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Show A NEWARK (WAN'S FOOD. Mr. Frank Scheur lives at 24 Berlin Ber-lin street, Newark. He ia a laborer iu B'anchard's tannery. His fellow laborers lor a time looked wilh envy upon ihejucy fresh meat thatScheuer iiad for Ins dinner every day, unable lo understand how he made his small wages go far enough to support a lannly and lurniso himself daily with fresh meat .One day, iu answer to au inquiry, he said: "That is not mutton; that is clogs' meat. It is good. Will you try it?1' They did not try it, al though they could hardly persuade themselves that lie spoke the truth. So better smiled at their temples. He even asked some of his fellow labor ers to visit him, and when they did so he pointed to the kennel?, iu which were several dogs fattening for the knife. When the fucU were noised abroad they created no little scandal. The neighbors ?:oudered how Sche'ir had been able lo keep so many dogs, and why he changed them so oitea, but none had suspected the truth. They had very little to do with Mrs. Scheuer, and no feeling uf frendship prevented them from making as much talk as they pleased. As Scheuer and his wile could not understand under-stand the language and the scandalous scandal-ous reprts. they went on falteuing, killing and eating dogs. Complaint of Sebeucr's doings wau made to Newark's health inspector, who found that all that bad been alleged against Scheuer was true, but ! there wad no law forbidding tho use of dog's meat for food. Scheuer told him candidly that he ate dog meat not because he was poor, but because he liked it. Frank Scheuer was found handling a-et hides in Blanchard a tannery. He ia about five lect high and very slim build. He answered questions without embarrassment or show of shame. "Do you cat dog meat because you like it?" "Yes; it is the best meat." "How long it, it since you ate it 6nt." "Oh, four or five years before I came trom Germany. A doc'.or told me to eat a dog, and it would cure my consumption. I did so, and liked it so well, that 1 havo been eating it ever since." "What meat is it most like?" "Motion or veal. That ib, when tho dog is young. If it is old it gets strong, and I havo to season it high with pepper and vinegar." 'Where do you get your dogs?" "Wherever I see a ttrny dog that looks hungry, I taku iL home and feed it until it gets fat. Then, whenever a person gets tired of his dog, and wauls to get rid of him, 1 fake him." "Your neighbors don't seem ttflike living alongside of a man who cats doga?" "Oh, if they don't like it, let thorn go away. They don't have lo cat it, Uog meat is better than pork, any day. I don't quarrel wilh thorn been be-en isc l hey eat pork." New York X I'M. |