RR der the bank which sloped from Harold's {of so many knots in his forehead. Some workroom, though a few are found with Deorvaic Waldman bouse to the river, when Mr. Stewart spoke dave he Tb stop for a minute, as he was | DRASTIC LEGISLATION NEEDED a Window pening into. the outer air. QUALITY GUARANTEED. n. | Pulling the lohster-pots, or working about ———— a jocated in the inside comers of | reeo of labels pe, alwate Shougat, nd, that vaty | the rhode, his face wrinkled into lines of Washington, June 5. — President side — nl a ave Bo out. wholly DE ol, Ee po al —_— | th or, in, OF 2 olen | orl timid fo onan | vi ft TAS | Eero a Bellefonte, Pa., June 8, 1906. conld hardly do as well here as in a bi lobsters. Mr. Stewart, aowerns es cHort of James Bronson Reynolds and | out ometimes 1 mal huge by the | Ing. They know nothing ot the process. EE ——————————————— with more people and more + | his hopes with the promises he had regeiv- Charles P. Nell, commissioners spe- employes. Ench room are constructed snes Gust Which the meat has passed t your life doesn’t require so go ed from varions men. : tlally appointed to investigate the con. | in the same manner, by boarding off a | *ince this inspection. The legend “Qual- “MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU.” So we two “ ity guaranteed” is wholly unjustifiable. — 20 into business here and About Novem ” , Stew ditions at the Chicago stock yards. | #ection of the work room, often adjoin the “yn for a year? If it succeeds, you “I'll send pat hn Ms -H privies. the odors of which add to the | It deceives and is plainly designed to de- Fresh as the dewdrops falling, y . 4 you stay | wrote, some trial orders. Fill | The report was accompanied by a generally insanitary state of the atmos. | °IVe the average purchaser, who natur. After the heat of day ; yee, 11 jo og we Il see what can be Shety yout toe] posta, IH yon aut; but you message in which the president urges | phere. ally infers from the label that the gov- Sweet as the perfume-laden - ’ € them from beds. the adoption of the Beveri .| * Abominabi the abov od di- | #Thment guarantees the contents of the Breath of the new-mown hay— There was a little of eagerness in Har- the venture so new, we can bardly hope to ment, es for Serigse Smanl. tions Pry ho an that affects most di. ean to be what it purports to be. old's answer. et a sufficient supply this vear to lass all f all pee rectly and seriously the cleanliness of the | In another establishment piles of sau. 80 to the aching spirit, Tdoa’s see what we can do. Every- | winter; hus yoor last weekly reports show | © meat and meat products enter- | roc products is the frequent absence of | $48¢ and dry moldy canned meats, admit- Bidding its sorrows cease, body here has something, and there doesn’t such a splendid gain in nombers and such | 108 into interstate commerce and to | any lavatory provisions in the privies. | tedly several years old, were found, Cometh the unseen Presence seem to be anything for anybody else.” a decrease in deaths that I am much en- prescribe sanitary conditions at the | Washing sinks are either not furnished at wait the Mupesintendant stated tg Ni Bearing the gift of peace. ‘You said lobsters were fairly plenty 2 couraged. abattoirs, all or are small and dirty. Neither are bind The. keg le pig " Peace ! like the eaim of evening “Sometimes; but we don’t get much for dranese neatly tvpe-written letters, ad-| The president calls attention to the Men ill me et per provided, Tei ssotition ta be wade of Crowned by the sunset glow ; them ressed to “Harold Drake. Mavager, The | revolting conditions in the stock yard, | these places to plunge their’ unwashed | Intendents, as the government does not Peace ! as a mighty river ‘How mach ? About ten cents a pound, | Lobster Company,” made the bosiscs, vere | as shown in the report, and declares | hands into the meat to be converted ince a tel i, the Uishosition of In silent, less How— on the average ? real to Harold, aod filled him with the | . BY Suh, session Huw “Yes, summers. A little more win- | zest which comes 10 men when they are [Dalit is imperatively necessary in the hoor at irrducte_us. uu ga Bh ne on he killing floor. It might be treated ” first aseigued to a roll-top desk anda re- | interest of health and decency that | merece ne situated at a long distance | WIth chemicals, mixed with other meats, The *‘peace which passeth knowledge,” Which none may ever win “In a hig city competition develops all volving chair tue be changed. He points out that | from the work rooms and men relieve | tured out in any form of meat product ~ i . desired and yet th k r Tati theliears i soudy business. Men have something od Perhaps the Champion Lohster Company | the existin: laws supply no adequate themselves on the Xilling Noors OF in | sacle 0 nmi ite oe] Ded ant or uso unter dn, they work to make it cheaper, so that they | had an nousnal advantage in its New York | remedy ani that legislation is mot | Somer Of the work rooms. Hence, in| 1a%i8 public would be marked with a la- ' ean sell it for | or give a better qualit ti Certainly bh 1 some cases the fumes of the urine swell inl Come, then, O Peace of Jesus! 2ai0 sell 33 Loi iv g'%e » Wester Suality! Fapisseniative. ertuinly he never oar | only required 10 check the abuses | the oun or nauseating odors arising from ( bel that their Tontents hag been Hao Great gift His presence brings e . portunity to te nsiness associates, x 4 i ernment inspected.” It is not eged & pi we have two or three men studying all the op found to exist, but to prevent the pos- | the dirty blood-soaked, rotting wooden here that such use was to be made of friends at bis clubs, and all whom he met | floors, fruitful culture beds f. he dis- in a casual way, of the new veminre. He Siniihy of Rr ther disregard for health — germs ~ men and ahimals. i di showing the glari tunity for the confessed that he felt almost as mach inter- | packers, ow Blaring opportunity fo est in it as he did in anything he controlled | He suggests that the cost of inspec. Uncleantiness in Handling. Thisuse of a label bearing the name and inl hei h bttan An absence of cleanliness was alse | the implied guaranty of the United States and certainly, for a huosiness that was all t'°n be paid by a fee levied on each found everywhere in the handling of meat | government. investment, he Revated 4 #iamy dent af time enimal slanghtered, and figures that | being prepared for the various meat-food Treatment of Employes. to it. He clung steadfa<t:., huaever, tn proper inspection could be made with | Products. After killing, carcasses APE Li: nue lack of consideration for the health 2 tax not exceeding eight cents per ey oe Se i a Lame es and comfort of the laborers in the Chi- To lift his weary children Above all earthly things, To give us glimpses of Eden, Sweet Comforter, O come ! Aud safely through the shadows Lighten our journey home, — Donald Grant, time to increase the output and lessen the this stuff. The case Is pointed out as one expense. Do yon know that if you should study lohsters so that yon conld have more of them in the doll seasons of winter— more of them and better ones,—you conld make a lot of money ?"’ Harold's face lighted for the first time. the idea of withholding all 1ohsters from — ——— “I’ve thought of that sometimes. I the market until the season of ‘great (uh. read about a man who raised strawberries | io dinners.’ wae on. The. on day early | @RIMal. Attention of congress Is also | fairly sanitary and cleanly manner. Th: | “80 stock yards seems So Je a 8izeci "se AY Tn CO: | in the winter, when they were scarce, and | in November, he sent Harold the first or- | Called to the improper use of chemi. | purts that ease the Se died with tion that prevails * Onder this. system . made a lot of money.’ der, as briefly and as concisely phrased | Cals in preparing meat for masi:ot, rg rent ny sre pao Jandiel wits proper care of the products and of the health and comfort of the employes is The beginnings of “The Champion Lob- impossible and the consumer suffers in ster Company’’ were very small. For two weeks, until business demanded Mr. Stew- as if he had Deen funtiuctiog a great and | The message calls attention to the long-establish usiness house. Harold | fact that the report transmitted is but bas that order tacked up over his desk | preliminary one, and that the doc now, and he confesses he bas a little glim- | toring of tainted meat and the re mer of the great joy of that day, even now, | preparing of products sent to the pack- 83 he reads it over. | ers as unsalable have not been re. are gent from the Cooling room to those departments of the packin houses in which various forms Pas ot products | €Onsequence. The insanitary conditions are prepared are handled with no regard in which the laborers work and the fev. Whatever for cleanliness. In some of the | ¢rish pace which they are forced to Maip- largest establishments sides that are seni | tain Inevitably affect their health. Phy- to what is known as the boning room are | Siclans state that tuberculosis is dispro- Harold Drake stretched his wiry body pn he ah Sk J. resting idly on } © | art's return to New York, they worked and trailing in the water. His thin face, cov- studied ther,—Mr. Stewart reading in ered with a network of wrinkles, and his the books bie had procared from New York forehead, tied in a bard knot of YOrry, | and fitting the observations of natural his. seemed to belong rather to an old man HAROLD DRAKE, Manager, portionately prevalent in the stock yards than a boy of Jal ra torians to the shrewd ideas of a fisher-boy The Champion Lobster Co., ferred to. a no these lig I and the victims of this disease expector- “I guess I could make some money if I who knew the iobasend aa daly one can who Benton, Maine, The president then recommends | geject the pleces they wish, and frequent. | ®t¢ on the spongy wooden floors of the has lived by catching them all his life. For a begioning Mr. Stewart wanted only to learn how they conld be caught as fast as Jouipie, which Harold knew without ly throw them down upon the dirt floor | fark work rooms, from which falling beside their working bench. Even ir | 3craps of meat are later shoveled up te cutting the meat upon the bench, the | Pe converted into food produgts. work Is usually held pressed against their | Even the ordinary decencics of life are Aprons, and these aprons were, as a rule, | completely ignored. In practically all indescribably filthy, They were made {pn | €88es the doors of the tollet rooms open most cases of leather or of rough sacking | directly into the working rooms, the and bore long accummulated grease and | Privies of men and women frequently ad- dirt. In only a few places were suitable | J0In, and the entrances are sometimes nc oil cloth aprons worn. Moreover, men | MOre than a foot or two apart. In other were seen to climb from the floor and | €ases there are no privies for women in stand. with shoes dirty with the refuse | the rooms in which they work, and te of the floors, on the tables upon which | Teach the nearest it is necessary to ge the meat was handled. They were seen | UP Or down a couple of flights of stairs. at the lunch hour sitting on the tables | In one noticeable instance the privy for on the spot on which the meat product | the women working in several adjoining was handled, and all this under the very | F00ms was In a room in which men chiefly eye of the superintendent of the room | Were employed, ‘and every girl going to showing that this was the common prac. | Use this had to pass by the working tice, places u dozens > Hale operatives and enter the privy, the door of which was Meat Scraps On Dirty Floor. not six feet from the working place of one Meat scraps were also found being shov- | of the men operatives. As previousl; eled into receptacles from dirty floors | noted, in the privies for men and women where they were left to lie until again | alike there are no partitions, but simply shoveled into barrels or into machines for | a long row of open seats. Rest rooms, chopping. These floors, it must be noted. | where tired women workers might go for were In most cases damp and SOBEY, in | a short rest, were found as rare excep- dark, ill ventilated rooms, and the em: | tions, and in some establishments women ployes in utter ignorance of cleanliness ot | are even placed in charge of privies danger to health expectorated at will chiefly for the purpose, it was stated, te upon them. In a word, we saw meat see that the girls did not absent them- shoveled from filthy wooden floors, piled | selves too long from their work under the on tables rarely washed, pushed from excuse of visiting them. In some in. room to room in rotten box carts, in all stances what was called a rest room was of which processes it was in the way of simply one end of the privy partitioned off gathering dirt, splinters, floor filth and by a six-foot partition from the remain. the expectoration of tuberculous and oth. ing inclosure. A few girls were found us- er diseased workers. Where comment ing this, not only as a rest room, but as was made to floor superintendents about the only avaliable place in which to sit teas Jhatters, it wi 2 ways the reply to eat their luncheon. that t meat would afterwards be cook. ed and that this sterilization would pre. | The report then urges compulsory vent any danger from its use. A very | examination after slaughter; inspec considerable portion of the meat so hand. | tion of goats for foreign or interstate led is sent out as smoked products and in commerce; increase of inspectors for the form of sausages, which are prepared } . to be eaten ri being ya night inspection and special work; A particularly glaring instances of un. | legislation prohi_..ing declarations of cleanliness was found in a room {here government inspection on food pro the best grade of sausage was being pre. . pared for export. It was made from care. | GUCtS unless subject to government in fully selected meats, and was being pre- | Spection at every stage of prepara pared to be eaten uncooked. In this case tion; prohibiting interstate transpor- the employe carted the chopped-up meat tation of any meat or meat food pro across a room in a barrow, the handles . of which were flithy with grease. The | dUCtS not inspected and labeled; urges meat was then thrown out upon tables, | considering the question of specific and the employe climbed upon the ta- | labelling of all carcasses sold as fresh ble, handled the meat with his unwashed hands, knelt with his dirty apron and meat which upon examination after trousers in contact with the meat he was | slaughtering show signs of disease but spreading out, and after he had Bhialied are still deemed suitable for food: and his operation, again took hold of the | pecommends study of inspection stand. dirty handles of the wheelbarrow, went back for another load and repeated this ards of other countries. process indefinitely. Inquiry developed ar at oy lhete was no water I this | oANGRESBMAN KILLS HINBELF adopted for cleaning his hands was to rub them against his dirty apron or on his Robert Adams, of P hiladelphia, Fires still filthier trousers. Bullet Into His Brain. As an extreme example of the entire Washington, June 2.—After forward disregard on the part of employes of any ing to Speaker Cannon a letter, In She alice I) Nliup Seeasel | oh He ayia ater, 1 killed, cleaned, washed and started on | tended to commit suicide because of its way to the cooling room fall from financial reverses, Robert Adams, Jr., the sliding rail to a dirty wooden floor and slide part way into a filthy men's | ©f Philadelphia, representative of the privy. It was picked up by two employes, second congressional district of Penn: Placed upon a track, ourtied Jno a sylvania, sent a bullet through his cooling room and hung up Other | brain in his apartment at the Metro- carcasses, no effort being made to clean it. politan Club, where he has resided for Treatment After Inspection. several years past when attending his The radical defect in the present sys- jonal duti tem of inspection is that it does not go | COR&ressional duties. far enough. It is confined at present by The motive for the suicide became law to passing on the healthfulness of generally known when the letter from DEAR Sin : Ship at once, by Adams Ex- | that a law which will enable the in. ress, fifty selected lobsters, to the Calumet Club, New York. Mail bili tr the same ad. | SPECtOTs to inspect and supervise dress, charging them at forty cents a pound. | “from the hoof to the can.” Wire me the date of shipment. | The enactment of a law which will (Signed) °° sr. | enable the department of agriculture N. Y. Representative |!0 Inspect meat and meat food pro- There was a friendly little postscript up. | ducts and prescribe sanitary condi. derneath : tions under which the work shall be Dear Harmon: We shall be lobsters | Performed. if we can't make money out of this idea. The favorable consideration of the Don’t work too hard, and don’t forget to Beveridge amendment. Ils, h look at the ocean, the hills, and the sky for The report of the investigators fs me. Beside this lester, on the wall, there is a | as follows: gilded menu card, at the bottom of which — rf Slewars bad un sup- SHOCKING REVELATIONS lied by the Champion ter pany.” or He ae ita ID winter, thas every | Packers Conducted Plants Regardless club and public dinner for which ke sup of Health Or Disease. lied the lobsters must print this notice. | The President—As directed by you, we e very fact that here were not a tenth | Investigated the conditions in the princi. enough lobsters in the heds to supply the | Pal establishments in Chicago engaged i demand only made them the more highly Bs anu Her opie. hee Sng prized. Mr. Stewart told about the work meat and meat-food products. Tw at bis first dinner, and nobody suspected | 4 phair weeks were ore in the BR him of advertising, gation in Chicago and during this time The skill with which the whole plan was | we went through the principal packing executed made “Champion lobsters’ fa- | houses in the stock yards district, togeth- mous. A lobster, previous, had been good | er with a few of the smaller ones. A day or bad; but now there was a brand the | W28 spent by Mr. Reynolds in New York city In the investigation of several of its very name u which oye SSO WOW leading slaughter houses. During our in. with sound, fresh shell-fish. r 2 vestigation statements of conditions and be a hundred other fishermen sending in practices in the packing houses, togeth- the best of lobsters, but ‘‘Champion lob- | or with amaavits and Bonin Btn sters’’ were known to the pablie, and no| dence were offered us from numerous other lobsters would do. Sources. Most of these were rejected as Every neighbor in Benton, Maine, bad a | being far from proving the facts alleged pool the next season, and many another | and as being beyond the possibility of . | verification by us. We have made no town tried to push a brand upon the mar statement as a fact In the report here ket. In the second year, alter a summer ted 1t of work together, Mr. Stewart and Harold Pete et Nas aot Cael ho had several ls, larger and better con: | whish we were unable to verify while in strncted, and into these they placed the | Chicago are still under investigation. The finest specimens of shell-fish which they | following is therefore submitted as a par. could catch. And it was not long after | tial report touching upon those practices the opening of another winter that Harold | and conditions which we found most com- found hie rivals glad to sell their fish at a | ™©0 and not confined to a singie house ) | k or class of houses. A more deiafled re. slight advance on the regular market port would contain many specific instances prices. Jiachaliy he controlled the oe | 0 defects found in particular houses, put o 0. Conditions of the Yards. WH The business is a fine one So th | Before entering the buildings we noted New York office, and a Boston office, too; the ‘co ndition of the yards themselves as and both Harold and Mr. Stewart are | = ‘= in the pavement, pens, viaducts working on a plan to ship the lobsters alive | una plattorms. | The pavement is mostly all over the country. of brick, the bricks laid with deep grooves Yet in all the trinmphs of the Chawpion | between them, which inevitably fill with Lobster Company. Harold has never known | manure and refuse. Such pavement can- a dav like the one which brought the first | not be properly cleaned and is slimy and order. It makes his heart heat a listle went to New York, Mr. Stewart.” Mr. Stewart turned from the sunset glow, reflected in the flooding tide, and saileg quietly at the barefooted boy before m. ‘What would you do, lad 2’ i hiking did you do?’ Harold asked in stretohes of winter. P “I? Ob, well, I worked as o A new boat came first, heavier in con- for two years at foar dollars a " Sffiesboy straction than Harold's cat, with broad worked bard, too. Would you like that? | bilges for rough weather, sod more storage- “Four dollars is more than I can make | 700m for lobster-pots. Systematically they here, and mother bas to go out to work, tried new ideas for feeding a few lobsters too. Yes, I should.” they gathered in the Pool, as the little ba- For several minutes Mr. Stewart gazed | %in which formed in back of Harold's house over the quiet bay as the Frank D. sipped was called, fencing it off with heavy net. quietly toward the river's mouth. Now | ting sunk deep in the mud! If lobsters and again be lifted his eyes to the ro could reason, those about the mouth of the outlive of the hills and mountains which | Pentock river would have grown suspicious rose beyond the broad stretches of field and | a voters do when a district leader in poli. woodland. A mao of sixty at least, brown. | tics grows [friendly and obliging with the ed by a month on the water, he seemed | 8PProach of a caucus. scarcely to bear in his face the signs of care | Mr. Stewart's plan was simple. He told and work which seamed Harold's cheeks | Harold how expensive, yet how highly and brow. prized, good lobsters—really large, fresh ‘‘Harold, boy, you are much better off obsters—were in New York, ially in right here.”’ the winter. He told him, too, how many Harold turned his face toward the ocean | well-to-do men there were who would oo to hide his disappointment. well for selected lobsters, just as ey *‘It I could only stay here, too! Boy, do | bought strawberries aud grapes in the win- you know I'd give up business gladly, it I | ter season. If Harold could learn how to could, just to settle down here to your life? | get lobsters, to grow them systematically I wouldn't loaf, for no man bas a right to | as a farmer would his hens, and to kee do that; nor has any man in business, as I | them alive, above all, in the Pool until am, a right to leave the responsibilities winter, there was an opportunity —an op- and supervision of it. There are too many | portunity which Mr. Stewart mude all the dependent upon me. Bat to fish, to bave | more attractive by pointing out shat the a little garden like yours, to live ont of city's wealth, in some degree, would be doors, even though I were tired at night, | turned toward the Champion Lobster Com- and couldn't have all the luxnries I do in pasy, without exposing Harold to the the city, to see this beautiful stretch of | ha ening influences of the life itself. water and those hills—"’ Perbaps the little package of paper and Mr. Stewart stopped euddenly, appar- | envelopes which came to Mr. Stewart, ently lost in the contemplation of those neatly priuted with the name of the ocon- joys which success bad not bronght to him. cern, and np in one corner, ‘Harold Drake, Harold headed the Frank D. a little closer Manager," gave the boy greater joy than to the wind, trimmed bis main-sheet, and | the promises which Mr. Stewart held ont, settled back upon bis elbow, his face still | Harold threw himself into his new life as drawn downward with disappointment. many a conntiy boy does when he reaches .‘I know you want to make money, Har- | ye office of a great city firm, but as very old. Idid atyourage. Nearly every man | few do whe.., bred in the routine of a quies who bas a healthy mind does. Aud it ix village, they tackle a new phase of life's right that you should. I bave made mou- | prokiem in old surroundings. For a time ey—not a great deal, bus a lot more than | ir. Stewart insisted on paying him a have needed; bas I baven's lived right. | gail salary, —as much as Harold had been I'd give more to look out on thi~ water earning before,~so shas he could devote mornings, and on these hills at sanset, to | hig dass to preparations for winter. Daily breath this air—yoa don’t know what the Harold's stock grew; daily, too, his watoh- city means. pu tee a) tia bvers day. | tuloess taught bim how to prevent she n yoncant realize how it shapes your | josses which came from death, eti x ill smelling dust when dry. The a lite. The distances and the peace ought to | ar the olaws of other lobsters, Some! ues tanter to shink of N o fhink a & how be generally uncovered avert Tig are make you a strong, sincere man, and that perkiaps hecanse the food was wrong or | ¥OTked, preparing the pracat how, he | cep: these latter are paved and covered. is worth all the money you can make. You | scarce. Harold soon learned that there | "8 it to the express office. E10W, U€ | The viaducts and platforms are of wood. live in God's presence.’ must be separate pens, so that all his etock | had no confidence in express companies; | Calves, sheep and hogs that have died en Harold stirred a trifle impatiently, his | would be sure of food, and, too, shat there | POthivg but absolute Sonvickion Jat dome Youte are titown wut RDO the platforms face set and worried. might be less danger of a wholesale slaugh- body, somewhere, won . He wan ther are unloaded. On a single “I guess you wouldn't think mach | ter when some hloodthirsty old warrior | %0 BO 10 New York with He Jobeteze . Tae » latfors on one oveasion ry Danied 3 about all of that if your mother had to go | went ous on a marauding trip. Long be. | 1878 later there was a Yoieptaut 100m ival | Only excuse given for delay in removal out to work and you didn’s know whether | fore the trees began to turn, there were | St€™Art announcin Yue sn oi iA ob t. | Was that so often heard—the expense, the fish were goiug to bite, or whether | hundreds of iohsters living the quiet, un- of the shipment, wi vy ey 8 4 Hovold Buildings. you'd get any lobsters. I'd like it it I disturbed life which nature bad ped wiations’* added. Por e - hg a" The interior finish of most of the build- dido’t have to worry." out, but had oot planned exactly under | ¥2¥¢ WY to the boyish Ti other or | ings 18 OF ats re a ae 4 walls, sup. The thought of this little boy of fourteen | these circumstances, with more to eat ang | 17% into the room where b d led ike a | POTtS and rafters are of wood, uncovered heating the bisdse lefs by a dead father, | less of strife thao they bad ever known, be Saved the telegram and'ye 2 by plaster or Serment, The flooring in . : . some Instances is of brick or cement, Hangs oy aout the land of a eS cighbory.iegulas fishermen generally wre They got there, mother! They got usually of wood. In many of the Fb “‘Yes, boy, I koow. Bat you are get-| ‘Water ain't deep evough. They'll all | *0ere!” 1 to ite | STE, Water ix used freely the floors are ting older now, and you will 500n be able | freeze the first cold snap,” Captain Thomas art iy to - and slimy The buildings have been constructed to wake a good living. Lobsters are plenty, | said with little regard to either lig! t or ven- —and how, too, they could be made more plentiful and more safely and more comfortably caught throughout the cold malodorous when wet, yielding clouds of : ook he river; and aren’: they Captain Dean had a more intimate inter- | °° he porch overlooking 1 1 tliation. The workrooms, as 1 animals at the ti ¢ killing; but th ““Tkere are some, bat you can’s get much | est, il somehow, that dar, Hawoia leit what Jae very poorly lighted. A few Toons at the eg is He End In the Mr. Adams to Speaker Cannon was for them.” “You just take my advice, hoy, and sel] | 2°64 meant, and the Fs York top of the buildings are well lighted be- | various forms of canned products and | Made public. The letter, received by sorry for Mr. Stewart, the New York 1ep- | cquge they cannor re a ane light, but | other prepared meat foods goes through | the speaker just before the house con- Mr. Stewart was silent again for a long ‘em now. You're just stowing them up time, seemingly as far away as the peak | here, and when the fi<hing gets hard other which loamed ahove the line of | fellows will come along and steal them. bills on the shore. Out of all this he had What's Jim Stewart know ahout fishing gove as a boy, filled with the ambition anyhow !" which bad burned as hot in him as it did consulted the president of the now in Harold. Only within a few years | company (Mr. Stewart preferred to be bad he known what the cost had been, | called the ‘New York tepresentative,’’) what the city did for a man. He spoke | and received advice as to the manner of aloud as last, just as they reached the end dealing with thieves and encouragement to of the hreakwater which the shifting | hold al! the stock anil the season was on sands from the river channel. in New York.” “It you could only know how the There were plenty of troubles in the day- crowded, irregular life of the city, the | to-day routine. One day a lot of lobsters swarms of hurrying, selfish people, roughen | escaped throngh a large hole which appear- resentative.—By Martin M. Foss, in St. Nicholas. “Consider Her Ways most of the rooms are so dark as to make artificial light necessary at all times, i Many inside rooms where food is prepar- ed are without windows, deprived of sun- lh ig haut direct communication Among the apparently useless evils of | Wit e outside air. They may be best the world, the pp hes bas always reck. Sesciived us Yauls in i jel thel air rare. oned the white ant, the greedy devourer of | + chang alr are so large. the windows sq eversthing vegetable and animal that | ouaeq by dirt and the walls and ceil. come in its way, making many a ings so dark and dingy that natural light unfit for habitation, bnt now Dr. Arthar J. only penetrates 20 or 30 feet from the win Hayes, who has recently visited Abyesinia | dows, thus making artificial light in por- with the surveying party sent oat to set tions of even these outside rooms neces- oP pe marks tor guaging the annual rise of | 5ar¥. These dark and dingy rooms are the Blue Nile, es another theory. many processes, in all of which there vened, is as-follows: is possibility of contamination thro “ insanitary handling and gh Washington, May 31, 1906.—Hon. further danger through the use of chemicals. During | J. G. Cannon. My Dear Mr. Speaker: an these processes - rl ipazation there | The fact that my personal obligations no governmen no as- i surance whatever tuat thee meat-food exceed my resources is my only hy products are wholesome and fit for food | CUse for abandoning the responsible —despite the fact that all these products, | position I occupy in the house. I am When sent out, bear a label stating they willing to he buried at its expense, have been passed upon by government| pue 1 ask that no committee be ap- inspectors. As to ths investigation of the alleged | Pointed or memorial services held, as I hog hid dyes, Preservatives, or chemicals | have never been in sympathy with the the preparation of cu meats, sau- . sages and canned goods we are mot yet Jattel Snstum With assurances of prepared to report. We did look into | WY Eh Yegard, stucerely yous, = the matter of sanitary handling of the “ROBERT ADAM meats being prepared for the various food products. The fesulty uy Shaervations The Other Way. ve ready partly ven. er instances of how products may be made The teacher had been talking about up, and still secure the stamp of govern- | a hen on eggs, says English ment inspection are here given. In one Country Life, and, with the incubator well known establish t we came fresh meat being shoveled Into marrors, | 11 Mind, asked if eggs could be hatch. and a regular proportion being added of | d in any other way, male scraps hat had lain on a dirty Joo “Yes, sir,” said an experienced per- n the corner of a room for some “Put ‘em und " previous. 2 another establishment, 3on of nine. em er a duck. equally well known a long table was not- a He” ed covered with several hundred pounds i The Remedy. of cooked scraps of beef and other meats, “You're not in love, Robbie. You Some of these meat scraps were dry, only think you are.” leathery and unfit to be eaten; and in “Well, how the dickens am I to find the heap were found pieces of pig skin | out my mistuke if T am mistaken?’ Swarwes ’ Tole, soughen naturally not kept suitably clean. eD a man’s nature. ta i y ¢ all | ed in the outside nesting He went throngh the Sondan to Lake is Banities. She four sure ou which it is from here forty vears ago, aud it wasn’s | said. ‘A piece of an old wreck.’ hy the valley of th carried abou e tu other re- until I had lived thirty years in New York | Harold thooght it more likely that the Eape by the lier of tre Awhara, adn erally of wood. In all the places visited but a single porcelain lined receptacles Suig, 30 oe an you ate oy kept hin jpense. Only 4 Mr. Stewart did | white ants shat the mud spread over the Nas se oe e | he explain the dan rom . , iron carts and iron tubs are aboot ew 300 them ope p ger 8 marand- | Nile delta in the annual floods owes ite | TOR, lron me bee ing you catch. We are a ing there | Danish bloodkound from his kennels, a | the ants supply all the mad that is d tor something that helongs to other Peo: | brate so ferocious that Harold Was uneasy | ited in the delta, hut that its Prod. Availened oe a Neen The flame of ambition was not to be | mauent deore se in the number of inquisi- | erp Reideriand of Abyssinia. This diseov- | water soaked, only half cleansed, and . h t nd grease accumula- course. Mr. Stewart knew is—and knew, | the great dog lived iu a little Roel back | those of thr vey Jt he, is 88 interesting ns | With meat scraps a tha, that he liked his sailing companion of | of the house, nos hnmired fees frm the | the powsihility of inoceulating land for the | 0% dirt. This is largely true of meat ) increase of a desired harvest. Perhaps the | Picks and meat conveyors of every sort, devotion to the life problem before him. It | poaderous and nndemonstrative as he was, black ant, are benefactors of the human quately cleansed and grease and meat that an idea came to him which was to | guardianship over the premises, mason scraps were found adhering to them, even | and even some bits of rope strands and “Oh wom mea solve the problem. There had heen an The mouths until fali were crowded with ho on Bg vot - to service admission from the an Shed, the frank re a yan es simplicity of the country held the city [ more and more 10 Harold; and the hroad satis to wiite delizhttul hoo he. {ining shows more strikingly the gen- | this was to be ground Up and used in man's mind, while the boy's heart, fixe! seean, hlue in the crisp air, and the hills, | ——1t you have time to hoast abont be- | and sanitation than do the privies for | AI of these canned products bear la- Mistress—Have you had any experi. both men and women. The prevailing | bels of which the following is a sample: ence with children? Bridget—Nope, g The work tables upon which the meat the humanity out of him. I went away | “Driftwood, probably,” Ben Taibox western Ahsssinia, and returned to ceptacles into which it is thrown are gen- Shas I knew what it did to men and was drifswood was some malicions tival, but be | he records his opinion that it is to the was seen. Tables covered with sheet aboat you, unless yon know them, I y ' ers, aud in reply Mr. Stewart sent a buge | wonderfal fertility. He does nos fay that | tno establishment visited has as yet ple.” at first; but there was a marked and Per | propeity is dae to their work in she west | wooden receptacles are frequently found quenched in Harold's hieast hy such | tive loafers abous the Pool. Da and nighs those of the value of the earthworm, and | tions adhering to their sides, and collect- the past month the more for his “ATnest | “Lobster Beds,” a they were called; and which in cases inade- was out of this line of thought, however, | he seemed to row into a sense of his busble brows frig tren the little tely "clea "and. gre after they had been washed and returned | other rubbish. Inquiry e other of the long pan<es when the sweet | wark. Somehow, the life came to mean Sider Have other mice dim. ito Jame: eral indifference to matters of cleanliness making “potted ham. A Distinction. on the golden tints of the city's promise, | now inrning into golden mounds, came in- ing worked to death, you have not munch raced away to the crowds, croel as they | to his mind, even in the husier days. He | to do type Is made by cutting off a section of BATTO wi Bt be, aud the Dopotiunitier, boundless | hegav to feel sare, too, thas he Awe 14 raise 2 — the workroom by a thin board partition The aon TDA of um Ns have but they have had some wid me. a fo ig ng, i e fels t or were. The | lobsters as well as store them—if only they —— When you are all done but finish- | mSI0E to within a few feet of the gelling been Inspected according to be for the WATCH Frank D. was almost at the little dock, un- | won sell. This little “'if** was the cause | ing, you are just balf dove. These privies usually ventilate Into the | the art of Conewee= of | —Sabeeribe for the WarcHMaN,
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