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clearer than that the Maltese was bound
to make quarrel between me and Susan
in revenge for what had said at Martha's
o. clock milk.
Meanwhile Susan began to take the
thing very seriously, and limited that the
cats opposition to me might be provi-
Dental warning against me. L never
knew her to take such prejudice against
anyone before, she said, Except against
that converted Jew who afterwards turned
out to be q burglar, and nearly murdered
poor dear Mr.. Highly, the Baptist
preacher, the night he broke into Mr..
Higby's house and stole all his hams
Once when did manage to give the Nal
tese surreptitious kick, and she yelled
as if she was half killed, Susan said, Il
am really afraid l shall have to ask you
to leave US now. Poor pussy's nerves
are SO thoroughly upset that | must de-
vote all my energies to soothing her. |
do hope she is mistaken in her estimate OF
you.' This was not very encouraging,
and / saw clearly that If the Maltese kept
up her opposition the chances that Susan
would marry me were not worth rush.
ibid / tell you that had large grey
cat by the name of Thomas Aquinas? He
was in some respects the most remarkable
cat ever met. Most people considere
him rather a dull person, but among cats
he was conceded to have a colossal mind.
Cats would come from miles away to ask
his advice about things. | don't mean
such trifiing matters as his views on mice
catching by the way, is a thin G
that has very little interest for most cats
or his opinion of the best way in which to
get a canary bird through the bars of a
cage. They used to consult him on matt ers
OF the highest Importance, and the
op Mons that he used to give would have
lad over those of Benjamin Franklin
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himself. Why, Martha Washington told
me that Thomas Aquinas knew more
about bringing up kittens than the oldest
and most experienced feline matron that
she had ever known. AS for common
sense, Thomas Aquinas was just a solid
chunk of it, as you might say, and | got
into the habit of consulting him whenever
| wanted good, safe, cautious opinion.
He would see at a glance where the
trouble was, and would give me advice
that no other lawyer could have beaten,
no matter how high fee he might have
charged.
'sWell, l went home from Susan's
house, and l said to Thomas Aquinas,
Thomas for he was one of those cats
that you would no more have called
TOM than you would call Mr.. Gladstone
Thomas, said |, 4 want you to
come with me to Miss Susan's and tell
that Maltese beast that if she doesn t quit
her practice of swearing at me whenever
l come into the room it will be the worse
for her
"sThat's easy enough, said Thomas.
Il know one or two little things about
that cat that would not do to be told, and
she knows that know them. Never you
fear but that / can shut her up in
moment. / heard that she was going
about Dragging that she would get square
with you about something you said to
her one day, but 1 didn It feel called upon
to interfere without your express ap-
prevail. k4g5
stThe next day Thomas and strolIed
over to Susan's and, as luck would have
it, we were shown into her reception
room before she came down stairs. The
Maltese cat was in the room and began
her usual game of being filed with horror
at the sight of such hardened wretch as
myself. OF course Thomas Aquinas took
it up at once, and the two had pretty
hot argument. Now Thomas, in spite of
his colossal mind, was quick tempered
cat, and he was remarkably free spoken
when he was aroused. One word led to
another, and presently the Maltese few
at Thomas and for about two minutes
that room was so thick with fur that you
could hardly see the fight. Of course
there could have been only one end to the
affair. My cat weighed twice what the
Maltese weighed and after few rounds
he had her by the neck and never let go
until he had killed her. ] was Just say
ing sHooray Thoma5I' when Susan
came into the room.
81 pass over what she said. Its gen
eral sense was that a man who encour-
aged dumb animals to fight, and who
brought great savage brute into the
house to kill her sweet little pussy in her
own parlor, wasn't fit to live. She would
listen to no explanations, and when
said that Thomas had called at my request
to reason with the Maltese about her
unkind conduct toward me, Susan said
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uncle, and that he let me have rent free
on condition that / should take care of it
and keep the grounds in an attractive
state until he could sell it. / had an old
negro housekeeper and two cats. One of
them, Martha Washington by name, was
young and handsome, and about as
bright cat as ever knew. She had a
strong sense OF bumor, too, which is I'M
usual with cats, and when something
amused her she would throw back her
head and open her mouth wide, and
would laugh a silent laugh that was as
hearty and rollicking as a Methodist
parson's laugh when he hears a gray
haired joke at a negro minstrel show.
Martha was perhaps the most popular
cat in town, and there was scarcely
minute in the day when there wasn't
some one of her admirers in the back
yard. As for serenades, she had three or
four every night that it didn't rain.
There was a quartette club formed by
four first-class feline voices, and the club
used to give Martha and me TWO or three
hours of music three times week.
used sometimes to find as many as six or
seven old boots in the back yard OF
morning that had been contributed by
enthusiastic neighbors. AS for society,
Martina Washington was at the top of the
heap. There wasn't a more fashionable
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that my attempt to turn an infamous
outrage into stupid joke made the mat
ter all the worse. and that she must in
sist that l and my prize-fghting beast
should leave her house at once and never
enter it again
$50 you see that if it had not been that
/ understood what the Maltese cat said
at Martha Westinghouse milk party,
should probably never have quarreiled
with either Susan or her cat, and should
now have been a missionary in Central
Africa, if / hadn't blown my brain out,
or taken to drink. ! have often thought
that the man Susan did marry might
have been saved if he had known the cat
language in time, and had made the ac-
quaintance of the Maltese. -
The colonel paused, and presently
asked him if he really expected us to be-
ieve his story.
''Why not?'' he replied. cit isn't
any sitter than Darwin's yarn about our
being descended from monkeys. You be-
lieve that on the word OF man you never
saw, and expect you to believe my story
that l understand the cat language on my
unsupported word. Perhaps the story is
a little tough. but if you are going In for
science you shouldn't let your credulity
be backed down by any story
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a Denver Investment Company.

A certificate of the incorporation at
Denver, Col, of the Denver Investment
Bond company was fled with the clerk OF
the county court yesterday. The incor-
porators are: e. P. Brown of South Da-
kota, J. II. Coloney and 9. w. McCrom
of Colorado, who are also directors of the
company. The object of the company is
to buy and sell investment securities, in
Guiding its own bonds, to loan money on
approved security and to buy and sell real
estate, etc.
The capital stock is placed at 81, 500,
divided into shares of the par value of 81
each. Charles Ravens is the resident
agent of the company in this city, its
HEADQUARTERS being in Denver, Col.
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cat in the whole state of Ohio-I was liv-
ing in Ohio at the time-and in spite of it
all she was as simple and unaffected in her
ways as If she had been born and bred In
a Quaker meeting house.
zone afternoon Martha was giving
O'Clock tea on the veranda next to my
room. l always gave her permission to
give that sort of entertainment whenever
she wanted to, for the gossip of her
friends used to be very amusing TO me.
Among the guests that afternoon was
Susan's - that was the young lady l
wanted to marry-Maltese cat. Now this
cat had always pretended to be very fond
of me, and Susan Gifted said that her cat
never made g mistake in reading charac-
ter, and that the cats approval OF me
was equivalent to first-class Sunday
school certificate of moral character. L
didn't care anything about the cat my
self, for somehow l didn't place any con-
fidence in her professions. There was an
expression about her tail which, to my
mind. meant that she was insincere and
treacherous. The Maltese cat had
finished her milk when the conversation
drifted around to the various mistresses
one spoke OF Susan. Then the
Maltese began to say things
about Susan that made my blood boil. 1t
was not only what she said but what she
insinuated, and, according to her, Susan
was one of the meanest and most con-
temptible women in the whole United
States. | stood it as long as [ could, and
then / got up and said TO Martha Wash
ington, Il think your Maltese friend is
goes the better if she doesn't want to be
helped home with club That was
enough. The Maltese, who was doing
up her back fur when l spoke, stopped,
looked at me as if she could tear me into
pieces, and then hounced out of the
house without saying a word. under
stood that there was an end to her pre-
tense of friendship for me, and that
henceforth l should have an enemy in
Susan's house who might, perhaps, be
able to do me good deal of harm.
sThe next time I called to see Susan
the Maltese was in the room, and she in
stantly put up her back and tail and
swore at me as if / was Chinaman on
the lookout for material for stolen din
ner. what can be the matter with poor
pussy?' said Susan. She seems to be so
uerriably afraid of you all of sudden.
hope it doesn't mean that you have been
doing something that she doesn't approve
off, ] didn't make any reply to this in
situation, except to say that the cat
might perhaps be going mad, but this
didn't help me any with Susan, who was
really angry at the idea that her cat could
be capable OF going mad.
s'The same sort of thing happened
every time went to the house. The cat
was always in the room and always ex-
pressed in the plainest way the opinion
that l was thief and murderer, and an
enemy of the temperance society. When
asked her what she meant to do, she
would give me no reply except fresh
oath, or other bad language. Threats
had no effect on her, for she knew that I
could not touch her in Susan's house, and
she didn't intend that should catch her
outside of the house. Nothing was
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He never was intimate with dogs, and he
never drove an army mule. He had sort
of bowling acquaintance with monkeys
and few other animals OF no particular
standing in the community, but he
couldn't even understand a single animal
language Now, if he had gone to work
and learned to read and write, and speak
the monkey language, as that American
professor that ycu were Just speaking OF
has done, he might have been able to give
US some really valuable information.
.'Do l believe that animals talk?
don simply believe it, know it. When
/ was a young man had good deal to
do with animals, and learned to under
stand the cat language Just as well as
understand English. It's an easy Ian
guage when once you get the hang of 1t,
and from what hear of the German the
two are considerably alike. You look as
If you didn't altogether believe me,
though why you should doubt that man
tan learn cat language when the world Is
full of men that pretend to have learned
German, and nobody calls their word IN
question, don't precisely see.
s'Of course, | don't pretend to under
stand all the cat dialects. For example,
don't know word of the Angora dialect,
aud can only understand a sentence here
and there of the tortoise-shell dialect, but
SO far as good, pure standard cat-lan-
RuaSe goes. IL as pam Is pTlHJ 10 1He
today, though l havn't paid any atten-
ton to 1t for forty years. ! don't want
YOU to understand that l ever spoke
it. ] always spoke English when l was
talking with cats. They all understand
English as well as you DO. They pick it
up Just as a child picks up a language
from hearing it spoken.
''Forty years ago | was young man,
and lake most young men, l fancied l was
in love with young woman of our town.
There isn't the least doubt in my mind
that / should have married here if / had
not known the cat language. She after
wards married a man whom she took
away to Africa with her as a missionary
/ knew hin. well and he didn't want to
&c to Africa Said he had no call to be a
missionary, and that all he wanted was to
live in a Christian country where he
could go and talk with the boys IN the
bar-room evenings. But his wife carried
him of, and it's my belief that if | had
married her she would have me turned
missionary, or pirate or anything else
thar she thought best. / shall never cease
to be grateful TO Thomas Aquinas for
saving me from that woman
ssThis was the way of it. was living
& a little cottage that belonged to my
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GRADING MACHINES.
A Company Organized for Their Man.
ufacture and Sale.
A Novelty in Architecture "A Copper
Front Building for Main Street
Business Notes.

The Burton Grader & Ditcher COM
pany filed articles of incorporation with
the county clerk yesterday. The incor-
porators are Charles A. Short of Park
City. Arthur E. Short of Murray, II. A.
Kearnes and Henry Robbins of Gunnison,
and William B. Short of Salt Lake. The
officers are Henry A. Kearnes, president,
Arthur E. Short, vice president, Charles
A. Short, secretary and treasurer. The
business to be carried on is the manufac-
turing, selling and handling of the Bur-
ton Grader & Ditcher company in Utah
and elsewhere, and to sell the right to
manufacture and sell said machines in
other states and territories. The capital
stock is placed at $50, GOO, divided into
so, 600 shares of the par value of 81 each.
The company's headquarters will be in
this CITY,
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Thomas G. sherman Lectures,

Thomas G. Sherman, the well-known
tax reformer and lawyer of New York
will give lecture on the single tax next
Monday evening in the old federal court
room in the Wasatch building. 1t will
be under the auspices of the Y. M. c. A..
Debating club and will be free. Mr..
Sherman is an eloquent and interesting
talker, and the lecture will be well worth
attending by those who take an interest
in economic, political and labor ques-
tions. Although the single tax move
meut has not been as marked in the west
as in the east, there are still quite num-
Der of single tax men in Salt Lake.
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What is a Guarantee?

1t is this. If you have cough or cold,
q tickling in the throat, which keeps you
constantly coughing, or if you are affiict-
ed with any chest, throat or lung trou-
BILE, whooping cough, &C., and you use
Ballard Horehound Syrup as directed,
giving it fair trial, and no benefit is ex-
Derienced, we authorize our advertised
agent to refund your money on return OF
bottle. 1t never fails to give satisfaction.
It promptly relieves bronchitis. Sold by
2. g. nj. l. Drug Dept.
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Business Notes.

The Graeber Realty and Investment
company sold yesterday for F. H. Perkins,
the house builder. the beautiful twelve
room brick house just being completed
on First South near Eleventh East to A.
Hanauer, jr., for 81 800.
Yesterdays clearing house exchanges
were $191, 1924; the same day last year,
1903. 537. For the week, 81 427, 057;. same
week last year, 81, 1897, 437.
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ARCHITECTURAL NOVELTY.
A Building with a Copper Front and
Sloping Windows.


Fred Hale has been getting in some
fancy strokes that are new and practical,
in his design for the new Auerbach build
ing which is to be rected on Main street,
on the site of the old caved-in shack south
of God Pitts corner.
Not only Will the front be a new de-
parture, but the skylight will be con-
structed after design that is said to be
original. The entire front, above the
first story, is to be made of pressed copper
work, which Will permit of very orna-
mental design. The cornice is broken by
two large hood-shaped towers.
The interior rooms, to be lighted from
the halls, have their side windows slop-
ing inward at the top so as to permit the
light to enter on straight line, instead
OF at an angle. The advantage of this is
apparent as it will greatly increase the
quantity of light admitted through the
same space of glass. The structure is to
be three stories high and 25x100 feet.
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Heating bicycle, lightest, stronge

Heating bicycle, lightest, strongest,
best. Try it; you will like it. Was $50,
now $50. The best that money and
brains can build. Road King and Road
Queen, with duplex tire, syIph spring
frames. The Monarch, full line medium
grades. Cyclists sundries. Repairing by
skilled workmen. Bicycles for rent. $50
prizes. Get tickets and vote for Deep
Greek railroad. NJ. L. EVANS,
% West Second South street.
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10 Advertisers.

NE The HERALD has the largest circu-
iation in Utah. 1t is visitor to more
homes in this territory and the surround
ing region than any other newspaper
published. Its constituency comprises
more heads OF families than any other,
and it is therefore the best advertising
medium in Salt Lake.
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% West Second South street.

Itwould be worth while for the ladies
to bear in mind that if they take gentle
course of Ayers Sarsaparilla in the
spring, they will have no trouble with
''prickiy heat ''hives,'' ''sties,'
s'boils, - or s'black heads,'' when sum
mer comes. Prevention is better than
cure,
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Investigate the Fowler bicycle with self
healing tires (for gentlemen and the
Warwick s'Priscilla. - with ideal quick
repair tires (for ladies' Compare them
with any and all other wheels. T. o.
Angel, agent, 274 s. State street.
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Notice.

A meeting of the Woman's Suffrage
association of Salt Lake county. will be
held at the Thirteenth ward assembly
rooms, Tuesday, April Is, 1898, at 2 p. N.
All are invited.
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Prof Mckay, principal of the Lowell
school, purchased Cleveland No. 3 from
the Salt Lake Cycle company last week.
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Goodbuy.

Browning Bros. will give you more for
your money in ladies' or gents wheels
than any other house in town,
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NATURES gentleman is the worst type Of
gentleman
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Real Estate Transfers.
Joseph S. Chapman ct ux to Ernest ].
Tulrdge, part Of lot 2, block 8, plat G.

Joseph S. Chapman ct ux to Ernest ].
Tulrdge, part OF lot 2, block s, plat G..
Estate of John Sharp to Elizabeth SHES
bitt part of lots and Z, block 81, ten
acre plat A. Big Field survey. .......... l
Estate of John Sharp to Elizabeth S. Mes
bitt, part of lot 4, block TO- plat D..
Edward d. Holt and wife to Robert N
Holt and wife, part of section TO- town
ship south, range west. $50
Edward D. Holt and wife to VIM. B. Holt,
part OF section 10. township south,
range west .............. ............. 400
katherine Mill to Emil MILL part of sec
ton 81, township north. range l west / 800
Hannah G. II. Jacobson to Eugene Lewis,
lots % and 26, block 2 Blair g. Curtis
SUBDIVISION 3UU
James Y Marshall and wife to Hannah
G. II. Jacobson, part of section l3, town
ship south, range west------.--.---- :, 600
@. f. Wantland to Richard r. Walker,
lot so block l. Lincoln Park addition 275
Edward Martin to Michael Dawson, lots
2, 4, 5, g. Z, 8, block ., Earl D. Gray's
SUBDIVISION ------ Observation-Disclosures
Herman Bamberger to Fred Simon, part
OF lot l, block So plat B......----- / $50
Clarence w. Hicks to Henry Altman. part
of section A. township south. range
James A. Brown to George F. Shepard,
part of lot = block 30. plat G. ......... 10
A. G. Barter to Margaret E. Elder, part
OF lot ., block 60. plat A-......----- III
William Vinegar to Alvin Vinegar, part
of section 10, township north, range l
Eugene Lewis to Jas. Y. Marshall, part
of section Is, township 2 south range l
weSt-----..........---
Harry Hardy to Edward B. Critohlow
part OF lot 8, block 6S, plat A....------.
1t l1ghtens the burden of housekeeping
Rough Dry. family washing, at cents
per pound.
TlRoy STEFAN JA1rNDRy. $40 Main street
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We have

Goodbuy.
We have
made good buy,
SO can you.
500
pairs Ladies'
Vici Kid
patent leather tip
Button and Lace
Shoes,
Common Sense
and Opera Lasts,
for So. so,
worth So 90.
Splendid filters,
Beautiful styles,
Great Wearers.
Spencer & Lynch Co.,
124 Main st.
Pictures of Temple, 22xS0 inches, free
with $500 cash purchase. Mail orders
solicited
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1t l1ghtens the burden of housekeeping.
Rough Dry. family washing, at cents
per pound.
TROY STEAM LAUNDRY, 142 Main street.
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Browning Bros. are away ahead on
ladies wheels.
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EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 1.-Two distinct
shocks of earthquake were felt here today
-one just before l. o'clock and the other
just after ! O'Clock. No damage was done.
ALBION, Ills, Dec. IA slight earth
quake shock was felt here at 1910 O'clock
,his morning. followed by more severe
Ihock at 1904 o'clock p. m. and still more
severe one at 1:20 o'clock p. m. The dis
turbance was preceded and followed by a
heavy rumbling, that passed as a wave
from the southwest to the northeast
Buildings of every description trembed
violently, crockery ratified. and loose arti-
c'es We're shaken from tables. The oldest
citizens say that it was the severest shock
ever felt in this locality.
MOUNT VERNON, Ind, Dec. 14-Three
distinct shocks of earthquake were felt
here this afternoon. They were sufficient
10 shake goods off store shelves, but no
serious damage was done.