New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-04
DOGS AND DOCTORS.

the sacred bugs to Egypt, are dogs 20 Phlla-
delphia. Mr.. Bergh has accustomed us to
reasonable humane consideration for ANIMALS,
but even he must stand dismayed at the en-
thusiasm among his fair Quaker converts.
What phase of spiritual selection or magnetic
affinity there is between them and the NANCY
ours that infcst their streets is impossible to
say, but it manifests itself as oddly rs ever
did tulip-mania among the Dutch. 10 be Just,
we understand that there is no other object
of charity left unprOvided for in Philadelphia.
The blind, the halt, and the lame have their
asyums; the Aherns, McMullens and other
prize-dghters have the rens of government In
their hands; every publisher and manu-
facturer buys an insurance policy and grave
ward lot for each OF his employees; tnat
Gehenna yclept BedfOrd-St. Is swept and gar
nisbcd every man therein has whole coat
ON his back and a Bible in his hand; the aims
house manner feeds on chicken, and the ward
nolitician knows his price and gets IT. INTO
tbis TItopia of human bliss the idea OF
needy dogs came ID offer relief TO the
pent-up tenderness of the ladies unable
70 find other objects, and was hailed
with a gush of delight. Measures were year
ago set on foot to construct costly asylum lot
the nobler species of dogs (pOOdles and Skye
terricrs) unhappily caught by nightfall stroll
ing away from home. We believe these noble
plans have been carried into effect, though
want of funds obliged the ladies to build
their Home after an American rather than a
Gothic model, which latter was considered es-
pecially desirable on account of It's aesthetic IN
tluence upon the minds of the younger dogs.
Dogs which the ladies denOminate as less
noble" are consigned by cruel municipal
law 10 death, and are handed over by the
Mayor into their fair hands TO find as beatliled
an enthusiasm as their imaginatlons can sug-
geat Not only have they provided thai the
poor animals should be mercifully caught by
nets instead of lassOes and killed by carbOnlc
acid gas instead Of beating on the head, which
are really kind and reasonable precautions,
but they have summoned all their powers to
sing the Death Song OF the Dog. A legion OF
matrons and maids stand with ink-horn and
pen uplifted their logic and fancy maintained
apparently at fever heat, in order at the first
unwary kick of a eur TO flood the Philadelphia
press with columns of arguments unanswer-
able.
Certain eminent physicians lately, who are,
it appears. engaged in the study OF vivisectlOn
and obscure nervous diseases, required from
them animals on which to make their exper-
iments, and, out of a fine economy of canine
life, desired TO procure only those already
destined to death They presented this APP
parently reasonable request to the ladies who
had the dogs i'll care, but were met with
prOmpt and fierce defiance. The TgiS of their
Il tn.t ar1T NJ
secured the gutter, and they babe death OF
doctors touch it at their peril. Letters grew
into pamphlets the combat deepencd; Science
and Spaniels have become Quaker war-cres Of
ominous portent; all Philadelphia has formed
ring to watch the struggle between the
doctors on one side, the ladies on the other
and the dog in the middle. The fair champions
of the dogs having discovered after the fgh
began that all medicines and new operation
in surgery have from time immemOrial beer
tested first upon animals before they wer
applied to the human body, have declared tina
it was high time both drugs and doctors wer
done with; and have, we understand, taken
total abstinence pledge against the use o
either for the future. Even soothing syrul
! has been forbidden to the babies and tn
women themselves have passed sleepleSs night
for two months for lack of their fayOrit
choral.
Latest advices state that the ladies, driven Il
desperation have formed an Emigrants' Ale
Society in behalf of their prosecuted clients
and have applied to Government for
| quarter section of land for each dog willins
to take up his quarters in the West out o
reach of science and Sardns. Our pauper
ought to pray that the Darwinian theor.
might work backward, and that the day Nigh
come when, duly qualified for charity witt
bark and hide, merciful Providence wOul,
permit them to take up their abode in Phila
dephia.
Corn Uusker Box No. 1903 NEW YORK TRIBUNE