Show THE CHAMPION OAT KILLER method of Destroying the lc reline race NewY ew york orIc star march ly P tn in a board boardinghouse boarding i ng house ill in clinton place a reporter fell into conversation with on an elderly benevolent looking old found to be a bostonian retired from fron business there and now visiting this city while he lie was sitting on the sofa talking a cat before invisible suddenly jumped upon his knees the cat seems to know you eaid faid the reporter how clever they are in finding out their friends A visible smile passed over his face as its lie replied she silo would not lie hero here on oil my knees long if she knew as its much as is I do why what do you mean you look as if you would not hurt a worm possibly not but I can tell you we were so fearfully troubled with them thein in boston that I found out a way and that one the quietest of getting rid of them and my fingers itch every time I touch it cat to put it into practice show me how I would but I think this may bo be a pet cat in the house and might be missed however I will explain you see this cat now lying on my knees asleep I place one liand hand ot the back of its neck neck and tile other on the email small of its back near the hips then slowly stretching my legs nece a apart art out of joint goes the cats neck not a sound and the very cat itself does not seem to p perceive er cei veit it but I will wili just tell you of one instance that occurs to me A friend of mine in boston was overrun with cats and knowing that I had bad rid my place efthem of them asked my advice his case was somewhat awkward from tho the fact that the tile cats only came about the they laco when his children were around and his wife was so tenderhearted tender hearted and alid the children so f fond ond of them that she would put up with anything rather than have them hurt I cant find an excuse to get her out odthe of the way said my friend without the children going too and then it would be of no use for the tile cats would not come conle in naturally wever NiT ever mind said I if matters are as you state invite me down to supper tomorrow to morrow night let C everything very thing go on as asu sul you shall bo be rid of your cats and no one be vic alo wiser I went next evening as promise dand ha having VillI taken m my seat in the kitchen which I could cou see s c e was the rendezvous for the children and four cats were playing around I noticed a large clothes basket in one corner I drew my chair as if by accident beside it I had not been seated long before a large tomcat settled on my knees and lay as this one does n now ow after stroking him I placed one of my hands on the back of his neck and the other on his hips stretched my knees apart and laid him to sleep in the clothes basket A few moments afterward another followed the same road and so on until tho the basket was full fall for my friend had left the doors open purposely and in in the course of an hour some twenty cats and more must have come in the children thought the cats were asleep in the basket but in case of his wife noticing I it I whispered to my friend to dump it into the back ard yard and return it to me meter for further duty uty his wife meanwhile was preparing supper which I enjoyed thoroughly but not so my friend he kept looking at his wife anxiously as if lie expected a curtain lecture for his feline treachery but he need not for she poor woman was in utter ignorance and has been as far as is I low know I from that day to this p on oil many other occasions I did the tile same service for my friends and I quite an adept at it but one thit thing g is is curious curious I never was accused or even suspected by the owners of the mi missing sing animals I always kept very quiet and should not have told you you now if I thought it would go aily any further and from what I can see of the new york p papers apers they have a diffie different rent idea hero here about animals from what we have in boston but you dont care about that sort of thin thing g now I remarked you oil would not kill cats in new vork york to please anybody I indendi habit the they say is is second nature and I took such a pride in my quiet success at it that I can scarcely see a cat now without fixing it if I get the chance |