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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-15
BOARD AND ROOMS.

25TH-ST.. 40 WEST.-Large and small
rooms handsomely furnished breakfast
II desired. also parlor for doctor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-15

YOUNG LADY wants situation as assist
ant In dentist or doctors Office with ref
erence. Apply r. V. L., 81 South oth-st..
DrookiyA
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Buffalo Live stock.

Buffalo. N. V, Dec. --Cattle-Receipts,
2,5Co head: on sale, 1896; the early trade
was active and prices were l5 to 40 cents
higher for al kinds; stockers and feeders
were In supply: the market closed steady
and heavy. but a shade weaker for others (;
prime heavy steers. A.40a4.5O; good to
choice, $i.10a4.30; good mediums. So. 75ai 20;
the strongest advance was for thes kinds |;
light but steers, S340a3.75; good to prime
fat cows and heifers. 3Sa360; prime fat
heifers. $3.50a4; common to fair fat cows,
$2.50a2&; mixed butchers" stock common
to good, s325a3.50; fair cows, M.75a2. Is !;
light to god stockers. 32.i0a3: good to
prime, S3.15a3.40: fresh cows ana springers
were In light supply: good ones steady and
firm; late springers and poor cows were
to good. SIS to $35. yeals in light supply !;
choice to extra, $SaS.26; good to choice.
N.25a8. Hcgs-Recaipts,, 7,Sl0 head; on
sale. $500 head: market opened active and
higher: early quotations, yorers. $425a4. 20;
light grades 4.35; mixed packers, medi-
ums and heavy. H.25; pigs. A3Oa4. % ;
roughs. $3.l5a3. 30: stays, 2.7ta3 15; market
closed 10a15c. lower: late sales generally
at "a. 15a4. 22ia. Sheep and lambs-Receipts,
130O0 head; on sale. 1920 head: market
opened active and Is to 20 cents higher for
lambs and 10 to Is cents stronger for sheep,
which were scarce: market closed dull
and fairly lower for lambs. but steady for
sheep. about all sold: prime natice lambs
quoted early at $4.6a5.60 good to choice,
A.75a5.25; light common to good, g. 75a4. 20:
culls. $3.50a375; Canada lambs. $5.lOa5. 50;
good to choice quoted early at $2.75a3. .25
common to fair, e. l0a2.80: culls. t1.6oa2.25;
fancy wstherd sold late at 0.7saAs&.
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stained hands moving back to his place
by the door. and then, without word,
brought my eyes back to meet ma
danes. She let low. deliciously rip
pling bit of laughter escape her lips.
"You take It WE'LL" she said. Now.
jackson, search him." The stained
hands made q rapid exploration of my
pockets. but. thanks to the precaution
had taken before starting out. moth
ing of a nature to excite further sus-
picion of my good faith was discovered.
The search. however. seemed scarcely
to satisfy their fears. for they held q
hurried and somewhat excited cOnver-
satiOn together wherein the two men
seemed to hold an opinion differing
from that. of madame. She finally
turned from them and commanded the
man she had addressed as jackson, to
release me. e-
II have for you a further commits
SION" she began; the words falling
quickly and tersely from her lips. max
ing the slightly foreign accent with
which she spoke charmingly percepti-
BILE. Tomorrow you will take the
train which leaves the Grand Central
station at ten o'clock for p. In two
hours you will arrive there. You will
be met by O man to whom you will give
awaiting you with light wagon and
a pair of black horses. He will take
you to d certain house whittier further
orders will be conveyed to you within
that time. you are at liberty to return.
As before, be prompt. be sure, and, as
you value your life. be silent. Do not
think that mistake on your part will
escape detection. or that q blunder will
pass unforgiven. will return to you
your pistols. When next you are In
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-31
New York Produce Market.

New York, Dec. Electromagnetic, stead
Ter. Wheat-Dull. firmer; No. 2 red store
and elevator. G9laaGsa.c.: afOat, 1la7lhc.;
(. o. b., 69iaa70Ac.: ungraded red. 65a73c.
No. | northern. G7asa6Sc.; options closed
firm at la1Ac. advance: January, G6s4c.;
March, 6sssc: July. G6Lc.: December,
c6a.c.; March. G89sc.; July. G6Ac.: Decem-
ber, 6Ga4c. Corn-Dull. firmer: No. . at
3iRc. elevator; 35l2c. ahoat; options were
dull and firm at Nc. advance on local
covering and following the lowest; Decem-
Der. 9ii.c.; January. 3iIst.; May. Sitsc.
moderately active. firmer; December,
23Lac.; January. 23lac.; February, 23ssc.
May. Ac.; spot prices. No. at .23lxa23iac.
No. white. 2ii2c; No. Chicago, 2ihc.
No. 3 at 2ic.: No. 3 white. 23l2c.; mixed
western. 23laa2ilac., white, do, 2ia2sc.
white state. 2ia2sc. Beef-Dull steady
family. $l0a1005; extra, 7.5OaS.5O. Beet
hams-Dull, Sl5al5.5O; city India mess
$1G.5Oa17. Cut meats-Easy; bellies. 4aac
picked shoulders, hams. SaSa4c.; middles
nominal; western steam, $5.55; city, 5.l5
city. 5l5; December. $500. nominal; re-
fined quiet; South America. $64O; com
pound, 4ssa5c; mess, $9.20. Butter-Dairy
l3a211ac.: do, creamery, 1Sa23c.; western
dairy. llal9c.; do. creamery, 1Sa2ic.; do
June. lGa2llzc. fancy, 9zai0c.; do. small
7sla1Oiac; western small. 9ka1OAc.: par
skins. 3Aa7c. full skins. 2a3c. Eggs
Fancy. scarce and firmer; state and Penn
sylvania, 1Sa25c.: southern, 19a22c.; ice
house. l6alSc.; do, crate. ,$3.75a4; western
19a22c.; do, cases, $3.75a4.25; lined. 1Glaa
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you been waiting for this opportunity
us after all?"
| told her ten days-the length of time
I had been in the house over the way.
Prom whom did you receive the sig
nal?" she demanded.
For a moment az her eyes flashed
into mine, something impelled me to
throw up the game l was playing and
confess my impostership, but second
thought nerved me to go on.
ut is better" l replied, 'even here,
to mention no names"
She shrugged her white shoulders
slightly. Your caution is admirable"
she said. "See that you continue it..
Meanwhile will you explain yourself
more fully The message announcing
your arrival with the letters we ex-
pected you to deliver tonight, was re-
ceived two weeks ago. You have
watched your chance to communicate
with us well, and with commendable
caution. But now that you are here
you bring us nothing. Explain. If you
please"
stammered blindly (for 1 could not
see which way matters were tending),
that it had, at the last moment. been
considered unsafe to send the cOmmu-
nication for which they We're looking:
that certain things were discovered:
that another message must be waited
for. Madam regarded me for mo-
ment with. no attempt toward conceal
ing her suspicion, and saw her eye
flash darkly through the black mask.
] stood narrowly watching the three
people before me. my back towards the
door and both hands behind me grasp
ing the blackthorn stick of which l had
kept a jealous hold. AS / saw the
glances which they exchanged, my
hands involuntarily frightened their
grasp At the same moment a touch of
cold steel made itself felt against my
wrists and q sharp click broke the
momentary stiffness of the room. tried
to separate my hands and found that
they We're cuffed. | made no struggle
| for knew in other cases, where had
been the operator and another the VIC
! tim, that the man who submitted quiet
| ly to his fate stood the chance of best
! treatment from his captOrs. ! turned
just in time to see the man with the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-31

The Junior member of o private firm Of
detectives in New York becomes interested
in a deserted house, opposite which he
happens to take q room. While watching
IL during a convalescence from Illness, the
blinds Of one Of the windows are opened
suddenly, disclosing the figure of a small
man who waves his hand and disappears,
Three days later the detective receives u
mysterioIs letter. appointing an hour 10
call He looks across at the deserted
house, shading his eyes with the letter.
The figure reappears and repeats its sig
NAL That evening the detective arms
himself. pushes open the iron gate of the
deserted house and enters.
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1T was not given to me finally, II re-
piled, at random.
And your instructiOns?'
Merely to wait for chance to tell
you this
They seemed surprised and madam
made some rapid remarks to the other
In tongue with which was unfamiliar.
Then, moving with long, graceful step,
which made no sound upon the heavy
rugs with which the floor was covered.
she came in her turn and confronted
me.
why did you come armed?" she de-
manded.
She was standing before me. her mag
nificent figure drawn up to its full
height. and arose and faced her before
answering.
Il thought 1t only a proper precau-
ton, and one which | habitually take. "
''Then you should also take care to
be less easily disarmed," she proceeded,
with some impatience. How long have
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-31
Scranton Glass Co...........
Scranton Pass, Railway, fiji
ChicapO Live Stock ,

Union Stock Yards. ILL.,, Dec. &.-Cattle
Receipts. 1900 head; market strong and
10 cents higher; common steers, $3.2Oa4.1a;
stOckers and feeders, s2.40a3.65; calves.
s2.5Oa6.25; Texans, $3a3.9o. Hogs-Receipts
24.00O head; market firm and and 10
cents higher; closing easy; heavy pack
ing and shipping lots, SO. 50a3.16 common TO
choice mixed. s345a3.7214; choice assorted
s35Oa37O; light, $345a3.70: pigs. $3a3.GO
Sheep-Receipts. 25,0OO head; market 10
cents higher; inferior to choice, $2a3.5O;
lambs, $3.25aG.Cj.
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THE world OF BUSINESS
Stocks and lIords.

New York, Dec 3O.-The opening of the
railway and miscellaneous stock market
was weak and generally Aaia per cent.
lower Soon after there was decided
change for the better and under the lead
ership of Sugar an Improvement of Aa2
per cent. ensued. In the afternoon money
on call suddenly rose to 20 per cent. The
rise led to considerable shifting OF loans
and forced l!quidations all along the line.
Chicago Gas was particularly weak spot,
selling down from 55i4 to CPS. The market
closed weak and generally lsa-Ss per cent.
lower Baltimore and Ohio was better
supported than of late and on transac-
tions of 800 shares recovered 2is per cent.
at the closing at S6l2. Total sales were
1870 43i shares.
Furnished by WILLIAM LINN, AL
LEN & Co.. correspondents for A. +.
CAMPBELL, stock Broker. 4l2 Spruce
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ouner.hip OF pre.cription..

A few days ago a gentleman went to a
drug store to obtain a prescription which
had been previously filled for him, and
which he wished to carry away. The drug
gist declined to give 1t up. The gentleman
insisted that, as he had paid a physician a
good price for the prescription, 1t was his
property, but the druggist could not see 1T
In that light, and still refused to surrender
the prescription. The question is a nice
one. On the one hand there seems to be
reason in the position that a person who
has paid for a prescription has a right of
ownership in it, and on the other a drug
gist may reasonably claim that, being an
order on him for certain medicines, it is his
voucher in case of accident. So far as the
physician is concerned, it is quite clear that
after giving a prescription he has no fur
Their control of it. 1t represents his opinion
of the patients case. and when it leaves
his hands it passes out of his control. A
reasonable view of the case seems to be
that the original prescription rightly be-
longs to the druggist, or at least should be
left I'm his keeping for his protection, and
that the person to whom it is given is en-
titled to a copy. There are obvious reasons
why druggists should be allowed to retain
possession of original prescriptions filled by
them, and equally equitable ones why the
person who has paid for it should be en-
titled to a copy either at the time Of pres
e~ntation or afterwards. Whether a drug
sist has a right to appropriate and utilize
prescriptions left in his keeping, filling
them over and over again for different per-
sons or using them as formula for rem
edies put up by himself and offered to the
general public, as is sometimes done. is an
other question.
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another actor in the part is u~nsatisfac-
tory, yet JeffeTson-or is't Rip?-is not
hidden in any other character.
The truth Is that the gift OF imitation
of facial or physical mimicry is distinct
from the intellectual power to compre-
bend the subtleties of character n to
represent them so Ear as stage action.
~elocution and verbal expression a 60.
The power to mimic or TO impersonate
by change of feature or physical adapta-
ton is a desirable possession for actors.
but 1t is not indispensable-great actors
and actresses have developed without it.
1t is a minor gift. and belongs as often
as not to the persons who could not COM
prehend the high sentiments Il strong
emotions set forth by the dramatists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24
A Pair Of New Men.

Two new men, figured in the Journals
news columns yesterday. One was a Ran
dolph county citizen. who celebrated his
SEVENTEEN birthday by turning a hand
spring in a public place and declaring his
willingness to h~andspring-or whatever the
proper term is for such athletic undertake
ing-over a quarter of a mile track with
out stopping. The other new man is a
resident of Anderson, aged seventy-two.
who is preparing for a bicycle trip through
the South. his purpose being to visit the
Atlanta exposition and the great battle
fields. These gentlemen are designated here
as new because they are typical of the
nineteenth century man who. as well as
the woman of the period. is coming to
take less and less account of years and
to engage In such occupations and activities
as please him without regard to the ira
ditional customs appertaining to his time
of life. He is new, in short. because he
declines to be old according to the calen
dar and is guided in his pursuits by his
taste and capacity. II he wants to turn
handsprings at seventy, or to ride a wheel
at seventy-two. he does so, and misguided
is the critic who finds fault with his course.
For it is by this active participation in
wholesome amusements and by keeping up
with the times that he retains youthful
ness of spirit, and the mind has SO much
effect upon the body that this youthfulness
of feeling retards the progress of physical
infirmity and makes life worth living to
the very end. 1t is the man who retires
from business and abandons himself 10 the
business of growing old who loses interest
in life and finds existence a burden.
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keep our bodies which are sfhe menh--
OF Christ" pure and clean; no new le.
lived. 10 get the higher inherItanc. =,
heaven. We make them letters that kn
when we turn the sacrament OF the hol~
communion into a mere magicsI charm ),
careless use; into the irreverence OF eatirS
and drinking "unworthily." mot disc srnin.
the body and the blood OF Christ" We az
in danger. too. IL seems to me. OF makg,~
the letter kill by our part I'm the comno,
and public worship OF God. The nrecor
posed forms OF prayer. which are ringfn~
with the devotional lives OF saints Of Ca
In every age. IL they become mere cold 49,
formal fallings from our lips and tongues
are emptied of the spirit OF life. And the
whole method Of our service TO God. meas
uring our obligation by the very narrowes,
lines OF barest necessity. starving our souls
shriveling our lives, killing our love. trvins
to find out What Is the very least tina, ne
must do. or give. or be. keeps the letter and
kills the spirit. and shows hat there i
no living spirit OF life in the dead letter OF
our duty.
Realize that the Holy Scriptures in their
letter are not to be despised; that sacra-
ments in their outward forms are not IN
important; that creeds are not harmful or
hampering TO faith; that precomposed form.
OF prayer are not destructive 10 devotion.
They are letters, all OF them, living ana
life-giving. unless we empty them OF N.
spirit, which is life.
Copyrighted. 1895. by the Newspaper ser-
nor Association, Boston, Mass
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All the women in town are more or less
interested in the womdn's edition Of the
Sentinel. which Is to appear on Thanks
giving day. The editors Of the sheet are
anxious that it shall do them credit, and
their fears of mishap win not be relieved
until the printed pages are finally in their
hands. Even then they will probably find
errors of various kinds to cause them dis
tress of mind, but so long as there is moth
ing really fatal in the plumbers the GER
tainty that 1t is too late to correct them
win be rather comforting than otherwise.
For they have been for weeks reading. re-
vising, amending. trying to satisfy this con-
tributor and to avoid making a deadly enc
my of that one: endeavoring to adjust con-
hicting interests, to make what Is said in
one column harmonize with the utterances
in the next: trying to put six columns OF
matter in three columns Of space, deciding
no. so much what to put in as what to
leave out--all these things and the impcssi-
b:lity of carrying -out all their well-laid
plans have sorely tried the editorial souls,
and have braced them finally to endure with
comparative indinerepcs the remotest con-
sequence. The contributors are deeply In
terested: each wants 20 zee her own partic-
uIar -piece," md TO gaze With secret JOY ct
her name attached thereto In bold capitalk
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If she ind that her well-rounded periods do
not read as impressively when embalmed in
print as they did In manuscript. but seem
a tribe fiat, II she find her choicest pass
ages either ruthlessly edited out or made
foolish by typographical error. she may take
comfort in the thought that she is expert
encing one OF the common sensations OF pro-
fessional journalists and authors. When
she has read her contribution and glanced
hastily over the other pages. she will buy
extra copies OF the paper and proudly mark
and mail them to her friends far and near.
The women who are neither editors, con-
tributors nor advertisers will buy the paper
to find out what the other women say. Even
men will not be lacking in curiosity Of this
kind, and If they discover that the pages OF
the paper are not wholly given up, after
the fashion of woman's editions in other
cities, to the exploiting OF feminin virtues
and abilities. they may find entertainment
and instruction.
In any event. ii should be remembered by
all to whom the paper is offered that it is
not published as a mere within. but that
many women have put time and labor and
thought into it for charity's sake, and that
each purchaser is contributing his mite to a
worthy cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

1t was said of Caesar that he made a
solitude in Gaul and called it peace. Per-
haps Hamid is trying to do the same thing
in Observation-Disclosures News.
Our infallible contemporary, which
searches the columns Of other papers with
a microscope for errors, is wrong. It was
not said of Caesar that he made a solitude
in Gaul and called it peace. Tacitus. in
his Life of Agricola," places on record the
speech made by Galgacus. the Briton, to
his army before a battle with the oma
at the foot of the Grampian hills during
one of Agricola's campaigns. The speech
was an impassioned appeal to the Britons
to make a last stand for their homes and
their wives and children. OF the Romans
the orator said:
These plunderers of the world, after ex-
hausting the land by their d-evastations,
are rifiing the ocean: stimulated by avar-
ice, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, IL
poor: unsatiated by the East and by the
West: the only people who behold wealth
and indulgence with equal avidity. To raw
age, to slaughter, to usurp under false
titles. they call empire; and where they
make a desert they call it peace.
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PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL mi
TATICN.

An Eastern dramatic critic, in speak
actress. Duse, especially commends her
power Of genuine i~mpersonation, her gift
of endowing herself with the charac-
teristics of the personality she tempo
rarily ssumes The poinI is made that
this power of transformation, so far as
change of facial expression, gait, car
riage and other physical peculiarities
are concerned, is rare among actresses.
In going owe the list of well-known
actresses it is apparent that this point
is well taken. Few, indeed, among those
who have been on the stage in recent
years have been able to disguise their
own individuality, whatever the charac-
ter they attempted to assume. Whether
appearing as Viola. Rosaiind. Juliet or
Portia, Mary Anderson was always
Mary Anderson. Sarah Bernhardt has
great mobility of c~ountAnaace. hut il is
not easy to forget that she is Bernhardt.
Certain of Miss Terry's fnanncrisms are
never disguised. Modjeska is always
Modjeska first of all. Ada Rehan is Ada
Rehan, and so il is down through the
train of lesser stage women VAIN
wright, Marlowe. Kendall n the rest.
The first four Of those named throw
themselves into the assumed characters
with intensity, but because they lack the
gift of complete representation, and not
because Of any self-consciousness. they
miss. in a slight degree, the greatest
measure of success. The minor actresses
are too self-conscious. too unwilling to
let themselves, in their own characters,
be forgotten. even had they ability to do
so, and because of this they are, anc will
remain, minor actresses. 1t has been said
that h stronger the individuality the
more difficult it is to hide it under an
other personality, and this might explain
the defect mentioned were the theory
we'll sustained. Charlotte Cushman's
case c~ontroverts this idea. Few women
or or off the stage possess a more
marked personality that did she, yet her
Meg Merrilies'' and her LADY Mac
beth" were two distinct characters. and
neither suggested Charlotte Cushman.
But 1t Is unjust to classify the women
Of the stage as especially lacking in the
power OF representation. What is true
Of them is equally true of the men.
Henry Irving's mannerisms are evident
In whatever part ne plays: Lawrence
Barrett was barrett first in everything:
Booth had a greater power OF transfer
nation than either. but he could not
quite Disguise Booth; Jefferson il 50
fdenttded With Rim Van Wfnk1e', that