Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-29

There are those who believe that di-
vine justice absolutely requires that God
should make Attends to animals in the
future life for all the wrongs they suffer
Ill this. One author Rev. John Brown.
declares that there Is another world for
animals. There Ia no doubt that many
animals recognize In their declining
powers the approach of death The
dogs retire To quiet, sequestered spots
To die. 1t Is a matter of general belief
that they seek the most sequestered spot,
the most hidden thicket, where, unno-
ticed and alone. they can lie quietly
down to eternal sleep. Shrimp and
prawns withdraw under stones to die.
and thus exhibit u wonderful pretuo-
milton of d ath even among the lower
orders.
The llamal of SoH;h Ameri,, b we
regular cemeteries i'll which they retire
to die. where their bones are found in
great he APPS bleaching.
Animals recognize approaching disso-
luton L. other animal without ques-
ton. The dying whale is at once set
upon by the shark tribe. The aged
buffalo Of the plains, sick or starving,
| cannot deceive the coyote or prairie
| wolf. which watch hin, bound his foot
step, and even hamstring him. SO that
| they may devour his carctse. The vul
lures of the Hinalayas gather to the
| lumber of twenty or thirty about the
dying beast and c1mposedly avail its
| dissolution. that they may feast upon
Its carcase.
Animals recognize death in others,
| without doubt. They make. ~ II were,
a regular diagnosis of death. They may
, have been fooled b. fore, but old ami
mails show an especial and peculiar so
| licitude, and, once satisfied, treat the
dead enemy with contempt or indiffer-
euoe. Tho she bear, says Honzlan,
| makes use of process of experiment
| alton to ascertain tue death Of her cubs.
| She offers them food. leaves and then
calls thern; touches them with her paws
| and tinIs them cold. rigid, motionless
| and indifferent. She makes USE OF OBJ
servation, comparison, reflection. The
elephant bull or COW makes sure Of the
| death Of fallen foe by tramping on
it and Roring it till all possibility OF life
| is extinct.
| Animals sometimes show care for
their dead. The monkey carries off the
dead and wounded. me animals bury
their dead with funeral ceremonies.
| tdSsctl says tIdt RfiiiiSs oc'Ci thch
dead. Certain birds, such "a wrens,
twitter requiems over them. and this
fact is so we'll attested that The Wren
Requiem" is vel. known as mournful
twitter, quite different from their usual
chirpy, lively notes. That many AMI
mails commit suicide Is a well attested
fact. Dogs, abandoned and kicked out
by their masters, have been sften known
To kill themselves. Stays or deer. when
seized by the glutton butt their heads
against the trees. The scorpion IL a
we'll known instance. The rattlesnake
when close pursued, will sting himself
rather than b. captured, and Indians
80 we'll know this that. though they
eat them az fool, they reject then
when death comes in this form.
These illustrations and anecdotes
show that animals possess reasoning
powers To a certain extent. and WI
not souls as veil:
A Brooklyn Sunday school class 4
Just finish. q singing
Il want 10 be An angel
And with the angels stand"
, When the teacher. observing that one o
the bows had not contributed his voic
tn swell the sacred refrain. said "An'
Won want to be An angel. too don't you
! Willie 2" No" replied Willie. :" no
, right away. want to be A circus rldei
a Good deal first"