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Show WHY Big Circus Has Cut Out "Animal Acts" There will li no more whips lash-luil lash-luil out t ungry unlinais In tiie center at the ring. Bt-'ausu pun-nt.i object to their rhllilren seeing um.-q ami women wom-en enter niged with wild Leu.su, singling sing-ling IlrutherM und Uurniim A lialley announce that henceforth they will present no wlld uiiliiiul HctM either In the garden or when, under cunvaa, the elrcuo takei to the ruud, coniiiienta the Hi-vt York World In an editorial. Congratulations arrive from the humane hu-mane aocletieH, Mr. Charles Rlrigllng ays. For the humane societies have long disapproved of the cruelty of wild-animal training; disapproved of whips and forks and heated bars. The Hons and the tigers of the Rlng-llng Rlng-llng ahow retire from the arena, now, to those small steel cages which give them a foot or two of headroom. They Join the ranks of all those other beasts In public ioos, equally fortunate In not having to perforin In public; free to spend their days in Iron boxes with J8 Inches to spare at either end for elbow room. Man, having conquered bis competitors on earth, displays them behind bars. Why? So that by watching them In an unnutural environment, en-vironment, and by shucking peanuts on their heads, and by goading them with sticks when the guard Is not around, he may study wild life at first band and add to the store of human knowledge. |