The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-06-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM WASHINGTON.


session will make ten big volumes OF
700 large pages, with two columns OF
fine type to the page.
Few Women in official life have been
more widely known and more general
ly admired than Mrs. John Sherman.
although her retiring disposition made
her averse to ostentation of any kind.
She was essentially home woman
with the simplest tastes and much
more devoted to affairs about her own
hearthstone than to any phase of pub
lie life. TIE simplicity with which her
early married life was surrounded was
continued as far as possible in later
years. She disriked exaggeration in
any form, especially where it related
to the every day details of her home.
In Intercourse she was unaffected,
amiable and painstaking in her efforts
to help others, and these traits of
character We're just as conspicuous in
her social career, which covered many
years In this city. Those who knew
her in her modest home, the first resi-
dence of Mr.. Sherman here, found the
same gentle charms CT manner when
she received them in the splendid white
mansion in X street. No entertain
mentt ever given at official homes were
more complete and elegant in every
way than those presidea over by Mrs.
Sherman. Her wide acquaintance
among the Oldest Washington families
always made the Assem- blages under
the Sherman roof gatherings of unu-
sual pleasure from n local standpoint
The navy is to build war ships aggre-
eating over 500, 100000 in cost as soon
as builders are prepared to undertake
this great program, which calls for
al ra1 Sl, n..ti ion
doubling the present American sea
power in this class, and for three high
ly improved Olympia type of cruisers.
The five battleships for whose hull;
and machinery Congress has appro-
priated S1S0o0,0O0. are ready for the
builders to bid upon tomorrow. Plans
for the six great armored cruisers.
more powerful than any ship at pres
ent in the service. and to cost for hulls
and machinery alone over S25,OOO,OOO.
are Well advanced and should be final
ly approved next month. The general
features of the enlarged Olympia type
were determined last fall before Con
gress appropriated $2.S0O.0OO for the
hulls and machinery of each of them.
and there is no reason why their keels
should not lie laid this summer. The
Navy Department is also preparing the
specifications and advertisements for
5000 tons of the highest quality
KruppiZed armor, which is expected
to cost between S17,OOO,OOO and S19,-
100000. The complete construction
program authorizes contracts for hulls
| and machinery alone amounting 10
S51, 900, 900. which includes five battle
ships at $1,000 900 each. six cruisers AT
S4,25O.O0O each. and three improved
Olympias at s., 800, 600 each.
Baron Hermann, agricultural expert
OF the German embassy. has studied
the meat inspection bill recently passed
by the Reichstag, and says: 1.-The new
law will require two separate inspec-
tions in the German empire. First, an
inspection of the live stock before
slaughtering, then an inspection of the
slaughtered meat. thus giving gunran-
tee that no meat or meat products com
ing from diseased or unwholesome ami
mails will go to the consumer either In
! the larger cities or small villages of the
German empire. This has been urgent
ly required for a long time by all the
boards of health. as an absolute meas
ure for the protection of health in It
country thickly populated and partly
overcrowded, as Germany is today.
If all the animals slaughtered in Ger
many have to pass through the double
examination which / have mentioned
| it is evident that the meat products of
other countries intended to be imported
into Germany must pass similar in
spection. This will be the case in the
| future for all the countries importing
meat and meat products into Germany.
No discrimination will be made against
any one country. All will be treated
alike, and meat products, whether they
come from Austria. Denmark, Argen-
| tina or the United States, when found
wholesome at the port of entry, having
passed the same inspection to which
all home products must be subjected.
| will enter into the channels of trade
without any further embargo and
without finding another inspection law
and different regulations at the doors
of every single state, or even town
ship, as has been the case heretofore"