THE EDUCATIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY 



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THE DOG CEMETERY AT HORNELL, NEW YORK. 



Senator Vest of Missouri. Senator Vest 

 represented a plaintiff whose dog had 

 been wantonly shot by a neighbor, 

 and the jury after two minutes' delib- 

 eration awarded him S500., damages. 

 The Eulogy is as follows : 



"Gentlemen of the jury — The besi 

 friend a nuan has in this world 

 may turn against him and become his 

 enemy. His son and daughter that he 

 has reared with loving care may prove 

 ungrateful. Those who are nearest and 

 dearest to us. those whom we trust 

 with our hardiness and our good name 

 may become traitors to their faith. The 

 money that a man has he may lose. It 

 flies away from him, perhaps when he 

 needs it most. A man's refutation 

 may be sacrificed in a moment of ill- 

 considered action. The people who are 

 prone to fall on their knees to do us hon- 

 or when success is with us may be the 

 first to throw the stone of malice when 

 failure settles its cloud upon our heads. 

 The one absolutely unselfish friend that 

 man can have in this selfish world, the 

 one that never deserts him, the one that 

 never proves ungrateful or treacher- 

 ous, is his dog. A man's dog stands 

 by him in prosperity and in poverty, 

 in health and in sickness. He will 

 sleep on the cold ground where 

 the wintry winds blow and the snow 

 drives fiercelv if only he may be near 

 the master's side. He will kiss 

 the hand that has no food, to offer, 

 he will lick the wounds and sores 

 that come in encounter with the 

 roughness of the world. He guards 



the sleep of his pauper master as if he 

 were a prince. When all other friends 

 desert he remains. When riches take 

 wings and reputation falls to pieces, he 

 is constant in his love as the sun is in 

 its journey through the heavens. If for- 

 tune drives the master forth as an out- 

 cast in the world, friendless and home- 

 less, the faithful dog asks no higher 

 privilege than that of accompanying 

 him to gaurd against danger, to 

 fight his enemies ; and, when the last 

 scene of all comes, and death takes the 

 master to its embrace and his body is 

 laid away in the cold ground, no matter 

 if all other friends pursue their way, 

 there by his graveside will the noble 

 dog be found, his head between his 

 paws, his eyes sad but open in alert 

 watchfulness, faithful and true even to 

 death." 



What Ignorance. 



The first lesson was to be one in 

 natural history, and the teacher had 

 chosen the interesting" but complex sub- 

 ject of a cat. 



"Now. children," she said, "tell me 

 what sort of clothes pussy wears." 



No reply. 



"Come, come !" said the new teacher, 

 determined to extract the right answer 

 by naming everything that pussy didn't 

 wear. "Does she wear feathers?" 



A pained expression crossed the face 

 of a little boy in the front row. 



"Please ma'am," he asked pityingly, 

 "ain't you never seen a cat?" — Ed. 



