Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — Honors to an Enemy. [ARTICLE]

Honors to an Enemy.

That “ dogs delight to bark and bite ” and also to “ worry the cat,” hath been said and sung in song and story through many English-speaking generations. It was with no little* surprise, therefore, that a few days since the denizens of an up-town neighborhood witnessed a novel funeral procession which wound its way slowly through several backyards to the place of interment. First and foremost march.ed old Towser, a shaggy and highly respectable family dog, carrying by the nape of her neck the disfigured corpse of a grimalkin, whose voice and form were alike well, if not favorably known, in all the regions round about Behind him followed Jupe, a handsome, silken-haired spaniel of , aristocratic lineage, who moves only iu the most select canine circles. Jupe is generally frisky, but on this occasion he followed Btately Towser with a staid dignity befitting the occasion. Neither dog betrayed any consciousness of the numerous bipeds watching the singular proceedings, but each kept on his course as though his mind was absorbed in his peculiar occupation to the exclusion of all other affairs. The march ended at a large ash heap, the aggregations of contributions rom the stoves and furnaces of several surrounding houses, and then Towser laid down his burden. Both dogs then assisted in digging a grave in the mound. When one of the suitable dimensions was finished Towser picked up all that was left of poor grimalkin and deposited it in the soft yielding* bed. Then he stood by an idle spectator while Jupe set to work to cover it from sight. As soon as this task was completed both dogs sat back on their haunches and indulged in one long funeral howl, and then as if satisfied that all had been done that could be asked of two such respectable canines they wagged their tails in unison and trotted off to their respective homes.— New Haven Palladium.

They were discussing a very selfish man, and some one, undertaking his defense, remarked : “Oh, but you know he has so many enemies.” “He an enemy ?” was the reply ; “ how could he have one ? He never rendered a service to any one but himself.”