The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-09-06
From the New York Inde pendeut
The Dog Noble and the Empty hole.

From the New York Independent
The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole.
The frs. summer we .pen, in Lenno,
We had aleng q very intelligent dog
named Noble. He was learned in many
things, ard by his dog.lore excited the
undying admiration Of all the children.
But there were some things which Noble
could never learn. Having on enc &C.
casion seen q red squirrel run into a hole
in stone wall, he could not be persus
ded that he was not there forever more.
Several red squirrels lived near to the
house, and had become familiar, but no,
tame. They kept up a regular lomp
with noble. They would come down
from the maple trees with provoking
eoolness I; they would run along the fence
nlmost within reach; they would cock
their tails and sail across the road 10 the
barn: and yet there was such . we'll
timed calculation urder all this apparen,
Iashness. tina. Noble invariably arrived
st the critical spo! jus, as the squirrel lei!
it.
On one occasion Noble was 20 close
upon his red back friend, that, unable TO
get up the maple tree, he lodged into a
hole in the wall. ran through the chinks,
emerged at little distance and sprang
into the tree. The intense enthusiasm
Of the dog a, that hole can hardly lie de-.
scribed. He filed i, full Of barking
He paved and scratched as If under.
mining bas.icn. Standing off a, q
great distance he would pierce the hole
with gaze as in,en, and fixed as if he
were trying magnetism on it. Then,
with tail extended, and every hair there
on electrified. be would rush a, the empty
hole with q prodigious onslaught.
This imaginary squirrel haunted No
BILE uight and day. The very squirrel
himself would run up before his face into
the tree. and crouched in crotch, would
slt silently watching the whole process OF
b0mbarding the empty hole, with grea,
sobrie.y and relish. But Noble would
allow Of no doubts. His conviction that
that hole had squirrel in |, continued
mistaken for six weeks. When all other
occupations failed, this hole remained TO
him. When there were no more chick
ems to harry, no pigs TO bite, no cattle to
chase, no children to romp with, no ex.
petitions to make with The grown folks,
and when he had slept all ,ba, his dog
skin would hold, he would walk out Of
the yard, yawn aud stretch himself, and
then look wis,fully a, the bale, as if think
ing 10 himself-'Well. as there is moth
ing else 10 do ! may as well try that hole
again
We had almos, forgotten this little
trait until the conduct OF the New York
Express in relation TO Col. Fremont's re-
hglon, brought it ludicrousiy to mind
again. Col. Fremon, is; and always
has been as sound Protestant as ever
John Knox was. He was bred in tie
Protestant faith and never has changed.
He is unacquainted with the doctrines
and ceremonies OF the Catholic Church,
and has never attended the services Of
tina, Church, with Two or three exceptions,
when curiosity, or SEINE intrinsic reason
led him as w,ness. We do not state
this upon vague belief. We know what
we say. We say i, upon our own per.
sonal honor and proper knowledge.--
Col. Ffemon; never was, ana is mol new
a Roman Cath, lie. He has never been
wont " attend that Church, nor has he
IN any wav, directly or indirectly, given
oeeaslen tei this report.
klsa gratultous iaIehood, utter, bar.
rem, absolute and unqualified. /, is sill
circulated Tor tia! reason, and ike otneI
pol!tlca! Lies, 1t is sheer, INSCRIPTIONS
ialsehoot, from top 10 bottom, from the
core TO the skin, and from the skin back
10 The core again. la all It's parts, in
pulp, teguneut, nnd, cell and seed IL IS
q tho. ough and total uatruth, and they
who spread i. bear false witness. And
as - all the stories OF the Fulmer, etc,
as 10 supposed conversation with Ere.
mont, in which Es defended the mass
and what not, they are pare fictioas.--
They never happened. the authors Of
them are slanderers; the men who believe
them are dupes; the men who spread
them become endorsers Of wlliul and cor
rupt libellers.
But the Express, like Noble, has open.
ed On this hole in the wall, and can
never be done barking a, it. Day after
day ii resorts to this empty hoe When
every toing else fails this resource re.
mains, Tuere they are, indeiatIg able
the Express and Nobie--a church with.
on, Fremont, and a hole without a
squirrel in II.
In some rsspe, Ia, however, the dog
had he sdvan age. Some, mes we
thought tat 4e really behesed that there
was squirrel ilere. But al ether times
he apparently had an inkling of the II.
d.c0lousness Of his conduct. Tor he would
c-op his tail, and walk towards us with
his toasus su. sni nis eyes h,l,e asian.