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ADDITION Aty AWARDS. 



FOX-TERRIERS — Wire-haikkd. — 1st, Eskdale Broom; 2d, 

 Wenuvortn Wonder; 3d, Aduwuod Jim II. Very high com , Patch 

 — Novick— 1st. Stanle>; 21. Went, worth Wirev; 31, Wentworth 

 Twig-. Puppies: tat, Stanley; 2d, Went worth Wasp; 3d, ^aoy. 



IRISH TERRIBRS.-Dops: 1st, Breda Bill; 2d, Evictor; 3d, 

 Burnside Bitches: 1st, Brcdi Tiney. 



SCOTCH TERRIERS.— Prizes withheld. 



DANDIE DINMONT TERRIERS.-lst, Mena; 2d, Fan; 3d, 

 Goyoa. 



REDLINGTON TERRIERS— Dogs: 1st, Pica; 2d, Sentinel. 

 Bitches: 1st, Zulu; 3d, Jer^ev. 



SKYE TERRIERS.— 1st, Sir Stafford; 2d, Donald; 3d, Prince. 

 High com.. Uigg. 



YORKSHIRE TERRIERS.— Dogs: 1st. Toons Royal; 2d, Fish- 

 pmi Gem; 8'i, Petro. Very higti com., Toby. High com., Pinch. 

 Bitcties: 1st. Daisy; 2d, Venus; 3d, Daisy (Campbell's). High com., 

 Dollv and Tiney. 



PUGS.— Challenge— Dogs: 1st, Bob Ivy. Bitches: 1st, Bessie — 

 Open— Dogs: 1st, Climax; 2d, Chequasset Czaa; 3d, Tizer. Bitches: 

 1st, Cassiua; 3d, Sissy. 



MISCELLANEOUS. — Large— 1st, Dexter; 3d. Nell; 3d, Spot.— 

 Small— Dogs: 1st, O hello; 2d, Vava II.; 3d, Tiuy. High com.. 

 Boozer and Frost. Bitches: 1st, Sprite; 2d, Cora; 3d, Dasiy Diehl. 



DOGS OF THE DAY. 



A CORRESPONDENT of a contemporary in extending 

 an invitation to Mr. Gpo. R. Krehl to visit America 

 next spring promises tbat I will show him all the cock 

 tights he wants. I am not thin skin tied by any means, but 

 this is dropping me a bit lower than I care to go. I have 

 never been to but one small affair, and then solely as a mat- 

 ter ot business. That was several years ago. The home- 

 ward journey was taken in company with a gentleman in 

 blue uniform. The judge, after doling out ten days or $10 

 to a score of tbe "attached," called upon my brother scribe 

 and myself to tell what brought us there, which done, he 

 decided, much to the disgust of the halffine minion of the 

 S. P. C. A.., that we were exempt. As a wind-up he called 

 us into his private room, whence we adjourned to drink his 

 good health in a small bottle. No, Messrs. "Espan," I am 

 not in that line of business; but I suppose the idea arose 

 from my stating about a year ago tbat the S. P. C. A. was a 

 humbug in many respects, and that dog fights and cock 

 fights could be located without trouble in New York if the 

 society agents did their business. 



It would be a treat to have Mr. Krehl come here if only to 

 read bis story of the journey. His trip to Norway, now run- 

 ning in the Stock-Keeper, is one of his happiest efforts. Get 

 it, my friends, and see if you don't agree with me. A good 

 many have tried to poison me. against him, but I know 

 George Krehl, and it is labor lost to try to set me against 

 one of the best fellows that ever lived, a gentleman in every 

 thought, word and deed. Ask Ashmont, ask Prank Dole 

 about him, and hear what they say of the man 1 am proud 

 to say is my friend. 



Archduke, the winning St. Bernard at Wilmington, is 

 likely fca shine as a sire if his only Jitter is taken as a crite- 

 rion. I have seen two dogs and a bitch by him, all remarka- 

 bly good for their age. One dog is, I think, the biggest 

 in bone and largest in skull of any pupoy I have seen. 

 The dog ought to get good-beaded ones, tor he is by a son 

 of Hermit (litter brother to O ho) out of abitchbyOtho 



Mr. Prank Smvth of Germantown has recently sold the 

 following St. Bernards: To Mr. Mortimer of Pottsville, a 

 bitch byBonivard Jr. dam Madame Barry; to Mr. J H. 



B. vrne, Garb mdale. Pa., a bitch by Marquis of Stafford (by 

 champion Say <■), dam Lov iue; to Mrs. Quigley, Newport, 

 Del., a dog by Neumond, dam Cassandra II. 



Mr. Wm. H. Child, of this city, ex president of the A. K. 



C, has been under the doctor's care for some time, but I 

 learn he is about again in much improved health. 



A special "whip" has been issued for the A. K. C. 

 meeting of this week, and I hope there will be a large 

 attendance and that matters be discussed. The reader will 

 please lay emphasis on discussed. Look at the reports of 

 recent A. K C. meetings and it will be seen that it is only 

 occasion-illy any other name than Mr. Anthony, Mr. Bel- 

 mont and my own appears. I do not know bow Mr. Anthony 

 feels about it, but this is my case. I see a dozen men in tbe 

 room, each with a vote and each as silent as a juryman 

 listening to tbe arguments of counsel. I accept it that some 

 may be with my views, others opposed, with the balance 

 open to conviction. Sometimes after occupying the time of 

 tbe club for half an hour in discussing back and forth with 

 Mr. Anthony a proposition before tbe meeting, I have been 

 beaten voteless. At other times the result has been tbe 

 other way. Now I have no desire to take up tiuie in that 

 way, nor waste energy in such a hopeless case, and I take it 

 that neither does Mr. Anthony, and when we oppose each 

 other, either will stop when he sees a one-sided vote for the 

 opposition. As long, however, as delegates will continue 

 to sit on their chairs "like knots on a log," just so long will 

 there be a waste of time. 



An important engagement which I cannot cancel will pre- 

 vent my being present at the meeting, but in order to have 

 the " 

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time." To which I can only say, that I was elected a dele- 

 gate with the full knowledge that I was not a clam, but a 

 kicker from Kickersville. 



Exhibitors in this district will have received a premium 

 list of a South Jersey Kennel Club show, to be held at Wood- 

 bury, N. J"., on Friday and Saturday of this week. What I 

 want to say is that shows of this kind are wanted every- 

 where. They are educational and pave the way for the 

 development of fanciers. Mr. Fred Kirby started the idea 

 about two months ago, got a few others interested enough 

 to tret together and form a club, hire a building and an- 

 nounce the show. The classification is graded so as to bring 

 together the various breeds without splitting them up too 

 much, and §5 and a medal are tne prizes offered for first and 

 second. There is room for many a hundred of such educa- 

 tional shows as this two days' affair at Woodbury. 



If dog men want a treat in the way of dog pictures by all 

 means let them get "Teufel the Terrier," published by the 

 PallMcill Gazette, London. A friend has just sent it to me 

 from the other side and I have not had the time to do more 

 than look through it at the illustrations, but if the letter 

 press is in anything like keeping with them every dog man 

 in the country should have it, while even if it is not the 

 pictures f "r the scrap book are worth the shilling over and 

 over again. 



Mr. E. W. Abbott, of Concord Junction, Mass., says that 

 his mastiff Presto (what a name for a mastiff— charge it) 

 measures 33%in. under the standard, and weighs 191lbs. 

 He is willing to wager $100 that no mastiff ever appeared on 

 exhibition that was of equal height or as large as his dog. 

 Mr. Abbott further claims that the editor of the American 

 Stock Keeper took the measurement of the dog, and as his 

 letter is published in that journal, it is a verification of the 

 measurement. - Such being tbe case, I don't think any one 

 will dispute bis being the tallest mastiff ever showa on. this 



side of the Atlantic. As for our friends across the water 

 they give stud "ad." measurements. 



1 said last week that I doubted the correctness of the an- 

 nouncement that Mr. Crowell was bringing the St. Bernard 

 Uonna bilva. I have just learned from the Swiss Mountain 

 Kenuel, of Germantown, that a letter has been received 

 from the gentleman who is making some purchases in Eng- 

 land for the kennel, and under date of Sept. 10 he wrote that 

 he was j ast starting for London to complete the purchase of 

 Donna Silver and attend to shipping her in company with 

 , °m. ie steaiustl ip Montana, which left London on the 

 Uth. Tins certainly looks as if the Swiss Mountain Ken- 

 nel would have Donna Silva, who from all accounts is a 

 very good one indeed. She was bred on Aug. 20 to Scout, 

 Mr. Gosling's dog, which won first and cup at the Kennel 

 Club show, first and cup at Brighton, first and cup at Brus- 

 sels, second and cup at St. Bernard Club show, a record 

 which stamps him as a dog of the best class. Dart as I 

 stated last week was bred to Lord Bute. 



Both bitches, by the way, are by Duke of Wellington, a 

 dog that has always been pedigreed as by Barry, owned by 

 Mr. Sidney Smith. All I can say is that Formosa when she 

 wou at Leeds must have had a long look at Bonivard, for 

 Duke of Welh ugton is simply Bonivard over again— of a 

 larger size. When I saw him in Eugland in '84 I liked him 

 so well tbat I cabled Mr. Rodney Benson to let me bring 

 him over for him, but getting no reply I could not bring 

 him, Mr. Benson says he always regretted not having got 

 him. When I said to Mr. Smith at the St. Bernard show, 

 "He is by Bonivard," he said, "I would say so myself if I 

 did not know that Formosa was bred to Barry." But I 

 only shook my head and said, "Barry never got one like 

 that." 



1 see by the Stock-Keeper that there was a rumor at the 

 Cardiff show that Mr. Chapman had refused £3.000 for the 

 St. Bernard Princess Florence. If such is the case, what 

 chance is there for Americans to buy world-beating St. Ber- 

 nards? 



Mr. A. H. Megson, after offering £60 to Mr. T. H. Stretch 

 for the young collie Ormskirk L°ofric, without tempting 

 the latter to sell, at the Birkenhead show, has finally secured 

 the dog for an even £100. He is a son of Christopher. 



What a touching little story that was about the three- 

 year-old child that strayed away from Hudson, N. Y., and 

 was not found until the fourth day with no companion but 

 the dog. His weight in gold ought not to tempt the parents 

 of the little boy to part with the dog, for it undoubtedly 

 saved the child's life. In such inclement weather as we had 

 at that time it was the warmth of the dog that saved the 

 child's life. And on the approach of the searchers the faith- 

 ful dog protected him against what he thought was the 

 intention of strangers to do the child harm. 



A Santa Cruz, Cab, paper tells of a couple of. terriers 

 that found a rattlesnake, and during the fight that ensued 

 the bitch was bitten by the snake, which, as soon as she had 

 killed the snake, made for a bunch of snakeweed and ate 

 freely of it, and then to a muddy pool into which sbe jumped 

 and rolled herself until she was completely covered with 

 mud. The next morning she was all right. I suppose the 

 story is correct, because the name of the owner, Mr. J. F. 

 Coope, Btn Lomand Vineyard, is given. 



Mr. L A. W. Smith, of Buffalo, gets in a fair hit at Dr 

 Foote when he says th-tt Meersbrook Maiden, the one with 

 the white spot, was making a clem sweep under certain 

 judges, and Doctor was finding no fault with the black and 

 tan "judges, nor was he at all anxious to form the club for 

 reform judging which he particularly wishes to do since 

 the Detroit show, 



Mr. E. H. Morris published a letter in the content! pory: 

 "In thp spaniel world all is serene, and if in the future there 

 is less of the happy family tendency of the officeholders, so 

 much the better." What aoes he mean ? Does he want 

 the executive committee to be fighting between themselves, 

 or what? Does he seek to imply that the officeholders 

 elected themselves ? If so, he is very wide of the mark. At 

 least two of the present committee stated their desire not. to 

 serve again, but at the annual meeting of the club, which 

 was the largest attended of members of any auuu-d meeting 

 yet held, their desire was completely overlooked, and the 

 election, if my memory serves me, was practically unani- 

 mous. Mr. Morris's views on some subjects are very like 

 those of Mr. Millay. Mr. Millay wants judges who never 

 make, a mistake; he wants dog show reporters to never earn 

 their criticism, aud he means by these wishes that he, Mr. 

 Millav and his particular friends, must b 11 judges, and that 

 only the reports in his p p-rs can be strictly correct and 

 devoid of prejudice Mr. Morris practically means the same 

 thing, and that he should be both interested in the ring and 

 writing manifold reports for all the papers. 



Only a line from Frank Dole, but lots of news in it. 

 "Have bought all of Sawyer's bulldogs." As I believe Mr. 

 Sawyer had his dogs at the New Haven Kennels for some 

 time, this is simply a change in ownership. Harper is, of 

 course, the premier of the kennel, and he is a hard one to 

 beat beyond a question. Then there are quite a good lot of 

 bitches, but they are hard things to rear even after you have 

 got a litter. 



A few days aso I saw as pretty a litter of spaniels, by 

 Jersey, as I have ever set eyes on. Mr. Willey told me six 

 months ago that Jersey was the best sire he had ever had, 

 and I don't doubt it after seeing the lot I speak of. J. W. 



DOG TALK FROM ENGLAND. 



MR. GOSLING'S grand St. Bernard brood bitch cham- 

 pion La Mascotte, dam of champion Plevna, Pleiad, 

 Onyx and other good ones, died this week of internal hem- 

 orrhage. 



Mr. J . F. Smith's well known puppy Troubadour con- 

 tracted distemper at Gloucester show and died in two days. 



At the time of Hesper's sale to America his get had not 

 made much mark, but it is quite a different thing this year. 

 Andromeda is without question one of the best bitches in 

 England. Donnybrook Fair, a 10 months puppy out of 

 Winnie, promises to make a "clinker." Lady Livingston 

 you have seen already, and I have several young ones that 

 promise to rival the best, among them a bitch with a very 

 similar head to her sire and with bone nearly, if not 

 quite as heavy, the property of Mr. Evans, Hesper's former 

 owner. 



We have some Japanese pugs in the States that we think 

 are about right, but what would their owners think of one 

 three years old, perfect in formation and only 31bs. weight. 

 Mr. Fellows has just returned from Japan with one of that 

 weight and size. 



I have told the readers of Forest akd Stream of Scottish 

 Prince, of a brother of Sir Bedivere, of Donnybrook Fair 

 and a few other good ones coming up. But I hear Mr. J F 

 Smith has one by Lord Bute that will rub Scottish Prince 

 very closely, and many that have seen him expect to see him 

 beat Sir Bedivere in the near future. 



While speaking of the coming dog3 I think Mr. Evans's 

 puppy by champion Guide out of Sans Peuris well worth men- 

 tioning. He is 7 months old and weighs ISOlbs. He has a bit 

 too much length of ear, but his body and limbs are grandly 

 proportioned. His muscular development reminds one very 

 much of Watch when at his best. 



In addition to the string before mentioned I am taking out 

 Mr. Gosling's St, Bernard dog Republican, a promising 18- 

 months. Namquoit. 



PEDIGREE OF DU VERNAT'S LION. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



For a year- or two I have been on the chase of the tangled 

 up pedigree of the above dog. It is stated "Lion was sired 



dent of mastiff pedigrees is immediately snagged by thefact 

 that Psyche was out of aJuuo by Nichols's Captain, that 

 "Linda" (Linden I.) was bred to Gran by and that she was 

 by Fabius (Farrier), and that Gwendoline was bred several 

 times to Cardinal, the result being that one feels convinced 

 that the pedigree is an honest one, wretchedly bungled in 

 setting down. This has been tbe view I held from tbe first, 

 and Mr. Wynn was so impressed with the same view that he 

 though t the pedigree could be < asily traced. However, after 

 blundering round for a long time, I was, by the kindness of 

 Wm Rolinson, Esq., brought in touch with a prominent 

 mastiff man of Liverpool (the city the dog was said to be 

 exported from), who by odd good fortune met the breeder of 

 Lion and obtained the startling information that tbe pedi- 

 gree was a complete fraud, that the dog bad no pedigree 

 whatever beyood the names of sire and dam, and that this 

 breeder so stated to the party who brought tbe dog over to 

 Mr. Du Vernat, who replied that it didu't matter, he could 

 soon make up one! There seems to have been some further 

 crookedness about this pedigree, and on this side of the 

 water, as a gentleman owning mastiffs with Lion's blood 

 told metbat he had been informed that the dog was < xported 

 by a party nam^d so and sr>, the agent of the Cunard Line in 

 Birmingham, England. This opened up a new phase of the 

 question, and I investigated as to this Mr. So and So in Bir- 

 mingham. A promineut mastiff man in that citv writes me 

 that he can find no trace whatever of there ever having been 

 any such Mr. So and So in Birmingham, and ihe agent of 

 the Cunard Line adds that they never had an agent in Bir- 

 mingham with such a name. I have hesitated about expos- 

 ing this fraud until every crack aud cranny was explored, 

 that there might be no possibility of mistake: and now the 

 chain is complete, as the gentleman to whom Mr. Rolinson 

 referred me has a character beyond question and is exceed- 

 ingly careful and painstaking. W. WADE. 

 Huxton, Pa., Sept. 20. 



SPANIEL IMPORTATION.— Newark, N. J., Sept. 19 — 

 Editor Forest and stream: I have just received, per S. S. 

 Spain, the black field spaniel Beverley Negus, purchased 

 from Alfred Wild, of Bury, England. Although over two 

 weeks on tbe water he arrived in fine condition, and I am 

 well pleised with him. I expect soon to breed him to my 

 two bitches, Lady and Miss Ben D'Or, and will also place 

 him in the stud. His winnings are: First Chester, Birken- 

 head, Liverpool and Darlington. Second Bangor, Edin- 

 burgh and Manchester.— Rowland P. Keasbey. 



DOGS EATING DIRT. — Somervill e. N. J., Sept. 15.— 

 Editor i'oiest and Stream: Can you give me the cause and 

 explain the reason why my Irish setter dog will eat dirt? 

 He will scratch the sod back and eat two or three mouthfuls 

 at a time. Please give me a remedy for this, and oblige— J. 

 V. H. [Dogs, as well as horses and other animals, often eat 

 dirt. ' Probably this is nature's remedy for some ailment or 

 derangement of the system that is not understood.] 



AMERICAN COURSING CLUB. — Headquarters Ameri- 

 can Coursing Club, Great Bend, Kan.?., Sept. 16. Notice is 

 hereby given that there will be a meeting of the club, held 

 at these headquarters on the evening of Oct. 20, 1890, for the 

 purpose of nominating and balloting for memoership, as 

 prescribed by the by-laws. All applications should be pre- 

 sented to the secretary as soon as possible.— Ira D. Brougher, 

 Sec'y. 



THE BEAGLE FIELD TRIALS. 



BOSTON. Mass., Sept. 15— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 For the benefit of those who have not as yet received 

 copies of our constitution and by-laws, also our running 

 rules (some 300 of which have already been sent to different 

 parties in the United States, Canada, and England), I will 

 say that there will be a regular meeting of the N-itional Bea- 

 gle Club on Oct. 3, 1890, at which time the numerous appli- 

 cations for membership already received will be considered, 

 as well as any new applications which may be received on or 

 before that dite. Parties who are intending to enter their 

 dogs in our trials and those who have already entered, but 

 who are not as yet members, will find it to their advantage 

 to join this organization at the October meeting, as it will 

 give them free admission to over $100 worth of special prizes 

 for which thpy could not otherwise compete. As compared 

 with the benefits to be derived therefrom, the cost of joining 

 us is ridiculously small— only £2 admissiou fee and S2 per 

 year, dues payable semi-annually. All present indications 

 point to a most successful and satisfactory trial. We have 

 secured the services of two tboroughlycompetent and trust- 

 worthy judges in Messrs. H. W. Lacy of New York, aud Joe 

 Lewis'of Cannonsburg.Pa. Boto are men who know a bea 

 gle's field work perfectly, and who are able and willing to 

 keep the dogs within sight and hearing from beginning to 

 end, thus having the dogs under judgment all the time. 

 Again in offering our prizes, we have tried to be as liberal 

 as possible to all, and yet not promise that which we could 

 not fulfill. Arrangements have been made with the pro- 

 prietor of the hotel at Hvannis, and during our trials special 

 rates will prevail to our patrons which will satisfy all, es- 

 pecially as the house is not far from the grounds. Competent 

 attendants will be on hand and dogs will be benched during 

 the trials in clean, commodious and comfortahle quarters. It 

 would be well for those who are unable to attend the trials 

 in person to have their dogs in the bands of some competent 

 and trustworthy handler at least a fortnight before the trials 

 occur. As fast as new specials are added to our list they 

 will be published and it is confidently expected that by Oct. 

 10, the date of closing of entries, we shall have some $200 

 worth. Application and entry blanks, constitution and run- 

 ning rules can be had of the secretary. 



F. W. Chapman, Sec'y and Treas. 

 364 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 



LOSS OF SCENTING POWER.— Camden, N. J„ Sept. 

 19.— Editor B'orcst and stream: 1 have an imported collie 

 dog that has apparently lost bis scent through distemper. 

 Do you know of any remedy or of a similar case?— M. H. 

 York. [Such cases are not uncommon. The dog will prob- 

 ably improve in this respect and perhaps entirely recov'erCJ" 



