powerful locomotives with tenders, then by twenty-four cars heavily loaded with coal. During the passage there was breathless silence, broken when the train reached the other side by great cheering and the discharge of cannon.

Many years ago, while in Wales, we crossed this bridge on a visit to Carnarvon Castle, where we found what we think could not be found elsewhere in Europe, a parrot that spoke three languages-French, English

and Welsh.

THE SINGER'S ALMS.

[AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF THE GREAT TENOR, MARIO.]

In Lyons, on the mart of that French

town,

Years since, a woman leading a fair child,

Craved a small alms of one, who, walking down

The thoroughfare, caught the child's glance and smiled

To see, behind its eyes, a noble soul; He paused, but found he had no coin to dole.

His guardian angel warned him not to lose

This chance of pearl to do another good;

So, as he waited, sorry to refuse

The asked-for penny, there aside he stood,

And with his hat held, as by limb the nest,

He covered his kind face and sung his best.

The sky was blue above, and all the lane Of commerce, where the singer stood, was filled,

And many paused, and, listening, paused again

To hear the voice that through and through them thrilled.

I think the guardian angel helped along

That cry for pity, woven in a song.

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The hat of its stamped brood was emptied

soon

Into the woman's lap, who drenched with tears

Her kiss upon the hand of help; 'twas

noon,

And noon in her glad heart drove forth her fears.

The singer, pleased, passed on and softly thought,

"Men will not know by whom this deed was wrought."

But when at night he came upon the stage,

Cheer after cheer went up from that wide throng,

And flowers rained on him; naught could assuage

The tumult of the welcome save the song

That he had sweetly sung, with covered face,

For the two beggars in the marketplace.

-HENRY ABBEY.

WHY HE THOUGHT HE'D WAIT.

Dentist: Mr. Doppenheimer you won't feel me pull the tooth. The gas will make you insensible. You won't know what's going on.

Doppenheimer: Ish dot so? Well, I dinks I coomes to

morrer.

Dentist: But why not let me pull it to day? Doppenheimer: Well, I don' yoost know how much monish der wash in my pocket-book.-Life.

PHILLIPS BROOKS.

A "Boston Gazette" writer tells that a lady was traveling from Providence to Boston with her weak-minded father. Before they arrived there, he become possessed of a fancy that he must get off the train while it was still in motion; that some absolute duty called him. His daughter endeavored to quiet him, but it was difficult to do it, and she was just giving up in despair when she noticed a very large man watching the proceeding intently over the top of his newspaper. As soon as he caught her eyes he rose and crossed quickly to her. "I beg your pardon," he said. "You are in trouble. May I help you?" As soon as he spoke she felt

perfect trust in him. She explained the situation to him. "What is your father's name?” he

asked.

She told him, and with an encouraging smile he bent over the gentleman who was sitting in front of her, and said a few words in his ear. With a smile, the gentleman arose, crossed the aisle and took the vacant seat, and the next moment the large man had turned over the seat, and leaning toward the troubled old man, had addressed him by name, shaken hands cordially, and engaged him in a conversation so interesting and so cleverly arranged to keep his mind occupied, that he forgot his need to leave the train, and did not think of it again until they were in Boston. Here the stranger put the lady and her charge into a carriage; received her assurance that she felt perfectly safe, had cordially shaken her hand, and was about to close the carriage door when she remembered that she had felt so safe in the keeping of this noble-looking man that she had not even asked his name. Hastily

putting her hand against the door she said: "Pardon me, but you have rendered me such a service, may I not know whom I am thanking?" The big man smiled as he answered, "Phillips Brooks," and turned away.

IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS.

BY J. S. HOLDEN, in The Clare, Michigan, Press. Nor is this belief in the future existence of dumb animals confined to savage and barbarous peoples, but has been taught and believed among the best and most enlightened of mankind in all nations and all ages. We find it in the writings of the immortal Homer and the later Greeks, the Romans and other enlightened people; we read of the faithful hound of the wandering king Ulysses, the famous charger of Alexander; the historic horse of Caligula, and various other dumb animals who have been the companions, friends and benefactors of man and some of whom in ages past have been almost deified by grateful and admiring multitudes. Not a few of the early Christians believed in a future existence for dumb animals, as shown by the great historian, Gibbon. The belief was quite common in the early ages of the Church that God sent angels in the form of birds to aid and console those who suffered for the faith. It is related in holy writ that Elisha was fed by ravens sent from God, and Peter, the great Christian hermit who preceded Anthony in the desert, is said to have been sustained for years by the same means. Instances of this belief among the early Christians can be multiplied.

It is well known that St. Francis at a later date gathered beasts and birds about him and called them his brothers. The great

Dr. Johnson believed in a future existence for dumb animals; also the poets Wordsworth, and Shelley, and Coleridge, as shown in his celebrated poem, the "Ancient Mariner." Numerous other scholars of Christian belief might be cited to the same belief.

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A RICH GENTLEMAN. An incident in a Fourth avenue car. All the seats were occupied, when an old, poorly dressed woman entered at Forty-second street. The first to offer his seat was well built, clean cut gentleman, his face smooth shaven and firm, his eyes clear and alert, his whole bearing engaging and graceful. The poor old woman was one of the loquacious creatures who often talk away in an innocent manner to strangers, and after thanking the man who had given her a seat, she told him of her trip to New Jersey to see her married daughter. She wanted to go to the Christopher street ferry, she said, and didn't know how to do it. Her new acquaintance listened politely to all she said, and assured her that he would see that she was transferred to the blue car at Eighteenth street, which runs to the ferry.

So,

The gentleman's bearing toward the simple old woman was gaining the admiration of every one in the car. He was so patient and good natured with her. At Eighteenth street he stopped the car. Just then the desired other car shot across. Rushing to the front platform, the obliging gentleman called loudly to the driver of the cross town car. Then he helped the old woman from one car to another, ran back, and smiled good humoredly over the trouble he had been put

to.

The writer recognized the good Samaritan. He was Cornelius Vanderbilt.-New York Sun.

AN IRISH GENTLEMAN.

The seats were all full and one was occupied by a rough-looking Irishman. At one of the stations a couple of well-bred and intelligent looking young ladies came in to procure seats, but seeing no vacant ones were about to go into another car when Patrick rose hastily and offered them his seat with evident pleasure. "But you will have no seat for yourself," responded one of the ladies with a smile, and with truest politeness hesitating to accept it. "Never ye moind that," said the Hibernian, "yer welcome to it. I'd ride upon the cow-ketcher any toime from here till New York for a smoile from such gintlemanly ladies," and retreated into the next car amid the applause of those who witnessed the incident. haps the foregoing hint to many ladies will show that a trifle of politeness has often a happy effect.-General Manager.

GOOD HINT TO MOTHERS.

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A friend of mine who lives in the suburbs has a small boy, not more than five years old, I believe, who has an inveterate habit of running away. He is a sturdy, stout-legged little chap, of great courage and enterprise, but his father and mother have been put to a good deal of anxiety on his account. Sometimes he is found in the next town, sometimes by the railroad, and again in a certain pasture where he enjoys the congenial society of several young colts, but it is always a matter of doubt where he will be discovered. Recently, however, the family have acquired a mongrel little terrier, recommended for the purpose, who hunts up Sammy with unerring accuracy. Whenever Sammy is missing, his mother shows his jacket to the dog and tells him to find the boy, whereupon the animal sets off with his nose to the ground, the hired man, or somebody else, follows, and in due time the young vagabond is brought to bay. Here is a hint for anxious mothers.

We send without cost, to every person asking, a copy of "Band of Mercy" information and other publications.

Also, without cost, to every person who writes that he or she has formed a 44 Band of Mercy" by obtaining the signatures of thirty adults or children or both either signed, or authorized to be signed-to the pledge, also the name chosen for the "Band" and the name and post-office address [town and state] of the President:

1st, Our monthly paper, "OUR DUMB ANIMALS," full of interesting stories and pictures, for one year.

2d, Copy of Band of Mercy Information. 3d, Copy of Band of Mercy Songs.

4th,

Twelve Lessons on Kindness to Animals, containing many anecdotes.

5th, Eight Humane Leaflets, containing pictures and one hundred selected stories and poems.

6th, For the President, an imitation gold badge.

The head officers of Juvenile Temperance Associations and teachers and Sunday school teachers should be Presidents of Bands of Mercy. Nothing is required to be a member, but to sign the pledge or authorize it to be signed.

Any intelligent boy or girl fourteen years old can form a Band with no cost, and receive what we offer, as before stated.

To those who wish badges, song and hymn books, cards of membership, and a membership book for each Band, the prices are, for badges, gold or silver imitation, eight cents; ribbon, four cents; song and hymn books, with fiftytwo songs and hymns, two cents; cards of membership, two cents; and membership book, eight cents. The "Twelve Lessons on Kindness to Animals" cost only two cents for the whole, bound together in one pamphlet. The Humane Leaflets cost twenty-five cents a hundred, or eight for five cents.

Everybody, old or young, who wants to do a kind act, to make the world happier or better, is invited to address, by letter or postal, Geo. T. Angell, Esq., President, 19 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts, and receive full information.

A Good Order of Exercises for Band of Mercy Meetings.

1-Sing Band of Mercy song or hymn, and repeat the Pledge together. [See Melodies.]

2-Remarks by President, and reading of Report of last Meeting by Secretary.

3-Readings, Recitations, "Memory Gems," and Anecdotes of good and noble sayings, and deeds done to both human and dumb creatures, with vocal and instrumental music.

4-Sing Band of Mercy song or hymn.

5-A brief address. Members may then tell what they have done to make human and dumb creatures happier and

better.

6-Enrollment of new members.

7-Sing Band of Mercy song or hymn.

Any boy, girl, man or woman can come to our offices, sign the above "Band of Mercy" pledge, and receive a beautifully-tinted paper certificate that the signer is a Life Member of the "Parent American Band of Mercy," and a "Band of Mercy" member of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, all without cost, or can write us that they wish to join, and by enclosing a twocent return postage stamp, have names added to the list, and receive a similar certificate by mail. Those who wish the badge and large card of membership, can obtain them at the office by paying ten cents, or have them sent by mail by sending us, in postage stamps or otherwise, twelve

cents.

Many of the most eminent men and women not only of Massachusetts, but of the world, are members of the "Parent American Band."

Bands can obtain our membership certificates at ten cents a hundred.

WHAT IS THE OBJECT OF THE BANDS OF MERCY?

I answer: To teach and lead every child and older person to seize every opportunity to say a kind word, or do a kind act that will make some other human being or some dumb creature happier.

GEO. T. ANGELL, President of the American Humane Education Society, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Parent American Band of Mercy, 19 Milk St., Boston.

SHALL WE FIND THEM AT
THE PORTALS?

Will they meet us, cheer and greet us,
Those we've loved who've gone before?
Shall we find them at the portals,
Find our beautiful immortals,
When we reach that radiant shore?
Hearts are broken for some token

That they live, and love us yet!
And we ask, Can those who've left us,
Of love's look and tone bereft us,

Though in heaven, can they forget?
And we often, as days soften,

And comes out the evening star, Looking westward, sit and wonder Whether, when so far asunder,

They still think how dear they are. Past yon portals, our immortals

Those who walk with Him in whiteDo they, 'mid their bliss, recall us? Know they what events befall us?

Will our coming wake delight? They will meet us, cheer and greet us, Those we've loved, who've gone before; We shall find them at the portals, Find our beautiful immortals, When we reach that radiant shore. -REV. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., in Watchman.

A GOOD EXAMPLE.

The man who thinks that a horse is not thoroughly intelligent had better look to his own education. The other day a big, finelooking horse attached to a grocer's wagon fell down in the middle of a slippery pavement. The driver did not jump down and belabor the animal with a club, as most drivers would have done. He did alight from his wagon and loosen the harness upon his horse. Then he took his lap robe and spread it upon the slippery pavement near the fallen horse's feet. The intelligent animal did not mistake the mute suggestion. He eyed the robe for a moment, and then he edged around until his feet were upon it. With an effort he struggled to an upright position, and then lifted his feet while the driver picked up the robe. He seemed to know intuitively that he could not slip on the robe. Then the driver readjusted the harness, mounted his seat on the box and drove on. If that horse was not intelligent, what was he?-Salem Evening News.

EXCELSIOR.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,

As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine out-grown shell by life's unresting sea.

"We have no time to waste

In critic's sneer, or cynic's bark, Quarrel or reprimand;

Twill soon be dark, Then choose thine aim

And may God speed the mark."

AN IRISH MOCKING BIRD. A valuable mocking bird was stolen from a Savannah gentleman a while ago. After many unsuccessful efforts to recover it its owner casually heard that a Northern visitor, who had been in the city all winter was returning North with a remarkable bird, and hurrying off to the sailing vessel he found that the bird in the passenger's possession was his own lost treasure. The new owner, however, would not admit his claim, and it was finally arranged he should make a complaint before a magistrate and prove that the bird was his. When before the magistrate he said that he would whistle an air, and it was agreed that if the bird took it up and followed him that should be convincing evidence. He then began to whistle "St. Patrick's Day;" the bird listened a moment, took up the air and finished it. That settled the question, and the bird was given up. It is said that the Northerner offered $1000 for it, but this was refused.

KIND NOTICES FROM THE PRESS.

If we were to publish the kind notices of "Our Dumb Animals" received during the past month we should fill a large part of this paper. We give ten specimen extracts cut on July 31st from papers received within the previous twenty-four hours:

"That gem of monthly papers "Our Dumb Animals" for July is received. There is no paper printed we can recommend more highly for boys and girls."-Charter Oak Times.

"This valuable paper is welcomed in thousands of homes." -Shreveport, (La., Daily Times.

"Has made its influence felt all over the land."—Quaker City Independent.

"A most interesting periodical. We heartily wish that every one of our readers could read it."-Alvord, Texas, Budget.

"We wish all who torment or annoy any dumb beast could read these sensible, merciful articles."-Janesville, (Wis.) Signal.

"A delightful little monthly, we wish a copy came regu larly to every family in the land.”—Canadian Baptist,

Toronto.

July is a very interesting number, and contains matters of interest to everybody."-ÄLBERT LEA, Minnesota Enterprize.

"Replete with most interesting and entertaining infor mation. Every farmer in Kansas should take this excellent periodical."-Chetopa, Kansas, Advance.

"The literature is of a high order and the pages tastefully illustrated."-Kiowa, Kansas, Herald.

"OUR DUMB ANIMALS. This monthly was the first exchange that came to our hands the other morning, and we read it through and through, and we could but confess it was the most satisfying half hour's reading we had had in a week. We felt better after reading it, and now as we come to think of it we think we were better for having read it. It contained lessons of reproof, mild and gentle, some mingled with thoughts and words of dear departed friends. We were softer and purer hearted when we finished it than we were when we began it. Readers, if you have not read it of late and been influenced by it, we advise you to write for a copy to the Boston office, directing to Our Dumb Animals."-Burlington, (Vt.,) Independent.

OUR DUMB ANIMALS.

Boston, September, 1889.

ARTICLES for this paper may be sent to GEO. T. ANGELL, President, 19 Milk Street.

We are glad to report this month six thousand eight hundred and fifty-two branches of our "Parent Band of Mercy."

BAND OF MERCY.

Friends will pardon short letters. Nearly

fourteen thousand a year, between forty and

fifty for each working day, go out from our offices.

Persons wishing a bound volume of this paper for a library, reading room, or the public room of a large hotel, can send us seventeen cents in postage stamps to pay postage and will receive the volume, or the stamps will be returned.

Persons wishing "Our Dumb Animals" for gratuitous distribution can send us five cents to pay postage, and receive ten copies, or ten cents and receive twenty copies.

TEACHERS AND CANVASSERS.

Teachers can have "Our Dumb Animals" one year for twenty-five cents.

Canvassers can have sample copies free, and retain one-half of every fifty cent subscription.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY. We are indebted to Houghton, Mifflin & Co for Britannia Tubular Bridge, Travelling Across the Plains, and Mending the Nets, used in this paper.

AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting for this year of the above association of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children, and the prevention of cruelty to animals, will be held in the First Christian Church at Louisville, Kentucky, on Sept. 25, 26, and 27. Each society, whether state, city, county or town, is entitled to nine delegates.

The Hon. Elbridge T. Gerry of New York, its President, is a man of large executive ability, and we hope much good may result both to children and dumb animals. We regret that we cannot be present.

2,000 PRIZES TO 1,000 SCHOOLS AND AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

In behalf of "The American Humane Education Society," I hereby offer to the pupil in each of one thousand American Schools and Sunday Schools, who shall, during six months, beginning the first day of July, 1889, by kind acts and words, have done the most to make human beings and dumb animals happier, a beautifully bound

Each teacher, who wishes his or her pupils to compete for these prizes, will please send me his or her name and post office address,

plainly written, and will, up to January, 1890,

receive "Our Dumb Animals" without charge.

All who also form "Bands of Mercy" will be entitled as appears on page 41.

GEO. T. ANGELL, President of the American Humane Education Society, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Parent American Band of Mercy, 19 Milk Street, Boston.

I shall make the above offer to the successful pupil in each of ten thousand, instead of one thousand Schools and Sunday Schools, when funds will warrant it, and have other plans for a general humane education of the children of America, which I intend to put in practical operation as fast as I get the means. GEO. T. ANGELL.

COLLEGE AND EDITORS' PRIZE

ESSAYS.

In June "Our Dumb Animals," we published the essay of Ralph W. Trine, of Knox College, Illinois, which by the award of the Committee, of which Mr. Edward H. Clement, Editor in Chief of the Boston Evening Transcript was chairman, won the prize of $100 offered by us for the best essay on "the Effect of Humane Education on the Prevention of Crime." Several of the competing essays were so good that we purchased them.

In July number we gave extracts from the essay of Theodore Arnold, of Beloit College, Wisconsin.

In August number we gave extracts from the essay of Herbert Whitney of the Harvard University Divinity School.

In this number we give extracts from the essay of Miss Gennie Hickok, of Wellesley College, Mass.

Another of the essays is to be read at the annual meeting of "The American Social Science Association" at Saratoga Springs this month, and will very likely be published and widely circulated by that association.

The Editors' prize essays are likely to be so numerous that it may be several months before it can be determined which takes the $300 prize; they must all be received at our offices on or before October 1st.

WHAT GOOD DO YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR PRIZE ESSAYS, MR. ANGELL? Answer. I expect good beyond all power of human calculation.

When we offer, through their college presidents a prize of $100 to all American college students for the best essay on "the Effect of Humane Education on the Prevention of Crime," and print and send out

seventy thousand copies of condensed humane information to be read by those students, also bound volumes to be preserved in all their college libraries, we are attracting the attention not only of our present college teachers and their pupils, but of the future educated men of the countryeditors, clergymen, lawyers, physicians, writers, those who are to write the songs and stories of the future, and make and administer our laws.

The best of these essays are being now widely published and commented upon by newspapers and magazines in various parts of the country, and we think that even the poorest will not be lost.

When we offer a prize of $300 to the many thousands of American editors for a similar essay, and supply them also with condensed humane information, we are calling the attention of the American press to the subject and shall obtain not only a wide circulation of the prize essay, and those that come near to winning it, but also a thousand editorials. It is safe to say that no essay written by any editor will be thrown away. They will come before the public in some form — as editorials or otherwise.

When we offer a similar prize to the members of "The American Institute of Instruction," we are calling the attention of teachers to the subject and obtaining prize essays, which the educational papers of the country will be glad to publish.

When we shall offer as we intend toprizes to all the Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy of the country, and send to them all condensed humane information, we shall be laying the foundation for thousands of sermons and countless articles in the various denominational papers.

When the generous, noble hearted men and women of America begin to appreciate the magnitude and importance of this work of humane education of "the great masses of American children," and particularly of those whom churches and sunday schools do not reach — how it bears not only on the prevention of crime, but also on the future welfare, peace and prosperity of the country, and the protection and safety of property and life, we anticipate large gifts and legacies to our American Humane Education Society which will give it power to undertake still greater things for what is engraved upon our seal : "Glory to God," "Peace on Earth," "Kindness, Justice and Mercy to every living Creature."

GEO. T. ANGELL.

VIVISECTION.

Through the kind donation of a friend, we have been enabled to recently send over two thousand of Doctor Albert Leffingwell's excellent pamphlet on vivisection to as many Massachusetts physicians.

We respectfully commend it to their careful consideration.

paper, and send them, among others, to the We print thirty-six thousand copies of this editors of every newspaper and magazine in the United States and Territories and British America.