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FOREST AND STREAM. 



ORANGE SPORTING 



POWDER. 



Orange Lightning. 

 Orange Ducking. 

 Orange Rifle. 

 Creedmoor, 



ELECTRIC BLASMd APPAEATOS. 



Send postal card for Illustrated Pamphlet, showing 

 aizes of grains of powder. Furnished free. 



Lafiin&Eand Powder Co., 



29 MURRAY ST., N. Y. 



GUNPOWDER! 



Dupont's Rifle, Sporting- and 

 Blasting- Powder. 



THE MOST POPULAR POWDER IN USE ! 



D^xpo^-T's Gtxntowdee Mills, established in 

 1803, have maintained their great reputation for 

 eighty-four years. Manufacture the following 

 celebrated brands of powder: 



Dupont's Crystal Grain.— Kos. 1 (coarse) to 4 

 (fine) unequalled in strength, quickness and clean- 

 liness; adapted for glass ball and pigeon shooting. 

 Packed in 1 lb. canisters. 



r)uj)ont's Eagle Duelling.— Nos. 1 (coarse) to 

 3 (fine); bums slowly, strong and very clean; great 

 penetration, ^vith a close pattern;' adapted for 

 glass-ball, pigeon, duck and other shooting, with 

 either muzzle or breech-loaders. Packed in 1 lb. 

 and 5 lb. canisters and 6^4 and lb. kegs. 



Dupont's Choke Bore.— Specially adapted for 

 "Choke Bore" Guns, and particularly for prairie 

 and upland shooting. Burns slowly, strong and 

 moist; does not cake or burn on the barrels, gives 

 both a good penetration and a close pattern; will 

 be found well adapted for glass-ball and pigeon 

 shooting. Made of two sizeis only, Nos. 7 and No. 

 5, No 7 being the coarsest. Packed in lb. kegs 

 and 1 lb. canisters. 



Dupont's Eagle Eifle.— A quick, strong and 

 clean powder, of very fine grain, for pistol shoot- 

 ing. Packed in 1 lb. canist&re and 6M lb. kegs. 



Dxipont's Kifle Eg. "Sea Shooting."— FFg. 

 and FFFg. The Fg. for long-range rifle shooting, 

 the FFg. and FFFg. for general use, burning 

 strong and moist. Packed in }4 lb., 1 lb. and o lb. 

 canistei-s, 6J4, 13J^ and 25 lb. kegs. Fg. coaree, 

 FFFg. fine. 



Dupont's Sporting. jNIining, SHrpprs-Gand Blast- 

 ing Powders of all sizes and descriptions. Special 

 Grades for Export. Also Rifle, Cartridge. Mus- 

 ket, Cannon, ilortar. Mammoth, Hexagonal, Cub- 

 ical and Pellet Powder U. S. Govt. Standard. 



Powder manufactured to order of any required 

 grain or proof. 



Agencies in all the cities and principal towns 

 throughout the United States. 



E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO., 

 87 Beaver street. New York. 



N.B.— Use none but DUPONT'S Fg. or FFg. for 

 long-range rifle shooting. 



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BOSTON, MAi5S. 

 Western Sporting, 



Wild Fowl Shooting, 



Falcon Ducking, 



ALSO THE NEW 



SPOKTING POWDER. 



AGENCIES AT ALL PKINCIPAL POINTS 

 IN THE WEST. 

 Send for illnstrated and descriptive pamphlet. 



FERGUSON'S PATENT ADJUSTABLE 



With Silver Plated Loco- 

 motive Keflectors. 

 For Night Hunting and 

 Fishing, Camping, Boating, 

 Driving at Night, etc. 



Excelsior Dash Lamp, 



Superior to all others. 



Send stami3 for 

 Illustrated Catalogue. 



ALBERT FERGUSON, Office, 65 Fuiton St., N. Y. 



Hnnting Boots or Shoes, Wholesale 

 or Retail. JOHN D. BETHEL, Man'f'r of 

 Sportsmen's Goods. 124 t'hambers st., JS.Y. 

 Send for Prices. No Postal Cards. 



For GUNS, CUTLERY and SURGICAL IN8TRU 

 MENTS. Specially adapted for salt water shooting. 



For sale at aU principal gun storas. Western 

 trade rappUed dy E. E. EATON, 53 State street, 

 ^cago, ni. Cannot be sent by mail. 



Manufactured solely by 

 6BO. B. KATOK, 670 Pavonia A^fwnuii, 

 jFirp.ey Oity, N. J 



FZLE BDiTDERS, 

 Blze to suit PoBEST add Stbeam, 

 FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE- 

 Price, S1.50. 



WILLIAM MILLS L SON, 



Fine Fishing Tackle, 



No. 7 Warren Street, N. Y. 



SOLE AGENTS FOB 



H. L. Leonard'sSplit Bamtoo Rods. 



8 John St., aear Broadway, N. Y. 

 lAMACTDEfflS JEfM, 



Medals and Badges 



A. SPECIALTY. 



Special designs farxLished on applica- 

 tion free ot charge. 



W. BARTLEET & SONS 



(Established 1750.) 



Abbey Mills, Redditch, England. 



MANUFACTURERS OP THE 



Fish Hooks, Enamel Silk Lines, 

 Trout & Salmon Flies, etc. 



FRED. MAUESON, 



Sole Agent for U. S. and Canada. 



BROOKLYN, E. D., N. Y. 



THE NEW L. C. SMITH 



HAMMERLESS GUN. 



This new gun embodies all the essential features of our hammer gun, to 

 gether with a new oscillating cocking mechanism and automatic and inde- 

 pendent safety combined. This gun is not equalled in ease of mauiptilation, 

 symmetry, durability and shooting qualities by any hammerless gun made. 



Of the eleven gentlemen wh- ^— i-- -t— ---i-^ = -■ — t-^ f..^ « w 



Cartridge Tournament prizes, , 



tlemen: D. C. Powers, Cleveland, ^^^^^ ..^ , 



N. Y.; Fred Erb, Jr., La Fayette, Ind.; J. C. Hendershot, Cleveland, O. 



SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE AND PRICE LLST. 



li. C. .SMITH, Syracuse, N. Y. 



The Hazard Powder Co. 



_ MAKTJFACTUREKS OF 



Gunpowder 



Hazard's "Electric Powder." 



Nos. 1 (fine) to 7 (coarse). Unsurpassed in point 

 of strength and cleanliness. Packed In square cauls 

 ters of one pound only. 



Hazard's "American Sporting." 



Nos. 1 (fine) to 8 (coarse). In 1 lb. canisters and 

 6^ lb. kegs. A fine grain, quick and clean, for up- 

 land prairie shooting. WeU adapted to short guns. 

 Hazard's "Duck Shooting." 



Nos. 1 (fine) to 6 (coarse). In 1 and 5 lb. canisters 

 and and 12)^ lb. kegs. Bums sloivly. and very 

 clean, shooting remarkably close and with great 

 penetration. For field, forest or water shooting it 

 ranks any other brand and is equally serviceable for 

 muzzle or breechloaders. 



Hazard's "Kentucky Rifle." 



FFFG, FFG and "Sea Shooting" FG in kegs of 25, 

 121^ and 634 lbs. and cans of olbs. FFFG is also 

 packed in 1 and U lb. canisters. Bums strong and 

 moist. The FFFG and FFG are favorite brands for 

 ordinary sporting and the "Sea Shooting" FG is the 

 standard Rifle Powder of the Country. 



Superior Mining and Blasting Powder. 



G0VERN5IENT CANNON and MUSKET POW- 

 DER; also. SPECIAL GRADES FOR EXPORT OF 

 ANY REQUIRED GRAIN OR PROOF MANUFAC- 

 TURED TO ORDER. 



The above can be ha d of dealers, or of the Com- 

 pany's Agents, in evejy prominent city or whole- 

 sale at our oflBce. 



63 PINE STREET, NEW YORK. 



When ordering shells Insist that they be 

 loaded with Hazard Powder. 



OE, 



The Seward Purchase Vindicated. 



By CHARLES HALLOCK. 



CONTENTS:— Itinerary of the Trip. As Ex- 

 cursionists see it. Economically Con- 

 sidered. An Interior View. Home of 

 the Siwash. Good Indians. Medicine 

 and Mythology. Alaska's Mineral Wealth. 

 Commercial Msheries. Rambles Along 

 Shore. The G-lacier Fields. Russia in 

 America. Seals of the Pribylofs. 



The several chapters are devoted to ac- 

 counts of travel and adventure, descriptions 

 of the country and its inhabitants, a con- 

 sideration of its resources, and its history aad 

 present condition. 



210 pp., Illustrated. Price $1.50. 



Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 



39 Pabk Row, New York, 

 London: Davies & Co., 1 Pinch Lane. 



JOSEPH CI LLOTTSI 



STEEL PENS 



Sold By ALL DEALERSThrouohoutThe WO R LD 

 GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXP05(TI0N-ia7B. 



MARTIN'S "Busi- 

 ness" Braided Silk 

 Lines are made of the 

 very best sUk, both 

 raw and soft, and are all that can be desired. 

 Circulars and samples free. Made only by E. J. 

 MARTIN, RockviUe, Conn. 



"CHAMPION SPRING GUN AND PIS- 

 TOL." Shoots Darts, Arrows, etc., etc. Just the 

 thing for home amusement, for tne youth and 

 mature persons of both sexes, "Teach "the young 

 idea how to .shoot." Full nickel plated, wth 3 

 darts, 2 arrows and target. Price Sl.CO post paid. 

 THE ALFORD & BE1?KELE CO., 77 Chambers 

 street, P. O. Box 2,003, New York City, 



The "L.C. Smith" Top Action, Double Cross-Bolted 



It has our Patent Joint Check and our Patent 

 Automatic Joint Compensator. 



Hammers below the line of 

 sight when coched. 



Extra Heavy Broad Breech Ducking Guns a Specialty, 



Send for Illustrated Catalogue containing full description. 



L. C. SMITH, Maker, Syracuse, N Y. 



to 9^ Iba. 



