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Show This Dog is a Cigar Salesman.- REX ACTS Al GUIDE FOR HIS BLIND MASTER. KNOWS "ALL THE TRADE" Set of Signals Enablti Canine and Matter ts Undtntand One AnotherAnimal An-otherAnimal Rides on Train Like Patiengeri. Indianapolis Ind I Mat have been taught to iierform many klnilt of labor, but mi far at I known there la only one dog that act In the capacity of a traveling auleaman Vet thl It eaaitlv what Ilex doe nearly every winking dav of hit life nnd he doe It well He know every town where there are iutiiiue- and Rex Guide HI Matter to All HI Cuitomer. he know the cuatniner and they llkewlte know hi in Itei really doe the principal part of thn traveling, and hi matter. Miles M tloodnln. sells the goodt The matter I blind, but wllh the traveling ability of Ilea he I able to cover hi territory u he did before he lost hi tlKht Ilex I hi matter' eye tloodnln live at New Cat lie near here and the story of hi attllctloti I a pathetic one lie wa h liantltonie, well built young man nnd popular everywhere he went Ho made friend anil was a turceatful aaleemnn I'or eleven yoara he told clothing on the road for nn entlern firm Then bllnd-nots bllnd-nots ennio upon him A few year ago he was it r to Ken with atrophy of tho optic nerve and he lot! hi light lie tpent year and large aumt ot money In trying to regain hla vlnlon. but It hnd gone Then Goodwin went Into ouelnet, at his homo town, tuning a cigar, Jobbing house under tho firm of flood- win A IMIle Goodwin longed to bo on the road rfgaln for hit nwuhoute,and one day he had an Intplrallon as ho obaerved Ihe Intelligence displayed by his dug Itex, then a pup The experiment ex-periment whs tried and It proved tuo- cettfiil, hut Ilex wa quick to Irnrn, ami It wa not long before he under- atonl that It wnt to be hi work to guide hi mailer from place to place, j I Hlnce he darted he haa never failed I for lngle day to do hi duly When' he first made hla trip wllh the dog Goodwin had to Inquire hi way m the plaree he wished to visit, hut when once there he Introduced Ilex, and Ilex never forgot lie now knnwa "all th trade,," In the varloua town the pair "make,' I and the ruitomer alwayi hare a cordial cor-dial welromo for the intereitlng sate. ' man Ilex never make any mistake. Ho tako hit matter directly tu where ho withes to gu and lose nn tlmo In do- Ilng to When they are through with a town he lendi the way to the proper railway station. Mr Goodwin hold! him by a strap that Is faitened to thn dog's collar, and I n rode (it signal! has come to he understood un-derstood by them, so that each knows tho meaning of every movement nt Iho other. Goodwin can tell when he Is at a street crottlng by the manner In which Itex duck hi head, giving tho trap a illght Jerk. ' Hex guldei hl matter aero thn, street safely no matter how crowded It may he. and tteer him clear nt street cars, automobiles and huggle.' Matter an I dog have never yet met with nn accident. In violation ot all rules Ilex rides In the roarhet of all train nnd Inter-urban Inter-urban car In Indiana, for he It known to all Ihe railroad folk, and all conductor con-ductor have trlrt order to carry thn dog Ilex I a Gordon tetter and 1 a handsome animal Kven though he hat the Intelligence of a man anil devote the moat of hla time to doing a man's work he I ttlll a dog, and when thn occasion offer delights In doing somo , of the things that It la peculiarly and particularly proper for a dog lo do, j null u ninnlng' n rabbi' I One day recently Mr Goodwin wai I waiting to ihanite cars nt a little country coun-try station Ho took advantage of tho opportunity lo give Itex a short outing, out-ing, and, releasing the dog from his ttrap, Ilex wa soon hating thetlmo ot hi life In a Held some dlttanro away. A lime for the train to arrive approached ap-proached Ilex wnt still busy, and finally Goodwin had to send somo men after him and the traveling salesdog barely returned to his matter In tlmo x, lo catch the train ! S |