The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-06
THE CANINE RACE.
Dogs AS the Food as Well as the Friends
of Mankind.

of Mankind.
Darwin relates somewhere that when
tho inhabitants of TERRA del Fuepo aro
pressed by famine they kill and cat their
old women rather than their dogs. md
that in Australia fathers will sacrifice
their children i'll order that tho mothers
may DC able to nourish this useful servant
oil men. The Chinese, however, tend and
iattcn their dogs carefully to cat They
also consider tho cat II choice dish. At
Pcking and throughout China there is no
dainty rcpast without its nllct or leg of
dog. The cat is rathcra dish of the poorer
classes.
history tells us that in early times tho
dog Was always regarded us an cdiblo ami
maj. Tho inhabitants of certain MONIES of
Egypt pio,sly cmbalmcd their dead dogs
but Others considered that it was moro in
conformity to the doctrines of n wise econ
omy to Kill and cat them Plutarch tolls
us that the jewellers in Cynopolis, where
dogs wcrc honorcd as divine, made war on
tho OXyrnchis, who had committed tho
sacrilcgc of eating dogs
In his book on diet Hippocratcs, speak
ing OF common articles of food, is of tho
opinion that tho flesh of the dog gives heat
and strength, but is difficult of digestion.
Our fathers, says Pliny, regarded small
dogs as so pure IL food that they used them
Tor cXplalory victims. Even today young
dogs flesh is served ut fcasts held in honor
of the gods. -
Tho savagcs of North America, for lack
of provisions, often sacrifice their coInpnn-
ions of the chase. We are told that hcforc
the introduction of cattle tho Spauiards i'm
Mexico used the native dogs so freely ms
ioou that the species has now completely
disappeared.
The Grccnlandcrs ana the IIamchatkars
also sometimes eat their dogs, but only
when reduced To this cruel extremity by
famine. In Africa dogs form the food
of certain negro tribes In the Ashanti
country the flesh is eaten both fresh and
dried, and il appears that i'm the lower
kongo region, among the Batckcs, there is
custom that must make every friend of
uiiihb beasts rage with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
killing 4 dog fur food it, is naltrcatcd and
tortured to make tho flesh more tender.
carlsbad In 1919.
Europe must have seemed n rather lone
some place mt the beginning of this cen
fury. 50 far as Americans are concerned.
This occurred To me us | glanced over tho
list of guests who frcqucntcd Carlsbad i'm
the summer of 1919. could find but one
American, one David Parish, who was
nitcd States consul at that time, and
dwclt 1T the sign OF tho Melon on tho
Green. The burgcrmcistcr Of Carlsbad
had kindly placed the town records at my
disposal and made Il note of ore or two
curious things To-day Americans come
I" Carlsbad by the thousand every year,
and English is almost the prevailing Ian
guagc among shopkccpcrs and hotel peo-
pie In 1912 the total number of guests
was 1000. In $50, it WAS more than 49,
OOu. Then il had only four doctors, where
iis now more than 500 are occupied One
entry tells us that =, Herr j. Wolfgang Won
Goethe, grand ducnl Saxon privy council
or and minister of state from Wcimar, is
lodged ut the sign of the Three Moors on
the market place, Aug. 30.
Another entry tells that Herr Ernst
Won Bismarck, royal prussian captain
from Schocnhauscn, dwclls ut the sign of
the Gold Wreath ON the Green, May u.
This was a bismarck. but not the Bis
marcS, or even his father But the littlo
entry suggests that this member of the
great family WAS also given To high living.
and. moreover, WAS Enthusiastically
thrifty in that ic undertook his cure at Il
time of year when lodgings are only half
pricc.--llarpcr' Weekly