The record-union., 1894-09-21
THE CAMERA AS A REFoRMBR,
"A Young Woman Finds a New Way TO
EufOrca the LAW.

1nh OAMERA AS REFORMhR
"A Young Woman Finds q New Way TO
Enforce the Law.
1t has always been hard, apparently,
Tor man 10 decide as TO when he is justi-
he'd III Interfering in the matter OF another
mans lu-usage OF his property, by prop
erty meaning his wife or his children
or his beasts. A woman may remon-
strate. and although il may be madden
ing to have her presence and entreaties
ignored beyond few unciyil words, it Is
at least better than being knocked down,
as a man would probably be if he called
| the other man brute" Sometimes,
when man is big and strong, he can re-
monstrate with the added threat that he
Will do the knocking down if the abuse is
not stopped.
Robert q. Ingersoll used this method
with brutal car driver in the days when
there We're bobtailed cars in Washington,
ana the poor horse could not pull the car
load OF Christians up an unusually steep
hill. But unfortunately all humane men
are not athletes, so that in almost every
case the reforming in this direction is
done by women, to whom IL does not
matter much ii they do look undignitied,
and who have not mans horror OF in
| ter1ering in what is mot my affair"
The Humane Society simplites things
In the city, but ia the country 1t IS more
, difficult matter TO get in any good words.
a young woman who has tried it has told
little story about it.
You Know" she said, that I am not
fanatic l DO not say man is a brute if
he takes an interest IN dog fight, and [
90 not call every man a wretch who whips
ms horse more than may think is neces-
sary. L have never even belonged to the
humane Society, but am sure l worked
quite as hard over case the other day as
the most Jealous and fanatical member OF
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals ever worked. / was in a
small country town and started out one
morning on my daily walk. There was
team of horses standing in the road
harnessed TO heavy wagon. l always
notice horses, and as / looked at these l
! thought that L had never before seen such
wretched Hooking beasts. They were
/ close TO the walk, and as almost brushed
| against them L saw that under the collars
there were ON each side of the horses
necks great, raw sores. just then a boy,
| perhaps IL years old, came out OF a
house nearby and got into the wagon.
Are those your horses?' / asked.
They are my tather's,' he replied.
| That is dreadful-looking neck on
| that horse L said, trying to keep cool
and pointing to the neck OF the horse
| nearest HE.
~ know it, said the boy; but it's
much better than it was.'
| ou could not drive a horse with a
neck like that in the city, | said.
No. l know it, but they don't care
Ior such things here, you see,' replied the
boy, with the utmost GOODNESS, and he
| drove away, the collars rubbing into the
/ unfortunate horses' necks at every step.
Ii made me faint almost, to see il, and |
told my story to every one that | met
tnat day. The men, nearly all of them,
| seemed rather amused by il. To do them
justice, do not think they were amused
! by the story, but l amused them. One
man said: Well, if you make a fuss
about 1t, please don't do it until Maxwell
stops working for me- He went away
laughing. Another man was very polite,
| put very much bored. Every one praised
me tor 'agitating' the matter, but no one
gave me any aid in it. Then I met the
young clergyman.
Il said Are you fond of animals?'
He looked little bit puzzled and an
swered:
mo, not particularly think he had
visions OF superhuous puppies or kittens
that l might be anxious TO bestow upon
hlm. When he heard my story, though,
he thought as | did. He said TRY the
magistrate He is a timid man, this
magistrate. and l felt that 1 would be
obliged to bully him little. He admit
tea that there was law covering cases of
! this kind.
"'Ihen,' said I, I want that law en-
1orced.' And he, admitting the justice of
my complaint, promised that the man
should be warned and that the abuse
should be stopped. OF course he did ab-
solutely nothing.
"At last l went to Maxwell himself. l
thought of Mrs. Pardiggle on my wav TO
his house and l shivered, but felt brave
again when l saw the man, / tried TO
impress him with an ominously quiet
ana confident manner. i spoke as if [
were armed with the whole force of the
Law ana the Humane Society. l pleaded
| little and 'bluffed' great deal. / told
nlln tnat out OF sympathy for his poverty
had not proceeded to extreme meas
| ures, but L limited at magistrates and
hnes IN case the abuse should continue.
L appealed to his dignity as a white man
| and voter. Maxwell murmured some
! thing about the horses not being paid for
and that he fed them as well as lie could
afford to do, but he finally promised to
do better and felt at peace.
"a week after that, when I was going
out on little photographing expedition,
L met the team again. Everything was
as 1t had been before and the necks of the
horses were IN worse condition than
ever. They were standing at the side of
the road nibbling grass and the collars
had fallen forward, revealing the whole
neck. stopped and l was inspired, |
| think. In an instant l adjusted my
camera and before anyone came to drive
the horses away l had taken four ex-
posures. That was my master-stroke. l
pat one OF the photographs in every shop
in town. / sent one to the editor of the
county newspaper and he wrote an edi-
| torial about it, and finally there was such
a general howl that the magistrate was
obliged to interfere, and l gained my
case. New FORK Tribune.