Sept, io, 1910.] 
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The “Old Reliable” PARKER GUN 
Wins for the EIGHTH Time 
The Grand American Handicap. 
Score of 100 Straight from 19 Yards. 
At Chicago, Ill., June 23, 1910. 
Mr. Riley Thompson, of Cainsville, Mo., made this record, which has 
never before been equaled in this classic event. 
The Parker Gun, in the hands of Mr. Guy V. Dering, also won 
the Amateur Championship at Chicago, June 24, scoring 189 ex 200, 
shooting at 160 singles and 20 doubles. 
The Prize Winners and Champions shoot The PARKER GUN! 
Why don’t YOU? 
PARKER- BROS. 
New York Salesrooms ; 32 Warren St. Meriden, Conn. 
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is the certificate 
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$37.50 to $362 net 
The certificate is new, but the test is not, 
for every Fox gun ever made has been 
proved by (a^oV the firing of enormous over- 
charges, ^^ the same as required by the 
European Governments. 
Genuine (imported) Krupp Fluid Steel 
barrels; extra strong where powder strain is 
greatest. Several hundred inspections and 
tests insure protection and safety. 
One half the parts of other guns; each 
part twice the size and strength. The Fox 
rotary bolt forever prevents 
the gun shooting loose. Fox 
coil mainspring, and coil top ^ 
lever spring never break. 
The Fox gun is perfect in “hang,” pene¬ 
tration, general shooting qualities, etc. 
If your dealer does not handle the Fox, 
give his name, and order direct from the 
factory. Write for our art gun catalog. A 
postal card brings it. Free, of course. 
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A Problem’s Solution 
able and picturesque home for the club. The 
boathouses were remodeled, new boats put on 
the lake and a caretaker installed. One feature 
of the interior decorations of the clubhouse is 
incomplete, but is being added to from time to 
time. This is a row of mounted heads of rec¬ 
ord bass, caught from the lake by members. The 
largest of the twenty odd heads now in place 
once was the frontispiece of a fish weighing 
seven and one-half pounds. 
The club now has a membership of spxty-four. 
When the number has reached seventy-five the 
books will be closed, as the maintenance cost 
of $i,6oo a year will be more than offset by the 
monthly dues of $2. The initiation fee is $100. 
The officers of the club are: W. L. Rock, 
president; E. M. Meier, vice president; C. H. 
Cheney, treasurer; C. A. Nutter, secretary, and 
O. H. Pitkin, chairman of the House and 
Grounds Committee.—Kansas City Star. 
VACATIONS AND AFTER. 
The Morning Post writes meatily in an editorial 
on this subject, from which we take the sub¬ 
joined paragraph: 
President Taft laid it down to the astonished 
town-folk of Bar Harbor that ever} man ought 
to take a vacation of two months—how to get 
it not being specified. But he did not go deeply 
into the philosophy of the vacation. What man¬ 
kind thinks of work it has made sufficiently 
plain by the place assigned it in the future life. 
All religions are in substantial accord, even 
those that have upheld the dignity of labor here 
below, in emancipating the weary spirit from 
anything like regular employment above. It is 
no wonder that, with this sanction, work has 
seemed to be a desert luckily relieved here and 
there by an oasis. How to lengthen the oases 
and shorten the distance between them has been 
one of the favorite problems with which men 
occupy their leisure hours. 
The social function of the vacation is the part 
it plays in breaking up the crystalization into 
■castes. When one breaks bread for even a few 
days with a fellow vacationist whom he comes 
to respect for his sound sense and to like for his 
genuineness, the tardy discovery that his new 
acquaintance is socially negligible somehow fails 
to bring a shock. Even after one has returned 
to his haunts and habits he cannot, without 
feeling snobbish, ignore what may have grown 
into a really congenial companionship. Rigid 
exclusiveness at home has often, on vacation, 
relaxed under a winning smile or tactful phrase 
or ingenious diversion. 
The characteristic of a true vacation is its 
general loosening of the cords of custom. Let 
one get on the train for a journey or on the 
boat for a voyage, and with the fading of fa¬ 
miliar faces there comes a strange sense of free¬ 
dom. as if, in unknown regions and amid 
strangers, those safeguards which at home were 
accounted indispensable, become superfluous. 
The mystery must be akin to that of the con¬ 
trast between our considerate treatment of 
those whom we know only slightly, and the 
cavalier manner ive assume toward those whom 
we merely love. We reject the cynical explan¬ 
ation that people are admirable in proportion to 
our ignorance of them. This away-from-home 
carelessness, amusing as it often is in those who 
draw a very definite line between the demands 
of convention in Bluffton. and the license allow¬ 
able in, say, Sulu._ nevertheless makes its con¬ 
tribution to education. When one, even tempo¬ 
rarily, divests himself of ingrained mental and 
social practices, he has'enlarged by so much his 
faculty of appreciation, has capacity to welcome 
instead of to rebuff a different set of ideas from 
his own. That is true, despite the agile incon¬ 
gruity with which a returned tourist falls into 
the old ways at the first sight of land. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and nozv in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
LOG CABINS & COTTAGES; 
How to Build and Furnish Them. 
A seasonable book when all minds are bent on the 
problem of getting close to nature. Mr. Wicks in this 
delightful book offers timely advice to every one who 
wants to build a simple summer home at one with its 
surroundings of wood or stream or shore. 
This is a thoroughly practical work, treating of the 
how, the where, and the with what of camp building and 
furnishing. It is helpful, too, in regard to furnishing, 
and withal a most beautiful work. 
Cloth, profusely illustrated, $1.50 postpaid. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Hunting Without a Gun, 
And other papers. By Rowland E. Robinson. With 
illustrations from drawings by Rachael Robinson. 
Price, $2.00. 
This is a collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
tributed to Forest and Stream and other publications, 
and now for the first time brought together. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Canvas Canoes and How to Build Them. 
By Parker B. Field. With a plan and all dimensions. 
Forty-eight pages. Price, 50 cents. 
This little book, written by an enthusiastic and prac¬ 
tical canoeist, who regards his favorite pursuit as far 
superior to bicycling, driving,' riding or yachting for 
healthful exercise, is well worth reading by any one 
contemplating an outing. By careful attention to the 
instructions any man of ordinary mechanical talent may 
construct a good, serviceable canoe to carry 200 pounds, 
at a cost of six or seven dollars, and as the weight of 
such a canoe is given as only 35 pounds, it should well 
repay the cost of carriage to’ a lake or country. The 
book gives very precise instructions not only for building 
the canoe, but for remedying all the injuries to which 
it is liable to be exposed. The instructions are very 
clearly given and the cost of building is so low that it 
constitutes ■ a great inducement to spend one’s outing in 
a lake country. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Uncle Lisha’s Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh- 
borhood used to meet of evening and dull outdoor days 
“to swap lies.” 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
