Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 361, 8 February 1907 — Page 6

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The Richmond Palladium, Friday, February 8, 1907. 1

Provisions Live Stock, Grain . and Stock Markets

RICHMOND MARKETS All market quotations remained practically stationary yesterday neither raising or falling. The price of hogs remained at the 7 figure and are expected to stay at this point for some time unless another and higher quotation is reached. In speaking of the present situation in the hog market a Richmond packer said yesterday, that no butchers or packers were expecting the present high price as they expected a drop during the months of October, November and December, the heaviest butchering and packing season. Instead of prices of hogs lowering during this period they gradually increased so at the present time the animals are bringing a fancy figure, to the farmers who are so lucky as to own hogs. Under ordinary circumstances the hog market would now just be recovering from the j effects of the heavy packing season and the probable price would be no more than $G.O0 or $6.25 at the most. THE LOCAL MARKETS. (The prices quoted below are those paid by J. M. Eggemeyer. Main &. Fourth streets, for produce, vegetables and fruits. Thts gives the farmers and gardeners the accurate ouotatiens for their products; also gives the merchant f the smaller towns the wholesale prices pa d in Richmond on af. fruits, etc., bought from Commission mnj Butter. Butter, (extra creamery) 31c. Butter, (fancy country) 20c. Butter, (packing stock) lc. Eggs. Eggs, (fresh county) Eggs, (storage Aprils ...... ...20c. ,..18c Poultry. Chickens, (frys) 25c each. Chickens, (old hens) Sc lb. Chickens, (roosters) 25c each. Turkeys, (live) 12c lb. Geese, (live) 6c lb. Ducks, (live) .. .... . . .. ..8c lb. Fruits. Lemons. (Cal.) S.oU. Oranges, (Fioridas all sizes) ' $2.50 box. Cranberries, (fancy Howes; ...... $8.50 bbl. Cranberries, (Pride of Cod) .. .. $15 bbl. Apples, (fancy cooking varieties).. S2 bbl. Apples, (greenings) .. ..$2.50 bbl. Apples, (Baldwins) $2.50 bbl. .Apples, (Northern Spys)..$3.50 bbl. Apples, (Kings) $J.75 bbl. Apples, (Grimes Golden) ... .$4 Dbl. Apples, (Belleflowers, extras.) box. : 1.25 Apples, (Jonathans, extras! $5 "bbl. Grape fruit, (Florida fancy) box..". $3.50. .Malaga grapes $8 50. Tangerines, (Fioridas) $2. Chestnuts, (Italian) . .:...5c lb. Vegetables. Endive lettuce, per doz 70c. Leeks, per doz 25?.0c. Carrots, new, per doz 60c. Beets, new per doz. bunches. .50c. Turnips, new, per doz. bunches, 60c. Spinach, per doz. bunches, 5055o. Radishes, hot house, per doz. ,.60c. Cucumbers hot house, per doz. $1 50 Shallots, per doz. bunches, ....55c. Lettuce, leaf, per case 40?45c. Lettuce, head, per box $t.00. Cabbage, red. per bbl $2.50. Cabbage. Holland seed, extra fancy per bbl ..1.13. Beets, per sack, ..75c. Beets, per bbl. , ..$1.45. Carrots, per sack ..75c. Carrots, per bbl $1.35. Turnips, white, per sack . 75c. Turnips, white, per bbl $1.50. Parsnips, washed, per sack ....75c. Persnlps. per bbl $150. Squash, Hubbard, per bbl. .. .$1.50. Garlic., in baskets, per lb 12c. Oyster plant, per doz 55c. Parsley, per doz 30S5c. Rutabagas, Canadian, in sacks, per bushel 40c. Horse radish, root, per bunch.. 85c. Horse radish, root, per bbl.. $5.75. WHEAT AND CORN. Paid by Richmond Roller Mills.) Wheat 75c. New corn per bu ..40c. Old corn, per bu 40c Oats, per bu 35c. Rye 60c WAGON MARKf. (Paid by H. J. Ridge . Son.) Timothy Hay. Baled $10 Loose $14 Mixed Baled 12 13 Miscellaneous. Straw, bailed . . $6 CIOVEH SEED (Paid by John H. Runge &. Co.) Clover Seed. Little Red or Bis English. ier bu, (cleaned) $7.25 7.50 Timothy seed $2.05 2.10 RICHMOND LIVESTOCK. (Paid by Richmond Abb3ttr.) Cattle. Choice butcher steers . . nulls Cows, common to good Calves ... . 4.505? .3.00 .2.7r?f 6.503 4.75 3.50 3.75 7.00 6.S0 Hogs. Hogs, heavy select packers B.W'J? Hogs. DS0 lbs. common and rough G.t.OJi Hogs, 200 to Zo0 lbs aver.. 6.85? tl.lO 7.00 odd Cra.t In nnbroom. "They make queer selections or offlcera in New York clubs," said an out of town observer. "For example, the secretary of th lHn and Brush club Is a dry goods buyer for out of town people. Tho president of the Woman's Tress club is a doctor and the president of the Pleiades club, a tlab of literary, theatrical and musical people, lg an insurance agent"

THE PALLADIUM MARKET REPORTS ARE THE LATEST AND ARE ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE. NO NEWSPAPERS IN INDIANA, THOSE OF INDIANAPOLIS NOT EXCEPTED, GIVE MORE COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS THAN THE PALLADIUM. ,

INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS (Publishers Prfiss.l Indianapolis, Feb., 7. Today's tations were as follows: quo STEERS Goou vo choice , steers 1,300 lbs and upward .$ 5.503 6.50 Common to medium steers 1,300 lbs and upward Good to choice steers 1,150 to 1,250 lbs .. .. Coaiinoa to medium steers, 1.150 to lbs Good to choice steers 00 to 1,000 lbs Ci.uiiuoD to medium steers 900 to 1,000 lbs Choice feeding steers steers, S00 to 1,100 lbs Good feeding steers, 800 .5.25 5.75 5.00S 5 60! 4.75 4.50 5.00 4.00 W 4.60 ; 4 4.25 to 1,000 lbs Medium feeding steers 700 to 900 lbs . . t.WJV t-i.O . 3.50 ..2.75) . 4 25 ..3.75 ..2.75 ..3.60 , 3.25 .,.00 3.75 Common to best stockers.'. HEIFERS Good to choice heifers . Fair' to medium heifers Common light heifers .. to choice cows . . Fair to Medium cows ... Canners and cutiers . . . 4.75J 4.00 3.o0 4.65 j 3.501 1.50 3.35 Good to ccoice cons and asd calves SO 00050 00 Common to medium cows and calves 20.0030.00 BULLS AND CALVES Good to prime bulls .... 3.75 4.25 Fair to medium bulls ...3.2ofc 3.o0 Common bulls 2.50 Fair and good heavy .. ..3.00 Hogs. Best heavies 210 lbs. and upward 7.05 Medium and mixed. 190 lbs and upward .. .. .. 7.00 3.00 7.00 7.1J 7.0: Good to choice lights. 160 to ISO lbs 7.00 7.01V2 Common to good lights, 130 to 150 lbs . Best pigs . . Light pigs .. Roughs . . Bulk of sales Spring lambs . . 7.00 7.C5 ..6.50 7.00 0 6.25 ..6.00 6.40 . 7.05 7.10 ..5.00 7.25 Sheep. Good to choice yearlings ..5.50 6.00 Common to medium.. .. 4.75 5.50 Good to choice sheep .. . 4.50 5.25 Culls to medium 2.50 4.25 Stockers and feeders .. 2.50 4.00 THE WRITERS. Alphonse Daudet is said to have received for "Sapho," published in 1884, the record price of over $'J0O,(00. Joaquin Miller, the "poet of the Sierras," called on the president and tried to Interest him in a plan for a great world's fair for Washington in 1914. , Louis N. Parker, the dramatist, was born Inf France. His father " was an American, his mother an Englishwoman. His first language was Italian, and he was educated in Germany. George Bernard Shaw, who Is now a married man. once described himself In this way: I am a bachelor, an Irishman, a vegetarian, an' atheist, a teetotaler, a fanatic, a humorist, a fluent liar, a social democrat, a lecturer and debater, a lover of music, a Qerce opponent of the present status of women and an Insister on the seriousness of art." Death Superstitions. According to one superstition a favorite method death has of announcing that a person is to become his victim is to cause the doomed one to sneeze while viewing a corpse, or to have the subject see his face reflected in a mirror while standing near the body of one In whom life is extinct. A sparrow flew into an open window of the consumptive ward at the 'hospital one day while I was attending a patient and without alighting flew out of another. I was immediately besieged upon all sides by tearful requests to redotible my efforts to effect a cure, as the action of the bird was a certain omen that death would claim some one present within a week. One of the patients died the next day, and the other poor fated ones resuscitated the little spark of hope which feebly flickered previous to the advent of the little bird, thinking. probably, that as one had succumbed they had some chance of regaining their health. Exchange. Sew Year's In China. In China it is considered obligatory on all persons to settle every pecuniary obligation before the first day of the new year, a custom that might with profit be imitated elsewhere. The Chinese have also the singular practice of dating all births on the first day of the year on which they occur, so that as far as the record shows every Chinas man has but one birthday, the first day of January. The widest variance Is observable in the selection of the day which should be considered the first of the year. Some nations have begun it in the spring, others in the autumn, some in midsummer, most in midwinter; but, w hatever the day, the usages and rejoicings which characterized it have not varied so greatly as might be supposed, but have remained for ages aimost unchanged. Languages. Of languages which so widely differ among themselves aa to be incomprehensible without particular study tbf number readily exceeds 1.0CQ Elphanta. In Africa lioth sexes of elephants have ivory tusks, while in Asia these re usually restricted to thi-'aalfs.

CINCINNATI MARKETS

(Publishers Press.l Cincinnati, Feb. 7. Today's quotations were as follows: CATTLE. HEAVY STEERS Choice $ 5.50 Fair to good .. .. . 4.75 Oxen .. 2.00 BUTCHER STEERS ' 5.65 5.40 4.50 5.40 5.25 4.60 Extra 5.30 4.65 3.25 Good to choice . , Common to fair HEIFERS Extra . . ..... . Good to choice . Common to fair COWS 4.90 ..4.00 2.00 5.00 4.85 3.S5 0 ; Extra ! Common to fair I f r n ores ..4.35 1.25 .1.00 ,.1.75 4.50 3.25 2.65 1.50 , OLl'Chf 13 and feeders j BULLS ! Thin and light . . .. , Bologna . . ' ! Fat bulls , 2.50"S.25 3.35 3.90 3.75 4.50 4.00 8.00 I Common and large . . . Choice to extra 8.50 Hogs. Good to choice packers and butchers . .' .. 7.15 7.05 5.85 7.20 7.1i j i Mixed and packers .. . , Common to choice heavy fat sows Light shippers 6.90 7.05 5.65 6.75 Stags Pigs, 110 lbs and less . Sheep. Common to fair Lambs. Common to fair 4.75 .6.00 2.25 4.25 4.25 700 They Didn't Caere to Take Any Chances I T was a new bank in a new town in Colorado. As the "institution opened for business in the morning a crowd of 200 men gathered, and when the banker asked what was wanted the man who had been ap pointed spokesman replied: "It's jest this, Jim. We can't make out that monthly statement you got out yesterday." "What's wrong with it?" "She says deposits amount to $7,000 and cash on hand $9,000." "Well, that's correct, and I can't see where you have any fault to find," said the president. "Yes, but the boys don't go much on Aggers. Figgers kin be twisted all around, you know. Have you got them 'ere $0,000 handy by?" "I have." ) "Waal, won't you jest stand up on a chair and wave that money In the air a few times and let the boys see the color of it? Don't want to put you to any special trouble, you know, but the crowd kinder wants to feel sure about it." The banker got the money from . the safe and followed the suggestion and asked if they were satisfied. "That's all right," replied the spokesman. "We ain't much on figgers, but we know money when we see it. Them deposits is $7,000, and 3-ou've got $9,000 to pay 'em.- That's chuck up and no discount." "Anything else?" "Jest one little trifle. It's kinder got around town that you are goin' to Montana tomorrer. Before you start jest count them $9,000 into the safe, lock 'er up as tight as a drum and then call in two or three of the boys to watch 'er while you're gone. We ain't showin any lack, of confidence, Jim, but we is givin' you a p'inter on how to run a hank in this town without gettin yer neck Into a slipknot." Detroit Free Press. Beiieved in "Turn About." I One day mamma told Milton that he was older than the baby and must let the baby have his toys if he wanted them because the baby was the littlest. Milton was very good and went in search of other amusements all day. 1 The next morning we heard a cry from the children, and, going to find the cause. Milton was found endeavoring to collect all the toys in the room and at the same time keep the baby away from them. Upon inquiring the trouble Milton said: "I let him have my toys and be the littlest yesterday, and now I'm going to be the littlest today." Little Chronicle. Scarcely Possible. Barber And how would yon Ilk your hair cut. sir? Victim In perfect silence, pleaseOnce a Week. In the game of life one half is apt ta be bluif and the other half buncombe.

CHICAGO MARKETS

IPubHahe-e'Preesl Chicago, Feb., 7. The wheat mar ket was easier because the Liverpool market did not respond to yesterday's advance here. There was a good de mand by commission houses on the decline. The corn market was easier though cables were firm and offerings light. The oats market was strong on good buying by commission houses and shorts The provision market was quiet and weak. (By O. G. Murray's Special Wire.) OPEN. CLO. Wheat. May .. ..79Vs 80 July.. 7S 79T& Sept 78 79 U Corn. May ..4714 474 July ..46 47 Sept 47 47U Oats. May 4014 41 July 37 376 Sept .. .. 33V4 33 Pork. May 17 72 17 75 July 17 85 17 82 Lard. May 9 97 9 97 July .. .. .10 02 10 00 Sept : 10 15 10 15 MARKET SUMMARY. CHICAGO Cattle: steers, $4 25ff27 20; heifers. $2 60$T5 25; stockers and feeders. Common to prima cows, $3 25fi5 00; bulls. $3 00&4 50; $2 25 4 90. Sheep and Lambs Sheep, $4 90fft6 00; lambs, $4 907 75; yearlings, $5 756 65. Calves $2 73 8 00. Hogs Choice heavy shipping, $7 077 10; light butchers', $7 00 7 05; light mixed, $7 007 05; choice light. 7 007 07Vi: packing, $7 007 05; choice pigs, $ 50 6 90. Wheat No. 2 red, 76c. Oats No. 2, 38c. EAST BUFFALO Cattle: Export cattle, $5 33 (6 10; shipping steers, $4 75 5 25; butchers cattle, $4 755 25; heifers. $3 255 00; cows. $2 60 4 50; bulls. $2 75 4 50; milkers and springers. $25 -00 55 00. SheeD and Lambs Yearlings, 56 256 75; wethers, $5 50 00; mixed, $5 005 50; ewes, $4 755 25; spring lambs. $6 5008 10. Calves Best, $9 00 9 75. Hogs Heavies, J7 40; mediums, $7 357 40; Yorkers, J7 35; pigs, $7 25. PITTSBURG Cattle: Choice. $5 753 6 00; prime, $5 405 70; tidy butchers", $4 60 5 00; heifers, $3 00 04 75; fat cows and bulls, $2 0004 25; fresh cows. $25 00 "0 00. Sheep and Lambs Prime wethers, $5 505 75; good mixed. $5 205 40; lambs, $5 007 85. Calves $ 008 75. Hogs Heavy hogs, $7 40; mediums and heavy Yorkers, $7 407 45; light Yorkers, $7 157 20; pigs. $7 107 15. CLEVELAND Cattle: Prime dry-fed, $5 50O5 75; fat steers, $4 505 25; heifers, $3 S5&4 75; cows, $3 854 15; bulls, $3 504 25; milkers and springers. $30 00 30 00. Sheep and Lambs Choice Iambs, $7 657 85; wethers, $5 005 50; mixed, $4 755 25; ewes, $4 503 00. Calves $8 00 8 50. Hogs Yorkers. $7 25; mediums; heavies and pigs. $7 25; roughs. $6 2506 50; stags, $5 005 50. BOSTON Wool: Ohio and Pennsylva. nia XX and above, 3434.tc. X, 3233c, No. 1. -4icj iso. 2, 3S40c nne un washed, 264?2?c; unmerchantable, 29 0c; delaine washed, 373Se? delaine un washed, 3j; Kentucky and Indiana tombing i-rlood, 3435c. TOLEDO Wheat. 71c; corn, 45Ho; ats, 40 &o; ry. 87c; cloverseed, $S 10, EDITORIAL FLINGS. Porters on Pullman cars claim that It "galls their souls" to accept tips. The life of the Pullman porter is full of gall. Yonngstown Vindicator. It will be pretty rough on ns if the Ice freezes so hard ami thick this winter that the companies can't cut it, and thus there is another scarcity next year. New York Tribune. 4 In addressing him as "the beloved, most cherished, exalted, most honored and excellent president." the sultan must think Mr. Roosevelt is at the head of some "dinky lodge. Detroit Free Press. They are now talking not only of a national income tax, but of a state income tax as well. . A man will only have to lie twice instead of once, that's all. And the same lie at thaL Akron Beacon-Journal. i England thinks that the United States constitution needs immediate revision. In fact, there is a lingering suspicion in Great Britain that there should have been no United States constitution in the first place. Washington Post. A chair of journalism has been established at the University of Missouri, In honor perhaps of Eugene Field, the greatest journalist the University of Missouri ever turned out. She turned him out in bis freshman year. New York Mail. SHORT STORIES. Easter occurs this year on March 31. more than three weeks earlier than the Easter date of 1906. A carved war god, recently discovered in a Colorado cave, is believed to be more than 1,000 years old. There are about 4.000 lepers in Colombia, or one to every 1,000 inhabitants. Most of them are now isolated. Cases are rarely found among the classes living with hygienic care. The Doukhobors of Winnipeg are gradually recovering their senses. They no longer turn horses and cattle loose acid harness themselves to the plow, but, on the contrary, are now purchas ing horses for farm labor. The obligation to accept American currency as legal tender in Cuba is said to have constituted a part of the dissatisfaction which exists in that island. It is complained that there 13 not enough of such currency- to meet the requirements of trade. Some bright people always tace a back seat In order that they may make a greater stir when they are urged to the front. .

Indianapolis Chicago Cincinnati, Mew York and Richmond.

NEW YORK MARKETS IPnbHshere' Press New York, Feb., 7. Insignificant changes from last night's prices of stocks resulted from the opening dealings today. Small gains and losses were quite evenly divided, and transactions were very light. Gains of 1U in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis; of 1 in National Lead, and large fractions in Great Northern pre ferred and Denver Rio Grande were the only notable changes. THE INEDIBLES. vTha a little babe I coveted my mother's tttrand of beads;. My mouth would fairly water when spied 'em. 1 imagined tiiey a comply with all my gustatory needs Could I only place my Billy self outside "em. But my mother, wisely patient with her foolish little tot. Would chide me, in her motherhood dis creet. And Inform me that delectable those beads were surely not "They're pretty, ut they aren't for folk to eat." 3n nay later youth I used to see the. rose cheeked maidens pass Along the crowded thoroughrar so gayly. I adored those girls In bunches simply loved them as a class And chose a brand new fav'rite almost daily. As of old my mouth would water when gazed upon the bunch Of peach-like femininity petite. Yet my common sense reminded me they'd make a horrid lunch They're pretty, but they aren't tor folks to eat. Mow that I am firmly married to a, cook school graduate Again that proposition doth confront me. To be sure. I'm never tempted with her beads to try my fate. Although I'm grown and know they couldn't stunt me. Yet at every meal shw places on our nice Installment table i Some magazine mane pastry, fish or meat. X attack these phony victuals just as gamely as I'm able They're pretty, but they aren't for folks to eat. Strickland W. Gillilan In Judge. Reverse. "I see Jenkins is on his feet again." What's the matter? Has he been standing on his head?" A Cumulative Sentence. According to an eminent lawyer who practices before the supreme court of the United States, there is a custom in French Jurisprudence that sanctions the consultation by a judge (n provln Cial courts with colleagues on the bench, called "assessors," when sentence is to be passed upon certain classes of malefactors. "What ought we to give this rascal, brother?" a Judge In the department of the Loire once asked the assessor on tJs right. "I should say three years." "What is your opinion, brother?" This to the assessor on the left. "I should give him four years." Whereupoa the Judge, assuming an air of great benevolence, said: "Prisoner, not desiring to Impose up on you a loug and severe term of imprisonment, as I should have done 11 left to myself, I have consulted my learned brethren, and shall take theii advice. Seven years." Harpera Week U. - ! History Revised. De Soto was observed to be running, through the Florida wilderness bare footed and penniless. "Great half moon. exclaimed 6 friendly Indian. "Where is all you? gold?" - "Don't ask me," gasped De Soto. "1 stopped at one of those Palm Beach hotels for a few days, and when the.i presented their bill I wag cleaner thai a sea turtle." And De Soto rued the day he had no! pat up at a wigwam. Chicago News. An Artiet's Discouragement. "Why shouldn't the stage be made t great educational influence?" inquirft,t the earnest man. "There Is just one insurmountable difficulty," answered Mr. Stormington Barnes. "Whenever you give people anything that is really instructive they go to sleep." Washington Star. The Knowing and the Unknowing. "When It was reported to the direct ors that the casmer was looting the hank they all resigned In a body." "Why do you suppose they did that?" "I can't say, unless it was they had a curiosity to know something about the matter." Fuck. Xiagrara Ran a Sawmill. The first use of Niagara's fower was made In 1725, a primitive sawmill being operated. Maid and Widow. By the old Saxon law a maiden and a widow were of different value. The latter could be bought for one-half the sum which the guardian of the maid was entitled to demand. A man. therefore, who could not afford to buy a maiden might perhaps be able to purchase a widow. ' A man with a grievance Is about as pleasant a companion as a man with a boil on the back of his neck.

HINTS FOR FARMERS Rotation of Crop. On every farm there should be a regular rotation of crops, says a Vermont farmer in American Cultivator that Is, the mowing fields and tillage land should be under a regular system of cropping for best results. The length of this rotation will depend on the size of the fana. the character of the soil and the crops to be raised. The first year from sod the land 6bopld be devoted to the cultivated crops, such as corn. iotatoes. beans, etc.. that are preparatory in character. With these there should be liberal fertilization and good cultivation, which will put the laud In suitable condition for a grain crop and seeding down to grass. The writer practices a five year rotation, one in cornfield and fodder, one In grain, oats and barley, with grass seeding, and three In sxass. In this way get excellent crops of good hay during this time.

Keep the Pia-a Thrivis-. Successful pig raising In colj weather requires warm, dry quarters, with skim milk and some grain. With these the business can be made both success ful and profitable. It Is not best to undertake to keep more than can be well fed and cared for, for excellence In quality Is superior to mere numbers. Feed regularly and only what will be eateu up clean, for an overfed pig will not do as well, neither will any other animal. After two months old the pigs can safely be fed a little grain. Increasing gradually the amount with age and growth, endeavoring to keep them in a growing and fattening condition. Supply plenty of bedding, which is necessary for their comfort and of advantage to the owner In the large amount of excellent manure that can be made by these busy workers. American Cultivator, Beea on the Farm. While I would not advise any one to take up beekeeping unless he has a natural ability for It, I cannot help but think that many of our young men might do so to a good advantage, writes n New York farmer In American Agriculturist, I don't expect every one that takes it up will be as successful as some have been, but I am sure a large per cent of our farmers might keep a few colonies very profitably. If some would give their sons a little more encouragement to take up something of this kind it would many times be much better for both father and son. The first expense is small, and if it should be the means of keeping the boy on the farm It might be a blessing In disguise. Horse and Cow Hay. Timothy sells for a higher price in the market than other hay and Is regarded as being particularly adapted to horses. It is deficient In protein and for that reason should be fed with a grain ration of a nitrogenous nature. For horses no better basis for a ration can be found than timothy hay and oats. It is less valuable for cattle and sheep. Clover bay is next to timothy in common use, and the two are more often, found mixed than either is found alone. The nitrogenous nature of the clovers aids in supplying the deficiency of protein in the timothy. Clover is more valuable than timothy for cattle and sheep, but Is not considered so satisfactory for horses. Fattenlnar Waterfowl. In feeding waterfowl for market pur poses mixed or mash rood should be provided. Whole corn or grain of any kind is a wasteful kind of food to use In fattening waterfowl. The wa terfowl do not haye a crop and gizzard connection, as do chickens. Mash or mixed foods are much more easily consumed, digested and assimilated by waterfowl than whole corn. Quite of ten ducks, both young and old, more especially young ducks, are destroyed from eating too much whole corn. This happens when they have had a surfeit of young, undried corn. It quickly swells In the crop and ofttimes does great injury to the ducks. Feather. Porlc Packed la Brine. Rub each piece of meat with fine common salt and pack closely in a barrel. Let stand overnight. The next day weigh out ten pounds of salt and two ounces of saltpeter to each 100 pounds of meat and dissolve in four gallons of boiling water. Four this brine over the meat when cold and cover and weight down the meat to keep it under the brine. Meat will pack best If cut in pieces about six Inches square. The pork should be kept in the brine till used. Nebraska Independent j The Dor's Copper Toed Boot. ' A traveling salesman for a boot and shoe house carries with him as a mas- j cot a boys' boot, with red leather top and a copper toe. "I found it in Fort Dodge, Kan," he said. "It was among the stock of a shoe dealer there, and I asked him for it. It is a great curiosity now, but In my early day upon the road I sold thousands of them." The red topped, copper toed boys' boot has dropped out of existence. No store In Kansas City sells them. The salesman said they were not manufac tured. Kansas City Star. Paper Made From Grass. Among the materials that have been substituted for rags In the making of paper Is esparto grass, which was formerly obtained for this purpose from Spain, but is now largely imported by British and American manufacturers from the north of Africa. It is a very hardy plant, flourishing In deserts where other vegetable life is unable to exist, and the suggestion has recently beeu made that by cultivating esparto crass in the Sahara that great region of deserts mizht be partially reclaimed and turned into a source of profit for mankind. ' Kladlr Trait la a Kin. King Edward starts many fashions. He has been doing it all his life. Usually his ideas are sartorial. Occasionally, though. King Edward strikes out an idea which all the world, fashionable or commonplace, can approve. His latest Is one of great humanity. No horse Is ever sold from the royal stables after It bas outlived Its uiefubjQSS. IJJsjwit

Nervouis Worn-Out , If you arc in this condition, your nerve force is weak the power is giving1 out. the organs of your body have "slowed up," and do their work imperfectly. This failure to do the work required, clogs the system and brings distress and disease. When the nerves are weak the heart is unable to force the life-giving blood through your veins; the stomach fails' to digest food; the kidneys lack power to filter impurities from the blood, and the poisonous waste remains in the system to breed disease. Verve energy must be restored. Dr. Miles' Nervine will do it, because it strengthens the nerves; it is a nerve medicine and tonic, that rebuilds the entire nervous system. - " "Several years ai I was ell broken down. I wnsi nervous, worn-out, coult not t-lwp. and was In constant pain. I divtorcd for months, and finally the rinctor Mid he coull do nothing for n. I bc-tan taking- lr. Milt-V Nervine, inj tud eltorthr eirlit bottles, and I became M route att healthy, and now welsh 170 pounds." II. C CUNNINGHAM. 108 Ellsworth Ave.. AUt-ghey, Ta. Dr. Mile' Nervine la sold your druggist, who will Guarantee that the ftrat bottle will benefit. If It fella, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart. Ind

to death painlessly. This Is a source of much financial loss to the king, always hard up, for Cngland is crowded with tuft huntern, who would pay exorbitant prices for his old horses just to brag about them. Cleveland Loader, French Tor Saner. The saber of 18l which replaces In the French army the model saber oi 1882, destroys the old adage of General de Brack that "the saber is the arm in which you ought to have the most confidence, because It is rery; rarely, that It refuses you service by breaking in your hands." From motives of economy we are condemning Our unfortunate cavalry to hold in tbeit liands an instrument of Ineffectual defense made like a simple bazaar knife. L'Eclair of rarla. THE COLERIDGE COTTAGE. Effort to Preserve and Maintain Qreat Poet's Home. The movement to preserve and maintain the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Nether Stowey, In Somersetshire, England, has met with success. Enough money has been raised to purchase the cottage In which the poet and essayist spent some of his happiest hours. It will be preserver! as far as possible la the state In which It was' wnen ijoieruige wrote vnm mme or the Ancient Mariner" whllo living beneath Its roof. The poet was born In 1772 at Ottery St Mary, in Devonshire, and It was in 1794, the rear after his marriage, that he took up his residence at Nether " Stowey. With the large kitchen garden attached to It the cottage was worth In rental about $.15 a year, but the poefs friend and admirer, Thomas Foole of Bristol, who owned It, let h!m occupy. It free of the coiuuwu coma: B AT XBTHCfa muwbt. charge. This was a matter of some ac-' count to the great literary genius, as his chief source of Income at that time was 5 a week, which be received from the Morning Fost for contributions to that journal. ne raised vegetables In the garden, ' whleh helped to keep him and bis wife and child from going hungry when there was no money in the family purse. The years spent in this cottage were among the pleasantest In the poet's life, notwithstanding; his small Income. In 1800 he took op his resldence at Keswick, and he died la 1834 ; at niebxata. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. Teats Seloa of Kaaaeae Herns Wae la Inveafor aad Eirlinr, Cornelius Vaoderbllt, who as president of the Itobert Fulton Monument association is prominent In the project eot3rst.iCB YAJrDz&an.'r. to erect a memorial of the father of the steamboat, has changed his facial ap-1 pearance thts winter by wearing at beard of the Vandyke pattern. He is! an engineer and inventor aa .well a; KtiltimiUfoQaire.