Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-07-12
THE PENALTY For A HAT.
q Cost Pennsylvania Young Lacy der
Membership in a Church.

Membership in Church.
Because Miss May oiler. daughter OF
the late Bishop Jacob F. oller. persist.
ed In wearing a pretty creation Of
hat in preference to the plain b met
worn by the women OF the German
Baptist church, she has forfeited her
membership in the Antietam &c nan
Baptist church OF Waynesborough, Pa,
according to the Philadelphia Times.
Miss Oiler is a highly educated young
woman, a graduate of Iuniata college.
Her brother is superintendent of the
Frick company. Last spring Miss Oh
Ter returned from European tour, and
wore in place of the conventional bon
net hat of the latest style. In July
meeting OF the authoities of the chureh
was held and Miss Oller was notified
that II she would retain her member
ship in the church she must return
to the palmer headgear, and that she
would be given until the next quarter
" meeting to make the change. Miss
Oller wrote to the church authorities
asking them to extend the time, mean
while continuing to wear the hat. The
time was not extended, however. and
at, the quarterly meeting she was form
ally expelled from the church. Elder
Jacob Snyder presided at the meeting.
which was unusually lively. Postmas-
ter S. E. Dubbel and J. J. and Jesse R.
Oller, brothers of the young woman,
made a fight against expulsion, claim
Ing that the annual meeting had made
the wearing of the bonnet discretion
airy. This petition was, however, bit
ter1y fought by the two young German
Baptist ministers, the Rev. ]. B. Rath-
ruff and the Rev. John Oelig, who in
sisted that the traditions of the church
should not be broken down, and they
were successful in their Battle by
large majority. There is much indig-
nation among Miss Oilers friends and
relatives and they will take he matter
10 ths next annual meeting.
PACKING AMERICAN SARDiNE s.
HOY an Interesting and Important In"
dustry Is Conducted.
The packing of small herrings, or,
as they are often called, American
sardines," is an important industry in
Maine. In that state there are fifty
factories, which give employment to
a large number of hands during four
or five months of the year. The an
nual output is estimated to be Of I'D
average value of So 900 900, and about
half this amount finds its way into
the pockets Of the factory employees IN
the form of wages. The fish are caught
In seines scattered all along the coast
COR a distance OF abob, hundred
miles. After the fish are taken ia sail
boats to the factories they are thrown
into strong brine, where they remain
for some time. They are then laid on
iron crates and conveyed to an i'm
mense oven, where the crates are laid
on revolving shelves. After twenty
minutes cooking the fish are ready for
packing. There are two methods OF
packing, one in oil, the other in mus
tard. The ground mustard is mixed
with vinegar; for oil packing cotton
seed oil is used. About gill of oil
is put into can, and then the baked
fish from the ovens are carefully
packed into it and the cover snapped
ON. The pans then go to the sealer,
who sits in front of a little furnace
in which his. soldering iron is plunged.
Selling the can, he runs the heated
iron around the cover, holding the SOL
der just in front of it, and seals the
can SO rapidly that the eye can hardly
follow his movements. The sealed
rams are thrown into bath of boiling
water, in wsach they remain for two
hours. If any of them leak, the tops
will bulge out, and these go back to
be resealed. After the cans are
cleaned with sawdust they are packed
into cases and put on the market as
genuine American sardines in pure
olive oil.
AN >ncielr once vacant
The ancient Office of "headsman ann
eSeeutioner CT the queen has Just be-
come vacant through the death at the
Tower Of London Of old Stephen Swee-
ney, who, in addition to his Other
tiles, bore that of 'Yec1aan Gaoler to