Show IT might bo interesting to lovers of canned lard to know what they are liable to eat ft hen preparing this product in pastry just now un examination is being conducted before the house committee on agriculture and some very interesting testimony ia being given by men who anre and have been in the business william bartic an ex packer of st louis made the statement in his testimony that in most packing housea smothered hogs pregnant bows sows and hogs suffering from cholera used indiscriminately criminate ly with good hogs to make prime steam lard he could as a pork packer and experienced farmer verify all the statements lie had heard about tho manufacture of prime steam lard he bad only gone out of business because be could not marsae it longer and deal honestly when he was in business he necessarily packed cholera cause they are mixed with other hogs he had cut the hogs into hams etc knowing them to be diseased just s ever packer did the meat of the cholera hog was not poisonous one of the crying evils of the time was the shipping of diseased hogs to market by the farmer the man would immortalize himself who would frame legislation which would prevent re finers and pack era from acting improperly in the manufacture oi food products A BAD tale comes from kentucky samuel wilson a lumberman with his wife and four children lived in a wild section of the gleea river bottoms near calhoun ky he was recently engaged in gathering hoop poles his hoga and chickens leaving become the prey of timber wolves he poisoned a quarter of hog meat to destroy the thieves through some serious negligence ho biad omitted to tako it from hia smokehouse and the meat was unconsciously prepared by his ife for their dinner thursday the meat was scarcely swallow ed before all became sick and rapidly grew worse within two hours all were helpless and were found in this condition toward nightfall by a logterman log german who chanced that way help was quickly summoned but it was unavailing as during the night three of the children died and friday the father mother and other child died in great agony their bodies in the meantime had swollen to enormous proportions from the effect of the poison just as though they had been bitten by a all were buried near tho desolate hut ans march number of woman ia alie finest yet issued this magazine in creases m interest aa each appears and ita contents aro invaluable to the maiden as well aa the mother the best literature possible ia embodied within its pages helpa and hints for mathers in the current number 0 the yonan is unusually interesting bend for it published by the domn publishing Comp new york a Q business failures occurring throughout the country during the seven days ending march 16 as reported to E G dun co the mercantile agency by telegraph number for the united states and for canada 26 or a total of as compared with a total of last week and the week previous to the last the figures for the corresponding week in 1887 were THE death of chief justice waits of the supreme bench is a great shock to the nation although not the most brilliant euristhe juris the was a very ablo judge holding the scales ot justice very equally not only between editors before his coun but between sections of the union he waa a man of perfect integrity and great ability and his losa will be felt by the entire country |