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TRUE 
SPORTSMAN 
Needs a Copy of Our New 
GAME BOOK: 
Send FOUR CENTS 
CHAS. S. FEE, Gen. Pas. Agt. 
Northern Pacific R, R. 
ST. PAUL, 
MINN. 





FINE HUNTING and 
FISHING GROUNDS 
ALONG THE 
The Mobile 
and 
Obio R. R. 
In Mississippi and Alabama. 
The Sportsman’s Paradise— All Kinds 
or Game, Fresh and Salt Water Fish. 
Take an outing and try our section. If you do not 
object to mixing a little business with your pleasure, 
buy asmall tract of land while down. The country 
near the R.R. is filling up with Northern settlers; 
prices are advancing very fast. A small investment 
will return profit enough to pay for several outing 
trips. Full particulars sent by 
E. E. POSEY, Gen. Pass. Agent, MOBILE, Ala. 
The Automatic Reel 
LINE OF 




THE ae FINGE 
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Tt will wind up the 
line a hundred times 
as fast as any other 
reel in the world. It 
will wind up the line 
The ~ slowly. No fish can 
Little ee get slack line 
meee with it. It will save 
Finger amore fish than any 
. other reel. Manipula- 
Does it. ted entirely by the hand 
: that holds the rod. 
END FOR 
CATALOGUE. YAWMAN & ERBE, 
Please mention this paper. 
Rochester, N.Y, 
Angler 
Advertiser VII 
on Goan Thine 
To Have Along! 
SHIPLEY’S: NEW 
Fish Hook Holde 
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will keep the gut and snell straight for 36 hooks or less. 
It is made of metal, handsomely japanned and str iped, 
9% inches long by 4 wide, with cork inserted to hold 
the gut. A single hook can be inserted or removed in 
a moment and hooks may be of any size and on single 
or double gut. Price, by mail, 60 cents. 
OUR BETHABARA RODS 
Are the Only Genuine Bethabara 
Some dealers at the recent Angler’s Show in New 
York exhibited so-called Bethabara rods. They were 
not genuine. Send for a sample of the real Bethabara 
and compare it. Other dealers cannot pro ure this 
wood. 
These rods (by us) are made in all useful sizes and 
shapes. Wealso have Bamboo, Double Enamel Split 
Bamboo, Lancewood and all other good Rods, Tackle 
and Accessories. Send five 2-ct. stamps for catalogue. 
A. B. SHIPLEY & SON 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
503 Commerce Street, = 

Opening of the Chicoutimi Extension, July rst, 1893. 
The new route to the far-famed Saguenay, and the 
only rail route to the delightful summer resorts north 
of Quebec, through the 
exCANADIAN ADIRONDACKS <s 
Monarch Parlor and Sleeping Cars. Magnificent 
scenery. Beautiful climate. 
Hotel Roberval, Lake St. John, recently enlarged, 
has first-class accomodation for 300 guests, and is run 
in connection with the ‘‘Island House,” a new hotel 
built on an island of the Grand Discharge of Lake St. 
John, in the centre of the ‘‘Ouananiche’’ fishing 
grounds. Daily communication by the new _ fast 
steamer across the lake. The fishing rights of Lake 
St. John and tributaries, and an area of 20,000 square 
miles are free to guests of the hotels. 
After July 1 trains will connect daily at Chicoutimi 
with Saguenay steamers for Quebec. Daylight trip. 
A beautiful illustrated guide book on application. 
For information as to hotels, apply to hotel manag- 
ers; for folders and guide books, to ticket agents of 
all the principal cities. 
ALEX. HARDY, Gen. F. & P. Agt. 
Quebec, Canada 
JaGeSCOTT: 
Sec’y and Mgr. 
