New-York tribune., 1908-01-30
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

At the annual meeting of the Animal Rescue
League In Boston the president in the course OF
her report, said: "A few persons have accused US
of selling dogs for profit. II IT Is seilns ooss
to insist upon dollar being paid US (for Wn1ch
surn a dog and a new collar and leash are given)
and to say Of the dog is Of any value) that dona
ton should be added to this dollar then we 90 sell
dogs: but when q man gets a dog we nave reScueu'
fed and cared for from five days to as many or
more weeks, for even a fve-dolar oonation-ai-
though we rarely get that amount-we should ike
some good mathematician to tell US ~here iiie
profit comes in. There are more reasons tnan one
why It would be very unwise FOR us TO let our
proteges go out from for nothing. II man IS
NOT able TO give us from one five dollars for
dog he is not able to keep dog, and shouid not
be allowed do If our object were 10 make d
great record on the number of animals placed IN
homes we could easily double the number we send
sout but this would not be true Kindness TO the
animals according to our ideas. When dog or
cat has cost little something, the owner is more
careful not TO lose it
Yes doctor. of Harry's eyes seems ever SO
much stronger than the other. How do you account
''ISnothole in the baseball fence last summer.
most likely madam. n.'-Harpers Weekly.
Speaking of the action OF German steamship
captain who compelled three gamblers to return TO
fellow passengers the money which they had Won
on a trip to this port, merchant who makes the
ocean trip frequently said: There are other ways
than crying to the captain IN such cases Two
years ago / q passenger on the fAronprlI2 ana
sat in a game with people who at first ap-
peared to be all right lost and discovered that
/ was being done I knew that word to the
captain would bring my money back, but / pre-
ferred TO be my champion. l wrote note to
the man who had made the largest winning from
me and gave 1t to the smokng-room steward to
deliver This was in the note on! You will
never be off unless you make good Hand the
bearer (here filed in the amount of my loss) and
we'll be even The crook knew I meant business
tto eta Il rr11a
No one was the wiser for my experience. and tho
polite bow with which the card sauted me
when he went ashore at Hobol1en would have made
any one think the best of friends.
Deacon. meeting boy on Sunday morning carry
ing string of fish-Johnny. Johnny. do these be-
JohnnyWY-e-s. sir You see, that's what they've
got for chasing worms Sunday!-Pck-Me-Up
Only the excited interest of a neighborhood
gathering of women from Rosedale avenue, in
The Bronx, saved John Shields. United States
Commissioner, one day recently from being per-
petually branded, along with James Hamilton
Lewis, on the unfair list" They were able look
ing women and earnest partisans. II they had
not been 1t might have gone hard with the COM
missioners whiskers which are prominently long,
though venerably gray Excitement buzzed in his
office filled with women who were too earnest not
to take sides in the where one Of their neigh
bors accused another of sending her a letter
couched in terms that at least uncompli-
mentary The lawyer for the defendant who
pleaded mot guilty" expressed equal indignation
with the commissioner at the wording Of the let
ter. My client did not write this A lot Of like
letters have received by people in the neigh
borhood. 1t is clear that somebody is trying to
stir up bad blood among the neighbors In this
ton and am as eager you commissioner to
find who it is who is stirring up the trouble"
"Of course 1T must be a woman" said the COM
missioner sharply, right in the face of the two
score or women
"Of course it must be- asserted the lawyer
Then we agree not to debate that point said
,he commissioner with q wise grim and he got
away with 1t without much a word of pro-
test so occupied were the women in telling one
another by facial expression what they thought Of
one another.
Did you have good time at your musicaIT'
No" answered MIR. CumroX, every time the
band played anything / enjoyed I got worried for
fear It wasn't classical enough to be the moneys
worth '-Washington Star.