The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-09
WONDERFUL EXHIBITION
scientists Think There ls a Trick,
But Have Been Unable to Dis
cover Where
II Is.

respondent OIL the UHileu TIcS6.I
BERLIN, Nov. SIS there such al
thing as horse sense?" Can horses
think" Herr Krall, wealthy jewell
er Of Elberfeld, Germany, has made
ehoss sense" something more than
| mere term Of reproacn. He has PROV
en- that horses think" and can be
ataught to think" His thinking
horses have plunged Germany's learn
ed men into another wordy war how
the actions and sense" of the horses
may be accounted for upon some 9TH
er hypothesis than thinking" Thel
learned professors don't take kindly to
the idea that horses may approach hui
man beings in sense"
Krall formerly assisted Herr Won Os-
ten, the Berlin schoolmaster, in edu-
eating the famous horse "Kluge Hans"
In 1908 Krall purchased two Arabian
| stations Mohammed and Zarif-and
began experiments on mis- own account.
Herr Krall began by giving the
horses an elementary school course
"just as il they were children" as he
puts it. He put them through course
in adding and subtracting and taught
them to multiply up to- IL times IL.
Next he taught the horses the alpha
bet by giving each letter, q certain
| number The letter 20" for instance, is
number AS" In .sing this letter in
spelling, the horses paw four times
with the left foot and five times with
the right The letter "a, is "21" and
designated by two paws with the left
and one with the right foot. The alpha
bet and numbers representing each
letter are on blackboard hung up be-
fore the two Arab stations.
Mohammed and Zarif use the sim
plified spelling" system. They spell
Theoretically with vengeance.
"Kappe" (capy is KIP" in horse
language. Essen" (to eat) is "sn."
"Gehen' Ito go). they simply spell
"gn.'
field, Herr Krall wrote "gs" on the
blackboard. "Mohammed read that
he said. Mohammed stamped 49,"
shook his head. started over and paved
53." Herr Krall wrote .s3 81. The
stallion stamped Is without a word be
Ing said to him. Krall wrote fourteen
and said read that" The horse re
Piled with one stamp Of the left foot
and four Of the right foot-14. With
out speaking, Krall wrote add four
teen to twenty-five" on the blackboard
Mohammed quickly paved "3s Kral
asked orally what is the last writ
ten sum-" Mohammed replied with his
hoof "22."
krall next had Mohammed do amaz
ing stunts In square roots" One O
the newspapermen wanted to see i
Mohammed could do sums for him
araii went out of the school room
Inc correspondent wrote 81 g. OIL
the board. Mohammed promptly an
swered "a" The experiments con
tinued, Mohammed occasionally max
ing mistake, but nearly always cor
recung himself. Krall finally orderet
the horse to spell Gustav" Moham
med spelled out "mued,' which i
phonetic German for tired He wa
tired.
Mohammed and Zarif were too nue.
ol problem for the Physical Research
society of London. The committe
sent by that organization to Elberflel
and composed Of Edward Bullough Q
Caius College, Oxford, and !. J. Woo
icy, NJ. D., have returned to Londor
Ihey admitted that they did not kno,
what to think about the "thinkin
horses.
In the report made to the society
the two English investigators declar
That there are four possibilities tina
may explain the action OF the horse.
These are:
they may really possess the int
iectual abilities ascribed to them b
their owner.
They may simply have memorize
the answers to all the problems PR
scented to them.
They may respond to signals give
consciously or unconsciouhly by som
person present.