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and wife, Miss Carrie Marshall, I. M, Standifer and wife, 
J. T. Munson, W. P. Deering, Levi Lingo, D. I. Brum- 
baugh, Pierre Wilson, W. G. Terry and myself. We are 
staying at the Seaside Hotel, and are having splendid 
fishing of all kinds. Yesterday evening I started out for 
tarpon for the first time and had very good luck, catching 
a 1241b. tarpon that measured 6 ft. 8in. This point, in my 
judgment and experience, far exceeds other sea and coast 
fishing. My first visit here was last year, which, I pre- 
sume, you remember. On the 14th day of June last, 
while out fishing for tarpon, a shark got on my hook and 
the boom of the boat struck me in the back of the neck, 
knocking me head first into the channel, and the shark 
then got me in the calf of the left leg, taking me 20ft. 
down in the chanuel. However, I managed to pull my- 
self up on the line which I had in my hand and tied to 
the boat, and when I pulled myself up to the boat I kicked 
the shark in the jaws at least twelve times, tearing a large 
gash in my limb, and the boatman then dumped me in 
the boat and I- landed the shark, killing him. and we 
sailed for shore. It laid me up for seven weeks. However, 
I am going out this evening and presume you will hear 
from me again before leaving here. W. H. Muller. 
Note on "Angling without Hooks." 
New York, June 10. — Editor Forest and Stream: If you 
can, without injuring the feelings of your compositor, 
print these notes of correction on my sketch "Angling 
without Hooks" in last week's issue, you will greatly oblige 
me. First, I did not in my humble scrawl accuse the 
kingfisher of "wringing past, heading down stream." . In 
fact, I cannot say I ever saw any feathered creature 
"wring." My plain old-fashioned kingfisher was "wing- 
ing past." Nor was his triumph "rancorous," as thetype- 
tosser has alleged, but "raucous," implying only hoarse- 
ness, not malignity. Finally he seizes upon a mother fish- 
hawk a little iurther down the column and refers to her 
a dozen times as "he." All of the above I recognize as 
slight errors for the compositor, but they cast a considera- 
ble shade of carelessness over the whole sketch, naturally 
to be credited by the reader to the author. 
H. Prescott Beach. 
The Lake Trout. 
Boston. — Editor Forest and Stream: Kindly give me your 
definition of a salmon trout? Have fished for twenty-five 
years and do not know of a fish I can designate by this name. 
I find different people call togue, landlocked salmon and 
large square-tail trout (caught in lakes) by this name. 
By helping me in this matter you will oblige. A. C. H. 
[The fish is here figured. It is the Salvelinus namay- 
cusli, and is known as the salmon trout, lake trout, longe 
togue, tuladi, namaycush, lake salmon or Mackinaw trout. 
Mshculhm* 
American Fisheries Society. 
The twenty-fourth convention of the American Fisheries 
Society was held in the United States Aquarium, New 
York city, beginning June 12. There were present W, 
L. May, president, Omaha, Neb,; James A. Dale, record- 
ing secretary, Pennsylvania; Prank J, Amsden, treasurer, 
New York; Edward P. Doyle, secretarv; Herschel Whitaker, 
Michigau; Fred Mather: H. C. Ford,' Philadelphia: W. R. 
Weed, Potsdam, N. Y.: H. B. Mansfield, U. S. N.'; B. H. 
Davis, Palmyra, N. Y.; H. H. Lyman, Oswego; H. P. Froth- 
ingham, New Jersey; Edward Thompson, Northville, N. Y.; 
W. H. Bowman," Rochester: D. G. Hackehey, Fort Plain; 
Robert Hamilton and Jacob Rice, Cambridge; Monroe 
Greene, Rochester; G. F. Peabody, Appleton, Wis,; B. W. 
James, Philadelphia; Dr. T. H. Bean, New York; W. de C. 
Raveuel, Washington; J. J. Stranahan, Put-in-Bay; H. F. 
Hurlburt, Lynn, Mass.; N. R. Bnller and J. W. Hoxie, Caro- 
lina, R. I.; L. D. Huntington and C. L. Guy, New York. 
The following is the list of new members elected; A. F. 
Holt, Lynn, Mass.; T. P. Corwin, Pittsburgh; E T. Rouns- 
ville, E. Freetown, Mass.; E. Hanson, Osceola Mills, Wis.; 
Oliver L. Jones, Chas. E. Griffith and G. E. Jennings, New 
York; H. T. Drake, H. E. Thompson, C. W. Bunn, Dr. J. 
O'Hage and O. F. Crary, St. Paul; and Messrs. Lyman, 
Weed, Thompson, Buller, Peabody and Dale, who were 
present. 
Following is the list of officers elected for the ensuing year: 
President, L. D. Huntington, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Vice- 
President, Calvert Spcnseley, Mineral Point, Wis.; Treas- 
urer, FraDk J. Amsden, Rochester, N. Y.; Corresponding 
Secretary, Lieut. -Com. H. B. Mansfield, U. S. N.; Recording 
Secretary, Dr. T. H. Bean. Executive Committee, Henry C. 
Ford, Philadelphia; H. P. Frothingham, ^o. 2 Wall street, 
New York; Herschel Whitaker, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. H. H. 
Cary, La Grange, Ga. ; W. de C. Ravenel, Fish Commissioner, 
Washington, D. C. ; Edward P. Doyle, New York; W. L 
May, Omaha, Neb. 
The papers read in full or by title were as follows: "The 
Influence of Railroads in Fish Culture," by Fred. Mather. 
"Impoverishment of the Food Fish Industries," by Dr. B. 
W. James, Phila. "The Decadence of Trout Streams," by J. 
S. Van Cieef, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. "Artificial Hatching of 
Trout and Relation of Planting to Results," Seymour 
Bower, Detroit. Two papers by H. Whitaker, of Detroit. 
"Moral Phases of Fish Culture" and "A New Hatchery: 
"Operations of the U. S. Fish Commission," Dr. T. H. Bean. 
Report of Supt. M. E. O'Brien, of the Nebraska Hatcheries, 
on general operations of hatcheries, particularly on a fish 
disease which appeared last year; "Distribution of the Trout 
Family," W. D. Tomlin; a paper by Dr. Chas. Wright 
Dodge, from a letter to Frauk J. Amsden, referring to 
experiments on the growth of fungus on fish at Caledonia. 
On the second day the members took a trip to Eaton's 
Neck, Long Island, where they enjoyed a clam bake and 
inspected the oyster grounds. A meeting was held on the 
boat while en route. A vote of thanks was tendered to the 
Board of Parks, the N. Y. Fish Commission, to the outgoing 
president and secretary, to J. H. Starin for the enjoyable 
trip on the steamer, and to M. Thompson for the courtesy in 
showing the oyster-works. President Cleveland, and Secre- 
tary Morton and the Governors of each of the States were 
elected honorary members of the society. 
Summer Service via the Fall River Line. 
The mid summer schedule of the Fall River Line will become effec- 
tive on Monday, June J7ch, when the great steamboats Priscilla, 
Puritan, Plymouth and Pilgrim will be placed in commission and 
operated together. Steamers will leave New York week-days at 5:80 
and 6:30 P. M, (Sundays 5:80 P. M. only), the early steamer running 
direct to Fall River, the later touching at Newport and remaining 
there until 6:00 A. M. b9fore proceeding to Fall River. Connecting 
vestibuled trains leave the steamboat wharf, Fall River, at 5:30 and 
7:40 A. M., being due in Boston at 6:50 and 9:00 A M. Trains for all 
other points on the Old Colony System leave the steamboat wharf, 
Fall River, at convenient hours. The record of the Fall River Line is 
one of supremacy, and the traveler, whether intent on business or 
pleasure, who has not enjoyed a trip by this wonderfully popular 
route has a delightful experience yet to realize.— Adv. 
FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 8 to 6 —Kingston Kennel Club, Kingston, Ont. H. O. Bates, 
Sec'y. 
Sept. 9 to 13.— Industrial Exhibition Association's \ r annual bench 
show, Toronto, Ont. C. A. Stone, Sec'y and Sup't. 
Sept. 17-20.— Orange county Fair Bench Show, Newburgh, N. Y. 
Robert Johnson, Sec'y. 
!-'ept. 24 to 27.— New England Kennel Club's second annual terrier 
show, Boston, Mass. D. E. Loveland, Sec'y. 
Oct. 8-11.— Danbury, Conn.— Danbury Agricultural Society. Q. L. 
Rundle, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 2.— Continental Field Trials Club's chicken trials at Morris, 
Man. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis. Ind. 
Sept. 10.— Morris, Man .—Manitoba F. T. C. John Wootton, Sec'y,, 
Manitou. 
Nov. 5.— Chatham, Ont.— International F. T. Club. W. B.Wells, Sec'v. 
Nov. 7.— Newton, N. C.--TJ. S. Field Trial Club's Trials A. W. B. 
Stafford, Sec'y, Trenton, Tenn. 
Nov. 11.— Hempstead, L I.— National Beagle Club of America, fifth 
annual trials. Geo. W. Rogers. Sec'y, New York. 
Nov. 18.— Eastern F. T. Club, at Newton, N. C. W. A. Coster 
Sec'y, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
Nov. 25.— Continental Field Trials Club's quail trials at Newton., 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Oct. 29,— New England Field Trial Club, at Assonet, Mass, S. R, 
Sharp, Sec'y. 
DOGS AND CATS. 
A certain class of my critics are constantly finding 
fault -with me for giving so much attention in my re- 
searches in animal psychology to dogs. In commenting 
upon something that I said in an interview in the Sun, 
one of these said: "There are animals that are much more 
intelligent than the dog." I doubt this. But admitting 
it to be true, there is one particular in which the dog 
takes precedence of all animals, man included, and that 
is in faithfulness. A gentleman said a true thing to me a 
day or so ago: 
"The cat will profit by your love while you live and eat 
you when you are dead." 
"Yes," I replied, "and the dog is not only faithful in 
life, but in death also." 
The gentleman nodded his head, indicating that that 
fact was in his mind when he spoke. I proceeded to tell 
a story, which the gentleman in question had never heard,, 
of the Newfoundland whose master took him to the brink 
of the river for the purpose of drowning him. The dog 
saw what the master's purpose was, and resisted to such 
effect that the master went into the water. Then what? 
Had it been another man that that master had attempted 
to drown the man would at least have been tempted to let 
him stay in the water till he was pretty badly choked, at 
any rate. But the dog had no such i'eeling. He saw the 
master whom he loved in danger, and he leaped into the 
water and pulled him out. What would any other animal 
have done under the circumstances? It, would have turned 
away — the cat to licking its fur, the horse to grazing, the 
bird to pruning its feathers, seeking its mate, or looking 
for a worm. 
In talking the dog up, however, I would talk no other 
animal down. I have been a life-long student of animals, 
from the chicken to the elephant. My memory, which I 
find the best note book, is full of incidents of the intelli- 
gence and other subjective qualities of other animals as 
well as the dog — incidents of my own. observation and ex- 
perience and of those of others. An ex-captain of the 
United States regular army tells me about a horse that was 
his servant, his companion and friend in years of Indian 
warfare. The captain has talked to me so much about 
that horse that I might write his biography, and interest- 
ing reading that biography would be. Take one mani- 
festation of intelligence which he made over and over. 
When he would scent the enemy at night, he would come 
to where the captain slept and put his nose on the cap • 
tain's breast and gently emit his breath. This would 
awaken the captain and the horse vrould stand on the alert 
ready for the mount and to obey the captain's slightest 
will — indicated by word or rein or pressure of the knees. 
Had the captain not loved that horse, he would have 
been less a man than he is. 
Within the week a German gentleman stopped me on 
the street and gave me an incident of the evidencing of 
intelligence by a canary bird in Germany. The master 
loved his canary as much as Boythorn loved his. Lying 
upon his bed one evening smoking, he fell asleep. The ci- 
gar dropped from his lips and set fire to the bed clothing. 
The smoke partially asphyxiated him. He was in great 
danger. The bird awakened him, and so saved his life, 
by pecking at his lips. 
As to cats. Some days ago, my friend, the Rev. Thomas 
Cole, of Saugerties, N. Y., and I sat together on the 
train. We had been talking about — so far as this letter is 
concerned — indifferent matters, when a gentleman said to 
me: 
"I have been reading a good deal about you and your 
theories as to the immortality of the lower animals. I 
wanted to meet you." 
When I had assured him that I was glad to meet him , 
some conversation followed, which concluded by his say- 
ing: 
"Well, whether you are right or wrong, your teachings 
can do no harm." 
When he was gone Mr. Cole said : 
"Why is it that you are so fond of dogs. I live in per- 
fect terror of them." 
"That does not argue against the lovableness of dogs," 
I replied, "any more than the fact that an.acquaintance 
of mine lives in perfect terror of women argues against 
tbe lovableness of women, or the fact that a certain 
maiden woman whom I know lives in perfect terror of 
men argues against the lovableness and trustworthiness 
of men. , As in their cases, so in yours, your not liking 
dogs may be the result of an idiosyncrasy or an unpleas- 
ant experience. You must have been bitten by a dog 
some time or another, or maybe some ancestor was bit- 
ten and you have inherited your horror. I was bitten 
once." 
"Were you?" said Mr. Cole, and changed the subject by 
saying: "I am a great lover of cats." 
"Are you?" I said. "Cats come under the head of all 
animals in any love. I have no special love for the cat. 
You cannot train them, for instance, to the extent that 
you can a dog." 
"Maybe not to the same extent," said Mr. Cole. "But 
you can train them. I once had a cat to which I had 
taught a good many tricks. I would tell him to go and 
get into his basket— and he would do so. I would put h 
milk in a pitcher with a mouth too small for him to ge 
his head in, and he would dip his paw in the milk, pu 
the paw out and lick the milk off." 
"Your cat had a little of the same power of though t 
that the man had who invented that machine," I said , 
pointing to one of those great excavators which take the 
places of so many human shovelers. "The inventor had 
much of the same thing of which the cat had a little. Go 
on; I am interested." 
"I," continued Mr. Cole, "have a beautiful Angora. I 
call her Mother. She is old, but not too old to be guilty of 
a little frivolity now and again. A fit of frivolity struck 
her about the time the blizzard struck the country this 
winter. I could not keep her in the house. I was afraid 
she would freeze to death. I would wrap myself up and 
go out after her. I would find her under the porch sur- 
rounded by a dozen lovers. They were about her in a ring. 
One of them would make an advance. Mother would spit 
at him. They would quarrel among themselves. This 
Mother would seem to enjoy quietly, but deeply. She evi- 
dently thought more of some of these lovers than of others. 
She was quite human in her actions. She finally selected 
one from among the number that pressed their suit for her 
paw. Before the blizzard was over she was as quiet a 
member of the household as before. But she did not 
chose a husband until after many fights among her lovers. 
I watched those fights with great interest. They increased 
my respect for the cat. When two bulls or two dogs make 
up their minds to fight they pitch right into each other. 
It is simply a question of which of the bulls is the stronger, 
or which has the advantage of the lay of the land; or of 
which dog has the most muscle or the sharper teeth, or 
of which bull or which dog has the most power of endur- 
ance. It is not so with the cats. They will watch each 
other for hours, looking for an opening, each of them 
waiting for a chance to take the other at a disadvantage. 
When they come together it is with tremendous energy- 
How the fur does fly! Before the whole matter was set- 
tled, and Mother was duly married, for the occasion, to> 
the one of her choice, the snow all about the rectory was 
covered with cat fur. Antagonistic cats do not come to- 
gether at once, but after advances and retreats and cir- 
cumventions. Their warfare is one of intelligence, of 
deliberation, of calculation. It is not a warfare of im- 
pulse and passion simply. It is a rational warfaxe." 
"But the cat is so selfish," I said. 
"Yes," was the reply, "but it is the very refinement of 
selfishness." 
It is only fair to Mr. Cole to say that, having no verbal 
memory, I have reported only the substance of what he 
said. That I have done faithfully. Our conversation 
closed by my saying: 
"In the Southwest, some years ago, I knew an old cat, 
Tom, whom I loved for his scars, and in Chicago I had a 
great black fellow, Jim by name, of whom I thought a 
great deal; but I must confess that what you have said 
has awakened a psychological interest in me for the cat." 
And Mr. Cole replied: "I'll send you one of Mother's kit- 
tens." — Charles Josiah Adams in New York Sun. 
C. F. T. C. Derby Entries. 
You will see that we have secured 51 entries for the 
Chicken Derby. The club should feel proud of the succt ss 
it has made. The dogs were all whelped in 1894. Point- 
ers, 17; setters, 34. 
POINTERS. 
Sappho — Dr. O. Totten's liver and white bitch (Stride- 
away — Warwick Nellie). 
Stridemore — Richard Merrill's liver and white dog 
(Strideaway — Hops II ). 
Dowlah— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' lemon and 
white dog (Rip-Rap— Dolly D.). 
Nabob— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' black and white 
dog (Rip-Rap— Dolly D.). 
India — Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' orange and white 
bitch (Rip-Rap— Dolly D.), 
Amen— Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' liver and white 
dog (Wrecker — Selah). 
Lady Rush — H. T. Schmidt's liver and white bitch 
(Rush of Lad— Pet S.). 
Ightfield Mentor — A. P. Heywood Lonsdale's liver 
and white dog (Ightfield Loveridge — Ightfield Mara). 
Bowerly Dan of Coldbill— A. P. Heywood Lons- 
dale's liver and white dog (Don of Bolcord — Duchess of 
Bolcord). 
Lady Clipper— George E. Gray's liver and white bitch 
(Little Ned— Pearl's Dot). 
Virginia — H. K. Devereux's liver and white bitch (Lit- 
tle Ned— Pearl's Dot). 
Courage— C. G. Stoddard's liver and white dog (Trink- 
et's Coin— Ightfield Blythe. 
Strideaway's Lad — S. W. Alsdorf's liver and white; 
dog (Strideaway — Ightfield's Teign), 
Sidmont — P. T. Madison's liver and white dog (Stride- 
away — Hops II.) 
Sister Sue— N. T. DePauw's liver and white bitch 
(Jingo — Rooney). 
Rex — F. H. Phippen's black and white dog (Rector — 
Miami). 
Paul Bang — -Frank Althouse's liver and white dog (Jap 
— Frankie Paul). 
ENGLISH SETTERS. 
Rudge Bo— Richard Merrill's black, white and tan 
dog (Paul Bo— Tube Rose), 
Pauline Bo — Richard Merrill's black, white and tan 
bitch (Paul Bo— Tube Rose). 
Rod*s Boy — King Graphic Kennels' black, white and 
tan dog (Roderigo — Larry Gladstone). 
Gleam s Dart— Manchester Kennel Co.'s black, white 
and tan bitch (Count Gladstone IV. — Gleam's Maid). 
Gleam's Ruth— Manchester Kennel Co.'s black, white 
and tan bitch (Count Gladstone IV. — Gleam's Maid). 
Brighton Dick— T. G. Davey's black and white dog 
(Brighton Tobe — Lady Brighton). 
Brighton Tom— T. G. Davey's black and white dog 
(Brighton Tobe — Lady Brighton). 
Brighton Maud— T. G. Davey's black and white bitch 
(Brighton Tobe — Lady Brighton). 
Chloe S. — C. G. Stoddard's black and white bitch (Glad- 
stone's Boy — Kitty Ward). 
Touchstone — Avent & Thayer Kennels' black, white 
and tan dog (Orlando — Dolly Wilson). 
Patrician — Avent & Thayer Kennels' black, white and 
tan dog (Chevalier — Patsy), 
