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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09
WANTED.

IUANTED-Riders of bicycles to call at 213
 " North goth street to see the latest and best wheels, Tribune. with cyclodidal sprocket. Birmingham Harness Co.,. agents
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09

lambs, but sheep were dull; sheep. common to good, $3 50; lambs, S4.o0a .UU; on deck extra, $6.1O; clipped on deck extra, $5 000 5.25; spring lambs, $1.5oa4 .00 per head. Hogs-keceipts, s5y9 head; market 25d35c higher at $5.2535 65.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, April s.-Noon. Cotton demand was fair; prices were arm; ta1ae American which 13,5oU bales were American; for specu- lation and export, 1000 bales. Receipts, 1S ,O00 bales. of which 16 zoo were American. Futures opened firm; demand fair.
 American mlddling and low middling clause
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WANTED-A lady, unm arried, to act as " cashier and understands bookkeeping. References required. Address in own ham, writing, 'Cas hier,'' P. O. Box 412, city,
 4-7-3t =. 1.
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ST, LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS. April s.-Flour was quiet and s2. 15a2. .o5; choice. S2. .oo02 10. wheat was lower; May, 54sscs July. 54Ac. Corn was lower; May, 42ss@42s4c; July, a4hc; septem- Der. 44s.a 447se. Oats were lower; May, 2sB a 3uc; June, 297B 030c. Pork, standard mess, SIP. 10. Lard-Prime steam, $6 70; choice, s6.77. Bacon-Boxed shoulders, s6 %; longs. $6.75; clear ribs, S6.67l2; short clears, S.12a. Dry salted meats-Shoulders, $5. .0O; longs, $6. 37l2; clear ribs, $6. 5O short clears. $6. .b2L2. HiYh wines steady at S1.25.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09

wanna to 159ts and Reading to B. good demand prevailed for the grangers near the close, but there was little or nothing to the general run of prominent stocks. In the in- dustrials Sugar fell to S944 and then advanced to 10lH010lss. Chicago uas declined 1ls. to 7Oss. and rec Oyered to TIA. General Electric declined ss, to 32ss. and rose 10 33Ss- Chicago Gas was weakened by report that the direc- tors on Wednesday will reduce the dividend to 5 per cen per annum basis. The delay ia signing the pooling agreement hurt General Electric for a time: At the close the market was firm in tone. The usually active stocks showed slight gains for the day.
 The sales of listed stocKs aggregated 13O,- 0O0 shares. unlisted 37.00U shares.
 NEW YORK, April S.-Money on call was easy at 2d2l2 per cent; last loan at 2 per cent, and closing offered per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4s4G 5A per cent. Bar silver, 66Ac. Mexican dollars, -.
 SterliLg exchange was firm, with actual business in bankers bills at $4. eSl2 for sixty days and $4.s9Is for demand; posted rates, s4. s9I2 4 90l2 commercial bills. S4.S7ha4.ss.
 Treasury balanees-Coin, Ss5, 35l ,00o; cur rency, S65, ,256 ,Oo0.
 Government bonds were firm
 State bonds were higher.
 Railroad bonds were strong.
 Silver bullion at the board, 667sc.
 N14
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET.

NEW YORK, April e.-Beeves-Receipts 2763 head; market a shade lower for steers. but all oth CTS were steady 10 strongi native steers, poor 10 good, Sl.75@ 36; oxen and stags, x4.00G550. sheep and lambs-Re. ceipts, l2 ,30o head; the demand was fair for
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-09
CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET.

Receipts, ii ,ooe; market steady; common to extra steers, s4.15@6 50; stockers and feed CTS, $2.75@4.75; COWS and bulls. $1.75@6. .oU; :; calves, S2 .5od5. %; Texas, $3. 2oa5.5Q Hogs Receipts, 5000; market firm. s5c higheri heavy, $5.0o@5. 30; common to choice 5. 10; light, s47oa5.o5; pigs. sx.a5a4. 50. sheep--Receipts, IF, ,o00; market was very steady; inferior to choice, $2 2.76@5.00; lambs, $4. 000 5. S5.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03

Our learned ingenious and charming
friend, Franklin II. Head, is reported 30
have credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
the authorship of a story he told at ban
quet at the Union League club when in
Producing the stalwart Rev. ID. f. A.
Noble to the rest of the company He re-
called the physiological fact that after 80
years of age men become appreciabiy
smaller. By a gradual settling process
they will lose in 30 years possibly one
quarter of an inch in height.
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, y said Mr..
Head, ''once discussed that fact very en-
tertainingly among some friends He
pointed out in a fanciful picture the
strange effects in the early days of the
world.
:" Imagine he said, men of Biblical
times who lived to be 500 or 1 200 years
old thus growing shorter continually dur
ing the latter centuries OF life. The set
Ting we do IN our brief lives must be but
a bagatelle to the extended shortening
process they endured. You can imagine
Methuselah at the latter end of his span
starting out of a morning and being sa-
luted with:
< Good morning, Methusy. How do
you find YOURSELF"
- ''Oh, pretty WE'LL would be the an
swer, pretty well for an old fellow, but 1
am bothered somewhat by my shoestrings
getting in my eyes. -
Now this amusing skit is indeed very
Holmesy, and it originated in the Holmes
family, but not with Oliver Wendell. The
genial Autocrat's equally genial anf? witty
brother John invented and told that story.
A good many bright things said by Broth
er John have been credited to Oliver
Wendell. The Autocrat was the famous
member of the family, and as such ne was
honored with the paternity of all tie bon
mots that bore the Holmes trademark
Chicago Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03

''Speaking of BOATS remarked the ex-
change editor, isn't it a strange thing
that big whaler will sometimes run be-
fore a spanking breeze?''
i don't know" said the financial ed
itor doubtfully. If the captain wants to
go home and yet doesn t anchor for it,
''It'a hard ship to have to sit and listen
to SUCH
. collier to order. .
''That' wherry bad grumbled the ex-
change editor, looking at him sharply.
If it's yawl the same to you" stiffly
rejoined the other, IN ask you to quit
your scow line and''-
Your bark, - broke in the man with
the shears, is worse than your blight"
Il don't need any of your condolences
anyhow. -
Eyes, you do. You don't ketch on
"Your language, gentlemen" observed
the real estate editor. with view to re-
storing order ''smacks Of
''You re trying to make canob issue, you
1andlubber.'
'Well, do you want to pinnace down to
the same old
''All 1 WANT said the exchange editor,
glaring at him, is the hull truth. -
''Then why do you lugger round whole
raft off,
Ply rats, " exclaimed the railway editor,
raising his cane This is ferry much
out of place. Let it STOP
1t stopped. Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03

Virginia, Ills His own lodge has CON
ferred upon him all tho honor within it's
power by electing him to every office in its
gift. He served several terms as repre-
sentative of his lodge in the grand lodge
of the state, and while so acting has taken
a prominent part in the discussion of all
the questions that have come before the
organization. Prior to his election as
grand master he was deputy grandmother.
The grand instructor in Massachusetts
receives a salary of 81, OOO Nearly all the
state Jurisdictions have grand instructors.
Odd Fellows having a taste for the
military can find at least partial gratif-
cation of that taste by joining the Patri-
archs Militant, the work of which organ
ization is very fine indeed.
There are 90 cncampments in Missouri,
divided into 80 representative districts.
The Odd Fellows homo of Massachu-
setts received from per capita assessments
for the year ending July 1, 1894, &c.
O16.S3, anG the total expenses We're 3d.
45S.15.
Grand secretary of Illinois reports $40
subordinate lodges and 40, 255 members, u
gain of 10 lodges and 2, 1879 members.
West Virginia has a membership OF
!, 1882.
Tho grand encampment of New Jersey
paid out $40, 497 for relief the past year.
The sovereign grand lodge has defined
beneficiaries of funeral benefit to be tile
widow, orphans under the age of II years
or dependent relatives of the deceased or
relatives upon whom the deceased was
dependent at the time of DEATH
Activity in the order in the twin cities,
Pittsburg and Allegheny, never ceases,
because the leaders never tire in their
ertions to build up and increase the men,
bership of lodges, encampments and can
tons.
The postage on reports and daily jour
nails sent to constituents from the session
of the S. @. L. was 500.
An encampment member can wear his
encalppme1it regalia in his own lodge I'M
less he is an officer of the lodge, in which
case he must wear the regalia of his office.
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Literary Sincerity.

The poet Bryant had keen vision and
a loving reverence for what he saw
about him. He was in his art true
American Not because other lands
were not also rich and beautiful, but
because he preferred to describe the
blossoms growing at his own door. In
a letter to his brother, written in 1888,
he says:
81 saw some lines by you to the sky
lark. Did you ever see such bird? Let
me counsel you to draw your images in
describing nature from what you OBJ
serve around you unless you are pro-
fessedly composing a description OF
some foreign country, when, of course,
you will learn what you can from books.
The sl1ylark is an English bird, and an
American who has never visited Eu-
rope has no right to be in raptures with
it.
He had true reverence for the past
and what is to be learned from it. For
the accepted traditions of literature he
had the veneration of all scholars. Yet
he would not have permitted himself
to harp away upon themes fresh in
other lands and times, but quite foreign
to his own thought and feeling
To be sincere-that was the best
thing, better even than resembling
some man whose fate was writ in zen
during brass. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03

A reporter for daily paper is re-
sponsible for this yarn relating to new
material for Competing. He says that
elephants skins are being tanned for
this purpose. and that they make floor
covering which is 2 inches thick and
practically indestructible But before
any one invests any large amount of
capital in an elephant carpet factory it
may he advisable to inquire where the
raw material can be obtained.
Perhaps the enterprising genius who
is said to be now engaged in the manu-
facture of these carpets has solved this
problem by establishing an elephant
farm in some salubrious locality in Asia
or Africa. We have had camel and Os-
trich farms in this country, and 1t is
reported that the fur rug trade is to be
materially benefited by the skunk farms
which have been established-so it is
said-in the west.
But unfortunately our climate is
hardly tropical enough to suit the con-
situations of baby elephants. Still it is
possible that the dollhouse system might
be adapted to this infant industry.
Carpet and Upholstery Trade Review.
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He Proved 1t.

A friend who has often staid with, the
Lesseps family says that the count never
seemed to lose sight of the education OK his
children, even in the smallest detail. One
morning at breakfast beautiful Dresden
teacup was broken. All" cried the
countess, "a disasterl Two more of that
set will now be broken 1t always hap
pens So"
''Are you SO superstitious, Il asked the
count, ''as really to believe that two moro
will be broken?'
II know it,
Then let us get it off our 1sinds.'F
And taking two of the cups by the nan
dies he dashed them together. The anger
and dismay of the countess proved CON
cIusively that she had not SERIOUSLY Sheld
to her superstition. 1t also slooseds any
hold the absurd idea may have. had or the
minds of the children. = Kate Fi9ld's
WASHINGTON
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The K. O. T. NJ. membership on Nov.
was 1G9, O91. The increase in the past
three months was II, 997 The order has
now gained second place in the list of fra
ternal Organizations.
No assessment was levied in L. o. t.
NJ. for the month of November nor in the
great camp of New York X. o. T. NJ.
1t is said that the com bined weight of
95 mem bers Of Alma hive No. p, Brook
Ign, is 6,91O pounds or an average of 178
pounds each.
A large increase in membership is re-
ported by Brooklyn tent, No "a. also by
Prospect tent, No. 2O9, and Williamsburg
tent, No. 40, all OF Brooklyn.
Never before has the order 1ouEished as
at present in St. Louis. Two Iiew tents
have been organized inside of a month,
and every tent reports gains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Hotel Keepers and Druggists Are Eligible.
Helmet Glints.

Helmet Glints.
Under the eligibility clause of the SUI
preme statutes - which excludes from
membership in the order all liquor dealers,
saloon keepers, bartenders and profession
al gamblers, 30 reference is made to hotel
proprietOrs or druggists, says The Pythian
knight. Those engaged in either of these
avOcations are still eligible to membership,
notwi outstanding the fact that in the ma
ture of their business they may sell liquor.
This is point worth remembering and
should be carefully considered by subordi-
nate lodges when acting upon applications
for membership.
Thirty lodges of western Pennsylva-
mia at a recent meeting decided to estab-
lish Pythian home in Allegheny county
to cost $40, 900.
B. II. Chase of Maine, representa- to
the supreme tribunal at Cincinnati, gave
an audience to the Massachusetts instruct
ors recently and communicated The new
secret work
William r. Ballard, librarian lat Fall
River, Mass, and member of the first
lodge organized in the state, has been APP
pointed a member of the historical COM
mittee of the order in place of VII liam y.
Nudge who has removed from the state.
New divisions of tho uniform rank have
been instituted at Williams and ST. Cloud,
MINI.
Ohio is the first state to furnish two SUI
preme Observation-Disclosures and Ritchie.
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Chosen Friends.

Living members are represented on the
benefit list for December to the >xtert of
ten disability claims approved.
Applications are pouring in, and with
the present rate of increase the SO, 600 line
will soon be reached.
A council named after DR. Webster has
been organized at Alameda, Call
The order in St. Louis has co:nmenced
a vigorous winter campaign.
Friend Henry Fischer, in charge of the
New York German jurisdiction, is putting
organizers at work and explaining how
members can pay assessments by work.
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Language Beyond Film.

Mr.. Bondstock-I wish, my dears you
would not engage any more foreign serv-
ants. 1t is too much bother to Try to
understand them.
Mrs Bondstock-Why, always looked
upon you as a linguist.
Mr.. Bondstock-So am. I get along
all right with the Austrian footnap, the
Irish coachman, your French maid and
even our Chinese cook. But the new Eng
lish butler is too much for me.-New York
World.
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master of Odd
Fellows of the
st1:te, was born in
Halifax, n. IS,
Sept. II, 1886, but
has been a resi-
dent of Illinois
since 1857. Judge
Phillips Joined
t he ord or at
Beardstown, being
initiated into Ark
lodge, No. 10,
many years ego.
He is now a mem
Der of Saxon
1-l go .
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Stoves &C Conf.

Having rented part of my store room
Will close out my entire line of ''Gold
Coin" and stewart" stoves at actual
cost. MARION SHELDON,
T02 Kansas ave.
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HARPER'S MAGAZINE.
In 1RQS-


The Simpletons. new novel by
Thomas Hardy, will be begun in the De-
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Novem Der, 1895. Whoever may be ones
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knights and Ladies of Ho4or.

From two to four less assessments are
assured for 1885.
The supreme medical examined accepted
I, 102 applications in November.
On Sept. 1 the order numbered at large
sc, 964, and on Oct. 81, 72,119 an in
crease of 8, 155.
The supreme lodge banner was won by
Kentucky on an increase of 999.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03
A Bold, Bad Man.

The phrase, "a bold, bad man. now
worn threadbare and comic, belongs to
Spenser who applied it to the Archimago
of 1.-The Faerie Queene' ii. l., 80.
A bold, bail man, that dared to call by name
Great Go9'son, prince of darkness and dead
nigBs.
-Mac1nillan,s Maoazi1a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03
Times Have Changed.

''Ah, ." said Aunt Sarah, chow the times
changed Us't t. be at one boss wuz
enough, but now young man must drive
a tantrum. cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Ccrheft G,haIIenpedt

To prove 'Snow's Pine Expectorant" will
not s'Knock OUT any COLD or COUGH. IT
Is GUARANTEED For sale by all drug
gistei; price % and SOC bottle.
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His Wife-Is Jones, the astronomer,
married?
Her Husband-He must be. He sees
stars.-Detroit Free Press
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Miss Snddenrich-Oh. see. ma. nj

Miss Suddenrich-Oh, see, ma, what
lovely pictured
Mrs. Suddenrich-Yes, dear but you
must look az it through your lorgnette
and be proper.
Miss Suddenrich-Oh, please mamma,
don't make me! 1 really want to see this
one-Truth.
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Read the wants" Many of them are
as interesting as news items See if it
is not so.
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Are the most complete pill on the mar
ket, besides being the cheapest. as one
pill is a dose. and forty doses in each
bottle Every pill guaranteed to give
satisfaction by W. r. Kennady.
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WIN Take Anything.

st want a title for my new play said
the author, something that Will sake,
you know"
Something that will take?''
Yes
"Can it a New York Policeman -
Washington Star
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ODD FELLOWS.

Judge Henry Phillips, Grand Master OF
IIlinois-Trip1e Link Notes
Bro. Henry Phillips, judge of the coun-
~ court of Cass county, Ills, and grand
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G God work done by the Peerless

Call up Phone 1913 and have our wagon
call FOR your bundle.
TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY
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sN2 calls up the Peerless
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Maeazina-
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Postage free to all subscribers in the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
Address HARPER & BROTHERS.
P. o. Box 959, n. Y. City.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-14
CUSTOM DYING OUT.

Not as Many Valentines Sent Now as
There We're Ten Years Ago.
The postofFice gentlemen tell us that
they can now look st. Valentine in the
face without apprehension. They find
1t possible to take sustenance on the day
dedicated to the saint, and rhe letter.
carriers do not fall down exhausted on
the mail bags Ten or twelve years ago
the day was continuous struggle on the
part Of all concerned to perform impossi-
bilites.
At present st. Valentines is a very
busy day, indeed, but the work can be
done without distress. As the custom
of sending valentines has declined that
of sending Christmas cards has amazing
ly increased, until the largest postofTices
receive and distribute millions of them
during the twenty-four hours preceding
Christmas noon. The mighty London
office has had to deal with fifteen mill
ions of Christmas parcels, packets and
letters, including three tons of registered
merchandise.
1t is supposed that much of the loving
correspondence VI Ut " ulcuNlhV hhp bSSh
transferred to Christmas, which comes
two months earlier. This is the opinion
of the postoffice clerks, who seem to think
that the mail-producing faculty Of man
is limited, and that what Christmas has
gained must have been subtracted from
st. Valentine.
1t is more probable that the abuse Of
the privilege of being silly on the day
consecrated to that saint has caused re-
action and made people ashamed to join
the throng of valentines more foolish than
fond. True lovers, however, will know
how to avail themselves of the opportuni-
ties the day affords, and we may he sure
that st. Valentine will continue to be
one of the most popular saints in the cal
endar.-Phiadelph Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-02-14

tie love tokens, just to keep his memory
green, The people who had known st.
Valentine when on earth told their chill
dren about him in after years, and their
children told their children's children, and
so it has come down to us through many
children of children.
Do not, then, despise the little bit of
sentiment which prompts people to re-
member each other on Valentines Day,
because of all the festivals of the year it
is the one which plays most sweetIy upon
the heartstrings of all. In the postoflice
one sees many q maiden and many n ma
iron, many young man and many q
banker stopping for moment in front of
the parcel window to drop in package,
all too precious to be intrusted to the care
less hands of messenger and office boys.
1t is the girls in this progressive age
who do much of the giving. The young
men do, of course, the greater part of it,
but it is not considered unwomanly for a
girl to make her admirers presents of
small mementos, and, therefore, the