New-York tribune., 1903-02-15

effects
scene beyond words to express. Even the stolid
Indians speak with fervor of this wonderful body
Of water. Its many arms reach out away beyond
the horizon in dozen different directions
In the deepening twilight the effect is sublime.
The atmosphere is iridescent and glows with all the
cooTs of the opal Here is Nature in gala attire
seen at her very best.
AS the shadows deepen the great Canadian horned
owl is heard in the gloomy depths the weird cry
Of the loon awakens the echoes its sound is car
ried inmeasurable distances over the water. The
| frogs lend their deep bass notes: the howl of
wolves the melancholy croakings of the ravens and
mysterious splashings and murmurings ali unite IN
one grand dapason of sound that is kept up until
far into the night. when nature relapses into
sluInber and silence.
In the early morning the birds begin their carol
| ings had never really known what bird life was
before The Canadian warblers. thrushes, wax
wings. wild canaries and songbirds of dozens OF
varieties make the air fairly ring with their melo-
| dies.
| I had credited myself with being somewhat OF
naturalist and attempted to tell Mike about the
| birds Ever since he had attended Yale, he said,
| he had made ornithoogy study.
Maybe you can tell the name of the bird
with that peculiar hutelikc note?" said I, with
some aspersion.''
1.-The ovenbird species OF thrush said Mike"
And this beautiful
The tufted titmouse.' he interrupted
had to redeem myself, so lay in wait for the
professor / found him baking bread in one of
those portable aluminium ovens before smouider-
ing log f<e.
..Ahem" began. baking bread. see"
Yes" he dravled, rather slow in rising.
..Yo,, see I remarked. with a SHOW of wisdom,
the baking powder which contains cream of tartar
liberates when heated a certain amount OF car
bonic acid gas which
.Oh. don't talk shop" he interrupted; Il hate 1t
out here -,.
oh YOU do?" l observed. astonished " nat
business are you in, may ask?
Il am an assistant professor of chemistry at
Yale he responded.
Come here. Dick said /. whsting to the cog
as the latter and I wandered into the WOOL
rick was in a savage humor evidently, as well
as rnyself for he afoul of a huge mushrat al
most as big as himself, which he at once atdcheu'
There ensued a battle royal, IN "h!ch l'Ich 'h'
pulled into the water and nearly oro"heu' Jul Ne
held on and finally conquered
We heard a panther bowling in the WOODS that
night and / tempted TO explain 'o MIN
that It was Felis concolor. family felda, ana al
tho rest of it. but dessted Duncan called L a
catamount.
I wander If CAPTAIN Hugh Garden whom met
in Temagane struggling with great hsn VIII
venture TO tell his associates here as ne lolo me-
about the wolves howling so that they kept him
awake all night as he was encamped py f1oohu
Chute.
You who have visited nearby lakes aho "aiefs
in quest of hshing should cast your lines Just once
into the waters Of Tema samie- trieo u "i'en'
/ and do believe you cOulu uof a NiOii'is SP0O
for more than one minute without hooking oaSS'
| . nil,e or pickerel weighing anywhere from three
TO seven pounds. - . .-,,,
u,,ebing, One gets fairly surfeited with IL THINK
| of lake trout weighing thirty pounds' oass seven
nounds and never a minutes wait loI n oi'e'
+r,ed conner wire for deep trolling and pulled up
lake trout as fast could reei IN faouiiie
along the shore With 4 troli'ns spooh oii7 i ~
catch fish enough in the course OF a oaS 10 supply
a city market -, ps
r,.o- re1,DJ in Terna gamie. we met MI hpp-
r,s the Hudson Bay Company agent He and his
wife occupy little cabin. with some ooAeh Oh SO
Indians with their families as their only neishpor9
II is two days journey to the nearest hapitatloh'
"a, a. st,re of orc Of the numerous lakes ada
.rt IN Ten,ag gamie We discovered clearing where
/ on an Indian had built log cabin ihere was an
attempt gardening. and potatoes. corn anu o'ie. %
/ Garden truck were in evidence. The lake itsei1
about as large as the Lower Saranac. mao an oii-
broken shore line Of gloomy forest save where the
presiding genius of the place had made his ABODE.
/ This is White Bear Lake" explained Duncan.
and there is White Bear himself, he added point
ing 70 an Indian of gigantic stature. standing IN
solitary grandeur an eminenoe near the caoih'
Lets interview him. remarked Mike
''Quee" said approached.
Ugh" the only response.
This your lske?" / asked.
Catch plenty hsh?''
1 Ugh
I Say" exclaimed Mike. =. would you rather be
ice?" This startling question evoked the same
4 response as before. We finally left in ignorance
. OF Mr. White Bears preference the subject OF
I .NIike's' frivolous interrogation We watched him
as we padded away. until his grim, solitary figure
became indistinct Perhaps he is standing there
vet For all the movement detected he may have
constituted n part Of the surrounding landscape
AT the end of a twenty mile paddle through Lady
/ Evelyn Lake another of Temagamie's neighbors
| we came across lonesome cabin in the midst of
/ a small clearing Fhe trees about the place were
festooned with the skulls OF bears wolves beavers
! moose and other animals great and small
! OF course. Duncan knew all about 1t. This he
/ eNplained had been the abode, some years be-
I fore OF an Indian trainer named Wind ahin Every