The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-05
GOOD STORIES
J ABOUT ANIMALS
Frenchman Rescued From a Ditch
Into Which He Had Fallen
by His Dog.
SCARE CAUSED BY A RAT
PLIGHT OF A GIRL WHO GOT
NERVOUS.
SCARE CAUSED BY A RAT
CNew York A-nerican.)

NEW YORK American
Recently &c occurred to one Of the
Philadelphia patrOiTRon that 1t would DC
p relief In the lonely hours of the morn
Ing watch II he took his dog TO share
the weary vigil He did so. and the dog
soon got into the habit Of following MS
master to the station house, standing IN
line when the roll was called and accom-
panytng him everywhere on his beat by
degrees the actual duties OF policeman
seemed to become familiar to the dog. 1t
required only one experience with
sleeping tramp freezing In an alleyWay
on the poAceman's beat 10 snow the
clever animal what was required OF him
Thereafter Rex, who is fine Specimen
% the st, Bernard breed spent most or
his time when on duty nosing up alley
ways, pearing under wagons. searching In
coorways, hunting in cutters and sn1f-
fling around dark corners, always on the
watch for some way1arer dead to the
world and likely to be dead in actual
tact unless speedily restored 20 conscious
hess.
Rex adopted his own method Of pro-
cedure when ne found such cases. Run
ming to his master, he caught ct his coat
and dragged him to the spot where the
freezing tramp or ineoCiats lay Not I'M
til the man had been transferred TO the
ambulance or patrol wagon was Rex ever
satisfied to resume his search for other
Unf0rtunstes.
From the search for men who had fall
en- unconscious by the wayside to the re-
covery of lost children was a natural and
Basy transition Rex grasped the idea
quickly that a child crying in the midst
of a group Of SympathiZers was pretty
sure to be lost. In the daytime, when
his master was sleeping, Rex, who seems
TO be able to get along almost without
rest, viii wander the streets, looking for
lost children Occasionally he makes
mistakes and half frightens to death some
youngster who is not lost. but is merely
Ia tears over one of the numerous vicis-
STUDIES of infant life.
In addition to his cIeverness in rescu-
Ing freezing Wayfarers and bringing to
The station house strays from the family
fold, Rex has to his credit the finding of
no less than five fires in the smOldering
condition that, taken in time, can be
quenched with q bucket Of water With
his keen scent, Rex smells fire long be-
fore the presence Of the smoke issuing
the Waterman. In this way he has saved
thousands Of dollars worth Of property
Owes His Life to His Dog.
How apt is the description of the dog as
the friend of man is shown by the fol-
lowing story; Four young men from Sc
noneS, in the V0SgeS, were returning at
hight from the frontier, and walking in
Indian file, when one of them named
Champy, blinded by a -snOWstOrm, fell
into a ditch by the wayside, and his
comrades. not observing the accident,
went on without him Happily for Cham
py, a dog that was with them stayed be-
hind and kept him company, and when
his comrades missed Champy and came
back to look for him they found the
faithful animal stretched out on top of
him. doing its best to keep him warm
The young man was conveyed to neigh
4Noring farm and gradually restored to
Il Consciousness. His hands were badly
SfrOstbitten and it was nearly a month
before he was able to get out and about
again. but if if had not been for the Dr0-
him by the dogs body he would not have
lived until morning