Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-09-23
A Chapter Oh Dogs.

After Milton, the civic dog finds him.
self born too late. History held the
record of day when the poet might
have scared of freer wing in the high
reason of his fancy, with his garland
and singing robes about him. The
traditions of a dateless ancestry must
stir poor Tray to memories of time
when his race was honored and beloved
of man; nay, worshiped and entreated
with sacrifices.
No occidental dog of well regulated
mind desires to revive that uncomfort-
able distinction. But mastiff and ter
rier, hound and spaniel, shepherd and
Spitz, Newfoundland and Saint Ber-
nard, may boldly stand for justice in
memory of the services of their kind.
And even that nameless poor relation
of prosperous CANNES, the "yaller dog"
of country huts and city alleys, might
beg for mercy. For these patient,
the unselfish friends and servants of
man since that unamiable savage, roam
ing the woods naked, suddenly be-
thought himself to make a coat of his
companions skin. In fact, your dog
is your only unquestioning and abso-
lutte lover. A man must be agreeable
to be thought agreeable by his friends;
tender, to be cherished by his children;
filial. to be deeply desired even by his
parents. Rut s..dog will cling to him
through evil report and good report;
suffer, starve, die at his hands, and
count itself happy in the opportunity.
No o1 hao hol 114I 30,
in history, and none has half so well
deserved that immortolity. Was it not
a dog that Plato swore by? Did not
the dog Alcibiades cost seventy minas,
and astonish Athens even more by his
sagacity than by his beauty? He
seems to have been the only creature
whom the coarse caprices of his master
could not ALLEVIATE, and certainly his
wrongs would have justified his seces-
sion. That modern General, greater
than the Greek, William of Orange,
loved his dog as well and treated him
much better
The Merry Monarch, who kept faith
with no man, and believed in no wo-
man, cherished his dogs with tender
ness that showed possibility of genu-
ineness in that pinch-back character
Perhaps he inherited the trait from his
grandmother, Queen Ann of Denmark,
who tended a whole menagerie of these
pets, and paid a very pretty animal
bill to worthy Master Heriot, the court
goldsmith, for their gold and silver
collars and emblazoned blankets. 1t
was reserved to that lady's successor,
her present Majesty of England, to un-
earth the ugly terrier of Skye from its
modest retirement, and present it to
sycophantic world, not as a pheno-
menon, but as a fashion. In short, the
names of the royalty, nobility and gen.
try that have become famous as the pa
irons and encouragers of dogs would
satisfy Mrs. farley herself of their
claims on genteel attention.
But literature also has made them her
own, and art has loved them. Who
thinks of the great Sir Walter without
Mazda? What lover of Mrs. Browning
has not q tender thought of Flush
How can heroic little Miss Milford be
separated from her beloved spaniel
Who of us ever read that perfect his
tory of Rab and His Friends without a
suspicious mistiness of vision? Who
is not grateful to the invisible beloved
Schneider for the constant comfort
which that tender. hearted, undeserving
scapegrace, Rip Van Winkle, finds in
his dumb companionship? To how