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in the issue just, received which shows the wide range of pos- 
sibilities in regard to an extended use of the telephone. A 
master baker in Berlin owned a poodle called Phlox, noted 
for its intelligence. An employe also owned a female of the 
same breed, and Phlox often absented himself from home and 
spent his days at the home of the baker's man. One day the 
baker took Phlox with him to a neighboring village, and on 
his return passing near the street where his employe lived, 
he was not surprised when his dog left him, and returning 
to his home alone supposed the dog would soon follow. 
Evening came on, and it was getting late when he thought 
he would telephone to tue man to send Phlox home. He 
did =o, but the man answered that he had tried every means 
to send the dog off, but he would not leave. Tne baker then 
resolved to go for him himself, but a sudden thought struck 
him, and returning to the telephone and getting the connec- 
tion, told his man to seize Phlox, bring him to the telephone 
aud attach the receptors to the dog's ears. This was done, 
and the master gave le conp de sifflet, the cry with which 
he whs accustomed to call his dog. The latter recognizing 
the sound, and evidently recalled to his duty, bounded out of 
doors and in a few minutes was home. What possibilities 
this opens up to some of the owners of the "high-class" dogs, 
the modus operandi of which will instantly occur to any 
one endowed with a little active imagination. 
The Wankie Kennels will have a team of "Scotties" at 
Toronto show under the care of Mr. James E. Green, the 
manager. Messrs. Henry Brooks and Ames will also visit 
the show. 
The fall dog shows when held in conjunction with the 
.arge agricultural fairs are always interesting events, and 
especially is this the case with the Toronto show. One 
would be hard to please indeed if he could not be interested 
in the "passiug shows" that the Toronto Fair management 
set before their patrons. Outside of the dog show, for any 
one who is fond of horses and cattle, there is much to be 
seen, for some of the best horse flesh in the country is ex- 
hibited at this important fair, and the scene every afternoon 
and evening in front of the grand stand is probably more 
interesting and varied than at any other fair of this de- 
scription. 
The Englishman's abiding affection for his four-footed 
friends receives another illustration. In Hyde Park, the 
holy of. holies of the London park system, is to be found a 
dog cemetery. It adjoins the park keeper's lodge at Victoria, 
Gate, and contains at present about 80 graves. The cemetery 
appears to be a private speculation of the keeper, who take's 
the fees, provides the headstones, and performs the duties of 
a sexton. The ordinary charge for an interment, is 5 shill ings; 
the monuments, of course, vary. The keeper shows one 
which is said to have cost £o. The Duke of Cambridge has 
two dogs buried there, and he seems to have started this 
public institution. — Boston Transcript. 
The Scottish terrier notes by "Stepping Stone" in the 
Scottish. Fancier will prove interesting to owners of those 
smart little terriers. Scottish terriers are running a race 
with poodles in bidding for popular favor just now, and any 
hints from the "old hands" will no doubtprove useful to our 
breeders who are just entering the game. Speaking of ears, 
such important factors in the smart tout ensemble of a Scot- 
tish terrier, this writer says that some terriers get them up 
so much quicker than others. Worms very often keep them 
down, as he has no doubt they often make fox-terriers prick 
theirs. This is rather a contradictory theory, but there is no 
telling how the presence of these parasites injures a grow- 
ing puppy. He says: "As the nerve of the ear strengthens, 
in the event of the puppy not getting up his ears in the ortho- 
dox manner, do not fail to try for worms. If that is not the 
cause, then the owner must use artificial means to get them 
up. Strong glue, melted and put on the inside of the ear, not 
too near the root, with brown paper, and not too hot to irri- 
tate the animal, is very good. Fold the ear neatly together 
the edges on either side meeting exactly, and hold them in 
position until the glue has got quite hard. Leave this in 
until it wears off of its own accord." He also suggests a 
piece of Allcock's porous plaster as a substitute for glue, as 
the latter does not irritate the dog as much 8s the glue. This 
writer also gives some measurements of prize terriers at vari- 
ous stages of their growth which may prove useful to breed- 
ers as a guide in the way of comparison with their own stock: 
Same Same 
Dog Bitch b ; tch bitch Bitch 
ate at 7 at 9 at 11 at 15 
. . ruos. mos. mos. mos. weeks 
From tip of Dose to inner corner of eye. . . 3 2% 2% 3 2-M 
From said point to occipital bone. 5 434 4% 4% 4 
Round muzzle 7 6 6J4 6U 5U 
Round chest 16 .. .. ]7i| 33 
Round loin 1514 .. i(j J6 13 
Round arm 4U 4}4 4U, 4% 4 
Round skull llj| 11 \\y i a a| gig 
Shoulder to root of tail 12 14 14 15 12J4 
We sympathize sincerely with Mr. N. Q. Pope, president 
of the National Greyhound Club, in the loss he has sustained 
through the death of his wife, which sad event occurred sud- 
denly at Mechanics Falls, N. Y., Aug. 21 Mrs. Pope took a 
great interest in her husband's kennel of greyhounds and 
foxhounds, being thoroughly conversant with the different 
strains and familiar with their pedigrees. 
Mr. J. R. Oughton, owner of theDwight Kennels, Dwight 
111., received, Aug. 20, a Gordon setter bitch from Mr. Robert 
Chapman of Glenboig, Scotland. She is by Heather Dean 
and was bred July 7 to champion Heather Swell, before leav- 
ing Scotland. As Mr. Chapman's Gordons are always trained 
for field work this importation should be a welcome one to 
the Gordon fancy. 
Mr. Chas. Kroeber of Brooklyn asks our aid in giving pub- 
licity to an effort that is being made by Brooklyn dog owners 
to have the licensing and impounding of dogs in that city 
placed in charge of the S. P. C. A. All those who are in 
favor of this are request to send their names and addresses 
to Chas. Kroeber, 767 Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y, Mr. 
Kroeber says: "The system we advocate is the same as that 
in vogue in New York city, the strong points of which are- 
Any dog with a Society license will be allowed to roam un- 
molested; all dog catchers are uniformed, and they and their 
wagons are numbered. We are aware that there are several 
points in the law, such as population, etc., against us, but 
provided we get a good list of names to give us a good back- 
ing, we are promised success by the right parties. The pop- 
ulation clause will be overcome through amendment by the 
Legislature." Brooklyn dog owners have suffered many in- 
dignities during the past years through the brutality and 
recklessness of the dog catchers, and any change ia the 
method of collecting stray dogs in that city, that would prove 
to be humane and lawful, would no doubt be welcomed and 
the movement in question deserves the support of those 
whose dogs are continually in danger from the "grab all" 
tactics of the political dog catcher who does not hpsitate to 
assault the owners so long as he gets the fifty cents for every 
dog he nets. 
closing of the sweepstakes for 1895. This is for puppies born 
hetween Nov. l, 1893 and June 30, 1894 Entries close on 
Nov. 1 to be shown at the New York show of ISftf. The entry 
fee is $5. Mr. Shotwell anticipates a return to his home on 
Hillside avenue, Orange, N. J., by Oct. 1. 
The art of showing dogs, in all that the word implies, has 
almost reached perfection in England, but alongside of this 
fin de siecle smartness there are several very primitive relics 
of an age when theKennel Club was in its swaddling clothes. 
One of these is the ring and post in ground system of "bench- 
ing" at some of the one day shows. But a most reprehensible 
feature still in vogue at some shows, which are almost im- 
portant, such as Chorley, near Manchester, where 172 fox- 
terriers were entered, is that of exhibitors sending in their 
entries without the names of the dogs. It is not necessary 
to point out what a wide door this opens for fraud and the 
running in of "ringers," and the many novice prizes that 
could be won under this slipshod method. 
Mr. Geo Raper has been playing in rather hard luck lately 
if we may use such a term as "playing" in speaking of the 
lively round of showing, judging and reporting this veteran 
keeps up. Purchasing the Irish water spaniel Killanneal, 
said to have been a splendid specimen and a winner wherever 
shown, he had sent him to Chorley (Lancashire) show, but 
when the box was opened Killaneal was found dead, His 
good fox-terrier Raby Reckon also met with a mishap, and 
lameness prevents him from fulfilling his engagements. Mr. 
Raper has other strings to his bow, however, and from all 
reports he can turn to a phenomenally good young bulldog, 
Rustic Phenomenon, which he is showing just now. It is 
said to have an extraordinary large head, well wrinkled.with 
beautiful ears and shoulders, and being but eighteen months 
old only needs time to furnish into a grand specimen. There 
are no bargains to be picked up in this direction or we should 
advise our bulldog breeders to keep an eye on the dog. Mr. 
Raper knows the value of a good bulldog as quickly as any- 
one. 
The Chesterfield Park Kennels, of Maywood, 111., have 
had the misfortune to lose by death their St. Bernard Aris- 
tocracy, a very promising son of the late Aristocrat. 
Rufford Ormonde's progeny is spready apace, a daughter 
of his having been shipped by Spratts Patent to a gentleman 
in New Zealand. 
A new fox-terrier judge has made his debut in England. 
This is Mr. S. J. Stephens, so well known as the owner of 
Stipendiary, Vice Regal et al. Though the critics speak well 
of his work on the whole, he is said to have made a slip at 
Chorley when he let champion Blackrock Radiance go 
without a card. 
Whether wins count or not at Pittsburg the P. A. C.' Ken- 
nel Club may count honors easy, for a Mr. Zinn, of East Liv- 
erpool, Pa., will show a family of dogs that were whelped 
without forelegs. Their propelling power is behind. 
Mr. Ed. Booth, late manager of Col. Ruppert's kennels, 
came up from his Virginia farm last week and stayed over a 
few days before taking steamer to Hull, England, where he 
will stay with the old folks at home till next spring. 
We very much regret to hear of another mysterious case of 
death at the Swiss Mountain Kennels. This time it is the 
rough-coated St. Bernard bitch Harmony, a litter sister to 
the better known Sunray. A week ago she was found dead 
in her kennel when the man made his morning visit to see 
how she and her three puppies were doing. Her appearance 
suggested poisoning and an analysis was made of the con- 
tents of her stomach with the result that arsenic was found. 
Another old landmark in dogdoin has passed away. A few 
weeks since we spoke of old champion Black Prince's rapid de- 
cline and Mr. Wilmerding's intention to accelerate his demise 
rather than let this good old field spaniel linger on. He died 
Aug. 24 Black Prince's honors were won before the Amer- 
can Kennel Club was established and when one win in the 
open qualified for the champion class. His life marked more 
than a decade, but the old dog was game to the last. The 
sight of a gun would rouse him from his cosy nook, and for- 
getting his rheumatism and other ills he would struggle 
along to do his duty in the field. Black Prince was by 
champion Benedict out of Madcap IL, was whelped July 15, 
1881, and during his career had won twenty-four prizes. He 
was bred by Mr. Wilmerding and knew no other master. 
The Hill Hurst Kennels place their new purchases Crib- 
bage and Brittle at stud, the former at $50 and the latter at 
$25. These, with Oakleigh Bruiser, represent the cream of 
wire-hair dogs so far seen in public. They also offer poodle 
and wire-hair fox-terrier puppies for sale; Oak Grove Kennels, 
Irish and English setter pups: W. L. Manderson, bull-terriers, 
beagles, etc.; Geo, W. Lovell, trained pointers and setters 
(Mr. Lovell is a good trainer and his stock can be relied upon)- 
Jackson Kennels, Gordon setter pups; F. G. Tripp, toy bull- 
terriers; W. B. Stafford, pointers and setters in training, 
Redstone Kennels, Irish setters at a bargain. Wants: J a 
well-bred bulldog; H. S. Higgins, thoroughly broken coon 
dog. 
We regret to learn that Mr. J. D Shotwell, secretary-treas- 
urer of the Collie Club, has been compelled by ill health to 
take a prolonged vacation. Mr. Watson, who gave us the in- 
formation, also handed us a letter from Mr. Shotwell dated 
from Sugar Hill, N. H. What a rare place this would be to 
suggest, to Senators as a vacation resort— in which Mr Shot- 
well expresses a wish that collie breeders be notified of the 
Muldoon's Reformed Mastiff. 
"You and I know that you can't teach people the folly of 
their ways," Mr. Muldoon was saying. "Why, dumb brutes 
have more sense about taking care of themselves than men 
Take a horse for instance. If he eats anything that makes 
him sick you can't compel him ever to touch it again. But 
a man will smoke or drink himself ill aud just as soon as he's 
well he'll do it right over. You can't make a brute do that 
There was that big mastiff of mine. You remember him? 
When he was a pup I was bringing him from California and 
I stopped over in St. Louis. I was staying at the Southern, 
and they had there a little room in the back of the desk 
where men could go and sit down aud drink. 
"I was walking past there when some one called to me, 
and I went in and found John McCullough, the actor, a well 
known newspaper man, and a theatrical man, John Norton 
They were all having a glass of wine, and when I went in, in 
answer to their call, the mastiff followed me. He sat down 
on the floor and looked at them. He looked very good- 
natured aud funny. 
"John McCullough took a fancy to him and offered him a 
drink. The dog drank a glass of wine and seemed to like it 
so John ordered a special bottle, and breaking up some 
crackers, poured the wine over them. 
"The mastiff ate every particle of it, and for the rest of 
the night he was a frightfully drunken dog. He went stag- 
gering and falling over everything. The next morning he 
was just as frightfully sick. Well, do you think he ever 
forgot that experience, or was a fool like a man and wanted 
to repeat it? No; to the day of his death when he heard the 
cork drawn from a bottle he would get up, and putting his 
tail between his legs, would get out of the room as fast as 
he could, and if any one offered him a glass of wine it made 
him so mad that he would try to bite. But then men aren't 
like brutes," he concluded, musingly. "I know that, and I 
do love brutes," I said. — J^elly Ely, in the World. 
years of the atrocious conduct of some of the Brooklyn do°-- 
catchers, but dog-catcher Thomas O'Keefe wears the boot 
on the other leg now. The other day this misguided vouug 
man captured a Polish Jew's dog and at once found himself 
surrounded by the Jew's family and a hundred neighbors 
After striking him on the head with a bottle, his horse was 
unhitched from the wagon and the harness cut to shreds 
and while he was trying to defend himself the crowd let the 
dogs out of the cage in his wagon, upset it and then carried 
Keefe to a telegraph pole, tied him fast to it and kept him 
there until the police freed him. Mr. O'Keefe feels injured 
and has resigned. 
The Homing Instinct. 
The account of a dog finding his way to his old home from 
a distance of 20 to 40 miles, although not formerly acquain- 
ted with the road, is nothing very unusual, but when the 
distance reaches some 200 miles the event is worth recording 
The following remarkable journey of a fox-terrier can be 
authenticated : A minister in a southern parish in Dum- 
friesshire got a fox-terrier sent him by rail from a friend 
near Elgin, Morayshire. After being captive a few days, he 
was let loose. No sooner did the dog find himself at liberty 
than he dissapeared; nor could any trace of him be found. 
To the surprise of the Morayshire people, he walked in one 
morning, looking famished, and lay down near the fire, and 
it was some time before he was able to taste food. It trans- 
pired, on exchange of letters, that he had been just seven 
days in traversing the distance, which, as the crow flies, is a 
little short of 200 miles. How he made his way to his old 
home is a mystery, but still an indisputable fact, as much as 
that, he is alive and well there at this moment — Land and 
W ater. 
A writer in the Asian who has been describing some of 
the English kennels for that journal, in an article on bull- 
dogs of the present day, draws attention to the exaggerated 
type of some of the well known champions as follows- "In 
my opinion, the defects of the modern bulldog lie in an 
absurd exaggeration of the ordinary bull points; so much so 
that the dog is practically ruined for aught else than show 
and this is not as it should be. The vocation of the bulldog 
may be gone, but it should nevertheless be bred as if it 
existed. The bulldog is the type of courage and muscular 
strength, no one wants it to be a galloper; hut at the same 
time it should be reasonably active. It should be capable of 
exerting a high rate of speed for a very short distance, even 
if this speed be merely a matter of a, series of springs, while 
at a slow pace, at a walk or jog trot, it should be able to 
travel a considerable distance. As a matter of fact, with its 
attenuated quarters, it is hardly able to make any spring at 
all worthy of the name; and with such quarters and crippled 
elbows, it presents such a poor figure at exercise that a man 
must be a very wretched walker if he be not able to walk a 
show bulldog off its legs. The bulldog Dockleaf, when 
brought into the show rings, flops down at once, and can 
scarcely be induced to stand up for two minutes together 
He did this, to my knowledge, at the Aquarium, and again 
at Manchester, and it was not an easy matter to judge him. 
I should not have been sorry to have seen him dismissed 
from the ring, until his owner could prevail on him to keep 
on his legs and show himself. But, says the bulldog fancier, 
the bulldog should be "pearshaped," and he breeds him 
pear-shaped, until the wretched creature has scarcely any 
power in his hind limbs at all. Bedgebury Lion had nice- 
sized quarters, and stood on his hind legs as a bulldog should 
do, and the fancy said his quarters were defective and not 
lathy enough. Let the shoulders be outside the ribs, by all 
means, but don't let us have them swinging out from the 
body like a door on its hinges, or we cannot help crippling 
the animal for all useful work. I say that we can have im- 
mense width of chest, comparatively narrow quarters, short 
well-roached back, deep brisket, cut up loins and shoulders 
outside of the body, and yet an active, well-made dog, that 
would do all expected of it in the days gone by, when bull 
and bear bailing were in fashion." 
Large Russian Wolfhound Sale. 
One of the most important transfers in the American 
kennel world was consummated last week. Mr. William 
Tulk, Jr., of the Terra Cotta Kennels, who came down from 
Hamilton, Out., on purpose took back with him the 
Marlborough Kennels' whole team of Russian wolfhounds 
composed of Ch. Argoss, Zerry, Princess Irma, Modjeska! 
Odrooski, Daiskie. Riga and two Argoss-Lobedya pups four 
months old. This represents a team of wolfhounds that has 
with one exception, Detroit, landed the kennel prizes 
wherever competed for this spring. Such crack dogs as 
Argoss, Zerry. Princess Irma and Modjeska, are household 
names in this particular fancy and Messrs. Kent and Tulk 
in securing such a team for Canada, mast be congratulated 
upon their enterprise, and we trust that the success of the 
team will be continued. The price paid, as may be sup- 
posed, was a long one but not more than dogs of such merit 
should command. Mr. Huntington will, we believe, devote 
his fancier's energies to some smaller breeds. The Terra 
Cotta team will be benched at Toronto and will meet again 
their old antagonists from the Seacrof t Kennels, with the 
exception of poor old Leekhoi, who met his last Waterloo at 
Louisville. 
faffting mid $-oumi\ij. 
FIXTURES. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Oct. 23 —New England Beagle Club, at Oxford, Mass. W. S. Clark, 
Linden, Mass., Sec'y. Nominations close Oct. 1. 
Oct. 29.— National Beagle Club. Geo. Laick, Tarrytown, N.Y.. Sec'y. 
, r Nov - 5- -Brunswick Fur Club - Bradford S. Turpin, Dorchester, 
Mass., Sec'y. ' 
Nov. 7.— Northwestern Beagle Club. Louis Steffen. Milwaukee, 
Wis., Sec'y. ' 
COURSING 
Oct. 1.— American Coursing Club's meetingat Huron, S. D. L. Zuta- 
verne, secretary. E. H. Mulcaster, judge. 
Oct. 8— North Dakota Coursing Club, at Oakes, N. D. A. P. Slocum, 
secretary. E H. Mulcaster, judge. 
Oct. 16.— Kenmore Club's annual meeting at Goodland. Kan. C. F 
Weber, secretary. E H. Mulcaster, judge. R. Taylor, slipper. 
Oct. 23.— Western Kansas Coursing Club's meeting at Leoti, Kan. 
W. O. Allphin, secretary. E. H. Mulcaster. judge. R, Taylor, slipper. 
Oct, 30.— Cheyenne Coursing Club, at Great Bend, Kan. Ira D. 
Brougher, Sec'y. 
Nov. 6.— Altcar Coursing Club's autumn meeting at Holyoke, Col. 
S. W. Vidler, secretary. E. H. Mulcaster, judge. R. Taylor, slipper. 
Nov. 14.— California State meeting at Merced, Cal. J. R. Dickson, 
secretary. 
There is one dog catcher in Brooklyn who does not care how 
soon that city follows New York's example in the collection 
of stray dogs. There have been many complaints in past 
A Run with the Awashonk Beagles. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
After receiving our three representatives from the New 
England Kennel Club dog show, last April, we thought a 
little run would do them good and help to limber up their 
stiff joints, so concluded to take them out the next morning 
and see if we could get "Mr. Rabbit" on his feet. I woke up 
about 5:30 A. M. and found the morning rather misty, but it 
soon showed signs of clearing, and when I opened my door 
in response to a knock I found my friend Frank all ready to 
start. We soon got a pack of beagles together composed 
