Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-13

sore but in wild state of joy and excitement
at being with his old friends, their canine COM
panion they supposed happy with his adopted
family 1t was ascertained by letter from
Kansas, answering one inquiring as to the
dogs disappearance, that he must have trav-
eled between forty and fifty miles a day, in
order to arrive within the calculated time. 1t
was impossible for him to have followed the
original route to Kansas, as it was, partly at
least, by water, and he must have taken the
overland trail, which he located in his own
incomprehensible fashion, but which had led
him unerringly to his home again.
Some Military Dogs
DESERVING of honorable mention was
- Bob of the Grenadier Guards, who par
ticipated in the Crimean campaign with
that corps: also Pate Blanche white PAW.
comrade of the English mastiff, who served
with the roth of the line and received a ter
rible wound while he bravely defending
the flag.
Unusual distinction was attained by a dog
attached to a French regiment, that of recov-
ering the regimental colors, which act of hero
ism was performed at Austeriz The fearless
| animal was Mustache, entered on the regi-
mental roll as entitled to a grenadier's rations,
while the barber of the regiment had orders to
clip and comb him once week. Mustache
received bayonet thrust at Marengo, and by
| order of Marshal Lannes the dog was decorated
with blue ribbon, by which a medal was at
| tached to his neck. The dog followed a soldier
| to Marengo, and was reported missing during
the retreat from Russia.
military mastiff, designated on the rolls
as Misere, helped swell the fighting strength of
the Sixth of the Guard, and had three white
stripes sewed into his black hair Other famous
| dogs of war were Loutoute, Crimean veteran;
Mittrailli, which lost its life from shell at
| Inkerman; and Moffino, native of Milan,
which is deserving of special mention. This
| splendid animal saved his master in Russia,
was lost later and, incredible as it may seem,
retraced his way from Moscow to Milan.
Barry of the Alps
| A T the Great st. Bernard Hospice, almost
at the summit of the celebrated Alpine
pass, on the mountain road leading from Mar
| tigny to Aosta in Piedmont, at an altitude of
| eighty-two hundred feet, of the most ele-
| waited permanently inhabited spots in Europe,
| for generations St. Augustinan monks have
| reared and trained the great St Bernard men,
| bers of the canine tribe The pass is notorious
| for the terrific snow storms which sweep over
the crest unexpectedly, overwhelming travellers
and leaving them bewildered in the treacherous
defiles to perish miserably from cold. But for
| the dog patrols OF the Saint Augustinians, not
| hundreds merely, but thousands overtaken,
| would have been irretrievably doomed to
death.
Descended from this distinguished line of
four footed agents of the Humane Society of
| the Alps, Barry stands supreme. This animal,
whose devotion to duty, real nobleness of
nature, ana reasoning FACULTY akin 10 HuIIld1l
intelligence surpass belief, gained imperishable
| fame. His magnificent record was having
effected the rescue by his strength and ability
alone, of more than seventy persons whose
bones but for him would have bleached on
the bare and frigid mountainside about the
hospice.
| More than would fill volume are the true
stories related of this admirable dog; but his
exploits one October day, opening at the
hospice with skies clear for that climate closing
on a wild, winter ridden scene of bleakest
severity, will suffice. When the serene skies
toward afternoon became wind swept and
raging snow storm descended upon the pass,
the monks prepared for the rescue and recep
ton of travellers, several hundred of whom the
hospice is capable of shetering.
| After night had descended the snow
filled mountain, the temperature touching the
zero point, the vigilant Barry prcked up his
| ears, shifted through the falling flakes outside,