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DUTY TOANIMflLS | Movement Seen as Awakening of World Conscience. Society, in Self Protection, Hae Come to Realize That It Must Suppress Cruelties. "For centuries the world progressed i slowly toward more civilized conditions, but consideration for the suffering of animals received scant attention," said Dr. W. O. Stillman. presi dent of the American Humane association, in a recent summing up of the mission of humare societies, according j to the New York Times. "Man had not fully developed in a moral way or recognized and relieved the sufferings of brutes or prevented the infliction of the most diabolical cruelties. Way back in the days of ancient Babylon, some 4.000 years before Christ, there were laws passed to protect animals, but this was done only from the standpoint of safety and protection for the owner. "One hundred years ago. in 1.S22, the first law for the protection of animals from cruelty, for their own sake, was passed by the British parliament. Since then the movement has spread throughout the world. The conscience of mankind has become thoroughly aroused. It is plainly seen to be a duty of man to prevent unnecessary suffering. Th?s is a big task. The firtrr- rocntrniTOB rllltV lfl thlfi WVliU UVU ilk.' v?\?v,. -? respect. Civilized society, in every country, has placed statutes on its law books prohibiting the cruel treatment of subhuman creatures. "The object of all this has not been wholly unselfish or altruistic. It was ( felt that the persons who practice , cruelty would not be good fathers, i husbands or citizens. Cruelty acts re- ; flexly on character. It not only ren- J WW.** in Vlip firmn foMllflDC I uri? 111(111 ^Oliv/Ui? Ill IllO UUV ft. imuuivy, J but also corrodes and brutalizes him. i Society. in self-protection, has felt that it must suppress cruelties to mnn or beast. The conviction has been | reached that the development of moral ( character is the highest duty of man." , It is only within recent years that j the churches have recognized the im- ; portance of this work. Doctor Stillman ! said. They are gradually adopting the ] belief that the movement in favor of : humanity is one which vitally affects ; social service. "The churches are generally finding } a broader path to pursue." he de- j dared. "I believe that this is n most rrric?*\ nftnreo r%rt + -no rf nf fill !<"imt<5 I denominations and that they will bo of the most use to the world by broadening their work and making it intensely practical. As president of the American Humane association and also of the International Association of So- j cieties for the Prevention of Cruelty j to Animals. I beg to assure all that j ihe co-operation of the churches is sin- : cerelv appreciated and welcomed. It j Is earnestly hoped that every church j will make a part of its social service J work an effort to promote the move- i ment in behalf of better protection for ! children and animals. "Looking toward this end. humane I education is being introduced into the j schools of the United States. Already ! 20 states have passed humane educa- J tion laws. When all states have such laws and humane education is unifornfly taught in public and private schools, when teachers' institutes and training schools for teachers have instructed their members so that better j school service in this respect will be j ranrlororJ onri tVio raptor nf f!io j child will be altered so as to respond to the higher conceptions of public duty, there will be a wonderful im- j provement in all social conditions and i in international relations. Perhaps this will introduce the reign of peace on earth and good will toward man and beast." I l Out of Reach of Puny Man. In Central Africa, as in the great j valley of the Amazon and the hinterlands of the Guianns up in the north- i east of South America, there is in the dense roof of the lofty jungle overhead another world, unknown, unseen and forever far out of the reach of puny man, that is populated by a host of creatures that never come down to i earth. The African natives tell strange and j gruesome stories about some of these i living things. For instance, they de clare there is. an animal, something ; of the leopard kind, but striped like a , zebra, that cannot face the daylight, so used is it to the twilight overhead. ! Selous, the great hunter and explorer. ! saw an apron made of its skin, which i was wholly unlike any skin even he , had ever seen. This animal is par- ; ticularly tierce and agile, attacks the , natives from behind and then, having I bitten them at the back of the neck, 1 sucks their brains out as the weasel i does the biood of a rabbit. Bolshevist "Loot," , The total value of the confiscated jewels which the Bolsheviki have succeeded in selling is estimated by M. 1 Rosenthal at between 300.000.000 and 400.000.0M francs (normally $60,000.- j 000 to $80.000/K(0). This includes | jewels sold :<t Ib-vstl. those given in part payment t ? Knulish manufacturers, those dispose! of before the organization of the l?iir Bolshevist jewel- 1 selling campaign, those turned over j to the Polish government to cover war I costs after tr.e Bolshevist defent he- j fore Warsaw, and those sent into ItalV, j Germany art-J France to be sold for ! the benefit of Bolshevist propaganda, j He esfimaf**s the value of the jewels sold by Kussiao refugees at a similar j ,figure , ' QUITE AT HOME IN JUNGLE \ j Many American Boys Would Keenly Enjoy the Life Led by Youthful English Naturalist. \ Guy Wernham, a London boy nat- ; uralist, who is not yet sixteon years of | a^e, has traveled 8.<?M? miles 1<> collect i specimens for the natural history department of the British museum. He : i is now in tlio jungle?in tne rrencn : Cumeroons. which is one of the rich- j est fields* in the world for natural his- j tory specimens, according to London i Tit-Kits. The boy is a flame of enthusiasm i for everything scientific, and. as his 1 father. Herbert Fuller WVrnham, I). J Sc., F. L. S.. is an expert on tropical i plants. (Juy has been in the right at- ! mosphere for acquiring knowledge. Familiar with much of the proced- J ure and appliances of research work, ! 1 he lias a ferocious curiosity concern- j j big all forms of life?botanical, moth, i bird and beast. He devours information on nature from books and life, f and packs It away in mental pigeon! holes. i Writing from Elat, Guv said: "You ! would be surprised to hear the noise 1 made by insects at night. There are j millions of grasshoppers and crickets, I which keep up a constant singing, j made by rubbing their hind legs, which | are made like rasps, against their, j wing-cases." He described the jungle as huge j hothouse, but with an infinitely gro;it- I er variety of plants, with the addition I of birds, animals, lizards and butterflies rivaling the flowers in brightness . of colors." Toward the end of his journey, on a \ rough bush track, he was picked up by j Doctor Webber of the American mis- J sion. who was riding a motorcycle. It was a strange meeting. The natives were very curious aboiit Guy. and had to be assured ajrain and agrain by Mr. Buck, of .the mission, that "he's a real boy." At Bitje Guy will attend to his col- j lecting, but already a journey across < Nigeria is projected. He wants any- j thing interesting?bats, butterflies, | birds, squirrels, weasels and plants of i all kinds. He goes out at night and "sugars" the trees, collecting the in toxicateci insects iroin inera auring the day. 1 Though vessels leave Duala for Liverpool almost every week white men in the interior, owing t-o the bush dif- J Acuities, can neither receive nor send i mails except at intervals of two or i three months. But this is not good enough for Guy, who is planning to : set up a portable wireless apparatus j so that lie can send and receive from j Duala. and so get news to and from ; home quickly. (iuv r-.-in speak and read French and j has a knowledge of geology. He is ! able to draw a bird or plant from life j so faithfully that a naturalist can i identify it. Pandora's Box. . j Pandora, in the mythology of the Greeks and Romans, was the first . woman. She was made in Heaven, and every god contributed something to perfect her. and this is the significance of her name, Pandora, the "all gifted." I, While she was in the home of EpImetheus she discovered a jar?the famous "Pandora's box"?in which were contained a number of noxious qualities which the Titan had decided not to make use of when he gave man , his set of personal characteristics. One J day Pandora opened the lid to see ; what the jar'contained and a multitude of unpleasant matters flew out, ! luitnon ?n<u\ Tfirll TOi)mr ! UUJUPUillg U1C ilUllliIll 1 civ ^ IOUI luunj j disorders of the body and equally un- j fortunate distempers of the m>nd. She 1 attempted to put back thQ lid, ut be- j fore she could do so all the'plagu * had j escaped. Only one tiling remained in ; the jar and, when that was examined, it was found to he hope, which ever j since has prevailed i<> lighten the j hardships whicji the remainder of the jar's contents have brought upon man- . kind. Dangling Under a Balloon. Three men were holding a balloon j while it was being filled with gas at | Maine-et-Loire. France, when it sud-: j denly shot aloft. One man let go his hold when he was but a few feet from ^ the ground and was uninjured. The second man held until he had been : carried nearly 100 feet in the air and then dropped. He was killed. The , third man became entangled in the;] drag rope and was earricd skyward dangling .SOU feet undey the runaway j i balloon and was entirely helpless.. An i| aiv-'ane was summoned and sent to', the rescue and when lie first sighted j tlie runaway it was at least (>.0<Ki feet j3 in the air. By the time hi* had over- I 1 taken it. the balloon started to tie- |J scend and -it landed its unwilling pas-j1 sender in a tree. His injuries were i j slight but his experiences were thrill- , ins- . !j ( German Time in England. The extent to which clocks have 1 been imported into Great Britain from ' Germany during the first four months 1 of tlie present year lias been remarkable. Out <?f an a^jrreirate number j j of 1.194.732 complete clocks from all', countries, no less than l.n~?.(514 came j. from Germany, or considerably more i ' than 40.000 above the number re- I ceived during the same period in 11)13, ' 3 while for the same four months of i ( tho <?f coi iiilofe clocks , < were GW.TT'i and 6S1.S*2 in 11)21. ( A Frost. _ ' "Mrs. Xewrich expected (hat her daughter when she brought her out J would 1 quite :i society bud. but the i gociet;? aders tool: nn notice of her." ] "Ah. nipped her hopes in the bud, i1 1 so io speak."?Boston Transcript. w ? ? WATCH ? OUR WINDOWS? ? THEY ARE J CONSTANTLY CHANGED ? were visited Saturday th Bros, stock. back and bous J To those wli your tolerance 11 Die to serve ev Our Stock is S plenty more b< m w J you will find e 2 bargains throw a new surprise We have to< J and you will fi ? DON'T MISS OUR $ IMMENSE SHOE DEPT. 9 THE LEADING VALUES $ OF ? OUR SALE A ? \ TRIP FROM SILVER SPRINGS f Th. j to fo 3ver Silver River, Ocklawaha and j afceut St. Johns Rivers, a Distance of ; it is 135 Miles j parti< j is erj Editor The Herald and News: j sprinj One making this trip in daylight j streai ivill behold the most wonderful semi- J tent tropical river trip in the world. It i nine ncluaes three separate and distinct i Ha rivers. This trip can be made be- j glass iween sun-up and late in the after- i that icon. Here at Silver Springs boats! the r ivith piate-glass panels in the bottom j and s ire provided for a sail over this won-j felt't ierful spring, a sight never to be j nativ forgotten in after years. And a larg- i the ] _>r boat for the trip down Silver river i surf a s found waiting. The river flows quiet eastward for nine miles into' OckLa-1 both ivaha river. I dered The word "spring" is almost a j ventu nisnomer in this connection, for -one j than s prone to think of a spring as be-jcusto ing a "hole in the ground," a pool or j wide, basin. So with this idea in mind, he ; boats is hardly prepared to take in all at ture )nce the beauty and extent of Silver j -01' tl Springs, which is more like a lake, hill" ?xcept that no lake of its size was j a jver so deep, so transparent, or so doubl Deautiful. But when we stop to con- some =ider that tests give the volume of depth ivater discharged 22;134,780 gallons Ev per hour, we have to admit that it is reflec eerily the spring of springs. hotto J _j mm am aa obbhsi bk by the largest an at any time Thousands c jht more. 10 came and were as the constant I rerybody as we w ; immense. Our argains awaiting 3 t very thing better a rn out every day. "a ? I ! every day. l,ooi o many Special B nd even greater fa Americ* Puri Copeland Brotbei ? a # e water rises from thei-e springs jible as tl rm a river fifty feet wide and wonderfi ; thirty feet deep. Silver river.,' the midd called, which seemed to me a white r6t ;ularly appropriate name as it low of 1 tirely the outpouring of Silver i moss. It e*s, .and not increased by any with snu :ns flowing into it or to any ex-! ready to by surface drainage along its,of the s miles of length. j 1 imagin " > * , nnilfr t h vi rig transierrcu irom uic ? bottom boat to a larger boat greater, runs frcm the springs down to being se iver, we broke through the trees j had it b< started to explore this river. I Vv'ouId lo< hat we were intruding into the ahead \v: os' secret places and disturbing j touch t.-i )eaceful order of things. The j swinging ce of the water was smooth and ( by the ti and the trees very dense, on would cc sides and ahead of us. I won- j presentin I at 'the size of the boat that j the wont .red into this stream, no wider! torn of t the average street, for I was ac- and trees med to rivers several times as!before hthat were navigable for row j native he only. I i5.i\v that the level na-! would s\v of the country made it difficult disturbed lis water to find its way "down- by our i and caused the increasing wind-, ami qua! bout?at times the river almost rlent an.y ing on itself?accounted in t under us measure at least, for the great a sport ii t. j it be hei er .ahead of us the colors were ! watching ted from th'e water, and the I:s ac*ded m of the river was clearly vis-1 All tor S rviAn : since the p arne and bo ! not properly lock of people ish to serve yc U. %*/ oJ? Ks ?. V a. fou. arranged and e We are goin \r ?s\w 1? FY AV/i ?*,e argains to mer argams than y in. Sale: chasers of the rs Stock, Newix iat of the spring and just as point il in its formation, ilight in ( <4:k ie of what looked lo be? soiid whici :k, I would see a perfect nil- : i :he softest kind of velvety eryst , would be perfectly f >rr,u with >oth edges and seemed .iuo face be lifted right up. A fringe tense ame velvety growth?moss, to k ed?would line the bank- to tn c water, and it?i beauty \va lis ir I am sure, on account of en through the water than rive;sen growing on land. 1 t>k up and see ia.:d jur, ith trees so near I could a;._, em, and i'ind that we were around a curve anu aimcs; t e n me we were around '"hat we n: >me to another. Each one t-.e r g new scenic effects, both in [erful formation of ihe b ' t'vir he river and in the foliar:: \, that lined the bank. Xev" . v id I seen the arigator in hi.; MVI'1 of:- . 71 lie. JL i. ^ 1. V_ C*?i'4 w . - ^ K. I '- > im ahead of us, having been i;; j [ from his peaceful sunn in ; gr> , ?ou. 1. Fish in si::.*, variety, niirf itity to excite the most ar- thev ler, were -wimmii-.T about in plain siprht. If fishing* is vL i average waters, what must tbem re where the excitement of visit the first approach the bait to the usual pleasure. ?r>rin > quickly we approached the O; ?i.i US s mil I |i|P i?j f JL illl El pi! H|g people F 3 a rs>r & x* iituuv *4^ a. light, hundi S i 1 served we i ! made it aim >110 ?1 3 are overrlowi / ven greater \ ig to make th - / \ i i * JL L * liion in mis 5j ou will imagi e Pa F" *rry S (! /IaJj v? # ? ? ? ? 3 ? @ ? ? $ \\h<r. the Silver river joins Lh< iwahu, th.-.o other wonder-river : hun its own startling surprise: tivlhdits. The blending of th( al-iil:e water of the Silver rive: the mystic, darker mirror-sur water of the Ockiawaha was in iy interesting as each .struggle* i-cn its own characterises ant event the other from getting ir ifluence. " t; '>t>IcaI tcriage along Silvei . t'.ie r :my <iiiTcrent kinds ol vhith can be .seen in the excep ci -ar water, and intk-crib colorings of the formation anc life in the bud of the river, ant i;:nereus alligators that on- see: ng themseives on the shores ol ver are .sights that northern an< t ur.-ts v.*i!i remember al 1 i v 6 5 # 1 tin I :ay that J do not kn av ol ;,!a;e anywhere thai :-s mere ex :inavy. more beautiful, mere in t.:rg, rhan Silver springs, ant 1 Vi 11 C* -,i wft n ' ,'t )> ] t h' rivers. Some friends o' were in Ocala last week anc did not hear a word about Sil ;-in an J tiic-y did nut know fhey ha i missed until i lok . >.>; one ought to be allowed tc Oca la without being1 persuade* ' for hirnst-If Its marvels. Silvei is an .-set, not merely tc i nor 10 rida, but to the na . *N . ? m NO C. O. D.'S, ? WA'L ORDERS, OR APPROVALS ? URING THIS SALE ? " " 9 j riday and Copeland reels came S , A^ish to beg ost impossi ng, there are j I . ' ' values. New is store hold * ~ W fL ~ m pace. Lome ? ,ne. m ? ANEW z SENSATIONAL q VALUE ? EVERY MORNING ? AT 10:30 # , . . ' / i tlon. The region surrounding it , ought to be carefully guarded and 5 the spring itself should be protected, i from all vandalism. f In the Ladies' Parlor I can believe -; nature satisfied her most selfish whims; where she gave full fway to ? 1 her personal tastes and ideas; and 1 whick was to represent the sum total i. cf her powers. Here the colors *.re | the most lavish, and the formation of the "parlor" shows intimate I touches you would expect. I know . of no ciher spot where nature has - put on exhibition such a unique colI lection of water colors. { J. v7right. 3 Johnston, S. C. ; WEST END WINS ONE i Fr.stest Game of Season Played at f Newberry - The State. ^. wberry, Aug. 4?West End won i !>on! -Johnston today, .'3 to 2, in the ' fastest game here this season. Holf brcok aW Minick staged a pitchers' I battle, but Minick's support cracked - in one inning. Thomas, for West End, had two hits in four times, I while Deas and Minick got homers j: for Johnston. (Johnston 2 4 3 West End ,%..3 6 2 ) ' Minick and Herlong, Holbrook and - j Oliver. ? W.J