Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 62

Big Cat More Stealthy, The author of this article, which 1s the second of a series of three describing thrilling adventures with the bow and arrow, related 1n the firat how he learued archery from “the last wild Tndian in Americ who wus discovered— living by these primitive weapons in Culifornia in the year 1811, and who died a few years later From Ishi. the last of the Yanus. Dr. Pope learned not only the bow and arrow. but a great fund of the Indian’s intultive hunting lore. Having mare recently. with his companions, brought do@n some thirty deer and triumphed over the black and cinnamon bear with archery, Dr. Pope herc tells how they were emboldened to tackle the mountain Tion. The author is an eminent sur- seon of San Francisco. & member of the medica) faculty of the Uni- versity of California. and one of the country's leading authorities upon the sport &nd science of archs ery. | | | BY SAXTON POPE. HE cougar, panther, or moun- tain Men. is our largest rep- resentative of the cast family. Larly settlers in the castern | ates record, the existence of this| treacherous beast in their conguest of the forest. The cry of the “paint- as he was called, rang through e dark woods nd caused many hearts to quaver and little children lo | run to mother's side. Onee in a while stories came of | human being having met their doom at the swift stealthy leap of this drcaded beast. He was bolder then than now. Today he is mot less cou- rageous, but more cautious. He has| learned the increased power of man's weapons, Our Indians knew that he would | airike, ax they struck, without warn- | ing and at an advantage. It is 3 matter of tradition among frontiers- men that he has upon rare occasions | attacked and killed bears. Lven to- day he will attack a man if provoked by hunger, and can do 5o with some | assurance of success. I know of an instance where a Caii- fornia lion leaped upon some bathing children and attempted to kill them. | but was driven off by the herolc ef- forts of a voung woman school teacher. who in turn died of her wounds. Those of us who have roamed the wilds of the western country have had varying esperiences with this animal, while others have lived all their lives in distriets undoubdtedly in- fested with cougars and have never <een onme. aithough nearly every mountain Tancher has heard that hair- raising, almost human scream echo down the canyon. It is like the wail of a woman in pain. Penetrating and quavering. it | rings out on the night gioom and | brings to the human what it must, in cimilar way, bring to the lesser animals; a sense of impending attack, s death warning. It s part of the cstem of the predatory beast that he uses fear to weaken the powers of his prey before he mssaults it. Animal psychology is essentially util- itariun. Cowering, trembling, muscu- larly relaxed, on the verge of emo- tional shock, we are easier to over- come. THEN AND NOW IN COLLEGE NEWS Stepl‘xen Leacock Tells of Events Forty Years Ago. MEDICALS TAKE NIGHT OFF. (As Reported Forty Years Ago.) AST night the students of the medical faculty took a night off and held their annual pa- rade of the town. Forming up on the campus outside the win- dows of the dissecting room, the “Meds” moved in s compact body adown College avenue. Policeman McKonikey, who tried to stop them at the corner of Main street, was knocked senseless and was deposited by two of the boys down the coal ®hute of the First National Bank. After upsetting a horse car, the driver of which sustained certain in- duries by inadvertently falling under the horse, the boys proceeded to the «orner of Main and 1st streets, where speeches were made, exalting the progress of the medical school, and ~where two more policemen were %knocked eenseless. The procession then moved uptown again toward “he president's residence carrying with it the front door of {be First aptist Church. After setting fire to the presi- «lent's house the students adjourned 10 the campus, where they started & hogfire, in which, unfortunately, one «or two of the bystanders were acci- Wdentally burned about the feet, hands, ‘head and body. The arrival of & body of mounted police, supported by a eouple of squadrons of cavalry, ‘brought the evening to a close. President Foible, on being intere ~viswed this morning, stated that the damage to his house was quite insig- 7.ifleant, amounting to little more than the destruction of his furni- ture. The police who were unfortu- nately injured in their attempt to interfere with the students are re- ported as doing nicely. The driver of the street oar will be st work again in a week. A cheerful tone pervedes the whole college. The Tresident further stated that the re- lations detween the students and the ‘town hed never been better. MEDICALS TAKE NIGHT OFF (As Reported Today) Last night the students at the medical factulty took a night off from thelr arduous labors and were the guests of the ladies’ reception committes at the ¥. W. C. A. bullding on 34 street. After the singing of a few of the better known medical hymns end after being treated to a Tharmonium solo in B flat, by the organist of the insane asylum, the students listened ‘with eyident enjoy- ment to a telk by the Rev. Mr. Waeep of the First Street Church on the subject, “Where Is Hell? Is It Here' After the pastor has said every- hing that could be said on this in- tereating topic, each student was siven-‘a dish of fce cream and & doughnut. The president of the col- Joge In thenking the ladies of the T, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, HUNTER USES AN ARROW TO SLAY AFTER HE HAS STALKED THE TREACHEROUS MOUNTAIN L ON 4 thus was little satisfaction to us, for “THE PACK SPRANG INTO FULL CRY.” For ma vears, off and om. we have hunted lions. but. said to say, we have done more hunting than finding. They are very wary creatures. Our camps have been robbed by lions, our horses killed by them. cattle and sheep ruthlessly murdered: “lio tracks hAve been all about, and yet unless trapped or treed by dogs we have never met Camping at the base of P Monterey county, sev Blanco. in ral ago. a lion was seen to bound across the road and foilow a small band of deer. At this very £pot a few seasons before one leaped upon an old mare with foal and broke her neck as she crashed through the fence aud roll- ed down the hill. Three years later 1 rode the young horse. As we pass- ed the tree from which it is thought the lion sprang, where the broken fence was still unmended. my colt jumped and reared: the memory of his fright was still vivid in his mind. Up the trail a half mile beyond we saw other fresh lion tracks. At night we camped on the ridge with our dogs in hope that our feline friend would come again. . C. A. for their cordial reception nvd that he was sure the students would now return to their studies with renewed eagerness after sing- ng “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother.” The gathering broke up at 9:30. PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MEETS (As it Used to Forty Years Ago) Last night the Philosophical So- ciety held the third of its bi-weekly beer parties fn the supper room of the men's residence. After the read- ing of the minutes, coupled with the drinking of beer, followed by the usual routine of drinking the health of outgoing officers of the week, and the toast of welcome to the officers of the week following, the chalrman invited the members to fill their §lasses and listen, if they cared to, to a paper by Mr. Easy on the “Nico- machean Ethics of Aristotle.” Mr, Easy, while expressing his re- gret that he had not had time to pre- pare a paper on the nicomachean ethics of Aristotle, delivered in place of it an excellent rendition about Harte's “Heathen Chinee.’ At the close of the recitation, the chairman snnounced that the debate had been announced for the gccasion on the topic, “'Are Mathematical Judgments Synthetically a Priorl,” had been abandoned owing to the fact that the topic involved more prepa- ration than the members of the so- ciety were prepared to give it. He suggested instead that the so- ciety, after filling its glasses, should fnvite Mr. Freak of the senior class to give his imitation of two cats quarreling on a roof. The invitation was followed by similar exercises, and the meeting was sustained to a late hour, those of the members who went home leaving about 2 a.m. years | which | [T was too late to hunt that eve- ning, so we turned in. Nothing | happened save that in the middie of | the night I was roused by the whine of our dogs, and looking up in | face of the pale moon 1 saw two deer go | bounding past, silhouetted like gracc- ful phantoms across the siivered sky. | They swept across the lunar disc and I meited into blackness over the dark { horizon. No sound followed them, and hav- ing appeased the fretful lounde, we returned to sleep. In the morning up the trail there were his tracks Too wise to cross the human sceat, and knowing there there were more deer in the brush, he had turned upon his | course and let his quarry siip. This cougar on Pico Blanco still | roums the forests, so {ar as I know. and many with him. him across a canyon. He appeared as a tawny, slow-moving body ae large |as & deer, but low to the earth and trailing a listless tall. while his head |slowly swung from side to side. He | seemed to be looking for something on the ground. For the space of a hundred yards we - watched him traverse an open side hill, deep in PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MEETS. (As It Does Today.) ing of the Philosophical Society was hcld in the parler of the womer residence in the Martha Washington bullding. Prof. Strong in opening the meeting eaid that she was glad to see amongst the members of the society m very creditable number of men, if she might use the phrase. She said no professor could fsel that her work was satisfactory unless #he could attract a certain number of men students. The professor then read her paper on “The Soclological Elimination of the Delinquent.” As the paper only lasted an hour and a half it was listended to in a luxury of enjoyment. The professor then having thrown the meeting open to questions, and a question having been ssked, she very kindly spoke for another hour. At the close of the address a vote was taken on the resolution, “That the Humbler Classes of Society Ought to be Chloroformed.” and was carried unanimously. DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE REPORTS. (As It Reported Forty Years Ago.) The report is published this morn- ing of the discipline committee of the faculty of the college. This commit- tee, consisting of the senior profes- sors of the faculty, was established, as readers will recall, about two years ago, with the object of elevating the morsl tone of the student body by expulsion, fines and the application of the criminal law. The chairman réported that the committee had every reason to be gratified at the progress made during the period of| its existence. “THE PROCESSION THEN MOVED UP TOWN." z the | Once we saw | Last night a very pleasing mect-| s | {the ferns and brakes. Seeing him we had lost our doge. We startdd with two saddle horses, & pack animal and five §ood lon dogs. |On the trafl to the Venians moun- | tains we came across lion tracks and followed them for a day, then lost them; but we knew that a lurge male |and a young female were ranging | over the country. Their circuit ex- | tended over a radius of ten miles. | They are great travelers. | On the morning of the second day | of our trailing this lion our pack was working down in the thick brush be- the crest of Rattlesnake ridge, when suddenly they raised a chorus of yelps. There was & rush of bod.es in the chamise brush and the chase was on at furious pace. We rode up to un observation point and saw the dogs speeding down the cunyon side, close on the heels of a yellow leaping demcn. They switched from side to side. as cat and dog races have been carricd on since time im- memorial. We rode around to a spur of the hill that dipped into the brush and overhung the canyon. From this we heard occastonal barks away down at least a mile below us. It was a difi- cult situation. Nothing but a bluefay couid possible get down to the creek below. I never saw such a ungle! So we waited for the indications that the lion was treed, but all became | silent. Evening approached, we ate our iupper and thcn sat on the hill above, | sounding our horns. Their vibrant cchoes rang from mountain to moun- tain and returned 1o us clear and sweel. Way down below us, where a pur- | | ple haze hung over the decp ravine. | !wo faintly heard the unswering | |nounds. Tn their voices we caught | the deg's response to his master and triend. It said, “We have him. Come: |Come!” We blew our horns again. |ihe elfiand notes returned sgain and |again, and with them came the call of the faithful hound, “we are hcre ‘ome! Come!” | -Now. there was a pitiful plight. No | rane man would venture down suchy 4 chasm, simpenetrable with thorns. ! and night descending. So we bullt a beacon fire and waited for the dawn | A1l during the long dark hours we |ieard the aistant appeal of the | nounds, and we slept littic | * x | AT the first rays of dawn we took fed our horses and | es of cvery unneces- we prepared to \ a hasty meal “tripping ourse sarv accoutcrment |descena the canyon. Our bows and | quivers we left behind because it Would have been imposeible to drag them through the jungle. Ferguson carried only his Colt pistal; I took my hunting knife : Having surveyed the topography | carefuily, we attacked the problem at | 1ts moet available angle and slid from [\ew. Wa literally dived beneath the { brush. For more than two hours we }vormed our way dewn the face of the | mountain. crawling like moles at thé | base of the overhanging thickets of Iroi»on oak, wild lilac, chamise. sage. marzanita, hazel‘and buckthorn. At ‘ast we reached the deptia of the can- yon and, finding a little water, we, bathed our sweat-grimed faces and cooled off. No sound of the dogs was heard, Lut pressing forward we followed the bowlider-strewn bottom of the creek i Tae number of cases of suspension of students from lectures had in-| | creased under the operation of the| committee by 40 per cent; students warned, by 60 per cent; students found guilty of drunkenness, by 70 | per cent, and students expelled for unbecoming and insubordinate con- duct, 90 per cent. | The report cnumerates a new schedule of fines calculating to raise til higher the discipline of the insti- tution, and recommends hereafter that every student guilty of striking or kicking a professor be brought be- fore the committee and warned. The committee adds a further recommen- dation to the effect that measures be taken to let the student body under- stand that their presence at the uni- versity can only be tolerated within reasonable limits, STUDENTS CONTROL TEE REPORTS. _(As It Reports Today.) The report is published this morn- Ing of the semi-annual meeting of the students’ control committee at the university. This committee, as read- ers will recall, was® established about | two years ago with a view to raising the academic standard of the college, 1t is empowered not only to institute !inquiries as to the capacity of the vrofessors, but to recommend the ex- bulsion of those of them who seem to the students’' committee to be lack- ing in personality or deficient in pep. The opening pages of the report deal with the case of the president {of the college. A subcommittee, ap- ! pointed from among the first year| students in accountancy, has been sitting on the case of the president | for six weeks. Their report is in the | main favorable and their decision is| |that he may stay. But the subpom- mittee passes severe strictures on his | home life, and recommends that he | has too many children for him to be able to give 1! attention to his col- lege wor' » ) m. veets a change in future. The committee accepts and adopts the recommendation of the second year class in philosophy, ‘who report that the professor's lectures ‘are above their capacity, and ask for:his dismissal. A similar request comes from the third year students in math- ematice, who report that the prof sor's lectures are below .their ca- pacity. _ The committee has received and lald upon the table the report of the tourth year class in commerce to.the effact that they have thus tar failed | to_understand all the lectures that! were given them, and ask that they be given their degrees and let go. The committee acknowledges in its report the gratifying statement’ made by the chairman of the trustees in this annual report to the effect that student control marks another mile- stone on the arduous path that is leading the colleges to its ultimate end. ; COMMIT- (Copyright, 1024.) ! was hopeless. {ing up was-herculean. } struggle we came out upon a rough 1o the top to permit us, after a little | | camp. D. C, JANUARY. 20, for @ wile or imore. almost deszairing of ever finding them, when we sud- Gonly came upon a stango Fight. There was the pack in a circle about a big reclining vak. They were yoice- less and utterly exhausted, but rat watching a huge Mon crouched on a great overhansing limb of ihe tree. The moment we appeared they raised a fecble, hoarse yelp of dalight. hTe panther turned hix head, saw ue, sprang from the treo with a prodigi- cus bound, landed on tle side hill, tore down tho canyon and leaped cver a precipice below. The dogs, heartened by our pres- with instant accord charged the lion. When they came to ence, ufter “FULL SEVENTY-FIVE FEET HE 1924—PART 5. CLEARED IN ONE MIGHTY OUT- WARD, DOWNWARD BOUND.” the precipitous drop in the bed of the | stream they whined a second. ran back and forth, then nountcd the Jat- | eral wall, circled sidewise and, by a | detour, gained the grourd below. ran and looked over. The drop was at least thirty feet.| The cat had taken it without hesvita- tion, but we were absolutely stailed. | ! Even if we had cared to take the riek | of the descent, we saw €o miany eln- | ilar drops beyond that the eituation | The dogs having lost | their voices, we were at a greal dis- | advantage. So we returned to the tree to rest and meditate. | There we saw the evidence of the long vigil of the might. All about its base were little nests, where the tired dogs had bedded down and kept their weary watch. The incessant barking | had served to keep the cougar treed, | but it cost them a temporary loss of | voice. Poor devils, they had our ad- | miration and sympathy. 5% % % T noon, hearing nothing from the hounds, we decided to return to| camp. If coming down was hard, go- We crawled on hands and knees, dragged ourseives by | projecting roots, panted, rested and worked again. After a three-hour ledge of granite, = mile below the spot at which we aimed, but near enough more brush fighting. to gain our camp and lis down, too fatigued to eat For another day we remained at this | place. hoping that the dogs would re- turn, but in vain. At last we decided | to pack up and go around a ten-mile detour and work up the outlet of the canyon. We left & mess of food in | several piles for the dogs should they return, and knew they would follow our horses' tracks if they came to But our detour was fruitless. We | lost all signs of our pack and returned | to our headquarters to await resuits. | After many futile attempts, at last | we received word from a certain ranger station in Tuolumne county | that a mountain lion was killing sheep d deer in the imwiediate vicinity, and having the promise of a well trained pack, Arthur Young xnd 1 gathered our archery tackle and started from San Francisco at night in an | automobile. We traveled until the small hours of the morning, then lay down on the side of the road to tske & short sleep; and rising at the first gray of dawn, sped on our Way. We reached the Sierras by sun-up and began to climb. At noon we met our guide above Italian Bar, and pre- pared for an gvening hunt. This, how- ever. was without result. A morning expedition the next day | only brought news of his activities twelve miles farther up the mountain We gathered our bows, arrows, and dogs and departed for this region. Here we found & bloody record of hi work. More than two hundred goats had been killed by the big cat in the past year. In fact, the rancher thought that several panthers were at work. Goats had been taken from beneath A | trail up the mountain. |and work with feverish haste. | sun has risen, and up the mountain the ehepherd’s nose, ana as he turned in one direction, another goat would be killed behind him. It seemed fm- possible to apprehend the villain: their dogs were useless. At 3 o'clock next morning we waked, ate s meager breakfast, We knew the gencral necessary range of our cougar. in all this tracking to get in the field while dew is on the ground | and before the sun dissipates it, also before the gouts obliterate the tracks. Arrived at the crest of the ridge, we struck a well defined goat trail. and soon the fresh tracks of a lion were discovered. Our dogs took up the scent at once and we began to travel at a rapid pace. Here again onc must have a good pair of legs. If automobiles, ele tors and general laziness have mnot ruined your powers of locomotion you may follow the dogs, otherwise you would best stay at home At first we walk, then we trot, and when with a leap the hounds start in full cry we race. feet of altitude, regardless of brush, rocks and dizzy cliffs, we follow at a breakneck pace. 1 don't know where our breath comes from in these trials. in fact, we have pignned to run on our hands when our legs play out. With pounding hearts we surge ahead Keep the dogs within hearing: nit last long!” Bat this time we come to sudden halt on a rocky slide. We've lost the scent. The dogs circle and backtrack The It de comes & band of goats led by a single shepherd dog. No man in sight. We shout to the dog to steer his rabble away, but on they come and obliterate our trail with a thou- | sand hoofprints and a cloud of dust. The sun then comes out and our day s done. So wesscout the country for m(ornnmon 10 be used later and re- | turn to camp. That evening we azked the rancher to lock his goats in the corral till noon. T NL\Y morning we rose again in e 1o see the morning star glit- ter with undimmed glory. Up the trail -we mounted. the dogs eager for the chase. An old owl in a hollow tree asked us again and again who we were. All else was silent in the woods. Saving our strength, quietly on the upper ridges and walted for the dawn. We could smell the faint incense of our camp fire way down below us in the can- yon. The moriing breeze was just beginning to breathe in the trees. The dirds awoke with little whispered confidences, small twitterings and chirpe. A faint lavender tint melted the stars in the eastern sky. Shadows crept beneath the trees and we knew it was time to start. we arrived Just as the light defined the mar- | gins of the trail we picked up in the grayness the track of a lion. Strange to say, the dogs had not smelled it, and hit the| It is| Regardiess of 5,000 We just have to run;| but when we pointed to the footprint | in the dust, which was apparently none too fresh, they took up the work of tracking. It is astonishiug to see how a dog can tell which way a track | leads. If in doubt, he runs quickly back and forth on the scent and thus gauges the way the animal has progressed. A mediocre dog cannot do this, but we had dogs with college | educations. \ Tr: erate pace, we came to an open knoll in the forest. Here in the ferns our pack circled about us as if the cat had been doing a circus stunt, and they seemed confused. Later on we found that our feline friend had been | experimenting with & porcupine and lenrned another lessou in natural his- tory. Suddenly the leader sniffed at | fallen tree where, doubtless, the cat had perched, then with & ringing bav | the hound clamped his tail close to his rump and left in a streak of yel- | low light. The rest of the pack leaped into full cry. We were off on & hot track. Oh. |for the wings of a bird® Trained as | Young and I were to desperate run- ning, the game taxed us to the ut-| most. First we climbed the knol deep in ferns and mountain misery, when we dashed over the crest, tore | through manzanita brush, thickets of | young cedar und buckthorn, sover | ledges of lava rock, down steep decliv- lities, among giant oaks, cedars and pines. As we ran we grasped our ready strang bows in one hand and | { the flapping quivers in the other You would not think that at this | time we could take note of the f grant shrubs and pine needles beneath our feet. but 1 smelled them as we passed in flight, and they revived me to remewed energy. On we rushed, |Dl’!].\' to lose the sound of the dog: Then we listened and caught it down the hill below us. Again we hurdled barriers of brush, took long sliding Jeaps down the treacherous shale and l ran breathless to the shade of a great | oak. There above our heads was the {lion. OR, the beauty of that beast! 'H SAVING and giddy with exertion, we saw a wonderful sight, a great tawny, buff-colored body | crouched on & limb, grace and power in cvery outline. A huge, soft ! eylindrical tail swung slowly back iand forth. Luminous eyes gazed at us in utmost calm, a cold calculating | calf. He watched and waited our next move. waited with his great muscles tense for action. We retreated not only to get out| of his reach but to gain a better | shooting position. As we did this, he | gave a lithe leap to a higher limb and shiclded himself as best he could be- | hind the boughs of the tree. | From our position, his chest and | throat were visible through & tri-} angular space in the branches, not more than a foot acrosf. We must 1&hoot through this. His attitude was so huddled that his head hung over his shoulder. Young and I caught our breath, drew our arrowes from their quivers, nocked them, and set ourselves in the archer's “stable stand.” We drew to- gether, and, at 2 mutual thought, shot together. . Because of our unsteady condition - the arrows flew a triflie wild. - Mine buried itself in the lion's shoulder. Young's hit him in the nose. He reared and struck at this latter shaft, then, not dislodging it, began swaying back and forth while with both front paws he fought the arrow. While he thrashed about thus in the tree top, we nocked two more ar- rows and shot. We both missed. Young's flew off Into the next state, and if you ever go up into Tuolumne you will find mine buried deep in the heart of an oak. Just as we mocked a third arrow, he freed himself from the offending shaft in his muzsle, raised his fore- paws upon a'limb and propared to leap. In that movément he bared the white hair of his throat and ches and like a flash, two keen arrow were driven through his heart area. As they struck' and disappeared from sight, he leaped. Like a flying squirrel he soared over our heads. Full seventy-five feet he cleared in one mighty outward, downward bound. I saw his body glint the rising sun, swoop in & wonderful curve and land in & sheltering bush. ‘The dogs threw themselves upon him. There was a medley of sounds, a fierce but brief fight, and all was' ov We dragged him forth—dead. The ringleader of our pack, trem- bling with excitement, effort and ‘ a | veling carefully and at a mod- | 3 |tighting frenzy lskinned him, {of porcupine quills, {to land two cougars | string LA serie: i pass. Although No Less Cour geous Than When Hunted by Indians of Earlier ])ays—-Great Cougar of cho Blanco. u of naster, away znd body. No one buta = might touch it Our lion was a young male elght inches from tip to weighing a little over one and twenty pounds. Later we found h speaking of his recent experience He was as easy to kill as a deer We packed him back t udded his photcgraph gallery. sok possessi his six feet p and hundred to There was no further 3 soat {on that Sierra ranch This was our first iion. and for so far my only one. Arthur You however, has been fort him another hunting triy But so0 long as we can and our legs hold there is an intelligent dog to be it will not be the last lion on our Wherever there are deer there will bo found panthers, and it is our business to help reduce their number in ths game fields to maintain the balunce Bod hac {of power. Tright, 1921.) A Radio Compass. VESSELS entering the harbor of New York, even in the thickes weather, may find their way by mean of the marvelous new radio compas of tests have recently been made which prove the reliability of the new device, no matter how BEY it may be. successful is the co pass that it will be installed at t entrances of other harbors The principle is very simple. Th wireless sending stations have bee installed near the entrance to the harbor. One of these is on the New Jersey coast at Seagirt. another t the Ambrose channel lightship at entrance to the harbor, and a thir on the Fire Island lightship, off the coast of Long Island. In bad weather signals are sent out from these three stations at the same time. Ships ca rying the radio compass are guided by these signals with absolute accu- racy. The compass consists of a frame around"which are wound wires which pick up the radio signals. The frame is mounted on a pivot on top of the pilot house directly over the com- pass. The officer of the incoming boat, with a telephone receiver at his ear connected with this frame, can tell the direction from which comes the signal and mark it on the com He does the same with all threc stations. Now by drawing these three lines it s easy to find his own posi tion in the darkest night or thickest fog. In the tests ships equipped Wit} the radio compass have approached New York harbor, 5o to speak, biind- folded. The captain has steered his ship entirely by the ratin signals. These have proved so accurate that after steering a course thirty miles or more he has come Within few feet of the lightship at the en- trance to the ch el. Drilling Holes in Glass. HOLES may be drilled in glass in the following manner: Dip a pointed, three-cornered file in pure turpentine. Put the point of the file whers the hole is to be drilled and twist the flle first in one direction and then in the opposite direction b & down lightly on it. Turn the hardie of the file around slightly in the hand and twist it a number of times. You may find it necessary to aip the filo in turpentine again be- - fore the hole can be drilled entirely through the glass. After the hole drilled, it can be smoothed with emery cloth.