Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-01-02
MAN \ no.uun POOR LOT.
some of His Facilities Compared
With Thoae of ether Animals.

With ThOae Of ether Animals.
"Man is n vain sort Of an animal at
ell times" observed thoughtful citi-
zen, and in his process of naming and
classifying Things around him he has
attempted to leave reminders of him
self in every possible place, and he has
generally succeeded. for ones eyes
may not escape falling on something
named after some of his attributes.
But when we come to think of it, when
we come 10 look nature Squarcly in the
face, man is not the only thing in the
land which can lay claim to highly de-
vclopcd senses.
Take the human eye. CnqueStiOn-
ably the little bundle of nerves in the
eye, which make Visualization possible
and which present the mind with pho
tograph!c rciInrmontS which no art has
yet cqualeh Is one Of the physiological
marVcls and opens up an endless field
for speculation in the realm of psychol-
Ogy. that unSOlvod riddle Of science in
whose presence even the giants have
covered and skulked in hopeless ig-
nOrance. Yet this eye, discerning with
so much delicacy when the picture is
no farther than the wall of ones room
this eye with its circumscrihod lin
its would be looked upon with digniticd
scorn by yon soaring eagle if lie only
knew how much farther he could see
than n human being.
Take the human car. We may not
hear so we'll rs the rats and mice that
burrow under the palaces in which we
live or the squirrel that caperS yonder
in the forest and countless other things
one might mention. We may diifercn-
tiatc with greater accuracy and trace
refinemcnts in sound which these low
or creatures may not trace, but when
ii comes to the matter of catching the
sound at long range their ears seem to
have been moro perfectly constructed.
at is conceded that no human voice
has ever been heard which could equal
in sweetness of tone the lays which
one may hear in the orchard. . No hui
man being ever sang more SWeetly
than Patti, but she never sang so
swCetly as the meadow lark when lie
pours his gurgling love song out on
the summer air or the Oriole when he
shades his silVered octave from the
bending bouQh.
"What device for measuring water
pressure has man invented which will
compare with the nerves which string
the sides of the fish? 1t is sense
which is not represented in the human
category. Man must resort to arti!i-
cialitics in order to learn the air pres
sure and the degree of heat or cold.
But it is different with the fish, for he
can always tell just what the water
pressure is, and he knows how much he
can stand, and he acts accordingly.
Take the olfaCtory nerves. Nan is
all right when II comes 70 altar of roses,
violet pcrfumories and this and that
sert but you may pick out the measli-
est old hound in the Swamps of MisslS-
sippi. and if he knew how much SUI
pcrior his sense Of smell is TO mans
well, he wouldn't want to be caught in
a mans company.
NO, | am not running my own creed
down. | am Just relating n few things
which ought 10 make us all natural low
crs Of the many deserving beauties
that we wot not OF in these hurrying
times, and among them may he counted
he things mentioned. Prove it? Prove
nothing. | am Just telling you.'-New
Orleans Times Democrat.