The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-31
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chafles Heber Clark tMax Adier) dis uIsys q wonderful knowledge of the ways of wornar's clubs in hi shovel, Captain Bluitt though he perhaps places the one ho 6epicts little ont of its proper set t1nx as to date. He tells of the foi- lowing proceedings at q General Culture Club of Turley the scene of his novel:
 m the absence of any important regu- 1nr business the president thought she mieht perhaps be permitted to direct the attention of the society to communica- tion received by her yesterday from the Secretary of the Woman's Department or the Association for the Prohibition of Unkind Treatment of Brute Beasts in tke city of X. If no objection should be mA1es the secretary would proceed to read this letter.
 The secretary then presented the let ter, which asked. first. that the Tuyley General Culture Society would take up and consider the question whether the 4rowiug employment of incubators with atenm-heat for the matching of chickens mtrht not properly excite the vigorous expedition of persons who desired to pre- vent unlkind treatment of animals and to secure for them uniform tenderness ok treatment. The practice of removing processes of incubation supplied by the hen, the producer of the eggs, is becom' 3ng more and more common; and while the society forwarding the cofnmunica- ton did not desire to encourage that ex- ceeD of seal which would pursue trihins causes of complaint, the feeling among the members is that as the number of domestic fowls is very large and their 1ellugs presumably are not so wanting tn Densttivenese as to warrant complete disregard of them, there is at least reason Tor discussion of the matter by humane perecns whose minds revolt at any act Of uukindness toward these helpless friends of man.
 Interrupting the reading of the letter. Puella Bluitt said she could hardly re- gard this matter as having any considers. bie claim upon the attention of . society devoted to general culture. She would not willingly wound the humbiest creature or sanction anything likely to infiict the smallest pain; but she asserted with the conffdence of prolonged experience in the raising and care of poultry that the domestic hen cared little whether certain eggs were committed to her functions or not. Few animals have less sentiment than hens. She had known hens to sit for weeks upon porcelain eggs and even portions of brick, and 90 far as could be perceived with perfect indifference to the result.
 But how do you know the hen in her inner consciousness may have felt7" asked F1orabeila Burns.
 Puella Biuitt retorted that while the study of the inner consciousness of hens had never largely engaged her attention. she felt sure that such consciousness could never be sufficiently vivid as to produce genuine suffering. Possibly the hen. under such conditions, might have yearnings undefined yearnings after something 1t knew not what: but in her view the worst feeling that could be ex- perienced would be only a vague kind Of disappointment, and 1t really seemed to her that a society for general culture would be going very far out of its way energy to an attempt to measure and to sympathize with the possible chaGrin of a hen.
 Florabeila Burns was about to take the floor when the secretary imposed with the remark that she had not yet read the last sentence of the letter. This gave the reason why the society in the city had taken up the matter. The feelings of the adult hen had had no considera- ton. The proposition of the society was based wholly upon solicitude for the chickens yet unborn.
 Why" asked Florabella Burns. should there be any more eolicitude for a little chicken matched by an incubator than for a little chicken matched by a henf''
 'sThe correspondent society,"" said the secretary, 'has been deply touched by the indisputable circumstance that the little chickens matched in the incubator can never know a mothers love-"
 Murmurs of sympathy were heard all ar0find inc rnarn