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if she had behaved Ill., The students wept like children.
 The surgeon wrapped her up carefully and, leaning on James and John, she went to her room-Rab following with a puzzled and dejected air. When they got Allie to bed James took off his heavy, hobnailed shoes and, putting them care fully under the table, said: "Maister John, I'm for nane O yer strange nurse bodies for Ollie. I'll be her nurse and I'll gang aboot in my stockin soles as canny as pussy And so it was agreed and handy, clever nurse James the rny-handed, rough carrier made, as swift and gentle as any woman. He waited upon his wife assiduously and often at night the doctor would see him sitting there in the shadow with his small shrewd eyes out of the darkness fixed upon hers. As before they spoke little. Rab was on his best behavior and seemed trying to show how meek and gentle he could be when he really tried. But occasionally in his sleep the old hero gave evidence of abolishing some adver- sary in his dreams. As for the carrier he slept but little and stuck to his wife's bedside.
 Rab went out walking every day with John, but was always ready to return and during the walks was sober and mild, even declining battle when some oppor- tunity offered, of which under ordinary circumstances he would have rejoiced to take advantage. Jess, the mare and her weather worn cart were at Howgate, and doubtless she had her own placid medita- tions and speculations as to the cause of the absence of James, Allie and Rab. The wound of the good wife healed by what the doctors call "the first inten- tion." Poor Allies skins over clean to beil" said James, and for time she did we'll and seemed likely to recover. The students used to come and look at the progress of the ease" and Allie liked to see their young, honest faces. When the
 wound was dressed Rab always looked
 on ready, as you may suppose, for any thing untoward
 Four days after the operation Allie had | a chill. Her eyes became bright and her 1 cheeks colored-the balance was lost. Mischief set in. A look at the wound told the secret. Her breathing became rapid | and anxious; her pulse quickened "She ], wasn't herself,'' she said, and was vexed l at her own restlesssness. They tried what 1 they could. James did everything and i was everywhere, never in the way or out : of it. Rab subsided under the table in a i dark place and was motionless-all butt ] his eye which followed the movements of every one. It was no use, the poor woman
 grew worse and began to wander in her 1 mind. At first her husband scarcely comprehended and was vexed. "She was never that way before," he said. For a time Allie realized that her head was
 wrong and kept asking pardon for what | she said. Then delrium set in strong and without pause.
 The intellectual power, through words and things,
 l Went sounding on its dim and peri lous way.
 She sang bits of old songs and nsalms-
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gle hanging and the boys eagerly told
 him the story of the attack and the vic-
 troy, at which he condescended to say
 "Rab. ma man, puir Rabbie." The stump
 of a tail came up. the ears arose and
 stood upright, the eyes filled and the two
 friends were reconciled. 'Hupp," a stroke
 of the whip was given to the brown
 mare Jess, and off went the three. Bob
 and John buried the terrier that night
 in the garden behind Bob's house with
 considerable gravity, and, being in the
 Iliad and like all boys Trojans they
 called him Hector, of course.
 Six years passed-a long time for boy
 and dog Bob Ainslie was off to the
 wars and John was a student and clerk in Minto House Hospital. John saw Rab
 almost every week on the Wednesday and
 they had much pleasant intimacy. John
 found the way to Rab's heart was by
 scratching his huge head, and an occa-
 sional bone If John did not at first mo-
 tice Rab the great mastiff would plant
 himself straight before the young man,
 wagging his bud of a tail and looking up
 with his head a little to one side. Rab's
 master, the carrier, James Noble was his
 name, was as laconc as any Spartan, but always had word of greeting for '.Maister John"
 As John was leaving the hospital one fine October afternoon he saw the large gates open and in walked Rab with that great and easy saunter of his. He looked as if he were taking possession of the place-like the Duke of Wellington enter ing a captured city satiate with victory and peace. After Rab came the mare Jess, now white from old age. with her cart and in it a woman carefully wrapped up-the carrier leading the horse and anxousIy looking back "Maister John,' said James, this is the mistress; she's got trouble in her breast-some kind of an income, we've thinl1in'." The woman was sitting back sack filled with straw her husbands plaid around her and his great coat, with it's large white
 metal buttons, over her feet.
 It was an unforgettable face-pale, serious, lonely delicate. sweet without | being at all what is called fine She looked 50, and had a cap as white as | snow with a black ribbon. Her silvery | hair set off her dark gray eyes-eyes such | as one sees only once or twice in life l time, full of suffering, full also of the | overcoming of it; her eyebrows, black and l delicate, and her mouth, firm and potent | and contented-which few mouths evr ] are "Ailie," said James, this is Maister John, the young doctor; Rab's friend, ye ken. We often speak about you doctor," 1 She smiled and made a movement but l said nothing and prepared to come down, putting her plaid aside and rising. Had | Solomon in all his glory been handing down the Queen of Sheba at his palace | gate he could not have done 1t more daintily than did James the Howgate car rier when he lifted down. Allie, his wife. The contrast of his small swarthy, weatherbeaten, keen, worldly face to hers pale. subdued and beautiful-was some- thing wonderful
 Rab looked on concerned and puzzled. He seemed ready for anything which
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| might turn up, were it to strangle the
 nurse, the porter-of even me. Allie
 and Rab seemed to be great friends
 "All I was saying, she's got sort
 of trouble of the breast. Doctor; will
 ye take look at it?" said James They
 went to the consulting room where
 Rab looked grim and comical-ready
 to be happy and confidential If the cir
 cumstances warranted 1t, or to be the
 reverse of the occasion demanded. Allie
 undid the lawn handkerchief around
 her neck, opened her dress and showed
 the doctor her right breast with out a
 word. As he examined it all three
 Rab, James and the patient-watched
 his face narrowly. What could he say? , That which had once been so shapely. soft and gractious-w was hard as a stone,
 the center of horrid pain, making that
 pale face with it's gray lucid, reason
 able eyes, it's sweet resolved mouth express the full measure of physical
 suffering overcome.
 They got her away to bed May Rab
 and I abide?" asked the carrier. You
 may-and Rab if he will behave him. self" ''Is warrant he's do that, doc
 tor" replied James and in slunk the faithful beast It was worth while seeing him; there are no such dogs now; he belonged to lost tribe. Erin dle and gray like Rubislaw granite, his 1 hair short. hard and close like that of Ia lion; his body thickset like little
 bull-a compressed Hercules of a dog. l He weighed at least 50 pounds and had
 large blunt head. His muzzle was
 as black as night, his mouth blacker | than any night. Age had told on hif A tooth or two, being all that he now
 had left him, gleamed out of his jaws l of darkness. There were scars of old wounds upon that noble head, sou
 venirs from many a weIl-fought field 1 of victory One eye was out and one
 ear was cropped close, but above the 1 remaining eye, which had the power of two was a tattered ear which kpet 1 furling and unfuring itself like a l worn battle flag. And that bud of a 1 tail It's mobility and Instantaneous
 ness were funny and surprising, and
 its expressive twinklings and winkings. I 1 eye, the ear and the tail, were of the l oldest and swiftest. Rab had the dig | nifty of all great fighters And why 1 should he not? He had fought his way through all the grades up to suprem- 1 acy, and was as mighty in his own way : as the Duke of Wellington or Julius l Caesar Rab always reminded John of | Andrew Fuller, the great Scotch Ba/- l tist preacher-the same large, heavy, l menacing, cumulative, sombre, honest 1 countenance; the same look as of ] thunder asleep, neither a dog nor a l man to be trifed with.
 The day after Allies arrival at the | hospital the head surgeon examined her 1 and decided that the only chance for 1 her life lay in an operation. The poor woman courtesied, looked at her hEs- | band with that lonely" face of hers ] and said simply "When?" Tomorrow"
 replied the surgeon. man of few
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words. That was all that was said. Even when the surgeon had gone Allie and James spoke but little to each other-they seemed to understand what
 each was thinking of and to communi-
 cate without speaking
 At noon the next day the students
 came hurrying up the great staircase
 to the lecture room and paused before blackboard on which was stuck
 piece of paper bearing the words: An
 operation today. J. B.-clerk.' The
 youths rushed doorward eager to se-
 cure good place, saying to each other,
 What is the case?" "On which side is
 ft?" etc. They were not heartless; they
 were neither better nor worse than you
 or l. When a medical man gets over his professional horrors and into his
 proper work pity as an emotion end
 ing in itself or at best in tears or
 long drawn breath lessons, while pity
 as motive is quickened and gains
 power and purpose. And it Is well for
 poor human nature that 1t is so. The operating theatre was crowded with 5e0dChlo iiiduiSiu6 III iiuCll tdlh dild
 fun and all the cordiality and stir Of youth. The surgeon and his staff of assistants were tn ere, and all things
 prepared for the coming operation
 When Allie entered one look at her hushed and quieted the eager stu dents; that beautiful old woman was too much for them, and they sat down
 dumb and gazed at her. She walked In quickly but without haste dressed
 i nher which cap, her neckerchief, her white dimity short-gown and her blatlx | bombazine petticoat showing her white 1 worsted stockings and her carpet ! shoes. James and Rab were behind her. James sat down and took Rab's 1 huge head in his lap. Rab look ed ! dangerous. That battlehag of an ear | of his kept furling and unfurling in a threatening manner. He did not seem | to understand quite what was taking | place and to fear that it somehow ! boded ill to Allie. Allie stepped up on
 seat, laid herself on the operating
 table without word and arranged her.
 self for the terrible ordeal
 1AidtslHetlCS m surgery were then un-
 known. We, living in these days, can
 hardly imagine the horror, the agony, the
 torture of an operation in those days. 1 Though the surgeon did his work as 1 quickly as possible, the operation was necessarily slow and poor Allies "every
 nerve and artery was a shooting pang.'
 That wonderful face showed pain but was 1 still and silent AS for Rab he saw that l something strange was going on, blood flowing from his mistress and she suffer- | ing. He gave every now end then low, l awful growl, and then a short, fierce yelp. But James held him firm and gave him frequent "glower'' with intimations ] of possible kick. Which, was all the
 better for James, as attending to Rab kept his mind from being entirely cen 1 tered upon Allie. At last it was over. Allie stepped down from the table, looked for James and Rab, turned to the sur geons and the students, courtesied and in
 a low clear voice begged their pardon
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Copyright, 1909, by Julius Muller. All
 rights reserved.l
 pr. Brown was a Scottish ph hysican practicing in Edinburgh. To him lit- erature was merely a diversion. He wrote because he liked to write, had something to say, and felt that he must say 1t. He wrote but little and that mostly about dogs and people he had known, curious Scottish characters most of them. Of dogs he was ex- tremely fond dogs were his hobby. When he writes about dogs you can see that he credits them not only with inUilect but with something that al- most approaches a soul. In one of the doctors dog stories the man and the dog seem to stand upon a pretty even footing in the scale of created beings. Of the doctors writing nearly every thing is now forgotten except "Rab and His Friends" That simple. won derful story loses no interest and abates nothing of popularity as the years glide on--in fact, it is better known today than when it was first out of press. In its class it has never been eXcelled. There is quiet humor in it, but mostly deep pathos. And it Is all so real-one feels that every word of it is true In it genius touches the lives of the lowly. awakening a chord which finds a response in the heart of humanity.
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tf LOOKED AS F HE WfRF TAXING POSSESSION OF HE RAG- LIKE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ENTERING A CAPTURED CITY 5ATlATf WITH
 VIC DRY AND PTAcE
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Next Sundays one-page classic will be ."rbe Betrothed-" by Sir Walter Scott
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-23

The autos are hard on the canine
fsnily. One auto driver reports that
he killed four dogs in threN days and
met with considerable bad luck coon
after. OF course he ts not supersa-
tious, but couldn't help but think Of
the coincidence. Until the dogs be-
come reconciled to the devil wagons
as they 60 racing over the prartes,
and try to take OF wheel, they are
likely to meet with SERIOUS results.
- astou ~ 80 ADG q d1icksnA
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-23

BY the way did you over nstice whsn
running an auto that chie1neD win ~
ways try to cross the road immadiately
in Mont of you? 1t might be we'll to
provide the autos with chicken catch
ers.
James johnson has q nice field Of
corn, almost natured, which stands
nine feet high. He has already select
ed his seed Tor anothnr year. and viii
cut the oorH and turn = hsp 80
ths Aela, insstisAa'stsp .A1erl1l(91Db.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-23
Treating tuberculosis At Home

A young man who has the tubercu-
losis in the incipient stage, discovered
the disease by accident, when he was
examined by physician, preparatory
to taking out life insurance. There is
no question but that the young man
will be able to cope with the disease
which as yet, has not gained much
headway. The doctor Is not going to
ssnd his patient to Colorado or Arizona
but will doctor him right in MinOt. He
will build small house at once, with
windows ON all sides, which will give
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-23

Of DOORS, In case Of windy might
the windows on the windy side of tho
house will be CLOSED. Should the ther-
mometer register thirty degrees or 80
below zero, an extra cover will be put
ON and the fellow will continue to
sleep like q school boy. About the
only good that is derived from sleeping
in the open. Is that the fresh afr Is
conducive to good health generally.
giving the patient an opportunity to
battle with the disease.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-09-23

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industry
tho entire country and
asserting offered almost
Perfection
IN judging.
Exhibits
premium a. old { via
whether chicks fowls terms Fowl
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The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1909-08-27
INCREASE in
FARMING INTERESTS
Report of Secretary Of Agriculture James
Wilson Shows an Increase of IS Per
Cent in Agricultural Trade in This
Country y3ANithin the Short
Period of II Years.

A Washington special of the 22d inst.
says that during the last IL years, the
period covering the administration of
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson,
the agricultural balance of trade in the
United States increased from yearly
average of 1924, ,OOO, 900 to SAIL, 600, 600,
or 75.7 per cent, according to the de-
partment's year book, just made public.
This wonderful development is only in
keeping with the progress that has been
made along all lines Of agricultural &C.
tivity. At the same time, it is stated,
many conditions affecting the lives Of
the farmers of the country have ad-
the undesirable features of the farm
life have been eliminated.
rs o increasingly disposed has the
public been to ask and receive the aid
Of this department., and so large have
been the new fields of work assigned to
it by Congress, says Mr.. Wilson in a
resume of his work, that the number
of employees has increased enormously.
On July l, 1897, 2,444 persons were en-
ployed, and II years later, in 1908, the
number was 10,42O, or over four times
as many"
Among the notable increases were in
the Bureau of Animal Industry, from
TT to 3, 152 employees: in the forest SER
vice, from IA to 2,753; in the Bureau of
Chemisty, from 20 to 425. and the Bu-
reau of Plant Industry from 1877 to 976
Most of the additional workers in these
bureaus are employed outside of Wash
ington, there being 2,488 within and
1882 outside of the city.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1909-08-27

IDENTIFY he committed suicide by blowing
out his brains.
The first of the week Dahl was in
town for the purpose of buying a
binder to harvest his crop, but was un-
able to get one. He then went to Am
brose, where he procured one and took
it home. After arriving home his
neighbors noticed him about his place
setting up the new binder and day or
so after that he had not completed the
work. The crop had ripened rapidly
and even shelling, 80 his friends went
over to the house to investigate and on
entering the place the gasthly sight
met their gaze. That Dahl had been
dead a couple of days there seemed to
be no doubt as the body was badly de-
composed. Authorities were immedi-
ately notified of the case and Coroner
Thomas hurried from Williston to the
scene. The coroner decided it was
purely case of suicide and the remains
were Immediately inferred on the farm.
The deceased had been homesteading
for couple of years and was single
man. There seems to be no other
reason for his rash act than desponden-
cy and this is thought to have been a
result of too much insulation.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1909-08-27
WASHINGTON AS A PROMOTER.
Way Back in 1873 the Father Of His Country Was Doing
a Little Colonizing Act Down in Old Virginia From
Which Present Day Promoters Might Get
Some Valuable Pointers.

firft which have been furveyed in the
part of the country they lie in, it is
almoft needlefs to premlfe that none
can exceed them in luxuriance of foil,
or convenience of fituation, all of them
lying upon the banks either of the Ohio
or Kanhawa, and abounding with fine
fifth and wild fowl of various kinds, as
alfo in mott excellent meadows, many
of which (by the bountiful hand Of ma
ture) are, in their prefent ftate, almost
fit for the fcythe. From every part of
thefe lands water carriage is now had
to, Port Pitt, by an eafy communication;
and from Fort Pitt, up the Mononga-
.hela, or Redftone, veffe!s of convenient
burthen, may and do pats continually;
and other navigable branches of the
Monongahela, it is thought the portage
to Potowmack may, and will, be re-
duced within the compass of a few
miles, to the great cafe and convenience
Of the fettlers in transporting the pro-
duce of their lands to market. To
which may be added, that as patents
have now actually paffed the feals for
the feveral tracts here offered to be
leafed, fettlers on them may cultivate
and enjoy the lands in peace and fafety,
notwithstanding the unsettled counsels
refpecting new colony on the Ohio land
as no right money is to be paid for
these lands, and quitrent of two fhill-
ings fterling a hundred, demandable
fome years hence only, it is highly pre-
famable that they will always be held
upon a more de6rable footing than
where both thefe are laid on with a
arnifs further to obferve, that if the
fcheme for establishing new govern
ment on the Ohio, in the manner talked
of, fhould ever be affected, thefe mutt
be among the mott valuable lands in it,
not only on account Of the goodnefs of
foil, and the other advantages above
enumerated, but from their contiguity
to the feat Of government, which more
than probable will be fixed at the
mouth Of the Great Kanhawa.
e GEORGE WASHINGTON.