The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-11-01
TRAINED BY CRUELTY
Animals, as a Rule, Taught Tricks
Through Torture.
KINDNESS Is NOT A FACTOR

The Result Of the Methods Employet.,
Says an Enaist1 Writer, Is the Tri-
unpf Of Il Brute Over Brute by
Patient 1nd Persistent Cruelty.
Il have an Old fashioned belief thai
enc should never make Ii dum41..
statement unless he IL prepared t.
prove it Up to thu hi1t. And no / a.A
confronted at tile outset wltn ;.4 H.
most insurm32sltahlo t:lzf5r9.s .-~~ % tie
laynlan who wo@Il oez laEorm
himself OF the IT. st&. 11~ r.. IT,
ing there Is oEpos4% Il n54-
cealment grim ANA Sill. ...t 4Ysat
wall Of China" writes H., &s5at1H
Clarke In the Manchester Chrou.2l2.
1.-THE glib assurance that 1t il MI
done by kindness has become q H..
word no true lover Of an animal ba.
lieves it, nor could any reasoning cra2-
ture, lacking that particular affection,
II he viii carefully examine such facts
as are obvious.
'Granted there are animals or e1-
IRENE Intelligence and ducta bilfty.
Granted there are men and women Of
extraordinary Influence over birds and
beasts. The best these twain can
achieve In combination does not pro
duce an effective stage show, nor can
one-huntlredth part Of the 'entertain-
ment' provided by the trainer be
ascribed TO bis abnormal ability or to
the especially acute intelligence Of his
pupil. It In more probably the TIT
unph Of a brute over a brute by pa
tient ana persistent cruelty.
"The public judges by what Il see#
On the stage and remarks III adrnira-
ton and approval that there was mo
sign Of whip An animal exhibitor
who was avoWedly cruel would be
pretty low down in the ranks Of show
men. I own particularly ferocious
looking bulldog who goes crazy with
delight at the sight Of whip. It has
been his pet toy for years and means
the beginning Of ronp, On the other
hand, q movement Of the trainers fin
ger almost i1nperceptible to the audi
dence may suggest to the powerful
Imagination Of the animal fiendish tor
Ii HAY 1ESa4l L!lC KILL 1koELs, LLC
:agonizing Utilization Of a nerve.
s'sueh appeals to the memory are, Sas
truth, the stock in trade OF the animal
trainer. What the WTetched creature
has gone through during months Of
daily preparation can never DO known,
FOR the work Ia carried out Ia secrecy
and seclusion. There 10 rarely second
person present, and the brute cannot
speak. That ia the most hideous factor
of the CASE.
f"There Ia no eoncealment Of the fact
that the training is apt to be hard and
painful, and a blow Is not uncommon
from the most humane and patient
trainer, angered, 1t may be, by stup1di-
ty and INSTRUMENTATION. II 1t Is SO
with the boy, what must 1t be with
the brute?
as that Of the triumph, even nomen~
tarily, Of cruelty. Touch child,
horse or dog with whip and there
Is a hideous sense Of satisfaction, even
when the cause is righteous. The joy
of infllcting pain is possible 10 the best
of us and grows by what 1t feeds ca.
Imagine the situation between @
coarse vulgarian and a helpless brute
and you get the process of animal
training.
II have never known q diainterested
member Of the circus community pre-
tend that the education Of any animal
was pleasant to the animal, and I have
known them to speak with horror Of
the methods Of some trainers.
ut is not very long since On ath1a9e
,snatched the whip from we'll known
dog trainer on the stage Of Il London
variety theater and soundly thrashed
him amid the plaudits Of the company
Another distinguished professor is
bIacklisted by one Of the largest Eyn-
dicates for undisguised cruelty (off the
stage) to his large and various family.
Two OF our best known managers alb
solutely refuse to deal with animal
turns and make no concealment of
their reasons. And the editor, now de-
ceased, OF an important professional
paper, for years refused to attend any
place OF entertainment where dogs Or
birds, or indeed any dumb creature
save conventional circus horses, ap-
Feared.
Mercury and Air.
The reaso that mercury rises and
falls in the barometer is that dry air Is
heavy, naols air is light, and the col
umn Of mercury is affected by atnaos-
pheric pressure. The tube Of q barom-
eter being open ut the busD end, the
air when moist cannot support the
weight Of the mercury. When the air
Is dry, the mercury cannot resist it's
weight; hence the rise and fall In dry
and wet weather
Broke the Ice.
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