Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1897 — Page 7

THE L. A. KINSEY CO. INCORPORATED. CAPITAL. $23,000 FULL PAID, —into KICKS— Chicago Grain and Provisions New York Stocks. Lon* Distance Telephone. 1375 and 1551 11 and 18 \\est Pearl Street Cincinnati Office. Rooms 4 ana o. Kankakee b'ld’g. BANKERS NOT ALARMED * •'EM YORK RESERVES REMAIN SAFELY ABOVE THE LIMIT. Stock.® Once More Shotting Strength After it Two Week®’ Reaction—Local Market® Active and Firm. e At New York Saturday money on call was nominally 2per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4%@5 per cent. Sterling exchange was weak, with actual business in bankers’ bills at $1.54%®4.84% for demand and $4.82% for sixty days; posted rates, $4.8.31(4.84 and $4.85%<?14.86; commercial bills, $4.81.

Par silver, 56%c; Mexican dollars, 43c; silver certiticates, 55c. At London bar silver closod steady at 26%d an ounce. Exports of specie from New Y'ork for the week were $863,135, of which $10,940 were of gold. Imports of specie for the wreek, sl,108,21*4, of which $1,019,231 were of gold. Imports of dry goods and general merchandise for the week were $8,781,086. The New Y'ork weekly bank statement show’s: Surplus reserve, decrease... $447,100 Loans, decrease 4.592,000 Specie, increase 494,500 Legal tenders, decrease 2,442,300 Deposits, decrease 6,002,800 Circulation, increase 321,000 The banks now hold $15,550,400 in excess of legal requirements. The New Y’ork Financier says: “Th< statement of the associated banks of New Y'ork city for the week ending Oct. 2 is proof that there is no occasion for the fears entertained earlier in the season of an actual stringency in the money market. Despite the steady decline on the banks by reason of the interior demand for crop money, the reserves are maintained at a secure point, and the natural effect of conditions w'nich have been making all season may be trusted to obviate any departure lrom this standard in the future, the liquidation in loans continues, the loss for the week bringing the total to an amount of $7,320,2(A) under that reported ihrte weeks ago. in the same Time deposits have fallen olt $17,605,300, while the reserve has decreased about $5,0j0,0j0. As motley has been flowing to the interior at the rate of $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 weekly during this time, it will be seen that the banks have s.ood the drain very easily. Tne demand for funds still continues, tnough in lessened volume than reported for several weeks past. The decrease in deposits for the past week, of course, lowered the reserve requirements appreciably. The $1,500,000 gold received lrom Europe by one of tne banks does not seem to ngure in the current statement. The deposit changes of the larger banks have been unusually heavy during the week, the institutions uavlng the largest number of correspondents reporting losses us a rule, although others, which ngure in the call market, nave been affected by the general liquidation. The October settlements have brought about some shifting of funds, but the disbursements now' being made will be shown to a greater extent in the next statement. The Union Pacific foreclosure. sale, under arrangements which have been completed for payments extending over a considerable period, will not cause the contraction tirst anticipated, and this assurance to some extent governed the rate quotations last Week. The statement as a wnole is of very favorable character, and with the certainty that gold imports will follow' any unexpected advance in money ihe outlook is even brighter than predicted. Three of the New Y'ork banks last week made their clearing-house settlements in gold, owing to the scarcity of legal tenders. It would not be strange, in fact, were the treasury to follow suit in this particular before the close of the year.” Total sales of stocks were 222,703 shares, including the following: Atchison preferred, 3,809; Chesapeake & Ohio, 4.355; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 7,<12; Erie (new), 12,000; Louisville & Nashville, 8.430; Manhattan L, 6,220; Missouri Pacific, 6,745; New Y'ork Central, 4,861; Northern Pacitic preferred, 13,173; Reading, 3,40 j; Rock Island, 30,043; St. Paul, 17,125; St. Paul & Omaha, 3,080; Southern Railway preferred, 4,250; Vnion Pacitic, 13,050; Chicago Gas, 15,060; Sugar. 23,590; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 4,835; Western Union, 4,705; Chicago Great Western, 4,690. FIRST STRENGTH IN STOCKS. Marked strength in stocks on New York 'Change which developed in the late trading Friday was resumed Saturday morning in full force and continued with only one momentary pause from the opening until the close of the short session. The buying was eager and the covering of short contracts put out during the two weeks’ reaction in the market appeared to be urgent. There was every indication that the reaction had run its course and the agents employed by the leaders of the former bull campaign were buyers on a large scale. The stocks that have shown the sharpest declines recently were foremost in the recovery. Prices of Americans were advanced in London before the opening at New York and arbitrage brokers bougnt for London account. Tne stocks w’hich were favorites in the London buying were those that have recently suffered most severely from the liquidation of foreign holders, reflecting a marked change in foreign sentiment. The various trade reviews published this morning, all reporting continued improvement in trade and in inoustries, and the additional statements of railway earnings showing increases, contributed to the desire to buy. An additional fall in the rate of sterling exchange of %e for dividend bills to $4.84% made it evident that additional gold imports cannot be long delayed and probably helped the market, though gold is so plentiful in New York at present that some of the banks ar<* settling their daily balances at the clearing house in that metal. The weekly statement of the clear-ing-house banks was also interpreted favorably. The statement clearly reflected the pains the banks have taken to prevent further heavy shrinkage in their surplus reserves. The withdrawal in deposits of $6,002,800 is partially offset by a contraction in loans of $4,592,090. making a total contraction for two weeks of $7,320,300. The withdrawal of deposits find an additional reflection in the decrease in legal tenders of $2,442,390, which was offset by a net increase of $495,500 in specie, so that the actual decrease in cash was only about $2,000,000. The more profitable rates for money have induced an increase in circulation of $321,000. There is no doubt that withdrawals of deposits would have been much larger had it not been for a falling off in the demand for currency shipments to the South, due to the interference with the movement of the cotton crop due to the yellow' fever quarantines. The decrease to the South has been offset by demand from the Eastern and Middle States to meet October interest and dividend payments, and by New Y'ork requirements for payments of taxes. Saturday’s net gains in prices of stocks ran from 1 tc 3 per cent., the advance being in full tide when the market closed The stock market has been highly tecan.cal and professional in its character all wo. k, and the reaction which was the feature of the week before continued up to late cn Friday. The bears have been masters of the situation, and there has been no aggressive • ffort in opposition to their successful atu mpt to beat down prices until Saturday. The large buying interest which was so potent a force during the prolonged period of the rise which culminated two weeks ago had apparently ceased operations, and tiic brokers who had come to be recognized as the instrument of this important interest occupied a passive attitude, apparently content to see the reaction take its course. Gossip has been busy w'ith the question of tlx* identity of the powerful pool which led the bull market with so much dash and confidence, and syndicates of bankers and of powerful corporations have been mentioned as identified with the movement. HOW THE POOL WORKED. But. whatever their identity, the fact Is now obvious that, before any evidence was allowed to appear, that they had ceased to buy, and while the smaller operators and the speculative public was still following their apparent leadership they had liquidated a large amount of their purchases and realized their profits. With no change in the general favorable outlook for business, and with continued increase In the earnings for stocks, this operation left conditions ripe for a technical reaction. It had

only raised prices above the level of their legitimate actual value, but it had passed them into hands tnat were weaker and less able to hold against a decline. Having liquidated their holdings, these important interests were ready to buy again, and their desire was, for the time being, to see lower prices. Thus left unprotected, the speculative holders of stocks have had a bad time of it for two weeks. Prices have declined simply because more people wanted to sell than to buy, or sellers were more anxious than buyers. No favorable incident served to check the decline, August statements all showed enormous increases in net earnings. The resignation of Conservative Spanish ministers and the likelihood of a Liberal succession was accepted as tending to ameliorate the relations between Spain and the United States concerning Cuba. But the market sold off sharply on the announcement of these events. Saturday’s sharp advances went far to reduce the net declines for the week, and in some cases wiped tlem out entirely. The whole “character of the speculation showed a marked change, the trading on the advance being animated and eager and shorts covering heavily. The week has shown a subsidence of the fears of money stringency, notwithstanding a sudden rise in the call loan rate on Friday of 5 per cent. This was clearly understood to be due to the temporary demand for the necessities of the Ist of October settlements. Bank clearings of all the cities in the United States show a decrease from the week before of over 3 per cent., though the increase over last year is still 27 per cent., but compared with an increase last week of over 57 per cent. The market for sterling exchange has steadily declined since Monday and gold imports are believed to be again imminent. The weakness of exchange is due to offerings of cotton bills. In estimating the probable dimensions of the gold imports the low price for cotton must be considered, which, compared with last year’s prices, will make a difference of many millions of dollars in the balance due from abroad on cotton exports. Imports of general merchandise and dry goods at New York for the week show an Increase of $1,882,364 over last week, while the increase of this week’s exports from New York over last w r eek was only about $750,000. In consequence of Saturday’s rally in prices, net declines in very few standard railroad stocks reach two points on the week, and some show'* gains. Northern Pacific preferred and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis stocks are conspicuous in the latter class. Bonds have been much less active than of late and have resisted the decline, net declines being small and some issues showing gains. Total sales were $10,100,000. United States bonds are % to % higher. The following table, prepared by L. W. Louis, Room 11, Board of Trade, show's the range of quotations: Open- High- Low- Closing. est. est. ing. Adams Express 157 Baltimore & Ohio 16% American Express 117 American Spirits 12% 12% 12% 12% American Spirits pref 30% American Sugar 14574 148 145% 148 American Sugar pref 116 American Tobacco 88% 89% 88% 89% American Tobacco pref IHV Atchison 15% 15% 15% 15% Atchison pref 32'% 33% 32% 33 Canada Pacific 79 Canada Southern 57 57% 57 67% Central Pacific 17 Chesapeake & Ohio 2374 24% 2374 24% Chicago & Alton 162 C„ B. A Q 97% 98% 97% 98% q j 57 Chicago Gas. 99 l'li 99 101 Chi., Ind & Louis 10 Chi., Ind. & Louis, pref 33 C., 0., C. & St. L 37 38 37 38 Commercial Cable Cos 170 Consolidated Gas 214 Cotton Oil 21% Cotton Oil pref 74% Delaware & Hudson 118 D„ L & W 157 Denver .'fc Rio Grande 13 Denv<.r & Rio Grande pref 47% Erie 17% Erie first pref 42 Fort Wayne 168 General Electric 36% 37% 36% 37% Great Northern pref 137 Hocking Valley 7% Illinois Central 103% Kansas Texas pref 38% 39 38 39 Lake Erie & Western 19% Lake Erie & Western pref 77 lake Shore 175 Lead Trust 37% 38% 3774 38% Louisville & Nashville 69% 60 59% 60 Manhattan 100% 102% 100% 102% Michigan Central 104% Missouri Pacific 3174 33 % 31% 3374 New Jersey Central 95% 96% 9674 96 New York Central 109% 110% 109% 110% Northern Pacific 20% Northern Pacific pref 54% 55% 54% 55% Northwestern 125 127 125 127 Northwestern pref 164 Pnr-tfic Mail .34% 35% 34% 35% Pullman Palace 179 Reading 26% 2674 26% 26% Rock Island 90% 91 89% 91 St. Paul 96% 97% 96% 97% St. Paul pref 140(4 St. Paul Omaha 8074 82% 80% 82% St. Paul & Omaha pref 140 Southern Pacific 19 Tennessee Coal and 1r0n... 30% 31% 30% 31% Texas Pacitic 12% Union Pacific 2374 24% 2374 24% U. S. Express 44 U. S. Leather 8% U. S. Leather pref 65% 66 65% 65% U. S. Rubber 17% LT. S. Rubber pref 65 Wabash. St. L. & P 8% Wabash. St. L. & P. pref. 21 21% 21 21% Wells-Fargo Express 108 Western Union 90 91 90 90% Wheeling & Bake Erie 2% Wheeling & Lake Erie pref 13 U. S. Fours, new. reg 126% U. S. Fours, new, coup 126% U. S. Fours, reg 112% U. S. Fours, coup 113%

LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Trade of tlie Week Satisfactory and Prices Steady and Firm. While it would not be correct to say that the trade of the week ending Oct. 2 was as satisfactory as that of the preceding week, the volume of business is now so much in excess of that of many months past that the wholesale merchants are not disposed to complain. Brices in nearly all lines are very firm and on many articles slight advances have been established. This w ill app’y more particularly to dry goods, leather, staple groceries, iron and steel articles, poultry, eggs, butter, Irish potatoes and choice apples. The last week there have been some very fine Michigan peaches on the market, but they sold so high as to place them in the luxury list. During the week the market was overstocked with onions and grapes and they sold low. Lemons are weak and in light demand, bananas plenty and easy in price, cranberries in good supply with prices w'ell held. Owing to the unusually w’arm wtather for this season of the year fruits have rotted badly and the commission men report htavv losses. The provision market is active in tli shipments to Southeastern and New England points, but the yellow fever scare has seriously checked trade from the Southern States. The Mde market is active with prices steady. Nothing doing in the w k>l market. The local grain market was less active than in the preceding week. Receipts increased somewhat, but with the tendency to lower prices neither dealers nor commission men took hold as freely. The week closed with track bids ruling as follows: Wheat—No. 2 red, 92c; No. 3 red, 88089 c; October. 92c, wagon wheat, 91c. Corn—No. 1 white. 29c; No. 2 white, 29c; No. 3 white. 29c; No. 4 white, 26c; No. 2 white mixed, 27*/-c; No. 3 white mixed, 27%c; No. 4 w hite mixed, 24%c; No. 2 yellow, 27%c; No. 3 yellow 27%c; No. 4 yellow, 24%c; No. 2 mixed, 27%c; No. 3 mixed, 27%c; No. 4 mixed, 24%c, ear corn, 26c Oats—No. 2 white, 23c; No. 3 white, 21%c; No. 2 mixed, 20c; No. 3 mixed, 19c. Hay—No. 1 timothy, 56.3007. „ „ , Inspections—Wheat; No. 2 red, 1 car; No. 3,1; total 2 cars. Corn: No. 3 white. 24 cars; No. 4, 9- No 3 yellow'. 2: No. 3 mixed, 12; total, 47 cars. Oats: No. 2 mixed. 7 ears; rejected. 1; total, 8 cars. Hay: No. 2 timothy, 2 cars; No. 3,1; total, 3 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. tPrices paid by shippers.) Poultry—Hens, 7%c; springs, 7%c; cocks. Sue; hen turkeys, Tc; toms, tic; young turkeys, large, 9010 c; small, 7@Sc; ducks, 6c; geese, 40c for full feathered, 30c for plucked. Butter —Country, choice, 10c*; mixed, 6c. Eggs—Strictly lresh. 12%@13e. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck. 10017 c per lb. „ , . , Beeswax—3oc for yellow, 2oc for dark. Honey—l2@l4c per lb. „ Wool—Medium, unwashed, 15c; fine merino, unwashed, 10011 c; tub-washed, 20025 c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1. B%c; No. 2, 7%c; No. 1 calf, 10c: No. 2 calf, B%c. Grease —White, 3c; yellow, 2%c; brown, 2%c. Tallow—No. 1,3 c; No. 2. 2%c. Bones—Dry, $12013 per ton. + LIVE STOCK. Cattle Scarce and Qnlet-Hogs a Trifle Weaker—-Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2.—Cattle—Receipts light ar.d shipments light. There were but few fresh arrivals. The market was quiet at about yesterday's prices. Export grades $4,750 5.15 Shippers, medium to good 4-25® 4-80 Slippers, common to fair 3.5u® 4.60 Feeders, fair to good Stockers, common to good ?-'2 ,a 3 ?° Heiftrs, good to choice 3.6<'@ 4.15 Heifers, common to medium 2.?O0 3.20 Cows, good to choice 3-500 3.85 Cows, fair to medium 2.s'Xt 3.00 Cows, common and old 1.250 2.25 Y.-ds, good to choice s.uo® 6.00 Veals, common to medium 3.000 4.50 Bulls, good to choice 3.000 ?-40 Bulls, common to medium 2.00® 2.85 Milkers, good to choice M0.00040.0© Milkers, common to medium 17.00025 00 Hogs—Receipts. 1.500; shipment®, 400. The market ot>ened slow at barely steady prices. Packers and shippers bought, the former being the principal purchasers. The closing was inclined to weakness. Hen w packing and shipping 4.1004.25 pi.ro Roughs Sheep and Lambs—Receipts none; shipments none But little doing for want of stock. The market was without change. Lambs, good to choice ...... Lambs, common to medium 3.00® 4.0 Sheep. good to choice * Sheep, common to medium Bucks, per head Elsewhere. CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—The week closed quietly In the cattle market. There waa the usual Satur-

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day scarcity of offerings. Common to extra native bef steers were salable at $3.h0®'5.&0. Prices for most grades* were nominal. Trade in hogs was rather slow at a decline of 5® 10c per 100 pounds, the bulk of the offerings crossing the scabs at $3.8004.20. Peking lots sold at $3.6"03 85 and prime assorted light weights found buyers at $4.25(d>4.a0. The. mess pork season opened yesterday and this will create a better demand for heavy hogs, which have been selling so badly recently. The supply of sheep and lambs was increased by a considerable number left over from yesterday and prices were not any hrtter. trade being slow. Sheep were salable at $2.2504.25 infeHor to prime natives and at s3.4<>®4 for W estern wethers and $303.60 for Western ewes. Lambs were salable at $3.5005.46 for jxxtr to extra. Feeding sheep were salable at f3.60®:3.75 aud feeding lambs at $4.5004.75. Receipts—Cattle, 500; hogs. 16,090; sheep, 2,000. ST. LOUIS. Oct. 2. -Cattle—Receipts, 40. all Texans; shipments, 2.000. Market steady; fair to fancy native s hipping and export steers, $4.20@ 5.15, bulk at $4.65®.5.10; dres>=ed beef and steers, $404.50, bulk at $4.1504.56; steer* undc-r 1,000 pounds, $3.50®4.75; Stockers and feeders, $2.25 ®4.U>: cows and keifers, $2®4.75, bulk of cows, $2.2f®3; canning cows. $1.5002.40; bulls, $203.25; T>yag ar.d Indian steers, $2.75®4.25, bulk at $3.25®! 3.70; cows and heifers, $203.25, with best grades as high as $3.60. Hogs—Receipts, 1,000; shipments, 3,000. Market 10c lower; light, $4.1504.25; mixed, $3.9004.20; be-'V.v, $3.99®4.25. fcheep—Receipts. 500; shipments, COO. Market steady; native muttons. $303.90; culls and bucks, $1.50®2.50; Stockers, $2.25®3.10; lamts, $3.7505.50. NEW YORK. Oct. 2.—Beeves—Receipts, 910; no change in cables. Expons, 543 beeves, lo sheep and 4,122 quarters of beef. Calves —Receipts, 15. Market quiet, but steady; veals. $508; grassers and buttermilks, $3.5004; city dressed veals, 10% fu 12%c per pomd. _ Hogs—Receipts. 1,889. Market lower at s4.ao@ 4.80. fclheep and Lambs—Receipts. 5,200. Market very dull and slightly lower all around; sheep, $304.25; larr.bs, $5®5.75. EAST LIBERTY, Oct. 2.—Cattle steady; prime, ss® 5.10: common, $3.5003.80; bulls, stags and cows, $2®3.75; common to good fat oxen, $204; veal calves, $6.5007. Hogs active; prime medium, $4.5504.60; best Yorkers, #[email protected]; pigs, $4.5004.60; heavy, $4.35 ®4.45; grassers, $4.3004.40; roughs, s3@4. Sheep steady; choice, $4.2004.25; common, $2.00 @3.40; choice ’lambs, $5.3005.50; common to good lambs, [email protected]. KANSAS CITY. Oct. 2.— Cattle-Receipts, 300. Market unchanged, with only retail trade. Hogs—Receipts, 5,000. Market 5010 c lower; bulk of i ales. $3.8503.95; heavies. $3.8003.95; packers, $3.75® 3.92%; mixed, $3.8504.05; lights, $3.8004.05; Yorkers. $404.05; pigs, $3.2503.90. Sheep— Receipts, 1,000. Market steady; lambs, $2.7505.35; muttors, $203.85. EAST BUFFALO, Oct. 2.—Cattle weak. Hogs—Yorkers, good to choice. $4.45; roughs, common to good, $3.6503.90; pigs, good to choice, $4.45® 4.50. Sheep ami Lambs—Lambs, choice to extra. 50.40 @5.60; culls to common, $4.25®4.75; sheep, choice to selected wethers, $4.4004.30; culls to common, $2.2503.85. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 2.—Cattle—Receipts, 43. Market very dull and pi ices about steady. Hogs—Receipts, 1,004. Market steady and prices unchanged Sheep and Lambs —Receipts, 2GB. Market slow and prices unchanged. CINCINNATI. Oct. 2.—Cattle quiet at $2.2505. Hogs active at $3.2504.40. Sheep steady at $2.2503.90; lambs steady at $3.5005.

VITAL STATISTICS—OCT. 1. Death®. Harry Heieher, 235 South East street, inanition. Thomas Goggin, twenty years, 530 South East street, tuberculosis. Birth®. Nancy and Washington Howard, 1942 Alvord street, boy. Matilda and Andrew Blair, 315 Muskingum street, girl. Emma and William T. Bolger, College avenue, girl. • Ellen and Joseph Kegreis, 85U'/2 South Meridian street, boy. Lena and Herman Watkins, 30 Bismarck avenue, boy. Lizzie and E. L. Beyer, 1016 Elizabeth street, girl. Bertha and M. D. Dickway. 2244 Talbott avenue, boy. Marringe License®. William Dampier and Flora F. Neal. Nelson Powell and Anna W. De,Masters. Carl Schmid and Anna Wacker William E. Scott and Iris McDowell. Bradford Rhodes and Sarah E. Lemen, ALL MANNER OF SHOES. Qnuint and Pretty Footgear Design® in the Orient. Gentleman’s Magazine. The Portuguese shoe to-day has a wooden sole and heel, with a vamp made of patent leather, fancifully showing the flesh sides of the skin. The Persian footgear is a raised shoe, and is often made a foot high. It is made of light wood, richly inlaid, with a strap extending over the instep. The Algerian shoe, in appearance, is not unlike the light English wooden clogs. This shoe is made entirely of leather, in the simplest form, and usually without any ornamentation. The Armenian shoe is a leather shoe or heel, without a counter or back quarter. The vamp is made of felt, and is beautifully ornamented with needlework done in colored silk thread. The Muscovite shoe is hand-woven on a wooden frame, and but little attention is paid to the shape of the foot. Leather is someUr'es used, but the sandal is generally t. of colored silk cordage and woolen doth. The Siam shoe has the form of an ancient shoe, with a gondola bow and an open top. The sole is made of wood and the upper of inlaid wood and cloth, and the exterior is elaborately ornamented in colors, and with gold and silver. The sandal worn by the Egyptians is composed of a sole made by sticking together three thicknesses of leather. This is held to the foot by a band passing across the instep. The only ornamentation is the fastening of two feather plumes on the right of the sharp toe. The Russian boot is composed of many pieces of morocco in several colors, put together in a shape to please the taste of the maker or wearer. The foot of the boot is made of heavy calf. The whole boot is beautfullv embossed by thread in bright colors. The Hungarian shoe, or moccasin, is made of rawhide, prepared by a sun-curing process. It is bound together with many thongs of rawhide. Loops or thongs extend upward around the ankle, and through these loops is passed a strap which is buckled at the side. The Grecian shoe is made almost entirely of leather, and has a thickly padded sole, with a sharp, turned-up toe, which is surmounted by a large ball of colored wool or hair. The shoe is fleece-lined, and is gorgeously decorated with beads and ornamental stitching. The clog worn by the Japanese is of wood, and as viewed from the side is the shape of a boy’s sledge. It is fastened to the foot by a string, which passes between the great and second toes and across the former: a strap an inch in width and lined with linen is carried across the instep. Chinese shoes have no fastening or string, but curve upward beneath the ball of the foot. The sole being very thick, it gives the wearer an unsteadiness of gait, as though a pair of rockers were fastened to his feet. HOME GROWN SNAKES. A New York Farmer Kills Two Hundred Rattler® With a Mower. Rochester Herald. It is not necessary to go to the far West or South for up-to-date snake stories. One which is vouched for by reliable New York farmers comes from Hancock. Delaware county, and is made public by the Walton. Reporter. Joseph Harrow, says this truthful newspaper, has a farm just below Hancock village. He employs as a farm hand Henry Vail. Henry is a native and to the manner born. He Is not the least bit afraid of snakes, but since his experience of Friday afternoon of last week he has more respect for the reptiles than he had before^ After eating his dinner on Friday he hitched up the team and started mGiving around a meadow about sixty rods from the barn. It was a terribly hot day. The thermometer stood at 90 in the shade, and about two hundred in the sun. Henry had mowed about half a dozen times around the place, his horses taking a slow, steady gait, when all at once they pricked up their ears, and with a terrific snort sprang forward, throwing him from the machine. The same instant the knives struck into a squirming, writhing ball of rattlesnakes, rolled tightly together and as large as a bushel basket. The horses started lull speed for the barn, and the heads and rattles flew in all directions. The horses, the mowing machine and the ground behind it \ere covered with snakes. Henry leaped to his feet as he struck the ground and, seizing a stick, whacked right and left for his life. Wherever he struck he could not fail to hit a snake. He waded through the myriad of squirming serpents, working his stick like a flail on a threshing floor until he cleared the hissing mass, and then he ran with all the speed he could muster for the barn, which the horses had alreauy reached. The team was none the worse for the run, though it took some time to get the machine righted. It was literally covered with ground rattlesnakes. The heads and bodies of twenty-fix rattlesnakes were counted and Henry estimates that there must have been two hundred in the nest. The next day thirty rattlers were killed up Gee Brook about four miles from the village, and a big one on Beer’s flat, where Vail had his encounter. “E Plnribus In urn.’’ St. Nicholas. We are indebted to John Adams for our national motto, "E Pluribus Unum.” W’hile he was minister to England Sir John Prestwick suggested it to Mr. Adams as a good motto to indicate the union of the colonies. It was submitted to Congress and adopted by act of Congress, June, 1782. The eagle in its beak bears a ribbon on which is the motto. In the early days of its use the eagle bore also in its talons a bundle of thirteen arrows; but when, in 1841. anew seal was made to take the place of the old one, which had become worn, only six arrow's were placed in the talons. Whether this change was ordered by law or not is not known. The old Latin moto was in use in England as far back as 1730 cn the Gentleman's Magazine. ,

THE BUSIEST STORE IN THE CITY THE NEW STORE CROWDED ALL THE TIME. The great Silk Sale Monday will be a revelation for the public. Our prices will soon convince them of values we offer compared with the prices they usually pay for the same goods. Cloaks, Suits, Millinery and Dress Goods. We offer some handsome goods and tempting bargains. Silks, Silks, Silks. Extraordinary Silk Sale at the New Store this Week. % Black Silks, Colored Silks, Evening Silks. For tli!s week we are going to offer such values in Silks that will undoubtedly put us in the lead for low prices on popular goods. These Silks were bought with spot cash and at the very lowest prices, and we are going to give them to you the same way. We will not spend much money in teiling you about them, for tve want to give you the advantage of every cent we can at our new store. We ask you to come and see the goods and compare our prices with other houses. We will be glad to show you the Silks, whether you want to buy or not. Samples cheerfully given and money refunded oil all purchases not satisfactory. Everybody especially invited to our new store. THIS WEEKC^'

BEACK Gros Grain Silks are most always on the list, aud we will surprise you in this line. They are always in style and the prices this week only will be; 20- worth 75c, this week 52c 21- worth 89c, this week........ 69c 24-inch, worth $1.25, this week 92c 24-inch, worth $2.00, this week $1.09 24-inch, worth $2.50, this week $1.50 SATIN DUCHESS These goods are just now* very popular for Shirt Waists, as well as for Skirts and whole Dresses, and we offer some wonderful bargains in these goods. 20- all-silk, worth 75c, this week 49c 21- wort h sl, this week 75c 24-inch, worth $1.25, this week 86c 24-inch, wort h $1.50, this week SI.OO 24-inch, worth $2.50, this week $1.39 28-iuch, worth $1.25, this week 79c PEAU DE SOIE. The most popular weave worn to-day and the best silk to wear ever made. They are very rich looking and very soft. Will not wrinkle or split. We can cheerfully guarantee the wear of these goods. 22- worth $1.25, this week 82c 22- worth $1.39, this week 98c 23- worth $2.00, this week $1.29 23-inch, worth $2.25, this week $1.50

SHOES! SHOES! SHOES. Our shoe department is fast growing to be the most popular deparment in the city. Every day we here have beautiful and have cheap. SPECIALS FOR MONDAY. Ladies’ $2 Shoes $1.39 Ladies’ Dongola Lace and Button Shoes, worth $2. Monday, special, $1.39. All sizes and widths. $2.48 Ladies’ Shoes, special $1.85 A beautiful line of Ladies’ Dongola Lace and Button Shoes. The new coin toes in dime, quarter and half toes. These are special bargains, and it will pay you to look into this. $4 and $5 Ladies’ hand-turned and hand-welt shoes $2.95 Genuine French kid, silk and leather tops; these are high grade shoes and good fitters; Monday, special $2 95 Misses’ school shoes from 75c up t0..51.98 Boys’ school shoes from 75c up to $1.98 HOSIERY AN DINDERWEAR. Ladies’ Union Suits, fine ribbed, fleece lined, V front; worth 75c, for 50c Ladies’ extra line ribbed, fleece lined Union Suits, worth $1.50, for 98c Ladies’ all-wool ribbed Union Suits, worth $2.25, for $1.75 Misses’ fine ribbed, fleece-lined Union Suits, worth 69c, for 39c Misses’ all-wool fine ribbed Vests and pants, worth 75c, for 49c Ladies’ Onyx black cotton Hose, high spliced heel, sole and seam; worth 3.9 c, for 25c Ladies’ Ipswich fast black ribbed cotton Hose, worth 25c, for 15c BROSNAN BROS 6 and 8 W. Washington St.

THE NEW OCEAN RECORD e "WHAT IT MEANS TO TRAVEL BETWEEN LONDON AND NEW YORK. a History of the Record-Breaking Steamers Since the Sirius Made the Voyage iln Seventeen Days. New York Telegram. The enormous cut in the western record from Southampton to New York made by the new North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse has started people speculating as to when the record-break-ing will cease, and whether within the near futuretravelers may not actually reach London from New York, or vice versa, within five days. The history of transatlantic traveling is one of regular and systematical record-breaking, and the knocking off of one hour and forty-six minutes from the best time ever made from Southampton to this port is a wonderful accomplishment for the new big ship. The new time is five days, twenty-two hours and forty-five minutes. It is always difficult to institute comparisons between ships which hail from different ports in England, but it may be genererally stated that the approximated distances between here and Queenstown, whence the journeys of the big Cunarders are measured, is 2,800 miles, while to the Needles at Southampton, from which the North German Lloyd and the American lines take their measurement, is 3,100. Arrived at the Needles, however, passengers for London are easily within three hours of their destination, while the journey from Queenstown to the metropolis of England cannot be accomplished in much loss than a full day. It will be seen, therefore. that it is fair to reckon that passengers on the Cunarder Lucania, when she made the absolute westward record, Oct. 26, 1894—Queenstown to New York—in five days, seven hours and twenty-three minutes might have made the distance between London and New Y'ork in six days and seven hours. The same journey might have been made by the Kaiser Wilhelm via Southampton in six days and two hours. Thus it will be seen that the uig new steamship has actually, upon this calculation. brought London five hours nearer to New York. The Sirius, the pioneer of the transatlantic sailed from Cork, Ireland, April 4 and arrived in New York April 22, 1838, having made the voyage in seventeen days. From that day the scamper for records commenced. A much larger craft, the Great Western, was immediately built, and that same year she made the voyage from Bristol to New York in fifteen days and ten hours. The British Queen, the following year, brought the time from London to New York to fourteen days and six hours. She subsequently accomplished the journey in twelve days and 14% hours. Samuel Cunard founded the Cunard Company, which began operating in 1840 with four steamships the Arcadia, Britannia, Caledonia and Columbia. They were wooden vessels, with side-wheel engines, and of 1,150 gross tonnage. They were 207 feet in length, and could easily have carried aboard a modern Atlantic liner. The Great Western Company then built the Great Britain, a 3.270-ton craft, and she again secured the laurels. The Cunarder Hibernia was built as a rival, and the ships ran on about equal terms until the Great Western was stranded. UNDER THIRTEEN DAYS. The next ships to wrest the record from the Cunarders were the and the Hermann, of the Bremen line, which were constructed in 1847. The Franklin and the Humboldt, originally built for the Bremen line, but placed in the Havre service the next year, averaged a speed of twelve days and sixteen hours between the port of Cowes, Isle of Wight, which was then the first English port of call. London was

Children's seamless ribbed Hose, extra double knee, extreme high spliced ankle, three thread heel and toe; worth 25c, for 12%c Misses’ fine quality ribbed Hose, guaranteed fast color; worth 15c, for 7%c CORSETS. American Lady, high bust; worth. 75c, for 490 R. & G. Vigiant Corset, in drab, black and white; worth 69c, for.. 39c HANDKERCHIEFS. Ladies’ fancy Embroidered Handkerchiefs; worth 15c, for 10c Ladies’ fancy Silk Handkerchiefs; worth 19c, for 9c Gents’ colored Border Handkerchiefs lc LADIES’ COLLARS AND CUFFS. Ladies’ Sets in all colors; w-'orth 50c set, for 25c KID GLOVES. Ladies’ Mocha Gloves, 2 clasp, in green, tans, browns, red and bla-ck; worth $1.25, for SI.OO LACES. Oriental net-top Laces, up to* 6 inches wide; worth up to 35c, for.. 7c KNIT GOODS. Baby’s hand-knit Wool socks 25c Baby’s hand-made Wool Bootees... 10c COLORED DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. High-class Novelty Dress Goods from the best foreign manufacturers, together with the latest designs from the best American looms, ail at popular prices. The following tell their own tale briefly: 42-ineh Brocaded Velour Richelieu, fuil line of shades; w-orth $1.39, Monday 97c BROSNANBROS 6 and 8 W. Washington St.

thus within thirteen days of New York. The Collins line entered the competition in 1851, with the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Adriatic and the Baltic. The ships of this line during 1851 averaged eleven days and eight hours from Liverpool to New York, the quickest trip being made by the Baltic in nine days and thirteen hours. The fleet of the Cunard line during the same year averaged eleven days and twenty-three hours for the same trip, the best voyage being made by the Africa in ten days, sixteen hours and fifty minutes. The quickest eastward time was ten days, five hours and thirty-five minutes. The Atlantic, of the Collins line, the following year ran from Liverpool to New York in ten days and three hours, the Arctic getting the return record in nine days, thirteen hours and thirty minutes. Meantime, the Cunard records were westward in ten days and nineteen hours by the Asia and eastward by the same steamship in ten days, five hours and ten minutes. Misfortune fell to many of these early ocean greyhounds. The Arctic was sunk by collision with the Vesta Sept. 27, 1854; the Pacific, with 240 souls aboard, sailed from Liverpool and w-as never heard from; the Atlantic was broken up; the Adriatic w'as converted in a coal hulk, and the Baltic was blow’n to pieces in a gale. The Persia, anew 3.700 toner of the Canard Company, captured the record of nine days, ten hours and thirty minutes in 1857, but the same year the Vanderbilt cut it down to nine days, nine hours and twenty-four minutes on the western trip, and accomplished the Eastern journey in nine days and eight hours. The leviathan Great Eastern was built to revolutionize ocean traveling in 1858, and proved a monumental failure. She took more than ten days to make the ocean trip, and in that time consumed nearly 3,000 tons of coal. The Alns and the Andes, iron screw steamships, were added to the fleet of the Cunard Company in 1852. but they were not fast boats. They merely served to demonstrate the superiority of iron vessels. The Scotia, built by the Cunard line in 1860. was the last of the side-wheel ocean steamers, and in 1866 she succeeded in establishing the then wonderful record of a flight across the Atlantic in eight days, two hours and fortyeight minutes. The Inman line came into existence ten years after the foundation of the Cunard line, and the fight for record voyages went on with renewed vigor. Nine vessels were put into commission. These included the Cityt of Glasgow, the City of Manchester, the City of Philadelphia, the City of Washington and the Etna. The first steamboat called the City of New York appeared in the Inman fleet in 1861, but the Scotia and the Persia, of the Cunard line, still held the palm for speed. The second City of Paris w’as launched in 1865, the first having been w-recked on Daunt’s Rock, the point near Queenstown, from wjiieh the race is now reckoned, and a year later she had the City of Paris for consort. The latter vessel eventually captured the championship from the Inman line by making the voyage from New York to Queenstown in eight days, tour hours and thirteen minutes. FIRST SEVEN-DAY' STEAMER. The City of Chester, of the Inman line, made the passage from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in 1874 in eight days one hour and thirty-eight minutes, and in October of the following year the City of Berlin made passages both ways in seven days eighteen hours and two minutes and seven days four hours and twelve minutes. The White Star linn, first known as the Oceanic Steamship Company, was organized in isiO, and after the Atlantic, Baltic, Republic, Adriatic and Celtic had failed to reduce the record, in 1874 the Britannic was launched, her sister ship, the Germanic, following in 1875. The following year she captured the honors by making the outward trip between this port and Queenstown in seven days twelve hours and forty-one minutes. That trip was made in December, 1876, and the following August the Britannic cut the western record to seven days ten hours and fifty-three minutes. Meantime the Guion line, formerly known as the Black Star line, had been planning to gain the coveted record, and the Arizona of that company made the best voyage in 1879. On her maiden voyage she brought the time to seven days nine hours and twenty-three minutes. Then the Arizona ran full tilt into an iceberg and damaged herself beyond repair. The Guion line built another record breaker, the Alaska, and this vessel was the first to bring the time of passage within seven days. In 1882 she made the trip in six days eighteen hours and thirty-seven minutes. The Oregon then took her place amongst Guion Atlantic greyhounds, and in August, 18S4, made a trip across in less than six and a half days. It was soon after the Oregon ended her career in a collision off Fire island. March 11, 1886. The Umbria and the Etruria were added to the list of Cunarders and helped regain the laurels for that line. This pair for four years kept the lead. The Umbria in June. 1886, made the western run in six days four hours and twelve minutes. An eastward voyage made in Novem-

BROCADED GROS GRAINS For Skirts and whole Dresses. They are just as popular to-day as ever. 20-ineh, worth 85c, this week 55c 24-inch, worth, SI.OO, this week 69c 23 inch, worth $1.25, this week 85c 23-inch, worth $1.39, this week 98c COLORED SILKS We will not take much space in telling you about these goods, but come and see them. We mention a few prices: All-Silk Satin Duchess, sold everywhere for $1.25, our price this week 79c A few colored Failles, worth 98c, for 48c Plain all-Silk Taffeta 49c Changeable Taffetas, the 85c kind, for 69c Changeable Lining Silks for 18c 22-inch China Silks, all colors and black, sold everywhere for 59c, this week 46c Evening Brocaded Taffetas 69c Evening Brocaded Satins 49c Evening Brocaded Moires 49c A big line of Fancy Colored Taffetas, sold all season for 69c to SI.OO, choice of the entire lot 49c See our Window and convince yourself that WE HAVE JUST WHAT WE ADVERTISE.

42-inch French Broeatelles, with large and small designs, all colors, $1.25 quality; Monday 88c 42-inch Brocaded French Armures, $1 goods; Monday 75c 54-inch Meltonette, in all shades, a lovely material for tailor-made Suits; Monday $1.19 42-inch Covert Cloth, all colors, worth 65c; Monday 47c 40 to 46-inch silk-and-wool and allwool two-toned Novelties, 59c quality; Monday 48c 42-inch all-wool, wide wale Devonshire Serge, 50c quality 37%c 3G-inch all-wool Cloth and Novelty Checks, worth 39c; Monday 25c 40-inch all-wool Serge, in brown and gray only, 39c quality; Monday 19c 45- Mohair Novelties, sell everywhere at 25c; Monday 12%c Double-fold Novelties, an odd lot, sold for 12%c and 15c; to close, Monday 5c BLACK DRESS GOODS. 40-inch all-wool Boucle, was 49c, Monday 23c 40-inch Brocade Mohair, was 49c; Monday 29c 46- Serge, good value at 69c, Monday 49c 40-inch Brocade Mohair and Wool, good value 59c, Monday 45c 40-inch all-wool Brocade, was 69c, Monday —49 c 48-inch Henrietta, w r orth 75c, Monday 59c 46-inch Plain Mohair, was $1; Monday 69c 46-inch Wool and Mohair, fine quality, was sl.lO, Monday 75c BROSNAInT BROS 6 and 8 W. Washington St.

ber, 1888, reduced the record to six days two hours and thirty-two minutes. It was in July of that year that the Etruria crossed to Queenstown in six days four hours and fifty-four minutes. The return passage was made in six days one hour and forty-seven minutes. W'hen the twin-screw racer, the City of Paris, of the Inman Line, made its debut in 18S9, her maiden trip showed that she far outclassed the single-screw Cunarders, and on her second voyage to New York she brought the passage time down to five days, twenty-three hours and seven minutes. In August of that year she again shifted the record to five days, nineteen hours and eighteen minutes. When the White Star liner Teutonic came out in 1890 and lowered the record by thirteen minutes only, a tremendous struggle began between the White Star and the Inman Company, and the Cunarders appeared to be hopelessly out of the race. Many interesting struggles occurred between the City of Paris and the City of New York against the Teutonic and Majestic, the most interesting battle occurring in August, 1890, when the Teutonic and the City of New York steamed out of Queenstown together and prepared to try conclusions for the supremacy which had fallen first to one and then to the other. The Teutonic finished the race in five days, eighteen hours and twenty-seven minutes—nearly six hours ahead of its rival. FIVE-DAY OCEAN GREYHOUNDS. The Teutonic then established both W'estern and Eastern records in 1891, making the trip to New York in five days, sixteen hours and thirty-one minutes, and from New Y'ork in five days, twenty-one hours and three minutes. The following year, however, the City of New Y'ork recaptured the Eastern record, and the City of Paris covered the westward record by thirty-three minutes, making the voyage in five days, fifteen hours and fifty-eight minutes. It was then that the Cunard Line began to exert itself, and with the Lucania and Campania all previous records were quickly smashed to pieces. The Campania in August, 1892, made the western trip in five days, nine hours and twenty-nine minutes, and the following October she captured the Eastern record with a voyage of nve days, twelve hours and seven minutes. The Lucania then, in August, 1894. wrested the westward record from her sister ship by doing the distance in five days eight hours and thirty-eight minutes, and the following month she again beat this with five days seven hours and forty-eight minutes. On the 26th of October, 1N94, the Lucania arrived in this port five days seven hours and twenty-three minutes out from Queenstown, and this still stands as a record for that particular voyage. The Lucania also holds the record for the eastern trip to Queenstown, made in September, 1894, in five days eight hours and thirty-eight minutes. Previous to the new record of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse the Southampton record westward was made by the American liner St. Paul in August of last year, the time being six days and thirty-one minutes. The eastward record from New’ York to Southampton was made by the St. Louis two weeks ago, when she made the journey in six days ten hours and fourteen minutes. Previous to that the record had been held by the Furst Bismarck, of the Hamburg line, with a voyage of six days ten hours and fifty-five minutes, made in September, 1893. The Touraine holds both records between Havre and New' York, her time being, eastward, six days twenty hours qnd six minutes and westward, six days fourteen hours and twenty-six minutes. The piers of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company at Hoboken were thronged this morning as the Kaiser W'ilhelm der Grosse was towed in at s o'clock. All the way up from quarantine the vessel was saluted by passing craft, and when she finally came into view from Hoboken the cheering was loud and prolonged. Capt. H. Engelbart, her commander, was the recipient of congratulations from many and was soon surrounded by an admiring crowd anxious to learn the details of the trip. The passengers, too were made to recount their experiences, and all seemed glad that they had chanced to be aboard the great vessel when she was making her first trip westward. The Magnet in Surgery. Cosmos. A young laundress thrust a broxen needle into her right hand w’hile washing clothes. The needle having disappeared in the flesh, the surgeon, who was consulted several days after the accident, refused to perform an operation, fearing lest he should be obliged to make a large number <>f incisions amid the ligaments of the articulation. Two months afterwards the girl lost the vise of her right hand and the least movement of the fingers caused her exqul-

DOMESTICS. 50 dozen Pillow Slips for Monday’s _ sale 5c 50 dozen fine quality, ox 4 Sheets; Monday sale 34e 2 cases fine Unbleached Muslin; Monday sale 4c 2 cases Cream Outing Flannel; Monday sale 4c TABLE LINEN SETS. yards Bleached Table Damask and one dozen Napkins; Monday sale 98c 2y s yards fine Silver Bleached Table Linen and one dozen Napkins; Monday sale $1.48 A good, heavy Unbleached All-Linen Crash.. Monday sale, a yard 4%c BARGAINS TO ALL IN lIOLSEFIKMSHIXGS. Fine Crystal Glass Tumblers; 5c quality; our price, Monday, per set of 6 10c 50 pound Flour Cans; special sale at 69c Fine Japanned Bread Boxes; sale at 39c 500 Black Stetl Bake Pans; each.... 4c From Bto 10 a. m. w r e shall offer to each customer one 11-inch Chopping Bowl for 2c 100 large Wood Tubs; regular price 89c; our sale at 59c Large Japanned Cuspadors; worth 15c, at 8c A complete assortment of gold decorated glassware, including cut bottom Tumblers, Custard Glasses, Jelly Dishes and 7-inch Plates; choice Monday at 9c BROSNAN BROS 6 and 8 W. Washington St.

site pain. Drs. Gorinewski and Cerestin then determined to extract the needly with the aiu of a magnet, drawing n into a fleshy region where an incision could be made without danger. To cause this movement they chose a very feeble electromagnet. But a difficulty arose—the needle having entered point first it would have to be drawn out backwards, the broken part in advance. The first trial mated two hours, w ith short intervals for rest, without appre-, viable result. Before the third trial the girl said that she felt a pricking in the palm of her hand near the place where the magnet had been applied and where the needle ought to appear. At the ninth sitting, finally, the needle appeared beneath the skin and came out whole, broken end first, without pain and without loss of blood. DEEP SUBURBAN MYSTERY. Guess It if You U'un, the Folk Vitally] Affected Give It Up. Youth’s Companion. This is a story of what happened less than a year ago in a suburb in a great city an<l in the city itself. A family living In the suburb owned a beloved cat, and the cat died. Tt had been freezing weather, and, there w c.s no easy way or burying poor puss; yet, so dear was her memory that neither master nor mistress was willing to deposit that once-loved form in the ashbarrel, to bo “dumped” by an unsympathetic soul. Finally, after some thought, Mr, B. came to a solution of the difficulty. “Do her up in a package,”, said he, “and I’ll carry her to town. When we are going over the railroad bridge I’ll open the window and drop her overboard into the water.” Mrs. B. thought this an excellent idea; but she improved upon the suggestion of merely “doing up” a bundle. She sewed poor pussy neatly in a winding sheet of white cloth, and then made her into a brown paper parcel; and when morning came, with a few tears and many injunctions, she delivered her over to Mr, B. Now it happened that morning that Mr. B. met an old acquaintance on his way to tow'n, and that they both became absorbed in reminiscence. The consequence was that tho brown paper parcel-remained untroubled in Mr. B.’s lap, and it was not until he rose to leave the car that he remembered it. For a moment he was aghast. Then ha considered what a compact, innocent iittla parcel it was and took courage. “Never mind,” he said to himself, "I’ll drop her when I go home.” Ho carried the parcel faithfully down town and into his office. There he deposited it on an unused desk. “Jim,” he said to the boy, “that bundla is very important. If I forget it to-night, remind me to take it away with me.” The day went on, with its usual rout’na of callers and questions, and when night came he did not need to be reminded of puss. There lay the package, and he took it up hurriedly and ran for the train. That day, it happened, had marked the crisis of a great financial situation, and Mr. B. read his evening paper all the way 1 home with an absorbing interest. When he reached his own doo-r he was carrying a brown paper parcel, and his wife saw it on the instant. “Henry.” she called, “what’s that?” He looked at it helplessly, and his fae was dyed In a wave of recollection., “It’s—it’s the cat,” he said, guiltily. “It’s poor Mew.” “Well.” Inquired Mrs. 8., “what are we going to do? You can’t keep carrying hep back and forth every day.” “No,” he said, gloomily. "I can’t. We might as well yield and put her Into the ash barrel.” “Very well,” said Mrs. B. “And I’ll unwrap her so that the man can see what he’s got. Besides. I’d like one more last look at her. poor little pet.” Next morning, before it was time for the ashman to come, she carefully and reverently removed the brown paper wrapping and she found within—a very symmetrical roast of beef. Whose was it? To this day no one knows. Building Permits. S. W. Maxwell, frame cottage. 1936 West Vermont street, *9OO. Louis Land, raze building, 507 South Capitol avenue. *’<V James Lehman, repairs, 213 North Illinois street. 115. Harry A. Schell, repairs, 771 Elizabeth street, SBO. H. R. Hutry, repairs, 516 Vinton street. *l5O. Ernest Fuss, cottage. Orchard avenue. *7OO. W. T. Wright, dwelling, Relsner and Lambert streets. Il.fcw. O. Johantger. dwelling, Hope street. *250. Frank Hupferle, frame addition. 1506 Hovt av*nue, *l5O. Thomas Kramp. cottage. Meek street. *625. Lillian Oates, addition, 2335 North Pennsvlvanl* street |soh The Journal has for sale, very cheap. & quantity of shafting: an Atlas engine. 30-horse power and in good condition; a lot of office furniture and fixtures: a power exhaust fan. and numerous odds and ends connected with the printing of a newspaper, all of which will be delivered after Oct. 15th, when we expect to move tnte our new building, on the southwest quarter e£ Monumenl place. Address or call on JOURNAL NEWSPaPJCR COMPANY, ladianaooiia. Lnd.

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