July 27, 1895.] 



FOREST ANf) STREAM. 



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In a letter under date of July 13, Mr. J. T. Mayfield, 

 Bicknell, Ind., writes us that he intended to start for Man- 

 itoba on the 15th inst. He also mentioned that Mr. J. M. 

 Freeman was just recovering from a long spell of danger- 

 ous illness. We regret his illness and wish him a speedy 

 recovery. Mr. Mayfield reports quail more abundant 

 about Bicknell this year then ever. 



The entries for the Northwestern Field Trials Club's 

 champion stake close on Aug. 1. Entry fee, $10; starters, 

 $15, The club will give the owner of the first prize win- 

 ner an engrossed diploma, setting forth that such winner 

 has won the title of field trial champion. Dogs which 

 have won a first or second prize in any field trial are elig- 

 ible. This stake will be run after the trials of the Mani- 

 toba Field Trials Club are concluded. The rules of the 

 Continental Field Trials Club will govern, excepting that 

 in respect to heats they must be at least one hour long. 

 First prize, silver trophy (presented by the club's patron, A. 

 P. Heywood-Lonsdale, Esq., England) and 40 per cent, of 

 the total amount received for entry and starters' fees; 

 second and third prizes, 30 and 20 per cent, respectively 

 of same. For blanks and information address Mr. Thos. 

 Johnson, Winnipeg, Man. 



National Beagle Club of America. 



New York, July 19.— A regular quarterly meeting of 

 the National Beagle Club of America will be held at the 

 rooms of the A. K. C, 59 Liberty street, Tuesday, July 

 30, at 3:30 P. M. George W. Rogers, Sec'y. 



ZERUAH Body Plan. 



The tail and tongue are to the dog what your hand and 

 speech are to you. 



Take off the tail of the dog and you deprive yourself 

 and him of half the pleasure there may be in the friend- 

 ship between you. 



By his tail your dog welcomes you home, and at all 

 times it is an index to his disposition. 



With his tail the dog does not lie, although it may wag 

 between serious doubts. 



A bobtail dog does not present an agreeable picture. 

 Every man is under some kind of obligation to aid in keep- 

 ing ugliness out of the world. 



Socially and as a matter of ornament and bodily perfec- 

 tion the tail is indispensable to the dog. 



DOG CHAT. 



The British Fancier says: "There is a whisper that the 

 success of the Ladies' Kennel Association is to be followed 

 by a ladies' carriage club, which, in the fullness of time, 

 will have its meet in the park, there to display their varied 

 equipages, their draft and riding horses, and their ped- 

 igree ponies, besides their multiform vehicles. The sex 

 are going the pace. Mention of the Ladies' Kennel Asso- 

 ciation reminds us tbat Mrs. Stennard Robinson is now 

 circularizing the executive of all shows asking for Ladies' 

 Kennel Association specials as to whether a separate en- 

 trance and exit and also sitting room for the convenience 

 of lady exhibitors are provided. Would that 'male men' 

 were half as well looked after as the members of the 

 Ladies' Kennel Association are by their courteous honor- 

 ary secretary. We have in our mind more than one show 

 where the treatment meted even to members of the press 

 has been very little better than if we had been pick- 

 pockets. Thank goodness, however, such shows are few 

 and far between, for so enjoyable are the majority we at- 

 tend that we have long ceased to look on 'doing' a first 

 class show as a hardship." The following anecdote will 

 be interesting to coursers. The same journal says: 

 " 'Vindex,' in writing a short obituary notice on 

 Tom Wilkinson, whose sudden death we recorded 

 last week, pays the following tribute to a predecessor 

 of Wilkinson's, whose brilliant feats with the leash are 

 still well remembered by members of the old school: 

 •Tom Paper, the prince of all slippers, was a splendid 

 man on his legs, but he would not stand the horsemen's 

 pace; they had to take his. Nor would he attempt to 

 slip at a hare that he could not get fairly well ,behind. 

 But she had to come very awkwardly if he could not 

 reach her, for he was a marvelous man at carrying his 

 dogs round. And what a judge of distance! He gave a 

 most remarkable illustration of that upon one occasion 

 at Altcar, and, at the same time, a wonderful exposition 

 Of his own skill. He was approaching a drain with his 

 dogs straining, and he saw that if he slipped inside the 

 jump the slip would be too short. On the other hand, if 

 he flew the drain, by the time he again got his dogs 

 steadied together for the spurt which precedes the de- 

 livery, the slip was going to be too long. There was 

 still a way out of the difficulty for Raper, though prob- 

 ably for no other man. He went fast at the drain, and 

 as all three were in mid air the pin was drawn, the 

 dogs landing together with the leash falling from their 

 necks.' " 



A meeting of the executive committee of the Canadian 

 Kennel Club will be held at the Queen's Hotel, Toronto, 

 3 P. M., Wednesday, Aug. 7, to receive nominations for 

 officers of the club for the ensuing year and to transact 

 other business that may be brought up. 



The R. I. State Fair Association requests specialty clubs 

 to notify the Association at as early a date as possible of 

 any specials offered by them, so that notice of the same 

 can be duly published. 



Referring to the Peterborough show the Stock-Keeper 

 says: "The fair sex patronizes this outing in numbers, 

 but many of them were so horsey in attire and masculiue 

 in cut of hair, voice and deportment, that we should be 



sorry to refer to them as members of the weaker sex 



but mighty huntresses before the Lord they no doubt are." 

 Evidently the Stock-Keeper is afraid of the new woman". 



The Kennel Gazette (Eng.) has the following: "A mad 

 dog in Wilmington, Del., bit a man on his wooden leg, 

 leaving its teeth in the artificial limb. The aid to loco- 



motion was unscrewed for dispatch to the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute." 



Mr. H. W. Lacy has delayed his westward journey for 

 a few days, owing to a happy incident which occurred 

 last Thursday. His father, brother and sisters arrived 

 from England on that day by one of the fast ocean 

 steamers. They intend to remain here permanently. 

 Mr. Lacy, with his brother, called in Forest and Stream 

 office on Friday, both looking happy over a reunion after 

 so many years of separation. Mr. Lacy earnestly assured 

 us that his brother is not a dog fancier, but he probably 

 has the fancy latent, and it will assert itself in good 

 time. 



The celebrated Scottish terrier champion Alister was 

 killed in a row with his two sons, Kildee and Kilarth. 

 The latter was so severely injured that he was humanely 

 destroyed. 



Spratts Patent, New York,; announce the reorganiza- 

 tion of their boarding kennel. S. Berry, Brooklyn, offers 

 broken |setter. Kugler & Fox, Kensington, Ohio, offer 

 English setter dog. A. E. Drake, Georgetown, N. Y., 

 offers beagle. R. W. Humphrey, Warsaw, N. Y., asks 

 for bids on fifteen or more breeds of registered dogs, etc. 



Mr. C. E. Buckle, manager of the Charlottesville Field 

 Trial Kennel, was in New York last week. 



The New_ York Sun says that "It appears that canned 

 horse meat is really to come on the market. It is said to 

 be sweetish and not so good as dog, but it is not nasty." It 

 looks as if man's best friend is menaced by a new danger, 

 if he is once recognized as delicatessen. 



FIXTURES. 



JULY. 



New York Y. C. Cruise, July, August. 

 July 29. Rendezvous and race, Glen Cove. 

 July 30. First run— to New London. 

 July 22. Second run — to Newport. 

 Aug. 1. At anchor, Newport. 

 Aug. 2. Goelet Cups, Newport. 

 Aug. 3. Third run — to Vineyard Haven. 

 Aug. 4. At anchor, Vineyard Haven. 

 Aug. 5. Fourth run — to Newport. 

 Aug. 6. Special races at Newport. 



AUGUST. 



— . Lake Michigan Y. R. A. 



2. Lincoln Park, Chicago. 



3. Columbia, Chicago. 

 7. Racine, Racine. 



3. Cor. Fleet annual, New Rochelle, Sound. 

 3. Monatiquot open, Boston Harbor. 



3. Shelter Island annual, Greenport, Shelter Island/Sound. 



3. Larchmont, 34ft. and 21ft. classes, Sound. ' ^ 



3. Shelter Island, open, Shelter Island Sound. 



3. Corinthian, cruise to Marine Islands, San Francisco Bay. 



3-4. San Francisco, San Francisco, Cal., chowder cruise to Pinnacle 

 Rock. San Francisco. 



4. Corinthian. Feast Day, San Francisco Bay. 

 10. American special, Milton Point, 8ound. 



10. Winthrop open, Great Head, Boston Harbor. 



10-11. San Francisco cruise to California Y. C, San Francisco Bay. 



10. Squantum, ladies' day, Squantum, Mass. 



10. Duxbury Club, Duxbury. Mass. 



10. Fox Lake, North Shore, Fox Lake. 



10. Royal Nova Scotia, open handicap, Halifax. 



10. Ewcinal, open, San Francisco Bay. 



10-11. California, reception of S. F. Y. C, San Francisco Bay. 

 13. American open, Newburyport. 



14-15-16. Cor., Marblehead mid-summer series, Marblehead (Mass.) 

 Bay. 



15. Green Bay, Green Bay. 

 15. Cor., Atlantic City Special Cup, third race. 

 15. Sea Cliff special, Sound. 

 17. Huguenot annual. New Rochelle, Sound. 

 17. San Francisco cruise to Mare Island, San Francisco Bay. 

 17. Roton Point Imp. Co. annual, Roton Point, Sound. 

 17. Cor. open, Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 

 17-18. San Francisco cruise to Mare Island, San Francisco Bay. 

 17. Royal St. Lawrence Hamilton trophy, 18ft. and 21ft. classes, Mon- 

 treal. 



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