Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — Only the Men. [ARTICLE]

Only the Men.

Children, says a writer in the Spectator, have a strange sense of justice. They have been taught to sympathize with the sufferings of animals, and to show them an unvarying kindliness. Human beings, on the contrary, are divided, In their minds. Into the two classes of good and bad. The good are to be rewarded, after the manner of fairy tales; the bad are to be punished, Ronald’s father one day gave an anl< mated description of a bull-fight, meaning thereafter to point a moral. But the lad was delighted. "Wouldn’t you like to see a bull-fight, daddy?” he asked breathlessly. "Why, no, my boy. Surely you wouldn’t want to see cruel men baiting the bull? You wouldn’t like to see poor horses gored to death?” “No,” said Ronald, with the thoughtfulness of eight years, "I shouldn’t like to see horses hurt; but,” he added, after some reflection, "I shouldn’t mind seeing those men gored, though.”—Youth’s Companion.