Show re got PS I 1 by albert payson terhune DOGS IN HIGH OFFICE 1 N R R FUND 4 s I 1 people would drop money into the box and stop to pat him LD MAN alain NEGLEY was walking 0 home from hig his day a cork work on vine street ben nhen billy rayner joined bini him and trotted along beside the old handy man the boy vas much interested in be he bad had seen ns as be lie uns ni coining back from school lie ile uns eager to tell negley about it for or nil all the vine street children regarded him ns as their loved chum as well as looking on blui a as the one fount pt 91 knowledge abbout does dogs there aras as a blind map man sitt sitting lur on the curb billy begun begane 11 and be he aas as playing an and his tin cup was bing wrig in front of 0 him and alongside the cup there was a equate of me rag carpet about as big as a bancker hand band keis ker chief and on the carpet pat out a white poodle doe dog not much bigger than a cat it eat there as wise aa as a judge whenever any people came past the poodle would pick up the un tin cup in his hie teeth and hed eit sit up on his bind ley legs waving lilt hi front paws and wagging his lite tall at the people that were ere coming dear near I 1 bad had a nickel I 1 wae was going to spend at the comer store but I 1 help dropping it in the cup after I 1 saw the cunning way ay that poodle acted ilu seemed as pleased as his master was when I 1 put the nickel in his cup I 1 stopped and watched him lots of t people put coins colm in there just because be was so cun can ning one fellow tried to take a coin out of the cup the poodle set down I 1 the be cup as an quick as a flash without spilling any tiny of the money and he made a vicious grab at the fellows hand A cop saw it and be he told the fellow to dear elear out 1 I know know that poodle said smiling at si Mt and I 1 know his master they live down near me the man was aa a fine upstanding laborer till a the chemical mical blind ed him ive ivo years ago the chemical company got him to elfo off for before any lawyer could get hold of him to get him bis his rights he ile and his wife were dead broke all they I 1 had tad was that poodle puppy abort six months old 1 I dont believe in beg begging gIrg but the world sure owes that poor chap a liv tag ing I 1 told him to go out mit and play the accordion at street corners while he did that I 1 took the goodlo in hand band and trained him theman could play the accordion like a professional but that ill all the good it did him tie average fifty cents a day by it when I 1 got the poodle trained tor for h him im his luck changed right away the dog rouses peoples interest and pity much mor more than the poor blind man does though there Is to nothing about the poodle to bo be pitied he ile aej a soft mat to sit oft on ho he Is well fj fei and bin thick coit cott keeps hira him warm he is 11 a gold mine for that master of his not only by being so cute and per persuading folks to put money in the tin cup but because he can guide hie his safely any bero through the thickest alame the man avent averages from three to four dollars R day now more in a viry vry bad weather or around time lie ile 2nd his wife have been able to keer their snug little cottage and they ar art well fed and warmly clothed the poolie has done it all for them thern that little dog lives on the fat tat of the land they think eyt everything grything of liln mau in stormy weather the man wraps up warmly and nid rigs up a sort of little tent for the dog to sit under on street corners then h he plays sweet home on ort the act accordion ardion folks going hear it faey pity the poor man and the poor dog out in the storm with no home bome to go to to and with the wind and the mow all till around them theta while tte man play plays so 0 o sweetly about homei it brings a lapful of colm and mf now and then a dollar bill an tb the time tb the man inan la warmly crewl A and has rubbers on the dog la is ury and out of drafta drafts on his mat in bla his little tent neither of them is the wok se for or the bad bota weather but they look so pitiful with that home music wheezing out of the that everybody comes with a en it the day Is in foray stomy doug lines mate maw as a mud much as a tin dollar I 1 chy ay iy nephew was 11 n london last ast year for a when the ship he works on was in iry dry inch herand frands with a ft big dog half coille bait half newfoundland nt at Enst euston orif station one of the biggest railroad station in england you know the dog waa nas on duty there lie ile had bad been on duty there for beien years last week I 1 read a piece in one ot of the american papers about him it eald said lie had bad been retired from work lately on account of his old age do ou know that that dogs jol was as he ile was in hah office all ariett on his shaggy back was strapped a box with ith a silt in the top of it on the box was a sign saying the dog vae was empowered to collect money for the benefit of a railway charity lie ile knew when every train was due and he be was always at the right platform to meet passengers as they got off people got to knowing him they would drop money into the box and tt ay u stop to pat him lie was everybody friend but h be never forgot be I 1 u was working aking for the railroad rall road company ailed trot from person to person and stand waiting for the coin in to be dropped into the box how much money do you suppose hoy 0 bylow collected olle acted in that way for charity in r seven n 7 years eara he was wa on duty at button nu st 0 A iet station rt 10 U 1 I 1 d azad h awe n v e believed it it if the newspaper e r n t published an official report cf of the burn sum T that hat dog doc collected a trifle more than r 11 by delbe beegan g ogin tn g 1 T ha t s tru true det I 1 yet a bome e P people eop le s a y a do useful usefull I 1 flew humans can collect for charity in an entire lifetime but roy did dill it IL thia this winter out at fort lawton near seattle a collie doe dog named shel was burled with full military honors 1 I read about it in a 4 couple of new spa pers the papers printed pictures of him and told more anora about lim him than they woud would bitout tots lots of humans that died ile waa was another doe dog that held high amt for ten year years wai was 6 on doty duty at t fort port lawton L avery very day in all weather ers during thou ten years he bever onca once missed stan ling at attention alongside the salute sun gun at rov reveille 11 and at retreat the bugler would B th ahti cao the gun out would boon out at the me tone shop shell bark once na AS load loud aa as be he could would Megi regiment ment came and went but she shel stayed on loved lored honored by each new ecra ccmmand mand that mat and wae was garrisoned carri there A couple years aeo ago be waa was hit by an automobile of ot and badly hurt be could ha hardly adl but he be limped out so 0 o hie his place y beside the salute gan when tha haht tamo came TI a little while agot ao one mom nom t in ng b he e w wen alq too old ind weak to 01 ol I 1 low O 0 t the h G b agler out to the eua call ills I 1 legs gave away under aa As the gua vas was fired shep st struggled to hie 18 f feet e et n aad t d stood at attention he gave bis h la lo 10 loud u d bark ie as usual then be he tu turn bled over denil dead do you wonder abe they gave hau hie a military fune funeral rai no b hu man soldier could have been more loyal to duty even at the hout bout of tt his hi death by tho th ity ln ine one ono reason jr ah be united ia Is a iaia natu 91 9 bollara do llara chasers as eti ropo dec declan larte is I 1 that it haa has to be ia in order to 10 lavo lave enough on hani cherk nation nations need enother edth aa detroit 1 ate 6 am |