Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
Ghildrrn's department.
DIJMB BRIJTES.

sessed of more sense than we are accustomed
to think they have. 1t is said by those who
have made the experiment, that young pigs
only few days old, if taken, in close YES
sel considerable distance from the bed,
will, when turned out, in most cases, run back
in straight direction.
Bees may be moved for miles during the
winter season into strange neighborhood,
yet, when spring returns, and they become
warmed up, they will scour the fields far and
wide in search of flowers, and when satisfied,
return to the hive. This is strange, from the
fact that there is nothing by which to mark
their wanderings. When we think of it, we
are astonished that they do not lose their
direction and never get home. There are no
paths, no roads, no blazed trees by which they
can be guided in their return still they seem
to experience no inconvenience whatever. If
we watch closely the movements of most ami
mails, we will be convinced that they not only
possess more sense, or something that resem-
bles sense, than we are accustomed to attrib.
ute to them but that they are in possession
of a something that we do not have. If a
man would make half the wanderings in
strange section of country in day, that
little honey bee usually makes, his head would
become so added that he would scarcely re-
cognize his own house when he would see it,
This inheritance which dumb animals possess
we call instinct. 1t is incapable of being ed
ucated. The young bee knows as much as
the old one. Instinctively, it knows how to
make honey. 1t needs no one to teach it
the process.
Amongst the many remarkable things
about the dumb brutes, is their affection for
man when domesticated and kindly treated
There are some animals that, it is said, can
not be tanned, but not many. Some tanned
animals exhibit some wonderful things. All
of them are able to distinguish between their
master and every one else A dog will track
his master through crowded city and re-
cognize him whenever, or under whatever
circumstances he may find him.
The OK and ass, by common consent, regard
ed as the most stupid of the brute creation,
make this attainment. With brutes general
ly, the sense of smell is of the greatest impor-
tance and very highly developed. With man
the sense of smell is of minor Importance.
1t is but little, if any, knowledge of the exter-
nal world that man gains through this sense !;
but with brutes it is different By this sense
they Judge of the character of their food and
drink, and by it they protect themselves from
the invasions of their foes. The horse and
cow invariably smell their food before they
eat it. The same is true with regard to their
drink. Every one who has been accustomed
to water stock, is aware of this fact A horse
will not taste water in a vessel in which there
has been blood, it matters not how clean it
may have been washed, so long as the odor
of the blood remains.
Gregarious wild animals always travel in
direction facing the wind. Their object seems
to be, and no doubt is, that the smell of any
foe may be brought to them by the wind be-
fore they approach dangerous nearness.
Every turkey and deer hunter has made this
discovery.
1t is said that the reason that dogs are ac-
customed to manifest disposition to bite
those persons who are afraid of them rather
than others, is that they smell them. Fear,
anger, and any powerful passion, when it is
in full operation, produces some peculiar
change in the body of the individual in whom
it is operating, which causes peculiar odor
to be emitted. The instinct Of the dog ena-
bles him to make this discovery. Dogs, even
the fercest, rarely, if ever, attempt to bite
crazy persons: 1t may be that the reason of
this is that the dog does not, by the smell, de-
tect any fear in the crazy man; but on the
contrary, the absence Of fear.
Most animals appreciate kindness, and
manifest no disposition to take vengeance
upon those who treat them kindly. There is
something wild and wayward, stubborn and
contrary, it is thought, in the nature of the
mule. This is not the case. All mules are
not alike; some are, just as some men are,
better than others but in the great majority
of cases. a stubborn and contrary mule is cir
cumstantial evidence of a cruel and heartless
master. Feed mule we'll and treat it kind
ly, and as q rule, it has more affection for its
master than the most of men have for their
benefactors.
Brutes seem to possess something that, if it
is not memory, resembles it so much that it
would puzzle any one to tell the difference.
They remember the place where they were
raised and the individual by whom they are
fed for years. When horse once learns the
common words used to direct his course in
plowing, he never forgets them. In con6rma-
ton of the above statement, respecting the
memory of animals, the following will serve
as an illustration
A gentleman once owned very valuable
horse. He had been very kind to him, and
had learned him great many little pranks.
Amongst others, he had learned him to pull
out the pin that fastened the door to his sta
BILE and then open the door. This he did by
taking the pin in his mouth, and then with
his lip throwing the door back on its hinges.
The horse was greatly priced; but this did
.,ot protect him from rogues. One night he
was stolen out of the stable. Dligent and
persevering search was made for him, but the
horse was not found. Several years after,
when the horse had ceased longer to be
thought of or inquired about, the owner of
the horse met on the public highway gen.
teman riding him. He was halted and told
that the horse he was riding had been stolen