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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[MA-RGB 12, 1885. 



tion of anything from my pen. I fear I already owe another 

 London editor apologies on this head. 



Among- the list of donors to the Warwick prize fund, I 

 notice Mr. W. K. Taunton's name. He is the gentleman who 

 some two years ago misguided the fortunes of a mongrel body 

 yclept the British Kennel Association. In fact he also 

 founded this curiously compounded society, the object of which 

 was to hold a show or two in the year, hire a keeper for the. 

 members' use and support the Kennel Club. It is strange but 

 true that several conspicuous men of doggy society were 

 wheedled into the fold. They hired a room in the 'Strand 

 (London) where they held meetings and gave birth to the ill- 

 fated Aston show, "it was drowned with too much water. 

 There were the society's own water trials, then the water 

 trials of the elemeats and lastly the cold water trials thrown 

 -on the undertaking- by the public. Afterward the funds got 

 into low water and the members swam away leaving the poor 

 secretary to mournfully sing: 



"Thf> cold streams ran by bira, his eyes wept apace; 

 O willow, willow, willow!" 

 f have by me a catalogue of the show and I can ungrudg- 

 ingly credit, the. society with much inventive and ingenious 

 ability. The challenge claBses they instituted have undoubt- 

 edly supplied the Kennel Club with their latest idea. The in- 

 telligent energy exhibited by Mr. Taunton made him at one 

 time a warm' favorite for the Kennel Club secretaryship, 

 though it may be said that we have seen since he would not 

 have cared for the position, it also brought him under Mr. 

 MoiieU's (bloodhounds) notice when he was chairman of the 

 Association, and thus led to a closer association, for I hear 

 that Mr. Taunton has become a partner in Morrell's govern- 

 ment black ink firm. I congratulate Mr. Taunton upon at- 

 taining a position fully merited by his spirited business capa- 

 bilities". 



Mr. Taunton has taken the lead, ably assisted by his trusty 

 lieutenant, Mr. Emil Portier. of the 'movement for re-estab- 

 lishing in public estimation brindle-colored mastiffs. I neither 

 think, nor hone, they will succeed. I have only seen one mas- 

 tiff of that color that I should be proud to sell, and that was 

 Wolsey in Vero Shaw's "Book of the Dog." I am inclined to 

 consider that the finest picture in the work. 



All the champion prizes at Warwick will be gold medals; 

 the entrance fee in these classes is a stiff one — twenty shillings 

 for each dog. 



Mr. Langdiile. who was a spaniel breeder of repute when 

 many of us were m our green-as-grass days, buying St. Ber- 

 nard' pups ('"that will make champions") of Mr. Greshani. is 

 now interesting himself in the resuscitatien of the Spaniel 

 Club. "The witty captain," as a dunderheaded Scotchman 

 was lately inspired to call him, has got his shoulder to the 

 wheel, and I hope he will drive the car right over the Toy 

 Spaniel Club project. What do they want of clubs, are they 

 not satisfied? They are combed by fair women to sleep in 

 their laps— what rabre do you want? 



I see that the Capting is among the puzzlists, and has not 

 forgotten the suiToundings of his youth. Among the "quaint 

 savings of parish clerks" sent up to the society paper Truth 

 this Week (Feb. 19), is this one: "You should come to our 

 church, man, when me and the parson does the cursing of a 

 Hash Wednesday. Lor, 'ow we does give it 'em. — Langdale." 

 Our sporting press has been indulging in sickening pseans 

 over a sensational run of the Bicester foxhounds. The run 

 was one of the longest on record and terminated by the fox 

 expiring hi front of the pack. Two horses dropped dead from 

 exhaustion, one of them, I am sorry to relate, ridden by a 

 lady This act, so far from exciting'disgust for its brutality, 

 has' even been celebrated by the artist's pencil in our Graphic. 

 The whole business is foreign to my instincts as a sportsman. 

 The death of these two noble, higli-couraged brutes fills my 

 mind with the greatest abhorrence of their riders' merciless 

 bid for newspaper fame, and strengthens the foundation of my 

 contempt for that rotten society which is supposed to exist 

 for the prevention of cruelty to animals. 



We have had an unusual number of disputes over best dogs 

 lately. In one case a dog followed a man to his house. The 

 dog was taken in and hospitably treated, and the finder even 

 advertised for the owner, who promptly turned up, removed 

 his property and refused compensation to even defray disburse 

 meuts. The finder brought an action against him for twenty- 

 five shillings. He was nonsuited, the judge telling him that 

 the action he had taken was entirely a voluntary oue. In an- 

 other case a workingman applied to a magistrate to know if 

 he could retain possession of a dog he had found and that he 

 would like to keep. The magistrate replied that he could 

 keep the dog until the owner fotmd him out. I am under the 

 impression that this magistrate's decision was faulty, and 

 that the finder coidd never get into trouble by keeping 

 the dog. l have inquired into the law on this 

 subject and gather the instructions to the police are that 

 they shall arrest all stray and ownerless dogs and conduct 

 them to the police station. This is obviously a regulation 

 framed rather for the protection of the public than in the in- 

 terests of the dog-owner. The dogs so procured are daily col- 

 lected from the stations and conveyed to the Home for Lost 

 Dogs. They are kept there for three days, during which period 

 thev can be claimed and removed by then- rightful owners. 

 Lt the expiration of that time they become, according to their 

 rules, the Home's property, to do with as they think fit, which 

 means that if they are worthless curs they are destroyed, but 

 if they have a marketable value they are kept on the chance 

 of finding a purchaser. The proceeds of such sales are de- 

 voted to the funds of the Home, which is otherwise well sup- 

 ported by voluntary subscriptions. I am not accurately in- 

 formed upon the Home's legal status in this particular, nor do 

 I know how they would act supposing au owner saw his dog 

 in their kennels and claimed it after the three days. I am 

 quite certain that were it my dog I should claim it and sue 

 the Home for its retention should they refuse to give it up, 

 offering of course, and lully expecting, to pay ah expenses of 

 keep, etc. It seems to me that it would be too hard upon a 

 man to expect him to purchase his own property. The Home 

 could put itself right upon this point by advertising their 

 finds, and if this failed to discover the owners, the latter 

 would, as in other similar legal cases, forfeit their claims. 

 The institution of the Home has been a great boon to London- 

 ers for it has served to clear the streets of the wandering 

 wretches that, diseased from filth and savage from hunger, 

 had become a danger to respectable dogs and the public itself. 

 Though I cannot help feeling that Mr. Sheffield has been snob- 

 bishly treated by the Bristol committee over his objection to 

 the pug with the ornamental collar, yet I am heartily glad 

 that the "Cox on collars" question has terminated in favor of 

 thfi part proprietor of the Field and Kennel Club committee- 

 man. ;Aa the Bristol schedule distinctly insisted upon "plain 

 collars," Mr. Sheffield's objection was a valid one, but this is a 

 case where the end justifies the means, and the little act of in- 

 justice on the part of the Bristol people, performed to please 

 Mr Cox, will be overlooked for its good effect, if the result of 

 it is to expunge forever a meaningless and insulting regula- 

 tion The Kennel Club having itself long ago relinquished the 

 thought that a judge could be influenced in his decisions by 

 recognizing a dog's collar should have at the same time insisted 

 thattbeir altered regulation be adopted by all shows that use 

 their rules. Even at Hanlev I read that "All dogs must be 

 forwarded with a suitable 'strong chain and plain collar." 

 The new and sensible wording of the regulation omits the 

 description "plain." . 



■the. Bull clog Club is going to hold a show early m the year, 

 and the Ltmdon Aquarium is mentioned as the locale. Will 

 the very particular manager of this establishment prudishly 

 restrict the entries to the male sex? It is unofficially men- 

 tioned that "Mr. Benjamin is likely to be the judge." If an- 

 other soubriquet is required for this pushing young fancier, I 

 would suggest "The Compleat Angler," though seriously I do 



not think the club's choice could fall upon a more efficient and 

 upright judge. 



The queen of watering places is bustling itself about holding 

 a dog show. They have already taken the first step by mak- 

 ing "circular" application to the Specialist Clubs' honorary 

 secretaries for extra prizes, which they are unlikely to get 

 until they inform exhibitois upon the' classes they intend to 

 give. The last Brighton show was a financial failure. They 

 held it some way out of the town in an open field called Pres- 

 ton Park. It was too far to walk, and the public's interest in 

 dogs did not ruu to cabs. It was a Kennel Club show, and 

 they lost a couple of hundred pounds over it. The towns- 

 people who are organizing the present meeting will do well to 

 profit by the experience and find a suitable spot within reach 

 of the railway station and "Mutton's." 



I hear that they are likely to get the Corn Exchange, than 

 which no place could be more suitable. The Exchange con- 

 tains accommodation for at least a thousand dogs. As the 

 business men are certain to require it on a Thursday, the show 

 will have to open on Saturday and close Wednesday night. 

 The intervening Sunday would be objectionable but unavoid- 

 able. Those who know Brighton on a Saturday can appreciate 

 the gain to the receipts that wfil accrue through opening on the 

 half holiday. If the committee are smart and lucky they will 

 hire the Pavilion grounds and have a band to play in the even- 

 ing. The Exchange has an entrance into the gardens. That 

 would tempt the London fanciers. 



The "Dead-Alive Journal," otherwise known as the Live 

 Stock, publishes another dog picture this week. The subject 

 is the black and tan cohie Rutland. The artist's name is with- 

 held, out of consideration for his friends and relations, I pre- 

 sume. Without any fear of recognition by the public, I 

 should be quite willing to trust him (to copy for publication) 

 with a portrait of Lillibulero. 



Feb. 22, 1885. 



MOUSSE.— Montreal, Canada.— Editor Rarest and 1st ream: 

 This story is true. It is vouched for by reliable persons who 

 have knowledge of the circumstancas related. We have lots 

 of just such people up here; "Mousse was a big, hulking, yel- 

 low dog, one of those indescribable mongrels that are called 

 hounds, look like wolves, and appear to make up the larger 

 part of an Indian village. Poor Mousse. He was never given 

 a good meal from one end of the year to the other; kicks and 

 blows and no end of rushing after cattle and barking at sheep 

 was his portion, but withal he kept up a good heart, did 

 Mousse. He curled his tail in spite of the kicks, cocked his 

 ears in spite of the blows, wailed out at the moon and played 

 with the three small children of his master without lettmg'the 

 young villains know that he had fangs — not even when they 

 tried to scoop his eyes out. Mousse and the people that owned 

 and abused him lived on He Perrot, and quite close to the little 

 old stone cottage, rims fiercely a rapid, as ugly and nasty a 

 bit of broken water as can well be found. One day last fall 

 the mistress of the house- sent her children, the youngest a 

 baby of a year, out into the sunshine, attended only by old 

 yellow Mousse. Down to the river strayed the older children, 

 taking the baby with them, and as the others played aimlessly 

 around, the little one toddled into the waters of the rapid. A 

 little mite of humanity adrift there amid foaming waves and 

 cruel jutting rock edges as sharp as knives, and the man who 

 would, even to rescue a precious life, throw himself among 

 them, would be bold, aye and foolhardy. But Mousse is not a 

 man. He is only a dog' With one wild spring he follows the 

 baby into the foam. The water lashes him and throws him on 

 the rocks, it leaps on him like a tiger, but with his yellow eyes 

 all shining, Mousse arches himself to meet the shock, and 

 springs for life. The current is swift, but the dog is swifter, 

 and safely dog and child reach the soiid ground at last. But 

 who shall tell of the struggle? When a man risks his life for 

 another's on the battle field they give him the cross of his 

 sovereign. What will Mousse get for saving a life in a rapid? 

 No dinner. Everybody is too busy taking care of the baby to 

 think of that. The next morning Mousse is hungry, and he 

 wants a little fun too, so he chases down a hen and kills it be- 

 fore the very eyes of his mistress, the mother of the child he 

 saved, the owner of that hen. She, outraged at such a sacri- 

 fice to whet the hungry appetite of her infant's rescuer, 

 catches up an axe, runs out and calls to her the child-saver, 

 the hero-dog, and splits his head open." 



WOBMS IN THE CAVITY OF A DOG'S HEART— .Editor 

 Forest and Stream: My dog was taken sick. I noticed at 

 first that his urine was black and bloody ; in two days he had 

 a short breath and woidd take no food. The thud day, when 



a bunch of long worms about the size of a goose egg, and in 

 one of the lobes another smaller bunch. There was very little 

 blood in the heart and that very much discolored. How did 

 the worms come there, andcoulu he have been cured?— G. A.W. 

 (Pattersonville, La.). [Our correspondent's statement seems 

 definite, and this is not the first time that we have heard of 

 what appeared to be bunches of white worms in the cavities 

 of a dog's heart. We know of no authentic instance of worms 

 in the heart cavities of a dog. We are forced to conclude that 

 what seemed to be worms was either post mortem fibrinous 

 clots, or what is more likely, the muscular fibres of the auricles 

 or ventricles called museuli pectinati, which Jin the auricles 

 exactly resemble a bunch of worms. Can any of our corres- 

 pondents, medical or lay, throw any light on'the subject? If 

 any of oar readers who notice anything like this would put 

 some of the worms in a small bottle* of alcohol and forward it 

 to us, the matter could be determined at once.] 



THE AMERICAN FOXHOUND.— South Norwalk, Conn., 

 March 3.— Editor Forest and Stream: Will you be kind 

 enough to agitate the quesiton of having our native foxhounds 

 recognized as a class at the bench shows. I think from what 

 I hear among owners of hounds that they would be glad to 

 exhibit them if there was a possibility of getting a fair chance. 

 As it is now, if they enter their hounds they will go into the 

 class with English hounds and be judged by the English stand- 

 ard, which is far from all good points in our natives. I am 

 sure there are a great many native hounds in the Eastern 

 States that are considered first-class in the chase, and I, for 

 one would like to see them brought out in full force at the 

 bench show, where we could compare notes and do something 

 toward improving them more. Give our natives a chance in 

 the shows and we will guarantee them in the chase, hence 

 they will become the more sought after and will be still more 

 improved in their qualities bv careful breeding, and ere long 

 will take the lead of all others in our rough, rugged New Eng- 

 land States. Come, bovs, lend your hands to the cause and 

 let us boom it up until we have our dogs recognized. Will the 

 Westminster Kennel Club start the ball by giving us a separate 

 class? They take the lead of all others in everything— good 

 shows, good judges, good dogs, etc.— Native. 



NEW ENGLAND KENNEL CLUB.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream- At the annual meeting of the New England Kennel 

 Club held March 7, the following members were elected to 

 serve one year: Arthur W. Pope, President; T. C. Faxon, 

 Vice-President; Lowell T. Field, Treasurer; J. A. Nickerson, 

 Secretary. Executive Committee: Arthur W. Pope, T. C. 

 Faxon Lowell T. Field, Jean Grosvenor, J. A. Nickerson. 

 Finance Committee: J. Frank Perry, Chas. H. Baker. Arthur 

 W Pope Standing committee on membership, John E. 

 Thayeri F. H. Cunningham, F. M. Curtis —.T. A. Nickerson, 

 Sec'y, 



"TRAINING vs. BREAKING."— Canal Fulton, O— 'Editor 

 Forest and Stream: I have thought for some time it was my 

 duty to write you and thank you for your great favor con- 

 ferred on sportsmen by publishing "Training vs. Breaking." I 

 have for a number of years been an enthusiastic wing-shooter 

 and have had to train my own dogs, and as soon as Mr. Ham- 

 mond's work was published I procured a copy and bought a 

 pointer bitch, Queen Bow (King Bow ex Bow Queen), from the 

 Detroit Kennel Club, and I have trained her by Mr. Ham- 

 mond's method and it has worked to my entire satisfaction. 

 I have heretofore used the instructions of Dinks, Mayhew and 

 Hutchinson to break my dogs, but I never hadas well-trained 

 dogs as I now have by Mr. Hammond's method, nor dogs that 

 were half so affectionate. I made one mistake in training 

 Queen Bow that I found out when I commenced to hunt quail 

 with her last fall. I used to make her point her food or bits 

 of food. She wood point nicely, but I found when she came 

 to point birds I had not held her long enough on the point on 

 her food, for she woidd hold her birds about as long as she 

 was used to point, and then she would break her point. I 

 have now trained her longer on her point and she is all right. 

 1 give this to show that your principle is all right, but that 

 mistakes may be made". One-half the pleasure of a time 

 sportsman is m the working and training of his dogs. The 

 sportsman who will buy "Training vs. Breaking" and train a 



Euppy by Mr. Hammond's method, will find greater pleasure 

 unting with that dog than if he uses ait equally well-broken 

 dog of some other man's breaking. —Geo. Hoover. 



CLUBS AND SHOWS.— Editor Forest and Stream: Mr. 

 Luke W. White writes in the Forest and Stream of last 

 week as f ollows : "And to show Mr. Mason that even he is 

 not free from inconsistency, I will here relate some facts. 

 The first time that I ever saw the now most familiar signature 

 of C. H. Mason, was under a criticism of 'Dogs at the New 

 York Show,' in Forest and Stream about four years ago. 

 Talking of the pointers there, he said: 'A weedier, seedier 

 lot it was never my misfortune to behold;' and Gregory's 

 Belle, unplaced (I bred her), was one of that same lot. Since 

 this opinion of Mr. Mason's was published, he gave that same 

 Belle first prize, I believe it was at Washington." Mr. White 

 also informs your readei'3 that he hates "abuse." Does he 

 also hate the truth? If he is not a hater of that virtue why 

 don't he give the date of the paper in which the alleged 

 critique appeared? I am a constant and careful reader of the 

 Forest and Stream, but fail to discover that Mr. Mason ever 

 stated what Mr. White attributes to him, and as Mr. W. likes 

 to have things "above board," perhaps he won't miud giving 

 the date when the critique appeared, also the date of the 

 Washington show-. It really appears to me that Mr. White 

 in attempting to make black look white, has succeeded in 

 making white look black. I don't propose to fight Mr. Mason's 

 battles, but I hate— Whitewash. 



THE PHILADELPHIA KENNEL CLUB.— There is every 

 probability that the Philadelphia Kennel Club will give a 

 bench show of dogs during the month of May, and strong 

 efforts are being made to pefrect the plans. It was first 

 intended to hold an exhibition in conjunction with the Phila- 

 delphia State Agricultural Society, in September or October 

 next, but this is met with considerable disfavor among the 

 members. The Philadelphia Morning Record, of March 7 

 makes an announcement as above, and the matter is therefore 

 a secret no longer. Although perhaps premature in its 

 announcement that the Philadelphia Kennel Club will hold a 

 show this spring, it is almost settled that such an exhibition 

 will be given, and a meeting called for March 10 will conclude 

 the preliminaries. At a meeting of the Philadelphia Kennel 

 Club held March 8, at the rooms of the association, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected. Vice-President, Col. Ridgway: 

 Secretary, Mr. E. Comfort; Treasurer, Mr. L. Shuster, Jr.— 

 Homo. 



A BIG ONE.— Buffalo, N. Y.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Apropos of an item on large dogs which appeared in the issue 

 of Forest and Stream for Feb. 26, I inclose the following 

 clipping from the Rochester Union, Feb. 18: "Hon. Charles 

 W. vbshall of this city, brought to the Union sanctum to-day 

 the largest English mastiff in the world. The canine is the 

 property of Mr. G. L. Thomas of Albany. He answers to the 

 name of Senator, is thirteen months old, and weighs 160 



Eounds. Senator is out of the celebrated English bitch Nina 

 y Dido, the great English dog whose dam was Buff. Both 

 father and mother have taken the first prizes at the bench 

 shows in New York for the last three years. His height is 

 Sii}{ inches over the withers, extreme length, tip of nose to 

 end of tail, 7 feet S inches. He is valued at #1,500."— Cricket. 

 [If Senator's measurements are no more accurate than the 

 names and winnings of his ancestors, he will hardly be able to 

 sustain his claim as the "largest mastiff in the world."] 



THE CINCINNATI DOG SHOW.— We have received the 

 premium list of the Cincinnati dog show to be held May 5, 6, 



7 and 8. The prize in each champion class is S10 with §10 and 

 So in the open classes and a ribbon in the puppy classes. The 

 show will fbe held under the rules of the American Kennel 

 Club with the exception that to Rule 8, which requires three 

 first prizes to enter the champion class, the following note is 

 added: "Note.— Rule 8 applies to American Kennel Club 

 shows, beginning at the New Brunswick show of 1885. Dogs 

 that have won a- first prize prior to that date in open classes 

 at the bench shows of any organization now a member of the 

 American Kennel Club, should be entered in the champion 

 class also." Entries close April 24, Washington A. Coster, 

 Superintendent, Box 48, Cincinnati, O. 



THE PORCUPINE has been credited in popular belief with 

 the uncanny power of darting his quills and piercing his 

 enemies at a distance; and there is one particular "Porcupine" 

 (he of the Philadelphia Sporting Life), who actually does pos- 

 sess this quill-darting gift. His point-blank range from Phila- 

 delphia is long. 87 deg. 87 min. 30 sec. W., lat. 41 deg. 53 min. 



8 sec. N. There is no dodging the quills, and the hapless 

 victims are having a truly agonizing time of it. 



THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW.— The Westminster Kennel 

 Club have received a cablegram from Mr. Hugh Dalziel 

 accepting the position of judge at their show next month, 



KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 

 ^p" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



H F., Haverhill. Mass.— A Newfoundland dog has partially lost the 

 use of his legs. He reels as one intoxicated when he starts to walk. 

 He eats all right but drinks more than usual. Ans. Look to the 

 bowels and general condition of your dog. How old is he? Give Ijim 

 ten drops of the tinct. nux vomica night and morning m sweetened 

 water. You do not give enough particulars. 



H A. B., Charleston, W. Va.— My cocker pup has had diarrhoea 

 for nine months. I have tried Grover's diarrhoea cure and it does 

 him no good. 1 filially gave him two doses of worm medicine and he 

 passed six tape worms from four to six feet in length. Aus. Tape 

 worms are not uncommon in dogs. The treatment is to limit the 

 diet for some days and to give some worm medicine, such as oil of 

 worm seed, santonma or male fern, and then to physic. For simple 

 diarrhoea a castor oil laxative followed by bismuth and opium 

 powders is sufficient. 



"V E. S„ Colorado.— A pointer pup 10 months old is troubled with 

 canker of the ear. I have had it cut from one ear, but evidently did 

 not cue deep enough, and now the other ear is atreeted. I dislike to 

 cut his ears again. Aus. You may use the bromo ohloralluaa and 

 laudanum, so often recomm<mderf by us, or Goulard's extract of lead, 



