known to give aid. Scientists maintain 

 that such animal food is a necessity to 

 the highest prosperity of the Sundew, al- 

 though it seems to have all of the usual 

 qualities attributed to the plant world 

 from which to secure an existence, but it 

 is an assertion of Darwin's tbqt Sundews 

 furnished with an abundance of animal 

 food thrive much better and are far su- 

 perior in growth and luxuriance to plants 

 subsisting on root nourishment alone. 

 To show the amount of what one might 

 term physical strength these S"ndew<= --^ 

 possessed of, it is only necessary to state 

 that small butterflies are sometimes cap- 

 tured, and the Rev. H. M. Wilkinson is 

 authority for the fact that he had found 

 large dragonflies with their bodies held 

 securely between two leaves, w T hich leads 

 one to the conclusion that these Sundews 



are examples of mind controlling matter 

 element embodied in vegetable substance. 

 Darwin and later scientists have demon- 

 strated that morphia has the same effect 

 upon Sundews as upon the animal svs- 

 tem, and the same experiment has also 

 been tried upon the Mimosa cr sensitive 

 plant, which Claud Bernard chloroform- 

 ed, and thereby putting it into a condi- 

 tion of tetanus or lock-jaw, and it passed 

 through the varied forms of conscious- 

 ness, semi-consciousness, etc., the entire 

 vegitative apparatus going on and per- 

 forming its entire functions as usual, but 

 the nerve or senses unconscious and non- 

 sensitive. Camphor is an active stimu- 

 lant upon the Sundew, inciting unusual 

 motion among the tentacles which are 

 repidly influenced thereby. 



Alberta Fielq, 



A WISE HORSE. 



In the city of Hutchinson, Kansas, the 

 street cars are drawn by horses. Old 

 Joe served the street car company for 

 several years, and was considered one of 

 their most trusty horses. When needed 

 for duty and the harness placed on him, 

 he would walk quietly from his stall 

 to his place before the car and stand 

 there until the driver came and every- 

 thing was made ready for the start. In 

 the same way, when unhitched from the 

 car, he would go to his stall and wait 

 patiently for food and freedom from 

 harness. 



Not long ago the "Car Company" de- 

 cided that Joe was getting too old to be 

 of much service on the line, so he was 

 sold to a farmer who was to come the 

 next dav to take him awav to the coun- 

 try. 



The last morning in his old home, Joe 

 was harnessed and turned loose as usual, 

 but when the driver reached the car the 



horse was nowhere to be seen. Another 

 horse was substituted and a stable boy 

 sent in search of the truant. After some 

 time the old horse was found at the 

 blacksmith shop, where most of the com- 

 pany's work was done. 



"Didn't you bring him here?" asked 

 the blacksmith. "I found him at the 

 door and supposed you wanted his feet 

 attended to, as one shoe was off and an- 

 other was loose. I fixed him all right, 

 anyway." 



The wise old horse had been troubled 

 by the pain in his feet, and knowing 

 where relief was to be found, had gone 

 to obtain it. The street car company 

 paid for the shoes, and old Joe went to 

 his new home with his feet in good con- 

 dition. 



Does it not prove that horses are able 

 to reason to a greater extent than is 

 generally supposed ? 



Mary McCrae Culter. 



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