The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-30
TEXT, DOGS FAITHFULNEss."
A Chicago Clergyman Talks About
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The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones preached
ms nnual human sermon ct Oakland
Music Hall tAll Souls Church, yesterday
moraing, taking for MS subject Dogs
lnsaanced the following achievements Of
dogs made in history and song.
Perhap the most developed skill and
conscience In the canine world IS found
among sheep dogs. One of them belonging
10 a Cumberland farmer, on the idle and
cruel Get of a master. took a acck CT
s5neep rom Cumberland to Liverpool, a
tne wager, but lost the dog. who died
Q after the feat was accomplished.
-lostone, in his book on the dog. tells CT
seventeen miles. returning at intervals to
prlng along his whelps. which she had
brought into the world on the way.
h OF that Pompeiian dog who was
round stretched over over the body Of its
young master? He wore a collar upon
Wn1ch was inscribed the heroic story that
Re saved the life Of his young master three
timesJonce from the sea, once from
robbers and once from the wolves. :
Coming TO the sublime fidelity of the
Newfoundland dog and the ST. Bernard. I
nave time for but two illustrations The
Newfoundland dog, who in 1879. escaped to
the shore from a shipwreck off Yarmouth
with the Captains pocketoook in his
mouth He kept it until he had picked a
man whom he could trust. n to him he
offered up his precious burden.
Tine story Of old Barri, the great st.
Bernard, whose stuffed body is the attrac-
fion Of the Berne Museum. has gone
around the wOrld-he who had been the
means Of reseuing forty-two persons from
death on Alpine Heights, and then fell a
victim of his benevolence, being killed by
q traveller who mistook his preserved for
a wolf.
Turn through English poetry in search
OF dogs, and by what a delightful COM
parry you find yourself surrounded. Be-
ginning with poor Toms ours in Lear
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Dog Beau WordsworFh's Little Mirsic.'
and that other dog of Wordsworth. who
was found IN the neighborhood of his
masters Skeleton, who had lost his life
three months before. A sadder fate await
ed the dog of the geograpner, Mitchell.
who lost his life in the AleghenieS, 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
'BIaneo., and Mrs. Barbauld, Sir Walter
Scott, Mrs. Sigourney, Thomas Campbell,
Lewis Morris. have all mad their dogs.
Matthew Arnold has given US 'Geist's
Grave and Kaiser Dead while Trow-
bridge has given Us Roger, the Faithful
Vagabond.' and Hans Brestman tells Us
not for sale. It's the vag of dat dogs rail-
Robert Browning had his dog Tray
which suggests Stephen Fosters Old Dog
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
friends in Ithaca. recognized his master
in his " personality. and then. after
twerdsy years waiting. died: and the great
deg of the Hindu epic. the M@habhrata.
The dog followed the Prime after all his
| human COMPANIONS had fallen out by the
way. clear up 20 the gates Of heaven. and
| there, when the great god Indra refused
| the dog admission, the Prince refused 70
| erfer without him.-Chieago Daily rrio-
me.