RECREATION. 

AN OLD 
E,NGLISH CANDY 
Let me tell you if you want to get 
all the sweets of life you cannot 
afford to ignore or overlook —__ 
MACKINTOSH’S 
EXTRA CREAM 
TOFFEE 
an old English candy that 
I am introducing intathis 
country. Its exquis- 
ite flavor has made 
it popular in Great 
Britain, and the 
same quality is cre- 
ating a demand ‘*¢ 
it in this country. 
I have put it on the 
American market 
because I know 
American people 
like good things. 
Ask your dealer to 
supply you with 
MAC KIN TOSH’S 
TOFFEE. Try him 
first. You can, how- 
ever, buy a hand- 
some family tin 
weighing four Ibs. 
for $1.60 by mail. 
Large sample pack- 
age sent for 10c. in 
stamps. LAMONT, 
CORLISS & CO., Im- 
porters, 78 Hudson St., 
New York City. 
Dealers supplied everywhere ., \ 
through them, 

Cocktails 
Famous the world 
over for purity. 
They never vary. 
The secret of their 
perfect blend is that 
they are kept six 
months before being 
drawn off and bot- 
tled. Be sure you 
have them in your 
camp, on the yacht, 
and on your outing 
trips wherever you 
go. They are ready and require no 
mixing. Simply pour over cracked ice. 
_ For Sale by all Fancy Grocers and Dealers 
G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 
29 BROADWAY,N.Y. HARTFORD, CONN. 


New Hampton, Iowa. 
The Peters Cartridge Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Dear Sirs: I note the withdrawal of your 
ad and support from RECREATION with sur- 
prise and regret. 
When you inserted your advertisement 
you doubtless knew the scope and circula- 
tion of the magazine; also that Mr. Shields 
edited a department known as Guns and 
Ammunition. It is now apparent that you 
intended to continue your ad only as long 
as you were exempt from criticism, as on 
its first appearance you withdrew your 
patronage. Other makes of guns and am- 
munition have been criticised more severe- 
ly than you, though, as in the case of every- 
thing good, their friends outnumber the 
critics 100 to one. The pages of RECREATION 
were open to your defence and if you or 
your friends had offered any it would un- 
doubtedly have appeared. The more “mani- 
festly unjust” the criticism and more ignor- 
ant the critic, the more easily is he refuted 
and disproved. 
The experience of my friends and myself 
with Peters’ 22 short ammunition in Mar- 
lin and Winchester repeaters and Stevens 
rifles, also in a Stevens pistol, has been un- 
satisfactory. About 3 out of 5 cartridges 
fired split lengthwise, some blowing the 
neck of the shell completely off. The Stev- 
ens pistol referred to was finally burst by 
your ammunition, and was repaired by its 
makers without question or charge. From 
this experience I am satisfied that that par- 
ticular batch of ammunition, at least, was 
defective; such being the case, might not 
the criticism to which you objected have 
had equally good foundation? 
By reference to your files you will Gnd 
that I sent a criticism to Mr. Shields, which 
he forwarded for your inspection, and to 
give you a chance to explain. He wrote 
me that he extremely disliked to publish it 
without further enlightenment, and I did 
not press the matter. I believe many criti- 
cisms of your goods have been withheld by 
his readers, out of respect to the fact that 
you were supporting him by your ad. Hon- 
est criticism of any line can do no harm, 
and just as long as you are apparently 
afraid of it, just so long will sportsmen be 
afraid of your goods. Any line of ammu- 
nition is dependent for its success not on 
the expert with shot gun or rifle, but on 
the great body of sportsmen at large, who’ 
will stand by Mr. Shields in case the line 
is drawn. 
The only inference possible from your 
action is, that~when a firm contracts for 
advertising space, and gets value for its 
money, it expects to have the editor thrown 
in, body and soul. Fortunately, “it can’t be 
did,” in the case of RECREATION. 
I trust that future issues of RECREATION 
will contain your ad and thus prove that 
your withdrawal was an error of the head 
and not of the heart, 
John Lawrence, 
