a million!!...

Then followed the many incidents in which Bergh took his stand as the noble defender of the sub-missive, weak animal, demanding heavy fines as the penalty for cruelty and savagery. The society grew, its efforts spread abroad, its aims became known, and people came forward to support it and to cherish it at once. Public opinion was awakened to it through the newspapers, which at first commented on the incidents and episodes with a certain astonishment, but before long respect showed in their tone.

With the society's expansion its finances thinned, and its president, Bergh, had to find a way to revive his enterprise. And God answered his prayer: Bergh heard a knocking at his door, and the man at the door begged him insistently to visit a sick man in the hospital. Bergh answered the summons, wondering all the while what on earth the sick man could want of him?

The sick old man expressed his intense admiration and esteem for the work of Bergh and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and asked Bergh to carry on with this great humane work.

And when this old man died — he was a wealthy merchant — he left the organization a hundred thousand dollars... which were the greatest store for widening

its works and taking them up again on a large scale.

The thirty-three branches of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that Bergh planted with his own hand have today become 600, thanks to solidarity and cooperation and the spread of the society's spirit — not in America alone, but in all the countries of the world...