The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-23

suggestion of the giving of cup of cold water; nothing counted but his own little soul.
 TAKE CARE OF THE DOGS.
 Do we not, when the question of q sheep law comes up, think only of our worthless dog and the trouble of taking proper care of him? Do We not forget that although our dog may be brought up to know sheep from Woodchuck # our dogs run loose according to law at all times, other dogs will run loose. and immense damage to the state and our fellow citizens result? Do we not even forget that our competitors in the market are those that make and sell | just what we do?
 As a dairyman on small scale do not envy my brother dairymen their | profits, but should rejoice with them l if they found they could make more | money keeping sheep, growing tobacco, garden truck or any other farm prod i ucts and leave me little more open field. l would even rather they made 1 oleomargarine, dirty stuff as I think it is than to make butter so far as I am | individually concerned.
 We hear much of the evils of cOrpOr- atons; hear that corporation is some l thing without a body or soul but the | corporation does one good thing-it teaches a man to think of us instead of me. Hartford is a city of corporations; 1 is of itself great corporation. If | councilman were to vote against inn i proving a street because he did not live on it he would be drummed out of the city, but I know of town where vote 1 to improve a highway was rescinded at ! special town meeting and the only argument used was that while the road was more important than any other, majority of the citizens used some oth- CT more often than that It was the same queston-our dog and another | mans sheep.
 "When in the future the question of dog laws, or any other laws for that matter, come up, let us think of the et- feet upon the state, that foreigner i has been quoted as saying was but little yellow spot on the map, but he had heard of it's brilliant sons all over this great country, and try and make it the pleasantest and the best place In this whole country to live in and to die in.
 Before closing I wish to say few words as to the work of the COnnecti- cut Sheep Breeders association. Our last attempt at influencing general leg isation was to get the sheep breeders and the breeders of dogs, worth hous- ing, together, and they easily agreed upon a bill. It did not become law. | tba commit tee on agriculture were breeders neith- CT of sheep nor decent dogs, and while no one appeared against the bill it was quietly reported unfavorably and died an easy death.
 BOARD PAYS REWARD.
 We have, however, got an amend ment to our charter that allows us to pay a reward for the killing of dogs found worrying sheep and allowing us to defend in the courts any party ma liciously prosecuted for killing such a dog. Our expense for the last year has been mainly for rewards, there having been, so far as we know, no prosecu- tions that we were called upon to de- fend.
 We have, as you are probably aware, an annual appropriation of $500, but under existing conditions we have seen no occasion for eXpending that amount. We have, however, spent about $35 in procuring statistics as to the number and taxable value of sheep and the value of sheep killed by dogs in this state We decided upon collect ing these facts because, however unim- , portant the sheep industry may by some be considered in this state, there is no doubt as to it's importance as a national industry, and we were ire quently asked for these statistics,
 T am happy to inform you that we have paid in the last year $S0 for the destruction of sheep-killing dogs. only regret that we could not spend our entire appropriation in that way