The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-09-01
WHOLE NO. 1884.

Right along here is another popular
mistake. 1t is, that wild animals are
perfectly healthy, and domestic ami
mails and those wild animals which are
tanned and kept in confinement only
are diseased. This is an idea that has
been started by naturalists, and is
generally believed among all classes
of people. This is an error, as shown
plainly by the researches of Prof.
Villain. He says that he dissected the
carcasses Of fifty lions In Algeria, and
twenty of the number had diseased
lungs; in some Of them the lungs We're
almost gone, showing that consump-
ton prevails extensively among lions.
He also dissected a number of lions
which had been born and reared in the
geological gardens of Paris, and found
every one of them to be healthy.
Why was it? The wild ones had been
exposed to the drenching rains, inhaled
the sand-laden air Of the desert, and
often gone without food for days;
while the tame lions were protected
and regularly fed. He also proved
that wild wolves suffered with nasal
catarrh, while tame ones did not. A
famous hunter of India testifes that
he has often seen tigers splitting blood,
which so weakened them that they
might be approached with impunity.
Monkeys are very delicate animals,
and are subject to consumption unless
carefully protected. Foxes are said
never to die from disease because they
are as cunning and shrewd IN their di-
ct as in everything else. The buffa-
loes of the plains suffer with dyspep-
sia and heart disease. The elephant is
said to be very temperate and abste-
mious animal, and though he often
dies in captivity, it is always from
mental and not physical causes. They
often die of broken hearts. They are
deeply mortified by Sights and insults.
The Western hunter can testify also
that nearly all the deer that are killed
have diseased livers.
There is also popular idea that the
Indian is superior to the white man in
many respects. Cooper's novels have
much to say about the noble red
man." and even our school-books hold
up the idea that the Indian is noble
character, and has been abused and
down-trodden. Pope, In his ESSAY on
Man." says:
Sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind.'
A statement not untrue, but yet cal
culated to give the idea that the In
dian is very pious and religious char
acter. If you were to go out among
these dirty specimens OF humanity,
and remain week or two, you would
be convinced that great deal of this
talk about the noble red man" is all
"bosh." Our Government has been
and is still making mistake in treat
ing these savages as sort OF outdoor
pensioners" or, to use phrase intel
ligible to editors and shOwmen, put
ting them on the complimentary list.
Just think of the immense sums of
money expended every year, the only
effect of which is to maintain these
people in their old heathenish ways.
Why not put them on an equal plane
with white men, and make them obey
the laws, and teach them, as we teach
our children, to work and earn their
bread and meat?
1t is very common among Ignorant
people, and indeed among some not so
very ignorant, to suppose that only
learned men have theories. Why did
it never occur to them that we theorize
only upon that which we do not know,
and consequently the most ignorant
person theories, and the most and the
only difference between the theories
Of the learned and the ignorant is that
the learned man can produce more
facts to support his theory rhan the
ignorant man? Why, the ignorant
man can give you a reason for every
thing, while the wise man is continu-
ally compelled to say, Il don't know"
Prof. Tice will bring up multitude
of facts to support certain theory OF
the weather, and after all is compelled
to admit that he can tell very little
about it; while to the common ignora-
mus it is all as plain as day according
to his theory, which is based on a sin
gle assertion, viz: that the ground
hog comes out of his hole on a certain
day, and it all depends on whether he
sees his shadow or not. There are
plenty of these grounding believers
living yet in this enlightened last fifth
of the nineteenth century.
People make great mistake about
these two terms-faith and doubt.
Says Lowell: THE greater faith which
is to cone will see God rather in the
strenuous doubt than in the creed held
by an infants hand" | have heard
the cry Of infdel hurled at Lowell on
account Of this passage alone. Prof.
Swing has been hurled from an ortho-
dox pulpit because he advocated the
same idea. But in the brighter light
of later days it is beginning to creep
into the minds of many that faith and
doubt are partners, two factors which
work together to produce all intellect
ual and moral progress. A man never
invents a machine until he has doubts
about the old way being the best way,
and the next step is theory of bet
ter way, and then follows faith in
that theory, and he goes to work and
the result of the working of these two
is something new. And SO with all
improvements; there must first be
doubt, then faith, and new doubts will
upset the old faith and new faith is
based on new theory, and is followed
out until it results in new discovery.
If Columbus had not doubted the ex-
isting theory of the earth, would he
ever had faith in the theory that there
was land on the other side? Copernl-
Gus doubted the theory that the earth
was the center around which all the
heavenly bodies revolved, and he had
faith in the theory that the earth re-
volved around the sun. Gallleo