Peter and His Dog. BY M. W. EMBRSON. fPopyrlght, 1900: Dally Story Pub. Co.) Two brutes lay together under a tree in Franklin Park. It was mid night. The moon, at full, shone fair on the face of the greater brute; bloated as iC was, and disfigured by a fecent blow from some brother brawler. Half asleep, he drooled at the mouth like a baby, and murmured, BOW and then, half-conscious words of ftoozy affection to the lesser brute crouching beside him, wide-eyed and watchful, lest evil come to his evil master. He was white, spotted, lean with hunger, scarred all over and lacking an ear, minus all the toes on one foot and given to limping—this lesser brute. His tail was a forgotten mem ory; not enough was left of it to wag. He was somewhat ferocious at times, tn matters which concerned his Mas ter. He had nothing to be thankful for, or grateful to, in that Master, but be had been born in his house, had owed to him shelter. His mother had ■been a shepherd, his father a blooded bulldog—a trained fighter; whereby bad come to him a tenacity of pur pose, a faithfulness to duty, a cour age and a devotion which the greater brutc-s of the world might well emu late. The other brute was not the only boozer abroad. Three ill-smelling swaggerers came through the park, purs-.iing a woman who fled before them and took refuge in the shadow • of the tree under which the two brutes lay. The dog sprang to his feet with a growl which quickly became a bark of delight. He evidently knew the won:a_, who fled away from the shad "Take what I am, and forgive me, Kate." ow with even greater haste than she bad shown in coming to it. The dog started to follow, the master woke, sat up and swore at him, while he pared to and fro between the tree and I f.he squat umbrella-bush under which the woman was hiding. The three brawlers swaggered down the path, kicked at the dog, mauled the man, who cried "Police!" while the dog flew at the throat of one of them, and vTould have killed him if a pair of watchmen had not come to the rescue. Blow after blow fell on him; he only clenched his teeth the tighter. Then the greater brute, slowly coming to an understanding, called the dog au thoritatively, who dropped ofT, bloody, dizzy, half dead from his beating, and fell to licking the hands of the man be had tried to protect "The dog is mad!" said one of the brawlers; "we chased him in here. "Kill him! Kill him!" The others laughed and confirmed the lie. "Yes; we know the dog; he s mad! Kill bim!" And the watchman said to the man who was now fondling the dog: "Drive him away from you! We're going to shoot him!" "Dogth all right! thute me inthtead! l)ogth doin' liith duty; takln' care o' me, ith hith religion! Thute me and letli the dog go home to hlth break fath." "Drive that dog off, I tell you! I'm fining to shoot him! Look out now! liet up and walk towards me—straight now or you'll get a shot yourself! Come on! You're under arrest, and we're going to kill your dog!" "Hain't my dog. I'm hlth dog. He'th dethent. He takth care o'me, an' makth me go home to breakfath! IHin't thute! Don't thute!" Tbe big brute held the lesser one In his arms, the latter whining a little. "Good dog! (iood dog! Go home to your breakfatl) —go!" came from the man as he put the dog down and struggled to his feet. Hut the poor, bleeding cur clung so close to him that the burly protector of the ma jesty of the law could not get a bead on him. "Kick him! Drive him off, I tell you!" • Go home to your breakfath!" said th* lioozer, and the dog not moving from betwei n his legs he kicked at biui aud drove him away. Thrice the Aig crept hack, thrice the bouter's boot kicked his bruised body. "Go home to your breakfath, 1 tell you! Go home!" 'the poor dog turned to obey, when bang' bang! in quick succession went th ree shots. At the first shot hi fell; then lie was up again, trying tu run; lieu down, then a scorching, bllnd- Airt wave of misery rolled over him "Dead at lbe pot hi of duly!" said the boo sat, unioiisilously pronouncing 'he noblest epitaph ever spoken of dog •or man. as he went off tinder ariesl to >.i>riid one uiuru itiglil lu Ihe lot a up The ptirk und Ihe streets were now void of bum HIS A akulklug eat slunk Up lo the Uloveltn* UIISSS OF bUedlllg flesh fearless now It sniffed at lis fin my s hie's 'I Ins Indignity w»s 100 great. It was m Utaw Iwo UIUI to- Ihe don lifted his maimed bead, staggered to bis feet, fell, rose again and crept away through tbe grass. All this time, In the densest shadow of the park, a woman huddled herself under a bush, holding her draperies tightly lest a flutter should betray her to these brawlers. Once she coughed convulsively, and when she took her hand away from her mouth It was bloody. "Go home to breakfast! Go home to break fast!" Even she had heard and was repeating It. "Yes, poor brute! We will go home once more, once more, together!" and she crept away by the same path, treading now and then in the dog'? honest blood. The human brute came before the court next morning. Sobered and r»- pentant, as was his wont, and was discharged as usual, with a reprimand. What had really happened? The watchmen said the dog was mad; they had shot and killed him. . . Why go home? No one was there tc meet him! All these Ave years the dog—yes, the dog had been faithful The other one —why go home? Habit That was all. At the gate he rested and whistled, by habit. Echoes of th« whistle came from an empty house* whose door stood wide. No fire OE the hearth, no breakfast. Then he remembered his own last words to his only friend, whom he had kicked and driven away to be shot. He sat down on the bench beside his door, with 2 groan. A white spotted thing, scarce ly having the semblance of a dog. crawled from under the bench and laid its shapeless nose on his knee. He took the dumb brute in his arms and went into the house and sat down The creature was sightless, his head almost bruised to a jelly. He had th bullet wounds; one leg was broken. But he had obeyed orders to the last; he had come home to break fast! "Good dog! Yeth he ith! My good, good dog!" The tears were raining down the bloated cheeks. A new power had come near to these two friends. Death was with them, wait ing; a strange exaltation, a new per ception of heretofore vague truths, a new dawning of light had come to tha master, even a new power to resolve and to hold firm. When Death opens the door into the unknown, the life here suddenly takes on a new mean ing. The big brute holding the lesser so tenderly suddenly remembered how his mother had died, holding him, her last-born in her arms, her lips on his golden hair. Then another picture floated up. Hl3 own life —better if she had died. Five years ago she had left hirn, tired of poverty and beatings. Only the dog had been faithful to him through all, the good dog now dying in his arms, the dog's life so much worthier than his own. Never had he seen himsell as he was, before, not in all his forty years. Lower sank the head of the man to the head of the beast and only God knows what soul-speech was had be tween them; and while they so sal together a change ineffable came tc both. The dog died into we know not what, brutally murdered, crucified foi love's sake though he was: while the man died out of his old life and was born anew to a man's rightful dignity, self control, energy of will. The love of the brute had saved him: many a human love, has done less. There was a rustle behind him, un usual in that solitude, the rustle of a woman's gown. "Pete! O Pete, don't striko me! Lei me come back, let me come home again, just as the dog came! Won'l you forgive me, won't you let me have the dog's place, just for a little while it can't be long! Look at me. I wai in the park last night; the men were chasing me; Iran, I did not know you and he were under the tree. The dog knew me, he barked and jumped on me and was glad. I saw it all. 1 followed and picked him up and brought him home, part way In mj arms —see the blood where he lay! Let me stay Pete, O for God's sake don't send me Into the awful street again! Do try me, don't push me away! Don't be crueller than the dog was; he kissed me and was glad 1 had come home." O the misery, the horror, the shame of it! Only God could know whict of these two was lowest In the scale which of the three indeed! O the pltj of it, groveling at his feet as the doj had done only yesternight, kissing the hands which had beaten her, as the dog had only now done! Was he a man? Then how could he forgive heri Was he not worse than a brute, fat worse than the brute In hU arms, it all true moral worthiness? How thee could he drive her forth who was ealy what he had made her! She coughed a and a half yards twenty s«rr* Inches wide two ami a twlf yard* thirty two inches wide, or two )«rd# tony four iitihos wi4» will ton is quirsd. When BroaltM Speaks In Whlsperi. Marriott Broslus, Congressman from the Tenth District of Pennsylvania, has a voice that Is famous. Not long ago a member of the House was passing out of the front door of the Capitol with a friend when they heard a craßh behind them as of dis tant thunder. "What was that noise?" inquired the friend. "I don't know," replied the Congress man, "unless it was Brosius whisper ing."—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. 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