Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 October 1897 — Page 3

SHIPMENT OF MONET. •' Rts—»s Wfcjr BmIu Prefer *• Remit Puti by Express. The fact that many southern and eastern banks have recently used the registered mail senrice for the transmission of currency to and from the banking centers of the country has caused considerable comment. The reason ia found in the inability of the banks to secure this year, through the treasury of the United States, the benefit of government contract rates from the express companies. Prior to this year the tieasury gladly shipped curreucy to banks at government rates, in return for gold. In the last contract with the express company, however, a clause was inserted by which such privileges should be afforded to the batiks only when the treasury needed gold. The secretary of the treasury having decided that the treasury does not need gold now, the banks cannot participate in the advantages of the government contract and to save transmission charges country bankers haTe directed their city correspondents to make shipments intended for them by registered mail. The cashier of a large national berk which ships many thousands of dollars every day to its correspondents all over the country, in speaking about this matter with a New York Evening Post reporter, said: “The conservative banker still prefers to send money by the well-known express companies; but, to save expense, since the government refuses to remit for the banks any longer at government contract rates, the country banks are apparently willing to take the risk of transmission by registered mail with the guarantee of an insurance company's policy for its safe delivery. Notwithstanding, however, the registration and insurance, the risks of- sendiug large sums of money by mail are very great. A package of currency which is forwarded by the registered mail department of the postal service has no distinctive mark indicating its value; a pencil receipt is given for it just the same as for any ordinary letter or package of merchandise. The package of money is thrown in with packages of merchandise of all sorts, and no more care is taken of it than is taken with a box of shoes or a package of gioves. The registry clerk’s receipt is not a document that is as well known or as satisfactory as the 'receipt of the receiving clerk of au express company, and in case of the loss of the package, the delay in the recovery 6( the money is interminable. “On the other hand, the express companies locate missing packages of money or make good the loss promptly, without technicalities or delays. They are responsible, and banks run uo risk In shipping by them. Their employes are chosen solely on the ground of ability and trustworthiness, and they are therefore more likely to be more accurate and prompt than postal employes, who owe their places, more or less, to politics, notwithstanding the civil service examination. While it is true that by insuring money sent by registered mail there is some guarantee •gainst loss by non-delivery, it is equally true that there Is considerable risk of loss If the insurance company stands on technicalities. The slightest informality in the observance of the terms of an open policy issued by an insurance company renders the policy invalid, and would in the case of a missing package cause the loss to fall on the consignor. The technicalities to be observed by a remitting bank in tending money by registered mail when the delivery of the money Is Insured by one of the local insurance companies are very great compared with the simple but safe methods of the express companies, and unless some new regulations are made by the postal authorities for sending registered mail conservative New \ork banks will certainly prefer to ship by express.” The cost of postage and insurance, •ays the Post, is much less than the usual express charges at what are known as bankers' rates. Pew New York bankers, however, would remit tuonev in that way, unless they were directed *to do to by their correspondents. They would rather ship it by express. even though it cost more to do so, because they consider it the safer way.

Walter T- was six years old. He never bad seen the ocean. We were to spend the summer at the seaside, and Walter had a new bathing suit. Every boy in the block was invited into the house to see him try it on, and one day we discovered him in the bathtub surrounded by an admiring group of juveniles, to whom he was discoursing about how he would dive from the end of the iron pier when he reached the ocean. When the young man, however, saw th* ocean with the great waves rolling on the beach, he could not be induced to go near it. and positively refused to put on his bathing suit. One1 day bis father offered him ttO cents if he would put on his suit and get wet all over once. He wanted the money very much, and he finally consented'. Clasping his arms around his father's neck like a vise, the great undertaking was begun. After much shivering and trembling he was wet •bout two inches above his ankles, when be exclaimed: “Papal I— guess—1—-will—only — take — teu -«■ cents*—worth—this—time.”—Crypt. ABOUT WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE. Chauncey Depew expects to purchase • farm of from 200 to 300 acres within ten miles of Boston. He has not yet decided on the exact location. Mrs. F. W. Fackler, of Dayton. O.. has fallen heir to an estate in Germany valued at $30,000. Her title to the estate was established by a family Bible la her possession. Rev. Mr. Saunders, a member of the eastern Ohio United Brethren conference, recently resigned because the confere nee decided that its mesa ben) should not oat tobacco.

AGRICULTURAL HINTS DOGS MADE USEFUL. la BrlftBM u4 Hollud They AH Made to Draw Milk Corfu. But now I have come over to Belgium and Holland, and I see things here that I could not see in the states. I want to tell you how a great many of the vehicles on the streets in the cities are drawn. They are drawn by dogs, and I have seen as high as five goodsized dogs hitched to one cart. Nearly all the milk carts ami bread carts are drawn by dogs. The carts are made like an American bam’cart, with two heavy wheels, about a» heavy as the front wheels of a narrow-tired American wagon. The dogs are sometimes hitched in front of the cart and sometimes under the cart. When there are but oue or two, they are hitched ao that they walk right under the bed and between the wheels. Often the axle of the cart has an arch in it so that the dogs walk right in the arch. The dogs usually wear good leather collars, made in a harness shop, and the traces are >

PEDDLING MILK IN BELGIUM, fastened to the legs or the body of the cart. The picture is one made from a photograph taken in Brussels, Belgium. The ! milk is usually retailed by women. It is surprising to see some of the large loads the dogs draw. It is a common thing to see two men or women sitting upou the cart with a half-dozen cans in the back of the bed. and going along the street. They have another very common method of doing work on their farms that we rarely see in the states—that is, with cattle. It is a common thing to see a man plow his beets or other crops with oue ox or with a cowhitched to a shovel-plow. When they work an animal single they have a collar and harness, aud a bridle with a bit that goes in the mouth, the same as we work a horse. Sometimes you see two animals hitched together—a cow and a bull, or two cows. To me ^it looks very much out of place to see two old milch cows hitched to a big load of wheat, but it is common .here. These people here know what it is to work. They cut every bit of their grain with the hand sickle. They raise magnificent erops of everything. Evfrything depends on manure, and nothing goes to waste. They are doing here what we in the states call intensive farming, but I don’t think that there is anything in the states like this. A man can’t come over here and not learn some valuable lessons. We have seen nothing like it in England or any place we have been. The tillage is better and the crops are better and I feel quite safe in saying that they are better farmers than the English farmers. But these men aj-e very poor breeders. Their horses aud cattle are bad. The Belgium cattle are very much like the Holstein cattle, but instead of beiug black and white, many are red aud white. Soma are just like the Holstein cattle. I have got some interesting lessons from the dairy industry of this country, but shall do a good bit more in the next few* weeks in that line.—P. F. Pfarr, in Ohio Farmer. FAr*T« anmit radi ir

Unit of That lard la This Country Contra from Italy. About three-quarters of the garlic used in this country is imported from Italy. It conies in hampers containing about HO pounds each. Garlic is raised in this country in Connecticut, in Louisiana, in Texas and in New Mexico. AH garlic, both imported and American, is put up in strings of bunches, something like the buuches in which onions were once commonly sold in this country, but much larger. American garlic is shipped in crates and barrels; some from the far southtwest comes in long cylindrical baskets. Garlic is sold by the pound or by the •ingle bulb, which is sold fora penny. In its commercial form, whole aud dry, garlic does not yield the strong smell for which it is famous. In a wholesale produce establishment.where garlic was stacked up in quantities, there was no noticeable odor from it. But if one of the several smaller bulbs ; of which each root Is composed and which are called cloves of garlic be broken off and broken in two the powerful odor becomes perceptible. The aggregate consumption of garlic in this country is large, and our exports of it to South American countries, which include American garlic and imported gar He reshipped, amount to enough to be reckoned In tons.—X. Y. Sun. Solid* Is Pare Milk. Many people are surprised to learn that milk which is liquid has a larger proportion of solid contents than have many articles of food. Milk averages per cent, of solid matter, of which a i considerable part is albumen. It is this which coagulates with heat, and still m ire when rennet la used. Potatoes are 80 per cent, moisture, though when the potato is cooked the starch in it expends, making it seem much heartier food than it is. The solid of the potato is mainly starch. That of milk is divided between caseine. butter fats and sugar; the last of which is found in whey, whieh, even though it be soured, shows by that fact that it has had some sugar in It,

LATEST FOREIGN GOSSIP. Eating wax candies has killed s Worcester, England, young woman. Ska ate them in order to improve her complexion. Dulwich, now a populous district of London, still has a toll gate across one of its main streets at which tolls are collected regularly. Sir Henry Lushington, the oldest baronet in England, died recently at the age of 95 years. His son who succeeds him is 71 years of age. Mr. G. R. Sims, the dramatist, is the author of a hair restorer whioh he has tried on himself, as he asserts, with success, and is forming a company to make it known. An English vandal, caught cutting off gold tassels from the curtains of the late King Ludwig's palace on the Chiemsee in Bavaria, has been sent to jail j for a fortnight for larceny. Queen Natalie of Serria lost a dia mond ring at Biarritz and rowed that if it was found she would give it to the Little Sisters of the Poor. The ring, worth $2,000, was found and the exqueen is selling it by lottery. A requiem mass in an Anglican church at Nottingham was interrupted by visitors to the recent church congress held in the town, who protested against it repeatedly as being contrary to the book of Common Prayer. M. Antonie has decided to be his own manager and has therefore hired the Menus Plaisirs theater for the coming season. He will select hK plays on> the principles of the old Theater Liber, but will give performances every evening instead of occasionally. One hundred mile® of the Uganda railroad have been completed and will be thrown open to traffic at once. There remain 300 miles to be constructed before the Victoria „Nyanxa is reached. The last 40 miles were laid down in a little over two months. r South African Dutch Reformed church proposes to excotamunicat* total abstainer®; The synod has declared “lhat members who unite them- j selves with teetotal societies become unfaithful to their membership, and if they will not give heed after many j warnings must be cut off from member ship in the church.” DECISIONS BY THE COURTS. lee and snow accumulated on a sidewalk from natural causes if suffered to remain until the surface is so rough, ridged, rounded or slanted that it is difficult for persons on foot to pass over it with ordinary care is held, in Huston vs. Council Bluffs (la.). 36 L. R. A. 211. to constitute a defect for | which the town »s liable. A provision for the treatment of habitual drunkards in private institutions at county expense when they are not financially able to pay for their own treatment is held, in Wisconsin Keelev Institute company vs. Milwaukee county (Wis.), 36 L. R. A. 55, to be outside the range of the police power and such use of the public money is held not to be for public purposes. Jumping in the dark from a freight train in rapid motion on which one was riding without permission was held, in Shevlin vs. American Mutual Accident association (Wis.), 36 L. R. A. 52, to constitute an exposure to unnecessary danger within the meaning of an accident insurance policy which did not contain the words “voluntary,” “wantonly,” “willfully,” or any equivalent words. A bystander who interrupts the court by declaring that he knows persons who saw the affair under consideration, but refuses to give their names so that they can be summoned as witnesses, is held, in Coleman vs. Roberts (Ala.), 36 L. R. A. 84, to be punishable for eonU mpt. The court says it is not of consequence that such person was not present in obedience to proeess. The power of the general assembly to abridge the power of a court created by the constitution to punish contempts summarily is denied, in Hale vs. state (O.), 36 L. R. A. 254. on the ground that j such power of the courts is inherent and j necessary to the exercise of judicial functions. The annotation to the case shows that there is some conflict on the question, and some courts have made a distinction between constitutional courts and others in this respect.

THE MARKETS. Niw York, October ». 1S«7. CATTLE—Native Steers.• 4 00 3t 5 JO COTTON—Middling.. ft FLA)UK—Winter Wheat.. #75 wt 5 25 WHEAT-No 2 Bed. ft I t»lS CORN—No*.* .... ft 32* OATS- No. 2.. ft 2* PORK—New Mess.. 9 25 ft 10 00 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. 5\ BEEVES—Stea**. 3 25 Cows and Heifers.. 2 50 CALVES— (per head). 6 00 ft 11 50 HOOS-Fair to Select. 3 35 ft 3 87H SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 2 75 ft 3 90 FLOU R - Patents. . 4 75 ft 4 85 Clear and Straight .. 4 10 ft 4 56 WHEAT-No 2 Red Winter. ft WH CORN-No. 2 Mixed. ft 24S OATS—No. 2.-. .... ft 19 RYE-No2.,. 42 ft 44 TOBACCO—Lugs. 3 00 M *» Leaf Burley. 4 50 HAY-Clear Timothy.. 7 00 BUTTER-Choice Dairy.. 15 EGOS—Fresh. PORK Standard <new>. BACON—Clear Rib....'. .... LARD-Prime Steam .. 4)44 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Natlee Steers.. 4 00 a HOGS-Fair to Choice... 3 45 ft SHEEP—Fair to » uoloe.. 2 25 ft FLOUR-Winter Patents..... 4 SO ft Spring Patents. 4 70 WHEAT-No. 2 Spring No. 2 Red (new)..... CORN-No. 2. OATS-No- 2. PORK—Mess-(new) .. S7V*ft 8W4 .... ft 25*ft »\ ... 44 l»l4 8 00 ft 8 06 Kansas city. . CATTLE—Native Steen. 3 » ft 5 10 HOGS—All Grades. 8 M ft 3 «7H WHEAT- No. 2 Hard. 83 ft 85 OATS-No 2 White . 18t*ft 19 CORN—No. *. 23 ft 23\ NEW ORLEANS FLOUR—High Gt ade. 4 50 CORN-NoI.. 30 OATS-Western ... ..... 25sft HAY—Choice. 13 00 PORK-Old Mess. BACON—Sides. COTTON—Middling. • LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No 2 Red... CORN-No 2 Mixed... OATS-No 2 Mixed. PORK-New Mesa. 9 00 BACON—Clear Bib.. COTTON—Middling.

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