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

Did love God as you love me, my dog, my life would be divine, said Holland. For thousands of years man has had opportunity to study and know the many animals about him, to learn 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 friend-a friend rather than an enforced servant of a master. There are some incidents of seeming affection strongly displayed by the horse anG 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 a 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 ot which, in their many uses, cannot be comput. ed. All these animals have been forced | into service in more or less degree ant often the master hand is only gained by the greatest effort.
 The dog, though being used by mar
 in very many ways to accomplish hls ends, has gone beyond this realm o1 animal life and become a true friend a companion of man, and more thar 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 ol the opposite-sour, suspicious, inimical ever ready for a quarrel according t' the condition man has forced upon him vet true to his master; whether he b' evil or good, kind or brutish, he rec ognizes him as his master by righ and does not question the condition even though they be poverty and ever cruelty. He knows his master unde all circumstances; even disguised t the extreme he soon discovers by tn scent, voice or motion that his maste is back of the guise and does not hes itate to own him. Man is ottel troubled and really may fail to prov his dog by accurate descriptions:
 Man is the only god dog knows and man is his accepted god. He look upon him as his superior being. Ma worships his God by faith, the dog b sight and still he is satisfied, thoug his god is so imperfect at best.
 Every man is not looked upon by
 dog as his god or in fact any god a all-only the one to whom he would sur render in perfect trust and confidence His god is his own master, and he l never so happy as when he pushes h l head into his masters lap and feel the caress of the hand he loves. Hi eyes speak the great love that hls nut tongue cannot reveal. He is in per feet rest of happiness, actually seelni the hand and feeling the warm touc of his god. In his sickness as in healt he still looks to man as his best frlen while he would turn on an intruder o his own kind the teeth of anger. Rus kin says :"There is in his eye dim i'm age and gleam of humanity, a flash Q 3 strange light through which hls lii looks out and up to our great myster of command over them and claims tn fellowship of the creature If not tn soul."
 Why does one man have dog so flu of intelligence, useful in so many ways possessing disposition that may b trusted at all times, dog of real val ue of no mean limit, while anothe owns dog similar in outward appear ance but so different in his characte and temperament as to be not only
 public nuisance but most dangerou animal? Does it depend on the do alone that these extremes are seen We cannot accept any such idea. l has been said that "as the man so his dog," but this may not always D true. A man may not be mean or Il! tempered but far from it and yet hi dog may be useless and vicious. Tn tender sprouts of spring uncared fo and unprotected from destroying con ditions will fail to increase at harves time. If the dog looks up to mar man must not neglect his obligation To every man, taking the little puppy as the potter takes his clay, it IS possi ble by correct training and example Q self-control while handling him t bring to development dog every wa worthy of his toll. s. We speak of no one breed; there ar many breeds and of great and varle character, each marvelously fitted fo