Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-11
VICTIMS OF CRUELTY. HORSES SUFFER MOST PREVIOUSLY
 AT HUMAN HANDS. AN ARDENT LOVER OF ANIMALS Leaves a Provision in His Will That All His Horses and Dogs Be Killed
 at His Death
AN ARDENT LOVER OF ANIMALS

In the reading of will of q gentle man lately deceased, says the writer in Vogue, great offense was given in some quarters through one of the provisions therein. The rage in this particular case was the result of an order that all his pet animals, horses and dogs, should be killed at his death. This is certainly very uncom- plimentary to the human race, and particularly so to the community in which he lived and to those on whom the care and use of the animals would deyolye. However, when one thinks how many animals suffer at the l hands of ignorant masters, and mas ters, too, who are not so ignorant, one cannot help wishing that the above order were more frequently carried out. Of all the animals most abused and unableto complain of it's many woes is the horse. If it were only endowed with audible powers of expression some of it's troubles might be alleviated.
 The loudest cries for the prevention of cruelty to animals and especially l to horses generally arise from women. This is all the more surprising when one realizes that one of the most abominable and cruel outrages on the equine raee-namely: docking, is due to them. No doubt they all stronly deny this, but it is 8 well known fact that if they positively refused to ride behind horses thus maimed the custom would soon die out. The fair riders or whips look upon their well-groomed steed with a perfect satisfied air, apparently un conscious that in depriving them of all protection against summer pests, besides maiming them, they are equally as cruel as the wretch who f1ogs his poor beast. 1t is all heart lessness applied in different manners.
 The poor animal suffers in silence at the mercy, so little shown of brutal hack drivers, equally brutal private coachmen, and last, but not least the gentleman(?) whip. His life, alas, is in truth q tragedy.
 <. The ordinary yicissitudes of an ani- malls life are sufficiently narrowing, but now and again some particularly atroei0us crime against them arouses even the apathetic public to indigna- tiOn. A ease in point is that of AL gernon Brinsley Sheridan, an English person (born q gentleman), who a | few weeks ago, after overriding a horse on the hunting field, causing intense misery, insisted, in spite of warning, in trying to ride the beast home. The suffering horse went un- l til it could go no further, whereup0n Sheridan secured the services of q man t0 lead the horse, and he floggcd it from behind 1t fell down and died in a ditch. Sheridan was tried fined and severely censured by the l liidS 1Al69Ni nun Api iAifoltg Sheridan-to give him his full title 1 is the son of Algernon Thomas Brin- sley Sheridan of Frampton Court. Worthy son of worthy father (The latter defended his sons conduct). The editor of today comments on the occurrence in the following eaustic manner:
 II have no feeling as regards young Mr Sheridan personally, but it is just as well to let hunting men know what is thought of snch horrible ackguardism-not by sentimental ists, but by plain men. Mir. Algernon Brinsley Sheridan of Frampton Court, Dorsetshire, is a hound apologize to the dog family for using the word; I am employing it merely in its liter ary sense) who ought to be whipped at the cart-tail from one end of the country to the other; and if society in Dorestshire is not a collector of cold -blooded cods there is not man or woman to whom hisfaceis known who will not cross the road before passing him by"
 The conclusion is irresistible that the humane man is wise in guarding his pets against the fearful odds of animal life by arranging for their death immediately after his own demise. Until such time, at least, as it is no longer regarded as an evi- dence of fanaticism to sympathize
 with the sufferings of Gods speech less creatures.