FOREST AND STREAM. 
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"Resort* for Sportsmen. 
H 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. 
THIRD: This preserve contains 30,000 acres of land, where deer, turkeys, quail and rabbits abound. 
FOURTH : 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. 
SEVENTH: 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 the 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. 
fimm' Ccdge 
Jfti Tdeal Winter Residence 
Quail abundant in easy walking dis¬ 
tance! Specially recemmended 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, England. Cables: Wapagazi; London. 
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. 
Property for Sate. 
EOR SALE—PROPERTY FOR A CLUB.—Unexcelled 
on the Coast for a Gunning, Fishing and Boating Club. 
Location, Ocean side Eastern Shore, Va., 30 miles north 
of Cape Charles; 8 hours from New York City, 5% from 
Philadelphia, and 4% from Norfolk, via Old Point Com¬ 
fort and Norfolk Express to Keller Sta., Va. Thousands of 
.acres of meadow lands nearby for Bay Birds. Numerous 
small bays and thoroughfares for Ducks, Geese and 
Brant, Quail and Rabbit shooting. Excellent fishing, in¬ 
land and at sea. Surf bathing, automobiling and driving. 
Building new and fitted with electric lights, hot, cold 
and salt water. Furnished and ready for occupancy. 
Address, A. H. G. HEARS, VVachapreague, Va. 
P. S.—This is your opportunity. Desirable sporting 
locations are nearly all taken. The rising generation will 
have nothing to select {r.ora. Protect your families and 
especially your boys. Agents wanted to sell or organize 
a club. 
MODERN TRAINING. 
Handling and Kennel Management. By B. Waters. 
Illustrated. Cloth, 373 pages. Price, $2.00. 
The treatise is after the modern professional system of 
training. It combines the excellence of both the suasive 
and force systems of education, and contains an exhaus- 
itive description of the uses and abuses of the spike collar. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
The Leading 
Resort 
of the South 
Pinehurst 
North Carolina 
There is no spot w'hich offers 
such varied attractions for 
out-of-door recreation. 
Livery of Fine Saddle Horses 
THREE GOLF COURSES 
Two of eighteen holes; one of nine holes, kept 
in the pink of condition. 
SIX TENNIS COURTS 
50,000 Acre Shooting Preserve 
The Best of Quail Shooting. 
Large Kennel of Trained Dogs. Guides, etc* 
FOUR SPLENDID HOTELS 
of varied prices, under one management. 
No Consumptives Received at Pinehurst 
Easily reached via Seaboard Air Line. Through 
Pullman Service. Send for literature. 
PINEHURST GENERAL OFFICE 
PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA, 
or Leonard Tufts, Owner, Boston, Mass, 
Xtfants and Rjeehanges. 
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 anti common 
pheasants, partridges, quail and wild duck; also training 
and handling dogs. 
GAME-KEEPER, 152 East 78th St., New York. 
When writing say you saw the ady. in 
“Forest and Stream.” 
there was not a single beast, bird or reptile 
which had not been tamed, he may have been 
thinking of the itinerant showmen with 
“learned” beasts who perambulated the Roman 
empire. 
Horses and oxen were among the animals 
commonly taught to do tricks. I find no men¬ 
tion of monkeys as performing in the arena, 
though Apuleius says that in spring fetes of 
Isis, the forerunners of the Roman carnival, 
he saw a monkey with a straw hat and a 
Phrygian tunic—we can hardly keep ourselves 
from asking: “What had it done with the 
grind-organ?” But in spite of this startling 
modern apparition, monkeys do not seem to 
have been popular in Rome; I imagine even 
that there was some fixed prejudice against 
them. The cleverest of all the animal per¬ 
formers were, of course, the dogs, and one 
showman had the ingenious idea of making a 
dog act a part in a comedy. The effects of a 
drug were tried on him, the, plot turning on 
the suspicion that the drug was poisonous 
while, in fact, it was only a narcotic. The dog 
took the piece of bread dipped in the liquid, 
swallowed it, and began to reel and stagger 
till he finally fell flat on the ground. He gave 
himself a last stretch and then seemed to ex¬ 
pire, making no sign of life when his apparently 
dead body was dragged about the stage. At the 
right moment, he began to move very slightly 
as if wakin.g out of a deep sleep; then he raised 
his head, looked round, jumped up and ran 
joyously to the proper person. The piece was 
played at the theatre of Marcellus in the reign 
of old Vespasian, and Caesar himself was de¬ 
lighted. I wonder that no manager of our days 
has turned the incident to account; I never yet 
saw an audience serious enough not to become 
young again at the sight of four-footed 
comedians. Even the high art-loving public at 
the Prince Regent’s theatre at Munich cannot 
resist a murmur of discreet merriment when 
the pack of beautiful stag-hounds led upon the 
stage in the hunting scene in Tannhauser 
gravely wag their tails in time with the music! 
We owe to Roman poets a good deal of in¬ 
formation about dogs, and especially the knowl¬ 
edge that the British hound was esteemed 
superior to all others, even to the famous breed 
of Eprius. This is certified by Gratius Faliscus, 
a contemporary of Ovid. He described these 
animals as remarkably ugly, but incomparable 
for pluck. British bull-dogs were used in the 
Coliseum, and in the third century Nemesianus 
praised the British greyhound. Most of the 
valuable dogs were brought from abroad; it is 
to be inferred that the race degenerated in the 
climate of Rome, as it does now. Concha, 
whose epitaph was written by Petronius, was 
born in Gaul. While Martial’s too elaborate 
epitaph on “The Trusty Lydia” is often quoted 
and translated, the more sympathetic poem of 
Petronius has been overlooked. He tells the 
perfections of Concha in a simple, affectionate 
manner; like Lydia, she was a mighty huntress 
and chased the wild boar fearlessly through the 
dense forest. Never did chain hamper her 
liberty and never a blow fell on her shapely, 
snow-white form. She reposed softly, stretched 
on the breast of her master or mistress, and a 
well-made bed refreshed her tired limbs. If she 
lacked speech, she could make herself under¬ 
stood better than any of her kind—yet no one 
had reason to fear her bark. A hapless mother, 
she died when her little ones saw the light, and 
now a narrow marble slab covers the earth 
where she rests. 
Cicero’s tribute to canine worth is well 
known: “Dogs watch for us faithfully; they 
love and worship their masters, they hate 
strangers, their power of tracking by scent is 
extraordinary, great is their keenness in the 
chase; what can all this mean but that they 
were made for man’s advantage?”—E. Martin- 
enzo Cesaresco in Contemporary Review. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
