The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-02-27
ONLY A WOUNDED DOC.
The Influence OF q Humane Woman ON y
Rough and Cruel Crowd.


1t was nothing but yelping street
cur, whose leg had been run over bF
passing wagon. but it had a voice
pathetic and shriIl enough to wake the
dead. says the C0siqregdtionatist.
Get outi'' yelled q man close to
whom 1t passed. and he raised his cane
to chastise it for offending his ears with
such unearthiy howls; but the poor
brute only .'ki-yi-d'' the louder
'Scat!n cried bootblack, swinging
his kit around the lamp-post after the
cur. Tie can to its tailr' he yelled
TO some more boys. on second thought.
and off they scurried after the caudal
ornament. only pausing long enough to
shy stone. which produced q new and
more discordant series of yelps.
why doesn't some one call the
police to shoot him?" Indignantly de-
inanded well-dressed lady. stopping
her ears TO shut out the sound. ..1ts q
shame to allow such thingsr' And still
the dogs cries of pain rang shrilly
down the street
IF some one only had sense enough
to give him dog-button, that would
soon quiet him. suggested a knowing
looking man with leather case in his
hand.
The drivers cracked their whips aft
him from their seats; clerks ran out
and wildly gesticulated at him TO make
him stop; but still the eur limped and
yelped along the gutter-none of these
things seemed worth cent so far as
stopping his noise was concerned.
Then every body stood still and
stared at very unusual scene a lady.
we'll dressed and refined in manner and
look, motioned the street boys nearest
her to stop yelling. and stepped quick
" up toward the dog with soft, white
hand outstretched. and some soothing.
soft-spoken words. The poor. fright
ened thing stopped, curled its tail be-
tween its legs. aud cringed down nearer
the curbstone as if expecting another
blow. She spoke to it again. calling it
poor doggie- and various pet names,
until it turned its wistful eyes in mute
pleading and allowed her to put her
hand on it. Then she stroked il softly
and reassured it further. while boy
ran to near drug store for something.
She saturated her handkerchief with it
and bound up the dogs leg. In a
moment the brute was perfectly pas
sive and had ceased even to whine.
She turned it over to the kind-hearted
Irish janitor of the big Equitable build
ing. who had taken in the situation and
brought out box partly filled with
excelsior.
But before he could take it into the
basement the knowing man with a
leather case had changed his mind
about dog buttons" and saying that
he was doctor, offered his services to
set the broken bone; the lady who had
talked of shooting the eur politely
rendered her own handkerchief to
brush the dust from the hands of the
dogs friend. the boys came back with
out the tin can, and, gathering around.
proposed to chip in" and buy some
bologna for the patient; and every one
went away saying: Well. declare. she
must be very fond of dogs. and quite
used to their ways. to be able to do just
the right thing so eleyerly."
She had never kept dog in her life,
and was just the least bit afraid of
them; but she was the possessor of a
heart sensitive to the sufferiRgs of the
meanest of Gods creatures as to her
| own. and her little act of thoughtful
humanity had stirred the better natures
of those whose thoughtlessness only
would have made them inhuman.