The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-11
DOGS


Winston Salem) l saw a group Of
High School dogs perform at the
Downie Brothers Circus which
brought back memories of twenty-five
years ago when Gentry Brothers Dog
and Pony Show was the joy of every
child and the limitations put on under
a burlap bag tent by the neighbor-
hood boys. Dogs painted yellow be-
came lions while most any hound pup
made a fair looking what's" when
his ears and tail had been cropped
off. A merry-go-round plank with a
dog tied to one end and cat to the
other made perpetual motion. Stripes
might have made the wild cat wild
but shoe polish stripes made ''yaller
dog" look like a Bengal tiger. Two
octogan soap wrappers was the price
of admission. Five shows was equal
to one Barlow pocket knife or a first
baseman's nit.
DOG is mans best friend" is an
axiom as well known as kick my
dog, kick me-. And it is we'll to
mention that there is decided diff
ference of opinion on the humor or
sympathy found in the high speed
and noise resulting from poor dogs
effort to get away from a bouncing
tin can tied to the end of his tail.
Boys must be thinking better of dogs
these days-at least l haven't heard
of "tin-canned" dog in years.
Leading dogs life in 1896" is to
say Living the life of Riley. Ober-
lin, Ohio is Americas Dog Heaven.
The big Dog Traders Mart held at
Fredericksburg, Virginia every April
is throw back to the days of the
nomadic dog-trader who roamed the
Southland before the "War Between
the States" with a "passel" of dogs
selling and swapping much the same
as the well-known horsetrader.
American dog loyalty-or should
l say royalty-is valued at forty
million dollars. Kennels alone in the
United States are worth seventy-five
million and the canned dog food
business amounts to more than ST.
100000 year. Everything is get
ting doggy. The Queen Mary has
an ultra-modern kennel in one of
her immense smokestacks. Twenty
five hundred dogs are buried in the
Aspin Hill Cemetery at Rockville,
Maryland. Every year medical
laboratories use more than 100000
dogs. Dogs friends who don't like
this type of experimentation are
called anti-vivisectionists, which
means, against cutting up dogs. Yet,
among the ancient people the dog
was held in the same contempt that
the Chinese hold the turtle for the
dog is mentioned in the Bible only
thirteen times and almost invariably
it is associated with lowly things.
Chicago has a 100000 dog hotel,
the gift of Marion E. Mcconnell
whose hobby was dogs, which has
opened new field to those who like
to work with dogs. Another paying
vocation is that of veterinary doctor
or small animals surgeon.
Albert Payson Terhune is Amer
ica's Number One Dog Expert. His
writings have brought to millions of
readers hundreds of true facts about
heroic dogs and Archibald Rutledge's
coon dog accounts are plenty good.
Rev. Lawrason who used to have the
M. E. Charge at Oxford recites a
most excellent President Taft
Georgia Negro-'possum hound dog
monologue.
The list of peninsula dog fanciers
is constantly growing and among the
best known we find Frank Bradley,
fredericksburg; E. T. Oren, Denton
H. M. Duyckinck, Rising Sun and
Helen A. Schuyler of Easton, an au-
thority on chesapeake Bay dogs and
prime mover in the Second Annual
Talbot County Kennel Club Dog
Show, held at Bruffs Island, June z.
1t was a bowling success and well
rewarded it's sponsors. The big
Western Maryland show was held at
Cumberland last week. The Balti-
more Pet Show as well as the Cecil
County Dog Show opens September
26 and National Dog week is Septem-
Der 20 to 26.
The leading pedigreed dog is the
German Police with the Cocker
Spaniel a close second and the Bos-
ton Bull third. The chances are
better than ever that the Spaniel
will he the leading dog by 1919