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v horse sense and the lost boy herbert lewis in our dumb animals and human- pader life and creation my father who was a new eng- j dont you shoot him george was a lander was a rare lover of horses frequent question he saw in the horse more than in- 1 would as soon shoot one of ray stinct more than horse sense he family or at least one lot yen fellows saw genuine iutelligeuce how he adjas old dau he is not hurtiug auy- mired a fine specimen ot the ciuiiie thing and is gelling a rest from long family as it stood with its head well true and tried service he is welcome erect ears pricked forward and look- 1 to the range of caswell fain- as long iug with investigating and knowing as he lives eves at some object that attracted its it was wellnigh dark when mary attention standing with flowing 1 tiredand worried about walter walk ed into her home she had hoped that he had preceded her home but he was not there the parents grew uneasy as the shadows gathered and twilight merged into darkness cas well called yodeled and whistled with all his ability in these lines hoping for an answer from waiter none came then the father set out into the woodland he went up one canyon and down another working farther i land farther from home until ho 1u- realized he might become lost in the wooded hills himself his frequent calls and whistles echoed and re echoed along the rockribbed gulches hut no answer came other than the whippoorwill or the whqowhoos of mane and tail a form ot beauty father beheld such of cod as almost human today forty years later some men are saying the horse is gone and like the dodo or roc will soon become an extinct species there are thousands however who however much they may delight in the modern flery chariots which now travel withovt the horse will insist that the hose will never pass from among us deed there aro many many places where his faithful service can aid man that automotive power cannot reach even should this be overcome there are too many people who love the animate so greatly over the inanimate that the horse will be propagated and j hootowls perpetuated up to that day when the world will be changed in the twink ling of an eye in fact today amoig the wealthier classes there are many i who having tired ot limousines and ho where the children had been supersixes are again turning to beauj k- no wonder he thought tiful horses as means of joy in travel a oj would 8i lost even in day- and some of such horses their owners j llshl khc wll have been here for would not exchange for the most vtlu- set lost so near home quick- able motor vehicle yet placed on the i his step he njessed toward rockets make speed after some time mr caswell by following a cow trail reached a road way which he soon realize was two miles from home and far from the california sees test of rocket car iou moore at the wheel experimenting to prove the practicability of utilizing rockets to obtain tremendous speed at santa monica calif says horrifying war stories lies falsity of accounts declared by arthur ponspnby mp publishes book market thiugh men like my father who passed on some years ago may not be here to champion the horse the pos terity of such men are carrying on ami wil hot forget what good horse flesh has been nor some of the remarkable stories about horses my father be ing an has tenter was in close touch with the kindness to animals move- ment which became so firmly founded in boston and which continues our dumb animals weie a favorite with diim and he had real personal touch with mr augell such association builds ideals in character and strengthens the purpose which already rules in ones life and it is handed down to posterity hence the love of mankind for the horse cannot pass away the following stoo ls founded upon or inspired by a utile story often told by the writers father on the old homestead in minnesota a mare and colt were running in pas ture near the house one night after family bad gone to bed the mare home as caswell approached his house he heard mrs caswell and mary talking but the voice of walter was not mingled with theirs suddenly old dan came trotting up with almost as worthy services credited to dogs from the humane pleader there are good dogs and bad dogs and sometimes a good dog will turn much spirit and action as in days of suddenly bad or vice versa looking od only upon the sunny side much can be baddy exclaimed mary what do j found to prove that dogs are still run- 1 owne you suppose ails old dan this makes twice he has come up to the house j ian article belonging to urn in tweu acting as if something was wrong perseverance and senee j tvseven tries the dogs made good only j with him j there was the story early m 192a twice ojco fimlillg an al and once j yes added mrs caswell i saw j of dogs racing hundreds of miles in j running down a man from his tracks i 1 possible for dogs to pick up a cold i scent these statements were promptly challenged by a police inspector wlto offered to put his dogs to the test and disprove major mosts contentions six dogs in active police service were used for the experiments these con- sisted in picking up a somewhat cold scent recognizing a fresh scent find- ing an article by the scent of its j tracking down a person and that dogs prove valuable as messen gers was shown when argentina fol lowing the lead of japan began early this year to train dogs for communi cation purposes as firemen detec tives patrolmen coast guard aids and messengers dogs continue to prove the worth of their existence a health item him come that way once before what possesses him by this time dan had run up to mr caswell nosed him about turned around and around and then started away when caswell did not follow dan returned then caswell said i know old dan he wants me to go with him stay here both of you but if i call you come too old dan started and caswell could hardly veep pace with him on on they went- up hazelbrush hollow for ning true to ideals of loyalty bravery finding a man after having smelted of importance of undulant fever being more widely recognized undulant fever a disease contracted describes how reports were colored ormis inter preted new york the black label of lies has been written across vir tually all of the horrifying stories of atrocities in the world war by arthur ponsonby mp former brit ish undersecretary of state for for eign affairs in his book falsehood in wartime taking reports by letter and by vordvf mouth as they came from tha front line trenches and invaded towns ponsoby traces them from point to point describing how they were col ored or misinterpreted until they lie- came widely circulated accounts of amazing cruelty on the part of tin enemy the book deals mainly with stories reaching britain but uses them as an example of how such re ports were circulated in all countries in proving the falsity of stories cited iousonby cites the statements of war correspondents of government officials and others and shows that the stories were never more than rumors ponsonbys book asserts the accounts of mutilated wai nurses were lies the story of german soldiers cut ting off the hands of french and bel gian children was a lie the report that a canadian soldier sometimes it was a french girl had beencrucified was a lie the stories of german corpse fac tories where bodies of soldiers were used for manufacturing of fertilizer were lies falsity of stories the volume which is published by e p dutton and company also zero weather to carry serum to the diptheriastricken town of nome all that was asked of them was given freely some of th dogs dying in the attempt 1 v fox terrier brings aid to the vie- cri of a fall in the alps duke a i mongrel saves his master from a votion the story of pearl a beaut i- fire nellie an irish setter helps j fill wolfdog of chicago stands out despite the result of the tests police from cattle and hogs which are in- shows the falsity of many other stor- dogs are still helm- used in german fectod with contagious abortion is be- j ms including the destruction of the country districts to track down sus- 1 ing more widely recognized as a prob- iouvain altar piece the mistreatment pects but a demand was made for torn of considerable importance from f nuns and priests the striking of a regulations limiting the work of the a public health standpoint a number german nedal in honor of the men dogs to patrol and guard service i of cases of this disease have been re- 1 who sunk ij iusitania and the fan- for sheer courage and unselfish de- ported from various states jtastic report that russian troops had the disease of contagious abortion passed through great britain came running theons tu histe fr nose in the bedroom window and l j i chieopeema when war is declared truth is the first casualty quoted the author in his condemnation of british officials who did not deny many of these stor ies of atrocities tie points out at propa- neighed realizing that something was wrong my father quickly dressed and followed the mare toward the pasture every little way the animal would stop turn and whinny and then draw father on down in the pasture was a shallow well or where a well had been started and covered with boards in some way the cover had been removed ami the colt had fallen in the hole and could not get out the colt was lifted out by my father and the mother tried in every way to ex press her thanks for the kind deed running first to the colt and then back and licking fathers hand and putting her face up to his it was such dem onstrations as this that so deeply im pressed my father witli the wellnigh human intelligence ot the horse and here is another story even more retnarkable down in the hills of the ozarks lived george caswell the family was composed of himself his wife and two children walter aged ton and mary aged twelve the children one day wandered into the woodland hunting hazel nuts in some way they became separated for some hours they searched for nuts and then became suddenly aware of being separated and quite far from home mary and walter unknown to each other called and called but without avail they had roamed too far apart to be heard walter had started to go back as he thought bt soon lost his way and wandered down into a deep canyon mary being unable to get an answer from her brother decided to retrace her steps toward home which she did as she came out ot the bushes suddenly old dan the aged family horse appeared dan was mi animal twentyodd years old in his day he had been an attractive stepper in single harness but having aged he had been turned out to grass and was seldom used for any purpose the neighbors said caswell was foolish to koop him about any longer why at quite prevalent among cattle and save three boys in a quicksand j among the rest pearl belonged to hogs throughout the country persons spot a threelegged terrier saves a j the jones family and the occasion on who drink raw milk from infected baby and her governess from a fire a i which she showed her mettle was a cattle or who handle hogs that are in- sled dog awakens his master to save fire in the house the dog roused by reeled are likely to contract the dis- from strangling a dog the smoke barked furiously but sue- ease the name undulant fever i j length the work of official ass saves a family ceeded only in arousing the neighbors applied to the disease because the at- 1 ganda bureaus employing thousands emerged from the woods then onfrom gas and another one in ken- i pearl broke through the flames that tacks of fever come in waves or undu- of men tojirouse and keep high the and on for nearly a mile old dan tiicky foils a robbery by barking after were beginning to creep up the stairs j lations the disease was lirst recog- hatred of a nation for the enemy never slowed his pace till he stopped the alarm fails to go off a moment later she bounded into the nized on the island of malta in the many of the stories originated from snorted and turned and whinnied j during the past two years dogs have bedroom and licked his masters face mediterranean and it was thought for hearsay near the front or from mis- first caswell could see nothing j i good detective work in a single to arouse him the fimily including a time that it was spread only through day in november of last year two a baby escaped through the window the milk of goats it is now known alleged burglars were caught through by way of a ladder made out of sheets however that the disease may be con- the efforts of dogs a german police pearl did not descend the ladder nor traded from cattle and hogs the dog setting the precedent early in the did she jump after giving the warn- disease is not only disabling but ex- morning by leaping into a running ing she stayed in the bedroom prob- tremely chronic in duration the pa- taxicab causing the driver to stop ably overcome and died there j tient may be ill for two or three years long enough tor the policeman to spot partly a fox terrier and the before any improvement is noted im- catch up with him a few minutes i rest doubtful and lacking his left portant studies made by miss alice c later a patrolman was attracted by a front leg was the hero of another res- j evans a bacteriologist of the united small dog who ran yelping from a cue from fire several months later states public health service have little candy store he reached the dorothy mackaye of rose marie shown the relation between this con- store in time to see two men leave by and her husband ray raymond of ditiou in human beings and contagious the alley he caught them and the when you smile were at their thea- abortion in cattle in certain slates dog accompanied them to the station i tres playing in their home at forest it has been said that undulant fever again there is the case of smock hills ui were their threeyearold is of greater importance from the a giant st bernard who became the daughter mlmi her governor and standpoint of public health than is terror of thieves in the neighborhood spot suddenly snifling smoke he ran typhoid fever many cases are con- along grove street jersey city for up the stairs to the door of the nursery traded from infected milk fortun- years he guarded the adjacent whole- scratching at the knob and the panels ately however efficient pasteurization opened his eyes and recognized his poultry yards effectively climinat- and barking until the governess open- readily destroys any of the germs of nor hear anything then he heard the brush crackle he threw his flash light in the direction and saw two feet protruding from a hollow log his heart was in his mouth walter fast in the log and except for slight movements of the boys feet he would have believed him dead caswell ran to the other end of the log and called walter faintly answered be quiet son ordered caswell dont strain yourself any more i will get out a hitch and a pull on a prypole and the log opened to the end where walter was fast caswell sprang to his hoy rolled him out and clasped him in his arms the boy was un conscious but after a few moments you father only to become unconscious i again it was many days before walter re covered from his terrible experience two things he fully decided one was never to try to catch a rabbit in a log and the other that old dan had more sense than the neighbors who wanted to shoot him whether that he plain or horse sense old dan had won his laurels and an unending vacation at the caswell ranch even should there be no horse heaven and sometimes i think there must be disadvantages of civilization detroit free press commander byrd wires we hae left civiliza tion at last fortunate man no more thugs gunmen reckless drivers and cheap politicians in his life for a while only icebergs and penguins early potatoes quantities of easter lilies early potatoes and onions come in to new york from bermuda ing youths bent upon raiding poultry- i ed the door spot led tho way odwhjthls disease which may be present in laden freights smock worked the stairs as the woman carried the child milk the chief precautions there- beat with his patrolman friend who through the smoke which was pour- fore are the use of pasturized milk described him as the most faithful dog ing from the cellar that done spot and care when coming in contact with ho had ever known a natural born i stood still for a while but then re- animals known or suspected to be in- pollceman he would bo sent after membering something he sprang fected abortion in a series of cases escaping fowl bringing them back tin- j through the flames back into the of undulant fever recently studied harmed and working night and day house soon he returned defeated smong adults living on a farm there willingly jthe lovebird was dead in his cage i were 39 males and 6 females six of not too much is to be expected then there is the story of a 10-year- 1 the male cases are known to have however of dogs in the role of detcc- old girl of washington nj who was derived their infection from hogs tlves early in 1926 discussion raged i knocked down by a hull on her fathers in the berlin press as a result of tho j farm the animal was trampling her publication of conclusions readied by i when tho dog that accompanied her major most former manager of the gruenholde school for police dogs following an analysis of tests begun translation of war reports in other languages our prompt entry into the war he said was necessitated by our com mitment to france this commit ment was not known to parliament it was not even known to all of- the members of the cabinet more than this its existence was denied how binding the moral engagement was soon became clear whatever may have been the causes of the war the gorman inva sion of belgium was certainly not one of them nor was it even the reason of our entry into the war but tho government realizing how doubtful it was whether they could rouse public enthusiasm over a secret obligation to france- was able to represent tho invasion of belgium and the infringe ment of the treat of neutrality as the cause of our participation in 1912 and concluded in april 1925 aimed at ascertaining the real worth of police dogs in tracing suspects or escaped criminals major most be lieves that so far it has been impossi ble to train the dogs so that they would recognize the scent of a strango person after having smellod of that individual or of his belongings ho also asserted that it was almost im- caiikht the bull by the throat worry ing the animal so vigorously that it was driven off in september 1925 the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals gave a reception in honor ot billic a dog of the cape may county poor farm for saving the lives of two men and a number of cattle when a barn on the farm property was destroyed by fire billle was given a collar bear ing a red star the societys highest mark of honor for animals too thin mildred had just had her first dip in the ocean how did you like it dear asked her mother as she fastened up the little sixyearolds frock mildred glared angrily at the spark ling sea i didnt like it at all mother she replied coldly i sat on a wave and i went through the man today who wakes up and finds himself rich is the prize fighter lord dewar you bet the next timo that fool fellow of yours conies around im going to sit on him wont do a bit of good dad i tried it last night and he simply likes it smatter pop you cant hurry h