Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-29
Mr.. sweeney's Cat.
Rn BIZ Nale.


Robert Ormshy Sweeney is druggist OF st.
Paul; and though recent chronological
record reveals the fact thar he is direct de-
scendant OF a sure enough king, and though
there is mighty good purple, royal bloc in
his veins that dates back where Kings
used to have something tn do to earn their
salary, he goes right on with his regular bust
ness, selling drugs at the great sacrifice which
druggists Will m Ike sometimes in order to
place their goods within the reach of all.
AS soon as learned that Mr.. Sweeney had
barely escaped being crowned head got
acquainted with him and tried to cheer him
up. and told him that people wouldn't hold
him IN ary wav responsible, and that as iC
hadn't shown itself in his family for years, he
might perhaps finally wear 1t out.
He is a mighty pleasant man anyhow, and
you can have just as much fun with him as
you could with man who didn't have any
royal blood in his veins. You would be with
HIM for days on a fishing trip and never notice
il at all.
But was going to speak more in particular
about Mr.. Sweeney's cat. MIR. Sweeney had
large cat named DR.. Mary Walker. OF
which he was very fond. DIR. Mary Walker
remained at the drug store all the time, and
was known all over ST. Paul as a quiet and
reserved cat. II Dr., Mary Walker took Ia
the town after office hours nobody seemed to
know anything about it. ~he would be around
bright and early the next morning ana atte d
to her duties at the store just as though moth
ing VIII 7tever had ever happened.
One day last summer Mr.. Sweeney left a
large plate of fiy paper with water on il i'm the
window. hoping to gather In a few quarts of
flies in a deceased state. DR.. Mary Walker
used TO go to this window during the after
noon and look out on the busy street while
she called up peasant memories OF her past
life. That afternoon she thought she would
ieall up some more memories, so she went over
ON the counter and from there jumped down
on the window sill. landing with all four feet
IL The plate Of fly paper.
At first she regarded 10 as joke and treated
the matter very lightly, but later on she OBJ
.. alA d. II.
with great tenacity OF purpose. Those who
have never seen the look of Surprise and deem
sorrow that cat wears when she finds her.
self glued to whole sheet OF fly paper cannot
fully appreciate the way DR.. Mary Walk r
felt. She did not dash wildly through $3.50
plate-glass W ndow. rs some cats would have
done. She controlled herself. aud acted in the
coolest manner, though you could have seen
that mentally she suffered intensely. She SAT
down moment to more fully outline % an
for the future. In doing 80 she ma IL n great
mistake. The gesture resulted In gluing the
ny paper TO her person IN such a way thar IN /.
edge turned mp behind her IN the most abruut
manner and eau ed her great inconvenience
Some one at that time laughed In "A c0arse and
heartless way. ana wish you could have
seen the look OF pain that DR.. Mary Walker
gave him.
Then she went away. She did not go
around the prescription ease as the rest OF us
did. but strOlled through the middle OF 10, and
so on out through the glass door A. the rear
Of the Store. We did not see her go through
the glaes door. but we found piec - OF nv
paper aud fur on the ragged edges Of large
aperture IN the glass, and We kind OF jumped
at the conclusion that DR.. Mary Walker had
taken that direction ia retiring from the
room.
Or. Mary Walker never returned 10 81.
Faul, an her exact wnnrenboufs are not
SHOWN. though etery Effort was mnGc 10 nnd
her. fragments Of ~ paper and brBdle hair
were iound 49, far west ~ fhe 1cilOwsLona
National PnTk. 81 as far north AZ the Brltish
line huf the unrfur haYself nfHs unt fauua
20 the Waft ~ a. 10 caich f1H strong fasia riF
gale on her quarter, via fha SAIL she had sfif
and bee SAL p0iuiluH az rflF toWhfd fhe
feuHH, zoe ehannra for ~ Mars NalkfF'H
imaodis.e reiufn are e21siaciy siim.