60 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JuLT I'r, 1897. 
Hot Weather and a Hot Shoot at ULttle Rock. 
-LiTTLB Rock, Ark , July 6.— The attendance at the shoot here yes- 
terday reminded one very forcibly of the s;oor\ old days of '92, when 
the sport of trap shootina; was booming and all the shoots were well 
attended. The .'•hoot of to-day brougQt togetbpr one of the old-time 
crowds. Forty-eigbt shooters partii lpated, which escepded anything 
la the way of attendance since the State shoot here in '95. 
This is a great showing, when you take iiico consideration the fact 
that none but residents of the State were present. Only one short 
year aso it would have been a difficult matter to have "gotten two 
squads to a shoot here, no roatter what the inducements might have 
been But things have changed now, and ihe revival of this great 
sport of ours is very gratifying, and also seems to be of the s' alible 
kind. 
The programme that bad been arranged for the dav was certainly 
a very liberal one. Tbe feature of the day was the four men tearii 
race, for the purse of $iOO. with an entrance fee of only price of the 
birds. Then there were also five 15 target events, with' $10 added to 
each. As stated above, the interest cei tered in the team race, and ten 
teams wtre entered; no less than six of these beloDgjng to Little 
Ko"k. two represented Pine Bluff, and one each from Ftot Springs 
and Fort Smith The purse of $100 was cut into three moneys .$30, 
$30 and $20. This was a hot contest, and it was nip-and tuck between 
Little Rock, Fort Smith and Hot Springs, and finally resulted iu Li' tie 
Hock team No 1 winning first and Fort Smith second, while Hot 
Springs took third 
The scoi es were very poor, and some of those teams who promised 
to attend, but stayed away, will no^v realize what a good thiag they 
overlooked oy staying away. Memphis was to havebeen represented, 
but failed 10 materialize. They could very readily muster several 
teams that could beat 78, but If they would have been equal to tbe 
emergency on this occasion is another thing Conner led the Little 
Rock team with 21, iVlalthews was high for Ft. Smith with 2a, Dobhms 
and Hughes led the Hot Springs team with a like score. The high 
score on the Pine Bluff team v» as male by Olemeuis. SI. The remaining 
teams were never factors in the race, it is more than likely that Hot 
Springs would have walked ofiE with first money, only for Kix's gun 
going wrong, which began snapping, and he was compelled to shoot 
the other barrel, which changed the trigger pull, and it was then that 
he lost 5 of hi.s last 8 birds. The scores of tne first four teams are 
given m detail, while the others have been condensed. The scores 
made in the sweeps are given in tabulated form. Nos. 1 and 2 are 
extras, while the remaining five are the programme events, to each 
of which $10 was adfled. Clements was high man for the day with 
84.6 per cent., Dickinson 8i 6, Matthews and Hughes 80.7, Forster, 
Woodson and Connor 80. The purses to the sweeps were divided. 
Rose system, four moneys, and the follow. ng points were paid for 
ihe respective po^itions: 7,5,4,3, 
There were only two straight scores made during the day, one of 
these by young Matthews, of Fort Smith, and the other by (jonner, a 
local shooter. The following also participated in the sweei>s, but as 
they shot in but one ev^nt their name does not appear in t he table: 
Rose, Kerr. Nichols, Irwin, Overstreet, Schare. Beaver, Hickman ana 
Lehow. Of all ot these Lenow^ was the only one to get in for money; 
he scored 12 in the fifth event. Two cents were charged for targets, 
and a lunch was served gratis to the shooters. The weather was 
clear and red-hot: 
Little Rock No. 1. 
Conner 0111110111101111111011111-21 
Dickinson , ICOOllliniinUlllOUlOl— 20 
Alexander 0111100101111110111110111-19 
Woodson •. .01110111111001011111 11100-18—78 
Fort Smith. 
Matthews .....lOllllllllIllOOllllllllU— 22 
Echols 1 Ill 1 1111100111 11001 1 01110—1 9 
Leach... 1011111100011001111111011-18 
Duley......V.;.*, 1010100111111110011011011-17—76 
Hot Springs. 
Dobbins 1111111111110111101111110—92 
Hughes 1110111111111101101111111-22 
Ritt . .1111101110311111101011000-17 
Oollings OllOlOllllOOlOi 0011011010- 14-75 
Hine Bluff No. 1. 
Clements 0110111110111111110111111-21 
Coles 1111111000310111010111111—18 
Lloyd , , , , . .OUOIOOlllOllOllOUlUlll— n 
.Worrells llOlOlOlOlOOCOOllllllllll— 16 - 72 
The scores of the other teams were as folloivs: Little Rock No. S— 
ThlbauU 20, Pemberton 18, Phillips 16, Schaer 16 70- Little Rock No. 
5— Irwm 21, Reaves 18, Overstreet 16. Rose 14-69; West End-Sisco 
19, Wade 16, Mcculloch i5. Kirk 14-64; Little Rock No 3-Nich61s 21, 
Forster 19, Miles 18, Charles Alexander 6- 64; Pine Bluff No. 2— Boyeti 
18, Williams 16, Howell 12, Fergus 9-55; Liitle Rock Ho. 4— De Guire 
16, Boyd 18, Lenow 13, Hickman 11 — 52. Paitl R. Litzke. 
Oneida County 
vs. Richfield Springs. 
Richfield Springs, July 10.— Editor Forest and Stream: The se- 
cond of a series ot tiiree matches between the Oneida County Sports- 
man's Asssociation and the Richfield Springs Gun Club was shot here 
the 7th. The conditions were nine men to a team, 25 birds per man. 
The O. C. S. A. won by the narrow margin of three targets. This 
makes the series stand one each, as Richfield won the first one at 
Utica. Four sweeps ol" 15 targets each, and two at 5 pah-s were shot 
during the afternoon. The scores were good cop.sideriDg the condi- 
tions, which were quite hard, the targets being thrown about BOyrts. 
against a very tryiug oackground Mr. M. E Barker, with a Lefever 
gun and E C. powder, was high average, .923. 
The scores in the team shoot were as follows: 
Ulica. 
Gates 19 
Scott.... 19 
Pfififer 16 
Brunner ..,..15 
Judson. 
..-.-16 
Mahew .^.,.21 
J W Fulford...... .........24 
e D Fulford. 2i 
Dexter l9- 
The sweeps: ■ 
Events: 1 2 
171 
Richfield Springs. 
Yeoman 2.1 
Barland 39 
Caney 18 
Weatherbee 19 
Tunnicliffe. ,J6 
Barker 
Nuhf ..10 
Cole 19 
Mungar...... 80- 
-168 
3 4 5 6 9 
Targets: 15 
ME Barker...... 14 
E D Fulford 13 
M Mahew 13 
J W Fulford 12 
HL Gates 10 
Judson 11 
Scott 4., ..I 18 
YeomanB 8 
Dexter 11 
Caney ....i . 10 
Borland.. ............. ,w . .. 
Mungar ; 1.1 
Pfeffer 11 
Weatherbee . . 
TunnicliflE 9 
Cole 10 
Neely 
Brunner 6 
15 25 15 15 10 10 Shot at. Broke. :Perct 
15 24 13 14 
14 22 15 14 
14 31 14 la 
13 24 12 13 
8 19 7 13 
13 16 11 12 
9 19 5 11 
9 23 
14 19 
11 18 
10 19 
11 U0 
16 
.. 39 
.. 16 
.. 19 
.. 10 
.. 15 
8 13 8 8 
., 11 
13 11 
105 
97 
.923 
105 
90 
.857 
105 
^8 
.688 
85-- 
74 
.870 
105 
71 
,676 
105 
79 
.755! 
85 
,670 
105 
T6 
.723 
54 
41 
.POO 
70 
48 
.685 
40 
£9 
.725 
55 
42 
.76:^ 
55 
38 
.680 
55 
48 
;781 
40 
9fi 
.625 
40 
29 
.725 
25 
10 
.400 
40 
21 
.525 
Recreation Gun Club. 
Barre, Vt,. July 3.— 1 herewith inclose you the scores made at the 
shoot of the Recreation Gun Club to-day. The shooting was done on 
the grounds of the Fairview Trotting Association. The traps were 
set at a distance from the race track, so that the shooting would not 
interfere with the horse trotting atid other sports, The Association 
kindly gave the club %zi> to use as added money. The Sergeant sys- 
tem of trapping was used, and many of the low scores were due to 
the shooters' unacquaintance with that method of trapping. The 
club was pleased to welcome 0 O. Barrett, P. A. Standish and Mr 
Stoddard, from Montpelier. Most of the shooters found the sun and 
extremely not air a little enervating: 
Events: 1 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 
10 15 10 20 10 15 10 10 15 10 10 5 10 
Targets: 10 
Morgan 4 
Standish , 9 
Reynolds 8 
Faylor , S 
B Eastman 7 
Houghton 5 
Barrett 8 
W Eastman.,^,.,.,.,,,,,,,. 8 
Brown ••V... 3 
Diack 6 
Griffin 8 
Stoddard 
8 11 8 13 9 11 
,. 7 
9 10 
1 
10 
9 
Hoisington, 
Clark ,,-,.,''......>.;.. 8 
Bennett..., <..( 14 ... I (••••> 7 
Abbott « . « , « « t ft 1 4-t • • • « • t • • * * . ■ 
8 i 
9 
5 
.. 6 
3 .. 
9 12 
9 15 6 10 
8 
7 12 
4 7 
4 10 
8 9 
.. 17 .. 11 
9 
.. 11 
.. 8 
i .. 
7 14 
9 17 10 14 
6 
9 13 
7 10 
3 7 
9 13 
9 17 9 12 
5 
7.14 
6 8 
5 .. 
." ,8 
5 
.. r 
8 10 
7 13 4 11 
1 
8 10 
4 8 
4 6 
d 13 
12 
.. 8 
3 7 
9 10 
7 
Boston Gun Club. 
Wellingtok, Mass., June 30.- The last half of the Boston Gun Club 
summer prize series was successfully initialed at Wellington to-day by 
thirtePE trap-shooting enthu.'-iasts," who took full advantage of a 
clearing afternoon to follow their favorite line of sport The high 
wind which had succeeded the deluge of the mornins was a little 
troublesome to some of those who desired straights, hut very little 
complaiDt was heard 
Among the visitors to day was one who called forth many encomi- 
ums ot praise by reason of his excellent shooiing, notwithstanding a 
physical drawback of no mean proportion- a lameness which neces- 
sitated the use of a crutch; yet with no apparent effort he followed 
the squad evolutions with cotisiderable success. To the ordinary 
shooter in possession of every physical aotantage, the ease with 
which he handled the gun was wonderful to note, and proved a lesson 
iu many ways. 
Summary as follows; 
Events: 1 8 
Targets: 10 10 
Brown 8 
6 
10 
9 
Banks 5 6 3 4 0 S 
Mckols..,.. 8 7,. 8 5 9 
ShefBeld 8 8 5 10 9 12 
Woooruff 9 9 2 7 6 9 
■Winters 7 5 3 9 6 10 
Chadwick. , ,^ „.,.,.. . , 8 6 4 6 9 10 10 
Paine 8 10 3 8 7 12 8 
Williams 8 8 S 8 .. 9 8 
Spencer ....^i.. .-. ".. .. 9 5 10 6 
Miskay ; 6 12 8 
Milner j .. .. ., 7 11 5 
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ilia 13 
10 10 15 10 10 10 6 10 10 10 
8 7 11 6 
5 .. ;. 
Bannon , , 6 8 
9 7 
5 8 
9 8 
8 6 
9 10 
7 3 
4 8 
8 9 
4 
Events 1, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 13, known angles; 3, 5 and 7^ unknown; 11 
same, use of both barrels; 3 and 10. pairs; 9^ reverse pull. 
known, 10 unknown; dis- 
1111111111—10-20 
1111101011— 8—20 
0101111111— 8— 20 
1111111111—10—19 
1111011111— 9—19 
0011001111— 6-18 
1110110001— 6—17 
1110101111— 8—17 
llOIOOllOO— 5-16 
1110011010— 6—16 
OllOlOOuOO— :i-ll 
lOOiOOlllO- 5—10 
Fifth contest in prize series, 25 targets, 15 
tauce handicap: 
Chadwick (16yds.) OllllOWllCOlll— 10 
Miskay (17) ..,.110111101110111—12 
Paine (16) ,. . . ... . 110111111010111—12 
Woodruff (17)..,....... ......101011101110001- 9 
Winters (.18) OllOlllllOluilO-10 
ShefiSeld (1.5) OllllOlilllOUl-ia 
Brown (1.5) OllOiOllOlllUl— 11 
Williams (15) 110111010101001— 9 
Wfulner (16) 101111001101111— ll 
Spencer (18; 4..,..., .,.,..111101001101 101— 10 
Bannon (15) ......lOlllOOCOlllOOl— 8 
Banks (H) IIOOIOICOOIOOOO- 5 
Nickols (16J OlOUlllOlOlUlO— 9 
July 7 — Though Monday was quite generally' devoted to trap- 
shooting iu this vicinity, eleven found sufficient interest to draw them 
to the Boston Gun Club grounds at Wellington, but two days later, 
when the sixth serial prize shoot took place. On a warm day such 
as this proved to be, Wellington is considered an ideal place, being 
fairly cool and comfortable when Boston is- sweltering, so it is not 
strange that those who are well aware of this fact should flee the ciiy 
on Wednesday afternoon, but it is strange that all should go equipped 
with a heat generating instrument; in other words, a double-b4rreled 
shotgun. This is where the fun comes in, however, and very shortly 
after train arrival each and ali are eager for the fray. To day the 
participants seemed to possess a mania for shooting pairs, and no 
less than three events were of this description. On other days, when 
the gun keeps cool of itself, three pairs make a score, but to day 
nothing less than five satisfied a shooter, and those who had left their 
Heikes at home did not need to be reminded of the fact. Complete 
ssores as follows: 
Events: 1S345G789 101118 
Targets: 10 10 10 10 10 15 10 10 10 10 10 10 
Brown 77857 11 '7 79886 
Sheffleld.. 6 5 7 .. 10 13 
Miskay 9 6 6 7 10 13 
Pickles...,,, ■., 7 8 9 8 8 14 
Chadwick 7 7 5 & 8 11 
O^gooa 4 3 8. 
Banton 6 5 5 3 0 11 6 
Paine 88897 13 959 6 93 
Horace.... , 7 8 8 . . 10 ll 8 7 7 6 . . . . 
iNickols 4 7 6 .. 8 13 
Spencer..... 4 9 13 8 6 6 7. 7 .. 
Events 1, 5 and 6, known angles; 2, 7 and 11, unknown; 3 and 10, re- 
verse pull; 4, 8 and 12, pairs; 9, expert rules, unknown traps and 
angles. 
Merchandise match, 25 targets, 15 known, 10 unknown; distance 
handicap: 
Paine (16) 111111111010111—13 
Spencer (18) 101111111111101—13 
Sheffield (15) 110111101111111-13 
Chadwick (16) , lOOlOlllUllOll-ll 
Pickles (17) 111111111011111—14 
Horace (16) lOlUllllOOlllll— 11 
Brown (15) lOlllllOl 101101—11 
Benton (14) OUlllOilOUllO -11 
Miskay (17) 111110l0illllll-]3 
Nickols (15) 111111110111110—13 
Osgood (14) OOlOOlOlUlllOll— 8 
7 3 5 5,7 4 
4 7 9 7 7 6 
5 7 7 4 5 5 
a a 5 S 7 3 
llOlllUll— 
1111110110 — 
1110110101— 
IIIUIIOII— 
1101001001— 
0111101111— 
0111091111— 
1101101010— 
0111000100— 4 - 
Withdrew. 
Withdrew. 
Boston, 
9-22 
8— 21 
7— 20 
9- 20 
5— 19 
8— 19 
7—18 
6- 17 
17 
Missoula Rod and Gun Club. 
MissoTtLA, Mont., July 6.— Enclosed please find scores of two shoots 
held on July 4 and 5. 
We had a fair attendance considering the holiday and some good 
shooting was done, especially that of R E. Rodger.-', who occasionally 
gets his shooting jacket on, and shows the boys what he can do when 
ne tries. 
We also had a beginner in R. Hammond, who is only about fifteen 
years old, and had never shot at a bluerock before. \/e think he did 
very well in getting 13 out of 25, and he promises to make a good 
shot. Scores of J uly 4: 
No. 1, Club Shoot. No. 2. Practice. 
RERodgers lllUllllillllOljOOllllll-22 1101111111-9 
HHHurlbut.. lOllOlOlOOOlllllOlllOlOJO-14 _ 
H W Thompson 0010100110111110110031110—14 
R A Eddy.:. illuiOIllOlllOlOlllllOlll-19 1011111111-9 
W E Graham 0101111003111011101111111—18 lll]lll0l0-8 
CE Flowers 0011010000101011103010110—11 OOOiOOllOO 3 
T T McLeod .lOlOOUOllUOlllOl 00011)00— la UOOlOOOIll-4 
J A Forbes llOiOUlOllllllOlllUlOOlO— 17 llllCOlOlO-6 
X3r Mills 0000000001010000 3(jO0Ou000 - 2 OuOOOO 3101— 2 
M R Rutherford lOuOlOlllOlCOoOOOOOlOllOO-- 9 
Scores of July 5, No. 1: '^^ 
H W Tnompson lOUlOJl 11101 111011111101-20 
Dr Mills 0101100100100011011100000—10 
W 'E Graham OiOlOlOlllOOOaiOlllllOlO— 16 
T T McLeod OOOOilOOOllOOlOOOOl.SOllOO— 8 
R lEddy llllOllOllllOilllllllllOO— 19 
MB Rutherford OlOOOOOOllOOlOllOOlOOOCOl— 8 
R A*Eddy 1101 111 1 1 1 1 0111 011011111-21 
M R Rutherford . . , * i 0001000011000110011000003— 8 
T T McLeod OimOjOOOOOllOlOlllll 0000-10 
H W Thompson. loiOllOOOllllCOOlllllOlOl-15 
R llammoud. 00001111110100liiOOOlllOO-13 
WE Graham llOOllOOOlOnOUOlllOllll— 16 
W. pj Graham, Sec'y. 
11 11 10 11 00— !^04-4— 24 
11 ll 11 10 10 —S3 
ll 10 11 11 30-19-1-4—23 
II ti ri 7 ^ I 
11 11 10 11 10—18-1-5-23 
11 11 11 11 11- 204-1—21 
11 01 01 10 11-30-1-1—21 
10 01 11 11 10— 18-r3— 21 
11 11 11 11 01 —19 
01 01 01 11 00—15-1-3—18 
11 00 10 10 10 —17 
0, R, MiZNJiR, Sec'y. 
Rhode Island Trap-Shooting Association. 
. Peotidenck, R. I., July 1. — The attendance at the weekly shoot of 
the Rhode Island Trap-Shooting Association, held this afternoon, was 
very light, owing probably to the desire of many shooters to save 
their powder until the shoot on July 5. The following scores were 
made oy those present: 
Twenty-five targets, known angles: H. Swindell 20, H. W. Bain 18, 
J. Lamb, 18, C. H. Sfaniels 12, G. Jenore 11, Rossie 9. 
Twenty-five targets, unknown angles: H. Swindell 17, H. W, Bain 
17, J. Lamb 17, C. H. Staniels 15, Morton 9. 
July 5.— The Rhode Island Trap-Shootihg Association carried out a 
programme of events suitable to the occasion at its shoot held to-day i 
A large number of members from the Pawtuxet Gun Club were on 
hand and did some creditable shooting, in addition to carrying off the 
chief honors iu the prize shoots. Scores were as below, Nos. 1* 2 and 
4 being at known angles, and No 3 at unknown angles: 
In the first event, P L.Corey won first by breaking 24 out of 25, 
Stephen Green won secontl. with a score of 22. In the second prize 
event, F. I. Grebner and F. L. Corey were tied for first, and in the 
shoot off at 10 targets F. L Corey broke 10 and F. I. Greener 9. The 
second prize was wbn by Mr. S. Green with 21 breaks. Wm. Sheldop 
and Frank Arnold did not arrive in time to.enter the prize events. B. 
C. Whitaker did some gOod shooting and tied the best score of the 
dat by breaiiing 24. F. 1. Greener did fairly well, but was out of 
form by I he excessive heat. Taking it as a whole, very good scores 
ivere niade, as will be seen by the following events: 
Events: 1 2 3 4 Events: 12 3 4 
Targets: 25 So 35 2i> 
PHHandelt 20 .. 15 ., 
Stephen Green 22 21 13 .. 
John Paye 9 11 12 .. 
J F Rossie la 8 .. 10 
C arles Adams... 18 15 18 
A Mowry 10 ,. 8 
Wra Sheldon ^. i. 3L23 
F Arnold .... 6 19 
J Armstrong, Jr...... i 15 
Arnold did not finish. They shot 
Targets: 35 25 35 S5 
Jienry Moore.. 15 17 .. .. 
F I Greener 18 22 35 
FL Corey 24 22 17 
H W Bain ;. 15 16 18 
AM Hunt 13 14 
E C Whitaker 20 17 18 24 
Amos Arnold 18 17 12 .. 
CHMathew.son 14 16 .. .. 
C H Staniels 16 16 .. .. 
In the third event S. Green and F, 
20 
11 
at 15 targets. 
Only the first and second were prize events. 
J. V. RUSSBM,, SBcV' 
J53456789 
15 10 10 10 10 10 SO 10 
12 
13 9 
13 7 
4 .. 
13 7 
15 
9^ 8 
11 10 10 
8 10 
6 5 
9 
Catchpole Gun Club. 
WoLCOTT, N. Y., July 5.-The Catchpole Gun Club, of Wolcott, held 
a Very successful shoot to-day at Bonnicastle, Sodus Bay, the fine 
summer resort and home of our president. Uncle Beu Catchpole. A 
very nice attendance of shooters was the result, the following cities 
being represented: Rochester, Oswego, Clyde, Sterling and Savannah. 
A series of nine events was decided, the results being given below in 
tabulated form: 
Events: 1 
Targets: 10 
HncleBen , V 
AC Burnett 9 
Tassel 10 
Wayte. 6 
Hunt^er , jj,.^^^-^,^.,..^..*.,^^... .■. 9 
Reed 8 
Cosard... ..v.... > 7 
Wright 6 
Cumpson ....^ 8 
Olmsted ,.......,1.,. 7 
Gillette...- 9 
Foster 8 
Turner.i 9 
Wad worth 7 
Hopkins,.,... 
De Witt .r...... .. 
Ingersoll 
Fowler , .. 
Dr Weller 
Wride 
Seaman.... ,. , 
Smith 
G Burnett ..^.i.,... .. 
Surgent ......i... .. 
9 
4 
7 
5 
9 
8 8 
7 7 
12 
11 
8 
10 
4 
10 
8 
7 
P 
8 
8 
8 
8 .. 
6 16 
. 4 .. 
9 8 15 
5. 8 .. 
5*6 15 
8 10 ., 
9 3,, 
6 .. 
8 ,. 
7 3 
.. 7 
's "s 
's "8 
7 9 
8 8 
6 8 
7 
10 
5 
7 
8 
4 
16 
9 
6 
9 
9 
8 15 
1 .. 
7 .. 
5 14 
6 .. 
9 .. 
8 .. 
5 . 
9 
3 6 .. . 
E. A. Wadsworth, SecY- 
9 
Near the Smoky City. 
HAZELWOOn G0N CLUB. 
PiTTSBDBG, Pa., July 8.— The members of the Hazelwood Gun Club 
had a licilo practice shoot at sparrows to-day, and when thespaiTows 
gave out they took revenge on targets. Below are the scores id tabu- 
lated form: 
13 3 4 5 Events: 
Events: 1 3 
Sparrows: 25 25 7 10 15 
Cross] and 23 24 6 7 13 
Lovatt 19 .. 5 .. 
Munson 1819 5 .. .. 
Stdley 21 7 8 10 
All the above events were at sparrows, except No. 6, which was at 
15 targets. No. 4 was at 5 pairs of sparrows. 
1 S 3 4 5 
Sparrows: 25 25 7 10 15 
W^-A 7 .. 10 
Parley 8 
Smith 8 
lmivet§ to ^orreB^ond^nk. 
No notice taken of auonymons communlcationa 
S. J. D., Richfield Springs, N. Y.— 1. What is the best treatment to 
rid a dog of pinworms? 2 At what time or age are a dog's olfactories 
first fully developed. 3. Is a spayed bitch taxed at the same rate as 
one that is not? Ans (1) Give areca nut. Reduce to a powder bv 
grating, using the darker colored nur. Give one drachm, in the form 
of a large pill incorporated with lard. (2) It would oe quite as diffi- 
cult to determine just when a dog's eyesight or hearing is fully de- 
Teloped, all being of the senses. The dog uses his nose constantly, 
so it presumably is developed fully as soon as the puppy has senses 
enough to use it. (:3) We ihmk she is. 
W. I. P., Por smouth, N. H.— My Irish setter dog, aged two years, 
last winter bad an attack of distemper. Heapparently recovereo from 
it, but since that time has been aiHicied with what see'ms like a bad 
head cold or snifl&es. His nose runs and scabs over, and he breathes 
as if the nostrils were partially closed. He is otherwise well, eyes 
' bright, appetite good, is lively and i)layf ul. But the noise he makes 
when breathing, especially when asleep, and his bad looking nose, 
make it unpleasant to have him m the house. What would you sug- 
gest doing for him? Can he be cured ? Ans. If po.-sible syringe the 
nostrils twice a day with Seller's solution, (to make this solution 
tablets ctn be obtained at any drug store), also spray nostrils with 
the following: 
Menthol gr. s 
Aldene 5 1 
Sol. Use as directed. For sponging use an oil atomizer. 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 
Oneida County Sportsmen's Association. 
Utica, N. Y., July 3.— The regular weekly shoot of the Oneida 
County Sportsmen's Association was held this afternoon, eleven 
memoers taking part in the club event. This event resulted in a lie 
between Marks (3) and Chas Brunner ^4) with 24 each. E D. Fnl- 
ford from scratch ran 15 straight in the expert rule.=, and then lost 
the last target in each of his last two pairs, finishing with 23 out of 25. 
Scores were: 
Club shoot, 15 singles, expert rules, and 5 pairs: 
Marks (3) llOllllOIllllll 10 11 11 11 10— 21-[-3— 24 
Chas Brunner (4) OOlllllllllllU " 
E D Fulford (0) .111111111111111 
C R Mizner (4; lllllllOlllOOlO 
J PfeifEHr (5) lUOlCOlllOllOl 
JGKilbourn (1),. llllOOlOlOillll 
J Deck (1) linuilllOOlll 
Scott (:33 ,^,.....,^......001101101101111 
H L Gates (0) .101101101100111 
O A Wheeler (3) ,^.,.,.100101111001111 
J W Fulford (0>..., ,,.111111100111011 
Absence of Plague Due to the Advancement of 
Science. 
In 1490 B. C. a plague destroyed 824,000 Israelites in the Wilderness. 
A plague in London in 16S5 destroyed 36,000 people. In the years 
163fi-a6 there was a plague mortality of 14,000, and from 1663 to i665it 
is stated that there were in the same town 70,000 to 80,000 deaths. 
In civilized countries at present those outbreaks of disease are prac- 
tically unknown on account of the advancement of medical and 
chemical knowledgej but there is no doubt that the present death 
rates could be largely diminished, and the general health of the com- 
munity greatly improved by further sanitary precautions, especially 
in the homes, and the judicious use of some approved non-poisonous 
disinfectant, such as the • Sanitas" preparations, to which we take 
pleasure in callmg attention, and would suggest writing to the '-Sani- 
las" Co.. tS-i West 55th street. New York city, for a copy of their use- 
ful work, "How to Disinfect."— 4dv. 
The J. Stevens Arms and Tool Co., Chioopee Falls, Mass., have 
recently issued several very attractive circulars bearing on rifle and 
pistol shooting. The latest is a four page folder intended to convey 
to yachtsmen the suggestion that Stevens rifles may be very desirable 
adjuncts to yachting cruises. This is illustrated by two very sug- 
gestive marine photographs, in both of which the cloud effects are 
remarkably fm&.—A&v. 
