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party against whom the decision may ultimately be given. Should an ob- 
jection be made which cannot at the time be substantiated or disproved 
the dog may be allowed to run under protest; but should the objection 
be afverwards substantiated, and the winnings have been paid over, the 
owner or nominator of the dog may be disqnalified, shall return the 
money or prize, and shall be declared a defaulter. 
took twenty thousand men to kill. Perhaps a few western 
hunters, armed with Remingtons or Sharpes or Burtons, 
might settle the business for the majority of these mutton 
eaters. We simply suggest this method to our most worthy 
French contemporary, La Chasse Illustrée. 
and branding indiscriminate, insatiable fishermen as wanton 
destroyers. 
Occasionally trout are received from Anson and other 
towns in Maine, which find their way to New York, which 
have been caught out of season. It would be wise for the 
Commissioners to correspond with parties in this city, —_—___$§$<<4-—_____ so 
whom we have no doubt would do their best to find out | THE KENNEL CLUBCODE OF RULES PoLLurion or Rivers.—in the report of the Fishery 
who receives the fish here, and who would not hesitate for + Commmissioners of Maine, it will be found that in certain 
cases the poisoning of the streams from mill refuse is ex- 
citing their attention. In England the River Pollution 
Commissioners, Prof. Frankland and Mr. J. ©. Morton, have 
just furnished an interesting report, having made many 
thousand analyses, and having tested the refuse waters 
coming from chemical dye, print, paper, cotton, and paper 
mills. In England the pollution of rivers is rather a ques- 
tion as affecting the sources of drinking water than ag to 
the detriment to fish, though this latter point is by no means 
overlooked. With the English commission the information 
sought had for its object the determining to what an ex- 
tent purification can be pushed without detriment to the 
industry of the particular district where such manufactures 
are carried on. The English commissioners give certain 
standards as explaining what waters are to be designated 
as polluted, such data resting in the visible traces left by 
water, others attainable by chemical tests and analysis. 
Questions of the pollution of rivers, and how to prevent 
it, are as serious as they are difficult to manage. To us, 
N printing the ‘‘code of rules for the guidance of 
field trials of sporting dogs, adopted by the Kennel Club 
in England,” we do so simply as a guide for the benefit of 
all sportsmen’s clubs throughout the country, and especi- 
ally for the New York State Sportsmen’s Association, and 
the Prairie Shooting Club of Chicago. These rules and 
regulations were determined on last fall, and if we are not 
mistaken the Kennel Club of England hold entire jurisdic- 
tion as regards making the laws fcr field trials, as to usage 
of guns, dogs, and workers of dogs in the field. These laws 
have nothing whatever to do with the formula that may be 
agreed upon by both parties in the Anglo-American field 
trial match. 
We would suggest that, by all means, the sportsmen of 
America should form in New York an organization similar to 
the Kennel Club of England. The advantages of it are so 
numerous and so readily understood byall sportsmen that we 
do not think it necessary to expatiate upon it. We have 
already been in correspondence with several prominent 
a moment in bringing the offenders up with a round turn. 
Smelt fishing, Messrs, Stilwell and Stanley think, require 
additional jurisdiction. After March 15th it is lawful to 
catch smelt with hook and dip net. It is suggested that 
the net be prohibited after March ist. The lobster busi- 
ness (frequently referred to by the Forest AND STREAM), 
is waning on the coasts of Maine, and the Commissioners 
propose restricting the catch as totime, especially in July 
and August, during which months, exactly, the critical 
period of lobster spawning takes place. 
In concluding this most interesting report of the Maine 
Fishery Commissioners, it impresses us as the ~ork of con- 
scientious men, who have had their soul in the enterprise. 
We must express the pleasure its perusal has given us, and 
the satisfaction we feel, when we can assure our readers 
that it is to Maine that they may look for the true fish 
nurseries which must supply, in time, no considerable 
portion of the whole country, not only with excellent 
sport, but with solid and wholesome food. 
—_—— oe ______. gentlemen, owner of sportsmen’s dogs, as to making the | looking only to the possible destruction of the fish, we 
A TERRIBLE WOLKE, preliminary arrangements, and we have their entire sup- | Should suppose that establishments using chlorine for 
bleaching materials, as in cotton or paper mills, or employ- 
ing dye stuffs, might in some cases during the fish breeding 
periods, or that of migration, store up their waste matters, - 
and only alioy them to flow into the rivers at times 
when such pollution would do no harm to the fish. Then, 
again, processes might be found by which the waste mat- 
ters could be dessicated, and in solid bulk be placed in the 
earth and not in the water. 
We frankly confess that as yet we do not see our way 
clearly in regard to this subject of the pollution of our 
rivers, and think, with Wature, that it is one of those ques- 
tions of social economy most difficult of solution. 
Ec st 8 
ENTERPRISE IN SOUTH AMERICA.—We learn from a Cor- 
respondent, who is at this time located high up in the 
mountains at a place called Vilcomayo, 14,588 feet above 
the level of the sea, that ‘‘your paper, the Forrest anp 
STREAM, together with some others, lie cosily upon my 
table. Iam rejoiced to greet your paper, and to read from 
the same your well known articles. I may give you an 
item by and by upon agriculture in the valleys and the 
mountains. We have here papers published at Puno, the 
El Cindadona, and one at Cuzco, the Hl Heraldo. Both of 
these papers are well executed every way, and it may seem 
to you like an item of news, indeed, to know that both the 
news sheets are being published more than 12,000 feet 
above the level of the sea. These are by no means the 
highest aspirants for newspaper fame. At a place called 
Cerro de Pasco, 14,000 feet above the sea, a wide awake, 
clever gazette, devoted to the science of mining, matters 
ond things in general, and the muses, is regularly issued.” 
Speaking of a place, Vilcomayo by name, the writer says: 
“Here high up in the Andes isa genuine American hotel, 
two stories high, with a ‘‘piazza,” and some forty rooms 
for the accommodation of tourists and the railroad people 
who come this way. Here are all the necessary requisites 
for the railroad, such as machine shop, engine houses, and 
laborers’ cabins for the many hundred men employed upon 
the same. Just imagine that these are called the “Yankees 
of South America.’ There are Chilians, Bolivians, Peru- 
ians, whites, Indians, ladrones, blacks, and once in a while 
the Chinaman.” 
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InpEx.—The present issue—No. 26—completes the first 
volume of Forrest AND STREAM, and we are accordingly 
preparing an index of the same, to be mailed tc our sub- 
scribers with the forthcoming No. 28. The index will be es- 
pecially arranged with reference to classification of spe- 
cies, subjects, localities, characteristics, etc., and wii] con- 
stitute a key to a work of reference which must be greatly 
valued not only from the great variety of topics presented, 
but from the comparatively new ground covered, embrac- 
ing, as it does, the entire geographical range of the United 
States and Canada, with other districts more remote. We 
should advise that the volume be bound immediately upon 
receipt of the index. 
port as to the founding of just such a kennel club in this 
country. 
To return to the differences in marking the merits of 
dugs as advised by us, it will be noticed that retrieving is 
not taken into consideration in a field trial in England (see 
account of Mr. Price’s shooting in Wales) as a distinctive 
feature, nor are there any points allowed, nor do the English 
sportsmen asa rule train or expect a dog to fetch his bird. 
Gamekeepers are frequently employed to hold retrievers in 
leash, who loose them when a bird is to be fetched, In the 
United States a setter that will not retrieve a snipe or 
woodcock, or fetch his bird or bring it in in good style, 
without mauling, would be considered by us as but half 
broken, and would deteriorate in price in the estimation of 
the purchaser fully 50 per cent. Almost the first question 
that is asked when a gentleman is about purchasing a set- 
ter in the United States is, ‘will he retrieve?” The answer 
generally is, ‘the retrieves first rate.’ To conclude our 
remarks on this important subject, trusting that our sug- 
gestions may be thought of use to the interests of our 
sportsmen, without any false braggadocia on our part, we 
believe that an American bred setter taken out for a day’s 
hard work has more bottom, and will last longer, and 
work stauncher at the end of the day, and will be in a better 
condition for the next day’s shooting, than an English 
bred setter. We are glad to sce the New York Heruld 
agrees with us on this point. 
It has been proposed by us to allow ten points for re- 
trieving in the Anglo American match, reducing the pace 
and style of hunting from 20 to 15 points, also the styl 
and steadiness of pointing from 15 to 10 points, for the rea- 
sons that will be readin our columns elsewhere, to which 
we would direct attention. 
The gentlemen who have entered their dogs conditionally 
in the Anglo-American match will piease state whether 
these alterations in the marks of excellence in the setter 
will suit the different clubs they repre-ent. We feel satis- 
fied that the English party will listen to almost anything in 
reason in the way of modification of their laws to accom- 
modate American sportsmen, who will have to travel so 
far to test the merits of their pointers and setters in com- 
parison with the English bred dogs. 
CODE OF RULES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF FIELD TRIALS OF 
SPORTING DOGS, ADOPTED BY THE KENNEL CLUB, 1873. 
1,— ELEcTIoN oF JuDGES—The Judge or Judges shall be elected by the 
Committee of the Meeting, and their names shall be announced simulta- 
neously with the meeting. Whena Judge, from ill health or any other 
unexpected cause, is prevented attending a meeting, or during a meeting 
finishing it, the Committee of the Meeting shall haye the power of de- 
ciding what is to be done. 
2.—DESCRIPTION OF ENTRY—Every subscriber to a stake must name 
his dog at or before the Draw, and must give (if known) the name of the 
sire and damof the dog entered. The Secretary shall publish on the 
cardthe names of those who are subscribers, but do not comply with 
these conditions. These nominations shall not be drawn but must be 
paid for. Any puppy whose pedigree, marks, or color shall be proved 
not to correspond with the entry given shall be disqualified and the 
whole of hisstakes or winnings forfeited. 
OTHING delighted Louis XV. so much as the chase. 
Besides being a buntsman of superior merit, combin- 
ing the finest theory with absolute practice, Louis XV. gave 
to this noble art all those finer and more delicate shadings 
which those pompous times allowed. When not engrossed 
in the cares of state, or absolutely in the field, the music 
of the hunt, the study of those melodious sounds brought 
forth in the hunting horn, occupied his royal attention. 
Several calls of his composition are extant, and what is 
called ‘‘La Louise Royale” and ‘‘L’ Azur,” still sounded at 
hunting meets, owe their origin to Louis XV. 
But the revolution destroyed all hunting in France. The 
mad thirst for blood went even so for that not only the no- 
blest of hunters but their poor dogs were sacrificed. Some 
anecdotes of this pericd are most interesting. The repub- 
licans seized on every pack of hounds they could find and 
pitilessly killed them. In order to save some few of their 
choicest breeds their unfortunate masters cut the dogs’ tails 
and lopped their ears, thus transmogrifying a stag hound 
into a watch dog. There was a certain pack of wolf 
hounds celebrated for their courage and speed during fully 
three centuries, which was almost totally destroyed by the 
sans culotte. Fortunately, two or three of these ani- 
mals were saved, after being docked and cropped. On the 
return of their masters to France, in 1803, these solitary 
individuals of the canine race who had, during fully ten 
years, been forced to undergo the most degrading purposes, 
were discovered, and the race was miraculously preserved. 
From these dogs the famous pack of hounds belonging to 
the Count de Cantelau owes its origin. Occasionally an 
exception was made by the followers of Danton and Robes- 
pierre, for M. du Hallay barely escaped the guillotine from 
the fact of his having destroyed a thousand wolves. 
There is a curious story about a terrible wolf, which is 
recorded among the hunting annals of France, which we 
see repeated in the columns of our French contemporary. 
All kinds of diabolical stories are told about wolves, which, 
strange enough, are repeated inall languages. Our own 
Indians love to tell stories of a certain terrible medicine 
wolf, and the Gallic Zoup Garru, and the Saxon Wier 
Wolf, all undoubtedly spring from one and the same 
origin. 
All Avergne, in France, about one hundred and tén 
years ago, was ravaged by a wolf, who rejoiced in a partic- 
ular name of his own, and was called the Terror of Gévau- 
dan. Such was the havoc he made among shepherds and 
flocks that the Evéque of Mendl had a solemn service held 
in the cathedral, with prayers, imploring the Divine Mercy 
to spare the men and cattle in the country. The wolf was 
alleged to have killed and devoured no less than ninety- 
three people, and to have mutilated twice that number of 
human beings. Louis XY. instituted a grand hunt for this 
wolf’s especial benefit, and twenty thousand wolf hunters 
are said to have been put upon his track. Huntsmen and 


hounds from Italy were added to the French contingent, 
and the princes of the blood Royal, Condé, Orleans, and 
Penthiévre sent all their hunting equipages. They chased 
and they ran this wonderful wolf for a whole month with- 
out success. Once he was wounded, and swam a river, but 
this only seemed to make him the more ravenous, for 
shortly afterwards (so says the chroniclers of the times) he 
recommenced gobbling up children, women, and sheep in 
the most wholesale way. At last, on the 20th of Septem- 
ber, 1765, close to the royal abbey of Chazes stood the fa~ 
mous hunter, the Chevalier Antoine de Beauterne, the 
king’s own rifle bearer, or porte-arquebuse, as that important 
fuuctionary was then called. Antoine fired his blunder- 
buss at the wolf (so reads the French account), and down 
went the wolf, only to spring up again with redoubled fury, 
intent on making a Red Riding Hood out of the redoubtable 
Chevalier. Asan oyster would he have been swallowed 
had it not been fora certain M. Reinhard, who came up 
just in the nick of time and killed the wolf outright with 
his gun. “ 
So goes the story. We have before told our readers 
about the wolves which seem to abound in certain parts of 
France—perhaps the descendants of this classic wolf—who 
3.—ALTERATION OF NAmE—If any subscriber shall enter a dog by a 
different i.ame from that in which it shall last have run, or been exhib- 
ited, without giving notice to the Secretary of the alteration at the time 
of entry, such dog shall be disqualified. The Secretary shall (if thecon- 
ditions of the rule be complied with) enter on the card the late and pres- 
ent name of such dog. ‘ 
4.—Nominations—Any subscriber taking an entry in a stake, and not 
prefixing the word ‘‘names’’ to a dog which is not his own property, 
shall forfeit that dog’s chance of the stake. He shalllikewise be com- 
pelled to deliver in writing to the Secretary of the meeting the name of 
the bona fide owner of the dog named by him, and this communication 
shall be produeed should any dispute arise in the matter, 
5—.DrravuLtTeRrs—No person shall be allowed to enter or run a dog, 
in his own, or any other perscn’s name, who is a defaulter for either en- 
tries or stakes. 
6.—Powrr To Reruse Entrres—The Committee or Stewards of any 
meeting may reserve to themselves the right of refusing any entries that 
they may think fit to exclude, and no person, who has. been proved to 
the satisfaction of the Committee to have misconducted himself in any 
way in connection with dogs, dog shows, or dog trials, will be allowed to 
compete in any trials that may be held under the Kennel Club Rules. 
7.—OBJECTIONS—An objection to a dog must be made to the Stewards 
or Committee of the meeting at any time before the stakes are paid 
over upon the objector lodging a sum of £5 in the hands of the Stew- 
ards, Committee, or the Secretary, which shall be forfeited if the objec- 
tion prove fiivolous. The owner of the dog objected. to shall be com- 
pelied to deposit equally the sum of £5, and to prove the correctness of 
his entry. All expenses in consequence of the objection to fall upon the 
Ss 1 
Tue ANNUAL MEETING of the American Fish Culturists’ 
Association will be held at No. 10 Warren street, this 
city, on the 10th of February instant, as already an- 
nounced. 
Weare requested by Seth Green, Esq., to state, in view 
of the written desire of alarge number of gentlemen to 
meet him here, that he will be found at the mecting as 
above, where all who wish to ‘‘talk fish” can not only but- 
ton-hole him, but other leading pisciculturists, to their 
hearts’ content. 
$< e—____. 
—We have the best authority for stating that our most dis- 
tinguished soldier, General Sherman, has cxpressed him- 
self in the most complimentary way in regard to the 
National Rifle Association, and the management of Creed- 
moor, and as fully appreciating in a military point of view 
the advantages of the general rifle practice movement now 
commencing in the United States. 
i 
—Dr. Wm. B. Ball, of Chesterfie'd, Va., late Fish Com- 
missioner of that State, died last month in the fifty-sixth 
year of his age. 
