Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1914-08-14
A CANINE TRAGEDY
Trouble Came In BunChes With
the Purchase Of a Watchdog.
ONE NIGHT OF WILD RUCTION.

q Taught ths Battered Master Of tho
Wsoehsd Homo That Under Some
Circumstances = Burglar May -
Better Company Than a MastiR.
IF a man h afraid Of BURGLAR" said
ouackenbush. ne can't have a better
safeguard than q good watchdog"
"But where 70 he going 70 get the
good watchdOgY' inquired Clinken-
beard. "such animals don't grow on
trees, and they are not advertised By
department. stOrea
~Of course. II you go around telling
that you ure I'm the market for u watch
dog every Innn who has "a chicken kin
ing pup be wants TO get rid OF viii
tell you that his crltter Is just what
you are hunting for. But you'll try
out a million dogs before you find one
that will get down 20 brass headed
nails and do police duty.
Two or three years ago there was o
burglar scare cut In Cur suburb Sew
eral houses had been entered and some
false hair and things carried away. so
my wife got 70 nervous she couldn't
sleep at night She was sure some
masked bandit would break In aud
steal tho What Is Homo without a
Mother chrome from over the mantel,
and Just to give her a sense OF security
l bought a big mastiR and took him
home and chained him to a tree In
front of TIM house.
"AlOng about y O'Clock at night that
dog got TO thinking over his missp0nt
life and remOrse gnAwed at his heart
strings, and he began lamentin6 the
past He had the most blOodcurdling
voice l ever heard. Every yell he let
out froza the marrow In my bones.
He'd begin with o aort OF plaintivO
wall aBd wind up with a howl that
would remind you Of a hyen0 IN a
graveyard on a rainy night Ny wife
said the uprOar would have to be
stopped and ia better bring the dog
into the house He'd probably Be quiet
there.
$50 / std into a few rags and went
downstairs and into the yard. Just as
I approached the dog old BiIlshaw.
who lived next door, Opaned his bed
room window ana throw an old frying
PAN. OF coWFB0 he meant u for the
dog, but his aim was poor and Il caught
me IN the bread basket and knocked
the wind out q ma
Il sat down on the grass and gaSped
for breath. and = shower Of bottles and
bootjacks and st0V0 wood anne from
Rtllshav'S window, and every blamed
item hit me In OnS place OF another.
When I nnaIly sot my breath ! yelled
TO BlllshaW 10 let up. for he wal MUIR
dsring me-. and he said Il was Just
what / deserved for keeping such a
monagor4s where Il would give thS
whoSs neighboFhood the hOrForR
after I had rubbed my bruises for
half an hour I took the dog into the
house and went back TO bed. was
Just dropping Oh 10 sleep when l was
reused by the allhrOdest ncket IL
sounded as though the side Of the
house was falling In My wife was
shrieking that the dog was upsetting
thing. 30 I went downstairs again.
quoting a fSW pASBagas nom WOhsteTO
Dictionary.
II had forgotten about the cat when
took The dog into the house. But the
dog had discovered the pet and vas
chasing Il through the house. and you
never saw such Q Seon0 of w~T0ckAGa
Everything that wasn't nailed DOWN
had bOon overturned and nearly every
thing was hCoken Tbo GaS light was
burning. and thseo VaS de cat hanging
to the gas fixtures and the dog stand
ing on hls hind aCs trying 20 reach
her.
NY memories Of what followed are
rather confused I seem 20 recall grab
hing the dog by the DeruH OF tho nock
70 take him outdoors. and he bit a
sample from my shin, and then we
mixed things On the floor. I managed
10 stun the pineushdon into hiS mouth
% b. couldn't 6ata. and we resorted 70
Greco-Roman Wrestling
Then the cat came down from the
Gas fixture and took q hand and clawOd
most Of my scalp %, and my wife
cana TO the rescue with ths poker.
She said afterward that she wa try
ing 70 hit the dog. I reckon I'd have
been on ice next day if the neighbors
hadht come n WITH ahOtBunS and pgun-
inG hooks and Saeh thingS And pr1Sd
~ apart
THAT exDerienco WaS enough Cor ne
ia rather haVO forty burglars 90 the
premises than M wGtchdoG"-Walt
MAann IN Chicago NSwA