FOREST AND STREAM. 
Oct. 3, 1896.] 
The moment for which the watchers had been waiting 
had arrived. Penney, he says, proceeded to work his 
way stealthily to Stone's side. Stone's dog espied him 
and began to growl. Stone turned quickly, but Penney 
called the others, and at the same moment sprang for* 
ward and seized Stone with a partridge still in his hand. 
Stone manifested an inclination to resist at first, but 
the officers placed twisters on his wrists, and he was con- 
vinced that it would be futile to fight, although he vigor- 
ously protested that because he was on his own land he 
had a right to do Is he pleased. 
When Stone's wife found that he had been arrested 
there was a scene. She protested that he should be 
allowed to go to bis house and change his clothes. The 
oflicers would not permit him to get such a chance to slip 
away from them, they said, and said that if he changed 
his clothes it should be done in their presence, and it was 
done. 
The nineteen birds, the man and the box, were all taken 
to Olneyville, where Stone was arraigned in the Eighth 
District Court. Each bird was numbered, and warrants 
were issued for each numbered bird. 
Stone pleaded not guilty and was required to furnish 
bonds in the sum of $1,900 for his appearance on Friday, 
next week, for trial. He was released on bail provided 
by a neighbor. 
The penalty for having a partridge in one's possession 
in the closed season is $30 and costs in each case, and as 
r there are nineteen cases the fines and costs will amount 
to about |525, as near as it can be estimated. 
Wilkins vs. Campbell. 
BgLNa a game warden's deputy is not all "beer and 
skittles," as some of Fish and Game Protector McGruire's 
appointees in various parts of the State have good reason 
to know. Just why they cannot shoot game when and 
where they want, regardless of season, is something a 
great many persons in the rural parts cannot imderstand, 
and when they are raked over the judicial coals for some 
such violation of the spirit and the letter of the game 
laws they sometimes try to make things unpleasant for 
the deputy who was instrumental in their prosecution. 
A case of this kind which has just come to Mr. 
McGuire's notice occurred quite recently in Lane county. 
M. O. Wilkins, an attorney of Eugene, who is acting as 
Mr. McGuire's deputy, because of his desire to preserve 
game in that section, recently prosecuted one George 
Campbell for shooting Chinese pheasants during the close 
season. Mr. Campbell admitted his guilt, and, with an 
excusable lack of cheerfulness, his father, Robert Camp- 
bell, paid a fine of $50 and |8 costs. Then Mr. Campbell, 
Sr., tried to make things uncomfortable for Deputy Game 
Protector Wilkins, finally causing the following notice to 
be published in a Lane county paper: 
NoTiCB— yo the Lane County Game Warden: IE the Chinese 
pheasants on my farm belong to the State ol Oregon, it is hereby 
notified to remove them at once, or else I will kill them. 
Robert Oampbeli,. 
Deputy Game Protector Wilkins was very much amused 
when he read this notice, and at first was inclined to let the 
matter drop. But, on thinking it over, he concluded to 
reply to it, and accordingly had the following answer pub- 
lished: 
To Robert Camphell. Springfiald, Ore.— Sir: The State of Oregon 
owns no birds of any kind upon your farm. The State of Oregon has, 
however, provided an act for the protection of game, fish, songbirds 
and other wildfowls, and also for the appointment of a flsh and game 
warden, whose duty, as well as the duty of every sheriff, constable 
and district attorney, it is made to enforce said act. It is unlawful to 
kill grouse, quail, pheasants or partridges between Dec. 1 and Sept. 1 
following. It is likevrise unlawful to sell any of said birds between 
Nov. 15 and Oct. 15 following, or kill more than twenty birds In any 
one day. Penalty for killing during close season, 850 to $100; for sell- 
ing birds out of season, $25 to $200. (Session laws 1895, pages 93 to 
100.) 
Association of a people in a government implies that the whole 
should protect all its parts, and that every part should pay obedience 
to the will of the whole; or, in other words, that the community should 
guard the rights of each individual member, and that in return for 
this protection each Individual should submit to the laws of the State, 
without which submission it would be impossible to extend protection 
to any.— Blackstonic. 
It you can remove the said birds from your farm without a violation 
of the game laws of Oregon, no crime will be committed against the 
State of Oregon; but if you violate the game laws you are liable to 
prosecution by its sworn officers. M. O. Wilkins, 
Deputy State Game and ^iah Protector for Lane County. 
Dated Sept. 11, 1896. 
In conclusion, Mr. McGuire said yesterday: "Mr. Wil- 
kins is not having the Chinese pheasants removed from 
Mr. Campbell's farm, neither is Mr. Campbell likely to kill 
any of them during the close season. " — Portland Oregonian. 
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FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS, 
Oct. 6 to 8.— Danbury Agricultural Society's snow, Danbuy, Conn. 
G. M, Rundle, Sec'y. 
Dec. 1 to 4.— City of the Straits Kennel Club's local show, Detriot, 
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. 
Oct. 19.— Brunswick Fur Club's annual hound trials, Barre, Mass. 
Bradford S. Turpin, Sec'y, Roxbury, Mass. 
Oct. 26.— Hempstead, L. 1.— National 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. Cummiags 
Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
Nov. 2.— Oxford, Mass.— New England Beagle Club's trials. W. S. 
Clark, Sec'y, Linden, Mass, 
Nov. 2.— Carlisle, Ind.— Union Field Trial Club's inaugural trials. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind i 
Nov. 10 -Columbus, Wis.— Northwestern Beagle Club's trials. Louis 
StefEen, Sec'y, Milwaukee. 
Nov. 10. — Leamington, Ont.— Peninsular Field Trial Club, Leaming- 
ton, Ont. 
Nov. 10.— Waynesburg, Greene Coimty, Pa.— Central Beagle Club's 
trials. L. O. Seld'e, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— National Fox Hunting Association's third annual trials, 
Bardstown, Ey. F. J. Hagan, Sec'y. 
Nov. 16.— Newton, N. C— E. F. T. Club's trials. S. O. 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. 8. 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, Hiintsville, Ala. 
COURSING. 
Oct. 6.— Mitchell Coursing Club's meeting, Mitchell, S. D. H. G. 
Nichols, Sec'y. 
Oct. 31.— Altcar Coursing Club's meeting. Great Bend, Kan. T. W. 
Oct. 28.— Kenmore Coursing Club's annual meeting, Herrington. 
Kan. O. A. Robinson, Sec'y. 
Oct. 13.— American Coursing Club's annual meeting, Huron, S. D 
F. B. 0»yne, Sec'y. 
1897. 
Jan. — .— Conttaentai Field Trial Club's quail trials. P. T. Madi- 
son, Sec'y. 
Jan. 18.— West Point, Miss.— U. S. F. T. 0. winter trials. W. B. 
Stafford, Seo'y, Trenton, Tenn. 
THE MEAT DOG. 
While at Kennedy, Minn. , recently, in attendance oh 
the field trials which there afforded competition to point- 
ers and setters, giving therein the unprejudiced exhibition 
of what chicken dogs should be, and more yet what they 
should not be, it was my good fortune to have a couple of 
days' chicken shooting with Prof. Edm. H. Osthaus and 
Mr. A. P. Draper, both of Toledo, O., both excellent shots 
in the field, and better yet, each considering his sport as 
being incomplete unless fully shared with his companions. 
To recount the long shots, the difficult shots and rare 
misses, and the hon mots of those merry men in their 
diligent quest of the heavy flying bird, prairie chicken; 
the grave discussions on powders, loads, shells, etc., and 
the vain-glorious boastings of Jack, the driver, were 
above the ordinary in interest — but that is another story, 
not the one herein intended, for this is to commemorate 
the worth and doings of a dog whose excellence made 
chicken shooting possible to us in a section where birds 
were few; .where extraordinary ability on the part of the 
dog was necessary to insure any shooting, and the manner 
in which our dog did it is deserving of all praise, barring 
the single fault of willfully flushing at times, though in 
this there was no malice nor intention to do wrong. It 
was the only way in which he had been accustomed to 
deal with the birds, and therefore it was the way he 
thought to be right, yet he constantly improved. 
His name is Mac, this being taken out of the middle of 
his real name for the sake of brevity, which name was 
too long and cumbersome in familiar addresses to the dog, 
and, as may now be surmised, Mac is an Irish setter. He 
is owned by Mr. Ryan, of the Hotel Ryan, St. Paul. 
Could the admirers of the beautiful Irish setter have had 
the happiness of seeing Mac at work, they would be 
cheered on to greater effort in the cause of Irish setter 
breeding; energetic effort backed by such supreme faith 
that there would be no uncertainty as to successful re- 
sults, instead of the half-hearted support now accorded 
him by the most ardent of his admirers and the apathy 
of the others. 
Mac bears all the characteristics of the well-bred Irish 
setter in type, color and instincts, with all the better 
field capabilities of all breeds, setters and pointers. He 
is about 50lb3. in weight, coat good, but somewhat faded 
from his open-air life, and there is a poise and confidence 
in his deportment which comes from a clear and healthy 
brain, one free from nervous imaginings and narrow 
reasonings, in so far as dogs do reason, and to his clear 
understanding was added a most benignant and amiable 
disposition. His eyes were light in color, but intelligent 
and mildly watchful of all that was going on. While 
riding in the wagon there were no nervous whinings nor 
fussy actions, impatient betokenings to begin work, and 
once cast off there was no returning to the wagon with 
beseeching looks or prayers that work be ended and a 
ride be offered. He was cool, level-headed and enduring, 
At first Mac showed a mild distrust of his new friends 
when they went afield together, as was becoming toward 
people with whom he was unacquainted; but kindness 
and common interest in the sport soon won his friend- 
ship, and he worked with an industry and cheerful good 
will which was without limit. 
His manner of going is distinctly different from that of 
most field trial dogs. He was all distinctly useful. He 
had a steady, swinging gallop, smooth in its action and 
thus free from the choppy or jerky stride so often seen in 
dogs running in haste, and he carried his tail and head 
rather low, the former without any action, as is com- 
monly the case with dogs which are seriously intent on 
business and not disporting themselves in physical frolic. 
He thus was in his style not so pleasing to the eye, though 
it may be said that there is a great difference Ijetween 
the dog which goes with a merry air and little merit in 
material performance and the one which goes with a 
business air and useful purpose. Style without other 
merit is useless. 
He swept the country in magnificent casts, keeping his 
eye on the course of the wagon and governing his doings 
by it, and when the nature of the ground required he 
ranged closer. Hour after hour he would maintain his 
swinging gallop, perhaps trotting for a few moments by 
way of rest, then resuming his tireless seeking. 
Taken into the same section on a second day, on a flat 
prairie, where there was but little to aid the memory as to 
location, and where most of men would be unable to dis- 
tinguish one place from another, though they had seen it 
before, he would remember the haunts of the birds and 
seek for them again, and it was rare that he missed them. 
His success as a finder was extraordinaiy, and it is safe to 
say that he was almost certain to find any birds in the 
scope of his fling. His nose was of the best, and once on 
the trail he would go to the birds with most pleasing 
quickness and accm-acy, be they far away or near. But 
from bad previous handling he was not properly stanch. 
He would point awhile, then sometimes — not always — 
press closer and flush, though never riotous and never in- 
clined to chase. From observation on his own part and 
kind treatment on ours he was constantly working with 
more finish to the gun, and had we had him a few days 
longer he would have been perfectly stanch. At the end 
of the day he would be still galloping in his easy stride, 
seeking chickens with the calm earnestness with which he 
began, and at the end of the last day he was still going in 
the same manner. Of course he was taken into the wagon 
betimes and rested a few minutes, not because he showed 
any signs of distress at all, but to betoken our apprecia- 
tion of the Irish dog which could do what many others 
of far more pretension could not do, and to be kind to one 
which served us so well. We had two pointers — kindly 
loaned us by friends — of whose performance much might 
be said, though it were better left apart from what is said 
of Mac, and better said in the ill moments when one has 
sad thoughtSi 
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Could Irish setter breeders and admirers know the ex* 
cellence of this dog, they would take new heart and feel 
that though but one such dog could be bred in a decade, 
it would be glory enough for the time. Could Brother 
Hough have seen Mao, he would have accepted him as 
great without putting him to the test of being run over 
by a $5 lumber wagon, crawling under a sixteen-rail 
fence, and eating a quarter of boardinghouae beef all in 
one day. He was a meat dog of the best, yet the shooter 
of such fine sensibilities that he will denounce the really 
useful dog afield must also denounce the man with a gun 
as being a meat man. 
In the cold morning hours when the ground was wet 
with dew, in the distressing heat of midday hours when 
the ground was dry and -effort doubly difficult, and 
whether the birds were plenty or scarce, Mac kept dili- 
gently and calmly on in his wide casts, finding chickens if 
there were any to find, and ever searching till he found 
them. In the heat of the day his nose never dulled, and 
at no time was it necessary to plead for him that he had 
run himself off his nose, that he did not have the wind 
right, that the judges ran him too long, and he did his 
work without prompting by hand or whistle, or the dis- 
gusting bawling of orders so commonly heard at field 
trials — but then Mac, I am sure, is not a field trial dog, 
though there is no reason why he and others like him 
should not be such if his like can be found, and if a field 
dog may be a field trial dog too. B. Waters. 
BIOPHILISM. 
RossviLLE, N. Y— Editor Forest and Stream: Several, 
A Posteriori among the rest, in Forest and Stream and 
elsewhere, have called my attention to the fact that the 
dog often corrects or corroborates a perception through 
the eyes by one through^the nose; as though in that fact 
(which I incidentally brought forward in my first letter 
to Forest and StreAjVI on "The Dog and the Picture") 
there were something militant against my notion of the 
lower animal's essential oneness with man. 
The truth is that man is constantly correcting percep- 
tions through one sense by those thrpugh others. This 
truth was brought to my mind very forcibly within a day 
or 80. Among the peach trees upon the rectory grounds' 
is one which bears a very large, luscious fruit. I showed 
the fruit and the tree to a caller — a gentleman somewhat, 
up in fruits. When I had shaken the tree and a peach • 
had fallen to the ground, the gentleman picked it up andi 
said, "It looks like a Morris White." Then he dented it . 
with his thumb, broke the skin with his thumb nail, heldi 
the peach near his nose, and said, "Yes, it is a Morris i 
White." In so doing this highly developed gentleman i 
(for such he is) did just what the dog does when he makes 
sure through his nose that the perception through his eyes, 
is correct. 
Material things reach the consciousness of the lower- 
animal just as they reach the consciousness of man,, 
through the five senses — sight, hearing, touch, taste andi 
smell. When it is necessary to a more perfect cognitioni,, 
or recognition, one sense supplements another. The 
activity of one, or two, or three, or all of them may be 
necessary to a perfect cognition, or recognition. That is 
clearly all there is of the matter in hand — in the case of 
man, butterfly, elephant or dog. 
I would hardly say that those who give the matter suf- 
ficient attention agree with me in every particular in 
biophilism; but I am free to say that I have never yet 
met a man or woman who would, without prejudice, 
give me a hearing who did not see my reasons for holding 
as I do in psychology — ^that what man is largely, in every 
particular, that the lower animal is — to some degree. 
This came to me with great force but yesterday. A lady 
who is very much prejudiced against biophilism attended 
a symposium which I gave at the rectory here on Wednes- 
day evening, Sapt. 9— the opening symposium of my 
this season's work in biophilism. She did not say much 
to me, but she remarked to a mutual friend: "Why, I 
had no idea before that the lower animal is so wise. Mr. 
Adams is right!" 
This remark I do not quote in self-laudation, but in the 
mighty desire that I may be barkened to by those who sneer 
without knowing. Some time ago a man of great wealth 
said to me: "You had better be doing something for 
hungry humanity, and let the dogs hustle for themselves." 
I made what may not be considered a very clerical re- 
mark: "I'll bet you $50 that, in proportion to my in- 
come, I give fifty times more to the poor people about me 
yearly than you do!" 
He would not put up; so he shut up. The great truth 
is that the gospel of biophilism is the gospel of universal 
generosity. The one who is kind to his horse or his dog, 
on principle, because he knows what is in the animal, is 
kind, on principle, to his fellow man; woman or child, 
because he knows what is in him. The intelligence of 
biophilism comes by comparison — is based upon knowl- 
edge of humanity. 
I will go anywhere to lecture or hold symposia in. 
biophilism. I am anxious for the sake of both the lower' 
animal and man that biophilism should spread — that; 
people should come to know what it stands for. 
Charles Josiah Adamb^ 
Fitchburg Hog Show. 
FiTCH.Bum.Ma.as.— Editor Forest and Stream: The ken- 
nel exhibition held in connection with the Worcester 
North Fair was a very decided success. It even compared 
very favorably with the bench shows of the larger cities 
and was decidedly the feature of the fair. Supt. H. A. 
Morse, of Leominster, can be congratulated, as the dogs 
were benched in excellent shape, and the stalls and sue- 
roundings were kept wonderfully clean. The judge of the^ 
show was H. W. Lacy, editor of the American Stoc]s:- 
Keeper, and his awards were very justly made, and his; 
decisions were very complimentary to the show. 
Among the well-known dogs noticed were: St. Ber- 
nards—Governor Russell and Dictator, of the Waban Ken- 
nels. Pointers— King of Lynn and the Wanoosnoe Ken- 
nels' splendid exhibit of Gordon setters, among them 
being: Champion Ranger in the challenge class, Wanoos- 
noc Prince, Count Leo, Grouse and others in the open 
class. In all there were upward of 100 entries, and the> 
first dog show held in Fitchburg was one to be proud of, 
E. W.. 
