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RIFLES FOR ALL KINDS OF HUNTING
From the ten different models of Winchester repeaters you can surely select
a rifle adapted for hunting your favorite game, be it squirrels or grizzly
bears. Winchester rifles are made for low, medium and high power cart-
ridges in all desirable calibers from .22 to .50, and in styles and weights
to suit a wide diversity of tastes. No matter which model, caliber or style
you select you can count on its being well made, accurate and reliable.
Winchester Rifles and Winchester Cartridges are Made for Each Other
WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO... - - NEW HAVEN, CONN,

In all ages and among all peoples pipes have been the subject of ornamentation
more or less tasteful, and of design more or less original.

The national pipe of Canada is the which has enormously the big-

market. Almost any style.you
guaranteed.

Write— pedal Illustrated book on the history of

pipe smoking mailed to any address—FREE

HEVYES BROS., Limited 23 Scott St., Toronte

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

FOR THE ,

CAMP

OR THE LONG

TRAMP

ya or hunting, in summer or winter, nothing
so satisfying or so strengthening as

BISCUIT and TRISCUIT

hey are ready-cooked, always ready-to-serve, and con-
tains all the muscle-making material in the whole wheat
grain made digestible by steam- cooking, shredding and baking.
TRISCUIT (the Shredded Wheat To: ast or Wafer) is the ideal
food for campers, for picnics, for excursions on land or wate
Eaten with butter, cheese or marmalades it makes a delicious
lfunech, quickly prepared, appetizing and nourishing.
Shredded Wheat Biscuit and Triscuit are sold by all grocers
and camp supply houses. Take some with you on your next
trip.
“MADE IN CANADA”

The Canadian Shredded Wheat Co.,

: & Limited
Niagara Falls, Ontario

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4 ie ba yn Doane

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

ROSS
RIFLES

For Target and
Sporting Purposes

The best in the world.
303 Calibre, Ma£litary and Sporting Patterns.

Special calibres to order.

CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION

ROSS RIFLE COMPANY
Quebec

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 3

No. 10 $3.50 - 14 $5.00 No. 12 $4.00

Size of seat I6xI IgxIg 18X17
Height of back from seat 23 in. 26 in. 24 in.
Height of arm from seat 9% in. ro in. 20 in.

HE distinctive feature about my Willow Furniture is not the price, but the quality—lots of Art Furniture is sold

at less, but you would not want it at any price when placed alongside of YOUNGER’S WILLOW FURNITURE.

‘I grow my own Willow. Isupervise personally the workmanship. I guarantee strength and durability of
every article. As to BEAUTY of this furniture, it speaks for itself. The handsome set, illustrated above, sells for
$12.50, It comprises three comfortable arm chairs, made of Willow. That means coolness and comfort. There is
no reason in the world why you should sit in an unventilated and unhealthy upholstered chair when you can buy
these artistic chairs at prices from $3.50 to $10.

We also manufacture a variety of other Rush and Willow Furniture, including Settees, Arm Chairs, Fancy
Chairs, Invalid’s Chairs, Tables, Picnic Baskets, Automobilist’s Bakets, and numerous other articles. Special bas-
kets of any style made toorder. No extra packing charges for shipping to outside points. Send for catalog.

W. YOUNGER, 666 Yonge St., Toronto.

New LYMAN Patent

Combination Rear Sight

MARK

Now accomplished
for Savage Rifle
Model 1899

Stony

Sportsmen’s Clothing
and Special Garments

In addition to the standard forms of sportsmen’s
clothing for field, and heavy weather, we conduct a
tailoring department, organized to carry out indi- No. 1A Price $3.00
vidual ideas in cloth, kharki, chamois, leather and
fleece lined garments.

Our catalog H supplies full description, illus- Send for ‘atalog of Sights and
tration and prices of standard outing garments for
every purpose, boots, shoes and moccasins of every > r Waa] > 1 \ nap
Poe acateaeteoraes. Bow Facing Rowing Gear

Abercrombie & Fitch Company THE
57 READE ST., NEW YORK Lyman Gun Sight Corporation
a Manufacturers of complete outfits for Explorers,
ampers, Prospectors, Hunters. Guns, Ammuni-
Baer oberon MIDDLEFIELD, CONN., U.S. A

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4 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

Don’t be selfish. If you
have smoked the

Van Horne

10c. Cigar

and like it tell your friends

about it. It is for sale

wherever Good Cigars are

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sold and smoked by the

best judges of cigars.

Harris, Harkness & Co., Makers, Montreal

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LAKE’ BAYS

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“HIGHLANDS oF ONTARIO”

Good speckled trout fishing. Magnificent Scenery.
Perfect Immunity from Hay Fever. Lovely Lake
and River Water trips. Good Hotel accommodation.

Write for free booklet telling you all about it toany of the
following addresses:—

G.W.Vaux, 917 Merchants Loan & Trust Building, Chicago, I11.

F. P. Dwyer, 290 Broadway, New York.

T. H. Hanley, 360 Washington St.. Boston, Mass.

W. Robinson, 506 Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa.

W. EK. DAVIS, (Sy ids IO,
“i 3 Passenger Traffic Manager, General Passengei & Ticket Agent,
——s Montreal. Montreal.

52 POUNDS OF SALMON TROUT
CAUGHT WITH 8-OUNCE STEEL ROD

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 5

STAG BRAND ALLCOG K’S STAG BRAND

FISHING TACKLE

(Established 1800)

Our
Tackle
has been
before
the
world
for over
100 years
and
stood the

test.

Fishermen can always rely upon Allcock’s Stag Brand Goods. They never fail.

The Allcock, Laight & Westwood Co., Limited

78 BAY STREET, TORONTO REDDITCH, ENGLAND

A SATISFACTORY

DAY'S FISHING IS

ASSURED THE
USER OF A

Carlton
Automatic
Reel.

Every owner of
these reels praises
chem highly. Cana-
lian anglers who
lave not seen the
Carlton Reel should
ask their dealer to
show them one. If
your dealer does not
handle them, you
will confer a favor
by advising us of the

2 fact.

Our line consists ot reels adapted to every class of
fishing, from the automatic to the light weight trout
reel.

The Carlton Automatic Reel not only increases
Send for Catalogue. aoe sport, but assures the catch after it is once

ooked. It is almost hnman.

The9g Maippr is an innovation in reel construc-
tion, the winding spool turning nine times to one
revolution of the handle ; and with our patent exten-
sion handle, a greatly increased leverage is obtained

The when required.
° Our illustrated catalogue ‘‘R. & G.”’ tells all about
these reels as well as others of our manufacture. It

il i i r is free for the asking if you mention this magazine.
an Ete Canoe Co., The CARLTON MFG. CO.,

Peterborough, Ontario. Exchange St., - Rochester, N.Y.

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6 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

MARINE MOTORS

You want to learn about the Perfection if you are interest-
ed in getting a GOOD motor for your boat. You certainly
cannot overlook the distinction between the Per-

fection and others; we give you high quality
workmanship at ordinary prices.

For real service, as well as for looks, finish
is and power the Perfection beats any motor
ever sold at anywhere near its price—can't be
beat at any price.
Pp Simple, speedy, reliable and reversible.

Nocranking. Price is for enyine complete
with full boat equipment—NOT BARE. Fully guaranteed and guaranty
backed by one of the largest plants in the business. Send for handsome
catalog of all sizes.

The Caille Perfection Motor Co.

1322 SECOND AVENUE, DETROIT, MICH.

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The Shooting Season

WILL SOON BE HERE

Our assortment of fire arms is one of the largest in Canada and comprises all kinds
of both large and small guns. Complete stock of

Winchester, Marlin, Savage and Stevens Rifles

Double and Single Guns of various makes including W. W. Greener, W.C. Scott &
Son, Chas. Osborne, Cogswell & Harriston and Clabrough and Johnstone.
; Well assorted stock of Ammunition, Coats, Caps, Boots, Shoe Packs, Axes, Knives,
Compasses or anything the hunter and sportsman may require. Write our Sporting
Goods department for information.

RICE LEWIS & SON Limited.

TORONTO.

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 7

Be Wise in Your Selection :
Always look for the H. & R. trade-mark, for |g

» a good revolver is your friend for life and on which
* your life may depend at some crucial time.

The man who knows will select an H. & R.
for obvious reasons. “There could be nothing better
than the best.

The H. & R. Revolver has no superior in point of con-
struction, simplicity of action, or in finish. It costs a trifle less
than some other revolvers, but that is a point in your favor, one
of the many reasons why the H. & R. is the most popular fire-
4 arm made to-day.

ATV TVR

: They are made in many styles and sizes as described in our beautifully illus-
~# trated catalog, among which we would especially recommend our H. & R.
, AUTOMATIC DOUBLE ACTION, 32 calibre, 6-shot, or 38 calibre,

tie” fie
YOUR FRIEN 5-shot, 34-inch barrel, finest nickel finish, $6.00; the H. & R. HAMMER-

LESS, $7.00.

FOR L FE Sold by all first-class dealers. Rather than accept a substitute, order ‘rom us direct.
Look for sur name on barrel and the little target trade-mark on the handle.

Send for Illustrated Cataiog

ee | ) y; tra Wp oy HARRINGTON & RICHARDSON ARMS CO.
&| 2) REVOLVERS" se

: a S ‘* “WORCESTER, MASS.

NOBEL’S Power Canoes

Hunters’ Outfits

BALTISTITE and EMPIRE Speed Boats

Bron BENG raat mnie longre Gas »-« Gasoline Engines

In both Canada and the United States BALLIS-
TITE and EMPIRE Powders are the choice of dis-

iminating shooters as evidenced by tl vonderful . M © E .
ERnoao aathe Ie dis tonnanionte. aay Gasoline arine ngines

BALLISTITE won the Grand American Handi-

cap, while the high average for nearly all the events

was captured by Empire Shooters. Motor Boat Supplies

At the Dominion Trap Shooters Association
Tournament held in Toronto August 7th, 8th and

gth. EMPIRE won first and third high average on D B °
the third day. ry atteries

GIVE EMPIRE A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED
If your dealer won't supply you write us efe

poe J. 8 GOREN. & CO.

BRANCH OFFICES:
Toronto, Ont. Winnipeg, Man. Victoria, B. C. GALT, ONT.

Hannilton, Ont. Vancouver, B. C. Kenora, Ont.

8 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

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Shooting J ackets

$3.00, £$4.50 and { $6.00.

Guaranteed all wool, seamless, elas-
tic, close fitting, but not binding, com-

: fortable and convenient. Designed es-
pecially for duck shooters, trap shooters,
etc., but suitable for all outdoor purposes.

. Must be seen to be appreciated. Made

only in three colors—Dead Grass, Oxford
Made of Oak, antique finish. Height 5 ft. ro in. Gray, and Scarlet.
Width 28 in., depth 12 in.

Send us y dd f : 523 Broad
gnclof our gan catalogs, Aa Ces tele KPC Men New york

First-Class Fishing Tackle

CAPARLOW Rene @n i Ltd.

ESTABLISHED OVER 60 YEARS

Special Double Hooks

for Canadian Waters as

Salmon) Flies

Best Patterns supplied by us to the

leading Canadian Salmon
Best Hooks : :
Anglers. Special or
local patterns accurately

Unequalled in

‘ copied.
Dressing

Farlow’s Perfect Greenheart Salmon Rods, Cork Handle, Two Tops and top case. Beautifully finished. Per-
fect in balance and action. Light and pleasant to fish with. 14 ft., weight about 23 oz., price $13.50. 15 ft., weight
about 26 oz.,price $16.00. Farlow’s “Perfect” Trout Rods, 9 ft. to 11 ft., $11.00. Patent Lever Salmon Reels — over
gooo in use. Farlow’s ‘‘Holdfast Waterproof Silk Lines. Full illustrated catalog post free to any address.

10 Charles Street, St. James Square, and 191 Strand
LONDON, ENGLAND

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

DUPONT SMOKELESS

IN THE LEAD AS USUAL

The Western Handicap

At Denver, Colorado, Aug. 23rd

WON BY
iD. (GRALAM, OF TLONGILAKE, Iii INOS
WITH THE SCORE OF

99 OUT OF 100 FROM THE 19 YARDS MARK

THE LONG RUN OF THE TOURNAMENT 154 STRAIGHT

MADE BY
F. H. HOWLAND, ST. JOSEPH, MO.

BOTH THESE MEN USED DUPONT

The Powder That Makes and Breaks Records

E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co.

Established 1802. Wilmington, Del.

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

SPRINGFIELD
MOTOMETER

MODELS FOR 1908

Now Offered With Valuable New Features :

A NEW DIAL which is perfectly easy to read from the back seat of the tonneau. Large, clear jet-black figures
fired onto milk white enamel, making it the easiest of all dials to read.

A MAXIMUM HAND which is strong and perfect in its operation. Travels up the scale with the indicating poin-
ter but remains at the highest speed reached until released by touching a button. Can be instantly made in-
operative at will of user. ’ x

NEW OIL TEMPERED SPRING STEEL REINFORCE at each end of the flexible shaft tube. Prevents short bends
and compels the easy curve necessary to long life. Far superior to any makeshift of gears at the wheel end,

A NON-CLOGGING PINION which sacrifices none of t he practical features of the old. Cannot pack with mud.
Mechanically correct.

These can be applied to any Springfield Motometer now 1n use,

PRICES ~ 5O Mile Model, $45.00. 60 Mile Model $50.00.
° Either model with Maximum Hand, $5 extra.

The R. H. SMITH MFG. CO.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

Established 1865. Incorporated 1883

SE LT I

Seow oe

A Collapsible

MINNOW
TRAP

WILL BE GIVEN FREE ——
TO ANYONE SENDING

pene
If you desire to make a reputation
7 SUBSCRIPTIONS TO as an expert cocktail mixer, buy the

“Club”’ brand, follow directions, and
your friends will wonder where you
gained the art. Many a cocktail you
have drunk and complimented your
host for his art of mixing—the truth

ROD & GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS
; IN CANADA.

This Trap is a proven success—made of

celluloid, unbreakable, and invisible in = Sos
66 I
water. Weight less than 30 0z., complete 1S TE hee een :

; | merely required a little ice to cool it.
with metal case. erie
; You can do it just as well.

G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors

29 Broapway, NEW YORK, N. Y.
MARTFORD, CONN. Lonpon §

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. ich

“Sulcan arker”
pores aay MADE IN CANADA. Established 1898

‘or 7 ( SPARKING. BATTERIES
“Bulcan | YACHT LIGHTING and
| SPARKING SYSTEMS
Are standard equipment on all high

grade Automobiles and Motor Boats

Over 300 Outfits in use in Canada.

GUARANTEED FOR TWO YEARS
The CROFTAN STORAGE BATTERY CO. toténvo: Sknaos

Montreal and East, John Forman. Winnipeg, Cooper Engine Co.
Vancouver, Vancouver Shipyard, Ltd.

No. 305 Six Volt 70 Ampere

> SSB B6B3BBSSSB VSBSVSVsessesestB sseseseses

You Are Going Hunting!

Duck shooting perhaps. Then
don’t be decoyed by a false boat.

Marine Engines
BA tC LO

I have for quick sale two brand new
engines—first-class make—one five horse
power, four cycle, and one three horse
power, double cylinder. Apply

A. CONNOR

NICHOLLS BROS.
LAKE STREET = TORONTO

OUR
**Get There” and ‘‘Bustle’’

Duck Boats

are true as steel

A King Air Rifle

Will be given FREE to anyone sending
3 SUBSCRIPTIONS to

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA

The King Air Rifle is a winner. Every
boy w ho is anxious to become proficient
in shooting should take adv antage of
this opportunity to own one. No diffi-
culty in securing the 3 subscriptions.
Send for sample copy to show prospec-
tive subscribers. DOIT NOW.

! In fact they are steel, puncture proof,
can’t sink, can’t leak, noiseless, light, easy

to portage, easy to row. Pric -e only $27.00

° and $38.00 respectively. Exactly what

*‘you” want? Ofcourse they are.

Catalogue and testimonials on request.

N. R. THOMPSON
BRANTFORD, ONT.
Our Specialty: Made to Order Launches.

(ic age ss er tet SR AR eR

SVSESSSSSSSISSSSStESTVTsseseseese

CROW ost
Over Decoys
The most fascinating sport of the age. We make

the decoys and calls. Our calls are true to life and
easily used. Write
!

Chas. H. Perdew Sr., & Co.

LOCK BOX 461, HENRY, ILLS.

12 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA

THE GUN SUPREy =

“L’?TIDEAL”

MADE BY THE MANUFACTURE FRANCAISE
D’ARMES De ST. ETIENNE, FRANCE

For Black or Smokeless Powders

w ow
Quadruple
Bolt Automatic
Action Ejector

Canadian Distributors

THE MERCHANTS AWNING CO., Limited

GENERAL SPORTS OUTFITTERS
154 NOTRE DAME ST. W. 229 NOTRE DAME ST., E.

MONTREAL.

Nothing Useless Put In
Nothing Useful Left Out

This accounts for our success.
Buffalo Marine Motors are designed and
built to give satisfaction azd do it.

Write for 1907 catalogue and get

to new sizes and styles.
er as posted as to Ss styles
¢
r)
¢
¢
é
;
¢
4’
9

Our New Slow Speed Engine fills a long felt want.

BUFFALO GASOLINE MOTOR CO.

1218-30 Niagara St.
BUFFALO, N. Y.

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR

SPORTS IN CANADA. . 13

_ 12 Gauge, Model /9
Repeating Shotgun

GradeC

produced.

No repeating shotgun
made equals this Marvin
gun in balance, finish and
wearing and shooting
strength. Its action is
simple and sure. The

‘ Mari solid top and
closed-in breech (exclusive features) keep out all
twigs, snow, water, sand, etc., which so often
hamper repeating shotguns.

Marlin Shotgun barrels are made of ‘‘ Special
Smokeless Steel’’ and will handle any 12 gauge
load of black or smokeless powder produced. They
are bored to pattern over 325 No. 8 shot in a
30 inch circle at 40 yards. The breech block and
-all MZar/in, working parts are cut from drop forged
steel blocks and fit so nicely in the assembled gun

that the six shots (one in chamber and five in
magazine) can be fired in four seconds.

Perhaps the best and certainly the most exclusive
flartin feature is the ZZer/s automatic recoil
safety lock. This lock prevents, absolutely, the
breech being opened as explosion takes place in
rapid firing, and holds the breech closed until after
the explosion in case of ‘‘hang-fire.”’

We recommend any one of the many styles of
Marlin Model 19 shotguns for any sort of bird
shooting under the sun. For squirrels, rabbits,
foxes, ’coons, etc., it is unsurpassed and has even
found favor among deer hunters, though we advise
for the use of buck shot a special cylinder bored
barrel.

There is much more about this beautiful shotgun
that you will be interested to know.

Send three stamps for our new catalog.

the Marlin Firearms Co., 67 Willow Street, New Haven, Conn.

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‘SOVEREIGN’

Made from genuine Chrome Tanned German
Every pair guaranteed genuine Oak Tanned

Full Bellows Tongue to top.
The most Waterproof Boot made and will not

Made in Tan or Black, specially to your order.
1-2 Pint Can Waterproof Dressing with every

Express fully paid anywhere in the Dominion.
None genuine unless stamped ‘‘Sovereign.”
Kindly remit cash with order.

The Laidlaw Watson Shoe Co.

THE

THE SPORTSMAN’S AND
PROSPECTOR'S FAVORITE

Calf Skins and Waterproofed.

Soles, Waterproofed.

harden when not in use.

pair.

9 INCHES HIGH - - $8.00
12 « “ 22s. 9100
15 be Ey - - $10.00

Ltd
AYLMER (WEST) ONT.

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

HUNTING TRIPS

DEER, MOOSE, BEAR

PARTRIDGE, DUCK

The Canadian Northern Ontario now operates a fast service between Toronto and
Parry Sound giving quick access to the Muskoka Lakes and that country of innumerable
waterways between the lakes and Georgian Bay.

For the hunting season a service will be operated through to the Magnetewan River, a
country hitherto almost inaccessible. More Deer come out of this region than from the
whole of the rest of Ontario and small game in abundance.

Reduced rates to all points.

Write C. PRICK GREEN, Passenger Agent, Toronto, for full particulars and copy of
‘Big Game Hunting,” also maps of the new district.

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA, 15

AGENTS WANTED

: FOR

Perfection Marine Motors

A motor that has proven by
test to be superior to any ever
offered. We want a reliable
agent for the Maritime Prov-
inces, Quebec, Eastern and
Western Ontario, Manitoba,
and British Columbia. For full
particulars write to

The Caille Perfection Motor Co.

1302 Second Avenue
Detroit - Mich.

This motor is being regularly
advertised in this magazine.
We will publish name of
agents we appoint in future
advertisements.

arker

Tom Graham, with a score of 99 out of 100,
shooting THE PARKER GUN from the 19
yard mark, won the Western Handicap at
Denver, Aug. 21, 1907, and the second amateur
average for the two days shooting at Denver
was won by Mr. H. R. Bonser, with THE

ANOTHER INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION HANDICAP

Canoe for Sale

“Sixteen foot, cedar, canvas covered
—specially suitable for cruising and
hunting purposes. Absolutely new.
Color, green. PRICE $44.00.

D. PIKE CO.

123 King St., East - TORONTO, ONT.

li Pays to Learn
TAXIDERMY

‘I can teach you by mail with perfect success the
profitable and fascinating art of mounting birds, game,
@ and fish by my

IMPROVED MODELING PROCESS

also how to model flowers, fruits and grasses for dis-
play accessories. No poisons, no odors. Anyone of
average intelligence can learn to make money at this
— profession, mounting trophies for sportsmen or for
themselves. Competent Taxidermists get from $5.00
to $100.00 each for mounting and earn $3000.00 to
$5000.00 yearly. I was formerly Chief Taxidermist
of American Museum of Natural History, New York,
and now Taxidermist at Stanford University, Palo
Alto. Write now for free booklet, and Special Offer.

~ PROFESSOR JOHN ROWLEY, Rowley College of Taxidermy and Modeling
514 EVERETT AVE... PALO ALTO, CAL.

WON WITH THE

PARKER GUN,—score of 387 out of 400. ‘The Southern, Eastern and Western | i

. GUN,—scor: 387 400. ‘ , Eas é : 1andicaps have all been
won by PHI PARKER GUN, and the greatest event of the season so far, the peUreEeiou ehnaipion.
ship of the United States was won by THE PARKER GUN, and second placein this same great

event was won by THE PARKER GUN.

N. Y. Salesrooms
32 Warren Street

When writing advertisers

SEND FOR CATALOG.

PARKER BROS.

40 Cherry St., Meriden, Conn.

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OP PPPS

THE CHAMPAGNE OF WATERS

For The Home,
The Club and

RETHESDA The Cafe

AMERICA’S Greatest Bequest to Mankind

CED EID
Write for Booklet. On Sale Everywhere
JOHN TREVASKIS in Splits, Pints, Quarts and
Buttale, Nave Uos. Ae Half Gals. (Still)

“THEY bia THE ROUND TRIP”
HILDRETH
Marine Motors

Eliminate Your Troubles When
You Make Your Purchase.

What’s the use of going if
you can’t get back ?

Buy a HILDRETH, and tow your friends back.

me Hildreth Manufacturing Co.

7 WALL ST., LANSING MICH., U. S. A.

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 17

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VICHY-CHARMEIL jeune”

Cures Gout, Dyspepsia, Liver and
NATURAL Stomach Troubles. ; eee

szlmported only in Bottles. Sealed and
Bottled under the authority of the
French Government at the VICHY-

ALKALINE CHARMEIL Springs.
Approved by the Academy of Medi-
cine.
WATER Official analysis on label. None gen-

uine without.

REPRESENTATIVE VICHY-GHARMEIL
Toronto, Ont. Sold at all Stores, Hotels and Restaurants.

£02083 0860008868088808808SOSHSSHO1SPSHOSOGZEOA8ECE

PALMER MOTORS

25 THOUSAND RUNNING
25 STYLES AND SIZES
25 MOTORS PER DAY

1 1-2 to 25 Horsepower: One, Two and Four Cylinder; Two or Three Port: Jump or Snap
Spark Ignition; Two or Four Cycle. Send for New 1907 Catalog (R & G)

©e_ PALMER BROTHERS
COS COBB, CONN.

NEW YORK,
242 Fourth Avenue

PHILADELPHIA,
The Bourse

BOSTON,
85 Union Street

PORTLAND, ME.,
48 Portland Pier

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Any Battery is Good

WHEN NEW

But how long do the majority of Dry Batteries last
when put on heavy ignition work ? Not long. They
are not made to stand it.

The Red Seal Dry Battery is especially made for
ignition work and gives the utmost satisfaction
wherever used. |

Long life and high efficiency are the character-
istics of this battery and you will make no mistake
in specifying Red Seals when in the market for dry
cells.

Elite Battery Battery Fan Motor
Ammeter For tent or camp use.
Don’t throw away Three cells of Mesco Dry

your batteries until Battery will give ita speed
you have tested them. of ll meV OUCue Hee
A whole set is often TATU. ubey,) 1S: Lure
thrown awav when nished to run as a small
one cell onlv is defec- motor. Runs ata cost of
tive. The Elite Am- about three-fourths of a
<>, ELITE Marageerae te : CN yee arree 1. Te
Cry pry meter registers accur- cent per nour, |, esco
ately to 30 amperes. Dry Batteries 15c¢ each
Comes in neat leather extra.

case, PRICE $2.00. Practical and substantial.

For Camp, Auto or Boat EUREKA SEARCHLIGHT,
Replaces the oil lamp for
above uses. Each battery =
will illuminate the camp
several thousand times. Ab-
solutely safe, substantially
constructed, convenient size.
Case is of nickel plated metal

Suis bovering veadn de
SEND FOR CATALOG L-22
Entitled SOMETHING ELECTRICAL FOR EVERYBODY. A postal brings it

SIZE 4X9 INCHES

MANHATTAN ELECTRICAL SUPPLY C°

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NEW YORK CHICAGO FACTORIES
17 Park Place 188 Fifth Ave. Jersey City, N. J.
14 Murray St. Ravenna, Ohio
get PPP PPP ELPLPLEIPLP LPP DY

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

LEFEVER
“OPTIMUS”
— $400

LEFEVER SHOT GUN LUXURY

4] We do not compete, and never have, with
machine made shot guns which are machined out
in large quantities and sold at low prices and big
discounts. Nor do we care for the trade that
panders to low price. ‘| For nearly half a century
Lefever Shot Guns have catered only to the crack
marksman and the genuine sportsman who realize
that shooting is a luxury and that without a luxuri-
ous shot gun it is a dull business. By luxury we
mean not only beautiful design and handsome
finish, but a gun that is a real luxury to use. { In
this limited space we cannot prove to you that no
foreign or American gunsmith has ever built a shot

gun that ranks with the present Lefever Hammer-
less makes, but if you will read our catalogue and
then examine a few Lefevers at any store, you will
agree that the above statement, though seemingly
strong, isaltogether true. Even though you are not
an expert, the beauty and the skill and the infinite
simplicity of Lefever construction will force you
to admit the truth of the above claim. No expert
will deny it. ‘| Send for our catalogue before you
forget to (it is free), and remember this: Every
Lefever is a thoroughbred. Lefever prices range
from $25.00 to $400.00. LEFEVER ARMS CO.,
20 MALTBIE ST., SYRACUSE, N. Y.

LEFEVER HAMMERLESS SHOT GUNS

: ' N; x
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ntti |

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1500 feet above sea level. Pure and Exhilarating air.
Splendid fishing—bass—speckled trout—salmon trout.
Unexcelled for canoeing and camping. Hundreds of
beautiful canoe trips. ;

Write to any of the following addresses for handsome
publication telling you all about it:-—

G. W. Vaux 9'7 Merchants Loan and Trust Building
Chicago, Ill. F. P. Dwyer, 290 Broadway, New York. T.
H. Hanley, 360 Washington St., Boston, Mass., W. Robin-
son, 506 Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa.

W. EF. DAVIS, G.T,. BELL,
Passenger Traflic Manager, General Passenger & Ticket Agent,
Montreal. Montreal.

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20 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

ait U0
"Y

Film Development with the

Kodak Tank

not only means an end to dark-room bother but it means _ bet-
ter results than can be obtained in the old way. The time and

temperature are the only factors to watch.

The Experience is in the Tank

Kodak Film Tanks are made in sizes suitable for all Kodak and Brownie

Films. At all Kodak Dealers, $3.00 to $7.50.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Kodak Booklet Free at
the dealers or by mail TORONTO, CANADA.

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

Lee and Sargent

MONTREAL

Handle all Kodak Goods

AS"WELL AS THE

Leading Plate Cameras

HOW ABOUT A KODAK THIS SUMMER ?

Think of the story it will tell next winter,
of people met, places visited, good times
enjoyed, the memories it will stir in
future years, and we will ‘“‘gamble” that
ina few years money will not buy your
album of snapshots.

OR PERHAPS YOU HAVE A KODAK?

If so, have you ever been dissatisfied with
your results or careless handling of your
films? Send us your next lot to develope,
print or enlarge from and we will show
you what careful attention and ‘“‘knowing
how” will do inthe way of artistic results.

ENLARGING IS A SPECIALTY OF OURS!

Have you ever had one done in sepia?
Try one and see how artistic they are.
Amongst your photos or films, are’ many
well worth enlarging or copying and
coloring and a colored enlargement or
print artistically framed makes a perfect
gift.

If you want any special little job done,
send it tousand same wili receive per-
sonal attention.

Write us for any information. .

Lee and Sargent

675 St. Catherine St. West
MONTREAL.

THE

“WELLINGTON’

PHOTOGRAPHIC

Plates, Papers ? Films

MADE IN ENGLAND

Are known throughout the Do minion as

THE BEST OBTAINABLE

If your dealer cannot supply you then
mail a card for full particulars.

GD ED 6 YD EHV

The Canadian Representatives

WARD & CO.

13 St. John St, - MONTREAL.

DRY
CELLS

For your Ignition
i
AUTOM OBILE.
MOTOR BOAT
PS ge ean a :
ue laronteed Amperage: mi GAS ENGINE

p
Ruy uperative Powers.® yse
4 Own, when not in

Day: MANUracTURED BY «ngui)
ban eta | Vanufactl"d
CANADA /

‘| The kind the lar-
gest Telephone
Company in Can-
ada is using to-day
because they give
the long est service

Ask your dealer for them, or

THE BERLIN ELECTRICAL MFG. CO., LIMITED

474 KING ST., WEST

TORONTO, - ONT.

errr cere TE Se

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22 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

Tents, Camping Goods, Marine Supplies
——— Brass Boat Fittings, Flags— ______

When in MONTREAL visit us.

SONNE’S MARINE STORES

327 ST. JAMES ST

We have in stock a special line of canoes for hunting, prospecting and sur-
veying, length 17 ft. and 17-6, capacity 1500 Ibs. Our catalog, which we will
mail on request, will tell you all about them.

Now is the time to place your order for next season.

J. H. ROSS GANOE GoO., ORILLIA.

SUPERIOR

WORKMANSHIP
MATERIAL
) SOT YOESE

Are three of the leading features of every
LAKEFIELD CANOE. If you are
contemplating buying a Canoe next season, be-
fore doing so find out all about our models, and
we feel satisfied we can PLEASE youin EVERY
DETAIL and also as to PRICE.

SEND FOR CATALOGUE.

Lakefield Canoe Building
& Manufacturing Co., cimitea

LAKEFIELD, ONTARIO

Fittle Oi
~ GASOLINE MOTORS -
RELIABLE —- REVERSIBLE -TWO CYCLE
CIGHT, SIMPLE AND EASY TO OPERATE. ONLY THREE
MOVING PARTS. MAIN BEARINGS BABBITTED. MATERIAL
AND_WORKMANSHIP OF THE HIGHEST GRADE AND GUARANTEED

JUMP SPARK IGNITION.
BUILT IN MULTI-CYLINDER TYPES

Send to-day for Circular “N” THREE PORT TYPE ‘TWO PORT TYPE §
UNITED MANUFACTURING CO. NOL As 2% we ee Ik -2 HP. — $48
3. 3 P. H.P.
DETROIT, MICH. NO.5.5-8 HP 115 6 HP. (double cylinder) 165
\71-175 WEST WOODBRIDGE ST. ABOVE PRICES ARE FOR COMPLETE OUTFITS.

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 23

FOR

Hunters and Sportsmen

There is nothing conductive to so much
comfort as one of our hand knitted jackets.
They are made to button up around the
throat or be left open—a point only found
in our goods—They have four strong pock-
ets, they fit snug but not too tight.

3 Shades of Heathers - $6.00
3 Shades of Greys - $5.00

Can be made in any color to order, get our
catalogue just out.

IF YOU WANT COMFORT

If you want your outer clothes to
fit well, if you want economy, wear

wy REGISTERED & PATENTED

Combination Suits

They are elastic ribbed, they are made
to wear, they are the acme of perfec-
tion in underwear.

Write for our New Catalogue

The Knit-to-Fit Mfg. Co.
Retail Branch and Mail Order Dep't
597 ST. CATHERINE ST. W EST

MONTREAL

FACTORY: 322 Papineau Ave.

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24 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

Nee 02 B90 O29 e Bee One Be2 OO 92 O02 o> O's O99 Oe eo G19 O29 Oe Bes Ooo Oo Oe Ooo Gor SSeS Gee Por Ooo Gor Gor GreGe BB Bo Boo Or B+ + Oe B= Be O3 @*

King Air Rifles

Fasten this name in your mind—they are the best Air Riflesin the
world. We would not be so enthusiastic over them were we not
thoroughly convinced of their merits.

Other ‘Air Rifles are made to imitate the ‘ ‘King”’ but it is a mis-
take to suppose that all Air Rifles are alike. ‘‘King” Air Rifles are in
a class by themselves. Their splendid finish, neat model and accuracy in shooting place them away above other
makes and they are built so strong they save the jobber and dealer th2 expense of taking back ‘‘defective’’ guns.

Furthermore dealers build up a big trade and make a good profit selling King Air Rifles. Why not get in the
King row and share in these profits. Glad to send you our advertising circulars.

THE MARKHAM AIR RIFLE CO: Plymouth, Mich., U. Ss i The largest Air Rifle

factory a the world.

Sore:

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The
Adams

Catalog

for

OF,

now ready

TL +835, Form ne it

It is different from
the others. So 1s

the Adams Engine

The Adams Launch and Engine Mfg. Co. FENETANG

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ROD,AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 25

MANUFACTURERS
BV
ROYAL APPOINTMENT

HARDY BROS.

THE GREAT PRACTICAL ENGLISH FISHING
ROD, REEL AND TACKLE MAKERS
produce the best in the world.

If you want the greatest
satisfaction you must have

A “HARDY” Cane Built Rod
A “HARDY” Perfect Reel and Tackle

*# THE ENGLISH FIELD SAyYs: ‘‘It is to Messrs
Hardy of Alnwick we owe our supremacy as rod
makers.

Hardy Bros. International Tourna-
ment, Crystal Palace, won 16 cham-
pionships.

Hardy Bros. have been awarded
forty-one Gold and other awards.

42 We publish the finest and most extensive
Catalogue which is sent free to any maicEenEs

HARDY "BROS.

ALNWICK, "ENGLAN D

RLES LANGAs
wh TO H. M. THE KING. 7 .
<) oS

Esablished

t1826 Established

1826

“THE ART OF SHOOTING” Seventh and _ Revised
Popular Edition, 2/6; Postage Gd extra.

ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST FREE

1], PANTON STREET, HAYMARKET, LONDON, S. W.

(Opposite The Comedy Theatre.)

Write the ‘‘Sonne” Awning, Tent and Tarpaulin
Co., Montreal, or us direct for Catalog A.

THE 20 CENTURY

GUN OIL

2 is the only perfect
own One ' gun oil you_can

buy. Cleans out the barrels. Espe-
cially good when smokeless powder
is used. Oils the mechanisms,
polishes the stock, and positively
prevents rust on the metal im any
climate and any kind of weather.
Use before and‘after shooting.

G. W. COLE Company
55 New St. New York

WE MAKE BOATS that are

Best for Hunters, Best for Fishermen, Steady to Shoot or Cast
from. Safe for Wife or Children, will not Puncture, cannot
sink. Will outlast Steel or Wood, and carry more load, Made
of best canvas, tempered steel frame, with flat bottom. Folds
ccmpactly for carrying by hand. Checks as baggage. Every
one Guaranteed. Safe, Durable and Satisfactory.

Life Saving Folding Canvas Boat Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.

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26 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

COMPLETE LAUNCHES AND ENGINES

HAMILTON MOTOR WORKS, Ltd. _ Hamilton, Ont: .

IF YOU WANT A

Canoe, Skiff or Launch

AND WANT THE BEST

Write to the—

Pete Canoe Co.

PETERBOROUGH, ONT-

se te ES ee a aN RS as AE A a a ta ld Be Ee RE wt
ES SE A SE PS a RR ER I a

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 27

Hotel Touraine
Buffalo. New York

GE Shavin’

us &

IMENNEN’S|

BORATED TALCUM

TOILET POWDER

and insist that your barber
use it also. It is Antiseptic,
and willprevent any of the
skin diseases often contrac-
ted. s

A positive relief for Sunburn,
~ PrickleyHeat,Chafing, and all
afflictions of the skin. Re-
Re ‘moves all odor of perspiration
Get Mennen’s—the original put up in non-
refillable boxes—the “‘box that lox’? Sold
everywhere or mailed for 25c. Sample free.
Try Mennen’s Violet (Borated) Talcum

GERHARD MENNENCO. - Newark, N.J.

Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act,
June 30th, rgo6. SerialiNo. 1542.

mit

Deleware Avenue at Chippewa St.
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF
250 Rooms with Bath and Long Distance Telephone.
EUROPEAN PLAN

$1.50 per Day

up with Bath connections. Excellent Music and
Grill Room.
C.N. OWEN, PROPRIETOR.

SEND FOR BOOKLET.

The 1907 edition of
Marbie’s “"<° Catalog

Free
contains an article by Mr. Marble entitled:

“HOW TO USE A COMPASS”

Compasses of all kinds have been used by Mr. Marble. First in his boyhood
days as a trapper and hunter ; later in his business as timber estimator and sur-
veyor. His 25 years of experience ‘‘in the silent places’”’ previous to engaging in
the manufacturing business has euabled him to write an exceedingly simple yet
comprehensive explanation of the various uses of acompass. He also tells the
styles tc buy for different uses and how to know a good compass from a poor one

The woods life of Mr. Marble made it possible for him to conceive and invent
the accessories shown here and 33 others.

Our catalog shows 90 ‘‘extra quality’ Specialties for Sportsmen. Sold by deal-
ers ordirect, prepaid. Money back if not satisfied.

Safety Pocket Axe No. 2.—Nickel plated steel and hard rubber handle, $2.50.

Ideal Hunting Knife No. 42.—5 inch blade, $2.75, 6 inch, $3.00 ; with sheath.

Safety Hunting Knife—4% in. blade, $3.00 ; 5 in. $3.50, 5 in. heavy, $4.00.

Waterproof Matchbox—size of 10 gauge shell, soc.

Improved Front Sight—1-16, 3-32 or 1-8 inch beads, Ivory or Gold, $1.00.

Reversible Front Sight—Same size beads as Improved, $1.50.

Jointed Rifle Rod—Brass sections with steel joints. Cannot break, $1.00.

Rifle Cleaner—Brass gauge washers on spirally bent, spring steel wire, 5oc.

Flexible Rear Sight—Always in position, unless locked down. The lower sleeve

locks the elevating sleeve and holds disc stem rigid, $3.00,

Standard Front Sight—Beads same size and colors as_ Improved, $1.00.

Handy Compass—Fastens to coat. Always in sight, jewelled needle, $1.25.

Marble Safety Axe Co., 101-129 Delta Ave., - Gladstone, Mich.

=
aapaerts Sars

s in Canada.

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28 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

The Chestnut Sponson Canoe

is the only safe canoe for ladies and children. Will not
sink if filled with water, and three people sitting on the
gunwale will not upset it.

Eliminates all danger from canoeing. Can be
used with either oars or paddles. Like all

Chestnut Canvas Canoes
THEY NEVER VLEAK 1

R. CHESTNUT & SONS

FREDERICTON, N. B., CANADA.

Send for free catalog showing paddling canoes, freight canoes
and motor canoes.

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 29

Prospective Purchasers of
Marine Motors

Will find it to their advantage
to investigate the celebrated

Lackawanna Ec
Valveless
Reversible
Motor

before deciding what motor they will instal in their boats. Our motors have gained
for themselves a reputation of being the MOST SIMPLE AND EASIEST OPERATED
motors on the market. Letus send you ONE OF OUR CATALOGUES which des-
cribes the various sizes of MARINE MOTORS we manufacture.

LACKAWANNA MF’G. CO.

NEWBURGH, N. Y.

SS) SS SS eo a oe

Palmer’s Moose Head Brand 8

PORTING BOOTS

HIS cut illustrates our celebrated Knee High Sporting Boot with
Sole and Heel, of flexible oil-tanned leather sewed on by hand.

This is our leading Sporting Boot and is used largely by big game
hunters. Is noiseless, waterproof and insures comfort on long tramps.

Bellows tongue to top and _ waterproof Also made without
sole. Isalso very popular with Miners, Surveyors, Prospectors, Fisher-
men, etc.

Teen eee Write for our new catalogue of Water-
and Women's proof Sporting Boots and Shoe Packs,

JOHN PALMER GO., Ltd.

= | * ; Fredericton, N. B.,

Canada.
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30 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

— —_

there is nothing
goes quite so well as
a bit of good fat
bacon. If you have
not been used to fat
bacon — try it — the
doctors say it is good
and after you have
tried it you will say
so too. Ask your grocer to get you

‘Star Brand’

English Breakfast

BACON

Made by
F. W. FEARMAN CO., Ltd.

Hamilton, Ont.

Fine Varnishes

and Colors
Ask for the Old and Reliable

MANUFACTURED BY

Sanderson Pearcy & Go.

LIMITED.

TORONTO.

All Fearman’s goods are Government
inspected.

FOR SALE BY ALI, DEALERS.

15 ft. GASOLINE LAUNCH COMPLETE 3150.00
Ié ft. 5 a me $200.00
18 ft. rf i $275.00

You don’t buy an experiment when you purchase one of these launches. In dependableness, simplicity of
operation, safety, comfort, graceful proportions, combined with their handsome finish and general constructional
superiority, they are without a peer among small gasoline launches.

Advise us of your requirements and we will be pleased to quote you. Catalogue upon request

McKEOUGH & TROTTER, Limited, Chatham, Ont.

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 31

The Goerz

Pernox Glasses

Goerz Pernox Glasses are especially
designed for Hunters, Naturalists, Students
of Animals in their Haunts, Yachtsmen,
and as a Night Glass for Nautical and As-
tronomical Observations.

Pernox Glasses enable one to see dis-
tinctly distant objects under the most
adverse weather conditions—in dim light,
during twilight and at night.

Pernox Glasses excel in amount of
light transmitted, evenness of illumin-
ation, diameter of field view, adjustibility
to different eyesights, rigidity of focusing
facilities.

Made in six times magnification and
a field of view of 40 degrees.

Write for our catalog which describ-
es fully our PERNOX, TRIEDER,
THEATRE and ARMY PRISM BIN-
OCULARA; also our Lenses, XL Sector
Shutter and other products.

C. P. Goerz American Optical Co.

New York
Chicago

52 E. Union Square -

1514 Heyworth Bldg. -

PACIFIC COAST AGENTS
TELGMANN & TORKA.

San Francisco,Cal.

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LS TS EA OF AF RR A 8

COMMONWEALTH HOTEL

Opposite State House, Boston, Mass.

Offers rooms with hot and cold water for $1.00 per
day and up; rooms with private bath for $1.50 per
day and up; suites of two rooms and bath for $3.00
per day andup. Weekly rates on rooms with hot
and cold water and shower baths, $6.00 to $9.00;
rooms with private baths, $9.00 to $12.00; suites of
two rooms and bath, $15.00 to $22.00.

ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF
Stone floors, nothing wood but the doors.

Equipped With Its Own Sanitary

Vacum Cleaning Plant
Long Distance Telephone in Every Room

STRICTLY A TEMPERANCE HOTEL
Send for Booklet. STORER F. CRANTS, Manager

GLOVER’S
IMPERIAL

EMEDIES.

The result of twenty-five years’ experience
in the treatment of

ST CL Do' GS:

FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS 18
. SPORTING GOODS IN CANADA

FREE BOOK ON
DISEASES AND HOW TO FEED
On application to

H. CLAY GLOVER, V.S., 118 W. 3st St., New York

Never-Lose Key Tag.

Only Key Tag which makes it easy
for the finder to return lost keys with-
out cost or inconvenience. Two parts
hinged togather. Name, address and
postage on inside. Finder simply
reverses aad drops in nearest mail

Unusually novel and practical.

ee OROP IN ANy
@° maAiIL BOX ORH>

POST OFFICE
POSTAGE & ADDRESS
INSIDE

a Se
AT D sept 18=

ff box. Avoids necessity of offering re-
if ward for return. German Silver
handsomely made, 25¢ postpaid.
Agents wanted.

C.E. LOCKE MFG. C0., 159,o¢e eer KENSETT, (OWA.

|| RUPTURED

Neat. Small Air Truss; most comfort-
able truss made. The Smalk Soft Air
Pads feel like little hands.

SOOTHING, COMFORTING, NEVER SLIP
Almost Certain Gure
LYON MEG. CO.

1385 YONGE STREET
S (Corner of Carlton St.)

TORONTO

32 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

TheLENOX HOTEL

IN BUFFALO

MODERN HIGH GRADE FIREPROOF
UNEXCELLED SERVICE THROUGHOUT

OUR OWN RAPID ELECTRIC CARRIAGES, EXCLUSIVELY FOR
PATRONS, operate continuously every few minutes from

Hotel through Business District and to all Dees and
Wharves for principal trains and steamers

EUROPEAN PLAN
Rates $1.50 per day and up.
George Duchscherer, - ~- Proprietor.

The “RAPID LOADER” |

Makes your double gun as fast as the Auto-
matic. Don’t waste valuable time loading;
our Loaders give you four shots in two sec-
onds easily. Loads right, left or both barrels at once.
Simple, reliable, inexpensive and satisfaction guaranteed.

Sold by leading dealers at $1.00 or prepaid to any address on |

receipt of price.
RAPID LOADER CO., Pontiac, Mich.

Sos
Make 'a’ Motor Boat of | ¢ MADE IN CANADA.

any Boat in 5 Minutes

Here’s a” little, 2 h. p.
marine motor (40 lbs.
complete) that you can at-
f, ‘ach to the stern post of
your boat in 5 minutes
| without any tools. Drives
jan 18 ft. row boat 7
miles per hour (runs 8
hours on one gallon gas-

4 oline.) Gan be > detached
| from boat just as quickly
and stored in box in
which it is carried. Simp-
ti lest motor made — does
4 not get out of order.

Uniform Hot Spark
MADE ESPECIALLY FOR

Auto & Gas Engine Work.

Manufactured by

CARBONS LIMITED,
73 Adelaide Street, W. 3 : Toronto.

White for catalog with full description and price.

Waterman Marine Motor Co.

1514 Fort St. West, Detroit, Mich. SSSISFSSSSTFSSSESSBES Le & we fo a

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Vol. 1X No. 5

ROD AND GUN

and Motor Sports in Canada

The contents of this magazine are copyrighted and must not be reprinted without permission.

Contents for October, 1907.

use
bo bo
6 (S36)

The Lord of the Silent Lakes. A. R. Horr

Song of the Dead Pines. Miss Mary E. Hickson

How Our Deer Hunt Became a Bear Hunt. E. R. La Fleche .

Observations from the Car Window. Charles Cameron

My First Deer Hunt: A Law Suit in Camp. J. E. Casson

My Fine Canadian Hunt. W. B. Gibson

By the Camp Fire. Miss F. E. Bowie

A Trip Into Goat Land. J. C. Morrison, D. D. S.

A Rough Hunt in By-Gone Days. Avery Moorehouse

Hunting in the Parry Sound District. Almon Almas

Ne Sunday Outing. Ts -J.-R.

How I Caught Buck Fever.

The High Power Rifle and Fatalities in the Woods. John
Arthur Hope

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a tw WS

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CS — =T Cr

Hunting the Wolf Dens:

Misner bate

How I Have Made a Success of Deer H .. 469
Alpine Club Notes. The Secretary 476
Our Vanishing Deer. Dr. V. A. Hart ibe th Na oh nS
Our Vanishing Deer. E. S. Shrapnel, A. R. G@ A. 483
Netting Fish in Nova Scotian Waters

A Novel Bear Hunt. William Carrell Agee oe UES
Sport in British Columbia asa 489
Automobiles and Automobiling . 491
Sports Afloat. L. E. Marsh 496
Our Medicine Bag 501
The Trap

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The Lord of the Silent Lakes..

BY A.

HE portage was long and
the trail overgrown. } The
setting sun had vanished
behind a mass of storm
clouds. Smoke from dis-
tant forest fires made the
r| shores of the lake seem
vague and uncertain, as |
stepped out of the bush,
loosened the tump-line and
let the worrying pack slide down my back
to the ground.

The two
canoes
were float-
ing in the
water, and
the Indians
pointed to
my place in
the bo w.
Experi e n-
ced enough
to ask no
question s,
I picked up
my camera,
Site pp ed
with one
sho e-pac
carefully in
the middle
of the frail Peterboro and shoved off. As
I kneeled in my accustomed place, Michel
whispered ‘‘bull-moose out in lake.”
Only an Indian’s trained senses could
know that there was anything out there

THE LORD OF THE SILENT LAKES.

HORR.

but mist, smoke and the guardian loon
which shrieked high above our heads.
With long silent strokes of the paddle
Michel sent the canoe leaping noiselessly
through the water. Then he stopped
and troze stiff asa setter before a bird.
Again the silent paddle strokes and
again the motionless pause. My strain-
ing eyes could still see nothing ahead.
At last, after alternately paddling and
drifting for half a mile, he whispered,
“there he goes down ayain,” and I
understood.
a twee
moose was
feeding ' on
the lily

pads, and
the stren-
uous pad-

dling had
been done,
.|when he
was below
the surface
of the wa-
‘| ter, and the
drifting
when he
stood up to

brea the.
Then I saw
him dimly through the smoke—a fine,

well-nourished fellow with antlers which
many a man would give a year’s pay to
see stretched out over the fire-place at
home. But at that season we were his

424

friends and had no designs upon the no-
ble old gentleman beyond a deep-seated
yearning to take his photograph home
with us in the little leather box lying in
the canoe.

Again he lowered his head to crop the
juicy lily-pads, and again he thrust it out
of the water. And again and again.
There is a special providence watching
over Nature’s lovers who go six hundred
miles from home to see her wonders and
to play harmlessly with her children.
This special providence caused a faint
breeze to spring up in our faces. No
doubt the Indians could scent moose
meat inthe air they breathed, but Sir

ALONE WITH NATURE.

Moose could not get a single whiff of the
bad tobacco, Michie’s bacon, fried bass,
North Bay shoe-pacs and Hudson Bay
Company blankets, which would other-
wise have pained his sensitive nostrils.
Moreover, that same divinity kept the
old fellow facing religiously away from
us, so that neither by sight nor scent
could he detect our approach. As to
hearing us—that matchless old Ojibway
in the stern needed no providence, special
or otherwise, to tell him how to do his
part of the work in silence.

Thus, through the interposition of the
special providence and the cunning of the
Red Man, our studio was well arranged.
The encircling forest for background, the
rippling water for foreground and a close
and unobstructed view of our subject.
Only the smoke and gloom seemed to

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make a snapshot impossible. But—and
listen to this all ye amateur photograph-
ers who have balked at the cost of a high
grade lens and shutter and know that
some day there will be an interval of -
time, maybe no more than a fraction of
a second, when your good equipment will
pay for itself in full—I set my Volute
shutter at the 25 stop, 4-50 of a second
exposure, snapped the focussing lever at
twenty-five feet and waited for my sub-
iect to reappear.

Not a ripple showed where he was
doubtless down on his knees munching
away at the water lillies. The Indian
stopped paddling. I held the camera at
arm’s length over
the gunwale with
the bulb in the
ot he r hand—no
chance to use a
finder here.

Suddenly the
tips of the horns
broke through
the water. He
was coming!
Then the im-
mense antlers
reared up with
the water dash-
ing off in little
cataracts. Then
the mule ears, the
huge head, the
protruding upper
lip, the massive neck and the hump on
the broad back. A glorious old woods
monarch—not twenty-five feet away!
With a mighty snort he blew the water
from his nostrils.

Just then the special providence whis-
pered to him ‘“‘turn around sideways, the
gentleman doesn’t want to photograph
the back of your neck.”” Obediently the
old chap wheeled sharply to the left and
for a second stood stock still, giving a
full side view with the water dripping
from his head and horns and the lillies
hanging from his lips. Click! The
shutter opened, and for the fiftieth part
of a second a ray of light streamed
through the Zeiss-Tessar lens and fo-
cussed on the film. It was enough. The
special providence remembered an en-
gagement elsewhere. Mr. Moose sud-

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denly awoke to the fact that he was a And yet never amidst the refinements
moose and we his hereditary enemies. of civilization have I met a gentleman of
Acting on this theory he ‘‘took to the a finer politeness, a truer courtesy, than
woods” literally and metaphorically, and my ungainly friend who posed for his.
in a manner as precipitous as it was picture that day in my woodland studio—
inelegant. the Lord of the Silent Lakes.

Song of the Dead Pines.

MISS MARY E. HICKSON.

Trees of the greater forests,

Where the scattered sunlights ride,
Luring praise to thy beauty,

Strength of thy tossing pride,
I sing the shattered glory

Of thy brothers that have died!

They too have felt the bouyance
Of new life running strong;

They too have swelled with chorus
The wind’s carousal song,

Or murmured whispering melody,
Thro’ hours of summer long.

Autumn with subtle fingers,
And tints of deeper hue,
Has flamed tne yellow landscape

To crimson ‘neath their view

While o’er them in the stillness,
The lengthening shadows grew

Oft-time mid winter silence,

They watched the stars look down,
And reared their upturned faces

Against the Frost King’s frown—
Till snows came falling softly,

And placed on each a crown!

Now grimly lone and spectral,
Upstanding straight and clean,
They cut the green of woodland—
Dead monarchs, grey, far-seen;
Their spirits in the twilight moan,
Where life and joy have been!

How our Deer Hunt Became a Bear Hunt.

BY E.R.

| ie five consecutive hunting sea-
sons I had the pleasure ot guid-

ing parties of Canadian and Amer-
ican sportsmen on their reserve in the
Province of Quebec. [am proud to say
that each year the parties had good for-
tune and in addition to the best of sport
obtained some fine trophies.

In the year 1905 wolves were so _plen-
tiful on the reserve that few deer could
be found. We knew it was not from any
failure to preserve the deer, for very
strict watch had been kept on the re-
serve, but from other causes.

Inquiries Soon
showed that the
deer to escape
from the wolves
had gone near
the settlements
with the result
that they had
been butchered
there on a large
scale. One
farmer showed
me the place, a
tew acres from
his home, where
he had slaugh-
tered six in one
morning, four
mature deer and
two fawns. I
saw the skins of
these six deer,
and along with them thirty-eight others.
All were hanging up in the stables and
barns and it could be seen that the deer
killed by this man ranged from babies to
large bucks. While he had the hunting
instinct highly developed, several of his
neighbors were as bad, and it was re-
ported to me that one of them had killed
sixty-nine deer during that summer and
fall. Many settlers had deer skins on
their fences in addition to those in their
stables and barns. Many of these far-
mers, who all appear to have one or two
rifles, seemed to follow the custom of

E. R. LA FLECHE CARRYING THE BEAR BY MEANS
OF A TUMP LINE.

LA FLECHE.

taking a gun with them each morning
and evening when they went for their
cows, on the chance of seeing a deer
with their cattle or elsewhere.

The reserve in question is thirty miles
from the nearest railway station and the
camp is ten miles from the house of the
last settler. Onthe way in I noticed
that the deer were scarce. I walked the
last eight miles of rough road with two
pair of hounds and thought it curious
that they did not take the deer scent
from the air, nor from tracks crossing
our roadas they had always done pre-
viously when in
a deer country.

It was half
past three be-
fore the camp
was_ reached.
Six teams were
engaged taking
in our baggage
and provisions,
and two of these
were so long
delayed en route
that they didnot
arrive till late
at snight. "On
arrival the work
of preparing the
camp was at
once started and
while most of us
were unpacking
the goods and getting things in shape,
some of the boys went fishing and re-
turned with a _ string of speckled beau-
ties, which greatly assisted to make a
delicious supper.

Early next morning, in company with
a few others, I worked at preparing the
canoes and boats. In the meantime the
two last wagons, which had arrived late,
were unloaded, and it was found that one
important piece of baggage was missing.
One of the teamsters, who had been up-
set on the way in, remembered that he
had forgotten to place that bundle on his

PACK OF HOUNDS BELONGING TOE. R. LA FLECHE.
HUNT, JUST LEAVING CAMP FOR HOME.

wagon when re-loading. He told me
the place where he had met with the ac-
cident and as the baggage belonged to
one of our American visitors, and he ap-
peared to feel the loss very keenly, I
volunteered to go and fetch it. On my
way out and inI was surprised to see
numerous wolf tracks all along the wagon
road. These tracks at once explained
the reason why the hounds had been so
quiet on the way.

At supper that night I related my ex-
periences and told the company present
that they must not expect too much that
year. In consequence of the large num-
ber of wolves on the reserve I explained
to them that they would only find a few
rambling deer.

They soon found out that I had not
deceived them. We were out several
days without being able to get a start,
and the result of the hunt that year was
seven deer, three bucks, and four does.
Not a single fawn was seen during the
twelve days we were in the bush,—the
wolves had killed them all. Amongst
the does I noticed that three of them had

PICTURE TAKEN AFTER THE
FOUR OLD AND FOUR YOUNG HOUNDS.

had young but having lost them early they
had become dry

Below I give a correct statement of the
number of deer killed each season from
1900 to 1905 on that reserve:

Year. Deer Bucks. Does.
1900 Hl 7 {
190] 14 9 5
1902 16 10 6
1903 19 9 10
1904 22 14 8
1905 7 3 {

I should now like to revert to the hunt
of 1904. Inthat year one of our Amer-
ican visitors shot two deer inone day and
hung them in the bush about four and a
half miles from the camp. Happening
to be near the place a day or two after-
wards he visited the deer and found both
pulled down and one missing. When he
returned to camp that evening he did not
feel quite so good as he did on the day
he killed the deer, and when I reached
the camp he at once came to me with his
grievance. I questioned him as to signs
he had seen which would identify the
marauders and he replied that there were

TOWING DEER TO CAMP ON THE EARLY SNOW.

t»o many leaves onthe ground to see
signs. I askedif both deer were hang-
ing together and he answered that they
were and that it was the smallest one
which had gone. I then informed him
that from the information he had given
me I was sure I knew the fellow who had
stolen his deer, and that his name was
‘‘Ephraim.” Some of the boys well
knew whom I meant, but there were a
few who didnot, and one of our hired
men in particular was very emphatic that
no man known by that name lived in the
township. I was perforce compelled to
gratify his curiosity and give him a de-
scription of Mr. Bruin.

The next consideration was how we
were to get even with Mr. Bear. Some
of the bravest wanted to spend the

whole night watching for him, others
suggested building a platform in the
trees and shooting him from that posi-
tion, while there were those who advo-
cated sending some of our men for a bear
trap. The gentleman from whom Mr.
Bear had so nicely stolen the deer ex-

pressed his readiness to spend $100 or
more if he could only get square with
“Old Ephraim.” I assured the gentle-
man that he should have the bear with-
out losing any sleep and that he could
count on his pelt, also promising to de-
tail my plans to them in the evening.

I then left to visit some mink traps
and when! returned all the boys had
come in and supper was just ready.
During that meal I explained how I
would set a rifle and cause the bear to
commit suicide. Bear was the subject
of conversation not only all through
supper, but during the evening as well
and many went to bed with the bear
fever strong upon them. In dreams that
night many bears faced the dangerous
Winchester. One hunter was so bear
ridden that the first thing he did on ris-
ing was to count the deer which had been
hanging at the camp door. He appeared
disappointed to find that none were
missing.

We started three pair of hounds that
morning, and when | returned to camp

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

for dinner it
¢ omme nced
raining. Rain
or sh.ine -no
time could be
lost if I meant
to get the sec-
ond deer Mr.
Bruin had
pulled down
aad I did mean
Lt erie tt
Pretty. {Stu rie
that as_ the
bear had hada
good meal he
would be in no
hurry ~ to’ re-
turn for the
second deer,
but still I did
not want to
give him too
long an inter-
val to recover
from his heavy
feed, and get
hungry again.
According y I
took my tump
line and ask-
ing Mr. X. to
bring his rifle
and show me
the place, we
SEE OUEL to rec-
Onnoitre the
position and
prepare a sur-
prise for the
robber.

Inthe course
of my wander-
ings a few
days previously I had spotted a_ barrel
which had been left by a jobber in an old
log road. When we arrived at the place
I gave it a kick and as it turned over |
saw it was half full of leaves and had the

bottom part banged out a little. The
latter injury I soon remedied with my

axe and finding the slabs and hoops in
good order the barrel proved just what |
wanted. Tying the barrel with my line
I soon had it on my back, when Mr. X.
who had watched my proceedings with
much interest, inquired what I meant to

429

THE HERO AND HIS BEAR.

do with it. I told him I required it in
order to salt the bear.

Enjoying the joke he led the way and I
followed with the barrel on my back.
Although empty it was water soaked and
being of oak made a good load. It was
also a troublesome one and _ portaging it
four miles up and down hills on a_ rainy
day gave me a good time.

When we arrived at the place where
the deer had hung I speedily found signs
which proved to me that Mr. Bear had
been the marauder. Going further on to

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SSEEQS Se
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THE TWO BEARS WHICH COMMITTED SUICIDE FOR HAVING STOLEN
OUR DEER.

SOME OF

the deer I placed the barrel on its side
and having fastened it so that it would
not turn over I cut off the deer’s head
and after having smeared the orfen end
of the barrel with all the blood I could
get from the deer, I put the head, to-
gether with the pieces of the inside lin-

ing of the deer, in the barrel, and then
portaged the deer to camp. Although

this load was much heavier than the bar-
rel it went fine and we reached the Camp-
just in time for supper.

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SPORTS IN CANADA.

I remembe r
it very well in-
deed for that
season we had
one of the best
cooks I have
ever met in my
hunting expedi-
tions. This
cook was not
only a first class
cook but also a
gentleman aud
a very jolly
good tempered
fellow-—in fact
just the sort of
man sportsmen
like in a hunt-
met. |p-ase ty.
Everything he
did was neatly,
quickly and
quietly done
and we could
get a meal at
all hours. In
these days men
of that stamp
are not met
with so often,
and the fact
that we had
such a cook 1
that . years
alone remark-
ables) oSotialal
more vivid in
my recoll e c-
tions is) aihve
plentiful yet
dainty meal he
served, which
after my exer-
tions on the double journey was most
welcome.

The supper included sea pie, fried fish,

rabbit and partridge stew, hot cakes,
apple pie and maple syrup with sweet
cream, tea and coffee. The mail carrier

had come in that day and brought with
him a supply of cream and fresh eggs.

Again there was a good deal of bear
talk in Camp that night and the mem-

bers became highly excited in discussing

just what was going to happentothe bear.

THE HUNTING PARTY IN FRONT OF THEIR CAMP.

Front row reading from left to right:

Dr. E. Huot, J. Fournier, ‘‘the Cook,” Dr. A.

Pinard, E.R. La Fleche, Dr. L.:B: Hawley.

Second row: Dr. G. W. Brown,

Ro, J .4 Shoemaker, F...C.».Cutting, a. F: Adkin,

C. S. Clark, Lt. A. A. Pinard, of the 43rd Battalion photographer of the party.

Next day the preparations were made
for the usual morning chase. When I
am Captain of a hunting party the rule is
for the chase to be over before one
o'clock. We get up early, have our
morning hunt and leave the deer to rest
in the afternoon. I start the dogs my-
self, and as all my hounds have been
schooled to return to me immediately
after each chase, | know what is going
on all the time. On any of these occa-
sions when it was too late for another
run before lunch I gave the fall in call
and we all returned to camp for that
meal. I always have a few bugles with
me and all the party soon learn my call.
[ find that these arrangements answer
pertectly. My visitors are not exhausted
over along day’s watching on the run-
ways. They always have the afternoons
to themselves either for fishing or par-
tridge shooting and during that time |
look at my mink and rat traps.

That particular afternoon however was
to be devoted to setting the rifle for
Ephraim and every member of the party
was anxious to see how it was to be
done. It was a beautiful afternoon and
we all greatly enjoyed the walk through
the woods. Song's were sung and tricks
were played all along the way, although
for all the noise we made we managed to
secure a few brace of partridge.

When we arrived at the bear station I
found that Bruin had made a call and
would be likely to repeat his visit. With
the aid of an augur, a few cross logs and

poles I soon had the barrel safely se-
cured, the rifle adjusted and ready for
loading. This was done by one of the

doctors present, who jokingly remarked
as he expectorated on the bullet that it
would make it easier for the bear to
swallow. I had told him the chances
were ten to one the bear would receive
the pill in his mouth as I had made the

PICTURE SHOWING FOUR BUCKS, AVERAGING THREE HUNDRED POUNDS EACH, TWO OTHER
DEER AND TWO BEARS.

bait the right size for the bear to have to
open his mouth to the full length in order
to grasp it. All our preparations being
complete we returned to the Camp.

On the following day Mr. X. was so
eager to visit the bear trap that he asked
if I could do without him in the morning
hunt. I told him he might go on condi-
tion he returned at once and took up his
position as watcher at the Camp. He
carried out this program and returned in
time to kill a 290-pound buck. When I
reached the Camp he rushed forward and
said, ‘‘Gene, the bearis at the barrel
waiting on you. I have examined him
and not ascratch of any kind can I find.”

The whole party wished to see how
Bruin had taken his leave and promised
never to steal a gentleman’s deer again.
Accordingly a second afternoon was
spent in visiting the bear trap and there
sure enough we found the bear. I found
that the bullet had gone into his mouth
and not even touched a tooth. He was
an old dog bear and we had a jolly time
portaging him to camp. Going up hills

and through rough places made a lot of
fun but also meant hard work and after
what some considered more than their
fair share of somersaults and sweating
we had Mr. Bear hanging up at our
camp door. This was the red letter day
of our hunt, our ‘‘bag’’ including three
fine deer anda large bear. We hada
splendid and enjoyable supper that even-
ing and some members had also bigger
heads than usual.

A few days later we secured a second
bear in just the same way as we took the
first one. This time however the trap
was set a few miles away and near our
wagon road, which made the portaging
much easier than was the case with the
first one.

The hair of both bears was of a very
fine hue, in fact I have rarely seen bears

at the latter end of October with such
fine hair.
In accordance with my suggestions

our hunting territory had been divided
into two sections so that there would
always a lapse of one day between the

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PICTURE SHOWING TWO THREE HUNDRED POUNDS DEER, THE ONE

ON THE* RIGHT THREE

HUNDRED AND THIRTY POUNDS, THE ONE ON THE LEFT THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
POUNDS DRESSED—THE TWO DEER ARE FACING ONE ANOTHER, AND PACK
OF HOUNDS.

hunts in each territory. This had the
effect of giving time to the deer to re-
turn and by hunting every second day in
each section we hada string of deer
hanging at each place.

One morning after having directed the
hunters where to station themselves we
set off. My attention was given to the
dogs and while looking after them the
man who had brought the lunch bag told
me that our deer had fallen down. Not
having the time just then to examine the
cause I went up a big hill, started the
dogs and returned at once.

When I reached the deer I

soon saw
that abear had been at work again.
Two deer were missing but were soon
found a few hundred yards away. One

had been partly eaten and was covered
up with leaves and sticks, while the other
was left uncovered about ten yards from
the partly eaten one. The signs proved
to me at once that the bears were there
when we came that morning and that

they had been disturbed by the noises of
our party and our dogs, because a bear
never leaves a find of any kind without
covering it well so as to secure it from
the ravens.

Upon making this
very sorry man. I wished then that I
had gone immediately to the deer as
soon as I was informed that the pole on
which they were hanging down.
If only I had done that most sensible
thing it would have been a picnic to
hunt the bears. The position was an
ideal one fora bear hunt. On the one
side was the lake and an acre from the
lake our wagon road. A few men with
a canoe on the lake, the others scattered
here and there on the road, and with the
aid of the hounds we must have cornered
the bears and compelled them
swim or climb.

We met with another adventure with
bears which is worth relating. On two
occasions one of our hunters had been

discovery I was a

Was

to either

434

stationed at a place we called Lone Tree
Hill and nothing had come his way.
Usually this was a good station and from
the lookout obtained the hunter could see
the deer coming through the valley for a
long distance.. However two days with-
out a sight of a deer was enough for this
gentleman and he begged to be allowed
to exchange for another station.

There was a man in our party who was
always content to go wherever he was
told and accordingly I arranged a peace-
ful exchange of places with him.

As luck, or fate, would have it the
new man had not been on Lone Tree
Hill more than an hour when he saw
three bears coming straight for him.
He was not an experienced hunter and
had not seen wild bears before. At first
he took the animals to be calves, the
property of some settler, and of course
did not intend to shoot at them.

When about forty yards from him the
leader turned up a ravine and then our
friend realized that they were bears. He
allowed them to go twenty yards further
away before he mustered up courage for
a shot. He tooka careful aim at the
largest one, but though the bullet went
home it did not hit a vital part. The
bear tumbled over and after performing a
few somersaults ran away. His two
companions stood up in an endeavor to
locate the trouble, and one of them,
taking advantage of a nearby tree placed
his paws upon it. In that position he
gave such a fine chance for a shot that
the hunter fired again. This time the
bullet struck behind the ear and knocked
the bear over dead. The third bear got
away with the wounded one.

After examining his bear he went back
to his watch and it was only when he
heard the bugle call that he came in such
a hurry to tell his good news that he was
the first to arrive. 1 was just taking the
tea pail from the fire when he arrived.
He was smiling. all over his face and
seizing me enthusiastically by the hand
he burst out: ‘‘Gene, 1 am glad you
put me on that watch this morning. I
have killed a beautiful bear!” Of course
I heartily congratulated him on his suc-
cess and he was certainly ahappy man
that day. Everyone heard the good

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA

news over lunch and the boys proclaimed
him a hero.

The man who had kicked about going
to Lone Tree Hill was now more than
sorry he had not fallen in with my ar-
rangements, and tried to find fault with
me because I had not insisted upon my
original proposals being carried out. [|
replied that any sensible guide always
did his best to give every member of the
party a fair chance, but he could not go
so far as to insist upon arrangements,
which might prove distasteful to any i1n-
dividual member of the party. It was
always best, however, for every member
to fall in with the guide’s arrangements
even though he might not always ap-
prove of them, and in the end he would
find that those arrangements, having
been made with skill and forethought,
and as the result of previous experience
and knowledge, were the best of all.

I may addhere that in all my hunting
expeditions I have always found that the
sportsmen who obeyed the _ reasonable
directions of an experienced guide were
rewarded for their trouble.

Some men cannot remain quiet for a
quarter of an hour, and are only satisfied
when they can leave their positions and
please themselves. These men always
lose good chances and it happens very
often that at the very moment they leave
their places game appears which would
afford them excellent chances.

In 1905 the members of the Club had
decided to spend $300 on improving the
road to the camp. This would have
been a boon to several settlers as they
would have had a share of the expendi-
ture at a time when they were least busy
and the road to their own property
would have been easier and better for
themselves. Owing, however, to the
fact that the wolves were so numerous
that the deer were driven to the settle-
ments only to be slaughtered wholesale
andtheincreased fee put on non-residents,
the Club was disbanded after it had
taken many years to organize.

A majority of the members of the
Club were Americans who spent from
four to six hundred dollars each for ten
days’ sport, in addition to the fees paid
to the Government as well as for their
keeper and fire ranger. I am quite cer-

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tain that many thousands of dollars
worth of good timber land has been an-
nually saved to Quebec by the game
keepers of the fishing and hunting clubs
in the Province.

Now in conclusion as all lovers of the
rifle will soon be leaving for their annual
hunts I would like to give them a
method which will enable any of them to
make asugar bowl, a spoon holder,
shaving mug or drinking glass with an
empty bottle.

There are very few sportsmen nowa-
days who do not take with them a sup-
ply of ‘‘eau de vie,” and when the bot-
tles are empty throw them away or break
them with arifle. All these bottles can
be made very useful not only when the
dishes are shy in camp but also at home
where one often requires to compound
something for which the lady of the
house is not always ready to give away a
useful cup.

How to make the best use of these
bottles observe the following:

Ist. Cut three or four small sticks of
even size and length, the length to be

according to the height you desire to cut ©

the bottle.
2nd. Place the bottle on the table, tie

the sticks around it so_ that they will re-

main steady.

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3rd. Take a yard or two of good
twine or of fish line, make a loop around
the bottle above the stick, have someone
to hold the bottle steady then take one
end of the string in each hand, see-saw
fora minute or more according to the
thickness of the glass, and see that the
string keeps always level and close to
the top of the sticks. The friction of
the twine around the bottle will heat the
glass. ;

4th. Have a pail of cold water ready
and when the glass is hot dip the bottle
in the pail. The cold water will cause
the bottle to break clearly around where
the friction has been. File away ,the
fine edge both inside and outside, and
thus you will have a very handy and use-
ful article.

Two men can fix up several of these
glasses in a short time.

When dipping the bottle in the water
should it not break at once repeat the
heating process until it is hot enough to
break. Keep the twine dry with which
you are to heat the glass.

Should any gentlemen not thoroughly
understand this description further in-
formation will be cheerfully given if they
will write me. All I ask in payment from
them is to remember me each time they
cut a bottle by my method.

Observations from the Car Window.

BY CHARLES

JHE ways of four footed and feath-
ered things if closely observed, will
impress us with their craft and
wisdom, and their bump of curiosity is
no less prominent than their other animal
characteristics. Their instinct and cun-
ning guards them from unnumbered foes,
but quite frequently we notice that ser-
ious difficulties befall them as the result
of being too curious and venturesome.
Man, and all his various contrivances,
are instinctively shunned by every wild
thing—but particularly man; for the den-
izens of the forest soon come to know
that the things made by him are harmless
in themselves. It is not the sight of a

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gun that causes the wild thing to take
cover but ‘‘the man behind the gun,”’ and
when animals no longer fear a mechan-
ical invention that is foreign vo their
native haunts, we query as to the mental
process by which the wisdom was ac-
quired.

What would seem more terrifying to
a wild animal than an express train as it
thunders along on its highway through
the woods, leaving a trail of dust and
smoke in its wake? And yet how soon
it comes to be regarded with a certain
indifference. It is not unuswal in travel-
ling through a deer country to see a deer
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shot, but if the watchful eye detects the
opening or closing of a door or window,
or any movement that conveys to the
animal mind an aggressive act of man, he
will disappear with such marvellous
quickness you will wonder if your sight
did not deceive you.

I have seen a crane standing in a pond
of water, with only his head and long
neck appearing above the surface, calmly
viewing a train passing within fifty feet.
The slender grey neck bears so closea
resemblance to a crooked, weather-beaten
branch, that to many an eye it might ap-
pear to be the arm of a tree that lay bur-
ied under the water. Nature has in this
way endowed many of her creatures with
a mantle of protection, by giving them
form and color in harmony with the
background of their natural surround-
ings, to the end that they may better es-

cape detection by their ever vigilant
enemies.
In traversing those sectious pre-

empted by the wild rabbit for his home,
queer doings are often seen, and not al-
ways understood. Not infrequently he
will crouch within a few feet of a trav-
eled roadway while vehicles are passing,
when by a single bound he might hide
himself in the bushes at the side, but for
reasons of his ownhe prefers to remain.
He has learned by experience—or in some
other way—that there is little danger to
him from the every day passer by, al-
though sometimes he is too bold and pays
the penalty with his life. It is no doubt
true, however, that many times he relies
on his ability to deceive; for in an emer-

A good fight between the net fisher-
men and the members of the Ontario
Fish and Game Protective Association
took place before the Dominion Fisheries
Commission at Chatham. The members
of the Commission present were Mr.
John Birnie, K. C. and Mr. James Noble,
of Collingwood, Professor Prince, the
third member being absent on fishery
matters in British Columbia. The fish-
ermen’s first grievance was the lengthy
close season viz: From April 15th to
November Ist, and the second the pro-
hibition of seine netsin the Thames.

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gency, the trick of appearing as lifeless
as a lump of dirt is practiced by his kind;
and frequently this ruse postpones his
day of doom. Many a little brown hum-
mock in the woods has been passed with
no thought that it was a bundle of active
life, alert, watchful, fully prepared to
bound to safe cover at the moment of
discovery. Heisa past master in the
art of posing as inanimate, and knows
exactly when and how to ‘‘freeze.”

The scarecrow in the cornfield, though
“fearfully and wonderfully made,’’ is
limited in its mission of usefulness and
will not for long deter the observant
crow from his depredations. He is a
wary and suspicious bird, but his keen
eye will penetrate the sham, and his work
of spoliation will continue unnecessarily
near the uncouth image of threatening
attitude, as if in derision of the futile at-
tempt to scare him from the field. Thus
does the artist’s labor pass for naught in
the eyes of the thievish bird.

This same shrewd philosophy is shown
by the woodchuck in the clover field,
when he rises on his haunches within
fifty yards of a fast express, and pertly
but complacently views the smoking,
rattling train as long as it can be seen,
and more than this, he dares to burrow
there, and rear his young within the zone
of dust and smoke and noise, where he
can daily view the human tide as it passes
to and fro, for he has learned,—we do
not know just how—that these swift mov-
ing vehicles mean him no injury, and
never leave their iron path to do him
harm as they go hurrying on to reach
their destination.

They argued that the seine nets did not
destroy game fish. On the other hand
written and verbal evidence was given
that both hoop and seine nets destroy the
game fish. Figures were produced to
show that $27,000 worth of fish were
sold out of the River and Lake St. Clair
last year. All were shipped to the States
and Canadians were not able to purchase
any for their own tables. There were
stormy scenes at times, but nothing defin-

-ite resulted and the Commissioners will

report due

to the Government in
course.

My First Deer Hunt.
A Law Suit in Camp.

BY J. E. CASSON-

msl was in the fall of 1906 that I took
my first deer hunt. I had recently
== been admitted to membership in a
club possessing a good camp in New
Ontario, and numbering several exper-
ienced hunters in their ranks.

In company with a friend, W. B. Ed-
minster, whom I had invited to go with
me as a guest, we took our departure for
Trenton Junction, where we met others,
and from which point we went north te
Gilmour, from which station we drove
back twelve miles to our camp.

The entire party consisted of M. S.
Cassamasc ye (ss nele? Matt.”).E.* S.
Cassan (‘‘Uncle Ned” from Campbell-
ford; Will Steele, Toronto; M. S. Cas-
san, Jr., J. W. Tindale Iroquois, Ont.;
Mr. Batty and J. Cochrane, Colborne;
W. B. Edminster and myself from Lon-
don, Ont. The three first named gen-
tlemen, who are charter members of the
club, arrived on the scene the day before
and had everything fixed up in good
shape when we all arrived tired and hun-
gry at six o’clock in the evening.

We found the camp nicely fixed up
and very comfortable. At one time it
had been an office for the Rathburn
Lumber Company, and it had come in
very well for the purposes of the camp.

Before going further | may mention
that I had unwittingly broken one of the
Club’s laws in inviting my friend without
permission—well, not exactly without
permission but without first ascertaining
that the required number had been made
up. As soon as my offence was known
I came in for a reprimand from one of the
party and was told that so serious was
the breach of law of which I had been
guilty that I might te tried before a fully
constituted backwoods court. Whatever
might he the consequence, however, I
was resolved, having given the invitation
not to withdraw, and determined to per-
severe even if a lawsuit resulted. We
went with the full intention of enjoying

ourselves Iet the consequences be what
they might.

Knowing, as I did, that I was going to
join a party which included judges and
lawyers I thought it only wise to make
what arrangements I could for my own
defence. I accordingly wrote to E. S.
Cassan asking him to undertake my case
and in reply received a very encouraging
letter, which put me in high spirits. He
assured me that it would be all right to
bring Edminster, and he would wager,
should any action be taken against me,
to win the case and put the whole of the
costs upon the plaintiff.

Incidentally I heard that the prosecut-
ing attorney, M. S. Cassan, Sr., who by
the way is well up in his business anda
man not to be trifled with, meant to press
the case strongly against me. In this
digression I am, however, forgetting the
hunting, and as we are in camp it is
hunting that is in order.

The territory in which the camp is sit-
uated was entirely new both to Edminster
and myself. In order to acquaint us
with the surroundings Uncle Ned took
us for a six mile tramp, and journeying
round the well known Ball Mountain we
got back to camp footsore and weary.
We had no desire to join the card game
that night, but soon after supper we were
in slumberland. :

Directly east and west of our shanty
there was an old lumber road, and it was
not difficult to get our bearings with the
compass. At any time we were lost, all
we had to do was to strike’ due north
or south, whatever side we were on, and
we would soon come across the road
which led directly to the camp.

We were all still hunters at this camp.
The old party had always followed this
method of hunting and had been very
successful with it for thirty years. The
first five days of the open season passed
uneventfully. We worked faithfully, but
captured nothing more than good appe-

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tites. On the sixth day the spell of ill
luck was broken; and Will Steele got

two, a fine buck anda fine doe and Un-
cle Ned also got a fine doe.

Edminster andI didn’t thinkit any won-
der that they got them for the two of us
started out early in the morning and
played hounds for them. We were to
drive the deer to where they were sta-
tioned, but we took the wrong marsh
and went out of our latitude—but we
drove the deer!

This was one of the occasions when
we very much regretted that we were
withouta kodak. The sight of seeing
Will Steele trying to hang up his buck
by a lever overa root was one that we
would fain have perpetuated After tie-
ing his deer to a pole Will walked out on
the pole which had been laid over a root,
and hoped to get sufficient leverage when
he reached the other end to raise the deer
up. All went well fora time and he ap-
peared likely to succeed, when the string
broke and Will tumbled over into a ra-
vine wetting the back of his pants, but
not otherwise hurting himself. We
would have titled the photo ‘‘Hanging
up his first deer!’”—well, he certainly
looked as though it were his first.

We had a lovely time in camp that
night, and to my relief the trial was not
as much as mentioned. Indeed since
reaching the camp nothing on the sub-
ject had been even whispered.

On the eighth five more deer were
brought in and we were all in high
spirits. All through the day I felt in
my bones that something was going to
happen that night and sure enough it
came off. After supper the Court was
constituted with J. W. Tindale as Acting
Judge. Mr. Tindale is alawyer of great
ability and good judgment, and we all
had the utmost confidence in his fairness
and impartiality.

The prosecuting attorney stated his
case at length and dwelt upon the enor-
mity of the offence, which had been com-
mitted. A new member, without con-
sultation with any of the members of the
old party and without their consent, had
invited a friend to the camp, and made
him free of the Club and of the Club’s
territory. One of their unwritten laws
was that no member must, without per-

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mission, intrude his friends upon the
other members, and this most sacred law
had been violated. The custom was as
old as the club, and was never broken—
not even when such guest brought Irish
whiskey, and did the cooking. Heasked
the Court to show its sense of the enor-
mity of the offence by sentencing the
defendant to five days in the doggery and
assess him with all the costs of the guit.

I noticed that the Judge was busy
taking notes and feared the worst. Lis-
tening to the eloquence used against me
made me feel al! goose flesh and I thought
it was all over with me. As the prose-
cuting attorney finished you could have
heard the proverbial pin drop and I al-
most expected judgment to be given at
once. The lawyers considered the case
an important one, and as the privilege
had been abused so often they were anx-
ious to have it settled at once and for
all. When my lawyer started speaking,
however, I soon gained a little confidence.

By the time he called me to the stand I
had regained some of my coolness and
was able:to give my explanation. I told
the Judge I wasn’t posted in the legal
rights of camp life, and had not intended
any Offence, least of all to my friends in
camp who had all done so much to ren-
der my holiday an enjoyable one.

My lawyer appealed to the Judge to
consider the facts of the case as they
really happened. He argued with much
acumen that his learned friend had tried
to put the blame on the wrong person.
It was not the giver of the invitation but
the one who accepted it who was guilty
of the offence, if any. Ignorance of the
law did not excuse any man and Edmins-
ter was the guilty one. Considering,
however, that he had been in camp five
days without any serious objection being
raised to his presence, that he had
brought Irish whiskey, which every
member of the plaintiff's side had tasted,
that he had eaten a bottle of ketchup
and done the cooking he should be al-
lowed to go out free and without even a
warning. He argued that the doggery
was no place for a visitor, particularly
one who had had such a varied exper-
ience in Japan as the gentlemén who had
become the guest of the Club.

A legal battle followed and when the

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contestants had exhausted themselves the
Judge announced that he would take the
caseunderadvisement and reserved his de-
cision.

The following day was full of exper-
iences for me, for that was the occasion
when I landed my first deer—a_ buck of
one hundred and sixty-five pounds. After
driving deer to another member of the
party, I took my stand on a pinnacle and
saw adeer about a mile away coming
straight for me. Every little while I
could see him and the intervals between
them were full of suspense. There was
bright sunshine and no snow. Another
member of the party who was with me
on the hill said he would rather I would
shoot the animalas I had never got a
deer before, but added, ‘‘It’s meat we
are after and if you miss him we will
both give him fits.” I could see he was
a fine young buck and I wanted to get
him. It appeared to me that it would be
an easy shot but owing to over confi-
dence | made a miss. He turned and
came about ten yards closer. In my
haste to reload I only went half way in
the action of the gun but immediately
discerning what was wrong I reloaded
and fired at the same instant as the other
gun at my side went off. We were
shooting from a hill into a hole, and with
that kind of shooting distances are very
deceptive. Receiving such a warm re-
ception the deer turned and flew.

We stood up and crack, crack went
the guns in rapid succession! Then I
heard the other gun snap and knew he
had no more shells. As I should only
have time to get one more shot before
the deer was out of sight my thoughts
reverted ina flash to an article I had
read in ‘‘Rod and Gun” on how to shoot
a deer while running. I followed the
advice given in that article and as the
deer gave a couple of jumps shot ahead
of him, catching him just behind the
right shoulder.

Actually I didn’t see him at all after

shooting, but M. S. said, ‘‘You have
him! I saw him fall.’’ With these
words the reaction came and I fairly
shook. M.S. went over to get on the

runway while I reloaded my gun in case
the deer was only wounded, and I might
get another chance from the hill. My

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suspense was much relieved when M. S.
called out, ‘‘You have him!” The ex-
periences I went through on that occa-
sion were well worth going to the camp
to enjoy. They beat everything I had
been through before!

A lively evening it was in camp that
night relating the episodes of the day,
playing cards and hearing Uncle Ned
sing a typical hunting song, ‘‘The hole
in the wall,’ the song recalling many
hunting experiences in the past.

Everyone retired early as we _ had
planned for big returns the following
day. I was awakened about midnight
by noises which resembled nothing so
much as bears surrounding our camp. I
awoke Edminster and got him to listen
to the strange sounds. No one ever
heard anything like it before. At last it
turned out everyone was snoring and
when I knew what the noises were I
thought they sounded good.

A settler who had a small hound with
him called at the camp that night. He
seemed a good soul, was fond of horse
radish, and we invited him to join us in
the hunt next day. Accordingly we
threw down a bunk for him on the floor
near the stove.

Our routes were mapped out and it
was arranged that Edminster should go
with the settler and the hound to see if
he would take the scent. Cockrane and
I went together. Batty started to go
below the lumber woods, M. S. Jr. went
to the pinnacle, and was accompanied by
Tindale. Will Steele took his old fam-
iliar place on the roadway and Uncle Ned
went to the Elm swamp. The morning
was bright and as it had rained the
previous evening the bushes and trees
glistened and presenting very beautiful
pictures.

I had placed Cockrane in a good posi-
tion and had myself taken a_ stand across
the marsh. About nine o’clock I noticed
Uncle Matt (who: by the way is_ seventy-
nine years old) coming over the brow of
the hill and taking his stand directly
south of the position I occupied. From
where he sat he could see both Cockrane
and myself. Presently we heard the
hound, the sound coming from the hills
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away that for the deer to come our way
was out of the question.

Batty, however, knew differently. He
was well acquainted with the ground and
was able to tell the route the deer would
take. Accordingly instead of going to
the place that it had been arranged he
should take he returned to the hill where
Uncle Matt had taken up his stand.
The two hunters were then, although
unknown to each other, occupying posi-
tions within one hundred yards.

Presently the deer came nearer and
nearer and I moved my position a little
further north in order to get a better
survey of another ravine where I thought
the deer might go for cover. Almost as
soon as I reached the stand I saw a grey
streak go across the head of the ravine,
striking straight for Cockrane. I was
pleased to think Cockrane would get in
a shot and I was confident from the way
it was going that if he didn’t shoot the
deer the buck would take the gun away
from him.

All this time Batty could see the buck
and was covering him with his rifle, but
refrained from firing in order to give
Cockrane his chance. The deer went
within five feet of my first stand—how
foolish I wasto have left it!—and I cal-
culated Uncle Matt would getit. At
that time I was not aware of Batty’s
presence in our near neighborhood.

The scene was getting quite exciting.
The hound wasclose in on the deer
which had taken a contour from Cock-
rane, and was going straight for Uncle
Matt. Picture Batty sitting within one
hundred yards of Uncle Matt, covering
the deer and saying to himself, ‘‘You’re
mine; yes, you’re mine!” wishing at the
same time that Cockrane would get in
his shot, and prepared if Cockranemissed
to do the deed himself. The suspense
became almost unbearable and Batty
picked out a place which when reached
by the deer would be the signal for him
to shoot as he felt that by then Cock-
rane would have missed the opportunity
and no one could blame him for not
missing his too. However, when the
deer was only five feet from the chosen
position, a shot rang out and Mr. Buck
fell in his tracks. Uncle Matt had done
the trick!

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So keen was Batty’s disappointment
that he fell over. His first thought was
that some stranger had shot the deer
and he told himself bitterly that he had
had chances of shooting it twenty times
over, but waited to give Cockrane his
chance.

As soon however as it was known how
it happened everything was right. The
four of us gathered round and assisted
to dress the deer, It proved to be the
finest one shot at our camp on that occa-
sion and weighed one hundred and sev-
enty-five pounds. We had hard work in
getting the deer to camp though in
reality it was not far.

Great stories were told that night.
The day’s returns were most gratifying.
Edminster had found a den of bears and
Tindale a deer shed. The open season
was drawing to a close, that being the
thirteenth of the month and accordingly
a full program was arranged for the fol-
lowing day. Parties were formed to in-
vestigate the bear den and the shed.

As the bears were supposed to be near
the camp it was considered most import-
ant to investigate their den first of all.
Edminster was over anxious as he spe-
cially desired to procure a bear skin to
send to his Japanese friend in Tokio.
At an early hour he marshaled out Will
Steele, Gunton, the settler, and all
were prepared to clean up every bear in
sight. After wending their devious way
over hills and through marshes and ra-
vines they stole up close to the mouth of
the den.

Steele was loud in his advice to culti-
vate caution. ‘‘Be careful!” he admon-
ished the valiant two. ‘I wouldn’t
take any chances! Stand back and
shoot into the hole! You have an auto-
matic gun, Edminster, and they can’t get
away!” It was an anxious moment. At
length Edminster fired and out rana
squirrel! The anxious time was turned
into one of surprise and disappointment.

It was agreed to keep this incident as
quiet as possible but it leaked out at
supper time. M. S. Jr. had witnessed
the siege of the bear den and its wonder-
ful denouement, and it could not be kept
secret. It also leaked out that this gal-
lant young man while watching the ex-

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pected developments of an exciting epi-
sode was approached by something in
the bush. At first he took it for one of
the escaping bears trying to sneak away
but it turned out to be only a porcupine!
It would have been an unfortunate thing
for the porcupine had he been a bear, for
M.S. Jr. is apretty good shot and al-
ways gets his number. However to
show hehad no hard feelings against
him, he gave the porcupine a kick and
in return received a few quills in the sole
of his boot.

Wonders will never cease! For a con-
siderable time Judge Tindale pumped

lead into a herd he found on the top of ©

the big hill south of the wagon road.
Somehow or other it is very hard to hit
a deer when running and Tindale failed!
As this was the last day of the hunt it
required the efforts of all ot us to give
him consolation. We all assured him he
should have another chance next year—

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providing he would give his decision in
the famous lawsuit in favor of the de-
fendant.

My first hunt was the best outing I
ever had in my life. The change was so
complete, so interesting, and so full of
contrasts compared to the busy life of
the city that it was enjoyable the whole
time. A deer hunt is beneficial in many
ways and I found it did me good in all of
them.

When the lawsuit is decided you shall
hear from me again. According to re-
cent reports extra costs have been piled
on, some of the details of which will
prove interesting to your readers.

I may add that our party secured
twelve deer and we returned to our la-
bors contented with our outing, pleased
with its results, and rich in the posses-
sion of many pleasant memories which
will give us enjoyment for along time
to come.

My Fine Canadian Hunt.

BY W.

WRJHEN the maple leaves begin to red-
den, and frosts threaten in this

" southwestern part of Pennsylvania,
I begin to have that ‘‘itching’”’ for the
tall pines, big rocks, cool streams, baked
fish and broiled venison of the mountains.
Then I feel like re-reading all the back
numbers of ‘‘Rod and Gun,”’ and other
sportsman’s magazines; give the Win-
chester an extra oiling, and recount to
my family the old camp and trail exper-
iences which they have heard so often;
then the good wife says ‘‘you’ve got it
again.”

Well, who could help it? What keener
pleasure can mortal enjoy than getting
out into the ‘‘wilds,” in the haunts of
big game, in the free, boundless, un-
fenced and beautiful pine covered moun-
tains, free from business cares and wor-
ries, and ‘‘close to Nature?’’ I say,
“work while you work,” and ‘‘play
while you play.” Drop everything, go
and have your hunt, then get home again
and go to work with renewed energy, a
clear head, and all your faculties re-
freshed and renewed.

B. GIBSON.

I have hunted in the Alleghany moun-
tains for the past twenty-five years; have
had two fine hunting trips in the Rockies;
took a thousand mile trip in the Rockies
of Wyoming in company with four other
men, two of whom were my grown up
sons; had two grizzlies, one black bear,
two black tail deer, five antelope and an
elk in our wagon at one time; but I can
truly say that I never had a finer trip
than the hunt I took in Ontario, Canada,
the past season.

i started on October first with my wife
and youngest son, and spent a week
with them at Buffalo, Niagara Falls and
the beautiful city of Toronto. Then the
family came home, and I went to North
Bay, Sudbury Junction and on to Des-
barats.

The whole country was in its ‘‘Dress
Parade” suit. The Canadian Pacific
Railway Company takes special good
care of tourists and hunters, and the ser-
vice is the very best. This whole coun-
try through which we passed is a suc-
cession of wide valleys and high ridges,
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trees, in ‘‘hardwood,” and the hemlock,
cedar, balsam, spruce and tamarac, in
the pines. The blending of different
shades of foliage in all these different
beautiful tints makes a continual pan-
orama of intense interest.

Arriving at Desbarats with a keen ap-
petite, we enjoyed the hospitality of the

‘‘Desbarats Hotel’’ to the full extent.
As the big game season had not yet
opened, I went up to Echo Bay, and

thence out seven miles to the home of a
jolly Irish farmer named ‘‘Paddy” Harron,
at the mouth of Echo Lake. There we
had the finest of partridge shooting, and
plenty of big pickerel to bake.

Paddy is an awfully noisy Irishman,
but he and his good wife are ‘‘all to the
good.” The Irish are all right, and so
are the Scotch. If anything beats them,
it is the ‘‘Scotch-Irish,” (that’s me.)

When the season opened November 15,
we went back about thirty miles north of
Desbarats, to Island Lake. My guide,
Harry McClelland, is a royal good
Scotchman, and had a fine camp on the
edge of this beautiful lake. We were
disappointed in not seeing any moose.
This isa good moose country, and they
had been plentiful there, as well as car-
ibou; but a new lumber camp had _ been
recently started at Bass Lake, just across
a ridge from our camp, and these timid
animals had quietly ‘‘moved out,” going
ten to fifteen miles further north; and by
the time we had found this out, it was
too late to move out after them, the sea-
son only being fifteen days here.

We had the finest of partridge shoot-
ing, and trout—why this Island Lake was
simply alive with four-pound trout,. the
finest I ever ate; just think of a four-
pound trout baked in the oven, after a
hard day’s tramp, boiled potatoes, good
bread and butter, a tin of good coffee or
black tea; then, after sucha fill, fit not
only for the Gods, but also for ‘‘human
beins,”’ a pipe of good tobacco, an hour’s
pleasant ‘‘camp talk,” and then thegood,

sound, refreshing sleep of ‘‘childhood!” .

Say! brother ‘‘hunting crank,” how does
this strike vou? WHasn’t this been about
your experience?

No wonder we get the
fever” every fall, hey?

‘‘mountain
And if you enjoy

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it, and I cannot imagine any man’s not
enjoying ity why just get ready and go.
These trips, other things being equal,
will lengthen the life of a man ten years;
and especially so if his business isa
‘‘worrying’”’ one, or one that confines him
indoors for the greater part of the time.
Get away from these cares, out into the
open air; put on the moccasins, take the
trusty rifle, and enjoy perfect ‘‘freedom”
for a month.

I got two fine bucks, one of which
weighed three hundred pounds whole. I
was sitting on a fallen pine when this
royal fellow came walking along below
me with the proud step of a ‘‘ruler”
among deer. | had plenty of time to
study and admire him, and _ though it
seemed a sin to do so, the ‘‘wolf nature”
was strongest in me, and a shot from my
30, U. S., broke his proud neck. While
I was proud of my trophy, I really felt
sorry to see the fine big Monarch lying
there dead, inthe snow. As one result
of my trip te Canada, I have two more
fine red deer heads to grace my office.

I must say a word here in regard to
the Canadian pe_ple; I met a host of
them; and will say that they areas clever,
generous, friendly and hospitable. people
as the sun shines on, whether they be
English,, Scotch; Irish, or) ‘mixed see!
am under special obligations to ‘‘Paddy”
Harron, George Haines, John McLeod,
Billy Smith and George Linklater and
their estimable families, for much of the
pleasure of my trip. If you want a good
hunt, where there is plenty of game to
hunt, take my advice, and go to Canada.

A wordin regard to rifles. In my
opinion there is no ‘‘best,” or ‘‘only”
rifle; and whenever you hear a man pro-
claiming that there is only one rifle that
is ‘‘the thing,” and that he has it, you
can gamble that he is a ‘‘tenderfoot” in
big game hunting. There are a dozen
makes of rifle that will do their part all
right if ‘‘the man behind the gun” does
his. What say you, old hunter? Am I
right? There are plenty of hardships in
big game hunting, but only one ‘‘real
danger,’’ and that is of some ‘‘fool be-
hind a gun,”(the man who shoots _ before
he is sure of what he is shooting at)
shooting you. The rifles of the present
day are so deadly, and of such wonderful

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reach, that it behoves every hunter of But, say! Mr. Canadian Government,
big game to be always on his guard, and © it isnot the ‘‘tourist hunter” that destroys
never shoot till you ‘‘know the game.” your game. Evenif he was hog enough,

A word for the ‘‘game hog;”” the man he is afraid of the ‘‘LAW.” No! it is

who kills, for the mere sake of killing. the ‘‘native” and the ‘‘lumber-camp-hog”’
I despise him. Wetravelled for seventy- who have joined hands with the big tim-
five miles in Wyoming, with fifty to five ber wolves, and is doing more to destroy
hundred antelope in sight at all times; your game thanall the foreign hunters.
but did not even take a _ shot at them, af- Protect your game from the natives
ter we had killed our quota, and had all who kill at all times in the year, make
the meat we needed. While in Canada _ the bounty so high on wolves that your
this fall, I sat ona fallen tree and best woodsmen can afford to make a
watched a fine buck browse and play ‘‘business” of hunting them, leave the
within one hundred feet of me, and did _ license at a reasonable figure, attract the
not shoot at him, although I had my foreign hunter there, and you will always *
rifle on my knee. have the ‘‘attraction’’ for him.

By the Camp Fire.

By Miss F. E. Bowie.

OF there’s nothing like the camp-fire in the evening.
As we sit around it ’neath the summer moon ;
| Perhaps telling tales of bygone recollections,

Or listening to the strains of some old tune.

Thus lulled, very soon our imagination,
Wanders toward the future far 2way ;

And it may be perchance that we wonder
Where we will be just one year from that day.

Perhaps we may look back upon the past,
Idly dreaming of the happy days gone by,
And ’midst our dreams of past and future fancies,
We pile the logs upon the camp-fire high.

Then someone may strike up some old refrain,
Which seems to mount our spirits way up higher ;
And as we sing, we make an inward vow,

That there’s nothing half so soothing as a camp-fire.

We hear no bells a-chiming out the hour,

No street car dares to enter our domain ;

We do not hear the door-bell always ringing,

For there’s nothing here to cause the slightest pain.

Oh its all very well in the city,

In the hammock on the verandah to laze,

And listen to a grand piano tingling

The strains of quite the latest New York craze.

But give to me the dear old camp-fire,

With the blazing logs piled up high ;

A tew good friends and the old songs,

That by the camp-fire we sang in days gone by.

A Trp Into Goat-Land.

BYareniGe

N carrying out my holiday prog-
ramme last fall I travelled to Ash-
croft on the main line of the Cana-

dian Pacific Railway and at that point I

mounted the B. X. stage express which

makes a run of two hundred and seventy-
six miles up the famous Caribou Road as

far as Barker-
ville, of placer
mining fame,

taking five days
for the trip. It
is a huge ‘‘Con-
cord stage’’ type

swinging from
broad leather
straps instead

of steel springs.

On the occas-
ion of my jour-
ney the driver
handled the four
highly strung
horses like Jehu
of old, swinging
them down the
bank and over
the bridge a-
@ Toss the
Thompson Riv-
er in regular
western Style.
All along the
river banks we
saw great piles
of water worn
rocks piled in
evenrows where
the placer min-
ers had dug up
the ‘‘aureate
earth” in the bygone days of historic ’58.
These are samples of the work that has
since produced sixty millions of dollars of
the yellow god's goods.

Here and there were to be seen holes
running back into the clay bank witha
length of stove pipe above. These places
were the gates of some rat tailed Chink
miners who are content to root away

TREE,

THF GOAT STOOD LIKE’A STATUE UNDER THE

WOUNDED TO DEATH.

MORRISON, D. D. S.

in pay gravel — ‘‘sometime ketchum
little gol ; sometime not.”

Away from the river the table lands
rise, tier on tier, dry and dusty, receiving
only enough rain each year to keep the
wonderful ‘‘bunch grass” alive and give

irrigation water to the scattered ranches.

The whole re-
gion lies in the
dry belt and

from the sports-
men’s stand-
point is ideal, as
one can camp
out all the year
round.

Of my com-
panions in the
stage two were
going tothe One
Hundred and
Fifty Mile House
to hunt caribou;
one lady was for
Soda Creek on
the Fraser, and
yours truly for
Big Bar, intent
on Big Horn.
Starting at four
orclock: ine the
morning we
soon reached
Hat Creek where
breakfast was
ordered, eaten,
horses changed,
and the journey
to Clinton, thirty
three miles from
Ashcroft, taken.
At this place I met Mr. McDonald, M. P.
P. an old friend, who advised me to ob-
tain the guidance of the Indian Tyee
(Chief) from the nearest rancherie. I
followed the advice given and when I saw
the Indian Chief I asked his Royal Ma-
hogany Never-Wash-His-Neck ‘‘Ictah
tikke mik a clarawa Big Bar ikt sun moxt
Kyutin ?” After along meditation he

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replied ‘‘Quinam dollar’? Five simoleans

to take me to Big Bar !

Next morning he appeared on the
scene at eight o’clock. He tied my five
pounds of wardrobe and _ twenty-five

to his white steed. I
took the light .22 with me, gave him the
.303 - British, and thus equipped we
mounted and rode away.

For ten miles the Government Road
followedthe valley, and then a long steady
climb commen-

pounds of shells

ced to the top
of the moun-
tains fifteen
miles away.

Throughout
this journey we
saw the irriga-
tio m), «ditches
carrying the
health giving
water to the
variousranches.
All along these
ditches it was
green and fair
and they form-
eda wonderful
contrast to the
parched hills
around them.

At the creeks
and ___ bordering
lakes we came
across’ willow
grouse. My
fiery steed (two
spurres and a
rifle butt) Char-
lie, was well
named, and I
shot from his
back managing
with the aid of
the .22 to get
quite a string at the bow of my saddle by
night.

The Tyee was most entertaining—a
sort of an ebony Omar Khyan man, tell-
ing hunting tales, stories of the old times
and snatches of his home life. He in-
quired what age I thought his cayuse
had reached. My idea was that perhaps
the animal had seen his rider accidently
get water on his face and the awful sight

WHERE

SUMMIT CAMP,

AND THE PTARMIGAN,

ONE WITH

.naut B. X. stage wheels.

THE

MILD SURPRISE.

445

had turned the poor brute ‘‘white in a
single night.”” I guessed ‘‘fifteen years.”
The Chief said ‘‘No, twenty-five years.’’
From further communications I gathered
that the former owner had gone to the
Happy Hunting Grounds and his Kloot-
chman (widow) had gone daft. The
Government were now paying the Chief
fifteen dollars per month to keep her from
doing the devotee act under the Jugger-
The Tyee was
to get the an-
cient cayuse
when she died.
He cheerfully
remarked ‘*May
be she die diz
winter, may be
nex’ soomer.”’

We stopped
at Bill Jones
Road Campand
had some lunch
being treated by
him to good
fare and hearty
cheer. Then on-
ward and up-
ward we went
until we reached
the top of the
range and big
blue grouse be-
gan tO appear.
By half past
four inthe after-
noon we were
in full view of
the Fraser. So
far away be-
neath usit look-
ed a_ silver
chain, and the
table lands dot-
ted with ranch-
es, appeared
like emeralds on a cloth of gold. Down,
down we wound playing the zig zag act
for all we were worth. It was necessary
to travel four miles to descend five thous-
and feet and we had _ to go over at least
thirty switch backs to do it.

Fortunately on arrival, | found my old
guide on the right side of the river. Here
I paid off the Tyee who said Klahouya
(‘‘Good-bye’’) and departed. I was fer-

STUNTED PINE GROWS,

WITHOUT FEAR, EYE

446

ried across the Fraser to the ranch be-
longing to my guide Mr. McDonald. He
is an old miner and has seen enough life
and passed through enough thrilling ex-
periences in Caribou, Alaska, and on the
Peace River to fill a large and interesting
book. Henow has a fine ranch produc-
ing all kinds of fruit, vegetables and
grain, but is greatly hampered by the
lack of efficient ‘means of transportation.
The only way he has of getting out is to
swim his horses across the river, take
his stuff over on a boat, then load it up
on pack horses, and thus carry it for
twenty-seven miles to the nearest town.
This is certainly life in the wild and
woolly West !

Mr. McDonald’s two younger boys
were made happy withthe 22. They pro-
ceded to celebrate their possession of the
weapon by potting an immense grey owl
and other small game.

The oldest boy, Malcolm, was to be
my guide for the trip into Goat Land.
Accordingly a pack and two riding horses
were prepared over night and our packs
arranged. Early the next morning the
packs were strapped on to the horses and
we rode away. First we wound up the
sides of a deep canyon where we saw on
both sides of the gorge great pillars of
hard clay carved into most fantastic
shapes by the sand storms. Malcolm
pointed out to me the carcasses of three
fine steers lying crushed ina_ shapeless
mass. These animals, #t appeared, were
feeding on the high bank on the right
side of the canyon and approaching too
close to the edge went over and their
bodies were crushed into pulp onthe
rocks below after their long fall. We
saw another fine ranch belonging to Mr.
Mason, an old Caribooite who when I
was on a visit to this district seven vears
before gave me a fine blue jade Siwash
(Indian) chisel.

After riding along a narrow trail for
three hours we started to climb. At
places the trail was so steep it almost
seemed to lean backwards and it was on-
ly by constant zig-zagging that we man-
aged to get up at all. About three
o’clock in the afternoon we reached the
top and camped by the side ofa small
stream.

In every direction we saw a panorama

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of rolling mountain tops, stretching away
to the horizon like the frozen waves of
some granite sea. Here and there ap-
peared an Old Man of the Hills lifting up
his snowy crown of majesty and beauty !

Luncheon over we started out to hunt
and within half a m'le from camp a bunch
of five deer sprang up. With a soft nos-
ed .303 I caught the leader through the
shoulder and sent him down. The se-
cond one, a two year old buck, swung to
our left about one hundred yards and as
he jumped ovor a log the soft nosed cut
his back clean in two causing him to give
a loud Baa and crush to the earth. The
third, another buck, galloped down the
hill towards the valley at about one
hundred and fifty yards distance when I
sent a *303 clean through his heart and
lungs. With the speed at which he was
going he continued for fully two hundred
feet before he fell. Malcolm said it took
three minutes before he went down. The
work certainly proved the .303 Britisher
a sure killer and a splendid weapon. Last
spring I killed a grizzly with a 30-40 ;
the bullets did not go clean through him
but I think a .303 would have done so.

We took a quarter of the two year old
to Camp and had roast ribs to burn that
night. Bright and early next morning
we had a venison steak breakfast and
then went off after goats. Half a mile
from Camp we came out on the moun-
tain roof and looked down two thousand
teet over howling precipices, to wherea
creek foamed and roared in the canyon
below. The guide ‘‘glassed” the cliffs
for a few minutes, and then pointed out
an ancient Billy standing like a_ statue
on the cliffs below.

A wide detour was made but the only
result was to find that the goat had seen
us and gone into safety under an over-
hanging ledge. Accordingly we had to
pant and puff our way back, up a slide
to another point where we rested and
looked down.

After searching the faces of the slides
for some time we espied a group of three
snow white Billies about three hundred
yards below and to our left. Two of
them were lying down below and one as
usual was on guard. As I was not fully
acquainted with the powers of the .303
my first shots went high. Soon however

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I got the distance. more accurately and
dropping the sights to point blank range
I speedily had two of them hors de goat
—the third running off through some
pine trees on the knoll.

Malcolm had moccassins on his feet
while I wore heavily spiked shoes. The
way that youngster went down those
slides standing erect all the time, made
my hair standon end! I went down very
carefully hanging on to boulders of rock,
bushes etc. My companion played the
part of ‘‘Lead on, Macduff,’’ across
polished rock faces where a single slip
meant to be torn and beaten into a pulp
before one could smash into the creek far
below. Down and down Icrawled and
when about one hundred and fifty yards
from the wounded goats we met the
third William goat coming up to meet
us. At the time! had five ‘‘hard head”
shells in the magazine and one soft nose
ontop. The latter 1 punched through
Mr. Goat which caused him to start
towards the others at a quick walk.

About every twenty feet he covered I
sent a ‘‘nickel nose’’ at him, and seeing
the dust fly from the slide onthe other
side 1 thought I was firing too high.
Although I took a finer sight each time
the dust kept kicking up. with the result
that the gun got cussed in several shad-
es of feeling. Then Billy the Third went
over the cliff and disappeared.

We followed crawling round the point
like flies, and while | was engaged with
the camera Malcolm called out ‘‘Look,
there!” andlooking in the direction he
was pointing I saw William the Third
laying dead on a_ rock slide, two
hundred feet away. I found out that the
‘‘nickel nose’ had gone clean through
him.

After skinning the goats we turned
them loose and followed their hurtling
and mangled remains to the creek. After
lighting a fire on the bank and cooling a
nice tenderloin steak in the icy waters
we roasted it for lunch. It was well for
us we enjoyed our lunch in anticipation
for we had no enjoyment of it in reality.
Ye shades of Pa Burns ! Our teeth could
hardly dinge the otiter layer. Tutti-Frutti
makers ought to raise goats and _ their
famous compound would. last as long as
they pleased and prove more nourishing.

447

We made heroic efforts to ‘‘eat some-
thing”’ but failed, and gathering together
our heads and skins we proceeded down
the canyon. Right below where we lost
sight of our snowy friend of the morning
we saw him again. He proved to bea
wise old guy and as soon as_ he caught
sight of us he made for the tall timbers
and the highest cliffs. It took more
nickel and lead to bring him down at
three hundred yards than would suffice to
start a store. Nevertheless down he
came fighting hard all the way until he
fell two hundred yards away. When we
got him he had only one horn, the other
being broken off by a glancing rock ora
fall, while he was covered with a great
shaggy coat of yellow hair. Wetook
his skin and left a feast for the great
bald headed eagles we saw swarming
high above us. Their sight and smell is
so keen that we knew within a few hours
they would light on him and gorge them-
selves. Malcolm told methat on one
occasion he came across one of these
eagles so gorged onadeer that he hit
him with a club before he’d fly.

Still burdened with our skins and heads
we wound down the canyon toa point
where we were able to leave them to be
picked up on our way to the ranch. Then
came an arduous climb back to the Camp.
It was about seven o’clock when we made
a start on this return journey. All day
long we had had nothing to eat but goat
steak and the further we climbed the
thirstier we became. The torture grew
agonizing. I chewed rose buds, pine
gum, etc. but without relief and halfa
mile from the top I played out. A fire
was made by the side of the trail and the
guide went on to the camp for ‘‘water.’’

The guide pushed off bravely until he
reached the summit where heated and ex-
hausted, he was struck by the cold wind
and went down sick andfaint. After an
hour he made his way slowly to camp and
there lay sick and weak. In the mean-
time I kept the fire going until heat and
weariness sent me to sleep.

About ten o'clock I was awakened by
the agonies of my thirst. The ‘‘tortures
of the damned” raged through me and |
continually called for ‘‘water, water !”’ as
though in that place anyone could hear

me. I fired off my rifle and there was

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no response. Then Scotch wrath arose
within me and up the hill I went, feeling
for the trail with my feet, until half dead
with fatigue I came within sight of the
camp. Then Malcolm heard me and
came out with a cake and a can of tea. |
imbibed a quart of the latter without
stopping and immediately felt better.
Together we made for the camp where
we cooked a fair supper and enjoyed it.
After this experience we packed up
next morning and started home. When
about a mile from the ranch a coyote
ran out of some sage bushes, went up
under a cliff and sat down, switching
his tail
round his} ._
front feet) sae
as cute as|xem
Brer Fox.|S
1 scrambl-|igee
ed off Fred
the horse I|@
was riding
and lett
drivea
hard head{g
at th ej
chicken
stealer. Helg
skidooed
litkkre ea
shadow in
the sun-
shine, but
the third
bullet, a
soft nose

one, went*

clean THE TRAIL
through

him and doubled him up. While the
firing was going on Fred took to his

heels one way and the pack horse another,
causing us to do some tall sprinting be-
fore we caught them again. We arrived
at the ranch without furthur incident
and there enjoyed a good night’s repose.

Next day we went to Big Bar for the
mail. First we rodeup the river for
seven miles and there Bill Irwin a famous
rifle shot ferried us over. On the way to
the Post Office I gota shot at an im-
mense Rocky Mountain eagle and only
found out after he had flown that I had
the sights up at four hundred yards. The

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sequel was rather amusing. The eagle
and his partner flew down the river and
as we figured it out appearedat the ranch
an hour later coolly picked up a hen and
flew off to a little bluff of clay to eat it.
Mr. McDonald rushed out and let him
have two charges of No. 5 shot. The
eagle is going yet though he left a_ badly
scared hen behind, and probably holds a
poor opinion of the Big Bar shots.

Our next trip was after Big Horn. We
went back about fifteen miles winding
along the mountain tops. A_ large ir-
rigation ditch ran most of the way by
the trail, its fertile edges making the

ABOVE THE RIVER.

most delightful contrasts with the rugged
and frowning mountains. Wherever the
life giving fluid went, making an emerald
path across the brown and dusty moun-
tain sides, life was abundant, vigorous
and refreshing.

We camped beside a pretty little
mountain creek, the big blue grouse flying
up from all around the camping ground
as we came toit. The mountains here
were literally alive with these great
sooty fellows. No one bothers them
very much and accordingly they increase
to a wonderful extent. Those we potted
weighed fully three pounds each, one

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making avery nice lunch for both of
us.

It was clear to us that the sheep must
have had a wireless from, the Goat Sec-
retary that morning for though we rode
over the mountains, and ‘‘glassed” the
rocky points of the canyon on French
creek we only saw their tracks. We
came across some fine old horns but had
no luck.

Every day we found deer in bands of
three to five. I got two more nice heads
and skins but failed to locate Mr. Wily
Big Horn. All we could do was to take
it out of the grouse of which we got
quite anumber to take home. They
make fine shooting just to nip their heads
off.

My brother, who at the time I am
writing this article is up in the mountains,
sends me word that he has got his limit
often deer, mostly with nickel bullets,
and tracked sheep within three hundred
yards when the sheep got their scent and
speedily made off. He is using the same
.303 and thinks it the only gun made.

The last day of my outing Malcolm
awoke me with the word ‘‘Snow!” Sure

A thrilling story of the woods comes
from Cobalt. Two French Canadians,
named Joe Landreau and Max Bedeck,
set out to tramp twenty miles along the
wagon road from Wendigo Lake to
Larder Lake where they were to cut wood
for a steamboat company. They had
proceededa few miles on their journey
when they were overtaken by a wagon,
the driver of which volunteered to show
them a short cut where by following a
blazed trail three miles would be saved.
On thistrail they missed the blaze and got
lost. For two days they wandered about
without food and once thought of killing
a small terrier they had with them.
At length Landreau played out and they
had to camp for several hours. Resum-
ing theiraimlesstramping they had to wade
through water above their knees for a
mile or more in order to get round a hill.
This completely exhausted Landreau and
he lay down to die. He handed Bedeck
his watch and money and bade him go

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enough there was three inches of it and

the date only September fifteenth ! The
last day speedily passed and the hour
for departure came.

Early in the morning we ferried the

stuff across first and then swam _ the
horses over. All of them went across
in fine fashion except Fred. He loafed and
as the current is very swift the boat went
pretty well down. Malcolm took a club
and inspired Fred to turn in short order.
This he did though when he landed he
snorted in deep disgust at such treat-
ment.

On the way out we called at a cabin
where I picked up a curiosity in the way
of deer horns. One day the guide found
the set in some bush. While the whole
skeleton was there the guide only took
the horns. The prongs are as wide as a
caribou’s, very strong and _ broadly pal-
mated. I’m getting a fresh scalp for
them and will have them mounted.

When we reached Clifton that night
we had no difficulty in convincing the
tillecums (friends) who were present and
who had come from Missouri that we
could show the goods.

and save himself if he could. After
some time the men parted and Bedeck
pushed on in an endeavor to find some
place of habitation. In his loneliness
and misery he prayed for help and prom-
ised that if rescued he would give all the
money he possessed—$3.75—to some de-
serving charity. A little later he reached
a stream and came across a canoe. He
played a hero’s part and promptly stum-
bled back to his companion whom he as-
sisted out to the stream. By means of
the canoe the men went down to the
camp of some prospectors in the employ
of the Buffalo Development Company
where they were well cared for and soon
recovered from the effects of their terri-
ble experiences. The men stated that
the second night they were sleeping
without food they saw a large bear close
to them digging shrubs out of a log.
They also saw several moose. Landreau
abandoned his pack of clothes which he
estimates to have been worth $15.

roe

A Rough Hunt in Bye-Gone Days.

BY AVERY MOOREHOUSE.

UNTING big game is a very differ-
| ent thing today to what it was

within my recollection. J havea
particular place in my memory for one
trip which I took with ‘‘Lou” and which I
believe he has cause to remember equally
with myself.

You see it happened in this way. I
met Lou ina grocery store and in the
course of conversation he asked me how
my pulse beat for a moose hunt. Now
as I had already secured my limit of deer
he caught me ‘‘‘at the psychological
moment,” as the scientists would say, and
I told him I was just spoiling to train my
rifle on something larger than a deer.

Once we had made up our minds it did
not take us long to make arrangements,
and accordingly the next morning saw
us on our way to the hunting grounds.
We meant to make the neighborhood of
the head waters of the Keswick stream
the scene of our hunt and with that ob-
ject in view took the train for Upper
Keswick Station. From that point a
walk of eight miles brought us to an
old lumber camp at. which we arrived
about three o’clock in the afternoon.
The camp was in such an upset that it
appeared as ifa cyclone and an earth-
quake had there met in mortal combat
and spent their furies on it. The weather
was cold anda few inches of snow had
fallen. First we tore up aportion of the
floor in order to make a fire and after
making a hole in the roof in order to
allow the smoke to escape we built our
fire and endeavoured to warm ourselves.
What with damp and rotting wood that
camp did smoke! Ye gods and little
fishes I never saw the like before! We
buried our heads in the boughs to get
our breaths and resorted to every means
our skill could devise to gain the warmth
and escape from the smoke. All we could
do made no difference and we continued
to cry throughout that livelong night.
Yes, we actually shed more tears than
the Good Man when he wept over Jerusa-
lem !

Although morning seemed as if it would

never come it did come at last. With
the first streak of dawn we made our
breakfast which consisted of tea and
some of Lou’s ‘‘pound cake’’—I called it
‘“‘nound’’ for it was so hard it took a
mighty small piece to weigh a pound.
As soon as we could we were on the
move both to warm our bodies and raise
our spirits.

On aridge not too far from our camp
we found many old moose tracks. We
followed them for a time but I soon sug-
gested giving them up and trying else-
where. It was pretty clear that these
tracks were several days old and I did
not think it was any use keeping up
with them. Lou however was as con-
trary asa swine, and one might as well
have tried to make the Mississippi run
up hill as endeavour to move him. Ac-
cordingly we kept up the pursuit over
mountain, hill and valley till we came to
the main Keswick stream. We saw that
they had crossed here and climbed the
steep mountain known as the Grand
John Ridge.

Again I tried to persuade Lou to call it
off. It was to no purpose I told him
they were making for the Nashwaak or
Miramichi. He would go on and there
was nothing for me to do but to accom-
pany him.

All at once we found a new diversion.
More tracks and fresh ones we found in
the newly fallen snow. ‘‘Caribou” I
told Lou and caribou tracks they proved
to be. We appeared to have run into
the tracks of a band of these animals.
The woods were full of them and ata
very careful estimate the band must have
numbered between thirty and forty. As
by this time it was nearly noon I advised
great care, as our quarry would be lying
down and wedid not wish to disturb
them.

I had scarcely given this caution when
there was a wild stampede and seven
caribou rose from their beds and were
off like the wind. Both rifles missed
fire and we both lost two good chances

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of success. Fate was against us that
time and though we sent several random
shots after them they succeededin getting
away unscratched.

Once the stampede commenced caribou
ran from all directions and the woods ap-
peared to be full of them. We did not
know where to aim and_ holding the
smoking rifles in our hands we watched
the sight with interest. As a matter of
fact we didn’t even draw blood and we
could not not refrain from using words
not to be found in Webster’s Dictionary.

At length I took a short detour to the
right and while proceeding cautiously I
saw a large cow and a monster bull.
These two animals had not been routed
out and were still gazing with curiosity
at the proceedings of their fellows. A
space of about six inches between two
trees enabled us to see the neck of Mr.
Bull quite clearly. It was at that point
{ took aim and my rifle spoke with so
much effect that he yielded up the ghost
at once. He was a dandy and I was just
admiring him when Lou came up and re-
marked ‘‘Well, the funny thing was
that among all these caribou I did not
see one pair ofhorns. All I did was to
ask him to look at my prize. I told him
that he would see a pair of horns there,
and he did. His surprise was expressed
in the words ‘‘Well, Ill be jiggered !”
though he was not too far gone in sur-
prise to give me valuable assistance in
skinning the caribou.

It now being past the noon hour we
treated ourselves to some more of Lou’s
pound cake and discussed the situation.
We did not know exactly where we
were but we thought we must be near
the Nashwaak. At first I thought it
would be best for us to try and make
camp where we were but as it commenced
raining we decided to try and make for an
old tumble down lumber camp.

Accordingly I took the head while Lou
carried the hide and one quarter and we
followed a south course back to the Kes-
wick stream. Darkness was coming on
and we had to hurry to the place where
we hoped to pass the night with a little
more comfort than we had spent the
preceding night. However we reckoned

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without knowing what was in front of us
and it was just as well we did not. We
thought we had a bad night,and suffered
quite enough, the night before. It was
as nothing in comparison to the discom-
forts we underwent the second night !

By groping round inthe dark we
managed to make a fire but the smoke
nearly drove us mad. We did succeed
after great effort in swallowing some
In the meantime the
rain had cleared off but the wind blew a
hurricane from the North-west and it
was extreemely cold. Our bedding con-
sisted of an old flour barrel and our bed
was an icy floor. Our clothes were wet
and froze upon us. How we survived
is a wonder to both of us but what be-
tween the fire and the smoke we managed
to keep from freezing solid and as the
longest night has an end this one had
also, although there were times when we
were disinclined to believe in this fact.
Even these experiences were not such as
to daunt us from getting our game and
in the morning, as soon as wecould move
we made the return trip and _ speedily
warmed ourselves up. With some diffi-
culty we carried the whole of the caribou
out to the stream in order that we might
sled it home just as soon as the stream
was in a condition to allow us to do so.

We returned home the next day carry-
ing the head which I had so hardly won.
I afterwards mounted this particular head
which I have now at home and_ prize
very highly.

Although this happened many years
ago the circumstances are as vivid in
my recollections as though they occured
yesterday. How circumstances have
now changed! Hunting trips are not
often rough affairs today. There is now
a carrrage road to the place where we
hunted and passed such a fearful night.
Camps and tents and camp supplies en-
sure a good time inthe woods while a
good head either of a deer, caribou, or
moose is the usual reward. Caribou are
not so plentiful as they formerly were but
both deer and moose appear to be on the
increase in New Brunswick and with all
the aids to success in the hands of sports-
man today even the tenderfoot should
not fail to get his full quota.

Hunting in the Parry Sound District.

BY ALMON ALMAS.

fine trip, which was successful in
every way, was taken by a party of
hunters from Old Ontario to the
Parry Sound District last year. There
were eight of us, including a young
lady who was anxious to see what back-
woods life was like, and who was taken
along in order to make our meals more
tasty than the folk for all their
boasting can
manage to do.
Woodstock was
left on the morn-
ing of October
16th, and good
time was made.
We left the
train at South
River and here
our guide and
his daughter
were awaiting
us. Mr. Willtam
Carr is a settler
in the district
and as a guide
is not to be beat-
en. His daugh-
ter made a very
pleasant com-
panion for the
young lady who
accompaniedus,
and the two did
much to make
our camp life
agreeable while

men

By the opening of the season we had
all in readiness for hunting. Both our-
selves and our dogs werein prime con-
dition and the morning of November
first found us on the runways and keen
in our anticipations of the coming sport.

There was more or less firing during
the day and at night when we gathered
for our evening meal, smoke and talk one
of our number
was absent and
did not return all
night.

Next morning
I was the earliest
riser in camp
and as I was
busy getting
things to rights
I noticed the
missing one,
who was Wil-
liamBull,coming
towards the
camp carrying a
fine”? deer. It
appears that
during the pre-
vious afternoon
he had shot the
animal and as it
got away he
took, ups € he
trail. 4 ,At tse 7
leading him a
long chase he
caught up and

themselves en- a second shot
joying the novel finished the
situation. WILLIAM BULL CARRYING HIS DEER. work. By this

For fifteen time it wasdark,

miles back,over roads the like of which I
had never before seen even in a backwoods
district, our goods were teamed and
when we arrived on the shores of Beaver
Lake we were all ready fora rest. The
Camp had been put in something like
order and it was not long before the
first meal was prepared and we were en-
joying the pleasures of rest and food
out in the open.

and like a wise man Bull made a fire and
spent the night as best he could. He
had taken his dinner with him but noth-
ing was left over for supper and he did
not feel inclined even to roast a deer
steak. As soon as daylight appeared he
made for the camp carrying his deer with
him and arrived before breakfast was
prepared. We were not long in procuring
him something to eat and after he had

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thus refreshed himself he told us his ad-
ventures. It is arule of our camp that
the first deer we shoot is used for camp
purposes and Bull’s deer, which was a
fine doe of one hundred pounds, came
in for our camp supply and proved most
excellent eating.

Later on Bull succeeded in getting
another deer. We were on the runway
when I put up a deer which Bull shot.
He broke one of the animal’s front legs
but it got away well and gave us a long
tramp. Without the dogs we should
have lost the deer but the dogs ferreted
it out and Bull
putting a bullet |.
through his neck].
finished the job]/%
he had so well be-
gun. We were all |§
glad Bullmet with |™
this success and
we all enjoyed the
remainder of his]
deer the better for
the thought that
he would still
have one to carry
home. i

Another of our
number, John Mc-
Kay, was fortun-
ate enough to get |Fag
two bucks on one
eday. He was on
the runway when
the dogs chased
two bucks. Both {§
crossed the road
in a flash but
McKay was even
quicker. The leader, a fine buck of nearly
two bundred pounds, he brought down
with the first shot, and the other, a spike
buck was felled with a second shot. As
readers can well understand there was
much jubilation in the camp over this
fine success. The subsequent work was
pretty heavy but some hunters who were
near by and heard the shooting came
forward and helped the fortunate hunter
to dress and hang up the deer. A third
member of our party, whose name is
Williamson, was out when the dogs
started a deer. He shot the animal in
the neck when he at once jumped _ behind

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a log and remained motionless. There
was very little blood and the trail was

lost. A good sgarch met with no result
but finally the dogs which had run off on
another trail were brought back and
routed the animal out. As the deer was
just about to bound out a second shot
from Williamson dropped it and a kill
was placed to his credit.

Another curious incident occurred
during this camping experience. Two ot
our members named Nicholls and German
were out when they sawa deer crossa
creek. Both shot at it and both missed

PARTY

IN CAMP.

it. The animal bounded off, crossed a
bluff, and German‘ran round and heading
it off shot at and killed it.
In all we succeeded in
deer and ‘seeing a great

getting eight
deal of the

country. The camp table was well sup-
plied with partridge. On one occasion
I shot a. fox. We started him from

what was evidently an early morning nap
and before he could get away I hada
good shot at him and killed him. Anoth-
er morning I succeeded in doing the
same with a mink.

We remained the whole of the open
season sending our deer out the day be-

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fore we broke camp. On the day we
left it was interesting to see how we
managed to get out. Going in had been
comparatively easy but in coming out we
had to mount a place where the rock was
steep and bare affording no foothold for
the horses. As the whole of our material
was on the wagon making it weigh about
a ton it was a problem how we were to
get it up this place. By means of sap-
lings placed lengthwise and attached to-
gether by chains a very long line was
made enabling one team to be on top of
of the rock and assist the pole horses in

retaining their feet and hauling the load |

up the rocky road. This wasthe worst
bit of experience but the ingenious man-

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ner in which an
difficulty was
even to the bad road.
reaching the station and
landed us and our belongings
again.

While we thoroughly enjoyed this
outing we did not think so much of the
country as of Muskoka, which had been
the scene of previous hunts, and where
we never failed to obtain our full comple-
ment as allowed by law. The Parry
Sound district is a wild and _ beautiful
place but a rough country for all that,
and there are times and occasions when
even a deer hunter likes a little com-
fort.

apparently insuperable
Overcome reconciled us
We succeeded in
the train soon
at home

A Sunday Outing.

BY ome yi Mes

IM has anew launch which has
J been in commission only about ten
days. Itis afast imodel, twenty-
seven feet over all, fitted with a six
horse power engine, and has a _ speed of
nearly twelve miles per hour. We had
never been out in her, so when Jim sug-
gested a trip to Orillia, we all jumped at
the chance. We left Beaverton,—Jim,
Ollie the Colonel and I,—at ten o’clock
on a fine bright Sunday morning. The
engine worked well andthe day was
perfect so that we were almost sorry
when we tied up to the ‘‘Orillia House”’
we were right on the spot. The trip
across the lake had sharpened our ap-
petites, and we all did ample justice to
the good things before us, though we
agreed that Jim was the best of us at the
table

We lounged around for an hour or
so, and at 3.30 started back for Beaver-
ton. Everything went smoothly until
we were nearly half way home, when the
engine suddenly stopped. Jim worked
with it, and coaxed it, and _ teased it
without effect. It had stopped, and
absolutely refused to start again. .

Jim was anxious to get home and catch
a train at nine o’clock for Toronto, and
as the wind was rising and we were

lying in the trough of the sea, we de-
cided to pull the boat into a sheltered bay
near at hand, and moor her there. For-
tunately we were just off a point when
the engine stopped, and had drifted in
close to land. We poled along
the shore till we got into shoal water,
and then we ran aground. There was
nothing to do but strip and get out and
drag the boat into deep water. The
bottom was stoney, and hard on our
feet, and when Jim heard this he put his
boots on again before joining the rest of
us in the water, saying that he preferred
wet boots to sore feet.

Jim took the bow, the Colonel and I
were on opposite sides amidships, and
Ollie went behind—‘‘to shore,” as he
explained it. The real reason, however,
was soon discovered, as we caught him
stealing a ride. Hecomplained that the
stones were too sharp, but we were
hard hearted, and made him work with
the rest.

After navigating in this fashion for
about a quarter of a mile we saw a nice
sandy beach ahead, and determined to
haul the boat up onit. But she had
different ideas, for when we were still
some yards off she grounded and we had
to back her out’ again. We then sawa

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dead tree which had fallen out into the
water, and managed to get the boat
alongside it, and tied her stem and
stern.

And then our real troubles began. The
shore there was overgrown with thick
bush and tangled underbrush, almost
impossible to walk through. So we
gathered up our clothes and waded
along the shore to where the bush was
more open. The stones bothered Ollie
again, and it was some time before he
decided to follow us rather than dress
where he was, and take a chance on get-
ting through the bush.

After stumbling over underbrush and
through swamps we found a cow path
and followed it, and soon a_ house ap-
peared in view. We hailed it with joy,
confidently expecting to find out where
wewere, and get a team to drive us to
Beaverton. But alas ! We were doom-
ed to disappointment. The house was un-
tenanted the onlysign oflife being a sheep
grazing nearby. When the Colonel saw
it, he exclaimed, ‘‘Thank Heaven! We
won't need to starve, anyway.’ We
took the path again, and came out on
~ the lake shore at the extreme end of the
point. Sadly weturned back, and after
crossing a pasture field we came upon
something which bore a faint remembl-
ance to aroad. After walking along it
for twenty minutes we met two men who

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informed us that we were seven miles
from Brechin, the nearest village. We
tried to hire a conveyance from them,
but all they had was one horse anda
single buggy,so that didn’t help us. We
started to foot it up the road and in
about an hour came to the Grand Trunk
railroad track. We turned along it, and
walked the ties at the best rate we could
in the hope of getting to the Canadian
Northern station at Brechin in time to
flag Jim’s train. Weary and footsore we ar-
rived at the Grand Trunk station at Brech-

-in with a few minutes to spare, and after

calling on a friendly pump, we stumbled
through the gathering darkness the last
mile to the Canadian Northern station.

But our ill luck still followed us. The
station was closed and in darkness, and
the agent was away. There was not
even a lantern with which to signal the
train. So it was up to usto tramp an-
other mile to the village, the Colonel re-
marking ‘‘Every time you turn around
in this country it’s a mile.” We secured
a carriage at the livery, and at 9.30 we
rolled into it and started on the last stage
of our trip.

We _ arrived at
10.30, just about allin, and unanim-
ously agreeing that for varied exper-
iences, that trip beat everything we had
ever undertaken.

Beaverton at

When Deer Hunters Go Duck Shooting.

BY E. J. MCVEIGH.

O the man who never shoots I ex-
expect shooting is just. shooting,

whether it be deer or duck, flesh or
fowl. But the old hand knows better.
I have a great respect for the good duck
shooter. The man who can go out and
bring home a good bag of duck is about
good enough for any kind of sport, but
it is hard to get him interested in other
kinds of shooting, and | think I under-
stand to an extent the reason why. jn
my opinion the duck shooter is born, not

made. Most of us know something’
about what he goes up against in the
pursuit of his favorite game, and I will
not go into details, but | saw a pair of
pictures some time ago that told the
story short and clear. The first was the
interior of an office with carpet, heavy
upholstered chairs, beautiful desk, and
pictures on the wall, with our duck
hunter leaning back in his seat smoking
acigar. The second one showed the
same man going up a dirty swamp creek

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in a pouring rain, the most dismal heart-
breaking thing you could well imagine.
The first picture was called ‘‘This is
where he works,’’ and the second, ‘‘This
is where he plays!” Yes, I have great
respect for the good duck hunter, and a
few of the reasons why you may learn
from the short but ower true tale | will
try to tell.

My friend John and I had hunted deer
together for many moons, and had some
small respect for each other when we
were out withthe rifles, so when he
stumped me to go after the festive duck
I agreed, after he had told me of the
flocks he had seen on the flooded lands
on Cranberry Creek in the Province of
Quebec. I had told him that what |
didn’t know about duck shooting would
fill a book, and he replied, ‘‘Same here;
but hang it all we can’t miss getting
some fun, and the ducks are so thick
down there you could shut your eyes and
kill them!”

This sounded good to me, and it is
worth while being out with John if you
never kill anything. So we made our
arrangements and off we went. We
stayed over night as near the creek as
possible and long before daylight we
were at the water tank where the railway
crosses the swamp, and when the night
freight pulled up for water the train crew
were surprised to see us, and said so.
Did you ever hear a freight train crew
express surprise or other emotion? No;
well you have missed something.

We had made most of our arrange-
ments over night, and we now proceeded
to fit up our boat in what we fondly im-
agined was just about right for creek
shooting. First we nailed a _ piece of
scantling across the bow; through this
we had bored many 3-4 in. holes, and
through these holes we stuck brush to
form a hide. One of us would sit on the
seat behind this with the guns, while the
other used the paddle in the stern.

It was not yet daylight when we
pushed the boat up the creek to the
south of the railway, and on the edge of
the first stretch of drowned land we
came to, we backed into the brush to
wait for the dawn. John had a double
No. 12, while I had nothing but a single
No. 16. May the man who invented it

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never know joy! I know I won’t meet
him in the next world for I don’t intend

|
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going where he is, but I would like to |

tell him a few things!

As thelight gained on us we looked
around for duck, and there out in the
flooded field were a flock of seven or
eight big black fellows. There was not
sufficient water outside of the channel of
the creek for the boat, and while we both
had rubber boots, John’s came up to his
hips, and it did not seem that the ducks
would let us walk up on them—in fact
they were moving already. Therefore I
told John to give them one barrel to get
them up and we would take our chance
of them flying within reach. Up they
got, made a short circle, and went past
us at about fifty yards. I pulled on the
head of the string, one turned and came
like a cannon ball straight for my face, I
ducked, and he passed where my head
had been and went into the water splash
—behind me. John had not fired his sec-
ond barrel, and he now turned andblazed
at that duck with the muzzle of the No.
12 about six inches from the top of my
head. The 16 had kicked me likea
mule, and John’s shot seemed to drive
my head down between my shoulders, so
that for a few moments I was not sure
whether we had been shooting at the
ducks or them at us, and my fellow as-
sassin sat down and laughed as I felt at
my shoulder and then my head. By the
time 1 had satisfied myself that these

parts of my anatomy were still attached |

to me the duck was showing signs of
life, and I welted him on the head with
the paddle and got him into the boat.

So far we had fired three shots, and
had one duck, one headache and one
sore shoulder. Wenow concluded to go
down the creek under the railway and
continue north to where we understood
the ducks were more plentiful, so away
we went with me at the paddle, and
John behind the screen. I was not sup-
posed to shoot, but I kept the 16 in my
end of the boat. We had not gone far
when as we rounded a bend, two ducks
got up and started off in a considerable
hurry. Forgetting all about rules and
regulations | dropped the paddle, grabbed
the sixteen and blazed away, and much
to my surprise dropped one of them.

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That sixteen was sure a deadly machine
at both ends of her. We were all sur-
prised at that shot; John couldn’t have
been more so unless I had plugged him
in the back of the neck, but it put him
on his metal, and when we backed into
the brush where the creek overflowed
further on he was wide awake.

In a few minutes a pair of ducks came
up going full speed and before I knew
what I was at he took them right and
left, and they dropped within twenty feet
of each other. ‘‘There,’” said he, ‘‘I
knew you could get them if you held
straight!’ Alas! poor John, we picked
up this pair and when I put them in the
boat the first one was alive again and
trying to get out. I gave him another
wallop on the head and threw him back
and on we went.

John was now at the paddle and I at
the front. I don’t know how many I
had missed, but I had killed none in the
next half mile, and was getting a little
rattled when John yelled that the black
duck was again getting out of the boat.
That was a little too much, so when |
got him in hand that time I removed his
head, and that settled him, though I did
catch myself taking an occasional look to
see that he was still with us. John now
took a hand, and I told him about how
the sixteen reminded me each time I
fired. He said he rather liked a gun that
kicked some, and I told him here was a
chance to shake hands with one. He is
dead game, and the next time he punched
a hole in the atmosphere it was with the
sixteen, and he sat down with a grunt
that was most expressive, while the re-
proachful look he gave me made me
laugh until my own shoulder felt much
better!

There is no use in trying to deny it,
there is lots of room around a flying
duck. And why this feverish haste?
They will sit and gossip wasting time by
the hour, but let them start to go any-
where, or nowhere for that matter, and
if you want to connect with them you
must pick out a spot in the ozone some-
where in advance of where you saw
them last, and fire at that. If you area
good duck man the bird runs into some-
thing and is wrecked, and you pick him
up just as if it was the most natural

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thing in the world, instead of being a
miracle. But if you are only a second
rate deer shot you keep trying to plug
him behind the shoulder, and mostly you
hit him about six teet behind the end of
his tail, and he just throws in the first
clutch of the high speed and goes on at
one hundred miles per hour instead ot
his slow jog of seventy-five.

We were now about a mile north of
the railway and the Creek turns sharp to
the west into more open country and we
had a better view, so did the ducks, and
they would go round us ata distance of
two hundred yards in a most beautiful
manner. I expect we looked more dan-
gerous than we were really.

There were not many birds near us
anyway, but down about a mile we could
see a few flocks flying around and we
kept moving in that direction until
we saw a fellow come into our creek
from a side ditch and go down ahead of
us, and as he would likely put them up
we backed our boat into the brush to
wait for what might come our way. We
were busy fixing our hide when a flock of
at least one hundred duck came right
over us from the other direction and we

just grabbed the guns turned them
muzzle up and let go. Say, it just
rained duck! I think we had at least

five different kinds down on the water at
once, but do you think they stayed there?
Not them. Some made for the brush,
some got up and flew away and some
went straight down. John and I, poor
green horns, were so busy getting the
boat out to pick them up, that when we
did get out they were mostly all gone.
There was one big black duck trying to
reach the brush and I gave him a charge
that turned him clean over, but he
reached the point he was making for and
down he went.

Talk about the nine lives ofa cat,
pussy isn’t in it with a black duck, the
one we had inthe boat we had killed
four times, and then cut off his head, and
I was none too sure of him yet, while
this last one I never saw again though
I poked around the roots of the brush
with the paddle for some time! Out of
the lot that fell to that last broadside we
finally got one small blue wing, and |
chased him through the woods one hun_

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dred feet, and I wouldn’t have got him
then if he hadn’t got into water too

shallow for diving.

I don't know much about duck hunt-
ing but what little { do know has given
me great respect for the duck. I re-
member one occasion while I was _ par-
tridge shooting in Ontario coming out
on a small bluff on the shore of a lake,
and as I stood there a flight of duck
went by at long range and I dropped
one. It seemed to be dead alright and I
was wondering how I was going to get
him, when he gave a kick or two and
started straight for the foot of the bank
where [ stood. He was badly used up
and came along his side, paddling with
one flipper. I thought he was coming
in to surrrender, unconditionally, and |
was just going down to help him up the
bank when he looked up at me with a
“‘don’t you wish you. may get me” sort
of look, and down he went! So far as I
know he is down there yet!

We had got back into our hide once
more when we heard a shot from our
friend down the creek, and looking down
that way we could see the duck rising in
clouds. I never saw so many duck at
one time before or since. The air was
full of them, and here they come, by
tens, by fifties and by hundreds. How I
wished for some of the boys I knew that
are duck men! We did the best we could,
but with that little devil of a sixteen
kicking the stuffing out of me, and John
trying to shoot three different ways at
once there was a lot of lost opportunity
running loose in that neck of the
woods.

After the fight was over we went down
to see where all these duck had come
from and found an island of dry land of
about two acres in extent, and from the
signs I expect there had been a duck on
every square foot of it at least. This
swamp lies between the St. Lawrence
and the Richelieu, and I expect the duck
had come in from both sides, the flooded
land being the attraction, and as the
Government has since done considerable
draining down that way the duck would
not be found so numerous, but there was
certainly a few there on the occasion to
which I refer.

About four p. m. we headed for home,

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and we did not have more duck than the
boat would hold, but we had a few, and
felt that we had been having a fairly good
time. Going up the creek, in a narrow
part, we ran the boat on to a_ stub that
stuck up straight from the bottom, and
there she stuck. John is not what you
would call a real handy man in a _ boat,
though willing and he took the second
paddle to pry us off. He stood up and
reached under until he got the stub, and
with a cheery ‘‘now I have her” he
heaved. As John is about twice my
weight and was leaning over the side of
the boat when she left the snag, he
found himself a little off center and to
save a header into the brink he frog
hopped in the direction of the shore.
He didn’t go down further than his ears
and the way hereached for the bank was
a caution tocats! I was busy myself but
I had time to see him claw up on to land,
and he stood up with those hip boots full
up tothe tor! They were water tight
alright! I asked him if he was wet, and
he said, ‘‘Oh, no, but say them boots
were too short after all’ and then he
laughed. John doesn’t swear, helaughs.
I like it better than swearing anyway!

When I got in and stripped to change
my clothes I found I was black from my
elbows up to within two inches of my
ears, and half way across my chest. Il
would like to say what I think of a single
sixteen bore loaded for duck, and my
opinion of the man who would try to use
it might be interesting but our language
has its limitations.

I never had but one experience in
shooting duck over decoys, and while I
cannot say much about it as a successful
duck shoot, as acircus it was all right.
To get the most benefit possible out of it
I brought along a pair of domestic
ducks and anchored them with half a
dozen wooden decoys. The old drake
took considerable interest in the new
members of his harem, and seemed to
think it was up to him to pay them some
attention, and he would slide up to one
bowing and scraping and when it would
bob away in such an irresponsive manner
he would put his head on one side and
reason with that wooden image in a
manner that left me quite unfit to hit a
flying haystack, to say nothing of a duck!

How | Caught Buck Fever.

BY A. B. CRAWFORD.

was much interested in reading an

1 | article in your January number, en-
a titled ‘‘Algy’s Fluke.” It seemed
so true to life that I was almost pleased
to know that there were others besides
myself who sometimes made flukes, but
rarely such fortunate ones as_ that of
which Algy was guilty. I had become
accustomed to use the vulgar expression
‘‘bulls” to describe or emphasize my ill
luck, and that happened almost as fre-
quently as an opportunity presented
itself.

It may not be good manners to write
of one’s self, but so long as I refrain
from boasting, I feel that readers will be
kind enough to forgive the writer for
any evidence of conceit, which may pre-
sent itself. Having experienced nearly
all the conditions which surround the
average hunter, sometimes suffering
great hardships, and again in many ways
realizing the greatest amount of enjoy-
ment—the result of a successful day’s
hunt, a good supper, a bright camp fire,
a letter from home announcing the wel-
come news ‘‘all’s well,” a good cigar,
and the relating of many amusing inci-
dents that transpired during the day, all
have a tendency to cause us to forget
our many little cares at home, not omit-
ting our creditors.

Thus, my fourth annual deer hunting
outing, found me in company of eight
others bound for the North, with an
over load of fully developed anticipation
and a trunk full of clothes and _ curios-
ities, everything from a camera to a
corkscrew included. Leaving Toronto
at eleven p. m. we reached our destina-
tion at eleven a. m., next morning, glad
to get out and breathe the clear frosty
air, after having spent a sleepless night
in an overcrowded and poorly ventilated
Pullman. Having reached our railway
destination we were not long in unload-
ing our baggage and dogs. The latter
seemed as fully pleased as we to be re-
leased from their close confinement of the
previous night.

Some of us were detailed to load our
baggage and provisions on two wagons
that were in waiting for us, while others
volunteered to lead in one or more dogs.
This seemed like an easy task, but not
so! A pair of strong dogs can keep a
man on the jump, and sometimes on the
run, and he has not always time to pick
out the nice choice spots for his next
step. For three miles this uncertain gait
was kept up and I admit I was glad to
be relieved of my charges when we
reached the camp, and found everything
in excellent condition, the guide having
got everything in readiness for us, in-
cluding a good soft bed of pine boughs.
Soon after us, followed the wagons, car-
rying our belongings, with horses steam-
ing from the exertion of their heavy pull
up hill and down, through bog and bea-
ver meadow, and over numerous cordu-
roy bridges. We were not long in un-
loading, and then a scramble to get pos-
session of our own goods and also a
choice of location in the house. This
having been accomplished in a_ partial
manner, we then set about to assist the
cook in preparing dinner. This import-
ant item on the program having been
disposed of, each man wore a look of
impatient anxiety; he had a pet idea that
he wanted to realize on at once—one
fancied he knew just exactly where he
could getadeer, another had a new
rifle he was anxious to try, still another
longed to hear the howl of his favorite
hound which was sweet music to his ear,
and there were still others who longed
to don their new hunting togs, which to
say the least in some cases, were dreams
extending well on into the nightmare.
A calithumpian parade or a winter car-
nival might better describe the appear-
ance of the aggregation when they lined
up for final instructions from the guide
and several others of the party, who
were allowed to speak for a limited time
at intervals.

Our first afternoon was spent in mak-
ing preparations for the opening of the

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season on the following day. A tent had
to be pitched ona range of hills about
one mile distant from our house. This
Was convenient to our hunting grounds
and intended for a meeting place, and as
it was well heated with a small knock
down sheet iron stove, it also afforded a
cosy place in which to eat our lunch.
One mile further on and we came to the
shore of a beautiful lake. This formed
the northerly limit of our hunting
grounds.

All arrangements having been com-
pleted, our party returned to camp. The
fresh air andthe tramp through the
woods had sharpened our appetites and
we again enjoyed an excellent supper;
having provided an abundant supply of
provisions and a very capable cook—this
part of our program was always well
looked after. The guide attended to our
dogs and after seeing that they were well
fed and comfortably housed in an old
root house, we all retired early with the
alarm clock set for 5 a. m.

As the writer was accustomed to re-
tiring late and rising late, he was the
last to turn in, but before doing so, I was

greatly amused to hear the snoring fr. m
the different corners of the house in
which the beds were situated. A reube

band at a circus would be the nearest ap-
proach to a description of the discords—
here a tenor, over there in another cor-
nera bass, and at various places through-
out the house sounds resembling a trom-
bone, or a tin whistle, all helped to swell
the discord—and I was told in the morn-
ing that I made more noise than all the
others combined.

At six a. m. all reported for breakfast,
and after having provided a lunch to take
with us, trappings were soon strapped
on and before it was yet daylight we
were wending our way by the winding
trail through the woods to our silent
runways. The air was still and frosty
and the smart walk soon warmed us up.
As we reached our tent on the top of the
big hill, we were glad to lean our rifles
against a tree and rest a minute, as we
arranged our plans for the day.

Bill, Alf and myself were detailed to
proceed to the lake, and as Bill had been
there the previous season, he volunteered
to place us on the runways. When we

TROPHIES OF THE

reached the lake, the sight was grand, —
the water as clear as crystal and smooth
as glass, extending half a mile to the
east, anda quarter of a mile across,
surrounded by a border of pines, richly
tinted on their lofty tops by the golden
glow of the morning sun. Not a sound
broke the stillness, save the shriek of a
lonely loon, that gaily glided to and fro,
taking an occasional dive to secure a
speckled beauty for its morning meal,
totally unconscious of our presence. The
temptation to take a shot was hard to
Overcome but we were after bigger game
and did not care to spoil our chances.
We were not long in taking our posi-
tions. We first left Alf. on the shore
close to an old skidway. After wishing
him all kinds of luck, Bill and I decided
that I should walk up the shore through
a dense thicket toa projecting point on
the shore about three hundred yards fur-
ther up. Bill had unearthed an old log,
‘dug out” from amongst a pile of drift-
wood and in this he decided to paddle
across the lake to a point on the opposite

side. This looked very risky as the old
tub was water soaked and rolled !ike
2. COrk.

HUNT GAINED BY MEMBERS OF THE WENTWORTH HUNT CLUB.

As an evidence of how exact he wished
to have his ballast, he asked me to give
him two quarters for half a dollar which
he had in his pocket, so that he might
evenly divide the weight in each pocket.
Iwished hima safe journey, and we
separated with instructions to remain on
my runway until called for. I was not
long in reaching my point, considerably
warmed up after a lively scramble over
logs and brush and through drooping
limbs so thickly entangled that some-
times I was unable to proceed further
and was forced to seek a new outlet.

I hurriedly unloaded my surplus trap-
pings, and examined my Winchester, to
be sure that all was in readiness. After
taking a survey of the surroundings, I
seated myself on a fallen log close to the
water’s edge with my rifle across my
knees loaded to the breech and fully
cocked. I was all ready. I pictured
deer of various sizes coming from differ-
ent directions. I had fully made up my
mind what was best to do, when the
time came for decided action!

I waited patiently but nothing came,
‘cept the cold, chilly wind that sprang up
and was blowing across the lake and

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- from which I was unable to find shelter.
This state of affairs continued to exist
tor some hours. Still no sound of dogs
and approaching deer. I wasthoroughly
chilled to the bone and wondered how
much longer I could stand it without
freezing to death. I looked at my mid-
day meal, a frozen sandwich on a stump
nearby, with fat pork and bread two
inches thick. My teeth chattered and I
began to wonder if the game was worth
the powder, or if my guide had forgotten
where he left me, when, suddenly a
sound unusual broke the stillness. I
thought a sudden gust of wind had
struck the cedars near by, but glancing
above, I noticed nothing to cause the
noise. I hurriedly rushed to the shore
and up about three hundred yards a fine
buck had taken to the water and was
swiftly plowing his way to the opposite
shore. He was a _ beautiful specimen
with a grand pair of horns.

Here is where I made my first ‘‘bull.”’
I had been warned to let a deer get well
out before firing, but I just simply could
not wait. I raised my rifle and fired. I
saw the splash of my shot in the water
ten feet over his head. I fired again and
again, I went high. By this time Mr.
Deer had decided to turn. Crack! came
the report of a rifle from across the
water and again before the echo died
out, | suddenly realized my fatal mistake.
I had spoiled not only my own chances,
but Bill’s also, and before I had time to
realize what had happened, the deer had
taken to the tall timbers and my only
satisfaction was that I got warm kicking
myself for the next few minutes. Being
then near noon, I was pleased to see Bill
strike out from shore in his log to cross
to our landing place at the skidway,
where we had left Alf. I picked up my one
course frozen dinner and wandered back,
rehearsing in my own mind the roast
that I would get; but it was even worse
than | had anticipated for Bill had seen
the deer take to the water, and he said it
was making straight for him, and I sup-
pose I should be thanktul that he did not
fire in the direction of my location.

The following day, a very interesting
incident happened.

Three of our men were on a runway,
stationed a short distance apart, when a

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very large buck came straight down the
course, closely followed by the dogs and
running very fast. Dan, the first man,
fired. Twenty-five yards further on,
Hugh, the second man, fired, and after
running another twenty-five yards, Tal-
bert, the third man, fired and down came
the deer. Naturally he claimed him.
They examined the deer closely and
found only one rather peculiar, long,
ragged wound behind the fore leg with
three holes through the skin. They
came to the conclusion that all three had
shot him in this peculiar manner. Another
surprise awaited them, foron cleaning him,
they found that only one bullet had en-
tered the body, that one piercing the
heart fairly through the center, and as
traces of blood had been found after the
first shot, it was finally decided, after a
good deal of strong argument, that Dan,
the first man, had shot him, the deer
traveling seventy-five yards before talling
dead; the peculiar appearance of the
wound being accounted for by the wrin-
kled condition of the skin, when the
fore leg was drawn back while running.

Two of the same men stated that the
previous year, one of them shot a large
buck and he ran eighty-three yards be-
fore falling, and his heart was shattered
into three pieces, by the one shot that
was fired.

Back to the runways on the third day
I had another beautiful attack of ‘‘Buck
Fever.” I was fortunate in being placed
in a pleasant location facing a natural
ampitheatre, which gave me an excellent
view for a considerable distance. After
the usual routine of freezing to death for
a couple of hours, the greater portion of
which time | spent leaning over a huge
log, that lay across my runway, I was
revived by hearing the howl of the dogs
in the distance. Closer they came! and
closer I hugged the log. Soon I hearda
crash on the hill top. I had not long to
wait. Down the hillside directly toward
me, came a nice deer. At a distance of
sixty yards he stopped short, throwing
his head high in the air to listen for the
approach of the pursuing hounds, or per-
haps to get a sniff of the bum cigar I
was smoking. I decided that my time
for action had come. Levelling my gas
pipe at him, and closing one or both

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eyes, I pulled. A loud report and a kick
on the jaw was about the only result,
for, on looking up, there stood the deer
like a statue! I threw another shell into
the breech, and fired again. Imagine
my surprise when I saw his white flag
flopping down the side hill! I won’t re-
peat what I said, as I thought I could

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shoot some; but discovered when it was
too late that my rifle was sighted for two
hundred yards andI was shooting over
his head at sixty.

Kind readers of this crude attempt
may be pleased to know that later I
succeeded in capturing a good one, and
thoroughly enjoyed my outing.

‘The High Power Rifle and Fatalities in the Woods.

BY JOHN ARTHUR HOPE.

BEN the days of the muzzle loading
short range rifle, rifle shooting rose
_ == tothe high water mark of perfec-
tion. The English speaking people were

then noted for theirdeadly marksmanship.

In those days the hunter had but one
shot to depend on. Time was required
to load for a second. If the game fired
at was of a dangerous nature it gave no
time to reload, but rushed in to kill or to
be killed. If of a timid nature the hunter
rarely got a second chance at the same
animal. Thus’ the old hunter soon
learned three things:

First, if he was to get his game he
must keep cool.

Secondly, he must judge
correctly.

Thirdly, he must place his one bullet
‘“where it did the most good.”’

Then came the long range breech
loading rifle with its single ready loaded
cartridge, but calling for the same care
_and skillin its use. Finally the repeater.
To get game all that was required was
to fill the magazine with cartridges and
trust—not to coolness, skill and judg-
ment—but to rapidity of fire while a car-
‘tridge remained andthe game was in
sight.

The first repeaters were low power,
high trajectory riflesof short range. Not
so the present high power, smokeless
type, with its metal patched bullet, low
trajectory, and high velocity.

Invented for military purposes it soon
came into the hands of all sorts and con-
.ditions of hunting men, and its fearful
‘work in the Eastern woods is constantly

distances

before us. Rarely does the ‘‘lamentable
accidents” in the hunting season fall be-
low one hundred. The reports for last
season show very little below the usual
number. ‘‘Mistaken for Deer!’’ is the
generally accepted verdict of the un-
sporting public. Practical riflemen and
experienced hunters, however, hold a
very different opinion.

Out of the thousands that annually in-
vade the woods in the open season in
the limited space for big game hunting—
thatis limited in space for the number of
shooters in the Northern tier of States
to the South of us where most of the ac-
cidents happen, very few are experienced
hunters. The majority are amateurs—
amateurs in everything that that word
implies when used in connection with
modern firearms and their careftl use in
the woods.

Even if all these thousands were ex-
perienced hunters, trained in woodcraft
and with a perfect knowledge of the
power and range of the high power
smokeless rifle, ‘‘accidents’”” would still
happen for we know that out of these
thousands very few are, to use a rifle-
man’s phrase, physically perfect. Some
of them are color blind—many more are
near sighted—and many, very many, are
subject to that mysterious thing, ‘‘buck
fever.”

This fever is the stumbling block many
hunters trip over in the woods when
trailing, or in the presence of big game,
and is the true cause of so many ‘‘acci-
dents.’’ According to the observation of
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with this fever, that in fact they have
had expert riflemen under their care suf-
fering from neurasthenia (weak nerves)
and they could shoot well at the height
of their disorder.

No doubt, for there is nothing to get
nervous about shooting at a stationary
inanimate target. It won’t run away.
The range is known, time unlimited,
steadiness essential. Steadiness is also
essential to the hunter of big game, in
fact more so than to the target shot, but
unlike the latter, he has a great many
things to excite him.

The desire, inherited from his savage
forefathers, is strong in him to hunt and
kill. To come suddenly, or even after
hours of waiting, upon a bull moose,
buck or bear in its native wilds, with rifle
in hand, is to cause a peculiar feeling in
the region of the chest.

The desire to possess the noble animal
also causes another sensation of a differ-
ent kind. These two, coupled with the
knowledge that the range is unknown,
time limited, and a feeling that he will
lose it if he doesn’t- shoot quick, rushes
through the sportsman like a whirlwind.
The sight of this wild animal, the desire
to kill and possess it, changes the steady,
quiet man at the target, in the tenth of a
second into a wildly excited being of
blood and nerves. Everything is for-
gotten but the animal in front, and at
this he sends shot after shot while a car-
tridge remains in his magazine, very
often shooting after the animal has passed
out of his sight—as I once saw a prac-
tical hunter do, so insane had he become
with excitement. A moment afterwards
he could have thrashed himself for he
knew enough about firearms to know
that he had donea foolish thing sending
metal patched bullets travelling at a ve-
locity of two thousand feet per second—
where he could not see. But, experienced
man though he was, he was in the grip of
that mysterious something called ‘‘buck
fever.”

This fever attacks the best of men and
causes them to lose their presence of
mind for the moment. In that moment
nothing that lives is sate within a mile of
them.

In thick woods many hunters are con-
fident that a bullet will not go far before

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hitting a tree. Thls confidence is born
of ignorance. If a metal patched bullet
fired from a high power smokeless rifle
at an angle of twenty-five degrees strikes
the smooth surface of lake or ice, or
catches the corner of a rock, or the side
of a tree, it will glance off with nearly
the same force it left the rifle, travelling
at various angles until its energy is ex-
pended—perhaps a mile or more away.
The metal patch being harder than the
substance struck, the bullet keeps in
shape. The ordinary lead bullet being
softer, and having less driving power
behind it, flattens out on one side on im-
pact, and although it will glance off it
has not kept its perfect shape and will
therefore not go far.

It will be conceded then that this mod-
ern rifle is not the kind to place in the
hands of all sorts and conditions of men.
This mysterious fever attacks men in
various ways. Some will come suddenly
and unexpectedly upon game and without
the quiver of an eyelid, drop it at the
first shot. The same man will sit ona
‘‘runway”’ and listen to the baying of the
hounds at a distance with perfect com-
posure. Suddenly the baying sounds
close. It is coming his way. The next
moment a dark grey coated thing bound-
ing like a ball between the trees, rushes
past. The quiet composed man ‘of a
moment before is on his feet like a flash
sending bullets after the fast disappearing
deer. A moment before he told himself
he must be careful. He was sitting close
to a Government road, therefore it would
be. dangerous to fire up or down or across
it. But with the fever strong upon him
the innocent traveller on the road 1s en-
tirely forgotten. The aathor of another
‘lamentable accident” is very often un-
aware that “fe is the author, nevertheless
he is none the less guilty.

Vhen we have afew color blind and
many nearsighted hunters. To go out
and kill something is as strong upon
them as upon their physically sound
brothers. Were these men to hunt when
the trees are bare of leaves they would
not be so dangerous. But as_ the law
stands in many of the Northern States at
present hunting begins in September or
October before the leaves are off.

October is the most dangerous month

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an the year. The leaves on trees and
bushes are then turning into the most
beautiful and varied colors, making it
most difficult for the keenest eyed of
men to distinguish the difference between
a deer’s coat and the many different col-
ored clothes worn by sportsmen. Here
near-sighted and fever stricken hunters
would require to be extra steady and
careful. Moreover there are hundreds of
men coming into the woods who if you
usked them the color of a deer’s coat in
September or October could only look
their surprise at the question.

I again repeat that ‘‘the mistaken for
deer theory” is true toa certain extent
only. The majority of accidents are
caused by men in the grip of ‘‘buck
fever” handling a rifle that was never in-
tended by its inventors to be used among
hundreds, perhaps thousands of people
in thick woods. When one stops to
think one wonders—not at the amount of
accidents—but why there are not more!

It is the fashion to use a smokeless

small bore repeater andto be out of
the fashion isto be out of date, and
laughed at accordingly. It would

seem that the public require to be pro-
tected from itself.

Asa _ sporting weapon on the plains
after antelope or in the Rockies after
sheep and goat its flat trajectory at long
range gives the hunter a little better
chance of success, especially if he is a
poor hand at judging distances, and most
of the latter day hunters are. They
haven't time nowadays to learn the
grammar of shooting.

For general shooting such as moose,

Alarmist rumors come from the west
regarding the salmon industry. The
present season is declared to be the most
disastrous since records were kept. It
appears that the red Alaska salmon have
deserted their old grounds and the esti-
mates are that not half the number of
cases packed last year will be sent to the
market this year. The sockeyes will
show a great shrinkage and the loss to
the fishing interests of the North Pacific
coast is put at $2,000,000. Making

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deer and bearin the Eastern woods—
which are killed at short range—it is not
one whit ahead of the black or low power
smokeless rifle.

In the last shooting season I fired at a
splendid buck at seventy-five yards with
an 8 m m Mauser (not my own) the bul-
let entering the point of the left shoulder
—passing diagonally through the chest
to the last rib on the right side lodging
against the skin. The heart and liver
were torn to ribbons, yet it ran fully one

hundred yards before it fell. The left
shoulder and ribs were one mass of
bloody pulp—unfit for food. A twenty

guage cylinder shot gun using a_ spher-
ical ball would have done the same work,
and done it better. -Many experienced
hunters careful in the handling of arms
have hung their rifles up for an indefinite
period, and go into the woods—as one
fine old sportsman explained to me re-
cently—to shoot big game _ before the
season opened—with a camera!

‘‘T have come north’’—said another
still more recently—to hunt without be-
ing hunted.” Sensible man! Here in
the primitive forest of the Red man he
could hunt in perfect security, sure of
going home, and not going empty
handed. Thousands are, and thousands
more will follow his example.

Until a system of examinations and
certificates are instituted sensible sports-
men will stay out of the woods where
they have no protection against their
reckless, ignorant fever-stricken fellow

hunters armed with a machine gun
which ninety per cent. know not how
to use.

some allowance for exaggeration it does
appear that the present year will prove an
‘off’ year though things appear worse in

Puget Sound than elsewhere. James
Calvert, of the San Juan Fishing and

Packing Company, is reported as saying:
‘“*The salmon packer is about to quit for
all time on the Sound. We cannot ex-
pect Canada to hatch sockeyes which
have their habitat in the Fraser and its
tributaries for the benefit of the Amer-
ican packers.”’

Hunting the Wolf Dens.

A Story of Old Ontario.

BY J: We

y see the pretty deer!” called
@) out a little boy, as he was

4 playing outside with his elder
brother one fine summer afternoon, about
an hour before sunset, nearly eighty
years ago.

The boy was the younger son of an
early settler in the township of Towsend in
the county of Norfolk, Upper Canada,
now called the Province of Ontsrio.

‘*‘Where ?”’ asked
the elder brother.
‘*Down in the sheep
field,” came the hasty
response. se Noals
exclaimed the elder
brother, ‘‘its a wolf ,
and he is going to /
kill the sheep !” In-
Stantly the little fel-
lows left their play,
and accompanied by .
the faithful old dog’
**Tige’’ made for the}
field in an attempt.
to rescue the sheep, |
Their mother having
heard the alarm fol-
lowed in an excited
manner. She called
back her venture-
some offspring, who
in their anxiety for
the safety of the
sheep, heeded not
her anxious warn-
ings. In the mean-
time the wolf was dis-
porting himself with the sheep. The
latter were huddled closely together, and
would start to retreat and divide when
closely pressed from behind by the wolf,
closing together again as he passed
through. Herepeated this manoeuvre
three times before the rescuing party
arrived close enough to interfere with his
operations.

The boys shouted at the top of their
shrill voices and old ‘‘Tige” bayed fiercely.

MR. J. W.

MISNER.

wolves
on the
nearer
run for
lazily climbed the

His previous experiences with
however forbad him closing in
animal. But as the party drew
the wolf started off on a careless
the woods, and as he

fence seven other wolves, who had been

watching the performance of their fellow
in the sheep field, made their appearance.
A long fierce defiant series of howls, fol-
lowed by eneuy snappy, jerky yelps, came
from the pack before
they entered the
woods and disappear-
ed.

There was mich
rejoicing at the de-
parture of the wolves
and the sheep were
at once driven to the
fold and made secure
*. for the night.

~ Not long after the
~ occurrence the family
_ were visited by an
; old hunter and trap-
per who had hada
long and varied ex-
perience with wolves.
Asa matter of fact
he was one of the
first men to receive
the bounties on wolf
scalps offered by the
Government of Upper
Canada. He was a
Scotchman by birth
and was familiarly
known through all
the country side as ‘‘Old Wilson.” The
family related to him the story of the
wolf in the sheep field and he explained
that the wolf’s peculiar conduct was due
to the fact that he did not consider the
sheep field a safe place in which to eat a
meal at that time of day. No doubt he
was trying to secure a lamb in order to
swing over his back to run toa place of
safety so that he might make a meal of it
in peace. In the same manner a fox will

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invade a hen roost, seize a chicken or
goose, and flee to some place of safety
betore commencing his meal. On the
occasion of the wolf’s visit to the sheep
field the lambs had been nimble enough
to crowd among the old sheep and avoid
him.

“Old Wilson” became a great friend
of the family, and taking much interest
inthe boys he told them many things
concerning the wolf. He told them that
wolves in travelling have two objective
points, perhaps a hundred miles apart,
and that they travel continuously from
one to the other. In some respects they
are very conservative in their habits, and
so long as food holds out they do not
invade territory with which they are not
perfectly familiar. If they are not distur-
bed in their trips between one objective
point and the other they would arrive at
given points with more regularity than
the venerable old gentlemen with the
long face and the plug hat known as the
Circuit Riding Preacher who went through
the early settlements in those days, dis-
pensing spiritual comfort to the settlers.

The hunter claimed that very little
success ever attended attemptsto dispatch
the wolf with the gun, the only success-
ful methods of dealing with him being
by trapping, poisoning or locating the
den and securing the young.

His system of poisoning the wolf was
to place as much strychnine as would
dip up on a dime in the centre of a pill of
lard the size of an egg, using care not to
allow any portion to come in contact
with the fingers—the wolf drawing the
line at human scent. He greased the
soles of his boots with a mixture of lard
and scorched feathers, and trailing a
fresh deer skin behind him dropped the
lard pills here and there on the trail. The
wolf scenting the trail and following it
up would pick up the pill and swallow it
at one gulp. Inthis way he would not
get the taste of the strychnine and reject
it. The lard would dissolve quickly in
his stomach and death ensued in a few
minutes. According to ‘‘Old Wilson,”
poisoning couldbe best affected in the
open months, for at the season when he
can catch deer the wolf prefers to do his
own killing.

His system of trapping the wolf was

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to disinfect the traps and chains of all
human smells by smoking them in burn-
ing feathers or hair. He would handle
them with clean gloves, and having well
greased his boot soles would trail a deer
skin or large piece of meat (fresh of
course) over the trail to where he intend-
ed to set them. He would select some
place where he could place a partridge on
a limb or slanting pole over the trail.
Setting this up five or six feet high and
arranging it as life like as possible he
would then set three traps four feet apart
in atriangular position under the par-
tridge. He would cover up the traps and
chains and leave the place looking as nat-
ural as possible. He would then drag the
deer skin over the whole and continue for
some distance as though he had never
stopped at the place the traps were set.
Coming to the end of the trail arouses a
wolf’s suspicions and in addition he is as
liable to approach the trail from one end
as the other. Itis therefore far better
to keep up the trail for some distance on
both sides of the traps. As he approach-
es he scents and sees the partridge, and
setting to capture it falls into one trap
or the other, and often in floundering
around he gets into all three. When
visiting the traps do not approach them
closer than is necessary to ascertain if
they have been sprung.

About a year after his first visit ‘‘Old
Wilson” called at the house, and telling
the boys more about wolf lore he men-
tioned that they sometimes denned near
the source of the ‘‘Nauticoke” and pro-
mised that he would return about the
middle of the month of May and show
them how to take young wolves in their
dens.

The middle of May came and ‘‘Old
Wilson” didnot arrive. As day succeed-
ed day disappointment grew greater par-
ticularly on the part of the boys, who had
anticipated the hunt with much eagerness,
and who now began to think and say un-
favorable things about their friend’s ver-
acity. However on the last day of the
month he put in an appearance and stated
that sickness had prevented him from
being with them earlier. He was afraid
it was so late the young ones would have
left their dens though he was willing to
go with them and give the hunt a trial.

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Accordingly a party was made up for
the next morning. It consisted of the
boys, two cousins about their own ages,
and the fathers of both families. When
they were all ready—in fact ‘‘too ready”
—to starton the wolf hunt, they met
with a disagereable surprise at the out-
set. On looking over to see if all pre-
parations met his approval ‘‘Old Wilson”
demanded—‘‘What the Deil ar ye gaun
ta dea w’ a’ the goons? Ye a’ muckle
pet them doon, and tak maur bannocks
for yer bellies.” At first they thought it
was a joke though they soon found him
to be in earnest. As he remained resolute
the guns were put away. He declared
that he ‘‘would na gae yen step if the
goons were na’ pet doon.” Therefore
nothing but axes, knives, blankets, and
provisions were included in the outfit of
the expedition.

Late in the afternoon of the same day
the party reached the scene of their in-
tended operations. A threatening sky
caused them to halt and in a hasty man-
ner prepare a shack by utilizing the loose
bark ot a fallen pine which they had for-
tunately discovered near at hand. © No
sooner was the task performed than the
rain came down in torrents and continued
to so fall till midnight.

Towards morning the long drawn howl
of a distant wolf was heard and at day-
light the whole party were engaged in
the search for the den of a wolf. ‘‘Old
Wilson” then explained that the she wolf
when approaching the den of her young
always walks on all the logs possible in
her path, and that the impression of her
feet can be felt in the well rotted bark of
the log under the moss. After locating a
track in this way the distance from the
pen can be judged by the frequency of the
impressions of the wolf’s feet as they ap-
pear in the moss of the old logs.

After the explanation all spread out and
began to examine the old mossy logs.
In half an hour one of the boys sang out
“‘Tracks !” ‘Old Wilson” came and ex-
amined the log and nodding approval
exclaimed ‘‘Right ye air laddie.” He
then gave orders for the careful examina-
tion of all logs containing holes or hol-
lows for dens. After a time he shouted
*‘Aboot, lads, the tracks ar a deein’ oot.
We hae ganged too far.” A _ return

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march was started covering new ground
to the left and in a few minutes he shout-
ed ‘‘Aye, that is better mon.” Almost
at the same moment one of the men dis-
covered at the butt of an old uprooted
tree four wolf pups gambling together.
They were in the sand at the root of the
old fallen tree and playing in the same
manner as the puppies of the domestic-
ated dog are often seen todo. When
seen they instantly bolted for refuge into
the hollow of a log.

As soon as the alarm was given ‘‘Old
Wilson” was onthe spot. He gave or-
ders for all places of egress to be located
and plugged and madea thorough ex-
amination of the whole place to see that
these orders were obeyed. Holes were
then chopped in the top of a log to inter-
sect the hollow containing the young wol-
ves and locate the back end of the den
where a hole large enough to strike
through was cut to kill the young wolves
as they were driven to the end of the pen
with a long slender pole inserted through
a small hole atthe place where they en-
tered the log.

The chopping had only been in progress
a short time when some fun began. The
she wolf suddenly appeared yelping
fiercely and came to withina short dis-
tance of the party. The boys scrambled
for safety and the men drew up their axes
and faced the wolf. ‘‘Kep, on choppin’
mun; she’ll no farsh ye,” coolly remark-
ed ‘Old Wilson.” They soon found
out that the wolf would not remain in
sight long at a time, and though she ap-
peared and reappeared several times she
would instantly retire toa distance of
several hundred yards, uttering plaintive
wails of anguish and despair, eventually
disappearing altogether.

‘After the young ones had been killed,
one of the men remarked ‘‘If we had only
brought a rifle along we might have got
the old wolf too.”” Instantly ‘‘Old Wil-
son” retorted ‘‘Hoots, mon ; dye think
auld Wilson is sae daft as to kill the
goose thot droppit the golden eggs !”” He
then declared that the same old she wolf
would den again within a mile of the
den they had just looted, and that he
would come again next year and convince
them that he was telling the truth.

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He never came however. Ere the gen-
tle breezes of another spring had melted
the snows of the following winter ‘‘Old
Wilson” had gone—gone forever. He
had crossed the Great Divide that sep-
arates the living from the dead. Never
again would he rob the nest of the goose
that laid the Golden Eggs.

The remainder of the party, however,
located a den the following spring—
presumably that of the same old she wolf
less than half a mile distant from the den
in which they had killed the four puppies.

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On this expedition rifles were taken along
and the goose that had laid ‘‘Old Wilson”
many a Golden Egg had passed into the
region of the great beyond.

Time has removed all the actors in the
drama I| have just related, with a single
exception. This sole survivor is an
uncle of the writer, now an octogenerian
and living in the State of Indiana. He
is the little boy who exclaimed ‘‘O, see
the pretty deer !” and had enough sub-
sequent experience with wolves to learn a
great deal about them.

How I Have Made a Success of Deer Hunting.

BY, JACK

QO many people have written asking
me for particulars of my trips, and
how I have managed to be so suc-
cessful, that I have claimed the indul-
gence of the Editor of ‘‘Rod and Gun”’
and asked to be allowed to explain,
through the pages of the representative
Canadian Sportsmen’s Magazine, just
how I do manage these things. As far
as I can I will give hints to the novice
which will enable him, if he will but pay
attention to the lessons of experience, to
enjoy a successful deer hunt himself.

In the first place allow me to explain
what I mean by success. Ido not meas-
ure success by the number of deer slain,
though of course every hunter likes both
to see and have a chance at big game.
What I mean by success on a trip is to
arrange one so that from start to finish
there may not be one untoward incident,
but the harmony, which means_ enjoy-
ment, trom the time home is left till the
same home is reached again. On sucha
trip enjoyment and health go together
and surely these mean success ina very
large measure. A carefully planned and
well arranged trip should ensure enjoy-
ment for all who take part in it, and in
the,enjoyment of others we find our own
highest and best pleasure.

Men cannot go through the experience
ef such a trip together without finding
out the weaknesses and infirmities of

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their fellows, and it says much for hu-
man nature when members of the same
party will camp together year after year.
When they can bear with each other at
close quarters they are surely ‘jolly
good fellows!” One need therefore to be
particular as to who shall be admitted to.
such close partnership. The first essen-
tialto success is indeed a _ congenial
party, every member of which is known
toeach other and upon each of whom
all can depend. They should all find en-
joyment in the same line of sport and
there should be no ‘‘wet socks’? amongst
them. Care should also be taken that
one at least of the members of the party
should be an experienced hand with fire-~
arms, etc., and the others should be
prepared to take their instructions from
him. Some kind of order must be ob-
served for the good of all.

Once the party is made up the question
of outfit should receive careful consider-
ation. A tent of ten oz. duck 12x14 or
12x16, with four foot walls, should be
secured; and a smaller tent of eight oz.
duck 6x10 likewise purchased. The first
is for the living and sleeping tent and
the latter for the provisions. When the
smaller tent is placed near the door of
the larger one there is all the cold stor-
age any reasonable party can require.
A sheet iron folding tent stove, weighing
fifty pounds, to be used for both heating

47°

and cooking, will be found well worth
all the trouble and cost of transporta-
tion. Acouple of chunks of wood from
a green log bedded in the ground, will
well support the stove and save much
back bending, while the stove, if placed
opposite the door, will keep thetent warm
and comfortable at all times. A few
green birch logs will keep it going all
night to the great comfort of the inmates
of the tent.

Each man _ should take at least one
change of clothing and in this they will
consult individual tastes let one say
what one will. The clothes however for
big game hunting in November should
be largely of a woolen nature and with
that proviso one need not to be too par-
ticular as to the other details. One
should however be careful not to select
anything which will scrape on the bushes.
For footwear I always take moccasins.
One cannot pay too much attention to
this question of footwear as comfort so
largely depends upon it, and without
comfort all pleasure in the hunt will be
lost. I take moccasins cf both the deer
hide and oil tanned cowhide varieties, the
latter being used in wet weather. A
great advantage with the moccasin is
that while wearing this kind of footwear
one can cling to logs with the feet.

For firearms, a rifle from 30.30 up, a
high velocity gun, is the most suitable.
Experience compels me to believe that a
bullet weighing 200 grains going at 2,000
feet, velocity is more effective than the
300 grain black powder bullet. My
own rifle is a 33 Winchester, half maga-
zine, firing five shots with a full set of
Lyman sights. If I were buying again
{ would not purchase anything heavier
than the 30.30. This size and weight is
just about right for the sportsman who
goes after big game. The gun should
be tested before the journey is begun and
just enough to establish confidence in it.
I remember an instance of a man carry-
ing a worn out gun for years. On send-
ing it to me forthe purpose of being
tested I put five shells in. With the
first I drove the nail in the wood but
where the second one hit I have not yet
found out. On my report the gun was
discarded and a new one purchased, and
the very next season with his first shot

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he killed a fine deer. I would not carry
into the woods a gun upon which I could
not thoroughly depend.

By all means include in your provisions
some breakfast food. We have found
shredded wheat biscuits—or as our boys
called them woven wire biscuits—most
useful. They are easily prepared and
with a little condensed milk are delicious
and nourishing. In this matter as in
others it is well to make allowance for
individual tastes and you will find your
expeditjon allthe more successful if you
will do this. A sack of flour, or bread,
potatoes, condensed milk, and sugar, are
all essentials, and each party will vary
in making additions to this list. . It is as
well to cut out all canned fruit, etc., and
by so doing one enjoys them all the more
on the return home.

A good axe should by no means be
forgotten, and the use of it should be
left to the man who knows how to handle
it. A cross-cut saw should also be in-
cluded. This can be easily packed by
bolting it between two boards half an
inch thick and at least a foot wide.
When in camp these boards can be
hinged together and with four uprights
will make an excellent table. A ham-
mer and nails are most useful and witha
few small poles and a few nails one can
easily rig up conveniences enough for’
hanging up clothes and anything else re-
quired in the tent.

While a good lantern should be taken,
as most useful in case anyone is losta
few pounds of candles should also be in-
cluded in the etceteras.

The camp site is a most important
matter. If it is possible to find a knoll
in small second growth by the side of a
good living stream an ideal site will have
been secured. As soon as the camp site
is selected examine the surrounding
trees and fall any one which might blow
down over the camp. Don’t leave any-
thing to chance. You will enjoy your
sleep much better if you have first elim-
inated all possible sources of danger.

Some hunters make their beds of poles
raised eighteen inches from the ground
and some on spruce boughs on the
ground. I prefer the former and such a
bed can be made with very little trouble.

A very important point indeed is where

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to go. Canada is so wide that the
choice allowed is very great. I would
strongly advise any inexperienced party
to locate in a burnt country where there
is no danger whatever of any man get-
ting astray, and where also the deer can
be seen so much further than in a green
country. Inquiries should be made for a
district in which lumbering operations
have been going on but have ceased for
three years. All over the places where
the horses have been clover and timothy
will be found and such proves highly at-
tractive tothe deer. If at all possible
the camp should be located at least ten
miles from a point where lumbering is
being carried on.

In 1905 I advised a party of inexper-
ienced hunters to go to just such a place
as I have described and’ tenderfeet as
they were they procured the first week
four deer of two hundred and twenty-five
pounds each, making nine hundred
pounds of venison in all. Needless to
say they were quite satisfied with their
experiences and in the light of the results
highly appreciated my advice. Last sea-
son at the same place they procured
twelve deer and eleven of them were
bucks. In addition they also shota
fine moose.

For myself I never go where game is
reported plentiful, for, as a rule, game is
not only scarce in such neighborhoods
but hunters are very numerous. Like-
wise take care and do not locate your
camp within five miles of any other
hunting camp.

The leader of the party should every
day and on all suitable occasions through-
out the day impress npon the members
the value of caution. They should in
all instances be sure what they are aim-
ing at before they fire. It is impossible
to overdo this portion of the leaders’
duties. No gun should be allowed to be
loaded within fifty yards of the tent.

Twenty-five shells should be ample for
any man. Those who take more are apt
to be careless. I have known a man to
take three hundred rounds and many
readers may imagine how relieved I felt
when I knew that I was going to be
three hundred miles fromhim. The man
who cannot get his quota with twenty-
five shells should have something inter-

esting to tell about when he returns.

Now we come to the hunt and the
question is which method of hunting are
we going to follow?

Shall we hound our deer and shoot
them in the water or on the runway? Or
shall we go quietly into their haunts and
match our skill and woodcraft against
their instinct and see who will come out
ahead?

If we intend to try and shoot our deer
in the water by all means use a smart,
intelligent collie. ,There is no dog on
earth that can get through the woods so
easily as one of these noiseless, bobtail,
short haired, swift running ‘dogs. Such
a dog will soon catch on to what you
want and will take the track quicker than
a hound. The collie will only bark by
sight, and when he is following a deer—
it doesn’t matter whether it is the oldest
buck or the youngest fawn—there are
only two things for the hunted animal to
do and not much time to think it over
either—the deer has simply got to jump
into the lake or fly. Runs with these
dogs are short ones—so short you do not
scare all the deer away, and your dog is
with you ready to go again.

According to my experience hounding
and shooting on a runway is not a very
enjoyable kind of sport. Dogs get
lost, deer are shot through the bowels,
and when the dogs are not stopped, as
very often happens, the deer get away
and are not found. However if this is
your way of hunting by all means havea
tag on each dog with the name and loca-
tion of yourcamp on each tag. This
precaution will give anyone who finds a
lost dog a chance of proving he is a man
by returning your lost partner.

I will nowtell you something of my way
of hunting. Imagine we are in a burned
country, well cut up with old lumber
roads, which afford good paths etc. The
morning is bright and frosty and the sun
is beginning to spread its warmth
against the south sides of the hills. A
north wind is blowing cold though it is
ten o’clock in the morning. Now ninety
per cent of the deer are done feeding and
are out of the wind taking a sun bath.
The hills are so far apart that we cannot
approach them from the south and look-
ing north there is no snow to assist you

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in seeing them. The brush is three
times as thick on the south sides of the
hills as on the north and consequently
we cannot see the deer. Even if we
could do so it would be only a chance
shot that would hit a deer in such thick
brush and so far off.

Taking all these points into consider-
ation we will hunt across the wind and
will keep just far enough down the hill
on the north side in order that the deer
may not see our complexion. Every
hundred yards or so, and at every likely
looking place, we will take a peep over.
Now do not rush up the hills like I have
often done. Walk right up to the very
tip top before stopping to look.

Above all keep your gun in the shade
of your body and don’t crack a stick.
As soon as you canraise on your tip
toes and look over stop and do so and
keep stopping and looking. Remember
that you are not going to get a deer by
hurrying andtramping your legs off.

At good points 1 often stop for ten
minutes and very seldom indeed do I see
a deer at the first glance. Look care-
fully all around and by careful scrutiny
the deer can often be discovered. On
one occasion I stood, and with my arms
folded around my gun, moved nothing
but my red head for fully fifteen minutes.
Signs, however, were so plentiful that I
felt sure venison must be close around.
After waiting that length of time I was
about to moveinto another likely point
and gave a final careful look before
moving. That last scrutiny showed me
a buck lying down and chewing his cud
not fitty yards from where I stood. This
deer weighed two hundred and thirty-four
pounds. NowI am not blind and am
fairly used to the woods.

Why did I not see that deer the first
time I looked at him? I had looked at
him without seeing him at least halfa
dozen times. I mention this instance to
illustrate the necessity of carefulness on
the part ot the hunter.

When hunting ina burned country I
put in nearly half my time standing on
such points and watching. On another
occasion I stood within ten yards ofa
doe and fawn and never would have
known they were there had not their own
movements betrayed them.

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Another advantage following from
hunting in my fashion is that there is
usually snow on the north side of the
hills, and if there should happen to be an
old buck prowling around you have all
the chances in the world of seeing him
first. Inacase like that he won’t be
laying down and he won’t be standing
long in any one place. Likely enough
he will be taking a little browse or you
may catch him rubbing his horns or do-
ing a little pawing. If the wind is not
blowing too hard you may hear him at
this work, for sometimes it appears as if
they try to see how much noise they can
make. When they are making such a
rackett they cannot hear you coming ard
then is your chance.

In case you jumpa fawn _ stand per-
fectly stilland watch every move the an-
imal makes, and note particularly the
direction in which he appears to be look-
ing. If you will watch him carefully
this is what you will see him do: He
will run from ten to twenty yards and
then stop and look at you. Whenever
he stops , ‘‘freeze’’; look straight at him
without moving a muscle. In about five
minutes he will begin to move his head
and look in other directions. It is alto-_
gether likely he has been driven from his.
mother by a big buck, and now he is
wondering if it is safe for him to go
back. Probably he will start off again,
take another look around and finally dis-
appear. Follow him, for the chances
are his mother is not five hundred yards.
away, andthat her company is still with
her. As soon as Mr. Buck Fawn
reaches his mother’s side you will hear
her lover doing some tall snorting. A
fawn is far more scared of an old buck
than he is of you, if you will only be-
have yourself and keep quiet. By this
means you will often be taken where you
can get a shot at a fine buck.

On one occasion I was climbing a hill
when I heard the clatter of hoofs. Ina
few seconds I saw a fawn coming down
at a great pace. Running? Yes, he
Was running—running simply because
he couldn’t fly. His pursuer did not
come down though I waited for some
time. Later on I heard him making lots.
of noise, and when I went up to him he
was rubbing a bush and snorting.

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On many occasions I have heard hunt-
ers complain of the deer being wild.
Why, bless your life, the deer are not
wild; it is the hunters who are wild.
Just keep your backbone between your
shoulders, and your head on top and
your natural blood thirsty sensations
under control for a few minutes and you
will be rewarded with a sight of the
most harmless and cunning little animals
of the deer family laying around in their
natural homes.

Let me give you an illustration of how
wild things can be tamed with a little
care and trouble. Last spring I sawa
wild duckalighton a pond near my house.
This pond is one hundred and ten feet in
diameter. My first thought was how
could I get near enough if I wanted to
shoot it. I may say right here that
there is a doubt in my mind if I could
have managed it had I wished to do so.
But there is atime for all things, so
when the old cow went to drink I took
the calf’s place and went with her,
shelled an ear of corn, threw it in the
pond and standing round on all fours
(like a calf) soon had the duck diving
right in front of me for the corn. We
fed it over a week and the duck soon be-
came more like a tame than a wild one.

Next we will take a hunt in green
timber. Itis in these places the deer
will be found on a stormy day. Of
course, we will hunt either against or
across the wind and proceed very care-
fully, never forgetting our companions.

The deer uses his nose to protect him-
self and as we are trying to outwit him
surely we can use our own nasal organs.
The organ that is of such great advan-
tage to him ought to be of a little service
to us. All still hunters can and do smell
deer. -Now lam not going to tell just
whata deer smells like though I would
do soif I could. It is, however a sort
of sickening smelland ona _ soft day one
can smell them from fifty to seventy-five
yards away, more particularly if they have
been iaying down and have just risen up.
I never smelt a deer on a very frosty day.
I know some readers may laugh at this.
Remember however that I am writing of
what I have seen and experienced and
not what [ have read elsewhere or been
told. I have smelled deer so strongly

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that I knew they were in the neighbor-
hood, although neither my eyes nor ears
helped me, and no tracks could be seen
as a recent fall of snow had completely
hidden them.

Guided by my nose! saw later on,stand-
ing under a spruce tree, not forty yards
to my left, a beautitul buck. With bow-
ed head he was looking me right in the
face and dut for the smell I should never
have seen him.

When hunting in a thick place and you
jump a deer but cannot see him keep
cool. Perhaps you can hear him right
close to you andrunning away. In sucha
case go right after him just as quickly
as youcan. When you have run fifty
yards stop and look, or if you come toa
clearing where you can see stop at once.
The deer will stop at almost the same
distance, and look back and he will do the
same when he strikes a clear place.

I never follow the deer very closely, but
cut around and approach him in about
half an hour from another quarter. The
deer will naturally look back upon the
trail, but if you don’t scare him much he
will soon be as quiet as ever. He will
not be scared tor the reason that you
stopped running before he did, and asa
consequence he didn’t hear you at all.

Always examine the spot where a deer
was at the time you shot at him. Ifyou
scored a hit the ball will cut off hair ete.
If you find you have hit him and he has
run away don’t follow for two hours un-
less you are sure he is_ hit inthe heart or
lungs. Ifadeer is bowel-shot he will
run about two hundred yards and lie
down (if he is allowed to doso) and if
left quiet for the time mentioned it will
be easy to slip up and settle the trouble.
If disturbed at once the animal will get
up and run for half a mile, and the second
run will make it harder to find him. Our
party has only lost one wounded deer
that we know about in five years.

Never shoot does and fawns from the
hills around your camp. You will find,
if you exercise enough self control to act
upon this bit of advice, that the bucks
will keep coming and you will have good
hunting to as large an extent as you re-
quire. At Warren, Ont., in 1902 our
party killed ten bucks out of twelve deer
shot. Mr. Leonard Malatt, of Kingsville,

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Ont.,a man who is sixty-five years of age,
saw five bucks within one anda half miles
of our camp on thelast day we hunted.
Don’t carry anything loose in your pockets
or have string whipping etc. around your
legs. It is not that the deer will hear all
these little tick tacks, but they will pre-
vent you from hearing them.

Above all do not make hard work of
your hunting. Take it coolly and quietly.
Never get wild or you will scare the deer
to death.

On a bright day always remember that
the glitter from a gun very often tells the
deer that you are coming. A deer will
stop and look at a red coat, but if he sees
a gun glisten he is off and off at once.

You need not go to the woods to learn
all your hunting. Just take the whole
matter into your consideration at home,
and you will find it a study that will in-
terest you. One lesson you want to learn
thoroughly —don’t have so much more
confidence inthe other fellow than you
have in yourself and you willbe successful.

This article would be incomplete with-
out something being said about moose
hunting. I have had my heart’s satisfac-
tion in hunting these noble animals,
and believe that I may write something
on the subject that will be of advantage
to the reader who wishes to hunt moose.

In north-western Ontario the best dzer
hunting can be had from one half to three
miles on each side of the railway lines.
Further back the wolves are so numerous
that the deer are driven to the neighbor-
hood ot the settlements and the railroads.
This is not the case with the moose.
While, therefore, the deer hunters can
do without a single guide I would strong-
ly urge the moose hunters to employ such
assistance. If youemploy a guide by
all means follow his instructions, but in
case you do not secure one or have no
wish for one I will tell you my plans and
just how I manage.

A small tent and a light stove are the
first things to consider. This outfit for
five men should not weigh more than fifty
pounds. Each man should keep his per-
sonal outfit down to seventy-five pounds,
making the weight of the tota! outfit
eighty-five pounds per man. _ In addition
two good big canoes should be secured.
An outfit like this can be carried with

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ease Over any portage in two trips. A
river or lake should be selected from the
lumberman’s map which you must take
care to have with you. Be sure and
choose a place where there has been no
lumbering for four or five years and where
you never heard of any moose being pre-
sent. These preliminaries being
settled and the party made up try and
start so as to be on the ground three or
four days before the season opens.

Let us imagine that this programme
has been carried out and we have our
camp up and all arrangements made
ready to open fire on the first morning of
the open season. As soon as we get
from five to ten miles away, or where
the country is quiet, start looking for
tracks along the shore. If you are hunt-
ing from a lake go to the end of the very
last of allthe bays, and then search the
shore on either side. In some places you
will find their tracks like cattle paths.

If these tracks are not over a month
old and the country has been burned over,
the bush not being too high—say from
two to seven years’ growth—set up your
tent, using your axe as quietly as
possible.

Make a start next morning and look
around. Two should go hunting to-
gether and one keep house. Make first
for the top of the highest hill nearby and
take a good look at the country. Most
likely a patch of green timber will be
seen in the valley about one half mile to
one mile back. Take out compasses and
mark the direction. If the wind will
permit work quietly in towards the tim-
ber. Ifitis a stormy day the moose
will most probably be found in the shelter
of the green timber, and if itis a fine day
signs wlll be seen that cannot be mistak-
en. In moose hunting it isnot necessary
to be so careful as it is in deer hunting,
and as the moose is larger and more
easily seen and makes about three times
the noise, it is so much the more easy for
the hunter to locate his quarry.

If youjump a bull moose in the green
timber and can hear him going take right
after him on the run. He will stop and
look back when he reaches an opening
and when he starts again you should see
him. In such a case his chances of gett-
ing away should be slight ones

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Often two or three bulls are found to-
gether, and if you are careful you will
both hear and see them and have all the
chances upon earth of getting one.
Moose are not hard to approach. Com-
pared toa deer the moose is lazy and
stupid and easy to see, hear and hit. |
once saw fourteen or fifteen with their
hair raised and their backs humped up
watching their dying leader kicking his
last—and I wasn’t seventy-five yards
from any one of them and I had to walk
right up in front of them before they
would leave.

On another occasion I shot One and its
mate came walking out and smelled of it
as it was floundering about with a ball
in the butt of its ear.

If you see that they have got wind of
you and slipped away without you hear-
ing them go back quietly on your tracks
and getright away. Don’t stir them up
again that day, but move back next day
or the day after and you will most likely
find them again at home. Never stir
them up any more than you can help for
once they do get thoroughly roused
they don’t know when to quit going.
Never follow a frightened moose. He
will go fifteen miles.

When there is snow on the ground the
moose are so lazy they will not even go
to drink, but will eat a little snow.

Always look for the unexpected in hunt-
ing and you will not be disappointed.

For carrying out the meat, use the
oil grained sacks in which the flour and
blankets were carried in on the inward
journey. If time and circumstances will
permit be sure and skin your moose at
once. Cut around the neck first. Be
sure and cut long enough well down on
the brisket and open the neck on the back
and never in the throat. Take the paunch
out,andraise him on some poles if possible
so as to let the air under him. Cover
him with loose brush, pick up a light
load, take out your compass and start
back in exactly the opposite direction
you came.

When about one hundred yards away
stop and mark the country. All take
notice of the kind of timber and the
ttle lakes you pass. Don’t get excited
Or you will not be able to observe the
lay of the country. Never go over two

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miles from your camp. Above all keep
quiet and do nothing without good
reason.

If you do get rattled stop where you
are and build a fire. You will soon get
cool if you keep quiet and argue the mat-
ter out with yourself. At the hour set
for a signal shot go tothe top of the
hill and listen. If it is too windy for you
to hear take it easy till the wind calms
down 6r the dawn appears. Never leave
your fire ; your companions wil come to
find you. There is no danger whatever
of this happening if you use your com-
passes as your guide and not your head.

As soon as you get your moose make
preparations for your return for fear of a
freeze up.

To sum up: You will have no difficulty
in getting your moose if you will go
back to where he lives. Ihave shot
moose when we were camped by the
railroad track though this is not very
easy to do and by far the best plan js to
follow the advice I have given.

Several correspondents have written
tome asking meas to the taste and
value of the meat of a bull moose. Well,
to tell the truth, it takes a lot of freezing
and thawing before it is tender, and even
then if it is not a young bull a good deal
of chewing will have to be done before
it is eaten.

In camp we often hear the expression

‘‘Pass the little bull down this way
again.” Itis the little bull that tastes.
the best.

I wish to give the strongest caution
against going out on these treacherous.
little lakes in a storm. No time is lost
by waiting.

Always have your companion in mind
when you raise your gun.

These cautions I cannot repeat too
oftenand I trust sincerely that every
reader will attend to these cautions and
profit by my experience.

“Oh,” I think I hear you say, ‘you
haven’t told us where you hunt after all!”
Well, there are from thirty-five to forty
of us who go from Kingsville every year
on a special car and some of the boys
have given me a warning against giving
our groundaway. All Ican say inad-
dition to the style of country I have
advised you to choose, is to go to North

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Western Ontario, where there are no
dogs and very few other hunters to bother
us and where big game is plentiful. I
believe all who follow the advice given in
this article will not regret it and I repeat

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that the whole of it is founded upon actual
personal experience.

Mr. Miner and his last three seasons
(1904-5-6) hunting trophies appear in this
number as the frontispiece.

Alpine Club Notes.

BY THE SECRETARY,

THERE is a steady demand from
strangers in Canada and the United
MB States for the Alpine Journal of
Canada. Scarcely a day passes without
some letter asking for a copy.

Among the applications taken out of
the jar left on Mt. Aberdeen by the Presi-
dent, is one forwarded for membership
and signed W. E. Hardy, Lincoln,
Nebraska.

The latest application at the present
writing is from Dr. J. W. A. Hickson,
Montreal, whose qualifications for active
membership are: ascents of Roger’s
Peak, Swiss Peaks, Mts. Stephen, Tem-
ple and Lefroy. Dr. Hickson has climb-
ed also a number of peaks below the ten
thousand feet mark, among them an
unnamed virgin peak near Bagheera in
the Selkirks. The ascent of Lefroy was
made in August of the present season,
with Peter Kaufmann and Edouard Feuz,
Jr. as Guides This mountain has not
been climbed for three years. The party
“left the Chalet at 3.05 a.m. and reached
the top of the Abbot’s Passat 7.40. The
snow was in very bad condition. At
10.25 we were on the summit of Lefroy ;
got down to the pass again at [1.45 ;

and after resting there and enjoying the.

superb view for almost an hour reached
the Chalet at 3.40 p. m.”

Mt. Lefroy has been attempted once
or twice this summer, but owing to bad
weather, parties turned back. The
climbing season has been unpropitious on
the whole, and there was great disap-
pointment by climbers who waited weeks
for clear weather. The Club had the
pick of climbing days during the meet in
Paradise Valley

The President has been invited to be

the guest of the English Alpine Club,
during their Jubilee festivities in Decem-
ber ; andit is hoped that he may see his
way clear to accept. The English Club
numbers 400. Ladies are not admitted
The Alpine Club of Canada now numbers
300. To be sure its qualification for
membership is much less stringent than
that of the older Club ; but ere a half
century passes the standard will be much
higher and the membership will be many
thousands with a separate branch for
scientific work.

A feature of the Camp in Paradise
Valley was the Photographic Exhibition.

The Exhibitors were as follows: Mr.
Wheeler, the Messrs. and Miss Vaux,
Mrs. Henshaw, Mr. Bridgland, Mr.

Harmon, Mr. Warner, Mr. Kinney, Mr.
Freeborn and Mr. Yeigh. The first
prize, a lady’s ice-axe, was carried off by
Mr. Wheeler ; and the second, a gentle-
man’s ice-axe, by Mr. Bridgland. The
judges were Mesdaines P. Burns and O.
Prest and Messrs. J. D. Patterson, Ben-
nett and Comstock. Two of the exhibi-
ors, Mrs. Henshaw and Mr. Harmon,
did not compete. Many very beautiful
photographs were shown, but those win-
ning the prizes fulfilled all the conditions
of the competition in regard to subjects.

The subjects were as follows: Two
mountain landscapes (forest, water,
mountain) ; one group of figures (in

camp, climbing, or travelling afoot or on
horseback) ; one landscape with cloud
effect ; two Alpine landscapes (snow, ice
rock-berg. )

Owing to the great depth of snow on
Horseshoe Glacier at the head of the
Valley, it was not possible to secure any
datain regard to its movement. Mr.

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Wheeler went into the Yoho Valley and
examined the plates placed by him on
Wapta Glacier in 1906 ; and Mr. W. S.
Vaux made his annual observations on
the Illecillewaet Glacier in the Selkirks.

At the Camp-fire entertainments, three
members of the Yoho Camp were much
missed : Miss Edna Sutherland, Mr.
Stuart Solomon, of Cape Town, and Dr.
A. M. Campbell, of Winnipeg. There
were songs and hymns every night,
notably the hymn ‘‘Unto the Hills around
do [ lift up” ; a mock trial ‘‘The King vs
MeTavish,’’ with great merriment ; an im-
promptu newspaper ‘‘The Alpine Herald”’
with Mr. Yeigh as editor-in-chief ; a
concert with some humorous impromptu
songs ; and two evenings were occupied
with Club business.

We are not to forget however, that
climbing mountains, studying glaciers,
and exploring valleys and passes are the
main, if not the sole, programme of the
Annual Camp, and the brain and brawn
of every active member is supposed to be
devoted mainly to these things. This is
what the President expects. At night
he is the last to close the fold-skirts of
his tent, and the first to open them in the
morning. All day he is everywhere,
doing a thousand things, missing nothing

Parties of Toronto excursionists and
campers have had some pleasant times
on Spectacle and Mowat Islands, nine
miles west of Parry Sound. The only
party on Spectacle Island consisted of
Mr. Walter Sparks assistant superin-
tendent of the city delivery at Toronto
postoffice, his sons, Wilmot and Doug-
las, Dr. B. E. MacKenzie, of the Ortho-
pedic hospital and his son Wilfred. On
one occasion they had quite an exciting
experience. During a terrific storm at
night their boat was swept from the
beach, leaving them without a craft.
Next morning they rigged up a raft with
their table and two logs and were in the
act of setting out for Mowat Island when

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but his meals. Rather he would miss
them if Mrs. Wheeler did not keep a
sharp eye upon him.

The latest donation to the Library of
the Club Gist? athe Playerounda. of
Europe,” by Sir Leslie Stephen ; and
‘‘The Alps from End to End,” by Sir
Martin Conway, the gift of the Secretary.
The Library now counts nineteen volumes
nearly all of them valuable books. When
the Club House is finished, these books
will find’ a permanent home. Several
donations of value have been promised
for the museum. Several donations to
the Club House itself would make the
President’s eyes shine ; and every pair
of eyes in the ‘‘Active’’ list.

Apropos of ‘‘Active,” Mr. Freeborn
wrote a chorus for the Camp, to suit the
melody of ‘‘Sailing, Sailing” :

Climbing, Climbing,

Over the ice and snow ;

With axe and pole,

And resolute soul,

To Canada’s peaks we go :
Sliding, striding,

Back to the Camp at night ;
Our work is done,

Our place we’ve won ;

We're ‘‘Actives” now by right.

some friends came along and helped them
to search for their boat which was found
in a rocky cave about a mile and a half
distant. During their three weeks on
the island they caught two hundred fish
including pike, maskinonge and _ bass.
Amongst the campers on Mowat Island
were Professor W. O. Forsythe and
family of the Metropolitan School of
Music, Toronto, Professor and Mrs.
Wenger of Chicago University, and a
party of sixteen teachers from the public
schools of Toronto. This method of
spending the vacation proved highly de-
lightful to all and the campers, despite
the drawbacks of rain and storm, thor-
oughly enjoyed their experiences and re-
turned to duty all the better for their so-
journ in the out-of-doors.
,

Our Vanishing Deer.

BY DR.

BUCH has been said on the above
subject, and much will be said, too
often by people who have not given
the subject much close study. Unfor-
tunately our legislators are usually too
busy to examine for themselves, and con-
sequently have to depend largely on
what is said by writers onthe subject,
who are often men earning their living by
the pen and take up game protection as
a new subject without studying the con-
ditions _ practically. Many observant
settlers who are in closest touch with
wild animal life could tell us a great deal
about the vanishing deer but from a
conscious lack of education we seldom
hear from them. I confess I felt some
timidity in attempting this article but
‘having been born a hunter and having
always lived in a deer country, I think
my opinion should be worth something at
least.

If we go back one hundred years we
will find the States south of us plentifully
supplied with deer, which often furnished
food for the settlers. Then those States
swere cleared, and cultivated, and behold
where were the deer ? In fact we donot
need to go back one hundred years, nor
do we need to go to a foreign country to
find history repegting itself. We can
take the Province of Ontario, in its older
parts, or my own county of Simcoe
and we have the same cause and effect.
The early settler had daily battles with

the forest and in due course won the vic-.

tory. The forest growth was abundant
all over Ontario which offered splendid
feed and cover for game of all kinds.
As I said the people cleared away the
forest, and in fact for their own good in
the tuture they cleared too much away,
and in so doing they established the
first and greatest step in the history of
our vanishing deer. It was not only
deer that vanished but all kinds of game
were similarily affected. There isa
tremendous amount of what might be
termed sentimental rot, not only in con-
nection with deer, but also with the
buffalo, yes and even with human life in

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the Indian. Who would want to wipe off
the map those beautitully cultivated
agricultural districts, with their towns
and villages, so as to give wild animal
life a chance to grow and flourish? The
people who first settled on this continent
acted the part of a great policy, in that
they saw no reason why a few hund-
dred thousand of Indians _— should
occupy a territory, only using a small
part of it which would support many
millions, living ina higher civilization.
The same argument would hold good
against white men under similiar condi-
tions. Naturally it has been and will
continue to be our vanishing Indians ;
but as they canlive under the same con-
ditions as white men if they would, they
are directly the cause of their own van-
ishing. Not so our deer. One eloquent
divine, who writes entertainingly, partic-
ularly with his limited knowledge of this
subject, almost sheds tears because ona
visit to the prairies of our country, he
could see the deeply cut paths of the now
pratically extinct buffalo, but no buf-
falo. What inthe name of common
sense would we do with thousands of
buffaloes stampeding across the prairie
at this time ? Were this the case people
would have to destroy the buffalo for the
protection of their crops. The buffalo
has gone but we are the winners, for
thousands of people have made homes
on this fertile prairie and are producing
wheat on landsthat might otherwise have
been a huge buffalo preserve. Still we
deprecate their destruction and believe
that with proper protection they could
have been forced back to the more Nor-
thern plains and thus delayed the in-
evitable. Someone might ask do you
mean that to apply to our own deer when
they can now be protected while they are
plentiful ? Yes I mean deer as well as
buffalo; yes and I might add that soon
the place to find a pure bred Indian will
be in Heaven. Thesechanges are inthe dim
future but they will come. As old Ontario
isin game so willnew Ontario be in the
near future, regardless of protecting

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laws. Thereis a law which knows no
protection but which is the survival of the
fittest, which will clear New Ontario as
has already been done in the old. The
law I mean is commercialism. Where
our deer are most numerons today, will
in avery short time be taken up with
mining and smelting of ore. True we
have an immense park which will help
us for a time, but when valuable ininerals
are found there our Government will be
compelled to throw it open, and will thus
destroy it as a game preserve. The
Government will have no more right to
tie up a large tract of country, thereby
making it non-productive than have the
Indians, or buffalo. Are our deer com-
pelled:'to vanish ? Yes in time. The
laws of late years have been generally
good, and have checked wholesale
slaughter, and from time to time amend-
ments will be made,some of which will be
good, others bad, but I will refer to that
later on. I would like to say here a few
words about the different modes of hunt-
ing, first considering runways and dog

hunting and see what effect the latter
has on our subject. Runways—what is
meant by the term? There isan idea

abroad, among people who do not hunt
that runways means paths in a wood
along which deer always run when chas-
ed by dogs, and all that is needed is to
have a guide place the hunter alongside
of one of these paths, go back into’ the
woods with the hounds, put them after a
deer, and the simple minded inoffensive
deer will rundown thispath tobeshot. This
is a snare and a delusion. I have hunted
for thirty years and have never in that
time seen more than two or three places
which could be called runways in the
above sense, and those places which were
such because of peculiar geographical con-
ditions, usually in the formation of rock,
where for quite a distance deer could
only crossa ledge in one place. When
the place is watched by a hunter the deer
soon know it with the result that your
runway ceases to exist, consequently the
runway idea is a myth and is quite a hit
and miss affair. No crowd of hunters in
a large bush see half the deer run by the
dogs, much less shoot them ; deer can
take care of themselves pretty well.

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idea that dogs are responsible for our
vanishing deer, and some claim this as
the chief reason for their vanishing. We
ask ourselves why should dogs be re-
sponsible? Are they so clever and
switt that they can catch the fleet footed
animals ? Or it is because by chasing
the deer with dogs the hunter gets an
easier shot ? Or does a dog frighten the
deer tou death ? Those of us who have
hunted with dogs, and have had chances
to see how deer run when being chased
would laugh at the idea of a dog catching
an unwounded deer. A deer to keep
clear of the dogs when being chased by
them, seldom runs more than a few hun-
dred yards without stopping and turning
to look at the cause of their alarm. Dogs
could doa lot of harm if allowed to run
in deep snow, when they probably might
catch a deer. If they cannot catch a
deer in the open season, how then can
they harm them ?

One writer eloquently describes the
manner as follows—‘‘The dogs chase the
deer until they get heated up, then they
plunge into a lake orriver, thus getting
chilled and large patches ofhaircomes off.
andthe poor animals perish in the colé
weather.” Oh ye Gods; What wisdom is
this? If people who have studied natural
history should readsuch a thing, would
they not smile ? Iam _ not an authority
along such lines but my impression is
that they would have to lay in the water
from seven days to some months at that
season of the year and be dead at that to
get such an effect on thehair. The same
writer refers to the Whitestone river
district and as I have hunted there during
the last five seasons, I am here to say
that no deer need get warm before get-
ting away from the dogs, because deer
can cross water within a few minutes at
any time, and according to the above
named writer’s opinion if not heated no
harm will be done.

Of course in the same sections deer
can avoid water and thus get heatedif they
want to, but they seldom do. Does the
chasing of deer with dogs give an easier
shot so thatthere are more deer killed? It
is hardly necessary to say that a deer bound-
ing through the woods (unless you should
be lucky enough to catchhim in one of his
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nose and hearing usually prevents such a
mishap) makes a difficult shot. Of course
most hunters when they get back to camp,
especially if they have had limited exper-
ience, always think that they wounded
their game badly, but I know that I
more often miss thanhit even at the close
range of say fifty or seventy-five yards,
when a deer is running in heavy timber,
but at the same distance with the deer
standing I think that I can kill every
time. Then surely we can conclude
that the dogs make vastly fewer kills of
deer because of the more difficult chances
obtained by the hunter. Then if the dogs
cannot catch the deer, and if they do not
heat them so that the water kills them,
and if they make the shooting more diffi-
cult what should the dogs be blamed
for? One thing else remains. to
answer viz— Do they chase the deer
out of the country? I hardly think so.
If they were chased out of one section
they would fill up some other where they
would not be chased, but they do not do
So.

Some years ago when deer were
scarce in this section ot Simcoe
county we who hunted knew pretty
well how many deer we had to

hunt as the pieces of bush were small,
and we could pretty nearly watch them
grow during the summer. -When the
season opened we could run those deer
and if we missed them one morning, we
could go back to the same place and
start them again the following morning,
and this ina first class agricultural
country where the dogs could chase the
deer for miles, before encountering any
water larger than creeks that a man
could jump over. Deer will remain in
one locality if there is cover in spite of
man and dogs. Why then should dogs
be blamed when they are not guilty ?
This brings us to the dog’s cousin the
wolf. Here we have a cause of complaint.
The wolves are not tied up in winter,
when the snow is deep and they certainly
are blamed for a lot of damage, and I
think rightly so, because they operate
when the deer practically have no chance

for their lives. The does are carrying
their young, and with the deep snow
must be an easy prey to the wolf. One

recent writer concluded after seeing a
little bunch of hair and some _ bones on

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the shore of a lonely lake that this par-
ticular deer met its fate at the hands of
wolves, but this conclusion may be on
insufficient data. Our party found in our
hunting section adjacent to the White-
stone river eight or nine carcasses or
rather the remains of that many following
the very severe winter of three years ago,
and this is another and _ significant
reason for our vanishing deer. However
we believe that wolves are destructive of
deer life but only when the snow is deep
inthe winter and the lakes and rivers
frozen over. There is an Indian proverb
which says that ‘‘fawns one day old, man
can catch, two days old, dogs can catch,
and three days old, devil can’t catch.”’

Another reason for our vanishing deer
is the killing out of season, by campers
in the summer time, settlers any old time
as well as Indians, and _ killing by paid
hunters for the logging camps. In past
years many logging camps had men em-
ployed to do nothing but supply the camp
with venison, hundreds of deer having
been killed by one man during the winter.
I think this particular branch is pretty
well a thing of the past except in the
farthest outline of camps, and it may
not be practised there as I have no know-
ledge of this condition. Some _ settlers
some winters have gone out and killed a
half dozen deerata time and brought
them in and fed them to their pigs. Then
the Indian also knowsno law, and if he
would take them only when needed for
his own food it would not be so _ bad,
but a sample case was _ reported in ‘‘Rod
and Gun” afew months back wherea
bunch of Indians went out early last
winter and killed over thirty deer selling
the whole to the miners in and around
Cobalt.

Then the summer tourists thinks he
has a license to kill everything that is in
sight, and our cousins across the border
to the south are not one bit worse than
our own people, for not only deer but
grouse are killed, and at the present time
the latter are almost exterminated in
those sections in which the summer tour-
ist locates. Grouse do not need nearly
the amount of cover required for deer
and they might be kept withus fora
good while yet, if proper steps were
taken.

I would after mentioning the effect of

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chasing deer with dogs like to refer to
still hunting which is the proposed cure
for our vanishing deer. Still hunting, —
what is meant by the term ? There are
two kinds of still hunting, only one of
whichis practised to any extent. The
absolute variety I will speak of first, which
is that very scientific kind practised by
exceedingly clever hunters, mostly on
paper but some times in the woods. This
is where like Sherlock Holmes, you see
a track and having made a sufficient study
of all conditions, you decide what the
deer is thinking about, and then under-
take to follow your game, even for miles
if necessary, till you creep upon your un-
suspecting game, and while the deer is
sleeping or feeding, you sneak-like shoot
him in his tracks. Of all the mean acts
of man this always appears to me to be
the meanest. How closely such so called
‘*skill” resembles the actions of the wild
Indian on this continent in the early days.
Our Forefathers seldom knew when leav-
ing the block houses, when they would
be shot from behind a tree or shrub. It
was equally true that that method used
to give the best results when plying the
same unsportsmanlike game. To the
true sport it is not the amount of game
so much as the outdoor life combined
with the difficult sport. However, in still
hunting all is not gold that glitters and
when following some particular track,you
suddenly find where your game meets
with two or three others, and they will
track up enough ground to make you
think that the bushis alive with deer,
and when you find one singled which
you proceed to follow, you soon have a
repetition of your former experience.
Often being unable to follow an individual
track, you turn your scientific (so called)
still hunting to the kind usually practised
which is as follows—A man of this par-
ticular work taking advantage of wind,
travels slowly and noiselessly through
the woods, which means to keep off twigs
etc, which would crack when stepped on,
keeping his eye open and paying very
little attention totracks. Every little
while he will sit down fora time then
move along for a distance, then stand
still, watching sneak-like to catch an
unsuspecting animal standing’ still, until
some other hunter doing the same thing

detects a movement and at once a rifle
ball or a load of buckshot is thrown at
what is taken for a deer, but too often a
man is killed and loved ones mourn the
loss of a husband, son or father. I am
free to admit that it is usually (not al-
ways) an inexperienced hunter, who
does such a fool trick, and strange as it
may seem, the same man if shooting at
a deer would in ninety percent of the
cases never touch it. Such a shocking
affair seldom if ever happens while hunt-
ing with hounds. I lived for six years
in the upper part of Michigan and
hunted there, and each year the State had
along list of fatalities, while in the
State of Wisconsin the number of acci-
dents (so called) were still greater. We
occasionallyhave an accident but it is
almost always while still hunting, one
case occuring only afew miles from our
camp on the Whitestone about two
years ago. While still hunting, the
number of people killed and wounded is
appaling while inhunting with dogs, even
the worst enemy of such hunting never

claims anything worse than a few extra
dead deer. Fancy putting all the deer
in Canada against one man, and that
man a whole souled specimen of man-

hood, which hunters generally are. Our
party can get all the deer they want
without dogs as we are not of the tender-
foot variety, but I would rather go into

the woods with dogs and withouta gun,

than to be permitted all the guns needed

and all the game that I could kill. Some

one may say that I am prejudiced and

consequently not in a position to give a

valuable opinion. We are always pre-
judiced on any subject upon which we
have an opinion, but | am attempting to
give my reasons.

There is another kind of a still hunter,
which is neither fish nor meat. I mean
the man who is too mean to feed a good
dog, and too lazy to hunt for himself
away from other hunters. He always
tries to hunt near where dogs are run-
ningand as there are no paths along which
deer run he places himself on some pro-
minent spot, often heading off the owner
of the dogs, and actually exerting him-
self, to the extent of running from one
prominence to another where he might
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he gets buck fever or else he would be
too lazy to move quickly. I am willing
to provide sport for men who love dogs
well enough to feed them at home in
months when not in use. The above
so called sports returning home boast
that they were still hunting and consider

hound hunting unsportsmanlike. We
need a detachment of Michigan and
Wisconsin still hunters to give these

fellows their proper deserts.

How can we keep the deer with us for
the longest time, believing that they
must give way to the mass of people
now filling up our country ? I would
suggest that with our present law a close
watch be kept on the deer district from
the commencement of the close season
till the commencement of the open sea-
son. Game wardens are ‘not needed
during the open season, because there is
no hunter going into the woods without
being armed with a license to bring out
a deer should he have the good luck to
get one, and just here I would like to
say Amen to the Rev. Dr. Murdoch’s sug-
gestion that local game wardens are
useless.

After enforcing the law in the close
season, | would prevent killing deer in
the water, for the same _ reason that I
would not allow still-hunting viz.—that
itdoes not give the deer a chance. By
stopping the killing of deer in the water
you stop the only danger to deer life by
using dogs, because the deer will take to
the water when they get good and ready.
] am told that a wing shot would not be
guilty of shooting at a sitting bird, and
we should aim at giving the deer some
chance for their lives which cannot be
done it killing in the water is allowed.

The style of killing does not require
any skill as a gun is not needed, and all
that is required is to be able to handle a
boat or canoe. Then I would allow one
deer per man, making no exceptions as
to fawns. The allowing of only one deer
to aman would protect the fawns inas-
much as if one deer only is to be allowed
then the hunter wants a fair sized trophy,
and the fawns would not be allowed to
rot in the woods, as will be the case
this year. There are times when the
most experienced hunters will not be
able to tell agood sized buck fawn from

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a small doe, and if the young deer be
shot it will be left to rot under the pres-
ent law. On different occasions I have
shot what I thought was adve, when
shooting, and on getting my game found
that I hada year anda _ half old buck:
Let us save the deer as much as we can
but let us find the proper means of doing
so without risking human life for the
cause of sport.

In Mr. McVeigh’s recent letter (most
of which I have covered fairly well) he
states,—‘‘In hunting with dogs you
usually get the smaller deer while the
old fashioned buck jumps aside and gets
away !” Such a remark sounds most
ludicrous and inexperienced but of course
Mr. McVeigh is a still hunter and does
not know the ways of the dogs. We
hunters know that during the first two
weeks of November the mating season
commences and the bucks are continually
roaming about in search of the does
which are usually hidden up in the dense
timber, the six months old fawn naturally
being with them. So the buck track is
usually picked up first and in my exper-
ience of thirty years we have almost
always got more bucks than does and
fawns together. An inexperienced dog
is not usually misled by Mr. Buck jumping
to one side nor does the buck associate
with a fawn at that time of the year un-
less the doe is there also.

The Rev. Mr. Murdoch quotes several
States ofthe Union as having a law
against the running of dogs and con-
sequently infers from that, that a strong
reason exists why we should do likewise. I
would like to state right here and now,
that Canada has no need to go to any
state in the Union to geta lesson on
what laws, to make, howto make them,
or how to enforce them, and the above
mentioned writer likely Knows something
of it, and probably more than Ido. If
Michigan, Wisconsin or any other state
wants to prohibit the running of hounds
let them do so, and let them pay the
penalty in human blood. Then let me
sum up briefly as the cause of our vanish-
ing deer.

I. Lessened cover and gradual crowd-
ing for commercial purposes. Forcing
the deer into new districts, rather than
decreasing their numbers.

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2. Their favored haunts taken up by
summer tourists.

3. Illegal killing.

3. Destruction by wolves and severe
winters.

5. Too generous game laws.
Remedy :—

I. Limit bag to one deer per man.
2. Stop water shooting

BYE iS

@ mii recent numbers ef Rod and Gun
have interested me greatly, especially
~ the controversy connected with the
hunting of game with dogs. The few re-
marks I have to make with reference to
the same are without prejudice as every-
- one in the protection of game of all kinds
has a right to express his opinion or ex-
periences. Having had nearly fifty years
hunting in the different Provinces of
Canada, | may possibly be permitt2d to
give my ideas asto the causes of the
growing scarcity of game of all kinds.

I have read the articles referring to the
subject both with regard to still hunting
and the methods of preferring the use of
hounds, and I unhesitatingly give my
preference to the latter for the following
reasons :

First—Deer that are occasionally chas-
ed by a hound, or hounds, are generally
shy and on the alert and keep a _ respect-
able distance from the haunts of men,thus
making it more difficult for the sneaking
still hunter to get in his work.

Second— From personal experience, and
that of three others who hunted with me
for a couple of seasons in the Muskoka
District some years ago. We found
that on a average no more than two deer
were killed for every six that were run
down by our hounds, and after two weeks’
hunting we only secured seven deer
mostly does and young bucks. The next
year we hunted in the same locality for
the same period, leaving our hounds at
home, when our bag numbered fifteen,
mostly large bucks. The snow was on
_ the ground on both occasions, and from
<< the number of deer about the

where any

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form of water device is used in their
pursuit.

3. Encourage destruction of wolves
by increasing bounty. ,

4. Rigid enforcement of game laws

by competent and well paid wardens.

5. During — severe winters hay
to be distributed in proximity to deer
yards.

6. Organization of Protective Associa-
tions.

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same. I find little pleasure in still hunting.
One feels guilty of meanness when taking
aim at an animal perhaps feeding or lying
down ; or otherwise unexpecting danger,
Personally I would just as soon shoot an
old cow grazing in a pasture, asa deer
when feeding.

Third—If we refer back to the most
ancient history connected with hunting
we find our most faithful companion, the
dog, associated in almost every case with
man. There is music ina good hound’s
baying, that to atrue sportsman is ex-
citing in the extreme. Whether he is
successful or not in getting a shot at the
flying quarry he returns to camp satisfied,
as he has heard Nature’s music from
the distant whimper, gradually increasing
to a humming sound as the chase leads
into deep gorges. When along higher
ridges the notes ring out like quick sharp
yells, perhaps mellowing again as the
deer takes to the more dense forests in a
wide circle, and is often so far distant
that all sounds of the hunt is lost, perhaps
for a few minutes or may be half an hour.
Then again the distant humming gradually
increases in volume until the weird echoes
of the true hounds, bellowing bay makes
the very atmosphere quiver with its
vibrations. ;

Deer about sixteen years ago were very
numerous even within a mile or so of the
city of Victoria, B. C. Prior to that time
deer were hunted with hounds from the
little beagle to the regular buck hound.
Suddenly the Government stopped that
method of hunting, and still hunting was
resorted to. The consequences soon be-
came apparent,—the deer became com-

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paratively tame, encroached on the farm
lands and were shot on sight by the farm-
ers at all seasons of the year. When the
hunting season commenced the - still
hunters had aneasy time securing all
they desired. My nephew killed twenty-
seven deer in three days, and had to give
them away as venison was so plentiful
that no one cared to buy it.

In severe winters sometimes there is a
heavy snow fall on the mountains in the
interior of Vancouver Island. There the
deer are driven in large bands to the
coasts where the Siwash Indians slaughter
them by the hundred just for the skins,
which they dispose of for twenty-five
cents each. They shoot Elk just to se-
cure the head if the horns are good, to
sell to visiting hunters. The does they
kill just for the sake of getting their
teeth.

These are some of the reasons why
the deer are vanishing. .

There are others, viz :—If a man se-
cures a miner’s license in British Colum-
bia he can kill all kinds of game at any
time of the year. The wolves which are
plentiful in most wild districts worry and
slaughter that species of game far more
than they are generally given credit for.
On the bank of the Muskoka River some
years ago I counted fourteen carcasses

A murder trial, much out of the ordi-
dinary course, is being conducted in the

far north. The circumstances illustrate

very forcibly the great differences be-

tween present day civilization and the

beliefs still prevailing amongst the In-
dians. The men who are being tried are
Joseph and Jack Fidler, who are respec-
tively the chief and medicine man of the
tribe of Crees living near Sandy Lake
and trading with the Hudson Bay Post
at Norway House, and the charge against
them is one of murder. These particular
Indians hold fast to the belief that when
a sick person becomes delirious a_ spirit
or ‘‘Wendigo” has entered into them and
if the person dies naturally the ‘‘Wen-
digo” escapes to the woods, and fright-
ens away the game with the result that
famine follows. Last spring a_ sick
Squaw became delirious and at a meet-

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of deer killed by wolves, — this while
walking only about three miles. The
snow was about two feet deep with a

crust, which would not bear the weight
of a deer. Last year a friend of mine on
a hunting trip on Vancouver Island in
two weeks counted the remains of forty-
five deer evidently killed by wolves.

Then again the panthers that are num-
erous in some parts kill numbers of deer,
and also sheep and calves in the farming
districts. There is a bounty here of $7.50
for their scalps, and only $5.00 for wol-
ves, which in the opinion of nearly every
body interested in the subject is not
half enough to induce professional hunt-
ers to devote their time to trapping, pois-
oning, or shooting them.

We have fairly good laws for the pro-
tection of winged game in British Colum-
bia but it is very difficult to enforce them
owing to the extensive districts, and the
limited number of game wardens.

The article I noticed in one of the
recent numbers of ‘‘Rod and Gun”’ sad-
dling all the blame for the extermination
of deer on the canine race, only shows
that the writer was lacking the experience
necessary before giving sucha decided
opinion, which is contrary to that of
those who perhaps have had as much ex-
perience, if they are not so self-opinion-
ated, on the subjects refered to.

ing of the tribe the chief and medicine
man were appointed to strangle her in
order that the spirit might not escape
with the passing breath but remain im-
prisoned in the body. A piece of canvas
was placed about the squaw’s neck and
then the noose of a rope. The latter
was tightened by the two leaders of the
band, the ravings of the woman were
stopped, the evil spirit was imprisoned
and the game preserved. When the task
was over the executioners were, accord-
ing to custom, handsomely fed by the
parents of the victim. The defence of
course is that the men were simply fol-
lowing the custom of their forefathers,
and were unable to understand that they
were guilty of wrong doing. The ex-
ecution of the duty they had performed
was considered a high honor and the
men believed they were only doing their
duty to the tribe.

Netting Fish in Nova Scotian Waters.

IHAT the fishing laws are not thor-
oughly enforced throughout Can-

~ ada is pretty clearly evident to our
readers. Much is being done, but more
remains to be done and we are constantly
in receipt of communications tending to
show that further steps are necessary if
our fisheries are to be maintained.
Amongst other experiences we have re-
ceived those of Messrs. Fred & Lance
Purcell of Halifax, N.S. These young

men possess a folding canvas boat and
early in July set off on an exploring
but quite

trip, not too far from home,
far enough to give
them hard work and
good appetites.
Their boat is eleven
feet long and weighs |;
sixty pounds and|§
was built in Dart-|f
mouth, N.S. They
reside within ten
minutes walk of the |i
North West Arm |i
and after putting |@
their boat together |*
rowed down about
five miles to Fergu-
son’s Avenue. Here
they folded the boat,
carried it over through wood, bush,
etc.. to Pine Island. The fishing here
is usually good and the fish captured very
large. On this occasion, however, the
lily beds were so thick that they did not
fish much but continued the trip. Port-
aging down to Herring Avenue, a dis-
tance of about two miles, carrying the
boat over portages from almost ten yards
to about two hundred vards, or worse,
paddling through water, etc., they

How the big fish get away was related
by Tweedles Howell, son of F. J. How-
ell, of Hamilton, Ont. On a fine after-
noon in August the young man was seen
to upset from his canoe. Six row boats
appeared from all quarters of the com-

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caught.about one dozen fish in all. For
the whole time the scenery was fine.
Before turning back they made a find.
At a place where there was a strong force
of water they found rope and a herringnet
stretching across the runs. These had
evidently been left from the spring fish-
ing as the net had been torn through the
centre by the force of the water In the
view of the Messrs. Purcell the net
(which it is needless to say they thor-
oughly destroyed) gives an explanation
of the sight, too often seen, of conntry-
men going into the Halifax market with
a couple of hundred
trout to sell. This
netting spoils fly fish-
ing and will destroy
i] the whole fishing be-

fore long. This is
the second occasion
the Messrs. Purcell

have made such a
find, the previous one
being in a lake to the
b| east. From Herring
=ae| Cove the return was
quite adventuro u s.

Every minute the
little craft was threat-
ened with swamping
by the big breakers but the canvas boat
rode triumphantly over them all and
after three hours’ hard rowing the occu-
pants returned to the place from whence
they had commenced the voyage. Every
reader will agree with the closing re-
mark of the MessrS- Purcell. ‘‘Our
lakes and rivers are n0t fished as the
laws prescribe and it is quite time the

authorities took steps to ensure
a o a) )
the carrying out of the laws.

pass and the first picked up Howell while
the next brought in the canoe. Howell
said he was fishing and got such a big
one on his line that it pulled him over.
His great regret was not his wetting,
which he didn’t seem to mind, but the
loss of his big fish.

A Novel Bear Hunt.

BY WILLIAM CARRELL.

Pie your readers will be inter-
ested in the story of a novel bear

hunt in which I| took part,where the
bear fora time became the hunter in-
stead of being hunted, and_ which,
although it finished all right furnished a
good deal of excitement while it was in
progress.

In the grey dawn of a lovely morning in
August, 1889, the lines of the tug Sey-
mour were cast off the dock at Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich. and she started on her
journey down the St. Mary River. More
than one of us thought as we looked out
that the day was ideal for a_ pleasure
cruise. Not aripple marred the surface
of the water which looked like a polished
mirror as the light of the fast awakening
day fell upon it. The crew of the tug
however had something else than pleasure
to occupy their minds. — In the course of
their daily employment they were bound
for Sailor’s Encampment on Neebish Is-
land for a large tow of saw logs which
they were to take to Cheboygan for the
Reid Lumber Company.

Passing Little Rapids to the east of the
Soo they soon reached the head of Sugar
Island and on rounding a bend of the
river the full glory of the morning burst
on their view. The sun, which had just
risen over the top of the high wooded
hills, was reflecting the polished surface
of the river in dazzling splendour. Noth-
ing appeared to mar the beauty of the
scene ahead. The glittering placid water
and the varying tints of the trees which
lined the shore presented pictures which
did not lose their power even on those
mostused to them.

There was no sound with the exception
of the puff-puff-puff of the exhaust steam
from the engineand the lapping of the
water against the sides of the tug as she
glided ‘along on her course under the
guidance ot the man at the wheel. Now
and again a dark cloud of smoke issued
from her stack as the fireman plied his
hot and grimy work deep down in the
hull of the boat. The members of the
crew were taking it easy, sitting round

the dock, chatting and breathing in the
fresh pure-air of the morning. Soon
they passed Garden River where there is
an Indian Reserve, and one of them at
least imagined he could smell the perfume
from the scented or Indian grass which
grows in great abundance in the neigh-
bourhood. The Indians weave this grass
into fancy baskets and mats which meet
with a ready sale amongst both residents
and visitors.

Turning another bend the scene chang-
es andthe broad expanse of Lake St.
George comes into view. __ Here is seen
along procession of large upper lake
steamers and their tows hurrying to the
head of navigation on Lake Superior, that
great fresh water sea. As they passed
some of them looked as it a good sea
would send them to the bottom, so deep-
ly laden were they. Away tothe south
west the large dredges could be seen at
work on the Hay Lake channel which
was being deepened. The United States
Government have undertaken the duty of
both deepening and lighting this chan-
nel in order to allow vessels to pass up
and down in safety during the night—as
they were unable to doat the time of
which I am writing.

As we cross the lake wepass beat
after boat, some crowned with tourists
and others deeply laden with coal. After
entering the Neebish Rapids we neared
the Encampment where the rivermen
bave been busy booming up the logs for
their journey across Lake Huron. Another
bend in the river and the tow comes into
view. Soonthe tug istied up atthe
dock and the welcome sound of the dinner
bell is heard. A hungry healthy lot of
men speedily do justice to the first class
meal the cook has set before them. Din-
ner over they fill their pipes and hurry on
deck anxious to get away as the weather
looks threatening anda_ tow of logs is
not a nice thing with which to be caught
out on the open lake in a blow.

The lines are accordingly made fast
and after seeing that everything is secure
the rivermen hurry across the logs to

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the Island, it being arranged that the tug
is to pick them upon her return trip.
With waving of hands to the men on
shore they are off again, their progress
this time being much slower as they have
about three millions of feet of logs
behind them. The wind too, blows with

_ increasing force, and after rounding an-

other bend and entering Mud Lake they
find it blowing quite hard from the south
east. This makes their progresa'slower
than ever though they still proceed at a
fair pace, passing steamers upward
bound, their captains and crews anxious
to get out of the river before dark. The
day is drawing to its close ere they have
crossed the Lake and when they reach

Detour, a lumbering village at the
mouth, it is, as the sailors say, pitch
_dark with not a star to be seen, and the

_ be safer tied up

wind, which has been rising ever since

they left the Encampment, is blowing »

half a gale.
Passing Drummond Island,the tug has

"just poked her nose out into the lake

when the captain concludes his tow would
atthe dock in Detour

than battling with the sea then running

out into the open lake. No sooner was
the order given than the tug was put

about and boat and tow soon tied up at

the dock.

When all is safe the crew are
not long out of their bunks where they
enioy a well earned rest.

With the first streak of dawn all are

_astir, and after a hasty breakfast the

sii ail

lines are cast off again and a’ start made
down the river. Ina _ short time both
tug and tow are out on the bosom of the
lake. What achange has taken place
with the passing away of thenight ! The
night before all was dark and dreary out
on the water but the morning has broken
calm and serene. Save tor a slight dead
rollnoone would know it had _ been
blowing hard only a few hours before.
Off to the southwards the treacherous
Spectacle Reef could be seen, while in the
south west Bob-a-lo Island (Bois Blanc)
Was showing up.

The day passed uneventfully and after a
pleasant trip both tug and tow were taken
into Sheboygan. By the way this town
is said to have derived its name in a cur-
ious manner. A good many years ago
when the Red man held sway in that part

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of the country, an Indian and his squaw
lived there. They were blessed with
quite a number of boys but no daughter
appeared on the scene. Every spring a fur
trader who came that way made it a prac-.
tice to call upon them and always asked’
the same question—‘‘Well, John a girl
this time ?”’ to which query he invariably
received the same answer, ‘‘No, Sheboy-
gan.” In this way the name was given to
the place andit has so remained. A
supply of coal was taken in here and the
return trip commenced.

They arrived in Detour about daylight
and proceeded on up the river to the En-
campment where they tied up until the
rivermen got their camping outfit on
board. Let me say right here that if it
ever happens to be the privilege of any
readers to travel with a crew of rivermer
they will find them a whole souled, joll
lot. For all their rough ways and sti
rougher speech they possess big hearts an
open hands and are always willing to help
a friend in need.

As soon as they were settled they start-
ed to make things lively, singing, danc-
ing, and playing tricks on one another.
All these were taken in good part and as
a result high spirits prevailed amongst all
on board the tug. Just as they were
nearly through the Neebish Rapids one
of the river men caught sight of a bear
in the water. Immediately there was a
great uproar amongst them and nothing
would do but for the tug to give chase to
the bear. As soon as the Rapids were
passed the tug was headed for his Bear-
ship and quite an exciting chase ensued.
There were no firearms on board and the
Captain thought they might as well give
up the chase.

The river men would not hear of doing
this and as they insisted on their way the
Captain very diplomatically allowed them
to do as they pleased. They lowered
the yawl boat from the roof of the deck-
house and soon had her over the side.
No sooner had she touched water than in

their mad rush they nearly upset her.
Will Reid, who was boss of the gang,

succeeded in quieting them a little and
selecting four of the number to do the
rowing took his place in the bow armed
with a formidable axe. All this time the
bear was swimming strong and making

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his way steadily towards the Island.
The rivermen put all the power of their
brawny muscles into their rowing and
succeeded in cutting off the bear from
the shore.

When the bear perceived that he chang-
ed his course and started to swim in the
same direction as that for which the boat
was heading. Closer and closer they
came and the boss rose to his feet and
braced himself for the blow which he
meant would end the chase. As they
ranged alongside, Will, giving a long
sweep of his powerful arms, aimed a
mighty blow at the bear’s head. Quick
as he was in sending the blow home, the
bear was quicker still. His head disap-
peared under the water and the Boss,
missing his blow, went over after him
losing the axe in his plunge. The bear
came to the surface first and as he saw
the man’s head appear he made straight
for him. Then pandemonium was let
loose for a time. With shouts, splashing
of the water, and thumping of the oars
they endeavoured to distract the bear’s at-
tention from the man and to keep the
two apart. In this endeavor they found
a capital supporter in Will who witha
few powerful strokes put the boat be-
tween himself and the bear. As soon as
he was near enough eager hands were
stretched out to him and he was dragged
into a place of safety.

Meantime the Captain of the tug, im-
patient at the delay, was keeping upa
steady whistling for their return. The
men’s dander was now up to the highest
pitch and they resolved to capture the
bear by hook or by crook. First they
voted to return to the tug and get another
axe and were about to carry this project
into execution when one of the men sug-
gested that they lassoo Bruin and take
him along. No sooner said than done.
A running noose was made of a piece of
line which happened to be in the yawl
and after several attempts they succeeded
in getting it over his head. ‘This being
accomplished they started for the tug
with many whoops, their captive swim-
ming apparently quite contentedly after
them.

On reaching the tug they all scrambled
on board and tied the end of the line,
which was round the bear’s neck, to one

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which they had made fast to the tow
post. With a good hearty pull they
started to help Mr. Bruin on board. He
however did not need their assistance but
came over the side like an old hand.
When he reached the deck ina lively
fashion there was a scattering match
amongst both crew and the rivermen.
Some dived down the companion way
leading to the men’s sleeping quarters
and others made for the engine room,
leaving the whole deck to the bear.

As soon as the boat had reached the
side of the tug the Captain had given the
order ‘‘Full speed ahead !” and the ves-
sel was soon speeding on her way to the
Soo. His Bearship, after shaking the
water from his coat, started on a tour of
inspection, and to the consternation of
the captain and the man at the wheel
poked his nose in the Pilot-house window.
Then he tried hard to climb in but the
rope was not long enough to allow him
to do so. It was however quite long
enough to cause both captain and wheel-
man some very anxious moments. They
had not the slightest desire for a closer
acquaintance and would have pre-
ferred being with the rest of the crowd
could they have left their positions.
Something more than the call of duty
kept them at their posts. Asa matter
of fact the bear was on the same side as
the door and this made their escape im-
possible. They had perforce to face the
music and wait for results.

The men in the engine room poked
out their heads and enjoyed the fun.
They were vastly amused at the scare
given to the Captain and Wheelman
and were lavish in their advice to these
two individuals as to what to do under
the peculiar circumstances in which they
found themselves placed. By and by
however the whole crowd began to feel
the want of refreshments, and particular-
ly was this the case with those who had
undergone such violent exertions. They
all knew that as long as Mr. Bruin was
roaming around there could be no supper
forthem. But how to get rid of him
was the question. Nota single one of
those who had laughed at the Captain
and Wheelman felt inclined to go out
and ask himto quietly retire until they
got their meal.

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A long discussion took place, and plan
after plan was suggested only to be re-
jected for the want of those who would
or could carry it out. They became more
and more hungry and the prospects of
relief seemed gloomy enough. At length
one of the more daring stole out of the
engine room and climbing to the roof of
the deck house got his hand on that
good friend of all rivermen, a_ heavy
peevy hook. His spirits and his confi-
dence arose as he felt the familiar weap-
on in his hand.

With caution he made his way to the
roof of the Pilot house and watching his
opportunity when his Bearship was busy
trying to get in the window, he plunged
the pike of the heavy peevy with such
force against the bear’s head that it pen-
etrated its brain and all was soon over.
Speedily they hustled up the cook and
had supper, after which they set to work
to dress the animal and found him to be
very fat. His coat was a beautiful glossy
black. After getting him dressed they
laid him out on the low lines at the stern
and started to clean up the deck, which
they had dictied in their work.

On arriving at the Soo they carried
Mr. Bear to the scales to see what he
weighed and were surprised when-he
tipped the beam at three hundred
pounds. There he was hung up in the
warehouse to cool off before skinning
and cutting him up. It was decided that
each man was to have his share of the
meat, andevery man had his mouth
measured before starting for home. In
their dreams that night they tasted, in
anticipation, of the feast they were to
have next day.

Bright and early next morning the
crowd was on hand for their share of
bear meat. They soon found that the
old proverb, which says, ‘‘there’s many
a slip betwixt the cup and the lip’ was
true, and they suffered from a _ disap-

pointing illustration of it.
their surprise when the door
locked and opened not to
where they had left
night before!

Imagine
was un-
see the bear
him hanging the

They tried to believe that Joe Trempe,
who took charge of the dock, had hid the
carcass for a joke, and for a time con-
soled themselves with that thought.
When Joe put in his appearance they all
pounced upon him and wanted to know
what he had done with their bear. They
further informed him that if he did not
speedily trot it out they would dip him in
the river.

Joe, however, stoutly maintained his
innocence in the matter. He declared
in terms both loud and long that he had
not seen the bear since it was hung up
the previous night, and couldn’t imagine
where it could possibly have gone. At
length under combined threats and per-
suasion he remembered that a large
steam barge had been in the night before
for a load of coalin order to carry her
up the lake to Duluth. He could not
give any other possible explanation of
the disappearance of the bear except to
imagine that the crew of that steam
barge had stolen it.

Plenty of evidence came to light after-
wards, which confirmed Joe’s story. It
turned out that the men loading the coal
had seen the bear and coveted it. Under
cover of the darknes they dumped him in
a wheelbarrow and covered him with
lumps of coal. In the darkness the trick
was unnoticed and the men got off with
their prize.

The crowd expressed themselves in
such forcible language as would not look
nice in print, and vowed vengeance on
the crew of that barge if they ever met.
That vengeance, however,—like their
hunger for bear meat—has not, up to
the present, been appeased.

Sport In British Columbia.

Province of British Columbia come
excellent reports of experiences
and prospects in both fishing and hunt-
ing. The game generally is reported as

Fe all parts of the great sporting
|

being more plentiful, and there appears
no doubt, from the number and tenor of
these reports, that mule, -lack tail, and
white tail deer are more numerous than
two years ago, and also, at any rate in

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MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

————

BY ROYAL
WARRANT

PURVEYORS
TO

H. M. KING EDWARD VII

There is only ONE

BOVRIL

During the fall your system needs food that is not only nourishing

but that can be easily assimilated.

BOVRIL answers this need.

A cup of hot ‘“Bovrit,” with crackers, in the middle of the day, pro-
vides a sustaining, appetizing, meal—one which really feeds and invigorates

the system.

Goes well with any salad

the Lillooet district, that sheep are on
the increase.

A good many non-resident hunters
have visited British Columbia this year.
In the Cassiar district there were 25 at
one time (all that could be accommo-
dated with horses and guides.) included
in this number were Lord and Lady
Hindlip and Lord Beauclerc.

In Lillooet and Chilcoten districts
there were twenty-one non-resident
hunters,amongst this number being Lord
Vivian and the Hon. R. Vivian.

Vancouver and Kootenay nave also re-
ceived a fair share of tourists.

The fishing for big salmon at Camp-
bell River has attracted a greater num-
ber of tourists than ever. This year, in
addition to a number from England and
the United States, there have been vis-
itors from New Zealand, Australia, the
Straits Settlements and India.

Probably owing to no seining being
allowed this year the fishing has been

‘jlano River.

better than last year. The largest fish

taken this season weighed sixty-two
pounds and the second largest sixty
pounds. A considerable number weigh-

ing from fifty to fifty-five pounds have
been caught, and the average weight of
the big fish has been a little over forty-
one pounds.

A remarkable teature of the year has
been the sentencing of a Japanese to pay
a fine of $300 (three hundred dollars)
and costs for using dynamite in the Cap-
The severity of the fine
was due to two causes: First, evidence
was produced to show that the man had
committed this offence on more than one
previous occasion; and _ secondly there
was a strong suspicion of perjury in en-
deavoring to prove an alibi. A good
many convictions for breaches of the fish
and game laws have been obtained and
some heavy fines inflicted amongst which
may be mentioned that of a man _ killing
four deer out of season, this man being
fined $100 and costs. .

AUTOMOBILES 482 AUTOMOSILING

A Wonderful Record.

It is astounding to think, in the won-
derful perfection of the automobile of
today, that the history of the industry in
the States only dates back vo 1900.
Less than a decade has served to bring
into the very forefront an industry whose
possibilities of developments appear to
be unbounded. In 19U3 the era of pros-
perity set in and each succeeding year
has shown such wonderful advances that
it is hard to realise how short is the his-
tory of automobile manufacturing in the
States. Everything in the past has been
surpassed by the business done in 1907
and if this record can be maintained in
the future the automobile industry will
become one of the finest in the country.
Up to the present something like three
hundred concerns have been engaged in
the automobile industry although the
representative manufacturing firms have
been confined toa list of one hundred
and fifty makers. Out of all this num-
ber and ina new industry, there have
been only eight failures, including but
one important firm, which occupies a
unique position, inasmuch as its asset,
largely exceed its liabilities and its diy.
culties are entirely due to the stringency
in the money market. ‘i

American Exports Exceed Imports.

[t has been evident for some time that
American exports of autos would soon
catch up and pass in value and number
the autos imported. According to the
figures given out by the Bureau of Sta-
tistics. of the Department of Commerce
and Labor for the fiscal year ending June
1907, this has now been accomplished
and the United States stands next to
France as an exporter of automobiles.
For the year mentioned the imports to-
talled four and a half millions of dollars
and the exports five and a half millions,
: and in addition two hundred and sixty-

five thousand dollars’ worth went to the
Over seas’ possessions of the States.
The ratio of growth is much greater in
the exports than in the imports, and
there seems every reason to believe that
this will continue in the same way.
France, Italy, the United Kingdom and
Germany supplied the imports in the or-
der mentioned, no less than three mil-
lions of the total coming from France.
The feature of the exports is the heavy
shipments to the the tropical sections. |
About one-fourth of the autos sent out
go tothe horseless areas of the world
including China, Japan and the tropics.
In 1905, the latest year for which figures
are available, France exported automo-
biles to the extent of nearly twenty mil-
lions of dollars nearly half going to the
United Kingdom, one and a quarter
millions only to the States and the rest
to twenty different countries.

The Pekin-Paris Race.

Further particulars by no means de-
tract from the honor due to Prince Scipio
Borghese the winner of the Pekin-Paris

Race. The ground traversed was no
less than six thousand nine hundred
miles andthe time occupied was two

whole months. The journey was a tri-
umph for the Italian car, the only im-
portant repair during that long and try-
ing period being the replacement of a
wheel. The Prince declared that he un-
derwent no thrilling experiences except
when a bridge collapsed and the contest-
ants were lucky not to fall into the river.
A banquet was given at the Auto Club
on the evening of Saturday, August
10th, on which date the Prince reached
Paris, anda display of fireworks and an
open air illuminated parade of automo-
biles, in which the Prince’s car formed
the central figure, followed. Supplies
were sent out in advance from Pekin and
placed at various points along the route

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so that an unbroken line of communica-
tions could be kept up. The route was
from Pekin westward, across the Great
Wall, skirting the Khugan Mountains at
their southern foothills, then across the
desert of Gobi to Missoya on Lake Bai-
kal, to Nijni Oudensk, through Kensk,
Tomsk, Obi, Omsk, across the Urals
at Zlatoul, and thence through Brisk,
Elabouge, Kasan, Nijni-Novgorod, Vlad-
mir, Misen, Smolensk, Barahoritch,
Vasovic and Posen from which point
there are several welllaid roads to Paris
of which the automobilists were allowed
their choice. The cars taking part in the
race included an Itala, Coutal, two Dion-
Boutons, a Panhard anda Duteh Spyker.

Supplying the Demand.

A Company has been established in
New York having for one of its principal
objects the ‘‘furnishing of bail for our
subscribers, or for their chaffeurs, in
cases of arrest for violation of speed or
other trafic ordinances.’’ Surely the
mode of scorching has not become so
general that it is necessary to insure to
find bail in cases of offences. If a man
is insured in this way will he feel free to
go as he may please through any place
and defy any country constable? Inthe
complexity of our modern civilization it
is wonderful what new wants we de-
velop and howsready some people are to
meet these wants.

Tarvia for Road Making.

Further reports have been issued as to
the successful use of tarvia on the roads
of both Boston and Chicago. Tarvia, it
may be stated for the enlightenment of
some readers, is coal tar at a ‘certain
stage of refinement and its use is be-
lieved toanswer the new problems otf
road maintenance brought about by a
heavy automobile traffic. The park
authorities of both Boston and Chicago
are convinced from actual experiments
that by treating their roads in this man-
ner they can allow autos in the parks.
Not only are the roads so treated smooth
on the surface but are also dustless, and
that is such a great advantage that even
the general public can share in it. With
dustless roads one of the disadvantages

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

of the automobile will have been elim-
inated.

Commercial Autos In Eurore.

Reports from Europe continue to show
wonderful extensions in the use of auto-
mobiles for commercial purposes. Gas-
oline and electric trucks are now largely
used and their use is extending every
day. The taximeter cabs are however
making the greatest progress. These
are light in construction, of medium
horse power and very easy to control.

‘Their cost is only from ten to fifteen per

cent above that of the horse cab and
their superiority is far in advance of the

horse drawn vehicle.

Italian Cars Win in Italy.

The last of the great Italian races for
1907—the Floria Cup and the Speed Cup
contests—have been run and in both
cases were won by Italian cars. The
French cars were unable to stem the tide
of Italian successes, and Italy, the latest
accession to the list of great automobile
producing nations, has made another de-
cided score. Both contests were run
over the Brescia circuit and four nations
—lItaly, France, Germany and Great
Britain, competed, the Isotta-Fraschina
winning the Floria Cup and the Itala the
Speed Cup. Unfortunately the meet was
marred by a fatal accident. The steer-
ing gear of the car driven by Baron de
Martino suddenly broke with the result
that the Baron, who was only thirty
years old and was a well known amateur
automobilist, was thrown with fearful
force against a tree and instantly killed-
The course was about 290 miles long and
the time in the first case was four hours,
39 minutes and 53 seconds; and in the
second place 4 hours, 37 minutes and 36
seconds.

Postal Collectionand Delivery by Auto.

Milwaukee has established and worked
an auto mail collection and delivery ser-
vice with great advantage and the Post-
master believes that in five years every
first class city in the States will have a
similar service in operation. So many
inquiries have been made that the Post-

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HEADQUARTERS FOR IGNITION SUPPLIES

Kingston Carburetors and Coils
Apple Ignition Apparatus

P. & R. Accumulators
Motsinger Autosparkers
Perfection Magnetos

Leavitt Timers and Distributors

Columbia Batteries
Rajah Plugs
Breech-Block Plugs

French Ignition Table—Oil-Proof and Waterproof

“Ailsa-Craig,” winner of New York-Bermuda Race, was equipped with Kingston Carburetors

John Millen & Son, Limited.

MONTREAL

TORONTO.

master was afraid the Department would
not thank him for being too enthusiastic
and as aconsequence having too many
calls uponthem. He, therefore, ‘‘made
all he could” of a few minor accidents
they have had in Milwaukee though he
could not but admit the huge success of
the experiment. He believed the De-
partment felt the same about it.

A Serious Statement.

A serious statement of which more
should be heard has been sent out by
the Ford Company with reference to the
Glidden tour. Every preparation was
made to enter six runabouts and two
sixes but at the last moment they were
all withdrawn and the Ford vehicles took
no part in the tour. At the time it was
stated that the lax way in which the
rules were enforced made it a molly
coddle affair and accounted for the with-
drawal. The latest statement is of a
very different character. It is alleged
hat adriver offered, if he were allowed

three perfect scores, and when pressed
for an explanation allowed several things
to slip out. The Ford representative
stated that Mr. Ford expected their cars
to win on their merits. ‘‘Vain hope,”
said the expert, ‘‘if you have the best
cars on earth you will stand about as
much chance as a snowball in Hades if
you try to win on the square! You must
know the ropes and play the game as
others play it!” ‘‘How is it done then,
surreptitiously replacing parts not sched-
uled or—’’ ‘‘Replacing parts! Not at
all. That’s too much trouble—and takes
time. Lose the road and replace a car.
It’s only necessary to have non-contest-
ant cars, every part having duplicate
factory numbers of those contesting.”
‘Surely this has never been done.”
‘‘No? Then you account for the perfect
-I can’t, and I know.” It is a
thousand pities doubt should be thrown
upon the perfect fairness of a tour like
the Glidden tour, but of course if there
is the least foundation for such an insin-
uation the sooner it is inquired into and
thoroughly exposed the better. If there

seores

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is any truthin the charge no wonder

Mr. Ford drew back. A win under
such circumstances is not worth the
having.

A Sale’s Record.

If anyone wants to know why the au-
tomobile business is progressing they
need only take the record of Gaston
Plaintiff, Manager of the New York
Branch of the Ford Company. In ten
months Mr. Plaintiff sold $920,000
worth of ears, all being sold and deliv-
ered from the New York store, and be-
fore the year is up he confidently hopes
to pass the million dollar mark. This
establishes a record, but at the same time
it also shows how healthy is an industry
in which such a record is possible.

Results of Which to be Proud.

“If similar advances had been made in
the steam locomotive to those with the
automobile no imagination could picture
what railway travel might now be. Ap-
proximately a century has been necess-
ary to bring the steamship to its present
state. About ten years has been necess-
ary to bring the automobile froma vague
experiment to an industrial necessity in
which almost every requirement has been
met.” These three sentences better
convey the marvellously rapid progress
of the auto than any elaborate essay
could possibly do. An illustration of the
truth of these statements is shown in the
work done by the two Thomas Flyers
entered in the Glidden tour. Both fin-
ished with perfect scores and had a large
part in the winning of the trophy by the
Automobile Club of Buffalo. From the
time the cars left Cleveland until they
finished in New York and again made
the run back to Buffalo, no one saw the
motors of these two cars. They set out
without an extra part being carried and
had no replacements to make. One car
had two punctures and the other one,
and both finished running on the outer
casing with which they had started from
Cleveland. Only five years ago the
maker of a car that could run ten miles
without adjustment or trouble of some
kind was to be congratulated. Speed
was not considered safe, owing to fre-
quent breakages of parts, and _ the

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chances of something giving way were
too great to warrant the risk. Even the
strongest enthusiast of 1902 would have
been dubious over the idea that in 1907
a carcould run for over fifteen hundred
miles without a miss or skip of themotor
and without the breakage of a single
part; traveling over roads that at times
threw all four wheels off the ground,
over mountain ranges that made a steady
climb of four and one-half miles and then
required continual application of the
brakes for two and one-half miles more
with only one punctured tire! This is a
record of which any manufacturer might
well feel proud. Cars have been de-
signed that are fitted for roads in Amer-
ica, the makers of which never dreamed
that such vehicles as automobiles could
ever come into use. Much of this is
owing to the fact that the American au-
tomobile manufacturer has not hesitated
to secure the best foreign talent and ally
it to the best home talent—a combination
alone that has made this remarkable suc-
cess possible. Time, trouble and money
have been freely used and the results
have been such as to astonish the world.

A Car witha History.

‘The model ‘‘16’’ Reo, which won the
proud distinction of being the smallest
priced car that finished the Glidden tour
witha perfect score has quite a_ history
behind it. Not long before it lowered
the record for the run from Los Angeles
to San Diego, Cal.; bringing it down
from seven hours and forty-five minutes
to five hours and forty-five minutes.
Considering the rough roads,the swift ri-
vers to be crossed and the numerous other
obstacles in the way the average speed
of twenty-four and one-third miles per
hour was exceedingly good. Immedi-
ately after finishing the Glidden tour it
was sent on a five hundred mile non-stop
dart from New York to the Jamestown
Exposition, where it wasplaced on show.

The Youngest Driver.

Amid the echoesof the Gliddentour the
feat of the youngest driver should not be
overlooked. Ray McNamara is the
name of the young man and he drives a
Premier that finished with a_ perfect
score. In company with Secretary Dai
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through miles of deep, sticky, pasty clay
mud by Chairman Hower’s official car.
In the worst part of the route, from
South Bend to Indianapolishe maintained
the lead and throughout the tour was
always to the front. This was the car
that used only one quart of water be-
tween Indianapolis and New York.
The Sixes,

There is certainly no doubt in the
mind of any experienced motorist as to
the success of the Sixes. It is foolish
however to imagine that because the
Sixes have demonstrated their superiority
in many ways that there will be a multi-
plication of cylinders in the cars of the
future. Six cylinders are declared to be
the ideal in gas engine design and any
increase would cause much trouble, both
mechanical and engineering. With
more than six cylinders the exhaust over:
laps so as to cause trouble. It is im-
possible to clear one exhaust before the
next discharges into the manifold and
the same is true of the intake. On all
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uneven draught, but the Six draws
steadily andconstantly on the carburettor
and permits of adjustment for a uniform
mixture at all times. It is found also
that the Six is the limit at which the
necessary spark advance can be obtained
without overlapping, and as soon as
overlapping takes place all manner of
complications ensue. A_ single carbu-
rettor and a single commutator give
ideal results with six cylinders. In many
of the details more than six cylinders
call for totally different treatment to that
accorded to the Six and unless some
very far reaching discoveries are made it
is not likely, either now or in the future
that any attempt will be put forth to in-
crease the cylinders above the number
six. It is curious that the degree of
perfection obtained with six cylinders is
notagain reached until the impossible
multiple of thirty-six is used. In flex-
ibility, which means constant power at
low as well as at high speeds, the six
cylinder car has a decided advantage
over every other known type of gasoline
engine.

Canada’s Cup Aftermath.
Well, the Canada’s Cup has been suc-
cessfully defended again by the Rcchester

Yacht Club. The lads who sail in the
open lake off Charlotte were the first to
successfully defend the silverware Aemilus
Jarvis, his R.C. Y. C. crew, and the
good ship Canada carried away from Put-
in-Bay in the middle nineties, and then
they created more yachting history by
trimming the second challenger the Can-
ucks sent after the mug.

When Temeraire went after the trophy
she showed that while Iroquois was the
faster in light airs, that she had it on the
Yankee craft when it came on to blow a
few and made the Yankee craft sail five
races to win. Then the Royal Canadian
had the satisfaction of shouting ‘‘Well
we have a boat that can trim Iroquois
both ways’’ and proved it too by beating
Iroquois with Zoraya and annexing the
Fisher Cup.

But what of this year ? What consola-
tion have the Canucks? Not an iota, save
it be that in some quarters it is said that

Adele, a good handsome boat, was beat-
en by a “‘racing machine.”
Seneca, the Cup defender, trimmed

Adele, the challenger, under three differ-
ent weather conditions and walloped her
as badly in heavy water as_ she did in
light—trimmed her so decisively that we
can no more say ‘‘Well, we still have a
better boat at home than Seneca.” (Its
true—we haven’t.) Seneca would trim
any one of the Cup challengers of 1907
just as decisively or even more so_ than
she did Adele.

Let us look back over the situation.
In the trial races Aileen 11, the Mylne
boat, while a smart craft in light airs was
a trifle slower than Crusader, the Fife
boat and Adcle, the English built Payne
boat. That eliminates her. The real fight

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was between Crusader and Adele then.

Ina wind above six miles an hour
there wasn’t anything to it but Adele.
Around six miles an hour Crusader was
as good as Adele or so nearly so that it
was a fair toss up. Vice Commodore
Nicholls spared nothing to get all there
was in her out of Crusader. He even
brought Wm. Fife, the boat’s designer,
here and made changes. Those changes
may or may not have been beneficial to
her but there is one thing certain she
did not get a fair show in the final trials
to select the challenger. It wasn’t the
fault of the Committee in charge—it

wasn’t the fault of Vice Commodore
Nicholls, her owner. It was the fault of
Fife, her designer. Fife leaped im-

petuously aboard the Crusader after she
had been beaten in the first race after the
alterations to her keel and took her helm
himself. Fife may be a good designer
but as a racing skipper he isn’t in it with
Eddie Wedd, the man _ who had been
handling Crusader in the trials. Why,
when he hauled the boat on the wind she
jammed the main sheet so close aboard
that the main boom was fairly up and
down the centre of the boat and then he
expected her to lift out to weather—she
didn’t. She just laid down and walloped
along and was soundly beaten on wind-
ward work. On other stretches he was
the result was that Crusader
was decisively beaten out in the trials. |
am not saying that Crusader is the faster
boat. On the contrary Iconsider Adele the
better boat of the two, and, as the Cup
races turned out, the much better of
the pair for the challenger, but
I do say Crusader’s best qualities were
not brought out.

Now for the races themselves. In the
breeze which varied from six miles strong
to zero—the first day—Seneca, the Her-
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Going to windward with the breeze six
miles strong she beat her nearly a mile in
seven. Reaching she gained some more
and drifting home in a wind then dropped
so far that she only beat the five hour
time limit by two minutes. She had the
legs of Adele. There was no sea at all.
The second day’s racing gave the boats
a breeze from five to twelve miles strong.
It was awindward and leeward course.
Skipper Aemilus Jarvis’ clever work took
Adele out to the leeward mark first by four
boat lengths but when Seneca got Adele
hauled on the wind she made her look
like a canal boat ina Gloucester fishing
schooner race to the Banks. The wind
varied from six to twelve miles strong on
the windward leg but Adele, supposed to
be so good on the wind never hada
chance and was beaten by a mile.

On the third day it blew from twelve to
twenty-two miles an hour and there was
a good lump of asea. Adele rated over
here in Canada ahorse to carry canvas,
a craft as stiff as the proverbial church
in a breeze, had to reef while Seneca, the
so called racing machine, carried all she
had as long as she had to. True an ac-
cident happened to Adele on the last leg
but Seneca had her beaten so badly that
it scarcely deserves mention. Now where
would Crusader have been in those races?

On the light day Seneca would have
beaten her just as badly as she did Adele.
On the second day it Skipper Jarvis had
had Crusader instead of Adele he would
have been two or may be three minutes
ahead of Seneca at the leeward mark,
but coming up the wind Seneca would
have made a monkey of her.

In such a breeze in nine miles Adele
would have beaten Crusader twelve minu-
tes or about two miles. Adele was beaten
by Seneca a mile.

On the final day Crusader wouldn’t
have been within ten minutes of Adele.

Now for the boats.

Adele isa good sturdy little craft, a
boat that is staunchly built on wholesome
lines, a boat that has plenty of room, a
craft that is inevery way the sort of
yacht those who evolved the rule under
which she was built intended to en-
courage.

Canadians call Seneca a racing mach-
ine and predict that in three vears she
will be in the bone yard. The Rochester

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men laugh and point out that Seneca
carried full canvas ina sea way and
make less fuss about it and more speed
than did the reefed Adele.

‘‘What do you wanta _ boat'to do ?”
they asked ‘‘Why is she a racing mach-
ine ? Because she isn’t built on the
clumsy old lines of your British built
yachts ? Is shea racing freak because
she has more speed than Adele ? Is she
a racing freak because she has a hollow
bow and a long lean snout which climbs
over the seas as easily asa Seal instead of
a blunt stubby end like Adele’s which
pounds the sea like araft and throws

‘water to the first reef point and checks

her speed ?”’ Is that why we are a racing
machine ?

Truly the Rochestrians are hard to an-
swer. Out of the water Seneca, with
her shallow underbody, her long snout,
her fin set away aft and her strange hol-
low bow looks like a tender light weather
racing freak—a craft that would lay down
in a breeze and pound herself to pieces in
a blow. But she didn’t do either so far
as I could find out.

That she could carrry the canvas with
any of them she proved conclusively.
That she did not pound in a sea way and
that she had rough weather speed she
also settled beyond a doubt.

Whether she was'so built that she can
last is something time alone can tell—
Seneca’s a wonderful boat.

Just think ofa craft that will go rail
down ina five mile breeze and hang at
the same heel with full canvas in an
eighteen knot breeze when she was haul-
ed on the wind.

That is what Seneca did. Is she a
racing machine ? She has only to come
after the Fisher Cup now held by the R.
C. Y. C. of Toronto to get it for we have
nothing to compare with her.

There will be no more cup races for
two years for the Rochester Club is busy
building a yacht basin but despite a little
unpleasantness which arose over the race
preliminaries the R.C. Y. C. is going
back after it again in1909, for three
boats have already been offered for the
purpose. The next time we will try to
beat the Universal Rule even further than .
did the great Nat Herreschoff, Seneca’s
designer.

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Canada’s Greatest Crews.

The features of the National Regatta
at Philadelphia was the remarkable show-
ing of the Canadian entrauts. They
either won or made a showing in every
event they contested and to cap all the
Argonaut senior eight and fours, with
‘‘Longboat” Taylor as_ stroke, won the
senior fours and eight championship of
America. The eight also broke the course
record, doing the mile in 7.25. This is
the crew that won the junior, intermediate
and senior fours and the junior and senior
eights at the Canadian Henley and the
crew which the Argos hope to send to
the English Henley one day. The Argo
eight beat off the New York crew half
way down the course, and held the Poto-
macs, whopassed the beaten Gothamites,
safe on end, winning as they pleased.
The Argo eight consisted of Dodds, bow;
Hare, 2 ; McCardy, 3; Gale, 4 ; Balfour,
5; Davidson, 6 ; Piddy,7 ; Taylor stroke,
Kertland cox. The Argos which won
the senior fours championship were Bal-

four, Davidson, Piddy and Taylor and
the senior pair oared shells are Jackes
and Toms.

The Dons, of Toronto, too furnished
a surprise inthe senior doubles. The
Bachelors of Philadelphia looked to have
the race cinched with Zanes and Meyer
but the Dons double, Bowler and Jacob,
won it. The Nassau pair from New York
led off but the Dons spurted a quarter
mile out, took the lead, and won by two
lengths in 8.18 1-5. Bowler and Jacob
have been doing some great work this
summer and the showing at Philadelphia
and St. Kitts makes them factors in the
rowing game for years to come. The
Dons have done well this year and now
ranknext to the Argos in Canadianrowing.

John O'Neil, of St. Mary’s and a Hali-
fax man, whose entry caused such a lot
of trouble between the C. A. A. O. and
the United States governing body, finish-
ed second in the Assocation singles, with
Bowler, of the Toronto Dons, third and
Durando Miller, of the New York A. C.
was first. His time was 9 minutes, 04 2-5
seconds.

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Canadian Canoe Association regatta at
Montreal they won both the half and
mile war canve races. In the half mile
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crew in a canter but in the mile the Cham-
pion Britannias, of Ottawa, and the for-
midable Grand Trunks, of Montreal, gave
them a chase for it but the Carleton Place
boys outclassed the other two crews. In
the senior singles George Kelly of the
Grand Trunks, furnished a surprise when
he won from Geordie Davidson of the
St. Stephen’s Club, Montreal, and George
Brownrigg, the Grand Trunks ex-Cham-
pion. Blackburn of the Toronto Canoe
Club, who won the championship at the
Canadian Henley, did not compete.

The Toronto Canoe Club made a good
showing. They got first place, with
Keith and Elliott in junior tandems, and
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burn, Elliott and Keith were the victors.

The Toronto boys were second to Car-
‘eton Place in the half mile canoe, and
in the mile war canoe secured third place,
Carleton Place winning both. On their
showing the wearer of the red ring won
the largest number of points in the re-
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on their showing and sportsmanship.

Canada Canoe Association.

The list of champions follows ;—

Junior Singles : James Galbraith, St.
Stephens, Montreal.

Senior Singles: James Kelly, Grand
Trunks, Montreal.

War Canoe half mile, Carleton Place,
Canoe Club.

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At the Canadian Henley the Torontos
won the war canoe race and Blackburn
won the singles butin the fours the
Island Acquatics great crew made the

T. C. C. men take their backwork. The
war canoe race was ‘‘the” event of the
whole meet. The Torontos got away

first and had a nice lead half way home

but the Parkdale crew set up a spurt

that lugged them level. The last fifty

yards the Parkdale boys dugin with

might and main and poked _ their bow in

front by a foot. The T. C. C. then res-

ponded with a tremendous spurt and-
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dales, in the heat of the struggle, swerved

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Judges disqualified them.

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There must be many of our friends who
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some most effective and beautiful pictur-
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Canadians, who are much interested
in the question of restricting the inroads
ofthe Indiansupon our fish and game,
will note a recent decision of the Sup-
reme Court of Wisconsin, with great
pleasure. At the last sitting of the State
Legislature alaw was passed placing
whites and Indians on an equality before
the law so far as regards fish and game
and stating particularly that the Indians
must conform to the law in future. An
Indian named Mike Morrin was discover-
ed by the Game Warden using fishing
nets on the reserve and his nets were
confiscated and he was fined. A test case
was made and it was taken to the Sup-
reme Court which had just confirmed the
decision of the lower court. On the part

' of the defence it was argued that the In-
_ dians were well within their treaty rights
li and according to treaties with the United

States Government they were at liberty
to fish and hunt where and when they
pleased without regard to anything the
State Legislature might do. In Canada
matters are very much on the same foot-
ing. The Dominion Government have
treaties with the Indians‘and those treat-
ies over ride Provincial laws. It has been
understood that the hands of Provincial
Governments are tied and that the only
solution of the difficulty is for fresh treat-
ies to be negotiated which will provide
for the observation by the Indians of fish
and game laws inthe future. At the
time the treaties were made circum-
stances were very different from what
they are to-day. Then the Indians had
to depend very largely upon their fishing
and hunting abilities to gain them a liv-
ing. Now they can earn their living in
many other ways and the reasons which
prompted their original exemption no
longer exist. The Dominion and Provin-
cial Governments might well have a con-
ference on this subject, and see if it is
not possible to so alter the original treat-
ies thatthe Indians should come under
the laws, and for their own sakes the ex-
emption should cease. The trouble is
very similar in all parts of Canada—from
Nova Scotia to British Columbia and all
intervening provinces, and with the in-
creased value now placed on our fish and
game resources it is becoming more acute
each year. If nothing else is done the
Provincial Governments might take the
matter up and see if, like Wisconsin, they
are not masters in their own houses. <A
test case might show a similar result in
a Canadian province, and if the Domin-
ion Goverement declines to move it might
be well for one of the Provinces to test
the position and see if it is not possible
to bring the Indians within the purview
of the laws, and stop the wholesale
slaughter for which they are responsible
in only too many instances.

Inspector Angus Brabrant, in the em-
ploy of the Hudson Bay Company, re-

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‘cently returned from a round of inspec-
tion of ten forts in the Athabasca dis-
trict. He reported all well and stated
that the Chippewayan Indians suffered
last winter not from starvation, but from
an epidemic of la grippe which left the
Indians weak and unable to sustain
themselves. The local factor gave them
succor andthe only drawback was a
dearth of furs atthe fort. The crops
round the northern forts are far ahead
of those in the neighborhood of Edmon-
ton, this being due to the long days of
sunshine and only a few hours of dusk
and darkness. Most of the northern
land is being taken up by half breeds.

By Order-in-Council the carrying of
firearms in the Temagami Forest Re-
serve during the close season is prohib-

ited. No firearm having a barrel longer
than four inches will be allowed in the
Reserve.

How helpless some men are in the
woods is well shown by an adventure,
which befell two young men in the Ka-
wartha Lakes district of Ontario. They
left the summer hotel at which they were
staying for a Sunday afternoon walk and
seven hours afterwards they were discov-
ered footsore and weary, going in the
opposite direction to that which they in-
tended. It seems that they set out to
walk to Sandy Lake and found their way
to that point without much difficulty.
On their return they attempted a ‘‘short
cut” with the result that they got hope-
lessly lost.
o’clock at night trudging along in si-
lence and going directly away from the
place where food and shelter awaited
them. They were speedily put on the
right road and soon reached their
destination thankful that the end of the
adventure was no worse.

A big buck gave the summer cottagers
of Stoney Lake, Ontario, an opportunity
of studying the habits of deer at close
range. He selected a bright August
afternoon for his investigations and vis-
ited several of the islands. The cot-
tagers took to their boats and pursued
him, though without hostileintent. The
numbers pressing round him, however,

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frightened the animal and he repeatedly
took to the water after investigating the
state of affairs on _ different islands,
finally going to the shores of the lake.
and disappearing in the woods. Several
of the parties were near enough to have
struck the deer with their paddles, but
this was not what they wanted. The
deer hunt gave plenty of excitement for
one afternoon and every one was pleased
that the visit to civilization finished so
well for the deer, and trust that his visit
proved as interesting to him as_ his ap-
pearance did to those whom he honored
with his presence.

The romance of exploration is still in
full swing in Canada. This statement
received an excellent illustration in a let-
ter received towards the end of August
at the Department of Forests, Lands
& Mines at Toronto. Mr. T. B. Speight,
O. L. S., who is the head of a party
running the baseline westward to the
boundary line of the Thunder Bay and
Algoma districts, stated that in the
course of their exploration they found a
large lake not shown on the official
maps. This lake is about twelve miles
long by three miles wide and dotted
throughout with numerous _ islands.
Two days were spent in making/a fairly
accurate sketch of this lake, which has a
shore line of about fifty miles. The
lake and the rivers tributary to it, as-
sisted the party very much in getting
their five canoes and supplies over to the
Kabinagogami valleys. Incidentally the
survey showed that the great clay belt
extends westward, probably to the boun-
daries of the Province. This year’s sur-
vey shows seventy-five per cent of ara-
ble land, and Mr. Speight says he has
seen no better land west of Abittibi
Lake.

One of the best and most effective of
many recent devices for the benefit of
sportsmen is the ‘‘Rapid Loader.” By
its means the user of a double barreled
gun is enabled to reload with comfort,
ease and rapidity. The device consists
of apiece of tempered steel nicely fin-
ished and practically unbreakable, which —
holds two cartridges. To it is affixed
a vulcanite fiber ring which may be eas- ©

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

593

SS
BIG GAME
DEMANDS fri no cartridges more reliable

and accurate than Dominion—made for all popular fire-
arms; Ballard,Colt, Hamilton & Quackenbush, Hopkins
& Allen, Marlin, Remington, Savage, Stevens’ and
Winchester Rifles. Use Dominion Cartridges and in-
crease your day’s bag.

If your dealer won’t supply you write us.

ily detached and a larger or smaller one
substituted. The loader when in posi-
tion on the hand does not interfere in
any way with the free use of the hand or
finger or in the handling ot the gun.
The simplicity, lightness and small size
ot the loader are features which add to
its value for it can be carried in the pocket
and brought into instant use when re-
quired. Incold weather it can be worn
over a glove with great comfort. By its

means the double barreled gun is _ ren-
dered doubly effective. The loaders,
which are manufactured by the Rapid

Loader Company, of Pontiac, Mich., are
made in all standard guages at $l each,
and can be procured either through the
trade or direct from the factory.

The wolfish instinct found vent at
Winnipeg afew days ago. The corpo-
ration maintains a menagerie at River
Park and included in the collection are a
number of wolves. Walter Brewer, a
lad nine years of age, was feeding the
animals some grass through the wires

Dominion Cartridge Co., Ltd.
MONTREAL.

when one of the wolves in taking the
grass got the lad’s thumb in its mouth.
Instantly it bit the thumb until the blood
came and having tasted blood the animal
clawed the arm. In this work it was
joined by other wolves and the pack ter-
ribly lacerated the boy’s arm _ before he
could be released by the driving back of
the wolves. The boy was taken to the
hospital and had to lose his arm as a re-
sult of having to do with these danger-
ous animals.

The new line of the Canadian North-
ern from Parry Sound to Toronto has
opened up a district, which was _ prac-
tically inaccessible to sportsmen before
the advent of the railway, as prior to

that time a drive of forty miles over
rough ground was necessary before the
hunting territory was reached. Now

the passengers by these trains are daily
treated to the sight of deer, and some
enthusiastic individuals declare that
within fifteen miles of the Township of
Mackenzie there are more deer than in
all the rest of Canada. This is a pretty

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large order, but the fact seems to be
that deer are pretty plentiful in the
neighborhood, and that they are getting
so used to the trains as to daily stand
and watch them rushing past giving the
passengers one of the finest sights to be
seen in the backwoods, and making that
section of the line additionally attractive
to tourists.

Some visitors from the States had
five days’ fishing during the latter part
of August in Cousecon Lake, near Pic-
ton, Ont. Under the guidance of Mr.
Clark, the visitors, who included Mrs.
Fred Tobey, of Chicago, and Mr. and
Mrs. Elgin Collins of Cleveland secured
forty-eight splendid fish—bass, pickerel
and yellow perch.

Dave Conger, of the Evergreen House,
Picton, Ont., has a collection of cartoons
presented to him by a New York news-
paper man who drew the cartoons after
he had heard some of the tales of the
doughty deeds performed by the mem-
bers of the Prince Edward Deer Hunt-
ing Club on their trips north. One shows
‘‘How Dave acted when he killed the
bear,” and another ‘‘When Pettit shot at
the moose.” These are not merely ot
interest to the members of the Hunt
Club, but also to all visitors at the Ever-
green House.

The Game Warden for the Parry
Sound district reports to headquarters at
Toronto that he discovered two fresh
deer skins and some venison in the cel-
lar of the hotel kept by T. Labrash on
Glen Island. As the close season is still
on till November Labrash was taken
before a magistrate, who fined him $20
and costs.

A large addition to the firewarden staff
of British Columbia is stated to have
worked most effectively in lessening the
forest fires in the Province. At the last
session of the Legislature an appropria-
tion of $25,000 was set aside for the
purpose of fire protection and as a result
twenty-four fire wardens and seventy-five
assistant wardens were engaged and
made patrols of their respective districts.

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

Up to this year the contention that fire
is the worst enemy of the forest was
fully illustrated in British Columbia,
where fire has destroyed far more trees
than the loggers have cut down. The
moral effect of the presence of a warden
in a district is said to have been most
gratifying in the way of inducing greater
care on the part of tourists, prospectors
and even settlers, and in the case of a
fire starting the fact of a man, whose
duty is fire extinction, being in the neigh-
borhood often enables energetic efforts to
be put forth and the fire smothered out
before it has made too great headway
and got beyond control. Necessarily
the district covered by each warden is a
large one but as the beneficial nature of
the work is made apparent to the author-
ities it will without doubt be further ex-
tended and the area of the districts re-
duced inorder that the work may be
more effectively covered. It is gratify-
ing to know that this forward policy has
proved so successful.

Animal migration is far indeed from
being thoroughly understood but enough
is known to the veterans of the Hudson
Bay Company not to cause them uneas-
iness when some particular fur becomes
scarce for a season. The present season
is said to be a lean one for furs around
Edmonton, but the factor at that center
is not worrying. He cheerfully states
that there have been ups and downs in the
trade for the last couple of centuries and
the present is likely to be equal to any
one of the lean years of the past. He
further states that those in his position
have the consolation of knowing that
whenever lynx or marten or any other
animal is scarce in one section it simply
means that the animals have migrated to
other sections. In this instance the
Factor attributes scarcity not to the
severity of the weather but to the ani-
mals migrating. Such migration is not
likely to be permanent, but how and why
caused, is at present one of those things
beyond the ken of our most careful nat-
uralists.

Mr. Walter Greaves writes, under
date of 23rd August, as follows: I
have lately recetved so many inquiries as

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

Conklin’s

or the reporter writing

HOSAMO Be

to where the Corticelli silk lines referred
to in my article in the July issue of ‘‘Rod
and Gun” can be purchased that I think
It would be well to state through your
valuable pages that they are for sale in
Canada by the Corticelli Fish Line, Box
481, Montreal, and in the United States
by the Corticelli Silk Co., at Hartford,
Conn.

Many object lessons to Canadians are
furnished by experiences of our neigh-
bors across the line. They allowed their
forests to be cut down in the most _ reck-
Jess manner and have suffered much ever
since. To prevent the spring floods,
which annually inundate Pittsburg and
other cities on the Ohio, Alleghany, and
Monongahela rivers, the United States
Government have decided to plant mil-
lions of trees. These are to be placed at
the head waters of the rivers and will
serve to conserve the water. They will
conserve large quantities of rain and
prevent sudden freshets from snow. Al-
ready millions of dollars have been lost

Cleaned the same way by dipping in water.
You don’t have to work your arm up and down
like a pump handle to make the ink flow.

to
a>

m®* gun. The Conklin Pen is a veritable breech-loader.
9S at any inkwell.

eka) fli

E cuss. You can’t overfill it.

iH PD

‘

SELF-
FILLING

“THE PEN WITH THE CRESCENT-FILLER”’

feeds uniformly with any kind of ink and nib—fine, medium,
coarse, stub, soft or stiff—for the school boy learning to write
against time.
smoothest writing pen but the most beautifully designed and

z finished pen. It fits the hand. You can write longer and faster
f= with it without a cramp. You can do more with it than any
‘fs other fountain pen made, simply because of the Crescent-Filler.
S Leading dealers handle the Conklin. If yours don’t, order
direct. Prices $3.00, $4.00, $5.00 to $15.00. Send for hand-
some new catalogue.
The Conkiin Pen Co., 309 Manhattan Bldg., Toledo, Ohio, U. S. A.
<..

A Breech-Loading Fountain Pen

Conklin’s Self-Filling Fountain Pen compares with the old-fashioned
fountain pen as the magazine rifle compares with the old muzzle-loading

It loads itself instantly

Just dip it in, press the Crescent-Filler, and the magazine

No fuss, no muss, no

Fountain Pen

It is not only the

to the people of Western Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, and Western New York
and Maryland. All this as well as the
discomforts caused by floods might have
been saved by the adoption and carrying
out of an intelligent and far sighted
forest policy. It is impossible to esti-
mate the losses caused to the people of
the States by the want of a thoroughly
enlightened forest policy, and the people
of Canada will be foolish indeed if they
do not profit by the experiences of their
neighbors and avoid making the same
errors.

Recently a story appeared in_ these
pages to the effect that a deer was run
down by a train in the wildsof Colorado.
A similar occurrence recently happened

amid the more peaceful scenes of old
Ontario. A Kingston and Pembroke
train, when nearing Round Lake on its

afternoon to-
surprised a
The start-
front of

way to Kingston on an

wards the end of August,
deer feeding near the track.
led deer attempted to cross in

506

the engine and was struck by the latter
with such force as to break its back and
hurl it down the embankment. When
the engineer saw the deer he endeavored
to save it but the animal was too close
for anything effective to be done.

Practical experience has demonstrated
the extreme usefulness of the Water-
proof Pocket Match Safe, one of the
many excellent inventions for which
sportsmen have to thank Mr. Marble, of
the Marble Satety Axe Company, of
Gladstone, Mich. Official endorsation,
after full examination and testing, is also
gratifying, and while sportsmen and
campers have put the seal of their ap-
proval upon this device the former is also
most welcome. The following extracts
are the pith of a letter forwarded on be-
half of the Board of Life Saving Appli-
ances, and should convince anyone who
has not tried this safe of the great ad-
vantages following from its use: ‘‘This
device is of white metal, a tube about
2-5.8 in. in length, 7.8 in. in diameter,
and threaded about 1-2 in. at the base.
Cover held in place by two arms reach-
ing to one-half inch threaded ring work-
ing over the base. It is guaranteed to
be absolutely water and air proof when
properly adjusted.

Opinion: After submitting this safe
to a very severe test, which it withstood
in every respect, the Board is of the
opinion this match safe is adapted to the
needs of the Service, and recommends
that a supply be provided and placed in
the Service as the General Superintead-
ent may direct.”

Several times have statements been
made to the effect that a fox farm would
prove a most profitable source of invest-
ment. The pelts of black and silver
foxes are becoming increasingly valuable
and this fact has led to efforts to breed
them in captivity. Mr. T. L. Borrow-
man, fur dealer, Wyoming, Ont., has
made trials extending over ten years to
achieve success in this direction, and his
efforts have this year been crowned with
a considerable measure of success.
During all this time he has carefully
noted the peculiar-habits of the animals
and corrected former errorsin their man-

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

agement. Inthis way he obtained an
increase of ten young ones last spring,
and they have now passed the danger
stage. Several of them are black in
color and promise to become valuable
assets for their owner. Mr. Borrowman’s.
farm now has sixteen foxes and fiom
such a number he should increase his.
family toa very considerable extent.
Already these foxes are likely to yield
réturns of greater value than severalk
shares in a Cobalt mine.

No big game hunter enjoys his annuak
hunt more than Jack Miner, of Kings-
ville, Gnt., and certainly no one succeeds
better than he does in obtaining pleasure-
from the results of that hunt. When he
has shot his deer his first action, after a
return to civilization allows him to get in
communication with his home, is to in-
form the Sunday School Superintendent
of his success. The youngsters hear of
it andthe news is soon spread all over
the township. They know it means a
grand venison dinner for them. As soon
after his return with the deer as arrange-
ments can be conveniently made a day
is fixed for the feast and old and young
all gather in the great drying room at the
brick works. This is heated to a com-
fortable degree of warmth and an atter-
noon and evening spent in enjoyment and
good fellowship which repays many
times over whatever self sacrifice there
may be in preparing for the feast.
Everyone in the neighborhood has a
direct and personal interest in Jack
Miner’s hunts and he does not disappoint.
them. It isa fine thing to note the
confidence of even the youngest child in
the neighborhood, in Jack Miner’s prow-
ess in hunting. They talk of it as if it
were a personal possession of their own,
and they are so certain ofthe feast in,
store for them every fall that they might.
bank upon it. So thoroughly well is the-
feast kept up, and so full is the enjoy~
ment experienced, that the event is now
looked upon as one of the events of the
season and if it were missed it would
create a blank in the lite of the place
that could not easiiy be filled. It is sate
to say that no one enjoys the proceedings.
more than Jack Miner himself and in the
enjoyment of those around him. he real~

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 507

Hammer the Hamm

We were the first to make a revolver absolutely safe from accidental dis-
charge. Now we have competition with ‘‘near-safe” revolvers. But the
imitations are merely devices added to some previously existing firing
mechanism. You have to press or push or pull something before the
pistol can be fired at all.

Our device is the mechanism itself. You just pull the trigger
and everything else follows.

Our advertising may be copied and infringed, but our patent
safety lever cannot be touched by the imitators.

The Iver Johnson Revolver puts a shot right where you aim
it. But it zever shoots until you want it to. It can’t. You
may ‘‘hammer the hammer,” drop it, kick it, anything you
like, but you can’t discharge it uf you pull the trigger.

It’s as handsome as it is business-like.

Our Free Booklet, ‘‘Shots”’

tells all about the peculiar construction of Iver Johnson Revolvers.
With it comes our large, handsomely illustrated catalogue.

Iver Johnson Safety Hammer Revolver

3inch barrel, nickel-plated ae = aS fire cartridge, 32 $7
or 38 center fire cartridge, : 3 = 3 = ‘

Iver Johnson Safety Hammerless Revolver

3inch barrel, amekol plated as 82 or 38 center-fire $8 0 j ‘ p
cartridge, - mioyl= bo .= Manor sas He P e Look for
Hardware and Sporting Goods dealers everywhere will be é 4 )?
glad to explain the safety features of Iver Johnson Revol- wv, owl's head
vers. If you have trouble in getting our goods, we will e 4 rey .
send direct on receipt of price. The owl’s head on grip f ; n grip
and our name on barrel are marks of the GENUINE.

Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works
157 River Street, Fitchburg, Mass.
New York: 99 Chambers Street,
Pacific Coast; 1346 Park St., Alameda, Cal,
Hambury, Germany: Pickhuben 4.

London, Eng.: 17 Mincing Lane, E,C,

Makers of Iver Johnson Single

Barrel Shotguns and Iver
Johnson Truss Bridge

Bicycles.

IVERJOHNSO

Automatic SAFETY REVOLVER.

finish and richness of ornamentation.
ejector $10 extra.

Ithaca Gun Co.,

No. 602

“NAPANOCH”
POCKET KNIFE
TOOL KIT

Just what you need at
home or for use while
Camping, Boating, Team-
ing Driving, in the Shop,
Store, Warehouse, on the
Farm, Bicycle or Auto-
mobile.

Each tool firmly attached or
detached to the Pocket Knife in
a second. No ‘hunting’ or ‘‘fus-
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tool,

Sent Postpaid on Receipt
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» N77 Warren St.
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izes the truest pleasure. If sportsmen
once gave this system a trial they would
never give it up until compelled.

One of the*finest catalogues ever issued
from a manufacturing establishment is
the latest one sent out by the J. Stevens
Arms & Tool Company of Chicopee
Falls, Mass. This catalogue, which is a

We guarantee the three bolts to hold the gun tight for all time and not allow the gun to openin discharging. f
We gnarantee thecoil main springs forever against breaks and misfires.

Send for 1907 Art Catalog describing improvements and special prices on 18 grades $17:75 net to $300 list

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) Guns

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{NEW THREE BOLT MODEL

Our 1907 New Model Three Bolted Gun embodies all of the requisite qualities of a perfect gun—safety |
strength, durability, superior shooting qualities, beautiful lines, nice balance and in our high grade guns very fme

See cut No. 7 $300 list gun shown above—special price $213.75,

x 13, I

utes, cased POSE

Bo thaca, N. Y,

beautiful specimen of fine color printing,
gives an illustrated description ot the
series of double barrel hammer and ham-
merless shot gunsin various styles and
guages manufactured by the well known
Stevens Company. These descriptions
and prices enable any sportsman to study
the respective merits and advantages of
the several guns and to choose intellig-
ently and with reason amid a wide and
excellent range. The excellent manner
in which the catalogue is gotten up should
win for it a place in every sportsman’s
library or den for it will enhance the ap-
pearance of any room in which it may
find a place. On the front the words
‘*Stevens Shot Guns’ are embossed in
gold anda representation is given of a
duck in the act of flying. The inside is
equal in appearance and the valuable
nature of the contents of the catalogue
are greatly improved by the excellent
manner in which the whole is presented.

Mr. Sam’! H. McKee, Wilkinsburg, Pa,
who had an article inour July number deal-

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA

ing with his experiences of hunting in Can-
ada, writes as follows regarding therecent
increase in the non resident fee for hunt-
ing big game from $25 to $50:

‘‘f must confess | was very much
disappointed when I found that the early
rumour that the Ontario Government had
raised the hunting license to $50 was
correct. I had hunted witha party of
from three to eight, sometimes as many
as ten Americans in Canada every season
for the past twenty-five years. We have
paid the license fee of $25 each year ever
since the license has been imposed. We
paid it willingly because we considered
it reasonable and it would be the means
ot raising revenue to pay wardens to see
that the game laws were enforced. That
they were not very effectively enforced
was evident but the lack of sufficient
revenue was not the principal reason for
the failure. Also that the game needed
protection was very evident. Each suc-
ceeding year brought an increasing num-

ber otf hunters into the woods. The
Grand Trunk runs out of Toronto to
Muskoka, a special train known as the

Hunters’ Special for several days each
hunting season. At the end of the season
for the past five or six years the railroads
and the steamers have been taxed to the
utmost to carry out the hunters and
their game. I saw one party of twelve
(Canadians) including the cook bring out
on one little steamer twenty-four bucks,
none of them weighing less than 150
pounds and at least ten of them weighed
from 175 to 250 pounds. The query was
in everybody’s mind ‘‘What had they
done with the small deer and had they
been living on salt pork for the past two
or three weeks ?” Evidently there
was something wrong in the working
of the Game Protecting Depart-
ment. Now, more than nine-tenths of
these sportsmen were Canadians. The
question arises, ‘‘How is the hunting
going to be decreased, the game better
protected and the revenue increased by
increasing the licence as to the smaller
number ?”’ tad.

If the purpose ot the $50 licence is to
raise the revenue and protect the game,
it will certainly do neither. That it is
not aimed at the people from the States,
no doubt is true but as they are practically
the only ones affected by it, it looks very

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much as though thosé responsible for
the raise had them’ principally. in mind.
As tothe increasing revenue, my judg-
ment is that it will decrease rather than
increase it, and I] base my judgment on
the fact that out of the twenty or thirty
hunters who are accustomed _ to
go from here, not more than three or
four and perhaps none will go to Ontario
this season. The addition to the license
fee seems to be only the climax to the
increase of the expense of bunting in
Canada. There has beena steady in-
crease each year inthe hire of guides
and boats anda general inclination -on
the part of the natives to assume that
the man from the States has money to
burn and it is their duty to save all they
can from destruction. The three parties
who were accustomed to go from this
district spent upwards of $3,000 each
year in Canada and some people will miss
the money very much, especially the
guides, as they enjoyed the outing very
much, just as much as the rest of us and
at the same time were being paid for
their work. I know it will bea great
disappointment to our men when we in-
form them that they need not expect
us this season. The conclusion of the
whole matter is in my judgment that the
protection of the game is not so much a
matter of additional revenue as a better
method of enforcing the law and educat-
ing the people to a better respect for the
law.”

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Money cannot buy nor skill make a better gun
than the A. H. Fox Gun. We are proud of it. When
we started in business our aim was to make a better gun
than had ever been made before, and we did it. We empioy
the most skilled workmen it’s possible to hire, and pay a higher scale of
wages than any other gun factory. We get in return a higher grade of
work. Our policy is—“Quality first; cost afterwards.”

This combination of finest materials and best workmanship, with
the most advanced and simplified mechanical principle, is what makes the

A.H.Fox Gun

“The Finest Gun in the World.” The Fox Gun has fewer parts
in its mechanism than any other double hammerless gun made. These
parts are therefore larger and stronger, which makes it impossible to
break them, or for the gun to get out of order. This gives a less com-
plicated action, greater simplicity, added strength and more graceful lines.
It also enables us to build a much lighter gun without sacrificing the
weight in the barrels.

The Fox Gun 1s doubly inspected. Each part receives the most
exact testing and gauging, and after the gun is assembled it is finally
tested by an expert trap and field shooter.

Every Fox Gun is absolutely guaranteed. Ask your dealer to
show you the “Ansley H. Fox” Gun.

A. H. FOX GUN CO., 4664 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pati TRAP

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA is the Official Organ
of the Dominion of Canada Trap-shooting Association. All communications for this
department should be addressed to W. A. Smith, Editor “The Trap” Kingsville, Ont.

, Stray Pellets.

The Individual Championship of Canada was
won wt the recent Dominion Tournament by Mr.

Gordon Logan, Toronto, with English Schultze
powder, loaded fy Mr. Logan in Sovereign
shells. The efficiency of this lowd was amply

demnonstrated by Mr. Logan’s good scores
throughout the whole tournament, gs well as
by his win of the coveted championship. Eng-
lish Schultze has proved its thorough reliahi i-
tw and excellence so often both in this country
as well as in England, Australia, United
States and on the continent of Europe in each
of which countries it has many victories to its
credit, that Mr. Logan’s good work was not
necessary to tonvince the shooting world that
this old English product is still unexcelled as

a safe, clean, reliable and far killing shot coun
powder. The London and Toronto Trading Co..
Toronto, Canadian agents, are to be Congratu-

lated om the good showing made by their Eng-
lish Schultze.

The first of a series of home and home match-
es was shot at Harrow on Friday between
teams of Kingsville and Harrow trap shooters.
There were thrteen men on a side and twenty-
five targets were shot at by each man. Kings~
ville was victorious by » score of 233 to 196.
After the shoot the visitors were royally enter-
tained by the Harrow menat the Drummond
House.! This shoot has aroused the shooting
spirit in the Kingsville club which has been
dormant for years anjl the club will now org-
anize and do regular work at the traps. The
top scores on the Kingsville side were made
by T. Pastorious, W. A. Smith nd Dory Wigle
while C. H. Lloyd wmd Ernest Pastorious were
hich guns for the Harrow team. The following
are the cores:—

Kingsville Team—Dr. Jenner 17,
Wigle 20, Wilfred Dugean 18, J.
Gordon Wigle 13. Lioyd Bracken 12. O. Fer-u-
son 15, Dr. McKenzie 19, R. H. Smith 18.
Thos. Pastorius 24, W. A. Smith 24, Dorey
Wigle 23. Garnet Wigle 14. Total 233.

Harrow Team—Clem Wright 17, Ernest Pas-
torius 18, R. Wright 16, J. Stocker 16, J. Ber
trand 16, Ed. Ford 12,,Dr. Sparling 12, Ken-
neth Ferris 14, G. L. Quick 16. C. I. Pastori-
us 14, D. Ferris 16, C. H. Lioyd 18, A e.
Cunningham 11. Total 196.

Fred Yates won the Cutting Cup at Fort
Garry Club grounds, Aug. 21st, with 23 out of
25.

Nelson C.
Kemos 16.

What was probably the most successful trap
tournament of the province for the year was
held at Elkhorn, Man., Aug. 25th. The weath-
er tonditions were good and every event well
contested. Shooters were present from Winni-
peg, Portage la Prairie, Brandon, Virden, Moo
simin, Killarney, Reston and Esterhazy. — A-
mong those who carried off some of the S100
added money were Siaunders of Killarney; Wil-
liamson of Varcoe; Bishop, Dowling, Clement.
and Lane, of Brandon; Archer, McBain, and
Chanman of Reston. Miller of Virden: Anderson
and Cook of Moosimin; Nelson of Bsterhazy :
Reid, Rimph, Wadjiell, Bosman, Sager, McBur
nie, Goodwin, Brotherhood Simington. of Plk-

horn, and Houghton of
gate of the day

Winnipeg.
was made by

The

f agerTre—
Saunders.

J. M. Hawkins, Winchester expert, Tan
through a programme of 135 targets at Mil-
ton, Pa., without . miss, besides breaking fif-

teen straight in g preliminary practise event.

Stratford trimmed Woodstock in a team
race at the former place Aug. 14th by 219 to
188. The scores were:— ay

Match Shoot 25 Birds.

Woodstock—Maynard 15, Walker 15, Thomp-
son 20, Dutton 22;. Farlow. 19, ‘Bonnett 22,
Collins 15, Welford 14, Dawson 17, .awes 10,
Farlow 19. Total 188. — Loi

Stratford—Boles 22° Fisher 20; Furnbull 25,
Hay 19, Miller 18, Curtis 18,, Hess 14, Meyers
21, Savage 19,.Aitcheson 22, Thorold 21. To-
tal 219.

10 bird sweepstakes—Turnbull 10, Ferlow_ 9.

Bonnett 8, Fisher’ 8, Mbyers 8; Dutton 7, Hay
7, Boles 7, Thompson 5, Miller 4, Curtis 4.
10 bird sweepstake—Miller 5, Hay 8, Ait-
cheson 8, Dutton 7,-Maynard 7, Fisher 7, Wel-
ford 8, Dawson 7. Turm,gll 10, ‘Thompson~ 6,

Farlow~ 8, Thorold 10,

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Savage 4, Boles 9.

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G at O ur Prices On Savage, Marlin Winches- We Defy

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Winchester, Shot Guns always in stock; Winchester, U.M.C.,
Eley and Schultze Shells at closest prices.

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At the Portage la Prairie, Man., tourng-
ment th: high scores: were:

15 targets—Watson 13, F. Bailey 10, Lea-
son 10.

20 targtts—Houghton 16, Murdock 16, Har-
wood 16, F. Bniley 15.

15 targets—McBain 14, Yates 14, Houghton
12, Reillv 12.

20 targets—McBain 16, Manning 16, Keele
16.

Team shoot—Portage won with 70 points,
“pston second with 61 and two other Portage
teams tied for third with 56. The winning
team was Harwood, Keele, Macdonald, and
Roxborough.

20 targets—Houghton 16, Murdock 16, Har-
Manning 14, Watson 14, Cox 14.

Western Manitoba championshin. ofen to all
comers west of Winnineg. 50 birds—Fred Bnaal-
ev. Portare 37, W. Roxborough. Portage, 36.

20 targets—F. Bale 18, Yates 16, R. 8S.
Bailey 16, Harwood 14. Hutchinson 14.

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North Hatley Tournament.
Having puchased the Target Plant of Mr.
John Bowron, Hamilton, we have established
our factory in Toronto and are making exactly
the same Target as our predecessors. We are

The North Hatley (Que.) gun clu>d held their
first annual tournament at that place Aug. 31.
This being their first tournament the attend
ance wes no* large. Next yeatr the club will
give a two day tournament with some good

trophies offered for competition. The scores
nowready to execute all orders entrusted to our Soo
care. Get our prices and patronize home in

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Ladies Day at Hamilton

The greet event of the season, Ladies’ D---
at the Hamilton Gun Club, took place on Aur.
seventeenth, and a large number af charminz
ladies oraced the occasion with their presence.
The result was that a bright, joyous and hap-
Py time was spent. The prizes for men were
won by: B. Smith, twenty straight, G. Be-ttie
nineteen, H. FE. Hawkins nineteen.

And the ladies, who shot remarkably well.
carried. off the prizes in the followine order:—

Mrs. Hackett. Miss Gregory, Mrs. (Dr.)
Bricker, Mrs. J. Bain, Miss J. Groves. Miss J
Newman, Mrs. Dunham, Mrs..G. Stroud, Miss
Insole.

There were a great many other comnrtitors
who did not prove to be good shots with the
shot gun, but judging from their verw attract-
ive and lovely appearance, one would easily
conclude their aim with the little how and ar-
row of Cupid would be directed with greater
precision.

The party, numbering over one hundred, left
the grounds at 6.30, after having enjoyed
choice refreshments served Aa Crawford, whose
name is svnonymous with ‘“‘first class.’

The ladies present were: Mesdames H. R.
Barnard. Nemmert, Dr. Groves, Dr. Overhol'.
Ralph C. Ripley. J. L. Davis (Chicagc, John
Hackett, Merriman, Dr. Bricker. Bain, Dr
Storms. Dr. Hilker, H. FE. Hawkins. Drews
Hiltcem, Raspberry, John Hunter, Wade, Dr
Beam (St. Ca‘hirines): J. A. Woodman. F. 1
Dunham, George Stroud, Misses Gregory. In-
sole, Cobk, Grovesi, McFiamlane, M.Tinsiole. Qherr-
ier. Morris, Craic, Cordicx(St.Catharines) Ma
oil, Black. Emma Barnard, Eva Barnard and
Miss Hewitt, Toronto.

Holiday Soot at London.

The holidav shoot of the* Sprinewood Gun
Club en Labor Dav was an unqualified success
from every vnoint of vew. The weather was
ideal and the scores were very 200d. The In
ersoll contincent missed their train and were
not on hand but Five Stratford men -nd one
from Dorchester took part and their shootine
was of « hitch order. Tosral men snvept the
hoard. however. R. Dav havine average, won
the handsome clock dcnated I'v C. H. W
and Crow and Glover were ted for second
money. Boles from Stratford was _ c'ose up
with a score of 66.

The Lefever gun still continues to put some
excellent records to its credit. Firing in a gale
of wird at the Evansville tourmament, Mr. H.
W. Anderson, shcoting with a Lefever gun.
made the splendd sore of 395 out of 400
Mr. Walter Pwing, using the same ma’ of
gun won the high amateur average of 360 out |
of 400. Further notable records are the Prelimin

ary Hamdicap in the Grand Western States at
Denver, ab amateur shooting with a Lefevar gun
winning this positron; omd a tite for the hich
amateur average at Montreal, an amateur, us-
ing this make of oun breaking 242 out -of 225
targets and making g run-off .37 straight. A
further win was the thigh amateur »verage at
the Binghampton (N.Y.) tournament. The com-
pany invite wll who are thinking of purchasing
a gun to apple for a copy of their 1907 cata-
logue, which they will send post free on receipt
of a postal asking for the same and mention-
ine ‘‘Rod and Bun and Motor Sports in Cama-
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Fine records still continue to be made with
Stevens & Stevens Pope rifles and Stephens
telescopes. The latest include first honors at

the 1907 Indoor Tournament of the 22 Cali-
League of the United States; first

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in nearly every case Stevens telescopes were

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Spark Plugs

We have made arrangements with the R. E. Hardy

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used and wssisted very materially in raising the
scores and records. Such performances are in
themselves the very: best recommendations these
rifles could possidly have. If readers interest-
ed in guns will forward five cents to the J.
Stevens Arms and Tool Company, Chicopee
falls, Mass., and mention ‘‘Rod and Gun and
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tustrated catalogue describing their entire linps
of Stevens rifles, shot guns, pistols, firearm
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The Winnipeg Gun Club has gone out of existence
on account ot the small membership and lack of enthu-
siasm among many of them. The members of the club
who still retain an interest in trap shooting have gone
over to their rivals, the Fort Garry Gun Club of the
same city, and will shoot on the same grounds hereafter.
The traps of the two clubs were side by side in Norwood,
one of the suburbs of the city. The regular meetings
for shooting are on Monday and Friday nights but there
is also an extra meeting on Wednesday night when the
scores are not counted. At the annual meeting of the
amalgamated club held last month the following officers
were elected : patrons, Sir Daniel McMillan, William
Whyte and C. C. Chipman; president, H. Beliveau, vice-
president, J. H. Bourgoin; Secretary-treasurer, Paul
Johnson; executive committee, F. G. Simpson, Tom
Bodie, J. Mcl,eod Holiday, H.A. Lightcap, R. M.Watson:
field captain, G. A. Britton.

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 33

F course Chiclets are popular! The delicious chewing gum in
its dainty candy covering and the six drops of pungent pepper-§
mint which flavor it, are the very good reasons why you will be

benefited no less than you will be pleased if you buy a 5c or 10c packet §
of CHICLETS today. Should your druggist or confectioner not
sell Chiclets send us a dime for a sample and a booklet. .

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Big Game Hunters

BIG GAME—Moose (bull,) Sept. Ist to Dee. 31st. Fe-
males and calves under one year protected.
Deer, Sept. Ist to December 14th. Fawns under one year
protected.
: Caribou, Sept. Ist to December 3lst. Females and Czlves
(OPEN SEASON) erobiead at all times.
Hunting Elk (wapiti), September Ist to December 31st
and calves under two years protected.
Mountain Goat and Sheep, Sept. Ist to December 14th. Mountain sheep,
lambs protected.

Not more than five Caribou may be killed by one person in any season, nor more
than five deer, two (bull) elk, two (bull) moose, two (bull) wapiti, five mountain goat
or three mountain sheep (rams.) Deer must not be hunted with dogs or .killed for
hides alone. For License apply Game Warden, Vancouver.

Province of
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Females

ewes and

GOAT FROM WATSON BAR CREEK

BY COURTESY OF P. W. CHARLESON, VANCOUVER, B.C.

For License Apply to Game Warden

Province of BIG GAME.—Moose, Cari

= bou, deer, or red deer,
New Brunswick September 15th to Nov.

For License Apply to Game Warden
Province of ®!° GAME—Moose, Oct. 1st to

Fs December 1st, except in island
Nova Scotia of Cape Breton where they are

+N SEASON 3oth. N SEASON protected until 1915
Se SEBO ! Cow moose or cow caribou (OREN S S ) (No person shall kill more than
Hunting (of any age) and calf Hunting one moose in one season, nor

moose (under age of two years) are protected at all

times.
No person shall kill or take more than one moose,
one caribou and two deer during any one year.
Moose, caribou and deer are not to be hunted with
dogs, or to be caught by means of traps and snares.

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any calf moose under the age of one year.)
Deer and caribou protected until October, 1910.

Dogs must not be allowed to hunt moose, caribou or
deer.

Bear, all year.

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 35

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CANADIAN PACIFIG RAILWAY

Moose, Caribou, Deer

Province of BIG GAME—Moose and Deer, September Ist to December 31st.»
inclusive, excepting Ottawaand Pontiac Counties.
Quebec Moose and Deer in Ottawa and Pontiac Counties, October Ist to
OPEN SEASON November 30th, inclusive.
° Caribou, September Ist to January 31st, inclusive.
Hunting Bear, August 20th to June 30th, inclusive,

No more than one moose, two deer, and two caribou may be killed in one season by
any one person. Dogs may be used to hunt the red deer only between Oct. 20th

fe)
and Nov. Ist.
No person owning, having or harboring any dog accustomed to hunt and pursue
deer shall allow such dog to run at large, hunt or pursue in any places inhabited by
: 3 oF ee, . * — i : € f en | “ By i >
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deer, between November Ist of one year and October 20th.

For License apply to Game Warden, Quebec.

A RIGHT AND LEFT
BY COURTESY OF P. W. CHARLESON, VANCOUVER, B. C.

j BIG GAME— Deer, November Ist to November 15th. Moose, caribou,
Province of reindeer, north of the Main Line Canadian Pacific Railway from
Ontario Mattawa to the Manitoba boundary, inclusive October 16th to Nov. 15.
aa AQGQN Moose, reindeer, or caribou, south of the Main Line Canadian Pacific
vas phe Railway from Mattawa to the Manitoba boundary, November Ist to
Hunting Noy, 15th. Elk, wapiti, must not be hunted at any time. Bear all year,

For License apply to E. Tinsley, Toronto.

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36 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

M4, NOT C. P.R. BUT
GRAND TRUNKS

Light-Weight Cane and Basket Trunks, Sole Leather
Trunks, Canvas Trunks, Cabin Trunks, Burea Trunks,
Wardrobe Trunks.

Hand Bags - $1.00 to $25.00
Glasdstone Bags — - 2.50: to 15.00
Club Bags - “7D? to 5.00
Cabin Bags ~ 3.50 to 10.00

Every Article Warranted as represented.
Our Hand-Sewed Brief Bag at $6.50 is a ‘““Dandy’’

25 Kinds of Suit Cases $1.25 to $35.00

It is up to you to get the best for the least money. We make
them. We have all the little contrivances which 1iake
travelling a pleasure, at close prices.

Trunk and Leather Goods Co.

CEL.
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CONVINCING REASONS

Why the WITCH-ELK
Hunting Boots are Best

For gE
Sportsmen |

Engineers
& Miners

They are the
lightest boot on
the market, quali-
ty and material
considered. They
are made to fit
and wear. They
are practically
water proo f—if
properly taken care of. There are no nails
or anything to gall the feet. They will not
harden.

Wall Papers |

We think our Wall Papers are unpar-
alleled. Large shipments have recently
been added to our stock from the leading
foreign manufacturers, embracing from
the dainty inexpensive paper to the most
elaborate manufactured.

The assortment contains the latest ef-
fects, in fabric backgrounds. Art Linens,
| Patterns with Crowns, Tekkos, Leathers,
Panel Decorations, Florals in natural
colors, Two-Tones, Tapestries, Chambreys
and Decorative Friezes.
a

It will be greatly to the advantage of
the buyer to see our Wall Papers before
buying elsewhere. Samples mailed free
on request. Please state about color
effect and price desired.

THEY WILL PLEASE YOU

== Ask your dealer to order you a pair or
i e ms 0 us 0., t 5 write for catalogue O.

Witchell-Scheill Company
245 YONGE ST., TORONTO DETROIT, MICH.

Manufacturers 1n Sporting and Athletic Footwear

When writing advertisers nindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.

ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 37

KingEdwardCollieKennels

Southport Star ‘ive
C. K. C. (9080) ch Southport Summit
ex Kirkdale Lily
Born April 5th, 1906

Sable and White

Fee $25. (Imported)
King Edward ‘ire
Pilgrim ch Parkhill Pilgrim

C. K. C. (9077) ex Parkhill Rose

Tricolor Fee $lo.o Born March 31st, 1906
(Imported)
King Edward 4% fe ema i
a ch Squire of Tytton
c. Sy ion. ex Southport Miss Hope

Sable and White Born March 6th, 1906.
Fee $10. (Imported)

_ These dogs have just been imported, and are
without doubt the highest bred dogs in America.

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TERMS ON APPLICATION

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435 Spadina Ave., Toronto.

MOUNT BIRDS AND ANIMALS

Sportsmen! Fishermen! Hunters! Lovers of Nature!

The wonderful art of Taxidermy.
, 80 long kept secret, can now be
easily learned right in your own
home.

Z WE TEACH BY MAIL bow tc
; properly mount Birds, Animals
Game Heads, tan skins, make rugs, etc.

delightful and fascinating art for mep

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articulars.

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English Schultze

One Man Championship of Canada, 1907

There is no “blow back” to English Schultze, and it
is clear, quick, reliable and absolutely uniform.

You can shoot English Schultze all along, and when through put your gun away
without cleaning it ; weeks after your gun barrels will be alright—no rust with

English Schultze. The cleanest powder on the market.

WHOLESALE. CANADIAN AGENTS

The London & Toronto Trading Co.

14 Front St. East, Toronto, Ont.

When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.

38 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

wonpeR FLASHLIGHT

One half the size. One half the price.!

Single cell of Battery. (one cell) 1o amperes.

Tantalum Lamp (bulb, one volt. )

Twice the life of any flashlight twice its size

Gives more light than any ordinary three cell flash light.

Just the thing for Hunters, Campers, Motor Boats, Automobile, Engineers, Night
Watchmen, and has no equal around the house, store office or factory.
Size 1 1-2 x 6 inches.

Renewal Batteries, (Single Cell), twenty-five cents.

To introduce the NEW WONDER we willsend sample prepaid to any address
in Canada for $1.50. Discount to dealers.

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The Splendid Art of Taxidermy can now be Learned Quickly in Your Own Home

SPORTSMEN, HUNTERS, ANGLERS, NATURALISTS—It is no longer necessary to lose your fine trophies nor to pay taxider-
mists exorbitant prices for stuffing them. You can now learn this great art for yourself easily and quickly during your spare time.
We teach you by mail in your own home to successfully stuff and mount all trophies. Also to tan all kinds of hides and furs and
make them into beautiful rugs and robes. Easy to learn by men, women and boys.

By taking our course of fifteen lessons you will soon be able to do perfect mounting and can decorate your home, office or den
with the choicest of art. Thousands of men and women of every vocation, bankers, lawyers and business men, ure members of
our school and endorse it in the highest terms.

r 4 H Professional taxidermists earn from 62,000
Big Money in Taxidermy to $3,000a yearand thereare not hal! enough
taxidermiststo supply the demand. Mounted specimens seil readily for big prices.
Many birds and animals now killed and thrown away can be turned into cush.

TAXIDERMY BOOKS FREE—We will send FREE postpaid our beautiful cat- |
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("We mount or sell all kinds of animals or game heads. Price list on request.
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BEFORE GOING
Hunting ~« Shooting

be sure that you are properly equipped. The success as
well as the enjoyment of your outing depends largely on
having a reliable outfit.

WE make a specialty of dependable outfits including :
Guns, Rifles, Revolvers, Ammunition, Canoes, Waterproof
Sleeping and Dunnage Bags, Rubber Sheets, Blankets,
Tents, Leather and Canvas Clothing, Folding Stoves and

Furniture, Aluminum Goods, Fishing Tackle,
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Canadian Agents for ‘‘Lefever’ Guns

“Our Goods are Good” “Our Prices are Right”
It’s all in the new catalog—Send for it.

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DO YOU WANT A

Stevens’ Crack Shot Rifle?

If so send TEN yearly subscriptions to Rop anp GUN AND
Moror Sports IN Canapa, and we _ will send you
one of these popular rifles. Those who have used them say
they are worthy of their name, “CRACK-SHOT.”

For further particulars address:

W. J. TAYLOR, Publisher

Woodstock, - Ontario

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GASOLINE LAUNCH FOR SALE—Length
twenty feet, beam five feet six inches. Regal
four cycle engine, three horse power, new this
year, with reversing propeller, price $250. Rob-
ertson Bros., Kingston, Ont. 4—1t

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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE —Irish Water Span-
iel Dog, four years old with pedigree. Price twenty
dollars or exchange for setter orpup. N. C. Christie,
Amherst, N. S. s-1t
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FOR SALE—A Three Horse Power Gasoline Engine
absolutely new, complete with boat equipment ready to
install, reversible propeller, American manufacture. For
particulars apply Box E. Rod and Gun and Motor
Sports in Canada, 117 Mail Building, Toronto, Ont.

stf

HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS—How to train
dogs to hunt coon, fex, skunk, how to tan
furs, hunt bees, make scent baits, find young
mink, wolf, fox, kill skunk without odor, skunk
farming, etc. Send 30c money order for book.
F. W. Howard, Baraboo, Wis.

WANTED—Second Hand Winchester
down. Box 375. Woodstock, Ont.
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FOR SAl.E—Canoe, sixteen footer, cedar canvas
covered, new, suitable for cruising purposes. Address
Box C, Rod and Gun Motor Sports in Canada, 117
Mail Building, Toronto, Ont. tf

WANTED—Good Second hand Parker Ham-
merless, twelve gauge.—C. Fritz, Zurich, Ont.
4—1t

WANTED—To correspond with parties who
wish to hunt in the Rockies next open season.
Address C. Ellis, Ovando, Powell Co., Mont.

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WANTED—Scalps of Moose, Deer and Cari-
bou.—A. E. Colburn, Taxidermist, 1204 South
Main street, Los Angeles, Cal.

WINCHESTER, thirty-three Calibre rifle,
Lyman sights, half magazine, take down,check-
ered. List forty, net twenty-six. Also Greener
Sporting Lee-Enfield 303. Cost sixty, net thir-
ty-two. N. A. Powell, 167 College St., To-
ronto. 5 it

SHOOTING DOGS—W>- have some thorough-
ly broken Pointers and Setters that are as
fgndsome and as well bred as any dogs in
America. They are trained on quail grouse,
wood cock, etc., and as Shooting Dogs there
are none more reliable or satisfactory to Dag
game over. We also have some highly bred and
pedigreed puppies, both pointers amd setters.
High class gun dogs fs our specialty. The C.
S. Freel Kennels, R., Loogootee, Indiana.

FOR LIVE Hungarian Partridge, Pheasants,
Quail, Ducks, Geese, Swans, Peafowl. Wanted
live birds. Charles B. Danley, New City. N.Y.

FOR SALE—A complete fyle of Rod and Gun
in Canada, beginning with first issue June, 1899,
six volumes, all in good condition, $.0#@ will
buy the lot. |Address Box O., ‘‘Rod and Gun
in Canada,’’ Woodstock, Ont.

I will exchange two Pointer Pups 8 months old (dog
and bitch), pedigreed, for pedigreed English Bloodhound
same age. W.T. Walsh, North Bay, Ont.

FOR SALE—1r Edison Home Phonograph, 60 re-
cords, case, etc. ,1-5x7 Wizard Cycle Camera, 1 Brownie
Camera. J. L. Heath, Rock Island, Que.

FOR SALE—Fishing Reel, Automatic, aluminum,

new. Apply Box R. 117 Mail Building, Torento,
Ontario. stf
ee

FOR SALE—Deer Hounds, Fox Hounds,

and Hare Hounds, well bred and trained to
hunt. A written guarantee with each dog —

Address Peter Croghan, care Box427, Barrie,
Ont. 5 1t

COME to Mountain Valley camp, iocated in
the wildest part of northern New Hampshire in
the Valley of Indian Stream; those that wish
for the best deer, partridge, rabbit and other
small game hunting call on us for further in-

formation: Chappell and Lord, Pittsburg, N.

_ FOR SALE—Fishing Rod, steel, telescope bait cast-
ing. Apply Box F. Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in
Canada, 117 Mail Building, Toronto, Ont. stf

FOR SALE—A large Deer Hound, four
years old, has been hunting three years, has a
great voice ‘‘and is the ooy that brings them’’
The first thirty dollars bake him—Geo. Nich-
ols, Ingersoll, Ont. 5—1t

TOURISTS—Book early for splendid health-
giving canoe trip in New Ontario next summer
—great fishing and photographing of moose,
deer, etc.. guaranteed.—Jake Longer, (Licensed
Guide), care Rod and Gun, Woodstock, Ont.

BLOODHOUNDS—=2 Dogs, black and tan. Will
make grand hunters. Fit to run this fail. Must sell to
make room. Cheap if taken at once. (eh Halle
King City, Ont. 5-1t

FOR SALE—Launch Hull, twenty-one footer, com-
plete ready for engine, including brass railings, com-
promise stern; a bargain. Box L. Rod and Gun and
Motor Sports in Canada, 117 Mail Building, Toronto,

Ontario. 5tf.
FERRET MUZZLES—Sizes one, two and

three, fifty cents, three for one dollar. Loose

on ferret. Ferret cannot get them off. Steel

band. Just snap it on. Nangatuck Muzzle Co.,
Nangatuck, Conn. 4—1t

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FOR SALE—Ithaca 128 hammerless ejector
64 lbs., 3 inch drop Lyman sights, Silverr’s
Rubber recoil pad, gun practically new, a_per-
fect gun for field or cover, cost $87. First
check for $65 takes it.—Chas. O. Beam, Box
102, St. Catharines, Ont.

FOR SALE—Beagles, Fox and Deer Hounds,
Crossbred Bloodhounds and Foxhound Puppies
Trained ferrets—W. A. Brodie, Taxidermist,
Unionville, Ontario.

FOR SALE—3 Year Old Irish Setter Bitch.
Well bred and g good shooting dog. Sell
cheap.—J. Hayden, Cobourr, Ont. 4-1t

FREE—My Sportsman’s Guide contains in-
structions for saving all trophies of the Rod
and Gun for mounting to the best possible
advantage. It also contains a complete list of
my prices for all the different branches of Tax-
idermy work. I claim that my work {is not
beaten by any taxidermist in Canada. I will
gladly forward references to prove my state
ment. My prices will show you how to save
money by shipping to me.—Edwin Dixon, Tax-
tdermist, Unionville, Ontario...

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FOR SAI.E—Hammerless Shot Gun, 12 bore
—$65.00 grade, in perfect condition. Parker
Bros. )Also 12 Remington and leather cuse. A
snap to prompt buyer. Write Box M., Rod and
Gua. 3—1t

FOR SALE—High Class English Setter
bitch, nearly two years old, partially broken,
has been worked on prairie chickens and quail.
Pedigree best in America, color black and tan,
wlll make a grand shouting and breeding bitch.
The first $30.00 takes her, and this is giving her
away.—Thomas A. Duff, 3 Maynard Ave., To-
ronto, Ont.

FOR SALE—TWO Bowron quick-set traps,
in perfect order. $10.00.—H. P. Stockwell,
Stanstead, P. Q. 4-1t

WANTED—A Stuffed Passenger Pigeon, ora
well preserved skin.—James B. McKay, De-
troit, Mich.

WANTED—A representative in every city and
town in Canada and the Urited States to so-
licit subscriptions for ‘‘Rod and Gun in Cana-
da.’’ We will pay a liberal commission to
those whom we feel warranted placing the ag-
ency with. This is an opportunity that should
be taken advantage of by any person desiring
to make good mopey. For further particulars
please address W. J. Taylor, Publisher Rod
and Gun in Canada, Woodstock, Ont.

FOX, MINK, Coons, Lynx are easily trap-
ped with the Bentley Methods—many ways on
land, snow and water. Price and testimonials
for a stamp. I caught ninety foxes and seven-
ty mink last fall. It’s the only method pub-
lished by a professional trapper. Satisfaction
guaranteed.—Jesse Bentley, honest old trapper,
Arlington, Vermont.

WANTED—The name and address of anyone
desirous of securing absolutely free , Twelve
Foot Patent Steel Duck Shooting Boat manu-
factured by the Michican Steel Boat Co., De-
troit, whose boats are unsurpassed in every
particular. Address Premium Department, Rod

20TH CENTURY “BABY GRANDS”

ACETYLENE SEARCHLIGHTS—Com-
bining Head, Port and Starboard
lights. High class—not high priced.

Polished brass and copper. Finest
Lens Reflectors. The baby ‘‘BABY’’
size $14.00. Equip your Boats. Add
safety and comply with marine laws.
Of dealers or send for illustrated
catalogue.

20TH CENTURY MFG. CO.,

19 Warren St.,New York.

For Three
SUBSCRIPTIONS

We will give a

Vest
Pocket
Light

Valued at $1.50.

Every hunter, angler and
yachtsman should own
one.

FOR SALE—4xs Plate Camera, case, 3 plate Hol
ders and Tripod. Will sell cheap. H. MacKenzie
Box 573, Ingersoll, Ont. s-1t

—

WANTED—Names and addresses of anyone
desirous of securing a fifty dollar Ithaca Gun
free. Address Premium Dept., Rod and Gun in
Canada, Woodstock, Ontario.

FOR SALE—Hotel, or Club Property, on
Island at head of St. Lawrence. A famous
headquarters for the best bass fishing grounds
on the St. Lawrence River. Fine building,
with three cottages, boathouse, ice house,
dock, etc., all in good repair; charming grove
of fine timber, ten acres of ground. Aa _ ideal
Club property, or a splendid chance for a good
hotel man. Buildings lighted by acetylene gas,
furnished throughout, and complete equipment
of bed and table linen, china, glass and silver-
ware. Can be had at a bargain by prompt buy-
er. Address—Canadian Locomotive Company,
Limited, Kingston, Ontario.

Member of a well known English County Family with
four years exp’rience in the Motor Trade, will actas
AGENT for buying new and second hand MOTOR
CARS and BUS CHASSIS in England and ship to
Canada. Satisfactory reference and guarantee given.
Apply, terms, Nicholas Lechmere, Rippledene, Tap-
low, England -

LIVE GAME FURNISHED IN SFASON —
Capercialzie, Black Game, Ptarmigan, Prairie

Chicken, Hungarian Partridges, Mountain Val-
ley, Scaled, Bobwhite Quail, Elk, Reindeer,
Buffalo, domestic and foreign deer, great va-

riety Wild Waterfowl, Squirrels, Peafowl and
any kind of iAnimal or Bird obtainable. No
catalogues. Write for what you want.—Dr. Ce
cil French, Naturalist, Washington,D.C. 2-6t

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Premiums For Sportsmen

To all our subscribers, young and old, these premium offers are open. Our
premiums, comprising practically everything in the sporting goods line, from a fish
hook to an automobile, can be obtained FREE by securing subscriptions to the
magazine. There are thousands of sportsmen who have never seen ROD AND
GUN who would willingly subscribe if they were shown a copy.

If you see what you want in the following list, write and we will tell you how
many subscriptions it will be necessary to secure in order to earn it. We will fur-
nish sample copies for canvassing purposes and do all in our power to assist in mak-
ing your canvassing campaign a success.

These offers should be of special interest to school boys who will soon have
their vacation. Write to-day for particulars to Premium Dept., ROD AND
GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA, Woodstock, Ont.

For One Subscription books for four subscriptions.) These
We will send : books are edited by A. R. Harding,
A 60 yard Fishing Reel, burnished; | nicely illustrated and contain 200 pages.
A quart tin of ‘‘Standard” Dog Wash | Be,
soe chanel by. the West Gagne | For Three Subscriptions.
Cox, 17) 1Oucen sot... Bast, | loronto.. ive wallsend<
(Sent to any address in Canada) | A Vest Pocket Light, (Every Hunter,
A bass bait manufactured by Hartung Angler and Yachtsman should own one);
Bros. & Co., Jersey City, N J. ; or aset | i ; :
of Ten Beautiful Pictures, 7x9, just the A King Air Rifle, manufactured by
thing for a sportsman’s den. | the Markham Air Rifle Co., of Plymouth,
A Waterproof Matchbox; a Matchless Mich. ;
Cigar Lighter. Lights cigar, cigarette An Akron Fountain Pen, a strictly high
and pipe anywhere at any time—in wind, | grade fountain pen absolutely guaran-
rain or snow. teed ;

For Two Subscriptions _ An Ever Ready Safety Razor and 12

We will send: A Marble’s Safety Saw, blades, manufactured by the American
(Folds like a carver) ; a Sta-Rite Spark Safety Razor Co., 299 Broadway, New
Plug manufactured by the R. E. Hardy | York. ‘his razor is valued at $1.25 and
Co., New York. Every Motor Boat | is guaranteed as good a shaver as any
owner is interested in these plugs. We | $5.00 razor made. Only a limited num-
have only a limited number to distribute) | ber are being offered. See advertisement
An Elite Single Minnow Pail, (8 | of American Safety Razor Co. for full

quart) ; ,_ description of the razor we are offering ;
eee ete ss uals A pair of Lyman’s Bow Facing Gear
zh _and Oars. For full particulars of these

A copy of the Amateur Trainer, by
Ed. F. Haberlein.
A copy of Practical Dog Education by

oars write to the Lyman Gun Sight Cor-
poration, Middlefield, Conn., mentioning
having seen the advertisement in this

Abbott. se
A copy of Fox ‘Trapping, a book of|| 74537Ge,
instruction, telling how to trap, snare A Duplex Plug Attachment ; every

poison, shoot, a valuable book for trap | Automobile and Motor Boat owner should
pers: Acopy of Mink Trapping, a book | have one, then when your plug starts
instruction giving many methods of trap- | missing no need to stop your motor—
ping, a valuable book for trappers. | just pull the little switch. The device
(We will send a copy of each of these | fits any plug and protects it from rain

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and water splashes. Only a limited
number on hand so send in your three
subscriptions NOW.

For full particulars regarding this
contrivance, address Duplex Ignition Co.,
1555 Broadway, New York.

For Four Subscriptions.

We will send :

A copy of Modern Sporting Gunnery.
One of the most able books ever pro-
duced on technical gunnery.

A box containing 25 Van Horne
Cigars ; a very superior brand manufac-
tured by Harris, Harkness Co., of
Montreal ;

A Marble Safety Spring and Lock
Knife ;

An Electrical Pocket Flashlight manu-
factured by the Berlin Electrical Mfg.
Co., 474 King St., W., Toronto. These
flashlights are indispensable to every
camper, canoeist, motor boat owner and
angler;

Or aset of ten No. 6 Hi-Po water-
proof Dry Batteries manufactured by
Lincoln Electric Co., New York,

Fer Five Subscriptions,

We will send :

A ‘“‘Napanoch” Tool Kit, consisting of
knife, reamer, file, saw, chisel and screw
driver, contained in a leather pocket
book 4% x3 «inches ; manufactured by
U. J. Ulery Co., of New York ;

A Marble ‘‘Expert’’ Hunting Knife ;

Or a Marble Special Hunting Knife.

For Seven Subscriptions.

We will send :
A Bristol (No. 1, 2 cr 10) Steel Rod,
with polished maple handle.

For Eight Subscriptions.
We will send :

The same rod with celluloid wound |

handle ;

A No. 2 Brownie Camera, size 21%4x4/
picture ;

A box of Murad cigarettes, containing
27 packages ;

Or a box containing 50 Van Horne
Cigars.

For Ten Subscriptions.&

We will send : i

A Frost Improved Kelso Automatic
Reel—capacity 100 yards -

A Hunter E-Z Apart Reel, full Ger-
man Silver phospor bronze bearings ;

A Stevens No. 16 Crackshot Riflle :

A Savage Junior 22 calibre single shot
rifle ;

Or a box of Sweet Caporal Cigarettes,
containing 50 packages.

For Eleven Subscriptions

We will send:

A No. 2 Flexo Kodak, taking pic-
ture 3/2 x 3% sold by Lee & Sargent,
Montreal.

For Twelve Subscriptions
We will send:
A pair of ‘Witch Elk’? Hunting
Boots, manufactured by Messrs. Witchell-
Sheill Co., Detroit, Mich.

For Thirteen Subscriptions
We will send:

A Bait Casting Rod manufactured by
the Fischer & Tesch Mfg. Co. of Chicago,
Wt

Ora Bristol Steel Bait Rod No. 23, 7
feet 3 inches long with celluloid wound
handle.

For Fifteen Subscriptions

We will send:

A Korona Camera, famous for Jens
equipment and sound principles of con-
struction;manufactured by the Gundlach-
Manhattan Optical Co. of Rochester,
N. Y. Size 3%x4X.

For Twenty Subscriptions

We will send:

A Hunting Coat manufactured by
Bleauvelt Knitting Co., Newark, N. J.
Parties interested are requested to write
to the Bleauvelt Knitting Company, 9
Campbell St., Newark, N. J. for cata-
logue describing this jacket.

An Aluminum Camping Outfit suit-
able for six persons, sold by Sonne Tent
& Awning Co., Montreal.

500 Sovereign Loaded Shells, manu-
factured by the Dominion Cartridge Co.

Or a Century Camera, 4x5, including

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We will send: ; rae
A White Wall, ten by twelve, best ten _For Ninety Subscriptions
adouble plate holder and sole leather We will send:
carrying case. ___A 1% Horse Power Perfection Marine
iN _ Engine, complete with all accessories.
For Twenty Two Subscriptions | Made by Caille Perfection Motor Co.,
We will send: | Detroit, Mich. This 1% H. P. Engine
A Peterborough Canoe Tent, size 6x 1S considered one of the finest engines of
74%4—8 oz. duck, complete with poles | its size on the market.

and pegs, manufactured byJ J. Turner Ora sixteen foot Cedar Canvas cover-
& Sons., Peterborough, Ontario. _edcanoe manufactured by R. Chesnut
ounce duck tent, three foot wall, com- | g Sous. Fredericton, N. B. Send’ for

plete with pegs and poles, manufactured

catalogue describing this canoe.
by Sonne Tent & Awning Co., Montreal. 8 §

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| For Sixty Subscriptions Sree ntatins
We will send: We will send:

A 16 foot basswood canoe, with two A Palmer Marine Engine, including
paddles,manufactured by the Wm. Eng- Bronze shaft, propellor, (reversing)
lish Canoe Co., of Peterborough. Stuffing Box, full electrical equipment.

Hae | For full particulars of engine send to
For Seventy Subscriptions Palmer Bros., Cos. Cob, Connecticut for
We will send: catalogue mentioning this magazine.

n Old Town Guides Special Canoe, ae
length 20 feet, width 36 Pe ‘across | for Two Hundred and Fifty Subscriptions
gunwale, depth 13 inches, weight 92 Ibs. | We will send:

Manufactured by Old Town Canoe Cu., | A Parker D. H. Gun with automatic
of Old Town, Maine. Send for one of | ejector. For full description of same
their catalogues for full description of | send to Parker Bros., Meriden, Conn. for

this canoe, which will be found on page | catalogue.

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A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR SPORTSMEN
OF TODAY.

By HENRY SHARP.

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PRE A CB eee fates lee neeee Wie GUNS AND THEIR DEVEL-
CHAP. I1—A RETROSPECT i OP MEIN. cc.-h ee ee 231
CHAP. II.— MODERN SHOT- CHAP. XI.—THE SIGHTING OF
GUINS ccs cies seis oem atsasell sestese 22 RUDE Ts HiSiscieinissceot le0-86en Geccer ae ee 256
Barrels, Actions, Fore-end Trajectory.
Fastenings, Locks—fixed and CHAP. XII.—SPORTING BUL-
hand-detachable. TGR Siescsteshesacessstacre Sooner 295
CHAP. IIl.— MODERN SHOT- CEVA. XIII.— MINIATURE
GUNS—Contaei.. cscses) o econ tenes 43 RIFLES FOR MATCH, TAR-
Safety-bolts, Ejector, One- GET, AND SPORTING PUR-
Trigger. POSES 22.055 Geese storie scene ee 322
CHAP. IV.—MODERN SHOT- CHAP. XIV.—GUN FITTING....... 354
GQUINS—Contdyaeeeeoecesecceeecs 65 The Try-Gun and its uses,

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Stock Form and Measure-
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The Processes of Manufacture,
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GUNS—Contd.--... oo .. cecescnnsen 92 CHAP. XV.—GAME SHOOTING
Sizes, Lengths, Weights, and LN GREAT BRERAIN. is) caee 373
Charges, Boring, Shooting- CHAP. XVI—WILD FOWL
Power and Performances, Pat- SHOOTING IN GREAT BRI-
tern, Penetration and Recoil. TALE Jo cos - 3acade Maze cde eeseseeeee 410
CHAP. VI.—SHOT-GUN AMMU- The various species, Guns and
INTENTION cides 3 cessbomk oats aseere eieaeee se 125 Loads.
Cartridges, and Cartridge- CHAP. XVII.—THE SPORTSWO-
Loading, Jrimers, Gunpow- MAN; HER RATIONALE IN
ders, Powder pressures’ and THE FIELD AND HER
Barrel Bursts, Shot—Velocity JIU O PND DIN e565 -ochos etbsos aosdoc 430
and Sizes. CHAP. XVIII.—LADIES IN THE
CHAP. VII.—MODERN SPORT- PEDEGEADD. 2, coericeaee a escae tatsoe) Seeeweses 441
TiN GOSRUB GES hon eccceeeee cea eeeeee eee 162 (By the Duchess of Bedford.)
CHAP. VIIT.—MODERN SPORT- CHAP. XIX.—SHOOTING
ING RIFLES—Cont...... ......... 191

Single-loading, Magazine, and
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The necessary Armament; The
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Animal Traps

OneidaiCommunity) Cospeecce secciaaciars ess >
Ales and Beers
WabattJODNGereperscee eles Stacia sos cosets wk wee
Air Rifles
King Air Rifles—Markham Air Rifle Co......

Automobile Accessories

Complete range of Accessories—John Millen
OF SONS ie Se ore eee ve eroleiayeeeee estes ophcens
Complete Range of Accessories—Berlin Electri-
CalOMifgres COMer set Memint secre cies eae ae
Manhattan Electrical Supply Co .... ..7.......
Motor Metors—R. H. Smith Mfg Co. .........
Spark Plugs.....
““Syntic Motor Accessories—Nicholls Bros.
Vulcan Sparking Batteries—Vulcan Combination
Sparking and Lighting System, Spark Plugs,
Elbridge Ignition Dynamos, Spark Coils and
French Accessories—Croftan Storage
Battery, Coz... = as
Vim Spark Plug—K-W

Ammunition

du Pont Powder—E. I. du Pont de Nemours
ower Coney iatevetestersieicletstsielss sic aieie sisrale lens
Dominion Ammunition—Dominion Cartridge
(COR SB e a ago Se OR Ctog 6 ae errr
WenchantssAwnings Co. tdiva...< was\a<\-\.e reer
ike, Dhe D: Co: Ltd... .:
Smokeless Powder—English Schultze, London
ENG wOLontOmaraGine| COnee ee Tae ere
Shot—Montreal Rolling Mills Co.............
Snap-Shot and Carbon Powder—Hamilton Pow-
Clers © Osrreic aie eheyetre cto efere ainrayinisfererelover sieeve

Books for Sportsmen

SPOLtSmiaM:s Guide! nr. cure by wee alel are astral Ole
Modern Sporting Gunnery...
Amateur Trainer....

Bicycles

Iver Johnston Arms and Cycle Works.....

Batteries

Best Dry Batterics—Berlin Electrical Mfg. Co.
Dry Red Cross Batteries—Carbons, Limited ..
Goldenyajip havc: GO erm terete: stole cee wa wc
Merchants:Awnings) Comltdi 8 oc... ......
Red Seal Dry Batteries—Manhattan Electrical

Supply Coir... aeeere este e iss .< . . «
Vulcan Sparkers— Croftan Storage Battery Co.

Boots For Sportsmen

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Crow and Duck Decoys
Berdew.n Chas iisg Sratca COne aa ene II

Cameras and Kodaks
Canadian Kodak Co., Ltd

sale syeierena are alse Rete pees 20
ee Sargent t scasiy ie 18) Sera teen tas 21
Camera Repairs
Abercrombie Sabitchiep jas. aati eae ene 3
Camp Supplies
Ales and Porters—John Labatt .............. Sir
BOWrileitaens =, someue vans cnk cele ea eee 490

Bethesda, The Champagne of Waters—John
ARTEVASKIS ee serra bie oe ere Zsa) 50 = See 16
Club Cocktails—G. F. Heublein & Bro...... .. 10

Chiclets—The Dainty Mint Covered Candy Coat-
ed Chewing Gum—Frank H. Fleer & Co. Inc. 33
Eureka Search Lights—Manhattan Electrical

SupplyiGow. 22.0 eee ee ore aes 18
Fearman’s English Breakfast Bacon — Sugar
Cured Hams, Cooked Meats—W. F.
earman Cok/jectia thee eee eee 30
Kaffe rH.) Co; ... cats hee eee ae 8
Michier& Co;, cides aaa en nee ee eee 52
MerchantsyAwnings!Co;, ltd ss aera eee: I2
Mennen’s Toilet Powder—Gerhard Mennen Co. 27
Pike, The’ D?'Co;; etd aes. epee eee. ae 39
Shredded Wheat Biscuits and Triscuits—Can-
adian Shredded Wheat Co., Ltd.... ...... I
Van Horne Cigars, Harris Harkness & Co...... 4
Canoes
“‘Chestnut’’—R. Chestnut & Sons ............. 28
Goldens Jp° Race Cone dae sos nails a eee 7
Keifte sito oble Coy yIbtd ae oun ete Crneraee 8
Lakefield—Lakefield Building & Mfg.Co...... 22
Merchants;Awnings) Co.,Ltd). o.ca se. ceeece 12
bike pine De [Gomtistdlins ton A nauncad se cee Sok 39
‘‘Peterborough’’—Peterborough Canoe Co., Ltd 26
Ross* Jimi canoelCous-. cehemen aoa oe 22
Sonne’s, 327 St James St. Montreal ............ 22
William, English: Canoe Gor. 7 os cn wes cera 5
Warren Sporting: Goods Cox 5.0.4 sects «<e cx 512
Canoe Trips.
Algonquin National Park—Grand Trunk Ry
SVE iA ee eel Sees ice Gis. eer: 19
Lake of Bays—G. T. Ry System i GlamgF & < ae 4
Muskoka Lakes—Canadian Northern Ontario
Ryne you as me ais eo ce eer eT ene 14
Chewing Gum.
‘‘Chiclets,’’ the Dainty Mint Covered Candy
Coated Chewing Gum, Frank H Fleer &
Con, Incorporated creas seen cece: c 33
Cooked Meats.
Fearman’s English Breakfast Bacon, Sugar
cured Hams Cooked Meats—W, F. Fear-
MIVADG dnc se'e\s,0, i 0he-ule fers ea Mean REPS fa saree © 30

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ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA.

Camp Furniture Guns and Rifles
Kio nEIAED Conte ud Ack Ge eo 8 Fox Gun Co.—A. 1s BARA Ineo E Ae Tee E.G he 510
Merchants’ Awnings €o. Ltd 2.24 20.92.44. 12 | HunterArms Co., The ........ HPiopmonSo2o.45e 513
Michie & Co.cc, Ste. heen eee 52) || penmupe nie. Richard SonP ssa mce eae a
Pike) he D. Gonlitd e 39 Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle Works.,...... 507

: : PRT a ee, ls eT ee ; Ithaca Guns—Ithaca Gun Co...... ..... 08
Sonne, 327 St. James St., Montreal............ 22 ie File ee aes ee eae 5
Willow Chair—W. Younger................ 3 La St Ch sca sion oo sudo 9baatcascoRl 30% 8
Warren Sporting Goods Co...........-. 512 eee oe pe ene Bee. ee Z5
Jaeger Undyed Camel Hair Sleeping Bags, Merchants a euineseo maa WD ebIOS II © Go0.0 5.00 ee

Blankets and Rugs, Dr. Jaeger Co. Ltd. 495 Marlin Rifles—Marlin Firearms Co .... ...... 13
— Clothing = == | Parker Guns—Parker Bros ........... I5
asi Rike he 5 Cor etds,qcce recente 39
Jaeger Pure Wool Underwear, Knitted Coats, Rapid Loader—The Rapid ‘Loader Co.. ...... 32

Sweaters, Golfers, Caps, Gloves, Hosiery, Ross Rifles—Ross RifleiGo. . 2. saeeie nee 2

ete: — Dr Jacreq Comlitdm secre etcisccce er AQ5q i Rice Ieewis 7 SODM- = arene eee 6
Jackets for Hunters and Motorists —Knit-to-Fit Stevens’ Rifles, Pistols, Shotguns, Rifle Tele-

Miler CO) Re a ak eee ae eee Raper tate 3 23 scopes. Guns, €t¢:.........». Outside back cover
Pikes he ws Gov mletdth sn nces ee ert re 39 SavagerAnms CO nin sce conan oe eeee Inside back cover
Merchant Tailor—Jos. J. Follett..... Inside back cover Warrenss portinpGoods Com... pee eeenere 512

Winchester —Winchester Repeating Arms Co...
Cigars and Cigarettes Inside front cover
Van Horne Cigars—Harris Harkness & Co.... 4 Hotels
Commonwealth, Boston, Storer F. Crants...... 31
SEUSS Lennox Hotel, Buffalo, Geo. Duchscherer ..... 32
Me panoel Pocket Knife Tool Kit— U. J. ee . Touraine Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., C. Owen, Prop. 27
(0 ee Ye erie ans Mpc o.cmar 50
1S IN IDE Cohn Iiel. codaccagSsbuoncacuNT 39 Hunting Territory
Dogs Garibou)Modge=——Ds EeSmith: saeco eee 499
Baipire CockeniSenncle- bal se iOrsayie ee 37 British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
Glovers Dog Remedies—H. iy Gisvee Sone 31 apr eerie ee ie ee on
: : a ys~Gran ilway System
King Edward Collie Kennels—N. Gordon ...... 37 Mislokaaeanediatt Novice Ontario Rye
Electrical Novelties
Manhattan Electrical Supply Co.... ......... 18 Jewelry
Diamonds—Loftis' Bros. & Co...... ........: 513
Flags.
eeckia Johnulitd’ <4: vas othe ok ys 499 Liquors.
Sonne, 327 St. James St. Montreal .............. 22 | Club Cocktails—G. F. Heublein & Bro.... .... pe)
ILabatt; JOhny:; Sci, ol items bs. serrate me tiem ceacketers sir
Fisheries Supplies. Michie:& Col etd aisctae cs caneranee eee 52
Teckie John td 2. semcite ek ona ereee 499
Launches
ishing lecite Adams Launch & Engine Mfg. Co ............ 24
Carlton Automatic Reel, Carlton Mfg. Co.... 5 Golden tJeR Corset eres ae ee eee 7
Collapsible Minnow Traps...........-.. 10 Hamilton’ Motors Works iss aeie ce nceeieeerte * 26
Fishing Tackle— Abercrombie & Fitch Co. 3) |e McKeoughicouirotter ms etdaeeeeeee eee eee ree 30
Flies and Hooks —C. Farlow &Co., Ltd....... 8) Merchants: Awnings) Co! slutd saa seme 12
Hardy's Rods, Reels & Tackle—Hardy Bros. . 25" l. Pike; heb sGopiitdeer ce eee ee 39
Merchants:Awnings Co, lotdie- eerie eae 12; (RobertsonsBroSa.2 anise eo eee 497
Rods, Flies, and Lines—H. H. Kiffe & Co.... 8 | Sonne, 327 St. JamesSt, Montreal...... ...... 22
Pikes These D 4. Come tdeed sano) al a eee 39 Thompson; NeRis 2. Ses d eters ee oe ees II
Stag Brand—The Allcock Laight & Westwood

Go: etd ok oe sie eae eee Pee etd etree 5 Marine Motors

Warren Sporting "Gcods Conn ete. gece: 5'? | Adams Launch & Bnpine) Mfg. Comeen ccurere <7 24
FountainPens: Buffalo—Butfalo Gasoline Motor Co. ........... 12
: te (CoytnoymyNcdisedescosanDe 550 cocoa udous<Ssb0p¢ II
Conklin SelfiPilling Pens cic ererere miele sien iaiel l= = 5O5) Goldens Jc Re tcl COnicee ese hee ret ot eae 7
Hildreth Mies Come see cctiste eee re rele 16
Fishing Territory Hamiltone\iotomVWorksee. 2 1 ceeee eee 26
“Tettle Giant.-—UWimitedm Migs Come erect 22
Algonquin National Park—G. T. R. System.... 19 | Lackawanna Motors—Lackawanna Mfg. Co.... 29
CanibowWodge— Dales Smoithaeereee yee eee er 499 | McKeough & Trotter, Ltd..................-: 30
Lake of Bays—Grand Trunk Ry. System .... 4 | Merchants Awnings Co., Ltd.... ............ 12
Muskoka, Canadian Northern Ontario Ry .... 14 | Palmer Motors—Palmer Bios a tele 17
Perfection Marine Motors—Caille Perfection Motor
Folding Canvas Boats. COM ees cn BS te oh a eee oe 6—I5
Waterman—Waterman Marine Motor Com Ginna 32

Wife Saving (Canvas boat, Comerica sca 25

Mineral Waters
Gun Smith.
Bethesda—John Trevaskis ... —.._ «+--+ 16
Vohhston;, Alexie rcs ie aerate 514 Vichy-Charmeil—D. Campbell Mclver....... 17
Gun Sights Miscellaneous

Key Tags-—C. E. Locke Migs Cox ceca st 31
Lyman Combination Rear Sight — Lyman Gun Lyon Mfg. CORA Ste 6 io.0s- 2 re ape eeteeeneters : 31
Sight ‘Gorporation(.-.-¢)-himecteet aati 3 | Mennen’s Toilet Powder—Gerhard Mennen .... 27

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Motor Boats

Adams Launch & Engine Mfg. Co.... .........
Fianailton Motor WOKS) oa. bein siieveianeine ot
Meleourh: Samirottenn [etelamery cereaisrierteliet etl
Merchants) Awnings" Govltdes aes ses
Robertson Bros........ bo Sods ROBCOCOd at
Rossha) Petia —Canoel Gone nanny a inten cieeierclele creer
Senne} 327 St. James St., Montreal:... .......
sHOm pSonkpINEw Rens aaitaseien ecole «or anseteteee oe

Waterman Marine Motor Co.... .... ........

Motor Boat Accessories

Summer Trips

24 Algonquin National Park_¢ 7 R. System 19
a6 Lake of Bays—Grand Trunk Ry. System...... 4
30 Muskoka—Canadian Northern @Ontarions: 30. 14
eer Telescopic Gun Sight

Bo Goerz, C. P.—American Optical) Goy2= 5.- 31

Trap~Shooter’s Supplies

32 | Black Birds—Canadian Trap and Target C 2
ee HHS Ce, ocr Gaetan es a

SHOT Hae a SO aE Som cor 39
‘‘Baby is Searchlights — 2oth Century Taxidermists
WE oe Or itn fat elicits nykenaecaietena se. cithine 41
Berle Plectrical Mfg. Co—Complete Range of : NonnWes ra SetbSl eC sores eee IN af
CEESSOLIESH Ne ser ete ccrere ticle iain eke 3 LMR SAY aN SE ac wn peg eye Shea eer eet 3°
Cronae Storage Battery Co. complete ee of Rowley College of Taxidermy .............. 15
a accessories ge 6) Dano cee SoceOeees Il Trunks & Travelling Bags
Oldensp)pRanOc COPMs ne. Sense ccc eee atlases 7 : <
Nida seine Son Le iCampleie Range ' of Trunk & LeathersGoods'Co.. “2... 2.2.7.2 36
PAC EESSONCS Eyer Cre eis ners esate es 493 Tents
Merchanteawnings Cosltdmaacrss.cads- = hee os U2 ei fie Eel: CO eesti yee re ae 8
Manhattan Electrical Supply Co..............- 18) :)) Geckiejonndletuee ee ec keene © ake 499
Spark Plugs nodocs oodconee B6gd000b0u BOOOL SGh }) ibe Se COin lisiels co sonnciagoecnsaodasonsede 52
**Syntic’” Motor Accessories—Nicholls Bros. Ltd. 514 Merchant’s Awnings Co.................-. =
SonneseManney Storesi. = os tee Gen odes see 22: || Pike ybhes On Consider cee seer ee te 39
Vim Spark Plug—K. W. Ignition Co.......... 33 | Sonne, 327 St. James St., Montreal. aoe = 22
Gieitaraiches, Paints, etc. Warren Sporting Goods Co TaD Oe Ca roe Sno 512
Ole. (Gs NN, (6) ee 25Ne: Wall Paper
Sandensonwerearcyice Co., Itd eetcise emai. « a = SOMy Bolus Weal Compintclertcsaes ss eran eee 36
Office Appliances Want Advertisments
Conklin Fountain Pens—Conklin Pen Co 505 Pages wie} e l@iakel sipiiejexe,cvoialn stelaliahan cs tatcy obandecteicyat oh khcsy ol ele 40—4I
Outfitters ecae penne Waterproof Covers
eckle, john Ltd ..... SON ODe Aboan became AS 499
AbercrombicIOa PitCht es oxteim ssc eistessisities = <i Sales St St. M
Gu, 2, EL. (Co) 9 ees aaa g | Ponnes gaz Sh James St Mon teat nse ae 22
Pikesslihes Da Con itdie. os cok eseae sees 39 Yacht Fittings
Merchants Awnings Co., ktd........ SE ee ee I2 Leckie, VObnetai as steak ee 499
Wy eli@ ECO... Ss ae es Se ee oe 52 ‘
Watreni sporting Goods Co... 22 2. sac ss aes 512
Premiums
Pree Ge hoe ies Se Toy a Sa a vs oa ee 42—48

Photo Supplies

CGrnadianeicocak Coy Ltd ye. x. ices sae otecies
Les Ge Sareea tis se pe ae peace Horan ceeooooo ade
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Rifle Sights and Gun Implements

20 50 Packages Sweet
Caporal or 30

Nanbleisatety Axe COn ye tejels cies aeeieie sia ielerel tei 27
Revolvers P k M d
Harrington & Richardson Arms Co .... .... 7 ac ages ura
Iver Johnsons Arms & Cycle Works .......... 507
Rikemne yD Cos a lotdens an feeeteen ie sate ees 39 CIGARETTES ill b
Row Boats wi e
ate Saving! Canvasyboat, Cone iiss: sect ons steele 25
Peer Gor Ltd fo7 ses. tints 39 d
Merchants Awnings Co. Ltd.......... : eres 12 presente to anyone
Sonne, 327 St. James St., Montreal............ 22
SUMOMIPSOM SING RA, ferereieie (serge icis eyet.cyare eisiaicieve.s's II di 10 ¥ | S b
Rust Preventive sen Ing ear y u _
AO nes ——Cr: Wi COLE CORE a Fic ccs <5 sletes a0 25 = ti t
Shaving Soap. Yl R d d
Taylors) ohnvcc (Cos apes ae een Inside back cover sc p 10NS O Oo an
Smoking Pipes G d M S
H.B.B. Special—Heyes Bros., Ltd, Inside front un an otor ports
COVENRS cia riaiins neat basree ates eleva viee.2s
Safety Razors. = & d
Ever-Ready Safety Razor—American Safety In ana a.
Razor COmpatib miner dy accross ie sectsests © s 52
Sails
meeckie: JOun i Ltd's, cramps eemetiere eles sare eve sre tevere 499

Sonne, 327 St. James St., Montreal ............

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all compactly and attractively cased and all for $1.25—you
make a mistake !f you do not purchase an “Ever-Ready”’
Safety Razor. No knack—no skill required—simply im-
possible to cut the face. Shaves any growth of beard—
thick—thin, stiff or soft.

“Ever-Ready” blades can be stropped. We send prepaid,
or your dealer will sell you, extra “Ever-Ready” blades to
fit “Yankee,” ‘‘Gem”’ and “Star” frames, or to add to your
“Ever-Ready” set—twelve blades for $1.00.

‘‘Ever-Ready” Razor setsare sold by Hardware, Cutlery
Department Stores, Jewellers and Druggists throughout
the World. Remember it’s the ‘‘Ever-Ready”’ razor you
want. Mail orders prepaid upon receipt of Canadian
price $1.25.

AMERICAN SAFETY RAZOR CO.
320 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

When writing advertisers »indly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada.

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HAMMERLESS TAKE DOWN RIFLE

@ Simplest take-down, high power rifle on the market.
Has all the strength, accuracy and endurance of the
Savage regular ’99 Model. Q Easy to take down as a shot
gun; yet when assembled, the parts are automatically
LOCKED into position. @Can’t be put together unless
put together as tight and solid and rigid and accurate as
a non-take-down rifle. Neither can it work loose by re-
peated taking down and assembling. @ Packs into small
space; handy to clean, and loses none of its big game
power by re2son of its take-down feature. Examine
this newSavageat all good
dealers. @ Two lengths—
22 and 26 inch, round bar-
rels. Q Price, $20.00.Q Send
for the new Savage cata-
logue. Every sportsman
should have it.

SAVAGE ARMS CO.
5410 Savage Ave., Utica, N.Y.

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DRESS MAY NOT MAKE THE MAN
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JOS. J. FOLLETT

THE MERCHANT TAILOR

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JOHN TAYLOR & CO., SALES DEPARTMENT
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No harrassing doubts—no skepticism as to results—no insecurity— are appar-

ent if you are equipped with a time-tned STEVENS.
STEVENS RIFLES—SHOTGUNS—PISTOLS are HARD HITTING
—SHOOT TRUE!

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Let us know if you cannot obtain. ~ cover in colors,

J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CO.,
365 MAIN ST.,
CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS., U. S. A.

Printed by the Sentinel-Review Press, Woodstock

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