The Holbrook news., 1912-08-23
POWER OF HUMAN EYE
aAVAeE DOGS PUT TO FLIGHT BY
 STARE.
:ISS Relates Incidents Showing Re. markabIe Effect of Concentrated Gaze on InfurIated canInes Bent
 on Mischief.

''When the Forty-fourth Massachu-
 setts regiment was besieged in Wash
 lngton, N. C., writes Darius Coob, in ! Dur Dumb Animals, 'T was on one
 occasion confronted by big wolfdog
 that leaped from it's kennel furiously
 upon me. The situation was a des- perate one and called for instant ac- | tion.
 q subdued that animal by throwing
 myself on all fours and springing to-
 ward him with catlike snarls. He re- treated into his kennel with piercing bowls, and nothing could bring him
 put. am certain that dogs can be com pletely cowed by the eye of man while his body is absolutely still, or by in- tense and mysterious action with a corresponding look of the eye.
 "The following incident I relate as an example of this silent but effective method: Several years ago I was sketching in an orchard which I after ward learned had been repeatedly rob bed by roughs from a settlement of hard characters half mile away. Sud- denly a large Newfoundland dog sprang out from a hedge that sur mounted a series of terraces. With threatening growls he bounded toward me, his eyes glaring and foam running from his mouth. I ceased sketching and fixed my eyes on him as he de- scended, with all the intensity I could command.
 ''When the dog had reached the mid dle terrace he stopped and, though he parked furiously and showed his shin Ing teeth, came no further I stood motionless and with eyes fixed as ad- amant. All at once he turned and, running up the terraces, disappeared behind the hedge. I resumed my sketching, but it was with a sense of weakness resulting from intense con- centration of my will upon the dog.
 Five minutes passed, when the New foundland again appeared. He did not stop to bark this time, but down he sprang. Why this unhalting charge? An, there it is! A huge mastiff is close behind, making springs like a wild beast. Both dogs were growing 6ercely and this with the foam that listened on their teeth told too plain ly what awaited me. The Newfound land had gone to get help and he got it
 q saw that the mastiff had lost an eye and so I had only three eyes to magnetize As before, I stood fixed, not even permitting my lids to wink. The Newfoundland leaped first and planted his great paws so heavily on my breast as to nearly knock me over backward. My eyes were riveted upon him in all his fury, and in an instant he dropped to the ground. Three times he sprang at me, and each time nov ed not a hair, keeping his eyes to mine. When he dropped the third time the mastiff, who had been growing with Impatient fury, took his turn. His massive paws struck my chest more heavily even than had his leaders, and It was with effort that I stood against the blow.
 'He, too, sprang at my throat and like the Newfoundland dropped to the ground. He repeated the attack three times and seemed at the limit of fran tic rage when he made his last spring. But my two eyes were too much for his one eye. The moment the mastiR to the ground for the third time both of the dogs turned and ran up the terraces as if I had charged them with buckshot. They disappear ed behind the hedge, and though I was half an hour finishing the sketch they did not appear again. could have robbed that orchard with impunity."