The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-27


81, BERNARD will win, for he can perform
the work OF any other dog and thut Is
what the iiaps want not dog thai cSn
only do QUE or two things. Would the
Eaps Ike to hear about my homo in mo
North? We lived cnc-halt II milo from
srnali town with four or five hundred N
habitants About onV-quartcr OF mile
west of us was "A beautiful. picturesque
creek and many times WREN
Just A. sunset l would so to bring the
I'd meet natures wonders down under the
houghs."
Not far from the house. We have pond
and In winter we would have glorious
times skating, Do any OF the liaps know
how to skate? one afternoon last winter
there were about MY people skating on
drcn. 1t waa warm Gay and the Zee WAS
melting fast, and about o'clock began
swaying up aud down and water would
bubble up through the holes. Most OF the
people were AFRAID 10 skate any more. bur
q few of us kept on skating and the Ice
ing ana that night was sm Doth and iirm
again: there were twelve of MS on the
pond at night and II was very dark. so
We took torches and lanterns. IL Is more
run TO skate than sleigh ride. think. be
cause one don't get 81 col !, "Gcycus, Ii
you wish to correspond with me. all right
| think the HHps should correspond Win
each other more, tbs obl"ct being mutual
Improvement. Hoping 10 be enrolled ms II
Hap, / VIII close. with best wishes to oli
j. June Goes.
HISTORY or a FAITHFUL DOG.
| san Gabriel. Texas.-Dear lIaphammcr;
| J would like to JON the liappyhammcrs
if am oie' bic. | am IN MY lsth year
| and live with my parents, brothers ana
| SISTERS on a farm IN tbs beautiful San
| Gabriel river country. IL have a vote IN
| faithful Newfoundland though II Is hard
| to decide between the Newfoundland. tine
| ST. Bernard ana the intelligent shepherd.
| VIII close my letter with a true story
1 of "A lille don rotated hN a ir tDl OF mine
| who always takes The Pest and who first
| interested mr. In the iidppyham,ner page.
| During 1854 TN friend was one oil the
| Colorado soldiers engaged IN Indian war
| fare While scouting near the head of the
| smoky " IN hNcr, over 30 nilrs from Z,
the command had straEg 81 away from
| the column hunting hunao. There wore
| 40 roads Or thoroughfaros aedr thcm hut
| some time before chat ycar TN 70 had hcen
an emigrant tivhA running from leavcn-
| worth, kan, across the pains TO benN,l
and the Rocky Mounta 81 gold m lcf. hui,
tn route had long hccn abandoned ON a.
| court of 81 scarcity of water for most OF
the .cason. ana those heak plalus wor'
given up to lhe infans and wild anl-
mails.
~ these soldiers wore riding after thci,
command ihcy came 20 q SuHken grave
the age of which could not he c1niecnrei
ard they found litNc dog lrinS therein
| some sixteen aches hn'oN 'hc SURFACE
IN the last stages Of exhaustion He wAs
upsh,e to ttgtid uprrht ana was wastrd
| up. fed him some lizard tack moStonet
| with water from u caGtcop ana CAo vi
| them Carrnd him in the bosom OF IL!
! blouse TO camp ANA nurscd him back T.
| strength. He was very small. hut W.ti
| long, curly hair, ~ rcd az 1.-Two coal o.
| IRE. and when FED back 10 his ulturd
health and STRENGTH was reugrklEly clov
ar ard IL anne n y Of HE company wnl,l
rescued him. When the mcu were mIs
| tered out Ct service the sosHer who eat
red him to caiup ICSk him to his homo
hut b. fore tho l'1vs reraraiei thcy Ia,
| "FoNic' as he was namc1 to SIT for h''
| phutoEn9ph AMI nearly everyone took
| number Of Qclfrs IN rrnfmbrancc -
3 thor little tivpriie. Now, there was N
| had NNHi on and near fhat grave. Whici
without ,cuhi las that Of his master, M
suhsist'ng. as J. must have done, an I'm
sccts and the Juicy cactus. which was h
. | sole reliance Tor water. II wAs n whit
q ma IS grave anil unlcre ma1e by som
Struggling ccmrlnN of hunters was Il
= least f5ur wears old. as that time ha
: olarscA since total Abandonment of tha
route across tho nlaus: but We all knoy
( oven showing itfelf after the master I
] hidden from their view. and he may haY
c hepf his weary watch long months an
years If thNs should reach the notice o
5 members Of the lnlcpcnic I bittcry, ,'oio
4 IL do volunteers they W IL readily rcca
: | this incident and the faithful services q
= this httle fellow MS he followed the com
| service. never mlstnking battery ma
for any ether soldier and loyal To IN
c1inmand that rescued lslm from dcatl
| and perhaps will he glad that this niue
8 OF his career Is saved n history
. Maud T.. Locklln.