EBsljrP That Ija'rc yrtcmij and (auotMng offo liV- itfjwlWy and fko jonpand the bcaufij-ul giJSSSiiJ jfl The arm'srouad the ncK and the love- jTO Mr 7he. Or'n o- fg ARRING Sunday, there Is no day to the average New Eng lander held more sa cred or with a higher pride than Thanks giving. Its first men tion in American his tory was on August 7, 1607, the Popham colonists "Givinge God Thanks." They were a very re ligious people, and their "Thanks giving Service" was of the Church of England. Their unique mooting took place at the Island of Monhegan. They finally settled at the mouth of the Kennebec. The "Monhegan Thangsglvlng" was in no sense the historic source of our present annual day of public worship. At a recent date has been found the family Bible of William White, in which b recorded "William White married on ye third day of March, 1620, to Susannah Tilly. Per egrine White Born on Board ye May flower In Cape Cod Harbor. Sonne born to Susannah White, December 19, 1620, ye six o'clock morning. Next day, we met for prayer and .thanksgiving." We find that the twentieth day of December was not Sunday, but Tuesday. The Sunday previous, however, they had rested and held "Divine Worship." One narrator speaks as follows: "So, in the morning, after we had called on God for direction, we came presently to this resolution, to go presently ashore again, and to take better view of two places we thought most fitting for us; for we could not at this time now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, espe cially our beer; and It being now the 20th of December." The season was a most critical one. The day was very cold, and In their midst was disease and starvation. For the curious reader we quote Cap tain John Smith as follows: "After baving been pested nine weeks in this leaking, unwholesome ship, lying wet in ye cabbins, most of them grew very weak, and weary of the sea." They had been on the sea nine weeks. In , i in- following autumn there was held a "Grando Thanksgiving," the most condensed account of which can be found in a letter by Edward Wins low, dated at Plymouth, and written to a friend in England, in which he said: "Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent four men on fowl ing that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our lnbors. They killed us much fowl as with a little help beside served the company about a week. At which times among other recreations we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us. and among the rest their greutest king, MasBasoyt, with ami ninety men, whom for throe days we entertained and feasted, ana they went out and killed five deer which they brought and bestowed upon our Governor, and iij.cn the Captalno and others." In several ways it ropre aeuted a feast of Biblical renown. Tho Indlai s were warmly welcomed. The savage of America greeted tho Anglo-Saxon of Europe. The five deer killed by the natives, together The Puritan Thanksgiving Day Baud, with the fowl billed by the "four good shots from the Colony," fur nished food for the festivities that lasted nearly a week. Games were played, athletic sports were enjoyed, and some little time was spent In military feats. The natives were much amused over the games of "stool-ball" and "pltch-ye-bar," as taught by Governor Bradford. The year 1622 brought distress aud misfortune to the Pilgrims. Crops were poor, the winter exceed ingly cold, and they prayed "long and often" for their "dayly brade." The Thanksgiving of that year was also attended by several of the "most wise" Indians. We find it recorded that "a day was appointed by publlck authority and set aport from all other employments" to pray to God for His favor upon an ill-fated people. Tho mornlug wan a most beautiful one. The Bkles were clear. The whole day was spent In fasting and prayer. It then rained with "soft, sweet, mod Mate shower, mixed with seasonable weather, ab It was hard to say whether our withered corn or droop log affections were moat quickened and revived, bucIi was ye bounty and goodness of God." It was an Id'theso Wins that Captain Myles Btandlsh wont northward to secure provisions Vf the "Friendly Indian. " Upon his return he brought a largo amount of provisions. He also reported that tho ship supposed to have been lost had been sighted. This gave great joy to the coloniBts. Relative to the same we quote: "Having these many Blgns of God's favor and acceptlon, another solemn day was set apart and appointed, wherein we returned glory and honour and praluo w'th thankfulness to our good God who had dealt so graciously with us." Each year the Plymouth colony held thanksgiving. Passing on, we notice the arrival of John Winthrop and his associates, a very religious people. They, too, held a day of "publlck worship and thanksgiving." We find that on February 22, 1630, the first Thanksgiving Is proclaimed In Boston. The winter had been raor Hutchinson Issued hie tumms proclamation, which In part said that he was thankful for "the continuance of our civil and religious privileges." On November 18, 1777, the Con tinental Congress proclaimed the first National Thanksgiving Day. We find that honorable body exprosnlng profound gratitude that God had been plnasod to "smile on us In the Prosecution of a just and necessary War, for the Defense and Establlsh- ment of our unalienable Rights and Liberties. " After the Constitution had been adopted, a day was set apart, as re olved by Congress, that the people be thankful for the goodness of God. On the 28th of November, 1789, It waa voted that the last Thursday In November be set apart for a day of thanksgiving. Thus we have a na tional holiday for public worship. As each year came around, the day was more noticed by the members of all churches, until at the present lime the pages of the leading magazines of the English-speaking people give space to the study of the origin of Thanksgiving as set apart by the fathers of the movement. From the Christian Register. Electricity On a Dairy Farm. . . , The Labor in M my of the Necessary Farm Operations Much Reduced and the Hired Man Not Greatly Missed. HVFFAM) CHIPS, nn i u i. novi.i:. OUR THANKSGIVING GUEST. By Katie Chinln H3). I well remember our first Thanks giving dlrner In our pioneer days In Kansas. I always loved tho gentle story of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving, because it suggest!) the homely Incident I wish to relate. The cruol unchained winds Bcourged the bai ron prairies with vin dictive fury. My mother, accustomed to the feasts of New England, must have felt the difference between the old life and the new as she placed the frugal meal for three on tho scant kitchen table. But the linen waa flue and white we never fell from white table linen even In those days. And there wus bo .jttch more to eat than usual, that the Child Afraid of the Prairies thought that was a feaBt. There was fried quail, the result of ray father's long tramp and unerring aim; a can of Califor nia peaches; a simple cake made for this great occasion, and "broomhan dlo squaBhes," the sweetest and rich est that ever carao from cabin oven! These were the gift of a well loved neighbor, brought by her Ell the way from the next county, and I am sure that they had no idea when they were sapping the sun and the rain on that farm how delicious they would taste to the cabin dwellers on that stern, bleak Thanksgiving Day I say had no idea, because if they had they would have grown larger. iM MsHRBs'HyKRjjawV aflHBaHHBHHbr&2HSBK&! KBMsflaw awan 'MvaKv & JK'jjimKi i. .MwH -From the Breeders' Gazette. very cold and a hard one. Many deaths had taken place, the record of which is unknown to history. Rev. Cotton Mather is probably the best authority of the times. He relates of one man who had Invited his friends to dinner, and tho only food upon the spacious table was clams In asking the blessing at the family table, he. thanked God "who had given them to suck the abundance of tho seas and of the treasures hid In the sands." All that spring, when the tide, were right, they would rise before daylight, pray until It was light enough to fish, and hunt the shores for clams. One of the most charitable men of the times appears to have been Governor Winthrop, who was known to havo given to a distressed neighbor "tho last handful of meal," when a ship with supplies was sighted In tbo harbor. Another Interesting Thanksgiving service was held In Old Scltuate on December 22, 1036. The authority for this mention is the church ecord, oa follows: "In ye Meetinghouse, beginning some halfe hour before nine & con tinuing until after twelve aclocke, ye day being very cold, beginning wt a short prayer, then a psalrae sang, then more large In prayer, after that an other Psalmo & then the Word taught, after that prayer & then a psalmu. Thon making merry to the creatures, the poorer sort being In vited of tho richer." This meeting Is worthy of emulation. On the 12th of the following October services were conducted In tho same manner. In the year 1 642 Governor William Shirley proclaimed two services. In 1746, when the Freuch fleet had .threutenei' the colony, "a fast day of thanksgiving" was held In "ye old South Meeting-house," Boston. Thomas Prince Btood up in "publlck prayer" when, in the language of tbo poet, the storm "Came with mighty power. Shaking the windows und wlls, And tolling tho bell in the tower As it tolls nt funeral." Soou the "Huns of Liberty" were organized, and dtvlaloiiB came among the churches, yot both "Tory" and "Rebel" held their nuuual Thanks giving. It was in 1771 that Gor- At last expectation and preparation gave way to mastication, and tho feast was on! We were well settled to the delights before us, when, in a lull of the swirling wind, we heard a strange picking at the door and In stalked an Indian bravo of command ing presence and picturesque attire. Fear, tho worst enemy of appotlte, assailed me and tho delights of tho big dinner faded away. By signs and gutteral noises the Indian com municated the fact that he was hun gry and he was invited to the table. How fast the slender stock of good things faded away. I remember no ticing that tho canned peaches were especial favorites of his. One thing that amused us was his putting four toaspoonfuls of sugar In bis glass of milk. My mother and I, unable to eat, watched the stranger closely. My father, too, soon finished his din ner, but the Indian licked the plat ter cleau In a sho t Una, His headdress and ornaments were gorgeor.s. My mother, attracted by the beautiful earr.ugs he wore, de termined to count them. There were fourteen pairs, all long and heavy and very beautiful. The ear was slit from the top of the lobe to tho bottom. The weight of such exces sive Jewelry hold tho silt open und presented a truly grewsome sight to civilized eyes. After warmlLg himself thoroughly ho passed out silently Into the storm. We bore our spoiled dinner cheerful, ly; thinking we had given to one who needed It worse. Imagine our disgust when wo learned that our house was the seventh at which he had euton Thanksgiving dinner. There Ih moro than one way for a gourmand to be rebuked, and out raged nature did the work this time In the bitter night following his big dinner day, he died In agony, and there was lamentation In the tepees of his tribe. We suppose that he begged his first dinner that day by chanco and found Instead of tho usual frugal meal an extra nice dinner. Mo tried It ugnln and the rich food und strange dluhes temptoa him to keep like Hilly Ooodwln "a eatln" an' a eatln'," until he wrought be own undoing. Good Housekeeping. On the outskirts of n hustling little manufacturing village. Orlsknny Falls. In Southern Oneida County, la a farm that Is probably an Interesting and remarkable as any In the State of Now York, and It Ib doubtful If there Ih another In tho United States equalling it In completeness of labor saving, power generating and me chanical devices. The farm Is owned by E. Burdette Miner. Besides being cultivated and rondnrted In every way In accordance with modern and up-to-date farming science, It also possesses one of the moat thoroughly perfected and efficient electrical farm plants ever constructed. By electric power generated on his own farm Mr. Miner runB a large saw for cutting up all lengths and sizes of stove wood, runs the milk ing machines, ensilage cutters nnd holsterB, separators and ice cream freezer, chum, thrasher, grindstone, pumps, washing machines and wring er, besides lighting every room in his house and heating most of them by the same method. He has electric lights In every barn and other build ing on his farm-where lights may be needed, Including a well appoint ed machine shop, where he, with his I sons, does all his own mencanicai 1 work. In that shop he has an elec ' trie motor that runs a lathe, drill, wire winding machine, electric sol- dering iron, buffing machine, buzz saw and a large pump that operates I the milking maholnes down In the ', stables. In his house he has electric heaters in the different rooms that thorough ! ly warm it at an absolutely even tem j perature at the will of the occupants. ' He also heats the flntirons by elec I trlcity, and has even a little electric j motor attached to the sewing ma chine. And this Is all accomplished on a farm by a farmer without any help, advice or assistance from any one outside his own family. All this saving of labor and the Inestimable conveniences have been made possible by Mr. Miner and his sons by harnessing the Orlskaney Creek, a turbulent little stream that flows through the beautiful Oriskany Valley, in which Mr. Miner owns a large section of fine, fertile, well tilled land. At a suitable point In the stream about one-quarter of a mile from the house, where there is a normal flow of about four thousand cubic feet a mlnutet with about a six foot fall, a thirty-six foot flow dam was put In, with a concrete and plank foundation, that 1b built to withstand almost any pressure that might come from floods and spring freshets; but to make the dam safe and sure be yond all doubt, they built slosh boards In the dam, six feet wide nnd one foot high, that can be drawn out, one or all, as the supply of water demands. Further, they have two large flood gates in the concrete at the bottom of the dam that can be let out, and should tho flood be so great that all these methods would fall to save the dam from going out they havo built a spillway on the side of the pond that would take care of a great quantity of flood water. At tho left of the dam, leading down from the pond about a hundred feet downstream to un abrupt bank, a dike eight or ten feet wide was dug. At the lower end of this a wheel pit, laid in concrete, was built, with a small powerhouse above. There It was found that a head of four and one-half feet had been obtained and an upright thirty-Inch Samson wateV wheel was Installed. Upon test It was found that the wheel under this very low head developed seventeen and one-half horsepower. In the power house a dynamo of twelve nnd one half kilowatt capacity was placed. This was connected by 1500 feet of bare aluminum cable with the farm buildings. In the house were placed twenty-flvo slxteen-candlepower 2 20 volt lamps, and In the barns eight more, electric Illumination being the first and principal object of the plant. In a littlo more than two months after work waB started in the bed of the creek to build a dam, tho plant was started up, and it has been run ning successfully, night and day, ever since, and with no attention whatever from nny one, save oiling, which is necessary about once in two weeks. Tho water wheel and dyna mo run continuously, and, now that the expense of purchasing and In stalling them Is over, there is abso lutely no expense or trouble to It, and the vast amount of labor it saves und the many luxuries and conveni ences It affords Mr. Miner and his family make llfo on the farm about as pleaBant. as It could be anywhere In the world. Only a small portion of the power that could bo generatad la necessary, and Mr. Miner placed a governor at the wheel gate, which regulates the amount of water passing through the wheel to the amount of power needed. After the problem of illumination on tho farm had been solved, two of Mr. Miner's sons proceeded to extend the application of the power then at their command. It was in the winter and in this climate heat la very essen tial, and fuel, ellher wood or coal, Is always otpenslvo. So there waa a problem to solve, and It was an easy one. They purchased a 4000-watt heater, placed It In tho house, and healed two rooms, one 16 x 13 x 7 Mi, to a temperature of seventy-five de grees, while out of doors tho ther mometer sowed zero weather. And from that extension of his system Mr. Miner haa continued until It seems that there cannot possibly be a fur ther ubo to put it to on the farm. The cow stables are built and kept la a condition that showB that the owner believes In the most approved and up-to-date methods in farming, but that fact is also evinced In every thing connected with hla place, and a visit there Is well worth consider able effort. In both the Btables and the horao bnrn he has running water pumped lu by electricity, und there Is a plentiful supply of pure r.pring water ut all tlmc-s for tin- livestock. Tho floors of the stable uie all uf concrete except where the cattle stand and lie. That Is of plank, as Mr. Miner has not come to the belief that cattle do well or enjoy life as much on cold concrete floor. A pit back of the cows Is so graded that nil waste Is curried off by flushing to a large tank, tho content of which are then used for fertilizing. Pat ent swing Btanchions are used which allow tho greatest freedom for the cattle's heads, whether Btandlng or lying down. All the milking Is very successfully and quickly done by electrically driven milking machlneB, which Mr. Miner says give satisfac tion In every way. In the creamery, where the milk from a dairy of twenty cows Is dally transformed Into butter, is a milk separator, the heavy bowl of which must be made to revolve at a speed of 7400 revolutions a minute each morning nnd evening, till the entire milk production of the rows has gone through It. Before installing electric power this laborious work hnd to be done by hand and was counted part of the hardest farm work. With that was the big churn, which for an hour at a time, several days a week, de manded the strenuous attention of some muscular person who no doubt could have been profitably spending his time at some other less laborious work. All that work must be done away with, so a wire was run Into tho creamery, and on a concrete foun dation a half-horsepower motor was placed and connected. From this mo tor a narrow belt was run to the separator. Then the churn was placed on a platform swivelled from one corner to the floor, tho other three corners resting on casters. This arrangement permitted the churn to be swung into line with tho motor and connected by belt when the churn 1b to be used. After the churning is completed the belt Is stripped off and the churn pushed back out of tho way. In a room adjoining the creamery was the grindstone, that torturous, back breaking arrangement that every farmer boy has cause to re member, especially hla associations with it about harvesting time. That was a simple matter for Mr. Miner. He ran a Bmall round belt from the motor through the open door and around a pulley on the axle of the stone, and labor on that crank was at an end, the old Oriskany running It more smoothly than It could bo done by hand, and with no com plaints. All around tho farm are many me chanical contrivances that show con siderable study, thought aud ingenu ity, and one of the cleverest of these Is on the separator. When the milk has all passed through the machine tho latter should be stopped and rinsed. To accomplish this auto matically a float is connected with the electric current operating the mo tor In such a manner that when the milk Is nil run out of the separator the float is lowered to a point where it breaks the circuit, cutting off the power and stopping the machinery. Simultaneously with the breaking of tho current a dish of water, previous ly placed above the separator, is emp tied by an ingenious device Into tho separator before It has ceased to re volve, and the large machine is thoroughly rinsed. Thus the sepa rator is made to stop at the moment its work Is done and to proceed to to the indispensable work of rinsing Itself out properly. A hand pump had been In use to force water Into a reservoir In the nttlc of tho house, which supplied the bathroom, and then a motor was brought into use which did away with the work of pumping. A larger mo tor was secured and placed In posi tion in the woodyard. A circular saw and frame were provided and wood in sled lengths is brought from the wood lots in winter and Is piled up to await tho time when it is con venient to reduce it to stove wood by the aid of the Oriskany Creek. In the lightening of labor on the farm Mr. Miner did not for a minute neglect the part performed by wo men, and his constant thought has been to help his good wife In her work. Electric flatlrons and eloc trlcally driven sewing machines are among the results In the house. In the dining rooms nre electric fans, which ventilate and cool tho house in the warm weather, and even the ice cream freezer has a belt and motor. Life on a farm under tho fore going conditions carries with it about as much comfort, contentment and ease as life anywhere under normal conditions can offer, and Mr. Miner and his family enjoy It to tho utmost, and it also helps to solve the labor problem und keeps the boys content ed at home. The coBt of equipping u farm In that manner must be no Bmall Item, but on that point Mr. Miner was silent. He declined to give any fig ures, but the results nre all so satis factory that it is doubtful If he would go back to the old methods of (tnsln( for five times what tho new method has cost him. New York Tribune Farmer. Dairying in Xeiv Zealand. The progress of the duirying indus try In New Zealand continues at a marvelous rate. Accordiug to the latest computation thoro tire now 640,000 dairy cows producing more thun 52,000,000 pounds of butter a year. Twelve years ugo there wero forty-two factories, now there are 229. In addition, there are 500 pri vate dairies, while cheese factories now number elghty-nlno aud uklm inlng stations 461. The up-to-date Department of Agriculture lias re cently raised the standard of butler manufactured on private farms; nnd v further Innovation bai been to up- iin III ii wnmmi iiitirtanlni. I rt ..I..U these farms for the purpose of giving 1 advice und Information to the mint und daughters of the dairmttu Pall Mull Gazette. A Well-Mgh Eatlnrt Fuel of tho Western Plain. On the high plains of the arid West the buffalo chip remains to-day nn enduring memorial. Formed of finely comminuted prairie grass, its surface remains year after year unaf fected by the wenther, except that annunlly It grows a little harder, un til at last It will almost turn tho edge of nn ordlnnry knife. The wlnter'a snows beat upon It without changing It, the spring rains merely dampen Ita surface, and even a long storm hardly wets through the sixteenth part of an Inch. The destruction of the chip comes from below, where dampness Is held, where Inserts bore and bur row, and where moisture nnd tho richness of the ground encourage u growth of vegetation. Around tho chip's border grow taller stalks of grass and weeds, sometimes forcing their way through Its thin margin. So gradually, but very slowly, the material of the chip is eaten nway from the under side, until at last merely a shell Is left, which some day the wind will pick up and roll along, and which may then easily be broken up and disappear. Yet, to-day, over many portions of the plains genuine buffalo chlpa may be found In large numbers. Often on a dry place they are almost unchanged, and might be thought to be only a year or two old. Again they are surrounded by n thick fringe of vegetation, and nre firmly anchored to the ground by It. Often these oldest ones are full of holes bored In them by insects or larvae of some fly or beetle that has deposited its eggs In tho mass while yet It was fresh. In the early dnys of travel over the treeless plains the buffalo chip often furnished the only uel that was to be had. Tho dry chips burned slowly and made a hot and fairly lasting fire, over the coals of which cooking was done with a great deal of comfort. After camp bad been made the first duty of all hands was to scatter over the surrounding prairie with gunny sacks, blankets and hats to gather tho buffalo chips which were to be used to prepare tho even ing meal. All the early books speak of the use of thla fuel, and mention Its excellence as a matter of curiosity and Interest; yet It Is by no means peculiar to America. On tho high plateaus of Tartary and Tibet th,; dung of camela and of yaks has been used for the same purpose time out of mind. In dry weather no better fuel could be found than tho buffalo chip, but if the weather had long been dam,', or, worse still, if there had been n heavy rainstorm, the kindling of o fire of buffalo chips was a difficult, sometimes an Impossible task. With' out this fuel the difficulties of old time travel over the Western plains would have been many times multl piled. It furnished heat with which to prepare warm and nourishing food, often at critical times, and often gave the fire which kept men from perish ing through cold. By the Indians of the plains the buffalo was esteemed sacred above all other animals, and naturally bo, since It furnished them with food and shelter and clothing. They also held the buffalo chip sacred. In many of their ceremonies it was tued some times to typify the buffalo, sometimes aa a support to keep Bome sacred ob ject from resting upon the ground. A sacred pipe might be placed upon n buffalo chip, and other sacred objects were often put upon it, sometimes the chip Itself resting on a bed of the stems of the white sage. Forest and Stream. . R ATTLEU NERVES IN ANIMALS AND MEN. Modern Surgery. Tho wonders of modern surgary indeed surpass all understanding. It is quite u common thing nowadays for a surgeon to insert several tiny electric lights into the head through the nose and thon working with long-handled, peculiar knives (also through the nostrils), remove a growth that Is dangerously near the brain. Such operations are per formed without making a single In cision into the skin. Not so long ugo the world was startled by the report that certain English surgeons had performed an operation that In volved the cutting away of a growth from tho heart. Eminent specialists have branded the announcement 83 a self-evident fake, but there are many who believe it did take place. Such thinga as taking out nn eye or a part of the Intestines and then putting them back are so common as to cause no comment. A well-known physician in a West ern State, who has made u study ot grafting to a marked degree, recently sent out an announcement to the effect that he bad succeeded in Join ing the hind legs of a rabbit to a cat. Tho effect, when Kilty walked, waa ludricnuB, It Is said, the rear legs trying to propel her with the spas modic jerks of the hnre. whllo the front legs tried to carry her with a cat's usual dignified tivad. How far this physician's experiments would have carried him hadn't tho local hu mune society stepped lu, la ' akuown. Prize WUk Slory. The prize fish story of the season comes from Atrhlson County. A cer tain Mr. Smith, descendant from John Smith of Pocuhontns feme, cast a line into the Missouri, baited with a large minnow. Ho left It tbers over ni?bt. Next morning he hnuled in a catfish thut weighed 140 pounds, When the catfish was cut open it was discov er! d that it had swallowed a perch that weighed a little over six pounds. And when the perch was cut open the further discovery was made that the latter had swallowed a. c'.u'j that weighed nine ounces. Unfortunately, no ono thought of cutting tho minnow opmi to ascertain if It hnd swallowed a saw-mill before it was taken Into port by tho catfish. The fact that perch in this State dom weigh above half a pound wai not allowed to Interfere with th-' symmetry of this story. St. Louii Republic Probably the heaviest chain ever n'ude hns been turned out by an I0n; 1. li firm for tho .Tr.panesB Qoy ii.. nt. The common iinkt weigh 209 i md apiece, aud tUa end llni 200 ijjund. At a country house at which th , writer was staying there occurred I n few days ago n curious r-pltodn to ( which he ran recall no parallel. Our i host had been breaking In a young I horse, and one morning the aninml was sent out with an older and j steadier horse harnessed to a henvy omnibus. All went extremely well I during n drive of about ten mile-., until tho pnrty, consisting or tl j coachman, the man who had broVeti In the horse, nnd a daughter of thu i house, were almost home again. Out j host was waiting on the roid a few ! hundred yards from the stables to I see how Ihe young one shaped. He happened to have with him more t than a dozen fox terriers which are ; aecUBtomfd to he taken out together, j frequently get a run after a rabbit und are generally known as "th- ' pack." . i Our host jumped on the hoste 1 of the omnibus as it went past, the better to Judge of the oung horse's appearance, and as luck would bava j It one of the young jmek began leap ing up at the Rtep and barklnir. The barking dog started the young horse kicking, The first kick was a Bkier, : ns the writer ran testify, having ex amined the 'mark made by the horse's ' hoof high up on the omnibus, and It brought the horse over the trace. After that ho was beyond control, and his plunges made the other ani mal respond. The latter got one le j over the pole and soon the ymfr.-; one was flounderim; on the gvonfld, nnd the elder, a powerful nnlmal of over sixteen handc. was trampling na hint, and kicking furiously. All this, though a serious mss, was nit'ilp-:' , extraordinary lu Ihe experienca of a fearless household which brra In ita own horses. But then an entirely new and t.t , otpectod trouble began. Th" park , were yelping nnd skirmishing round tho kicking horses, and Ihe htfTBM (whether only In pain, or whether partly In anger nnd terror at thn i puck It Is difficult to say) brgan M ; scream. All the four persons i n 1 gaged In the turmoil there we.-.' by thla time on the road trying to hold and pacify tho hors-s--are agrcad that Ihe screaming of tho hOTSM WM what appeared to nako the pack g' mad. Mad, nt all events, for tho time they went. They attacked the horses and they attacked tho rc::i, particularly the men. It ought to be explained that tho dogs knew the men perfe:tly wsll, nnd had been accustomed to g) out often enough with our host to r-.- gard blni as their master in the ab sence of one or two other menitj-.j I of the family. They were not. Inent' ; attacking strangers. Our host, hang ing on valiantly to the head of tho older horse, which was still kleklnj diabolically and scroamin?, k5pt sev eral of them oB by taking a lessm from the horse. To his great satis , faction, he "lifted" ono of them sov eral yards by a lucky kick, but for ! all that he was bitten on both legs. J The coachman suffered worse; both his legs were bleeding, and his tat j tered trousers were a sufficient testl , mony of the way in which he had I been "worried." Once during the , struggle the horse stopped screatnlnz for a few seconds, and then It seems that If the park did not actually coma under control, they were at all events not seriously nggreasive. The park are a set of terriers ct good-tempered in their relations with human beings as one could want to find. This was not a case of a few vicious dogs turning when a suit able opportunity came on persons whom they had obeyed sullenly. Of course, the fact tiiat the terriers wera accustomed to hunt anything which came in their way may explain some thing. Conceivably tho spertaclo of a horse on the ground may have aroused in them tho same instincts as they have at the end of a run, though even so tho horse would sure-' ly seem a very largo and unfamiliar quarry. But this doss not explain the attack upon tho men. Hounds at tho "death" do not turn on the huntsmen, and, so far as one knows, would not do so even if they were less well under control. The writer is forced to the enn. I elusion that tha screaming of the horses produced in the dogs a kind of frenzy which may perhaps bo best though loosely described as panic. The subject Is a very lnterastlns. but unhappily a very aguo one in I tIle human sphere; it would ba as i Interesting, though probably even more difficult to investigate, In lha ; nnlmal world. History records un" j controllable ranks among soldiers, i for which no Immediate rcr.soa coui.l be shown. In recent times there waj I the panic of tho Greek soldiers oui j Bide Larissa in Tbes3aly when nn j Turks were r.oar them. The 'r:t-v has heard a young officer te!l how , in the South African War his c-o:n-! pnny, who had been merr:i?ssly ! shelled all day, suddenly rao V, j from their bivouac, following tho tj- ample of oua mau, and rashid arr.. I tho empty veldt yelllnc t;i th. Bphaaian crowd, without knowing why. At the moment thera waa nt danger; and when the uanger hs.it existed they had endured It rtt'ail-r-Ingly. These are extreme ousna of panic in lis strict ssaat, "M. Gustavo Le Hon ):.u Wrlttou book to show that a crowd ht a conscience or intelligence of Kg o,v-. which io something quite i,t( , .... from the aggregate cf all tas rato consciences or intelligence rf the people who compose (he co-i.' He may be right, it Is only in rjKwi unce with experience, ut all eve-.),-that consclerco becomes ksj ! tivn when Us scruples are sbard And there aeems to be aorie rou- i for the assertion that a number o persons who aro lnillvld :Mly , , ... and tomperate may bahavo coi: tlvely In a manner quite Intake i ii intemperate. Have the various eU'h. of mind in human beings he ' e str.tlc" states, to use that v. ord i i the fareful Greek senae any sos,y terpurt In animals? Luado.'i h jr-tator. The average duration of t'ac r of Kagllsh monarcbs for the last ara bus been twenty-or.e yL!4,
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