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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. 24, 1912 
The Result of Over a Century’s Experience 
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Perfection in powder-making is only achieved by exercising the most 
scrupulous care in the selection and preparation of raw materials, 
employing skilled workmen exclusively, and using only the most 
improved modern mechanical equipment. 
This is the Du Pont method and accounts for the unequaled repu¬ 
tation among sportsmen enjoyed by the Du Pont brands of Smoke¬ 
less Shotgun Powders. Two of these brands that are in high favor 
among shooters are 
U.5. PAT. 0 *‘ 
(Bulk) 
A perfect shotgun powder with light recoil. 
Unlike other powders of light recoil, Schultze 
gives high velocity and remarkable patterns. 
S' 
(Bulk) 
Hard Grain—Smokeless—Uniform. Requires 
no special wadding to make it do its best. 
Loaded just as easily as Black Powder. “The 
Old Time Favorite.” 
These powders positively will not pit the gun barrels. 
UNEQUALED FOR FIELD AND TRAP-SHOOTING 
See that your shells are loaded with either SCHULTZE or E. C. 
Send today for Schultze and E. C. pamphlet No. 3. It contains information of interest to all shooters. 
E. I. DU rONT DE NEMOURS P®WD£R COMf ANT 
7*toneer Potvder MaKerj of America 
ESTABLISHED 1802 (gUPORp WHmingtoii, Del. 
from all reports I am safe in saying, that all may have 
something in their favor and all may have had some¬ 
thing to do with perfecting some particular strain of 
Doberman police dogs, but the lion’s share, the idea 
original, is certainly in favor of Doberman, “the man 
with a thirst.” 
The first dogs of this breed to come to this country, 
as far as is known at least, came to the Hamburg- 
American liner S.S. President Grant, a little over three 
years ago, and found a home in Western and Central 
New York. From there their progeny has been dis¬ 
tributed as far as California, Mexico, Georgia, Missis¬ 
sippi and in about all States between. 
The^ Pinscher, better known as the Doberman police 
dog, is probably with the Airedale, the most sagacious 
and most fancied by all who desire good looks to go 
with ability. His rapid rise into popularity in his 
fatherland proves his value. I made my first impor.s 
during the fall of 1907, when I brought over a dog and 
two females. Mr. Dobermann, the last of his 
family and name hailing from Apolda—augmented this 
first import with others during 1908. Doberman-Pinschers 
appear mostly in black, with tan markings on legs, 
breast, below tail and over eyes; these are called the 
black-and-tan colored. Then we have them a beautiful 
seal brown with tan, and blue marked with tan. The 
latter are very rare and highly prized by sportsmen. 
The Doberman male has a shoulder height of 22 to 
26 inches, the female of 19 to 22 inches. The head is 
but slightly domed, broad in the back, and runs into a 
fairly well-pointed nose. The cheeks are flat and very 
muscular. The length of the entire head should be from 
nine to ten inches. The eye is dark brown, med'um- 
large, round, and shows the energy of its owner. Ears 
are cropped in a semi-circle and must not be too 
pointed. The legs are very muscular, straight, and the 
toes rather close and compact (cat’s toes). The back 
must be straight and broad, measuring from neck to 
tail about 27 inches. This would make a whole length 
of about 38 inches. Breast is well arched and full. Tail 
cropped, if not a natural bob-tail, as often happens, 
should not be longer than 5 inches. The coat is hard, 
short, and lies close to the body. A little white hair 
on breast and gray on neck is permissible. 
If it is possible for us to think of a dog the size 
of a well grown^ collie, rather heavy in muscles and 
short-limbed, having the courage and staying power of 
a bull—let him be as fierce as they make him—moving 
around at the rate greyhounds do, as playful and full 
of tricks as a terrier, and with the nose of a bloodhound, 
Y OU know mallards—wisest and wariest of all 
ducks—Solomons of the air. You can’t knock 
down mallards with a paddle nor can you get them 
with a gun that plasters its shots all over the face 
of creation, 
A mallard shot is generally a long shot, and long 
shots require a hard-shooting, close-shooting gun. 
That’s why the long-headed man who goes to a 
mallard country takes a Lefe/er. When he swings 
it on a towering pair of mallards he does not ques¬ 
tion the result. He know it— 
TWO CLEAN KILLS 
The reason a Lefever kills clean and sure and 
far is Lefever Taper Boring. 
But if you buy a Lefever for the taper boring 
alone, you will get more than your money’s worth. 
For instance, you will never be handicapped with 
looseness at the hinge joint. The exclusive Lefever 
screw compensates for a year’s wear by a trifling 
turn that you make yourself with a screwdriver. 
LEFEVER 
SHOT GUNS 
Sixteen other exclusive Lefever features and Lefe¬ 
ver simplicity and strength make the S 28 gun the 
peer of any $50 gun on the market. Upwards to 
# 1 , 000 . Send for free catalog and get Lefever wise. 
Lefkvbr Arms Co., as Maltbie St., Syracuse,N.Y, 
we have a fair mental picture of a Doberman police dog. 
A Doberman should be active, bright, intelligent look¬ 
ing; he must impress the observer at once with the 
fact that he has brains and he" must show beyond his 
intelligence, “courage twinkling in his eyes.” He must 
have the grit, the looks, the strength and the will to 
throw fear into the heart of the one prowling around 
for “forbidden fruit”; he must be able to hold him, 
check him and deliver him to his master, as well- 
trained specimens of the breed are figured to do almost 
daily. 
He has a short coat. Police dogs with a long coat 
are of a distinct disadvantage. If they must enter the 
water during the colder season their coat holds it long, 
and often the poor dog has been found a solid mass of 
ice. Short-coated dogs have a thicker coat of hair and 
a stronger fat-layer given them by nature to equalize 
conditions, and really are the hardiest—can stand hot 
and cold better than long-haired specimens. 
The Doberman-Pinscher is, above all else, a dog for 
any purpose. True as steel, a fine game dog, he will 
attack a bear, point quail and pheasant, run a rabb t; 
in fact, the gray matter back of his eyes is so easily 
developed that a short course of lessons on any sub¬ 
ject enables him to excel in that line. No man could 
ask for a better pal, and no home wherein there are 
children could seek a better nurse. The Doberman- 
Pinscher is a dog par excellence. 
TWEET—HIC—TWEET! 
According to a Georgia dispatch the robins 
hibernating there are conducting themselves in 
a shameless fashion. A number of the redbreasts 
have been observed in the stupor of intoxication 
as a result of eating China berries. The most 
melancholy part of the dispatch, however, is the 
closing sentence: 
“In a few hours the birds revive and immedi¬ 
ately go back to the China berry trees.” 
As Don Didier would observe, “The worst of 
it is they like it!”—Evening Sun. 
