Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — A Motorman's Superstition. [ARTICLE]

A Motorman's Superstition.

“A motorman will allow his car to run over a dog without any compunctions, but when it comes to a cat on the track it brings out what little superstition there

m*T be in tbe man, and most of the motormen have a little,” said a conductor. The car had come to a sudden stop, and all the passengers who had noticed a little kitten in front of tbe car stood up and looked back to see if its mangled remains were on the track. “Why, I have known my motorman to run bis car back a half square at night time to see if he bad killed a cat,” said the conductor. * "The headlight on tbe car seems to attract them after dark and they will stand in front of an approaching car and their eyes gleaming in tbe darkness like balls of fire, they seem to make no effort to get out of the way and disappear from tbe motorman’s view under tbe end of the car. leaving him in doubt as to whether he killed them or not. 1 guess when they get out of range of tbe headlight they realize their position and scurry out of the way.”