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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1965)
. | A ~ a) Kitten Steambo NITEN oteampoO Lincoln’ Lincoins e LL HIS i LIFE Abe Lineoln hipe irresistibl attra ig e b the bea and the in- depend spirit of cats. * While grea battle j age r e Man stories are told about this, but one of the best is the tale of kittens. Lincoln’s three battlefield thr ee tiny, meéwin © * helpe Presid j war _ weary aan anguish . what In the the ease: i happene spring of 1865 the Civil War was drawing to a close. The Confedera arm was preparin for the final battle near: Richmond and ‘General Grant relentlessly was pressin the attack. Heavyhearte over the blood yet to ‘b spilled President Lincoln de- This ‘ cats sate § mind ® the battle- cided to visit Grant near field bringing his 11-year- son : B : Tad- for company. Lincoln At the Union camp, talked with. the general and then Inthe tele- visited the wounded. grap hut, he was studyin battle SAUNDERS MARYA x, dispatche whe he heard a plaintive He and Tad looked about and then Tad droppe to his knees. Peering under a cot, h pulle out three small, mud-caked kittens. cry. se fluff, frolic in his stovepip hat. Later, as the kittens purred in his lap his tire face would relax. The President complete his tour of th battlefields, an he Tad and The officer of the hut mother was dead Linco picke up one of the mewing kittens and wipe its eyes with his hand- kerchief. “Poor kittens,” he aid. “But thank God you’re only «cat that their the kittens’ boarded the steamboat River Quee for the trip back to Washington. The atmosphe on the and cannot understand the terrible battle going on nearby.” The President and Tad left, but they often would sto at the tele- grap hut and play with the kit- tens. When the Presidential party moved on, Tad begge his father to let him take the kittens, Lincoln found it hard to refuse the boy’ reque and so the kittens were bundled into the carriage. In the day that followed; the President visited the. battlefields aroun Richmond and watched through field glasse as Confeder- ate and Union armies fought eac other on the wet spring fields. In the evenin he woul return to camp, his deep- eyes dark with a exhaustion and sorrow. Alone in his tent with Tad, he would watch the three white kit- tens now frisky, well-fed balls of boat was now charge with excite- ment, Rumors of General Lee’s sur- render were everywhere A goo deal of the trip, Linctin sat in the sunlight at th bow of the boat resting while Tad and the kittens frisked on the deck. Short- ly before their arrival, the Presi- dent gentl explaine to the bo that the bus White House would not be a proper plac for kittens. He would make arrangements for them to stay aboard. Young Tad Lincoln reached beneath — : - & the bunk in the telegrap hut and pulle out the bedraggle kittens. s DELIGHTE but when the boat docked and the Presi- dent went to his cabin to pick up his papers, he found the bo in tears. Between sobs Tad explaine he ha heard two soldiers say that cats on a boat are ‘ba luck and the kittens should be drowned. “We can’t let that happen cried Tad. The President frowned. Perhap -he was thinking of the battlefiel he had seen, the dead soldiers. “You right Tad,” he said. “There&# been: enoug of killing. This is what we& do. We& giv the kittens an. official title so..no one can hurt them.” Reachin for a card he scrib- AD SEEMED . oS, . °° bled an kittens executive order. designate were The three ‘Official Mouse Catchers of the Steamboat River Queen. Clutching the note Tad flew out of the cabin to prese it.to the captai of the boat. President Lincoln stood at the door of his cabin with one of the | cuppe in his larg hand said’he whispere softly, “Let there be an end to dyin let there be an end to pain.” There was. That.day, Palm Sun- day April 9 186 the news reache kittens and it is Washingt as the River Quee was docking: Lee had surrendered his in Virginia. The terrible army ILLUSTRATI B WILLARD READE War between the States & was over. = ‘Imagin wide- art love : the : Weekly / February Family , Icy winds whistle may across the LEONAR $. DAVIDOW s b frozen lakes and streams, but that ; won& stop he can pull an ice in a fisherman when wiggling fish. The photograph is b Frank Klune. President WALTER C DREYFU Associate PATRICK E O'RO oud 7 19 Publis ROBER FITZGIBBON Publisher Ezecuti Vice colors BEN KARTMAN President WILLIAM V. HUSSE Advertising Manaper MORTON FRANK Vic President, Publisher and Advertising Director Relations ARDEN EIDEL Editor-in-Chief Executive Editor Managing Editor PHILLIP DYKSTR Art Director MELANIE D PROF Food Editor Advertisin office: 179 N. Michiga Ave., Chicag Ill. 6060 Keoorial tue 4 F fore N V NY 10 eee © 196 PROCESSIN AND BOOK INC. Chicag III. All right reserved, ‘ Oneo olhyw e giat colors ar a a ¢ and wh Thes eyes ar home d colors 8
