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Vol. Ill, Nbw Seribs, No. 27. . APRIL, 1899. Whole Number 100-

REV. SAMUEL F. DIKE, D. D.

THROUGH the courtesy of Rev. Chas. H. Mann, editor of the New Church Messenger, we are enabled to present an excellent portrait of oar esteemed brother and friend of humanity. Rev. Samuel F. Dike, D. D., whose departure from the active scenes of this life was recorded in our uomber for February, iSqg, page 25. We are enabled to add to what was then pnb- ■ished some more interesting particulars from the Messenger's account :

"After his ordination in Philadelphia, at the age of 25, he married Miriam Worcester, of Boston, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Worcester. They were married 53 years, Mrs. Dike having died about four years ago. Since bis wife's dealh he has not taken as much interest in life. He very much missed the companion of his life, and said not long ago to a Mend, 'I shall not be sorry to go, 1 wish it were to-morrow,'

"June 13, 1840, Dr. Dikearrivedin Bath, where he has since been a prominent and highly respected citizen. It is not unusual to find men who have been actively engaged in the ministry for fifty years, but it is very seldom that one of these can point to that period as spent in a single parish.

"The Chnrch society, for the love they bore their pastor, in 1879 sent him on a trip ^ ^Sypt aad Palestine. It was then quite an event and upon his return to Bath he was greeted with large congregations to hear about his travels in the Holy Land.

He gave several very interesting Iccttu:es on his travels. He was appointed a member of the Peace Congress held in London in 1890, but was unable to attend.

"Dr. Dike had a fine residence on Lin- coln street, Bath, with spacious grounds. He took great pride in the appearance of his grounds and in his garden . He loved his home, everjrthing around it was very dear to him. The very trees he planted he loved and took great pride in.

"A few years ago Dr. Dike thought of selling his place, and one of the first would- be purchasers of the property asked how much hay it would cut. It thorooghly dis- gusted him to think how mnch he had loved even every tree on the place and it was so dear to him, and that others could only look at it in the light of profit as a hay farm .

"The reverend doctor had been a Vegeta- rian for a number of years.

"The funeral services took place at the house of Mr. J. H. Kimball, of Bath, on Wednesday, January i r , and were conducted by the Rev. B. N. Stone, who had for so many years been associated with Dr. Dike in the work of the Maine Association. Mr. Stone was assisted by the Rev. Samuel Worcester, of Portland."

From the discourse delivered on the oc- casion by Rev. B. N. Stone, we extract the following :

"Under his thoughtful preaching and gentle pastoral care, aided by the feithful

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helpfulness of the devoted wife and compan- ion of his life, he had the satisfaction of seeing this Church grow and floarish and of gathering into its fold a generation of noble and excellent men and women, of which it gives us a touch of sadness to-day to think that he was almost the sole survivor; but their memory is still held in honor in this city and warmly cherished by you of the younger generation of the Church. To you who from childhood were nurtured under the pulpit ministrations of this man of God, and in whose social life and the joys and sorrows of the home he was a privileged guest, no other minister, however good and worthy, can ever be quite the same ; you mourn to-day the departure of your spiritual father. The presence on this occasion of others without your own household of &ith witnesses to the esteem which the moral purity, integrity, and intelligence of the man have won from all the religious people and the citizens of the community. The flags now at half-mast on the school- buildings also testify to the value of his ed- ucational worlc, when the schools of the city for more than twenty years were under his superintending care — work not per- functory and mercenary, but inspired by hearty devotion to the intellectual and moral welfare of theschool children, in each of whom he took a personal interest, being able to call almost every boy and girl of them by name.

"But outside his local parish in his State and in the Church at large, Dr. Dike also did good service by pen and voice and official labors. As the General Pastor and the first and the only President of the Maine Association, till the infirmities of age caused him to retire to the quiet rest of private life, he guided its affairs with good practical wisdom and performed the duties of his office with tmassuming fidelity, alto-

gether free from any spirit of priestly domin- ion. His judgment and counsels also car- ried weight in the deliberations of the Gen- eral Convention of our national ecclesiastical body. " And his name was known with re spect in the Church across the water. He had a scholarly miud, was a great lover of books, and especially enjoyed historical research and visits to oriental lands in quest of their ancient religious and literary lore. And combined with his higher intellectnal gif^ was much good common sense and a keen interest in all practical affairs, .so that he could say with the old Romans: "Noth- ing human is foreign to me." Hence while he was at home in conversation with attizaus and fanners, the educational instita- tions and historical societies of our State and elsewhere were gla<l to honor and make nse of his scholarly abilities and ample stores of learning. Were his associates in our Theo- logical School at Cambridge present here I am sure they would express their apprecia- tion of the value of his work, as the Pro- fessor for some years in the department oi Ecclesiastical History. ^ a writer he was not voluminous, but whatever came from his pen bears the impress of clear, carefiil. intelligent thought and a well-informed memory. But his intellectual osefiilness is not to be parted from the moral excellence of his character. Spiritual truth was lo him above all other knowledge."

A VEGETARIAN VAN. The Vegetarian Society, England, has a van from which Vegetarian literature is dis- tributed and which forms a suitable platform for speakers so that meetings can be held in the open air wherever the van is located. Such a van is required in this country- We can obtain good speakers for such an enter- prise. Who will start the fund for this p^^ pose with a good donation ?

DISEASED CATTLE UAWiNiiJU,

BOW THB LOMPY JAWED AHO TDBERCUI.03IS CATTLE AKB PASSBD BV INSPBCTOK9 AND UKBD FOR CANNING. HOW "BEBF EX- TRACTS" ABB MADS OP DISEASBD CAR- CASSES

Spaiat DispaUk to the Dtmocral aHd CkniticU.

New York, March 3. — This is the story ofThomas F, Dolan, dnly sworn to before a notary public. The story comes direct from the pen of a man who for ten years was saperintendent of the killing gang of 500 men, in the cattle beds of Philip D. Armonr.

"I am an American citizen, 39 years of age, and a resident of Allston, Mass.

' 'Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1890, after Jeremiah Rosk was appointed Secre- Ury of Agriculture, the Bureau of Animal Industry was established. The object was to inspect all packing houses and their products in the United States. The duty of inspectors was to inspect the slaughter- house output before and after killings oc- cpxred. Bat there were many ways of get- ting aronnil the inspectors — so many, in fact, that not more than two or three cattle out of one thousand were condemned. I know exactly what I am writing of in this connection, as my particular instructions from W. E. Pierce, superintendent of the beef houses for Armour & Co., were very explicit and definite.

"Whenever a beef got past the yard in- spectors with a case of lumpy jaw and came into the slaughterhouse or the 'kill- ing bed,' I was authorized by Mr. Pierce to take his head off. thus removing the evidence of lumpy jaw, and after casting the smitten portion into the tank where refuse goes, to send the rest of the carcass on its way to market.

"In cases where tuberculosis became evident to the. men who were skinning the cattle, it was their duty, on instructions from Mr. Pierce, communicated to them

tbrongh me, at once to remove the tubercles and cast them into a trap door provided for that purpose. The order went out to dis- pose of all evidences of disei^e whenever these evidences manifested themselves to the naked eye. I have seen handreds and thousands of cattle pass inspection that should have been consigned to the destroy- ing tanks. I have witnessed men tearing off with their naked hands large tubercles growing along the ribs, intestines, lungs and vital parts of the slaughtered steers.

"I have seen as much as forty pounds of flesh afflicted with gangarenecut from the carcass of a beef in order that the rest of the animal might be utilized in trade. It was at that time and is still regarded as wasteful to discard any portion of a steer that can possibly be used.

"A packinghouse has less regard for the. public health than any other concern doing business in the country, and not a stone, is left unturned to get all that it is possible from a carcass, no matter what the cost to human lives, no matter how far-reaching may be the consequences.

"Not a pound of meat or fat is lost. The best cattle are sold in the Eastern market or else exported. The next best go through- out the Middle and Westers states for iam- ily use. The next class, that which is really unfit for even a poor man's table, is canned for American soldiers and wholesale distribution along the frontier into new countries over the mountains and broad- cast on the high seas.

"Cattle that are unfit for dog-meat are boiled down, the nutriment is extracted for soups and beef extracts, and the dry, un- wholesome pulp, fortified with a mass of gelatinous substance, is jammed into a can with a flaming label around it. Meat that can be used for anything else is never canned, simply because there is a better

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price to be obtained for it while it is fresh. "I do know that hundreds upon hundreds of diseased and sickly cattle went into the open market as healthy beef; that diseases prevailed to a great extent: that the in- spectors did not see, or rather, did not pro- test against these horrible humors and that the men working in the killing department had their instructions to pay no attention to these things except to remove them. They were there to kill cattle, dress them and prepare the carcasses for sale, no matter what sort of conditions they were in , where they came from, or what the consequences would be. ' '