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Show WE'RE ALL AKIN. The rhliadelphla Public Ledger prints a page or photographs illustrating illustrat-ing the effect of music upon animals confined in a menagerie. A phonograph phono-graph was taken to the corrals and fctartcd. The grizzly bear sat upon his haunches and moaned dismally, perhaps per-haps in sympathy with some orchestral orches-tral strain that struck his wild nature. "Tho Campbells Are Coming" by a smart band brought camels directly to the instrument. The monkey listened, listen-ed, heard huDan yolces,r studied the situation "a 'bit and then thrust his paw into the horn, in an endeavor to arrive .at. a solution of the mystery. The Hon, given a love song, sat up 2nd grinned keen appreciation. Tho elephant cocked his big ears and swayed sway-ed to and fro, In unison with a waltz. And bo,' throughout the list! Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. We are all akin, says the Oregon- ! ian. The ant you tread under your feet, as Herr Werther of the sorrows 1 knew. has. his hopes, his ambitions, meek, pleading eyes of a lamb led to tho slaughter rnust have been reflected, reflect-ed, in the days of that sort of thing, in the wide eyes of a child led to the Btake. during religious persecution. The horse hopes and despairs with hlo master and for fidelity tho dog has no rival. We arc all akin. |