The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, July 22, 1927 Page: 6 of 8
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CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
1110KK lire dog ilny*. that
period In Hi* months of
July and August when Si-
rin*, Hie dog Mur, rl*e«
mid net* with the huh, anil
It I* the time when, mile**
the weather I* unUMially
cn|irlrlou*, man can ex
poet the warmest weather
during the whole year.
But for the dog lover every day la
the year la a "dog day," marked by
the warmth of Ida affection for the
animal which la traditionally known
as “man1* beet friend." That man
Recognizes thla fact ta shown by the
•Dimerous Instances In which he ha*
fiaid signal honor to certain Indlvld-
amlN of this race of what I* often so
Inappropriately referred to as "dumb
animals."
There Is the case of Sergeant Major
Jlggs, the mascot of the United States,
gimrlne corps, who dle,d on January 9
of this year and wus burled with full
•ullltary honors by hi* friends, who are
iroud call themselves ‘‘devil dogs."
There Is the case of Stubby, the In-
ternationally famous mascot of the
lA. 19. I1'., veteran of four major en-
g-agement*, wearer of one wound
•stripe, and recipient of numerous med-
als Htid decorations, who also died re-
cently but who has been mounted and
-(given a place of honor In the Ameri-
can lted Cross museum at Washington
There Is Itufus, the Newfoundland
tiero, who accompanied lam Wescolt
Hock, the “.S'umtirltmi of I>eath Val
ley,” on all Of his errands of mercy
Into that earthly Inferno to reecuc
jirospoctors perishing from thirst—and
who Is honored with Ills master, since
their deaths, with a monument In the
city of (*>s Angeles.
Who hns forgotten Ralfo, the Alas
4ran husky, who won fame In his dash
to Nome two years ago as the leader
of a dog team bearing the diphtheria
(scrum to the plague-stricken city? Ac-
cording to press dispatches, Ralto Is
to have a permanent home In the
Cleveland soo for the rest of his life
Instead of leading the wandering life
of a vaudeville trouper or a sideshow
exhibit.
But ino|H|ments are not the only en
during memorials to the dog's fidelity
to man. Another memorial, and per
■wtps the ■ moat famous of nil Is the
eulogy once pronounced by Senator
Ooorge O. Vest of Missouri, which, de-
livered before a Jury tn that state
Ifainoua for Its hound dogs, has been
reprinted In newspapers and repealed
as a popular bit of American oratory
•more times, since It was uttered Hfty
pears ago, than any other speech of
Its kind.
Famous ns Is this eulogy, there has
gathered around It a cloud of myth
and tradition which has obscured the
facts of the case and the circum-
stances under which It was uttered.
The true story of the Inwsnlt over the
killing of Old Drum, the houn' dog.
Made fnmons by Vest's eulogy, was
recently made public by Will O. t«’er-
rlll, editor of the Rocky Mountain Her-
ald at ‘Denver, Colo., who was a
siephew of the two litigants In the
case «nd who Is therefore In a posi-
tion to know the facts. Mr. Ferrlll’s
•tory follows:
This hound rase seems to he develop-
ing In the Rant Into as much of s
Myth ns those exaggerated tales of
Jesse James The litigants In this case
were two uncles of mine. There have
tieen many veralona of the narrative.
I>ut the Inside family atory Is that the
killing of Old Drum really was an ac-
cident, Ihe result of an 'overcharge of
•tcana tn a shotgun which was “plant-
ed" to give him u good scare. If prop-
er explanations had been offered. Ihe
whole affair might have been nettled
■Moleahly, hut the explanations were
gieglected and as a result two families
were Involved In a hitter eourl feud
end Ihe hound case became fumous.
The nnuabhle came Into public notice
When l.eontdaa Hornsby, tny mother's
brother, was accused by Charles llur-
den, who had 'married my mother's sls-
QUEER QUIRKS
IN HUMAN
DESTINY
of having killed llornaby a favorite
tiuntlnf Dram
Doth ffunlllen wore well-to-do, or
the cake never would have been tried
efiafln and a<raln and carried to the Hu-
ftiema court of Mlaaourl In lengthy and
ev|>««Rlve litigation
Drum waa aa popular at the ITornahy
$>1are In Johnnton county, Mlaaourl, aa
at the farm of hie maater, Charles Bur-
den, who 'lived nearby Drum would
fro over to the Hornabys and during:
those visits was often ueed by Uncle
|j©n and others for hunting Came
wag then abundant In that part of Mis-
souri, which bad been much desolated
by the Civil war
0ome animal, wild or tame, was dis-
turbing: the pang of milk at the llorng-
f'ye. finally It waa discovered that
|>rutn waa the irullty one Unde IdOn,
rs I have heard the story, told or stiff-
•toslfd to one of the younger members
cf the family, that tre load a shotgun
with beans and pepper old Drum with
g shot It so happened that the nhot-
ftiifi waa overloaded, or the range too
close, and Instead of giving Drum a
M|| ' iifitiH'rlf.K,** the lnmnd was
hilled There was no Intention at all,
according to this story, to kill Drum.
Ttilw story about a poor man losing his
favorite hound through the wicked act
of another la Hnatern myth
The mlatnke waa that Un
wen not Inforinod of the
note Charley
accidental
Senator V«f’» Tribute
The best friend a man baa In
tha world may turn agalnat him
and become hla enemy. Hia aon
or daughter that he haa reared
with loving care may prova un-
grateful. Thoae who are neareat
and deareat to ua, thoae whom
we truet with Our happiness and
our good narna may become
traitors to their faith. The
money that a man has he may
lose. It flies away from him,
perhaps when he needa It most.
A man’s reputation may be sac-
rificed in a moment of Ill-consid-
ered action. The people who
are prone to fall on their knees
to do ut honor when success la
with ua may be the first to
throw the atone of malice when
failure settles Its cloud upon our
heads.
The one absolutely unselfish
friend that man can have In thla
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 oy him In prosperity and
in poverty, in health and in sick-
ness. He will sleep on the cold
ground, where the wintry winds
blow and the snow drives fierce-
ly, If only he may be near hia
master's side. He will klsa the
hand that haa 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 rtmini. When
riehes take wings ami reputation
falls to pieces, ha Is aa constant
In hia lova aa tha aun In Ita Jour-
nay through the heavens.
If fortuns drives tha master
forth an outcast In tha world,
friendless and homalaaa, tha
faithful dog asks no hlghar priv-
ilege than that of accompanying
him, to guard him agalnat dan-
ger, to fight agalnat hla anamlss.
And when the last scans of all
comes and death takas hla mas-
tar to Its ambraca and hla body
la laid away In the cold ground,
na matter If all other friends
pursue their way; there by tha
grave aide will the noble dog be
found, hla head between hie
paws, hts eyas sad, but open In
alert watchfulness, faithful and
trua even In death.
Jpr ,(s&tG&iirrjT<3&m
killing of Drum. Thg body of Drum
wan hid and later found, and, aa no
explanation waa made, the legal row
began. The Hornabys were from Ten-
nenaee and North Carolina, and thg
Burdens from Kentucky and Virginia.
Both aides were stubborn. Burden
sued Hornsby November 9, 1809, be-
fore Justice of the Peace George Nor-
Bjr HARRY R. CALKINS
WNU *#r vice
Russia Founded by Pirate*
"pilK Empire of KuhhIu was founded
■1 by pirates who had been Invited by
the citizen* of Novgorod to defend
them against other plrute*.
Novgorod In the north of Ru*sl*
wa* a republic and for "many year* one
of the mightiest cities of tha earth.
Ita position was unique. Surrounded
ott all aides by tribes of barbarians
who roaiued over the vast phins of two
continents, Novgorod alone of all set-
tlements of Scythians attained a de-
gree of civilisation. Ita neighbors were
peoples who drank the blood of thalr
enemies, scalped them and used their
scalps as napkins and who ate the
flesh of their parents.
The organized strength of Novgorod
enabled the city to extend Its rule
over thousands of square miles and
to exact tribute from tribes as far dis-
tant as the Ural mountains. The city
enjoyed a wide commerce, sending
goods eastward to Persia and India,
south to Constantinople and west to
lands along the Baltic sea. It was this
western commerce that suffered from
the raids of the fierce Scandinavian
pirates. Their attacks on the traders
of Novgorod soon threatened to ruin
their western commerce.
Then It was that Novgorod In the
year 862 struck a bargain with three
Varangian brothers, Rurlk, Slnaf and
Truvor. The Varangians were engaged
In piracy In a small but enterprising
way and were accomplished seamen
and warriors. They now gave up that
calling and settled on the western bor-
der of Russia to defend the commerce
of Novgorod against their kinsmen.
Victorious against the foes of Russia,
they turned their arms against their
allies and so harassed them that Nov-
gorod eventually Invited Rurlk to be-
come Its king.
Rurlk died after fifteen years on the
throne and left a four-year-old son and
heir with Oleg, a kinsman, as regent.
Oleg was fiery and aggressive. He
ruled with an Iron hand and sought
ever to extend the dominion of his
w ard. Oleg acquired Kief and pressed
on to Constantinople where he levied
great ransom against that city. For
three centuries thereafter Kief - was
capital of all Russia, the empire found
ed by the Varangian pirates.
man. The
tried again,
Jury
. and
The case was
ns.
again the Jury hu
another hearing In January,
Rurden obtained a verdict of $25
agalnat Hornsby In a Jury trial.
Hornsby appealed to the Court of
Common Pleas, where the Jury gave a
verdict In his favor. On May 2, 1870,
a motion for a new trial was granted.
Th«
age
the Circuit court. Burden was given a
i gri
for dam-
$es was $f>0, and In the new trial In
The original claim by Burden
y verdict for $ao, as was first de-
manded, and Drum, the old hound won.
It was In this later litigation that
the big legal guns appeared. Uncle
Lon Hornsby employed Crittenden A
Charley retained
A Blodgett.
Cockrell and Uncle
Phillips A Vest and Elliott
This was Col. Thomas T. Crltten
later governor of Missouri, and Coloi
dg«
____ ________ __ snd
gov
Cockrell, lalwr United States senator
from Missouri. Blodgett became gen-
eral solicitor of the North Missouri
railroad, afterward of the Wabash
system. F.lllott was also an eminent
lawyer. Phillips and Vest were distin-
guished In their profession and later
prominent In the public service. John
F. Phillips became United States Judge
at Kansas City, and (leorge O. Vest,
United States senator from Missouri.
Such was the array of learned counsel
when the case was tried before a Jury
pplember 22, 1870. Judge Foster P.
fright was the presiding Judge. Blod-
gett opened for Drum, ...........
Crittenden and then Cockrell In oppi
brllllai
makt
ran
Judge,
followed by
rel
ng
high.
Uncls
pern
iden
sltlon, all three
leeches. Oratory
spoke and wo
hound, for by this time the Interest
centered more In Drum than either
Uncle Charley, the plaintiff, 01
Lon, the defendant.
Vast's speech has become a classla
on the dog In American literature. In
the caee of old Drum who wae acci-
dentally shot with an overcharge
beane. when he wae dleturbtng the
pane of milk at the old home plaoe of
my grandfather, Brinkley Horneby.
Uncle Lon appealed to tho Supremo
court of Mlsaourl.
So much for the facte In the myth
story eo often told, aa to the partial
Involved, the atory of the poor,
lese man whoee hound wae ruthleeeljr
killed, and the remarkable etatement
that the plaintiff demanded $208 for the
death of Drum and tho Jury awarded
him $500.
Relieving Body’s Teneton
French gymnusttes are to make the
body flexible and to free It from tinb
Its of muscular tension, and relaxing
exercises are used. These consist
making absolutely limp one part
the body after another, end finally the
whole at once by removing all teosloa
from the articulation.
^Geographic Division
* "Piedmont Plain” I* n nmno iikoiI In
Ihe physiography of the United Slate*
to designate Hint pnrt of the Atlantic
coast plain which lies between the Ap
luitarlilaii highland and the low ciihhI
ei plain proper. It I* distinguished
from the latter topographically hy Ik-
lug more rugged and eroded with
deeper river valleys and geologically
$>y consisting of much older and hard
Ysr ro< k strata. The change from the
hard to the soft and recent formation
Is tnurked hy a definite line of escarp-
ments over which nearly all the At-
lantic rivers fall In rapids or cataracts,
and Ihe line Is known as the “fall
line.'' The Piedmont pluin Is less de-
fined In New Knglund than In tho
southern states. It Is narrowest and
also approaches closest to the sea In
New Vork and broadens southward,
being about 300 miles wide In North
Carolina.
Loudon has a goldfish hospital.
Early Christian Basilica
The church of 8t. Apollnarls, Id Ra
venna. Ituly, la perhaps the most Im-
portant existing early Christian ba-
silica. It was begun In 634 and
noted for Its very singular circular
tower, which Is 120 feet high.
Army Calls Differ
The reveille la the same for France
and the United Slates. Germany and
England have different culia which
correspond to our revelll*
Let foods are off the menu!
REDDED
12 Oi. in Each Standard Package
Crisp shreds of whole wheat
In cold milk or cream
With fresh fruits and berries
Everything’s Well
“Did he recover from the accident?"
Oh, yes. Enough to buy a big car."
Baby’s little dresses will Just simply
dazzle If Red Cross Ball Blue Is used
tn the luundry. Try It and aee for your-
self. At all good grocers.—Adv.
Some writers have a fine H«w of
other writers’ thoughts.
▲ single dose of Dr. Peery's "Dead Shot**
la enough to expel Worms or Tapeworm.
Why not try It? 878 Pearl 8t., N. Y. Adv.
Beauties of Other Daye
"When I was a boy there were Just
aa many beautiful girls as there era
today," said an old man. "Pretty
girl photographs and beauty contests
deceive some Into thinking that femi-
nine beauty Is on the Increase. But
I believe that many will back me ap
when I say that the girl* of 60 years
ago do not suffer by comparison with
present-day beuutles."—Detroit New*
Fools sometimes rush In and win
while wise men are investigating.
The Birth of a Republic
« \ TITH Napoleon III the captive of
W the Germans and Paris surren-
dered, the French people In February,
1871, elected a majority of monarchists
to the national assembly because they
wanted peace, although they really
fuvored a republic, and thus was pre-
cipitated the brief but bloody war
known as "the Commune."
France, and erpeclally Paris, was In
miserable condition. Napoleon III had
plunged the country Into war with
Prussia, and the tremendous war ma-
chine of Bismarck had blasted his
hopes. Paris had been besieged for
five months and its Inhabitants re-
duced to abject suffering.
After the city s surrender and the
capture of Napoleon III at Sedan, a
truce was granted to allow formation
of an assembly to treat for peace. The
monarchist party, supporters of the
Bourbon family, favored pence at most
any price, but republican leaders
wanted to renew the war. The people,
normally for a restoration of the re-
public, nevertheless were sick and
tired of war. They elected 500 mon-
archists to the assembly and 200 re-
publicans.
During the great Blege there had
been set up In l’urls a directing com-
mittee of workingmen, most of them
Socialists, who Joined with another
committee of Republican guardsmen
in taking over the actual government
of the city. This government Included
bourgeois radicals and Anarchists aa
well as Socialists.
The national assembly sat at Ver-
sailles and ordered resumption of pay-
ment of rents and notes, which had
been suspended during the siege, and
stopped the daily wages of the na-
tional guardsmen. Tills worked hard-
ships on the thousands of unemployed.
The commune of Paris revolted and
declared Parts a free and sovereign
city, proposing that France should
consist of a loose federation of self-
governing communes.
Nearly all of Franca arooe against
this blow at nationalism, and the as-
sembly sent troops against Paris, al-
ready the moat cruelly battered city
of modern times. The brief battle was
terrible In its ferocity. Public build-
ings were fired, the archbishop was
nssaaslnaled, prisoners were massa-
cred, piles of dead lay everywhere.
More than 16,000 Parisians were de-
stroyed and hundreds were deported
or Imprisoned after two months ef
war.
the proud.—Emerson.
to be In saving up for their vacations.
This Great Healing Oil Must
Speedily Bring Comforting Relief
to Tired, Aching, Swollen Feet
Or Your Money Back. That’s the Plan on Which Emerald Oil It
Sold by All Good Druggists.
This wonderful preparation now
known all over America as Moone’s
Emerald OH Is so efficient In the
treatment of Inflammatory foot
troubles that the unbearable sore-
ness and pain often stops with one
application.
Moone’s Emerald Oil is safe end
pleasant to use; It doesn’t stain or
leave a greasy residue. It le so
powerfully antiseptic and deodorant
that all unpleasant odors resulting
from excessive foot perspiration aro
Instantly killed.
Be patient; don’t expect a single
bottle to do it nil at once but one
bdttle which Is fully guaranteed we
know will Bhow you beyond all ques-
tion that you have at last discovered
the way to solid foot comfort
Ask your druggist today for a 2-
ounce original bottle of Moon*’*
Emerald Oil. Almost every druggist
In the country can supply you.
How It’s Done
Joe—There’s a man who makes
tilings count In t! world.
Dan—What does he do?
Joe—Makes adding machines.
Heir-Breadth Escape
Friend—Did you and your partner
get the estate settled up?
Lawyer—Yes, but the heir* almost
got a part of It.
A Childs Laxative
Which Mothers
Can Rely On
OR. W. «. CALDWELL
AT THE AGE CF 63
To Dr. W. B. Caldwell, of Monticello,
111., a practicing physician for 47
years, It seemed cruel that so many
constipated Infants and children had
to be kept “stirred up" and half sick
by taking cathartic pills, tablets, salts,
calomel nnd nasty oils.
While he knew that constipation
was the cause of nearly all children’s
little Ills, he constantly advised
mothers to give only a harmless laxa-
tive which would help to establish
natural bowel ’‘regularity."
In Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
mothers have a regulating laxative
which they can depend upon whenever
a child Is constipated, bilious, feverish
or sick from u cold, indigestion or
sour stomach. All children love It*
pleasant taste.
Buy a large CO-cent bottle at any
store that sells medicine or writ*
“Syrup Pepsin,” Monticello, IlUnola,
for n FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE and
Just see for yourself hew perfectly It
cleanses and regulates the bowels ol
Infants and children.
Dr. Caldwell’s
SYRUP
PEPSIN
Satisfied With Her Taste
“Why do you allow your wife to
pick your company?"
“She’s a good Judge—she picked
me."
Explanation la not study.
Plenty of Work
Friend—Are you affiliated with
reform organization?
She—Indeed, I am. I’m married!
It Is a day's work to make every;
man you meet glad he met you.
Volcanoes Afar Geysers
In New Zealand are a number of
geysers worthy of visiting, and in past
years they were more beautiful than
today. Volcanic eruptions In 1886 de
stroyed the terraces around the gey-
sera In many Instances. Iceland also
has some notable geysers, and,
strangely enough, their waters are
the hottest In Europe.
Old Adage Revised
Judging from the cost of cosmetic*,
« thing of beauty Is now an expense
forever The Oklahoman,
Pa Buzz has ahotbreahfaet
T7LIT spray dear* your homo of Bio* wd mo*
r quitocs. It also kill* bed bugs, roaches, ant*,
and their egg*. Fatal to ineectt but harmlee* to
mankind. Will not wain. Get Flit today.
DESTROYS
FHcb MosquHoefl Moths
Ants Bed Buft Roaches •'***• *«* **■'
•tiMaoe as* oo.
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