The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1894 Page: 3 of 10
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A (Ml to OOGt 'so*
A Uatvkei, all with flower* • .L
Or tiled with applet red
And when It's out of use. you know,
it's handy on his head
butterflies
begin.
pe and sice
r ti shin; net
_ . . . i afloat,
▲ad when a shingle s hard to set.
It answer* (or a boat.
To-day, when ran? the dinner bell.
He left it In a tree
A robin mother scanned It well—
"A cozy house." chirped sh«
But even while the oare(ul bird
Considered this and that.
The owner s cheerful shout wai heard:
"Where did I leave my hat?"
>
Jennie Harlowe.
IIY w. CI.TIIK MCMEU.
CHAPTER VI—Continued.
W hen I recovered my senses I was
lying upon the (leek with my head
upon my wife's knee. She was bath-
ing my brow with Hungary water.
The cabin luraj> was burning and I
opened my eyes upon her sweet and
anxious (aee as she bent over me.
For a minute or two my mind re-
mained abroad, but tt>< memory of
the thunderous blows that had
heeled tha ship over flashod upon
me on a sudden like something seen
by a fierce light, and I spi ang as
though electrified to my feet.
"Oh. dearest!" cried my wife. "I
(eared you wore dead."
••How lonjf have 1 boon unconsci-
ous, Jenny!" I inquired, eagerly
straining my ears as I spoke.
"I cannot tell. I have been too
much terrified to know. Some seri-
ous accidont has befallen tho vessel,
I fear. There was a deal of hurried
rushing of feet overhead, and a
noise of masts breaking, and faint
cries as of people in a boat at some
distanco and then this present
stillness."
With lifted hand as a demand for
silence I listened. Tho ship was
slightly pitching: before I fell sense-
less she had been rolling. The
, straining sounds within her were
very heavy; thero was also a sloppy-
sort of noise as of near waters close
to us, as though the wash of the
surge came very near to the scuttles.
I also- distinguished in the move-
ments of the ship, slight as they
were, a sluggishness that was like
a slow, but stoadfast languishing
into 'ifelessness, different indeed
from the familiar buoyant lift and
fall of the planks. All this I gather-
ed in tho space of half a dozen res-
pirations along with the sense of a
dead stillness on deck; that is to
say, I could not hoar a human voice
□ or catch the dimmest footfall.
CHAPTER VII.
"Dross yourself, Jennie, as quiekly
as possiblo," I cried, "as completely
as time will suffer. I will rejoin
you in a moment or two;" and with-
in at least a couple of minutes from
the instant of my recovery I was on
deck.
The cabin lampburneci dimly. As I
rushed to the companion steps I
spied the door of the captain's berth
swinging to and fro. I sprung up
the ladder and looked around me.
It was still a dark night; the steam-
white clouds I had before noticed
were trending in largo masses north-
west, and there were stars enough
between to complexion the midnight
atmosphere with a very delicate,
dim sheen. The wlioel was deserted
and revolved to left and right to the
rise and drop of the rudder as the
vessel gently pitched. All sail was
set upon the main and mizzen, but
forward was a mass of wrockage as
tliough the bowsprit had been
wrenched off, bringing down tho
foretop mast and all above it. I
sent a loud shout along the decks,
but received no reply. I ran for-
ward, thinking there might be men
past the barricade of wreckage, and
when I had approached near to the
galley I kicked against something
soft and nearly fell. It was tho
body of a man with another lying
athwart it. and on top of both was a
huge, heavy fragment of spar that
6eemed to have struck them down
with one and the same blow. This
dreadful sight filled me with un-
speakable consternation, and I fled
back to the quarter deck, where I
again raised my voice in an ear-
piercing shout, but obtained no
answer, not even an echo from the
wind-hushed canvas.
We had carried a boat on either
side; now glancing at tho davits I
found they were empty. 1 sprung
past the wheel and leaning over the
taffrail saw what was called the cap-
tain's gig, a long slender bout which
he used when in port, hanging at tho
irons there. I thanked God for the !
sight of it, for landsman as I was—- \
though by this time I could express
myself in many nautical terms—I
was perfectly conscious from the
peculiar sickly motion of tho vessel
that she was draining water rapidly
into her hold and might sink in the
beat of a pulse. I put my head into
the companion and called loudly to
Jenny. She was coming on deck as
I cried out—she had completely
though hastily clothid herself. I,
you will remember, was fully dressed
too, being in the act of taking a
boot off when the sudden hoel of
the ship threw me.
"What has happenod?" she cried.
"A collision,nodoubt," I answered.
"Tho -Lady Charlotte' has been
run into and is fast sinking. There
are two dead bodies on the main-
deck. "
"Oh!" she exclaimed, as though
stabbed.
"The captain and seamen have
abandoned her," I proceeded, "if {
one of the two dead bodies be not
the captain. They must have for-
gotten us in the hurry of their
flight, or believed us to be amongst
them. The quarter boats are gone.
t fie gig remains. >ee' it hangs
tv -e," I cried, pointing shad-
o«iiy to the talTrai.. "Jenny.
h t I clear away ready for
1 i ring her get you whatever pro-
v. .ns you can lay your hand* upon
in the cabin."
She ran below. I jumped into tho
boat and found a breaker in the
bows. With this I sped forward as
fast as my legs would carry me to
the scuttle-butt lashed just abreast
of the main-hatch. The metal dip-
per lay beside tho bung-hole. I
filled the breaker aud cut away tho
dipper to serve as a cup. and rushed
to the boat again and fell to with a
large clasp-knife, that I had just
purchased from the captain for the
convenience of cutting up cake to-
bacco, to saw through the lanyards
of tho gripes. I worked as though
tho ship was to founder in five min-
utes.
Jenny arrived with the lap of her
gown filled with articles of food, all
of which she had mot with in the
little pantry adjoining tho stato
cabin. I swiftly put the articles
Into the boat, and observing that
she had oars. mast, and sail in her,
with a rudder and yoke in tho stern
sheets, I proceeded to lower her, i
slacking away one fall whilst my
wife let slide the other. Had the
ship boen in any other posture than
almost head on to tho sea the low-
ering of this boat would have boon a
very ticklish undertaking, perhaps
impracticable to amateur hands such
as mine, but under the counter the
water rose and tell of an oil-like
smoothness. I had sense enough to
so thoroughly overhaul the fallB, that
tho bout lav athwart unilor tho stein
as safely as il she were detached;
then telling Jenny to climb over tho
rail into the mizzen-chains, I slipped
down ono of the tackles, unhooked
both blocks, got the boat afongsido,
helped ray wife into her, and rowed a
little distanco away where we could
tako broath aud yet bo clear of tho
whirlpool should tho "I.ady Char-
lotto suddenly founder.
I stood up to take a look around
me, for the collision could not havo
long happened. The surviving boats
must therefore be near, though it
was possible that their inmates had
been taken on board the vessel that
had run into us. it blow but a light
air and she could not have traveled
far, yet I searched tho darkness in
vain for any murky smudge upon the
obscurity that might indicate her.
It was a little after "J o'clock, as I
had noticed when running up tho
companion steps, and day would not
break till about five. 1 resolved to
linger near tho •-Lady Charlotte" till
she foundered, conceiving that somo
of our people might be doing the
same thing out in the unsearchable
gloom round about, and that we
might find companions therefore
when the sun rose. The breeze was
soft and mild, yet a chill would rise
from the floating blackness of a near
sea, which sent a shudder through
one from time to time. Indeed, the
nearness of the ocean was
a tremendous presence, and
the huge, glooming surface,
or void rather, with its spectral
glancings of pallid foam, seemed to
sweep to the very throat with a
sense of strangulation as the boat
slided into a hollow and hung a mo-
ment in it, with nothing to see save
a star or two staring sparely over
the crests that stood up on either
hand.
I held Jenny to my heart, and
comforted her as best I could. It
was about an hour after we had
I quitted tho "I.ady Charlotte" that
J she foundered.
I made up my mind, however, to
| linger till daybreak, and at last,
after an interminable spell of wait-
ing, the faint, pearly gray of dawn
I showed in the east, and then the
wido field of ocean opened with a
sudden lift of the sun's pink and
j flashing head, and a fine-weather
J sky of great white clouds, and blue
heaven liquid, soft and glowing.
There was nothing to be seen.
"No doubt," said I. "the ship that
ran us down took on board the peo-
ple that got away in the boats.
\\ ould to God, Jenny, we were of
them."
••Dearest, keep up your heart,"
she answered. "In what part of tho
ocean are wo? to what place shall
wo endeavor to sail?"
I remembered what Captain Chris-
tian had told me of our situation on
the preceding day by the first sights
he hud been able to obtain for a long
while, and putting a chart of tho
South Pacific before me in fancy, I
figured the place of our boat upon
it, and then perceived that our best
chance would lie in sailing north
where the islands were, off ono of
which we might find a vessel willing
to receive us. Unhappily, and I
cursed myself for being guilty of
such an oversight, in tho hurry of
leaving the ship I had come away
without a compass. Theie was
nothing to be done then but to steer
by the sun or stars. I forthwith
stepped the mast and hoisted the
sail, and in a few moments the sharp-
lined fjig was buzzing through tho
blue serges with the sun broad on
our starboard beam, and the wind
blowing warm and fragrant over the
quarter.
I will not dwell upon this passage
of desperato and perilous navigation.
I was no sailor and was but ill ac-
quainted with handling a boat, and
had the weather changed, had it
come to blow a fresh head wind, in
short had there been any obligation
of skill put unon me, we must cer-
tainly have perished. Happily the
mighty Pacific, upon whose dark
blue expanse our tiny sail was a dash
of light scarce bigger than the pin.
ion of an albatross, remained true to
its name. The wind sat steadily in
the southeast and blew us north-
ward, the heavens were pie-bald, the
sun brilliant and hot; the brine
underran us in curves of rich blue
Brilliance, the night sparkled with
stars.
It was on the morning of the sixth
day that, bein? awakened from a
short doze by the flash of the sun
athwart my face as 1 sat with the
yoke-line coiled round my baud. I
lifted my chin from my breast
and glancing drowsily ahead
spied a little ta leeward of
the curve of the boat's sail a green
cloud that looked to be resting on
the sea-line on a narrow baso of
frosted silver. I rubbed my eyes to
quicken their perception, and sure
enough clearly distinguished tho
shapo of what was apparently a small
island swimming in tho blue atmos-
phere as though viewed through a
hot air. Jenny lay in tho stern
sheets sound usleep. her head was
pillowed on her arm that rested upon
the rail. I kissed her pale cheek
vehemently in tho sudden transport
of joy which tho spectacle of tho
island kindled iu 1110, and she in-
stantly o|>eneU her eyos and sat
1 orect smiling at me whilst sho fon-
dled my hand as though to thank mo
! for the manner in which I had
I awakened her.
••I.and, darling'"! cried, pointing.
She looked and exclaimed, "Oh,
thank God! How have 1 prayed that
' we may be spared. Oh. dearost, we
could not—wo could not part!"
CHAPTER VIII.
I eased off the sheet of tho sail
and directed the boats head at tho
green and glimmering mass, and
J through it the little craft sped with
! a misty twinkling of flying-fish on
I either hand from timo to timo, and a
1 satin-white wake pointing arrow-like
j behind us. It was not until about
5 2 o'clock in the afternoon that we
had brought the island close enough
to enable mo to distinguish it clear-
| ly. What had resembled frosted sil-
1 ver in tho distance was coral sand
' that stretched in a dazzle from the
I verdurous acclivities and flats in-
shore to the wash of tho bluo sea
that glided to and fro upon it in
small opalescent breakers. There
was a great abundance of cocoanuts,
and there were green hills apparent-
ly toward the center, but of staall
elevation, along with a quantity of
bush and a species of rank, tall
grass, like to what is called Guinea
grass. I could witness no habitations
of any sort, nor discern tho loast
signs of a ship, nor, for tho matter
of that, of human life. I scanned
tho horizon eageriy, but there was
no more land in sight, in view at
loast from the low elevation of our
boat.
I had read Commodore Wilkes1
account of his expedition into the
seas, and of the man-eating people
he had found 011 some of tho islands
here, and I stared intently in search
of anything that should resemble a
black figure; having made up my
mind, should the place bo inhabited,
to lie off till tho darknoss foil, thon
sneak softly ashore and endeavor to
obtain a few cocoanuts and make off
again into the north where tho
islands would be plentiful,and whore
I might be sure of falling in with a
ship or a trader of some rigor other.
I asked Jenny if she could seo any-
thing stirring. Sho brought her
glowing eyes to bear upon the island
and aftor a thorough search of it
said no. So I continued to head right
in, and presently opened out a
point of land that rounded into
a sharp creek. The breakers flashed
in spray against the point and raised
a little commotion in the mouth of
the creek, but past this trilling flur-
ry, that was too inconsiderable to
cause ine uneasiness, the water
rounded into quicksilver. I made
directly for this creek, keeping a
thirsty lookout for savages, but,
j unless there was a community of
1 thepi dwelling upon the other side of
i this little green spot of land, it was
J unquestionably uninhabited. It
stretched cast and west about a
j league, but how far it extended to-
I ward the north I could not toll.
TO BE CONTINUED.
TOO MUCH DOC.
A Man Nearly OruwiiBil by a Couplo of
I'et nl ma Is.
"I was nearly drowned last fall,
j owing to the pernicious activity of
two very fine Newfoundland dogs,"
said 11. W. l'ritchctt, of Denver, Col.,
to the (ilobe-Democrat writer. "I
had reluctantly formed ono of a pic-
nic party, and in the course of the
festivities rowed a couplo of ladies
in a small boat on a river. We ran
into an obstruction and were upsot.
The river was neither wide nor deep,
and I eot tho two ladies to the bank
j without any difficulty. Then 1 re-
1 turned to rescue the boat, and just
j as 1 reached it, tho two dogs, which
I had boen brought to the scene by ex-
cited members of the party, spran<*
to my rescue. Unfortunately for me,
oach one started from an opposite
j bank, and each one was absolutely
I determined to take mo back from
whence he started. My coat was
nearly torn off ray back, and 1
wrestled and struggled until nearly
j exhausted. The owners of the dogs
whistled them oil', but each one j
I evidently took the whistle for a call
to further exertion, and I was still
further attacked and worried. Fin- !
ally a friend who saw tho situation
was becoming serious came into the
water with a club, beat off one of the
dogs and allowed the other to drag
me in a fainting condition to the op-
posite bank. The sagacity and
kindness of the dogs was obviouB,
but the next time I fall into a shal-
low stream I want to reserve tho
privilege of being allowed to swim
or crawl out unaided."
Klectrlral Illryrle.
The electrical bicycle is cropping
up in England. The weight of the
batteries when filled with liquid is tc !
be forty-four pounds, and the whole
weight of the machine is to be 15,' j
pounds.
I
IIOWATER FORTHESE ANIMALS
l*eer, Antelope and C'orotea Who Live In
AnKrlmn I'lacea.
Students of naturul history have
always been puzzled to know whether
certain animals can live without water
for a long time, says the New York
World. In Central and Southern New
Mexico there is an immense desert
to which tho earliest Spanish adventur-
ers gave the name Jornada del Muerta,
or Journey to Death. This desert is
over 100 miles long and from thirty to
seventy miles wido and is entirely
waterless. This is known to be a fact as
every milo of it ht .s been traversed in
the j>a*>t twenty years. The nearest
)H'rmant'iit water to this desert is the
Rio (Iraiule, from which it is separated
by the lofty rango known as tho Ca-
vallos mountains, which an* almost
impassable to man or boast. Previous
to 1880 this desert was inhabited by
vast herds of anteloj>e. There are
some antelojie there now, besidos
eoyotes and other animals. From May
to Septeml)er is the rainy season in
this region, and the moisture derived
from the seanty herbage might bo suf-
ficient to sustain life, but during the
other eight months there isn't a drop
of water obtainable, and the vegeta-
tion is as dry as tinder. It is claimed
that many wild animals feed in the
early morning and thereby obtain
an abundance of moisture from the
dew whieh covers the vegetation, but
in tho elevated region of Jornada there
is no sensible precipitation of dew in
tho dry season.
The most desolate territory in North
America, south of Labrador, is tho
peninsula of Lower California. Caj>e
San Lucus is the extreme southern
l>oint, and ul>out ten miles north of
this a spur of mountains runs from
west to <-ast, or from the Pacific to the
gulf of Lower California, forming.as it
were, a basin toward the ettj>o. This
basin is mostly covered with a dense
growth of dwarf trees, growing lux-
uriantly out of the dazzling white sand.
Not a particle of surfaee water is to bo
found anywhere in this busin, and,
strange as it may seem, this place has
deer. Tho Mexicans living here, when
asked where the door get water, reply
that there is none and the deer do not
require any. The east and west coasts
of Lower California ubound in islands,
some of which are a few hundred yards
in diameter und others miles in extent,
and with few exceptions void of vege-
tution and utterly waterless. An
American who has sjM'nt a day. and
sometimes two days, on each of those
islands, reports having found there the
coyote, or wild dog. Tho only water
the thirsty coyote may drink is the salt
water of the Pacific. Hut does he
drink it, or does he get along without
any drinking water at all? Or are
these animals of the Southwest like the
camel, which has a second stomach
which is used as a reservoir for water,
and is filled by the camel before going
011 long desert journeys and drawn
Upon for water when neoded? It is
said that Arabs, knowing this, when
themselves suffering from thirst, slay
their Camels and appropriate their
water supply.
Very Simple People.
The simple people of Alsace, who
retain 111 their hearts a strong love for
France at the same time that they are
desirous not to offend their German
rulers too much, have a hard time of
it when they aro brought to the bal-
lot-box to vote for representatives in
the German parliament. In one
election in a certain Alsatian district,
the two candidates wore Kable, an Al-
satian of French sympathies, who had
protested against the annexation after
tho war of 1870, and a German. On
election day, a peasant came to the
polling place, having in one hand a
ticket on which was printed the name
of Kablo, and in the other a ticket
bearing tho name of the German can-
didate. "Mein Herr," he said to tho
German election officer, "will you tell
me which of these two tickets is tha
better ono?" The officer looked at
tlieni. "Why, this is much prefera-
ble," said lie, indicating the German
ticket. "Ah, I thank you!" answered
the peasant; "I will keep it noxt my
heart." He folded it carefully and
put it in his inside coat-pocket. "As
for this other, then," said he, with an
air of putting it away from him as an
unworthy thing. "I will leave it hero."
And he put tho Kablo ticket in the bal-
lot-box—Argonau t.
Involution of the Folding lied.
Mrs. De Flat—Havo you anything
new in folding beds:'
Dealer—Only this, madatne, and it
really is quite a success. On arising
in the morning you touch a spring,
and it turns into a washstand and
bath tub. After your bath, you touch
another spring, and it becomes a
dressing ease, with a French plate
mirror. If you breakfast in your
room, a slight pressure will transform
it into an extension table. After
breakfast, you press these three but-
tons at once, and you have an upright
piano. That's all it will do, except
that when you die it can be changed
into a rosewood coffin.
Cnjunt Discrimination.
Officer Phaneygan— It's thin you're
lookin', Mike.
Officer O'Morphy—'Tis thi fault of
the chief, be hanged to 'im.
Officer I'haneygan.—How's that?
Officer O'Morphy—Sure, an' he put
me on a beat with never a fruit stand
on it, the dishcriminatin' blaggard!—
Chicago Record.
The Cope'* Toiub.
The sculptor Marasai has begun
work on the monument that is to cover
the pope's tomb. It is of black mar-
ble, surmounted by the figure of a
lion, having on tho right a statue of
faith, with a torch in one hand and
the bible in the other, and on the left
the statue of truth bearing the pipe's
•oat-of-arms.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
Tbe Annual Drouth* More favorable
Thaa Too Murh Kaln.
A new industry in growing the
finer plums, prunes and tart cher-
ries. The president of the Stark
Nurseries, of Louisiana, Mo., lately
returned from a western trip and
■peaking of their l>vuver orchards
^rown on the plains wKhor.t irrigation
water, simply by intense cultivation,
the wonderful crops of plums and
prunes and hardy tart cherries
grown there, he said: "After
close observation and some years
experience I ant quite con-
vinced there is a great future for west-
ern Kausus, southwest Nebraska, and
the Cherokee strip, us well as Colorado,
New Mexico and further west, in grow-
ing plums prunes and cherries; of tha
latter such varieties as Montmorency,
Ord.. Suda Hardy, German Ostheimer,
etc., aud the Lombard plum, the
(rages, prunes, etc. Some of the ad-
vantages are favorable climate,
1 suitable soil, 1,500 miles
Dearer the market than the
Pacific coast, cheap land, cheap
rates, cheap labor, and, greatest ad-
vantage of all, in shipping green fruit,
It may be allowed to come to maturity
Instead of picking green as they must
ih) on the coast; this fruit will, there-
fore, sell one-third higher on the Chi-
cago markets, just as Colorado peaches
for the same reason sell one-third
higher on the Denver markets than
California sorts.
"The plum, prune and cherry need
little water comparatively; it is too
much rain, causing rot. as well
as cureulio, etc., that makes grow-
ing these tiner sorts hazardous
and uncertain in the east. The
country named belongs to the arid and
semi-arid region, but sufllcient rain
falls to insure crops and the thing to
do is to plant on a commercial scale
and cultivate as the Stark liro's, Don*
ver orchards are cultivated. Success
will follow. Half way work aud
neglect will not bring success there
nor elsewhere. What has been done
on the plains of Colorado can be done
in western Kansas.
"The apple may also be grown iu the
same belt if enough work is done, but
not so successfully, for more water ia
required than for stone fruits which
come to perfection in dry seasons. This
year Lombard and other tiner plums
| aud prunes throughout Nebraska and
Kansas, in the rain belt, matured, and
choice specimens were received to be
named. Had there been the usual
summer rains the fruit would have
rotted.
"Struggling farmers of western Kan-
sas trying to grow corn but burnt out
| with the usual annual drouth should
know and realize the possibilities in
I the culture of these fruits. If they get
( a crop of corn it may net them 810 per
j acre; the right sorts of cherries and
j plums will net them several hundred
, dollars per acre, and a ten-acre orchard
more than a quarter section devoted
to general farming. Think of it; try
i it. Hut start right, cultivate right and
I be sure to plant tho best sorts. The
majority of failures arc from planting
wrong sorts, a mistake to be avoided,
j Wind you the annual drought that burns
out corn is just the weather needed for
maturing these crops. Seeing isbeliev
Infr; if you want to see more, some-
thing on n large scale, go a little far-
i ther west to the Stark llro's Denver
orchards, which can scarcely be
equalled in California or elsewhere."—
I Nurseries and Orchards.
Mrs. Laura M. Johns, presidcn% of
the Kansas Eoual Suffrage associa-
tion, has issued a manifesto condemn-
ing the proposed bloomers of Topeks
woman suffrage advocates.
Mr. Von Hegeninuller, the new
Austrian minister to this country, will
bring a bride to Washington when he
arrives next month. She belongs to
the Polish nobility, and the marriage
with the minister was a social event
st Vienna during his recent visit
there.
Tim liur«tou-Bryan Donate.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 10.—All tho de-
tails of the debate between Hon. John
M. Thurstou and Congressman W. J.
Iiryan this week are complete. Tucs-
; clay night they meet at Lincoln and
Thursday evening at Omaha. As both
are avowed candidates for the United
States senate, the affair is regarded
as of peculiar intciest. Dryan will
: represent the free silver element and
Thurston the other side of the finan-
{ cial issue. The debate is attracting
j much attention.
Kx-Queen Ml Initio.
Victoria, R C,, Oct. 10.—Before the
Arawa left Honolulu a rumor was in
circulation that Queen Liliuokalani
had gone crazy. The report is not
credited, although for several days
she has not left the house she is oc-
cupying.
THE MARKETS.
Kansas City, Mo, Oct 10 —Quotations
for car lots by samplo on track at Kansas
(.'it}1 at tho close sold a* follows: So '! hard.
47c; No h ird. 4-hr 47c No 4 hard, 45445'ic
rejected 45c No 2 red. 4V,c: No .1 red, 44c.
No 4 red. 4 'c Itojected. 4 ®43c.
! Corn—Sold very slowly. There was hardly
cuouuh demand to make a market Old mixed
| corn was about a cent lower: bids at the close
were -.'c lower. Tho new corn is in such wood
condition that many buyers wlil not pay a
i premium for old corn. Receipts of corn to
, day. m'i cars a year ajo, 1)7 cars No J mixed
1 rar 16c 1 car 4.5c Kansas City. No 3 mixed 3
cars 43c. closing offered ut 4oc No 4 nominal-
ly. 11 'h<- No t whit* ■: oars, 17 fco No
white, offered at the close at 45'ic
Oats Choloe ones were In sotlve demand,
but common samples sold rather slowly. He-
celpts of oats to-day. I'J cars a year a/o 5U
' curs. No 'Z mixed oats. 2 cars very choice.
: 30c, cars choice 29 c, 4 cars 29c, 14 cars 'JS'i
I No 3 mixed, 4 cars, 2Sc. No 4 oats,
nominally 20@27c: No 2 white oats, 1 car
32a 1 car ! l1 .o No -i white, nominally, 31c
ryb—No 'nominally 50<$5lc Kansas City
No 3 40c. Fi.axskkd -steady, il 31® 186, ac
cord in to billing Hit an Stealy. 5Sc£6)j
per cwt sacked Corn C'iiop-Dull,«j «Wc per
cwt, sacked Hay -Receipts. -7 cars market
steady timothy, choice, lif ) No I, *7 '>) t
ts. low grade, *5/,7. fancy prairie W
choice 7 "I No 1, f 30 No '. : I
;> b). packing hay. 1
Aweuuti kit.
There is a movement on foot to in-
terest the American public in Swedish
books, and a Swede, of New York
city, has prepared a list of al>oiit 500
Swedish books that he hopes will be
found suitable to large libraries. Many
of them are already found in tho chief
libraries of Western cities where thero
i* a considerable Swedish imputation.
Most of them have been published
within the last quarter of a century.
A Hear Movement.
Visitor —Your church is a beauty.
That handsome house next door is tho
parsonage, 1 presume.
Deacon DeGood—N-o. Fact is, tho
ltttrsonugo is some distance up town,
but we intend to mukc an offer for one
of these* nearby residences soon.
••'I lw price will be high, no doubt."
••I m I think not. We sha'n't try
to buy until after our new chimes aro
put in."
Alcohol In \Hrloiii Countries
According to a recent report of tho
Belgian ministry of tinunce the con-
sumption of alcohol per inhabitant in
the various countries of tho world is
as follows: (icrmany, 11 quarts per in-
habitant; Great Britain, A.42; Austria-
Hungary, 6.39; Belgium, 8.86; United
States, 5; France, 8.07; Italy, 1.97;
Holland, 9; Russia, 6.3; Switzerland, 6.
Understand the Set.
Hostess—Why do the Chinese crip-
ple the best of their girl babies so inhu-
man ly?
Traveler — To save their darlings
lifelong 8tifiering.
"How can it bo?"
"When the Chinese girls grow up
they are able to wear small shoos
without torture."
A Wood Mine.
In Upper Tonkin there aro wood
minus, according to the report of a
I'lvnch consul. The wood, whieh win
originally a pino forest, was swallowed
up by the oarth, which covers it to a
ili'pth of eight yards. Some of tha
trees are a yard in diameter; tho wood
is imperishable and is sold to tho Chi-
nese for coffins.
Novor Itlln.
Htlso Ball Crank—Why doctor!
Wiiat aro you doiny out here?
Doctor—Oh, just killinj; time.
Base Hall Crank (itvat Scott! I
should think you would leave your
business at home when you come to %
placo of this kind.—1'uelc.
The iwlnt In IliNtren«.
Mistress—What in the world is tho
matter with the twins?
Nurse—Sure, I don't know; but from
the way they have been frottin' and
cryin1 all day, it's my opinion that
they've mixed themselves up and can't
tell which is which.
<lne lluppy Home.
Customer—I want a quarter's worth
of Paris green to kill rats.
Useful Clerk—Does anybody in your
house sing "Two Little Girls in Blue?"
••No."
••Then I guess I'll M you have it."
—Texas Sittings,
I.Ivlug L'i> to III* I.ire.
"That new hand I hired this morn*
injf," said Fanner Ilaycroft, '"plowed
one furrow across the field and then
went and laid down, aud he hasu'l
moved since."
"What was the matter with him?"
"He said he believed in goiu' accord-
in' to scripter, and that when a raaij
has put his hand to the plow he never
ort to turnback."—Chicago Tribune.
What Told.
"It must be pretty hard work pound-
ing the pavement with that great ram-
mer," said the idler.
"Sure," said Mr. Grogan, "it is not
the droppin av the thing on the shtones
thot is the har-rd work at all It is the
liftin av it up.
KANSAS CITl
I I \ I. STOt K.
kansas ClTV, mo.. Oct 16 —Cattle— r<
ccipts wtnco Saturday, s.8JI. calves, 4fll
shipped yesterday, 4,527 calves, 24L
The steer market was dull and weak
rfood cows steady others 5c to lOo
lower feeders, bulls und calves unchanged
Texas steers slow to 10c lower cows steady
Ho.s — Kecelpts sine Saturday. 2,776 ship-
ped Saturday. 1.07V The market was lUc
lower The top was fft and the bulk of
sales 14 75 to 14 90 a alnst #5.3d for top and
H uo to Ik OB for bulk Saturday.
Sheep Receipts since Saturday. 2,908 no
shipments. The market was active and 10c to
lie higher-
Corn Silk.
Villian—My card—Duel—15 paces—
rt:30 in morning—in the ravine—to tha
death.
Dude—Why, I never got up before
7:00 o'clock in my life; so that lets mo
out.
An Kxperleueed View.
Husband -A bachelor doesn't know
what home is.
Wife—Neither do some married men
until long after midnight.—New York
Advertiser.
Short and to the I'olnt.
"The doctors say that kissing is un-
healthy," said the young man to his
girl. "What do you think about it?'
"I never had much faith in doctors,"
she replied."—New York Tress.
NEW TRAIN
THE
'Knickerbocker Special'
DAILY BETWEEN
ST. LOUIS,
CINCINNATI,
new york and boston.
"Through the beautiful; Mohawk Valley and down
ILe Hudsou."
Leave St. Louis, 12 OO Noon
Arrive Indianapolis, e 00 p m
Arrive Cincinnati, 10 45 p m
Arrive Cleveland, 2 20 a ni
Arrive Buffalo, 6 90 a m
Arrive New York, 6 30 pm
Arrive Boston, 9 OS p m
juperb equipment, waoser sleeping CARS
and dinl.vo cars, will be inaugurated
SEPTEMBER 30,
BigFourRoute
Lake Shore A New York Central
M. E. INGALLS. PreslJaot. K O McCOBMIC*.
Pa *.*er Traffic Manager. D. li MARTIN. Jeoeraj
fa «• tiger aud Ticket Agent
CINCINNATI.
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