FOREST AND STREAM. 



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they expected something strange to happen. And well they 

 might, as iu the space between the kennels and midway be- 

 tween the gate ami the house "Lige" had erected a scaffold, 

 such as is used for hanging criminals. The preparations all 

 being completed, the unfortunate dog was ted forth, and to 

 hhn was attached the carcass of l lie dead sheep, tSjtich he wag 

 made to draw, with a little assistance ftbm the executioner, to 

 the foot of the scaffold. At this point of the ceremony the 

 other dogs were called out one by one and made to take a posi- 

 tion in a circle around the gallows, just as well -(rained bounds 

 are made to do at the death; then the culprit was mounted 

 on the scaffold, the fatal noose placed upon his neck, and In 

 another moment the trap fell, and there hung the poor beast 

 In mid air kicking and struggling, until finally strangled to 

 death. Whether this example had any moral effjet upon the 

 canine witnesses or not, certainly sheep. killing was nllor- 

 .wards of very rare occurrence on that estate. J. D. II. 



j\ r tts/iHlk, August 8. 



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TnE Use of Salt for DircSmPBB.— Editor Forest and 

 StirtHm : I promised some lime ago to give you the result of 

 R. G. C.'s treatment, for distemper in dogs. The remedy was 

 to give one a tablespoonful of dry table salt, to be followed 

 the next morning with a teaspoon'ful of Epsom salts. These 

 to continue «>n alternate mornings until a cure was affected. 

 In both cases the dose was to he liquid measure. I suppo ed 

 that a spoonful of dry salt, liquid measure, meant a spoon 

 even full (not heaped), and I proceeded accordingly. My dog 

 wasasetter, twenty-one "months old. He has always been a 

 poor feeder, and very thin in flesh ; never was sick until this, 

 time, and always lively and in good spirits. He had been 

 quite sick for some time when I saw K. 0. C.'s remedy. 1 

 had not given him an}' medicine, except a little sulphur to 

 keep his bowels open. He was entirely off his feed ; had a 

 had cough, a discharge from nose and eyes and vomited more 

 or less a nasty greenish matter. I gave him the first dose of 

 salt on a Sunday morning. In about, five minutes he began to 

 VOmit, 1 don't, think I ever saw any dog so sick. It lasted 

 about teu minutes, and he threw up a large amount of, stuff, 

 first of a yellow color, and the last part a dark green. He lay 

 down for a while and then I spoke to him. He got up and 

 i mi, to run around and play. I then offered him his break- 

 fast (mush and milli), and he ate all that I would give him. 

 The third morning that 1 gave, him the salt he rose upon his 

 hind legs and fell over on bis side, kicking and whining, and 

 had a regular fit. I watched him awhile ; he was frothing at 

 the mouth, and when be began to spring about the room 1 

 Ipft, and shut the door. I waited a few moments, and hearing 

 nothing I opened the door and went, in again, when he walked 

 over to me with his old intelligent look and lay down at my 

 feet. I took him out-doors and he had his vomit, and then ate 

 his breakfast as before. I gave the remedy just eight days, 

 ending with the Epsom sails. I fed him soft food, mush 

 thinned down with a little milk or soup. He is always hun- 

 gry now, has taken on flesh, weighs twelve pounds more than 

 he ever did before, and is all right and ready for business. 



Newton, Mass., July 37. L. 



We think the dose given' for eight alternate days too long 

 continued, even for an adult animal, and might result in harm. 

 The old story might be revived, of how a sick Frenchman on 

 the point of death wanted :i red-herring, eat it, and got well, 

 and how another herring killed a Dutchman. Distemper is a 

 most uncertain and vague complaint. A general name has 

 been given for a score of diseases. If this cure is tried by any 

 of our readers wc should advise that care and judgment be ex- 

 ercised. We do not wish any dead dogs to be put to the score 

 of our paper. The remedy, though a natural one, seems to us 

 to be a little too heroic. 



Is Mutilation Jdstifiable. — We take the following sen- 

 sible article from the London Live Stork Journal: 



Seeing several letters on this subject in the Journal, 1 

 WOUld like to say a word or two both for and against docking 

 dogs' tails and clipping their ears. There can be no doubt 

 that the spaniel experiences great earn fort from being docked, 

 a fact which must be patent to every one who has worked or 

 seen such animals worked in close covert, thick underwood, or 

 among brambles ; were they not docked they would lacerate 

 their tails to a very great extent ; hence, in this case " mutila- 

 tion" is a kindness to the animal. Again, the rounding of the 

 ears of foxhounds may be placed "in the same category. 

 Scotch terriers used to be both docked and clipped, a proceed 

 ing quite unnecessary, cruel, and worse than useless, as these 

 clogs frequently suffered great pain when in foxes' earths, etc., 

 through grit and sand getting iuto the ear, which would not 

 have occurred had the protection Which nature had provided 

 them been left as it was formed. The English terrier, or 

 black-and-tau, has its ears out for no other purpose, I can sec, 

 gave to hide some deformity, or to please certain morbid tastes 

 of the fancy. The little tag of ear left on those beautiful ter- 

 riers renders them obnoxious to me ; for, instead of adding 

 beauty to the generally well-formed head, it detracts in avery 

 high degree, and is useless as well as cruel. We see at every 

 show little dogs with cut tails, but ears left intact. These are 

 called in these modern days fox-terriers. Now, I should think 

 that if any part of their appendages ought to be cut off it 

 should be their ears and not the tails, as those of them which 

 would go to earth would be more likely to have their ears 

 torn by fox or badger than their tails; but the fancy, being 

 more knowing than I am, probably imagiucs that the fox- 

 terrier attacks tail first, a belief I also entertain of many of 

 those noisy little animals one sees at dog shows. We see also 

 the wee " Yorkie " sitting on a satin cushion, with its ears 

 thinned to please the taste of lis lady owner. I should like 

 to know- how she would fancy her ears "mutilated" in the 

 same fashion. Let us try to improve our animals by selec- 

 tin: in that we shall succeed ; lint we Shall never advance 

 them one Step by Fakil g and t trust every judge throughout, 

 (he laud will set his face against it. though the practice has 

 been sanctioned in a manner by usage, thai doca inot constitute 

 a right of way with fakers and mutilators. Let them he ban- 

 ished forever "from our shows, and let us look on animals and 

 birds as the God of Nature formed ihem. Truly glad am I to 

 see there is a poultry club formed for this very' purpe.se, and 

 it shall have one supporter in Stkatubooib. 



"What I Can't, We Qi.1t." — Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I have two pointer pups tinea months old, I was feeding 

 them in the yard away from the kennel, and the chickens (I 

 have a good many of them) were troubling the little fellows 

 considerably by picking in their food. The pups put their 

 heads together over the dish as if in consultation, after which 

 one of them stood back and the other one ate in peace. T)ie 



one which had stepped back not offering to eat, but dashing 

 from one side to the other, kept the chickens away from the 

 dish until the one which was eating hail eaten fully one-third 

 of Ihe contents of the disb,*wl:en he stepped back and drovo 

 the chickens away while the other one ate. This performance 

 was repeated several times until the food was all eaten. 

 Blufflon, hid., August 3. A. A. W- 



A Doo for %vkx$.—Tidilar Forest and, Stream : W r e have 

 shipped the following pointers : Liver and white marks, dog 

 pup, to E.Taylor, Orange 0. H., Va.; liver dog pup to 

 Orson Adams, Jessops Out, Howard Co., Md.; liver with 

 while marks, to Charles M. Wray, New York city ; liver with 

 white marks, dog pup, to Dr. Warms, Nottingham, Prince 

 George's Co., Md, Liver and white dog pup Joe, whelped 

 April, 1878, was shipped by steamer sailing for Glasgow on 

 Saturday last from New York. This pup goes to Mr. W. C. 

 Bevun, Malaga, Spain, and was selected by one of Mr. B.'s 

 friends at his request. We feel somewhat flattered iu think- 

 ing that this is probably the first exportation of pointers from 

 the United States to Spain, and hope that the pup will prove 

 as staunch in the field as his sire end dam, and do us credit, in 

 that distant country. Yours truly, Muiukihk Kknnki,. 



Muirkirk Furnace, Md. , August 8. 



Tuk Shkei> Question Closed. — The testimony in regard 

 to the female dog killing sheep has been so fully given by in- 

 telligent and reliable correspondents that we may now con- 

 sider the discussion at an end. It takes little time to draw 

 out the truth iu suchlmatters. 



Bnornw Lkqs. — A Ferrisburg ( Vt, ) correspondent, Mr. R. 

 E Robinson, tells us of an incorrigible sheep-killing bitch, 

 which wastinallyexpatriated to the wilds of the North Woods, 

 where her propensities found ample exercise in deer-chasing. 

 He adds : 



I have often SGcn the broken legs of sheep set and kept in 

 place by a bandage of sole-leather, having holes punched in 

 the edges and laced on, with perfect success. Very likely 

 the same contrivance might be used to advantage on the frac- 

 tured leg of a dog. 



Bbom Bones— JVeic Toi-k, August 2.— I claim the name 

 of Brom Bones for my orange and white setter dog pup, by 

 Milo (Dan-Venus) out of Pau (Dash-Fan), whelped May 21, 

 1878. P. T. BoNTEcou. 



Whelps — Ooldsboro, W. C. August 9. — My red Irish bitch 

 Gussie (Dan-Ruby stock) whelped four dogs and one bitch on 

 the 28th of July, sired by Joe; imported by J. U. Cooper, 

 Limerick. H. P. DoBTorr. 



Eoboken, August I.— Eleven puppies out of the full- 

 blooded imported dog and prize winner Joe-Jack. 



Max Hknzkl. 



Visits— Washington, August 12.— My imported field trial 

 setter bitch Livv, sister to champion Leicester, visited Arnold 

 Burgis' Druid on the 4th, oth and 6th instant. Puppies are 

 all engaged, three of them by the St. Louis Kennel Cluo. 



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YACHTING AT HOME AND ABROAD. 



Mr. Dixon Kemp, of London, whom it is no flattery to 

 rank as leading authority on modern yachting, has just pub- 

 lished a new book on yacht and boat sailing. This work, wc 

 take it, is intended to be in the nature of both a supplemental 

 one to "Yacht Designing " by the same author, as well as a 

 more elementary exposition of the essence o£ the very inter- 

 esting science of naval architecture. The objections of high 

 price and too great erudition, made against his incomparable 

 work on Design by many who have either uot the leisure, dis- 

 position nor qualifications required for its perusal, cannot be 

 brought against the new book. The author's aim seems to 

 have been the collection, with due regard to order and pre- 

 cedence, of the more salient elements of naval design, called 

 iuto play in planning the construction drawings of a yacht or 

 boat ; and it must be said that, with this in view, the success 

 of his undertaking has been as thorough as can be desired. 

 We could not point to a book of any kind, treating upon a 

 subject as intricate in detail as the modern science of naval 

 architecture, in which the very pith ha3 been gathered in a 

 shape so presentable and comparatively unbroken as in Mr. 

 Kemp's new work. There are two rocks upon which the 

 popularization of science generally splits. Such attempts are 

 too often swamped, and their ubiquity curtailed by the weight 

 of too much detail, the ordinary leader failing to grasp of his 

 own accord I he main principles set forth, losing the line of 

 argument or deduction in a mass of bewildering detail. 

 Again, in efforts made to forestall any such possibility, 



'thors are too apt to overlook the continuity of the subject 



under treatment, and force tl 

 and axioms not in any way de 

 before him. He finds the ma 

 jointed way only, and must 

 truth or advisability of which 

 No such failings can be cbarg 

 thorough accord wilh the spir 

 throughout, the book bears ii 

 themselves, however truthful 



student to : 

 vedanuexpb 



cept ci inclusions 



' ed in the work 



irlh in a dis- 



oncerning the 



ive his doubts. 



He 



ated 



adei 



id 



ind that mere statements of 



the light of higher investiga- 



tions, will not stand among that portion of the public with 



whom he is dealing, and whom he desires to instruct as well 

 as interest. We find, consequently, the first half of the hook 

 to be devoted to the theory of yacht design, a large portion 

 of which has been reduced to written language, with ninny 

 appeals to actual experience, thus doing away with the neces- 

 sity of a liberal mathematical or mechanical education on the 

 part of the reader. There is not a practical boat builder in 

 the land who cannot rendity follow the author through his 

 train of argument ; and, apart from the insight into the prin- 

 ciples underlying naval construction- to be obtained from the 

 book, we regard this as its most praiseworthy feature. 



It is often maintained that foreign works on yacht design 

 are of no use to Americans ; even more than that, they are 

 said to be misleading. To any such opinions wo emphatically 

 protest. On the contrary, even did we have American 

 thought, and work in this line reduced to print, we maintain 

 lhat a study of English standard works is of the greatest im- 

 mediate benefit to us. In the present condition of yachting 

 in America, we have much yet to learn — very much ; and in 

 no manner can we improve so readily and rapidly than by ex- 

 ample and experience from a nation which has developed the 

 sport of yacht, sailing and the science of design to so high a 

 degree of perfection that the average American has no concep- 

 tion of. It is all very well to resort to such cheap clap-trap as 

 an appeal to our national vanity, and exclaim about the great 

 "Bird of Freedom" knowing everything and being able to 

 teach our British cousins all about, yachts and yachting; but 

 such screeching comes only from those whose narrow-minded 

 prejudices preclude a fair and rational consideration of the 

 matters in question. If we accept some things from abroad, 

 it by no means follows that we must take everything and 

 anything just as they happen to come, but that, we can select 

 judiciously, and to our advantage, much to be found in Eng- 

 land and English works no logical person can deny. In the 

 first place, the theory of naval architecture is the same, no 

 matter what type of craft may be in vogue in different waters. 

 To know how to find the centre of buoyauey, of effort, of 

 lateral resistance, to understand the effects of' stowage and 

 ballast, to compute by figures or draft, geometrically, a curve 

 of stability or displacement, is independent entirely of any 

 particular style of yacht, and is of value, alike to Americana 

 as to the builders of other nations. And, pray, where are we 

 to obtain such knowledge if not from English works? 

 Where is there an American book that can teach the mechani- 

 cal public as concisely and ably as the works of Mr. Dixon 

 Kemp? Is it Griffith's sad jumble of high-sounding words 

 and exasperating mixture of mathematical ignorance and 

 mechanical ability? Or is it Nystrom's extemporized and 

 purely tentative parabolic system; or Took's comparison 

 of lines? And if not these, where is the American 

 work we are to follow ? The builder who attempts to wade 

 through Griffith's will read one page, then throw the book 

 aside and swear with renewed vigor by his jack-knife art. 

 The man who follows Nystrom becomes a mere tool and 

 moves in a rut ; and as for Pook or any other author on ship 

 construction who may have flourished unknown to the puhlic, 

 their books cannot any longer be obtained— a fact not to be 

 regretted, for, with the exception of Pook's " Wave Lines," 

 they would all be behind the age, and no more fit for use in 

 thelight of the modern developments than an old time galliot 

 'for a Liverpool liner. An English work on the theory of 

 design is just as useful to us in America as if it had been 

 written by a free sovereign of the republic, directly descend- 

 ed from the first bigot who got his shoes wet when he stepped 

 out on Plymouth Rock from the Mayflower. But more than 

 this, our builders can learn much from the more practical por- 

 tion of foreign works on yachta. It is not at all intimated that 

 they can improve their present models for speed, for a glance 

 at the " lines" of boats published in English works will servo 

 lo show that we have little or nothing to learn from them in 

 this respect. Even among the modern and better type of 

 British schooners or cutlers we fail to delect that symmetry of 

 proportion and unison of curves so notably the prevailing 

 feature in American design, and directly traceable to the in- 

 nate superiority of the American mechanic over his foreign 

 brethren. With the exception of such craft as have been de- 

 signed by professional naval architects abroad, there is liitJe 

 question but what wc are ahead of all others on this point. 

 No one here would for example think of holding up as a copy 

 such an uncouth and clumsy production as Livonia or even 

 Cambria. We can beat, their lines every time. A comparison 

 of Sapp?io, Dauntless or Americayrith British schooners, so far 

 as grace and ease of lines are concerned, would redound im- 

 measurably in our favor. But then handsome lines and 

 speed are not the only things to be sought in a yacht ; for is 

 safety, ability at sea, comfort, bandiness to go for nought? 

 From the tables of scantling, the quality of stuff, size of fast- 

 enings and fittings and gear which we find in English works, 

 we can select much that will go to improve the condi'ion of 

 our fleets on all these important, points. Occasional reference 

 to Lloyd's rules, Mr. Kemp's books and the like will serve to 

 check the tendency of builders and owners on this side of the 

 Atlantic to slight their work, and would mitigate the most 

 serious evils from which our yachting fleet now suffers. 

 Wherein surrounding circumstances differ and purposes vary, 

 allowances can be made. On the whole, then, whether with 

 or without American standards, a close study of English 

 works will be of vast benefit to the craft we sail and to the 

 way we navigate them. 



The charge of unfairness and partiality is often urged 

 against English authors. However true this may be of others, 

 it cannot be sustained against those who treat of naval archi- 

 tecture. Among the long list of British and French authori- 

 ties on this and kindred subjects, tha only one we can call to 

 mind who has allowed his blind partisanship to run away 

 with his discretion, is E. J. Reed, formerly Chief Constructor, 

 K. N. In " Our Iron-clad Ships " he goes out of his way to 

 offer a gratuitous insult to American naval officers, question- 

 ing their veracity and ability. He intimates that the small 

 roll of monitors observed by them at sea is not worthy of 

 credit, and vehemently discourses in favor of broadside "ves- 

 sels. Like all radicals of that class, their own wen 

 day turn against them, and thus, a few years later, we Bud 

 him equally as energetically and lllogically preaching circular 

 ironclads of low free-board to the bewildered Bi : , 

 payer. It, so happened, however, lhat the stolid public of the. 

 tight little island had fortunately become somewhat disgnsti d 

 with E. J. Reed, and failed to take any more stock m him. 

 Ihe Russian " Popoffkas " turned out only partly successful, 

 and to the present day no power has seen ihe u. ee-.-iiy of 

 breaking up their old ironclads and rushing pell uiell into the 

 adoption of the circulars. Mr. Heed has in '• Nuv.n 3c i 

 upon more than one occasion, vented bis spleen i| oil 

 can designers, who, so far as genius and daring, th i : 

 matured, enterprise are concerned, were, gr< ally his superiors, 

 while his whole course as chief constructor evidences a 

 gradual and stealthy adoption of the principles given Ea the 



