Show debt DET TO THE DOG possibly few realize realize how much the nobler animal owes owe to hi his faithful servitor 2 we have been lately to think of dogs as s also most other things in terms te ains 0 axt war but our debt to the dog date back to very nuin ninny y centuries be fore the black year of 1914 dogs are ur nr oldest friends ol of the animal world worl and it Is believed that since the time ti e man began to domesticate cate them they ey have made more rapid strides in intelligence intelligence than we have out ourselves selves i the day may dnn d n when we seek to preserve al all I 1 livan th things ings through 11 rough altruism but that day Is long distant A writer in london answers observes dogs do q lieve survived to the tune ot of over different sp edies edles because I 1 they are rueful ue ful As shepherds scotch collies are arc cheaper and 11 more effective thin than the average human buman being pointers and setters arc used with the rim gun other varieties tire are employed as 18 protectors and com comrades fildes tile the errands of mercy ichi achieved eved by st ber are know nto the world A st bernard that dlud a few years ago a go won a medal for far sahng awen twenty ty two lives S V I 1 but when N lien a deg ceases to be of u use se to us it falls on oneall evil days the original orl bull dog waa wa s invaluable to man in handling cattle when fences were invented tile the iud hull dog began to dp decline and the present 4 day bull terrier used as a A pet marks un a phase mat Is very likely leading toward extinction |