Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — CAT NOW IN FAVOR. [ARTICLE]

CAT NOW IN FAVOR.

Crippled, but She Helped to Find a Fortune. “I recently, filed a claim for the widow of a Mexican war veteran,” said H. G. McCormic, of Cincinnati, “that has a rather funny story attached to it that I think w r ill bear repeating, as it was brought about by a one-eyed, bobtailed cat of no pedigree and of absolutely no worth, that is now petted as a priceless treasure by Mrs. Maggie Tuttle, an aged widow, residing at Harrison, about ten miles from Cincinnati. A small boy with a sling destroyed one of the cat’s eyes, and a few days afterward, an .attempt to knock a train from the track, the cast lost half its tail; but the cat came back, and thereby hangs the tale, not the calt’s tail, by the way. “When I filed the papers for the pension of Mrs. Tuttle, whose husband was a sergeant in the Twelfth United States Infantry, it was found that all was in good shape, except his discharge papers, and I at once requested that a search be made for these documents. She was certain that her husband had left them somewhere in the old homestead, and a diligent search was at once instituted. The old house was ransacked from cellar to garret with no result, and when the effort was about to be given up in despair it was noticed that the old cat took a great deal of interest in the old garret. It went to a box in one corner of the room and jumped into it. Upon looking into the box it was found that four kittens were nestled In some old paper. When an effort Was made to look into the box the old cat grew ferocious and attacked the searchers. One of the party, who did not like the cat any way, picked up a book and threw it at it. This book missed the cat, but struck an old pasteboard box on a shelf and knocked It to the floor, where it burst open and the contents rolled out on the floor. Upon picking them up the discharge papers and $3,000 in government bonds were found. The old cat now wears a blue ribbon and has the run of the housein fact, nothing is too good for it.” — Washington Star.