Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-26
CAN DOGS BE MAGNETIZED?
Strange Stories of the Power Of VIII
Force Over CANNES.

From the London Daily News
Even Mr.. Jingle and 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 "H. H.
whose book is published by Messrs. Sampson 4
Low. II have held lot of dogs by the mag
netic power of will from doing wrong hundreds
of yards away from me-" SAYS 81 H." and he
adds that IL he unbent his mind by making
remark to a friend the spell was broken. II
cannot be the power Of the human eye, he
thinks, that acts thus, for how can the eye act
at a quarter of q miles distance? He might
shut his eyes and try if the magnetic power
| still lasts. ITO be frst-rate dog-breaker a
man must have lots of animal magnetism"
which, according to this philosopher, is devel-
oped by force of will But what is will, OF is il
form OF magnetism"
Even in dog-breaking we reach at once the
debatable land of metaphysics and are en-
barked on Schopenhauer's speculations before
we know il. OF animal 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" II is differ
emit when H. H." turns a distant dog from a
particular corner of q field by simply 'wish-
ing" with all his force. The whip and the will
had better be kept separate, as much may
be, and some dogs answer to the will which
! merely sulk under the whip. The cleverest of
III. H. dogs was a retriever. He was fishing
| in her company, caught his fly on q stump on
the opposite bank, sent the retriever across the
water for it and she brought il safely. When a
friends fly caught in bough OF q willow, some
feet above the water, the dog swan across,
climbed into the top of the bush, jumped, fast
ened Oh the bough as she fell, bit 1t through
and restored the tackle.
The dog was sent for q wounded mallard
which was swimming below the ice. She ran
eighty yards down stream, broke a hole In the
! thin ice and waited like a cat at a mouse hole
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: III. H." left
his dog at the front door Of a house, with a
friend to watch its proceedings. He himself
left the house by aid of a ladder set against a
high window in the back and walked away.
The dog began to be uneasy soon as the
master had thus escaped and was with him in
Ave minutes. Could he have been guided by
smell or was he attracted by animal magnet
ism? If the human mind can really influence
that Of the dog from q distance, the force
which we call mind must be common to man
and beast and ''in that equal sky" retrievers
may keep III. II. 8" company. The attention
of Mr.. Romaines and of the Psychical Society,"
as well as the study of sportsmen, should be
given to II. rs" book. His anecdote of how
the dog insuited the cockney is excellent, but a
little in the manner of Dean Swift We are
only beginning 10 study the psychology of ami
mails, and yet it may be the proper starting
int