The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-12
DoCS DISCUSSED.
In Three Chapters.
CHAPTER Ill.
(GOnclude1. J
BY w. III. NEAVE.

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thoughts to cursed canine ma'ness.
hydrophobia, Tor rabies the most hor-
rible and hopelessly deadly CT all dis
eases. If dogs. like nther animals,
kept their peculiar diseases to them
selves. we could afford to pity while
we tolerate them. But in connection
with the a%udacious, irrepressible dispo
sition of the mad dog to bite and
inoculate every living thing he sees. a
strong desire for the utter extermina-
ton of such self envenomed brutes AS
sosiates itself with the ~shuddering
contemplation of the appalling sub
ject.
THE BITCH
or female dog, has not in her nature
the germ Of innate, or self-infiicting
hydrophobia; only the male dogs suf-
fer from rabies spontaneously gene
rated and DIR. Lavallette says that
''the enforced confluence of male dogs
if it does not actually cause. will at
least lead to, and hasten the approach
and attack of rabies" How fearful,
then, would have been the consequent
ces, had legislatures acted in accordance
with the plausible suggestion for q
gradual diminution of the dog crop, by
imposing a heavy tax on bitches. | will
not attempt a portrayal of the fearsome
and sure death of the dog-bitten vic
tim of
HYDROPHOBlA;
But surrounded at all points, as We are
by dogs, it is pertinent and wise for all
to familiarize themselves, by reading
aud otherwise, with the nature of the
imminent peril to which they are al
ways exposed during this unmiti gated
reign of dogs.
The dog is the only real
DOMESTIC ANIMAL;
Even the cat, after leaving kittenhood.
is grave, unsocial and self posed fond
ling is never courted, generally avoid
ed, and, at best, merely endured pas
sively. But any offered indignity,
such as rubbing against the lay of the
hair. is swiftly resented and published,
with teeth and claws. On the con
trary, the dogs more plant and de-
monStrative nature accommodates itself
to all the moods and whims of his
master and family. The dog is in some
sense, a negative evil; man makes him
. companion. and ''backs him up;
therefore the dog is not really to blame:
he cannot help being a dog, and does
all he can to undOg himself; he even
tries to speak; for such 10 his initiative
effort when
BARKING.
Dogs in a state of nature, wild dogs
never bark, but simply howl, growl
and whine. The ancients were aware
of this fact, fer Isaiah compares the
blind Waterman of Israel to wild dogs,
saying: 'They are dumb, they cannot
bark" On the contrary, David com
pares the noise of his enemies to 1.-THE
dogs round about the city," Hence,
the explosive noise of barking, is an
acquired faculty, an effort to speak,
which he derives from association with
man.
In q lecture on suitable amusements,
delivered by Rev. Fl. w. Beechsr in
the Cooper Institute. New York, last
winter, he permitted himself to throw
off this jet OF thoughtless ''gush":-''H
horses and dogs don't have a hereafter,
in heaven1 | don't know what will
become of their owner"!-
DOGS IN HEAVEN!
Mon strous. All that is kaoua of
heavenly %enjoyments, So far, is that
they are purely of a musical order.
Now, here below, a dog is never in
vited, no. even ad mitted to a musicale:
and when enc stealthily slips, in his
presence is soon felt, for he, or her at
once takes part in the music with most
hellish and blood. curdling yowls, which
are summarily cut of by his prompt
and emphatically booted election, yclept
1.-THE grand bounce" In fact, his
entree and esat are almost simultaneous.
II his presence cannot be tolerated an
instant in an ''earth, earthly" musical
party, how is it possible for him to
enter the porsals of heaven, where
strains of seraphlc music will resound
Increasingly through all etsrnity2 The
fact IS, that all the animal creation
love and ENJOY ''the concord of sweet
sounds, which give delight and hurt
not but the dog: to him it is dire
torture though he is irresistibly at
tracted by it; his nervous organization
units him for even painless endurance
Of music; while prolonged, compulsory
subsection to its influence woula induce
spontaneous rabies. This feature. alone.
stamps him the one through outcast of
all the animal creation.
sOhl superbly intellectual but aber-
rant Beecher.
The dog is the champion producer
of
THE FLEA ABOMINATION.
There IS no fles-generating element in
the human system, under any circum-
stances; but the dog has the flea germ
and source lngrained, and is a sponta~
neous, perennial and prolific generator
of the pests, which be is continually
scratching out and throwing off to set
tie and propagate on the human family
n other animals. As a rule. love of
dogs IS most strongly manifested by
the ignorant poor and in the densely
packed tenement houses of such. will
he found one or more unwashed, nerer-
mashed dogs in every Ioom. Such
people are SO
THOROUGHLY F~LEA-BITTEN;
that, in hot weather their faces, chill
dren' especially, are SO dotted with
bite marks, as to give them the appear
ance of measles or small pox victims.
And yet such people think that they,
generate their own f1eas.
l know of no other animal that