The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-09-18
WILL ROBINSON
ON DIVORCES

Continued from Ard page.)
pardon for the comparison. The mean.
er you treat n dog the better he likes
you. There are exceptions, as there are
with women, but they only prove the
rule. No matter how ornery a man is.
the dog will stay with him aud remain
true. though the rest Of the world
turns away in disgust. Most women
are the same way. Long after their
master has become too sorry to rank
among the niggers and such like, she
clings to him with answering love
aud affection, hoping that some way,
somehow, there will come n cleansing
food and the sinner will sin no more.
Sometimes IL does, about once in n
million. More often they keep On 20
ing down, until there IN no recall, aud
not even hope survives. lie thinks just
ns much Of his master IA n beggar ~
he does a "milliunaires, perhaps because
he j. apt TO be- the better man IL the
first ease, aud the dog knows II 10y
some incrutablc intuition. The woman
il "a good deal the same way, and many
a time from a divine companion aud
helpmeet in poverty, becomes n useless,
pampercd pet ~ the midst Of plenty.
All humanity is alike in the matter that
they appear best IN adversely, not in
want, for that sharpens the wits a,
the expense ~ the conscience. But
when II is necessary 90 hustle for the
daily bone, II generally benefits the
intelligence and brings the best side
out. Hard times are good for man, on
the same principle that ieas are good
for dogs, and impels them to hustle.
The dog or the man that hustles Is all
right. lie may fall down on one chase,
hut he can pick up another, aud is
pretty certain to go after IL no fast
ful of tail feathers, which will make
the scent stronger for the next. In
either event he il better OF, though
II might be hard to convince him Of II.
From when ! was a tow. headed boy,
with one suspender and richly colored
dreams Of the world to come, ! have
always loved n dog. Back in the days
when the haze hung bluely Owe the
OZhrks aud the bees hummed in the
clover, Il dog always seemed better to
ways ready to get in the game, never
grumbling or holding back, they are
~optimists that teach no bad lesson aud
are never alert for the best thing. Some
folks say that Il dog has no hope for
the future. | don't believe any such
stuff. Some OF the dogs ] have owned
knew everything except how to talk,
and their hearts were not deRled by
the knowledge of earth. To believe
that hs;er having given 50 much com
fort aud pleasure TO the superior ami
NAL that they will not follow him be
yond the misty bOrderland seems fool
ishness 10 me. Could the average boy
be happy in heaven or anywhere else
without u dogi Not much, Mary Ann
IL there is any such place as the
Psalmist sings about, our d Is aud our
horses will be there, and they have a
clearer inheritance than millions and
millions Of men whe have encumbered
the earth.
1t is true that there are vagrant
dogs. SO are there yagrant men. The
vaRrant dog is the better, because be
harms no one, while the vagrant man
is u constant menace to those with
whom he zones in contact. Philos
ophers have contended that 1t would
be a good thing for society TO ex,er
inmate both, and the idea would DO
all right If II were not that almost any
old kind Of a dog will reform II given
a chance, while the man won I. such
a sweeping proposition would not be
fair to the dogs.
Some day there will he a way of
Of those men, the derelic,s
OF the universal sea, just now il ia
FAR on Human ingenuity has not set
tied upon n plan that would cover all
cases, but II will some time, and then
the dogs Of the populace will have
some useful part in the general scheme.
II Is hard to tell what some Of
them we're created for, or why an all
wise providence permits them to live,
and the only solution Of the problem
Is that they just happened, aud it would /,
be right to interfere with the ,
steady flow and sbb Of the great tide. !