New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-25

in public. Well, l happened to drop the cloth
from my face to get a stray hair out of my
eye, when Of a sudden some Ioafers who were
looking set upon me. They saw my bearded face
and began shouting:
A freak, the dog-faced boy, he's loose"
"A crowd collected so quickly could not es-
cape. 1 was too frightened TO yell for help. And
how they tormented me, Some pulled my hair
tin the tears came Others threw glue on my
beard. Others pinched me and kicked me- till
at last i screamed for pain. Ny scream called
back my dog. which had wandered down side
alley, and al the sound he came rushing for that
crowd as If mad And he rescued me And
such sympathy he shovel! After driving OF
my prosecutors, he licked my hand. and pressed
close TO my breast and would not cease his
protestat tons Of affection till / was safe back
In my hotel
We'll the dog knew you and the men didn't"
said the valet, slowly.
Yes. yes. but strange dogs treat me better
than strange men, responded the freak. A
strange dog Will bark me, but not from mean
ness. He simply doesn't understand l look
strange 10 him, and he feels fl his duty TO sound
an alarm. But strange men are unrriendly for
different reason. They have an aversion TO me
simply because l am different from them. They
think that just a few extra hairs make more
Of an animal than they. Yet how am ! so diff
fereut from other human beings When man
lets hair cover half his face he usually thinks
himself more commanding OF aspect. more au-
thortative, more dignihed. Why, then, should
not a man who can cover his whole face with
tatiye. still more dignihed2
Indeed. / would not be a circus freak if men
We're not fond Of seeing defOrmity in others. 1
If human beings were all mon
keys. and / a freak among them-say, a
monkey with a smooth face and bald head-the
other pTmates would not cape and stare at
and take pleasure I'm simply looking me as
men DO when viewing me now"
But you forget said the valet. II he had
al last awakened 10 what his master was talk
ing about. You forget that men have hospi-
tails and institutions for their deformed and Grip
pied. Doesn't that show sympathy? Think Of
The vast number Of societies organized just in
this city TO alleviate suffering and do good"
That's all true" replied the freak. but how
often are hospitals or similar institutions start
/ ed not from sympathy but from vanity or jeal-
Ousy2 a man Of wealth, for example who IN
getting his money had not the least sympathy
. for the competitors he crushed, Pounds a great
sanatolum FOR the insane. And perchance in
/ mat very sanatOrium as inmates Will be the
men whom he ruined In Wall Street. or a re-
4 lglOuE sect will start home for their aged
] members. not so much because Of sympa thy for
/ the old people as because II is anxious to make
as good a showing some rival organization.
/ Yes. sir I say again that men are not as sympa-
7 infuc animals
The valet only shook his head and said:
/ i don't know"
You don't" shouted Lionel then I'll prove
I II 90 you. I'll ask Conkling, the supertntend-
+ ent ~ the menagerie. 10 take monkey out OF
The cage. shave his face and head and then put
MIN back with his fellows again And IL the
other siTnians make sport Of their man faced
freak. then I'm wrong. Then I'll acknowledge
lAey better than men
For the first time in the conversation the va let
frightened up. That is good way put your
theory 10 the test" he said. and eagerly he fol-
] lowed his master 10 the basement Of Madison
SQUARE Garden. where the monkeys were lodged.