The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-15

I 10 move over 10 the UIHef size OF the
stall, and instead Of placing his hand
/ gently upon you and saying quietly,
Now move over" he gives you saw
age kick in the stomach or cuff upon
the side Of the head that made your
car ring and your brain dizzy with
pain. What would you do? Would
you bite aud kick him if you got the
chance? | doubt whether human ma
! ture would be rs long suffering as
equine nature under such proyocation,
But il every time that hostler came
around you got caress. or piece Of
apple every time he applied the curry
comb, and kind reassuring word
every time Il shrieking engine came
past, | think that hOstler or driver
would be loved and trusted and obeycd
Just as my little child has, through my
I kindness, learned to love and TRUST ana
obey me. 1.-THE more | see Of men the
more | love dogs" Oh, no; the phllos-
ophcr was wrong. But the more you
see Of horses and dogs the more YOU
ought TO learn to treat them with
the same gentlencss with which you
should treat your fellow man. Curses
and blows and yclls and glowls never
made nervous horse trustful or an
obstinate horse docile Kindness will
win submission in an animal, where
terror ana fear can never produce it,
Justice For the Brute.
The Humane Society of America do
mands justice for the dumb brute be-
cause the equine laborcr is always
! worthy Of his hire. The horse has just
as much right to his oats MS the farm
hand has to his monday lunch, the OK
TO his mouthful Of grain as the owner
of the thrashng floor has to his loaf
! Of bread after it is baked. The robin
that sings in our cherry tree has a
right to his living as well as the little
/ child that eats at our dining table. In
the great economy of nature every
creature was created for 4 purpose,
and If that creature fultills good pur-
pose then you and should try to make
I its life happy, rs that creature Is try
! ing to make ours.
| Did you ever stop to think how much
| you and | are indebted to all those
-four footed beasts of the earth and
| wild beasts and creeping things and
fowls of the air" which Peter saw in
! vision let down from the heavens in a
! 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 partl And often in times of sad
ness he has come to our help. The
| birds, Yes, they, too. are worthy Of
/ their hire. They are our woodland
prima donnas, our songsters and song
stresses, that make the day, rs we'll as
! the night, vocal with music The fowls
Of the harnyard and the cattle Of the
| fields they, too, are worthy of their
/ hire. The bone and muscle and brain
| of man come from their flesh. Even
| the humblcst creatures are sometimes
of great value to man.
IL saw hidcous snake this after
noon" said last summer to a Mich
| igan farmer. ut seemed to he all
colors and caught 1t in The middle Of
the road" Did you kill it, "Of
course Killed it, What are snakes for
but to kill" no, my friend" he an.
sWcrcd "All snakes are not to kill.
The poisonous snakes are 10 kill, but
not those that are not poisonous The
snakes we have around here, for the
most part. are n great blessing to the
farmers. They kill the bugs and in
scots which destroy tie crops Snakes
are not always the enemy, but often
the friend, of man" Yes, my brother,
we should not only leave the OK I'M
muzzlcd upon tie thrashing floor be-
cause the lalcrer is always worthy Of
his hire, but the sheep and oxen and
cattle ana horses and birds and fishes,
and sometimes even the snakes. are
among the best and the most faithful
labOrers we have
The Love of Animals.
Again, | assert that we should honor
the Humane Society Of America he
cause | sometimes think that tie birds
of the air, rs well as the beasts of the
earth. may have an ardor of affection
even greater than that Ct man If that
/ loving power Of the heart is ever nj
lowed to develop believe that dog
can love as n man can love. ! believe
n horse can love as a man can love,
and bird also. We should be very
careful lest we trample upon the
hearts Of the dumb brutcs. as some Of