Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — RAILWAYS AND DOGS. [ARTICLE]

RAILWAYS AND DOGS.

Alike In One Respect In Sardinia, Tha* Both Are Perils. Sardinia is an island of many perils. One of them, we gather from the experience of Mr. Crawford Flitch, the author of “Mediterranean Moods,” is the railways. “The engine.” he says, “is continually making frantic dashes for the scenery. On the line to Tortoll I made four journeys and had three accidents. On one occasion, after a car had been wrecked, the various employees gathered round the wreckage and spent the remainder of a sultry afternoon In bitterly disputing the proper apportionment of blame for the accident As it was impossible to proceed that evening I spent the night at the railway station and enjoyed a comfort that 1 found nowhere else in the island.” Another peril is the dogs, who do not hesitate to attack a stranger, even when he is walking peaceably upon the highroad. “The breed is particularly ferocious, and it te said that the peasants have a way of stimulating their ferocity by tying a bladder filled with blood to the neck of a dummy man and encouraging the animal to spring at the neck and tear open the bladder.”