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Zurich Herald, 1932-12-29, Page 2P "Fresh, from the Gardens" Queer Things About Your Dog ALBERT PAYSON TERBUNE in Popular Mechanics How much kava you bothered to learn about your dog? Have you bothered for example, to studyhis nine days old. Many a fine pup has many different barks? I think it was been drowned by an ignorant owner Sir John Lubbock who said that a who thought he 's'as blind. Often dog's bark is an effort to copy the the eyes don't open until the pup is human voice. Wild dogs, it is from 11 to 14 days old. pointed out, never bark; nor do But of all the insanely idiotic their cousins the wolves; nor does theories the most absurd is that a any member of 'the canine family dog knows good people from bad. t which has not heard humans speak; wonder how many good men have sr the barking of domestic dogs. I been branded as bad because dogs There is all the difference in the didn't like them, and how many un- worthy nworthy men have been trusted be- cause they had the knack of making themselves liked by dogs. Bill Sykes's dog loved his master quite as much as did George Wash- ington's or Bishop Doane's. One of the holiest men of my acquaintance cannot induce a dog to come near him except in anger. A crook who had robbed an orphans' fund came to me for help to keep him out of jail. My usually conservative Sunnybank collies were effusive in their liking for him. Personally, 1 believe it is all a mat- ter of scent—of a subtle human odor which is pleasant or distasteful to dogs. But I cannot prove this. Nor can I prove that dogs have a language of their own. Yet no dog man can doubt that they have some means of communicating their wishes to one another. I. have seen this done by the touching of noses and in other way. One dog will get an from his rug and go around the room touching noses with such fellow -dogs as chance to be there. Whereupon, all of them will follow him outdoors for a run or for a romp. I cannot explain this any more than I can explain why our fiery lit- tle red -gold collie, Wolf—ordinarily the most silent of our dogs—waked us at 1.30 a.m, on June 3, 1922, with a series of unearthly long-drawu .howls, and refused to be quieted. I had heard that queer timbre in a dog howl twice before, in other years. So I made, a note of the exact time. Next morning I learned that my mother had died at exactly 1.30 a.m. on June 3, 1922—more than 30 miles away from Sunnybank. Never be- fore nor after, during his ten years of life, did Wolf give vent to such eerie sounds. One winter night .n 1894, 1 heard a multiple repetition of that unmis- takable death howl from every dog within two miles of our -lake—a lake wherein a woman drowned herself that night. The spot where she was drowned was far out of sight, or of scent or of hearing, ot any of these dogs. Yet I refuse to regard any of these things as supernatural. Somewhere, could I find it, there must be a logical cause, based on some natural instinct of dogs which we humans have not bothered to figure out. But there is one canine mystery I never have been able to solve. It is the amazing knowledge of dogs on some matters, and their duncelike stupidity •on others. Much as my dogs love the hearth fire in winter and often as they have seen me make that fire blaze up by putting new fuel on it, I never knew nor heard of a dog with sense enough to pick up a. stick from the woodbox and fay it on a dying fire. If I tie a deg to a stake or a tree by a long rope, he will almost always trot around that stake or tree until the rope is wound tight, holding him a prisoner without an inch to move in. Never have I had a dog with the rudimentary bra'.ns to reverse that motion and to unwind the rope again, In brief, 1 marvel at the mingled cleverness and senselessness ot the canine race. 11 is a blend I cannot the state of a dog's health +rom the tenrferature of his nose. One of the best ways of finding out whether your dog is 111 is to look at his gums. If they are pale and sallow, the chances are that he is in bad condi- tion. Most healthy dogs have brightly pink gums. Another fallacy is that puppies al- ways open their eyes when they are world between a bark and a growl. When a dog barks be flings his head high, leaving the throat, ex- posed. xposed. It is not a year cry. "But when he growls, he lowers his head. For ,a. growl means impending at- tack, and the vulnerable throat is guarded by the sinking of the crest. When you go up the path to a house, and the family dog comes barking to meet you, you are in no Immediate danger. But if he ad- vances toward you, growling andwith his head lowered and his tail as stiff as a ramrod, then look out for trou- ble. Stand stock-still, your hands en your chest. If you do this, not ane dog in ten will actually bite you. But if you make threatening gestures at bim—above all if you turn and run —your chances ofone or more bites are extremely strong. Of all the absurd legends about dogs, the mad -dog scare is the worst. Not one supposedly mad dog in thousands is really hydrophobic. Mt,reover, a rabid dog is a desper- ately sick dog—too lick and dazed to go far out of his way to assail anyone. Among the myraid senseless the- ories about dogs, two have always stood out as supposed tests of rabies. that a dog which foams at the mouth Is mad, and that an early symptom of rabies is a dog's refusal to drink Prater. Both are lies. A dog may foam at the mouth, or may slaver, from, any of °a dozen trivial causes which range from in- digestion to temporary nervousness. Also, if a dog refuses to drink water, there is just one genuine cause for such refusal. Namely, that be is sot thirsty. There are several things about your dog'a ` mouth that you may not know. For example, he has 42 teeth—ten more than you have. Also, not one of these 42 teeth nor any part of his digestive tract is geared for the assimilation of sweets. Sugar in any form is definitely bad for him. Again—do you know that your slog's panting is a form of per- spiring? A dog perspires nowhere except through his mouth. If you iitrap his jaws shut with a, muzzle, you are inflicting just as much tor- ment upon him as would be inflicted en you if all your pores were hermeti- cally sealed on a hot day. If you are obliged by law to muzzle him, then get one of the several types of "muzzle which allow the mouth to spen and permit the dog to lap water. If you put a looking glass in front of your dog, the chances are that he will not give it a second look. His eyes tell him there is another dog /acing him there. But his nose tells him there is not. His power of scent is his strongest sense. His syesight is his weakest. Therefore, he believes his nose and discredits erhat his eyes think they see in the mirror. Your dog will recognize you without difficulty, if you wear a mask or a makeup which would de• weive your closest friend. He has ;arned your scent. You have been told always that a, log with a cold and moist nose is In good health and that a warm and lip nose is a sign of illness, The healthiest dog I have ownea ---old Sunnybank Lad—had a warm pend dry nose throughout all his 16 hears of vigorous life. -On the other and, I have 'found cold and moist noses on dogs that • were dying, There is no set rule for determining A COMPLETE COURSE in Cookery for only 50c postpaid '..the new Purity Cook .Book Is the most complete and popular worn of its kind. 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Lydia fol- lowed and told him he would ha, a to leave, Flora Miles admits she was in Nita's closet reading a note which she tho.,ght was from her husband, Tracey, but which was really from Spragt.e. Dun- dee and the district attorney decide to pretend to accept the theory that a Ncw York gunman did the job. Dundee hdl es to find out who paid Nita $10,000 since her arrival in Hamilton. Dundee intends to take pictures of the body and asks Lydia to bring Nita's jewelry to the di _riet attorney's office f, r safekeeping. CHAPTER XXIX, • "I don't know where she keptker jf.wel;:y," Lydia 'retorted harshly. ?`It wasn't worth much—not a hundred dollars altogether, I'll be bound, be- cause Nita sold her last diamond not week before we left New York. She owed .so many bills then that the money she got for directing that play at the Forsyte School hardly made a dent on them." "Do you know whether the jewelry was in the house or in a safe deposit box?" Dundee asked, excitement sharpening his voice. "It must have been in the house, because she wore the different pieces any tune she pleased," the maid an- swered. "I didn't ask ne questions, and I didn't 1 r:ppen to see her get it or put it away, I didn't ever do mace lady's maid work for her, like dress- ing her and fixing her hair—just kept her clothes and the house in order, and did what little cooking there was to do—" "Her dressing table?" Dundee prodded. "Her desk?" The maid shook her head, "I was always straightening up the drawers in both her dressing table and her desk, and she didn't keep the jewelry there." "Captain Straw::, when you search- ed the dressing table and desk for the gun or anything of importance,` did you have any reason to suspect a secret drawer in either of them?" "No, Bonnie. They're just ordinary r• fat tory furniture. I tapped aroiella for a secret drawer, of course, but then- wasn't even any place for one," Strewn answered, with an indulgent grin. "1 want to see Penny Crain!" Dun- dee cried, making for the door, "Then you'd better come along to the courthouse with rue," Sanderson cart after him. "I sent her back to the office as soon as the inquest was adjourned." The two men passed through the now deserted morgue chapel and al- most bumped into a middle-aged man, obviously of the laboring class, in spite of his slicked -up Sunday appear- ance, "You're the district attorney, ain't you, sir?" he addressed Sanderson in. a nervous, halting undertone. "Yes. What is it?" "I come to the inquest to give some information, sir, but i` was adjourned so quick I didn't have time" "Who are you?" Sanderson inter- rupted impatiently. "I'm Rawlins, sir. I worked for the poor lady, Mrs. Salim—gardening —one day a week—" "Come to my office!" Sanderson commanded quickly, as a lingering re- porter approached on a. run. "No, no! I'm sorry, Harper," he said hastily, grasp. Autumn Plane Peeled white and washed with fallen rain, And weighed with all its jingling pearls, The girl -white body o f a plane, In whose red hair the autumn swirls, Stande out, soliciting the cruel Flame of the 'wintry sun, and dies, If only to the wetoher's eyes, In red -gold anguish glowing; fuel To that cold fire, as she assumes (13runhilde) her refulgent plumes In leaves that kindle as they We— e:re We- 0eall that triumphs and returns The furious aurora burns Against the winter -boding eky. --toy Campbell in the New Statists' dais. and. Nation, eSer you're married?" "yes, we be- gat by saying eve 'Would jest be great frietels thee we changed our minds." cutting into the repertt•i's questiolta. . Nothing new." The "district attorney and Dundee, strode quickly away, and the , man,. Rawlins, after a moment of indeci- sion, trotted after them. Wien the trio entered the reception room of the district attorney's suite in the courthouse, Sanderson paused at Peny Crain's desk. "Bring in year notebook, Penny. This man has some information he considers important," A minute later Sanderson had be- gun to question this voluntary but highly nervous witness. "Your name?" "It's; Elmer Rawlins, like I told you, sir," the man protested, and flinched as fenny recorded his words• in swift shorthand. "It was my wife as made me come. She said as long as me and her knowed I didn't do nothing wrong, I'd oughta come forward and tell what'I knowed" "Yes, yes!" Sanderson encouraged hire impatiently. "lou say you work- ed fur Mrs, Selim as gardener one day a v'eek-" "Yes, sir, but I 'tended to her hot water and her garbage, too --twice a day it was I had to go and stoke the' little laundry heater than heats the hot waxer tank in summertime when the steam furnace ain't being use. I live aboue a mile keeent the Crain place, that is, the house the poor lady was killed in—" "Did you come to stoke the laun- dry heater Saturday evening?" Dun- dee interrupted. ".`N•.r, sir, I didn't stoke it Sat'dy night," Rawlins answered uneasily. "You see, I was comin' up the road to do 'my chores, at half -past six, like I always do, but before I got to the house I seen a lot of policemen's cars and motorcycles, and I didn't want to get mixed up in nothing, so I turned around and went home again. I didn't know what was up, but when m the wife went into Hami night in our flivver we the extries and read poor lady was mur ain't what I was ge ' "Well, what ar ing at?" Sanderson urged., "Well, the extry 'said the police had found some footprints under the. front -most of. them tevo side windows. ,..- to Mrs 5elrm s becnroom a,•xd evynsnn a,o to about the rose vines tieing tore, and straight off I said•to the misses, `There's my footprints: " "Your footprints!" Sanderson ejaculated., then shook with silent laughter. "There goes Strawn's case, Bonnie!" . But immediately he was serious again, as the import of this new evidence came to him. "Tell us all about it, Rawlins,.. When did you make those footprints?" "Friday, sir. That's the day I gar- dened for Mis' Selina... You see, sir, the poor little ;ady told me she. was kept awake nights when they was a high wind, by the rose vines tapping against the windows. So I cut away a lot of the rose vine and burned it." "Is that all,. Rawlins?" Sanderson asked. "'Bout all that 'mounts to any- thing," the laborer deprecated, "But thee- was somethin' else that struck me as a little funny, when I come to think of it—" "Well?" Sanaerson prodded. "Wei :, it's like told you, tit was niy job to burn the papers. That scar - face maid of Mis' Selimet put every- thing—garbage and trash—in a big garbage can; and I burnt 'am up. So I was kinder surprised Sat'dy mornin' when I went to stoke up the laundry "Peace and Goodwill" "Silent night, Holy night," sing the girls of the foundling hos vital school at Redhill, England, as they practiem their Christmas carols. :Christmas. 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Just fill out the coupon t rt.•, p and en- close 40 cents (moiaey order) for each copy required, 0 IE' R FLOUR SS 01 - LAKE OF THE WOODS MILLING COMPANY, LIMITED. DEPT. 22-A, P.O. BOX 1419, MONTREAL, QUE. • Kindly send me, postpaid, ( ) copies of. the USW Five Roses Cook Book, "A Guide to Good Cooking", for which I enclose 40c each (money order), 50c outside of Canada and Newfoundland, NA ME assagallie ADDRESS heater to find somebody's been med- dlin' with my drafts and had let the fire go clean out. I had to clean out the ashes and build a new fixe—" "You're trying to say, I suppose, that you could tell by the ashes that someone had been burning papers in The relieved man hurried ou of the with a quick glance at Dundee. "That's right, sir," Rawlins agreed eagerly. "You know what kind of ashes a mess a' paper leaves—layers of white ashes, sir, that kinder looks like papers yit " "Did you speak to the maid—ask her if she'd been meddling with your rafts?" "Yes, sir, I did 1 She said she didn't open. no dampers, claimed the heater was the same as usual when she left Friday night to go to a movie." "Remember now," Sanderson cut in, "you're not to tell,anybody else what you've just told me.... If that's all, yo can go now, and Fre much obliged to you." The relieve lean hurried out of the room on Penny's heels. Sanderson, when the door had closed, began t • ,."It books like you're right, Bonnie, about that blackmail business. Of course it all fits in with your theory that Nita had made up her mind to reform; Marry Ralph Hammond, and be 'a very good girl indeed:. . , All right! You can have Penny in now. I bhinlc I know pretty w+ 11 what you're going to ask her. And I may as well tell you that when Roger Crain skipped town with some secur- ities he was known to possess, he hadn't got them from a safe deposit l'r c, because he didn't have one." San- (,erson pressed a button on the edge of his disk. Dundee was flushing as he put his question to the district attorney's pri- vate 'secretary: "Penny, do you know Whether there is a coneteed safe in the Selim home?" • The girl, startled, began to shake her head, then checked hermit. "Not ' I ever saw, or knew of when Dad and Mother and I livedthere, bet—" She hesitated, her cheeks turning scarlet. "Out with it, Penny!" Sanderson urged, his voice very kind. "It': just that, if you really think there's a secret hiding place in the house, I believe I understand some- thing that puzzled me when it happen- ed," Penny confessed, her head. high. "I: was at the Country Club one night •--e Saturday night when the whole crowd is usually there for the dinner and dance. I'd been dancing with Ralph, and when the music stopped we went out on the porch, wheeze sev- eral of our crowd was sitting. It was —just two or three ,weeks after— after my father left town. Lois wouldn't let me drop out of 'things'. Anyway it was dark and I beard Judge Marshall saying something about 'the simplest and most ingen- ious arrangement I ever saw. Of course that's where the rascal kept hid st curitios—' . I knew they wive; tai icing about Dad from the -way ,judge Marshall changed the sub jeeii as soon as he saw lee;' "Who was on the porch; Penny?" "Why let's see-•-Florn, and Johnny Drake, and Cli'. e," she answered slow - IT. "I think that was all, besidee Judge Marshall." "Where are you going, boy?"•San• Berson checked Dundee, ho was alp ready on his way to the door. "We111 if it's tricked away in the `simpledi and most ingenious arrangement,' a� stay put for awhile," Sandeasotl said. "Lydia' c due here withal half an hour, and you don't want to miss her, de you?" (To be continued.) "I don't think I look thirty, do yeti!, dear?" ehle, ,ailing, not lioW,` yoil t'satrl to"