Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 65, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 February 1903 — Page 10

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New York Stock Market.

NEW YORK, Feb. Stocks opened gen mallv firm and in somu instances deeidedIv strong. Erie second preferred quickly ran up one per ccni. An active market I'ontinued for copper at nominally Jmprov prices. Anaconda gained 4% per cent mi a single .sale. There was an excellent market,for Wabash issues. Sugar lost'% tmd Chicago I'nion Traction lost grou'nd. Ht. Paul was heavy and Union Pacific steady. Pennsylvania gained 411 a. in.—The marlfet reflected the influence of the hitch in the Venezuelan negotiations by extreme dullness. Prices developer! irregularly in the first hour and numerous issues reacted from their early Improvement. The market has little definite tone and traders appear to be awaiting developments. Government bonds unchanged. Railroad bonds strong.

Noon—Traders developed the. opinion Unit yesterday's advance was due to short covering" and the market has reacted easily in spite of the continued bull movement in Erie second preferred and the coppers. It. is to be doubted whether the celling of New York Central was as much liquidation as to switch over into Pennsylvania railroad stock, the two now being at. the same price. Some bearish efforts has been directed against the list ly several of the Chicago houses and I here has been some short selling from lip-town offices.

Noon prices: Pennsylvania lot) Reading *2: New York Central 149% Missouri Pacific 111%: Canadian Pacific 13(5% St. Paul 177% Amalgamated Copper 68 Erie 41VsTotal sales 197,400 shares.

Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2—Wheat !i@%c higher. May sold between 77% and 7ft, opening at iS'-s". and closing at 79 July between 74''s ind 74%, opening at 74Vi and closing at T4%. Cash sales at the seaboard 200,000 bushels. None here. Trade was spasmodic and the local crowd busied itself by heading off Armour in his attempts to accumulate wheat or to scalp the market, l'here was considerable wheat purchased on the. advance equal to l%if?2c: a bushel at Paris and the strength in the markets •il the United Kingdom. Primary and northwestern receipts were larger than list' year. Contract stocks here are in(.Teasing and supplies at Minneapolis are [•ling up. Northwestern interior elevators ifeereased 400.000 bushels during January.

Corn Vs@Vic' higher. February closed :at !•!%. May sold between 44!,i and 44%, opening at 441-. and closing at 44%: July between 42% and 43*4, opening at 44 and closing at 431,-i. Cash sales at seaboard IS loads. The feature was the heavier receipts at Chicago—537 cars, the falling off In the cash demand and the selling by the uountry. The corn was well taken. Cables were lower. Contract stocks increas "d lf)3,000 bushels. World's available increased 1,175.000 bushels.

Oats Vec higher. February 33% bid. May Void between 86 and 86%, opening at 36*4 nd closing at 36%: July between 32% and opening at 32% and closing at 32%. Cash sales 200,000 bushels here. Trade was dull and changes small. Receipts 339 cars. Contract stocks decreased for the week. Bradstreets increased for the week.

Provisions 7Vz@32M:C higher, pork gaining most. May products ranged: Pork $16.47 'ii 1G.75 lard $9.32%€f9.42'/?,: ribs $9.02%@9.15.

Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs.

l.'NION STOCK YARDS, 111., Feb. 3— f'attle, receipts 5,000 estimated for tomorrow 18,000 slow and weak. Prime beeves [email protected] poor to medium [email protected]: -Lockers and feeders $2.r0#4.40 cows and heifers [email protected] eanners |[email protected] TexKns [email protected].

Hogs, receipts 27,000 estimated for tomorrow 35,000 market 5c higher. Light W.fe6.70 rough $6.40(36.65 mixed $6.35@ 90 heavy [email protected] pigs [email protected]. -.Sheep, receipts 12,000 estimated for tomorrow 18,000 market steady. Native •iheep, $3.0005.25 westerns [email protected] native lambs [email protected] western lambs $4.50 ,@..25.

EAST ST. LOUTS, 111., Feb. 3-Native cattle, receipts 1,800 steady. Steers $4.20@ •1.60 heifers [email protected]*0. Texans, receipts 5:.200 slow steers [email protected] cows $2.65.

Hogs, receipts 4,500 five cents higher )p $6.97% bulk $6.70ffi6.85. Sheep, receipts 2,500 market steady cheep $4.50 lambs [email protected] Mexican vearhngs ^5.85.

The City Apple.

strange that we are counoisseurs in lea and wine and pickles, and yet that tipples are merely apples. Warm and wilt-

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and polished, they stand in trays and tows on the stands and we buy them. Probably half the people in the big cities buy their apples thus, one at a, time, here and there—Ben Davis, Baldwin, Pennock. anything that i* bright and handsome. I sometimes think that city folk in furnace heated houses can never know what a really good apple is no matter how good Hie grocer and the caterer may be. It. is in the farm house \vith a real jelliir—not a basement with heater and laundry and ash bins—thai one gets apples. You sit- in the wing" beside a ci sickling fireplace or a wood fire in a stove that is built for service rath'er Mian for ornament. The cellar is under Mie '"upright." You go through the "buttery." through he cellar door that has eathole in the lower front corner, and with lamp or-lantern in hand you go down the stairs into a subterranean world. The snow is scurrying around the. house corners, but here is a dark and snug retreat such as no city house can liavfj. There is -no smell of ashes and saoapsuds, only the cool, soft odor of 1 he moist ground and the boxes and barrels of apples. From box to box you go

Northern Spies Tannan Sweets, GreenIjitgs. Roxbury Russets. Seek-no-furthers. Ranibos. Spitzenburgers. Snow apples, Nonesuch. Swaars perhaps belated Kings and fall Pippins—even Baldwins are not good enough for this company—and you take Tour pick.

Tlu' honor of possessing the largest membership of any automobile club in the world rests with the Automobile club of Gjreat Britain and Ireland, which lias now ho less than -.180 member*. /, if jr Scotland shipped II£79,422 tons of coal last year, constituting a record.

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Mothers can safely give Foley's Honey and Tar to their children for coughs and colds, for it contains no opiates or other poisons. AH druggists.

ECCENTRIC CHARITY

LARGE GIVERS WISH TO AVOID NOTORIETY

ARE TWO1 CURIOUS INSTANCES

New and Strange Stories of Anonymous Benefactors in Old London.

Two curious instances of doing good by stealth have within the past .week occurred in London, and there is apparently no. doubt that the well-doer has been the same individual in both cases.

As was reported, an elderly gentleman walked into the Edgeware road bruncJi of the Church Army, put down a bank note for 1,000 pounds, and refusing his name, walked out. From inquiries it appears that the 1.000 pounds which the Society for the I'ropogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was reported to have received, arrived in• precisely the same manner.. Other scocieties have also been benefited largely from individuals of the same disposition, and the nnon.v moils donor of substantial sums is not so uncommon as might be imagined.

The secretary of the British and Foreign Bible society said t'hat «it one time a fanner, with hay tied around his leg.' to protect his trousers, used to walk in put down a note for 50 pound? or so and when he died left a legacy, but not his name. Two more striking instances are those of the National Lifeboat Institution and the London Biblewoman's Mission, whose offices are within stone's throw of each other, the former in .Tohn street, Adelpbi. and the latter in the Adelphi terrace, llr. Dibdin. the Lifeboat secretary, was going into his outer office one" day when a tall man entered and said: "Is Mr. Dibdin in?"' That gentleman replied-: "Yes, do you wisli to see him?" 'No. if you will give him this envelope into his own ]iands it will do as well." said tbe stranger, and he handed over an envelope and left. Opening it. Mr. Dibdin found a 1,000 pound banknote.

One evening fifteen years ago an old man entered and said: "Oh, as I happened to be passing saw the name, so I thought would just look in and see if you want any money." Mr. Dibdin assured him they wanted money badly— always did. The old gentleman, however. instead of producing his money began talking politics and elicited Mr. Dibdin's views on Mr. Balfour and other politicians. It happened that the visitor heartily approved Mr. Dibdin's principles, and soon he pulled a banknote from his pocket and put it on the desk. Still he kept up the political conversation without a break, and soon out came another banknote. Mr. Dibdin talked politics as long as he could, and the old gentleman pift down note after note, until a pile worth 2.000 pounds lay on the desk. He would not give his name, walked out, and was never seen or heard of again by the society.

Tn the. case of the Biblewoman's Mission an elderly gentleman for some years called once a. year, asked what the deficit was. put. down the money and went away. On the last occasion he gave 3,000 pounds, and in all 8.000 pounds. Within the last three weeks the London Missionary society has received two separate sums of 1,000 pounds from two anonymous donors through a bank. Eighteen months ago a stranger called and gave about 700 pounds in banknotes. Yesterday it was stated that the Chelsea hospital for women had received a donation of iiOO pounds from a generous friend. "H. M. K.." toward the emergency fund.

THE WORLD'SJNVENTORS

The Names of Some That Do Not Figure in Patent Office Reports.

The patent. Office statisticians inform us that Britons are the most inventive of all foreigners that for the year 1001 the patents, issued to British inventors numbered 995) while the Germans in spift of the advantages of cheaper drink and quieter surroundings come forward with only 743 inventions.

It is granted, we believe that the Yankees are the leading inventors: and naturally our cousins on the other side are next in line. But we remember that the Connecticut people arc supposed to be the most inventive Qankees, whereas Benjamin Franklin was a Bostonian and Samuel F. B. Moris and Elias Howe were New Yorkers (as were the less well known but equally interesting inventors of the, Cardiff Giant) George. M. Pullman lived in Cook county, 111. the Maxim,s ure Maine men, Thomas A. Edison comes from Ohio, and the world-frighting Gatfing opened his eyes in Dixie.

Patents tell only a part of the story. They have nothing to say about those wonderful airships (our foremost theorist on air sailing is a Bostonian. Samuel Picrpont ^angley) that always.go to smash just befaore whirling around the vast empyrean, or about the still more wonderful perpetual motion machines. or about the yet unattempted desideratum (greatest of all perhaps)—a machine, to rock and sing the baby to sleep The world is yet at the mercy of infants and nurses Nor do parents tell of the inventors of gods and goddesses in the east or of the inventors of romances that, publishers will 'not take a chance with

As for Connecticut's reputation, however. it will endure forever and brilliantly, if for no other reason than that the. prince of Yankee inventors, the Hon. Phineas T. Barnum. author of "The Humbugs of the World." hailed from Bethel and lived to be Mayor of Bridgeport and the head of the "Greatest Show on Earth."

Try The Tribune'* One Cent a Werd Column.

ELSEWHERE.

The bulk of kerosene is shipped to the ends of the earth in cases containing two four-gallon cans or oak barrels of a capacity of fifty gallons or so. These barrels are made, sometimes 20,000 a day, bv the Standard Oil company, at Bayonne, N. J., by machinery a soii of arrangements whereby you feed the wood in at one end and it conies out barrels, hooped arid coated with glue inside at the other. But the inflammable crude oil and the lighter products go in bulk in the tank steamers which are great, floatoil receptacles holding sometimes 40.000 banels. besides the necessary coal bunkers and* engines and quarters for the crew. The crew and the stores as a ule are in a cubby up next the bow, the cabin and the engines and coal bunkers (for most of them btirn coal instead of oil)'far art. Hence when you see a great black freighter ploughing the Atlantic with her smokestack ridiculously near the stern it is safe to hazard a guess that you are looking at a tank steamer, though occasionally the tramp freighter carrying a general-cargo is built somewhat on this plan to give great room in the hold.

A Co-Operative Fai lures* The announcement from Pittsburg that the American Window Glsss company has withdrawn its project of dividing 5.000 shares of stock among its employes can hardly be called a failure of a stock-sharing plan. The scheme was promulgated in 1901, and the company made no secret that it was part of a Jbargain to secure certain .promises from the Window Glass Workers' association, through its president, Simon Burns. In return for the offer Burns was to furnish. sufficient skilled labor to keep the "works running during the summer months, and thus lay up a surplus whiph Tv/ouFd "help" the company control the jnarket for w-ndow glass. The men vwanled to work as they pleased, and the di-satisficd ones withdrew to form anothfr association. V.Burns was made 'a direct of of the company, but \vas unable to carry out his agreement. While the plan fell. through- six months ago, official announcement was not made of the fact until last week. The stock was quoted at 58 when the plan was abandoned., but Burns insisted that the men had an opportunity to make- something andthrewJit^^ay.

MYERS BROS.

ANNUA iiCLEARANCE IF TOU HAVE BOYS TO CL0THE|

HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY: EVERY SUIT' OF BOYS' CLOTHES, EVERY OVERCOAT AT A NET DISCOUNT OF 25 PER CENT.: IN OTHER WORDS SUITS MARKED $2.50 ARE NOW $1.87 $3 SUITS AND OVERCOATS ABE NOW $2.25 $4.00 SUITS AND OVERCOATS ARE NOW S3.00. AND ALL $5.00 SUITS AND OVERCOATS ARE NOW $3.75.

How Their Safety Has Been Increased Until Name is no Longer Deserved —Things That Bring Disaster.

The. recent, disaster off Gloucester, in which a derelict oil barge was blown up, hud its orjgin in the action of a sailor in lighting a match down in the dark forepeak that he might see how the anchor /chains would run. Yet this disaster of man and flame was due entirely to the carelessness of the man himself, and not to lack of wisdom on the part of the people who send 10,000-ton tanks of tlie dangerous petroleum products in bulk across the sea. Almost daily these great cargoes leave our ports for Kurope with roaring flames under the brtilers. roll and plunge through the mighty billows and reach the haven on the other side as innocuous as when they left port. Indeed. the risk of lire on the tank steamer considered far less than on cargoes of seemingly much less daigerous material cotton, for instance—thanks to the ingenuity of man in bottling up the devil and keeping him out of mischief.

The work is done, as is everything else that pertains to pretroleum products, as we well know nowadays, by tbe Stand-

Oil company, and it does not even insure its cargoes outside of its own corporation. Thus great is the trust of the trust in its own wisdom, and statistics prove that the confidence is not misplaced.

Yet some of these cargoes are in a high degree inflammable, and a little admixture of their vapors with air makes a compound that will explode with tremendous violence. This is not true of kerosene. That has already been refined by fire, had its vaporous devil scorched out of it. and when free is comparatively harmless. You may plunge burning match into kerosene and the only result will be to put the match out. Neither does it vaporize at ordinary temperatures. But benzine, gasolene or makes another story. So does the crude mineral oil from which it is rerived, for these volatile products continually stew up from it. and the moment you show flame to them

HERE ARE MONEY-SAVING CHANCES NOT TO BE HAD

MYERS BROS.

Leading One-Price Clothiers,

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HELL WAGONS OF DEEP SEA

THE DAiLY TRIBUNE, TERRE HAUTE, !ND., TUESDAY, FEBRlUAiRY 3, 1903.

Fourth and Main Sts.

Crown and Bridge Work'c

The art of replacing teeth where several are missing without the use of a plate.

The plate is done away with, and instead you have an artificial denture, which'V properly made is so perfect and comfortable as to be forgotten by the wearer, and so natural" in appearance as. to defy detection by the observer.

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Hear What Mrs. H. C. Miller

of (115 North Thirteenth street, has to suy: I had Dr. Cheek to replace several teeth for me Jjy his splendid system of crown and bridge work. They feel so natural that it is impossible for me to tell them from my "natural teeth. Dr. Cheek also extracted my upper teeth without pain. His m,ethod of extracting teeth without pain in certainly grand, and I heartily recommend him for his painless and skilful work MRS. H. C. M1I.L.ER, 615 North Thirteenth street. "yj

Dr. J. H. Cheek

DENTIST

Rooms.10-11 Erwin Block, over Tune Bros. Be sure to get in the right place, "then you won't get hurt."

C. & li. I. R. R.

One way second class colonist tickets will be sold to the north a'nd south Pacific Coast Points. Also to intermediate territory. San Francisco Portland Los Angeles Seattle San Diego 4^ Van Couver 4*1 Phoen UT Tacoma ^UU Prescott Victoria

Tickets on sale February 15th to April 30th, 1903.- Winter tourist rates to the west, southwest and northwest. On sale until April 30th, 1903.

Homeseokprs excursion to the west, southwest and northwest on first and third Tuesdays of each month.

For further information apply to •U, W. E. M'KEEVER, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. J. R. CONNELLY, General Agent, 10th and Wabash Ave.

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We carry stocks on 2 or 3 points margin, grain on 1 point. For particulars^ call, write, or 'phone Harrison 1574.

ESTABLISHED 1S98

E. A. WIRSCHING & CO.,

COMMISSION BROKERS, 25-27 SHERMAN ST., Rialto.JBldg. CHICAGO.

The Health Office

COMMISSION ROOM

AL. MYERS, Proo. S03 Main St.

ARTHUR GRIMES

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Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty. PAINLESS EXTRACTION. Sixth and Main. Over McKeen's Bank.

TRIBUTE "mutt" ads bring results. LJ 1

Still Some of the Re=sewn Gloves==59c

New Wrist=Bags and Netsukes. The wrist-bag stock is growing, and growing rapidly. An almost entirely new assortment is here., $1.00 far large walrus grain leather wrist-bags in newest shape,—tan, gray, mode or brown. $1.25'for similar sorts in a larger size., $1.39 and $1.50 for walrus wrist-bags, pretty new shapes the best colorings. $2.98 for novel wrist-bags of finest walrus with large ewelledf^*knob-clasps,—tan, mode or gray.,

This telliDg skims the stock:—,

$1.00,—plain white pique waists.

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TW*fi$2.75,—white

HERZ'SBULLETIN.

,-Twelve hundred pairs of kid gloves aren't a lot to be. sneezed at, and though we've had lively selling, there are still a good many dozen pairs for later buyers.

Black in almost all sizes. And a good scattering of various colors, though a broken size-range. 'Re-sewn,"—and that means gloves which owing to some little flaw or other, perhaps a bursting seam, have returned to the importer for repairs. The mending or resewing is neatly done. Most of the gloves are good as new in appearance, and many, of them will wear like new gloves.

The price is less .than an average half.'

59c for gloves, which, if spic-and-span, would be worth $1.00 $1,25 and $1.50 the pair. 1

$1.25,—striped white pique waists with tucked front.

^ll.^TT-white pi querists, figured .o^atriped, —tucked or pleated.

.$2.25.—white oxford waists with large box-pleats, and fancy collar.

$2.50,—corded batiste, waists, white with black pin-s dots, made with yoke and tucks.

fancy collar and tie, and button trimming.

striped madras waists, with box-pleats,

$3.00,—white silk-damask jurists, tucked back, and fancy buttons. *t,

S3 00,—pereian-striped madras waists, made with yoke and tucke, fancy collar and tie.

$3.50,—waists of white pique with black piu-dots, others of white oxford with colored satin stripe, others of white-and-black plaid vesting,:

•*^$3.75, waists of fine white .pxfprdl .• iy/'*f $3.98,—waists-of finQ white vesting^

$4.50,—waists of white and gray striped wash with yoke and small box-pleats,—fancy collar and tie.

$5.00,—waists of fine white Juptre.

$6.00,—waists of persian striped white oxford. -I

16 75.—waists of white barred vesting with emad black dots,—military style,—made with fancy collar anil tie.

TERRE HAUTF, TND., FEB. 3, 1903. nV.

The NETSUKE (pronounced netchke) is the newest thing in the leather-goods line. We may thank the Japs for the idea as well as for the name.

Splendid bags, similar to wrist-bags, though the best ones are flat and thin,—attached by pretty chains or metal hangings to a large knob which'is to be slipped between the fingers and thus carried. Later on, when shirt-waists and belts hold' sway, these new netsuke-bags will further demonstrate their excellence, as the button may be slipped under the belt and thus held in place.

Prices 50c to $5.98.

Many New Shirt

Waists Are Here.

Shirt-waists for Spring 1903.

See some of them in the west window, and then come to the second-floor show-room for a closer acquaintance. Many are buying now, though you're as free to come and look.

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LADIES' LADIES* BAZAAR

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New Drawn-Work Linens at About Half Price.

Saturday and Monday took half the lot The remaining half is equally good, for practically all of the various styles still find representation.

We secured thsse linens from one of New York's best importers, A sweeping change of buying-policy and sources of supply was the real reason for the selling of thousands of dollar's worth of art-linens. We secured a comparatively small portion, though a large lot for Terre Haute.f ,1

And there, you have a chance to buy new hand drawn- work at half-price. Pare linen, remember, and with fancy hemstitching and beautiful drawn-work.

Center pieces,—25c to $1.

Lunch-cloths, 7 9c $1.38.

Scarfs,—$1 and $1.50 each

It Isn't Too Early for Valentines. If you want to pick from a good stock at it's best, come now.

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The valentines are temporarily ready at the first department, west aisle.

New sorts from lc up. '. And 'comics,"—r a 1 1 novel and humorous. The old sort of "comics" offended these new ones will cause merriment.

The White floods is Selling. The white goods business of the town is centering here, though we've really been at the selling, heart and soul, but a mighty few seasons.

The new stacks are here. 'f Folks are saying that the prettiest patterns in town are on our counters,—and that prices are lower here.

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$3.25,~white oxford waists, tucked,—made with fancy collar and tie.g

New Suits for Spring Wear. A good many new suits £fre here,—and some selling every day. *'4- Folks are buying earlier every year. Learning to know our seasons with a short spring and an early summer. -Y'4 k*

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silk

^Buying suits for early spring wear, and dating that

from now on,—getting

their money's worth of wear out of the garments. It's a- wise way to da

And you'll find in week or so that this i^ the only thoroughly equipped store in Terre Haute.*:

suit-

See a few specimen in the west window.

suits

LADIES'