The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-15
THE COON-CAT TICKET.

We are under heartfelt obligation to
Mr.. Sewa1rs Organ, the Bulletin, for
calling the attention of the Advertiser,
a few days ago, to what 1T called
breed of political cats" that is found |
here. President Dole and the Adver-
tiser were designated as types OF the |
breed, and Mr.. Sewall's Organ is justly |
indignant that such a breed is permit
ted to infest these Islands. The allu-
sion to this breed Of cats reminds us of
another breed of cats, known as the
-'coon-cars" of Maine, and that one OF
the political coon-cats has been donat-
ed by the State of Maine TO this Para
disc of the Pacific, and is now, with
much cross-bred ferocity, attempting
to destroy the tropical breed of cats.
Readers of this paper may recall
description of these Maine cats, given
some months ago, a pair of them being
exhibited in Washington by the late
Mr.. Frank P. Hastings. These coon
cats are said to be a cross of the domes-
tic cat and the wild coon that infests
the woods of Maine. They are large
in size, the hair upon the body is long,
and the tails are bushy. Their singular
appearance invariably attracts atten-
tfon, just as a cross of the hippopota-
mus upon the wild goose would arrest
the eye These coon-cats are heavily
endowed with stupidity, lack personal
piety,' and are of no practical use, eX-
cepting as they present curious freak
OF nature The kittens are captured by
enterprising boys, and are sold to
tourists
All types of the animal world are,
according to the Buddhists, reproduced
in man. The State of Maine seems to
be especially favored or cursed in this
correspondence between the animal and
human races.
Owing to a singular concentration
OF events, one or more of these polltl-
cal coon-cats of Maine have been
brought here, for some all-wise pur-
pose. AS it might have been expected,
this breed of political cats has resolved
to exterminate our own breed Of po-
litical cats as Mr. Sewall's Organ calls
the members of the Dole Government
In displaying their feline strategy
these coon-cats are justly proud OF
those vicious instincts which are in the
breed It is said that these coon-cats
never make direct warfare upon other
animals, not even upon rats. In thei1
natural habitat, they spend the wake
full moments of cat-life in progressive
splitting with interludes OF cater
wauling in mongrel notes. If a domes'
tic cat appears, they instantly retire t6
the branches of trees, from which pro
tected spots, they may conduct thell
vocal warfare against civilized cats
As their occupation is exclusively spit
ting and caterwauling, they search TO
no food beyond that furnished by tn
dead birds that have been rejected b.
the civilized or domestic cat
The Advertiser has repeatedly salt
that annexation would not be an "un
mixed blessing" We have now TN
truth of this prediction. But the ad
yantages of annexation are so import
ant, that we must submit with patienc'
and resignation to the angry spitt1n:
and discordant caterwauling of thi
brace of political coon-cats that Main
ought to be thankful she is rid OF, an'
we ought to be thankful that she send
no more. She sent us the late MI
Stevens, a splendid type Of the stalWar
domestic cat, some time ago, and Il
gratitude for it, we will endure the IN
Fiction of this mongrel breed. Greatl
Obliged to Mr. Sewall's Organ, for sug
costing the existence of "polltlca
cats