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! posures made at different places. so in
order 10 see it all he must keen con
stantly on the move. Cattle are not
handled and showed out of the way as
| quickly as hogs, so there is time enough
Tor one man to walk here and there and
see the skinning, the fat that is soon re-
moved after the killing the viscera, the
exterior of the carcass, the interior, etc.
NO workman dares remove any part of
the carcass from where 1t was taken
out until after 1t has been examined by
the Inspector and passed as satisfac-
tory. The vital organs and the intes-
t.nes may then be thrown to the differ
ent places where they properly belong.
When the cattle inspector finds sus-
picious beef he tags it in the same way
as the hog Inspector does porker, and
II is run of into sldetrack, where it
Is held to await final examination. The
half beeyes which are passed as all
right are rolled on down the line to the
point where their dressing is completed
ana here stands the stamper with his
rubber stamp and linked pad ready to
ainx purple oval stamp about three
inches long. In which are letters half
an inch high. At three different points
on the abdominal and chest walls an
terror to the hind quarter. this official
places his stamp. the three sections
stamped being the three into which the
halI OF the body of beef is divided for
transportation to the butcher.
In the cooling room. when the optsido
of the beef Is more thoroughly dried
the same stamp is placed ON the hind.
quarter, making altogether four stamns
which are placed on each half Of =
beef. Besides ~. s. Inspection nm tho
stamp there are letter and two mum.
bers, one number being immediately at
the side OF the letter and the other ha.
tween two stars which are Mt the ha
ginning and end of u. S. Inspection =
which curves about the oval. By these
figures and the letter on the meat tba
department officials can tell if they arc
ever called on to do so what insnector
passed the meat, in what abattoir II
was killed and the day upon which II
was killed. So. in case any dealer re
ceived piece of the stamped meat anil
claimed 1t was not good he could re
turn it TO the stock yards and the gov.
ernment officials would trace the trou-
bile back to the very beginning.
Inspection of the slaughteriny Of ami.
mails was established by the govern.
men; in 1891. and since the year of the
founding Of the great plan 1t has grown
and tiourished and, spread like the ira.
ditional green bay tree. Constantly in
creasing appropriations for its mainten.
ance and support and increase of seope
have been made by Congress and all m.
hopes and expectations Of the promo;,
ers of the scheme have been realized
The burden OF inspection is operated
under the government department Of
agriculture.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05

declined to pass, and the loss falls on
the stockman. But after this antemor-
TEN inspection the animals become the
property of the packer and all losses
through ultimate condemnation of the
stock must, of course. fall upon him.
A sheep which bears on its skin plain
evidence of sheep scab," hog with
large, red cholera splotches on his hide,
steer with external tumors, sores or
assesses, or any animal which exhibits
the ordinary indications of illness, such
as inability to walk, etc, will be cut
out. The law requires that the refused
animal must be killed aud turned into
soap fat and fertilizer.
The number of animals cut out at the
antemortem examination varies so
greatly that the inspectors decline to
strike an average on the number ex-
cluded per day. Thousands may be
passed without one being refused, but
In the next hundred 10 per cent or more
may be condemned. AS a matter of
fact, however, many of the diseased
animals pass this first inspection with
out exciting the suspicion ON the part
OF the inspectors, for they bear no ex-
terror evidence whatever of the fact
that they are suffering from danger
GUS Illness.
Passing this first inspection success
fully. the animals are weighed and sent
TO the slaughter houses of the company
purchasing them. Hogs receive by far
the most careful inspection. Two in
spectors watch the passing of the
slaughtered hogs, while but one ex.
amines cattle, and there is also but
one each for sheep and calves. The
hogs are given the stricter examination
because of their greater liability to dis
ease and the greater danger to he found
In the incipient stages ef hog diseases.
and it. of course, goes without saying
that early stages of disease in any anil
mails are more difficult to detect than
those more advanced.
After going through the first opera.
t.ons at the slaughter-house the hog is
klIuuS uI uN tdS HCttS WIN nUDUftUS
of others and passes forward In a line
that seems endless. The device 10
which the animals are strung up is fit.
ted with a small wheel which rolls
along single track. Not far from the
point where the hogs are first strung
up and only few feet from the line Of
moving carcasses sits the first of the
hog inspectors. AS each hog passes in
front of him workman with two
slashes of knife removes the entire
viScera from the already partially open
ed body of the hog and throws them
on platform al the side Of the raised
chair in which the Inspector is sitting
Just above the head of the Inspector
and a little to the rear is an electric
lamp, which throws a brilliant stream
Of light down ON the platform.
Each time as the entrails are thrown
down the inspector glances down AT
them. One glance is sufficient Long.
long practice at poSimortems and ia
miliarity with normal yiSeera enable
the Inspector 10 tell quicker than the
wink of an eye II anything is the mat
ter with the hog whose vital organs
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05
A RandoInh Ane..1inte.

In the Green Bag" the sketch
John Randolph includes this illustra
tive anecdote, the Chief Justice alluded
to being, it is presumed, his political
foe, John Marshall. of the United States
Court: In some of Randolph's pecuii-
arities he seems to have taken pride.
One which he cultivated with care was
an exaggerated precision of pronuncia-
ton. This led him TO correct without
hesitation whatever he considered
biunder in that respect In one of his
irritable moods at Roanoke he grew
very impatient for his cup of coffee, and
testify asked the woman who was wait
Ing on him, why don't you make that
cofeeT Il wuz a-makin' it" she re
piled. "You 'wuz' maxim it." retorted
the sick man. who ever said 'wuz'
but you and the CHIEF Justiceg'
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05
A Mothers Advice to Her G..

So you are looking for a sweethoart,
Well. then, by her music you NAV
know Ler. If a girl manifests nradi
lection for Strauss. she is friyolons. !,
for Beethoven, she is impractical; il for
Verdi, she is sentimental; if for offep.
bach, she is giddy; if for Gounod she Is
lackadaisieal; if for Gottschalk. she IL
superficial; If for Mozart, she Is nrn.
dish: IL for Flotow, she Ia common
place; II for Wagner, she is idlotic The
girl who hammers away at THE No,d
EMS Prayer" "The Anvil Chorus /" .ns
"Silyery Waves may be depended
upon as good cook and a helpful wife.
but last of all, my son. pin thy falth
on the calico dress OF cir, who canne. ~ -
play at all"
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05

The delta of the 0rinoco River In
South America Is for considerable
part of the year deep In water. Yet
this tract is inhabited by the Warau
tribe, who find II their only mode OF
escape from the terrible bites OF the
mosquito. The Waraus, therefore,
make their habltatlons In the lta Palm,
which loves moisture and grows abund.
antly In this delta, connecting several
or the trees together with cross-b beams
aud laying planks upon them for the
tooring. The natives OF the Philippine
islands and Borneo sleep In trees. The
ape men of India. the veddas OF Cey-
ion, and the Rukones OF the Andaman
Islands also live In trees. Some years
ago, DIR. Moffat. the great missionary,
while In South Africa, saw one tree in
which there were no fewer than twenty
colonial huts of Kaiiir tribe. 4 pow.
erful chief had deprived them OF all
their cattle and weapons BY degrees
the lions became so numerous aud dar,
ing that the slight Kaiiir huts were an
insufficient protection during the night,
aud the half-starved people perforce
took 10 the trees.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05

direction. one has the satisfaction 0:
having fresh vegetables.
There are plenty Of worse thiugs
than snakes connected with West Afri.
can gardening. In some places there
are elephants. 10 others hippopolami
Specimens Of either in garden for a
night are incompatible with success.
for season. at least. Then. II you hire
a man TO sit w all night in the garden
and ring hand-bell to keep such ~
iruders on. he keeps you awale also
II you take away the bell and sci him
up In business with a-hre 10 scare game
Of, leopard usually comes aud takrs
him away. which dlsIresses you very
much
Gardening IN West Africa is not 10 h,'
undertaken light-hPariedly by persons
Of a nervous or irritable disposition
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05
Gardening In Africa.

The main trouble IN a British West
African diet is lack OF fresh green
food So wrote the late Mary IL. kiuss.
ley, the African explorer, In Climate,
and she proceeded to mention some of
the difficulties in the way of supplying
that deficiency.
Gardening Ia West Africa Is nervous
work. have worked In gardens there.
aud know that even lifting a kale- pot
is not there, as Il is here, trltling act
because under the kale-pots you have
there a chance OF finding divers things
that. II in spirits on shelf Of the Brit.
ish Museum reptile gallery, would give
pleasure. but there. close 10 ones
ankles aud not botled aud corked
down. are merely exciting aud unp.eaS.
ant Still, II the snakes 80 In the asher
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05

and intestines have been thrown before
him. Spots on the lungs. enlargement
of the lymph glands. dsrkened appear
ance Of other glands. blzckened spinal
column and perhaps half dozen addi-
tlonal points indicate TO him at once
that the hog is diseased. Every time
this inspector finds a case which he
thinks suspicious or clearly defined as
unfit for food he steps forward from his
chair and slips wire loop through the
flesh Of the hog. The wire bears large
yellow card stating that the carcass is
condemned. Also attached TO the wire
is small lead seal for fastening the
two ends OF the wire together.
At that moment the wire Is not seal
ed. hut its presence bearing the yellow
card signifies that the carcass is TO he
placed to one side for further examina-
ton. For removing this wire and card
the United States laws prescribe a
heavy fine and Imprisonment.
Carcass ,ea Examined Twice.
Further down the line Of moving
pOrkers is the second United States in
spector. The first inspector has neither
the time nor the opportunity for doing
more than TO inspect that yiscera Of the
animal. The hog has not yet been split
ia twain and he could not possibly see
the interior conditions Of the carcass.
but before the swine have been pushed
down as far as the second inspector
each one has been chopped into halves
by the sharp cleavers In the hands OF
the wOrkmen. This official gives the
inner cavities an examination and also
carefully inspects the outer skin. Red
spots on the hide or granular tubercles
sticking to the abdominal or chest walls
are the most common evidences of dis
ease found by this inspector. The red
spots indicate cholera and the tubercles
are evidence Of tuberculosis. or con-
sumption. The official goes through
the same tagging as was referred to
above, unless the carcass was one that
had already been tagged by the first in
spector.
The yellow-carded hogs are run of on
side track and all of them kept to-
gether until after they can be visited
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05

by the inspectors after the killing day
is over. Each carcass is then given a
more thorough examination than was
possible at the time when they were
passing rapidly in front of the inspec-
tors. Ii 1t is found that the pork bears
evidence that it is impregnated with
/ disease to an extent that would render
its use in the least dangerous, eondem-
nation is then completed. The two ends
of the wire which was passed through
the flesh by the inspector are pulled to-
gether, the loose end Is imbedded In a
slot in the piece of lead attached to the
other end and with pinchers the lead is
pressed over the wire. Thus the final
sealing is completed. On the lead seal
as well as upon the yellow cards an
! pears u. S. Condemnation"
All of the carcasses condemned are
taken to refrigerated retaining rooms.
where they are locked up by the United
States employees, no one else having
keys to the lock. When room is filed
ii is sealed as we'll as locked and il is
crime for anyone other than an in
| spector to break the seals. When the
/ packing-house is ready TO dispose of the
| condemned pork the seals are broken
and the doors of the retaining rooms
unlocked by the officials and, under the
eye of an inspector, each hog Is re-
moved and pushed down through the
hole in the top Of the big rendering
tank. Into this tank all kinds of offal
must be thrown, SO that the pork may
at once be ruined for use as food In
this tank the pork is steamed and boil
ed until is decomposed. The fat rises
to the surface and the bones and meat
sink TO the bottom. The fat skinned
from the top to be used in the manu-
facture of the cheapest kinds of soap
and the bones and meat are taken out
TO be used in making fertilizers.
With the passing Of hogs by the sec
ond Inspector all examination for pork
TO be consumed in the United States is
complete. No record of the inspection
is stamped directly upon the carcass. as
in the case with cattle, for no whole or
half hogs are sent out from the slaugh-
ter-houses. all swine being cut into
smaller pieces. The inspection brands
are later placed on these small pieces.
directly on the meat itself or in the
form of tags pasted upon the canvas
covers
Pork for foreign export receives ex-
animation after passing this regular in
Spection which is SO elaborate and
thorough that ii can scarcely be com
pretended by anyone who has not
made personal visit to the yards and
witnessed the work. From three diff.
ferent parts OF the hody of every hog
which is designed for export bits OF
tlesh are taken for microscopic examin-
alton. Traces of trichinae and other
diseased conditions which can he de-
tected only through the microscope are
sought for with the utmost diligence.
After the pork has satisfactorily pass
ed all Of these microscopic tests it is
placed in casks and slowed away under
lock and key in cold storage rooms.
Here it is watched and guarded as if it
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05
Boats for Arctic Travel.

Boats described as steel rams are now
In use in ice-locked Russian harbors
and rivers and have proved that they
can force their way through thick ice,
even with - degrees of frost The
harbor OF Vladivostok, till of late her.
metlcally sealed for four or live
months. has since 1893 been kept ac-
cessIble through the winter; the Fin.
nish port of Hango is now open 10 com
merce throughout the year. And last
winter similar steam ram kept up
connection with the Ural railway
through the Ice OF the Volga at Sara
toff. II Is proposed now TO keep open
by stronger boats Of this kind the com
munication of 81. Petersburg with the
sea and TO force winter connection
through the ice from Archangel to the
mouth OF the YenlSei. Admiral Maka-
rof. addressing the Russian Geograph-
ical Society, insists that still more pow
erful boats of this kind might safely
be counted on TO cope with polar ice.
such MS Nansen had to deal with. and
To cut a passage to the north pole
Chambers Journal
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05

were precious metal. At the gate open
ing into these rooms is q government
office which keeps track of everything
that goes Into or out Of these frigiu
apartments. Foreign regulations nave
been so rigid in relation to admission OF
American pork that these extremely
strict and iron-clad regulations nave De
come absolutely necessary.
Accept Beef Inspection.
The requirements In regard to Amerl'
can beef maintained by foreign eoun'
tries are by no means as heavy as those
on pork. and the United States lnspec-
tion given for interstate trade is ac-
cepted as ample by all other coiih-
tries. Cattle are not nearly so liable 10
disease as hogs and on day when nj
teen or twenty hogs might be thrown
out in single packing house there
might be only one. two or three cattle
Diseased steers are often among the
very finest appearing and heaviest that
are purchased. That they are worth
less is only discovered after they nave
been killed and opened. tuberculosis
Is the disease with which the cattle are
most often found to be afflicted. IL Is
also often found among diseased hogs
but cholera is most common Win tne
latter. The men who inspect hogs can
lust as well as not sit down while per-
forming most OF the work, so they re-
main on duty a half day at time
but those performing work over cattle
must constantly walk about. SO they
are kept on duty only two hours at a
time the men labOring in two alternat-
ing shifts. In the cattle slaughtering de-
partment one man does all Of the actual
inspecting, but second official puts the
purple stamps on the beeves.
The layman would at once vote the
job OF the cattle inspector most I'M
pleasant. In long yellow. oil coat the
Inspector tramps about in blood an
inch or two deep. mp and down the long
line OF men who are doing various feat
ures in the dressing OF the cattle. He
can't sit down or stand still as can the
inspectors in the hog departments. Too
many important things are done or ex.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05
SEEK IMPURE MEATS.
GOVERNMENT INsPEcTs CATTLE
AT CHICAGO YARDS.
Beeyes, Hogs, Sheep and Calves Are
Searched for Disease : Rigid Post
and Ante-M -Mortem Examination of
Each Animal by Lynx Eyed Officials.

Few people have even the least
knowledge Of the great work done by
the national government in inspecting
the killing Of cattle, hogs and sneep at
the Chicago stock yards. This inspec-
ton is beng carried on in the stock
yards Of f0rty-eight other cities in the
United States, but it is operated ON a
far greater sale IN Chicago than at any
other point. Such sharp watch for
diseased and Objectionable ANIMALS Is
maintained that II is practically an I'M
possibility for unfit meat, designed for
interstate or export shipment. to leave
the Inspected slaughter-houses al the
yards. Every animal killed receives
two or three inspections and when a
diseased one is found the carcass is
guarded as carefully as a box Of jew
elry until II is completely destroyed, as
far as edible purposes are concerned.
Two kinds Of inspection are given
every beef, hog or sheep that goes out
Of the yards as being fit to eat. These
examinations are antemOrtem and post
mortem. Sometimes the first one alone
is sufficient TO bar out animals and they
never get as far as the slaughtering
pens The antemortem inspection. Of
course. takes place ION the hoof" and
Is conducted Just before the animals
are driven onto the scales to be weighed
for purchase by the packer from the
stockman. The inspector examines
each animal as il is driven forward to-
ward the platform Of the scales. Any
animal that is evidently affected with
disease or is emaciated is ordered cut
out The packer. OF course. declines to
buy an animal which the inspector has
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-10-05
CANDLES ARE GOOD TIMEpIEces
Miner. Note the Passing of the Hours
NV watching the Burning Tapers'


wa,chinp the Burning Tapers.
nowp in the coal mines, where sun
iioIs would be quite useless, and wnere
watches are not always to be FOUND
,ome curious ways of keeping time are
,ften resorted to. Although the under-
ground tollers spend their worAins
hours in what must be regarded as pei,
petual night, they are usually apie ~
form a fairly correct estimate OF tne
ume of day. Even when a few men are
at work In lonely and distant part Oh
the mine without watch it is rare
thing for any miner to remain al "orA
after the proper leaving-off time, ana IL
must be remembered that their WORK 10
invariably piece work.
In those mines where candles are IN
use the miners are able to form a goou
Idea OF the time by the number OF tae
sticks" they burn. -Four ordinary 'ai-
low dips are given out each morning 10
the pony drivers, and when these are
used or nearly used they know II Is
time to knock OFF, for the day.
A colllery manager once sent man
to work by himself in a lonely part Oh
the pit, giving him four candles anu
telling him that II would be time 10 90
home when they were gone. The man
was not coal newer, but rod ciean-
err, and worked by the day. He was
supposed to be bit daft, but on arriv-
ing at his lonely working place he was
wise enough to remember what the
manager had told him. Fixing up the
candles on a pit prop. he proceeded to
light all four of them at each end, with
the result that he was soon on his way
home again.
In some Of the poorer rural districts,
where clock towers are conspicuous
by their absence" and where watches
are still few and far between, various
methods of reckoning time are In vogue
at different places. Flowers are often
found to open or close their petals at q
given time, and 1t is said that In GER
tain rustic corner of Scotland, where
there is no clock, the children are dis
missed from school at signal from
'the yellow goats beard" which regu-
larly closes its petals at in the after
noon.
In large workshop on the outskirts
of a Pennsylvania town the workmen
usually stop for breakfast at the ap-
pearance of passenger train which
pulls up at the adjoining station at
a. m. with remarkable promptness.
That irregular riser, the sun, is not a
bad indicator of the time when he is
up and shining. Apart from the ordi-
nary sun dial that his light may be-
and often is-adapted for time keeping
in various other ways. When the shad-
ow of house or other building reaches
a given spot at, say, IL o'clock a peg
may be driven into the ground, and
when the shadow creeps up to the peg
the next day you may venture to
"knock off, for dinner-that is, provid'
Ing no one has moved the peg.
Another way Of keeping time by the
sun is to make chalk mark on wall
where a streak of sunshine, coming
through a crevice or other opening in
the opposite wall, rests for the time be-
ing. The worst of 1t is that cloudy
days always put stop to this method
Of telling the time of day-Clncinnati
Enquirer.