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Facts and Observations. 
DRINKING FOUNTAINS. 
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It is gratifying to observe that while the above are being 
erected in numbers both in the metropolis and provincial 
towns, for the use of man, drinking troughs for the lower 
animals have not been forgotten. 
The British Workman has always been a warm advocate for 
their general adoption, and in reference to one lately erected 
by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , it says— 
ce Tens of thousands of horses, cattle, and dogs, have been 
refreshed at the above trough on the side of the road leading 
to the metropolis . . . There is a bitter cry from the 
dumb creation throughout the land for water.” 
Apropos , the above society has lately issued the following 
on a card, for gratuitous distribution among men frequenting 
cattle-markets, slaughter-houses, &c. We need hardly add 
that these manifestations have our cordial approval, as they 
give proof of the better feelings of man being awakened for 
those creatures placed lower in the scale of existence than 
himself. 
FROM THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF 
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, No. 12, PALL MALL. 
Cruelty in any form, or upon whatever creature inflicted, is contrary 
to the will of the Creator, whose beneficent care is not confined to man, 
but extended to every living creature. It is therefore abhorred by all 
rightly constituted minds. 
It should never be forgotten that the lower animals, though mute, 
have feelings and sympathies similar to those which we ourselves 
possess. 
To torture animals by causing them unnecessary pain, or to refuse 
them proper food and protection when placed under our care, is evidence 
of a depraved mind. 
Justice is as much due from man to the creatures under him, as it is 
from man to man. 
To exact an immoderate amount of labour from domesticated animals; 
to severely punish them while performing it ; or wantonly to terrify any 
creatures, especially the more timid ones, is alike an act of cruelty and 
injustice, for which he who perpetrates it is accountable both to God 
and man. 
To destroy life is to take away that which God has given, and which 
man cannot restore. 
The very construction of man, however, implies the necessity for a 
