Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — Queen Champions a Dog. [ARTICLE]

Queen Champions a Dog.

The Paris Figaro tells an interesting anecdote of the Queen of the Belgians. While her Majesty was driving the other day in a pony chaise in the environs of Spa she met a ragpicker’s cart drawn by a dog, which was being ciuelly beaten by the two occupants. The Queen drew her carriage across the road and requested the ragpickers to cease ill-treating the dog. Their only reply was a volley of Insulting language, while they thrashed the unfortunate animal n*ore brutally than before. Her Majesty thereupon turned her carriage round and followed the men to Tlieux, where she bad them arrested for cruelty. On the police authorities wishing to add the charge of insulting the Queen, her Majesty asked them to strike it out, as she made her complaint solely in her capacity of a member of the Society for the Protection of Animals.