The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-03-10

No Animal is moro uuustly treated
Than the Pig, r,...t.'..... ..s
Burns wrote lines to a butterfly
on ladys bonnet in church,
Gtwasn't Il butterfly, but no matter +;
this is intended for family readingl;
Gray achieved dirge on favorite
cat drowned in tub of gold fishes
and 'Coleridge scared "to elegize an
ass" but who has ever made hero
or a.pig? Even Virgil does not
spare him hcxameter in his third
George.
The pig has been accounted I'm
clca can.because of mental obliquity or
prejudice. That the pig is not
! squtamlsh in his tastes, must be
I allowed. He will cat anything, but
so will other numbers Of the animal
CT eqtinn, Ducks are not fastidious.
They have been seen to make an
aldefmanic; feast from the ofIal re-
,jected by the pig. Yet the duck is
not accounted unclcan, aud Hans
Christian An iersen has devoted a
charming storiotte to the adventures
OF an ugly duckling. But who ever
made hero of an ugly pigling I?
1t is not contended that all pigs are
naturally gentle and self denying.
Some are BON with vices. On the
4th OF June, 1904, pig was hanged
on a' 'glbbet, near Lam, for deyour>
ing the child of cowherd. But;
then, consider the number of cow
herds who have regaled on rashels
Of bacon in their time. Again, on
the 10th Of January, 1857, SOW and
her six sucklings were Indicted for
homicide on the person Of one Jehan
Le'nfant, OF. Sayigny, when the
former was found guilty without ex.
tenuating circumstances, which
showed the dnin,us of the jury, and
sentenced to be hanged by the hind
legs from the branch ola tree. The
youngsters were left off, there heine
20 positive proof connecting them
with the crime, though, there was
ntrnnr "i,.a,..>> et~., tiul evidence, there
chaps being sprinkled with froth
Of warm gore. But these were cx
ceptional pigs. and we are no more
warranted in condemning the porcine
! race as murderers because Of these
isolated occurrences than we should
be in denouncing English working
mon rs brutal because some Of them
demonstrate with their wives, when
their dinner is not to their liking,
with tho heels Of their clogs.
But vour ordinary pig is amiable,
an indefatigable hunter pftor food
when he is hungry land whom is he
not y and a pas sionato lover of the
1picc tar nientc. All he asks is to
be let alone: but men refuse this
negative favor. Mischievous boys
pelt him in the ribs. Malicious
teamsters crack their whip lash over
his rounded back, active pound
masters arrest him on tho Queens
highway, and pound hun, and even
his ownor slits his ears and Inserts
a ring in his nost.i!s. He is the
object Of general persecution, and
we would scarcely recognize in him
any connection with the piggies SO
touchingly alluded to in the familiar
household story
''rhis little pig went to market; . ...
This little pig stopped at home. .'
This little pig got bread and butt0r;
And this little pig got none!
This little pig cried, Week! week! week!
Help me over the barn door"
The pig, although universally
condemned, is endowed something's
with exquisite sensibility, in proof
of wl.io.I T will relate q storywhich
came to my knowledge in Paris. I am
careless whether the story is credit
ed or not by the mob; some folks
are as sceptical as tho Tichborne
twelve, and will not believe in the
sea-serpant, or the enormous goose
berry that grows every autumn
but tho story is trua nevertheless.
Well, this pig Of which ! write
yasan inhabitant of tho Quarter
Latin~~that mirthful, happy ron
dezvous of wild, buoyant, improvi
dent studentship, aflluent in spirits,
but limp of purse. f."H,
In one of the, narrowest, crooked
est, darkest lanes of the network Of
streats at tho back of what is now
the boulevard ST. Michel, as ono
ncoeoa5 H. IL. 9,o,,o 4,