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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-18
FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL
MONEY AND STOCKS.

Some of the banks enjoyed an active demand
for discounts yesterday. while at others business
was exceedingly dull. Checking and depositing
were moderately active. and the movement OF
currency TO and from the country was light In
terest rates ruled easy at per cent. with an &C.
casional loan ut per cent. Ia the open market
the demand for money was comparatively light.
and rates were steady ct per cent. on collateral
call loans, and per cent. on short time prime
business paper.
New York Financial Market
new YORK. April l6.-Money-2sS per cent,
closing offered at per cent.
Prime Mercantile Paper-5H@6 per cent
Government Bonds-% per cent higher for ex-
tended IS; u for ss. unchanged for AS and Is.
Railroad Bonds-Irregular
State SecuIities-Negiected.
The selling movement in the stock market in
the forenoon TO real 20 profits in dividend pay
shares caused a decline in prices, and the bears,
by hammering Union Psciho. endesvored TO pre-
cipitnte a further fall. Between 1888 and the
market was stesdier, with an improvement In
prices. but weakness succeeded, and in the last
hour the prices ruled again lower. Burlington
and Quincy declined 2, to 125S; Northwestern
preferred l. to 152; Union Pacific l. to 97l Jersey
Central =, 20 1854; Lackawanna Il, to 12S5S; st.
Paul Is, 70 lO2L Lake shore Il, TO lllHi Wabash
preferred y. 70 ST. The decline in these stocks
ui.s been from - 20 a. per cent the latter North
western, which was the weakest on the list, Bur
hOgton sud Quincy being the next weakest
HANNIBAL and ST. Joe preferred was exceptionally
stroug Ia the last honr, and advanced Ia per
ceut. 20 S. The spccialties seem to have felt out
little effect OF the break to-day. Richmond and
D9nyiiie declined per cent. IN the last hour,
which was tbe only important cRapge in that
class Of stocks ms, market closed weak at the
lowest prices OF the day.
Transactions aggregated 5OS 900 shares. OF which
III 900 LsckawanUs 5000 Denver ~ 600 E-ie COS
kansas and Texas. 50 900 Lake Shore. 0U0 Louis
vile ard Nashville 9,UUO Michigan Central, q 900
Missouri Pacific ~ 0J0 Northwestern, Is zoo New
Jersey Central, TO- 100 New York Central, III coo
Northern Pacific. 1907 Reading. &c, 600 ST. Paul,
g. 900 Texas Pacific, 81 900 ULlOn Pacific l3OoO
Wabash Pacific. 100 Western Union, ri, 900 East
Tennessee, 500 Oregon Transcon tinentsl and
1900 Richmond and West Point.
Mining St0ckS-Dull Sierra GrSnde 16T; Sonora
Consolidated. no: NaysiO, go; Hall Anderson,
ieo 10 Loo closing ct ITO; Robinson Consolidated,
"a 70 20 and Iron Silver, 2S5. Sales for the day.
9.l75 shares.
Pipe Line Certifeates-Very dull at 9S@0iA,
closing on call At 9S5s.
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pTTEVATO lnriI ~ -Cottla-p anoInte toda,

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1.3c0 head. Market buoyant: light steers. IS Is
% %: medium TO good, se06 so; extra steers.
- liG1 TO- sheep-Receiprs $500 head. Market
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Workers. 81 6597 20; common light to fair, 81 asa
2 co; butchers and mediums, 81 70d7 50: pigs,
light TO good, s797 40
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Vegetables and Fruits.

onions-s2 b0sS % per Dbl. Spanish, q so PEI
crate.
Hominy-ss 50g3 rs; grits, "a 90.
Beans-Choice nGYy, y .503 90; medium, 81 20
rotstoes-Chotoe. paying 150Sjo per b.: a q
81 80 per Dol. selling. Sweet Potstoes-Yellow
Jerseys, So 7sa4; Kentucky sweets, e. 1898 90.
Applss-Chice. o. 50es5 % psT uol. 4oASIss.
9EeTc.
Peaches-Dried peaches, halves, So ssc; eyap-
oratei l6c
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
The Coming Cow,

The position that the GO coming COW"
is to be one well adapted for both beef
and milk production, we believe to be
correct, if it be not pushed too far.
There is an increasing number of dairy
farmers who find it best to give almost
exclusive attention to the quantity and
quality of the milk given by their COWS,
caring little about their merits as beef
makers. So there are beef-producing
farmers who properly count it a disad-
vantage if a COW gives large flow of
milk. This is true on the Western plains.
1t is true of such farmers as j. D, Gil
lette, who only ask of COW that she
shall produce and feed a calf each year.
But both these classes form but minor
ity of cattle raisers. The most success
full dairymen and the producers of the
very finest beef animals may be found
in these classes; but the great majority
of cows and of steers for beef are, and
long will continue to be, raised by men
who cannot afford to ignore either the
milk-giving or the meat-producing quail
ity. For such men the popular breed
must be one with deserved claims to
good quality in both directions. 1t is
quite possible that several breeds may,
in the future, be claimants for highest
merit for this double purpose, but the
course of breeding now adopted by the
special friends of most leading breeds
is calculated to develop one of these
qualities at the expense of the other.
The short-horn has never been surpassed
If equaled, as a general purpose COW. "
Ought she to lose all reputation as a
dairy cow?-Breeders' Gazette.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
A Washington Character.

That is a curious bit of femininity,
that odd-looking little Frenchwoman
fitting around the back row of seats in
the ladies' gallery of the Senate, writes
the Washington correspondent of the
Record. A French, face surrounded by
wildly-fowing gray hair; French fig
ure attired in neat costume, adorned
with some cheap bits of lace and ribbon
in very French way. A little white
lace, red silk handkerchief, blue rib
bon, and a "Vive lie Republique" air.
There are half dozen inches in the
wall behind the last row of seats in the
ladies' gallery of the Senate, where
statues of great senators were to be
placed; but we have never been able to
fully determine who the really great
senators were, so the inches are all
empty. Our dainty, though 1ighty-
looking, Frenchwoman runs over from
the picture and novelty stand which she
keeps in the house corridor almost every
day, and up into the senate gallery.
She hops into one niche, smooths out
her apron, smooths down her hair, and
smiles down on the senators. In two
minutes she is in the next niche, and so
she goes around the inches. giving a
minute to each, and the same time smil-
ing to the senate. Then she fits out,
apparently very much refreshed by her
ten-minute bath in the senatorial hot
vapor. don't think she understands
a word she hears. She probably knows
as little when she comes out. as when
she goes in; but that is true of other
people in the gallery, and even of some
on the floor. Would that they were all
as thrifty, as noble, and as true as this
busy little Frenchwoman, who has saved
out of the proceeds of her daily sales
enough money to pay for good many
substantial buildings here and to main
tain her sons at school in Paris. She is
one of the features of the capitol, with
an impression that it is one of her be-
longings. She regards it as her body
and herself as its genius, and feels called
upon to offer everybody who passes her
way cordial welcome to the center of
the nation, just as though she owned it.
A curious, kindly, smiling, shrewdly
simple old woman, who does good
deal to reflect the outside sunshine
through the somber corridors of the
oor1ifo1
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15

The problem of rapid transit for the
Atlantic is still in process of solution.
AS in the speeding of horses, vessel af-
ter vessel has surpassed all previous
records, until now one steamer, the Alas
ka, has made the trip across the Atlantic
in less than seven days. But the build
ers and shipowners are not satisfied.
The time must be still further reduced.
Another vessel is building to out-do the
Arizona and the Alaska The same COM
pany that owns these grayhounds OF
the sea" is having built at Glasgow an
beat the record. She will not be much
larger than the Alaska, but her engines
are to indicate no less than 13, 900 horse
power. She will have but one screw,
about twenty-four feet in diameter.
Steam will be supplied by twelve boil
ers, each with six furnaces three feet six
inches in diameter, the CRATES being a
little over six feet long. The Alaska has
nine boilers with six furnaces in each, of
about tie same size. AS the Oregon
will burn about twenty pounds of coal
per square foot of CRATE per hour, her
consumption in twenty-four hours will
not be much less than 800 tons, equaling
the amount transported by twenty-five
coal-cars. The water consumed each
day in the production of steam will
amount to 200. tons. If the water were
supplied to a town, allowing four cubic
feet or twenty-five gallons per day per
head, it would suffice for population of
"a, 1000 souls. The total weight of water
evaporated on the run across the Allan
tic will not be far short of three times
that of the whole ships cargo, engines
and all. We give these figures to enable
our readers to form some idea of what
$4,000 horsepower means; and we may
supplement them by adding that it is
equivalent to 191, ,517 tons lifted foot
high every minute, or the same weight
lifted LAO feet in twenty-four hours.
Assuming that she makes twenty knots
an hour, or, emitting fractions, 2,028
feet per minute the thrust of her screw
that is to say, the force pushing her
ahead through the water-will amount
to ninety-four tons, or about as much as
twenty of the most powerful locomotive
engines. The coal required for one trip
of the Oregon will amount to about 2,
500 tons, or enough to load 200 coal-cars.
These figures will give fair conception
of the enormous size of modern ocean
steamers as compared with the largest
machinery on land.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
How the Chinese Make Dwarf Trees.

We have all known from childhood
how the Chinese cramp their women's
feet, and SO manage to make them keep
ers-at-home but how they grow minia-
ture pines and oaks in fiower-pots for
half century has always been much of
a secret. They aim first and last at the
seat of vigorous growth, endeavoring
to weaken it as much as may be con-
sistent with the preservation of life.
Take young plant-say q seedling or
cutting of cedar-when only two or
three inches high, cut off its tap-root as
soon as it has other rootlets to live up
on, and replant it in an earthen pot or
pan. The end of the tap-root is gener-
ally made to rest on stone within it
Alluvial clay is then put into the pot,
much of it in bits the size Of beans, and
just enough in kind and quantity to fur
nish scanty nourishment 10 the plant.
Water enough is given to keep it in
growth, but not enough to excite Wig
orous habit. So, likewise, il the appli-
cation of light and heat. As the Chinese
pride themselves on the Shape of their
miniature trees, they use strings, wires
and pegs and various other mechanical
contrivances to promote symmetry of
habit or to fashion their pets into odd,
fancy figures.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
The Growth Of Trees,

Although the annual growths OF trees
are usually quite uniform, and the
''rings" in any given space nearly the
same from heart to sap, yet once in y
while knot makes queer changes and
distorts the regularity of the "rings"
into fantastic shapes that require very
little Imagination to convert into faces
and flowers and almost anything that is
not angular. The reporter once en-
countered an oak log in the Vandalia
freight yard in which knot had COM
pressed the rings round it into lines as
small as those of steel engraving
and twisted them into considerable
likeness of human face much as one
might see in the pretty figures in mala-
chite. 1t was decidedly a less imagin-
ary face than that of the ''man in the
moon," and nobody will deny that there
is pretty strong suggestion of humani-
ty in that. A paper in Rising Sun de-
scribes figure eformed in a walnut knot
that was being sawed into veneers which
''was perfect delineation of a spaniel's
head" The lines are accurately drawn
as if from the pencil of an artist, and
so true is the semblance that even the
expression of mute intelligence one
often sees in canine visages is readily
SEEN" The last suggestion is probably
the work of fancy.-Inldiqnapo Nea0S.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
And the Ozar Went to Bed.

There was company of gentlemen
engaged in little game of poker in a
prominent gentleman parlor one night
lately. 1t grew late, and fears were ex-
pressed by the party that they were
trespassing upon the kindness of the
host, who, by the way, was not pres
ent. ''Not at all, gentlemen-not at
all! Play as long as you please. l am
Czar here!' said the master of the
mansion.
eyes, gentlemen, play as long as you
pleased" said silvery voice, and all
rose as the mistress of the house stood
before them. '.Play as long as you
please. gentlemen! But as it is nearly
one o'clock. the Czar is going to hede'
And be went.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
Question.


Did you know came to meet you in the night,
Came lone and wearily,
Where the tall trees in the cold uncertain light
Beckoned me eeriiy2
Dld you know Istood there, love,
Were the stars CLEANED thick above,
And all around and all below
Lay the moolight, white as snow;
And silence deadly still,
Seemed the very air to f1ll,
Only through the mystic hush of this, our tryst-
ing hour.
The love that binds us two, in its plentitude of
Watched with me cheerily9
Did you, far away, through all those leagues
OF space,
Hear me calling?
So very still and nOiseless was the place,
The sere leaves falling,
Falling from the branches bare,
Falling through the frOst-locked air,
Falling to their Inoldering bed,
Bead things nesting to the dead,
Almost seemed to start to sound
The hushed world that slept around;
All was dumb on earth, and sky, and field, and
fell,
Yet my spirit called upon you through the spell
Us both enthralling.
Did you hear me, did you answer me, mine
own?
To outward seeming
This spirit bond we wove for us alone,
This union teeming
With the vivid fire of youth,
With the steadfast soul of truth,
With the power to endure
While life is love and faith is sure.
Is q thing as vague and wild
As the fancies of a child.
Yet, my darling, in the midnight standing
lonely,
In the power love has lent and lends us only,
trust our dreaming.
ALI the Year Round.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
Silk Handkerohiefs and sore Tbroata.

Sore throats vanish when encircled in
a silken kerchief. This is established be-
yond peradventure. The grandmothers
knew all about this hundred years
ago. They believed, too, that silk
would cure all other diseases, and some
of them thought it would heal broken
leg ''if only taken in time" We do not
go so far as that, but we know that silk
will absorb and store electricity as
readily as Leyden jar. 1t forms an
essential curtain for the electric cylin-
der, and rubbed with quicksilver, has
mysterious power that imparts force to
its retention. The curative force of silk
is due to its electricity, and the medical
faculty recommend silken hose and
shirts for thousand diseases. As we
are not professional, we only take silk
by the throat, and know its wonderful
powers. We will give sure recipe:
When you have the throat trouble, give
a nice, clean silk handkerchief to Your
sweetheart with a request to tie it
around your neck. If you are not cured
or choked by tender hands we have
made mistake. The more expensive
the kerchief the surer the cure, because
your pet takes so long to examine the
quality and get it just right, so it won't
hurt. Try it and go home cured. We
expect silk handkerchiefs will advance
in price when this matter is UNDER
stood.-D7y Goods Balleti7a.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
Too Biz,

They were seated on the sofa-that is,
he was sitting ON the sofa and she had
kneesy position on his lap. They
weren't talking, for he had seemed sad
during the three hours and fifty min
utes they had been sitting there. A
sigh, sounding rs if it had been drawn
out with cork screw and broke off with
a sledge hammer, broke the awful still
ness. She clasped her sixteen-button-
lid-glove arms around his fifteen-and a.
half neck and planted q crop of kisses
on his downy lip.
''Why does my darling sighp'' she
asked.
What do ye sayP Evangeline, haven't
L always treated you as a gentleman
should ladyP''
She nodded afiirmatively.
Haven't 1 always done my best to act
the true loverP"
Nod number two.
''And haven't hugged and kissed
you for hours at stretch, until my arms
ached SIS if with ringbone and my neck
was bent like an OK yokeP'
The third time she nodded.
'Well, knowing this to be the case,
why do you mistreat me as you have to-
night, as you did last Sunday night,
and every other night for six monthsP
Why am / thus tortured by youp
Would you have me think you falsel
Once more she grasped him with q
convulsive motion and exclaimed in roll
ing-mill tones:
''Oh, Charles Augustus Suprema Lex
Este, what have I done to make you
think me false? How, in the name of
the seven wonders and the mammoth
cave have l mistreated you, my love,
my ownp"
tWen, if you are not false, prove it,"
he said.
''Give me the test" she replied with
animation.
"Please sit on the sofa, then, or
change knees. have been nearly dead
for the past two hours"
An hour afterward he left.
''Tired, indeed" she said to herself;
81 only weigh one hundred and forty,
and Mary jenkins weighs one hundred
and eighty, and Frank Fisher can hold
her on his knee for day at time and
not get tired. Knob Noster Gem.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-15
TERMS. 8 .
Tha Now Raorrit-


In passing by one of Uncle Sans re-
crgliting offices you-may have been in
clned to smile as you observed raw re-
cruit emerging therefrom, trying hard
to appear at ease in his blue uniform,
but failed utterly. He is a young man
of twenty, perhaps, just off from farm,
who has been lured away from the plow
by dreams of glory to be won in fight
ing Indians in the far west. His sleeves
are too short for his long, lank arms,
and his great hands, roughened and
hardened by farm work, are awkwardly
conspicuous and dangle clumsily by his
side. He sets his soldier cap little on
one side, trying to assume jaunty,
devil-may-care air, suitable to the reck-
less warrior that he has suddenly be-
come, but it is not at all in keeping with
his downcast eyes and bashful face, and
the only things that he feels at home in
are the clumsy army shoes, which might
have been made by his own cobbler.
You may smile, we say, as your eye fol-
lows him, but, kind reader, did you ever
take in all the picture? There is fre-
quently great deal more than meets
your brief glance on the street. You
might, if you tried, see a tender-hearted
old mother in the little farm house he
has left behind, whose heart is filled
with anxious fears for the boy she saw
depart to make his way in life. He fam
cies he is q man, able to cope with the
world, but she knows his inexperience,
and to her he is little more than the
child she has loved and tended. And
when she learns that he has enlisted and
gone to the frontier, there is deep grief
in her heart and an abiding fear that she
shall never look upon his face again.
An, there are great many affectionate,
grieving, old mothers left behind when
the battles of life are to be fought, that
the world takes little heed of, and that
are often forgotten by the ones who
above all others should hold them in
tender remembrance.
Now turn in another direction, if you
are accustomed to scanning scenes with
your eyes closed and reading events by
the potent aid of the imagination. 1t is
easy to summon up scenes of savage
warfare in which the raw recruit may
be destined to mingle, and where the
awkward youth may develop into lofty
hero. His endurance may be tested by
long and perilous marches, and camp
ings out that would exhaust the energies
of an Arctic resident. Soldering in the
Indian country is far from being the
hilarious picnic which the farm lad pic
tured to himself while following the lazy
oxen at the plow, or dreamed of under
the humble roof of his ancestors. But
once there he is not apt to shrink from
the duties he has assumed, Many hero
has been made in this way. Some of
them have lived to come back and re-
joice the heart of the patient old mother
praying at home for her sons safety,
but the bleaching bones of others whiten
many tragic spots that tell of savage
warfare. Eyes dim with tears look in
vain for their return, and yearning
hearts pine in hopeless sorrow. If you
only think of it, reader. there is wide
atmosphere of pathos surrounding the
new recruit. Cin. Sat. Night. =