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Show M iT- DEVOTED DOCaS. K They BacrlAoed TbamaalvM far Tb.lt f I.ltUe MUtroM. p,, A writer In Our Animal Frleada re BBJ latei a, atory of two fox-terrier, Tan B and Tally, which belonged to a phyal- H cian In southern California, and were B the playroatea of hia llttU daughter B Mabel. They had been her compau- H iona from her baby hoo.1, and aha waa BBB now five yeurs old. On tht day in BBfl question sho and they were, frollckl&c BBB in the garden, when the little tfirl'a at- BBB tcntion was attracted by a peculiar BBfl noise in a bush at her elbow. BBB yho poered Into tho branchca to ace BBS what had made the noise. Instantly BBB the head of a tuake reared Itself before BBB her, and tho sound of Its rattles was BBB repeated. Mabel atood us If fascinated, BBB Tlie gardener, at work not far off, BBB screamed to her to run, and hurried as BBS fast as he could to her rescue. Hurry BBS as lie mlpht, however, hu would hare BBBK been ton late but for the dogs. BBB They saw the little girl's danger, and BBB threw themselves between her and It, BBB worrying the snake till tht man could BBK come up and kill it. They were quite BSSSB nwurc of their own danger; again and BSSSI ngain, when camping out with their BBR master, they had tdinwn the greatest BBB tc rror at the sound of a snake's rattles; BBB but they could not see the child In- H When the mother same In answer to H the khouU of the ffurdeiif r, she found H Mabel safe, but both dogs were alread H In the agonies of death. H Mna. 3v.ttt.tmqx IIavis and her H daughter, Miss Winnie, nro expected H to live In Klchmond. H Mrs. Ilr.i.vx A. I.x kwood, who fell B behind Kcattering1 In her presidential B run, draws a pension of twenty dollars B a month as tho widow of en Infantry H Elizadctii Ciiir Staxton Is nearly H aeventy-soven years old, but In rplte of H her ago her cnorgy and hopefulness B and Interest iu every phase of life and B thought are unbounded. B Mr. Stonewall Jackson, who re- K sides at Charlotte, N. C, has been pre- H sentod with a sprig of Ivy from Martin H Luther's grave, which she Intends B placing on hor husband's burial plare. H Dit. Maiiv- Putnam Jacohi has been B elected president of tho neurological section of tho Now York ucademy of B medlclnov being tho first woman ever BBBJ elected to tho presidency ot a section BBBJ of that institution tlnco Its foundation BBB twenty-six years ago. |