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Show ABUSE OF HORSES. Some three or four weeks ago there was a great hubub kicked up over the vices and the exposure of them in a certain alley in this city. That was all proper except that no lucid statement state-ment of how to proceed to abate or modify the nuisance was made. But all those wretches in that alley are capable of knowing right from wrong, and they cling to those surroundings because be-cause they prefer them to living decently by honest hon-est work. But why did the humanitarians who made the outcry stop with those creatures. The dumb animals, ani-mals, especially the horses, need some friend just, now. Every day are seen twenty horses on the streets that it would be a mercy to kill, so old and so diseased are they. Then there are plenty more that' would do faithful work if they were fed, groomed and shod, but their drivers prefer to substitute the whip for oats and the abuse of the poor animals seen daily is enough to keep a humane person all the time disturbed. Then there are plenty of well-to-do persons who, during dur-ing the late icy spell, sent out their horses with shoes worn smooth. In front of one store on First South street a dozen horses have fallen within a month because of smooth shoes. Then some of the supposed fine horses show that they are fed with neither judgment nor regularity and that the horses need the services of a vetinary surgeon at once. One man said to a neighbor last week that he tried to feed and groom his horse well, but the horse seemed to be growing poorer daily. The neighbor opened .the mouth of tho horse and showed the owner that his teeth were in such a condition that the poor animal could not chew his food. But one of the most irritating of all the abuses to the horse is the driving in here of horses by dirty loafers from the country, who come in, tie their animals at the curb and compel com-pel them to stand there unblanketed, unwatered and unfed from five to nine hours, while their owners are swilling beer and playing petty-larceny poker in a convenient saloon. The penalty for this ought to be the taking off the coat from the owner, the tying him to the same post to which he tied the horse and to keep him there until he freezes to death. Then some of the big companies com-panies employ drivers who have no more sense or judgment or humanity than coyotes. One of these the other morning drove a good team, hauling haul-ing a heavy load of coal upon an icy place and one of tho horses slipped and fell. Then the idiot began to whip the team. The fallen horse sprang up and the other horse fell. So it went on until one horse had fallen four and the other five times, when a bystander interfered and compelled com-pelled the brutal driver to detach the horses from the wagon. We suggest that the city council revise re-vise the supposed to be humane ordinances, pasq some new ones and delegate one of their own number; that has horse sense to look after the horses on the streets with authority to use dras tic measures to stop the present abuses that are , 'ff being worked on horses. That he be paid a I.JIM salary which will enable him to spend all the fjf 'flB time needed for the work until a reformation can ,it i lflM be brought about. ! E ij'fffl |