and the family toward each
other, and indirectly arrives at most of the actual facts of the
case.

"How would you like to go into a good home where some one would love
you and care for you?" asked the judge.

"I don't want nobody to love me."

"Why, Ella, wouldn't you like to have a kind friend, somebody you
could confide in and go walking with and who would be interested in
you?"

"I don't want no friends. I just want to be left alone."

"Well, Ella," said the judge, patiently, ignoring her sullenness, "I
think we shall send you back to Park Ridge for a while. But if you
ever change your mind about wanting friends let us know, because
we'll be here and shall feel the same way as we do now about it."

To explain to readers of the _Kansas City Star_ how a bloodhound runs
down a criminal, a special feature writer asked them to imagine that a
crime had been committed at a particular corner in that city and that a
bloodhound had been brought to track the criminal; then he told them
what would happen if the crime were committed, first, when the streets
were deserted, or second, when they were crowded. In other words, he
gave two imaginary instances to illustrate the manner in which
bloodhounds are able to follow a trail. Obviously these two hypothetical
cases are sufficiently plausible and typical to explain the idea.

If a bloodhound is brought to the scene of the crime within a
reasonable length of time after it has been committed, and the dog
has been properly trained, he will unfailingly run down the
criminal, provided, of course, that thousands of feet have not
tramped over the ground.

If, for instance, a crime were committed at Twelfth and Walnut
streets at 3 o'clock in the morning, when few persons are on the
street, a well-trained bloodhound would take the trail of the
criminal at daybreak and stick to it with a grim determination that
appears to be uncanny, and he would follow the trail as swiftly as
if the hunted man had left his shadow all along the route.

But let the crime be committed at noon when the section is alive
with humanity and remain undiscovered until after dark, then the
bloodhound is put at a disadvantage and his wonderful powers would
fail him, no doubt.

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