Little by little all longing souls Struggle up nearer the shining goals! Little by little the good in men Little by little the God of all Lifts the world nearer the pleading call. Cincinnati Humane Appeal. LOYALTY. Life may be given in many ways And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms, and not to yield, And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed like the old heroic breeds, Who stands self-poised on manhood's solid earth, J. R. Lowell. ANIMALS AND HUMAN SPEECH. Animals have much more capacity to understand human speech than is generally supposed. The Hindoos invariably talk to their elephants, and it is amazing how much the latter comprehend. The Arabs govern their camels with a few cries, and my associates in the African desert were always amused whenever I adressed a remark to the big dromedary who was my property for two months; yet at the end of that time the beast evidently knew the meaning of a number of simple sentences. Some years ago, seeing the hippopotamus in Barnum's museum looking very stolid and dejected, I spoke to him in English, but he did not even open his eyes. Then I went to the opposite corner of the cage, and said in Arabic, "I know you; come here to me." He instantly turned his head toward me; I repeated the words, and thereupon he came to the corner where I was standing, pressed his huge, ungainly head against the bars of the cage, and looked in my face with a touch of delight while I stroked his muzzle. I have two or three times found a lion who recognized the same language, and the expression of his eyes, for an instant, seemed positively human. BAYARD TAYLOR. PITY, And I, contented with a humble theme, COWPER. LEARN FROM THE CREATURES. See him from Nature, rising slow to Art! Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. And Right, too rigid, harden into Wrong; POPE. PAIN TO ANIMALS. Granted that any practice causes more pain to animals than it gives pleasure to man; is that practice moral or immoral? And if exactly in proportion as human beings raise their heads out of the slough of selfishness, they do not answer "immoral," let the morality of the principle of utility be forever condemned. JOHN STUART MILL. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. It might have been that the sky was green, and the grass serenely blue; It might have been that grapes on thorns and figs on thistles grew; It might have been that rainbows gleamed before the showers came; It might have been that lambs were fierce and bears and tigers tame; It might have been that cold would melt and summer heat would freeze; It might have been that ships at sea would sail against the breeze And there may be worlds unknown, dear, where we would find the change From all that we have seen or heard, to others just as strange But it never could be wise, dear, in haste to act or speak; It never could be noble to harm the poor and weak; And there could not be a world, dear, while God is true above, Where right and wrong were governed by any law but KATE LAWRENCE. love. VILLAGE SOUNDS. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, GOLDSMITH. BUDDHISM. The Buddhist duty of universal love enfolds in its embraces not only the brethren and sisters of the new faith, not only our neighbors, but every thing that has life. T. W. RHYS DAVIDS. As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let a man cultivate good-will without measure toward all beings. Let him cultivate good-will without measure, unhindered love and friendliness toward the whole world, above, below, around. |