Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-02

hey to John Burroughs. the In
Animai nous naturalist has an
Behavior. article In the July Me
Clure's In which he an
swers Prof, T.. T. Brewster, who said
recently in the same publication thar
the Key TO animal behavior was nettht r
reason nor instinct. but habit or ex-
perience. He says: How the write.
explains the conduct OF animals that
have had no chance to store up expert
ences and form habits--the bird build
ing its first nest, the hen with her first
brood of chickens speaking a language
she never before spoke and her young
understanding language they never
before heard. the heifer hiding her fret
calf In the bush, the ground bird de-
coying you away from her first nest by
futtering over the ground as II half
disabled, the puppy burying its first
bone, perhaps on the carpet or the
Kitchen floor. the chlpmonk or the
woodnouse laying up its forest store OF
nuts, and a score OF other primary acts
OF animals, which they mover could
have learned as We learn, and which
they do offhand and the first time the
occasion arises-how the writer ex-
plains all these things, l say. / am at
"a loss to know These Instincts or ma
tive impulses. as they are passed along
down the line Of animal descent, are
slightly modified now and then, but
remain practically the same from gem
Grafton TO generation. The cliff swal-
lows have built their nests of mud
how long? The chimney -swifts have
built theirs of twigs-how long? The
bfuoding grouse. when started from
her nest, has feigned lameness and
paralysis-how long? The beaver has
been building its dam OF brick and mud
how long2 The word instinct is OF
metaphysical rather than of scientific
origin, but II means so much more than
aN..W. 49, a
dispense with IT, II marks OFF the anil
mai world from the human as distinct
ly as the animal is marked off from the
vegetable"
Danger The popular belief that |
OF Neglect "a wound from treadlng |
OF Wounds. on a rusty nail Is very |
likely TO cause tetanus is |
quite correct This Is not because Il |
is a nail or Is rusty. but because by |
lying on the ground II has become In |
fected with the germs OF lockjaw.
Moreover, as the punctured wound
caused by the nail bleeds but little and |
this blood dries UP and excludes the
air the most favorable condition for
the development of tetanus exist, for.
as Kitasato, the japanese bacteriolo-
gist, proved the absence OF oxygen is
most favorable TO the growth OF this
germ. The germ itself looks very much |
toxin I'm doses OF i-200.0 OF a teas
poonful will kill a mouse. IL has been |
found by experiment that the poison !
Is carried up to the spinal cord, not |
by the absorbents or the bloodvessels, |
rs are other polsons, but through the |
motor nerves themselves. Fortunately, |
IN anti-polson or antidote has been de- |
'eloped. but so prompt Is the action
II the poison that In an animal two
minutes after the Injection OF fatal
lose OF the poison, twice as much Of
he remedy is required as II Il had |
,een administered with the poison: |
lfter eight minutes ten times the
I'm cunt, and after ninety minutes
orty times the original amount is
necessary. This antitoxin is entirely
harmless. As a result OF antiseptic
Methods lockjaw Is now almost I'M
inown except after neglected wounds.
instead Of being terribly frequent as
formerly was When II is feared. the |
ntitoXin Is used as a preventive, and |
Then II has developed. as a cure. In |
for naturally horses suffer |
Enormously more frequently than man.
he same antitoxin is used. In 1913
orses that had operations performed
n them. but were protected by tho |
not one developed tetanus |
'heress OF eight cases unprotected by |
he antitoxin. five developed tetanus. | \
he result OF all these experiments has c
/
y the antitoxin used as preventive. | I
w W. Keene, NJ. D, IL. D. in Har- ]
er's Magazine for July. I
Gorge Brief as Is the interval I
ANTS since the death OF King | h
o Rule. Edward and spontaneous | I
as was the grief with | I
hich all London poured forth to make o
IS funeral 50 spectacular his memory | n
ems extinguished by the concern | &
it'll which official Britain takes note | o
the Toryism OF George v The new | n
vereign, concerning whom London | o
w spapers speak with the traditional r.
serve and Difference. Is reported in $,
,rlin dailles TO be reading the MIN iC
ry lessons new and strange concern II
g the limits OF the royal prerogative. n
e majesty means TO keep within the 81
nits OF the constitution, as the Berlin | n
vt says, but he interprets that instru- tC
mt for himself. ut is an unwritten | 80
Ing and the kings opinion OF IL is as al
cd as that OF any OF his advisers" ! j