The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-30


ton would fail. as without them
neither the North nor the South
pole could have been discovered.
As watchdogs, dogs are still used
wherever women and children wait
in lonely places while their men,
folk are away. Dogs still guard
sheep, accompany lone wayfares in
far countries, protect children at
play and aid man in one of his fav-
orite sports, hunting.
It is in the prevention of disease
that many animals, including dogs.
sheep, guinea pigs, rate, cats, apes,
gorillas, rabbits and mice are in
valuable. For without these ami
mails as subjects for vivsection
numerous diseases would still be
scourging mankind unchecked.
Curiously enough some of the
diseases which were most rife
among the animals themselves,
such as rabies, have been checked
through experiments upon them.
According to a recent pronounce
ment Of Lord Dawson of Penn,
King Georges physician in his late
illness, until experiments had been
made upon dogs 80 per cent of them
which were attacked by that di-
sease. Now, said Lord Dawson,
dogs are practically immune from
death from that affliction, if prop
erly treated.
AS long ago as 1921 Harvey, the
discoverer of blood circulation, u.s.
ed dogs in his experiment and as
recently as the discovery of insulin
as cure for diabetes dogs were u.s.
ed. No other animal, it is said, is
better for the study of heart di-
sease. Rats and guinea pigs are
known everywhere to be invaluable
for vivisection of all kinds.
Cats, too, are often used for vi
visection purposes, and apes and
gorillas are used to find the cure
for certain diseases.
So important are dogs considered
in most civilized communities that
special laws regarding them have
been made, many of them requir-
ing muzzling as much to protect
other dogs as humans.
Every so often one reads of the
fashion of monkey-carrying being
the vogue again in Paris, New
York or elsewhere. Many Taught at
at this but the fair owners aver
that the animals are companion
able and intelligent. Tame alligat-
ors are sometime led about on
leashes in our Florida resorts BY
young women who enjoy the novel.
ty, and even reindeer are occasion.
ally exhibited as pets in the more
northern cities of the American
continent.
Circuses and animal vaudeville
acts continue to flourish and with
them and inseparable from them
despite the hurly-burly modern.
ism of present-day life, one finds
every variety of performing beast
imaginable. There are the train.
ed sea-lions, who flip-flap as OF
of yore in and out of their tanks
the performing bears, the acrobatie
elephants, the tight-rope walking
dogs. There are also the dressed
up cats, the fleet horses, the dane.
ing ponies and various other train.
ed animals.
Horses are not the only means OF
animal transportation extant in the
Twentieth century. In India, Arab.
ia, Persia and other nations Of the
Far East, elephants continue to
bear upon their backs the poten
tates and princes who look, dress
and act very much as they die
thousands of years ago. Elephants
are also used as hunting points OF
vantage for tiger tricks in Hindu
stan jungles.
In many European countries OK
en- continue to bear the burden OF
blowing, without which the nations
could not survive. In Siberia, Man
churia and other less progressive
Asiatic countries, oxen draw the
carts which take the place of Amer
lean or European automobiles.
In sport animals play a great
part. In America there are dog
races, horse races that draw Their
millions, and, without the law, cock
fights that still fascinate Their
thousands. The custom in cock
fights is to meet in some secluded
place where the fight is held, the
ROSTERS being armed with jagged
spurs. Large bets are placed or
such surreptitious contests and the
cocks are put through rigorous
course of training beforehand.