The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-21
DOGS WE'RE HIS TEXT.
Chicago Clergyman Talks About the
Fidelity OF WINS Faithful Friend.

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From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones preached
his annual humane sermon at Oakland
Music Hail (All Souls church, yesterday
morning. taking for his subject Dogs
Faithfulness." Among other things he
instanced the following achievements of
dogs made q history and 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 and
cruel bet of the master. took a flock of
sheep from Cumberland TO Liverpool, a
distance of over I0O 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
q F1feshre dog driving 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 Pompeian 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 rob
bers and once from the wolves.
Coming to the sublime fidelity of the
Newfoundland dog and the st. Bernard, j
have time for but two Illustrations: The
Newfoundland dog, who, in 1889, escaped
TO the shore from a slipwreck of Aar-
mouth 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-
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 nights and then fell a
victim TO his beneVolence, being killed by
a traveller who mistook his preserver for
a wolf
Turn through English poetry in search
of dogs, and by what a delightful COM
pany you find yourself surrounded. Be
ginning with poor Toms ours in Lear we
ind Burns Two Dogs, Cowper's Dog
Beau, Wordsworth's Little Music and
that other dog Of Wordsworth who was
found in the neighborhOod of his MASTER
skeleton who had lost his lie three mon tbs
before. A sadder fate awaited the dog
of the geographer, Mitchell, who lost his
life in the Alleghenes, and the dead body
of his faithful dog was found months al
terward, lying near the body Of his mas
MARY Hewitt has given US the story Of
Keeper Mrs. Browning her faithful lit
tie dog Flush Timothy Titcomb his
'Blanco,' and Mrs. Barbauld, Sir Walter
Scott, Mrs. Sigourney, Thomas Campbell,
Lewis Morris have all had their dogs.
Matthew Arnold has given US 'Geists
Grave, and Kaiser Dead while Trow-
bridge has given us Roger, the Faithful
Vagabond,' and Hans Breitman tells us
that the one thing 'aboudt dat dog OATS
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
friends in Ithaca, recognize his master
in 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 without him."