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of New York. An important feature of its work is 

 (lie adoption of a system uf transportation for di-aMed 

 animal* in ambulances, in which they can be placed 

 with little discomfort and conveyed to proper places tor 

 treatment. Two of these are almost constantly in use 

 in New York city, and one in Brooklyn. A derrick lor 

 raisins animals out of excavations into which they 

 hare fallen is also provided. The society has taken 

 n active part in the erection of numerous drinking- 

 fuunt lins to provide water for men and animals. 



Other States have adopted it.s example, and passed 

 laws for the protection ot animals, until at this date 44 

 po-ietie-s exist in North and South America, 33 of 

 which are in the United States, all of which have 

 adopted its emblem. 



The following table shows, in a condensed form. 

 what has been done during the twenty-two years, 1800- 

 87: 



Cases prosecuted in the court* 13,850 



Disabled miiniaU temporarily suspended 



from work 35,108 



Bones, disabled pant recovery, humanely 



destroyed '. 24,099 



Disabled horses removed from the streets in 



the ambulances 4,444 



The aggregate result for the year 1 887 was as fol- 

 lows: 



Cases prosecuted in the courts 797 



Disabled animals temporarily suspended 

 from work 3,4.16 



H'>r-r<, disabled past recovery, humanely 

 destroyed 2,546 



Small animals, disabled past recovery, hu- 

 manely destroyed 1,202 



Disabled" horses removed from the streets in 

 the amlmlnnces 522 



Complaints received and investigated 3,773 



Henry Bergh remained it-s president from the date of 

 its organization until his death, which occurred on 

 March ]'2, ISSS. His nephew, Henry Bergh, was 

 then chosen to succeed him. IK. B. ) 



PRICE. Eu KIRK (1797-1884), lawyer, was born 

 at KiLst Bradford, Chester co.. Pa,, July 20, IT'.iT. 

 He was descended from Philip Price, one of the Welsh 



8 (takers who came to Pennsylvania with William 

 win in KiS He was educated at the Friends' 

 School at Westtown, and entered on a mercantile 

 career, but soon turned to the study of law under 

 John i^erireant. Devoting himself chiefly to real es- 

 tate praeiice. In- became the must eminent lawyer in 

 that branch in Philadelphia. Tauaht by his experi- 

 ence, he prepared tor the Legislature of Pennsylvania 

 drafts of many important acts regulating the holdim: 

 and transfer of real estate by corporations and individ- 

 uals. They tended to promote security of title and 

 the welfare of the community by keeping up the im- 

 provement of real estate. To him especially was due 

 the act of |H.">4 by which the various districts of the 

 (unify of Philadelphia were consolidated into one city. 

 Later labors helped to obtain for that city the land now 

 forming Fairinount Park and to secure within it the 

 holding of the Centennial Exhibition of 1X70. After a 

 lonir, useful, and honored life he died Nov. 15, 1884. 

 H<- published a few legal treatises, the most important 

 iH'inir Tltf L'lir uf Liinitntiont and Lieut ayauist 

 AW /:-/<;/( I K07). 



PRICE, Smii.iNU (1809-1867), a Confederate gen- 

 eral, was born in Prince Edward co. , Va., Sept. 14, 

 1*>9. He removed to Missouri in 1830, and after ser- 

 vice in the State legislature was elected to Congress in 

 1 -!'>. In the Mexican war he led a Missouri regiment 

 to New Mexico, anil wax made brigadier general and 

 inilitiiry-L'overnor of Chihuahua. He was governor 

 of tli. Missouri from ISM to is.'iT. lie was 



a strong advocate of secession, and presided at tlio 

 State convention of February, LSI) I. (iov. Cluiborne 

 F. Jackson appointed Price major-general of the State 



' militia, but their efforts to withdraw the Ptnto from 

 tlic 1'niori were baflled by the patriotic energy of F. P. 

 Blair and Gen. N. Lyon, who compelled the State 

 guard at St. Jxwis to surrender. 1'ri.e ret in d t 

 thage and gathered an army ,>! v '><! men. Being 

 joined by Gen. lien. MeCullnch, who had brought 

 1 from Arkansas, he defeated and killed Lyon at 

 Wilson's Creek Auir. in. Price, marching to Lexing- 

 ton, Mo., captured li(KK) I'nion in. n. and then re- 

 treated to Arkansas. In March. !.'<'._'. he v 

 pointed mnjor-general, and he fouirht at Pea Ridgi; 

 and Corinth. He held command of the department "f 

 Arkansas in 18C3-64, and then joined with C. I/. Val- 

 landigham and other Northern opjx>nents of the war 

 in forming a secret society called " Knights of the 

 <iolden Circle." Price was the "G rand Commander" 

 of this order, and invaded Missouri in September, 

 1K04, expecting to gather an anny of knights as he 

 advanced, but his cxix-cfations were not realized. 

 Though he reached Jefferson City, he was obliged to 

 -ely pin-sued by liens Plca-onton and Curtis. 

 Alter the close of the war Price went to Mexico and 

 obtained some favor from the Emperor Maximilian, 

 but, on the overthrow of the latter, Price returned to 

 St Louis, and died Sent. 117. 1 



PRIESTS. Prof. W. Robertson Smith, in his nrti- 

 _ v , Yr _ cle on PRIESTS in the ENCYCLOPEDIA 

 , ee 7 .'4 <n 743 BRITANNICA, prefaces his account of 

 Am' "Rep) the Hebrew priesthood by a general de- 



scription of what he calls the priest- 

 hood of " the pure Semites," that is to say, of " the 

 ancient Arabs. ' From what he says the casual reader 

 would be likely to infer that we have some authentic 

 and independent information concerning the practices 

 of "the ancient Arabs," who lived before the begin- 

 ning of Israelite history. Of course the author did 

 not intend to convey any such impression. No one 

 knows better than 1m that the alleged facts he pre- 

 sents are derived either from literature and. traditions 

 later than the Mohammedan era say from eight hun- 

 dred to a thousand or more years later than the latent, 

 Old Testament books or, by processes of pretty re- 

 mote inference, from incidental notices in earlier litera- 

 ture, the Old Testament itself being the most ancient 

 and most fruitful source of these notices. Evidently, 

 therefore, whatever the value of these views as to the 

 priesthood of the early Semites may be, they can 

 nave no very great weight as evidence concerning the 

 Old Testament priesthood. Especially, they have nt 

 sufficient weight to entitle them to be preferred, 

 when they come into conflict with reputable testimony. 

 A man who takes a different view of the Old Testa- 

 went priesthood would make a correspondingly differ- 

 ent construction of what information there is concern- 

 ing the primitive Semitic ideas of priesthood. 



Prof. Smith probably would not claim that his ac- 

 count of thcTiiattor can possibly be made to agree with 

 most of the Biblical statements concerning it Sup- 

 pose we reconstruct the Ilexatench on the plan pro- 

 posed by his school, distributing its contents over sev- 

 eral centuries, and then reconstruct tho history of 

 l-rael to make it fit the reconstructed Hcxatcuch, even 

 then the Biblical statements concerning the pri- 

 cannot be interpreted so as to agree with his views; 

 the only course open to an advocate of tho.se views is 

 to accept such items of the evidence as agree with his 

 conclusions, and reject the rest. The _ Biblical ac- 

 count of the priests of Israel is entirely different from 

 his account, and is in every way credible. It has su- 

 pernatural elements, which arc to be dealt with pre- 

 cisely ;us we deal with supernatural factors anywhere ; 

 but. considered as a historical account, it is contra- 

 dicted by nothing in philology, or in authentic tradi- 

 tion, or in what we know by experience as to the laws 

 of religious phenomena amom; men. 



The Hexatenchal records inform us that Israel had 



(ore the giving of the law at Sinai, and the 



setting apart of Aaron and the Levites for sacred 



