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It is so simple—con- venient—and the evening and night rates make it very inexpensive. DO ANIMALS THINK? It used to be believed by scientists that animals were guided in their ac- tions entirely by instinct, by natural impulses supposed to arise from long - ingrained habits in the race. The hive bee makes its ce14 without any instruc- tion and the cuckoo of her own ac- cord lays her eggs in the nests of Other birds. However, in more recent times, naturalists have come to feel that some sort of reasoning process does go on in the brains not only of the higher animals, such as dogs and monkeys, but of lower creatures, such as the snake and even the fish. All appear to be capable of having ideas. I'n his work on The Descent of • Man Darwin quotes this story: 'A pike which was separated by a plate of 'glass from an adjoining aquarium, stocked with fish, often dashed him- self with such violence against the glass in trying to catch the other fish- es, that he was sometimes completely stunned. The pike went on thus for three months, but at last learned cau- tion and ceased to do so. The plate of glass was then removed, but the pike would not attack these particular 'Fishes, though he would devour others that were afterwards introduced; so strongly was the idea of a violent shock associated in his feeble mind with the attempt on his former neigh- bors." Darwin also makes mention of a snake which was observed to thrust its head through a hole in a fence. and swallow alive a frog on the ether side. On account of the swelling made by the body of the frog in its neck, the serpent was unable to withdraw through the hole, and had to "cough pp" it prey. A 'second time the frog was swallowed with the same result, and a •second time it had to be dis- gorged. On the third occasion, how- ever, the 'snake seized the frog by the leg and pulled it through the hole, after which it was able to swallow it in comfort. If this is not an act of reason it is certainly difficult to ex- plain it in any other way. Rengger, a German naturalist, states that when he first gave eggs to ;his monkeys in Paraguay they smash- ed t'h'em and 'thus lost much of the contents; but afterwards they gently hit one end against some hara body, and picked off the bits of shell with their fingers. Sometimes lumps of sugar were igiven to them wrapped up in paper, and occasionally Rengger would put a Iive wasp in the paper, so that in opening it a monkey would get stung. But any monkey that suf- fered in this way would' never after - ward's open the bag Without first holding it to its ears to disccver if there was any movement within. Sir _Andrew 'Smith, St noted zoologist, 'himself •witnessed the folli Wing fay;% Tdent in South Africa. An army officer had frequently teased a certain ba- boon. The animal, seeing him approacn one Sunday dressed up for parade, quickly poured some water into a hole and made some thick mud, which it dashed over the officer's clothes as he passed by. For a long time af- terwards whenever this baboon saw this officer it made signs of rejoicing. Female monkeys have been observ- ed carefully keeping the flies off their infants, and both male and female monkeys do not hesitate to adopt and care for orphan monkeys left unpro- tected. One female baboon observed by Brehm had adopted a kitten which one day scratched her. This astonish- ed her very much. She proceeded to examine the paws she had always found so soft, and presently discover- ed the claws., which she proceeded'( to bite off, evidently considering them dangerous. According to Darwin, dogs, cats, horses, and probably all higher anim- als and ervien birds, have vivid dreams which• is shown by their movements and the sounds they utter, and he is of the opinion that from this we must admit that they have some power of imagination. 'Colonel Hutljchinson, in his work Dog Breaking, tells about two wild ducks that were "winged"t and fell on the farther side of a stream. A re- triever tried to bring both of them at once, but could not do it. Although never (before known to ruffle a feather of a wounded bird, she then deliber- ately killed one, brought over the live one, and returned for the dead bird. 'Elephants, of course, are famous for their sagacity, and when they are employed as decoys for the capture of wild members of the species it is apparent that they know well enough what they are doing when they de- ceive their untamed brethren. Indian elephants are also well known to break branches off the trees and use them for driving away flies. Animals, too, have their ideas about property, as those know who have watched a dog with a bone or birds with their nests. This is also a com- mon characteristics with monkeys, and Darwin •tells of one in the London Zoo which had weak teeth and was in the habit of breaking open nuts with a stone. After using the stone it al- ways hid it in the straw, and would not let any other monkey touch it. Baboons halve ;been observed to pro- tect themselves from the heat of the sun by putting straw mats over their head's. Language is supposed by maily peo- ple to be one of the chief distinctions between man and the lower animals, but many animals are capable of ex- pressing their desires and emotions by different sounds, and possibly en- ough these constitute the rudiments of language. Dogs bark in different ways to express different things, and monkeys make many different sounds which rouse in other monkey's the emotions they are intended to portray. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of tate telephone, believed that dogs could be taught to speak, and claim- ed that a Skye terrier he had was able to say and understand • a few words; and D'ar'win has stated that, a�,kyil!{:1t Kt?, tt as regards articulate sound's, dogs un- derstand many words and short sent- ences, although they cannot utter a single word, and that in this respect they are at the same age of develop- ment as infants'between the ages of ten and twelve months. Mr. Charles Cotter, writing in For- est and Stream, tells of keeping some Colobus monkeys in •captivity, and of becoming convinced of their ability not only to reason but to talk with one another. They were kept in a structure made of pou'ltry wire and one of them, a half-grown female, learned to break the wire by con- tinually twisting it with her hands. She made an opening large enough to creep through, but finding no for- est at hand, stayed among the• bush- es and crept back into the enclosure at night. Finally she refused to come back, and a snare was set for her, consisting of a bent pole, a string, and a springing device as used by the natives for the purpose. It was bait- ed with a piece of green corn, It worked twice—and • that was all. For, after being twice caught by the hand, the monkey would reach below the rope, turn the loop carefully aside, seize the corn, and running to the top of the cage would display as much knowing mischief as a spoiled child. When several other members of the same tribe were brought from the woods, some six months later, and put in the same cage, the monkey that had learned to break the wire immedi- ately taught the trick to the newcom- ers. I•t appears to be the case that ani- mals, especially in their higher forms, are endowed with very similar in- stincts, emotions, intuitions, and senses to those of man, and intelli- gence and reasoning power seem to result from the combination and in- terplay of ,these with one another. The more the animal advances the more complex these become. And, in- deed, man's own understanding is sup- posed to trace its origin to some such humble beginnings'. REPARTEE The Hon. Sans F. Rice, a noted pol- itician of Alabama, was a fiery Seces- sionist before the Civil War, and in a speech advocating secession he urg- ed his hearers not to be apprehensive of war. "We. can whip the Yankees. with popguns," he boasted. When he was running for office some /ears af- ter the war, be made a speech at the same .place, and was interrup• ed by a question from the audience: "Ain't you the same man who told us here in '60 that we could whip the Yankees with popguns?" "Yes," he replied, "andwe could have done so, but the rascals wouldn't fight that way," While a professor at Leland Stan- forI, our' present Secretary of the In- terior, Lyman Wilbur, assigned to his students the task of writing an es- say on "Manners." A would-be wit of the class arose and 'hesitantly asked what kind of manners the professor meant—good or bad. kEl "You may discuss whatever kind you are most familiar with," replied Professor Wilbur. A group of newspaper men last summer were flying from California to Kansas City. At a high altitude— the region of freakish air currents -- the plane suddenly dropped about 200 feet, causing one of the boys to cry out in alarm: "My word! How far can one of these planes drop?" Will Rogers, a passenger, replied: "The ground's the limit, my boy." Caruso was a master in the art of graceful repartee. On one occasion, he met John McCormack, the great Irish tenor, in a street of Los Angeles. "And how is the world's greatest tenor this morning?" asked 'Mc- Cormack. Caruso doffed his hat with a su- perb sweep, as he replied, • "Since when did McCormack be- come a baritone?" Prince Bismarck, who was not not- ed for an even temper, was taken i11 and a physician was summoned. Pressed with searching questions, Bismarck gave surly reticent replies. "How can I prescribe for you un- less I know your symptoms?" the physician protested. "Why do you have to ask me such damned personal questions?" storm- ed Bismarck. "What you need," returned the physician, preparing to depart, "is a horse doctor. He doesn't ask his patients any questions." John Bright, the British Liberal statesman, and, one of the most stirring phrase -makers of his day was not deterred by his Quaker faith from evincing a strong hostility toward Benjamin Disraeli. "But, Mr. Bright," a partisan of Disraeli once urged in defense of his favorite, "you must admit that Dis- raeli is a self-made man." f`Yee," retorted Bright, "and he worships his maker." During attacks on President An- drew Johnson in the Reconstruction Congress following the Civil War, one of the presiden't's admirers remarked in his favor on the floor of the House that Johnson was a self-made man. To which Thad Stevens quickly re- torted, "I am indeed 'glad to hear it; it relieves the Creator of a terrible responsibility." Edward Bok, of Ladies' Home Jour- nal fame, was continually approach- ed by women who wanted his advice in problems of the heart. One w'ho said she had lost three husbands and now had an offer of a fourth, sought Mr. Bok's opinion. "Shall I accept him?" she asked. "If you have already lost three husbands," replied Mr, Bok, "I should say that you are too careless to be entrusted with a fourth." The late George D, Prentice, a fam- oud politician and wit of a past gen- eration, was visiting the Capitol in Washington. While he talked there ;41', 11�Ra,i1�a: with a group of congressanen a pic- ture fell from its nail and struck Prentice on the head. He was stunned for a moment. As he opened his eyes one of the congressmen said: '``Cunt we do anything for you, Prentice." "Yes," said Prentice, faintly. "What is it?" "Repeal the law of gravitation!" Coming away from a homo noted for its dull dinner parties, a friend asked Dumas if he had not been bor- ed. "I should have been," Dumas re- plied, "if I hadn't been there.' Admiring one of George Bernard Shaw's objects d'art, a young lady caller eclaimed, "Oh, isn't it nice!" "Don't say 'nice, " remonstrated G. B. S. "It's a nasty word." "Don't say `nasty,' " retorted the caller. "It's not a nice word." Doctor John Watson (Ian Malc- Laren) was once at dinner where the conversation turned to the art—or crime of punning, and Dant ,r Wat- son ventured the opinion that he could do well in that line offering to try then- and there. He sat silent for a few minutes, and Hall Caine, who was among the guests, exclaimed: "Come along, Watson, we're all wai ting." The preacher -punster replied at once, "Don't be in such a hurricane." FUTURE OF MUSIC MENACED BY MOVIES It is at first glance rather curious that at a time when the people of the world are hearing more good music than at any other time in his- tory, there should be the greatest de- spondency on the part of musicians and composers as to the very existence of the art itself. Is music doomed? Will another generation see anything like the same number of trained musi- cians as the present generation? Will new composers arise? Or will the se -called canned music, the ehono- groph, and above all the movietone, supply all the public demand? One cannot say definitely but at least can indicate some facts pointing in that clirecbiton. The case is serious enough when at the present time there ere said to be 140,000 people' who have been thrown out of work in the United States and Canada as a result of the rapid development of the purely me- chanical production of music. To perform the tasks for which these 140,000 ,people were trained and to which they dedicated their lives, some 400 musicians at Hollywood will pro- vide all the harmony that the millions who attend, the movies require. One can remember when there was a piano or orgaAn in almost every household. If the organ was too expensive there was that quaint little instrument called a melodian, upon which the most gifted member of the family would play hymns on Sunday evenings and other suitable' occasions. Who plays a rnelodian to -day? Prob- ably somebody in a sideshow. Who plays an organ? The professional performer in the church or the amat- eur volunteer in the Sunday School. Who plays the piano? Practically nobody. The pianos have not wholly disappeared, since a piano is an awk- ward thing to made disappear, but we doubt if one is considered an indis- pensable equipment of the home of the well-to-do young couple launching the matrimonial barque to -day. In its place one finds the phonograph and the radio. In the great majority of homes where one finds a piano, it remains silent. The family would prefer to dance to the radio. Even fairly competent players find that months will elapse between their bouts with the piano. It is sr much less effort to wind a phonograph or turn the dial of a radio. Undoubtedly it is 110 longer consid- ered essential that a child shall be taught how to play the piano. Music teachers languish, and the children occupy their spare time in more healthful and stimulating exercises. Where, then, are to come the orches- tra players of the future? The plain suggestion is that in the future there will be few orchestra players. if that turns out to be the case, then there can he no doubt in the world that those who do survive will be inferior. It is by developing to the uttermost the talent of the thousand that the genius of the one is discovered. Even in art there is a kind of mass produc- tion, and there can be no doubt that the more artists there are in the world the greater will be the chance of there being great artists among them. To argue, on the contrary, ' that at a time when there were com- paratively few writers at work some of the greatest of literary master- pieces were turned out, is merely to invite the suggestion that the master- pieces would have been more numer- ous had the practitioners been multi- plied. It has undoubtedly been the intro- duction of the musical instr Intent which accompanies the sound pictures which has brought the greatest dis- may into the hearts of the musicians. This one innovation has emptied the orchestra pits of the country. Here and there the musicians have been strongiy enough organized to hold their own or to make a kind of hon. orable truce with the movitone But we suspect that this is a mere lull in the struggle, with but one end pos- sible. We do not believe it to be pos- sible that within the next year or two the theatre orchestras can be much improved, compared with what they are to -day or were yesterday But the mechanical production of music can be improved and will be improved. The music will be provided at less cost, It will he standardized, so that the audience in the remotest movie theatre will hear music of the same quality of those who frequent the gor- geous temples of this new art in the great metropolitan 'centres. The t money that the picture producers are able to save on music they will be able to invest in further improving their productions, or in a more opulent manner of living, whichever seems to them desirable. We should not be surprised if one 411111111110 effect of this general tendency were to be the establishment in various musical centres of a municipally en- dowed orchestra which would carry on in some such manner as the various little theatres which came into exis- tence when the commercialization of the legitimate stage became so pro- nounced. In these centres young mu- sicians may be trained, and new com- positionls tested. Then, wheal . they have reached a certain standard of excellence, they will probably be transferred to Hollywood or where - ever the musical centre of the world happens to be at that time. Or can it be that the composer Will be like the poet? There never was a time of which we are aware when a poet remained silent because there was no public demand for the fruit of his labors. It is so with other artists. But there is, we think, a difference which will work against a generous supply of great composers. 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