The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-10

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ATE THE WATERMELON
Island, and asks to know if the island
has a society for the prevention Of cru.
city to animals.
It has, Mrs. Sdnner-McPhelim it has
1t Is one Of the most pungent and vocif-
erous societies for the prevention OF
good that we have, according to reports.
Agents of the organization mako it very
hot for people who own animals, if | am
correctly informed in the matter, and
advise you, if you hope to spend the
heated term on Staten Island, to leave
your carriage horses and other heir
looms at the flat, where they viii not
be disturbed. Owners here have been
stopped on the street, arrested and fined,
in fact, for not shoeing their horses,
while as matter of fact they were too
poor to even shoe their children Mis-
guided philanthropy is as injurious to
the public welfare as the live rat caught,
kerosened and ignited by farmer in
northern Vermont last season. He drove
away all the other rats, also the farmer
and his family, by burning down the
whole ranch. In his nice warm little
room at the poorhouse this summer tho
farmer says to his wife as he inserts an
other little titbit of mush and molasses
gmong his whiskers, The overzealous
nd III guided ass is sometimes as dan
lerous to mankind as the level headed
ogue."
The Society for the Prevention Of
Nuelty to Animals arrested q widow
Nman on the highway foy tying to-
Cher the hind limbs of a female hog,
oiwinette, which was being transport
$50 9Ifom one point to another. Those
w have han63ed hogs know that 1t is
s.olutely necessary TO tie their lags If
ny are conveyed by wagon, or they
III jump out The society removed the
lrds, whereupon the hOgine leapt out
d the wagon and broke her leg. Pre-
Vention people not only sometimes do
not frequently know how to handle
hogs, but also they do not know how to
prevent cruelty. l could name some
more of the instances reported, but these
will suffice to show you that the society
Is fourishing, several Of the agents do
ing a very thrifty business VINO have al
ways failed ct everything else in life.
The following note comes from TTo-
ian who has suffered otherwise;
TROY, July 10, 1890.
Mr. BILL NYE: Kindly give Us your experiences
at and opinion Of a clam bake oao OF the. most
ridiculous Institutions of the United States Very
respectfully,
ONE WHO Was THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED AT ONE
OF THEM
Clam bakes are not always unsucCess-
full. Even if they are unsuccessful from
your own point of view they might not
be from the standpoint of the man who
prepares them. l was one of small
party of plain American citizens who
bought out clam kiln and colo works
last season at Lsng Branch. had been
accustomed to life among the lowly in
years past, having been born of poor but
extremely brainy parents. l had also
lived in the wild and woolly west, where
CLANS and other specimens Of insect life
are regarded with distrust, There you
can buy, or could at the time l lived
there, hind Of elk for $3.50, hang
it in your wood shed and feed
good sized family on il for week. So
said to friend or two: Here is a
natural product of the soil, the cheapest
and commonest of Gods impervious
fauna, the low browed and weak minded
clam. We will get some one to bake
some for us, then we will eat a water
melon and play that we are amensble to
no law, but that we are free and unfet-
tered, and as careless of human life as a
steam heating company OF young ply
siCian." We ordered no wine, but Just
slams and watermelon.
Another party from New York also
ordered q clam bake at the same time,
30 that the same kiln dried all the clans
In baking CLAIMS you heat lot of stones
in hot fire, throw them IN hole along
with your CLAIMS. green corn, ground
feed, etc, etc, You then cover up the
mass, and go away fishing or pitching
horse shoes till you smell something.
That is the CLAIMS. You then borrow a
six-tine pitchfork, such as is used by our
best livery stable people. and fork out
your clans and green corn, serving not.
Guests will wait on themselves. After
the CLAIMS are served you load large
shotgun with hot fence nails and collect
the bill.
ate the left lobe of three underdone
Waterbury CLAIMS, an ear OF hot seed
corn and slice of soured and peSsimistic
watermelon. Ny bill was s23-that Is
exclusive Of nurses and medical attend
ance.
do not care for CLAIMS. anyway. !
cannot come up with a clam. ! some
Times ieol J4.. 1 would Ike TO, bat can
not Neither can my boots.
I'gas quite Ill after l ate these clans,
having thrown away the most diges6ble
part, viz. the shell, and foohshly eaten
the clam. On the steamer coming home
many people who had Seen greatly dis
appointed all day in the matter of enjoy
meut came up on deck. watched my gyra-
tons a few moments, and went home