St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-09
CAN DOGS BE MAGNETIzED?
Strange Stories of the Power OF
Will Force Over CANNES.

Strange Stories of the Power of
Will Force Over CANNES.
London Daily News.
Even Mr.. Jingle or Mr.. Jesse never
thought of applying animal magnetism
to sporting dogs. But this is part Of
"the scientific education of dogs" as
practiced and taught by III. H." whose
book is published by Messrs. Sampson
Low. Il have held lot of dogs by the
magnetic power of will from doing
wrong hundreds of yards away from
me-" says III. H." and he adds that, if
he unbent his mind by making re-
mark to friend, the spell was broken.
1t cannot be the power of
that acts thus, for how can the eye act
at quarter of miles distance? He
might shut his eyes and try if the mag
netic power still lasts. TO be a first
rate dog-breaker man must have lots
of animal magnetism" which. accord
ing to this philosopher, is developed by
force Of will. But what is will, or is it
a form of magnetism?
Even in dog-breaking we reach at
once the debatable land of metaphysics,
and are embarked on SchOpenhauer'S
speculations before we know it. OF an
lmal magnetism exercised by the rider
on the horse little need be said. The
man may influence the beast by contact,
unconsciously, not by twill force" 1t
is different when "H. H." turns dis
tant dog from particular corner of a
field by simply ''WiShing' with all
his force. The whip and the will
had better be kept separate, as
much as may be, and some
dogs answer to the will which merely
sulk under the whip. The cIeverest of
"H. HIS" dogs was a retriever. He
was fishing in her company, caught his
fly on stump Oh the opposite bank,
sent the retriever across the water for
it and she brought it safely. When a
friends fly caught in a bough of a
willow, some feet above the water, the
dog swan across, climbed into the top
of the bush, jumped, fastened OH the
bough as she fell, bit it through and re-
stored the tackle.
This dog was sent for wounded
mallard, which was swimming below
the ice. She ran eighty yards down
stream, broke hole in the thin ice and
waited like cat at mOusehole. There
she caught the mallard as he came up to
breathe. Ii this was not reasoning,
what is reason? But some other
power must have been exercised
in the following case: ''h. H." left
his dog at the front door of a
house, with a friend to watch its pro-
ceedings. He himself left the house by
aid of a ladder set against a high win
dow in the back and walked away. The
dog began to be uneasy as soon as the
master had thus escaped, and was with
him'in five minutes. Can he have been
guided by smell or was he attracted by
animal magnetism? If the human mind
can really influence that of the dog
from distance, the force which we call
mind must be common to man and beast,
and, sin that equal sky'' retrieyers may
keep "H. HIS" company. The atter-
ton of Mr.. Romaines and of the psy-
chical society, as we'll as the study of
| sportsmen, should be given to III. H. 50
book. HIS anecdote of how the dog III
suited the cockney is excellent, but a
| little in the manner of Dean Swift.
We are only beginning to study the
| psychology of animals. and yet it may
be the proper starting point of those in
| vestigationS.