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This Trick by a Dog,
So Difficult on Ac
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His Paws, Shows a
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PROFESSOR Hachot-Souplot, Di
rector of the Institute of Ani
mal Psychology of France, the
moat noted student of living animals
In tho world, has beon collecting ev
idence to prove whether or not dogs
can reason
Professor Hachot-Souplot Is con
vlncd from his studies that animals
have tho same kind of Intolllgonce
as human beings, and that they can
reason.
Ho has deTlsod Instruments simi
lar to those usod on men In tho
psychological laboratories which
measure the Intolllgcnco of dogs
the reaction tlmo of their various
faculties, their ability to count, and
o forth.
While" tho Profossor does not con
alder dogs the most intelligent of
all animals, ho finds them the most
teachable. Ho has invltod mon and
women all over the world to send to
him careful statements of acts by
dogs that might show reasoning
power. A comparison of these state
ments has conflrmod his opinion
that they havo genuine reasoning
f yower.
Mr, Vlrgilo Plcchoyano, an engi
neer living at Bucharest, the capi
tal of Roumaala, seat the fellowwg
statement:
"Near rae, lived as Irish setter be
longing te a druggist la Academy
atreet. He apeat his day in the
store, where he was petted by all
the customers. At oertala hours
In the day he west out for a walk.
Four o'clock was the tine for his
afternoon exearslo. At this hour
his admirers had formed the habit
of buying him one of those meat
cakes whteh we call a ptaeiata, and
were sold at the the eeraer. of the
street
"Very soo-a the dog learned to
aarry the cola la ta mouth, give
K te the store-keeper hlmseH, aad
receive his cake la exchange. Af
ter that the druggist's customers
njoyed giving him the coin and
waHlng while he weat to fetch his
cake, One day the cake seller
thought It would be a good idea to
pocket the cola and drive the poor
dog away without giving him his
cake. The dog howled and protest"
d, but was laally driven away with
out getting what he had paid for.
The next day he stoppod In front of
the store within sight of the tray
oa which the cakes were kept, aad
placed hit) coin on tho sidewalk la
sight of the storekeeper. The, in.
.dlcatlag with, his nose what he
wanted, lie kept his paw oa the
eoia unMl the cake had hea deliv
ered to hlia. His friends at the drug
store wen la sight of the traasae
tica and , wquld not have allowed
him to be cheated. He caatlaued
this performance up to the day of
his iametited. death." '
A great many anecdotes Indicate
that the 'dog has an accurate sense
of time. Mr. Morlet, Dlrr cter of the
Freech foclety for the Protection of
Animals, said: "I was accustomed
to leavfc my ofdea at 11 o'clock every
moralr.r te go to lunch. Tea min
ute ffcfore the hour my dog Bob
alway became sacked aad tried to
jump cm a table from which he could
see the door of my office oa the
ather side of the courtyard. As he
was Tory small, he had dlMealty in
getting oa this table, aad laally ho
formed tho hnblt of pulling a little
stool near tho tablo, which holped
him to get up. Can this act bo ox
plained by instinct? A largo clock
was In sight of Dob, and It Booms
to mo that ho had jnarncd to toll
tho time from this,
"Dob had a remarkably strong af
fection for myself and wifo, and a
moro moderato ono for our maid nor
varit. This affection for tho servant
however always becamo moro mark
ed on Saturday evenings. Tho reas
on was bocauso Saturday Is tho day
beforo Sunday, and on Sunday tho
servant was Instructed to tako tho
llttlo spaniel for his walk bocauso It
was not convonlont to take him with
us. How did ho know that Satur
day had como and that It was nocos
sary to show attention to tho girl In
order that sho might bo amiablo to
him the following day?"
Dr. E. Q. See, Presldont of tho
uohio jiud, furnished many in
thon ran nway. Ho Know no better
way of showing his gratitude td tho
Doctor than by offering what he
considered tho finest present."
Many correspondents testified that
dogs woro In tho habit of making
presonts to ono another as well as
to people. Doctor Douchcr.a French
surgeon on sorvlco In Africa, said;
"I had a dog of tho Moorish breed
known as the 'sloughl,' and a nno
Arab mare. Thoso two animals do
volopod a remarkable affection for
oao anothor. Tho horso, with her
largo bulk, furnished tho dog with
a warm place and sholtor against
tho wind and weather. In return
ho used tb-brlng tho horse plocos of
Bugar, vogotablos and other delica
cies which ho purloined about the
camp."
, Madarao Rcglna Dadet, tho well.
known doncor, furnished a romnrk
nblo anocdoto which Indicated that
a aOE WOU1Q rail to mrnirnlTn Ma
Extraordinary Acrobatic Feats Jm
by Dogs, Showing an Aptitude
for Learning Similar to That
of Children.
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JStBSr mm IKivv: -HKaX ana Then Kemalncd Fixed in This
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,.. r; , . uif unuui vruuu u was nangerous tor
colllo, which ho guaranteed to bov tho latter to bo Identified. Horo is
absolutely true. Horo nro a fow of the conclusion of her story:
m! . . m . . '"Thin handsomo poodlo bolongs
"During tho Summer In Scotland to you, doos It not, sir?' aakod tho
the sheep spend threo months In the man who was Booking to embarrass
mountains without bolng taken down the owner of the dog.
to the farm houses. An.ola
shepherd who was thus
.isolated In th6 mountains
with his two collie dogs
fell very 111 one day and
was unable .to get up. Far
from any dwelling, he
might have died without
help. He tied a piece of
paper to .the collar of the
older of (the two dogs, In
which he iold about his
trouble and asked ' help.
The dog understood the
situation, aad ran swiftly
for fifteen miles, which
separated them from In
verklrkay, the nearest vil
lage. There the doctor re
sponded to the summons,
aad thus the dog saved
his master's llf.
' "A Birmingham car
chant possessed a very
fine collie named Rothe
say, who' lost himself in a
crowd one day whilo out
walking. After several Ju
tile efforts to-find his way,
tho dog jumped Into a cab.
The drlvor tried to make
him get out, but ftothosay
absolutely refused to go.
He knew that his master
was In the habit of' tak
ing a cab In the streot
and he felt that, this was
the way to find him.
Finally the cab driver un
derstood the situation,
read the address on the
dog's collar and drove him
home la his cab.
He came Sne day ltaotar 8JC?.Gcal E,ffJCrx.raeJnVby,:Trof- ""het-SoupIct to Teat a Dog's Intelligence
to the vetwlsary J need he. V.s Gcta u Food b PunK His Head Through a Hojo JHnged with ,
OhMuTtl'vli 5ed tbe "evolving Disk. An Electric Shock Wains Him When He HaV
Park, umted States of En,erM h Wrong Hole, and the Machine Reports the Number of His Shocks.
t fVi0.!4 lyJaK 0B b,s back hXi "My frlend den,od tbo fact- but 'Bnored the familiar call. Tho In-
i,'?, r1B,SB'a ,paw Reed warn- appeared to be somewhat uncertain, telllgent animal had undorstood the
mea it and extracted a largo splea- "'Will you please call him,' said situation and intentionaUy failed to
Ti . . tne other, 'and then I Bhall be satis- recognlzo his master. Tho result
cldit iiltii tfcS1 J11 "V? theuto' fl8d . was R c'rd,al reconciliation be-
h Jl iini rw dgy". ,ater wnea M? friend, who was very much twoen two men who mlht havo had
wih u aD?eared t his door embarrassod, folt that ho must ac- a very serious quarrel."
V Tii K a Pu ,nLhl8 mouth. Tho code to tho man's request and called Mr. Plerro Vltry, of Nancy, sont
hA ifh , . bone ln Keed'8 bla d0- To hls iy and "urprlso tho following record concoralng a
aaaa wnn a tnankful expression and tho dog did not tnovo and entirely dog named Dritf, who accompanied
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To the Left A Dog Is Easily
Hypnotized by Placing a Re
volving Spiral Under Hlg Eyes.
Tho Dog Possesses a Sensi
tiveness Like a Woman's.
This Dog Was Hypnotized by the
Be,
him ln a Journey through Algeria:
"Some months later we wero at
Khonchala In the mountains of
Aures. whon a heavy snow storm
occurred. Drlff, who was delighted
with this novelty, ran about ln the
snow as it he were mad. Unfor
tunately his long cars dragging
through tho snow becamo frost-bitten
and one of them developed an
absccBB. To enable him to recover
he was kept ln tho houso beforo tho
Are. In front of the flro his dish
of milk was warming. Then we saw
a remarkable thing. Drlff allowed
his bad ear to fall ln tho hot milk
and with his head hold on one side
onjoyed tho relief from the Inflam
mation. From time to time with his
paw he pushed the dish around so
that tho side which had boon most
heated by tho fire would come near
the bad ear.
"Drlff had the habit of going out
and getting into fights with common
dogs and coming homo in a miser
able condition. One day I was go
ing to whip him for this offence
when I found that he" had hurt his
paw. I put away the whip and
treated his injury lnstoad of punish
ing him.
"On Co more he went away on one
of these disreputable excursions.
When ho returned I spoke to him
angrjly and he crawled up to me,
holding ono foot oil tho ground and
limping badly. Onbo more I exam
ined him and found, to my surprise,
that his paw was quite uninjured.
Ho had pretended to be Injured ln
order to escape punishment. The
laughter which his behavior aroused
saved him from punishment. After
that whedever ho had been engaged
in some improper behavior ho camo
homo limping."
Louis Faveron, of Cadlllac-sur-
Garonne, sent the rocord ot a re
markablo dog named Yapplt: '
"Yapplt Is a farmer's dog. This
man was coming homo from tho
market one day where he had sold
a number of cattlo. Consequently
lie was carrying with him a loYgo
sum ot money. At a certain spot
just as night w(aa falling tho dog
stopped, began to howl and refused
to go on. The owner, who had
passed on, called him and whistled
repeatedly, but the dog refused to
movo. Tho farmer went on his way.
When he had entered the house ho
put his hand ln his pocket and
found that he had lost his purse
along the road. Cruelly worried, ho
took a lantern and started no go
over the road he had come, step by
step. When he had gone a long
way, he heard the barking of hla
dog ln tho blackness of the night.
He went, to the spot and there he
found Yapplt with the lost purso
under bis paws, still sitting at the
place where tho farmer had left
him. Tho dog had understood the
great lmportanco ot the object
dropped.
"The same dog used to take his
Convincing
Evidence
Collected .
By a
Distinguished
Professor,
and
Interesting
Psychological
Experiments
Prove That Man's
Faithful Four
Footed Friend
Can Reason
Like His Master
master's dinner to him ln a basket
tied to his neck. Ono day when ho
brought the dinner ho found tho
farmer stretched motionless on tho
ground. The dog, after looking at
his master's face and uttering many
plantlvo howls, found that he could
not wake him up. Ho then ran to
the nearest houso, barked, howled,
leapod about'and behaved In such a
strange manner mat people fol
lowed him. Tliey found tho farmer
stricken with an attack of apoplexy.
The dog had called their attention
in time to save him from certain
death."
Felix Robert, ot Montzoron, wrote:
"Ono evening I came homo from
hunting soaked t6 the skin and cov
ered with mud. I took off my hunt
ing boots and asked my mother to
pass me my slippers, which sho did
at once. My dog Dick watched all
this with close Interest. Tho next
day I came home from work soaked
and spattered as on tho day beforo.
.To my great astonishment, Dick
brought mo my two slippers, ono af
ter tho other, and put them at my
feeL Aftor that whenever I camo
home wot he brought mo my slip
pers." M. Ourgaud.of.Labrlt, related that
he had Been his dog. Me'dor comirilt
suicide:
''Medor had been cruelly wounded
ln tho stomach by a shot from somo
brutal countryman. Ho dragged
himself as far as our house and
stretched himself on the lawn. Gan
grene was affecting tho wound and
w6 thought wo ought to kill him to
put him out of his suffering, but no
ono had the courage to do It.
"Toward evening he made a great
effort and dragged himself to me on
his paws and laid his blood-stained
mouth on my foot and licked It gen
tly. Then ho raised himself, up and
continually groaning dragged him
self to tho river, which ran past tho
edge of the garden. When he had
reached tho bank, which is very
utoep at this point, he turned to mo
for tho second time and gave me
an almost human look. Then with
another effort ho threw himself from
tho bnnk into the river, and soon
sank beneath the hurrying waters."
iM. Hachet-Souplet, director ot teh
Institute of Animal Psychology ex
pressed, himself thus about tho dog:
There Is an enormous difference
In tho Intelligence of Individual
dogs. My dog Prince was able to
learn ln forty days what other dogs
required four or five months to
learn. He displayed an Intelligence
worthy ot a chimpanzee while show
ing good will which no npo would
ever possess. He walks backwards
on his hind legs, walks Upright, uses
parallel bars, dances on a tight-ropo
and does other clever tricks."
Mummies Dressed Like "September Morns" Too Much for Sensitive Mr. Brvan.
Ami So tflft Ml"irirn Tbut.not 80 tho Honorable Mr. Dryan. In that he considered it "very Indecent" to vinced tho influential Mexicans, and 'they my has been nlaeed in tha ciLn,).. f rn t, nt ?
Government Put
Clothes on 'Em.
Mexico City, Oct 6.
THE Mexican Qoverameat Is worried
because, owing to the exigencies ot
the revolution, a number ot shrouds
that clothe the famous mummies of Ouan
ijuato have been stolen. It has Just leaked
at that the Mexicans are annoyed about it,
.salnly because they fear that William Jen
tings Bryan, the' strolling Secretary ot
itate, will be irritated about the matter, and
jet his irritation tincture his attitude to
vard Mexico.
It was Mr. Dry in, it is now learned, who
was responsible for depririns the mummies
of their "September Morn" freedom ot ap
Varel, and for having them clothed.
Guanajuato is about two hundred and
itty miles from Mexico City, aad has the
most picturesque catacombs la the world.
The atmosphere Is peculiarly dry, aad the
bodies are ranged aloatf tha walls la two
ranks, llko a column of soldiers. Tiey were
untrammelled with clotklag, clad only la tha
dignity ot death.
When Mr. Bryan visited Mexico, he went
to tho Guanajuato catacombs. At that tlmo
mummies and skeltos were uaasaamed
faeL tw - u. t.- ' . .,7 ".TV".,;: T.. . . .: " . "V Tr' -J . " y-moa OI irom me cnin 01 me women to the floor!
v-Mpvi-.m.,... w '"uu.iu.ob oiuiuuou u mo puouo yieiaea to nis sensitiveness Dy naving the uuanajuato without .first being decorously Soma of the "lady skeletons" evnn wo-
tO the Other mnmhertt nf Ma nartv nmnna. ,l.nM nt nlnlhlni, 0 ...t .! I- 1 J i . .... .... ' "Q OU wear
iu mo oiner momoers ot ms party-among devoid of clothing. So earnest and sincere mummies shrouded. clothed in a long white shroud extending shoes on their fleshless feet and tht u
whom were soveral prominent Mexicans- ln the matter was ho that he finally con- ' From that time to this not another mum- from the chin to the ankles of men and more than they ever wore la'llfo.
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the Mummies of Guanajuato Before Mr. Bryan Visited Them "In all kinds of attitudes along the
wiJIs fleshless arms folded over fleshless stomachs."
The Mummies After Mr. Bryan's Objections Were Filed "decerouily clothe t
extending oa the men from chin to ankles; pn women, to the floor." tuu,ea ,n 'on irhlte shroud
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