Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-07-03
DOG PRISONERS
ARE FLAYED
Well Known Writer Shows Little
Mercy for Despicable Glass
BY AUSTIN MIRES
Eflanshurg Wash.

Eflensburg, Wash.
On Sunday afternoon, May 81,
some one murdered our five-month-
old English setter puppy, Teddy, by
throwing poison in our yard.
Some years ago had another dog
of this same breed and family named
Don. He was given to me when a
puppy by Frank Bryant, now of Lib
erty, the same person who gave me
Teddy. Don was the best dog ever
saw; loving, faithful, intelligent.
Ever since he died, have longedl
for another like him, and Teddy gave
high. hopes of developing into as
good if not better dog than Don.
But now he is dead; murdered Sc
cretly and cowardly and without
cause, for he never harmed anybody
or anything.
1t was heart-rending to see the lit
tie fellow suffer so intensely-con-
vulsion after convulsion-until fin
ally relieved by death. We called
a doctor and did everything posi-
BILE to save him. but all in vain My
wife and child and myself were wit
nesses to this tragedy, and words
cannot express the crushing grief
that assaulted our hearts nor the sad
ness that fingers yet. We take it
just about as hard as If one of our
number had been thus ruthlessly
murdered. Dog-poisoner. think of
this; sneer at it, too, If you will;
such action will coincide with your
pitiless nature.
Love is engendered by association,
and we had learned to fondly love
this intelligent, confding, faithful
being.
Dogs are mans truest friends.
They follow him in his daily walks,
attentive to his every command, re-
joicing in opportunity to serve him.
They remain at his home alone to
guard in his absence. They keep
faithful vigil through the long,
dreary night, in his protection. They
interpose their bodies between him
and danger, and go to the extremity
of death in his defens. Their devo-
ton is equal to their courage, unsur-
passed by any animate being. At
their masters death they refuse to
be comforted, and declining food
they seek out the grave of the de-
parted. object of their devotion and
there moan away their diseonsolate
lives. 1t would be a compliment to
millions who claimed to be possessed
of souls, could they be made worthy
to bear the title and assume the
characteristics of this noble animal.
The Creator contrived them and
gave them their nature to become
mans companion, and they size up to
the object of their creation full and
well. The man or woman who has
no love for noble dog is made up
wrong. He or she who cannot re-
spect and admire companionship,
faithfulness, devotion and courage,
wherever found, lacks an element of
true manhood and womanhood, is ut
terly void of an attribute of
humanity.
That some dogs are mean, we ad-
NIT, but no greater proportion than
that of men. And no dog ever de-
scended lower or was ever meaner
than the. meanest man. That some
dogs lack intelligence we admit, but
no greater proportion than that Of
men, and no dog ever was SO void of
intelligence as the least intelligent
OF men. If that subtle something we
denominate the soul-the immortal
part-abides only with nationality.
then millions of human beings can
have no hereafter. and millions of
dumb animals may live again.
The sneaking, secret murderer of
our puppy still lives. / may never
know to certainty who he or she
may be, but l want this person to
know that look upon him or her as
the lowest, vilest. foulest and most
cowardly of all creation.
The murderer may be a male crea-
ture and walk upright on two legs.
but he possesses none of the attri-
butes Of man. and ought to be com
PEELED to crawl on his belly in the
dust throughout all the years of his
existence. He is a reptile of the
lowest order, lower than the rattle
snake that has the quality and cour-
age and exercises it by giving warn
ing before striking it's fangs into his
victim, while this miscreant, the dog
poisoner. is the essence of coward
ice persnoified.
1t may be female-if SO, she has
none of the natural qualities. nor
even instincts of a woman, and II
would not debauch the best of Gods
creation by applying to her the name
of woman. She is lower and more
loathsone than the infanticide or the
woman Of the brothel who makes
commerce of her sex. She is a be-
ing without love, without sympathy,
without mercy. She is cold and
sinking as the hyena.
The miscreant may escape being
found and nrnnarIv nunichad hu4 Il, a