The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-02-17
MINDIN ANIMALS.
Evidences OF Something M orc Than
Instinct III the Lower Ord ers.
Hom The Chicago Times.

... H'o" We CWCuYO mes.
DR.. Jewell, of Evanston, delivered
lecture On Mind in the Lower
Animals" in tho Church Of the Re
deemer, corner Of Washington and
Sangamon streets, last evening.
He entered into long and learned
disquisition on the difference exists
ing between mind and body The
former was immaterial, tho lattor
material What in man was called
intellect, in the insect or the brute
is callod instinct, The doctor com.
pared the two and could SEQ no
great difference, except as regarded
the physical formation and the mode
of action or expression. Had the
lower animals mind? If they had
not they possessed something SO near
akin to the quality that it might be
easily mistaken for it. In tho task
of proving mind in the lower ami
mails, the difficulty would not he in
finding examples by which to illus
trate, but in making a ascloction from
mass of testimony, showing intel-
lcct i'll the insect and brute creation,
absolutely mwieldly. He related
Instances Of this nature in his own
experience and that of others.
For example, a black beetle on
the highway, rolling it's ball along,
and finding it too heavy, going for
brother beetle to help it on with it's
load in which it was successful.
Ants moving out to raid on other
ants and reduce them to slavery, on
the human principle, fighting bat
tlos, stealing eggs, and doing other
things OF a naughty but highly intel
lectual character. Bees were an~
other smart race of insects. They
sometimes went 80 far rs to build
Qualifications Of wax to protect the
hives from invasion, rendering the
entrance a kind Of Pass of Ther-
mopylD which could be defended by
half a dozen good stingers against
hundreds Of "proud invad-
ers. He had read of an instance
where a naturalist transported bees
to o. tropical island, where flowers
bloomed all the year round, hoping
that they would work without
mtcrmission. Instead of doing so,
dnsfoyer5pgl ehss SnGy h after year's residence.
honey for winter use, they gaS%e
themselves up to idleness and luxury,
ceasing to be profitable. How could
that be accounted for if bees had no
mind ? Mere blind ''instinct" could
never have taught them so much
philosophy.
Dogs, too, were wonderfully
smart in their way. Ho told some
high-spiccd anecdotes of canine
courage and sagacity. Cats had
been known to do very bright things
and other beasts, horses, mules,
COWS, sheep, goats, etc, were more
or less given to thinking for them
selves. Another belief he had was
that insects and animals had q sper
cies of language we'll understood by
them. Whetherit was oral or pan
tomimic madeno difference they had
q method Of signaling each other and
making their wants known. From
all this, the Doctor argued, insects
and brutas nre possessed OF minds
of no common order
Some Of DR.. Jewell's anecdotes
were so comical and so spicily told
that tho audience were in constant
good humor, although it must be
confessed look Of skepticjsm per
vadod the faces of many of the listen
ers, However,, DR., Jewell made
himself interesting if ho did moth
ing more. .
A young lady bet q young man q
kiss that Tildcn would be elected.
he to pay if Tilden won, and she to
pay if Hayes was elected, On the
morning of the 9th of November he
called and paid the debt; on the 9th
he called and took it back. That
evening she paid the debt, Next
morning she took it back and ho
paid then she paid and he paid,
md SO they have been kept busy
by the contradictory dispatches
ever since, and both declare their
willingness and ability to hold out
until Congress decides the question.
They don't like the new compro-
mise bill, t#t
A bill has been introduced in the