Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1910 — What a Dollar Dog Can Do. [ARTICLE]

What a Dollar Dog Can Do.

A man in a nearby city bought for his wife and child a year ago a dog, for which he pair a dollar. It was obviously nothing wonderful in the canine way—merely a mongrel, with the bulldog strain predominant. The owner was a man in humble circumstances, and the dog in his modest dwelling was the principal asset aside from a few sticks of furniture. The other night Tom was tied to a leg of the kitchen sink, as usual, and the family went to bed. They were awakened by the dog at midnight scratching at his master’s door. Wheh his master came out to see what was the matter the dog, with a remnant of chewed rope hanging from his collar, whined and ran to the head of the stairway. The house was on fire, and shortly after woman and child and man and dog made their escape their poor dwelling was a mass of glowing embers. The owner of the dog has been urged to part with him for a large cash consideration; but. though he is penniless, he will not part the four footed savior of his family, Neither has the dog at any time had thoughts of leaving them for luxurious kennels. —New York Times.