Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-30

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mer, a greenhouse one-third of mile long,
and other things in proportion. AS may be
supposed, when Mr.. Lorillard went into the
breeding of fine dogs nothing was done by
halves. When Mr.. Lorillard needed vet
erinary surgeon for his horses he picked out
the best one in New York and offered him
doublewhat he could make here to go down
and'hv on the New Jersey farm, and natu-
rally the offer was accepted. In the same
way, when he wanted to make kennel, he
offered So, 1000 year and comfortable house
to Mr.. Percy G. Oil, one of the most noted
dog experts, to establish himself down at
Johnstown on the Lorillard place. : Mr..
Oil began work last January, and has just
finished the kennel building, into which he
has put dogs bought by him during the last
six months at an expense Of 5000. This,
he says, is only beginning, but it must be
acknowledged that it is a pretty good one.
T suppose, judging from the establishment,
that Mr.. Lorillard's expenditures on ac-
count of his kennels must by this time
reach into the neighborhood of $60,OOO. He
has set aside twenty acres of as pretty wood
and farm land as I ever saw for the exclu-
sive use of the dogs and those who take
care of them. For Mr.. Oil he has built q
really charming brick house, with draw
ing-room, library, Office, &C., the house hav-
ing it's own stable, garden, &c. The kennels
stand in the middle of a ten-acre field ad-
joining Mr.. Ohl's place, and are in Queen
Anne style, central pavilion thirty feet
square being hanked on four sides by a
wing, each eighteen feet wide and twenty
five feet long. The whole building has a
solid floor of cement two feet thick which
enables it to be flooded with water to the
(depth of several inches every day. Each
! apartment has elaborate flues for Ventila-
tion and fans are arranged to draw off the
foul air. The interior Is fitted up in ash,
black walnut and stained pine. The cen
trail pavilion is a sort Of dogs reception
room where they receive friends and are
supposed to be on their good behavior.
Three of the wings are given up to the
benches for the dogs, each dog having a
large stall or bench Of his own, fenced in
which is a silver plate with the name OF the
dog. The reception room, as l have called
it, is really superb apartment, the panels
of the doors being painted with sporting
pictures by noted artists, costly rugs thrown
over the floor, and everything being done
to show off the dogs to advantage: The
fourth wing is given up to the Kitchen,
where a cook, although not a French one l
believe, devotes his whole time to prepar-
ing food for the dogs. Off the kitchen is
an elaborate refrigerator and bath room
with hot and cold water, all entirely for the
use of the dogs. For two OF the settlers
now in the Kennels Mr.. Lorillard paid
$1,000 apiece, and $500 for another. He
has also made standing offers of S., ,0OOa apiece
for several other noted dogs. If he does not
carry off all the prizes at the dog show
it will not be for the want of money ex-
pended in the most lavish manner. Ad-
joining the kennel grounds Is game pre-
serve of two hundred acres in which the
young dogs will get plenty of exercise and
opportunities for training. Mr.. Oil is so
particular about the pedigree OF his dogs
that he allows no dog whose pedigree is not
known at leastsix generations back to come
near the kennels, and with every puppy
sold goes printed pedigree showing the
lineage of the dog six generations back,
and every puppy born in the kennels and
sold from there is entered not only in the
Kennel Club stud book of this country, but
also in England. The surplus of puppies
not wanted for breeding purposes are sold
for 500 apiece. .".
INDIAN SLAVERY IN EARLY MEXICO.-
The old Spaniards were not at all afraid of
the savages, and enslaved as many as they
wished, and made them work we'll in the
mines. History tells us this, and tells US
beside that they treated the Indians with
great cruelty. Even the pious fathers made
the Indians cultivate the soil and lead clean
lives, and, above all, caused them to give
up their ways of idleness. ....
Every evening the Indians came in from
labor, and singing some religious songs,
were locked up for the night There Wos no
nonsense about it, and near every mission
there was kept small party of Spanish
soldiers who disciplined the Indians when
ever they needed It, which was quite often.
Whenever any of them made their escape
to the mountains the soldiers went after
them and brought them home, or rather
back to the missions, and again set them
to work. Some of these Indians eventually
became respectable members OF society ana
good men, though others returned to their
Vagabond life after the priests had lost their
hold upon them and the church property
had been secularized, which occurred as far
back as 1888.
When the church property was abandon
ed, as was virtually done in consequence of
decree of the supreme government of the
city of Mexico, dated August II, 1888, the
semi-civilized Indians found themselves
free, as they considered it, and returned to
their wild ways.
How AN OLD MAN MAY PROLONG His
LIFE.-An old man must clothe warmly.
After the age of sixty, any idea of hardi-
hood and Of facing weather must be laid
aside; neither the skin nor the lungs bear
cold. Cold is, in fact, the great enemy OF
old people, and it is a fact, if man OF sixty
or siXty-five goes to a warmer climate than
that to which he has been accustomed, his
life is prolonged. Warm flannel clothes
should be worn next to the skin day and
night, and there should be plenty of winter
garments. If there is the least tendency to
asthma or attacks of bronchitis, two or three
folds of silk or woolen handkerchief should
be worn over the mouth, and If the weather
be very cold, over the nose also. Rooms
also must be kept warm, for the animal
heat in the man past seventy is often de-
fcient, and in very old people even drinks
should be taken warm, as the sources OF
animal heat are being dried up. Old peo-
pie will often like rooms kept at a tempera-
ture of seventy degrees or higher, when
Younger people are half stited in them.-
Herald Of Health.
Fiddle AND Bow.--The fashionable
girls of the country have taken up the tid-
die and the bow. The outlay for instru-
ments is often extravagant. One young
belle has what she declares is Stradivarius,
$50 wears old. She has had it inlaid with
pearl. The addition has ruined its tone.
Still, that doesn't matter, since she has
made the instrument an oddity and can say
that it's cost has been nearly 500. Anoth-
er enthusiast has fiddle that she delares
was favorite of Paganini's. Its present ex-
traordinary tone may be due to the fact that
it is all tied up with old gold ribbons, Her
teachers warned her that the tight bands
would impair the quality, but the young
woman answered that the difference didn't
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