The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-25
Monday Morning, Sept. 90, 1865.
TWO DOCS.

- rel stories the very best In the world but ius
now1 haye dog story intmy mind, and
Il mean to tell 1t, hoping some black eyes, O
blue, or great round brown eyes, may bfightel
as their owners hear it. Do you know wher
D" San Francisco is, black eyes T? n III YOU do moi
nor blue eyes, nor brown eyes, nor yet littl
paig OF grey eyes that I forgot to mention III
aboFe-forgiye me; dear. grey, eyes why,
VIII tell you. 1t is great city of in Caliior
MIA. Sailing in at the Golden Gate, marrow
path in the water that leads big ships into tht
? grandest harbor in America, you would reach
San Francisco. Z ssra go ;lAvniq
A humber Of years ago, in the streets Of this
bustllHg city, lived dog whom nobody seem
" ed to own. Very likely his master had been
81, killed; for once human life seemed worth very
4 little in that State of California, where every
% body was intent npon getting rich, and push
ing everybody thatstoDd in the way of this OBJ
y Ject out OF The path, and perhaps out of life.--
AT, any rate, our dog was without 4 master,
and yet, somehow, he nsyer went hungry, for
every servant at the hotels, and every restali-
rant keeper, knew and beffiended this dog
aHe must have been born nrlder a lucky star
~ even the great Dog-star, I think-he was SO
fortunate always. When he was out of pro-
i vision, all he had to do was to ostfoE round to
Z nsaoons on Montgomery street, wag his tail, and
speak gtoa1the keeper,S when straightway
there came flying through the air and falling
his feet snch a delicious bonel enbugh to
make all dogs enyious-neat enough on it to
~ satisfy twoIor three dogs any Hrne.5
Z y Because this dog got his lixingO thus from
public charity, and did no work, such As
guarding houses or defending d master, he
- came to be called hummer, They call a man
who icafs at the corner Of the streets, and does
notwoEk, as all honest men should with his
head or his hands, a hummer ? Nowsit was
mot the dogs fault that he didsnot work SO /
am rather sorry that he got sucha name. A
man who should choose to get his living out of
v5other people, and fold his hands in idleness.
would be worthy of the contempt Of alihonest
persons everywhere; but Bummer was willing
Iienough TO do whatever dog-work came in his
way, as y0ulwill shortly see; so that Irespect
him highly, as Pm sure you will when I tell
you bis excellent traits. 4 ltsset 2s.gr ys,.ss y
hummer was lucky dog, but in the same
city lived another of the race that in fortune
4. was just the opposite of hummer. He, like
Bummer had no master, but unlike him he
had no friends. He was thin as rail, had
% always lean and hungry look, and his long
tail could only give melancholy wag which
~ never brought him the slightest favor. s.ls He
was, moreover, coveredi with sores--4as badly
y of as poor old Job-and the dogs WHO should
have been his friends seemed to think, as Jobs
friends did Of him, that all his trouble was
sent upon him because of his evil nature. f. AT
=, all events, they snapped at him, drove him off
N at all their meetings on street corners and
around meat markets, and everybody gave
He him an unfriendly kick. H8grsf
a In this extremity the well-fed Bummer
found his poor brother; and what do you sup
laf pose he did? Listen, and win tell you.-
Bulnmer must have had very kind nature, to
begin with. Iknow some people who, don't
a grow kind and generous when good fortune
loi attends them, but forget the poor and suffer-
ni ing children Of the same heavenly Father, and
Fleaye them to starve while they have enough
~ and to spare. Not thus did the noble Bunner.
He took the sick and iarlorn old dog under his
especial care; he brought him to a coInforta-
bic shed, and, for aught know, told him, in
dog language, to keep quiet and easy in his
own bed of soft rags; he carried, every day,
the very incest pieces of meat the bones most
richly Clothed with fat beef or lamb, to the
hungry creature; and, in short, he nursed,
with really tender, canine cafe, the sick dog,
e until he was able to go forth with him about
y the city. Then woe to the unfortunate cur
thatdared TO snap at the recovered dog; Bum
naef was at him in an instant. The two dogs
b were always together, and some people watch
ls edthe growing care and friendship between
them, and named the protege Of Bumner,
Lazarns ( II you don't know why they gave
Al. hipn this name, you can get your mother or
your auntie to tell you Henceforth, Bum
Amer and Lazarus went in company Every
4 body in the city knew them. Everybody hon
d ored them; everybody threw them bone, and
they werelcity pets At one time it was said
that a stranger in San Francisco could not get
into fight more easily than by Ill treating one
s of these dogs; for at every street-oomer there
were ten men ready to spring out in his de-
p fense. They roamed the busy streets by day.
sBumrner stoutly leading; the now sleek and
y happy Lazarus trotting gaqy at his heels
They did excellent service ior tne merchants
IN ridding Their stores OF rats, dlSpatching as
! many as forty nom one store 10 a single morn
ing sometimes. Everybody looked at them,
o everybody said who saw then, On, here
x comes hummer and Lazarus, gooafenows,Ts
and the men stopped 70 pat tne5n Wlth approx
ling hands, OF ge4sT
eomeDody has recently wT1tUeIa a pook on re re-
4 markaDle friendships, N WHICH suppose,
and Jonathan, damon ana Pytnlas,
nave tneT places. Il. 4 had written such Z
3 epooK, I'm sure should nave counted TINS uoSST
lrlenasnlP OF Summer and lazarus as among
Sshe most remarkable l3ut Lazarus must nave
nag Li, some constitutional weakness; ior Win
az ms Sood iiving, HegTeW SICK again, aiter
q lew yeafs'oi brightness, and, one morning, IL
game ouI IN the San Francisco Bttttets't tliat
nau departed this life to the GRIEF OF
c ai, lns CITY and to the deep sorrow of thefait
gse Lui bunRer. Death is a mystery to human
beings; astrange and dark thing whenever1t
conesi even tnough we know that the dead
III snan nVe again but the poor dumb beast
sa couia not Understand at all why Lazarus
" sfoslia aes ~ aoTsa with him to their usual
potrienqiy DaIk sr2tss slf nm. nm he moaned and