The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-25
TRAINING PUSSY.

crime. The Buddhists and Brahmans
of India believe that animals have
souls which are reborn again on the
earth in like manner with the souls of
human beings. If a horse suddenly,
without any apparent cause, turns upon
a man and bites or kicks and tramples
him to death, the Buddhist says it is
because the man tortured the brute in
past incarnation, filed its animal soul
with thoughts of fear and revenge.
which never left 1t until it was able to
wreak it's vengeance long after, for
Hatred ceases not with hatred.
Sounds fanciful and silly, does 1t, the
Buddhist idea? Well. it is a thousand
pities that so called civilized white
people could not believe it too, for then
the hearts of really civilized white
people would not be narrowed up day
by day with outrages and awful cruel
ties they can do nothing to prevent.
You never thought Of it probably, but
women are the ones directly response
bic for cruelties practiced upon cats
and dogs, upon horses. birds and cattle
and all the tortured live stock process
sion that follows wailing and crying
in the wake of the human race.
Mothers and women teachers could de-
velop the tenderness that is latent in
the soul of every child. They could
show the children that kicks. cuffs,
burns, starvation and thirst hurt the
animal exactly as much as they burt
the human.
If the history Of every murderer
could be traced back to his childhood.
it would be found nearly always that
he was a boy who stoned cats and
kicked dogs, who neglected TO give food
and drink to helpless dumb animals
fastened up SO they could not get 1t for
themselves.
The other day a lady saw a horse
attached. to a heavy wagon that was
stopped near a drinking trough. The
poor horses mouth was parched with
thirst, he was painting and qwvering
with the heat. he was striving desper-
ately to reach the water but the check
rein prevented. The fat brute of q
driver sat upon his perch too lazy to
descend and loosen the rein.
do give that horse his head so he
can get q drink" said the lady. The
two legged brute leered at her impu-
IDENTIFY and said, Miss. you tend to
your business and I'll tend to mine,
seeT And the wretched. suffering
horse got no drink. But the lady went
at once and Joined the Society For Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals and got
a badge showing her to be a member
Of II. Next time she sees a human
monster refusing water to a thirsty
horse she will show him that badge
and he viii be forced to loosen the
checkrein or be arrested. The dumb
protest Of that one tortured horse did
good TO his suffering brothers. anyhow.
If the two legged beast who drove
the four footed one had his story told
from childhood. no doubt it would be
found that when his mother moved
away from one house to another she
left the family cat 20 starve in the
abandoned home or to be stoned to
death by street boys. Probably. too.
his woman teacher wore upon her hat
the tender breast of a rare plumaged
bird. torn from 1t to satisfy the whim
Of a bloody. awful fashion. Perhaps
too. his grown up sister wore fur boa,
with the head. natural and lifelike, of
a mink or a fox dangling from it for
ornament. Ornament! Heaven have
mercy on the children whose mothers,
teachers and sisters do these things!
Woman tender hearted? Woman mer-
ciful? Never say it again. And you,
o women. do look beyond your noses
and see these crimes you are RESPONSE
bic for! You will answer for them 90
sure as justice reigns-
II there ID no society for the proven