The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-27
ONLY A YeLPlNG CUR.
The Influence of q Humane Woman on
Rnuph Crowd

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| Rough Crowd.
1t was nothing but yelping street
cur, whose leg had been run over by
passing wagon, but it had voice
pathetic and shrill enough to wake the
dead.
"Get OUT" yelled a man close to
whom it passed, and he raised his cane
to chastise it for offending his ears with
such unearthly bowls; but the poor
brute only "ki-yi-d" the louder.
"ScatT' cried bootblack. swinging
his kit around a lamp-post after the cur.
"Tie can to its tall" be yelled to
some more boys, on the second thought,
and off they scurried after the caudal
ornament only pausing long enough to
shy a stone, which produced new and
more discordant series of yelps.
"Why doesn't some one call the po-
lice to shoot him?' Indignantly de-
manded a well-dressed lady, stopping
her ears to shut out the sound. Its a
shame to allow such things!" 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 knowing
looking man with a leather case in his
hand.
The drivers cracked their whips at
him from their seats; clerks ran out
and wildly gesticulated at him to make
him stop; but still the cur 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 a very unusual scene. A
lady, we'll dressed and refined in man
ner and look, motioned the street boys
nearest her to stop yelling, and
stepped quickly up toward the
dog with soft white hand
outstretched, and some soothing,
soft-spoken words. The poor frigh tened
thing stopped, curled its tail between
its legs and cringed down nearer the
curb-stone as if it expected 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 it softly,
and assured it further, while boy ran
into near drug store for something.
She saturated her handkerchief with it
and bound up the dogs leg. In min
ute the brute was perfectly passive, and
ceased even to whine. She turned it
over to the kind-hearted Irish janitor of
the big Equitable building, who had
taken in the situation and brought out
box partly filed 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 a doctor, offered his services to
set the broken bone; the lady who
had talked of shooting the cur 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 cleverly."
She had never kept dog in her life,
and was just the least bit afraid of
them; but she was the possessor of
heart sensitive to the sufferings 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 thoughtfulness only
would have made them inhuman.-Con-
gregationalist