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DOCKING HIS TAIL.
Making Hobby Carriage Horses Fy the
New Operation.
A SHARP KNIFE AND A REDHOT IRON
How the Job Is Done by One oUtlie Pro
fessional Furriers—Keeping a Lookout
For S. P. C. A. Spotters.
Horses’ tails are now docked in a new
and, it is claimed, a more humane way.
The work is done by specialists, who
call at the stables to perform the opera
tion. Like dentists, who dull the pains
of teeth extracting by seating the vic
tims on luxurious plush chairs, modern
farriers try to make their patients com
fortable during the tail clipping. Still,
despite these well meant efforts, dock
ing is painful. But stablemen all say it
is not as painful as tooth pulling.
In the present case a farrier was sum
moned to perform the operation. He ar
rived at the stable, carrying his outfit
in a canvas bag, like a sailor’s kit. Aft
er asking the coachman if the people
present were “all right,” the farrier
carefully bolted and locked the doors
and windows .opening into the street
and the back yard.
“Excuse me, gents,” said the farrier
briskly as he fastened the last window,
“but I have to be on my guard. Only
last week a bloke jumped mo over a
back fence, and that cost me SIOO, that
did.”
One of the back windows was left
open from the top, although the shut
ters were closed, so that the draft would
carry off the fumes of a small charcoal
furnace, such as plumbers use, that the
farrier started up. This was to bring
the cauterizing irons to a white heat.
The horse was then led into an end
stall and fastened by an ordinary head
stall to the manger, which was filled
with oats. A piece of stout canvas, sup
ported by a wooden framework pre
x viously built up in the stall, was swung
under the horse’s body. On one side this
canvas hammock was secured by im
movable fastenings, but on the other
side the fastening ropes were tied to
pulleys, so the horse could be raised up
in the hammock.
Some stout wooden rails were built
up to make a fence behind and almost
touching his hind legs. The tail was
laid across the top rail and a strap put
over it. The hammock was then raised
up until the horse was almost on his
toe tips. Trussed in this way the horse
could not kick or move his body or tail.
r Now the actual operation began. The
coachman tied a stout string around the
tail at the place the incision was to be
made and gathered up the long strands
of hair that fell over it into a coil and
> fastened it back with a string, so as to
expose the skin of the tail vertebrae. He
then took a firm hold on the lower end
of the tail, and the farrier began work.
The old fashioned docking shears with
which the tail used to be divided are
now out of use. The operation was done
with a surgeon’s amputating knife. The
farrier poised the sharp edged lance over
the vertebrae, and with short, deft
strokes, wielding the knife with a steady
hand, he cut through the flesh and car
tilage, quickly severing the tail.
There was no flow of blood, the string
tied above the cut checking the hemor
rhage. While the farrier brought an
iron at white heat from the furnace the
coachman clipped a bunch of hairs from
the severed end. He covered the raw
cut thickly with the hairs, and then the
cauterizing iron was pressed against the
flesh. A sickening odor of burning hair
and flesh arose at once, making the air
of the closed up stable almost suffocat
ing. This was the end of the operation.
Both the cutting and the burning had
been done inside of 60 seconds.
As a precaution the horse had not been
fed that morning, and he began raven
ously munching at the oats as soon as
he was tied to the manger. During the
cutting the horse did not quit eating,
but he shook his head, and the body
quivered when the iron burned the flesh.
At this time, too, the horse gave a shrill
neigh of pain, and but for the support
ing hammock he might have fallen, for
he tried to crouch down in the stall. As
soon as the iron was removed the pain
must have vanished, for the horse im
mediately began at the oats again and
seemed at ease. By this improved meth
od the operation is less cruel than under
the old style of amputation.
The farrier’s fear of detection was due
to the vigilance of the Society For the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which
offers a standing reward of SIOO to any
■one who will report a case of docking
at its offices and give the evidence neces
sary to convict the offenders.—New
York World.
HINDOO PROVERBS.
Bits of East Indian Philosophy Expressed
In Pungent Epigrams.
A cluster of sarcastic Indian proverbs
is given in the columns of the Madras
Mail. However patient the common peo
ple of India may be, they give in their
proverbsexpression to their feelings and
indulge freely in satire at the expense of
those who trouble them. That the pow
erful should oppress the weak is no new
thing in the history of any land, and in
India it is expressed by the proverb,
“Big fish eat little ones.” A “Jack in
office” suddenly raised to power, which
he uses unwisely, is spoken of as “A wa
ter' carrier reigns for two days and a
half.” The boaster who has failed in
his plans is directed to “rub the arras of
your brethren,” a proverb the meaning
of which does not appear on the surface.
It refers to the custom of rubbing the
arras of successful wrestlers as a mode
of congratulation on the victory gained.
The proud boaster is thus ironically told
to congratulate others, not himself. Tho
official who takes bribes is said to ‘ ‘wear
silver spectacles. ” Themiserly and moan
are held in great contempt, and the prov
erbs reuanlina them are nnraornna
"Dome to year funeral pyre; wood is
cheap, ” is a satire on the man who fears
to spend all that is needed on the neces
saries of life.
A woman who is ready to quarrel, as
the village woman of the lower orders
too frequently is, finds herself rebuked
in, “She quarrels with the passing
breeze.” The woman retorts by speak
ing of a quarrelsome husband as “better
out than at home,” and of the henpeck
ed husband she says he is “a woman’s
kingdom.” Affected politeness is de
scribed by, “During ceremonial obser
vances the train went off.” Two per
sons were going by train. One said to
the other, “Sir, pray enter.” “After
you, sir.” “No, you be pleased to go
first.” And away went the train and
left the overpolite friend behind. When
politeness passes'into obsequiousness, it
is said, “The mouth is not sweetened by
saying ‘sweetmeats.’” Housekeepers
in England are familiar with the cat as
a scapegoat. The monkey in India takes
the place of the cat, and to the man who
tries to conceal his fault it is said, ‘ ‘Ac
cidents in tho stable are laid on the
monkey’s head.” “The Indian crow is
proverbial for its cunning, which gives
rise to the proverb, “This scheme will
scarecrows,” and refers to the clever
plans of a cunning man, able to outwit
a crow. “A tongue under a tongue” fit
ly expresses the double tongued or false
man.
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GEORGIA, Floyd County:
To All Whom it May Concern: K. W. Berry,
hill having in proper form applied to me for per
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Hardy Shelton, late of said county, this is to
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ROME, GEORGIA.
Office in New King Building.
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