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RaltInnre Markets

BALTIMORE, Feb 16.-Flour duh, unchanged
receipts, 5,179 bbls shipments. l9l bbls; sales.
$50 bbIs- Wheat weak-spot and month 55ISa
56sl; March, 5591a57; May, 5Sa5SJs; steamer No
q red 53Iba53 receipts, 9o93 bushels; shi :
Southern wheat by sample, 56a5s: do on
grade, 5414a574 Corn easy-spot and month";
dos all; March 46i 4a46zs; May, 4734a4s: steamer
mixed, 4614 bid receipts, 1855 bushels; ship
menls, 251l4 bushels; stock, 59S,534 bushels:
sales $1,000 bushels; Southern white corn. asa
80; do yellow. 4sai9 Oats quiet very steady
No. 2, white Western, 35isa3jIS: No. = mixed,
3ia341 41s-receipts, 3,95S bushels; shipments,
25, IA bushels; stock, 393.73i bushels kye mac
tive-No. 2, 55a51-receipts, IA bushels: stock,
32,031 bushels. Hay frm-good to choice timo-
thy, 135Oal4OO Grain freights quiet, demand
light, unchanged Sugar quiet, unchanged
Butter and eggs steady, unchanged. Cheese
firm, unchanged
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ORIENT ATHLETIC CLUB sMoKER.
A Good Programme Wei Rendered by
Local Talent.

A Good Programme Well Rendered by
Local Talent.
The Orient Athletic Club entertained a
large number OF its friends at smoker
given last night in its cosy quarters on East
Capitol street.
The club is one of the most popular in the
Eastern section, and has quite large mem
bership, and proposes in the near future to
enlarge its present clubhouse.
The programme presented was good one.
and consisted of a piano solo by Vice President
S. J. Kuebel, recitation by II. Buekler, and a
we'll rendered banjo solo by Mr.. BoydIer
The recitation of F. A. Harrison was well re-
ceived, and was followed by Arthur Gardiner.
the favorite young basso. in solo. recita-
tion by J. T.. McElfatrick and other talent
helped TO round off an evening full of enjoy
ment. which, in addition 10 above, included
collation. and plenty OF smoke.
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Bowling League Meeting.

special meeting of the District Bowling
League was held last night at Carroll Insti-
tute for the purpose OF taking action on a
c., which it was found impossible to play of
during the time limited in the original
schedule.
1t was decided to extend the time, and the
game will be played within ten days. on a date
to be fixed by Capts. Kidd and LansdaIe.
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large photograph of the champion team hung
in an appropriate place in the Institnte2
Tee IHstitHte will have as its guests on the
22d instant the bowling team and substitutes
of the Young Mems Catholic Literary Club.
OF Elizabeth, n j. which team comes to play
a set OF tenpin games. The prospective Wis
itors have a reputation for strong bowling,
being among the leaders in their locality,
and bolders of the Journal trophy.
The remainder OF the month is full of
pleasure and interest for the members and
their friends.
Tomorrow the dramatic club will pre-
sent Still Waters Run Deep" The east is
a strong one, and Institute Hall should be
packed.
Thursday. Dist, the Hon. D. l. Murphy will
present an original paper on Tom Moore,
the Irish Bard" Well-known local vocal
talent will sing of the bard.
On the evening OF the 18th the annual in
stitute banquet will be given. Among the in
vited guests will be Mgr. Satolli DR.. Rocker,
Bishop Keane, and Rev. DIR. Stafford.
WASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB.
Active preparations are being made for the
play to be presented in the W. A. C. gym
nasium on the 21st instant.
Fuller. Brinkley. and Litchfleld are doing
good all-around work in the gym.
David Schlessinger is after local bowling
record. He broke the club record during
the week by fourteen pins. reaching the re-
markable score of 25l. he bowled three
consecutive games in practice making 236,
251, and 22S, respectively, and in competition
he would have been entitled to a local record.
He is strong addition to the team which
has made such excellent showing in the To-
cal league.
The basketball team is showing remarka-
BILE Improvement in its team work. The tie
game with w. l.. l. was an excellent contest.
It is scheduled for a game with c. I. on
the Goth.
YOUNG MEMS CATHOLIC CLUB.
The past week has been quiet one at the
Y. NJ. G. G. gym. Athletic exercises gave
way to spiritual training.
The bowling team still has set of games
to play with w. A. c., and these will wind
up the league series.
The team certainly deserves better po-
siton in the League, and to hard luck as
much as to anything else must the failure to
reach it be attributed The team under
Capt. Lansdall bowled hard and earnestly and
at times brilliantly. but was often outlucked.
On Tuesday evening nsxt the club will give
a reception at National Rifles Armory. The
entertainment committee is composed of L.
A. W. Van Reuth. NJ. A. Keane, G.. A. Trapp,
L. A. German, and M. Quincy, and good
time is promised. goo
| Thomas p. Kennedy Will befmaster OF cere-
| monies. 0sckR p. SCHMIDT.
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AMONG GAhATEURATHLET[s
Clubs Will Play Basketball for
Sweet Charity.
CARROLL CHAMPION B0NLERs

Basketball Games Disarrange the
Scheduled New Record for Indoor High
Jumping - A Larger Bowling League
Smokers and Dramatic Performance
Visiting Bowlers to Play the CAROLS.
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Along the Coaching Line

Along the Coaching Lines
Cleveland has released Pitcher De wald.
Pitcher Hawkes. side sport is chicken
fighting.
Under the caption Of 30 you know the
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GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
Joyce Has Not Yet Signed a Wash
iugtOn Contract.
CATCHER COOGAN A SENATOR

Senators viii Report in This City on March
and Depart for Charleston, S c.. on the
Same Day They VIII Get Inc Net Profits
in Addincn 10 Regular salaries-Nanager
schmelz Not Making ANY Predictions.
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Chicago Grain and Pro5ucs.
Cotton and grain markets, reported by W 3
Hibos, 1921 street, representing Hubbard,
Price " Co New York
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WINDING UP THE BOWLING LEAGUE.

AS originally arranged. the schedule OF the
District Bowling League provided for the last
series to be played on Friday evening last,
but as the Y. NJ. C. C. and W. A. C. had been
unable to play their last set the schedule will
wind itself up during the coming week.
Early in the past week it was announced
that Carroll Institute team could not be
headed in the lead for the championship.
The success OF the Bowling League has at
tracted the attention OF many unattached
bowlers who are, in several instances, moved
to take part in the sport next season.
To this end these bowlers are preparing
to organize teams. procure quarters, build
regulation alleys, and make application
for membership in the league next fall. From
the present outlook, then, there will be bowl
ing galore next season and instead of five
there may he eight teams and possibly two
leagues.
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As a result OF the suggestion thrown out in
this column last Sunday to athletic organiza-
tions TO hold athletic exhibitions fer the
benefit of the charity fund. the Carroll In
stitute Reserves and the Washington
Athletic Club basketball teams are arrang-
ing for game
As soon as date can be fixed upon proper
arrangements looking to big pound party
will be made, the feature of which will be the
above game.
1t has partly been decided to play the first
game in the gymnasium of the W. A. c., and
as there are very many persons from the
northwestern section of the city who would
like to see game between the two teams
named, but who dread the long trip 10 W. A.
c.. it is suggested that a series OF three games
be played, the second one in the gym of Car
roll Institute 1t should be announced that
it is to lie a pound arty, and that after the
game there will be dancing. With these two
attractions, there is no doubt that The two
clubhouses will be packed to the doors.
The G. A. C. and other organizations have
ment 10 the movement; the former would
have made their affairs during the past week
pound parties, but the time was too short TO
properly bring it to the attention OF those
who had been invited.
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Danny Coogan has signed TO play with
Washington. This is the latest piece of base
bail news concerning the Senatorial aggrega-
tion. Several weeks ago THE TIMES stated
that Coogan would sign with the local club.
II then had the information necessary 10 JUS
tifv the assertion, and since President Young
yerifes the statement all is well.
Coogan caught last year for the University
of Pennsylvania, and made a great record for
himself. HIS backstop work was OF such
character rs to receive praise everywhere.
while his throwing TO bases was accurate and
a terror TO base stealers. BE is a hard hitter.
and as an all-round man he will size up with
the best catcbe In the country.
The young man must be regarded as val
uabfe acquisition to the Senators, and should
his Lea -ue work be anything ike that which
characterized hIs collegiate playing the hag-
ners will have valuable man. There may
be objection 10 his smallness, but he Is hlg
enough TO receive the balls from any Of the
Washington twirlers. Itdoes not follow that
big men make the best catchers.
Under date of February IS. Manager
Schmelz writes TIE TIsIEs that the Senators
will report at the Randall House. this city, on
March 2. The team Will leave the same day
for Charleston. S. c.. where they viii do pre-
limIrary work, playing their first exhibition
game on the nth, Brooklyn being booked as
their opponents.
The Washington manager is very reserved
and does not indulge in any predictions as 10
the work the Senators will do in the League
race. He says, however, that he is advised
by those players who have signed that they
are in good condition, and assure him that
they will do much bstt-r work this than last
season What a glorious thing it Will be If
they improve their position in the race.
he adds that he has not yet received the
contracts Of Maguire, Mercer. and Joyce.
he seems hopeful that by the time their
services are needed the trio Will lie IN line
He is sure Of Mcguire. The latter player is
very popular and his many friends viii be
pleased to read that he has signed Senator
ial contract
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
New york Stock Fxcharos

Furnished by SiIsby & Co. hangers aui
brokers, metropolitan Bank Building. Fifteenth
street, opposite Treasury, Washington ID q
On Hign Low Closing
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Exhansting Drains. Unnatural
Discharges. Failing Memory. Loss
OF Ambition. Nervousness. and all
the evil effects caused by excess or
folly, treated with never failing
success, safely. privately, speed
lily. and Thorough, Permanent
Cure Guaranteed or No Pay De-
manded.
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Quite a Name Changer.

There is woman living in the Sinna-
mahoning valley, Pennsylvania, who was
born an Orr, and by marriage she has in
turn changed her name TO Barnes, Gala
han, Rix, Enos, Robinson, Elder and now
Bailey. Each of her six dead husbands
had been soldier in the late war, and she
married the first one in 1868, when she
was II. 1t is hardly fair to say, either,
that these husbands were exactly six, for
not one of them had all of himself left
when he succeeded to the title Of husband
to this admirer of the military. Three of
the husbands had only one leg apiece, one
had only seven fingers, besides being short
leg, another wooed and won the widow
with one leg and one arm, and the sixth
was minus an eye Her present husband
is not veteran of the war and has all his
legs arms, fingers and eyes. Mrs Bailey
is not yet 40 and is the mother of 12 chill.
dren, two each by her soldier husbands
New York Tribune
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The Original blowout.

"You have often heard the expression
We had a great blowout last night used
in connection with a dance or some sort of
amusement - said gentleman yesterday
do you know the origin of the word
blowout No? Well I'll tell you of it,
Away back in the thirties the cotton mills
at Lowell, Mass, were furnished with
operatives from the families of the farmers
living about the town The sons and daugh-
ters Of the sturdy farmers held positions in
the mills, and coming from such good old
stock there was q sort of social spirit de-
veloped among the employees which is not
found in factories in these days. From
the factories of Lowell some prominent
people have come, Helen Hunt jackson
was employed there at one time.
THE hours were long, and in winter
time lamps had to be provided to give
light to the workers. 1t was before the
days OF Kerosene or, as they used to pro-
nounce it when it did come out, 'kero-
sen, with the accent on the o. Whale
oil lamps were burned. They were lighted
on Nov regularly every year, and their
use was dispensed with on May 1. 1t was
the operation on this latter date that origi-
mated the word blowout. When the bell
sounded on this day to quit work, all
lamps were blown out simultaneously
not to be lighted again until Novemb Der.
This was called the blowout, and after
this dance or supper would be given,
which at first was called the blowout
dance, or blowout supper, until finally
any festivity attending the extinguishing
OF the lamps for the year was called tbs
blowout. So the word blowout was
originated. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Hoods Pills cure all liver ills, eonstipa,
hoa. binousnSss, sick headache, indigestion.
TREASURER'S BONDS MISSING.
"A Theft by Which the City of Brooklyn
VIII Lose Thousands.

BROOKLYN, Feb l5.-More sensational
developments in the sos, 900 shortage in the
county treasurer's Office were brought to
light yesterday by the discovery that two
of the bonds of County Treasurer Harry
H. Adams are missing from the county
clerks office in Brooklyn. The bonds
were for 500 600 each. They arc supposed
to have been stolen There is a record of
one bond having been Ged, but not the
other one. The persons who signed The
missing document cannot be held reSpon-
sible for any portion of the shortage, and
the county will lose between So, 900 and
$4,000.
Mr.. Adams has been treasurer of Kings
county for four terms, having taken office
in 1888 Atthe beginning of each term he
had to give bonds. The missing bonds be-
long to the second and third terms It
was thought they were filed in the usual
manner in the office of the county clerk
Of the bond of the second term there is
not the slightest record in the office. There
Is nothing to show that it ever was filed.
The bond of the third term is recorded,
but the bond itself has disappeared. Is is
said that it may be possible to sue on the
record but this is an open question.
According to the experts who examined
Mr.. Adams accounts the shortage began
during his second term and has continued
to increase ever since. The law does not
allow the present bOndsmen to be sued for
shortages in other terms of office.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. A.-Flour quiet; win.
ter supertne, Ss02.l5; winter extras. 81 9O7
24O; No. swinter family, S2.4002.5O; PennsvI.
vania roller straight, S2.5002. .85; western win.
ter, clear, S2.4O@2.6O. Wheat higher. ami
with o'1sc. bid and 5l34c. asked for February
for February. Oats quiet, firmer, with 86c
bid and 3j'4c. asked for February Beef dull
Pork tirmer; new mess, SlL250l2.25. Lard
steady; western steam, $500 Butter weaker
western dairy, l0Dl5c.; creamery, ll024c
do factory, s160l4c.; Elgins, 25c; Imitation
creamery, lOQlSc.; New York dairy, lO@lsc
do. creamery, l30l6c,i Pennsylvania cream
cry prints fancy, &c. do, choice, 26c do fail
TO good, 2l925c.; prints iobbing at 2s613lc
Cheese steady; New York, large 96llAc
small g50l2c.; part skins, 339c. full skins
2G21hc Eggs weak; New York and Pennsyl
yania' &c; ice house, l8929c western, fresh
26c.; southern, 24025c.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-15

Now that the Republicans are in con-
troll of the popular branch of the Mis-
souri Legislature, they have deliberately
resolved to restore portrait OF Abraham
Lincoln to the place in the chamber from
which it was Indignantly removed by the
Democrats some thirty years ago. This
threatened demonstration of offensive
partisRnship will doubtless excite the
violent opposition of many of the most
distinguished moss-covered Bourbons in
Old Missoury"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-15

THE conflict between China and Japan
has been a struggle between the forces of
Oriental medievalism and those of
Aodern civilization, and from the outset
of hostilities it has been evident that but
one outcome of the sanguinary strife was
possible. 1t is not hard to understand
the secret of China's weakness in the
present st struggle. Although she possesses
an immense opulation-reckoned to be
100000 900, ten times that of her success.
Eul foe-the Mogul Empire has made
scarcely a single advance in civilization.
She is practically the same to day in in
'belligence, industry, habits, customs and
manners that she was five centuries ago.
Contact with the outer world, which has
toeen so potent factor in raising and en-
Tightening the people of other countries,
mas made no impression whatever upon
Ene Celestials, unless TO confirm them in
1heir ancient preiudices. Japan, on the
other hand, has been quick to see the
value Of modern methods and has made
swift use Of them. She has been an apt
.gtudent in not only the art of warfare
but in many respects she is abreast with
he Western World in matters of govern.
ment industry, popular education and
the like. Instead of looking upon West
osrn influences with dread she has vel
coined and invited them, and as a result
she is to-day, in spite of her isolated situa
ction and relatively small population, on,
of the acknowledged great powers of tn,
world. If China is to continue as an in
dependent nation, an emulation of tn,
example of her island nelghbor is tn
only alternative left her. Whether she i
sble to do this is a question. In its presen
condition the Flowery Kingdom is hug
mass Of Ignorance and superstition. Tn
Chinese are stepped in idolatry, populs
esducAtion in the true sense of the word
unknown among them and their standar
of morality and living is of the lowest d'
sacription. They are total strangers,to th
sentiment OF patriotism, and as a rule ar
destitute OF moral courage.
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SOME people are very happily consti-
5uted John B. Cough used to tell of an
old woman who praised the Lord that,
ohough she had only two teeth, one was
right opposite the other. So the President
gives it as his opinion that his last edict
promises better results than the efforts
previously made in the direction of effec-
lively adding to our gold reserve through
the sale of bonds" Let US hope that the
promise will prove true. And if it should
1t will not be saying much for those
previous efforts.
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The doorbell rang in house in West.
chester county, and an expressman stood
there with large package TO deliver.
" Does Mr.. Brown live hereg" said he.
was told TO deliver this bundle to a
man named Brown, who lives in a red
house on Rutgers street 1 did not know
but this might be the place >,
Well, but this house is green SAID
the lady of the house
"Oh, yes, so it is 1 didn't notice that
before 1 guess, maybe, Mr., Brown lives
next door"
Mr.. Brown did live next door, and the
house was a bright red.-New York Her
aid
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Protoar E., cuufassos i'm an io.
tercs,ag paper il The Forum that his
mind Was seul.ly untitled for dealing
with real life ly the romantic novels
he read in his youth. TuacAlay recall
ed him to common sonse. One is glad
this admirable literary man has called
attention TO point which needs to be
impressed ON young people. The old
fashioned romantic novel on which most
Of them, especially if they be Of the
feminine sex, doto and dream does
immeasurablo harm. 1t is not in itself
immoral, but is responsible for more di-
voroes, domestic broils and even muir
ders and suicides than the world has
any idea of. Its pictures Of life are no
more like the reality than the garden Of
Eden is like a slaughter house
The latest fashion in fiction is to kill
the heroine and make all the best peo-
pie live and die furiously unhappy
This is arehex Of the pessimism and de-
spair that have invaded life and litera.
ture in our day, but even this is better
than the old style romantic novel 1t is
better because it is truer to real life.
Real life is both happy and unhappy,
mostly unhappy, it is true, but not
wholly so. The literary artist, therefore,
who paints for us large breadths of mel.
anoholy and despair does his youthful
readers a service in this way-that he
does not MAKO thom float in an unreal
draar of ecstasy, only 70 wake and be
flung upon The cold and Srimy dumping
glolud Of hard fact The novel that
wcun shov them how 10 be strong ana
ruc, sircGctId self controlled, what,
ever happened, would be better yct
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-15

NEW York, Feb l4-Beeves nominallv
weak European cables quote American steers
at ll9l2c., dressed weight; refrigerator beef
at 99l0c. Calves active, firm; poor 10 prime
veals, $3.50; fair barnyard calves, 50. l2lS.
Sheep and lambs slow lower; poor to prime
sheep, S3D4.75; common to choice la,nbs
S4s71616 Hogs steady; inferior to choice. s4 si
0A70.
EAST LIBERTY, Pa, Feb. 4-Cattle steady
and unchanged. Hogs firm; Philadelphia.
S445GD4.50; best Workers. $42504 30; roughs.
e344. Sheep very slow at unchanged prices,
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The tana,ili. Of ta1 a3a!.l miuo q.
Jeddo mountain IN Pennsylvania is q
magnificent triumph Of mechanical en-.
ginecring. In 1887 a creek that flowed
through the valley at the foot of Jeddo
mountain poured over its banks i'll a
freshet and flooded the whole basin of a
magnificent coal deposit The miners
fed for their lives before the rising tor.
rent, barely escaping From then till
now the rich mine has remained full OF
water as it was left that unlucky day.
First it was thought to pump the water
out. But there were 500, 900, 600 gallons
of it. The pumping would cost SO much
that it could not be undertaken.
Finally it occurred to one of the Jed.
do coal operators, Mr.. J. B. Markie,
that a tunnel under the mountain, from
point below the mine, low enough tc
drain all the water out, would relieve
the basin and leave the mine once more
free to be worked. In 1891 this great
tunnel was begun, twas completed the
1st of February, 1895, 1t is 3 q miles
long. Shafts were sunk in two different
slopes, and work begun. The surveyors
task was performed with such accuracy
that, like the great Simplon tunnel il
the Alps, the central point of the two
shafts did not vary more than an inch
when they came together underground.
Three months will be required to drain
off the 500, 900, 600 gallons of water.
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Tl0I10'S
~ SARSAPARlLLA
The Kind that Cures

and we think you will agree with
us when you hear his story.
For 10 years Rheumatism had
tortured him. Arms and legs all
out of shape; and for two years
was fed with spoon like a baby.
To walk was simply an impossible
ity. His flesh left him; his
weight falling from 155 to 7s
pounds. 1t was Rheumatism to
be sure; but it was Impurity of
the Blood all the same. AS
climax, Eczema appeared; some
of the impurities thus forcing their
way to the surface. For this he
took DANA'S, knowing its repu-
tation as a blood purifier. The
Rheumatism his physician assured
him was incurable, what was the
resulti Not only did the Eczema
leave him, but CT can now walk
without the aid of crutches or
cane"
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or course, the Democrats and Populists
voted together against Mr.. Reeds substi-
tute. Whenever they believe an emer
genoy exists the Democrats and Pops cast
their votes as a unit 1t was this which
elected Mr.. Cleveland and the present in
competent Congress and started all the
government presses to printing bonds.