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FOREST AND * STREAM^ 
[Aug. 1, 1896. 
Eillaloe Salmon. ^ 
Mr. Egbert W. Browne, of the American News Co. , 
this city, suggests that American salmon anglers who are 
going abroad may profitably avail themselves of the ex- 
cellent fishing at Killaloe, Ireland, where the Shannon 
yields some large fish. Mr. Browne himself was present 
at the record capture of a 4Gilb. salmon on Oct. 3, 1894. 
It took an hour to land this fish. In April of this year a 
401b. salmon was taken. The fishing is in preserved 
waters, and a fee is required. Mr, Browne will give in- 
formation on request. 
FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 1 to 4.— Kingston Kennel Olub'e bench show. H. C. Bates 
Cor. Sec'y, Kingaton, Out. 
Sept. 7 to 11— Rhode Island State Fair Association's fourth annual 
show, Providence, R. I. 
Sept. 7 to 11. — Toronto Exhibition Association's eighth annual show , 
Toronto, Can. C. A. Stone, Sec'y of bench show. 
Sept. 14 to 17.— Montreal Kennel Association's bench show, Montreal. 
G. Lanigan, Sec'y. 
Sept. 32 to 24.— Milwaukee Kennel and Pet Stock Association's second 
annual dog show, Milwaukee. Louis SteUen, Sec'y. 
Sept. 22 to 25.— Queens County Agricultural Society's bench show 
Mineola. L. I. J, xflortimer, Manager, Hempstead, L. I. 
Oct, 6 to 8.— Dan bury Agricultural Society's show, Danbury, Conn, 
G. M, Rundle, Sec'y. 
Dec. 15 to 18,— Central Michigan Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- 
tion's showi Lansing, Mich. C, EL. Crane, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. , 
Sept. 2.— Morris, Man,— Manitoba Field Trials Club. John Wootton, 
Sec'y, Manitou, Man. 
Sept. 7.— Kennedy, Minn.— Continental Field Trial Club's chicken 
trials. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Oct. 9.— Brunswick Fur Club's annual meet. Bradford S. Turpin, 
Sec'y. 
Oct. 26.— Hempstead, L. I.— Natioonal Beagle Club's trials. Geo. 
W. Rogers, Sec'y, 250 W. Twenty-second street. New York. 
Oct. 28.— Greene county, Pa.— The Monongahela VaUey Game and 
Fish Protective Association's second annual trials. S. B. Cummings 
Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
Nov. 2 — Bicknell, Ind.— Continental Field Trial Club's quail trials. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y. 
Nov. 2.— Oxford, Mass.— New England Beagle Club's trials. W. 8. 
dark, Sec'y, Linden, Mass. 
Nov. 10 —Columbus, Wis.— Northwestern Beagle Club's trials. Louis 
Steflen, Sac'y, Milwaukee. 
Nov. 10.— Leamington, Ont.— Peninsular Field Trial Club, Leaming- 
ton, Ont, 
Nov. 10,— Central Beagle Club's trials. L. O. Seidel, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16. — National Fox Hunting Association's third annual trials, 
Bardstown, Ky. F. J. Hagan, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— Newton, N. C— B. F. T. aub's trials. 8. C. Bradley, Sec'y, 
Greenfield HUl, Conn. 
Nov. 17.— Chatham, Ont.— International Field Trial Club's fcrials. 
W. B. Wells, Sec'y, Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. 23.— Newton, N. C— U. S. F. T. Club's faU trials. W. B. Staf- 
ford, Sec'y. 
Dec. 14.— Athens, Ala.— Dixie Red Fox Club's second annual trials 
J, H. Wallace, Sec'y, Huntsville, Ala. 
CAN A DOG REASON? 
Maple Corner, Wellington, Conn. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Well, really, I must have my say. Of course, 
dogs reason. What other conclusion can be drawn ! We 
start out to drive. Sancho expects to go as a matter of 
course. We say in our usual conversational voice: "San- 
cho would better stay at home to-day. It is hot and he 
will run too much." The little dog, apparently asleep on 
the lounge, gets up, goes out quietly and bides in the 
shrubbery ; this not once, but many times. When noth- 
ing is said, he stays around and starts when we do. 
We drive the two miles to the station for the mail 
nearly every morning — the mail stage not coming to our 
hilltop until afternoon. Often on our return we drive a 
little way up a crossroad to the cemetery. When Sancho 
gets to the turn he sits down and waits to see if we are 
going to make the diversion or are coming directly home. 
This not once, but dozens of times. There is another 
cemetery on this drive; there he never stops. 
One day some one gave us a life-size picture of a fa- 
mous actor. Having often heard that a dog would not 
notice a picture, I pinned it up in the bay window. San- 
cho was in another room. Presently the door was 
opened and he came in, noticed the picture immediately, 
mistook it for a man looking in at the window, went al- 
most frantic barking at it — and he was a dog who never 
wasted a bark — rushed for the door, and when let out ran 
around the house to the bay window, looked up and saw 
the paper, and came back and went under the Glenwpod 
range, a very much mortified dog indeed. We could not 
fool him that way again; we tried it repeatedly. 
One day I threw a paper bag in the open wood fire in 
the old-faahioned chimney. It burned until the paper 
turned white, inflated, and the draught took it up the 
throat of the chimney. Sancho happened to notice it and 
began to prance and bark as if at a bird in a tree, and he 
would not be quieted. He was put out of the room, but 
came back and looked at the picture over the mantle and 
barked again. His master held him up and let him look 
and smell behind the picture; but be would not give it 
up, and behaved so badly that I got more paper bags and 
burned them in the same way. At the first one he barked 
a little, soon he ceased to lae interested, and I could never 
fool him again in that way. 
One day in New York I bought on Twenty- third street 
one of those absurd little white woolly dogs that when in- 
flated will walk a yard or so. I had a little Astrachan 
cloth black penwiper dog, very cute, and I put them on 
the table side by side and called Sancho to look at them. 
He sat up in a chair, and I never saw him so interested. 
He would turn up his head one way and then the other, 
and try to get at the little toy; but his master held him, 
telling him what a pretty little dog it was, while he cried 
and whined as if trying to talk. At length he released 
himself and, springing upon the table, caught the little 
thing in his mouth. But one taste of cotton wool was 
enough — his interest in mechanical dogs ceased from that 
moment, 
Some of the neighborhood dogs he liked and some he 
did not. Often when he was asleep we would say, 
"There comes George Knight's dog," and up Sancho 
would jump and fly from window to window, and beg to 
go out CO meet his friend; but if we said, "There is the 
Lyons dog," he would look out with no show of excite- 
ment and never asking to go out. 
At one time we had an invalid niece with us, and her 
pony Lightfoot was afraid of dogs, so a shepherd dog that 
always runs out at teams had to be kept chained, and it 
was amusing to see Sancho's exultation over this dog's 
discomfiture. 
Sancho often for months went with me to call on a 
sick friend. After awhile she was taken to the hospital. 
When Sancho went next time he looked for her aU about 
the house, then went to her room and, putting his fore- 
paws on the bedstead, stretched himself up to see if her 
white face was among the pillows. 
I thank Mr. Adams for his defense of our canine 
friends, and am glad that there is a Forest and Stream 
to give us bis interesting articles. Annie A. Preston. 
Continental Field Trials Club. 
Indianapolis, Ind,, July 24:.— Editor Fo7'est and Stream: 
At the request of many owners and handlers of dogs, the 
Continental Field Trials Club has decided to transfer its 
fall trials from Bicknell, Ind., to some point in the South 
where suitable grounds can be had. It is the intention of 
the club to hold the trials as near to West Point, Miss. , as 
possible, so as to accommodate the patrons of the West 
Point trials.' The date of the trials has not yet been de- 
termined, but will probably be about Feb. 1. There will 
be two stakes run, a Derby and an All-Age Stake. The 
breeds in each will be run together. The purse in each 
stake will be $500, divided $^00 to first, $150 to second, 
$100 to third and $50 to fourth, with $10 forfeit and $10 to 
start. The Derby will be reopened and the entries will 
close Sept. 1. The entries to the AU-Age Stake will close 
Oct. 1. 
I am instructed to say to those who made entries in the 
Bicknell Derby that their entries can stand and be trans- 
ferred to the Southern meeting without their having to 
pay the second forfeit, as the second forfeit is done away 
with under this new arrangement, only the starting, fee 
of $10 will be further required. To those who prefer 
they can withdraw their forfeits now and have their 
dogs declared out of the stake. Mr. Royal Robinson and 
Mr. W. S. Bell will judge both stakes. Entry blanks will 
be ready as soon as the location has been determined. 
CHICKEN DERBY ENTRIES. 
Jas. S. Crane's Firefly, liv. and w. pointer bitch (Rip- 
Rap — Clipaway II.). 
A. C. Peterson's Minnie P., o. and w. English setter 
bitch (Antonio — Hunter's Nellie BIy). 
Dr. L. C. Bacon's Mollie Pitcher, b., w. and t. English 
setter bitch (Antonio — Florence Gladstone). 
Dr. C, I. Shoop's Aloysia, lem. and w. pointer bitch 
(Rip-Rap— Dolly D.). 
Ernest C. Johnson's Queen of Morocco, b., w. and t. 
English setter bitch (Spot B. — Miss Monk). 
W. R. Holliday's Billy T., b. and w. English setter dog 
(Revenue — Daisy Bondhu). 
Del Monte Kennels' Tick's Kid, b. and w. pointer dog 
(Tick Boy— Lulu K.). 
Del Monte Kennels' Tony Works, liv. and w. pointer 
dog (Tick Boy— Lulu K.). 
John Wootton's Bill Bondhu, b. and w. English setter 
dog (Dick Bondhu — Maud). 
John Wootton's Rosa Bondhu, b. , w. and t. English set- 
ter bitch (Dick Bondhu — Maud). 
Col. Jaa, D. Poston's Florence Gladstone II., b., w. and 
t. English setter bitch (Antonio — Florence Gladstone). 
Thos. H. Terry's Hempstead Druid, pointer dog 
D. E. Rose's (Agt.) Guenn, b., w. and t. English setter 
bitch ( Blue Ridge Marse — Lou R. ). 
D, E. Rose's (Agt.) Christina, b, , w, and t. English setter 
bitch (Blue RLdge Marse — Lou R,). 
D. E. Rose's (Agt.) Count Odean, o. and w. English set- 
ter dog (Count Gladstone — ^Topsy Avent). 
L. W. O'Byrone's Moerlein, b, and w. pointer dog (Rip- 
Rap — Bell of Ossian). 
L. W. O'Byrone's Red Skin, liv. and w. pointer dog 
(Louis Kent— Fleety's Fay). 
Geo. E. Gray's (Agt.) Rod's Pell, b., w. and t. English 
setter bitch (Rodfield — Opel). 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y-Treas. 
How, Who, Which, Why, What? 
HORNELLSViLLE, July 25. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I'm a little like the man who didn't know who he was, 
after getting over typhoid fever, and went around asking 
people "Who am I?" and when they told him he was 
John Smith, he wanted to know, "But who's John 
Smith?" You see, the boys chaffed me for being disqual- 
ified, and whec I wanted to know how, when and why, 
they pointed out that on May 14 the Advisory Committee 
ordered the Bull Terrier Club to apologize to Dr. Foote 
and Mr. Schellhass, giving the club fifteen days to eat 
crow, or it would be disqualified with "its officers," and 
on May 21 the A. K. C. backed the Advisory Committee 
up and that the Bull Terrier Club hadn't put crow on the 
p&,te yet. 
Now I am an ofiicer, as I am one of the executive com- 
mittee, and the executive committee passed the sassy 
resolutions; so it looked as clear as a hole through a lad- 
der that I was bounced, and as I hadn't any more to do 
with passing that resolution than Mr. Chauncey Depew, I 
couldn't see what I was disqualified for. Then Mr. Vre- 
denburgh, as secretary of the A, K. C, writes me and 
publishes in the papers that I am not disqualified, and of 
course that settles it that I am all right yet. Then he 
hauls me over the coals for making such an "unfounded 
statement." But, as the executive committee did the 
sassing, I can't see why they are not "the officers," and as 
they order the president, vice-president and secretary 
what to do, it strikes me that they are mighty muon 
"officers," and I don't see thatthe boys were "unfounded" 
when they chaffed me. 
The long and short of it is, "Who are officers," and 
who is disqualified? "Who is John Smith?" My old 
friend Watson writes me that the members of the Bull 
Terrier Club can be disqualified if they don't get together 
and eat crow for what "the officers" did. Well, being 
disqualified don't suit me worth a cent, but when I was a 
kid I was taught, "Let every fellow skin his own skunks," 
and I don't propose to skin any but my own. I have 
killed no skunks lately, as I dislike to skin them. 
J. Otis Fellows. 
Mr." G. Musa-Arnolt has accepted an invitation to judge 
dachshunde and Great Danes at Montreal It is probable 
that Mr. Arnolt and Mr. Mason will do aU the judging at 
that show, 
ESQUIMAUX DOGS AT THE ZOOLOG- 
ICAL GARDENS. 
The deposit of eight typical specimens of Esquimaux 
sledge dogs in the Zoological Gardens, where they will re- 
main until September, affords a valuable opportunity of 
studying the form and to some extent the habits of this 
most useful variety. To naturalists the Esquimaux dog 
is exceedingly interesting, inasmuch as it throws great 
light upon the origin of the domestic animal — breeding 
freely and being habitually crossed with the wolf in order 
to obtain greater strength and endurance. I have much 
pleasure in calling attention to the very correct drawing 
of specimens of these animals by the well-known canine 
artist Mr. Wardle. The specimens in the gardens have 
been employed in sleigh drawing, and several of them are 
valuable as being experienced and well-trained animals 
that can be trusted as the leaders of the teams, and are 
most obedient to the voice of the occupants of the sleighs. 
The origin of these dogs has been carefully considered 
by that extremely practical naturalist, Mr, Bartlett, the 
superintendent of the gardens. In a contribution to the 
proceedings of the Zcftlogical Society in 1890, he wrote as 
follows: 
There can be no doubt that the Esquimaux dogs are reclaimed or 
domesticated wolves. All wolves, if taken young and reared by man, 
are tame, playful, and exhibit a fondness for those who feed and 
attend to them. The same may be said of all the species of jackals. 
I have found no difficulty m crossing: wolves and jacitals with 
domestic dogs, when suitably matched. It is a well-known fact that 
the Esquimaux frequently allows his dogs to breed with wolves, in 
order to keep up the strength, the power of endurance and the cour- 
age of the race. 
Domestic dogs exhibit many of the habits of wolves and jackals, 
such as the scratching up of earth with the front feet, and the 
pushing back of it with the hind feet, in order to cover up the drop- 
pings. 
The whining, growling and howling of wolves, jackals and dogs 
are so much alike as to be undistinguishable; but the barking of dogs 
is undoubtedly an acquired habit, h,nd doubtless due to domestication. 
Wolves and jackals in a wild state never bark, nor do Esquimaux dogs 
or dingos, but If kept associated with barking dogs, these and other 
wild dogs in many instances acquire the habit of barking. 
A well-known Instance of this occurred under my notice. A wild 
Antarctic wolf, after a few months, hearing the barldDg of dogs in the 
immediate neighborhood, began to bark, and succeeded admirably. 
The same thing has happened to my knowledge in the case of pure- 
bred Esquimaux dogs and dingos. 
The utility of the Esquimaux dog in the frozen regions 
of the North is well known. Without its aid, locomotion 
and life itself would be impracticable in these snow- 
covered regions. Its power and capability of endurance 
are most remarkable. In proportion to its size, there is 
no animal that has so great a power of draught as the 
dog, nor has any other the capability of such violent and 
long continued exertion. The dog is of all animals that 
which draws most willingly. Those who have witnessed 
its employment in Belgium and other parts of the conti- 
nent must be fully aware of the readiness with which it 
throws itself into the collar, and pulls with a force which 
is marvelous for so small an animal. In this country, 
however, its use for this purpose has been for many 
years forbidden by an act of Parliament, which was 
passed at the instigation of maudlin sentimentalists, 
who thought that because- the dog is a domesticated 
animal it should not be employed in the way in 
which it was of great service to man. Much ridiculous 
nonsense was said and written respecting its being unfitted 
as a beast of draught, and that its feet were incapable of 
enduring the strain put upon them and the friction of the 
roads — a statement which is disproved by an examination 
of the Belgian dogs, and which, if true, would be a reflec- 
tion upon the design of its structure. The prohibition of 
the utilization of the dog as a draught animal, because in 
some instances it had been overtasked by brutal owners, is 
as absuid as the prohibition of the use of donkeys and 
horses would be because in some cases there are masters 
who overtask and ill use them. Into the power and en- 
durance of the dog as a sledge drawer it is unnecessary to 
enter, as it is familiar to all readers of works on Arctic 
travel and exploration. 
The dogs now in the Gairdens are the first installment of 
those that are designed for use in the proposed Antarctic 
exploring expedition which is to start in September next. 
This expedition, according to a statement of Mr. Bowick, 
the chairman of the executive committee, will consist of 
a whaling vessel of about 800 tons, to be accompanied by 
a small steamer of about 70 tons. The party is expected 
to leave in September, and, after calling at Melbourne, to 
proceed direct to Cape Adair, Victoria Land, which under 
favorable circumstances should be reached in about four- 
teen days. There the specialists will be landed with their 
instruments and outfit for one year. Provisions for a con- 
siderably longer period will, however, be taken ashore. — 
W. B, Tegetmeier in London Field. 
THE TYPE OF ENGLISH SETTERS. 
PiTTSBORO. — Editor Forest and Stream: I am an ad- 
mirer of the English setter, concerning both as he is of in- 
terest on the bench and useful in the field, though I am 
somewhat the more partial to him as a working dog. This 
isjnot strange at all when it is considered that my greatest 
pleasure is shooting over the dog afield. Of course the 
matter of type is a secondary affair in the consideration 
of a field dog, though by that I do not mean that it is not 
an important consideration. I wish it understood that 
the critical scrutiny from the bench show standpoint is 
not in evidence. 'Though chiefly admiring the setter for 
his real usefulness afield, I have my own ideas of type, as 
nearly every sportsman has. To be frank on this matter, 
I think that there is very little real type in the English 
setter of to-day. It is the rarest thing in the setter 
classes at shows to see two dogs which are at all near a 
standard. They all differ from each other and from the 
standard. Judges are censured by the disappointed ex- 
hibitor and the virtue of the standard is invoked by the 
latter to show that he is correct, and it would seem that 
each disappointed exhibitor had in mind that the standard 
exactly fitted his own dog, and only in part could any 
others find any of it which would fit them. 
In bringing such a miscellaneous assortment of setters 
before a judge, the most that could be expected of him 
in reason would be to award the prizes accordingly as the 
dogs more or less came up to the requirements of the stand- 
ard. It would be manifestly unjust to censure the judge 
for placing a dog first which did not meet the require- 
ments of the standard when there were no dogs in tne 
class which could meet such requirements, 
I am firmly convinced that the past few years have 
done more for the degeneration of tne breed of English 
