I KINGDOM OF KILLING II RULED BY ARMOUR ia s t: NINE MILLION CARCASSES " A YEAR. * ... | ri !f< Mostly Animals Meet Death Stupidly jt] and Without Resistance- -What i [] Becomes of Their Lives ? ! n .1 h The soldiers of the modem king j n are standing armies of workingmen, j not armies of fighting idlers. Rocke- j feller's millions and Armour's mil-1 ; lions are millions invested and rein-! ^ vested in labor, in building, in adding' to the actual visible wealth of this j ? country. That wealth belongs to the j 0 country and to the people of the j? country. It is subject to this dispo-! ' sition by taxation or otherwise. It is j J* Irortunate for the people that these j kings, unlike the old kings, do not | _ waste human labor with courts, i*' retinues o? servants and organized ' ? dissipation, do not waste human life j in wars, but use their energies simply } along the lines of organizing industry i ne and increasing tangible wealth. It j c might be worse with a people as i?(:' supine as our own. n It is a fact, of course, that Armour , ' does not really own this gr?at world-! *.1 wide butcher business. The stock-! yards own him. He was born with i ' the big load upon his back. He tells { you quite simply: "I inherited this ! business; I did not create it. I have! tried to do as well as I could with it. I It just happened that I had a smart Ka father and a rich father." In so vast an industry, bigger than j , all the men that manage it, sugges-' tions seem rather foolish coming from j5? outside. But there are some things, j It would seem, that Armour and the j ? other big packers could do easily, at i I once, and without unreasonable sacri- [ flee. They might make the prices of i beef to consumers uniform and rea-! 1101 sonable. j ^0E No women or children should, un- J its der any conditions, be permitted to j at witness the killing of the animals, j tJle It is a dreadful thing to see long | str' lines of little boys and women and j ^0:: little girls walking through the1 ^ slaughter houses, watching the stick-' on ing of pigs, the stuiinrng of steers, j for and all the horror of blood. The ef- i 1)re feet is brutalizing on the children, itr0( and for the mother of an unborn i child to witness so horrible a spec- j "re tacle Is a shameful crime. I wer Some legislator in Illinois should i out I start the movement to prevent this. I ^ The packers themselves would do it, j ?re( but they say: *'If we close up our ! ^e slaughter houses, or keep any part j ot^1< of the public out, we shall be accused ! the of having things to hide." i It is a great kingdom of death over i Sati which Armour rules. There are huge eat( buildings for killing, surrounded with pens in which the sheep, hogs and j w^a cattle are confined, waiting for the . sote fatal hour. -In one place hogs in thousands are driven into pens. Below, tlon hidden under a platform, there is a j ati0 cracking of whips mingled with j wo? squealing and grunting. You look | sons dt>wn and see a man, black from head j was to foot with mud, rushing about [ Prac among the half-crazed swine. He i The has a huge blacksnake whip in his i he r hand, with which he drives them to ' betv the narrow entrance that leads to tere' their death. In the last pen there is wori a great revolving wheel. Each hog shou Is seized and hooked by one hind leg. that The turning wheel lifts him in the ' and air; he is passed on to a wheel that J m0^ slides along a rail, and then comes Call, one knife thrust and death. The killing of the sheep, fortunate-; ly, is hidden; it is too pathetic for the jn sight even of modern civilization. Geor The killing of the cattle is less noisy cojn' and shocking than that of the swine. mou The big, heavy, fattened steers walk t^e slowly into pens. Heavy hammers ; PasiC stun them, and as a rule, they bleed 1 anii te death without regaining conscious- the U6SS. j ! The Blood Could Be Heard. j meri But there is certainly room for im- test provement in the killing. And if the , vey improvement can be made it should i chefs be made?if necessary, under compul- j the i sion. Out of every ten steers slaugh-) jolly tered one or more invariably require j ation more than one blow for the killing. I Harv This means suffering, and it is un-'his i r( necessary. The spending of a very j covk< ij little extra money, two or three cents : dres: a carcass perhaps, and probably less. I ters. I would pay for the fitting on each head | turn, of an apparatus that would make the 1 ered race hero in human life ever fought more i acres desperately for his life than did that | _ Til small creature. As soon as he en- j |10Da tered the fatal pen he dashed at the j is co man in charge, flew at his legs, drove j acres him out of .the nen finnllv r-limherl nn i water over the backs of the otlic-r swine, j jumped out of the pen himself, and j mat?1 dashed at the man with the long, usua* knife, who was "sticking" the pigs as j voIve they came toward him hanging head j usua* downward. Half a dozen men com- porl'( bined succeeded in killing this re- 's bellious, anarchistic disturber of the nav*S packing house peace, and they killed l>e him In not at all a scientific manner. bec*s If a human being had made so plucky farms a fight for his life against such odds ment he would be talked of with admira- ^a?a; tion. The stockyard butchers, men that Th< should know, are firmly convinced terior that the different animals that come that tl up to them for killing are as different steads In character as human beings are. 17,82 Fortunately, however, they are all 104,S agreed that npt one animal in ten 117,3 L housand has any idea of his com ate. Death is a surprise to them nd therefore practically painless. Amid all this lowing, squealing c truggling there arises constantly bought: What becomes of the : i those animals? What becomes hat consciousness which has a lated them, protected them and ected them? In what way is it r ?rent from the consciousness witl le two-legged animal that stai lere covered with blood from he ) foot, stabbing relentlessly en ving creature as it comes beft Im? We know what becomes of the a ials' bodies. The tenderloin goes le rich man's house, the shinbone 13 poor man, the head to the imr pant from certain foreign lands; t mgue, prepared with spices, is s 'ten far away to India. The hi made into boots, chauffeurs' coa irness. The bones are cut up in lttons that fasten the workmei lirts, or are changed into the fooli tie things upon which babies ch< t>en their teeth are coming. A pa the body makes pepsin for tho at lack digestion, and the indiges e parts go to those that later < ed the pepsin. In all directions the bodies a attered. but what becomes of tl ne millions of lives , the nine m ?ns of seperate consciousnesses th mour scatters into space eve ar, as he feeds the millions inking, meat-eating animals??A ur Brisbane, in The Cosmopolitai WORK OF TEREDOES. pidity With Which They Deniolis n.*/v i? vuucii xricns uuu ^uissuus, That the teredoes in the vicinity < rt Mason are the hungriest an siest and equipped with the moi ;cth*e augers of any of their kin be found in the bay has been den .trated by the contracting concer it is building the new army trans t wharves at Blackpoint. Th apany has paid a fancy price fo knowledge, and incidentally an its own expense has demonstrate wisdom of the all concrete coc action advocated by the presen ird of Harbor Commissioners, rhe new army wharves aro to res concrete piers and the plans cal the construction of a concret akwater to provide shelter for ih 3p ships that may be tied up at th< irves. In the construction of thi akwater great wooden caisson p built and sunk, to be pumpe< later and filled with concrete, t temporary wharf was built o en piles and on this were erecte< concrete mixing machinery am sr gear essential to carrying 01 work. A few weeks ago thii irf tumbled down and an investi ion showed that the teredoes hac ?n the green piles as easily as i; i had been young onions. The irf is now being rebuilt with creo' d piles. i anticipation of the early restoraof the temporary pier an examinn was made yesterday of the d yesterday of the wooden caisI, and to the contractor's grief it discovered that they had been tically consumed by the teredoes. chewed up caissons will have to eplaced and then it will be a race .*een the concrete mixers and the does, with the betting on the us, if in the meantime they ild eat through the creosoted piles support temporary wharf No. 2 cause another delay in filling the Is with concrete.?San Francisco Mystery in Salad Dressing. Washington the recent death of ge W. Harvey, known since Lins day for the rare food of his fas "oyster house," has recalled following anecdote: "On one oc>n Mr. Harvey visited New York his praises were sung by some of prominent men who were his ds. A dispute ensued as to the ts of certain dishes, and a conwas arranged between Mr. Harand several famous New York >. The competition centred upon nixing of a salad dressing. Tha , fat judges watched the prepari carefully and observed that Mr. ev as a finishing touch took from >ocket a tiny vial, carefully unid it, poured a few drops into the ling and set it before the arbiThey tasted each dressing in smacked their lips and puckfhpir hrnws Thpn fh^v Horlnrorl all the dressings were very fine, most delectable that they had put to palate, but that about Mr. ey's dressing there was 'an?ah iefinable something' which ;d them to award it the prize. George, what was it you put in dressing?' asked one of Mr. Harfriends later. Only water,* he replied. *1 a little mystery would catch "?Chicago Post. The Klamath Project, the land of "Burnt Out Fires"? egion which will long be remera1 as the last stronghold of the ic Indians?is a remarkable ag:ural district known as the KlaBasin, which lies partly in Calia and partly in Oregon and em'S several hundred thousand e first unit of the important na1 irrigation work at this point mpleted and several thousand of fertile land are now receiving from the Government canals, all the Federal works the Klaproject is perhaps the most unby reason of the fact that it in3 irrigation and drainage in uncombination. A considerable )ii of the lands to be irrigated day covered with the waters oil able lakes. These waters are to awn off and the exposed laku are then to be sub-divided into i and irrigated by the Governcanals.?National Geographic zine. ; Canadian Minister of the Inhas submitted figures showing, bere are still available for home-! 5 In the Province of Manitoba; 5,000 acres; in Saskatchewan,! 7 8,000 acres, and in Alberta,: 09,000 acres. alL IN THE pi ?<- i CTgjsyfcV* v-yigyBfrTH ; iffWUl tie mIB ilat ry IffiffiS of, r- BB^ THE REV. J. WESLEY HI! The promontories in the career of ih the Rev. John Wesley Hill may be briefly pointed out. He was born at Kalida, Ohio, May 8, 1863. His jf father, the Rev. John Wesley Hill, d D. D., is a Methodist preacher of the st heroic type, having been in the active d ministry for half a century. The pasl tor of the Metropolitan Temple obn I tained his similar prinrnHnn at tha 3- Dhio Northern University, and studied e theology in Boston Theological Semr Inary. While a student in Boston he d was pastor of Eggleston Square d Church, which it soon became neces! sary to enlarge in order to accommot ! date the growing congregation. Prior to this his trial experience in the ; t Itinerancy occurred at Sprague, then i II Washington Territory. In 1888 he e was appointed to the First Church at : e Ogden, Utah. He soon inaugurated a e relentless warfare upon the Mormon 1 s Hierarchy, and during his five years' i s pastorate at Ogden the city was res- i 1 cued from the political control of the ^ I I run UftJtli AUAiA!)! AIKSHIFS. I 1 j 1 ! Novel Gun Placed at the Disposal of c the German War Office. r Like every other weapon of offense, s I the airship has soon been followed i t with a weapon of defense against its t ) attacks. The German War Office has 1 - tad placed at its disposal a gun manufactured and designed at the Krupp . works at Essen especially for use THE KRUPP AIRSH: It Will Be Noticed That the Wheels O; Work the Gun t ! Gun Carriage May Be Swung in Complete | against airships, and it is understood i t\ i that the British War Office is also con- j tc ! sidering certain inventions devised N | for a similar purpose. It has been argued that naval gun ! ners could easily disable a Zeppelin : airship. The target presented broadI side on is large, but stem on the ZepI pelin offers only a forty foot circle. If the height of the airship is one thousand feet present naval guns could not be trained upon it at less I than a distance of about a mile and a half, and at that distance a forty foot mark is not a certain target, even on the level, to a moving ship. At the elevation required it would not only be exceedingly difficult to estimate the range, but even if the range were j known the allowance for curvature of " trajectory would be so great as to | render a hit the merest fluke. j The new type of gun manufactured j by Messrs. Krupp, it is asserted, will j i destroy a dirigible airship. The shell j ! which it fires has a diameter of sixty- j five millimeters, weighs nine pounds' 1 Handy Spoonholder. ier Among the numerous minor inven- by ' tions that seem trifling in themselves as - de' j s be] I vvi' wli wh j i am 't.! g'J< ' M wh / \ nol r ! il do< ' : ! gia i v7 edt ?ad< I ' Fits on Any Glass. bar but add so much to tlie comfort of 00( humanity is the open holder devised ere little device, but Is of great conyea- has f [JBLIC EYK '/. BH^Mh I. jHH MKBW8BMlW(iBjySB JL, D. D., OF NEW YORK. Mormon Church, the first Gentile victory in Utah. He also erected at Ogden the finest church edifice between Denver and San Francisco. Thence he went to Helena, Montana, and in 1893 to Minneapolis, where he founded and built the Fowler Memorial Church at a cost of $150,000. In 1896 he was appointed to the pastorate of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Fostoria, Ohio. In 1899 he went to Grace Church, Harrisburg, Pa., where he remained six years. Here he also served as Chaplain of the State Senate. From Harrisburg he was assigned to Janes Church, Brooklyn. Within three years he added 600 members to the qhurch roll and then was called to his present great work at the Metropolitan Temple, in New York City. When he took charge it was practically without membership; to-day there ire on its muster 'rolls over 700 lames and a debt of $40,000 has been ?viped out. ind is discharged with an initial ve ocity of 1841 feet. The gun is raised to an angle .of ;ixty degrees and the projectile can each a height of 18,150 feet. The hells are filled with a highly inflamnable gas, which will cause the gas tag of an airship to explode when it tits it. Swinburne. Down at Harper's a group of literry men were discussing the death of winburne. "His wit was of the sublest kind," said Colonel Harvey, who ad met the poet on various occasions 1 London. "I attended a dinner once t which Swinburne was present, eated next to him was a titled Briton f the type we are so fond of carlcalring?a drawling, fat-headed noole. With an air of great condescenon he turned to Swinburne and said: aw, lur. owmuurue, i passed your 3use the other day.' " 'Did you, indeed?' replied the >et, with just the suspicion of a IP DESTROYER. pen Out, so That the Men May Jnhindered. Circle Around Pin at End of Tail. / tinkle in his eye. 'I am delighted 1 i hear it. Thank you, so much!' "? ew York Times. * 1 ?? 1 ' i SMKPW ! MRS. JAMES S. SHERMAN. C Wife of the YLe-Prtsident. g; ice for use on tall glasses, such w a New York man. It is a simple tl those used for iced tea, etc. The vice consists of a piece of metal s: at at the top to form two arms, t< th the opening between them just j de enough to admit the handle of I e! J ~i J ~ A Itu I jpyuu, inatri icu aiucvvise, artment. There are such, I believe, ?-a :ertain newspapers being controlled j Afofi'rtnn rtf r? r?0 rr? a O r )j tuuoiuciai.iv/iio v/i ?- - ., a.i ising and of exclusive theatrical news ha; tories. But the Public That Pays , eels this when it doesn't know it, and the he reviews thus directed have but ittle weight.?Hartley Davis, in jU( Jverybody's. ths Song Bird and Critic. j ' Mary Garden, at a dinner in Phila- 'gi1 tflphia last month, took a musical , Wa ritic very cleverly to task. "You write long criticisms," she j aid, "and you employ long, technical ! ords; but really, you know, you miss tat he whole spirit of the music. !ie "You're like the Darby widow." 'ty aid Miss Garden. "Her lawyer said ',;ail 3 her, consolingly: ' ^ " 'You'll get your third out of the state, madam.' ; 5tal " 'Oh, Mr. Breaf!' the widow cried. : 1 low can you say such a thing, with v'i01 ly second hardly cold in his grave?" " jlow am Qfnr | dCrl M U.l.iUi0lUU " . .... } tow Lord Roberts a Collector. j 50.1 The fact is not generally known ; 'av' lat Lord Roberts, who celebrated : "101 is golden wedding the other day. is j Lo11 great collector of curios. His j larming house. Englemere, Ascot, is j terally crammed with odds and ends 1 eked up from time to time, nearly ^in 1 of which have some interesting ^?' ory attached to them. i 3stOne of the most curious of these Is {;. n 1 irregularly shaped piece of dirty j Llt-V hite rag which greatly puzzles all , ho behold It for the first time. It is | e flag of truce which General tlle ronje sent In toannounce his surven* :r at Paarcleberg.?11011 j Man is the only animal whose nos1 trils open downward. Even in the [ highest apes the nostrils open to the | front. , The sensitiveness of growing plants I to the influence of light is well illus: j trated by the results of recent re* j search on heliotropism?the bending I of stems toward light. Beetles possess an enormous amount of strength. The common i beetle can draw 500 times its own j weight, and a stag beetle has been 1 known to escape from underneath a | box on which a weight had been ! placed 1700 times greater than the insect's body. One of the most remarkable applications of wireless telegraphy is an ingenious arrangement by which the message received works the keyboard of a typewriter. This invention has further been applied to the typesetting machine, so that wireless messages can now be made to print themselves by means of the linotype machine. An improved form of the quartz mercury vapor lamp is about.to be introduced in England as a substitute for carbon arc lights. It is claimed that the new lamps will give the same Illuminating power as the carbon arcs at about half the cost. One great ad- j vantage is said to be the avoidance of the necessity for frequent trimming. The quartz mercury vapor lamps will run about 1000 hours without attention. Some progress has been made in reducing the disagreeable color of the light, but it has not yet been eliminated. ! In the big desert of Chile there is 9 : considerable amount of brackish wat- j er, but no water that either human beings or stock can drink. Science, however, says the Los Angeles Times, hoo rtAmfl ?-v + V\ J * ? 1-1 uuo v.viuc iu me d.iu ul tuis ramiesa : Bection of the country in the form of ! an ingenious desert water works, con- i sisting of a series of frames contain- j Ing 20,000 square feet of glass. The ! panes of glass are arranged in the | shape of a V, and under each pane is a. shallow pan containing brackish water. The heat of the sun evaporates the water, which condenses upon k.he sloping glass, and, made pure by j :his operation, It runs down into little ! channels at the bottom of the V and ( s carried away into the main canal, i Nearly a thousand gallons of fresh | vater is collected daily by this means, j SO TIPS IN FINLAND. ifaif reward would seem hard to find? | et such a country Is Finland. j < So far the tourist has not appeared j n any great numbers, and conse- I uently the commercial spirit which | is advent always marks has been j bsent. As an example of this Mme. .lno Malmberg, a Finnish lady who ' i paying a visit to this country, tells a n amusing story. Two English j riends whom she had met while 1 ver here had been staying with her j t her house in Helsingfors, and on v saving gave the maid a tip. She was very niuch astonished and a id not know what It meant. Seeing a [me. Malmberg's son coming down- ' airs, she ran to him and said, ! They gave me money. Did they . ive you any?" Hearing that they id not done so, 3he was much mys- ' fled. "I cannot understand why n ley should give it to me and not to c )u, when they know you much betr than me," was her perplexed com- v ent on the incident.?London Morn- t] g Post. ' w The Judge Felt Safe. "Some of the West India islanders ive learned that when a foreigner isbehaves on their fhores it is bet- , f r to suffer in silence :han to mete c it punishment at the risk of a de- 1 ending gunboat from the miscreant's ,tive land," said Frank H. Griffiths, Kingston, Jamaica. "A Judge in lytf, however, recently took occa- j m to pay off old scores and to re- j em his self-respect in the case of j offender brought before him. , w: "To his first question, as to the na- ! Is nality of the accused, the ir.terpre- i fr had answered that the prisoner ' B; .s from Switzerland. J ui " 'Switzerland.' said the Judge, , id Switzerland has no sea coast, ! wi s it?' I en " 'No sea coast, Your Honor,* said . pi j interpreter. j sn " 'And no navy.' continued the ; an ige. j co " 'And no navy, Your Honor,' was po i reply. br ' 'Very well, then,' said the Judge, I it re him one year at bard labor.' "? j an ishington Herald. I otl j thi Where to Lire Long. ; ba Sfarmouth is living up to the repu- j H? ion Charles Dickens gave it when | wi advised the purchase of an annu- ! u < and residence at Yarmouth to at1 rha a nf \fU??b ill's well that ends swell. The most exclusive people in the tvorld are either in society or jail. The man with an iron will should )e careful not to let it get rusty. Many an otherwise good man has seen spoiled by too many ancestors. Don't strike a man just because he nsists that he is your match. The girls with the most cheek don't io the most blushing. Honesty is the filtration that causes i clear conscience. The bibulous chap is generally nore celebrating than celebrated. Second thoughts are only best I'hen they are not more expensive. It is just as well to have a short cquaintance with the fellow who is lways broke. Many a man who doesn't know one lote from another attempts to sing lis own praise. A woman can always accomplish: aore with tears than a man can with' uss words. Discretion, being the better part of alor, prefers to do its fighting over lie telephone. An idle rumor gains currency, % 'hich is more' than an idle man is pt to do. The fact that virtue is its own re? ard is what makes some people good >r nothing. Children should be like church ells, which always do as they are >lled.?From "The Gentle Cynic,!' i the New York Times. A Novelist's Pipes. A recently published interview, ith the famou3 novelist and dramatt contains the following paragraph, om which it would seem that Mr. irrie is more attentive than ever to ily Lady Nicotine:" "I spent exactly sixty-five minutes, ith the great dramatist. When: I tered he was smokiDg a calabash pe of generous proportions. He loked it out in a purposeful, way d laid it on the mantelpiece to ol. Then he felt in. his, right coat cket and produced a handsome iar. This he loaded and lit.. When was done he laid it on the- shelf d took out a second briar from anler pocket. He smoked it out,, and en assuring himself that the. calash was cool again went back to it. > smoked three and a half pipes thin the hour and finished ujp with ngarette."?Tit-Bits.. Bird Slaughter in Florida"Unless the wholesale butchery of ds in Florida is stopped, there will none left in that section of the intry," said H. A. Austin, who ?nds a large part of his time in > South. In the last three years the everdes of Florida have been stripped' every vestige of bird life to supply ; world's millinery markets with ( plumage of the heron that for rly bred there iu countless nam's. Now (hat the heron has pracUly gone from Florida, the bird ibers are killing almost any other d of tropical bird that they can i. It is a fact that Florida is alsr barren of birds at this time."?< shington Post. European shipping companies are 'ering severely because trade andj ffic in the Levant and on the far. ;tern lines are almost at a stand* ' Jk ...