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LONDON'S “CATS' MBIT" MBS.
A <taerr Indnutr)' by S' hloli Br
-tnnea Are Amnsned.
From She London Daily Chronicle.
In view of the dinner to the cats’ meat
men of London, which Is to take.place
soon, the following facte, supplied by one
who claims to know much of the class
which purveys meat for the domestic pet,
may be of interest.
Two cases which have within the last
few years come before different courts of
law amply shows how profitable a trade,
in London at least, supplying cats’ meat
is. In one of these ctases, a probate suit,
a certain testator had left £20,000, every
penny of which had been practically made
in a little, over twenty-seven years by
means of a West End cats’ meat round,
which the testator had originally acquir
ed, for a payment of £6OO. from his father,
who, according to one of the witnesses,
spent a fortune in “following horse
races.” The same witness declared that
the testator would have left twice as
much as he did but for luckless opera
tions in music hail and public house prop
erty. The other case was one that came
before the magistrate at Southwark. A
comely young woman of ebout 25 years
of age appeared in the witness box with
a profuse display of really fine diamonds.
The magistrate—at that time Mr. Fen
wick—seemed astonished when the wit
ness told him that she was a “domestic
animals’ butcher,’ and further questions
elicited the fact that her father had left
her -the business two years before, and
that she cleared out of it £lO a week reg
ularly.
To those who have Inquired into the facts
of this trails such a statement would rep
resent but a commonplace. A cats’ meat
round has frequently yielded anything
from £3OO to t4OO when it came Into the
market, and there Is one wail-known West
End round that changed hands for f1.20n.
about a couple of years ago. But this
trade, like most of the best rounds, hav
ing been In the hands of the same fami
lies during three or four generations. The
huge buildings let out into flats, and now
no common, have increased the monetary
value of cats’ meat rounds to a wonder
ful extent. One single building of this
kind is reckoned to be worth £3OO a year
clear to himself by the “purveyor.” who
has the sole right of supply, and though
this Is an exceptional case, other great
blocks of flats are proportionately valua
ble. Certain public buildings, like the
government ones In Whitehll, have a high
value when a round comes into the mar
ket.
It must always be recollected that, al
though most of the purveyors buy daily
fn one great central market, yet ore tho
varieties and quantities of meat they ac
quire almost as much diversified as in the
case of meat for human beluga, and the
West End cats’s meat provider obtains
prices that would be absolutely Impossi
ble, even in genteel villadom. But, In re
gard to the latter class, there is a Dul
wich fiats’ meat man who Is a property
owner on a very expensive scale; and an
other South London dealer, who still does
Ills own buying and delivering, has giv
en uni versify education to certain of his
sons, one of whom Is a clergyman.
Those of the public who may Imagine
that there Is no room for Initiative and
Ingenuity in the cats' meat trade are
vastly mistaken. In Kensington an enter
prising young fellow Is said to be making
h fortune through the happy Idea of sup
plying, on request, flsh lnatesd of meat
for the cats of bis round. The pets of the
prosperous can obtain meat at almost any
time, and they will not look, for the most
part, at the wares of the cats' meat man.
Bin no cat elfin reals! a tasty bli of flsh,
be It offered when It may, and a huge
aorcesa Is the result of the Innovation.
Again, there are certain purveyor* who
take the troubis to obtain a close knowl
.<!< of every single animal on their
> , ,pda and tta iwsla peculiarities. This*
GRAYBEARD
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IN THE CURE OF
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knowledge once gained, the cats’ meat
man buy* and cuts his portions accord
ingly, taking care that each cat gets its
favorite bit. All chancte of rivalry is re
moved for once by this means, for a oat
will not for weeks, unless driven by des
perate hunger, touch the strange cuts of
anew purveyor.
Certain of the London cats’ meat men
rely largely, both lor extrn income and
for continued patronage, upon thir skill
in doctoring “pussy,” and one of the craft
told the present w rlter, giving names and
dates, that he had frequently received as
much as a. sovereign for restoring a cat
to health, while on two occasions he had
been paid live times as much. His "cat
powders" have not only brought him a
regular harvest of coppers for years, but
have served as an Introduction to some
thousands of customers for meat.
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Where Black Rule* " Kite,
From the New York Sun.
Fnder the above title we have in book
form a series of newspaper articles writ
ten by Mr. Hesketh Prichard for the
Daily Express of London, descriptive of
a journey across and about Hayti. The
black republic has alw r ays presented it-
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self to the consideration’of the judicious
as a good place to stay away from, and
ihese lightly sketched impressions of Mr.
Richard's will confirm any reader in that
belief. Stifling heat, a malarial atmos
phere, noise, dirt and a conglomeration
of abominable smells seem to be the dis
tinguishing characteristics of a Haytian
town. A handful of foreigners in the isl
and control Us business, while its gov
ernment is in the hands of a number of
ignorant, superstitious and lazy negroes
—mostly generals. All the doleful prophe
cies of Sir Spencer St. John, who lived
for many years in Hayti and who wrote
of the country somewhere back in the
early 80s, seem to have come true. Mr.
Prichard is an Englishman and he suf
fered much from the heal, the noises,the
smells end the mosquitoes. He met an
American in Port-au-Prince who told him
a story of a man who had previously
occupied Mr. Prichard’s room in the ho
tel, and who shot a mosquito there with
an elght-bpre duck gun and only wound
ed it. But we must in justice to Mr.
Prichard admit that he does not seem to
have believed that story. Still, he saw
many things that were scarcely less
strange. He was present at a Vaudoux
ceremony. He believes that cannibalism
CORSET SKIRT AND COVER,
THE .MOUSING NEWS: EH ID AY. FEBItUAKY 8, 1901.
and human sacrifice still exist on the isl
and unchecked, and, if anything, encour
aged by the ruling powers. Secret poison
ing also, he says, pervades the scheme
of Hoytiau life exactly as it pervades
tiiat of West Africa. He calculates that
about every third man you meet in Hay
ti is a general. amPthat only every tenth
general is paid, but every general tries
to pay himself. This nominal pay is £l4O
per annum for a general of division, and
£lO5 for a brigadier. A captain gets £ls
a year and’ a private has the wildly prod
igal allowance uf about £2 JOs., or $12.50
a year, end that not always forthcom
ing. As to tiie government of the. negro
republic, we will let him speak for him
self. “When you know," he says, "how
the Haytian soldier is paid, you know
how Hayti is governed. The principle is
one and indivisible. The paymaster takes
toll of 50 centimes and passes it on to
the'first general. The first general, who
is a eery big general, indeed, hands it
on in slimmer bulk to the second gener
al. He in his turn transfers it, further
diminished, to Ids next in command. The
captain lightens it, lest it should be too
heavy for the lieutenant to carry, and
the lieutenant, not liking to break the
chain, takes his own discount; thus the
soldier who receives five centimes is in
luck; he who gets ten is a favorite of
the gods. And when, at last, he has pock
eted it, his lieutenant comes along and
wins it off him at the universal game
of dice.”
The choice of various kinds of malaria,
the ever frequent proximity of several
forms of loathsome disease, and several
other matters mentioned by Mr. Prichard
will probably confirm any reader in the
opinion that Hayti Is not likely to become
an idea! pleasure resort.
MAHK TWAIN OX AMENT.
The Humorist Does Not I,lke the Mis
sionary’* Methods.
.Mark Twain’s article in the North Amer
ican Review for February. “To the Person
bitting in Darkness,” uses this quotation
front the Chinese news of last December:
“The Rev. Mr. Ament, of the Ameri
can Board of Foreign Missions, has re
turned from a trip which he made for the
purpose of collecting indemnities for dam
nges done by Boxers. Everywhere he
went he compelled the Chinese to pay.
He says that all his native Christians oie
now provided for. He had 700 of them
under Ills charge, and SOO were killed. He
lias collected 500 taels for each of ihese
murders, and has compelled fuM payment
for nil the property belonging to Chris
tians that was destroyed. He also as
sessed tines amounting tp thirteen times
the amount of the Indemnity. Tilts money
will lie used for the propagation of the
(b spot.
"Mr. Ament declares that the compen
sation lie has collected Is moderate when
compared with the amts nit secured by the
Catholic*, who demand. In addition to
mont y, head for band. They collect s>m
taels for each murder of a Catholic. In
the Wen-Chiu country 680 Catholics were
killed, and tor this the European Catho
lic*.' here demand 750,000 strings of cash
ar.d 680 heads.
“In the course of a conversation. Mr.
Ament referred to the altitude of the
mission, .rhs toward the Chinese. Hi?
s.iidc
“1 deny emphatically that the mission
aries ire vindictive, that they generally
looti-I. or that they have done anything
s nee the siege that the circumstances
did not demand. I criticise the Ameri
can*. The ,< ft hand of the American*
Is not au good a* the mailed flat of the
Herman*. If >oti deal with the Chinese
With a .'oil mind they wll. lake advantage
of SI.
“Ttte *>muinn; ,thut the French gov.
< :niiH£d wll’. return the loot taken by tlw*
Fun eh soldier* is the source of the great
est ultlUSellltW here. The French sot
<dl is w ere mot's tygtcmatlc looter* tha 1i
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the Germane, and it is a fact that to-day
( atholiu Christian*, carrying French flags
and armed with modern guns, are looting
villages in the Province of Chi-Id.’ ”
Commenting on that the humorist said:
“By happy luck we get all these glad
tidings on Christmas Eve—just in time to
enable us to celebrate the day with proper
gayety and eniiiusiasm. Our spirits soar,
and we find we can even make jokes:
Taels 1 win. heads you lose. Our Rev.
Ament is the right man iii the right
place. What we want of our mission
aries out there is not that they shail
merely represent in their acts and per
sons the grace and gentleness and charity
and loving kindness of our religion, but
that they shall also represent the Ameri
can spirit. .
“Our Rev. Ament is justifiably jealous
of those enterprising Catholics, who not
only get big money' for each lost convert,
but get ‘head for head’ besides. But he
should soothe himself with the reflection
that the entirety of their exactions are
for their own pockets, whereas he, less
selfishly, devotes only 300 taels per head
to that service, and gives the whole vast
thirteen repetitions of the property in
demnity to the service of propagating the
Gospel. His magnanimity has won him
the approval of his nation, and will get
him a monument. Let him be content with
these rewards. We all hold him dear for
manfully defending his fellow missionaries
from exaggerated charges, which were
beginning to distress us. but which his
testimony has so considerably modified
that we can now contemplate them with
out noticeable pain. For, now we know
that, even before the siege, the mission
aries were not ‘generally’ out looting, and
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“I suffered of rheumatism a long time, and found
nothing to relieve me until I took GRAYBEARD. I
tried almost everything I heard of, that is in the line of
blood medicines. All of them failed. GRAYBEARD
cured me sound and well. I can’t praise it enough. I
will recommend it to anybody having Rheumatism.
“C. C. CLARK,
“No, 420 Park Avenue, Savannah, Ga. M
that, ‘since the siege,’ they have acted
quite handsomely, except when ‘circum
stances’ crowded them. I am arranging
for the monument. Subscriptions for it
can be sent to the American Board; de
signs for it can be sent to me. Designs
must allegorically set forth the Thirteen
Reduplications of the indemnity, and the
object for which they were exacted; as
ornaments, the designs must exhibit 6SO
heads, so disposed as to give a pleasing
and pretty effect; for the Catholics have
done nicely, and are entitled to notice in
the monument. Mottoes may be suggest
ed, if any shall be discovered that will
satisfactorily cover the ground.”
I.KV, HIHRI SO VS APT APHORISMS.
The Ex-President's Keen Irony and
Sharp Sarcasm Riddle Imperialism
and Puncture Its Hypocrisies.
From the February North American Re
view.
Is the morality of the motto, “My coun
try, right or wrong.” susceptible of de
fense?” Is it not to say: “It is right to do
wrong?”—for the sentiment implies action.
A country at war is very intolerant—
the home guards more than the veterans,
and the lolitieians most of all.
To speak against the war, to impugn its
justice, is to encourage the enemy. Tour
magnanimity and sense of justice will be
praised by the alien people in whose be
half your voice was raised. They may
even build monuments in your honor, as
we did to Pitt; but the home newspapers
A URITIBIi TEA GOWN,
will, while you live, make you wish you
had never been born; and, when you are
dead, they will now and then exhume
your skeleton to frighten those who live
after you.
Was there a duty upon Senator Hoar
to keep silence? His motives were unim
peachably pure. All agree that he wag
not seeking the applause of his country
men of this generation. All agree that
he has the old New England conscience
and the old American fervor for liberty
and human rights. Possibly, he lacks the
mercantile spirit. He may not give suffi
cient consideration to the metals and coal
and forests of the Philippines.
There is a semblance of unreason in
charging the man who is trying to stop a
fight with the bruises and wounds that
ensue upon the failure of his efforts.
A patriot may. if his conscience cannot
otherwise be quieted, oppose a war upon
which his country has entered; but if he
does so he puts his fame in the keeping
of a distant generation of his country
man. or possibly of an alien people.
We must not forget that the soldier
who fights the war does not declare a.
He must not denounce it, nor must, any
patriot denounce him.
As to the doctrine of "spheres of influ
ence”—the modern euphemistic rendering
of territorial pocket-picking—we have de
nied its application to this hemisphere and
denied to ourselves the use of it any
where.
A world power seems to be a powr
having the purpose to take over so mum
of the world as it can by any means pos
sess. and having with this appetite for
dominion military’ strength enough to
compel other nations having the sail
appetite to allow or divide the spoils
There has been an attempt to associate
the United States with the programme or
civilization upon the theory that the
"Anglo-Saxon'’ has a divine concession
that covers the earth. This appeal to '
divine decree is itself o concession to 11 ’
Anglo-Saxon common-law rule that
plaintiff In ejectment must show title.
The argument runs thus: “The earth
the 1-ord’s and the fullness thereof
much is of the record. The next step >-
most difficult, for there is no prophet, no
sealed tr&nfer, no mention by name of to '
Anglo-Saxon. "The meek shall Inherit
the earth”—but the boldest advocate or
expansion dare not suggest, as the mlnem
premise, that John Bull and Uncle a*
are of that class. T
We must get away from all texts,
fear. Perhaps this is the l>est that can
be done; certainly it is the best that ha-<
been done— Major premise: God’s purpose
is that men shall make a full and the M
use of all His gifts. Minor premise: Do
minion is one of His gifts, and the Anglo-
Saxon makes a better use of dotmni >
than the Uatln. or the Boera. or the Chi
nese. Conclusion: The Anglo-Sax
therefore, executes a divine purpose when
he subdues these people and takes oi<
their lands.
If to be a world power is to do as 11
world powers do. then we must disc.a n
this new degree, which the* Euroi'co
College of Applied Force ha* conferreu
neon us. The taking over of the i niup
pines has been declared by those w
should know to have been easual-or n
- acceptance of a divinely
lsed duty. The question of the dlspos -
lion of them, when their people han
have submitted to legal authority,
said to le still open. All of which I* ‘
say that the acquisition of these distan
Islands does not commit the nation to a
scheme of colonization.
l,et us not be a 'world power In an
save the good old sense-that of a nati t>
capable of protecting In all sea a the jus
rights of Its citizens and incapable ever
where of a wanton Infringement of
autonomy of other nations.
—K. l. Reed, one of the founders o'
tillvet t’ollege, celebrated ills golden wed
ding at Olivet. Mich., tin* other day. Th
occasion was observed by the entire col
lege, and the faculty gave a dinner l"
tha evening in honor of Mr. and '•
I Reed.