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FROZEN FOOD INDUSTRY.
Remarkable Increase in the Busins ss aa
 the Last Decade.

From the Indianapolis News: Frozen food plays part in the English econ omy that we in this country do not re- hiize, although we are all familiar enough with cold storage houses and refrigerator cars. In 1880 London re- ceived it's first consignment of 400 frozen carcasses of Australian sheep. In spite of the prejudice against it, the traffic has grown until now there are eighty-eight vessels engaged in the traffic, with a carrying capacity of 6,700,000 careasses per annum. A single vessel sometimes lands at London TO- GOO carcasses of frozen mutton At one wharf 10000 to 12.o0o of such earcasses are handled daily and one warehouse will hold 250,0o0 of them; all are from Australia and New Zea- land. Sheep were imported into Aus tralia with the eonyicts to Botany bay little more than a century ago, and with the small population and the vast plains for grazing, flocks increased so that in 1867 a farmer is recorded who for four months of the year boiled down daily from 1000 to 1,500 sheep for their tallow and until 1880 it was common in Australia and New Zea- land to kill focks of sheep for their hides and tallow. leaving the carcasses to manure the ground, as used to be done with cattle in South America. There is a difference between frozen and chilled meat. The meat that Eng land receives from America is chilled, but that sent from Australia, 13,000 miles away. must be frozen. Australia and New Zealand have twenty-two freezing works in operation, whose total capacity is 100000 carcasses per annum. One of the results of the frozen and chilled meat trade is that people are now able to eat fresh meat who half a century ago could only get it as a Il'vqry, Naturally we are less dependent 0. such food than England, but the growing use of refrigerator cars and cold storage houses is giving US variety of diet that was impossible g few years ago.
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The Term of Life.

Recent inquiries in England have led 10 the preparation of tables showing the full term of life" for man. ana other mammals, based upon the theory that there is a fixed ratio between the period required to reach maturity and the total length of life Accident, dis ease and so forth. have to be eiiminat- ed from the calculation. According to these tables, only enc animal exceeds man in it's full life term, namely, the elephant. For man the theory makes the average term about % years, ana for the elephant something over le0 years. Next to man, in longevity. come the camel and the Arabian horse, whose term of life is about F yeaIs.
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Dog. Battle with a Cactus.

Otto KIeemann. who lives on Bel mont street, recently acquired leau- tiful cactus, which he established in his household, unmindful of the fact that his dog held the opinion that his master should have no other pets be- fore him. Now he has no cactus and the deje ted semblanee of 2 dog. The litNe animal espied the plant soon after ita arrival, and issued challenge. In default of acceptance. he gave battle, but retired at the first shock to recon sider. The enemy had more teeth than a battalion of bull terriers, and all of them wete newly sharpened He was no ouitter. however. and with rising an- ger he renewed the attack. This time his opponent came down, landing on him heavily, and with the taHeh Of d barb-wire fence. The two rolled over and over in death embrace. and the cactus was finally vapquished, torn in- to shreds and scattered about tl7e room. But 1t was costly victory. The con- queror is pnnetured in more places than his owner can count. He may live to fight another day. but | will not be with caetus.-Oregeniar
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TO STOP BLEEDING.
Electricity Now Declared to Bs the
 Best Relief.

Electricity Now Declared to Be the
 Best Relief.
 The afresting of bleeding in surgicaI operations has always been one of the difficulties in certain cases. and the electric current has been used before this with view to bringing about that condition of heat which Is necessary in order to cause the blood to cIot and so act as a block to the mouth of bleeding vessels, arresting hemorrhege. This, indeed, has resulted in the utilization of the electric cautery, as it is called in certain operations, the platinum wire at red or almost white heat even sup planting the knife, because 1t burns through the tissues and at the same time prevents the wound bleeding to any great extent. This effect of heat was, indeed, known to our ancestors. who used red hot irons CT boiling pitch. to scar the surface of the flesh after their operations, thus causing an im> mense amount Of suffering to the pa. tient, before the days of ch1oroform A new adaptation of this Use of cleo tricity, for the purpose of stopping bleeding has been devised by inclosing a platinum wire in pair of forceps Of other instrument, the wire being insu- lated in bed of burnt pipe clay, and as soon as the bleeding vessel Is seiz- ed by the forceps and compressed in the ordinary way, an electric current Is turned on. whose effect is so great that the tissues and the walls of the blood vessels are all aggIutinated, SC that the blood is no longer able to pass.
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cANADA'S GREATEST GLORY.
Vast and Ancient Wilderness That Rests
 the Traveller

The greatest glory of Canada is not It's modern progress, but its vast and ancient wilderness. says Scribner's. If you weary of the sameness and U rof- .tableness of everything you know, go where l went last year, to the upper Wategs of the Ottawa, where the beaver Is the master architect and the moose is king of the woods. See for yourself, as 1 saw, that the Ottawa and the Ga tineau, appearing to come from widely distant regions. have their origin close together and are twins. Behold these two children of the lakes, nourished fl'l. zhe same generous breast. Trace ta trses and see that, though
 ring far in widely different di- le5 t5hs, they finally arrive at con-
 ns5 destination Nobody knows all about that headwater country around the sources of the Ottawa. It is a prolific game region, where sportsmen rarely go, for the simple reason that they can get all the hunting they want nearer to the railroad There are plenty of deer close to almost any Canadian Pacific station west of Penn broke, and 1t is not much trouble to get chance at a moose in two days from Deux Rivieres, Roekeliffe, or Mattawa. Not many hunting parties start from there, either. and I suppose the reason is that for thousands of miles to the west the woods, prairies and mountains lie close to the railroad and afford almost limitless opportuni- ties. The territory inclosed by the Ottawa and the Gatineau has been from immemorial times the home of the Algonquin Indians, and they still remain there, in such primitive inno- eenee that they receive no annuity from the Dominion government. In this they are unlike the Indians of the United States or their brother tribes of Canada.
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-~--~-~~--- OLD PERiAL BODYGOARD
institution That Died with the Second
 French Empire


 The Cent Guards founded with the second empire in 1870. The corps dated from the time of the Crimean war, when visit from Queen Victoria was expected. The tallest and finest look ing men and officers were selected from the cavalry. There were 137 Of the former and eleven Of the latter, but the number of men was increased to 208. Their function was purely decorative, and they chiefly served within the palace. v hat swells the officers were in their sl1y=bllse uniform bedight with golden lace! The corps had regula dons Of their own. They were on no account, when on duty, to stir unless 10 salute the emperor or empress, and fonly then when specially ordered. The worst breach of discipline would have been to forget they were to be motion less as earyatides. One day Marshal 9astellane, vain, old, peppery per- sonage, had occasion to see the em- peror soon after the creation of the Cent Guards. Two of them kept guard beside the door opening from the ante loom on tie presence chamber. They remained in the regulation attitude that is to say, with the right arm hori- zontally stretched out and holding a musket by the bayonet. The butt end rested on the ground. The marshal was in uniform. Furious at not being saluted, he asked the one nearest to him what 1t meant. The Cent Guard. seemed neither to see nor hear. Cas- tellane lost self-restraint and abused him. Still the soldier remained i'm passive. The irate marshal sent for Col. Verley to complain. The colonel failed to make him understand that approval and not chastisement was due. Thus the matter was brought be- fore the emperor, who gave the com plainant sharp rap on the hnuckles by expressing his pleasure at the Spartan attitude of a household guard who was bound to ignore every rank but the imperial.-London Truth.
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JAPANESE BUYING GOODS HERB
Are Building Up Home Industries by tbe Aid of Chicago Machinery.


 Chicago is building up. by no means insignificant trade with Japan. The "yankees of the Orient" are quick to discern whatever is of utilily to them in the mechanic arts, and as a conse- onenee they are supplying themselves with machinery for the development of their ind tries direct from the facto- ries on the shores of Lake Michigan. fn the history of the entire world no other nation has experienced such a remarkable growth in it's commerce with Japan as has the United States. Japanese official figures give the im- nortations from the United States in 1893 at 6,090, 408 sssn and in 1898 at 40,- 00f .097 ven. Meantime her importa, lions from England increased ffom 27,- q29,628 yen to 62,707,572 yen; those from Germany from 7,318, 134 yen to 25.610.9 .961 yen; those from France from 8,305,277 yen to 6,979, ,9S2 yen, and those from China from 17.o95,975 yen to 30,. 523, ,S60 yen, while the only part of the world which has experienced an in-
 
 of the United States is the British East Indies, whose increase has been from g679,029 in 1893 to 40,764,244 yen in 1898. Japan's importations have grown enormously in the last five years. Tn 1893 they amounted to 8S,257, ,172 yen and in 1898 to PIT ,502, 166 yen. Mean time her exports have grown from 89,- T12,864 yen in 1893 to 165, ,753,752 yen In 1898. Thus the exports have doubled and the imports have trebled in the pe- xriod under consideration. The disposi- Vtion of Japan is to look to the United States for constantly increasing pro- portion of it's supplies. Tn 1893 the United States furnished less than T per cent of the imports into Japan and tn 1898 IA per cent, while England the principal competitor in the markets of the east, which in 1893 furnished g per cent Of Japan's importations, in 1898 furnished 226 per cent. Not only have the producers and exporters of the United States developed in the last few years a disposition to push their od4Co III lu1t COuAlly5 Uul JGPttu nCl oC1A Is showing disposition to make her purchases from the nearest markets those of the United States-and has recently established steamship lines connecting with United States ports. Japan by reason of recent events Is the nearest neighbor to the United States, aside from those whose territory is ac- tually contiguous-Canada and Mexico. Her comparatively recent exchange of mainland territory to Russia for the line of islands stretching northwardly from her central group brings her ter fitory to within about 800 miles of that of the United States in the Aleu- tian chain of islands, while at the south her newly acquired island of Formosa lies within less than 200 miles of the Philippines. Thus not only are the United States and Japan neighhors terrltorially. but their insular posses sions combined stretch along the en- tire Pacific coast of Asia from arctic to equatorial waters.y-Chicago Chron. tele.
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Goethe.s First Lore.

It is said that when Goethe was first in love he carved upon a tree in the neighboring forest a couple of hearts united by scroll, and a little later received a sound thrashing from the forester for thus damaging the bark.
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A Curious eredentiaI.

Clerk (to patent medicine man. Here is a curious credential from one of our customers. Medicine Man-Reaa it. Before I took your elixir my face was a sight. You ought to see it now. Send ne another bottle for my mafher-in-law. .,i-Harlem Life.
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ID in Granlrnar.

Teacher-What is a fort? Pupil-A place for soldiers to live in. Teacher And a fortress? Pupil-A place for soldiers wives to live In.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22

or green peas or some such commodity hap
pen to be wanted in q hurry. the peddler
can often supply the demand and save tie
busy housewife the trouble Of going to
market Some OF these travelling grocers
sell fruit and vegetables which are both
better and cheaper than those to be found
at the groceries or small markets anu
they are thus enabled to make a fairly
good living at their buiness.
But they can certainly do this without
ringing every door bell along the streets
they traverse so that somebody has to
leave the task in hand and run to open
the coor. There ought to be some sort Of
regulation forbidding this and also restrict
ing house-to-hcuse canyassiDg by agents.
Many housewives will testify to the fact
that now and then. through the number
and persistence Of these callers a whole
morning is spent In doing very little more
than answer rings at the door bell. Al
though the voice of the yendeT shouting
the names of his wares is not agreeable,
It is less troublesome than the other Gus
tom
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
FORTUNE GOES TO CHARITY.
Pennsylvania Testatrfx Distributes
Nearly Half a Million.

LANCASTER, Pa, June 22.-The will of
Miss Catharine Ii. Long. the wealthiest
woman Of this city, was admitted to pro-
bate yesterday. The estate is valued at
100000, and a great bulk Of Il is given
to charity. She bequeaths SEQ. 900. her
handsome and valuable home on East
Orange Street, and half the residue of the
estate to an asylum for INDECENT women of
this city over the age of forty-fve. II
shall be known as the Henry G. Long
Asylum in memory of her father. late
judge of the local courts.
A seventy acre farm in Mannheim town.
ship, near the city. is bequeathed to the
city for public park, which shall be in
charge OF a commission composed. OF the
mayor. presidents Of councils, and the ex-
ecutors of the Will The interest of the
remaining half of the residue Of the estate
is to be used for improving and beauty
ing the grounds, which shall be knwon as
Long Park" The sum of 5000 Is be-
queathed to St Paul's Reformed Church.
$500 to the Dorca< Society. $4,000 to the
Lancaster General Hospital, 81, O00 to the
Lancaster Cemetery Association, $1,000 to
Bethany Orphans home at Womelsdorf.
Pa. $1,000 TO St Andrews Reformed
Church. >&i her fathers library to the
Las,caster Law Library.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
The Huckstcr Nuisance.

A matter which ought to receive atten-
ton Just at this season is the huekster
nuisance. Some way can surely be de-
vised by which itinerant purveyors of
green groceries can sell their wares with
out bothering busy people or making the
early morning hours hideous. A few years
ago the push-cart men were hustled from
one place TO another and not allowed to
keep their station on any public thorough
fare on the plea that they were in the
way. II is difficult 10 see how push-cart
Is any more in the way when IL is backed
up against tho curbstone and standing
still thu when it is moving about from
place to place. but there Sc emed to be
some such impression In the minds Of the
authorities
The huckstering system is unquestion-
ably convenience to many housekeeper..
especially those living at some distance
srnm base OF supplies, for when berries
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
NORTH CAROLINA COTTON.
Commissioner of Agriculture Re
ports an Increased Acreage.

Commissioner of Agriculture Re
ports an Increased Acreage.
RALEIGH, Y. c. June 22.-After care
full review Of the returns by Correspondents
the State Commissioner Of Agriculture
says he is convinced that the increase OF
cotton acreage in North Carolina Is very
close 10 10 per cent The increase is al
most entirely in counties east Of here.
which up to this year had for several years
been growing bright tobacco Low prices
of leaf have forced them to return u CO..
ton The condition OF cotton is 50 Der
cent The wheat crop is 50 remarkably
good that the commisSieaer says the per
centage Of condition given. los. is too low.
The reports on the trucking and berry
interests in Eastern North Carolina show
that the present season has been. all things
considered. the most successful one OF rec
ord. Prices have been well sustained and
the transportation companies have handled
shipments far better than ever before.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22

Just before the death of Count Mu-
ravien some progress had been made in
an effort to arrange a European rgree-
ment under which the Dowager Empress
OF China was to be deposed. and the En-
perez Kwang-Su restored to the throne.
with the real power to be vested in an
international eouncil. The sudden change
in the st. Petersburg foreign office may
spoil this plan; besides which We are
afraid that, when the truth comes to be
known. Kwang- Su will be found quite
as dead as Muravieff
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.

Tive Men Killed. RoundhouSe Wreck
ed, and Twelve Engines Destroyed.
BAKERSFIELD. Col. June 22-An ex-
plosicn in an engine oil tank yesterday
caused the death OF two yorkmen and the
destruction CT the Southern Pacific round
house. with twelve engines valued at $780,
coo each
The engines were fast passenger loco
motives OF heavy power for use over the
mountains Because Of their great size
they cannot be duplicated in less than
several months The cause Of the exp,o-
sion is thought TO have been Spontaneous
combustion.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
DROWNING OF AN AERoNAUT.
Fell Into "a Lake After His Balloon
Collapsed.

TOLEDO, Ohio, June 22.-Arthur Led
yard, an aeronaut and parachute jumper,
WIS drowned in Lake Erie last evening
He was giving an exhibition at the butch
ers' and grocers' picnic, which was hello
at Presque Isle. outside the city limits.
Just after he assembled the wind shifted
and instead Of drifting toward the city
he drifted cut over the lake. He evidently
abandoned hope Of the parachute, and was
seen climbing up into the balloon Sud
denly the balloon collapsed and dropped
into the lake. Steamers had started in
the wake of the balloon. but before they
arrived Ledyard had sunk
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
Crane to Rest In dorsey SOIL

ELIZABETH. N J.. June Gan Eliza
beth undertaken has been engaged by the
relatives of Stephen Crane to take charge
Of his body when IL reaches New York
next Tuesday On the steamship Bremen
Of the North German Lloyd Line. The cas-
ket Will be placed in & receiving vault in
New York, where K will remain until
Thursday. when interment viii be in
Evergreen Cemetery. between Newark and
Elizabeth.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
CnuId srrnnnthire.
CFrom the Chicago Tribune.

lFrom the Chicago TribuEe.)
This climate doesn't agree VI me very well .
remarked the passenger with tn, cough.
sWeii 20 tell the truth responded The chance
acquaintance in the next seat. there are times
when il dsagTces with me. too. in the most pro-
voking AID ridiculous manner. I'm the man who
makes the official weather predicsi0nz''
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
CURRENT HUMoR.
Advice Tint Failed.

CFrom the Chicago NexsO
Rich Uncle-Wlst. broke againi Yo.. should
take SolomOn's advice to the slugsa-d about 20
ing 70 the ant for
Nephew (inteUupting)-S0 | did. uncle. but
aunt says she's in the same depiorable condition
hasn't got a cent
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22

Again 1t is reported from Havana that
ex-Director Rathbcne is to be arreste d
within few days. The campaign is com
ing on now and it is highly desirable TO
have knowledgeable gentlemen like this
one-formerly of Columbus-under lock
and key. Otherwise these is no telling
how quickly he might carry out his threat
to pull down the pillars OF the temnIe-''
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
The Queen Returns 10 Yyi,dso-

LONDON, June 22.-Tbe Queen arrived
at Windsor yesterday. He health has b en-
immensely benefited by her stay in Scot
land
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
A Foolish Bird.
fFrou Puck.)

The Robia-Say. Twitters. boy with : catlp1it
cane near sEipi-G me this morning
The SparroW-SeTyss you right Invent / ad-
visrd you tine AID ssain to dye that red front
khaki color
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
Four ReyuoId, Portraits SOFA

LONDON. June v22.-Four portraits by
Sir Joshua Reynolds brought II. Gee
guineas at a sale at Willis. yesterday az
ternoon.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22
The One Requisite.

at IS rot % difhcnlt to be missionary in
China" said the naau, who had been there in
that espscitg. Ii vii be e1refsl not to lose
his head"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22

You'll ncvcr get Heurich's unless you ak fcr a.
Phone e34- Acknowledging Co, Tor caso Ct
lSs-zen, Senate. OF Lager.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-22

Ahrer Mckinley. the Presidents brott er,
wan one Of the interested spectators at the
Convention yesterday. and after the adj
journment he received scores Of congratu-
iations. supplemented by requests to be re-
membered TO the President
II is estimated that about 100 OcO visitors
were brought to Philadelphia by the rail-
roads during the week Hotel men and mer-
chants were greatly disappointed becau e
the Convention did not last the week out
but il is stated on good authority thag
Philadelphia made up many times over fer
the price she paid for the Convention
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-04-11
John c. Shutting For Sheriff of
Gonzales County.

Mr., John G. Shutting, of Dilworth,
announces in this issue of The
Gazette, for sheriff Of Gonzales
county. John is very popular
man wherever he is known, and
that he will make Il good officer,
goes without the saying. Mr.. Stult-
ing was born and raised in Gonzales
county and is about 40 years of
age; he is active and energetic and
if elected. promises to carry out the
law III all things, He has friends
all over Gonzales county who will
rally to his support. The citizens
of the eastern part of the county,
where he has made his home, are
almost solid for him.
In regard to the law governing
the appointment of deputies, he
says Il intend-if elected-to
have only the legal number of dep
uties; they will be law-abiding citi-
zens; their names will be posted in
a conspicuous place in the county
clerks office SO that all interested
may know who my deputies are.
In short, shall hew to. the law as
passed by the legislature in 1889"
That law has never been repealed
and hence is the law today. True,
there is no penalty attached for its
violation, but it is none the less a
law for that, and in my opinion IL
good one. Indiscriuinate deputiz-
ing encourages pistol carrying, and
| believe can prove that in too
many instances it forces the practice
upon men as means of self. pro-
lection, who. were it not for the fact
tlat some other man is carrying
arms with the unlawful sanction OF
the sheriff, would themselves never
think Of doing SO.
IF am elected sheriff l shall do
all in my power 10 discourage the
practice in this county. and as the
first important step in That direc.
ton shall abide strictly by this law
in the appointment of deputies"