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not be figured by time, but by results. The clause stating that: 

 "A school district shall not be entitled to participate in the public 

 school money, if the instruction hereby is not given therein," gives 

 the necessary force to the law. Let us hope the penalty may never 

 be applied. 



And so it is your duty now; to acquaint the schools in your 

 respective locality with the nature of the law; to aid in every 

 possible way by your interest, your means, your example, your 

 character in the enforcement of the law. Visit the schools, offer 

 prizes, distribute literature, give talks, and above all, let that 

 invisible quality, humaneness, so illuminate your lives and charac- 

 ter, that it will envelop the teacher, who in turn will so grasp the 

 great opportunities and the ethical value of the subject, that she 

 will in turn impart its principles to her pupils. "Rome was not 

 built in a day." We cannot hope that everything will be accom- 

 plished the first year, but never were humane societies confronted 

 with a graver responsibility than this their duty toward the com- 

 pulsory humane education law. 



Pets in the Trenches 



A war correspondent tells us : "Of the pets the dog is by far the 

 more numerous and popular. There are goats and cats and 

 canaries and various species of mascot, but the dog becomes more a 

 part of the life than any of the others. Many a subaltern or com- 

 pany commander has gone "over the top" into battle with his dog 

 leaping and barking happily beside him. Scores of dogs have been 

 killed beside their masters, and hundreds wounded. In the fighting 

 about Mametz during the great push on the Somme a Red Cross 

 searching party came upon a pathetic little group composed of a 

 subaltern, his dog, four private soldiers, just as they had sprawled 

 to their death in a burst of machine gun fire." 



