FOREST AND STREAM. 
Mullins Steel Pleasure Boats Can’t SinK 
Easiest to Row—Absolutely Safe 
Made of steel, with air chambers in each end like a life boat. 
Can’t leak,crack,dry out or sink,last a lifetime. Every boat 
guaranteed. Ideal boatforfamilies, summer re¬ 
sorts, parks, boat liveries. Strong, safe, speedy. 
Write for our catalogue of Row Boats, 
Motor Boats, Hunting and Fishing Boats. 
The W. H. Mullins Co., 126 Franklin St., Salem, 0. 
DAN KIDNEY SON, West De Pere, Wis. 
Builders of fine Pleasure and Hunting Boats, Canoes, 
Gasoline Launches, Small Sail Boats. Send for Catalogue. 
AMERICAN BOAT MACHINE CO. 
Builders of Launches, Sailboats, Canoes and Pleasure Boats. 
Our Specialty: 
Knock-down Crafts 
of any description. 
Send for Catalogue. 
K. D. Rowboats, Clinker built, $1.00 per running foot. 
3517 S .Second Street, - - ST. LOUIS, MO. 
ALL KINDS OF 
Boat Supplies 
We have just compiled the most complete cata¬ 
logue of its kind ever issued It is extensively 
illustrated, and gives detailed information and 
prices treating on boat fittings of every conceivable 
description. We can serve you no matter what 
your wants may be. 
This valuable a.nd interesting 
book sent free to anyone writing 
for it. It is interesting reading 
FREE 
a.nd should always be referred to. 
Our thorough methods for handling mail order business, and 
the quality of the goods and the promptness with which they 
are delivered will satisfy you. Write us to-day. 
JOHN C. HOPKINS & COMPANY, 119 Chambers St., New York 
When writing say you saw the adv. in 
and Stream.” 
‘Forest 
Special Announcement 
Stories and Articles by: 
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 
ROWLAND E. ROBINSON 
EMERSON HOUGH 
FRED. MATHER 
ELLIOTT COUES 
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 
“VO ” 
J. W. SCHULTZ 
H. P. UFFORD 
“NESSMUK” 
And Many Others 
We have on hand a number of bound volumes of Forest and Stream from 
August, 1873, t0 January, 1906. Each contains over five hundred pages of outdoor 
literature, covering shooting, fishing, yachting, camping and numerous other sports, 
with many stirring sketches of western life, and animal stories. Thev are treasure 
houses ot valuable informat on regarding camping, angling boat-building, etc. 1 heir 
value is greatly increased by many excellent illustrations, and rack volume contains 
a carefully compiled index. They are the best history of the best American sports. 
With few exceptions we can furnish volumes 1 to 65, but we have not a complete set. 
They are bound in heavy cloth, with leather bac : and corners, and printed in gold. 
The former price was $3 50 a volume To dispose o' the few extra < opies of the 
volumes we have left, we will sell them for $2 00 as long as they last. First come— 
first served. 
[April 6 , 1907. j 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., 346 Broadway, New York 
THE DIAMOND BACK RATTLER. 
Hunters from northern States who come here 
in winter are astonished at the careless indif¬ 
ference of our resident sportsmen to the danger 
of being bitten by rattlesnakes when quail shoots 
ing. Our native diamond rattler is the second 
deadliest of all the snake species, it being ex 
celled in its sure death dealing bite by the East 
Indian cobra only. I know of no one whc 
dreaded rattlesnake bite more than the late Dr 
Vedder, founder of the museum bearing hist 
name, on Bay street, and he bandied great nunt-J 
bers of all our native snakes and reptiles. W 
have bad no case of snake bite in this vicinit. 
now for many years. The last I knew of wa 
one that occurred in the early 90’s, somewhere! 
near Daytona, which resulted fatally to a young 
man well known here. He was one of a coterii 
of well to do young Englishmen, who were al 
of that class of sports known as “dead game,’ 
who at that time made this city their head 
quarters. He, while with a friend on a duel 
shoting hunt, stepped ashore from his boat 01 
the Halifax River, and when but a few step 
from the river bank stepped on a huge rattle 
snake, which bit him just above the ankle. Hi 
companion heard the report of his friend’s gui 
and a call to hurry to his assistance. On hi 
arrival he saw a dead rattlesnake lying near hi 
companion, who was taking off his sock. H 
told how he had stepped on the snake that ha< 
bitten him, and then as it turned to glide awa 
to the brush he had shot it. A sharp penknif 
was used on the wound, and when splayed opei 
his companion for some minutes sucked th 
wound to try and keep the deadly venom fron 
spreading through the system. The woundc 
man was carried to the "boat and hurried to 
doctor who fortunately had a residence near th 
river. Whiskey, permanganate of potash, moi 
phine and every known supposed specific wa 
(Continued on page 525.) 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium 
entertainment, instruction and information betwe< 
American sportsmen. The editors invite communicatio: 
on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anon 
mous communications will not be regarded. The edito 
are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 
SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: F 
single copies, $3 per year, $1.50 for six months. Rat 
for clubs of annual subscribers: 
Three Copies, $7.50. Five Copies, $12. 
Remit by express money-order, registered letter, mone 
order or draft payable to the Forest and Stream Publis 
ing Company. The paper may be obtained of new 
dealers throughout the United States, Canada and Gre 
Britain. 
Foreign Subscriptions and Sales Agents— Londo 
Davies & Co., 1 Finch Lane; Sampson, Low & C« 
Paris: Brentano’s. Foreign terms: $4.50 per ye; 
$2.25 for six months. 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Inside pages, 20 cents per agate line. Special rates 
three, six and twelve months. Eight words to the hi 
fourteen lines to one inch. Advertisements should 
received by Saturday previous to issue in which th 
are to be inserted. Transient advertisements must 
variably be accompanied by the money, or they will r 
be inserted. Reading notices, seventy-five cents per li" 
Only advertisements of an approved character inserted 
Display Classified Advertising. 
Hotels, Summer and Winter Resorts, Instruct! 
Schools, Colleges, 'etc. Railroad and Steamship Ti 
Tables. Real Estate For Sale and To Let. Seeds * 
Shrubs. Taxidermists. The Kennel. Dogs, etc. Wa 
and Exchanges. Per agate line, per insertion, 15 cei 
Three months, 13 times, 10 cents per line. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 
346 Broadway, New York. 
