Pace—See Slowness. Pagan Conception of Death—See Death, Christian View of. Pagan Kindness—See Generosity. PAGAN THOUGHTS On Stanley's first trip through Africa he came to the King of Uganda, who most cordially asked, first of all, for the health of Queen Victoria and of the German Emperor. Then he somewhat disconcerted the great traveler by asking him, "What news do you bring me from above?" This heathen king had a perfect right to expect that his visitor was one in heart and idea with that greater explorer, David Livingstone. But as Stanley proceeded westward he could tell the character of those with whom the natives were acquainted. The first question put by the natives nearer the West Coast was, "Have you any gin?"
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PAIN
You eat the heart of life like some great beast, You blacken the sweet sky—that God made blue, You are the death's-head set amid the feast, The desert breath that drinks up every dew. And no man lives but quails before thee, Pain! And no man lives that learns to love your rod; The white lip smiles—but ever and again, God's image cries your horror unto God. And yet—oh, terrible! men grant you this: You work a mystery. When you are done, Lo! common living turns to heavenly bliss; Lo! the mere light is as the noonday sun! —Margaret Steble Anderson, The Century Magazine.
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Pain, Cry of—See Bird Notes. PAIN IN ANIMALS In dealing with animals it is necessary to consider carefully what signs may be depended upon as proofs of their suffering. Certainly their struggles and cries are not always true indications. All wild animals struggle under restraint. With many, cries indicate fear rather than pain. A hare when shot rarely cries; when closely pursued by dogs it often does. Animals when trapped rarely cry until some one approaches the trap. Frogs will cry out loudly on the appearance of anything at all resembling a snake; when injured with stones or cut by the scythe in mowing they rarely do so. Every gamekeeper knows that it is a common thing for a rat or rabbit, when caught by the leg in one of the ordinary steel-traps, to gnaw off its limb and so escape, while other animals when kept short of food will readily eat their own tails. Another proof that animals are less sensitive to pain than man is their comparative freedom from shock after severe injuries. When a man meets with a severe injury of any kind, a train of symptoms follow which are collectively known by the name of shock. A striking pallor takes the place of the natural color, the skin becomes covered with a clammy moisture, the eye loses its natural luster, and the extremities become deadly cold, and while the ear may detect the fluttering action of the heart, the pulse at the wrist is often quite imperceptible. All these symptoms point to a great disturbance of the nervous system, whereas the lower animals often sustain the severest injuries without exhibiting any of the symptoms of shock.—W. Collier, Nineteenth Century.
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PAIN, LEARNING BY The gipsies of Transylvania, according to a writer in Blackwood's Magazine, teach young bears to dance by placing the animal on a sheet of heated iron, while the trainer plays on his fiddle a strongly accentuated piece of dance-music. The bear, lifting up its legs alternately to escape the heat, involuntarily observes the time marked by the violin. Later on the heated iron is supprest, when the animal has learned its lesson, and whenever the gipsy begins to play on the fiddle the young bear lifts its legs in regular time to the music.—Public Opinion.
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Pain Relieved—See Patience.
PAIN STRENGTHENS
When the little girl told her music-teacher
that it hurt her fingers to practise on the
