The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07
CARS RUN 4. PA yT4TIoy.
A Chiid'a Fancy Results In n Tribe or Foiinrs
That Kills Dogs ana Attacks Horses and Cows.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
LA GRANGE, Miss, March There is in tho
ncighborhood Of this town n farm, once beauti-
full and prosperous. now almost given over to
desolation and cats. The cats, of course. are the
cause of the desolation, and the cause of tho
cats 10 q long story.
Here it is. as the old man who owns the farm
told It to me:
my little granddaughter May is to blame for
all this" said the old man, once the most active
man in tho community. now grown old and
seedy. living alone in the big house. penned up
behind barred windows and screened doors to
keep the cats out.
a curious little mink May was. always lot
to have her own way, and with all sorts OF
queer notions inside her curly head. She
lived in st. Louis. God bless her. and ono
day she was going down the street when she
saw some boys torturins a kitten. The ras.
were dragging it about: p~rodding il. with
sticks. Suddenly little, May appeared in tho
tiny lists in the boys faces and hurting her fiery
words at them she snatched up the kitten and
man ~ him st set 70 the ib% roEen iiS Stsee T 4sar sR by ear.
ricd tho little invalid home with her and nursed
This was just the beginning. Hor heart
thus awakened went out in sympathy to the
whole world of cats. She rarely went out
cats in tow, and she would frequently. spend
her last penny at the butcher stall buying
Y ySS m 1SE W shi h im%nigo f @hnt 8 c sES met Of with in;
sort OF thing resulted in. 1t was only a short
time before the whole. place vas alive with
cats. So numerous did they become on tho
premises that my son.in-law had to sell out
10 get rid Of them: i was then, Just in the
stay with me a while. When she came she
brought twelve cats With her. all that her father
number that had infested the place as the re-
suit Of her too kindly attention.
Is a fairly lively number to start on. but May
nbouts have-or at least they used to have-a
labit Of drowning kittens when the house
ins them ' to . tbt BY Ii: ' ros d May
room got on 10 this practice and made daily
sH IKE nsr;nS,I in l hsT c little TO- pony r, s dIin to rescue sovs
no means OF computing tho possible number
Of cnts she accumulated during hor visit: l
i had to have the windows barred and tho
doors screened 70 pIeEens their literally
belongs to them. They have multiplied a
hundredfold. They have driven of every bird.
SxSais f tho f sXsny an T'G'' its ""' %ooals snS' t 4"fs
home. En- masse they attacked the dogs
and did them TO death. Even cows and
horses have been overcome by them. so that
now the only remnants OF my once famous stud
end fine herd are a few stnntod specimsns that
in constant terror of their lives. so fierce have
the cats become"
In tho course of tho conversation tho old
man had touched a bell and ordered a
servant to serve dinner. When We went into
the dining room by and by such a yelping
A regiment OF cats. 1t seemed to me. had
scented food and came leaping and dashing
Mt tho windows and literally hanging In ~festoons
on the screen doors. 1t was enough TO make
the blood run cold. and l confess mine did. but
the old man ate his dinner us undisturbed No an
oyster.
"Why in the world don't you organize shoot
Ing parties said sal IN" . nd. hunt b these terrible
"They are little Mays cats. SIR" he made
answer. "She is dead and they are all I have
sake"