Around Our Camp Fire 



/ leave this rule for others when Pm dead, 

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



-DAVID CROCKETT. 



Not the Quarry, but the Chase 



The true spirit of modern sport is, to our 

 mind, embodied in the foregoing. 



In past ages, when man was a hunter, liv- 

 ing by the products of the chase, this view 

 of the subject would not be likely to strike 

 him. When a fellow is short of a dinner the 

 quarry is a highly important portion of the 

 landscape, but few of us, excepting in ex- 

 tremely, remote places, now hunt to allay the 

 pangs of hunger. We have at our command 

 the preserved pork that 

 'comes from Chicago or 

 elsewhere, the delicious 

 beans that we owe to the 

 labors of the husband- 

 man, and the tea which 

 has come to us from the 

 land of Washee Washee. 

 Hence, we are not usu- 

 ally dependent upon the 

 result of our shots, or 

 •casts for our dinner. 

 We hunt and fish that 

 we may have an excuse 

 •for exercising in the open 

 air; for training our 

 muscles and our eyesight 

 in Dame Nature's 

 school; and we would 

 ■fain match our cunning 

 against that of the wild 

 things of the woods and 

 waters. 



Out of the Groove 



It is absolutely necessary, if a man would 

 lead a sane, healthy existence, to get out of 

 the groove occasionally — the oftener the bet- 

 ter. "The daily round and common task" 

 are, no doubt, excellent things in their way, 

 but too much of a good thing is apt to be- 

 come monotonous, and also unhealthy. It is 

 as a break in the sequence of daily events 

 that the modern man finds his benefit in 

 sport. Too much sport is, perhaps, worse 

 than too little. He who lives for shooting 

 or fishing alone is throwing away his ex- 

 istence; voluntarily relinquishing the advan- 

 tages that 'have come to him as- the Son of 

 the Ages. A happy medium is the thing to 

 strive for. Some work, done faithfully, hon- 



TIECTIEATION'S . 

 PLATFORM 



An uncompromising fight for 

 the protection, preservation and 

 propagation of all game; placing 

 a sane limit on the hag that can 

 he taken in a day or season; the 

 prevention of the shipment or 

 transportation of game, except 

 in limited quantities, and then 

 only when accompanied by the 

 party who killed it; the prohi- 

 bition of the sale of game. These 

 are Recreation's" slogans now 

 and forever. 



estly and to the best of our ability; a little 

 play with rod or rifle in hand ; a communion 

 with Nature wherein our soul may become 

 somewhat attuned to the rhythm and mel- 

 ody of her voice, and we may rest assured 

 that we are getting about all there is to ex- 

 istence. 



The Metric System 



Why is it that the Anglo-Saxon race — in 

 many things the most practical in the world 

 — persists in ignoring 

 the metric system? 



All the great nations 

 of the world, with the 

 exception of the United 

 States and the British 

 Empire, have adopted 

 this common-sense sys- 

 tem. Surely, it cannot 

 be very long before we 

 fall into line, and get rid 

 of the absurdly clumsy 

 and antiquated system in 

 use at present. 



To us it should be con- 

 siderably easier to make 

 the change than to our 

 cousins across the Atlan- 

 tic. The decimal system 

 is in use in our coinage, 

 while they are handi- 

 cap p e d by farthings, 

 pence, shillings, pounds. 

 The every-day terms of the Metric System 

 are as follows : 



Metric Table 



Meaning of Prefixes. 



Milli equals 1-1,000 or o.ooi. 

 Centi equals i-ioo or o.oi. 

 Deci equals i-io or o.i. 

 Deka equals 10. 

 Hecto equalsi ioo. 

 Kilo equals 1,000. 

 Myria equals 10,000. 



Measures of Distance. 



10 millimetres equal 1 centimetre. 



100 centimetres equal 1 metre (39.37 inches). 



1,000 metres equal 1 kilometre (^ of mile). 



Measures of Area. 



100 square metres equal 1 are. 



100 ares equal 1 hectare (2.47 acres). 



100 hectares equal 1 square kilometre. 



