AROUND OUR CAMP-FIRE 
I leave thiz rule for others when I’m dead, 
Be always sure you’re right—then go ahead. 
—DAVID CROCKETT. 

OUR PRACTICAL ARTICLES 
{]When we who do not live perpetually in the wilder- 
ness meet there a man who knows just how to do 
the right thing in the right way at the right time we 
watch respectfully his every move and are all atten- 
tion when he has anything to say on the art of camp- 
ing or woodcraft. We recognize his good, hard sense, 
and marvel at the simplicity of his methods. We 
make a mental note of his constant vigilance against 
any waste of energy, and if we but follow his trail a 
little while we find ourselves trying to imitate his 
example. It requires a very 
short space of time for us to 
realize, by comparison, that the 
right place to mix the dough is in 
the flour-bag, the proper place 
for the axe when not in use is in 
the chopping-block. And when 
we find one of these veterans of 
the trail and cruise who supple- 
ments his woodcraft with the 
ability to put his knowledge on 
paper concisely and lucidly, we 
recognize him as being a public 
benefactor. 
qThis brings us to the series of 
practical articles by Charles A. 
Bramble, on “The Art of Camp- 
ing,” commenced in the July 
number and now running in 
RECREATION. Mr. Bramble has 
kept in mind that his readers 
wish to know how to do things 
therightway, andany furthersug- 
gestions—of other ways of trying 
to do the same thing—tend only 
to confuse and provoke them. 
qMr. Bramble has had more 
actual experience, more widely diversified experience, 
as a camper than any writer who has in recent years 
had published a treatise on the art of camping. He 
does not rely upon hearsay for his knowledge; he 
tells what he knows from experience and from obser- 
vation. 
qAnd our readers will find it is our unswerving 
editorial policy to confine the informational, the 
usefully suggestive articles to telling the right way 
to do the right thing at the right time, and without 
any waste of words. The article by Mr. Wisby 
on swimming and that by Miss Moore on archery, 
and forever. 
Recreation’s 
Platform 
An uncompromising fight 
for the protection, preserva- 
tion and propagation of allt 
game; placing a sane limit 
on the bag that can be taken 
in a day or season; the pre- 
vention of the shipment or 
transportation of game, ex- 
cept in limited quantities, 
and then only when accom- 
panied by the party who 
killed it; the prohibition of 
the sale of game. These are 
“‘Recreation’s”’ slogans now 

in the pzesent number, are further examples, 
| You can depend on it that “if it’s in RECREATION, 
it’s practical.” 
OUR SEPTEMBER FEATURES 
§]About the first of September the thoughts of every 
one who shoots a shotgun turn to upland bird-shoot- 
ing. In no magazine in America for September will 
sportsmen find as much or as good reading on upland 
bird-shooting as the same month’s issue of RECREA- 
TION will contain. No writer in America is so 
popular with the quail-hunters as Edwyn Sandys, 
and his admirers will find he has 
done himself proud in his story 
Not less a favorite is Ernest 
McGaffey with hunters of the 
prairie hen. 
more about chickens and can 
them than any man on earth,” 
said Carter Harrison, the severa 
Chicago. Stories of bird-shoot- 
ing by Edward Cave are always 
popular, and sportsmen who hay 
followed his writings will expe 
something good from him con 
cerning the ‘‘cock o’ the woods.” 
{It is a far cry, as the saying 
goes, from grouse-shooting in 
New England to fishing for white 
bass in the harbor of Avalon, at 
Santa Catalina Island, off 
Pacific coast of California, but 
our angler readers will know 
what to expect from F. 
Harding, who is one of the very 
few popular contributors to the 
literature of oceanic angling. Mr. Harding is a 
member of the famous Santa Catalina Tuna Club, 
has fished all round the world, and is as clever with 
his pen as with his rod. 
NOT ALL 
{There will be plenty of other articles and stories in 
the September number of RECREATION—on sq 
shooting, deer-hunting, mountain climbing, seeing 
the county fair and other timely subjects, and z 
especially good illustrated article on Gypsies. 
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“McGaffey knows 
write better stuff about hunting 
times sportsman mayor of 
for the September RECREATION. — 
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