Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-09

turned adrift to die. Although the lower
order Of human beings are notorious for dis
~nensine with those who serve them, when
they have been thoroughly used, and there
is no farther ability to serve eft in them,
vet no higln-minded proprietor will neglect
the once faithful, once useful, but now hum
BILE and disabled beast. One of these two
things is incumbent on every really humane
person in this respect-care, Or a merclful
death. x II
You know how impossible tits for an ami
NAL to speak one word of rebuhe or entreaty
to the heartless wretches who, with satanic
malice infict extreme cruelty upon it. For
instance, when a horse is being shod, how
many thoughtless kicks and br lises are ire
quently given him. We have read and
known of cases where animals were struck
heavy blows with a hammer or mallet, be-
cause they became uneasy while being shod.
But touch your own nail to the quick, or
have theforceps applied to your teeth, how
soon you will writhe in agony! Sometimes
a misdirected blow of the hammer or the
length Of the operation will make a horse
FESTIVE. Is he, therefore, to be savagely
struck, or scourged without mercy? Is that
the better way to make him stand still by
giving him this terrible shock and fright?
What would be the condition OF your nerves
if a surgeon impatient at youi restiveness
under an operation, should crudly beat you
as a surer method to induce you to be quiet
under his knife? 1t is true that the brute
does not always feel pain in beiig shod, but
he most certainly feels thd gratuitous
blows. X X X
Ineed not, in concluding, cita the num-
berless| instances of almost human knoWl-
edge, prescience, wisdom, cunning, drollery,
human affection and wonderful affection OF
dumb creatures. Any observer any lover
of pets, has his own especial story to relate.
The horse you loved SO much, he dog that
was so long a companion and never traitor
Gus, that if you died would seek your grave
and watch over it possibly to it's own death;
the petted cat, the bird that sang in your
window so long, SO dear perhaps to some
one else, who hears its song no more, be-
cause angels are singing where her spirit
| dwells the poor little oninals from Drazll-
ian forests, SO like humanity in its shape, so
close a mimic of humanity, so tender and
full of feeling that it would press your hands
within it's own, and kiss them when he saw
you in the morning, or when troubled, shed
an actual tear the gaudy parrot that seems
to know your CONVEX sation, and said so
much that was amusing and at times so i'm
proper; every pet you ever possessed, APP
peals to you in behalf of animal protection.
Even wild beasts claim consideration, and
sometimes Difference, as in the old story of
Androcles and the Lion, and we come to
feel that
Gle prayeth best who loveth best
Both man, and bird, and beast.
Remember, then, that God beholds the
beast of the forest, sometimes SO wantonly
destroyed; that He knows the csttle upon
a thousand hills, whose lives are so neces-
sary to our own ; and all the fowls upon the
mountain, and the wild beasts of the field
are in His sight. He made them, and he
holds us responsible for ti.eir proper care.
They were all created to serve man-ov
them he has been given dominion as lord of
the world, but his rule is to be a merciful
one, using as not abusing his great preroga-
tive. He is to stand as Adam stood
in Eden, surrounded by all created
the master, yet also the kind friend Of
all.
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