Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-06-25


This is story of dog that saved
man and his wife from the poorhouse.
The dog paid the rent, bought medicine
for sick woman, kept the table going
for a month, and even put shoes on
his masters feet.
Flash is the name of the dog, and he
is fox terrier. How he performed
these remarkable things is best told
by his owner.
MY wife and / came to Chicago
about four months ago from st. Louis" :"
he said. 1--WE had been married only
short time when lost my position
as drug clerk. tried for two weeks
to get work at any kind of employment,
but 1 was unable to find anything to
earn dollar at. So we decided to pick
up and come to Chicago. Upon our ar
rival here we got three rooms for 81 a
month and settled down to housekeep-
ing as soon as the furniture arrived.
''It was right after the holidays that
we landed here. and found the drug
business even slower in Chicago than
it was In st. Louis. There were few
advertisements in the papers from day
to day for drug clerks, but 1t was al
ways my luck to be too late. After
the second week began to answer any
kind of an advertisement of help want
ed. Being stranger in the city l had
difficulty in looking up places, and
was slow in getting to addresses be-
cause did not want to spend any
money for car fare. When / arrived
here had less than $50. and the little
pile was growing smaller day by day,
and by the end of March our money
was about gone.
"Now I'll tell you about the dog. He
is one that my wife raised from pup.
py. 1 wanted to sell him to friend
! in st. Louis when we left, but the wife
wouldn't listen to it. She said she
wouldn't come to Chicago unless FLASH
came with her. He is a pedigreed fox
and is worth $25 of anybody's money
''It was election day, the I'd of April
I will never forget it-that my wife
tied blue ribbon round the dogs neck
and told me to take him out and sell
him. We were fiat broke and she
thought could get at least $40 for the
dog. She cried a little when l lefl
home, and it seemed as If the dog knew
what was going on. l brought hin
down to Madison and Dearborn streets
and wasn't there two hours before
sold him. He is such prettily marked
little fellow that everybody who pass
ed stopped to look at him. I set 6
price of $40 on him, because knew
nobody would pay more than that
More than fifty persons asked me thu
price and when I would tell them the,
would walk away, saying, hes a mic,
dog, but don't care to pay that much.
finally came down to SIS. because tn,
wife was sick and in need of medicine
and thought best to get 1t as soon a.
possible A woman with gold -bowet
home. didn't ask her where she liv
ed, and / don't know to this day
ssThe second day after that the do
returned home. Where he came from
or how he got back don't know. M,
wife was SO glad to see him that sh
forgot her sickness for awhile. Sh
was fondling the dog and talking bab.
talk to him when the thought occur
red to me to take him out and sell hiI
again. Maybe he'll run away from hi
next master and come back to u
again, said to the wife, and we bot
laughed heartily. I took the dog dow
town In the afternoon and had no tror
BILE in selling him again for So. TIL
next morning before we were up b
was back at the little fiat on Cente
avenue. He seemed to understand VIII
: he was being sold, and he expresse
his approval of the scheme by laug1
ing and talking. That may SCUM
strange to some people who do not III
derstand dogs. but it is fact that dog
laugh and talk just the same as huma
beings.
During the month of April sold th
!, dog seven times, getting $5 for hill
each time. If it hadn't been for hi
we certainly would have been con
PEELED to apply to the county agent ft
relief. The wife was in need of med
cal attention. and it is probable sf
would have had to go to the poorhous
The $35 got for the dog paid the rer
and all other expenses, besides buyin
t pair Of shoes for me. I got a pos
q tion the first Of May. and guess "
will have smooth sailing from now o.
:. All the money in the world would n,
: induce my wife or myself to part wit
the dog, who really saved US from II
t poorhouse. Chicago Inter Ocean.