The Jamesburg Record

The Faithful Gellert.

In song, poetry and story the dog has been called "man's most faithful friend;" and tho' many of us have read of it few have ever until now realized the truthfulness of the most extravagant tales told. Jamesburg at last furnishes the tale, which, if not equal in pathos to that of Tennyson's Gellert, at last teaches us that the dog can transcend the human family in his devotion. We leave our dead at the grave, but the unthinking dumb creature (if it is right so to call him) knows no right or reason or desire to end his devotion there. The dog we speak of belongs to a Polish family at Helmetta, named Slezick. The father of the family died and was lately buried in Fernwood Cemetery. On Sunday last the children visited the grave and the dog followed. By the grave he lay down and when they went he stayed, moaning and crying all through the night. His faithful vigil was watched by Mrs. John H. Lewis who sought to drive him away, but he remained steadfast until Wednesday, when the family returned and took him away forcibly, though he was too weak to resist. From Sunday until Wednesday he neither ate nor drank. Can any of us equal this faithful one in our devotion?