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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19

The annual report of f. B. Thomas, presi-
dent of the Erie lines, the statistical portion
of which was published in the Journal, is at
tracing a good deal Of attention not only
with the railroad fraternity. but with in
vestors in railroad securities. The report
presents abundance of information concern
ing the property. On the question of rates
ne says: 1.-THE unsatisfactory feature of the
years work is the rate received for the
service performed. From year to year the
unit Of revenue grows less. while the char
acter of the service, forced by competition
end the modern requirements of trade,
grows more and more expensive. Apparent
" neither OF these conditions can be i'm
proved under existing circumstances. legis-
lative and otherwise. surrounding the trans
portation industry. The only remaining
effort. therefore, that can be made to stop
the diminishing margin between revenue
and cost is in the direction OF reducing the
latter. This necessarily requires heavy
work. large expenditures and long time. and
the results obtained appear slowly To the
efforts Of the management towards the ac-
coniplishment of this object is due the large
cost Of operation for the year. Heavy ex
penditures. with which capital account
could not legfimdtely be charged. were
necessary upon locomotives, cars, tracks.
etc, II order to meet the requirements
needed to enable the company TO do bust
ness on a parity with its competitors These
requirements must be met, and while the
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Elsewhere.

KANSAS CITY Sept. 7.--Cattle-Receipts, 50.
Steady prices. Receipts for the week, 5000 With
grades of slaughtering and well-bred feeders Is
decidedly encouraging to producers. Desirable ,no
700 cars of feeders shipped to feeding points the
past seven da aS choice native steers re
stockers and feeders $3.5oq5.15; butcher cows and
steers. s. eof5.o5; Western cows 1904 Texas
steers, $3Q4.60; Texas butcher cows, $2.SO4330;
Hogs2Recepts. 1850. Market steady. Receipts
for the week. $4,000: Light supply and good gen
tbe week. beavy S. 75GSS 90: mixed 81 S5Gs S.
Sheep Receipts, 1880 Prices unchanged Re-
ceipts for the week. 20 eS1. Large supply mostly
range stock. Liberal demand for desirable fiocks:
best muttons 15c higher; range lambs, $f.75452O;
range muttons $4,000; range feeders, SS7504.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE meager offerings OF
cattle were taken az sharp advance IN values;
steers s41O64.75; stockers and feeders $36465;
bulls. $s:25q4.25; cows and hefers. S275@425
calves, SEA 50 Western rangers, $2.75n4.5 80; fed
Western steers, ss.10Q5.4O; Texans. $3.25a5.15.
The demand for hogs was s active be ANA s
"a 5 packing lots. $S.50Q3.S5; butchers. $500
4.o5; mixed, Ss.65@4O21z; light, sSe5Q4-o5; pigs.
The limited supply Of sheep were disposed OF at
UNCHANGED prices; native sneep; SS@fso Wssts err
e' ii5s feeding lambs. Mg5.sO
Receipts-Cattle 400; hogs. 10000; sheep. 5O0O
ST. LOUIS Sept. observation-disclosures 300. in
GLIDING $50 Texans; shipments 1900. Market
steady; fair 10 fancy native shipping and export
steers, OURD4u, dl 90 iUHo.SV, uIcSStu DceL
and butcher steers, sS.75G525. bulk at $fq52o;
steers under Loco lbs, So. 6o@46O bulk at $3.50
4.25; stockers and feeders. $3d4.50. bulk at $345
al 80: COWS and heifers. $294.70, bulk of cows,
$2.5oas.5c: bulls. s2.25q4;25; Texas and Indian
steers. S3GD4 o.; and heifers 265M3.25
IIogs-Rec spts, =. 000 shipments. 5000. Market
Sheep-Recepts. 9C0 shipments. 250. Market
steady; native muttons $4G425 lambs, S4.504555;
stockers. S3.259S.55; culls and bucks, $2.50Q4
NEW YORK Sept. 7.-Beeves-Receipts. 992.
No trading. Live cattle. 10%@lliac, dressed
weight; refrigerator beef, S6ISAc. Exports. $50
cattle and LIS quarters of beef. CaIves-Re-
ceipts, lis. Market slow; veals, s6.50Q75o
grassers and buttermiiks nominal; Westerns, $3.5
Hogs-Receipts. 3oSS Market nominal at s415
6450.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts 1922. Sheep steady;
lambs slow; sheep. 50. 5Og475; lambs. $5.5346.2O;
choice holdings, s6.25.
CINCINNATI Sept 17.-cattle steady at S2.750
4.s5
Hogs quiet at So 10d4.
sheep steady at $2a4.25; lambs steady at $3.50
Q560.
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Leading futures ranged as follows:

Cash quotations folows Flour steady;
special brands. s4.25@45O; hard winter patents,
S10 bakers, $202.10. No. spring wheat, $40
65s4c; No. spring wheat, 62@65Ac; No red,
No oats. 21AQ2114c; No. 2 white, 24Q25c; No.
white 2Sd24c. No. 2 rye, 47h@Fhc. No. bar
ley 39044c No. l fiaxseed. SSc; Northwestern,
Ole. Prime timothy seed. $2.471s: Mess pork, per
br, $s4OQS.45. Lard, per 100 lbs. 81 7719Q4. S21a
Short-rib sides Qoose). S515G5.35; dry-salted
shoulders (boxed), s4.5OG475 short-clear sides
boxed, $560Q5.70. Sugar-Cut-loaf. 60Sc; gran
ulated, 564c.
Receipts-Flour, $500 brls; wheat. 400 bu;
corn 33S. 800 bu; oats. 399 800 bu rye, 29.s50 bu
barley 81 ECO blu. Shipments-Flour. $500 brls
wheat 169 400 blu; corn 21S 900 bu OATS sos 300 bu
rye, 25 0OO blu; barley, 81, 600 blu.
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sssd. F1our-St. Louis fancy winter steady at s.
Sd. Hops-At London Pacific COAST firm at e.
5sf7e IS. Beef dull: extra India mess. SIS 3d.
prime mess. SIS Sd. Pork dull; prime mess. tine
Western Jos; prime mess. medium Western. as
Cd. Hams-Short-cut steady at 35s Cd Bacon
firm at SIS Cd; short-ribs, 52s Cd; ong-cear mid
dies. light 30s Cd: long-clear middes heavy, Sgss
clear bellies firm SIS Shoulders. square. DUH
PAS. Lard-prime Western dull at 25s 81.
Cheese firm: American finest white and colored.
37s. Tallow-Prime city steady at ISIS.
CINCINNATI. Sept. 17.-Flour dull Wheat
firm; No. , red SIC Corn steady; No. mixed,
Sic Oats Arm; No. mixed. 2slac. Rye quiet:
No Q Acc. Lard firmer at A65. Bulk meats
steady at s5.25 Bacon steady at $3.50. Whisky
firm at Si25. Butter steady. Sugar firm. Eggs
steai y BE. Cheese firm.
MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 17.-wheat dull and
lower; September. 6iHc; December, 5siec; May
6l%d6lisc; No. l hard. 67zc; No 1 Northern,
esAc; No. Northern. s2l4c. I'lour-F'irst patents
S3.95d405 second patents. So l96l3.S5; first clear,
50. 7oQ2s0. Bran, in bulk. TG775
TOLEDO; Sept. I7--wheat dull and unchanged:
No. >. cash. 67%c December. 6532c BID Corn
dull but steady: No mixed. s0iLc. Oats quiet;
No. , mixed. 2lc Rye UNCHANGED: No ?, cash.
46i9c. Glover seed active and steady; prime,
cash, old, $3.50; new, 81; October 81
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NEW YORK Sept 17.-Butter-Receipts 2.sle
packages Market hrmer: Western creamery, LA
Bic; Elgins, 2lc; factory. nl2Ql4c. Eggs-Re-
ceipts 3765 packages Market firm: Western,
1910. Cheese frm large white, 7lzc; small white.
7Ac; large colored, 7i2c small coored, f+c.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 17.-Butter firm: fair
Western creamery, 20iac: Western prints. 2lc.
Eggs firm; fresh nearby. 16lkc; fresh Western
15i26l6c fresh Southwestern. 15c. Cheese firm.
CHICAGO, Sept. lion the Produce Exchanges
to-day the butter market was firm creamery,
10000; dairy. 111zQ17c. Cheese steady; creamery,
7GSlac Eggs frm fresh, 13iad14c.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. T.-Butter steady: sep
arator l7izGl9c dairy l6Gl7c. Eggs-Fresh
candled Missouri and Kansas stock, l1sze, cases
returned.
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Partial Compliance with the Law.
An amendment TO the interstate-commerce
act approved March 2, 1893 required rail-
roads engaged in interstate traffic to equip
their rolling stock with safety appliances
by JAN L. 1898. but failing to comply. the
commission, under authority conferred by
the amendment. extended the terms of the
act for two years The last report of the
statistician to the commission shows that
of railway employees 1853 were killed and
1867 injured. The order of the commission
granting the extension required the UNI
equipped carriers to furnish semi-annual
statements showing the cars and engines
equipped during the period with couplers
and brakes as prescribed. The first report
of the roads under this order shows that of
294 petitiOning carriers 290 owned on June l,
1898, 1,153EO freight cars, an increase OF
21,o67 over the number as reported owned
Dec. /. 1897. There are 1854 freight
cars reported equipped with automatic coup
lers and 81 POP reported equipped with train
brakes during the six months ending June
l. 1898, which makes a total of 92443 or SO
per cent of the freight equipped with
cent, equipped with train brakes up TO
June L. 1898. OF 80. 323 locomotives owned
June J. 1898, there are % 102, or 30 per cent,
which are equipped with driving wheel
brakes. There are 800, SAL freight cars out
of ! .153. go or 81 per cent. that are still I'M
So per cent, that are unequipped with train
brakes, and 3.22l. or 10 per cent, of the To-
comotVeS uneQuipped with driving wheel
brakes up to June l, 1898
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Belt Road Traffic.

In the week ending Sept. II there were
transferred over the Belt road 1929 cars,
against 1867 in the week ending Sept. 10,
an increase last week of 4,162 cars. Belt
road engines handled at the stock yards
LIZ carloads of live stock. against $50 in the
week ending Sept. 10, an increase of 1913 cars.
Belt road engines handled for private in
dustries on its line 934 cars. against S42 in
the preceding week, an increase of ninety
two cars.
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saturdays Bank CIearings.

At Chicago-CIearings, SIG. 800 9S1: balances
s.. 377.s64. New York exchange. 35c discount
Sterling exchange, posted, s4.S3k and $4s51@;
At New York-Cearings. 1854, SSS. 1884, balances,
81, 1898, S33
At New Orleans-Clearings. 81, 300 TIA
At Boston-Clearings, S16 $4,000; balances
81, 752, 02l
$500, $40.
At Philadelphia-Cle s121SOO1S; balances,
$1,S43147
At Baltimore-Clearings. $s,.oo.osS; balances.
$3.50, 217.
At Cincinnati-C1earings 81, $50, 450.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE week has shown
few changes in the general situation in dry
goods. Print cloths from being in a very firm
position, have come to be regarded as easier by
buyers There was no actual decline in quota
lions until yesterday, when limited number OF
extra GA squares were sold at 1-l6c. less y per
cent. Sales were lighter than those of last week.
stock has been effected Nevertheless the progress
made in the market is not reckoned as on a
liberal basis since there have been few con-
tributons to the contract list for early delivery
Other cotton goods have shown generally poor
results through the week. The dizziness in the
wooden and worsted market has not been dis
PEELED during the week.
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SALES OF REAL ESTATE.
Eight Transfers, with IA Total COnsfd-
Grafton of $7,042.5O.

Instruments filed for record in the recorders
office Of Marion county. Indiana for the twenty
four hours ending at y. m Sept. II, lSss, as
furnished by Theo. Stein abstracter OF titles
corner of Market and Pennsylvania streets In
dianapolis, Suite 20. first office floor, The
Lemcke. Telephone 1850:
Barney Foley 10 Joseph w. Lunt north
half OF Lot 10. Martindale & Co.'S adj
Benjamin F. Gibson et al to Edward
Johnston ct al. Lot is. Records third
addition to Lawrence. ......-....-....- 1000
James II. Hooker TO Fred W. Sparks
Lots L. 8, and Z. Hardebeck's subdi-
vision of Vajen's sixth addition. .-...., 5000
Christian Lentz GUARDIAN 10 John y.
Petticrew. part OF Lots TO- IL and r.
Lentz's heirs addition. .......-...s...... 5000
o. c. Miller to Albert L. Metzger. Lots
II, rs, 10. 90 q and p. Hanway q
Hanna's Oak Hin addition. 1,552 50
Albert r. Metzger 70 Harrison c. Btckel
and wife. same ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20o0oo
George Rosner TO Joseph Rosner, Lot 20
Block %. Goodlet 4 SCOTS Haughviile
Mary earle 10 Herman G. Reissner and
wife. part Of Lot 3. Munsons first ad-
ottion WV
Transfers. 5; consideration. 80
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WILMINGTON. Sept. 17.-spirits Of turpentine
firm at 2Sl5G29c. Rosin firm at $1Q1O5. Crude
turpentine firm at $l.1OQ16O Tar firm at $780,
OIL CITY Sept. 17.-Credit balances, $i.02; GER
tihcates opened at Sl.02 bid for cash; no sales;
shipments So 302 brs; runs not reported
SAVANNAH. Sept. 17.-Spirits of turpentino
firm at CSC. Rosin firm and unchanged.
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NEW YORK Sept 17.-Pig iron dull; Southern.
SO 75@11; Northern, S10Q150 Copper quiet;
brokers, 12c. Lead steady at S.S5c. Tin plates
steady.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17.-Lead firm at S.s7l6c.
Spelter nominal at 4.621sc.
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Total movement :.

East bound shipments from Chicago for
the week were $3.50 tons, against 52.113 tons
for the previous week and 81. 7S9 tons for the
corresponding week last year. The Lake
Shore led with 9,449 tons. Other roads car
ried: Michigan Central, 1852; Wabash. 4.52S;
Panhandle. 7,447 Fort Wayne, 6,979; Balti-
more & Ohio. 3172: Grand Trunk. 5444: Erie,
7.278: Nickel-plate. Clio: Big Four. 1922.
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Dried Fruits.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-California dried fruits
steady; evaporated apples, common. 6qsc; choice,
9Q9Isc; fancy. 91kQ9%c. Prunes. 5GIS12c- Apricots
Royal, 11Q13c Moor Park, 12q16c. Peaches
Unpeeled, 79Sc; peeled 1lQ15c.
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NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 17.-Cotton easy; sales.
1.15O bales; ordinary, Lille good ordinary 4ssc;
7-16c; middling fair, 67sc receipts. S,2S5 bales;
stock, 1904 bales
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Hogs-Recepts. $500; shipments light. Owing
to the withdrawal of the unnatural influence that
sustained prices yesterday the market to-day as
sumed its normal condition and opened sharply
lower. The demand from packers and shippers
good and the closing was strong at quota
with aIl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
General Trade Active-Fruifs and
VerefnhIes Hecominr Firmer

The week ending with Sept. II was in which
trade was more satisfactory in volume with
wholesale houses than any week in many years.
In all lines there marked activity. Seldom
have the sales at dry goods houses aggregated SO
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Cattle Scarce and Quiet-HOgs sharp
Ix Lnwer-Sheen Ouief.

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 7.-Cattle-Receipts
light; shipments There were but few on
sale. The market was quiet at unchanged prices.
Gnnd fat Steers will sell readily at S.
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WnnI.
LIVE STOCK.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-wool dull; domesti.
fleece, 17Q2Sc; Texas, 1SG15c.
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cost is large and will continue so for the
present. vet the ultimate result is certain
to be beneficial and materially reduce the
cost per unit of service"
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exports .. s144s7,ss4 sl7.227,5s8 s21,assn


The exports of merchandise have exceeded
the imports by 1852 1900, while for the
same months of 1897 the surplus was
sos 400 600 and in 1896 $l09 700 co., The creditor
balance of this year has been set off by
net gold imports amounting to 500, 400, 900,
leaving a net creditor balance on the COM
mercial account of $3.50. 800 900, or at the rate
of $346. 100000 per annum.
AS an indication of the money strength
of the United States government, the fol-
lowing statement is presented, showing the
official count of cash in the treasury al
the close of business on Sept. 13, 1898:
Gold coin and bullion. 1926, 379, 2SO
Silver dollars and bullion. .......... 1928 $50
United States notes. 50,622 126
Other assets in excess of demand
liabilities ......................... 1S,0S1, 1893
Available cash balance, including
gold reserve ............... SIT, 316, 9S2
Tt has rarely, if ever been the good for
tune of a government to close a costly war
with 1915 COO 900 of cash, and rs per cent. of
it in gold in its treasury.
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TRADERS TOOK COURAGE
ON FINDING NEW YORK BANK RE-
SERVE NOT ALL DISAPPEARED.
Bank Deposits Fallen sfxty-Five Mil
lions i'm Two Months-LOcal Mar
kets Firm and Active.

At New York Saturday, money on call
was firm at 3Q31a per cent; last loan, 31s
per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 405 per cent.
Sterling exchange was steady with actual
business in bankers bills at $4 S3s404.S4 for
demand and $4@$404S2 for sixty days;
posted rates, s4.S394s91a and S4S5Q4S51a;
commercial bills, $4Sl@4S1A
Silver certificates, 6O14q61c; bar silver,
e07sc; Mexican dollars, 471sc. At London bar
silver closed steady at 2S1sd an ounce.
The imports of species this week were
s2,226,616 in gold and $44.4S7 silver. Exports
from this port to ali countries aggregate
sS62,671 in silver bars and coin, $219.9S5 in
gold.
The New York weekly bank statement
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Excess of
imports 1872, 4OS, 7lS ............ ............
Excess of
exports minimum. $2O65o, U00 100
Silver
Imports ..... S19,N9.5e3 So 1853, 6SS SIG, 6922
Exports 49,. 34,2S1 ,SS7 SSO24, 1856 Al 1913
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-08-05
An Unfortunate Linguist.

John was an ambitious Chinaman.
He had made money in Chinatown,
San Francisco, but had devoted him
self to business so thoroughly that he
remained totally ignorant OF English.
He came to New York determined to
avoid his fellow-Chinamen, so that he
might learn to speak English during
his six months stay in the metropolis.
He took a room in an East Side
house. paid promptly, made himself
agreeable to his landlord, who allowed
him to wait on customers in his little
grocery store. and he never went near
Pell or Mott street. After several
months residence in New York and
many hours Of study, the Chinaman
ventured forth among his people,
where he proceeded to give an exhibit
tion Of his proficiency in the English
language. What he said sounded
strange to the other Cinnamon, and the
ambitious one nearly swooned when he
discovered that he had learned Ger
man by mistake.
His New York home was in the Ger
man part Of the city where English is
an unknown tongue, and the poor fell
low had to begin his linguistic work
over again.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-08-05
Paper Floors in Germanr.

Paper floors are enjoying a steadily
increasing popularity in Germany,
which is readily explained by the
many advantages they possess over
wooden flooring. An important ad.
vantage consists in the absence of
Joints, whereby accumulations OF dust,
vermin, and fungi, dangerous to
health, are done away with. The new
paper floors are bad conductors Of
heat and sound, and in spite of their
hardness have a llnoleum-like. soft
feel to the foot. The costs are con-
slderably lower than those of floors
made OF hard wood. The paper mass
receives a small addition Of cement
as binder, and is shipped in bags, in
powder form. The mass is stirred into
stiff paste, spread out on the fiOory
pressed down by means Of rollers, and
painted with Oakwood, nutwoOd. or
mahogany color, after drying.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-08-05
street Car Drivsr,s Philo.ophy.


Its not so easy as you'd s'pose," re-
marked the driver with a jerk OF the
reins and chuck that urged his team
to a livelier pace. These car horses
has all the feelings OF any other kind
of a horse. They has to get use to
their work. an you'd be s'prised to see
how the young ones II shy at a
switch"
The car just then approached a part
Ing Of tracks. Apparently there was
no suggestion by reins or voice. The
horses Of their own accord bore of
sharply to one side. There was a mu-
sical clanking Of iron as the hoofs OF
the outside horse struck a metal plate
In the pavement. Then horses and car
proceeded on their appointed way.
That's the way the old ones does
IT," commented the driver. "They know
what they're up to. But sometimes a
green horse can't be made to take the
switch as he should. He'll shy and
dance around it, like II was hole in a
bridge, an you've got to eddicate him
to 1t.
How do we learn him wot to do?
We hitch him up along of an old re-
liable that knows the trick an will
crowd him out onto the switch plate
every time. The youngsterll start an
jump an either tremble or try to run.
But somehow. after awhile, he comes
to understand that it's all right, an
there you are. No more swearin' and
pullin' the relns for you. The animal'd d
rather take the switch than not. It's
a change from the plain tracks an ]
s'pose 1t occupies his mind"
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-08-05
THE coNvlcT's STORY.


Strange Connection Of white Cat with
. Burglars Life.
"It's no secret that I've been in the
penitentiary," said the old man. 1T
was a white cat that took me there,
and a white cat that saved me and
made me better man.
zone winter, a good many years ago,
was in Houston, sick and dead broke.
An old pal OF mine meeting me on the
street took pity on me and soon helped
me out of my troubles. But not for
nothing. AS soon as / recovered he
wanted me to join him In some burr
glaries that he had planned. At first
refused Indignantly, for had some
rough notions OF honesty; but a little
talking-he was a fine talker-snd a
few drinks did the work and agreed
to go in with him.
Conscience makes towards of us
all, and l guess that was why Ed
trembled like a leaf when he saw
white cat fash past us as we stood
shiverlng In the garden of house on
Harris street that night. II was an
easy matter to break in, and we soon
had all there was worth taking. In
little room at the end of the hall
child was sleeping. The dim light of
lamp showed the pretty cot, the fair
flushed face Of little girl, her golden
hair streaming over the snowy pillow.
and crouching by her side a white cat.
whose pink eyes glittered like stars.
We had to pass through this room, and
could not for the life OF me help bend
ing down and touching that beautiful
hair with my lips-it looked SO like
the hair Of my darling who died only
the year before. II was her death that
drove me to drink and trouble" and
the old man wiped away a tear.
well, l don't know exactly how It
happened, but the cat gave a terrific
squall, and l had only just time to
seize it and stuff II in my bag when a
bullet came whistllng by my head. I
got out of the house somehow, still
carrying my bag of plunder, and ran
down the road, out Of town, finally TAX
ing refuge in an old barn. / was badly
wounded, and, to make a long story
short, they arrested me and took me to
Jail. My partner was dead.
"They told me afterwards that in
my delirlum l c,;.:4 continually for the
white cat, and wren they brought the
animal into my cell-for they found II
unhurt in my bag-I nursed it and was
quiet. 1t was a strange fancy of a sick
man, but 1t led me back to health. The
story was told at the house which we
had robbed, and the little girl and her
father came to see me. He was q
good man. and she was an angel-God
bless her for her innocent prattle and
sweet eyes of pity.
"'The penitentiary was a rough
place in those days, and l believe
would have died in a few months Il
the child had not sent me a tiny white
kitten, which / was allowed to keep
and 1t saved me from despair anC
death. Every time l looked at it
thought Of the little angel that gavt
It, and of that other little angel-mJ
dead child-and made a new resolv,
to be better man.
1.-TWO frail atoms OF life-a kitteI
and a child-but they we're stronI
enough to raise me out of the yer,
depths of hell"