The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-04
THE HUMANE BURMESE.
Will Not Kill Animals for Food Snakes, Scorpions and Instects Spar

Will Not Kill Animals for Food
 Snakes, Scorpions and Instects Spar
 cd.
 Modern society boasts of it's organ:- cations for preventing cruelty to ani- mals as the outcome Of civilization. Across the water Is an undeveloped country whose people used e,o suoh ea- i icourager of kindness. Protection of all ! life is as natural to the Burman as is his breath. To be merclful 60 the beast l is no half way percept with him, and the little child responds to it as read fly as the average English speaking boy gives action to his impulse to stone @ squirrel or kill a snake. Yet there may be drawbacks to living in a country where all living creatures are respected after the ;nanner Mr. , Fielding describes in The Soul of q People.
 Never were any people so kind hearted as the Burmese, so hoSpitable, so c!1aritable In act and thought, and so gentle with all animals.
 All butchers in Burma are Indian born no Burman will kill COW or a bullock, or sell meat There is no law now against such practice, but no re- srectable native will kill for food, sport or revenge. Fowl end fish are, indeed, sacrificed for eating purposes. but every one despises the fisherman, he is q sort of outcast; and the slay- ing of fowl is done reluctantly. A Burmese lady married an Eng lishman who kept ducks for his own table. One day she went on a visit to a friend, and took every duck with her, bestowing them on various households where she knew they would be allowed to live and be treated with kindness. Then she re- turned and confessed to her husband that she could not bear the thought of their being killed.
 Mir. Fielding was much troubled by the house sparrows which infested the roof Finally in despiration, ne shot at them with a rifle. His neighbors re- imonstrated
 You should build sparrow cote, they said, when he tried to excuse him. self "Then they would leave you in peace. They only want t6 make nests for their little one"
 If a Burmese woman walking in ttle fields should see a scorpion, she would not think of killing it.
 Poor beast she would say stepping aside so as not to injure it, Ut has never hurt me, why should I hurt it? If an insect is troublesome in the house, the Burman will carefully catch it in ais handkerchief and put 1t out doors. It is hard to get the ser. wants to rid the house of ants. They will kill the most deadly of vipers, bu even many of the poisonous snakes they will not slaughter.
 Mr Fielding met once two littl boys carrying a Jar and seemingl. much interested in it's contents. H asked what was in the jar, and the. showed him lot of baby vipers, The, had chanced to find the nest when tn mother was ahsent-she would hay killed the lads had she been there and they had secured all the littl snakes.
 What are you going to do witt them?7 asked Mir. Fielding.
 Show them in the village"
 And then?"
 Why, let them go, of course-'
 If an animal is i'll or hurt the Bur man gives, it the best of care, btu never kills it to put 1t out of misery.
 Poor beast,' he says. Let him liv his little life, and he gives 1t gras and water until 1t dies.-From tn Youths Companion.