Our fourfooted friends and how we treat them

VOLUME 20 JUNE, 1921 NUMBER 3

Our Fourfooted Friends

and How Ve Treat Them

EDITED BY MRS. HUNTINGTON SMITH

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LIGHTS AND SHADOWS

OF HUMANE WORK

PRESIDENT HARDING’S TRIBUTE
LOS IS LITT DO Grae

President Harding himself says that. the best
thing he ever wrote was a tribute following the
death of a little Boston terrier, Hub, which he
owned when he was editor of the Marion Siar.
Here it is:

“Edgewood Hub in the register is a mark of his
breeding; but to us just Hub, a little Boston
terrier; whose sentient eye mirrored the fidelity
and devotion of his loyal heart. The veterinary
said he was poisoned; perhaps he was, his mute
suffering suggested it.

“‘One is reluctant to believe that a human being
who claims man’s estate could be so hateful a
coward as to ruthlessly torture and kill a trusting
victim, made defenceless through his confidence
in the human master, but there are such.

“One honest look from Hub’s trusting eyes was
worth a hundred lying greetings from such in-
human beings, though they wear the habiliments
of men.

‘Perhaps you wouldn’t devote these lines to a
dog. But Hub was a Star office visitor nearly
every day of the six years, in which he deepened
attachment. He wasa grateful and devoted dog,
with a dozen lovable attributes, and it somehow
voices the yearnings of broken companionship to
pay his memory deserved tribute.

“Tt isn’t orthodox to ascribe a soul to a dog—
if soul means immortality. But Hub was loving
and loyal, with the jealousy that tests its quality.
He was reverent, patient, faithful; he was sym-
pathetic, more than humanly so sometimes, for
no lure could be devised to call him from the
sickbed of mistress or master. He minded his
own affairs, especially worthy of human emula-
tion, and he would kill nor wound no living thing.

‘“‘He was modest and submissive where these
were becoming, yet he assumed a guardianship
of the home he sentineled, until entry was
properly vouched. He couldn’t speak our lan-
guage, though he somehow understood, but he
could be, and was, eloquent with uttering eye and

wagging tail, and the other expressions of knowing
dogs. No, perhaps he has no soul, but in these
things are the essence of soul and the spirit of
lovable life. :

“Whether the Creator planned it so or envi-
ronment and human companionship have made it
so, men may learn richly through the love and
fidelity of a brave and devoted dog. Such
loyalty might easily add lustre to a crown of
immortality.”

THE METHODIST CHURCH ENDORSES
HUMANE WORK

Abstract from letter of A. E. Frederick, State
Humane Officer, Wisconsin State Department of
Humane Work, Sparta, who wrote as follows:

‘“‘Einclosed find a copy of a resolution adopted
by two Methodist Episcopal Church Conferences ~
in this state. These two conferences together
have over 500 ministers, about 60,000
members; and reach with adherents about 100,-
000 people. Both conferences adopted the reso-
lution as I presented it.”

RESOLUTION

“We express our belief in the importance of the
principles of humane work, as it applies to kind-
ness to animals, protection of children, and help-
fulness to the aged and helpless. We believe its
propagation is distinctly a function within the
province of the minister of Christ. We recom-
mend the emphasis of humane work in our
Sunday schools. We favor humane education
in our public schools, and public instruction
generally in the principles of kindness to all
creatures. We commend the action of our state
legislature in establishing the Wisconsin Depart-
ment of Humane Work, and pledge our support
to the state’s endeavor to promote this great
cause.”

This Resolution was adopted by the Wiscon-
sin and West Wisconsin Conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, March, 1921.

It is an encouraging fact that some of the
clergymen are beginning to take a great interest
in humane work. J. Ralph Park of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, has written a very interesting

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leaflet for the National Humane Review, telling
of important steps which have been taken in rela-
tion to humane work entitled, “An Episcopal
Synod Adopts Humane Education,” and, ‘‘ Pres-
byterian Church Takes Up Humane Work.”’

The Rev. Albert W. Ryan of Duluth, Minne-
sota, a director of the American Humane Asso-
ciation, offered the following resolutions:

“WHEREAS, We are assured that the ‘loving
kindness’ of the Gospel of Christ impels us to
proclaim our sense of duty to be kind and consid-
erate and protecting to all God’s creatures,

“Be it resolved, That this synod gladly ac-
knowledges its responsibilities for ‘the tender and
loving care of little children, veneration and con-
sideration for the old and helpless and the humane

care and treatment of those faithful friends and —

servants of man—the domestic animals.”

“Resolved, That we respectfully request the
Presiding Bishop and Council to give place, in
their thought and effort, to our humane respon-
sibility amd stewardship.

“And be it further resolved, That this synod
expresses its sympathetic interest in the work of
all individuals and societies whose aim is the
protection of the unfortunate, the friendless, and
the wronged and wishing them God’s richest
blessing, pledge ourselves, individually and col-
lectively, to greater interest and assistance in all
humane endeavors.”

The resolutions were adopted as read by
unanimous vote. Now that the Presbyterians
and the eighth synod of the Episcopal Church
have thus expressed themselves in favor of hu-
maneness we wait to see what religious
body will be the next to fall in line.

BROTHERHOOD

Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, in a sermon preached
in the Temple, Los Angeles, California, said:

Little by little man is coming to feel the unity
that underlies all creation. More and more is the
- great fact of brotherhood coming to be under-
stood. At first man was brother to his fellow
tribesman; then to the members of his nation.

While national feeling is strong, men today are
thinking in racial terms and the race that differs
in any external respects from ours is ostracized.
But to thinking men there is only one humanity,

even as there is only one God. In fact, we are
brothers and sisters, even to the animals and trees,
to the red, bleeding rose that skirts the way, and
to the tall grass that dances when the breeze
makes music at dusk. Even the dumb stones
and the sands of the seashore are part of us, and
when we sleep the last sleep upon this earth, our
cast-off bodies are returned to the primeval clay
from which they sprang. So man, material and
spiritual, is part of the entire universe, material
and spiritual. All the world cries out the great
epic lesson of brotherhood. Brotherhood,
brotherhood, brotherhood is the great song of
creation that may be heard every day and every
hour by him who possesses the ears to hear.

_ Kindness toward the dumb beasts not alone
saves them from unnecessary torture and suffer-
ing but reacts upon our own moral conscious-

ness. Every act of cruelty begets another act
of cruelty. Every act of love begets another
act of love. It is, therefore, necessary that we

think and speak and act in a constructive and
humane manner rather than as brutes, for bru-
tality degrades the individual who exercises it
and impedes civilization in its onward march.

I desire, therefore, to commend to the utmost
the beneficent work that is done by the Los
Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals and all other kindred societies the world
over. For while they protect our dumb friends
they protect us even more. They remind us of
our spiritual obligations and duties and show us
how better to exercise our potentialities for good.

I feel very much with the Scottish poet that

“Man’s inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.”’

“T feel that, too, much unnecessary trouble
and suffering are occasioned in this world by lack
of vision and of a spiritual education. I therefore
indorse with all my heart any cause that stands
for the upbuilding of human kindness and good-
will not alone toward men, but toward all things
that are good. Love alone is constructive.
Hate and evil tear down the edifice of civilization,
cause rottenness in the foundations and imperil
the future well being of the world.—EpGar
F, MAGNIN.

We were much pleased to receive an interesting
account of the Animal Rescue League of New
- Bedford in an April issue of the Morning Mer-
cury of that city. The League has had a very
busy year; their auto covered over four hundred
miles since last June. The work extends from
one end of the city as far as Hast Haven. The
majority of the animals brought in were owner-
less; some diseased animals were brought in by
owners who thought it safer to have them put
mercifully to death. During the first year of the
League 311 animals were cared for, but during the
past year they received and humanely cared for
2708.

John P. Heap, secretary of the Washington
Humane Society, has written an account of that
society from its beginning, which many people
will be interested in as almost everybody goes to
Washington, and animal lovers always like to
know what is being done there. That society
was organized in 1870. The leaflet tells who the
successive presidents of the society were and
what each one accomplished for the work.
During its more than fifty years existence the
society has collected and disbursed $297,842.50,
and installed in the district more than 160
drinking fountains for animals at a cost of $4,540;
145 of which are now in practical every day use.
Its agents have made 26,091 arrests for cruelty
to animals, securing convictions in 24,950. cases.

One handicap, under which the society labors
today, is the fact that it is compelled to operate
under antiquated laws passed in the early days
of the movement for protection of animals from
cruelty when the whole subject was new and
when defects in such laws as were in force in other
jurisdictions had not been brought out by actual
experience. These laws have been but little
changed since their first enactment in 1871.
They need to be revised, rewritten and brought
up to date. Numerous attempts have been
made to have this done, but it can only be accom-
plished by act of Congress, and as that body has
very little time to give to the District of Colum-
bia all efforts in that direction have so far failed.

The present president of the society is the Rev.
C. Ernest Smith who is also president of the
Anti-Vivisection Society of that city.

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DANGEROUS FOOD

The slaughter houses of the country, the great
wholesale plants, and the small scattered sheds,
are places of the most dreadful cruelty.

The flesh of animals which suffered long agony
previous to slaughter, and ended their lives in
lingering torments, is unfit for food.

The very least that can be done, and done right
off, is to provide competent and honest meat
inspectors and strict observance of what laws
there are.

Just as one illustration, consider ‘‘bob veal,”’
not only from the point of cruelty, unnecessary
cruelty, but as a dangerous food for people.

Bob veal is the flesh of immature calves—
calves too young to be safe for food—calves in a
state of semi-starvation, slaughtered by being
slowly bled to death so that the meat may be as
white as the customer demands.

Three weeks used to be the earliest age at
which the federal interstate law permits the
killing of calves.

But any one who sells milk, can make more
money by selling milk than by feeding it to
calves a few weeks. So he takes the chance of
being caught by an occasional meat inspector.
Slaughter houses are hidden away from the public
view. The money reward is immediate.

States and counties make laws about animals
used for food. But often the young calves are
taken across a county line if near-by officers are
an obstacle. Even when the law is effective and
prevents open sale in meat shops, bob veal |
becomes ‘“‘canned chicken”’ or sausage.

Slaughter houses under private control are a
menace to public health.

—From the Western Press Committee, Palo Alto,

California.

As we have said before in OuR FOURFOOTED
FRIENDS the terrible suffering of the young
calves should cure everybody of eating veal. As
the laws of the country and state do not seem to
be sufficient to protect these innocent little
creatures from what we might call fiendish
cruelty the only way these creatures will be
saved is to stop eating veal.—A. H. S.

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A CEMETERY FOR ANIMALS

So many inquiries come to us from far and near
about the cemetery connected with the Animal
Rescue League that it may not be out of place to
give a somewhat detailed account of this ceme-
tery and the regulations about burial.

We do not attempt to profit by it financially.
The gain we get from it is the oft repeated and
grateful thanks of men and women because we
have made it possible for them to have a memorial
spot where they can lay a dearly loved household
companion, albeit only a dog or a cat, and visit
the grave.

“Pine Ridge Cemetery for Animals”’ is situ-
ated in the rear of Pine Ridge Home of Rest for
Horses, at 238 Pine Street, Dedham, Massa-
chusetts. It is a branch of the Animal Rescue
League of Boston.

This cemetery was opened to the public in
1907. It is laid out in winding paths, shaded by
cedar, oak and pine trees, and ornamented by
flowering shrubs and plants. It isa garden ceme-
tery, also a bird reservation, special pains being
taken to attract the birds by placing bird houses
in the trees and providing drinking pools, and
winter feeding-places for them.

A privilege of burial must be applied for at
least twenty-four hours before interment. Ap-
plication should be made at the headquarters of

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PINE RIDGE CEMETERY FOR ANIMALS

the League, 51 Carver Street, Boston, telephone
Beach 244. The cost of a burial is from $12 to
$25 according to location, and must be paid in
advance.

A receiving tomb is provided for winter use, or
as an accommodation. In the latter case, wherea
grave is not engaged, a payment of from $2 to $5
is required, according to the time the tomb is
occupied.

Unless a simple marker or stone not over thirty
inches is used, designs for headstones must be
submitted to the caretaker of the cemetery. No
tall shrubs or trees can be planted’on a lot.

If myrtle, pansies, or other plants are desired
on graves, arrangements must be made with the
caretaker. Special planting must be paid for
according to the cost of plants required. Care of
lots that are planted with flowers is two dollars
annually for a single grave. Individuals may
plant their own lots, but must see that they are
kept in order.

The caretaker of the cemetery cannot be an-
swerable for the safety of movable vases or uten-
sils placed on or near individual lots. When
flowers or wreaths are withered they will be
removed .by the caretaker.

Visitors are requested not to leave boxes or
papers lying about the grounds, but to place
them in a receptacle which will be found on the

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“* Most loving heart and faithful friend ”’

grounds for that purpose. Children without
adults are not admitted to the cemetery.

All graves are tagged with metal markers and
enclosed in wire fencing.

The stone houses—the “Overlook” and the
“Retreat’’—are provided for the comfort of
visitors who wish to rest awhile quietly in the
cemetery, or to bring their lunches and spend a
quiet day in this beautiful spot.

Printed directions for reaching the cemetery by
train, electric cars, or automobiles can be had by
applying at 51 Carver Street.

Donations for maintaining and beautifying
this Garden Cemetery and Bird Reservation
would be gratefully received, also offerings of
plants or shrubs, if the offer is first submitted to
the president of the League, Mrs. Huntington
Smith.

All letters asking for advice or information, and
all business connected with the cemetery, should
be addressed to the Animal Rescue League, 51
Carver Street, Boston, telephone, Beach 244.

This cemetery was planned for the comfort of
men and women to whom these fourfooted con -
panions have been so prized that they echo the
sentiment of Matthew Arnold in his beautiful
poem on his favorite dog ‘“Geist’’ which we
have quoted before in these columns :—

“Yet would we keep thee in our heart—
Would fix our favorite on the scene,
Nor let thee utterly depart
And be as if thou ne’er hadst been.”’

Cemeteries for animals are not a new idea.
Queen Victoria had a cemetery on the Isle of
Wight at Osborne for dogs and cats of the Royal
Household, and marble headstones designate
their graves.

Gladstone had a cemetery near Hawarden
Castle where his dogs were buried, each having a .
granite headstone with the dog’s name and an
inscription.

The cemetery for animals in a corner of Hyde
Park, London, was started in 1881 by the Duke
of Cambridge.

The most noted cemetery for animals probably
in the world is in Paris, La Nécropole Zodlogique,
just outside the Clichy gate. It is in this ceme--
tery that an imposing monument may be seen
almost at the entrance, dedicated to Barry, the
famous St. Bernard who had a record of saving
the lives of forty persons on the snow-clad
mountains of the Alps. |

Wagner’s dogs have a burial place near their
celebrated master’s own tomb and one favorite
dog was placed in the tomb.

FUZZY

_ Died September 26, 1907.
‘* Here lies a little body thatjheld a great heart,”

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THE GRAVE OF BILLY ARLISS. ~
Peter the Bungalow Dog sitting beside it

Wordsworth buried a dog he loved and the fol-
lowing lines close a poem he wrote in his memory:

“Yet they to whom thy virtues made thee dear
Shall find thee through all changes of the year;
This oak points out thy grave; the silent tree
Will gladly stand a monument of thee.”

Lord Byron’s epitaph to his Newfoundland
dog has been often quoted:
‘“When some proud son of man returns to earth,
Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth,
The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe,
And storied urns record who rests below.
When all is done, upon the tomb is seen
Not what he was, but what he should have been.
But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend,
Whose honest heart is still his master’s own,
Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonored falls, unnoticed all his worth,
Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth.

Ye who perchance behold this simple urn,

_ Pass on,—it honors none you wish to mourn;
To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise;
I never knew but one—and here he lies.”’

New York has two cemeteries for animals, the
Hartsdale and the Kanis Ruhe, and there are
other smaller cemeteries, public and _ private,
scattered about our country.

A good inscription to put on the gate of such
cemeteries, and one we hope to place sometime

over the entrance to Pine Ridge Cemetery this
quatrain by Tennyson: |

“That nothing walks with aimless feet,
That not one life shall be destroyed
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete.”

Pause, where apart the fallen sparrow lies,
And lightly tread,
For there the pity of a Father’s eyes
Enshrines the dead. |
—Rev. Joun B. Tass.

STORIES FOR OLD AND YOUNG

A CHAPTER ABOUT DOGS

Warm weather is coming. How many dog
owners think about the comfort of their dogs who
feel the hot weather as much as we do, and some-
times even more? Many a dog, who is crazy
with thirst because no pains is taken to provide
him with water, is called ‘mad.’

We can always find some place to quench our
thirst, but dogs may look in vain about their
own yards and premises and, if chained, or con-
fined in any way, their suffering is so great it may
cause them to have a fit, or be irritable and bite
some one because they are so miserable—and
who can blame them?

Sometimes they leave home and run long dis-
tances to find water, and get driven away from
places where they are only begging for a little
comfort.

A chained dog, any animal kept confined, is
one of the most unhappy creatures on the face of
the earth, and God only knows what they suffer.

Dogs deserve good treatment. A number of
incidents relating to dogs were sent me recently
that are worth repeating:

A NOVEL WALKING STICK

The Scotch collie that raced past 3,000 yards
of enemy trenches, carrying a message that saved
a regiment in the battle of the Argonne, forms the
headpiece of a wonderful carved and painted
cane.

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A. J. Pennock conceived the idea of carving
the heads of hero dogs, especially those whose
deeds of bravery were done during the great war,
on a cane and making the walking stick a me-
mento of the faithfulness of man’s canine friends,
similar to the totem poles of the Alaskan Indians.
The golden-haired collie, a Red Cross dog, died
at the general’s feet after delivering the life-sav-
ing message, but some of the other dogs honored
on the cane are still alive.

“Hero,” a Newfoundland dog, saved the lives
of ninety-one men and women and one child by
swimming from a shipwrecked vessel to the shore
with a lifeline. ‘‘ Jack,” a fox terrier, went over
the top with his master, and the same shot that
killed his master carried away one of his fore legs.

An English setter, “‘ Joe Rodfield,” led his blind
master over the United States from ocean to
ocean and is commemorated on the memorial
cane. “Joe’’ is said to be descended from
“Count Gladstone,” said to be the greatest Eng-
lish setter ever brought to this country. ‘‘Bar-
ry,’ a Switzerland Bernard, saved a child and
forty men from perishing in the snow. The forty-
first man the dog attempted to rescue thought the
dog was attacking him and plunged a knife into
the hero’s side.

Mrs. Pauline Bayer, wife of Charles Bayer, of
Riverside Park, was attacked as she was walking
from the Camden-Trenton trolley along a lonely
street to her home near the river by a man who
was recently paroled by the Board of Pardons
after serving a fraction of a sentence in state

prison for a similar crime in which, a few years
ago, he was accused of attacking and robbing a
nurse. There was much criticism of his parole.

Mrs. Bayer’s husband has been working in
Baltimore. Her assailant evidently knew that
and lay in wait near her home. As she passed a
vacant lot he seized her, but before his fingers
closed on her throat Mrs. Bayer managed to
shout for help. A pet collie dog and a neighbor’s
Airedale answered and attacked the man so
ferociously that he fled, but was captured later
and held without bail. |

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The supply of Carnegie hero medals would
soon give out if all the brave and thoughtful dogs
were remembered. A St. Bernard in the town of

» Everett, Massachusetts, mindful of the traditions

of snowbound travelers and his Alpine monastery,
has just effected a triple rescue that entitles him
to whatever mankind can offer in the way of can-
onization, to match the name of the saint that his
devoted breed already bears. First he woke up
the families in two apartments by his loud barking
when a fire broke out, and then, having started
the human beings on their hurried exodus to
safety, he darted back through the smoke, got the
family cat, which had been forgotten in the ex-
citement, and reappeared with his tribal enemy
in his mouth. Would all human beings have
been so magnanimous?

It is hard to keep pace with these instinctive
heroisms on the part of man’s nearest friend and
confidant among the animals. You can train a
dog to obey, but you cannot teach him to be a
hero. He does these noble deeds for the same
reason that the poem of Dr. Watts gives for the
barking and biting of his kind:

“For God hath made them so.”

The pet dog of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stone, of
Philadelphia, which had been missing since the
death of their two-year-old baby, was found sev-
eral days later when Mr. and Mrs. Stone visited
the Holy Cross Cemetery to place flowers on their
child’s grave. The dog was guarding the grave ~
and was so exhausted from hunger that it was
nearly unconscious. The baby and the dog
were constant companions before the child died.
The dog is believed to have followed the funeral
cars and remained near the grave ever since.

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A NOTABLE CASE

One of the strangest and most remarkable
cases of animal endurance ever brought to the
attention of the Washington Animal Rescue
League was furnished by Lion, a large shaggy dog,
showing traces of both sheep dog and Saint
Bernard, who was recently brought to the home
of the League, on Maryland Avenue, to be
chloroformed. The owner of the dog stated that
he refused to eat, stood around with his head
hanging down and appeared to lack all energy.
He asked that the big pup be relieved from his
suffering.

When the attendants started to prepare the
dog for the cage, one of them discovered that a
piece of fishing line was wound about his throat,
matted in the hair and that the flesh had grown
out around it. The dog was slowly strangling to
death. The string was cut and removed, and the
flesh that had grown around .it burned away.
Lion seemed to understand that the pain caused
by burning was for his own good, and stood it
unflinchingly. |

The dog immediately became active again,
and developed into such a pet that, although
many offers to give him a home have been made
to the League, the directors feel such an interest
in the big dog that he is to be kept at the League
home.

The theory is that some one, supposedly a child,
tied the line around the dog’s throat when he was
a small puppy and that it was left there, gradually
erowing into the flesh asthe dog increased in size.

INSURANCE FOR DOGS

New York, January 13.—It is now possible
for Rover, or Buster, or Fido, or any other dog
that passes to the happy hunting grounds to
leave behind him some balm for his bereaved
owners in the way of cash. An insurance com-
pany announced it would write insurance on dogs,
although such a thing never has been done
before. For the present each dog will be insured
for two-thirds of what his owner thinks he is
worth, at the rate of 12 per cent for male canines
and 15 per cent for the. gentler sex. One excep-
tion is the little fluffy toy dog, who eats too many
chocolates and stays too much indoors to make
him a healthy risk.

CARE OF OUR USEFUL FRIENDS

FOR DOG OWNERS AND OTHERS

Dogs and cats have been seriously hurt by
forcing their heads into empty cans that have
contained fish, meat or soup. Sometimes they
are not able to free themselves. Their terror is
pitiable, and if not found, they may run into
some hiding-place and die a miserable death. It
would be easy to see that a can, when emptied, is
pounded out of shape so that no animal can get
its head into it. To do this might save great
suffering.—Friends and Helpers.

Be sure to place a dish of fresh water where
your dog.and cat can easily reach it. Dogs and
cats often suffer for lack of fresh water.

“ Buster,’”’ a beagle hound owned by Timothy
J. Kelleher, Highland Street, saved the Kelleher
home from catching fire. About 3 o’clock in the
morning Mr. Kelleher was awakened by the dog
licking his hand. The dog seldom goes upstairs.
Mr. Kelleher ordered the dog downstairs. The
animal went as far as the door several times, but
returned each time and licked his master’s hand,
and, finally Mr. Kelleher decided to get up and
see if anything was wrong. When he got down-
stairs he found the stove redhot and the wood-
work near the stove scorched and smoking. It
undoubtedly would have caught fire but for the
dog.—Gllobe.

It should be so arranged that the dogs can get
up or lie down, or run without danger of being
tangled in the chain or leash.

Dogs do not perspire through their skins as we
do, but you may often see the water dripping
from their tongues. They need to drink often.
A dog should never be muzzled so that he cannot
drink or put out his tongue as he naturally
would in hot weather.

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CARE OF HORSES

Get your horses into condition for the hard
farm work—the young horses especially. Many
a colt has been ruined by being put to hard work
without preparation. It is the same with green
horses.

Look out for sore shoulders and backs, espe-
cially when plowing begins. Be sure that your
collars fit. A collar too big is as bad as one too
small. If the collar rides up, use a martingale,
or a girth running from trace to trace, back of the
forelegs.

When horses are worked on a warm day, lift
up the collars now and then, to cool their shoul-
ders, and wipe off the sweat and dirt with your
hand or a bunch of grass.

Sponge off the harness marks carefully when
you stop work at noon and at night, and clean the
inside of the harness, the collars especially. The
salt sweat, drying on the skin and on the harness,
is what makes the trouble.

If the skin is wrinkled under the collar or sad-
dle, bathe it with witch hazel. If the skin is
broken, bathe it with clean water containing a
little salt. Fix the collar, with padding or other-
wise, so that it will not touch the sore spot the
next day. A little carelessness at the beginning
may cause a lot of trouble to you and suffering to
the horse.

Clean your horses at night, give them a good
bed, and water them after they have eaten their
hay. Let them rest an hour before they are
grained. Do not omit to give them water in the
evening at least an hour after their supper, other-
wise they may suffer all night with thirst. The
observance of these simple rules will not cost you
a cent, and will make the difference between a
horse in good spirits and a lifeless one.

DISCOURAGE THE USE OF THE
STEEL TRAP

The steel trap and other traps largely used by
rabbit catchers and gamekeepers have well been
described as abominable devices, both as a means
of indiscriminate destruction and as instruments
of torture most horrible. Not only do the sharp
teeth by which the victim is held and lacerated
cause excruciating pain, but this pain is often

- as we.can get.

prolonged for days and nights together until the
keeper or some passer-by may visit the spot and
put the sufferer out of its misery.

When one considers the enormous expense of
keeping in captivity wild animals and reptiles
and the fact that their captivity does no one any
possible good, must we not wonder when the
world will become sufficiently reformed to expend
this vast sum on making more numerous beau-
tiful parks in all parts of our cities, adorned with
flowers, shrubs ‘and trees which the poorer classes

-of city people can enjoy, or even in turning some -

of that money into the humane work of caring for
old and sick horses who have given their strength
and life’s service to mankind, and in humane
work for all the lower animal creation?—A. H.5.

‘‘ Animal shelters are not a matter of sentiment,
but of the health and comfort of every commu-
nity. It is one of the duties devolving upon
every large town and city to provide a shelter for
dogs and cats where they will be humanely cared
for, either by returning lost animals to owners,
placing desirable animals in good homes, or put-
ting to death by the most humane methods
those that cannot be placed in good homes.”’

‘““We plead the cause of those dumb mouths
that have no speech.”—LONGFELLOW.

“LEAGUE NEWS. AND NOTES

During the month of May the League re-
ceived 4448 cats, 489 dogs, 34 horses, and 36
smaller animals. We placed 76 dogs in good
homes, and 56 cats.

By this time the catnip has a good start and
there must be large bushes of it in the country.
We invite our friends to remember our cats and
we would be grateful for as many boxes of catnip
It not only makes the cats happy
but it is a pleasure to us who are the League to
watch their enjoyment.

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During Humane Week everybody passing
through our office received a humane leaflet
of some kind. One thousand Teachers’ Bulletins
were given out, and a large number of Our
FoURFOOTED FRIENDS, besides a number of our
story leaflets.

Two little boys came into the League one day
with a paper bag in which they had two very
small kittens. One of the boys said, ‘“‘ We were
standing outside and a lady asked us to bring
_ them in to you.” The kittens were about a
week old and in good condition. Miss Starbuck
asked them, ‘Do you know that this is Humane
Week?”’

“Yes, my teacher told me all about it.”

Then the smaller boy pulled the sleeve of the
older one, and said in a stage whisper, ‘“‘ What
does she mean by Humane Week?”’

The larger boy looked very mischievous and
-answered, ‘‘She means that you cannot hit ani-
mals this week, but you can next week.”

These boys were liberally supplied with
humane stories.

Ernest Brewer of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
saved a young squirrel from a dog and put it
back on the tree with its mother. Wesent hima
set of stories. If the names of children who do
these kind acts are sent in to us we would always
be glad to send them some of our stories.

REPORT OF THE BRANCHES
Miss MARGARET STARBUCK

The entire number of animals taken from the
branches or receiving stations during April was
598.

Cambridge Neighborhood House—I found
everything in good condition, excepting a cage
door needed repairing. Ninety animals taken in,
and papers and reports circulated. The janitor
is very kind and interested in our work.

North Bennett Street Industrial School—
Everything going on well there, 119 animals
taken during the month of April. The Rev.
Walter E. C. Smith, one of our directors, went to

ceived 64 animals in April.

this settlement house by request and gave a talk
to the children. The teacher, Miss Crane, said
that even the smallest child was interested and
remembered much of what was said to them.

In spite of all the League has done in Cam-
bridge, the North End still has many neglected,
deserted animals wandering about its streets, and
humane educational work is clearly needed there
with children and adults.

Parish House, East Boston—Miss Pote re-
} She has quite a few
telephone calls asking her what to do for sick
animals. One day the bell rang and a little girl
walked into the lower hall (she could not have
been over seven years old) and called up the
stairs,—‘‘Is the lady doctor in?’ ‘There isn’t
any lady doctor here,’ answered Miss Pote.
“Tsn’t this the Animal Rescue League?” “ Yes,”
said Miss Pote. ‘‘Well,’’ said the little girl,
opening a tiny box,—“ Here is a baby chicken.
The mother hen stepped on it and we think his
leg is broken.” Miss Pote examined it and
decided it was only lame.

While I was talking to Miss Pote the bell rang
and four boys and one girl, all strangers to her,
came to say that a dog had been run over and
killed. She gave them a box, and after a little
while they returned with the little animal so
nicely laid in it that he looked asleep and we
were some time deciding whether he could be
really dead. The children looked very serious
over it. I remember that fond as I was of
animals as a child I would not have lifted up a
strange dead animal. It all goes to prove what
influence our Receiving Stations have over the
children of the neighborhood.

At the House of Good-Will, East Boston, 17
animals were taken in the month of April. No
special interest is taken there and we are deciding
to transfer the work to some other quarter.

At 109 Northampton Street, 13 animals were
taken. Everything as usual is OK,—not, only
the cages but the whole place.

At Roxbury, Mrs. Moog took 131 animals.
Everything was in good order there.

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NOTES FROM THE DESK

_ At the time the new reports were sent out one

happened to be sent to Mrs. P. L. of Dorchester,
whose little daughter twelve years old was just
recovering from rheumatic fever. The report was
given her to read while her mother was out.
Upon the mother’s return. she heard the little girl
talking in an excited tone to someone. She
looked in and saw her daughter sitting up in bed
with the family cat ‘“‘Coo,” fifteen years old, close
beside her, looking up into her face -with his wise
old eyes, just as if he understood every word (and
who can say he did not). ‘‘Coo,” said Virginia,
“T am going to buy you a grave. See right here
(pointing to the picture of Pine Ridge Cemetery)
and I am going to save every cent myself to pay
for it, ten cents every day if I can doit. It will
_ take me about four months to save it. You are
going to have a grave all by yourself in that lovely
place.”’ Virginia has kept her promise to “Coo”
for she has opened an account with the Animal
Rescue League and has started with two dollars.
She is rather worried as to how she will manage
if the cat dies before the grave is paid for. The
cat was her’ grandmother’s much loved pet,
- picked up by her in a very forlorn condition,
having been tossed about by cruel boys. When
the old lady got too feeble to care for the cat it
became Virginia’s constant companion for the
past three years.

Mrs. H., of Dover, Massachusetts, is sending us
large boxes of catnip. Cats do enjoy it. It
takes so little to. make them happy and how few
of them get that little.

I was talking to a woman lately who at one
time was so down and out that her case was very
pitiful. She had two babies, she was not at all
well, and her husband spent more or less of his
time at Deer Island, being habitually in an intox-
icated condition. She worked out by the day
in places where she was allowed to take her baby
with her. Her husband often used some of her
earnings for drink. When seen lately, after an
absence of seven or eight years, she looked so
prosperous that I inquired how she had been get-
ting along. She said, ‘‘Do you know I have had

nothing but good luck ever since the night just
seven years ago that I heard something crying at
my back door. I found a starved little kitten
that I have cared for ever since. My husband
has a fine position, I do not have to work out by
the day any more, I am strong and well, the
children are in school, and I lay it all to the luck
the cat brought me. He is one of the family and
I consider his likes when I go to market, just as I
do the rest. I never have had one bit of ill luck
since the day he walked into my back door.”

When seven stores were burned on Harvard
Avenue, Allston, one night some weeks ago,
knowing there were cats in these stores our Mr.
Stanley was sent out to look around to help any
injured ones that might be found. Some were
found drowned in the cellars, but none were
found injured. About two weeks later a crowd
collected outside of Hayda’s Candy Store, so I
looked in and saw his cat sitting in the window
washing a kitten. I inquired of the storekeeper
and found that when the fire started the cat
rushed out through an open door so they knew
she was not burned, and the next week reappeared,
seating herself on the doorstep surrounded by the
débris. Someone had found and saved one of her
kittens, so she happily lay in the window, day
after day while the repairing was going on,
guarding her kitten. Mr. Hayda says this cat
is worth five hundred dollars to him, she kept the
store free of rats. Whenever she caught a rat
she would lay it at his feet and wait for a pat of
approval. Mr. Hayda says that one rat in a
candy store can be accountable for a great deal of
damage, and his store was overrun with them

_before this cat came to him.

A short time ago I found a badly exhausted
cat on Commonwealth Avenue. He could
hardly stand and his mouth was hanging open.
I knew he was someone’s pet and through the
help of the janitor the owner was found. He had
only been lost thirty-six hours, but he had never
been out before, and although he had only
strayed a little distance he was bewildered. This
only shows in a small way what agony pet animals
can suffer when lost.—M. 8S.

OUR EOUREOOTED FRIENDS 13

A RESCUED CAT

The other day one of our agents, John Finlay-
son, climbed up a tree ninety feet to get a cat.
He borrowed a painters’ extension ladder in
order to reach this high branch. He rescued the
cat, but tore his suit so badly that he had to buy
a pair of overalls to wear back to the League.

The Animal Rescue League and the police
co-operate in the work of rescuing homeless
animals. It was suggested that cards should be
put up in every police station in the city, so that
the new men on the police force would know where
to apply when lost dogs, or injured dogs or cats
were in need of care. This suggestion was made
to the superintendent of the police force, Michael
H. Crowley, from whom we received a very
courteous reply. He wrote:—

“Replying to your letter, I have taken the
matter up with Commissioner Curtis and he
wishes me to express to you his sincere thanks
and gratitude for the very valuable services that
your Society, through Mr. Archibald Mac Donald
and Dr. Frank Sullivan, has rendered this Depart-
ment in instructing our police officers in the
things they should know about animals. The

Commissioner hopes to be able to reciprocate and
wishes me to say to you that if at any time the
Department can show its appreciation in a con-
crete fashion, it will be glad to do so.

If you will send me the cards that you describe
I shall certainly see that they will be posted in a
conspicuous place in the station houses. If you
can send me thirty, I would appreciate it very
much.”’

These cards were printed, and sent to Super-
intendent Crowley, and we have had a second
letter from him, acknowledging receipt of same,
and telling us they would be sent to all the sta-
tions at once.

The cards read as follows:

THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE
51 CARVER STREET, BOSTON.
is open day and night to receive
LOST—INJURED—HOMELESS
DOGS OR CATS
Agents sent out through the day only
TELEPHONE BEACH 244.
Receiving Stations Open Days Only.
RECEIVING STATIONS
Roxbury; 19 Lambert Ave.
Cambridge; 79 Moore St.
South End; 109 Northampton St.
East Boston; 79 Marion St.
North End: 39 North Bennett St.

WHERE?

Just where should be the proper place
Within the human catalogue
Of him who says with scornful face—
“T’ve always hated dogs?”
—ALicE JEAN CLEATOR.

Preparations for our Annual Fair in December
are already under way. Miss Phillips, manager
of the Animal Rescue League Sewing Circle,
wishes to announce to the members and others
that there are a number of aprons, holders, bibs
for children, and other articles cut out ready to be
made. If any one wishing to assist in this work
will either write or come to the League she will
be supplied with work.

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“BENEDICTION OF THE BEASTS”

It is said that at churches dedicated to Saint
Anthony in Spain, Portugal, and Italy, on St.
Anthony’s day, January 17, hundreds of owners
of horses, asses, cattle, dogs, cats and even hogs
bring their animals to be blessed and sprinkled.
It is believed that this service places the beasts
under the protection of St. Anthony, and a few
cents contributed to those who officiate at the
ceremony is regarded as a wise investment, as a
sort of insurance. St. Anthony’s reputation as
the protector of the lower animals extends partic-
ularly to pigs.—Indianapolis News.

LETTERS

| Boston, Mass., March 14, 1921.
In reply to your card of March 14, 1921, it
gives me pleasure to say that the kitten about
which you inquire is in the best of health and also
contented. He is larger than any cat I have pre-

viously seen, for his age which I judge to be about —

two and one-half months old, and is a splendid
pet. He is not a ratter, as we are not troubled
with those pests. Am enclosing check for one
dollar which I know you can use. Thanking
you for your consideration, I am, Very truly
yours, L. M. P.

Boston, March 15, 1921.

In reply to your inquiry regarding the cat
which I took from you on January 10. _I would
say that he has proved to be a most satisfactory
cat In every way. He is very affectionate and is
areal pet with us all. He is also very neat, and
we have had no trouble with mice since he came,
although before his arrival we had been bothered
with them a good deal. He seems to be in the
best of health and spirits. Thanking you for
your kindness, I am, Very truly yours, W. C. H.

Dorchester, Mass., March 15, 1921.
The kitten which my daughter took from
Carver Street is doing well, and he seems very
contented; has no one to bother him, has a fine
appetite. ‘We have named him Carver for the

street he came from. He already knows his -

name.—Very truly, F. L. B.

Boston, MASSACHUSETTS,
April 24, 1921.

Pardon my delay in answering your inquiry re-
garding cat which I got from you December 11,
1920. At first Dick was very wild, stayed down
cellar and ate nothing for about ten days. Then
he began to realize he was among friends and
started to make himself at home. Now he seems
to be the boss of the place. He even shows my
big dog Scotty that it is dangerous to come too
close, unless he is smiling. By the way, I got
Scotty from you over a year ago, and today he is
as fine a watch dog as there is in the state. He
weighed sixty pounds, today he weighs one
hundred and thirty-five pounds. Dick and Scot-
ty are both good hunters and between them keep
the place clear of all undesirables. My care-
taker, when alone, is perfectly happy, because he
has his Scotty and Dick with him at all times.
Therefore I feel deeply indebted to you for both
Scotty and Dick.—G. H. B. .

Cambridge, Feb. 22, 1921.

In regard to the cat taken by me December 1,
1920, we consider him a very valuable addition to
our family. He is very kind and playful; the
children love him and treat him like a baby.
He is a good mouser. We had lots of mice, but
since he came they have entirely disappeared.
We were very fortunate in getting such a nice
home cat. Should anything go wrong with him
in the near future I will surely let you know.—
O. C. THOMPSON.

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at Pine Ridge, Dedham, Mass., under the management of the
Animal Rescue League. The charge for privilege of burial in
individual lots is from $12 up, according to location.

Cremation

The League now has a crematory where small animals can
be cremated. The ashes are delivered to owners or buried at
Pine Ridge. The charge for each cremation is $6. Arrange-
ments for burials or cremations must be made at the head-
quarters of the Animal Rescue League, 51 Carver Street, Boston.
Telephone Beach 244.

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ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE

51 CARVER
STREET

Office Hours:
11 a. m. to 6 p. m., daily

Telephone
Beach 243

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The Animal Rescue League

A wholly independent organization, having no connec-

Organized February 9, 1899 . é 2 :
ke with any other humane society in Massachusetts

| Incorporated March 13, 1899

Administration Building, Kennels, Infirmary,
Receiving Station and Crematory
for Small Animals

51 CARVER STREET, BOSTON

Branch Receiving Stations

POX BURY ayes uy at ee lay Bares totes here eta eae 19 LamMBERT AVENUE
NortuH Enp, INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL . . 89 NortH BENNET STREET
SoutH ENp oe elie eS ote E> polskie se A OOS NORTHAMPTON ES TRENT
CAMBRIDGE, NEIGHBORHOOD Hous—r . . . . °. 79 Moors STREET
STONEHAM wil tne tt Maisie isa, te Boho” ole sok set eo LVL ARDS TR EET
East Boston, Community Housk . . . . . 79 Marion STREET
MEDFIELD... » ». . « Bartiett-ANGELL Home ror ANIMALS
Animeals received an 192040 er tees me ee oe eee eee ome 4 ORO
Animals brought in’ by-Visitorss.12) sen ese e fee ee ee 10,200
Copies of humane literature distributed .- . . . . . +. ~~ 59,250

FOUR MOTOR COLLECTING VANS AND EIGHT AGENTS
are at work every week day collecting animals.

Number of. calls: made in°1920~ cies 3 as oy eee 25,261
Number of ‘animals collected) 17% i255, oe See ee 38,086

A Free Clinic for Animals

has been maintained for 20 years in charge of the
League Veterinarian Dr. Frank J. Sullivan.

Number of cases of small animals treated in 1920 . . . .:. +. =. =~. =I17,775
Number of pedlers’ and cabmen’s horses treated, 1920. . . . . . . 475
Number of horses humanely killed, 1920 . : ; isa ei ites a Se 664
Number of horses given vacations a a ee eee ten + Bhan h tpi we oie Lev 36

PINE RIDGE COUNTRY ANNEX AND HOME OF REST FOR HORSES
238 Pine Street, Dedham

A farm of twenty-one acres, where horses belonging to owners
who cannot afford to pay for board and care, are given vaca-
tions of from two to six weeks and restored to condition for
work, or humanely killed, also a few boarders received.

PINE RIDGE CEMETERY FOR SMALL ANIMALS
238 Pine Street, Dedham

Arrangements made for burials at 51 Carver Street

For maintaining this work which is constantly increasing, and extends over a wide area into suburban towns and
cities, the League, knowing it is a great public benefit from a sanitary as well as humane point of view, appeals for gifts,
bequests and members, which are greatly needed.

The Animal Rescue League . . . . . 51 Carver Street, Boston

MRS. HUNTINGTON SMITH, President MRS. ARTHUR T. CABOT, Secretary
MR. FREDERICK J. BRADLEE, Treasurer