Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1912 — All in Fear of Man. [ARTICLE]

All in Fear of Man.

The universal antipathy of animated nature for man can scarcely be explained as the teaching of experience. Man has played his . role of universal meddler for too short a timd to hare impressed himself on the memory of <jach individual line. There must be something in his attitude of mind that communicates itself to them and induces its proper automatic reflex. The mouse that runs over the lion’s foot and gnaws at hia bone, goes tb earth . like a flash when a man comes -near; the bee hangs in the air and then goes ofT because man ettntfci by her favorite Foxglove; even the witless snake stirs In its sun-smitten sleep and is moved by a feeling in the air to seek its den. —London Nation. „