Show TOBY KNOX lIe He was only a six old Boston terrier puppy Not much tb t worry a about bout you say 7 Not much macli in a financial sense sure enough Still in another sense he ho was priceless because he was a family pet The children had romped with him the baby of the household had named him he was all in all to her worth more to her than a goldmine gold goldmine goldmine mine or diamond mine mine between between them it was a aheart aheart aheart heart to heart affair Then he W was 4 perfect of his kind a royal roal tan as pretty as a fawn all gentleness gentle gentle- ness and affection and sagacious as a grown new new- On Sunday last he lie took up his station between a fluttering sparrow too young to fly and a hungry cat and held the place for two hours and a half until the murderous feline baffled baffled haf- haf fled skulked away Then Toby went out upon the sidewalk strayed into the street three feet from the curb and was watching an oncoming automobile He had often ridden in the Knox home auto and may have been thinking that another ride was near The automobile was filled filed with male hoodlums Had it it kept straight on its way n no harm would have been done though it was speeding speeding speed speed- ing big forty miles an hour But when hen within a very few feet from T Tob Toby bJ the chauffeur made a n quick turn struck and crushed roh Toby to death and sped I laughing on his way It was nothing only he had killed a puppy that was the pet of the home and filled that home with sorrow and infinite pity for poor Toby And this is something that should be stopped It is idle of course to exhaust anathemas upon a n brute like that chauffeur Could he be he caught and horsewhipped that would be a little satisfaction but it would do no good but could he be caught jailed for thirty days and then debarred from ever eyer evermore evermore more acting as chauffeur in this city that would d do some real good Something like that should be bethe bethe bethe the law here and the officers should be alert to arrest arrest ar ar- ar- ar rest such autos and if it could be established th that t tanJ any chauffeur had wilfully killed a I harmless domestic domestic do do- anim animal l the full penalty should be exacted for a beast that would go out of his way to kill killa a II childs child's pet pct dog would not be alert to keep from killing a n child And all people should be debarred from speeding machines in places where human beings live and among homes where her pets are essential es cs- es- es to the happiness of the children in those homes Finally the joy riding of male and female h hoodlums in the residence portion of the city should b be abated for as things arc are progressing by and b by the owners of h homes mes will buy shotguns and turn policemen and then some really worthless animals will be killed |