The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-12-10
REGARD OF THE ANCIENTS
FOB ANIMALS.

In ancient Egypt, when cat disd
in the house, the inhabitants shaved
their eyebrows; if DOG died, they
shaved their whole body. In Athens.
one of the laws OF Triptolemus de-
Glazed that no one had right to IL
fiict wrong upon a living creature.
The Greeks were aware of the tender
and afectionate care which the young
OF the stork exhibited for their old
parents, and recorded that, when the
latter lost their feathers from age, the
y0ung stripped themselves OF their
down Tor them and fed them with
lEe tocG toey collected. This was the
origin OF he Greek law called 1.-The
ias of sh5 stofk," by virtue of which
children were obliged to take care OF
their aged parents, and those who
refused 10 du so were declared infa-
NOUS. Bow different is it in our
modern societies! Pierquin remarks
With reason thet, az man rises, he
treats ANIMALS az il they were CORES.
pondingIy degraded. For a long
time they had the same rights.
During she middle ages they we're al
loved part in religious ceremonies.
At Milan they figured in the festivals
OF the kings; and professions OF ami
mails appear in theb.ss reliefs of the
cathedrals of 6trasburg, Mans, and
Vienne (Isere). On Holy Wednes-
day all the clergy of the church of
Rheims went to Saint Remi to make
station there; the canons, preceded
by the cross. were arranged in two
lines, each drawing a herring after
him with cord; and each one was
intent upon saving his own fish, and
stepping upon that OF the canon in
front of him (AnquetiI, "Histoire de
Reims"). At Paris,l the procession
of the fox was as much enjoyed az
the festival of the ass. The animal,
dressed in kind OF surplice, wearing
the mitre had his place IN the midst
OF the clergy: fowl was put within
his reach; be often forgot his pious
functions to spring upon the bird and
Gevour it in the presence OF the faith.
ful. Philip the Fair was very fond Of
this procession (6anval, Antiquities
de Paris"). Only a few years ago,
the procession of the fat OK remained,
survival from the pagan 'easts,
real piece of wreckage from Vanished
civilization.
While the rights of animals were
thus recognized, their duties toward
man did not escape the earlier legis-
lators, who severely punished their
crimes and attempts upon human
life. The law of Moses Exodus xxi,
%, 29) recites: "If an OK gore man
or woman, that they die: then the
OK sball be surely stoned, and his
flesh shall not be eaten; but the
owner of the OK shall be quit. But
ii the OK were wont to push with bis
horn in time past. and it hath been
testified to his Cwner, and he hath
not kept him in, but that he hath
killed q man OF woman; the OK
shall be stoned, and his owner also
shall be put to death.
Judgments based on this principle
are recorded at Athens and Rome
According to Pierquin. Demooritug
wished al animal, which had occa-
stoned some major damage, TO be
punished with death. Under Domi-
tian, according to the report of Mar
tiaI, the ingraritude of q lion toward
his master was severely punished.
ColumelIa and Varro say that the
ancient Romans regarded the OK as
tbs companion of the labors OF man
and that the act of killing one was
regarded as homicide and punished
in the same way; and the OK enjoyed
the came privilege in Attica and the
Peloponneaus. II is alec said that
toe ARABS in the Mountains Of africa
formerly cruciied hons. guilty OF
murders, upon trees as warnings to
others. Popular Science Monthly