-st. Large and Attractive Sale ON WEDNESDAY, SEPT, 19, at 9:30 a. m. Splendid Assortment of NEW FURNITURE Two Elegant Velvet Parlor Suits, Best display of Chamber Furniture to be fourd in any Auction House in the city. Velvet, Brussels, and Ingrain Carpets, One yery tine “Hilliard and Pool Table, modern atyle, With balle, cues, racks, etc, ete., all com plete. Six magnificent French Plate Pier Mirrors, in gilt and walnut frames, ete., ete. Ghattel Mortgage Sale of Household Farnitare, All the contents of a Bonrdisg-House will be gold ander chattel mortzage. : BUTTERS’ THURSDAY TRADE SALE. PRY GOODS, WOOLEXS, CLOTH SHIRTS ANO'DIRA IGA: SD SALABLE Auctioneers. REGULAR SATURDAY SALE, FURNITURE, CARPE ‘SOFORTES, AND OTHEL E, SATURDAY MOR: 340 o'clock, at lesroomns, 1 fash aeeeeerOOWin. A BOTTERS © CO. Anctlonecrs. By JOHN J. HENRY, 58 and 60 Lake-st RGE AND ATTRACTIVE SALE GF - BOOTS & SHOES, Tuesday, Sept, 18, at 9:30, A. A. SAUNDERS, Agentand Auctioneer. By ROSENFELD & MUNZER, Auctloncers, 42 and 44. Madison-st., near Wabash-ay. We will offer on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 10 O'Clock. Sharp, A large and attractive Ine of Millinery Goods, con- sistine of Black Bonnet and Cloak Velyets. Tur- quois and Silks. Ostrich Tips and Pinmes, Black and. Colored velvet ubdons, G. G. Hibbons, all fresh goous. ine of LADIES’ AND OHILDREN'S FURS, as Astracan, Seal, and Alaska Sets and Capes; also, a line of Fur ‘trimnin ‘A full Hine of Ladies" Tndergarments, ines of Sus- penser. i ed Gloves, Woolen’ Goods, ‘and Dumerous ther articles. ONT LOGLOCK, PRECISELY, we will sella fat! line of Men‘sand Youth's Fur and Felt Mats, latest styles aud scaconable vod 4 By RADDIN © CLAPP, Roots, Shoas & Rubbers y AT AUCTION, TUESDAY, SEPT. 18, 8,000 CASES. Sale peremptory. To commenze at 10 o'clock, RADDIN & CLAPP, $3 & 85 Wahash-av, By JOHN C. PARRY, 276 East Madison-at. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 10a. m., will be sold a full Mine of Carpets. Parlor, Chainber, nnd Dining-Room Furniture of all kinds; Book-Cases, Office Desks. Stores; also balance of a retail stock of Groceries: also entire HiQAst BRUSH. Auctioneer, contents of a Lestaurant. Chattel Mortgage Sule of a Saloon At 8G South Halsted-st., Basement. Tuesday. Sept. 18, at 10a, m., will be sola entire contents of a Saloon. HIRAM BRUSH, Auctioneer, SALE OF “The Galt House,” . dow rille, ¥iy. AAs Asslenees of the Galt House Company, se will of- fora pubic vale on the premises. the Gale House, corner of Main, First, and Washinzton-sts.. Loulsvilie, Ky.. and the furniture thereof, at the hout of 12m. of = REEBHOLD INSTITUTE, se! N. J. irs af fe y: Rev. Re CHAHER! otrne ine aa cirapisoek AMILY BOARVING-SCHOOL FOR BOTS. FOR particulars address L. HAND, Geneva Lake, Wis. Oct. % 1877. This ts the inost complete and arranged hotel ia the West or South. Cost $1,100,000, Wiil accommodate rom 40) to 60) jsuests., Competent sparty can make 25 per cent on investment, ‘Terms—One-fourth G4) cash, balance in 1. 2. 3,4, adyd 5 years, with six (G) per cent interest. “Inveres? oa deferred payments payable semi-annually. Lien re- fait yed for deterred payments. For further particulars apply to STEPHEN E. JONES, THOS. - , YAsstznees, 154 West Jeffenonae., & erfectly + 100,600, By WAL, HODGES & 6O., 662 West Lake-st. AT OUR WAREROOMS, ‘We shail sell on Saturday eventag, Sept. 22 at 7: oe! & Feneral line of HOUSEHOLD GOODS, Consisting of Brussels Carpet, Parlor, Chamber, Diy {ng-room, and Kitchen Furniture, Crockery and Glas ware, &e., &e, WM. F. HODGES &CO.. Auctioneers, 662 West Lake-st. y JAS. P. McNAMARA & CO, 130 and 140 Wabasb-av. 1,000 GASES Boots & SHOES At Auction TUESDAY Mi Sept. 18, at 9:30 O'clock, fruit tines Kip, Spine ane Boots, Cangress, Qletis Brogans, Eaaiess’ Mises. and” Children es. FOR SALE — FIXTURES oF A galoon, with’ two “billiara-tabless South Halsted-st., on Mondag, Set 2. Th.. on premises. CATARRH REUEDY. CATARRH CURE. ‘‘Dr. Sykes’ Sure Cure for Catarrh” is gusran- teed. Can try it free at 169 Bast Madison-st. all this week. Sunday hours onlf2 till 4. Cut this out. Yon will never reret it, ELLANEOUS. P.& J Casey, AL aul 43 Fifi, and second-hand Furatture, Carpets, Bedding. Ofice- desks, Counters, Show-Cascs, shelving, etc. DISSOLUTION. ‘The copartnership heretofore doing business ander the firm name of Thompsons was Held ee ee irsacets and FIRST-CLASS: reheap, at 10 o'clock 3 Gissolyed by mutual convent, Wo. J, Wak ne t TH N.D. es merit of wl ahuompson recel res bere ot mes labiiittes. 15, 1877. wi $100 Invested by us in G0 48 made $8,750. S100 havepagst We guarantee all GO di ddles: {fnoproie is made jorres} KCOw ence soilefted. W. F.C! CC M Ne Mining Stock Exchange P.0, Bag aayg™ New York MBine Stack EXOe me SUMNER RESORTS. GLE. A ELOTEL, WATKIN’ GLI ee to $3 per ey; Apbofntments Ai as troe,. send for cirvult ‘ad for ci anaiyats of water. C3, FROST, Proprieton, SHIRTS: “Kees Pata Party ie ies Si ‘The very best. @for sg. Can‘de Aintahed, by any oot competentto sew astratght sexB- 173 's, Women's, and. ?