THE DOG 



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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 ha\e some- 

 times laughed both at and in those cemeteries ; 

 we leave it to our readers to judge whether or 

 not they have cause to do so. 



The burial of dogs dates far back. Among 

 the ancient Mexicans they were buried in the 

 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 onr 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 

 memory of dogs. 



a town in memory of one of these friends, and 

 Sergius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 608 

 to 639, decreed that the anniversary of the death 

 of his dog Arzibur should be kept annually as 

 a day of mourning. Lately a well-known dog 

 named Syras (by Prince Charles (jf Denmark, 

 now king of Norway, after an English actor) 

 died in London and was buried at Scarsdale, 

 his head resting on a cushion of flowers in 

 a rosewood coffin. A procession of forty per- 

 sons in automobiles followed him to the ceme- 

 tery, where a fine monument is now in process 

 of erection. All that, undoubtedly, is sheer 



exaggeration; but the sim|)le burial of the 

 domestic dog is less shocking, es])ecially for 

 the children, than his consignment t(j the ma- 

 nure hea[). 



XII. The UsiiKULNKss f)i' Dogs 



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

 or organs mankind has chiefly profited, the 

 answer undoubtedly would l>e scent, — j/air. 

 Hunting and sporting dogs of ;dl kinds are 

 proof of this, and bloodhounds, which ol late 

 have been again much talked of, will probably 

 render much serxice in future to the laws and 



A DisTiNOUTSHEn Mf.mi'.er of the Hrxr.ANic .Sociicrv 



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



bloodhounds {c/iiois dc Saint HiibL-rt)\xv England 

 has been merely tentative. Thanks to his scent, 

 the bloodhound is well fitted to follow a human 

 trail, and they hax'e been used for (his [jurpose 

 in America with such brilliant results that it is 

 really surprising that the European continent 

 has not, as yet, attem[;)ted to get this service 

 from them. Trained to the work, these dogs 

 will indicate where the person wanted is to be 

 found, without doing him the slightest harm. 

 They must not be confounded with ferocious 

 bloodhounds sent in pursuit of negroes, about 

 whom all sorts of exaggerated tales have been 



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