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Nov. 6, 1884,] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
291. 
the same time all her progeny took to that essential accom- 
plishment without hesitation. 
The first dog show in America was at New York, The 
famous showman, Mr, Barnum, wasits promoter, I exhibited 
my pet under the ownership of Dougall McDougall, and she 
beat all competitors. 
Soon after I took her to the Western States, where her 
erformances for speed, staunchness and beauty caused her to 
2 the admiration of all sportsmen with whom I was ac- 
quainted, and these were yery numerous, hailing from Chi- 
eago, mt. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville. 
elle’s (her name) first family was sired by Boh, the prop- 
erty of the late Lord Milton, then shooting at Kent county, 
Indiana, a remarkably good and iandsome dog, but I ever 
believed from the shape of his head, coat and length of ear 
that he had a cross of the water spaniel in him. At this time 
TL advised Mr. Charles Wooley of Cincinnati to import a black 
setter of a breed that was undeniable in every requisite, Mr. 
Ten Broeck, Kentucky, of racing celebrity, carried out this re- 
quest. He did so, thus in due course of time a splendid black 
setter arrived at Porkopolis, direct from the Kennels of the 
late Lord Derby. . ‘ 
The whole of Belle’s future progeny were sired by this 
“Stanley setter,” the Gordon setters and Stanley setters having 
much of the same blood in them, although of different colors, 
Upward of twenty of this breed were ee by me to vari- 
ous fri-nds and acquaintances, viz,, Ma, Noble of Indianapolis, 
Mr. Logan, of Cincinnati, Mr. Selew, of Vincennes, and Judge 
Aaron Shaw, of Lawrenceville, Ill., an intimate acquaintance 
of President Lincoln. When 1 broke up my establishment in 
Illinois, my kennel of setters and pointers were sold and were 
distributed im every direction. Mr. Foot, of New Jersey, a 
distiller at Cincinnati, purchased my best dog, Beau, rae the 
being seyen hun- 
old lady Belle, the price paid for the former 
dred and fifty dollars. 
Since ny last return 
setters as being par excellence the best strain in their country, 
but not one could inform me from whence they originated. 
This is the reason that I have presumed to write such a volu- 
mainous articie, and trespass upon your valuable columns, 
With the hope that you will succeed in carrying out the good 
work you haye undertaken, belieye me, sincerly yours, 
PARKER GILLMORE, 
Author of ‘The Great Thirst Land,” “‘Gun, Rod and Saddle,” 
How to Use it,’ (sic) 
“Prairie and Forest,” ‘The Rod and 
etc., ete. 
Lown Don, England, September, 1884. 
ENGLISH KENNEL 
VIL. 
NOTES. 
() Pee is something in the light, fresh air of Edinburgh 
that aS brightens me up. ‘‘A bit raw this morning,” 
I thought, as 
pi 
reye m 
tobacca smoke and inoffensively scanning— 
“Brother man, 
Still gentler, sister woman.” 
I always quote Burns, eat short bread 
in the army,” as we used to sing at school, 
resented in quality. 
The stagnant condition of our kennel press and the lethargic 
abilities of its agents forced themselves upon my notice at this 
This being one of the great exhibitions of the year, the 
representatives of the different journals were of course 
show. 
ise and among them the reporter of the Live Stock Jour- 
nal, 
appeared on Friday morning without a word about the show, 
In a great many offices such unenterprising, incapable laziness 
would have earned its owner the distinction of the most igno- 
ble ‘‘Order of the Boot.” 
It was generally hoped when the Live Stock Journal lately 
passed into wealthy hands, that its new owners would appoint 
an able manager of journalistic experience, and that such a 
man would surround himself with a staff of competent writers: 
but it soon became Spperedt that the new owners were 
horses, so the dogs are still left to a 
man whose whole qualification for the post consists in the fact 
that he once kept St. Bernards, and who, at the time he retired 
ot his affairs rather ‘tmixed” with a rever- 
wrapped up in cattle an 
from the fancy, 
end gentleman who had purchased several of his dogs 
justifiable prices. What reliance then can the paper 
puree in the criticisms of a man whose 
at un- 
ersona: 
port, therefore, must depend upon notes charitably supplied 
by exhibitors on their own classes. If readers knew the 
writers and how their reports are ‘‘vamped,” they would echo 
the words of one of our oldest and most successful exhibitors 
who said in my presence: “Show me the prize lists, I don't 
want their reports; do you think I am going to read what 
Blank says about s, he never owned one in his life, and 
do you stippose he can teach me anything, who has been in the 
fancy fifteen yearsand upward?’ Tor the application of m 
remarks on this subject | would ask those who have bac 
numbers by them, to contrast the reports of the Field and the 
Live Stock Journal when they were written by Lewis Clein- 
ent and Vero Shaw with those of to-day. It was the business 
of these men; their pens earned their living, and they gave 
you value for your money. Mr. VeroShaw basmany enemies 
in the dogey world, but I think there are few who would not 
consider his return to the kennel editorship of the Live Stock 
Journal. change for the better. ‘‘Look on this picture and 
on that;’’ in theold days the reports were written by men 
who were journalists, authorities and authors on doggy sub- 
jects—Vero Shaw, Hugh Dalziel and L. Clement. Their places 
are now taken by a fancier who once Kept terriers, by a fan- 
cier who once sold St, Bernards, and by another who once 
kept spaniels, though I will allow that the remarks of the last 
named are often readable if not very profound. 2 
Isuppose they had dual judging at Hdinburgh, becanse 
everybody wanted to dosomething. In coupling Mr. Panmure 
Gordon with Dr. James, a very cleyer judge, the committee 
by these harmless means cheaply returned their thanks for the 
prizes presented by the former. Twomen judging one class 
is in most cases unsatisfactory. If beth men are independent 
and experienced it often leads to open recrimination in the 
ring, Jones says Don stands better in front and hassuch good 
carriage. Brown can’t see it, and besides Dash’s coat is so 
mouch denser. “‘Not a bit of it,” says Jones with a superior 
air, “justfeel it.” “I don’t want to feel it,” replies the injured 
Brown; ‘I can see it.” “Oh, can you,” remarks the irritating 
Jones, “then perhaps you can se@ his teeth without opening 
his mouth; that will be @ distinct advantage, because he looks 
bad tempered.” And so they continue to nag until one gives 
in or an arbiteris called to decide. Neither remedy is con- 
vincing; with the first the owner of the beaten dog has a right 
to complain that his dog’s strong chance was given up by the 
weakness of one rf the judges, and in the second case the 
referee becomes the judge, ft p ; - 
-The plan can be made a successful one in practice if a divi- 
‘sion of labor be agreed upon beforehand, 1 was watching the 
ring where the two judges were acting, and I sgon peroeiyed 
from South Africa Ihave met many 
of your countrymen, who have spoken of this black breed of 
stood on the steps of the hotel lighting my 
e, and then feeling that my note-book and pencil Were safe, 
hands deep in my pockets and sauntered down the 
street to the show, perfuming the atmosphere as I went with 
and smear myself 
with marmalade when I get to Scotland. ‘‘Iu's away we have 
Of course [ had 
forgotten ajl about the show not being ready before 2 P. M., 
and so I found the place beset with vegetables mstead of dogs. 
The cheery Mr. Christie would make a good stage manager 
judging from the ability he displayed in changing the scene. 
The entry was a big one and the various breeds were well rep- 
But although the show opened on Tuesday, thus aliow- 
ing him two clear days to compose his report, the paper 
‘Ss readers 
experience 
oes not éxtend beyond one breed, and the rest of whose re- 
; that they had come to a friendly agreement upon this point; 
while Dr. James devoted all his attention to picking out the 
prize winners, Mr, Panmure Gordon occupied himself with 
the other business of the ring, such as jotting down the awards, 
ete, ; so in this way their opinions did not clash. ‘ 
I do heartily congratulate the urbane secretary and his 
hard-working colleagues on their great success, The difficul- 
ties in their way to less plucky gpirits would have seemed 
quite insurmountable, 
Ihave received a copy of the Scottish fancier, and I dare 
say I shall disgust some people by saying that it requires very 
little more “‘stuff” in it to make the paper quite the best of its 
class, The price is only one penny, and it is already compara- 
tively better than its higher-priced dogey contemporaries, 
The October nimber contains the report of the Hdinburgh 
show, and a very pretty ‘‘fancy” picture of the Scotch black 
and white collie Wlock, who won won third prize in the open 
class, No reliance whatever can be placed upon drawings of 
dogs. If Flock were as good as his portrait, he would be a 
cheap dog at £200. The editor of the Scottish Fancier, a Mr. 
Gray, isso void of judgment as to enter into a bitter contro- 
versy on bulldogs, in the Stock-Keeper, and. what is worse for 
him, one of the correspondents has dragged away his nom de 
lume, A Canny Scot.” An editor of a paper has responsi- 
bilities and a position to respect, and should never make his 
appearance except over the dignified editorial ‘‘we.” This is 
how Mr, Lyell commences his reply to Mr. Gray’s attack on 
him: ‘The virulent, blackguardly attack on mein your last 
shows me that the enemies who have so often tried to injure 
me are again, as ’Arry would say, on the tappy.” 
I don’t censure nor commend Mr. Gray or Mr, Lyell, the 
tone of such a discussion can do neither of them any good. It 
is not on the tapis one would expect to hear such language, 
but more likely on the sanded Hoor of a tap-room, 
Tt is amusing to notice what very small beer the kennel 
press is driven to chronicle for the employment of space; here 
1s a paragraph in the Live Stock Journal; ‘‘We understand 
that Mr. H. St. J. Stephen, the secretary of the Kennel Club, 
has been appointed (sic) a member of the committee of the 
Great Dane Club.” 
[I would respectfully suggest to the editor of that paper to 
enage a “reader” of Mr. Toot’s complexion to point out to 
them what is of ‘‘no consequence.” 
With regard to the paternity of the Crown Prince litter, Mr. 
Hugh Dalziel repeats his assertion that the pedigree is false, 
and invites unbelievers and those he charges with misrepre- 
sentations, to bring the matter before some judicial body. The 
Stock-Keeper, this week, seasonably points out that in the 
absence of the National Dog Club the proper body is the Ken- 
nel Club. The case is of such great consequence to mastiff 
breeders, that I hope the club will not wait for the dispu- 
tants to Come before them, but promptly summon them to do 
80, 
Ths Kennel Club begin to recognize that the ever increas- 
ing number of shows is lowering the dignity of the title champ- 
ion, A sub-committee has been appointed to deal with the 
question. I hope their efforts will not fail as miserably as 
those of the feeble few who took the faking and trimming 
question in hand. 
The eventful history of the collie Rutland is now published 
on authority. Jt appears he was first given to Sir Charles 
Mordaunt by the Rey. Hans Hamilton who bred him. For 
reasons in connection with the dog’s temperament Sir Charles 
parted with him and a large sum of money for the over- 
coated, sour-headed Stafla, Rutland’s next appearance was 
at Gloucester in the selling class, “price £5.5.” He was claimed 
by half a dozen eager applicants, but Mr. Boddington got 
him, and by his recent sale has cleared £245 profit without 
money made in prizes and fees, Usury does not seem much of 
a business after this. 
The Kennel Gazette of October has broken out into three 
columns of correspondence. [ think a little magnesia and 
sulphur would do it as the attack is not of a serious nature. 
The Bulldog Club held a very lively meeting the other night 
on the subject of “Dudley noses,” I don’t know if 
“De gompany vighted mit daple-lecks 
Dill de coonshtable made *em shtop,"’ 
but the “‘argufying” must have been spirited, as those in favor 
of noses not, I presume, named after the shapely nasal organ 
of the lovely countess, only lost the day, or rather night, by 
one yote. The rule that a bulldog’s nose must be black is quite 
an arbitrary one and due to fanciers’ dictation. The color of 
the nose penerally follows the body color, that is nature’s 
rule;so fallow or smut-colored dogs have frequently flesh- 
colored noses, that’s nature’s idea of the matter, but then 
nature is not a member of the Bulldog Club. For the sake of 
the club [ hope Sir John Lubbock and others interested in the 
development of the instinctive knowledge in dogs will not 
car: eir experiments too far, 
might beif the bulldogs themselves called a meeting to con- 
sider the question of disqualifying all owners with red noses. 
The dogs would have a long way the pull (of noses), for theirs 
“growed” like Topsey, their owners had no voice in the 
matter, whereas we men and women can color ours like pipes. 
The old song says: 
“Nose, n0se, Dose, hose, 
And who gave thee that jolly red nose? 
Cinnamon and ginger, nutmegs and cloves, 
And that gaye me my jolly red noge.”’ 
So n0 more spices for LILLIBULERO, 
OcToOBER 21, 1884. 
THE MASTIFF PUPPIES. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Will you allow me through the medium of your columns to 
ask the managers of the bench show for non-sporting dogs, 
recently held in this city, to explain under what circumstan- 
ces mastiff puppies, the property of Mr. W. P. Stevenson 
(Winlawn Kennels), were allowed to compete, and were 
awarded prizes in Class 6, when no entry of any such pup- 
pies appears in this class in the official catalogue? 
The number chalked up on the blackboard as prize winners 
was 41, and on reference to the catalogue it will be seen that 
41 is in Class 5, which was intended for dog pups, Class 6 being 
for bitches. 
As soon as the judge’s award was made known, Mr, J. A. 
Pruss and I (both exhibitors) entered a protest in manner pro- 
vided for by Rule 18, and about an hour atterward Mr, 
Lincoln handed the protest back to me, with the following 
pencil memorandum (not signed by any one) written at foot: 
‘Dear Sir: The matter referred to in your protest has been 
considered. The rules as printed permit a litter of puppies to 
compete. The classes are divided into dogs and hitches, con- 
sequently the litter was properly divided accordin’ to sex.” 
This I do not consider by any means a satisfactory expla- 
nation, Admitted that the rules ‘‘permit a litter of puppies 
to compete” (7, e., provided they are properly entered). Ad- 
mitted that “the classes are divided into dogs and bitches,” 
but I dispute the illogical conclusion that ‘‘consequently the 
litter was properly divided according to sex,” which means if 
anything that it is allowable for a litter entered in Class 5 to 
compete in Class 6. If iy memory serves me, Rules 14 and 
16 prohibit dogs entered in one class trom coropeting in any 
other, except tinder circumstances not bearing on the present 
case. 
Rule 21 provides that ‘‘all entries must be made on blanks 
furnished by the superintendent.” Rule 22. ‘‘The entries close 
on Monday, Oct. 6: Now, I should like to know— 
irst—Did Mr. Stevenson comply with Rula 21, by entering 
his bitch puppies in Class 6, specifically stating the sex and 
Imagine how awkward it, 
class in the proper column of a “blank” provided by the super- 
intendent? If so, : 
Second—Was such entry made on or before October 6, in 
compliance with Rule 22? If the answers to these questions 
are in the affirmative, 
Third—Why was the entry omitted from Class 6? 
The case may possible be referred to as a precedent at some 
time, and for this if for no other reason it would be satisfac- 
tory to know the exact circumstances connected with it. As 
the matter stands at present, some of the exhibitors feel 
themselves aggrieved, especially as one of the puppies inform- 
ally introduced for competition. and to which a biue ribbon 
was awarded, resembled, in formation of skull and set of ears, 
an Hnglish bloodhound. J. AS, Greee, 
Forpuam, N. ¥., Oct. 27, 
THE BOARHOUND GROUP. 
fl gs Great Dane and boarhounds generally are at the pres- 
ent time very fashionable in Hngtand, and as this canine 
fever is not at all improbable to cross the Atlantic, seeing that 
eyen inthis country the points are little understood by the 
majority of fanciers, while on the Continent gross ignorance 
is rampant, both the German and French breeders mixing all 
the varieties indifferently, without any ideal standard, I ven- 
ture to think an article pointing out somewhat of the history 
and peculiarities of the varieties will be acceptable to my 
readers. The boarhounds consist of three distinct races, all of 
which, however. are constantly fused by continental breeders, 
but the original strains are the rough, which is known as the 
Austrian, Hungarian or Suliot, the latter being the commonest 
designation. The smooth varieties are the Danish and the 
German, the latter known also as the Saxony, Dresden and 
Ulmer, and by the term Saufinger. Continental breeders 
and others have endeavored to give these dogs the name of 
German wmastifl, butitisas ridiculous to try to pass these 
monerels off as German mastifis as it would be to endeayor 
to pass Brummagen jewelry as the real thing. The Suliot or 
rough boarhound appears to be the descendant of the cele- 
brated Molossus of ancient Epirus, denominated by the clas- 
sical writers according to the district they were reared in, as 
example, Chaonian, Molossian, Hyrcanian, Pannonian and 
Albanian, and since those times they have spread into Greece, 
Turkey, Hungary, Austria and southeastern Germany, but in 
the two latter they have been crossed with the heavier mastiff 
and taller and more speedy Great Dane. Youatt mentions 
this breed under the comprehensive name of Albanian dog, 
stating that a dog very much resembling the classical accounts 
is yet found in Albania and most Grecian districts. 
The Suliots are a Greaco Latin race, supposed to be descended 
from the ancient Ilyrians. They are noticed in Grote’s ‘‘His- 
tory of Greece,” being mentioned as a warlike people, and 
theit dogs celebrated throughout all antiquity, Williams, in 
ylipee and Their Ways” says: ‘“The Suliot isone of the largest 
breeds known. In the war between the Austrians and the 
Turks, the Moslem soldiers employed many to guard the out- 
osts, and a great number were captured by the Imperial 
orces. One of these, presented to the King of Naples, was 
reputed the largest dog in the world, being little less than four 
feet high at shoulder. Colonel Smith saw one at Brussels 
marehing at the head of the regiment of Clairfait, and another 
at that of Bender, both little inferior to Shetland ponies,” 
Williams also states that ‘when he was sitting with Lord 
Truro, m walked the largest dog he thought he had ever seen, 
a Suliot dog, a boarhound, in fact, brougrht by one of his mas- 
ter’s sons from Germany,” Colonel Hamilton Smith (Natural- 
ists’ Library, Mam. Vol. X.) describes the Suliot boarhound as 
an allied breed tothe Great Dane, of vast size, but broken- 
haired, and considered them identical with the Molossus of an- 
tiquity. He further allies these Suliot dogs with the watch- 
dogs of Hungary, which are somewhat smaller, and regards 
the boarhounds (Canis swilius) figured by Redinger as identi- 
cal. Gmelin’s designation for this breed was (Canis swaillus). 
From Pliny’s account of the enormous dog presented by the 
King of Albania to Alexander the Great, we learn that Alba- 
nia produced a gigantic and powerful race of dogs. 
have now brought forward sufficient toshow the antiquity | 
of the rough-coated Suliot, and that these boarhounds, except 
for their rough coat, somewhat resemble the Great Dane. I 
understood that Mr, Addcock’s noted boarhound, Satan, was 
bred in the Hu-press of Austria’s kennels. This dog was gener- 
ally termed a Great Dane but was in reality no more like one 
than a rouzh St. Bernaru is like a mastiff. I always con- 
sidered Satan a very characteristic Austrian boarhound, and 
for real work or fighting fully believe he would have beaten 
any Great Dane and most English mastiffs. I have disserted 
thus fully upon a breed that, owing to its scarceness in its 
purity, isvery little known in England, in order toshow what 
the true broken-coated boarhound really is. The smooth 
German and Danish boarhounds should be perfectly free from 
any roughness in coat, although foreigners may and often 
have fused the varieties together, and venders often try to 
represent a somewhat broken coat in the Great Dane as no 
defect, In treating of the German boarhounds I cannot do 
better than aes a few remarks from Mr, C. Waust, who, 
writing for ‘Webb's Book on the Dog,” says, ‘“The hoarhound 
was formerly used to-pull down the bear, the wolf, and the 
wild boar.” He quotes an instance of boar hunting in the 
Black Forest with two of these German Saufangers, in which 
the dogs, seizing him by the ears and cheek, killed him in a 
very short time 
In England at times specimens of old Dresden china are to 
be met with, having these Saxon boarhounds carefully 
modelled. In 1874 I saw a life-like piece—two dogs attacking 
a boar. I ascertained it was of Dresden china of about 75 
years of age, and the dogs were of the true German hoarhound 
type, the one was disabled, the other had fixed the boar on 
the top of its neck, a modeof attack peculiar to this group. 
I also saw avery similar piece, although much broken, at 
Park View, Towcester, when visiting SirThos. Herketh, Bart., 
but understood it was much elder. My reason for mention- 
ing these models is simply because manufactured on the spot, 
the Dresden artists have copied from the life, and their models 
form reliable proof of what the type has been for the last 
hundred years or more, they form asort of pedigree for the 
race, The etchings of Stephano Della Bella, made at Paris 
about 1642, under the patronage of the famous Cardinal Rich- 
elieu, throw as much light as anything onthe tixed character- 
istics of these continental boarhounds. This work, full of 
hunting subjects, in which the Great Dane, as well as dogs 
ranging between it and the true mastiff, are depicted hunting 
the bear and boar, showing that mastiff biocod was seemingly 
at that date a recocnized essential in such hounds, and from 
Rrecnal investigation I feel satisfied that in Germany the 
reat Dane has been crossed with “the mastiff from very 
early times, resulting in heayy dogs, most, properly termed 
boarhounds, being neither pure mastiff nor Great Danes, 
Richardson, who wrote about 1840, states that the Duke of 
Buecleugh had a Great Dane, purchased from a student at 
Dresden, and that the breed were then called in Germany and 
Saxony ‘‘Boar dogs.” From the portrait given the dog was 
not a pure Great Dane, showing trace of the mastiff alloy, 
Richardson further remarks: “In its native country the Dabe 
is chiefly employed in boar hunting; it was formerly used in 
the chase of the elk,” etc. In the ‘History of the Dog,” by 
Martin, published in 1845, is the fullest information on the Great 
Dane and other boarhounds that I have met with. and the 
work being out of pa nt and exceedingly scarce, it will be in- 
teresting to quote short extracts. _ It runs: “The Great Danish 
dog, when pure, is generally of a slate color, with white about 
the breast and imbs. This dog was principally found in Den- 
mark and Northern Germany. In Sweden it was used in the 
chase of the elk, in which it was started in couples, ete, Be- 
fore further stating the characteristics of the smooth boar, 
