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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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up into the challenge class, she took first in the oppn. Of 

 course the puppy hit^h class was at her mercy till Cbicago, 

 ■wbea she had veacherl the limit of twelve months. There is 

 something very intellicreut in this bitch's expression, some- 

 thioff ''beyond the eye"' as the S'-tyins goes, aod when she 

 lets down and feels her fpet, she Vill be one of the best in 

 the country at present. Next to receive the welcome sum- 

 mons and hear the familiar sound of the donr latch lifted 

 was old champion Bacchanal, an old friend, and one I 

 always thought a terrier from one end to the other, and had 

 he only a new set of teeth he could still give the best of them 

 a shnke in more senses than one. His molars or rather the 

 want of them have often made the nudges turn unwillingly 

 away to others who could show an even month. Terrier 

 like in appeju-ance he is fully entitled, from his illustrious 

 progenitors, to all his good looks, for is he not by champion 

 The Belgmvisn out of champion Bedlamite, by chamrjiou 

 Joker ont of Rosamond, by champion Brockenhurst Rally 

 out of Jess; champion Joker, bv champion Jester 11. out of 

 BeMutv; champion The Belerav'sn. bv Belgrave Joe out of 

 Old White Vic. He was whelped in July, ISSl. The Rev. 

 T. C, Fisher bred Bacchanal. In his list of winnings he can 

 claim firsts in England at Oxford, Brighton. Sonthdown 

 Fox-ten-ier Club shows in 1885, and first ;it Crystal P;iIacRin 

 1S8(5, and in this country firsts at New York,' Philadelphia, 

 and several challenge prizes. In color he is white with a 

 few ticks an his ears 



Then csme a terrier of a different mould, Blemton Ran- 

 sack, head too thick hut good in bone, body, coat and front. 

 He is white with a black and tan marked head. He was bred 



examine, and she looked in excellent shape, though showing 

 signs of her visit to Valens, with whom she should nick 

 well. This bitch was bred by Mr. Belmont, as her name 

 M'ould imply, and is now four years old. She is by The 

 Moonstone out of Medi.a, .and runs back to champions Dia- 

 mond Dust, Rovsterer, Diadem, Brockenhurst Rally, etc. 

 Her list of winnings is a fairly large one. She was second 

 in the Produce and Tomboy stakes of 1888, and is now in the 

 challenge class. 



I must say that Mr. Twyford deserves great credit for the 

 condition he shows the whole kennel in. I saw no signs of 

 skin disease, and all are well muscled and fleshed up. Bis- 

 cuits, scraps and me.al are fed to the dogs. In front of the 

 stable is a large yard where another kennel with eight com- 

 partments is in course of construction. These will have 

 small runs attached tc them, thus allowing the innaates 

 continual fresh air. I asked Mr. Twyford liow he managed 

 to keep everything so quiet, for fox-terriers are proverbially 

 noisy customers. "Well, you see," he said, "when they came 

 here they were like a lot of savages and I could do nothing 

 with them, but they recognize me now as the autocrat of the 

 kennel— you see that whip— well, therehv hangs a tale, and 

 they've felt it." I understood. Now the dogs are as docile 

 as possible and mingle one with the other with the greatest 

 cordiality, while friend Twyford seats himself in the arm- 

 chair in the yard and, smoking his pipe, examines every one 

 of the dogs when the boy turns them oiit for exei-cise every 

 morning. At night they are liable to make a noise, as the 

 situation is rather near the main road, but a bell hangs in 

 the kennel connected with the boy's sleeping compartment. 



THE FOX-TERRIER DOMINIGA. 

 Owned by Mr. John A. Logan, Jr., Youngstown, Oliio. 



at the Blemton Kennels and whelped June ;-'0, 1889, aud 

 boasts for a father none other than the well-known ''as he 

 presents himself" dog. Lucifer, or Lucifer (as in Pneseuti), 

 as we generally dud it in the catalogues, a puzz'e to every 

 one till the urbane German Hopkins vouchsnffs the desired 

 information as to its meHuing. The peerless Rachel is his 

 mother, a>>d she is by champion R- suit, liut Ransack hardly 

 does either justice. His winrings need l ot be mentioned 

 here. When R^nsack turned in Richmond (>ack took his 

 place for inspection He was whelped March 1, 1S84, and is 

 white with black head and patch on neck. He is by l^vtbam 

 Crack out of Ljtham Flo. and a-oes back to old Moslem II., 

 that came over to this country in ISSL In his salad days he 

 won several prizes at sm.tll shows in England and vhc. and 

 he, at Youngstown, O., a^d Toronto, Can. respectively. He's 

 a ''thifk 'un," and cannot by any stretch of courtesy be 

 called a show dog and he's even a bit too cloddy for utility, 

 so 1 really did not know what to do with him except as'k 

 Twyford to put him back again. 



Then came a dog I have not seen since 1886 at the New- 

 port fox-terrier show, where I believe he won in the veteran 

 class for thp Rutherford brothers, who owned him so long 

 and then gave him to Mr. Logan. He is, of course, now in 

 drivelling dotage as regards bis head, blind in one eve, gray 

 in muzzle, with teeth all gone, still he looks a terrier, and I 

 am told is yet a sure stock getter, though he is just eleven 

 years old this month. Hp is by N,iiler out of Active, and 

 was bred by Messrs. L. & W. Rubherfurd. Wasp II. npxt 

 claimed my attention, and she was whelped in March, 1883, 

 is white with black and tan head. Champion Raby Tyrant, 

 one of the winners of bygone time, is her sire, and Wakely 

 Nettle her dam. Her claim to mention is that she is the 

 moth er of Rctby Tarquin. 



At the same time Blemton Vice ran out into the yard. 

 Never much of a favorite of mine, as she is more suited to a 

 lady s lap, judging from her slight build, th=m the duties of 

 a terrier. She is small and lathv. but no doubt will do to 

 breed to such heavily built dogs as Ransack and Crack. 

 She was bred by Mr. Belmont, and whelped Feb. 13, 1889, is 

 white with a black and tan patch on eve. She is by Dusky 

 Trap out of Belgrave Viola, and is full of Splinter blood, 

 bhe has been placed at several shows. I saw a nice pup by 

 Ransack out of this bitch, the heaviness of the sire being 

 toned down by the dam. 



Blemton Rapture came next; she is too lathy for good 

 terrier form. In color, white, with black and tan markings. 

 She IS hy Regent out of champion Rachel, and was whelped 

 Oet. 10, 1887. In pedigree she goes back to champion Spice, 

 who It will be remembered, was imported to this country 

 by Mr. Ed. Kelly, and almost before he had time to look 

 around, as it were, was nipped to death between the power- 

 ful jaws of the deerhound Heather in the summer of 1886. 

 Dusky Daze is a large bitch, whelped March 14, 1888, but I 

 cannot say much if anything iu her favor; she is too Urge 

 altogether and leggy in the extreme, the fault of her sire 

 Dusky Trap, intensified. Her dam is Daze. Claiming 

 Duskj' Trap's pedigree on one side, she is also full of Splinter 

 bloocT 



Something better then answered the whistle, Warren Vice 

 aud Warren Sparkle, both purchased at the Rutherfurd sale 

 during the New York dog show in Febuary last. The 

 former has a nicish body but is a bit snipy in niuzzle; a nice 

 stamp of brood bitch though. She is white, with ears 

 ticked. Valens is responsible for her coming litter. Warren 

 Sparkle is by champion Splanger. Her strong point is body, 

 legs are fair, head faulty. She was bred to Pitcher but 

 missfd, and next time she will form the acquaintance of 

 Vdlens. Then two pups, by Le Logos out of Ripture, gam- 

 boled around for awhile, and these were followed by a t) 

 months old pup by Rubicon out of Marghuerite. He shows 

 the head faults of his sire and is a bit long cast, otherwise a 

 fair pup. 



A prize winning puppy nest trotted out, one I gave first 

 to at Cleveland when a couple of months old or thereabouts, 

 but I cannot say that it will be a hard matter to chronicle 

 its futjore winnings. Blemton Brilliant was the last one to 



aud when that rings they know enough to keep their mouths 

 shut. Mr, Twyford, like most Englishmen, is fond of out- 

 door sporty, and just now cricket occupies his .spare 

 moments. So after a wash we took the cars to the cricket 

 grounds of the Fort Hamilton Cricket CUtbandindulged in a 

 little practice for the match with Staten Island that was to 

 come off on thp morrow After an hour's plav we returned, 

 and Mrs. Twyford's kind hospitalitif^s and a pleasant chat 

 and smoke afterward, brought a very enjoyable evening to a 

 close. H. W. L. 



GREYHOUND MGN FOR GREYHOUNDS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have been watching the rather one-sided struggle which 

 the National Greyhound Club is making to secure a stud 

 book of their own, with some little anxiety, and I must add 

 amusement, since I saw the paragraph in your "Dog Chat" 

 a week or two since. As a breeder of greyhounds, and one 

 who wishes to see this grand breed take the position it is 

 entitled to, in my mind the foremost in the rank of sporting 

 dogs, I think it time to protest against any such imposition 

 as this "addendtim" business. The main and vital point of 

 the whole argument is that greyhound men require some 

 means whereby they can be sure that the pedigrees as given 

 in the stud book are correct. Now, is the A. K. 0. stud 

 book committee willing, and have they the facilities at 

 hand to verify and trace up these pedigrees, and if not, why 

 should the greyhound men have to pav fifty cents for the 

 privilege of listing in the appendix? We might be willing 

 to pay fifty cents extra if we could be assured that the com- 

 mittee would verify the pedigrees, but will they do it? Will 

 they not rather, as at present, turn the work over to the 

 specialty club as is customary? Then they, the A. K. C. get 

 the money for what a few greyboimd "men spend many 

 weary hours in unravelling. There are many men inter- 

 ested in greyhounds who do not care a rap for other breeds, 

 and who would be willing to pay a dollar or more for a 

 separate book, but hardly care to incur that expense for the 

 sake of looking at the pedigrees of seventeen greyhounds, 

 the number in the last issue of the A. K. C. stud book. 



The time will soon come aud is almost here now when the 

 interchange of good running blood in greyhounds between 

 the East and the Far West and England will become more 

 general than at present, therefore it is very important that 

 some such safeguard as the National Greyhound Club pro- 



Eoses to assume should be instituted at once. We are told 

 y those who take little interest in the sport, that coursing 

 in America will never amouut to much, and especially in 

 the East. This is a pessimistic view I cannot agree with.' for 

 I feel sure from present indications coursing will become a 

 recognized sport here, and especially so if the plans of the 

 N. G. C. are carried out as intended, so that natural cours- 

 ing may be indulged in. If the A. K. C. is afraid of losing 

 the paltry income they derive from the present order of 

 greyhound registration, and do not wish to lose their hold 

 on the greyhound interest, I am sure that with a fee of one 

 dollar in a stud book of their own, the National Grej'hound 

 Club could afford to pay a percentage of twenty-five cents 

 on each registration to the coffers of the A. K. C. This is, 

 of course, only a suggestion, in ease the club decided to still 

 sail under the A. K. C. banner; and as a discussion is the 

 only means of finding out the opinions of the majority, I 

 simply advance it as such, and think that it should nieet 

 with the approbation of the A. K. C. magnates, as it secures 

 to them an income which, I take it, is what they are after, 

 with no trouble to themselves. 



Under the present rules of the A. K. C. a winner of two 

 first prizes can be registered in the stud book. I do not 

 think this, in the case of greyhounds, is one to be encour- 

 aged. In looking for true blood lines the amateiu' breeder 

 in the future will see this dog in the stud book, and, natur- 

 ally supposing him a blue blood, will use him or his get, 

 when for all he knows this dog may not have had a pedi- 

 gree, though he be an Apollo in form, and his ancestry be 

 such that the infusion of this dog's blood into his kennel 

 mayTvork incalculable harm. It. is nob always the hand- 



! soraest dog that sires or begets the best progeny; there are 

 i many, very many, instances to prove the contrary. It is the 

 true blood that has been instrumeotal through many gener- 

 ; ations in bringing anyone breed to perfection, either in 

 speed, field qualities or form; this the breeder should strive 

 to obtain, and this is where the National txreyhouad Club 

 ought to protect present and future breeders, and are vviiliug 

 to do so through pure love of the breed aud an ambition 

 that America should have the best. Will the A. K. C. stud 

 book committee find time to do as much? 1 think not. 

 Then let the greyhound men have a separate stud book^ 

 Specialty clubs in En.gland have their own stud books, and 

 the Greyhound Stud Book has long been a treasured work 

 of record. 



The greyhound men have little to gain by an affiliation with 

 the A. K. C, and if I can judge the feeling aright, if the A. 

 K. C. will not let them do as they wish in this instance, why 

 break loose and let us stand on our own bottom. Tf the. 

 greyhound men find they must pay §1.50 for a registration 

 that is vprifled in the A. K. C. stud book by themselves, are 

 they not foolish to do so when with a little "refreshing inde- 

 pendence" they can have a carefully compiled book of their 

 own for a fee of $1 or less? Kixii Cob. 



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DOG CHAT. 



HE question is often asked at dog shows, when the Mex- 

 ican hairless are seen shivering iu their cages, of what 

 po.ssible use they can be. The answer is sometimes given 

 'None that I know of except that they can do without any 

 hair." The reply of Judge Mastei-son to a reporter of the 

 Chicago Hcrnld would indicate that they have a hidden 

 power little known outside their native country. This 

 gentlenian was asked what was his most novel experience 

 in Mexico. "Hunting the pumas or spotted leopards," was 

 the reply, and he related the following: "About a month 

 ago we were in the southern part of the State of Chiapas, 

 which borders on Central America. One day a party was 

 gotten up to hunt the spotted leopards. We left the" haci- 

 enda at sunrise with a pack of thirty dogs, not the American 

 hunting dog, but those little hairless Mexican animals that 

 you see in the streets of this city once in a while. As we 

 rode away I asked the guides where the guns were. They 

 said we needed no guns, and we rode on. After going a few 

 miles we reached the celebrated ruins of Palcuque. There 

 the dogs began to prick up their ears and dash away. After 

 a short run they treed one of the finest pumas I have ever 

 seen. It was an immense animal, and, as he swung to and 

 fro on a limb of a tree, his picturesque coat shining in the 

 sun's rays, I could only think what a study for an artist. The 

 dogs encircled the tree and began to bark. How they did 

 yell and howl! It was the queerest, weirdest sound that I 

 had ever heard. Standing still and looking up at the 

 beautiful prisoner, these trained dogs howled like demons. 

 Soon I saw the effect. The leopard walked out tc the end 

 of the li rab and gazed fixedly at the dogs below. He did not 

 appear frightened, but charmed. And he was. The leopard 

 had been hypnotized by the dogs. The spotted beast acted 

 like a sleep-walker, and if he had not been under a spell he 

 would have fallen from the dangerous position that he had 

 taken on the tree. When he was declared to be thoroughly 

 hypnotized one of our guides went up the tree and fastened 

 a little rope around the leopard's neck. The other end was 

 tied to the tree. The guide patted the dangerous animal as 

 he would bis pony, and the beast did not notice it in the 

 least. The man came down the tree, and we called off the 

 dogs. Then the leopard came out of the trance with a start 

 and attempted to jump away from the little grass rope on 

 his neck. He fell downward and was hanged to death. In 

 this manner we got six leopards that morning. It is one of 

 the greatest sports in Mexico, and is rapidly taking the 

 place of the bull fights. The animals captured this way are 

 valuable, too, for their skins are not pierced with bullet holes 

 or scarred with knives," It only remains now for owners of 

 our exhibition hairless to develop this hypnotic power on 

 the luckless judge and possibly he may see his way clear 

 while in the trance to send each dog out of the ring with 

 the coveted bine ribbon, and what a lot of heartburning 

 this would save. 



Spaniel men seem to be in bad luck these days somehow. 

 Friend Mercer loses his Clumbers and Friend Oldham his 

 cuticle. Mr. Wilmerding called upon the latter the other 

 day and found him all "upset." A day or so before while 

 driving, his horse shied at a dead cow in the road and 

 pranced along the top of a stone wall for a mile (Mr. Wil- 

 merding says so), in i he meanwhile Mr. Oldham was acting 

 as a brake on the wheel, and now and for some time to come 

 will eat his meals from the mantelpiece. 



The Kennel Gazette publishes rather late in the year, two 

 judges' reports of the W. K. C. show held in February last. 

 Mastiff men will be interested in Mr. Marshall's defense of 

 his judgment in those classes, and especially in regard to 

 Beaufort. Referring to this dog he says that he made the 

 award according to a rule which he supposed was the rule 

 of all shows, to judge the dog as he saw it in the ring, and 

 not from previous records, and he saw no reason in the 

 statement made by his owner in the ring, that Beaufort 

 was exhausted by service in the stud, why he should ignore 

 the superior condition and action of other dogs. The "dog's 

 condition, he says, was due, not to accident or misfortune, 

 but to an attempt to win a prize and secure several stud 

 fees at the same time, and he therefore "placed Beaufort 

 third because of his condition and conduct." Mr. Marshall's 

 explanation of the statement that he had voted against the 

 proposed engraving of the head of Beaufort on the seal of 

 the Mastiff' Club, is peculiar. He admits that the dog's 

 head was worthy of the honor, but not that his name should 

 be attached to it, because it might offend other owners who 

 had (logs in competition with him. We are told that Cau- 



such dogs as freaks and in the same category as albinos. 



By a transposition of the types, in our issue of June So, 

 we were made to say, "A writer in the English Field now 

 proposes a subscription with a view to putting in a memorial 

 window in the church, or brass in the graveyard of which 

 Mr. Lort is bui-ied." We wrote "a memorial window or 

 brass in the church, in the graveyard," etc. 



The St. Bernard Mange Cure Co. issue a very handy little 

 pamphlet in extolling the virtues of their panaceas, and not 

 the least interesting features to sportsmen are trap-shooting 

 rules, a form of constitution and by-laws for clubs, and the 

 dates of the open season for game and fish in every State. 



The schoolmaster is evidently not abroad in Southampton, 

 England, and the writer of the following address, an official 

 of the late Southampton show, can never even have heard of 

 "Maryland! My Maryland!" and its milk routes, for this is 

 how he makes "assurance doubly sure" when addressing the 

 owner of the Woodbrook Kennels: "P. E. Lamb, Esq 

 Woodbrook Kennels, Arlington, Md., Nr Baltimore, New 

 York." 



A correspondent writes us that Mr. Charles Searle, of 

 Hamilton, Out., has sold the black cocker dog King Raven 

 (O.K.C. 1,19B). by Blaok Duke out of Topsy, to Mr. J. Ken- 

 nedy, also of that city. This dog is a full brother to Oban, 

 which made such a good record during the spring circuit. 

 Those who take an interest in this breed in Hamilton are 



