The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-29
THE NONPAREIL MAN

An Essay Towards Discovering Which Is
Really "sport," the Slaughter of AMI
mails or Making Friends of Them
Zola's Touching Story Of the Effect
on Him Of the Sight of Lost Dog on
a City Street.
G.. C. Kelly came in from the woods the
other day and called into the office to
talk matters over Incidentally he invited
us out to visit him and kill something.
Mr.. Kelly called this sport. On our
limiting that we did not enjoy slaughter
and the flow of blood, he laughed in
kindly way and replied that every man
had the blood-lust in his heart and al
that he needed was to have 1T stirred up.
He told Of the killing Of deer, but we still
insisted that we could not see wherein
living in wait for beautiful and innocent
animal and deliberately numbering it was
sport, 80 -
If that is sport then why isn't choking
the baby to death also peasurable.
No, c. c. may choose his fun and we
will choose ours.
Zola, the French writer who died re-
Gently. was lover of animals. He was
not ashamed to write in this pathetic
strain about a lost dog:
"Why is 1t that the sight of a lost dog
in q crowded street gives me a pain in
the heart? Why does his misery provoke
a pity SO full Of anguish as to entirely
spoil my walk? Why for the whole even
ing, and even until the next day, does the
recollection Of this lost dog haunt me with
sort of despair? I find myself, wonder
| ing what he is doing, whether he has
been found and If he has anything to eat.
Why do the sufferings Of animals upset me
| so? Why is it that I feel that all the
animals of crea tion are my little relatives?
Why does the very thought of them fill
me with pity, tolerance and tenderness?
Why do regard all animals as of my
family, like men, much as men?'
A man who camps out every summer at
Lake Ida near Alexandra, Mimi, and who
loves the little brothers Of the wild tells
me that after one season of kindness, the
squirrels, gophers and other little fellows
learn that he is their friend and jump on
his shoulders and into his lap while he is
sitting in front of his tent He feeds
them and makes friends Of them.
Somehow this seems to me to be more
sport than their slaughter. I may be
wrong.
Nearly al the Hearst papers have hay been been
J dent.
J Our oilcan did nice little thing for Mr..
Il Harper's Chicago school this Christmas.
We tried to stop it. but were unable.
} Russia is a very large country. but if
she takes on Japan she will have the
experience of the negro on April L who
picked up the hot quarter.
When anybody tries to sell YOU stock
in a coffee plantation in Brazil or in a
celery farm in Mexico or banana joint
J in Cuba, it is good policy to run a mile
without StOppin@ to look back.
Possibly his Gerrnan-A rnerican- war
scare Poultney Bigelow was referring to
Russia and Japan and got his nations
mixed. Senator Beveridge says he pre-
'dicted the war in 1901. We frresaw hos
tilities in 1895. @
2 The clerk whose idea of what is bef1t-
ting the highest manhood is expressed
| by case of extreme intoXication on
Christmas Eve will continue to find So a
week salary the boss idea Of what is
adequate compensation
Mr. Gladstone was much bothered by
young unknown authors, who sent him
r their published works for his judgment
4 So his secretary was instructed to use
s this ingenious formula of acknowledg'
e ment:
my Dear Sir-Mr. Gladstone instructs
+ me to say that the receipt so7
/ your book, for which he returns thanks
4 Be assured that he will lose no time il
! perusing it..
All holly and mstletoe look alike to us
I At Valley City, n. D., the selection o
a jury, in which Lee Combs and Zuge
n & Paulson were the opposing counsel, hat
e Just been concluded. The jury had beel
f sworn and as its members took their seat
!. Attorney Paulson's dog, which evidently
: did not like their appearance, took a STAN
in the space reserved for the attorney
and commenced barking at them fiercey
i 1t was some time before the canine ceul
. be subdued, and then Attorney Comb
d arose and remarked that he "Objected t
s that line of argument on the part OF op
posing counsel" The objection was no
sustained by the court, the judge Stain
| that in his opinion at appeared to be
peremptory challenge" Mr.. Paulson too
J his dog aside amid general laughter.
j. An important test was made in a sub
10 marine torpedo boat off Newport las
;. week which shows that it will be quit
possible for the crew to escape even
20 the boat is disabled and cannot get
g. the surface. It has been suggested tha
the men in the disabled boat might t
shot out of the torpedo tube by con
In pressed air. It was decided to try TIL
on a dog or two. The Holland boat Shar
was selected for the test. After beiH
submerged one of the dogs was place
- in the torpedo tube and a wooden wa
p placed behind the animal and the who
u u expelled in the same manner as woul
u be torpedo. Many thought that tt
= 4 force of the compressedair charge wou
-, -, kill the animal but it came to the SUI
90 9 face and swan around as if nothing ha
VI " happened. People who might enjoy a
10 exDarience of this character should hurT
ly eNpel p5 i9itso ~ " ~ ~, ,1,. ~, fo,ce befo,
AZ AZ that war with Germany When it come
t te to submarine service, a position as T;
III inland as Denver, Col, is healthy enoug
;, for u.s. The torpedo tube might get ben
u A J. r.