El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-27

AS this Judgment had been rendered
by impartial scientists, and as it agreed
with the general opinion OF all edu-
Gated people. fl had the effect Of a
supreme court verdict All the news
papers Of the country made fun Of the
. intelligent horse that had suddenly
tumbled from the pedestal.
The owner of the horse stubborn
old man, died few years later stiu
clinging to his conviction. To get to
the bottom Of the matter a perfect
stranger took up the investigation and
soon felt that the commission had full
filled its task in a very slipshOd man
ner.
The exceedingly eNcitabIe horse had
to get used TO blinds. and after while
it was found that the sign theory did
not hold good, for even when the horse
was absolutely unable to see the per
son who asked the questions, its an
swers were correct
The new experimental. Karl krall,
who has published the results OF his
many years experiments in the book,
''Denkende There Thinking animalS),
continued his researches in regard to
the sensitiveness of the animal soul on
two Ara Dian stations, Aluhamed ana
Zarif, and arrives at astonishing re-
suits which he now asks psychologists
10 test and explain.
The reader must follow in the book
how Herr kral patiently teaches his
horses to count and figure They mark
the units by paving the right foot, and
tens by stamping the left They first
learn addition and subtraction, then
multiplication and division. They solve
little mathematical problems correctly.
even when as difficult as this;
(2X2l X q plus 81.
or this;
(2 plus ID (l0 minus p.
Muhamed answers the problem, X
minus As equals 46. and what Is the
value Of correctly by indicating "a
with both feet
Learn 10 Know COiOrs.
The two horses learn to know the
various colors, to distinguish various
degrees of light and darkness.
Exceedingly interesting it is TO fol- I
low the whole course OF their inStrUc- {
ton in regard to spelling and reading. Z
The letters are shown TO them and indi- 7.
Gated i'm a loud voice
Strange IL is that the horses. which 4
found 10 difficult 10 remember the or {
-hography they were taught gradually. /
sound as they perceived it. IT, for in /
stance, they were shown the picture OF /
: horse. they spelled not pferd, but I
'erd, and only when told repeatedly 1
,ated ?. Many letters they always
ound it exceedingly difficult to catch,
IS for instance the letter IT. which I
hey were inclined to leave out. spelling Z
tut ut Instead Of h-u-t and BALI
Mistakes Prove They Think.
That the horses really think is proved
~ the mistakes they make that Is 10 I
ay by their faulty orthograDhv which
indicates how they hear and what is
difficult for them to express.
Herr krall, for instance. cried. "Zarif {
his gcntleman's name is Hess, spell .
lis name" Tariff replied s.
The horse spelled the word "pferd"
hOrse) in more than so ways. Pferd :
ecame faerd. faert. ferd. fert, feerd.
rd frt, frrt pferd pfert. etc
With the words "brod' Cbread) and
fucker sugar 10 was the same thing
Muhamed spelled his own name il
lore than half a dozen different ways.
When Zarif was to spell its masters
anne IL was kral kkraL krgaL kaall.
ALL. If told that q letter was missing
usually pointed TO an or" At first
-hile the horses were being taught
hey usually spelled correctly the first
anne Karl and the last name krau
alter on. when they spelled independ-
utly. they took the letter h to stand
or "Ka" and spelled kari solely
XII
lIrall showed them q picture or the
.erman emperor and said kaiser both
orses spelled the word "keisr"
To is interesting TO see how the
Orses get confused when given a diff
ult name TO spell. Their master shows T
hem picture Of Schopenhauer and
ronouuces the name.
Zarif writes. "sobnd-' When told
hat this IS wrong il tries again and
.rites "udauer" Then MUhamed tries .
md writes "schobndOu."
The most remarkable is perhaps this;