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the barrel in continuous circulation in associa¬ 
tion with a separate condenser. On one trial 
180,000 rounds were fired from one gun, and of 
these 30,378 rounds were fired from the same 
barrel. It was only at this point that there 
was any falling off in efficiency. In fifteen 
minutes 2,672 aimed rounds were fired, and of 
the original supply of six liters of water in 
the jacket and the condenser combined, one 
liter still remained. 
The gun weighs only twenty-seven pounds, 
as compared with sixty pounds of the former 
service automatic rifle caliber guns, while with 
the necessary cooling water the weight is thirty- 
six pounds against sixty-six and three-quarter 
pounds. The length of the barrel is about the 
same, but length of the water jacket has been 
increased at the chamber end, where the heat 
is greatest. 
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Airedale Club of America. 
The second annual bench show of the Aire¬ 
dale Club of America was held on Nov. 9. It 
brought many surprises, principal of which was 
Kenmare Sorceress which won over the newly 
imported Abbey King Nobbier for best dog or 
bitch in the show. Another surprise was John 
McGough’s Gold Heels, getting the blue in open 
dogs, beating Champion Soudan Swiveller and 
Champion King Oorang. E. M. Post’s cracking 
pup Empost, Capt. Andrew, beat a good field 
for the blue in the novice class. Steve Swiveller, 
owned by Henry Rogge, won puppy (dog) blue, 
while blue for bitch pup went to Cactus, owned 
and bred by Thomas Cadwalader. Novice bitch 
was won by Mr. Wolcott’s Bothwell Sorceress. 
Other winners were : American bred dogs (cham¬ 
pions barred) Bryan Boy, owned by T. Offer- 
man ; limit, dogs, F. G. Porter’s Abbey King 
Nobbier; American bred, bitches, F. G. Porter’s 
Abbey Sultana; limit, bitches, Abbey Sultana; 
open, bitches, Clonmel Command; open, sweep 
dog or bitch, American bred, Gold Heels; team 
and brace won by W. P. Wolcott. Judge was 
William L. Barclay, whose decisions were gen¬ 
erally satisfactory and absolutely unbiased. 
DISTEMPER. 
To write an original article on “distemper” 
would be impossible. All that has been said 
has been said a thousand times and more, yet 
old stories sometimes admit of new flavors, and 
I will try to put a new flavor to this. Here 
are a few cases, and several lessons to learn 
from each, not lessons altogether scientific, but 
practical ones as well, says Dr. McLaughlin in 
the American Kennel Gazette. 
This first case is in relation to a “Boston” 
that died fifty-six hours after I first saw him. 
I do not think any expert would have pro¬ 
nounced it a case of “distemper,” and yet it 
was. If I had a strong suspicion, it was not on 
account of the symptoms that presented them¬ 
selves. It seemed a case of pleurisy pure and 
simple, and so I diagnosed it. The fever was 
quite high, 104 2-5. the eyes and nose presented 
no discharge, the bowels were normal or 
slightly constipated, appetite very poor, vomit¬ 
ing constant. The latter symptom was peculiar 
as raw minced meat was rejected two hours 
after being eaten, in the same condition as it 
was eaten, that is, still red, still raw meat that 
had undergone no digestive change (yet the 
post-mortem showed no gastritis.) There was 
no cough, only that short, raspy, painful 
breathing so peculiar to pleurisy. 
The next' day he retained his food, ap¬ 
peared somewhat improved, his temperature 
was down a degree, even his breathing was 
easier. He certainly was holding his own, but 
during the night he took a sinking spell. It 
was apparent to his nurses that he was very ill, 
but before they realized it the little fellow was 
asleep—his last sleep. 
Fortunately this little “Boston” belonged 
to sensible people, and they permitted an 
autopsy, in fact desired it. This is what the 
autopsy disclosed: Pleurisy, enteritis, a slight¬ 
ly enlarged liver, and a very much enlarged 
spleen. In the pleural cavity was a large mass 
of semi-solid, or rather a soft jelly like sub¬ 
stance, which the microscope proved to be the 
result of an old pleurisy. The abdominal cavity 
was filled with blood. 
Now let us study these post-mortem ap¬ 
pearances: The immediate cause of death was 
of course the hemorrhage into the abdominal 
cavity. That carries no special lesson, except 
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