Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — A Street-Car Cat. [ARTICLE]

A Street-Car Cat.

Harper's Young People The street cars in a certain Western city have small stoves in the centre of each car for the additional comfort of passengers in cold weather The driver on one of these cars had reached the end of his route one cold day last November, and was the car to the other, when a halfgrown, half-starved and bedraggledlooking kitten came mewing across the road and ran into the car. It curled up under the warm stove in great - contentment, and the kindhearted driver, who was also the conductor, allowed it to lie under the stove during the down-town, trip. He begged a saucer of milk of milk for the little waif at the other end of the route, and after lunch, for which she was manifestly grateful, kitty went back to her snug

place under the little stove, and during the day she and the condttetor became such good friends that be left her in the car when he went off duty that night. He did not put her out the next day, and before a week she became the pet of the public, and quite an attractive card to that branch of road. She was a pretty, playful, little gray and white kittle, ’ and made friends with all the passengers. The children played with her, the ladies petted her, and most of the men paid ner 6ome attention. One lady tied a pretty scarlet ribbon around kitty’s neck, and the next day another lady fastened a tiny silver bell to the ribbon. As for things to eat, kitty has them in variety and quantity enough to make a .dyspeptic of her. During a single trip she had gifts of a choice bit of raw steak offered her by an old Irishman on the car, a big oatmeal cracker and some gumdrops presenten by a little girl, a lump of loaf-sugar, a lime, a sandwich, some peanuts, and a link of sausage. Kitty had been on the car five weeks when I heard from her last, the most happy, contented, and petted little puss imaginable. When the weather is fine she often rides out On the platform with the driver who has been such a true friend to her, and whose conduct is proof of the fact that there is a kindly, generous heart beneath his rough garments. You can’t make a poker player believe that a pair beats three until he’s been the father of both twins and triplets. . When ; y.OU have nvftr-ftxertftd ynnrself, by running, jumping, or working, there is nothing that will relieve the soreness of your joints and muscles so quickly and effectually as {Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain. 25cts. The well-bred man is nowhere so certain of his standing as in a crowded streetcar.