The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-01-11
Mr.. ~Swccncy's Cat.

Robert Ormsby Sweeney is Il druggist
of st. Paul; and though Il recent chr0uu-
logical record reveals the fact that he Is
a direct descendant OF q SurC-CnoU%h
king, and though there is mighty gOOI
purple, royal blood in his veins tina.
dates back where kings used 10 have
something to do TO earn their salary, la
goes right on with his regular b@nsiuc~.
Selling drugs ut the great sacrifice which
druggists will make sometimes in order
10 place their goods within the reach OF
all.
AS soon as learned thatNlr Swconcy
had barely escaped being u crowned
head, | got acquainted with him and
tried to cheer him up, and told him
that people wouldn't hold hin in any
way responsible, and that, rs 1t hadn't
shown itself in his family for years, be
might perhaps finally wear it out.
lie is a mighty pleasant man anyhow.
and you can have just as much I'm with
him us you could with man who didn'.
have any royal blood in his veins.
But ! was going to speak more in
particular about Mr.. Swccncy's cat. Mr..
Sweeney had n large cat named DR..
Mary Walker, of which he was very
fond. DR.. Mary Walker remained III
tho drugstore all the time, and was
known ali over St. Paul as n quiet and
reserved cat. If DR.. Mary Walker took
in the town after Office hours nobody
seemed TO know anything about ii. She
would be around bright and cheerful
the next morning, and attend TO her
duties at the store Just rs though moth
ing whatever had ever happened.
One day last summer Mr.. Sweeney
left q large plate of lly-paper with wa
ter on it in the window, hoping 10 gath
CT in n few quarts of flies in a deceased
state. DIR. Mary Walker used to 90 to
this window during the afternoon and
look out or the busy street while she
called up pleasant memories OF her past
life. That afternoon she thought she
would call up some more memories, so
she went yer on the counter, and from
there jumped down on the window-si!l,
landing with all four feet in the plate
OF ly-pnpcr.
AT first she regarded it as Il Joke and
treated the matter very lightly, but later
on she observed that the lly-papcr stuck
10 her feet with great tcnacity Of pur-
pose. Those who have never seen the
look of surprise and deep sorrow that a
cat wears when she finds herself glued
TO a whole sheet of fy-papcr cannot
fully appreciate the way DR.. Mary
Walker felt. She did not dash wildly
through n $3.50 p~latc-glass window. rs
some cats would Eayc done. She con
trollcd herself, and acted in the coolest
manner, though you could have seen
that mentally she suffered intensely.
She sat down q moment to more fully
outline q plan for the future. In doing
so she made q great mistake. The gcsl~
ma ,.oe,,1Inl -, ,rl,,i,,r H. a.. ~, , -
her person in such q way that tho edge
name and caused her great incon-
venicuce.
Some M at that time laughed in 4
coarse and hcarticss way. and | wish
sou coull have seen the look OF pain
that DE-. Mary Walker gave him.
Then she went away. She did not 90
around the prescription case rs the rest
Of us did, but strollcd through the mid
die Of IT, and S on out through the
glass door al the rear Of the store. We
did not sec her 90 through the glass
door, but we found pieces of i!y-papcr
and fur on the ragged edges Of q large
aperture in the glass, and we kind OF
jumped at the conclusion that DIR. Mary
Walker had taken that direction in re
firing from the room.
DIR. Mary Walker never returned to
St. Paul, and her exact whereabouts arc
not known, though every effort was
made to find her. Fragments of ny-pa-
per and brIndlc hair were found rs far
west rs the Yellowstone National Park,
and as far north rs the British line, hut
the Doctor herself was not found. NV
own theory is, that if she turned her
bow TO the we so rs to catch the strong
easterly gallo her quarter, with the
sail she had set and her tail pointing
directly toward the zenith, the chances
for DIR. Mary Walkers immediate re-
turn are extremely Slim.-BW Nyc.
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