Life — March 15, 1906 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Edwin Gilbert. Witt profound sorrow we record the death of Mr. Edwin Gilbert of Georgetown, Connecticut, on Feb- ruarytwenty-eighth. It signifies much to many hundred children’ of the poor. To his liberality and kindly interest we are indebted for the splen- our Fresh Air What better monument did gift of Farm a Branchville. to any citizen than this summer home for needy children, with its roomy buildings, its brook, its trees and grassy acres? The children have lost a benefactor ; and Lire mourns a generous friend Pure Food. “In no section does the bill do more than to the what he is to insure purchaser a knowledge of defeat of such legislation ha to be the great annual —New mystery States.” York ARNUM has been dead but a few brief years. and his soul goes marching on, Yet there are those who seriously doubt if. public really And imagine we should be happier if all the food we after all, the like to be humbugged particularly. they buy were truthfully branded Of course they are error egregiously in We are a luxurious people. and mind, equally grateful whether it rests upon an illusion er of fact sweetened what is usury? A frame of upon the solid ground The poor man eats gelatine with glucose and colored Mr, Beetle : OM, BUT MY PRET ACHE. ING IN THRER PAIRS OF NEW SHOES. Centipede: ust THat’s xormNG! -LIFE- with coal tar, and, provided only he thinks the stuff the pure jelly of cur- its, thrills with all the epicurean de- ight of his rich neighbor who has the real thing. If all comestibles were to pass for what they are, thousands upon who now fatten on the consciousness of living high t disconsolately down to tables furnished with abject and undisguised shall be urged that formaldehyde are thousands proud would simplicity. Tf i and poisonous, let it be replied that pre- boracie acid cisely as peace has its victories no less renowned than war, so may one dic otherwise than for one’s country, and still find it sweet and not indecorous. Too Many Sides. HAT John P. Haines should be president of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and prove himself their persistent enemy is an amusing joke. But there are ftn- nier things than that in this gentle- man's duplex carcer—things too nu- However, the skill- inl manner in which he has prevented merous to recount others from forming societies for pur- poses which he himself has failed to accomplish is a model for beginners It is. perhaps, only fair to say, that as a well-rounded, symmetrical example of perverted talents, he has few supe- riors, Concerning which the follow- ing episode is illustrative In 1903, I think between Park ai thin and sta skeleton, attack it was holding up one leg ¢ For more than five minutes 1 watched, he only touched that foot ground once, and then just for a sec- The driver acknowledged that the was lame, and said it had since ten o'clock in the morning—it was then, I think, late in the afternoon, [ then called a policeman and had the driver ar. On the way to the station house at Sixty-seventh Street the horse limped very badly all th The police sergeant and jcemen there said it was the worst looking horse they had ever seen and ought to be killed. The A. S. 2. C. A. inspector was sent for, and No. 7 (Seymour, I think) came. He pronounced the horse unfit to be driven, and th was held for trial. The informed, the horse was given back to the owner, who promised not to drive it again unless it got well. When the case came up afterwards at the Court of Special Sessions (where these cases are always sent when the prisoner is held at April, at Sixtieth Street, J Lexington Avenues, 1 saw brokendown old horse, ed toa junk wagon; which was a ge swelling. while rested, other p driver next day, I was PLAS = RAR lice Court), the inspector who had seen the horse with me was not called upon to testify, but the ALS. D.C. A. put upon the stand their veterinary—I think his name was Jackson—who testified in effect that he “had examined the horse and found nothing it; that it had a slight lame: hess, which was not painful, and that ats general condition was fair.” The case was dismissed. I received no notice from the Society that their veterinary had ex: und it ail right in his opini therefore their inspector not on the stand (as, o would) that the hi dition which he the Police Court In every case that I the matter wit! ned the horse and and that testify course, I expected he se was in the awful con: d admitted it to be in at have had since this one, T have taken the precaution to ph J. as well as to have a veterin: ne the horse if possible when th since then failed to a though vome of the case had as that one. In that case the inspector was not put on the stand at all, or anyone beside myself and the A, S. PLC. A. veter inary. We have never since then allowed the Society, if we could help it, to conduct one of our cases F.C. Bethune. 17 West 10th St Query. “ DAPA, is this the only world tha: God ever made “We don’t know for sure, my son, but He is supposed to be guilty of others."" . and T have never conviction, have not been so comicbooks.com