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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER, FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 1911. Ii LANGUAGES- rflogg Claims to be Able to Converse with Creatures of Lowe World. Cambridge (Mass.) Cor. New York World. Charles Kellogg, of California.who If not a nature-faker Is one of the most remarkable humarti beings of all time, arrived at the Hotel Bel levuo this week from Paris and is awaiting an interview with profes sors from Harvard's department of science, confident that he will con vince them of his ability to con verse with animals. Mr. Kellogg has just returned from Europe, where he gave demon strations of his unique power be fore professors of the University of Paris and Berlin. According to Mr. Kellogg he has accomplished in reality during a life spent in the wilds of the Sierra -what the genius of Kipling . makes Mowgli accomplish during childhood passed im the tropical jungle. But, xtnlike the child of Kipling's brain Kellogg has for friends only the an imals of the temperate American West. He knows not the language of the tropical monkey, though he lias often talked "bear" with the grizzlies of the Sierra Nevadas. Crickets, squirrels, lizards and rat tlesnakes are some of the other ani mals whose language Mr. Kellogj speaks fluently.. "'The scientists of Harvard have for years been recognized as the court of last appeal in matters of this kind," said Mr. Kellogg to-day. "Though I have convinced the sa ants of Europe of the truth of my contentions, I shall not rest content until the professors of this great university have likewise acknowledg ed powers-Since Prof Hugo Muen sterburg revealed to the world the miserable tricks by which the so-called medium Mme. Palladini im posed upon both play and scientific Europe for 20 years, the intelligent public has been inclined to await the verdict of Harvard before accepting any conception which wanders far from the beaten paths. 'But, after all, the idea of man communing with animals is not neai ly so absurd as it would at first ap pear. Scientifically considered, it is not even radical. How does a child learn to talk? It hears cer tain sounds and sees that they have certain meanings. The fact that human organs have beeni making that particular sound for centuries is proof enough that his own. vocal organs are naturally suited for re producing it. Iheref ore, having the proper in&lrviment, he has merely to experiment a bit upon its keyboard fa order to speak the words his sen ses have recorded- '"No reasonable man can deny that the higher animals have a means of communication. I myself think it probable that all forms of life, however primitive possess this faculty, though, of course, proof of the belief is not entirely practi cable. Wherever animals associate freely they communicate with each other, tnough animals of the same species have a more nearly perfect andei standing than those of differ ent species. "It was by years of constant ob serving and associating of sounds -with actions that I mastered the 15 animal languages I am familar with I began on domestic chickens and gradually extended my study to in clude such wild animals and reptiles as the bear, the lizard and the rat tlesnake. "'For those who are accustomed to think only of human language 15 will probably seem a most extraor dinary number to master in a life time, but it must be remembered that the further down the scale of Civilization one goes the less need is there for words to express ideas,for the very aimple reason that there are fewer ideas to express.There are, according to Webster, some thing like 400,000 words in the En glish language; Shakespeare is said to have used 15,0 00, and the estima ted active vocabulary of the aver age man is under 2,000. The semi savage inhbaitants of Terra del Fue go have less than 500, and the squalor-dulled peasants of Eastern Russia have less than 300 words to their vocabularies. It will be ob served that the further down the scale of human development one goes the less highly developed he will find the language. And the same holds true of the other animals'. '"Using a system of hieroglyphics modeled uon the modern Chinese system, I have compiled a dictionary of the language of the ordinary 2irown or hearth cricket which has, the most highly developed language of any of the animals I am familar with, though I have reason to sus pect the monkeys are superior to that respect. From my dictionary I find there are 27 elemental words or sounds and 85 other words made up of various combinations of the original 2 7, a culminative system not unlike that of the Germans. The number of words or sounds in oth er animal languages I am , familar with varies from 12 to95. "Strangely enough, the dog, which we are accustomed to regard as of a rather high order of intelligence is markedly deficient in the matter of language, both the grizzly bear and the rattlesnake being vastly his superior. In the vocabulary of the ordinary watchdog there are but 17 sounds. I knew one dog, an excep tionally intelligent collie, who reg ularly used 21 sounds in ordinary conversation. The additional four were inventions of my own, which I was able to teach him only after many months of constant labor. "This lack of linguistic develop ment on the part of dogs proceeds, I believe.not from any lack of intel ligence, but rather from lack of i means of expression. To a far grea er extent than any other animal of my acquaintance, dogs depend up on their intuition, a faculty which is developed in them to a remarka ble degree. They seem almost to read each other's mind without any exchange of' signals whatsoever. "When I first began the study of the languages of wild animals I ex perienced great difficulty in ap proaching them. For a time a dis tance a few of the more important sounds Then gradually, as I be came more familar with the animal world In general the difficulty en tirely disappeared. Now I am afraid of no animal, and I encounter; very few that show the least timidity in my presence '"When I come before the Harvard professors I shall permit them to bring "forward any mumber of speci mens of the animals I have men tioned and I shall prove to their en tire satisfaction that a perfect un derstanding exists betwene me and the animals. If I do not i shall be perfectly willing to be branded a nature faker." Although Mr. Kellogg admits that his ability toi interpret the enuncia tions of animals is the result of long and arduous study, he insists that his ability to make himself un derstood, to imitate the sounds of these animals.is God-given He says he can without the least difficulty reproduce any sound that comes from an animals throat. He has a peculiarly constructed palate, no tonsils, and the cord connecting the teeth with the lower lip is entirely missing, but he has been assured by the most noted specialists that there is nothing obnormal about his throat and vocal cords. . They are a a loss to account for his strange gift. Mr. Kellogg exhibits a letter sign ed by a French ornithologist of note in which the savant pays high tri bute to his powers.Freely translated the letter reads in part as follows. "The powers of this man are al most supernatural. When we of th Academy gave M. Kellogg an inter view we were more than half pre pared to find a paltry charlatan with a few cheap tricks which could eas ily be disposed of by a person of intelligence- Instead we found a man whom nature seems to have endowed with a sort of universal understand ing "More than a dozen birds of va rious varieties were brought into his presence, and with each of these he exchanged sounds, the birds ap pearing to answer his intonations as if in perfect understanding of signals given." Rex Dyspepsia Tablets P.elieves gas- in stomach, distress after eating, stomach nervousness, diziness, headache, heartbum.heart palpitation and other ailments caus ed by faulty digestion. Price 25c. Prepared by United Drug Company, Boston, Mass. Sold in Oxford only by J. G. Hall, 22 Main street. The Rexall Store. WAR DECLARED. Catarrh Germs Must Be Conqured or Health Will be Destroyed. 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The probability of the exhaustion or the supply of red cedar, which fur nishes practically all the wood for the annual output of over 325,000,000 pen cils, within five years has led to sev eral conferences by representatives of the department of agriculture and lead pencil manufacturers, for the pur pose of finding a suitable substitute for this wood. According to manufacturers, new wood must be procured which can be cut easily and is free from knots. In view of this fact the forest service is tp co-operate with the manufacturers in a test of a number of national for est woods. Among those to be tried are Rocky mountain red cedar, alligator Juniper, western juniper, redwood, incense ce dar, western cedar. Port Orford cedar and Alaska cypress. Wood specimens collected from the national forests will be sent to four leading manufac turers, who have agreed to make pen cils of them. 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