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Kitty Courageous
The Adventurea of a Tom-Boy $ By Stdla FlofCS
"I caught n shark ont there on
day," Mid Tom to Kitty. "How?"
he exclaimed, her yen wide with
With excitement. "Oh," replied Tom
easily, ,"I Just hit him on tho head
and pullod him Jn."
"Watch mo got Kitty's goat,'"
whispered Tom to Gertie m they
swain nwny from tho boat where
Kitty was fishing for a shark, and,
smiling as he silently disappeared
under the water.
"Oh my I" cried Kitty m sho felt
n tremendous tug at her line, "I'll
bet it's a shark. What shall I do?"
Frantically she looked for Tom, but
he was nowhere to be seen.
"I remember," said Kitty to her
belf, "Tom told mo ho hit It on the
head and pulled It In. Well, here
goes," and as a dark spot appeared
near tho surface she banged at It
with her parasol.
"Ouch," cried Tom as with aching
head he clambered over tho side of
the boat, scaring Kitty out of her
wits. "What are you trying to do,
cave my head in?" Then Kitty be
gan to laugh.
"I only did what you told me 'to,"
laughed Kitty, "yon thought yob
would foot roe and you got tho worst
of It, Let that teach you a lesson,
young mau, against playing practicaJ
Jokes."
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Animal Cruelties
Crusades Against All Performances in Which
Beasts Are Exploited for Commercial
Gain Should Be Helped
in Every Way
Ily KLLA WHEELER .WILCOX.
Copyright, 1914, by Star Company.
"At present tho Instruction wa pluce in
the way of the young of all classes of so
ciety 1 full of Inhumane suggestion. At
Eton the boys are taught to breaK up
hares as a half-
holiday amusement.
At other so-called
"upper claw"
schools tho, . tplopd
port elemont to
fostered, and. in
a o me elementary
schools tho chil
dren are permitted
to attend meets
and dther hunts;
books for boys are
full of blood and
fire, death and de
struction; our
muslo halls all
supply perform
ances in which
animals are ill-treated.; the dntmato
aTraph shows, In the same spirit, go as
far as they daro In showing the horrible
and sensational, and our schools, which
outfit to moke it their first object to
humanize the community, seem afraid to
come near the subject They a're at prcs
ent too much taken up with teaching
"French and algebra to think that moral
teducatlon should have any place In their
curricula. But a better time la coming.
America Is leading the way in humane
education, and England will have to fol
low, In spite .of our fox-hunting, otter
worrylng, and grouse shooting legisla
tors and maglstrates."-Ernest Dell In
IAn!roala Friend.
The Animals' Guardian, a huniane pub
lication In London, Is working mightily
fco do away with trained animal shows.
IA. veritable crusade against animal .per
formances has begun through Wo efforts
t Mr. Mark K. Melford and C. 13. Hav
terly, who have published astonishing and
blood curdling revelations of tho cruelties
Which these trained, animals suffer.
Mr. Melford says In one article ds
(scribing trained dogs and monkeys:
"When the curtain rose again they ap
peared In characters ranging from Clown
to Policeman, Harlequin and Columbine,
Cook and Butcher, In Ill-fitting clothes,
(which, In their succeeding rambles, on
tangled their tegs (as probably Intended),
(causing them to fall over the obstacls
laoad for them to negotiate, and selling
ever like balls In a complicated mass of
gaudy silks and satins to tho excruciat
ing delight of the Intelligent human
beings who formed the audience.
"When these costumes were removed,
to enable tho final long leaps and a
Elondlh exhibition on bell-wtre by the
monkeys, the American skin that cov
ered their bodies fell off, and there was
revealed at once the absence of that
sparkling Joy and ecstacy which tho
spectators tolly thought the animals ought
to share with them. The backbone of
each dog was bare and furrowed with
cores; scars and stripes liberally sprink
led around the hunches, and when the
masks (they were made to assume for
No, All Women Are Not Like This One!
Hero Ts a Picture of an English Woman of the Opposite Type to Mrs. Pankhurst. The Woman in the Picture Has a Mon
key for a Pet, Although for the Same Cost Sho Could TCiuulv Rrinc TTn n Unlw
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Bo surq to ask the druggist for the
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scription sold under guarantee of money
back If it falls to icmove freckles.-Ad.
.verttsenient.
I tho pnntomlmo characters) were removed,
thi-y attempted to follow Jasper by his
voice rather than by night. Thoy kept
j running against the wings, and oven
, bringing up- head first full tilt against
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mu jjuBBfiHv, Biuim hiiu' curncr. xnen ll
was thnt, to my horror, I discovered
their eyes wcro fringed with oores, and
but the barest silt in between the lids
enabled them to uoe at all!"
So grout hns become the feeling (n Eng
land since those revelations were mudo
that a largo ctrous fcaluro was aban
doned at pirn theater and several animal
trainers; have been obliged to enncot eu
Basements. It l' not alone the, treat
ment of animals While beJnir trnln.,1
which is to be censored; It is the un
natural life wild and domestic anlnmls
live while being carried about the coun
try on trulns and In boxes and cngon.
Many trained anlnmls are no -doubt
treated wlh the utmost kindness: a doc
and a cat can bo easily trained to do
wonderful tricks without giving them a
blow It the trainer Is patient and Per
sistent. But tho majority of show nnl.
mala are not so trained, as these rovela
tlons In Knslaml prove.
The Pull Mall (Jmotto refers to a liiont
objectionable performance: "Tho horse
brought Into the arena wns. of rourxn.
well fed. as It Is nocr.iiurv to lmvo limml.
backed horses for trick riding. AftOr
cantering around the ring for several
minutes, while Juggling feats wore per
formed on Its back, the chief performer
produced what he no doubt regarded as
bis piece de resistance, forcing tho ani
mal to get on Its knees and to stretch nut
Its head (which had been loosened from
tno tight check rein), with Its chin rest
ing on the bottom of the mat.
'A rope, attached to the head collar.
trailed .III front of tho anliRl'n un. unil
upon this rope stood the fellow performer,
so as to keep the horse's bead In posi
tion, tho neck stretched on giound to Us
uttermost. The ether performer then
perched himself on the mini-torn nf thn
horse, when thn strain must have Iteon
conswerauio. ami juggled with lighted
torohts. The performance was n disgust
ing ow, The antmul breathing hea.vtiv.
as It In obvious distress. Tho Times
called attention to the nreno on tho fol.
lowing morning, and the management de
cided at onco that It must bo stopped,
and pleaded that the had 'no prior'
Knowledge or It."
It seems to us an extraordinary thins
that the management of a theater, or a
circus, shall not bo aware beforehand of
what they are going to produce. In any
case, tho public disapprobation expressed
vrlll be a wholesome and necessary re
minder to the' managers of muslo halls
and circuses that the nubile will not
tolerate anything of tho above character.
now can any decent minded man or
woman bo Interested or amused' by such
performances? They can only appeal to
tho thoughtless and unreflecting.
As for Ilerr llagenbeck'a troupe of
"forest-bred" Hons, they were tho most
miserable, cowed, depressed looking
crowd we have seen for a long time. "Only
four or five of the twenty-four were In
any way performers, and It was very
obvious that several of tho beasts were
In a state of cowed revolt. These things,
appealing to the lower Instincts. ihonM
have no part in a modern progressive
civimauon whlcli seeks, or should seek,
its entertainment through more Intellec
tual and less obiectlon&hla imutii than
those whlcli appeal to the Ignorant and
uncultured man.
What the public wants at the place of
entertainment Is humane skill and hu
mane art, and not the exploitation of
subjugated wild beasts and tame animals
which have been reduced to servitude and
mado to do unnatural freak tricks for
the enrichment of their trainers and those
who "present' them for the sake of
mere commercial profit. To such all
friends or animals will offer the most re
lentless hostility, and the managers of
the music halls bad better take the les
son to heart, for there Is a great and
growing public intolerance of anything
which envors of Inhumanity to inlmiii
The benefit of the doubt Is not going to
be given to the trainer and the exploiter
or-!hete . npor beasts, but.lt is gplng to be
given to the victims who are most in
need of it, ,
Tula Englishwoman appeared recently In The Mall In London with
a. marmoset monkey clinging to her left shoulder, as shown In the ac
companying photographs.
She Beemed to enjoy the attention she attracted from the curious
crowd that watched hor, and from time to time caressed tho monkey
and whispered Inane things to It.
Prom her style of dress, which was strictly "up-to-the-minute" In
expensive and ludicrous fashions, it was evident that she could well
afford to take caro of tho monkey, and pot and pamper him' to her
heart's content. ' -
There are some women who would rather have monkeys for pets
than children, but there are others which is something to be very
thankful for who place babies above monkeys.
It Is not hard to guess which woman deserves and will get the
right to have a say in the laws of the country in which she lives,
The woman who values a monkey's dumb friendship Is happily in
the minority.
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Unanswered Question of 'finity"
Ily EDGAR LUCIEN LA1UUX.
Bo many questions on Infinity have been
received that thls-note is written in reply
to them all. Here arc some of them:
"Is there an infinite number of suns?"
"Is the ancient theory of plurality of
world's trueT" "Is the universe Infinite?"
"Are any stars at an Infinite distance
from the earth?" "Is space really In
finite?" In reply will state that the thinkers of
tho world who think, explore, toll and
work aa man never worked .before since
humana appeared on earth along mathe
matical, not speculative, lines no longer
try to even commence to think of in
finity. Thcso are the very ones who
know better and have proved Uiat it is
useless. They prove It mathematically.
"Is there an Infinite number of suns?"
I have been asked this orally and la
writing many hundreds of times since my
eleventh year. The answer is they do
not know and by they U meant mathe
maticians. Not one of these is able to
think of anything infinite. And none is
therefore able to think of tho effect on
humans should theuntverse ever be made
up of an infinite number of suns, .
For, If the number of sums becomes
infinite, how about worlds? Our sun has
eight worlda and tnnry.slt moons,
really little worlds, and well on toward
1,000 bodies asteroids and an unknown
number of comets, all In regular revolu
tion around It. Speculate that an Infinite
number of suns, many of them thousands
of times larger than our own, have at
least as' many worlda revolving around
them; then there would be a greater in
finity of worlds than suns.
Hut this is absurd, or at least we can
not think of two infinites, not being able
to think of one. But suppose it Is thought
of a number of suns next to an infinite
number, then, If they all emit light In
tense enough to reach the earth the mid
night sky would be entirely filled with
light.
In dense areas of the milky way the
sky is almost covered by fine shining
specks all huge suns, yet there Is a min
ute portion of black sky between the
diamonds. Thus, In the richest regions
of the galaxy the sky Is not solid light.
Then the universe has a limit In these
directions; if not, then some of the suns
do not appear because their light ts
quenched in space.
But the very term "next to an Infinite
number" Is speculative, not scientific,
because none can think of this word
next; for mathematics haa slwwn that if
you add or subtract any finite number to
or from an Inflnlto number the Infinite
number Is not affected that IS. the finite
number, however large. Is infinitely small
compared with a number that Is infinite.
Slnee nothing Is known of mind; it is
impossible to oven start a line of specula
tion. And a science cannot be commenced
on the subject of mind. Nothing can be
done In science without somo clew at
least, or facts at most, to begin with.
Then we cannot think of Infinite mind.
Mentallsts versed In mathematics do not
try to do this, for mathematics is now
known to be Infinite.
Mind cannot, of course, think of In
finite distance. Infinite space. Infinite
time. Then these subjects are all un
known and the hundreds of nusHons re
lating to Infinite subjects cannot be an
swered, for any answer, to to really a
reply, must be based ot at least onolact,
but this one fact on anything that la In
finite la missing. .
Here ts a first-class opportunity to
write three very Impressive words; Do
you know.
Regarding the very, ancient r,ustion ot
worlds, one argued since the days of the
Chaldeans, Hebrews and Egyptians, the
answer la quite familiar: Do ou know.
It taxes the limits ot the )rgst tele
scopes and of the most sensitive photo
plates attached to them to detect the
hundred million microscopic dots, all
Images of great suns. Then It follows
that all worlds are hopelessly Invisible.
All that 1 known la that our own sun
has eight planets In revolution around It.
Koch one of the hundred millions suns
may have eight or many more worlds.
Each world may Indeed be Inhab
ited, but we do .not' know It. Then
this subject Is, therefore, speculation.
Advice to the Lovelorn
Ily BEATRICE FAHWAX.
Don't Xui;
Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been keep
ing company with a gentleman for the
tUroa months, and It seems every
night before he leaves me he wants to
smoke a cigarette. At first I bad no ob
Jection to him smoking In my presence,
but now I am getting tired of him smok
ing every night before he leaves. He
asked me If he could smoke, and I said
no. Then lie kept on coaxing me to let
him smoke, and I said well, it you want
to smoke then go on. Do you think it Is
proper for him to smoke in my presence?
He says Just so long as he don't smok
in the street with me. it Is all right
, ALICE.
He is quite right. Since his smoking
does not annoy you In any way and gives
him pleasure, why make a fuss about It?
Plr Ptr.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a youner irtrl
,n company for the last eight months
S,3r0n ,narV wk ago h
J"7u5ht i cous,n my house and
introduced us. My friend i,.3i
position whlchk J hmTout of' town I
great deal, asked hU cousin to see thnt
-i.-Ij , . , nis cousin de
clared his love forfne and we secretly
became engaged. Wt should I do?
Play fair. Write and tell the man for
whom you flrat cared that you have be
come engaged to his cousin, and hope
your old friend will bo glad to hear the
sews of your hanniness.
The Manicure Lady
By WILLIAM P. KIRK.
"The old gent got kind of sentimental
last night," said the Manicure Lady. "1
never expected to see a hard-headed old
clinic like father get soft and slushy, but
he had" been out kind of late two nights
In a row and maybe his drinks didn't set
good on his stomach. Anyhow, something
Vent to his head, because he shed come
real tears and that is certainly a urasual
proceeding for him. He was looking over
a book that had a lot of ui ri t.A..
poems and bits of prose In it The name
oi me dooic was "Heart Throbs." Borne
gent named Joe Chappie got it together
and sent a copy of it to father, because
thoy used to go to school together In Wis
consin. I guess it was one or two of the
sad poems in the book that got father
suited, but whatever it was, you should
have saw the big tears roU down his
cheeks."
"I ain't cried since I was a kid," said
the Head Barber.
"And probably won't till the doctor twlta
you the stuff is off," said the Manicure
i,aa. "iou ain't got no sentiment in
you, George, but my old gent Is made of
gentler material. Sometimes when we are
all at home ho starts) singing one of the
old songs that his mother used to sing
to him when he was a little boy, and his
voice Is so soft and mellow that we all
set thero as If we was sDllbnuml.
Of course. It Is mellower sometimes than
others, but it all goes to show that father
nas a heart."
'Tve got a heart, too." insisted th
Head Barber. "I feel Just as sad when I
see sad things as anybody does, but I
can't cry. Crying after vou am rmmi
up is what pome folks call 'taking on' at
a runerai.
"Well, I suppose no two people Is con
stituted similar,"- said the Manicure Lady.
"But I was glad to see that little soft
side In the old man's nature. I think that
the stronger a gent is sometimes, the
more tender ho can be.
"It ain't so surprising to see a tender
heart in a weak youth like Wilfred, who
Is all the time on the fence between
laughing and crying. If he has a five-dollar
note he Is Just bubbling over with
good spirits, and it he is broke you would
think, he was about to. Jump off the
Bridge of Sighs. But I suppose most
poetf Is that way. Father had to fight
the stern battle of life from the time he
was 19, and many a rap on the, knuckles
he got, too, but It made a man out of
him. Wilfred has always had easy sail
ing, for though he has made qulto a
little coin here and there, there has been
Ions, dry spells In between where he
didn't have even a thin dime that he
could get a sandwich with, and In them
times of stress he was never very far
from the dear old homestead."
"I bet I could read them 'Heart Throbs'
without batting an eye," persisted the
Head Barber. "Tears Is for kids and not
for grown-up people."
"I don't doubt that you could read any
thing sad without batting an eye, or
even without knowing what the meaning
was," said the Manicure Lady, "but I
thank goodness,' my dear dad ain't no
thick, simple mutt like you. If he was,
I would be the one to shed tears."
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