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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28

CHlCAGO-Wheat suffered from y, i.
riety Of causes to-day and closed with n
loss OF two cents, though ceiling ar orn
time No under tina; figure, Amony thc
chief reasons for the slump were the die,
appointing cables and heavy liquIdation
by prominent brokers. Other markets
were alao affected to n degree. corn de.
clining &c, oats about &c and provisions
2h@1kc
Flour weaker.
Wheat-Cash No. . spring GsSc: No :
spring 6OGG4c: No. red c9% 6s0Ic; Oc.
toher G6g6SA G66hc; December GSX a
ocsp6SNc; May 12;STI5b97SSc,
1oF n SS NO. "a eT2Sc; No. . vel.
low &Ih1!dc; October 22wI2%8 q 30:
d December A!s@-isQ2iAc: May 27%G
-'GW-1sc.
| Ua'smCasn NO: l'Ac; No. . white
10 ,;Go !?q2l':c; NO. white fob. lGhG
! ,sI oStooer l'AIlt%Gl.Ec: December
loIWiS,:ViS%c; May 2lbq2l8g2lSsc.
hye-No' SOC.
o,,, oa.ieS-No. nominal: NO. J fob
-a2W3tc' no. lo.b. 23hp3Oc.
Iimothy seed-Prime 81 49,
McSs Pork-Cash, per Dbl. 81 0067 0j:
| december 80 9z4G5 9Ii5Qs 9,ia; January
- '-':V sag S2H.
Lard-Cash, per 100 lbs, $3.50; Deccm.
| per ~ 2np4 5o9l 30; January 81 42h9
9oRti %.
Snort RtDs-Cnsh Sides 50 GjG3 So: De-
eemher closed at 81 62H January 50 S0d
SSS01sq3 S'1s; dry sailed shoulders "A
4Ac; snort clear sides 4Tihc
Whisky-D!st'llers' finished goods per
gallon 81 Is.
SuEars-unchansed.
Buttcr-Weat; creamcries 9GlSkc;
| oairleS aQlic.
G me. ctou5uS at s4m9c
Esss-9teluy' ittst l''sc.
NEW YORK : Flour receipts $1,000
barrels; exports $1,000 barrels; dull;
| Minnesota patent 81 000+ 30; white,
straights 81 1904 20. Wheat receipts
10000 bushels; exports 10000 bushels:
spot weak; NO. red fob. S0hc; No. /
hard 79c fob. afloat; options opened
weak and were heavy Hll day and closed
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but firm: No. . white 2ec bid: receipts
$1,000 bushels; exports $4,000 bushels.
Rye weak; western i2dl3c: receipts
C,CCO bushels; exports none. Hay
steady 20 firm; choice timothy $40 %
Did, Sugars steady and unchanged,
Butter and eggs firm ana unchanged.
Cheese firm and active and UNCHANGED.
C1NClNNATt--Flour ensy. Wheat
In light demand; No. . red 7Ghd77c.
receipts G,S0n bushels; shipments 1890
bushels, Corn easy; No. mixed 25ihc,
Outs ilrni: No. . mixed i&c. Rye easy,
No. 2. Ssc. Lard quiet at 81 20. Bulk.
meats easy ut 81 10. llnCOn quiet at
81 10. Whlakey steady. gales GO5 bar.
rels at 81 IL, Butter easy: Elgln
creamery 2lh; Ohio l5Il6c; dairy 3d.,
sugar luSet and steady. EGGS firm at
lihc. Cheese. good to prime Ohio nat,
firm at $1,000.
ToLEDo--Wheat lower and steady:
No, 2 cash IGhc: December 7gc. Corn
lower and steady; No. . mixed &c. Oats
dun and steady: No. . mixed lSc. Rye
dull: No, 2 cash 37c. Cloversced dun:
prime October and December IS 07is.
PHILADELPHIA = Butter firm and
In good demand: fancy western cream
cry 20c Eggs firm and In fair demand:
fresh nearby zoe: western l9c. Cheese
firm.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
lN'nnl.

BoSToN-Although the wool market
Is quiet here this week. Its tone Is firm
In oil departments. There Is but little
wool on the markets and dealers are
holding and looking for profit. Terrific
ry woods are quoted on the basis OF 4Oc
for the secured and choice staple lots
are held at SEC. Fleece woods are meet
Ing with quiet sales. but the market Is
firm and values are hardening. The
market for Australian woods holds
strong. The sales making. as supplies
are needed. are at full prices. The fol-
lowing are the quotations for the lead
Ing descriptions: Ohio and Pennsylya-
MIA flceces y and above lie; Xxx and XX
and above lS8l9c: No. combing 2iT22c;
No. 2 combing 2lI2ec; delalue leGo0c'
Territory wools-Montana fine medium
and fine 9gl0+c: secured price Soc: sta
pie &c: Utah, Wyoming, etc, fine me-
dun and fine 94lOhc; secured price
500; staple 3ld32c.
NEW YoRK-h DOL quiet.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
HARD TO COMBAT.


ihs Evidence or Onr sensrs-lrh1t
Whroilng People Say !, Pretty Good
Proof for wheeling People. .,tI
When wc see 1t ourselves.
When our own ears helr II, fu'
When our neighbours toll II. Ht tE
Our friends indorse It. f
No better evidence can be had
It's not what people say In MIME.
M distant '"nF"uFl"s' from cAlIfoe,
No dCceivlng echoes hcre.
Wheeling talk about Wheeling people,
Public opinion published for the pub
lie good,
There Is no proof like home proof.
Home testimony at the back OF every
box of tSN 4
Dqnn'a Kidney Pills.
Can you believe your relghbors.
Read this statement made BY u cltl-
zen: ItHfr E'
Mira, Ednrw EuuE, OF No. c2s0 Main
street, sayai.'l was 20 crippled ut tho
time | got q box OF Doau,s Kidney Pills
at The L0gnn Drug Company, tint
could scarcely get around and they took
all the ache and pains AWAY, had
tried many things nj different times.
Some one recommended Juniper berries
and took a tea made from them for n
whole month. but It did me no good. My
trouble dates back about Il year and
consisted OF n ennstant pain across my
back and In my side. so that when I
stopped down could scarcely straight
en- IN again; dizziness when everything
around me seemed to be floating: and
aching pain around the heart; Distress
Ing weakness % the urinary organs:
swelling OF my left limb ana ankles, md
great restles1ness mt night. Doctors
saId It was oil from my kidneys, but
they could not cure It. Doan's Kidney
Pulls have been great friend TO me and
I can honestly recommend them to
others knowing that they will do every
thing that II cleaned for them"
Doan's kidney Pills nre sold for 30
cents per box. or six boxes for 5: so by
all dealers, or mailed on receipt OF price
by Fostcr-Mllburn Co. Buffalo, n. Y,
sole agents FOR the United States.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28

C1ilCAGO-Catuc, demand fair:
prices steady; sales on basis II 50 2OlC
. 10 for very common to fancy native
beef steers with especial strength In
droves, good enough 10 sell at 81 80
and up. Stockers and feeders good at
y 65W3 %, with orders running large
~ on light weight steers, though
heavy western range feeders sold very
well at 81 ooU3 %. Hogs, market con-
tinucs to weaken: trade was not very
DrSk; common TO prime droves sold Mt
~ O5U3 %. the different weights again
selling close together: sales were large
~ - sou3 80 for packing droveS;S3 3jG
70 Tor shipping lots and 81 45li3 20
Tor light weight hogs Sheep fairly ac-
tive; prices lower; Inferior to prime
sheep 81 5043 Is. very light being done
over 81 90. Lambs IN demand at 81 T5lp
~ FOR poor 70 prime. Good feeding
lambs sold at 81 6OG3 65. Receipts
Cattle 1900 head hogs 10000 head sheep
LOO head
Union STOCK YARDS, CLARE
MONT, Oct. 6.-Swlne-The receipts
this week were 1880 head. Arrivals are
nearly as heavy MS the full offering OF
last week--only 800 less. Trade IL slow,
The prices OF last week have been real
lied. viz: Far western 81 9Oai 90: and
others 81 G0I3 so per 100 lbs. groes:
roughs s. 50a3 90 per 100 tbs. Sheep and
lanlbs-There IS a fair trade in sheep
and lambs, the former at about &c adj
vance. and lambs the same Us last week.
Sheep sell at 293itc and lambs 3QTiKc
per 10. Calves-Trade Is fair for yeals
at unchanged quotations. viz: 3h@5hc
per ID.
EAST LIBERTY-Cattlc slow and
unchanged. Eogs lower: prime medium
weights 81 70G3 IS: best heavy York
ers 50 6iG3 70; common to fair York
ers 50 55q3 60: pigs s. 75G3 20: heavy
50 35Q3 80; roughs s. 5OQ3 %. Sheen,
Gull; good 81 2Od3 80: fair 81 sOG3 co;
common 81 75ae Is: culls 75cGS IS:
common TO good lambs 81 0OGt 10. Veal
calves s. 50G6 90.
C1NC1ENATI-IIogs dull and lower
at 81 7iI3 50; receipts Geo head; ship
ments $500 head. 80
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
WHERE THE SILVER MONEY! GOES.
large Expenditures In Indiana and l,ii-
----- nnls OIL ElectiOm DAY.

CHICAGO. Oct. 25.-The greatest part
OF the campaign fund raised by the sil-
yer producers Of Colorado, Montana,
Utah and Nevada. amounting in all to
nearly 81 100000. will be spent in Illinois
Indiana and Michigan on election day.
The silver kings OF Utah have given
less than those OF either OF the other
states. There Is much bitterness ex-
pressed against some OF the big mine
owners on account OF their broken pro-
mlscs. Some OF them regard the cleo
ton OF Bryan as sure Marcus
DAILY and ". a. Clarke, OF Montana,and
Morat md Grant. OF Colorado. have
alone raised, It Is said, moro than $500.
600. Chambers, Farnsworth. Keith,
Packard and other large Utah silver
mine owners have made very small
personal subscriptions.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
fINAHCE AND TRADE


The Features Of the Money anh stock
g hinri.cts, rEt Wax
NEW YORK. Oct. 27SAioncy on cali
stringent at Gdbi2 per cent; last loan at
Gpcr cent; closed a, 500 per cent. Prime
mercantile paper nomlnully ut 7Go per
cent. Sterling exchange firm ard high
or, with actual business In bankers bins
at 81 S5llqi SiH for demand and 81 slM
"a SIN for co days, Posted rates 81 SEQ
4 SEA and 81 S5Is. Commercial bills
81 SOa. Bar silver CiSc, Silver certln-
Gates GiN@G5Mc, a,s
The speculation IN stocks to-day cx-
coded any recent record md despite ex-
ceptlnnhlly heavy dealings In Sugar and
Reading, tho market could be fairly
termed broad, n number OF the proml-
ncnt shares attracting attention by falr
sized totals. The operations were sig
nnllZed by n scoop against values on tho
part OF some person Dr persons unknown,
presumably Interested In the short side.
and the combined effectiveness and sim
pllcity OF the tactics employed once more
illustrated the Observation-Disclosures and
Sullibillty OF the average Wall street
trader, The market WINS rasded In the
last hour. although money reacted to 6
per cent, and many stocks touched the
lowest points. The closing was weak,
with net changes OF sharp fractional
losses general. Tu
Railroad bonds were moderately net
I've. but without special feature aside
from nrmness In tone. The sales were
$l,2li, 900.
Governments were uulei md without
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28

70 900 81 2513 10; fair. 700 to 800. 81 OoQ
w: common, GOO 10 100. gh8Sc; bulls.
2Gahc; cows, 1itGplc.
Ho&s-rcxtra, 81 50fla co: good 81 $50
. 10; common 80 S5Gi3 10. lET
Sheep Extra, Sdg1Ne; good, az G3c;
common, 2R2lic; lambs. 3,75ft&fic, 4
Fresh cowB--S2OGC2O. cnlyeg ihQp5ikc,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28

OIL C1TY-Credit balances 81 II; GER
tldcates opened and lowest at 81 16.
highest and closed at 81 IS; sales |. 900
barrels: shipments $3.50 barrels: runs
1916 barrels.
NEW foRk-Pennsylvaala crude
steady: November 81 al. bid.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
Metal.

NEW YoRK-Pig Iron steady. Cop.
per easy. Lead steady. Tin steady,
stratghts Sl2 90Gl3 90. Spelter firm.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
Dry GnnlA

NEW YORK-Printtns cloths firm a:
csc. with sales Of 1000 pieces spots and
next week.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28

EVERY man. woman md child who
has once tried that specific Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup. cannot say, enough In It's
praise. 4 lt
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28

,.tiaa and no prescribed Or. Miles, Restora.
tive Servinc. She took thrco bottles before
ve saw any certain signs OF Improvement
be. after that she began TO improve very
last and now think the Is entirely cured.
She has taken n!uo h1ttlcS OF tho Servine,
su. no other medicine OF any kind.
Hncx, lad. Jan, s ". II. W, lIosrErrrn.
Physicians prescribe DR.. Miles, Remedies
because they are known TO be tho result OF
be lon; pJctIce and experience ot>ouc OF
tho b;i-h,cs.. members 0. their profession,
and aeo cartull' compounded by expert
.a.edehem!sts, In exact accordance with DR..
Niles prescriptions, as used In his practice.
On sale ut all druggists. Write for Dr..
Niles Book on the Heart and Ecrrcs, Dr.
Niles NedI:al Co, ElkhAst, Ina..s:&g
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Electric cars from bridgeport to Wheel
'paily. Sax lIT @
tSundnys only between points marked !
All other trims daily except Sunday. J
On Sunday train No. runs to UhrIchs-
vlllo only. and on sRmc days train G starts
from Uhr'Chsvillc Instead OF BrdsCunrt.. u
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Wheeling BrldQe & Terminal Ry..

z, u T1INFs " . E4Ik, INNVCIVUF,
Time Table No. IL. to take effect 1901 a.
m, Sunday, November 10, 1896. a y.
Leave Wheclng-iS;0O. t9:iS. SliiO a. m.
f..::N '3.5. 1880, $500 y. m.
Leave Pcninsula-iSN6. 1851, S11 :l6, a. M.
t2:S6 'S:2l. t4:3G. 1900 p. IN. -
Leave Martins Forry-tS:la, 1876, sll:s2
n. M, f2:Ss. '3:21. ti:Ase. SOL? y. M. - :,
Arrive Terminal JunctIon-tS:l1. 1000,
: Leave Terminal luncton--'7:2 %, $500 a.
~, 'la:iQ 4. M. sj:69, s,:C5 i5;i. 1915 .. m.
Leave Martins Ferry-t1:::S, :S:G7 u. m.
'le:i5, s4;G5. ttaO. 1919, tS:Ss y, NJ. L" !
Leave PenlnSuln-t1:35. 1911 Il. M. 'lc:5l,
sell, tll7, 1875, tS:5S p nj VA y -
Arrive WheclInE-t7:iO. 1870 a. M. 1885,,
ti:lI. ti:25, 1851, f9:CS p M 80 -
daily. fDaily except Sunday. Sundays
only. 7S5l n n
All trains Will run on Eastern Time. az
4.f}lr.tlRJ. L. TAuSStG, Superintendent, !,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
MEDICAL. .,
-.i MEDICAL. SsS1 ~
ST. YlTUS DANCE.
A Physician Preserlbes pr. Mics
Restorative, Nervinc.

M Miles Medical Co. Elkhart, Ind:
My daughter Matte, aged iiswaS afflicted
,.,. spring With ST. VI,us danro and nor.
yorSnsSs, hcr ontiro richt sido was numb
AND nearly pasalyrrd. wc consulted ply.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
RAILWAY TIME CARD,

arrival ami departure u trains on and
after October II, 1880. Explanation OF Ref.
crcnce Marks; 'palIy tDaIly, except Sun.
day tDaily. except Saturday, Spally, ex.
cept Monday. gsnndayE oni2. Saturdays
OhIy. EhAiorn SinnIlnrn rLr-,n ~
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Wheeling & Elm Grove Railroad.

}Dnily, except sunday. .T@.|-- } ~
Sunday church trains will leave Elm
Grove at 9:43 n. M, and Wheeling ct l2:l7
n. m. II. Z. WEISGERBER, .#
- - GCnprnl
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Dr.. HileS' Remedies Restore Health.
NASAL
CATARRH

Local Disease
aad Il the result OF
colds and sudden
climatic changes.
4 can he cured hy
q pleasant remedy
which IS applied d.
rtctly into the nos
tsilS. a.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-28
ELY'S
GRE An B ALI

Opens and cleans
the Nasal Passages,
.MhyS lnsaamN.
ton. Heals AnC!
Protects the MemE
s-orcS the Senses o
quickly absorbed.
$ cents At DrugSls
~ By mall.
mst& Wy IS War;,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14
A SHOWMAN'S STRATAGEM.
He Stopped a Little Game That Was a
bore to the Audience.

He Stopped a Little Game That Was q
BOre to the Audience.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Your story about calling for a doctor In
the circus" said retired Snowman, "re-
minds me of the way we broke up a nui-
sance In a good-sized Pennsylvania town.
vas on the road with a farce comedy
company. and we put In two weeks at the
town In question, there being a big mill
tary encampment there and a county fair
the engagement. and were booked for an
early return. I don't think we had been
there more than one night before the doc
tor nuisance began. There would come a
hurried messenger from the box Office to
the stage manager with a request that he
ark If DIR. Bolus or whatever his name
happened to be, was in the house, and II
he was to send him to the box office at
once. OF course. the stage manager couldn't
very well refuse. and general attention was
directed to the medical man, much to his
satisfaction. We soon found out that the
doctors who were so much In demand were
very small medical fry, and there wasn't a
doubt that they had themselves called for
In order to secure the consequent notoriety.
Well. We stood 1t for a few nights, and then
an idea occurred to me. ] took walk up
the main street until / came to q certain
sign hanging over a stairway. / went up
to the office indicated. and had brief con-
versation with it's inmate, ending 1t by
handing him reserved seat tickets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14
THREE HUNDRED MILES OF SMITHS.
Eight Miles of Them Live i'm the City
of New York

of New York.
From the New York Journal
Three hundred miles Of Smiths! The fig
ure is appalling, but 1t is no exaggeration.
The New York city directory for 1896
contains fO1, 500 names. OF these 1894 or
one in every 134, is Smith. The Smiths
take up nearly twelve and half pages of
three columns each. According to the last
census, there are about five times as many
people in New York city as there are
names in the directory. 1t follows. then,
that there are in this city between 1900
and 1900 Smiths
IL drawn up I'm single file at the usual
distance between people so paraded the
line would extend from the Battery to l2lst
street. distance of eight miles LIZ the
same ratio holds good throughout the Unit
Der 523,W0. and would form a line 800 miles
Icing. They would reach to Albany and
back.
1t has been a popular belief always that
lne smiths, Browns. Joneses and Robin
sons led the world in the matter of fire.
quency. but these latter days have Changed
all that. The Smiths are still foremost: The
sturdy and multiplicative Browns are rot
,ar benind. There are $500 Browns in The
New York directory, about one Brown to
every l.s5 who are not Browns. This would
give 5lS.O0 Browns in the United States
But there the old quartet of names is
Inc JOHeSeS ana ROblnSOnS de-
cadent SO far as numbers 60 The Miilers
have stepped into the honor able third place
once held by the race of Jonescs But the
Miliers are only half as many as the Smiths
ana Browns The directory has only sew
enteen columns of them. with i 367 names
Then come the Meyerses with lO83
names; Murphys, 1.Oi9; Cohens ISL; KEEL
lys, Levys and Johnsons, with 966 at,3 and
80 respectively. while Williams and Clark
have only S45 and Sl2
The Smiths are perennial, ever plenty and
never can be moribund. When the skele-
tons OF nations shall stand around the
lorely last man, he will look out with a
clear eye over the ruins of empires watch
fearlessly the rising tide which is TO sngulf
the world. and on the last rock which
raises its grizzled. time wearied head above
that second universal inundation write in
bold characters his name, and the entry
will read: John Smith"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14


That evening, Immediately after the
first act and before any messenger from
the box office had a chance to arrive.
stepped out in front Of the curtain and held
up my hand. Then in my gravest tones
is DR.. Chizziold In the houser'
Immediately a very tall colored man
with bushy white head and huge silver.
mounted snectacles, arose in the audience
and said:
'Heah Is, sah'
The audience Uttered, but I kept m,
gravity.
You are wanted at the box Office a,
once. doctor. in case which requires your
immediate professional attention.
AS the aged darby ducked to me AMI
hobbled from the room the audience broke
into a wild rear.
Perhaps you will understand the cause
of their mecriment when add that the ole
man was corn doctor and probably the
best-known eccentric in town.
well there were no more doctors called
for from that stage during our engage.
ment.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14
y LOie Fuller to- Dance in China.

From the New York Journal.
The announcement is made through her
attorney, Abe HummeL that La Loie"
Fuller will make a trip to China to dance
before the emperor and In all the large
cities Of the great empire. When in this
city few weeks ago Ii Hung Chang Saw
La Loie'' and was captivatej by her
beauty and grace. He at once made pro-
posal that she should make trip to China.
1t was thought at the time that the viceroy
was merely giving the beautiful American
dancer a Chinese compliment" but 1t
seems that he was in earnest and left in
structions with his agents in this city to
make contract with Miss Fuller for her
appearances before his emperor.
. Miss Fuller will dance in Pekin January
10 before the Emperor of China. She will
also give special performance before Lii
Hung Chang. Miss Fuller will then tour
the very large cities of China, but will not
attempt to penetrate far into the interior.
Leaving China. she will go TO India, thence
to Australia, and from that country 10
France. She will hardly return to the
United States before 1899.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14
Raising the Dam.
pod progress Is reported On the pl
Increasing the water SnDplY OF
INDIAN MATCHMAKING.
The Nex Percea Have an Effective Way
of Settling Matrimonial Efforts.
From the Portland Oregonian.

The Ne. Perces Have an Effective Way
of Settling Matrimonial Efforts.
From the Portland Oregonian.
An old custom was revived by the Nez
Perces Indians and their visitors during
the celebration on the last Fourth of July.
The natives of the local tribes are very
wealthy people. and there are designing
mothers among the aborigines as well as
in the different classes Of civilized society.
The young bucks of the Nez Perces tribe
are regarded somewhat like the scions Of
nobility in matrimonial circles. The maid
ems from all visiting tribes were brought to
Lapwai to find husbands. The customs of
the tribes. which were revived for the oc-
casion were more effective than the Bos-
ton mans way.
The manageable maidens were by COM
mon accord auartered in a selected spot in
the Valley of the Lapwai. At an appointed
hour the young men who wanted wives to
share their annuities, their homesteadS and
the affections of their hearts. appeared in
procession on the hallowed camp ground.
The hour was midnight and the scene was
in grove of trees made fragrant by the
wild flowers, and every heart danced to the
music of the ripping waters. The young
men marched forth, and none but candi-
dates for matrimQny joined the march.
and each carried aCwhite willow cane. AS
they. approached the tents they chanted an
Indian chorus that was doleful as the song
Of the owl. and kept time by beating upon
the tents with their canes. The drumming
was deafening to the distant spectator and
must have been distracting to the waiting
maidens in the tents. At last the singing
and the drumming had the desired effect.
The maidens came forth. after a delay
just long enough to satisfy that universal
passion of the mind of a woman to drive a
lover mad with doubt. There were more
men than maidens. The former kept up
the march and the music without. The
maidens countermarched on the line of
from the line The chosen ones FASTENED
to follow their brides away into the dark
ness. The unfortunate suitors were left to
desDair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-14
Oysters i'm Potatoes.
From the Boston Evening Transcript.

Everything like a surprise is always at
tractive at table, SO what are called
oysters caches may serve as a sugges-
ton. Season mashed potatoes with but
ter, pepper and salt. add little rich cream.
but not enough to soften 1t. With this fill a
mold about an inch thick and into it pour
some oysters dressed with cream, pepper.
salt and a little mace; add a little of their
own gravy, and when quite hot. the beaten
yolk of an egg. The oysters should fill the
mold to within half an inch Of the top.
Cover with the potatoes pressed down
evenly and turn 1t from the mold on the
frying plate; cover with the beaten yolk of
an egg and then with bread crumbs; plunge
1t into the hot lard and, when light
brown, lift it out, slide 1T on hot platter
and serve, garnished with parsley.