Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-24
ANCIENT OF DAYS.
the EARLIEST ANIMALS THAT WERE
DoMEsTIcATED BY MAN.

What Cultivation by Man Has Accom-
plishsd for the Brute Creation-Ths
Finest Specimens of Domestic Animals
In the World-A Grand Exhibition That
Everybody Should See.
Among the earliest of domesticated
animals are the OK, sheep and swine.
Most people suppose these animals to
have been servants of man from time i'm
memorial They have read of the sacred
cattle of ancient Egypt, where the bull
was one of the chief sacred symbols Of
deity, far back in the days of the earliest
pyramid builders. They have read Of the
oxen of Greece and Rome, and how the
Roman senate voted to brave Horatius
from the public corn lands, as reward
for his heroic defense of the bridge over
the Tiber, ''as much as two strong oxen
could plow from morn till night" And
they have read in the early books of the
Bible how Moses commanded that "thou
shalt not muzzle the OK that treadeth out
the corn" and Of hsw the OK and the ass
WoNO uuCQudAAy yOAOO tOBObhOks
Everybody knows, too, that the sheep 10
FAMILIAR IN THE EARLIEST BIBLE RECORDS.
Abel tended his flocks and sacrificed
lamb before he was slain by his brother
Cain. When Abraham went to sacrifice
his son. he saw ram caught by the horns
in thicket. Jake played his father-in-
law for sucker in the increase Of the
fiocks story" as the irreverent commercial
traveller stated 1t when he was unexpect-
edly called upon to address Sunday
school. ,
The history Of the hog Is not 50 familiar.
But the fact that the law of Moses pro-
hibited the eating Of pork by the Israelities
Is proof that the hog was common article
Of food amid surrounding nations. Homer
describes Ulysses as eating pork, and
names one Of his most faithful friends as
hog drover or keeper, away back in the
earliest dawn Of Greek nationality. The
hog, as domestic animal, is mentioned in
other bibles of other religions, older than
| those of the Hebrews.
But these most ancient writings and
''"ui'iono orc oA-y ''--es -
30 IMMENSELY oLD is The HUMAN hACE'
In the records OF science, as In the eye OF
deity, ten thousand years are but as a
day, and thousand years as an hour that
is past. Biologists and biologists have
found indisputable proofs that these
animals were hunted and eaten by man
for ages before they were domesticated.
Inc cnarreo, proAeh anu snaweu pones y, !,
roasts from 'ne morse inc OK 'ne noe anu
tne sneep are Iouno IN caves ana noles IN
haoited Dy prenlstorlc man IN an coun.
tries, alike IN those where ciViiization mrs,
oawneo as IN tnose "nere J" appeareu
centuries on cen'uries laesr. nelains
iouno Wnere mere ~ele evluenely prenls,
LOTTO villages nooouy Knows now ions 70
iore man Degan 70 Decone clVillzeu-sl
long ago tna' tnei, SUES are now % Jug irou
Deneatn tne everias1ins niliS' or ats
Pierceu oy tne wen porer IN 'ne EsyPIiaL
oeser1 oo 10 lVV iee' Deio" Uhe presehS ieve
OF tne sanu-sh0w 'ha' man huh'eu an'
ate 'heSe animals
IN THE DAYS OF THE MAsroDoN AND NAM
MOTH,
in fact before the great ice age sent it
gigantic glaciers over Europe and Americi
to plow out the present shape OF the con
.inenss anu UieeVo 'no "oIiu . 90 "e wv
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eay; Inese aniinais "fe nuh'eu anu eSte,
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mes1lca.eu " 'ne mos' prami.Ie S satss sss
races Anu = unsii quiCe iH iu'en. u@se T' Sne
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DuIihs 1ne e"iiy ison I..':.i C anu ev1 '.I
up 10 pas1 'ne Il.ns Vi SuIus Ct'sal, VIZ
norses weTs nun'u M;I, aru eSoen sa IN paa.S
nor.neln Hulope. u noss ai1 e.on ts re
nun.eu ~ IN nuiope, .ne VIZ ooai mr wens W
noolesC prey VI 'ue spo.CsinHn a. tne .ue WI WI
OK uown W W pe,i1o n At'o'' snan Sne 10y
VI "aiiaoo anu Dru'o, was snS Sns noioes
anu mos' uanser1us game e.,m y, ,:o E0oSiant
ING wiz snesp Mheie ~ sun ian
eAceeulnsy sny, cunning anu ewil'' anu
oesperate hsh.er upon ocoasion: 9ui'
oinerene rom one iail.i,lar =. .yp1 " hn'
cence ol ouf !.t', .aiMs ~ nuns. .ne upion a..
pa.ns e 80 aaest ~ .-t..o. 20 IT,,
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