Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — Dogs In Roumania. [ARTICLE]

Dogs In Roumania.

Each nation looks upon the dog In a different way, but the dogs of war and the dogs of peace (of a pastoral and agricultural people like the Roumanians) are beyond doubt the Intelligentsia of their kind. A little farther east he was sometimes held In fear, and an old • Babylonian prayer runs thus: “From the dog, the snake, the scorpion, and whatever Is baleful, may Merodach preserve us.” . . . On the other hand, on some of the wonderful bas-reliefs of that period, our four-footed friends have been gratefully immortalized, and their names remain written thereon to this day—“He who ran and barked.” “The biter of his foes.” “The selzer of his enemies.” But here in Roumanla “slayer of the wolf,” “the friend of sheep,” betokens a less disinterested path in life.—Exchange.