FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 7, 1895. 



WESTERN TRAPS. 



CHAN. POWERS'S TOWN. 



Chicago, 111., Aug. 24 —Returning talent from the Independent Gun 

 Club tournament, at Decatur, 111. (Chan. Powers's town.), report a 

 very lively and interesting shoot. The experts like Rolla Heikes, Tom 

 Marshall and Eddie Bingham made something of a killing, and were 

 perhaps not loved heartily on that account by the less experienced, 

 though they were entertained cordially by all the local men and went 

 away pleased with their reception. Chan. Powers did his best, and 

 that is a great deal, to make the shoot the successful affair it was. 

 Targets were thrown very hard and far, and the shooting was that for 

 the high-class ones. The programme was interesting and varied. 

 Following are the scores: 



First Day. 



Events: 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 8 0101112 13 14 



Targets: 10 15 SO It 15 15 It 25 It SO 10 10 10 10 



W Smith 8 1118 10 9 11 9 16 11 14 6 5 7 6 



Surface 5 9 15 9 12 11 6 19 11 17 9 8 6 9 



Tramp 3 10 16 7 ..10 7 7 8.. 



Heikes; 10 13 17 9 13 14 12 28 10 18 9 6 8 7 



Bingham 9 12 17 9 11 13 9 21 9 18 9 9 6 7 



Powers 9 14 14 12 11 18 11 23 12 18 8 6 4 7 



Bowman 6 11 12 8 10 7 7 14 7 14 8 7 S 3 



Post 



Montgomery , 



Peak 



Conklln.... 

 Nef man. . 



Hildebrandt,, 



6 11 15 7 .. 

 4 .. 7 





7 20 



7 15 



9 8 .. .. 

 5 



7 8 . . 8 10 









8 8 5 7 



3 



7 



7 





5 



2 



7 





4 





6 











8 12 12 6 .. 





6 





4 



8 











7 12 11 7 . . 



2 



10 



.. 16 



8 18 



6 6 .. .. 





8 18 



8 .. 





9 17 w 



13 



w 20 



.. 12 





7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 



S 15 10 15 20 15 10 10 10 10 

 7 8 6 9 15 12 7 6 8 10 

 7 9 5 8 10 10 

 6 7 9 ,. 

 5 13 8 11 16 11 



"9 11 



5 2 . 

 8 '5 '9 



. ..10 



7 11 19 8 9 5 .. 15 



8 11 11 8 18 7 



9 14 19 8 14 7 13 19 13 10 10 

 8 10 



7 ...... 4 



'13 7 14 13 13 8 9 



Bage 5 . . . ; ; ; . ; ;; ; ; 



Kinney , , 4 



Austin 6 .. 10 



Marshall 10 13 H 10 23 11 18 . . 8 9 8 



W 8 Smith 8 10 



Beedle 12 5 11 6 



W Surface 9 7 



Balmer 4 6 2 ... 



Keller 4 



J Wood 5 8 .. .. 



Second Day. 



Events: 13 3 4 5 6 



Targets: 10 10 15 $0 



C E Surface 8 7 12 12 



Bowman 6 7 9 15 



Balmer 3 .. .. 9 



VV Smith 9 9 12 15 



Metz 6 5.. 8 



Hawkyard 4 4 



Montgomery 7 8 13 12 6 6 . 



Conklin 6 7 7 



J E Smith 



Strawn 



CroBby 



Powers 10 



Post 



Taggart 3 . 



Heikes 9 11 16 



Hildebrandt 10 .. 



H Wood 5.... 8.... 3.. 



E Brelsford 8 91 



BrelBford 11 6 7 „ „ 3 4 



Peake 5 9 



W Surface 3 8 14 



J Michel 4 .. .. 10 



Lyons fl 



Eyinan 4 11 .. 1 2 .. 5 



J Wood 18 7 6 3 7 



Keller 5 8 7.. 



Rupert 6 ,. .. 



Brueok 3 1 .. 



Mueller 4 4 .. 



Lewis., 2 IT. 



EUREKA BEATS GARFIELD AGAIN. 



On Saturday afternoon, Aug. 24, at the Garfield grounds, the return 

 race in the Eureka-Garfield Club competition was shot, Eureka having 

 won the two preceding contests of 18-men and 5-men teams respec- 

 tively. To-day Eureka won again, leaving the impression that she 

 carries a trifle too heavy a battery for Garfield in the target game 

 To-day's race was at 25 targets, known traps, unknown angles, 18-men 

 teams, Eureka going out ahead by 15 birds. The competition between 

 these two clubB has been extremely pleasant and enjoyable, and the 

 two clubs are so evenly balanced in shooting ability that these little 

 events create a great deal of interest. After the race to day the teams 

 and other club men engaged in sweep shooting until evening. The un- 

 usual sight of a lady shooting in the squad line was afforded, Mrs. Dr. 

 Carson handling the gun with a grace and accuracy which leaves one 

 to believe that here may be a new line of outdoor sport for ladies. 

 Old Hoss Stannard continued to-day his red-hot gait at targets, going 

 the 25 straight in the club race. To balance him, Mr. T. P. HickB for 

 the Garnelds put up a score of 24 out of the 25. There were no others. 

 Following are the scores made in the team race: 



5 10 



4 6 



Eureka. 



Stannard „25 



Bingham 22 



Von Lengerke 22 



Steck 21 



Goodrich 21 



Buck 21 



Or Carson 20 



Glover 20 



H J Carson 20 



Morgan 20 



Cleaver 18 



Alrey. 17 



J L Jones. 17 



Smethells........ 16 



Ferguson 16—296 Brown . 



Garfield. 



Hicks 24 



Patterson 21 



Dr, Hodson 21 



Mott 21 



Skinner 21 



Bowers , , 21 



Smith ,19 



Coppernoll ; ..19 



DrShaw 18 



Fehrman 18 



Richards 18 



Palmer .18 



Tefft .,..15 



Kubs 15 



..12-281 



Mr. Royal Robinson, the secretary of the Limited Gun Club, of In- 

 dianapolis, Ind., in sending on the programme of the club tournament, 

 Sept. 10, 11 and 12, writes pleasantly as follows: 



"We modestly claim the finest grounds, etc., on earth, and have 

 some ideas as to management which we think will insure the success 

 of the meeting and the comfort of visitors. You know a good thing 

 when you see it and we would like to have Forest and Stream with 

 us. We recognize that Forest and Stream haB been a great factor in 

 the elevation of the standard of trap-shooting, and hope to have com- 

 mendation of our efforts in that direction." 



There is no limit in the commendation deserved by the Limited Gun 

 Club in Its efforts to make and keep the sport of trap-shooting a pure 

 and pleasant one. The programme issued is a very tasteful one and 

 bespeaks a good time on good ground, in a good city and with good 

 company, Indiana is more advanced than Chicago. They do not 

 shoot 10-gauges at the same score with 12-gaugef». Indeed, they do not 

 shoot them at all. The announcement is made on the front cover 

 page that "Manufacturers' agents, professionals, 10-gauge guns and 

 black powder will be barred." Indianapolis is progressive. She mav 

 not can as much horse meat as Chicago, but she reads more and 

 thinks more on trap matters and is nearer to a nineteenth century 

 standard. One observes further that the Pumphrey equitable system Is 

 thought;"deserving of a trial, 1 ' and will be used in three shoots each 

 day. Shooters will be classified as they enter and will be shifted only 

 when it is clear they are out of their class. It is evident that the man- 

 agement has spent much thought over the questions Involved in the 

 effort to give a shoot for shooters who wish sport and who wish it 

 fair and square. I can not conceive any higher aim or destiny for 

 trap-shooting than that. 



It is interesting to note that the Limited Gun Club has this season 

 had faith enough in Itself and its purposes to spend over f 5,000 in the 

 purchase, improvement and equipment of its handsome shooting 

 grounds. The Limited Gun Club is not limited. It lives in no pent-up 

 Utica It has before it an unlimited future and I hope it will have no 

 end of a good successful time at its tournament. Tournaments like 

 these, be they big or little, are worth more than all the big wide open 

 shoots, where the old rounder system and the ways of the past pre- 

 vail. They indicate a sort of trap-shooting that has come to stay, and 

 that is what we all want. 



THE LOSS OF NOEL MONEY. 



I Infer from the following letter from Tom Divine, in Memphis, that 

 Mr. Noel Money Is lost somewhere down in Tennessee, near Memphis. 

 It to, I can commend hia judgment, for there is so better place on 



earth to be lost in, and if the dove-shooting is as good down there now 

 as it was a year ago I should not blame Mr. Money for striking work 

 and staying down there for the rest of his natural life. Mr. Divine 

 writes thus of the circumstance: 



"At New Orleans meeting was one Noel Money, known aa the E. C. 

 Powder King No. 2, who forced himself upon our delegation, and of 

 course you know us well enough to understand that we had to take 

 care of him. He was not satisfied with eating and drinking up every- 

 thing that we were able to pay for in New Orleans, but became so 

 thoroughly infatuated with the company of the Memphis boys that he 

 concluded he would make a little run up to Memphis. Nobody invited 

 him, I don't think anybody wanted him, but we would have been 

 perfectly willing to have brought him this far and let him go on. But 

 when he got here he expressed himself as being still better pleased 

 with the company, and said he was going out to Willie Bennett's house 

 and live for a week or ten days, and 'wouldn't I come along and stay 

 with him.' I told him I was much obliged to him; but I didn't like to 

 impose on Mr. Bennett, that he was a poor man and had a large family 

 —thinking perhaps this would get him to move on. He laughed at it 

 as a good joke Bennett saw that there was no way of getting clear 

 of entertaining him, so he asked me to please keep him up town long 

 enough for him to go home and lock up. his spoons. This precaution 

 was taken on account of the fact that Messrs. Money, Guessaz and 

 George carried off some of the Tennessee Club's spoons on the night 

 of the little banquet during our recent shoot in June. 



"Mr. Money looked rather down-hearted at the first meal over at 

 Bennett's house, from the fact that there was no silver in sight. 

 Rations were short and we hired the cook to be discourteous, but he is 

 still here and I believe he is going to stay all summer. 



"Last Wednesday Messrs. Money, Allen, Bennett and Divine went 

 out in the country thirteen or fourteen miles and had an elegant dove 

 shoot. I don't think I ever saw anyone enjoy himself more than 

 Money. He chased the birds from field to field and shot like wildfire. 

 We are preparing to go out again to-day at 12. 



"Below I give you the score of a match shoot yesterday evening, $25 

 a side, 100 birds to a man, between Noel Money and Abe Frank on one 

 side, and Irby Bennett and Tom Divine on the other. Money made the 

 best score, making 70 out of the last 75 shot at. Divine came next, 

 Frank next, and Bennett next, as you will see. Money made 91 out of 

 100, Divine 88, Frank 86^ and Bennett 85. 



"Everything points to the pleasant meeting of our sportsmen 

 friends at Bobo's between the 5th and 10th of November next. We 

 have the grounds selected for our camp, and our party, consisting of 

 seven, will be composed of as fine thoroughbred sportsmen as ever 

 went to the camp. I look forward to this meeting with a great deal of 

 pleasure. Should you see our friend Dick Merrill, tell him to keep in 

 good form and be ready for the fray. Tell Organ that he is not ex- 

 pected, though I suppose he will come. Messrs. Bennett and Divine 

 will represent Memphis at Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Money says that he 

 will be present if he can leave the doves long enough. Everything 

 points to an enjoyable reunion of shooting cranks. 



"We think down here that Forest and Stream is the greatest sport- 

 ing paper in America," 



COOK COUNTY TOURNAMENT. 



Chicago, 111 , Aug 81.— After a week of rain and mud, the elements 

 concluded to let up and give Charlie Grubbs a chance for his tourna- 

 ment, yesterday and to-day, this including the first monthly club 

 team shoot of t he Cook County Trap-Shooters' League. The weather 

 proved all right, but the attendance was quite small, perhaps due to 

 the distance of the grounds from the business part of the city. 



The tournament was held on the Cicero Gun Club grounds, some 

 ten or twelve miles west, by cable or trolley, on Madison street. 

 These grounds are quite good of themselves, pleasantly located in a 

 bend of the timber which lines the Des Plaines River. The club house 

 lies near and below the grade of the railway tracks, and there is a 

 fair sweep of level ground in front of the score. The background of 

 green timber proved a hard one and straight scores were few. 

 Shooting was steady and everything was very smooth and pleasant, 

 thanks to the care taken by Mr. Grubbs. A number of ladies were 

 present and all that lacked was shooters. As this shoot was a benefit 

 for Charlie Grubbs, for the purpose of sending his sick son to a better 

 climate, one hopes that he netted a good sum clear after all. 



FRIDAY. 



In the first event Fox, Ruble, Grubbs and Jefferson were among the 

 upper moneys In No. 2, 15 birds, Ruble led with 14, Steck and Bowers 

 18. In No. 3, 20 birds, Ruble was straight, Steck 19. A. W. Adams 19. 

 In No. 4, 25 birds, Steck was 24, Eich 23, Ruble 22. In No. 5, 10 birds, 

 Hicks and Eich tied on 10, Ruble, Llddy and Bingham 9. In No. 6, 15 

 birds, Bingham was 14, Hicks and Bowers 11. In No. 7, 20 birds, 

 Ruble was 17, Bingham and Liddy 15, Hicks and Lowry 13. In a shoot 

 at five pairs, Ruble was first alone, 10 straight. In the sweeps follow- 

 ing, Ruble, Steck, Biugham, Eich and Hicks kept near the first two 

 moneys. The entries ran about ten or twelve to the sweep and a 

 great many sweeps were therefore shot off. At match No. 14, 15 birds, 

 there were only five entries: Bingham 15, Steck and Eich 14. Hicks 13, 

 Tucker 12, Palmer 11. In No. 15, 10 birds, Ruble was 9, Bingham ana 

 Hicks 8. 



SATURDAY. 



Ob Saturday the weather continued fine and the attendance picked 

 up a little, but the entries ran only into the third or fourth squads. 

 Ruble, Bingham and Stannard forged ahead and Adams picked up a 

 bit in his gait. The sweeps were sm«ll. In No. 6, 20 birds, there were 

 eleven entries; Stannard, Adams and Ruble tied on;i9, Bingham was 18, 

 Bowers and Frothingham 17. Match No. 7 fell in the afternoon, and 

 had eighteen entries, more shooters being able to come out on Satur- 

 day afternoon. This event was at 25 birds, and Hicks got 88. out of 

 it with 23 for high score. Stannard and Goodrich tied on 22; Ruble, 

 Steck, Bingham, Frothingham, Adams and Von Lengerke all tied on 21 

 Nobody got rich after the close of the Cook County Trap Shooters' 

 League monthly club contest. Small sweeps of nature similar to 

 above continued till evening. 



THE COOK COUNTY LEAGUE OONTE8T, 



Three teams only qualified for the first monthly club team contest 

 of the Cook County Trap-Shooters' League— Eureka, Garfield and 

 Cicero teams. Eureka once again demonstrated her ability to out- 

 shoot her rivals, and one- bystander from Halstead street remarked 

 enigmatically that "She trun de 1)0018 inter dem odders." Following 

 are the scores: 



Cook County League club contest, six-men teams, 25 targets, for the 

 Mussey club championship medal: 



Eureka Gun Club. 



Bingham. 1011111010111111111111111—22 



Goodrich HllllllOlOliniOlOlllOll— 20 



Frothingham 1111111111111110101111111—23 



Adams llllllll 11111001111111011—22 



Stannard .....1111101101111111111010111-21 



Steck 1111111101110110111111011-21—129 



Garfield Gun Club. 



Richards 0111111101100110111111111-20 



Shaw 1100111110011101101011111—18 



Von LeDgerke .1011111111111111111110111—22 



Hicks 01110110101 10100111111011—17 



Bowers OllOOlOlOllOlOOlOOlllllOO— 18 



Kuss 0100011011111101110110111—17—107 



Cicero Gun Club. 



Knott 1101111101101111001111111—20 



Matthews i 0000011101100010001011000— 9 



Fox 0100100001101011100010111—12 



Lowrey. 0000011110000111100100111— 12 



Kettlestrings 1111111111011101101111100—20 



Goethe 1110011101000110110001010—18- 86 



PRAIRIE GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT. 



Prairie Gun Club holds its second annual two days' tournament 

 and clambake, Sept. 7 and 8 Two live-bird events are to be shot each 

 day, and a eood target programme is offered. The shoot will be held 

 at Lyons (Riverside), which is readily accessible via C. B. & Q. Rail- 

 road. 



WATSON'S NEW PARK. 



The encroaching city once more forces John Watson to move his 

 shooting park. This old reliable meeting place of the Chicago shoot- 

 ers and the shooters of many other States will still be at Burnside 

 Station, but will now be found on the electric line, right near the old 

 grounds The same conditions will obtain, and the birds will be as 

 tough as ever and the service as good. 



MICHIGAN LEAGUE WINNERS. 



The winners of the individual championship m »dals in the Michigan 

 State League tournament this week were expert John Parker, of 

 Detroit; spmi-expert G. Fleischer, of Detroit, and amateur George J. 

 Cutler, of Ionia. 



MILWAUKEE MAN WINS. 



George Dieter, of the South Side Gun Club, of Milwaukee, and J. J. 

 Smith, of the Evanston Gun Club, of Evanston, III., shot at 100 birds 

 Aug. 29 for $100 a side. Dieter won by a score of 88 to 86 out of a 

 possible 100. 



ILLINOIS CLUB TEAMS. 



In the club team contest of different towns shot at the midsummer 

 tournament of the Kewanee Gun Club Neponset won first, Canton 

 second and Kewanee third. Scores at 15 targets: 



Neponset— Norton 10, Lyle 15, Studley 15, Robinson 14, Snow 18, E. 

 Miller 11; total, 78. 



Canton-Howat 14, Miller 18, O'Neill 11, Reader 11, Thompson 16, 

 McQuaid 18; total 77. 



Kewanee— Huckins 14, Day 14, Baker 13, Kellogg 11, Faull 10, Sharp 

 11; total, 71. 



WISCONSIN CLUB TEAMS 



The progress of the Wisconsin club team contests which have been 

 progressing among clubs located mainly in the southern portion of 

 the State is thus reported by dispatches from Milwaukee. Aug. 27: 



"The Hartland Gun Club this afternoon forfei f ed the match for the 

 Burnham medals to the South Side Gun Club. The medals were there- 

 fore awarded to the Oconomowoc Gun Club. The contest this after- 

 noon between the Hartland Gun Club and the South Side Gun Club 

 terminated the series of shoots arranged by the home club for the 

 Burnham medals. The matches were begun May 14 by the Jolly Gun 

 Club, the score being: Jolly Club 111, South Side Club 106. The next 

 shoot was May 21 with the Waukesha Club No. 1, with the following 

 score: Waukesha 107, South Side 109. The Waukesha Club No.. 2, 

 June 11, ran up a score of 112 to the South Side's 107. June 25 the 

 score with the Hustisford Club was: Hustisford 108, South Side 105. 

 July 9 the biggest scores of the seaBon were made both by the home 

 and the visiting club, the figures being: Oconomo woc 116, South Side 

 118. The contest July 23 resulted as follows: Sheboygan 103, South 

 Side 112. Aug. 6 the Racine Club scored 110 and the South Side 111. 

 The Columbus team defeated the home team Aug. 15, 112 to 107. There 

 are five separate medals awarded to each member of the team making 

 the highest score. This is only for the visiting teams, however, as the 

 Milwaukee club is not competing for the medals, which are presented 

 by Mr. John F. Burnham, one of their members." 



DIANA LIVE-BIRD DAY. 



Down at Diana Club grounds, on the Kankakee River, In Indiana, 

 some very spirited little live-bird affairs sometimes take place. At 

 the Diana Club medal contest this week, and in the sweeps shot fol- 

 lowing, about 200 birds were trapped. Six members shot. The club 

 medal was won by Henry Ehlers, the strong man with the gun. This 

 makes the second time Mr. Ehlers nas won the medal, which must be 

 won four times to be owned individually. Following are the scores, 

 at 15 live birds: 



Ehlers 111«11111111111— 14 S Klein 111111110011100—11 



PWillems 110110011111111—12 L Kuraka 110110110010011— 9 



CBurmeister... 111011111101001— 11 W H Weber 101100101111000— 8 



JACK PARKER'S SHOOT. 



Remember Jack Parker's tournament, Detroit, Sept. 10, 11, 12 and 

 13. It will be a corker. The picture on Jack's programmes is not 

 his own. It was taken from an actor. E. Hguuh. 



909 Security Building, Chicago. 



Michigan City Visits Grand Junction. 



Grand Junction, Tenn , Aug. 24,— A very pleasant afternoon was 

 spent at the traps here to day. Charles W. Tway, of Michigan nay, 

 Miss., and M. L. Brewer, of Lamar. Miss., came over and set the boys 

 a merry pace, in fact, too fast for our boys to carry. The home team 

 consisted of F. Prewitt, J. Prewitt, B. Prewitt, G. Mitchell. W. 

 Mitchell, Graham and Lee. Tway set the pace, breaking 90 out r f the 

 100 shot at, and the shooting was hard; too, snooting down hill and 

 the trappers throwing the birds up and down the line. Below see 

 scores: 



No. 1, 10 singles: F. Prewitt 8, G. Mitchell 5, J. Prewitt 5, Tway 9, 

 Brewer 8. 



No. 2, same: T. Prewitt 6, G. Mitchell 5, J. Prewitt 6, Tway 8, 

 Brewer 6 



No. 3, same: W. Mitchell 5, Brewer 6, Tway 9, F. Prewitt 9, G. 

 Mitchell 6, J Prewitt 5. 



No. 4: This event created great interest. The Michigan City Club 

 vs. Grand Junction Club, two men to team, 25 targets per man: 

 Michigan City. 



Brewer 0111111111111110111111010—21 



Tway 1111111111111111111111110-24-45 1 



Grand Junction. 



F Prewitt \ . .1101100101110110101110111— 17 



G Mitchell 1111010011010011110011010—15-32 



No. 5. 10 singles: B. Prewitt 5, W. Mitchell 8, Tway 8, J. Prewitt 4. 



No. 6. two-men teams. 10 aingles per man: Tway 8, Brewer 8—16; T. 

 Prewitt 5, G. Mitchell 8-13; B. Prewitt 2, J. Prewitt 5—7; Lee 3, 

 Graham 4-7; W. Mitchell 6, Prewitt 6-12. 



No. 6, 25 singles: 



Graham 0100101 01 00001 0001 0000000 - 6 1 



B Prewitt 1101110101100100010011100—13 : 



Brewer 1111100010101100010111000—13 ! 



Tway 1111111111101111111111111-24 



Itinerant. 



PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 



Sleeping Bag. 



Mes<rs. Hulbert Bros. & Co. have perfected a Sleeping Bag that is 1 

 designed to fill a long-felt want among all kinds of sportsmen and peo- 

 ple whose occupation necessitates their sleeping out of doors, 



The hag as shown by the illustration is fastened by patent snap fas- i 

 teners, such as are used on gloves, but much larger in size. The top | 

 of the bag is made so that it comes well up around the neck and fas- 

 tens down the front for a cape, making an absnluto protection for the 1 

 entire body. The back being 64in. wide and 6ft. long, gives perfect 

 freedom to the movements of the legs and arms, instead of being 1 

 bouod up immovably, as is the case when bound up in an ordinary 1 

 blanket, and it is but the work of a moment to get out, which can be 1 

 done much more quickly than with the square -shaped covers. 



With this Sleeping Bag, closed as it is at the bottom and sides, it in 

 not necessary that another person wrap you up, and it is impossible | 

 to kick your feet out and catch cold. 



Its shape also makes it very valuable as a knapsack for carrying 

 clothes. 



It is an all-wool heavy blanket, closely felted, with a soft nap inside, 

 and will be comfortable even in zero weather; they come in three 

 weights, the extra heavy being particularly suitable for the Northwf st, 

 flDd in three colors, namely, Red, Gray and Dark-Gray. As they retail 

 from $6 to $10 each, it will be readily appreciated that they are within 

 the reach of all. 



Duck Decoys. 



Mr. G. W. Stevens, Jr., of Weedsport, N. Y., who has succeeded to 

 the business of H. A. Stevens, the well- knowD manufacturer of woodeu 

 decoys, has isued a circular in which he says: 



"How often it is you meet a friend just in from a ducking trip with- 

 out getting any ducks, saying: 'There are lots of ducks, but they 

 would not decoy.' Look over his outfit, and nine times out of ten you 

 will find he has a very fine gun of the latest pattern, made by one of 

 the best makers, and clothing to match. Look at his decoys; they are 

 a cheap, ill-shaped decoy, not much better than a block of wood, 

 painted with a cheap paint that is coming off every time they are used, 

 and perhaps painted by a man that never saw a duck sitting on the 

 water in its natural state, and if he did could not get the colors and 

 put them where they belong. Painting a decoy in natural colors is a 

 trade in itself that requires years of practice You can kill ducks 

 with a cheap gun and good stools, but you can't decoy the old birds 

 with your fln«"gun and poor decoys; they will detect them at onee." 



A New Epoch. 



To keep abreast of the times every sportsman should study the re- 

 cent catalogues of the rifle and cartridge companies. New rifles and 

 new ammunition for these and the older guns as well are appearing 

 with great frequency, and a new epoch has begun. For example the 

 Union Metallic Cartridge Company in their last catalogue call atten- 

 tion to the following "new goods recently put upon the market:" 

 Primers for smokeless powders; .22 short cartridges with mushroom 

 bullei .821ong rifle cartridges,rim and center fire with inside lubricant; 

 A2, ,38 and. 44 Smith & Wesson cartridges with self-iubricating bullets: 

 83-25 Sevens and .25.36 Marlin cartridges; .286 Navy, .30 Gov't and other 

 cartridges with metal-cased and mushroom bullets, and a list of 

 smokeless powder cartridges from the .22 short to the ,45-90. 



Marlin Repeating Rifle. 



The Marlin Fire Arms Company of New Haven, Conn., is out with a 

 new catalogue that includes their most recent improvements in re- 

 peating rifles and which contains information of interest to every rifle 

 shooter, 



The new .25-20, .25-86 and 30-30 smokeless rifleB are fully described 

 and improvements in standard ammunition for Marlin RepeaterB are 

 noted. 



' "Hunting and Fishing along the Northwestern Line" 



is the title of a booklet recently issued by the Ch'cago & Northwestern 

 Railway. It is profusely illustrated, and gives information in detail 

 concerning the best hunting and fishing grounds in the West and 

 Northwest. Copies will be mailed free to any address upon applica- 

 tion to W. B. Knlakem, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago 

 & Northwestern Railway, Chicago, Dl— div, 



