The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22
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This GdmoGitory rcmarl; was nd
dressed. 20 far as the reporter knew, 10
m imaginary pcrson by tho bar.kocper
OF Il well known saloon carly one morn
ing last week, as no one WIS present in
tho place except the innocent lemonade
editor and tho mixer OF vile and
other drinks.
"Who are you talking to?" asked the
reporter.
"oh, to that lazy, sleepy old eur lying
over there against the stove, trying TO
roast the lIcas out OF her woody hide"
"Docs she often drop in and thus dis
port hersclf?'
docs SHOP Well, don't she! Don't
you. know that dogs history? You
don't? IT is not one to be proud OF, but
ut the same timo it Is Il peculiar one.
She is known in every Market street
saloon from tho creek bridge to Eleventh
street. She was operated on three years
ago BY a veterinary surgeon, and after
being dead came to lifc again, and since
that time has travelled 4 route up and
down this street, that for regularity and
punctuality would shame the most faith
full drummer.
LIKES AND DISl4IHES.
"Sho has her likes and disIikcs," con-
tinucd the cocktail artist, "and some
times her repugnance to certain peo-
pie Is not lar out OF the way. For in
stance, there 10 4 certain notorious bum
who drops in here occasionally, and II
Rags is doing by the stove she seems
to have some intuitivc knowledge of his
presence, for sho raises her head, and
with sleepy yawn and n glance OF dis
gust trots out. AS soon rs lie leaves
you will see her nose between tho
storm doors waiting until the next
customer opens them TO allow her
entrance. She is really a most peculiar
dog"
''llas she any other peculiarities ?"
Oh, yes; many OF en-. She knows
about what time lunch is served in
every saloon, and every patron knows
her and generally drops morscl on the
floor, and by this means she has become
distrcssingly lat. When nothing is
dropped by friendly hands this dog OF
Lazarus runs her nose along the lunch
counter floor, and is sure to get enough
to SEQ her through for o day or 50. Her
only occupation OF late has been. to eat,
sleep and drink; | never knew her to be
merry. She is actually TOO lazy to bark
and toe dependent to resent kick. In
fact, she is nothing more than Il tramp,
thong h OF 4 very harmless kind"
Where did she come FROM"
ALWAYS FOLLOWS GAMBLERS.
"That's Il mystery. You 90, to Doc,
over here, and he can tell you Ill about
his famous experiment onher. Another
singular thing about that dog is that
she always likes the society OF gam
blers. 1t is perhaps due to The fact
that they aroliberNl and always friendly
to the outcast and unfortunate, for YOU
know Rags has no friends or acquaint-
ancCs among her sister and brother
dogs. They shun her, and, with q sort
OF independence little expected OF ono
OF her character, she disdains them
Boing, as it were, broke herself, she
takes up and follows gambler who is
broke. This we'll known popularity OF
Rags is otitimes unpleasant, to the
persons she trots behind sometimes.
However funny this may appear, it is
true, and the dog never makes a mis-
take in the scent. 1t is perhaps that
fellow feeling in tho dog makes her
sympat hetlc. The human race, you
know, is not built that way"
"RAGs's" HISTORY.
Believing that Rags" was m unusual
dog, and had gone through many vic;s-
STUDIES, the reporter interviewed the
veterinary surgeon who operated on her
about three years ago. "Rags" was
reallya maverick dog, having about her
no distinction or mark OF ownership :;
and ii she could speak and were asked
who her parents were she would answer
like Topsy, that she didn't know; she
just growed. Being a maverick, the
police condemned her to the crcmatory,
Il Roman incarceration alter IN Ameri-
can execution. The doctor heard OF tho
sentence passed en- "Rags," and asked
that she be given him ior viviscctinC
experiment. This request was granted,
and 1t was not long before "Raes" was
on tho table under the surgeons knife.
There were several visitors in the doc
tors office while the operation was
going on, and he remarked to them
after he had cut the dog open and lifted
the entrals out in his hand, that he
could replace them, sew her up, and
she would live. All present expressed
doubt. The surgeon then Immediately
set to work TO provo his assertion. Ho
sewed the dog up with common store
Irvine, and kept her in tho office for two
day, feeding her on milk. She was
growing lively, but rs her death had
been decreed by the police department,
the doctor and his friends thought they
would be her cXecutoners.
THE DEAD ALIVE.
Ono night "Rass's" was carefully
slowed away in II sack and securely
sewcd up, and then tho death march
began, finally stopping on the 2. ".
& Ky. railroad bridge, over the mouth
OF tho creek. 1t wasabitter cold night,
and the ice cakes were crunching and
grinding each other in midwintcr mad
ness. There were no prayers, not even
IN oath, rs the sack, with its con-
tents, was hurled lar out in the icy
stream, There was splash, and every
ono present thought that was the last
OF "Rags." @
1t seems that it was not. About n
week ai;crward who should be seen
trotting around in her usual careless
manner but rags the Irvine dangling
from the wound, as clipper and rs
bright as OF old. When 4 criminal is
condemned and the execution is wit
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