Oct. 14<. i^)-T 
FOHfiST AND STHKAM. 
The longest C3.st made during the season of 1899 is the 
cast of W. D, Mansfield, 133ft., which stands as the 
world's record, and was made at Stow Lake, Golden 
Gate Park, San Francisco, July 30, iSggi 
H. F. Mtiller and A. E. Lovett will cast off for the 
first-class delicacy medal next Saturday. Following are 
the scores: 
Sept. 30.— Wind — Heavy, southwest. Weather — ^Warm. 
Ev'ent Event Event 
No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, 
Distance, Accurac)', , 1— Event No. 8, ■. Lure 
Feet. Per cent. Acc. % Del. % Net % Casting^ 
Battu 90 9,-? 812 91^ 8-12 59 2-12 7fi .^-12 63 
Everett .-...100 
Everett .....103 
Lovett 112 95 4-12 914-12 72 6-12 8111-12 
Lovett 113 95 4-12 92 4-12 7510-12 SI 1-12 
Mansfield ...100 
Mansfield ...103 
Young 93 94 8-12 90 4-12 7010-12 80 7-12 69 
Young ...... 95 95 92 4-12 71 8-12 82 66 4-5 
Reed 93 90 4-12 96 62 fi-12 79 3-12 
Oct. I. — ^Wind — ^Variable. Weather — ^\^''arm. 
Battu SfiVs 89 4-12 91 72 6-12 81 9-12 f.9 
Battu .. .. .. 64 3-12 
Brotherton ... 86 79 7010-12 7411-12 911-13 
Everett 97 86 85 4-12 72 6-12 7811-12 
Everett 100 85 91 74 2-12 82 7-12 
Lovett 115 94 95 7010-12 8211-12 
Lovett 108 91 92 8-12 77 6-12 85 1-12 
Mansfield ... 94 96 88 70 79 75 
Mansfield ...104 93 4-12 90 S-12 71 8-12 81 2-12 92 
Reed 94 83 87 SO 10-12 83 11-12 56 3-12 
Turner 90 93 8-12 82 4-12 75 78 8-12 
Young 95 93 90 4-12 • 75 10-12 83 1-13 55 2-12 
Young . . . . . . . . . . 62 
MenmL 
Fixtures, 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Oct. 10-13.— Providence, R. I.— Rhode Island State Fair Asso- 
ciation. E. M. Oldham, Supt. 
Nov. 15-18.— Philadelphia, Pa.— The Philadelphia Dog Show As- 
sociation's first annual bench show. Marcel A. Viti, Sec'y. 
Nov. 29-Dec. 1.— New York.— American Pet Dog Club s show. 
S. C. Hodge, Supt, 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Oct. 23.— National Beagle Club's tenth annual trials. G, Mifflin 
Wharton, Sec'y. . „ 
Odt. 25.— Hampton, Conn.— Connecticut field trials. John E. 
Bissett, Sec'y, New Haven. 
Oct. 31.— Greene Co., Pa.— The Monongahela Valley Game and 
Fish Protective Association's fifth annual field trial. A. C. Peter- 
son Sec'y. 
Oct. 30.— Oxford, Mass.— New England Beagle Club's trials. A. 
D. Fiske, Sec'y, 
Nov. 7.— Washington C. H., O.— Ohio Field Trial Club's trials. 
C. E. Baughn, Sec'y. 
Nov. 8-9.— Lakeview, Mich.— Michigan Field Trial* Association's 
second annual trials. E. Rice, Sec'y. 
Nov. 12.— Bicknell Ind.— Independent Field Trial Club's first 
annual trials. George D. Maxfield, Sec'y. 
Nov. 13.— Egg Harbor, N, J.— New York State Field Ttrial As- 
sociation's inaugural trial.s. F. F. Rick, Sec'y. 
Nov. 14.— Chatham, Ont.— International Field '."nal Club's tenth 
annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 14-17.— Carmichaels, Pa.— Central Beagle Club's fourth an- 
nual trials. J. W. Simpson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 17.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trial Club's twenty- 
first annual trials. Simon C. Bradley, Sec'y. 
Nov. 21.— Lawrenceville, III. — llHnois Field Trial Association's 
inaugural trials. O. W. Ferguson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 28.— Paris, Mo.— Missouri Field Trial Association's third 
annual trials. L. S. Eddins, Sec'y. 
Dec. 8.— Newton, N. C— Continental Field Trial Club's trials, 
Theo. Sturges, Sec'y. 
1900. 
Jan. 22.— West Point, Miss.— United States Field Trial Club's 
annual trials. W. B. Stafford, Sec'y. 
Feb. 5.— Greenville, Ala.— Alabama Field Trial Club's fourth an- 
nual trials. T. H. Spencer, Sec'y. 
**The Wrong of Dog License. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 7. — Under the above caption 
there appeared in Forest and Stream of Oct. 7 a most 
interesting plea for the freedom and cherishment of the 
dog — man's best friend. While I have a deep affection tor 
the dog myself, I also have a profound respect for the 
rights and comfort and freedom of my fellow man, and 
on this ground, Mr. Editor, I wish to offer some points 
for the consideration of the distinguished lady who so 
ably and kindly makes a plea for the dog's preservation. 
First of all,' I wish to declare that I believe dogs never 
can be recognized legally as property unless they are kept 
within certain limits as to numbers, and certain limits as 
to multiplication of the species. The dog is a very prolific 
animal. His fecundity is astonislaing. Under the favor- 
able conditions afforded by man's protection and a certain 
food supply, he multiplies far beyond what society can 
tolerate and far beyond the needs of society, whether in 
this relation we consider the dog as a protector or a 
companion. 
Of the thousands of dogs bred, probably 80 per cent, are 
worthless curs. The remaining 20 per cent, are, we will 
assume, well bred and valuable, from the standpoint of the 
useful or the beautiful, the working dog or the guarding- 
dog, or the handsome dog. ornamental to the home or 
companionable to the famil)'. It is chiefly on the credit 
of the latter class of dogs that the 80 per cent, number of 
curs and worthless dogs are tolerated and allowed to live. 
The case of Mr. C. M. Munhall, to whom Mrs. Bolton 
pays so high compliment, was not exactly prompted by a 
realization of "how the license law bore heavily on the 
poor who could ill afford to pay," but 1 thmk there was 
some realization of the manner in which it bore upon 
himself, for he kept a kennel, and sold dogs when op- 
portunity offered. The opposition which he evoked 
against the law was not so much from a matter of senti- 
ment as from a matter of business. 
The kind lady calls attention to how dearly owners 
love their dogs on the one hand, and that if a tax of $1 
or $5 is imposed many of such owners would turn their 
dogs into the streets, to the tender mercies of the dog- 
catchers or to the pangs of starvation. It seems to me that 
the fair advocate makes an inconsistent argument on this 
point, for if the dogs were loved so dearly, they would 
not be turned out of doors for the sake of a dollar ; and if 
it is pleaded that the owners could not afford to pay the 
dollar, the same plea serves to prove that they could not 
afford to feed and house a dog. , . , , 
It is hardly to he a.ssumed that a license law, which has 
been found necessary in England and America, has not 
at its foundation some necessity for the public good. It is 
necessary first of all to restrict the multiplication of 
etirs, else they would soon overrun the land. The dog in 
a state of nature meets so many checks and has so many 
difficulties to overcome in the struggle for existence that 
he is kept within boimds from natural causes, though 
under favorable conditions he will even then multiply, in 
certain favored sections where food is abundant and a 
protecting habitat is afforded, beyond the increase of 
any other animal. 
in domestication, were it not for the destruction which 
the public has found necessary to visit on him and the 
checks put upon his multiplication, the dog would soon 
be as great a pest as are rabbits in Australia. 
The tax in Connecticut is subjected to severe strictures 
by the kind lady. 1 think that if she will consider that 
the proceeds of the dog tax are largely set aside to re- 
imburse farmers for the loss of sheep destroyed by sheep- 
killing dogs, she will admit that it is not entirely unjust. 
All sheep-growing sections are afflicted with one of the 
greatest banes of the industry, namely, the sheep-killing 
dog. In inaking the plea for the dog, some consideration 
should be given to the rights of man. Supposing that 
the 91,500 dogs said to be killed in Ncav York in 1898 were 
alive to-day, many of them homeless vagrant dogs, pollut- 
ing the streets and food exposed on the sidewalks. Sup- 
posing further tliat the thousands of dogs destroyed in 
previous years were allowed to live their vagrant lives. 
What then? New York to-day might be good enough for 
the dogs to live in, but it would not be good enough for 
man. And yet, to him who journeys through New York's 
highways and byways, there is no apparent dearth of 
dogs, for there, as here in Philadelphia, they are in plenty 
and far beyond the number which is for the interest of 
the public if we consider the matter of decency and proper 
sanitation and the good health of the people as matters of 
paramount importance. 
In New York as in all other great cities there are 
thousands of poor people who find dilhculty in obtainitig 
food for existence, and yet the millions of dollars worth of 
food consumed by the dogs is never considered as being 
of any moment in the life of the poor people. The pur- 
chase of the cheaper meats for dog food makes competi- 
tion for them, and the demand establishes the price. The 
poor people have to compete and make up the difference in 
price from this competition. 
In Constantinople, where a man is fined for injuring a 
dog and where it is said they are not allowed to be 
killed, the dog is not preserved from any hutnane impulse 
concerning him. In that city, where the great sewer 
systems of Anglo-Saxon civilization have no existence, 
the dog serves the purpose of a scavenger, and is valued 
for that purpose. We have a remotely similar case in the 
United States, where in many sections the turkey buz- 
zard is protected by law on account of his services as a 
scavenger, and it is against the law to injure or kill one. 
The dog of Constantinople and the turkey buzzard of 
America are esteemed for precisely the same reason, so 
that it is hardly a parallel case to refer to those dogs as 
being pertinent to an argument bearing on dogs in 
America. 
The fair advocate quotes the folowing: *'A speaker at 
a recent meeting in London said that the exchecquer 
receipts showed that the dog licenses produced in the year 
1895-96 over £500,000, and added: 'Where shall we find 
another class of taxpayers who contribute so largely to 
the revenue and receive so little in return?' " 
In reply, where is there another class of owners which 
owns animals which destroy so much property of others? 
In many sections of the United States thousands of sheep 
have been destroyed, and in some sections sheep grow- 
ing has been abandoned on account of the depredations 
of sheep-killing dogs. 
Many owners are too poor to feed their own families 
properly, and they leave their dogs to sitch predatory 
means of livelihood as the neighborhood affords. 
Many owners keep dogs that are vicious, and while such 
dogs may love their owners and may even fight for them 
on occasion, there is little merit in such dogs' love if on 
the other hand they bite their owners' neighbors. 
This leaves out of account the intolerable nuisance of 
dogs in a great city, where in barking all night they may 
and do bring discomfort to a whole neighborhood, or the 
ofTensiveness of dogs kept in large apartment houses; noi* 
is it necessary to touch upon the fallacy of the argument 
which attaches great worth to a dog because he is a 
guardian to the family; for in a big city like New York, 
where law and order reign, there is no need of the dog 
as a guardian. And many dogs will run away on proper 
occasion when there is danger in sight; and the devotion 
and love which they have for their masters to-day is the 
same love that they will transfer to a new master to- 
morrow ; and many dogs will manifest a devotion whose 
commencem.ent is in a nice piece of steak or a flattering 
pat on the head. 
Now I like a dog as well as any one, but I do not beheve 
that the dog's best place in the esteem of the public can 
be secured by reviling the public and lauding the dog. 
It is better to start with the fair understanding that the 
public has some rights in the matter, and that the dog 
has some objectionable traits. It may be a great, a very 
great, hardship on an owner to pay a license to keep a 
dog, but it is not so great a hardship as it is for a poor 
peddler to pay a license for the privilege of making a liv- 
ing, to say nothing of hack drivers, pilots, etc, who have 
to do the same thing. There is much in the way of our 
own kind which needs humanitarian attention ; and there 
is much in the lives of many dogs which is better in the 
way of food and home than there is in that of tnany of the 
poor in the great cities. The life of the dog is not all 
somber. The life of all organic beings is not all joy. 
Lucius A, Childress. 
Championship Field Trial* 
The annual championship field trial will be held at 
West Point, Miss., during the week commencing Jan. 29, 
1900. Entries close on Jan. i. In addition to the regular 
purse of the entry fees, there will be the Duryea Cup, 
awarded to the winner, making the prize the most valu- 
able one ever competed for at any championship trial. 
Edward Dexter, Pres. 
W- B, Stafford, Sec'y. 
My New Deer Dog. 
He was given to me. As a general rule a donation of 
dog should be treated with great caution and more or less 
diplomacy exercised toward the dog donator. In this 
case, however, the donor was a friend of long standing. 
In fact he stood 6ft. tin. in his socks, had been a com- 
panion of my iDoyhood and was apparently to be trusted. 
He was much addicted to hunting, and his now matronly 
better half used to score poiiits on him by spreading 
around the story of his preparations in the waj^ of luggage 
for his wedding trip. His baggage, she said, consisted of 
one heavy trunk containing one shirt, two double-barrel 
shotguns, one hunting coat (very dirty), one pump gun, 
one pair overalls (badly dilapidated), two take-down 
rifles, one pair spike-nailed shoes, several hundred as- 
sorted cartridges and one pair socks. This seems to me a 
little exaggei'ated. His wife said it was not at all like her 
idea of a masculine trousseau. 
But we seem to be getting a^way from the dog — and he 
was a dog. Any one could have told that at second 
glance. He was highly bred, too, but what his breeding 
actually was seemed tnore difficult to determine. The 
cocker part of it was evidently a bench show gold medal, 
and the Gordon setter part was also something expensive. 
His head and tail proved the cocker hypothesis, and his 
hair and color the Gordon; birt the rest of his breeding 
was somewhat misty. Probably bull terrier with a dash 
of dachshund would account ion some of it— hut this is 
immaterial. 
He was given to rae as- a young dog of great pronaise— 
and he certainly was. In his dumb way he was ready 
to promise anything, but he geemed . forgetful. Upon 
starting him down a brushy canon in quest of the waty 
buck, he would rush ahead of my steady old deer dog, full 
of importance and excitement, his head iip, with pug nose 
erect in such a manner as to convey the idea that a whole 
flock of old bucks was lying a few yards away and he 
alone knew it. He would dash off in this way for at least 
6oft., and then stop as if an idea had suddenly struck 
him. After sniffing the air for a second or two he would 
turn and come tearing back to me with an all-satisfied 
look, as if there were nothing to expect in that quarter, 
after which he would sociably sit down beside me for 
a while and hunt fleas. A short rest would be followed 
by a sally in another direction, and the same performance 
gone through, altogether making such a noise that an elk 
crashing through the brush would not have attracted one's 
attention. His affection for me was something touching. 
Nothing coifld drive him away, and I think his failure to 
prospect any distance into the brush was due to his fear 
that something might happen to me. He would sit down 
beside me at times, wag his short tail, scratch, pant and 
gurgle till in sheer desperation I would draw a bead on 
him and only refrain from pulling the trigger because he 
was so confoundedly comical. Every time he sat down 
it was in some new way. He was not particular what 
part of him sat. He seemed to be absent-minded, and 
would occasionally attempt to sit on his head. 
My friend said that he promised to be a good deer 
dog, but in the several times I took him out he never 
once remembered that promise. The only time he ran a 
deer was in a fit of abstraction. Pie saw a yearling doe 
running, and took a cross cut after it, but the moment he 
got a scent he promptly drew off and returned to my side 
to renew his acrobatic exercises. I tried the camera on 
him, but no one plate could grasp enough of his idiosyn- 
crasies to be more than a dismal failure, and a composite 
print looked like a fake. 
This reminds me of another dog. Some friends of 
mine were camping in a beautiful redwood grove near a 
railroad station along a wagon road extending up a 
mountain. Among other things, they were possessed of 
an antiquated barouche, an old horse and a dog. The 
breed of the dog was just or'nary small yaller, but he 
was bright as a new dollar. The old horse would be at- 
tached to the antiquated barouche by "the man with the 
whoa" at the nearest ranch and left standing in the road 
for the use of the ladies, generally unhitched. This old 
horse had a bad habit of falling asleep in harness, and the 
wag of the party lamented the fact that a mistake had 
been made in his sex, as he was evidently intended for a 
nightmare. One day some of the folks were going to catch 
a train, and as usual were behind time. They ran from 
the camp, rushed to the carriage and jumped on the steps. 
This wild charge aroused the horse rather suddenly from 
his peaceful slumber, and he started off with a jump, 
throwing those already on the steps into the dusty road, 
startled iDUt unhurt. 
He was really frightened, and the shrieks of whoa were 
misunderstood, for he tore up the road with the speed 
of his youth, the yaller dorg after him. The party changed 
their minds about catching the train, and started out to 
catch the horse. They tramped that road till long after 
dark, but found nothing, not even a trace or a, buckle — 
not even the dog. The search being resumed the next 
morning, with outside assistance, they came to an old 
unused side road up the mountain with a dilapidated 
bridge across it. The day before they had scorned the 
idea of a horse and carriage being able to cross this 
bridge, but this morning they concluded to look that v/ay 
in desperation. What was their amazement after a few 
moments' walk to find the cabriolet standing in the old 
i-oad, the horse unharnessed and tied to a tree, and the 
dog watching" him with a supremely self-satisfied smile. 
They said they knew the dog had sense enough not to 
bring the horse back over such a rickety old bridge, but 
they failed to see why he did not lead him back along a 
side trail. Probably he did not like leaving the carriage 
behind. These facts are absolutelj^- true as far as known, 
but it strikes me they gave the dog credit for a little too 
much, because the knot in the rope by which the horse 
was tied was not the kind the dog could tie, and he was a 
pretty smart dog, too. 
But to resume. After trying in vaiii to give the cocker- 
Gordon-bull-terrier-dachshund to several personal enemies 
and- wishing to spare my friends, I took him to town and 
turned him loose, hoping somebody would find him and 
have better success in discovering good qualities than I 
did. I am lying in wait with a gun for my friend, th; 
donor. Jay Em. 
"It 'pear3 to me," said Uncle Eben, "dat de man wif r^- 
rustiest razzer is mos' alius de one dat does mos' braggin' 'bon; 
de cyahvings he's been mixed into."— Washington Star, 
