Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — Act of A Fool or a Scoundrel. [ARTICLE]

Act of A Fool or a Scoundrel.

Tuesday afternoon, Dr, Haosson 4W Modoq. veterinary-; ‘Wik here operating on a howfe belonging to W. 8/Parks, the for a badly then made the discovery that the horse was also suffering frcfcn the j?ffeots of, p small rubber nd its tongae. The tongue wai in a very bad condition, and probably -would finally have be rubber. It bad alip >ua|oabty oausedjtbe horke a great (seal of ■ fMr. Packs'ls oofarf or tbo rubber on the .tree’s ongue. It may laded here by olgfoi

gftrsou as a jubpoeed joke, A hoak wop bW ■the bjorjte. Ut aom»£ijj||nky hatfe a spi'te anfpfofab thsh ipetiiodjof v£sdSt. Wy uff: Emkajam plgatbly oeftr burning of higliay Btack spam of town nbiy. havffmie ‘n^thC” l # >ik of jflis sarilr'TOpon. b«r>< I If Dr. Ranraßh save be frSS JeariL of horaek being treated ‘this’ wawl by Gypsies or other horse traders,,' for tbs purpose of temporarily I imparing*there value, ia order to bay thenf*obeap. Anyhow it wasj • fiendishly oruel act. and the person doing it ia a fool if he did it as a joke, and a miserable aooundrel if he did it malioiously, and knowing its effect on the horse.