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FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 1 to 4.— Kingston Kennel Club's bench show. H. 0. Bates, 
Cor. SecV. Kingston, Ont. ..... 
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. 8 to 11.— Birghampton Industrial Exhibition's sixth annual 
bench show. 0. H. Barrett, Supt. 
Sept. 14 to 17.— Montreal Kennel Association's bench show, Montreal. 
G. Lanigan, Sec'y. 
Sept. 15-18.— Orange County bench show, Newburgh, N. Y. Robt. 
Johnston. Sec'y. 
Sept. 23 to 24.— Mflwaukee Kennel and Pet Stock Association's second 
annual dog show, Milwaukee. Louis Steflen, Sec'y. 
Sept. 22 to 25.— Queens County Agricultural Society's bench show, 
Mineola L. I. J. Mortimer, Manager, Hempstead, L. I. 
Sept. 23 to 26.— Stockton Fair Association's bench show, Stockton, 
Cal. D. J. Sinclair, Sec'y. 
Oct. a to 8.— Daobury Agricultural Society's show, Danbury, Conn, 
G. M. Bundle, Sec'y. 
Dec. 1 to 4,— City of the Straits Kennel Club's local show, Detroit, 
Mich. R. H. Roberts, Sec'y. 
Dec. 8 to 11.— Augusta, Ga.— Georgia Poultry and Pet Stock Associ- 
ation. J. W. Killingsworth, Sec'y. 
Dec. 15 to 18.— Central Michigan Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- 
tion's show, Lansing, Mich. C. H. Crane, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 7.— Kennedy, Minn.— Continental Field Trial Club's chicken 
trials. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis. Ind. 
Oct. 19.— Brunswick Fur Club's annual hound trials, Barre, Mass. 
Bradford S. Turpin, Sec'y, Roxbury, Mass. 
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 Valley Game and 
Fish Protective Association's second annual trials. S. B. Cummings 
Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
Nov. 2.— Oxford, Mass.- New England Beagle Club's trials. W. S. 
Clark, Sec'y, Linden, Mass. 
Uov. 3.— Union Field Trial Club's inaugural trials. P. T. Madison, 
Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Nov. 10 —Columbus, Wis.— Northwestern Beagle Club's trials. Louis 
Steffen, Sec'y, Milwaukee. 
Nov. 10.— Leamington, Ont.— Peninsular Field Trial Club, Leaming- 
ton, Ont. ^ 
Nov. 10.— Greene County, Pa.— Central Beagle Club's trials. L. O. 
Seidel, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— National Fox Himting Association's third annual trials, 
BardstowD, Ky. F. J. Hagan, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— Newton, N. C— E. F. T. Club's trials. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y, 
Greenfield Hill, Conn, 
Nov. 17.— Chatham, Ont.— International Field Trial Club's trials. 
W. B. Wells, Sec'y, Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. 28.— Newton, N. C— U. S. F. T. aub'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. 
COURSING. 
Sept. 22,— Cheyenne Valley Coursing Club's meeting, Sheldon, S. D, 
Dr, J. P. Aylen, Pres. 
Sept. 29.— Aberdeen Coursing Club's annual meeting, Aberdeen, S. 
D. Dr. F. W. Haragan, Sec'y. 
Oct. 6.— Mitchell Coursing Club's meeting, Mitchell, S. D. H, G. 
Oct. 21.— Altcar Coursing Club's meeting, Great Bend, Kan, T, W. . 
Bartels, Sec'y. 
Oct. 28. — Kenmore Coursing TJlub's annual meeting, Herrington. 
Kan. C. A. Robinson, Sec'y. 
Oct. 13,— American Coursing Club's annual meeting, Huron, S. D 
F. B. Coyne, Sec'y. 
1897. 
Jan. —.—Continental Field Trial Club's quail trials. P. T. Madi- 
son, Sec'y. 
Jan, 18.— West Point, Miss.— U. S, F. T. C. winter trials. W. B. 
Stafford, Sec'y, Trenton, Tenn. 
JOAN AND PETRINA. 
RossviLLE, S. I. — Editor Forest and Stream: The read- 
ers of what I write in biophilism will be glad to know 
that I have a new dog; for now I will probably not have 
so much to say about Phlip, whose taking from me by 
the poisoner so affected me that for more than a year I 
could not bring myself to have another dog. 
But I have one now — a cocker spaniel, a beauty — a 
present from the kennels of Dr. Francis Wilmot Kitchel, 
of Perth Amboy, N. J. Her name in the pedigree book 
is Joan — the name by which we know her too, of course; 
for there could not be a neater name, and who does not 
know that there is bad luck in changing the name of an 
animal ? And was there ever a lover of man or beast 
who was not just a little superstitious ? 
I hope that no bad luck may come to Petrina from the 
fact that we had to change her name. She came to us 
from one of the family of E. H. Golder, M.D. She was 
BO small when she came that the name Peter was not 
known to be a misfit to her sex. When this was discov- 
ered Peter was feminized into Petrina. 
A day or two after I brought Joan to the house Petrina 
came. We soon had proof that the dog and the cat are 
natural enemies — a fact of animal psychology which some 
are disposed to question. The first thing that Joan did 
when she saw the kitten was to make for her. Joan was 
called off, as much in her own interest as in that of the 
cat; for Petrina stood and showed fight so energetically 
that there was fear for Joan'a eyes. But one calling off 
was not enough for Joan — she had to be called off three 
or four times. Then she seemed to understand that she 
was not only to let Petrina alone, but to be friendly with 
her. These advances Petrina resented in the ways in 
which the cat shows resentment, with spittings and strik- 
ings. This was kept up for several days. Joan was not 
ofscouraged, from which I conclude that the dog has less 
di natural enmity for the cat than the cat for the dog — 
though, of course, it must be taken into the account that 
in the activity of this enmity the cat is more apt to suffer 
seriously than the dog, the cat being the weaker of the 
two. The cat may scratch out the eyes of the dog, but in 
the death struggle the cat is the one who is apt to be re- 
duced to a condition for burial. 
Joan persisted in her advances, and in doing so showed, 
as I pointed out in an article in the World recently, that 
she is highly endowed with the faculty of imitation, for 
in playfully returning the spiteful strokes of Petrina the 
action was singularly and amusingly cat-like. 
The advances of Joan were seconded. I would often 
hear the mistress of all of us say, "Joan, Petrina has no 
sense 1 Petrina, do you not see that Joan is trying to play 
with you?" Whether these words had any effect I do not 
know, though the lower animals understand very much 
more of human speech than we give them credit for un- 
derstanding, but the fact is that after a week or so Petrina 
yielded, and now she and Joan are the very best of 
friends, and such constant playf ellows that quiet has flown 
from the rectory, especially apparently at the time of the 
after-dinner nap. 
The way in which Joan does make for Petrina; the way 
in which Petrina sits on her haunches and strikes at 
Joan; the way in which they run after each other, tumble 
over each other, maul each other — these ways are aston- 
ishing, entertaining — as good as a show — sometimes ag- 
gravating. 
Always in them is there food for psychological and bio- 
philistic thought. As I have intimated, the intercourse 
of Joan and Petrina has shown that the cat and the dog 
are natural or at least hereditary enemies, and that that 
enmity is overcome by their becoming better acquainted, 
especially when their acquaintance is forwarded and their 
confidence in*each other established by the taking of a 
little trouble by some human being who has a regard for 
each of them. 
Again, in their intercourse there is manifestation of 
reason. Time and again have I seen Joan stop in their 
play to drop upon one hip to scratch her ear. This would 
necessitate the turning away of her head from Petrina. 
Like a flash will Petrina take advantage of the situation 
and leap on Joan's back. And can any one take advan- 
tage of a situation without reasoning? The other day they 
in their play rushed from the dining-room through the 
two doors which give entrance to the kitchen across the 
hallway of a flight of back stairs. Petrina can recover 
herself more quickly than can Joan. She did so, and 
rushed back into the dining-room. In this she had a pur- 
pose. She hid behind the dining-room door, and when 
Joan came through, her mouth open and her long, silken 
Jellow ears flopping, Petrina leaped upon her, much to 
can's surprise. Whether Petrina enjoyed the laughter 
which followed this feat or not, she deserved the applause 
which she got. 
In that feat did Petrina evidence the power of reason? 
Does Edison love children? I vaguely remember that I 
have somewhere noticed that he does. If so, in playing 
with children I have no doubt that now and then he lies 
in wait for them that he may jump out and take them in 
his arms, laughingly enjoying their surprise. In so 
doing, in the lower region of play — if it be the lower — 
does he not employ the same faculty that he employs in the 
higher region of mechanics when he invents such a ma- 
chine as, say, the kinetograph? And in laying a plan to 
surprise Joan, did not Petrina employ the same faculty 
which Edison would employ in laying a plan to surprise 
a child? 
I have no doubt that when looking upon children Edi- 
son thinks of children who have gone on before and 
hopes that in the after life he may meet them, and imag- 
ines that now they are playing in the Eternal Home as 
once they played in the temporal home. So when I look 
at Joan and Petrina at their play I think of the dogs and 
the cats whom I have known as the years have gone by, 
imagine them playing in the Eternal Home as once they 
played in the temporal home, and — do I hope that I may 
meet them in the after life? Why not? 
Charles Josiah Adams. 
The Hog and Man's Ignorance. 
California. — Editor Forest and Stream: It has given 
me much pleasure from time to time to read the comments 
and observations in Forest and Ste.eaju: upon natural his- 
tory. Forest and Stream gleans a wide realm and is rich 
in resource. I am especially pleased with those observa- 
tions, sketches and anecdotes which discuss animal life, 
habits and characteristics, as well as with the logic and 
philosophy of many of your observant and talented contrib- 
utors. 
I think it is surprising to naturalists, as it is painful, to 
realize the far too general ignorance that prevails in re- 
gard to nearly all animals. While man is assumed (by 
himself) to be the highest and most intelligent of animals, 
the climax and boast of creation, how little does he know 
— or rather what an infinite deal does he not know — of 
his surroundings and fellow creatures! 
These reflections, while not new to me nor to many of 
your readers, are reiterated here owing to a perusal in 
these columns of the disquisitions of A Posteriori, Rev. 
Charles Josiah Adams, and the papers on hydrophobia 
by the Philadelphia Anti-Vivisection Society. 
Is it not astonishing — nay, is it not humiliating — that 
we know so little, almost nothing, of the dog? He has 
been man's closest companion, outside his own immediate 
species, since Abraham and Lot took possession of the 
world as property. With all his real or fancied intelli- 
gence, does man in 1896, A. D., know as much of the dog 
as the dog knows of man? If man knows as much, does 
he know more? 
Here is this learned society, through talented physicians 
of many decades of experience, just now announcing that 
hydrophobia is a thing so rare as to be almost a myth. 
Scarcely a well authenticated case can be cited by all the 
able faculty! And yet in this enlightened and advanced 
era and country we have been intimidated from genera- 
tion to generation with stories of mad dogs. 
Every well regulated village and town in the country 
kills off a few mad dogs every summer. Newspapers tell 
at frequent intervals of the curdling antics, of the hor- 
rible doings of mad dogs. Many people and horses are 
bitten and die, and the policemen and constables have 
fearful struggles with mad dogs everywhere. 
And now we are just finding out that mad dogtf are 
about as scarce as moose are on Broadway. This is a severe 
blow to nursery legends. If we have no mad dogs, 
Where's the use of having the mad stone where people 
can go and be cured after being bitten? How will the 
newspapers get along without this necessary adjunct? 
Both we and they will have to worry along without hy- 
drophobia and mad dogs. If there were no mad men we 
could scarcely survive this loss. 
Has the dog been as foolish in all these years? Has he 
gone about biting or tearing to pieces such individuals 
of the human species of animals as had gone mad? Per- 
haps he thought it too much of a contract. 
But in all his career as a pcor dumb brute, with no 
faculties but "instincts," has the dog ever made such an 
idiot of himself as to cherish a superstition from genera- 
tion to generation for 1,000 years or so? No. It may be, 
as it seems, that dogs and the lower animals advance 
slowly, but they seem withal quite sure of their ground. 
A Posteriori, Mr. Adams and others of us like to grope 
— that is conjecture. We would like to know now, after 
cherishing the dog for 2,000 years or so, something about 
him. But, alas! the dog, like nearly or like every other 
atom of creation, animate or inane, is beyond us still. 
We may be instrumental in propogating his species, may 
elevate him to ideal standards of excellence, may finally 
teach him to distinguish a portrait by its likeness to a 
personality, but from this will spring no fountain ^of 
wisdom. 
The trend of everything with us inclines away from 
the natural to the ideal, speculative, artificial. In my 
poor opinion we will profit more in the study of the 
natural than in our efforts to revolutionize and improve 
many things as they exist. The idea I mean to express 
is, most things as they exist are imperfect or unsatisfac- 
tory to us because we do not understand them. Hence 
for so many years we have believed in the common prev- 
alence of mad dogs and hydrophobia because we are 
ignorant and superstitious. The natural is usually right 
— artifice always questionable. Ransacker. 
California. 
Entries to Continental F. T. Club's Chicken Trials. 
ALL- AGE STAKE, 
E. A. Burdett's b. and w. setter bitch Anae of Abbots- 
ford (Gladstone's Boy — Bohemian Girl). 
Paul H. Gotzian's 1. and w. setter dog Lawrence (Doc 
Q iiinn — Mi d nesota). 
N. T. Da Pauw's liv. and w. pointer bitch Sister Sue 
( )■ 
A. L. Shonfield's b., w. and t. setter dog Noble Leo 
A. M. Young's Id,, w. and t. setter bitch Gleam's Ruth 
Del Monte Kennels' b. and w. setter dog Sam T. (Luke 
Bov— Bettie B,). 
D. E, Rose's (agt.)b,, w. andt. setter dog Domino ( 
D. E. Rose's (agt.) b., w. and t. setter dog Tony Boy 
( )■ 
D. E. Rose's (agt.) b,, w. and t. setter dog Greenway 
D. E. Rose's (agt.) 1. and w. pointer dog Von Gull ( 
)• 
NORTHWESTERN STAKE. 
A. C. Reid's b. and t. setter bitch Swab (Manitoba Toss 
— PittiSing). 
Thos. Johnson's b. setter bitch Psyche (Manitoba Toss — 
Pitti Sing). 
Thos. Johnson's b. b. setter bitch Patti (Duke of Gloater 
—Flora). 
Thos. Johnson's liv., w. and t. pointer dog Lonsdale 
(Coton— Psyche). 
Thos. Johnson's 1. and w. pointer dog Alberta Joe (Ight- 
field Upton— Ightfield Blythe). 
Thos. Johnson's b. setter dog Sancho (Manitoba Toss — 
Manitoba Bess). 
Richard Merrill's liv. and w. pointer dog Stridemore 
(Strideaway — Hops II ). 
Richard Merrill's liv. and w. pointer bitch Daisy Rip-Rap 
( ). 
C. E. Dickey & Co.'s b., w. and t. setter dog Kingston 
(Chance — Bessie Avent), 
Paul H. Gotzian's I. and w. setter dog Lawrence (Doc 
Quinn — Minnesota). 
J. W. Penderson's English setter bitch Lady of Gloss. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y -Treas. 
* 
New England Beagle Trials* 
Linden, ^ia,s3.— Editor Forest and Stream: Entry 
blanks to the New England Beagle Club's fall field trials 
are now ready and "will be mailed to all, but should any 
be overlooked I will gla<ily forward them on application. 
The trials this fall should be the best ever held by the 
club, and undoubtedly the several classes will be well 
filled. There will probably be fifteen or more starters in 
the Futm-ity Stake, which will be looked forward to with 
much interest, as quite a number of the most noted bench 
and field winning stud dogs are represented, namely, 
Wanderer, Frank Forest, Zeno, Spark R., Ringleader, 
Clyde, Diamond Forest and several others. 
The trials will be held, as usual, at Oxford, Mass., and 
from all accounts rabbits are more plentiful than ever. 
The club headquarters will be at Hotel Bacon, where first- 
class accommodations can be had for about $1.50 a day, 
and it is a well-known fact, as hundreds can testify, that 
Mr. Bacon never allows any one to go away hungry. 
The accommodations for dogs this year will be first class, 
as the club has secured a building about five minutes' 
walk from the hotel, light and comfortable, which will 
be partitioned off so each handler can have his dogs all 
by themselves and under lock and key if he wishes. 
Messrs. Quynn and Turpin, the judges selected, are well 
known to nearly every beagle breeder in America as thor- 
ough sportsmen, and it is unnecessary to state that the 
best dogs will be placed at the head, no matter who owns 
or handles them. All prize money will be paid immedi- 
ately after the judges give their decision, same as last 
year. A long list of special prizes will be donated by the 
members, which will be published in the sporting press at 
an early; date. One of the most pleasant features of the 
trials will be quite a delegation of the celebrated Mary- 
land beagle breeders, who will be on hand to attend the 
trials for the first time, and without doubt the New Eng- 
land boys will give them a hearty greeting. 
W. S. Clark. 
Union Field Trials Club. 
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 23. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Owing to the fact that the Presidential election 
occurs on Tuesday, Nov. 3, the Union Field Trials Club 
has decided to begin its trials on Monday, Oct. 26, at 
Carlisle, Ind. This will enable patrons, handlers and 
spectators to attend the trials and get back home in time 
to vote. It will also enable handlers to run their dogs in 
these trials and get to the Eastern Field Trials Club's trials 
in time to give their dogs several days' work on North 
Carolina grounds before the Eastern Derby starts. 
The grounds at Carlisle have been secured free of cost, 
and as the officers and judges donate their services, and 
the cost of running in these trials is only $\5, we antici- 
pate a large entry, thus insuring prizes of sufficient size 
to be worth contesting for. 
The trials will be judged by Mr. Royal Robinson, who 
is an ardent admirer of both pointers and setters, and 
Mr. S. H. Socwell, who does all of his shooting over a 
pointer; we therefore feel justified in saying that the 
best dog will win, regardless of breed. The entry 
blanks are now ready for mailing. The entries to the 
Derby close Sept. 15, with |5 forfeit and $10 to start. 
The All-Age entries will close Oct. 15, with $5 forfeit and 
|10 to start. The breeds will run together in both stakes. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y- Treas, 
