Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-03

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There are contradictory clements ia
the character of the cal No animal Is
more INDEPENDENT, nnd y we may speak
more freely concerning cnts no animal h
more caprlcioM In It's choice Of q home
than cnt Yet none Is more rcnarkn-
bio for It's power Of finding its way hack
from great Distances lhan u eat, " Il
pleuEes 10 do so. As Mr. Romuues says,
ihc psychology Of the cat unsnbducd by
HE existence IN woods 4 dog lost Ia n
woods hdwls all night and diHturbs a
whole country, A cnt, instead OF using
her "hOmug instinct, makes herself Ut
homo with rabbits pheaslnts and small
birds, Again. the cat In towns some
tines deserts bis home IN dudgeon az
some perhaps imagined insult. ond ahau.
d0ns himself 10 "a lifc conducted entirely
nn ap0laustlc principles. Everyone
knows that perfectly comfortable,
well-frd cat VIII occasionally 20 20 a
house and settle thofe, deserving fam
ily By whom IL Is lamentod. and 70 whom
Il Ia lnmentCd, and 10 whom II u chose
II could find IL way back with chAe
This conduct ~ mystery witch may
lead as 10 infer hat cats form % great
secret society, TINT he who WIS King 81
Cats was really grand master, an Ara.
mia 0f Gals. Doubles they come aud
20 10 some pursuance Of some secret pol
Icy connected with the education ni cats,
or perhaps with wiichemit Otherwise
why should o creature which docs not
know the mHnacles of space leave hiH
homo for strange residencff We have
known cat dprsert d house Tor years.
once IN six months he would fetutn aud
look about him with 20 air Of contempt,
Such" he seemed IN say were my
humble beginning" He went ON no Of
fcnse given, and in about three years he
came back for good, his mission else.
whore having probably been accomplished
That n emf can come home iu the tAte
" most lncreiliable difficulties y perfect
~ certain. Thus 10 thke recent IN
stance. cat was carried from town On
The northeast coast Of Fife, 10 scotland.
10 n country house near Perth II went
Va baHkot by train 70 I.encharH, where
d changed for Dundee, nnl 90 llnndtr
changed for Perth. Next day about Z
Ia the morning the cat WIS Observed 10
ram down the avenue of ~ ugw home
with . purporeiiI air. On Tue ihird day
X appeared at its Old hone. Nov. how
did thnt cat aehiovr n. journey Bid y
take a bee line across Che country ,'ind
n 20. how did Il know ihe dfechvu
That the cat simply rode "a q broom
stick hohind q witch "A iin hyrptheEis
which brings ne into unfreudiy contact
with modern ideas Of progress nome
how thc thing wac done. ana dune 10
forty-Ciebt hours A doc was spoken ~
ly Mr. Romanes ran from Vienna 70
Meutpne bot died u fatigue ne cat
war well and sound as usqal W" my
epiuk ~ instinct and inherited aNlindei
bit 10 ind its Old home Is II np use % a
cai ia the struggle for existence. Nats,
much more ihun dors are independent
~ o h6i8a. They cnn take % The leAtheri
the forrest. or the back green. Thus me
cats which f0nuiioueiT iere'opta the
power OF "hlining' wOuid BE- NJ better
IN than other cats, aud moi ilprN hit4d
90 sur9iva and hrqueath their 4ecou-
plshmfnf 20 their progeny.
To- faHe Of ihrse facts our boasind sri'
fncf . dumb We ihGN lif'lf about cafi
bot cats know greet ueal lboui-.ss
farnlfifs Of this Kind made The cat o
mysterious power in The middle agre.
ile was resisted alive thaf bis Unknown
PROTECTOR mIehi come ard rescue hlm BY
altering words ~ prophecy, Elis Vcry
fict Proves the existence 81 q feline ~
crct tacie1 Whlrh nob1iy firdiesi for Fe
are a9i 10 ncgleef the facts which under
De- ami inspire the TRUTHS whien are cali
"a supfrfiitl0nr. Cats have very pfUba'
MY al nrtar- grailtiA failarae
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