Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — JUST KICKED A CAT. [ARTICLE]

JUST KICKED A CAT.

Cure for Rheumatism Discovered by a Jersey Freight Clerk. A clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad freight office In Jersey City, suffered from spasmodic twinges in hi s right leg, which he attributed to rheumatism. He consulted a physician and spent a good deal for medicine, but continued to grow worse. One morning recently the office tomcat in a spirit of friendliness arched his back and rubbed against the afflicted calf. The clerk gave a vicious kick with his bad leg and a gray streak shot through the air. He hobbled to a chair and sat down with a few stirring remarks about cats and rheumatism. A few minutes later he gritted his teeth hard and arose. He shook his leg and feebly smiled. Then he walked like a drum major across the floor and boisterously shook hands with himself. The sharp twinges had disappeared and there has been no recurrence of pain. The clerk’s doctor corrected his diagnosis when asked for an explanation of the sudden cure ana said that what he mistook for rheumatism was probably caused. by a twisted ligament. The kick at the cat straightened out tffie twist and removed the cause of the trouble.