The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-10-30
AHdersut1 gntelligeueer.
The Dog Question.

a correspondent of the Fairfield Neaus
ind Herald raises CRY, regular howl
against the dogs. His hog End cattle
food, prepared at night, was stolen by
these half starved animals, and he
thought he would take the dog census ot
his neiEhborhood. Within one mile o1
G his abode. he found ffty-three; eight
being owned by whites and forty seven
by colored people. he then estimates
the dogs of the County at ten thousand
.and, at. the lowest living estimate, the
tamountof bread, or its equivalent, con-
sumed by them is equal to 65,0 900 bushels
of corn. This corn would raise 100000
pounds of pork, or enough for 5000
people.
In Spartanburg County, with its A.
600 inhabitants, there are at least 10000
dogs that are just as expensive as those
of Fairfield, but. one might as we'll at
tempt to deprive a man of the right to
vote as to restrict him in the number OF
dogs he nay,own. The man fond OF
blooded dogs will have his settlers and
pointers and they are about as destruct-
i've as the bob. tailed, yellow ours of the
"nigger:." Then the fox hunter must
have his hounds and they make pretty
broad road through the cotton field when
they start fox or rabbit. Dogs are
very much like people, they are not
always under the best command. In
fact we have seldom seen dogs much
superior to;their owners. It is hard for
a dog: to rise above its raising. The dogs
of aristocratic owners will kill sheep and
fowls and commit other genteel depreda-
tions that your yellow-eyed, slab-sided
mongrel would not dream of.
There are certainly too many dogs in
our County, too many Of all sorts, and
they are not properly controlled. They
consume too much food in proportion to
.the benefits they bring, unless you count
the pleasure of owning dog amongst
the benefits. That is beyond price.
There is Eothing superior 70 it, unless it
be the owning of FIVE or six dogs. The
supreme happiness of the poor man,
whether white or black, that is the
owner of about Eve poor, raw-boned,
NANCY dogs, no two alike in any way, is
beyond human calculation. The. pleas.
lures Of the fox chase sink into a; sombre
and funeral procession, when you com-
pare it with half dozen negroes with
about eighteen dogs, of, alldegrees, in
hot pursuit after; molly cotton TAIL"
That's genuine fun. g.l - 80:
Legislators may discuss the dog and
plead for his determination; doctors may
hold up the. tsrrors of hydrophobia
before people; old women may complain
of their eggs being sucked by NASTY,
triAing hounds" but the dog is here and
he is going to stay. The promise or;
prophecy is that the poor will always be
with -s, and wherever you see the poor
man the dog is, not far away. Those
who raise so many objections to dogs
always mean their neighbor's ours. No
man ever acknowledged that he owned
sheep killing, egg sucking whelp.
His, dogs are always perfect.
As the dog is going to stay, the best
thing will be to improve his morals. Io
do this the owners must set them a: good
example. Dogs have LOTS of sense and
they understand more than they get
credit for. When smart pointer hears
his mistress abusing and back-biting her
neighbor, he thinks it his bounden duty
to Slip across and break up the hens
nests or kill some of the young fowls Of
this bad neighbor. The dog is just car
rying out the thoughts of the owner:
The black mouthed cur enters into al!
his masters prejudices and animosities.
Not being able to talk and too much OF
a dog to back-bite, he takes his spite out
in killing sheep or worrying hogs. A
good example would wonderfully i'm
prove the dogs.-spartanburg Spartan.