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RECREA TION. 



deep, and 24 to 30 inches long, pro- 

 vided with rope handles, hinged lids, and 

 padlocks. On the inside of each cover 

 paste an inventory of the contents. 



Although in print mention of the 

 soft bed of fragrant balsam boughs has 

 a pleasant sound, there is really little 

 merit in it. To make a prime browse 

 bed takes the time of one man for sev- 

 eral hours, and an immense amount of 

 material ; and then the same result can 

 be obtained by one or two comforters, 

 which are easily carried, cost little, and 

 are always ready. 



By all means take a camera, for the 

 mementoes of the trip, thereby secured, 

 will prove the most lasting and esteemed 

 trophies of all. But don't make the 

 mistake of buying one of the cheap and 

 unsatisfactory " press the button" hum- 

 bugs. Good pictures can be sometimes 

 made with them, but the proportion of 

 failures is far too large. In the hands 

 of a photographic genius, prize work 

 has been done with a common spectacle 

 lens, but an unskilled performer ought 

 to give himself the benefit of the best 

 tools he can afford to buy. At best, 

 snap shots, with a hand camera, are dif- 

 ficult of execution, and should be sel- 

 dom attempted, except on a bright day, 

 over the water or on sand. To get good 

 photographs takes time and trouble, but 

 in the end they are the most valued 

 prizes. 



A word as to mounting your views. 

 The common method of using card 

 mounts is not satisfactory for perma- 

 nent use. The cards are hard to keep 

 in order ; they catch the dust, and are 

 likely to get misplaced or lost. Any 

 first-class bookbinder can manage it 

 much better in the following manner : 

 Paste each view separately, on a sheet 



of thick writing paper, using fresh, 

 clean rice paste. Arrange the sheets, 

 back to back, in the order desired, then 

 paste the sheets together, leaving an 

 inch or so open on the left hand end, in 

 which to insert a linen hinge for each 

 leaf, to make the back of the book. 

 These sheets may be bound up to suit 

 one's taste, in regular book form, and 

 thus be a lasting and enjoyable reminder 

 of many a pleasant hour. 



Finally, after many weeks of prepa- 

 ration, many days of weary travel, and 

 the expenditure of perhaps hundreds of 

 dollars, the would-be hunter arrives at 

 the chosen goal only to find the forests 

 ablaze in every direction ; the game scat- 

 tered or'uselessly slaughtered ; all the ne- 

 farious work of some ragamuffin band of 

 Indians, criminally allowed to leave their 

 reservation by the mistaken kindness of 

 some fat witted Indian agent In a short 

 while, to save a few paltry dollars to the 

 government, these wretches have been 

 allowed to cause damage and destruc- 

 tion enough, if it could be converted 

 into money, to keep them at the Wal- 

 dorf for the remainder of their natural 

 lives. 



Nothing but evil can come from the 

 present Indian policy of this govern- 

 ment. The Indian is best taught by the 

 object lessons, learned by contact with 

 the white man, not as it is now man- 

 aged, where Lo absorbs little of the 

 good and much of the bad. Let all 

 the wild Indians be quartered in sever 

 alty, among the tribes of the Indian ter- 

 ritory, and then throw every other res- 

 ervation open to settlement. What the 

 Micmac, the Mohawk, and the Miami 

 have learned is equally possible, under 

 similar circumstances, with the Sioux, 

 the Ute, or the Apache. 



