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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 14 1912 
Shooting game birds that travel from 75 to 90 
miles an hour requires a quick and sure powder like 
“DEAD SHOT”. It also requires a smokeless powder that will 
not obscure your vision after the first shot—also a powder that doesn’t 
knock you off your balance. 
If you are going after duck, rabbits or quail 
be sure your shells are loaded with “DEAD SHOT”. 
The best wing shots in the world use it. All the best makers of shells 
load their shells with it. All you have to do is to ask f or d. 
“DEAD SHOT” has highest velocity and 
lightest recoil. It keeps your shot well bunched— maxi¬ 
mizes your chances of killing your bird and doesn’t pound your 
shoulder to pieces. You’ll appreciate these facts after a day’s hunt. 
Just say “DEAD SHOT” to 
when buying shells and he’ll know that 
game. 
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CHICAGO BOSTON ST. LOUIS 
your dealer 
you know the 
MILLS 
DES MOINES 
Watches Ships Pass Cape Cod. 
Fifty-two years ago the first weather report 
from Cape Cod was sent to the Chamber of Com¬ 
mence at Boston, says the Yarmouth (Mass.) 
Register, from a little marine observatory, 
perched on one of the highest sand dunes of 
the Cape, half way between Wellfleet and 
Provincetown. 
Isaac M. Small, the seventy-eight-year-old 
marine observer of the station, sent the report. 
Since that time he has not lost a day at the 
North Truro observatory by sickness ; is as hale 
and hearty as a man of forty-five, and is actively 
engaged in observing from sunrise to sunset the 
weather and the constant parade of ships that 
beat around the Cape. 
The observatory itself is perhaps the oldest 
in the United States. Fifty-two years ago it 
had none of the facilities of modern communica- 
ISAAC M. SMALL. 
tioii. To-day it has a wireless station, the tele¬ 
phone, the telegraph and everything up-to-date 
in the way of marine observation. 
Seated in the tower, Mr. Small sweeps the 
horizon with a long telescope from Nausett 
Lights to Peaked Hill Bar, picking up the dif¬ 
ferent ships and steamers that pass and report¬ 
ing their position to the Chamber of Commerce 
at Boston. Five minutes from the time he sights 
a vessel, her position is known to the Chamber. 
The Government weather signals are in Mr. 
Small's charge, and four times a day he reports 
the weather to the Chamber of Commerce. In¬ 
bound steamers from foreign ports depend on 
Mr. Small for knowledge of inshore weather 
conditions. From 250 miles out at sea they 
query him by wireless. In turn they advise him 
of storms at sea. 
Recognizing ships far out at sea is something 
akin to second sight with Mr. Small. He hardly 
can explain it himself, but says that every ship 
has some feature that is unlike any other. Once 
in a while a foreign boat is not recognized until 
he is able to distinguish her name, but once seen 
she is never forgotten. Years afterward Mr. 
Small will identify the craft. During his more 
than a half century of service Mr. Small esti¬ 
mates he has reported 300,000 vessels, an average 
of about twenty a day. 
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