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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 2, 1909. 
"Re^ortJ for Sportsmen. 
li MECKLENBURG HOTEL and HUNTING PRESERVES, 
CHASE CITY. VIRGINIA. 
The preserves are second to none in the United States. Why.? 
FIRST: Owing to the diligent care of the owners, there is an abundance of game. 
SFCOND: The last Virginia Legislature passed a law prohibiting the sale or purchase of birds thus eliminat¬ 
ing the pot hunter. 
XHIRD: This preserve contains 30,000 acres of land, where deer, turkeys, quail and rabbits abound. 
FOVRTH: A fine stable of elegant horses, riding, driving and trained hunters, as well as a full corps of guides. 
FIFTH: The Mecklenburg Hotel is modern in all its appointments, and is one of the most delightful 
Southern Winter Resorts in the entire country. 
SIXTH: Long-distance telephone and telegraphic communication in the building. 
SFVFNTH: Cuisine unexcelled. 
EIGHTH: The best nine hole golf course in the South. 
NINTH: Fine kennels of bird-dogs for hire or sale, reasonably. 
TENTH: Because the Mecklenburg pack of fox hounds is Ihe best in the land, and with them you can 
have an old-fashioned Virginia Fox Hunt on the Mecklenburg preserves. Fine country for riding. 
Everything First-Class. Prices Moderate. Write for Booklet. 
New York Office, 1122 Broadway. Telephone, 1872 Madison Square. 
I)untcr$’ Codge 
JIn Tdeal LUintcr Residence 
Quail abundant in easy walking dis¬ 
tance! Specially recommended to Ladies 
and Gentlemen who desire a mild climate, 
choice accommodations and a luxurious 
table. References given with pleasure. 
Address 
GEN’L FRANK A. BOND. 
Buies. North Carolina 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 
Big-game hunting parties thoroughly and economically 
equipped. 
ELEPHANT. LION. BUFFALO. 
ANTELOPE. RHINOCEROS. 
Tell us when you want to start, and we do the rest. 
Write for booklet to NEWLAND, TARLTON & CO., 
LTD. (head office, Nairobi, B. E. Africa), 166 Piccadilly, 
London, Eingland. Cables: Wapagazi; London. 
DUCKS, SNIPE, QUAIL AND 
RABBIT ON LONG ISLAND. 
Live duck decoys. License to grun on club grounds. 
Good accommodations. Write for dates. G. CARY 
SMITH, Cupsoque Hotel, opposite Center Moriches, L.I. 
PINEHDRST 
NORTH CAROLINA 
There is no other place 
that combines as many 
advantages for out-of-door 
recreation. 
Three Golf Courses 
2 of 18 Holes - 1 of 9 Holes 
Kept in Pink of Condition 
50,000 Acre Shooting Preserve 
Best Quail Shooting in America. 
KenneJs of Trained Dogs* 
Guides, « Shooting Outfits, etc. 
SIX TENNIS COURTS 
Frequent Tournaments in all branches 
of sport. 
The Monte Vista Log House. 
In the Heart of the Forest. 
Plenty of game and good fishing. Terms 
on application. Telegraph and P. O. address 
Clermont, Florida. 
BAGLEY FARM. 
Bagley's Mills, Va., La Crosse Siaiion. 
Philadelphia Office, 444 S. 43d Street. 
We offer sportsmen shooting privileges on 20,000 acres 
of undoubtedly the finest game lands in the South. This 
territory lies in the midst of a section 40 miles square, 
untouched by railways, consisting principally of original 
growth woods. Deer, turkey, foxes, rabbits and especially 
quail, are plentiful on this land. Best accommodations, 
trained dogs, horses and guides furnished. Write for 
booklet. 
We will insert your Hotel or Camp Advertisement 
in a space of this size (one inch) at the following 
rates: One time, $2.10; three months (13 insertions), 
$18.20; six months, (26 insertions), $35.00; one year 
(52 insertions). $60.00. . 
FOREST AND STREAM, NEW YORK. 
When writing say you saw the adv. in 
“Forest and Stream.” 
FOUR SPLENDID HOTELS 
with various prices, under one management. 
No Consumptives Received at Pinehursl. 
Through Pullman Service via Seaboard Air Line. 
Only one night out from New York, Boston, Cleve¬ 
land, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Don’t fail to send to 
nearest railroad offices for literature, illustrating the 
out-of-door features of PINEHURST and giving 
the full details ot its attractions, or address 
^ PINEHURST GENERAL OFFICE 
PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA 
or Leonard Tufts, Owner, Boston, Mass. 
XOant^ and Eijechan^e^. 
SPORTSMEN! HUNTERS! TRAPPERS! 
I will pay good prices for all kinds of live wild water 
fowl, either wing-tipped or trapped birds. 
G. D. TILLEY, Darien, Conn. 
Situation Wanted.—By a practical ’ game-keeper. Life 
experience in the rearing of ornamental and common 
pheasants, partridges, quail and wild duck; also training 
and handling dogs. 
GAME-KEEPER, 152 East 78th St., New York. 
WANTED.—A 20-gauge sllotgun of good grade, made by 
some prominent manufacturer. Must have 26in. barrels 
and ejector. Send description to “G. W. L.,” care 
Forest and Stream. 1 
supper terminated the proceedings, of course. 
In those days there was no “cheer” without 
meat and drink—especially the latter, and the 
general idea of a good time seems to have 
been one that the W. C. T. U. would not at 
all approve of. 
Two days after the visit of Clement, the 
Vulcan of saint-lore, comes the day sacred to 
Catherine, the favorer of learned men, and the 
patroness of spinsters. “Her holiday is ob¬ 
served,” says La Motte, “not in Popish coun¬ 
tries only, but in many other places; young 
women meeting on the 25th of November, and 
making merry together, which they call 
Gathering.” The reason given for the celebra¬ 
tion is “that the girls may get good husbands, 
and the women better by the death or deser¬ 
tion of their present ones, or at least an altera¬ 
tion in their manners.” 
The feast of Saint Andrew, on the 30th_ of 
the month, is the time for the youths to think 
of their sweethearts. 
To Andrew all the lovers and the lustie wooers come, 
Believing through his ayde, and certain ceremonies done, 
(While as to him they presents bring, and conjure all 
the night). 
To have good luck, and to obtain their chief and sweet 
delight. 
Old Saint Andrew’s Day it was that the Scots 
marched in procession through the streets of 
London, with their favorite national dish, a 
singed sheep’s head, borne before them. And 
on this day in some parts of England it was 
customary to have a yearly squirrel hunt, when 
the lower class of people assembling together 
“formed a lawless rabble, and, provided with 
guns, poles, • clubs, and other such weapons, 
spent the greatest part of the day in parading 
through the woods with loud shoutings. Under 
the pretense of demolishing the squirrels, they 
destroyed great numbers of hares, pheasants, 
partridges, and, in short, whatever came in 
their wajq breaking down the hedges and do¬ 
ing much other mischief, and in the evening be¬ 
taking themselves to the ale houses, finished 
their career, as is usual with such sort of 
gentry.” 
Altogether, the month seems to have been 
sacred to eating and drinking from the earliest 
times. Probably all of them are reminiscent of 
the harvest festivals, and rejoicing over the 
garnered grain and the new wine. As for the 
bonfires that mark the first of the month, they 
are belated Baal fires that were lighted long 
ago at the solstices and at the equinoxes. Their 
original signification forgotten and the children 
of men delighting in the leaping flame they 
were adopted by every feast that could squeeze 
one in. 
Limiting our festivals for the month to one, 
we have concentrated in it the old gladness of 
the harvest, with the higher and more spiritual 
element of thanks to the Giver of the Grain. 
SUMMER RESORTS. 
An inspector of the department visited a large 
number of summer resorts in the upper Adiron¬ 
dack region and investigated the sanitary con¬ 
dition of a large number of hotels and camps. 
Notice prohibiting the pollution of streams and 
lakes, were posted throughout this region. It 
was the intention of the department to extend 
this investigation until it embraced all the sum¬ 
mer resorts in the State, but it was found neces¬ 
sary to withdraw the inspectors from this work 
and' transfer them to the investigation of the 
condition of the oyster beds in New York 
waters. 
WHAT WHALEBONE IS. 
Most persons probably suppose that whalebone 
may be procured from any common whale, but 
that is not so. The Baleen whale is the pro¬ 
ducer of what is known as whalebone, and it is 
not regular bone at all. This variety of whale 
has a broad plate running along the sides of 
the mouth, which is given. to them in place of 
teeth, and from this whalebone is procured. The 
length varies from one foot up to twelve feet, 
the latter being found only in the largest whales. 
Just imagine the size of the meal that could be 
eaten by a whale with a twelve-foot mouth!— 
New York Fishing Gazette. 
