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Show TORTURE INFLICTED ON THE SPONGE New York, March 21. A new humane hu-mane society which goea the older organizations one better in the crusade cru-sade has just been organized. Its aim Is campaign agaiust the use of sponges. The spenr,'c, according to a circular letter sent out by the new society, is an animal which Is very much alive j when fished tin from the depths i;f the 1 sea and suffers Inexpressible torture before death, which Is accomplished 1 by allowing him to lie on the deck of a ship in the burning sun until he I expires. |