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FOREST AND S T R F \ M 
POSTAL LIFE 
because 
1st. Commission dividends, 
corresponding to the commissions 
other companies pay their agents, 
less amoderate advertising charge, 
go to Policyholders the first year. 
2nd. Renewal-Commission 
Dividends and Office-Ex¬ 
pense Savings, covered by the 
agents, and the policyholder 
necessarily foots the bill. 
But the Postal Life has no 
agents at all. It does business 
direct with those who desire 
insurance-protection, and the benefit of the 
saving thereby effected is given to the person 
who takes out the insurance. 
Strong Postal Points 
First: Standard policy reser- Fourth: Operates under 
<bes, now more than $9,000,000. strict New York State require- 
lnsurance in force more than ments and subject to the Uni- 
$45,000,000. ted States postal authorities. 
Second: Cld-line legal rc- Fifth: High medical stand- 
serve insurance —not fraternal ar g s ; n the selection of risks, 
or assessment. Sixth: Policyholders'Health 
Third: Standard poucy-pro- j$ ureau arranges one free med- 
visions, approved by the New ical examination e ach 
York State Insurance Depart- £ j es j rec j^ 
the small sum of $2.19 (monthly) secures for you a 
policy for $1000 in the Postal Life Insurance Com¬ 
pany—a standard legal-reserve Whole-Life Policy, with 
guaranteed Cash, Loan, Paid-up and Endowment 
Options, and participation in the Company’s surplus 
earnings; but the Policy will cost you only $1.61 
(monthly) during the first year, for you get the benefit 
of a saving from the agent’s commission because you 
deal direct. In every subsequent year the earning is 
nine and one-half per cent, of the premium. 
That’s an example of Postal service and Postal saving. 
All other companies in 
the United States em¬ 
ploy large forces of 
year 
merit. 
Of course, you are interested in insurance pro¬ 
tection, and it is therefore worth while for you to 
Find Out What You Can Save 
Simply write and say: “Mail official insurance particulars as per 
Advertisement in FOREST AND STREAM for March.” 
And be sure to give: 1 . Your full name. 2 . Your occupation. 3 . The exact date of your birth. 
And bear in mind. No agent will he sent to visit you. The Postal Life does not employ 
them but gives you the benefit of the agent’s commission because you deal direct. 
> MALONE, President 
Thirty five Nassau Street NEWTDM) 
If you are thirty years old 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
A Country ol Fish and Game. A Paradise lor the Camper and Angler. ..Ideal Canoe Trip*. 
The country traversed by Che Reid Newfoundland Company's system is exceedingly rich in all tand* 
of Fish and Game. All along the route of the Railway are streams famous for their Salmon and Trout 
&»hing also Caribou barrens. Americans who have been fishing and hunting in Newfoundland s*y 
there is no other country in the world in which so good fishing and hunting can be secured and with 
such ease as in Newfoundland. Information, together with illustrated Booklet and Folder, cheerfully tor- 
warded^upfm joNE, General Passenger Agent, Reid Newfoundland Company, St. John’s, New- 
*oundla rid. 
A Pipe With An Ash Pan — It’s Great! 
You pull out the patented aluminum pan to clean it. Prevents clogging, frying or stewing. A fine, 
cool, dry smoke always and as sweet as a nut. Nothing to get out of order. The Willis is an 
elegant pipe, handsomely finished and of genuine French Briar with best ., 
grade Hard Rubber, Horn or Celluloid bit. Send coin, money-order or oUc. postpaid 
stamps at our risk. We guarantee you the finest smoke you ever had 
and complete satisfaction or your money back. Address— 
The Willis Company, 76F Pilling St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
to the gun limit, the non resident license $10, 
covers also feathered game. Quail shoot¬ 
ing laps over on the deer and extends until 
February 15th. During the present year there 
has been an unusual scarcity of these birds par¬ 
ticularly around San Francisco possibly owing to 
heavy rains during nesting time. 
As offset to this, duck shooting along the Bay 
has been good. Plenty of canvasbacks, bluebilis 
and such. The puddle ducks in the marshes have 
also been reasonably abundant and the goose 
shooters were out with their circulars offering a 
shoot over live decoys at from $6 to $10 per gun. 
By a “shoot” they tell me is meant a kill of at 
least twenty birds or no charge. This is a de¬ 
crease from the former figure of forty, and in a 
score of trips made by the writer under such con¬ 
ditions, once, only once—then in a pouring rain 
when the pits were flooded—was a hunt called 
“no shoot.” There is neither close season nor 
limit under the State law on geese, which does 
not seem right as civilization is rapidly getting 
the best of them. 
No doubt many visitors will receive invitation 
to shoot water fowl on the baited ponds. Those 
who do not, need have no uneasiness for around 
the Bay are many blinds, several hundred, a 
large number of which can be rented for a day 
or longer with use of boat and decoys at cost 
of only a few dollars. This year from the open¬ 
ing in October until Thanksgiving the shooting 
was fair. After -that until Christmas as good as 
it has been for many years. Then there were 
cold rains and the ducks went South, only to re¬ 
turn and bring their friends as soon as warm 
weather came again. Almost in sight of the 
Tower of Jewels at the Exposition grounds on 
the eighteenth of J anuary the writer put out just 
before sunrise among at least 5,000 canvasbacks 
from around the Northern blinds at Pinole. Un¬ 
fortunately a northwester made blind shooting 
uncomfortable and with tide running strong and 
wind blowing hard a dead duck would drift 500 
yards before a boat could be put out to gather it, 
and let me tell you, a dozen or twenty trips of 
this kind against the combined strength of wind 
and tide were enough to try the stamina of a 
young man, let alone that of one whose years 
have been long. Rollers came in great high tor¬ 
rents. The boat pounded and jumped but took 
in no water and those wild rides were worth 
more than all the rest of the hunt. Furnished 
better sport than the ducks. Sport that was 
life-giving, exhilarating, glorious. A gamble 
with death? No, not exactly, but if it was, what 
then? Death lost and the game was worth the 
candle. 
There will be just as good shooting this fall- 
bar wind and waves, which no sportsman need 
risk unless he chaoses—shooting that will last 
through nearly two months of the Exposition, 
and if any visitor is in doubt, the writer ail by 
’himself will organize a duck shooter’s aid society 
to tell both when and where to go. Yes, an! 
besides act as guide and mentor when other 
duties will permit. 
It seems useless to add that there will be 
mudh trap shooting, many fly casting contests, 
cups and coin for the best rifle shots. Prizes for 
disciples of Robin Hood at the sport of archery, 
yacht races, swimming races, for all these are to 
b; had in the East. 
