The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1899, Page 31

"HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SUNDAY, JULY 16 18 31 ‘GOOD WORK OF BAND OF MERCY AT HOME AND Thirtv-seveil Thousand Bands Organ- - ized Throughout the World s will try to creatures, Since 882, ,,<,,.J4q>..4 dnrn BASANTID Ty Yy ze, and he picture was y morning. ssary for Mr. Kent to get in to pose his pet for the photog- iblingly entered the means of the ju- les and by playing im into several at- ssible to at his highest, so the appearance may not as it might be. The had no appreciable effect on He gave a little start, just es a human being would do, but imme- glately went on sparring with Kent, and the cage rapher, who SAN FRANCISCO HAS LAREEST KANGAROO EVER CAFTURED proportio which giv earance . as they »id pro- ver performed only by 1 limbs, the animal cov- ich the fore | d and balaneed Ing tail, which is carried backward. When not mov \ey often assume & per- fectly upright position, the tafl aiding the two hind legs to form a sort of sup- porting tripod, and the front limbs dang- ling by the side of the chest. This posi- tion gives full scope for the senses of . and smell to warn of the from which they es by their bounding flight, s being twenty feet ach of save thems their astonish or more in length The kangaroos are naturally timid, inof- fensi creatures, but the larger ones, when hard pressed, will turn and defend themselves, sometimes killing a dog by grasping It in their forepaws, and infiict ing terrible wounds with the sharp claws disce erable number of spe: the species, zht home b voyagers, Schreper as nearer to the American opos- sums (then the only kno than to any the subject of our spe which is : The name has been adopted for this animal in all slight modific: skins of Captain Cook and sub- other animals with which zoologists were acquainted, and consee que work on placed marmm: hopping drown h 1770, when t memorable voya tained for tt Bip: at ship a 1, had the good for- he animals which had d by the nati opean lang tions of in Australia v of a v The which were w recognized by marsupials) the genus ‘‘Didel ing been bestowed under the impression ti ge species of jerboa or jump somewhat like venison. Soup made of the by him in his grea 1. then in cot a zpecific d d. mar School, and hi BROAD (] S S S s s e o] 3% HEN Henry Bergh over thirty-five years ago began single- z handed his crusade for the relief of abused dumb creatures in New York he little realized how great o power for good his ) In San Francisco a new impetus has recently been given to this i especial branch of humane organization by the appointment of a sal- 0 aried organizer whose duty is to visit the schools that have not al- (\, ready formed bands and endeavor to interst them in so doing. 3 comparatively feeble efforts set in motion. & then individually is now performed in almost every town and city by » socleties backed by the strong arm of the law, and even the children ) have gathered them selves together in “Bands of Mercy” and vie in { friendly rivalry as to who shall most truly and constantly carry out O‘ the principles which he taught both by precept and example. The work that he did S N N This work was begun here several years ago by Mrs. Maria Freeman Gray, now vice president of the American Humane Society and county president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and by request she has given the following account of her most de- voted and successful labors. @ et OSSOSO ISR T DD NSNS e nese all took our world-wide pledge and ave proof of sincere determination to eep it in both the letter and the spirit. The highest cla in the Royal (Ha- walian) School not wait for me to o them, but hearing of my visits come to other schools wrote out and sent me the following e, which was signed by each of th ‘-two boys: HONOLULU, H. I, Nov. 10, 1899. Mrs. Gray—Dear Madam: We, the undersigned pupils of the Rev. Alex- ander Mackintosh, principal of the Royal School, in the city of Honolulu, desire to show our interest in the noble work you have at heart in pro- moting kindness and mercy to living creatures, so we beg to inform you that we have united in a band of mercy’ to be called the Kehehuna, or Royal School Band of Mercy. 1 afterward formed four additional The teachers and pupils of the Portu- guese school were equally glad to join our « ation, F. W. Da- tendent of Chinese work entered earnestly into ause with the result Ler of the young men itute formed a ‘“Robert hamed for the first mon, yrrison 60 years of age and China’'s highest representative in the islands, also signed cur pledge- role, as did his Hawaiian wife, and in the Chinese Girls’ School two very large e formed. In brief, my stay ellent results, and good re- re frequently up the work w y heart. Some of the schools instituted Bands of Mercy have, through changes of pupils, allowed the inter- e li to lapse, but in y Grammar and several this has not been the case. of Mercy exercises—con- ecitations and a sort ing,” wherein the »f their varicus experi- ng to lighten the load of T ry which so many aniinals carry through life—are gone through with regularly and by no means perfunc- torily, and the results are seen in the increased gentleness and refinement of the young members of this most bene- ficent society. It is, indeed, gratifying to me, who worked against not a little opposition at first, to see the change in public sentiment which has taken place in regard to this matter during the past few years. It is the fate of pioneers to suifer, but it is a blessed thing to know that their suffering paves the way for better things for those who come after them. MARIE FREEMAN GRAY. “OLD MAN.” THE NEW KANGAROO. WEIGHS TWO HUNDRED POUNDS AND IS LEARNING HOW TO BOX. s said to be far superior to the ox- tail soup made in this country and in Eu- rope. Remains of numerous extinct species of true kangaroos, many of them of much larger size than those now in existence, are abundant in the Plelstocene deposits of Ausiralia and have hitherto been found in no other rt of the wor! Other ani- mals of gig: s noceros lived with thes game land. One specic the rat-kangaroo, wh mals, none of them rabbit in size. They and Tasmania, are nocturnal and feed on the leaves of various kinds of grasses and other plants, as well as roots and bulbs, which they dig up with their fore- paws. Then there is a genus commonly known as the tree-kangaroo,” inhabi- New Guinea and chiefly arboreal in their hab; climbing with facility the branches of large trees and feeding on the bark, leaves and fruit. In accord- ance with this habit their hinder limbs are comparatively shorter than in the true kangaroos and their fore limbs are longer and more robust and have very, strong curved and pointed claws.