March 24, 1892.] 



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sition would he make of the case? Basing his decision on 

 his past articles, he would undoubtedly decide that the 

 owner of the hound would have to suffer for the act of his 

 opponent, because he was unintentionally out of place. 

 Rather hard on the innocent party, is it not? 



He takes every opportunity to call the rule "Draconian" 

 and the almost universal construction "Draconian." Is not 

 his denouncement of such construction the more "Dracon- 

 ian?" His statement, that those who uphold the rule, 

 merely demand their pound of flesh and that they insist 

 upon the interpretation of Staylock is ia my opinion rather 

 far fetched. However, if Shylock is a synonym for manda- 

 tory, we will insist upon such a construction. "I thank thee, 

 Jew, for teachiug me that word." 



Give us argument, Mr. Wade, and not mere statements. 

 If the rule is t oo severe, point out to usin what/way it is so. 

 There is an old saying that "the best and quickest way to 

 repeal a repulsive law "is to enforce it:" but if Mr. Wade is 

 right in his denunciation of this rule, it cannot be applica- 

 ble to this case. When a rule is violated, the penalty pro- 

 vided by such rule ought to be imposed rather than that we 

 should try and find some reason why it should be. violated. 



Mr. Wade informs us that the final decision of the Amer- 

 ican Coursing Club in re Pearl of Pekiu vs. Chicopee Lass, 

 can be of interest to but very few. That is just as true as is 

 the fact that Mr. Wade's or the. writer's opinion of Rule 30 

 is of interest to even a much smaller number. 



L. F. Baetels. 



Denver, Oolo., TTpb 4. 



Editor Forest and St/ream: 



The difference between Mr. Wade's views concerning the 

 much-discussed coursing rule, and mine, seems to originate 

 chiefly in our definitions of "riding over." Mr. Wade ap- 

 parently considers riding over as confined to the act of over- 

 taking and colliding with a hound. I call a ride over, a ride 

 over, whether the result of wilfulness, carelessness, or over- 

 eagerness of the rider, or his failure to keep out of the way 

 of the hound. I think my view right. When two vessels 

 collide at sea, we say the one inflicting the damage runs the 

 other down, regardless of the question of who was to blame. 

 If a ''run-down" is a run-down, why isn't a "ride-over" a 

 ride-over? 



The reason a hound colliding with a horseman is not 

 mentioned in the rules, is, in my opinion, because the hound 

 cannot hurt the horseman, and the latter has no business in 

 his way. The hound makes the sport, and should be pro- 

 tected by the rules from outside interference. This, the rule 

 in question, if literally interpreted, will do. 



We do not construe "running into" as "riding over:" we 

 do claim that riding over is the result of running into. 



We don't have to draw any line: the rule draws a good, 

 plain one. Mr. Wade's hypothetical case of punishing a dog 

 for barking at a man, under a rule penalizing for a bite, is 

 not parallel, inasmuch as in the supposed case the dog 

 does not touch the man: but in the case under consideration, 

 the, man does literally ride over the dog. 



That a collision on a course seldom occurs, is good enough 

 proof thatit is easy to avoid; and when it does.it is the 

 result of some one of the qualities mentioned earlier in this 

 letter, which it is not the function of coursing rules to foster 

 or encourage. The man who cannot see a course without 

 getting so far into the thick of it that he endangers the dogs, 

 reminds me of thousands of others, who act as if a seat on 

 the bass-trumpet were an essential to the bearing of the 

 music of a brass band. 



I write this in no spirit of antagonism to Mr. Wade. His 

 letters have impressed me as those of a man who stands fear- 

 lpssly up for the right, as he sees it; and w T ho, when espous- 

 ing the cause of the under dog, considers not the size of the 

 one on top. That is the kind of man I like. 



That two men, with no personal interest in the issue and 

 equally friendly to fair play, should hold diametrically op- 

 posite views on a question like this, is the strongest possible 

 plea for rules that will bear literal construction. It is a poor- 

 law, or rule, that will not. L. I. Flower. 



McDoNAnn's Corner, N. B. 



FOX-TERRIER TERROR FIZZ. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



It is perhaps somewhat late in the day to congratulate you 

 on the enlarged edition of your paper, but my good wishes 

 for your suceess are none the less sincere. I have noticed 

 that'some lament the time honored green cover, and doubt- 

 less the eye did at first miss its familiar tint, but I think 

 most readers will agree with me that both in appearance 

 and quality, the enlarged Forest and Stream cannot be 

 excelled. I am a fairly old reader, if not an old subscriber, 

 to the paper, having read it for some eight years, and now 

 that it is better than ever, I hope to be spared yet a little 

 while to enjoy it. Am I not indebted to its pages for many 

 a pleasaud hour? and was it not through the medium of its 

 advertising columns that I became the possessor of a fox- 

 terrier, which is at once the joy of my life and the desola- 

 tion of my pocketbook? That dog was described in the cat- 

 alogue as being a thorough workman, and I must confess 

 the meaning of the term for a long time puzzled me. In my 

 innocence of heart I immagined such a phrase referred to 

 rats, cats, rabbits etc., but such I found was not the case. 

 Rats he knew not, and with cats he exemplified the millen- 

 ium when the lion shall lie down with the lamb (outside). 

 Perhaps thought I, he has been trained on "Psoovies" in a 

 ten acre field. I will write to the breeder some day and find 

 out. But one afternoon a friend of mine left his bitch in 

 my room, and when we returned the question was solved. 

 The bed quilt resembled a sieve, the table cloth was a wreck; 

 holes had been dug in the carpet, two pair of trowsers were 

 damaged beyond regain, and many small articles such as 

 gloves, slippers etc., had gone the way of all flesh. But the 

 thoroughness of his workmanship was more particularly 

 emphasized in the case of a fine horsehair sofa: of this little 

 remained save the woodwork. Horsehair was scattered all 

 over the room, and smuggled in a large heap in front of the 

 fire lay Mr. Fizz, a smile of conscious rectitude brightening 

 his features. 



Truly it never rains but it pours, for the very next day the 

 house cat, taking advantage of his good nature, dealt him a 

 felon stroke on the back of his head. In two minutes Thomas 

 was a grisly corpse. That uncalled for blow was like the 

 spark to a powder magazine. It so completely soured a once 

 amiable temper, that since then he has waged deadly war 

 on cats and pets of all sorts to such a degree that the old 

 maids of the neighborhood have risen in a body and called 

 him accussed. "T' was only a few weeks ago that my ser- 

 vant came to me with a long free and said. "Av ye plaze, 

 sor, the dogs been after bitin' the head off Mrs. Carther's 

 (my landlady) gander.Jand it's $5 she says wout buy the likes 

 of him." ".Not as far as I am concerned" I answered, "but 

 why did you let him get into her garden? 



"Sure its her own fault entoirely. Bedad, says she. 'oi'll 

 put the little baste in with the ould. gander, and its mighty 

 little foightin' there'll be left in him, I tell ye, says she. 

 He'll chase my cats will he." "Mrs. Oarther, says I, it's 

 roast goose and tough at that ye'll be afther havin' for Sun- 

 day's diuuer. And roast goose, it was. H. CASEY. 



All communications must reach us by Tuesday 

 of the week they are to be published; and should 

 be sent as much earlier as may be convenient, 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



THERE is no limit apparently to the causes which pro- 

 duce a fatal ending to the life of a dog. Some are ex- 

 ceedingly novel and rare, but few exceed in either respect 

 the following account of a violent death, which appeared in 

 an issue of the Chicago Herald of recent date. It reads as 

 follows: 



"St. Mary's, O., March 12.— Charles Barber, who lives 

 near this city, lost a valuable hound in a remarkable man- 

 ner this morning. Mrs. Barber had cut a lot of biscuits out 

 of dough and placed them near the stove to rise. Her house- 

 hold duties called her awav, and when she returned she 

 found the dog had eaten the biscuits. The miserable canine 

 was terribly bloated, and Mrs. Barber tried to relieve him, 

 but the leaven in the biscuit dough was getting in its deadly 

 work. Within less than half an hour the hound became too 

 big for his hide, an explosion followed and the dog was torn 

 to pieces." 



The effects of the diet appear to be heartrending, yet I am 

 constrained to believe that the dog was a newcomer" to that 

 locality; for any dog to the manor born would not have 

 shown any annoyance at a diet of that kind, much less then 

 would he show such thin-skinned sensitiveness to a vege- 

 table diet. Any well-ordered dog, in Chicago, particularly 

 one which has had a Western boarding-house experience, 

 would have grown fat and frisky on such food, one which is 

 not at all uncommon in this city to the dog's best friend, the 

 man. 



The season for arranging for a setter's or pointer's educa- 

 tion is uow approaching; and later in May or June, is the 

 time when the dogs are usually put in the. trainers' charge. 

 Owners can assist a great deal in giving their dogs a good 

 start in training by plenty of exercise and good food; in 

 short, by sending their dogs strong and healthy to the 

 trainer. If this is not done, it is work which the trainer has 

 to do; ana its absence may set the dog's training back in a 

 great measure for some weeks. If the dog is excessively fat. 

 he is usually thick in wind and easily fatigued. He suffers 

 so much bodily discomfort on the slightest exertion that his 

 lessons are disagreeable, and he takes no interest in them. 

 When so out of condition, becomes overheated and tired 

 when taking lessons. If he is thin in flesh and weak, he is 

 quite as unfit to receive lessons which are always tiresome 

 and disagreeable to him. For training purposes and work, 

 a dog can not be too well prepared physically. 



In respect to the qualifications of kennel editors, a full 

 vocabulary and an inexhaustible power in its use are essen- 

 tial in the transitional stages of doggy matters which exist 

 at present, but some ideas which come from across the pond 

 are a little lumpy and jerky. For instance, the following, 

 from the Stock Keeper (Eng.), is a good illustration: 



* * * "Fullerton certainly proved to the sppctators that 

 he possesses a full modicum of grit," etc. "Full modicum" 

 is an unusually happy phrase; at least, it sounds well, even 

 if it means nothing. 



There is no eud to the interest of man in the welfare and 

 merit of the dog; this interest only needs opportunity to 

 develope. Any one who has had the pleasure of "talking 

 dog" at a few bench shows will concede this without reserva- 

 tion. A man may be tongue-tied, or incapable of talking on 

 every-day matters, but once let him get interested in dogs 

 and he has a multiplicity of ideas and fluency of language 

 which are inexplicable and admirable. Nothing could illus- 

 trate this better than a circumstance which occurred at New 

 Albany during the late field trials held at that place. The 

 hotel is built in a cheap manner, the inner partitions being 

 light boarding (some guests made the same complaint of the 

 food), consequently the acoustic properties of the hotel are 

 unusually good or bad. Beside the guests who were in at- 

 tendance at the field trials there were a number who were 

 not interested in dogs and were entirely without knowledge 

 of dogmen and their fluency of speech. One of the strangers 

 had the good fortune to occupy a room next to two enthusi- 

 astic dogmen. He heard voices engaged in earnest conversa- 

 the whole night long, but he could not distinguish the words 

 — voices which would grow earnest or pathetic betimes and 

 then sink into the ordinary pitch of conversation. He bore 

 the annoyance patiently during the entire night, for he 

 thought they were two long-lost brothers who had been 

 separated forty years and who had met for the first time on 

 that night since their separation. The next night there was 

 no falling off in the conversation nor abatement in its time. 

 They talked all night again. The sufferer made some 

 inquiry the next morning. It was not a tenable theory that 

 two long-lost brothers would talk two whole nights in suc- 

 cession. He soon learned that it was not an uncommon oc- 

 currence — it was simply two men "talking dog." 



The Southern Field Trial Club is considering the advis- 

 ability of adding a pointer stake to its trials. If they decide 

 to do so, it would tend greatly to increase the interest in the 

 breed in that section, and there would be more effort to 

 bring pointers to the front. If some such measure is not 

 adopted, the setter will drive, his short-haired rival entirely 

 out of the field in the South, the stronghold of the pointer. 



B. Waters. 



KENTUCKY FIELD TRIAL GROUNDS. 



T OUISVILLE, Ky. — Editor Forest and Stream: For 

 1.J some time past there has been a quiet movement on 

 loot among some of the local lovers of the hunting dog, to 

 induce the United States Field Trial Club, which is now 

 looking for a new place to locate, to come to Kentucky and 

 hold their annual trials at some point in this State in the 

 future. The first thing to be done was to find a suitable 

 tract of land to be held as a reserve to hold the trials on, 

 lying near some point on a railroad, that is not only easy of 

 access from any part of the country, birt where also good and 

 sufficient accommodations, such as board, riding horses and 

 conveyances, can be had for the several hundred visitors who 

 yearly attend the trials from all over the Unitf d States and 

 Canada. To find such a place having all the necessary re- 

 quirements, was no small undertaking, as can be easily seen, 

 but the gentlemen who had taken hold of the matter, being 

 of that well known old Kentucky stock of gentlemen sports- 

 men and devotees of every branch of amusements in the 

 field, were nothing daunted and determined to succeed, feel- 

 ing that the time bad arrived when highly prized hunting 

 grounds of the Indian in past years should now become the 

 home of a field trial club, and that among some of the many 

 ideal hunting grounds to be found within its borders, a place 

 should be secured to hold trials on in the future. 



After looking to the advantages offered by several differ- 

 ent points where preserves could be secured, Elizabethtown 

 was finally decided upon, as being the most ■ suitable in 

 every respect. Lying on two of the leading Southern rail- 

 road systems, it is very accessible from all points north, 

 south, east and west, and possesses all the necessary facili- 

 ties in the way of accommodations, etc. The next question 

 was what lands could be secured as a reserve and were the 

 owners in favor of holding the trials there. At this point 

 Mr. James Montgomery, of Elizabethtown, stepped forward 

 and kindly offered his services, which were gladly accepted 

 by the local gentlemen, and how well he succeeded may be 

 inferred from the fact that at a meeting of the gentlemen 

 owning the lands, that was held in his office a few days ago, 

 he was not only instructed to write offering the use of their 

 farms, which cover a tract of land comprising over 40,000 

 acres, as a reserve, but all present promised to do all in their 

 power to make any club that would locate at Elizabethtown 

 a thorough success. This offer coming from a body of wealthy 

 Kentucky gentlemen, landowners and sportsmen as it does', 

 means a great deal. 



An invitation has been sent to the United States Club's 



committee on grounds to come to Louisville and go down 

 with a party of gentlemen from this city to inspect the 

 above reserves, and a reply was received from Mr. P. T. 

 Madison, of Indianapolis, one of the committee, saying 

 they would accept the invitation, although at present it 

 was impossible to appoint a time for their visit, but they 

 would come down at as early a date as possible. 



VFhile among those gentlemen who have become inter- 

 ested in this movement it is hoped that the United States 

 Club will locate at Elizabethtown, yet should that club fail 

 in the end to come to Kentucky, it has been decided to or- 

 ganize and start a. new club on a broad and liberal basis that 

 will bold its inaugural trial on the Elizabethtown reserves 

 next fall, so whether the United States Club comes to Ken- 

 tucky or not, hereafter field trial meetings will be annually 

 held in this State that will be second to none, if good accom- 

 modations, good grounds, liberal purses and good fellow- 

 ship can make it a thorough success in every wav. 



J. B. Alexander. 



LouiSvrLLB, Ky,, March 12. 



A SERIOUS CHARGE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



At the Chicago bench show of 1891 my dog won second in 

 the open and puppy classes, and when competing for the 

 Great Dane or German Mastiff Club's special prizes, Mr. 

 Fox, the president, and Mr. Hagans, the secretary, sent in 

 to compete against me a dog belonging to Mr. Tiros. Den- 

 neb v, who at that time was not a member of the Great Dane 

 or German Mastiff Club of America, and the club's specials 

 were awarded to him. I thereupon entered a protest with 

 the Mascout.ah Kennel Club and with the Great Dane or 

 German Mastiff Club. A meeting was called for Friday 

 night, the 11th of April, at which meeting the president, 

 Mr. Fox, made a motion that Mr. Dennehy be elected to 

 membership, and that his membership begin the previous 

 meeting, which was held on Feb. 4 preceding, and at which 

 there were but five members, which was no quorum, and 

 which meeting ante-dated Mr. Dennehy's application for 

 membership; in other words, he was elected before he had 

 made application at a meeting which had no quorum. 

 Under the constitution of the Great Dane Club seven mem- 

 bers are required to constitute a quorum. 



I attended this meeting myself, and entered my protest to 

 the club against allowing Mr. Dennehy to compete when he 

 was not a member; but the chairman, Mr. Fox, overruled 

 everything I said and fixed Mr. Dennehy's election as afore- 

 mentioned. Mr. Dennehy was thus paid $30 in prizes which 

 he was not entitled to. 1 would ask any fair-mended man 

 if this is a square deal? I was one of the organizers of the 

 Great Dane Club and did all in my power for its success, and 

 was always one of the first to contribute my share toward 

 the specials given by the Great Dane Club and was elected 

 one of the directors for three years, but I resigned at the 

 meeting of April 11. If necessary, I can make affidavit to 

 the above facts. I was invited during the show of this year 

 to join the club, but refused to do so. The foregoing are my 

 reasons for declining. This action of the club was the cause 

 of a number of others remaining out of the club; in fact, I 

 had five applications to present for membership which the 

 makers withdrew on account of the foregoing illegal acts. 



Joseph Zilligen. 



Chicago, 111., Feb. 15. 



JUDGING AND HANDLERS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



With much pleasure I note the improvements that have 

 been lately made in your valuable journal, both in regard to 

 contents as well as general make up. What the sportsmen 

 need in this country, and that very badly, is a journal that 

 has for its motto, "Favors to none, equal rights to all:" and 

 in the Forest and Stream we have cue one. Among others, 

 I heartily iudorse what your Mr. B. Waters says in the issue 

 of Feb. 25 in regard to an abuse which is rapidly becoming 

 an evil— the artificial and sometimes silly posing practiced 

 by some handlers. 



Mr. Waters strikes the nail on the head with his remarks, 

 and every lover of the dog will support his sentiment and 

 try to have this evil abolished. But there is another evil 

 which should be remedied, and that is, the professional 

 handler as well as the. owner being in the ring while the dogs 

 are julged. According to my idea, all dogs to be judged 

 should be brought into the ring by the regularly engaged 

 and uniformed attendants. This will give everybody who 

 owns a good dog a fair chance; it will not happen very often 

 that the man is judged instead of the dog, as it is now and 

 then the case; every one stands the same show. By having 

 the dogs brought into the ring by the regularly appointed 

 attendants, it will in the future not occur so often that a 

 dog is placed, as it is now sometimes the case, for the simple 

 reason the judge has no idea who owns the dog. We all 

 know that it is natural with everybody, when we come to a 

 critical point, to lean toward our friends. Defects, if they 

 are not too big, will be overlooked, even if the judge intends 

 to do his beast, as soon as he knows who the owner is. With 

 the attendants leading the dogs, the judge is at a loss to 

 know who owns the dog; the best will win. The letters of 

 commendation, which are now given by some judges so 

 freely, especially when the dog is entered for the first time 

 and owned by a large kennel as exhibitor, will fall off, and 

 many a dog will be relegated to the rear, where he really 

 belongs. 



With the above enforced I admit that the entries will de- 

 crease; but is it not the quality instead of quantity we are 

 looking after? Dogs which are now brought to the show 

 and through the kind-hearted judge receive a place on 

 account of their ownership, which they really do not deserve, 

 will be left at home as soon as their owners know that th , 

 won't "get there. " A. A. Bogejt. 



New Ut,m, Minf. 



KANSAS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Kansas has her blizzards and there are more States that 

 experience a similar discomfiture. 



Four days in the week are warm. Iam too close to the 

 Indian Territory to call it "Indian summer," so will name 

 it Florida weather. There are many residents of your city 

 that would like to inhale its pure air winter and summer — 

 what long breaths they would take! It knocks the bottom 

 out of the great Atlantic and its pleasure in ball rooms at 

 the fashionable watering places, and where the dude's idea 

 of shooting is gained at the shooting galleries. At the same 

 time, in justice to the dudes That go out beautifully dressed 

 with their $300 and S400 guns, I must say that many are 

 good shots and can kill their birds as readily as a market 

 hunter, and some are old friends of mine. When we go out 

 for a hunt down this way if a man has a good pair of over- 

 hauls and a canvas jacket with even a muzzleioader he is 

 happy. They know what a gun and dog are meant for, and 

 the quail that gets up before most of tnem can safely be 

 called "Dennis" and lands in the frying-pan eventually. 

 Clever people they are here. Lovers of dogs and gun; use 

 both at every chance, and neglect their business to have 

 field pleasures. Birds are as thick as the hair on a man's 

 head; rabbits, both cottontail and jack, too numerous to 

 mem ion; deer, coyotes, wolves and otner "varmints" enough 

 can be found in the Indian Terriiory (only two and a half 

 miles from here) to satiate any sportsman's sanguinary ap- 

 petite. Come down here, "Dog Chat," and I will prove it. 

 There is considerable being published about the Irish setter 



