Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1904-01-14

have risked their lives to save their
fellow creatures are almost as numer-
GUS as the acts of heroism chronicled
in the annals of humanity. The finest
medal that was ever struck would not
have been too great reward for the
noble act performed by Bulge, span
lei. in in a recent Hoboken fire. Bulge
lived at Alb Fourteenth street, together
with fifty carrier pigeons, dozen
fancy rabbits, and her own four pup
pies. only a few days old.
Before the building was well alight
Mr. Seins, the landlord and owner OF
Bulge, managed to escape with his
family but the carrier pigeons, the
rabbits and the puppies were forgot
ten. Bulge was absent at the time,
but returned half an hour after the
fire started.
For a moment she stood aghast at
the flames and then, realizing that her
family was in dire danger, she dashed
through the fire and in a moment re-
turned carrying badly blistefed
puppy. Her anxious face wore a look
of quiet triumph as she left the little
creature in a place of safety and once
more returned to the burning building.
Again she came back with another
puppy, little more singed this time,
but also living. Her own hair was
now ablaze, but, unmindful of the
pain, she dropped the pup in the street
and started back again.
But young man who had stood by
watching her caught the dog in his
arms, and in spite of her frantic
struggles to return to her perishing
family refused to let her go. Had he
done so she would have gone to her
death.
So badly burned was the brave ami
NAL, that an ambulance was called,
and she and the pups were taken to
the dog hospital, where they were de-
tanned for nearly week. OF all the
live stock in that building the only
creatures saved were the two pup
pies, and they owen their lives not to
man but to what, in this instance at
least, proved to be the nobler animal
Mother love was the cause of the
death of Daisy, beautiful little fox
TERROR, the daughter of Mouse. a noted
prize winner, the property of Col. G. A.
Stevens, millionaire Daisy belonged
to Capt. Woodall, who has charge of
the barges of the New Jersey Ice COM
pany Daisy was the mother of four
puppies, which were born on New
Years day, and she was the proudest
parent in all New York state.
In the second week of January last
Capt. woodall made the discovery that
one of the puppies was dead and when
Daisy was away he threw the little
corpse into the Hudson, but the tide
was low and there was no current to
carry it away. When the mother re-
turned to her litter she instantly saw
that one was missing. She went wild
with anxiety, and raced from barge to
barge looking for her lost puppy.
At last she caught sight of it bob
bling up and down n the water and in
an instant she was after it. She
swan to the side of the body, took it
in her mouth and turned toward the
shore. But the icy waters of the river
were too much lcr the gently bred
dog, and though she made the most
heroic efforts to save herself and the
puppy, which she fondly imagined still
lived, 1t was no use, and after a little
while she gave up the attempt as a
bad job, and before help could come
she sank, carrying the puppy with her
Capt. Woodall was almost as grief
stricken for his pet as Daisy had been
for her offspring, and offered a big re
ward for the two bodies, which were
secured by a boatman An attempt
was made to bring up the three little
orphans on the bottle, which succeed
ed so well that they are now growing