The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-11-22

free prey to any citizen who cared to
indulge a healthy appetite; but the
court ruled otherwise. The man then
pleaded altruistic motives in the
case, alleging that he himself had
not devoured all the dog, but had
considerably invited to the feast q
number of his friends, who had
heartily partaken of the delicious re.
past. Again the court failed to
catch the point, or to discern in the
said charity any alienation of the
crime. The man, one Matsuta,
whose canine pet had proved so
tempting and toothsome morsel to
his neighbors, came in for heavy
fine for defying the law in not reg.
istering his dog before exposing 1t to
the appetites of the public.
In Japan the lower orders of life
not only make war and supply meat
but evince sundry other peculiarities
that render them invaluable concom-
itants of civilization. A few days
ago a number of people were seen
gazing intently toward the upper
limbs of large pine tree Stopping
to learn the secret of this unusual
interest, a man was observed de-
scending the tree, while a crow was
furiously cawing and beating about
his head; then it was seen that the
trespasser had possessed himself of
one OF her brood, an unpreposessing
little chick that no one could be
imagined to fancy for a pet. Asked
what he intended doing with the
young crow, he replied that 1t made
excellent medicine for the blood:
"Chl-no-michi-no kusuri," to use his
exact words. To ensure the efficacy
of the medicine, he explained, the
bird must be taken before it leaves
the nest, If possible, or, il 1t has left
the nest, before 1t gets to where it
can drink water; for, he asserted, If
it has of Itself taken water, 1t loses
all virtue as ! blood cure. The pro-
cess of preparing the remedy is, first,
kill the crow, and, without cleaning
it, to encase the body in an air-tight
covering of cement or clay. The
mould is then baked for two or three
days in hot fire. When the clay
crust is removed, naturally the crow
will be found to be black, a lump
of pure charcoal. This is pulverized
and converted into pills of the pink
order, which are very popular here
as blood regulator. He reminded
his interlocutors that the medicine
was very rare because of the diff
Guilty of finding a crow that had not
taken water. The man was perfect
ly sincere, and appeared extremely
proud of his success in having Sc
cured the bird. He was reluctant to
| leave the tree lest there should be
another one on the ground some
where.
Those who, since the brilliant
achievements of the Japanese Red
Cross Society in the late war, are ac-
customed to take for granted the ad-
vance of medical science in this
country, will, of course, bear in mind
that the practitioner under consid-
Grafton had not at this time acquired
membership in any legally recognized
therapeutic fraternity; but probably
his nostrum was quite as effective as
much of the medicine that is sold to
a large constituency at higher price
in other portions of the globe.
Another favorite remedy for un-
diagnosable ailments in this coun-
try is human liver, and citizen of
the empire has just been arrested on
the charge of having killed several
women as a means to obtaining this
somewhat unusual commodity This
phase OF japanese life seems rather
to increase the ambiguity of the old
aphorism that whether life is worth
living depends on the liver. At any
rate, it may be justly counted among
the quer things of Japan, to relate
all of which would necessitate going
on ad inflnitum.- -Harper's Weekly.