

RECREATION. 



The Page \Yo\cn Wire Fence Company, 



Adrian, Mich., lias, for 9 years past, issued 

 a paper called The Coiled Spring Hustler. 

 The name has been changed to Page 

 Fence Age, but it is the same ''Hustler" 

 as ever, devoted to the interests of Page 

 Woven Wire Fence, and full of informa- 

 tion concerning it. It will be sent free to 

 any farmer who asks for it, and it is well 

 worth sending for. Ask also for their 

 "Blue Folder," which gives complete de- 

 scriptions of the different styles of Page 

 F'ence. When writing, please mention 

 Recreation. 



William Read & Sons, of No. 107 Wash- 

 ington street, Boston, announce a large line 

 of navy revolvers at $4.50 to $5 each. The 

 original prices on these were $15 to $18, 

 but having been in military service and of- 

 fered for sale by the quartermaster's de- 

 partment Read & Sons bought them at a 

 price which enables them to make these 

 remarkably low prices at retail. Any one 

 in need of a high grade revolver, for house 

 or camp use, should correspond with 

 Read & Sons. In doing so please men- 

 tion Recreation. 



The Davenport Fire Arms Company, of 

 Norwich. Connecticut, has lately issued a 

 new catalogue showing cuts and giving de- 

 scriptions of its popular line of cheap 

 rifles and guns. These goods have been 

 before the readers of Recreation 5 years, 

 thousands of them are now being used by 

 my subscribers, and all speak well of them. 

 If you are thinking of a new rifle or a 

 single barrel gun, it would be well for you 

 to communicate with these people, men- 

 tioning Recreation. 



The Racine Boat Manufacturing Co., 

 Racine, Wis., has achieved another im- 

 portant victory. It has captured the con- 

 tract from the members of the Lakeside 

 Yacht and Boat Club, of Syracuse, for 20 

 sari yachts. The Racine Co. competed 

 with 16 other boat builders, nearly all of 

 whom live in the East, and that they should 

 have knocked down the persimmons is 

 simply another example of the get-there 

 quality of Western men. 



Our business has all come from Recre- 

 ation, for we have never spent a dollar 

 soliciting orders through travelers. Dur- 

 ing the past 2 years we have equipped 2 

 ocean steamers, 3 battleships, over 50 

 yachts, have nearly 100 jobbers handling 

 our goods, and have sold thousands of 

 mattresses and cushions throughout the 

 country: 



Pneumatic Mattress and Cushion Co., 

 Reading, Mass. 



A Crack Shot rifle, listed at $4, for 5 

 yearly subscriptions to Recreation at $1 

 each. This is a neat, tasty, well-made rifle, 

 take-down pattern, with ejector and auto- 

 matic safety. It is chambered for a 22 

 short R. F. cartridge only, has a 20-inch 

 barrel and weighs 4 lbs. 



It is an excellent opportunity to get a 

 good, practical rifle for small game or tar- 

 get, for a half hour's work. 



Edgeworth Greene, of Upper Mont- 

 clair, New Jersey, has recently invented 

 a kennel, which is a novelty, and which 

 is destined to be of great value to dog 

 owners. Lack of space forbids a full de- 

 scription of it here, but Mr. Greene is- 

 sues a circular in which the kennel is fully 

 illustrated and described, and which you 

 can obtain by writing him and saying you 

 saw it mentioned in Recreation. 



You got me into a scrape by publishing 

 my letter in October Recreation.- I have 

 letters from all parts of the United States 

 inquiring the name of the gun. These 

 show that the Guns and Ammunition de- 

 partment is eagerly read by an appreciative 

 public. 



S. L. Warner, Lanesville, Conn. 



I am still receiving answers from a small 

 ad which you printed for me over 3 years 

 ago. Many of your subscribers must have 

 Recreation bound, advertisements and 

 all. 



H. D. Leadbetter, Albany, N. Y. 



"While it is true," replied the Pale Face, 

 "that I made a compact with you, it was 

 with a mental reservation." 



Flere the untutored Red Man manifested 

 bewilderment. 



"Is that the next reservation 1 shall be 

 compelled to live on?" he asked, anxiously, 

 his quavering voice betokening the depth 

 of his emotion. 



Ah, such is destiny, to say nothing of 

 the growing scarcity of pine timber. — De- 

 troit Journal. 



It was essay day in a Washington pri- 

 mary school and the 8-year-old son of a 

 Congressman read this: 



Me and my pa went fishin' up in the 

 mountains. We went on the Baltimore 

 no hire railrode. I caut 2 sunfish and pa 

 he didn't ketch nuthin' only the train and 

 he cum mighty near missen that. 



As they skated they looked at the stars — 

 There were easy a million or more; 



Their heels flew up — and then they saw 

 A few they had not seen before. 



— Chicago News. 



