Baby Chick

"TIME brings all things."

At Chicago, 500 poultrymen attended the ninth annual convention of the International Baby Chick Association at Edgewater Beach Hotel, received reports from nine affiliated State Baby Chick Associations, unanimously approved the formation of Accredited Hatcheries, unanimously authorized their officers to eliminate dishonest chick advertising, watched baby chick motion pictures at a baby chick dinner, took bus rides, danced, bathed, presented their retiring President, Prof. Harry R. Lewis, with a handsome watch and Mrs. Lewis with an enormous bouquet, voted to hold their tenth convention at Atlantic City.

"Extraordinary Deed"

At Newburyport, Mass., one Mrs. Effie M. Beal received a letter from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, concluding: "We therefore wish to present to you, in the name of our society, its medal as a token of our admiration and high regard for this extraordinary deed of humanity."

Mrs. Beal did her deed last January. Sledding through the woods in Maine, her husband came upon an old mother bear, shot her, discovered a tiny cub between her paws. Mrs. Beal cried: "Just like my own baby," snatched the cub to her breast, took it home, suckled it with her own infant, reared it until it became large and troublesome.

Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst Editor : "Romubus and Remus, upside down."

Doubtful Dog

In Chicago, Bim Elbert, dog, was reported as being paid quarters and dimes for tidying the Elbert premises, for minding the Elbert car, for carrying the Elbert market-basket, for going to bed promptly, for not whining or barking or "playing with other dogs." He was said to go to the bank with his weekly savings, deposit them with the teller, wait for his pass book, trot home. His balance was "$68 with no withdrawals." He was saving "against the infirmities of age."