The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-20
MORE ABOUT THAT PIG.
1 True Account Of the Remarkable
IncldcnL

The attention OF the public has
been greatly attracted by the ac-
counts OF Charles Days cruelty to a
helpless pig. The agitation In the
New York papers against the alleged
unnecessary cruelty to dogs In the
Rockefeller hospital which has been
stirred up by the Anti-yiyisec tionists
has brought forth incidentally many
citations OF the Day case from ON
Gals OF the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals In the press
from Portland to San Francisco. II
Is felt by the friends of MIR. Day that
he has been made to suffer more than
the merits of the case warrant, and IN
order to put a hiatus on further ex-
aggerated and libelous newspaper
stories which reflect not only upon
Mr.. Day but on the good name oil
our community itself. 1t Is only prop
err that true account of the incident
be made public through the columns
of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
People who know MIR. Day person
ally will agree that he must have
had some very good reason Tor com
hitting such an heinous act against
one of the most inoffensive of our do
nestle animals. He has been in busi-
ness at his old stand under Hotel Co
burn for many years, and never De-
fore has been accused OF harming
even a fly, In fact 1t Is well known
that Mr.. Day has consistently refused
to handle sticky fly-paper because OF
the lingering death of the helpless ny
entangled thereon.
The week previous to the putting OF
the clothes-pin on the pigs tail, MI.
Day receive five car loads of his ia
nous Days Luxury Flour. Rats had
been very troublesome and provoking
to him for some time, for even rats
know good grocers when they ind
them. and he had tried every devise
obtainable to capture or drive them
away without success. He had heard
no complaints from his customers
about the rats until one of the local
minister's bought barrel OF -Four
which as the minister always bought
the best was of course Days Luxury;
and complained that rats or other
yarmints had been into the flour Mr.
Day was naturally much chagrined
and mortified, particularly as he hap
pened to be a parishoner of this min
ister's. so he took him to his store
house and showed him that he had
employed every sort of trap that he
could think of without success. The
divine who Is well known in our
midst but whose name need not be
mentioned as the case has now be-
come so notorious, then explained to
70 mafhnd
and urged Mr. Day to try 1t, assur-
ing him that domesticity mad duileo
the finer sensibilities of the pig to
such an extent that a slight pinching
of the tail, automatically producing
disproportionatly loud squeal, as 1t
were, would cause practically no dis
turbance of the swine's nerve centers
In the way of pain. And when his
pastor explained to Mr.. Day that 1t
was the theory and principle of the
Jesuits that deed was permissible
and commendable which though 1t
caused slight suffering to the individ-
ual nevertheless brought great good
to the many, Mr.. Day determined to
try the experiment and straightway
procured a pig, and, as all the world
knows now, affixed a common, ordin-
airy clothes-pin to its rear extremity.
While Mr.. Day has been made to
suffer sorely in spirit from the criti-
cism and odium heaped upon him for
following out his pastors advice, he
has steadfastly refused to give his
name, and in fact has chosen to take
on his own shoulders the full blame
for the whole trouble. Whether or
not the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals will prosecute Mr..
Day Is small matter compared with
the harsh criticism that Is being
heaped upon him and our town Off
GERS by the newspapers of the coun-
try. One paper even urged that the
constable give Mr.. Day a dose of the
the same medicine that he gave the
pig.
We clip only one of the scurrilous
comments in the press. A wag In the
Walla Walla Messenger burst forth
in limericks as follows:
You all have heard of Charles w. Day
Whose abuse of the pig caused the
trouble. you say;
He pinned up it's tail
Which caused 1t to squeal
And drive out the rats of Charles w.
Day.
Now in this same store of Charles w.
Is Luxury Flour. 1t has no double,
you say
In the eyes Of the cook.
So why not take a look
In this ratless store of Charles w.