The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-09-21
Tho Porteut OF tho Kittens.

There are many ways of getting out Of
difficulty besides fighting out and even II one
resolves on fighting the smallest side issues
may prove diversion in ones favor. When
the conjurer has some difficult feat to perform.
his first care is to divert the public eye
somewhere else, while his nimble
fingers shift the cards. So, while all
the town had its weather eye on
Connolly's accounts, with 'HHey, presto I"
they find that astute optic turned on the
ComptrOller's kittens. Wherever that astute
organ of vision is bent the HERALD must
interpose its maguifying glass, so that the
public mind may be fully enlightened. Ao.
cordingly our reporters have interviewed the
kittens, and what their parent says and how
her progeny looks have been duly noted.
But beyond these interesting details there ia
world Of conjecture as to what It means.
Are the days of portents and omens gone by
forever? We do not see why they should be.
BY the identical hole through which 'sSlip.
perry" Richards credit had wriggled along
with. the stolen vouchers came this black
cat. Typical of what? Was it, as the
old cat herself intmates, the democratic
party coming back to take possession
Of it's gorgeous home? Was the first kitten
sweet recognition of Connollys confessiona
Did the second kitten, coming through that
same hole, mean the restitution which must
followp Can the third kitten signify the safe
guards which will be demanded by the s'free
and independent" ere the 'Ring" can securely
roll again? And, most suggestive query of all,
does the fourth kitten represent restored public
confidence coming in through the aperture
by which it went so suddenly out Pharaoh
had his dream Of fourteen kline. Why should
not Connolly have his portent of four kittens2
Our reporter has traced certain peculiar fea-
lures on the tiny quartet. There may be
something ominous in this. Omens and signs
are not vOuchsafed for ordinary events, and
history will furnish evidence of wider breaches
being healed than that which separates Con-
molly from his quondsm friends. There is
something that appeals directly to the heart
in this view Of the case. How many anxious
hearts all over the wide city are praying that
it may be SO we would want to have an init
mate knowledge of the pay roll to be able to
calculate but they must be numerous. II
need only be laid before the public to awaken
prayers enough to pay the whole city debt IL
prisons of the kind have any pecuniary value.
Connolly has done nobly in this time Of
hard figures, hard facts and hard names to
draw back the veil which hides the finer part
of our natures and show us under the humble
entities of four harmless kittens what a
hearts ease of playfulness and innocence there
was 10 the happy past, He has delicately in
Dictated thereby that what has been ought to
be; and it is to be hoped that his fellow inno-
cents will take up the hint. 1t may be de-
fusion or a snare Of the Evil One in the SEM
blance Of the big black cat to tell him bitterly
what can never be again; but there is some-
thing really touching in that picture of the
great democratic cat purring contentedly over
her four reunited pets. Try again, Richard.