July 21, 1894.] 
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The Genessee Association. 
A determined effort is being made by the Genessee 
Valley Fish and Bird Protective and Propagating Associa- 
tion to stop all illegal fishing in and about Rochester. To 
this end the following address to anglers has been given 
out: 
To Anglers: If you discover any nets or other illegal 
devices in the waters in and around Rochester, please re- 
port to our secretary, Frank J. Amsden, under Powers 
Bank. It will N be confidential.— William S. Kimball, 
President Genessee Yalley Fish and Bird Protective Asso- 
ciation. 
A Tickle But Not a Trout. 
Monroe County, Pa.— I read with interest in Forest 
and Stream about trout tickling. I tried that once my- 
self some years ago. While crossing Bask Cabin Run I 
saw a 10-inch trout run under a stone. Rolling my sleeves 
above the elbows, I got my hands gently under the stone, 
felt something, made a grab, and got a huge water snake. 
I have done no trout tickling since. H. T. F. 
An Appreciated Portrait. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The portrait of Mr. E. Hough, published io the last number of 
Forest and Stream, does indeed fill "a long-felt want." Mr. Hough 
baa exhibited an ability of a very high order in his peculiar line of 
'■staff correspondent;" and the writer cannot help feeling that all the 
readers of Forest and Stream are in sympathy with him in a desire 
to know more of the personality of the man who has with his inimit- 
able gracefulness of style and inexhaustible fund of matter contrib- 
uted so largely to the entertainment in your columns. If Mr. Hough 
would like to add a new feature to his already much varied experience 
in the hunting field I think I could arrange to give him a bear hunt in 
a Coahoma canebrake next fall or winter with our somewhat famous 
bear hunter, Mr. R. E, Bobo, of this county. 
While on the subject of portraits permit me to express my gratifi- 
cation for the opportunity afforded for a nearer acquaintance with 
your genial and gifted correspondent "Kelpie," whose portrait was 
recently published in Forest and Stream. And this leads me to the 
suggestion that the pictures of Jeems Mackerel and the other King- 
fishers would find a worthy place in your pages, and add much to the 
interest felt by all of us who have for so long a time and so pleasantly 
participated in their camp gatherings and wanderings. Coahoma. 
Their Reputation Carries It. 
Two young gentlemen of this city returned the other day from Oak 
Orchard Creek with 25 black bass weighing 751 bs., caught in an 
entirely novel manner. According to their story, and they have up 
to thin time borne a fair reputation for veracity, they rowed up and 
down the creek as close as possible to the bank on a moonlight night. 
The bass lay in the shallow water still closer to the shore and being 
frightened jumped fairly into the boat. In this way all the bass were 
taken. It is not an uncommon thing for fish to jump into boats at 
night. But a large catch in that way is not well authenticated from 
the inland waters of western New York. Anglers to whom the 
present story has been told receive it with a smile, but are unwilling 
to dispute its truth because of the excellent reputation of the two 
young men who made the catch, —Rochester Express. 
FIXTU RES. 
DOG SHOWS. 
Sept. 4 to 7.— Des Moines Kennel Club, at Des Moines, Iowa. M. 
Bruce, Sec'y. 
Sept. 10 to 14.— Toronto Industrial Exhibition Association, at 
Toronto. C. A. Stone, Sec'y. 
Sept. 18 to 21.— Rhode Island State Fair Association, at Cranston, R. 
W. W. Dexter, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 5.— Manitoba Field Trials Club, at Morris, Man. R. J. Gallaug 
her, Winnipeg, Sec'y. 
Nov. 5.— United States Field Trial Club, at Bicknell, Ind. P. T. 
Madison, Indianapolis, Ind., Sec'y. 
Nov. 6— International Field Trials, at Chatham, Ont. W. B. Wells 
Sec'y. 
Nov. 23.— Eastern Field Trials Club, at Newton, N. C. W. 4.. Coster, 
Saratoga, N. Y., Sec'y. 
Swiss St. Bernards. 
IN the summer of 1893 Mr. J. F. Smith, who stands at the 
head of smooth St. Bernard breeders in England, paid a visit 
to the Hospice St. Bernard, and his impressions as related by 
himself are not the least interesting part of the article on St. 
Bernards in Lee's "Modern Dogs." After giving an account 
of his travels and the dogs he saw on his way to the Hospice, 
Mr. Smith writes: "We reached the Hospice about 6:30 P.M. , 
quite tired out, and were kindly received by one of the 
monks. We found it very cold here, and learned that the 
lake had been frozen over up to within a few days previously. 
The dogs, which were running in and out of the Hospice at 
will, had welcomed us on our arrival with a chorus of 
barks. After an excellent dinner of four courses, washed 
down with good wine, I turned out with an attendant who 
acted as keeper to have a look at the dogs. These were seven 
in number; one a white with a few orange flecks on him; 
some of the others had ( all white or half white faces; only 
two of them were really well marked, as we understand the 
phrase, and with a single exception all were smooth in their 
coats. This exceptiou was a good-colored, small, rough- 
haired bitch. About one-half of the inmates of the kennel 
had dew claws, either single or double, and the remainder 
were without them. The monks think nothing of the rough- 
coated dogs, and impress upon visitors that the smooth are 
the true race. All the smooths were of a good type, especi- 
ally a big, good-colored dog named Barry (I think twenty- 
work of this kind, as their jackets become matted with the 
snow; but worst of all it affects their feet, "balling" and 
freezing between the toes to such an extent as to cause 
lameness so severe as to quite incapacitate them from walk- 
ing. Indeed, the sores arising therefrom are sometimes so 
serious as to cause death. 
"The following morning we were awakened at 4 A. M. by 
the ringing of the Hospice bell. Snow and rain mingled 
together came down in torrents, and the air was very cold, 
but we had breakfast, at 6 o'clock and then went to see the 
morgue. One of the monks took down a wooden shutter, 
and we looked through an open grated window and saw the 
bodies of travelers who had been found in the snow. We 
were told that the bodies were still fresh, though most of 
them had been there for years. About 8 o'clock the rain and 
snow abated so we commenced our return journey to Mar- 
tigny." 
Mr. Smith visited the principal kennels in Switzerland, 
but the account of these will do for another time, our imme- 
diate purpose being to show what an intelligent and well- 
known judge of the breed has to say about these dogs in 
their original locale. The account is by far the best we have 
yet seen, and is entirely modern and up to date. It com- 
pletely upsets the stories that the dogs are no longer used in 
the rescue of travelers as many of us had been led to sup- 
pose. Another peculiarity pertaining to the Swiss dog, and 
one we do not remember any one having observed before, is 
their wildness and savageness when chained up. Mr. Smith 
represents them as docile and quiet with strangers when 
running loose, but when fastened up in their kennels the 
reverse was the case. 
This trait we have noticed in most of the Swiss dogs im- 
ported to this country. Champion Hector was a good ex- 
ample. One could scarcely find a more unruly dog while on 
the chain or in kennel, seeming to lose all his lovable quali- 
ties. But take him out on the street and loose his chain, he 
was as amenable to command and docile as one could wish; 
not even a stray cat could tempt him to misbehave if called 
in, and that is a good deal to say of the old dog, for he had 
no tender feeling for a cat. Eiger, Roland, Gemma, etc., are 
others we could mention to prove this peculiar state which 
may possibly be traced to the use of the ancestors of these 
dogs as watch dogs. 
Much Ethics. 
"Froaa the center all round to the sea." 
I QUOTE some extracts from an article bearing Mr. J. M. 
Avent's signature, and published recently in a contemporary. 
Mr. Avent's long connection with field trial matters and 
the improvement of setters and pointers enables him to speak 
POODLE FRITZ. 
First, Saratoga, 1894 Owned by Garden Kennels, Schenectady, N. Y. 
" That reminds me." 
In your issue of March 17 I read an article from the 
pen of Mr. G. Stanton, in which he describes the killing 
of two deer with one bullet. This "reminds me" of a 
story which I heard a few years ago up in the Adiron- 
dacks. A hunter there in the pursuit of game discovered 
a deer busily engaged in the occupation of rooting beech- 
nuts. He took deliberate aim and fired. In the twink- 
ling of an eye the deer sprang into the air, reversed ends 
and fell lifeless to the ground. The hunter approached, 
examined the carcass and was greatly surprised to find 
that the ball had passed twice through the animal, first 
through the body just forward of the hips, then through 
the neck. 
This is the only instance I ever heard of where a deer 
after being hit by a bullet in one end, reversed in time to 
catch the ball in the other. Egbert. 
[But there was the dog that went under the railroad 
train; the car wheel took off the tip of his tail, and then 
he turned so quickly that the same wheel crushed his 
nose.] 
tgwhmltnre mid <gish protection. 
Set Lines in Round Lake. 
Sioux Falls, S. D., July 13.— I have just been informed by 
angling acquaintances of this city, recently returned from 
Round Lake, Minn., that they found the lake full of set 
lines. This only confirms a belief that I have had for some 
time. 
Formerly this lake, situated in the southwestern part of 
the State, ten miles from the town of Worthington, Minn., 
was one of the best waters for wall-eyed pike (pike-perch) in 
the Northwest, besides having an abundance of pickerel so- 
called and perch. For the last two years, however, this has 
not been the case, and while a fair string of pickerel and 
perch could be had, scarcely a wall-eye was hooked. It seems 
to call for some attention from the State Warden. 
There is now in jail at Worthington, serving a sixty-day 
term, another of the Mitchell family of game law violators, 
this time for using a trot or set line in Lake Okobena last 
year. You may recall my account of the brother of the above 
being convicted for having prairie chickens in his butcher 
shop out of season. Both parties were caught in the act and 
arrested by Deputy Warden Twitchell. W. R. HALL. 
Warden Moyer Reappointed. 
Mr, Ends Mover has been reappointed Fish and Game 
Warden of Clinton and adjoining counties by the State 
Board of Fish Commissioners. Mr. Moyer has served the 
board in that capacity for the past five years. He makes a 
fearless official, and is the right man in the right place to 
enforce the fish and game laws of the State. — Renovo (Pa.) 
Record. 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 
The Marlin Fire Arms Company announce a reduction in the price 
of their model of 1891, .22 and .32cal. repeating rifles. 
We have received from L. Prang & Co., Boston, Mass., a lithograph 
entitled "Victorious Vigilant," from the painting by J. G. Tyler. 
Have been buying Forest and Stream of newsdealers for the past 
hree or four years, and I must say it has done more toward making a 
true sportsman of me than anything I know of. W. H. M. 
Windsor, N. C. — Forest and Stream is the only thing I know of that 
improves all the time with no advance in price. A. S. R. 
five per cent, of the dogs in Switzerland are named Barry). 
Most of these dogs at the Hospice have dewlap and wrinkle 
to a greater or less extent. With the exception of Barry, all 
were on the small side and deficient in bone. 
"When any strangers approach the Hospice the dogs bark, 
rush indoors and so give notice of the arrival. They then 
run out again and welcome the travelers by rushing up to 
them, wagging their tails and licking the hands of the vis- 
itors, and so escorting them to the Hospice. It will thus be 
seen that the dogs are very docile and quiet while loose and 
roaming about. At 8 P. M. the attendant called all the dogs 
together to be put up for the night. They stood in a row, 
and came up as he called them to be kenneled. Some of the 
kennels were loose boxes in the cow places on the ground 
floor or cellar of the Hospice, the others in a similar place 
under the Refuge. The Refuge is the building near the 
Hospice which was built for the inmates of the Hospice to 
resort to in case of fire, and the Hospice has been twice 
burned down. When the dogs are kenneled they become 
quite fierce, and bark savagely if a stranger approaches their 
kennels. Next day we were taken by one of the monks to see 
the library, museum and chapel. In the latter is a painting 
of Bernard de Menthon and his dog, which we are asked to 
believe is the actual progenitor of the present race of St. Ber- 
nards. It is, however, but a common-looking creature, 
smooth-coated, red in color, about the size of a pointer, and 
as unlike the modern race as possible. At this I could not 
be surprised, as the painting had been executed some hun- 
dreds of years after the founder of the monastery had died, 
which he did about 1301, and so of course the artist had to 
draw on his imagination as to what the original St. Bernard 
dog was like. In those days, and for long after, the Hospice 
dogs were merely watch dogs, used to protect the monks 
from the incursions of robbers, from which they suffered to 
a great extent in the early times of their existence. 
"I am sorry to say the monks keep no register containing 
pedigrees of their dogs. I saw. a photograph of a very fine 
St. Bernard dog named Hospice Pluto. This dog is now 
dead, but his portrait proved him to have an enormous 
head, with very heavy lips and dewlap. The monks con- 
sidered this dog by far the best they have had for some years. 
"I was happily successful in bringing back the photograph 
of this dog, also of another, a dog that had been sold by the 
monks for about £130 in English money ($650). The St. Ber- 
nards are still used in winter and bad weather in the duties 
which have made them historical. They are sent out to 
search the passes, on one side to the Cantin de Proz (Swiss 
side), from the Hospice to St. Remy (the Italian side; and 
back. After every fresh fall of snow the paths become 
obliterated, and many serious and fatal accidents are pre- 
vented bj; the intelligence and sense of the dogs, who by 
smell distinguish the proper roads. Here the monks told 
me that they found the long-coated dogs quite useless for 
cx cathedra. As all the matters on which he touches may 
now be considered res adjudicata, it would really be an act 
of unwarrantable boldness to make any comment on such 
matters as are passed on finally by so eminent an authority 
and learned writer. 
The fact that the excerpts are taken from the text, here 
and there, without their associated connections of words and 
hrases, does not mar their meaning in the least, though it 
oes soften their hardness somewhat. 
As he speaks sometimes in the plural number and there- 
fore inferentially in the name of all field trial supporters, it 
would be pleasing to the public, I think, if the field trial 
men would signify whether or not Mr. Avent's position, in 
regard to being compelled to practice fraud, is their position. 
Some phrases are quoted merely to present them as pure 
and concise diction which will beautify and enrich the field 
trial vocabulary. 
As no attempt is made to prove or disprove anything from 
them, there can be no implication of garbling for a purpose 
The text abounds with similar expressions and it is difficult 
to injure any phrase by removing it from its neighbor. He 
says: 
"1 have not had time to read the many little slurs that my 
enemies have been making about me and my dogs." 
What rot! 
"They (the judges) might have made some mistake, but 
they are not such fools as he makes them out to be." 
"His (Chevalier's) speed and range were only equaled by 
two dogs in the stake— Gleam's Pink and Count Gladstone; 
he was handled perfectly, and he outworked any of his com- 
petitors on game; his nose was good enough to handle his 
game almost to perfection in that hot, dry weather, not 
malting, a mistake during the trials." (Italics mine and 
used merely to bring out the full force of a modest state- 
ment.) 
"But still I went on with all of the differing of opinions of 
the reporters, and I won every first in five different field 
trials except one." 
"The full list of the winnings of Chevalier and Topsy's Rod 
is hard for many of my enemies to swallow, but they must 
smile and take their medicine, good or bad," 
"In many cases the reporters jumped on me with all four 
feet, doing all they .could for their pets." 
"The reporters are more liable to make mistakes than the 
judges, for the reason that they stop to write notes often at 
a very important time; sometimes a brier accidentally gets 
under a horse's tail at the wrong time and attracts their at- 
tention, and sometimes an attractive lady appears on the 
field; and as they see so much dog it is a relief to see a good- 
looking lady, which they cannot be blamed for." 
"Again, I came so near winning everything at all the dif- 
ferent field trials under all different judges that the reporters 
should make some little mistake and encourage some of the 
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