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
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ships are on apsakiug term., U..y