The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-03-30

her scientist master meant to reward
her rescue of his own child from
death by harm to her precious puppy
Ill the operation of vivlsection, which
she watched with watchful curiosity.
One remembers the fidelity of Pa
trasche, "a dog of Flanders" to his
pauper master, Nello; the steadfast
devotion unto death of "Rab and his
friends" Jess, James and Allie; and
with sob in the throat, the little dog
of Mary Queen Of Scots, who accom-
panied her to the scaffold, caressed
her severed body after the execution
and died of grief few days later.
And finally, no Southerner can read
Vests tribute without recalling "a
yaller dogs love for a nigger."
In Tennessee it would be specially
natural to concede to the family cani-
dae the same debt of gratitude accord
ed to geese by the ancient Romans,
since it was the dogs turned loose
from the Nashville Bluff stockade by
the pioneer heroine, Mrs. James Rob-
ertson, that saved the settlement and,
incidentally, the germ of southwes-
tern civilization from Indian massa-
ere. The failure to memorialiZe the
humble creature that preserved the
Athens of the South from early de-
struction in statuary or to symbolic
it on State seal or banner, let us be-
lieve, was not for want of gratitude
SO muchs as for the reason that the
stcry has not been often enough re-
told of how the besieging savages
being momentarily diverted from the
attack by the temptation to capture
the stampeded horses of the pioneer
soldiers, were set upon by the dogs,
and while struggling with their brute
foes, were routed by the white men.
If no more, Tennesseeans should say,
with Mrs. Robertson, "Thanks be to
God who gave Indians a fear of dogs
and love of horses!"
The modern South, while apparently
sharing the universal enthusiasm for
a horseless age, has lost none of the
fondness for dogs and horses that is
her inheritance from the time in which
George Washington, George Mason
and the Fairfaxes chased foxes and
stalked deer in the woods of Mount
Vernon, Gunston Hall, Greenway
Court and Belvoir. As with their
Colonial predecessors, so it is now
with nurlberless gentlemen sports
men, "First to the stables always in
the morning and then to the ken
nels."
In Southern literature the two ami
mails which contribute so largely to
outdoor sports are favorite themes
with adopts in local color, such as
Trotwood Moore and Will Allen
goole. An example of the ever-mind-
full readiness to extol the horse is
found in Senator Joseph w. Bailey's
pen picture of it's admirable qualities,
which is ranked by some with Vests
delincation of the dog.
1t cleaned an unexpected oratori-
cal gem, amid the technical arguments
of the Texan, when, an the floor of
the United States Senate, he spoke
to the "bill to promote reciprocal trade
rela tions with the Dominion of Cana
d."
After a glowing reference to the
attractions of rural life, Mr.. Bailey
said: ~ am not able to understand
how any man could prefer the city
with its bitter strifes, its narrow ieal-
ousies. it's tumults and its passions
over the farm, where the springs and
streams, the woodlands and meadows
speak to US ravishing language and
bring US close to the great heart of
nature. l could live forever in peace
among its herds and focks and horses.
love it's cattle, which supply the hu- |
man race with meat and drink;
love its sheep, whose flesh gives
strength and whose fleece gives COM
fort to the family of men; and above
its cattle and sheep | love it's horses
for they are mans best friend and |