FOREST AND STREAM. 
Jan. 5, 1895,] 
DOG CHAT, 
Uji Friday last, during the Lexow police investigation, Capt. 
Schmittberger testified that lie did not owe his promotion 
eituer to money payments or political pulls, but to the lact that 
lie lound Commissioner Wheeler's lose dog. Another proof 
that the dog is man's best friend after all. 
The Pacific Fox-Terrier Club, at a meeting held Dec. 14, con- 
dered the question of holding a fox-terrier, show in eonuee- 
on with the Poultry Show to be field in ban Francisco Jan. 3, 
sy5. Why not wait uu til the regular dog stiow in May? Dog 
shows and chicken conventions never mix well. 
Mr. H.H. Hunnewell, Jr., owner of tlie Hill Hurst Kennels, has 
made an addition lo liis already spacious kennels by budding a 
winter kennei. This is 36ft. by yft., divided into eight compart- 
ments, with room for stove. These compartments lead to a 
piazza of the same dimensions with a separate runway. This 
arrangement provides warm quarters for winter puppies, and 
dry, sheltered exercising grounds, thus giving tiie youngsters a 
good start in life at the most unseasonabfe period of the year. 
At a meeting of the Boston Terrier Club held Dec. 20 at 
Young's Hotel, Boston, Messrs. H. N. Biehards, C. P. Clarksdn, 
T. C. Hollander and T. VV. Thomdike were elected to member- 
ship, bringing tiie number of the same up to thirty-five. A 
change was made in the by-laws raising the initiation from $2 to 
$5, and the annual dues from $6 to $10. Porty dollars were then 
appropriated for specials at the W. K. C.'s coming show, and the 
same amount lor specials at the Maseoutah Club s show. Mr. C. 
P. Lelaud of New York city was appointed the ciub's delegate to 
the A. K. C, and a committee of three were appointed by the 
ehair to submit nominations for next year's officers. The club 
then adjourned until the annual meeting m January. 
We have received a very good picture of Mr. Geo. Douglas's 
young cocker bitch Woodland JtTTneess (Woodland Prince — 
vVoodiand Jude), that won first in puppy class at Toronto show, 
1894. Mr. Douglas avers she is the best bitch ne has ever bred, 
and that is praise indeed, wnen we remember the kind of 
cockers that have eome from the Woodstock kennels. Wood- 
and Princess will be Bhown at New York, for we can assure 
Mr. Douglas that there will be no guesssmg, though we are not 
at liberty to give the judge's name. 
Kent Elgin, the noted pointer, has been bitten by a mad dog, 
and will probably be sent to the Pasteur Institute in New York. 
The paintings and sketches left by the late J. M. Tracy will 
be sold at auction at the American Art Association, New Jtork, 
during the W. K. C. show. In the current issue of the Quarterly 
Illustrator there is an interesting article "With Horses and 
Dogs" by Miss Marguerite Tracy. In this we are told how her 
ather became an animal painter. The text is liberally inter- 
spersed with original illustrations of his works by Mr. Tracy 
—such as ''(Southern Pield Trials," English setter "Dashing 
Monarch," "The Enemy in the Camp," a sketch of the Meadow- 
brook Hunt, Irish water spaniel "Grip," together with a number 
of pictures of noten horses. In speaking of the trouble in 
making dogs pose for their portraits, Miss Tracy says: "The 
contrivances for keeping the model quiet and inspiring the 
needed expression were as numerous as ingenuity could sug- 
gest, for the amount of persuasion that is required to mate 
some dogs pose is past belief. My father always had a man 
who held them, petted them, tempted them fnto the desired 
position with bits of meat. In extreme cases the whole house- 
hold was called on to assist, and it, must be confessed that some 
of the most perfect "points" of champion dogs have been made 
not at quail but at cats." The writer gives the pointer a bad 
character when she says: "The thoroughbred pointer is a 
thief. This is such an important characteris vie that it ib really 
hard to understand wfiy it is not down in "Stonehenge," the 
great English authority on dogs. At one time and another 
almost all tho famous dogs have sneaked into our kitchen while 
the servants' backs were turned, and custards, cakes and legs 
of mutton disappeared. No one ready objected except the cook, 
who accused me of aiding and abetting them, and I remember a 
company dinner that passed oft' pleasantly m spite of the fact 
that ofd Tammany had embezzled one course." 
There are rumors of dark horses to come out at the VV. K. C. 
show, but a tit. Bernard that we hear of out Platbush way should 
make a sensation. Eleven months old and weighing 198lbs., 
but "its head is too large lor its body," so our intorniant told us. 
The sire is Eboracum and the dam Huddersneld Belle, an 
imported bitch. 
Mr. B. Leslie, of Lynn, Mass., has sold his pointer Kentwood 
(26556), by eft. Xing of Kent ex cn. Belle Bandolph, to Mr. War- 
ren E. Poote, Newton Centre, Mass. Kentwood is two and a half 
years old, and was trained by Mr. B. C. Miller, Little Boeki Ark. 
The judges for the Westminster Kennel Club show are as fol- 
lows: 
St. Bernards, Newfoundlands and pugs, Miss A. H. Whit- 
ney, Lancaster, Mass.; mastiffs, great Danes, Bussiau wolf- 
hounds, greyhounds, poodres, all terriers, except fox terriers, 
basset houhds, dachshunds, whippets, Italian greyhounds, schip- 
perkes, toy spaniels and miscellaneous classes, Mr. James Tay- 
lor, of the English block- Keeper ; bloodhounds, deerhounds, fox- 
hounds, setters, Chesapeake Bay dogs and English retrievers, 
Mr. John Davidson, Monroe, Mich. ; pointers, Mr. Charles Heath, 
Newark, N. J.; spaniels (except toys), Mr. E. M. Oldham, New 
York; collies, Dr. L. C. Sauveur, Chestnut Hill, Pa. ; bull dogs, 
Mr. John H. Matthews, New York; fox-terriers and Old English 
sheep dogs, Mr. B. P. MayheWi New York; beagles, Mr. Joe 
Lewis, Moodus, Conn. ; Boston terriers. Mr. C. P. Lelaud, New 
York. 
On Christmas Day the members of the Westminster Kennel 
Club had a royal time at their club house, near Babylon, L. 1. 
Pigeon shooting Was followed by a dinner in the club house. 
The feature of the day, however, was the presentation oi a hand- 
some silver-mounted orange wood cane to James G-. K. Duel*, 
the president of the club, by George De Forest Grant, in appre- 
ciation of Mr. Duer's long and faithful services to the tslub. 
Mrs. Smyth is still improving, and her many friends will be 
pleased to hear that tier removal from the hospital was accom- 
plished in safety, and she is now enjoying the care and atten- 
tion that only a home can offer. 
With the advent of a new year landers' thoughts turn to the 
spring shows and the W. K. C. show in particular. The coming 
champions are weighed in the balance of their owners' judg- 
ment, the seasoned winners are looked over with a view to pre- 
paration for another circuit, and, in ease the kennel is a large 
one, the teams ^re selected that are to do battle for the kennel 
prizes. The careful and far-seeing kennel manager should now 
examine his show dogs carefully as to the state of their gen- 
eral health and lor any signs of worms or skin diseases, the 
main stumbling blocks which he has to contend with in bring- 
ing them to that fine condition which all dogs should show when 
put on the bench. A few weeks of general preparation now are 
worth much more than a hurried stuffing and conditioning a 
week or two before the show. Intestinal parasites should 
be sent to the right about, thin dogs put on a more liberal diet, 
and the dogs which have spent a lazy winter and which may 
have a consequent accumulation of adipose matter, should be 
exercised gently- at first. The main points the exhibitor should 
bear in mind in conditioning his dogs for a show are to create a 
natural hunger with judicious exercising, avoid drugs, loosen 
the dogs' bowels by a liberal course of vegetables mixed with 
other foods rather than by physicking, and regular meals and 
dally grooming with brushes adapted to the dog's coat. Large 
dogs should bo walked every day, terriers and other small dogs, 
which are oiten kept wnere the owner has little convenience for 
exercising, may bo tuned up into good hard flesh by retrieving 
a bail, and no better method of exercising every musole in a ter- 
rier can be found than in attaching a ball or stout piece of can- 
vas to the end of a string attached to a stiff fishing rod or light 
pole ; by jerking this about in front of your terrier for ten min- 
utes, morning and night, you will soon put him in shape and 
afford endless amusement to owner and dog, with little exertion 
on the iormer's part. Many ot our large breeds, mastitis and 
at. Bernards especially, are often shown with thighs as flat as a 
board, but daily walking exercise would soon fill out the mus- 
cles and produce the rounded full appearance they should have. 
The eareiul owner will study the dog's health, and by providing 
clean, dry quarters, free irom draughts, judicious exercise, 
plenty of " elbow grease " for the coat, and a variety in feeding, 
the burden of conditioning his dbgs for the bench will not be a 
difficult one. As a general diet eggs beaten up in new milk for 
the morning meal and dry biscuits, varied with weil-builed mut- 
ton or beef and vegetables, mixed with stale bread, rice or oat- 
meal, will afford a scope of dietary measures that should bring 
any dog not actually sick into proper condition for Bhow pur- 
poses. 
W. E. Warner, manager of Mr. George J. Gould's kennels, is 
still strengthenin g his team ot pointers, the latest purchase being 
Marguerite Kent, by King of Keni, from Mr. P. W. Shaw, owner 
of the Canadian Pointer Kennels, Porest, Ont. This bitch ran 
well in the field trials. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
[From a Staff Correspondent.] 
The sportsmen throughout the country will regret the death 
of Mr. N. D. Wallace, of New Orleans. He died during the past 
summer. Pield trial competitors and supporters will remember 
that he was promiaently connected with tne Southern field trials 
held during the early 80's. If my memory serves me correctly 
he was at one time president of that club. He acted also in the 
capacity of judge at Canton, Miss., when the Southern trials 
were held there. He was a most amiable sportsman and gentle- 
man and had many friends. 
A TIP. 
Prom a local paper I take the lollowing, which may be valuable 
or not, in determining the dog's manner of communication: 
"According to the London Dispatch, Dr. Louis Bobinson, of 
that city, who has been investigating the mysteries oi canine 
language, has practically set up the theory that a dog speaks 
with his tail tip. There i8 certainly a deal of expression in the 
wag of a dog's tail, and Dr. Bobinson, says the Philadelphia 
Record, must be credited with having given a novel and interest- 
ing tip to that portion of the scientific world which devotes itself 
to philology." 
Still, in some manner inexplicable with the theory, boblailed 
dogs manage to communicate quite as well as the long-sailed 
ones, and all dogs manage to communicate in the dark when 
their tails can not be i=een. I am disposed to think that the 
learned Dr. Bobinson, notwithstanding that the family is wide 
and of long standing, has been playing horse with the press of 
London and elsewhere. 
Mr. Norvin T. Harris, who is famous both as an admirer and 
owner of well bred horses and dogs, contemplated spending the 
winter in New Orleans alter Dec. 20, but I was told that it was 
possible that he might change his plans and not come here, or 
at least not till much later than he originally contemplated. 
The breeder of a good dog is entitled to no small share of the 
credit which comes irom the dog's successful competition and 
good performance. In this connection, it may not be amiss to 
mention that Mr. J. M. Freeman, or Bicknell, Ind., was the 
breeder of Mr. P. T. Madison's famous dog Bodtield. Mr. Free- 
man does not make much huilabaLoo in the papers, but he is one 
of the men who are reliably present when the trials come off, 
and he is a supporter of field trials. 
In the Times- Democrat of Dec. 22 I note the following: "An 
appeal ease was filed in the Civil District Court yesterday from 
the First City Court by Col. J. C. Wickiiffe against the Bed Biver 
Line. The petitioner, Col. Wickiiffe, claims that he sent his dog 
by freight on the steamboat Haltette ot the Bed Biver Line and 
those in charge carelessly put the dog in the engine room, where 
he was killed by the machinery. Col. Wickiiffe valued the dog 
at $100, which amount he sues for. He says the dog is not only 
valuable as an animal but as a watch dog, and that on one occa- 
sion the dog saved the life of one of his children. The dog was 
killed some t.me ago." 
The most difficult part of litigation is, generally speaking, to 
prove that the dog is worth anything at all. I think that it Col. 
Wickiiffe were to write to Mr. J. M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn., 
ho could get valuable information in respect to precedents and 
the rulings in suits for damages of a similar nature, as I was 
told that he had collected a large mass of evidence for use in 
his own suit which he won some time ago. B. Watebs. 
New Oei.eans, La. 
ntfting mid §aw[Bir(g. 
Shall it be Speed or Nose? 
JSdiior Forest and Siream: 
I have read the Forest and Stream for a long term of years, 
and I nave not taken much ol your valuable space in a contro- 
versy with the beagle men, but in an issue of your paper of Dec. 
15 in a communication of Mr. Buckstaffs in "Shall it be Speed 
or' Nose?" he struck me in a tender spot when he says, accord- 
ing to all reports, his Boyal Bover beat my Nell B. and did it 
easily. Now, I wish to say to Mr. Buskstaff, that the reports 
say no such thing, and further, that Boyal Bover cannot beat 
Nell B. for speed, nose or any othei hunting quality, for fun or 
money. "Bradley," in his report to the Foeest and Stream, 
says:' "Bover f.rrly outworked Nell, as she acted as though 
she was tired." This I admit in part. They ran the day before 
over two hours togetner. No part of the heat was satisfactorily 
seen by the judges and the dogs w T ere ordered up. The next 
morning they were put down again and a few minutes after Mr. 
Chapman kicked out a rabbit. Bover was put on the trail 
immediately, and the rabbit at once left the brush and went into 
a mowed field and took nearly a straight line lor a garden. 
Nell at the time the rabbit was started was a number of rods 
away from Bover and did not know that he had a rabbit run- 
ning until 1 called her out of the brush; She then had to make 
up some twentv rods before she could get in with Bover and, I 
think, did not get. ahead of him. The rabbit was soon lost in 
the garden. What dog found the trail, drove the rabbit into the 
rails and marked him, and was ordered to be caught by the 
judges as she was trying to work into the rails after her game? 
are the questions that I wish to ask Mr. Buckstaff, and I ven- 
ture to say that if he will take the trouble to inform himself he 
will find that it was Nell B., and also, that the rabbit might have 
been in the garden now for all Bover did toward driving him 
out. Was t nere anything about that heat upon wbieh Mr. Buck- 
staff can claim that Bover beat Nell so easily? 
When the notice was given out of the dogs that were to be left 
in for the second series I was satisfied to find that Nell had been 
left out. I well knew that she could not get into the money, for 
I had not seen anything done by her or Bover that would entitle 
either of them to run again. Nell being only a little over one 
year old, and having to run in the Derby the next day, had a 
chance to rest up, and, I think, her heat with Lucy in the Derby 
was the fastest and truest heat of the enure trials, and if Bover 
had run against her that day it would have been ' poor Hover." 
Now, in the neat between UueksixH and Bover, Mr. Buckstaff 
says: "Alter a hot heat it was decided ihat Bover had the best 
nose, but Buckshot was too last for him." Not any, please, Mr. 
.Buckstaff, no such decision was given out by the judges, for the 
facts of the case are that Bover never led Buckshot, except for 
some few rods when he was nrst put on the rabbit, lu the 
report of Foeest and Steeam, written by Mr. Turpm, one of the 
judges, and he came very near having seen ail the work done by 
the dogs that was possible for him to see, he says. "Worked 
into a grass field. Both began to trail, .Buck in advance until 
Buck started his rabbit." Whose nose did this piece oi worx 1 
would like to ask Mr. Bueksiafi? I think the judges, handlers 
and spectators will all remember that drive up to the hedge row. 
The next raunit was soon lost after being started by Bover. The 
next work done was on a trail lound by Buckshot and I called 
judge Lewis's attention to the dog, and told him to let him work 
and he would start the rabbit, and he did so. Beport in Foeest 
and Steeam says, "Buckshot leading the way and catching most 
of the turns." 1 would fike tcrask Mr. Buckstaff' if he can see 
anything in that heat that any judge should say that Bover had 
the best nose. I guess not. 1 do not own Buckshot to-day, but 
the beagle that has got a better nose than he has does not spell 
his name Boyal Bover. Buckshot beat Boyal Bover at both 
Oxford and riempstead under four different" judges. If Boyal 
Bover was sent East as an object lesson for the benefit of the 
Eastern beagle men 1 thiuk he was a failure, if Mr. Buckstaff 
had sent such a dog as Dime, Buck, Nell or Lucy we should have 
had something that was able to win, with nose and speed com- 
bined. 
In regard to the judges' decision, any one who has ever 
attended a trial where Messrs. Lewis and Turpin have been 
judges will see how close they try to keep up and how careful 
they are to place the dogs right, will never kick if his dogs do 
not get into tho money. 
About a year ago Mr. Buckstaff had an article on speed against 
noBe and wished to hear from the beagle men. I will answer 
him now. I want a beagle that is fast, ,-tnd the faster the better, 
with a nose equal to his speed, and that on a loss will swing and 
swing at tiie top of his speed until he strikes the trail again; 
built to stand as many days' hard work as 1 wish to hunt, a good 
barker, good starter and a stayer. This is the kind of a beagle 1 
have been trying to breed for the last nlteen years. I have not 
beeu going down the beagle ladder, but climbing up and trying 
to make the dogs that beat mine climb, and when those dogs get 
through a trial against my dogs they will not leave that field 
saying that they nave beaten them "easily." If Mr. Buckstaff 
had not used the woid ' easily" I don't thinit I should have 
answered his article, but 1 could not quite stand that. In 
regard to those long-iegged, quaint, terrier- looking beagles will 
say they must nearly all have been West, as I did not see auy at 
the New England or National Beagle Club trials. I have yet to 
learn why a fast, true-runumg beagle is a hnudicap lor a hunt- 
ing beagie ; 1 am sure on our large rabbit they are the kind we 
must nave. It is no sport lor me to shoot a rabbit sitting still 
or just crawling along in front of a slow beagle, simply because 
the dog has not nose and speed enough to drive him into a run. 
Did any beagle man ever see a fast, true-running beagie that did 
not have a good nose? Thanking you for the space this letter 
will take, I will step down, but not out, for 1 have a few beagles 
to run next fa.'f, just to keep the judges from catching cold. 
Geoe(je P. Beed. 
Babton, Vt., Dec. 21. . 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I like to read, in your paper, the views of others regarding 
beagles and their hunting qualities, in regard to the letter on 
speed and nose, I fully agree with Mr. Buokstafi that nose is the 
desirable quality in the beagie for this game. I have hunted a 
great deal after cottontails with beagles, in fact, have been 
thanked by farmers lor hunting them where they were a pest 
(but that time is past ). If you hunt with a very last dog and put 
up an old rabbit where there is not much cover, away he goes, 
driven by your fast dog. With the slower dog, and of good 
nose, the rabbit will hide aud dodge around, and in all prob- 
ability you will soon have him. In proof 1 will relate what I 
saw on a hunt. My dog had been running a rabbit, but the dog 
was a long distance off, but still working out the trail. 1 saw 
the rabbit squat, ao I watched his actions. He cleaned his 
head with his rorepaws, then he brushed and cleaned his 
whiskers with his forelegs, all the while sitting on his haunches. 
But as the dog came nearer he squatted low and soon started. 
He seemed to be playing hide and seek. I did not shoot that 
rabbit. 
Now, in regard to nose. Ona time I had my beagles taken. five 
miles through a strange district, in a wagon to the hunting 
grounds. In hunting we lost one dog in the woods, and when 
ready to go home we found the other dog was missing. One dog 
arrived home about 3 P. M., the other about 8 P. M. Their only 
chance to find home was by folio wing the smell of the horses' 
hoofs. Another example. 1 had taken my dogs to an Illinois 
village ; they had never been there before, were tresh and wanted 
a hunt. After hunting all day, about dark I heard them giving 
tongue in a large field of tall weeds, aud they drove four rabbits 
past me. I shot two, although it was too dark to shoot properly , 
but the dons would not eome in. I was about three miles from 
home and was afraid I would lose my dogs, but concluded to 
give them a test. I had rubber boots on, and following the path 
from the field into the main road, I walked the three miles, in 
the center of the road, to my lodgings. I was much concerned 
about my dogs, but about 9 P. M. 1 heard a whimper at the door 
and opening it found one of my beagles. Shortly after I heard 
another wbimper and the other beagle was on the doorstep. Do 
you wonder that the hunter loves his hounds — what but good 
nose would have brought those dogs home? John Bateman. 
Deo. 14. 
HUNTING AND COURSING NOTES. 
The London (Out.) Hunt Club is usually represented by one or 
two couples of good English hounds at the Toronto buows, and 
a little news in regard to this well-known hunt-club may not be 
amiss while Jack Frost holds the country in his hard embrace 
and horses and hounds are eating their heads off in their warm 
quarters at "Glenmore." An interesting account of the club's 
organization appears in the London (Ont.) Daily Free Press of 
Dec. 22, and is embellished with numerous pictures of the lead- 
ing members, the club quarters and the pack. There is also a 
capital picture ol a fox, but this is purely theoretical, as un- 
fonuuately these hounds are compel, ed to follow the tame but 
strong-smelling anise seed bag. The club was organized in 1885 
Witb a membership of twenty-five; this number has so increased 
until the club now counts 188 names on its roster. Five year» 
ago the club leased a beaui it nl old country place called "Glen- 
more," situated not far from London, and here are the head- 
quarters of the Hunt. There is stabling for thirty horses, and 
the well appointed kennels accommodate fifteen couple of 
hounds. W r e note with pleasure that our friend Dr. J. S. Niven, 
president of the Canadian Kennel Club, who has been such a 
good fancier for years back, his name being a household word 
in cocker and Irish terrier circles, has almost from the first been 
high up in the club's official list. In 1887-88 he was second vice- 
president and afterward first vice-president for three years. In 
the season of 1889-90 he was elected M. P. H., and this argues 
that he must be familiar with the saddle and a straight rider, 
for though drag hunting lacks the exciting element of sport that 
sly reynard furnishes, still a drag is no mean substitute, and 
nerve and a good seat are required in those who wish to see the 
finish of a ten-mile burst. Some of the highest junipers in the 
World received their schooling over the "Glenmore" fences — 
Bosemary, Bismark, Maud, Glenmore, Gatling, Bosebud, Dex- 
ter etc. " Bosemarv, who is now dead, it will be remembered, 
held the world's record of 7ft. l^iu. made at Chicago in 1890. 
* * * 
On Dec. 26 the sport-loving inhabitants of Westchester, Pa», 
enjoyed an hour's run alter a bagged gray fox. The event had 
been prepared for during the past month and there were nearly 
