FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 22, 1906. 
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For nearly twenty years Baker Guns have 
been constructed by expert gun makers in our 
factory of moderate proportions where careful 
attention is given to all details. Our present 
line comprises 12 Grades 
and models with fine Damas- 
cus, Twist and Steel barrels 
ranging in prices 
$18.00, $25.00, 
$35 00. $42.75, 
$60.00, $75.00, i 
$125.00, $250.00 g / Tmr ^ \ 
and up, accord- 
ing to material 
and finish, all of excellent quality and workman¬ 
ship throughout. 
Baker Guns having our patented auto= 
matic safety blocks are non-discharge- 
able except by actually pulling the triggers— 
thereby being safe from any internal 
mechanical derangement. 
They are also equipped with regular 
——_g -a trigger blocking safety. 
Send for free 
copy of the 
“Baker Gun= 
ner” contain- 
T/ ^^(||jjjjjj|jgH ing full descrip- 
tions and other 
interesting mat¬ 
ter for sportsmen. 
'Raker Gun Forging Company, 
T ajxridermists. 
SAVE YOUR TROPHIES. 
'Ctfrite for our Illustrated Catalogue. 
“Heads and Horns.” 
It gives directions for preparing and preserving Skins, 
Antlers, etc. Also prices for Heads and Rugs, Birds and 
Fish, and all kinds of work in Taxidermy. 
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
J. KANNOFSKY, 
PRACTICAL GLASS BLOWER 
and Manufacturer of 
Artificial eyes for birds, animals and manufacturing pur¬ 
poses a specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of skulls for 
The fur trade. 369 Canal St., New York. 
Please mention Forest and Stream. 
ROWLAND. 
TAXIDERMIST, 
A specialty in mounting Moose, Elk, Caribou and Deer 
heads. Call and examine work. 
No. 182 SIXTH AVENUE. 
Tel. 42OB Chelsea. Near 13th St. NEW YORK 
TAXIDERMISTS 
Dealers in Supplies, Glass Eyes, and 
all materials used by the trade. 
All kinds of Game Heads purchased 
in the raw. Mounted specimens for 
sale. Send for Catalogue. 
THE M. ABBOTT FRAZAR CO. 
93 SUDBURY ST. 
Dept. 2 BOSTON. MASS. 
For Sale. 
Small-Mouth Black Bass 
We have the only establishment dealing in young small-mouth 
blaefc bass commercially in the United States. Vigorous young 
bass In various sizes ranging from advanced fry to 3 and 4-inch 
fingeriings for stocking purposes. 
War&maug Small-Mouth Black Bass Hatchery. 
Correspondence invited. Send for circulars. Address 
HENHY W. BEEMAN, New Preston, Conn. 
BROOK TROUT. 
Eggs, fry, yearlings and two-year-olds, for stocking 
brooks and lakes. Address NEW ENGLAND TROUT 
FARM, Plymouth, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT. 
It will pay you to correspond with me before buying 
eggs, fry or yearlings in any quantity. I guarantee a 
safe delivery anywhere. Crystal Spring Trout Farm. 
L. B. HANDY, So. Wareham, Mass. 
DDAnif TDAUT of all ages for stocking 
AJIxWIV 1 IVvMJ 1 brooks and lakes. Brook 
trout eggs in any quantity, warranted delivered anywhere 
in fine condition. Correspondence solicited. 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO. 
Plymouth, Mass. 
FRED SAUTER, Taxidermist. 
Established i 860 . 
Formerly No. 3 
No. William St., 
Removed to 
42 Bleecker SI 
cor. Elm St. 
will continue 
please custome 
with the best durable work. Also carry large assortment of Gan 
Heads, Rugs and attractive groups, for sale and to rent. 
When writing say you saw the ad. in Forest 
AND bTREAM 
BROOK TROUT FOR SALE 
We have constantly on hand 
fine supply of Brook Trout, 
all sizes for stockingpurposes. 
Also for table use at 75c. a 
pound. Visitors privileged to 
catch own trout. 
PARADISE BROOK 
TROUT CO., Parkside, Pa., Henryville R.R. Station. 
THE BROOKDALE TROUT CANNOT BE BEAT 
for stocking ponds and streams. For the next few 
weeks we will make a very low price on young fry and 
large fish. Also fly-fishing. 
BROOKDALE TROUT CO., Kingston, Mass. 
men and summer visitors, ventured to enumerate 
some of the distinguished men who had come 
from Maine. 
“There’s Longfellow," he said, “and Hannibal 
Hamlin, and James G. Blaine, William Pitt 
Fessenden, Thomas B. Reed, and-” 
Here an old fisherman looked up from his 
work of splicing grass blades, and broke in: 
“Smart? Those fellows smart?” he ques¬ 
tioned. “You just come down an’ see Josh 
Pillsbury skin fish!’’—Lewiston Journal. 
A POSSIBLE QUADRICENTENARIAN. 
A living creature that has trod the earth, how¬ 
ever sluggishly, since the days of the Spanish 
Armada is an object of no common degree of 
interest. Such a creature has just passed away 
peacefully in London, in the person of Drake, a 
venerable tortoise of the Zoological Gardens, 
supposed to be nearly four hundred years old. 
Mr. V. Forbin, who contributes a short obituary 
with portrait to La Nature, notes that it is 
quite proper to be somewhat indefinite on the 
subject of Drake's exact age. He says: 
“There is nothing to prove, in fact, that the 
Testuda abingdoni that gave up the ghost the 
other day had really attained so abnormal an 
age. All that we may say certainly on this deli¬ 
cate subject is as follows: 
“ ‘The tortoise was captured in the Galapagos 
Islands toward the end of the eighteenth cen¬ 
tury. At this time the scanty inhabitants of this 
wild archipelago regarded him as a bicentenarian, 
relying on a date cut into his shell with a knife, 
which, though half effaced, appeared to begin 
with a 16. From this it was-inferred that lie had 
been first captured in the seventeenth century 
by some of the hardy English or French pirates 
who were then disputing the passage of the 
Spanish galleons between Mexico and the Phil¬ 
ippines, and who made the Galapagos their ren¬ 
dezvous. One of these filibusters, in a vein of 
pleasantry, or perhaps to furnish data for the 
benefit of future naturalists, may have cut on 
the prisoner’s back the date of his capture, and 
then set him at liberty. Perhaps he even added 
his name, which has been obliterated by the 
growth of the shell. 
“ ‘From this vague date undoubtedly comes the 
name of the tortoise, “Drake,” from the famous 
chief of the buccaneers, Sir Francis Drake, the 
illustrious and sanguinary sea-rover of the New 
World. 
“ ‘The tortoise was not brought to England till 
eighty-five years ago. After several changes of 
ownership, he finally found comfortable quarters 
for his old age in an inclosure of the garden at 
Regent’s Park. 
“ ‘If we are to credit these facts, then, cab 
dilating that at the epoch of his first capture 
Drake was fifty years old—the infancy of these 
reptiles—we see that the defunct may have lived 
over three centuries. 
“ ‘His death was a surpirse to the staff of the 
Zoological Garden. They were accustomed to 
see him for long periods absolutely immovable. 
He would remain thus for whole days in torpor, 
not moving so much as his heavy eyeballs. There 
will be a serious omission in Drake’s biography; 
no one will ever know the precise date of his 
death. When it was finally realized that he had 
RAINBOW TROUT. 
We offer 100,000 rainbow fingeriings. ready for delivery 
in October and November, for stocking private ponds,, 
lakes and streams. Low price. Correspondence solicited. 
SPRING BROOK TROUT CO., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
LIVE QUAIL. 
’ositively Western birds. Shipments commence October 
Early deliveries advised. Also pheasants, rabbits, etc. 
Established 1838. . , 
E B WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St., New York. 
For Sale at about one-half first cost—A brand-new 
Purdev Hammerless Ejector Shotgun of extra finish and 
workmanship. Whitworth full choke 12-ga. barrels. 
Carved in relief with game subjects. Weight 6 V 2 lbs. 
Never shot except by makers in testing. Address, 
F. c. FOWLER, New "London, Conn. _13 
V \NTED.—LIVE GREAT-HORNED OWLS. $5 a 
iece. Write HENRY A. FLETCHER, West Chelrns- 
jrd, Mass. 
