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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

and intestfnes have been thrown before
him. Spots on the lungs, enlargement
OF the lymph glands, darkened appear
ance of other glands, blackened spinal
column and perhaps half dozen addf-
tonal points indicate to him at once
that the hog is diseased. Every time
this inspector finds case which he
thinks suspicious or clearly defined as
unf1t 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. but its presence bearing the yellow
card signifies that the carcass is to be
placed to one side for further examina-
ton. For removing this wire and card
the United States laws prescribe a
heavy fine and Imprisonment.
Carcas .es 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
in 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 examina ton 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 off on
a side track and all of them kept to-
gether until after they can be visited
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
a Motber,s ADVICE to Her Son.

So you are looking for a sweetheart?
Well, then, by her music you may
know ler. If a girl manifests predi-
lection for Strauss, she Is frivolous; il
for Beethoven, she is impractical; If for
Verdi, she is sentimental; if for Often
bach, she is giddy; If for Gounod, she is
lackadaisical; If for Gottschalk, she is
superficial; ii for Mozart, she Is pru-
dish: IL for Flotow, she Is common
place; If for Wagner, she Is idiotic The
girl who hammers away at "The Maid
ems Prayer" 'srhe Anvil Chorus" and
'sSilyery Waves" may be depended
upon as good cook and helpful wife;
but last of all, my son, pin thy faith
on the calico dress Of girl who cannot
play at all"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

were precious metal. At the gate open
ing into these rooms is government
office which keeps track of every thing
that goes into or out of these frfgid
apartments. Foreign regulations have
been SO rigid in relation to admission of
American pork that these extremely
strict and iron-clad regulations have be,
come absolutely necessary.
Accept Beef Inspection.
The requirements In regard to Ameri-
can beef maintained by foreign coun-
tries are by no means as heavy as those
on pork, and the United States inspec-
tion given for interstate trade is ac-
cepted as ample by all other coun-
tries. Cattle are not nearly SO liable to
disease as hogs and on day when fif-
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 have
been killed and opened Tuberculosis
is the disease with which the cattle are
most often found to be afflicted. 1t is
also often found among diseased hogs,
but cholera is most common with the
latter. The men who inspect hogs can
just as well as not sit down while per-
forming most of the work, SO they re-
main on duty 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 un-
pleasant. In a long yellow, oil coat the
inspector tramps about in blood an
inch or two deep. up and down the long
line of men who are doing various feat
ures in the dressing of the cattle. He
cart sit down or stand still as can the
inspectors in the hog departments. Too
many important things are done or ex-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
SEEK IMPURE MEATS.
INSPECTS CATTLE
AT CHICAGO YARDS.
Beeves, Hogs, Sheep and Calves Are
Searched for Disease Rigid Post
and Ante Mortem Examination of
Each Animal by Lynx-Eyed Officials.

Few people have even the least
knowledge of the great work doue by
the national government in inspecting
the killing of cattle, hogs and sheep at
the Chicago stock yards. This ipspec-
ton is beng carried on in the stock
yards of forty 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 it is practically an inn
possibility for unit meat, designed for
interstate or export shipment, to leave
the Inspected slaughter-houses at the
yards. Every animal killed receives
two or three inspections and when a
diseased one is found the carcass is
guarded as carefully as box of jew
elry until it 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 it is driven forward to-
ward the platform of the scales. Any
animal {hat 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
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

poSureS made at different places, SO in
order to see it all he must keep con-
stantly on the move. Cattle are not
handled and showed out of the way as
quickly as hogs, SO there is time enough
for one man to walk here and there and
see the skinning, the fat that is soon re-
exterior OF the carcass, the Interior etc.
No workman dares remove any part of
the carcass from where it was taken
out until after it has been examined by
the Inspector and passed as satisfac-
tory. The vital organs and the intes-
tines 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
1t is run off into sidetrack, 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
and here stands the stamper with his
rubber stamp and linked pad ready to
| affix 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
half OF the body of beef is divided for
transportation to the butcher.
In the cooling room, when the outside
of the beef Is more thoroughly dried,
the same stamp is placed On the hind
quarter, making altogether four stamps
which are placed on each half of
beef. Besides ~. S. Inspection" on the
stamp there are letter and two num-
bers, one number being Immediately at
the side of the letter and the other be-
tween two stars which are at the be-
ginning and end of ~. s. Inspection
which curves about the oval. By these
figures and the letter on the meat the
department officials can tell II they are
ever called on to do; SO what inspector
passed the meat, in what aba ttoir it
was killed and the day upon which it
was killed. So, in case any dealer re-
ceived piece of the stamped meat and
claimed 1t was not good he could re-
turn it to the stock yards and the gov
ernment officials would trace the from
BILE back to the very beginning.
Inspection of the slaughtering of ami
mails was established by the govern
ment in 1891, and since the year Of the
founding of the great plan it has grown
and fiourished and spread like the ira
ditional green bay tree. Constantly in
creasing appropriations for its mainten-
ance and support and increase of scope
have been made by Congress and all tn
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.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
CANDLES ARE oopTlMEPlEcEs
Miners Note the Passing of the Hours
by Watching the Burning Tapers.

Miners Note the Passing of the Hours
by Watching the Burning Tapers.
Down In the coal mines, where sun
Halls would be quite useless, and where
watches are not always to be found,
some curious ways of keeping time are
often resorted- to. Although the under
ground toilers spend their working
hours in what must be regarded as per-
petual night, they are usually able to
form fairly correct estimate of the
time of day Even when few men are
at work in a lonely and distant part Of
the mine without watch 1t is a rare
thing for any miner to remain at work
after the proper leaving-off time, and it
must be remembered that their work Is
Invariably piece work.
In those mines where candles are in
use the miners are able to form good
idea of the time by the number Of fiat
sticks"- they burn. Four ordinary tai
low dips are given out each morning to
the pony drivers, and when these are
used or nearly used they know it is
time to knock off, for the day.
A colliery manager once sent man
to work by himself in lonely part of
the pit, giving him four candles and
telling him that it would be time to go
home when they were gone. The man
was not coal hewer, but rod ciean-
er, 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
manager1had 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 a
given time, and it is said that in GER
tain rustic corner of Scotland, where
there is no clock, the children are dis
missed from school at a signal from
1.-The yellow goats beard" which regu-
larly closes its petals at in the after
noon.
In a large workshop on the outskirts
of a Pennsylvania town the workmen
usually stop for breakfast at the ap-
pearance of a passenger train which
pulls up at the adjoining station at 8
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, II O'Clock 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 a chalk mark on wall
where streak of sunshine, coming
through crevice or other opening in
the opposite wall, rests for the time be-
ing. The worst of it Is that cloudy
days always put a stop to this method
of telling the time Of day-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

by the inspectors after the killing day
is over. Each carcass is then given Il
more thorough examination than was
possible at the time when they were
passing rapidly in front Of the inspec-
tors. Ii it 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, condem-
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 p!nchers the lead is
pressed over the wire. Thus the final
sealing is completed. On the lead seal
as well as upon the yellow cards ap-
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 filled
it is sealed as well as locked, and it is
crime for anyone other than an in
spector to break the seals. When the
packing house is ready to dispose7of 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 on
half hogs are sent out from the slaugh-
ter7houses, all swine being cut into
smaller pieces. The inspection brands
are pIdCeu lHGSS. Sludi plcCcS.
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 it 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 body of every hog
which is designed for export bits of
flesh are taken for microscopic examin-
alton. Traces of trichinae and other
diseased conditions which can be 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 IL 1t
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

declined to pass, and the loss falls Oh
the stockman. But after this antemor-
tenn 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,
a 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 and 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 a 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 be found
in the incipient stages Of hog diseases.
and it, of course, goes without saying
that early stages of disease in any ami
mails are more difficult to detect than
those more advanced.
After going through the first opera
tions at the slaughter-house the hog is
strung up by the heels with hundreds
of others and passes forward in line
that seems endless. The device to
which the animals are strung up is fit
ted with small wheel which rolls
along a single track. Not far from the
point where the hogs are first strung
up and onlya few feet from the line of
moving carca sses sits the first of the
hog inspectors. AS each hog passes in
front of him workman with two
slashes of knife removes the entire
yiscera from the already partially open
ed body of the hog and throws them
on platform at the side of the raised
chair in which the inspector is sitting.
Just above the head of the Inspector
and 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 postmortems and fa-
miliarity with normal viscera enable
the inspector to tell quicker than the
wink of an eye il anything is the mat
ter with the hog whose vital organs
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
direction, one has the satisfaction o.
having fresh vegetables.

having fresh vegetables.
There are plenty of worse things
than snakes connected with West Afri-
can gardening. In some places there
are elephants. in others hippopotami
Specimens of either in garden for a
night are Incompatible with success,
for season, at least. Then, If you hire
man to sit up all night in the garden
and ring hand-bell to keep such in
truders off, he keeps you awate also
If you take away the bell and set him
up in business with fire to scare game
off, leopard usually comes and takes
him away, which distresses you very
much.
Gardening in West Africa Is not to he
undertaken light -heartedly by persons
of nervous or irritable disposition.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

Didn't you hear about itf" "No.'
'Why. the thing happened right dowl
in your own neighborhood." Il know
but my wife's away for the summer.
-Philadelphia Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

Money even attracts bullets. A man
who missed q barn door with rifle
yesterday easily plugged silver dollar
ct . distance Of fifty yards.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
spain's Underground River.

The Guadiana, Spanish river, after
flowing for thirty miles overhead. van
ishes underground, and for the next
thirty miles pursues its course as an
underground river, only appearing at
in :ervals in the shape of lakelets, the
ogos or eyes of the Guadiana as they
are called. This is the largest under
ground river which has been fully
traced.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05

Fear of Dissolution Leads Many Men
to Strange Freaks and Unusual Ways
of Livinx-Sometimes Hurries Them
Into Their Graves.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-03-30

get the water company to lay so
many miles of pipe to supply so
small a number of people.
After while new men came TO
govern the city and a new princi-
pie was inaugurated The rulers
said we will buy out these insiders
and save this money for the city.
The result wars that the foreign
capital was drawn out and put in
other towns.
Moral-If foreign capital builds
up town; to drive it out will kill
it.-Ex.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-03-30
FAMOUS.
SLAUGHTER OF WILD ANIMALS
of Many Varieties There Arc Now
Oniy a Few Rare Speci-
mems Left.

"Do YOU not find 1t more difieult to
get your supplies of wild animals as civ
ilization extends?' Mr.. Carl Hagenbeck
was asked.
II do" he replied, ''for wild animals
are decreasing very rapidly. Variety
after variety that 20 years ago was
quite common is now utterly gone, or
only a few specimens are left The
true mountain zebra, that nut long
since could be found in large numbers,
has now vanished. Three South At
rican varieties Of the zebra have diSap-
peared within the last quarter osntHry.
From the wild animal hunters point OF
view South Africa is now quite spoiled.
Men have been so busy slaughtering
merely for the sake OF slaughter that
the great beasts are becoming extinct
Babies and breeding females ere shot
down as indiscriminately as bulls. Eng
lishmen are perhaps the worst offend
ers in this matter, and in the English
territories the least provision is madn
for protecting the animals. No one OBJ
jects TO hunters shooting down all the
bull elephants they can. but what sport
can there be in slaughtering the cows
and babies9 This might be to some de-
gree stopped by regulation forhidding
trading In small ivory tusks under 10
OF 12 pounds in weight.
"As q speeiment Of how animals are
disappearing, talxp the Sudan. Before
Mahdism swept over It 1t was one OF our
best countries. Hippopotsmi. ele-
plants, the rhinoceros were al OBJ
fained there in abundance. We trained
tribes for the chase. Since the land has
been reopensd a trader, formerly my
agent, has gone there hoping TO renew
business. He writes to me that the OLD
hunting tribes are gone. and sAat the
great game have practically all disap-
peared. London News.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-03-30

Fire after fire is reported from
neighboring territory towns. and
the fire insurance companies have
seriously contemplated abandon
ing the Indian Territory altogeth-
er. vinita is perhaps in a more
helpless condition than any town
OF its size in the territory, and
there is little excuse as we now
have two artesian wells with
enough water flowing out and 60
ing to waste to supply large city
and if utilized would protect the
town against almost any kind OF a
confiagration.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-03-30
what the Name TugeIa Means.

The name Tugela means fear and II
has received the name from the rapid
itv with which ii come down in food a
thuDderstorm among the mountains IN
which it rises win raise the river many
feet in few minutes and resident on
its banks declares that he has seen i
rise 30 feet in single night. The cur
rent is at all times exceedingly swift
and a comparatively light rise is suiii'
eient to make the drift impossible
while heavy rise win sweep away an.
temporary bridge that may have beer
erected.-N. Y. Sun.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-03-30
nemocratic Club Meeting

There will be meeting OF the DEM
ocratic club of Vinita in the court
house Saturday, March 81, at l:SO p.
m. The committee on by laws will
report. There will be several speeches
and other business o. Importance
Our democratic bretren from the
country are especially invited to be
present. Preston S. Davis, Pres.