Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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icken. Cruel Acts by Man and Boys. = A^D KILLING AS AN AMUSEilKNT. The Savage Instincts of Men and Boys Illustrated. N CERTAIN parts of Europe there are men who support largeuumbers of servants, horses and dogs for the simple purpose ofgetting pleasure from chasing rabbits. The picture here^ shown is a common one in England and Ireland. The grandee is out in full force—men, horses and dogs. Thelittle animal fleeing for its life, and entirely innocent of doingthe least wrong,will be capturedere long and tornby the dogs limbfrom limb. Thiswill be occasionfor great congrat-ulation by thrlords of the chasi_-,and will end in :ibanquet and cham-pagne supper. Inthe meantime thepoor peasants,whose crops aredestroyed by thistroop of huntersacross their littlefields, bemoan their fate; but they have no redress. It is an honor to England that she was the first to inauguratehumane societies, whereby ultimately, the cruelties of the chasewill be all banished from her soil.
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Hunted and Mutilated for Sport. iW-i^ RUELTY and tendency to destroy are common with boys of a ^flife certain class; a fact to be deplored, as the youth who jv^ll ^^^^^ deliberately pick a fly to pieces, step on a worm, or ^P^^L torture any helpless animal, will very likely develop into the seltish, base-hearted, cruel man. The boys here shown are types of the rougher element in society, who delight intyrannizing overand frighteningthe weaker; theirchief pleasure isin hurling somemissile at the un-offending dog, thestray cat, or anyanimal that crossestheir pathway.From this classcome the disso-lute, the reckless,the depraved andthe criminalclasses.Even among theprofessedly refined people the spirit of mischief among boys, if notchecked by wholesome instruction, is liable to develop into rude-ness and cruelty. With some boys the simple fact that any smallanimal is unprotected is a signal for abuse. Gratification of Savage Instinct. The Street Fountain an Ever-Living, Public Blessing. T

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