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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1908-8-6, Page 2RELY' YOUR FAITH Y [1 Would Be Better to Suffer Suffer Some Loss From Imposition Than to Lose One's Heart, "To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin."— James, iv,, 17. In certain types of religious meet- ings you may hear people deplore the loss of emotional exaltation onee enjoyed; they pray for a return of "spiritual blessings" ; they earnest- ly seek for the repetition of experi- ences, the return of Hoods of emo- tions once felt, So many a person is, wonderingwhy the'emobional pleas- ures of reigion have gone from him. The reason is simple: That stimu- lus of religious emotion which seems pleasant to the memory fails to re- turn because when it was first felt we failed to obey it, to put it into active expression. Subjectively, the pleasurable experiences of religion are the emotions and exaltations of high ideals. The price of continu- ance is the practice of the ideals. You cannot do away with feeling in religion; the extent to which it will be manifested depends on the individual, .even undemonstrative natures are influenced by it to an extent which no one can measure. You might as well look to have pa- triotism without excitement aa re- ligion without emotion; but the danger is that both patriotism and religion shall evaporate in emotion- al excitement. Every time you enjoy an emotion without attempting to employ it as a dynamic for some definite service you both lessen the power of that emotion to appeal to you and the possibility of your answering to its stimulus. Arouse deep feeling and high sentiments and allow them to be- come ends in themselves, and their ends are sure to be only evil. Any impression to which we do not give expression results in inner paralysis both of emotions and will, When pity, sympathy, aspiration, indignation, or the passion for righteousness stir within one needs carefully to watch lest we lose sight of the duties, the toil, and service to which these are calling. We are all in danger from the atrophy of our emotions. One views a dramatic appeal in which social wrongs are shown, one reads a novel appealing to the sense of justice or pity and goes his way, having enjoy- ed the sensations of 'anger or pity, but making no attempt to give voice and form to his sentiments. He has seared his soul. He has stiffen ed the finer moral muscles. There is only one way to keep the heart green like a fair garden where the emotions spring up and iiow re- freshingly, and that way is to make every emotion contribute in some way to life's fruitlessness, let every tide of feeling, every passion and impulse, find expression in action, either the action of obedience to its call or of resolute and positive op- position. Tho emotional life is worthy of cultivation. For us all it consti- tutes one of the perennial sources of joy and strength. The pleasures of the home, of friendships, of love, of doing good, of helping one another are all emotional experiences. They are kept alive and we remain sensi- tive to these finer feelings in the measure that we do their high bid- ding. We need to keep our hearts tender one to another; we need to watch lest selfishness sear the soul, lest the fear of imposition make us deaf to the any of GENUINE SUFFERING. It would lee better far to suffer some small loss from imposition than to lose one's heart, one's power to re- spond from the practice of constant calculation and scepticism. If we are seeking lost joys in re- ligion we shall never find them until we turn from that search to seek out the joyless, to yield to every good emotion of kindness, to care nothing how we may feel or what we may gain if only the dreams of a better world and of happier humanity which once refreshed us may be realized. In the endeavor to make real those visions which, as they broke upon us, appeared so beautiful, we find that they return to us. Service is the one hope of the salvation of our powers of feeling; endeavor pre- serves emotion; expression makes possible new impressions. If you would keep your faith alive you must keep it busy. If you would hold on to your religious joys you must give them away to the joyless lives. No man feels his heart by thinking about it; it is when he actually feeds the hungry that his own heart is refreshed, it is when he carries the cup of cool water to an- other that the well of eternal water springs up within him. HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 9. Lesson VI. Dai, and Goliath. Golden Text, Pia. 11. 1. Verse 38. Read verses 1-38 for an account of Goliath and his chal- lenge, David's visit to the Israelite Damp, his proposal to Saul to meet the Philistine champion; and Saul's final consent. His • apparel—Rather, "his ar- mor." Although Saul in verse 37 commends David to Jehovah's help for success, he plans to make it more certain by equipping the youth with his armor. This, while not to be compared in massive weight and size with that of the giant, would make the combat more equal. Helmet of brass—Or bronze. The holment was commonly made of hide or leather, one of metal being giv- en special mention. Coat of mail—Strictly, the main garment which covered the upper part of the body. The term is used though to denote armor in general. 89. .Assayed—Tried. The infer- ence is that he was unsuccessful the reason being that he had not tested it, If, as one narrative in- dicates, he is still a shepherd lad unfamiliar with the equipment of war, it is no wonder that he finds the heavy, strange armor more of a burden than a help; and even if, as Haul's armor -bearer, he has already become accustomed to these things, this outfit is not his own and, there- fore, is of libtle nee to him. 40. His staff He has proved this. The aheperd's invariable weapon and instrument; he used it to lean upon in climbing and as a club for defense. It is possible that in David's case the sling was in some way fastened to this staff. Chose him—"Selected," out of the brook. Probably the mountain stream which ran down beside the Damp of Israel rather than the trr ok which. ran through the met - ter of the valley and separated the. two camps. Wallet ---A. skin bag slung by two straps over the shoulder made to contain provisions, food, oto. Al- most as indispensable to the shop - leery as hit staff. David put it to the praetioel use of carrying hit ammunition. his sling--Thie completed his equipment. It probably consisted of a long thong doubled and held in one hand by both ends. The centre was widened and cup -shaped so as to hold the stone which was hurled by swinging the sling and then suddenly releasing one end. David is well used to all these, and now is ready to join the battle. 41. The man that bare the shield went before—To protect him against any possible treachery. It was one of the duties of the armor -bearer to guard the person of his master. 42. Looked about — A graphic touch. As if the Philistine had to take special pains before he could even see David, so insignificant was he in comparison. He disdained bim—His contempt for David was caused not only by his ill -matched size of body, but by the fact that he was a youth and of a fair countenance; his boyish beauty was an insult to this train- ed warrior. A' dog—A general term of con- tempt, but quite fitting here, as the staff David carried had undoubted- ly been aften used to chastise his shepherd dogs when disobedient. 43. Cursed David by his gods— He used the names of his patron gods in imprecation but did not gain thereby in the combat. 44-47. Notice the utter lack of all boasting on David's part. All sorts of cries and noises were used by armies to terrify their enemies, and in single encounter it was custo- mary to recite one's own brave deeds and to hurl taunts at the op- ponent with the same purpose. In- stead of following the example of his enemy David with solemn con- fidence announces Jehovah's vic- tory. Cheyne, as quoted in the. New Century Bible, First Samuel, page 128, says: "Nowhere else out- side of the New Testament does the message of encouragement to the humble and exhortation to the weak in faithreceive so affecting, so inspiring an expression;" 45. Jehovah of hosts --The lofti- est of all the titles given Jehovah in the Old Testament. Here it evi- dently has its early significance of the God of the armies of Israel, but it came later to include' the thought of Jehovah as ruler of all the hea- venly hoets as well (Isa. 6. 8). 'Whom thou haat defied—.An in- sult to Israel was a defiance of Je- hovah. 47. The battle is Jehovah's -- his opposed to the sword and spear and javelin of his enemy (oompeee 1'sa. 44. 6-g) . 48. Rat toward the army — His eagerness rv'ae not leeeeried by the fact that he was crossing over to disadvantageous ground.' 49. Forehead -Perhaps the "tem- ple" as the front of the foreheed should have been protected by the helmet which he wore. Pell upon his face—Stunned by the impact of the stone. David rushes up to him and slays him with Ids own sword. TIJIBER FAMINE. Rus Been Here for Some Years, Dr. I?ernow Thinks. "We have been talking for twen- ty-six years on this subject of a probable timber famine, and some time ago I was asked where was that predicted timber famine. I said, 'You have been asleep; it is on us already, for when prices rise continuously at a rapid rate there nnist be a famine.' Not an abso- lute absence of material, but an in- crease of prices makes a famine; and the prices have risen very steadily, as you see. "This more or less horizontal line," referring to a diagram ex- hibited at the meeting, "indicates the prices before 1899, while this rapidly ascending curve represents the prices since that year, and from the character of the curve you can see that this rise in prices will go on, as may also be predicted from other data, I assure you. Every year you pay just eight per cent. more for your wood than you did the year before. Have you no in- terest in that? I metal has the public in general no interest in the forestry question? It seems to me they have. Everybody must have an interest in it, because it touch- es his pocket. "There is another point I wish to make, namely, that, while before 1899 prices went up and down from year to year, but on the whole re- mained level, from the year 1899 prices of all grades of wood began an upward course. What is the reason ? . . The explanation is simple. In 1899 the data collected by the United States Census re- garding supply and demand of for- est products became known, which showed that in predicting this tim- ber famine we were not so very far out of the way. "Not supply and demand, but knowledge of supply and demand makes prices, and the trouble has been in the past the absence of knowledge as to our timber resour- ces, and this lack of knowledge stiII works against our work of reform. During the last few years the know- ledge has increased and the result has been that prices have risen as it became known that the supply was less than had been supposed." —Dr. B. E. Fernow, Dean of :the Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, at annual meeting of Ca- nadian Forestry Association, 1908. MA. CBOPlIAGOCYTOSIS. Germ of Disease of Old Age Has Been Discovered. Dr. Metchnikoff of the Pasteur In- stitute, Paris, the noted specialist and student of the human organism, has discovered a new disease, which he has named "macrophagooytosis." It is, in popular language, the dis- ease of old age, which, the scientist asserts, is curable. He says that a hundred years hence the disease will be treated like bronchitis and diph- theria are treated and cured at the present time. Old age, according to Dr. Metch- nikoff, is an "ancient law" which presses on mankind, His recent re- searches and studies prove that it is the diseases of the intestines and the stomach which shorten man's life. We eat too much meat; and he points to those who eat vegetables, fruits, dairy products in short, those who partake of a cooling diet —and have grown old in years. However, in spite of the savant's assertions, we cannot prevent old age from getting a hold on us. The only thing to do is not to grow old before our time, In order to stay young, therefore, we must observe a careful and methodical hygiene, re- gulate the life, work moderately, both physically and mentally; avoid violent emotions and excitement, live in the country, eat sparingly, and let your diet be vegetarian rath- er than meat; sleep sufficiently, ab- stain from alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco, and avoid as much as pos- sible contagious diseases. But, asks the Parisian, is the game worth the candle? How can one live these days without the ex- citement of attending the Automo- bile Grand Prix, or without playing an occasional game at "petits ahoy - aux" ? .And again, one must live in the country, even in the winter, and throw away the pipe and forswear tea and coffee CHILD LABOR IN SPAIN. The question of child labor is be- ing agitated in Spain. Under the Spanish law children between 10 and 14 may not work more than six hours a day in industrial establish- ments, nor .more than eight hours a day in offices. Now a decree has been passed forbidding the employ- ment of boys under 16 and women under 25 in a number of trades deemed injurious to health. Chem- ical works, glass works, the manu- facture of ether, of celluloid and of explosives and the handling of lead or Melanie colors are among rho for- bidden fickle, TOLSTOI'S ARRAIGNMEN r DECLARES RUSSIAN PEOPLE ARE BECOMING DEPRAVED Aged Novelist Can No Longer En. dare His Country's Great Wrongs. Driven to a fever. of anger, indig- nation and despair by the awful massacres on the hangman's saaf- fold which are now sweeping over Russia, Count Leo Tolstoi has writ- ten the most terrible arraignment of the Czar and his agents of exe- cution that ever came from the great novelist's pen. The article is en- titled, "I cannot be silent." After describing in detail the execution of twelve men for an attack made with intent to rob on a landed proprietors' estate, the aged aove- list says:— PEOPLE BEING DEPRAVED. What is most dreadful in the whole matter is that all this inhu- man violence and killing, besides the direct evil done to the victims and their families, brings a yet more enormous evil on the whole people by spreading depravity—as fire spreads amid dry straw—among every class of Russians. A short time ago there were not two executioners to be found in all Russia. In the eighties there was only one, Not so now 1 A small shopkeeper in Moscow, whose affairs were in a bad way, having offered his services to per- form the murders arranged by Gov- ernment and receiving a hundred roubles (50) for each person hung, soon mended his affairs so well that he no longer required this addition- al business, and is now carrying on his former trade. VOLUNTEER HANGMAN'S PRICE. In Orel last month an execution- er was wanted, and at ono0 a man was found who agreed with the or- ganizers of governmental murders to do the business for fifty roubles per head. But the volunteer hang- man, after making this agreement, hears' that more was paid in other towns, and at the time of the exe- cution, having put the shroud sack on the victim, instead of leading him to the scaffold, stopped, and, approaching the superintendent, said: "You must add another twenty-five roubles, your Excellen- ey, or I won't do it 1" He got the increase and he did the job. Of executions, hangings, murders and bombs people now write and speak as they used to speak about the weather, Children play at hangings. Lads from the high schools, who are almost children, go out on expropriating expeditions ready` to kill, just as they used to go hunting. ARRAIGNMENT OF THE CZAR. The executioner -at - first e hand knows that he is an executioner and that he does wrong, and is therefore hated, and he is afraid of men, and I think this consciousness and this fear before men atone for at least a part of his guilt. But you all—from the Secretary of the Court to the Premier and the Czar—you indirect participa- tors in the iniquities perpetrated every day—do not seem to feel your 'guilt nor the shame your partici- pation in these horrors should evoke. Therefore I think that, low as that unfortunate executioner has fallen, ho stands morally immeasur- ably higher than you, participators in and part authors of those awful cringes. TOLSTOI, TOO, FEELS GUILTY.. Everything now being done in Russia is done in the name of the general welfare, in the name of the protection and tranquility of the inhabitants of Russia. And if this be so, then it is also done for me, who live in Russia. For me, therefore, exists the destitu- tion of the people, deprived of the first most natural right of men— the right to use the land on which he is born; for me the half million men torn away from wholesome peasant life and dressed in uni- forms and taught to kill; for me that false, so-called priesthood, whose chief duty it is to pervert and conceal true Christianity; for me all these transportations of men from 'place to place; for me these hundreds of thousands of hungry workmen wandering about Russia; for me these hundreds of thousands of unfortunates dying of typhus and scurvy in the fortresses and prisons which do not suffice for such a multitude; for me' the mo - there, wives and Where of the ex- iles, the prisoners and those who axe hung, are suffering; forme are those spies and this bribery; forme the interment of these dozens and hundreds of mon Who have been shot; forme the horrible work goes WO of these hangmen, at first en- listed nlisted with difficulty, but now no longer so loathing their work; for me exist these gallows, with well,. soaped cords, from which hang wo. men, children and peesents; for one oxide this terrible embitter- ment of man agafast hie fellow -man, CAN STAND IT NO LONGER. And, being c0nsoious of this, I tan no longer endure it, but must free myself from this intolerable position l It le impossible to live so 1 I, et any rate, cannot and will not live 50. That is why I write this and ail circulate it by all .moans in ni power, both in Russia and abroad that ono of two things may happeu —either that these inhuman deeds may be stopped or that my connec tion with them may be snapped and 1 put in prison, where I may be clearly Conscious that these horrors are not committed on my behalf or, still better (so good that T dare not even dream of such happiness), they may put on me, as on those twenty or twelve peasants, a shroud and a cap, and push me also off a bench, so that by my own weight I may tighten the well - soaped noose around my old throat. DREAM GAVE FREEDOM . y • INFLUENCE OF THE MULLAHS. No One Dares Lay Sacrilegious Finger Upon Thein. :Ever since the beginning of the now constant troubles in India a good deal has been heard about the Mullahs, says Pearson's Weelily. A Mullah, or, as it is more pro- perly written, mollah, is a title given in India and throughout the East generally to a religious leader of any description. Thus, the Sultan of Turkey is a mollah, because he is the supreme head of the Moslem world. The hostile Somali Leader who caused us so much anxiety between 1901 and 1908, and whose name occasion- ally crops up even now in the daily papers, was also a mollah. And there are hundreds of others. To most of the more conspicuous among them we prefix the adjective "mad." This, however, must not be taken to mean that they are insane, the word being used rather in its Oriental signification of "inspired." The influence wielded by the mol- lahs who are now stirring up against us the border tribes of Afghanistan is enormous. Clad in their sacred robes, bearing aloft the green stand- ard of Islam, they go up and down the valeys shrilling the Mohamme- dan war cry, and woe be to him who refuses to heed. The person of the mollah is sac- red. True, the Amir the other day was reported to have ordered that any of them caught preaching the jehad (holy war) should have their tongues torn out. But if he really issued such an edict—which is ex- tremely doubtful—it was merely meant for European ears. Not even the mighty Habibullah himself would care to lay a sacrilegious finger on one of these saintly per- sonages. If he were to venture such an unheard of thing vengeance would surely overtake him. For it is the cardinal principle of the Ulima—as the mollahs are collec- tively termed—that an injury pur- posely caused to one of their number can only be atoned for by the death of the individual inflicting it. COST OF EUROPEAN WAR.. Startling Statistics by German Authority. The bellicose section of the Ger- man public, including the fire-eaters of the army, have been rather taken aback by a bulletin issued by the' General Staff on the authority of General Blume as to the probable cost of a modern European war. Germany, it is affirmed, would be. able to put 4,750;000 troops in the field. A war fought against another European power would cost Ger- many $1,500,000,000 per annum as long as it lasted. The indirect loss throught financial depression and the paralysis of industry would be greater. If three or four more European powers were involved, as would be likely in view of existing alliances, the drain on the resources of Europe would be appalling, Incidentally Gen. Blume ex- presses the opinion that the loss of life would be heavier than in the re- cent Russo-Japanese armies in the fieldwere killed or wounded. Reck- oning eckoning in the same proportion, a European power would lose approx- imately 900,000 killed and wounded during the same length of time, and Gen. Blume believes the proportion would be much higher. 13.e declares it would be a veritable orgy of blood. LIM"ITED. A visiting gentleman had submit - tea for some time to the attentions of the three-year-old boyof hie hostess, but et last grew a little tired of having his whiskers pulled and his corns trodden upon. "Madam," said he, "there is ono thing about your charming boy which especially pleases me," ".And what is that?" asked the smiling mother. "That he isn't a twin." You'll find there's lots of time to kill in settling an estate, for well we know where there's a will there al- ways is await. Mrs. Slawstarve---"H w dei yydu find .your steak thi mornfn M's. 1; Slimmer ? Mr. Slim;sadu—O'7 have tonoluded that probably fe soope would be the bad ;g!,&Jf,t SAVED PROl1 A LIFE SEN- TENCI IN PENITENTIARY. Supposed Murderer made Free in Texas by Evidence From a Dream. Pardoned from a panitontiary 1110 sorttencs because of a dream- such is the romantic circumstance surrounding the release of George lee Jones from the Texas state pri- son at Huntsville, where he was incarcerated for eleven years on the charge of murdering a woman. In many respects Jones was a remarkable convict, Tbo murder fir which Ile was imprisoned was committed in Williamson county. A woman whose name had been handled morn or less by local,gos- sip was found dead, Certain cir- cumstances seemingly pointed to Jones as the murderer. Ho was tried and convicted. His wife show- ed her devotion by removing from her home to Huntsville, the peni- tentary town, so that she might visit him frequently. He was well- to-do and furnished money for her support. CUT OFF RIGHT HAND. Jones maintained his innocence of the crime, setting forth that he was ab all times devoted to his wife and had never associated with other women. For about a your Mrs. Jones was a frequent caller at the prison; It was Me one bright spot in Jones' prison life—those visits from his wife. But there came a time when the visits were not so frequent, Jones pined, but his wife explained that she feared to gain the displeasure of the prison officials. She felt that they were annoyed by her calls. One day after the visits had slackened there came a civil officer te the prison with a divorce sum- mons for Jones. Jones glanced at it hurriedly—he realized its meaning. Catching up the hatchet with which be had been workiug, he sev- ered his right hand at the wrist, and with his left he handed the amputated member to the deputy sheriff, saying:— "Take this back to my wife and tell her it is my answer to her di- vorce petition—my good right hand; a hand that has never committeda crime, but has worked all these years for her support." The divorce was granted and the wife soon married again—married a man whom she met in Huntsville, where she was living to be near her, convict husband. STRANGER HAD DREAM. Jones' wounded arm healed after a painful siege, but he always mourned for his wife, and often in the night the guards 0n their rounds would bear him sobbing her name. And now for the strange part of the story. J. H. Waldrip, who lives ab Ches- ter, Tex,, and who ten years ago read newspaper accounts of how Jcnea had chopped his right hand oil, dreamed a few weeks ago of the affair. He also saw in his dream, the murder of the woman—saw the tragedy enacted, he declares, as plainly as though he had been an actual eyewitness. Waldrip was net acquainted with Jones — had never even seen him, but ho was familiar with his description from hearsay, and the man be saw in Me dream—the man who killed the woman—was of entirely different appearance, WALDRIP PERSEVERED, Waldrip was so impressed with his dream that he felt called upon tustudy the case. He neglected her own business and .delved into the records. He interviewed the prose- cuting attorney in the case. He sought the trial judge, long since retired, and begged him for assist- ance in freeing Jones, "Tho man is not guilty—I know it—I saw another man commit the murder, saw him in my dream," Waldrip declared with earnestness, At first Waldrip's . dream was looked upon as a joke. His friends feared fon' his sanity. But he kept persistently at his bask, and at last attracted more or loss of a follow- ing. Little by little the tangled skein was unwound, and now, through the dream of Walclrip, a total stranger, the Governor -of Texas and the Pardon Hoard have set free Convict Jones. - Bereft of the wife for whose love he sacrificed his right hand, Jones has sought seclusion on a ranch near San Antonio, whore he says he shall remain, NO CASE FOR THE BOBBIES, Marks- "You seem to be in a high glee?" Parks --"Yes; great case of kid- napping at our house last night," Marla—"But I don't sec anything amusing in thabl" Parka—"Don't? Oh, yes, there ie. You see, it's the fleet time thin kid has napped singe he was born, two months ago." "Your honor, said a law ar to the Judge, "every man who knows mo knews that I am incapable of eeincus myself to a mean oauee,"" Tx , said His opponent; pp , s rho learns gentleman never lends ' Willett to a mean cailse; Ito aiWays s Nets .nee dee/nett ' WOULDN'T MURDER GZA SCHOOLMIS'T'RESS COMMITTED SUICIDE INSTEAD. Appointed by Reyolutionisbs 4o Do It at Bevel, Threw herself in Front of 'Train. q.' It has just leaked out; in St. Pet- ersburg that, despite the extraor- dinary precautions taken to pi'o test the Czar on the occasion of hie visit t0 Reval to meet King Edward, his Majesty has had a narrow e cape from assassination, A ter- rorist plot was organized by the re- volutionists which would have been ; successful but for the refusal 0t. ,. the woman appointed as "exema goner" to carry out the work. The womana local school mis- tress, committed suicide on the railway by throwing herself in front of a train two days befores,r a, the Czar arrived in Reval from Peterhof. CALLED IN SCHOOLMISTRESS The connection of the woma with the revolutionary organize tion was never suspected by the au- thorities. Apparently she joined the revolutionists a long time ago, and afterward withdrew from aotiv work in the organization, When it became known that the Czar would comp to Revel to mein King Edward, the principal terror ise groups at once tried to devil means for attacking him. Peters; is absolutely impregnable, and 111.,, railway was so well guarded thee an attack was out of the question( during the journey to Revel, Learning that on one would be at�'� admitted to the railway statet hers to wk witness the Czar's arrf -4 except the school children ande their teachers, the terrorists at once called on the mistress who had been identified with their cause to prove her loyalty by as- sassinating the Czar. SHE CHOSE SUICIDE.' Inasmuch as there were no bard -.'1' ers at the station, and no special precaution to keep back the school children, it would have been an i easy matter for the woman to ,walk up to the Czar and throw a bomb which would have destroyed all the members of the imperial family as they walked from the train to the" ' quay. The schoolmistress either repent• ed of her connection with the ter- .c. rorists, or she was too fond of her` school children to take adva-stage of the opportunity offered by their presence. She deliberately chose suicide as the only alternat've to carrying out the mandate of the re- volutionaries, The police searched her room and e found nothing of an inerim:nating nature, but her fellow -teachers ani the townspeople are aware of her story. This shows the risk 5217; by the Czar, despite the most painstaking efforts of the authorities to pro; ict him. His Majesty has shown'. great courage in thus venturing from the security of his palaces for ' the first time in years, and taking a long journey solely to meet Kind Edward. MONKEY STUDENTS' MOT. Three Rowdy Members of Monk- ' elegy Class Went on Rampage. Just because the teacher kept them after school "Tom," "Dick" and "Harry," three of the brightest ring -tail students in Prof. Hag- gerty's monkology elites in the Bronx Zoo, New York, went on the rampage one day recently. During the professor's lecture on the growth and habits of bile goober•,"' a subject of parbicular interest to all chimpanzees, Thomas, Richard and Harold amused themselves by throwing spitballs and pulling the hair of the younger children, 'Prof. Haggerby warned them, but they paid no attention, and when the rest, of the class was .dismissed for the day the three roefffies were locked in the room. As soon as the teacher turned the key in the lock the three monkeys got busy, First they scampered around the professor's desk and threw the scientifie apparatus and charts on rho floor. Selecting a book, "Who's Who in the Monkey Monkey," they mutilated the pages and ripped off the binding. Every bit of reference to their aecestors, ,. which it has taken Haggerty years to collect, was chewed in bits. Then they turned their attention to his personal wardrobe, klis handsome gold watch on the table gave the ingenious monkeys a splen- did chance to show their' imitative ability, One . of them took `Dag gerty's shaving bup, shade a lather and smeared it all over the watch. Another 0n0 grabbed the professor's razor. Joo Riley, floorwalker in the 'monkey house, gave the alarm and brought the professor to witness the wreck. ILO �V COULD SITE Biddy —"Yus, and the magistrate D, sited me; 'Can't ,tor lino wi' ,ver usbaed without fighting?' And „I st, Not appily, yet donor, p it