The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16

of your angelic mistress before | can
close this door again. Go, messenger OF
love that is deep as the sea AID deathess
as eternity, go, tell the heart that holds
my own that pens of fire could not write
on the scrolls of intinity one-half my
love"
And so he opened the door. Cle)pa
ira went out into the cleaning with the
air of a cat who was just going to say
something like that anyhow when he
suggested it. Mr.. Tillinghast did not
appear to notice this peculiar expression
on Cleopatra's countenance. He was
looking at the sky.
"The stars are shining" he said, "she
is looking for my message and she is
thinking of me.
And Miss Diffenbaugh
She was sitting in her lonely bower,
looking out into the star-lit night, saying,
ellis messenger, with feet of silence, is
even now on its way to tell me he loves
me yet. | feel his presence near me-
In the meantime Cleopatra was car
rying out his contract after the approved
manner of veteran Star route contrac
tor He got along very well for quar-
ter of mile, and was making pretty good
time, when, while streaking down a
lonesome alley, he suddenly paused and
said :
81 hope to die if don't smell fish"
And while he was exploring the ash
pile, he was suddenly accosted by a
lonesome cat on the woodshed.
| ..So,, oil ;,l;,,. l1,o cb;ppy nm .,ou,.
own sidel
"Watchugi, mus p growled Cleopatra,
just glanciDg up long enough from the
old mackerel to take the woodshedder's
measure.
"Ill trouble you for that fish, if you
please"
"Al right said Cleopatra, "l'll leave
you the bones when I'm through with
it."
The strange cat reached out to take
the savory fish and Cleopatra smote
him. In less time than it takes to tell it
he stood that cat in the corner of the
fence and whipped enough hair off him
to stuff sofa cushion. And the wailing
cat dragged its lacerated body down
the drain, Cleopatra resumed his fish, re-
marking, as he lodged a passing black
ing brush, that he believed, as long as
he was out, he'd sit up little while and
have some fun with the boys.
And he had it. He went down the
alleys and danced to everything he met.
He nearly tore the ear off smart kitten
that got up on woodpile and sassed
him and asked him "where he picked up
that paper collar" lie prowled through
back yards, and almost Mortified the life
out of most highly respectable elderly
tortoisc-shelled tabby, sitting in the
kitchen window, by creeping up close
under the window, and then roaring out
to know if ''she danced the lancers. ="
He scalped a harmless Mexican dog all
the way down the bare back, in six red,
raw lines, and shouted after the anguish
stricken animal to ''run home and put
on his hair" He was hit once with an
old kerosene torch that perfumed up like
a political procession, and he crawled
through an old drain back of the soap
works, and came out smelling worse
than an Indian pic mic. AT last he heard
music over in "Stony Lonesome" and
went there and found the boys were hav-
ing a little dance. and the first thing he
did when he went he spat at the bar
keeper and slapped one-eyed cat from
Hbernica.
"Pile onto me by thousands" he yelled
"Tve got just one more eye than
want to take home!
And they didn't wait for second in
vitation. They piled onto him then and
there, and the babblng brook that prat-
ties through the rocks of Stony Lone
some, when it heard the wild, unearthly
clamor, turned back and ran up hill, and
in dumb terror watched the circling
clouds of misty hair drifting about in the
valley below
In Judge Diffenbaugh's hospitablC
parlors his chosen friend fingered, ,thougl
the hour was late. AT the piano Miss
Dieffenbaugh dreamily wandered through
the enhancing numbers of Schubert
Cradle Song" There was n familiar
voice at the gate that made her hear
beat wildly. The voice came across th
lawn. 1t was Cleopatra And this wa
, what he was saying:
"Hoop-pee l can lick the first blood
brindle son of rat,catcher that eve
climbed a fence! Whoop I'm the ol,
he Bashi Bazouk from Angular street, ar
don't you ferfurgizit !-donyoufurgizit
Dance to me, somebody / only weig
r a pound!" And then that apparition-
that mockery of respectable, home
= bred cat--strode into Judge Differ
| baughs parlor, and everybody climbe
on the tables and chair, Miss Differ
, baugh tainted. The old Judge sworc
/. Cleopatra laughed sardonically, and re
marked that he "had been out all lnigh
I and he was gettin' to be big boy now.
| His hair was mainly gone, and what h
a had left was not combed. His fac
r was scratched. One eye was CLOSED
4 His ears hung loose and limp. He hi'
!, cuped in his speech, and tried to sin
: sold Oaken Bucket" Around his nee
i still clung the blue ribbon and lette
l. crumpled, torn, stained, unsavory. I'll
It Judge received the letter with
?, pair of tongs, and Cleopatra was banis
n ed to the barn, which the shrieking IA
r. deserted forever when they saw hi
a come in. Order was restored in Il
d parlor, and the Judge read the letter
n himself
lie did not divulge its contents,
/ The terrified guests thought, and sti
v think, that it was Nihflst warning.
IS The Judge did not show the letter
v his daughter.
# lie simply told her that if ever tn
o infinite ass, young what $ his name, car
At around that house again he would p,
IF verize his brainless carcass with {
h lawn mower.
lie Mr., Tillinghast still lives blighte
>, despairing life, He has gone out of t
err mail service, and leaves all experimeI
1f in star routes to other parties, - Burdet
\ Pain and weakness of lungs, liv'
n kidneys and urinary organs relieved
10 using Browns Iron Btters.