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him, maybe kick him because he was so hard to catch. 
Read human history, and say whether any animal in the 
kingdom is so faithless to his kind as man. The adage 
goes, 'All things are fair in love and war.' The same rule 
largely applies in business. The very man who makes 
the loudest professions of friendship is the one to watch, 
lest he may 'hug you hard, that he may after scandal 
you.' I do not write this as a pessimist. The side of a 
man's faithfulness I know; but if you pronounce against 
the lower animals because of their faithlessness in my 
case, man must go, too. This is the point that I make 
here. Second, there are other intelligences than those 
which make an animal attractive to man. Even the 
clam learns from experience when to close and when to 
open its shell. Then there must be whole worlds of in- 
telligence which come not within the sphere of man's 
cognizance. We only get hints of what is without and 
of what is within through the telescope and microscope." 
From the inferential to the material, the author makes 
his points as follows: 
"Passing from the general to the specific, physically man 
is a beast, and a beast is a man. The same bones and 
nerves and muscles enter into the composition of your 
horse or your dog that enter into your composition. He 
has the same organs. With some difference in detail, 
he is built on the same plan. We must not be too proud. 
The hog is more nearly man physically than any other 
animal. The difference in detail is the result of the dif- 
ference in relationships of correlation. * * * Between 
man and his dog, or his horse, or his bird, physically, 
the difference is not in element, but in arrangement of 
elements." 
As to the scope of his effort, the author states that in 
the treatise he proposes to — 
"(1) Call attention to the fact that man possesses the 
physical faculties in common with the beast. 
"(3) To tacitly, or more openly, insist that if their exer- 
cise makes the beast of the earth simply earthy, they do 
the same for man. 
"(3) To attempt to show that in a degree the lower 
animal has the intellectual, moral and spiritual faculties 
in common with man; and 
"(4) To try to discover whether there is any argument 
in favor of man's immortality which may not give, us a 
hope for a future for our more humble brethren who can 
not speak for themselves. 
"All chiefly in the hope that I may slightly lessen the 
sum of mundane misery by lessening the number of 
thoughtless strokes and kicks and cuffs to the dumb, and 
open up to human vision new empires of God's love." 
The reverend author then dwells most forcibly and in- 
terestingly on traits common to all immortals: The fear 
of death, courage, "a glimpse of the future through the 
stomach," the desire to possess, secretiveness, forethought, 
"what otherB think," self-esteem, firmness, amativeness, 
grief, friendship, love of home, continuity, individualiza- 
tion; perception of forms, size, weight, color, order, num- 
bers, locality; individuality, memory, time, tune, convey- 
ance of ideas, cause and effect, recognition of character, 
agreeableness, the reflectives and immortality, ideality, 
imitation, mirthfulness, conscience, hope, spirituality, 
veneration and benevolence. 
To appreciate the work in its full broadness and kind- 
liness, it must be read in full, and the least that any 
reader can gain from it is a better appreciation of the true 
value of all animals and an admiration for the author who 
writes of them so interestingly, courageously and intelli- 
gently. 
DEATH OF A MOHAWK FOX. 
Syracuse, N. Y.— Editor Forest and Stream: I notice 
that the columns of the Forest and Stream have some- 
thing every week about all kinds of hunting. I find but 
little in regard to fox hunting, a sport I admire more than 
all others. I see in the issue of Jan. 5 how the foxes in 
the Mohawk Valley are committing many burglaries and 
bow the correspondent says the boys are going to make 
the fur fly. How many times I have made the same resolu- 
tion, and alas! how many times it has been broken. Of 
all the game that is hunted "Mr. Fox" (allow me to call 
him Mr., for he is worthy of that title) is the most cun- 
ning and shows more generalship than all others com- 
bined. I had been told several times of a large fox that 
had been committing bold burglaries on the farms. 
Several attempts had been made to bring him to justice, 
but had been unsuccessful. I have a dog that has grown 
old in the art of fox hunting, which I think is as good a 
foxhound as can be produced. 
I went out one night last week to where the fox had 
committed his depredations, passed a very pleasant even- 
ing with a, farmer and his family, and retired about 11 
o'clock, and was soon asleep. About 5 A. M. I heard 
the dog moving around, and I tried to make him lie 
down; he would be still for a few moments, but would 
get up again. Thinking he must be sick, I got up and 
Jet him out; the moment I opened the door he went out. 
As the house set back about three or four rods from the 
road and his long black nose went up into the air, I knew 
in an instant what it meant. I called to him to come 
back, as it was not yet daylight, but he had got a good 
scent in the wind and commanding and coaxing were in 
vain. He turned his head around, and with his eyes 
snapping said as plainly as a dog could say, "Come on;" 
then turning his head, he made a few jumps and was 
over the fence, and away he went toward a large hill a mile 
away. I could see him as he crossed the lot, as the moon 
was bright and there was not a cloud. In a few minutes 
he gained the top of the hill, up in the air that nose went 
again, and I heard the challenge sent out, long and clear 
as a bugle cry. I instantly turned and made for my 
room. Quickly getting my gun, I went quietly out. I 
could just hear his voice as it came floating back on the 
still morning air till he went out of hearing. Back of 
"the corners," as it was called, was a long hill where the 
foxes used to cross. I hurried as fast as possible, wishing 
to get there so as to get a shot if he should cross, and I 
had gone about half way when I heard him coming back. 
When I saw the fox on the hill where the dog first struck 
the track, he looked around for a minute and then started 
and took the road, and ran by the house I had just left. 
I watched him a few moments, and then hurried to the 
top of the hiLl. I could see him coming through the lots 
and was satisfied he would cross the hill I was on, as he 
had made a circle around "the corners." Back of the 
house .he turned and came straight toward me, with the 
dog about a quarter of a mile behind. He came along till 
he was about twenty rods away, stopped short, wheeled 
to the right, and went like a flash below me on the other 
side of the hill. His nose had saved him. The dog ap- 
peared to be gaining on him fast, and back they went to 
the hill where I first saw him, The dog was gaining fast 
as the fox came over the hill, and the dog got his eye on 
him and then the race began. They came down the hill 
at a rate of speed that would ruin the fast time of the 
Empire State Express. When the fox reached the road 
he turned and came straight for the hill where I stood; 
the bills were about half a mile apart and a little up grade. 
I could see him straighten himself out, and he looked like 
a red streak; he was doing his best, but it wf s of no use. 
The old campaigner had met his match at last. Pilot was 
gaining every jump, until at last I could see his neck begin 
to stretch out and his mouth would open and close for the 
white spot on the end of that bushy tail. It was soon 
over- — he got a little closer, and the race was finished. I 
hurried down the hill, picked up the fox, and got back to 
the house at half-past 8. For once my resolution had been 
kept. S. 
The Foxhound. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The foxhound is my favorite dog. Since my early youth I 
have owned and followed hounds, and to me there is nothing 
so sweet as the excited cry of the hound when nearing the 
quarry. 
When one has spent two decades in the study of one sub- 
ject, the experience and opinion of the student and observer 
should be worth something. 
The first hunting I ever did was with a pack of leather- 
eared, dew-clawed hounds. We hunted gray foxes, and 
these hounds would cry a track eight hours old, and gallop 
and give tongue freely on a trail that the modern hound 
would not notice. They would smell on a chunk or bush, 
turn around and open four or five times in the same place. 
These blue ticked hounds seldom failed to jump a fox that 
they could trail. And what music when the fox was up, for 
two of those hounds would give as much tongue as ten of 
the modern hounds. You could sit on your horse and listen. 
There was no need to dash over fences and gullies, for they 
would run an hour and scarcely get out of hearing. 
If we had good luck we would catch the fox in four or five 
hours. Sometimes a little gray would run all day and then 
give them the dodge. These hounds never appeared to grow 
tired. They had a steady gallop from which they would 
never vary. They were fine dogs to drive a deer through a 
stand. 
Then the red fox took possession of the gray's grounds and 
we soon discovered that our hounds were not fast enough, 
even to warm up the reds. 
They all made good coon hounds, so we gave them away 
and purchased hounds that were fast and game enough to 
catch the red fox; at least, that was what the man wrote 
from whom we bought the hounds. They did not do it, 
however. We got rid of those hounds, retaining only one or 
two. We continued to buy and kill out until at last we got 
a fair pack, which we have been steadily improving ever 
since, until we can now catch any red fox in open country. 
The red foxhound should be a good, steady hunter, going 
in a fast *trot or slow gallop. He should not dash helter- 
skelter, but hunt with judgment. 
A hunting pack is always a game pack. 
When a trail is cried the pack should be gotten together as 
quickly as possible, and the hounds should all work indus- 
triously. 
They should give but little tongue on a red fox trail, as a 
much closer jump can be obtained thereby, and a good jump 
is always desirable. I have seen hounds work a running 
trail all day on account of too much yelling and tongue at 
the first strike. 
A running trail is much harder on a pack than a race for 
the same time, and it is imperative that a pack have good 
trailers — the more the better. 
The red foxhound should be keenly built, well muscled, 
have a straight hindleg and be of medium size — a large 
hound can go up hill fast, but a small hound can go down 
hill the faster. 
A pack should be of as nearly the same speed as possible — 
have no leader, he is an abomination and will ruin any pack. 
When a hound strikes off the scent he should remain ahead 
until another leads, and so on. 
A red foxhound should always dash or circle to the front, 
for a single minute lost means a quarter of a mile for the 
fox. A red fox never stops until the chase is ended, but a 
gray fox will lie down in a brier patch within 20yds. of the 
hounds. 
A pack to be successful fox killers should be fast and 
game to the core, and never let up for a moment during the 
chase. 
Never do much encouraging harking to your pack, for 
they will get so after a while that they will not run as well 
away from the sound of your voice as when you are near 
them. When your pack lose the trail near or at the edge 
of a burnt woods or field, always "lift" them; riderapidly to 
where you think the fox has passed on the opposite side and 
yell, "Hark here! hark here!" or anything to get them to 
follow you. Many a good pack has been ruined by an indif- 
ferent huntsman. Did you ever notice anything peculiar 
about the laying of scent ? 
When the earth is enrobed with fog you are sure to have a 
good chase if you succeed in starting a fox. Other days, 
when you see smoke settling in long blue streaks, you may 
just as well go home, for though you may start a fox you 
will probably abuse your hounds for their inferior work; but 
the scent does not lie well on such days. 
My favorite time to hunt is in September and October, 
There is no animal that affords man so much pleasure to 
chase as the young red fox. They take circles of two, three 
or perhaps four or five miles, always returning to where the 
jump was made, and thus affording-ample opportunities for 
the puppies to get in. 
I always leave home in the morning in time to get to the 
hunting grounds by daylight, for to me it seems out of place 
to chase a fox in the afternoon. 
The red foxhound should not have too cold a nose, for that 
will make him linger on a trail and blow all day under the 
shade of a tree. I once knew a hound that had a very poor 
nose, and when* the fox was first started she would run at 
the rear of the pack; but when they gained on the fox, she 
would go nearer to the front, and when the fox was caught 
she was the first hound to put mouth on it. 
The voice preferred by hunters differs according to individ- 
ual taste. I prefer a clear, bell-like note when trailing, which 
becomes much shorter and sharper when running. 
Which is the best strain of foxhounds? That is a very 
difficult question to answer. There are a number of strains 
that are very fine, aud a number of strains that are said to 
be fine that are not fit for scavengers. There is but one way 
to tell and test the superiority of thefoxhound, and that way 
is after the fox, and not on the bench. 
Within the past ten years thousands of dollars have been 
spent on new strains. Some have made satisfactory pur- 
chases and others equally the opposite. 
Were I able and wanted the best, 1 would make a tour of 
the United States (for I believe the best hounds in the world 
are in this country), take my hounds with me, visit every 
pack, and when I found hounds superior to mine sell out and 
buy them, and continue to visit packs and purchase hounds 
until I was satisfied that I had hounds that could not be im- 
proved upon. I would not look at them alone but hunt a 
week at a time. We all know that hounds of the most ordi- 
nary appearance are sometimes better in the field than their 
handsome and stylish brothers. When you have a good 
strain of hounds do not cross them. We may pour the purest 
water and best wine into a vessel, but we cannot draw forth 
either decent water.or passable wine. 
Did you ever mate two hounds of almost the same color 
and have the female throw pups that favored neither the 
dog nor the bitch? We all have. Mate your hounds accord- 
ing to individual traits if you desire the best results. 
The numerous fox-hunting clubs which have been organ- 
ized in the United States are destined to do a great deal of 
good toward advancing the interests of the foxhound. Com- 
petition is always sure to improve one's pack, for we get 
weary of being beaten and defeated so frequently and begin 
at once to obtain better hounds. I know or two cases in my 
own neighborhood where this is true. 
Fox hunting is destined to become our national field sport 
and I do earnestly hope that it may reach that exalted posi- 
tion during my lifetime. 
Brother sportsmen, let us hear your opinion of fox hunting 
through the always ready and willing columns of the 
Forest and Stream. J. H. Wallace, Jr. 
Tow Creek, Ala. 
United States Field Trials Club. 
Newton, N. O— The committee on grounds for the fall 
trials of the U. S. Club having decided on Newton, N. O, as 
the place for the November meeting of the club, I have been 
here some days arranging the details for the above event. I 
have leased a large tract of land for the trials, lying on the 
opposite side of the town from the grounds of the Eastern 
Club, and fully as good ground. The citizens of Newton 
and vicinity are much pleased that their- locality has been 
selected for the trials of the fall circuit, and stand ready to 
assist the clubs in any manner possible. St. Hubert Inn 
(formerly Hotel Newton) will be headquarters. The rate at 
this house will be $2 per day, no extra charge for fires in 
rooms or for lunches sent to the field. This hotel is now 
fitted with electric bells in all rooms, hot and cold water, 
bath rooms, insifle closets and wash rooms, and other 
conveniences same as of the hotels of a good-sized 
city, the table being supplied with beef from Chi- 
cago, fish and oysters from the Gulf, and the best of 
creamery butter; and with the turkeys and chickens 
from the neighborhood, visitors can rest assured -that 
the inner man will be well takeu care of. Other good ac- 
commodations can be had at $1 per day or $5 per week. 
Livery will be provided at $2.50 per day for two-horse hacks 
with driver, and $1.25 per day for saddle horses. For the 
benefit of those attending the trials from the South and 
West, due notice will be published of the best route and re- 
duced railroad rates. Visitors from the East can secure the 
same rates as are given to the Eastern Field Trials Club from 
Washington and New York. I have looked up a number of 
good locations tributary to Newton that are good points to 
locate, at to prepare dogs for the trials, and if such handlers 
who expect to attend and who are not familiar with the 
country will communicate with me, I will give them the 
names of places that would suit their wants. I have secured 
the services of a local shooter who is familiar with the 
grounds. He will draw them carefully just before the trials 
and locate the bevies, and then act as a guide through the 
trials and so enable work to move along smoothly and with- 
out loss of time. 
W. B. Stafford, Sec'y U. S. F. T. Club. 
National Foshunters' Association. 
Mr. Roger D. Williams, Lexington. Ky., chairman of 
the committee, has mailed 300 copies of the following circu- 
lar letter to foxhunters throughout the United States: 
"The committee appointed to select a location and decide 
upon the time for holding the second annual meeting met 
at Lexington, Ky., May 2, and selected the week of Nov. 18 
as the date, but did not decide upon the place. 
"We will be pleased to receive suggestions on the subject. 
The most important consideration is plenty of red foxes; of 
this there must be no doubt. Also, state what facilities for 
getting to and from the place, what accommodations are to 
be had for man and beast, and the number of horses that 
can be furnished. No section of country is barred and all 
locations suggested will have full consideration. 
"IE you are not a member of the N. F. A. we will be ; 
pleased to have you join." 
DOG CHAT. 
The Chesterford Park KennelB, MaywoocL JJ1T.,, offer all 
their dogs for sale. £ M. Sterling, Bridgen^W, Conn., "ofe'rs 
setters, E, E. Haines, Charlestown, Mass., offers, setters. 
Great Danes are offered by the Hercules, Kennels, Qttawa 
111.; and Beaumont Kennels, New York, have Irish setters 
for sale. W. H. McQuoid, Middletown, N. Y, wants a first 
prize English setter field trial winner. 
Mr. George W. Rogers, secretary of the National Beagle 
Club of America, writes us that the cltih's fifth annual trials 
will be held at Hempstead, L. I, , commencing Nov. 11. 
Tn respect to their new importation, the Mere Kennels, 
Tarry town, N. Y., write us as follows: "We received on the 
14th per steamship Massachusetts the fox terrier Charlton 
Nigger, by Success— Sunlight. He has been shown but lit- 
tle in England, and has already won several firsts and 
specials. He should do much for the breed on this side." 
There is a lull this season in the "challenge business" in 
the dog world which may be considered unprecedented. 
The sportsmen's journals have not been so free from chal- 
lenges in many months as they are at present. _ Can Mr. 
Madison's remarks lastFebruary on the "challenge business" 
have produced these effects? 
The rules of the Bull-Terrier Club of America, with a de 
scription of the points of the bull-terrier, are now in pamph- 
let form. W. D. Brereton, Sec'y, 66 Third avenue, Pitts 
burg. 
Mr. M. W. Reil writes us that Fritz (12,036) died of kidney 
disease on May 15! Of him Mr. Reil says: "He was the 
best poodle Styx ever got. He took prizes at Albany, Troy, 
New York and Brooklyn." 
The Oak Grove Kennels write us as follows: 
"In your issue of April 27, we notice that you make a mis- 
take as regards the positions in which the Chesapeake Bay 
dogs were placed at Boston, as you say, "In open dogs Richard 
Connor's Peter, light in bone, but good in coat and type* won 
first over Oak Grove Kennels' Curley, a fair average dog, 
and their Deacon, first at New York, took the reserve." The 
fact of the matter is that our Deacon won first in this class, 
Peter second and Curley reserve." 
In our business columns, the United States Field Trials 
Club's fifth annual trials are announced. The fall meeting 
will be held at Newton, N. O, commencing with the Derby, 
Nov. 7. This stake is for pointers and setters, each breed to 
run separately, and each has §150 to first, §125 to second, §100 
to third, §75 to fourth, §50 to fifth. Total §1,000. Eutries 
close June 10. W. B. Stafford, Sec'y -Treasurer, Trenton, 
Tenn. 
