The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-18

sal hatred toward other species. In the legends Of ancient times this was mo- tieed: always arrayed against each oth- CT were the otter and the crocodile, the hart and the dragon, the unicorn and the elephant. Perhaps the most inter esting cases Of dislikes are those which are inherited; fear of the natural enc mics of a certain weaker species being so strong that even the young just born may experience it. All herds of COWS and cattle hate dogs instinctively. Can We not trace this to the time, long centuries ago. when the wild herds were always in danger of being at- tackled by wild dogs or wolves, which slunk about on the outskirts of the herd, and watched with hungry eyes every chance to cut out and pull down a helpless calf?
 To fight like "cats and dogs" has be- come a proYerb, and We must admit there is abundant basis for its truth. In domestic cats this is doubtless an inner ited instinct, which in one of it's larger relatives we can verify to-day. In ln- dia the tiger is king, almost. Deep in the jungles she makes her lair, and the cubs have few enemies indeed. Bears or tiger-cats, when they inadvertently come across the lair trail of the great striped one, bach-trail, and rapidly, too. It is doubtful if even the great python would disturb one of the little, furry kittens But the packs of wild dogs are without fear, and would kill and eat the cubs and defy the parent when she re- turned. We'll she knows this, and also that although she might slay dozen, yet the others would pin her down, rip- ping her flesh, careless if they died or no. So tiger in captivity will scruti- nize wolf without much show of an- ger, but pity the dog that ever comes within reach. and if she cannot get at him, her wrath of memory will vent it. self in howls and fierce endeavors on the bars of her cage.
 A leopard, which lives so much among the trees and could so easily escape the Iattacks of wild dogs, has no instinctive lhate, although a dog is a tidbit which would be by no means despised. This feet is well known to dogs, which show their fear of these arboreal felines, while they will mob tigers and other terrestrial cats Pumas come under the same head as leopards, and are held in as great respect by dogs.
 In zoos the animals generally show a dislike to children and cripples; in the first instance, doubtless, because they are leased more by the youngsters, and in the second place because of the strange horror and hate which many animals show of the abnormal, or con ditions out of the usual, for discrimina- lting between which they have remark able ability.
 Monkeys hate negroes, but this dis like of dark-skinned men is not con- fined to the above class of beautifully colored animal.
 l have left for last mention the Bel gian hare, breed always a favorite one, but especially in the year 1900. The American doctors during that year propounded a theory that the flesh of these little animals was a more nutri- tious and in every way advisable food than anything else. Our cousins from lover the water took up the craze with all the fervor characteristic of the na- ton; they built large rabbitries all over | lHe COulLfSl anu SeitI SpeGldl tileil HeTe to buy the very best 'haresr' they could purchase. English fanciers saw their chance and refusedto sell, until it was easy to get twenty pounds apiece for their rabbits; fifty pounds was not an uncommon price, and one hundred and twenty pounds was obtained for one. Small wonder that many men made hundreds of pounds. and one man at least over one thousand pounds. To day between five and ten pounds is a fair price to give.ssT The characteristic ot the breed is close resemblance to the wild hare with its raciness of form length of limb and the red tinge of col or.
 As I but briefly described the animals