Sept. 28, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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THIS PICTURE GRATIS 
JOHN PEEL. 
The above picture of the immortal John 
Peel, framed and glazed, will be presented 
free to all new subscribers to “The County 
Gentleman & Land & Water,” England’s 
leading weekly illustrated sporting paper. 
The picture measures 11 in. x 7(4 in. 
(frame 17 in. x lain.). The original was 
painted by Mr. Joseph Simpson, R. B. A., 
from old photographs and prints of the 
famous huntsman. It is said to be the finest 
representation of John Peel ever published, 
and is worthy of a place in every sports¬ 
man’s home. 
The subscription to “The County Gentle¬ 
man & Land & Water” is $9.50 per annum, 
payable in advance, for which the paper will 
be sent, postage free. Checks should be 
made payable to the County Gentleman Pub¬ 
lishing Co. and crossed the London County 
& Westminster Bank, Hanover Sq. Branch. 
Address the Publisher 
“The County Gentleman & Land & Water” 
36-38 Southampton St., Strand, London, W. C. 
WORK OF FOREST RANGERS. 
It begins to look as if the forest rangers in 
this part of the State had at last gone about the 
settlement of the forest fire question in the right 
way. A force of men is now engaged in build¬ 
ing a telephone line through a great area of the 
State wild lands for the purpose of affording a 
means of communication between point and point 
on the reserves, so that a fire-fighting force can 
be assembled in a short time. 
This means of communication has been badly 
needed a long while. The central station of this 
unique telephone system is in the top of a tall 
tree on the very top of the highest mountain in 
the Pine Creek region. This is at a point a half 
mile out of Waterville. In that tree a platform 
has been built, and from it a range of survey 
of a dozen miles in every direction can be had. 
This “crowsnest,” or lookout, is State For¬ 
ester Evans’s headquarters almost steadily dur¬ 
ing the seasons when fires are liable to break out, 
and the “crowsnest’’ will be equipped with a tele¬ 
phone connecting with the rangers’ homes, and 
by this means the alarm can be sounded quickly 
when the first whiff of smoke is seen over the 
range. 
The forest rangers who spent the time dur¬ 
ing the summer chopping out fire lines report that 
more snakes of all kinds were killed by them this 
summer than ever before. Copperheads appear 
to be on the increase. The men are really more 
afraid of copperheads than they are of rattlers, 
for the latter give a warning. Both bear and 
deer on the State preserves are reported un¬ 
usually plentiful. 
Last week, while a force of fire lane cut¬ 
ters was working along above Carnmal, one of 
the men ran across an old beer keg. Its position 
under a tree and in so remote a part of the 
country interested him, and he made an examina¬ 
tion. He found that somebody some time had 
rigged the keg out as a bear trap. He had 
driven log spikes through the entering end of 
the keg, which was without the top, the spikes 
being bent in such position as to permit a bear's 
head passing inward all right, but when the ani¬ 
mal started to back out, the ruffled flesh of the 
shaggy neck would come in contact with the pro¬ 
truding spikes and make the creature a prisoner 
with his head inside the keg. 
This is an old way of capturing bear, the 
tempting bait of honey being placed at the bot¬ 
tom of the keg, so that bruin would push his 
head greedily to the bottom. This means of tak¬ 
ing bear, however, is no longer allowed by law. — 
Williamsport Correspondence North American. 
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