Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — DOG’S PEDIGREE NOTHING [ARTICLE]

DOG’S PEDIGREE NOTHING

Says Idaho Miner, If You Love Your Dog—His Story la Good Proof. Boise, Idaho. —Edward McDonald and his brother, Michael, two typical Southern mountaineers, who have been living in the mountains back of Pioneerville for a lumber of years, and who still dress in the typical Tennessee mountain style, appeared at the Boise station with tickets to Nashville. Edward McDonald remarked that he wanted to check his dog through and asked if he could get off at certain stations to feed and pet the animal. "That dog is powerful fond of me,” he remarked in explanation as the station agent's eye fell upon the homely animal. • <- His face fell somewhat when he was < told that it would cost him something like |lO to check the dog. “Why can’t he go on our tickets—we.’ve got two?” he asked. When told that he would have to pay |7.60 to St. Louis and another fee from there on, he said: “Well, that cur thinks so powerful much of me I reckon I’ll have to pay it ft'makes no difference about the kind ofddg ifyou e him, you know,” and he slowly counted out the money from an old miner's wallet and put the dog in'the baggage car, with a final love pat on his head.