Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — Dogs of St Bernard. [ARTICLE]

Dogs of St Bernard.

Baron Jordls, the principal breeder of Bt. Bernard dogs In Austria, publishes a letter from the prior of the St. Bernard’s Hospice on the subject of the present value of these dogs. “You ask me whether In the present day our hounds render the same service to travelers as are usually ascribed to them,” writes the prior. “Certainly they do. They in no way belie their past. In winter they are absolutely indispensable to us, not only because they still find wanderers hurled In the snow, but because they are the only guides who can lead, us safely along the proper track in the wild mountain snowstorms. The only difference is that they do not carry a basket or a flask fastened to their necks. These are borne by one of the brothers of the Hos pice.”—Westminster Gazette.