Show KINDNESS TO ANIMALS o g OGAN Cache Co Has a Commer Commercial I LOGAN cial Boosters Club Cl with an enrolled fi membership of principally business busin and professional men nten This club has recently a taken up tip the humane work of looking after r animals and prosecuting those who maltreat them That I hat there ib is plenty of work in this State as well as in other states for the humane hum humane humane ane friends friends of the thumb dumb creation cr ati n is a lamen lamentable I table fact and amI we can but wish the Boosters e tie ti success in this undertaking We Ve hope others will follow the example y This is a proper time of the lie year in in which to consider mans duty to all his fellow beings for was waB not our Savior cradled in a manger Did Did not His blessed mother crowded out of j the caravansary find shelter among the beasts of burden Does not this furnish a 4 beautiful text for a Christmas sermon on kind kindness kindness kindness ness to the animals cat God in the beginning gave gate to lo man than domin dominion dominion dominion ion Hoyer over the fish of the sea and over oyer the fowl of tho rho air and over every living thing r that upon the earth Man was crown crowned crowned e eed ed a monarch over the animal kingdom But Buthis Buthis Buthis his rule was not to be one of tyranny or a t tor terror In this kingdom man ratan was to learn tort t the principles of government by which God 3 r rules And that principle is love for God lx is love loye Only in so EO far as man learns leams this T principle of government is he fit to become b come a our ruler hereafter in a higher kingdom i iThe The Scripture is full of passages dealing with this subject A man we read rea re the life of his beast The law f ito ti of Moses instituted the Sabbath for the cattle tta as well as human beings In it thou lion not ti tido do any work thou nor thy th son nor thy th y f end daughter thy manservant nor thy maid maidservant maidservant maidservant servant nor thy th y cattle nor the stranger that thatis tra r is within thy gates The lie life of animals us CG must not n t be taken wantonly i iC t H C If mans man s convenience health Or safety interferes his rights and claims tor pot Are Arc paramount and ana must extinguish theirs ui Else they are arc all the meanest things that are areAs areAs out As free to live and to enjoy that life As God Goel was free to forts form them at the first Who panto ho in ip His Ilis I sovereign wisdom makes them all Great men have always been kind to animals Abraham Lincoln could not riot see sec even such a lowly specimen of Gods creatures as s a pig in In distress without assisting it ii The Prophet t Joseph taught his people not even to kill a rattlesnake needlessly The lh story is told of bf f Theodore Parker that when boythe the lie a young boy bo he b bone one day came upon a large spotted tortoise basking in inthe the sun He had seen boys torment squirrels and the thought flashed through his I mind that he lie ought to kill this tortoise He 1 Ie seized a stick and lifted it when suddenly he lie heard a voice It is wrong I The boy looked round and ana saw sat no one Then he hastened to Stan his mother and told her of his experience r What was it ho lie asked that uttered that voice The mother said Some men call it conscience but I prefer to call it the voice of net God in the soul of man If you listen to it and obey it it ii will twill guide you right Dd Nero on the lie contrary took great pleasure dude in youth in fin tormenting animals And when 4 he became a man he laughed in boisterous glee ar c cover r over oer the sufferings of the martyrs There are area t 4 a great many many incipient Neros among the boys of our age They like to torture frogs birds insects cats and dogs and to mistreat horses cows sheep etc elc The effect on their minds tt p by the practice of such cruelties is most de deplorable deplorable tier t The boy who kicks dumb brutes mat kicks brutality into his own heart and he be becomes becomes r d comes taints unfit for the ilic duties as of a husband a father a citizen or an official in church or tai slate state as was Nero Plutarch has said sai that The obligations of law and equity nit Y reach only oral y to mankind d but kindness and beneficence should be ibe I extended I t tto to animals of every e ery species and these still Ida flow from f ram the heart of a n man as ag I u streams strews n that issue i from the living fountain This is is a doctrine that should be taught to tt u every boy and girl hiiR rid The burning words of eloquence ence often arc are naught but hot air t tIt It will be a Merry ferry Christmas in spite of and x not because of high prices The fhe House insurgents seem to have hate aban abandoned doped the idea of belling Uncle Joe a ai i The Nicaraguan may be bc a tempest l rr t tin in a teapot but it is a hummer cr of its kind e eIn In this Nicaraguan Ni business Uncle Sam cannot do better than to adopt Davy Crocketts motto otto yc t OC People le dont do unto others as others do f E o unto them chiefly because they the do not get et the chance t General Leonard Wood has been made m de chief of staff of the lie army amI A staff made of such Wood cannot but bo good t tt t Mexico is taking measures which indicate t yea t that an asylum is being prepared for Zelaya when he is forced to abdicate t ii |