The San Francisco call., 1897-11-14

after trying Valnly TO cilmD up IN the
wagon and wreak her vengeance on the
man-slashe ed q horses throat, making a
three-inch cut from which he nearly bIed
to death. The feminine would-be butcher
was arrested, tried adjudged insane and
sent to an asylum where razors are inter-
dicted as means of discipline.
Cases of cruelties inflicted by women
are, for self-evident reasons, noticeaby in
the minority. The recent "fad" for starv-
ing horses as nearly TO death as possible,
without being actually obliged to send
them to the fertilizer factory, was, how
ever, apparently inaugurated by the Mrs.
McNally who, over year ago, gained
little pleasing notorieiy by feeding her
poor beasts upon atmosphere while she
had $4600 hidden in a woodpiie on her
pre- misses.
Harness, saddles and collars, filthy with
the exudations from cancerous sores, show
the hard heartedness of men who persist
in driving anguished beasts when every
step causes the suffering creatures al
most deadly pain. A man named Nor
ton, who pays taxes on $40, 900 worth
of property is a frequent offender in this
regard and in lesser but still cruel ways,
and has been dealt with legally again and
again during the past nineteen years.
One of his engaging pecullarities is to
drive his horses without shoes until their
hoofs are worn almost completely off, and
a photograph of the horse recently re-
lieved by the society from active service
in his behalf is a good object lesson for
those few who do not appreciate the good
work which the organization is doing.
The doing to death of dogs in various
horrible ways is commemorated here.
Noticea bic among these cases is one where
a party OF boys used a dog for target and
EN- ployed nails for bullets. Another boy
misnamed Angel, grew tired OF his pet
terrier, and after suspending it by the
neck for time, dragged it behind him
during wild race up hill and down dale,
and finished his amusement by sitting
down and hammering its head with
small stone until death ended its suffer
ings.
The Midwinter Fair was constant
source OF trouble as far as the protection
OF animals was concerned. Many of the
forms OF amusements planned were de-
cidedly and successfully objected to, and
ring bit' used by a Turkish equestrian
in the Streets Of Cairo is one OF the tro-
phies secured during that time. This bit
is one beside which the famous, or infa-
NOUS Spanish bit seems merely an orna-
mental appendage to horses trappings,
since the business part of it is circle of
steel which surrounds the lower jaw and
is so contrived that very slight pull on
the bride nearly separates the animal
from that useful portion OF his anatomy.
The fight over the ''chameleons"-
which were really only Door little mud
lizards from Florida-we all remem ber, as
we'll as it's successful outcome,
A number of spiked poles speak elo-
quently of the gentle methods mployed
in the loading and unloading of cattle on
their forced Journeys to our markets. One
pole with sharpened spike in the end six
inches long is souvenir of departed days
in Butchertown. 1t was formerly neces.
sary. when the old windlass system was in
use that the animals should plrnge for
ward quickly at the end OF the chute, up
which thev walked in single file, in order
that they might be properly caught and
handled by the machinery. This spike was
used to accelerate their movements; and
since a ound in the flesh would cause the
blood to settle around it and thus lower
the value OF the meat, it was the custom
to stab the death-d doomed brutes directly
in the eye. The plunge which invariably
followed was entirely satisfactory.
Another method which gave equally
good results was TO break one of the legs
lust pove the hoof with single blow of
an ak, but the society objected to this
also, and managed to stop both these
practices, and at the present time our
butchering establishments are as well and
mercifully conducted as are any places of
their kind.
Chickens are great sufferers at The hands
of dealers, as they are sadly apt to be
packed into crates far too small for the
number imprisoned therein, and to be
crlminally neglected in the matter OF
drink and food, Plucking them alive has,
however, been stopped, as the heavy fine
imposed on several offenders has had
prohibitory effect.
The ill-treatment of cats, the starving of
net birds, the abuse of "show" animals
of every kind-all these things and more
come within the province of this society,
FLORENCE MATHEsoN.