The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-02
ANIMALS THAT WORK.
DOG OF A BOARDING HOUSE KEEP
Err AVVAKENS THE LODGERS.

A Parrot Ticket Seller A Trick
Horse of Arch Street, PhiIadeI-
Dhia, and a Talented Cat of New
observation-disclosures or Instinct.
New York, May 1.-This is the age OF
progress, the labor-saving age. The things
that q man used to do, and do gladly,
he now hands over to the steam power
and the electric plant to do for him. He
used to strike a spark from a flint, or find
a match and strike it; now he touches a
button and the electricity does all the
rest.
Man is doing more than utilizing the lat
ent forces of nature. He is turning to his
own benefit the animate forces. Animals
are trained to serve his purpose.
There is a question among scientists
whether animals have or have not an in
telligence. Huxley and those fellows who
believe in materialism, in distinction from
religion" declare that the brute has in
telligence the same as man. They hold
that it is of lower order, but it is intelli-
gence just the same.
The orthodox scientists, with Ruskin
among them, are as positive that the brute
has no intelligence, merely a highly de-
veloped instinct that can be trained. They
hold that the dog who goes upstairs and
gets a slipper does so. not because he
knows it is a slipper, but because he has
associated the word slipper with the arti-
Gle. When he banks at the word rat it is
because he has been shown what a rat is
He does it all by instinct and brute train
ing.
The orthodox mentalists say that a brute
can have no intelligence. If it had actual
brains it would know about God and go to
heaven. But the materialists say that the
dog has brains and is as eligible for heav-
emf there be one-as any other animal
with brains.
They have argued about it for centuries
and are no nearer a solution. Meanwhile
the animal is being trained to do the work
of man, and man is resting himself, while
the animal performs human tasks.
An Asbury Park landlady has a dog
that calls the boarders to breakfast. At
1880 in the morning she says, Here, JEFF!
Go wake up the boardersr'
JEFF mounts the stairs and seats himself
in the hall and bowls. He bays the
moon" on every landing in the house, and
finally makes a tour of the Railways howl
ing all the time. This is the rising bell. ,"
At s o'clock the landlady says, JEFF,
call them to breakfast"
This time JEFF emts joyful banks as he
makes his tour of the house. He has a
short, sharp bark that is his breakfast
call, and the boarders recognize il. JEFF
only barks that way once a day. The
rest of the twenty-four hours he Is a quiet
house dog, but In the morning is uneasy
and suspicious until he Is sent on his
morning rounds.
A circus chat passed through Indiana
last week had for "A ticket seller a big
green parrot with red wings and a yellow
breast. The parrot stood at the window
and called out, Tickets 80 centsw When
the money was deposited upon the box
window the bird would reach solemnly
back and pick up a ticket and hand Il our,
Immediately resuming her shrill call Of
Tickets. 80 cents" An assistant In the
background took the money from the
ledge and bonded Polly fresh ticket
every time one was sold.
Several attempts were made TO palm on
pieces OF lead and small coins upon ner
But If Polly knew that tickets were 30
cents. she also knew the difference be-
tween 30 cents and a quarter. The Of
fender was treated with silent scorn; then
came a shrek to the effect that tickets
were 30 cents. A man who handed Polly
cracker instead OF a coin was severely
bitten and the cracker crumbled up ana
thrown down.
A sixth avenue bird store In New Yorl,
has a big Maltese cat that guards the
birds. by the door OF this bird store
there Is one big cage containing 100
canaries. They sing, and their music Is
carried far up the street. when the store
door Is opened. AS might be expected
this attracts all the stray cats IN the
neghborhood, and before Miss Maltese
was obtained. there were frequent losses
from the bird cage through the cats that