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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-20
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.
RICHMOND, VA, Nov. 10, 1920.
OFFERINGS.


Wheat. S5S bushels.
Corn, 426 bushels.
Oats-3s bushels.
Peas-JG bushels.
SALES REPORTED TO SECRETARY
Wheat-Shortberr 4S bushels prime at
97c.; 2S4 bushels very good at 93c'; $40
bushels good at 9Oc.; 200 bushels fair at Sic.
80 bushels common at 73c. Total sales of
wheat, l,40S bushels.
CoTn-White. 956 bushels very good new
at 6lc.; 1920 bushels very good at orc.
Mixed. 200 bushels prime old at 63Zc.
Total sales Of corn, 2,42G bushels.
Oats-Spring, 81 bushels good at 4Sc.
Blackeye Peas-2s bushels prime at $l.5O.
COTTON REPORT.
Market steady.
Quotations. 1Oc.; low mid
a. 10
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New YORK.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Cotton.-Messrs.
Hubbard, Price IL Co. say: Early cables
from London this morning reported extreme
decentralization on the Stock Exchange
there and the general expectation that the
bank account would be suspended to-mor
row. The effect of such suspension would
he TO enable the Bank OF England TO issue
bank notes without regard TO It's specie re-
serve and would be practical through tenn
porary initiation. Under the pressure OF
this situation the Liverpool market
mad declined before noon to-day some 3
poiuts on the near positions, and ON the
distant. and the New York opening was
about IL points under last night. Those
prices proved to be the lowest touched, ana
the covering of shorts both here and IN
Liverpool combined with late adyices from
London rather more reassurlng in charac-
ter, resulted in sharp delivery, while the
net decline in Liverpool is four on the near,
and three on the distant positions ke-
caipts at ports to-day estimated al
IS. 900 bales against 1891 bales iasl
week and 4l,75l last year. The spot market
is Quiet at "A decline; middling uplands,
9lSc. Sales, 2l7 bales. Transactions ID
futures l25, 900 bales. Futures closed 10
10 points higher, as follows: November.
.9.ll@Ol2; December, 9.lS@9.l9; January,
.g3lM9.32; February, 0.4lW9.42; March,
9.5O@951; April, 9.59@9.60; May, 9,6s@
9.69: June, 0.77@9.7S; July, 9.el@9.So;
August, 9.s9@9.90.
Produce-Flour closed weak; fine grades
spring, s2.76@$3.2 p; do. winter, S2.9O@$3.1O;
Southern -four closed weak; trade and
family extras, sI@$510. Wheat cl0sed,un.
changed; spot sales No. red winter, $40
csc: No. . red winter, November, 9slsc
Corn closed sI@Zc. lower; spot sales No
mixed, 569k @58Ac.: No. , mixed, No
yember. 5GsZc. oats closed dull and ir'
regular; spot sales No. white, 5lc.;. No
mixed. November, 4jAc. Pork dull
mess. sri .OO@sllOO. Lard closed fairly
active and weak; December, S6.O2@6w
sugar 49, Refined quiet; cut-loaf and
crushed, 6s.c.; powdered, O5Sc.; granut
lated, 6Xc. Coffee closed steady: iair hi'
cargOes, 2OlIc.
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RICHMOND TOBACCO EXCHANGE.
lReported for the Times.l

lKNpoTlcu LOT lut llluth
RICHMOND, VA, Nov. l9.--Oferings Of
tObaccOs at auction on Change Wednesday
November 10, 1890. Total offerings, forty.
six packages Of West Virginia bright
tobaccOs. One package sold at $3.50, one
at $3.50, one at $3.50, one at S2l, two at
$40, one at $lS.25, one at SIS, ,one at $lJ.5p
one at S15, one taken in at Sl4.1b one sold
at Sl2. 70, one at $l2, one taken in at $ll.0O,
one sold at $1,000, one taken in at SO, one
sold at SO, one taken in at 1919, one sold
at 80 %. one at 80, one taken in at $50, one
sold at s.. 10. one at So 80, one at $500, two
taken i'm at 81, one sold at s., one at SI.lj,
two at $3.50, two at 1928, one at ST, one nj
So. 10, one taken in at So %, two sold at 1928,
one taken in at So, two sold at So, one al
$3.50, one taken in at 50, one sold at 50, one
at 81, two taken at S2.lO.
Sales of loose tObaccOs on the breaks TO-
day: Crenshaw's warehouse, 24,4l0 pounds
highest, $12. ShockOe warehouse, s,22t
pounds; highest, 81.
The indications are that there VIII be
good loose breaks tomorrow, Thursday
November Goth.
Private sales reported TO the secretary
today: Wrappers, IL hOgsheads; 1llers, n
hogsheads; cutters, / hOgshead. Total, u
hOgsheads.
Office Of the Tobacco Inspector reports to-
day: Inspections: Bright, % hOgsheads
Western, 4 hogsheads. No reinspection'
today.
Farmers, Allegheny, Davenport's, Shell
burnes, Sesbrook's and ShockOe ware
houses report to-day: Receipts, Go hogs
heads: deliveries, IS hogsheads.
Office Of the Collector of the United states
Internal Revenue reports collections i0l
the city of Richmond to-day: Tax pad
cigars and cigarettes, $l,432.jj; tax paid
tobaccOs, s., $50. Total, $i,3s7.JJ.
Registered at the Tobacco EXchang'
Wednesday, November 10, 1890: W. NJ
Cunningham, Person county, \. c.; JOIN
q. Tnrnin. Jr. LYnchhulg.
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SALES REPORTED TO SECRETARY
Market steady.

Quotations. Middling, 10c.; low mid
ding, 91<c.; good ordinary, &c.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-20

oftm King
portion the debt thereby
cured IwiIs
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-20
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH
baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. 19.-COtton mac
tive middling. 93sc. Flour quiet and steady
Wheat-Southern dull and easier; Fultz
9O@9jc.; Longberry, 92@96c.; steamer, No
2. red, Gle; Western steadier; No. winter
red. and November, 99l1c. Corn-Southerr
quiet and easy. White new, j3@6c.; vel
low, new, 54@j9c.; Western easy; mixed
spot and November, 5Sc. Oats quiet ano
firm; ungraded Southern Pennsylvania
l9djlc.; do. Western white. jO@jlAc.; do
do. mixed, 49@5Oc.; graded No. white
she. Rye firm. Provisions firm. Coffee
quiet; Rio cargoes fair, 1910. Sugar quiet
granulated. &C. Whisky firm.
Stocks-Nirginia threes, 6I@Gj.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, Nov. l9.-S. Y. White 4 Co.
telegraphs c. w. Branch a. Co. as follows:
Wheat closes up very strong with full
three cent recovery from its lowest figure
early in the session. RumOrs Of trouble
were again rife, but they seemed to have
lost their force as the market showed a
steady improvement from the opening
Think the general renewal of confidence
will result in higher prices.
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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
Scenes in Siam.

can American finds Bangkok, the cap
ital of Siam, full of the strangest con
trasts and oldest sights" said Mr.
Perkins, returned traveller from that
country. che sees the river banks lined
for miles with floating houses, the homes
of many thousands and the scenes OF
busy trade. On one corner is the splen-
did palace of a nobleman, and on the
next the novels OF the very poor. Here
are groups of Buddhist priests in yellow
gsrb, shielding their faces with fans at
the sight of women, and near them are
gangs of the toughest of convicts clank-
ing their chains as they toll in the streets.
Here are lepers horribly repulsive, unre-
strained, and clamorous for aims, and
soon, perhaps, the King passes with a
brilliant retinue, sitting on his state
chair of solid gold. Fine ladies have
teeth as black as polished ebony. When
a member of the royal house dies the Gre
nation ceremonies cost a fortune, and
while thousands are witnessing the i'm
posing display vultures are tearing dead
bodies TO pieces IN the heart of Bangkok,
and the poor are burning their dead, 3
couple of armfuls of wood serving as the
funeral pyre. Men York Sun.
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Fate of a Glass Eater.

Mackay Holmes, described by persons
who have frequently seen him as typical
pure blooded American, was killed at
Sweetwater, Miss, in a brawl brought
about, it is said, by The jealousy of a
local merchant, whose customers were
being attracted from his store by an ex-
hibition of Holiness peculiar accomplish
lments, which consisted solely in his
ability to swallow with impunity or
pleasure articles that would be danger
Gus or repulsive to the ordinary stomach.
In the squabble Holmes received a fatal
shot from some unknown person.
Holiness appetite for tacks and other
pointed hardware was remarkable; but
if he dotted on anything it was soda water
bottles, although he never turned away
from glass articles, and had a we'll
developed taste for forty-rod whisky.
Upon occasions, and for a reasonable
purse made up by a crowd, he repeatedly
ate raw chickens, beginning on the IN
happy fowls willie they were still alive.
At one town in Delta Cfor he was in
the habit of going from place to place
exhibiting himsel0 he varied the mo-
notony of his bill of fare by drinking two
gallons of water as fast as it could be
dipped out and handed to him. It must
be told, however, he did this to win
bet of Il pint of whisky In the same
town, after eating live chicken, he an
nounced that on the following day his
bill of fare would consist of lame and
especially NANCY dog that was then
familiar object on the streets.
The gorge of the community rose at
this, and Holmes was ordered to leave
the town at once. It does not appear
that he had any aversion to ordinary
food, but rather that he used the tri-
fling articles already mentioned as other
and ordinary men do pepper and fiery
sauces, solely as condiments.
Recently a circus offered him $50 per
week to travel with it, but he indig-
nantly rejected the offer when he learned
that to earn the money he must subordi-
nate his will and pleasure to that of the
manager.
There is abundant evidence that he
practiced no sleight-of-h and tricks on his
audiences, out actually crushed with his
teeth and then swallowed glass and other
hard substances. Vicks5urg Commercial
Herald.
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Mark Twain's Boyhood.

''He was always a rascal, " said R. E
Morris, the painter, speaking of Mark
Twain. II was born and raised in Han
nibal, and know when Mrs. Clemens
Marks motheD moved from Florida,
Monroe County, to Hannibal. Mark wa:
dull, stupid, slow-going fellow, but be
was full of pranks, and while he didn't
do the meanness, he planned it and got
other boys to do it. He went to school
to Dr. Meredith, and Mark always sat
near the foot of the class. He never
took any interest in books, and never
saw him study his lessons. He left
school and went to learn the printing
business, and soon after that left Hanui-
bal and went to steamboating.
II stayed at school, got good educa-
ton, and am painter, while Mark is a
millionaire. It is a scandalous fact that
as boy from ten to seventeen years of
age Mark was a dull, stupid fellow, and
it was the wonder of the town as to
what end would be his. He was pointed
out by mothers as a boy that would never
amount to nothin', if he did not actually
come to some bad end. And he was the
most homely lad in school, too. Pranksl
I can think OF a dozen of 'em, and his
''Huckleberry Finn is full of Hannibal
episodes worked over. I read that with
as much interest as I would diary Of
Hannibal kept during my school days.
Mark is three years older than myself,
but he was always in a class of boys two
or three years younger than himself. y
So. Joseph MOI Neles.
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Hashish HalIueinations.

That cannabis Indica, or Indian hemp,
when taken in certain doses, produces
pleasant dreams and fahcies, Is q fact
well known in the East, where, under
the name of hashish, tits frequently given
before battle by chieftains to their fol-
lowers, in order TO destroy their fear and
fill them with a supernatural frenzy. The
dreamy Turk INDUCES in it, owing to
the delightful fancies it creates; but this
does not hold true for The more practical
nations. In the more civilized countries
of the West, Indian hemp does not al
ways produce pleasant hallucinations-
in fact they are often disagreeable. One
lady, after its administration, imagined
her body divided in half, the lower por-
ton running away Under the dreadful
apprehension that life would cease if
they were not quickly reunited, she gave
chase to the seeding lower half.
Whether she caught it or not do not
know, but sleep or consciousness proba-
bly, supervened, as she is well to-day.
a Mrs. R., of Baltimore, was similarly
affected. She imagined her toes leaving
her one by one; then her lower limbs;
her fingers, forearmsi arms, and lower
part of her trunk followed, and Just as
her heart was struggling to escape she
awolIe.
These dreams were undoubtedly terri
bic on account of the mate fear of death.
The illusions, etc, however, may be
neither pleasing nor displeasing, only in
convenient. A certain gentleman, sus-
ceptible to the drug, walked a distance
of ten miles or more, visited several
friends, acting nationally all the time,
but without the slightest knowledge of
what he had done. He was surprised on
finding himself at the extreme end of the
city without knowing how he got there.
When he subsequently learned of the
visits he made, carrying on conversation
in natural manner, appearing only
trife dull, he could scarcely believe it.
Another man, when under its infu-
ence, knew what he was doing, but had
no idea of distance. This was the case
of many amusing incidents and nearly an
accident. After having collided with a
number of men, women. and ash barrels
he started to cross a street and went di-
rectly into the middle of a horse car,
which he imagined half block away.
Some kind gentleman, seeing his plight,
and thinking him either blind or drunk,
offered his escort home, which service
was accepted--Nep York Sun.
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Moodr,s Ready Tact Saves Him.

Evangelist ID. L. Moody went down in
to the slums of Chicago a few evenings
since to preach to an audience of people
never seen inside of the churches. After
the services he was the centre of a scene.
half dozen young men, half drunk and
noisy, waited at the foot of the stairs.
They insulted the young women who
came out and they tripped up the young
men. They were evidently preparing to
have some rough sport with Mr.. Moody,
for when he appeared at the door they
crowded around him and jostled him off
the lower step. He saw the danger and
averted it neatly. He was carrying his
overcoat on his arm. Picking out the
biggest and toughest of the crowd he
said: ''Won't you please help me on
with this coat? Pm getting a little old
and stout The bad young man was
unnerved. He Redeemed and stepped
back. Mr.. Moody held out his arms
appealingly and the young man weak
ened. Muttering something that
sounded like an cath he hoistsd the
coat onto the broad shoulders. 81 knew
you'd do it. Thank you" laughed Mr..
Moody; and he walked briskly down the
street, leaving a disorgan;zed gang of
hoodlums in the shadow of the building.
Tribune.
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A Revolving Spectacle.

The other day, in city not thousand
miles from Seattle, a grandfather and a
father were contending in court for the
custody of family of children One of
the children, bright boy Of ten years,
was placed on the witness-stand, and re-
peatedly declared: 81 hate my fatherl 1
hate himl 1 hate himl" The father
bowed his head and wept The grand
father member of the United States
Senate, by the way-smiled and seemed
to approve. It was a revolving spectacle.
The father was feeble, purposeless crea-
ture, probably unfit for custody of the
children, but nobody could teach the boy
any worse lesson than he seems to haYe
earned, Seattle POstIntfRigsneer,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

Praise when it is deserved is Of more i'm
portanee TO the giver than to the receiver.
Praise does rot Immediately affect the merit
Of him to whom its awarding belongs. If a
man deserves praise, he is quite as much of
man without praise as with it: but no man
can be so much of man. nor seem so much
Of man, while Withholding lust praise as
while bestowing It. II, for example, a man
risks his life for another in an act of unset
fish heloisTn, 1t in no way affects his merit,
that he is given or is denied praise; but
1t does affect the merit of an observer of
that act that he tenders praise ufi-
stiDungly, or that he withholds it I'm
generously. And the same principle is oper-
alive all along the line of human conduct
and Of its observance. Praise is the price
that an on-looker puts Vpon weIl-doer's
performance; and the oa-looker measures
himself IN the measure of the price which
he awards to the performance Of the we'll
doer. In little matters as in larger the Civ
ing Of deserved praise is duty, the perform
ance Of which IS even more important to the
one who owes it than to the one to whom it
IS owed. The man who deserves praise can
get along without it. The man who ought
to give praise can never get along as he
ought ID unless be pays it all TO the utter
most farthing Sunday School Times.
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INC ora Flshcrman Ma Reaten.

A good story has never been told in
print OF royal Reuben Wood, that genial
friend to everybody, whose death was so
widely mourned. He was true son of
good old Izaak Walton, an enthusiastic
aud successful angler, of course. One
evening while in camp in the Adiron-
dacks, he was challenged by a member of
the party whose knowledge of angling
was but slight.
The conditions were that they should
stand near each other by the side of a
favorite pool, each casting into the pool
during period of fifteen minutes, the
contest to be decided by count. Uncle
Reuben's eyes glistened as the details OF
the match were considered, and at the
same time he set about e'making up" a
new cast of flies that he might be able TO
do his best when the struggle came ON
the following day.
It was prepared with all his wonted
skill, cunning and delicacy, and laying
the new 'castn and his cigar aside he
lay down to dream of how he would lure
the dainty trout to his creel. At the ap-
pointed hour the contest began, with the
usual judges and a referee. The chal-
lenger oft and repeatedly led beautiful
front to his score, but Mr.. Wood was
less fortunate. He was not successful in
"striking" his ''rises,n and only now
and then did he secure a fish.
Later in the contest he exchanged the
leader he had made up 60 carefully for
one which had been much used, and
then his luck began; but it was too late,
for when the time came for the contest to
expire he was badly beaten. The real
reason for his failure was kept e secret
for some time, but it finally became
known that while Mr.. Wood slept the
challenger had filed the barbs from his
hooks. In no other way could that
undetermined man have been beaten.-
E,9yest md Sfreg03
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14
srrAK1re Of the lase aenesal Ia

SPEAKING of the late Genesal Har-
tranft, she was one of the finest
men" said ex-Governor Curtin the
other day, chat I ever saw in the ser
vice. Through me he was offered
full Colonelcy in the United States
service, which he refused to take, al
though 1 begged him to do so. He
would NOT, and ne did not. take it. He
was a singulariy reticent man, and
modest and retiring withal, but as
brave and gallant soldier as ever
faced the fires of battle. He was a
man Of whom very few anecdotes are
told, and MY "reminiscences are very
few. and I do not now recall any Of
them. He was of a reticent, retiring
aature, except IN battle, and then he
Wos warehouse. and always in front
If the enemy. No drawer soldier ever
faced bullet. Anecdotes of him must
necessarily be mainly of a military
character, and not personal, and are
mainly known among the members of
his regiment, and not to the general
public. bis private life, however, was
exceptionally exemplary.
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Female KleptOmaniacs.

was talking recently, said a writer
in the Chicago Times, with the manager
of large store, where they sell every
thing from clothespin to an overcoat.
"There is hardly day." he said, "that
we do not arrest three or four women for
stealing. We have force of detectives
distributed through the house and it
keeps them busy watching all the crooked
characters who come in here. Most of
the women that we arrest we let go with
a warning. But occasionally professional
shop-lifter comes along and we feel in
duty bound to prosecute such offenders.
TIE other day lady wearing silks and
set-iskins was seen to take some articles
from a counter and conceal them
under her cloak. She was taken
upstairs to the office and the
goods found in her possession. She
cried bitterly and begged to be set free,
saying that an irresistible impulse had
caused her to act as she did. She is the
wife of a prominent Board of Trade man.
We let her go and told her not to come
near the store again. Almost every thief
we arrest is woman. On an average we
have twenty-five Of them week"
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RELIGIOUS READING.


AA7aED H4b MOTHER
She sat On the porch in the sunshine,
AS went down the street
a woman whose hair was silver,
But whose face was blossom sweet,
making me think of garden,
os WEN I, IN spite Of the frost and snow
VI bleak November weather.
Late, fragrant lilies blow.
heard q footstep behind me.
ana the sound of merry laugh.
AND 1 knew the heart it came from
Would be like comforting staff
IN the time and in the hour of trouble.
n hopeffpEl and brave and struns,
pne Of the hearts 10 lean on
Nhen We think all things go wrong.
turned at the click Of the gate latch.
And met his manly look:
a &C IKE his gives me pleasure.
Ike the page of pleasant book
1t told Of a steadfast purpose
Oi a brave and daring will:
a lace with promise in it,
Ahal' God grant, the years fulfil.
he went up the pathway singing
= saw. the woman's ewes
SF9w bright with w0rdless welcome,
AS sunshine warns the skies.
Back again, sweetheart mother.n
~, He cried, and bent to kiss
me loving face that was uplifled
For what some mothers miss.
That hoy viii do to depend on
hold that this is true
rom rom lads IN love with their mothers
>, Our bravest heroes grew, Thearts
Earth's grandest hearts have been lovinp
Since time the earth began;
ana the boy who kisses his mother
Is every inch a mani
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:; If a boy Is a lover of the Lord Jesus Christ.
though he, can't lead a Experimenting, OF
be church officer, or preacher, he can be
cody boy, in boys way and boys place.
lie ought not be too solemn or too quiet for
a boy. He need not cease to be a boy be-
cause he IS q Christian. He ought to run.
Jump play, climb, and yell ike a real boy.
but IN It all he ought to be free from vul-
ganty and profanity. He ought to eschew
tobacco IN every form, and have a hor-
ror OF Intoxicating drinks He ought
to be peaceable gentle, mercifnl gem
erous. He ought to take the part Of
Small boys against la7ge ones He ought to
discourage fighting. He ought to refuse to
ge party 70 mischief, to persecution, TO
deceit And, above ali things, he ought
now and then to show his colors. He need
not always be interrnpting game to say he
Is Christian, but he ought not be ashamed
TO say that he refuses to do something be-
cause II IS wrong and wicked, or because he
fears God, or is a Christian. He ought to
take no part in the ridieule of sacred things,
but meet the ridieule of others with a bold
statement that for the things of God he feels
the deepest reyerehce.-Selected.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

The great-crested fy-catcher and sew
eral other birds adopt an exceedingly
novel method to frighten away other
birds or lizards that would prey upon
their eggs. They wind into their nest
one or more OF the old skins which have
been shed by snakes, so that these appear
to be i've snakes oaiied about the nests.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-14

The German Emperor's style of after
dinner oratory is like that of COM
mander in the field-his sentences are q
series of short, sharp shocks, like SO many
words Of command,