The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-01-13

ing the mail through the snow, % not
position most Office seekers care lor.;5, Is
Some time ago in Cannon street city
Of London, was witness TO On extraordi'
nary scene. Going along the street va
"a empty coal wagon, with a tall, stout
wagoner, long whip in hand, walking BY
Lifts side. A. heavy powerful bulldog
happening to pass, he made : cut ct il
with his whip and s's:rucksSit smartly:
The dog turned round instantly and
rushed at the man, q every one thought,
but he never offered to lay hold: Of him,
and kept jumping at tho whip. which the
man held high out Of reach. The man
then began to beat it with the whip, till
tho animal snatched it from his hand and
worried at it furiously. Having regaiosd
hold Of the whip. he swung the dog round
and round, humping it heavily against the
| pavement, till the crowd cried SHAME -
The dog was then chokcd off and the whip
| returned to its owner. The dog, how.
eyer, as soon As loose, Immediately
returned to the charge when the driver.
evidently not DESTROYS Of continuing the
contest, threw the offending weapon into
the wagon. The dog now tried two or
three ineaectual Jumps to follow it, but,
finding himself bafIled, trotted of crest.
fallen amid the jeers'. of the crowd
"Done at last, old fellow" The most
wonderful thing was that the animal
could only see the proximate cause, and
not the real offender. i. 20, : =
NJ. Dumont has = dog, Pompier by
name, and his master is devoted to
smoking. Sometimes NJ. Dumont gets
out of tobacco, and Poinpier, knowing
where the tobacconis: is, has five sous
given him, when he straightway goes to
the tobacco shop, buys the weed, and re.
turns With it to his master. Some time ago
Pompier had some money given him for to.
tobacco, but,meeting : spaniel just around
the corner, the two dogs had = game Of
tag, and the money was lost. Whom
Pompier came home without any tobacco
he got sound thrashing. Next day
Pompier went out again with more mon.
ey for tobacco. Round the corner, sure
enough, was the same spaniel, trying to
lure poor Pompier from the path Of duty
Pompier did his best to resist temp
tation, but, alas he was weak,
and he fell from grace . second
saAAAe9 oAA sSA0 usVAA@y "So AVoSs AsV"s w.
ing French dog. Of course some ideas
Of suicide flashed through his brain, but
being moral dog, and = rejecting dog
withal, he looked carefully at the situa'
ton. An hour afterward. Pompier
marched into Mr.. Dumont's presenc<
with full ten sous worth of tobacco. OF
course his master was satisfied. Next
day the dog and his master took walk
in the Luxembourg gardens. They ap.
preached group Of boys playing At pin:
penny. Il say, you. SIR cried ono Of
the gamins, "that is nice dog you have
Oh. recognize him. I shall tell the po'
lice oil about it. If you are not thief
your dog is. Yesterday when We were
playing here that dog made = jump 70,
the pennies, gobbled them all uI, and
was off again like lightning.'' 1T il
with regret adds the authority for thi.
dog story, shat I am forced to state in
the most positive terms that Pompier v a
q thief. Of course it may be quite inor.
der to insist that dogs are endowed to-
day with superior order of intelligence
have nothing further to advance,n no.
do I wish to extenuate Pompier's crime.