IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) {./ iL ^ 1.0 1.1 '^1^ tarn itt IM 12.2 ^ U& 12.0 1^ 1^ 1^ Hiotographic Sdeoces Corporation 23 WfST t\km STRUT WfBSTIR,N.Y. 14510 (716) •72-4503 4^ 4^\ WrS CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/iCiVIH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques Technical and Bibiicgrap.f hiiiiiblt'Kt friends, bright creature t Kcorn not one, Tile daisy, by tlieHhadow that it caKtH, Protects the linKerin); dewilrop from the mn." — iVunlsworth, " He prayeth best who loveth best. All thing's, both );rcat and small ; For the dear (iod that loveth us, He made and loveth all." -Oiltrtiliie, Offioe~103 BAY STREET. Telephone 1058. ■ ( S TORONTO: Printed for the Society by the Massey Press. 1892. . Officers of tbe lldtDdoe Society. 1891-1892. PRESIDENT. VV. R. BROCK. VICE-PRESIDENTS. .). (iEORUE HODOIN8, LL 1). RKV. D. J. MACUONNKLL. P.D JAMKS H, I'KARCK. J. J. KELSO. TREASURER. LiEUT.-Coi.. JOHN I. DAVIDSON. SECRETARY. MISS ANNA B. DELL. uinco I \jno. RKV. CANON DuMOULIN, D.C.L. RKV. JOSEPH WILD, D.l). REV. A. H. BALDWIN, M.A. MRS. C. B. ORASKTT. MRS. S. (i. WOOD. • MRS. C. E. LEIGH. CAl'T. W. F. MoMAisTKR. MERVYN MACKENZIE. MISS WORKMAN. A. (i. STRATH Y. J. KIDSTON MACDONALD. S. G. WOOD. BEVERLY JONES. H. A. MASSEY. MRS. E. A. MEREDITH. MRS. J. HELLIWELL. MISS DUPONT. MRS. STANTON. MISS B. A. GWYNNE. T. MoCAUSLAND, M.D. J. W. LESSLIE, M D. MISS M. C ELLIOTT. STAFF INSPECTOR ARCHIBALD GEORGE TAUNT. W. A. SIMS. E. E. A. DuVERNET. HONORARY SOLICITORS. C. R. W. BIGGAR, Q.C. (City Solicitor). E. E. A. DuVERNET. F. M. MOBSON. BEVERLY JONES. 8. G. WOOD, LL.B. HONORARY VETERINARY SURGEON. ANDREW SMITH, Principal Ontario Veterinary College. PROSECUTING AGENTS. STAFF INSPECTOR ARCHIBALD. SER FiyASCK. H. A. MAHMKV A. t». MTKATIIY. V. W. (JKASKTT. HUMANE EDUCATKiS' ANI> II ANUS i)h' MKIK )'. MRS. S. (I. WOOD. KKV. CANON Ui MOULIN, D.C.L. CAPT. W. F. MtMASTKU. MISS W. A. WILLS. MI.SS WORKMAN./ CRUELTV. MRS. S. O. WOOD. T. MtKAUSLAND, M.D. MISS DUPONT. (:E0R(JK TAL'NT. MRS. MERKDITH. MRS. (IRASETT. PROSECUTION ANlJ LEGISLATKiN. BKVKRLY JONKS. S. O. WOOD. MRS. 8. (J. WOOD. MISS CARTY. MERYYN MACKKNZIK. K. E. A. DiVKRNKT. BRANCH SOCIETIES. J. J. KELSO. MRS. .STANTON. LITERATURE AND PUIlLICATlON. DR. J. OBOROB HODUINS. MRS. S. (». WOOD. MISS OWYNNF, MRS. (iRASETT. NoTK— Th« Prtildent of the Society {tn-nfli-in member oi »U Coiiimlttece. MRS. C. B. GRA8ETT. MRS. S. O. WOOD. MISS hun<;erford. OEOROE TAUNT. MRS. JOHNSTON. COLLECTOftS. MISS DUPONT. MISS O. O'HARA. MRS. SAVKiNY. MRS. O. RIDOUT. MISS TEMPLE. MRS. MEREDITH. BALD 3. LL.B LIFE MEMBERS. Nami. MISS E. A. OWYNNE J. O. HEWARD' HENRY OOULDINO A. G. STRATHY .... THOMAS McCAUSLAND, M.D. H. A. MAS8EY - . . * Deoeksed. St'HacRiiTios. - atl.ew 200 100 lOO PRKPAI^ORY N0». 1 1 'I'hu uiiikl prautlne o( propurinK an Annual Kuport h»i not been followed lo this initano*. Tho rvainni woru many : — 'I'ho moat important ono wui that our mcmberi, luhiorlberi and frieudi requiru fuller and more lyitomatlcally arranged information on Humane Mooioty work than a mere report of the pro- ceeding! of our Society could furniih. It wai, thoroforo, necctiary not only to give a detailed, but neoeiiarily a brief, blrd'i-eyo view of what the Toronto Humane Nooiety hai Insen doing linue iti eitabliihment in 18N7 ; but alio to thow what hai been done and ii doing by ilmilar Societlei elsewhere. Further, and more important itill, it wai deiirably to proaent the laylngi and doingi of theiie other Mocietie* in luoh a light of faota and figures so that our memberi, our lubioriberi and the public generally would lee how abiotutely neoeiiary humane worit wai in a oommunity luoh ai ourt ii, and a« theirs is also. To aid in this object a few instances are here cited, under the heads of " Ouelly to Women and Children," " Cruelty to Animals," and "Thoughtless and Miscellaneous Cruelty." For a home example of the harsh and ill-treatment of women and children, we need not go beyond our own record— although both Knglish and American reports give numerous very painful examples of the same sad kind. .StatT Inspector Archibald, in his summary Report on page 'JH), states that during the four years of the existence of the Society the following oases were dealt with by his department, vi/. : — "'Children ill-treated and neglected by their parents and guardians, 445 ; children deserted, .'>)); wives ill-lreated by their husbands, 770; wives deserted by their husbands, 203; and in destitution 427 : making a total of say .'<,40(), or an average of 860 per annum. In addition to the foregoing, there were over two hundred boys committed to the Victoria Industrial .School and other Homes in Toronto ; and about fifty girls were commited to the Oirls' Industrial and other Homes in the city." A striking e.\ample of the kind of " ill-treatment" mentioned above will be found on page 20 of this Report. The Krie County (or Buffalo) Humane Society's Report for IHOl (just received) furnishes us with a striking example of the second class of cases mentioned, under the head of " Cruelty to Animals." Mr. Broderick, Stock Yard Agent of the Society, in his report says : — '* Two car loads of calves (108) came from St. Louis . . twenty-two were found dead ; two badly crippled ; nearly all sick. . . . Some of these calves were more than two weeks on the road, slowly starving to death. . , . It is simply impossible to give more than a vague idea . . . of the amount of dead and crippled stock unloaded here every day. In the busy season it take« about twenty men, with teams, to remove the dead and crippled stock. In September the Agent cared for sixteen crippled cattle, seventy-six hogs, and ninety-one sheep, and had ordered seventy thousand hogs to be fed and watered." No wonder, therefore, that, in the Society's protest and appeal to the public, it says : — " If your generosity . . . will give us the means to keep an agent [en.ployed] from morn- ing until night feeding nnd watering [cattle and other animals], killing the crippled ones immedi- ately [on their arrival], shortenik ^ the hours of delay en route, you do not need to be shown [the result] . . . instead of the reverse, of cattle which lie hours, or days, sometimes, in suffering agony, trampled on, unfed, unwatered, simply because the public do not rise in their wrath, demanding less cruelty and more thought on the part of the army of men who bring cattle from the pUins to the Atlantic Coast." The Toronto Humane Society would echo this appeal, and ask for help for the same object. I'RKFATOKY NOTK. ^it liMtKnoc. i|iiir(i fiillor and e|M>ri of th« pro- , liird'ieye vl«w 8N7 ! but aUo to 1 doioK* o' theHe loriberi and the imunily luoh as iieliy to Women Ity." I we need not go ou» very painful port on page '2(1, oaiei were dealt lildren doierted, !■. 203 ; and in I addition to the trial Mohool and ktrial and other The following home examp'et ot ••Cruelty to AnimaU " are reported to our Hoclely by ('on- •table Wlllli (|>age'JI : — " In the oaae of the >i>in Association at Iienver, last year, commend themselves to the members of the Toronto Humane Moclety. He said, and our experience justifies the remark, that ; " We accomplish our work mainly by making people think." This is the object aimed at in the preparation and publication of this Report. The special attention of all friends of humane work is called to the highly interesting papers on pages 73'SI and pages N.t-NT of this Report, on the origin and history of Humane Societies in Kng- land, in the United .States and elsewhere. The Hrst paper is from the gifted pen of the Vener- able Archdeacon Farrar, of London, F^ng'and, and the second was prepared by Mrs. White, the able and energetic President of the Womens' Branch of the Pennsylvania Humane .Society. The reading of these invsluable papers will, we trust, prove to be a gi^at treat to our members. J. a. H. TiiRONTO, Jidy, IHO'i. lund on page 20 ed) furnishes us of " Cruelty to jre found dead ; >n two weeks on an a vague idea 9 busy season it September the id had ordered it says :— red] from morn- d ones immedi- be shown [the les, in suffering n their wrath, ng cattle from same object. I. f "MANY HANDS MAKB MOMT WORK." TABbB 09 aON9BNf jS. I it Paoi I. Prkliminarv UKKKHKXCK T" H'(pH»IRH am> 1'hkhk.nt EkkipRTm, Ktc. ■ - -17 liuiiione KffortH in ls";t • -17 Our Present Hoeiety— Its Ohjeitx • 17 What the Hocietj Sought to l'iv\cnt - 18 What the Swiety Sonjflit to l'ri)niotc - • l8 Whr.; is, and Wlint is Not Cruelty - - 18 Dell itiiin "f Criii'lt - ■ - 18 Motive foiCriielty - - -11) What is Not Cruelty - - • • 1« I'raeticol Retleetious on Cruelty in (Jeneral • 1ft II. AiTor iMKNT OK • City Himaxk Okficrb and tiik Rkhilt • • - -in Apiwintment by the Police ConiniissionerB - 20 Sunuimry of Work Done by the City Humane Otlicer in 1887-1891 20 Sample Case of Cruelty to Children - - 20 Fines Received by tlie City in Cases of Cruelty • 20 Provisions of the Dominion Law Against Cruelty 21 Character of the Work Pcrfonneartment - - - 22 Police Rei^ulations in ReganI to Cruelty • 22 Horse Troughs and Drinking Fountains - 22 III. Bands 01' Mercy FoRiiBi) IN M \\v Placks. 24 Report of Golden Rule Band of Jlcrcy, Toronto ■ 24 Band of Mercy in Scarboro' Township 2(1 Band of Mercy at Cojwnhagcn, Ontario - • 2(1 Band of Mercy at Dunlmyne, Ontario • ■ 26 Bandof Mercy at St. Thomas, Ontario • ■ 20 .Mi-8. S. O. Wood's Paper on Bandi of Mercy 28 Suggestions in Regard to Bands of Mercy - - 2U Prizes to Children for Compositions on Humane Sulijeots ■ • - • - 28 IV. TiiK SociKTY's Promotion op Pkevestivk .'.xn Rk- XKDIAb MEAMI'REH • • • - 2I> What was Desirable to Have Done - - 2it Pre iminary Public Meeting on the Subject - - 29 Act Relating to Negkutert Children • - 30 Use of Tobacco by Minors Forl)idden • - SO Licensing of Newsboys and Vendors of Small Wares 30 Success of the Newsl)oy3 Licensing System - - 31 Care and Di»|>osal of Unlicensed Dogs • • 31 Report of the Society on the Subject - - 31 Description of the Lethal Chamber - - 33 Report of Dr. J. W. Lesslie on the Chamber ■ 34 V Al'l'OIXTMEXr AND WORK OK THE DISHOrS'ING CoM- MISSIOX ...... 34 Circular IsBue Mr. H. A. Massey on a Case of Over-Crowding' 40 Rei>ortcr of The Mail on the same subject ■ ■ 40 Other Forms of Cruelty to Cattle - - 46 Over-Crowding of Street Cars - - - -47 Deputation to Toronto Street Car Co. on the subject 47 Reimrt of the Deputation to the Company - - 47 Letter, of Col. Orasett on the subject - 48 ApiK'al to the City Ministers on the subject - 48 Two Deputations to the City Clergy - 48 Ambulance for DisableJef!t ;t7 jfCt 38 ion 38 . 30 39 SO ain 30 to ■ 30 nk-Rcin 40 ect 40 ATtONOKTIlK PRKHH 41 tea and Canada - 41 AL EPPOHT8 KY TUB . 42 . 42 ?eta 44 otiiiir 44 It with 44 ania 4,'-. er-Cn)W(linj.' ■ 4U e subject • 40 46 . 47 Co. on the sulijei't 47 Company 47 Jett ". 48 le Mid>Je<-l 48 K.v 48 - 48 iKCKLKHS EARNBIT. .--.o ) Magazliu, on the . SO . 60 admit on Reckless . 52 anton Uestruction . M efeat of the Trap • 62 Toronto Himank . ,13 )re» S3 irds 53 63 . 63 • 63 IRTT rOR TIIK Do. . 64 ect 64 [>oniinion Society 65 to on the subject 55 XI. Formation m- Lm-Al. Himahr SotrKTiKH ■ lX)caI Hranrh Societies as \uxiliories Need of Local Humane Societies How to Orifaniie a Branch Hmnane Sociclx Rules (or Drench Hun me Societies ■ Sununary Slutcment of Desirable Objects to be Ac- uoniplialieil . . . ■ • .'i7 Miacellanenus Things to be Done • • • 6V XII. MlSCBI.LANKOIg MaTTKR* AN-I) PROCRKDIMIS .17 The Children's Aiil S!' Honor CcrtiBcates for Life Having -SO Prison and Reformatory System • • - 00 Prison Reform Approvess • - 91 Dear Old Hess ■ . . ivi Dialogue of the Horses .... 11.2 Mute Heroism of Animals in Pain • ■ 9:< Uncle Jake's Dumb Critters . . -93 The Itog's Great I>ee)« A Dog Wins a Decoration . - 97 Jack ■--■•■• 98 Sagacious Railway Ikig" -98 Neddy - - ■ - • - . 99 A Canine Hero • - ■ 99 Seven Little Pigeons .... njo Baby's life Save A Itand of Mercy 'ii Parental Solicitiwle 27 A Dir'yrace to the Family :\2 Waitinir their Turn .'M The Act ()( lliahorniiiK a Cow 31 Section of the Head of an Ox or Cow mi " Where is the Keniainder of Your Horse '■" ;)7 The " Dockinj; " Fashion Reversetl 38 Unsheltered from the Storm 30 More Horse Sense — Jones and Turfer 40 Ainliitious Coachman's " Show-off" 41 A Humane Driver's Team 41 Trni> Shooting and )taimeeetancy 68 Rescueil from Drowning no Ciipture and I'licertainty (i'2 Carolling in Sjiring 70 Faithful FrieiHls— Watehing and Waiting 72 A Serenade 7tJ Noble Specimens— And Well Cared for 78 Blithe Itird-Singing 82 Fosterage— Humane Society Beginnings HO A Happy Family 0(» Scenes of ChildhootI 04 The Faithful Friend 06 Five Si)eckle 70 liting 72 7« 'or 78 S2 in»9 80 IXi !t4 Wl sure Complete... 1(I3 112 ARTICLE I.— NAME. The title of this organization shall be " The Toronto Humane Sooibtv." ARTICLE II. — UB.IECTH. Its objects shall be to promote and develop a humane public sentiment, and to secure the enactment and enforcement of suitable laws for the prevention of cruelty. ARTICLE in. — SPIRIT. There shall be nothing in its management or publioationa to interfere with its receiving the support of all good people. ARTICLE IV. — MEMBERS. The Society shall consist of Active Members, Life Members, Honorary Members, and Asso- ciate Members. ARTICLE v. — TERMS OF MEMBERSHIP. Any person elected by the Society may become a Life Member by paying $50.00 ; an Hono- rary Member by being elected as such by the Society ; an Active Member by paying not less than $1.00 per annum. Children »re eligible for Associate Membership on payment of .SI.OO per annum. ARTICLE VL — PRIVILEdES OF MEMBERSHIP. Life and Active Members shall be entitled to all the privileges of the Society. Honorary Members shall be entitled to all its privileges during the term of their membership. Associate Members shall receive all the publioationa of the Society, but shall not be entitled to vote. ARTICLE VIL— OFFICIR.S. The OflScers of this Society shall be a President, four Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, and Board of Directors, composed of not less than fifteen gentlemen and ten ladies and the Staff Inspector of the Toronto police force, to be elected at the Annual Meeting. ARTICLE VIII. — DIRECTORS. The Officers and other Members annually elected by the Members of the Society shall together constitute a Board of Directors. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at least once in each month. Special Meetings may be called by the Secretary at the request of three members of the Board, or upon order of the President. Five members of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE IX. — OTHER OFFICERS. All Other officers shall be elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, and shall hold office during pleasure, and until their successors have been elected or appointed. ARTICLE X.— POWERS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Directors may enact by-laws for the transaction of their business, and for the regulation of paid officials ; remit the annual or other dues of any member of the Society, and generally shall, during their term of office, have the full and complete management, control and disposal of the affairs, property and funds of the Society. THE REVISED CONSTITUTION. The Direotori ihall have the power of granting oertifiuatea, or other marks of recognition, of aott of humanity or bravery, to such persons as, upon proper proof, shall have been shown to have been personally instrumental in preventing specific acts of cruelty, or in saving life. ARTICLE XI. — ANNUAL MKETISll. The annual meeting of this >Society shall be held in May in each year, at such time and place as may be announced by reasonable public notice, and other meetings of the Society may be called at any time by the President upon the written request of four Directors, by giving three days notice thereof in a daily paper published in the City of Toronto, or by ciroular. At all meetings of the Society, except the annual meeting, nine members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. ARTICLE XII. — AMENDMENTS. No alteration of this Constitution shall be made except upon proper motion in writing made at a meeting of the So iety, and adopted at a subsequent meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present. ' Wild deer, in the forest iflade, Raise tliy timid, graceful head ; In thy dark and lustrous eyes I^, what stirring benuty lies! Live the lite awarded thee, Under the wild forest tree ; Hand of mine shall not destroy Lite «» full of harmless Joy." reoognition, of ■hown to have ime and place may be called Dg three day* 11 conatitute a writiog made .8 vote of the ^g-f ntos of the Sotietg. WLE 1. — OKDKK OK BUHIVESH. The order of busineEW at meetinja of the Society, or Dlreotore, ihall be aa foUowi :— Calling of the roll ; reading of the minutes ; reports of oommitteea ; report of treararer ; communications and resolutions ; unfinished business ; new business ; election of members, RULE II.— BTANDrNd CUHMITTEB8. There shall be the following standing committees, consisting of not less than four members each, and the Secretary shall act as a consulting member of each oommittee : — The President shall be ex-ofieio s member of all committees. Committee on Membership aiid Finance. Committee on Cruelty. Committee on Humane Education and Bands of Mercy. Committ'ee on Prosecution, Laws and Legislation. Committee on Branch Societies. Committee on Literature and Publishing. BULK III. — MKBTIKOS OF COMMITTEES. Committees shall keep full minutes of their proceedings, and transmit the same to the Sec- retary, for the information of the Directors. Due notice of the meeting of the Board and of its Committees shall be given by the Secretary of this Society. RDI.K IV. — DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 1. President. The President shall be the executive officer of the Society, and shall preside (or in his absence one of the Vice-Presidents) at »11 meetings of the Board and of the Society. 2. Vice-Presidents. One of the Vice-Presidents shall, during the absence of the President, act as President. 3. Secretary. The Secretary of the Society shall act under its direction, and shall perform such duties as it may require. The Secretary shall also be responsible for the management of the Society's Office. 4. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall be custodian of all mo - -sys of the Society, He shall pay out the same only upon the written order of t je Secretary, countersigned by the presiding officer. He shall furnish such guarantee as may be required by the Board, and deposit all moneys of the Society in its name in such bank as the Board may designate. He shall make a report of the con- dition of the treasury at each stated meeting of the Board. 5. Assistant-Secretary. An Assistant-Secretary may be appointed by the Board or Council, who shall act as assistant to the Secretary. RULE V. — AGENTS. Special agents of the Society may be appointed and removed at will by the President, with the consent of the Board, by which body the remuneration to be paid shall be determined. No special agent is authorized to incur any pecuniary liabilities on the part of the Society, nor are any illegal acts or omissions on his part to be deemed as within the scope of his authority as such special agent. RULE VI. — ALTERATION OF BY-LAWS. No alteration shall be made in any of the by-laws of this Society, unless snch alteration shall have first been proposed in writing at a meeting of the Board of Directors, and approved by snch Board at a subsequent meeting thereof. ;t: r ^ii Like "M » hen g»t\ereth her rllokeni under her wingi."— Jfaff. xxiii. 37. "SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS." " III the innrniiiK fiow thy seed, and in the eveniiiK withhold not thine haiiil ; (or thou Iciiowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they hotn shiill he alike Kood.— Ecc. xi, (i. Sow ye lieaidc all waterx, Where the dtw of heaven may fall ; Ye shall reap, if ye be not weary, For the Spirit iireathei* o'er all. Sow thonith the thoniH may wound thee ; One wore the thorns for thee : And, though the cold world seorii thee, Patient and hopeful lie. Sow ye lieside all waters. With a blessing and a prayer ; Name Him whose hand upholds thee. And sow thou everj'where. Sow when the sunlight sheddeth Its warm and cheering ray ; For the rain of heaven descendeth When the aunbeanis pass away. Sow when the tempest lours, For calmer days will break ; And the seed, in darkness noiirishetl, A i;<>o cuTd and sterile pride, > Some cleft may there lie riven, Where the little seed may hide. Fear not, for some will tloiirish ; And, though the tares abound. Like the willows by the water Will the 8cattei'ero8|iei-, I. es •I, , coniin)f, y liimi. Xbe Jofoiito jidmeme Society. Ah ! deem no soul, how stained by sinning, How much a wreok it seem to lie, All ruined or beneath thy winnlni;,— Look ! there Ood's image thou niayat see. REPORT. I.-PRELIMINARY REFERENCE TO FORMER AND PRESENT EFFORTS. Humane Efforts in 1873. On the .Srd July, 1873, a society was organ- ised in Toronto under the title of the " Ontakio MOOIKTV FOB TUB PrEVKNTION OK CRUELTV TO Animals," under the presidency of Dr. (now tSir) Daniel Wilson. The vice-presidents were Hod. (i. \V. Allan and Prof. Ooldwin .Smith, D.C.L. The treasurer was G. H. Wilson, and the hono- rary secretary Frank Rucledge. The Hon. J. A. Boyd, now Chancellor of Ontario, then a prac- ticing barrilter, was the honorary solicitor of the Society. Of the twenty Executive Com- mittee, six have passed to their reward, viz. : Rev. Dr. McCaul, Rev. Dr. Ryerson, Hon. John Macdonald, and Messrs, Robert Wilkes, M.P., A. T. McCord and S. R. Briggs. The object of the Society was stated to be " The protection of helpless animals from the cruelty of man, and men themselves from the brutalizing effects which such cruelty begets." The first report of the Society, issued in 1^74, stated that " Nineteen cases of exceptional cruelty have been prosecuted before the Magis trate, in fourteen of which convictions have been secured. These included the driving or over-working of horses lamed, or suffering from sores ; malicious shooting or otherwise maltreat- ing dogs ; cock-fighting, etc. In one case a man was prosecuted for throwing a dog out of a fifth storey window in Front Street, and a penalty and costs inflicted amounting to $14." Another was the putting of coal oil on a rat and then setting fire to it. The number of complaints enquired into, 213 ; working galled horses, 62 ; calves, lambs, sheep and poultry ill-treated, 71, etc. After a very few years this society ceased to exist, chiefly for want of funds— the result of a lack of interest in Its work. On the 15th of February, 1886, a petition, signed by James Foster k Sons, was presented to the City Council, asking for " the aopoint- ment of an otiicer whose duty it should be to see that the law with regard to cruelty to animals is carried out. In many cases," the petition said, "horses are made to convey heavy loads without sufficient food or proper care, and unmercifully beaten by teamsters ; others are shorn of their natural protection against cold and driven uutil covered with perspiration, and then allowed to stand for hours on the streets opposite hotels and other places without cover- ing, and livery horses in many cases suffer the same fate. " Our Present Society— its Objects. Karly in the following year a public meeting was called by Mr. J. J. Kelso, Secretary pro tcm , which took place in Shaftesbury Hall, on the 24th of February, 1887, at which the pre- sent Humane Society was formed. This Society, being now in the fifth year of its existence, it is proper to review the work which it has been enabled to accomplish during i 18 THK TORONTO HUMAN K SOCIETY. 4 «h«M flva yean. In doing to, the Direotori woald, in tha firat plkoe, lUte wliat the Suoiety propoeed to do when it wm citabliihed in 18H7. In ita Proapeotui, iaaued at that time, it wm ■Utad that :— The Houiety aima to have the lawa enforced whioh are deaigned to proteut aniniala and ohiidren from abuae and cruelty, and to do what it can for humane education. It aima particularly to atop the overloading, over-driviiig and under-feeiling of animala . . . all orueltiea in the tranaporution of live atook of every kind ; alao, to prevent cruelty to chil- dren, and to rescue them from vioioua influenoea and remedy their condition. It advocatea the erection of drinking fcun- taina and horae trougba, better horae-anoelns, im' roved cattle cara, and humaner lawa. It wo Id induce clergymen, editora, teachera and autaora to advocate, each in hia own aphere, mercy and justice to the dumb creation. It atronuly advocatea the eatabliahment of Banda of Mercy ambng children. It aska farmers and othera to protect inaeo- tivorous birda, bova not to touch birda' neata, ownera not to aell family horaoa to ownera of tip-carta ; and it would invite all t» atudy and appreciate the aervicea, the intelligence and moral qudlitiea of the lower oreaturea. The S'cicty invites information in regard to the treatment of animala, anil espt-cially aaka citizens t'> report cases of neulect and cruelty at its office, 1U.S Bay .Street, or Telephone 1958. In- formants are usked to aive their names and addreases, but these will not be made known except with their consent. Their information will be a guide to the in<|uirie8 of the agenta of the Society. All are welcome to membership, regardlesa of denominational or other differmcea. The yearly contribution ia from 81 upwards, according to the ability of the giver, and life memberahfp ia $1)0. Bequeata received in trust for the exten- •ion of humane work. The Society also Sought to Prevent : The unnecessary and cruel l>eating of animala. The driving of galled and disabled horaea. The over loading of cart horses and teama. The neglect to provide shelter for animala. The clipping of horaea and the docking of their taila. The uae of the check-rein, the over-check, and the burr-bit, etc. Matches for cock and dog-fighting. Trap-shooting of pigeons and other birda. The dipping of dogs' ear* and tails. The exposure, uncovered, of horsea in cold weather. Neglect and cruelty on cattle stock trains. The tying of calves, sheep's, aud fiwla' lega. Bleeding live oalvea periodically, and pluck- ing live fowla. Tha Society Further Sought to Promote : The circulation of humane literature in the home and achoola. The duty of klndnaea to all dumb animala. More humane methoda of killing animala. The feeding, watering, and protection of ani- mala on atook traine. The leeaening of oaaea of oareleee and tbought- leaa cruelty by general remediea, and to foater a general recognition of (he dutlee which we owe thoae who are helpleea. The aim of the Society further ia to spread knowledge on humane aubjecta, and to aet in motion humane organizatlona in the Dominion where anoh do not exiat And generally to promote a more humane and merciful treatment of God'a creatursa, remem- bering that He haa declared that : "Bleaaed are the merciful, for they ah all obtain mercy." The Society felt that tu accompliah all of theae highly Important objeota. It waa neceaaary. In the flrat place, to set out in detail, and in aa attractive a form aa poaaible, the whole aohemo of Humane Society work. With thia purpoee in view, the Directors auggeated to one of their number the desirability of undertaking this neceaaary duty. The result was the preparation and publication of an illuatrated book on the subject, entitled : " The Aima and Objects of the Toronto Humane Society." Thia work extended to 246 pagea, and contained 112 illuatrations. It haa been extenaively circulated and it haa largely aided In giving directneae and purpoae to the work of the Society ui TorAnto and in other cities and towna of the Dominion. What is, and what is not, Cruelty. " Evil is wrought By want ol Uioul A« wall as wsot ol bsart." nought In order dearly to understand how far the Humane Society ia joatified in ita efforts to pre- vent cruelty, it is necessary to apecifioally define what ia aud what ia not cruelty. The following authentic definitiona will, therefore, commend themaelvea to all thoughtful, generous, and humane minds : — Definition of Cruelty. " The earliest British Colonial Statute passed in what is now the United Statea, was in 1641. Later statutes differ from earlier enactments, and from the common law, regarding this class of offences, in prooeedins more clearly upon the principle that animab have rights, whioh it ia the province of the legislature to recognize in its laws, and of the courts to protect by judicial I APTOINTMENT OK A CITY HUMANK OFFICKR ANT) THE RKSULT. 19 ught to Promote : M litantura in the 11 dnmb MiiiiuUa. killing animaU. d protaotiun of Mii- «releH and thought- tdiea, and to fo«ter a lutie* which we owe urther la to spread jeota, and to Mt in in the Dominion > a more humane and ■ oreatnrM, remem- 1 that : ful, for they ahal' oompliah all of these It waa neoeaaary, in in detail, and in aa a, the whole aohemo With thia purpoM lated to one of their F undertaking thia waa the preparation itrated book on the uis and Objects of tht rhia work extended d 112 illuatrationa. oulated and it haa stneaa and purpoae in Toronto and in I Dominion. not, Cruelty. It ought heart." ■atand how far the in ita efforts to pre- o apeoifioally define Ity. The following herefoie, commend 'nl, generona, and ruelty. aial Statute paaaed iatea, was ppi>iiiterted in The. Ulnbe of the 8th of Fvbruary, i8IN). The name of the party cimcerned is omitted. The report says : — " The charge of aggravated assault preferred against by Inspector Archirudd was investigated in tlie i'olice Court yesterday. The evidence was very stiong against the woman, and Police Magistiate Denisun oomndtted her to the Meroer for six months. The victim is her ttcp-duughter, a child not yet seven years old, who liKiks less tliun five, so thin and starved does she appear. " On information received through the Hu- mane Society, Constable Willis went np to the house on Monday to see what truth there was in it. He found the house locked up and could not get in, and after remainini{ for an hour left ant yet aeven yoara lo thin und atarved through the Hu- Ilia went up to the it truth there wm uked up and could UK for an hour left I'olock. When he Id waa at the win- up, and in anawer id her mother had When he went rearing and asking her away to the ler adding, ' You rota off you.' The oor and in unawer led thi door. He B immediately ran thus, 'If you tell adjoining school uiaea on the child, I her complain of t. I also witneases. to time heard the threahing. The looked up during (hbora hud put a huud food to her. had had nothing il the police had Inga as theae were ling the priaoner, caae and the evi- her." ty in Cruelty laury hue been a convictions for illowing figurea,. 'kindly anppliei the Hoolety by Staff Inapao- tor Archibald, are given :- FInaa and coata received in I8NN, «)l|| IMMII, TICi imX), ,MK) Iii9l, 641 Total rsoaiptaduring the four yeara, i}'i,U37 Provitlona of the Dominion Law egaintt Cruelty. The provislona of tha law under which theaa finea were imposed by the Police Magistrate will be found at the end of thia Report. The principal enactment la sa foUowa, taken from the 6rat aeotion of tha Dominion " Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animala :"— " Who-oever wantonly, cruelly, or unneoea- aarily bcata, ill-tr«ata, abuaea, over-drivea, or torturea any horse, cow, aheep, or other cattle, or any poultry, or any dog or domestic animal or bird, ahall, upon being convicted before the Police Maviatrate, be punished by imprison- ment for a term not exceeding three months, or by a tine not exceeding 8S0, or by both." Character of thu Work Performed by the City HunSane OfTicer. This kind of work consista largely of warn- inga, suggestions and counsels, und the whole- some moral effei jf tha presence actual, and expected, of the Constable. Both StalT Inspector Archibald and Constable Willis have asanred the Society that the purely preventive aarvice performed, as above indicated, occupies a large portion of the time of the officer engaged and cannot be put into the definite form of arrests and convictions. The Society rejoioea to know that by tha tact and judgment diaplayed by Conatable Willia in thia matter, a vaat amount of actual cruelty to animala, to children and to woman ia prevented. The Society cannot too atrongly expreaa their high appreciation of the valuable services of Staff Inspector Archibald in this connection and in promoting the general benevolent work of tha Society. The Society is also indebted to the Police Commissioners for their co-operation in giv.ng affect to the provisions of an Act passed by the Provincial Legislature, at the instance of the Society, for the protection of children and tha licenaing of newsboys, bootblacks and others. The report of Constable Willia, for the year 1891, is given as follows :— Report of Humane Officer Willis for 1801 ToBONTO, January 1st, 189i^. To the Prenidenloftlu Toronto Humane Society: Sir, — I have the honor to lay before you a brief report of the work performed by ma du.-ing the past year. There ware 'HfU oases brought into Court and disposed of by tha presiding Magiatrataa aa followa :— li'lned, 171) i discharged, '20 ; and withdrawn 1. One man waa AnedflA and ooats, or thirty days' imprisonment ; two oases $10 and ooats, or twenty ciays' imprisonment : throe 9-'> and casta, or twenty days' imprlaonnient ; two 13 and ooata or Hfteen daya' iinpiisonnient ; nine 92 and ooata, or fifteen days imprisonment each ; and one hundred and mtv two i\ and ooats. Making a total, in fines and oosU, ol |tt4l. In tha oaaa of tha ilO Hue, a horse was left three daya without food or water, in oonav<|uenoe of which it died. The 910 fine waa Impoaed for having driven a team of horaea to Owen Sound and return, oauaing the death of one of tha horaea. One man waa fined 910 for kicking a horse in the stomach ; and one man was fined $5 and costs for flosging a horse whilst heavily loaded. One waa fined 93 and costs for beating a horse with a pitchfork. The remainder were fined for working horses whilst suffering from sore ahouldars, wmeness, and overloading, etc. There was one case of crurlty by overcrowding cattle II transit by train from Duelph to To- ronto, which was dismissed by tne Police Magistrate — he having held that it was the man who shipped the cattle should be held respon- sible. There was one case of docking a horse brought into Court and admitted, but th« evi- dence as to whether docking was cruel was too conflicting, so that t^ ^re ia no uae brtngina aay aimilar caaes into Court without an amendment to the Act, oonatituting docking an offence, is scoured. In consequence of complaints reaching the Police Department, and also the Humane Office, to the effect that great cruelty was being prac- ticed upon horses used in the oonstmction of the Belt Line Railwav, adjoining the city, I made several visits to the places oomplsined of and, as a result, secured seventeen convictions, which had the effect of stopping tha cruelty. Much attention had necensarily to be given to street car horses. Several cases were brought into Court and convictions secured. This was largely owing to the change in service and luuieaseid speed of t)ie horses. There were about 400 complaints received from all sources TIIK TlHtOSTO Hl/MANK MOCIKTV. i I! i iluring th« yMf, Inuludiog uompUInU >f orualty to uhlhirM, all of which war* atUudttl to. Thar* wara •bout » humlrad paraoiii uautlonad tor working horM* wllh ■light br jiaaa, lama Baaa, ato., ovanlriving oattla, ovarvrowding poaltry, ato., whioh wara Huffaring, l>u» Ihay wara not of luoh • uh»r«utar m to naoaaalUkM thair liaing Lrought Into ('curt. Raapaottully anbinlttad, .lollN Wll.l.tN, I'olioa (;ing away with tha igard to Cruelty. tf kindly fumiahad, i following Ragula- nera :— lot from the Kulaa onto Polioa Force leading of 'Orutlty ty to animala by reported, in ordar I oonaidared adTia- ed." overaight of Staff I to '* cruelty to Mby farming, "aa theee regulations roe, in addition to Willi* •■ a Special Eing Fountains. preventive work, attention of the the City Counoit i>ne troughs and. 94 THK TORONTO HUMANK SOCIKTY. -I drinking (ouatain* in varioui partB of the city. The erection of theee uecenary appliances for health and refreahment began in 188H. Mr. VViiliam Hamilton, the energetic Superintendent of the Witter Works Department, has kindly informed the Society that ap to the end of 1891 , 42 Horse 'IVought. 7:) Drinking Fountains. 115 in all, have, under his direction, been erected in the city. In addition to this provision for the fret supply of water in the summer months "for man and beast," the Society had twelve small oast- iron water ^roughs provided for loan to snoh of the citi/ans as would agreo to keep them filled with water for the use of dogs and birds in localities where neither troughs nor drinking fountains had been erectod. III. BANDS OF MEROY FORMED IN MANY PLAOE8. So impressed are the promolers of Humane Societies everywhere with the importance of early enlisting the young in the work of mercy and kindness, that the formation of lUnds of Mercy in schools and eUc where is considered indispensible for this purpose. The reasons for •o doing are forcibly put in the following para- graph, taken from the "Aims and Objects" of our Society : — " Starting with the f«ct that all such reforms must begin with the children, because their hearts are tender, because they are impression- able, and because they indirectly educate their patents, a Rand of Mor'-y might be justly termed a preparatory class for a humane society. In our public sohools of to-day are the men and women of our future ; perhaps side by side may sit the future criminal and the judge, and just so surely as the insects under the seas are build ing the cor<»l ret fs, are the children of the pre- sent building the future of our land, its moral and political government. Oii, the impirtance then of sowing the seeds of mercy and justice, of touchiug the hearts while tender ; for the lessons learned in early youth are the last to be forgotten ; like the snatch of the song, they will come to mind, and of cen they govern our actions with an indefinable influence." The Ladies' Committee of the Royal Humane Society of London give the following additional reasons why children should be induced to join Bands of Mercy : — 1. Because children should be trained to habits of kindness to animals, which will soften their manners and tend to habits of kindness to mankind. 2. Because children should have tender hearts, which will leiKl them to rompassionate defence- less creatures, and ameliorate the condition of weak, oppressi'd or suffering human beings. 3. Because children should learn their duby to the lower creation, whether of domestic or wild nature, the perfurmance of which is doing in part our duty to the Author of Creation. 4. Because children should study the struc- ture, habits and wants of animals, which will enable thpm to treat them usefully and humanely and will tix in their mind* a sense of justice to man, and bird, and beast. 5. Because childi'en who acquire kindly dis- positions in Bands of Mercy are not likely to be cruel to any sensitive being when they become men and women, and thereby will be made better citizans. 0. Because children should be permitted to cultivate tenderness towanls animals, seeing that the observance of a reasonable considera- tion for them increases the happiness of animals, and is a source of pleasure to children and adults. Acting upon these convictions, the Society has sought to enlist the co-operation of Inspec- tors of schools, Boards of School Trustees and Teachers in this most interesting and commend- able work. The Society had also prepared by Idr. Kelso and have published 10,000 copies of an eight page pamphlet, containing " Bands of Mercy Information," in full detail, with sugges- tions as to how to establish these Bands. A collect-on of suitable hyma* and songs and an " Order of Kxeroises " were aUo added. This pamphlet was sent to the school trustees and teachers In Toronto. Local Societies can cir- culate it among teachers generally. It is moat gratifying to know that the i fforta of the Society in this matter have been warmly seo- u:7ded by individual teachers in Toronto and elsewhere. As an example as to bow one of these Bands was organized and has progressed, the following condensed n port is given as pre- pared by Mixs W. A. Wills, of the Elizabeth Street school, Toronto : — Report of Golden Rule Band of Mercy. The -'Golden Rule Band of M rcy," which was organized in Elizabeth Street S.-hool aboat a year ago with a membership of sixty-eight, now numbers ninety-fimr. The m< etings are held on th^ first ann third Wednesdays of the month, beginning at 2 15 p.m. An object lesson is iiiiveQ on some animal or ovwion for the fre« mermoDtba«forinkn *d twelve small o»gt. "1 for loan to saoh of to keep them filled ., ^.^ x: ^\ Y' „ . .1) *" ^VJ >E8. efully and humanely a seme of juetice to acquire kindly dii- ' are not likely to be f when they become reby will ba made lid be permitted to t's animals, seeing asonable oonsidera- tppiness of animals, « to children and ^, -:%? m ctions, the Society peratlon of Inspec- chool Trustees and iting and commend- I also prepared by 110,000 copies of an iining "Bands of ietail, with sugges- 1 these Bonds. A and songs and an aluo added. This chool trustees and Societies can cir- generally. It j, ttheiffortaof the been warmly sec- B in Toronto and as to how one of d bus progressed, t is given as pre- of the Elizabeth %!^''■''^^ Wi " ■■■'^#f 'and of Mercy. f M rcy," which rett S.hool about l» of sixty-eight, he me fonnd under the head of St. Thomas, in the chapter on " Reporta from Kindred Societies in the Do- ;ninion " (which see.) Miss Mat J. Beaumont, President of the St. John's Sunday School Band of Mercy, St. Thomas, writes as follows :— "Our Sunday School Band of Meroy was formed in February, 1S91, with one hundred and eighteen (118) mumbers, senior and junior. Now we have one hundred and fifty (150). Since last May we have had public meetings once a month, except in the hot months of July and August, and in the holiday month of December. Betore we began with the public meetings, we held short meetings after Sunday School was over, but they were not so attractive as our present meetings. Several times, when clergy- man from a distance have taken duty here, we have asked them to give addresses to the Band, after first explaining to them the aims and ob- jects, and, in some cases, awakening their in- terest in the cause. The attendance at the meetings has l>een very good, and the interest he children spekk- oh they h»vo been loh they (the ohild- We have fifty Donboyne, wrote |jd, of Copenhagen, In formioK a Band eoided to form one n before, and wa« Ve organized tome me reason I failed ted in the matter. - to injure, rather uat let the meet- when the larger onld revive them e time ago. It ia had averyinter- mpll.. W^e have >> mention, but I We have a mem- of whom are out- tily in eympathy neatly hope and M from it* bflu- nr Band has had ling them kinder •• Our meetinga rting information d onr meeting* ternoont. Misa I and I am Sec- of the Band of iomim, county of e has organized 1 that city. Her Muse, and other be found under the chapter on itiea in the Do- lident of the St. of Mercy, St. of Mercy waa >h one hundred ior and junior. fliy(150). Since neetings once a hs of July and h of December, c meetings, we ky School Was ractive as our , when clergy - duty here, we m to the Band, I aims and ob- ining their in- idance at the 1 the interest 28 THE TORONTO HUMANE .SOCIETY. n I taken io them, not only by the memben, bnt by the parenU of tbe uhildien. Thii i« enoouno- ing, eipeoUlly m at firat the project met with ■ome ooDioientionk, but mistaken oppoeition. Thit, however, I am glad to lay has, been over- oome. The liand ii now in a prosperous con- dition financially, the average collection at each meeting having been $\.a5 ; out of which we have bought humane leaflets for distribution throughout the Sunday school. Besides this, we have also added to our S.8. library a copy of Black Beauty, and of our Dumb Animals, aa well as several other books about animals. Wa have repeatedly urged upon the girls belonging to the lUnd the duty of giving up the cruel fashion of wearing birds and birds' wings as ornaments in hats. I am truly glad to sa^ the result is that several have removed their so- oalled ornaments from their head dress, and have signified their intention of no longer en- couraging the cruel and inhuman practice of •laying such thousands of the beautiful little creatures, to whom we are indebted for so much. I hope that by our united efforts we shall be able to inspire a more general and kindlier feeling towards "those who cannot apeak for themselves." The Society regrets to record the death of Miss Mary J. McCally, teacher of the Givens Street •ohool, one of the most earnest and successful workers in this good cause. Appropriate refer- ence to her will be found in the obituary notices appended. Mrs. S. Ii. Wood, one of the active members of the Society, prepared and read a paper at onr last annual meeting on the subject. In it •he stated that : " In our own city this work !• progressing bravely, and in each case where this organization has been introduced, it has been warmly taken up by the children them- •elve^. In February I visited a flourishing Band which baa a membership of eighty-five, and is managed by one of our energetic workers, whose love and gentleness haa wrought a won- derful change in the children belonging to that particular school. The subject chosen for that day was * The Dog,' and I only wish yoa could all have seen the deep interest taken in the dis- cussion, and have listened to the warm, loving words uttered to the young members present." Mrs. Wood also presented a report from the Committee on Bands of Mercy, da^ed 6th May, 1S92, as follows :— " Yonr Committee beg to report that a meet- ing was held on the 6th of April last. The sub- ject of a Canadian medal or badge, to be worn by members of the Band, was discussed, and Miss Wills and Captain McMaster were au- thorized to procure them. They have now been obtained in nickel silver, of an appropriate pat- tern, and can be furnished at 10 cents each— the actual cost. " Your Committee think it advisable that prizes should be presented occasionally in the Bauds ; also that, if possible, a small library of books calculated to impress humane feeltugs upon children should be presented by the So- ciety to the existing Hand in the Truant school in this city, which up to the present period has not cost the parent society a penny, and which has been and is doing a good work amontist children." Suggestions in regard to Bands of Mercy. The following snggestiona in regard to the conduct of Bands of Mercy meetings, are taken from the report of the Ohio Humane Society, issued in 1800 :— " The Band of Mercy meetings should be held once or twice a month, not ofiener. It is im- Sortant in grades, when the pupils are able to o so, to have them take entire charge of the meetings and conduct the exercises, the teacher acting only in the capacity of a member. Of course it is the teacher's duty to advise, suggest and aid in every way in their power to make the meetings aa pleasant, attractive, and profit- able as possible, and manage to direct and con- trol all exercises of the band, but without the pupils becoming aware of it. This the teacher cau do who possesses that essential character- istic of a good teacher — tact. " Let the exercises consist in the main of compositions, selections of stories, anecdotes of animals, recitatiuns and singinti, all pertaining to kindnesa, justice and mercy. A very en- oouragine feature is to have the members relate acts of kindness they themselves have done from meeting to meeting." Mrs, Suckling's book and others mentioned in the list of reference books in our Humane Office here, contain some admirable selections for Band of Mercy gatherings. A number of appropriate article* for Band of Mercy readings will also be found at the end of this Report. Bands of Mercy have been established in Toronto, Hamilton, Gait, St. Thomas, Niagara Falls South (I)rummondville), Scarboro', Copen- hagen and Dunboyne. Prizes to Children for Compositions on Humane Subjects. In 1889 the " Womans' Humane Society,' of Ottawa, following a previous example, offered prizes to children for compositition on humane subjects, and this year the Kingston Society has done so. In 1890 the Toronto Society offered 80 prizes of the aggregate value of $100, in suitable books, for the best compositions on the following sub- jects: 1. The duty of kindness to animals. 2. Why birds and their nests should be protected. •s, Thep Tw Tw Tw Tw I li.i PROMOTION OF I'REVKMIVE AND KKMEDIAL MEASURES. 2» it advisable that ooasionaliy in the aimall library of humitne feeliuge •entvd by the So- tbe Truant lohool tresent period ha« penny, and which od work amonxit lands of Mercy, in regard to the Betingi, are taken Humane Society, ig« should beheld Ftener. It is im- inpils are able to ire charge of the rcises, the teacher >f a member. Of to advise, suggest r power to make M)tive, and profit- direct and con- bot without the This the teacher lential oharaoter- ' in the main of ries, anpcdotes of «, all pertaining •cy. A very en- e mecibers relate es have done from lers mentioned in ir Humane Office ileotions for Band icles for Band of ind at the end of > established in rhomas, Niagara icarboro', Copen- npositions on ts. sue Society,' of example, offered tion on humane ingston Society ffered 80 prizes suitable books, following sub- wimals. ests should be The prizes were thus apportioned : Twenty of the value of $2 each. Twenty of the value of $1.50 each. Twenty of the value of $1 each. Twenty of the value of 50 cents each. The compositions were required to be Mrritten in tbe presence of a teacher or other competent person, and the length of the composition was not to exceed two pages of foolscap paper. Our report for last year states that :— "The results proved highly satisfactory, some ISO manuscripts being stnt in for inspection. Our 100 prizes were given at a very enjoyable gathering held in the Art Gallery in November last. On that occasion Hon. J. It. and Mrs. Roliinton kindly assisted, the former presenting a Ruyal Humane medal which we haid secured for a young man who had rescued a boy from drowning, and the latter presenting the prizes to the children." IV. THE SOCIETY'S PROMOTION OF PREVENTIVE AND REMEDIAL MEASURES. Very early in the operations of the Society the necessity of doing something on behalf of neglected and destitute children engaged the earnest attention of tbe members. A brief re- sum^, therefore, of what was done is desirable : In order the more effectually to accomplish their object, and to systematize the work before them, the officers of the Humane Society, and other friends of the ca ise, held a conference with Mayor Howland, early in the year 1888, before he had retired from office. The disjussion at that conference naturally took a wide range, as to tbe field of operations of the Society. The following, among other things, were di»- cuBsed, and were set down ua matters which were very desirable to have accompliiihed : — 1. A temporary refuge for destitute and ne- glected children, until they are disposed of, or provided for. 2. The protection of children of drunken, cruel and dissolute parents or guardians. 3. The prevention of young girls from engag- ing in selling newspapers, or small wares, on the streets, or in offices. 4. The establishment of a girls' industrial school on the basis of that for boys at Mimico. 5. The desirability of having some officer specially entrusted with the duty of looking after the waifs and strays of tbe city. 6. The punishment of child beaters, and of he ol>j ot o( thii, in 'ion, as the oaie might be. "2. On proof that a child under fourteen years, of ago by reason of the neglect, crime, drunlcenuesa, or other vices of its parent, or from orphanage, or any other cause, is urowing up in circuuistances exposing such child to bad, or dissolute life, or on proof that any child under fourteen years of age, being an orphan, has been found bef(ging in any street, highway, or public place, a judge may order such child to be com- mitted to any Industrial School, or Refuse, for boys or girls, or other institution, subject to the inspection of the Inspector of Prisons and Asylumx, or to any suitable Charitable Society authorized under ' The Act Respecting Appren- tices and Minors' (Rev. Stat. O., ch. 42), and wiUinff to receive such child, to be there kept, cared lor and educated, for a period not extend- ing btyond the period at which such child shall attain the age of eighteen years. "3. Any child apparently under the age of sixteen years found frequenting, or being in the company of, reputed thieves or prostitutes, or frequenting or being in a reputed house of pro- stitution or afesignation, or living in such a house either with or without the parent or guardian of the child, may be brought before the Judge, and may be by him committed to any such institution as mentioned in the pre- ceding section. " 4. When any such child is so brought before a Judgn, a summons shall be issued to the father of the child, if living and resident within the place where the child was found ; and if not tnen to the mother, if she is living and so resident ; and if there is no such father or mother, then to the lawful guardian if there be one so reeiient ; and if not, then to the person ^with whom, according to the statement of the child, he or she resides ; and if there is no snch person, the Judge may appoint some suitable person to act in behalf of the child, requiring nim or her to appear at a time and place stated in the summons, and to shew cause, if any there be, why the child should not be committed to a refuge, industrial school or other charitable society aforesaid. And if the Judge is of opinion that the child should be sent to any such insti- tution as aforesaid, he may order the child to be committed accordingly. "6. No ProtesUnt child shall be committed under this Act to a Roman Catholic institution, and no Roman Catholic shall be committed to a Protestant institution. The certificate of one of the Inspectors of Prisons and Asylums shall be sufficient as to the character of an institution for the purpose of this section. "6. The municipality within which the child is resident at the time of the committal shall be liable for the maintenance of the child to an ex- tent not exceeding .i^ per week. The Judge's certificate as to the residence of the child shall be sufficient prima facie evidence thereof. " 7. The Lieutenant-Governor may, upon the request of any municipal council, appoint a commissioner or commissionera, each with the powers of a police magistrate, to hear and de- termine complaints against juvenile offenders, apparently under the age of sixteen years. "8. Persons under the age of twenty-one years who are charged with offences against the laws of this Province, or who are brought before a Judge under this Act, shall, as far as prac- ticable, be tried, and their cases disposed of, separately and apart from other offenders, and at suitable times to be designaced and appointed for this purpose." Use of Tobacco by Minors. A very useful and necessary measure to pre- vent demoralization and evil consequences to boys was passe<^ by the Ontario Legislature in 1892. It prohibits the sale, giving, or furnish- ing to " minors under eighteen years of age, cigarettes, cigars or tobacco in any form," under a penalty of not less than $10, or more than $50, or imprisonment, etc. The Licensing of Newsboys and Vendors of Small Wares. In addition to this legislation, and also through the efforts of the Toronto Humane So- ciety, the following amendment was made last session to the Ontario Municipal Act (section 436) :— " The Board of Commissioners of Police shall also regulate and control children as vendors of newspapers and smallwares, and as boot- blacks." The object of this legislation is on the one hand based to protect and encourage boys in an honest and industrious course, and on the other •»o pr Vaper Th antho foUoti (I made PROMOTION or VRKVKNTIVE AND REMEDIAL MEA8URE8. SI I if there ii no inch Mint some initablt ;ha child, requiring ne »nd pUoe itated r okOM, if any there ' be oommitted to a r other charitable Judge ia of opinion to any euoh iiiiti- ' order the child to ihall be committed ''atholio inetitution, 1 be oommitted to a I certificate of one •nd AiyluDMihall l«rof aninatltution n. lin which the child committal ehall be the child to an ex - 'eek. The Judge's of the child ■h»ll ince thereof. nor may, upon the lounoil, appoint a en. each with the te, to hear and de- uvenlle offender*, Ixteen yeara. ge of twenty-one iffence* againat the •re brought before M, as far a« prao- caaea diapoaed of, her offendera, and «ed and appointed l\Ainors. y meaanre to pre- I oonaequencea to irio Legialature in Iving, or fnrniah- len yeara of age, any form, "under 10, or more than '8 and Vendors es. lation, and also >nto Humane So- it waa made last lipal Act (section ra of Police ahall Idren aa vendora M, and aa boot- D ia on the one irage boya in an tnd on the other to prevent diahoneat boya from making newa- l»aper aelling a cloak for idleneaa and thieving. The regulationa of the Police Commiaaionara, authorized by th!a provialon of the Act, are aa folio wa !~- " lat. All applioatlona for lioanaea ahall be made at the otBoe of the Staff Inapeotor, by the parent, guardian, or neareat friend, aooompanied by the applicant. " 2ad. No lioenae ahall be iaaued to any child under eight yeara of age, and every child ao lioenaetl anall attend achool each day during the achool year, under such arrangementa aa may be made. "3rd. Every child ao lioenaed ahall, while engaged in the buaineaa for which the licenae haa been iaaned, wear oonapiououily on the breaat a metal badge, with the number of the licenae thereon. Neglect of ao doing may be a auifioient oauae for auapenaion of aaialicenae. '* 4th. Every child ao lioenaed ahall exhibit, or cause to be produced, the lioenae, when re- quired to do ao by the police, and the aame ahall .not be tranaferred, exchanged or borrowed, or lent, under the pain of forfeiture of aaid licenae. " 6th. Every lioenae ahall extend to the cloae of the year in which it la Iaaued. ' * 6th. Every child ao lioenaed may be required to reaide with ita parenta or guardian, or In lodginga to be approved of by the Staff Inapeotor. "7th. Uoenaea will be iaaued without charge, but if the metal badge be not forthcoming when Tequlred, it will not oe replaced, except on pay- ment of twenty -five centa." Success of the Newsboys' Licensing System. The Chief of Police, in hia report for 1891, thua atatea the reault of the operation of the By-law relating to licenalng newaboya, etc.:— "The provialona of the By-law rdlating to thia daaa of persona has been put into active operation with excellent result*. Over 600 boya ^ve taken out lioenaea, and I am In a poaltion to atate that the attendance at achool haa been «atlafaotory. It waa found neceaaary to detail a man to attend to auoh a large number of boya, and hia exertlona have had the deserved effect. ... So long aa a licenae and attendance at achool are inaisted upon, and good behaviour ia obaerved, I am prepared to recommend that the metal tag, or badge, be dispensed with." Care and Disposal of Unlicensed Dogs. Another remedial matter which engaged the practical attention of the Humane Society was the temporary care and palnleaa death, at the end of a fixed period, of unclaimed and un- Ucanaed doga. The place in which thia waa done, under the authority of the City Corpora- tion waa of a very inferior and unaatlafactory kind. A Committee of the Society waa there- fore appointed to report upon the aubject. That report waa aa foUowa :— "On the loth of July, 1889, a Committee of the Toronto Humane Sooietv vialted the dog pound in the western part of thia city. They wore met there bv Mr. Coatcworth, the City Commiaaloner, and other gentiemen. " The Committee founa that the pound oon- abted of two email wooden bnildlaga, containing two pons eaoh. Two of the pena, to the aouth, were empty, and were oovend with aawduat. They had a aort of cupola ventilator ia the roof, and might be considered fairly paasable of their kind, but they were by no meana the kind of Slaoe in which the large number of captured oga ahonld be kept The other pena, to the north, in one of wnioh the doga were oonfined, were badly oonatmcted, and were deatltute of meana of ventilation except through a sort of wire door aoreen, and through flaaurea in the walla. When the attention of the Commiaaloner waa called to thia atate of thinga, he at once gave ordera to have a ventilating cupola placed in the roof like the one In the other builduig. " The condition of the doga in thia pen waa ftitlable In the extreme. Some were apparently n a wretched atate, owing to their aurronao- inga ; othera were in a chronic atate of fear from fighting and other cauaea. One waa apparently dead, and another appeared to be paralyzed. They were all ao herded together that their con- dition could not be otherwue than wretched, as deacribed. "The mode of watering and feeding.; theae dosa appeared to be very defective. The water, which did not aeem to bs ei'ber clear 'or freeh, waa what doga in the extremity of their thirat might drink, but which no one having auy re- gard for doga would think of giving them. "Attention waa called to this condition of the water, and a auggeation was made that, aa in the caae of the horse trough, a small pipe ahould convey the water to the trough, ao that a aupply of fresh water would thua be conatant- ly provided. It waa ahown that when eaoh trough was replenished, the water in it waa let off and run over the floor of the pen, aa there waa BO drainage provided. The reply to the Committee on botn of theae pointa waa, — firat, that the supply of water on the premises was barely au£5cient for the horaee and doga aa thua aerved ; aeoondlv, that a pipe would exhauat the water available, and that there waa no drain into which the overflowing or diauaed water would be diaoharged. " The box in which the auffocation of the doga takea place waa found to be very objectionable in many reapeota. First, It is quite tr/o large ; second, being wooden, and even made of tongued and grooved boarda, yet the aeama in it were in aome placea open, the box being conatantly ex- poaed to the weather. UeneralTy, it waa ui an unsuitable condition tor the purposes Intended. Not only could the charcoal gas escape through the openlnn in the box, but the gas inaide would be diluted with the air which might get in through other openinga, and thua the time taken to auffocate the dogs would be un- duly lengthened, and their unoonaolouaneaa before death greatly delayed. " The Committee were not able to obtain any definite information in regard to the modus U0:'^^--^^^^ >• .< ■:, V A'i,} .-^■ f--: .^i:>i^ r-^J *K. ^jm ^^ ■#■ v-^. , \( PROMOTION OF KEMKDIAL AND PKKVKNTIVK MKASUKB8. 3S operandi of ostohing the dogi, m neitbtr th« n«t ui«d nor the o»rt for oonveying the doge were »t the pound. Bat from wh«l U known of the lyitem, the Committee were convinced Uiat * better one might and ehonld be adopted. " The Committee are of opinion that if the du^ of dog catching it performed under the authority of the City Council, the dog oatohen •hould either be protected in their work, or be •worn in ae epeoial conetablei, witli authority to arreit any one who wonld obetruct them in the performance of their work. " After a frank and free diBouieiou with the Commiiioner on the Tarioui points railed by the Committee (viz., ventilation, water and food, condition of the doai, box for inffooation purposee, and dog catcning), he itated that there are two oauiei which rendered efiBciency in thie branch of the city urvice almost impoe- •ible. The first was the latent, and even active, hoetiilty of parties to the pound and its manage- ment. He Instanced the tact that the buildings had been more than once burned down, or set on fire ; while the dog catchers were, in the performance of their work, hindered in various ways and assailed with all kinds of opprobrious epithets. The second and most seriuns diflSculty with which he had to contend was the inaufti- oienoy of the funds for the work required placed at the disposal of the Committee of the Council in charfte, and of the Commissioner. He also stated that it was impoesible to discharge the duty imposed upon those in charge of the work without the moral and material help necessary in the case. "The general conclusion come to by the Committee in regard to this disagreeable and painful matter was, that it would be the duty of the Humane Society (which in some unaccount- able way WM held somewhat responsible by the public for the state of things descril>ed), to pre- pare, for the consideration of the Committee of the Corporation and the Commissioner, a full and detailed plan, by which the Management of the pound, etc., could be made thoroughly effi- cient, and that the work reqnired to ne done should be conducted on the humane principles adopted in other oonntries for the management of dog pounds, and for the oare of captured dogs before release by their owners, or their death by suffocation, or otherwise. "The Humane Society has, or can procure, abundant information on the subject, and should therefore place it in the hands of the city au- thorities having charge of the matter. " The Committee feel that if the city corpora- tion, by by-law, require this work to be done. It is but natural to assume that it should also see to'Its lielng done In the most approved man- ner, and on recognized humane principles. " The Humane Society will no douot gladly aid in this good work. And this was the as- surance given by the Committee to the Com- missioner." A plan was suggested, by which the manage- ment of the pound could be made thoroughly efficient, was prepared and submitted to the proper officer of the corporation, having charge of such matters. The plan was adopted, and a suitable building, containing seven rooms, was erected on land belonging to the corporation, opposite the Meroer Reformatory. In this building kennels, six in number, wore built la a row, and provided with ample ventilation. The dogs were to be kept in different kennels, according to sise and breed, and with six apart- ments there need not l>e much overcrowding. There was a fine stableand hayloft, a commodious yard and a good waggon entrance. A special waggon had to Im built for the work of dog catching, and it was intended to atford the man doing this work the full protection of the law. Operations were about being commenced, when parties in the neighlwurhood of the building obtained an injunction from one of the courts, forbidding further proceedings. In the mean- time the Society were impressed with the import- ance of providing apparatus of a greatly im- proved kind, patented in Rngkad, for the speedy and painless destruction of unclaimed dogs. This the Society did at an expense— kindly borne by one of its lady members — of 1300. It may be interesting to give an account of this valuable apparatus, taken from the " Report of the Tem- porary Home for Dogs," London, England: — Description of the Lethal Chamber. "The mode of death to which the animals are subjected is by anwsthesia, not by suffoca- tion or asphvxia. Physiologically, there is a distinctive difference between these modes of death. "Death by anesthesia is death by sleep; death by asphyxia is death by deprivation of air. Death oy aniesthesia is typioally repre- sented in death by chloroform ; death by as- phyxia is typioally represented in drowning and strangnlatfon. " When properly carried out, death by antes- thesla b very much more certain, and by far the least violent of the two processes. The anwithetic has certainly proved to be pain- less, for in all but fatal aooidents from chloro- form in the human snbieot, we know on the evidence of the persons who have passed through the dangers, that there is no sense of suffering up to the extremest approach to death ; and as we cannot suppose that the lower animals are more susoeptibfe to pain than the highest ani- mal, man, we must consider the death aiMolutely free of pain. An intense aniesthesia, or tem- porary sleep, lapses into the sleep that is fatal. " Compared with the other modes of extln- guishins animal life — such as hanging, drown- ug, poMoninff by prnssic acid, shootina, stun- ning, the letnal method stands far ahead on every ground of practical readiness, certainty and humanity. I cannot, however, let the opportunity pass of testifying that the method for twenty years carried out at the dogs' home, of killing with prussio acid, has l>een, liy ttie skill and expedience of the operators, brought to a great state of perfection and palnle i w N THK TOIIONTO HIJMANK SOC'IKTY, Tha objaotiona to It ar« inonl and phytioal. It is » Ux that (aw man oan uiuullv boar, to haro ovary waak to taka hundratU of dogi one altar tha othar, and by foroa adminlatar to each by the mouth tha deadly doae of nroMlo aold. Viirther, the noiaon la ao deadly. I look upon it aa almoat a miraola that no one haa aooldentally bean killed by it during the prooeaa." Tha Report of Dr. J. W. Leaalla on the Lethal Chamber la aa followa :— Tha following ia my report of the Lethal Chamber, whiuh the Toronto Humane Sooiety Imported from England toward* the end of laiit year. Laat month I had it put up in the corner of the crematory whioh NIr. Coataworth had partitioned olT for It* u*e. The Lethal ('hamber b the aame a* la naed in the Itattereea Home for Doga, only of oourae on a amaller loale, and ia tha invention of Dr. B. W. Riohardaon. On the 21Hh of February I went down to teat the working of the Lethal Chamber, auoompanied bv Mr. Fraaer, of Meaar*. Hooper ft Co 'a., wk* kindly oonaented to aaalat ma. There were two dogi which had been aent therr to be deetroyed, but had lieen kept over for our uaa to teat tha chamber. We charged the oliamber with th« mixture of carlmnio acid gaa and chloroform, and lowered the doga Into It. There waa no •«u,igling or noiae, and they aeamed to aleap away without fright or pain. We heard no breathing after fliteen or twenty aeoonda from one of the doga, and none after one and a halt to two minutea from tha othar. The ohambor oan be managed by any man of ordinary intel- ligence af ter ne haa aeen It worked once. The ingredlenta for charging it, aulphurio acid, chalk and chloroform, will not be very expen- aive, and it la certainly all that the inventor claimed, vis., a palnleaaand humane Initrumeot for deatroying dogs. I beg leave to congratulate the Society upon their enterprlae in Ming the Hrst to introduce thia painless method to this continent. V. APPOINTIMCNT AND WORK OF THE DISHORNING OOMMISSiON. t Tl sub] byi enql thlsl thatj the muij by mai^ he I orarl the I Con Con man D. drei 4 The next important subject whioh engaged the earnest attention of the Sooiety waa the cruel practice of cutting off the horns of cattle. The principal caae which latterly and point- edly called the attention of the Sooiety to the subject was one which occurred In the county of Middlesex. This oase was brought before the magistrates early in the year by County Attor- ney Hutchinson. Full details of the case were published in the local papers at the time. The parties concerned were fined $60 and costs. So gratified was the Sooiety at the efforts of Mr. Hutchinson to bring the oase to trial and to se- cure a conviction, that at a meeting of the Sooiety the following reaolntion waa passed : — Resolved, that this Sooiety, being strongly persuaded of the great cruelty involved in the Sractice of dishorning cattle, observes with sat- faction that a test case has been brought into court by Mr. Chas. Hutchinson, Crown Attor- ney of Middlesex. That a conviction may be secured la our earnest hope, and In any event this Socletv desires to place on record its high sense of tne public service rendered by Mr. Hutchinson in opposing the practice, and pro- mises financial assistance. r«Mrt Hoopjr * Coi.. wh, I Mnt thtrf to b« dMtroytd foT for onr um to t«at th« gad the u:i»mb«r with th« •old gM Mil ohloroform. B« '"o It. There wm no »nd they leeined to ile.p t or pkln. We he»rd no n or twenty eeooDdi from none after one »nd » hejf the other. The oh«mb«r jy m»n of ordinary Intel. «n It worked onoe. The gtag It, lulphurlo add, ; *'" "ot *>• very expen- Inly all that the Inventor MMd humane Initrument I beg leave to congratulate • enterprlie In being the P»lnleM method to thli AProiNT.MKNT AND WORK OK THE DISHORNING ('OMMI.SHION. :era of the ('ommliiion are : The Hon. CharleH Drury, ex- Commiiiioner of Agriculture, Ontario, Chair- man t Richard GIbaon, Delaware, breeder ; I). M. McPheraon, Lanoaator, dairyman ; An- drew Smith, Toronto, veterinary aurgaon, and " We therefore take the liberty of Applying to yov— aa one having large esperienoe with cattle— for any informatioii whioh may hm In your poaaeaalon, and whioh yoa may Im williiig to plaoo at our diapoaal. Anawera to the fo' lowing queatlona, tnerefore, or auoh of them aa are within your knowledge, will l>a greatly appreciated. " In reply, kindly number anawera to oorre- apond witn queatlona : "1. Do you favor dehorning? " '2 Have you practiced it — if ao, how long, and on about how many head T " X At what age do you prefer to perform the operation ? "4. Are there aigni of luffering during or immediately following the operation T If ao, what? "S. Doea much bleeding or other diacharge follow the operation ? Q COMMISSION. THE ACT or DISIirBMXO A COW. caae to trial and to le- •t a meeting of the olution waa paaaed : (olety, being atrongly uelty involved In the tie, obaerves with aat- aa been brought into ^inaon, Crown Attor- a conviction may be pe, and in any event 30 on record ita high ce renJered by Mr. he practice, and pro- Henry Glendinning, Sutherland, farmer. Their duty ia to make enquiry into the reaaona for and againat the practice of diahoming oattle, as well by the experience of witneaaea aa by ool- ^^ looting whatever ia acoeiaible of the evidence i which haa been given by experta and othera In trinla which have taken place on the aubject in England, Ireland and Scotland, and in the Pro- vince, the judgmenta rendered, eto. Thia Commiaaion haa iaaued the following cir- cular under date of 27th April, 1892 :— " HIa Honor the Lieutenant-Governor of thia Province in Council has been pleased to issue a Commission, with instructions to obtain all available information, and report upon the praotioe of dehorning cattle, recently introduced into Ontario. " 6. Have vou known any animala to die from dehorning— if ao, how many ? "7. How long doea it toke the animal to fully recover from the effeote of the operation ? " 8. After the wound is healed over, doea the part remain sensitive or become callous ? " 0. A year after the operation would the animal, if touched or hit lightly upon the spot where the home had grown, shrink and show aigns of pain ? " 10. What inatrument ia need ? If a saw ia uaed, ia the sawing done towards the crown or outwardly — which is preferable ? " 11. Is any dreaaing uaed after dehorning, and if ao, what ? "12. If the operation ia performed, how close should the horn be teken off? " 13. Have you known of horses, sheep, pigs or cattle being seriously or fatelly injured by goring— and & the number, in your opinion, large? 3A TIIK TifKONTO HUMANK .S(H;IKTY. " U. 1>0M (Ithorning lnor«M« th* v»lu« of th« •nliiial ovtr MtliiiaU Dot liahornad 7 " lA. lUvB vou triad knobblnii or tipping m » pr«v«Dtiv« of goring— if lo, ar* ttitM inathoUt •uooMifal ? •• to. Ik iliibudding, in vour opinion, laaa pninfnl tlinn dehorning, Mnii would It iia lulH- oiant to mMt all raMon«bla ra<|uiram«Dta 7 " 17. If only aniin«U known to ba vioiona war* dthomad, would that ba •utlloitnt 7 " lU. Do you ooDildar tlint tlia inirarlDg in lliotad by tha oparntion la JuatlNad by llta raavltr , outalda of Mky flnnnoinl ooaatdaralion 7 "W. I>fi you baliava tha oparntlon to baa Itumana ona. In vlaw of tha ganani ra«ulta 7 "91. (Kamarlia on poinia not oovarad by i|uaational. " " IH. \Vhat, brially, nra tha advantagaa of dahorning 7 Section of tha Head of an Ox or Oow. It, Th( born, ihowlof It to b« k prootia ol tb '■^ital bon« MM tht mannar In whioh It la hollowM. h, ThalMitai bona. c, The Iroatal ainui, txtanding tram tha naaal b'joaalmoit to tht tip ol tha horn and Uw graat loraman. '1, Tha ooodylold prooaaa of tha ooclpltal bona, and tha loramen, throuah whIoh tha tplaal oord paaaat Irom thaikull. «, Tha oaTltjr o( tha akuU. /, Tha patroua portion ol tha tamporal bone appaaring In the oavitjr ol thaakull. a. The paaaafa to tha Intamal part ol tha aar. h, Tha loraman, laoarum, or Irregular loramen, through whiob aavaral ol tha narrea eeoapa Irom the apaoe, and eoma tha Mood raatala enter. i, The loraman ovair— oval foramen. t, The anterior ooodjrlold loramen. In regard to tha abova illustration, Mra. Whita, Prealdant of tha Woman'a Branch of tha Pannaylvania Humane .Sooiaty, atatad at tha meeting of the American Humane Aasooiation, In Ootoberr 1891, that the Penntylvania Society had prepared and publiahed "a moat excellent paper, being the reaulta of inquiries addreaaed to and inveatigationa made by veterinary anr- geona, and containing, as above, a complete ont of the atructure of the horn," Remarka on the Structure of the Horn. In an exhauative work on cattle, publiahed by Baldwin & Cradock, London, England, ia found the following :— " The bone of the horn ia exceedingly vaaou- lar ; it ia tha moat vaaonlar bone in the whole frame, for it haa not only to carry veaiela for ita own nonriahment but that of ita covering ; k, Tha poatarlor eeadylold loraman. I, Tha iwaUar prooaaa of tha eodpltal. m, Tha iphaoold heaa. », Tha oriata galli of tha ethmoid bona. ", Tha ptarlgoid bona. p. The parpaiidlaalar portion of tha palatloa bona. 'I, Tba naaal bona. r, Tha ethmoid bona. >, Tha auparler turblostad bona. (, Tha Inferior turbtnatad bona. u, Tha lower oall ol the ethmoid, ao large In tha ox aa to ba termed by aeoM tha middia turbinated bone. I', Tha maxillary ainna. w, Tha oalla of uta palatine bone. I, Tha auDarier maxillary bona— Ita palatine prooaaa. y, Thegrindera. :, Tha aatarlor maxilUry bene, deatltuta ol Inclaor taeth It ia therefore much roughened on ita anrfaoe and haa tha appearance of l>eing perforated, or, aa it ware, worm-eaten by innnmerabla veaaala. It ia on this aooount that whan It ia broken the hemorrhage ia ao great— theia would aoaroely be more prof uaa bleeding from the ampntatloa of a limb. A veterinary friend of onra had to remove a large half-bony tnmor which had grown on a broken horn. He aawed it off, and the blood flew ont in a atream aa large aa hia finger, and it waa only by the repeated application of large bleeding irona, heated red- ' hot, that he waa able to arreat the bleeding." The report of the General American Homane Association for 1801 contains a most interesting statement of opinions and discussions on the question of dishorning cattle. One large cattle ahippar of thirty yeara' experience (Mr. Lyman Cole, of Denver,) gave valuable information, as did others, on the subject, for whioh wa hava goo of I n •r that th* ■aflforina in- HaJaMiliadltyUiarMali-, ouMld«r»tlon ? • th« optrktloB to ba • th« gantnl rt«alto T |>oinU not oovMrtd by art th« MlvMiUgM of HOKMK IH)CKIN th« poUUa* boo*. •M/ •» ■•rm lo th* ox h to ddio turbhwud bono. «. I— Ito pklktin* prooaM. , dMtitut* ol inolior tMth haned on ite oarfMe b«lng perforated, or, r iannmerabla vaMola. when it la broken tba theia would aoaroely from the ampotation riend of onra had to f tnmor whioh had He aawed it off, a atream aa large aa »Iy by the repeated ig irona, heated red- ' raat the bleeding." 1 American Humane na a moat intonating diaouaaiona on the le. One large cattle «rienoe (Mr. Lyman able information, m for whioh we have i ■ok room. In reply to the quoetlon, *' Would you reoommenU diahoming •• a awoeping thing, good tor all v^ttle ? " Mr. Colo aald : - " I would not, aor would I raoommond It for milch cowa. TKert are aome modee of dehorn- Ing that are very painful, perhapa not at the UnM of the operation, but aftarwarda. Home operatora ute aheara, whioh they put right ovor the horn and aqueaae It off. Thiaapllta It down to the head, aometlmaa iajurea the lione [of the head I, and la rary oruel. ... A neighbor of mine had aonie foriy-flve head of oattla. . . . They looked badly. . . . aeemed to be aiok. Finally ha dehorned them and found ia the whole forty-flve only three with aound horna. The horaa oontained pua. . . . After that thav improTod woaderfnily. My aipert- enoe with probably 800 that I hav i deKorned ia that a good many cattle have pua In their horna, and it atraotja them aomathing like a tooth-ache or an ulcerated tooth. . . . Underatand me that I do not re- commend the de- horning of heal- thy cattle, nor the dehorning of mlloh oowa. I conalder the ope- ration a neoea- aary one in the oaae of diaeaae. For fine breeda I would not recom- mend dehorning; nor would I ad- viaeitintheMid- dle Statea, unleaa the horna war* diaeaaed. Nei- ther would I re- commend it on the ranchea, ex- cept in oaaoa where I found the eyea annken, and other evidence oi horn diaeaae. . . . I can tell when a horn la diaeaaed by the app«arance of the eyea ; they look aunken and the hair tnrna forward." (Sea Report of the American Humane So- ciety, pagea 42-40 and 50-fi2.) The queation of diahoming cattle tnrna largely (aa will be aeen by recent diacuaaiona on the aubjeot in the Ainerican aocietieB) on the moat compact and lena expenaive mode of tranaport- ing cattle on the railroada. The qaeation waa taken up on the humane aide by the Pennayl- ▼ania Society, and an intereating paper on the aubjeot waa read. The aubatance of thia paper will be found further on, under the head of "Over- crowding of Cattle Cara." " WIIBRI IH THK HEHT OK yol'R HORSE ? " Hor«« Docking and Its Ivll IfTaclt. A kindroil aubjaut for inveatlgatlon by the Commiaaion waa praaaed upon the attantion of the ilovemment by a Deputation from the Hooiaty that of docking horaea' talta. The Attorney < ieneral and the l>rovlnoial Secretary both aipraeeed their appreciation of the Society 'a afforte to prevent thia oruel praotioe. lint they felt that the aubjeot raa one which merited apeoial conaidaration by Itaelf, and ahould not b« mMle a aubordlaata one to that of diahoming oattla. The Society waa the mora urgent to have thia matter conaldered from the fact, that the orael praotico haa received the atrongeat oondamna- tlon of competent partioa in Kngland. Thna, at a raoant meet- ing of the Royal Commiaaion in that country on Horaa -breeding, Lord Ribbleedale called atuntion to the evila re- aulting from the growing practice of docking the Uila of foala in the great horaa - breeding conn tiee, when it waa reaolved that braadera ahould b« warned that the future value of horaea ao treated may be aerionaly dapra- elated. ThuEng- liah AniiiMl World atatea that It la enabled to accentuate the proteat of the Royal Con.miaaIon by ooncluaive and overwhelming teatimony, Thia the editor doea in the following atate menta :— " Laat yen I 102 well-defiued oaaee of tetanua (lockjaw), reaultinsfrom docking, were reported by the officera of the Royal Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animala, aaaurancea hav- ing been given to thorn on the apot in each oaae by a veterinary aurgeon in attendance. There may have been ten timea aa many aimilar reaulta from dockin" throughout the United Kingdom, aa Inferred from a atatement iuat received, in addition to the return of the Sooiety'a ofBoera, from a veterinarian, to the effect that during 1891 he waa called in to thirty-one horaea %\a- fering from tetanus, in twenty-aeven of which the malady had been oauaed aolely by docking. THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. I ! 11 I 1 11 Two OMea • month in one man's practice re- veals a peril which may nUrtle and warn every horee owner, while it juttifiea the Society in pureuing it* opposition to lo baneful and cruel a practice." The Ohio Humane Society, in its seventeenth report of 1890, gives the following information on this subject : — " In the United SUtes there are two forms of docking practised. In Ensland and in Wash- ington, D.C., it was decided by the courts that docking was an act of cruelty, and the offenders were punished. The legislature of Massa- chusetts pussed a special act providing that any Krson found guilty of docking a horse should fined, and the Boston Society ofifered a re- ward of one hundred dollars for evidence by which that Society shall convict any person of the life mutilation of any horse by the practice called docking. The idea is absurd, of putting a horse into harness tkfter taking from him his only defense against flies and mosquitoes. " The tail of a horse is the coutinuation of the iMck-bone, and sometimes it runs for a con- siderable extent into the tail. It is a series of lx>ue or verte- brae, beginning at the base of the brain and running down twelve or fifteen inches into the tail, branching oB into nerves which are extremely sensitive. The chief oruel^ is the pain the horse suffers while the tail is being cut off. The JV. r. Mail and Express says of the process : "'A rope is thrown over the neck of the horse, the ends brought between his forelegs and under the hind pasterns. A sudden jerk araws up his legs— he falls helplessly to the floor, and his legs are tied. He is then secured with twitches, which is twisting a small rope around the nose, which is very sensitive, so as to divert his attention from the tail. Behind is a furnace, knives, a large pair of shears and shearing-iron. " ' The operator folds back the hair from the ' joint to be divided, the knife rapidly severs the skin, the huee shears are applied — the horse struggles, and the tail is off. Then the iron at a white heat is applied, and the bleeding is arrested. The cheers of the audience and the subduing influence of the twitch drown the cry of pain, that is never brought from the horse except when in great agony ; for this noble ani- mal IS one of the few who endure ordinary pain without a whimper. The operation has taken but a few minutes to perform. " ' After the horse has been mangled he rises to his feet, and is certainly a different croature ! He stands shiveriiig with pain, his head droops, his eyelids close, and the stump of a tail is drawn close to his flanks. He is a perfectly aubdued horse ! But the surgeon does not think it necessary to explain that the operation performed is very simuar to amputation of a leg or arm on the human, and surely no one can say that this is not a painful operation. The parts are supplied with skin, muscles, nerves, blood-vessels, ligaments, bones— in faot the same structure as one's limb— and the same patho- logic condition which would exist in man s arm or leg would also take place in a horse's tail ; it is just at sensitive to the touch and to pain as any other part of the body. " ' Then, the horse has not been placed under the influence of chloroform or ether, or other anaesthetic, to deaden the pain, but by rope's twitoh he is held while the kqife cuts through his sensitive structure, and when nature asserts herself, as she does by pourins forth blood from the several blood-vessels, red-hot irons are ap- plied to the parts until they are fairly burned and cooked to stop the hemonhage ; then, the after pain and suffering, and cften the risk of losing the life of the horse by t>.at dreadful and most painful of all diseases, lockjaw, which sometimes follows,' " (as already shown). Dr. S. K. Johnson, the eminent veterinarian of New York, thus describes the operation : — THE "docking" fashion REVBBSED. " Docking is an unnecessary operation per- formed upon the horse, for style or fancy to suit the owner, or the call of fashion. In order to perform it tho animal is secured in stocks, or by ropes, so as to prevent kicking or accident to the operator. The portion of the tail severed is about one-third from the root. That portion is supplied with muscles, nerves, blood-vessels, etc., ^nd is extremely sensitive to pain. The tail, after olippinc; the hair at the point of am- putation, is chopped off with a curved knife, made expressly fur the purpose, which not only severs the soft structure but chops the bone, or vertebr.xv The hemorrhage which fol- lows is arrested by the use of cauterization on a red-hot iron, which singes the pikrt, causing contraction of the blood vessels and thereby stopping tb-; ''"w of blood. The tail, after the operation, is very sensitive for some time, until the hsaling process has restored the parts to their normal condition. The complications fol- lowing the operation are uloughing, xecondary hemorrhage, gangrene aixd tetanus (lockjaw). In the case of gangrene, a second amputation Cli dock becli late appe asa folio or si: ton acut bye the toti it 01 vitg CLIPPING A HORSE'S COAT. n, knd rarely no one can >»lnful operation. The k akin, mueolee, nerves, , iMnea— in faot tlie aame —and the tame patlio- ould exiat in man's arm Ikoe in a horae'a Uil ; it B touch and to pain aa dy, • not been placed under arm or ether, or other he pain, but by rope's Ae kqife cnta through nd when nature aaaerts mrins forth blood from i, red-hot irons are ap- they are fairly burned liemonhage ; then, the > and ( ften the risk of e by t>.at dreadful and eaaea, lockjaw, which already shown). eminent veterinarian bes the operation : EB8ED. •sary operation per- w style or fancy to >f faabion. In order secured in stacks, or kicking or accident >n of the tail severed root. That portion Brve«, blood-vessels, itive to pain. The at the point of am- ith a curved knife, lurpose, which not ure but chops the norrhage which fol- f oauteriz&tion on a the jr»rt, causing jsaels and thereby The tail, after the or some time, until itored the parts to I complications fol- >nghing, Rccondary tetanus Uockjaw). leoond amputatioc has to be performed, and in the ease of tetanus the animal invariably dies." It will be noted that the testimony of this American expert agrees fully with the opinions on the same subject expressed in England and quoted on page 37 of this report. It is gratifying to know that through the active exertions of Mr. John G. Shortall, the energetic President of the Illinois Humane Society, the following excellent law on this sub- ject was passed by the Legislature of that State in 1891 : — " Whoever outs the solid part of the tail of any horse in the operation known as ' docking,' or by any other operation performed for the purpose of shortening the tail, and whoever shall cause the same to be done, or assist in doing such cutting, unless the same ia proved to be a Denefit ts the horse, ahall be puniahed by impriaonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine of not leaa than twenty-five dollara ($25) or more than two hundred dollars Orip, the Toronto comic paper, illus- trates, aa shown on page opposite, what the result would be if the docking fash- ion were reversed and horses were to take the place of those who practice ■"">< cruelty on them. Orip savs : " What monsters horses would be if they did such things I " The following remarks also briefly summarize the bad effects of this anti- humane custom : — " The docking or cutting off the tails of horses is a cruelty that lasta through life. They can never, after this cruel operation, brush off the ilies and mos- quitoes that will make their life every summer a torment." Clipping a Horse's Coat. Clipping tells even more on a horse than docking. By it, in cold weather, a horse can be chilled to death in a very short time. The late Mr. Bergh, of New York, issued a strong apperl on this subject, and againat the practice as a cruel and disastrous one. He quotes the following to support his appeal : — " Mayhew, in his great work, says : 'Clipped or singed horses are thereby reni lered susceptible to many disorders. Any interual organ may be acutely attacked, because th'j perspiration has, by exposure to the skin, been thrown back upon the system.' ' ' Youatt, another high authority, says : ' As to the practice of clipping nnd shaving the horse, it occasions chilling of the frame, exhaustion of vital power, and dangerous reactions of fever.' '"A horse thus shorn,' as Mayhew says, ' is a deformity. The color L. unnatural, the coat is dull and stubborn looking, moat unlike that polished surface which is native to the beautiful quadruped.'" Horses Uncovered in Snow and Rain. It is a common practice, quite too common, for persons to leave their horses uncovered, even during severe snow, sleet, or rain storms. This is often thoughtlessly done. And, as It ia pleaded, in excuse, "only just for a few min- utes, while I run in here. " This is the oonatant excuse for such careless neglect. More fre- quently it is done by those who (aa Indicated in the engraving) frequent saloons or taverns in town or country. The frantic efforts of the horse to free himself from the inexorable post, to which he is too securely attached, cannot fall to awaken the sympathy of any one who has been caught in a driving storm of sieet or rain, and has had, even untramelled by any such device, to fight his way through the storm to his com- fortable home. UMSHKLTEUKO FUOM TUE STORM. With a view to inform, as well as caution, persons against such a practice, the Toronto Humane Society has issued the following card : " The Toronto Humane Sot.!ety cautions all drivers against the cruelty of leaving horses standing on the street in cold weather without proper coverirg. If the offence is persisted in, the oificer of the Society is instructed to prose- cute the party or parties offending." Horses Starved to Death in Toronto. Humane Officer Willis reported to the Sociaty, and had the man concerned prnaecut«d for starv- ing two or three of his horses to death in this city. The case was a very aggravated one, and was made the mota ao from the dogged peraiatence of the owner to accompliah hia in- human act. The poor creatures thus left to perish by slow degrees eat away all the wood- work within their reach ! Several sad cases of i 40 THK TORONTO HUMANE SOCIKTY. i ': f! the same kind are reported by the American Sooietiei. A paragraph in The Mail alio gives the following partioularaof a case which occurred in the county of Klgin, and although there was no animui shown , there was a culpable want of thought : — " The three horses owned by Oeo. Robinson and C. Chisholm, who are confined in a gaol awaiting trial on a charge of robbing the bam of D. Parish, a farmer of Southwold, some nights since, have all starved to death in their owners' barns, the women folks having failed to attend to them. A horse belonging to .John Agnew, a Frenchman living in the suburbs, was left tied to a fence in his yard from Saturday morning until Sunday night without food, when a neighbor released it, and it fell over dead. " The Baneful Over-Check and Check-Rein. As already intimated, the Society has en- deavored, chiefly by " moral suasion," to dis- courage the cruel and unnecessary check-rein and over-check. With this view the Society hp.J printed for gratuitous circulation cards and pamphlets illustrating by examples and com- parisons the barbarous practice. The £!ditor of Grip has aided the Society in its efforts in this direction and published in its issue of the 2nd of August, 1891 (page 76), a very effective illus- tration of " Horse's Sense " of the absurdity of the practice as applied to the man " Turfer " in the picture. The Toronto Mail has also seconded the efforts of the Society in this direction. In an editorial on the subject it said : — " The Toronto Humane Society is to l>e con- gratulated on the decisive effort it has made in MOKK HORSE SENSE. JoHKs— " Good gracious, Turter I What's the iiieaniDg of this ? " TORKRR— " I'm experimenting a little Just to Snd out for myself how aohsck-reln feels." favor of the abolition of the senseleu and cruel check-rein which for a long time it has been the fashion for owners of hones to use. The array of scientific opinion produced at the annual meeting in favor of the al>olition of this instru- ment of wanton cruelty will no doubt make many people reflect upon the subject who never gave it a thought before. The check -rein has een a piece of vanity from the beginning, and is very much in favor with brutal grooms and uneducated coachmen, who think a great deal more of presenting an imposing appearance than they do of the sufferings of the animal under their charge. . . . Masters and mistresses should, however, reflect that they and they alone are responsible for the suffering that is inflicted on the animals that draw them along in such glory. If they thought for a moment of the agonies endured by their horses who wait for tnem outside theatres, and shops, and churches, vainly tossing their heads in tne hope of finding some temporary relief from torture, they would feel inclined at once to discharge a coachman who persisted in the use of the bar- barous and useless check-rein. It is not only their own horses that suffer. The butcher, the baker, and the grocer take pattern by those above them in the social scale. The fashion of torturing horses is set, and the following of it is slavish and universal. It is to be hoped that the action of the Humane Society will be useful in awakening public attention to a species of cruelty which only requires to be thought alwut to be at once abolished." The Report for 1891 of the Pennsylvania Society gives the following as the origin of the unnatural and ungraceful over-check rein : — " This contrivance was originated by a jockey whose horse, when travelling rapidly, made a whistling noise. To remove the' difficulty, he devised an iron martingale which held the nose upward. As he was frequently ridicnled by his fellows on the raee-course he endeavored to ex- cuse his invention as a work of neces- sity, claiming that a horse when driven fast could breathe more freely with its head held up. He was s» zealous in advocating his false idea that he persuaded other ignorant horsemen to believe him, and thus created a demand for something that wr^'xld keep the head in this most un- natural position. The demand thu* created was finally supplied by Kim- ball Jackson, who mtroduced the contrivance of cruelty and horse tor- ture known as the Jackson-Kimball bit, or over check." It is most gratifying to us in Can- ada to know that when' the effect of this torturing appliance was recently pointed out to the Queen, Her Ma- jesty gave orders, through the Master of the Horse to have this'oruel appen- dage entirely removed from all sets of harness in the royal stables, or mevri:.. % r the MiiMleu and orud long time it hM been the >ne8 to tt«e. The Array roduoed »t the unual abolition of thii iiutru- y will no doubt make n the aubject who never e. The oheok-rein hw rom the beginning, and rith brutkl groomaand who think a great deal npoaine appearance than a of the animal under Maatera and miatreMea !t that they and they >r the Buffering that ig that draw them along bought for a moment of their horaea who wait ktrei, and ahopa, and their heada in the hope >ry relief from torture, I at once to discharge a in the use of the bar- k-rein. It ia not only Ber. The butcher, the Mke pattern by thoae acale. The faahion of xd the following of it is t is to be hoped that i Society will be useful «ntion to a species of es to be thought about of the Pennsylvania ng as the origin of the I over-check rein :— originated by a jockey tiling raoidly, made a rxove the" difficulty, he le which held the nose lently ridiculed by his I he endeavored to ex- bn as a work of neces- that a horse when d breathe more freely held up. He was so seating his false idea aded other ignorant slieve him, and thus id for something that head in this most un- I. The demand thu* lly supplied by Kim- who introduced th» irnelty and horse tor- the Jackaon-Kimball ■tifying to ua in Can- it when' the effect of ppliance was recently the Queen, Her Ma- ), through the Master lave thu'oruel appen- noved from all sets of yal stables, or mevrs. HELPFUL KFFKCT OF THE CO-OPERATION OF THE PRESS. Vi. HELPFUL EFFECT OF THE OO-OPERATION OF THE PRESS. 41 The Humane Society is greatly indebted to the press generally for its co-operation in seek- ing to pat a stop to the various kinds of cruelty which are too commonly practised among us. In the volume published by the Society, entitled, Its Aivia and Objects, the edi- tor selected no less than fifty-four extracts from magazines and papers publbhed chiefly tion the miserable spectacle of a team of horses tteing forced to drag a heavy load of lumber on runners over a stone pavement, from which the snow had almost entirely disappeared. The poor bruNs had strained every muscle to move the load until ready to drop in their traces, but were being mercilessly urged on by their driver, and the sight was a piiiful one. Two ladies who happened to be passing made an un- auocesafnl effort to induce the driver to lighten the load, and then appealed to a police- man to interfere. . . . Similar in- stances of cruelty are unfortunately only too common in our streets, and many of our citizens, no doubt, are often deeply pained at the sight of them. The Hu- mane Society, it is scarcely necessary to say, is ready and anxious to take up all such oases when brought to its notice, and to prosecute the offenders. . . . The efforts which the Humane Society is making to protect dumb beasts from in the city of Toronto. The extracts from the press in England and the United States are also numerous in that pub- lication. In this report there are also extracts from the city papers. The reporters of the oity press have also greatly aided the humane cause by preparing sketches of the Society's meet- ings, and of the varied discus- sions and work done at these meetings. As an example of the way in which the city papers can and do aid the cause which the Society has so much at heart, the following editorial is quoted. The incident given is a sample guide too common of the kind of treat- ment to which horses are often subjected. The editor said : — " A case of shocking cruelty to animals was brought to the notice of The Mail on Saturday. The complainants had witnessed with indigna- A HUMANE driver's TEAM. the brutality of their masters are worthy of all the support that can be affozded them either by legislation or by individual endeavor. It is a disgrace to this fair city that sights should be witnessed in its streets which are a reproach to humanity." It is help like this which is so gratifying to the members of the Humane Society. The publicity, too, of such cases impresses upon the public the necessity for such a beneficent organ- ization as that of the Humane Society. Such editorials and other press notices of humane 48 THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. work ably saoond the afforta of the Society in ita often difBoolt miaaion. Such preaa referenoea called attention to theae efforta and have em- phaaized the public appreciation of them. Many of the clergy alao have preached aer- mana on the duty of kindneaa and mercy to dumb animala — eapeoially Rev. Canon Du Mou- lin, Rev. Dr. Wild, the Rev. Arthur Baldwin. Vil. OTHER PREVENTIVE AND REMEDIAL EFFORTS BY THE SOCIETY. 1. Tribp ahooting. 2. Over-crowding cattle oara. , 3. Over-crowding street cara. 4. An ambulance for diaabled animala. 5. Reating aeata for aaaiatanta in atorea. Large humane notice boarda. . 7. Caae of Chineae children. Among the aubjeota which engaged the eameat attention of the Humane Society at ita monthly meetinga were thoae juat enumerated. One of thoae ia tecbuioally known aa "Trap TRAP SHOOTING. Shooting." We have oonatantly a report in the Toronto daily papera of theae cruel, miserable attempts at aportamanship. Hundreda of pigeona and other defenoeleaa birds are thus wantonly alaughtered, not for purposes of food, but for ao-called aport, and to aee who can kill moat of theae defenceless creatures and get what is practically the most blood-money for so doing. One of the city papers, of the 24th of February, thus reports the results of a matoh for shooting 100 live pigeons and birds :— "The three daya' tournament of the Toronto Gun Club began yesterday at the Woodbine. A thick fog bothered the competitors, and they had to face a strong east wind. The principal event was the live pigeon aboot, for which nearly all the crack shots in Canada and several from the United States entered. The birds were a fairly good lot, and the average scores are pro bably the best ever made in Canada." Tho same paper, of the 25th of March, reporta another match aa followa : — " The weather yeaterday waa more favorable than that of the nrat day of the Toronto Gun Club'a tournament, and the birda were by far a better lot. The unfiniahed $500 pigeon ahoot waa concluded, with the reanit that five marka- men who sot a clean string of twenty, divided the first five moneys, aggregating 9260, and netting each $62. Five othera, who made nine- teen, divided the next five prizea, or $110. Eleven additional, who got eighteen, divided the next ten prizea of $130. The aecond live pigeon event on the programme waa begun but was not finished." In a very few caaea artificial birda are need, but aa they are not conaidered aa inapiring to the markamen they are by no meana aa well liked aa the live bird. The cruel effect of theae matchea ia that many of the birda are only wounded, and consequent!y suffer torture until thjy are despatched by nbe "killer," who may or may not be appointed for thia purpoae. An editorial of The Olobe newapaper thua puta the caae and contention of the Humane Society in their true light and most effective aapeot : — " It ia more than time that the cruel and nae- leaa snowbird and pigeon ahooting matchea were finally and forever put a atop to. They aerve no good purpoae whatever. They promote neither good ahooting nor good felfowahip. They are aimply poor, mean, cowardly exhiln- tions of bird-murder and bird-maiming — exhi- biti(>na which render both thoae who are actively engaged in them and thoae who figure aa apec- tators cruel and callous to an extent wbicn is unpleasant even to think of. The " snnner boaiea," aa Carlyle would have designated thoae vho figure at auch gatheringa, cannot plead that the practice ia neoeaaary to the improve- ment of ahooting, for artificial birda could aerve auch a purpoae equally well, if not a great deal better. Such a plan, however, would not sive the neoeaaary zest derived from the sight oithe terror and sufferings of tiie poor little live things. There would, in that caae, be no tor- turing. None of the victima would eaoape, wounded, to die cruel and lingering deatha. It would be impossible to blow off a couple of feet, as is sometimes done, without inflicting any other injury. Leaden pellets would not be carried about in the bodies of the victims until death gave the happy despatch. The whole joy and attraction of the 'sport' would be gone so soon as no life was to be taken and no poaaible auffering inflicted. ■o hkve preached aer. lindneM and mercy to y Rev. Canon Da Moa- Rev. Arthur Baldwin. r THE SOCIETY. 25th of March, report* ky wae more favorable ' of the Toronto Gun le birda were by far a ed $500 piseon ehoot 'eanlt that five marka- >g of twenty, divided wregating |260, and uiera, who made nine- five prize*, or $110. ;ot efghteen, divided 30. Theaecond live kmme wa* begun but ioial bird* are a*ed, lered a* inapiring to >y no nieana aa well » cruel effect of theae the birda are only r auffer torture until I "killer," who may r thia purpoae. An ■paper thua puta the Humane Society in recti ve aapeot : it the cruel and uae- Doting matchea were iop to. They aerve r. They promote ■ good felfowahip. p, cowardly exhibi- ird-maiming— exhi- oae who are actively who figure aa apec- an extent which ia of. The"ffunner re designated thoae ■nga, cannot plead rv to the improve- u birds could aerve if not a great deal ir, would not give >m the sight oAhe e poor little live •t caae, be no tor- na would eaoape, gerin^ deaths. It >ff a couple of feet, lut inflicting any its would not he the victims until ktch. The whole 't' would be gone 3n and no poaaible If :''f ■<']}/, // . ••■.:■■. ■.■■'(•:-^vft* 44 THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. " If such lo-oalled 'aport' ia not m m«kii kBd cowardly on* we do not Icnow what ia. It may have attraotlona (or thoae without . heart or head, who have been hardened into indifference by peraiatenoe in aach waya. The Sooietv (or the Prevention o( Cruelty to Animala ia doing well to inter(ere with auoh a 'aport.' The clerj^men o( the city would alao do well i( thev could manage to get in a little miaaionary work among the memliera of auoh ' oluba. ' If aucceaa- (ul in turning theae from the error of their way they would prevent a great deal of unneoeaaary aunering and hide a multitude of aina." It ia interesting to know how thia queation haa been dealt with in the United Statea, where thia doubtful kind of aport originated. The New Vork Sun thua refera to the aubjeot : — " For many yeara trap ahooting waa confined to a few 'gun oranka, ai they were called. Aa time progreaaed and large tournamenta be- came more freauent, the drafta upon the live bird rooata in the far weat were ao heavy aa to almoat exterminate them ; at leaat, they were forced to leave their old haunta, and the huntora who had made a good living for yeara by trap- ping the birda were forced to aeek ether ocou- pationa. The failure of the wild bird crop neoeasitated other meaaurea, aa shoota were deatined to multiply rather than to decreaae, ao tame pigeona were aubatitnted, bred eapeoially for trap purpoaea by (armera in variona aeotiona o( the country. " Juat prior to the great Coney laland tourna- ment about ten yeara ago, public aentimeut, in- apired by Henry Bergh, with the Society (or the Prevention of Cruelty to Animala at hia back, demanded the atoppage of the practice of killing birda from the trap. Thia feeling cul- minated at the Coney laland ahoot, where more than 20,000 live birda, many o( them young and unfledged, and unable to fly, were ahot during the week. Mr. Bergh attempted to atop pro- ceedinga, but waa unable to do ao, and the pro- gramme waa carried out aa intended. "Although Mr. Bargh'a power waa ancceaa- fuUy braved on thia occaaion, it did more to atop live bird ahooting (or a time than any other movement. Olasa baUa and a patent tin target, made to gyrate in its flight to reaemble the action o( a bird, had been uaed with aome auc- ceaa. Thia waa a clumay and expenaive inven- tion and did not meet with favor. " The necesaity for a new and improved target waa very apparent, and at the Coney Island ahoot the clay pigeon waa ahown (or the firat time. " Thia waa a aaucerahaped image o( clay, which, when thrown (rom a apecially deaigned trap, went aailing rapidly through the air to a diatance o{ (rom thirty to forty-five yarda, according aa deaired, and governed by the ten- aion of the apring on the trap. Theae diaka were more uneven in their flight, and were eaaier influenced by the wind, thua making the task of breaking them by no meana easy. Shootera immediately aaw the immenae advan- tage theae targeta had over gla^i baMa, and they at once aprang into favor. " The company engaged in thoir manufacture aeoured the aervicea of the noted ahota, Capt Bogardua and Dr. Carver, and they traveled all over the country, ahooting matchea together at the clay birda. The fame of theae markamen drew attention to the new targeta, and aoon they were uaed in all aectiona. since that time new companiea have been formed for the manu- facture of other and improved atylea o( birda and trapa, until now there are naK a dozen (aotoriea in exiatence, whioh turn out many hundreda of thouaand targeta each year. Some of these birda are made of clay, like the original one, and othera atill of a oompoaition o( which tar ia the chie( insredient, but all retain nearly the aama aauoer ahape aa in the firat invention. Defeated Legislation on Trap Shooting. Mr. Adam Brown, Preaident o( the Hamilton Society, who ao energetically sought to get a Bill passed in the Dominion Parliament to re- strain the cruel practice o( "trap ahooting," waa aaked to auggeat the name o( aome member who would take up the de(eated meaaure o( laat year and aeek to get it paaaed. He aaid :— " I am aorry that I cannot give you any en- couragement aa to following up my efforta in Parliament to prevent trap ahooting — that ia, in the way of auggeating a member who would go into it. I would, however, auggeat that all the Humane Sooietiea petition the Miniater of Juatice to amend the law ao aa to include trap ahooting in it. If you think well of this I will help." Mr. John Charlton, M.P., who has interested himaeK in deairable prohibitory legislation, was asked to take up the subject and preaa it in the Honae o( Commona. He auggested that one of the city membera ahonld take it up, as he had so much work on hand. Over-Crowding Cattle Cars. Another matter which has received the prac- tical attention of the Society is the over-crowd- ing and mixing of various kinds of cattle in the cattle cars. A recent case was brought before the Police Magistrate (aa mentioned in the report of Police Conatable Willia, Humane Offi- cer, page 21 ). The Magiatrate decided that the man who ahipped the cattle in Ouelph waa re- aponaible for the over-crowding, and not the Railway Company. Thia matter had been before the Society in 1888 and a letter was addressed to the local authoritiea of the railway concerned. The reply received from Mr. Earls, the Secretary, was to the following effect : — "Our regulations do not permit large and small animals to be mixed in the same oar india- criminately, and we endeavor, upon all occa- I OTHER PRBVKNTIVE AND REMEDIAL EFFORTS. 45 noted ihoU, Capt. md they traveled all matohca together at of these markunea r targeta, and aoon na. Since that time Drmed for the manu- ved etylee of birds « are half a dozen Ish turn out many ta eaoh year. Some ilay, like the original ompoaition of whiob >>nt all retain nearly the firat invention. ' I Trap Shooting. lent of the Hamilton Uy aonght to get a >n Parliament to re- >f "trap ahooting," kme of aome member lated meaaure of laat ed. He aaid :— >t give yott any en- ng up my efforta in ahooting— that ia, in mber who would go auggeat that all the n the Miniater of o aa to include trap ik well of thia I will , who haa interested tory legialation, was it and preaa it in the uggested that one of kke it up, aa he had Sattle Cars. >a received the prao- y ia the over-crowd - inda of cattle in the waa brought before meutioned in the Villia, Humane Offi- ■ate decided that the e in Guelph waa re- vdiog, and not the ifore the Society in reaaed to the local ucerned. The reply le Secretary, waa to i permit large and 1 the same car India- ror, upon all occa- sions, to prevent it. Occasionally, however, at outside points where aaenta do not have the oversight of loading, shippers will mix cattle, etc., in cars in this way without our knowledge or consent. " Clause 34, page 30, of the ' Book of Inatruo- dons,' reada : ' Hoga or sheep most not under Company was called by the Society to the bad condition of the roads in the company's freight yards, rendering it so much more diiUonlt for horses to draw large loads. The Company promised attention to the matter. any circumstances be loaded in the same oar with cattle, unless each description is partitioned off from the other.'" Notwithstanding these regulations, the Guelph oaae failed of conviction. Were there a Humane Society in Guelph (which there ia not) that Society, on our information, might have been able to bring the ahipper there to juatice and have him puniahed for hia moat cruel act. The attention of the Canadian Pacific Railway Improved Cattle Cars in Pennsylvania. Mra. C. E. White, President of the Woman's Branch of the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, at the meeting of the General American Society, in 1S91 , re- ports the oonatrnction of 1,000 improved cattle cara for the Pennaylvania Railway Company on the following plan : — " Eaoh oar ia thirty-six feet in length— an in- 46 THE TORONTO HUMANR 80CIKTY. or«M« of lix feet on the Mttle can in um— eight feet lix inohee in width, with raolia for holding hikjr, to be let down whenever neoeieary for the anlm*la tu e*t ; roof ventilation, to m to allow of a good oiroulation of air through the oar, and improved ipringi and oonplingi, to ae greatly to diminith Uie jarring motion and the •hooiii coniequent upon itopprng, ihunting and ■tartinff the trains. . . u la propoaed to place m these oara only the aame nnmber of cattle aa in the amaller cara, and by that meana Sive room for about one-half of them to lie own at a time. . . . The 1,000 oara have been in uae for aeveral montha. They appear to be moat luocetaful and we are greatly pleaaed with them. We feel that we oannot praiae the company too much for the generoua manner in which they have aoceeded to the wiahea of the Woman'a Branch Society in thia matter and the deaire they have ahown to have the moat humane method poaaible of transport- ing the cattle.' NoTB.— A vary lotomtlng dlioutiion on the wholtquM- tlon Is aonUinM m tha Kaport from which this axtrtot Is msda. Compsrtmant osra ware strongly objeotad to. Saa pagaa 34-42 ol tha Amarlcan Humtna Soolaty't Raport Two caaea— one of over-crowding and the other of mixing animate in the aame car — have come under the notice of the Society, The particulara are ao graphically atated in lettera to the local presa that they are inserted aa fol- Iowa. One occurred early in July, 1800, and ia thus reported by Mr. H. A. Maaaey, now an active member of our Society. He aaid, under date of the 2nd of July : — "Yesterday, while standing at one of the railway stationa in our city, a train came in which contained a car of cattle and piga paclced together in a moat careless and cruel manner, causineanch suffering to these poor dumb brutes that I lelt it my duty to call to it the attention of our Humane Society, It ia aimply disgrace- ful that in this day and age, when everything is done to make travel aa comfortable as possible for humanity, poor dumb bmtea ahould be so ill-treated. In the case mentioned above, to begin with, the car contained enough pigs, without including the cattle ; and the placing of cattle and pigs together in the same car, in such a crowded manner, resulted of course in a constant injury of the smaller animals ; and the continuoua terrific squeaking of these piga indi- cated the torturea they were undergoing. These animals, being packed in like sardines, would be constantly moving in order to obtain relief, and the result was the stepping of the cattle upon the smaller animals, causing untold misery. As an instance of the cruelty this sort of ship- ment caused a calf lay dead in the corner of tlie car, hav. g lost its life from such a heartlesa method of tranaportation. I was told that one should visit the stock yards on Monday and Thursday evenings in order to see the amount of cruelty inflicted upon these dumb brutes in transportation. A shipment of dumb brutes at best is attended with a great deal of discomfort to them, but railroad authorities and drovers should be prohibited by law from shipping large and amall animala crowded together in the aami car." KBKI'INO TIRBD OATTLK 8TAICDIN0 BY UHK OF SPIKE rOLBH. The other caac ia given by a reporter of Tht Mail, in that paper, of the 16th of laat March, aa followa : — " Shortly before aix o'clock yeaterday evening a box car filled with horses reached the city by the Orand Trunk Railway from Brampton. Aa the train was atanding at Carleton atation an emplay(J noticed that one of the horaea was prostrate on the floor and was being trampled upon by the others. The animal was extricated from ita awkward poaition, but on opening the car on ita arrival at the Union atation aeveral of the animala were lying on the floor under the feet of the othera, and in a condition of aemi- auffocation. When the car waa opened, the volumea of ateam ariaing from the perapiration whioh waa rolling from the horaea gave riae to the belief that the oar waa on fire." Other Forms of Cruelty to Cattle. When the cattle cara are over-orowded room is not left for the cattle to lie down. When they attempt it, ag the train stops, they are TORVl'RBD WHILE BKIMO TBAN8F0RTED. forcibly kept standing by means of poles, pikea, and other auch instrnmenta which cattle men use. OTHKR i'RKVENTlVE AND RKMKDIAL KFFOKTS. «T (led togethn in the uuiw ; HTAMDINO Br VHK OF •OLEH. n by » reporter of The ^e 16th of Uit March, ilook yeeterday evening ee reached the city by y from Brampton. As at Carleton itation an ne of the hone* was i was being trampled > animal was extricated >n, but on opening the Jnion station several of jn the floor under the in a condition of semi- osr was opened, the from the perspiration he horses gave rise to s on fire." ruelty to Cattle. •e over-crowded room to lie down. When train stops, they are 3 TBANSPORTED. leans of poles, pikes, * which cattle men Even when the train reaches its destination the smaller animals, if alive, are sent off to their consigner. They are often thrown into a cart or open wagon, and as often their feet are tied. They are thns tortured on the way by rapid driving and the jolting of a waggon (as shown in the engraving). Kutohers' boys and drovers often carry calves and sheep in this most cruel fashion. Ovar-Orowding of Street Cart. The subject of the over-crowding of the street cars has been freriuently discussed by the Hooiety and efiorts have been made to effect a reform in this matter. The former and the present Street Railway Companies were both appealed to on the subject. The President of the former com- pany stated that the public, and not the com- pany, was responsible for the over-crowding. The present company was also appealed to on the subject, and a deputation from the Society us moat courteously and immedlatelv placn<1 the books of the company at our dispoaal for inspec- tion. "The company, responding to public opinion in reiiuiring a more rapid transit, timed the High Park, Yonge Street and Kelt Line routes to six miles an hour, other routes are run as for- merly at five miles an hour. "The longest two-horse car route is the High Park line, being 8.8 miles for the round trip. The horses on tnis route are ro(|uircd to maka iiiree round trips in the 24 hours, or in all 2d.4 miles. The time occupied in the round trip is 1 i hours. "The Belt Line rouve measures r>.71 miles, over which the horses make three round trips in the 24 hours, being less than 18 miles. Occa- sionally a fourth trip in made on this route one way, going up Eherboume, west on Kloor, down SpadHa and east on King. " TIte longest one-horse car route is the Lea Avenue to Dutl'erin Street, the round trip dis- tance being 1.3 4 miles, occupying 2^ hours. A horse is re<|uired to make two trips in the 24 hours, or in all 2U.H miles. '^^,,^i " The shorter one-horse car rentes vary ^in was appointed to see the President and Manager with a view to mitigate the evil of over-crowd- ing. It was suggested that conductors be re- quired, when their cars are full, to place a notice in a conspicuous place outside to that effect and to allow no more passengers to get on. The deputation was very courteously received, but it was intimated that difficulties to do as pro- posed were in the way, and that civic legislation might be required before the company could act as suggested. The following is the report of the deputation to the Street Car Company, signed by Captain McMaster and Mr. H. A. Massey, and dated Toronto, 4th March, 1892:— " We, your Committee, who were delegated to interview the management of the Toronto .Street Railway Company to ascertain if any more humane treatment could be practised in using their horses. " Being so instructed, we called on the fiene- ral Manager, Mr. H. A. Everett, who received distance over which the horses are timed to- travel 4^ hours in the 24 hours. " The Yonge Street route to North Toronto round trip measures 5.42 miles. Over this route 04 horses are required to make three round trips in the 24 hours, or a total distance of 16.20 miles, and 128 horses make four round trips in the 24 hours, or a total distance of 21.68 miles. " Taking the foregoing statement, it docs not appear to us that the distances driven over any of the routes are excessive. The longest route is a level one, consequently easier hauling for the horses, in fact starting with a load is the only strain. " From observation and enquiry we would say that horses injured by interfering has been caused, to a considerable extent, by the bad con- dition of the wood block paving, particularly on Yonge Street and on Spadina Avenue. Par- tially worn blocks with conical crowns, when covered with ice, rendered it almost impossible for horses to travel on these routes withr^it interfering even when the shoes have b«en sharpened. " Your Committee recommend that the So- THK TORONTO HUMANK SOCIKTY. !l oUty rwiuOTt th« City Coancll to pus % byUw prohibitiiii( the (ivor-oniwdinti of ttreat can, M much of the iTualty to horMi U oauMd by over- crowding the oars to luoh •■> extant that the htiriee are phy«iu»lly unable, without injury, to draw them on the upgrade!, eapeoially when enow haa fallen and ice haa formed on the traoki. Wa further recommend that the Society ahonld urge the company to furnish an extra horaa nt auoh hour* of the day when the tralHo ia heavy, on the up-gradee. " Aa the time approaohea when the ayatem will be changed to dieotric power and the traoka improved, we hope there will be but few cum- plainta regarding the over-working of horaea by the Street Railway Company in the future." Daring the anow blockade laat winter a num- ber of citizena found fault with the Humana Society for not proceeding againat the Street Railway Comptny for cruelty to horaea during the blockade, iiy reference to the report of Humane Ollioer Willis, on page 21, it will bo aeen that the matter was not overlooked. He says :— " Much att«ntion had necessarily to be given to street oar horses. Several cases were brought into court and convictionn saonred. " The following letter from Col. Orasett, Chief of Police, is also published to show that the 'Society had taken action ir. the matter. There are many difficulties in the way, however, as the chief points out. (He said :— " I have personally enc}uired from the in- spector oi each police diviiion whether they or their men observed any conduct on the purt of a atreet car driver that could be legally con- strued into a case of cruelty to the horses they drove. The Staff Inspector's Department also furnishes me with a report on the same subject, and I am unable to learn anything that would justify the police in proceeding against the Street Railway Company or their employes. Of course it was patent to all that the oars in manv instances were over-loaded, and the strength and endurance of the horses severely taxed, auoh being due to the interruption of traffic caused by the heavy snowfall. " You bre doubtleaa aware that the Company cannot be brought into court for over-loading their oars, aa there appeara to be no law to reach them or the public, who, in my opinion, are quite as much to blame as the company, for if, wnen a car ia full, people would abatain from making it fuller, all would l>e well. " The only point that might be made some- thing of againat the Street Railway Company la their neglect in not employing a sufficient number of man on Friday and Saturday to clear the tracks, preferring evidently to let the aun do it for them. This matter, however, cornea within the jurisdiction of the Ci^ Engineer. " n yon have any reliable information from citizens who will come forward and teatify to any clear case of cruelty aninst the company, or its emplovtfs, I will see Uiat the information is laid and the case brought into court." Apptal by MInltleis on behalf of Stratt Car Hortaa, ate. At a recent meeting of the Humane Soclaty the following resolution was passed :— " That it is decirable to appoint a depntation from the Humane Society to wait anon the Miniaterial Aaaociation and Rurideoanal Cliap- t«r of Toronto, and to aak their mamliera to draw the attention of their congregations to the prin- cipiee and aima of this Society, with special reference to the over-loading of the street oars, and the humane treatment of animals generally. The deputation to consist of President W, R. Ilrock, Dr. Hodgins, Messrs. J. J. Kelso, W. A. Sims, and (i. Taunt. The deputation at flrat waited on the Minia- terial Association. Mr. Sims pointed out how important it was to secure the aid of the pulpit against the cruelty so constantly practised against animals generally. He instanced the case of street car horaea, and stated tlut be had made the calculation and found that the weight of an ordinary horse oar is 3,000 Ibe; that fifty or more persona crowded into one of them. Al- lowing 100 lbs. aa an average weight of theee passengers, the total weight of pKssengers and oar would be 11,000 lbs. Pulling such a load as this up the Yonge Street grade of six inchee in 300 feet was altogether too much for a team of horaea. Mr. Kelao, Mr. Taunt and Dr. Hodgina alao addressed the Aaaociation on the varied work of the Humane Society, and ang- geated that each minister might make it con- venient to refer to this hnmane work in the pnlpit. The reaponae of the Asaooiation was general and very cordial. Later a depntation, consisting of Messrs. W. R. brook, President, W. A. Sims and George Taunt, waited upon the Church of England Rnraldecanal Chapter, and brought the same facts before its members. In addition, the sub- jects of the over-check rein, docking, dishorn- ing cattle, crowding the can, etc., were men- tioned. Attention was also called to the Society's work of preventing cmelty to women and children. The aid of the clergy was strongly invoked to aid in this good work. The ministers present entered heartily into the matter, and promised to act on the suggestions made to tliem, as far as In their power. Ambulance for Oiaabled Animals. In February, 1800, when the subject of cruelty to horses generally was being discussed, a strong desire was expressed (and put in the form of a resolution) that an ambulance be, if possible, provided for the removal of sick or OTHKK I'RKVKNTIVK ANI> HKMKUIAL KFFOKTS. 1 bahair of Straat a, ate. tha Humana Soolaty a* paMad :— appoint a dapntatlon " to wait npon ttia - Ruridaoanal Cliap- ■hair mambara to draw ragationa to tha prin- 4ooiaty, witli apaoial ngof the itraatoara, I of animala ganarally. of Praaidant W. R. (aaan. J. J. Kalao, waitad on tha Minia- iima pointed out how tha aid of tha pulpit oonatantly praotiaad jr. He inatanoad the >nd atated that ha had found that tha weight a 3,000 Iba; that fifty into one of them. Al- srage weight of theae iht of paaaangera and Pulling anoh a load et grade of aix Inohea too much for a team Mr. Taunt and Dr. he Ataociation on the ana Society, and aug- r might make it oon- hnmane work in the the Aeaooiation waa oniiating of Mewra. V. A. Sima and George Church of England ad brought the same In addition, the anb- )in, docking, dlahom- can, etc., were men- alao called to the ing cruelty to women ^e clergy waa strongly work. Theminiatara nto the matter, and Buggeations made to I war. abied Animals. 1 the subject of cruelty being disousaed, a ised (and put in the an ambulance lie, if I removal of sick or m" 1" ^h-T itVinl Vl lllMttt. ( * ' dlaabU'l hotwu or nthar anlmaU. II wm ill- rMUb*r Bprlnga, ao aj to minimix* Jolting t a brake of a new pattern haa been added, 'rne aidea of the aiiibulanoe are padded, ao aa to prevent the animal from being bmlaad. A thick mattraaa, a patlded head protactlon (for oaaea of blind ataggeri) have alio been proviileil. In fact, everything pertaining to auch a vehicle li n)oat complete for thf> care and comfort of injured or aiok horaea, and other large animala, whIU being tranaported to veterinary hoapitala. " ' An ambulance fi>r email iinlmala haa alao been been provided by th* N*w York HocUty. Why not hav* on* in Toronto ? VIII ORUILTY IN " SPORT » AND IN REOKLK88 BARNEST. The Toronto and other Humane Sooietiea hav* to d*al with acta of orualty of varioua kind*! and, tharefore, th*y have to be diioueied and the diacuaaion acted upon. The acta of kiaelty are thoa* by deaign, or In earneat, thoae by thoughtleaaneaa and oareleaaneaa and thoae inflicted in "aporl"— aooallod, auch aa trap- ahooting, and by reokleaa huntera. Moat all of thea* acta of cruelty have engaged the attention of our Society, with a view to their prevention, or a leaaening of their effect. That form of cruelty Inflicted by amateur " aportamen," or huntera, haa been atrongly uen- •ured by papara and periodioala in thia country and the neighboring Statea, and yet it la difficult to get the Leglalatur* to put a atop to them. Tfte Week, of thia city, in a recent editorial warmly commended an article publiahed in the June number of the Rural Canadian, alao of thia city, and entitled: "Protect the Birda." Mr. G. W. C'urtia, the "Easy Chair" editor of Harper's Magaziiif, disoaaaea with much logical force the nnaettled question of " What Conati- tntea Sport " and what are the " Kthioa of Sport." Mr. Curtis was induced to take the subject up in consequence of a cruel incident of " sport " which came under his notice in New York. By a singular coincidence the cruel act which waa perpetrated in New York haa its counterpart In a similar act perpetrated in St. Thomaa, County of Elgin, and narrated by Mrs, Way, the indet'atigabl* promoter (from that very incident) of Bands of Meroy in St. Thomas. The Hujfnlo Uouri«r, in commending thia timely championship of dumb aninmla by Mr. Curtis, saya that hia attention waa called to th* aubject by a recent act of cruelty, wherein a young man of " social distinction " amused him- self by encouraging hia dogs to teaa* a oat, and when the animal took refuge in a tree, ahook her otf to be torn in piece* by hia dogs. This incident, which was described in the papers, called out a letter from a critio of certain sports. "The deliberat* murder of th*oat,"he auid, " waa oartainly deteatable. But how ia it worse than to loose a fox from a bag in a strange country, to be torn to piecea by a pack of hounds warmed to the chase ? And why should such pointless, useless, and intentional cruelty be called sport? How is it sport to an intelligent man to cause the death of an innocent animal which he procures for the sole purpose of kill- ing?" These questions Mr. Curtis regarda aa ao pertinent that he gives considerable space to endorsing them and putting them to his readers. "The romance of the hunt," he says, " is un- deniable. Foxea may be a peat that M fall, and coulil not rule to pull »t him, to Ur him, or um Mini* moving, or r*mo« Idh, M to iTllI him, or lot r«port tor I HO I oon- ition of an Improved ly doolgnod by I'roal- y : rovldod with rul>h«r Jolting ; a br»ka of a id. 'rha aidaa of tha M to pravant tha A thiok mattraM, (for oaaaa of Mind provided. In faut, uoh a vehlola li ntoat comfort of injurad f cruelty, wherein a notion " amnaad him- ga to taaae a cat, and Fnga in a tree, ahook a by hia doga. Thia ibed in the paperH, itioof certain aporta. at the oat," he auid, Bnthowiaitworae • bag in a atrange I by a pack nf hounda nd why ahould luoh «ntioiial cruelty be lort to an Intelligent an innocent animal ■ole pnrpoae of klU- irtia regarda aa ao maiderable apace to them to hia readera. t," he aaya, " ia un- may be a peat that SUMMER 80HUSTRa«. ■sa THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. ■hould be extermiMtc^, like bean in a frontier country, but when a country ii lo far advanced in Mttlement and civilization that prosperoui gentlemen drew themselvee gayly in scarlet coati and buokckin breeohee, and ride blooded honwe, and follow oo jtly packs of hounds aorou country, hunting a frigii'-ened fox, the fox is no lcn<;er a pest, and the riders are not frontiers- men and honest sattlors ; they are butchers, not for lawful purposes, but for pleasure. The law solemnly Ukes life, but the judge v.ho should take life for. sports well ! " And the "Easy Chair" concludes that "if it be decent and honorable to hunt a frightened fox brought for the purpose of being hunted, it is equally decent and honorable for a man to shake a frightened oat (from a tree to be torn and devoured by •Jogs." TL^se are but brief extracts from an article, every line of wb'.uh is full of compassion for defenceless animals. The lessons it contains are most timely, for this is thd season when nearly every boy whc can get a vacation is polishing his gun or buying fiiihini; tackle as part of his equipment for the summer's sport. To seek the woods with any other purpose than that of killing as many of its inhabitants as possible seems foreign to the spirit of our youth, and the attitude of the popular mind towards such sport is well instanced by John Burroughs' observation that a man in the woods without a gun is always regarded with suspicion. As Mr. Curtis has said, it is not the killing for lawful purposes that is objectionable, it is the pleasure derived from the mere act of killing which causes wonder to many merciful-minded people. The article in the Rural Canadian, to which The Week refers, appeals to farmers and all parties concerned to see that the Act for the protection of insectivorous birds passed by the Legislature some years ago is enforced. The «ditor then refers to the larger question of the right, as claimed by amateurs, to indiscriminate hunting and so-called "sport," and goes onto «iy :— "For many years our country teemed with 5[ame in the way of deer and game birds. But of late years so little care has been taken that foreigners in large numbers have com? over during the summer and wantorjy slaughtered and carried away our game. . . . So of the fish : every stream and river in the country has been fished out, till nothing Imt suckers and ohnb remain." In corroboration ! these statements, but from an entirely different source, comes the testimony of a writer in the western section of the province. A Mr. Charles W. Richardson, of Morpeth, under date of May 0th last, writes to The aiohe as follows ;— " Your Brampton correspondent's account of the 'piratical' duck shooting practices in Hamilton Bay, wheic the ducks seek a resting place in their migratory passage northward, is an exact reproductio-t of the uninterrupted vio- lation of the gtme ^aws at Rondeau. All through the mouth oi April the poor birds could be seen in groups of hundi-eds c jar the foot ot the Eau, heartlesstly driven from their feeding grounds by a constant fusilade extending from the lighthouse bar and along the north shore of the bay for miles to the east. On the south side of the bay the duck found temporary pro- tection where the thoroughfare running with the shore is more or less travelled ; the poachers taking to the north side because of its isolation, and here in the shelter of the tall dead grass and fl»gs they slaughter and bag this game wholesale. Even on the Sabbath day the echo of the poacher's gun ceaseth not ! Another reprehensible innovation at Rondeau is likely to keep the shy birds from their favorite haunts partially, if not or^tirely, duiing the open sea - son. Shootkia parties ensage a ^mall steamer by the day and go skurryiog about after duck as constantly on the wing, using a long handled bcoop net to gather up their slaughter. Auf! this sort of pot hunting is calleil ' sport ' in these degenerate times ! " The indiscriminate slanghte ' of pigeons also goes on all over the country. Local papers give as " interesting " items of news the number of these birds maimed or destroyed at the shooting matches held on the Queen's birthday, or, more generally, on Dominion Day. The Hu- mane Societies in Canada did what they could, by petition and personal effort, to strengthen the hands of Mr. Adam Brown in his able and persistent efforts to get the Dominion Legis- lature to put a stop to this disgraceful " sport." But chiefly under the management of Mr. Tie- dale, one of the members, the Bill was defeated. A local poet in The Mail has thus celebrated the circumstances of that defeat as follows : — "the OTTAWA 0U1-' CLUB. " The attention of the House wis direotcd to a magrnifl- oent bouquet on Mr. Tiadale's desk. The flowxra were a tribute to the hon. gentleman from the Ottawa Oun Club tor Ml luocMS in his assault upon Mr. Brown's anti-pigeon shooting bill."— OHoiTO Deapntch. " We do not seek with indurated nerve The IdumKan lion in his lair ; A humbler quarry will our purpose serve Than such wild brutes as tiger, wolf, or bear. " We shoot thepiseon, and we like him trapped, For fear he might our fell intent elude. We care not that our sport is not enwrapped By glamours of a mountain solitude. VARIOUS PR0CEED1Ntiiig praotioea in luck* leek a reating iMage northward, u e uninterrupted vio- I at Rondeau. All the poor birdi could Bds I jar the foot ot D from their feeding lade extending from g the north shore of east. On the south lund temporary pro- (hfare running with ivelled; thepoaohen Qauae of its isolation, the tall dead grass and bag this game ibbath day the echo >seth not ! Another t Rondeau is likely their favorite haunts ttiint; the open sea ;age a ^mall steamer Dg about after duck using a long handled eir slaughter. And is called ' sport ' in ;hte ' of pigeons also ntry. Local papers s of news the number r destroyed at the he Queen's birthday, linion Day. The Hn- iid what they could, effort, to strengthen own in his able and the Dominion Legis- disgraceful " sport. " lagement of Mr. Tis- he Bill was defeated. IS thus celebrated the ^t as follows : — avii CLUB. raa directed to a magnifl- e«k. The flowora were a im the Ottawa Oun Club I Mr. Brown'* anti-pitreoii urated nerve lair ; purpose serve i tiger, wolf, or bear. we like him trapped, II intent elude. b is not enwrapped kin solitude. " The dangers of the forest or the feu Have little charm for us, we like them not ; We shoot the pigeon, loosed from out hi* pen. The pigeon u the target of our shot. "There are that track the deer o'er wild and fell, That seek their game 'neath Afrio's burning skies ; We seek a country inn, and they who tell Suoh hunting prowess do us much surprise. ■' Therefore, dear Tisdale, bring we thee th«*e flowers. They may seem womanish, but then you know We are not Nimrods, flaccid heart* like ours Would never take us where wild creatures grow. "And you, dear Tisdale, have upheld our claim To beer, and pigeon-traps, and pigeon pie ; Take these poor flowers, and your enwreathing. fame Shall pa** from lip to lip, and never die I " IX. VARIOUS PROOEEDINQ8 OF THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY, ETO. Resting Seats for Assistants in Stores. There being a law to compel owners of stores and such places to provide seats for their assist- ants, the Humane Society directed that a re- ({uest be made to the police commissioners to see in a quiet and semi-private way that the law was properly observed, and if not, to see that it was enforced. Humane Society Large Notice Boards. The Humane Society have twice had a num- l>er of large notice iioards placed .t conspicuous places on roads and streets leading into the city. The spirit of destruction has, however, been at work, and but one or two are now in existence. It is expected that they will be replaced. Cruelty to Chinese Children. The Diocesan Board of the Church of Eng- land Woman's Auxiliary to Missions, sent to the Humane Society the following resolution: — " That the Toronto Humane Society be con- sulted with regard to the prevention of the cruel practice of binding the feet of Chinese children Irarn in the dominion." This resolution was sent to the Society with the view of it* being submitted to the approach- ing Conference of representatives of Humane Societies in the Dominion. In the mean time a request was made to Staff Inspector Archibald to see if such a practice could be prevented by the police in any place where it prevailed. His reply was as follows : — " I beg to inform you that my Department will give prompt attention to any sucn case of cruelty occurring in Toronto, of which I may become cognizant. But as there are no Chinese children in this city, it might be well in the in- terest and for the information of other Humane Societies and Philanthropic Societies to call your attention to Chapter 162, page 1880, Re- vised SUtutes of Canada, 1886, which will meet the case fully." This is an Act respecting "OffeMa againtt the Person." Section 13 and the following ones re- late to acts causing bodily harm, or dangerous to life. Section 13 provides that :— " Every one who with intent to maim, dis- figure, or disable any person ... is guilty of felony, and liable to imprisonment for life." Distribution of " Black Beauty." With a view to induce drivers of horses to ."ke a personal and humane interest in the care k.d welfare of their horses, the Society was strongly impressed with the necessity of placing in the hands of these drivers, something that would most effectively accomplish this object. With this view a large number of that invalu- able Sook and graphically told story of Black Beauty vore purchased for gratuitous distii- bution. This was done with, a* the Society fervently hopes, the happiest of ends. Tie Society also sought to induce the Public Schnol Inspector to promote the circulation of this ad- mirable book in the school. The School Committee of Boston, by unani- mous vote on June 24th, adopted Black Beauty as supplementary reading in all the Boston Grammar Schools. Following also the example of Mrs. Wm. Appleton, of Boston, gentlemen and ladies in different parts of the United States have bought many thousands to be given to drivers, children, and others in their respective cities and towns. Entomology in the Schools. A recent writer in a Kingston paper very strongly and very effectively urged the teaching of the elements of natural history, and espe- cially of entomology in the public schools, both in the interests of humanity and of practical agriculture. He [" Sanatator "1 says : — " En- tomology is distinguished from other divisiona "in PBBKECT I'KACE." of natural hbtory by the simplioity of its clas- aifioation, by the facility its atudy afforda for obaerving vital f unctiona, and by its important relationa to agricultural economy. . . With a knowledge of insect life the book of nature is always open. The habit of observation found in its study naturally leads to investigation in other directions. The moral influence of the ';udy in forming character is beyond all ques- tion good. . . The study of insect life might, «• St. Paul conceives it should, lead them to adore 'The Eternal Power and Godhead.' It would also lead to the adoption of preventions and safeguards against pests, and be the means A extending acquaintance with the useful in- sects. I am informed that in some German States every teacher is an apicultnrist and gives lessons on bee-keeping In school. By means of teachers' institutes and lectures some- thing might be done to equip teachers in this way in Ontario. But entomology is a science in which any intelligent teacher can interest rural ohildrec, and by means of a manual, which should not cost more than tbirty cents, can set them at work collecting and obaerving for themselves so as to render the future study of the subject one of life-long interest." X. A UNITED CANADIAN HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE DOMINION. Since the establishment of the Toronto Hu- mane Society a number of kindred Societies have sprung up in various cities and towns of the Province. Many of these societies have depended largely on the Toronto Society for suggestions and guidance. Feeling, therefore, that their indei>endent action and efficiency would be greatly promoted by mutual confer- ence and practical discussion on the various benevolent objects of such organizations, the Toronto Society recently passed the following resolution : — " That a Committee be appointed to consider the necessity of formine a Dominion Associa- tion with a view to amugamation, and to take steps to call a Convention for this purpose. " Another purpose was in order that each Branch Society may be cognizant of the work done by the otheia, and that in case of united action being necessary on any special or urgent occasion, the Dominion Society officers could represent the whole. The Toronto Society issued the following circular on the subject, giving reasons for united action on these objects : — "The need of a united Canadian Humane Association for the active prosecution of na- tional work has suaigested itself to our minds, as it probably has to yours, more than once. We believe that the time has come when a Do- minion Association, composed of the various humane societies in Canada, should be organ- ized, and an annual convention held, at which members could exchange views and modes of work, and arrangements be made for assisting Mid encouraging the formation of hu nane so- cieties in towns and villages where no work of \ i A UNITED CANADIAN HUMANE SOCIETY FOB THE DOMINION. S6 !e with the useful in- ihat in aome German an apicaltoriat and iping in lohool. By tea and leotnrea aome- equip teachera in this tomologjr b a aoience teacher can intereat nieana of a manual, lore than tbirty cents, llecting and obaerving inder the future atudy ong intereat. " IE DOMINION. ognizant of the work )hat in oaae of united any apecial or urgent Society ofScera could roronto Society iaaued the aubject, giving >n thrae objecta : — d Canadian Humane e proaecutioD of na- I itaelf to our minda, ira, more than once, has come when a Do- wsed of the variona la, ahonld be organ - ntion held, at which viewa and modes of le made for aaaiating ation of hu nane ao- ;ea where no work of 4 i ■8 thia kind ia at preaent in exiatenoe. No growth can be looked for under the preaent condition of thinga, nor can any improved legialation be ob- tained, on any broad queation, auch aa the treatment of live atock In tranait, or the intro- duction of humane teaching into the aohools be effectively handled. In the United Statea, the American Humane Aaaooiation haa entered upon the fifteenth year of ita exiatence, and it haa proved a very power- lul auxiliary in the advancement of the oauae on this continent. The publicity given to the pro- ceedinga of the annual convention doea much to awaken public intereat and aympathy, and in the paat very effective work naa been done in aecurins better railway facilitiea for the ahip- ment of live atook, etc. Speakinff personally, aa a delegate to that aaaooiation for the paat four years, and ita preaent treaaurer, I can bear ample teatimony to U.'' >-'«ereat and enthuaiaam annually awakenea by the four daya' conference, and a knowledge of thia haa prompted the pre- aent effort to aeoure a aimilar organization in Canada. It ia propoaed, therefore, to call a con- vention in Toronto during the approaching aum- mer, provided aufficient encouragement ia re- ceived in reaponse to thia circular. We wish the aubject to be thoughtfully considered by each society, and we hopefully look forward to a unanimous decision on the part of all inter- ested, to ahow that the humane workers of Canada are second to none in their zeal for the advancement of the cause. Replies are solicited, not only from the president and secretary of each aociety, but from each active member, and any suggeationa along the linea indicated will be gratefully received. Please give thia aubject immediate and care- ful attention, and do what you can to intereat others in it. Kindly send correct name of your society with list of oiBcera." The Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, in ita 13th Annual Report, 1890, aaya :— "We would like to aee a 'Canadian Humane Association ' formed in the Dominion, conaiat- ing of representativea from every other aociety in Canada, so aa to strengthen the hands of each other in crushing out cruelty in all its forms, to provide a national literature, to work for more repressive legislation and a better enforcement of the Acta relating to cruelty. " The Society agreed to call the convention by circular to meet at Toronto, on the 21at June, 1892. Thia waa done, and the following delegatea were present, viz. : President Charles Alexander of the Montreal S.P.C.A. ; President Adam Brown, Hamilton S.P.C.A. ; Mrs Brown and C. K. Domville, Hamilton ; Preaident J. P. Merritt, St. Catharinea S.P.C.A. ; Talbot Mac- Beth, London Humane Society ; J. M. Robert- son, Gait ; John Taylor, Secretary, and Preai- dent Mackintosh, of the Halifax S.P.C.A.; Rev. O. C. S. Wallace, Charles Black, Niagara Falls South ; W. R. Brock, H. A. Massey, Mrs. A. E. Meredith, Mrs. Johnaton, J. J. Kelao, George Taunt, Mra. 8. G. Wood, Miaa Work- man, Mr. and Mra. C. B. < iraaett, and others. The Lieutenant-Governor wrote that, although he waa in aympathy with the objecta of the Ss- oiety, he waa not aware of liaving been appoint- ed a delegate to the meeting, as atated, Mr. W. R. Brock preaided, and after briefly opening the meeting, called on Mr. J, J, Kelao to mow the first reaolution, which waa aa followa : — " Raaolved, that thia meeting conaider it deairable that a Canadian Humane Aaaooiation ahould be organized for the purpoae of encour- aging the formation of humane aooietiea in the variona oitiea and towna of Canada for the aeouring of improved legialation, and in order to deal more effectively with the larger qnea- tiona affecting the protection of dumb animala from abnae, and encouragins a humane aenti- ment among all olaaaea of the people, and to reward acta of bravery. " Reaolved, further, that the following vOm- mittee be appointed to consider and report a suitable scheme of organization : J. C. Mo- Intoah, Halifax; Adam Brown, Hamilton; Talbot MacBeth, London ; Charlea Alexander, Montreal ; J. P. Merritt, St. Cathariiiea ; Rev. 0. C. S. Wallace. Toronto ; H. A. Maaaey, To- ronto ; George Taunt, Toronto ; Charlea Black, Niagara Falb. Mr. Kelao explained the need of auch an or- ganization, and waa followed by Mr. Adam Brown of Hamilton, Mr. J. C. Maclntoah of Halifax, Mr. Charlea Black of Niagara Falla, Mr. S. G. Wood of Toronto, and Mr. J. C. Robertaon of Gait. The reaolution waa aeconded by Mr, Talbot MacBeth, of London, and carried unanimoualy. Mr. Brown gave a brief account of the Ham- ilton aociety, and dwelt atrongly on the de- airability of rewarding acta of bravery and life- aaving, and thought it would form one of the objecta of a central organization. Mr. Mac- lntoah gave a very intereating account of what they are doing in Nova Scotia, and Mra. Wood advocated women'a work along the linea of Banda of Mercy. Miaa Morgan, whoae popularity 'as a aoloiat ia well establiahed, aang very acceptably. She was accompanied by Mr. Phillips, organiat of St. George'a Church. Miss Symons also kindly gave a piano selection in artistic atyle. The meeting concluded by a short addreaa by Mr. John Taylor, Secretary of the Halifax S. P. C. A. Society. A committee waa appointed to diacusa a an- tral organization, and one to frame a conrJtn- tion and submit it to the other aooietiea for approval. 6» THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. XI. FORMATION OF LOOAL HUMANE SOCIETIES. Local Branch Societies. In order to aid in the carrying-out of the object! of the Canadian Humane Society, by the formation and multiplication of Local Humane Societies, the following luggeitioua and rules for their formation are inserted. Need of Local Humane Societies. Local Humane Societies are greatly needed in every community, town, village, and city. It has often been remarlied : "We hitve no cruelty to animals or human beings in our place." As a matter of fact, however, it may Iw stated that there is not a community of one hundred inhabitants in a locality where there is not more or less cruelty, thoughtless, pre- meditated, or designed, practised. more or less every day in the year. To know this to be true, we have only to organize a Society, and then its promoters and friends will soon find all the humane work that it can perform. How to Organize a Humane Society. The establishment of a Humane Society in any community would have a most beneficial effect in lessening the practice of cruelty gen- erally, and in calling attention to the necessity of showing more kindness to dumb animals, and in oaring for ill-used or neglected children. As a rule, people are generally kindly disposed, yet there is much that may be learned, even among a very intelligent people, as to their duty to all kinds of animal life. To organize a Society it is only necessary for some person to secure the signatures of those who may wish to have a Society to a petition to the Mayor, or Reeve, of a municipality, asking him to call a public meeting to discuss the subject. Care should be taken beforehand to obtain infor- mation from the " Aims and Objects " of the Toronto Humane Society, or other available source, as to the scope and objects of such an organization, and to secure a few ready and sympathetic speakers on subjects taken from that publication, or founded on observation. The petition might be in the following form : — To the Mayor, or Reeve, of the Municipality of . The undersigned residents of and its vicinity are desirous of organizing a Humane Society at , and to that end request you to call a public meeting of the inhabitants of this manioipality [town or village], for the purpose of organizing a Humane Society. Dated this — day of , A.D. 189—. (Sigiwd hi/len or tiveht reliable citizens.) The topics which might be discussed at the formation of a local or branch Society might be some of the following :— Some facts about the benevolent effects of Humane Societies generally ; the condition of animals before these Societies were formed ; cruelty to wild birds and caged birds ; effects of cruelty on the meats we eat, and on the milk we drink, and to fish ; and how old and injured domestic animals can be killed mercifully. Speak also of cruelty to lobsters, frogs and toads ; of carrying poultry with heads hanging down ; sticking pins into inserts ; keeping fish in glass globes; that earth worms, turtles, etc., are harmless and useful. Recommend them to feed the birds in winter, and speak of the great advantages which have come from having pet animals well taken care of. In regard to horses, speak of cruelty in blinders, check-reins, overloading, frosty bits, twitching the reins while driving, not feeding and watering often, as horses require. Rules for Branch Humane Societies. Such a Society, if formed in a town or village, might, for greater permanence and efficiency, sulwequently connect itself as a branch Society, with a larger one in a neighboring city. 1. Its management should be in the hands of an active and vigilant Committee. 2. The Committee to consist of its elected members. 3. It should appoint its own officers, one of whom shall be named its chairman. 4. It may make its own by-laws. 6. It may collect and disburse its own funds. 6. It shall hold its annual meeting at a date to be fixed, and at which meeting its chairman shall be, and other officers may be, elected. 7. It may appoint one or more local agents for practical work, if found necessary. 8. Its President shall be ex-oj/icio a Vice-Presi- dent of the parent Society. 9. It shall be entitled to representation in the parent Society, by the chairman and at least three elected delegates. It should be distinctly understood that the parent Society asks no financial assistance from ^ MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND PROCEEDINGS. 57 iTIES. or village], for the lumane Society. — , A.D. 189—. lilt citizens.) it be diicuued at the anoh Society might be benevolent effects of ally ; the condition of ooietiea were iformed ; caged birda ; effects of eat, and on the milk d how old and injured be killed mercifully, baten, frogs and toads ; heads hanging down ; ; keeping ikh in glass ms, turtles, etc., are commend them to feed d speak of the great lome from having pet f. speak of cruelty in erloading, frosty bits, i driving, not feeding >rses require. umane Societies. id in a town or village, uience and efiicienoy. If as a branch Society, BChboring city. lid be in the hands of nmittee. consist of its elected a own officers, one ot shairman. by-laws. isburse its own funds, aal meeting at a date meeting its chairman I may be, elected, or more local agents d necessary. 1 ex-ojjkio a Vice-Presi- I representation in the hairman and at least understood that the uncial assistance from branch societies in the form of funds, unless voluntarily offered, or with a view to the diffu- sion of the parent Sooiety'i publications of hu- mane literature. Summary Statement of Desirable Objects. The main objects which the Toronto Humane Society desire to promote, and which it hopes to see fully accomplished, have been amply dis- cussed and illustrated in the preceding pages. It only remains to summarize them here, and then refer to a few additional and miscellaneous things to be done. The subjects discussed and illustrated have been : — 1. Various kinds of cruelty practised towards horses, dogs, and other animals. 2. The ways in which this cruelty can be prevented, or its evils largely mitigated. 3. The necessity of feeding, watering, and protecting animals in transit on stock trains. 4. The general and wanton destruction of in- sectivorous birds. 6.' The cruelty, as well as the loss to farmers and gardeners, caused by such destruction. 6. The necessity of caring for the waifs and strays of our large cities. 7. The humane education of children and the establishment of RsTids of Mercy amongst them. 8. The duty of kindness to all dumb onaturea. Miscellaneous Things to be Done. These are the following :— 1. The protection of defenceless children from cruelty and neglect. 2. The establishment of a temporary refuge for neglected children. 3. The sending of such children to an Indus- trial school (see objects of snefa aohool, page 59). 4. The circulation of humane literature In the home and in schools. 5. The better care of horses. 6. The erection ot drinking fountains. 7. More humane methods of killing disabled horses and dogs. Also of cattle, etc., for food. S. Pounds and refuges for vagrant dogs and other animals. 9. Painless destruction of dogs, etc. 10. And generally, a more kindly and merci- ful treatment of God's creatures, remembering that He has declared : " Blessed are the merci- ful, for they shall obtain mercy." XII. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND PROCEEDINGS. The Children's Aid Society. One of the most important subjects, with which this Society has had to deal, was that fully set forth in the "Aims and Objects," as the looking after children, who, without such care, would likely gtow up as waifs and strays in the city. The Toronto Humane Society has been relieved of this portion of its work by the for- formation of the Children's Aid Society, through the active exertions of Mr. J. J. Kelso, our for- mer Honorary Secretary, and the first President of the new Society. As that Society will issue its own report, it is not necessary to do more in this place, than to express the great satisfaction which this practical and active organization, for the care of the poorer children in the city, has jsiven to the Toronto Humane Society. From a recent prospectus circalar issued by the Children's Aid Society, we learn that it di- vides its work into three departments. The following particulars of the first department arc given. The second and third are respec- tively the "Fresh Air" and the "Christmas Treat " departments. The first department is the " General Work." The circular says :— " Under this head, we are striving to see that every child gets some education, and re- cently two ttuant officers have been appointed, and it is hoped several more will be engaged. We try to prove the children's friend at the police court, and have already secured reforms which are about to result in the separate trials of juveniles, and a separate place of confinement while awaiting trial. The Ontario Oovemmt nt are now preparing (at our instance) important amendments to the laws regarding children, and the Dominion Government will also be asked for legislation. We have provided a temporary shelter where neglected and abandoned children are held until we can get homes for them in the boy's, girl's, orphan's or infant's homes, or have them adopted. We hope to have a probation officer appointed, as now obtained in Great Britain under the beneficent provisions of the law known as the " Children'a Charter." We hope to help the newsboys to a better future ; our detectives now tell ns that many of the most hardened criminals they have to deal with have once been newsboys, and there ought to be a way to change all that. We strive to keep boys under sixteen out of vile lodging houses. We hope to introduce boys' clubs, similar to those which are helping so manv boys in other cities to become manly, useful men. We desire to promote the purchase of plenty of play-ground room for the children, and are strlvinK to get the School Board to leave the school play- grounds open till dusk each week day. Tn every way we strive to succour and help the little children." iw)-^' * il>' J. MM ■"^:r 'T^' ♦ir,' '. . . ■m'^^r - r 'V , ^r^ H^Ih •'!f ' ^■■V'' ( i^ . -*^- ■^7 ' It .J ^^ "!i», ^h MhyRlm'^il . •*«?;« ;' /'■ .yi P "1 ' 'iiiMi'ir'*' rtlJ^BKiTni -«HLJi #;^ n^^ --.--* ^j^ ^we^j^i!---' ' /,\' Pff? '>' -^# ^sMs^BfWi \ ■^.^^ r^^, ^,; ■ i w pF* -'■'->■>-:*«?:. 'siiBPwBHlM^ .. -.^-^ " 1 .-:■' J ■ ^^BBB^^-.'^'-^'Itt^^^ 1 ^ „", "" -*^;..J '^■'^ ^^•tiMfe^ ^^^^^Kv^^^'i' ■:'-^»M ■ '■■■:! B^B^p jm •*«.^ 1 !, '--: ■i''. ^•l ^^^^^^^^^H^^^V^H^^^H •* ■ <.''*•.' ''A' ^ ' *^' i^k ''- 'mk ^ ' "'"■-.teiS „ ,,..,. ;i :;mr--' "^ "I'/S,, . ', 1 ; l?*-^'^. K^l>.^^ ' w^" A> w"? r ' ti '^ mi. ■ ^■vN ' " ;gM ''. -"A— •^'■-*'-^-' '-! ■' ■,?CT" * i ^ • ■-' --.SfF- ■ , ^-'i-i,t,.T J^V ."v .''■■*?■..- ■■ ■ ■ .vj) HHBH^^^^B^Iwk'^ ■"' ^'''L ' ."^ ^: '■ >^jS£ ;-* ,•> _• -■ -^ ■^'^^^:f..^;.. ' ■' ■ - - ' ' ^»— Sf^i^^^ ^f5^^ ^^^^^s ^.M^^^^^?^ i^*^^^^' ^^kf, 4 H KXPEOTANCY. FORMATION OF LOCAL HUMANE SOCierriaB. A9 ^■A-^-S-^! -^:..:^ The Wonuui'a Branch of the OtUw* Humwie Society having iaaned mi extended and valuable report on^the aubjeot of neglected and ill-treated children, with a view to amended legislation, the Toronto^Hnmane Society pawed the follow- ing reiolution of sympathy and cooperation :— " The Toronto Humane Society gladly wond these^efforta of the Woman's Ottawa Branch ae far as in its power, and appoint a committee, consisting of Mrs. C. Grasett, Mrs. £. A. Mere- dith, Miss Dupont, Mrs. 8. O. Wood, and Mrs. C. E. Leigh to co-operate on the subject with Uie parents oan be sent to an Industrial School or to one of the Homes for Children in Toronto. It may be gratifying, therefore, to know what are the objects of the Industrial Schools. They are — " To provide a home for any child who la found bagging or receiving alma ; wandering, or without a home or plaoe of abode ; without proper guardianship, occupation, or hmmu of livelihood ; to afford a shelter for children who are orphaned, or whose parents may be drunken or in gaol ; and for children whose parents or Woman's Branch of the Ottawa Society, and with the Children's Aid Society, of Toronto, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to both societies. " What is an Industrial School? As has been already shown in a former part of this Report, children arrested by the police are not now brought before the police magi- strate, but are tried by a judge or magistrate setting apart for that purpose. At bis discre- tion, children of idle, dissolute, or drunken guardians cannot control them, but let them grow up in ignorance and vice. These children are placed at such employments, and instructed in such us<9ful knowledge as is suitable to their years and oapabilities." Honor Certificates for Life Saving. At a recent meeting of the Society it was con- sidered most desirable to issue handsomely en- graved Honor Certificates, in connection with the bestowal in the Province of the Royal Hu- flO THK TORONTO HUMANK 80CIKTY. mane Society medali for bravery In oims of life Mving from drowDlng, It ipeaki well and encouragingly of the bravery of tlie partiee oonnerned, that lo many of these coveted medals have of late yean been lieitowed on individuah thus diitinguiihed for ac^-i uf telf-iaoriticiog bravery in the Jominiun. The Society tlinre- f 01 3 desired thas tj mark its satisfaction and pleasure at the performance, often at the groat risk of life itself, of such noble acts of heroism on the part of both men ami youths in the Dominion. Prison and Reforrr Jtc ry System. The Prison Reform AnaDtiitiion of Toronto, having i tritod thu Humaae Society to send delegates to the Dominion Conference on the subject of I'rison Reform, the following dele- gates were therefore appointed, who took part in the Co' 'jfence chiefly in regard to the reform o' juvenile offenders, etc. : Mr. \V. R. Brook, Miss Dupont, Rev. Canon DaMoulin, Dr. J. U. Hodgins, Mrs. 8. C. Wood and Mr. J. J. Kelso. A Committee uf these delegates made the fol- lowing report to the Humane Society : " We have perused (and heard discussed) the several recommendations on the following sub- jects (eoumerating them) contained in the Re- port of the Commission appointed by the Oovornment of Ontario to enquire into the prison and reformatory system of the Province. The s<''lntion8." Retlrenrtent of Mr. J. J. KeUo. To Mr. Kelso, in connection with other hu- mane gentlemen in Toronto, is due the success- ful revival and reorganization of a Humane Society in Toronto. He labored with much zeal to pi-oii. vned with so large a measure of success." T(i Dr. McCauslanh and Mr. A. G. Strathy. " That the sincere and hearty thankb of tho Society be and are hereby tendered to Dr. HUMANK LITKKATURK PUBLISHKI) HY THE SOCIETY -LANTKRN MLIDKS. 61 J. J. Kelso. Qtion with other hu- o, ii due the auooeii' latlon of a Hainan e bored with mnoh zeal id lucceaa. He felt, himaelf and hie pro- it reaign the poaltion ioh he had filled since in 1M87. At a meet- {nation, the following y paued : — inks be given to Mr. lone, accompanied bv the interest he tttill irk. in recognition of his nted to fill a vacancy >reaidents of the So- s of Thanks. itanue of our Society Humane Educator book of 52S pages), ling, of High wood, h— pea, and much of my ly's admirable bouk ut I could do was to .ve somewhat largely I book ; and as I am terature to foreign K to the Melbourne of cruelty your book. Lful. I send yon t^e ns of their humuie of the books sent, tion : — Tiane Society desires ! appreciation of the tickling, England, iu y with the handsome also for all the aid !rom her during the 'es to place on record Society, which are 'asett fur her untir- a cnuse iind her un- ig and carrying on ity' efforts have been asure of success." Jr. a. G. Stratuy. earty thankb of tho y tendered to Dr. I MoCansland, Messrs. A. O. Strathy and H. (ioulding for their most generous and liberal subscriptions, the first two of $.'>() each and the latter $100, encouraging and cheering as they do the lady collectors In their arduous under- taking." Tu VaBIOUB MiNIMTRKi. " That the heartfelt thanks of the Society be tendered to the following reverend gentlemen who have so ably and so elTeotively advocated the objects and claims of this Society and incul- cated the great duty of the humane treatment of all of Ood's creatures, viz.: Kev. Canon I)u- Muulin, D.C.L.; Rev. 1). J. Macdonnell, HI).; Rev. Canon Cayley, M. A.; Rev. .Joseph Wyld, I). D.; Rev. A. J. Broughall, M. A.; Rev. Arthur Baldwin, M.A.; Rev. O. S. ('. Wallace; Rev. A. A. Pitman, M.A.; and Rev. R. A. Bilkey." MlBOKLLANRODH. Thanks are also due to Messrs. Rolph, Smith fi Co. for design for cover of book and letter heading ; to Messrs. Brown Bros, for letter weights and««oales and aildress book ; to the Royal Humane Society, lOngland, for the Jni- imtl World and other humane literature ; to Mr. Angell, Boston, for copies of the Dumb Animalt ; to the New York Society for Our Animal Friniila ; to the publishers of OripukuA Mamry's Illiiairuted for engravings inserted in this Report. - XIII. HUMANE LITERATURE PUBLISHED BY THE SOOIETY- LANTERN SLIDES. I One of the chief objects of the Society was the preparation and diffusion of a variety of humane literature among the people. With that view the following, in addition to their book on " The Aims and ObjeoU " of the Society have been printed. 1. A card of warning, cautioning drivers against the cruelty of leaving horses on the streets in cold weather without proper covering, or putting iron or steel bits in horses' mouths without first warming them, and giving an ex- tract from the Dominion law against cruelty. 2. A card illustrating the cruelty of using the over-check rein. 3. A pamphlet on the evils of the check-rein, containing reasons why it should be abolished, 12 pages. 4. A pamphlet containing a brief statement of the work and objects of the Toronto Humane .Society, 4 pages. 6. Blank form of application for membership in the Toronto Humans Society, with statement of objects of the Society. 6. First Report of the Toronto Humane So- ciety, with list of members in 1887 and 1888, 12 pages. 7. Supplementary list of members of the So- ciety from 7th of December, 1888, to 15th May, 1889, 8 pages. 8. A pamphlet on Bands of Mercy in connec- tion wi'-h the Toronto Humaub Society, with reasonti {or their establishment, hymns, etc., 4 pages. 0. A fly-leaf on Hands of Mercy, with hymns, etc. 10. A fly leaf on docking horses tails, a great cruelty, with details of the operation, eto., and reference to the horse fly. 11. A small advertising placard offering a reward of ijilOfor the prosecution and conviction of any person for docking horses' tails. 12. A fly-le»f of warning to boys against shooting at bi>-ds with catapults. 13. A pamphlet containing detailed informa- tion on Bands of Mercy, their formation and usefulness, with order of exercises and hymns, etc. , 8 pages. 14. The Humane Advoeat*, Volnme 1, No. 1, illustrated and containing various appropriate articles, 10 pages. 16. The same, No. 2, 4 pages. 16. Report of the Toronto Humane Society for 1890 and 1801, 20 pages. In addition, " Extracts from the Debate on Mr. Adam Brown's Bill on Cruelty to Animals, 27th Febrnary, 1890," 16 pages, from Hansard, was circulated. Reference Books on Humane Subjects. The following is a list of Reference Books in the Humane Society's office which may be con- sulted by any one interested in the subject : — ' ■ Youatt on the Dog. " Published by L-avitt & Allen, New York. r i 6-J THK TORONTO HUMAN K SOi^KTY. " HtabU Koonomy ; " by John 8taWkrt. I'ub- lUhad by VVtlllam Kkokwood ft Modi, Kdinhurgh anil Londiin. •• Th« Horae Hook." I'ubliahad by thu Roykl SooMv '', th« Prevention of Cruelty, London. " Hone Md Man ; " by the Rev. J. O. Wood. I'ubiifihed by Cauetl & Co., London. " Hearing Reine i " by K. K. Jijower. Vub- lUhed by ( 'aiioll A Co. , London. " Pleading* of Mercy ; " by Mm. C. M. Fair- child. Publiehcd by A. VV. Laudon, Chicago. " The Hnmane Kduoator and Reciter ; " com- piled by Mri. F. H. Suckling. Publbhed by .Simpkin, Marchall, Hamilton, Kent k Co,, London, " Hand of Mercy K.ntertainer for Little Per- former! : " by T. VV. Rogere, Sawbridge, Kng- land. Mold by him. "Hand oF Mercy (iuide to Natural Hiatoryt" by N'nrnon S. Morwood. Publlahed by John Hogg, London. " An Katy < iuide to Noripture Animale i " by Vernon S, Morwood. Publlihcd by John Hog;;, London. ANNUAL KKI'ORT OK I UK TOKONTt) riUM/NK StK'lKTV. illng. I'ubliihed by lilton, Kant k Co., Jner for Little I'w en, Sawbridge, Kng- to Nfttur»l HUtory ;" i'ubliihed by .John ipture Aniin*li ; " by )liihe(l by .John Hog^, I ■I " Won'lerful Animala- Worliiiig, Dumeitio, Mtd Wild;" by Vernon M. Morwuou, Milllln iV ( o,, New York. "Uur Duty to Animalii" liy Mra. ('h»ilM Bray. I'ubliehed by H. \V. Partridge, Lubdon. " A Mother'! Ijeeaon on Kindneii to Animali." Publlehnd by 8. \V. Partridge k Co., London. " Right and Wrong Contraeted ; " by Thomae K. Hill. I'ubliihed by the Hill Standard Hook Co., Chicago. Periodical*- " Animal M'orld," " Dumb Ani- mali," "Our Animal t'riendi," "The Humane Journal," and "The Animuli' (iuardian." Lantern Slides with Humane Subjectt. With u view to provide entertainment, and to intereit Bandi of Moroy and chiltiren gene- rally in humane lubjeoti, the Society has pio- oured from Kiigland, by the aid of Mri. Suck- liug, a lupply of eighteen excellent ilides for thii purpoie. The lubjects are ai followi : — HoHIKK— The Wrong NoHe lUg. The Wrong Noio Kag on a Stool. The Right Nom liM and Dog in the .Snow, The (jueen and her Dogs A Hand of .Moroy Keicua. Cath— Starving Cat Outaide an Kmpty Houaa. HlRllft-- Starvlingion Neat— I'arent Itirda kilUd. Christmaa Tree for Hirdi. Vakioi'h— < iirl Carrying i^ Lanr.b Aoroaa ii Stream. Not a Hand of Meroyite. The Kind Newihoy. A Leeaon of Kindueaa. XiV. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TORONTO HUMANE 800IETY. The annual meeting of the Humane Society waa held in the hall of the Education Depart- ment in the afternoon of the '2lat of June, 181)2, with President W, R. ISrock in tlie chair. A number of delegate! appointed to attend the Humane Convention fn the evening were pre- sent. After some appropriate remarks by the President, Mr. W. R. Brock, Dr. Hodgina, one of the vioe-preaidenta, read his report containing a reaumv of the work done during the poat four yeara by the .Society, including that of Humane OiHcer Willia and the Staff-Inspeotor'a depart- ment, which during the four years has '.^ealt with over .3,400 cases of humane interest, in- cluding many casea of ill-treatment by husbands of their wives. Mr. Adam Brown, as a stranger, expressed his satisfaction at the great work done by the Humane Society of Toronto, a work which had done much toward inducing the formation of similar societies in other cities. He waa satiktied that the various societies formed solely for the prevention of cruelty to animals would soon enlarge their borders so as to include humane work for wumen and chil- dren. He urged the necessity of securing more humane laws and the teaching of kindness to school children. Mr. Alexander, on behalf of the Montreal society (as did others), congratu- lated the President and members on the report, and briefly disoussed the dishorning, docking and bearing-rein questions. A pleasant change in the proceedings was the presentation of an engrossed addreaa to Mr. J. J. Kelao, in recognition of his services to the humane cause during the past five years. The presentation was made by Mr. W. R. Brock, President, on behalf of the Society. The Oiticers and Directors of the Society for the enauing year were then elected, and the meeting adjourned. i •• THK T()K(>NT(» Hl'MANK M(H'IKTV. Human* Society FinancUl SlaUmantt. ToRciNTo, Mail l»/, IHIW. Th« FlnanoUl Suuintnt, m lubiiiitUtl I'jr the 'I'rtMurar, U. Col. .lohn I. D^vidMB, w»« M (ollowi I— TOKONTO 111 MANK BOi'lKTY «■«. M»> I, iNUr llv ItelkiKx on hand at ilikt* May I, IMll - '' HiilMflriplloni »iid dona- tloiii tod*U(M« lltl ). . . . ttltMl 117 " Froowib ol »li'i "Alma •ndOhjHiU" and " lllai'li lUauty" I a :i» " Kmh Air I'lindlforUHol omna), III IK) " liilarMt from iHia MUt, ININI, III Dao. lilt, INVI, at fl par Of lit. |Hir annum 71 ^3 llltloto lal Ma/, i»» li 71) »l,iMI . 14 diaooiint on •alaa, ate., ato. (aa|iarvouahan).|li''I<2 1'< Balanoa V.m, n 8UMMAHV (IP (lAHII AM) oTIIKIt AS8KT8. Caih In hand, lat May, IMI'i ii\,3i\fi .".' Hiook ot bookaat piilillthara WW li,> Htuok o( booka at offloa IVI W Kurnltura, flxturat and latbal ohanibar ii ID Hut liy publlihf n » i>3 «l,ll» »l John I. DAviDaox, Trrnturrr. May, i8M. Cjmparad with booka and (ouad oorreot. W. I{. lUiKK, \j„,iil„ri, Utt of Humane Society Members, May let, 1891, to April 30th, 1802. llectlivilalllif HumiiiirOJflif ur by lite Trriuurer^ A. O. girathy tAii no a. W. Lawla lu no OrlolaHoolalLaoraaat Club 10 W) Mn. HoLaMi m IK) Mlaa Workman A iMi J. II. Paaroa li iii "Humanity" ft 00 Mrt. Uowan (Banle) 6 IX) Dr. Jtnny K. Trout, 'i on D. B. Wllkle 1 00 HIaa M O. Rlllott. I OU Mary Foy 1 0« Mra. Weaver 1 01 Mra. C. Dunlop 1 00 Mrf. Havlgny 1 OO n Spcnoar, H.D.... I 00 Mlaa Wlllt 1 IN) Mn. Jobniton 1 00 Cullrclnl hy .Um. K A. MtrrUilh. Mra. Millar .lamaa Moanrave I no Mr>. Iirown I in Mr> KalrulouKh I no Nr». I. Ilaldwln I M Niili»»( Mltac;arty «10 IN) Mr< II «htr fl nil Mra. Homer IHnon.. l> ihi Kit A. II. HaldwIn t> un Capt.W. V. M.iMaater ri im Nif TnoiiiaaUalt 2 IKI Mra. I). Manklem . 2 m Mrt Hiawari 2 ini l(r. HodKliii . 1 iin Mra. Malhewa I i»l Mr* I'olion Mm Mr 8.(1. Wood. 1 no Mra. Ilourllar 1 00 Mn. Whitney 1 i>0 Mn.H. H. Wood I nn Mn. Konter ■ ix> HIaaltettael 1 '"i MiM Mtayiier Mm Hulitorlben (not mam- livra), on page «&). .'lO Total »»« 60 I'iilltilfl by Mn. Sarigny, .Mr. MuUaw iflii on Uaorva K. Cnx iid Meaara. Blake, Uah «(Caatala o iMi .Mra. Maolannan :i iki Mr. IIammond(().JI(lI) i DO Meaara. Mc.Miirrlnh, C alaworth ft Hod- Kina 2 00 Mr. nnndlay, bank H.N. A 2 00 MxiHN. Kyilalirua.. 8 00 Harry Webb 1 00 ■Merara. retry ft Coaby 8 00 H. Jvnnlnga MIO Dr. HoKord Walker. 1 oo Dr. J. K. Koaa 1 0(i Dr. Chaa. Dlokaon . I 00 Mra. Cox 1 00 The Uoolyear Hub- bar Co 1 00 .Muura. Ilolmaa « liiinport 1 00 Mr. Thompwn, Bar- riater I 00 M. O. Cameron 1 00 John Leva 1 oo Mr. Oi >' ikl 1 IK) Meaart. Darling ft Cui.'j 1 00 Meaarr). Oourlay.Wln- terft L^rmlnir.... 1 00 Mra. P. L. M. Oraattt, SImooa Straat .... ) 00 Mra. Merritt 1 00 Itev. H O. Baldwin. 1 On Kiv.D.J.Maodonnrll I 00 iUi-aan. Hirgreavea Hrothera 1 On Meaara. Bell ft Co... 1 IK) .Meaan. .Mumlorcl Broa 1 on Hon. Chief .luatlce llavarty 1 00 Mlaa Ball I 00 Mn. OeoigeHagarty 1 00 Mra. OralK l oo Mn. MlUlchamp.... l 00 8ubaoribera(notm(m . ben), on page 68 . . 7 60 Total W7 60 I'lilUetxl '•» MIt llntutr. firU. Mra. Dannlatowo «l o K. P Mavkay I m J. II. Aiidaraon . i iK) J. K Kllloti, M.D . I KI Muliaiiriliendiotmem ben), on page (M . II iM Total «i:i rii • alU.litlliy MUid. (yilnrii. Mn. J. llnrliartMaaonll M It Kuaaell Italdwiii . Mm) Mn. W. A. HaldwIn I <«) Mn. Nt. (lio. Ilaldwln I "i Mn. .Kniellua Ilaldwln 1 i» Mra. c, Jarvia . ... 1 in) Mra. P. ('. Jarvia I nil K. ('. JarvU Mm Walter (t. I.ae MKI John Maaaay MM H. J. L.. Lawa Mill Mn. Alfred Uoodar- haoi 1 no .Mra. Campbell Wall- brldga I iki Mra. .). II. M.M)danald 1 ini Mra. W, P. I.ewla 1 no Mra. Wm. Davlea MNi Mra Hmlth, 41 laabal- laHtraat Mm Mn. C. C. Dalion ... Mni Mra. Blalkle I INI Mra. Moleaworib 1 iw Mra. PItaganld.. . . 1 on Mra. .lama* Hoaa mni Mti< Boatwlok IIKI Mlaa Lefroy MNi MiaaU. o'llara MKi .MlaaHtevene 1 un .Mra. J. Wright 1 on Hubaorllian(not mam- ben), on page 06. . . .'i on Total «l« 60 I'nIlr.Ird bii .V(«» /)l(/.iiu(. .Meaan. McCarthy, (Wler, Hoakin ft Oreelman «in On Mn. John Cawthra. 10 ix) Mlaa Dupont in 00 A B. Harrlaon .'i IK) K. II. Ilithuna ... .'> 00 Meaan. Moaa, Har- wlokft Pranka. .. 6 00 Heaara. Jamea llobart- aon ft Oo 6 00 B. Morton 6 iK) John Blaikia A 00 H. Cawthra 6 00 George ft R. W. Cox. 6 On Ulannoa J. MoCualg fi 00 Mervyn Maokenxle. . 6 iki J. W. a. Whitney... 4 un Meaan. Parkina, Inoa ft Co 4 00 Mn. Helllwell 3 00 Walter 8. Lie 3 1)0 K. L Hudaon 2 ik) T. O. Haaon 2 00 Hn R. H. Bethune. 2 00 A. 8. Vogt 2 00 Jaa. Hendenon 2 00 Wm P. Atklnajn... 2 00 P. Arnoldl 2 INI P. Mtrrlott 2 00 Mlaa Monro 2 IK) MlaaDHk 2 00 Bnice Brough 2 00 A Friend 2 00 A. 8. Nordheimer... 2 00 JohnCatto 2 00 Wm. Wllllamaon... 2 00 Qeorge 8. MIchie .... 2 00 Mn. Stanton 2 ini A. 8. Maoklem 2 im Allan Ca«Mll 2 (X) R. Jankln* 2 00 4 ANM AL UKinrnT or THK TOKONTO IIUMANK SIMIKTY. Mri. UannUtown «l a K. P MM'kty I m J. II Aiiitcraon ... i >ig J. K Killott, U.l> I i>i Nuhwiritnndiol intin liara), oil |i*gf M . u (M ToUl JliiU ■ olln-ltit (.» M. Btalklt I IKI Mn. Molnworlh I iM .Mn. Pluginld.. . . I oil Mn. .UmM KoM I INI Mill llortwlok I iiu MIh Ltlray . . . I (Ml MihU. u'lUn 1 mi .MlH8t«vaM 1 ml Mn. J. Wright I mi Hiili(arilHin(not m*in- lisn), on pagtUS. . A 00 Total CII M (•..»f.r«l hji .uiiM /iii/.oal. M«Mn. McCarthy, oiler, Iloikln ti Craalman $w mi Mn. John Oawthra. 10 iiO MIm Dupont in 00 A B. Harrlwn .^ 00 K. II. Ilithunt .... ,1 00 Maian. Moai, liar- wlok i Mm. Hhortlaa .1. 'Miottft Son .M. • .vf.nl II. 1 . Kt'ii(U"'Hon . . . Tlioinaa H. Lee McBuni. C. M. Taylor *: Co II. P. DwlKht A. E. Ames 8uli8cril>era (namaa on page (10) 2 75 i Total 8P218 75 CoUefUd hii .Vr.«. C. It. (Imtrtl. W. R. Ilrock ft'.'i 00 MvHHra. Dnvlilaon ft Hay 10 00 Meaani. John Mac- donald ft Co 10 00 ll»ori(p A. Ciia . $|ii im MIm llalla CiiIIIv ... a mi Mi' Rlir Uwla ft Moil . A Oil .Mhmih. J. tiray, Miin ft Co A mi J. II. Nuiiilili . . t mi I) A. Ilowiniiil A ml .Mi'ura Kli.) , lllalii ft Cii . A ml ThrC'aiiiwIian Itiililier Co A no Mi'MNra. ThuiiiNoii, lli'iiiii'ixnn ,v llrll. .^ >ai Mi'»rii Ciuiii'.vllalril .'> mi Mi'aim. .MisMiwtar ft Co . . ... .'•mi Maanra. Hoiingh ft (lllvor A UO II' L. Iliiiiii A (Kl Mi'MHrw. .liiiit>M MriM. .V Mm ki'haii' A mi .MifMirM. Mttiii, Utiillaw U KupiHilla ^ IHI \t,;tn. Wtiil, (Ira- Mi'tt « iHtriing .... A (HI Mra. Hli'plii'iilli'wanI A mi MIm Vcala A iiti ikr .»al/(C. W. II.). A Ull Mfaara. Kltaa llogurH ft Cii A mi Uiilivrt Ni'itra ... A (Hi Mi'H, II. II. Ilriiokt' . . A (HI Mrx. K.ilwunl llluki' . A mi UiMirKi' Oondrrliiiiii A mi W. 11. tliioilt'rhnm . A mi W. Chrlatle A (Hi Will. MorlliiicrCliirki' A (10 .Mi'MNra. ConptT ft Smith A (K) Mcaara. K. «0. (luer- lify ( 'o A 00 Till' Miuwry .Mtn. ("ii. A (H) .MoiMra. Ciilili-cott, lliirtnli ftCii AMI Wulti'rl'iMMn'h A mi Kiliiiiihil H. (laU'r .. & UO Mvaani. .M. ft L. Sum- iiel llvnjamlii ft Oo A 1X1 Hir(;aHliiilr(liioM8kl. A imi Mra. SwHiy A (K) Chil tophi'rlliililnMiii A (K) .Mn. Il\ mil K. Wulker A ml lir. Stmiigi! A 00 Rnlivrt .lolTray 5 (N) Meaani. A. J.CIoeeft C;o A 00 John Stark 4 UU Mra. Mnokenile (Cnatle Frank) 4 (HI Aiiilri'W Crawtiiril . . II (hi W. II. I'll icr 3 on U'niker lliiiiae 3 00 Till- Toronto Lllho- KniphliiK Co 3 nil Mra. John Hmkln. . . 2 00 Mennra. Warwii'k ft Son 2 00 Mi'HHra. Chua. Coc'k- ahiittftC'o 2 00 Meaant. W. R. John- son ft Co 2 00 (I. R Smith 2 0(1 The RarlierftKlliaCo 2 mi Meaara. Hett, liiiwiiilea ft Co 2 no II. W. Alexander ... 2 (10 Meaan, W. II. Realty ft K, W. (nmdwiok 2 mi T. A. Heintzman 2 00 F. W, Kingatone... . 2 DO I). Creighton 2 00 .lohn Harviu 2 00 The Charlea Rugera ft Sona Co 2 00 J. Reeve 2 0(1 •Meaan. Wella ft Moc- Miirchy 2 00 Meaars. Keith ft Fitz- Biinona 2 00 Sainuel May 2 OO Meaan. Kowai'll ft Mn. Ilrern ... llllli'lllxill (H mi F lliii'lian . . R Ihiimld t i»» John l.oiiilirn. . . Mm. Ri'iiiila ■t MJ Hruira. ^trathrook Hv\. t 'uiioii lluMoii' llr.Hi llii 1 (HI Mia>n. R. Walker ft M*a.ra II ftC hlaih Soiie fonl 1 (HI W. P. NIoaiir Mi>»ra W. A. Murray R. F. Ml ott ft Co i lai K. Trout K. J. Clark 2 UU W. Wllaiill It. Niin|iaiill 2 (»l Meaan. Mi Kffiilry ft Mt'OFH. II NIOIII' ft C.I hull 2 IK) J. Mi'Caiialand Till iriiai'li' llri'Wiiig R. S. Nvvl l» t'tt 2 (HI J. L. Miarth .... Mt'NMra. Kllgniir llroa 2 I'll Mra. Htraihan .Mr Ciiiilaon 2 I at Mm. M IJ.itil W. C. Mallivwa 2 IMI Mr.. M. Ikaltv Mia. A. (1. Muiiro. 2 (HI Mr.. Nhortrvnl . . R. N. tl.HK'h 2 no Rev Wlllluiii Hrigg.. Mr.. CoNhv 2 tai Wllllnm |ia>l.'-i Mra. K. Morgan 2 no John Morrow (Ina) K. F. Ililalen 2 00 Mi'Min. l'eiir*oii Mroa .Mea.r.. Alkviihi-uil ft Thiiniaalll.lop Criimliie 2 no R. C Millarrle . Mr.. F. W. KIngaionv .Mr. K. Ilulilwrii 2 00 R. Ciahriin 2 no I,. 1,. I'liliiivr .1. L. Morrlaon . . . 2 (»l Mra. R. (Illninr .... Mra. Iloylea 2 UO K J. I'lirtri.lge W. II. Pcamon 2 mi A. FonI Frank SiiiKh 2 mi Mra. C. K Rvenon Mra. Winn 2 111 II. S. Crewe Mra. S. II. Illiiki . .. 2 00 W. J. Mai'kenile . . Mr.. RiilaTi llulilwln 2 (HI Mr., r. C. Jonra Mra. .Miiiiiiing « mi Mr.. Hume llluke . Mra. (Irliidlut 2 nu Mr.. Henry .Mi'H.r.. Rriiwii llroa. 2 on W. J. Oage Mr., .loaepli Mliiipaoii Mm. Muikliii 2 (Nl Miaa CiaM'lia 1 IIO (leorge llickaon .... J. Wllaon Mra. Iliithrie 1 no John J. Ilarlaiiorv . 1 INI tieorge M. Lee W. II. Tiijior 1 00 J. II. R Mea.ra. KlllotftCc. 1 mi Mn. l.oftlev W. F.lliiit 1 oo Mra. C H. Tavlor. . . Me.ara. A. R. Clark Miaa Kiiigatone ,Nl Co I 00 Mr.. (!. R. (InuMlt .. W. A. Sliiia 1 no 1 00 (^Iiuric. H. (Iriiaeit. . W. H. Ktollt John S. Ikirlier .1. A. Worrell 1 no Friend 1 00 Total *^ •I 00 1 00 1 w I IN) I 00 I no I oo I OO I 00 I 00 I 00 I Ml I on I Ml I 00 I (W I (N> I flu I mi 1 (N) I IN> I IHI I mi 1 o Mra. Lee An Mn. J. Boyd 60 Mn. R. 8. Coady IM Mn. Sankey AO M. F. L. 2A Friend 26 Prtend 2A E. A. Fleming 2A Mra. Montgomery 2A W. T. Lolng 26 .Mra. SproufSmitb 26 Mra W. MoTavlah .... 25 6Ita. Murray 25 Friend 26 Friend 25 Friend 25 Mn. Curaon 25 A. Camp 20 Friend 15 Friend 10 Friend lo CoUnl'l I'll Mr.,. IFmid. Mra 8oott 60 Cnllrrleil Ay Mn. .fnrigny. Mra. Ho(;ord 50 Mlae Brown AO Bank ol Montreal 60 Dr. lUnd Bn Mr. Trotter 60 PreaSyterlan B'k Depot 60 John Young An Mr. RIdoul AO Mr. Campbell 60 M". Oemmell 60 Mr. KIpp 50 MiaeSkaa 60 Mn. Price V) C. L. Coryell 60 Priend SO rnllerlfil hy Mh' 0. O'Hara. Mra. F. W. Haroourt. . . At Mra. K. J. Cox 6" Mra. Drayton Aii Mra. Liimley AO W. W. C 50 Miaa A. .M. Baldwin... 50 Friend .AO J. K Mankenxia 26 Mn. Jopling 26 Mn. Htorer 25 HIsaMnClaran 26 H. C. K. W 26 MiaiDurka 26 i.j 66 Cullecird by Miss Htinger- foril. cts, Hri. K. B. HutohiaOD.. 76 Mn. K. Foater 60 C. OnlKle SO Un. Shaptcr 6ii Friend 50 Mn. ?lper 60 Mrs. DuB 1)0 Mn. Coon 60 MlBH Spcnoe 6n ii Mn. Initlla 'i!i MIh8 AndenoD 26 Mm. Procter 26 Mr. Itlngpath 26 Krlend 26 .Mn. Prieatman 'i6 Mn. Watson 2.'i Mn. Walker 26 Mn. Froaer 26 ch. Vt. Illaek ■.'6 M. L. Marks 26 Friend ' o Mn. Vance l.'i Mn. .Matthews 2i> CMrrlnl hi/ .U;».. Imi'inil. Mn. Dean & Mis* Iluffel 91 no .Mrs. Matheson 76 Mn. C'ownn 60 Subscriber 10 Collerled hy Mrs. Mertditk. i-ts. C'olbome Meredith .... 60 .Mn. J. F. Smith 60 J. Little 25 Mn. Bath 29 Mrs. Meredith 2.'i Friend 16 Friend 10 !_.. ' What thou hast done to one ot Mine, Though to the least of all It be, I will reward It line for line ; For thou hast done it unto Ue I" ■Entered into Rest." Oh ! not alone above the silent sleepers Whose feet have touched the everlasting shore, Whose hands are folded from their patient toiling, \ .lose lips respond to lo"c's caress no more ; But on the heads of some who walk beside us. By whose dear presence all our days are blest, May we pronounce that peaceful benediction Of heavenly swei i uees " Entered into Rest." To those whnse waiting nan have heard ohe Master Say, " Peace, be still I " to every anvious care, And dropped their burdenb, like an. out-worn garment Which they no longer need or wish to wear, In sure fulfillment of tils word ot pri mlae The peace that passeth human the ightis given ; And on their hearts they bear the seal of pardon. And on their tranquil brow the stamp of heaven. Fiercely the storms of life may rage around them. But no rude tempest shakes their sure repose. While God In Ills pavilion safely hides them, Secure from every advene wind that blows. Their willing hands oease not from earthly service ; Not rest from toiling does the Master give. But rest in lalior is the sweeter portion Of those who die to self, in Him to livg. " Onl^ Remembered by What I have Done." Up and aJvay, like the dew of the rooming. Soaring' from earth to its home in the sun ; So let me steal away, gently and lovingly. Only remembered by what I have done. Up and away, like the odon of sunset. That sweeten the twilight as darkness comes on ; So be my life— «hed that cruel sport, which abounded in every big city — oook-fightincr. He was heartily in favor of tne formauon of a Do- minion Aaiociation. There were plenty of good, kind-hearted people to do the work in every city, town or village, if they only understood how to do it. This information could be fur- nished if they had a central association. In every conn'eBat.''>n, Roman Catholic or Pro- testant, a feeling should be inspired to help on the good work. He eapecially advocated the education of children to kindness and sympathy with all of ( iod's creatures. An especial feature of a central society should be a recognition in Canada of those who risked their lives to save others. Sir Charles Tupper had sugi(ested that the Society should organize a system of recogni- tion on the same lines aa that in use in England, " 7, Kingston'. — This Society has not issued a printed report, but Miss Agnes Maohar, has very kindly sent to our Society, by request, the following account of the origin and pro- gress of the Kingston Society : — " As our Secretary (a veterinary surgeon) is very much occupied ... I was asked to write to you. . . . The originating cause of our Society was a shocking cruelty perpetrated on a cat (or on several) in a hotel here. The gentleman who organized our Society, and be- came its first Secretary, was boarding in the hotel and was so excited by the cruel act that he determined at once to endeavor to organize a Society and succeeded. I was one of those present at the first meeting and have ever since endeavored to keep it up, so far as I could, though it has often been up- hill work. Our first Secretary, Mr, Waterbury, was a very enthusiastic worker, though owing to his occu- pation in the bank he could not give so much time to it as he wished. We sustained a great loss when he was obliged to give up his office — owing to increasing engagements and also when he frequently left town. Our Society was, to a great extent, suspended for a year or two ; but a letter from Mr, Kelso to myself asking why it had ceased, led me to arrange to have a meet- ing called and we resumed work and wrote to Toronto for pamphlets, etc. Since then we have been going on steadily and have employed an Inspector during most of the time, though for lack of funds we had to suspend this part of our work for some months last year. The In- spector is now again working for us, however, and we think the mere fact of his existence is of some benefit, while he has been the means of terminating a good deal of animal sufiering in various ways, " Last summer our Society ofiered several prizes for the best writings on the subject of Humanity generally, especially to animals. We had more than thirty compositions sent in. Besides five or six prizes, we gave to each of the competitors a copy of either Black Beauty or of the book (Aims and Objects) prepared by your Society, both of which we hoped would prove useful in promoting a spirit of kindness to dumb animals. We are going to try to have a w THE TORONTO HUMANEZSOCIETY. I WK Though ot spring we gaily carol, There ia something dearer still ; Weary wings have wandered over Wood and hill ; But our hearta were ever longing For the place that is the best— For the comfort and the shelter Ot the old home-nett I We have reveled in the brightnesa Of the tar-off skies ot blue 1 But to these tamiliar branches We were true I And the Father, kind and loving, Ouided us upon our quest. To the blessings and the sweetness Ot the old home-nest ! SISTER SOCIETIKS IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 71 » *" - A\\t [htuen el bea oving, t. reetnea competition of a somewhat different nature thi« your — a prize for a oompoeition in tlie fifth form and amall prizes for the best ansirers to ques- tions in the third and fourth forms. " We have not yet succeeded in getting Bands of Mercy started, as we cannot do this without the co-operation of the teachers, and it seems so hard to get them to talie any active interest in the matter. Perhaps, however, we may be able to manage it by and by. We mean to go on trying. " I nonced in a paper the other day that the Commission in regard to dehominff was to meet again at another place to witness the operation, etc. Now, it seems to me, if it has been proved by experts that it causes such intense suffering, the Commission have no right to inflict suck suffering on any poor animal for their own satisfaction. I wisn some representation could be made on the subject from and in the name of our Societies. " The Mail's Kingston correspondent, under date of May 10th, 1802, states that the Humane Society there is offering prizes for the best answers to questions submitted by that highly useful body. The public school children are the competitors. 8. Oalt. — Mr. J. Sharp, as Secretary, sends the following report, under date of 6th of April, 1892:— " Our Society in Gait was organized in De- cember, 1890, and since that time the amount of good is a sufficient reason for its existence. Previous to its oreanization, cruelty in its manv forms was general in the neighborhood, which caused several persons to ask if something could not be done to put an end to such scenes of cruelty committed by ignorant and often thoughtless people. The result of this was that a meeting oi those interested in humane work was called by means of the local papers. The first meeting was held in the Reformer office, which, not beine well attended, it was thonght advisable to make a further announcement and adjourn the meeting for one week. At the adjourned meeting there was a sufficient num- ber present to elect officers and a working Com- mittee. Col. Hespeler was chosen President, J. M. Robertson, Vice-President, and myself Secretary. "The report at the eifd of the year showed that two cases had been brought before the Magistrate and convictions given and small fines, with costs, inflicted. One case of orueltv was taken before the Magistrate, but the evi- dence given in Court was not sufficient to con- vict. One case of a boy neglected and ill-treated by his parents was taken in hand and the boy ultimately sent to Mimico. " The literature received from your Society has been distributed, and a great number of waminss sent to those who have the care and oversight of animals. Our future work will probably be more of an educational nature, as we find peeple are more kind and considerate in their treatment of the animals placed in their charge." 0. St. CATiiARixBa.— Mr. J. P. Merritt, the President, writes to onr Society, under date of 27th April, as follows :— " Yours of the 19th was left here by the Manager, Mr. J. Clark, of the Sooietv for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which was established some ten years ago to interfere with the greed of contractors on the public works, then going on here, of which I aoted as preeid- ing officer. Mr. Clark was prosecutor, and Mr. Cox, a lawyer, taking a deep personal interest in ' 't movement, would carry on the accusation. Beyond this we have very little to report. Mr. Clark keeps a look-out, especially on the fre- quenters of our market, but the whole business of fines, etc. , is carried on without any co-opera- tion of the President." 10. St. Thomas. — Mrs. Way, Superintendent of the Band of Mercy Department, says : — " In making my report I would state that my work has l>een solely of an educational charac- ter ; that is, organizing Bands of Mercy, giving addresses, distributing literature, and selling Aims and Objects and Black Beauty. Efforts have lieen made towards organizing a Humane Society, and the City Council petitioned in regard to supplying free water for public drink- ing fountains, wliich was granted. One foun- tain has been erected and ^o others promised. I have been instrumental in gettins the Humane Laws of the Dominion paUished in our two daily papers. This was necessitated from the following case of cruelty : Some weeks ago there was a very cruel deed done by some half- grown boys, in imitation of their elders. One Sabbath afternoon some boys decided that in- stead of attending Sunday-school they would have ' some fun ; ' consequently they took a kitten, which happened to be the pet of our own household, and went just outside the city limits with some dogs and imitated a fox chase by letting the cat go and setting the dogs on her. The kitten ran up a tree out of reach of the doKS, but not of the Doys. One boy, with a long stick, succeeded in knocking it down, when the dogs caught it and tore it to pieces 1 * Upon hearing of it, I immediately set to work to ascertain, if possible, the boy i' names. I found out the names of seven or eight and then went to enquire what could be done, but did not get much encouragement to carry it throuffh. So, very reluctantfy, I had to let the culprits go unpunished. I had the Humane Laws published then, with a notice heading them that if any more such cases occurred the law wonld be en- forced. Besides organLring twenty-four Bands of Mercy, I have sold seventy-three copies of Aims and Olgects, forty of Black Beauty, and dis- tributed several thousand leaflets from both Toronto and Boston. In addition, I have ad- dressed meetings of the King's Daughters, Teachers' Associations, Woman's Canada Tem- perance Unions, County Conventions, and nu- merous Bands of Mercy. I hope that this good * The reader will be etruok with the coinddenoe in this case of another eimUar one which took place in New York and which is pointed out on page 60 of this Report. FAITHFUL FRIENDS— WATOHIKO AND WAITtNO. THK ROYAL HUMANE SOCIKPY OF KNOLAND. 7» work will go on until all persons are enrolled in the okuso of meroy. II. London (OnUrlo).— Mr. W. C. Coo, Hon- orary Secretary of the London Humane .Society, under date of May .3rd, 1802, writes as follows:— " The London Humane Sooletv was oreanized in the fall of I HOI, under a constitution founded larxely on the Constitution of the Toronto Hu- mane society. It is operated under the direction of a Board of Management, composed of a num- ber of ladies and gentlemen, specially elected thereto, and all resident city ministers who become members of the Society. Since its in- ception it has shown an energy that has made its work felt, and has caused inhumanity to '>e less"ned and has driyen what still exists into close quarters. •' lU officers are : President, Mr. D. S. Per- rin ; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. May R. Thomley, Mr. Andrew Thomson, Mr. Fred. \V. Matthews; Hon. Secretary, Mr. W. C. Coo ; Hon. Solici- tors, Mr. Talbot Macbeth, Mr. T. (i. Meredith, Mr. J. B. McKillop ; Hou. Vet. Surgeon, Mr. C. A. Tamlin ; Inspector, Mr. W. H. Minhin- nick. " In the person of the President, Mr. Perrin, the Society has an active executive head, whose personal attention to the work has done much to give it a permanent footing in the community. During the short period that the Society has had an existence it has handled 1.36 cases relat- ing to horses, cases relating to childien, 5 oases of assistance rendered to families in want, 7 oases relating to cruelty to fowl, and 4 cases of cruelty to pigs. One child has been taken from cruel hands and adopted by kind foster parents. Fifteen horses have been shot under the direction of the Society, many of them hav- ing been bought by the Society, on account of being no longer fit for use and it being a humane act to put an end to their existence. "Humane literature has been introduced into the public schools, and half an hour every Fri- day is given to the humane education of the scliolars. " The need of such a Society in the city has been fully demonstrated by the work that has already been done, and it gives promise to be a power in the community for the suppression of inhumanity to man and beast. " In Tlie Mail correspondence of the '."ind rf January, the following appeared : ' Wm. Legg, a teamster, living just north of the city bound- ary, in London township, is said to have taken an old horse to a field in London West and turned him out in the bitter cold of last week without a morsel of food or drink. The animal is unable to put one of its hind feet to the ground, and it looks as if the bone were broken, so swollen and inflamed is the limb. Village Constable Ward took hold of the case, ^ot the suffering bruto into a stable with great difficulty, and then went out and arrested the alleged owner at midnight. Legg was taken before Squire Lacy and bailed tiU Monday. The Hu- mane Society has been notified.' " 12. Pktbrdobo'. — Mr. C. B. Kerna writes on 26th of April :— " No Humane Society has been organized nere. The organization you have heard of is probably one for the prevention of cruelty to children." 13. Woodstock. — A branch of the Ontario Society, at Toronto, was orgbnized in Wood- stock in November, 1878. Rev. W. F. McMul- len. President ; Miss Cottle, Secretary. An effort will be made to revive this Society. 14. Niagara Falls.— At the Humane Con- vention held in Toronto on the 21st June, 1802, Mr. Charles Black, a delegate, said : — " The Niagara Falls Society was called into existence eight months ago and was conse- quently the youngest in the Dominion. lu regard to the cattle question, they had met it successfully in Hamilton." 15. GuELFR. — At the Convention held in Toronto in June, 1802, Col. Higginbotham, wroto to say that they were about establishing a Humane Society in that city. Efforts have been made to influence parties in various places to establish Humane Societies. XVI. THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. From an able and intoresting paper on the Royal Humane Society in The Review of the Churches for April, by the Venerable Arch- deacon Farrar, D.D., the following extracts are taken. After a philosophical view of the general subject, the Archdeacon makes quotation from various writers on amimala and their peculiari- ties ; in doing so he says : — " What is more obvious, yet what is more perplexing, than the ' character of animals ? There is not a single passion of mankind of which they seem to be destitute. We see in them vanity, pride, dignity, suspicion, disdain, slyness, revenge, envy, affection, sympathy, disinterestedness, cunning, generosity, fun, un- selfishness, gaiety home-sickness, experience, imitativoness, ennui, the power of adapting new means, a capacity for estimating time and com- puting numbers, and inventive sagacity.* We cannot even wateh a ilock of chickens without noticing that one is utterly selfish, and gete all < See all this abundantly proved in Thompson's ;>a' s of vice in ita wont degradation. Nay more, ' hey ihow some- thing which we can hardly call by any jame but eoiiacUnce, and they can exercise a power of self-control which proves them capable of a vic- torious struffsle with temptation. ' Loolc at that dog. If he were a human l>eing one would say that he was blushins all over,' was the very natural remark of one wno observed the evident sense of shume shown by a dog which had been reproved for a theft. A dog, unaonscious that he was beins watched, has been seen half yield- ing to, yet anally triumphing over, the tempta- tion to help himself from the remains of a meal. . Was there no self-control, and faith, and grati- tude in the doK whose master was sewins up Ita wound, when. In the sharp pain, it turned round to bite him, but stopped itself in the very aot and licked his hand instaad ? If animals which have done wrong exhibit every sign of remorse so plainly as the doa and the elephant have often done, can they be destitute of reflex con- sciousness — of a capacity for passing judgment on their own actions ? "And yet by what an impossible gulf are they separated from us ! We may love a pet bird and it may love us, but it is impossible tor the bird to make known to its most sympathetic friends even its most terrible needs. "The thought is expressed in Matthew Arnold's ' Poor Matthias^— ' DirdB, rjompsnlons mora unknown, I.Ire begide ua, but alone ; KindinH not, do all they can, PogsaKO from their aouf to man. Kindneij we liestow and pratae, I.tud tbeir plumage, greet their layg ; Still, beueath their feather'd breast Stirs a history unexprpased.' " But something of the same remark applies to all animals. ' It is a strange, an almost solemn and pathetic thing,' says Carlyle, 'to see an intelligence imprisoned in that damb, rude form ; struggling to express itself out of that, even as we do out of our imprisonment, and succeed very imperfectly 1 " Close as may be the friendship between the dog and ita master, how much passes in the minds of our four-footed friends which we can- define ! * That loving heart, that patient soul, Had they Indeed no longer span To run tnelr oourac and reach their goal, And read their homily to man ? That lliiuid melanoholy eye, From whose pathetic aoul-fed springs ijeem'd surging the Virgillan cry, The sense of tears iu mortal things — That steadfast, mourntul strain, consoled By spirits gloriously gay. And temper of heroic mould— What, was (our years their whole short dayV* ' Oelst's grave. "What, then, arc 'the brutea ti>»t perish?' Do they porisf utterly ad ir Mv, /hen ' somethinj, !.' ' t/» dovn > tiuir forehra.is Is the (' Arkuess auJ they die?' la a noble animal, « i\ich has almost risen to the virtues of hu- manity, less worthy to live than the man who in a thotisand ways has debased himself below the level of the brutes ? Have animals aoula, or are we to accept the monatrous hypothesia of the perplexed r)es Cartes, who argues that they were mere iiutomatona ? or that of the French poet, who calla them ' lea roves de la nature, dent I'homme eat le ri'^vell ? ' or that of Jules Simon, who calls them 'iHres seoondairea or^eM pour I'ensemble,' and ' non pour eux- mumes ? ' or that of the nations with whom the transmigration of souls forms part of their re- ligious JMlief ? And if they have aoula, or any- thing analogoua to souls, is the poor Indian ao very far wrong, who ' thinks, admitted to yon ere8ents the Sultan his atrocities and o move a dying pig riiol glare. ]g has charmed men the dog which fol- isamiDg." lowed the .lewish boy Tobias, wlien he led his father's house for t* ' !anil of Media ;* and this dr- has i> ;^!' 'litii.^. place In art. He is, as ll were, crlra fabulam. He is superfluous to the story, for he does nothing ; and yet his presence adds to the ! .terest of the tale. Nor is Judaism in Its latest developments, as we se« them In the (iemara, devoid of this specially (Oriental element, " Like the Ettrluk Shepherd, in the Noctis Amht laiiiiia:, the Orientals ' ken naething about legislation,' but ' they ken something about humanity — and cruelty to the dumb creation is practical blasphemy, and will not go un-. punished.' " From these religions we pass to Scripture ; and we find that mercy to the brute creation is prominent therein from first tc last, 'i.cob, like a good shepherd, is tenderly solicitous that his cuttle should not be overdriven. ' I wi 11 drive on softly,' he says to his brother, 'accor 1- ing as the cattle that goeth before mo is ablo bo endure.' Turning first to itn oldest records, ve find that the animals are brought to Adam eo see what he would call them, and that they are delivered to his governance. Thus early is attention called to the connection of animals with man, the use of animals to man, the do- minion over the animals by man. There Is from the beginning a desire to impress us with the humble fellowship, the mute helplessness, the pathetic dependence, the divine creation of these partakers with us of the dust of the earth, (iod'a care for them, man's duty to them, is constantly inculcated. Tak'i for instance the Mosaic Law. How exquisite is the considera- tion wb' h it shows for the creatures of (iod's hands ' If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in i.ree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young, or on the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young — that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst prolong thy days.' Did any other law-giver, like the mighty Moses, thus care for the curlew in the furrow, or the mother linnet in the brake ? — ' Thou shalt not seethe the kid in its mother's milk.' Why? Because it seems a hard and unnatural thing to use as an element in the thing's destruction the nourishment provided for it by a bountiful nature. — ' Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the com. ' Why ? Doth Ood care for oxen ? Yes, assuredly, for His are the cattle upon a thousand hills ; and the hunger of the poor patient beast, starving amidst abundance, de- nied its own food, while it toils over the food of man, has a cruel and thankless look. — 'Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.' Why not ? Because it is contrary to the law of natural justice ; since, if the two animals be yoked together, an unfair share of the burden must fall upon one or the other. Could God have taught more dearly than thus He did by the mouth of the great leader of His people, " Tobit V. 16, " So they went forth both, »nd llie tioiing man's ilog with thrm." xl. 4, "So they went their w»y, snd the doc went after them." It is, however, ourlous that " the dog," found in all the versions. Is omitted in the Hebrew and Ohaldee. that wo must be merciful because our Father in Heaven is merciful ? Again, how rich in tender beauty af* tha songs of the I'salndst ! What love breaths through those sweet ' Nature I'satms' which speak of the beasts of the Held, and the wild asses quencliing their thirst at the valley springs; the birds singing in the branches ; the grass ?;rowing for the cattle as well as the green nerb or the servie of man ! Even tlie fir-trees and the cedars of Lebanon subserve the wHd bird and the stork. The young lions and the ' ■" ravens do not cry In vain, and the ipari'i- ..uo swa! low find their nesting pliiCDS Ik '\ eC' ' a'.tar. And when (lod consoles J ami' c cold orthodoxies of his friends, «* det . s tha trust of His servant bv poi.^i,li., hi.-n jo„ only to the sky, and the rain , 'Ul iia crimson arch of dawn, but also to voev ''^ ^jats and the zebras, the peacock and '.hii o< :oh, the horse and the eagle— to ' Bj) moth trampling tha forests, ana Leviathai \pe'^^ng the seas,' Nor are tha least thing. jution above tha loving notice of the Suprtune. ' There be four things,' says Solomon, 'which are little upon the earth, yet they are exseedlng wise ; the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks ; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands ; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king's palaces. ' Thus we are taught by the wisest of men to draw leasons from the least as well as from the greatest of the works of lulioiaualy, and hopping from branch to branch. Wa might well talia on our hata to thani and aay, " My denr Harr Doc- tor, wa could not have learot thy art of truat- fulneaa. Thou ileepaat all night, without oara, in thy littla neat: thou riaeat joyful in the morn- ing, and praii««t (iod, and then aaakaat thy dally food." Why cannot I, puor fool that I am, live like theaa living lainta in tulneaa of con- tent ? ' ' There go our praaohera,' he aald, aa he watched the cattle going to paature, * who diiily prtauh to ua faith in dod.' Whan hia fuotatepa frightened the birda building their neata in hia garden, he aaid, 'Ah I dear little bird, riy not from me ; from my heart I wiah thaa well, if^thou couldat but believe it. But Juatao do we diatruat our dear I.,ord, who nevertheleaa givea ua nothing but good.' " Whenever a feeling ia charaoteriatio of all that ia beat in human nature, we may be aure that it will find expreaaion in Art and Literature, aa the great twin-exponenta of elevated thought. " Coming down to the eighteenth century, Hogarth, ooarae ua wiva the form aaiumad by hia moral teaching, ihowed England how, in the career of Thomaa Nero, the progreaa of cruelty l>egan with torturing dosa and cata, and paaaed on to aeduction and murder — luat hard by hata. ' If,' aaid Hogarth, ' my picturea have the efTuct of checkins cruelty and unkindnaaa to dumb creaturea, I am more proud of having been their author than I could be of having painted Kaphael'a cartoona.' In our own d»ya Sir Edwin Landaeer, in the ' Highland 8hep- herd'a Chief Mourner,' and the 'I)iatinguLihed Member of the Royal Humane Society,' haa done much directly to foater kindneaa to ani- mala, and perhapa even more indirectly in hia many iUnatrationa of the all but-human quali- tiea of the dog and the horae, the glad innocence of the aquirrel and the bullfinch, and the joy and lovelineas of ao many wild creaturea o( wood and field, " Literature, too, turniahea abundant leaaona on the aame theme in the greateat worka of all agea. In Cireek we have the Divine ateeda of Achillea, not only moumins, but ahedding hu- man teara over their dead lord. In the Odyaaey, the great chief, returning in the raga of a beg- gar, unreooKnized by any nurnan being, iayet at once recognized bv Argua, his faithful dog, who licka hia Hand and diea. In the Agamemnon of .Kjchylua the cruelty of the aona of Atreua ia symbolised by two eagles, one white, one black, that devour a hare quick with young ; and the poet describes the wrath of Artemis aa en- kindled by the aight of the bloody banquet of theae ' winged hounda of her father Zeua. ' " In Athenian hiatury, even when the historian ia narrating the wild disorder of the diatreased population in their flight from Athena to .Kgina before the face of Xerxea, he doea notd sdainto pause and mention the pal'-.etic inoiden . of the rr dog which, determined not to be abandoned . ita owner, awam the whole way after the boats across the straita. Athena alone had an altar to Compasaion, and Plutarch ia the first oluasio writer who advooAtoa kimlneaa to aii- Imala. Roman literature iauomparativaly hanl and cold in theae raapauta, l>eoauae it ia the literature of a people 'Orual by thtir iiMirta, to blood Inurad ' ; yet waare told how Hortanaiua waa not aahainad t had beeu loat on Helvellyn ? or those of Campbell, on the parrot from the Spanish Main, which after long years in Eng- land, fluttered and died for joy when addressed in the Spanish tongue of ita nrht kind owner 7 TIIK KOVAI, HHMANK SiM'IKTV OK K\ti|„\M». 70 or thv what aha knowaanil what cotitiaala ; Natar to mil mir plaaaura and niir priila With aorrow o( (ha naanaai ttalug thai laala.' And tha iMt poat, whcma hint h»« b«an addad to VVaatnilnater Abbay, tiavotaa Ida beat noam to thla ona laiaon uonvayad with » malody ao aubtta, and auuh weirdnuaa of imaglnativa paa- aion. That poam audi with tha trim Mid famoua worda •— ' lla prayath wall, who \o\ ith w«|| Itolh man. and lilnl, and l>aaat ; lla uiayath iiaat, who lovath liaat All tnlngt lioth vraat and ainall ; Kor tha icreal (lad who lovath ui, lla mada and lovath all ' On* of hia early poama. "On a young aat," avoked the aneera of liyron, but ho had no rea- aon to bluih for them ; and Hyron himaelf waa paaaionately devoted to hia dog Hoatawain. " None felt more intensely on thla matter than the poet-pttlnter Klalce. Ho was ao innocent nnd ao open «yud to tha visions of r the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimaU aa due only to mawkinh sentiment. In doing ao, they evince a callous heart, and prove tbeir ignorance of the commonest facta of paycholooy. For certain it is that cruelty to animals and omelty to human beinga are very oloaely akin. The brutal callousnesa of heart which made the Romans of the Empire look on in myriada at the bloody butcheriea of the Am- phitheatre, led them into atrocioua indifference to the tortures which they inflicted on their slaves. Merciful Emperors like Titus and Marcus Aurelius abhorred these ahows, while (.'aligula and Domitian delighted in them. Even in England, when men could find amiuement in bear baiting, thev cquld also witneaa without a shudder the mnttlationa inflicted by the hans- man in the drawing and quartering of haU- strangled wretches ; and the vile spectacle of the cockpit helped to make them indifferent to the Draconian savagery of the penal laws. " Individuals, no less than nations, prove the truth of the axiom of Solomon, that ' the mer- ciful man is merciful to hia beaat.' It waa his love for animals which brightened the whole life of Krank liuckianil, anout us, the gra- cious rain of < iod's inheritance ; it Is the publio spring for all th* thirsty, th* common hospital for all the needv ; all th* streets of the Church are paved with these stones; yes, the verv pres*nc*-cbamb*r of (iod is hung round witn this curious arras; all the Eden of Uod I* wat*r*d by the** riv*rs. M*rov is th* first petitioner's suit, and the first believer's article, and wer* it not for mercy there would not b* one r*g«n*rat* saint on *arth, nor on* glorified saint In h*av*n. ' " But it may b* argued that in our own days there is no long*r any n*ed for the *xlstenoe of a Society for th* Prev*ntion of Cru*lty to Anim»ls. " Now it is true that in nothing is the growth of public opinion more remarkable than in the enlightenment which has led Englishmen to abhor ev*ry form of crnelty. It is illustrated by th* almoat total abolition of th* brntal sys- tem of corporal punishment in schools, which existed in th* earliest days, and oontinntil ui.- broken to the beginning of th* pr*«ent i.Mntu.'v. A remarkable chapter on this subject 'i.ight i>« written. Men are not wanting wh( ^I'l-^ail the loss of a moro Spartan discipline. »nd think that, in some directions, we have p.-izi'd mercy to the length of softness. Into tr \t laeiiHon I will not enter, bnt I claim for thia S.'ciety the me.it* of still educating callous cousciencnf, and still flinging a protecting -' i«, and cock-crowings ! When this was thb .^ne in the upper classes, it is not surprising that atrocious cruelty to God's dumb creatures * It is curious to read the list of animals tortured in 180O, and tlie numb r of oonviotione obtained ai^ainst the torturers. They wen as follows :— Horse, a,780 ; donkey, IMi ; cattle, 161 ; sheep, 77 ; pig, 45 ; goat, 4 ; dog, 80 ; cat, 84 ; rabbit, 6 ; lama, 1 : camel, 2 ; monkey, 1 ; fowl, ■M ; duok, 8 ; turkey, 1 ; goose, 6 ; pigeon, 3 ; peacock, 2 ; and linnet, 1. t Papers of questions were sent last year to 6,000 metro polltan schools. In lt>!il no less than°(il,460 essays were sent from 828 schools, and 1,046 prizes and certificates were riven. ; Of 552,000 head of cattle transported to this county, 1 in every loo dies en rmile. .^ THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY OF KN(iLANI). •1 Iran have been Unght pet« with wise con- ic fndi have had iti kod ita merciful rule« o crabs and lobiters.* exerted all its powen of animals ; the cruel railways or in steam- f the legs of sheep, >verstocl(ing of cows' idingof -alves shortly sking of f gathers from try ; the exposure of inclement weather ; and other animals to nimals not previously An i and the ill-treat- lals in anv other way. Lvora it has tried to id phvements ; better ; better methods of attle tracks and boats; lals in every country. it has disseminated elty of the practice of las also organized a gad the work of edu- bnt especially among Hoard accepted a sum 1 ted in prizes to pupil - 1 girls in their schools proficiency in a know- its, and proper treat- derable sums of money Committee in the dia - principles in Spain, ur urgent subjects are consideration — the in- nes ; the introduction ooks which may incnl- > ; '..he protection of imenta ; and the pre- caused to cattle in society may be said to prevent the cruel and cattle,' introduced bv The immense growth may best bo measured ill, 80 humane and so vith utter ridicule ! In le had stood up in the or justice to the lower lat they have rights as B drowned with jeers, Qgs ! When this was Bses, it is not surprising God's dumb creatures !Ut o( animala tortured in lotione obtained agaiDit the W9 :— Horse, 3,780 ; donkey, pig, 45 ; goat, 4 ; dog, 80 ; lainel, 2 ; monlcey, 1 ; fowl, 9, 6 ; pigeon, 3 ; peacock, 2 ; sent last year to 6,000 metro ess than'ui,460 easaj^a were [,045 prizes and certifloatea ranaportcd to this county, 1 marked men's aotioui among th« less ednoated. < The most reckless and savage pnnishment, and the most dLsgustina disregard to the bodily sufferings of animals, were exhibited uncon- cealed in the highways and streets daily ; fes- tering sores, discharging wounds, excruciating lameness, and tottering infirmity called not forth modern devices to evade pnblio reprobation, and without disguise the lash and goad worked their bloody inflictions. The unoombined efforts of a few benevolent individuals were no check to these evils ; and hence it became necessary to establish a society which should unite the friends of dnmb animal creatures. ' Accordingly the Society was formed on June 16th, 1826. The patronage of the Queen and the Duchess oi Kent gave it an immense impulse,* and in 1840, by Her Majesty's command, it was honored with the title of 'Royal.' It has now long outgrown the stage of ridicule, and among many other achievements, may boast of the suppres- sion of Smithfield Market ; the prohibition of bull-baiting, cock-fighting, badger-baiting, and other cruel sports; the passing of a law to regulate knackers' yards ; the prohibition (in 1854) of the use of dogs as beasts of burden, and the passing in 1819 of a more effective act for the prevention of cruelty to animals. During its course it has helped to educate the conscience punitively as well as didactically, by procuring the conviction of upwards of 9.3,000 offenders ; and thus it has driven cruelty to be cautious. The circulation of its many pampl lets and especially of the Animal World and the Band of Aferci/— have trained the vounger leneiation in better principles. The letter a- l donation of the (jueen at the Jubilee of t^ .Society in 1874, and her presence at the An. »1 Me^ng in the Royal Albert TTall in 188 have been beautiful evidences of that tenderness of heart which have endeared Her Majesty to all classes of her subjects, "The total receipts of the Society in 1890 were £11,277, of which £7,-'64 was left in lega- cies. " Such are the main facta in the history and achievements of a Society of which the world- wide influence has been no lesa prccioud than its immediate results. It only remains to add a word about a Society which may be reearded as a natural outcome of the principles which it had so long inculcated. The A.isocialum for providing Metropolitan Drir.king Fountains and Cattle Troughs might seen; to many to have but a narrow scope, and yet it has performed a much-needed mission of mercy. It was founded in April, 1859, by the late Mr. Samuel (Jurney, who was succeeded in the presidency by Mr. Joseph Fry. Any one who ha« traveUed for hours in tropic countries, where water is often unattainable, has witnessed the intense joy and relief of men and animals when they approach a well or a pool. The Arabs will toss tiieir lances, urge their willing horses to full speed, and shout, ' Water '. w.\ter : Snow in the sun ! •now in the sun ! ' But the sufferings from thirst may be just as great in the streets of * The Queen had become a patron of the Saaitty in 1836, two years before she ascended the throne. crowded citiea, aa we moat often have obaervod in watching the poor jaded, moaning, overdrivao herds of bewildered beaata, with their tonguea hanging oat of theif moutha. Theaa au£[erTngs of sheep, horses, oxen, and their drivers have now been partially relievsd. There are now in London and its suburbs more than 500 trouslu for cattle, and more than SOU fountaina lor human beings, and it is estimated, certainly by no extravagant computation, that there are more than 25,000,000 men and animala who find comfort and refreshment from this humane scheme. The average amount paid to the water companiea for water y arlv ia .t'l,.'>00. From time to time the numry^r of those who use the fountaina and troughs luring twenty-four con- secutive houra are taken. It was found on one occasion tliat 16,45*2 human beinas used three foun..-, and 6,583 horses, besidec other ani- mals, drank at three troughs in twenty-four hours ; and the total number o( drinkers at 566 trouahs and 587 fountains during a year is estimated at more than 700,000, oxen, sheep, and dogs not being included. Hut a (juarter of a century ago London was to the itinerant poor like the ocean to the poet's Ancient Mariner, for while water companies and turucocks, water- pipes and fire-mains showed that there ' waa water, water everywhere,' the fruitless search of many a weary one for a draught of the refreshing fluid gave painful evidence that there was practically ' not a drop to drink. ' The first free drinking fountain in London was erected by Mr. Gurney at his own expense on Snow Hill. It was found that as many as 5,000 persons used it daily, and the workingmen of the neighborhood presented a memorial to Mr. Gurney, not only thanking him for the inestim- able boon, but imploring him to secure the erec- tion of other fountains in different parts of the metropolis. The Association sprang into exis- tence to meet this felt and acknowledged need, and if it be one of the least intrusive and most limited of our philanthropies, it probably allevi- ates more suffering and creates more happiness than many which achieve smaller results with larger pretensions." Various English and Irish Reports, Etc. The following English, Irish and Australasian Humane Society Reports have been received at the Humane ofiice, Toronto :— 1. Tenth Report (1891) of the Southamptoa, Winchester and Romsey Branches of the Royal Society. Mrs. Suckling is one of the lady managers. Ninety-aeven convictions for cruelty, chiefly to horses, were obtained during the year. 2. Fourth Report (1891) of the Dorset Branch of the Royal Society. 143 cases were inquired into, and 107 convictions obtained— 59 in the case of horses, and 7 in the case of donkeys. ,S. First Report (1890-91) of the Ladies Cos- mopolitan Humane Association, of Torquay. 4. Twenty First Report (1890-91) of the Cork ^ THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETy. til! I jii Society. 133 cuei were oonaidered. Only '2 OMei of extreme cruelty are reported. The fines varied from I'l to CS in eaclt case. 5. Twelftli Report (189 1) of the Cottage Home for Little Children, Kingatowo, near Dublin. The Honorary Secretary, Miss Barrett, has cor- responded with our Society on the subject of kindred institutions in Canada. U. Eighteenth Report (188!)) of the Victorian Society for the Protection of Animals. 1)21 cases were considered by this .Society, and 141 convictions, varying from less than i'l to t'lO, were secured. The average penalty for the year was C.'tOs. 6V/., aboutiiil6.5(). In a publica- tion for Bands of Mercy, the selections made are from our Society's " Aims and Objects "— (though not named) sent to Melbourne Society by Mrs. Suckling, and referred to elsewhere. REPORTS OF HUMAKE SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED "^^TATES. 88 XVII. REPORT OF HUMANE SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED STATES. Humane Sooietie* — in the largest lanae— are of comparatively recent origin in tlie United States. Ttiey were chiefly formed for the pro- tection of animala againat cruelty, and did not include women and children in the aoope of their benevolent work. Thia la now happily changed, and nearly all of them look after both, and aome, (notably those of Weatern Penn- sylvania and Connecticut,) protect aged peraona from neglect and cruelty. The former reporta three cases : (1) A woman, aged 00, impriaoned in a room without tire by her daughter and aon- in-law. They were proaecuted, and ahe waa placed in a home. (2) A woman, aged SO, was turned out on the street. Her two lona were prosecuted and pent to jail until they would agree to pay for her aupport. (3) An old man, snffering from an incurable diaease, was cruelly ill-treati'd by hia wife and son. He was re- moved to the County Home, until death ended his sufferings. The Connecticut Society reporta the cas'i of a woman of 92 left alone in her house, and often suiTering for food and warmth. Throe sons lived in the same town, one reported to be worth |t75,000. The neighbors cared for her until the Society saw that she was properly cared for. She said she would rather starve than let her sons know that she complained. Date of Various American Societies. The New York Society is one of the oldest, having been established by the noted Henry Bergh in 1866. Pennsylvania followed suit in 1867; San Francisco and Erie County, N.Y., in 1868 ; the Woman's Pennsylvania Branch, and Illinois, in 1869 ; Rhode Island and Wash- ington, D.C, in 1870; Cleveland, Rochester, New York and Ohio in 1873 ; and so on, until now the number of these Societies in the United States is about 80. The Central American Society. The general representative, ci- Parent Ameri- can Humane Society, was established in 1877. It meets annually in various places. The twelfth session was held in Toronto in 1888. At the following meeting, held in Louis- ville, Kentucky, in 1889, a most interesting paper was read by Mrs. Caroline E. White, President of the Womeii u Branch of the Penn- sylvania Society, on the progress of the Humane movement during the last twenty years. General Historical Review of Humane Societies. Sh= > ' ;— " When Richard Martin, a mem- ber ament from Ualway, stood upon the floor I .J House of Commons to defend the bill whk a he had just introduced into tnat body, making cruelty to animals punishable by law, he took the first important step that ever had been taken in the history of the world (with the exception of an abortive attempt mude a short time before by Lord Erskine) to- ward the organized protection of the inferior orders of creation. Notwithstanding <.'a brave action and the success which attenoed his efforts, and the subsequent formation of the English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sixty -five years ago, the movement in behalf of these humble friends of ours was confined to a small portion of country, and can only be said to have become general about twenty years ago when our noble, true-hearted predecessor, Mr. Bergh, first called attention to the subject, and organized the first society for the prevention of cruelty to animals in this country. Whether that movement has made so rapid a progress in these twenty years as it might reasonably be expected to have done, is what we are about to consider. That the num- ber of humane societies has greatly multiplied ia certain. There being at this preatnt time 115 in the United States, several in Canada, 11 in the provinces, 86 in Europe, 1 in Africa, 2 in Asia, 1 or 2 in Australia, and a few in Central and South America ; but the working of these associations is often confined to a few persons who are particularly interested in the subject, and can nardly be said to represent the feeling of th'i mass of the people. Whether humane ideas ind ways of thinking are spreading among the intelligent and cultivated portion of the 'community, is the question to which I propose to give an answer in accordance with the ob serviUiions that I have been enabled to moke. A casaal looker-on might be disposed to give a negati\-e response to this query, and with some reason, since there have been so many cruel practices and customs that have either origin- ated r'mring the last two decades, or have been carrfed on in defiance of the better and higher Sontiments of our nature. The atrocious custom of docking horses' tails, the cruel and serseless overhead check-rein or Kemble .Jackson bit, the burr bit, or other contrivances to inflict suffer- ing upon horses, and make them restless and uneasy, consequently more spirited in appear- ance, the dehorning of cattle, have all come i.i- to vogue of late years. What moreover shall we say of the wholesale massacre of the birds, of the almost total extinction of some of the most beautiful varieties of the feathered deni- zens of our forests and groves, as well as of the insectivorous species, so useful to the husband- man and farmer, and the consequent loss of an incalculable amount of grain and agricultural products, and all this for no end whatever but M THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. I ! ^^ % to gratify the vanity and love of adornment of the female portion of the community. The ^ attempt alio to revive fux hunting in diflbrent ' portionn of thii country, and tne effort in Europe to introduce bull-fighting into oountriea where it never existed before, are joined with the other inatancua I have mentioned, enough to diacourage one who merely regards the matter auperfioially and is diaposed tu draw haaty con- oluaiona from outside appearances. I do not, however, heaitate to maintain that the move- ment ao dear to the hearta of all of ua here ia making aure progreas, and there are indicationa to point out that the right of animala to humane treatment is being more carefully conaidered, and more generally conceded of late than has ever yet be«)n the case. It is true that there has been an effort to introduce fox-hunting into portions of the New England and Middle States, out it has aroused a strong opposition and has been either bitterly denounced or held up to ridicule by thnt guardian of our manners and morals, the ' press. ' It is a fact that the fashion of docking horaea haa been revived, but instead of its being tacitly adopted and eliciting little or no adverse comment, as was the case when it wns generally practised some fifty years ago, it haa awakened an outburst of indignation, particularly in Koston, where eighty-two of the ladiea of the highest position in the city have signed a protest against the cruel practice, which appeared in the daily papers on the 1st and 2nd of May. And the active and energetic president of the aociety there, has succeeded in obtaining a law' making this mutilation a penal offence, with a fine of $500 attached, where a conviction can be obtained. The slaughter of birds for the purpose of procuring ornaments for women's bonnets and dresses, haa been a very great and wide-spread evil, but it has not been allowed to go on without strong condem- nation from the more thoughtful ana consider- ate portion of the community. The newspapers and magazines have been filled with articles both in prose and verse agninst the cruel faah- ion, and a wide-spread organization has been formed both in (ireat Britain and this country, the members of which pledge themselvea never to wear any bird or any portion of a bird, un- less ostrich or other feathers which do not necesbitate the death of the bird in order to ob- tain them. "/n important decision lately given by Lord Ccleridge, the Chief Justice of England, affords a notable laatance of the advance of humane k^eaa with reference to animals. It was in a suit brought against some cattle owners on a charge ot cruelty in dehorning their cattle. 1 vvardthe olose of h' ■ written judgment. Lord ri/ieriJge S8ya : 'I j itxy that any or all of the r'iUd /DC given art. sufficient to constitute a ne- oiMity for the operation, or to justify it. Ne- cessity, to coDKUtute an cxcure under the act, does not mean O nply that the object of the > pera^'^in can not be otherwise secured. There ^i.iist 'k: sonte proportion between th? object and tt,u means. The mutilation of horses and bn'lft ia necessary, if properly performed, and so is iawftt), because without it the animals could not hei kept. But to pet thousands of cows or oxen to the hideous torture deacr'bed in the evidence, in order to put a few pounda more in- to the pockets of their owneis, ia an Inatanoe o( utter diaproportion between the reauit and the practice deacribed, and ia bai barons and unlaw- ful. I am not afraid of the poisible application of the principle to oiher practices not yet aa- ■ailed, but which may perhapt turn out to be prohibited by law. If the auffrtriug inflicted is real.y necessary, it may be excused ; but if it ia not ao, then it is, in the language of Mr. Juatioe VVightman, ' an unneceaaary abuau of the an- imal, and there can be no legal right to inflict it,' a conclusion not of mere aentimeutaliam, but of plain good aenae. ' " That this is a most important atep in the pro- gress of our work i« evident, since it can ba applied to so many of the orueltiea which here- tofore it has been difficult to proceed againkt on account of the great uncertainty as to whether a con viotiuu. could be obtained. An in- telligent magistrate would see at once its appli- cation to the docking of horses, the cutting off of the tails of dogs, many vivisectional experi- ments, etc. . " The sproad of humane ideas and practices in a large portion of Northern E rope, particular- ly in the treatment of horses, is very gratifying to one who has an opportunity to note it, as I had in the past year. During a nsiilenoe of some months in Germany antl Austria I was really amazed to aee how little horaea were beaten or abused on the public thoroughfarea. I never saw a car horse struck while there, nor, with one or two exoeptioaa, did I see a horae atruck under any circumatancea. One of these I oonsidei^l afforded so remarkable an instance of the respect of Europeans for law and authority, as well as of their roadineai to comply with an injunction to merciful treat- ment, that I deem it worthy of being related. I made a sojourn of about a mnnth in Karlabad, which, aa ia well known, ia a amall town or village situated in a narrow vail -y, with high hills on each side — some of these hills having streets, paved for aome distance, running up their sides. I was on my way, in company with a young lady, to the celebrated Sprudel Spring, when I saw at the foot of one of these hills a wagon heavily loaded with sacks of grain, drawn by two fine horsea, who were being urged by their driver up the steep ascent to the ware- house, situated on one side of the street some distance higher. The horses, I could see, were straining every norve ; but the hill was very steep and the load heavy, consequently they were unable to do what was desired of them, which inability was the cause, as is often the case, of a shower of blows. The driver had evidently obtained the assistance of some other men who were furnished with whips, and aa we approachod, they were all engaged in beating the horses. As soon as I saw it 1 hastened for- ward, and knowinfr that the men could not probably understand one word of English, I summoned the somewhat limited knowledge of German which I possessed to my aid, and told them ':o atop at once, or I would make a com- plaint of them. The word complaint appeared to possflHs an almost niaeiu power. They in- i^Untly desisted, but crowded round me, pourima; forth a string of aentoncen with such volubility REPORTH OF HUMANE 8(KIKTIK9 IN THE UNITED STATES. 8ft /I that I oonid not underitand one word, but which from being familiitr with auoh caaei at home, I linew to muMU that h waa all the fault of the horaea ; thm ih, rannot raturally give so much attontion to Scotland and IreUndaa it doea at home, ai d the organizationa which have been formed in thoe ii untriea have not aa yet at- tained to anything like the power and activity of the pan nt society. In Southern Europe the work ia pro^rfssing very slowly. The aocietiea in Spain are stiuugling along ; and in order apparently to riaan their labors a little more aooeptablt-, they take the vegetable kingdom under their OH re, and call themiir'vea aocietiea for the protection of Plants and Atiimals. In Italy they ar< not much better off. The prin- cipal orga< iz'tioiig are at Florence, Turin, Milan, Rnnn)i as they are not incorporated organizations, the 0'>vernment does not treat them as w"rthv cif consideration. The French Society at Pari't haa more money and more in- fluence, but is ncverthelesa greatly hampered by the restrict'oi'S placed upon it by the Oov ernment, and which, to English and American minds, accustomed aa they are to such great freedom, appear intolerably gallLig. For in- stance, they cannot hold a meeting without the consent of the Government. They cannot give a reward or a pr'zx to a policeman without its consent, and thin prty. One would scarcely believe, unless beii onvinced by reading over the list of officers. >- many of the best known, and what we ger ly call the beat people of England, are eitn< ,;aged in or in sympathy witn this work. .<:n of such well-known goodness and bent ' enc« as the late Lord Shaftesbury and hip iher-in-law. Lord Mount Temple; emine' len, such ac Cardinal Manning, Lord Col ; ^u, the Chief Justice of England, the A> i- >op of Tuam, Jacob Bright, M.P., the ' •ted surgeon, Mr. Lawson Tait ; men a w<>men of great intellectual power, such to- ^.obert Brr:iB Power Cobb, a number of the Bishops of the ( hurch of Eng- land, the Chief Rabbi of the J« ws, a consider- able portion of the English do> lity, including the Duke of Newcastle, tht M irquis of Bute, the Marquis of Hertford, tiie >Uii|uia of Wor- cester, the Dowager Marchioneas of Ormonde, the Earl of Darnley, the Eari of Leven and Melville, the Countess of Port rth. Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Cardross, L.or< . igleton, Lady Mount Temple, Lady Edith Ab..k-y, and others whom I will not take the time to mention^all these are aifiliated with the work of the Victoria Street Society. Can any one doubt for a mo- ment that when people Huch as these give their influence, and in many cases their most strenu- ous endeavors, toward helping along the anti- vivisection movement, that, as I said in the beginning, humane ideas and ways of thinking ii FOSTERAfiE — HUMANK SOCIETY IIKOIVNINOS, RKPOKTH OF HUMANK SO. IKTIK8 IN THK UNITKI) HTATKS. •7 are Bpreadiog among the intelligent and oulti- vatPii portion of the community ? Have I not then eiUbll*hed my claim 1 " It ii true that this progreii, which I main- tiiiii ii taking place, ia slow, but we know that all great reformt move ilowly. It ii alio true that there will always be room for further pro- gri'NS, 10 long a* the world latta and human nature continue! what it ii. Until the millen- nium, when ' the lion and the lamb thall lie down toaether,' cruelty to the helplesi and iiDuomplaining, auch a* children and animala, will continue. This must not, however, dia- courage ua. We cannot enter into the un- fathomable designs of ( !od, nor can we alwaya explain why theae thinga are allowed to take place, but we know that it ia for aome good reason. It remains, then, for us not to cavil or complain, but, putting our shoulders to the wheel, strive in good earnest to help on the work which has for its end the lightening of the heavy burdens that are laid upon these poor little ones, and on these dumb friends of our race. Let us not be deterred by any fear of ridicule, or being considered reformatory, un- fashionable, or peculiar. Let us turn a deaf ear to these considerations, and listen only to the ' still, small voice ' which tells us that we should feel for the suffering of others, as if it were our own. So feeling and so striving, shall we, when onr last ho\ir comes, have the blessed consciousness that our lives have not been in vain, and that we leave the world a little better than we found it. " Humane Progress In the United States. In reply to a question, Mrs. White said : — " Four States have latnly passed a law against pigeon shooting. That certainly shows pro- gress. And then all that has been attained by new laws being passed in Massachusetts, is re- markable. There are new societies being established ; there has been one in Oeorgia for a long time. It was gotten up by a woman, the ^ughter of Governor King. She went to the Legislature and did everything herself. Arkansas has a Society also. The humane treatment of children is decidedly on the in- crease among the people in general." In addition to the valuable sketch of what haa been done to advance the humane cause during the last twonty years, the following ia a summary of statutes passed in the New England States, etc. It was prepared and read by Mr. Frank B. Fay, Secretary of the Massachusetts Society. He said :— " I desire, briefly, to note a part of the statutes which some of the Eastern States have, and which all ought to adopt. "1. T/'t neglect law, which authorizes the rescuo of children under fourteen years of age, and committing them to state, city, or town isuthorities during minority. "2. Non-support law, which puniahea by fine and imprisonment a parent who unreasonably neglects to support his children. ".3, (/uardianMp law, which authorises the civil court to transfer children from untit parents to proper ones, and gives children over fourteen years of age the right to nominate their own guardian. ' 4. Aili>)>lion law, which authorizes the adoji by c out their consent if they have failed to aupport tion of children by consent of parents, or adop- with- them for two years, or have been convicted of being common drunkards or wantons. "Other laws: "5, Providing for imprisonment for abandon- ing an infant. "0. Forbidding sale to children of liquors, fire-arms or other weapons, tobacco, dangerous toys and obscene literature. "7. Forbidding ex hibitiou of deformed chil- dren. " N. Forbidding performsnceof children under fifteen years of age (m the -i^: ^% in singing, playing on musical instrt •■-\\~.i. dancing, or acting as an acrol)at, excep'. ^y i" written con- sent of the town or city authL.-:ti .. "0. Forbidding their employment in any (Isngeroua occupation. "10. Providing aevere punishment for abduc- tion of girls for vicious purposes. "II. Children under twelve not to be em- ployed in factories when schools are in session — and not under fourteen, unless they have had twenty weeks' schooling in preceding year, and limita the number of hours in which any minor shall be employed. " 12. Children under twelve not to be sent to prison, and older children not to be placed in same cell with adult criminals. "1.3. Messenger boys not to be sent to dis- orderly houses. "14. Children over eight years not to be re- tained in an alms-house, but must be boarded out by the authorities in some suitable family. "15. Providing for sanitary reKulation and fire escapes in factories where children are em- ployed. "16. Licenses required for baby farms. " 17. Providing for trial of juvenile offenders and cases of neglected children in a separate court apart from adult criminals. "18. Forbidding minors to remain in bar- rooms, billiard -rooms, bowling alleys or theaters without consent of parents. "19. Preventing parents from allowing their children to peddle on the street without a license, or to beg." American Humane Society Reports. New York.— The Parent Society in the United States for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is that of New York, founded by the late distinguished philantrophist, Henry Bergh, who devoted the best years of his life to this most benevolent work. From the 26tii Report of this Society, we learn that it had during 1 891 , 1,071 cases prosecuted in the courts ; 5,7*25 dis- n THK TOHDNTO HUMAN K XOCIKTV. 1^^ kbled honci miipaiided from work : '2,&2f) di»- ablad horiM huniiuiely dettroyiid : 2,'21'i tniall iliaikliled nnimali huiiianuly put to ileatti ; TiT^ cliwtbled hofMi removod from itreeta id uiii- bulaooea ; 6,H01 aompUinta iuveatigatwl. PuMNSVLVAmA. — Inatituted in 1867. The -Mth Report tor INUI atatea that the number of oaaea proaecQted waa JfN) ; oaaea remedieu by advice nnd remonatraoce, 4,200 ; varioualy dbabled horaes and mulex ftuapendrd from labour, ;i,331 : pada ordered where aorea exiated, l,S04 ; oom- plainta againat (NMaenger railway companiea, 712; atook in tranait oompelled to be fed and wntered, tr>0 ; railway overcrowding of cattle prevented, 103 ; coopa of poultry relieveil from overcrowding, 1,464; horacH blanketed by order, n69 : diatension of oowa nddera, prevented, 23r. Jamea Hamilton, an eminent writer and lecturer on the aubjeot of ahoeing and dig- easea of the foot, as foUowa : — "Not five horaea in a hundred, ahod by the ayatem in general uae, have in a few years aound, healthy feet. Con- traction and ita conae(|uencea — coma, quarter cracks, thickening of lateral cartilage, inflamma- tion and ulceration of the navacular bone and coffin joint, with other changeaof structure that make the horae liable to aoreneis or uncurable lameness are the rule, while horses having sound, healthy feet are the exception. The loss to the people of the country from this cause — ignorant, bad shoeing — is enormous, and could, except in aome serious cases, be entirely prevented or cured by good ahoeing and proper treatment. Woman's Branch of thf. Pknx.mylvania Society.— Organized in 1869. Thia branch deala with the eume aubjeota as the parent so- society. The 23rd report for 1891 discusses a variety of matters, chiefly from a local stand- point, such as pigeon shooting, street car horsea, humane education and formation of Bands of Mercy, cattle oars, dishorning, humane killing of cattle, etc. One of the most important features of the work of this Branch is the care and pain- less destruction of vagi ^nt dogs. The number of dogs taken to the " City Dog Pound and Shel- ter " during 1891 was 6,052, of these 4,928 were destroyed ; 190 dogs were humanely destroyed for private parties, total 5,118 ; 60 escaped, re- tunaed or were sold ; 1(M4 redeemad (at 92 itach) ; gout* taken up aad aent to the Ainu- honae, 162. Tho following humane way of doal- iag with fi|Hiuial oaaea ia intoreating. " The Society gav« aid as uaual to many poor peraona who could not raise the full amount of |2, and who urged various pleaa for help : Women who taki) in waahing depend on tlieir dog to guard th« oiothea in the yard ; a family living oinae to II stable from which rata in large iinm- l>era invade them, oould not live thero but for their dog; or the dog ia the children 'a p«t ; or it belongs to a aick child ; a labouring man urges that he has been long out of work and his children raised the dog aad cannot bear to lose it,." WemtbrM {'■nnsvi.vania. -Organiwd in 1875. The 16th Report for 1890 states that 284 cases of cruelty to children, 16 to aged persons, 965 to animals were dealt with during the yrot«oti02 nhildren ; 26'i of them were removed from cr\iel, intemperate, or depraved parents or guardians ani placed in suitable homes or asylums. Erik CoiTNTY, N.Y.— Organissedin 186S. In addition to the ordinary work of such societies, the Krie one devotod much attention tu the oversight of stock yards and railway trannit of cattle and the amelioration of their condition (»ee prefatory note). San Fkanoisco.— Organized in 18(18. The 23rd Report for 1800-01 sUtes that the num ber of caiea reported, 037 ; investigated, 037 : prosecuted, IfiO ; remedied without prosecu- tion, 710 ; in which offenders were not found, 54 ; malicious or trifling 23 ; in which offenders, were convicted, 106; number of disttbled animals killed, 06; animals suspended from work by rea- son of lameness, cores, chafed by harness, sick- ness, old age, etc., 610 ; animals removed by Society's Ambulance, r)5 ; number of animals involved, 12,881 ; relieved, 12,751. Illinois. — This Humane Society was organ- ued in 1869. It has in its 22nd Report a good record of work done in 18{)0-!n, viz: Cases investigated, 2,872 ; children rescued, 1,016 ; persona prosecuted, 130 ; tiDea imposed, $3,036 ; persons reprimanded, 8.')S ; disabled horses suspended from work, 149 ; disabled animals removed by ambulance, 133 : ani- mals humanely killed, 213. The work done at the stock yards was very great and most inter- esting. Of the animals watered by the Mocioly's officer there were 23,108 ; crippled animals attended to, 846 ; calves restored or placed to mothers, 600 ; suffering animals shot, 287 : ani mals fed at the owners' expense, 223 ; complaints investigated, 015 ; ohildrun looked after, 300 ; persons prosecuted, 44 ; fines, WMO ; persons reprimanded, 404. To the credit of the State Legislature it passed an Act imposing a fine of not less than $25 or more than ^I'X), for docking horses tails. A year's imprisonment in the al- ternative for not paying the fine. Mr. John G. ■Shortall, whose presence at the gathering of the American Humann So<3iety in Toronto in I8H9 added so much interest to the occasion, is Presi- dent of the Illinois Society. RiioiiR Ihl AND, -Organized in 1870. This Society has now 101 local agents. The number of oases brought before it in 1801-02, as sUted in the 22nd Report, were 1,SS((; prosecutions, 88 , convictions, 76. The nion work of the So- ciety during the year has bacn the promotion of Hands of Mercy, the getting of sermons preached on behalf of the bumano oanso, and the distri- bvition of htnnanti literature at the fair and elsewhere, magic lantern exhihitioos, etc. Wasiiincjton, D. C— Organijied in 1870. Two agents are kept traversing the district to warn, arrest and have punished those who inflict cruelty upon the helpless. 314 oases of cruelty to children, and 2,316ca«es of cruelty to animals have been investigated and acted upon, during the year 1801. The Society ereoU fountains and gives medals in rooognition of conspicuous humanity, and by lectures, literature, prizes, etc., cultivates a humaa% sentiment among tho children. Clkvelani).— Organised In 1873. This So- ciety, In its 19th report, states that 1,312 visits were made in 1801-92 by agents in children's cases ; children abandoned by father, 271 ; by mother, 1 8 ; neglected by father, 876 ; by mother, 106 ; with Intemperate fathers. 816 ; with in- t«mperate mothers, 81 ; children beaten and abused, 247 ; complaints received, 718. In re- gard to animals, there were 6,026 horses looked after ; poultry coops cruelly overpaokod, 203 ; suffering for water, 230 ; various other oases of animals, 540. Ohio.— Organized in 1873. No late report received. RoouBSTKR.— Organized In 1873. One of the moat important features of the work of this Humane Society has been the rescue, or care, of children. In the 348 Investigations held, as stated in the 18th Report for 1801, there were 635 children concerned. The number of ciwies of cruel abuse, neglect and destitution, was 364 ; ambulance calls, 340 ; 51 arrosts and 41 convictions. In the case of animals, there were 477 complaints; 605 investigations and 94 animals humanely destroyed. Wi8tM)NsiN, —Organized in 1879. No late re- port received. Connecticut Hu.iank Societv.— Organized in 1880. The 11th Report for ISOl states that the w THK TOHONTO HCMANK sociKTV, iiiimlMr of OMM raporteil to the Souisty wm • I.VJil, Ml follow! : anlmali, n,.'l.'t'.' : warnlngii, I . MM : man " ralteveil," It) ; women, UK ; i^hll rgan(/edin IMNS. The4th Uepott for IHIH tfi aiaioM that the oawa of 1 17 iihildren worn uonald«r«d ; of horaea, 704: of uattle, I '20; poultry, dug! and ilairlea, 44, etc. MiNNKAi'oi.is. ()rganl/,nd in IMDI. Tho tirat Report (IMi'j) atntea that 51)0 oaaea were Inveatt gated ; 4'J (ihildren " reacued from cruel and Inhuman trcatiiiunt ; " 44 othera" oared for;" horaea uarud for, HOT (Invlivllog V'2 ahot) ; cowa cared for, HM ; fowla taken from crowded ao«pa, tU.'l. Inatrumenta of torture taken from cruel drivera, H't, etc. ox GOOD TERMS. HANDS OK MKIlt'Y KK.ADINUS. I>7uhliarmi »f uAttle, 120; It I. Thnrtr»t ■ were invaati nm cruel •nn "o«red (or; " ■hot) ; oowt roMrdad omipa, nri from cruti Band$ of ^erey I{e&dlnj5. [At the iiiKKOition of perione in our Society intereeted In Uand of Mercy work, «nd in order to inalce thie Report pr«ctiuklly more ueeful auil onmplet*, the following licadiiiga for lUnd of Meiuy MaetlnKe »re iiiierted. | Standing up for the Old Horia. " Mother, I thiuk,"Mld Jerry I'Veumaa when ha WM at home, one noon, taking hlii lunch, Jerry, let me tay, wai working for Farmer Haven, -" mother, I lort of pity Old liilly." •M)ld Hilly?" " Yea, Farmer Haveu'e plow-hone. I think the hired man, 8im Tonipkini, work* him too hard." " Sorry for that. Iloriea don't like over- working more than men." "Sim layi a linrie it a hone, and n man ii a man. and what one won't Rtand— a man, lay — a hone ought to stand becuuie he I* a hone, I tell him, if a thing hurti, thon we ought not to do ic to a man, a horse, or anything that has life. " " You are right there, .lerry, and I would stand up for the old horse. " Lunch time was over, and .lerry sauntered along the road leading to Farmer Haven's fields, Simes Tompkins was waiting for Jerry, and near Simes were Old Hilly and the plow. "Come!" said Himes, rather sharply. "Wait- ing ! " " There goes the noon-bell now I " said Jerry. " I am right on time." Simes (r^jwled and then grabbed the plow- handles, while Jerry mounted "Old Hilly." Up and down the field went horse and rider, plow and plowman, and they left behind them the long, dark, deep furrows. It seemed as if the field were wiitter. c«er with lines ; and lines Indeed they were, telling of a very honorable labor record, " Old Billy " had b. en a nuble beast in hia day, and at first stepped off as if proudly re- membering his past aohievements. He hung down his head at last, as if saying : " If I have been a very fine horse in my day, I am tired now ; and, oh dear ! this plowing is tiresome. I wish I could rest." Jerry had a look of sympathy, but Simes had a atern, gritty look, as if he meant that Old Billy ahould go on ; and if he didn't, then Simea 'would run that plow into him. "Thert'," laid Simes, wiping his forehnad, wlien they made » halt at a bend in the long funows, " I ha\o to work hard, and I don't s«« why Old Hilly khouldn't." " You don't want to overwork?" asked .lerry, "You tliiak Old Hilly is overworking? I ■poke to Farmer Haven about that. He said ha would leave it to us, and if —if wa didn't plow, wo uoulJ do some work Itehind the barn, A-cloarin' up. I told him Old Hilly was good for more work. Well, he said he would leave it to us to say," " To us ? " said .lurry, catching up the words. "Then I vote for doing the work behind the barn, and for giving old Hilly a rest," Having thus voted, the enterprising voter jumpod down from the horse, "Oh -oh! he said— he said," replied th« stammering Himes, seeing that he had been tripped by his own words,—" he bald " - "He said 'us.' That is what yon told ma. Come, Simes, let's give Old Billy a rest I Yon wouldn't like to be overworked." Simes sputtered but Old Billy's champion was resolute, and the none was taken to the stable for a lunch and a nap. — Rev. Edward A. Rand. Dying in Harness. Only a fallen hone, itretohed out there on the road, Stretched in the broken shafta and cruahed by the heavy load ; Only a fallen horse and a circle of wondering eyes | beast to rise. Watching the frighted teamster goading the Hold ! for bis toil ia over : no more labor for him: See the poor neck ontstretohed and the patient eyes grow dim : See on the friendly stones how peacefully rests his head, Thinking, if dumb beasts think, how good it is to be dead ; After the burdened journey, how restful it is to lie I waiting only to die ! With the broken shafts and the cruel load, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // %// 1.0 1.1 lu fJSi 12.2 Sf life "^ £ Ufi |2.0 M ll^ 1^ 1^ < 6" .. '/ Photographic Sdmces Corparation i ^ <^' <^ ^.\ ^^t^/^ ^.V^ ;\ 23 VtffST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. !4SM (716)t72-4S03 '^ B9 THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY . Watohen, he died in liarneM, died in tlie ihkfta •nd ttnpe ; Fell, and the great load killed him : one of the day'e miahape, One of the pawing wond«n marking the city road, A toiler dying in hameae, heedleeaof call or goad. Paeaen, or<>wding the pathway, ataying yonr ■ter^ awhile, Wai it «he aymbol ? Only death ; why ihould we oeaae to smile At dcfttb koT a l.o««t of burden ? On through the busy street That ia ever and ever echoing the tread of the harrying feet ! What waa the aign T A aymbol to tonch the tireleai will. Doea He who taught in parables apeak in par- able* still? The seed on the rook is wasted, on the heedless hearts of men, That gather and sow and grasp and lose, labor and sleep, and then : Then for the prize ! A crowd in the street of ever echoing tread. The toiler, crushed by the heavy load, b there in hia harness dead I —John Boyle O'Reilly. " Dear Old Bess." The storekeeper of a little oouniry town in Connecticut, writeH a correspondent, drove a nondescript colored mare whose peculiarities of gait and figure were a source of constant merri- ment to the village people. " Old Bess " cared nothing for their talk, however, thongh her master often declared that " she kn^w what f olka said about her " aa weU aa he did. " But then," he used to add, " ahe haa too much horae sense to mind that sort of thing ! " Opposite the store, aorow the road, was a ateep ascent leading up into a farm-yard, where was a shed nnder which Bess was in the habit of atanding when not actively employed. Up to this shelter the was in the habit of going alone when the waggon had been unloaded at the store door, and Mr. P , her owner, had accustomed her to come down again at his call ; or rather, aa he said, " She took up the notion herself ; I didn't teach her to do it." The whole manoeuvre waa somewhat compli- cated. She had to back the wagon out of the shed, turn it partly round, pick her way care- fully down the raUier steep decline, cross the road, and then come up and turn again to bring the wagon into proper position before the door. It was a constant pleasure for us boys to witness the performance, and we often lingered for that purpose when we heard the well-known call,. " Come, Old Bess, it's time to go to work I " One day the call was again and again repeated and still she did not come. We oonld just see a part of the rim of the hind wheels, and at each call we saw them push out an inch or two, and then draw up again, as if Old Beaa had started and then changed her mind. At last, after loud and impatient calls, Mr. P went over to see what was the trouble. We followed, and there, standing directly in front of the wheel with her hand on the shaft, stood little May, Mr. P 's three-year-old daughter. Poor Bess, divided between duty to her maater and her concern for her master's daughter, was irresolutely drawing the waggon fcward and back, as far as she oonld without lifting her feet, evidently conscious that any further movement might involve danger to the little one. " Dear Old Bess I " said May, and " Dear Old Bess I " echoed Mr. P , with tears in his voice, while Bess, with a whinny of relief, no sooner saw him take the child in his arms — she was looking back at the child when we came up — tit.ut she proceeded to back out and go down to the store, just as if nothing had liap- pened. There the small boys patted her fondly, while the larger ones, some of them with strange lumps in their throats, after a timid glance at the teara stUl to be seen in the father's eyes, silently turned away to tell at home the story of Old Bess's "knowingneas."— KoutA'« Com- panion. Dialogue of the Horses. FIRST H0B8E. We are the pets of men — The pampered pets of men. There is naught for us too gentle and good. In the graceful days of our babyhood ; - We frisk and caper in childish glee— Oh, none so pretty and proud as we ! They cheer and cherish us in our play — Oh, none so smilingly sweet as they ! And when a little our lives have grown. Each has a table and room of his own, A waiter to fill his bill of fare, A barber to dean and comb hia hair. Yes, we are the pets of men — The pampered pets of men. BAND OF MERCY READINGS. •gain to bring if ore the door, oyi to witnen gered for that 1- known call» to work I " tgain repeated sonld jnat see 'heel*, and at Inoh or two^ ■Old BeM had ent calls, Mr. the trouble. >g directly in on the shaft, three-year-old ^tohermaater laughter, was forward and fting her feet, >er movement one. ad " Dear Old tears in his of relief, no his arms — she 'hen we came li out and go ling had hap- fondly, while with strange Did glance at Father's eyes, ■ne the story Ymth's Ctm- BS. and good, lood ; Be— ire! play— ey ! [Town, Dwn, At. I — They show us, gaily dressed i ad proud, To tbe eager of the clamorous crowd ; They champion us in the rattling race. They praise our beauty and cheer our pace ; Thoy keep for us our family trees — They trumpet our names beyond the seas ; They hang our portraits on the walls, \nd paint and garnish and gild our stalls. Yes, we are the pets of men — The pampered pets of men. 8I00ND HOBSE. We are the slaves of men — The menial slaves of men. They lash us over Che dusty roads. They bend us down with murderous loads ; They fling vile insnlt* on our track. And know that we cannot answer baca. ; In winds of winter, or summer sur , The tread of our toil is never done ' And when we are weak, and old and lame. And labor-stififened, and bowed with shame. And hard of hearing, and blind of eye. They drive us out in the world to die. Yes, we ar' the slaves of men — The slaves of selfish men. They draught us into their bloody spites, They spur us, bleeding, into their fights ; They poison our souls with their senseless ire; And curie us into a storm of fire. And when to death we are bowed and bent. And take the ball that for them was meant. Alone they leave us to groan and bleed. And dash their spurs into another steed. Yes, we are the slaves of men — The slaves of brutish men. — Will Carleton. The iVIute Heroism of Animals in Pain. One of the pathetic things connected with this kaleidoscopic nonsense people call life is the manner in which the animal kingdom en- dures suffering. Take horses, for instance, in battle, and after the first shock of a wound they make no sound. They bear the pain with a mute, wondering endurance, and if at night you hear a wild groan from the battle-field it comes frocp their loneliness, their loss of that human companionship which seems absolutely indispensable to the comfort of domesticated animals. The dog will carry a broken leg for days wist- fully but uncomplainingly. The cat, stricken with club or stone or caught in some trap from which it gnaws its ways to fr «doui, crawls to some secret place and bears in silence pain which we could not endure. Sheep and other cattle meet the thrust of the butcher's knife without a sound, and even common poultry endure intense agony without complaint The dove, shot unto death, flies to some far off bough, and as it dies the silence is unbroken save by the patter on the leaves of its own life blood. The wounded deer speeds to some thick break and in pitiful submission waits for death. Theeagle, struck in midair, fights to the last against the fatal snnunons. There is no moan or sound of pain and the defiant look never fades from its eyes until the lids oloee over them never to uncover again. Here is an example of this splendid endurance right before us, which proud man in vain tries to emulate. A mule haltered to a post awaiting treatment, one of its hind feet a suppurating sore, the frog festering and running out. Its whole body droops and its eyes are strained and agonising. The veterinary surgeon standing by says that the lightest touch of that foot to the ground causes the most intense pain, and yet there is no sound, nothing but that patient endurance that astooishes and appals. Uncle Jake's Dumb Crittars. I don't know much of languages such as the scholars tell. But the language of dumb critters T understand quite well. And I think, sir— yes, I think, sir, that their voices reach the sky. And that their Maker understands the pleading of their eye ; And I shouldn't be surprised, sir, if in the judg- ment day. Some cruel, heartless human folks should be as dumb as they. My house is not as elegant as many are, I know; But my cattle are all sheltered from the wintry winds and snow ; And they're not kept on rations that leave nothing but the frame. Or in the spring returning to the " dust from whence they came. " Ah ! God hath wisely ordered, sir, that in a money way, Starving, abusing critters are the things thst will not pay. If any of my flock are sick or hurt in any way, I see that they are cared for, sir, by night as well as day. M THK TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. My latter'! on theJr wool, rir— that's all the The way they do my bidding, now, 'li* really brand I know ; a iurprlee ! [their eyea. My Umbt— they are not tailleH, for God didn't They know my very etep, elr, and thank me with make them no. , . u Some aay eheep don't need water, but I tell you My pig pen, over yonder, I d like, .Ir, to have it'e a lie ! ehown ; They're almost frantic for It, elr, the eame aa My hogs-they never are the " breed " that ii you or I. ^^^ ■'''" '''^^ ^""^^ ' a a d K u fa o My horaei — ^you have eeen them, air ; they are I know, air, that to fatten them, they need both jnat what they aeem ; [team. fLod and drink. And, if I do aay it myaelf, they are a aplendld They wear no fooliah blindera, and from hltch- np reina they're free ; And they never had a hurt, air, that haa been canaed by me A shelter and a bed, air, will help it on, I think. I have a yard on purpoae, they can root whene'er they choose — It aeema to me like cruelty, ao ringa I never uae. BANDS OF MERCY READINGS. 98 now, 'ii« really [their eyee. hd thank me with pike, »lr, to have I" breed " that U a o K o b. O ...Jill lieyneed both help it on, I root whene'er 1 1 never nee. 4 » There's one thing more I want to ahow, 'tii Hannah'a hen houie here — Our poultry alwaya pay us well, and juit now eggs are dear — 'Tis warm and clean and bright, you see, with gravel on the ground ; There's feed and water standing here all day the whole year round. But maybe I have tired you, air— forgive an old man's pride ; But somehow I love dumb critters, and I want their wants supplied, A Dog's Great Deed, In the year 187- the steamship Swallow left the Cape of (iood Hope, bound for England — " for home," the passengers, all English, called it. Among them was a lady with a child of two years, and a nurse. The lady had also brought with her a huge, handsome Newfound- land dog. The voyage had lasted about six days. No land was visible, and the island of St. Helena would be the nearest point. The day was a beautiful one, with a soft breeze blowing, and the snn shining down brightly on the sparkling waters. A large and gay company of the pas- sengers were assembled on deck ; merry groups of yonng men and girls had clustered together ; now and then a laugh rang out, or some one sang a gay little snatch of song, when suddenly the mirth of all was silenced by the loud and piercing scream of a woman. A nurse, who had been holding a child in her arms at the side of the vessel, had lost her hold of the leaping, restless little one, and it had fallen overboard into the sea — into the great, wide Atlantic Ocean, The poor woman, in her despair, would have flung herself after her charge had not strong arms held her back. But sooner than it can be written down, something rushed swiftly past her ; there was a leap over the vessel's side, a splash into the waters, and then Nero's black head appeared above the waves, holding the child in his month. The engines were stopped as soon as possible, but by that time the dog was far behind in the wake of the vessel. A boat was quick ly lowered , and the ship's surgeon, taking his place in it, ordered the sailors to pull for their lives. One could joat make out, on the leaping, dancing waves, the dog's black head, holding something scarlet in his month. The child had on a little jacket made of scarlet cloth, and it gleamed like a spark of fire on the dark blue waves. The mother of the child stands on the deck. her eyes straining anxiously after the boat, and the black spot upon the waves still holding firmly to the tiny scarlet point. How long the time seems ! The boat seems fairly to creep, though it sped over the waves as it never sped before. Sometimes a billow higher than its fellow hides for a moment dog and child from the anxious, straining eyes, One can almost hear the watchers' hearts then throb with fear lest the waters may have swallowed them up. But the boat comes nearer and nearer, near enough at last to allow of the surgeon's reaching over and lifting the child out of the dog's mouth, then a sailor's strong arm pulls Nero in the boat, and the men row swiftly back to the ship. "Alive?" is shouted from every lip as the boat comes within hail of the steamer ; and as the answer comes back, " Alive I " a " thank (rod!" breaks from every heart. Then the boat comes up to the ship's side. A hundred hands are stretched out to help the brave dog on board, and " Gnod Nero," " Bravb dog," ." Good fellow," resound on every side. But Nero ignores the praise showered so profusely on him ; he trots sedately up to the child's mother, and with a wag of his dripping tail, looks up into her face with his big, faithful brown eyes. It was as if he saia, "It is all right ; I have brought her lack (juite safe," The mother drops on her knees on the deck, and taking his shaggy head in both hands, kissed his wet face again and again, the tears pouring down her face in streams. There is indeed not a dry eye on board. One old sailor stands near with t/ie tears miming down his weather-beaten brcra face, all the while uncon- scious that he is w«eping. Well, as one can imagine, Nero was for the rest of the voyage the pet and hero of the whole ship. He bore his honors with quiet, modest dignity. It wits unrions, however, to see how from that time on he made himself the sentinel and body guard of the baby he had saved. He always placed himself at the side of the chair of any person in whose arms she was, his eyes watching every movement she made. Some- times she would be laid on the deck with Nero only to watch her, and if inclined to creep out of bounds Nero's teeth, fastened firmly in the skirt of her frock, promptly drew her back. It was as thongh he thought, " I have been lucky enough. Miss Baby, to save you once from a watery grave, but as I may not be so lucky again, I shall take care yon don't mn any un- necessary risks in future, " When the steamer reached her destination. «6 THK TORONTO HUMANK SOCIETY, II -,^ Nero reoalved a'regnUr ovation m he was leav- ing the veMel. Some one oriod, " Three oheen for Nero 1 *' and they were given with a wilL And "Oood-bye, Nero, good-bye, good dog," reaonnded from every side. Every one crowded aroond to give him a pat on the head ae he trotted down the gang-planic To all these demonatrationa he oould, of oourie, only reply with a wag of hit plumy tail and twinkle of his faithful brown eyes. He kept oloie to the nuree'a tide, and watched anxiously hia little oharge'a arival on dry land. Hfs grave ie t krked by a fair whit* *tone, on which is engraved : ■* Bmond to Um mtmory of Nsra, KaithtulMl of dogs." His portrait hangs over the chimney-piece of an English drawing-room, beneath which ills, in a low arm-chair, a fair-haired girl, who often looks up at Nero's portrait as she tellf the tale of how he gpraiig into the waters of the Atlantio Ocean after her, and held h?r up nntil help came. 1 4 - ,Jf .-:^^ \ •• 'i; '^•. \ / 4;i:;;:,|- % ' ■fe^a ^^^Bil''!' '"''ft"'' ■ "i ^, ' ^ -^ ^^^^^j ^7*»ii«(i V ■ V _ . i ^■g^iiiilfiM',!: i ■ ^m 1 M ii^y THE COMPANIONS He was taken to the home of hia little mistreaa, where he lived loved and honored, until he died of old age, with hia shaggy, gray head resting on the knee of the ohild (a woman now) that he had saved. His grave is in an English church yard, in consecrated ground. He lies in the burial plot of the family to which he I>elonged. Only a Dog. Finding Franoesoa full of tears, I said, "Tell methy trouble."— "Oh, mydogis deadi' "Child,"— I began to say, but checked my thought, — " A better dog can easily be bought." BAND OF MERCY READINOS. vr It white atom, on r of Nero, ohimney-pieoe of inekth whioh dto, •d Rlrl, who often I she tellr tha tele en of the Atkntla rr op nnUl help ogs. 'ho, in spite of aaUry, iathua •,n. I, and belongs bUranderail- >r the last two •ter run loco- ihip began at 1 now go into aight engines >unt his own is master and itruders. He kb, with both his front paws ' nd his head hanging out o> tha window, intently watching tha track. " He often scanta cattle at a long distance. When they appear iu sight he becomes greatly excited and looks first at them and then at his master, as though trying to make the latter understand the gravity of the situation, " Un a nearer approach to them he givea a cry similar to that of a human being. H it is necessary to come to a stop he bounds out of the cab, runs ahead, and drives the trespassers out of lurm'sway. " When it 'i deairable to oommnnicate with the pumping stations, frequently ftt a long dis- tance, a note is written and given to the dog, who delivers it, and speedily retumswith areply. * * ' He readily interprets signals to start from his own engine, but pays no more attention to the whistles and lialla of other locomotives than to the cattle which are safely grazing by the road- side. If aocidently left at any of the stations he returns to Salida by the next train." There died recently at Lowestoft, England, one who is spoken of by the local press as " a very popular member of the staff of the out his recognition as train- starter at the Lowestoft Station, 'through long residence at the station he had acquired an instinct whioh told him the «xact time at which each train shonld start from the terminus on its journey. As the moment drew near, the collie became restless and ex- cited. As tha b^l uttered Its first warning sound, he wcjld scamper down the platform, and, planting himself close to the engine, bark furiously until he saw the wheels begin to move. Having accomplished the starting of the train, as he supposed, ha would rush to the guard's or conductor's van, and hurry the conductor to his post. As the train passed out of the station he retired, and was seen no mora until tha time was near for another train to start. Neddy. There was once a small dog called Neddy, Who slept in the street 'neath a stall. His food was whatever he picked up And often he had none at all ; But he never was sad or unhappy. And he had the most comical way Of looking on pet dogs with pity When led by a string round to play. Rough Neddy, though homalaas, was happy. As happy as small dog could be. For though often he wanted a dinner He bad all the delighU of the free. Two friends Naddy had ha loved dearly- One a sweet little girl in his street, The other a great big policeman That he oft followed round on his beat. Why he liked tha pcliceman I know not, Perhapa ha felt safe 'neath his club. Hut the d ar little girl often fad him And to her ha gave all his love. He would watch near the house till he saw her. When she came not his heart gave deep moans. And there he would stay, though the bad boys Would l>eat him and throw at him stones. When she came out, then Neddy was happy ; At her side he would be without fail. Looking up in her face, running round her. Barking and wagging his tail. One day as the ohild played quite near him, Much quicker than I can it tell, 'Neath the feet of a horse rushing by her, Bleeding and wounded she feU. Men carried her home, while poor Neddy Was kicked when he tried to go in ; But he would not go off, tho' they beat him. For he knew she lay suffering within. Every night the policeman there found him Lying whining aoroaa her front door, And tho' this man tried to console him, Neddy's cries were as loud as before. One night ha stole in thro' the basement, Slipped in past the maid's blow and broom. Then he ran thro' the house till he found her And noiselessly entered her room ; Neddy jumped on a chair to look over To see her dear face in the bed ; He looked — gave a bowl full of anguish, FeU back— dog and child were Iwth dead. —Irene Aekemmn. A Canine Hero. A Johnstown special to the Pittsburg DitpaUh says: — A large crowd of people attracted my atten- tion about six o'clock this morning on Main Street. On goin([ closer I noticed tliat a num- l)er of men and women ware surrounding a dog and each and everyone of the crowd were anxious to lavish attentions and endearing terms, whioh were mora appropriate to be l>estowed upon a favorite child, than upon an animal. 100 THR Tt»K(»NT() HUMANK HOCIKTN "Coma hare, Komeo, my nohl dog," laid on* woman, " giva ma a kiaa, thara la a dear !" "Ah, Romeo!" lald another, "it waa a pity •lohnatown had not mora «uoh noble creaturea aa you are, and there would not b« ao many people dead here now I" The dog, a beautiful water ipanlel, wlioae fur waa clipped ao aa to give him the appearanve of a minature Hon, atood aa (|uiet and dignified among the people aa if he underitood each word addreaaed to him, taking the evidoncea of appro- oiatlon aamatteraof oourae, which he had every right to expect. >Soon I underatood what it all meant. Romeo belonged to Mn. ('. F. Krcai, of Wuahington Htreet, Johnatown. Laat Friday, the day the day llood-gatea of the South Fork reiorvoir broke looae, that lady went to the houae of her aiater, Mra. A. C. Kreaa, on Main Street, taking the dog with her. HWKPT Ol'l'', VKT 8AVKD. While there the awfully diiaatroua water* came aweeping down upon them from Cone- maugh borough, ao that all the people in the houae were compelled to get on to the roof. There were leven in the party and Romeo made a good eighth. But aoon the terrible wavei and floating lUbrii raited horrible havoc with the building. Suddenly a big wave daahed upon the roof. Mra, C. F. Kreaa waa knocked off her place of refuge, and rapidly lloated along with the wild atream. No one attempted to jump after her or make any effort for her reacue, beca-^te the aurging flood had already dragged her beyo.-aok haa tlown; ■tut he oalla for the aix In the aame aweet tone. Coo, coo, 000. Baby's Life Saved by a PIgaon. An incident occurred recently in the family of (). F. Marah, the dealer in ilapaneae ourioai- tiea at tt'iS Markham .Street, Han Kranciaco, and a member of the Pacific Coaat Pigeon Hcjiety, which proved to him In the moat irtpraaaive manner the valuable aarvioea which may acme- timea be rendered by the carrier pigeon, and probably explaina iome of hia enthuaiaam in that direction. Hia little baby boy waa taken ■ick with moat alarming aymptoma of diph- theria. The mother, watching by the bedaide of the little one, deapatched a meaaage tied on a carrier pigon to her huaband at hia atore on Market Street In the meaaage ahe wrote the nature of the child'a alarming iUneaa, and made an urgent appeal for medicine to aave ita life. The bird waa atarted from the home of the family, near the Cliff Houae, five milea from Mr. Marah 'a Market Street atore. The bird flew awiftly to the atore, where Mr. Marah received it. He read the meaaage, called a doctor, explained the child'a aymptoma aa hia wife had detailed them in her meaaage, and re- ceived the proper medicine. Then tying the little vial containing the medicine to the tail of the pigeon, he let it go. The pigeon aped away through the air, straight for the cliff. It made the diatanoe, five milea, in ten minutea, a diatanoe which would have required the doctor three-quartera of an hour to come. In twenty minutea from the time the mother'a meaaage waa aent to her huaband the baby waa taking the medicine. Naturally enough, Mr. Marah ia partial to pigaona, for he conaidera that he owes hia baby's life to one. Birds as Surgeons. Some intereating obaervationa relating to the Burgical treatment of wounds by birds were re- cently brought by M. Patio before the Physical Society of Geneva. He quotes the case of the snipe, which he has often observed engaged in repairing damagea. With its beak and feathers it makes a very creditable dressing, applying plaster to bleeding wounds, and even securing a broken limb by means of a stout ligature. On one oocaalon he killed a anipe which had on the breaat a Urge dressing composed of down taken from other parte of the body and aecurely fitted to the wound by the coagulated blood. Twice he had brought home anipe with inter- woven feathera atrapped on to the aite of the fracture of one or other limb. The moat inter- esting example waa that of a anipe, lioth of whoee lege he hud unfortunately broken by a mia- directed ahot. He recovered the animal only on the day following, and he found that the poor bird had contrived t< apply dreaaing and a aort of aplint to both llmba. In carrying out this operation aome feathera had become entangled around the beak, and not being able to nae ita dawa to get rid of them, it was almoat dead from hunger when diacovored. In a oaae re- lorded by M. Magnin, a anipe which waa ob- served to fly away with a broken leg waa aub- ae (uently found to have forced the fragments into a parallel poaition, the upper fragment reaching to the knee, and aecured them by means of a atrong band of feathers and moss in- termingled. The observers were particularly struck by the application of a ligature of a kind of flat leafed graas wound round the limb, :l a spiral form and fixed by means of a sort of glue. A Legend of the Robin. One brown bird with red-tinged breast settles softly to its nest, Built where, swaying to and fro, twigi of apple blossoms blow. Nature's sweetest rhymes are made in a gnarled old orchard's shade, As white petals fluttering fall, rhyming with the robin's oalL When the Christ, old legends say, bore the woe of that last day. Though forespent with anguish great, none His dying thirst would sate. Then the silent air was stirred by the flight of a brown-winged bird. As in olive gardens high, it had caught His broken cry ; And from stilly Bethel pool, one sweet drop of water cool. In its beak the bird had caught, and with pity- ing love had brought. L wn it settled, aoftly down, past the bitter, thorny or awn ; And to ease the fevered drought, laid the cool drop on His mouth. m THK TOHONTi) HUMANK SOCIKTY. .1 On ito flight tht brown Urd'i br«Mt 'gaioft t!i« wouadad haadi wm preit, Kvtr lino* the r«d drop's lUin o'«r lu Undar heart haa lain. Whan tha applabloaaoma ttir, awKt wa haartha brown winga whirr, And tha bird with red tlogad braait bulida In all our haarta Ita naat. Humour In Birds. No ona who haa atudiad tha .vayiof birdaoan doubt that many of them have a atroDK aenae of humour. 'I'hay plajr jokaa on aaoh other, per- hapa avan on ua, and they " lee the point " In »B aatoniahing way. The oat- bird la a notable example of the feathered Joker, and the mock- ing bird la little, if any, behind him In thia regard. A droll exhibition of his love of fun waa once given by a mocking bird confined in a cage that waa aeparatad only by a network partition from a large family of canarlee. When flrat placed there ha aaemed to bo struck dumb by hia ▼oluble neighbours, while the truth was he was simply bidding his time. Several daya he re- mained allent, taking notee, maatoring their song, and suddenly, without, sofaraalaknowo, any preUnlnary rehearaal, burst out into the canary song In a loud, ringing tone that atrnck every little yellow throat apeechlesa for a time. After this it waa hia favourite amusement to keep quiet until half of the 2(10 canaries were singing at the top of their voices, and then, without warning, break into the mel^e of muslu with their own trills and quavers, so loudly de- livered aa completely to eclipse them and com- pel Inatant silence. Then he hopped gracefully back and forth on hia perch, flirting his tail and jerking hia wings to show his relish of the con- sternation he had oanaed. A onrions exhibition was given by a free mocking bird towarda a playful kitten on the graas. The bird took his place on a tree almost directly over pussy, leaning far over, jerking hia tall and uttering a peculiar sound like the «' fttff " of an excited cat. This is, in fact, the bird's war cry, and for the little fellow ..o de- clare war upon the hereditary enemy of 'liaraoe, even in infancy, waa very droll, and h, ' mnner showed plainly that he intended it as a joke. On one oocaaion In the South, when some- thing had attracted to a certain spot beyond the fence a crowd of the enormous turkey- buuarda native to that part of the country, a mocking bird chanced to notice the unusual gathering, tils singing oeaaed, he flew across the yard anti perched on the fence close to whkre they were busily engaged In the road, A few momante he stootl motionleae, looking at them t then suddenly, with a loud war ory, dropped down among them. Consternation fell among the epeotatora. Would he be killed ? I'hey started to go to his aasiatanoe, when ihey were amaised to see the buzxards Iniitantly rise In a panic— twenty of them. The mockinglilrd knew them batter than we did, and undoubte lly intended a joke, (or the next moment he hopped gaily upon tha fence tnd resumed his song, wriggling his little body und HIrting hli winge in a suggestive wuy. Birds ar«d Boys. Down in the meadows the little brown thrushee Build them a neat in the barberry Imshes, And when it In linished all coay and neat. Five spevkied eggs make their pleaauro com- plete. •rown thruahaa y huahea, iO'l neat, pleaaura oom- p to each other, Mther : la weaee, ' we'll be ! " • growing, at her aewing, hoHbledehoyit, (I keauch a he dear little 1 of a bother ; climb on my laafor met" w to a ouriona reen two ani- wt aa human >ke about it— »ly planned, "end.- nd of mine ; waa a terrier. , there being -who ahould grate. But f day— aome One day I S on the rug It it waa hia HANUN or MKRCY KRADINdM. Il>t tarn, Ho whined, wheedled, barked, tried to crowd himaelf a place, but in vain. Huddenly lie ran to the window, jumped on a imall atool and began to bark furioaaly, looking out on Imaginary aighta, with every appearance of ax- After Innohaon Ferala again waa found in poaeeaaion. Thia time Hkya took tha rug in hS mouth, ahook her oiT, apraad it out before the dre and lay down fur an aftumoon uap. I'artia gave him one look of contempt, turned her back FIVK 81-t.CKLBD KIIOS MAKE TIIKIB I-LBAHIKIC COMFLETU.' citement, one eye, however, on Peraia. When Peraia'a cnrioaity got the better of her ahe rnahed to the window, while Skye apmng down and took poaaeaaion of the rug. My friend aaid thia ruae of Skye'a never failed. on him and walked off and aat down, evidently to think. Preaently ahe went to the comer where waa a mutual diah of bonaa and began a ceremony of eating, though the l>onei. were per- fectly bare, in a way v.Mch plainly ihowed ahe IM THK TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. fi hftd foand an nnainkUy relUhable tidbit, imack- ing her lip* with gr«»t guito frequently. Skye Memed to raipeot % rnae Md for some time re- mained immovable, watching her from one corner of a half-cloted eye. At la«t he conld endure it no longer. He ruihed to the plate and Persia had the rug for the afternoon.— JV«na Thcmaa Medairy. The Horrors of Sport. ( The following, from a noted " Sport," is a, fit- ting seijuel to the article on " Cnielty in Sport," etc., page SO). Lady Florence Dixie earned for herself aa oorreapondentof a eyndioate of newapapere — for filthy lucre, be it noted— the reputation of being the foremoat iportewoman of the age. She la now, after many yeara, ashamed of her conduct and tbus uses the fVestmina^er Jieview to indulge in a seventh-day lachrymose exhibition of penitence : " 'Sport' is horrible. I say it ad- visably. I speak wttrh the experience of one who has seen and taken part in sport of many and varied kinds in many and varied parts of world. I can handle gun and rifle as well and efficiently as most ' sporting folk,' acd few women and not many men have indulated in a tithe of the shootinit and hunting in which I have been engaged both at home and dnring travels and expeditions in far-away lands. It is not, therefore, as a novice that I take up my pen to record why I, whom some have called a 'female Nimrod,' have come to regard with absolute loathing and detestation any sort, or kind, or form of sport which in any way is pro- dnoed by the suffering of animals. Many a keen sportsman, searching his heart, will ac- knowledge that at times a feeling of self reproach has shot through him as he haa stood by the dying victim of his skilL I know that it has confronted me many a time. I Lave bent over my fallen game, the result of, alas 1 too good a shot. I have seen the beautiful eye of a deer and its di7erent kind glaze and grow dim as the bright life my shot had arrested in its happy course sped onward into the unknown ; I have ended with the sharp yet merciful knife the dying sufferings of poor beasts who have never harmed me, yet whom I laid low under the veil of sport ; I have seen the terror-stricken orb of the red deer, dark, full of tears, glaring at me with mute reproach as it sobbed its life away, and the same look I have seen in the eyes of the glorious orbed gnanaoo of Patagonia, the timid, gentle gaielle, the graceful and beautiful koodoo, springbok, etc., of South Africa, seem- ingly, as it were, reproaching me *or thus lightly taking the life I could never bring back. So, too, I have witnessed the angry, defiant glare of the wild beast's fading sight, as death, fasv coming, deprived him of the power to wreak his vengeance on the human aggressor before him. And I say this: The memory of thoee scenes brings no pleasure to my mind. On the contrary, it haunts me with a huge reproach, and I fain I never had done t&ose deeds of skill —and cruelty. So many pathetic stories are told of the misery caused by hunters in the animal world that one can scarcely tolerate the idea of shoot- ing merely for " sport." When the term means merely wanton cruelty, then it is time to seek more peaceful if less exciting occupations. A story is told of a polar bear, which, with two large cubs, was sighted by the crew of an ex- ploring frigate. When the animals were within reach of the vessel, the ci^Uors threw them g'.-eat lumps of sea-horse flesh, and these the old beer divided among her cibs, reserving only a small portion for herself. Then, when the three animals were happily feeding, the sailors fired. They wounded the dam and killed the cubs. It would have drawn tears of pity from any but the unfeeling to have marked the affection- ate concern expressed by this poor beast in the last moments of her expiring young. Though she was dreadfully wounded, she tore another lump of flesh to pieces, and laid it before them. When she found that they would not eat, she laid her paws first on one and then the other, and tried to raise them up ; all this time it was pitiful to hear her moan. When she was con- vinced that the/ would not stir, she walked away, looking back and still moaning; and when that did not entice them to rise, she re- turned and began to lick their wounds. She went off a second time as before, and having crawled a few paces looked again behind her. The cubs did not rise, and she retumod, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round pawing them and moaning. Finding at last that they were cold and lifeless, she raised her head toward the ship and uttered a growl of despair, which the murderers returned with a volley of balls. Then she fell between her cubs and died, licking their wouncls. Story of a Brave Deed. What one likes in Archibald Forbes' '< Bar- racks, Bivouacs, and Battles," is the air of free- e^orthua lightly bring back. So, I defluit glare kt, M death, /mv power to wreak •ggrewor before memory of thoie ly mind. On the ft huge reproach, OM deed* of ■kill ftre told of the lie animal world ihe idea of ehoot- n the term meane ie time to aeek ooonpationi. A •rhioh, with two 9 orew of an ez- mala were within on threw them >• and theee the C4b», reserving If. Then, when lily feeding, the le dam and killed >t pity from any ed the affeotion- oor beast in the foung. Though ibe tore another 1 it before them. >ald not eat, she then the other, thb time it was >en she was oon- tir, she walked moaning; and to rise, she re- bounds. as before, and Ml again behind I she retumod, fondness went >g- Finding at less, she raised ittered a growl returned with ' between her led. Forbes' " Bar- bs air of free- BANDS OF MERCY READINGS. 105 dom, the robustness, the jauntiness of these episodes in the pageant of war. Men do their brave deeds without parade and without false humility, but with just a touch of assumed carelesansM. Of course no man risks his life without oaring, unless hu is utterly tired of it — and in that case there is no special merit in running after death. But really to enjoy life to the utmost, and put it all in peril for a senti- ment or through ambition to wear a bauble of a cross, which means honor — that takes nerve ; and to do it with a t mile, as though it ware one of the polite conventions of life, which are ex- pected of every gentleman, requires more than that physical imperturbableness which we call " nerve "—it demands a steadfast spirit So in these sketches, when we read of Lord William Beresford riding into the very face of death to snatch a wounded sergeant from the on-coming Zulus, we feel admiration for his humanity. And when we read that the wounded man re- fused to go with him because it would endanger two lives instead of bringing inevitable death to one — we say he also is a brave man. But when it is added that Lord William " swore with clenched fist that he would punch the wounded man's head if he did not allow his life to be saved " — the touch of humor brings the whole scene within the range of our sympathies. It is not a play any longer with actors of another race, but a bit of ordinary every -day life made ideal. Then we say : " Here is a hero." Then a third man appears, Irish Sergt. O'Toole, and he shoots down the pursuing Zulus, who are at the very heels of thu overburdened horse, and the three comrades together at last reach safety. By and by the British troops sail home, but the news of the brave deed has long preceded them. Lord William is summoned to Windsor to re- ceive the Victoria cross. Surely he had earned it doubly ; but there is room for even more " stufiF " in such a hero. He will have no honor that he can not share with O'Toole ; and the queen knows valor when she sees it, and gives two Victoria crosses. Then we say : " Here is a hero who is not only humane and brave, but generous and modest, and withal he has a sense of humor. Why, he is not what the looks call a hero — he is a man, every inch of him, and I would like to take his hand and tell him so." A Hotpital Story. White faces, painet^ and thin, Gathered new pain— as at oome sight of slaugh- ter— And waiting nurses, with their cups of water. .Shrank, when they saw the bargeman's little daughter. From Heater Street brought in. Caught by the cruel fire. In act of filial duty, she had tasted Death even then. The form that flame had wasted. In vain, to save, the swiftest helpers hasted. With love that would not tire. And all that skill could do Was done. Her fevered nerves with anguish leaping. The surgeon soothed at last ; and, left in keeping Of tender eyes that night, the child lay sleeping, Until the clock struck two. The streets' loud roar had died. No angry shout was heard nor drunken ditty ; From Harlem to the bay, peace held the city And the great hospital, where holy pity With Grief knelt, side by side. The watchful nurse leaned low. And saw in the scarred face the life-light waver. Poor Annie woke ! A cooling draught she gave her. And called the doctor ; but he could not save her. And soon he turned to go. Calm, as from torture free. She lay ; then strangely, through her lips, sore wounded, Broke warbled words, and the tones swelled, and rounded To a clear hymn, that like an angel's sounded — " Nearer, my God, to Theo." One stanza, strong and sweet, Of thst melodious prayer to heaven went wing- ingi From the child's soul, and all who heard that singing. Gazed tLrough quick tears, or bowed, like sup- pliants clinging Around the Mercy Seat. Then to a slender hum Sank the soft song, too feeble to recover ; But the sick heard, and felt it o'er them hover Like a saint's blessing- till the scene was over, And the young voice was dumb. " Nearer, my God, to Thee !" God heard. He loosed from earth, in His good pleasure. That little life, and took it for His treasure ; And all His love— a love no mind can measure- Answered poor Annie's plea. — VmUh'f Comfanion, 106 THK TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. I i I "I Couldn't Fire."— A Remarkable Incident. " Cover my dattOMlcsi hod With the iihtdow o( Thy wio(." A party of northern tonriata formed part of a large company on the deck of an exoursion ■teamer that waa moving alowly down the hia- toric Potamao, one beautiful evening in the summer of 1881. A gentleman who haa since gained a national reputation aa an evangelist of aong had been delighting the party with his happy rendering of many familiar hymns, the last being the sweet petition so dear to every Christian heart, " Jesus, lover of my soul." The singer gave the first two verses with maoh feeling, and peculiar emphasis upon the concluding lines that thrilled every heart A huah had fallen on the listeners that was not broken for several seconda after the musical notes had died away. Then a gentleman made hia way from the outskirts of the crowd to the side of the singer, and accoated him with, " Beg your pardon, stranger, but were yon actively engaged in the late war ? " " Yes, sir," the man of aong answered cour- teously, " I fought under Oeneral Grant" "Well," the firat speaker continued, < ith something like a sigh, "I did my fighting on the other side, and think, indeed am quite sure, I was very near you one bright night eigh*atcbed the loUow- ing teleKTam to Ueut. Stain, R.E., a graduate ol the ooltege, and Stanley's right hand man : "Stain, Zanzibar, Bnvol Cadeto." Two days alter- warda came the nply : " Cadets, Kingston, thanks, oom- radet." Up the gleaming river stretches of the Congo's widening tide. Where the rivelled grass and sedges teem with monsters Argus-eyed ; Through the fever-ladened forests, where the craven heart despairs. Onward preaaing, never faltering, Bravo ! Stairs. Thoughta of cool Ontario's waters, rippling on Fort Frederiok'st strand Or the white-maned ocean horses, scouring Nova Scotia's sand, Come, like dreams, to weary toiler, as 'neath Afric's sun he fares, But the strong will never waver— Bravo ! Stairs. Marahalling his dark battalions, all impatient of control, With a firmness and a patience earnest of a noble soul ; First in danger, never laggard. Alma Mater's crest he wears, ThrUUng with "Truth, Valor, Duty "J— Bravo r Stairs. Weavd ve| Place 1 on CanadI tfa Shont sd * Late news from Alrloa bring! the lad Intelligence that the heroic Lieut. Stain died there ol fever, July, 1892. t Fort Frederick guardathe peninsula oo which staada the Royal HiliUry College. t The motto of the college erect. BANDS OF MERCY READINGS. 107 DMly beat, think- 1 th«t life holds >od'* our* for all ne with p«oiili«r he epMrow, bow Hie own image ; Mrt, «nd oeMed WM answered I My Heavenly ) the knowledge [ow mnch of His rantof nntilitia I 'Jesus, lover hymn ; now it bove sketch is a the writer by a on the steamer. •1 UlUtaiy CoU*^ •d St ZMuibsr, the Mtobed the foUow- s gnwluate of t£e " Two dsys sttor- IStOD, ihSDkS, OOD- I of the Congo's idges teem with »U, where the .Bravo! Stain, ers, rippling on I soonring Nova >iler. as 'neath Bravo ! SUirs. > all impatient • earnest of a Alma Mater's ty "t— Bravo f Intelllgenoe that t, July, 1892. Ml whioh itaads Bearing Britain's toroh of freedom to the dark- ness of the grave, Striking chains and riving shackles from the scarred limbs of the slave ; Loosing oaptivea where they langnish, braving lions in their lairs, [SUirs. While the world looks on in wonder— Bravo t Weave the maple with the laurel, though its veins are tinged with red, Plaoe the ohaplet in its freshness, proudly on our hero's head ; Canada grows grander, nobler, from the glory that he bears. Shouts from all her lakes and forests. Bravo I Stairs. —K. L. Jones, A Dusky Heroine. Within an hour of the terrible railway dis- aster at Chatsworth, Amanda Barker, an aged negress, was walking slong the tn.ck of the Cin- oinatti, Hamilton & Indianapolis Road, near Glenwood, Ind., on her way to a farm-house, where she was to work during the day. She had just passed the small station at Glenwood, whioh is a lonely, dismal spot between Indiana- polis and ConnersvUle, frequented mly occa- sionally by the farmers living around, when, on turning a sharp onrve on the road, she was hor- rified to see some distanoe ahead the smoulder- ing remains of what had a short while before been a stout, substantial bridge connecting em- bankments 060 feet apart, and spanning a chasm ninety-five feet deep. The bridge had evidently been burning daring the entire night, for the superstructure was entirely eaten away by the fire, and only a few weak timbers and the stone piers were left. The old negress could not collect herself for several momenta, but it suddenly dawned upon her that a train passed that point some time in the early morning. She knew that it was a fast one and never stopped at Glenwood. She turned her steps backward, intending to flat; the train at the station, but had gone scarcely a hundred yards when she heard the shrill scream of the whistle, as she thought, directly ahead of her. It was the east-bound lightning express, due at Glenwood at 5.46 o'clock. She tried as hard as she oonld to get aronnd the bend which obstructed the train from view, all the time tearing and tugging away at an old brown apron she wore, whioh she wanted to use as a signal flag. Stumbling and falling, she was kept back considerably, but she finally broke the apron strings, which never seemed so tightly tied before, and, almost dropping lo the earth with sheer exhaustion, she rounded the bend and saw the train thundering down upon her only a few hundred feet away. The burning bridge was about the same distance behind her, and she knew that to let tli e train pass meant cer- tain death to many on board. Raising the improvised flag high above her head, she forgot her exhaustion and waved it frantically, stand- ing in the middle of the track, whore her presence could not go unnoticed. For awhile it seemed to her that no one saw her, but she kept her position, determining to stop the train or die on the track. At last the engineer saw her and reversed his engine, bring- ing it to a standstill a few yards in front of the old woman. Leaning out of the cab window, and thinking the negress drunk or crazy, he called out : " Well, well, what is it ? " "For God's sake, mister," she answered, " don't go any farther. The bridge is burned down — it is right in front of yon ; indeed it is." The trainmen had by this time been attracted to the front of the train by the stoppage at this out-of the way plaoe, and from the sincerity of the old woman, believed her story. A number of them followed her aronnd the bend and there verified the truth of her statement. All the passenger were aronnd the spot in a short while, and when they saw how narrow their escape had been they could scarcely speak. A large purse was made up for the bene- factress, but she positively refused to take any money, and said the was too happy to touch anything — that money would only make her feel bad again. When the passengers were con- gratulating themselves on their eicape, the old negress became so happy that she burst into tears, and was so joyful for awhile that she hugged several of the ladies and gentleman and danced an old-fashioned jig. Conductor Bradley. Conductor Bradley (always may his name Be said with reverence), as the swift doom came, Smitten to death, a cruxhed and mangled frame. Sank with the brake he grasped, just where he To do the utmost a brave man could. [stood And die, if need be, as a true man should. Men stooped over him ; women dropped their tears On that poor wreck beyond all hopes and fears. Lost in the strength and glory of his years. 108 THK TOKONTO HUMANK SOCIKTY. What heard they ? Lo ! the ghaitly Upe of pain, Dead to all thought Mve duty'i move again : " Pat out the signal for the other train." No nobler utterance tinoe the world began From lipa of taint or martyr ever ran Eleotrio through the eympathiee of man. Ah me I how poor and noteleee leem to thii, The eiok-bed dramae of ■elf-oonioiouanew, Our eenenal feara of pain and hopee of bliie. Oh, grand, lupreme endeavour ! not in vain That laat brave act of failing tongue and brain ; Freighted with life the downward ruthing train, Following the wrecked one, ua wavb foUowe wave, Obeyed the warning which the dead lipi gave ; Others he saved, himself he could not save. Kay ! the lost life was saved. He is not dead, Who, in his record, still the earth shall tread, With God's dear aureole shining round his head. We bow in the dust with all our pride Of virtue dwarfed the noble deed beside, God give OS grace to live as Bradley died. —J. G. Whitticr. She has a Soldier's Burial. In Sonthsea cemetery on Wednesday after- noon, by orders from headquarters and with the hearty ooncarrence of the Dulce of Cambridge, a woman was buried with full military honours. She was the wife of Quartermaster Fox, of the Second Connaught Rangers. She accompanied her husband to the Transvaal, and while minis- tering to the wounded and dying on the field at what is known as the Bronker Spruit action, was shot in the abdomen, from which the bullet was never extracted. She then for four months became a ptisoner of war in the Boer camp, and there, although weak and suffering, she still continued her min- istration to her fellow prisoners. She barely escaped peritonitis, but shortly after her return to this garrison she began to suffer from partial paralysis. She was so heroic, patient and estimable that she became really an idol in the regiment, after the fashion of the devoted vivandiere in the novel of " Tom Burke." aHK Dixo A soldier's death. When she died Colonel Bunbury issued an order in which he said: — "The commanding ofSoer takes this opportunity of placing upon record ids opinion that Mrs. Fox died a sol- dier's death." Lieutenant General Sir George Willis, com- manding the district, followed it by an order re- citing the conduct of Mrs. Vox and decreeing a miliUry funerel. This was attended by 10,000 residents and strangers and a large deputation of sailors of the navy. In the procession fifty privates of the Connaught Rangers headed the line. UUKIBD LIKE AN OmOlR. The pall-bearers were officers. The coffin was borne on a gun carriage drawn by six bays, caparisoned in black cloth, and each horse was mounted by an artilleryman. The carriage was covered with wreaths. Colonel Malthus, who commanded the Rangers in the Boer War, accompanied Quartermaster Fox as chief mourner, and he was supported by six sergeants who had been also wounded in the engagement and been tended by Mrs. Fox. Three military bands alternated in playing funeral marches. Three volley's were fired over the grave— for the first time in military annals, it is said, over a woman— with alternations of funeral salutes from the band. Hold the Train I " Madam, we miss the train at B- '• But can't yon make it, sir ? " she gasped. " Impossible, it leaves at three. And we are due a quarter past. " " Is there no way ? Oh, tell me, then, Are you a Christian ? " " I am not." " And are there none among the men Who run the train ? " " No— I forgot— I think the fellow over here. Oiling the engine, claims to be," She threw upon the engineer A fair face white with agony. " Are you a Christian ? " •' Yes, I am." " Then, oh, sir, won't you pray with me. All the long way that God will stay, That God will hold the train at B ? ' " 'Twill do no good ; it's due at three. And "— " Yes, but (iod can hold the train ; My dying child is calling me, And I must see her face again ; Oh, won't you pray ? " "I will," a nod Emphatic, as he takes his place. When Chridtians grasp the arm of God They grasp the power that rules the rod, Out from the station swept the train On time, swept past wood and lea ; The engineer, with cheeks aflame. Prayed, "Oh, Lord, hold the train at B 1" Then flu Some With] Pasti A half, ( Along Hlsglaii Andr Heart,] Work <' Just 1 And Wlthi Past The] And BANDS OF MERCY READINGS. 10» lorge VViUb, com- d it by Ml ordar re- >x Mid deoreeing • ttended by 10,000 a Urge deputation >• prooeMion fifty angera headed tlie rnoKB. ■1. Tlieooffiowaa iwn by six baye, d each hone waa The carriage wae lel Malthiu, who the Boer War, Fox aa chief dbyaixaergeanU 1 the engagement Three miliUry neral marchea. it the grave— for M, it ia aaid, over I funeral aalutea il ' ahe gaaped. )> at." le, then, am not." le men —I forgot — m, I am." ky with me, aUy, »t B ? • three, aid the train ; ," a nod le. af God oa the rod, rain lea; >. rain at B !" Then flung the throttlea wide, and like Some giant monater of the plain. With panting aide, and mighty atridea, Paat hill and valley, awept the train. A half, a minute, two are gained ; Along thoae bnmiahed linea of ateel Hia glanoea lean, each nerve ia atrained. And atiU he praya with fervent zeal ; Heart, hand and brain with one accord Work while hia prayer aaoenda to Heaven, " Jnat hold the train eight minutea, Lord, And I'll make up the other aeven." With ruah and roar through meadow landa. , Paat cottage home and green hillaidea, The puiting thing obeya hia handa, And apeeda along with giant atridei. They aay an accident delayed The train a little while ; but He Who liatened while Hi- children prayed. In anawer, held the train at B . Scene in a Street Car. Two richly dreaaed women bonded a Fourth avenue car the othnr evening jnat at duak. One waa young and almoat handaome, the other middle aged. They paid their fare out of well filled puraea. At Fourteenth atreet another woman entered. She waa pinched, worn and pale, and her dreaa waa ahabby and faded. She carried a large bundle of laundry and a baby, while a little girl, acarcely able to toddle, clung to her dreaa. She aank into her aeat with a aigh of relief and put the bundle down on the floor at her feet, then ahifted thealeeping infant to her other ahoulder and helped the toddler up on the ae«t beaide her. Every movement be- tokened wearineaa, and her wan face told plain- ly of suffering and aorrow. When the con- ductor approached for her fare the poor woman began a nervoua aearch for her money. She felt down in the pocket of her worn gown, and aa ahe groped within ita receaaea a look of con- atemation oroaaed her face. Preaently ahe looked up in the conductor'a face and aaid : "I can't find my money. I had ten oenta in my pocket, but I muat have lost it." " Try again, miaaes," laid the conductor, not unkindly, for even he aeemed to be touched by her apparent diatreaa. Again ahe tried to find the miaaing coin, even turning Che pocket inside out. But there waa nothing there. "No, it'a gone," ahe gaaped, aa ahe glanced appealingly at the man before her, her lipa trembling mean- while and a auapicion of moiature gliatening in her eye. The conductor heaitated for a mo- ment, then hardening hia voice, aaid: "I'm very aorry, madam, but yov can't ride without pay- ing fare." " Oh, I know it, air ; but I've ao far to go. Can't T pay you nhen I come back? I ahall have aome money t'len. " And ahe looked down at her bundle aa if that would oonfirin her atate- ment. But the conductor waa proof againat the appeal, though to hia credit be it aaid, he was not harah. "No, that'a againat the mlea. You'll have to get off," he replied, aa he reached up for the bell oord. The other two women had watched the soemi with apparent intereat, and at thia juncture the younger one aprang from her aeat toward the conductor and uttered an imperioua " No ! " Before any one could divine her intention ahe had opened her puree and emptied ita contents into the poor woman's lap— $4 or |I5 attheluaat rattled down in a little ahower of coin, while two or three pieoea rolled off on the floor. The next inatant the generoua young woman was out of the car. Her companion followed after dropping several more pieoea of ailver into the poor woman'a lap. The aatoniahed recipient of the bounty aeemed unable to apeak. She im- pulaively covered her treaaure with one hand and burying her face againat the aleeping infant ahe aobbed until even the conductor'a heart waa- touched. He picked up the atray ooina and placed them with the reat. Then he rang up a fare out of hia own pocket, and retired to the rear platform and blew hia noae vigoroualy. The IHeroes of the Life Boats. Up goea the Lytham ai^. A ! St. Anne'a has aum- nioned handa ! Knee deep in aurf the life boat'a launchiid abreaat of Southport aanda ! Half deafened by the acreaming wind, half blinded by the rain Three crewa await their coxawains, and face the hurricane ! The stakes are death or duty ! No man has answered No ! Lives must be saved out yonder on the doomed ship Mexico ! Did ever night look blacker? did sea so hiss before ? Did ever women's voices wail more piteous on the shore ? Out from three ports of Lancashire that night went life boats three, no THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY. Tj flght * iplendid tottle, muined by Wurion of the 8m! Along the lands of Southport, br»ve women held their breath, For they knew that thoee who loved them were fighting hard with death. A oheer went out from Lytham ! the tempeet toieed it back, At the gallant lade of Lancashire bent to the waves' attack ; And girl's who dwell about St. Anne's, with faces white with fright, Pray'd (iod would still the tempest, that dark December night. Sons, husbands, lovers, brothers, they'd given up their all, 'i hese noble English women heart sick at duty's call; But not a cheer, or tear, or prayer, from those who bent the knee, Came out across the waves to nerve those War- riors of the sea. Three boats went out from Lancashire, but one came back to tell The story of that hurricane, the tale of ocean's hell! All safely reached the Mexico, their trystiug place to keep. For one there was the rescue, the others in the deep Fell in the arms of victory ! dropped to their lonely grave. Their passing bell the tempest, their requiem the wave ! They clung to life like sailors, they fell to death like men. Where, in our roll of heroes? when in our story? when? Have Englishmen been braver, or fought more loyally With death that oomes by duty to the Warriors of the Sea? One boat came back to Lytham ! its noble duty done, But at St. Anne's and Southport the prize of death was won 1 Won by those gallant MIows who went men's lives to save, And died there crowmed with glory ! enthroned upon the wave ! Within a rope's throw of the wreck the Engliwa sailor's fell, A blessing on their faithful lips when ocean rang their knell ; Weep not for them, dear women ! oease wring- ing of your hands ! Uo out to meet your heroes across the South - port sands ! (> rim death for them is stingless! The grave has victory ! Cross oars and bear them nobly home t Brave Warriors of the Sea I When in dark nights of winter, fierce storms of wind and raia Howl round the cosy homestead and lash the window pane. When over hill and tree top we hear the tempest roar. And hurricanes go sweeping on from valley to the shore. When nature seems to stand at bay and silent terror comes, And those we love on earth the best are gathered in our homes I Think of the sailors round the coast who brav- ing sleet or snow. Leave sweethearts, wives, and little ones when duty bids them go 1 Thiiik of our sea-girt island! a harbor, where alone No Kngliahman to save a life has failed to risk his own I Then when the storm howls loudest pray of your charity That God will bless the life boat I and the War- riors of the Ssa ! — Punch. The Prince and the Flower Girl. A pretty story of the late Emperor Frederlo is told in one of the German papers. Some years ago, shortly before the death of the old Emperor of Germany, a tall, handsome gentle- man jumped into a third-olass carriage of a local railway at Berlin just as the train was leaving the station. An old flower-seller with a basket of newly cut hyacinths was the only other occu- pant of the compartment. He asked the old dame to sell him a bnnoh, and mollified by his snave manner she chose the freshest and largest and handed it to him. Its prioe was a penny, but as the gentleman had no coppers and the old woman no change, not having sold any of her goods yet, she was paid with a mark piece, which, as she said at onoe, was a thing that had never been heard of before in a third-olass rail- way carriage. Presently the stranger and the flower-girl were deep in conversation, and it turned out BANUS OF MKRCV READINOH. Ill men I owm* wring- MroM th« Sonth- glew! The grave )bly home I Brave ir, fierce etorma of Md and laah the e hear the tempeat on from valley to «t bay and ailent ) beet are gathered > ooaet who brav- i little onea when t a harbor, where has failed to risk I loudest pray of •tiand the War- — Punch. lower Girl, imperor Frederio 1 papers. Some death of the old landsome gentle- larriageof alooal rain was leaving lar with a basket I only other ocon- e asked the old mollified by his ■best and largest ioe was a penny, 'oppers and the 'ing sold any of bh a mark pieoe, a thing that had third-ohuw rail- the flower-girl 1 it turned out that the poor woman was the only bread-winner of a family of foar. Her son was crippled, her grandanghter a little school girl and her hus- band had for some months been out of work since a new railroad official had dismissed him as being too old to do much work . The stranger tlien saggeeted that she should apply, on her husband's behalf, to the railroad authorities. " That is no good whatever," she replied, asshe wipad fcer tears with her apron. "If yoa havwi'l the pope for your cousin, nowadays you oan't get anybody to to listen to you. " " Then try the emperor," the stranger went on. "Alast" she sighed, " if the old gentleman was allowed to see petitions that are sent it might do some good, but he does not get to know about us poor people.'' " Well, then, let your husband write to the crown prince." " Yes,"she said, '< he mightdo that," and she would tell Idm so as soon as she had sold her flowers. By this time the train liad got to the terminus, the old dame bundled out her basket, and noticed with aston- ishment that the oiScials and the crowd on the platform looked at her carriage and sainted and cheered. " What's up T " she asked. " Why, the crown prince was in the same compartment with yon t " Then the flower seller held her head high and told every syllable of what had happened to the delighted crowd. Her flowers were sold before five minutes were over, and a fortnight afterward her husband was at work again in his old place. "Gentleman Jim." In the diamond shaft worked Gentleman Jim Handsome of face, stout of limb. Coarse in dress, but something in him. Whether down in the coal mine, solid and grim, Or wandering alone in holiday time, Won the love and respect of all in that clime. He liad no sweetheart, he had no wife, Some mighty sorrow had dimmed his life — His earnings, hardly won and small. Were at the orphans' and widows' call— Of those who had perished in shaft or winse, He was the friend of all living things. And moving along in those toilsome ways. He wore the demeanor of gentler days. In April last, when the mine fell in, Beneath the timl>ers stood Gentleman Jim ; With giant grasp he flung two of the boys Clear ont of danger. With deafening noise The shaft gave way on every side ; The boys were safe, but Jim— he died— Died as men die, and will die again. Giving their lives for thsir fellow When rooks and timbers were cleared away. And Jim borne up to the light of day, They took from his bosom, stained with blood. Two withered leaves and a withered bud Pinned on a card. " Toutea-toi— Marie " Was written beneath them ; beneath it he, On his heart for years had worn, Had written, "AU withered— except the thorn. " What Ufa romance, what story of wrong, Tills man had looked up in his soul no long Nons who loved him may ever know ; Bat the tale of his glorious, ohivalrio deed Shall not perish as long as men hold this creed— That the hero whoee blood for his kind is shed Wins a deathlsss fame and an honored bed — A monument grander than sculptor e'er gave. In the glory that hallows the niartyr's grave. A Song from the Heart. One afternoon, toward the close of the year 1801, a gentleman occupying a room in a hotel at New Orleans. had his attention arrested by the tones of a flute, not far away, played sweetly, but evidently by a novice. Taking a like in- strument from its box on a table near him, he executed the "Last Rose of Summer," with variations. Presently there came a faint tap upon the door, and responsive to his " Come in I '' a lad of perhaps fourteen entered his pre- sence. "Well, my boy, what do you wish?" the gentleman asked, in a kindly tone. " While I was playing my flute a few moments ago, I heard yon play, as I never heard any one play before. I am blind, but managed to find my way here, hoping to hear more of your music," timidly. " I shall be pleased to accommodate you. Take a seat; there is a chair close beside you, at your right hMid." The boy sat down, and the gentleman played several pieces eqxu^ sitely. " Who are you ? " inquired the lad, in a husky voice. " My name is Kyle, and I am travelling with Jenny Lind." ' ' You are ? '' earnestly. " I am very fond of music, and when I learned that she was to sing in this city, I wanted so much to hear her that I cried. But my mother is a widow and poor, and we live 'way up the Mississippi ; so I didn't cry much, because I knew it wouldn't do any good. Then my friends took up a collection, and gave me a small sum of money, enough, they thought, to pay all expenses into one of 1 ll'i THK TORONTO HUMANB SOCIKTY. i her oonoerto. The prio* of % tlokat k m high, ihough, th»^< I cannot boy on«. " " Yon •h»ll hear lier thii evening," returned Mr. Kyle, hie feelingk touched by the boy'e ■tory, "and it ehall not ooet you anything, either." liehind the Menee, a few houre later, he wae lietening to the " Swedish Nightingale," nor In the vaat audlenoo wae anyone more appreciative than he. When, reaponeire to an encore, she ■ang "Home, Sweet Home," he wae unable to reprees hli eobe, lo loud aa to be overheard by her. Inquiring whence the eonnde proceeded, Mr. Kyle narrated the history of her uneeen auditor, and in it ahe wae greatly interested. " Please attend lim to my room to-morrow at eleven," she said "and have him bring hie flute." The next hour, just before the appointed hour, Mr. Kyle went to the boy's room, and informed him that Jenny Lind desired to see him. " To see me? " was the reply, in a surprised tone. " Yea. And she wishes yon to take your flute with you." Too amased to speak, the lad took his flute and went with Mr. Kyle. Reaching the song- stress's room, she extended her hand to him, and cordially said, — " I am glad to see you, — more sorry than I can tell that you cannot see me. Mr. Kylo in- forms me that you came a long distance ex- pressly to hear me sing." " Yes'm, I did," tremulously. " He also informs me that you play the flute quite nicely." "I thought I could pretty well, until— until I heard him," modestly. " I should like to hear you." " I'm afraid I can't play so well aa yon think," and his face crimsoned as he spoke. " I shall be able to judge of that better after having heard you," she observed, cheerfully. " You play for me, and then I will sing for you. That is fair, is it not? " "Yes'm: "and placing the flute to hiilipa, with evident reluctance, he played a aimpb air. " Have you ever had any instruotlom 7 " she asked, when he removed the instrument from hb lips. " No, ma'am." " You do excellently, considering all things, and I believe, in time, notwithstanding the great affliction that is yours, with practice you may become a very skilful flutist" " No one ever said so much as that to ne be- fore," he articulated, with diifloulty, owing to the chokinft lumps in his throat. " Now I will sing to you ; " and ahe did. aa admirably as she would have sung in the pre- sence of thousands. " (iod bless you ! " he returned, fervently. " Please also Uke this," placing in his hands a roll of billR. "It will provide yon and your mother with some of the comforts of Ufa. Do not try to thank me," as his lips moved ; "only remember me in your prayers. Hoping to see you again, I must now bid you good-by," and with a clasp of the hands, they separated —for- ever. The " roll " contained three hundred dollars, a larger sum of money than ever had been in the boy's family at one time. \ \ T I 'Wf^ yvBuoATfonri of tem tosoitto nuHAxm iooxitt. A Stonhoi 89 of Humant Uttrature 'for Fam/ly Reading, AJMt AND OBifECTS OF THE TORONTO HUMAklE SOCIETY. ji^^i »'• '>' Oanmuu HomiN*, M.A., Iil..l>., « \ ,t m nil Sihid y. An lnv»l'v"jjMjlnMJook of the Literature of Kuinanenen, in I'r »«■ and I'oetry. '' (tPINloSS OF THB TonoSTO PliHSS. "Tha publloulou of lhoughl."-;V..' /'"(/.(r.. ihli work wu a moet happ) "The work It rapltte with InUtrMtlnv and pathttic •toriM In proM anil poatry about animal* and naglcoted ohlMran.'— nr liUilf. " It li w(* to fay tliar no nioraanttrtalnliiii nor Inatruo- tlv* work on lh« iiilijaot ha* aver btfort bean pnlilUhad." — Tlir Stn.l. " Knoh dapartnient la lull of inlorniallon ol the moat raadablu kind, c>are(ully ulaflled and txutadingly well ar- ranged." -f.'nni. )<("«' I'hKr'liiiltiii, " When thl» book ... It to well edited, It thoiild brlnir many a laidcard Into the work." /li>u/,.i uml Soiloin.. " Thli h one of the cheapeit, aa » rll *• one ol the moat attraotlvp bookt we ever mkw,"—Miili'i'li,i Mdinnim. " Th* raadinc ol thia volume oonnot fall te oatt lorth and atrengthen kindly and humanv laallo(."MM^iiin ilti'ir'lldn. \ '^ " W* knew ol no work . . . bettor nahnilatMi to ra- tint and elavala the nature, and to lieautlty and lileea tta Uvea ol tht children . . . than tlitl. "ThIa la, In reallti , a handbook ol th* llUralurtof hutHant-nfUi," ■ Th t Wtr A . " It will not he the fault ol the Society, or ol th* Ml- tor, or ol the publlthir, II thti book la not apprt<'lat*d."— ' 'rtfWI'///IH llookltrttfr. The Toronto I'ulillo Mohool Roird adopted the rollowlnR reoomniandatlon ol the Hohool UanaKvmant Committ** (Mr. II. ¥.. Kent, ohalrmtn),— "That the t^onimtttee on I'rlntlnK and Snpnilee he rniuetted to procure :i,',<)oopleaol the ~ ■ ■■ ...... ^ •' ■ »ohei ■■" ... Mme ^ind Ohjanti of the Toronto Humane Mooiety, for the ua« of the teaofiere ol the eeveral tohooU. y, with appropriate I'aperCoier, 'J5 uenta net (l.'anaillan I'OitiKe li cent*, American Id nentt, extra). (I'ottaue extra.). In handtome Cloth ('o\erB, r,<> I'oiiti net (Clanadlan Poitaife 7 oentH, American 14 iitage ehould bo aent with remlttaimei In all oaeen. May be had ol all Itookaeller*. Addreaa. Ski iiKTanv III'HANI': SO('IRT\ , 1<> > Ray Htreet, Tormiio. Telephone lURM. Klvi' coplea lor oenin, evtra). OTHER PUBLIOATION8 OF THE 800IETY. Dri- 9. 1.— A Card of Warning, Cautioning ven aitalnat the Cruelty of leavlni; Iloreeeon the Street! in Cold Weather without I'roper Covering, or puttlnx Iron or Steel lilt* Into Horeet' Mouths without lint warmlnv them, and giving an extract from the Doniinlnn Law agalntt oruelty . 2,— A Card illustrating tiie Cruelty of Using the Over-Check KeTn. . 3. -A Pamphlet on the Evils of the Check- Ueln, containing Iteaaona why it ahould be Aloiiahed, 12 paif{ue. 4.— A Pamphlet Containing a Brief State- ment ol the Work and Objecta of thu Toronto Humane Society, 4 pagea. 6.— Blank Form of Application for Mer^. berahip In the Toronto Humane Society, with .Statement of ObJocU of the Society 8.— First Report of the Toronto Humane Society, with Mat of Menibera In 1887 and 188^, 1 J page*. 7.— Supplementary List of Members of the Soolaty from the 7th ol December, isxx, to I'.th ol Hay, 1880, 8 page*. 8. -A Pamphlet on Bands of Mercy in Con- neollon with th* Toronto Humane Society, with . Reaiona for their EaUbllihment, Uymna, etc.. i page*. A Fly-Leaf on Bands of Mercy, with hymn*, etc. 10' -A Fly-Leaf on Docking Horses* Tails, a Oreal Cruelty, with detalla of tha Operatton, etc., and reference to the lloiee Fly. 11.— A Small Advertising Placard OfTering a Reward of «I0 (or the I'rotvoution andConvto- tlon of any r.'reon fur Docking Ilonai' Tail*. 12 A Fly-Leaf of Warning to Boys Against Sh>ioting at Ulrda with CaUpulta. 13.— A Pamphlet Containing Detailed in- fornailon on llnnd* ol Mercy, their Kormatioc and Uiafulneee, with Order of Kxercite* and Hymni,eto., 8 paKeH. 14. — Tho Ilinnaiie Admcutc, Volume 1, No. 1, Illuatrated and Containing Varioua Appropriate Artlolea, lit pagea. The Same, No. 2, 4 Pages. ts.- 16. 17. -Report of tha Toronto Humana So- oiety lor ISflii and 1881, 2i> page*. -Work Dona by the Toronto Hum«n« Sooiotjr, 1887-1891, 112 pag**. In addition, "Bxtraot* fiam th* D*bt..'" on Mr. Adaoi Browne Bill on Cruelty to Anlouila, 37th Fabruary, ISMS'* Iti peg**, from Hanaard, waa clnulated. • Dollari, to he A Form of Bequest to the Society. I give and b' .|ueath to the Board of Direotor* of the Toronto Humane Society tha aum of — uaed for carrying on tha benevolent object* of th* aforetaid Society. N'OTK.-Th* Toronto Humane Soolaty i« Inoorporated by Provincial Charter. Suggestions as to how to Proceed in Toronto. dr«n*l^w~ .'!Sif,Ml!*«''*"i? "' *"!'. "Ot Of cruelty to animala. or of onielty to or of newleot by parenta of their chil- dr*n, anotic*ahouldatoncebe*enttotha8eoreUryofjyh»3)ul**, *.,.; Hv y-oet Toronto (TeUnh\«. SivJSLn'd^^btln' " r'i™5'^'12"n.'*- •»?» -~Vlth. evidence ^MfMli^ ^"^^ " o.» „^!^ „?-*" "•'••"«' »' offonder, when known, ind the name %ri number \ipon the vriUda. Kt liaento< or o£VrS^nr^VunTrd{£o'S.'r'o\tt..';?„S^^ '" ' •""" ""--" = »-• »' W'^ ""- •' '-^ Tha Humane Society wants every individual citizen to help them In thr<| t3od eauaa. mm^ :^.^J^-'^'^ ,.,i- O'T*^ ri.\ %