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case is a parallel of the instances of sheep dogs going to 

 another place than their own and ddviog in a sheep or cow- 

 to make up the number they expected to find in a certain 

 field. There have been numerous iustances of sheepdogs 

 doing this, and it is common for a sheep dog to show sigus 

 of mortiflcation and distress, if, when sent to the pasture to 

 bring in the cows, it does not find the full number there. 

 Most of them will spend a long time searching every corner 

 of the pasture after the missing one, and the making up the 

 deficiency from another beard or flock is but another step in 

 the same chain of association. 



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The London Stnck-Kexper hardly does me nnstice in its re- 

 view of what I wrote of "fanciers" and "sportsmen" in your 

 issue of June 18. The two classes, strictly speakiue, arc 

 fundamentally distinct. When the sportsman breeds for 

 looks, he is no longer the sportsman pure and simple, btit is 

 verging on the fancier's domain. The fancier who pays 

 much heed to actual use is losing a bit of his ground as a 

 fancier. It should also have been noted that my reference 

 to the distinction between the two in England was simply 

 in answer to Mr. Mason's rera.nrk, w^hich looked as though 

 the same distinction exi.sted only in that country, or that 

 owners of dogs in England were more tolerant of unfavor- 

 able criticism of their dogs than Americans are. I am very 

 far from indorsing any disrespectful classifying of fanciers. 

 Their achievements have been wonder'ul, but still the man 

 who breeds and keeps his dogs for the use he has for them, 

 and the pleasure they give him, is less apt to be supersensi- 

 tive to criticism of them than he who breeds them with any 

 prospect of profit in view. 



It is astoni.shing how futile, corrections of fallacies set 

 forth in standard works, are. It is the old story of falsehood 

 traveling a thousand leagues while truth is putting on its 

 hoots. The story that skunk bite conveyed rabies was set 

 forth in some medical publication, and in spite of the over- 

 whelming proof that men and dogs are frequently skunk 

 bitten without injury, the story sticks. So with the old 

 fable that "bloodhounds" were used in the Southern States 

 to recapture fugitive slaves. Mrs. Stowe wrote it in "Uncle 

 Tom's Cabin," and no amount of disproof weighs against 

 it. The same is true of practical suggestions in kennel pa- 

 pers, they are read, received, and pass out and are known no 

 more. The loss of puppies by their dams lying on them 

 is enormous, yet it is twenty-five yeai's or more since the 

 "pig protector'"' was devised and published, and its applica- 

 siou to dogs has been illustrated in the kennel pre.ss, but still 

 the breeder has a long annual list of "laid on" puppies, 

 easily prevented by providing a strip rnnning around the 

 sides of the kennel at the height of the bitch's back when 

 lying down. Bitches do not lie on their puppies, except in 

 very few instances; they lie against the sides of the place 

 they are in and the puppies are crushed by being caught be- 

 tween the bitch and the sides. The strip affords a space for 

 the puppy to escape into and thus save it. Still there will 

 be hundreds "laid on" this year. The Onlooker. 



DOG CHAT. 



STATES which are older in legislation and have greater 

 need for such an act, should take a lesson from the law- 

 makers in the Lone Star State. We find that the following 

 act was approved in the Legislature of that State April 18, 

 1891: "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 

 Texas: That any person who shall knowingly and wilfully 

 furnish or give to a purchaser of any animal, any false ped- 

 igree or false certificate of sale of such animal, and every 

 person who shall knowingly and wilfully u.se, for the pur- 

 pose of deceiving, any false pedigree or false certificate of 

 sale of any animal, whether such false pedigree or false 

 certificate of sale was furnished, given or procured in this 

 State or elsewhere, shall upon conviction thereof be pun- 

 ished by a fine in any sum not less than twenty-five nor more 

 than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county 

 jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such 

 fine and imprisonment." 



Is this instinct or reason? There is a dog in Che.ster, Pa., 

 which will never walk when there is a chance to jump on a 

 street car and ride. He is a black Newfoundland. Much of 

 his time is spent in the stables. Although his home is only two 

 squares away, he never walks to it, but waits for a car going 

 that way, on which he jumps. He often goes off on a pleas- 

 ure trip, riding to the different sections of thecity on differ- 

 ent cars, always sitting on the curbstone till the car he 

 wants comes along, showing remarkable intelligence in 

 allowing to pa.ss him those cars which branch off in direc- 

 tions contrary to the one he wishes to take. 



At the Bulldog Club's dinner in England, Mr. Sprague, 

 addressing the company, made a strong point of the neces- 

 sity of "pluck" in a bulldog, says a correspondent to 

 Fanciers' Gazette: "Coming from such a source this ad- 

 vice is sure to sow its .seed, and believing, as I do, that 

 regard to function should be the foundation of our creed, I 

 am compelled to admit that pluck, which I believe lies 

 latent in ninety-nine out of every hundred bulldogs of to- 

 day, is necessary, though I see starinjg me in the face the 

 danger to the breed of .savageness being by some fanciers 

 mistaken for pluck. I must candidly confess that 1 have 

 seen no evidence that the bulldogs of 1891 are wanting in 

 pluck, but quite the contrary, and from inquiries I have 

 made I find this is the opinion shared by many other 

 breeders. The difiiculty appears to be as to how to require 

 a bulldog to give a manifestation of his pluck in the judg- 

 ing ring, that will not rapidly degenerate into a degrading 

 spectacle of savageness, which difficulty is more insur- 

 mountable than proving that a winning pointer on the 

 show bench is of any practical use in the field. If ungovern- 

 able ferocity is what is con.sidered necessary in the breed, I 

 trust it may be introduced slowly and cautiously. Let bull- 

 dog fanciers keep a specimen possessing this quality in their 

 kennels, and not breed from him until they have discovered 

 how charming a companion he makes, when they can then 

 breed from him much or little, as it may suit their taste and 

 conveniences." 



Says "Ouida" in the North American Itevierv: "A few 

 years ago nobody thought it a matter of the .slightest conse- 

 quence to be bitten by a healthy dog; as a veterinary surgeon 

 has justly said, a scratch from a rusty nail or the jagged tin 

 of a sardine-box is much more truly dangerous than a dog's 

 tooth. Yet in the last five years the physiologists and the 

 State, which in all countries protects them, have succeeded 

 in so inoculating the public mind with senseless terrors that 

 even the accidental touch of a puppy's lips or the kindly 

 lick of histonguethrowsthousaudsof people into an insanity 

 of fear. Dr. Bell has justly said: 'Pasteur does not cure 

 rabies; he creates it.' " And again, not less truly: "Whether 

 Pasteur's inoculation for rabies be a curse or a boon to man- 

 kind, there can be no question that the exaggerated ideas 

 which it creates, the fictitious importance which it lends to 

 what was previously a most rare malady, the nightmare 

 horrors it invokes, and the lies which its propagandists, to 

 justify its pretenses, find themselves compelled to invent, 

 produce a dementia and hysteria in toe public mind which 

 18 a disease far more widespread and dangerous than mere 

 rabies (unassisted by science and government) could ever 

 have become." 



A correspondent relates an amusing but quite likely mis- 

 take on the part of a terrier in the London Field: "You 

 often record instances of dogs' sagacity; I now send you a 



rather aTnusing instance of a dog's mistake, which you ! good kennel of St. Bernards and Mr. Wedderhorn has some 



might think worthy of recording. Last week, the rooks 

 having pulled up about half an acre of young turnips in 

 their search for wire worms, I gave a pair of trousers and an 

 old coat of mine to one of the men, wit^h instructions to make 

 a scarecrow of them; and he made a very lifelike imitation 

 of a man, with a stick under his arrn for a gun. A few 

 days after the scarecrow was put up T went to the field to 

 see bow things were getting ou, accompanied by a retriever 

 and a Scotch terrier; and while the latter was investigating 

 some rabbit holes at the bottom of a bank I returned home- 

 ward unseen by him. About three hours afterward, as he 

 did not come back, I went to look for him, fearing he might 

 have got into a trap, and saw him patiently sitting at the 

 foot of the .scarecrovF, thinking it was his ma-st^r. No doubt 

 he was satisfied by the smell of the clothes, without troub- 

 ling himself to look too closely at the face, and, being a 

 faithful little dog, would probably have stayed, there all 

 night. It was amusing to see his look of bewilderment when 

 I walked up. I may add that the retriever when he first saw 

 the figure growled, but on walking up to it and smelling 

 it wagged his tail; so he too recognized the smell of his 

 roaster in the clothes. The terrier took not the slightest 

 notice of the figure as we went past it next day." 



Mr. A. W. Smith, the well-known black and tan terrier 

 exhibitor of Buffalo. N. Y., writes us: "I have sold my 

 blaek and tan terrier champion Buffalo General (13 879) to 

 Mr. J. J. Lang, of Buffalo. General was whelped Nov. 27, 

 1887; bred by Jos. Tathara. Halifax, Eng.; by champion Hali- 

 fax General out of Lady Lottie, aud is lull' of Burke blood. 

 He is well known to your readers and to show-goers the past 

 three years, as he has won 11 first, 4 second and several 

 special prizes since I bought him. The only terriers that 

 have beaten him in his class are Meersbrook Billy, Buffalo 

 Lass .and the two Meersbrook Maidens. As he'is not yet 

 four years old, I hope he has many years of life and useful- 

 ness before him." This reminds us that Mr. Smith, last 

 week, bred his Buffalo Lass, a many-time prize winner, 

 to Dr. Foote's Broomfleld Sultan, and as Sultan is getting 

 some good pups just now, the result will, we hope, prove 

 very satisfactory. 



The premium lists of the Montreal dog show are in th 

 printer's hands and will be ready for mailing this week. 



Hearing that Lord Bute would very likely make his home 

 on this side of the water next month, Mr. Lamb did not 

 send his bitch Marghuarita over to Scotland as intended, 

 She is now coming in and will be bred to some other crack 



Mr. Sears tells us, in a private letter, that he has had th_ 

 dogs of the Wyoming Kennels, of which Sir Bedivere is the 

 bright particular .star, moved into their new quarters. The 

 new kennel is, however, far from completed yet and it will 

 be September before the finishing touches are put to what 

 bids fair to be the show kennel of America. 



Beferring to Mr. Butter's remark, which was quoted in 

 Forest and Stream recently, that he could find no beagles 

 in England worth bringing over, Stock-Keeper asks: "Where 

 did he look?" It would be interesting to beagle men on 

 both sides of the water if Mr. Rutter w^ould tell us .some of 

 his reasons for this assertion. That beagles are not more 

 generally exhibited in England is to be regretted, but stirely 

 our suggestion that Mr. Krehl would be pleased to point the 

 way to where the good ones are kenneled would have been 

 complied with had he been asked. 



In England just now, selling classes at the smaller shows 

 are meeting with goed support. We should think that such 

 classes might be more generally adopted in this country 

 than they are. It affords a ready means of disposing of 

 •surplus stock, which, while hardly good enough to win in 

 the open classes, have a chance of "gaining a little honor in 

 such a class, adding materially to their chances of finding 

 good customers. 



The noted English collie exhibitor Mr. Megson has ex- 

 changed his crack dog, Edgbaston Fox, with Messrs. Parrer 

 Bros, for their Mons Meg. The peculiarity of the exchange 

 is that both dogs return to their old homes. Edgbaston 

 Fox is the sire of Roslyn Conway, one of the good young 

 dogs of the Chestnut Hill contingent. 



"There are some exceedingly severe remarks in Forest 

 AND Stream about the condition in which the St. Bernard 

 Prince Regent was shipped," says the English Stock-Keeper, 

 and further, "they call for a reply on the part of the vendor." 

 We shall take pleasure in puljlishing the other side of the 

 case, but that our strictures were well timed is evidenced by 

 the fact that on meeting Mr. Reick shortly after, he con- 

 gratulated us on the stand we had taken, and remarked that 

 it was very much to the point. We may say now that Prince 

 Regent is looking himself again; having completely recov- 

 ered, weighs over SOOlbs., and his coat is coming in nicelj-. 

 It is also a pleasure to note that through the medium of 

 our business columns several stud services have been secured 

 to this noted sire. 



The coming Crystal Palace show in October next, of which 

 Mr. Taunton, the well-known mastiff breeder, is the head 

 and front, will have nearly 400 classes. This is the "inde- 

 pendent" show of England and is well supported, its pre- 

 mium list being a model that any club with a booming bank 

 account might follow to advantage. 



Dr. Faxon, of Boston, Mass., owner of the Kilmarnock 

 Kennels, is one of our oldest and most respected breeders of 

 collies, and though of late years his kennel has not been seen 

 very often on the bench, it would appear as if the worthy 

 doctor was laying plans to bring the Kilmarnock Kennel 

 once more to the front. We see th'at he has purchased from 

 Mr. Megson the noted collie Mother Shipton, which, among 

 other prizes has won the 50-guinea challenge cup at Liver- 

 pool, and the Derby at the Northern aud Midlands show 

 held recently at Manchester. She has already sailed for this 

 country, and that she is in whelp to Metchley Wonder is 

 another cause for congratulation. We have at presentquite 

 as many good stud collies as we need, but a few more im- 

 portations of high class collies of the gentler sex would be 

 sure to do a world of good to collie interests, as the breeding 

 results at present are not what they should be by any means. 



The secretary of the coming Blackburn show alludes to 

 the fact that he intends to pay the prizes the day of the show 

 as a "new departure." In this part of show management 

 America is far ahead of our cousins on the other side. It 

 would be a "new departm-e'' did our exhibitors return home 

 without their prize money. 



The dog lovers of St. Paul are agitating the question of 

 holding a dog show this fall. It is proposed to have Mr. 

 Geo. H. Hill, of Madeira, O , who has already shown his fit- 

 ness for such a position, take charge of the affair. Since the 

 show held three years ago, the interest taken in dngs by 

 sportsmen of the Northwestern States, and especially in the 

 city of St. Paul, has increa-sed very much, and as every one 

 is anxious to exhibit there is every likelihood that during fair 

 week a dog show will be held. There are a number of good 

 kennels at St. Paul. Among them are the Osceola Kennels, 

 of which Messrs. Drake and Hansen are the proprietors: 

 then there is the noted Elms City Kennel, with Mr. Paul 

 Gotzian at the head. Mr. Edward Scott is said to have a 



English setters and pugs. It would seem therefore as if a 

 show held after the Canadian fixtures would take well, as 

 most of the Eastern dogs would be well on their way to St. 

 Paul. 



Some people, otherwise decent enoueh sort of folks in 

 their relations with every day life, seem to sink to the 

 lowest depth of meauness where a dog is concerned. The 

 other day a big Newfoundland doe w^as coaxed by a lot of 

 boys to accompany them to thp Morris Canal, at Peterson. 

 Seeing a little fellow struggling in the water, the dog 

 jumped in and dragged the lad out. The mother of the boy 

 afterward went before the Recorder and wanted to have the 

 dog shot, as vicious, because in his well-me.aning efforts he 

 bad torn the hair and scratched the face of her boy. The 

 Recorder declined to take the complaint. 



Harry Howard, the huntsman of the Essex County Hunt 

 Club, died last Saturday night »t the club's kennels in the 

 Orange Mountains. He had loner .suffered from consump- 

 tion of the lungs. He was about -tO years of age. When 

 six-day-go-as-ynu-please races were great money-making 

 affairs Harry Howard came here from England .and entered 

 the ranks of the "peds." He was a plucky little man and 

 he was fairly successful as a money-maker, although he 

 never made any remarkable record. For several years 

 Howard had been engaged by the Essex County Cliib to 

 either scare up foxes or to drag an anise-seed bae across 

 country, and his genial manners and industry caused him 

 to be respected by the club members. 



We have received the premium list of the Kingston Ken- 

 nel Club's show to be held Sept. 1 to 4. With the prize list- 

 they have set forth they should meet with good .support, es- 

 pecially as this show opens the round of the Canadian cir- 

 cuit. The challenge classes are given a diploma, and in the 

 open classes prizes of .17, S3 and a card are given in all classes, 

 with sexes divided in every i^reed almost. When oneremem- 

 hers that the entry fee is only $1, this makes the prizes of 

 about eoual value with shows which give $10 and .*5, but 

 charge .$3 to enter. Spratts Patent will feed the dogs during 

 the show. The show will open on Tuesday, but judging 

 will not commence until Wednesday morning at 10 A. M., 

 and in the evenings from 6 to 7 P. M. the show will be closed. 

 This is a good move, as it allows handlers and exhibitors to 

 get their dogs exercisf'd and fed without interference. Mr. 

 Corbett, who superintends the show, made a record for him- 

 self last year, and was acknowledged to have a full con- 

 ception of his duties with the ability to carry them out. 

 Entries close positively Aug. 22. We also remark with 

 pleasure that no puppy classes are provided. A long list of 

 specials is offered. 



The field trial committee of the Irish Setter Club have 

 decided to extend the time of closing of entries in their com- 

 ing trials. The Derby Stake will close on Sept. 1.5 instead of 

 Aug. 15, and the All-Aged Oct. 15 instead of Oct. 1, as 

 already announced. 



The greyhound which we alluded to last week as taking 

 third prize at Pickering show was not, as stated, Mr. Pur- 

 beck's Ornatus. but a black dog belonging to Messrs. Toon 

 & Symonds. The mistake arose from the peculiar prac- 

 tice of some shows in England only printing the name of 

 the owner in the catalogue, which must necessarily lead to 

 mistakes and open an avenue for fraud. The black and tan 

 terrier mentioned as third to Rhodes Oban and Pearl was 

 Prince George, Messrs. Toon <fc Symonds's new dog, and 

 not Prince Rpgent. George Thomas will be coming back 

 with his team shortly in time for the fall shows. 



A Brooklyn lady held on to her pug's hindlegs while the 

 dog catcher pulled at its head. It was a stretch of imagi- 

 nation on her part to fancy that she could lengthen the dog's 

 life by any such means. 



In a conversation with Mr. Vredenburgh he tells us that 

 if the World's Fair people give the dog show in 1893, no 

 money will be given in prizes, only medals. Each exhibitor 

 must supply his own attendance, food and water for his 

 dogs. They bad no idea of the importance that the kennel 

 interests of this country had assumed, and especially so 

 when they proposed that if they give the show the prizes 

 would be awarded by a jury composed of men who would 

 also be chosen to adjudicate on cattle, horses, etc., as well. 

 Under these circumstances we fancy that a show held under 

 such auspices would fail in the end it is expected to accom- 

 plish, ?. e., the gathering together of the best dogs in the 

 world. If any other club, the Mascoutah or the A. K. C. 

 gives the show, it will have to be neld outside of the Fair 

 precincts. It is also stated that according to the view the 

 World's Fair Commissioners take of it, only those dogs that 

 have been duly registered would be admitted to their show, 

 and foreign dogs would also have to be accompanied by a 

 certificate of the registry from the secretary of the kennel 

 club stud book of the country they came from. This 

 would still further handicap a representative gathering. 

 The idea is now to have the Mascoutah Kennel Club give the 

 show, and as the Fair would very likely be closed in the 

 evening a big attendance would very likelv be secured in 

 consequence. To make the show anything like a success, at 

 least $10,000 is proposed as the sum that should be devoted 

 to the purpose of giving a show. There the matter stands 

 at present. After all, w^e think that to give the affair an inter- 

 national aspect, the A.K.C. should hold the show, and give 

 valuable team prizes for each breed open only to foreign ex- 

 hibitors. We do not suppose that English exhibitors would 

 bring their dogs over with an idea of making expenses out 

 of their winnings, Imt it affords them an opportunity for a 

 jaunt and al-o to dispose of a good quantity of their 'stock. 

 There are many who would buy when the dogs were here 

 but would not run the risk of importing a dog themselves. 

 We are still in favor of international sweepstakes for dogs 

 whelped after -January, 1S93, and as the show would be held 

 in June, 1893, this would give every one a fair start and allow 

 stock to be well grown. 



We sincerely hope that the call which Mr. Shotwell sends 

 out to ascertain the interest that is abroad in favor of sheep- 

 dog trials will meet with a satisfactory response. There 

 are sufficient working collies in this country to make such a 

 trial successful, provided the arrangements are properly 

 cai-ried out. Next week we will endeavor to give the plans 

 and particulars of a trial described some time since in an 

 English journal and which may be of service in getting up 

 these trials. 



One can scarcely take up a New York daily paper now- 

 adays without reading accounts of assaults committed by 

 the dog-catcher or his so-called assistants. Last week a 

 lady in Brooklyn had her pug seized when taking it out for 

 exercise, although the dog was licensed. She was plucky 

 though and managed to grab the hindlegs of her pet as 

 the man was carrying it to the wagon, and between them 

 the pug came within an ace of furnishing a practical illus- 

 tration of Solomon's celebrated verdict. The man, however, 

 proved the stronger and, striking the woman, managed to 

 get the dog into the wagon, and even then struck the lady 

 as she attempted to climb on the wheel. The man was 

 arrested afterward and the lady secured her pug by paying 

 50 cents at the pound. It turned out that the man was act- 

 ing in place of the regularly-appointed dog -catcher. We 

 trust he will get his desserts for the assault, which seems to 



