Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1897 — Page 7

INDIANA TRUST COMPANY I Offices: Indiana Trust Building Capital, : : $1,000,00(* Surplus, : : : $20,000 READ WHAT THE PROBATE COMMISSIONER OF MARION COUNTY HAS TO SAY OF THE TRUST COMPANY'S WORK: “From an experience of six years as Probate Commissioner of this county, and from practical knowledge of the workings of our local trust companies. I am satisfied that, as a rule, they are preferable to Individuals in the administration of estates or other trusts incident thereto. - no instance has there been any loss or impairment of trust property committed to their charge; they have discharged their duties with prudence and strict economy and promptly compiled with every requirement of the law and every order of the court. "I have yet to hear of any trust administered. by them, where the court, or the beneficiaries of the trust estate, found any cause for complaint. “GUS O'BRYAN, Commissioner.” J. P. FRENZEL. Pres. FREDERICK FAHNLEY, Ist Vice Pres. E. G. CORNELIUS. 2d Vice Pres. JOHN A. BUTLER, Secretary. THE L. A. KINSEY CO. INCORPORATED. CAPITAL., f23.OOO—FULL PAID. -BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions New York Stocks. Lon* D.stance Telephone. 1375 and 159* 11 and IB West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office. Room* 4 ana b. Kankakee h’ld'jr BEAR RAIDING RENEWED —♦ STOCKS SUFFER FURTHER DECLINES, CLOSING AT THE BOTTOM. Bank’ll Surplus Reserve Readies Lowtit Figure in Month*— Local Market* Hardly Satisfactory.

At New York, Saturday, money on call was nominally 2V 2 Ji3 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4%05 per cent. Sterling exchange was steady, with actual business in bankers’ bills at $4.84% for demand and at $4.82% for sixty days; posted lutes, $4.8304.83% and $4.85%; commercial bills, $4.81. Silver certificates. STifioT’sc; bar silver, 56%c. Mexican dollars, 43%c. At London bar silver closed easy at 26 %and an ounce. The New York weekly bank statement shows the following; Surplus reserve, decrease $2,064,900 Loans, decrease 262.300 Specie, increase Li>S3,4 iij Legal tt nders, decrease 4.302.30 J Deposits, decrease 2,61b,0uu Circulation, increase 29,8>*J0 The banks now hold $13,485,500 in excess of legal requirements. The Financier says: ‘’The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ending Oct. 9 shows a material reduction in cash, the reserve having decreased over $2,00,4,000, all of which apparently has gone to the interior. The money lost seems to reflect actual shipments, although the statement is complicated by the adjustment of October settlements, which have been going on during the week. The decrease in loans is to he attributed to Stock Exchange liquidation, since the market for commercial paper and time loans has been more and more aeti\e of late and a great deal of new business has been doing in these lines. Some of the bunas, in fact, have withdrawn their call money for the purpose of putting it into mercantile paper. The reduction in the loan item, therefore, represents rather paradoxically a better business condition. The banks apparently have accepted prevailing rates as the maximum, and are taking advantage of them on' the theory that heavy gold imports will prevent anything like a stringency in the market. The heavy decrease in the reserve was unlooked lor, out it is lo be observed that specie receipts are already supplying the heavy dram of money incidental to the interior movement. The gain in gold was made up lrom receipts at this port and irom San Francisco, and counteracted in part the loss in leguis which the banks report. As the specie now on the water and engaged lor sliipinent from Europe amounts to $6,500,00j, tunher losses in cash will be replenisheu easily, and the outlook becomes much brighter. The international shifting of funds is now working automatically, and the volume will be determined largely by money conditions prevailing here. NO CHEAP MONEY LIKELY.

“While there will be no really cheap money, It is yet difficult to see how there can be an actual stringency at any time this year. As the gold due to arrive will not ligure in next week’s bank statement, it would not be surprising if a further loss in the reserve is noted at that time.” Total sales of stocks Saturday were 173,400 shares, including: Atchison preferred, 4,000; Chicago, Burlington Quincy, 12,341; Louisvil.e & Nashville, 4,885; Manhattan, 3,700; Missouri Paeilie, 3 970; Northern Pacific, 21.Ssj; Northern Pacific preferred, 8,500; Healing, 3,130; Hock Island, 8,515; St. Paul, 15.09 c; union Pacific, 8.100; xay State Gas, 10.015; Chicago Gas, 25.420; Sugar, 0,319; Chicago Great Western, 3,350. The bears renewed their raid on the mai'Ket to such good account Saturday that lew stocks escaped with less than a point net loss. The course of the market Friday in face of extraordinary dullness had ted many to suppose that the bear campaign had come to an end and that the market would probably smk into inanimation lor a time. The usual end-week covering of short contracts was expected to stiffen prices slightly. Quite the contrary occurred. Prices did improve a fraction in the first hour on a very light volume of dealings, but weakness developed in Chicago Gas and checked the rise. The room traders soon afterward detected selling by houses with Washington connections and bears seized on this as proof of inside information of a mysterious something impending in Washington that might play havoc with values when it becomes known. What the mysterious something was, was not disclosed? The stock market is peculiarly sensitive to Intimations from Washington at this time, owing to a conviction in many minds that it is only a question of time when the Cuban question shall lead to a rupture with Spain. Much stress is laid also by traders in stocks on the pending decision of the Supreme Court on the Nebraska maximum freight-rate case and the case against the Joint Traffic Association. The market was evidently unprotected by supporting orders and the aggressive short selling by the bears led to a rapid decline on light transactions. Only two stocks in the list showed sales as high as 10,000 shares. These were Chicago Gas and Burlington. Chicago Gas, Omaha. Manhattan, Missouri Pacific and Burlington were conspicuous in the decline. Consolidated Gas fluctuated in, its characteristic way, breaking 9M, points at one time, but ending with a recovery of 3 points. There were slight recoveries in some stocks just at the close, but most stocks closed at the lowest, the prevailing tone being very weak. Probably a superficial view of the weekly statement of the New York Clearing House banks hud something to do with Saturday's selling movement of stocks. The professional trade usually accepts a decrease in the surplus reserve as a specific admonition to sell. Saturday's decrease of *2.irM.#OO in that item was, in fact, something of a surprise in view of the rather strenuous efforts by the banks in the last two weeks to prevent further shrinkage in the surplus. But the small decrease in loans reported for the week. $252..m Indicates that banking authorities view with equanimity the decline in their reserve surplus, confident in the strengthening force of the $6,350,000 in gold now in transit to New York from England and France. The gold arrivals of the week reflected in an increase In specie of $1 583,400. but arre more than offset by the doorcase in legal tenders of $4,302,300. The demand for legal tenders is very keen and the best efforts of the banks &nd the United States treasury are not

equal to fully providing a supply. The New York subtreasury has been obliged to refuse to supply legal tenders in return for currency to other subtreasury points. SETTLING IN GOLD. The New York banks have beer, settling their balances at the clearing house during the week In gold to a large extent, and the prediction is made that the payments of customs duties will soon be made in gold. Chicago banks are reported also to be presenting gold to the subtreasury there, with a request for legal tenders, and the treasury at Washington is beginning to find itself embarrassed to supply all these demands. Since Sept. 11 the decrease In legal tender in the New York bank reserve has amounted to $21,351,300, and the specie has increased nearly sl,suo,(wj in the same time, notwithstanding large exchanges of specie for legal tenders at the subtreasury. The ample proportions of the country’s gold reserve has doubtless had much to do in deferring the import movement of gold which was tairly inaugurated on Friday and the day before, the total amount of gold now in transit amounting to $6,350,000. The stiffening of exchange rates consequent on tne purchase of bills against these imports is believed to be but temporary and tne movement of gold is expected to continue steadily for some time to come. The effect on the money market of the gold engagements has been to impart a distinctly easier tone, time money declining to 3 per cent, for sixty days and up to 4 per cent, for four months and longer periods. Outside buyers of commercial paper have been in the New r York market during the week, and, though the supply of paper has been in increasing volume, rates have been easier and are at 4% to 5 per cent, for prime grades. The stock market has been singularly unaffected by the beginning of the gold movement, which almost always has a marked sentimental effect on prices. The resistance of the market to the effect of the heavy slump in Chicago Gas on Thursday and the hardening tendency on Friday on the large shiments of gold announced on that day led to the supposition that reaction was at an end and that a rally would ensue. But Saturday’s market has completely belied this expectation. The market has been dull and professional all week, sensational movements of special stock failing to have any marked effect on the general market. These included a jump of seven points in Manhattan on Monday on a squeeze of shorts, the slump in Chicago Gas on the purchase of competing companies by the great gas syndicate and the usual mercurial course of Consolidated Gas. Union Pacific has fluctuated widely on different rumors regarding the adjustment between the reorganization committee and the government. The unprecedented earnings of the railroads for September and the handsome net returns for August which have been reported during the week have been as ineffectual as the gold movement in checking the reaction, and prices are, with few exceptions, lower, the losses in the grangers extending up to 4 per cent, and in Omaha and Burlington 3Vs. Prices in bonds were relatively firm, some small gains being show'n. Transactions were light compared with recent averages. Total sales were $8,000,000. Government bonds are % to % higher, the latter the new fours coupon. This issue sold during the week at 126%, anew high record. The following table, prepared by L. W. Louis, Room 11, Board of Trade, shows the range of quotations: Open- High- Low- OlosNime. ins. est. est. ing. Adams Express Baltimore & Ohio {“A American Express if* American Spj its American Sir '*!• pref •••• •••; American Se v .i* 110% 146% 145% 14>% American Sugar pref •••• 1L American Tobacco 89 89 B<% *‘% American Tobacco pref .... .... •••• Atchison pref 2,1% Canada Pacific •••• •••• •••; Canada Southern 56% 56% 55% 5e% Central Pacific ■■■■ ■■■• I§ Chesapeake & Ohio 23% 22% 23 23 Chicago Alton 11 C’.. 1. & L 9% C. 1. & Is. pref •• c.l B. & Q. 96% 96% 94% 95 Chicago’ Gas 95% 95% 92% 92% C\, C. <8- St. L 37 37 36% $6% Commercial Cable Cos 175 Consolidated Gas •JJ® Cotton Oil jr’% Cotton Oil pref •• • • •••• 7u l>elav\are .8 Hudson 116% 116% 115% IF% D. L. & W Denver & Rio Grande 12% Denver & Ulo Grande pref 47% Port Wayne •••• ■••• 167 General Electric 36% 36% 35% 30% Great Northern pref 137 nocking Valley 6% Illinois Central •••• 163 Kansas & Texas pref 37% 3<% 3b% 37 Erie <8- Western 19 1,. E. <*:• \V. pref 76 Eake Shore • ••• •••• •••• I‘l Lead Trust 37% 3i% 37 37 Louisville & Nashville 59% 59% 58% 68% Manhattan .... 105 100% 103 103% Michigan Central •••• 104% Missouri Pacific 33% 33% 30% 31% New Jersey Central 94% 95 94% 94% New York Central 109% 109% 108 108% Northern Pacific 19% Northern Pacific pref 53% 53% 52% 62% Northwestern 125% 125% 124% 124% Northwestern pref 163 Pacific Mail 35% 35% 34% 34% Pullman Palace .... .... .... 175 Reading 2n% 2a% 25% 20% Rock Island 89% 86% 88 88% St. Paul 96% 96% 9y% 9u% St. Paul pref .... .... •••• 140% St. Paul & Omaha 81% 81% 78% 78% St. Paul k- Omaha pref 142 Southern Railway 33% 33% 33 33 Tennessee Coal and 1r0n.... 30 30% 29 29 Texas Pacific 12 Southern Pacific 20 Union Pacific 23% 23% 22% 22% IT. S. Express 44 U. S. Leather 7% U, R. Leather pref 65% 65% 64% 64% IT. S. Rubber 17 U. S. Rubber pref .... ~•• 64 W.. St U. & P 21 21 20*4 20% Wells-Fargo Express .... .... 108 Western Union 90% 90% 88% 88% Wheeling & Lake Erie 2% \Y. * L. E. pref.... 14 IT. S. Fours, reg 112% IT. 8. Fours, coup 113% U. S. Fours, new, reg 126% U. S. Fours, r.ew. coup 126% * LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Trade Hardly Up to Expectations— Firm Prices the Feature. So unseasonable was the weather during the week ending Oct. 9 that trade fell below expectations in several lines, while in others it was very satisfactory. The mild temperature checked business with dry goods houses, boot and shoe deal'ers. hat and cap dealers and on Commission row. The yellow fever scare has unfavorably affected several lines of trade. While this is but a temporary trouble, at the present time when everything has begun to be active, it is the more noticeable. The dry weather has unfavorably affected seed merchants and prices broke last week on some descriptions. Poultry on heavy receipts went off a hall cent, while eggs on an increasing demand advanced a half cent. On Commission row trade was fairly active. Fruits and vegetables iltcav badly, and in that line there was some loss, but good sound stock is bringing good prices on increasing receipts. Irish potatoes went off 25c a barrel and are weak at quotatb lis. Onions and cabbage are both a little firmer. The hide market is active, but prices currv an easy tone. Dealers in iron, hardware hi tides and in tinners' supplies report trade good. Wlfile in the aggiewate trade is considerably in excess of that of October last year in some fines, the causes above mentlonedl have tended to check business, but none of the merchants show a disposition to complain. The local grain market during the week was more active. The receipts of wheat and oats were not materially heavier, but the arrivals of corn were larger than for several weeks. Following were the bids on track for Saturday, as reported by the secretary of the Board of Trade: Wheat—No. 2 red. 93‘sc; No. 3 red. 89>.s@90ftc; October, .v -c; wagon wheat, 93c. Corn—No. 1 while, No. 2 white, 28’;c; No. 3 white, 28**0: No. 4 white. 2. r i*ic; No. 2 white mixed. 27c; No. 3 white mixed, 27c; No. 4 white mixed. 24c; No. 2 yellow, 27£ No. 3 yellow, 27c; No. 4 yellow, 24e; No. 2 mixed, 2<c; No. 3 mixed. 27c: No. 4 mixed, £4o; ear corn. 26c. Oats—No. 2 white. 22*-c; No. 3 white, 21c; No. 2 mixed. 20c; No. 3 mixed. 19c. Hay—No. 1 timothy. 57<d7.25; No. 2 timothy. 16 Inspections; Wheat—No. 2 red. 1 car; No. 3 red, 3 cars; rejected, 3 cars; total, 7 cars. Corn—No. 3 white. 12 cars; No. 4 white. 1 car; No. 3 yellow, 3 cars; No. 3 mixed. 5 cars; total. 21 cars. Oats— No. 2 mixed. I car; No. 3 white, 1 cor; total, 2 cars. Hav—No. 2 timothy. 1 car; total, 1 car. Poultry uml Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Foultry—Hens. 7c: springs, 7c; cocks. hen turkeys, 7c; toms, 6c: young turkeys, large, i@Sc; ducks, tic; geese, 40c for full feathered; 30c for plucked. liutter—Country, choice. 10c; mixed, 6c. Kggs—Strictly fresh, 13c. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck. 10<61?e per lb. Beeswax—3oc for yellow, 25c for dark. Honey—l2{f 14c per lb. Wool—Medium, unwashed, 15c; fine merino, unwashed, lost 11c: tub-washed. 20@25c; burry and unmerchantable. 5c less. HIDES. TALLOW. ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1, S'jc; No. 2. No. 1 calf. 10c; No. 2 calf. BVc. Grease —White, 3c; trllmv. 2'*c; brown, 2!ic. Tallow —No. 1,3 c: No. 2, 2‘*c. Bones—Dry. sl2£tl3 per ton. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Scarce anil quiet—lluga Active iiiiil Higher—Sheep Sternly. INDIANAP< LIS. Oct. 9 Cattle Receipts, light; shipments. light. There were but few fresh arrivals and the market was quiet. Export grades ,■'.'uppers, medium to good 4.25&> 4.Ml .Shippers, common to fair 3..a>4i 4.60 Feeders, fair to good 3.7 W 4.10 Stockers, common to Hoi'll 2.754; 3.50 Heifers, good to choice S.tiOtu 4 15 Heifer*, common to medium 2.6 uh 3.20 (ms, good to choice 3.50® 3.85 Cows, fair to medium 2.50® 3.00 Cows, common and old 1.25® 2.25 Veals, good to choice 5. On 'a 6.00 \ eals, common to medium... 3.U)@ 4.50 Bulla, eood to choice 3.no® 3.40 Bulls, common to medium 2."0# 2..85 Milkers, good to choice 30.1X11140.00 Milkers, common to medium 17.D0®25.00 Hog*—Receipts, 2.500; shipments, 500. The mar-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1897.

ket opened moderately active at an advance of sc. Packers and shippers bought, the former being the leading purchasers. The closing was steady at the advance. Heavy packing and shipping 3.8004.00 Mgs 2.003.i Roughs 3.00443.60 Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, light; shipments, none. But little doing for want of stock. The market was steady. l.ambs, good to choice I.ambs, common to medium 9.0004.00 Sheep, good to choice jj.-0ffi3.75 Sneep, common to medium f.2.-'3.Zu Bucks, per head 3.0U05.00 Elsewhere. CHICAGO, Oct. 9.—There was the usual Saturday market, or lack of it, in cattle. The pens were almost empty, the few offerings consisting mostly of Westerns. Prices were mostly nominal and unchanged from yesterday’s figures. Packers in hogs took hold more actively and prices advanced 5010 c per 100 lbs. Rales were largely at 43.4.03.85, coarse, heavy packers selling at $3.3003.55 and prime assorted lightweights at $404.05. Buyers discriminated against the numerous lots of coarse, heavy, sowy hogs and they were slow at 30060 c below good to fancy corn - fed stock, choice bacon grades being preferred. Pigs sold largely at 33.5503.85. . .. Western range sheep and lambs comprised the bulk of to-dav’s receipts. Native sheep sold at S3O 3.80, feeding Westerns at $3.4003.60. native lambs at $3.4005.60 and Western lambs at s3.i;<o 4 75. Lambs are 25040 c lower than last week and sheep are off 15@25c. , „ Receipts—Cattle, 300; hogs, 13,000; sheep, 2,000. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9.—Cattle— Receipts, 600: shipments. none. Market steady for both Texans and natives. Fair to choice native shipping and export steers, 34.3505; bulk of sales, $4.6504.85; dressed beef and butchers’ steers, $3.7504.75; bulk of sales. $4.2004.60; light steers, $3.6004.50; bulk of sales, $4.2004.90; stockers and feeders. $2.00@ 4.25- bulk of sales, $3.1504; cows and heifers, $2 01.50; bulk of cows. $2.5003.25; bulls, $203.50. Texas and Indian steers, $303.85, with a few pintrle steers bring!ns: as high a s s4*2o(u’4.ro; cows anil heilers, $2.1503.20. Hogs—Receipts, 3,oOO; shipments. 600. Market 5c higher. Light, $3.8503.9,,; mixed, $3.0003.85; heavy, $3.8008.95. Sheep—Receipts, 1,000; shipments, none. Market nominal. Native muttons, $3.1003.85; stockers, $202.90; culls and bucks, $202.50; lambs, $3.25 05.25. KANSAS CITY. Oct. 9.—Cattle—Receipts. 400. Market steady and unchanged. Only retail trade. Hogs—Receipts, 2,500. Market 5010 c lower. Bulk of sales. $3.6003.65: heavies. $3.4503.70; packers. $3.4503.60; mixed, $3.5503.75; lights, $3.2603.72%; Yorkers, $3.700 3.72%; ptfes. $3,250 3 67 V&. ‘ RfiLep—Receipts, 1,500. Market steady. Lambs, $3.250 3.15; muttons, $2.1003.75. EAST BUFFALO, Oct. 9.—Cattle quiet. Hogs—Yorkers, good to choice $4.15; roughs, ermmon to good, [email protected]; pigs, good to choice, $4.0504.10. Lambs, choice to extra, $5.1005.25; culls to common. $3.8604.65: sheep, choice to selected wethers. $404.65; culls to common, $2.1503. FAST LIBERTY, Oct. 9.—Cattle steady. Prime, $405; common, $3.4003.70; common to good *at oxen, $203.50. Hogs steady and unchanged. „ Sheep steady. Choice, $4.150 4.20; fair, $3..J)0 3.75; choice lambs, $5.1005.25; common to good lambs, $405. Veal calves. $6.5007. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 9.—Cattle very quiet and unchanged. Hogs Steady and unchanged. Sheep and lambs dull and unchanged. CINCINNATI, Oct. 9.—Hogs firmer at s3@4. Cattle steady at $2.2505.10. Sheep quiet at $203.65. Lambs steady at $3.2a @5.25.

VITAL STATJSTICS— OCT. 9. Death*. Lizzie Frank, twenty-one years, 1310 Madison avenue, phthisis. . , „ , Jacob Fisher, fifty-four years, Mexico, Ind., suicidal hanging. James H. Waldon, forty-one years, 525 (old) North Senate avenue, typhoid fever. Thomas G. Alford, seventy-six years, 223 East Morrison, apoplexy. „„ „ . „ Michael Welsh, thirty-nine years, 500 East Georgia street, congestion of the brain. Michael Hoolihan. twenty-four years. 2-9 English avenue, acute hemorrhage and complications. Joseph Bolm. thirty-seven years, 169 Germania avenue, cirrhosis of liver. Birth*. Anna and William A. Fralilinger, 364 East Market street, boy. Carrie and Henry W. Kollemayer, 1112 Chestnut street, girl. „ , , Mary and William Franzam, city. girl. Mrs. and Samuel Blum, Grandview avenue, boy. Mary and Frank N. Owens, 2204 Yandes street, bov. Mrs. R. B. and W. H. Jackson, 2026 Brighton boulevard, boy. Bridget and Patrick Kennedy, 160 b Spann aveH'senfa and John R. Malone, 1724 North Senate a% Sarah and John Volkert, 631 South Pennsylvania street, girl. Marrluge Licenses. James I. I-oy and Alma Meyers. James Brown and Lulu Hopkins. Sylvan B. Beatty and Florence Moody. Nelson Alley and Lottie Gilliland. Earl Sargent ar.d Stella Baxter. Frank A. Dickert and Mattie E. Hillia ART IN TABLEWARE. . Fashions in Chinn nnl Earthenware Decoration. New York CommerC : dvertiser. In the dress of a woman, in the color and set of a well-trimmed bonnet, the artist in tableware designs finds the ideas which inspire the decorations of the new services which appear in the china departments of Stores twice every year. Fashions in tableware are subject to two distinct seasons: that which begins about Feb. 1 and the fall season, beginning Aug. 15. For each the manufacturer must not only fcroduce new designs; he must employ, to a certain extent, new methods. The decoration of tableware, paradoxical as it may seem, is dependent upon the thermometer. “To take the design printed on a plate or a saucer,” said one of the members of a Warren-street china firm yesterday, “and to attempt to trace it back logically to its source, would be well-nigh a hopeless task. Where do the fashions in dress come from? Some say that they are set by the Princess of Wales, just as it was said that the Empress Eugenie set them thirty years ago. But this is only partially true. Fashions in color and design are more or less in the atmosphere, and each season’s output of tableware is generally a reflection of the reigning taste in dress.” Every manufacturer of china or earthenware is dependent on his corps of artists, whose occupation is one of observation as well as execution. The successful tableware artist must have the faculty of knowing just what the public wants. To this end he must walk the streets, study the fashion plates, watch the florists’ windows and divine the tendency of dress. Beyond this, he must watch carefully the tableware output of France, for w'hile his designs may be purely local, his method of work is subject to French influence. There are few Americans who would not be surprised to learn that to the art of Dres’en and Sevres American manufacturers owe practically nothing. In spite of the really high degree of artistic excellence to which the craft has been carried, there is very little china made in the United States. People who are willing to pay fashionable prices for their tableware demand the tradition that is attached to a foreign mark. China, no matter of what qualitv, bearing a St. Louis, a Jersey City or a Cincinnati label, is always regarded with a certain amount of distrust hy American buyers. In consequence American manufacturers turn their attention to the opaque earthenw’are output, following closely on the changing methods of Limoges. Strange as it may 3eem. art in Dresden and Sevres china has been practically at a standstill for the last century. Both are government institutions and both adhere to the old designs and methods. Dresden has always excelled in the beauty of its floral decoration. Its designs of peasants, innkeepers and huntsmen are made from eighteenth-century models. Innovations are spasmodic and short-lived. Sevres is repeating its achievements of the redheeled days of seigneurial France. Its artists are reproducing the Trianons, the great ladies, the men with their queues and wigs and gaily colored coats, all the features of the court life at Marly and Versailles prior to 1789. The presiding deity of the art of Sevres is the Belle Marquise. The designs of Limoges, on the other hand, reflect the spirit and fashion of the day. The isolation of particular designs in the tableware of cheaper American make has always been more or less of a puzzle to the observer. A man may buy himself a set. search in vain for a duplicate in the houses of his friends, and yet stumble on half a dozen sets of similar design in out-of-the-way places in the South and West. The manufacturers and dealers partially account for this by the fact that large retail houses that deal in china and earthenware are particular about having a monopoly of t. certain style of decoration within their immediate district. Thus, a housekeeper in New York wishing 10 match a certain set can only do it at the house where he made the orisiuftl purchase, and then only with certainty during the same season. During the last quarter of a century the English have made great strides in the making and decorating of the cheaper forms of tableware. Little of the translucent ware is manufactured there, but the earthenware of Staffordshire, Lambeth and Worcester has a wider market in this country than the American make. English manufacturers have shown themselves more in touch witli the current fashions in designing. The great variety of tableware decorations in the work of the present day is the result of competition and the resources of modern science. Os the many decorating methods, printing is now almost entirely used in tho production of the cheaper ware. In the case of pottery the decoration is usually applied on the biscuit ware before it is glazed by the. transfer printing process. The design is engraved on copper plates, the pigment is ground fine and mixed with a tenacious compound of oil and gums. An ordinary rolling press Is used to print the engraved patterns and oily pigment upon strips of tissue paper, which are carefully applied and pressed face downward on the biscuit ware while the oil is wet. Tho pattern is thus transferred and the paper washed off before the ware is baked.

REPORTERS IN THE WAR ANECDOTES, MOSTLY HUMOROUS, ABOUT THE CORRESPONDENTS. ♦ English Qnlll Pnsher Who Thonght More of Hi* Stomaeli than New* of Grant’* Operation*. * Francis C. Long, in National Tribune. At one time everybody was supposed to know Samuel Wilkeson. of the New York Times, and nearly every one did have that distinguished honor by reputation, at least. Air. Wilkeson visited the “Army of the Pontoons” in the spring of 1564. There were no livery stables in the army, and he desired to ride around the surrounding country and visit old acquaint nces. So Mr. Gray, of the Tribune, considerately loaned him a horse. Now, Gray was a splendid correspondent and letter writer, but as a hostler it had never appeared in evidence that he was any kind of a success, and I have serious doubts as to whether he was the owner of a card and currycomb; if he was, it certainly had never been suspected that he used them. The animal in question was what is known as a “cribber,” and if given an opportunity to amuse himself would eat up an army wagon in one night, and clean out an entire ambulance train in a couple of weeks, and still look harmless and innocent. Owing to an insane propensity to bite and gnaw everything within reach, Gray was in the habit of tying it to the small pine trees near the Barbour House, where we were quartered. The trees were covered with wounds and scars made by the vicious teeth of the restless and ill-looking quadruped, and the warm rays of the spring sun caused the turpentine to exude in considerable quantities. Then the perverse beast would lean and rub against the sticky trees hour after hour, until his hairy coat was smeared with crude turpentine from withers to fetlocks and from ears to tail. The exasperating creature would calmly and deliberately lie down, stretch himself and enjoy a quiet siesta; meanwhile straws, bits of hay, twigs of trees and pine leaves and cones would adhere to his flanks and limbs, which gave him an appearance at once unique and picturesque. We called upon Lion. Jchn Minor Botts, who resided between Brandy Station and Culpepper Courthouse, and spent some time in conversation with that distinguished gentleman (now dead), and when we left him he insisted upon our imbibing something that did not at all resemble apollinaris water. Then we rode to the Fifth Corps, and called upon General Warren, its commander, and before we got away Wilkeson and myself had been quite convivial with certain members of his staff. After this we called on General Wadsw r orth, the gallant soldier and accomplished gentleman who gave up his life to his country in the Wilderness a few weeks subsequently. We dined with General Wadsworth. OFF FOR PONY MOUNTAIN. The dinner being finished, we decided to visit Pony mountain, situated near Stevensburg, at which point had been erected an observatory for the use of the signal corps, from whence one could look into the Confederate lines. General Patrick had given the writer a permit to visit the signal station mentioned some time previously, but my comrade had no pass. However, I promised that he should experience no trouble if he would leave everything to me, as I would represent him as being a member of the Christian Commission, as I had one of their ribbons, and no one would think of stopping him. Arriving at the foot of Pony mountain our advance was checked by a dilapidated gate as well as by a corporal on guard. "Remember about the Christian Commission,” 1 whispered to my companion as I handed my pass to the corporal. The young fellow read it. and said it would do but for one. I told him that it was all right, that my friend was an attache of the Christian Commission. The corporal then called out the sergeant of the guard and the sergeant in turn called out tho lieutenant from the guardhouse near at hand. The lieutenant examined my pass, heard my explanation and said he thought it was all right to pass the venerable parson.

By this time a dozen or more of the reserve guard had gathered around us, and Sam’s horse grew excited and restless, and kept pawing the ground and champing his hit, and dodging from the men whenever they came too near. But my friend had not forgotten that he was to be a “Christian Commission man.” He spurred his quaintlyornamented steed close to the lieutenant, and, much to the astonishment of the latter, began to orate in #. stentorian voice somewhat in this manner: “My son, hearken unto the voice of wisdom. My son, look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color to the cup, when it moveth itself aright, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. My son, be virtuous if you would be happy.” At this point the horse suddenly shied from the lieutenant, nearly throwing his rider. Wilkeson jerked the bridle rein with a good deal of secular vim, and in a furious passion struck his fantastic steed over the nea' l with his flat hand, wiiile he roared in a voice of thunder, and with a bad word as further emphasis: "Who-a-n! you infernal brute!” We did not ascend Pony mountain that day. The emphasis of Sam’s last utterance settled the matter. In the fall of 1863 the Boston Traveler sent an elegant young gentleman to the Army of the Potomac in quest of news. He was handsome, modest, affectionate and almost girlish in appearance. On his haversack. note book and gripsack were inscribed, in large letters, “John Hayes. Reporter, Boston Traveler.” Hayes knew absolutely nothing about the army, and being honest and rather credulous withal, some of the boys used to “guy” him a little just for the fun of the thing. Capt. E. A. Paul, of the New York 'rimes, a veteran of the Mexican war, while not In the least malicious, seemed to take great delight in misleading the young Bostonian. “STRINGING” A REPORTER. One afternoon Paul rode into camp from an extended foraging expedition. Hayes approached him and in a confidential manner inquired if he had picked up any news of importance during the day. Paul gravely drew him aside, and after pledging him not to give the news away, informed him that there had been a most sanguinary engagement that day at Leesburg. Hayes was greatly excited by this fable, for he was exceedingly ambitious to write up a battle for his paper, and show his employers the kind of mettle of which he was made, and he eagerly inquired how far Leesburg was from Brandy Station, and in what direction it lay. His tormentor assured him that it was about twelve miles distant, and in a direction nearly southwest of our camps. With many thanks for the information the young gentleman from the “Hub” mounted his horse and rode off in the early twilight toward the upper fords of the Rapidan river. Had I known his errand I would certainly have prevented his going. I did not see him again for several days, but he afterward infornu and me that he had ridden about the country all night. Having wandered away from she main road, in a sad state of bewilderment he had passed through forests and swamps and over the roughest kind of country, until at last morning dawned and he was discovered by our cavalry patrol near Raccoon ford, on the Rapidan. Once during the night he had gone to a good-sized farmhouse and after arousing the proprietress inquired how* far it was to Leesburg. “Leesburg, Mistah? said the good woman. “Why, biess yo’ heart, sah, Leesbug isn’t up this a-way at all. Deed, sah, I’ve nevah been thar. but from what I've yeard tell I reckon Leesbug is about seventy miles right smart down that a-way,” and the woman pointed in the general direction of the pole star. Poor Johnny Hayes! He did not remain long with tin- Army of the Potomac, but in the spring of 1864 he was sent to the Department of the Gulf, and for a while I lost sight of him. At the close of the war, and during the reconstruction days, he undertook to publish a Republican paper in Savannah, Ga. The citizens of Georgia, and particularly of Savannah, did not realize the need of a Republican newspaper, and they had no use at all for a Yankee editor. So young Hayes was bullied, threatened and persecuted—arrested and thrown into prison on all kinds of trumped-up charges. Perhaps three-fourths of the time his paper was edited from a prison cell. At last, driven to despair, he committed {suicide by shooting himself. A Mr. F. drew a salary from the New York World, and was supposed to represent that newspaper. He was a good-natured Englishman possessing a plentltude of cockney solecisms, and a magnificent disregard

for the actual as well as traditional rights of the letter “h.” He seldom sent a letter to his paper, and when he condescended to do so its contents usually had ceased to be news. ON A HUNT FOR NEWS. There was hard lighting at Spottsylvania Courthouse on the 12th of May, 1564. It was begun by Hancock at early morn and continued until late at night. Johnston's division (Confederate) had been surprised and the most of it captured, and among other spoils of battle eighteen pieces of artillery had fallen into our hands. The writer concluded to make an attempt to reach Fredericksburg, then our base of supplies, and get the news of Grant’s operations through to the New York Herald. I took to the saddle at daylight on the morning of May 13 for the hazardous ride. I was splendidly mounted. Young Jim Bennett had furnished me a trained running horse, and, in the language of Falstaff, "I cared not who saw my back.” About two miles in the rear of army headquarters I came across F. in a strip of woodland skirting the road. He was sitting on a rail fence smoking a briar wood pipe and holding the bridle of his horse in one hand and a canteen in the other. His mount was an immense Pennsylvania draft horse. “’Elio, me lad; w’ere are you host to so hearly?” was his greeting. “Fredericksburg to catch a transport,” was my reply. “W’y, you don’t mean to tell me that you ’ave written hup this bloody scrimmage, do you? 1 ’aven’t written a line; ’pon honor, I ’aven’t. I cawn’t get down to the front, ye know, me lad, tor the front is right down on the blarsted henemy's iines. I tried it, but before I 'ad got alf way down to ’Ancoek’s 'eadquarters halong comes one of them beastly shells, and directly it got habove me ’ead hit bursted hinto five and twenty fragments. Os course, ye know, I ’ad to ’alt. ’ “But w’at the dickens ’ave ye found to write hup?” he continued. “No one man can write hup the ’istory of this great battle—no more ’e can. I shan’t try. 'Ave some, me lad?” and he proffered tho canteen. I declined wdth thanks, and was moving away w’hen F. detained me. ”1 say, me lad, suppose I mounts me ’orse and rides to Fredericksburg with you? I eawn’t get a hitem of news ’ere, hany’ow, and at Fredericksburg I can find both holflcers and men ’oo were wounded in the Wilderness, and I can get some points from them. I ’aven’t written a line habout that haffair yet; couldn't find out hanything, ye know.” "F.,” said I, “you mustn’t think me unkind, but really I have no time to waste with you. If you had a dispatch prepared I would willingly undertake to carry it through for you. The ride is a dangerous one, and 1 cannot afford to lose any time on the road. Mounted on that hippopotamus, you cannot keep in sight of me.” But the bearded Anglican proceeded to mount, with the remark: “You're wrong, me lad, you’re wrong. ’E’s a gallus hanimal, ’e is. I bought ’im from a sutler and paid for ’im with han ‘Hi. O. U., ye know'. But ’e’s a fine ’orse, ’e is, and e s a powerful ’orse, ’e is, hand ’e’ll carry me ha long way in a day, ’e will, me lad.” COULDN’T MOUNT A HORSE. F. could not mount his horse as the act w'as usually performed by gentlemen in the army, because his stirrups were drawn so high that, although a tall man, he could not stand on the ground and reach them with his foot. “Why don’t you let down those stirrups?” I inquired. “You certainly cannot ride wdth any comfort in such a cramped position.” “Bah!” returned he, contemptuously. “W’at do you fellows hover ’ere know habout a 'orse, hany’ow? You’re a hold cavalryman, but you cawn’t ride, you know. W’y, at ’ome, I’ve ridden hafter the ’ounds. . _ “Honly yesterday I saw a cavalry hofflcer trying to ride a balky thoroughbred, and the ’orse knew more than the rider. The ’orse, you see, me lud, was hafraid of the clanking saber and the gilt fixings on the coat of the hoificer, and ’e naturally dodged and then hencountered a spur on the rider’s right ’eel, .and he jumped haway from that and struck a spur on the left ’eel; and then, the poor beast kept Jumping from side to side in terror, for e didn t know w’at to make of it, you know. And the ’arder ’e jumped the ’arder the blooming fool ’oo rode im stuck hin ’is ’eels.” No incident occurred during the long ride worthy of recording until we reached Belle Plain, a hamlet a few miles southwest of Fredericksburg. At that place my friend declared he was so hungry that he could heat a rawr dog.” He inquired of a woman who stood in an open doorway smoking a cob pipe if she could get him some dinner, and after due negotiations she promised him some corn flapjacks and fried bacon. I pointed out to him the danger and folly of stopping between tlie lines, and actually bcggod biirn to keep on to Fredericksburg with me. I had eaten absolutely nothing that day myself. I had started too early, because time, tor a few hours, was of more value than food. Seeing that he was fully determined to halt for dinner, I gave the woman some coffee and sugar I happened to have, and tilling F. to ride to the river front and find Dr Agnew, then in charge of the sanitary commission, if he wished to see me, I rode to l Tet mv horse have his own way, and he swept over the road like a grayhound. I reached Fredericksburg in time to send a dispatch by the captain of a steam tug to another co'rrespondent at Fortress Monroe, and he. in turn, forwarded it to Baltimore, from which place It was transmitted by telegraph. Then I rested and feasted, but mv friend, whom the boys at times playfully nicknamed “The Perfidious Albion, failed to materialize, and 1 have never seen his jocund visage since. On my return to the front the next day l called at the house in Belle Plain where F. had ordered a dinner, and learned that a few minutes after my departure a lot of Mosby’s men had swooped down upon the olace and given my unfortunate companion du voyage a free trip to \ few days later a copy of the Richmond Examiner fell into my hands, and, while regretting his sad predicament. I was much amused at a humorous account of his capture.

LOADING CATTLE AT HILO. How the Animals Are Taken front the lleuch to the Decks of Vessels. Hartford Courant. To load cattle they are driven from a stone corral through an opening that leads into the surf, walled on either side with lava rock. One Kanaka cowboy having cast his lariat around the wildly plunging steer’s horns, makes fast to the pommel of his saddle, while another riding behind gets a twist on the steer's tail, and together, one dragging, the other twisting, they go careering though the opening into the surf, the wild steer thinking that he sees an opening for escape. A small boat containing five or six natives from the steamer is anchored whero the water is too deep for the cattle to touch bottom, and when tne first rider quickly throws the lariat to one of the boatmen the swimming steer is hauled to the boat's side, twisted around in the water until the curve of his horns can be hung over the side of the boat, his back being toward the boat, and he is fastened there to hang until ten cr twelve mere are driven out and hung up in the same way, half on either side, and the boat then proceeds to the ship. Formerly they hoisted the cattle from the water by a rope around the horns, but finding that this resulted in too much loss they now use slings. As the last one of a boatload reached the dock it twisted out of the sling by struggling in the air, and fell directly into the boat beneath. Every Kanaka in the boat immediately had a pressing engagement elsewhere, and made a quick dive to keep it. There were then pleasanter places for a quiet half hour than the small boat with that wild steer in It. An amusing Incident Illustrating somewhat the Kanakas’ fearlessness in the water occurred while unloading a lot of mules. While ail the boats were ashore with one lot another mule managed to jump througn the gateway Into the sea. Instead of heading for shore it swam out toward the open sea, and the mate ordered a native to go after it. He dove from the steamer at once, finally got on the mule’s back, and, holding its ears, guided it toward the ship, when the mule began to buck, but, as he had no solid starting place for his jump, did it quite unsuccessfully, and was finally held up alongside the steamer with a lariat until the boat came back. An Incidental Result. Providence Journal. One of the incidental results of the trouble in Cuba is that come of the farmers down In Florida have learned that th*y can raise a very good quality of “Havana” tobacco and dispose of it at a fair profit. Some time ago it was suggested that, lying so near to Chiba, and having much the same soil, Florida might be made a good tobacco section, and a little experimenting was begun. The outbreak of hostilities in Cuba, cutting the supply of tobacco from the island down to practically nothing and leaving an unsatisfied demand, gave just the needed encouragement to the Florida experimenters. Some trouble has been found on account of lack of skilled labor, hut exiles from Cuba are gradually filling the need, and Florida farmers themselves are fast learning the art of raising the new crop. Already so much progress has been made that a State “tobacco fair" Is to be held at Lake City at the end of this month. And it is scarcely three years since the first patches of the plant began to be seen on Florida soil.

THE ARMY IN VIRGINIA A SOLDIER’S REMINISCENCES OF LIFE IN WINTER QUARTERS. Their Superiority to Summer Cnmpalgning—How a Camp Wa* Protected—Daily Routine—Army Shirk*. * C. G. Shepard, in New York Post. “The Sixteenth New York Volunteer Cavalry will proceed to Vienna, Va„ and there go into winter quarters.” These orders w'ere read out to us on dress parade late in the fall of 1564, after a hard summer and fall campaign. It was glad news, indeed, for now we would have a permanent place in which to sleep. It meant rest from long marching and raiding; in fact, no order could have been more welcome. It was received with enthusiastic shouts and cheers. These quarters could be made somewhat comfortable, and, as we had lived all summer with only a shelter tent for protection from all sorts of weather, and had slept on the ground almost every night when we had slept at an, winter quarters presented an attraction next to that of home itself. Visions of a quiet tent, compa.ny street, regular rations and long nights around the camp fire took the place of the hurry and anxiety of the more active duties of our summer and fall campaign. Winter quarters were to us all like a harbor to the sailor, like home to the wanderer; they meant soft bread instead of hard tack, fresh beef in place of salt pork, and, Instead of a cup of coffee*—when good luck enabled us to make it, often at intervals of days—and the eating of our scant rations while marching along a turnpike, winter quarters meant that “breakfast call” w'ould sound out each morning, “dinner call” each noon, “supper cull” each night, and, further, that regular rations would be issued. No need to go hungry In winter quarters. Besides, we would be comparatively safe from the dangers incident to the scouting and raiding we had been doing. So, with three times three cheers, we bivouacked in the woods for the last night that season, and early the following day took up the line of march for Vienna, preparatory to establishing a permanent camp for the winter. My quarters for two seasons in Virginia consisted of pine logs split in the middle, set upright in the ground, with a tent stretched over the top for a roof; the cracks in the logs plastered with mud, not ordinary mud, but Virginia mud, and Virginia mud needs to be seen and felt to be appreciated. Inside I made a bunk by using the same sort of split logs erected across the rear end of the tent, and was thus comfortably housed and snugly quartered for the winter. We cared for our horses equally well by erecting a roof and stAbling them beneath it. The company street extended the full length of the row of tents and stables. Each company had its line of tents, its company street and its stable. SAFE FROM ATTACK. Around the entire camp we built a circle of abattis. This was done by cutting down trees, trimming off the small branches, sharpening the ends of the larger ones, and then setting the trees at an angle of about 45 degrees, with the sharpened ends pointing outward, and then interlacing all and piling up to a height of twelve or fifteen feet. It was Impossible for any one to force an entrance through this abattis. It prevented any sudden dash by the enemy through our camp, and was especially designed to prevent night attacks. Extending all around the outside of this was a line of guards who patrolled regularly day and night. At the gateway a large force of reserves was constantly on duty, and farther out the inside line of pickets was stationed, and still farther on was the outside line. Thus watched and guarded, we were comparatively safe from attack, and could retire to our bunks and blankets at taps with as little concern as we would have done had we been safe at home in northern New York. We soon settled down to the usual routine of camp life. “Reveille” at daybreak; then “stable vail,” when every man would “fall in” for roll call and then be dismissed to feed and groom his horse. The care of our horses formed a very important part of our regular duties. Every man knew that in times of great emergency his safety would largely depend upon his horse; hence all were anxious to'have good horses, and, as a rule, took the very best care of them. The poor and unsound animals had nearly all been worn out during the summer campaign, and had been condemned and shot. So now we had good horses. After “stable call” came “breakfast call,” and then the regular calls of the day in the following order: “Doctor’s call.” “guard mount,” “drill,” “water call,” “ainner,” “drill,” “dress parade,” “stable call.” “supper,” “taps.” When “water call” would sound the men would often join in and sing to the same tune as the musical buigle call: “Come, come to the stable, All ye who are able, Water your horses and get them some hay; For if you don’t do it The colonel will know it. And ho! for the guardhouse The very next day.”

THE COMPANY COOK. Our rations in winter quarters were issued on a different plan than when on a march. We had a company cook, who drew the rations from the commissary and prepared them in bulk for the entire company, and then issued to each man his portion, already cooked. This was a great saving in labor, and much more satisfactory than for each man to make his own coffee and cook his own meat, as we were obliged to do when in the field. Coffee was the great beverage of the army. Whisky was issued to us only upon rare occasions, when we were in the lowlands of Virginia, and then was so completely mixed with quinine, to ward off chills and fever, that the boys, and even the veteran drinkers, cared very little for it. It was not issued at all while we were in wfinter quarters. The sutler always bad liquor for sale, but was not allowed to sell it except to commissioned officers or upon their order. This rule being rigorously enforced prevented drunkenness to a very great extent. The sutler of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry, upon three or four occasions, had his wagons, which brought his supplies from Washington, captured ard confiscated by rebel guerillas, and upon one memorable occasion after this had happened, and two of the sutler’s wagons had been rifled by these bushwhackers, it so happened that about the same number of men that composed the attacking party were found in our own ranks to be plentifully supplied with rum and whisky, which had formed the bulk of the loads of the captured wagons. This strange coincidence, together with the possession by these same men of sundry articles that also had been in those same wagons, caused many a wink when the subject was up for discussion. Some of the knowing ones even went so far as to say that Mosby’s bushwhackers were unjustly blamed in the matter, though no one dared to suppose that our own men would play at bushwhacking, even if they had no special love for a sutler, who charged exorbitant prices and took every advantage of the soldiers. STERN DISCIPLINE. The commanding officer of our regiment at this time was Brevet Brig. Gen. N. B. Sweitzer, who also commanded the cavalry brigade, consisting of the Sixteenth ard Thirteenth New York and Second Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry. General S\.eitzer was an officer of the regular army and a strict disciplinarian. Woe to the trooper who transgressed the rules and regulations as laid down in the army code. A week in the guardhouse was an ordinary event. Extra duty was extra common, and greatly enjoyed by those whose regular turn was tilled by the culprit. A favorite mode of punishment enforced by the officers upon old and hardened offenders was to make • 'hem carry a barrel. This was done bv baking an ordinary pork or beef barrel and cutting a hole in the top so that it would slip over the head and rest on the shoulders. This the offender would be compelled to carry on his beat up and down in front of the guardhouse for as many hours as his sentence called for. Greater c.tfenders against military law were sometimes strung up by the thumbs so that their feet would barely touch the ground, and a great strain came on tho hands and thumbs. This was a barbarous form of punishment that was only used in extreme cases. The dunce in drill was sometimes compelled to use a log of wood for a carbine or a broom handle for a saber. One soldier in our regiment who had run away in a tight in a most cowardly manner was sentenced by a brigade court-martial to have his hair

shaved from hts head, and was then escorted throughout the camp by the drum and fife corps, which alternated in playing the “Rogue’s March" and “Rock-a-byo, Baby.” Afterwards he was dishonorably discharged from the service for cowardice, "Sick call" was the time for all the deadbeats and lazy soldiers to assemble with those who were really sick, to try and impose on the surgeon, and by the plea of sickness get excused from duty. These would counterfeit all kinds of ills and often secured their object. We had one soldier, a Frenchman, who seemed to have all the diseases ever known, until finally his list and the doctor’s patience were both exhausted, and as he appeared one morning the doctor greeted him with, “What is the matter with you this morning?" “Oh, doctor. it hurts me so to breathe,” w'as the reply. “Confound you.” said the doctor, “then stop breathing.” THE COWARDS’ REFUGE. If there was any danger of a fight th* deadbeats and cowards would flock to the doctor’s tent when “sick call” teas sounded, and many of them would escape duty by being excused. These men were exceptions to the great body of the regiment, who were soldiers good and true, ar.d scorned to shirk their duty. The story was current in camp of a soldier who was discharged for insanity under the following circumstances: He secured a fish pole and line, and went tegularly where the doctor could see him and fished for hours upon dry land. His peculiar actions, constantly kept up, caused an inquiry to be made as to his mental condition. whirh resulted In his being discharged from service as being mentally unfit to perform the duties of a soldier. When his discharge papers were handed him. and he was no longer In Uncle Sam’9 employment, he shook his papers in hi* comrades’ faces and shouted, “I’ve caught what I was fishing for.” There is no doubt but the large number of young doctors, some of them merely medical atu lents, who were employed in the medical department of the army, were often deceived ly a certain class of soldiers, who simply used them to escape doing duty. While in winter quarters scouting parties were frequently sent out. so there was not an uninterrupted rest. These scouts were compelled to make long marches t-y day and night, and often had sharp fighMng with similar parties from the Con federate army. Tiie return of one of these scouting expeditions was always qn event cf great interest, and. as the command rode through the gate into camp, we would scan the ranks eagerly to see if any of our company were missing. If so. we asked at once what had become of the missing soldier. Various were the replies. Once, missing a tent mate, I inquired where he was. and was answered. “Oh. he is star gazing out on the Warrenton turnpike.” He had been shot in a skirmish, and left where he had fallen. Upon another occasion I was informed concerning a comrade that “he had turned up ht toes to the daisies down by Culpeper C. H.” This was army slang, but did not mean that the rough soldiers who thus described the death of their fellow's were hard-hearted or eruel; on the contrary, most of them would have laid down their own lives if they could thus have saved the lives of those of whom they spoke.

NEW AMERICAN INDUSTRY. California Has a Place Where Vegeta* hies Are Dried Like Fruit. San Francisco Call. A new’ and important industry has come into existence in Santa Clara county, which bids fair in time to rival the fruit-drying. Tfc is is the preparation of dried vegetables for the market, which at present is generally confined to the short season at the driers between the ripening of the different fruits. Just lately the vegetables have been usurping the place of the apricots, but they have now already begun to give way to the prunes. On approaching a drier it does not take one long to decide whether fruit or vegetables are being prepared, for in the latter ease a pungent odor rushes out to sting one’s eyes and crawl uncomfortably up one’s nostrils—for the trail of onions is over the land. Within a lively scene is presented. Men are hurrying to and fro bearing traps and boxes, while long rows of women and children sit busily peeling potatoes and carrots, which, together with the onions, form at present/the staple product. When boxes of potatoes or carrots are filled they are poured into a large hopper, and from there led to a machine with rotating knife blades, which cuts them up into small slivers a quarter of an inch thick. The further process which the potatoes undergo is simple, and for carrots and the other minor vegetables it is practically the same. After being sliced the tubers are slightly sulphured in a chamber built of wood. Here great discrimination must be used, for, if Ihev are sulphured too much, the potatoes will taste of the fumes; if too little, they will not contain enough antiseptic property, and bacteria attracted by the starch will develop. Moreover, a little sulphuring is necessary to preserve the color of the vegetables as far as possible and to prevent decay. After this process the potatoes are not spread out in the sun, but put into an evaporator. The latter looks like a small Ferris wheel and is inclosed In a sort of brick oven with glass windows. Within this it revolves close to hot-air pipes for a few hours. When the moisture is sufficiently evaporated the cars of the wheel are emptied through the windows, and their contents are now ready for shipment in sacks. When this stage is reached the sliced potatoes resemble dry chips, and It takes six or seven pounds of the fresh to make one pound of the dried. By their pungency onions possess the power of, warding off bacteria, and are, therefore, only slightly sulphured to preserve their color. They are next evaporated until one-third of their moisture is expelled and then placed in trays in the sun, just as is done with fruit. The drying process shrivels the onions so much that it takes twenty parts of the fresh to make one of the dried. While the onions are being cut up the moisture coming from them is very disagreeable and hard on the eyes of the employes. When carrots are evaporated it takes about nine parts of them to make one dried part. Perhaps the drying process used in the case of both carrots and potatoes might be improved upon were steam employed. By using the latter the starch in the potatoes would be partly cooked and sterilized, and after this the tubers could be evaporated in a chamber similar to the one above described. In this way the potatoes could be rid of sulphur, well dried and yet capable of being quickly soaked, and there would be no chance for baeetrla to develop. Other vegetables than these mentioned are at present in process of development; but so far the industry lias proved very profitable, as evidenced by the increased demand for dried vegetables all over the country, but especially in the mining regions.

SHE SAVED HER BICYCLE. A Louisville Physician Telia Why Hl* Bill Was Cut Down. Louisville Evening Post. “Had it been a man.” said one of Louisville's best known physicians, “I should have known what to do. But woman is a conundrum in herself and a majority of her actions. “1 had been attending in the family for weeks. I patched the husband up after hia almost fatal misunderstanding with the trolley car. I saw the young wife through a serious illness. After months had expired I sent a most reasonable bill with a modest hint that I was in need of some money. It seems that I could not have selected a more inopportune time for this gentle dun. The husband was lamenting the aggregate of family bills and the pecuity of the familypurse. There was a continuous and unending call upon his slender resources that had become maddening. He would pay the doctor, who had been faithful and considerate, but there he would draw the line for some time to come. They must retrench, and as custodian of the pursestrings he would see that they did retrench. “When the wife came to settle she was visibly depressed. If 1 would only cut the bill in two she would pay it at once. One of the most potent pleas In her behalf was two tears just ready to start and a just perceptible quivering of her pretty lips. The other was a pressing need of ready money on my part. I'm not a Napoleon of finance, by any means. So I wrote a receipt in full and accepted 50 cents on the dollar. “Then the little woman fairly danced In her glee. She waved a handful of bills triumphantly above her head and said, exultantly: Now I can pay the installment on my bicycle. I was almost wild for fear I was going to lose It.' I gave her as good an imitation of laughing as circumstances would permit, but it was a mighty good thing that she was not a man.” Bible That Will ‘‘Wash.’* ;~ ’ Kansas City Journal. A sanitary Bible for courtrooms is among the latest articles to be put on the market. It Is bound In celluloid and can De washed between swears. The witness, as he steps forward, will henceforth look sharply at the clerk of the court and ask: “When was that Bible washed last?” Or there will have to he a basin of llsterlned water handy, so that the clerk—but no; there Is a chance for another officer; washer of the Bible. Seriously, would it not bo very much better to abolish the sacrilegious mumbling of "dyoubysmlyswear, nthsmonyyrbouttglve, teiltruth, hulltrulh, nuthnbutthtruth, sepyeGod ?” This b]aphomy Is somehow supposed to get tho truth before the court, but it is quite suro that a reading of tire penalties of perjury would l>e more efficient. The oath goe* along with the superstition that twelve ignorant men will come nearer to a Just and correct conclusion than a majority of twelve intelligent men.

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