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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 28, 1912 
NEW 
12 GAUGE 
3 Hammerless Repeating Shotgun 
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This Model 28, 12 gauge Tfftrr/fjt shotgun is the finest repeating gun in the 
world. It has every up-to-date feature, perfected far beyond all previous 
standards, and it has exclusive advantages not obtainable in other guns. 
Note these features : Hammerless—Solid Steel 
Breech (inside as well as out)— Solid Top—Side 
Ejection—Matted Barrel (as on our highest grade 
hammer guns) —Press-Button Cartridge Release 
(to remove loaded cartridges quickly from maga¬ 
zine without working through action)— Double 
Extractors — Take-Down Feature—Trigger and 
Hammer Safety. Price, $22.60. 
Our IGO-page Ideal Hand Book tells about re¬ 
loading all cartridges; mailed for 6c. stamps. 
The Model 28 is a fine appearing, beautifully 
balanced gun. without any objectionable humps 
or bumps; its Solid Steel Breech (not a shell of 
wood) permits a thoroughly symmetrical gun 
without sacrificing strength or safety; it is the 
safest breech-loading shotgun ever built. 
Our free circular gives large illustration of gun 
and full description. Our complete 122-page cata¬ 
log of all other 272ar//n repeating rifles and shot¬ 
guns mailed for three stamps postage. 
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27 Willow Street, New Haven, Conn. 
Dows Gun Club. 
Dows, la., Dec. 14.—Hcmenway was high with 46 out 
of 50, with bhafer "next with 40. A few more practice 
shoots and >ve all hope to make our averages swell. 
Scores: 
Shot at. Broke Shot at. Broke 
Hcmenway . 50 46 Wilson . 50 33 
Shafer . 50 40 Carpenter . 30 20 
Saterlee . 50 36 .Nelson . 5 3 
W. J. Wilson, Sec’y. 
To Preserve Fort Edmonton. 
Mrs. Arthur Murphy (Janey Canuck), 
president of the Women’s Canadian Club, of 
Edmonton, Alta., is at the head of a movement 
to bring before the Provincial Legislature, which 
will meet in Edmonton next spring, the desir¬ 
ability of taking immediate steps to preserve 
for the people the buildings known as Fort Ed¬ 
monton, formerly owned and occupied by fac¬ 
tors and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company, 
organized in 1670. 
These buildings have been used by the De¬ 
partment of Public Works of Alberta for stor¬ 
age and office purposes, “but now,” Mrs. Murphy 
says, “that the Parliament buildings, costing 
$1,500,000, have been completed and opened 
there no longer exists any valid reason why the 
fort should not be restored and kept as a 
memorial of the days when it was known as 
The last house of the world.’ ” 
The original fort was owned by the North¬ 
west Fur Company, and was built in the latter 
part of the eighteenth century by J. Hughes, 
M. Shaw and J. McDonald, of Garth. It was 
known as Fort des Prairies and sometimes as 
Hughes Fort, in 1805. Later it was called Fort 
Augustus. There is no authentic record of the 
oxact date when the Hudson’s Bay Company 
built its fort in Edmonton, but it is known the 
company had one as early as 1805, for in that 
year it was taken in charge by Donald McDonald. 
It was a small and comparatively unimportant 
post at this time, for the main post of the Hud¬ 
son’s Bay Company was at Dogrump Port, near 
St. Paul de Metis. 
These two companies were amalgamated in 
1821. At this period the Hudson’s Bay Com¬ 
pany fort was in charge of M. Bird, who named 
the new post Fort Edmonton after his birth¬ 
place in England. Mr. Bird was retired from 
service, and the new fort placed in the charge 
of John Rowand, a native of Quebec, associated 
with the Northwest Fur Company, who built 
the house known as “Rowand’s Folly,” so named 
because it consisted of three stories. This was 
the first skyscraper of the Province of Alberta. 
Rowand died in Edmonton. He was the factor 
of the post, and on his death bed commanded 
that his bones be interred in Quebec. It may 
interest the curious to know that his order was 
carried out to the letter, the flesh first being 
removed from the bones by the process of boil¬ 
ing. 
Rowand’s successors as chief factors were 
in turn Messrs. Sinclair, Christie, Swanson and 
Hardisty. “Rowand's Folly” was razed in 1874 
by Chief Factor Hardisty, who built what be¬ 
came known as the “Big House.” This resi¬ 
dence was destroyed by fire ten years ago. 
Many notable men visited the post at Fort 
Edmonton from time to time, one of the most 
interesting being Captain Palliser, who was sent 
out in 1856 by the British Government to study 
the conditions in Western Canada with a view 
to considering its possibility as a home for white 
people. 
Mrs. Murphy’s plan is to either have the 
decayed logs replaced or to rebuild the structure 
in the same manner and in the same dimensions, 
using wherever possible the original materials. 
The massive timbers in the old assembly hall, 
which were whipsawn and hewn with broad 
axes, are still in good condition. The clamps 
and bolts which fastened the shutters to the 
windows and the ponderous locks and keys 
which weigh a pound each, are yet in the build¬ 
ing. The cellar, where the honorable company 
of gentlemen adventurers stored their wines, is 
still preserved, and the brick powder house was 
until recently used by the Government as a 
rabbit-hutch. 
“In requesting the Legislature to reserve 
these buildings,” Mrs. Murphy said, “we need 
feel no diffidence nor offer any apology. The 
fort is provincial property, and as citizens of 
Alberta we look to our representatives to see 
that it is preserved, and if necessary properly 
restored. 
“We have come a long way since then, but 
the remains of the old fort we have with ns 
still, and T believe the members of the Legis¬ 
lature and people in general will agree with me 
that its historv is of sufficient interest and value 
to be preserved as a central landmark of the 
capital city of the Province of Alberta.” 
Sporadic advertising gives but moderate re¬ 
turns. For advertising to be entirely successful, 
continuity is essential. 
Charge of the Rhino. 
Generally the rhinoceros lives by himself, 
sometimes with his spouse, more rarely still with 
a third that is probably a grown-up son or daugh¬ 
ter, writes Stewart Edward White in the Ameri¬ 
can Magazine. I personally have never seen 
more than three in company. 
Some observers have reported larger bands 
or rather collections, but lacking other evidence 
I should be inclined to suspect that some circum¬ 
stance of food or water rather than a sense of 
gregariousness had attracted a number of indi¬ 
viduals to one locality. 
The rhinoceros has three objects in life—to 
fill his stomach with food and water, to stand 
absolutely motionless under a bush, and to imi¬ 
tate ant hills when he lies down in the tall grass. 
When disturbed at any of these occupations, 
he snorts. The snort sounds exactly as though 
the safety valve of a locomotive had suddenly 
opened and as suddenly shut again after two 
seconds of escaping steam. 
Then he puts his head down and rushes mad¬ 
ly in some direction, generally up wind. As he 
weighs about two tons and can, in spite of his 
appearance, get over the ground nearly as fast 
as an ordinary horse, he is a truly imposing 
sight, especially since the innocent bystander gen¬ 
erally happens to be upwind, and hence in the 
general path of progress. 
This is because the rhino’s scent is his keen¬ 
est sense, and through it he becomes aware, in 
the majority of times, of man’s presence. His 
sight is very poor indeed; he cannot see clearly 
even a moving object much beyond fifty yards. 
He can, however, hear pretty well. 
The novice then is subjected to what he 
calls a “vicious charge” on the part of the rhi¬ 
noceros, merely because his scent was borne to 
the beast from upwind, and the rhino naturally 
runs away upwind. He opens fire, and has an¬ 
other thrilling adventure to relate. As a matter 
of fact, if he had approached from the other side 
and then aroused the animal with a clod of earth, 
the beast would probably have “charged” away 
in identically the same direction. I am convinced 
from a fairly varied experience that this is the 
basis for most of the thrilling experiences with 
rhinoceroses. 
Owing to his size, his powerful armament 
and his incredible quickness, the rhinoceros is 
a dangerous animal, at all times to be treated 
with respect and due caution. This is proved 
by the number of white men out of a sparse 
population that are annually tossed and killed by 
the brutes and by the promptness with which the 
natives take to trees—thorn trees at that—when 
the cry of faru! is raised. As he comes rushing 
in your direction, head down and long weapon 
pointed, tail rigidly erect, ears up, the earth 
trembling with his tread and the air with his 
snorts, you suddenly feel very small and inef¬ 
fective. 
If you keep cool, however, it is probable 
the encounter will result only in a lot of mental 
perturbation for the rhino, and a bit of excite¬ 
ment for yourself. If there is any cover you 
should duck down behind it and move rapidly 
but quietly to one side or another of the line of 
advance. If there is no cover, you should crouch 
low and hold still. The chances are that he will 
pass to one side or the other of you and go 
snorting away in the distance. Keep your eye 
on him very closely. 
If he swerves definitely in your direction and 
drops his head a little lower, it would be just 
as well to open fire. Provided the beast was still 
far enough away to give me sea room, I used 
to put a small bullet in the flesh on the outer 
part of the shoulder. The wound thus inflicted 
was not at all serious, but the shock of the bullet 
usually turned the beast to one side, and as usual 
he went right on through. If, however, he 
seemed to mean business or was too close for 
comfort, the point to aim for was the neck just 
above the lowered horn. 
In my own experience I came to establish a 
dead line about twenty yards from myself. That 
seemed to be as near as I cared to let the brutes 
come. Up to that point I let them alone on the 
chance that they might swerve or change their 
minds, as they often did. But inside of twenty 
