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THE AMERICAS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: SATURDAY, APRIL U, 1891.
sujMiering the pets.
THEY ARE LODGED, BOARDED
AND CARED FOR.
Familiae Relieved of Emberi-asilng In-
enmhmneei—gome Thing, Worth Know
ing About Doga end Other Animate.
An Interview with n Speclallet.
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In the Rummer season, when no many
families shut up their city residences
and go to the seaside or country, the
disposition to be made of the family, pet,
be it dog, cat or bird, is often a most]
embarrassing question. It is often a
T nuisance to take it along. Humanity de
mands that if left behind it must bel
properly cared for. The numerous fanci
ers, dealers and doctors of domestic pets]
in this city fully appreciate this situa
tion of affairs, and in summer notify the
public by signs on their establishments
that with them can be found "summer
board for domestic pets."
A LARGE BUSINESS.
“The business is quite an extensive
one,” said a keeper of one of these "pet
- hotels,” “yet it is not as great as we
would like it to be. 1 think that the
keeping of a house cat or dog is getting
less and less popular with, peoplo in or
dinary circumstances. The wealthy
people keep them becauso thoy have the
room and servants to look after them.
The wealthy, though, generally own
their country or bench places and sond
their pots there, so wo get very few
boarders from them.
“While people in ordinary circum
stances are giving up dogs and cats as
house pots they aro growing fonder and
fonder of song birds. Dealers who take
birds to board aro now doing a rushing
business. Peoplo of moderate means
when they leave town generally go to
hotels where they would not bo allowed
to take their pots, so it is from thorn wo
get most of our boarders. One Sixth nv-
enuo dealer is boarding nearly ono hun
dred canaries and many parrots and
mocking birds. Fifty cents a week is
the charge for small birds and soventy-
live cents for parrots. We charge $10 a
month for a dog’s board, and $7 a month
for cats.
“Peoplo who value their domestic pots
should be very careful how thoy care
for them during the summer. Give
your birds plenty of rape seed, and as
little large seed as possible. Slip a piece
of green stuff between the bars of the
cago occasionally. Also give them a bit
of applo once a day. Applo is a natural
tonic to birds. Hoop your cats indoors
as much as possible, and brush their
coats thoroughly every day. Feed them
lightly, giving them fish and milk dishes,
hut no meat.
Ij BOW TO CARE FOR DOGS.
* “There is not one ownor of a dog in
ten who knows how to caro for tho ani
mal. The dog shonld bo kept as quiet
as possible throughout tho heat of tho
day, but he shonld not bo chained or
worried with restraint. Ho should be
fed lightly and only twlco a day, and
change should be made in his food fre
quently. Don't give him meat. Give
him a bone to chew onco in a while.
For staple food give him milk dishes and
vegetables. A great many people will
tell you a dog won't eat vegetables. If
a dog turns away from vegetables tho
first time take them away at once, Give
him a fresh Bupply at the next meal, Ho
will be hungry enough to eat them then,
and soon will take to them as naturally
as to meat.
' “Dogs should frequently bo washed in
cold water containing a little alcohol
Use common yellow soap. If yo^H
muzzle your dog in summer, don'
him without a muzzle all the rest of tho
year. Put it on {lira for a half hour or
so every day, and he will get so used to
it that when he lias to wear it steadily
. it won’t worry him. If peoplo would do
this for their pets there would be fower
so called mad dogs. Dogs aro very like
ly to have a rush of blood to tho head.
That gives them a running fit Thoy
froth at tho mouth and peoplo think
they aro mad. I nover saw a mad dog,
and 1 have been handling dogs for fifty
years. When a dog gets ono of these
running fits ho is harmless, and if his
head is ducked into a pail of cold water
be will quickly come around."
“At this time,” said a South Fifth
avenuo bird lander, “not ono quarter of
the birds and animals hero aro mine. Most
of them aro boa-ders. There are. be
sides tho canaries, finches, thrushes,
mocking birds, macaws, parrots, and in
that row of strong wire cages are cats of
valuable strains, and back further I have
the monkeys, while 1 keep the dogs in
the basement and in kennels in the
yard.",
The reporter walked into the yard and
found kenneled there comfortably a St.
Bernard, several fox terriers, pugs and
black and tans, nnd thero were probably
twenty more in the basement The
fancier said that himself and his wife
' and grown daughter bad their, hands fnll
in caring for. feeding and doctoiing tho
menagorie in tho summer, but ns regu
lar custom was light ho found it so
pruC; vble that from year to year he in
crease! his facilities. Ho charges for
birds from 25 to 00 cents a week, for
cats $3, and Tor dogs nnd monkeys from
$1 to $3 a week.
“That St Bernard over there," said
the fancier, "will cat as much as you or
L nnd then ho must be cleaned nnd
washed ftnd exercised occasionally.”—
New York Timet.
DOGS SO THERE TO DIE.
Scores of Ailing Canines Seem Attracted
to an Old Uou««.
The mystery snrrounding the conduct
of the scores of dogs that have crawled
nnder tho eaves of houses Nos. 2 and 3
on City Hall avenue is still the absorb
ing topic around the new city ball.
All efforts to fathom the mysterious
attractions have been unavailing. The
fact remains, however, that nnder these
two houses scores of dogs have crawled
and died. Not ordinary dogs, but sick
dogs; dogs that were on the verge of
death. Twenty-six carcasses have been
removed from beneath tho old houses al
ready, including dogs of all degrees,
from tho beautiful and intelligent set
ter to the. measly little terrier who yelped
bis farewell to earth in the presence of
Scores of his dead and better kind,
Whence borne these dogs? Why do
they go there to die in rilicli largo num
bers, and why do tliey select this par
ticular spot? These aro the questions of
interest to tho number of visitors who
come to see them. The strange part of
the story is that dogs have been recog
nized that came to the place from some
far distant part of the city, ostensibly
for tho. purpose of dying, us were
seen to stagger through the yard, dis
appear and be seen no more until their
moldering remains were pulled out
from under tho house.
From time to time complaints have
been made at the health office of the
stench arising from the place, andAl-
pers, tho dead dog man, has been noti
fied nnd requested to remove them. On
one occasion he removed twelve in one
batch, Newfoundlands, shephord dogs,
bulldogs, curs and even one or two
fancy strains of dogs were discovered to
have corno to this strangely selected spot
to foregather with their kin. After this
Alpers refused to proceed further in the
matter, declaring that ho did not have
to remove the dogs dying upon private
premises, and so the accumulation lias
gono on until the condition is intolerable.
A search was instituted by Dr. Furlong,
of the health office, and it was discovered
that once more the place was filled with
dogs newly dead.
The search resulted in the announce
ment that tho number of dogs that had
died under those walls could not lie as
certained until the floors were taken up.
A feature that seems almost supernat
ural is the intelligence that character
izes the dogs' -if-aril. Every new animal
as he comes to the place to die crawls
back as far as he can get lieneath the
house and gets close against tho last dog
tiiat died, as if to make room for tho
next that comes; a fact that Super
visor Barry pronounced the most touch
ingly pathetic unselfishness he had ever
known.
The scores of dogs that have died have
come without noise, as testified by the
lady of tho bouse, and died without
noise. They come almost at the moment
of death, crawl beneath the honse and
join the majority without a whimper.
What the mysterious attraction is is
some,thing beyond human knowledge
and may never be . fathomed. No one
seems to dare to advance a theory on
the eerie subject, and yet every one was
willing to admit that there really seemed
to be an understanding or death compact
between the dogs, - but how, when or
where made, if at all, seemed to be sim
ply a controversion of all of nature's
known laws.—San Francisco Examiner.
For Rent:
Two Excellent
Melon Farms
vteO'MjJ\JOys
We can now say WHOLESALE DRUGS, and as an evidence,
call and examine our Stock and Prices. 'As to RETAILING DRUGS,
we will give this department MORE and CLOSER attention than
ever before, assuring everyone of prompt and competent attent
Goods from us will be delivered to any part of the city, and
free on board the cars.
Wo are offering a very large stock, for Americus, of the following
articles;—
In Patent and Proprietary Medicines.
ONE RESIDENCE.
-FOR SALE:
Some Central and
Suburban and Busi
ness property, and
a few
Queens Who Smoke.
The Comtesse de Paris, the qneen de
jure of France, is addicted to mild Ha
vanas of delicious flavor, and her daugh
ter, Queen Amelia of Portugal, is a
aource of considerable fortune to the
manufacturers of Russian cigarette* at
Dresden. All the Russian grand duch-
essesund most of the imperial archduch
esses of Austria, including Marie The-
reae, Elizabeth and Clothilde, smoke to
their hearts' content and in the most
publio manner, and their exumple 1* fol
lowed by Qneen Olga of WurU-mberg,
who is a daughter of Czar Nicholas; by
Qneen Olga of Greece, who is likewise a
Russian grand duchess; by the Princesses
Leopold and Lnitpold of Bavaria, nnd by
Qneen Henrietta of Belgium. Neither of
the empresses of Gerjnany nor the queen
of Saxony, nor yet the grand duchess of
Baden, is known to use tobacco in any
form, and if either Queen Emma of Hol
land or the quoen of Sweden indulges in
an occasional cigarette for the purpose
of soothing sorely tried nerves, she does
so in private.—Paris Letter, ,
He Couldn't Hoodwink the Indian*
There are lots of fine fore in Alaska
and all on the steamer bought some.
One man found an Indian who had a fine
silver fox Bkin. He asked six-ten dollars
for it. As such skins are worth from $50
to $00 the man. after carefully examin
ing the skin, offered the Indian $15 for
it The offer was refused, and he then
conclnded to givo tho $10, but ou count
ing out the money the Indian refused it
with many shakes of his head and ex
clamations of "Wake', wake! Halo,
halo!” and then began counting on his
fingers, calling each ten till he got up to
six, and thus explained that six-ten
meant six times ten and ho wanted $60
for the skin.—Portland Oregonian.
Choice Stocks.
8. 8. N.
р. r*. i».
13. 13. 13.
с. c. c.
R. It. It.
w. w. c.
D. D.
G.
Scott’s Emulsion,
Brown’s Iron Bitters,
Bearsfoot and Sarsaparilla,
Lemon Elifir, 2 sizes,
Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, 3 sizes,
King’s .Discovery, 2 sizes,
Simmons’ Liver Regulator,
Cuticura Remedies,
Tutt’s Pills,
Carter’s Little Liver Pills,
Derma Lotion, 2 sizes,
Stone’s Cod Liver Oil,
Hosford’s Acid Phosphate,
Barker’s Horse and Cattle Powders,
Warner’s Safe Cure,
King’s Royal Germatuer.
In Rubber Goods.
Fountain Syringes bolding from pint to
if gall
one-half gallon,
A Good Family Syringe, from 75c. to
$3.00,
Water Bottles holding pint to half gal.
Nipples.
Nursing Bottle Fittings.
In Perfumery.
Lazzcll’s Odors,
Persian Bouquet Special.
Crab Apple Blossom.
LaBelle Cologne.
Lunborg’s Perfumes.
Edeina.
Swiss Lilac.
Goya Lily.
Soaps.
A very Large Assortment of Pears' and Fcl’s Toilet Soaps.
E- A- HAWKINS.
A ttorney at law. office up stair
i
, on (mulberry corner.
BUTT & LUMPKIN.
A ttorneys at law, America*. Ga”
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, Office In Barlow Block, op stairs.
W. P- WALLACE.
AT ORNEY AT LAW. Amer<eas/jgk
A Will practice in all courts. Office .wr
National Bank.
J. A. HIXON.
I TTORNEY AT LAW, Americas, Go.
k office In Bagiev hulldlog. opioslte
ous House, prompt attention given to
lanS-tl.
all business.
E. K. Hinton. E. H. Oorts.
HINTON StCUTTS-
A ttorneys at law. Practice, , the
state and Federal Courts. Office ove-
Kart Building, on ForBytli attest, marl-lj
R >BT. L- MAYNARD.
A TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law
Americus, Ga. Paon pt and careful at
tention given to a 1 business entrusted t
tne. I.uinnr street over P. L. Holts.
sep;(*-d£w3m*
T. L. HOLTON.
tlce In all the counties of the HUte. Prompt
ANSLEY & ANSLEY.
ATTORNKYH AT LAW, America*. Ha
ii will practice In the counties of Sum
ter, >chloy, Macon, Dooly, Webster, fitew
art, in the Supreme Court, and the United
Htatea • our .
W. B* Querry. DuPont Gubbry.
A meric uh, On. Macon w Qa,
GUERRY&SON;
L AWYERM, Americus, Oa. Office in Peo
ple’s National Bank Building, Lamar
street. Will practice In Bumter Superior
and County Cdurts, and in the Supreme
Court. Our Junior will regularly attend
the schdons of the Superior Court. The
Arm will take special cases In any Superior
Court ou Southwestern Batin
J. M. R. WESTBROOK. M. D.
P HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office
residence, next house to C. A. Hunting;
ton, Church street. feb7tf
G. T. MILLER. M. D.
P HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office a
Dnvon port’s Drug Store, and residence
— a.—Prl:
corner Church and Prince streets.
J A. FORT. M. D.
O FFICE At Dr. Eldrldge’a drug store
Can be found At night In his r**om, over
idridge’ d«ug store, Barlow Block,
m 8-yf-tf
DR. T. J. KENNEDY. M. D.
Thermometers.
BUY NOW.
M. Callaway,
Real Estate Agent.
Feb.l-ly
THE
FURNISH THE LATEST
PAPEES
NOVELS,
Fever Thermometers, Urinoracters, Lactometers, “Old Probabilities. 1
Garden Seed.
Field and Flower Seed.
Mixed Paints.
White Lend, Linseed Oils, Varnishes, Color* In Oil, Paint Brushes.
Toilet Articles.
i
Combs, Brushes, Tooth Brushes, Nail Brushes, Face Powders.
Pocket Knives, Scissors, Eye-Glasses.
We bottle largely Cologne, Castor Oil, Turpentine, Bateman’* Drop*, Paregoric,
Laudanum, Spirlta Camphor, Extract Lemon, Extract Vanilla (from best Beans)
and many other preparation*. We solicit patronage.
RETAIL. WHOLESALE.
Respectfully,
.DAVENPORT DRUG CO.,
322 Lamar St., 318 Jackson St
C. M. WHEATLEY, Pres’t
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Viee Pres’t
B. H. JOSSEY, Sec’y A Treat.
C. C. STONE, Supt
The Americus Construction Company,
Successor* to C. M. Wheatley A Co.
. Have the largest stock of
DRX L TIMBER
Both Rough and Dressed, ever held in the city, with unequalled oapaeity
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for the execution of fine work. They will furnish the trade with
MAGAZINES
Fashion Plates.
tVImt tfea World Owes to Cranks.
It was to tb* courage and persevere
, anoe of a crank that we owa the discov
ery of this great hemisphere. It was a
crank that gave ns tho printing press,
the cotton loom, tho locomotivo, the tel
egraph. All the great inventors from
Andumsdes to Edison have been cranks,
all the great philosophers from Plato to
Herbert Spencer, ail the reformers from
Lycurgus to Lady Uat-berton, all the
great preachers from Peter tho Hermit'
to Henry Ward Beecher, nil the heroes
who left Ihcir plows standing in the fur
row while tliey went to fight for liberty
under Washington.—Kate Field'* Wash
ington.
Certain of bncccss.
Young Inventor (enthusiastically) —
Congratulate me, Tom, my boy. After
years of experiment 1 have succeeded in
making an artificial fuel that ignites
readily, bums steadily and that gives
ont a wonderful heat.
Tom—Glad to hear it. Sure thing?
Y. L—Of course it is. You see the
stuff is made on the same principle as
fire proof buildings in New York. It’e
bound to succeed.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
Exenelrely Pleasant.
“Brown is an awfully polite fellow.”
“I* he? I never noticed it.”
“Why, yes. I went to borrow an X
of hlm.yeaterdsy, and before 1 left him
he had borrowed one of me.”—Harper’s
Bazar.
A North sea codfisher carries a set of
lines 7,300 fathoms in length, and having
the amazing number of 4,880 hooks, every
one of which must be baited.
Will receive subscriptions
for any paper or
nubication.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
PLACE.
Book Store,
Fab.7-Iy
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mantels, Stairvork, Pulpits, Pevs,
COUNTERS, SHELVING, MOULDINGS, ORNAMENTS, BTC.
Prompt attention given all orders. Write for Catalogue and prices
Office and Factory, COIL BAY A JACKSON STS. Telephone No. 78.
Uptown Office, No. JACKSON ST. Telephone 110.
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, Pm.
ARCHIE R EIDRIDGE, Gen'l Mug’
The Americus Refrigerating Co.
Respectfully state that tlieir new Ice Factory will start the
manufacture of Ice in a short time and will be prepared to
furnish Pure Crystal Ice in any quantityfrom a pound to a
car load. Their Refrigerating - Chambers will also soon be in
readiness for the preservation of all perishable food products
and will be perfect in every particular. For further partic
ulars either telephone, write or call on
Po*t-Graduate Medical school, is now pre*
ptredto offer his professional services to
Americus and nurrouruling vicinity, rails
left on his slate at Dr. Eldrldce’s drugstore
will receive prompt attention. At night
can be found In his office room over El*'
drHge’s drag store. Barlow block. feb5-iy.
TWELFTH ANN UAL STATEMENT
OK THE
rroELTi'Y
MUTUAL - LIFE - ASS0GI&T1.
914 Walnut Street, PUMfyUi, Pi
IncometoJao. 1,1891, Including
balance 1818,759.30
Disbursements Tar Loises and Ex
pense or Management <9IW.11
II. VESTED ASSETS. “
Real Estate and.Mort
gage Loans. 1220,914.03
Bonds, utocks sod
Loans on.Coilateral.. 81,781.10
O sb In office, Bsnke
and Trust Co. 12C54.00
Bills Receivable, Ledg
er balances, etc 40,187,10
Contingent Acacia..
...91,008,186,38
Ascertained Llab1'ltleaJI2,6l2Jtl
Contingent Liabilities, 83A0UA0
IESUBAHCE 121 FORCE.
Jan. 1,1801,12,170 Policies, repre
senting.
Total Losses and Payments to
Members In 12 Years,
„ The annual expense does are llmlt-u to
94 per 11,000 Insnianen and the mortality
savlogsthe first live yesre, as against an
average expense cost about $11 in old lino
'°Tho'now*i)nsln•»t In WO cost the Fidelity
112*01 per $1,000 Insurance, as against , as
average cost of over tin loold line eompnn-
ty-elght limes Us ascertained liabilities, as
against a railoof f l.U 10 each $1 liability la
old lluenompanlos.
Illy has already saved to it*
policy holdeisin twelve yen*s,us compar
ed with old line premiums, over three
million dollars.
Its pnlloies are plain, i ntechnlcal, and
r re guaranteed on the same principal that
Government i onds nre guaranteed.
L. G. Fouhk President.
DUNN & L0YLESS, Managers
d-M AMERICUS, OA.
ANK
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F F ICE SnaP DESKS
N0 STORE: FIXTURES
theTERRY M'F'G.GO:
NASHVILLE TENN.
THE BEST THING OUT
REST YOUR W1VEHI
YOURH1KTERHI
YOUR COURTN 1 *!
and YOUR ACNT8C
THE AMERICUS REFRIGERATING CO.,
Wants all the ladies to call and
see the latest
Office & Factory Cor. Jackson & Bay Sts., on Central R. R.
SEWING MACHINE MOTOB.
Bi^.Bofidln,near Artesian Corner..
BHINGLES
LUMBER
V* °o‘<n «o i
(S» ture the oho,, namtd arilcles, v
life
£3
Pfmnd iff Amish hem on short .no...*,
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on_H. A.AM. R. VSfWdHEBR
KNI&Hra OP HONOR
TheIsR.UKi-ln A men run Is eve* ten
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and cheupcHl life InHurni ce. for*