Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-25
of the work has been accomplished, and ceaseless
vigilance that It be not uIfdoRe is what is chiefly

ceaSelnSS
vigilance. that It be not udoRe, is what is chiefly
required
TO the friends of dumb humanity the future
looks Drght, and all OF them cherish conviction
that the day will yet arrive when men shall have
50 far overcome the brutal In their nature that
cruelty to animals may be reckoned among those
things which are past
GIRLS HIsH SCHOOL, Miss Georgia Lane princi-
palD CORA PAXTON. 1923 II street northwest
man born without heart should have been
born without the use OF his right hand. "Aias,"
you say, 'the world would be left handed" Dex-
terity is not virtue, and the mute appeal of our
suffering and wronged animals Is "more heart,
less whip
In the countries OF the far east, where the Indus
lends its name to the soil it washes, animal
worship is a fort for dumb brutes. man cannot
strike so numerically at a beast when he thinks
that 1t probably contains the soul OF his grand
mother, or That some day, in one OF its kind, his
better life.
houses on market day, one would suppose that we
INDUCED In similar belief, and that every pig,
Calf or chicken embodied the soul of mother-in-
law. A stone heart must surely melt to see that
stock OF living ware. Here a pitiful calf, half
choked by the rope, stands tied to post There
a box OF fowls nearly smothered, all Of them,-and
some with bleeding heads that tell OF fearful peck
ing ARRAYS.
"Why no." he said laughing; "pOrk is better with
pepper and salt. When we show mercy to the
enrich your life with that which is better than
rubies or precious stones" l think this last re-
mark was lost, for when turned the dealer was
explaining to a customer that pork being scarce,
fowls were dear"
The poets sing beautiful songs OF the gentle-eyed
cow reveling In beds of clover and sweet-scented
blossoms. / longed for one of those poets last
spring. Several or us went beyond the boundaries
OF Washington to hunt for arbutus On a bare
ana rocky hill we saw an exceedingly bOny COW
theme for Homer or a Shakespeare. She could
not walk, and lay with her head down the hill.
we hurried on to spring near by, where a man
was burning brush. We told him his COW was
up the hill: Some OF us were ungenerous enough
to wonder If the suffering COW or his Washington
milk customers had most moved his heart
The boy Is father Of the man. Now II you have
ever wondered why man miStreats animals in
ierior to him, go back through the corridors of
e thirty ha or forty years to that ragged shaggy
thrown one million OF stones at a half million of
cats, tied tin pans innumerabe to the tails OF In
OF defencelaSs turtles. Go back as you would go
toward the fountain head to know the cause Of q
One evening as passed down II street shout
from crowd of boys on corner made me look for
the cause OF their merriment In the midst OF
them stooda yellow cur, frightened and shivering.
When he attempted to escape he was caught and
thrown back. At last one OF the boys caught him
Tor your d0g?" inquired. as passed him on the
next corner, where he stood holding his charge by
the head: Dogs is up" he replied, with all the
cents were worth more than even ten dogs, and
carried my prize away In triumph. What should
! 90 with MIN? Put him out to board7 Mol 1
Dougnt MIN some bologna sausage, and, after eat
Ing it, much to my relief he trotted or down the
There Is little boy in Washington that drives q
goat In a wagon. From the way he treats his
goat, In twenty years from now he will be, know,
att, terror TO the brute creation hope that boy
have no place In America for him.
We all know a reform is needed. We see 1t and
leei IL every day. Let us not, however, pOunce
down on cur plebian, but lock to our patrictan.
can see from my window a cOachnan rushing
MS morse franticaily down the street. The Occu-
pant must have ordered it. He may be a repre-
sentative or the fashionable world or he may be a
Cabinet member who fingered so long over choice
of cravats that he must Kill either his horses or his
reput ition as man OF his word He prefers the
former, and his horses suffer His SIN Is equal
with that Of the strpet-car driver who lasheS his
Back to our patrclans Watch that daintily
dressed lady standing on the corner She sees the
passenger about ten steps behind her stop the car
she can get in with the physical exertion of few
steps but she does not and the horse twice starts
loaded car. II you have ever carried bucket
OF water up a hill and set it down to rest YOUR
self, you know how the horse feels
Our lady is In the car now. and, with her dear
little poodle dog on the seat by her, she imagnes
herSelT protector OF the animal kingdom. Her
sin would balance the scale II weighed with that
OF an Old negro man whom saw on I'd street one
gay. ~. :, miserable bony horse was vainiy endeav
orin% TO draw load sufficient for two strong
horses. "What are you abusing that horse for?nI
asked with all the wrath could summon CLAW
Sy. Missy, amt 'busn' dis horse,-bless you,
honey. he be de backbone oh our family" s.WhN
are you trying to KIN him for, then?' "Bless yo'
me- amt trien to Kill him, but l thot he gwine
10 Ole, ana wants TO get all de work outen him
what kin fo' he die"
1t is hard TO set down rules by which to treat our
might we say, "Fo(iow the dictates Of your con-
SCIENCE" but a conscience is such Wry little
machine we might better not say that.
A red ant last night crawled over the leaves OF
my D0Ok, right across, IL attracted to ft--thn
picture 81 a magnetic needle MY first impnise
was to knock ii off, and then saw a small island
In the pleasant waters OF the d1gean sea- and
Zetls, the shining god Of light. was Transforming
hundreds or small ants into fierce, bold WARRIORS
siege to mighty Troy. Wondered II my little friend
on the book were suddenly to become a myrmidOD
II would attempt to crush It, rather thought
should not. and the American SOlOn kept It's life
God no more made the higher animal to abuse the
lower animal than he made the white man to
abuse the black man.
II you want to know how to treat an animal, nut
yotrSedr in its place. But" you say 81 do net
mistreat; We have five or six cats,-I am good to
rot, which SANDER but never strike what ,ssra
DO you wish ?'' There Is the busy rolling Trter or
the ocean hurrying to the clouds, then dashing to
eaTth again, carrying the wealth OF mountains to
barren fields, and making the earth better for its
very ACTIVITY There Is the Lake. passive and
an exerton. You are the lake Be a torrent. and
when Boreas blows his shrill whistle take yos1r
CLOAK S about you and sally forth. Be accompanied
purse. Open your heart and your purse viii fiy
open with It, Do not imagine yourself a John
Gllpin, or Don Quixote, or even an Alfred the
Crest, but simply IN American citizen on an
GRAND OF justice Lookout for speeches. animals
paupegS, for ''beggar that Is dumb, you knew
may challenge double pity" If you be Greek
remember horse took Troy. II you be an Aneri,
Can, remember horse saved Caedar Creek. See
the troops collected near Winchester. Watch Early
driving them from their camp In the grey light OF
the mecning. Listen to the echo OF a far-aWAy
hoof. Hear 1t growing louder and louder till horse
ana rider rush to the 'front.' Sheridan wore the
tosa'els Of hat victory. Let you and me make a
wreath rem the leaves OF kindness for tho horse
You may think the shifting woolly cur OF no
value whatever, but it bears the image OF these
noble st Bernard dogs that at this very moment
are battling with the cold blast for men of your
race and nation. Give the cur "a bone for the sake
or Your beHefactOr. You say, 'sThat will do theO-
retlcaily; the horse Is good and gentle: kindness
VIII rule II; harness your theory with mule, and
your reinS will sson be Fragments" The theory is
not "Never strike; never be angry" The Bible
says "Be angry, but sin not" Scion said, tBe
moderate" You follow the blacksnith's motto
ana strike when the iron is hot. Wait till YOU
have mastered your temper, then master your
Drute, renenbar1ng always to- take the same
means to do SO that you would take ii you knew
the animal would walk up the aisle OF your church
on sunday morning and read your record OF the
past week.
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