Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — A TROTTING DOG. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A TROTTING DOG.

He’* a Canuck and Challenge* All Dog* of Amerlog. j Dogs that can trot in fast time are somewhat rare, but thero is one over in Brighton, Ont., the owner of which is prepared to back it in a trotting race with any other trotting dog in America. This dog, which trots under the British flag, is named

Doc, and is owned and driven by Willie Ketchum. Doc is an old campaigner, and has trotted exhibition heats at races and agricultural fairs for several years. He pulls a tiny sulky, and on Ice or a hard track can trot half a mile in 1 minute 31 seconds and a quarter in 45 seconds. Doc is rather a small setter, but his stride is said to be extraodinary. From two to four furlongs is the distance the Canadian wonder usually covers. Anger and Love. Man has an unfortunate readiness in the evil hour after receiving an affront to draw together all the moon- 1 spots on the other person into an outline of shadow and a night-piece, and to transform a single deed into a whole life, and this only in'order that he may thoroughly relish the pleasure of being angry. In love he has fortunately the opposite faculty of crowding together all the light parts and rays of Its object in one focus, by means of the burning-glass of Imagination, and letting in Its sun without its spots; but he too generally does then only when the beloved and often censured being is already beyond the skies. In order, however, that we should do this sooner and oftener, we ought to act like Winckleman, but (hi# in another way., As he setasidSa particular half-hour of each day for the purpose of beholding and meditating on his too happy existence at Rome, so we ought daily or weekly to dedicate and sanctify a solitary hour for the purpose of summing up the virtues of our families, our wives, our children, and our friends, and viewing them in this beautiful and crowded assemblage of their good qualities. Indeed we should do so for this reason, that we may not forgive and love too late, when the beloved beings are already departed hence, and are beyond our reach. The discovery of what is true, and the practice of what is good, are the two most important objects of life.

DOC AND HIS DRIVER.