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Show TALE APPEAtS TO MYSTICS Believe Ship's Cat Foresaw the Disaster' Dis-aster' That Was to Befall the Empress of Ireland. . A tale, possibly quite true, Is told of tho cat that lived on tho steam-ship steam-ship Empress of Ireland. Just before that ill-fated vessel started from Montreal Mon-treal on tho voyage so tragically short, the cat, It Is reported, hurried 'down the gangplank with her two kittens kit-tens In her mouth, and, contrary to her established custom, took up quarters quar-ters on the wharf. Furthermore, at tho moment when tho' Empress went down the cat made .apery which "miaou" remotely literates; , All this Is easily believable barring, bar-ring, perhaps, tho carrying of two kit-itens kit-itens at once for cats have freakish notions as to the disposition of their families, and thcyfsay something like "miaou" so often that the. sound is coincident with Innumerable events. ! What really is mysterious Is that, tho conduct of this cat received, serious seri-ous consideration by tho members of an "Occult club" in London, and they took it as indicative on her part of ndvanco knowledgo of what was going to happen to tho Empress 1 Why they should do so Is beyond comprehension, comprehen-sion, as, Indeed, Is all of tho logic of tho mystlcal-mlnded to thoso ot us who happen not to bo built that way : In our upper stories. |