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after listening to the evening hymn of the robin, or the morning 

 songs from the highest limb of the highest tree, as far from earth and 

 as near to Heaven as he can find a place to stand, and sing, joined in 

 full chorus by thousands of warbling songsters, bring out a gun, or 

 throw a stone to kill or maim these happy, useful creatures, who 

 work all the day in helping to rid your fruit trees and grounds of 

 destructive pests. The photograph of every man who is so stingy as 

 to wish to kill a bird for eating some of his fruit should be placed in 

 a gallery, and entitled to the same notoriety as is the Rogues' Gal- 

 lery at Police Headquarters. Is he not eating the fruit of his 

 Heavenly Father, and does he not know it is written. He feeds 

 the birds, and that not a sparrow falleth to the ground without His 

 notice. Let the voice of this Club go forth as with the voice of a 

 trumpet : Spare the hirds. There is one other subject to which I 

 call attention. Will you not try to exert the influence of this Club, 

 and to implore the public to join in the effort, to have all dumb ani- 

 mals treated with kindness, and that the brutality which is so general, 

 in our city especially, and which shocks our senses and outrages our 

 humanity, shall no longer be inflicted upon our brute servitors that 

 are used, but oftener abused to gratify the wishes and wants of their 

 masters ? " The merciful man is merciful to his beast." " With 

 whatsoever measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." 

 Hence I think in that place of torment hereafter there will be cart 

 rungs and heavy butts of whips to mete out the measure to those 

 brutes who have abused .the dumb animals. At the conclusion of this 

 address, Mr. P, T, Quinn made some remarks com])limentary to the 

 chairman. He said he had never attended any meetings where the 

 courtesy and kindness happily combined with strict parliamentary 

 discipline had been so note worthy and commendable, as uniformly 

 characterized the ruling of the gentleman who holds the gavel at 

 the Farmers' Club, and he was sure he expressed the sentiments of 

 all when he gave words to the hope that it might be long before that 

 emblem of authority would pass to stranger hands. 



Adjourned. 



