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LOVE'S RIDDLE DT EGYPT, BY MART SHAW. 41 desolate, sun^scorched desert and thirsty dying palm; A pyramid, a brooding sphinx, a Boft Egyptian caln. ?n thoughts of love and -wealth and pride, like Cleopatra, she Now dreams the old dreams again in this land of mystery. The old-time palm and pyramid, the sphinx beside the way, 9 And the passions of that long-dead time stir our heaits to-day. The Bands -wherein the Christ child played cover the silent sphinx; Waters which laved His sacred feet the heathen Mahdi drinks. The gentle Christ and the Arab, to-day, dwell in our hearts, And now our loves, and now our hates, force us to plav our parts. And life ana love sweep onward past the sphinx and pyramid; At last, as part of that sacred dust, their secrets we'll read. I Booth Kaukauna, Wis. The Piccadilly Puzzle. THE STORY OF A TERRIBLE EPISODE 1A THE LIFE OF AN ENGLISH NOBLEMAN. By F. W. HUME CHAPTER IX. THE MISSING LINK. Flip, having a -wonderfully tenacious memory, did not forget the conversation he had overheard between Myles and Miss Penfold; so, going to his patron's office, he repeated it in due course to Dowker. The result was that the detective became much exercised in his mind over the whole affair. He could not understand Desmond's refusal to tell the name of the woman he saw on the night of the murder. True, Desmond denied it was Lena Sarschine, but then his denial went for nothing, as he would do so to save himself from suspicion. Mrs. Povy said | Lena Sarschine bad been there between 11 and 12, and it was unlikely she would be wrong, seeing bow well acquainted she was with the appearance of the dead woman. Bat then, judging from the drift ?f Desmond's remarks, bis refusal to Epeak was dictated by a desire to screen the bonor of a woman. "You see this?" asked Dowker, showing Flip the dagger be bad abstracted from Cleopnlra Villa. Flip intiaaated by a vigorous nod of bis bead that be did. "I've got an idea," explained Dowser, smoothly, "that a dagger very similar to this is to be found in the possession of Mr. Myles Desmond, the gentleman yon saw to-day, bo I want yon by some means to get into bis rooms and find out if it's there." Flip screwed his face into a look of profound thought and then Bmiled in a satisfied manner. "I'll do it, guy'nor," he said, sagaciously. "How?" asked Dowker, curious to learn how this juvenile detective proposed to deal with the problem. , "I'll doss on his doorstep to-night," said FHd. "and when he comes 'ome do a perish'?yon knows"?in an explanatory tone?"say I'm dyin' for victuals? 'e'll take me inside, and when I gits there yon leave me alone, guv'nor, I'm fly!" ' "Well, you can manage it as yon please." said Dowker. "But don't yon prick yourself with it, as it's poisoned, and Flip, if you bring me that dagger without him knowing about it, I'll give you half a sov." "Done, gnv'nor," said Flip, joyfully, and. bidding adieu to his patron, went off to get something to eat and prepare his plan of action. It was now about six o'clock and very dark, the sky being overcast with clouds. Soon it began to rain 6teadily and the streets became sloppy and dismal. Flip draw his rat?s round him. shivered a lit tie in a professional manner, and then going oft to a cook-shop be patronized in Drury Lane, had a hunch of bread and a steaming cop of coffee for a small sum. Being thus prepared for his work Flip wiped his mouth, and, sullying forth into the dirty lane, took his way up to Bloomsbury, combining business with pleasure by begging on the road. Turning into Primrose Crescent he soon found the house he wanted, and, curling himself on the doorstep, waited patiently for chance to deliver Mvles into his designing hands. The rain continued to pour down steadily, and as it was now dark Flip could 6ee the windows all .along the street being lighted up. The gas-lamps also shone brightly through the rain, and were reflected in dull, blurred splashes on the pavements. Occasionally a gentleman would hurry past with his umbrella up, and a ragged tramp would slouch along singing a dismal ditty. It was dreary waning, dui nip was useu iu butu wmco, a&d sat quite contented, thinking Low be conld lay oat his promised half sovereign to the best advantrge, till his quick ear caught the Bound of footsteps inside. This was his cue, so he immediately lay down on the wet stones and commenced to moan dismally. Myles opened the door and would have stumbled over him. fo* he was rieht in front of the en trance after the fashion of the clown in the pantomime, only he caught sight of him in time. "Hullo," said Myles, crossly, "what the deuce is the matter?" Flip made no reply to this, but groaned with renewed vigor, upon which Desmond, who was a kind-heartel man, bent down and touched the ragged little figure. "Are you ill?" he asked, gently. "Oh, Lor'?awful?my insides," groaned Flip, pressing his dirty hands on his etomacn. "Ain't had a bit for days." Myles was doubtful as to the genuineness of this case, as JQe knew bow deceptive tramps are, but as the poor lad did aacm ? * rtoin ati/J it \rna raining hnavilv he determined to give him the benefit of the doubt. "Can yon rise?" he asked, sharply. "If bo, get ap and come inside. I'll give you something to do you good." With many groans and asseverations of Eitrerae pain riip struggled to his feet, and aided by Myles went inside, up the stairs and was at last Bafely deposited on the hearthrug in front of the fire, where he lay and groaned with great dramatic eil'ect. "I'll give you some hot port wine," said Myles, going to the sideboard and talcing out a glass and a bottle, "so I'll have to go downstairs and get 6ome hot water? you wait here." Flip groaned again and gyrated on the floor like a young eel; but when the doox had closed behind his benefactor, he sprang to his feet and took a survey of the room. It was & large and lofty apartment, with a pair ot folding-doors ou oue 6ide, which being half open showed Flip that the other room was a bedroom. There was a sideboard in the sittingroom, and near this a writing-table, toward which Flip darted and commenced to tnrn over the papers rapidly with the idea of finding the dagger hidden underneath. Nothing, however, rewarded bis efl'orts, and thouqh he looked into the Bideboard, examined the bookcase and lifted up the covers of the chairs, he found no sign of the weapo . "Mu6t be in the bedroom," thought Flip, scratching his head in perplexity and wondering how he could get in, when suddenly it occurred to him that he had sot examined the mantel-piece. There was not a moment to be lost, as Mylee might return at any moment, 60 in a second Flip scrambled up on a chair, and was eagerly looking among the ornaments on the mantel-piece. There wa6 a mirror framed in tarnished gold, and in front of this a tawdry French clock under a glass 6hade, two Dresden china figures simpering at one another, and two tall green vases at each end. | "Flip saw nothing of what h? wanted till j lie peered into one or inese vases, vtu?ig he saw something looking like steel, and drew forth a slender shining blade with no handle. "Wonder if this is what the guv'noi wants?" he said to himself, tnrning it over gingerly; " 'taint got no 'andle." He thought for a moment, and then, as he had been so lucky with one vase looked into the other, and found a cross handle. He joined the two and they fitted perfectly. Being certain this was what Dowker wanted, he was thinking how he could take it, when he heard Myles ascending the 6tairs. Jumping down he hid the broken blade and the handle securely among his rags, being very careful not to prick himself as he remembered Dowker's warning about tlie poison, then he lay down upon the hearth-rug again, and was groaning painfully when Myles entered with the hot water. "Feeling bad?" asked Myles, sympathetically, pouring ou^Bomejport wine. "Awful!" groaned Flip, with a feeling I of compunction at the treacherous part he was playing. "It's cold, I think? weak with 'anger." : "Here, drink this," Baid Desmond, sitting down beside him, and giving him the steaming tumbler. "It will do you good." "Thanks, guv'nor,"said Flip, gratefully, feeling if the broken blade was all safe, "it 'nil warm me up." Desmond lighted his pipe and sat waicnmg xne raggea nuie araD urmiting the hot wine, never thinking for a moment that he was nourishing a viper?a viper that -would turn and sting him. Honest himself, he never suspected wrong-doing in others, and while succoring this outcast he did not know he was doing an evil thing for himself. After Flip had finished the ttine, he declared he felt better, and, with many asseverations of gratitude, took leave of his benefactor. ' "Poor little devil!" said Desmond, as he closed the door, and saw the ragged little urchin scudding away in the darknsss, "he seemed very bad?well, I've done one good action, so perhaps it will bring me a reward." It did, and tb? reward was that next morning Myles Desmond, of Bloomsbnry, journalist, wes arrested for the murder of Lena Sarschine. CHAPTER X. ANOTHER COMPLICATION. Though he had arrested Myles Desmond, Dowker was by no means certain that he had got a hold of the right man. Judging from the conversation reported by Flip, Desmond himself appeared to have strong suspicions about Calliston, and Dowker in bis own mind became convinced that there was some connection between the elopement of Lady Balscombe and the murder of Lena Sarschine. He wanted to find out the name nf thn wnmon rrhr> Tjftiiv combe on the night of the murder, for a sndden thought had presented itBelf that this unknown visitor might have been Lena Sarschine. But the idea seemed absurd, for a woman of such a character could hardly have the audacity to visit Ladv Balscombe. "And yet, pondered Dowker, " I don't know?these two women both loved the same man, and afree-lance like Lena Garshine would not hesitate for a moment in slanging any woman who took her man away?but why did not Lady Balscombe kick up a row and order her to leave the house'.'' I'm haneed if I can eet to the bottom of this!" " At length Dowker decided that the best thing to be done would be to find out from some servant of the Balscombe household all that took place subsequent to Lady -'Balscombe's departure. r'irBt, however, he decided on seeing Lydia Fenny and finding out if Lena Sarschine had let fall any hint of calling on her rival. Lydia Fenny received the detective eagerly, as she evidently loved her mistress and wanted to do all in her power to further the ends oi justice. As there was no time to be lost, Dowker plunged at oUce into tho subject matter of his visit. "Did MisB Sarschine state, on the night of her murder, where she was going?" he asked. "Yes." reDlied Lvdia: "as I told vou be fore, Bhe said Bhe was going to Lord Calliston's rooms." "Nowhere else?" "Not to my knowledge." "Humph! she did not make any remark that would lead von to believe she was going to Lndy Balscombe's?" "Lady Balscombe's!" echoed Lydia in astonishment; "why, what would she want to do there?" "I don't know, but I think she was thereon that night." And Dowker detailed to Lydia the conversation overheard by Flip, at the conclusion of which she said: "I suppose yon want to find out from the servants if Miss Sarschine was there?" "Yes; do yon know any of the servants?" "One?Lady Balscombe's maid?Annie Lifford." "Oh!" said Dowker, in a satisfied tone. "Can you ask her to come along here and see you? I can find out all I want to know from her." "I daresay I can get her to come here to-day, as her mistreBB being away sbe can not be busy." "Good!" replied the detective. "Send for her at once. I will wait here." "Very well," said Lydia, and was leaving the room when Dowker called her back. "Could you let me 6ee your mistress' private desk?" he aBked. Lydia looked at him doubtfully. "I don't know if 1 ought to let you 6ee her private papers." Dowker laughed in a subdued manner. "Why not? he said lightly; "6he is dead, and we want to find out who killed ber; looking at her papers cannot do any barm and may save the life of an innocent man." Lydia Fenny hesitated no longer, but leading tbe detective to the end of the drawing-room Bho wed him a recess wherein was placed a very handsome desk of the ordinary office charaoter. Dowker tried some of the drawer*. "Locked," he said quietly. "Have you tbe keys?" "No, she had them with her." Dewker made up bis mind to commit a burglary. "Bring me a chisel." "At once," replied Lydia Fenny, going; "and I'll also send for Annie Lifford." She lefi the room, and Dowker, sitting down in front of the desk, examined it carefully. It was one of those table desks with a knee-hole in the center and a row of drawers on each side. At the back were a number of pigeon-holes containing papers, and these Dowker examined, b<:t found nothing more than billB and blank bueein 01 paper. "Whatever private papers she's had," said I>owker, on discovering thiB, "are in these drawers." Lydia Fenny arrived with a chisel and a small hammer, both of which she handed to Dowker, telling him at the same time she had sent for Annie Litford. Dowker nodded carelessly and began to force opeD the drawers. After half an hour's hard work this wathe result of his labors: First, a bundle of old letters addressed to "Miss Helena Dicksfall, Post Office, Folkestone," 6igned F. Carrill. Second, a photograph of a handsome, white-haired old man, on the back of which wne written, "Your loving father. Mich iel Dicksf.ill." Third, a photograph of Lena Sarschine, 1 taken in a white dre'stf, with a tennis racket in her hand. Dowkerexamined the photographs carefully and then coolly read all the letters, of which there were abont ten. After doing this he turned to Lydia Fenny, who had been watching him all the time, and said: T vaoA a vrVtrtla cfnrv in tbia Tbfl I A. VaU *G?U l? w w J ?? ? name of your mistress was not Lena Sarschine, but Helena Dioksfall. She lived at Folkestone with her father, Captain Michael Dicksfall, and a lady she calls Amelia, whom I take to be her sister. Lord Calliston went down to Folkestone, saw her, and fell in love. All these lettars show how he conducted hie intrigue, which he did under the name of Frank Carrill. He loved Miss Dicksfall. bat did not wish to marry her. At la6t ~he persuaded her to run away with him, and at last she did so. Ashamed of her position, she changed her name to Lena Sarschine so as to conceal her identity. The portrait of the old gentleman is that of her father,"Michael Dicksfall, and thiB one is V? uti DOiAt Ljdia Feuny listened in silent amazement to the way in which he had pieced the 6tory together, and then taking the portraits in her hand she looked at them long and earnestly. "l'e," ?he said at length, laying down the photographs with a sigh. "It is Miss Sarschine, but it mnst have been taken Bome time ago, fori never saw her in that dress, and I have been with her for about a year." Dowker was about to make a reply, when the door opened and a woman entered. Tall, thin, with a pale face, dark hair, and an aggressive manner, dressed in a green dress, and bonnet to match. "Oh!" observed Lydia on seeing her, "is this you, Annie?" Dowker looked sharply at the newcomer, whom he now knew to be Lady Balscombe's maid, and she returned his gaze with a look of suspicion. "Well, sir," 6he said at length, in a rather harsh voice, *"I hope you'll know me again." Dawker laughed, and Lydia hastened 10 introduce him to Miss Lilford, who, being an extremely self-possessed young person, took the introduction very calmly, though she manifested some surprise when she heard Mr. Dowker's calling. "This gentleman," said Lydia, -when they were all seated, "wants to ask you a few questions." "And for what?" aBked Miss Lifford, indignantly. "my character I hope being above policemen's prying." "I'm not a policeman, explained Dowker, smoothly, "but a detective, and I want to know all that took place on the night your mistress eloped." "Are you employed by Sir Rupert?" asked Annie, grandly; "because, though I knows they fought bitter, yet wild bulls won't dragcanything out of me against my mistress, she being a good one to ttip, " "I don't want yon to say anything against your mistress," replied Dowker, mildly; but I am invetigating this case of murder." "Murder!" echoed Miss Lifford, in a Beared tone. "Who is murdered?not Lady Balscombe?" "No," said Lydia, bursting into tears, "but my poor mistress, Miss Sarschine." "A person of no repute," sniffed Annie, coldly. "Leave her alone," said Lydia passionately. "She's dead, poor 60ul, and, even if she was not married, 6he was better than Lady Balscombe, carrying on with Lord Calliston." "Oh* indeed, miss!" said Annie, rising indignantly. "This is a plot, is it, to mix up Lady Balscombe with yonr mistress? I won't have anything to do with it." Dowker caught her wrist as she arose and forced her back into her chair. "You'll answer what I want to know," he said sternly, "or it will be the worse for yourself." Upon this MiBB Lifford began to weep, and demanded if she was a slave or a British female, to be thus badgered and assaulted by a policeman. At last, after some difficulty, Dowker succeeded in making her understand that what he | wameu 10 jtiiuw was uui uoiuucuwi >v her miBtre88( upon -which ehe said ehe would tell him what he required. So Dowker produced his note-hook and prepared to take down Mies Lifford's evidence. [TO BE CONTINUED.] POPULAR SCIENCE. The moon moves 3333 feet per second. The average annual rainfall in the United States is 29.6 inches, the variations ranging from 0 to about 125 inches. Recent investigation show that the average speed of the transmission of earthquake shocks is nearly 16,000 feet per seconu. The smallest known insect, the pteratomas putnamii, a parasite of the ichneumon, is about one-ninetieth of an inch in length. A company has just been formed in Chicago, 111., to run 'buses on the boulevards, propelled by accumulators or other electrical appliances. The St. Louis River, near Fond du lac, Wis., has a fall of 124 feet in which ten dams are to be erected, having a horse power of seventy-three thousand horses. Belting having joints cemented only is as cood as if the belt were formed of _ - o solid leather from end to end. It lasts much longer, and drives better than when cui up with sewing. Paper is now being made fireproof, and is extensively used in the construction of dwellings. It can be made of any color desired, and can be polished and worked like most woods. The telephone has been successfully used in surgery to locate the position of metallic substances in the body, thus enabling an operation to be performed in the right direction at once. The lightest metal known is lithium. Its specific gravity is only about one-half that of water, and of course it floats. It has little use in the mechanic arts, its chief employment being as a medicine. Risso relates that on one occasion a huge female rav was captured at &ea, and her mate followed the boat fo:r three days,and then died. These "devil fishes" are said by some to defend their young with great courage. Poisoning by mussels is a well-known fact. Such poisoning appears in chronic form in Terra del Fuego, mussels being abundant on the shores and other kinds cf food rare, so that the natives eatlargt quantities of the former daily, both of bad and of good quality. The temperature used in incubaton: for the hatching of chickens varies from ninety-eight to 103 degrees. lleat is not the only essential, however, as moisture, ventilation and other, things U f.-ll? l??l } ? wa?o i/u uvj taiciuuv iuucvuu anvi iv secure successful artificial incubation. Ivory is sensitive to weather. Exposure to cold soon cracks it and renders billiard balls untrue. Tbey are easily knocked out of shape, too, if not well seasoned or well made. The centre of the tusk should go through the centre of the ball to preserve best a true spherical form. DRESSED BEEF: 1 INTERESTING DETAILS OF A REMARKABLE INDUSTRY. All Parts of the Bullock Are Utilized?From Slaughter House to Refrigerator Car?Othello's Occupation is Gone. . HE Chicago Her1 aid says that some idea of the enor|9Sj mity of the dressed beef trade In that 'j^||at7 maJ be gained Sr from the statement that 870,000,000 JiPoun<^8 ?* dressed beef were forwarde<^ *rom tbis market in 1891, while / 1,290,000 cases of canned meats were shipped during the same period. As the dressed beef business was only founded about twenty years ago its rapid growth is remarkable. The father of the industry wa9 the late George H. Hammond, of Detroit, but Armour & Co., Swift & Co. and Nelson Morris & Co. are now the recognized leaders in the trade, among whieh they are known as the "big three," because of ^ 4-MflDDKi Gnri/f lUCir ??JgaillilU UjJCiaklUUD. k/?F4n and Morris do, in addition to their domestic trade, a large export business, but Armour's house confines its attention to the home markets, in which it has immense interests. All of these dressed beef shippers have their own refrigerator cars, the number owned by each ranging from 2500 to 4000 care. Naturally these houses named are the heaviest buyers of the cattle arriving daily at the Union Stock Yards, where they take probably three-fourths of the cattle sold lor slaughter. In addition to these purchases in Chicago the concerns noted buy the majority of the stock marketed at Kansas City and Omaha. As is well known, all cattle are sold by live weight, except in the case of milch cows or calves. The purchaser, therefore, has to be a better judge of quality than of quantity, hence it is not surprising that the buyere for some of these Dig nrms command a larger saiary cnan many a baDk president earns. The classes of cattle shipped in may be defined as follows: First, the "exporters," which includes cattle suitable for East THE COOLING ROOM OP A era markets as well as for English ports. Second, the "dressed beef' steers designed for the dressed beef business. Third, "butcher stuff," composed of light steers and the better grade of cows. Fourth, "canners," which includes everything not good enough for butchering. Then as an extra class there are the range cattle, many of which are either put on to feed or taken by the dressed beef men for a second grade beef, -while an enormous number of them, and more especially those from Texas, are put into cans. The movement of cattle is almost entirely eastward. San Francisco, which is a large market, draws quite a number of cattle from California and the adjoining States, but otherwise there is a continual movement toward the East, beginning at the Qulf of Mexico, extending to the barren plains of Arizona and from the sage brush valleys of Nevada northward into Montana, from which distant points the work of shipping is a laborious task. Prior to the introduction of the 4 'dressing" carcasses. palace stock cattle cars cattle in transit were unloaded at suitable halting stations situated from 300 to 5u0 miles apart, where high-priced hay wat supniiari tn fppH thp stnp.k. But within the past four years improved sfock cars have been introduced, in which cattle can be run practically any distance, as they are constructed to allow the animals to be fed and watered without unloading. On their arrival in Chicago the cattle bought for shipment are driven over to the shipping divisions, where they are loaded into cars and forwarded to their respective destinations. The dressed beef men generally allow their cattle to remain in the pens over night, driving them to the slaughter house next day after purchase. Arrived here they are driven into large pens, thence along narrow passageways ino eeparate compartments just large enough to hold one bullock, where a man standing on the narrow foot path above adroitly knocks the animal out of time by a well directed blow oil the skull. Between each compartment and the slaughter house is a lifting door which slides up mechanically, and ^ fV?A io rlronrpo/l llirUUgli IIJJ? djJClllllO UiC SkCWl iouiu^vm by means of a chain passed around his horns. He is then properly bled and is passed along the iron runs to the floorsmen and skinners. All the work in the slaughtering department i9 done by trained experts, cach one having a single division of labor to perform. No part of the animal is wasted. The bides are removed so carefully they bring a higher price than the common butchers' hides; the guts are thoroughly cleansed and sold jr * * for sausage casings; the contents of the entrails are converted into fertilizing substances; the livers and hearts are shipped with the beef to different markets, where they are sold to'good advantorro onrl A t _ fc<*0 1 bJLi? uiauucio aic uiicu quu uw I CLEANING AND WASHING CARCASSES. posed of to druggists acd other parties; the stomach makes tripe; the tongues are always in demand; the horns sell readily to the comb and knife haft makers, while the shin bones are usually in crood reouest for knife handles and backs O 1 for tooth and nail brushes. The knuckle bones are prepared lor making acid phosphate, and for this design have a fair merchantable value. The blood is all utilized for different commeicial purposes; the ox tail trade is now a regular part of the traffic; the heads, after being trimmed, are sold for glue stock; the fat taken from the interior of the bullock is converted into oleomargarine, under which name it is sold to fait advantage. Neatsfoot oil is made from the feet, and the hoofs are ground and mixed with other fertilizing substances. It is this advantageous utilization of the refuse and offal of the bullock that has been largely instrumental in the wonderful success of the dreesed beef trade in Chicago. After leaving the main slaughtering house, from "Which place, by the way, the visitor is glad to escape, the carcasses are taken along the iron runways into the immense refrigerators, where they cool off in a temperature of about thirtysix degrees. One ia impressed by the decree of cleanliness maintained in the o establishment after passing from the DRESSED BEEF HOUSE. blood-stained floors of the butchering department. There is not a speck of dirt noticeable in the big chilling-rooms, the floors of which are covered with fresh, clean sawdust. In addition to the lot number attached to the carcass of each animal is a certificate of inspection placed there by one of Uncle Jery Rusk's inspectors, who is stationed at the lift* ting door, through which the bullock is admitted to the slaughtering-room, and who is a recent adjunct to the packing houses, where National a swell as State inspection is enforced. The carcasses remain hanging in the chilling-rooms from thirty-six to fortyeight hours, after which they are run out to the loading platforms, out into quarters and put in the refrigerator oars ready for transmission to Efistern points. The cars are kept at the same temperature as the cooling-rooms and are iced twenty-four hours prior to using, the process being repeated next morning. A gang of expert cutters,under the charge of a competent foreman can load eight cars in an hour, an average of one car every seven and one-half minutes. Considering that thirty-eight carcasses are hung in each car, divided into quarters, the fore and bind quarters being placed at separate ends of the compartment, this i/> pretty rapid work. Between Chicago and New York the refrigerator care are icea inree times, a corps of experts being stationed at the supply-bouses along tbe various lines of road for this purpsse. A train load of dressed beef starting /rom the Chicago yards on Monday will arrive in New York the following Friday, and the Brooklyn or New Jersey householder may have for his piece de resistance at 6 o'clock dinner Friday night a tender, iuicy roast of beef that six days previous was part of a lively steer cavorting around in the pens adjacent to the Chicago slaughter-houses. The system is to a great extent an enlarged butchers' business, as it is supplied bv a host of retailers, who, instead of j being butchers on the old style, have become merely meat cuttcrs. In San Franciaco there are no butchers, the city drawing its retail supplies of animal food from the hosts of meat cutters, who buy their goods from day to day from the wholesale slaughterers. So it is with the dressed beef interests in this city. So much meat is forwarded daily north, south, east an*1 west, to be distributed at the different points where the beef, veal, pork or mutton is in demand. The work is thoroughly systematized, for those engaged in it must be prepared to meet the demands of their customers. Tho "big three" have wholesale distributing bupplv-houses in every city of any size in the country, and it is said that within the past sis-months one of the trio has established upward of one hundred of these depots in the principal cities of the United Kingdom, where the dressed beef interests nre rapidly growing. Thi9 industry has naturalsy created a revolution among the retail butchers' trade. The old-time butcher, with his great big chops, rosy face and comfortable paunch, is rapidly fading from sight. Othello's occupation's gone. All he has to do now is to repair to the slaughterhouse, select his beef from the refrigerators, or contract for a daily or weekly supply to be sent him. At outside points ne ciuib at cdo reingerator wnere tne meats are unloaded from the cars and there mnkes his purchases. Formerly the retail butcher who did his own kill ing bad to have a much larger capital invested in his business than is now required, nor could he get bis supplies so reasonably as be is now enabled to purchase them. In the first place, he had to employ a trained butcher, to kill and dress his stock, which assistant was idle a good share of the time. If he killed at the yards the hides had to be shipped back to Chicago, the offal could not be utilized, and if his trade called only for fine meatfl Via linrl fn ^ionrtoo t-amwU stuff and least desirable parts of the animal as best he could. Under the present system he can do a larger business on a much smaller capital; he need buy only that which can be sold to advantage and vou rnoao aixau^CLUUUUS lO flave HIS particular grade of meats left hanging in the big chilling-rooms to suit hia own convenience. Every one who ha9 visited the great packing houses at the Chicago Stock Yards has heard of the old joke told anent the hog that the only part about him wasted is his "squeal." The steer is not provided by nature with a squeal and he loses little breath by bellowing, so that the waste with him should be INSIDE A REFRIGERATOR CAB. somewhat less than with the hog. The perusal of the following table will show in what proportions a 1200-pound steer i will dress: Pounds. Pound .4 Sides .....660 Hoofs S Hide 85 Sweetbreads.... S Tallow 60 Sinews 4 Fertilizer 14 Tail 3 Liver 10 Heart 4 Total 861 Tongue 5 Weight of steer. 1,200 Dried blood 4 Net 861 Hard bones 4 ' ?j Horns 2 J Waste 88U A Statne of Washington and Lafayette at the World's Fair. Since M. Bartholdi completed his colloseal statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," he has been designing a statue which would commemorate tne Marquis de Lafayette's connection with the American Revolution. The model is already furnished and the statue will be completed in a few months. It will be exhibited in the Paris Salon, after which it will be shipped for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair Exposition. As will be seen by the accompanying cut, made from a photograph of th? model, the statue represents two figures ?Lafayette and Washington. The figure of Washington stands in an easy position. The head is slightly bent forward. Strangely contrasting with the seriousness of Washington's pose, is the expression of litheness and youthful energy in Lafayette's figure as he brings the good news to Washington that he has ' - ' *1 * XJmtm aid ior ice aiuenuju advuiuuuu. uu right haad grasps that of Washington while in his left are the falling folds of the Stars and Stripes, supported by the French flag. The Franco-American Society, of St. Louis, has been for some time contemplating erecting a statue of Lafayette in St. Louis, and it is quite likely it will negotiate for this statue aftf. its exhibition at tho Chicago Exposition. The following extract from a recent letter from M. Bartholdi to the President of the Franco-American Society explains the idea on which the sculptor worked. ! 1 BARTHOLDl'S NEW STATUE. "I think it interesting not only to represent a man of fame by hiB feature*, but likewise by the souvenir that he personifies. "For this reason I have represented Lafayette bringing the American flag supported by the French flag, and Washington, who thanks him. "It has seemed to me that this groupv thus arranged, would make evident all that grand epoch of the struggle sustained by America for liberty, and would be the most glorious monument that could be erected to Lafayette. " ' C A Btrnjarfl Colloquy. Miss Bantam?"What ails you, that you are looking so glum?" Mr. Shanghai?"I've fallen down and broken my wishbone, I think." Miss Bantam?"Ob, how. delightful! And did you make a wish?"?Harper's Young People. . .. ' T TEMPERANCE. I YE MAY DRINK, 17 TE LIST. Hfl Te may drink, if ye list, The red sparkling wine, BH From beakers that gleam BD With the gems of the vine, jH Ye may quaff, it ye will, "W hen tne foam bends the brim, flH From a flagon or goblet, I5B Till unnr oto ahflll otaw Him? rHB But I've sworn on the altar, And my soul is now free, Nor beaker, nor flagon, Nor goblet for me. i... Ye may light the avenger ' , On ruin's wild path, ' i, Like a raging volcano In the blaze of its wrath; But your fire-creeted waves, All gory with blood, Shall be hissing like serpents And qnenched in the flood; For I've sworn on the altar, And my soul is now free, This hana shall ne'er falter r In its warfare with thee. rrj Then come to the altar, t 11 And come to the shrine, Dash down your red gobletc ' , And your flagons of wine; JEM Young neroes are thronging }B Where the battle's begun, HQ And the sheen of their banners M Flashes bright in the mn; afl When the shock of the onset; H As a rock meets the flood, HE Bhall roll back the fountain! ? And rivers of blood. W ?S. R. Pease, in the Temperance Advocate, 9 LIQUOB IN ALASKA. B The President has issued an execlttiva, , H order continuing in force, with certain mod- Sfl ideations, the existing rules and regulations. H regarding the sale of intoxicating liquors in mm Alaska, with a view to a more strict en- H forcoment of th? act of Congress prohibit- 9| ing the sale of intoxicating liquors in the B Territory, except for medicinal, mechanical ?Q or scientific purposes.?New York Observer.] H THX W. C. T. U. SHTTT OUT. El oPo infnrmfvl f hoff Via TFa_ Bfl ff v u>v vuaw wuo " ViiUP WW man's Christian Temperance Union has been refused space at tbe World's Fair for a pa* vilion such as they had at the Paris Expoet* tlon. The World's W. C. T. Union was inaugurated in America; it is now building in Chicago for headquarters one of the most imposing edifices in that city of lofty buildings. It will be strange, to say the least of it. if a World's Fair held in America, and in Chicago, cannot do what the managers oi the Paris Exposition did for this same or* ganization?the largest organization of women the world has aver seen. If lack of cmo^/iQ fn ha rilapr?AH V\t? tHo mAntrfAft a# World's Fair, we suggest that thev cat dowri the space awarded to the brewers' exhibits* The Voice. THE DRINK TRAGEDY. If the shocking tragedies connected wittr the liquor traffic were not so common, popular indignation against its continued localization would speedily end it. But they are so frequent that they bare com? to be, however horrible, accepted and acquienoed in generally as a matter of course. Recently, a dissipated driver named Rankin, of this city, whose drunken habits have made hi*' married life wretched, went home ia the evening fiercely drunk, and began to abuse! his wife. Working himself into a frenzy of rage, be finally struck her in the face with.' such force that she fell like a log to thfr ground, her right arm being broken. Then he lifted the moaning womaA in his arm* and despite her shrieks and cries for mercy, carried her to the stove and threw her on it, and held her there until her left arm and side were terribly turned!?Temperance Advocate. ALCOHOLIC JUDICATION'. Felix L. Oswald, M. D., in a recent articfe In The Congregationalism of Boston, oo "The Progress of Temperance," cites the following concerning alcoholic medication from Dr. Greene, of Boston: 'While fifty 'years ago American and English physicians had to offer an apology for their private dissent from the doctrine } of the stimulant mongers, Dr. Greene, of j Boston, holds that no sophistry can excuse / the indirect encouragement which the liquor > traffic receives from the precedent of medi V cal prescriptions. He says: ?l&3 a result of thirty years of professional experience and1 , practical observation, I feel assured that I alcoholic stimulants are not required as a medicine, and I believe that many, if not a majority of, pbysicians to-day of education ana experience are satisfied that alcoholic drags are worse man useless, ana we nave only to overcome the force of habit and of prevailing fashion to And a more excellent way, and a time will come when they will all look back with wonder and surprise to find that they, as individuals and members of an honored profession, should hare been so far compromise J*."' MARRYING DBBTTKARD. Many girls are making a fatal mistake by thinking they arfe getting a man by linking themselves to any kind of a fellow. Nothing can justify a girl for marrying a drunkard. In order to be sore that your husband will never be a drunkard, mace him promise before you marry him that he will never indulge in intoxicating drinks. Single blessedness is far better than double cursedness. . You cannot expect a man who has lost selfrespect to respect you, however much he may love you. We heard of a young English lady who came to New York to marry a young man to whom she was affianced in England. Be bad come to this country two yean Erevious to be engaged in business. She bad H own bim as a soDer young man. During B the time she was preparing her wedding outfit he came to see her one evening when just drunk enough to be foolish. She was greatly H shocked ana pained. He admitted that oo- * casionally he drank to excess. She immedi- i ately stopped preparations, and told him J that she could not marry him. f He protested vehemently, and made great/ promise*, but she declared positively than she dare not trust her future happiness to a. man who had formed such a habit. f'I came," she said, "three thousand miles /to marry the man I loved, but rather ttian marry a drunkard I will return." Anjfl so she did, and proved herself strong and yfriae. A thousand times better dissolve the teaderest ties than to be linked to the body of death called drankard. Do you believe it, girls? Go and ask the drunkard's wit4 what 6he thinks.?Sacred Heart Review. / / r J TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Thfre are 32,000 families homeless in London through intemperance. The Lord Mayor of London declares that * I ninetv per cent, of the cases that are heard at the Mansion House are aue w uruu. Certain Peoria (El.) distillers, who were absorbed by the "Whisky Trust," and subsequently sold their stock propose to reenter the distilling business upon a lary scale. Sflary Sparks Wheeler, of PhoBnixville, Penn.,has been appointed Superintendent of World's Temperance Mission work, and she Is to go out raising the money to help send out missionaries. The Florida Congregational Association has entered its protest against the legalized liquor traffic in a set of splendid resolutions, pledging its own influence and recommending tne work of the W. C. T. U. to all Chris lot-* KolioTTore By a decision of Judge Lacombe, domesticwine and liquor dealers who have been in the habit of falsifying the brands and labels of foreign articles, will continue to do so at their peril, a forfeit of the liquor and a fino of 8500. An appeal will likely be taken. A year ago John Greater, a wealthy resi~ dent of Washington, Ind.. wbile traveling on nn Iron Mountain train near Bald Knob, Ark., shot and killed four men. Isadore Meyer was one of the victims. Greater was sent to an insane asylum and quickly recovered. Mrs. Meyer then sued, and the evidence showert ttiat Greater was simply drunk . at the time; and the jury gave her a vrvdict ?^ of $18,000 damages. The Rev. Father McMahon, of Britt, la, at the close of a recent Sunday morning service called out the names of about a dozen i ?/mn<r men mid asked them to stand in front of the altar. The men so summoned have been noted for their fast ways,and especially for excessive indulgence in intoxicants. Standing in the pulpit before them the priest spoke eloquently on the evils of intemperance and implored the young men to reform. When the appealed was ended, each one took the pledge. - ? - i. I,