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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-11
MINNEAPOLIS MARKETS.
Chamber of Commerce.

The weather was cold, and while not
regarded as menacing to crop prospects,
it was less favorable for early seeding
than a few days ago, helping to
strengthen tired bulls. Reports con-
tinued to come favorable to winter
wheat prospects. 1t was realized that
each day now, without crop damage,
carries the crop nearer the place of Sc
curity. 1t is yet early for spring wheat
fields have been planted from the south
to the north of both Minnesota and Da-
kota. though not enough to cut any
figure. excepting as showing possibili-
ties of general work soon beginning.
The market was weak at the outset.
though strengthening later with an adj
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The Weekly Bank Statement.

New YORK, March 9.-The weekly
bank statement shows the following
changes:
Reserve, decrease sS.722 $50; loans,
increase si,059, 100; specie, decrease
IS, 290. 400; legal tenders, decrease $685.
900; deposits, increase S675, 800; circu-
lation, increase $4,000. The banks
now hold SS.54S,30 in excess of the
% per cent rule.
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Chicago.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO. H.,
March -Cattle-Estimated receipts
to-day, 1900 head: for the week, 4S,3l1
head. Market dull, and prices trifle
easier. Native cattle, common light to
choice export steers, s3@4.5O; cows and
heifers, S1.5O@9.25; bulls, s1.50@3.15;
Texans nominal at s3@3.5U for cornfed;
calves, S2.25@3.25; stOckers and feed
ers, S2@3.40. Hogs-Estlmated receipts
to-day, $4,000 head; for the week, l02,-
600 head. To-day there was short up
turn of sc on heavy and loo on light,
closing strong. Choice heavy shipping
and packing, S4.75@4.sO; light mixed,
S4.75(94.sO; assorted light, $4.75@i.S5;
assorted light-light and the SINCE sort.
S4.60@4. S0; skips and rough lots, $500
4.50; boars and rough stays, S2@3.
Sheep-Estimated receipts to-day, 1000
head; for the week, 36,915 head. Market
dull and 6@lOc lower. Natives, $3.50
@4.50; Westerns, $3.75(04.6O.
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Specie Exports.

NEW YORK, March 9.-The exports
of specie from the port of New York
last week amounted to 1856, $50. of which
$43333.799 was in gold and Sl22,331 in sill
yer. All the silver and $500 in gold
went to Europe. and $43l.299 in gold
went to South America. The imports
of specie for the week amounted to
SlSG, $50, of which s176,406 was in gold
and 80, 144 in silver.
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ern, 10 cars; No. 8, Z cars; rejected, q
cars. no grade 8 cars
2ECEIpTs AND sHIpafENrs

RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.
Receipts-Wheat, $1,000 bu; corn,
$500 bu; oats, 1880 bu; barley, 1,S0d
blu: flaxseed, 500 blu; flour $50 bbls;
hay, 25 tons; merchandise. SS5, 100 lbs;
lumber. 81 cars; posts and piling, 2 ears;
barrel stock, 5 cars; machinery, 1914, 900
lbs; coal, 691 tons; wood, 50 cords; brick.
5000; lime, cars: cement, 800 bbls;
house goods, 10000 lbs; pig iron, 90
cars; ties, 10 cars; stone, 6 cars: live
stock, Scars; dressed meats, $1,000 lbs;
hides, 14,500 lbs; railroad material,
cars; sundries, II cars. Total, 1856 cars.
Shipments-Wheat, $1,000 bu; corn.
5000 blu: oats, 2,70O bn; -four, 1928
bbls; millstuffs, 100 tons; merchandise,
$4,000 lbs; lumber, 20 cars; barrel
stock, l car; machinery, 2s7. 500 lbs;
coal, 60 tons: lime. car; oil cake, 40
600 lbs; hides, $4,000 lbs; railroad ma
terial, 2 cars: sundries, s cars. Total,
474 cars.
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Lombard Investment CompanY !

Boston, Mass. Capital and surplus. 81 $50,
600. No. $50 Leadenhall ST., London, E. G.
Eng Western Office, Kansas City, Mo. Loans
on ST. Paul and Minneapolis Real Estate and
Improved Farms in Minnesota and Western
Wisconsin promptly closed. No applications
Globe Building. H. j. DEUEL.. Manager.
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His Voice.

Texas SlfnngS.
He who has just Jeff the piano)-How
do you like my voice. Miss Race?
Miss Race (Cincinnati)-Your voiceP
Oh! it's certainly bowling success,
Mr.. Keys.
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Liverpool Grain.

. LIVERPOOL. March. 9.-Wheat dull,
holders offer freely; California No. rs
Cd per GENITAL. Corn quiet, and lower:
new mixed Western As I'D per GENITAL.
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Studied Simplicity.

Philadelphia Record.
Admirer-Miss Beauty is dressed to-
night with studied simplicity.
Rival Belle lin gorgeous array
Studied! 1 should say so. She must
have spent week oyer it.
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V""Hs THVbFVIVIt,
AND OIL BROKERS.
Kansas City Grain.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, March 9.-Wheat
lower; No. 2 red cash. soc asked; May,
919c bid, 92c asked; No. soft, cash no
bids nor offerings; May. 27$lc bid, 2S3sc
asked. Oats-No. 2 cash, no bids nor
offerings; May, 22c bid.
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CHICAGO. March 9. - Money in
good demand; on call 5@51lc; time
loans, 6@7c. Bank clearings. IS. ST., 600.
New York exchange par to 25c discount.
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Smoking-jackets have ceased to be a
luxury: they are a necessity. Almost
every man who smokes an after-dinner
cigar at home is the proud possessor Of
smoking Jacket. The imported artl.
Gle is most sought after.
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j. j. WATSON, BRO. & HYNDMAN,
IS East Fourth Street,
REAL ESTATE AND NOR 7GACE INVEST.
MENTS.
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY.
Toledo Grain.

TOLEDO. March 9.-Wheat weak,
lower; cash, 99c; May. 975Sc; July,
cash, 1890: May. 355sc. Oats quiet; cash,
25c. Clover seed dull; steady; cash,
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Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY. March 9. -Cattle-Re-
ceipts. 1,54O; shipments, 563: best
dressed beef and shipping steers steady:
medium slow and weak; choice cows
steady. aud common dull; stockers and
feeding steers slow and weak: good to
choice corn-fed, S3.7504.1O; common to
medium, S2.T5(03.50; stockers and
feeding steers, S1.6O@3.15; cows, S1.25
caro-. Hogs-Receipts, 11,774; ship
ments, Gil; weak and full 10c lower;
good to choice. s4.50@4.65; common
to medium, S4.25(04.4O. Sheep-Re-
ceipts, Sc; shipments, none; slow but
steady; good to choice muttons. $3.50
@4.60; common to medium, S2.5O(03.90.
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BOSTON STOCKS.
LOCAL MARKETS.
St, Paul,

In sympathy with outside markets
wheat took big tumble yesterday and
operators are now trying to fix figure
that can be termed bedrock. There
was considerable strength in oats. and
corn and millstuffs closed steady and
firm. Rye is very dull, and it seems as
though the bottom had fallen out of the
hay market. The call:
Wheat-No. hard. s1.1S bid; No. 1
northern, S1.02 bid; No. northern, pc
bid.
Corn-Sample, 2s@sOc asked.
Oats-No. 2, mixed. 24e bid; No. 2,
white, 271Sc bid, 29c asked: March, 2S1ac
asked; May, 32c asked; No. 3, 23@26c
bid.
Rye-No. 2, 43c bid. 45c asked.
Ground Feed-S12 asked.
Corn Meal-Unboited. sl2 asked.
Bran-Bulk, 1915 asked.
Hay-No. upland prairie, $3.50 bid,
S. asked; No. l, 81 bid; timothy, 81 bid.
Flax Seed-sl.42 bid.
Timothy Seed-sl.3O bid. s1.25 asked.
EggS-14c bid, 14c asked.
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March, $3.50. Receipts-Wheat, 1000
bu; corn, 1900 bu. Shipments
Corn, 5000 bu; oats, 1000 bu; clover
seed. 632 bags
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Cincinnati Whisky.

CINCINNATI, March 9. = Whisky
quiet; sales, 662 bbls finished goods on
a basis of $1.0S
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WHEAT MOVEMENT,
The following We're the receipts and

STATE GRAIN INSPECTION.
Following is the state inspection of
grain in Minneapolis for the past TWEEN
ty-fOur hours:
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Oil Markets.

New YORK, March 9.-Petroleum
opened dead at Ole. and after slight
advance in the early trading became
weak and declined to 9O3sc. A slight
reaction followed, on which the market
closed steady at 9O5sc. Consolidated
exchange opened at Gle; highest, 911sc;t
lowest, 9035c; closing at 9O5Sc. Newi
York stock exchange opened at 9l1sc;l
highest, 911lc; lowest, 9055c; closing at
905sc. Total sales, sol 600 bbls.
Transit certificates opened at91s4c, high
est 9114c, lowest 9OsSc, closed at 9O15c.
Sales, 81 900 bbls; clearances, 954, 900
bills; charters, 92,O63 bbls; shipments,
81, 800 bbls; runs, 80, 1873 bbls.
PITTsBURG, Pa, March 9.-Petroleum
dull and heavy; national transit cert.
fcates opened at sc, closed at $3.50:
highest, 9l14c, lowest, 9O36c.
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GERMANlA BANK.

(sTATE BANK
PAID UP CAPITAL. 100000.
Surplus and undivided profits, $55, 600.
ALEX. RAMSEY, WILLIAM BICKEL.
Pr eSident Cashier
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BANK OF MINNESOTA.
Chicago Money,

Surplus, 100000
VIM. Dawson, Pres. Robt. A. Smith, Pres
VIM. Dawson. dr.. Cashier.
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Paris RenteS.
Railway and Mining Shares

PARIS, March 9.-Three per cen
renteS, S4f SIZE for the account.
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ST. PAUL UNION ST0CKYARDS co..
SOUTH ST, PAUL.

The Yards and Packing Houses Open FOR
Business.
Ready Cash Market for Hogs,
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2115, at 100. The sales of bonds for the
week were S9,275,000, against SS.4S4, 900
for last week. Government bonds have
been dull and steady. State bonds
have been entirely neglected.
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L. S. as reg 49,.
do 4s coup.
l. M

L. S. as reg .....12
do 4s coup. .12
do 4l9s reg -. 10
do 4ks coup. 10
Pac. Us of '95 Up
La. stamped As. g
Missouri is -. 10
I. new set. 6s. 10
do do IS. 10
do do IS. z
Can. South'n Eds 9
Cen. Pac. lists. IL
ID. u r. G. lists. II
do do As -. 8
d. r. G. W. lists 9
Erie Eds .......1 10
NJ. X. d T. G.. 6s. 5
do do 5s. 3
Nut. Union 6s. 10
N. j. G. int. cert. 10
n. Pac. lists. IL
do DDS. IL
N. W. consols. Ii
do deb. 5s.. III
Or. d Trans. Gs. Ii
st. L. & /. M.G.5s 8
st. l.. Il s. F.G.M.l1
st. Paul consols IL
st. P, C.& P.1sts. IL
Il. P. L. G. Il. r. s
It. P. II, G. It. r. 3
Union Pac. lists. IL
West Shore ......l0
Adams Express. 10
Alton & T. H. 4
do pfd. SEQ. 9
Am. Express. IL
B.. G.. r. & NJ 2
Canad'n Pacific. D
Can. Southern. )
Cen. Pacific. 8
Ches. Il Ohio -. 1
do lists pfd. 6
do DDS pfd.... 3
Chi. IL Alton -. Is
c., B. d Co.,. .
c., st. l.. IL p. l
do pfd $500. 4
u, -. q " ....... %
Cleve. & Col. go. z
Del. Il Hudson 10
Del, L. d W ....1 IS
Den. & r. g.. i
East Tennessee.
do lists pfd. :. 6
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Fort Wayne. Is
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r. M. NEWPORT & SON
Investment Bankers,
752, f53 and f54 Drake Block, St. Paul.
MINI.
Buy and Sell Stocks. Bonds and Real Estate

Quotations of Stocks and Bonds.
New YORK, March 9.-Stocks and bonds
closed today at the following nrices hid
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E. Townsend Mix. W. A.Holbrook
Messrs. E. TOWNSEND MIX & co,
ARCHITECTS,

900 TEMPLE COURT, Minneapolis.
Architects Of Northwestern Guaranty Loan
Building, the New Globe and other impor-
tant works.
B. q. Brown, supt. of Construction.
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tOtdI OtIo..... ............ ...1At
Other Grains-No. 3 corn, cars; no
grade corn, cars; No oats, cars;
No. barley, cars; No. flax. car.
Inspected Out-Wheat-No hard. IL
cars; No. northern, Is cars; No. 2north-
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WALKER & co.

Members New York Stock Exchange and
Chicago Board of Trade.
OFFICES: New York, A Broadway; St. Paul,
i Gilfillan Block; Chicago, 6 Pacific Av.
STOCK, GRAIN, PROVISION, COTTON
/ IL AND OIL BROKERS.
Direct wires from our Office in ST. Paul, No.
l Giifllan Block, to New York Stock Ex-
change and Chicago Board of Trade.
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Produce Exchange.
The produce market is weak and
there is comparatively little trading.
The demand for the best qualities OF
butter for table use continues. Eggs
are rather strong, as is cheese, but the
prices of poultry and apples, which are
rOttiDg rapidly, are away off.
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TO SHIPPERS OF PRODUCE,

The only commission house in this city
that sells TO the consumer. Ship your BUT.
TER, EGGS, POULTRY and CHEESE to me.
l am selling ii to the consumers, and there
fore get higher prices for your produce than
any other commission house in the city,
mt
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TRACK.

p GRAIN. i-----'------------- TRACK.
Mar. April. May.
No. hid SllO Sill Sl.l2lslSl.ll
No. nr. 90 80 1.OUIa 100
No 2nrI 80 0OIol olIai co
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-02-22

The Idea; Mr. Phillips returned from
trip down in the Neutral Strip City miles
east Of Folsom. He says the amount Of
prospecting and developing Of silver and
copper mines down that way is really as
tonishing and that Folsom will be the
supply poiut for that section Of country.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-02-22
Tho Care Of Domestic Animals.

The family cat is regarded with far
greater respect in England than America
Every householder in New York, when he
packs off for tho summer. leaves the cat
to live in tho streets. Tho consequenco
is that during tho hot weather tho cats of
tho Empire city cry aloud and shout: they
wall in anguish to the earless moon In
means most musicall, most nolancholie. :"
They make night hideous for Gallons
hearted nim, who ignores their affection
and rejects their companionship. Amoug
cranlIs, commend me to the animal loviug
crank. Hc is bit weak headed ut times,
but softness of heart is quite compatible
with strongness of mind Whether the
baroness Burdett-Coutts was cranky or
not as connoisseur in husbandry she
shows admirable Judgment in the care of
animals. And her care for them when
they cease from ago or rlalady to be ser
viceable beasts of burden entities her to
public homage. At Holly Lodge. her
beautiful suburban horne Gt IIighgate. sho
Keeps her worn out horses, donkeys.
cattle. dogs, cats and other pets in wc!l
tended pastures and stables until they
die. And she visits them with the re-
gularity of a doctor. sparing nothing that
can give them comfort. Others here and
there do tho same.
l have seen pedigree cattle with famous
names and records living in luxury to a
grand old age, and have also seen poor
folks broken down horses and pets kept
In country quarters at an expense they
could but i'll afford. THE merciful man
Is merciful to his beast" What of New
Yorkers and their cats? If thoy sncer at
tho baro idea Of initiating the example Of
those who have established q homo for
cats In London, let them do something
better. For very small fec tho Lon
doner who. locks mp house TO go a-hoiiday
making can have his cat properly cared
for until the family return. This is com
mon humanity and common sense. II tho
wealthy New York Locseowner cannot
afford to keep his cat all tho year round,
he should have it killed rather than
cruelty subject it TO the horrors Of New
York street life.-Eew York Cor Globe
Democrat.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-02-22
People of Now rrnnsn,clr.

They Nre a splendid people here There
is certain dignity about every ono Of
them far moro striking than with any
English in England. And what is better,
thcy arc truly kind hearted and polite.
used to know. a quarter of q century ago,
some Of those grand old hudson Day com
pany's factors; and fine fellows thoy were
brave, cultured. cEivalrous. gentle and
good. but with roaring sort of way With
them that suggested the entrancing Man
itoban Indian summer with q lurking,
bowling blizzard element beneath. TEe5o
arc like them. Climate has had to 90
with 1t; true culture of brain and hrawn
more. They arc near enough TO the states
to be cumulative; far enough from Eng
land to abhor incivility.
They-and all New Brunswick folk
are less pretentious than we; moro toler-
ant than others Of their nationality. In
all that makes sOciologic distinction
these people are immeasurably better
than Englishmen, and infinitely less the
time servers and snobs than some Ameri-
cans. Ishould say they bad got further
away from the England We profess to
condemn than many Of MS whose cheeks
should fame for our coclney apings; that
they were, In moderation, level headed
ness. clean culture. and IN the freedom
from feverish ambitions. and yanities. far
In advance Of most of sour communities;
that they possessed the best OF Old
World equipoise and conservatism, and u
Nav World virility; and that if by any
good fortune OF diplomacy or war their
country should become our country. we
would secure a fine bit OF possession
and as admirable class Of people rs are
now within our farthest Boundaries
Edgar l.. Wakeman's Letter.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-02-22

Ano AauNNfA ol N0NeA heaulugs
The mischief Of voracious novel read
ing Is really much more like the mischief
Of dram drinking than appears at FIRST
sight. Ittends to make all other literary
nourlshment intolerable. Just as dram
drinking tends to make ell true food in
tolerable, and to supersede food by drink.
The voraeious novel reader Of today. os
we have said, rejects Scott. because Scott's
novels contain so much good food that It
Is not mere story telling The genuine
novel reader detests what he calls tame
stories, stories in which the interest is
not exaggerated and piled up ten times as
high as the interests of ordinary life. He
wants always to be feeling o thrill Of ex-
element running through his nerves. al
ways to be living in Imagination through
the concentrated essence of the perils of
hundred adventurous lives, instead Of
toiling calmly through the ordinary hopes
and fears Of one.
No state of mind can be moro unwhole-
some. because none is more calculated to
divert the energies from the sort of quiet
tasks to which they should be habitually
applied. and to keep them stretched on
the tenter hooks OF expectation, waiting
for q sort of strain which is never likely
to occur. and if 1t did occur, would GER
tainly not find a mans energies any the
better prepared for it for having been
worn out previously with a long series of
imaginary excitoments. The habit of
dram drinking. it is said leads 10 fatty
degeneration of the heart. I. G.. excessive
fattening round tho heart, and weak
action Of the heart in consequence.
So. too. the habit of exciting novel
reading leads to fatty dcronera.
tion Of the literary mind, t. O., to an
unhealthy and spasmodc action of tho
imagination, and general weakening of
the power Of entering thoroughly into the
solid interests of real life So far as we
know. the only effective cure for this
habit of literary dram drinking-a cure
not always forthcoming-is moral shock
Of some kind which exposes the hollow.
ness Of all these unreal in arests. and
makes them appear as ar .fcial and rlelo-
dramatic as they actually are That,
however, is n euro which Is nn extremely
painful one. almost cruel IN irs disillusion-
izing power.-London Spectator
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-02-22

Economy may be tho secret of wealth,
but there are cases where it does not pay
to economic too closely. A method in
use, and has been recently patented, Of
using again old tin cans from which peas,
lobster, salmon and other edibles have
been removed. The practice may prove a
pernicious one, and the cans should be
relegated tothe furnace and rolling mill
before being again used for canning food.
at best. cans are never preserved. after
the food has been removed, IN very
clean condition. TO say the least, and tho
acid contained in the food often causes
poisonous compounds, when combined
wish oxygen OF the atmosphere.
The old cans are. IL is stated, collected
in the "revamping" establishment, the
damaged top removed, and tho cans
thoroughly cleansed. If this statement
be true. there may DO no objection from a
sanitary point Of view. but it 10 doubtful
II cans can be cleaned short Of removing
the entire coating Of more or less o1idized
tin coating with which they are covered,
thus leaving somo Of the poisonous mat
ter to contaminate the next food placed
In tho can.
After cleansing. tho old bottom Is
punched to servo as a new top, and e. now
bottom soldered on from the inside,
through the punched hole. 1t might DO
wen for purchasers Of canned goods to ex-
anime the construction Of cans when
purchasing, and promptly reject all goods
likely to be in cases or cans that ace
second hand. "-Boston Budget.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-02-22

The bicycle force that has been organ
tied in connection with the English vol
unteers recently had its second field ma
neuvers, the first having been held at
Easter Rainy and disagreeable weather
embarrassed the troops on each of these
dates, but the result of the turnout has
been very satisfactory. On the recent
trials the men covered about 100 miles in
forty eight hours, fighting. scouting and
camping by the way. There were seven
teen officers and seventy seven men out.
made up Of representatives Of a number
Of the leading volunteer regiments.
The force was divided into two bodies
one retreating and the other following IT,
AT frequent intervals tho retreatinr force
made stands at bridges and other eligible
points Of defense, and the pursUers were
compelled to halt, dismount, send out a
slirmish line and perform all the other
preliminaries of attack, as though in
active war 1t was found that two or
three mcu left behind by the retreating
body could make a show of force at a
bridge THAI would greatly delay the ad-
vance Of pursuing force, and then could
mount and swiftly ride away under cover
Of a hedge and escape to the main body.
This ability to 6ght and run away with
o-~-N'-t AstN4AAsg tAAAu tAAC iQlilLlN lilAull-
trymGn is one Of the chief points urged
by the biCyclers in favor of the new
arm 1t is said that scouting and re-
connoiterl9g parties mounted upon bicy-
clcs could do much moro effective rorl;
without risk Of capture than men ON foot
In these Maueuvers, although the re-
treating force numbered but three officers
and twelve Eel. they succeeded in delay
Ing the pursUcrs so that it took them
thrco hours to cover a distance easily
made in less than two when no obstacles
are iuterposed. Three of the rotreating
force d ,lied too long at bridge, and
we're ridden down and captured by de-
tacAnent OF tic enemy. There were no
other losses. The chief difficulty expert
encod was due to tho number of parallel
roads occasionally converting that ra,i
through the country traversed. The re.
treating party had 10 keep scouts col
stantiy ahead picking up the lay OF the
land and bringing in reports, to pro-
tcct themselves from the danger
Of being hanied on some of these
roads and cut OF entirely at con.
yerg,ng point. In a country " Il one
good main road and but few side roads
tho success of n bicycle corps in obs Uct-
ing tho passage of an enemy would be
much greater. Bicycles have not yet been
introduced in the British regular army.
but ii their success among tho volunteers
continues, it Is expected that a similar
corps VIII be organized in each regular
rcolmeut.-New York Sun.