The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-04-08

ton which met i'll the County Sup
erintepdent's office Saturday, April
.3rd F:
1t is a source of regret that can
net be with you tonight, but I will
send a message, and in behalf of
those that cannot speak for them,
selves.
As the late Geo. 7. Angel, the
great humane leader says, Just
so soon and so far as we pour into
all our schools, the songs, poems
and literature of mercy towards
these lower creatures, just SO soon
and SO far shall we reach the roots
not only of cruelty but of crime
The only way to reach the mass of
the children is by the schools and
through the Bands of Mercy, and
when they are taught to be kind to
all lower animals, they are kinder
to each other. Systematic, humane
teaching instills in the heart of the
child a reverence for the works OF
God. Go through the prisons, the
reformatories and find ont how
many had ever been taught kind
ness to all, how many ever had
pet of any kind. Out of 1000
convicts in our prisons, inquired OF
a few years ago. only II ever had
any pet animal in their
childhood. To prevent criminals
we must begin with the children.
The boys and girls of today will be
the men and women of the future.
An English school makes the boast
that out of 1000 boys carefully
trught to be kind to animals, not
one had ever been convicted of any
crime Teach the child that the
suffering of any animal before
death poisons the meat. II he
wounds a bird, to kill it humanely
quickly, FOR his own sake and to be
rnercif,I Mistreatiug A COW poi
sons her milk. Some hunters will
not eat the meat of an animal, run
and worried by dogs. Over 3oo,-
900 boys and girls all over Amerl-
ca belong to Bands of Mercy. l
send with some leaflets picture
of q, 900 Bond of Mercy children
at Kansas City Mission. "There
is one society of boys and girls in
England to protect animals that
has over 80, 900 members. )" HUI
name Societies are all over the
world. An American minister to
China told Mr.. Angel some years
wears ago that the Chinese people
were the most humane people in
the woeld, and such thing as
cruelty to animals was never heard
of there. And these are the aliens
America would keep from her
shores. America, that allows
many thousand of her cattle to
starve, freeze and die on her great
plains every year, and all through
the Southern states much cattle
and stock die of cold and starva-
ton, and many would be better off
dead than to lead the lives they
have to, to work all day, half
starved, no shelter at night. Skele-
tons of animals driven to town with
heavy loa6sS many to stand all day
without food or water. driven back
home at night, sometimes lashed all
the day, and then turned out to
feed on anything they can find.
How my heart aches sometimes
for some of the animals see driven
by both white and black. Did you
ever notice the eye of half-starved
horse or dog? What pitiful look
he has. Many times this past win
ter have asked the. negroes that
brought me wood why their ami.
mails were so poor and i
they did not put them undei
shelter out of the cold at night
"No' m, we folks in the country
turns 'em out. Did you ever se'
any one ride a horse so poor, they
would spread sack far out under
the saddle to hide the animal
bones? I have, such a man ant
beast passes nyhome every fewday
and l hope the HumaneSociety her
will soon get hold of him.
Geo. T. Angel the leader in Hn
name work aud Pres. of the Ameri
can Humane Organization for ?
years, died in Boston March 10th