The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-13


and especially to be loved with little or
no regard to character. Disguised with
the base ingratitude or stolid indiffer-
ence of his human companions, sensi-
tive human nature is glad to turn away
from man to such agreeable brute con-
fidence and loyalty.
BUT dogs are no more all alike than
men. A good and well.trained dog is
very nice and useful companion, though
always a somewhat risky one. But the
number of real good dogs" is almost
as limited as the number of real good
men and women. What shall we do
with the rest of them? Must we toler-
ate them all, horrible nuisances as
these are, and shall we submit to all the
trouble, loss, danger and suffering to
other domestic animals, as well as to
people, which they constantly impose
upon every community, and especially
every rural community? 1t does not
seem to us that the goodness of the
good dogs can forever carry such load
as their ill-conditioned fellows impose.
From the economical point of view it is
very plain to us that dogs do not pay.
The good to be found amongst them is
very good, we admit; but we think
every impartial mind must mistrust
that it does not pay, except as we put
very fancy price upon dog-love and dog
usefulness.
JOHN WESLEY was certainly very
sagacious man, and good way ahead
of his times on many matters of COM
mon life. In his day wines and liquors,
tea and coffee were almost universally
regarded as beneficial in their effect
upon the human system. But Wesley
perceived truth not yet very widely
believed in when he said: " Water is
the wholesomest of all drinks; auickens
the appetite and strengthens the di-
gestion most. Strong, and more espec-
tally spirituous liquors, are a certain
though slow poison. Coffee and tea
are extremely hurtful to persons who
have tender nerves." 1t really seems
pity that such things should "make
US feel better" for little while, con-
sidering how many are deluded to their
hurt by that fact. They would almost
seem to be the invention of the arch
fiend. But this can not be the right
view of the matter. They are more
probably exercises in the art of wise
self-denial, the great strengthener of
character.
A RECENT large sale of " Dutch "
{" Holstein W cattle in Massachusetts
seems to indicate that even the fancy
farmers of New England are finding
that it does not pay here to breed as
fancy cattle race whose milk is 80
poor as sometimes to expose their own
ers to prosecution for watering it.
Ninety head of them were recently sold
in FlOrence-the herd of Judge Bond
of which the Springfield Republican
says: While there were many farm
ers present they attended with the ex-
pectation that the prices would be of the
fancy order, beyond their reach. But
everything went SO cheap that some of
the butchers took advantage of the sale
to buy stock for the slaughter"
WE are glad to know that some of
our farmers are taking an interest in
growing and fruiting apple seedlings.
w. r. Bliss writes us from Corinth,
VT, that he has grown a crab seeding
which looks much like the Wealthy,
and seems to keep as well, but is less
tart. 1t fruited for the first time last
year, and usually new seedlings do not
show all their qualities, good or bad, at
first bearing. We wish Mr.. Bliss sue
cess in his exertions to improve our
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