GIVES CATS AND DOGS A HOME

William Donovan Buys Farm to Care for Stray Animals.

William Donovan says he hates to see poor cats and dogs suffer and has advertised that he will pay 25 cents each for every stray dog and cat. Donovan has bought a small farm. near the race track and has built eight houses for the comfort of homeless and distressed animals and says that all brought or sent to him will be fed and cared for at his expense. Donovan is wealthy and this is but one of his peculiar hobbies.-Newspaper.

This "peculiar hobby" is to be commended. It is a hobby peculiar because different from that which the majority of men indulge in.

Had Mr. Donovan taken up shooting all stray cats or dogs, spending his Sunday morning in murdering birds with a gun, chasing rabbits with a pack of hounds, beating his wife, playing pool, spattering the sidewalk with nicotine juice or puffing second hand tobacco smoke into people's faces, he would not be considered "peculiar." He would be just like the average male specimen, tagged, "man.”

But Mr. Donovon has not given a library with a five thousand dollar burden tacked to it for a personal monument, he has not megaphoned his charity in endowing a place for horrible vivisection, called a hospital. None of these things has this "peculiar" man done. He has quietly and unostentatiously offered a home and

protection to the speechless, homeless, vagrant dogs and cats that make one's heart ache to think of in their loneliness.

Such a man is greater than kings and princes, greater than the men who have crushed hearts for nearly every dollar they own, and with the millions wrung from the poor and oppressed, vaunt their charities.

This is charity. It is human love. It is Christ-like work.

There is no more pitiful sight in the world than homeless, vagabond dogs, appealing mutely for someone to bestow their faithful affection and loyalty upon. There is no more heart-breaking tragedy than to see deserted cats prowling about, in search of a comfortable place, a stray crumb, shivering with fear at a sound, a movement, ever on the watch for former friends who have, in their selfishness, forsaken them, or driven them from their door.

Mr. Donovan is an isolated, beautiful example of what man should be, of the great love and thought Buddha had for the speechless brutes of creation.

What a contrast to the mayor of Minneapolis, Minn., who six years ago ordered the wholesale slaughter of every unlicensed dog found in that city. Inside of seven days over five hundred dogs were shot, maimed and killed.

This great and noble mayor was chosen by the people to represent them.

Truly a contrast.

To Prevent Saline Starvation.

Several inquiries have reached the editor about what will supply salines needed in the system, how to get the necessary mineral salts if not in drugs.

Same old idea. Things must come out of a bottle.

Never did any human body get health out of a medicine bottle. Never has any chemist invented mineral salts to act on the body as will the natural salts from food.

Here are some of the foods which can be secured in the winter to prevent saline starvation. To get their full benefit do not try to associate with them white bread, white sugar, a lot of cooked starches, drugs, tea, coffee and the usual fare most of us have been accustomed to sider necessary to civilized beings:

ons, grapes and persimmons.

All of these fruits are rich in mineral salts, iron predominating.

During winter some of them can be obtained in any backwoods and in the city all are on sale the year round, Cucumbers and tomatoes may be out of reach for the ordinary purse but most of the other articles named are within the reach of the modest bank accounts.

In addition to this list add green salads daily. daily. Lettuce, and spinach lead as first choice. Celery is most excellent especially the green tops. Cabbage is also fine for those who enjoy it.

Eat freely of prunes (all must be in the natural state, those needing softening can be prepared so as not to lose any of the salts). apricots, dates, figs, raisins, currants, apples, oranges, cucumbers, tomatoes, bananas, cherries, pineapples, pears, lem

Contrary to usual belief there is no occasion for eating bread of any kind.. Unfired bread is quite unnecessary and in the opinion of the editor, unnatural.

In saying this she realizes that she may arouse a fire of crticism.

All the salts found in breads mixed