The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-02-01

c. r r >l6 90 Oh fr F..
S:2S Sg SG g e Percentage Of
~ tplnctuality.
S,Ss,s.h,n.h, Neither absent
So 81 ~ X . nor tlrdy.
u4c3 9, lso = G, s No. of visitors.
The total enrolment for the month
was 467; that for the same month last
year was $50. The banner for
punctuality for the past month goes
to the Sixth Grade, Miss Hyiand
teacher. The room showing the best
percentage Of attendance is the High
School.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. ..
It would be a disgusting account, if
l were to attempt to explain the al
most innumerable instances Of cruel
ty to animals, which are daily occur
ring in this country-yes, in this very
city. These unreasonable and dis
gushing outrages are generally
practiced by the meanest and most
worthless and such as never are
noted for heroic bravery; they are,
in most cases, those who are utterly
incapable Of receiving any reproot;
and nothing is more notorious than
the fact that it is dangerous to sui
| fering animals tohave such a mani pun
ished for wanton cruelty to them. Ii
man is reproved or threatened, he
generally answers, ''What is that to
you?" or, cit is none of your business
what do with my own property"
Everyone has witnessed cases of this
kind. Though reproof is useless,
threats are but little better, because
1.-The offender knows how mild and
how unusual is the application Of the
Law. Yet the law and its frequent
application is about the only protec-
Ition these animals have. To read the
law on this, subject, one would not
think that anyone would dare com
NIT such outrages.
1 wish to urge the humane
treatment of the horse It does not
call for any deep study in natural
history to know that almost every
sense bestowed upon man is equally
bestowed upon the horse. They have
been provided for almost as carefully
as has man. The powers of seeing,
hearing, feeling, thinking are cult
waited to much higher degree in
horses than in many men; SO the
sense of pain and pleasure-every
faculties except speech. Nature has
willed that man should have con-
troll over these animals; but they are
for his use, not for his abuse. l
can not conceive of any abuse of a
brute that is the property of the
abuser, which is not directly against
his own interests. A just dominion
over them is proper and as nature
would have it; but an unjust domin-
ion over them ought to bring two
punishments to the offender instead
of one-loss of the animal and punish
ment by the law.
There is nothing more obvious than
the helpless condition in which man
would stand if deprived of the aid of
the great number of inferior beings,
especially of the horse. To see man
taking the best of care of horse
while he has hopes of saving it's life,
but stripping its blanket off, and
dragging it out into the cold as soon
as he sees that it must die, one would
think that such man had no idea
that his dominion over these being
was anything like moral trust.
Old age must be torment to these
animals, if they have such feelings as
old people have. After the usual
weeks work is done, it is the old
horse that must carry the family to
church, because with him there is no
danger of a run away.
Every day we see horses painting,
and almost dying, under the scourge
of some senseless man. I believe
that, if there is place in heaven for
such man, there is stall in bet
ter place for the horse.
Another instance of cruelty to ami
mails is found in the extravaganza bets
for trying the strength and endur-
ance of horses. I do not mean the
races that the horse is able to run
and really takes delight in. The
contests that are willfully and wan
tonly cruel are of a different kind