Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-09
IRREGULARITIES
OF PEOPLE

OF PEOPLE.
| He is coming. God bless him, and the
| signs of the times show that he is com
| ing fast. This new missionary will STAY
| at home in our own land where he WI
| find enough to keep him busy. instead
of going to heather lands to convert ths
| inhabitants thereof, he will simply re
main here in our enlightened, civilizee
| land to make people humane, kind l.
their dumb kindred who have no voice
| to speak for themselves. The ministers
| won't do it. 1t is like drawing teeth
| get them to speak one Sunday in the
year on the rights of animals.
You see there's no money in it, No an
| imal ever yet was known to nave a
| bank account. In one city, among sew
enty-tlve preachers, only one consented
| to devote i Sunday in the year TO teacn
| his flock their duty to animals Anoth'
| follower of the gentle Jesus, when re
| quested to do so, elegantly replied:
Rats" Had that divine CD ever read
| Shelley? and the fate that overlook
cruel Bishop Hatto? Cruelty is the
vice of vulgar people" Then the
Lord in his mercy have pity on US! Vul-
gar, yes, and worse than vulgar. Wit
| ness scores of horses standing for hours
| in the hot boiling sun or IN the Wintrs
blasts. Witness the locked tails, the
! tight check-rein, the foolish, wicked
senseless Tapping binders that fore
the horse to always look straight ahead
/ which is unnatural, as their eyes I'll
placed on the side. This strains and il
jures their sight and often causes blind
ness. Binders retain the heat and re-
| fleet the light into their sensitive eyes
and the animal is more apt be fright
ened and shy when he cannot see what
is behind him.
Over 500 veterinary surgeons have
signed paper eondemning tight check
reins as painful to horses and produc-
tive Of disease, causing distortion of the
wind pipe to such a degree as to impede
respiration. 1t causes paralysis of the
face muscles, apopleXy, coma and in
Illumination. Or. Kitching, an authority
on horses, says: THE check-rein infiicts
unceaSlng torture upon the horse. BY
holding the head upward it puts the
muscles of the neck on a constant
strain, and his mouth IS violently
stretched The check -rein lessons the
horses strength, brings on disease,
keeps him in pain. frets and Injuries his
mouth and spoils his temper
This new missionary will be some
thing on the Buddha order, for tina I
great reformer never ceased to teach
our duty to animals. This new mission
airy will not spend his precious time
teaching man how to save his own poor
little soul The great Wherefore, who
was busy all his life long in saving
souls, was once asked by pious crank:
MIR. Wilberforce, how about your own
soul?" soul, soul" answered Wllber-
force. why, bless me. quite forgot
had a soul" That's pure religion and
undetiled. Forget your own little soul
in making happy those around you.
Better still to care for she comforts and
rights of the faithful animals that serve
W. Humans can speak for themselves,
but these low er kindred, our mute bro
Tiers and sisters have no voice to speak
their misery.
Faith is great thing No man ever
made success in life who didn't pos
sess faith in himself. The world is built
on faith. one who has faith can move
mountains-so 1t is said. Yes, faith is a
good thing to have, and yet, man can
have too much Of a good thing.
Charles Bell of Albion, Mich. became
SO confirmed believer in the efficacy
OF faith that he believed himself able
to take poison without any i'll effect. So
he took twenty -four grains of morphine.
The next morning he appeared sick, but
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said he had vomited up the morphine
and felt no bad effects from taking IT..
The success of this test encouraged him
to experiment further, so he bought
revolver to prove that he could shoot
himself and still live.
He then went to the front yard,
placed the revolver to his temple and
fired. He is now in the ether world
bordering the question how far it is
safe to carry faith.
The big hat is not the only nuisance
at the theatre. The loud mouth is
quite as much in evidence. Some
times it is the smart set that hire boxes
at the theaters, and disturb everybody
else with their hilarity and loud talk
ing, and sometimes it is the other set
who occupy the balconies and body of
the house and do the vulgar racket.
These people come not to listen and
enjoy the play, but simply to call
everyone's attention to themselves and
show off their snartness and their
rudeness.
The other evening. in a certain town,
two gentlemen went to see Quo Vadis
at leading theater. They sat near a
box containing a party of the ill-bred
stamp. After enduring their gable to
the human limit, one of the gentlemen
rose, and pointing his finger toward the
offending party, said:
Il want to call your attention to
the fact that I paid my money to come