Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-12-04
FOUR BLACK CATS.
rhey brought BOundless Pleasure Of
Anticipation, but That
Was All

we are more or less superstitious
Shen 1T comes to black CATS said
well-known young man about town
;elates the Washington Star, land I
vas. one OF the firmest believers in
he black cat and good luck supersti-
Ion IN Washington until a few days
ago.
mad gotten tired of doing the
same thing in my department over
ma over every day in the year, and.
oelng member of one of the learned
professions, L decided to attempt to
secure transfer to another depart
nent, where my training could he
put TO advantage to myself and in
cIdentally to the government
am from a state where the
senior senator is a power in state
and national politics; a man almost
anapproachable by reason of his
prominence, but who is personally
one OF the stanchest of friends to his
trends, and whose recommendation
usually carries, as it is seldom given.
happen to be one of his friends.
Next to myself, the person most
~ III was INV
sweetheart. One night about a month
ago, on our return from the theater.
on her doorstep sat iet-black eat
with white star on its breast. The
cat followed us into the house in the
most friendly manner. refused to 90
out until 1t was time for my depar-
ture, and then followed me to the
sidewalk. My best girl, in rhapsody
Of delight, declared that it was or
1ained by the stars that [ was to get
my appointment.
Two or three days later, on the
sve of my departure for the great
and wicked city which is nv home.
stepped into a restaurant on Eleventh
street for lunch. A cat as black as
ink, with a white star on its breast.
came in the door, walked right I'D
to my table and remained there until
L finished my meal. When | told nv
sweetheart about the cats visit when
L saw her that evening she had an
other spasm of delight. saying that
defeat for me was impossible.
Il 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
It's breast came out of the cafe and
rubbed its arched back against nv
Sims. l returned at once to the
writing-room and wrote my girl about
1T. l received by return mail a letter
OF Is closely written pages, explain
ing that with the third cat thus
thrust in my pathway my appoint-
ment was inevita BILE and that she
could hardly contain her JOY.
'On the day before 1 was to see
the senator [ stopped on Broadway
for lunch. [ 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 lauded 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 nv profess
sional friends were literally thrown
az my head? Need 1 say that nv
sweetheart wrote me an 1S-page
double-lined letter EVERY day, tell
ing me that I couldn't lose? Need
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 power therein
united with the senator in an in
dorsement which, had it been at the
beginning of an administration, ought
to have given me an assistant secre-
taryship. and personally wished me
luck?
and need | tell you that the cab
met 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 so
red from weeping that she couldn't
go to the theater, and that / have
for disposal the strongest set of in
dorsemcnts which can be picked up
on Pennsylvania avenue in an hours
walk"
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