Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1914 — Dogs Are Always Dogs Even When One Is Bogus [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dogs Are Always Dogs Even When One Is Bogus

CHICAGO— Through the window of Karl Kahmann’s shop at 2457 Lincoln avenue, a handsome, big-muscled bulldog gazed out the other night on passing traffic, calm and supercilious. He held his head at a haughty angle

and the most exciting happenings on sidewalk and pavement did not stir him to the visible extent of‘a fraction of a wag of his traction of a tail. Presently came another bulldog of more active nature, willing to be friend and play or to be an enemy and fight. This second bulldog stopped in front of the window and wagged his tall tentatively. There was no answering wag. He growled. There came no answering growl. Not even by a glance or a showing

of teeth did the .insolent, self-centered window dog recognise the existence of his canine brother in the street. It was a dead cut Plate glass three-eighths of an inch thick stood between them, but the street dog forgot that in hie wrath. He leaped at the throat of the. offender. The glass crashed. Cut now, physically as well as socially, the street dog closed in. The window dog tumbled over on bls side with a hollow thud. The street dog, tearing at his throat, choked on a mournful of sawdust He had not been supercilious after allonly stuffed. The belligerent street dog, after a casual survey of the damage which he had wrought, and smarting with pain from the cuts made by the shattered plate glass window, tucked his tail between his legs and made a dash for the street and safety. The proprietor of the establishment, on hearing the great noise made by the fierce attack, rushed to the front of the store Just in time to see the surprised and frightened street dog rapidly disappear around s neighboring street corner. He therefore made no attempt at pursuit. Kahmann, who is a taxidermist, is in need not only of a new show Window but of a new window dog. He says he will make one out of the street dog U he catches him. ‘