Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
BROOKLYN BRIEFS
Patrick Maroney of New Yorl

-Curbing for a sidewalk is being laid about the Riverside cemetery on Green street and Drayer avenue.
 There will be celebrated at St Pat rick's church tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock a months mind mass of re- quiem for the late Mrs Margaret Der win of Drayer avenue.
 The railroad commissioners have written to City Attorney Kellogg i'm forming him that they will be at the Porter street crossing between and o'clock on Wednesday afternoon of 1 this week.
 "A well-known business man in this district told the Brooklyn Brief man the following about joke on constable Pryor, who is engaged in l hunting up those persons who have ial!ed to register their dogs, and also incidentally alluded to that meanest l sorI or a being, the dog pofsoner: I stable PryOrS expense last Saturday. The rotund constable, having been in 1 New York most of the past week, was not as we'll posted on events in this nelghborhood as is his wont When
 ne returned from his trip he was iIl- formed in a casual way that so and 1 so refused to have his dog licensed, inasmuch as the constable dare not | interfere with him any more than he did with Dan Mahaney, and as Dan 1 Mahaney had refused to have his bull | terrier, Sappho, registered, so and so I Ieit Justified in refusing to pay S1 .15 for his poodle. Now the constable had known Sappho and having seen collar about her neck imagined she had been register- ca, Which indeed was the fact But It made the constable hot under the ears to be defied in the performance or his duty by the alderman Of his own bailiwick so he started forth 1 With for the alderman's cafe. Arrived there he asked MT Mahaney if Sappho had been registered T don't know | replied MT Mahaney. Has she, Lud- l dy! appealing to his clerk. How do knoWg answered the clerk. She doesn't belong to me- Didn't vou l bring her hereg demanded the em- ployer. Wasn't she born hereY re- Sponded the clerk. The constable saw l his finish should this dialogue con- tinue so he peremptorily demanded
 the registry fee plus his own fee. or l in lieu thereof Sappho herself. AS no l one offered the desired change lie ir-
 sisted that the dog be produced. He
 was told the dog was in the cellar and
 ne called Sappho several times, know ing that the dog would come were she
 there and if she heard. But no dog l appeared. Finally the clerk and con,
 stable went with a lantern to the ceI- lar, and there they found the IifeIess
 body of Sappho. To the credit of the
 constable his anger at the joke faded
 away as he saw what the miscreant Of q poisoner had worked and he 1 vowed he would much prefer hand cutting the brute of man to bother
 ing an affectionate, kind and gentle
 animal such as Sappho was. To those
 who have seen her caring for and pro- Iectlng two wee kittens whose mother
 nad been killed this is no wonder, and
 fhere are many in the vicinity who
 feel the same way as the constable l. For Sappho. dog though she was. had
 many friends and had other fine points than her teeth of pearl z
 1.-The following is a part of the ser
 mon preached by the Rev Charles F.
 Granger in the Third Congregationalg church yesterday morning and at the Bunker Hill chapel at 4 :15 in the after moon on the subject Endurance 2 based on the text "He endured as seeing
 him who is invisible" Heb xi:27:sGen- eral Daniel Morgan of Revolutionary I fame said, as to the fighting part of 1 the matter, the men of all nations are I pretty much alike; they fight as much l as they find necessary and no more
 But, sir, for the grand essential in the composition of the good soldier, give
 me the Dutchman- he starves we'll I The thought is this. that there is some
 thing else for a soldier to do thansight. I General Morgan spoke of 1t as the
 grand essentia1;" 1t is to endure. To
 endure not alone the fierce conflict but
 to endure also the long periods of d fatigue and hardships and privation l which constitute such a large part of J the soldiers life Nor does this apply
 alone to the soldiers career. It applies 1 equally to any career. Little can be
 done without endurance Many
 brilliant personage has missed his mark simply from lack of endurance
 Truly it Is as General Morgan express
 ed 1t. the grand essential. But pre-
 eminently 1t is the grand essential'
 in the Christian life. It Is there thnt
 endurance is all important. The Chris tian must learn to "starve wellV
 Through all the long years of siege
 he must withstand, hold out, must suf-
 fer and bear the test without injury
 or giving away. The scriptures are
 full of exhortations to endure which
 exhortations are backed up in every in-
 stance by blessed promise Such prom
 ises as "He that shall endure to the
 end. the same shall be saved" and
 again Blessed is the man that endur-
 eth temptation, for when he is tired
 he shall receive the crown of life,
 which the Lord hath promised to them that love hinl'' Let us not forget
 either that endurance on the part nf
 God, so boundless in our behalf that the psalmist said of it: "The goodness
 of God endureth continually" !" and that
 endurance of the master wherein he
 endured the cross" and despised the
 shame. Our text is a word picture Of
 the endurance of the noble prince and prophet Moses, who is given us as an l exceptional and brilliant example nf
 endurance Note will you the measure
 of that endurance sas seeing him who
 is invisible.'' That Is very large meas
 ure and has not been filled perhaps very often. What can it mean? Who
 will tell us? The God with whom we have to do is an invisible God, he IS
 so to our senses, to the eyes. ssNo man hath seen God at any timev and thus 4