The herald., 1894-07-08
M'NULTY'S AWFUL MISFORTUNE
Science Brought to Bear Upon
an Injured Optic.
A Cats Eye rransplanted and the
Trouble 1t Caused.
The 1mpish Trick of Jack Koenan in
Itis wootng of Pretty Mary Nc
Nulty-Old mike" and the
Big Black kat.

One OF the most remarkable storiel
that has ever circulated in Pomona val
ley was that related in q company O
gentlemen, ss they sat chatting and
smoking on ths piazza OF local hote
the other evening. says the Progress o.
that place. We must confess there are
some OF our citizens who are incredulous
Of the story, and others who declare
there's not word of truth in it,"
1t eeems that an old gentleman, Mr..
Berry of Ell Monte, recently lost the use
of an eye by the glare of the sunshine
upon that member. A physician said
it was parslyzed, and had to come out.
The old gentleman arranged Tor the cut
ting out OF his eye few days later. but
in the meantime he recovered the full
use OF his optic. 1t was on this
curious circumstance that the Pomona
men were talking. when grizzled old
fellow, Just in from San Bernardino, in
terrupted and said: "Pshawl Berry's
cure is nothing to that OF Mike McNulty,
who lived on the Latin road some 20
years ago. Mike wae greenhorn. who
had just arrived from the county Wex.
ford, Ireland. He was married and the
father OF four children. the Oldest OF
whom, Mary, was about 20 years OF age.
She WAS very pretty girl, ner dark
hair being like a ravens wing, and her
large black eyes being full OF good ma
ture. Mary met and fell in love with
Jack keenan,. Old Mikes one failing,
if such it can be called, was his mex
tinguishable love of whisky. When
young Keenan, first began to pay atten-
ton to Mary he used to bring pint
bottle twice week to old Mike, and by
the time hs had emptied the bottle he
WAC ready to go to bed, and Jack and
Mary had the room to themselves. At
last the ak months strike came, snd
you all know the hardships the men SUI
iered during that time. Mike. owing to
his love of grog, hadn't cent saved
to meet poverty's onslaught and were it
not for Jack Keenan, himself and family
would have Jared badly. But while
Mary's lover supplied them with grocer
les, he drew the line on Mixes whisky,
and this made the old man as mad as q
March hare. Ii his former friendship
for Jack was OF the most warm character,
the hatred he bore him after his grog
was stopped was a thousand times more
bitter. He vowed that Jack would never
obtain his daughters hand in marriage,
and to that end he made up his mind to
pick quarrel with him the next time
he called to ses Mary. 1t happened to be
a Sunday evening in the month of
Auguet, and as the lovers went out for q
stroll the moon smiled down upon them
and bathed them in its cheerful, silvery
rays. They walked in the direction of
where the Rincon school house now
stands, and just as they passed the cor
ner and turned down to the spring a
man sprang from clump of brush and
struck Jack a terrible blow. Quick as
lightning young Jack countered, land
ing sauarely on his assailant's left eye.
With cry OF pain he fell to the ground,
and Just as Jack bent over him Mary ut
tered the appalling cry: "Oh, Jack it's
father, and you have killed him I"
Young keenan, raised the old man to
HIS feet and discovered his eye was
bleeding proiusely. He led him to his
home and then set out to San Bernar-
dino. The physician drove there the
next day with Jack, and, after making
an examination of the injured eye, he
eaid the pupil was maehed to Jelly and
that he would never see out OF it again.
Mary, poor girl, with her pretty eyes
full OF tears, besought him to cave the
eye for her sake, as she didn't want
the Temeecal girls to be calling her "old
Mickey McNulty's daughter. She told
the doctor that she had once read in
Ireland that q doctor had transplanted q
rabbits eye in a boy, and that he could
see as we'll as ever. The doctor laugh ned
and said he would try it the following
evening, providing they wouldn't men,
tion it. So he gave Jack orders to have
a rabbit ready at 5 o'clock the next
afternoon.
Now, there was nothing that Jack
wouldn't do for Mary, so the next morn.
ing he was up bright and early, and
shouldering his rife hs started across
the sunbaked bills and hunted all day,
but not sight of rabbit did he get.
It was 5 o'clock as he left the
hills, and the first thing he saw was
the DOCTORS carriage standing in
front of old Mixes door. He was
in bad state OF mind, and wss medi-
tating what to do, when he saw
big gray cat sitting on q fence opPo-
site to where he stood. Through spirit
of deviltry he raised his rife and fred,
and the cat fell from the fence dead. A
bright idea struck him. and he knet
down beside the cat, and whipping out
his jackknife cut one of the eyes from
| the feline's head,
He ran as fast as he could to Nc
Nulty's. rushed into the house in a
breathless and excited condition, and
cried: Here, doctor, is the rabbits
eye; put it in quick before it cools.'
The doctor removed the bandage from
old Mikes head. and without examining