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a prejudice against such short tubes, 
and some of us know that from a prac¬ 
tical standpoint 24 to 26 in. bbls. are 
not as effective as 28, 29 and 30 in bar¬ 
rels. Twelve ga. guns of proper bar¬ 
rel length and of light weight can be 
had, but we must cross the big pond 
for them and pay a handsome sum 
with 45 per cent, duty, and most of us 
can t spare the long green necessary 
to complete the transaction. Hence, if 
we want one gun for all purposes, snipe 
to geese, with an occasional round at 
the traps, and at a price within the 
reach of the average sportsman; of a 
weight to make a tramp afield a plea¬ 
sure and yet deliver a suitable shot 
charge with efficiency, we must look to 
the 16 ga. as the only size now made in 
America that comes anywhere near fill¬ 
ing the requirements of an all purpose 
gun. 
TOURING WITH 
RAYMOND SPEARS 
(Continued from page 495) 
riations that are feasible. Dome peo¬ 
ple wishing entirely to evade the often 
difficult problems of outfit and camp 
making, go on hotel and restaurant 
jaunts. To these are added farm 
houses that “accommodate tourists.” 
The cost by this route is not difficult to 
estimate. 
Meals are sure to average about 50c. 
each, per member, at least. Many tour¬ 
ists, campers and hotel, find that two 
meals a day are enough. Thus $1.00 
to $1.50 a day for food is inevitable. 
Lodging is generally 50c. to $2.00 each, 
but $1.00 is a safe average. The tour¬ 
ist by economical hotel lodgings can 
hardly go for less than $2.50 a day. 
And as hotels supply the breakfast, at 
least, the cost is likely to be 75c. for 
this meal. A little carelessness, and 
the cost mounts to $3.00 a day, and it 
is not unlikely $4.00 a day for each 
member of a party—$12.00 a day for 
four. The car will cost not only gas, 
oil and service, but garage fees at 
night, which may be 50c. to $1.00 for 
storage, and tips. 
Campers nearly all avail themselves 
of occasional restaurant and hotel 
meals. A store meal a day is a rest 
for all hands. Taken in the short-order 
cafes and restaurants, the average cost 
is 50c. a meal. We had a good meal in 
the Lincoln Highway Cafe at Cheyenne 
for 35c., and we paid 75c. for poor 
meals in a western Texas cow town. 
I find on inquiry among tourists and 
automobile travelers that they vary in 
expenses according to their ingenuity. 
If one is an adept at taking care of his 
own car, thus avoiding all but the cost 
of gasolene and oil, and any spare parts 
needed—and every driver should know 
his car well enough to put in new gears, 
say—the high cost of repairs will be 
avoided. A good mechanic in a party 
of three or four cars can have all his 
car’s expenses paid on the trip by 
taking care of all the cars. That is, 
garage expenses add from thirty to a 
hundred per cent, of the cost of tour¬ 
ing 1 —and these expenditures can be 
saved by learning the car. 
Really, a car giving twenty miles per 
gallon of gasolene, carrying four people 
with a reasonable camp outfit, ought 
to go 100 miles a day and carry its 
passengers for from five to seven cents 
a mile. 
Hurrying instantly increases the cost 
per mile. Racing across the country to 
reach the Coast at the rate of two 
hundred miles a day is apt to run the 
cost of traveling from ocean to ocean 
from $125, say, to $250, and delays at¬ 
tendant upon broken springs and work¬ 
ing parts will bring one to the coast 
about the same time the hundred-mile- 
a-day careful driver arrives. One 
party, “making two hundred and fifty 
miles a day,” passed us five times be¬ 
tween Cheyenne and Chicago. We 
were coming along anywhere from 
eighty to one hundred and thirty miles 
a day, depending on the roads. They 
hit up to forty miles an hour at times; 
we never passed twenty-eight miles, and 
dropped instantly to twenty, fifteen or 
even ten miles when questionable going 
appeared. They should have traveled 
for a third less than our old-car ex¬ 
penses, but probably spent nearly twice 
as much, for they smashed springs, had 
motor trouble, and tore up things gen¬ 
erally. 
The moment one presses his car for 
speed, costs mount. The difference be¬ 
tween twenty-two miles and twenty- 
eight miles in a light car is nearly one- 
third increase in cost. Avove thirty 
miles, costs are apt to double. The 
most expensive touring is going fast. 
The temptation on good roads is to go 
too fast. Tourists coming in off the 
rough western highways onto cement 
and other smooth-paved highways of 
the East are apt to go much too fast 
before learning the knack and quality 
of good roads. When the jumping-off 
place of good roads was in western 
New York, there were countless acci¬ 
dents there because men used to gumbo, 
to sand, to the rutted prairies could 
not control their machines at thirty or 
forty miles an hour. An eastern driver 
running into wet gumbo, if he tries to 
go fast enough to throw the mud from 
his wheels, is apt to go into the ditch— 
and that is expensive. 
Nervousness on any highway is apt 
to cost money. A poor shift may strip 
gears, a careless look of wonder at a 
sky line may run one over a bank, and 
failure to watch for glass, horseshoes, 
and even sharp stones may cost tires. 
No two drivers work their cars in the 
Famous Fishing Tackled 
A Fish Story 
(4 True One ) 
65 Pounds of Fish 
In Half a Day 
m 
'T'HIS is the result of 
A fishing with a Dar¬ 
devle. The l etter below 
is one of hundreds—and 
itis true, not a fish story. L. 
D. J. EDWARDS AN£r COMPANY 
Sporting Goods tfnd Jewelry 
Rocky MoiCnt, N. C. 
n TT , Wy 20th > 1923 
uear sir: Under separate cover the writer is send¬ 
ing You a photo of a real nice catch made on the 
1 Jthinst. in half a day—amounting to sixty-five 
pounds—with one of your Dardevlet Baits. We 
are large handlersof fishing tackle—also the writer 
is a very good customer to himselfon Dardevlet, 
as I have morel uck using this bait than allothers 
combined, and would not even think of going out 
without three or four Dardevlets—as they arefish 
getters. (Signed) D. J. EDWARDS. 
Why not believe Mr. Edward* (ifnot me)—use a 
Dardevle and get some real fishing yourself. 
<|I9 T 1 ? Brings 3 Sizes of Dardevle in Red 
and White Chunk Pattern—onefor 
every weight of rod and line. Charges Prepaid. 
Dardevle, 3 % ins. long, 85 cents each 
Dardevlet, 2 % ins. long, 85 cents each 
Dardevle’s Imp, 2 ins. long, 65 cents each 
Four Color Osprey Catalogue Free 
Writeforit. Shows all Dardevle Patterns in act- 
ualcolors. Many other items, too. Please give 
your dealer’s name—and we will try to have him 
handle Dardevle too. 
Lou J. Eppinger, 310 E. Congress Street, Dept. 0 
Detroit, Michigan 
The Latest Idea in Fish Hooks 
peteSch 
'Improved 
— fish. 
Hool^ 
They have the direct pull 
from point to end of shank, 
also evenly balanced, does 
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hole only the width of barb. 
The principal feature is they 
will twist” automatically, 
the fish having very little 
chance of escape. The snell 
will not break at the con¬ 
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causes other hooks to break. It is the only 
open hook that has weedless action, yet 
nothing to obstruct the fish from getting 
known 1 ^ 1S ^ surest and deadliest hook 
Send for prices and details 
PETESCH MFC. CO., Council Bluffs, Iowa, U. S A 
Box 192-K. 
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FOR LIVE 
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DUCK ANCHOR 
®" aps ° n and ? ff - The ring once installed is perma- 
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Aith circulation nor action. Will not snarl in any man- 
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Page 529 
W. A. GIBBS & SON 
DEPT - 9 0 CHESTER. PA. 
Makers of the famous “TWO TRIGGER” 
game traps 
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