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RECREA TION. 



The Savage Arms Company in buying the 

 new machinery and organizing the new es- 

 tablishment, has utilized the skill and ex- 

 perience of practical up-to-date gun me- 

 chanics and thoroughly competent business 

 men, with the resultant perfection of product 

 only attainable when conditions are right. 

 All criticism on the Savage rifle, brought to 

 the notice of the Company for the past 2 

 years, has been carefully tabulated and the 

 result of this foresight is the improved 1899 

 model. The general plan of the mechanism 

 has not been changed, as the principle of the 

 arm cannot be improved. The peep hole in 

 the breech bolt, at the bottom of which ap- 

 peared the letters S and C, standing for 

 " safe " and " cocked," has been changed to 

 an outside indicator that projects above the 

 top of the bolt when the enclosed hammer is 

 cocked, but which is flush with the top of 

 the breech bolt when the hammer has been 

 fired, or the enclosed hammer is down. This 

 new indicator is sufficiently large to be seen 

 in daylight and can be felt in the dark. The 

 small retractor spring has been eliminated 

 entirely from the gun, and a new retractor, 

 not requiring a spring, substituted. The 

 sear is changed somewhat in form and the 

 lever lock has a larger thumb piece for the 

 better convenience of a gloved hand. The 

 amount of steel at the breech of the barrel 

 has been added to, while the finest material 

 is put into every part of the gun, no expense 

 whatever being spared in either the price of 

 the material or the testing of the same. The 

 metal and wood finish of the new arm is of a 

 higher grade than that of the old model, 

 which was made under contract by a com- 

 peting manufacturer. The greatest atten- 

 tion is given to the inspection of the arm 

 and the proof testing, so that every rifle that 

 leaves the establishment is known to be per- 

 fect and sound. Many other improvements 

 have been added, minor in themselves but 

 important as a whole. The rifle will be 

 built both with a newly designed steel shot- 

 gun butt plate and the regular metal rifle 

 butt plate, either of which can be had at the 

 same price. 



Where is the wheel she rode last year; 



Her bloomers, where are they? 

 Why is she never seen upon 



The boulevards to-day? 

 The lover whom she rode with then 



Did not lay down his life 

 Upon the field of battle, but 



He took that maid to wife. 

 Her tires are now all flattened out, 



Her bloomers hung away — 

 Beside a baby's crib she sings 



Sweet lullabies to-day. 



— Omaha Bee. 



when first I went West, I should have been 

 saved years of rheumatic suffering. I pre- 

 dict that within 5 years every cowpuncher 

 and hunter will have one and will consider 

 it as essential as his saddle or his gun. 



Some of my friends put their air-bed to a 

 novel use the other day. They had to cross 

 a deep and wide sheet of ice-cold water. 

 They blew up their rubber mattress, used it 

 as a raft and both crossed with ease and 

 comfort. 



Ernest Seton Thompson, 

 144, 5th Avenue, New York City. 



The poets speak of fields "bedewed:" 



Such grammar we forbid 

 As being altogether rude; 



They should say " fields bedid." 



Laramie, Wyo. 

 The Peters Cartridge Co. 

 Cincinnati, O. 

 Gentlemen: The Peters Quick Shot and 

 New Victor Loaded Shells are all you claim 

 for them. We have been selling them since 

 the New Victor was first put on the Market, 

 and every Sportsman who has used them 

 joins us in saying they are as good as, if not 

 the best, nitro shells they ever used, being 

 quick, clean, and above all, uniform. Wish- 

 ing you success, we are, 



The W. H. Holliday Co. 



" Jack and Jill went down the hill " — 

 And, on the downward track, 



Full many a man his course began 

 With a gill of apple-jack. 



The Peters Cartridge Co., of Cincinnati, 

 is publishing a monthly bulletin, giving in- 

 formation as to what the expert riflemen 

 and trap shooters of the country are doing 

 with Peters cartridges and semi-smokeless 

 powder. The paper is illustrated with tar- 

 gets and with portraits of many crack shots 

 in both lines. It contains a great many 

 valuable points of interest to lovers of the 

 gun and rifle and should be in the hands of 

 all such. Write the Co. and say you saw it 

 in Recreation. 



I've heard it told, and in the Book, 



With wonderment, I've read 

 How that same " sling " which David took 

 Went to Goliath's head. 



The bugle's strains floated in through the 

 open window. " That is ' taps,' is it not, 

 Miss Marshal?" he asked of the general's 

 fair daughter, " and signifies ' lights out.' ' 

 " Yes," she answered wearily, " or light 

 out." He lit. 



The air-beds, made by the Pneumatic 

 Mattress Co., and advertised in Recrea- 

 tion, are a great success. If I had had one 



ALWAYS MENTION RECREA- 

 TION WHEN ANSWERING ADS. 



