Nov. 30, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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PARKER GUNS 
Wear Well, Shoot Well and Handle Well 
Wear well because they are made of the best material by the most skillful craftsmen. 
Shoot well because they hold the charge compactly together at extreme ranges. 
Handle well because the greatest attention has always been paid to the distribution 
of wood and metal, to insure perfect balance and the most symmetrical outline. 
Twenty-bore Parkers have set the pace for small bores in America, and are growing 
in popularity every year with the most progressive sportsmen. 
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1 Patented, Feb. 20. 1912.) 
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AN UNEXPECTED THUNDERSTORM 
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to life. You can almost hear the flapping canvas of the tent. 
In common with the other pictures of the Camping Series, 
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13. ‘‘Tool Steel for the U. S. Navy,” by 
Lewis Hobart Kenney, member. 
14. “The Sperry Gyro-Compass in Service,” 
by Lieutenant R. E. Gillmor, U. S. N. 
The attendance both days was fair and most 
enthusiastic. Officers elected were: Col. Robert 
M. Thompson, of New York, President; D. H. 
Cox, Secretary and Treasurer, re-elected; Capt. 
A. P Niblick, Vice-President, to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Rear Admiral Evans; 
C. W. Dickie, Vice-President, to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Rear Admiral Melville; 
Commander L. H. Chandler and Capt. C. A. 
McAllister, members of the Council; Naval Con¬ 
structor F. R. Fernald, Honorary Vice-President, 
and Lewis Nixon, Vice-President. 
The society voted to take part in the Panama 
Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915 and 
to raise $2,000 for that purpose. 
VOLCANO SCARED WHALES. 
The whaling bark Gayhead, Captain Wing, 
which left San Francisco seven months ago on 
a blubber expedition in the frozen north, re¬ 
turned with 350 barrels of sperm oil. the pro¬ 
duct of eight whales, and an account of the 
volcanic eruption at Katmai last June. The 
Gayhead was 200 miles from the volcano and 
150 miles off shore at the time of the eruption. 
Whales were plentiful, sea birds were visible in 
all directions and fish, large and small, could be 
seen in the clear, green water. 
A whale had been cut out of the school 
that was spouting not far from the bark, had 
been killed and made fast alongside the vessel. 
Fires had been started under the blubber 
kettles, and the work of cutting up the whale 
was in full blast when a muffled explosion that 
seemed to shake the universe was heard. It 
was followed by six more explosions. 
A few minutes later there appeared on the 
horizon a small black cloud, that assumed 
leviathan proportions as it rushed toward the 
Gayhead. There was wind with it. and it struck 
the vessel with the violence of a hurricane 
squall. As it hit the bark the air was filled with 
fine white dust that soon covered the decks. 
The blackness was on both sides of the 
vessel. “Black as the darkest night,” is the 
way Captain Wing describes it. Between the 
two strata of black was a column of fiery yel¬ 
low, bright as gold. Captain Wing, who has 
passed many years in the Arctic, and who 
recognized the explosions as of volcanic origin, 
says that the combination of black and yellow 
was the strangest sight he had ever seen. 
The Portuguese whalemen quit work, 
dropped to their knees and invoked the aid of 
every saint on the calendar. They were satis¬ 
fied that the day of judgment had arrived. The 
shower of ashes and the accompanying dark¬ 
ness lasted for forty-eight hours. 
“As the squall approached,” said Captain 
Wing, “I noticed the whales skedaddle. They 
hooked on at full speed. When the air cleared, 
two days later, there was not a whale in sight, 
nor a fish nor a fowl, nor a sign of any kind of 
life. It was not until the Gayhead had cruised 
many miles and had winged its way far out of 
the track of the volcanic dust that as much as 
a bird was seen. That cussed squall queered 
our cruise all right.” 
It was more than a month later that the 
people on the Gayhead learned what had hap¬ 
pened. 
BIRDS' BONES HOLLOW. 
The bones of birds are hollow because they 
are thereby lighter and do not interfere with 
the flight of the bird as much as they would 
do if they were solid. Greater strength is also 
obtained by the cylindrical form of the bones 
and a larger surface afforded for the attachment 
of muscles.—Kansas Citv Star. 
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