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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 13, 1895. 



every therapeutic measure. Nevertheless persistent and 

 hopeful management in even apparently desperate cases 

 is occasionally rewarded by such brilliant consequences 

 that, however slight may be the belief in the treatment 

 employed, it deserves recognition. He prescribes such 

 remedies as the following, either alone or in combina- 

 tion: Camphor, cantharides, carbolic -acid, croton oil, 

 tinct. capsicum, etc., in the form of stimulating lotions 

 applied with friction to the parts affected, all of which 

 should recommend themselves to the practitioner or party 

 having the disease under treatment. My own treatment, 

 while it has proved eminently satisfactory so far, I should 

 like to hear of it being used by others, and their success 

 reported. It is as follows: 



Case No. l.—A small black and tan terrier was affected 

 with patches the size of hen's eggs on the shoulder, back, 

 rump, one side and under neck; had been so for six 

 months, and everything in the way of mange cure tried; 

 dog ordered washed thoroughly and one patch painted 

 thoroughly with cantharidal collodion, two or three ap- 

 plications until blistering was produced; after puncturing 

 the blister andgapplying vaseline as an emollient, a 

 second place was treated the same, and so on, a patch 

 being blistered every three or four days until all had been 

 treated, when a wash composed of alcohol, 1 pint, balsam 

 Peru, 2oz., was applied alternately with a dressing of 

 crude petroleum. This was used every three or four days 

 and a cure was effected in between three and four 

 months. The only internal treatment employed was oc- 

 casional small doses of quinine as a tonic. 



No. 2 was a large dog of the Newfoundland species. 

 The disease made its appearance simultaneously on his 

 back and head. So sudden did it come that the owner 

 himself declared that some servant bad poured boiling 

 water on the dog, and only for the lack of any soreness pre- 

 vious to the loss of hair or at the time I was called, I confess 

 I would have been most inclined to concide with him. 

 This case was treated same as No. 1; while it did not 

 make its appeauance in any new places, it was quite stub- 

 born in its amenability to treatment, being fully six 

 months before the patch on the skull was restored to its 

 normal condition. I would say that in this case I also 

 used rum sulp. lgr., ferri sulp. lgr., arsenic acid sVgr., 

 given in pill three times a day. 



Case No. 3 is now under treatment. He is a black, cor- 

 ded poodle about five months old, in apparently good 

 health otherwise. He is affected in five places: each 

 side, on back, on neck and on the throat well up toward 

 the jaws. This dog was purchased in New York, and the 

 seller stated that it had been scalded with hot water, but 

 that as it was a long-haired dog no one would see it. I was 

 called, as they wished to see if possibly something could 

 not be done to permit the growth of the hair in the spots 

 so called. In examining him, I found more spots affected 

 than they had seen, and after calling their attention to 

 the fact that it was next to impossible for the dog to get 

 accidentally scalded so high up under the neck, I sug- 

 gested that it was from disease, and took- it for treat- 

 ment. One of the most eminent physicians in the State 

 and a man of almost national reputation has interested 

 himself in the case on account of its rarity. He pro- 

 nounces it a typical case of the disease, and is watching 

 the effects of treatment preparatory to reporting it in 

 the medical press. .Albert. 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



Puppies and Training. 



The manner in which many people care for puppies, as 

 compared with the high expectations which they have 

 concerning their puppies' mental and physical develop- 

 ment, are so antagonistic that they are sources of 

 wonderment to those who give the matter rational 

 thought. Many puppies and dogs are kept in confinement, 

 or, what is worse, on a chain. If under restraint on a 

 chain, the puppy or dog acquires a habit of standing at 

 the extreme length of it, pulling it taut. This strained 

 position, elbows out and neck set hard in the collar, the 

 whole body leaning forward and resting against the 

 collar, soon becomes habitual, and then he stands out of 

 shape when not on chain. The puppy grows up with light 

 and badly formed bone, elbow out, and, from constant 

 fretting and irritation.with a most ill-favored countenance. 

 The scowl which comes from tugging at the end of a 

 chain, from anxiety to be released, and from the irritation 

 of such confinement, in time becomes permanently set 

 and mars the dog's expression. For his best development 

 and health, the dog requires freedom. 



Any man, if confined to his room with nothing to read 

 and no one to give him any information, would consider 

 himself unjustly treated if he were expected to learn 

 worldly ways and worldly knowledge under such cirfum- 

 stances. The puppy cannot learn when eonfined. He 

 learns only by direct experience. Unlike man he can 

 gain no knowledge from the speech of others or from 

 writings. Cut off his powers of observation and the source 

 of all knowledge is cut off from him. Confine him, his 

 physical development is impaired. The dog thrives only 

 when he has sufficient liberty. The knowledge which man 

 teaches him is but little compared to the vast knowledge 

 which he acquires from his own observation and percep- 

 tion. Information does not come to him by instinct. If 

 it were so the dog, if • kept in confinement all his life, 

 would have an equal knowledge with the one which has 

 its liberty. Everyone who has owned dogs knows how 

 essential experience is to them. The city dog in the 

 country for the first time is in a new world. He chases 

 sheep at first sight and all kinds of fowl are alike his prey. 

 A frog is a source of quizzical wonder and careful investi- 

 gation, while a butterfly affords delight. Yet the country 

 dog in town for the first time has far more complexities 

 to encounter and many dangers to learn and guard 

 against. The strange noises of the city are terrifying to 

 him; the crowds of people cut off his view of his master, 

 and if a corner is turned he is lost. 



Only by experience can the dog learn the problem of 

 living. Give him his liberty and he will gain his own 

 knowledge of every-day life, he will grow up healthy and 

 vigorous and his temper will be sweet and even. Inaction 

 and seclusion have the same effects on both men and do°-s 

 — undeveloped minds and bodies. 



Dog Laws. 



There is no doubt but what in any community which 

 has sufficient age and interests to establish itself perma- 

 nently the ownership of dogs must be so regulated as to 

 conform to the requirements of the public good, and the 



increase and liberty of homeless and ownerless cur dogs 

 must be restricted to such numbers as are harmless to the 

 community. Nearly all cities have provided legal and 

 humane means for the capture and disposition or destruc- 

 tion of such dogs as are harmful or offensive to them. 

 Their capture is effected with as little tumult and demon- 

 stration as possible. The laws are directed toward free- 

 ing the community of a nuisance in a dignified and orderly 

 manner, by efforts which are made with a commonplace, 

 every-day regularity the year round. The dogs which 

 are valueless or ownerless are privately destroyed. There 

 is no publicity, no sensation. The public mind is thus not 

 brutalized and degraded by the sights of pursuit and 

 bloodshed on the streets; innocent onlookers are not in 

 danger of losing life or limb from the reckless shooting of 

 the official killers; the peace of the community is not dis- 

 turbed nor is its business suspended to witness a gory sen- 

 sation, and sensible discrimination is observed in saving 

 the valuable well-bred dog from the death inflicted on the 

 homeless or vicious cur. When a policeman with pistol 

 in hand, followed by an excited crowd, is in pursuit of a 

 dog, he is very apt to have in mind the dramatic effect 

 and his own egotistical personality quite as much as the 

 simple matter of ridding the community of homeless dogs. 

 The mob, when once excited by the pursuit, desires to see 

 blood regardless of the merits of the case. 



It is strange that at this year of civilization a city can 

 be found where such open brutality and senseless, erratic 

 methods prevail as those adopted by the citizens of Eliza- 

 beth, N. J., if the press accounts of them be true. It is 

 pleasing, on the other hand, to note that a part at least 

 of the daily press can discuss the matter in a sensibl 

 manner, free from the exaggerations and sensationae 

 features which it deems so necessary in treating of any 

 event connected with the violent death of a dog or dogs. 



Touching on the recent killing of dogs at Elizabeth, 

 N. J., which in its details reads more like a description of 

 an annual battue for the edification of the police, the 

 Sunday Call, Easton, Pa. , has the following very sensible 

 editorial under the caption, "Which are the Brutes?" 



"Which are the brutes, the officials or the dogs? Eliza- 

 beth, N. J., is making its annual raid against dogs, and its 

 authorities have within a few days butchered over 1001 

 dogs that have appeared to be not within the letter of their 

 dog law. A dog found on the street without a collar and 

 license tag, or a muzzle, is shot without ado by any police- 

 man. It does not signify whether the dog is registered or 

 not. If by any accident he appears without his parapher- 

 nalia he is shot. This butchering is carried on by the in- 

 struction of the Mayor. Many valuable dogs have been 

 butchered whose owners have endeavored not to trans- 

 gress the dog laws, and much hot blood is the result. 

 New Jersey within the last decade has proclaimed more 

 bad dogs and more epidemics of rabies than the rest of the 

 earth has exhibited since the creation. Her dog laws are 

 brutal, and the sundry crusades in her towns have been 

 as brutal as they are senseless. The muzzling law in hot 

 weather, when a dog needs water and his open-mouthed 

 respiration, which stands him in lieu of the perspiration 

 of other animals, is brutal, and the law which allows offi- 

 cers to kill dogs indiscriminately is brutal. Summer dog 

 laws are mainly directed against the fancied danger of 

 hydrophobia, one of the rarest of diseases, the authenti- 

 cated cases of it usually occurring in winter, which being 

 the fact muzzling in summer is as unnecessary as it is 

 brutal. There seemingly should be mental resource in 

 New Jersey, if not in Elizabeth, sufficient to make sensible 

 dog laws. The registration and taxation of dogs are not 

 objectionable. Muzzles are needless at any season as a 

 safeguard against rabies. Vicious dogs are barely worth 

 considering, as any neighborhood will protect itself against 

 such dogs. But whatever dog laws Elizabeth or any other 

 town may see fit to enact, the principle should prevail that 

 punishment should first be visited on the owner of the dog, 

 and not death upon the innocent dog. The covert dog 

 poisoner ranks among men as a skulking coward, as well 

 as a brute. And the official wholesale butchery of dogs in 

 Elizabeth ranks those who are responsible for it as brutes 

 in the estimation of all humane persons," 



The hot weather seems to have less effect on the poor 

 dogs than it does on the more intelligent biped. The ig- 

 norance and imaginary fears of the people, with a love 

 of the sensational superadded, are the causes of much 

 cruelty to the dog. 



Nevertheless the killing of dogs, as practiced with such 

 offensive publicity and brutality by the police of Eliza- 

 beth, cannot justly be blamed on them. The Mayor, with 

 the hot weather ideas which he unfairly attributes to the 

 dogs, should be muzzled politically when the next election 

 takes place, regardless of his political faith. 



The Marvelous. 



There is constantly manifested by the daily press, and 

 the papers specially devoted to the dog and gun are not 

 free from the evil, a disposition to color any dog story 

 with tinges of the marvelous, or fantastical, or even the 

 supernatural. The common test of reasonable action or 

 possible or accidental happening is not seasoned properly 

 for the news writer or his readers. It must be made ex- 

 traordinary or sensational. 



A dog meets a death in a manner out of the ordinary 

 and forthwith it is heralded to the world as an act of 

 suicide. It does not matter that the writers of such trash 

 cannot possibly know of the dog's intentions; such ab- 

 sence of knowledge does not affect in the least the fulness 

 and firmness of their -assertions. A dog has a fit in the 

 street; aery of mad dog is raised; the frantic efforts of 

 the dog while afflicted or his dazed efforts to escape while 

 recovering are all perverted into furious and ferocious 

 onslaughts, in the relation of the circumstance after it is 

 all past. A dog performs some acts which he was 

 taught, and forthwith it is discovered that he inherited a 

 knowledge of how to perform them. There never was a 

 better time than the present for the kennel and daily press 

 and dog owners of the country to be governed by the rules 

 of common sense in treating of dogs and their doings. The 

 fantastic, the wonderful and the supernatural have no 

 more place in the phenomena of dog life than they have 

 in the life of any other organic beings. B. Waters. 



Mr. E. M. Oldham will have the general management of 

 the kennels of Spratts Patent, on the retirement of Mr, 

 John Brett, which takes place in a short time. Mr. Old- 

 ham will have the management of the kennel matters in 

 addition to the other important interests which he cares 

 for so efficiently and popularly. 



C. F. T. Club's Quail Derby. 



All the dogs entered were whelped in 1894, There are 

 22 pointers, 32 setters. 



Sister Sue— N, T. De Pauw's liver and white bitch 

 (Jingo ). 



Dowlah— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' liver and white 

 dog (Rip Rap— Dolly D.). 



Nabob— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' black and white 

 dog (Rip Rap— Dolly D.). 



India — Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' orange and white 

 bitch (Rip Rap— Dolly D.). 



Amen — Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' liver and white 

 dog (Wrecker — Selah). 



Wrestler— Charlottesville F. T, Kennels' lemon and 

 white dog (Wrecker— Selah). 



Toxic— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' liver and white 

 bitch (Dog Wood— Maid of Kent). 



Stridemore— Richard Merrill's liver and white dbg 

 (Strideaway — Hops H.). 



Coinage— C. G. Stoddard's liver and white dog (Trin- 

 ket's Coin— Ightfield Blythe). 



Strideaway's Lad— S. W. Alsdorf's liver and white 

 dog (Strideaway — Ightfield Teighn). 



Eldred Came— Eldred Kennels' liver and white dog 

 (King of Kent— Graceful II.). 



Abdallah Romp— J. B. Turner's liver and white bitch 

 (Castleman's Rex — Tiney Kent). 



Top Sawyer— E. O. Damon's liver and white dog 

 (Strideaway — Ightfield Teighn). 



Sal Strideaway— E. O. Damon's liver and white bitch 

 (Strideaway— Ightfield Teighn), 



Kent B.— Dr. J. S. Brown's dog (Rip Rap— Croxie 

 Kent). 



Virginia— H. K. Devereux's liver and white bitch 

 (Little Ned— Pearl's Dot). 



Sidmont— P. T. Madison's liver and white dog (Stride- 

 away — Hops II.). 



Cracker Jack— Adams & Thompson's liver and white 

 dog (Lad of Rush — Cyclops). 



Blithley— J. L Adams's liver and white bitch (Trinket's 

 Coin— Ightfield Blythe), 



Sappho— Dr. O. Totten's fiver and white bitch (Stride- 

 away — Warwick Nellie). 



: Blazeaway— Damon & Holmes's liver and white dog 

 (Strideaway — Ightfield Spree). 



Shadyway— Prof. E. H. Osthaus's liver and white dog 

 (Strideaway— Jean of Beaufort). 



ENGLISH SETTERS. 



Pauline Bo — Richard Merrill's black, white and tan 

 bitch (Paul Bo— Tube Rose). 



Rudge Bo— Richard Merrill's black, white and tan dog 

 (Paul Bo— Tube Rose), 



King's Dan II.— Geo. W. Ewing's black, white and tan 

 dog (King's Dan — M'liss II.). 



M'liss III. — Geo. W. Ewing's black, white and tan bitch 

 (King's Dan— M'liss II.). 



Kate— Geo. W. Ewing's black, white and tan bitch 

 (King's Dan— M'liss II.). 



—Geo. W. Ewing's cream, white and tan bitch 



(King's Dan— M'liss II.). 



Marie's Sport— H. B. Ledbetter's black, white and tan 

 dog (Gleam's Sport— Marie Avent). 



Rod's Boy— King Graphic Kennels' black, white and tan 

 dog (Roderigo — Lany Gladstone). 



Troudadour— Eldred Kennels' blue belton dog (Glad- 

 stone's Boy — Rill Ray). 



Gleam's Ruth— Manchester Kennel Co. 'a black, white 

 and tan bitch (Count Gladstone— Gleam's Maid). 



Gleam's Dart — Manchester Kennel Co. 'a black, white 

 and tan bitch (Count Gladstone — Gleam's Maid). 



Rod's Topsy— Wm. A. Hinesley's black, white and tan 

 bitch (Topsy's Rod— Lulu Hill). 



Mazeppa— T. H. Gibbs's lemon and white dog (Rod's 

 Dan — Bondhu's Nellie) 



Patrician — Avent & Thayer's black, white and tan dog 

 (Chevalier — Patsy). 



Feu Follet — Avent & Thayer's black, white and tan 

 bitch (Count Gladstone— Fullie). 



Fleet's Pet— Avent & Thayer's lemon and white bitch 

 (Count Gladstone — Fleety Avent). 



Touchstone— Avent & Thayer's black, white and tan 

 dog (Orlando — Dolly Wilson). 



Avent & Thayer's black and white bitch (Topsy's 



Rod— Lady Lib). 



Harwick — H. R, Edwards's black, white and tan dog 

 (Topsy's Rod— Opel). 



Claude — P. Lorillard, Jr.'s, black, white and tan dog 

 (Eugene T.— Maiden Mine). 



Fannie L.— P. Lorillard, Jr.'s, black, white and tan bitch 

 (Eugene T. — Maiden Mine). 



Arapahoe— P. Lorillard, Jr.'s, black, white and tan dog 

 (Eugene T. — Maiden Mine). 



Fred — P. Lorillard, Jr.'s, black and white dog (Eugene 

 T.— Ightfield Rosalie). 



Brighton Dick— T. G. Davey's black and white dog 

 (Brighton Tobe— Brighton Lady). 



Brighton Tom— T. G. Davey's black and white dog 

 (Brighton Tobe — Brighton Lady). 



Brighton Maud— T. G. Davey's black and white bitch 

 (Brighton Tobe— Brighton Lady). 



Adelaide — R. V. Fox's black, white and tan bitch 

 (Gath's Mark — Countess Rush). 



Tory Fashion — F. R. Hitchcock's lemon and white dog 

 (Count Gladstone IV.— Fleety Avent). 



Tory Celiu— F. R. Hitchcock's black, white and tan 

 bitch (Roderigo— Norah II.). 



Mark of Ightfield— Joseph Becker's black, white and 

 tan dog (Ightfield Rbiwlas — Queen Regent). 



Domino — P. H. O'Bannon's black, white and tan dog 

 (Antonio — Ruby's Girl). 



Bob S. — D. E. Rose's (agent) black, white and tan dog 

 (Antonio— Oriole). P. T. Madison, Sec'y-Treas. 



English Setter Type. 



Chatham, Ont. — Editor Forest and Stream: I cannot 

 let Albert's article, in your issue of the 29th ult., on the 

 type of the English setter, pass without a word of protest. 



In the first place, let me say that, although I have read 

 the Stonehenge and. the English Setter Club standards, I 

 attach very little importance to either of them. My idea 

 of judging the English setter and all other animals is by 

 comparison. We do not hear of a standard by which 

 horses or cattle are judged. Fancy fowl were judged by a 

 strict scale of points a few years ago, but now I believe 

 the best judges judge them by comparison. 



Albert says "he is a firm advocate of the Stonehenge or 



