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Show BBBKaaBBmBBBBaBaaaawavaiaaBBamai Agairj't Ehoelcj Hors While watching U10 alterapU to ralso a horse, who had fallen down on Dearborn avenue, n thoughtful-looking thoughtful-looking man who had just cnio down tho steps of a fine building said: "This thing will havo to be stopped." " What Ihlngfinquired a stroller. "Horses slipping when there is 110 necessity for it. I believe that the cause of it all is to be found In tho absurd persistence TfUit which men will have their hones shod with Iron. Why did nature supnly that hoof of boncT Do you think If a man had such osseous undestaueilDg ho would allow himself to bo hampered ham-pered with Iron soles attached by ioug spikes driven through his feel? 'o, sir; and no matte r how long the iiraclicu has been In vogue, the custom cus-tom Is barbarous. Veterinary surgeons, sur-geons, farriers and bfcwksnilths thrive by tho custom, but horses and their o ners pay tho iwnalty." When asked if horts went without with-out shoes In any civilized city tho reformer raid that iu London and New York eminent men were experimenting ex-perimenting at nrcsciit. During tho past winter ho knew of a man who, after keeping hU horse oil a hard floor for three mouths, had driven him ou Ice and snow without with-out Iron or any artificial shoes and he had cot madu a slip during six months. The hoofs were nlways in good condition and the lower linibs and fetlocks w ere cool and healthy. Horses can feel with Die natural shoes nnd pick their n ay like Spanish Span-ish mules. But with iron shoes they Ioo all sense of touch and It is only wonderful they have not lost all other senses. GiKago Tribune. |
