The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
A CATS INTERCHANGEABLE WALK.

About two months ago, according to the London
Standard, a cat belonging to Squire Love of Wy
combe, was missed The Squire thought his cat
had been stolen or was killed. but the other day o
letter was received, telling him that the cat had
returned to his first home at st. Neots, Hunting
donshire, where it had been raised till the age of
two. The distance travelled by pussy ninety
nine miles, and as it had been carried in sack
by train, to Wycombe half of England is wonder
ing how 'the cat back" As there appears
to be no doubt of the cats long distance feat the
question now is: Have animals sixth sense, or
do they possess instinct intuition serving
for sixth sense? Another question: If the,
have why has not a sixth sense?
Well let US. in the words of the pioneer farmer
of Michigan. "blaze the timber The five senses
universally accepted are: Sight, hearing smell
taste and touch. All men and beasts, in their
NAL state, possess these senses A sixth sense, if
it exists, would define as the faculty Of being
able to recognize, night or day, the four
points of the compass, the direction we
ought to go, and the locality of the place
to which we intend to go, as if laid down in
map which we are supposed to examine. That
wild animals possess this faculty is generally adj
Il
udimentary state in the infant savage and was
developed in primitive man, seems to be admitted
by Psychologists, that is, by observers of the phe
nomena which normally are present in men and
animals. This faculty or sixth sense has been lost
by civilized man through disuse as any one of the
five senses would perish if man, for ages, had no
occasion or opportunity to exercise it.
But the vanishing sense would not disappear
entirely; it would still exist in rudimentary con-
dition, though man would not recognize its exist
ence. So with the sixth sense.
There may yet be living men who possess this
sixth sense in its activity and entirety Here is q
remarkable incident recording the possession of
sixth sense or faculty of observation closely akin
to it. 1t told to us by Major Gorham who died
in Buffalo a few years ago at the age of 81. The
Major eyewitness to the fact he recorded
His character for honor and honesty was mim. |
peachabe. Il was present" said the Major to us |
when what I to tell you happened. 1t |
occurred sixty years ago. little girl, four years
old, strayed away from her home ON the frontier
Of civilization, near where is the town of Ne
market, York county, Canada. After hours of I
seeking in the woods for the lost child, the dis,
racted father asked his nearest neighbors to aid
him IN the search. | was my way to Lake
Simcoe, when noticed group of men standing in
'front.' of a log house. On inquiry, l was informed
hat these men had beat the woods and swals
searching for the little girl, and failed to find even
solitary trace footstep of the child. [ knew
wo famous trailers Nipissing Indians, living Oh
Snake island, Lake Smcoe, and padded over for
hem.
I 4bo y
vas twenty-four hours after the disappearance of
he child The ground around the log hut was
eaten from the feet of men, and there was abso-
utely mark of a childs foot. My Indians bent
0 their work at once and in three hours found the
title girl unhurt, but half-starved and trembling
rom fear and exposure.
They went about their business in systemat.
manner, and covered the ground so thoroughly
hat they, at last, found the direction the child
raveled. Remember, [ was great hunter in those
avs and knew something of the woods, ground
larks and surface signs, but, declare to you, I
lw nothing to hint to me that a child was ever
nywhere around
These Nlplsslngs amazed me by marvel
us feat of Indian trailing if it could be called
'ailing, for there trail to follow. Foot by
Dot, they went here, they went there; they ex-
hanged no words they never noticed or spoke to
who followed them. Only once did they halt
hen, in inaudible speech they talked. We all
no were following at distance, stood still and
atched. Then, he who was known to me as the
founding Elk sprang away, and his companion
God where he was, motioness and, to our eyes,
animate In less time than I tell it to you,
founding Elk reappeared, bearing the child, alive
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side fallen tree"
If these Indians were not gifted with sixth
nse, they must have possessed development of
ght astounding as would be the possession of
additional sense.
CLAIM OF DON JAIME, THE sPAN1ARD.