Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1899 — Page 7

SAVE YOUR MONEY And deposit it with The Indiana Trust Cos., Corner Washington Street and Virginia Avenue. 3 Per Cent. Interest Three per cent, interest allowed on deposits of one dollar and upward. The full amount of deposits, including interest, niav be withdrawn without any deductions. You can deposit at any time. OFFICERS! J. P. Frenael, President. Frederick Fahnley, l*t Vice Pres’t. E. G. Cornelian, Second Vice President. John A. Bntler, Seeietary. THE L. A. KINSEY CO., INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, S2S.OOO—FULL PAID. -BROKERS— Chicago Grain and Provisions, New York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone, 1375 and 1592. 11 and 13 West Pearl Street Cincinnati Office, Room 4, Carliaie Building. MfiNFV 4^t0 6%. l||UnL I sl,oooand upward, loaned on Improved Property. Interest graded according to location and character of security. Ko delay. C. F. SAYLES, 135 East Market St. VITAL STATISTICS—DEC. 31. Birth*. Minnie and William Walker, Tuxedo Park, girl. Nannie and Frank Thornton, Northwestern avenue, girl. Julia and Benjamin Peters, ISU9 Sheffield avenue, boy. .Anna and F. Doremus, 1624 Leonard street, boy. Amanda J. and Ell win W. Kaxnp, 522 North Illinois street, boy. Nellie and M. R. Thompson, 2922 North Meridian street, boy. Mathilde and Anton Albin, 724 South East street, girl. Minna and Fred Meyer, Bluff road, boy. Elbe and Edward Kortepeter, 1322 Winchester avenue, boy. Minnie and Hershel Avery, 1601 South East street, girl. Ida and Frank Broc, 108 Arizona street, girl, Etta and John Stumph, 707 Buchanan street. girl. Deaths. Louie Sanders, twenty-four years, 123 West Fourteenth street, phthisis. Maigaret Hartgen, twenty-two years, Central Hospital tor the Insane, exhaustion. Jom*i h Campbell, one week, 2058 Cooper street, exhaustion. Marshal Taylor, twenty-seven years, city, railroad accident. E’.zora D. Leach, forty-four years, 630 Huron street, cancer. Jacob Mohr, thirty-seven years, city, cirrhosis. Nancy Berryman, seventy-four years, 12 Eastern avenue, Bright's disease. Marriage Licenses. Carl Christ and Lillie Wessel. Lute Smithson and Celia Zook. Albert Smith and Lucy Ellen Newhall. Austin H. Sheets and Gertrude McCoy. Walter N. Cooke and Eleanor Onderdonk. Frank Dickey and Etta Hackley. Burley H. Stuck and Iney M. Williams. William Earnest and Ida Gill. Willis B. Robinson and Lottie Quail. Stephen A. Johnson and Flora Mabel Hook. Francis F. Carney and Martha B. Ritz. Carlton F. Bea and Edith Healy. Nicholas M. Smock and Edna A. Boughton. Otto Leppert and Gertrude Tucker. Thomas E Pell and Carrie F. Cook. James O. Abbitt and Nellie Good. Hamlet Tansey and May Fortune. George Taylor and Mollie Merritt. ART OF SKIRT HOLDING. X’ngroeefnl Methods Practiced l*y Eji— US’ Ii mli and French Women. London Letter. Ail the women are holding up their skirts after a particular fashion just now that has recently become the rage. It has its origin, as have most fashions of the day In London at any rate, from a theatrical source. In that funny farce that Mr. Charles Frohman has just brought over here, “On and Off," in the last act a woman walks across the stage. She is clad in a shimmering gown of black, sparkling with embroideries of jet and steel. She wears a large black hat with black plumes and a diamond buckle, and she has biack gloves. She carries a tightly rolled en-tout-cas of white silk with a riamingo-red handle. In her right hand she grasps all her giimmerlngly black draperies into a countless number of t gant folds, held slightly above the right knee. The skirt is so drawn up all round as to fully expose a mass of delightful white lace trillings and flouncings, while the lining of the black skirt is aiso plainly visible, its white silken interior being likewise frilled about the edge. Her right elbow is slightly crooked, and the curve of the wrist and the bend of the arm is a study in itself. Her shoes—patent leather, laced and neatly tied at the instep —have low heels and sharply pointed toes. Under her left arm, held so that the flamin-go-red handle conies at the back of the left shoulder while the hand grasps the silken cover near the ferrule, fs the white umbrella, and as this woman walks very slowly across the stage she is a study for Van Beers, and an example for every' woman who wants to learn the perfection of propriety in the lifting of her skirts. All the women are going to see “On and Off” (and all the men. too, for that matter), but the women are busily employed in studying with absolute exactness the precise method in which Miss Elliot'Page manages her petticoats. To-day on Regent street I saw a variety of smart-looking women who had evidently been copying her methods with more or less happy results, and certainly even this effort in the right direction is refreshing. The ordinary Englishwoman has no sort of idea of managing her petticoats, fehe either does not worry about them at all, and wears knickerbockers and a short skirl on a muddy day, or else she grasps tlu m at precisely the w'rong angle, so that h* r figure looks lumpy and absurd, and her skirt lollops about her heels or flaps at the sides. It is the Frenchwoman who drags her skirt tight across the front to the middle of the back, so that her arm forms a sort of awkward angle of 4a degrees from the shoulder to the elbow. This lump of stuff' she holds in a tight bunch, at an obviously ungraceful portion of her anatomy, and very often the slight lift thus given to her skirts is of little service. Anothc r French idea is to be noticed in the woman who takes her skirts on either side, drawing the breachhs very tightly across the back, as well as across the front, and holding the folds thus gathered high on either side, over the hips. Very seldom is this method of skiit-lifting a success, and unless it is done wan a certain dash and grace that is the portion only of the true l’arlsienne. such a method results in total failure. Under these circumstances one hails with a good deal of unaffected delight these muchly days the new- “On and Off” fashion of lifting the skirt. Ixmg may it flourish, end also with its arrival comes the revival of the lace-trlmn>d muslin petticoats that are the delight of one's eyes till they return from the fervent ministrations of a launddress, who. in London, is more often fiend than angel. PenicioiH for Veteran*. Certificates have been issued to the fol-lowing-named Indianians: Additional Richard Galbreth, Hillsburg. $4 to $6; Joseph Coxiey, Indianapolis, $6 to SB. Restoration and Increase —John W. Childen (deceased), Georgia, $4 to $8; George H. Gw in, Brookston, $5 to S2O. Increase— Loami E. Scherer, Windfall. sl2 to sl4; William Wharton, Burrows, $lO to sl2; Samuel Horine, Kokomo, sl6 to sl7; Elisha Messenger, Switz City, sl2 to sl4; Frederick Hutton Terre Haute, $8 to $10; Joseph A. Berry, Wabash, $8 to $10; Levi P. Fodrea, Noblesville. $lO to sl7; James E. Williams, Putnamville. $6 to $8: Andrew J, Pennington, Frankfort, $6 to $8; Chauncey W R. Lynch. Zionsville, sl4 to sl7. Reissue—Abraham Cemer, Van Buren, SB. Original Widows, etc.—Eliza W. Snow, Oakville. SB. Mexican War Widow*—Sarah A. Clark, Madison, SB.

BANKS IN GOOD SHAPE DECREASE IX SURPLUS CAUSED BY GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWAL - Year's Record In Wall Street Has Aot Been Surpassed In Volume of Bu*ine*a. —4— The New York weekly bank statement given out Saturday shows the following changes: Surplus reserve, decreased $437,750 Loans, increased 6,c95,600 Specie, increased 790,600 Legal tender, increased 792.000 Deposits, increased 8,085.9 , i0 Circulation, increased 34.300 The banks now hold $19,180,975 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. The New York Financier says: “The statement of the associated banks for the week ending Dec. 31 shows a decrease of $438,075 in surplus reserve, for the reason, principally, that the treasury called for the first installment of Pacific Railway deposits, thereby reducing the cash in bank. Otherwise the statement is favorable and exhibits the present strength of the institutions whose items are included in the totals. Loans expanded $6,095,600, which is only moderate, considering the season and the volume of- exchange transactlona Deposits show a relative gain of $8,095,900, necessitating an increased reserve of over two millions. The gain in cash for the week was only $1,583,400, which is the net remainder of the heavy interior receipts, after deducting losses to the treasury. The difference between the cash receipts and the exjranded reserve requirements of course came out of surplus, reducing the excess as noted. This is a better result than had been anticipated. Now that the new year is at hand and interior receipts probably will grow, it would seem that the banks can sustain the present volume of business without embarrassment. Th* fact that they have during the last ninety days provided for increased loan demands amounting to about $83,000,000, and show deiiosits larger by $101,000,000, while their excess reserve is actually $3,853,000 larger than on Oct. 1, affords tangible evidence of the extent to which they can expand their resources under pressure. It is interesting to note that on Dec. 31 one year ago the excess reserve was only $15,788,750, deposits $675,064,200, loans $607,781,600 and total reserve $184,555,000. The year’s record, it is unnecessary to say, has never been surpassed, but it is surprising to note that the greater proportion of the gruwth has been made within the last three months. Conditions are favorable to a continuance of the expansion which has been going on in that time. Where it will stop no one can say, but if domestic needs require it there is little doubt that loans will be transferred from foreign to American account. This means gold imi>oits and may for the time being check the growth of the totals. Asa matter of fact, however, it will really mean more than tne present expansion, of which so much is written.” Saturday’* Bank Clearings. At Chicago—Clearings, $20,631,124; balances, $2,116,230. New York exchange, 10c premium. Posted rates, $4.82 l /i and J4.85L. At St. Louis—Clearings, $4,277,906; balances, $384,731. At New York—Clearings,.s23l,B24,944; balances, $15,921,143. At Boston—Clearings, $24,036,609; balances. $1,947,191. At Philadelphia—Clearings, $14,570,589; balanoes, $2,106,132. At Baltimore—Clearings, $3,303,840; balances, $573,648. At New Orleans—Clearings, $1,913,692. LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. A Dull Day In Trade Circle*, with No Change* *ln Value*. As usual with the last day of the year, except on Commission row, little business was transacted. There were no changes in values. Merchants are well satisfied with their business In 1898 and look for further improvement in 1899. The local grain market was without feature. Receipts are moderate and prices on track firm at the following range, as furnished by the secretary of the Board of Trade: Wheat—No. 2 red, 69Vic; No. 3 red, 64&@68Vi0: December, 69V£c; wagon wheat, 68c. Corn—No. 1 white. 35Vfcc; No. 3 white (one color), 36>/tc; No. 4 white, 31M:®331::c; No. 2 white mixed, 35c; No. 3 white mixed, 35c; No. 4 white mixed, 31033 c: No. 2 yellow, 8514 c; No. 3 yellow, 35lic; No. 4 yellow, 31k@>33Vic; No. 2 mixed, 35c; No. 3 mixed, 35e; No. 4 mixed, 31033 c; ear corn, 36c. Oats—No. 2 white, 30*£c; No. 3 white, 30c; No. 2 mixed, 29Vie; No. 3 mixed, 2sc. Hay—No. 1 timothy, $8; No. 2 timothy, $6.50@7. 157inspections—Wheat; No. 3 red, 1 car. Corn: No. 3 white, 29 cars; No. 4,3; No. 3 yellow, 3; No. 3 mixed, 14; No. 4,2; ear corn, 2; total, 53 oars. Oats: No. 2 white, 1 car; No. 3,1; total, 2 cars. Hay: No. 1 timothy, 2 cars; Nc. 2,1; total, 2 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Poultry—Hens, 4>4c; spring chickens. sc; cocks, 2*j.c; hen turkeys, young and fat, 7%c; young toma, 6'ac; old hens, 6c; toms, 4c; ducks, 4e; geese, 40c for full feathered, 30c for plucked. Cheese —New York full cream, 10® 11c; skims, 6®Bc; domestic Swiss, 12)sc; brick, 12c; limburger, 10c. Butter—Choice, 11c; poor, 4®Sc; Elgin creamtry, 21c. Eggs—Candled, 21c per doz. Feathers—Prime geese, 30c per lb; prime duck, 10® 17c per lb. Beeswax—3oc for yellow; 25c for dark. Wool—Medium, unwashed. 17®18c; tub-washed, 20®25e; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. Honey—lo@l3c per lb. Game—Short-bill snipe, $1.2501.35 per doz. Ducks, Mallard, $3.50 per do*; other wild ducks, $202.25 per doz. Rabbits, 65®70c. Prairie chickens, $5. Venison, 18020 c per lb. Opossum, 20® 25c apiece. HIDES, TALLOW. ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1, BV£c; No. 2, 7%c; No. 1 calf, 10c; No. 2 calf, B^ic. Grease —White, 3c; yellow, brown, 2&C. Tallow—No. 1,3 c; No. 2, 2V a c. Bones—Dry, sl2® 13 per ton. THE JOBBING TRADE. (The quotations given below are the selling prices of the wholesale dealers.) Candle* and Xut*. Candies —Stick, 6H0644C per lb; common mixed, 6*A@7c; G. A. R. mixed 6 s -c; Banner twist stick, 8c; cream mixed. 9c; old-time mixed, 7c. Nuts--Soft-shelled almonds, ll@13c; English walnuts. 9® 12c; Brazil nuts, 10c; filberts, 11c; peanuts, roasted. 7®Bc; mixed nuts, 10c. Canned Good*. Corn. [email protected]. Peaches—Eastern standard 3-lb, $1.75®2. 3-lb seconds, $1.25®1.50; California standard, $2.10®2.40; California seconds, $1.75@2. Miscellaneous- Blackberries, 2-lb, 65@70c; raspberries, 2-lb, 90® 95c; pineapple, standard, 2-lb, $1.10®1.20; choice, $2®2.50; cove oysters. 1-lb, full weight, 85095 c; light, 60®65c; string beans, 70® 90c; Lima beans, [email protected]; peas, marrowfats, 85c®$1.10: early June, 90c@$1.10; lobsters, $1.8502; red cherries. 90c® $1; strawberries. 90® 95c; salmon, 1-lb, 90c®51.85; 3-lb tomatoes, 90@95c. Coal and Coke. Anthracite, per ton, $7; Brazil block, $3; Island City lump, $2.75; Paragon lump, $2.75; Jackson lump, $4; Pittsburg lump, $4; C. & O. Kanawha lump, $4; Wlnifrede lump, $4; Blossburg smithing. $5; smokeless, $4; iump coke, per bushel, 10c; crushed coke, per bushel, 12c. Drag*. Alcohol, $2.520 2.60; asafetida, 25@30c; alum, 2V ©4c; camphor, 4i'®44c; cochineal, 50@55c; chloroform, 58®65c; coppetas, brls, 75®S6c; cream tartar, pure, 30®33c; indigo, 66@80c; licorice, Calab., genuine, 30040 c; magnesia, earb., 2-oz, 25®50c; morphine, P. & W., per oz, $2.5002.75; mader, 14 ®l6c‘ oil, castor, per gal, $101.10; oil, bergarnot, per lb, $2.25; opium. $4; quinine, P. & W.. per oz, 31036 c; balsam copaiba, 50©60c; soap, castile, Fr., 12@lbc; soba bicarb., 4(2@6c; salts, Epsom, 4®sc; sulphur, flour, s®6c; saltpeter, 8® 14c; turpentine, 45®50c; glycerine, 15®17c;_ iodide potassium, $2.60®2.60; bromide potassium, 55@60c; chlorate potash, 20c; borax, 9@l2c; cinchonida, 20 ©2sc; carbolic acid. 30©32c. Oils —Linseed, 38040 c per gal; coal oil, legal test, 7®l4c; bank, 40c; best straits. 50c: Labrador, 60c; West Virginia, lubricating. 20030 c; miners', 40c; lard oils, winter strained, in brls, 40c per gal; half brls, 3c per gal extra. Dry Guud*. Bleached Sheetings—Androscoggin L. sc; Berkley, No. 60. 6\c; Cabot, sc; Capitol, 4l*c; Cumberland, o*4c; Dwight Anchor, 6c; Fruit of the Loom, sl*c; Farweil, s'ic; Fitchvilie, sc; Fuss Width, 4c; Gilt Edge. 4c; Glided Age, 3V*c; Hill, Hope, s(*c; Lin wood. sl*c;5 l *c; Lonsdale, Peabodv. 4c; Pride of the West, 10c; Ten Strike, sc; Peppered. 9-4, 15c; Peppereil. 10-4, 164 c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 15VsC; Androscoggin, 10-4, 17c. Brown Sheetings—Atlantic A. 54c; Argyle, 4Vsc; Boott C, 4c; Buck's Head, sc; Cilfton CGC, 44c; Constitution. 40-inch, 54c; Carlisle, 40-inch, 6c; Lwight’s Star, 6c; Great Falls E, 44c; Great Falls J. 44c; Hill Fine, 54c; Indian Head, 64c; Peppereil R, 44c; Peppereil, 10-4, lac; Androscoggin. 9-4, 14c; Androscoggin. 10-4, 154 c. Prints—Allen dress styles, 4c; Allen's staples, 4c: Allen TR. 4c; Allen's robes, 4c; American indigo. 4c; Arnold long cloth B. 74c; Arnold LLC. I4e; Cocheco fanev. 4c; Cocheco madders, 4c; Hamilton fancy, 44c; Merrirnac pinks and purples. 4%c: Pacific fancy. 4‘*c; Simpson's mourning, 344 c; Simpson's Berlin solids, 6c; Simpson's oil finish, 6c; American shirting, 3c; black white. • grays* 3^c. Ginghams—A moskeag staules. sc; Amokeag Persian dress, 6c; Bates Warwick dress, 54c; Lancaster. sc; Lancaster Normandles. 6c; RenCambrics—Edwards, *%c; Warren, *! Otatuon BF.

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114 c; Cordis, 140, 34c; Cordis FT. 3Vic; Cordis ACE, 94c; Hamilton awnings, Sc; Kimono fancy, 17c; Lenox fancy, 18c; Muthuen AA. 94c; Oakland AF, 54c; Portsmouth, 104 c: Susquehanna. 114 c; Shetucket SW, 54c; Shetucket F, 6c; Swift River, 44c. Flour. Straight grades, $4 60®4.75: fancy grades, $5.75® 6.25; patent flour, $6®6.50; low grades, [email protected]; spring wheat patents. $6.50©6.75. Groceries. Coffee—Good, 10® izc; prime, 12014 c; strictly prime, 14®16c; fancy green and yellow, 18®22c; Java, 28©32c. Roasted—Old government Java, 324® 33c; Golden Rio, 24c, Bourbon Santos, 24c: Gilded Santos, 24c; prime Santos, 23c. Package coffee—city prices—At iota, 10.65 c; Lion, 9.65 c; Jersey, 10.15 c; Caracas, 10.15 c; Dutch Java blend, 15.40 c; Dlllworth’s, 10.65 c; King Bee. 10.65 c; Mail Pouch, 10.65 c. Sugars—City Prices —Dominoes, 5.5f1c: cut-loaf, 6.75 c; powdered, 5.38 c; XXXX powdered, 5.50 c; standard granulated, 5.25 c; fine granulated, 6.25 c; granulated—five-pound bags, 5.31 c; extra fine granulated, 5.38 c; coarse granulated, 5.38 c; cubes, 6.38 c; mold A, 5.50 c; diamond A, 5.25 c; confectioners' A, 5.13 c; 1 Columbia A—Keystone A, 4.88 c; 2 Windsor A—American A,# 4.88 c; 3 Ridgewood A —Centennial A, 4.88 c; 4 Phoenix A—California A, 4.51 c; 5 Empire A—Franklin B, 4.75 c; 6 Ideal golden ex. C—Keystone B, 4.69 c; 7 Windsor ex. C —American B, 4.63 c; 8 Ridgewood ex. C—Centennial B, 4.56 c; 9 yellow ex. C—California B, 4.50 c; 10 yellow C—Franklin ex. C, 4.44 c; 11 yellow— Keystone ex. C, 4.44 c; 12 yellow—American ex. C, 4.44 c; 13 yellow—Centennial ex. C, 4.44 c; 14 yellow —California ex. C, 4.44 c; 15 yellow, 4.44 c; 16 yellow, 4.44 c. Flour Sacks (paper)—Plain, 1-32 brl. per 1,000, $3.50; 1-16 brl, $5; % brl. $8; % brl. sl6; No. 2 drab, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1.000, $4.25; 1-16 brl, $6.50; *4 brl. $lO 14 brl, S2O; No. 1 cream plain 1-32 brl. per 1,000, *7; 1-16 brl. $8.75; tfe brl, $14.50; 14 brl, $28.50. Extra charge for printing, $1.1001.15. Salt—ln car lots, 80®S5c; small lots. 90@95c. Spices—Pepper, 12® 18c; allspice, 15® 18c; cloves, 18®2Cc; cassia, 15018 c; nutmegs, 65075 c per lb. Beans —Choice hand-picked navy, [email protected] per bu; Limas, California, 4 1 /2 ®4\c per lb. Woodenware —No. 1 tubs, $6.7506; No. 2 tubs, $4.75@5; No. 3 tubs, $3.75®4; 3-hoop pails, $1.40® 1.50; 2-hoop palls, $1.2001.25: double washboards, $2.25®2.75; common washboards, $1.25® 1.50; clothes pins. 50®60c i>er box. Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 28®33c; choice, 35@40c; syrups, IS® 3i>C* Shot—sl.3offil.2s per bag for drop. Lead—6'i®7c for pressed bars. Twine—Hemp. 12@lSc per lb; wool, 8010 c; flax, 20®30c; paper, 25c; jute, 12® 15c; cotton, 18@25c. Wood Dishes —No. 1. per 1,000, $202.25; No. 2, $2.2502.50: No. 3. $2.50©2.75; No. 5, $303.25. Rice —Louisiana, 4%®6 I ,ic; Carolina, 6)4®S%c. Iron and Steel. Bar Iron —1.60© 1.60 c; horseshoe bar, 2(4@2%c; nail rod, 7c; plow slabs, American cast steel 9® 11c; tire steel, 2 1 /j>®3c; spring steel, 4Va ©sc. Leather. Leather—Oak sole, 27@30c; hemlock sole, 24® 26c; harness, 32®'37c; skirting. 3S®42c; single strap, 38®41c; city kip, 60®SSc; French kip, 90c@ $1.20; city calfskin, 90c®'$1.10; French calfskin, $1.20®1.85. Nall* and llor*e*hoe*. Steel cut nails, $1.75; wire nails, from store, $1.90@2 rates; from mill, $1.75 rates. Horseshoes, per keg, $3.50; mule shoes, per keg, $4.50; horse nails. s4®s per box. Barb wire, galvanized, $2; painted, $1.75. Produce, Fruit* und Vegetable*. Apples —Common, $3; good, $4; fancy, $4.50; bulk apples, $2.50 per brl. Pears —Kiefers. $1.25. New Tomatoes —$3.50 per 6-basket crate. Grapes—New York grapes, pony basket, Catawbas, 15c; Malaga grapes, $7.50 per brl. Figs—California, [email protected] per box; mat figs, sß® 9. Cranberries—s 6 per brl; [email protected] per crate. Oranges—Mexican, $3.50 per box; Florida oranges, $3.75 per box; California navels, $3.50. Lemons—Messina, choice, 300 to box, $3.75; fancy, $4.25. Persimmons —75c per 24-pint crate. Bananas —Per bunch, No. 1, $1©1.75. Cocoanuts —50c per doz. Lima Beans—oc per lb. Potatoes—White, 45c per bu; red, 40c per bu; $1.20®! 35 per brl. Sweet Potatoes—Baltimore, 50c per bu; [email protected] per brl; Jersey sweets, $1 bu; brl, $2.75; Illinois, $2 brl; 70c bu. Cabbage—4o®ssc per brl; Holland seed, $1 per ICO lbs. Onions—sl.2s per brl; Spanish onions, $1.25. Turnips—9oc per brl. Parsnips—sl.so per brl. Celery—Michigan and northern Indiana, 20@25c per bunch; California. 40®75c. Honey—White, 15c per lb; dark, 12c per lb. Cider—s4.so per brl; half brl. $2.60. Provi*iun*. Hams—Sugar-cured, 18 to 20 lbs average, B)4® 9c; 15 lbs average, sLfeOVic; 12 lbs average, &■>* ®9 1 /2 c. Bacon —Clear sides, 40 to 50 lbs average, 6® 6%c; 30 to 40 -Has average, 6%@6%c; 20 to 30 lbs average, 6?*®6%c; bellies, 26> lbs average, 6%c; 18 to 23 lbs average, 6‘,8®6%c; 14 to 16 lbs average, 7@7Vgc. Clear backs, 18 to 22 lbs average, 6 1 /a©6i ß c; 14 to 18 lbs average, 6-}s©6') 4 c; Bto 10 lbs average, 6 : > 4 ®6~sC. In dry salt, \- 2 c less. Shoulders —18 to 20 lbs average, 6c; 15 lbs average, 6c; 10 to 12 lbs average, 6c. Lard—Kettle-readered, pure lard, 6® 6Vc. Pork—Bean, clear, sl3; rump, $10®10.25. a LIVE STOCK. Cattle Scarce and Strongc—Hog* Active and Hlgfher—Sheep Strong, INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 31.—Cattle—Receipts light; shipments none. There were very few on sale. The market continues strong on all decent kinds, but not quotably higher. All sold early. Exports, good to choice $5.00© 5.50 Killers, medium to good 4.50® 4.90 Killers, common to fair 4.00© 4.35 Feeders, good to choice 4.00® 4.40 Stockers, common to good 3.00® 4.00 Heifers, good to choice 3.90® 4.35 Heifers, fair to medium 3.50® 3.80 Heifers, common and light 3.00® 3.35 Cows, good to choice 3.60® 4.00 Cow s, fair to medium 3.00® 3 35 Cows, common and old 1.50® 2.50 Veals, good to choice 5.00® 6.00 Veals, common to medium 3.00® 4.50 Bulls, good to choice 3.50® 4.00 Bulls, common to medium 2.50® 3.25 Milkers, good to choice [email protected] Milkers, common to medium [email protected] Hogs—Receipts, 6,000; shipments, 2,000. The market opened fairly active, with packers and shippers buying at an advance of s@7)ic, and closed steady, with all sold. Heavies [email protected] Mixed [email protected] Lights 3.4503.50 Pigs 3.C603.25 Roughs 2.75#:.26 Sheep and Lambs—Receipts light; shipments none. But few cn sale. There was good demand for the better class at strong prices. Sheep, good to choice $3.6004.00 Sheep, fair to medium 3.2003.50 Stockers, common to medium 2.00©3.00 Bucks, per head [email protected] Spring lambs, good to choice 4.2505.00 Spring lambs, common to medium [email protected] Elsewhere. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 31.—Cattle—Receipts, 1,210. Supply of good slaughtering caitle this week did not equal demand and while there w r as no quotably higher prices, last week’s advance was fully sustained; heavy native steers, $5.10® 5.40; medium, $4.2505.10; light weights, [email protected]; Stockers and feeders, $3.25©4.50: butcher cows and heifers, $2 7504.60; butcher bulls, $2.7503.60; veal calves, s6@l2; Western steers, s3.2s®ii; Texas steers, $3.5004.90; Texas meal-fed, $3.90®)4.50; Texas cows, $2.75®3.25; canners. [email protected]. Hogs—Receipts, 6.880. Market strong to 5c higher. Demand for packing hogs continues very strong and prices have advanced this week 16® 20c; heavies. $3.6003.76; mixed. $3.4503.70; lights, $3.2503.50; pigs, $2.9003.15. Sheep—Receipts, 400. Prices unchanged. Supply this week did not equal demand; offerings mainly of common quality; last w'eek’s advance in prices fully sustained, especially for well-fin-ished flocks; lambs, $505.50; muttons $3.75 04.40; feeding lambs, $3.7504.20; feeding sheep, $3.25® 3.85; Stockers, $2.50®3.50. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 31. —Cattle—Receipts, 450; shipments none. Market steady; choice to fancy native beef steers unchanged; all other steers 10c lower than last week; fair to fancy native shipping and export, steers, $4.4f @5.75, bulk at $4 90® 5.50; dressed beef and butcher steers, $3.6505 40, bulk at $4.2505.30; steers under 1.000 lbs, $3 25© 4.40. bulk at $3.8504.25; stockers and feeders, *2.75 04.25. bulk at $3.3004.15; cows and 4.35, bulk of cows. $2.3503; bulk of heife $3.75 @4.20: bulls. $2.3503.50: Texas and Indi steers, $3 2504.35, bulk at $2.3503.50. Hogs—Receipts, 6,300; shipments. 4.500. Market Btrong to 5c higher: butchers, $3.600 3.70. Sheep—Receipts none; shipments none. Market dull; native muttons, $3.5004.25; Texas lambs, $3.50. CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—Receipts of cattle were a little better to-day than Is usual on Saturday. Offerings were P'ostly of medium grades, strictlv choico cattle being very scarce. Prices as a rule w-ere unchanged from yesterday. Prices for hogs advanced s@loc under the j n . fluence of an active demand. Heavy sold at $3.4003.75, medium weights at $3.4003.75 and light weights at $3.4003.70. Figs brought $303.40 and culls $1.2503.30. A light demand for sheep and lambs was sufficient to absorb the limited offerings and prices held steady; lambs sold at [email protected], yearlings at $404.50 and sheep at $204.10. Receipts—Cattle. 500; hogs. 21.000; sheep, 1,000. NEW YORK. Dec. 31. —Beeves —Receipts, 192; no trading; feeling steady. Exports. 1,125 cattle and 4,470 quarters of beef. Calves—Receipts, 84. mainly Southern calves. Very little trading; good veals. SB. Hogs—Receipts, 2,548. Market nominally firm at $3.7504. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 1,381. Sheep steady; lambs slow and weak: good sheep, $4.25; prime, lambs, $5.6005.80. CINCINNATI, Dec. 31—Cattl* steady at $2.50 ©4.86. Hogs active at $3.1503.70. Sheep steady at $2.2504; lamb* steady at $4.25 ©5.50. Import* from Mexico. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 31.—The imports of live stock from the Republic of Mexico to the United States during the year closing to-day were less than half the imports for the year 1897. In the Importation of goats and swine only was there an Increase over the year Complete statistics compiled by the local live-stock agent of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, covering all pqrts of entry, show the Importations for the year just passed and thoee for the preceding year to have been as follows: IS3B. 1897. Cattle 132.419 295.861 HhceP 28,019 73,922 Goals 2.701 941 Swine 103 10

SOME CHICAGO “FAKES” * NOTABLE NEWSPAPER STOIUES SPRI NG IN THE WINDY CITY. e Tli<*ir Author* Have Since Gone Into the Theatrical Bnsine** and Are Now Booming; Stars. Washington Star. “Talking about Chicago,” said a man who sends the national news of the day from Washington to a Windy City newspaper—the general row over the extension of the Chicago street-railway franchise had been up for discussion—“the newspapers out there fell into the traps set by a sad lot of brilliant roportorial fakirs about ten or a dozen years ago. I meet one or the other of these former reportorial fakirs every once in a while. They’re all doing well. They’ve all won out. Several of them are theatrical managers, and others of the lot are press agents for theatrical outfits, and in these capacities they are cdhgeniaily placed, in so far as their joyous indulgence in the riotousness of their lurid imaginations is concerned. They all just happened to drift into Chicago around the period, say, from 1886 to 1890, and they all got employment on the various newspapers of Chicago, w T hich were all more or less high in the standard and tone of their local news before these ingenious and incorrigible fakirs happened into the town. And it wasn't the fault of the newspapers or of the owners thereof that Chicago and all of the desmesnes adjacent thereto were so terrifically faked during the period to which I refer. The newspapers couidn’t help it. Their spellbinders turned in such corking whoppers, with such a wealth of detail in every case, that—well, the frankly named Liars’ Club of Chicago, finding itself overtopped and outdone to a standstill, just voted to go out of existence at the time when the reportorial faking of Chicago was at its zenith. “For instance; The guileless, innocent looking young man who did the hotel interviewing for one of the most famous of the Chicago dailies—he’s now the chief of staff of a big American theatrical syndicate—used to get so chesty at times when there was no genuine news in his line to be secured that he'd study for weeks on schemes whereby not only to move the populace of Chicago out of its midsummer lethargy, but to shake the whole continent and to project a rumble beneath the trones of the crowned heads across the sea. His most extraordinary achievement in this line was his ‘interview’ with a ‘famous Italian statesman traveling incognito through the United States, and registered yesterday at the Hotel Richelieu, whence he departed last night for San Francisco.’ For hugeness of conception and minuteness of detail this ‘interview’ was surely a wonaer. The great signor of Itahan statesmanship was represented in the ’interview’ as the strongest supporter of the Vatican party, and in this capacity he was represented as having the greatest possible intimacy with the hopes and plans of the Roman pontiff. “He talked at leng’ih respecting these plans, and in a very significant paragraph he stated that such was the unsatisfactoriness of the pontiff’s position in the policy of the kingdom of Italy the Pope meditated changing, in the very near future, the site of the Holy See from Rome to Berne, Switzerland. The ‘interview,’ two double leaded columns of it, got into type on the first page of the newspaper that employed this hotel reporting genius, and it was an awful ‘scoop on the rest of the dailies. All of the h#*tel reporters of all of the rest of the Ch.cago newspapers were fired in a body for not getting the ‘interview,’ and they only secured their reinstatement when they produced the affidavit, made under oath by ‘Cardinal’ Bemis, the proprietor of the hotel Richelieu, that no such a person as the gr at signor of Italian statesmanship had been registered at his hostlery. FAKE) CABLED TO ROME. “All the same, that interview was put on the cable entire, and reproduced verbatim in all of the great papers of Europe, and the bronze doors of the Pope’s apartments in the Vatican were assailed for days by correspondents of European papers, who were directed to find out if thera was anything In the story as to the possible removal of the Holy See from Rome to Switzerland, and in general the deuce of a row was stirred up by the ‘interview’ scribbled by the bland, guileless-looking young reporter, who is now drawing big pay for writing about this or that actress s loss of her jewels, how such and such a corpulently inclined nightingale of the stage decreases her weight, etc. “He stuck it out that he really had got the ‘interview - precisely as it was published—‘pernaps not at the Richelieu, but in Chicago, all right,’ he said^—but that, having made a solemn promise .not to reveal the name and title of the interviewee, he, of course, felt a natural delicacy, etc. He was kept on the staff of this paper, and he didn’t spring another large one until the final day of his newspaper work in Chicago. I'll tell you about that one later on. “Then there was that famous fake about the duel in one of the parks on Chicago’s South Side. An ingenuous young man, who afterward married a famous prima donna, performed that one. He was aiso a night police reporter, and for some time previous to the perpetration of his star fake he had been suffering from ennui because he had nothing more exciting to turn in as copy than stories of occasional raids of faro layouts on Clark street, impromptu pugilistic encounters in Parson Davies’s gin mill, and so on. So he took a couple of days off, carried a big gob of copy paper to his room, and sat down to indite one that would give the sleuths of the town a little exercise. The yarn he evolved would have been a daisy had it appeared as fiction in the columns of a highly spiced newspaper of Paris. Sprung, however, as gospel truth, with big names to back it up, and with a completeness of detail such as is advertised by* the projectors of stage spectacles, it certainly was a gasper even for Chicago. “It was the story (one page, with pictures) of a duel that had been fought in a South Side park at gray dawn of the morning before publication. It was a duel of the most approved limelike pattern—rapiers, the tw s o gents to the encounter wearing soft bosomed, frilled shirts; seconds standing by wnth long and hooded mackintoshes; surgeons for both parties standing by a contiguous clump of trees; one man badly wounded, other pinked in the left arm, and, finally, the appearance upon the scene of the innocent young tiling in skirts who had been the cause of the whole fracas—a chorus girl figuring in the second row of the ‘Sinbad’ operatic extravaganza, which was then running merrily at the Chicago Opera House. Oh, that was a hot yarn, all right. One of the contestants was represented as a ‘young Southern gentleman,’ the scion of the topmost family of Mississippi (name not revealed), and the party of the second part to the savage and bloodthirsty encounter was ‘Baron Kalnoky, the son of the prime minister of Austria.’ The baron was represented as having met the chorus girl in London, as having fallen desperately in love with her on the spot where he first saw her of having followed her to this country of having been vituperated and scorned by her because she loved and was going to marry the scion of the swell house of Mississippi, and as having finally, In a vortex of rage’ slapped the countenance of the hot young member from the sunny southland. Hence the duel. THE DUELISTS CONCEALED. “The pair of duelists were, of course, ‘spirited away* (In the story) after the fight, and the way they eluded the machinery of justice during the few exciting days after the publication of the story wras certainly a caution. They just seemed to have dropped off the earth completely. Os course, all of the rest of the night police reporters were compelled to make the best answers they codld to the ‘Where were you at?’ question when they were hauled up for not having got hold of the big story of the day. The yarn was cabled abroad to all of the metropolitan papers of Europe, and correspondents were sent flying to dig up the oid Baron Kalnoky, prime minister of Austria. who was stopping at a little inn in an inaccessible part of the Tyrolean mountains, taking a rest from the cares of state. The name of the son of Baron Kalnoky didn't appear in the Almanach de Gotha, to be sure, but then the correspondents were instructed to find out from the old gentle- ■ man whether he had a morganatic son, or something like that, whose name was entitled to a show if the almanac. The old gentleman grinnedi in the teeth of the correspondents who /found h;m out in his Tyrolean mountain fastness. He had never had a son in his ffe, he said, and that's all there was to I “This was cabFd to all of the Chicago papers, but the JmY modification that the young man who the story w'ould append to it was •<hall the military mustachioed gent fr<® the sea. wffio had fought on acco# 17 ho second row

chorus girl, had represented himself to b® the son of Austria’s premier. He hung on to the story so persistently that he made it stick, and he wasn’t dropped down the elevator shaft of the newspaper he had faked. He held his end up in weird police stories for six months after that, when along comes the famous prima donna I mentioned when I began to tell you about him. He fascinated the song bird, perhaps, by reason of his Oriental, seething imagination, and they got married within a month after their first meeting. He's been her prosperous ‘manager’ ever since. “Then there was that extraordinary fake known in Chicago as the Japanese interview. These two hotel reporters had grown aweary of Chicago, and they decided to try their fortunes m New York. They made arrangements to resign from their respective newspapers on the same day, and they w’anted to make a Garrison finish of their faking careers. So they got together and W'rote a lengthy interview with a Japanese tourist of distinction in his own country, who had passed through Chicago (on the day before publication) on his way to Eutope. where he was going to buy a whole lot of battle ships and things. The interview was chiefly remarkable for the number of fierce threats the distinguished Jap made against the United States. He talked of the ease with which Japan’s new navy could steam over to the west coast of the United States and lay all the towns therealong in ruins, and, what’s more, he said that Japan was seriously meditating doing just that thing—not for any particular reason or grievance, the distinguished Jap stated, but just for luck or for something like that. Altogether it made pretty warm reading, that interview-, and the Japanese minister at Washington was for a few days kept pretty busy discrediting the interview’ with “Ekafa Tahwho,” the name of the next to the Mikado Jap. After the publication of the interview in their respective newspapers the two writers thereof drew their final pay and went to New’ Y'ork. It wasn’t until long after they settled there that it was discovered that ‘Ekafa Tahwho,’ spelled backward, reads “Oh, what a fake!” HAGGARD’S SEW NOVEL. Written for the Purpose of Hitting Anti-Vaccinationists. St. Louis Republic. Mr. H. Rider Haggard has written a story with a purpose in his “Doctor Thorne.” The aim of the novel is to tell of the suffering that ensues from anti-vaccination. (Longmans, Green & Cos.) Dr. Tnerne telis his own story, and he relates by what desperate chance he came under the influence and under obligations to a faddist whose hobby was anti-vaccination. To this man the doctor admitted that he had not vaccinated his little motherless daughter; he did this as proof of his nonbelief in vaccination. Stephen Strong, the faddist, had called to see Dr. Therne about standing for Parliament on the anti-vaccination ticket. The doctor says: “I suppose that my doubts and irritation were apparent in the inelegant jocosity of my manner. At any rate, Stephen Strong, who was a shrewd observer, took alarm. “ ’Look here, doctor,’ he sipd, ‘I am honest, 1 am; right or wrong, I believe in this anti-vaccination business, and we are going to run the election on it: If you don’t believe in it—and you have no particular call to, since every man can claim his own opinion—you’d better let is alone, and look on all this ta’k as nothing. You are our first and best man, but we have several upon the list; I’ll go on to one of them,’ and he took up his hat. “I let him take it; I even let him w’alk tow’ards the door; but as he approached it 1 reflected that with that dogged, burly form went all my ambitions and my last chance of advancement in life. When his hand was already on the handle, not of premeditation, but by impulse, I said: “ ‘I don’t* know why you should talk like that, as I think that I have given good proof that I am no believer in vaccination. “ ‘What’s that, doctor?’ he asked, turning around. “ 'My little girl is nearly four years old and she has never been vaccinated.’ “ ‘ls it so?’ he asked, doubtfully. “I opened the door and called Jane in, a beautiful little being with dark eyes and golden hair. .... “ ‘Look for yourself,’ I said, and, taking off the child’s coat, I showed him both her arms. “ 'That’s good enough, doctor, but, mind you, 3he mustn’t be vaccinated now.’ • “As he spoke the words my heart sank in me, for I understood what I had done and the risk I was taking. But the die was cast, or so I thought, in my folly. It was too late to go back.” The years went on and Dr. Terne became one of the leaders of the anti-vaccination party. All the time he dreaded smallpox. His daughter was a young woman, engaged to a young physician of the town, when smallpox visited the country. Her betrothed found that she had been visiting a stricken family. He urged that she be vaccinated, reminding her of his deep interest. “That’s not the point,” she answered, “if you vaccinated me and my arm fell off in consequence, I shouldn’t care for you a bit the less, because I should know that you were the victim of a foolish superstition and believed what you were doing to be right. I have read all the papers and statistics and heard the cleverest men in Engiaud lecture upon it, and nothing, nothing, nothing will ever induce me to submit to that filthy, revolting operation.” He heard and groaned, and then he tried another argument. “Listen,” he said, “you have been good enough to tell me—several times—well, that you loved me. and forgive me for alluding to it, but I think you were once so foolish as to say that you cared enough for me to give up your very existence if it could make me happy. Now, I ask you to submit to- a trifling inconvenience.” “Ernest,” she said, hoarsely, “if you ask anything else of me in the world I would do it—yes, anything you can think of—but this 1 can’t do and won’t do.” “In God’s name, why not?” he cried. “Because to do it would be to declare my father a quack and a liar, and to show that I, his daughter, from whom, if from anybody, he has a right to expect faith and support, have no belief in him and the doctrine he has taught for twenty years.” Ernest Merehison ground his teeth, understanding that in the face of this woman's blind fidelity all argument and appeal were useless. Then, in his love and despair, he formed a desperate resolve. Catching her suddenly round the waist, he thrust her into a cottage armchair which stood by, and, despite her struggles, began to cut at the sleeve of her dress with the lancet in his hand. But soon he realized that the task was hopeless. “Ernest Merehison,” she said, as she escaped from him. with blazing eyes and catching her breath, “you have done what I will never forgive. Go your own way and I will go mine.” “—To death, Jane.” , She did go to her death. Her coward father, however, vaccinated himself and escaped the disease to earn disgrace and contumely. ‘‘A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.” How Little- Dnnny Shocked Hi* Snnduy School Teacher. Chicago Journul. ) One of the West Side Sunday schools does not hold its Christmas exercises until this week. It has been preparing for some time, and naturally the first requisite was to raise the necessary funds. Special contributions were taken up. The teacher of a class of small boys explained to her youthful pupils what was expected of them. “Now, boys,” she said, “next Sunday I want each of you to bring a penny, or more if you can, and be ready to give some appropriate verse from the Bible when you drop it into the box.” The class promised it would do this. The next Sunday came, and with it the boys and the money. The first to step up to the box, drop in his coin, and turn to recite his quotation was a nice little man with a broad white collar and a face of nearly the same dimensions, stamped with goodness and innocence. “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,” he recited, in a shrill monotone. The teacher was She saw that one, at least, had caught the true spirit of the occasion. She turned hopefully to the second. He was also an immaculate youth from “one of the best families.” He smiled sweetly as he dropped in a quarter, and said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” The teacher, who is an enthusiast, was happy over the success of her plan. “Now, Dannie,” she said, turning to a boy who came from the lower walks of life, and w’ho had sold papers and shined shoes. Dannie swaggered up, dropped in his penny, winked at one of the other boys, and announced abruptly: “A fool and his money a”e soon parted.” Officer* of the Alpha Thu Omega. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 31.-The Alpha Tau Omega congress has transacted its principal business. Ribbon societies were discountenanced, and it was decided to try the provincial system. Boston was named the next meeting place. The following officers w’ere elected: Worthy grand chief, Larkin W. Glazebrook, Washington, D. C. ; worthy grand chaplain, Rev. Thomas P. Gailer, bishop of Tennessee: worthy grand keeper of annuals, R. E. L Sauer, Dallas, Tex.; worthy grand scribe, George H. Lamar, Washington, D. C.; worthy grand chancellor, Prof. James B. Green, University of Virginia; high council, R. W. Otis. A. Glazebrook, D. D., Elizabeth, N. J.; Prof. E. J. Shives. Pittsburg; William T. Maginnis, New Orleans: Fred Tupper, jr., of Vermont, and Robert A. Walter, of Chicago; fraternity architect, David A. White. Mcßane, N. C.. seventh biennial congress; L. C. Eble. of Chicago, roet; uon. Edward Lylle, Roar.oke, Va., orator. The chapter was given a banquet at the St. Charles Hotel.

DAY SCHOOL FOR ANTS ■" - NOVEL METHODS OF EDUCATION DY THE LOWER ORDERS. * Bird* Instruct Their Young and Mother Bruin Doe* Not Spore the Rod— Lions Practice Leaping. New York Telegram. Like man. enimals, especially those of the higher orders, are born with a latent, inherited education, the effects of which are manifested in the course of individual development. Our organs, for instance, which have been slowly built up during the evolution of the various specific types, act of themselves, each in its own way. They have their own memory. The digestive, circulatory and respiratory organs, the senses, etc., discharge their functions spontaneously and without waiting for lessons from any master. The young animal left to its own impulses usually comes very soon to take care of itself in the great world, to avoid its enemies and find food and a comfortable bed. Except in species that live in larger or smaller societies, parents drive away their young as soon as they arrive at a stage in which they can take care of themselves. This fact is easily observable In birds, even when they are domesticated. The solicitous care of turtle doves for their young gives way to pecking and wing striking as soon as the latter are developed. Eagles drive their grown up young from the nest, and even from the neighborhood. Some other species take care for the future of their offspring, and, before sending them away, teach them to fly or swim or hunt or fish. Dureau de la Maile saw falcons, high up in the air, drop dead mice and sw’allows in order to teach their young to spring upon their prey while in rapid flight, and to estimate distances; and when the little hawklets were somewhat larger they dropped living birds instead of dead game. American crested ducks teach their young to find seeds and to snap at flies and aquatic bisects. It is generally the female that exercises this care for her offspring, while the ma:e •oneerns himself little about the matter. The female wild duck leads her brood to the water, and takes care to choose places of no very great depth tor this hist lesson, and trains the little ones to hunt flies, mosquitos and beetles. The female of the eider duck gently carries her ducklings one by one m her beak, escorts them to the deep water and teaches them to dive for fish. When they are tired she glides under them, takes them on her back and carefully carries them to the shore. It is undoubtedly very largely by virtue of instinct and ancestral education that birds swim or fly, and the mother has only to invite them to the act by her example; but, lor a more complete training, the lessons are very useful, if not necessary. These lessons given by the parent birds to their young are the more impressive because birds have a vocal language, developed to a certain extent, and the example is enforced by admonitions, encouragements, reproaches and appeals, calculated to stimulate the natural tendency to imitation. With some species of birds this language, too, is taugnt; the individuals collect every morning and evening in chattering groups, and the young enjoying the benefit of a social conversation. easily learn to sing and chatter. Singing birds sometimes, too, give one another lessons without thinking of it. Some birds sing badly when they have grown up alone without the fellowship of companions of their species; others readily learn the songs of strange species, and even of man. Dureau d8 la Malle taught a starling to whistle the Marseillaise, and the bird in turn taught its fellow-starlings of the neighborhood. These abnormal acquisitions, however, have not the fixity of hereditary instincts and are easily forgotten unless constant care is exercised to preserve them, being in this respect very much like what is learned in the schools for the examinations. . , Numerous facts similar to those w r e have cited have been collected by travelers and observei-s concerning education among mammals. The mother bear, for example, takes great pains in the training of her cubs. She teaches them to walk, climb and eat, and inflicts punishments in the shape of cuffs and bites to insure success, and the cubs never resist., even if they are larger and stronger than their mother. A female elephant has been giving swimming lessons to her calf and correcting it when it blundered. Working animals instruct their young by associating them in their labors. A female beaver has been observed to cut down a willow, gnaw the bark and trim off the branches, while her young imitated her and finally helped her carry a limb to the water. . When lions were still numerous and easily observed in southern Africa they were sometimes seen instructing one another in voluntary gymnastics and practicing their leaps, making a bush play the part of the absent game. Moffat tells the story of a lion which had missed a zebra by miscalculating the distance repeating the jump several times for his own instruction. Two of his comrades coming upon him while he was engaged in the exercise, he led them around the rock to show them how matters stood, and then, returning to the starting point, completed the iesson by making a final leap. The animals kept roaring during the whole of the curious scene, “talking together,” as the native who watched them said. By the aid of individual training of this kind, industrial animals become apter as they grow older, old birds, for instance, constructing more artistic nests than young ones, and little mammals, say the xopular Science Monthly, like mice, becoming more adroit with age. Yet, however ancient in the life of the species these acquisitions may be, they have not the solidity of primordial instincts, and are lost rapidly if not used. While among the mammals this business of training is usually intentional and a family matter, attended to by the mother, with such invertebrates as bees and ants,, in which the females are simply egg laying machines, the mother’s educational function is null, and the care of the young rests with the sterile workers. Yet tfie mental side of the maternal function subsists in mother ants in a latent virgin females have been seen, accor<®g to Huber, busying themselves with the eggs and the larvae. But, as a rule, the training in the nest is a grand social affair, committed to the female workers, who devote themselves with complete abnegation togtheir task and seem to enjoy’ themselves ii® performing it. When the young Jhave gone through their metamorphoses, their nurses, now’ become instructors, keep with them, guiding them through the labyrinth of the city in all its windings; and this education is probably carried much further than observers are able to follow it, for the working ants must be trained for their duties. Their industry is too complicated to be purely mechanical and blindly instinctive, as is often supposed. But the observation of this training requires distinction between inuividual ants which the human eye is hardly competent to make. Among the slaveholding ants the education consists largely in transforming certan inveterate tendencies. They make war upon another species—the brown ants—capture their young, and bring them up to be their own slaves, in ignorance of the species to which they belong, and of its traits. An equivalent to this transforming tendency of education may be found among the vertebrates. where, if we ke the young early enough, we can dis b their hereditary functional manifestations to a very considerable extent. JrALL ABOUT LONDON. Criminal and Other Statistic* from the City’* Head Policeman. Pall Mall Gazette. Sir E. R. C. Bradford, the commissioner of police of the metropolis, states, in his report to the home secretary for 1897, that on Dec. 31 last the authorized strength of the metropolitan force was 32 superintendents. 578 inspectors, 1.908 sergeants and 12,934 constables, or a total of 15,452, being a decrease of 10 inspectors and ar. increase of 13 sergeants and 123 constables since Dec. 31, rß9f. Os these, 4 superintendents, 52 inspectors. 197 sergeants and 1,506 constables were employed on special duties for various government departments, including special protection posts at public offices and buildings. dock yards and military stations, and by public companies and private individuals. Under the existing system, about 60 percent, of the- number available for duty in the streets is required for night duty—from 10 p. m. to 6 a. m. The metropolitan police district extends over a radius of fifteen miles from Charing Cross, exclusive of the city of London ana the liberties thereof, and embraces an area of 688.31 square miles, extending from Colney Heath, Hertfordshire, on the north, to Mogadore, Todworth Heath, in the south, and from Lark Hill, Essex, in the east, to Staines Moor, Middlesex, in the west. The mean ratable value of the metropolitan area for police purposes for the year 1897-8 was £40,581.544, but of the actual value of the property in charge of the police it is impossible to form any estimate. The police rate is now fixed at 9d in the pound, of which 4d in the pound is payable out of the local taxation account, under the local government act. 1888. The total amount of police rate levied on the parishes for the year ended March 31, aB9S, was £815,-

543 and the local taxation account contributed £679,922 to the police, fund during the year. The pay of the police aione, including chief constables, superintendents. Inspectors, sergeants and constables, waa £1.231,714. The total number of criminal offenses reported to the metropolitan police last year was 1.8,424, as compared with 18,536 in 185/6, 20,024 in 1895 and 20,970 in 1894. As regards felonies relating to property, the proportion per thousand of the population w’ae 2,524 the lowest on record. In 1567 the proportion was 6,170. There 'were eighteen cases of murder; two of the accused were tried and acquitted and five others were found to be insane. In three cases the trials resulted in conviction and death sentences, while four cases remain to be accounted for. One of these, the case of Margaret Marshall, found dead in her own house at Bethnal Green on Sept. 16, has never been accepted as a crime by the metropolitan police: all nie circumstances pointed to the conclusion that death was caused by a fall due to accident and not to violence. The murderer of Florence Saunders is well known to the police, hut h® absconded before his crime was discovered, and he Is believed to be still out of the country. In the case of Elizabeth Camp, found murdered in a London <X- Southwestern Railway carriage at Waterloo on Feb. 11. the body was removed from the railway station to St. Thomas’s nospltal, and from thenc® after a medical inspection it was sent to the mortuary, the police remaining in Ignoranc® that any crime had been committed. During the time that thus elapsed the murderer was drinking in a certain public house, but the opportunity of caking him red-handed w r as lost, and evidence was afterward lacking to justify an arrest. The last.case to be accounted for is that of a child of six found strangled in a field at Upton on Sept. 15, and this murder unfortunately remains in the fullest sense an “undiscovered crime. During the year 16,076 carriages were licensed, 7,925 being two-wheeled, 3,583 fourwheeled. 3,190 omnibuses, and 1,378 tramway cars. The new carriages numbered 1.421. There were 28,605 licensed drivers and conductors. The practice of conveying largo packages of luggage on the roofs of hansom cabs, so as to prevent the driver from having a proper view of the roadway’ and complete control over the horse, has resulted in many serious (and in more than once case fatal) accidents. It has therefor® been found necessary specially to caution all such drivers that serious notice will be taken of a persistence in this dangerou® practice. At the lost property office 39,161 article* were received during 1897. These included 2.681 bags, 3,OSS purses, 17,434 umbrellas and 181 watches. The miscellaneous articles, s.697 in number, included an artificial leg. a wooden bed rest, birds in cages, dogs, a gaa stove, musical instruments (including a portable street harmonium), and a sewing machine. No fewer than 19.392 articles were restored to'the losers. The awards paid to drivers and conductors amounted to £2,803, including three of £2O, one of £ls. one of £l4, four of £B, two of £7, three of £6 and ten of £3. STOMACHS SCRUBBED. Method Adopted by n rhynieinn to Exhilarate an Impotent Organ. New York Special. Probably the people who do not know that they have stomachs will not be interested in this latest medical discovery’. But to everyone who has ever had a twinge of ache from indigestion it promises quick relief without medicine. It is nothing les* than the brushing and washing out of thfl[ stomach and putting that organ through M set of gymnastic, exercises. That a dyspe® tic’s poor, diseased and flabby stomach cifl be scraped, oiled and set going again good as new’, like a watch is put in order by a jeweler, sounds incredible. I that is what Dr. Amerieus Enfield, ford, Pa., a member of the medical of the State, claims to do by his new’ fl ment. Dr. Enfield has written a of his treatment, which is so plain tlog doctor can apply it. The process isW an internal Turkish bath. But instKj the bath rubber applying himself the skin, the doctor inserts a hrnsfferAthe stomach and turns a pivot. up a whirlwind of bristles and the ® aoh’s sticky’ walls are scraped as tripe. Here Is Dr. Enfield’s niotgEKJM given by himself: “As so many surgical performed on the internal body, it occurred to me that might he cleansed and treated in® way. I was lid to attempt tltje hv® lessness of curing stomach trout® use of drugs. So I had\constn®KKS instruments for brushing* saging and spraying the 'fitomglagg giving any pain or doing alv “My first sup in rest or in? aeh is to give the patient qNßHpamSiaßl water in which is dissolved a tity of pure hickory ashes. This alkali that I have yet discovered thoroughly dissolve the thick, gluelike mucus that adheres to the walls of the stomach. “I then introduced through the mouth a small rubber-covered cable, to the end of which is attached a number of white hog bristles, which on entering the stomach at once expand like a brush. This cable is then revolved by a special machine at any rata desired. By raising and lowering the cable every part of the stomach is brushed. The effect of this alkali brusjß bath is like scrubbing the body’ with soflg and water. It casts loose all poise nous maß ter. which is constantly being absorbed h® so many dyspeptics, and leaves the stoma* M in a condition to be thoroughly cleaned oiitT^ “After the brushing proofs is completed I spray out the stomach with pure sterilized water. For this purpose I use a fountain suspended ten or fifteen feet above the patient’s head. The tube which is attached to it has a fine nozzle on the end. whieix sprays the stomach like a lawn sprinkler. At the same time another tube iy run down into the stomach, and through this is pumped out all the waste water, together with impurities. When a more powerful spray seems to he needed T use a suction syringe, by which I can splash the w’ater . up and down In the stomach. This increase*! the motive power of the stomach by stimiM lating its muscles. “When the stomach is thoroughly flushed! I proceed to put its muscular walls through* a set of gymnastic exercises. This is don® 1 bv forcing pure oxygen in and out of the stomach by means of a bellows. The effect of this is to restore the lost motive power oB the organ. Sometimes, in obstinate cases put a medicated cord into the stomach afl allow’ it to remain there till It produces traction. This is the treatment I use i® chronic gastritis, catarrh, dilatation, cc® traction and other diseases of the stoma It removes all decomposed food. tenacli® mucus, gas and germ life and leaves stomach pure and sweet. Digestion Is lifl restored by the stomach regaining its motive power.” Dr. Enfield holds that nearly all hodilyj® ments have their origin in the stomach. poisoning of the body begins babyhood when children are fed with iJB proper food. ./ i European specialists have also used wa/ M ing-out processes. Dr. Enfield believed they were on the right track, but did nR go far enough. They did not break up anß remove the diseased matter which accnm® lated in unhealthy stomachs. So he beg*| in thorough-going American fashion to pefM feet a system to do all these things. 5® successful has Dr. Enfield been that tt|H town of Bedford, Pa., in the last six monthsß has become a Mecca, invalids fromß all parts of that State and Maryland flocking to be internally renovated. Yonr Health. Baltimore American. Try cranberries for malaria. . Try a aun bath for rheumatism. Finger nails can be made strong and a delicate pink tint by the use of the fol-J lowing recipe: Melt two drams of purfl white wax and add a few drops of almoniß oil, then mix in the yoik of an egg uniß a paste is formed. The nails should jfa rubbed eveTy night with this, and gloyes should be worn. / The gastric Juices of the stomach/are capable of cultivation and can be encouraged by regularity and the gradual increase in the quantity of any particular food. A good appetite and a relish for what is eaten are important factors in the cure of dyspepsia, and both can be cultivated by this sam regularity. Many cases of dyspepsia are caused by errors in living. Overloading the stomach prolongs and retards digestion, especially to those of sedentary habits. The abuse of alcohol and the habit of taking meals hurriedly or at irregular hours or of engaging in work requiring the exercise of the brain or a stooping position after a meal are ail acts whose penalty sooner or later is dyspepsia. It is generally believed that the food® most easily digested are the best for dyspeptics. but this is a decided mistake, for if the 9tomaeh is given food requiring but little exertion to digest it will become weak, and if a greater amount of work Is ever expected of it it will rebel. In consequence a person predisposed to attacks of indigestion avoids many of the nourishing food t which alone can bring relief and health. There Is no one who likes to shake hand® with a person whose hand is cold and clammy. No one is better aware of this fact than the suffering party possessing the. disagreeable hand. The slightest exertion or change of weather is apt to bring about this condition. It .arise* from constitutional weakness or nervousness. Some remedle® are to rub a cut lemon over the palms, not using aoap. or using alum and water or boracic acid and water. An earache should not be passed over with a superficial examination, but the child should be given hot footbaths and put to bed. The bowels should be rreely acted on. Hot, dry applications are better than moist ones. It is better not to inject solutions of laudanum, moiphia or cocaine into the air. Opiates too often mask the pain and conceal the real trouble. Delays are dangerous* and in case of approaching rupture the tympanum should be freely incised. No physiever hesitate to call lit an auiiat

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