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<aln. and again Ihe
| blood was 011 her hand. A budi.ee
tenderneHS swept over him. She too
had come into the magic circle whict
had contained himself, IHath. and hit
brute friend. Compared with his un
worthiness, what was her fault, thl»
frail little wife whom lie had driven
to despair?
"Kate!" he said: "Katf*! Thank (sod
j you have come back to me!" He wai
' on his knees at her side, wiping the
fresh red drop* from her Hps. the
meauing of which both knew too well
' "God ht|p me! 1 will try to be a man
from this hour. I tltluk the brute I
I was. Is dead! Take what 1 am aud
| forgive me. Kate!"
And so, with the lesser brute at
, their feet they put llialr degrtded pasl
behind them, pledged a new troth anu
began a new life in which II w.i* win
tin that they .111 mhl not fail, having
beyond Death au iuiillo Lover foi
men He.pet.
A gentleman lit Brighton. Kngland
Mr Horace L. ritiort, lias tuventeii «
phonograph wiiii h r«|ie*u a eonvrr
talltiu so loudly that II «an be kvard
H»t unity at 11 distant« of lan mile*
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New York City.—Simple, full waists
lire very generally becoming, and al
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The May Manton bebe model lllus-
WOMAS'3 BEBE WAIST.
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nrnimn'i EventiiK Wrap.
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Tw vitl this wrsp let a w email til
medium size seven and three-quarter
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Waistcoats Are Much In Vcsue.
For visiting frocks and at-home toil
ets waistcoats are much in vogue.
They are made without basques just
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terminate exactly at the line of the
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Jeweled Brooches.
Jeweled brooches seem to hav
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Writing with white ink on blue paper
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