The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01

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| champagne sauce and pig with sweet
potatoes and cider. Is there a beast
| OF the fields that loves dirt as does the
| hog! Why, before the Christian era
! hog meat was regarded as polluted.
1t is still polluted. Flesh ailments are
more frequently produced by too much
pork than by any other food Yet
you revel in hogs flesh and say q
nice tender burro is unfit for even pc
ons. Out upon you, fie, and also
avaunt.
Did you ever notice that cows.
steers, neat cattle of all kinds are
dirty of habit? They drink filthy wa
tef, eat nasty scrapings, and no mat
ter what the pedigree, how blue-b blood
ed the bit beastie,' the neat animals
are far from being neat. They 1eek
or the stenches Of the corral are dirty
by preference, roll in mud to stop the
biting flies, and altogether behave
themselves with less conventionality
than football players. Yet their flesh
is good to eat. OF course, the filth is
chemically purified by the fact of kill
ing the animal.
Who ever saw horse or dog that
was very dirty? Not one of you In
fact, these animals are VIGOROUSLY
cleanly in their habits. Either must he
very thirsty before he will indulge in
the contents of a green coated stag
haHI pooi. Neltnef is content to re-
pose in his own filth; both will take
"a bath at the first opportunity. Yet
they are 'unclean,' unfit for food
Why? Sentiment, and sentiment alone.
But about that dog eating. 1 was
away out in the Northwest with a par
ty of friends. We ran out of food sim
ultaneously and were in land where
brickbats if sown would not grow
bric-a-brac. 1t was a desperate situa-
mi n lyp Wp .na1
the distance and found that by dill
gent travelling we could reach some
thing to eat in two weeks Well, we
concluded to sacrifice mule. That is,
we thought we would. But in the par
ty was a. fellow who had been among
the redskins, 50 he killed a nice, gem
tile puppy, lost the head and came in
with a story of a fine antelope. We
cooked and ate the pup under the i'm
preston we We're regaling on antelope.
Hanged if you could tell the differ
ence. Possibly if we had known it
beforehand we might for Ignorance is
often bliss and sometimes blister. We
all ate and were satisfied. The meat
was tender and the flavor, while gamy,
was not bad. OF course when we
found out what had been done we mix
ed war medicine with the cook, but
that did not help, as the dog had been
eaten He told us strange stories of
having attended Omaha feasts and Of
having partaken of grasshopper soup.
He also said grasshoppers roasted were
real delicacies
I'VE looked for bad results, but got
none. Then some wit in the band re-
ferred to the frequency with which
and good dog rhyme, but we
fell upon him and he was i'll. The
redskins regale themselves on dog and
are none the worse for it, In fact,
teachers of physical development might
learn a few tricks from these aborig-
inees. No man who has eaten dog died
of the complaint, although | confess to
an elevated sensation in the neither re-
gions of my stomach when / recall my
sole effort But while the feast pro-
crossed I did a good knife and fork,
for 1 fondly thought l was managing
the gay gazelle and not the dutiful.
albeit slothful, pointer who had &C
us on our pilgrimage.
You all remember something of the
siege of Paris? Well, things unmen-
tionable at polite tables We're eaten dur
ing the time the gay Parisians were IN
closed within their city's walls Menus
instead of Offering pate de, foie gras
with chateau yquem made mention OF
4 large cold bottle and a small hot
The tiny rodents who made an
Edam cheese look like cents ceased
from their nibbling and were at rest.
They were garnished with greens and
fringed with ehampignons; they were
served on silver plate which had never
borne anything less plebelan than
oheasants and truffles and the populace
waxed fat and defiant, sang the Mar
sellaise, and held out yet few days
onger.
why, then, if the Parisians found
nice delectab le-and the historians SO
'ecord it-should the burghers of Chem 4
litz recoil from 'hund schnitzel? Then
.hink of the great variety from which
o choose. The truculent bulldog may in
line displace the round of beef. He has
he best of it, for he is clean brute.
The Italian greyhound will beat out the
noble turkey in delicacy and flavor,
While the lowly dachshund-only as to
lis legs-will be fit for the tables of his
varlike majesty. 1t it all from the point
If view. If you don't like dog and can
get cat take the cat. But if Tables
ire scarce and mice at a high premium
slice of the line of great Dane will
suffice Spaniel is better than rabbit
md pointer outclasses tenderloin. Let
lin who hungers for meat STAY his dog
md he shall be filled.
"Of course, if you insist it will make
-ou sick, it will. Inverted Christian
Science is distinct success, whatever
nay be the fate of the direct applica-
ion. But don't condemn anything SIM
,ly because several centuries of igno-
amuses have preceded you. Nothing Is
o strong as precedent, and let me tell
'ou on the side, nothing is based on as
rifling and unsatisfactory arguments.
"It is all a case of sentiment Will
abandon tradition and indulge in dog
neat? No, nix; not for me. AS 1 said
n the beginning so I now declare am
creature of environment, as the rest
f you are. 1 am not a missionary nor
ret an advanced thinker. l merely as
ert that things are not bad or unfit for
God merely because some hundreds of
Millions of my fellow men for some
hundreds of years have asserted them
0 be without giving the matter prac-
ical test"