Sept. 24, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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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. 
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A Problem’s Solution 
Canvas Canoes and How to Build Them. 
transported, and is not very dainty in feeding, it 
may be that in time it will become more popular, 
especially if breeders succeed in producing it 
with a smaller head. In the tributaries of the 
Danube and in pools and stagnant water it could 
not exist at all. 
The tiny California sheatfish is not yet well 
known in Austria, and as its many good qualities 
are much underestimated it is not very popular. 
It is a harmless fish, extremely tenacious of life, 
and, like the black bass, is often bred in carp 
ponds. As it is a decided mud fish, attempts have 
been made to introduce it in waters in which our 
finer fish have been destroyed through the dis¬ 
charge of factory refuse, river regulating works, 
and exploitation of water power. The tiny sheat- 
fish has fulfilled all the hopes placed in it and 
thrives splendidly even in strongly polluted 
waters. Though it offers only an inferior substi¬ 
tute for our better kinds of fish, it may yet per¬ 
haps be destined to play an important part in 
Austrian pisciculture. 
From all this it follows that our most precious 
acquisition from America is the rainbow trout, as 
we do not yet sufficiently know the purpurata, 
provided that we shall be able to renew the breed 
by the speedy importation of eggs from America, 
and in this conviction we heartily join the 
Austrian pisculturist who writes at the close 
of his observations, “May our friends in Amer¬ 
ica add a new gift to that which they have made 
us already in the irideus, and give us a little from 
their superabundance. The fish breeders of 
Austria would be very grateful to them.” 
A WARDEN’S WORK. 
An editorial in an afternoon paper, charging 
J. A. Tolerton, State game and fish commis¬ 
sioner, with importing and distributing certain 
game without legal authority, was denied by the 
commissioner recently, says the St. Louis Re¬ 
public. He said the writer was ignorant of the 
game laws which specifically require the distri¬ 
bution of game as a part of his duty. 
Section 68, of the State game laws, reads: 
“All moneys sent to the State treasurer in pay¬ 
ment of hunting licenses or other licenses, penal¬ 
ties, forfeitures, shall be set aside by the State 
treasurer and shall constitute a fund known as 
the game protection fund for the payment of 
the salary of the State game and fish commis¬ 
sioner, his necessary expenses, for the payment 
of deputy game and fish commissioners and their 
necessary expenses, also the buying, shipping, 
keeping, propagating and preserving of game.” 
“This editorial takes exceptions to the money 
spent for restocking Missouri’s game-depleted 
forests and fields,” said Mr. Tolerton, “and says 
a part of the money could better be employed 
in obtaining work for the idle, which reminds 
me that only a few days ago I read in one of 
your papers that it would'be impossible to carry 
on the improvement of the streets satisfactorily 
because of a shortage of men to' do the work. 
"The sportsmen in the State who are paying, 
through licenses, for the propagating, importing 
and distribution of game are well pleased with 
the work being done in that line. Because there 
are men out of work on account of faulty laws 
(if that be the case), governing the free labor 
bureau, it is no reason why the game commis¬ 
sioner should neglect his business or be criti¬ 
cised for carrying out the letter of the law, as 
it applies to his duties.” 
L. A. Geserich, president of the Missouri 
game and fish commission, said that the work 
being done by Mr. Tolerton in distributing game, 
especially English pheasants, was being com¬ 
mended throughout the entire State. He said 
that no other warden had accomplished what he 
had in restoring game to the depleted State. 
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. 
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Sam Lovcl’s Boy. 
By Rowland E. Robinson. Price. $1.25. 
Sam Lovel’s Boy is the fifth of the series of Danyis 
books. No one has pictured the New Englander with 
so much insight as has Mr. Robinson. Sam Lovel and 
Huldah are two of the characters of the earlier books 
in the series, and the boy i's young Sam, their son, who 
grows up under the tuition of the coterie of friends that 
we know so well, becomes a man just at the time of the 
Civil War, and carries a musket in defense of what he 
believes to be the right. 
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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¬ 
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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. 
Hunting Without a Gun, 
And other papers. By Rowland E. Robinson. W ith 
illustrations from drawings by Rachael Robinson. 
Price, $2.00. 
This is p. collection of papers on different themes con¬ 
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and now for the first time brought together. 
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