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“/ would not enter on my list of friends 
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense > 
Yet wanting sensibility), the man 
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm” 
By Municipal and State law, penalties are justly imposed for mal¬ 
treating the lower animals; and although “The Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals/’ has in its workings some exaggerated features, it 
is, nevertheless, established on a correct principle. 
Cardinal Manning has this to say on the present subject: “We owe 
to ourselves the duty not to be brutal or cruel; and we owe to God the duty 
of treating all ITis creatures according to His own perfections of love and 
mercy. “The righteous man is merciful to his beast.’ ”—See Prov. xii. 10. 
(§>en^itive 
A leguminous plant, the leaves of which close at the 
slightest touch. 
“Temper.” 
^pEMPEE, or proneness to anger , has a great deal to answer for, and it 
P would take a volume to discuss its effect on the affairs of the world. 
It is a failing in old and young of both sexes, in high and low, even, I may 
say, in good and bad, though a person who has not conquered it scarcely 
merits the name of good. Monarchs have lost kingdoms ; maidens, per¬ 
haps, admirers; and everybody, friends—by the irritation of a moment! 
In society, a display of ill-temper is fatal to harmony, and thus destroys 
the first principle of social meetings. We pardon it, we overlook it, and 
sometimes it even amuses us; but, sooner or later, it must chill back love 
and freeze friendship. In short, it makes society unbearable and is justly 
