Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1890-09-11

ayes, what little Of life Is left in me.
It's almost more than l can manage
even To whisper, but I'm 50 glad they
haven't taken you away. feared you
were gone, or-or dead =
God grant We soon may be These
men have not the humanity TO kill US
outright. Can you see me 2
''No, they put out my eyes 70 keep
me from wasting away with starvation.
How is it with you to-day =
Bad. awfully bad They broke my
right Upper as they flung mo down
here, and it hurts dreadfully; it's
agony !"
rs neighbor terrapin with rs yet r
"Why, he was lucky, they killed him
off last week because he was a-dying,
but they have left US here, starved and
suffering all sorts OF tortures, for nearly
three months now | see something
white stuck on you, what is it ?"
Its paper, can't you read il p
''No, that can't, they hain't no need
to dig my eyes out, they're almost
gone, run, run, run, scalding hot tears
too, till I've barely got enough eyeballs
left 10 tell midday from midnight"
81 can tell you what's on it, fos
heard little girl read il 20 her mother,
and when she asked her why they stuck
il on me, the poor lady couldn't speak.
she cried like anything, and the little
girl sobbed too. The paper has this on
it: Everybody kick me, it don't hurt. ~
'Is not that what they call u joke
hsrel"
joke to us. If could only turn over
we might learn to bear our torment, we
might find sup of water, anything TO
remind us that we are in Gods world,
under the care of our noble fellow-crea
ture, man. But this is pitif I'll, pitiful.
care You still therel Can't you hear
me nowi Pll try and raise my voice
-- there Oh this horrible paint
/ No sound - ali / can't - can't -
! breathe.
"Two Florider turtles-these Is
them-off with 'em up to-hotel-
quick-shsrpl"
Is there an S. P. G. AT IL the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails defunct or only moribund Per
adventure 1t only sleepeth, or perhaps
it's officers atone for their moderate ex-
I hibition of zeal in winter by turning
their eyes away from summer sinners.
II the society still exists, it ISLANDERS
its own good name by permitting the
state of affairs which afforded the tex
for the foregoing true fable of the talk
ing turtles. IL may be that the society
has some classification of its own unde,
which mere turtle becomes cold
blooded thing of no sensibility nor i'm
portance until 1t graces the society
banqueting board in the guise of soup
Then. indeed, il the turtle an object o.
all but alteration. But upon what prin
ciple-except the want of principle
professedly anti-cruelty corporation
tactly permits dealers TO keep thei'
turtles lying on their backs for weeks
or even months after the horror
of ship stowage, 1t is puzzl
which il ia worth while trying I
find ont. Not only are the chelonia'
reptiles turned topsy-turvy and KEEP
so for an indefinite time, but their Alp
pers are also pierced and tied Tight
together with cord 90 that in some il
stances the cord has cut nearly throug
the flesh. BY some their eyes are de
stroyed, for some reason we have not see
explained. Probably to prevent thsi
weeping themselves TO premature deaf
over mans inhumanity TO msn'and br
talityi to turtles. A boycott by II
fashionable world would probably |
the shortest way 90 end this turtl,
, torture. Let no more turtle soup b
eaten except by turtle-club gluttons
who would gorge on their grand
: mothers IL they cooked tender an
! ssvorv) until keepe,s guarantee ths
p the creatures have been treated with
r least a. much consideration as butcher
2 show TO oxen. When the Cruelty s.
b cisty "comes 10" when IL waksas fro
D its lethargic somnolenoe and snakes 1
self together 70 rsplssish its exchequ
: With solicited contributions, let
D turn its eeniesl attention first to Il
horrible turtls-tortnrs. II it fail
tais aatv. msy its members be to
rented in their virtuous beds vii
long professions Of turtle ghosts. q
rhoststhst rise IN the fragrant steam
! their soup plates. err ing aloud for bs'
aacencv Of treatment between captu
= and execution. ArKx HAMILTON
Unlss Or Nstarst Fisfss.