The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-06
KICKS AND KICKERS
A String Of Woes That Pours Into
Reporters Ears.
RACING ON THE STREETS
Old. Faithful Horses Left to Browse
on Cobble Stones and Sympa-
thy-The Dog In a Crude,
Cruel Harness.


voted by unanimous consent a handy
man in any community. He is seldom
the most popular because of the gener-
atty of his kicks which are indiscrim-
tnately bestowed.
Few people hear so many of them as
the reporter of a daily newspaper.
Sometimes they come his way, some
times he is able to dodge them, but
no one who has a kick coming ever
fails to tell his woe to the reporter
From the business man whose ad was
not top o. column next to reading mat
ter and from the man who didn't get
his paper, to Mrs. B., whose neighbour
had visitors from d. and still didn't
see their names in the paper. Then
comes the man who wants everybody
roasted but is not willing to do his
own roasting and whose roasts are
rounded upon personal grievances He
buutonholes the reporter and-but this
Is not the reporters kick.
This story was started to tell of a
rev kicks which he hears. One of the
urday. $3.50
why don't somebody put a stop to
this racing down Park avenue with
the fast trotters and PAGERS? This is
busy street. There are a dozen busy
crossings and l saw a lady have the
narowest kind of an escape there
shortly after noon. Two high steppers
with cutters attached camA speeding
down Park avenue at a 2:4O clip and
at the Main street crossing there was a
rush for the sidewalks, caused only
py the shouts of spectators who saw
the racers coming. But for timely
warning the crossing would have been
crowded. The lady / spoke of did not
nouce the event which was attracting
md g..
ed back by a gentleman as the cutters
swept by and the flying snow from the
horses heels struck her. 1 like to see
morse races but 1t seems to me that the
proper place for them is the track or |
at least a highway that is less fire. |
quented than the main streets of a |
busy city like this. It may do on |
Missouri avenue. but IT don't go on |
Main street. If II does some one will |
be hurt or killed and then there will
be terrible howl. Now's the time to /
stop It,"
Another kick which was as fairly
over the goal as any kick ever made ON
the gr1diron was this, made by a man
VINO likes horse almost as well as
ne nkes his wife and babies. next
70 them comes his horse and his
9og and Ids kicks made in the same
o5e s We're In behalf of the four foot
ca Ir1ends. His kick, like the foregoing
was not personal but general, but peT,
maps personal application of 1t may be
maoe. me day was bleak and the
wind howled I'm a blizzard of snow.
we need a society for the prevention
"a cruelty 10 animals in this town"
said he. Just look at those dumb
starving horses out in this storm and
not a thing covers them except the
harness. That team has stood hitchad
70 that rack out yonder since early
morning. 1t rs now nearly 4 O'clock
ma 70 my certain knowledge thew
IA, rave not mad bite to eat or a mouth ,
covered with snow and the hits ara
dated with Ice. Seems to me the wood )
iauier Is not the only guilty one. The I
ray express men and delivery men
IRE fuliy as bad though they do feed s
more regularly. 1t makes me feel like G
aKins some or these fellows and hitch !
ng them without an overcoat 70 the 4
osts and taking the animals inside II +
a burning shame that men making
neir living from the work of their y
cams 40 not have sufficient humanity =
III IN their hearts to provide a warm !.
ianAet Tor their horses. A blanket y
osts only dollar or two. and while y
ne driver is leaning up against a red
ot stove waiting for a job Ii ought 10 p
uu 10 MS oomplacency to know thai =
ne beasts which make his living for "
I'M are protected as far as possible o
ON the wintry wind N
Some of these horses ougbt - =.
nod. During that recent sneII
eather the streets were icy thew vvera =
lppIns ana railing in the harness. -
raining muscles and hurting Them =,
ives. Sharp caulks on the shoes "
ouid enable them to do better work =, az
ID relieve their misery. =, re
Another sight which I see nearly -"
cry day on the streets of this CIV
men Is a cruel wrong, is that of a o.
,und dog pulling a 9S-pound how who =,
les on a rickety cart or a sIed that y
s not even strip of iron on the r1In- Ss s
r 10 make II run smoothly. The small g,
y undoubtedly takes infinite pleasure
speeding behind a well-trained dog
lat is all right, If the dog is of eood =,
'e, and not kept at IL too long. Anv "a "a
y there may be seen dogs attached -
sieos and wagons. They are hitched -
immediately after school is out and N
Isl OF the poor brutes are kept on the ~
mp till the curfew rings. Some of the -,
gs are put in harness the same as a s.,
rse. ana sometimes there are two TO Pc
'led. That is not 50 bad, but when a ma
hitcnes dog to a sled, with a thin or
De around his neck ana makes him ers
u the boy. barrel of swill and
netimes the boys friend, and that /
hours and hours, il is cruelty TO
mails pure and simple. /
There is a society in all largo cit,as Sw
ich makes IL a special business cts
look after such boys and men such Pn
1 nave mentioned and their cruel All
!, ana when the society goes after q
: IL generally happens that II cts ma
tty warm for the person who inficts
Ell methods on an animal. 1t seems
me that Anaconda needs a branch
that society,"" no