The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-12-03
-FOUR BLACK CATS.
Brought Boundless Pleasure of An
ticiDatiOn, but That Was All.

Brought BOund1ess Pleasure OF An
ticipatiOn, but That Was All.
eve are more or less superstitious
when it comes to black cats" said well
known young man about town, "and |
was one of the frmest believers in the
black car and good luck superstition in
Washington until a few days ago.
81 had got tired of doing the same thing
in my department over and over every
day in the year, and, being a member of
one of the learned professions, l decided
to attempt to secure a transfer to anoth-
er department where my training could
be put to advantage to myself and incl
dentally to the government.
Il am from a state where the senior
senator is a power in state and national
politics, man almost unapproachable by
reason of his prominence, but who is per-
sonally one of the stanchest of friends to
his friends and whose recommendation
usually carries, as it is seldom given. l
happen to be one of his friends.
"Next to myself, the person most inter-
ested in my ambition was my sweetheart.
One night about month ago on our re-
turn from the theater on her doorstep sat
a Jet black cat with a white star on its
house in the most friendly manner, refus-
ed to go out until it was time for my de-
parture and then followed me to the side
walk My best girl in a rhapsody of de-
light declared that it was ordained by the
stars that | was to get my appointment.
"Two or three days later ON the eve of
my departure for the great and wicked
city which is my home, | stepped into a
! .,4,,o 20, lr1,,o oh
A cat as black as ink, with a white star
on it's breast, came in the door, walked
right up to my table and remained there
until finished my meal. When told my
sweetheart about the cats visit when L
saw her that evening, she had another
spasm of delight, saying that defeat for
me was impossible.
81 left for home about two weeks ago,
and on the very first night of my arrival,
| as was leaving the hotel, a big black cat
with a white star on its breast came out
of the cafe and rubbed its arched back
against my shins. l returned at once to
the writing room and wrote my girl about
| it. l received by return mail letter of
eighteen closely written pages explaining
that with the third black cat thus thrust
in my pathway my appointment was in
eyitable and that she could hardly con-
| tain her joy.
"On the day before l was to see the
senator stopped on Broadway for lunch.
l was almost paralyZed with delight when
the fourth black cat came up to my table
and purred about my feet in the most
| friendly manner.
"Need | tell you that the senator was
kindness and graciousness itself and laud-
ed my ambition to get up in the line of
my chosen profession? Need | say that
the Endorsements of my district leader
| and congressional candidate and those of
| my professional friends were literally
thrown at my head? Need l say that my
sweetheart wrote me an eighteen page
double lined letter every day telling me
| that l couldn't lose? Need l add that
everything in the big city wanted came
my way? Is it not idle to tell you that
one of the great men who directs the
| councils of his party and who is a power
| therein united with the senator in an in
dorsement which, had it been at the be-
ginning of the administration, ought to
| have given me an assistant secretaryship
and personally wished me luck?
"And need l tell you that the cabinet
| officer to whom 1 presented my papers
frankly told me that, having no places
vacant, he could not give me one; that
had my trouble for my pains and that the
four black cats threw me down hard, that
my sweetheart's nose and eyes were SC
red from weeping that she couldn't go to
the theater and that | have for disposal
the strongest set of Endorsements which
can be picked up on Pennsylvania avenue
In an hours walk Washington Star.