Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-13

and Arabs of to-day and many civilized peo- pie in times past. The Hebrews of old had this contempt for dogs, and the Bible abounds with allusions to it. In fact, they have it yet, although the Jews have now lived for centuries among the greatest dog fancying nations. The dog is even now rarely found as com panion in Jewish homes. Hebrews of wealth take kindly to horses and to anything else of luxury, but I have rarely seen them have dog as pet. As hinted, our language bears abundant evidence of this Oriental contempt and dislike of the animal. 1.-The son-of-a- dog" is a common low epithet of extreme op- probrium, not only among the Turks and Arabs, but all over Southern Europe. Doing badly is '.going to the dogs" Dog cheap" is s eontsmPsible cheap Dog haser is bad Rsd speaker now viewed dogs theologically, and quoted one eminent theologian denying that dog has a memory in the sense that man has it. The speaker looked at this with distrust, and spoke of notable instances of memory in dogs.
 A father shipped black Collie shephe I'd dog to his son on March 6, 1876. The dog is described as black shepherd dog, years old and Ca good dog" The route was first by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern raj l- road to Toledo, 45 miles. He was there re- shipped by the Toledo, Wabash and Western then again reshipped to Leona in Donovan county, Kansas, where he arrived on the morning of March Il, having been between four and five days on the route. He travelled in box car with horses and household goods. At Leona, some twenty or thirty miles west f the Missouri river, the express agent delivered him to his new owner, who took him home, 8 few miles from the sta tion, and tied him up in his barn. The next morning the rope was broken and the dog gone. Eighteen days after, on March 29, he appeared at his old home in Belleyille again, lean, hungry, footsore, scared and wounded in fights, but rejoicing as only good dogs can rejoice to see his old home once more. The distance by the railroad, as make it from the railroad guides, is at least 750 miles. The local newspapers who first published the story make it 900. At the lesser distance this is about forty-two miles per day, and if he travelled in an air line thirty miles per day. But what route he took, how he crossed the great rivers, Mississippi and Missouri how he escaped his enemies-how he over came the natural obstacles on his way-wheth- CT he travelled always on foot, or by happy accidents stole rides on the cars-how he got his scanty food, and, more than all this, what guided him on his long pilgrimage, we will never know. Without discussing the peculiar faculty by which he found his way back, and
 only considering those feelings which we can
 understand, do we not find some of the noblest
 traits of humanity? What g love for his old
 friends, from whom he had been torn, and the
 old hocks he had watched-what loyalty
 to his old master, what courage to van
 quish the enemies he met, like pilgrim of
 old fighting his way when foes opposed him
 and coming home covered with honorable scars and wounds what intelligence to over come the natural obstacles of river and prairie forest and field what 8 faith sustained him in his long and weary journey what 8 yearn- ing for his old home. An were these not the germs of patriotism No wonder that a French enthusiast spoke of dogs as candidates | for humanity, and another that the best part | of man is the dog he has in him, and at last | may not civilized men begin to believe with | the poor Indian that if perchance he should attain to immortal bliss that his faithful dog | will bear him company.