Show OUR DUMB ANIMALS what is overloading a horse and how it la proved thi follow ing taken from bishop on statutory crimes edition of page baj is believed to be sound law the world over etwas written by mr angell in re rieann a decision of a massachusetts court in 1803 that there waa no cruelty because other horses of the same it eight were able to draw the load in question it was the first and last decision of he kind ever rendered in must an animal be worked until he breaks a blood vessel or drops dad before the law takes cognizance Is alie horse to be strained or worked to the extreme limit of his strength before such straining or working be conica a cruelty that is before the act of his master becomes overload oer load ing can arany num er of expert say what is the limit of strength or endurance of any horse aim ply by know ing bis weight it seems t me that these questions can be easily answered llorme ll like men are ages constitutions temperaments formation and degrees of one horse just ake one man mav be twice as fait twice as tough twice as strong as an ather ot precisely ahe game weight and inasmuch as horses like beai a liable to a great variety of aad suffer just like men from previous king and from heat wait of proper rest food water shelter and car it follows that the same horse like the sama man may ba able to perform without injury more labor in one day than another can a thousand exper s prove aliat liat all men of a given weight or aiza are equally competent on every day of the year to perform a given labor can their testimony establish how much load a man of given weight should carry and how far be should carry it en a given day without regard to whether the man is old or young sick or well strong or weak tough or tender already t red or rested full fed or starved or the day anddess n t precisely the same reason apply horae that v r at one hi arsa can do one day has no dorco in showing what another ought to do on another day unless you show the weather age strength toughness and bodily condition of the two to be similar I 1 say then that it is juet as impossible lor any number of expert knowing only the weight and e iw of a horse aad nothing of his age health strength toughness and bodily condition to establish what is or is not overloading him as it would be only the size or weight of a man and pothina no thina of his age health strength toughness or bod ly condign n to establish what is or is not an ore bad for him how then are we to determine cheo a hursa is overload oer load da just exactly and as we determine when a man ia overloaded first we are to take bis own evidence if a man s aps ops and says 1 I ana overloaded I 1 am working toi hard I 1 feel that the task put upon me as too heavy that ia evidence bo when the horse ordinarily kind and willing to pull comes with a heavy load to a ri e of land and after one or two efforts stops and says as plainly as he can it 1 I am overloaded I 1 am working too hard I 1 feel that the task put upon ma is too heavy that is evidence and court or jury cr man with the of a man w ho will cot recognize it ai such besides the signs of overwork are just as visible in the horse as the man no mag juror would have any difficulty in deciding in his own mind whether a case to which ba in our public streets w as or was not a case of cruelty la not then the mony of competent intelligent and crt dibe bystanders who how the corfe looks an lacs and hib bodily condition health and capability to perform the labor required the bat evidence that can possibly be obtained can yon get better and alien d and intelligent who are present and aeo and hear all that is said and dine in a given case voluntarily leave their ordinary avo catinna and come into court to testify that they are fully satisfied that the case is a clear cabe of cruelty can bubb evidence be overbalanced over balanced by that of any number of experts who aie not present bee IUM know nothing of the aze beirth Bt or bodily condition of the boree at the time and who base their simply upon the avoirdupois weight of the animal it ie perfectly evident then 1 say that the and beat evidence which any co rt or jury can ask or possibly in a case of overload ang overworking overwork ine or overdriving is the as teu by those present when the cruelly ia inflicted cruelty begins very far the extreme strength of the ani inal god has riven to men and animals an excess of strength to be husbanded hus banded caret lly and abed occa Bio nally rut to task that strength to its full limit Is against nature down thomaa or ani mal before his or its time and is a cruelty against which men having and reabon dinv inv protect them but against which animals having neither nor reason like men must look to bliem for protection tec tion john am nn conductor running between hutte and cama down from the north yesterday afternoon |