The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-07-25

comforts OF satisfaction, he began TO
think it was time he should study the
bitterness Of fate. the heritage that is
the common lot Of mortality. Though
he were regal as King Lear the With
cring hand of destiny must find him.
He approached me one day walking
backward or forward as the infirmity
would propel him; l reached down my
hands end with stagger he fell into
them. l stroked his beautiful fur,
and his face, AID 6ith an effort he
resumed his id playful confidence
with me; caught my finger in his
mouth and pretended he was gnawins
them. Soon the sport wearied him
and he rested; first, solving over my
fingers with his affeotionate tongue.
After this he tried almost constant
ly to absent himself. If he arose to
walk he only fell. I brought him 10
and every way that sympathy could
devise I planned TO assuage his pain.
Little offerings OF cream and butter
for awhile coaxed and sustained him;
then he altogether refused food.
"What would you do," I asked Of Q
friend, with a sick ca. like this7"
But the gentleman had no way OF
understanding the pure affection
bound up in that suffering body; or
that the heart now throbbing in sgony
had been truer to me than many Of
the Christian pretences OF human
friends. "Chop of hiu head; chat 10
the only way to do with cats like
that" Was the information meant for
kindness.
What and how I did for him I leave
to large and humane imaginations.
My household and its people were as
8 remnant compared with him, and
toward the close Of his life, after I
had wept with his grasps Of pain, and
my fingers could no more bring gloss
to his coat nor instill interest ia.o
his eyes, after l had cried: 20 God, if
it is possible, make this little cat
we'll, or soon hasten the end Of his
sufferings." After this, if I consider.
ed myself right and just in sauv ,za7
1t was not strange If I deemed myself
other than an imbeoile; for all affec-
ton ia the same only in degree-an
ocean or drop. Were we. indeed, to
love animals only in proportion as We
sometimes had0 saaaon to love human
beings, the animals might suffer, but
though the Divine in our hearts we
arc able to see perhaps soms cross the
others are bearing; We look through
the avenue Of sympathy; thoy,shi
gotth to us in tho white light of com.
ing perfection, and We love them in
75a;itJ With Tic Tic see==aasse.e s;.hshieh
We are ilapired by cur pet animals
who never did y: harm.
The little cat was sick from three to
four days. It wsuld not be believed
were l to tell how he suffered; how
A:= mo=a= saa hard breathing breathing sSS;,s.ais1s
90 human that I forgot he was q cat,
and / sometimes feared to touch lest I
hurt him. y.
The night was very warm, he SEEM
ed to rest better whero tho air was
cool, and as I retired I placed for him
an extra pallet on tho piazza. I'slept
but little those other nights because
Of caring for him, and tonight he
seemed easier; so 7 slept better.
Early, I avoke and stepped TO his
pillow in the, room; L looked around,
partly hoping to and him, relieved.
The7*ccol' morning dir was blowing
through the open door, and yet,,I was
afraid to move lest something might
eonntermeetN me with . wave OF aor.
row. I went to the door, fearfully,
aud there, lying full length Of the sill
I found him-asleep from all future
pain. from the gaspings Of agony, the
oonsostions Of bis face and dear .syes.
asleep-dead. =
l will not try to describe what I /
felt. There are tears which will not |
bear reasonable explanation, sorrows
which have no name; We don't know
where We shall meet them: perhsps in |
the simplest things With our backs
70 tho light and our faces toward the
darkness. Let :. :sa=: .k.seS..k.:ez!
may lead us to the immeasurable in |
God where ap atom Weighs a. noun.
e faesea N and md our hseastsSare in His bal.
snce. -. " ~
Human friends I had lost; hit l. 7