April 20, 1907.] 
THE CATAMOUNT. 
Jay Cooke’s life was now running at full tide. 
, He was asked to negotiate loans for the Mexican 
and Japanese governments. He was constantly 
in contact with financial and political leaders of 
the first rank. He fished with President Grant 
and General Moorhead in the Potomac, with 
Chase in Lake Erie, and with Senator Cattell, of 
New Jersey, off the coast of that State. Several 
Limes Mrs. Grant and the President’s sons were 
in camp with the Cookes at the financier’s South 
Mountain estate in southern Pennsylvania. An 
entire township there, which was named for Jay 
Cooke, cast its vote solidly for General Grant in 
1872, after one of their visits to the litle neigh¬ 
borhood. Here the banker was a boy with the 
rest. 
One night while he was telling them Indian 
stories, receiving their rapt attention, a hideous 
screech was heard outside. Instantly each lad 
sprang to his feet. The cry was repeated. 
“Hush!” exclaimed Mr. Cooke. “It’s a cata¬ 
mount !” 
All the boys drew revolvers, and organized a 
party to make an end to the ferocious animal. 
They at last traced it to a tree, and banged away 
without knowing that, acting under Jay Cooke’s in¬ 
structions, a man on the place, who was safely 
| hidden, was uttering the cries while holding an 
effigy aloft by a rope. Finally a shot brought 
the thing to the ground, and the boys ran up to 
daim the prize. Robert Douglas, son of Stephen 
A. Douglas, shouted exultantly, “ I killed the 
catamount!” and as soon as straw was seen pro¬ 
truding from under the skin, there was no dis¬ 
position to dispute his title to the honor. The 
next day the hills resounded with the news that 
Douglass had killed the catamount. A few years 
passed; the boy became a man, and was stump- 
ng the State of North Carolina in a contest con¬ 
ducted, if on a smaller scale, very much like the 
keries of joint debates betwen his father and 
| Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. At the end of a 
' speech it was customary to inquire if any one 
in the audience had a question to propound to 
:he orator. Finally one night Douglass was faced 
1 by an old fellow who said: “Mr. Douglass, 
I might I ask you a question?” 
“Certainly,” he answered unsuspectingly, 
j “Well, there is just one thing I would like 
to ask you, and it is this,” the man continued 
gravely, “who killed the catamount?”—Dr. Ober- 
loltzer in the April Century. 
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