Sept. 10. 1885.] 



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 ing Co. 



FIXTURES. 



BF.NCH SHOWS. 



Sept.. 23, 23, 34 and 35.— Dog Sho-<v of the Milwaukee Exposition As- 

 sociation. .Tohn D. Olcott, Superintetident. Milwaukee, Wis. 



Sept. 39, 30 and Oct. 1, 2.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Southern 

 Ohio Fair Association. H. Anderson, Secretary, Dayton, O. 



Sept. 39, 30 and Oct. 1.— Twelfth DoR Show of the Western Penn- 

 sylvania Poultry Society, Pittsburgh, Pa. C. B. Elben, Secretary. 



Oct. 6, ?. 8 and 9.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club, in conjunction wilh the Pennsylvania State Agricultural 

 Society. E. Comfort. Secretary, Philadelphia, Pa, 



Oct.'e. r, 8 and 9.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agri- 

 cultural Society, S. E. Hawley, Secretary, Danbuiy, Conn. 



Oct. 7, 8 and 9.— Dog Show of the York County Agricultural Soci- 

 ety. Entries close Sept. 38. A. C, Ki-ueger, Superintendent, Wrights- 

 viUe, Pa. 



Oct. 8 and 9.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Stafford Agricul- 

 tural Society. R, S. Hicks, Secretary, Stafford Springs, Conn, 



EIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 9,— Second Annual Field Trials of the Fisher's Island Club, for 

 members only. Max Wenzel, Secretary, Hoboken, N. J. 



Nov. 9.— lurst Annual Ti-ials of the Western Field Trials Associa- 

 tion, at Abilene, Kan. Entries close Oct. 15. A. A. Whipple, Secre- 

 tary, Kansas City, Mo. 



>)ov. 16, 1885.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, High Point, iST. C. Entries for Derby close May 1. W. 

 A. Coster, Secretat-f > Flatbush, L. I. 



■November.- Fourth Anuual Trials of the Robins Island Club, Robins 

 Island, L. I., for members only. Wm. H. Force, Secretary. 



Dec. 7.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the National Field Trials 

 Club, Grand Junction, Tenu. Entries for Derby close April 1. B. M. 

 Stephenson, La Grange, Tenn., Secretary. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



E AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 

 iished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany ea,ch entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1 .50, Address 

 "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2883, New York, Number 

 of entries already printed 2588« 



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



There -wiU be a meeting of the Executive Committee of the 

 American Kennel Ckib at Pittsburgh, Sept, 29, 



G. E. OsBORN, Secretaiy. 



BraioNGHAM, Conn., Sept. 9. 



THE SETTER STANDARD. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In reply to your invitation in re altering the setter stand- 

 ard, I have bred setters, English and Gordon, for many years. 

 Although not known as a breeder of setters, the get of my 

 stud dog has won first in the 18-months class at Washington 

 and I^ew York. Spaniels are my forte. I write as an ex- 

 hibitor and breeder to say that it is not for dog show authori- 

 ties to create or alter a standard, which alone pertains to 

 breeders and exhibitors. When they move in the subject, and 

 adopt a standai-d, it will then be the duty of the A. K. C. to 

 adopt ifc and sustain it. J. Otis Fellows. 



HOBNELLSVILLB, N. Y., Sept. 6. 



ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 



xxxin. 



RUMORS wild and vague have chased one another through 

 the kennel world to discover the cause of "Lilhbulero's" 

 delaying silence. It is a simple one, if my editor or I chose to 

 giye"it— but we do not. The cheap sneers of "WUdfowler'' 

 have probably been provoked by the flash.of the "fierce light" 

 that has relentlessly beaten upon him in your columns. In 

 one of om* papers I have noticed a remarkable letter called 

 "American Plain Speaking," and signed with initials. I have no 

 stomach for your questions of the horn-, but if I have under- 

 stood the guarded significance of this letter's phraseology, 

 Rowethello has spoken — 



"Clement, I love thee; 

 But nevermore be officer of mine." 



The unstabihty of canine institutions has received astound- 

 ing confirmation in the "ratting" of the Birmingham commit- 

 tee. The great Midland show was, in old-fashioned fanciers' 

 cn-cles, regarded with a feeling amoimting to affection, with 

 a respect that it conmianded for its John BulldogUke stand 

 against the overt and covex-t opposition of its southern rival. 

 One by one the small shows have crossed over to the Kennel 

 Club's side of the ring, content to pipe their purchased ap- 

 plause at each fresh blow struck by the braggart bully of 

 Cleveland Piow. When Darlington failed to come up to time 

 the hearts of the backers sickened, but they rallied the closer 

 to their champion, "Old Brum." "Birmingham men," they 

 confidently boasted, "were too well endowed with the dogged^ 

 indomitable courage that reheved the brutahty of the prize 

 rings of other days. Brum will never throw up the sponge." 

 But the July Kennel Club's ofBcial organ has revealed the 

 abasement of the "National Dog Show Society," Brummagen 

 has fallen from its high estate and will now hold the bottle for 

 another. Would that the old show grovmd might be closed 

 and the ladder planted against the wall for the effacing hand 

 of the insensible bill-sticker to post "Ichabod" over its silent 

 portals. 



Not a few accidents have conti'ibuted to the catastrophe. 

 When Bu-mingham made its first firm stand against the Ken- 

 nel Club and its lucrative registration rule, which selfishly 

 subverts the principle of do ut des, the National Dog Club was 

 fotmded under the weighty auspices of Dr. Walsh, editor of 

 The Field. Mr. Vero Shaw, who was then on the staff of that 

 powerful periodical, was elected secretary to the new society, 

 and intrusted with the task of compiling its stud book. The 

 secret history of that stud book's failure has stQl to be writ- 

 ten—want of funds, or want of energy on the secretary's part; 

 there may be those who know, I do not. Then came the first 

 show under the new society's rules ; it was a falling off, but 

 not a disheartening one. There was still no need that the 

 badge of cowardice should be produced by the town world- 

 famed for its fighting strains of gamecocks, among whose 

 plumes a white feather was never fotmd. Next followed the 

 expedient resignation of the Kennel Club secretary, a man 

 whose principles, right or wrong, were firm and consistent, a 

 man of some spirit too. His terms to Bii-miagham were, "No 

 fusion, no compromise ; unconditional surrender. Lay down 

 your arms and march out. " 



The society's secretary had also lost his post on The Field, 

 and between Mr. Vero Shaw, B.A., kennel director of the 

 greatest sporting organ in the land, and Mr. Shaw, of "The 

 Livestock Agency," Queer street, there was a wide brook 

 that few of the followers of Prince Portunatus cared to span. 

 But this may still be accomplished by all-healing, forgiving 

 Father Time. While with Lockhart's sad metaphor "the 

 muffled drum is in prospect," God forbid that I should point 



the finger or harbor any other feeling than the hopeful wish 

 that the curtain may rise again. 



Heigho! I would all men were rich, for then I think we 

 should all be good and true. 



But my narrative lags. Well, the two secretaries are gone, 

 %nd the Kennel Cluo secured for then- vacant post a gentle- 

 man who was an accotmtaut, ignorant of dogs and the ways 

 of their owners, but clever, quick and docile. Now that the 

 bm-ly form of the late secretary no longer blocked the way of 

 negotiation, now that the contemptuous whiff of his "returns" 

 no longer fumigated the building, the conspii-atois, Mr. S. E. 

 Shirly and the Kev, Lovell, who had before, with the rest of 

 a wether-led committee, quailed before the ardor of his pres- 

 ence, straightened themselves up to tlieir full height and then 

 furtively entered into treaty with Birmingham, resulting in 

 the compromise announced, viz., that "In future the National 

 Dog Club show at Birmingham wiU be held under Kennel 

 Club rules, and on the other hand the Birmingham Society will 

 be represented on the Kennel Club committee, on all points 

 relating to these rales, bv two gentlemen to be elected every 

 three yeai-s by the National Dog Show Society, Birmingham.'' 



Because I do not care to conceal my contempt for "i-atting," 

 I do not wish to be undei-stood as condemning the Kennel Club 

 and its rules out and out. In fact I think the club's rules are 

 emphatically good; they are stiU capable of improvement. 

 Who and what is not? the present regulation which requires 

 an exhibitor to lodge the objection that is intended to dis- 

 quahfy a brother exhibitor is bad in theory and practice. I 

 think it has been quite lately referred to in one of our own 

 papers. The show itself should "object," Then, now that an 

 accountant is at their books, we can hope for an equitable re- 

 adjuscment of the charge made for registration. The club at 

 present admit what it would be puerile to deny, that the shil- 

 ling impost yields a large profit which they say "We give 

 away again "in prizes." For that statement we have only their 

 own word, and though none of us, knowing the men respon- 

 sible for the assertion, woidd be inchned to doubt it, yet 1 am 

 sm-e Mr, Aspinall would understand me if I told him it was 

 not business. By their own admission it is the public's own 

 money they thus" distribute, and it would seem only reason- 

 able to let the actual donors have some voice in the eleemosy- 

 nary direction it is afterward to take. Of com-se the club 

 very materially studies its own interest by only patronizing 

 those shows out of the public purse which support the 

 authorities of Cleveland Row. 



Before i leave this subject I must first say I always look 

 forward to my Kennel Gazette for the list of freshly elected 

 associates, whose mission in the club I described some months 

 ago. The editor seems puzzled how to describe the associates, 

 and escapes by calling them "the following;'' he doesn't say 

 what, only "the following were elected." 



For a bit of downright farcical reading, commend me to the 

 report of the late Ciystal Palace show by the judges. The 

 report in the Kennel Gazette was the most comical, and that 

 in the Stock Keeper the worst that appeared. The gallant, the 

 gay and evergi-een Cap ting was not "on the job," to use his 

 own expressive idiom. On the first day he had his own friends 

 and other people's friends to entertain, and the rest of the 

 week belonged to pleasure. 



But to this report of the judges. The St. Bernard judge 

 naively confesses that "imless the dogs were seen off the bench, 

 some of his awards may appear puzzling." He then mentions 

 the sale of Plinlimmon at a fearful price. The purchaser, a 

 Mr. Chapman, is a freshman with much more money than 



discretion. Mr, Shirly, writing of a couple of dogs in the 



deerhound class says: "The former requires a little surgical 

 operation," which, whatever it may be intended to mean, 

 reads uncommonly like an admonition to fake. The fox- 

 terrier judge, Jfr, Theo. Bassett, makes an admission damag- 

 ing to himself and uselessly exasperating to the deceived 

 owner of the losing dog in the champion fox-terrier bitch class. 

 Mr. Bassett coolly admits that "after a very careful scnitiny 

 after the judging 1 came to the conclusion that the award as 

 given was incorrect, so in justice am forced to confess it." 

 That may be his idea of justice. I should not wonder if the 

 aggrieved loser would the next time prefer a httle more com- 

 petence and somewhat less of that sort of justice. Lord An- 

 trim's report leaves no room for criticism, as it is a close copy 

 of the prize list. One of the exhibits tried to bite the wire- 

 haired fox-tenier judge, so he advises his owner to "hang it." 

 The bulldog judge owns that he blundered in the open class ; 

 more consolation! I was curious to see what Mr. Percival 

 would say about his gloriously incongi-uous awards. He had 

 the same dogs to judge in two separate classes and reversed 

 his decisions— he says the sun was in his eyes. Piually I 

 repeat my often expressed opinion that the value of reports 

 from the judges is illusoiy, and that the practice produces 

 neither credit to the judge nor satisfaction to the exhibitor. 



I see that Mr. Emmet, who pm-chased Rector, stated that 

 when he was over here that he has never regretted the high 

 price he gave for the dog, and so far as I know, the vender 

 has never regretted selling him. Mrs. Emmet has taken back 

 with her the Yorkshire ten-ier Conqueror, whose late owner, 

 Mrs. Troughear, is £350 richer since the transaction. An es- 

 sentially feminine correspondence is raging in the Stock- 

 Keeper between Mrs. Troughear and the owner of a rival ken- 

 nel, Mrs. Poster, who accuses the other lady of having faked 

 the dog that has gone where all our good dogs go before they 

 die, the United States of America. 



I suppose you have the news of the bidldog Monarch's 

 death. He was the finest specimen of his breed I ever saw. 

 The famous Laverack, Tam o' Shanter, is also dead. His 

 owner has lost a handsome annuity. 



I observe that Mr. Harding Cox has registered his racing- 

 colors preparatory to making his debut on the turf. 



It appears that the best joke in comiection with the late 

 Brighton dog show remains to be told. The inhabitants of the 

 queen of watering places supported the undertaking and en- 

 tered their dogs freely. After the show, the Brighton Excise 

 people, who seem to be a rather enterprising body, waded 

 through the catalogue and sued about a hundi-ed of the ex- 

 hibitors for keeping dogs without a license, 1 hear they got 

 several convictions. A member of the show executive set up 

 a defense that might have landed him fau-ly in the fire if he 

 had escaped the frying pan; he pleaded not guilty because he 

 was "only showing the dog for somebody else." "This gentle- 

 man requires a com-se of study in the Kennel Club rules. 



As anecdotes about doggy men appear to be the order of the 

 day I will rescue the following from obliA^on. The hero of the 

 tale, Mr. Cumming Macdona, ha\'ing left the church and 

 belonging now to a profession that can afford a joke, will not 

 object to its publication: In the days when the gentleman who 

 is now reading for the bar was the rector of Cheadle he was 

 very fond of traveling and pleasant company, so much so that 

 he could spare very little time for his parish duties. A few 

 days after his return to Cheadle from one of these pleasure 

 trips he applied again to his bishop for leave to absent himself 

 on the grounds of ill health. The bishop replied soliciting a 

 call, which the rector at once comphed with, and in answer to 

 his superior's inqimies as to the natm-e of his latest indispo- 

 sition infoi-med his lordship that it was nothing serious, and 

 that all he required was "change of ail"." "If that is aU that 

 is necessary for vour cure," replied the bishop slyly, "why not 

 try Cheadle?" 



I am a rank old Toi-y„ one of the fossil sort, but heaven help 

 me, how I laughed when I read the list of Princess Beatrice's 

 wedding presents, the embroidered quilt, the e'ectro plate, 

 jDshawI it was mdtgue to publish such details. The lack of 

 origuaalty was pitiable. Considering the well-known passion 

 of our royal family for dogs I am astonished that it occurred 

 to nobody to present the happy couple (that is the proper ex- 

 pression I believe) with a sharp httle black and tan terrier to 

 guard the cottage, or a noble St. Bernard to accompany them 

 on their rides abroad. I venture to aflii-m that in this" age oi: 



valuable dogs a handsome specimen of a popular breed would 

 be found a suitable and acceptable present. 



The Earl of Haddington has presented the Queen with a fine 

 specimen of a pure-bred white collie which wa-s reared on his 

 estate. His lordship's keeper, Macpherson, conveyed the dog to 

 London and the day after his arrival he was admitted to the 

 Visitor's Hall in Windsor Castle. Her Majesty, accompanied 

 by her two daughters. Princess Hem-y of Battenberg. and 

 tlie Marchioness of Lorne, on entering the room expressed her 

 approval of the earl's gift, and patting the animal on the 

 head repeating how highly pleased she was with the little 

 creature, 



I have only heard of one other pm-e white collie and that 

 was bred on the Duke of Roxburgh's estate. It was shown at 

 the Alexandra Palace some years ago, and I remember sus- 

 pecting a touch of English setter blood, 



Somebody in our press has been making men-y over the 

 idea of tooth brushes for dogs. I think it a very practical 

 suggestion indeed. The foul breath of niany a pet dog is due 

 to the neglected state of its mouth. Why should not extra 

 coarse tooth briishi3S be made for the nm-pose and a rough 

 powder used? The benefit is so appai^ent for dogs of luxury 

 kept in an artificial state. I may be told that if one gives the 

 dog bones you would be accompli.sliing in a natural manner 

 the same purpose. I know that and I also know toys don't 

 get bones, because "it makes the carpet in such a mess." If 

 you commence the tooth brush on a three-year-old dog you 

 will find a fli-m tartaric formation just below the gum, but 

 this will easily crack off by putting a penlmife under it and 

 beneath you "will find the" pure white tooth. We go to the 

 dentist to scrape onr own teeth, why shouldn't we do as much 

 for our companions. 



The Stock-Keeper is forging ahead in doggy matters, and 

 judgmg from its own statement that it has "increased in cir- 

 culation a thousand copies in three weeks" (the statement 

 smacks a little of partiality), the kennel world appear to 

 appreciate the change. I have seen a most jubilant letter 

 from one of the stockholders, boasting that they give for half 

 the money "three times as much kennel news as wfll be found 

 in any of "the other papers." 



They are essaying to start an American "LilUbulero," and 

 have printed two letters on American doggy subjects under 

 the heading of " American Kennel Notes." Your Mr. Wade 

 has also lately contributed to its columns. 



In their "Intercepted Mail Bag" they some weeks ago pub- 

 lished a letter directed to "LilUbulero." It was amusing for 

 the cool impudence evinced by the writer in giving the im- 

 pression that he was quite aware of my identity. I have a 

 sneaking regard for the Stock-Keeper, created, I must own, 

 by the compliment they so often pay me of paddiug their col- 

 umns with excerpts fi-om these notes. 



Befoi e me "Azs a letter gaping full of information, couched in 

 satu'ical sentences. The writer, an ex-judge, gives me his 

 name and supplies data for all his statements. He concludes: 

 "Now, Mr, 'LiUibulero,' some of these facts maybe stale to 

 you, but they will not therefore suffer for confirmation. Some 

 of the men I mention may be friends of yom-s, and so it might 

 be unnatural to expect yom- righteous nose to scent their 

 offenses. But it is possible that in spite of yom^ numerous 

 reserved sources of information that I have been able to tell 

 you something you did not know. If so, use it, how, when 

 and where you please." 



Hum! this is all very well, but there may be things I do not 

 know and do not seek to learn. How shall it profit me to dis- 

 cover that this reporter guzzled more than his share of wine 

 at a show committee lunch and continued to lap up cham- 

 pagne at his hotel and "put it down to the show"? What 

 Ijoots it, or clothes it, to me that another swindler! a country 

 tailor out of a suit of clothes^ What is it to me that another 

 "his bread in sorrow ate," provided by her gracious Majesty 

 in one of the State hotels, where each visitor is given a room 

 to himself, plenty of cUmbing exercise, medical attendance, 

 and, hear this, you envious, honest folk— no bill to pay ? Shall 

 I fashion into form these 



"Airy tongues, that syllable men's names"? 



Such a task has not been accepted nor even offered. Neces- 

 sity not opportunity will gitide me in the use I may make of 

 my knowledge. You have read of the magic cloak brought 

 to King Ai-thur's court by "the littel boy." It would only fit 

 true and honest subjects, and instantly shpped oft" the shoul- 

 ders of the tainted. The garment was made of a stuff that is 

 not fashionable nowadays, besides we don't hke the cut of 

 that cloth, the texture is coai'se, the pattern does not- suit 

 us; no, we prefer to run no such "dreadful risk of catching 

 cold." It suits us to go about as usual, trusting that a resem- 

 blance will be seen to Cowper's friend, Joseph HUl: 



"An honest man, close-button "d to the chin, 

 BroadclQih without, and a warm heart within." 



LILLIBXJLERO. 



August 25, 1885. 



AN UNUSUAL DISEASE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Many of om* sportsmen are losing valuable dogs from a 

 peculiar disease of the mouth and throat. The fh-st manifest- 

 ation of sickness seems to be difliculty in swallowing and 

 inabiUty to proliiide the tongue from the mouth. An exam- 

 ination now wiU i-eveal numei-ous white patches of canker on 

 the under side of tongue and inside of hp. This rapidly 

 increases until the entire mouth, throat and tongue are 

 covered, taking usually about twenty -four to thirty-six houi-s. 

 About the third or fourth day the inner sm-face of mouth and 

 the surface of tongue and throat are covered with large gran- 

 ulations, secreting pus of the most offensive odor. In some 

 cases an inch or more of the tongue has become gangrenous 

 and sloughed off. The disease is remai'kably contagious, 

 appearing in its severest form, however, only among our 

 setters thus far. It reduces its victims to a stage of extreme 

 weakness in a surprisingly short time. Those that have died 

 have done so within a week from the time of the attack, seem- 

 ingly both from blood poisoning and weakness. They all have 

 extremely high temperatures and a very rapid pulse from the 

 outset. Those that have lived have been saved only by limit- 

 ing the extent of the cancerous patches by early ajiplication of 

 caustics. 



In some respects this resembles dyphthoria, yet at the outset 

 it seems quite different. There is no membranous foi-mation 

 in the throat at any time, but just a clean, constant, eatiug 

 ulcer, which spreads to its neighbor, until the whole surface 

 is covered. Any of your readers who have seen anything like 

 this and can suggest cm'ative remedies will confer a favor on 

 his unfortunate sporting brethren in this vicinity. M. D. 



W1L1.IMANTIC, Conn., Sept. 1. 



fThis seems to be entirely analgous to cancram oris (canker 

 of the mouth) or gangrenous stomatitis in the human. It 

 appears as a ]-ule in childhood, from the third to ninth yeai-. 

 The causes ai'e bad air, bad food and too much mercury. 

 The symptoms are, fli'st the formation of small gray, sloughy, 

 foul ulcers on inside of cheek, with red gums and foul breath, 

 golug on to destruction of fauces and pharynx, and death. 

 The discharges of pus are highly infective. The treatment is 

 thorough cauterization with nitric acid, antiseptic washes, 

 and supporting food. Quinine is also given. We should like 

 to have further details of this disease, as observed by our 

 Willim antic coiTespondent.] 



WANTS ONE OF HIS OWN.— Hartford, Conn., Sept, 3.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream: Please send by return mail a copy 

 of Hammond's book, "Training vs. Breaking." I have just 

 read it, and wish one of my own. Inclosed please find §1.— 

 G. S. Caibnes, 



