Show WASTED CANINE POWER there are a good many dogs doga in this thie territory whose only purpose in life memo to be to occupy places which otherwise would be vacant some are useful and some are pets whose lot lol in life Is ie pleasant indeed and these theae would not be permitted to be useful if they bad both the ability bud and the inclination to do so ao it is as natural fr young boys boya to have doga aa it la tor young girl to have dolls dolle and surely aurely it to la a hardhearted hard bard hearted if not altogether an objectionable man who would take uch such an animal away from its little owners anu and destroy or dispose of it whether there was waa a tax due or not this however IN ie net what we started out tu to sa say y intending to show that there here to la usefulness in the canine family and this thin to a greater extent than most moat people are aware of A communication was recently received at the state department irom from nicholas smith united states consul at liege belgium in which ll is shown hoeu the uses to which the dog to la put there and it has baa been deemed of sufficient consequence to justify the government issuing it in thu the form jofs of a pub doe doc lu in title city spoken 09 0 the consul declares there are more dogs doga than burbes hitched to vehicles on the streets probably twice as many and their usefulness in this respect is not COL confined aided to any one line but distributed through many the she consul tells us the new york san rufif that pounds is the usual load joao of a dog though some of tile the mastiff ei will haul 1200 pounds the dogs doga sie aie driven single double and sometimes some timea three or tour four abreast when the vehicle Is loaded the driver walk directing its chune and in emergent cles laying his shoulder to 10 the whet i but when the load has been dicob discharge arge he often mounts tie bux bus aud and lueha ilse john jehu through the streets 91 9 1 this utilization of cat ine power we are informer inform eu ou is a comparatively recent development of bello mr smith thinks thinka that thirty yearn year ago a dog in harness would have excited as an much remark in liege as he would today in louisville or kemph memphis in but he declares that the bar barneo seu dog is now as much an institution ot of people ii in the former city as the mule la Is in either of ohp latter cities he also aleo calls attention to the fact that ane nog dog does not have to td be shod witt iron and that large doat or with a bull buil dog mixture ark am preferred the rho average price is 20 t t 25 lur for a dog thoroughly broken an strong IL 11 is suggested that the americal America ij people consider cun alder sider atles laats and aki t into the habit ot of hinting the dog to tbt performance ut at joust some ut of wt many minor habka LOW performed L ibe crumbler olum aier and more expensive horse the Tho estimated canine force ol of the country is and the average drawing duwer is douws there being thus a drought powei equivalent to pounds going to waste there la Is certainly something worth whiting over in all this liet let the hereditary loafer begin to earn his living and in diug so eu help hiti his muster to llvy jimr |