Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1880 — The Horse. [ARTICLE]

The Horse.

What a noble servant, what a splendid and right royal gift to man, is the horse! That fine creature is as much entitled to kindness and forbearance as a human servant or friend, in all respects in which he can appreciate it, and cruelty to him, for aught I can see, is as sinful. Who can witness, without pity and wrath, the blows inflicted upon that noble animal every day in opr streets, in anger or recklessness, to force him along with a burden too heavy for him, or to an unnatural speed, or merely to afford vent to the vexation, or impatience, or animal energies of a more brutal driver—a creature, too, with a skin so sensitive that a fly can drive him to distraction !

His look of gentle submission, or sometimes of reproachful appeal, or of flashing indignation, is very touching to the tender-hearted. It appeals forcibly to the human heart, and stamps every wanton, superfluous blow as cruel, coldhearted sin. And many who are not cruel-hearted, are yet thoughtless, and commit the like outrage from sheer thoughtlessness, forgetting that in susceptibility to pain the horse is the equal of the man.

The municipality of Nice lately caused the house in. which Garibaldi was born to be demolished ; its materials were bought by a Frenchman for $3,000. A large number of English people were present t-o see the house pulled down, and every one of them carried away a fragment as a relic.