The Most 

 Expensive Animal 

 that Man Maintains ; Fore- 

 runner of Famine, Disease, and 

 Pestilence. Disseminator of the 

 Dreaded Trichina and the TERRIBLE BU- 

 BONIC PLAGUE or "BLACK DEATH," which has 

 slain its miserable horror-stricken millions since the 

 dawn of history, and now has spread to the United States. 



