The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-13

EEk tiquity. we find the dog as k.sEg=$ sociated with man at ever. rsSxXSl stage of savagery; scientist
 have traced them even int the earths crusts. ana osseous re mains of the noble animal are foun' side by side with primitive man showing that every turn of the earth axis carry the two friends linked to gether. This partnership proved pay ing investment, and even the imagination of the dissolution of this partnership from primitive man and wild dog, dowr to the present enlightened day of cross breeds and pedigree, fades away and dles at it's formation. Man and dog will be as sociated even on that eventful day whe1 Gabriel blows his horn, announcing tht last race has been run, and all the gooe and faithful are called to that happy hunting grounds for which the Indian al ways made such thorough preparation. Il we can but believe as Luther. we VII meet all our dead favorites in heaven Man may not be as deserving as oui friend the dog for a final great reward for he is not as faithful to his Grea' Master as the dog is to his. But let us hope that even this great divide will moi dissolve this friendship.
 will now go thoroughly into the origin of the dog: quote authorities on same . and cite instances and proofs that oui friend has existed in all four corners ol this world as long as man.
 The oft-raised question concerning the original home of the dog is, so far as our knowledge reaches, well answered by the remarks of Alfred Nehring, German that "our most important domestic ami mals have generally no single home," a saying that might in certain sense De paralleled by the old tradition of the Flat heads, that when the son of the sun ' came to earth he was accompanied by a dog"
 The dog has been scattered over the entire earth for an immeasurable length of time. Only in very few localities IS he entirely wanting or very rare
 pr. B. Langkavel of Hamburg, one of the best known scientists on prehlStoflc discoveries, says osseous remains Of dogs are found in that stratum of the earth . crust from which information is ob- tained concerning men, animals and plants that existed long before the his torical period. Prehistorical discoveries chiefly in Europe. show us the dog al- ready. at that time, affecting and 1n- fuencing in various degrees the life of man.
 USED EARLY AS FOOD Broken skulls with the brains extract ed mutilated bones and other marks found in the earths stratums lead the modern followers of the canine to recoe- nize these relics as food rejects, and this leads to the idea that man, during the l., !, ,1Ny m a struggle for existence, obtained contro over the dog, as over other animals, mere- ly for food purposes. History tells us that primitive man had to either prey or the animal world or perish from want hunger and cold.
 As soon as he learned to use for de- fense or attack, other weapons than ms own limbs, he must have begun to prlhs the dog nearer to him as his helper in the struggle
 From the earliest stage, where the dos was used merely as food, the custom ol eating him in one way or another mas survived among a great number or peo' ples estimated by some historians 1T hundreds of races throughout the world
 When Franz Ratzel, scientist, remarks "One may assert in general that man, 1T the lowest grade of civilization, always first gratifies his pleasures, and only
  drives him to it. thus We see the dos as his only constant companion at time when his use was very limited" he Is -eteaking of that ancient stage of civlllza ton when man and dog were becoming closer affiliated.
 It is a noticeable fact that the primi' tive dwarf peoples had but one domesu cated animal-the dog. The Eastman has nc other animal than the dog; also the nd hl NaPrltnG the Philippine Islands. The high relative standing given to the dog by all these peoples is explained at once by their oc cupa tion of hunting, which early caused them to consider the most suitable anima for the chase which thereafter had nc rival with whom to share his master care
 The most significant fact shown bl this continued limitation is that stocks of a certain culture stage remain sta tionary at this point. As the dog is tho oldest domesticated animal, so the people: that extend their training 10 no other ami mal probably from natural incapaclty fol progress. remain at the lowest and oldes stage of development. In other words they appear as primitive races.
 NURSED AT HUMAN BREASTS
 Not in the very ancient past history tells us that in those places where dog eating is the custom, and where young and fat dogs are considered great dell cscies much care is bestowed on young puppies, and frequently have traveller seen young mothers give them the breast Thus in New Guinea and Australia hal it been discovered, the fathers even killed his own child that the mother might giv' nurse to puppies. And in the not far away Hawaii similar cases may b' traced.
 As late as the year 1879. in Burma Joest tells us he saw in a bazar yount Burman girl nursing at one breast he own offspring and at the other a smal dog. Frequently the reverse condition ex ists; for example, Chinese women of Jav; give their children female dogs iron which to nurse. But the dog is handled and well cared for.
 The Arab is fond of the dog, and tn beautiful 'slugi' is his favorite. Witt the Patagonians favorite dogs are formal ly adopted.
 Just as the dog was used by later pre- historic man for hunting, he is also use' by the savages of today and in all fou quarters of the globe we find him widel, distributed, though in different grade of development Even before the time Q Columbus, history records that the Taru mas possessed, as they do now, excellen hunting dogs which they kept, when no in use, in cages.
 History fails to record a single nstanc where the savage ever descended to tn mutilation of dogs for spite, as was prac ficed in Europe in former centuries, tn English law of the time of Henry VI providing that the left leg should be GU off, and the ordinance promulgated in tn seventeenth century that one paw or al the claws of one foot be removed, i hounds of another be found hunting or