Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-05-14

Kindness. learned to love and trust ana
obey me. "The more | see OF men tne
more I love dogsw Oh, no; the phiios-
opber was wrong But the more you
soc OF horses and dogs the more you
ought TO learn to treat them Win
tho same gentleness with which you
should treat your fellow man. curses
. and blows and yells and growls never
made a nervous horse trustiul Ut an
obstinate horse docile. Kindness VIII
win submission In an animal, wnere
terror and fear can never produce IT.
Ju.tice For the Brute.
The Humane Society Of America de-
mands justice for the dumb brute De
cause the equine laborer Is always
worthy of his hire. The horse has just
as much right to his oats as the iarih
hand has to his MONDAY lunch' the oA
TO his mouthful Of grain as the owner
~ the thrashing floor has to his loa1
of hrend after It Is baked. The roDih
that sings In our cherry tree mas
RIGHT to his living as well as the little
child that eats at our dining table. III
the great economy Of nature every
creature was created for purpose,
and II that creature fulfills good pur-
nose then you and should try to make
its life happy, as that creature Is try
ing to make ours.
Did YOU ever stop to think how much
Won and | are indebted to all those
flour footed beasts Of the earth ana
wild beasts and creeping things ana
! fowls Of the air" which Peter saw III
vision let down from the heavens In
great sheet when he lodged with 81
mon the tanner? The horse! HOW
many of our burdens he has carried.
How many happy times we have had
when being drawn by him over the
country roads! In how many scenes
of merrymaking has he been an essen
tial part And often in times OF SAD
ness he has come to our help Ihe
birdsl Yes, they, too, are worthy OF
their hire. They are our woodland
prima donnas, our songsters and song
stresses. that make the day, as well as
the night, vocal with music. The fowls
OF the barnyard and the cattle OF the
felds-they, too. are worthy of their
hire. The bone and muscle and brain
of man come from their flesh. Even
the humblest creatures are sometimes
of great value to man.
"I saw a hideous snake this after
noon" said last summer to Mich
ipan farmer. ut seemed to be all
colors and I caught It in the middle OF
the road" "Did you kill tT "of
course killed It. What are snakes for
but to kill" mo, my friend" he an
swered. "All snakes are not to Kill
The poisonous snakes are to XIII, but
not those that are not poisonous. Inc
snakes we have around here. for the
most part, are great blessing TO the
farmers. They kill the bugs and IN,
sects which destroy the crops Snakes
are not always the enemy, but Otter
the friend, of man." Yes, my brother
/ we should not only leave the OK un
muzzled upon the thrashing floor, be
! cause the laborer is always worthy ol
e his hire. but the sheep and oxen ano
{ cattle and horses and birds and nshes
and sometimes even the snakes are
among the best and the most faithfu
laborers we have.
The Love of Animals.
Again. I assert that we should honol
the Humane Society OF America De
cause sometimes think that the BIRDS
" OF the air. as well as the beasts OF th'
earth, may have an ardor OF anectioi
even greater than that Of man II tina
;. loving power of the heart Is ever ai
lowed to develop. l believe that DOS
can love as a man can love. Dellev'
= n horse can love as man can love
:, md n bird also. We should be yer!
. careful lest we trample upon tn
hearts of the dumb brutes, as some o
us too often trample upon the hearts o
, men. What A dog love as MAJ
. loves? Absurd" says some one. Is
ohsurdp Have you never heard or
+ dog dying from grief because MS mas
p ter died? My father once had noDi
II greyhound. When he went far ava
from home that dog became so iohei.
q without my father that he refused I
o eat. and literally died from grieving 10
bis MASTER Absurd! Did you neve
4 see a dog grieving among the chie
- mourners at funeral? Again an
q again we tried to drive Beauty ii'.i
q ekv terrier. out Of the room OF deatl
p Rut he would not 60. Under the caske
" he Law. hour after hour. Mourniuil
- no went from room to room after I'll
N undertaken had carried the preciou
% burden away to sleep among the no"
,t ORG For DAYS and weeks Beauty wa
# hunting. He was always huntihg' IL
N was hunting for the dead. Have 20
70 nover had q Beauty In your home!
N Ia II absurd to suppose that the hors
VI and the dog. and even the bird, cann'
10 love as man loves? Then why did tint
A little net of Mrs. Thomas A. HendricK
ID the wife of the vice president OF IL
I'd United States, give frightened CT
anu Iull VII nCl PNANh ohA NN~
ID her mistress one day lost her paten'
I'd and cried out to the feathered singe
1e to whom she had never before spoke
Of a cross word: BE still l tell 20
It. be stillw All, those who have mad 10
OF ing pets know to some extent Il
e, height and the depth Of their affe
tions! You should be kind to the dun
brutes and the feathered companion
's- of your lives because in q sense thu
Of can love as we ourselves can love.
Is The World Not For Man Alone.
Of But, lastly, we should be kind al
gentle and loving toward the dun
lg brutes because God loves them, al
e. what God loves we should not despis
s. I used to think that God create
fe this world for man. | used to Till
OF that all other worlds were mere
:? empty, burned out worlds like t
to moon. / used to think that the 9th