SLAUGHTER OF CATS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3656, 18 October 1912, Page 6

SLAUGHTER OF CATS.

THCUSA NDS SACRIFICED THROUGH A HOAX ADVERTISEMENT.

A battle of cats has been in proay t-ss in the district of Columbia dining the last six weeks, and up to the present more than 2,500 have been itcdied by the police. The cat population of Washington is believed to exceed that of any other place on the globe. Even after all this slaughter cats seem as plentiful as ever, and the Commissioners have now decided tg. ask Congress to pass a law taxing cats in the district. The origin of this remarkable feline preponderance is traced to a hoax advertisement which appeared in a local journal about twenty years ago. The announcement stated that a thousand cats were wanted by a circus manager as food for his awimals, a shilling being offered for each cat. The result "was that more than five thousand were turned lose on the city, to found innumerable families.

£ ’Better ask than go astray,” say the Italians, so always ask for Martail’s Brandy, or you may got some other served to y<fu.*

DOCTOR’S MEDICINE FAILED. “I had influenza with congestion oi the liver, took the doctor’s medicine for some weeks and got no relief,” said Mr John S. Swetman, Deep Lead, Victoria. “Then I tried Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and got immediate relief from the first dose. By the time I had finished a large bottle the disagreeabi* hacking cough and the pains in chest disappeared altogether.”*