Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-04
A WoMAN'S COURAGE.
How She Disposed OF . Mad Dog UndG
Trying circumstances.

How She Disposed OF . Mad Dog Under
Trying Circumstances.
There are very few men who can rise
superior TO the terrible fear excited by tho
appearance of a mad dog, says the Pitts
burgh Dispatch. A doctor whose name is
one Of the best known in Pittsburgh told
me the other day Of an experience that he
had good many years ago.
"There had been many reports Of mad
dogs in the village in which then lived,
and there was a certainty that at least one
Of the reports was true. 1t was blazing
hot weather. Late one night, or rather
early one morning, was called by bare
footed boy to hurry as fast as possible to
the bedside of his brother, who lay sick
with typhoid fever In a sort of shanty cot
tage on the river bank a couple of miles
away.
81 got on my horse and rode rapidly over
the quiet road. There was q little moon
light. The sky was cloudy and the moon
would be covered and disclosed again every
minute. The silence was q little trying,
and / was glad when the low roof Of the
shanty for which / was bound came in
sight. But as 1t did so my horse swerved
SO violently that was almost thrown from
the saddle Every hair on my head imme-
diately stood on end. Ny horse had SHE'D
at q large dog which crossed the road run
ming at full speed and dragging after it Q
long iron chain. knew at once that the
dog was mad. 1t had broken loose evidently
from some house, and 1 thought that it
looked like dog had seen at the shanty
to which was going.
~ spurred my horse to a gallop and
minute later sprang down at the door Of the
shanty, where the sick boys mother stood
ready to receive me. / was nearly out of
breath, but 1 managed to say, as hurried
her inside the house: There's mad dog
about; you'd better shut the door,
"As she turned to SWING the door to there
was clanking sound and the dog my horse
had SHE'D at rushed through the doorway
and into the room. It's tough story to
tell on ones self, but the truth is that when
heard the clink-clank of the mad dogs
chain jumped on the table in the middle of
the room. The sick boy lay upon a mattress
spread upon the floor just by the threshold.
The dog stood within a yard of me for a
minute glaring about him. There was froth
on his muzzle and dust all over him. To my
surprise he lay quietly down on the mat
tress beside the sick boy. The woman had
remained standing with her hand on the
door-latch. She was dazed for moment,
but only for a moment. Suddenly she took
two strides to the bed on the floor, caught
up the iron dog-chain, and theE, with q
force that seemed superhuman, whirled the
beast in the air and slung 1t as if it were a
pebble through the open window. Her
strength was sufficient and her aim was
good, for there was rafting of the cham
for second or two and then prodigious
splash told that the dog was in the Ohio,
which flowed rapid and deep at this point
but few yards from the house.
81 shall never forget how ashamed was
as got down from the table and looked
that plucky woman in the face. Nor does
my memory fail on other points about that
nights adventure-the gallop home and the
haunting clank Of the mad dogs chain.
never saw that dog again, but he was not
drowned Some one shot it next day on the
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