Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-11
JA( X,
Sorrow at His Loss and this Joy When He
Came Home.


JACK.
SORROW at His Loss and this Joy When He
Came Home.
Jack IS dog. He is Washington dog and
! a hotel dog. That is to say. he lives at the
Windsor Hotel, bu. the hotel doesn't own him.
Not much. JACK owns the hotel
He is on terms with the guests, the employees.
the newsboys. the car drivers, the bootblacks.
the policemen and all the neishbors.
In respect Of pedigree. Jack is a cross be-
tween n towZle-headCd Scotch terrier and the
Fourth of july, which accounts for his being
such a unanimous dog. He Is mostly white. or
white when it is washed, with lSh. brown
spot about the size of buckwheat cake on his
side and some of the same color up around his
head. He wears stub tail, Just too Faucy for
any thing. and holds his head at about the angle
a Tammanv man wears a plug hat.
Jack goes about the streets with the air of an
individual who owned all the abutting property
Ion never see him sinking along, as is the
manner OF the dog who is not sure of his posi-
tlon. No, HIr. Jack carries his head and tail
up. and Is quite as Indifferent to persons and
thi g as the most biase society swell is.
One day you NAV see him troJting around up
at the Capitol. perfectly at home, and the next
he may be sesn quietly rusticating in George
town.
Wherever he is b, is Jack. and he is ALWAYS
glad to meet his friends and that stub tail of his
Is kept busy i'll its work of silent recognition.
During the q. A X. encampmcnt here last
September Jack made friends with the veterans
a. if he had been hero In a half dozen wars,
and when they went away Jack did too
Nobody knew how he had gone when.
JACK was SOne thai was enough. and tine hotel
guest lost his appetite: the boo black put a Il al
shine on the shoes OF his customers; the news-
boys called STAR YER in the tones OF Rachel
mourning for her children the policeman
turned uneasilv III his sleep: the driver said
! get mp to his horses in way to make them
want 20 lie down, and the neighbors waited for
the waS of tail that was bu. is not.
Week. went BY and still there was only hol-
low mockery in the places where Jack hid been
Then hope came one day in the shape OF a
man who said he sure he had seen Jack Ill
Richmond
That wGs all. and hope went away again with
the disappeari & weeks.
One day Mr.. Sprague tho clerk, found n
memorandum iii the hotel belonging to one OF
party OF q. \. u. men from Providence r. l.,
who had stopped with him. and he sen. it to
him and in his letter told very pathetically of
Jack loss. suggesting that possibly some Rhode
Islander. pleased with his winning manners,
had carried hin away. The man Acknowledged
The receipt OF the memorandum and conveyed
the dispiritinS information that there was no
Jack there.
More gloom and then one day man came in
'
having slain numerous rats in his place. and
wanted to know what Jack was dong away I'D
in Providence RI
Mr.. Sprague almost had fit on the spot.
DID the man know what he talking about?
well, said he, Il was up there not long ago
and i'll a restaurant saw Jack cleaner than any,
body ever saw him in Washington. with ribbons
In hi hair and tab on him marked Souvenir
of Washington
That was enough. and letter was sent post
h.gA 70.
stopped at the house where Jack lived giving
him the particulars.
1t happened that he was a lieutenan. Of DO
lice, and in few days word came back that
Jack, the lost one, had been found and would
| soon come home again.
There was no mistaking; il was the same
Jack, for the visiting members Of tho post
knew Jack, just as everybody else did.
Then letter came from the man who had
taken him. He apolOgized abjectly; he said he
intended to return him on the 4th Of March;
he said he was not q. A. Il. man and the g.
A. r. men did not know that he had abducted
the dog; he said he and his family loved jack
and had cared for him like prince and he
could understand why the people at the hotel
missed him so; he said he had takon him to
Richmond with him, thinking if he didn't like
| him TO drop him on his way back, but he
couldn't give him up, and SO on, and by express
that same day he sent Jack to Washington.
1t was plain that somebody was back Of the
writing of the letter and the return Of Jack but
the q. A. X. men were charitably silent. TWAS
| sufficient that Jack should be restored
In good time he came again after more than
! three months absence, aud when he saw his
friends a. the hotel sgain-ths newsboys, the
bOotblacks. the car drivers, the policemen and
the neighbors-he laughed and cried and
wagged tina: stub tail of his with such energy
that he fairly lifted himself and walked about
on his fore legs.
Next day he disappeared. and for two days he
was gone, visiting the Capitol, Georgetown aud
his friends around about the CITY,
Jack never told this, but his friends did, for
they have been coming in one by one to ask
about his departure and to hear the story OF his
return.
Any day now you may see Jack in the vicinity
of 18th street and New York avenue, strolling
| along carelcsslv, dallying with newsboy, firt-
ing with a policeman. chasing q car driver
| toying with bootblack or gossiping with the
neighbors.
Speak to him il you will, for Jack is demo-
crat of democrats, aud wouldn't pass a dog on
the streets unnoticed. W. J. HAMPTON.