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turn, and soused to hide in the bushes and not present 

 himself at bis home until evening. Let any young fellow 



?ut the question to himself when I stay out late and when 

 get home find a good scolding waiting for me, does the 

 knowledge of this hasten my return? Of course one cannot 

 make a dog understand as you would a hoy, that you arc I 

 worried about his absence. The principal danger ot a dog's 

 running off alone is being lmrt or injured in some way. 

 The only way to prevent this is taking him to walk, or to 

 drive with you almost every day. Another bad habit is 

 being quarrelsome^ It is in 'some natures more than in 

 others, aud is especially annoying in a ladies' dog for him to 

 get into a row with another when out walking with her. A 

 lady, or children, should always be accompanied by a re- 

 liable dog when walking or driving alone in the country, 

 for protection sake. It will be found very easy to teach any 

 dog not to commence or join in a quarrel with another one. 



Take him to walk with you on the road, if a new dog on 

 the first few times leading him; then when he is loose and 

 running alongside of you, and you see another dog coming, 

 call your own to you, saying, "Quiet, stay by your mistress." 

 If need be the first few times, lead him; take no notice what- 

 ever of the other riog, and you will see him turn away. If 

 you say "Go away," or strike at the strange dog, or notice 

 him in any way, you will immediately see your own dog fly 

 at him. If you are riding or driving call him to you all the 

 same, and he will go close to the horse's feet. After a while 

 yours will come beside you without calling when he sees 

 another, and trot past him without looking. It is not cow- 

 ardice, it is training. It is said that to stop a dog fight 

 throw snuff in their faces. They will have to sneeze, conse- 

 quently let go, and thus be separated. Pepper is also used, 

 but it might get into their eye. A short-haired dog is un- 

 fairly matched against a long-haired one, the latter's hair 

 protecting him from bites, while the other one stands a poor 

 chance. For such a one it is well to have a collar with little 

 spikes in it standing up around the neck. In getting a dog 

 there may be much trouble in making him content in his 

 new home. He will be homesick and try to run away; rest- 

 less and unhappy. Much patience is required, and above all 

 keep your temper. I had one who was so fidgety, so nervous, 

 and every way annoying, that, although he was a valuable 

 dogj I determined to send him away; but it not being con- 

 venient to do so just then, i thought of trying what a 

 physician had told me, and gave him a few drops of bella- 

 donna in water. Very soon he fell asleep, sleeping and doz- 

 ing for nearly twelve hours, awaking to be quiet and con- 

 tented, soon becoming a very tractable and perfectly trained 

 dog 



1 think enough has been said concerning chastisement, 

 there are I allow occasions when it must be done, and done 

 on the spot, but be sure that you do not do it in a bad tem- 

 per (they being bright enough to understand the moods of 

 those they are with), more because you are vexed with him 

 than to teach him, if so the lesson is lost. In such a case I 

 would not blame the dog if he would fix his teeth in the 

 hand raised against him. 



One afternoon, last summer, I saw a tall, slight figure, 

 dressed in the height of the rural masculine style, as made 

 by a fashionable New York tailor, his soft moustache and 

 fair skin would have marked a. gentle nature, had not the 

 slender white fingers held aririing switch, that was being 

 laid upon the back of a poor, pretty little spaniel that was 

 crouched at his feet; with every cut of the whip this cad 

 was saying 'T will teach you," until satisfied that his man- 

 liness had been asserted enough he marched into the house, 

 followed by the little slinking figure. 



The other day, down here in Virginia, I saw an athletic 

 man with bronzed face and rough dress walking along, ac- 

 companied by a Chesapeake Bay dog and" two setters; it was 

 pleasant to see how they ran around him, looking frankly 

 up in his face, showing the perfect friendliness that existed 

 between them. I watched him pick up a stick that had 

 drifted up on the beach. Although he switched it around in 

 his hand they did not shrink, showing the perfect confi- 

 dence they felt that a.rod was not used on them. The party 

 came, to a wreck that was beached high up, one of the masts 

 had broken and fallen over on the sand dunes, making a 

 bridge. The man walked ever it into the wreck followed 

 by two of the dogs, the other, a young one, stoppod irreso- 

 lute and turned, coaxing being unavailing. The rough man 

 came back and gently piloted the dog over the mast, and 

 then soon all returned to the beach. It is needless to point 

 the moral of these two incidents, of the city "gentleman" 

 who would despise the coast guardsman — and vice versa. 



In these little articles I have tried to show that a dog can 

 not be treated in an inconsequent manner, and should not 

 be treated cruelly. It is unjust to them not to look after 

 their health aud training. If a person feels that they have 

 not time, or are not willing to take the time and care need- 

 ful, they had better not get a dog. G. L. 



DOGS OF THE DAY. 



YT7HAT is a novice? is a burning question with people 

 V Y who are defeated in a novice class and some who are 

 only prompted by curiosity. A little over a week ago I re- 

 ceived a letter from Mr. Shot well which contained a sen- 

 tence running something like this: "What was this dispute 



you had with Mr. ? I decided against you." As Mr. 



and I never had any dispute on any subject, I was 



puzzled, and sent a protest to the C. C. secretary against 

 deciding any case in which I was a party in interest without 

 giving me a hearing. Back came the answer that it was a 

 question as to the eligibility of Prince Charlie in the novice 

 class at Boston. In my reply to that information I said 

 that Prince Charlie's win of a portion of a Collie Club stake 

 was practically a special and not a prize to debar from a 

 novice class. Mr, Shotwell's rejoinder was quite a warm 

 one on behalf of his club. He is of the opinion that in pass- 

 ing over Collie Club stakes a slight is placed upon the club 

 as a member of the A. K. C. 



This question came up in a different shape before the 

 London show committee, the Canadian Kennel Club and 

 Mr. Vredenburgh. The last named never brought the ques- 

 tion to the attention of the A. K. C, but simply said that 

 the protested dog had won a Collie Club stake and that that 

 club was a member of the A. K. C, and such wins therefore 

 counted. Unfortunately Mr, Vredenburgh contradicts him- 

 self by issuing a list of shows which does not include the 

 one at Railway he says should be recognized. The little 

 affair at Rah way was in no sense a show, but simply a de- 

 cision of the club stakes, which are private affairs. It was 

 not announced as a show nor can it be regarded as such. 



The case of Prince Charlie differs only in this respect, that 

 the stakes he competed for were decided at the New York 

 show of 1889. At the same place this year he was entered in 

 the novice class with the full knowledge of his previous 

 stake winning and Mr. Vredenburgh's reply to the Canadian 

 query. No objection was made there, nor was there any at 

 Boston, where he did win a prize in the novice class. The 

 object of the novice class is just to give such dogs as him a 

 chance of winning his entrance money. It is a class for 

 which a much more definite and clearer rule is requisite to 

 prevent such misunderstandings as the Roslyn Clara and 

 Prince Charlie cases. Not only should it be made more 

 explicit, but it might be changed with material advantage, 

 making a beaten dog class instead of dogs which have never 

 won, thus admitting a new comer to compete and occasion- 

 ally sweep off so many prizes. 



Mr. Sawyer has kindly sent me the information I asked 



for regarding the bull bitch Dolly Tester. I had mentioned 

 the peculiar tendency of a sea voyage to retard the usual 

 return of the breeding period, and noted that Dolly Tester's 

 case seemed to be an exception, as she was bred soon after 

 she arrived here. Mr. Sawyer says Dolly arrived on April 

 10, first showed signs on April 13, and was bred to Harder 

 on the 23d. 



Miss Monarch was expected to come over for the River 

 View Kennels, but before Mr. Sawyer completed the pur- 

 chase she broke a stifle. She subsequently had four dead 

 puppies. Anew face, however, in the kennels is Carisbrooke, 

 purchased from Mr. E. Sheffield Porter, of New Haven. 



An error of mine has been pointed out to me. The asso- 

 ciate members are not entitled to get a fourth delegate until 

 the membership is four hundred. 



I am still more impressed than ever after reading Mr. A. 

 J. Rousseau's last letter on Barzoi dogs that the abdication 

 of the Emperor of Russia in favor of the only infallible is 

 merely a question of time. 



A judge in an English county court decided a suit for un- 

 paid prize money in favor of the show committee on the 

 score that the club did not make any money. 



Mr. Perroy, of New York, has purchased Brockenhurst 

 Quick in England, and also wanted to get Loughton Spice, 

 but his offer was declined. 



Mr. Ferris, an English detective, says dogs have no 

 homing powers, but that stolen dogs which do find their 

 way back are not taken far from home, Mr. Ferris is sin- 

 gularly at fault in this statement. We do not say all dogs 

 find their way home— we have many a time wished they had 

 the power, but some have the power. A case occurred in my 

 own kennels a few weeks ago. A bitch I had placed out 

 over two years ago was returned to me, being brought some 

 eight or ten miles by a circuitous route to my house. A 

 week later she disappeared and was brought back the fol- 

 lowing morning by her former keeper. In fact she was re- 

 turned before we knew she was goue, as she was seen up to 

 dusk. She repeated the trick in about another week. I 

 know of a little rough terrier which has been sent miles 

 away from his home sometimes in wagons and sometimes 

 boxed up, and it wasn't until he was sent across Philadel- 

 phia, that he finally concluded to quit his old home. 



The many friends of Mr. A. Clinton Wilmerding will be 

 pleased to learn that he has pretty well recovered from the 

 accident he met with two weeks ago. I have not seen any 

 full story of the affair published, so give what Mr. Wilmer- 

 ding wrote me about it: "I suppose my brother told you 

 that I had had a bad fall from a horse. The brute got 

 frightened, ran away, a stirrup broke and I was thrown and 

 trampled upon. One of his hoofs took considerable skin 

 and most of my heavy corduroy breeches off my right leg 

 above the knee, and the other came dawn on the small of 

 my back. When they erot me home there were evidences 

 of some internal injury, as I vomited clots of blood. It was 

 ahout as near broken hones and 'solving the mystery' as I 

 ever got, and I don't see how I escaped as I did. The horse 

 was a large heavy aoimal and going at top speed I am 

 pulling out all right uow, but slowly." All hands will join 

 in wishing the popular spaniel judge a complete and speedy 

 recovery. 



Now that Wilmington has been admitted to the A. K. C. 

 it is necessary for the show to amount to something. Last 

 year it was passably good, being modest and unpretentious, 

 the entering wedge as it were. The committee of the fair 

 saw that the dogs "caught on," and arc determined to make 

 a bolder bid this year, and one that will draw the good 

 dogs. Exhibitors have an excellent man at Wilmington in 

 the person of Mr. Frank R. Carswell, who although not 

 officially connected with the show that I know of, is steer- 

 ing it in the right direction. 



Mr. Carswell has sent me a rough sketch of the classifica- 

 tion, and asked for suggestions, and 1 think it might be 

 well to afford others an opportanity of doing likewise. The 

 entrance fee is to be $3. This is right, for there has been a 

 lot of grumbling at the $3 tariff where the prizes have been 

 small. The mastiff classification is as follows: Challenge 

 class, dogs and bitches, $8; open class, dogs, $8, $4 and 

 diploma; bitches the same; puppies under 12 months $5 and 

 83. The same classes and money are given to rough St 

 Bernards, English, Irish, Gordon setters, collies and fox- 

 terriers. Pointers are divided by weight in challenge and 

 open classes, making seven ^classes. Pugs have $5 for 

 first prizes in challenge and open classes, $3 for seconds in 

 open and first in puppy classes. Beagles aud cocker span- 

 iels have similar classification. Single breed classes are 

 provided as follows: Great Danes, S8, $4 and diploma; deer- 

 hounds, greyhounds, foxhounds, Newfoundlands, Chesa- 

 peake Bay, bull-terriers and miscellaneous, each $6, $3 and 

 diploma; bloodhounds, Clumber spaniels, field spaniels, 

 bulldogs, dachshunde, basset hounds, Irish terriers, Dandie 

 Dinmont, black and tan terriers, Yorkshire terriers, Skye 

 terriers, toy terriers, Italian greyhounds. Japanese spaniels. 

 King Charles spaniels and Mexican hairless dogs, each $4, 

 #2 and diploma. 



I do not see how the amount of cash could be split up to 

 much better advantage and give everybody a chance to get 

 a bit of the money. 



By way of a P. S. to the story of the A. K. C. meeting, it 

 would seem to be necessary, in view of statements made re- 

 specting Mr. Peshall's credentials not being in correct form, 

 to give a copy of what he presented. Here it is: "A. P. 

 Vredenburgh, Esq., Secretary American Kennel Club. My 

 dear sir: As Mr. H. Malcolm s our delegate, will not be 

 able to be present at your meeting, we hereby appoint Mr. 

 C. J. Peshall to act in his stead at vour meeting, to be held 

 this day, May 22. Yours truly, W. Stewart D i fiend erf er, 

 Secretary." It is a document that can be judged by every- 

 one, and a good many will, I think, concede that Mr. 

 Anthony did well to withdraw his motion that it was not 

 in proper form. j, w. 



THE ENGLISH SETTER CLUB.— Melrose, Mass., May 

 29.— Editor Forest and Stream: I would like: to extend 

 through the columns of the Forest and Stream an invita- 

 tation to all interested in the breeding, hunting and show- 

 ing of the English setter, to join the English Setter Club of 

 America, a club formed for the improvement of the breed 

 both in the field and on the bench. This club already has 

 quite a list of charter members, and more will be admitted 

 at once. Here is a long-looked-for opportunity, and it 

 should be appreciated. Any information regarding the 

 club will be furnished on application to the secretary. Fol- 

 lowing is the list of officers elected last evening: Pres., F. 

 W. Whitlock; First Vice-Pres., F. Frazer; Second Vice- 

 Pres., Dr. W. H. Power; Sec.-Treas., H. H. Brown; Execu- 

 tive Committee: A. R, Crowell, T. C. Critchendon, W. H. 

 Case, J. W. Neal, J, Jarvis, and the above-named officers.— 

 H. H. Brown, Sec'y. 



GREYHOUND OWNER WANTED.— A gentleman re- 

 cently purchased a good-looking greyhound dog, with the 

 view of restoring him to his owner, as the dog was evidently 

 well bred and probably was picked up or stolen. Address 

 Kennel Editor Forest and Stream. 



DOG TALK. 



BY invitation of Dr. Warren H. Beede I have recently 

 visited a number of dogs attacked by a peculiar dis- 

 ease, answering very nearly to that described by Dr. J. S. 

 Niven. Thinking that dog owners wish to know of such 

 epidemics, I will give a description of the disease from my 

 own observations and those of Dr. Beede, who is well known 

 in this locality as a specialist in canine diseases of some 

 fifteen years practice. The owner invariably comes to the 

 doctor with the idea that his dog has a bone in his throat 

 and is choking, but investigation of more than fifty cases 

 has failed to find a bone as yet. The dog first becomes lan- 

 guid, then, as in Dr. Niven's experience, they lose the use of 

 their hindquarters, the throat becomes very much swollen 

 and eventually the jaws become paralyzed, the tongue 

 swells and hangs out of the mouth; the dog cannot swallow 

 and the intense fever causes great thirst, the poor sufferer 

 plunging his head into the water to the eyes. In several 

 cases the doctor forced down a little water through a rubber 

 tube, invariably sending the dog into fits; the bowels are 

 constipated, and the cases that I have seen are at certain 

 stages very restless. Some of them bark a little, but in a 

 very unnatural voice. One bull-terrier that I visited had 

 been sick about two days. She was constantly in motion, 

 and would try to snap at imaginary flies and turn around 

 until she fell over from exhaustion or weakness in the hind- 

 quarters. She appeared to be entirely out of her head, and 

 did not recognize any one; the eyes were set and the eyeball 

 greatly inflamed. Most all of the cases that have come 

 under my notice have been cross and snappish during the 

 first stages of the disease. One case in particular would 

 chew anything within its reach, tin cans, chair legs, his 

 kennel or any thing. Several persons have been bitten by 

 them, but no bad effects have resulted from the bite. In 

 houses where more than one dog is kept, sometimes both 

 dogs have it and sometimes only one. It is not confined to 

 any particular variety, as black and tan terriers, bulldogs, 

 mastiffs and nondescripts have all been &ffected, and none 

 have lived over three days after being taken sick. If this is 

 not dumb rabies, what is it ? 



The English Setter Club has set the setter men all talk- 

 ing of the combination dog, i. e., a combination of field and 

 bench qualities. A great many are harping on the old saw 

 that ttie bench dog is of no practical use. How about Mr. 

 O'Bannon's Reverdy, Prince Belton, Father O'Callaghan's 

 Irish setters or a score of others? and I see by the report of 

 the recent English field trials that Sweep the Green, a son 

 of Monk of Furness, has won the Setter Stake. A combina- 

 tion dog is rare at present, but entirely possible, nothing is 

 needed but judicious mating. 



"Brittle" "pitched into" the "cuts" of the Barzois in a 

 recent Western paper in a manner quite characteristic of 

 "Blarsted Britisher." I would like to ask how Opromiote 

 or Yasva manage to eat or drink. If their necks are no 

 longer than they are represented they must get down on 

 their knees for that purpose. 



The Massachusetts Kennel Club, Lynn, Mass., have de- 

 cided to hold their next dog show March 24 to 27, 1891, and 

 claim those dates. Namqtjoit. 



"A DISAGREABLE PERSON." — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: The American Kennel Club at its late meeting 

 decided that Mr. Peshall was so disagreable a person that it 

 would not allow him to appear in its councils. In rpply to 

 a suggestion that some utterances as to Mr. Peshall were 

 the outcome of personal feeling, the Presideut disposed of 

 this by the astonishing statement that Mr. Peshall was not 

 worthy of bis personal feelings! In other words, Mr. Pesh- 

 all is too low and despicable an object for the President of 

 the American Kennel Club to have any "personal feelings" 

 toward! Who is this contemptible creature ? Some dead 

 beat, vulgar uneducated boor, dirty tricky rascal, or loud- 

 mouthed brawling ruffian? He is an English gentleman 

 born and bred, with more learning and greater accomplish- 

 ments than nine out of ten delegates to the American Ken- 

 nel Club. A man of the kindest heart, always ready to help 

 the unfortunate, cheery and kindly in his intercourse with 

 others and a man against whose absolute honesty, perfect 

 uprightness, and thorough sincerity, no one has ever dartd 

 to breathe a word. Yet he is too contemptible for an A. K. C. 

 official to associate with! Remember it is not intimated 

 that his manners in A. K. C. meetings were offensive, that 

 he indulged in profanity while participating in a meeting 

 (as others have done who are full worthy of associating with 

 "us") but because he entertained certain views as to the work 

 of the A. K. C. and persisted in carrying them out in his own 

 way, he is "not worthy of personal feelings"! Nor was he 

 even allowed to be heard, after a motion by a delegate that 

 permission be accorded to him! And the worst feature in 

 this shameful performance was that it was entirely unneces- 

 sary and was a deliberate and malicious determination to 

 humiliate Mr. Peshall. If preventing his participation in 

 the meeting had been the object, it could easily have been 

 accomplished by the evident insufficiency of his credentals. 

 Of course, all independent lookers on laugh to scorn the 

 idea that such a vote could in any way lower Mr. Peshall in 

 public esteem. Let me say that I have never indorsed Mr. 

 Peshall's modes of warfare vs. A. K, C. methods, and that 

 I have been as hotly engaged against him as against any 

 other honorable man I know, but the public shame of the 

 governing body of American doggy affairs going out of its 

 way to deliberately attempt the disgracing of an honorable 

 gentleman, is a new feature in the personal government of 

 affairs that produced the editorials in the A. K. C, Gazette 

 — W. Wade. 



THE TAX ON DOGS AND BITCHES. — Eagle Rock 

 Pa,, May 24.— Editor Forest and Stream: In a recent issue 

 occurs the following paragraph by "J. W."in speaking of 

 a heavier tax on bitches than on dogs: "Wheu will the 

 gentlemen who cultivate hayseed in their whiskers learn 

 that bitches average not over a dozen pups a year, whereas 

 a dog may produced wo or three hundred, also that the male, 

 not the female, is the sheep- killer." Now, I think that is 

 just the point aimed at. One bitch and ten dogs in a neigh- 

 borhood will produce say twelve pups, while one dog and 

 ten bitches will produce ten dozen pups, using "J. W.'s" 

 own figures. Another thing, if a man has to pay for a bitch 

 he won't keep one unless she is pretty good, and will think 

 enough of her to take care of her when in heat and not allow 

 the ten (or twenty) dogs in the neighborhood to form a mob 

 to range the country round killing sheep. In regard to the 

 second clause of the paragraph quoted I think as large a 

 proportion of bitches as of dogs will kill sheep. A bitch, 

 too; if not confined when in heat, will gather all the dogs, 

 good and bad, for miles around, and your pet setter or collie 

 who if alone wouldn't harm a sheep, is liable to meet the 

 fate of Old Dog Tray or you have a bill of damages to pay. 



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