Oct. 12, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
473 
95.3 
ON HARD TARGETS 
An Amateur's Record 
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DUPONT SMOKELESS 
IN NEW ENGLAND 
Sept. 5, 1912.Wellington, Mass., 303 :: x 320 Tied for High Average 
Sept. 11, 1912.Worcester, Mass., 147 x 150 High Average 
Sept. 13-14, 191 2 .. Beverly, Mass., 287 x 300 High Average 
Sept. 25, 1912 Fitchburg, Mass., 1 42 x 150 High Average 
Sept. 27, 1912 Keane, N. H., 141 x 150 High Average 
* Includes a run of 102. Total.1020 x 1070 Average 95.3 per cent. 
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The above is the record by Mr. S. W. Putnam, 
of Fitchburg, Mass., during the month of 
September, 1912, on all sorts of targets 
and under all sorts of weather conditions. 
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Mr. Putnam pinned his faith on 
UPQNT SMOKELES 
The Powder That Makes and Breaks Records 
WHAT POWDER 
DO YOU USE 
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ROD AND GUN ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI. 
Continued from page 457. 
were late in making the schedule. We had 
started the latter part of September; in fact, a 
month too late for the best cruising, and the 
weather was chill and damp. St. Louis was the 
next stopping point of any note, though we 
halted at various points in Missouri where the 
apple crop was being picked and being barreled 
for the trade. On passing landing after landing 
we saw thousands of apple barrels filled and 
waiting for the steamers to transport the crop 
to market. At St. Louis we saw 20000 barrels 
of apples on the levee the day we spent there. 
This was the first port of any consequence we 
had made along the river. Steamers were taking 
on freight for points on the Illinois, Kentucky, 
Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee and upper and 
lower Mississippi rivers. Hunting parties were 
going aboard every steamer making for secluded 
spots where the ducks were known to feed and 
linger on their southward flight. The turkey sea¬ 
son was about to open in Missouri and Arkansas, 
and deer were said to be plentiful in the bottoms 
below Cairo. Water of the previous spring had 
not been too high to spoil the breeding of game, 
and hunters seemed to be aware of the fact. 
Cruisers were behind us, ahead and at either 
side. They were crowded with gunners, cruising 
folks and friends, some of them going all the 
way down, and others only part of the way. All 
were eager to be off, and every hour or so some 
of them putting out of port or others coming in 
from the Illinois and the Great Lakes country. 
IN CAMP WITH THE ALPINE CLUB OF 
CANADA. 
Continued from page 459. 
range of peaks, which, when seen on their west¬ 
ern slope as they rise abruptly from Lake 
Moraine, make one of the most beautiful scenes 
in all the Rockies, were climbed—Mt. Fay, Mount 
Little and No. 3. The first named (10.612 feet) 
is a high and difficult climb, but the party which 
made it, not content with a good ascent to their 
credit, came home around by the passes the same 
day, making the whole trip in sixteen hours to 
the astonishment of the Swiss guides who had 
declared that twenty hours was the best time 
possible. 
Some little portion of the discoverer’s exul¬ 
tation enters also into the experience of this 
camp, for the different expeditions came on many 
beauties of this region hitherto unknown. It 
was, for example, found that Storm Mountain 
was really a vast rock amphitheatre in the center 
of which nestled two little lakes. One party 
found a new waterfall and a new mountain be¬ 
tween the well-known mountains, Storm and 
Ball. In making the first ascent of this new 
mountain, a fossil bed was found from which 
was brought down among others one specimen 
which even the famous geologist, who is presi¬ 
dent of the club, could not identify. The moun¬ 
tain flowers which were blooming in all their 
wonderful luxuriance and variety offered an¬ 
other field which, since we had in camp Mrs. 
Henshaw, the authority on Canadian Alpine 
flora, was eagerly investigated on days of rest 
between strenuous climbs. One member who 
came all the way from North Carolina made the 
only floral discovery, which was at once called 
Rocky Mountain lily. 
So with one interest and another, the days 
were filled, and we came away with the feeling 
that never had the quest for novelty been so suc¬ 
cessful—a novelty, too, in which the people who 
shared the experience with us played their part. 
Coming from almost every part of the English- 
speaking world, they made up a company of 
choice spirits who for the ten days of camp 
dwelt in ideal comradeship. It was the absolute 
and altogether desirable democracy of one's 
dreams. What one was in the city streets or 
what one’s possessions mattered not a whit, so 
long as one was a good sort in camp. One of 
the most liked men was discovered after his de¬ 
parture to be the president of one of the big 
universities in a western State. Moreover, camp 
was the only place we had ever found where 
money was absolutely no good. There was noth¬ 
ing to be purchased with it—not even a tip could 
be given. Nor was there ever the least trace of 
impatience, such as might have been expected in 
a company of people of all grades of skill or 
lack of it in mountaineering. For various as 
were their countries and homes, their claims on 
the consideration of an Alpine club were quite 
as varied. There were of course famous moun¬ 
taineers such as Miss Mary M. Vaux, of Phila¬ 
delphia; Dr. Mary Potter, Miss M. L. Jobe and 
Prof. Freeborn, of New York; Walter D. Wil¬ 
cox, of Washington, and Dr. A. P. Coleman, of 
