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Show HALF THEY HAVE TO ABUSED PETS j Brother and Sister in Kansas 'City, Kan., Give Money and j , Time in Humane Work. OOGS, ' GfiTS AND PARROTS All Are Tenderly Cared For In the Little Dowered Cottage and Put I Out of .Their Mltery If Too Sick to Recover. - Kaiibas City, Mo. Would joii be willing to give more- than half of join modest Income to make life lesurlg orous for suffering ur nejleeted anl malsJ ' , .(i., f . Such Is the vocrlrtcv Velng made t Miss Hrtriib and ill.' H; Jacobs of Kan 8Cliy,' Klh., aeio?s"the 'river froii here. And it Is no mere patsiiiK uqbby, they liaie tjeen doing this foi th'e last ounrter eenttfry. The Jacolo are nationally knovtn tor their uu M'ltlsh work. LUIng.Jp a little voltage, surround ed by rose buidics, bird houses, flowei beds and fruit trees, these two haw ronseaatrd their Ihes to amclloratlu; I the hardxhlps llied upou man's oftei neglected arid abused couipunlons. II. II. Jacobs provides the Incom liy working as a bookkeeper on tin Mlhsourl side, while Miss Sarah looW after the hunie and Its numerous pete And there nrc many dogs In th Jacobs hhtnc ten dog, two scoie istR, and two arrots The care of these pels, however, represents only u minor pan of the acthlties of th two workers. Iloih ureoflleers lu tin Vjundtte County Humane soclet; ami labor Incessantly to benefit an'-tiuil an'-tiuil life through that source. With all till" the Jacobs arc not unmindful of the needs of unfortunate children, and even adults of their city, as tlu-j ure active In the Associated Charities. Miss Suroh, who was found at home busy with her chnrges, bald that tier Hrst Instruction In humane work was when (lie was a little girl und bet father taught her that It was Just as cny to step around an anthill as ta crush It wtth her heel. Chloroform to DUeated. While thoimigblj orthodox In their theology, the Jacobs believe firmly thai imM of the sin and MinVrlng In the woild line followed man's habit of killing rnd abusing animals. There Is noth'ng mawkish about their Ies, however. Miss Sarah as president of tho Humane soclelj, iit.s perhonnllj ehloroforuied bun-dirds bun-dirds of dKned, deformed and hnnie IPSV llllllllllls i "It MiiwIlinfH Is expedient," she said, "to remove them to avert fur- I ther vulTi'Hng. When It Is neces- i Miry to pin an oulimil to -deep, 1 nl-vajs nl-vajs utler : wold of prnjer. Inking 'nil ref-pon-llilllty for the act." . i Mot of the pets lu the Jtiee-hs home uvc been luoiulit there liy persons vho have found them MilTerlng In the irccts or weie loo pooi to look nfler hem Many earrj a Mory of liuinaii len'sl. with fOinetluies n lingeil.v. There ("ndcielln, who Iiiih hi en ulnllj wouniled. '1 he .liienhs decided i lilnroroiin ll.e milnml to rfllevo It- Mteiise sunerlng. I'lnallj It MrugKhd ver to the hii llieplnte and ruiled ii lu the vvuriii ushi s. Soon It (-bowed iii of I'Hll.vlug and tin' eiinelniled It until live. It did recover. The Incl-ml Incl-ml r minded lliem of ihe fnlrj toiy if the little gill fitting lu the iihlies itnl who Inter wiin able to wear Ihe e.v sll'-u-, and the spotted hound lieiilllK! V l.derella. MIvn .Im-olis told of a cat that saved heir lives. A leiAj ms Jet hud tilled -ite Iioiim' with fumes while ihey slept. 1 ... ml ueweil I). it ill i.lid l'.lmll !. I i.i "ii He bed end scratched Miss Jacobs to u waking position and i r-aliyutli.ii of their danger, Cat's Interesting Career. Yarrow, a tat with an Interesting erer, was named after Marj Cralge Ynrrow, a noted Illinium- worker of Philadelphia. This cat once wns a companion to a little boy. The ho.v died and on the night of his funeral lhe animal was carried away aud locked In a fielght ear bound for Ar kannK. A fortnight later the cut r tinned home nearly starved. The boy's mother took It to tho. Jacob", home. Some of the animal of other dii.v-. r special favorites who had earned Mijne mark of dIMlnctlnu. nte hurled In the llnvver gulden Thele nie n I uiitrV ith, ave u stone border around the grave of Hermann (Mexluin for brother) long In the fuuill.v. Hermann hud "avert Mis" Jacobs' life In Texii" when a big rnltler was about to strike her. The dog pounced upon the simlie and received the poisonous bite. He hcrnine blind, but lived niunv .vent". Asked about the co"l of pursuing their Immune noil;. .Miss Jneobs said I It amounted to $i00 or STini ii jenr She InsNteil how ever, that ibis did not ronstllilte n suerlllee, llint lhe de rived plensni-e from It and preferred to "Knl their money In this way, oven If It foru'd tliein to give up many comfort. |