Around Our Camp Fire 



/ leave this rule for others when Fm dead, 

 Be always sure you're right — then go ahead. 



-DAVID CROCKETT. 



The ordinary, everyday novel contains 

 from 80,000 to 100,000 words. Recreation 

 contains generally from seventy to seventy- 

 five thousand words. In the course of a year, 

 a subscriber to Recreation receives at least 

 840,000 words. In addition to that he gets a 

 large number of the most beautiful re- 

 productions of sporting scenes that have 

 ever been given away in any country. We 

 say advisedly "given away" because the price 

 that the reader pays hardly reimburses the 

 publisher for the white paper used. 



A Good Thing 



Yes, it is quite evident that 'he readers of 

 Recreation have a good thing, A very good 

 thing. And it is small matter for astonish- 

 ment that a very large percentage of the 

 sportsmen of this country begin to realize 

 what wonderful value is being given. Dur- 

 ing the autumn we offered a premium com- 

 petition on a somewhat unusual plan. The 

 results are now before us and we think they 

 will interest our friends. We offered the 

 worker who would ob- 

 tain the most subscrip- f . : , 



tions a bonus equal to ■ • • . " . 



half of the value of his IhhUJ 



subscriptions, in addi- 

 tion to his usual com- ^m*v^f*v*v*** 

 mission of forty cents "'f-Hrl 

 per subscription in pre- 

 mium coupons. To the 

 second we offered a 

 bonus equal to one- 

 quarter of the value of 

 his subscriptions, which 

 would be added, as in 

 the first instance, to his 

 original commission. 

 The third prize man 

 was to receive ten per 

 cent, of the value of his 

 subscriptions, in addi- 

 tion to his commission. 



These generous offers 

 caused our friends to 

 get to work and the 

 winners turned up 

 among our Canadian 

 friends. 



The first position was 



won by Mr. R. O. Montambault, P. O. Box 

 394, Quebec, Canada, who turned in 75 sub- 

 scriptions, thereby earning $37.50 in cold 

 cash. 



The second position was secured by Mr. 

 J. B. Matte, 36 Rue de la Fabrique, Quebec, 

 Canada, who turned in 72 subscriptions, 

 thereby becoming entitled to a' check for $18. 



The third man on the list was Mr. Wm. C. 

 Kistle, gy 2 N. Oklahoma street, Butte, Mon- 

 tana, who secured 40 subscriptions and won 

 a bonus of $4. 



Nothing Succeeds But Work 



Work is the great remedy for pain, beat- 

 ing any patent medicine hollow. Work is not 

 only its own reward but it brings other re- 

 wards in its turn. Therefore, we say to our 

 good friends, work for Recreation. Keep 

 everlastingly at it. Send us in subscriptions 

 until we can announce, as we hope to do some 

 day in the not too far distant future, that we 

 have 100,000 good and true men and women 

 upon our subscription list, and that as a liv- 

 ing force for the pro- 

 tection of American 

 game Recreation oc- 

 cupies a position which 

 ' ,j none can dispute. 



Modesty a Drawback 



If we only had the 

 assertive verbosity of 

 some of our compet- 

 itors, what position 

 might we not aspire 

 to ? Supposing, n o w , 

 that we were so filled 

 with the great, egotisti- 

 cal, Ego, that we took 

 up a lot of our valuable 

 space, and more of our 

 readers' valuable time, 

 in making them read 

 cute little extracts from 

 letters which we re- 

 ceive praising Recrea- 

 tion. Would not it be 

 amusing? 



And what a degree 

 of editorial acumen it 

 would show. 



