The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-04-07
DEVILMENT Of DOGS.
From the Austin TEX Statesman]

From the Austin TEX Statesman
Many people live and die in NOR
tai terror of dogs. They deem
dogs bite poisonous, and if mad
ness do not result, the sore often
becomes an ugly ulcer, liable, after
apparent healing, to reappear. Why
we should have dogs i'll cities these
nervous people can never under
stand. They may be useful in sheep
killing in the country, but can be of
no conceivable use in policeguard
ed city. They do, when wet, evolve
villainous Oders and provide abun
dant fleas for the household that
feeds them. But beyond this they
serve no very beneticent purpose.
When the door bell rings, the sweet
dog, chained in the back yard. bowls
and growls, and innocence and mod
esty and tlmidity trembles and
shudders at the gateway. Who has
not stood nervously twisting the
knocker or jerking the bell handle
while the pleasing dogs voice echo
ed beneath the building. Surely no
civilized citizen of a city would have
dog. Ii he persist, sane people
may well avoid the canine domici'
as they would mad house. There
are tleas and madness and terror
and torture there, and Africans
should he suffered to mOnopolize the
blessings and smells diftused by
dogs. 1t is most refreshing. how
ever, when sleep is frightened by
fatigue, aud when one, nervous at
nisht,w, os sleep, to listen in subdued
ecstacy to the tender, plantive voices
of a thousand internal dogs making
night hideOns and life horrible BY
bowls and yelps that CRATE upon the
nerves and make serenely pious men
and women swear furiously. The
church should, in fact, interpose
and have the dogs exiled. If nice
young men and women love to
scratch and therefore affect tleas,
and will have pretty pointers, aud
the blessed girls must stroke the
down GU IA pug -noised flee that dis
ills after OF roses to infect the air
we breathe, why may we not build
for the nuisances a row OF Kennels
a sort of lunatic asylum-jus, out
side the city's limits, where the flea
breeding, noisy brutes may be con
tinded aud visited by the owners
Others do not care to be annoyed
forever that dog fanciers may riot in
delights that dogs supply. Very
many do not love to scratch or tt
chase the dickering flea that hop
peth a polka when there is no music
or to destroy innocent birds or tt
be growled at when they enter q
house, or snapped at rs they walk
innocently along the front fence, OF
to be kept awake through weary
nights, and they who are pleased
with these delectable incidents o.
existence in Austin should ''store'
their dogs beyond the city's confines
and drive out and sleep with the
blessed animals once or twice week
We admire the dogs fidelity to til,
fellow that feeds and kicks him; bu
we have observed that the best dog.
draw no distinctions, and love thu
veriest rough and knave as tenderl!
as the fairest maiden. Their 'sfidel
ity7 is amazing therefore, but no
very touching, except to the fellow
touched, and is not SO admirable a
many poetically-inclined people
would have us believe. and we ar,
much disposed to sympathize will
the Swedish poet Anderson, VIII,
lived and died in mortal fear 0
dogs. He once wrote to an init
mate friend residing in Geneva tina
he meant to come to pay him visit
and would arrive on a certain day
The family possessed large bu
perfectly gentle and very intelligen
Newfoundland dog, which, in antici
patton OF the poets visit, was care
fully chained up. The day appoin,
ed for his arrival came, but no An
derson made his appearance. Day
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