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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Dec. 6, 1888. 



Commissioner," alias W. H.-.the Fleet street agent, take the 

 dOK men of this country for a set of consummate asses ami I n- 

 compoopsorwhat? If ''Mr." Carr had said that Salisbury had 

 no pedigree would the mastiff men have allowed me to fcalce 

 the doe iuto the ring and beat them without saying a word? 

 If anybody, except Carr and his family, had known or sus- 

 pected anything crooked in the pedigree, it would have been 

 gentlemen like Messrs. Ex ley, Swithenbank, Heinzeman, etc. 

 These mastiff breeders lived within a few miles of Carrs 

 residence and they knew every mastid in the neighborhood 

 and all about them. Would Messrs. Exley and Swithen- 

 bank, the owners of Bosco If., have sucked their thumbs over 

 that grand young dog's defeat by Salisbury if old Tom Can- 

 had ever as much as hinted that Salisbury had no pedigree? 

 Would these gentlemen be my staunch friends to-day if they 

 suspected me^of beating them with a dog whose pedigree I 

 had forged? If old Tom Carr had intimated that the dog's 

 pedigree was not as represented, would a man like Marsden, 

 who handles Mr. Eoyle's dogs, and knows every dog man in 

 the fancy, have offered me £250 for Salisbury? If "Our Spe- 

 cial Commissioner," who is not a dog man and never was. 

 knew that the pedigree was not correct, how was it that 

 the men I have mentioned did not know it, _ and why 

 did not "Our Special Commissioner" prove himself an 

 honorable lover of dogs by exposing the fraud? Would 

 Messrs. Wvnn, Taunton, Exley, Swithenbank, etc., 

 silently submit to haye their dogs defeated by a 

 specimen whose pedigree was not straight? If I were capa- 

 ble of descending to such work as forging a pedigree. why 

 did I sell Bosco II. to Mr. Royle for £250 and refuse to let 

 him have Salisbury? Would it be possible for a prominent 

 exhibitor to buy a well known dog that had no pedigree 

 and palm the same off on the English mastiff men as a 

 purely bred dog? There were hundreds of exhibitors whose 

 dogs were beaten by mine, men who would have been only 

 too glad to have had me barred fi*om exhibiting Salisbury 

 and other dogs. Would any person in his common souses 

 have placed himself at the mercy of these men? If the 

 pedigree of Salisbury, as given to me by old Tom Can- and 

 entered in the Stud Book, "made mastiff men sit up and 

 stare," why in the name of auy kind of sense that is found 

 outside of a lunatic asylum did they not say something 

 about it? This statement denies itself and convicts the fel- 

 low that concocted it. "Our Special Commissioner"' says it 

 was nobody's business to interfere. Great Heaven! A prom- 

 inent exhibitor gives a dog a fictitious pedigree, introduces 

 mongrel blood into a breed of doss that any genuine dog 

 lover would jealously protect and it is "nobody's business 

 to interfere." What will the crooked comic tell us next? 

 It is eveTy dog owner's business to interfere in such a case, 

 but then "Our Special Commissioner" is not a dog man; but 

 even this would hardly account for such a silly discharge of 

 infantile ignorance. 



I have no intention of defending Salisbury's pedigree. It is 

 not only possible, but highly probable that it was crooked on 

 the side of the sire and dam and all their ancestors as well. 

 When I purchased the dog I knew very little of old Tom 

 Carr, and had no reason at that time for doubting his word. 

 I subsequently learned from the Court House that he was a 

 confirmed liar, and a man who residednear tohim and knew 

 him well assured me that at times he was a madman as well. 

 I, however, have no intention of allowing the Chicago 

 editor to vilify me, and I shall always expose his unprin- 

 cipled attacks whether they be hurled by way of Chicago or 

 191 Fleet street, London. Chas. H. Mason. 



New Yohk, Dec. 3. 



SALISBURY AND HANBURY'S PEERESS. 



Editor Forest and Stream; 



About two years since, while the famous Corsair bogus 

 pedigree that Mr. Craig ventilated in the Stock-Keeper was 

 fresh in mastiff memories (this is the pedigree that the 

 "Official, Sir," admitted), I wrote the Stock- Keeper, inci- 

 dentally asking if there was any evidence that Beldam, 

 given as granddam of Salisbury, was ever bred to Mr. Ex- 

 ley's Victor, and showed that the pedigree given to Han- 

 bury's Peeress in the English Stud Book was incorrect. 

 Recently the English correspondent of an American paper 

 answers both matters in one sweeping reply that the pedi- 

 gree is fictitious throughout, This puts me in the position 

 of having at some time, in some way, questioned the honesty 

 of a pedigree coming from Mr. Hanbury, and I cannot 

 imagine a piece of presumptuous impertinence 1 would be 

 less likely to be guilty of than questioning even the correct- 

 ness of auy pedigree furnished by Mr. Hanbury, and as to 

 the honesty of it, I would be writing myself down knave as 

 well as fool to avow a suspicion on that. The mistake in 

 pedigree of Mr. Hanbury's bitch is an evident error, either 

 clerical or typographical. In pedigree of Salisbury it is 

 said, "Lion, by Mr. Hanbury's Prince out of his Peeress, by 

 Governor out of Duchess," making Peeress a daughter of 

 Governor and Duchess, but that is the pedigree of Prince! 

 and the error has been in the omission of Prince after the 

 word Peeress, in other words it should read: "Lion, by Mr. 

 Hanbury's Prince out of his Duchess, Prince, by Governor 

 out of Duchess." Doubtless the correspondent had no in- 

 tention of imputing anything to Mr. Hanbury, but coupled 

 with the remainder of his comments, it certainly looks like 

 a charge of fraud against Mr. Hanbury. 



As to the Beldam-Victor business, my inquiry could have 

 been answered in the affirmative by a quotation from the 

 English Stud Book, as in Andertoii's Tiger, E. 2442. it is 

 given "by Exley 's Victor ex Heinzeman's Beldam, by Field's 

 King ex Hilda." This is the correct pedigree of Beldam, 

 who was younger sister to old Champion Turk, and often 

 figures in pedigrees under her original name of Hilda II. 



It is true that I inquired of Mr. Exley about this matter, 

 and he knew knotting about it, but his not remembering of 

 his friend, fellow townsman aud owner of Lion, the sire of 

 Victor, having bred his bitch to Victor, is easily accounted 

 for. In the first place, I did not then know of the stud book 

 entry (having only stumbled ou it within the last week), or 

 of Mr. Heinzeman's ownership of the bitch, and further, Mr. 

 Exley probably did not recognize the name Beldam, as he 

 knew the bitch under her original name of Hilda II. Mr. 

 M. B. Wynn owned her at one time, and sold her either to 

 Mr. Heinzeman, John Swithenbank, or somebody else Brad- 

 ford way. 



I do not propose to defend Mr. Mason, it is none of my 

 business, and his hand is able to keep his head, but it may be 

 pertinent to say that the statement of the English corres- 

 pondent that the dog did not appear withapedigreeunt.il 

 Mr. Mason bought him, and that Mr. Carr always said Leo 

 had no pedigree, is contradicted by the reference in Dalziel's 

 "British Dogs" to "Mr. Carr's Leo bv Monarch, who 

 promises to fill the place in northern shows vacated by that 

 grand dog, Colonel." (I quote from memory, but I give the 

 exact sense.) Mr. Heinzeman seems to have been exceed- 

 ingly particular aud minute as to pedigrees, for in the 

 pedigree furnished by nim of Delafield Smith's dogs, he 

 gives such minute particulars as that Cautley's Quakeronly 

 served one bitch, and his subsequent poisoning by a mange 

 dressing. I always heard Salisbury's pedigree doubted, and 

 although when I investigated it Mr. Mason and I were bit- 

 terly hostile, I can say that I never learned that Mr. Mason 

 was suspected of complicity in the matter, but allegations 

 were very plain and unequivocal as to Avho was responsible 

 for it. Who this was, I do not propose to say. It seems to 

 me incredible that Mr. Mason would forge a pedigree, 

 right under the nose of his fellow townsman, who was such 



a professor of pedigrees, and who would be certain to pick 



^1 never had any communications with Mr. Mason on this 

 matter, and merely write of it in the way the facts strike 

 any unprejudiced observer. W. WADE. 



Htjltox, Pa., Nov. 26. 



THE ST, BERNARD PRIZES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In this week's issue of your paper is a list of prizes to be 

 awarded by the St. Bernard C lub at the coming spring show. 

 I joiued that club among the first and have done all I could 

 to get others to join, and become interested in a club that 

 was (as I understood from prominent officers of the club) to 

 be for the interests of American-bred dogs principally. Such 

 a club was much needed, as our imported dogs so clearly 

 sweep the boards that there is no chance for the home-bred 

 dogs belonging to those breeders who have not the length of 

 purse required to own cracks from across the water. For 

 those who have ambition to breed the best here, and not 

 import them, I am sorry to see that the prizes offered by the 

 club are nearly all to be competed for by the usual cracks 

 that take all the show prizes, specials, and now will reap 

 the benefit of the club prizes also. There is but a small 

 chance for our home-bred dogs, and one of these chances is 

 so qualified that a home-bred dog would stand little if any 

 chance to get a prize from the club. For instance, an Ameri- 

 can-bred dog or bitch must have won a prize in its class in the 

 show in order to compete for the club prize offered at that 

 show. Now the bome-bred dog will have to compete in its 

 class with imported ones, thus perhaps getting a vhc. or he. 

 This same dog or bitch maybe the best home-bred dog in 

 this country, but can't compete for the club prize because it 

 did not win a prize in its class. This is not right, and in 

 most cases there would be no competitors for the cup and it 

 would revert to the club. 



All the other prizes will be competed for by imported dogs 

 and bitches in every instance, thus giving the American-bred 

 dogs no chance whatever. Is it consistent for an American 

 club to offer its prizes under such conditions that only im- 

 ported dogs can compete for them ? In what way will the 

 club be of "any help to the average American breeder? The 

 few who govern the club aud own the cracks will take all 

 the prizes for each year right straight through the circuit, 

 and the home-bred dog will stand just where it has in the 

 past. 



A gentleman asked me the other day what advantage it 

 would be to him as a breeder of a few St. Bernards (among 

 them a prize winner last year) to belong to the club. I told 

 him that it would give his home-bred dogs an independent 

 chance to wiu a prize when he would not have to compete 

 with imported dogs. I believed so then and was hone3tin 

 my statement, but I find I was wrong, and he may have 

 sent in his fee before I have a chance to inform him of the 

 present policy of the club, which would keep him as well as 

 many others out. I fully appreciate what has been done for 

 the fancy by the importation of such valuable dogs as Duke 

 of Leeds, Merchant Prince, Hector, Ben Lomond, aud such 

 dogs should compete for stud dog prizes given by the club, 

 but the other prizes should all be offered to home-bred dogs, 

 then there would be an ambition among breeders to raise 

 something good, and not be obliged to import it. We are 

 too young in the fancy to be able to compete against such 

 fine'dogs as we now have from across the water. If the club 

 ignores the home-bred dogs the first year, there will ba but 

 little chance for them in the future. If we are to have an 

 American club, let it be for home interests wholly. We need 

 protection. Essex. 



THAT VEXED SPANIEL QUESTION. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I do not see in what way I have tried to make out that I 

 was "the first to advocate spaniel field trials." Nothing 

 that I have written could be so construed. 



With regard to Mr. Fellows's lofty perch, from the emin- 

 ence of which he appears to think he in his wisdom can 

 look down and smile upon us poor unfortunates, who are 

 not "Fellowses," I have no desire to "shin up." He can 

 stay there and he hanged for all that I care. I have demon- 

 strated that Mr. Fellows's claim to the title of "champion 

 field trial spaniel of America" for Silk was a fraudulent 

 one, and that is enough. 



I don't intend setting about the task he has set me, as I 

 am fully agreed with Mr. Fellows that the present prevail- 

 ing type is not what is called for under the standard, and it 

 is with a view to giving the "crocodiles" a set back and to 

 "showing them up" in the field that I want to see trials in- 

 troduced. This Mr. Fellows can ascertain by referring to 

 my first letter, written in the summer mouths. Mr, Fel- 

 lows's mind is of a decidedly feminine cast. He argues in 

 a circle. Start on one subject with him and he springs a 

 dozen on you, all totally at variance with the point under 

 discussion. I am getting heartily tired of this controversy 

 or rather series of controversies and would be glad to let 

 the matter rest; but I won't shutup until Mr. Fellows does. 

 Oh no! QUESTEK. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In reply to "Quester" I would say that he can couut me 

 as one strongly in favor of spaniel field trials. 



F. H. F. MERCER. 



DOG TALK. 



PEACE does not brood over pet dog affairs. The war is 

 on. The injunction asked for by the American Pet 

 Dog Club to restrain the Messrs. Henry R. Sules, Crump 

 Ormsby, Thomas J. Daunis, William Gooclenough and Mrs. 

 Eugene Clark, from using the title and the incorporate 

 privileges of the American Pet Dog Club, has baen denied 

 upon the ground of conflicting allegations and affidavits by 

 Judge Lawrence, Justice of the Supreme Court. The in- 

 junction was asked by Mrs. Sarah J. Wheatleigh, and repre- 

 senting Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Mrs. Abbey, Mrs. Frank Les- 

 lie, Mrs. John Draper, Mrs. S. C. Barnum, Mrs. J. A. Brit- 

 ton, Mrs. A. V. Fairehild, Mrs. M. A. Rives, Mrs. M, C. Ran- 



Lewis, James Mortimer and Mrs. Landreau, all members of 

 the club. The probabilities are that the petitioners will 

 abandon their contest for the club title and organize under 

 a new name; this would be the sensible thing to do. 



Among the passengers on the Etruria, which had such a 

 rough time of it on her last trip over, was Mr. E. M. Old- 

 ham, who was on his way to inspect the spaniels in English 

 kennels, and perhaps to buy a winner or two. Mr. Oldham 

 undoubtedly got a good shaking up on the briny, to put him 

 into condition for the Birmingham show. 



The managers of the Pacific Coast Kennel Club's show, 

 which is set down for May 22 to 25 ; have invited Mr. Chas. 

 H. Mason to judge all classes, sporting and non-sporfcing. 



The New Bedford show premium lists will be out about 

 Dec. 15. 



ST. PAUL SHOW.— By an oversight in prize list of the 

 St. Paul show, issue of Nov. 1, the awards in the fox-terrier 

 bitch open class were not given. They were: 1st, W. H. B 

 Medd's Zero; 2d. L. W. Hill's Fly. Very high com., W. H. 

 B. Medd's Raffle. High com., Leonard F. Block's Minnie. 



DISTEMPER. 



[From the American Kennel Register.] 



THE evolution of the average American dog fancier is 

 about as follows: Every American as soon as he 

 reaches the period where his income is assured and he can 

 slacken his pace somewhat in the greedy rush after the 

 almighty dollar, looks around for a hobby of some sort or 

 other with which to occupy his time. This period is gen- 

 erally reached about middle life, but if he happens to have 

 his wealth left to him it may be as soon as he reaches his 

 majority. No matter wheu that period is reached, if he con- 

 siders that a hobby will give nim happiness— a hobby he 

 will have. 



The dog fancier usually is a man who, during his boyhood 

 days, has possessed some sort of a nondescript cur that won 

 a soft place in his heart. So when the time comes for look- 

 ing around for a hobby, if he visits a dog show he there and 

 then makes up his mind that the breeding of fine dogs is the 

 sort of relaxation from business that wili best suit him. So 

 he cautiously (for contrary to popular opinion, Americans 

 are cautious, although it does not take them as long to fully 

 make up their minds as other nationalities) invests in a 

 bitch of the breed he admires, has her served by a prize- 

 winning dog. and awaits the appearance of fut ure cham- 

 pions. As a general thing such an investment brings forth 

 good results. He rears a litter, sends the choicest of them 

 to the shows, where they meet with more or less success. 

 Thus encouraged he builds kennels at his country seat, em- 

 ploys a kennelman and becomes an authority (?) on the 

 breed. For a time all goes well, but sooner or later (gen- 

 erally sooner) distemper appears and kills off all his young 

 and promising stock, and he is discouraged. If he is plucky 

 he sticks to his hobby, but in the majority of instances he 

 gets disheartened, sells off his dogs, usually at an immense 

 sacrifice, and starts some other hobby that promises better 

 results. 



Now, all this is caused by that dread disease distemper, 

 and ray object now is to give my brother fanciers my expe- 

 rience in treating this disease, and I trust that by following 

 my advice they will be as successful in combating this dis- 

 ease as I have been. 



In the first place, distemper is a zymotic or self-limi ted dis- 

 ease. It must run its course, and is as impossible to abate, 

 as small-pox or measles. 



When 1 fully make up my niind that a dog has distemper, 

 by the combined symptoms of nasal discharge and rapid 

 emaciation, I at once isolate the victim from his compan- 

 ions, putting him in clean, dry and cool (not cold) quarters. 

 Then I give 4grs. (the dose fcr a setter) of anti-f£ brin every 

 four hours for two days, at the end of which time, in my ex- 



Eerience, the fever is abated. I have used anti-pyrine, but it 

 as not been so successful as anti-febrin. I then give lOgrs. 

 (dose for a setter of sacharated pepsin after every meal the 

 dog eats, and by this treatment entirely do away with the 

 intestinal troubles that create diarrhoea, which in nine cases 

 out of ten is the cause of death in most cases of distemper. 

 If dog is very weak and refuses food, I force two or three 

 raw eggs (with the pepsin afterward) per day down his 

 throat; and if stimulants seem to be needed, I give an ounce 

 every three hours of some good extra dry champagne like 

 Mumm's or Yellow Label Cliquot. 



Tn connection with this treatment I use pure pine-tree tar, 

 applied daily by a small paddle, across the nostrils, so that 

 the dog will lick it off with his tongue. The mucus that ac- 

 cumulates on the nose 1 wash off with a soft sponge, dipped 

 in a saturated solution of copperas. All the water the dog 

 drinks contains eight grains of anti-febrin to the pint. 



As to the diet 1 depend almost entirely on scraped raw lean 

 meat. The dog will generally eat this readily, and it is the 

 most easily digested of foods. After the crisis of the disease 

 is passed, and the dog is on the mend, I give a dessertspoon- 

 ful (dose for a setter) of codliver oil twice a day. 



The reason for the efficacy of the above treatment is as 

 follows: The early stage of distemper is always accom- 

 panied by a high fever, and anti-febrin, in my experience, 

 reduces the. temperature in dogs as no other known drug 

 will. Then the system is left in such a weak state that the 

 power of digestion is destroyed and the pepsin performs the 

 duty, almost immediately stopping the diarrhoea. 



S REICNAF. 



We can vouch for the efficacy of these remedies, so far as 

 we have had opportunity to apply them, which was in the 

 case of a six-weeks-old puppy, which contracted a sudden 

 cold. Its eyes were completely closed, its nose hot and dry, 

 and the symptoms indicated a probable attack of pneumonia. 

 Anti-febrin was given four times the first day, a small pinch 

 between the finger and thumb. On the morning of the 

 third day there were no fever symptoms aud the appetite 

 was good. Then ensued diarrhoea. With its three princi- 

 pal meals on the fourth day pinches of pepsin were admin- 

 istered with the result that the passages seen the following 

 morning were normal. After that the treatment consisted 

 in endeavoring to open the swollen eyelids sufficiently to 

 allow a little of the atropia preparation recommended in 

 "Ashmont's" work to reach the eye. On the evening of the 

 seventh day (the present day of writing) the puppy was able 

 to open the eyelids far enough to allow about a third of the 

 eye to be seen. A thin film covered the eye, which will 

 doubtless disappear under the atropia treatment. The main 

 point is that the puppy, under the anti-febrin and pepsin 

 treatment, never lost its strength, and the indications are 

 that they will prove invaluable, remedies in distemper cases. 

 —Ed. A.K.R. 



VULPINE RELATIONS PLEASANT.— The fox hunters 

 of Leominster have had the second meet of the season. One 

 pleasant day, last week, the hunters shook hands as they 

 left the Center, and vowed they would never return home or 

 eat another meal around the family board until a red rover 

 with a white tip on the tail had been captured. The com- 

 pany went in squads of five to various parts of the town. 

 Twelve hounds, whose scent was excellent and whose long 

 ears brushed the frosted grass were cut loose at 7 A. M. 

 Their cry was soon heard and made the sportsmen's hearts 

 beat quick, as it was a strong indication that reynard had 

 started from his favorite haunts and would soon take to 

 the hills. The first party saw a fox start from the woods at 

 9 A. M. The dogs were at full cry about half a mile behind 

 the fox. One man had located himself on top of a large 

 rock at the head of a great pasture where foxes are wont to 

 cross. The fox made straight for him, and when within six 

 rods the hn nter emptied both barrels at him. In t wo seconds 

 the fox was at the lower end of the pasture, where he caught 

 two mice, devoured them for his breakfast, then listened for 

 the approaching dogs, left for parts unknown and was not 

 seen again during the day. The second party started a fox 

 at 10:30 A. M. He was seen some 20 times at various points 

 on hills and in dense woods. He was an old fox and knew 

 the Leominster sportsmen full well. He was a little shy of 

 the dogs, but seemed inclined to make friends with the 

 men and walked around like a drum major on a muster field. 

 He viewed with a foxy eye each man's gun, evidently read- 

 ing the make and admiring the finish of the weapon. He 

 paused at the words "Leominster steel," "Damascus," 

 ^Smith's $100 grade," etc. While he was satisfying his 

 curiosity as to the great improvements made in firearms 

 since the first time he was shot at, when he was a little fox 

 half-grown, 31 shells were fired at him. He seemed to enjoy 

 seeing the shot plow along the ground a few yards in front 

 of him and then at the rear. He seemed perfectly indiff eren t 

 about accidents and it is declared on good authority tha t 

 this particular fox holds a life insurance policy in the Fitch - 

 burg Mutual Aid Insurance Company. He made good his 

 escape, having gained much valuable information as to fh e 



