Show r Harry Lauder LauderT T Tells ells About 4 the Harry Lauder who tho cornea comes to on Sa Saturday February 21 21 matinee and ana night only M to talk about tho the pit ponies or little Shot Shot- landa that ar are arA u cd in tho the lower Jower TV work work- I inca S of or th mines In Scotland His JUs friendship for animals dated from his boyhood days day wh n winni n ho was a R. driver In Jn the mines and Jot got clo closely cly Acquainted Ac nc ac- ac with them and thor nc needs he has become famous ho done much toward changing the tho conditions In tho nInes mines and amI lifts hN even app appeared before parliament In behalf of or the welfare ot of othis his equine Thc They are bonnie woe wee Ie animal quiet and docile and their work was to drag tho tim tube tubs or hutches we VB called thorn full of or doal conI up iii to the main malti haulage From there the tho loads loads' were taken up by big bib horses mine I 1 worked In practically practical every around Hamilton There Thero ponies tn in all of ot them thorn unit and there aro ponies there thereto to this day working ISO to fathoms deep In the tho lowest portions of the mines the passages havelow roots roofs so that men have havo to crouch crouth as they go so along and ana the tho space Is not ot big enough for tor horses kept at work I 1 have havo known a no pony from 7 1 o'clock In tho the morning until 4 In the tho afternoon and then taken out outa a again aln at C and made to work until 7 the next morning and then all an day again The rhe poor animals have havo to work shifts shUts without sleep rye seen that honestly The Tho willing pony gets all the wor worThe work The Tho result la Is he I In IA soot worn out A Apony's Apony's pony's lIr In the mines Is 13 not more mora than four or five Ivo years yean though under nary imry conditions a n Shetland will live livo twenty years can I have O seen ponies worn out In lii six sIc months worked worked to death Tho The hutches hold from 1000 pounds to a aton ton and I have havo soon Boen six of oC thorn them dragged h by hy one ono pony PODY The driver walks at the pony pony a head and at tho stiff places ho puts his lila hand to tho the chain and helps to pu pull mill The ThA Shetland and pon pony 13 Ia not a stubborn animal But when ho hr Is 18 not properly looked after Arter ho ha gets Iota below his work and refuses s to go Then th drivers riou kick him b beat t him hEra about th the tho head with tho the whip stocks and otherwise 6 ill treat him I have havo often challenged od my m pit boy companions com pardons about tho way thc they act acted d toward tho UIO animals t I J made mad a n. point when I Iwar Iwas was war driving of or not using m my whip more moro than I could help and I found r I could control the ponies well with 1 m iny voice When a a. pony goes BOM down a pit ho goes for life Ute He Ho does dote not see flee daylight hL a again aln unless there is a a. strike Still I r I have havo vo seen a a. pony after aCtor I had washed and combed him pony m rt n the morning go frisking along Just 08 as if it ho wore ware in the open air I I would not say cay that tho colliers are arc brutal so much as neglectful I have e seen ponies pontes w work rk day after day without without with with- out being cleaned and I hav havi known others that had to do a week without a a. bed In this condition how can they bl bo be expected to rom remain ln healthy There is a n hostler to supervise tho the horses homes but generally he has thirty or forty to look Jook after M My law brother had thirtyfour thirtyfour thirty thirty- four and he shod 1 every everyone one of them him him- I self |