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Show The Dread Hour of Death Different Working of Animal Instincts In the Presence ol the Great Destroyer Dumb Brutes Steal Away, -Their Whole Idea Seclusion and Solitude. - To vary man death cometh soon or lata. In every life's day there is a dumb hour. It may be in the moments mo-ments of dawn' Dr when the vitalizing energy is at noon, though sometimes It comes not till the chill and dark : of midnight has fallen. There is no more pathetic and yet Irresistibly attractive at-tractive subject for the serious student stu-dent of medicine than the Investigation Investiga-tion of the mysteries of that process of physical dissolution which men speak of as dying. And yet there is so personal an interest in-terest in the quest that only the bravest brav-est minds can grapple undismayed in a research into the problems of death. We may learn much by a reference to animal instincts in this as In so many other matters. Mr. William J. Long In his recently issued and most charming volume, "School of the Woods: Some Life Studies of Animal Ani-mal Instincts and Animal Training," attempts to reveal something of tie mystery and pathos of the dumb hour as seen In the dumb beast In his study on "How the Animal Dies" he shows that life's curtain is usually rung down quietly, the footlights are turned out gradually, the auditorium is emptied silently, the darkness deepens deep-ens peacefully. The animal feelB the oncoming of the shadow and creepB into the deepest coverts. The unnumbered unnum-bered multitudes "choose their own place and close their eyes for the last time as 'peacefully as ever they lay down to sleep." The vast majority major-ity of animals go away quietly when that time comes; and their death is not recorded because man has eyes only for exceptions. Something calls the creature from his . daily round; age or natural disease touches him gently in a .way that he has not felt before. He steals away, obeying the old warning instinct of his kind, and picks out a spot where they shall not find him till he is well again, and there he dies. Man thinks himself a little lower than the angels, and it may be so, but of this we may be sure, there is that in the dumb hour which marks the kinship of man with the uncomplaining uncom-plaining animal submissive to the decree de-cree of nature, and noble in its obedience obe-dience to the call of the voice that silences si-lences all. other voices.. The Hospital. Hospi-tal. ; Cheap German Manufactures-Incandescent Manufactures-Incandescent bulbs are supplied to Spain at 6 cents ep.iv, delivered,- by German manufacturer'-. |