PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



INDEPENDENT OF THE TRUST. 



The Page Woven Wire Fence Co., 

 Adrian, Mich., has built and now has in 

 operation at Monessen, Pa., a complete 

 system of furnaces, bloom, rod and wire 

 mills. Hereafter these people will do their 

 own galvanizing, use up their short wire 

 in making nails and staples, and other- 

 wise save 'some of the manufacturers prof- 

 its. This they say does not mean that 

 they will be able to sell fence cheaper 

 than their competitors, but they believe 

 their reasons for charging a little more 

 are legitimate, and that if perfectly under- 

 fair business proposition. 



Every pour of steel from their furnaces 

 is brought to a certain standard before it 

 is turned into the ingot moulds — i. e., the 

 phosphorus and sulphur are reduced to 

 the lowest percentage and the carbon 

 raised until the right proportions are at- 

 tained to give the steel the proper tensile 

 strength, toughness, and springiness to 

 perfectly adapt it to use in Page Coiled 

 Spring Woven Wire Fences. 



The same special care is taken in the 

 manufacture of billets, rods and wire. The 

 annealing and galvanizing processes are 

 given careful attention by experienced^ 

 skilled workmen in. that particular line, 

 and the Page Company is sparing no pains 

 to produce, not the cheapest, but the very 

 best wire and galvanization possible. 



One other feature that makes Page 

 Fences cost a little more than others is 

 that every foot is part machine and part 

 hand. made, requiring skilled labor. It is 

 often claimed by other makers that they 

 can produce 2 rods of fencing to Page's 

 one. This is true, because their fence is en- 

 tirely machine made, but any intelligent 

 man is willing to pay for the extra hand 

 labor if the fence is better. 



During the last year the Page people 

 have been chasing from one mill to an- 

 other trying to get their peculiar kind of 

 wire and galvanizing, and not being able 

 to secure it at any price, has kept them 

 snowed under with orders for hundreds, 

 pnd even thousands, of miles of fence; but 

 now, for the first time in over a year, they 

 are in condition to care for orders as fast 

 as received. 



The fish was big as a sucking calf, 

 And the boat it capsized o'er; 



But he grabbed it fast with a Marble Gaff 

 And towed it to the shore. 



Drenched was the fisherman, you bet, 

 And the wind was cold and high, 



But his Marble Match Box defied the wet 

 And had kept his matches dry. 



Soaked were f twigs and rotten chunks, 



But his Marble Pocket Axe 

 From a seasoned birch cleft chips and 

 hunks 



That blazed like mineral wax. 



And he warmed himself by a cheerful fire 

 By the side of the dreary lake, 



And he murmured, "Indeed, I much ad- 

 mire 

 Those 'tricks' of the Marble make." 



Send for booklet desciptive of Marble's 

 Safety Pocket Axe, Marble's Automatic 

 Gaff Hook, Marble's Recreation Water- 

 proof Match Box and the Marble Com- 

 pass and Bracket. 



W. L. Marble, Gladstone, Mich. 



THE MARBLE TRICKS. 



An angler on a Northern lake, 



One drizzly, chilly day. 

 Caught a muskalonge that "took the cake" 



And landed it O. K. 



AMERICANS VICTORIOUS BY A MARGIN 

 OF 61 POINTS. 



The great revolver match, which has at- 

 tracted universal attention on both sides 

 of the Atlantic, was shot off June 18th 

 and 19th, the American team doing its 

 work at Armbruster Scheutzen Park, 

 Greenville, N. J., while the French shot at 

 Gastine Rennettes Gallery, Paris, the re- 

 sults being reported both ways by cable. 



Some remarkable shooting was done by 

 both teams, and a number of the scores 

 by the Americans were simply phenomenal. 

 Mr. J. A. Dietz, Jr., made the great score 

 of 263 on the French target, which excelled 

 all other contestants. Mr. B. F. Wilder 

 headed the list on the American target 

 with a score of 263. Both these gentlemen 

 used King's Smokeless powder in making 

 their remarkable runs, and are now receiv- 

 ing the congratulations of their many 

 friends. 



The best scores of the Frenchmen or. 

 the French target were 247, and 253 on 

 the American target. 



The match shows a total of 4,828 to the 

 credit of the French team, and 4,889 for 

 the American team. 



