OID TIM&WOraTES
THE HAUNTED PALACE.
By KDOAB ALLAN FOR.
In the greenest of our valleys
By good unrein tennnted,
Once a fair and stately palnce-
Kadiant palace rear its head.
In the monnrih thought's dominion, s
It stood there;
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair.
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow
(Tliis all this was in the olden
Time long ago),
And every gentle nir that dallied,
In that sweet day.
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,
A wing-ed odor went away,
Wnnderers In that happy valley
Through two luminous windows sair
Spirits moving musically.
To n lute's well-tun-ed law, i
Hound about n throne where, sitting,
J'orphyrogene,
In state his glnrv well befitting.
The ruler of the realm was seen, '
The Longest
BY NORMAN
i:
"I
T wag a very narrow escape
snld the doctor.
"Crossing the harbor?" I
exclaimed.
"Tog." snid lie. with n laugh, then
gravely, "It was my narrowest escape.'
"Tell me the story," said I, much lu
terested.
It Wits a quiet evening; twilight
witn tne Jiartior water unruffled, and
the colors nf tbo nf IitpIotv funf fiulln.r
from the sky. We were sitting by the
surgery door, watching the fishing
tionts come in from the son. nnil nnr
talk had been of the common dangers
or mat lire.
"Do von sen tho little rotfnflro nn tho
other side back of the church and to
the left?" snld the doctor.
"T'nder (bo lifer rook?" nM T "Win,
the little garden In front and the lad
going up tne pntn?"
"Aye," said the doctor. "Some years
go. when that sturdy little lad was u
toddler in pinafores he was taken sud
lenly ill. It was a warm day In the
ipring of the year. The ice was still In
the harbor, locked in by the rocks at
the narrows, though tho snow had nil
melted from the hills, and green things
ivere shooting from the earth In the
gardens. The weather had been tine
Tor a week. Day by day the harbor
jce bad grown more unsafe, until, when
tommy, the lad yon saw on the path,
rras taken 111, only the daring ventured
to cross upon It.
"Tommy's father came rushing Into
Uio surgery In a pitiable state of grief
md fright. I knew when I first caught
light of his face that the child was ill.
"'Doctor,' said lie, 'my little lad's
wonderful sick. Come quick!'
" 'Can wo cross by the Ice?' I said.
" 'I've come that way,' said he. "Tis
i.lfe enough t' risk. Make baste, doc
tor, sir! Make haste!'
'"Lead the way!' said I.
"He led so cleverly that wo crossed
K'lthout once sounding tho Ice. It was
l zigzag way a long, wlndlug course
ind I knew the day after, though I
vaa too Intent upon tho matter In hand
to perceive It at the moment, that only
his experience and acquaintance with
!he condition of the lee made the pas
logo possible. After midnight, when
My situation was one of extreme peril,
t realized ' that the' way bad been
Jellher safe for ine, who followed, nor
tasy for I ho man who led.
" 'My boy Is dying, doctor! said the
mother, when we entered the house,
toh, save him!'
"My sympathy for the child and his
parents they loved that lad no less
lhan n curtain professional Interest
Milch takes hold of a young physician
to bucIi cases, kept me nt Tommy's bed
Ude until long, long after dark. 1
need not have stayed so long ought
lot to have stayed for the lad was
lafe and out of pain, but In this far
sway place n man must bo both nurse
ind doctor, and there I found myself.
It 11 o'clock of a dark night, worn out,
Mhl anxious only to reach my bed by'
the shortest way,
" 'I thinks, sir,' snJd Tommy's father.
Then I made ready to go, 'that I
wouldn't go hack by the ice.
"'O, nonsense,' said I. 'We came
ver without any trouble, and I'll find
iy way back, never fear.'
" 'I wlsut you'd stay here the night.'
laid the mother. 'If you'll bide. sir.
" !' ,ranlie yu comfortable.'
" n.' said I. 'I must get to mv
wn bed.'
" 'If you'll not go round by the shore,
U. said the man, 'leave me pilot you
across,'
" 'Stay with your lad,' said I, some
what testily. Til cross by the ice.'
Twill be the longest way home
the night,' said he.
When a mnn la ui ,.,i
. - " iiutl ii ui II fill
no can be strangely perverse. I would
nrtfo my own way, and, to my cost. I
ns permitted to take It. Tommy's
-athor led me to the landing stage, put
Ban n my hand and warned me to he
.arerul-warned me particularly not
.o taw n ,, Wth0lU ,, tll0 1(.p
V Ir..?'1"' w-v SnlT' "" " brought
ne mtlH lesson to nn end with n wist-
L, 'U,,t ou wouldn't risk It.'
The tone of his voice, the earnest
ness and warm feeling with which he
' J ,1' U1 pftUM- 1 I'esltaledbut
ho light In my surgery window, shin
lug so near at band, gave me a vision
jr clean and comfortable rest, and I
Put the momentary Indecision . away
from ine, '
'It Is n ounrter of n tnti-
ery by the Ice.' I ,id, .nd u ,8' four
i w going the shortest way.'
'You'll find it the longest, air,' laid
"I FfmnntAjl m t..ii
p. uireuiiong ni to the
o good night and stepped out on the
onTi f WTU fllnre More terror
nd dcspHip than, doubtless, any year
" my Uf, to come shall know. I am
o morbidly afraid of (eatl.. ltVn
death that wade ma suffer. It w,
Luh".? U0.er ? f co""-" the night.
u tho harbor rolls, all Buoraut of my
And all with pearl and ruby glowinf
Was the fair palace door',
Through which can:o flowing, flowing, flow
li'g. And sparkling evermore
A troop of echoes, whose sweet duty
V as but to sing,
In voices of surpassing boautv, I
The wit and wisdom of their tins.
But evil things, In robes of sorrow.
Availed the monerch's hk-h estate;
Alt. let. ill mourn, for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate!) I
And round about bis borne the glory
That blushed and bloomed.
Ik hut a dim-remembered story
Of the old lime entombed.
And travelers now within flint vnllev
Through the rcd-littcn windows sea
, njt forms that move fantastically,
To n discordant melody:
While, like n ghntlv r;ipid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng ruh out forever
And laugh but smile no more.
Way Home.
DUNCAN.
fxtremlly. peacefully sleeping around
me tne slow, cruel approach of it,
closing in upon every hand, lying all
about me, and hidden from me by the
.lRiir.
The doctor paused. He looked over
the quiet water of the harbor.
les, ho said, repeating the short.
nervous laugh, "It was a narrow es
capo. The sun of the nfternoon it had
shone hot and bright had weakened
the Ice, and a strong, gusty wind, such
a wind as breaks up tho Ice every
spring, was blowing down the harbor
to tne sen. It had overcast the sky
wnn twcK clouds. The night was dark,
Nothing more of the opposite shore
than the vaguest outline of the bills n
blacker shadow in a black sky was to
be seen.
"Ilut I had the lamp In the surgery
window to guide m'e, and I pushed out
from the shore, resolute and hopeful.
I made constant use of my gaff to
sound the ice. Without it I should
have been lost before I bad gone twen
ty yards. From time to time, In rotten
places, it broke through the lee with
but slight pressure, then I had to turn
to right or left, as seemed best, keeping
to tbe general direction ns well ns I
eotdd all the while.
"As I proceeded, treading lightly and
cautiously, I was dismayed to llnd that
the condition of the lee was worse than
the worst I had feared.
'Ah,' thought I, with n wistful
glnneo toward the light in the window,
1 11 bo glad enough to get there.'
"There were lakes of open water In
my path; there were flooded patches
sheets of thin, rubbery Ice, stretches of
rotten 'slob.' I was not even sure that
a solid path to my surgery wound
through these dangers, and if path
there were It was a puzzling maze,
strewn with pitfalls, with death wait
lug upon a mis-step.
"Had It been broad day my situation
would have been serious enough. In
the night, with the treacherous places
nil coverca up and hidi'eu It was des
perate. I determined to return, but I
was quite as unfamiliar with the lay
or the lee behind as with the path
ahead. A moment of thought persuad
ed me that the best plan was the bold
estto push on for the light lu the win
now. I should have, at least, n star to
guide me.
" 'I have not far to go,' I thought. 'I
must proceed with confidence and a
common-sense sort of caution. Above
all. I must not lose my nerve.'
"It was easy to make- the resolve: It
was hard to carry It out. When I was
searching for solid Ice and my gaff
splashed water, when the ice offered
no more resistance to my gaff than a
similar mass of sea foam, when my
footiiold bent and cracked beneath me,
when, upon either side, lay open water
and a narrowing.. uncertain path lay
ahead, my nerve was sorely tried.
'At times, overcome by the peril I
could not see. I slopped dead and trem
bled. I feared to strike my gaff, feared
to set my foot down, feared to quit the
square foot of solid Ice upon which I
stood. Had It not been for ths high
wind high and fust rising to n gale I
should have sat down and waited for
the morning. But there were ominous
sounds abroad, and. although I knew
little about the ways of Ice, I felt that
the break-up would come before the
dawn. There was nothing for It but to
go on.
"And on I went, hut at last th mis
chance was Inevitable my step was
badly chos:n. My foot broke through.
and I found myself of a suddeu sink
ing. I threw myself forward and fell
with my arms spread out: thus I dis
tributed my weight over a wider area
of lee and was borne no.
"For n time I wqs Incapable of mov.
!ug n muscle; tho surprise, the rush of
terror, the shock of tho fall, the sudden
relief of finding myself safe for the mo
ment had stuuued me. So I lay still,
hugging the lee, for how long I cannot
tell, but I know that when I recovered
my Belf-possessioii my first thought
wub thnt the light was still binning In
the surgery window an Immeasurable
distance away. I must reach that
light, I knew, but It was n long time
beforo I had the courage to move for
ward.
"Then I managed to get tho gaff un
der my chest, so that I could throw
some pnrt of my weight upon It, and
began to crawl. - Tho progress was Inch
by Inch slow and toilsome, with no
moment of security to lighten It. I
was keenly, aware of my danger; at
any moment, ns I knew, tbe Ice might
open and let me In.
"I had gained fifty yards or more,
and had come to a broad lake, which I
must round, when the light in the win
dow went out.
" 'Elisabeth has given mo up for the
night,' I thought In despair. 'She has
blown out the light and gone to bed.'
"Tbero was now no point of light to
mark my goal. It was very dark, and
tit n few minutes I was lost. I bad tbe
wind to guide me. It Is true, but I aoon
mistrusted J,he wlod. It was veering,
it had veered, I thought: it was sot
posalblt for mo U trust It Implicitly.
In whatever direction 1 get my fare I
fancied that the open sea Iny that way,
"Again and again I started, but upon
-ach occasion I had no Rooner begun to
crawl thnn I fancied that I had nilscho
sen the way. Of course I cried for
help, but the wind swept my frantic
screams away, and no man heard them
Tbe moaning and swish of thr gale, nt
It r.in past tho cottages, drowned mj
cries. The sleepers were not alarmed.
.Moanwiiiio tnnt same wind wai
breaking up the Ice. I could hear the
cracking and grinding long before 1
felt the motion of the pan upon which
I lav. Dut nt last I did feel that mas
of lee turn and gently heave, end ther
I gave myself up for lout.
" ' Doctor! Doctor!'
"The voice came from far to wind
ward. The wind eaughi. my nnswcrlna
Shout and carried It out to sea.
" 'They will not bear me,' I thought
. j ney will not come to help me.'
"The light shone out from the surg
ery window again. Then lights ap
peared in the neighboring houses rnd
passed from room to room. There had
bfen nn alarm. Hut niy pan was
brenking up! Would they find me la
time? Would they find mo nt nil?
"Lanterns were now gleaming on th,
rocks back of my wharf. Hnlf n dozen
men were coming down on the run,
bounding from rock to rock of the
path. By the light of the lanterns 1
saw them laueh n Itoat on the Ice and
drag It out toward me. From the edge
of the shore Ice they let It slip into the
water, pushed off mid came slowly
through the opening lanes of water,
calling my name at Intervals.
"The Ice was fast breaking and mov
ing out. When they caught my hull
they were not long about pushing the
boat to where-1 lay. Nor, you may bo
sure, was I long about getting aboard."
"Doctor," said I. "how did they know
thnt you were In distress?"
"Oh," said the doctor, "It was Tom
my's fntber. He was worried, and
walked around by tbe shore. When
he found that I was not home he
roused the neighbors."
"As the proverb runs." said I. "the
longest way rouud Is sometimes tin
shortest way home."
"Yes," said the doctor. "I chose the
longest way." Youth's Companion.
Belt Maite at Pennies.
One of the most original of belts and
also n necklace wero finished during
the week for a woman who is enthu
siastically Interested in Indians and
their progress. An Indian silversmith
did the work, which was in copper,
and after it was eompfcted the mate
rial for a gown was selected and made
up to go with the ornaments.
These hitter were of fanciful disks ot
copper, the copper used being all
Unljed States pennies. There were
thirteen largo disks in the belt, each
made of twelve pennies. An idea of
what was required was given the In
dian workman, and ho made his own
designs. The necklnee was of smaller,
disks, each made from a penny, but
thinner and larger in circumference,
mid ninde In a design to mutch the
belt. The necklace was rather long,
falling to the bustline. Tho disks were
not Hat, but raised a little lu the centre,
and in the beautiful red oi" the copper
after It bad been worked, delightfully
effective.
To wear with the necklace nnd belt
a gown of golden brown cloth wan
bought which exactly suited thu orna
ments. The work was so entirely satis
factory thnt the originator of the Idea
immediately ordered another belt and
necklace for a friend. Indian workmen
do not always work by scale, and the
disks of the second necklaco were
lightly larger than those of the first,
and the chuln was made longer to give
it a better proportion. The woman
who received It, not caring for this ex
tra length, bad several of the 'disks
removed and sent for three more to add
to them, and this gave her a bracelet
of the copper. The. set of belt end
necklace cost about $30.
Tho only person who was not pleased
with the work when it was completed
was the Indian. He Is a Navajo, and a
particularly Intelligent mnn, but be Is
n silversmith, and he does not believe
In Working In "the red," ns he culls tbe
copper, and which ho considers to be
very commonplace. As a matter of
fact, tho Indian work In copper is more
artistic than that In silver. New York
Times.
To Arrest fire in Ships' nolils.
P. W. Coding, United States Consul
at Newcastle. Kngland, describes an
ippnratus for arresting flro in ships'
holds ns follows: "The apparatus
consists of a fairly watertight wooden
box or trough, built on the floor of
each bold at the lowest point, nnd ns
near the centre between the bulkheads
as Is convenient (lu coal bunkers, nt
the bottom toward one side), and a
small pipe leading from the deck to
this trough. In coal ships the ther
mometer tube may servo for the pur
pose, and when the ship Is carrying a
general cargo tuo tune may remain a
permanent fixture. The trough Is filled
with n few tons of a material about
one-half as bulky ns coal. This, with
some gallons of nn easily stored liquid,
comprises the entire outfit. The en
tire cost of fitting n ship with appara
tus surticieut for charging tho hold six
times Is estimated at $100. As tbe
material docs not deteriorate with age
or exposure to the action of salt woter.
it may be carried for years, yet Is al
ways ready for. use m caso of emer
gency."
Ibe SI ail Inventor at Eerlswood.
The mad inventor Is the most Inter
esting figure nt Earrswood. His work
shop, crowded with bis Inventions, Is
one of the sights of tho country, which
tbe public never aeea. Sitting at a
bench suspended In nild nlr, Mr. James
Henry I'uilcn builds model bouses and
model ships which would tax many
saner men with a grasp of 'mechanics
and a brain behind it. Ills models of
well-known ships, comprising vessels
of almost every type, would make up
a little nary, nnd some of them have
been shown ot exhibitions in London
and lu Paris. An Ingenious kite of his
own Invention la one of the familiar
sights In the grouuds at Earlswood,
and Mr, Fullen la a puluter, too, with
pictures hanging round bis room such
ns would not shame a ltoyal Academic
ian. Yet Mr. I'uilcn. artist and Inven
tor, who ha nindo over two thousand
articles on bis mid-air bench, is as
mad os the hatter lu Wouderlaud.
St James's Oasette.
REFRIGERATOR CARS MADE
THE BEEF TRUST POSSIBLE
i
Development of the Chicago Stock Yards
--More Than a Billion Pounds of Dressed
Meat Leave the Windy City Annually.
t4
Chicago's meat Industry had Its real
origin In the refrigerator car, some
what more than n score of years ago.
The Capital Union Stock Yards Trans
fer Company was chartered In lscj.",
and it soon grew to bo an institution
of magnitude. But it could never have
been more than a slaughtering place
aud market for Chicago and a "clear
ing house" for live cattle destined for
other markets save for this invention.
A steer weighing 1200 pounds con
tains about 8S0 pounds of useful prod
uct. Only about 000 pounds of this Is
directly salable as meat. In shipping
:attle on the hoof It is necessary to pay
freight on the whole llioo pounds. Abil
ity to slaughter In Chicago aud save
tho freight on GX) pounds gave tho
Western man an advantage tho East
erners could not meet. The attack
on the Kastern market was begun in
Boston. That city was soon won over
entirely to tho Western packers. Then
New York was Invaded, and after that
the rest of the world was brought Into
line. The Chicago slaughter houses,
wero doubled and doubled oguln. Acre
after acre was covered with new build
ings designed for use In the Industry.
Thousands of men were put to work at
construction in . Tack Ingrown, which
was built on tho western edge of the
stock yards. Other thousands went to
work in tho cities which the packers
Invaded, building storage houses and
wholesale markets, first lu the big
cities, then In the smaller ones, until
wherever one goes to-day he finds
the Chicago dressed beef storehouses
close beside the railroad. And near
scores of lakes In Southern Wisconsin
may be seen the gigantic Icehouses In
which lee is stored in hundred thou
sand ton lots to aid the refrigerating.
Refrigerator cars are expensive.
There are many trunk lines of rail
road running east from Chicago, and
Co one of them could nfford to bi-.l.d
and own enough refrigerators to carry
lue output of tho big packing bouses.
Tbe leading packers built tho cars for
themselves, and, having the cars, were
able to ship by what line they would,
nnd charge the railroads a stiff price
for the rent of the cars. Competition
was found to be n useful means of
Keeping down freight rates, nnd the
packers used It freely. To-day more
than 20,000 refrigerators are lu use car
rylng meat products from Chicago, and
nearly all of these belong to the pio
neers lu tho field "tho Big Six." Ar
mour & Co. own more than 10,000 of
them. Swifts more than half as many,
l.lpton, the Auglo-Ainericnn, Ham
inoud, I.lhby, each concern has its
own. There are others owned by the
rallroada and by the smaller houses
and by special companies, which nc
commodate those who have not cars
of their own. There are more than loo
firms engaged In the business of pack
Ing meat about tho Union SUjck Yards,
though the six big ones have the bulk
of the business.
cmoioo's or.EATEsr industry.
Thus It is that of all the beef slausli
tored In this country more than forty
per cent. nearly one-half. In fact-
Is killed lu the packing bouses about
tho Chicago Stock Yards. In 1001
mare than S.OOO.OOOcattle were shipped
tintuor from every State In the Union.
and of these nearly two-thirds a little
less than 2,000,000 wero slaughtered
aud dressed In the yards. Eight mil
lion hogs of 22,000,000 killed In tho
whole country and 4,000,000 sheep
shared their fate, as did nearly 200,000
calves. A single railroad brought 07,
000 carloads aud others nearlv it
tunny each.
These millions were not the lank,
long-horned Texas cattle, that formerly
met their death in Chicago, but blooded
stock, mostly hornless, though number
ing many fancy short-horn, and they
reached the yards fat and sleek from
tho feeding farms of Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, and, in fact, from nearly
every -part of the country.
Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas raise
corn by millions of bushels. Tho
greater pnrt of that corn they feed
to tho cattle from the grazing country.
These corn-fed cattle have ninde Amer
ican beef famous. And in the dressing
mid shipping of that beef nt Chicago
centres tho labor of not only the herd
ers of -Texas nnd the short-grass coun
tryall of Western Kansas and Ne
braska but the corn raisers as well,
who form middlemen between the
plainsmen and the packers.
The farmers arc swiftly learning that
corn In tho siiapo of good beef U worth
r.ioro than torn on the cob. So not
only from tho West, but from the
South and even from the East, fancy
cattle go to Chicago. It Is not uncom
mon for a blooded cow or bull to bring
P2IHK) at tho stock yards. Farmers
who ten years ago had not a beef
animal on their ground now number
their herds by hundreds, nnd hnve
found that n r-mall herd of fancy stock
can be raised and marketed profitably
where the long-horn of happy memory
would have been an utter failure. Ten
years ngo tho action of the rresldent
would have nflW-ted uot n tenth of the
nen and women who are rjat-hed by It
to-day. i
FIVE HUNDRED BU8I A'llES.
This meat trade of tho country cen
tres not only In Chicago, but In a re
stricted area in that city, lu tho old
town of Lake. lu that uren. where last
year forty per cent, of the cattle und
a third of tho hogs of the country wero
marketed, tbero has beon a stock yard
for thlrty-sevca years. Iu thone years
the $400,000,000 of stock that has been
marketed there hag aggregated tho
stupendous sum of more than $0,000,
000,000, aud thut is merely tho raw ma
teria! that baa come there to bo manu
factured Into meat. Tho value of tho
manufactured product Is Incalculable.
The stock yard company's original
stock of $1,000,000 wus quickly sub
scribed. The yards, as opened lu De
cember, 1803, occupied 300 acrea of
marsh laud on Halstend street the
present altc. At first tho cttle cauio
lu rudo curs, crawllug over rough
C
rails from the West, to be unloaded,
fed, watered, rested and sold at tho
yards, thence to be dispatched East or
slaughtered for local consumption.
The value of the cattle handled In
creased in eight years from $10,000,000
to three times that sum. Last year
l.-.OOO.ooo animals, with a value of
$l':t,0OO,00O, wore handled In th?
yards.
To-day the cattle, sheep and hogs
travel Chleagoward at express sched
ules, in "palace stock cars," and it Is
no remarkable achievement for a man
to land a herd of 2000 animals In tbe
yards In a slnglo day, so that they
may be disposed of at once at "the top
of the market." The old way of send
ing In cattle and taking the best price
obtainable has passed. To-day the
tanner watches the price of beef, and
when It goes up rushes his cottle at
limited? train speed to tho yards and
sells out before the drop comes.
For the handling of these cottle the
orlglnul 300 acres has increased to 500,
450 acres of which is paved, most of
it with brick. In these clean, brick
paved pens (which number 13,000)
there are twenty-five miles of water
trough. There lire 250 miles of rail
road track In tho yards, four miles of
unloading platform with chutes, twenty-five
miles of street, ninety miles of
water and fifty of sewer pipe, 10,000
hydrants and a water works having
six artesian wells running down 2250
feet into the earth uud supplying
0,000,000 gallons of water a day.
TOUn STEERS KILLED EVERT MINCTZ.
The day has gone when the leading
packers are willing to give out figures
which will show the extent of the enor
mous business which they are carrying
on. Tho statistics which follow, lrow
ever, are from n recent authority, and
represent the second largest of the
establishments making up the so-called
"Big Six." The buildings occupied by
tbe firm, and which are in the heart of
"Packingtown," cover sixty-live acres
of ground. They range from one-story
sheds to eight-story smokehouses and
warehouses, and aggregate 150 acres
of floor space. This company employs
18,433 men, to whom Is paid a weekly
wage of more than $200,000.
Iu one year this firm bundled In Chi.
cago 1.437,844 cattle, 2,058,051 sheep
and 3,928.059 hogs. Much of the prod
uct of these wos consumed iu Chicago,
being carried out from l'acklugtown
In the endless string of wagons which
run from the warehouse to tho city
by day and night. One hundred nnd
seventy thousand six hundred mid
eighty-four carloads of dressed beef
aud other meat products were shipped
from the city, much of It for Eastern
consumption and export. Nearly 300
carloads a day were shipped by thi?
oue firm of theChieitgo packing bouses.
The largest single day's klllii.g by tins'
ilrm vo 55.140 anluiiil.s 10,973 cattle,
10,911 sheep nnd 27,250 hogs. In the
enormous cold storage houi-o which ad
joins tho abattoirs Is room for the car
casses of 15,110 cattle, 18.0JO slicep
and 47,400 hogs.
The complete slaughter and dressing
of a steer In this bouse from the
time It Is knocked lu tho head In the
pen till It has been beheaded, hung up
by tho heels, skinned, gutted, split,
washed nnd passed on to the cooler
takes thirty-nine minutes. Cattle tire
slaughtered in the ordinary course of
business at tho rate of 240 an hour, or
four every minute. Hogs are killed
and dressed more quickly than cattle.
From the time thnt the porker is
shackled by the hind legs and hoisted
on to the trolley till he has run by the
sticker, been cleaned, dipped in scald
ing water, split und trimmed till he it
in a temperature of thirty-eight de
grees and slowly hardening is only
thirty-two nnd n half minutes. From
000 to 700 hogs are slaughtered every
uour nt Swift's. Sheep take two min
utes longer than hogs for killing and
dressing, and 020 are handled every
sixty minutes.
As tho business of pork aud beef
packing has Incseascil the tendency
has been to nurrow tho work of each
man down to some single act. Time
was when the butcher stuck tho knife
In the pig's throat, hung him up. gutted
him, and by deft strokes of many kinds ,
reduced hi m to marketable shape. To
day ever hog passes 150 men, each of
whom has ono thing to do in the pro.
cess of dressing. One cuts away the
bench bone, another odd bits of hair,
and another the "leaf." 'Another splits
the back bone, another divides It Into
halves and another washes It with hot
water. This single firm sells anuuall.v
more than fi.OOO.OOO hams, most of
which are from the Chicago house. It
kills a small nioiiortioii nt Omaha.
Kansas City and St. Joseph.
A Ilrro Drstinml to lie Unsung.
Thomas Kelly, who rode n mile on
horseback to zivo on iihirm of fire
which saved the village of Luxembourg
from destruction, Is n hero who U apt
to bo cheated out of his Just rewards'
on account of his name. He bus al
ready been likened to Paul Itevere,
and, like that gallant rider, he deserve
to be made t.nuous in verse, but hi
tho first place tbero is no Longfellow
to celebrate his deed lu heroic metre,
aud then minor poeis would Und It
most dllllcult to construct rhymes for
'Kelly." If Itevere hud been named
Kelly Instead of his own euphonious
patronymic, he would have been com
paratively unknown, it would not
Eouud a bit heroic to say, ''Listen, my
children, and I will tell 'co, the mid
night ride of Thomas Kelly." Or. If
we attempted to describe tho mauuer
of his rldlUR, wo should have to say
something profano or anatomical,
which might be embarrassing. Wo are
sorry for Mr. Kelly, but If ho wants
a poem written about hta exploit he
will huvo to petition the Legislature
to c-hango his name. St. Louis Ulobo
Democrat. Tho length of a honeymoon generally
depends upon tba amount ot money
you start out with.
New York City. Small capes always
make desirable wraps for mild weather
wear. The very stylish May Manton
one Illustrated is adapted both to the
woman's cxrn.
costume and to the separate wrap, but
as shown is of tab colored cloth and
makes part of an entire suit. The stole
fronts are trimmed with drop orna
ments, but the edges nnd senilis are
simply machine stitched with cortlcclli
silk. Tho cape Is cut to give the ef
fect of a pointed yoke nt the back, nnd
with clrculor portions that fall over
the shoulders nud arc Joined to the
centre portion with Inverted pleats at
fronts and on centre back. The neck
Is finished with a tint collar that ter
minates In stole ends.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size Is three and one
fourth yards twenty-one Inches wide,
one nud five-eighth yards forty-four
Inches wide, or one aud five-eighth
yards fifty-two Inches wide.
Women's Shirt VfaUt.
Shirt waists are among the desirable
things of which no woman ever yet
had too many. The stylish model Il
lustrated In the large drawing Includes
tho latest features In the graduated
box pleat and tbe wide tucks thnt ex
tend to yoke depth. Tho original is
FASHIONABLE
made of white mercerized vestiug, with
dots of blue, and is trimmed with orna
mental pearl buttons, but nil wulstlng
materials, cotton, linen, wool and silk
are appropriate.
The waist consists of fronts, back
and pleat. The back Is plain and
drawn down In gathers at tho waist
line, but tho fronts are arranged to
blouse slightly over tho belt. The
graduated pleat Is joined to the right
edge, and Is hooked over Invisibly
onto the left. The sleeves are the new
ones that fit smoothly nt tbe shoulders,
but form wldo puffs over the narrow
straight cuffs. At the neck Is a slock
cut with the fashionable clerical point.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size Is four and five-eighth
yards twenty-one inches wide, four
yards twenty-seven inches wide, two
and one-half yards thirty-two inches
wide, or two yards forty-four Inches
wide.
A Shirt Waist rtnlt. ""
Your dressMiaker will be sure to ppr
suude you, or at least to endeavor to
guide you In having her make up a
shirt waist suit for you. It is a good
pattern for n foulard or summer silk,
which will be used as a street gown.
Tbe "shirt waist" idea does not neces
sarily condemn you to this form of bod
Ice. Many of the so-called shirt waist
suits bhow Jacket fronts and a narrow
walstcont effect. Tbe buck of the bod
Ice Is made like a shirt waist, and tho
Jacket fronts are never loos-, but are
stitched down to the lining. The elas
tic phrase permits n good deal of varia
tion from the titular model, and Indi
vidual choice can determine iu what
meas,:re yon wish to deviate from Un
original di sign.
Openwork Wines.
Winged ornaments are ornamental
additions to the spring blouses, both of
silk, linen or soft woolen cloth. The
butterfly with "sail set" In full flight,
or the gauzy drngou fly are fuvorltu
models. They are set on tho blouse
front, or shoulders usually, and the
prettiest of the models have open work
wings, while the body of the flying
figure la embroidered solidly or Iu out
line applications. These pretty put
terns are especially suitable for decor
ating young girls' garments. They
rival flower designs In present popular
ity. But every one wear them, pro
vided they can secure the novel decor
ations for the useful blouse.
As to W carina the Tell.
Frenchwomen, while doing Justice to
American woman's taste In dress, aver
that not til sf us know how to wear a
face veil. They cannot understand
why these tissues should be strained
closely over the face. Their argument
is thut the modish veil should be loose
ly draped over the countenance, bang
ing like n valance from tbe hat o
toque, nud never dragged tlglit over?
the face. It Is not meant by this thai
the veil must necessarily be gathered
under the chin or balloon out with 8
gust of wind. It must slinulnte loose
ness, however, and not bo drawn like av
mask over nose and cheeks.
Velvet Tee downs.
Tea gowns of velvet are nt present
considered smarter than those of dia
phanous materials, because of the love
ly lights and shades that fall on tho
long lines, giving a most artistic effect.
The various shades of gurnet, and es
pecially those of purple, are tbe favor
Ites. heeatise so effective; royal purple.
heliotrope and mauve show up lovely
In the draping, which must be on tho
picturesque order. The princess model
Is the favorite, but the front Is elthpr
flowing or draped, and. In addition to)
the long train, the front is made long-
ctiorgb to hide the feet.
Rats llrnw Smeller.
Smaller and smaller grow the haft
displayed for early spring wear. Th
turban with turned up brim Is mora
nnd more popular nil the time. For tb
moment, when the bat Is not made of
some soft material, the brim is faced
with some soft fabric, tulle, chiffon
or "frayed silk." so thnt no harsh line
will come against the face, nnd th
brim nt Hie back is so narrow that aU
the luilr Is seen.
Ribbon Ore pes.
The ever-present grapes are made of
ribbons and sold In bunches for orna
ments. One bunch Is made of black
ribbon, each grape being as large aa a
good-sized natural grape, round ana
full, nnd there is n knot of bright green
ribbons nt the top. Another bunch of
grapes Is made of green ribbon, and 1
has a knot of white ones at the topT
Finished VTlth Narrow Borders.
Many of the new spring goods ar
SHIRT WAIST.
finished with narrow borders. ThcM
borders are effective on the bottom ot
tbe skirt or applied In lengthwise;
straps on the seams of the skirt aa well
as on the bodice and sleeves. They are;
iu nil the daintier wash fabrics (lines
and cottons), as well as silks. mohaJ-"
and flannels.
Teltlug- Again 1'opular.
Old-fashioned tatting Is again popu
lar. Many of the new spring waists,
made of the sheerest lawns and mulls,
hnve insets of tutting in wheel design
all over the fronts, sleeves and stocks.
Other new waists have butter colored
lace, combined with pure white lawn.
n very smart combination.
Girl's Tucked Coal.
Loose fitting tucked coats are greatly
lu vogue for little girls aud will tor
much worn during the season to coma.
The stylish little model shown Is made)
of pongee with trimming of heavy
linen lace of tho sumo shade, but all
pliable materials nre appropriate.
The coat consists of fronts aud back,
both of which are tucked and stitched
with cortlcelli silk to flounce depth.
Over the shoulders In
capo collar that Is shaped with seal-
Kipi-u outline, ine sleeves are In bell
shapo and can be slipped on and off
with case. The right side of the coat
laps over the left ami la l,...l i.
double-breasted stylo with buttons and
uuiKiunoies.
Tho quantity of material required foe
oiaL'a tucxbd coat.
medium also (four ream la four and
ouo half yards twenty-one Inches wide.
four yards twenty-seven Inches wtslev
or two and one fourth yards forty-fokir
incues wiuo.