The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-11-21

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n did not seem quite so much OF an ab-
surdity.7S .''''@ "
But what shall i say OF the mall
treatment Of this beautiful and won
derful creature Of God? IL Thomas
Chalmers in his day were called upon
TO preach n sermon against cruelty TO
animals, how much more in this day
is there need OF reprehensive dis
course. All honor to the memory of
Prof. Bergh. the chief apostle for the
brute creation, for the mercy he de-
manded and achieved for this king Of
beasts A man who owned 1000
horses, and some say 10000, wrote in
the Binl4: "A righteous man regardeth
the life of his beast" Sir Henry Law
rcnce's care of the horse was beauti'
fully Christian.
| He says: II expect we shall lose
Conrad, though have taken so much
care of him that he may come in cool.
/ always walk him the last four or five
miles, and as | walk myself the first
hour, 1t Is only In the middle of the
| journey we get over the ground" The
| Ettrick Shepherd in his matchlcss
"Ambrosinl Nights speaks of the
maltrentment of the horse as prac
tical basphemy. l do not believe in
the transmigration OF the soul, but !
eau not very severely dcnouuce the
| idea, for when | see men who cut and
| bruisc and whack and welt and strike
and maui and outrage and insult the
horse, that beautiful servant Of the
human race, who carries our burdens
and pulls our plows, and turns our
threshcrs and our mills, and runs for
| our dOctOrs-when | see men thus
beating and abusing and outraging
! that creature it seems to me that it
would only bC fair that the doctrine Of
transInigration Of souls should prove
true, and that FOR their punishment
| they should pass over into some poor
miserable brute, and be beaten and
whacked and cruelty treated, and
frozen and heated and overdriven; into
an everlasting stage horse, an eternal
traveller on n tow path, or tied tC an
eternal post, in m eternal win .cr,
smitten with eternal epizootics! On,
is it not n shame that the brute crea-
ton, which had the first possession of
our world, should be so maltrcatcd by
the race that came in last--the fowl
and the fish created on the fifth day,
the horse and the cattle created on the
morning of the sixth day, and the hui
mau race not created until the evening
of the sixth day? 1t ought to be that
if any man overrides a horse, or feeds
him when he is hot, or recklcsslv
drives nail into the quick of his hoof,
or rowels him to see him prance, or SO
shoes him that his fetloclls drop blood,
or puts collar on raw neck, or un-
necessarily clutches his~tOngue with
twisted bit. or cuts off his hair until
he has no defense against the cold, or
unmerclfullY abbreviates the natural
defense against insectile annoyance
that sucn man as that himself ought
to be made to pull and let his horse
ride!
But not only do our humanity and
our Christian principle and the die
tates OF God demand that we kindly
treat the brute creation. and especial
ly the horse, but ] 90 further and say
that whatever can be done for the de-
velopment of his feetness and his
strength and his majesty ought to he
done. We need to study his anatomy
and his adaptations. / am glad that
large books have been written TO show
how he can be best managed, and how
his ailments can be cured, and what his
usefulness is, and what his capacities
are. 1t would be shame If in this
age of the world. when the florist has
turned the thin flower of the wood i'm |
to n gorgeous rose, and the pomologist |
has changed the acrid and gnarled
fruit of the ancients into the !
very poetry of pear, and peach, |
and plum, and grape, and apple, and |
the snarling cur of the Orient has be- |
come the great mastitf, and the mis-
cradle creature of the olden times |
barnyard has become the Devonshire, |
and the Alderneyr and the shorthorn, |
that the horse, grander than them all, |
should get no advantage from our SCI |
ence, or our civilization, or our Chris |
tianity. Grooined to the last point OF |
soft brilliance, his flowing name a bill
low of beauty, his arched neck in ut
most rhythm of curve, let him be har-
messed in graceful trappings and then
driven TO the furthest goal of excel
lence, and then fed at luxuriant oat |
bins, and blanketed in comfortable
stall. The long-tried and faithful
servant of the human race deserves all
Kindness all care. all reward, all sue
culent forage and soft litter aud para !
daisiacal field. Those farms in KeE.
lucky and in different parts of
the north, where the horse is
trained to perfection H. in fieetness
and in beauty and in majesty are
we'll set apart There is no more