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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1880)
June, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. A NATIONAL CAT SHOW. We learn from a letter in an Eastern exchange that tbey have jnat had a national puaiy fair at Boston, and onr young folks would, no doubt, like to read the following account of it. It wu held in Mimic Hall where 300 cats of all colon and sizes were exhibited in large cagea on tablea that reached from end to end of this great room, while on the platform under the organ were aome of the handsomest oata in the pret tiest cat hornet you ever saw. "Peerleea" and "Daisy" two lovely Angora eats with silken hair 5 or 6 inches long, occu pied a cage oovered with rosea, heliotrope, car nations, nn i lux, etc., with lace ourtains looped back with flowers. These cats had been brought up in a greenhouse; so their mistress thought it would feel more like home if they could seo and amell the aweet flowers they loved so well. In a cage near by, lying in her blue-lined basket on a blue cushion, was "Topsy," a splendid Maltese, 20 lbs, in weight; and by the side of her in a satin-lined case, wa the prize she had won a handsome silver JUh-ilice! Wasn't that a suitable present for a pimy? But I must tell you about silver-tabby "Oonie," and what ahe got for a prize. She waa so beautifully marked I Jet black bars and dashes on a silvery tabby color, and her fur was soft aa velvet. Over her cage was her pho tograph, she was lying in a large fluted shell; and then another picture in a musliu milled cap looking aweet and motherly I Hangiug up in her oage waa an elegant silver cream pitoher that waa " Ionic's" prize, and I think it was a very nioe present for a cat too, for I'll war rant "Gonie" loves cream. There were a great many handsome silver prizes given, but I oouldn't begin to tell you all about them, or the 300 cats I eaw-eome so big that they weighed 25 lbs., and aome so long that they measured 42 and 44 inohesl Then there were all kinda of oata you ever heard of. The "Manx" oata that haven't sot a bit of a tail; and the beautifttj "Persian" and "Angora" that have long large tails almost like an ostrich plume; and "Tortoise-shell" oata and "liger and "Tabby" oata; and white oats with blue .... and white cats with brown eyes; and oata with double pawa like mittens, and cats with ever ao many toea on their feet; and oats lint winlil in rim IS ft- and oata without a bit ,,f kafa and in. ver had an v : and aome with silkv. liolden hair aix inohea longl Then there ..,..1, . , ,;! ancialdu little fellow - a "Monkey" oat from Madagascar; his tail and listl. i,,..u ..! Hnnn were like a monkey B, buthehadasharp, intelligent fat face, whioh i. ,..,.,,1,1 I,,,!,. I .t. wren his fore uaws when he wanted to take a nap bringing his tail all up over it aa much aa to say-"Now please don t disturb ma" I oame to a large oage where tumbling over eaoh other and having royal lun nT ..., 1 L,H,.im " and beauties they nolo HU pbwiiiwu - -- , , . - wi.i-a' In the unit aisle waa a snow-white Iwi.niifnl familv "Tinker." the mother deoo rated with red ribbons; her two eldest eons (twins) the "Oorsioan brothers,' in uru. menu; and the babes, the "Pinafore . twins, three weeks old, dreaaed in pink. "W hat oun ning little darlings!" the children would ex claim. "Oh, mammal lift me up please, must see puasy'a babies!" Health im Obmiiouh8. Dr. J. M. An a L. - ; ii, i,,l-,it Tim" on the by .; .... ,i,.,r.iw.ntifi relation" of house plant assert that plants are not injnnona, but quite the contrary, and that persona accustomed to the moist air of greenhouses, are not, aa a gene ral rule, ahort-lived or oonanmptive. 1...- --..M tf 1 U l.ka who trouble- him iniURMIUI aw , i. ta self the least about the verdict that may paaaed upon him by hi. posterity, -doing good honest work to the best of hi. abil ity, uoder exiating conditions, lie own oeedmg great reward." THE LITTLE AFRICAN WHO WANTED AN EDUCATION. The little blaok boy stands holding out two little leopards. What does he want! Lat Edward S. Morris, of Philadelphia, the friend of the benighted dwellers in the "dark conti nent," tell the story: It was at auuset one beautiful Sabbath day, aa I stood for the laat time on the beaoh at Monrovia, waiting for my boat to take me out to the auohnrud vessel at sea. A little native boy, from the jungles of Africa in the immediate rear of the negro re public of Liberia, eamo to ms, bowing low, but with his eyes firmly tixe.il upon 1110. I told him to staud up and never bow to man. Under standing my actions mnre than words, he stood up. I then said, "What do you want?" In broken, disjointed English the host the little and then I resolved myself into a lifelong com mittee of one, with power to act, promising to leave nothing undone to practically answer the cry of that little boy. One-half the a usi of money required to build a school-house for SO boys in Liberia, and properly conduct it for live continuous veara, it la fully believed will be contributed by Christian men and women m Enulaiid. The other half I hope to receive in my own land, from the good and benevolent of America. Only f2, 100 are now wanted to in augurate the school-house in Christian Liberia the open door to heathen Africa. CUMUI ANiiOoMaUKCi. What are the forces that keep thousands from starving in England to-day ? Are thoy not the foroee l capital ami commerce! Who are the meu that tlius feed the hungry? Are they only the philanthro pists, the reformers, the advocates of this or 1 SaBllaBalHBrVlrBaHBr ' "V fii,J3S. sr " the neoho boy orrama fellow oould utter-and pointing out to the ahin sue "You (iiMI-man v" in" 'K. amp, sam. j SJarfcai i.," 1 tH h. fortnl to say "No" to the little fellow. I said it not harshly, but in mild and gentle accents; whereupon ho immedistely drew forth from the folds of a cloth around him, two little leopard., alive with unopened eyes, and presenting them said: "Me give him; you big America, big ship, learn oig r.ng...... j - of it, the mother leopard must to hi. kno.l erliie have lieen near when he captured her kitten.; still, that hungry, thirsting child risked his life to earn a passage to America solely to gain an education. This little boy oould have obtained as hla DaaMme-money -without any such risk M life -.Wot or a beautiful geaelle, the tuek of aa elephant, or large e-ring. of pur. Africa, gold; but no, he wanted to con.mo. me at Us beginning, not only of bis a.MM burning desire for -location - fur b.g English, " ...i.-M ao suddenly end unexpectedly brought into action. I only LEOPAIIDS KOU I.KAHNlNd. that iienaooa fur the ill. that allnot humanity I Ear from it. They are the (larralla, the Mentis and the Vanderbill, the Cuu&rda, the Allans and the Uylanda, and all the leas known mem bers of the uuUerned profession, who, perhaps aware of, or more or lees Iguurant of, their true function, are yet the agent by whoa work na tion an sustained. No heuevoleuc, no alms giving, oould possibly reach the need; and if It could, It woulil paoin.. tiioas wno reoenen, and ruin thiew who gave- -It would work both moral, mental aud material degradation. It la by the uae of capital that the vent orope ol lb great West are prodaoed; it u by u.e use ,.r capital that they are moved; and It ia the work of comma roe, conducted by buainsae men seek ing wealth for ihemaalvea only, that distributee the vast store over wider awl wulsr areas, and thua rendera the etruggla for esistooe leas arduous for each suoueediiig geiiereUoo of men. Ws are more nearly a nation of shop keepers than any other, and nsay wail be thankful for the distinction. AltanlK Monthly or Jni. know that there Will lis to. ships are on apsakiug term., U..y