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farmers, and, in fact, to thousands of busi- 

 ness men West of the Missouri river. The 

 articles to be published during the next few 

 months, on this subject, are being written 

 by stockmen, business men, naturalists, 

 hunters, and trappers, and contain a great 

 fund of valuable information that has never 

 before been made public. I should like to 

 reach, with this series of articles, all the 

 cattlemen in the West, and you will confer 

 a personal favor on me by giving me the 

 names and addresses of all such whom you 

 may know, in order that I may send them 

 sample copies. 



October Recreation will contain, 

 among other things, " A Story of the Co- 

 manches," by Capt. C. J. Crane, U. S. A.; 

 " On Croatan," a goose shooting story, by 

 E. J. Myers; " Shooting Sea Lions," by E. 

 W. Wilde; "Mistakes in Fish Distribu- 

 tion," by Col. W. T. Dennis; "The Sal- 

 mon's Rival," by C. F. Holder; another 

 .valuable chapter of the symposium on 

 " The Wolf Question; " several interesting 

 articles on Recreation's Grizzly Bear 

 Competition; important information from 

 the Game Fields; on Fish and Fishing, 

 Natural History, Bicycling, Amateur Pho- 

 tography, etc. 



BUSINESS NOTICES. 



^ The General Passenger Department of 

 the Northern Pacific Railway tjas issued a 

 beautiful little book entitled " Above the 

 Clouds on Rainier, King of Mountains." 

 The outing which this little book advertises 

 affords an unusual opportunity for climbing 

 the grandest peak in the United States. A 

 company of choice spirits can have an out- 

 ing entirely original and useful. The 

 Mazamas, an Alpine club of Portland, 

 Oregon, will climb this mountain in Au- 

 gust and would be glad to have any num- 

 ber of good people join them. The book 

 tells all about the trip and is beautifully 

 illustrated. Chas. S. Fee, G. P. & T. A., 

 St. Paul, Minn., will send you a copy for 

 4 cents, if you mention Recreation. 



Visitors to Lincoln park, in Chicago, will 

 be delighted with the souvenir book of this 

 beautiful spot now being distributed by the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 

 Company. It is a magnificent publication 

 of 96 pages, full to overflowing with de- 

 licious half tone pictures of one of crea- 

 tion's most charming places of resort for 

 citizens of the Great Republic. 



No stranger visiting Chicago should be 

 without a copy of the " Souvenir of Lin- 

 coln Park." It can only be procured by 

 enclosing twenty-five (25) cents, in coin or 

 postage stamps, to Geo. H. Heafford, gen- 

 eral passenger agent, 410 Old Colony 

 Building, Chicago, 111. Mention Recrea- 

 * TION. 



" The Red Man's Greeting," Pokagon's 

 birch bark book, is having a large sale. It 

 was writen by the old chief — a full blood 

 Pottawattamie Indian — and contains many 

 beautiful legends of his tribe. The leaves 

 are of various shades of crimson, white and 

 golden colors, just as he cut them from the 

 birch trees. The Booklet is often termed 

 " The Indian Book of Lamentation " and 

 Pokagon is called the " Red Bard," " The 

 Longfellow of his race," etc. 



The price of the book is 50 cts. Address 

 C. H. Engle, Publisher, Hartford, Mich. 



Here are figures showing my subscription 

 receipts for the 3 dullest months in the year v 



1895 1896 1897 



May $292 $902 $1,596 



June 307 770 r ,402 



July 345 563 1,101 



You will note the increase is 100 to 300 per 

 cent., each year, over the corresponding 

 month of the preceding year. Shrewd adver- 

 tisers always like to be represented in peri- 

 odicals that are growing rapidly. 



If you have sent in a club of subscriptions 

 to Recreation, and have gotten your pre- 

 mium, and if it be satisfactory, please tell 

 all your friends about it and advise them to 

 do likewise. 



Please send me the names and addresses 

 of all the sportsmen of your acquaintance, 

 in order that I may send them sample 

 copies of Recreation. 



Take 3 shots at the grizzly bear, on page 

 viii. of this issue, and send in your score. 

 You will find it interesting. 



The enterprising Yankee who recently 

 flooded the market with artificial hen's 

 eggs, which would hatch but which pro- 

 duced chicks without feathers, has now 

 come out with a rubber angle worm. It is 

 cheap, seductive, and wears for seasons. It 

 wriggles admirably and is easily adjusted. 



This man has also invested it with a 

 little vocal organ, which emits a piercing 

 scream of agony when the worm is put on 

 the hook. This last addition is considered 

 a drawing card, with anglers. The inven- 

 tion has turned out more useful than even 

 the inventor expected; for these rubber 

 worms are found a very satisfying food for 

 canaries and other cage birds. 



This inventor comes of a famous old 

 Hartford family. It was his grandfather 

 who invented the wooden nutmeg, and his 

 brother who claimed to have succeeded in 

 crossing a honey-bee with a fire-fly, and 

 to have produced a bee that could work all 

 night. 



