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Show WOULD ABOLISH PUBLIC ZOO Restlessness or Sullen Melancholy of Wild Animals Caged Has Gloomy Impresslvenets. The chafing restlessness or sullen melancholy of wild animals caged, has a gloomy lmpresslvenes which works powerfully on the sympathy of serial tlve persons. A rich New York women. Mrs. Gorg9 W. Fackler. wsnts to abolish all the zoos In the country. Tbe sentiment which prompts her commands admiration without conviction. Something must be conceded to science, amusement.' to populsr curiosity, which are all concerned In exhibitions of tbe denizens deni-zens of Jungle and forest. Then. Is Mrs. Fackler sure she would really benefit ! animal creation by her pIsnT Fre wild beasts ruffcr a worse 'ate than Imprisoned ones The war of tribe against tribe, furred, feathered or finny, ta an endless and frightful conflict, with no quarter given. All bunters rsn tell shocking r.tortes of snlmals mutilated by ea'h other, or Injured by accident, and condemned to drag out a lingering sgony more dreadful than death. We read of sk'lled medical attendance for elephants, ele-phants, lions and bears In zoos Rut the only hope of a wounded or sick animal In the woods Is a merciful bul let from some chance a porta man. |