Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-07
DOGS WERE HIS TENT.
Chicago Clergyman Talks About the
Fidelity of Mans Faithful Friend.
From the Chicago Daily Trfbane

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
morning. taking for his subject Dogs
Faithfulness." Among other things he
irstanced the following achievements o.
DC gs made I'm history and song:
Perhaps the most developed skill and
conscience in the canine world is foulS
among sheep dog. One of these belonging
10 a Cumberland farmer, the idle and
cruel bet of the master. took a flock of
sheep from Cumberland TO Liverpool a dis
lance Of over leo miles. The master won
the wager. but lost the dog, who died soon
after the feat was accomplished.
Idstone. in his book the dog, tells of
a tHeshlre dog driving a flock of sheep
seventeen miles, returning at intervals 10
bring along her whelps. which she had
Brought into the world on her way.
w hat 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
lie or his young master three times-oncs
from the sea, once from robbers and once
from the wolves.
Coming TO the sublime fidelity of the
Newfoundland dog and the ST. Bernard |
have time for but two Illustrations: The
Newfoundland dog who, in 1888 escaped 10
with the captains pocketbook I'm his
mouth he Kept ii until he had picked a
IAN whom he could trust. and TO him he
onered up his precio burden
The story of old Barri the great ST.
Bernard. whose stuffed body is the attrac-
ton of the Berne museum has gone
around the world-he who had been the
means of rescuing forty-two persons from
death on Alpine heights and then fell a
victim to his benevoIence, being killed by a
traveller who mistook his preserver for a
wolf.
Turn through English poetry in search
or dogs, and by what a delightful comDany
you md yourself surrounded. Beginning
with poor Toms ours in Lear we find
burns Two Dogs Cowper's Dog Beau
Nordsworth's Little Music and that 9TH
ef dog OF Wordsworth. who was found in
the neighborhood of his masters skeleton
VINO had lost his life three months before
A sadder fate awaited the dog of the geog-
rapher, Mitchell, who lost his life IN the
AIe enemies, and the dead body of his faith
full dog was found months afterward living
near the body Of his master
Mary Hewitt has given us the story OF
Keeper Mrs. Browning her faithful little
dog Flush: Timothy TItcomb his 'Blanco'
and Mrs. Barbauld, Sir Walter Scott. Mrs
Slgourney. Thomas Campbell. Lewis Nor
rs, have all had their dogs. Matthew Ar
Eold has given 'Geists Grave and
kaiser Dead while Trowbridge has given
as Roger, the Faithful Vagabond and
rams Breltman tells us that the one thing
aboudt dat deg OATS not fer sale. it's the
Vag or dat dogs TAIL Robert Browning
mad his dog Tray, which suggests Stephen
Fosters old Dog Tray
We 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
friends in ithaca, recognized his master In
ms own personality. and then, after twenty
years waiting, died: and the great dog of
me Hlndu epic, the Mahabhrata. The dog
followed the prince after all his human
companions had fallen out by the way.
GEAR up to the gates of heaven, and there
Wien the great god Indra refused the dog
admission, the prince refused to enter with
out him."