Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1873 — A Dog that is Worth Something. [ARTICLE]

A Dog that is Worth Something.

A. B. Newman, assistant light-keeper at Mount Desert, is the owner of a fine Newfoundland dog, of which we are told the following anecdote: Mr. Newman’s little boy, nine years old, strayed away, and was missing for about two hours. The mother went out of doors and called to him, when the dog, in response, ran up from the shore with the boy’s wet cap in his mouth, and signified by his action that he desired her to follow him. The mother, alarmed, called the father, who was sleeping in the house, and they followed the dog as quickly as possible. Down by the shore, on a rock, the little boy was:lying insensible, his clothes wet, as if he had been dragged from the water. After long efforts, in which the dog rendered all the assistance he could in his mute way, the boy was resuscitated, and afterward told his story. He was on the beach, gathering shells, when a large wave came in and carried him off in the undertow. The dog jumped-in after him, but the wave prevented him from reaching the boy for some minutes. He seized him by the leg of his trousers, and tried to drag him ashore, but the cloth tore in his teeth, and the boy said that he had an indistinc recollection of the dog coming coming down below the surface for him again, ahd that was the last thing he was conscious of. It seems that the dog had draggedJthi»xhild upon the rock out of reach of the waves, and had tried to restore him. When he heard the mother’s call he took the cap to inform her, as well as he could, of the affair, and hasten assistance. —Portland Press. —= •*-»-+ Hints Fob Young Mothers.—The three requisites for babies are plenty of sleep, plenty of food, plenty of flannel. The saying that man is a bundle of habits is as true of babies as it is of grown children.. If an Infant is accustomed from its birth to sleep from six o’clock at night until daylight, the habit of early sleep will be formed, and the mother may have all her evenings to herself. If the baby sleeps all night, a long morning nap will naturally come about dinner time, after which the child, except when very young, should be kept awake until 6 o’clock. Perseverance in this routine will soon result in securing quiet evenings for both the child and parent. Some mothers have a long season every morning and every night in getting the baby asleep. They roek them and sing them till Morpheus enfolds them. AVith must, children this is entirely unnecessary. .-An infant can be accustomed, by a few days’ training, to go to sleep itself for a morning hap as well as for the longer rest at night. —Journal of Chemistry. —Parties from Southwestern Kansas state that the weather has been severe beyond endurance, and the suffering among the hunters beggars description. A .farmer who arrived in Wichita, recently, reported having overtakeri ’a team loaded with buffalo skins, and on the wagon,stiff with cold, sat the driver, permitting the team to wander at will over the prairies, and entirely unable to help himself. He told the farmer he was frozen and compelled to remain in the position he was, and at the same time beckoned with hjs head to the wagon-box, thus calling asttention to the contents of the bed. Upon looking over the side of the box a terrible sight was before him. There, lying side by sida, were two hunters frozen stiff in death, and as the wagon jolted ovcrthe rough plain, they knocked together like great icicles.. The gentleman who brought the news to AVichita had his hands frozen so, badly as to make amputation necessary - shortly after his arrival. He was unable to give the names of any of the unfortunate party, —The ConyregaHonaXist relates that a popular Boston pastor wound up a prayer as follows: *‘And give grace, we beseech thee, to the deacons, that they may be able to set a Godly example to us common people," '