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Bellefonte, Pa., September 29, 1922.
IMMORTALITY OF DOGS.
By L. A. Miller. .
Just a few remarks on the immor-
tality of dogs. This is a problem that
agitates the minds of many people;
more especially the dog fanciers.
In the first place dogs have rights
which man is bound to respect; if he
proposes to be a man in the fullest
sense of the term.
The dog has his place in the world,
and is entitled to the respect due to
his position. What more natural right
has a man to kick an inoffensive dog,
than a dog has to bite an inoffensive
man? If a man is justified in kicking
a dog that intrudes on his personal
rights, hasn’t the dog a right to resent
a like intrusion? Nature gave all an-
imals, including man, the right to pro-
tect and preserve themselves, and, as
far as nature is concerned, has man
any more rights than dogs or other
animals?
Philosophy teaches clearly that ani-
mals have equal rights with man un-
der all laws that pertain to them in
common. Man is higher and better
than a dog only in moral point of
view, and just how much higher and
better depends entirely upon how he
stands according to the established
moral standard.
But men have souls! And who
knows but dogs have? It is clear to
any one who has studied human na-
ture that it is a very poor dog that
hasn’t more soul than some men. It
would be a gross libel on a good dog
to say that it was no better than the
brutish man who delights in cruelty
and revels in beastiality.
“I said in mine heart concerning the
estate of the sons of men, that God
might manifest them, and that they
might see, that they themselves are
beasts.
“For that which befalleth the sons
of men befalleth beasts; even the one
thing befalleth them; as one dieth, so
dieth the other; yea, they have all one
breath; so that a man has no preemi-
nence above a beast; far all is vani-
y.
“All go to one place; all are the
same dust, and all turn to dust again.
“Who knoweth the spirit of man
that goeth upward, and the spirit of
the beast that goeth Jownward to
earth.”—Eccles. III-18-21.
If the preacher was not greatly mis-
taken, man has but little better show
for immortality than the brute. He
seems to be under the impression that
there is not much difference between
a man and a dog as some people im-
agine; and what is still more singu-
lar, the Holy Scriptures nowhere de-
ny a future life for animals.
After reasoning at great length, and
showing by unanswerable arguments
that the human body is but 2 machine
contrived for the convenience of the
soul, or real man, that famous man,
Bishop Butler, in his “Analogy,” says:
“But it is said, these observations are
equally applicable to brutes; and it is
thought an insuperable difficulty that
they should be immortal, and the con-
sequence capable of everlasting hap-
piness. Now this manner of expres-
sion is both invidious and weak; but
the thing intended by it is really no
difficulty at all, either in the way of
natural or moral consideration.
“We find it to be a general law of
nature that creatures endowed with
capacities for virtue and religion
should be placed in a condition of be-
ing in which they are altogether with-
out the use of them for a considerable
length of their duration—as in infan-
cy and childhood. And a great part
of the human species go out of the
present world before they come to the
exercise of these capacities in any de-
gree.
“The natural immortality of brutes
does not in the least imply that they
are endowed with any latent capaci-
ties of a rational or moral nature.
The economy of the universe might
require that there should be living
creatures without any capacities of
this kind * * * There is, then, ab-
solutely nothing at all in this objec-
tion which is so rhetorically urged
against the greatest part of the rat-
ural proofs or presumptions of the im-
mortality of human minds.”
The lower animals shave with man
the attributes of reason, memory, af-
fection, a sense of moral responsibili-
ty, all of which belong to the spirit,
and not to the body.
These are the qualities which man
expects to retain in the next world;
they are the attributes of his immor-
tal soul. If the same attributes exist
in a dog, who shall say they are not
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
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except man?
There are a great many—more by
far than is generally supposed—who
believe in the future existence of an-
imals as, firmly as they do that they
will exist hereafter. None, however,
claim that there will be more equali-
ty between mankind and brutes then
than now, but that the same relations
will be sustained.
My dog! The difference between
thee and me knows only our Creator.
—Samartine.
BOALSBURG.
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‘Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Homan, of
State College, spent Tuesday in town.
Mrs. Paul Stairs, of Greensburg, is
visiting at the home of Mrs. E. E.
Stuart.
Miss Nelle Holter, of Howard, was
a recent visitor at the home of Chas.
Mothersbhaugh.
Elmer Royer and family, of Earlys-
town, were visitors at the home of
Mrs. Murray recently.
Mrs. Ellen Stuart, of State College,
spent several days with her sister,
Mrs. Amanda Fisher.
Miss Gladys Hazel, accompanied by
two classmates, came home from Penn
State for the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tussey and
children, of Arch Springs, were vis-
itors in town on Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Stover, of Altoona, ac-
companied by several friends, enjoyed p
a short visit in town on Sunday.
John Hess and Mrs. J. P. Wagner
and niece, Marjorie Slagle, of Altoo-
na, enjoyed a visit with friends last
week.
Mrs. John Fisher and grandson,
Jack Fisher, of Bellefonte, were week-
end visitors at the home of Mrs.
Kaup.
Two hundred invitations were is-
sued for a chicken supper in the
mountain with the men of the Luth-
gran and Reformed Sunday schools as
osts.
Sousa Says America Now Leads in
Music.
According to Liuetenant Command-
er John Philip Sousa, “America has
come into its own,” musically speak-
ing. In an interview given at New
York recently, the famous bandmas-
ter declared that we do not need to go
abroad for musicians, as we have as
fine singers and instrumentalists in
this country as may be found any-
where. “There are no better bands or
symphony orchestras than those in
this country,” he said.
Sousa continued: “Let me cite an
instance of the Americanism of our
musicians. Last spring I took eighty-
three men to Havana, Cuba, to give a
series of concerts. I was obliged to
obtain but three passports. Thirty
years ago it is likely that I would have
had to obtain eighty passports, for
that many members of the organiza-
tion would then of necessity be for-
eigners. It would have been impossi-
ble for me to engage an American
band. Today the American musician
stands at the front rank, and many of
them are superior to those who come
from abroad. My band is now made
up of Americans, most of them native
and all the others naturalized or on
the way to naturalization. The others
are but four in number.
“My observation of this new music-
al adeptness of young America is not
casual. I have had opportunity to ob-
serve in many parts of the country,
and, of course, in my own band, I am
daily in contact with this artistry.”
Poultrymen Start Movement.
“A Nickel a Hen for Penn State” is
a slogan that will spread to poultry
farms throughout the State if the
poultrymen of other counties follow in
the lead of those of Montgomery in
an effort to raise funds by popular
subscription for the erection of a dor-
mitory unit at The Pennsylvania State
College. The movement, which is
similar to that staged during the sum-
mer by potato growers for a hospital
fund of $150,000, has met with the ap-
proval of F. S. Barr, of Narvon, Lan-
caster county, president of the Penn-
sylvania Poultry Association. Pro-
fessor H. C. Krandel, head of the
poultry husbandry department at
State College, has started visiting the
poultrymen of the State in the inter-
est of the movement which is expect-
ed to result in a gift of $100,000 to
relieve congestion at the college and
allow more students to enter.
State College Has Biggest Enrollment.
The student enrollment at The
Pennsylvania State College last week
reached the expected figure of prac-
tically 3300, the largest number of
resident students that the college has
gver experienced. The rapid growth
of the town of State College and the
opening of a few extra class rooms in
already crowded quarters has enabled
the college to enroll 100 more students
than last year.
There are a few more than 1000
freshmen, 796 sophomores, 619 jun-
iors, 496 seniors, 100 graduate stu-
dents and 40 specials. The school of
engineering leads all others with al-
most 1100 students, and agriculture
is next with 779. Liberal arts has be-
come very popular and almost 700 are
enrolled in that branch. Science has
271, mines 176 and the department of
home economics, 160.
Two Thousand Babies Stolen in Paris
in Year.
Paris.—More than 2,000 babies have
been reported stolen to the Paris po-
lice this year, an average of nearly
seven a day, according to L’Intransig-
eant,
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CASTORIA
Bears thesignature of Chas. H.Fletcher.
In use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
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as likely to exist hereafter as if they SUMMARY OF 1922
had existed in that form of animal!
FUR LAWS READY.
The Legislatures which met in 11
States during the year made but few
and unimportant changes in the laws
relating to fur animals, according to
the annual summary issued by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, which, through its bureau of
Biological Survey, is charged with the
administration of Federal laws relat-
ing to the fur industry. Copies of
publication entitled “Laws Relating to
Fur Animals, 1922,” by George A
Lawyer, chief United States game
warden, and Frank L. Earnshaw, as-
sistant, may be had by writing to the
department at Washington, D. C.
In Alaska shooting of fur animals
is now permitted, but beaver houses
or runways may not be destroyed.
Foxes certified as disease-free by an
official veterinarian of another coun-
try may be imported without quaran-
tine. In Montana a person suffering
damage from beavers may get a per-
mit to take these animals on his own
premises, but skins so taken must be
cared for, properly cured, and sent
to the State game warden for tag-
ging. A special permit must be se-
cured in order to ship the skin out of
the State.
Evidence of illegal shipments of
fur has been uncovered in the course
of checking up shipments and receipts
of furs by the principal fur houses of
the country. These cases have been
prosecuted and fines and penalties to-
taling several thousands of dollars im-
osed.
Not all States offer bounties for un-
desirable animals, although in most
States where predatory creatures give
trouble there is a price on the head of
wolves, mountain lions, bobcats, coy-
otes and similar destructive animals.
Sometimes the county or township
pays the bounty. In Wisconsin the
State treasurer duplicates all county
awards. Seals are considered a pest
in Massachusetts, as well as in the
State of Wahington. Any one who
can catch a panther in New York
State is entitled to $20 bounty. Bears
in Pennsylvania have an open and
closed season, although they may be
killed at any time in defense of per-
son or property. American trappers
receive yearly many millions of del-
lars for their fur harvest.
TRAPPED BEAVERS.
Three fine specimens of beavers,
one male and two females, were
caught in a specially designed trap
near Sirerville, Potter county, and
were taken to Woolrich, Clinton coun-
ty, for the purpose of propagation.
They will be protected in their new
homes by means of notices, which
have been placed along the stream
warning all persons that a fine of
$200 will be imposed on any one at-
tempting to disturb these animals.
The beaver is a fine fur-bearing an-
imal, having a tail of very peculiar
form, which is used for several im-
portant purposes, one being to aid it
in swimming under water and anoth-
er being to assist it in plastering holes
shut in their dams. It is used for this
purpose very much as one would use
a plasterer’s trowel.
The beavers were captured
in a
‘specially designed trap, constructed in
such a way that no injury could pos-
sibly result to the animal. It was the
first try-out of the trap and the re-
sult was very satisfactory. The trap
is four and one-half feet in length and
eighteen inches in height, with net-
work of chains fastened to the jaws
so that when it sprung the beaver
was encaged in this net work of
chains.
One of the beavers weighs over for-
ty pounds. The other two are smaller.
They were transported in an automo-
bile to Woolrich, a distance of ninety
miles from the place of capture.
Many Trees for Distribution.
About 7,000,000 young forest trees
will be distributed free to land owners
in Pennsylvania by the Department of
Forestry this fall and next spring. An
inventory of the Department’s nurs-
eries shows there are more than 5,-
000,000 evergreens ready and about
1,500,000 hardwood trees ready for
planting.
Among the evergreens to be given
away free by the Department are
large quantities of pitch pine, Scotch
pine, Japanese, red and black pine,
Norway spruce, and white pine. The
leading kinds of hardwood trees will
be white ash, green ash, rock oak, red
oak, and American elm.
The trees are from five to twelve
inches in height, and will be distrib-
uted to individuals who will plant them
for wood production.
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AN EXCLUSIVE COUNTRY.
The country of Greenland is per-
haps less visited than any other land,
for Greenland belongs to Denmark
and it is only very rarely that any
other people besides Danes ever set
foot there. This is not because Green-
land is protected by warships and
forts, but owing to its extremely dan-
gerous coast line. The seas which
wash the shores of Greenland are, as
most of the world is concerned, quite
uncharted. There are no buoys to
show where there are rocks and sand
banks and only a few Danish mariners
have an idea of the way in which the
ocean currents flow. For several hun-
dred years the Danish government
has had a secret Pilot Book to Green-
land. Only a few trusted Danish cap-
tains are ever allowed to see this book
and all attempts on the part of other
nations to get a copy have failed. So
to the outside world Greenland is
practically a closed land, and it seems
likely to remain so.
It is a mistake to thing that Green-
land is a country with nothing but
snow and ice. The central part of the
land is largely formed of a huge ice
cap which remains throughout the
year. Toward the coast, however,
there are regions where, during the
summer, the weather is pleasant and
crops can be grown. There are no
less than 176 towns and settlements
in Greenland, inhabited by 22,000 Es-
kimos and two or three hundred Dan-
ish colonists. The natives manage
their own affairs and the arrangement
works admirably. The inhabitants
are chiefly occupied in fishing and in
whale and seal hunting. The two chief
towns of Greenland are known as
Godthaad and Godhaven.—EX.
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You save nothing by buyin 882,
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LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with ths
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cls making Steaks and Roasts. My
prices are no higher than the peerer
meats are elsewhere.
I always have
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