The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
From the Boston Transcript.
 H ISHER AMES. not the. Rev

From the Boston Transcript IV 1SHER AMES, not the, Revolution
 ary hero, but one of his descend A ants, once remarked that dog is better friend than a human being For" said he, "the dog will be at your feet. ready at any moment to respond to your mood while a human being will go off in a huff if you do not respond to his mood"
 Ames bred Airedale terriers and exhib- ited, them in Philadelphia, New York and Boston. until he won championship for one of them, and then he lost interest in the subject His mood for dogs passed. but whenever it returns the dogs will re- spond as though he had not neglected them fo~ other amusements.
 The Esquimaux have put Ames' remark into a proverb based on a long exper- fence in the Arctic wilds They say that
 "a mans best friend is his dog, even bet ter than his wife" The Brahmin blood of New England and the blubber-eating seal hunter of the north react in the same way when brought up against the facts of life. Men seem to be the same in all climates, and we have the authority of the Spaniards for saying that dogs are the same also, for their proverb-makers have concluded that "dogs have teeth in all countries"
 As one traces the proverbial comments on dogs through the concentrated wisdom of the nations. their similarity is most impressive, says the Philadelphia Ledger. For example, the Latins told one another to Beware of silent dog and still waters" concluded that Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous" and charac- terized an insidious traducer as "a dog that bites silently"
 The Russians, who were slightly infiu-
 enced by the Latin races, say that "dogs bark and the wind carries 1t away" but the French. Spaniards, Germans and English. who have inherited more than they wish to acknowledge from ancient Rome, all agree that barking dogs don't bite," and we have also in English the warning to have care for silent dos and still water" which is clearly free translation of the Latin original. The French tell us that there are good dogs of all szes." but this has not pre- vented them from discovering that there
 are dog haters who will stop at no villainy to satisfy their grudge. Thus. "a man who wants to drown his dog says 1t is mad" France is SO near England that
 this saying crossed the channel and be- 1 came acclimated in spite of the fondness l of nation of animal lovers for one ol their best friends.
 l But the saying did not originate 1T
 France. It goes back to the Romans. who
 say that 'whoso is desirous of beating dog will readily find a stick" Tho Ital- | ians inherited 1t from the Romans | When It got to Denmark 1t took this form: He that wants to hang 2 dog il sure to find rope.' or to say that tho dog bites the sheep And the German 1 tell us that when man will throw al !! q dog he soon finds a stone"
 ] And the Germans also. with what thu allies would say is characteristic assur ance, have observed that "a bashful dos | never fattens." And the allies wouk also say that the Germans have don, l their utmost to discourage bashfulness II themselves and their dachshunds. l As you get into Asia you find conflict | ine views about dogs. The Tamils o l southern India. whose shins are an eas! 1 mark for sharp teeth. say that lon find ing . stone we zee no dog and on seeinl a dog we find no stone" as though a dol l exists only to be stoned. A little farthe east in China. we discover that dog have more good in them than men ttinl
 they have" Oaying that could not hayt