The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-02-24
Present-Day Thoughts.

limits of the kennel, where the goo'
things of life reached him withou
effort and were accepted without ques
ton. Then came days of loose jointeC
roaming, and at last a bark Of his owl
and burst of wild freedom. Abou
that time his troubles began for hav
ing teeth he started TO use them anC
having the impulse to destroy he yield
ed to it, His idea that the world il
only for his amusement and that rugs
and shoes are designed by providence
for whetting teeth will soon be dis
PEELED.
The power to do by no means justilies
deed. At this point all sorts Of pup
pies go astray and at this point also
their sulferings begin. 1t is hard les.
son, but a necessary one that powers
seem principally given to us in order to
be curbed instead Of INDUCED. The
philosophy Of modern progress is that
puppies must be tanned into useful
dogs and wild boys into thoughtful
men. Were it not so the boy would
slip back to sayagery and the dog be-
come an outcast. The more we insist
on having our own way, as if the whole
world was made for us the worse time
are we going to have.
~
There he goes now to hide a bone
which he has picked, and that really
has no mortal use to which he can put
it. 1t is all very well to explain that
this is due to ancestral memory dating
back to the time when dogs were wild
and food scarce. Yet, nevertheless, we
call him silly and wisley too, for there
are more bones where that came from
and they will not be clean picked
either. To every day its bone and to
every dog its day, so why should he
bury for future use that which has no
use? The providence that rules over
dogs is not dissimilar to that which
hOyers over men. 1t is well enough to
guard against a rainy day, but it is
foolish to buy worthless things to meet
it. The best preparation is to use
things as they come, and from them
get the strength, not to turn back and
gnaw over the past, but to go forward
To use the things that are yet to be.
Live right, live wisely, and another
day will bring another bone. And. by
the way, some Of us place reliance on
such picked bones as great descent
dead bones, all of it. Silly puppies.
Some pups delight in the uncleanly.
They revel in corruption and they have
their reward for they are driven forth
into the chill publication of the outer
air, leaving behind them the simple,
pleasant comforts to which they were
blind when they might have seen. No
longer may they proudly gambol along
in good company, but stunning and de-
testation are theirs. Their nature, you
say? OF course, but nature is not in
all things a safe guide. Bless your soul,
impulse is rather a thing to be ques-
toned than to follow. To be true in the |
direction Of those impulses-strong, |
nsistent, inbred and exacting-whose
power we all know and whose excuse is
hat they are natural.
But, and the but" is tremendous in
is import-the way of such impulse is
he way to isolation from the things
hat are sweetest and dearest and best.
Puppy's scent is keen for uncleanli
less and he can always find it if he
eeks, until the world-his worlds
ounded out by it. There is no need to
raw the parellel save in the sketchiest
ashton for he that hath eyes to read
an see. Evil is here in the world and
hose who seek find; good is likewise
ere and much of it, but they who seek
vii find no good, and the further they
o less chance have they to return.
oap will cleanse and chain confine
he dog, but no soap ever yet touched
he unclean spirit and its chain is not
ne that holds it back from evil, but
hat binds it down where good is hard
D reach. The way of return to flower
trewn paths is thick with thorns of the
nguish and Of the loneliness that come
rom knowing that the wrong way was
hosen. Compared with this problem,
hat Of the befouled pup is simple.
What the little canine cannot under
land he barks at. He wastes his breath
pom the great round moon so long
nat morning drives her away. Lo, the
arking did it. Not little bit my
lucy puppy. Your voice sounds in
our own ear very majestic but the
ioon never heard you. She gave way to
le mighty day Of perfect light and
ot to narrow minded cur.
How like some two legged puppies
reat facts that were facts before our
imbols began, and will be facts after 1
lr last whine is uttered come looming
p before US and are too great for US to
lily understand. But nothing being
10 vast for argument, at a certain
age Of puppy development we
bay and mouth against the