The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-29
JAILOR LOWS HOUNDS ARE VERY
CLEVER DETECTIVES.
Trim a Cuban Hound, is Leader Of
the Pack, in the Man Huuts-Daniel
Boone's Good Work.

The half dozen blood hounds which
Jailor james Low of Oahu prison
brought back with him from the
States this year, are doing most sat
isfactory service They seem to show
their appreciation of Honolulu, its eli
mate and surroundings, by the good
work they do.
In the lot none are thriving better
than a pair of Texas hounds, named
Lap and Ears. They are beautiful ca
mines of "a bright handsome bay col
or. Their heads are quite large and
well formed These hounds are less
than IA year old and are breaking in
finely.
Duke and Sister, genuine English
blood hounds. are five months old.
Their sires were imported direct from
England last year. They are not near
as handsome as the Texas hounds;
their faces bearing heavy wrinkles.
Their eyes are bloodshUt. In color
they are black and tan, their coats be-
ing short and hard.
Trim" and his mate are Cuban
bloodhounds. They are part fox and
part bloodhound. Both have done ex-
cellent service in the south.
Mr.. Lows Danield Boone gives eve
ry promise of being the best trailing
dog in the bunch. He is part pointer
and part Kentucky blood hound and
was secured by the iailor some little
time before he purchased the others.
| Daniel Boone towers head and shoul-
ders over his companions. He is
! strong, quick and active. Unlike the
other hounds. he works from so to 200
! feet off the scent to the .windward
side. Before Mr. Low imported the
/ Cuban hounds, Daniel Boone would
do his masters bidding. except in
one important thing-he would not
trail up man. Since working him
with the other hounds, Boone has be-
come very apt in this direction.
There is popular ignorance con-
cerning bloodhounds. People mag
inc that the bloodhound is huge dog,
fully as massive as the Great Dane.
That his jaws are deep and hanging.
This is the bloodhound of the Uncle
Toms Cabin show.
The real bloodhounds. of which Mr..
Low has excellent specimens. are -. ON
twenty-five to twenty-seven inches tall
and weigh about eighty pounds. The
wrinkle is the most important part in
connection with the head. No other
dog has it. The head is large in all
dimensions except width. The jaws
are very long and wide at the nostrilS.
The ears are long enough to overlap
each other in front of the nose. SOME
times being more than - inches frou
. tip to tip. The eyes are deeply set.
The neck is long SO that the dog can
drop his nose to the ground without
altering his pace. The body is strong
and the feet round and catlike.
In each pack of hounds there is one
wise old dog, who is leader Trim"
holds this position among his COM
radcs here. His scent is not the keen
est. but his sagacity exceeds that of
the others. Daniel Boone has followed
a close second in recent hunts.
The blood hound has become the
most important member cf the po-
lice and detective force in many parts
of the United States. Man hunts are
more common than in slavery days.
When IA fugitive is run to earth the
dogs surround him. If he will re-
main perfectly still no harm will
come to him. and if he fights he will
suffer.
Mr. Low will have his hounds out
for another hunt within a few days.
RECEPTION on THE FLAGSHIP.
: Invitations have been issued for Il
reception and dance on board the flag
ship Baltimore, Wednesday afternoon.
: RESISTING TEMPTATION.
Balzac, the great French writer, uS-
ed to say: II can resist everything
excepting temptation" In these mod
ern times of ours we naturally infer
that he was thinking of bicycle riding
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