The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-08
All About Dogs,

We don't know how soon alter the
first pair entered Eden, dogs put in
an appearance, but as far back rs we
have any recollection of the human
family, we remember dogs. The clas-
sic expression, "dog-on-it," indicates
that they are of a very ancient origin.
There is another theory which would
seem to indicate hat dogs had an
early history. 1t is a well establish
ed fact that q very poor man is always
the owner of several dogs. Now, as
every age has been more or less af-
ficted with the poverty of some who
have lived in it, how could the pic
ture be complete without dogs?-.
Again, whose grandfather ever seen
the picture of a blind man who was
not led by a dog? Is there any rude
boy who ever tried TO steal apples,
except the one whom the old man
stoned and the dog did not get after
him? Was there aver a drowning
child saved that a dog did not pull
out? There are many kind of dogs.
Goldsmith in his Elegy on Madam
Blaize speaks of
"Mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound
And ours of low degree"
That Sergeant Bates of a fellow,
who tried to carry a flag with excel
sior" written on it up the Alpine
mountains, and who wouldn't stop
for the old maid when she said
sob stay and rest
Thy weary head upon this breast"
but who went OH whooping and yell
ing upon the mountain, got lost in the
snow, as he deserved, and the poet
says:
ga traveller by the faithful hound
Half buried in the snow was found"
Burns wrote a fine poem upon the
two dogs. Old Dives would not do
anything for Lazarus, but the dogs
did. An English poet, at one time
quite celebrated in describing a pau
per's burial says
"He was not friendless,
Yes, there was one, only one, faithful
friend
To that forgotten wanderer, his dog"
Rip Van Wrinkle had a faithful dog.
His name was SNYDER" and he slept
with him for twenty years without
moving. But the various dogs may
be grouped for convenience into two
general classes, and if writers upon
natural history would do this it might
save confusion. The great well rec
ognized classes are town dogs and
country dogs. There is as much diff
ference between a town dog and a
country dog, as one can well imag-
ine.= a town. dog knows all the al
leYs-knows every meat shop that he
can slyly slip a good steak out Of
knows what slop bucket to run his
nose into, and he walks around the
streets with his narrative erect. The
country dog has q scared look rs he
comes into town, and well he may
have, for if half q dozen loafer dog;
ordinarily sitting on the street cor
ners do not make ferociously at him
some humane biped will betray his
confidence and have an old oyster
can tied to his tail in less than five
minutes, and he will take it home and
crawl under the barn with it in lesl
time than Goldsmith Maid could clear
the same space. Ifyou throw a boo
jack at a country dog, you can Away
hit him PUNK in the ribs, and with
doleful yelp he bids you farewell ant
waves you an awkward adieu as h,
tumbles over your fence to strike on
for "home, sweet home"
The past week has been one of grea
mortality among our town dogs
Several distinguished ones have hat
the ozark" taken out of them. Ed
Lockwood's "Bose" was a well know
dog. Ed. took him of a minister II
raise, but it is thought the dog los
his "true inwardness" after he mad
the change. He died of 'pizen" sud
denly and without prayer. Luenber
ger had a fine dog, but become a Lit
tie wild living in town. So Lusn
berger one night tied him to a stalk
near a fence, which so mortified tn
dog that he jumped the. fence and thi
life before morning, and was foun'
| hanging on the other side. He was
"sooner dog" and the owner life
up his voice and wept bitterly. TIL
Coroner pronounced it q clear case c
suicide and Dramatically adheres t
the opinion. Beatty had a fine dog
He was a hunter and setter-hc woul
hunt a bone with o perseverance
f. which commanded the admiration {
6 all his friends, and when he had foun
: one would set and gnaw it from earl
morn until
5 "Night dropped her sable curtain dow
And pinned it with a star"
Perhaps you have noticed one swe'
5 voice in the chorus when the dog
> gave a midnight serenade; that b.
g longed to Beatty's ';setter"-we sha
. meier hear it again. "Death loves
! shining mark" and that dog had
n go. Five or six other dogs died la