Evening star., 1896-06-18
DOGS WERE HIS TEXT.
A Chicago Clergyman Talks About
the Fidelity of Mans Faithful Friend
From the Chicago Daily Trflun.

Chicago Clergyman Talks About
the Fidelity of Mans Faithful Friend
From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones preached his
annual humane sermon at Oakland Music
Hall (All Souls Church) yesterday morn
ing, taking for his subject Dogs Faithful
ness" Among other things he instauced
the following achievements of dogs made
In history and in song:
Perhaps the most developed skill and
conscience in the canine world. is found
among sheep dogs. One of these belonging
to a Cumberland farmer, on the idle aid
cruel bet of the master, took a flock of
sheep from Cumberland to Liverpool. a dis
tance of over 100 miles. The master won
the wager, but lost the dog. who died soon
after the feat was accomplished.
"Idstone. in his book on the dog, tells Of
a Fifeshire dog driving a flock of sheep
seventeen miles, returning at intervals to
bring along her whelps. which she had
brought into the world on her way.
What of that Pompeiian dog who was
found stretched over the body of its young
master? He wore a collar upon which was
inscribed the heroic story that he saved the
life of his young master three times-once
from the sea, once from robbers and Cnce
from the wolves.
Coming 10 the sublime fidelity of the
Newfoundland dog and the ST. Bernard,
have time for but two illustrations: The
Newfoundland dog who in l7SS escaped TO
the shore from a shipwreck off Yarmouth
with the captains pocket book in his
mouth. He kept it until he had picked a
man whom he could trust. and to him he
offered up his precious burden.
THE story of old Barri, the great St.
Bernard whose stuffed body is the attrac-
tion of the Berne Museum. has gone around
the world-he who had been the means of
,ty1rr F@rf
Alpine heights and then fell a victim to his
benevoIence, being killed by a traveller who
mistook his preserver for wolf
Turn through English poetry in search
of dogs, and by what a delightful company
you find yourself surrounded. Beginning
with poor Toms ours in Lear we find
Burns Two Dogs Cowpers Dog Beau,
Wordsworth's Little Music and that otEer
neighborhood of his masters skeleton, who
had lost his life three months before. A
sadder fate awaited the faithful dog Of the
geographer Mitchell who lost his life in
the Alleghenies, and the dead body of his
faithful dog was found months afterward,
lying near the body Of his master.
Mary Hewitt has given us the story of
Keeper Mrs. Browning her faithful little
deg Flush Timothy Titcomb his 'Blanco
and Mrs. Barbauld, Sir Walter Scott Mrs
Sigourney, Thomas Campbell, Lewis Nor
ris have all had their dogs. Matthew Ar
mold has given us 'Geists Grave and kai-
ser Dead. while Trowbridge has given us
Roger, the Faithful Eagabond,' and Hans
Breitman tells us that the one thing
'aboudt dat dog dat's not for sale. tits the
vag Of dat dogs tall Robert Browning
had his dog Tray which suggests Stephen
Fosters Old Dog Tray.
I'VE cannot take leave of these dogs of
literature without noticing the two grand
est Of them all-Argus. the faithful hound
of Odysseus, who, neglected and dying on
the dung heap, alone of all the waiting
f,.ia 1S in ia ma a.,
his own personality, and then, after twenty
years waiting. died: and the great dog OF
the Hindu epic, the Mahabhrata. The dog
followed the prince after all his human
companions had fallen out by the way,
clear up to the gates of heaven, and there
when the great god Indra refused the dog
admission the prince refused to enter with
out him."