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Che Kennel, 
FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 1 to 6, Bench Show of the Lancaster County Mair Association 
Lancaster, Pa. Entries close Aug. 380. J. B, Long, Secretary, 6 West 
King stipet, Lancaster, Pa, 
Sept. 2, 8 and 4,—Bench Show of the New England Fair, Manches- 
ter, N.H, Wntries close Aug, 28. ©, A. Andrews, Superintendent, 
West Boxford, Mass. 
Sept, 9, 10 and 11.—Third Annual Bench Show of the Montreal Ken- 
uel Club. Hntries close Sept,1, Chas, Lincoln, Superintendent, J. 
S. Wall, Secretary, P, O, Box 1,246, Montreal, Canada. 
Sept, 16, 17 and 18.—Collie Beneh Show and Field Trials of the 
Ontario Collie Club, Toronto, Ont. Entries close Aug, 23, Mr, H, J, 
Hill, Secretary, Toronto. 
Sept, 16, 17, 18 and 19.—Bench Show of the Philadelphia Kennel 
Olub, Chas, Lincoln, Superintendent. Mr. Benj. ©. Satterthwaite, 
Secretary, 
Oct, 8 9, 10 and 11.—Vhird Annual Bench Show of the Danbury 
Agriculinral Society, Danbury, Conn. Entries close Sept. 27. 1, §. 
Davis, Superintendent, Danbury, Conn, 
Oob. 21, 22, 23 and 24.—Kirst Annual Fall Bench Shew of the West- 
minster Kennel! Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. Mr. Chas. 
Lincoln, Supermtendent, 
FIELD TRIALS. 
_, Noy. 17.—S8ixth Annual Trials of the Hastern Field ‘Trials Club, at 
High Point, N.C, W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush, L. I. 
Dee. §.—Sixth Annual Trials of the National American Kennel Club 
at Canton, Miss. D. Bryson, Seeretary, Memphis, Tenn, 
A. K. R. 
PEE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc, (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 
lished eyery month, Entries close on the Ist, Should be in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (#5 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted uuless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 
“American Kennel Register,’’ P. O, Box 2882, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 1490. Volume, bound in eloth, sent 
postpaid, $1,50. : 
TO INAUGURATE AN ERA OF PEACE. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Lask that you and all other sporting papers urge that the 
uational convention to meet in Philadelphia under the call of 
Mr, Eliot Smith and Major Taylor; be the epoch of peace and 
good feeling between those interested in the canine race. If 
those petty contentions and criticisms that have filled the 
columns of our sporting papers for the past year continue, 
bench shows and field trials will soou be things of the past. 
To establish good feeling all individual caprice must be con- 
troled, Should delegates come to the aforesaid convention 
with their eyes and ears closed, and determined in their own 
minds to push individual standards, etc., for their own 
notoriety, the result of the convention will be on a par with 
that reached by some sporting papers of this country, which is 
a disgrace to journalism. OBSERVER, 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug, 22, ; 
TREATMENT OF POISONED DOGS. 
Editor Forest and Streai: 
Your correspondent of Aug, 14, in speaking of chloral 
hydrate in cases of poisoning in dogs, covers over entirely too 
large a field, To use this drug indiscriminately im all cases of 
poisoning would cause more harm than good, In cases of 
strychnia poisoning it has been of some use, but take for 
instance a narcotic poison, In such a case chloral hydrate 
would be simply adding fuel to the fire, as it would keep the 
animal dull and sleepy, and allow the other drug to be fully 
absorbed and get its full action. 
As regards hypodermic injections of chloral hydrate, it is 
not to be used in that way, as it invariably causes violent 
erysipelatous inflammation of the parts surrounding the 
place injected. This is followed by a slowly healmg ulcer, 
which leaves a bad scar, a thinp: not yery desirable in a fine 
haired dog. In giving a hypodermic injection to a dog, al- 
ways take the inside of the thigh, as any drug, if injected, is 
lable to cause an abscess,and there itis notseen. With chloral, 
if the animal cannot swallow, give an anal injection; it is al- 
most as prompt. 
The sheet anchor in ail cases of poisoning is an emetic, as it 
will remove all the unabsorbed portions of the drug from the 
stomach, the best emetic is tepid water and a half teaspoonful 
of either mustard or common salt, the former preferred. Let 
there be plenty of water, as in such a case itis to wash the 
stomach; then treat the symptoms.as they appear, If they 
are spasmodic or irritant accompanied by pain,give sedatiyes— 
chloral hydrate, opiates, etc, ;if they are narcotic in character, 
as dullness, sleepiness, give stimulants—often repeated doses 
of sherry or port, 4 ALEXANDER GLass, V.8. 
PHILADELPHIA, Aug, 21, 
IMPORTATIONS FROM GREENLAND. 
“)VER in the navy yard the members of the rescuing party 
who receive the most attention seem to prize it least. 
They roll around the decis of the Bear, trying to keep out of 
the sun, and only become animated when the cook begins 
frying something savory in the galley. Then they poke their 
long noses in at the door, and wait until something is thrown 
to them. They are three Hsquimaux dogs, taken out by the 
relief expedition and brought back to enjoy life where there 
is plenty to eat. But the sailors say the dogs did’nt seem to 
look at the matter in a pleasant light, and prew more and 
more uneasy as they got further south. They seamed to en- 
tertain a horrible suspicion that they were being inveigled 
into a trip to the equator, and awaited with dread the time 
when reindeer, fish and icebergs should give out, and warmth 
and starvation stare them in the face. — 
Hive were brought from Greenland, but two were given 
away al Portsmouth, The joyful demonstrations which took 
place there conyinced the remaining three that the equator 
had been reached, and, thinking that it could not get any 
hotter, they began to adapt themselves to circumstances, and 
to devote their exclusive attention to antagonizing two New- 
foundlands who were taken on at St. Johns. They fought the 
Newfoundlands pretty much all the time, and this kept them 
occupied and cheerful. Occasionally, the Newfoundlands got 
tired and refused to fight, and then the Esquimaux fought 
among themselves, But the sailors noticed, with great admi- 
ration, that, no matter how bitter they might be against each 
other, they suspended. their animosities and became brothers 
with one accord as soon as a sow broke out with the new 
comers. 
A little way out from Portsmouth five young Msquimanux 
were born, and this created a great commotion among all the 
dogs on board. The big Esquimaux knew that the little ones 
couldn't stand the heat, and were very much worried about it, 
and the Newfoundlands failed to understand the half-dozen fat 
little hairy, chunky animals that had come among them, and 
showed a tendency to investigate the matter by biting little 
pieces out of the pups. This led to constant war and a long 
succession of binging ears and seratched noses. It only 
ended with the death of the little Esquimaux, The heat, 
combined with oyereating and the persecution of the New- 
foundlands, was too much for them, and they dropped off one 
by one, in spite of the care of the sailors, who kept them as 
cool as possible and kicked their enemies at every SURG LIY 
When all but the last pup was gone the mother didn’t know 
whattodo, She kept it all day between her paws, and bit at 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
everything that came along, without discrimination. At last 
ib died tuo, and then she became inconsolable. She wandered 
around in the sun, and lay down recklessly near the furnaces, 
as hone courting death. Her long yellow hair has all fallen 
out, and sheis yery thin, Visitors to the vessel look at her 
and laugh at her poor appearance, without perceiving the 
equatorial tragedy going on before them. But the sailors 
ac age it all, and are yery sorry to see that she is going to 
e, 
The other two dogs seem, however, to get along very well, 
They are sleek and fat, and the hair is growing out on the 
places that had been rubbed bare by the sledge harness, Ac- 
customed to ill treatment and abuse at home, they are treated 
like heroes and experience all the agreeable sensations of an 
imported second-rate English actor, But, like the latter, they 
appear to take all for granted, and seize every opportunity to 
show by their actions that they consider the north pole far 
more comfortable than anything in this country, 
But in spite of their fine appearance now itis feared that 
they will not live, and Dr, Ames, who takes a great interest 
in them, is going to take them to the Metropolitan ice house 
in Brooklyn, where they will wander up and down the cool 
corridors until the winter comes on, when they will be ex 
ab ited in Central Park beside their compairiot, the polar 
ear, 
Wnsign Harlow, of the Thetis, when spoken to about Esqiti- 
mau dogs, said: 
“Thad the finest dog in Greenland, and one that had been 
nearly 1,000 miles further north than any of the rest. He had 
come down from Sander’s {sland, with a lot of other dogs, 
hitched to a sledge, and I picked him out from among the lot. 
He was a beauty, and I got him cheap, I made a trade with 
the Esquimau lady who owned him, I gave her a paper of 
needles, a spool of thread anda fruit knife. It was a good 
bargain for her, but the dog died, went overboard just before 
we arrived at Portsmouth. Some of the boys thought it was 
a case of suicide, but I don’t believe it. Probably he thought 
it was hot enough, and he wouldn't go any further down. He 
aida realize how far we were from shore when he jumped.” 
—Sun. 
ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 
XI, 
READ in the papers that) the thermometer was 124° in the 
_ sun one day this week, Phew! Iwish I had not seen it. 
T have felt an inch of clothing hotter ever since, 
dogs feelit! Nature is a queer creature at most times, 
“Nature and Nature’s lawslay hid in night,”’said Pope in the 
course of his blasphemous epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton. We 
should require a dark lantern to illuminate Nature’s object in 
keeping masses of thick coat on the much-to-be-pitied rough 
dogs in summer time. Poor collies, sétters, Maltese spaniels, 
poodles, etc. 
nature with 124° of heat in the sun. 
T have been spending a peaceful week at a charming little 
coast village and haye had interesting opportunities of study- 
ing thatmost forlorn canine, the ‘‘seaside dog.” He belongs 
to. nobody and nobody belongs to him, Of an evening he 
wanders about the town, you meet him sitting idly in the 
middle of the paveme=t, placidly contemplating with envious 
eyes the cool, moist fish, reclining by blocks of crystal ice on 
marble slabs; from there he will pensively wend his way to 
the pastry cook’s, and wait by the door and regard witb ex- 
| pectant gaze the children coming out ‘with buns and bags of 
iscuits, All children love dogs, and he usually gets a mouth- 
fulortwo. You will next be almost thrown to the ground as 
he comes tearing wildly out of the cook shop, into which the 
savory odors of cooking meats and batter pudding have 
tempted him to yenturesomely enter and out of which the 
“steel” thrown at him has precipitated his departure. 
he sleeps nobody knows. 
a wag of his stump as you come down on the beach with your 
novel, If you loo 
him. Examine his mouth and you will see his teeth have got 
worn to the gumin this pastime, If you want to lie on your 
back and read, he will slouch off to the nearest boat and 
throw himself down in its shadow. Worsome time he ye go 
ear- 
ing a noise that must proceed from him, you raise yourself 
upon your elbow to lookat him, There he lies, fast asleep but 
dreaming, his body and legs twitch and little short yaps and 
he is chasing the landlady’s cat 
in dreamland, Good dog, that cat is a lot in every lodger’s 
to sleep with one eye, keeping the other fixed on you, 
barks escape from his throat; 
debt. Now he starts from his sleep witha yelp, Ah! the 
slavey’s broom caught him in the back, He looks stupidly 
round for the imaginary assailant, then stretches himself from 
the tip of his nose to the last hair on his hind foot, and trots 
leisurely oyer to you, sits down by your side, with his face to 
the ocean, and we both listen to a language we neither under- 
stand; but ag] think and muse two more characters appear on 
the scene, little Paul Dombey hoiding the hand of his sister 
Florence, and they listen again to the words the waves throw 
up. 
irhere isa deal of sentiment in a “‘seaside dog,” but [ am 
sorry to admit their attachment Can sometimes become an 
embarrassment, Iremember such a case yearsago, A dear 
old ruffian, a thoroughbred mongrel, a sad dog only in appeal 
ance, took afancy to me on my arrival at his ozonic birth 
place, and like Poe’s raven, he left me nevermore, that is to 
say till had to leave him, Dear old Dash was a ragged, 
wiry, grizzly gray dog, and everything else that ends in “‘y,” 
but his BesebIe and black, shone bright with intelligence 
and gratefulness. His father may have been a lurcher, his 
mother, but no, I respect the sex too much to give the lady 
a bad name, and why should I reflect upon the gallantry of 
my friend’s parent. This Dash literally dogged my footsteps. 
He bathed with me, he drove and rode with me, he pretended 
an interest in the sights of the neighborhood that | am sure 
were dreadfully stale to him, and by the courtesy of the land- 
lord and the muttering toleration of the landlady he slept with 
me. 
So violent became his affection that he would spontaneously 
attack passers-by that in his zeal he suspected of intent to as- 
sault me. I had to pay for several pair of trousers and in time 
found that in my walks abroad stones came unpleasantly 
whizzing by me that were hurled at Dash by boys he had 
tasted on my behalf. 
Our. parting was pathetic, 1 dreadedthe day. | amsure Dash 
had his suspicions that I was going. He ate the kidney [ 
handed him from the breakfast table mournfully, lam sure he 
thought it was a bribe for his good behavior in the approach- 
ing trial. He knew all when I shut the door of the ear, but he 
didn’t whine, he only looked at me but with such reproachful 
swimming eyes. The station master and porter were there 
looking on, they knew me and Dash, the porter patted him, 
the train moved. ‘Here, Jook after him,” | called to the porter 
throwing him half a crown; as the train quickened Dash’s 
composure broke down and he came atter it barking, but the 
ace was to the engine and poor Dash sat down and howled 
is last adieus to ‘‘Lillibulero.” I can still see him sitting there 
and hear his sad yoice. There isa deal of human nature im a 
dog and I wish often there were more of dog’s nature im man. 
Imust risk the madhouse certificates jof Doctors Winslow 
and Sydney Turner when I shake hands with Mrs. Welden 
and maintain this canine vagabond had a soul. 
IT mentioned bathing with Dash. I will write awordor two 
on that head, I was sitting on the sands last week watching 
the bathers when a sweet vision “‘of the flesh,” im 4 captivat- 
ing costume that neither prudishly hid nor immodestly dis- 
layed, tripped down the steps of the machine, and after a 
fow pretty, hesitating gestures at the freshness of the water, 
boldly plunged in ane struck out. With a bark of excitement, 
a splendi ewfoundland hounded past me and dashed into 
- 
How the poor 
What must they think of great and glorious 
W bere 
Next morning he will greet you with 
cheerful, he will tempt you to a game and 
bring stones and lay them at your feet for you to throw for 
[Ave. 28, 1884 
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the water after its beloved mistress. With vigorous strokes 
he swam ont to her, she saw him and called him to go back, 
but he thought she was drowning, so he made grabs at her 
hair and gown to pull her in, then he swam over her and pad- 
died her under the water; she tried to escape, and very soon 
he would have effected the opposite of his goad intentions, I 
sprang to my feet and shouted at the top of my voice “Tread 
water and hold onto his collar.” She heard and compre- 
hended, and brave Sailor swam to shore with her, where lL re- 
ceived the bashful thanks of the dripping maiden who was 
saved in spite of herself, 
Care should also be'taken when boating accompanied with 
dogs. Small dogs are the best to take, as a large dog puts the 
boat out of “trim” by his ‘movements. And anybody who has 
had a dog ina rowing boat knows how they jump from side 
to side to salute their confreres as they pass. Never throw a 
dog ont of the boat, doing so splashes everybody, and spoils 
the temper of others who are not doggy, and not ‘over kind” 
to their “faults,” Then your dog will try to eet back into the 
boat, and sometimes succeeds in turning it over in his frantic, 
unreasonimg endeavors, Don't either let. your dog swim be- 
hind attached to a rope, for he will stand a good chance of 
entangling himself and getting nearly drowned. The best is 
ie let them run along the bank and take a swim when they 
ike. 
Above all, a dogry man should ayoid making his pleasure 
another man’s nuisance. 
I don’t think the Darlington Committee are satisfied with 
the results of their ‘‘ratting,” For seyeral years them show 
has been held under their own rules, and f think they were 
wrong to yield their independence in the face of the small- 
minded boycotting of Kennel Club members, associates, secre- 
tary, steward, porters, ete, 
Darlington bartered away their freedom for a miserable 
increase of sixty entries. The Kennel Club is good enough for 
its own purpose, but it is a broken reed to lean on for small 
shows. I am glad that so much attention was paid to the 
well-filled foxhound classes. I want to see sportsmen and 
fanciers at our shows. 
Stroud wisely held its showin conjunction with the agri- 
cultural society, and so reaped a handsome profit from the 
“gate.” A fox-terrier was objected to for haying had his coat 
tampered with. . 
An idea can be formed of the way in which shows are being 
overdone by the list of those held in the lastfew days: Duns- 
kirk, Durham, Darlington, Buxton, Strabane. Pontefract, 
Pickering, Redruth, Cardiff and ad nawseam. How can they 
be expected to pay? A 
An ably-written letter has appeared on Great Danes and 
German mastiffs, signed by D. Frank, of Paris. He is well up 
in the subject, and plainly shows that the Great Dane or boar- 
hound is quite a different dog tothe Ulmer dogee or German 
mastilf. The Great Dane he describes as a “high elegant 
dog,” the German mastiff ‘head rather short, heayy in shape.” 
Some points he treats fancifully and with too much detail, 
but he properly sums them up, ‘‘The Great Dane, elezant and 
powerful, and the Ulmer dog heayy and sullen,” He says 
little about color, but I baye read that the Great Danes are 
usually black or blue, mottled, tiger and dark pbrindles, and 
that the Ulmer dogs are generally fawn or red. [Mr. Wrank’s 
article will be published in our next issue,] , 
Mr. Frank concludes his letter with the prommse, “In another 
article I will endeavor to defend the Leonberg against the 
author (Vero Shaw) of the ‘Illustrated Book of the Dog?” I 
am looking out for that article. Mr. Prank is a-braye man. 
A more uncompromising mongrel than the so-called Leonberg 
dog I haye never seen, They are a swindle breed. 
Mr. James J, Giltrap and the Rev. O'Callaghan are having 
an Irish row over their Irish setters Garryowen and Gany- 
mede, If the editoriis foolish enough to tolerate the eontinu- 
ation of a correspondence of no interest whatever to anybody 
but the two disputants, the reputation of Ganymede and Gar 
ryowen will disappear atter the manner of the Kilkenny cats. 
I see that one of the specialist clubs has presented its hon. 
secretary with a pair of candelabra on his marriage. This is 
the first occasion that has come under my notice of a club 
honoring itself by a proper recognition of the arduous cuties 
performed by its honorary officials. May other clubs follow 
the example when the secretary's ‘‘fancy (vice collies) lightly 
turns to thoughts of love.” 
Birmingham has decided to reform, and will publish the 
names of their judges. <All grumbling now should cease, and 
Lhope that one and all will exert themselves to send old 
Brum a bumper entry! 
Much amusement has been caused in dogey circles by the 
report of a dog case at Sunbury, The well-known actress 
Miss Violet Cameron was the plaintiff, and prosecuted the 
owner of a dog which had killed her spaniel, Mr. Stephens, 
the secretary of the Kennel Club, conducted Miss Cameron’s 
case, and, from the report in the papers, seems to haye shown 
not much knowledge of the business; he harped the whole 
time upon the “big brown beast” haying belonged to the 
murderer Pease. This goes to show that if the bootmaker 
shoule stick to his last, so the secretary should stick to his 
ink-pot. I don’t say this unkindly, but I should guess by 
what I have heard from his friends that there ave two qual- 
ties in Mr. Stephens’s nature that contend for supremacy— 
modesty and good nature; it is a pity he allowed the latter to 
get the upper hand in this affair. LILLIBULERO. 
Awe. 12, 1884. 
SPORTING DOGS AND DOG SHOWS. 
FIYWENTY years have now passed since dog shows were first 
thought of in this country, and atter the experience of 
the most scientific men has been brought into play, the ques- 
tion arises, ‘Haye exhibitions béen of benefit im improving 
the various breeds of sporting dogs!” There is a wide margin 
of old-fashioned sportsmen in Hngland who maintain that the 
institution of dog shows has had the contrary effect, one gen- 
tleman affirming, in a letter to our contemporary, the eld, a 
few months back, that, previous to their establishment, “zun- 
shy” dogs were neyer heard of, which seems to show thatthere 
has been something in the subsequent) breeding which occa- 
sions the weakness. He gave as his reason that, m the mode 
prizes are awarded, it is impossible to test the working quali- 
ties of the wimers, and many dogs receive honors which 
have defects totally unqualifying them for their duties, such 
being transmitted to their offsprmg through breeders running 
after stud dogs that have been so distinguished, without first - 
ascertaining their fitness to produce. The correctness of this 
statement admits of considerable doubt; in fact, our experi- 
ence, dating back to long before shows were inaugurated, is 
that gun-shy dogs always were to be found, and we cannot 
accept the theory that if the fault did not previously exist it 
could, under any circumstances, be reproduced in procreation. 
Tt is possible that occasional cases may occur that dogs which 
have won prizes have been gun-shy,; but we look upon it as 
the exception rather than the rule, ; A - 
There is, however, room for consideration whether in show 
yards sufficient care has been taken to ascertain the working 
qualities of sporting dogs, and in this the Americans have set 
an example, as at the more recent bench shows held in the 
United States, classes have been made for candidates showing 
the best records in field trials, thus bringing the best working 
dogs and the most perfect animals in conformation together, 
and giving breeders the opportunity of exercising their judg- 
ment in selecting their sires. Without going quite so far to 
say that within the lasb twenty years sporting dogs have 
deteriorated, we are still of opinion that some plan should be 
adopted by which it would be impossible for an unbroken dog 
to gain prizes, and, perhaps, raise himself to the title of cham- 
ion, : ' 
4 Horses qualified for races confined to bona fide hunters are 
compelled to obtain a certificate from the master of the 
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