Pine Bluff Daily Graphic

One of the familiar sights about the business section and one attracting much admiring attention is a handsome black, curly dog, which walks along with sedate dignity, wearing a hat on his head, spectacles on his nose a pipe firmly clenched between his teeth, and bearing a large advertising sign on his back.

This canine advertising agent, who attends to his business with a diligence, perseverance and decorum which many of his human rivals might do worse than imitate, is named Chester, and is the property of Ernest Jones, who usually accompanies him and who has trained him to the work. Chester is about five years of age, and is partly Newfoundland, partly Gordon setter. He has the long, intelligent face of the setter, with almost human soft brown eyes, and the black, curly coat of the Newfoundland, the white on his breast being the only white about him. He is quite accomplished, though his training dates but a little before Christmas. He can open doors, goes obediently and intelligently on errands, can climb a ladder, jump through hoops, and play leapfrog like a boy just out of school. He understands the sign language, and will obey a command communicated to him by his master's fingers without a spoken word. He is not only docile, but exceedingly affectionate, and is very polite. But he is not without spirit, as he showed one day when a mischievous newsboy tried to take away his pipe, and succeeded in knocking it out of his mouth. He sprang upon the scared urchin and protested so vigorously and forcibly against interference that it took a policeman to rescue his tormentor from him, the sympathy of all the bystanders being with the animal. He has a deep sense of the proprieties, and will not go out of doors without his hat. He has cause for his dignified pride and evident self-respect, for he earns a regular salary. Now he has a companion in a younger Newfoundland, who is also learning the advertising business. This is a handsome dog, about 18 months old, named Grover Cleveland. He is being broken to hat and spectacles, but does not take to them very kindly as yet, while Chester rather resents the loan of his old hat, which he is compelled to make the newcomer. The pair make a striking team of workers in their novel vocation.-Baltimore American.