Ato. 28, 1897.] 
in Mr. Harker's case and others; and the fury of his criti- 
cisms seems to depend on whether the losing party is or is 
not one of the Teapot's advertisers. 
To sum up, Mri Payne was a competitor at the late Oak- 
land show, and therefore he was not competent to make an 
impartial criticism on the awards, even if he had the techni- 
cal knowledge necessary to do so. As a disappointed exhi- 
bitor, he was qualified to be scurrilous, as many others have 
been before under the same circumstances. His charges 
of dishonesty are mere assertions. It is impossible to draw 
a definite specification from him. A libel suit would 
bring no redress. It would be impossible for him to 
give a true technical report of any show, but his reports 
such as they are, are founded on the sayings of the disap- 
pointed exhibitor and the profitable advertiser — there were 
exhibitors other than these at the show, but Mr. Payne is 
silent concerning them. His charges, as he was pleased to 
consider them, were largely a matter of hearsay; as he affects 
a smattering of law, he should know that hearsay is no evi- 
dence. On his own declaration we know that he has had a 
vast experience; on what we know without his declaration 
he has been a common brawler in the canine world on the 
Pacific Coast. He is a notoriety seeker on his own admis- 
sion, unscrupulous in the use of means to attain it. 
The charges against me, which he was so hotly anxious to 
prosecute when there was no opposition in sight, are now 
mildly termed by him "strictures," and it is very likely that 
by the time he is done with it all he will be pleased to call 
them mistakes. 
As Mr. Payne's purpose is to advertise his paper, I have re- 
ferred to it as the Teapot; not in any spirit of levity, but to 
avoid being made a catspaw of to subserve his purpose. To 
such advertising as I have contributed he is welcome. 
James Moetimek. 
SCHOOLING THE DOG.-XI. 
The first attempts of the dog at roading and pointing are 
necessarily very crude and unsuccessful. Although he has 
all the instinctive desire to pursue and capture his prey, he 
has not learned the practical methods necessary to success. 
Experience is the only means by which to learn the best 
methods. Nearly all dogs of dash and courage pursue the 
same method at first; that is to say, they trust to their speed 
alone, whether they are in pursuit of fur or feather. Observ- 
ing, after a few failures, that his speed alone, with a large 
dependence on his eyesight, is entirely inefficient as a means 
to capture game birds, he begins to modify and readjust his 
efforts after a manner which promises better success. Instead 
of noisily dashing up on his birds at full speed, lie sneaks 
up on them, but still entirely too noisily and too fast. He 
thus gives them warning before he can draw close 
enough to have any chance of capture, and he 
makes the further mistake of making his attempt 
before he has the birds accurately located. Thus, when 
he makes his dash on the birds, he may not make it with 
suiBcient precision to succeed, or even to have a chance to 
capture. Some men shoot at a bird on the wing after 
much the same principle. They know where the bird is, 
they point the gun in the general direction, fire and— miss. 
Every detail is all right excepting the final effort. The dog 
learns that he must still further modify his manner of ap- 
proaching the birds, so he, after a time, draws on them with 
the greatest stealthiness, trusts almost entirely to his nose, 
and carefully placing each foot so that it will give forth no 
sound; if need be, he crouches as he steals along, so that his 
body may be concealed from the view of the birds, though 
;in this respect dogs vary greatly. He grows more careful in 
making his final effort. He must be within a short distance 
■of the birds before he makes his spring to capture, otherwise 
all his careful effort is a failure. 
There is certain limited area within which he can spring 
with greater rapidity than the birds can rise, but if he makes 
any mistake in judging this area, they can soon attain 
greater swiftness of flight than the dog can of pursuit, even 
if they flew close to the ground; and the slowest birds can 
rise in a moment to a height beyond the dog's highest 
bound. Any effort which is thus not timed to a nicety ends 
in failure. 
Repeated disappointments from flushing the birds in 
drawing on them, or in faulty attempts at springing to cap- 
ture, are a recurring check to his impatience and impetuous 
purpose. He learns to combine strategy with force. The 
tense muscles, glowing eyes and quivering jaws testify to 
his suppressed excitement and bloody intention as he draws 
on the birds, but they are under the guidance of a mind 
which is becoming better disciplined from experience. 
All these things the dog must learn for himself and from 
experience. It is useless for the trainer to attempt to force 
a dog to point in the interest of the gun before he has 
learned to point more or less in his own interest. 
This in a general way, for the instinct to point varies 
greatly, though generally .speaking, it has its development 
as described in the foregoing. Some dogs have very little 
pointing instinct, and they profit but little by experience in 
improving their methods. This is not always from deficient 
intelligence or from any absence of good intent. Sometimes 
it appears to be from functional dullness of the scenting 
Eowers. A dog with a poor nose is as badly handicapped in 
is attempts to point birds as is a man of poor eyesight who 
attempts to shoot them. 
Some dogs have the pointing instinct in such an excessive 
degree that they are entirely worthless. They will point on 
every scent, or on every bright-colored or strangely-shaped 
object. I remember one dog, a pointer, which when cast oft" 
on the prairie would point so continuously that she never 
would be more than a few yards from the shooter, and she 
pointed so stanchly that I believe she would have pointed 
during a whole day if she was permitted to do so. Every 
bright flower, pile of hay, or other conspicuous object, 
served to gratify her desire to point, and many times she 
pointed when there was no accounting for it. She would 
point either by sight or scent, and as she did little else but 
jpoint, she was entirely worthless as a field dog. This is 
•an instance of an excessive development which is rare in- 
ideed, but all degrees of the instinct will be met vsdth by the 
'trainer who schools many dogs. Nor is there any uniformity 
:as to the age at which the instinct is naturally developed. 
At may appear in the puppy when he is but little more than 
nveaned, or it may not appear till the dog is quite matured. 
It is therefore a mistake to condemn a promising dog other- 
wise, if known to be of good stock. A precocious puppy, as 
to his pointing instinct, may not prove of any value as a 
field dog, for there is far more than the act of pointing, in 
what are the full qualities of a good field dog. Nor is the 
excessive development of the instinct the sign of a good dog, 
nor is it necessary that a dog should point excessively in 
actual field work. The point should be intelligently applied 
in the interest of the gun as should be all his other acts. 
Pointing with great stanchness because the scent is gratify- 
ing or because the dog is stupid is really a fault instead of 
being a merit. Beenakd Watees. 
Premium lists of tha seventh annual bench show of the 
Binghamlon Industrial Exposition can be obtained of the 
.secretary, Air. Judson S. Newing, Binghamton, N. T. 
The EoEEST AUD Stream is put to press each week on 
Tuesday. Correspondence intended for publication 
should reach us at the latest by Mondoty, avA as favch, 
itarlier as pradicabUt 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
MANITOBA FIELD TRIALS CLUB, 
Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 20. — Editor Forest arid iitream: 
Owing to absence from ihe city, 1 have been unable to 
forward, until this date, the attached list showing entries 
made in the Manitoba Field Trials Club All-Age and 
Amateur Stakes, which closed on the 15th inst. 
The AlhAge Stake, total 26, made up of 18 setters and 8 
pointers, and the Amateur Stake of 9 setters and 3 point- 
ers; total 12. 
amateur stake — SETTERS. 
Miss Brasdon — F. G. Simpson's b.,w. andt. bitch (Glad- 
iator II. — Cam Sing). 
Larry — F. W. Scott's O. and w. dog (Larry Noble — An- 
gelo). 
Swab— A. C. Reed's b. and t. bitch (Manitoba Toss- 
Petti e Sing). 
Duke's Ruth — Winnipeg Kennels' b. and w. dog (Duke 
of Manitoba— Cam Sing). 
Ortolan— Chimo Kennels' b.,w. and t. bitch (Orlando — 
Atalanta). 
Larry Noble— Chimo Kennels' o. and w. dog (Ezra 
Noble — Cornelia G.). 
Prince Rupert — Ohimo Kennels' b. and w. dog (Larry 
Noble — Atalanta). 
Minnie SiN0 — H. R. Garwood's b. and t. bitch (Ponto — 
Minnie). 
Ella Wheler— A. C. Reed's b. and w. bitch (Ponto — 
Swab). 
amateur stake — pointers. 
Hal — W. White's b. and w. dog (Yacht — Pansy). 
Tannis — E. J. Bennet's b. and w. bitch (Rector — 
Mianie). 
Shot— H. W. Whitla's w. and b. dog (Sam— Rose). 
all-age stake — setters. 
Sam T.— Del Monte Kennels' b. b. dog (Luke Roy- 
Betty B.). 
Iroquois Chief— J. E. De Ruyter's b., w. and t. dog 
(Antonia — Can Can). 
Cinctnnatus Pride — Ed. A. Burdett's b., w. and t. dog 
(Cincinnatus — Albert's Nellie). 
Count Robert — Ed. Gray's b., w. and t, dog (Count Erie 
— Ann). 
Duke T.— W. R. Tait's 1. and w. dog (Monk of Furness 
— Bessie W.). 
Ann of Abbottsford— Ed. A. Burdett's b, and w. bitch 
(Gladstone Boy — Bohemian Girl). 
Tony's Gale— C. H. Phelps' b., w. and t. dog (Antonio — 
Nellie G.). 
Hurstbourne Zip — D. E. Rose (agt.) b., w. and t. dog 
(Tony Boy — Dimple). 
Christina— D. E. Rose (agt.) b,, w. and t, bitch (Blue 
Ridge Mark — Lou R.). 
Jasie Freeman— J. B. Stoddard (agt.) b., w. and t. bitch 
(Antonio — Nellie Hope). 
Jill — Ed. H. Osthaus's b., w. and t. bitch (Fauster — 
Nance). 
Miss Brandon — F. G. Simpson's b., w. and t. bitch 
(Gladiator II.— Cam Sing). 
DoDO III. — Jubilee Kennels' b., w. and t. bitch (Orlando 
— Atalanta). 
Swab— A. C. Reed's b. and t. bitch (Manitoba Toss— 
Pettie Sing). 
Maid of the Morn — E. McKenny's b. and w. bitch (Val 
Lit — Cam Sing) • 
Barrister — E. McKenny's b. and w. dog (Val Lit — Cam 
Sing). 
Ortolan — Chimo Kennels' b., w. and t. bitch (Orlando — 
Atalanta). 
Prince Rupert — Chimo Kennels' b. and w. dog (Larry 
Noble— Atalanta). 
pointers. 
Lady of Hessen — J. A. Mcllhenny's w., 1. and t. bitch 
(Hessen Boy — Lady of Rush). 
Tick's Kid— Del Monte Kennels' b. and w. dog (Tick 
Boy— Lulu K.). 
Elgin's Dash — F. W. Dunham's 1. and w. dog (Kent's 
Elgin — Mack's Juno). 
Alabama Girl — D. E. Rose's (agt.) 1, and w. bitch (Von 
Ann— Lady Mull). 
Topsawyer — D. E. Rose's (agt.) 1. and w. dog (Stride- 
away — Jelt). 
Abdallah Romp — J. B. Stoddard's 1. and w. bitch (Rex 
— Singo Kent). 
King's Lee— Ed. H. Osthaus's 1. and w. dog (Kent's Joe 
— Lad's Lady). 
Lord Buster — B. Gordon's 1. and w. dog (Lord Mount — 
Unknown). G. B. Borradaile, Hon. Sec'y. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
The National Beagle Club of America provides competi- 
tion in eight classes, the same as those of last year, but some 
important changes have been made in the conditions govern- 
ing them. Premium list and all required information con- 
cerning the competition can be obtained of the secretary, Mr. 
Geo, W. Rogers, 208 West Eighty-eighth sti-eet. New York. 
The manuscript for Vol. II., Maj. J. M. Taylor's book, 
"Bench Show and Field Trial Records and Standards of 
Dogs in x^merica," is now ready for the printer. It will 
bring all records of fields tiials and bench shows of both 
sporting and now sporiing dogs, up to Jan. 1 '97, with other 
valuable data. It will contain the standards of all breeds 
and the names of the ofiicers and membership of all specialty 
clubs to date, As the book is a very expensive one to get out, 
the additional expense of electrotypmg will not be incurred as 
in Vol. I., and the issue will be in accord with the orders 
rectived up to date of Sept. 15. In size and quality it will 
be about the same as Vol. I., 500 pages or more. 'The 
price will be the same also, |5, to accompany the order. No 
(J. 0. D. shipments made. Address J. M. Taylor, 47 Ave. 
C, Bayonne, New Jersey. 
The two pointers in the spirited field scene which we pub- 
lish this week are Nabob and India, bred by the Charlottes- 
ville Field Trial Kennel, owned by that sterling sportsman 
Ml-. E Jward Dexter, of Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Both pointers 
have been conspicuous m field trial competition and then- 
names are therefore familiar to the readers of Forest and 
Stream. The bitch India, we regret, died last winter. She 
was highly prized. The excellence of the picture, stamps it 
at once as being from « brush of the talented artist. Prof, 
Edm, H. Osthaus 
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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
"Totem Tales." 
About two years ago there blew into the Fobest and Stream office 
in Chicago a muscular, well-built man of blue eye, sandy beard, 
broad chin and a general air of careless Western ease whien rather 
pleased me. He said his name was W. S. Phillips, which was only a 
pseudonym for El Oonaancho. known in the Forest and Streai< 
columns as a contributor of good Western stuff. El C'omancho was 
a natural name for this man, who in looK and air and personal prefer 
ence was and is more Indian than white man. He came to Chicago 
firm m the belief that his ways were the right ways, and that he 
could whip the whole city. How many of us have come from the 
West firm in the same belief! Mr. Phillips had a pa' ent process for 
pboto-etching, a scheme of his own perfecting aad. a very good one. 
He explained to me that he was an artist, and one needed small assur- 
ance to that effect after seeing his work. We two became friends, 
and we had many talks, here in the city, these filled always with his 
longings for the woods and streams, for he no more belonged here in 
this society of wolve^! than a fresh pat of butter belongs in a Clark 
street restaurant. He couldn't lick this city, and I knew it, though I 
could not tell him, because I liked him. He was so Western and so 
breezy and so iodica ive of the things I loved. 
Mr.' Phillips stayed in this city for more than a year, doing work at 
his profession as an all-around artist, and putting out some beautiful 
specimens of the capabilities of his process of engravmg, which 
were executed with a line needle upon a prepared gelatine plate I 
have never seen any reduced photo engraving which compared with 
the delicacy attained by his process, whose results were more like 
etchings on copper than like any reproduced drawings. He disposed 
of his patents to some advantage, but I am not sure that he whipped 
the city. A good many of us do not. All the time he reviled the civ- 
ilized way of living, and all the time he was longing for the woods, a 
blanket, a rifle and a knife. 
It came to Mr. Phillips's mind while here in Chicago to write a book 
about Indians, since he knew so much of Indians through his experi- 
ence among them. He was fairly brought up among tne Indiana in 
the early days of Nebraska, and ne gravitated to them when he wenc 
out to the Paoiflc Coast to live some years ago. All through many 
long hot days and many long and weary nights, as I personally know, 
this man worked at his Indian book, trying all the time to whip the 
hard-hearted city which so many of us fail to whip. He had a heart 
of iron and the constitution which comes from the free air of the 
West. I knew of his fight with the summer climate of the hard- 
hearted town, and I was glad it was over, and when I knew bis book 
was on the press. Presently he drifted away again, blowing back 
into the West from whica he came. I was glad, for though I missed 
him, I knew he did not belong here. 
Now on my de^k lies this book which El Comancho did here in the 
hot and hard-hearted city. It is called '-Totem Tales." It tells of the 
pine trees, and the streams, and the breath of wild nature. It is 
the soul of the talking pine which speaks. It is of the wild children 
of the woods that it converses. It is a purely and distinctively West- 
(>rn book. No man who was not reared in the broad and primitive 
environments of the West could have conceived or executed this 
work. It was a work ot love, a work meaning a part of the author's 
life and feeling. Useless to look in it for polish or finish, but profl> 
able if one seeks flore and strength. There is no time in the rush of 
real Western blood for the veneer of so-called modern literature. 
There are no prettinesses in this book, bub there is enough of solid 
fact and sol'd fancy, if we may use so disparaging a term m this cou- 
nection. yet this term is not unjust. The fancies of the book are 
substantial ones, concrete ones, such only as may be conceived in 
the child minds of the Indian savages with whose lives it deals. It 
tails of their matter-of-fact explanations of natural phenomena, their 
puerile hero tales, their absurd yet interesting theology, their gro- 
tesque and unformed modes of thought ana life. The author writes 
of mis with a firm ana confident touch, being sure that he knows his 
theme of long acquaintance. The product of his work is a book 
somewhat unique in tone, and one which should find clientage 
among those wno value original investigation and origiual thought in 
unusual fields. 
Mr. Phillips calls his book a collection of "Indian tales, Indian told." 
In this expression I think he is open to criticism. He deals with the 
West Coast Indians, whose dialect is presumably the Chinook tongue, 
whose vocabulary is limited 10 a few nundred words at the outside. 
The characters of the Totem Tales move wi..h a wider tread, discourse 
with a more stately diction, speak with a wider imagmation than a 
literal rendering ot the expression '-Indian told" will allow us to enter- 
tain. This imagination, however, is one of the charms of the book, 
which has all the right in the world to claim to be a reflex of the lite 
with which it deals. Certainly the writer of the book lakes us along 
into the heart of tbe woods, and into the hearts of the wild people 
who inhabit them. 
The author says that the field of his action is "far away in the un- 
mapped West," a description inviting and appealing of itself. It is 
near the Lake of the Mountains, whien is very aeep and very blue. 
The genius of the book is the Talking Pine, who is "the one who is 
very old and very tall, and whose arms are withered in places, the 
wise one of all the nation of the pine trees." This reels the friend.of 
T'solo the wanderer, which is the name claimed by the author in his 
story. To T'solo this talking tree tells the folk stories of tne Ka-ke- 
hee, the chief of the demons, of the Kit si nao, the Stone Mother, o£ 
the Great Waters, of the Crow children, of the Rain song, of the birth 
ofthesuD. of the reading of the Totem pole, of Qaaw-te-aht the 
changer, of Spe-ow and tne spider, of Wah wah hoo the frog, of the 
magic of the Evil eye, of the Tah-mah-na-wis of S'doaks, etc. We 
follow the primitive man along the forestaisles, and see man changed 
to a spirit, a spirit changed to a man; a cloud, a shock of thunder, a 
waterfall, an animal, each given human attributes, or divested of the 
same in turn, with all the ease of the untutored mind, wnose work- 
ings sometimes jiivo us hints of our own highest poetry, or our own 
highest and most valued lines of thought. We are forced to tielieve 
the Greeks were Indian, or that ihe Indians are Greek. 
An instance of a cruder form of the Indian thought may be given in 
connection with the idea? of a frog, a will-o'-the-wisp and a marsh. 
These terms represent a certain exact total to us, witn whom a yellow 
bullfrog on the marsh's brim is a yellow bullfrog and nothing more. 
With the Indian mind, as interpreted by the talkmgpine, these things 
have other attributes. Wah wah hoo, it appears, was changed by his 
father's magic into a frog, and he sings at night to mourn for his 
dead wife Hah-hahis dead, and her snadow looks lor vvah wah-hoo, 
but cannot find htm because he Is a frog. Hah-hah does not know 
this and tht-y say she travels over the swamps at night with a strange 
white light in her bands. The white men call her the wiU-o'-iihe- 
wisp and sometimes try to talk with her, but she runs away, "So 
now you know who the frog is, and why the will o'- the- wisp drifts 
across the bogs at night, because I have toid you the tale as it was 
told to me by the Talking Pine a long lime ago." Thus wo nave a 
rude poetry from a most unpromising topic. As other topics offer 
more liberty and scope, it may be seen what is their handling, and of 
the pleasure of learning this it were not well to deprive the reader ia 
advance. There is much information in this booK, blended always 
with a wholesome and healthy touch of the pure outdoor air. We 
read of wild things and wild people, and so wish that we, too, were 
wild acain. We find no polish, no literary fin sh exhioiled or claimed 
in this book, but we have an imprisoned wild spirit given us shrined 
in the uncut amber which has held it for long generations of time. 
We have a notion of this actual spirit of the men and the thmgs eni- 
hodied in the tales to the totem times and totem peoples. 
Mr Phillips is first a Western man, then a hunter, then an artist 
and then a writer. He has illustrated nia own hook with nearly 200 
original drawings, all made with the needle upon his prepared plates, 
and some of them are striking and unique^ These pictures are as 
much or more a part of the book than tne context, whien doed less 
than ihey to give us the insie-ht into the heart of these wild things. 
The pictures are varied ana complete in their design, and partaKe 
fully of the nature of the main theme of the book. The book and its 
central notion are of necessity crude, primitive, unttmshed, a»d thus 
are the pictures which typify it. Some of the drawings are unneces- 
sarily rough and careless, and the artiat-autnor uses too often nis de- 
vice of the full moon as a background ; but others of the pictures are 
quaint and delicate, showing me range of treatment possible to the 
iree handed craftsman tn this twofold work. We shou'd uotcali tne 
pictures «rt in all cases, more thxn we should call the stories of the 
Talking Pme artistic in all cases; but snould we be aole lo do this wo 
should have added but one more work to the long list of emasciuated 
product these days daily turned out from fin cie siecle presses backed 
by editors who dare not accept human interest ana independent 
thought, as above rose-leaf scent and rosewood polish, l^ook for 
none such in the Totem Tales by El Comancho, but look rather for a 
book like himself, wide-chinned, fearless, breezy, partaking of the 
glorious West; so shall the reader be pleased at naving gained a 
friend of his after days, upon whose augulaj-ities he may naug more 
than a passing hour. The mountains ot the West are not yet sand- 
papered, and in the bark of the pines siill run the rough traceries im- 
planted by the artist's hand that makes the Lake ot the jiountaina 
and the trees that hem it about. This oook is recently put out uy the 
Star Pubhshing Company of Chicago. It has curious interest to me, 
since I saw it grow and knew how much of tne lougmgs of its maker 
was going into it whUe he was here Irymg to wnip tne heartless city. 
Now he has gone back to the mountains and pme^ ot the State of 
Washington, among the tribes of which he writes; yet he does not 
take with him aU that he knew of these places and tlungs, but leaves 
a little of the "breath of the forest, the nppleof the stream," lo make 
us wish we too were there. K. Roam,. 
1206 Boxoa Bun,DiNo, Chicago 
