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stances ; a (log to earn the maximum number of points 
under tins head must display a first-class nose and exhibit 
great judgment in finding and pointing his birds, and 
make no flushes that a dog with the above qualities would 
avoid in ordinary hunting. The dogs are to be bunted in 
all respects as in an ordinary day's shooting. Inex¬ 
cusable or willful flushes will detract from a dog’s score 
under this head, but the character of the flush must he 
always taken into account in estimating the penalty, if 
any. The judges must not ask the handlers if their dogs 
are pointing, hut must decide for themselves. They shall 
always consider the nature of the ground, the wind and 
the birds, and not penalize a dog for flushing a bird it 
would be impossible to point. The penalty for Hushes to 
be graded by the character of the offense. The judges 
ahull not require the handlers to work their dogs down 
wind. 
(Pace)—The dog that maintains the fastest gait through¬ 
out the trial, except when in cover or on game, to receive 
the full number of points, all others to be graded by 
him. 
(Backing)—The maximum only allowed such dogs as 
stand or drop instantly at sight of anotherdog pointing. 
But no dog shall be expected to back unless the dog point¬ 
ing stands and is motionless. A dog shall not be said to 
refuse to back unless lienees the dog pointing. To get 
credit for a back, the dog must stop at least ten yards 
(when practicable) in front of the handler. 
(Style)—The judges shall consider the dog’s grace in 
ranging and drawing, and attitudes in pointing and back¬ 
ing. 
(Staunchness) — The maximum allowed such dogs only 
as do not advance from their point when they are on 
game until ordered on. 
(Ranging)—The maximum only allowed the dogs that 
maintain the most killing range throughout, viz., wide 
or close,*as the necessity of the case may require. 
(Quartering)—The maximum only allowed such dogs 
as work at right angles with the handler unless the na¬ 
ture of the ground renders such work impracticable. 
(Obedience and Disposition)—The maximum only al¬ 
lowed to a dog that works promptly to the gun without 
noise or severity, and is obedient, prompt, cheerful and 
easily handled. 
(Retrieving) — To receive the maximum under this head 
a clog shall go promptly and cheerfully for the bird and 
deliver it to the handler without mouthing or mutilation. 
- (Raise Pointing)—The judges shall give a dog ample op¬ 
portunity to discover .whether or not he is on true point, 
and the penalty shall range from one to seven for his acts 
throughout the heat. 
(Breaking in)—Is when a clog through imperfect break¬ 
ing or from excitement leaves his position when the 
birds rise, whether the gun is fired or ,not, and starts to 
- break shot or chase, but stops within a few feet from the 
point from which he started, of his own accord or com¬ 
mand. 
(Breaking Shot)—Is when a dog runs iu when a shot is 
fired, with the intention of getting the bird, and does not 
stop promptly at command. 
(Chasing) — Is when a dog follows the bird either when 
the gun is fired or not, to an extent to be beyond the 
control of tbe handler for the time being, 
(Puppy Stakes.—Rule : Dogs over eighteen months old, 
shall not be eligible for the puppy stakes. There will be 
no points allowed for retrieving in this stake. Rules 
otherwise as above. 
Brace Stakes.—The rules governing the brace stakes 
shall he the same as those used in the all-aged stakes, 
with llie following exceptions: The maximum for rang¬ 
ing shall be ten instead of five ; the maximum for point¬ 
ing shall be ten instead of five, and tbe total one hundred 
and ten, instead of one hundred, The brace to earn tbe 
maximum for quartering must cross each other syste¬ 
matically, and work independent of each other, or one 
dog must quarter the ground on one side of the hunter 
while the other dog quarters the opposing side, the dogs 
meeting at or near the center. Each brace will be run 
separately, instead of running in heats, and he judged 
by the scale of points as laid down and explained. 
Breaking Young Retrievers. —William Ridgway, of 
1G9 Piccadilly, London, has recently published a capital 
little pamplilet entitled ••Observations on Breaking Re¬ 
trievers,'’ which contains some practical instructions, of 
which we give the following extract:—- 
About the most critical period of the breaking of a 
young retrie ver is when lie first sees game. You muBt 
be careful how you take the bird from his mouth (let no 
one else do it for yon), so as not to let the dog drop it be¬ 
fore yon have kola of it, for if it flutters away your dog 
may be tempted to bite it, and so injure bis temper some¬ 
what. If he lets go too soon, step back apace or two, 
and encourage him to carry up to you; if, on the other 
hand, he holds on too tight, take hold of his cord with 
one hand and jerk it as you receive the bird with the 
other, saying “Softly” to him all the time till he re¬ 
leases his hold. “Softly" is a very important word, to 
be constantly used, and perfectly understood by tbe dog, 
that be may be punished, if he ever requires it, for being 
iu any way rough with a Clippie at any future timein his 
life. Always keep as quiet as possible when your dog 
searches for dead or wounded game. You may pretend 
t o look too, but not keep calling out to him, “ Hie, lost! ” 
If he is wild y our doing so wi 11 make him overru n the place 
or scent; and if he is slack he will expect you to find for 
him and show him too much where he iB to seek for it. 
If possible, do not let him be disappointed in his search, 
• for il' you have a dead bird inyour pocket you can easily 
drop it, aud let him come upon it before he quite gives 
up seeking. Then caress and praise him well for his ex¬ 
ertions. Braise for good work is a great reward. Should 
you see a running bird flutter and try to rise above tur¬ 
nips some way before your dog whilst he is following by 
scent, do not hasten to lift him (i. e. take him off the place 
where he is following it to put him nearer to the bird), 
but give him time to trace it as much as possible by him¬ 
self ; because if you lift him you make him wild, and he 
then will raise his head and try to see the bird, not keep¬ 
ing liis nose down as he ought to do. Do not send a dog 
after a wounded hare until the hare has got out of sight. 
Your dog must then follow by scent; the hare will not 
run so far or so fast if not pursued at once, and will often 
stop and become, stiff, and so be easily secured for you. 
Mqny hares will beat a dog that follows at once, and 
never be taken, as when warm they can run, even when 
much hurt, to a considerable distance. Numbers of dogs 
are rained by being broken too quickly ; all their cour¬ 
age leaves them. They will not hunt in thick hedges, 
or seek long or at all out of sight for wounded game, 
and this would not have been the ease had they been 
broken by degrees, Their masters call them perfect re¬ 
trievers because they never run in, and will follow 
them loose through coverts full of game, but for any 
practical purpose as retrievers they arc almost entirely 
useless. 
A Smart Rabbit Dog.— Ncwurli, N. J„ Nov . 14£/i.— 
Editor Forest and Stream : —Mr. James H. Haley, at 
New Veruon, Morris County, lias a dog called Sport, who 
is hard to beat on rabbits. Mr. H. says it is a very un¬ 
usual thing for Sport to lose a rabbit, and judging from 
what I saw of him I think Mr. H. speaks truth. Yester¬ 
day 1 had the pleasure of hunting with Sport, and one 
coincident will serve to illustrate his strength of nose and 
skill. A rabbit was started in a piece of oak sprouts. 
Bunnie bounced out into a long field of cabbage, through 
a peach nursery, down a fence, along which was piled 
some heaps of brush, under which he concealed himself 
where the dog could not get at him. On being stamped 
out of this brush he ran through a long corn stubble, 
crossed a road into a thick field of blue-bent. The dog 
never failed to have the game well in hand until he got 
into this blue-bent, where he appeared stuck; but he 
iroved equal to the task. The mercury was at 80 deg. 
7. 1 We were on a high hill, and I was hunting in my 
muslin shirt sleeves and straw hat. The dog was pant¬ 
ing, with his tongue at full length. The earth was dry 
and hot. Sport tried the track from every point for about 
ten minutes, but no go, when he deliberately stuck up 
his head and tail, started for the road, down which he 
went to a swamp a quarter of a mile away, to a spring of 
water. Mr. H. proposed that we go to the house, about 
a mile, and get dinner, assuring us that Sport would 
have the rabbit all right when we came back. By the 
time we got half way to the house, sure enough we heard 
the dog open afresh, and until we got to the house his 
steady tongue convinced us he had no bother. Dinner 
finished, Sport was still at work. We carried bread and 
water out to him, which he' stopped and took. After 
taking his refreshments he shook himself, picked up the 
track, and for fifteen minutes kept the cotton bobbing, 
when a lucky shot ended the race. Notwithstanding the 
difficulties of the day we had a number of fine runs, and 
got every rabbit, except one holed. 
Sport is a fairly bred fox-hound, five years old, black 
saddle, tan legs and cheeks, white breast, of moderate 
size, and is regarded by many as the best rabbit dog in 
Morris County. Straight Bore. 
Cure for Mange.— Washington, D. C., Nov. 24th.— 
Editor Forest and Stream :—I have found the following 
treatment for a bad case of mange very efficacious, and 
communicate it for the benefit of those who may have 
dogs affected with this annoying disease. For one week 
or ten days give six grains of iodine of potassium dis¬ 
solved in one drachm of distilled water, divided into 
two doses, night and morning. Wash thoroughly twice 
a day the affleted parts with the following: Three 
drachms of muriatic acid in one quart of soft water. 
The iodine of potassium will somewhat weaken the dog, 
and if he or she should be debilitated from any other 
cause, say distemper, I would, after the week or ten 
days’treatment with iodine potassium, give small tea¬ 
spoonful of bitter wine of iron in large teaspoonful of 
cod liver oil twice a day. For distemper I have found 
nothing equal to strychnine, given in the outset in gran¬ 
ules of 1-120 of a grain, and increased after few days to 
1-00 of a grain. G. 
Soft Soap for Fleas. — Monroelon, Pa., Nov. 1 5th .— 
Editor Forest and. Stream: —In almost every issue of 
Forest and Stream I see questions and answers on the 
flea, question, how to rid our canine friends of the pest, 
etc. I have a simple specific, which, although the 
receipt prescribed by “ Gunner” in this week’s paper may 
be “sure pop,” is, I think, equally efficacious and much 
more simple. I set my pup, be he large or small, In a 
wash-tub which already contains about two pailsful of 
water just warm enough to be comfortable, and then 
proceed to work half a pint of good, strong soft soap into 
the hair, using as little water as possible. I gradually 
wash the soap out, and by the time that is done I will 
guarantee every flea on that dog to he a dead one. There 
is no danger of removing the hair, or injuring it or the 
dog in any way. Ortyx V. 
Moira, Frmiklin County, Nov. 26th. —The parties from 
Vermont that went up to the sixteen-mile level, on the 
St. Regis, with a pack of hounds, two weeks ago or so, 
returned last week with five whole deer aud a saddle and 
two hides of others. I understand they lost four of their 
dogs while there. Adrion Ondack. 
—There was great excitement on Thanksgiving in 
Clinton and Westbrook, Conn, Fox hunters with nine 
hounds were out. John Dee, of -Westbrook, captured 
two, and William H. Merritts, of Clinton, one. Another 
one was driven into his burrow and dug out. 
—Mr. H. G. Wotberspoon’s (Quebec) red setter bitch 
Cora II, whelped on Nov. 28th six dogs and five gyps. 
The dogs and one of the gyps all red, and the other four 
gyps White and red, white largely predominating. A 
beautiful litter of pups. 
—Mr. J. H. Steele’s (Ellington, Conn.) orange and 
white setter bitch Tip whelped Nov, 22d eight puppies 
(four dogs and four bitches), all orange and white, and 
sired by C. H. Merrick's Doe (Ethan Allen's stock). The 
bitch was hunted constantly, birds being shot over her 
two days before she whelped. 
—Mr, Henry W. Livingston's lemon and white pointer 
hitch Rose (Snapshot-Gypsy), on Nov. 24th whelped 
eleven pups, all lemon and white (five dogs and six 
bitches), by OrgiR's champion Rush (Flake-LUIie). 
THE MODEL RAILWAY. 
There is no link in the chain of railwaytrom the At 
lantic to the Pacific Oceans, tha t has played so directly 
an important part in that great continental railroad, as 
the link of five hundred miles composing the Chicago & 
North-Western Railway, from the inter-continental me¬ 
tropolis—Chicago—to the Missouri River at Omaha. 
In starting westward from Chicago, it was the pioneer 
to connect with the Union Pad lie Railway ; it virtually 
made that road practicable, aud was substantially tbe 
father of it. It thus earned its well deserved title, “ The 
Old Pioneer.” That it in a measure exhausted itself 
financially in its rapid and forced construction across the 
then unsettled but rich prairies of Illinois and Iowa, ac¬ 
counts for the fact that it was for some time as its later 
day and would-be rivals smilingly put it, “ a streak of 
rust.” Yet its history, on a review, shows it to have over 
been, as to time and to absence of accidents, a “ Cunard 
line” for safety, speed, and regularity at terminal arri¬ 
vals. This may be accounted for from its having less 
gradients and curvature than its new competitors to 
Council Bluffs, at the same time being the shorter or in¬ 
side line. It started its trains last from termini and 
arrived first. It haB ever been the most accomodating 
for the through passenger. This much for its past 
history. 
The last two or three years, in its roadway, its rail, its 
equipment, has witnessed the most wonderful change of 
any road in the east or west. It is flow the First-Class 
Railroad; second to none, the equal, we think the super¬ 
ior, of any, which justly entitles it to the appellation, The 
Model Railroad. Gravel ballast, white oak ties, steel rails, 
stone culverts, iron bridges, first-class engines, coaches 
that are airy and elegant for comfort, having Miller coup¬ 
lings and Westinghouse steam brakes, and attached to 
each train is one or more of those marvels of splendor, 
the Pullman Palace Hotel cars, iu which the travleler ea ts 
and sleeps in more luxurious apartments than old world 
potentates ever dreamed of. The matchless tracli, the 
scientific equipment, lias won for this road, for its ease 
and comfort that mead of praise, the triumph of art in 
railway travel, Its praises should be ever sung in the 
far Orient, and especially those near lands that owe so 
much to the continental railroad — Colorado, Nevada and 
California, and the distant Occident—that all may know 
of its well deserving of the public’s patronage. Quite in 
place will it be hereto say, that much travelled, observant 
and skillful officer of the United States Army, Major- 
General Irvin McDowell, in passing over it the other day, 
on his way to San Francisco, was pleased to say of it: 
“ It is the finest road I ever travelled on, either in Europe 
or America.” 
The road bas additional praises to those of its excel¬ 
lence of construction, natural location, and perfect equip¬ 
ment; the esprit du corps of its employes lends a charm 
in their care, attention and gentlemanly deportment, 
which adds the cap sheaf, grace, to its material perfec¬ 
tion. 
For the year past it was a road without a terminal de¬ 
tention. Its greatly increasing through travel and im¬ 
mense way business will soon require a double track,— 
Republican , Dec. 7 th, 1878. 
The recent completion of several branch roads in 
Minnesota, iu the interest of the Chicago & North-Wes¬ 
tern Railway Company, suggests the statement that the 
total length of lines of the Chicago & North-Western 
Railway is 2,1581. This is the greatest mileage operated 
by any company in this country. It is made up of six 
divisions of the Chicago & North-Western proper, and 
eight proprietary lines, and the whole system is subdivi¬ 
ded into twenty lines and branches. To control success¬ 
fully such a vast and complex system, of railways evi¬ 
dently requires talent of the highest order, and the splen¬ 
did condition, financial as well as physical, which the 
property now exhibits, is sufficient testimony to the abil¬ 
ity of the management. 
The nucleus of tliis great system, the old Giilena&Chi¬ 
cago Union Railway, was open from Chicago to Elgin, 
42 miles, in 1850, only twenty-eight years ago. The Chi¬ 
cago & North-Western Railway Company came into 
being, as the successor of the Beloit & Madison, Rock 
River Valley Union, and Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du 
Lac companies, in 1859. In 18G5 the Galena and Chicago 
Union was consolidated with it, and in the few short 
years that have followed the young corporation has gone 
forward with astonishingly rapid strides, to its present 
proud position. What its future enlargement may be is 
left to imagination. A study of the map, which shows 
the system already reaches into five states and a territory, 
may prove suggestive of possibilities yet ahead.— Ii. It, 
Age, Dee, 12 th, 1878. 
—The Diving Decoy Co., of Rochester, N. Y., make a 
rubber ball target for trap shooting. It is inflated by the 
shooter. Iu addition to the other advantages claimed for 
it, is that the participants are always warranted in mak¬ 
ing a tremendous blow about their work. 
Danger Signals. — Fivo eminent men have died with¬ 
in the past few weekB of Bright’s Disease, and many 
more will soon die of the same fearful destroyer because 
they do not take Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, 
the only sure remedy for this (iUd other kidney and liver 
diseases .—[Adxu 
Tall Son's of York.—A t Niblo’s Garden, a few days 
ago, an advertisement calling for 200 men, six feet high, 
to serve as supernumeraries, was filled from the number 
of applicants in an hour and a half. One might infer 
from this that there were very many able-bodied men in 
this city still out of employment. 
—An American engiueer has beep studying the great 
wall of Ciliua. It is 1,728 miles long, and being built 
without the slightest regard to the configuration of the 
ground, is sometimes carried 1,000 feet down into abysses. 
Brooks and small rivers are bridged over by it, ami strong 
towers on both sides protect large ri vers. " 
Oedema and Enema are the pretty names which Mrs. 
Wilson, of East Lounsberry, Olao, has jusE given her 
, twin sister children, 
