FOREST ANt) STflfiAM: 



DOG CHAT. 



W. K. C. Show of 1S93. 



We are in a position to deny the riiraoi* in a "Western con- 

 temporary tliatthe W. K, C. will charge a $10 entry fee and 

 give prizes of $50 and .^40 at tbeir coming show. The 

 entry fee will as last year Ije So. andtbere will he no material 

 change ia the value of premiums. If any change is made 

 it will be in providingr a more libei'al classification for some 

 of the terrier.s. etc. The management intend to bench only 

 on the main floor, and with that end in view the entries 

 will Ibe (limited to a certain number. It will therefore be 

 to the interest of those owning Kood dogs to enter them as 

 early as possible, as the rule will be first come first served. 



Death of Lady Melrose. 



We understand that Mr, E. H. Moore's troubles are not yet 

 ended in that, in addition to losing about a dozen puppies 

 and young dogs, the well known Lady Melrose has followed 

 her litter brother to the dog's unknown. This is hard mis- 

 fortune 'and enough to break any man's fancier heart. But 

 we know what Mr. Moore is made of and there is little 

 doubt that the owner of the Melrose Kennel will still have 

 to be reckoned with at future showa. Lady Melrose was by 

 champion Ben Lomond out of Reelu.se and whelped in 1889, 

 and though not shown so often as her litter brother still had 

 a number of prizes to her credit. 



Wehavenothing to do with the trouble that Mr. Eberhart 

 seems to have got into in regard to the pug photograph 

 "mix up" that a contemporsiry is making so much of, but as 

 showing another sifie of Al Eberhart's character we publish 

 an extract from a letter written to us by Mr. C. S. Wixom, 

 the well-known beagle and greyhound breeder. In speaking 

 of the photograph affair Mr. AVixom goes on to say: "He 

 [Mr. EberhartJ may be all that 'they' would have us believe 

 but after the treatment I once received at his hands it will 

 take a great deal of proof and argument to make me believe 

 anything crooked of him. If you remember at Cleveland 

 show, 1891, I was not feeling well, and on Friday, the last 

 day of the show, quit after my return to the hall from din- 

 ner. I was taken very ill. For my own part I did not ex- 

 pect to leave the building alive. Mr. Eberhart was in the 

 exhibitor's room when I was assisted there by a friend. He 

 soon, with the superintendens's aid, had a physician in at- 

 tendance. He got permission to have my dogs removed at 

 iP.M. He, with Joe Lewis, put my dogs in their crates, 

 procured an express wagon, loaded my dogs and sent them to 

 the depot, got a hack for me, went with me to the hotel, got 

 sleeping car berths made up and saw my dogs on board, etc. 

 Probably I had other friends present who would have done 

 the same, but Al G. Eberhart did this for me. W e were 

 almost strangers the week previous. Now with this experi- 

 ence staring me in the face I assure you it will be a long 

 time before I believe any intentional wrong on Mr. Eber- 

 hart's part. He made a mistake — we all do that, but as for 

 crookedness, I do not believe it possible with the generous, 

 big-hearted whole-.souled fellow. Put me down as a firm 

 friend always of 'square deal' Eberhart." 



Dogs have more than once played important roles in the 

 detection of crime. We remember years ago that a feratal 

 crime was brought home to a man in Blackburn, England, 

 through the agency of a half-breed hound who tracked a 

 murdered child to a chimney where the murderer had 

 stufEed portions of its body. The recent Althorp horror in 

 England aliords another instance where a hound's intelli- 

 gence and keen no.se led to the discovery of the hidden 

 remains of a young woman who had been "miirdered. The 

 dog belongs to a whip of the Pitebley hounds, one ot the 

 principal packs in England. Two days before the discovery 

 the whip was riding past a ditch accompanied by his dog 

 when he noticed the dog suddenly stop and jump about in a 

 most unusual manner whining piteously. Having no sus- 

 picion of the truth he called the dog o'ff and thought no 

 more of the incident. Two days after he rode past the same 

 place, again accompanied by the dog who as before showed 

 similar signs of distress. Still the man did not attach any 

 importance to it at the time, but on thinking the matter 

 over when he returned home, he thought probably there 

 might be something there and to make sure informed a 

 laborer of the occasion, who, on going to the ditch discovered 

 the poor girl's body wrapped in a sack. 



Dr. William Jarvis, the well-known Irifill setter breeder, 

 went South last Monday week and will do his winter's 

 quail shooting at Blacksburg, N. C, putting uo at Chei'okee 

 Inn. He will then be within easy reach of the Irish setter 

 trials, whicb take place in a couple of weeks at Lexing- 

 ton, N. C. 



Mr. A. F. Satto, Jr., who advertises some trained setters 

 in this week's issue, is giving up bis kennel owing to his 

 removal to Denver cr Chicago first of the new year, speaks 

 very highly of his pointer and Irish setter's abilities in the 

 field, especially the former, and over whom, (which he terms 

 a meat dog) he has shot thousand,'} of quail, chicken, 

 snipe and woodcock, and is particularly good both on bevies 

 and singles. 



The stud book number of Rush of Lad, whose purchase 

 by Messrs W. H. Windle and A. F. Hochwalt we noted last 

 week, is 15,921. His sire was champion Lad of Bow. 



Col. Jacob Ruppert, Jr., of this city, has just purchased 

 by cable three St, Bernards from Mr. George Booth, of Hull, 

 known as the owner of Lady Gladwin and Marquis of 

 Ripon. They are Kingstonian Count (Scotiish Prince— 

 Septima), standing S-tln. at .shoulder, weight 300lbs., and 

 having a large, massive, typical head (29in. around skull, 

 18in. around the muzzle); Kingstonian Beauty (Lord Bute 

 — Altonella), 29><in. at shoulder, 1651bs.. winner of five firsts 

 in three shows, and Kingstonian Countess (Scottish Prince 

 —Lady Glen), 29in. at shoulder, winner of first at Birken- 

 head '93, and Second at Kennel Club show, London, in the 

 same class where Kingstonian Beauty took first. They will 

 be shipped from Hull by the Wilson line next Saturday. 



A GOOD COURSING COUNTRY. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I shall be extremely obliged if you will permit me, through 

 the medium of your paper, to inform the members and all 

 sportsmen interested i a the American Coursing Club that 

 recently while attendins the coursing meeting of the Mit- 

 chell Kennel Club I made a very careful inspection of their 

 ground and also elicited information which in my opinion 

 will prove exceedingly beneficial in reaching the very acme 

 of perfection in coursing; and, I may add, that I consider the 

 grounds there better than any I have ever seen in England 

 or America. The chief points to be noted are, jacks are 

 plentiful, larger than the Kansas jack and give the dogs a 

 much better opportunity of showing their ability than they 

 get at Great Bend. The soil, too, is of such a nature thatl 

 will guarantee no dog in running a course will lose a pad or 

 a toenail, as was frequently the case at all Great Bend 

 meetings. 



Barbed wire and all other fences are conspicuous by their 

 entire ab.sence for thirty miles. 



Having given our four-footed friends due attention I will 

 proceed with the facilities ofi:'ered to ourselves. 



The Mitchell Kennel Club Association, of Mitchell, South 

 Dakota, has a fine club house situated about four miles from 

 Mitchell, which will be placed at the disposal of the cours- 

 ing gentlemen by the kindness of Mr, P. E. Page. It is 

 fitted throughout with hot and cold water, with bath rooms 

 and every other accommodations. There are also two large 

 rooms which could be used for dogs and horses, 



I consider that Mitchell would be a aood place to hold the 

 International Coursing meeting of 1893, as it is within ea.sy 

 distance of Chicago, which in all probability foreign com- 

 petitors will make their rendezvous. 



The Mitchell Kennel Club will contribute isSOO to the In- 

 ternational Stake, which tends to show that they are in 

 every way prepared to entertain and encourage thi.'i great 

 and growing sport in America. 



I tru«!t that this will have the approbation of all cour.sing 

 gentlemen, and that the offer of the Mitchell Kennel Club 

 will meet with due appreciaLi on. Aethug MAssex. 



Gbeat Bend, Kan. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



There is no charge for anmeriyig questions under this head. A U 

 questions relating to ailments of dogs will be answered by Dr. T. G. 

 Sherwood, a member of the Royal College of Vcterinarii Surgeons. 

 Communications referring to other matters connected with Kennel 

 Management and dogs miU receive careful attention. 



L. O. B., Gladstone, N. J.— I have a pointer pup that has small 

 boila that discharge matter on his head and parts of his body. 

 What can I do for him? Ans. Treat for worms. Apply noraclc 

 acid ointment to the boils. 



O. A. F., Arlington, Mass,— We do not know of any Scotch Ptag- 

 hound; we presume you mean deerhound, located anywhere near 

 Savannah, Ga, If you will communicate with Mr. John E. Thayer, 

 ■Lancaster, Masp., he may be able to advise you, as it ia possible be 

 may have shipped one so far South. 



H. K . Brooklyn, N. T.— Is there a breed of dogs known as re- 

 trievers? An?. Yes, but ihpre are very few owned in this country, 

 there being no demand for them. In England, however, where 

 pointers and setter.? are not, as a rule taught to retrieve, these 

 dogs are almost Invariably used to brlnt; In the dead birds. There 

 are two divisions of the breed, cnrly-coated and smooth, and they 

 form important classes at the doK shows in England. 



W. R., Philadelphia, Pa,— My setier dog is 13 years of age, and 

 is getting very hard of hearing. He scratches his ears now and 

 then a little; have looked in the ear,|but see nothing. I noticed it 

 about three months ago. Is it aeeV Is in good health. Ans. Put 

 a few drops of the following lotinn Into the ears twice a day. At 

 the end of a week syringe ears and thoroughly cleanse with warm 

 water and alcoliol (2 parts to 1); 



Ung. hyd. nit.. 3 i. 



01. amygd 31. 



Mix. Use as directed. 



R. A. R., New York city.— Can you give in your nest issue a 

 remedy for a weeping eye in a St. Bernard dog? Also what is a 

 good regular diet for one about 10 months old and a kennel dog? 

 Ans. Try the following lotion: 



Zinci sulph. , jji. 



Tr. opii 3ii. 



Aq. ad I vi. 



Lotion. 



Apply four or five times a day with a piece of sponge. Bread 

 and meat or dog crackers with a little meat. 



G. R. R , Rutland, Vt.— Please give me the pedigree, as far as 

 yon know it, of a mastiff hitch, Quakeress, owned and registered 

 bv G. S. Roberts, of Vergennes, Vr., some vesrs ago. Ans. Qua- 

 keress (A.. K. E. 4,374). fawn bitch, whelped Feb. 17, 1886. Breeder, 

 Miss Wall^pr. Bristol, England. Owner, Mr. George 8. RobBrts, 

 Vergennes, Vt. By Slatter's Prince Imperial out of Penultima, 

 by Young King 11. (\oang King, E. 8,426— Madeline) out of Julia, 

 hy Young King (E. 8,420) out of Ball's Juliet. Slatteris Prince 

 Imperial, by Crown Princ (The Emperor— Merlin ) ou^. of Idalia, 

 by Dixie's Turk out of Brenda. You must send to American 

 Kennel Club, 44 Broadway, N. Y. city, for registration blank. The 

 fee for reglstermg is $1. 



J. H. M., San Angelo, Texas.— Your valuable publication comes 

 to our club. I have a setter bitch, about six months old, that 

 seems perfectly hpalthy except that she seems weak In the loins. 

 Her bowels seem In good fix and she eats heartily, but occasion- 

 ally has a little fever. Just a little rim spems to weaken her loins; 

 and makes her run sideways. If you can give me an idea of diag- 

 nosis and treatment you will greatly oblige. Ans. Treat for 

 worms and then give the following mixture: 



Syr. hypophosp. co Jiv. 



Tr. nucis vom 3ii. 



Aq. ad ..5 viii. 



Mist. 



Give one dessertspoonful three times a day. 



W. J. D., Analomink. Pa.— Will you kindly telllme what to do 

 for a spaniel which I think has canker of the ear. He is scratch- 

 ing his ears a great deal and also shaking his head. When he 

 scratches his ears as if the trouble was deep in. I notice no dis- 

 charge from his ears, although there is noticeable at times a sour 

 smell, though not very strong. Sometimes the outside of his ear 

 feels hot, but that is not very often. Otherwise he is in first class 

 condition. Ans. Give a dose of Epsom salts and pour a little of 

 following lotion into the ear twice a day: 



Liq. plumbl sub acet z iii. 



Acid carbolic , msv. 



Glycerine 3 iss. 



Aq. ad... ?lii. 



M'x, Lotio. 



B. Gladstokb, New York City.— I have a youngJEnglish setter, 

 by Breeze Gladstone, who is abont'l?^ years old, "Recently two 

 warts have appeared on the loins, Tbey are quite large and sep • 

 arated like the petals of a flower. Can you tell me how to remove 

 them, or if wise to do so. Also, ever since I have had him (nearly 

 a year) the top of his nose has been dry and rough, almost, cracked 

 at times. Is this as it should be? He is kept on table scraos and 

 has a warm house filled with straw. I keep him indoors till bed- 

 time and this cold weather he is not anxious to go out to his 

 house. Is it harmful to dn so or does it make him more suscepti- 

 ble to roldf Ans. Remove warts with a pair of scissors and tben 

 cauteriz« with nitrate of silver. The nose is probably the result 

 of distemper and will always remain so. It is not harmful to keep 

 him out of doors. 



facJ(ting. 



In view of the expressed determination of that portion of the New 

 York Y. C. which created the new deed of gift to stand by the docu- 

 ment to the last, and of the equally positive protest of foreign clubs 

 against the deed as unfair and illegal, it has long been evident that a 

 race would be possible only through the back-down of one party or 

 the other, in short, the process commonly known as "eating crow." 



Unlike the recent political disturbances of a seismitic nature, in 

 which one party did all the laughiog while the other sat at the table 

 with wry faces and uptiuned noses, the repast in the present case has 

 been a joint banquet at which the New York Y. C. has crossed legs 

 under the mahogany with Lord Dunraven and the Royal Yacht 

 Squadron. 



As might have been expected, the shrewd framers of the new 

 deed, though unable to utterly decline the invitation, have secured 

 much the best of the bargain, and. have been able to choose the com- 

 parative tidbits and less objectionable portions, leaving the hones and 

 unsavory carcass to their august opponents. 



ABr?^ardstlieiTewTork Y. C, it in the first place assiues a race 

 for the America Cup, of which it is this year greatly in need. In 

 the second place this race is saOed under the new deed of gift. These 

 two points alone would be no small victoi-y for the astute diplomats 



of the club, but their triumph is more marked by the fact thai t ^ 

 challenger is the same Royal Yacht Squadron which three year^ 

 since denounced the new deed and its sponsors. 



On its side the New York Y. C. makes several "generous conce.s- 

 sion8;"'it for the first time in the history of the Cup distinctly re- 

 cognizes the right of a challenger to a mutual agreement, and in 

 connection with this agreement it binds itself not to outbuild a chal- 

 lenger. TbeRB two points are very important one.*, long since called 

 for in common fairness, but denied to former challengers. With 

 them go two trivial ones, the granting of five races in place of three 

 and the starting according to Lord Dunraven 's suggestions. 



As TO the Royal Yackt Squadron, in challenging under the new 

 deed, which is exactly what it has done in spite of all alluring offers 

 and verbal intricacies, it has completely deserted the stand which it 

 took in 1889, it admits the legal right of the New York Y. 0. to im- 

 pose any conditions to govern the Cup, and it accepts such condi- 

 tions with one exception as fair. Wot only ha.s it swallowed the big- 

 ger share oE the bird with good grace, but by way of pousse cafe, it 

 has, at the dictation of the New York Y. 0., promptly and humbly 

 withdrawn all disagreeable allusions to former deeds which might 

 in any way reflect on the present one. 



In return it gets something and nothing; it is allowed to challenge 

 without disclosing other dimensions than the waterline, and it has a 

 guarantee against outbuilding both important points. The waiving of 

 the ten months' notice amonnts to little, as Lord Dunraven gave all 

 necessary notice in August, and could easily have given a full year 

 if his challenge had been immediately accepted. 



So far as the formal document governing the Cup is concerned the 

 R. Y. S. must, in the event of winning, hold the Cup under the new 

 deed, as the New York Y C. has in no way ftound itself to execute 

 any new paper in handing over the Cup. It is true that the E. Y. S. 

 need not exact all dimensions from a future challenger, but neither 

 would it have been compelled to do so had it accepted the new deed 

 in toto from the start. As concerns the prime conditions governing 

 the Cup, they are as laid down in the new deed and cannot be other- 

 wise without the formal alteration of that instrument by the New 

 York Y. 0. 



Lord Dunraven's position in the matter is a most curious one. 

 That he is a man of more than average ability as a writer and 

 thinker is proved by his recent articles on yachting, as well as by 

 his reputation outside of the sport. He poses just now as the patron, 

 of international racing, anxious t,o secure its resumption on a fair and 

 permanent basis, and he has just published an article on the abstract 

 conditions of the snb,iect. At the same time he proclaims again, as 

 he did three years since, his utter inability to form an opinion on the 

 one vital point which has been in dispute for five years, the legality 

 and fairness of the new deed. He is capable of treating most minutely 

 of every petty detail of starting races, but in the one great issue his 

 mind is a blank. We leave it to our readers, to reconcile his accept- 

 ance of the terms of the New York Y. C. with the following- extract 

 from his article, published last week: 



'■•Though no other expression of their views was sent by any other 

 British club to the New York Y. C, there is no doubt whatever that 

 the Royal London Club expressed the universal opinion of yachting 

 clubs and yachting men in the United Kingdom. No challenge ever 

 has been made or ever will be made under the terms of that deed.' ' 



Wmi,B we have never shared the opinions of Lord Dunraven and 

 some American yachtsmen as to the desirability of th,e 90ft. cutter 

 class, and its permanency in the event of continued international 

 racing, we believe that fair and free racing for the America Cup will 

 be of the greatest benefit to both sides. At the same time we have 

 no confidence in the permanent resumption of the sport on such a 

 basis of misunderstanding and temporary agreements as underlies 

 the present negotiations. 



Owners of prospective cup defenders are almost as numerous aa 

 the members of Mr. Cleveland's new cabinet. Among them are 

 Com. Gerry, Vice-Corn, Morgan. 0. O. Iselin IE. M. Fulton, Jr., B. S. 

 Palmer, Archibald Rogers, Henry Bryant, and one or two syndicates. 



Lord Dtinbaven falls into seri'bus error in as,suming that the 

 America Cup was given by Messrs. Stevens and their colleagues to 

 be raced for by one vessel against a fleet, as it was originally won; 

 the first deed of gift mentions explicitly a mutual agreement as the 

 proper basis for a match ; the conditions laid down being operative 

 only after the failure to reach a muatual greement, and even in 

 them there is nothing that gives color to the right to put the fleet in 

 defense. As a matter of fact, Mr. Ashbury had a better legal 

 right to a mutual agreement under the first deed than Lord Dim- 

 raven has under the third, the mutual agreement clause in the latter 

 being subordinate to the clause dictating exactly and defmitely the 

 method of challenging. 



The opinion of the rating rule ezpressed by the designers is on the 

 whole a very favorable one, and a iustiflcation of the action of the 

 Y. R. A. in originally adopting it. The testimony is practically 

 unanimous as to the excellence of the boats first built under the rule, 

 and though it is admitted that the later boats are decidedly inferior, 

 it has not been proved that all of their faults are directly attributable 

 to the rule. Light construction, one of the disadvantages of the 

 later craft, would have come before this under almost any rule; 

 while the bulb or fln-keel would have been just as successful, in fact 

 more so, under the old Thames or the 1780 rule. It must be remem- 

 bered that these and other evils against which yachtsmen cry out to- 

 day, and which are urged as good grounds for the change of one 

 rule or another, are merely due to super-refinement in yachting, and 

 would have come just the same under any ordinary rule. The bad 

 results which many deplore have by no means been located as defi- 

 nitely attributable to the length and sail area rules. 



Mh. Watson's remarks on the value of overhang and the actual 

 shortening of the leadline corroborate toe opinion expressed by us 

 on the advent of Gloriana, that her superiority lay in the pecuUar 

 form of the diagonals rather than in the fact that her stem ran out 

 to a fine point of so many feet actual overhang. 



The British designers have made a curious error in regard to Har. 

 poon, setting her down as a bulb keel boat, and crediting her with 

 the defeat of Wasp. However much the old Beatrix was improved 

 by her heavy board of SJ^ tons, she was not the equal of Wasp, tafc' 

 jng a place between that boat and Gloriana. As the representative 

 of a distinctive type, Harpoon is in many ways more of a ship than 

 the fln-keel. 



A New Valkyrie. 



The new challenger, as is announced by Lord Dunraven, will be a 

 steel cutter, designed by Watson, presumably built by the Hendei> 

 sons, and named Yalkyrie, She will be about 85ft, l.wd. 



