The Portland daily press., 1895-02-16

faithfulness, and as different from saw
ageness as possible.
Under different circumstances, how
ever, the bloodhound will present in
iuries, and there is nothing that offeuds
him more thar any assault upon his dig
nifty. 1t is tolerably we'll known fact
that all dogs of spirit resent ridicule.
Caress dog and he is your friend,
laugh at him when he is uncomfortable
and it will be long before he will again
have confidence in you.
HUNTING MEN.
Mr.. Winchell freq uently entertains
visitors with hunt. This he does to
show the sagacity and wonderful trailing
capacities of the dogs and also to expose
the fallacy of the idea that these dogs
are savage and ferocious when they come
up with their quarry. One of these Wis
itors furnishes this description of what
he saw on such hunt together with
some other observations. He says:
with us we had three dogs. Rosemary,
Belhus-both imported from England
and Victor, fifteen months old puppy,
born at Mr.. Winchell's place. Rosemary
is both blind and deaf, but she is a
noted trailer. When the perpetrator of
the Whitechapel murders so successfully
baffied the London police, Mr.. Edward
Rough, the breeder of Rosemary, at the
invitation of the Chief of the London
Police, Sir Charles Warren, took her and
several OF her kennel companions to Lon
don to experiment in following the trail
of men. This experiment was made in
Hyde Park, and so long as the trail was
in the Park the dogs followed it with
out difficulty; but on the hard pavements
of the streets, where muluitudes were con-
tinuously passing, they were soon at
fault. OF these dogs, Rosemary. with
all her senses alive, and in her early
youth, did better than any of her COM
panions. Now we were to see her on the
rough Vermont hills, without eyes and
without ears, aud with only her nose to
guide her in following trail over rough
places, through water, over fences and
walls, through forest and swamp and
ahicket. 1t seemed incredible that she
could do it, When the men had well
nigh completed the course the blind
bitch was turned loose. These men
whom she was expected to follow had
come from the kennels, and of course,
from the place where Rosemary was un-
lcashed there was trail each way. I was
curious to see if she would not take the
back track. But only for a moment did
she hesitate, and then carefully she
went off on the trail of the men, her
nose close to the ground. At the first
fence she hesitated second and then
climbed over, and to the very end was
not at fault for moment. This was
unquestionably very hard test of the
scenting power, for there were many
difficulties in the trail, and she was
obliged to overcome all impediments by
the use of her nose alone. When she as
almost at the finish Belhus was let loose.
He was at fault for few minutes a. the
first fence, on each side of which there
was water; after that at a terrific pace
he followed the trail without blunder.
When Belhus had disappeared in the
woods Victor, the American puppy
as let loose. He was even faster than
Belhus, but the fence and water bothered
him. He lost the trail and circled around
to find it, and then came GALLON
ing toward US in the back trail. This