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EDITOR'S CORNER. 



Some things show which way the wind blows. 

 For instance : Parker Bros, placed an advertise- 

 ment in Recreation, in October last, for three 

 months on trial. They are still in it, and have 

 lately signed a contract for a year. The same is 

 true of the Horton Manufacturing Company, the 

 Davenport Fire Arms Company, and Henry 

 Milward & Sons. Spratts tried it one insertion, 

 and are now in for a year. Marlin Fire Arms 

 Company, ditto. They all say the returns are 

 entirely satisfactory. 



The Remington Arms Company, having sold 

 out all its bicycles, ordered its advertisement 

 discontinued. Mr. Cannon, the advertising man- 

 ager of the gun department, heard of this, and 

 promptly requested that the space formerly 

 occupied by the bicycle advertisement be re- 

 served for him. He was not willing that the 

 house should lose so valuable a position. The 

 Remington gun advertisement is in for the re- 

 mainder of the year. 



The Monarch Cycle Company took a half page 

 for four months. At the expiration of that con-, 

 tract, it renewed for three months — increasing 

 the space to a page. 1 his second order expired 

 with the June number, and, although the Com- 

 pany's entire product is sold ahead, the manager 

 ordered the advertisement carried in the July 

 number. 



H. Boker & Co. made a three months' con- 

 tract, and, at the expiration of that time, re- 

 newed it for six months. The American Tobacco 

 Company started in for three months, and have 

 now ordered their announcement of Yale Mixt- 

 ure, to run four months more. 



The Ideal Manufacturing Company made a 

 trial order of one insertion, October, 1894, re- 

 luctantly. They have been in ever since, and 

 say they will probably stay in as long as they 

 stay anywhere. 



Write any or all these people, and ask them 

 about it. 



If you have anything to sell, advertise it in 

 Recreation. 



Recreation now has a bona fide paid circula- 

 tion of over 10,000. This is growing at the 

 rate of 1,000 to 1,500 a month. If you doubt 

 it, write or call on P. F. McBreen. 216 William 

 street, New York, who prints the magazine. 

 Write or call on The Gardiner Binding and Mail- 

 ing company, same address, who bind and mail 

 it each month. They are authorized to tell the 

 truth, and to show you their books, or the 

 magazine in process. 



The American News company is now buying 

 more than 5,000 copies a month. Write or call 

 on the manager. He is authorized to tell you 

 the truth, and to show you his books. I have 

 more than 5,000 bona fide paid subscribers. 

 Will gladly show you my books if you care to 

 see them. 



Recreation has 26 pages of paid advertis- 

 ing, for which signed contracts will be shown, at 

 any time. This is a larger circulation and a better 

 advertising patronage than any other magazine 

 ever had at three years of age. Recreation is only 

 10 months old. It was started in the midst of the 

 panic, and in five months was paying expenses. 



How do I account for this success ? I print 

 good literature and handsome pictures; I sell 

 the magazine at $1 a year — 10 cents a copy. I 

 give the people what they want, and at their 

 price. 



I hustle. 



That tells the whole story. 



If you have anything to sell, advertise it in 

 Recreation. 



Recreation is glad of the young Indian war 

 now on in Jacksons Hole, Wyoming. The 

 Indian agents have, all along, insisted that their 

 pets were not allowed to hunt off their reserva- 

 tions. Recreation has proved this claim to be 

 false. For six months past it has been agitating 

 this question. It has urged the settlers, both in 

 print and by personal letters, to stand up for 

 their rights ; to enforce the law ; to protect the 

 game ; to keep the Indians out of the game 

 country, at any cost. 



A climax has at last been reached. Agent 

 Teter has been compelled to admit that some of 

 his wards were off their reservation and were 

 killing game contrary to law ; he has had to go 

 after a band of them and take them home, be- 

 fore he did this, however, the settlers rounded 

 up a few of these same Bannock Indians and 

 killed them. At this writing both Indians and 

 settlers are congregating in belligerent mood ; 

 United States troops are en route to the scene cf 

 the trouble ; state militia is under arms and it 

 seems likely that more of the Indians will be made 

 good. I hope the Indian Bureau will learn, from 

 all this, that its agents in Wyoming and Idaho 

 have been lax in their regard for game laws and 

 they that may be replaced by men who will keep 

 their chickens at home. 



Governor Richards and the people of Wyom- 

 ing have reached a point in this controversy 

 where patience is no longer in evidence, and if 

 the United States troops don't take caie of the 

 Indians the Governor will turn his cowboys and 

 hunters loose. Then there will be music in the 

 air. The Governor telegraphed me, on July 26th. 

 " I am determined that all Indians shall obey 

 the game laws." 



Every reader of Recreation, will recall with 

 pleasure the delightful story, printed in 

 the January number, of "A Woman's First 

 Mallard." The author of that story, Mis. 

 Katherine M. Baxter, has written another, 

 equally charming, entitled ' Billy Boy and 

 Belle," which will be published in the September 

 number. It describes, in spirited terms. .1 horse- 

 back ride across country, and some novel epis 

 thereof. It will be handsomely illustrated by 

 H. S. Watson. 



Other attractive features of the September 

 issue will be " Lost in the Cheat Mountains," 

 a story of a hunting adventure, by W, I . 

 Washington; " A Bald-faced Grizzly in Camp." 

 a thrilling recountal of a most novel and daring 

 interview with Old Ephraim, by M. W. Miner; 

 "Where Leaps the Ouananiche," a charming 

 poem, by Dr. E. L. Tiffany; "A Half Hour 

 with the Quail," by Dr. E. P. Kremer ; " A 

 Close Call for General Sherman," by Lieut. J. 1 1 



