The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-07
CHURCHES YESTERDAY.
Meeting of the Humane Society
Last Evening.
MAJOR H. c. HILLS ADDRESS
TT WAS LISTENED TO BY A LARGE
AUDIENCE,
Or. IT. b. Beatty SpeaISs-Addresses
by Rev. c. Il. Brown and Mrs. G.
g. AIIen-Tribute to the Late Mrs,
JOnes-Other Services.
Salt Lake has a Humane society.

Salt Lake has a Humane society.
This may not be as generally know
as it should be. for the reason that thu
work of the organization has beer
performed in "a very quiet way and il
strength heretofore has not been such
as TO attract public attention to it
but that the sympathy of the people is
with it was evidenced last evening
when the society held a meeting at the
First Congregational church.
The pastor Rev. c. 7. Brown, made
a, brief address showing the Christian
spirit underlying the idea upon Which
the society is built.
He was followed by DR.. T. B. Beatty
who spoke at considerable length
showing the necessity for the exist
ence Of such a society, and clinching
every argument with unanswerable
logic. The doctor was listened tC
with the closest attention
Major II. c. Hill was next speaker
and his was the address of the even
ing. The gentleman saiG:
Most of you have read Lord Byron s
eulogy upon his dOg-Boatswain-3
the epitaph carved upon the mOnu-
,nent which that erratic nopleman
caused to De erected over the grave OF
his canine friend.
MANY people think the eulOgy ex-
hravag ant-and the epitaph ill-timed
at ieaSt-Some few esteem both as
absurd and senseless-these latter
display their ignorance. They plainly
show that they have never had the
advantage of an association with good
dogs-that they are unacQUainted
with canine character-that they are
unable to appreciate the excellence of
i'll
lack of appreciation, is to be pitied.
just as ignorance of any kind is to
be pitied-it is part of a liberal educa-
Eioa, to know a good dog.
l do not wish to be understood as
saying, that no man can be a good
man, unless he possesses the friend
ship OF a dog-and knows something
about dogs-but / do most decidedly
believe, that many men would be
made better and kinder men, could
they have known some dogs that 1
have known, and in some measure
followed the example those dogs
would have set before them-I dom |
believe amy man was ever made a
worse man, by the friendship of a
good dog think a man who is forced
TO live dogless life-deprived always
of the friendship and sympathy of these
humble friends of man, deserves a lot
of sympathy from his fellowman, and
very much may be excused in him,
which the possessor of a good dog
should be blamed for.
am unable to understand how any,
one can fail to be improved by the
contemplation of the unwavering
friendship-the unexacting affection,
the answering fidelity OF a good dog
these creatures do give 50 much, and
ask SO very little in recompense. Of
course there are good dogs and bad
dogs, exactly as there are good men
and bad men-and a snarling-surly
cur, is always to be despised and
shunned-whether he walks upon two
OF upon four feet.
Sometimes someone or another gets
bitten by dOg-Ellen without at all
investigating the circumstances
entire race is condemned and whole
sale slaughter decreed-at which
times. generally the valuable animals
suffer, and the worthless ours escaDe.
How many of you are there who have
not at sometime or another, been
bitten by a man?
man is occasionally disappointed
IN or deceived by his dog-which may
even be a Thoroughbred, and forthwith
forgetting all the dogs good deeds
md faithful service, the poor creature
s seat to the crematory-the man is
neXorable. and the dog must expiate
us one fault with his life.
l have a friend, who once told me
hat he knew Of a case where
vonlan disappointed a man; and II
vas not even suggested that she be
remated
] am perfectly aware that good dogs
re not the only things in the world
nth which a man comes in contact.
hat improve hinl-the ennobling. ele-
atlng influence of the last best gift
, man. upon man, is l believe con-
eded by everyone. While a. man
rom his inmate or inherited decency
lay rise superior to the defects of a
ogless iife-no man cam be entirely a
God man, can be all that God intend
him to be, if he be debarred from
ssociaticn with good women,-notaling
an compensate for that
Laboring under the disadvantages
I'd suffering from the inevitable
striments of being a bachelor. | of
curse can only speak theoretically
BON this Tnatter-I know almost moth
g whatever about women. Each year
lat is added to my life, seems TO in
nsify my ignorance of them-and I
n always conscious of a. growing
u sntempt for my lack of knowledge