Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-06-17

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nature, 70 begih With. know some peo
lble who don't grow kind and generous wbeI
good fortune attends them, but forge, lbt
! poor and Suffering children Of tho sam,
Heavenly Father, and leave them to starv,
while thu, nave enough aud to spare Not
thus did the noble Bummer.. Hetotk the
sick and for lorn old dog under bis especial
care i7he btought him to a. comfortable
shed, aud, for aught know, told him, 10
dog language, 10 keep qniet and cosy. il
bis own bed Of soft rags he carried, every
day, the very incest pieces of meat, the
bones most richly clothed with fat betI
or lamb, 10 the hungry creature 4 aud, in
short, be Dursed, with really tender, canine
care, the sick dog until be was able TO go
forth with him aboat the city. Then woe
ito The unfortunate cur thatdared to ssap
atq,be recovered dog | BANNER was at
him In 90 instant. The two dogs we're OIL
ways together, and some people who had
watched the growing care and friendship
betw cen them, named the protege. Of Bum.
mer, ,Lqzarus, 4 (lf you douis know why
they gave him this name, you can get your
fmoiher or your au0tie to tell you.) Hence.
forth, Bummer aud l. zarus went in com
pany.g Every body 10 the city knew them ;
eyefybod bonored them; ,ybody threw
them bone, aud they were city pets. A,
one lime it was said that stranger iu San
Francisco could not get into fight more
easily than by ill-treatisg one of these dogs ;
for at every street corner there were ten
men ready to spring out ip their defence,
They roained the busy streets by day, Bum!
mer s,onlly leading, the now sleek and
happy LnzarosS rosting gaty at his heels
They did excellent service for the merchants
in rddiug thur stores of rats, dispat ching
as many as forty from one store 10 single
morning sometimes Everybody looked at
them, everybody said who saw them:s "Qh,,
here come Bummer and l. zarus, coed fel
lows" and The meo stopped to pat them
With approving hands o q ;73aaed7 .
Somebody hiss recently written book
upou remarkable friendships, in which. l
suppose, David and Jonathan. Damon and
Py thias, have their places. If had writ
ton such book. I'm suieI should have
counted this dog friendship of Bummer aud
Lazarus as among the most remarkable -
But l. z,rus must have had some cons,i,u
tional weakness; for With all Bummer's care,
aud with all his good living, he grew sick
agin, after afew years of brightness, and,
Que morning, il came out 10 the San Fran
cisco Bulletin that Lazarus bad departed.
the grief of all the city, and to the deep
sorrow of The faithful BANNER. Death is
y mystery to human beiugs; q strange and
dark thing sheneYer, it comes, even though
We know that the dead shall live again;
but the poor dumb beast could rot under.
stand at oil Why Lazstus shonld not 60
forth with him TO their usual haunts; why
no bone dcQu!d tempt him., aRd no ffieadly
bark arouse him. lie moaned and whined
with strangely eager look around the dead
body Of bis friend, looking up ut tbs crowd
with that heseecbiDg sort of.earnestness SO
affecting to behold in brute who 10 some
extremity appeals to man bnt, poor beast
here ia where mans power is rs futile d
thine own; the dead go, beyond our kan,
beyond our need aud, kna sing this last,
we su ely should make less moau than o
creature who cannot learn even this.
| The city authorities or some other au-
thorilies deer eed that Lazarus should be
stuffed aud preserved for future generations
to look att so they topk the dead dog
away from Bummer's vigilant care, and
now the form Of the befriended animal
stands iu the show window of Que OF the
large stores on Montgomery street. When
Rummer saw il FIRST, be gave one loud
bark of joyful recognition. and bounded
into, the store aHd over the co4n,era to
meet bis los, frjepdi but finding him sun
moved by bis show Of joy, be went away
moaning 10 vain. endeayor TO comprehend
the mystery. This happened The deatf
of T. zarus, mean-4last winter, aud in I
4 short time, when Bummer came TO realz
that his friend would7neyer como back Il
him. bis good, generous nature pcked,uI
auolber poor unfortunate, aud when last
heard from him the tvo dogs were as in
separabie as lhs original couple. sup
pose it is q glorious thing that God gay,
man reasonjltc dogs he gave only instinct
they tell US. But whatever this wonderful
instinct is. il cel raiuly shows sometimes te
coed svantsge, SO that 10 not SO muel
wonder that the poor untntored Indian. il
bis ideas OF heaven, thought that, b,
h9A ''Admitted to that equal sky ' ''-
His faithful dog should bear him company.
And, for my part, see no harm in bop
ing, at least, that ia the better land &
which we trnst we are going. we ma
Gpd again our friends of the animal rsce
that have sopetmes been able 10 teach .
wise lessons Of truth, fidelity aud geuer0s
ty here. aa y ai2a1 'A'A iAss e"
37a- lscas le0 q lsRurH STEWART.