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Show ltoisflrlsclinanrcnTerkaaf. Tliat is 11a name in Herliu, and If you ste that niyfcttrioua 'word In let tcrs sir Inches lariK In a German meat shop window, It Indicates that their horse beef la fold. In Berlin many u)ple get meat only once a week lot Sunday dinner, and thai meat is a nice horse-roast or i-Uak. InlSS?l6,S43 horscsanl aoflT f laugbteml for Iixxl in Iletlln. The meat is eaten bythoro who are too poor to buy beef, pork and mutton. Thef-o Include artisans and clerks, government and otherwise. When this country becomes a great military mili-tary unpins, the United states gov-crnminiulll gov-crnminiulll feed its clerks in the departments at Washington on horse-beef. All tho horse beef at Berlin Is slaughtered and sold under strict government surveillance. The empire em-pire w HI shortly take tins Industry wholly Into Its own hands; then there will be a bloated government horse meat monopoly. lu connection connec-tion with this sui'ject it is Interesting Interest-ing to remember how BUmanJr. for-bado for-bado American iiork to cutet Gtrmany at all, and high duties wefeimposedonallAmetlntn meats, l'erhaps Bismarck, wanted all the old horses eaten by the Germans in the Interests of sound political economy econ-omy and home Industry. It is said that an old horse rapidly fattened is not tough. In l'aris, lu ISaO, 13,377 lion, 304 asses and ? mules were slaughtered slaught-ered for food. From the average horse 500 iiounds cf meat are obtained. obtain-ed. A donkey Cuts up 187 pounds and a mule 441. The first horse butchtr opened his shop in IVtns In 1ES0. ItissaKlthatduringthesiege and famine of 1S70-71 no less than fiS.OOJ bora, atses and mules were I eaten In l'aris. The Parisians called the fltsh 'liege enlson."lln Vienna in 1SS7, G.271 horses were killed for food. In the three countries, France, Germany and Austria, the Industry Is carried on under government govern-ment regulations, and ro diseased animabare allowed to be butchered. Wherever there are zoological gardens gar-dens tho horse beef is fed to the car-nivora, car-nivora, and tills consumes a considerable consid-erable portion. The horse Industry has also crept Into Kngland suireptltiously. Last winter parliament passed a law regulating reg-ulating it r. |