The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-11
MANS BRUTALITY.
EXAMPLES OF HIS CRUELTY TO
ANIMALS.
Treatment Of Domestic Animals
How the Goose Passes Into
Pate de Foie Gras.

| Without going into the merits of the
case; without either denOuncing or up
| holding the lynchings of negroes In
the South charged as they are in most
cases with nameless crimes and the de-
struction wantonly of human life; with
| out assuming any attitude OF disap-
prevail or approval of those who thus
! take the law into their hands, would
| it not be well for the people of other
regions to reflect on certain cruelties
on dumb animals practiced daily for
| the qualification of sentiment, appetite
| or other reason?
The crimes alleged against the vic
tins of lynche1s are sufficient to cause
| thrills of horror in all human minds
| The antecedent crimes and their sub
sequent terrible retribution certainly
present no very pleasant picture of life
| in the portions of the country whence
the reports come But while the crimes
and punishments may justly DE SET
down under the category of cruelties,
they are by no means the only instances
| of bloody mindedness on the part of BIZ
peds who, aside from acts of cruelty
are well disposed and apparently hui
| name. Here in Chicago one can see
|
performed merely to crafty whim-
| 1t requires all the time nearly Of the
Humane Society to prevent brutal mas
| ters or drivers from inflicting untold
| sufferings and miseries on silent, faith
full horses. Dogs are mutilated merely
to give them certain arbitrary points, .
without which they could not be bench
ed for exhibition. Living creatures are
| cooked and slowly tortured to death
| that the game flavor may be retained
and that the palate of the epicure MAY
| be the more gratified. To say that
| such actions are cruelties-in all hut
| the cases of the horses-iS to establish
a reputation for squeamishness. But
| this does not rob the acts of cruelties as
great as any practiced by aborigines on
caDtives.
Who ever heard of the cooking Of a
dead lobster or crab? Even the lowly
crawfish of commerce is metamorphosed
from a dirty brown to a brilliant red
| by being immersed in water which
| gradually attains a boiling heat. The
| hapless creatures wTiggle and squirn1
| first because the bottom Of a kettle
presents few opportunities for browsing
| in search of food. Then the wriggles
| grow more animated, for the heat in
creases until life is literally boiled out
of them. This is done merely because
| some cook of old is reputed to have
| discovered that the flesh Of the she'll
| fish is more tender and the salt water
game flavor retained by boiling them
while still alive.
| Go to any fish market in this or any
| other city and see the freshly captured
| fishes gasping, dying in an element for
eign to their nature. Go to the woods
| where brooks dance over sunken rocks
| and trout Turk in corners The fish is
| SHARED, tossed on the bank gasplng in
pain from the cruel hook and hours
| before the agony ends in death is
| plunged bodily into hot grease and
cooked on the spot that the flavor may
| be kept intact. Men who are busy a
great portion of their time in acts OF
charity while at home will voraciously
devour such fish if they happen to be
| in camp.
| Crabs and Holsters are taken alive
!, They are carefully preserved in this
condition, packed in wet seaweed fol
| shipment. Go to a market and incau-
! tiously lay a hand on a large, green
lobster and he will resent the faulili irity
| by promptly laying hold thereof. He
may seem to be dead, but it is all SEEM
| ing, for he is fur frum it, as the an
Gent mariner might say. He is NOD
dead nor will be until plunged into a
| tank of water to be boiled to tenderness
and extinction or placed wriggling and