Show UAL sy py ELMO SCOTT WATSON airm are dog days ilnyo that Q period in tile the months of j july and august when st 81 alu tile the dog s tar rises and sets gets with tile the sun and I 1 it Is the alino when unless tit tho weather la Is unusually i r cap capricious ri niclous clous nian man can ex hect tile warine vannest weather during tho the whole year mil for tile the dog lover eve every ry day to in year tear is 19 a dog day any marked bi b ah warmth of ills hla affection for t alu it it ee tb traditionally known nl which la is 1 mans inan best friend that man 0 recognizes tills ahta fact la 19 shown by the which he has fins in numerous instances aces certain honor to paid 1 I signal tills race of what Is often so URIS 3 of 0 referred to 03 49 dumb in inappropriately tre Is the 08 case of sergeant major JIM g the mascot of tho the united states varine marine corps who died on january 0 9 I 1 of this his year an and d wa was s burled with full fill military honors bonon aby by ills friends who are roud to call thein themselves selves devil logs dogs s there Is tile the case of stubby the internationally famous mascot of tile the ter A E F p veteran of four major en gagean cd gement ants wearer of ono one wound 0 tripe stripe and nd recipient of numerous nied mod nis and decor deconn at tlona ions who also tied died recently but who has been mounted and then en a place 0 of f honor in the american can red cross museum at washington there Is bufus the Newfound newfoundland ianI hero ero who ficco accompanied lou loii wescott peck eek the samaritan of death valley ey on all of ills his errands of into at 0 that earthly inferno to rescue prospectors perishing from thirst rind and valio falio Is honored with tits hla master since their deaths A with a monument in the ity city of los log angeles who tins lias forgotten balto the alasi ban an h husky us ky who won famo in his dash to nome two years ago as tho the leader of f a dog team bearing the diphtheria erum to tile the plague stricken city according to press dispatches isaulo isi Is to te have a permanent home in the cie cleveland reland zoo for the rest of tits his life plead instead of leading the wandering life iffe of n vaudeville litle it 11 0 trouper or a sideshow inhibit exhibit but monuments are not the only enduring memorials to the logs dogs fidelity to man another memorial and perhaps the most famous of all Is the eulogy once pronounced by senator arcore 0 vest of missouri which delivered before a jury in that state famous arnous for its hound dogs tins has been reprinted in newspapers ond and repeated as a popular bit of american oratory more times since it ii was uttered fifty years ears ago than any other speech of its s kind famous as Is tills this eulogy there hwi has gathered around it a cloud of myth and tradition which has hag obscured the facts of df tile the case and the circumstances under which it wits was tittered the he true story of the lawsuit over the lining illing of old drum the houn dog made ade famous by vests eulogy was recently madje made public by will C per fer ill editor of the rocky mountain iler iier ild id at denver colo who was a ephew of the two litigants in the ase and who Is therefore in a post ton ion to know the facts mr Fer ferrilla rills tory follows this hound case cage seems to be ba develops in tit lie east into as an much of a I 1 nth its as those exaggerated tales of jesse jamen jamea the litigants in this thin caso vere two uncles of mine there have een many versions ot of the narrative it ill the inside family story glory Is th that at th the illing of old drum really was an aca c sere ment lot the result of an overcharge e of tans an in a shotgun which was plant IV to give him a good scare if prop r explanations had been offered the il hole affair might have been settled amicably but the explanations were and as an a result two families iere bere ere involved in a bitter court feud 6 and iia the hound case became famous I 1 1 ce 6 squabble came into public notice brhen leonadas idas hornsby my mothers rozlur broth brother rot lur tr was waa accused by charles burn den who had married my mothers elm aar w of having killed Horns hys favorite hwang dog drum aoth families were well todo or case never would have been tried fain and again arld and carried to the supreme court of in lenetha and opens wnm vs litigation drum was waa as popular at the hornsby place in johns ston county missouri am aft jt j t i the i farm arm of h hla to master charles charlea bur tan who lived nearby drum would M over to the and during chose oae via visits its was often used by uncle LO annl others ibera for huntone hunt hun lne game i a t then en abundant in that part of misouri misi I 1 which had been much desolated iby ry the civil war j rr lo 10 wild or tame was dis curbing tur bing K the pans of milk atthe at the byll binany ally it h was discovered that drum rum wll vita the g guilty allty one uncle lon aa 91 I 1 have ya heard card lute the story etory told araug or sug cited tad to one 0 o of 0 the tha younger members if i ahe family ally that hl he load a sho shotgun agun aili hean beans s and jepper re r r old drum with s I 1 n t za so happened that the shot ill i was ivas overloaded or tho the range too tlde we and I 1 instead ns tead of giving drum a od PepPer lne ng the hound was M billed led there was no intention at all to this story to kill drum aj s tory story about a poor poo man losing hla his evorite 0 hound aund through the wicked act f another ha Is s eastern ern myth matli rt I 1 the rne mistake was that acle charley not informed of the accidental J tl 1 21 X r A Y V T T CIE 1 zt 1 14 4 ut it et 1 mie i AI ICO 7 L 41 n I 1 it W i L A ff I 1 LA A ali 14 senator vests tribute the best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy his son eon or daughter that he has haa reared with loving care may prove ungrateful those who are nearest and dearest to us those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith the money that a man has haa ho he may lose it files away from him perhaps when he ha needs it most A mans reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill consid conald ered ared action the people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success Is with us may be the first arst to throw the stone of malice malace when failure settles its cloud upon our heads the ono one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world word the one that never deserts him thi tha one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous Is his dog A mans mains dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty in health and in sick flick ness he will sleep on the cold ground where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives driven fiercely if only he may bo be near his hl matters masters side H hii 3 will kiss the tha hand that has no food to offer he wl will 11 lick the wounds wound and gores that come in encounter I 1 with the roughness of the world he guards the sleep of his pauper master as if ho he were a prince when all other friends desert he remains when whan riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces he Is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the li heavens cavens if fortune drives the tha master forth an outcast in the world friendless and homeless tho the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard him against danger to fight against his enemies and when the last scene of all comes and death takes his master to its embrace a and his bo body dy Is laid pway away in the cold ground no matter if all other friends pursue their way there by the grave side will tho the noble do dog a be found his head between his paws his hl eyes sad ead but open in alert wat watchfulness faithful and truo true even in death f U y killing of drum the body of drum was hid and later found and as no explanation was waa made the legal row began the were from tennessee 6 and north carolina and the th burdens from kentucky and virginia both sides were stubborn burden sued aued hornsby november 9 1869 be fore ore justice of the peace george norman the jury hung the tha case was tried again and again the jury hung at another hearing in january 1870 burden obtained a verdict of 38 against hornsby in a jury trial hornsby hornsb appealed to the court ot of common pleas where the jury rave gave a verdict in his favor on may 2 1870 1970 a motion for a new trial was waa granted the original claim by burden for damages was 50 and in the new trial to the circuit court burden was given a jury verdict tor for 60 as was waa first demanded and drum the old hound won it was in this later litigation that the big legal guns guna appeared uncle lon hornsby employed crittenden cruttenden cockrell and uncle clarley charley retained phillips vest and elliott blodgett Blodge tl this was waa col thomas T crittenden later governor of missouri and colon colonel ai cockrell later united states senator dr from Miss missouri ourt blodgett became general solicitor of the north missouri railroad afterward of the wabash system elliott was also an eminent lawyer phillips and vest were distinguished in their prote iston and later prominent 1 in the public service er vloe john F phillips became united states state judge at kansas city and george G 0 vest united states senator from missouri such was wan the array of learned counsel when the case was tried before a jury jur y september 2 1870 1 11 70 judge poster foster P wright was waa th the 0 ire presiding id I 1 ff judge blodgett opened tor for drum followed by ba crittenden and then cockrell in opposition all three making brilliant speeches oratory ran high then vest spoke and won the case cage fo for r the th hound for by this oda time tm the interest centered more in drum tha than h elthon alth uncle charley th plaintiff or uncle lon the defendant vests has haa become t classic on the dog doe in american literature in the case of old drum who was accidentally de shot with an overcharge of beans when he wits was disturbing 1 th the pans of milk at the old home place of my grandfather brinkley Horne bv uncle lon appealed to the court of missouri so much for the fact in the myth story so often told as to the parties involved the story of the poor friendless man whose hound was authles ruthlessly ely killed and the remarkable statement that the plaintiff demanded for th the death of drum and the jury awarded him |