A. S. P. C. A.

In its 62nd annual report, out last week, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (oldest of its kind in the U. S.) described its good works, made bows for donations, mourned the recent deaths of members, told of new projects.

Sample preventions effected in the five boroughs of New York City:

P: Removed 132 cruel bits from horses' mouths, replaced them with free snaffle bits.

P: Relieved a cat which had become tangled in flypaper.

P:Gave hospital aid to a circus camel (playing in a Passion Play) which had pneumonia.

P: Held in quarantine some Christian asses./-

P:Retired seven police horses from active service.

P:Placed 1,121 dogs in humane homes.

P:Put humanely to sleep: 275 horses and mules, 119,560 cats, 30,075 dogs.

P:Prosecuted 71 racers of horses, five neglecters of cats, 15 maltreaters of fowls.

The joint efforts of all New York S. P. C. A.'s were rewarded in the Shonk-Thompson Act, which declares illegal the possession or exhibition in New York State of crop-eared dogs.

The Society points with pride to: the William H. Vanderbilt "Good Hands Cup" donated at New York horseshows to the horseman, horsewoman, who is most considerate of the mount's mouth; newly perfected distemper vaccine; an electric stunning device for food-animal slaughter; revival of the magazine Our Animal Friends (previously called the Kindness News).

/-Small Italian donkeys upon whose backs a cross of black hair grows, believed to have descended from the animal which bore Jesus into Jerusalem.