Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1900 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT.' F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. “ j ~ S.KSSeUCS, IHOIAMA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The Northern Pacific Kailroad Company haa filed with the Secretary of State at St. Patil. Munr., a deed from the St. Patil and Duluth Railroad Company transferring all its property t<s the-N-ort h- ,, ern Pacific. The consideration was $2,*799,824. In Cincinnati the five-story brick warehouse of Chatfield & Wood, filled with paper stock, completely colhipseiL The saloon and duelling of Charles Eckert was adjacent to the ruined building. Eckert's daughter, Gertrude, (1 years old, was crushed to death. The entire business section of the village of Middleton, Wis„ was wiped out by fire-insurance loss is $75,000 to SIOO,000, with actual loss much greater. Twenty-three buildings are reported to have burned, including tftc opera house, two hotels and the postoflice. . A deed of transfer was filed with the Secretary of State at Pierre, S. I)., transferring all the lands of the Winona nnd St-. Peter Railway in that State to the Chicago and Northwestern road. Consideration of SIOO is given, but the instrument bears revenue stamps to the amount of $18,287. Serious and irreparable damage has been done spring wheat in the Northwest, just how aerjous is a question upon which interested men differ. The most conservative view, bused on conditions as they are to-day, does not give hope of a crop exceeding 60 per cent of that raised In Minnesota and the Dakotas last .va r. . One man. killed, five seriously Injured ami a number of others more or less seriously hurt, is the result of the destruction .hyjfire of..the_ Morrison 1 lotel at South Bend, I'nd. The Morrison Hotel - was known until recently as tin- Glenview Hotel. The loss to the property will amount to somewhere in the neighborhood of $15,000, partially insured. City Marshal Milford Parker was instantly killed nt Galena, Kan. A telephone wire had fallen across the sidewalk and he picked it up to wrap it around a post. He walked a distance of about thirty feet with it in his hands, when he suddenly-pitched forward dead. In pulling the wire to tie it up. it touched a live wire which connected the current. Gov. Stephens of Missouri has issued a proclamation shutting out the cattle from a number of States in which he says tuberculosis exists. The States against which the quarantine is directed are: Maine, New Hampshire,,» Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Delaware. Ohio, Indiana, 1 llinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Minnesota, - CalF fornia. Kentucky ami Tennessee and the I lominiou i■! < '.’tnnda. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 31 17 Boston .21 24 Brooklyn ...30 17 Cincinnati ...20 20 Pittsburg .. .25 27 St. Louis. .. .20 27 Chicago ....23 25 New York... 19 26 Following is the standing in the American League: • W. L. W. L. Indianapolis 30 17 Kansas City. 27 28 Chicago ....32 21 Cleveland ...25 24 Milwaukee ~28 24 Buffalo .....II) 32 Minneapolis. 28 20Detroit 16 33 The first beneficial result of the agreement recently entered into between the National Foundrymen's Association and the National Iron Molders’ Union has been attained. The iron molders employed at Randolph At Co.'s works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, went on strike for an advance of from $2.75 to $3 a day in wages. By the terms of the agreement referred to union iron molders cannot go on Strike until the matter in dispute is first referred to a board of arbitration. The delegate of the New Y'ork local organization of the national union ordered the men to return to work, and they promptly did so. The strike lasted only an hour.

BREVITIES.

Smallpox has broken out in the thickly populated East Eml of London. Yaqui Indians have decided to keep up their fight against the .Mexican Government. Five persons wore injured by the fall of an elevator in the Hotel Walton. Philadelphia. A lion in a menagerie at Milwaukee broke from his cage and killed a kangaroo and n pony. Greek Church authorities have issued a secret order forbidding masses for Tolstoi should he die unrepentant. Mrs. Gladstone was buried beside her husband in Westminster Abbey, the Queen Iwing represented at the services. British troops on the Gold Coast have been defeated again b) the Ashantis. Train No. 70 on the Cumberland and Ohio Southern branch of the Louisville ami Nashville Railroad went through a bridge at Calvary, Ky.. causing the death of two men and the injury of twelve others. Anson riielps Stokes. Jr., secretary of the Yale corporation and son of Anson Phelps Stokes, the New York banker, has irv.cepted th<* position of assistant pastor of St. I’aul's Episcopal Church of New Haven, Conn. A terrific thunderstorm passed over the section of ♦suintry near Bed Fern, R. I>. Two boys about 10 years old, George McNickie and John Thompson, were killed by lightning. The families of both boys are well known. The south polar expedition, promoter! by former Captain Oscar Von Bmtondahl of Berlin, will sail nt an early date from Hamburg. , The Deliver Times hns passed into the hands of a new management. Charles E. Hasbrook, recently business manager of the Denver Republican, assumes control as editor and manager. Three departments of the Illinois Steel Company at Routh Chicago, the slab mill, employing 400 men; plate mill, 500 men, and the open-hearth furnace, 300 men, which were closed down recently, resumed operations.

EASTERN.

Ciasie Loftus fainted during heiijyerformnnee at the Philadelphia opera house. President Gary said the Federal Steel Company is producing 80 per cent of its capacity. » Rochester, N. Y., welcomed Gen. Otis home with a crowd of 200,000, tyith cannon. a parade and banquet. The will of the late Charles K. Lamies of New Jersey disinherits two of his sons, one of whom lives in Chicago. Figures by the New York bureau of labor statistics show a steady gain in the growth of labor organizations. A Brooklyn millionaire’s wife had a woman arrested on the street who is said to have swindled many rich families. Henry C. Frick, the steel magnate, is having trouble over the dividing line with Alexander R. Peacock, bis neighbor, and has built a stone wall, it is said, for spite. Burglars discovered in a big New Y’ork dry goods store bound the proprietor and his friend while they attempted to blow the safe open. New York Republicans say the ice scandal will cost Tammany several seats in the Legislature, and possibly a Congressman or two. Barlin Brown, while disentangling electric wires in front of the soldiers’ home at Newport News, struck two live wires with bis shoulders. Death was instantaneous. - The Miner apartment house, a six-story structure at the corner of Madison avenue and Sixty-third street, New Y’ork, was destroyed by fire. The property loss is $250,000. Judge Townsend of the United States Circuit Court in New Y'ork holds that Porto Rico is a part of the United States with respect to foreign countries, but a foreign country with respect to the United States. lu the presence of hundreds of people who had gathered on a playground in Charleston, Mass., to witness the festivities Of Bunker Hill day, Henry E. Parson, aged -12, of Somerville shot and killed WiHjnm Hammond. aged 21, of Everett. The British steamer Maryland, from London for Philadelphia, upon her arrival had on board Captain Baxter, his daughter anti eight of the crew of the British schooner Nelly, who were picked up at sea June 11. The Nelly was abandoned in a water-logged condition. Five persons were painfully injured and fifteen or twenty others less seriously hurt by the wreck of the Carnegie accommodation on the Panhandle Railroad. The accident was caused by a landslide from Mount Washiugfon, over 100 tons of rock and earth toppling over on the train.

WESTERN.

A cyclone is reported to have swept through portion/ oUArkansas and Mississippi. ** Minnesota Odd Fellows have voted to exclude druggists and hotelkeepers' from the order. A St. Louis deputy is accused of murder by a coroner's jury as a result of Sunday's riot, Chicago’s dog license bureau has broken all records, having issued tags for 27,235 canines. Fire burned business buildings in Bloomington, 111., and caused a loss of SJ,(XM),OOO or more. English labor delegates have come to the United States to found Ruskin labor college at St. Louis. Chicago Naval Reserves will get from SSO to SIOO prize money for their part in the battle of Santiago. The prosecuting attorney of Grand Rapids, Mich., has begun action against a combination of ice dealers. A California court decided that the marriage of nelsons within a year after divorce in that State is invalid. Six thousand Indians on the Gila reservation, Arizona, are said to be starving to death because of failure of crops. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, aged widow of Gen. Fremont, fell and fractured her hip joint at Los Angeles. Rose Hudson and Merle Bressler, 14-year-old girls, were drowned while bathing in the Platte river at Bellewood, Neb. The population of Chicago is less than if couuted in January, as labor troubles caused many workingmen to leave the city. John E. Sullivan, ex-clerk of Marion County, Ind., has surrendered himself on charge of embezzling $60,000 eleven years ago. In the Federal Court in San Francisco, Cal., Judge Morrow dissolved the general quarantine declared against Chinatown. George G. Gardner, n Chicago boy killed in battle against the Filipinos, had insured his life for $2,500 in favor of bis sweetheart. Dr. Lung, with an armed guard, resisted the attempt of his successor to take charge of the Nebraska Institution for Feeble-Minded. Charles Miller, 14 years old, pf Raymond, 111., has been swallowed up in Chicago and his name is on the police register ns •’missing." Passengers in a Burlington train in Nebraska were badly frightened during n fierce iftrm. Hailstones as large as baseballs broke the car windows. Andrew Hogan, a prominent citizen of Steubenville, Ohio, was struck by a locomotive nnd instantly killed while walking on the track inside the city limits. On Friday the St. Louis street car employes offered to resume work under conditions existing previous to the strike; (150 men were reinstated. The main gate of the Chengivatona dam over Snake river, a mile above Pine City, Minn., was blown out by dynamite. It !» supposed to be the work of up-river farmers, whose land had been overflowed. Teachers with physical ailments are likely to be barred from the Chicago schools in future. Only those of robust physique will be employed. The arrest of Charts P. Parker, a Chicago ex-banker mid clubman, st Lake Minnetonka, Minn., results in diiiclosnrcs that he Is accused of frauds aggregating $75,000. The New York Ice trust cases Were removed Friday from Court of Special Sessions, mid will go to New* York grand jury, which will uot reach them before October. IT re destroyed the DqpgU* school. Thirty-second street and Forest avenoe.

Chicago, entailing a loss of $85,000 and leaving 1,000 pupils without an institution of learning. - allowance of $113,400* for the Chicago postoffice, which will cause 365 promotions nnd the erection of forty-five new sub-postal stations. Comptroller Bird S. Coler of New York City, who has recently been visiting in Champaign, 111., purchased the cottage in which be was born thirty-five years ago, paying SI,BOO for it. Tj«ing around his neck a rope; to which was attached a heavy stone, W. H. Brockway plunged from a bridge over the Cache La I’otidre river, near Greeley, Colo., and was drowned. Judge Fiske of North Dakota lias handed down a tax decision holding the new State grain elevator law valid. Under this law all grain found in elevators April 1 is taxed regardless of ownership. The new Auditorium built at Des Moines by popular subscription last summer at a cost of $45,000 was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The cause is unknown, but is supposed to be defective electric wiring. Joseph Koetzle, n Sioux Falls, S. D., saloonkeeper, was held by the coroner’s jury for the death us William Dowdell, a retired farmer, whom he struck in a tight a few days ago. Koetzle was platted under SI,OOO bond for his appearance in court. JThe California special bearing 400 delegates to the Republican convention at Philadelphia crashed Into a freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway at Thirty-ninth street, Chicago, and a panic among the passengers followed. Estimates made for a Chicago paper indicate that, the census will show a population of 78,964,742, an increase of 26 per cent; value of manufactured products, $12,698,403,060, a gain of 36 per cent; and farm lands, $17,865,200,831, a gain of 35 per cent. James JC Jones,~cKSlrfffffH“ot the Democratic national committee, arrived at Kansas City Thursday to preside over the sub-committee meeting. The principal theme discussed was the charge that exorbitant rates are being asked by the hotel proprietors. In a collision of a Bowling Green and a Maumee Valley electric car Ross Quickie was fatally hurt and several others seriously injured. The cars were running at the rate of thirty miles an hour when they came together on a curve between Perrysburg and Toledo, Ohio. By an explosion of dynamite at the Hale mine, three miles from Biwabik, Minn., five men were instantly killed. After the fuse had been lighted the usual alarm was given to the laborers, but five of them ran into the drift where the charge had been planted, meeting their death. The big Union grain elevator in Kansas City was destroyed by fire, causing a damage of over SIOO,OOO. The building was valued at $70,000, and it contained $30,000 worth of wheat, all of which was destroyed. J. K. Davidson, principal owner of the property, states that the loss is covered by insurance. —ln Cincinnati Herman Haermeyer came home drunk, knocked his wife and daughter clown - iwid was beating them when his 18-year-old sou jumped from bed to help them. The father was getting the better of his son when the boy ran for his pistol and shot his father twice. The father died and the son was held for murder. • A syndicate* of Minneapolis, Minn., capitalists has bought the Mississippi Valley Telephone Company from J. L. Hubinger. who has iu the last three years invested $609,000 in the fight there and in St. Paul against the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company. As much more will now be put in ami the fight continued.

SOUTHERN.

John Thomas Taylor, veteran Mississippi river pilot, is dead at Louisville, aged 71. W. J. Bryan has written Senator Blackburn of Kentucky that the Goebel law must be repealed. Ben E. Stewart, well known in Memidiis, Tenn., insurance circles, committed suicide with poison. Business troubles are aarigiied as the cause. The grand jury at Hopkinsville, Ky., returned indictments against five large coal mining companies and eight coal deniers, charging them with extorting money from the public by unlawfully combining to maintain advanced prices of coal. Sullivan Converse of Chicago and his father were drowned while bathing in the bayou Chicot, near Scranton, Miss. The sou was seized with cramps and his father attempted to rescue him. Neither being able to swim, both sank in full view of Sullivan's brother. Moved by strange jealousy of an adopted daughter, Thomas Bach, 50 years old, shot and killed Mollie Bach. 18 years old, because she wns secretly married four weeks ago to Newt Thorne. The tragedy occurred ut the Bach farm, eleven miles from Louisville. Ky.

FOREIGN.

Earle's Shipbuilding Company*of Hull, one of the largest in England, has failed. British steamer City of Roteterdam was sunk near Eddystone Light by coasting steamer Newbiggin. The" British steamer Sierra Nevada was wrecked mid twenty-three of the crew of twenty-eight wore drowned. Gen. Botha abandoned his position cast of Pretoria Thursday and fell back to a stronghold on the Dalogoa railway. . Mrs. W. u£. Gladstone, widow of the noted English statesman, died nt Hawarden castle in London Thursday, aged 88 years. A Routh African congress will be held in Madrid in October to arrange a rapprochement between Spain mid her former colonics. It is reporttai that the Colombian rebels have secured n great victory near Panama. and it is believed they hold possession of the'eity. One of the characters in a new novel so closely resembled a London society woman that rhe threatened suit and it m m suppressed. Miss Jewell, who became infatuated with Prime Lobeugula in England, quarreled with him and is believed to huve drowned henelf. The British attacked Botha near Pretoria, and the fight was still on when Lord Roberta, hearing of the Interruption

of his communications to the south, had to hurry back and tnake arrangements for reopening the railway. Methuen's column, re-enforced by troops under, Kitchener, attacked Dewet’s commando at Rhenoster and dispersed the Boers with nineteen casualties. Shanghai reports that the ministers are virtually prisoners in Pekin and practically unprotected from attack; 100,000 Chinese troops massed to resist foreign relief column. Russia is reported to be aiding the dowager with men and guns. The* World's Temperance Congress came to a close »a London with a reception to the delegates at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor, The American delegates impressed the United Kingdom delegates with the progress of the temperance cause in the United States. Abbe Mareux, the French astronomer, has discovered and sketched a remarkable spot on the sun, forming a part of an extensive group. He predicts (lie appearance of other spots in July, August and September, inferring that the heat during those mouths will be very- great.

IN GENERAL.

The army ha? turned over control of Cavite peninsula to the naval forces. Bradstreet’s says actual business is greater than a year ago, though clearings show decrease. Christian Endeavor delegates refused to travel Sunday while going to the Boston convention. Steamer Alpha arrived at Y’ancouver from Cape Nome with five miiiers and $300,000 in gold. Seven American artists have received awards at Baris Exposition; more than any .other country. Admiral Dewey says he is convinced the people don’t want him for President and that he is glad of it. Governor General Wood of Cuba is to apjtoint a commission to investigate -charges that are madeagninst office holders. Election in Cuba was extremely peaceable, not a gu'nshot being fired in the island. Gen. Rodrigues is elected- May or of Havana. Admiral Dewey said Friday he was not a candidate for’’ the vice-presidency and would decline the honor were it proffered him. Mrs. Mabel Clarke has sued Calvin S. Brice's widow for $50,000, which she says the Senator promised to leave her in his will. The National Steel Company has decided not to opera.te the steel rail plant independent of the trust and has been taken into the pool. The National Association of Millers demands changes in the interstate commerce law to prevent discrimination in favor of monopolies. The Kentucky, Missouri, Georgia, California aud Vermont Democratic State conventions chose delegates to Kansas City and indorsed W. J. Bryan. Thursday’s Democratic conventions insured Bryan's renominatiofi, increasing his total number of delegates to 696, while 620 are necessary to a choice. Photographs of the eclipse of the sun taken by Prof. Crew of Northwestern University were ruined by underexposure. Y'erkes Observatory staff's photographs of spectrum of sun's chromosphere are satisfactory. Y’ellow fever has broken out at Quemados, eight miles from Havana, Cuba, where United States troops are stationed. Thus far there have been fourteen cases, three of which proved fatal. Only six are under treatment and all are expected to recover. Maj. Frank Edmunds nnd Mrs. Edmunds were both stricken. Havana has only three cases. A strong combination of the transportation companies doing business in Alaska and the Northwest Territory has been formed. The YVhite Pass and Yukon Railway Company has practically absorbed the Canadian Development Company and the John Irving Navigation Company. The management of the three big companies has been brought uudet one control, which will be from general beadquarters at Skaguay, According to advices from Norton's bay, four of a party of five men have been murdered and the fifth is wandering in the wilderness. The party consisted of Oliver W. Scott of Tacoma, Dr. A. A. Keyser, Minneapolis, Minn.; W. W. Wright of San Francisco, T. B. Haines of San Francisco and George Beckholdt, Minneapolis. The men found gold in abundance and it is supposed fought over it. Haines was the sole survivor.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, shipping gradesc, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair.to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red. 77c to. 79c; corn, No. 2,89 ctp 41c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 58e; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, Oe to 11c; new potatoes, 50c to 00c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, SB.OO to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5,75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 10c to 42c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 20c; rye. No. 2,53 cto 55c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 81c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; rye. No. 2,03 cto 05c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 2(ic •to 27c; rye, <JOc to 02c. Toledo— Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 82c to 83c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2,58 c to talc; clover seed, prime. $5.45 to $5.55. Milwaukee--Wheat, Nd. 2 northern, 75c to 77c; corn. No. 3,38 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white. 25c to 27c; rye, No. 1,58 c to GOe; barley, No. 2,44 cto 4Gc; pork, mess, $11.50-to $12.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $(>.00; hogs, fair to prime, S3.UO to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; la tubs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.75. New York—Cattle. $3.25 to $0.00; bogs, $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, So. 2 red, 80c to 90c; corn. No. 2, 47c to 48c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 81c; butter, creamery, 10c to 20c; eggh, wect*rn, 13c to 15c.

KANSAS CITY’S TROUBLES.

Bow to Feed and Lodge 10,000 Vieitore Is a Question. There will be big crowds and big times in Kansas City during the national Democratic convention in July, writes a correspondent. It is estimated that at least 10,000 strangers will be in the city the week of the convention, and it is a big problem how all of them will be fed and furnished places for rest at night. But the hotel man smiles, for right at the start he and his brethren decided what they would do. They would put six persons in a room and charge each one full rates as if he had the room to himself. That is one way of getting around the problem of insufficient hotel capacity. The nervous man who insists at home on perfect quiet and an open window that he may sleep will do right well with seven husky strangers sleeping on cots and in the bed with him—-seven men of various habits and methods of wooing balmy slumber. The man who cannot sleep until he smokes a good-night cigar and the other fellow who always takes a few puffs at a cigarette before retiring may be in the room with him. The man who snores will be present in numbers and the man who gnashes his teeth probably will share the bed, since no one man can have a bed to himself in such stirring times. At $3 a day these accommodations will be a boon to everyone. Cots of all sizes and degrees of weak-, ness have been ordered by private citizens with spare rooms and arc arriving by the car load. The sign painters are having an unexampled “boom” in painting placards announcing “Rooms to rent” and “Sleeping accommodations,” which will be plastered all over the town. The family will have to sleep out in the woodshed for a week when the rooms will bring $lO each aud some of the prospective landlords have the money spent already. A lot of wise persons who have a little money to spend are going to “beat the game” by living in Pullman cars during the excitement. The cars vttl be switch* 1 ed to side tracks in the railroad yards and there the travelers will repair every night to sleep. But if sleeping is a prime consideration in the eyes of many, there are those who will take a chanee on sleeping accommodations if they are sure of eating regularly. It is nearly always the case when a national convention is held in a small city with a few first-class hotels that the dining rooms are jammed at meal time so that those who are paying for their meals on the “American plan” are unable to get near the tables for hours. When every seat is taken the management closes the doors of the dining room in the face of a dense mob besieging them and lets the people in by the half dozen as the diners get through and go out. This is no good way for those who are in a hurry, like the delegates, and are obliged to gtt back to another session, of the convention after it adjourns for luncheon. Therefore the restaurants are preparing to take care of a major portion of the crowd and hundreds of temporary lunch stands under canvas and in nooks and corners will be run up for convention week. Just what arrangements will be made to face these problems are matters for the future to disclose, but certain it is that Kansas City, as a whole, has a lot to think about*

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New York—lnfluences that ordinarily might be expected to cause considerable disturbance in commercial circles have recently come to the surface. Reports of serious damage to growing crops in portions of the Northwest and a renewal of the gold exporting movement on a fairly extensive scale coming on the eve of a presidential campaign might well be calculated to cause some setback in trade. The rapid pace of tfie onward movement of the last two or three years has been checked somewhat. The stock market continues to be a purely room traders’ affair. Business during the week has been on an exceedingly small scale, and taken as a whole the variations in prices have been of little consequence. So far there has been practically no investment liquidation. On the other hand, there is no demand for stocks, and it is difficult to see what will induce a buying power in the near future aside from the short interest made and making. Chicago—The wheat market was again igitated last week by the reports of irreparable damage having been done to ipring wheat by the drought. Numerous ihowers fell on the border of the affected territory without benefit to the places Heeding it most, from whiclv, latter came a cry of alarm that excited the speculators and added 3 cents a bushel to the price of wheat. As serious inroads had been made on spring wheat by the iepredations of its most indefatigable enemies, the Hession flies, it cannot be said that 3 cents advance in the price since a week ago indicates any undue haste among the gull speculators to take advantage of such a tempting condition of affairs. The only rift in the cloud that spreads its somber shadow over the agricultural prospect is in the Southwest, from whence comes news the most cheering of the coining harvest; where indeed the cutting of wheat has already commenced, nnd the only anxiety of the farmers of that region is for the means to gather their superabundant crop. Large as the yield promises to be, however, In that favored section, It cannot wholly compensate for the great losses in other localities, nnd in averaging the result it seems highly probable that next season's prices will have to be adjusted to smaller supplies than were forthcoming throughout the season now coming to an end. A 3-year-old child fell from the window of a Staten Island train while the latter was at full speed. When recovered "the babe was unhurt, save for a few scratches on its forehead. Parts of the side of a sheep seized in a London slaughter house some time ago presented the first authenticated case of tuberculosis in that animal recorded in England. Lord Roberta la one of the best swordsmen in the British army. He is also an •xpert with the lance.

GIRLHOOD, WOMANHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD

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Sheep Raising in New Zealand.

During the last three years the number of sheep raised in New Zealand has fallen from 56,000,000 to 43,000,000.

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Salt as a Medium of Exchange.

In Abyssinia, not long ago, salt was the principal medium of exchange, being practically used as money.

What Do the Children Drink?

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Surprise.

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Binder Twine at Low Prices.

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