. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. { all his familybefore the morn-ing, is agony be-fore which allother sorrows arel)ut trifles in com-parison. Header, we canj)resent you apict
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. { all his familybefore the morn-ing, is agony be-fore which allother sorrows arel)ut trifles in com-parison. Header, we canj)resent you apicture no morehorrible tlian this. What a world of suffering, of heartache, ofdeprivation and cruelty it reveals, and that, too, while it is absolute-ly true. That poorly furnished room, the frightened, hungry,trembling little girl, the anxious, suffering mother—all tell theirtales of -^^r The Sufferings of Mother and Child. Needless Torture of Birds, by Men and Boys, for Pleasure. 1 =^-\AN IS said to be superior to the lower animals because of moral nature. This claim of human superiority, how---,i/( I li\Y ever, is denied by those who have given the subject^^:0f^^ thought, the argument being that while the lower animalwill take life for food it is never known to wantonly torture forpleasure or to take the life of other animals as an amusement. The innateenjoyment whichmen experiencein witnessing Ibcthroes of death isstrikingly shownin those countrieswhere tribe warswith tribe—wherethe criminal is de-voured by the wildbeast, and whereencouragement isgiven to buU-fight-ing and the con-test between wildanimals. This in-born cruelty in the human soul is still further shown in men, laying claim to superiorintellectual capacity, moral endowment and a Christian education,who will assemble at stated times and places, and there waste timeand money in the singular enjoym
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