Show REGARD OF THE ANCIENTS FOR ANIMALS In ancient Egypt when a cat died in the lOUSe the inhabitants ehaved their cyebrowa if A Jog died they shaved their whole body In Athena one of the laws of Triptolemus declared de-clared that no one had a right to inflict in-flict a wrong anon a living creature The Greclca were aware of the tender and affectionate care which the young of trio stork exhibited for their old parents and recorded that when the latter lost their feathers from age the young stripped themselves of tUeir dow for them and fed them with 116 luca they collected This was the origin of the Greek law called the taw J of UittEtork by virtue of which Uiildrm were obliged to take care of their ssi ed parents and these who fused to du eo were deolared infamous infa-mous How different is it in urI ur-I modern Societies Pierquin remarks with reason that aa man rises he treats animals as if tbey were correspondingly corres-pondingly degraded For a longtime long-time they had the = ame rights During the middle ages they zero allowed al-lowed a part in religious ceremonies At Milan they figured in the festivals of the kings and processions of animals ani-mals appear in thebjas reliefs of the cathedrals of Strasburg Mans and Vienne Isere On Holy Wednesday Wednes-day all the clergy of the church of Eheima went to Saint Remi to make a station there the canons preceded by the cross were arranged in two lines each drawing a herring after him with a cord and each one was intent upon saving his own fish and stepping upon that of the canon in front of him Anquetil Histoiro de Reims At Paris the procession of the fox was as much enjoyed as the festival of the ass The animal dressed in a kind of surplice wearing the mitre had his place in the midst of the clergy a fowl was put within his reach he often forgot his pious functions to spring upon the bird and devour it in the presence of the faithful faith-ful Philip the Fair was very fond of this procession Banval Antiquites de Paris Only a few years ago the procession of the fat ox remained a survival from the pagan feasts a real piece of wreckage from vanished civilization While the rights of animals were thuG recognized their duties toward man did not escape the earlier legislators legis-lators who severely punished their crimes and attempts upon human ife The law of Moses Exodus xxi 28 29 recites If an ox gore a manor man-or a woman that they die then the ox shall be surely stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten but the owner of the ox shall be quit Butt if But-t the ox were wont to push with bra torn in time past and it hath been estified to his owner and be hath not kept him in but that he hath killed a man 01 a woman the ox ball be stoned and his owner also ball be put to death Judgments based on this principle are recorded at Athens and Rome According to Pierquin Demooritus wished au animal which had occa ioned some major damage to be punished with death Under Domi ian according to the report of Mar ial the ingratitude of a lion toward na master was severely punished Golumella and Varro say that the ancient Romans regarded the ox aa hu companion of the labors of man and that the aot of killing one was egarded as a homicide and punished in the same way and the ox enjoyed he fame pnvelege in Attica and the Peloponnesus It is also said that he Arabs in the iGountaiua of Africa armerly crucified lioua guilty of murdera upon trees as warnings to others Popular Science 1font lily e |