The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-05-11
A WONDERFUL DOG.
Reputed to Be Able to Think Like
Man.

From the Chicao Record Herald.
II the London Society of Psychic Re-
search desires some material for investi-
cation and experiment more promising
than ghosts, let 1t see Bozzie. Bozzie is
dog that thinks like a man. Not only
that: Bozzie Is a dog that will give you
half an hours space and send you home
with an ache In your head and that
miserable feeling Of vacuity that always
accompanies the occult and mysterious
and uncanny. Yet Bozzie is lovable dog
wthal and your first wish after seeing
her is to have yourself dog like her
who loves you as she does her master,
George b. Clason, of No. so Bryant ave.
Perhaps the reader will not believe what
Is here written down. and small blame
to him. 1t Is hard enough to believe that
even a human being could do what Boz
zie does, but the matters set down here
are matters of fact and some day may
be explained when science has learned
more than 1t now knows about those sub
tie forces that are only in the present
time engaging the attention OF scientific
men,
Bozzie is a beautiful black Scotch col
lie, with white breast white feet. white
nose and white tail tip. She Is the daugh-
ter of Boz, the famous collie that amaz-
ed the kings and queens and princes of
Europe a few years ago. Wonderful as
was Boz. his child outsrips him in intel
ligence and institution. But let US see what
Bozzie can do.
Mr. Clason paid visit to the office of
this paper with his wonderful dog and
gave an exhibition for the benefit of the
editors. Four men were sitting in the
room.
"Bozzie." said Mr.. Clason, now many
men are in the room?"
In response came four sharp banks.
Now, be 1t observed that Mr. Clason does
not practice the signal system, such as
was used by the famous Steens. A little
though will show this to be necessarily
true For IL dog could work with the
signal system the fact would be still more
marvellous than what she does. as mean
ing that dogs intellect is as capable
as Is mans. which is of course nonsense
Bozzie simply counted the numbers, and
not having the vocal apparatus to enable
her to say four communicated the
number after her own simple fashion.
Examples Of what Bozzie can do In
mental arithmetic were also given. Boz
zie has no stage setting, no apparatus,
nothing but her own sharp intellect. Nor
is 1t necessary that her master shall do
the questioning. One of the persons pres
ent at the matinee the other day was so
persistent in his skepticism that Bozzies
master turned over that very modest lit
tie animal to the doubter who question
ed her himself and was fioored Still he
doubted. There are times when one doubts
the evidence of his own snses, and this
was one of them. Mr.. Clason, seeing he
had an unusually stubborn subject to deal
with, suggested that all possibility of
signalling be eliminated. The skeptic and
- ha rtU 4t,o
room and closed the door. One of them
wrote down on bit of paper the figure
"a" as his own number and the figure ''6''
as the number selected by the other
Then the skeptic called out, after OPEN
Ing the door:
"Bozzie, what numbers are on this pa
per?'
The dog barked four times, then paused
and then barked five times The first
answer was right, the second wrong. But
the man who selected So insisted that
the dog was right The written figure
was shown, and the '.s'' man explained:
But you made a mistake. I said s. or
at least 1 was thinking Of s.
This disclosed a power in the dog the
claim for which seemed preposterous
A mind reading dogl Absurd
But Bozzie is really and truly a mind
reader. The skeptic was requested to
think Of number and ask the dog to
tell It, He thought OF "4' and Bozzie
gave four banks. Then he thought of .'2'
and Bozzie barked twice, This was at
least embarrassing. The doubter was
placed in the position of admitting that
Bozzie could know what he was thinking
of or denying that he had thought
of the numbers Bozzie told The
truth was secret that was locked up In