Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14
All FAN A DOPE FIEND.
nor A CHIN AM AN, BUT AN Or
BINARY MALTESE CAT.
All Fan Made the Acquaintance of QuOng
Ho Fat and That GuilefuI Celes-
tial Led Pussy Astray-A
Sad Feline Wreck.

There is in Chinatown a cat that
has become confirmed opium fiend.
This four-footed ''dope" fiend is
part Maltese, its fine breed appear
ing in its long, slender tail and in the
gray color and peculiar markings OF
its body. But it's dover of beauty
extends no further. It's feet and legs
are white, or would be if they were
not very dirty; its body is long, thin,
and ungainly; a big black spot ex-
tends over one ear and the surround
ing territory, and the other ear, in
some long past night of combat, be-
fore puss allowed vigor, energy, and
aggressiveness TO float away on mid
night fumes, suffered deep slit. Also
the creature is cross-eyed and has a
big, fiat, plebeian nose.
All Fan was not always o China
town cat. It's owner, Sing Chun Flu,
was once a servant with family on
Ellis street in which All Fan, then
possessed of a Mclean name and o
blue ribbon around its neck, was
house cat. The cat and the China
man struck up a great friendship,
and when the family moved away to
Los Angeles Sing carried the cat to
Chinatown and set up in business as
a merchant. Puss thrived in its new
home and was as sleek, contented,
and happy as it had been among civ
llized surroundings, says the San
Francisco Examiner. 1t was noticed
and caressed by all the frequenters of
sings store and became the pet of all
the neighboring Cinnamon.
And especially so of Quong Ho Fat.
who had street booth near Sings
store in which he sold sugar cane and
Their dainties-when he wasn't
lreaming the dreams of the poppy
ina the pipe in an opium joint not
tar away. The cat frequently visited
uong's booth, where it was feasted
on choice bits OF fish and meat and
cuddled under his blouse while he sat
in the sun
AMI enc day, filled with some per-
verse and unaccountable cat notion,
it followed Quong when he left his
% 9th. That was the beginning OF
Al Fans ruin.
For Quong went straight to the
opium joint, and when he lay down
n the bunk All Fan curled up beside
i'm. The cat was curious about the
proceeding and put up its nose to
nell of the pipe and the smoke that
anne from Quong's lips.
You likee him?" said Quong. "All
ght. Smoke heap plenty" And he
utfed m ore smoke into the cats face.
What happened after that-except
moke--and what DIR ans visited
rimalkin's brain none may know.
sat All Fan appeared in Sings store
ne next day. looking very languid,
nd with it's cross eyed pupils smaller
ian even da light and sunshine
ught to make tn I'm.
And whatever the dreams were All
AN must have liked them, for the
ext time Quong visited the opium
Oint the cat trotted alter him. That
vas some II onths ago, and ever since
zen the man and the cat have been
requent, and sometimes constant
>atrons of the joint.
As soon as Quong lies down All
an curls up beside him under his
IRA, with head stretched up close to
is lips, eager to breathe the fumes
rat escape them. Quong treats his
"mpanion in vice with great con-
deration. He frequently puffs
youthful of smoke into the cats face
without having first inhaled it him
elf. He has tried several times to
induce puss to furnish its own smoke,
nut the cat protested so vigorously
gainst the pipestem put into its
nouth that he has had to give up the
dea But he always lies so as to
We the c1t the advantage of all the
moke that comes from his own
mouth. Ane II All Fan isn't around
hen he gets ready to go to the den
le looks up his friend and off they go
together.
The opium-smoking Chinese take
treat interest in the case of All Fan,
md his tale has been told in joints
md laundries and kitchens all over
the state. The writer first heard of
one cat, he smoke opium in Flisco,"
N little stage station away up in
the mountains. His owner Sing,
would not even talk on the PROPOSE
ton of selling him and Quong would
not part with his friend and compan-
ion for enough money to take him
back to China.
AS for All Fan-poor All Fan is be-
yond all hope of reform or cure.
Even all Los Gatos and DR.. Kelley
included could not cure All Fan OF
the longing for poppy-fed sleep.
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