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act, some of the chickens were placed on opposite sides of the 

 yard. Rex immediately began running from one lot to the 

 other and was much distressed until he had gathered his little 

 ftocli together again. Certainly an own mother could not be 

 more solicitous for her little one than Rex is for the motherless 

 chicks he so generously adopted. Should any one doubt this 

 story or any part of it, a visit to the place will convince him 

 that it is true in every detail.— I%e Gofiocton Valley Times. 



BOBTAIL SHEEPDOGS.— Hulton, T?&.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: Plfease say that the Glencoe Collie Kennels, East 

 Bethlehem, Pdi, have just received from M. B. Lowe, Wednes- 

 bhry, England, a pah* of bobtail sheepdogs, which will be at 

 the coming Pittsburgh show. These are tne first of the breed 

 known to have been imported.— W; WadE. 



AMERICAInT KEJmEL REGISTER.— The September niim- 

 ber of the American Kennel Register contains 115 new entries, 

 making the total number of dogs now registered in the A. 

 K. R. 2,704. Tlie other registiy departments are also unusu- 

 ally full, giving abundant evidence that the Register is grow- 

 ing in the appreciation of breeders. 



CRUELTY TO A DOG.— Timothy Shaw, aged sixty-two, 

 dog trainer, Greenwich, Eng., for cruelty to a dog by beating it 

 with a whip was sentenced to a month's hard labor.— /SiocA;- 

 Keeper. [Moral ; Timothy should have trained his dog by the 

 rules laid down in "Training vs. Breaking.''] 



IRISH SETTER LOST.— A light built dark red Irish setter 

 dog strayed or was stolen about ten days ago. He has a spot 

 of white on brea»st. Any one knowing of his whereabouts 

 will confer a favor by addressing his owner, B. F. Callaghan, 

 973 Broad street, Newark, N. J. 



KENNEL NOTES. 



KEJTNEL NOTE BLANKS. 



For the convenience of breeders we have prepared a series of 

 blanks for "Names Claimed," "Whelps," "Bred" and "Sales." We 

 request that all Kernel Notes be sent to us on these blanks, which 

 will be forwarded to any address on receipt of stamped and directed 

 en velope. Send for a set of them. 



NA.ME8 CLAIMED. 

 See instr-uctions at head of this column, 



Load Stone, Grind .Sforie. Wkcf Sto7ie. Jack iStone, Curb Stone, 

 Kate (HniMime, Bell GUi'Mone, Rom Gladstone, Fanny Gladstone 

 0Md Nelly Gladstone. By J. W. JVlurnan, Keeling, Tenn., for Eaglish 

 sellers, four black, white and tau and one lemon aud whit« dog, and 

 two black. whiLe aud tan and three lemon and white bitches, whelped 

 Aug. 3, 188."), bv champion CHadstone out of Fiounce (Druid— Ruby). 



Dot Berwyn. By Dr. H. V. Aten, Brooldyn, N. Y., for black, white 

 and tan EngHsti .setter dog, whelped May 22, 1885. by Dashing Ber- 

 wyu out of Drvad. 



Belle of Dixie By IT. B. Hale, Montgomery, Ala., for black and 

 white English setter bitch, wlielped May 3, 1885, by champion Planta- 

 geuet ont of Matcbless (Roderick II. — ./ennie). 



Oenesla. By E. Lever, Philadelphia, Pa., for bull-terrier bitch, 

 " helped Aug. Itj, 1885. by Dutch, Jr. (A.K.R. 1887) out of Young 

 Venom, 



Moss. By A. W. QriCaths, New Market, N. H., for red Iri'--h setter 

 dog. whelped Feb. 8, 1885, by Dash (Berkley— Tilly) out of Beauty 

 (Rocket— Madge). 



Rufus. By Samuel Morgan, Riverton, Va., for red Irish setter dog, 

 whelped July 17, 1885, by Pat (Grouse— Nora) out of Kate (Marquis of 

 Lome— Gypsy). 



ttea. Bv M. B. Sayre, Baltimore, Md., for red Irish setter dog. 

 Whelped .July 17, 1885, by Pat (Grouse— Nora) out of Kate (Marquis of 



-Sec instrucf.ionn at head of this column. 



Trusty Gladstone— l\'d lAe.v:.cUin. George Jarvis's (New York) 

 Enghsh setter bitch Trusty Oladslone (A.K.R. 15o0j to Ted Uewellm 

 (A.K.R. 599), Sept, 1. 



Diana—Dash Man ncring. Samuel Huntington's (Plainfleld, N. ,T.) 

 fiuglish setter hitnh Diana (A K.R. 1458) to Dr. C. F. Stillman's Dash 

 Mannering (Dash III.— Lady Mannering), Aug. 4. 



Leah-Glen Rock. Geo. F. Clark's (St. George's. Del.) English 

 setter bitch Leah (A.K.R. 1281) to E. W. Jester's Glen Rock (A.K.R. 

 1616). Sept. 5. 



Lit—Sportsman. Wm, A. Ellison's English setter bitch Lit (Gath 

 — l/it)to J. W. Murnan's Sportsman (Gladstone— Sue), Sept. 5. 



Zitta— Graphic- Fred F. Harris's (Portland, Me.) pointer bitch 

 Zitta (A-K.E. 1358) to Jas. L. Anthony's champion Graphic (A.K.R. 

 3411), Sept. I'l. 



Bessie— Black Knight. P. Cullen's (Salmon Palls, N. H.) cocker 

 spaniel bitch Be.ssie to his Black Knight, Aug 28. 



Judy—Ckirry. W. F. Reynolds's (Pouglikeepsie. N. Y.,) Irish ter- 

 rier hitch Judy (A.K R 2199) to his Garry (a..K.K. 2198), Aug. 4. 



Turin Maud— Rebel Wind'em . Memphis & Avent Kennels' (Mem- 

 phis, Tenn.) English setter bitch Twin Maud (Gladstone— Clip) to 

 their Rebel Wmd'em (Count Wind'em— Noma), Aug. 23. 



Flaxie— Gladstone. Meanpbis & Avent Kennels' (Memphis Tenn.) 

 English setter bitch Flaxie (Druid— Ruby) to P. H. Bryson's champion 

 Gladstone, Sept- 13. 



WHELPS. 

 See imtructiona at head of this column. 



Judy. John C.Dawes's (Kmgston, Mass.) beagle bitch Judy, six 

 (five dogs), by Punch (Blue Boy— Music). 



Ruby. KUmamock Collie Kennel's (Dorchester, Mass.) Imported 

 collie bitch Ruby. Sept. 8, eleven (seven dogs) by their Kilmarnock 

 Bruce (A.K.R. 1422). 



Haselnut IT. Dennis Desmond's (Fall River, Mass.) red Irish setter 

 bitch Hazelnut II. (Cnief— Hazelnut), Sept. 3, nine (seven dogs), by J. 

 F. Shay's Dick (7on— Floss). 



Zell Thos. F. Morris's (Mott Haven, N. Y.) Gordon setter bitch 

 Zell, Aug. 28, five (three dogs), by H. C. Glover's champion Turk 

 (AK.R. 717). 



Beauty. C. H. Redfield's (New Haven, Conn.) Gordon setter bitch 

 Beauty (Glen II.— Jet;, Sept. 7, thhteen (eight dogs), by H. C. Glover's 

 champion Turk (A.K.B. 717). 



Darkie. P. CuHen's (Salmon Falls, N. H.) cocker spaniel bitch 

 Darkie (A.K.R. 250;, Aug. 29, eight (four dogs), by champion Obo II. 

 (A.K.R. 432). 



SALES. 



See instructions at head, of this column, 

 MonogroAn. Engli.^ setter bitch, whelped July 11, 1885 (Roderigo 

 -Merry BeUe), by E. W, Jester, St. George's, Del., to J. C. LasseU, 

 Smyrna, Del. 



Lady JSlcho. Red Irish setter bitch, whelped April 3, 1885 (cham- 

 pion Elcho— Noreen), by Dr. Wm. Jarvis, Claremont, N. H , to A. B. 

 Truman, San Francisco, Cai. 



Venture. M"stiff dog, whelped June 15, 1885 (Turk— Drmdess), by 

 E. H. Moore, Melrose, Mass., to S. B. Besse, Rockland, Mass. 



Rear. Red Irish setter dog, whelped July 17, ifc85 (Pat— Kate), by 

 Samuel Morgan, Riverton, Va., to M. B. Sayre, Baltimore, Md. 



Montezuma. Mastiff dog, whelped June 22, 1885 (Turk— Bess), by E. 

 H. Moore, Melrose, Mass., to Chas. H. Barnes, Boston. Mass. 



Joe. Mastiff dog. whelped June 23, 1885 (Turk— Bess), by E. H. 

 Moore, Melrose, Mass., to Geo. W. Pulton, Jr., Rockport, Tex. 



Donald IL (A.K.R. 2545) -Lady Bang (A K R. 698) whelp. Liver 

 and white pointer dog, whelped June 29, 1885, by Clifton Kennel, Jer- 

 sey City, N. J., to C. F. Chase, HaverhUl, Mass. 



Robin Adair (A.K.R. 20.30)— Lady Belle (A.K.R. 1788) whelp. 

 Lemon and white pointer dogs, whelped May 2(5, 1885, by Chfton Ken- 

 nel, Jersey City, N. J., one to C. F.Jenkins, Greensboro, S. C, and 

 one to John Sanders, Jersey City, N. J. 



PRESENTATIONS. 

 See instriictions at head of this columit. 



Moss. Red Irish setter dog. whelped Feb. 8, 1885 (Dash— Beauty), 

 by G, H. Gilbert, Boston, Mass., to A. W. Griffiths. Newmarket, N. B. 



Lurry. Skye terrier dog, whelped Nov. 7, 18S4 (Zip— Gyp), by E. H. 

 nifjKin.s, Oohocton, Pa., to Mrs. O. P. Smith, Towanda, Pa. 



Planter. Liver, with while markings, pointer dog, whelped Feb. 6, 

 1880 (Senisation- Black Rose), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to 

 Franklin Miller, Lawrence, L. I. 



JVellie. Lemon and white pointer bitch, 4}4yrs. (Sensation— Lill), by 

 Jas. L,. Anthony, New York, to Lam'ence Drake. Kmgsbridge, N, Y. 



Planter II. and Wanda. Pointers, liver with white markings, 

 dog, and orange with white markings, bitch, whelped June 11, 1885 

 (Planter— Nelhe), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to Laurence Drake, 

 Kingsbridge, N. Y. 



Loma Doone — Lemon and white pointer bitch, whelped June 11, 

 1885 (Planter— Nellie), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to S. R. Welser, 

 King.ibridge, N. Y. 



Flirt. Lemon and white pointer bitch, whelped Jime 11, 1885 

 (Planter— Nellie), by Jas. L, Anthony, New York, to E. Schermerhorn, 

 Biverdale, N. Y. 



Lady. Lemon and white pointer bitch, whelped June 11, 1885 

 (Plantc-— Nellie), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to A. H. Howard. 



Sport. Liver and white poinfer dog, whelped Jvme 11, 1H85 (Planter 

 —Nellie), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to P. Winters, Kiugsbi-idge, 



Tennis. Liver and white pointer (log, whelped .Tune 11, 1885 

 (Planter- Nellie), by .las. L Anthony, New York, to E, W. Anthony, 

 Long wood, Mass. 



Norma, Lemon with white markings pointer bitch, whelped June 

 II, 1885 (Planter— Nellie), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to James 

 Kent. 



Don Carlos. Ijemon with white markings pointer dog, whelped 

 Jtme 11,1885 (Planter— Nellie), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to 

 Chas. T. Stagg, Belleport, L. I. 



Pattie Lemon with white markings pointer hitch, whelped .Tune 

 11, 1885 (Planter— Nellie), by Jas. L. Anthony, New York, to Edward 

 M. Anger, Peekskill. N. Y. 



Jack and Jill. Orange with white markings pointer dog and bitch, 

 whelped June 11, 1885 (Planter— Nellie), by' Jas. L. Anthony, New 

 York, to A. Pierson Case, Vernon, N. Y. 



KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



D S , Vicksburg, Mi.?s.— While feeding my setter puppy to day. he 

 suddenly left his cluiuer. running around the yard and mto the house 

 at a furious rate, barking and howling all the while, seemingly in 

 some pain and somewhat frightened. I stood near him while he was 

 eating aud am certain that nothing came near to frighten him, and 

 when his dinner was given him he did not seem to be be in any pain. 

 He is about eight or nine months old and has always seemed in per- 

 fect health. Ans. We incline to the opinion that the puppy has 

 worms. There are many causes for such fits, the most frequent being 

 worms. You had better satisty.yomselE by giving an active purge, 

 such as a tablespoon ful of castor oil or a dessertspoonful of oil of 

 buckthorn and watch the passages. If you find worms you must 

 diet on milk and give as little as possible, and as a vermifuge you can 

 give a dram of powdered areca in a pill or ball or ten drops of oil 

 of worm seed on a lump of sugar twice daily. If the trouble is from 

 indigestion or overloading the stomach you musi treat accordingly. 



Bergen.— 1. There appeared on the ears of my mastiff dog blotches 

 where the skin seeinea to thicken and grow hard and dry. After 

 a day or so the entire surface of each blotch peeled off hlce a scab, 

 taking with it the hah. I kept them weU greased, and in a week or 

 so the scars were well healed, and now there appears to be a good 

 skin over them. M'ill the hair grow on these spots again? 2. The 

 flaps and passage^! of each ear then became red and indamed, and 

 the dog began to shake his head. A reddish brown matter appeared 

 in the ear, looking like dried sweat and blood. The shaking of the 

 head has latterly increased with some slight indications of a return 

 of the blotches along the edge of the ear. Ans. 1. The hair wih 

 grow again. Use balsam of Peru ointment for any external sores, 

 applying twice daily after washing. 2. Cleanse the ears and drop 

 the following into them twice daily: Of bromo-chloral, one dram, of 

 laudanum, one dram, of water six drams. Mix. 



H. B.— A setter dog for 18 months has had, as I supposed, the 

 mange. 1 gave him Fowler's solution arsenic, 5 drops up to 10, for 

 nearly two weeks. I used Glover's mange cure. He was broken out 

 on his shoulders and between the hips and tail. By treating him as 

 above he was apparently cured, but it only lasted tor about a week 

 when h^ broke out again as bad as ever. He breaks out in spots as 

 large as a half dollar, and there is a watery fluid running from these 

 spots. Ans. Begin again with the arsenic and use it for a month, 

 running the dose up tiy a drop a day from 3 to 10 drops and then de- 

 creasing, and so on. Dust any nmning sores with calomel powders 

 twice daily, using a camel's hair brush. Report results. 



Jlnmer^ to ^arresfimdmt^. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymoiui Oorrespondenta. 



J. P. — The name on her stem is Genesta, the g being soft. 



H. C, Vermont. — You will find in Batty's "Practical Taxidermy" 

 practical and sufficient instruction. 



C. H.— See the letter elsewhere relating to Macon, Ga., as a center 

 for reachmg Southern shooting grounds. 



M. C. W., Titusville, Pa.— Read Bogardus's "Field, Cover and Trap 

 Shooting," price S2, for sale at this office. 



O. H. R., Cleveland.— Write to N. G. Stebblns, 521 Washington street, 

 Boston, for photos of Puritan and Genesta. 



C. S. G. A., Pittsfield, Mass.— Puritan's lines have never been 

 published. AVe hope to publish them shortly. 



J. S. R , Erie, Pa.— It is possible that the whipping of guide-ring 

 keepers is done as you say by some rod makeis, i. e., with the whip- 

 pujf; ending on each side ot the ring, leaving a bare place uader the 

 ring. Of eleven rods owned by us and made by half a dozen of the 

 best makers, not one is so whipped. The whipping is not discon- 

 tinued when the loop of the keeper is reached, but is continued under 

 it so that on the upper side of the rod the whipping is continuous, 

 passing under the keeper at the ring, yet the ring does not play upon 

 the silk as you suggest it must, but on the brass keeper. Rings do 

 not usually stand up when the rod is turned over, unless when new 

 and stiff. They flatten down when put in the sack. 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Publish- 

 ing Co. 



FIXTURES. 



Oct. 20.— First Georgia State Fair Tournament, under auspices of 

 the National Gun Association. Judge M. R. Freeman, Manager, 

 Macon, Ga, Beginning Oct. 20. 



THE TRAJECTORY TEST. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I must commend your very sensible editorial upon your proposed 

 rifle trial, as well as the views of Major Merrill. Mr. Romer and others. 

 The test, as I understand it, is not to be in the interest of rifle makers, 

 but in the interest of science. lam certain that a large number of 

 your readers are quite as much interested in the discovery of general 

 truth as in truth limited by the whims or necessities of manufactur- 

 ers, or the nervous or muscular endurance of hunters. If any one 

 wishes to use your apparatus to see what can be done by excessive 

 powder charges, hght buhets, heavy or long rifles, how does it affect 

 the relative worth of rifles with factory ammunition any more thanif 

 such experiments were tried In Europe or next year? For my part I 

 should like very much to see the exact figures of such tra.iectories as 

 have been made with the old-fashioned sugar loaf cone, not "cooical 

 bah," but a short bullet tapering from butt to point and having no 

 more bearing on the barrel than is given by being swaged into it by 

 the "guiding starter." These cannot be shot accurately from the 

 breech, with any system of "fltllng" that I have beeu able to devise. 

 But when carefmly loaded from the muzzle they were very accurate, 

 while their extreme lightness and sharp points gave them a very rapid 

 flight for 200yds. and over. With conical balls hollowed from 'behind 

 to the Ughuiess of a round baU of same diameter— or even lighter- 

 filled up with tallow or wax, and set over a stout wad, a marvelous 

 speed may be obtained, especially if the point be sharp. Why shoifld 

 we not know what can be done with such things, even if we do find 

 them too inconvenient for general use. 



Ot course the shooting must be accurate, not because an Inaccurate 

 ritte is worthless for hunting, but for a far better reason. Erratic 

 balls generaUy travel in curves that are Independent of the curve 

 caused by gravitation. The axis of rotation does not coincide with 

 the axis of the bore, aud tne ball has a wabbling motion that carries 

 it off the line upon which it issued from the bore. Its line of flight 

 then becomes a curve. And this curve may also be a spiral line, so 

 that a ball that would be well off the mark at 100yds. may be nearer 

 to it, or even in it, at 200 and vice versa. A wUd ball cuts up such 

 antics at times tnat there is no certain way of knowing wnat its 

 trajectory is. Hence all such must be excluded. 



Subject to the condition of accuracy, why should not excessive 

 charges of powder be tried? We are not all afraid of a rifle kicking, 

 and with light halls there is no danger of its bursting. The old-time 

 maxim, "Too much powder makes the baU wild," is in a certam 

 .«euse true, but it is subject to hmilations that are very little under- 

 Stood. An mcrease of powder may easily change the line of flight 



of the ball driven by it, but upon this new line the balls may be as 

 true as before, so that the rifle needs only resighting. Major Merrill 

 does not express himself clearly when he says that a rifle that 

 "buckles" or springs is worthless. A double rifle well loaded rarely 

 shoots on a line corresponding with the axis of its bore, and few 

 single rifles shooting a long ball ever do so, unless very lightly- 

 charged with powder. A rifle may be worthless from springing or 

 "buckling," but not necessarily so. If its spring be regular, it Is as 

 good as any rifle. Major Merrill undoubtedly means those that 

 "buckle" irregularly. 



This old maxim is also subject to other serious limitations, such as 

 the cut and twist of the rifling, the fit of the ball, the length of its 

 bearing and its hardness. With a rifle of sharp twist and shallow 

 grooves there is a limit to the amount of powder coTisistent with ac- 

 curacy, though even this limit may be much extended by hardening 

 the ball to excess. But many of the old miizzleloaders were quite 

 different. If I were back- East at that trial I would guarantee to bring 

 there a score of rifles that would play upon a half-inch bullseye at; 

 30yds. all day with four inches of the quickest and strongest powder 

 obtainable. I would not undertake to do so with the ball in a caHridge. 

 It would doubtless have to be loaded as a muzzleloader. Six fingers 

 of powder used to be my regular load for the best muzzleloader I ever 

 had. Mr. Romer writing to me some years ago about his crack 

 muzzleloadei'. with which he thought he could then beat any breech- 

 loader ?aid, "I never weighed ray powder before (that was before 

 something I wrwte Forest and StreAsi upon this subject) but on 

 weighing the charge 1 And it a little over 200 grains. " This was for a 

 rifle of about .4()-caliber, as I remember. There have been many like 

 us, though the majority of hunters have undoubtedly thought moder- 

 ate charges essential for accuracy. 



I hope vou wiU follow Major M- rrill's advice about taking the tra- 

 jectory of aU hunting rifles at 100 and ISOvds. as well as at 200. Of 

 course, these can becomputed from the trajectory at 200. Butsocan 

 the aOO one be computed from the 100 one. Asa matter of fact, there 

 are about ten hmiters who hunt with their rifles sighted to 100yds. to 

 one who himti with one sighted to 300; and flve who hunt with it 

 sighted to 10.) to one who hunts with it sighted to 150. That is, it is 

 sighted for their eyes though to another not accustomed to those 

 sights or to rifle st ooting, it might appear to be sighted 40 or oOyds. 

 further: with practice the eye catches a finer sight than at first. This 

 is because of the practical recognition in one form or another of the 

 statement made by Major Merrill that nearly ail game is killed inside 

 of 150yds. and most of it inside of 100. Most of the long-shot brag- 

 garts tacitly or unconsciously follow this principle, have their rifles 

 sighted to a short trajectory, kill nearly all their game by holding the 

 same constant amount of sight on it,' and make their long shots by 

 fancy's aid. No man but an expert has any business hunting 

 with a rifle sighted to a rise of more than one inch. Even 

 an expert, unless in practice, is. with a rifle sighted to a 

 rise of over three inches, liable to miss more game inside 

 of 125yds. than he wiU kifl beyond that point by virtue of the 

 increased rise. And with a rifle sighted to arise of over four inches 

 even an expert in quite constant practice is very ha ble to miss tf he 

 lays the rifle aside for a week or two, or .shoots down hill or toward 

 the sun or in dim light or at anything running. For no hunting in 

 woods or rough, broken and brushy ground should a rifle be sighted 

 for 200yds. Such a point blank is needed only on open plains where 

 the breaks are long and low. And even there it should be given by a 

 raised sight which can be lowered in a moment if nece.ssary to a 

 point blank of 100yds. Nearly all shots beyond 100yds., where tne 

 distance is unknown, involve more good fortune in guessing distance 

 than sKill in shooting. And it is almost as hard to hit a mark at 110 

 yds. with a ball rising ten or twelve inches at that point as to hit one 

 at 200yds. with a ball falling fifteen or twenty inches, as when the 

 rifle is sighted for 100yds. Either of these guesses are bad enough, 

 but as most chances to kill fall inside of 125yds., the first guess is the 

 worst. Both should be avoided as far as possible by the utmost 

 speed of bullet consistent with other qualities. 



Permit me to ask that, either by experiment or computation, you 

 win, besides the regular form of a curve, put your results in the fol- 

 lowing form: The greatest distance at which a rifle will hit the 

 regulation bullseye for that distance without rising above the regu- 

 lation bullseye for any intermediate distance. The regulation bulls- 

 eye for any point corresponds to the size of game that one could 

 reasonably expect to hit. 



If I know any person in this world, it is theave-age hunter ■nnth 

 the rifle. You naturally want to reach the thoughtless and unscien- 

 tific as well as the more intelligent riflemen. If ever I have written a 

 tme sentence in this paper it is this: "When you talk to the average 

 hunter of short range curves and trajectories and rises above the 

 hne of sight, etc., you babble an unknown tongue." Some wiU take 

 you for ah idiot, others for an ignoramus, others for a bungler who 

 don't know^ how to shoot. Of course all know thao the ball 

 rises for a long flight, but for a short one the majority 

 know nothing of any lise. They have the old-time "hold up" notion 

 flim in their heads, aud the only result of trying to get it out is to 

 make yourself pass for an ass. But talk to them of a point to which 

 a rifle will hit every mark of reasonable size along the line, provided 

 the .same sight be held on it, and they are with you at once. Talk of 

 the importance of extending this point as far as possible, and they 

 take your idea before half expressed and forestall your wisdom with 

 their quick and hearty approval. There is no wisdom better than 

 that which, in fighting ignorance, descends to its level tiud uses its 

 own weapons. I will take my results in curves; but I believe the 

 majority of those who need enlightening on this point can be far 

 more quickly convinced by a tabulation of results in the other form. 

 Moreover, a 300yd. curve does not show the great advantage of short 

 .swift balls over long and slow ones, especiaUy the effectiveness of 

 round balls at short range. To see the faults of slow bullets, trajec- 

 tories should be taken at lOO, 125 and 150 yards. T. S. Van Dyke. 

 San IiiEGO, Cal. 



HOLYOKE, Sept. 13.— The first tournament of the Paper City Rifle 

 Club, recently organized, took place at the Willimanset range to-day. 

 The attendance w^as very large, the sport opening at 7:30 and con- 

 tinuing until nearly dark. There were 62 entries. The range was 

 200ydc., and Massacuusetts targets were used. The best individual 

 scores are as follows: H. K. Cooley, Springfleld, 107; Hiram Engle, 

 Chicopee Falls, 106; G. E. Day, Springfield, 103; C. L. Newcomb 97, 

 W. Beeching 95, J. E. Harris 95, J. P. Blaisdell 91, H. Whitnev 84, C, 

 Stacey 83, E. M. Adams 79, P. W. Burris 74, Frank Barber 72, W. B. 

 Stacey 66, M. Whalan 75, W. P. Outterson 63, C. Atkins 60, all from 

 Holyoke. Sixty-two per cent, of the entries were divided for prizes, 

 as follows: Cooley 15 per cent., Day 10, Newcomb 10, Harris 8, Blais- 

 dell 5, C. Stacey 4, W. B. Stacey 2. TiYank Barber is President and 

 M. N. Snow Secretary and Treasurer of the club. 



WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 12.— The fourth weekly telegraphic match 

 between the Hillside Rifle Club of Waltham and the Jamestown, N. 

 Y., cluD was shot yesterday". The first (,f the four contests was won 

 by the Jamestowns by two points, the second by the Hillside by one 

 point and the third was a tie. Following is a score of the Hillsides 

 in the fourth contest shot yesterday, Creedmoor target, 200yds,. off- 

 hand: E. A. Emerson 46, W. H. Stone 44, W . A. Oaughey '43, J. K. 

 Monroe 43, John Logan 42, W. W. Greene 42, L O. Dennison 41, G. W. 

 Strickland 41; total :342. The above is the best total score made on 

 the range, tne weather and other conditions being extremely favor- 

 able. The arrangement is that the best seven scores shall be coimted 

 in the matches, so that the total score which counts wiU really bo 

 301. Practice will be continued each week, but no more matches 

 will be shot at present. The score of the Jamestown Club was 298. 



CLEARFIELD, Pa.— A prize shooting tournament under the 

 auspices of the Clearfield Rifle Club will be held on the grounds of the 

 grounds of the Clearfield Park As.sociation during the fair, on Sept. 

 29 and 80, and Oct. 1 and 2. Eight prizes, aggregating $580 in value 

 nave been presented. The rule? provide for shooting over a distance 

 of 100yds. at the Dennison ring target, oit hand, open sights, any kind 

 of triggers, each contestant to shoot 5 shots consecutively whfle at the 

 trigger. Range open for contest from y A. M, to 5 P. M. of each day. 

 Each board to consist of flve shots. No call shots. No person to 

 receive more than one prize. Contestants may shoot for an.v one 

 who desires them to do so. Entrance fee $2, which entitles the person 

 to one board, and four more at $1 each. AVhea these are shot out, the 

 contestant, if he so desires, may re-enter on the same terms. The 

 Association has a fine range, with ample protection from the weather. 

 The committee consists of J. E. Harder, D R. Fu lerton and Ashley 

 Thorn. W. C. Cardon is Geu'l Superintendent, J. R. Bixler, Secre- 

 tary. 



NEWARK, N. J.— The secretary of the Newark Rifle Association, 

 on the 6ch inst., published the following card: To the New Jersey 

 Riflemen.- The need of a standard short-range target is apparent to 

 all American riflemen. Recognizing the necessity of concertedaction 

 upon the subject, we would request that each organized club give this 

 matter its early attention, and after obtaining the vote of their club 

 fill up a blank and return tJie same to the secretary of the Newark 

 Rifle Association at its earliest convenience. Each club wiLl be en- 

 titled to as many votes as it has members. Blanks wiU be furnished 

 to each club this week.— iV. C. Neuman, Sec'y N. R. A. 



ARMY PRACTICE. -The several departments in the regular army 

 are closing up the practice for the year and the reports are coming 

 in. Many of them show that the men are taking capital advantage 

 of the opportunities for range work offered them. The recent 

 changes of target and the new orders render it impossible to do 

 much in the way of comparison with civfliau scores ou tne old tar- 

 gets. It is to be regretted that the raem'je.rs of the ai-roy do not take 

 more kindly to all-coraerb motches aud assist iu building up rifle 

 shooting outside of professional ranks. 



