Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — Has Four Hundred Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Has Four Hundred Dogs.

William Hammond, of ISldred, Sullivan county, across the Delaware from Sholiola, Pa., kegps 400 dogs. To properly support this great canine army he has a bakery and a meat-chopping machine, which in combination use up ten barrels of flour and half a ton of meat a week to make dog biscuits. These dog 3 do not all belong to Mr. Hammond. They are the property of sportsmen in New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. Hammond is a professional trainer of hunting dogs, and he is handling and breaking these dogs in the woods and covers of Sullivan county for service in the field and clisjse. Twenty hired men who know something about dogs themselves assist Hammond in the work. Among the Hebrews during the theocracy the taxes were very severe. There was a poll tax of half a shekel, about 30 cents, a tribute of the first fruits and first born of animals, a redemption tax of the first-born son, a tithe for the tabernacle, another for the Levites, and a third, every third year, for the poor. It has been computed that the total taxation exceeded 36 per cent, of the land valuation. The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. These are the pictures and statues of departed friends which ws ought to cultivate. I ' '