The Newtown bee., 1908-06-19
MANS FRIEND, THE DOG.
,. E. OSBORNE OF STEPNEY IN
 THE BREEDER $ GAZETTE.

Did 1 love God as you love me, m!
 dog, my life would be divlne," sai
 Holland. For thousands of years mal
 has had opportunity to study and know
 the many animals about him, to learr
 their characters, ways and disposi
 tions, to measure them as to their use
 fulness and possible worth. After
 these long years of patient and per.
 sistent work we find but one animal
 among the many species ready to ac'
 cept us as a friend-a friend rather
 than an enforced servant of master.
 There are some incidents of seeming
 affection strongly displayed by the
 horse ant other domestic animals, but it is not the many. The horse has
 become most valuable animal and in his sphere of varied usefulness none other can make his place good. The cat is hardly more than well-cared- for pet recognizing the home and those who may give the food, yet even doubt full of them if met in place other than home. In the many countries other animals are giving of their toll
 that mans work may be lessened and made lighter, and they become near to
 man. The wild fowl has been turned into domestic of the greatest worth, producing eggs the true value of which. in their many uses, cannot be comput- ed. All these animals have been forced into service in more or less degree and often the master handis only gained by the greatest effort.
 The dog. though being used by man in very many ways to accomplish his ends, has gone beyond this realm of animal life and become a true friend, a companion of man, and more than any other animal he is influenced in his everyday life, his individual character, by the intimate association with man. In character he may be brave and fear less or timid and cowardly. His dlspo- sition may be trusttul and friendly or the opposite-sour, suspicious, inimical. ever ready for quarrel according to the condition man has forced upon him, yet true to his master; whether he be evil or good, kind or brutish, he rec ognizes him as his master by right and does not question the conditions even though they be poverty and even cruelty. He knows his master under all circumstances even disguised to the extreme he soon discovers by the scent, voice or motion that his master is back of the guise and does not he's itate to own him. Man is often troubled and really may fail to prove his dog by accurate descriptions.
 Man is the only god dog knows, and man is his accepted god. He looks upon him as his superior being. Man worships his God by faith, the dog by sight and still he is satisfied, though his god is so imperfect at best.
 Every man is not looked upon by a dog as his god or in fact any god at the one to whom he would sur- render in perfect trust and confidence. His god is his own master, and he is never so happy as when he pushes h is head into his masters lap and feels the caress of the hand he loves. His eyes speak the great love that his mute tongue cannot reveal. He is in a per feet rest of happiness, actually seeing the hand and feeling the warm touch of his god. In his sickness as in health he still looks to man as his best friend while he would turn on an intruder of his own kind the teeth of anger. Rus kin says" ::"There is in his eye dim i'm age and gleam of humanity, flash of strange light through which hls life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them and claims the fellowship of the creature if not the soul.
 Why does one man have a dog so full ,f intelligence, useful in so many ways, a disposition that may be trusted at all times, dog of real val le of no mean limit, while another ,wns dog similar in outward appear ance but so different in his character md temperament as to be not only public nuisance but most dangerous animal? Does it depend on the dog done that these extremes are seen? Ne cannot accept any such idea. It las been said that "as the man so is lis dog," but this may not always be rue. A man may not be mean or ill., but far from it and yet his log may be useless and vicious. The :ender sprouts of spring ncared for md unprotected from destroying con- IitiOns will fail to increase at harvest ime. If the dog looks up to man, nan must not neglect his obligation. To every man, taking the little puppy, $ the potter takes his clay, it is possi- lie by correct training and example of elf-control while handling him to ring to development dog every way gOrthy of his toll.
 We speak of no one breed; there are many breeds and of great and varied each marvelously fitted for