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year’s subscription to RECREATION. Noth- 
ing you can possibly buy for $1 would 
give him so much pleasure as 12 issues of 
this magazine. Come early and avoid the 
rush. 

I wish my contributors would all say 
“ruffed grouse” or quail when speaking 
of either of these birds, instead of saying 
“partridge” or “pheasant.” If you will 
do this it will save me a great deal of re- 
vising. I cut this word “partridge” and 
write “ruffed grouse” probably 25 times 
every month. There are no partridges 
or pheasants in this country unless im- 
ported from abroad. American sportsmen 
and writers should call our American birds 
and mammals by their American names, 
and not borrow names for them from 
other countries. 

South Dakota has one of the best game 
laws yet enacted by any State, and I wish 
the legislatures of all the States could be 
induced to copy it—at least that section of 
it which provides that a man found at 
large with a gun during close season shall 
be deemed to have violated the law, and 
shall be subject to fine and confiscation of 
his weapons. Whenever we can have such 
laws in all the States, and have them rigid- 
ly enforced, then, and not until then, will 
game be effectively protected. 

‘“TIf you have no case, abuse the plaintiff’s attorney 
If you are put to it for an argument, call names, the 
.hardest names you can think of. This is the good old 
rule which has been followed for thousands of years 
and will be kept up so long as human nature shall 
remain what it is. But to call names, though cheap, 
convinces nobody.”—Fyrom the Ancient Difender of 
Game Hogs. 
That’s what’s the matter with Reynolds. 
He has no case. He’s mad because the L. 
A. S. has succeeded despite his opposition. 
Hence he tries to get even by slandering 
the president of the League. 

The Sixth Annual Sportsmen’s Show, 
under the auspices of the National Sports- 
men’s Association, will open at Madison 
Square Garden, ‘New York City, March 
I, 1900, and continue 17 days. New fea- 
tures and attractions are being arranged 
and will be submitted to the public at an 
early date. The coming sportsmen’s show 
will undoubtedly be the best that has yet 
been brought together, and will cover 
every branch of sport. 

A man in Ohio wrote me to ask for 
rates on advertising ferrets. I replied to 
him thus: 
I would not carry your ad. if you would 
pay me $25 a line for it. No one but 
a game hog, of the most despicable type, 
would use a ferret in hunting rabbits, and 
the man who breeds and sells them is a 
dam sight worse. 
RECREATION. 
PUBLISHER'S’ DEPARTMENT 
THE CENTRAL SETS THE PACE, 
The proud definition of the Empire State 
Express as “the fastest long distance train 
on earth” is brilliantly confirmed in the 
amazing run recently made by the flyer 
between Syracuse and Buffalo. 
One hundred and fifty miles in 140 min- 
utes! That is the marvelous record made 
without previous preparation or warning; 
made without unusual effort; made in the 
way of ordinary business and as a matter 
of course, simply because there was lost 
time to be regained. 
And just here lies the wonder and the 
significance of this latest achievement in 
speed. To do what the necessities of any 
given situation demand, to do it easily, 
without fuss or nonsense, and to do it as 
well as it can be done, better than rivals 
can do it—that is the Empire State Ex- 
press; that also is the New York Central. 
One hundred and fifty miles in 140 min- 
utes! The peerless Empire State Ex- 
press is worthy the peerless name she 
bears.—Syracuse Post-Standard. 

A SPORTSMAN’S TRUNK. 
There are few sportsmen who have not, 
at one time or another, longed for a suit- 
able trunk in which to pack their cloth- 
ing, guns, ammunition and fishing tackle; 
but up to a few months ago no trunk 
maker had made a trunk suitable for this 
purpose. This want has, however, now 
been met. The New Departure Trunk Co., 
Boston, Mass., has devised and pu‘ on the 
market a sportsmen’s trunk, that fills the 
bill completely. It has one tray divided 
into compartments for 2 guns, 2 or 3 fish- 
ing rods, a full supply of cartridges, clean: 
ing outht, ‘etc. | Under this “are, 2yorver 
trays for clothing, blankets, etc. The 
trunks are made in various sizes and at 
various prices. I am furnishing these 
trunks as premiums for I5, 20, and 25 sub- 
scriptions respectively. You can get these 
subscriptions in 2 hours, if you live in a 
live town. If interested, see the ad. of 
the New Departure Trunk Co. and write 
them for catalogue. 
A supply of sample copies of RECREA- 
TION will be furnished from this office, 
for use in soliciting. 

A REcREATION advertiser showed me, 
a few days ago, about 50 letters he had 
received within a day or 2 of the time I 
called on him, all asking for catalogues, 
and none mentioning the medium in which 
they had seen his ad. Another advertiser 
now writes me as follows: “If you and all 
other publishers could impress more for- 
cibly on your readers the advisability of 
mentioning the name of the paper in 



