retractile. It pursues its prey by chase rather than by stealth; and ordinarily exhibits more dog-like than cat-like qualities, among these being great docility. It can, however, stealthily come upon its prey if occasion demands. It is about the length of a leopard, but stands much higher, is rufous or tawny in color, spotted with black, except on the throat. It is commonest in the African jungles, and thence is more sparsely distributed to India. In India it is tamed and trained by the natives as a hunter. It is treated like a falcon, leashed, hooded, and kept blindfolded until the game is in sight, when it is loosed and darts upon the quarry, which it drags down and holds until the huntsman comes. The ancient monuments show that this leopard was employed by the Assyrian and Egyptian sportsmen of remote antiquity; and it is known that in the 14th century the returning Crusaders introduced the cheeta into Europe where it was used for some centuries.

Cheever, Ezekiel, American school teacher: b. London, Eng., 25 Jan. 1614; d. Boston, Mass., 21 Aug. 1708. He received a good classical education and emigrated to America in June 1637, in order to enjoy religious freedom. With Davenport and Eaton he was one of the founders of New Haven, Conn., where he married and taught school in his own house, Michael Wigglesworth being one of his pupils. About 1650 he removed to Ipswich, Mass., where he was the first master of its Free, or Grammar School; in 1661 he went to Charlestown in a similar capacity, and in 1670 was called to Boston as head master of its free school, and remained there the rest of his life. His 'Latin Accidence: an Elementary Grammar of the Latin Language,' was for a century. the most popular introductory Latin text-book used in New England, 18 editions having been printed before the Revolution (10th ed. 1767; 20th ed. Salem 1785). He also wrote 'Scripture Prophecies Explained, in Three Short Essays,' an edition of which was printed at Boston 1757. His funeral sermon was preached by his pupil and friend, Cotton Mather.

Cheever, George Barrell, American clergyman: b. Hallowell, Me., 17 April 1807; d. Englewood, N. J., 1 Oct. 1890. He was editor of the New York Evangelist' from 1845 to 1846, and at different times connected with the New York 'Observer' and 'Independent.' He was an able and vigorous writer and speaker, and the author of a large number of works in prose and verse. Among his publications are: Studies in Poetry (1830); God's Hand in America' (1841); Poets of America) (1847); Windings of the River of the Water of Life) (1849); The Voice of Nature to Her Foster-Child, the Soul of Man (1852); Lectures on the Life, Genius, and Insanity of Cowper) (1856), arguing that Cowper's religious terrors proved him sane instead of insane; and God Against Slavery, and the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It (1857). One of his most effective works was 'Deacon Giles' Distillery.'

Cheever, Henry Theodore, American prose writer and clergyman, brother of the preceding: b. Hallowell, Me., 6 Feb. 1814; d. Worcester, Mass., 13 Feb. 1897. His writings were popular, and include: The Island World of the Pacific) (1852); (Short Yarns for Long

Voyages (1855); and Correspondences of Faith and Views of Madame Guyon' (1886). Chehalis (che-ha'lis) River, Washington, in the southwestern part of the State. It has its rise in Lewis County, flows north-northwest and through Chehalis County, into Gray's Harbor. Its length is 125 miles, and is navigable for light steamers some distance from the mouth.

Cheilognatha, or Chilognatha, ki-log'natha, one of the two orders of Myriapoda, including the millipeds and other forms. See MYRIA

PODA.

Cheilopoda, or Chilopoda, kī-lõp’ō-da, one of the two orders of Myriapoda, represented by the centipeds. See MYRIAPODA.

sĩ.

Cheiromancy, or Chiromancy, kï'rō-măn-
See PALMISTRY.
Cheiromys, ki-rō'mis. See AYE-AYE.

Cheiroptera, an order of mammals, the bats, closely related to the insectivores, and characterized by the immense extension of the forelimbs so as to form wings, and by other adaptations of the skeleton for an aerial life. The order is divided into two groups: Megacheiroptera and Microcheiroptera. The former consists wholly of the great fruit-eating bats of the Old World tropics; the latter contains all the remaining families. They are separated principally by dental features. See also BATS.

Cheirotherium, ki-rō-thē'rĭ-ŭm. See LABY

RINTHODONTA.

Cheke, chek, SIR John, English scholar: b. Cambridge 16 June 1514; d. London 13 Sept. 1557. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and made regius professor of Greek. In 1544 he was appointed tutor to the future Edward VI., and appears likewise to have assisted in the education of the Princess Elizabeth. On the accession of Edward he was

knighted, became secretary of state in 1553, and was also a privy-councilor. On the king's death he supported Lady Jane Grey, and was committed to the Tower. After a few months, however, he was set at liberty and settled in Strasburg; but his connection with the English Protestant Church there gave offense to the Roman Catholics in England, and his estates were confiscated. He supported himself by teaching Greek, but in 1556, having been induced to visit Brussels, he was arrested by order of Philip II. and sent prisoner to England. Under threat of the stake he recanted, and received the equivalent of his forfeited estates. His chief distinction was the impulse given by him to the study of Greek.