April 11, 18W, 
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never before seen on Tinker's Run. "There he goes 
down the branch!" "Bring a light!" "Hit him with a 
pole!" "Shoot him, lieutenant!" "Sick him, Burr!" 
"Go for him, Chestnut! Don't let him get under the 
bank or he's a goner!" 
Jack Logging in the meantime, having secured a fence 
rail, hit the poor beast a fatal blow and was drawing him 
to the bank. " Bring us light here," and John Jenkins 
threw th ; light of his bull's eye on the floating object and 
exclaimed in disgust, " Why, that's my dog Miller. Pa'er 
will be satisfied now, for poor Miller will never suck an- 
other egg." 
Cries were heard up the branch, and Sergeant Jim 
being missed, haste was made for his rescue. He was 
found hanging over a foot pole, his voice nearly gone, and 
begging them not to let him drop. The countrymen 
lifted him to the bank and he was soon revived. When 
asked why he didn't get off the log and come to them, he 
said he was lost and wanted them to find him. Before 
making another start Thorn pulled down a long, wild 
grapevine and trimmed it up, and made a loop in the 
middle, which was placed around the sergeant, and with 
a sturdy countryman at either end, all possibility of Jim's 
getting lost again was reduced to a minimum. 
The party returned to the house. About 8 A. M, . as if 
by mutual consent, all hands began to yawn and dress, 
and Jim gave an exclamation of terror, and dressing 
quickly made for the barn. The others soon followed, 
and found Jim had a struggling black cat in one of his 
boots in one hand, and the severed tail of the cat in the 
other, rubbing himself vigorously around his loins. The 
battery men rushed in and asked what was the matter, 
when with a sorrowful countenance he told them that he 
had a bad case of "shingles," and if it had not been for 
the black cat bleeding on him he would have been dead 
m an hour. "Shingles, thunder! that is where that 
grapevine rubbed you last night." "Say, fellows, it's on 
me this time. You won't say anything about this and 
help to graft that tail on again." 
The day was spent in talking, looking over Thorn's 
tobacco crop, and all the batterymen received a twist of 
fine tobacco and an invitation from all the countrymen 
to come down again, while the batterymen declared the 
countrymen were the most hospitable they ever met, and 
the latter reciprocated. 
Corporal Chase, who had never seen persimmons grow, 
secured a small flour sack full, which he placed in the 
wagon without the knowledge of the others, and Private 
Gates sat on them during the ride home. Arriving at the 
armory, Chase drew out the bag and exclaimed, "That's 
a nice mess for me to take home," and Gates replied that 
he was in a nice mess to go home to his mother, who 
would say to him, "Why, Joseph!" and then he would feel 
like crying. 
Lieut. Robbing, who had been treated with the respect 
due to his rank, soon pacified them, and all resolved that, 
while they did not catch a coon, they had had a good 
time. Old Coon. 
The Cedar Rapids Bench Show. 
To hold a bench show and have everything run smooth, 
no faultfinding of superintendent, judges, etc., seemed 
to be one of the impossibilities of this life after reading 
the reports and criticisms of the different shows held 
throughout the country. 
But nevertheless the Cedar Rapids Kennel Club, of 
Cedar Rapids, la., bears off the palm as having inaugu- 
rated and carried on a show without a kick from any- 
body. This may come about to a certain extent from the 
environments connected with the show, as it was held in 
the old Baptist Church and the proceeds were contributed 
to charity. The dates were March 24, 25 and 26. There 
were about 150 dogs in the building, and many of the 
classes contained some fine specimens, especially pointers 
and setters, and the competition was warm. The benches 
were made of dressed pine lumber. The feed was nicely 
boiled beef. Superintendent Calder and his attendants 
were ever on the alert, courteous and kind, and a cleaner 
and neater run show I never saw, and I have attended 
bench shows for twenty years. 
The judging in the non-sporting class was done by A. 
G. Eberhart, and the sporting class was handled by Geo. 
E. Poynere, Williamsburg, la., and two more painstaking 
judges never stepped into a ring. They took plenty of 
time, examined every entry with great care, and when 
they made their awards they were indorsed by every ex- 
hibitor. This establishes the fact that there are few men 
their equals as judges. The officers of the club are a 
snappy, keen lot of business men, and, with the charac- 
teristic "get there" for which Cedar Rapids is noted, we 
predict for the future a bench show that will compare in 
size and quality with any show in the West. 
___ Old Timer. 
A Kansas Wolf Hunt. 
Ottawa, Kan.— One of the great events of the year is 
the Thanksgiving wolf hunt. The hunt must not neces- 
sarily occur on Thanksgiving Day, but that is the day 
usually chosen, because it is a holiday and all the crops 
have been gathered out of the way of the hunters. 
That day was therefore appointed as the day for a 
grand circle hunt near this city and taking in the whole 
of Harrison township. 
The day was very pleasant and a great many attended 
the hunt, starting from the borders of the township and 
moving toward a spot which had previously been agreed 
upon as the center. 
At first the men and boys were in scattered groups, and 
their dogs, being so far apart, failed to start any game 
until they were half-way to the goal and formed into reg- 
ular lines. There were three divisions: northwest, east 
and south; the northwest and east divisions met first, and 
formed a large semi-circle; then moving far enough 
toward the goal to get clear of the cornfields, they stopped 
and waited for the other division. They had not been 
there long when they saw the south division coming 
slowly forward, driving three wolves in front of them; 
but before the lines met and completed the circle, two of 
the wolves made a rush through the opening and escaped. 
The other wolf didn't notice that he was inclosed by a 
circle of men and boys until it was too late for him to 
escape the way his companions did, and everybody 
thought he was in there to stay. 
The circle now contained, besides the wolf, about sixty 
prairie chickens, a number of owls, and a great many 
jack rabbits and cottontails. The birds seemed bewildered 
by the shouts of the men and barking of the dogs, and 
kept flying round and round in a circle, getting shot at 
every time they came near a man with a gun. 
The circle was now complete and was closing in on the 
wolf when he realized that the men were looking for 
him, and it didn't take him long to decide what to do. 
A small corner of a cornfield was included in the circle, 
and the wolf made for this in a hurry, and everybody 
thought he would get away. In the cornfield were Paul 
Robinson with his dog Snap and Lewis Gill with his dog 
Don, and as the wolf came past they started the grey- 
hounds after him. The two hounds followed him and the 
young dog Don downed him three times, but as Don is 
not yet grown, was not strong enough to hold the wolf . 
Immediately on coming out of the corn the wolf received 
a charge of shot from a mounted farmer, but ran just as 
fast as ever, pursued closely by Don. 
Charles La Follet now appeared on the scene with his 
pack of trailing hounds, and after a long chase captured 
the wolf and carried the pelt home in triumph. 
The hunt was not, on the whole, what might be called 
successful, but there was plenty of excitement, and some 
of those who had guns killed cottontails, jack rabbits and 
prairie chickens. 
I heard of one accident which came near being very 
serious. Some one laid his gun down in a crowd, where 
it was stepped on and discharged. The charge of shot 
tore off the heel of one man's boot and then struck an- 
other man in the leg. The limb was pretty badly bruised, 
but fortunately for him only three shot entered the flesh. 
F. B. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
In the course of a chatty letter we have this week 
received from Mr. Freeman Lloyd, who appears to have 
been doing good service as a war correspondent during 
the recent disturbances in South Africa, we learn that 
both fox terriers and collies are being boomed for all 
they are worth. "Doggying," writes our lengthy friend, 
"here is swifter than in England. Imagine a community 
all over money, fond of sport, and with anything of a 
free-and-easy manner. Bookmakers are allowed to stand 
up in the street, and we have Sunday entertainments, won- 
derfully swift, I can assure you!" — British Fancier. 
It would seem that Owney, the post office dog, is grow- 
ing a bit eccentric in his ways, as is becoming to greatness 
the world over. He recently arrived in New York, and 
of him the Herald says: "Owney, the post office dog 
traveler who arrived here from Washington last Friday 
spent yesterday in prowling about the newspaper dis- 
tributing department in the basement of the po3t office. 
He also invaded the men's smoking room, where he slept 
and was fed alternately. Owney has grown as fat as a 
spring lamb. His amiability has somewhat decreased 
since his last visit, and he reserves the right to snap at 
those visitors who displease him. A few months ago 
Owney took another flying visit to Japan, and before his 
arrival in New York he paid a visit to Albany, his birth- 
place, which he had not seen for two years. Here are 
some of the new tags that Owney wears on his collar: 
'Owney, call again; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Feb. 27, 
1896.' 'Welcome, Owney; Rome, N. Y., March 7, 1896.' 
'Hotel Ruhl; Jackson, Michigan.' 'Owney, wishing you 
a happy New Year, January, 1896. Campbell and 
Trubshaw, Tacoma P. O.' Owney has now acquired 
thoroughly independent habits. He scorns the idea of 
being shipped away from one place to another like a 
leather satchel. His stay here now depends entirely upon 
his own sweet will. When the mood seizes him he will 
jump upon one of the mail carts and board an express 
train bound for a destination to his own liking. 'Owney 
will suit himself, I guess,' said Superintendent Bradley, of 
the railway mail service. 'He may leave to-day at his 
own option or remain with us a week. He has obtained 
wonderful celebrity, as my mail testifies. Numberless 
articles have been written about him in the juvenile 
papers and boys' magazines. Not long ago I received a 
letter from the managers of a dog show in St. Louis ask- 
ing that I send on O wney to be exhibited. Unfortunately 
Owney does not travel on scheduled time and his where- 
abouts were then unknown.' " 
Humane persons will, our Paris correspondent says, be 
glad to hear that all stray dogs are not taken to the 
Fourriere, or Paris Pound, to be there killed or passed on 
to vivisectionists. There is a dog refuge at Garches 
founded by nine English ladies in 1890. Besides the 
income from its capital, this asylum receives a subvention 
from the Society for the Protection of Animals. The 
Paris agent for receving masterless dogs, sending them on 
to Garches, is a Mme. Faure. She is seldom without a 
party of canine refugees. A neighbor of hers, Mile. 
Mazerolles, is on the same lines a guardian angel to cats. 
She sends the homeless cats she discovers to Bezons, where 
Mme. Claude Bernard has founded a refuge, near which 
she hives, and in which there are eighty cats. An active 
benefactress of the feline race in Paris is a Mme. Donon 
an aged lady of 70, living at Asnieres. She has now 
eleven cats and sixteen dogs under her care, and for some 
years afforded hospitality to the dogs and eight New 
Caledonian cats of Louise Michel. Six out of these eight 
died. The survivors are Marguerite and Monmoutte. 
They both have short forelegs, and developed hindlegs 
like the kangaroo.— London Daily News, 
Mr. Louis Steffen, secretary of the Northwestern Beagle 
Club, informs us that a meeting of the field trial commit- 
tee will be held on Tuesday, May 5, at 2 P. M., in Milwau- 
kee. 
The entries of the Mohawk Kennel Club's show, April 
25 to 29, close on April 17. The secretary informs us chat 
the express companies will return free of charge all dogs 
on which charges have been prepaid. 
Dogs will sometimes contract curious habits. It is on 
record that a north country butcher owns one that chews 
tobacco. This has been going on for three years. Indeed, 
it began when the animal was a puppy, its owner having 
started the habit by giving it small pieces of tobacco to 
play with. Now it has a preference for plug tobacco, and 
will not touch fine cut, and has become so accustomed to 
chewing the weed that it always looks for a daily quid.— 
British Fancier. 
[Our esteemed contemporary would have given the 
above item more news value had it mentioned whether 
the dog spit on the stove or in the spittoon in man fashion, 
or threw its exhausted quid indifferently against the wall 
or out of the window.] 
The English setter puppy Muncie Mark, by Gath's Mark 
—Belle of Blue Ridge, owned by Mr. G. G. Williamson, 
died of distemper recently. He won v.h.c. in the English 
setter puppy.class at the late Chicago show. 
On March 27 the Hamilton Kennel Club was reorgan- 
ized at an enthusiastic meeting held in Mr. A. D. Stew- 
ard's office in Hamilton, Ont. The last meeting was held 
m 1893. There were $30 in the treasury. The annual 
fee was placed at $1. The list of officers elected' is as fol- 
lows: Patrons: Wm. Hendrie, J. M. Lottridge, George 
Roach, Senator Sanford and Mayor Tuckett; President, 
E. Tinsley; First Vice-President, R, B. Harris; Second 
Vice-President, R. F. Woodehouse; Treasurer, D. S. Gil- 
lies; Secretary, Wm. J. Tulk; Executive Committee: All 
the officers and W. McDonald, C. W. Ricketts, Rev. Thos. 
Geoghehan, A. D, Stewart, J. J. Tulk, Dr. H. S. Griffin, 
Joseph Kennedy. The club will hold a show open to the 
world on May 9. At a later meeting on April 1 it was 
decided to bold a cat show for lady exhibitors in conjunc- 
tion with the dog show. The entrance fee for dogs will 
be 25 cents. The following have been selected as judges: 
R. F. Woodehouse, cocker and King Charles spaniels; 
Dr. Griffin, bull terriers; A. D. Stewart, bull dogs and 
pugs; F. R. Close, fox terriers; W. H. Thompson, St. 
Bernards; W. J, Tulk, Russian wolfhounds and English 
greyhounds; E. Tinsley, pointers, setters, hounds, etc. It 
is likely that George Bell, of Toronto, will judge the other 
breeds. 
Horace Smith, Monroe, N. C, in our business columns*, 
calls attention to his list of well-bred English setters. J, 
Kay, Pleasant Dale, Me., offers broken beagles. 21 W. 
Seventeenth street, New York, offers fox terrier. John 
de Morgan, West New Brighton, N. Y., offers mastiff. 
Standard Kennel, Georgetown, N. Y., offers broken 
beagles. Redstone KenneJs, Huntington, Y., offer- 
Irish setters. 
The entries of the Baltimore show number 335. Spratts: 
Patent will bench and feed. Mr. E. M. Oldham's skillful 
services will be devoted to the superintendency. 
The Irish setter champion Tim, famous as a bench show 
winner, died last Monday at the kennel of his owner, Dr, 
L. C. Sauveur. His death was attributed to old age. 
fachtittg. 
A HINT FOR A CHEAP OUTING. 
It is to be regretted that it is impossible for all of the 
readers of Forest asd Stream to indulge in an annual 
outing. There are many, however, who never take a trip 
because they imagine that, in order to enjoy an outing, it 
is absolutely necessary to be the possessor of a fat pocket- 
book. Upon looking at the matter from this standpoint 
they ruefully decide to stay at home. Knowing by ex- 
perience to the contrary, I hope to be able to dispel this 
erroneous notion from the minds of some, if not all, who 
may read this yarn. 
It seems to me that when a sportsman knows of a way 
by which many of his fellows might be benefited, he 
should consider it a duty to in some way convey this 
knowledge to them. Who knows but it might be the 
means of restoring to robust health some unfortunate in- 
valid in whose breast all hope has died. 
Many a person who stays at home bewailing his hard 
lot through the hot summer months could indulge in an 
outing of a month's duration or longer, the total cost of 
which need not exceed the sum of $40. The good gained 
by the general health on such a trip would more than 
compensate for the money expended. 
Strange as it may seem, of the outings in which it has 
been my good fortune to indulge, those that have proved 
the most beneficial and that always awaken the most 
pleasant memories are invariably the ones that have been 
the least expensive. 
Of the kind of outing of which I will tell in this article, 
however, there is this much to say in the very beginning- 
Let no person indulge who is averse to roughing it a little' 
while a good roof would always be at hand to afford shel- 
ter and there would be a sufficiency of eatables, there 
would be no soft mattresses on woven wire springs on 
which "to woo the drowsy god." A straw mattress in a 
narrow bunk would be the bed, the bill of fare would con- 
sist of unlimited quantities of strong black tea or coffee, 
bread, butter, potatoes, meat, oysters, clams, fish and 
hardtack. I will guarantee that the appetite would 
always be in condition to do full justice to such food. 
Perfect digestion and that deep and refreshing sleep, 
known only by those whose lives are daily spent in the 
open air, would also be enjoyed. 
In the line of sport fairly good fishing could be had, 
and there would be an excellent opportunity to become 
thoroughly familiar with the management of a small 
boat. 
While such an outing would be different from a cruise 
on a yacht, inasmuch as there would be no sailing from 
one port to another, still the true elements of enjoyment 
of a yachting trip would all be present, and, it seems to 
me, more than could be found aboard a house-boat. 
There would be ample opportunity in which to study- 
some of nature's works, and to read, row, fish or take, life 
easy by indolently lying on deck watching the passing 
commerce and at the same time receiving the full benefit 
of the healthful breezes and bright sunshine. 
Another thing to be considered on a trip of this kind is 
there would be nothing whatever to worry the mind after 
once getting aboard. , All that it would be necessary to 
take along would be an extra shirt or two, a change of 
underclothing, some fishing tackle and the oldest and 
most dilapidated suit of clothes to wear aboard the boat 
that the outer could rake up. 
Now to the ways and means. In the near vicinity of a , 
number of Eastern cities are to be found numbers of « 
small oyster growers, that is, persons who to be distant 
