Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-06-12
THE Doe-pouND.
to the Prison in New York for the
 Canine Kind.

- EI0Lt to the RflSon ln NeW EorA fOf the FV Canine Kind.
 ' The phrase .sLove me, love my dog,' |Sxpresses by implication profound Psychological truth. It is proverbial |saa4 nothing tests one's self control |Ske an assault upon one's canine com |Sanion Even a verbal assault will fywai1l the temper of the mildest man, aud as for physical violence, why, that Bikes the affair entirely beyond the re- |S,urces of philosophy All this being @xiomatic, it follows that anyone who |sSIIges the canine pet for stroll in New |S orlx city without either muzzle or |Ss lain takes his temper in hand, and
 . anders over a mine of anger that may |Ss sprung at any moment For sooner |y later he will see a burly fellow |Vgesp down upon the pet, perhaps as |S runs between his very legs, and bear |S Smuggling away, tossing it ruthless |S into the depths of the dislnalest old |S lack Maria that even New York can [S oast The man is an official licensed |S dog-catcher," the vehicle a sort of |@nte-mortem hearse that every year |S trries several thousand dogs on their |@ st Journey in the world
 |S To ask you to keep your temper as . 3u see your pet engulfcd in this omni- (Yas is of course quite useless. You |-s ,uld not do it if you would Still the |@ ,posite procedure will avail you noth |@g You can not stop the robber by |@ rec. for he is probably much more Elan your match to begin with, and |S fen if he were not. there are two or |ss ree more of him in the wagon, be- |-S des which the law is altogether on Is side You had best not try to coer- |S on therefore. But there is a far
 q ronger power i'll the community than % ercion, as you well know if you have |@ red long in the metropolis. It is trac, |S on Try that if you like; but-nar, |S I of marye1sl-eyen that will proba- |S Y be intellectual. Those catchers get sMat forty cents for your dog, yet your Ser of dollar each is declined. If |yIything could come near convincing k @,u that you are dreaming, 1t is that |S perienee. Your anger turns to won- |@ ranent. What can 1t mean? We'll, (S me dog-catehers licenses have been |W Roked recently, and perhaps the pres |A incorruptibles are fearful that they
 ght be served in the same way. Pos F. Fly you look to them as if you ght .speaeh, and they do not
 Istyou. Or perhaps they do not trust eanother. If one were alone-well, night be different. Or again-strang at this thought should come last shaps the eatchers are conscientious. all events, as the matter stands, you II never see your dog again unless go after him to the city dog pound. But, after all, you need not feel so dly about 1t, for it is worth your lile to go there anyway, just out of fiosity. Since you own q dog you of course, lover of dogs, and any yyo7l may find at the pound strange soxtsaent of these animals. The ap-
 sach to the pound is not altogether siting. You go through a street bor- red with fruit markets of not quite E. Highest grade, where the vendors sjabbering in what sounds like Ghoc-
 r. but probably is a species of gar
 Id Italian. Coming to the East river see long, low building projecting { over the water, supported, Lake |1 Ieller fashion, on piles. The sn Dog Pound is over the door. atering, you find in charge a sn who does not seem to regard the
 rloining Of your dog at all the seri- matter you think it, but who an CTS you eivilly enough and turns h oyer to one of the uniformed dog Ieras who escorts you into the prison Is 5pex
 o4 l.. l, ,Ie d yelps and so on throughout the | nge of the canine vocabulary you l. yer heard before, not even at the dog ow. Three or four hundred dogs are 1 lddled together in two great cages, or E as Big dogs and little dogs. black d white and yellow and brindle dogs, astiffs and hounds and settlers and Igs and poodles, and-more than all rest-an assortment that are simply 'gs, with question mark added at is in some cases.
 Some bound eagerly to greet you; oth- cover in the remotest corner. A few e bold and confident. few angry and prose, more are eowed and despond- 1t, but every one looks eagerly toward Ie door in hope of seeing a friendly smiliar face as you enter-a face that ould be the most welcome sight in the oria to each particular dog-that of is master. Your own dog flies to you | lad is rescued, and all the others give howl of appointment but many of lem come to lick your hand and make tends with one whom they recognized sa lover of their race. Every dog of aem is yearning for sympathy. poor tile King Charles covering over there the corner, if he is not actually reeping, is surely wishing that that rivilege were not denied his kind, for e looks lachrymose enough. Will " mistress never come?" he seems to ay, And water spaniels and poodles ay the same thing in pantomime. Even he unintelligent eyes of the little pugs ave . despairing, wistful look that oes to your heart.-Harper's Weekly. The Perfume of Flowers.
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