Show HOMING POWtJU OF THE CAT I tI Are Mtttun and nllhbt I lat to MoJftn ° rlnf 1 I That a cat ran come home In the lace I 3t almost Inrreillble dlfflcultlea Is perfectly per-fectly certain Thus to take a fact as in Imtanie a cat VIA carried from s town on the northeast const of Fife to a home near Perth It went In a basket by train to Lvnchars where It changed l for Dundee and at Dundee changed fur Perth Neil day about 7 In the morn loll this cat was obwrved to run down the avenue of its new home with n purposeful pur-poseful air On the third day It app I paired ap-p at Ita old home Now how did that cat achieve Its I jonriuj Did it 1 take a bee line areas country and If no how did It know its Jlnxtlon Or did It run to Dmuleecrone i I Tay bridge tote railway bridge and so along the line to Inucliarn negotiating the Klen at Guard brldgtt We can hardly suppose that U swam the Tlr I Or did It go round by the head of Loch I Taa long rough journey by the Kit Ion where a cat might meet many dangers I dan-gers 1 and temptation The pvrils of a cat on the ron 1 are Innumerable Kitty I collie dog chases It every Kamokcepor has a gun for U every buy U ready with a atone Indeed we never tee a cat ou 1 Ita travels No doubt It runs by night I There Is the pothrsU that the cat caw by train changing at Dundee and uchlev I Inc the Jlflli ult maneuver at Leuchars wherein have failed Oln many men irolng I back to Dundee or Retting to Color though not site 01 them w u like him I that will to Color This method of trauslt which need agile acutuues ut rooMJii lu any man may not be beyond > the jiovven and lutulllgt nee of a cat Slut nil conceivable ways front the lee line acrois country and over At en to the course round Loch Tuy arc full of perplesltlrs That the cat simply rode on n bronmtlck behind a witch Is an hyiiothetls which brings us Into unfriendly el lhb t tJ friendly contact with modern Ideas of proirruM Bomehaw the thing was done and done In 41 hours A dog s l > okeii of by Mr Uonmrcn ran from Vienna tii Meutonne but died of fatigue Tow ci r was iu will and sound us usual Wo may speak of luitlnctnnd Inherited aptitude apti-tude but to find Its old homo is I of no use to a cat In the struggle forcxlstence Cats much more limn doge are Independent Inde-pendent of u home They can take tu the heather the foreet or the back rrveu Thus the cats which fortuitously developed devel-oped tho ponirof homing would bi no better oft than other cats and uo t more Oiled to survive and bomeath their uccomplUlimeiit to their progeny I In face of these facts our boasted Kliuce ls I dumb We know little nbout I cats but cats know a gnat deal about I us Tacultlei of this kind made the cat a mysterious power In the middle ages lie was roruted alive that his unknown protector might I com and rescue him by uttering words of prophecy This very fact proven the eiUtento of a feline secret I se-cret society which nobody studies lore lor-e are all apt to neglect the facts which underlie anti Inspire the truth which are called aupcntitlous Cats have very probably an underground railway London Saturday Itevlew |