Many times we hear of the wonderful blessings of Arctic dogs, even tho they are not defended in towns and villages where they make night vocal and sleep impossible with their persistent howlings. Dr. W. T. Grenfell, the noted missionary, who has had large experience, says that dogs are fine for Arctic journeys, but they are half wild, and he would exterminate them and put reindeer in their place. The missionary dogs at Hopedale tore a boy to pieces; at Cartright Mr. Bird's own dogs tore to pieces his boy of five years. At Battle Harbor Mr. Rumbolt's dogs turned on him and killed him, and Mr. Lane's dogs at Bigbay ate their master. And Dr. Grenfell tells us they are treacherous friends. The Eskimo dog kills civiliza-14tion. It is better to have more vegetables, sheep, and hens, and fewer dogs; and the Independent remarks that the lesson of fewer dogs applies to temperate zones as well. The higher the civilization the fewer the dogs.