ESTABLISHED 1830 
The Celebrated B/Ocean Reel 
Made by Julius Vom Hofe 
A DRINK WITHOUT A CUP. 
W E were going along as fast as pos¬ 
sible, my guide and I, in a narrow 
bark canoe, far out from shore. 
The guide wanted a drink of water but 
carelessly we had started without a cup, 
and it was impossible to lean over the side 
without dangerously tipping the canoe, and 
the lake was too rough at that. 
Without stopping for more than a stroke 
the guide swung his paddle straight in the 
air, placed his lips to the wood and as the 
water ran down, caught enough to wet his 
whistle, even though Jie had to repeat the 
process a few times to satisfy himself. I 
have tried the same thing many times 
since, but there is one better way—don’t 
forget your cup. 
Androscoggin. 
to be sure of making a fire, and the 
matches, perforce, be few or more or less 
wet. If you can get one match to light a 
A HANDY CANDLESTICK. 
E VERY camper has been bothered for 
want of a candlestick. The one il¬ 
lustrated here is so simple that no 
explanation is necessary. This contrivance 
makes it easy to put the light just where 
you want it, and beats the usual trick of 
turning the candle sidewise, allowing the 
hot grease to fall on a box or table and 
then setting the candle in the grease. Try 
the little trick illustrated: you will find it 
worth while. 
And, by the way, a short piece of candle 
isn’t a bad thing to have along with you on 
almost any kind of trip where you want 
FIG Z 
BARK IN PROPER SHAPE 
FIS 3 FIG 1 
How to Make the Candlestick. 
stub of candle, and will half shield it from 
the wind, it becomes easy to start your 
light kindling wood. 
A REUNION OF ANGLING WRITERS. 
T HE New York “Sun” conducts daily 
a department devoted to the rod and 
gun—and a mighty inte: esting one it 
is, too—under the editorship of Mr. A. T. 
Stoddart. It has brought together several 
hundred writers, who tell of their joys and 
woes, and give freely to each other the ad¬ 
vice that real hunters and anglers should 
be willing to extend or exchange. At the 
suggestion of some of his contributing 
editors, who knew each other for the most 
part only by their pen names, Mr. Stoddart 
had the staff to dinner a few evenings 
since at the Grand Hotel, New York, and 
what started out as a modest idea ended 
in a banquet attended by two hundred and 
fifty good fellows. The occasion was 
unique, for at no other time can it be re¬ 
called that so many real angling or outdoor 
writers had been brought together. There 
were scores of Forest and Stream’s own 
family among them—men who have been 
telling us all for many years of their ex¬ 
periences in the great out doors. The 
dinner was good, the stories and speeches 
better, but best of all was the spirit of 
camaraderie that marked the whole occa¬ 
sion. The banquet is to be made an annual 
event and it is the hope of everybody that 
Mr. Stoddart will continue to preside over 
it, years without end, as the guiding spirit 
and Big Chief. 
THOMAS J. CONROY 
Manufacturer,flmporter and Dealer in 
Corner Nassau Street * 
NEW YORK 
Circular and prices furnished on 
application 
and SPORTING GOODS 
28 JOHN STREET 
Patented Nov. 1 7, ’85; Oct. 8, ’89; Mar. 21, ’1 1. 
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