A Belittling of Humanity.—
According to the Cincinnati Post, a pug-dog named “Monkey” was buried a short time ago in that city. We will not give the name of the man who owned the dog. Four veterinary doctors were in attendance, but the dog died of old age, in spite of the doctors. More than $3,000 has been spent for his comfort and health during the last twelve years, and in the last three months it is said that the four doctors were in almost constant attendance. The body was laid in a costly casket, and the hearse carried the casket to Price Hill. Twenty carriages were in the cortege, and the Humane Society delivered addresses.—The dog’s body lay in state until the hour of the funeral, and scores of visitors, we are told, called to see him. During its life the dog slept between blankets, with a pillow for its head; and we do not suppose that he had any greater joy or comfort than the cur in the streets. It is just such things as these that rouse the implacable enmity and hatred of those whose children oftentimes are wanting the very necessities of life. It is said that there are, between ten and fifteen years of age, 1,752,157 children working, and that this does not include the newsboys and bootblacks who attend school, nor other thousands of children who are employed in tenement house manufacturing. In thousands of these cases there certainly is great need of reform. But as long as the greed of men rules the world, humanity will be reckoned as less than dollars and cents. Think of growing children working from 4:30 A.M. till 11 P.M.! It is inhuman.