Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-07
FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE DOGS.
Polk Miller on the Subject of Doctor
ing CANNES.


A representative of the Dispatch drop
ned into Polk Miler's store few days
ago and found him with his sleeves roll
ed I'D and his working clothes on while
scattered around him could be seen
great stack of bottles. graduated medi-
cine glasses, and tunnels. He was mixing
barrel Of something, which ola not
smell BIKE Eau de Cologne ana win as
much care as If he was compromising
prescription for baby.
"What, is the great entertainer al
work in drugsg'
yes" said ne. "thls is my business
and INV platform work is side snow.
"What are you mixing in that big bar
rel there?' -.
"Dog medlcinel Didn't you know that
along with my many other accomplish
ments. that ! was D. D.-dog DOCTOR
He continued: when l was boy on
a plantation in Prince Edward county L
owned fox-dogs coon-dogs, and olru-
dogs. and although l have been IN DUST
ness in Richmond for thirty-eiSht years
two months, and five days there hao
never been a day that / have not mao "
practice on my own dogs or on the uos9
of other people. My reputation as aug
fAnclcr a
very great away from home, and our
firm has received no less than 5000 let
ters asking for advice since the new year
hogan. our sales are principally in the
North and West and i'm Canada. In no
nolulu. we have an established agency.
Our advertisements cost ABOUT soV
monthly, but we can spend none OF II :"
the South. Southern people are very
fond of dogs but they somehow are ho'
aware of the fact that they need 10 DC
treated for their peculiar troubles az
much so as a horse or COW. AS rue
they get their dogs for nothing. ASK
ninety-nine men in hundred IN the
south where they got their dogs FROM
and they'll answer that Jim Jones OF
sam. Brown gave 'em to me- And II ne
gets sick and dies. he will expect Ben.
Smith or Peter Brown to give him an
other. The idea of buying a dog! Ge-
Whillikins. I never heard of such
tbinei Let him 20 TO sam. Atkins, Al.
Dill. Ned Christian. Ashby Jones, Johh
blair John Wise or Colonel w. Miles
Cary and ask them where they got theT
dogs from. and they will tell him that
there Is not a half-doZen horses trottlng
III and down Franklin street on pretty
summer evening that was worth as iiiuol'
as one of their dogs. And When these
dogs get sick they don't tell them 10 run
mn on the Capitol Square and get some
grass and eat II. 80.
"rhe average southern man thinks
that a dog which hasn't sense enough
IN cure himself by eating grass ought 10
die, So our trade is with the people OF
The North West and Northwest, where
a man would as soon go up 10 his nelgh-
bor and ask him to give him morse as
~ ask him for a dog. ! am the only man
] in the whole South engaged in the DUST
| ness as far as heard from. L have pun
| jsbod a hook on Dogs and Their ALI
ments' and over $1,000 copies have been
Given out to the owners or dogs III
! treating dogs for nearly forty years l
have discovered that their trouples are
mora like those which aifilct the human
/ family than those of any other animal
and the treatment is about the same
There is a growing tendency toward tIo
braading of blooded dogs In the SOUTH
| "a IN few years the people dog beg
cars, will learn that men who pay from
! S1no m $500 for registered stock cannot
/ afford TO give away the puppies, ana mat
| los from the best strains cost more
! than pleasure horses 80.
"a great change has come over our
neople in the last forty years, too, with
regard to hunting. This is day wheh
those who undertook TO cry down athle,
tic snorts have been sent 10 the rear.
| remember the time when the man WI
went hunting had TO be as quiet about II
as possible. for if a clerk asked for a
dsv off and got it, and his employer
found out he had gone hunting ne would
ne discbarged as a good for nothing
| Tow A. is a very common thing TO see
voung men and boys walking along our
streets dressed in their hunting clothes
and one or more dogs following them 70
the railroad station. 1t is rather bad
that so many of them do go, for not one
in ten can hit the side of house when
thew shoot. They know still less about
| gun and its dangers. remember me
time when had to take the train on the
nIancbester side of the river after j had
been waiting ever since daybreak for it,
and IN returning from the field, If my
train got back before II was plum darK
was afraid to come into Richmond TIL all
the old businessmen had gone home"