The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-10
FAITHFUL SERVANT ALWAYS.
STORIES ABOUT THE DEVOTION OF
THE IRON PRINCE TO HIS CA
NINE.
DOGS FAMOUS In HISTORY.
Fame Through Their Masters,
Prominence.
Tyras is dead.


Prince Bismarck has seen many men
die. but it is said that he never on
any such occasions betrayed as much
anguish as he did a few days ago when
his great dog Tyras breathed his last
and passed away to the happy hunting
grounds of faithful CANNES. During
the dogs long illness Bismarck tended
him with his own hands and when he
died his master did not fail to send a
dispatch to the kaiser informing him
of the sad event.
Thousands in Germany knew Tyras
almost as well as they knew the former
chancellor, and they are all sorry to
learn that the old statesman has lost
his faithful companion. Tyras, indeed,
was universally popular, being known
as the Reichshund, or 1.-The dog of the
Empire" He was worthy of the title,
being always a most dignified animal.
An audacious journalist once Hbelled
him in print, and thereby incurred
Bisnarck's serious displeasure. On an
other occasion Tyras was sent to the
Royal Veterinary College in Berlin for
the purpose of having al operation
performed on him.
He evidently did not like the manner
in which the surgeon handled him, for
he abruptly made his escape, and for
some hours wandered as a vagabond
through the streets of Berlin. Finally
however, he was caught ard restored
to his master, and some Of Bismarck S
admirers awaited themselves of the OPP
portunity to present him with hand
some collar, by means of which the
dog could easily be identified in the
future.
TYRAS TO THE RESCUE.
Of the curious stories told about Bis
marck and his dogs the most notable
relates to a scene that occurred during
the Berlin convention. One day, while
the regular meeting was being held,
Bismarck, who, as usual, was attended
by his faithful Tyras, entered into con-
versation with Prince Gortschakoff,
Russia's representative at the conven-
ton. During the conversation, which
had become rather lively, Gortscha-
koff made an innocent but apparently
threatening movement toward Bis
marck, whereupon Tyras, fancying
that his master was in danger, flew at
the unfortunate Russian and bore him
promptly to the ground.
Bismarck dragged the dog away at
once, and the only injury which Gort-
schakoff received was a bad fright.
Lord Beaconsfield, who represented
Great Britain at the convention, set the
story af1oat in England, and, according
to him, Gortschakoff firmly believed
that the dog had been set on him by
Bismarck 1t is needless to say that
the former chancellor's friends laughed
to scorn any such insinuation.
A story of a similar kind is told of a
spaniel dog, which belonged to Anne
Boleyn's father, Thomas, Earl of Wilt
shire. When the earl was sent, in 1880,
to negotiate a divorce of Henry VIII.
from Catharine Of Arragon, he took this
spaniel with him to Bologna, where he
was to meet the Emperor Charles ".
and Pope Clement VII Tradition says
that when the pope put forth his slip
per that the cross embroidered on it
might be kissed by the earl, this PRO
testant dog" as Father Flood calls him,
misinterpreted the act, and, flying at
the foot, bit it severely. If this really
happened, the parallel with the case of
Tyras is made more complete by the
fact that Clement VII, at that time,
was secretly quite as well disposed to
Henry VIII in his dispute with the
emperor as Germany at the Berlin con-
Russia
SOME FAMOUS DOGS.
Of really celebrated dogs the number
is limited, but remarkable, indeed, are
their histories. Plutarch tells us of a
dog whose master was murdered, and
who by fiercely attacking two Of King
Pyrrhus soldiers, identified them as his
murderers. A dog, belonging to Kan
tippus, the father of Pericles, once tried
in vain to board his masters vessel,
whereupon he swan alongside of it
from Athens to Salamis and dropped
dead from sheer exhaustion at the feet
Of Xantippus the moment he stepped
ashore. This act Of devotion, aroused
SO much popular enthusiasm that a
monument was erected in honor of the
faithful brute. A dog, named Softer,
was so noted among the Corinthians
for his fidelity and watchfulness that
he was voted a silver collar, on which
was the inscription, "Corinth's defend
er and deliverer."
Another dog famous in history Is the
dog Aubry, that belonged to Montdi-
der, a distinguished officer In the serv-
ice of Charles ", of France. He saved
his master from drowning and finding
his body some time afterward in a for
est, watched beside it until he, almost
to his death through a dispute with a
brother officer named Macaire, who
waylaid and murdered him. Some time
afterward the dog met Macaire in the
streets of Paris, and, impelled by some
wonderful instinct, he Sprang at his
throat, and would have killed him had
not the passersby interfered. Macaire,
however, was not to escape SO easily.
Many suspected that he was Mont
didier's murderer. and Charles the
decided by a battle between the dog
and MAGAZINE on the island Of Notrc
Dame. The man was allowed to arm
himself with club and shield and
a cask was given to the dog into which
The dog made no use of the cask, and
in the second round he gained the vic
tory by fastening his teeth in his an
tagonists throat Maeaire confessed
his guilt and was promptly executed
Froissart, writing about the events
that preceded the deposition of Richard
H., Of England, tells us in the follow
ing words how the King was deserted
even by his greyhound:
And as 1t was informed me King
Richard had a greyhound called Math,
who always waited upon the King,
and would know no man else, for
wheresoever the King would ride, hs
that kept the greyhound did let him
loose, and he would straight run to the
King and fawn upon him. and leap
with his fore feet upon the Kings
shoulders. And as the King and the
Earl Of Derby talked together in the