Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — THE MARKETS [ARTICLE]

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $6.05; hogs, shipping grades, $4.25 to $6.60; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn. No. 2,56 cto 57c; oats, No 2,41 c to 42c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c- ’.ay, timothy, $9.00 to $14.50; prairi •. $5.50 to $12.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, 75c to 83c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 white, 63c to 64c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $2.50 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77e; corn. No. 2, 57c to 58c; oats. No. 2,42 cto 43c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $6.60; sheep, $2.25 to $5.65; wheat, Nd. 2,80 cto 81c; eorn, No. 2 mixed, 61c to 62c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, 62c to 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 58c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, 46c to 47c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 56c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 2,61 c to 62c; clover seed, prime, $5.37. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,55 cto 56c; oats, No. 2 white. 43c to 44c; rye, No. 1,58 c to 59c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $15.65. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.40; bogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.80; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5.75; lambs, common to choice, $3.75 to $6.70. New York—-Cattle, $3.75 to $6.90; hog*. $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2, t»4c to 65c; oats. No. 2 white, 46c to 47c; butter, creamery, 25c to 28c; eggs, western, 15c to 16c. It is predicted that navigation on the great lakes wilt open by April 1, about two weeks earlier than usual.

Old Joe, the Night Watchman. (From the Pall Mall Gazette, London.) How often on returning home late on a dreary winter's night has our sympathy gone out to the poor old night watchman ■a he sat huddled up over his cage fire, overlooking the excavations which our City Council in their wisdom, or otherwise, allow the different water companion to make so frequently in our congested atreets. In all weathers, and under ail climatic conditions, the poor old night watchman is obliged to keep watch over the companies’ property, and to see that the red lights are kept burning. What a life, to be sure; what privations and hardships; no wonder they have aches and pains, which nothing but St. Jacobs Oil can alleviate. “Old Joe” is In the employ of the Lambeth Water Works. He has been a night watchman for many years, in the course r »f which he has undergone many experiences. What with wet and cold, he contracted rheumatism and sciatica, which fairly doubled him up, and it began to look a serious matter for old Joe; it looked extremely doubtful If he would much longer be able to perforin his duties, on which his. good wife and himself depended for a livelihood; but as it happened a passer-by, who had for some nights noticed Old Joe’s painful condition, presented him with a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, and told him to use it. Old Joe followed the advice given; he crawled home the next morning and bade his wife rub his aching back with the St. JaYobs Oil “a gentleman gave him,” and undoubtedly his wife did rub, for when Old Joe went on duty at night he met his friend and benefactor, to whom he remarked: “Them Oils you gave me, Guv’nor, did give me a doing, they wis like pins and needles for a time, but look at me now,” and Old Joe began to run and jump like a young colt. All pain, stiffness and soreness had gone, he had been telling everybody he met what St. Jacobs Oil had done for him. Old Joe says now he has but one ambition in life, and that is to always to be able to keep ■ bottle of St. Jacobs Oil by him, for he says there is nothing like it in the world. St. Jacobs Oil serves the rich and the poor, high and low, the same way. It has conquered pain for fifty years, and it will do the same to the end of time. Simple facts like the above tell an honest tale with which nothing on earth can compete.