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and whatever we may think, it is the best way 

 for the present. There are cemeteries for dogs 

 in London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Many a tear 

 has been shed in those cemeteries where lies the 

 old and faithful friend of the family, who has 

 shared its joys and sorrows ; and where the 

 sporting dog, the joy and comfort of the sports- 

 man, sleeps his last sleep. Persons have some- 

 times laughed both at and in those cemeteries ; 



exaggeration ; but the simple burial of the 

 domestic dog is less shocking, especially for 

 the children, than his consignment to the ma- 

 nure heap. 



XII. The Usefulness of Dogs 



If it were asked by which of the dog's gifts 

 or organs mankind has chiefly profited, the 



__ answer undoubtedly would be scent, — flair. 



we leave it to our readers to judge whether or Hunting and sporting dogs of all kinds are 

 not they have cause to do so. proof of this, and bloodhounds, which of late 



The burial of dogs dates far back. Among have been again much talked of, will probably 

 the ancient Mexicans they were buried in the render much service in future to the laws and 

 tombs of their deceased mas- 

 ters, and the same was done 

 on the death of children, be- 

 cause, according to their ideas, 

 those faithful friends would 

 help the little ones to find 

 their way ; while our advanced 

 civilization, that knows so 

 much better, casts them into 

 the manure pit. There have 

 been exceptions to this rule, 

 however. In Celebes, the 

 largest of the Molucca 

 Islands, they are buried to 

 improve the soil, and thus 

 continue their services to 

 man. Frederick the Great 

 caused tombs to be built for 

 his hounds at Sans Souci, and 

 numerous are the monuments 

 that have been raised to the 



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memory of dogs. Alexander the Great built the police. Up to this time the employment of 



a town in memory of one of these friends, and bloodhounds (r/«V;w c/f Saint Hiibert)\xv England 



Sergius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 608 has been merely tentative. Thanks to his scent, 



to 639, decreed that the anniversary of the death the bloodhound is well fitted to follow a human 



of his dog Arzibur should be kept annually as trail, and they have been used for this purpose 



a day of mourning. Lately a well-known dog in America with such brilliant results that it is 



named Syras (by Prince Charles of Denmark, reall\- surprising that the European continent 



now king of Norway, after an English actor) has not, as yet, attempted to get this service 



died in London and was buried at Scarsdale, from them. Trained to the work, these dogs 



his head resting on a cushion of flowers in will indicate where the person wanted is to be 



a rosewood coffin. A procession of f(jrty per- found, without doing him the slightest harm, 



sons in automobiles followed him to the ceme- They must not be confounded with ferocious 



tery, where a fine monument is now in process bloodhounds sent in pursuit of negroes, about 



of erection. All that, undoubtedly, is sheer whom all sorts of exaggerated tales have been 



