The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-02-19
Cruelty to The Horse.

Cruelty to The Horse.
The horse, the most useful of ali
animals, is the one marked for the
most OF mems i'll treatment. For the
most part housed in i'll lighted, i'll
ventilated and i'll smelling quarters,
worked to its full capacity. cared for
only to the degree that selfish interest
prompts, the animal is delivered over
as the unprotected object OF the un-
restrained passions OF man. The aver
age man fails apparently to under
stand that animals have a nervous sys-
tenn. among them TO marked degree
the horse, and that were he to gov
ern his own temper he could, with
little patience, get control OF the
!horse's nervous system and make out
of it servant vastly more efficient
than it is under the system III which
he beats and jerks and drives it to
distraction.
A short walk in any city will dis
cover many blind horses. Why?
There are no blind COWS compara-
lively And yet the sight of the one
naturally is as good as that OF the
other. The difference is simply that
the horse from the beginning has been
abused. i'll housed, over-worked and
worked under conditions that have
driven him blind. His eyes are shut
in by binders at each side, for which
there is no use but to satisfy the ca
there is no sue but to satisfy the ca
price or fashion OF man. So, his Wis
ion interfered with and deprived of
air, the wonder is that with the other
treatment he gets he is not blind Of
tener. Besides this, in other cases
his neck is almost pulled out Of JOINT
bv overhead checkreins that raise his
face to the air and turn his eyeballs
to the glare of the sun unprotected.
Or, on the other hand, deprived Of
checkrein, he is bitted with a curb
that pulls his jaws to his breast and
tortures him in this fashion. And
then, according to the spreading fash
ion OF the day, he is. subjected to the
most cruel of all practices, docking,
which not merely tortures in the prac-
tice. but leaves him to the torment OF
flies for the rest of his life. 1t is the
merciful man that is merciful to his
beast and if it is the merciful that
obtain mercy we have. as people,
some way to come before we get that
blessing.-Indianapolis News.
Squibs, By Jibs.
The first frogs of spring will be
hopping around soon and spooners
will spoon by the light of the moon.
She wants to know who sent her
that valentine. ~
A few more weeks-possibly days
and the mellow-hearted youth and
youthine will be gladly gazing into
the waters in the valley of SCOTS or
some other "crick" watching the live
iIy little tadpoles i'll their race to see
which will be the first frog to muddy
the pond. He likes to see the girl
watch the tad.
We would like TO say something
about the hog; but. for fear OF run
ming it into the ground will deslst
with pain. Only, the Helena ground
hog was not in the convention on the
second.
If there were rooms enough we
would start up the Helena Headlight,
with line-of-type If it could do
nothing else it could flicker.
Speaking OF linotype operators
Helena furnished a good one in the
person OF Nh. J. D. Goats. Then be-
tween Helena and Newberry another
good one was furnished-Mr. H. X.
Blats. Mr.. w. B. Wertz is an
operator from Newberry. He can
make a machine all but talk.
Superintendent of Schools Werts
is near enough Helena to make his
chances for reelection good. Master
R;kard once lived there. That lets
him in.
Tntendant Frank G. Spearman has