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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-25
GRAIN. PROVISIONS. ETC.

New York, Aug. 24-Flour steady, but
dull; winter wheat, lower grades, 81 700
ESQ; do fair to fancy, 81. 40Q8. 40; do pat
ents, $3.45@3.75; Minnesota clear $4,000
2.7O; patents, $3.15q3.95; low extra, S170d
$50; southern -four dull, steady; common
to fair extra; $2.O0G2.6O; good to choice
go. Wheat. spot market moderately ac-
tive and firmer; options advanced 1AG15sc
fell %G1c rallied 7s01c. fell 15@Ac, closed
firm at 5sd1c over Saturday, with the
trading active; No. 2, red mixed 71%c;
August, 647sc; October, 65Ac; November
67Mc; December 677sc. Corn, spots, dull
but firm; No. 2, 28Mc; elevator 29azc; op-
tions were dull and steady at unchanged
prices, to Ac decline; August, 2S3tc; Sep
tember 2S1zc; October 292sc; December
303sc; May, 321ac. Oats, spot, dull steady;
options weaker, dull; August 2il2c; spot
No: 2, 211sc; No. 2 white 25c; mixed wes-
tern, 2115G23c Hay fairly active; ship
ping, 65G721zc; good to choice, old, S5d95c
Wool quiet. Beef quiet, but firm; family
SS.O0G9o0; extra mess, $6.00d700; beef hams
firm, with better demand; $15.00615. 80
Tierced beef dull, steady; city extra India
mess, $11.00d12.00. Cut meats steady, fair
demand; picked bellies, Sc; shoulders, 3A
6t313c; do hams, 9d91.c Lard easy quiet ;
western steam, 3.S0c; city, 3.50c; Septem-
Der. 3.8Oc refined fairly active; continent
4.25c; South America, 470c; compound
37sGD41sc. Pork dull steady; new mess
$7.75G825 Butter, fancy. firmer; state
dairy, 10d15c; do creamery, IlG16j5c; wes-
tern dairy. 9Ql2c; Elgins, 16lAc. Cotton
seed oil quiet and steady. Rice quiet
steady; domestic fair to extra, 3d35sc; ia
pan 46r44c Molasses steady; New Or
leans 27d35c Peanuts steady; fancy. 46J
4izc Coffee dull unchanged. to 5 points
up; September. use October, 9.50c, May,
915a9 2Oc spot Rio steady, quiet; No Z,
1Oatc Sugar, raw, dur and steady.
Freights to Liverpool firm; cotton by
steam. I'D grain, do Sd.
Chicago. Aug. A.-NOon-The market
opened for wheat: September, STAG Corn,
September, 225sc Pork, September, $5S2la.
Lard. September, 1914. Ribs. September.
S3.22ll.
Chicago, Aug. 2i-The wheat market
was a somewhat irregular one. with both
opening and closing soft. u was evident
that the wheat which prevailed on Satur-
day had departed from the trade at the
opening this morning. One very import
ant reason for the altered tone was the
aN1maton OF quite considerable de-
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the near future almost a certainty. The
big receipts and the prOstration OF the
manufacturing interests may cause fur-
Their depression for a while. but We do no.
think IL can possibly last long"
New York. Aug. 2A-The New York SIM
says OF to-day's cotton market: Cotton
opened 16 20 "a points lower. recovered :
points, but later reacted and declined
closing steadier at a net decline OF az 10 a.
points, with sales OF 233 800 bales To
days features were heavy rains in Texas
and heavy selling OF long cotton here
caused a sharp break in prices TODAY
Everybody wanted to sell at once and the
price receded rapidly and closed al about
the lowest figures OF the day. Besides
the Texas rains there were good rains in
Arkansas and Mississippi. and elsewhere
in the south, the precipitation was gen
eral- Liverpool broke wide open. New
Orleans declined sharply and the snot
markets in this country were weaker. The
south sold here and local operators took
profits on the late advance. There was. a
rally at one time on the covering of
shorts, and on the belief that the rains
in the southwest have come too late 10 he
of any material benefit, but it was only
temporary Prices quickly reacted again
on some long selling"
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OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-Market quiet; rates quoted are
per 100 pounds; Boston, per bale, St25;
New York, per bale, S1.00. Philadelphia
per bale, s1.O0; Baltimore, per bale, SIPS;
to Liverpool via New York, 3Sc Bremen
via New York, 40c; Antwerp, via New
York, 4Oc; Havre, via New York, 43c; Am
sterdam, via New York. 47c; Genoa, via
New York, 47c; Reval, via New York, SIC !;
Hamburg, via New York, 40c Direct:
Barcelona, SIC; Genoa, 45c; Hamburg 40c
Lumber-By Sail-Freights are steady
at ruling rates. Foreign business is more
or less nominal. The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at 1920
$50 for a range including Baltimore and
Portland, Me Railroad ties, base A feet,
Ice Timber rates, 50cIS1.00 higher than
lumber rates. To the West Indies and
Winward, nominal; to Rosario, $12.m6
13.00 Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, $40 90
d11.OO; to Rio Janeiro, $1400; to Spanish
and Mediterranean ports, $11.8001l.50 to
United Kingdom for orders, nominal for
lumber, 4-pound IS standard.
BY Steam-To New York, ST 90; to Phil
adelphia., 800; to Boston, $500; to Balti-
more IS 90.
Naval Stores-By Sail-The market IS
quiet. Large sized, Cork for orders are
As Cd; Genoa, % 3dG3s Cd; Adriatic, Is cd
as Cd: South America, rosin, 65c per bar
rel OF go pounds. enthusiastically
Boston, lie per 100 pounds on rosin, soc on
spirits; to New York, rosin, Size per 100
pounds, spirits, S5c to Philadelphia, ros-
in, TIC per 100 poundsg spirits, 80; to Bal
timore, rosin, TIC per 100 pounds, spirits
Zoe
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fire proof 12c; guardian. lie; deodorizel
stove gasoline, 13c.
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement-Ai-
ALBANIA and Georgia lime in fair demand
and selling al S5c per barrel bulk and
carload lots special: calcined plaster, S1.60
per barrel; hair, 4G5c. Rosedale cement,
81 3Od4 40; carload lots special; Portland
cement, retail. $40; carload lots. $40.
Nuts-AlmOnds, Tarragona, l6c; Ivicas,
Hc; wanuts, French, lie; Naples, 12i5c;
pecans, 1Oc; Brazils, &C; .filberts, loo; as
sorted nuts, 50-pOund and 25-pOund boxes,
lO6l1c; cocoanuts, S3.75 per 100.
Cabbage-Barrel, 7HSc.
Peanuts-Ample stock. fair demand:
market steady; fancy hand picked, Vlr-
ginia, per pound, Size: hand picked, per
pound, 4lkc; small hand picked, per pound,
DEMONSTRATES, 500; barrel $225.
Potatoes-Irish, $l50q2.O0
Nails-Steel cut, 10d to Cd. 1922; sd
1892; Cd, $S.47; sd, 1852; Sd. S3.92 Finish
ing, 10d and I'D, 1887; Sd, SS47; Cd, $500; sd.
50 50; 4d 1897; Sd, fine, S4.32; 4d, box, 1897;
a. eoo IS1 ST a an q sp TX q y b. Mre
sd. 1881; Sd. SAIL; %, S4.57. Finishing, 100.
12d and god, s372; Sd. 1881; Cd, $4,O7; sd.
81 %; 4d, SAP; Sd, A.62
ShOt-Firm; drop to Il, $l.3O; u to larger,
- Iron~Msrket very steady: swede. 44@
SC; refined. $40 base.
Gun Powder-Per key, t4.OO; half key,
s225; quarter key, $.25. Champion
ducking, quarter keg. $225. Austin, Du-
pont and Hazard, smokeless half key,
IS As; quarter keg. 1870; S-pound canister,
$40; 1-pound canister, 75c. Less 20 to 10
per cent. of.
Lumber-Demand, both foreign and do
nestle Is firm. Ordinary sizes. $1,000
200; difflcult sizes. Sl3.00d1SO0; flooring.
boards. Sl5.00d22.00; ship stuff, $i65OQ20OO;
Poultry1steady. fair demand: spring
chickens, 25c per pair; half-grown to
three-auarters grown. soc TO S5c pair;
full grown fowls, soc per pair.
Eges--MarlIet fully supplied; candled
per dozen, 15d17c; country. &c less.
Hides. Wool Etc.-Hldes-The market
IS weak; dry flint. &c; dry salt. SC; green
sailed, &c. Wool-Quiet; prime Georgia,
free Of sand burrs. and black wool, 11hc,
blacks 9ikc; bury, sale. Wax, PC. Tai
low, &c Deerskins, l5c.
Bagging and Ties-The market is firm;
jute bagging. 2h-pound. nc; 2-pound
CSC; 1A-pound, 6hc; quotations are for
Job lots, small lots higher; sea island bag
ging. SdSlkc; Standard Arrow ties. steel
As pounds. large lots. .sL4o; small lots,
'ii Dry Goods-The market is steady; de-
mand brisk; prints, 445c; Georgia brown
shirtings, q, 324c; "a. &c: "A brown sheet
ing SC; white osnaburgs, 707l5c; checks
S9lG4Ac; brown drillings, 5l4Q61zc.
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M1scELLANEous MARKETs.

Racon-The market is steady. Smoked
clear sides, SIC; dry sailed clear rib sides,
4lbc; long clear none; bellies, 4Ac; sugar
cured hams, lie. 49,,
5O-pound tins, 47sc; compound, in tierces.
4Hc; in 5O-pound tins, 419c.
Butter-Market steady; fair demand;
Goshen, 14Q15c: gilt edge, 171aQ1S1zc; best
Cheese3Market dull; SlzG11c; fancy, full
cream cheese, logic; 20-pound average.
Fish-Ma ckereI, half-barrel, No. l, IS. so;
No. 2, $3.50; No. 3. 800; kits, No. l, S1.25;
No. 2. 81. 90; No. 3, CSC. Goldfish, 1-pound
bricks. 61bc: 2-pound bricks, &c. Smoked
herring, per box, 2Oc; Dutch herring, in
kegs, s.. 60 New mullet half barrels, $3.50.
SaIt-Demand is fair, and the market
Compound sacks, 4Sc; Virginia, 125-pound
burlap sacks, S2c; ditto, 125-pound cotton
sacks, S5c; smaller lots higher
ida syrup, buying at 23c, and selling at
23G25c; sugar house at 1SQ32c; Cuba,
straight goods. 23qSOc; sugar house mo-
Tobacco-Market quiet and steady;
smoking domestics, 2246Oc; chewing, com
mon, sound 24Q27c; fair, 23435c; good, Sc
Case; bright, 60G65c; 1ne fancy, 65aSOc
Sugar-Equality neutrality-suspicious.
ouotations-Cut loaf, 5.55c; crushed, 5. 55c;
powdered, 5.1Sc; xxx powdered, 5 3Oc;
standard granulated, A .93c; cubes, 4. 1Sc;
mould A, 5.1Sc; diamond A. 493c; 4onfec-
TONERS. A, AS0c; white extra G, 4. SIC; ex-
ira c, 4. 55c; golden c. 4.24c; yellows, Ape;
tone firm.
Coffee-Dull and lower; Mocha, 261bc;
Java. 271hc; Peaberry, 2015c; standard No
/. 18c; No. 2, IKE; No 3, lie; No. 4, 16c;
No. 5, 1515c; No 6, 151ac No. Z, lac.
Flour-Market weak; patents, $40;
straight, SO. IS; fancy, $3.S5; family 1885.
Corn-Narket is steady; white corn Job
lots, 47c; carload lots. 44c; mixed corn.
lob lots, acc; carload lots, 43c; cracked
corr, fob lots CSC sack.
Oats-Carload lots S0c; job lots 33c.
Bran-Job lots, SOC; carload lots, Toe.
Hay-Market steady; western, job lots,
csc; carload lots, 9Oc-
Meal-Pearl per barrel. $780, per sack
81 90; city meal, per sack, soc; pearl grits,
per barrel. $40; per sack, Sl.05; city grits,
per sack, S1.0O.
VVines-Domestic port, sherry, catawba,
low grades, 6Od85c; fire grades, $1.0O6D1.5O;
California light muscatel and angelica,
-IsIauors-Market firm; high wines, ba-
sis. sl19; whisky, per gallon, rectihed, 10)
nroof. S135ft1.75; choice grades, $1.50Gi2. 90;
strafght. Sl4503.50; blended S2.O0Gt4 90;
low proofs in proportion. Gins 1c per gal
lon higher. RUNS, &c higher.
Iemons-Market quiet; per box, $500
Dried Fruit--Apples. evaporated, SEQ
Zoe; common 7QSc.
boxes. Sc pound.
Ofls-Market steady. demand fair: sig
nal 45cg50c; West Virginia black, 9012c:
ia "a 65fr70c; neatsfo0t, 00Tr65c; machinery
aglf}0c; linseed, raw, &c; boiled. SIC: kero-
zone. Geor~'a tost, i0ci water white, lie:
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manu from shorts" by reason Of the
quantity of wheat covered through that
medium at the close on Saturday. For
the two hours of the session lower prices
prevailed. but the posting of an advance
OF franc and IS centimes on aour and OF
- co 30 centmes ON wheat at Paris. i'm
parted a healthier tone and a quick re-
coVery resulted, but later the strength
was again supplanted by weakness. and
the close showed "a loss from Saturday.
December wheat opened firm at slice To
bl3sc, sold between 602ic and 6l24c. closing
at 6llsc-lsQ4c under Saturday Cash
wheat was 5sc lower closing steady.
Corn-ENpectations Of a moderately
large number of orders at the opening
and the corn market settling into it's ac-
customed rule and inactivity. became the
only noticeable feature of the trade.
wheat changes in prices reflected the
tone and feeling OF corn. May corn open
ed at 26'sc, declined to PC. and closed I,c
under Saturday. Cash corn was steady
to firm. with prices ruling about the same
as Saturday.
Oats developed only duIlness.
May oats closed Mdhc lower than
on Saturday. Cash oats were quiet but
firm at Iac to 1c lower.
Provisions-There was an unexpectedly
heavy influx of hogs at the yards this
morning, the natural effect OF wheat was
TO weaken prices at #he Place and from
the intimate relationship with the condi-
ton there, the produce market ruled low
er. January pork closed 507izc lower;
January lard 219e lower, and January ribs
sc lower.
Leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest Closing.
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The Very Man.

A clerical-looking gentleman, in the
hope Of obtaining a contribution. says Tit
Bits. entered the Office Of newspaper,
and, finding the editor in. said:
Il am soliciting aid for a gentleman Of
refinement and intelligence who is in need
Of a little ready money but is too proud
to make known his sufferlngs."
"Whyw exclaimed the editor, I'm the
only man in town that answers that de-
scription. What's the gentleman's
manner"
I'm sorry TO say am not al liberty to
disclose it,"
1T must be me- parson. Heaven pros
per you in your good work" said the edi-
tor, wping away a tear
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COTTON MARKET QUIET.
,,rN DROP IN FUTURES STOP
PED BUYING OF SPOTS.

Ideal quotations Remained IN
-s.ngcd From Saturdays Closing.
leland Cotton Coming in-NhV-
cores in Good Demand at IN
I'D Prices-Other Markets
s..adv and Unchanged.
savannah, Aug. 2i.-The main feature
a. .,-fay's markets. as we'll as a discour-
-.,r one was the slump Of IS points IN
7..-, futures. It stopped the lively buy
.-- n spots and left the local market
-5s, fin tone. IN the naval stores mar
~. p1ving was steady with prices I'M
--.-rsi. The general wholesale markets
80 steady with no change in quotations
.-,--s5. The following resume OF the
,.s.-snr markets, both local and tele-
NH. will show the tone and the quo
IONS at the close to-day:
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Inc cash quotations were as follows.
Flour was quiet but firm: prices I'M
changed; No. spring wheat. 562i Q5G7sc;
No. red, Gll5dG3lsc; No. corn 22Aq222lc g;
No. 2 oats, l7hGl7Ac. Pork per barrel
$5.S5@5.9O; short ribs, $5.2OQ3SO; dry salted
shoulders, $3.75a400: short clear Sides
$3.62la03.75. Whiskey, $1.19
Cincinnati, Aug. 2l.-Four steady: win
ter patents, S3.200350: spring $35003 49,
Wheat quiet and steady: No g. red track
56H51c; rejected track, 4905)c Corn quiet
and barely steady; No. ., yellow track
zl425c. oats easy quiet; No. 2, mixed
track, l8Ml9c; No 2, white track 207kc
Pork steady; family $3.50; clear family
$500; clear backs, $500 Lard quiet and in
active; kettle lard 35sG37sc prime steam
3l5c. Dried sailed meats inactive Shout
ders, 39sc; short rib Sides sac: short clear
sides, 4c. Bacon steady; loose shoulders,
4lsc clear sides, Nc; loose short ribs
41sc; sailed clear sides. 4Ac. Whisky
steady at $1.19
st. Louis. Aug. A.-Flour unchanged;
patents, s3.OO03.15; extra fancy. $2.7Oq2. so;
fancy, @.@Q250; choice, 81. 100i220 Wheat
lower; December higher; August, CSC; Sep
tember 6l%c; December 641sc. sCorn low
er; August, 2015c September, 277sc; De-
cember, 22c; May. 245sc. oats lower; Au-
gust, 19c; September 19c. nominal; May,
Zoe Butter frmer; creamery, extra, 16Ibc
Pork, standard mess, new, $500; old
So.lZ1s' Lard, primo steam, 1926; choice
S.S21a. Bacon, shoulders 4Ac; longs, SIC
Dry sailed meats, shoulders, 324c; longs,
33sc. High wines steady at $119
Baltimore, Aug. A.-Flour flrmer; west
ern super, 81. 90d210; do, extra $2.35a2 Is;
do, family, $3.1Od3.4G winter wheat, pat
ent, $3.50d375; spring, do, 49, 45G3.70; do,
straight $3.2OG3.35. Wheat. hrmer; spot
and August, 63l406324c; September, 635s1
63Ac; October, G4Ac; December, 671lc ask
ed; spring, No. 3 6Sl4G6836c; southern by
sample 62Q651zc; do on grade, 62Q65c.
Corn easy; spot August and September, 271l
g277sc; October, 277s0281sc; November, 28c
bid January, CSC buyers; steamer, 273sc;
southern white, 27G282lc; do, yellow 280
29c Oats quiet and steady; No. 2 white,
25q2ec; No. 2 mixed, 23Q23lhc. Rye firm; No.
2 nearby, 341z035c; No. western, Bee
bid. Hay quiet and steady choice timo-
thy, $16OO1165O.
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FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

New York, Aug. A.-Peaches, Maryland
and Delaware. basket, 90cq$lOO; peaches.
carrier, 5OcdS225; peaches, crate, GOc0c$1. %.
Pears, Maryland and Delaware, basket,
50a75c. Grapes, Maryland and Delaware,
carrier, 40d60c. Musk1neions, Baltimore,
crate, 50lD75c. Watermelons, car load $50
also; watermelons, per hundred, 5000
2O.OO Potatoes, sweet, S1.1291.50.
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DRY Gonns

New York, Aug. 24-In recent reports
of the dry goods market indications have
been noted, pointing to the development
of a stronger tone in the market for cot
ton goods. Sellers are not disposed TO
quote advances openly, but to-day's bust
ness was furnished, in most instances, Of
brown goods selling 1sc per yard better
than last week in the heavier weights
while some coarse colored cottons have
realized 4 to Is cent over what they sold
al week ago. The wooden goods depart
ments show no change for better.
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NAVAL STORES.

Spirits Turpentne-There was a steady
demand for the receipts, all Of which We're
disposed of at the current price. At the
Board of Trade at the first call. the mar
ket was bulletined firm at 22l.c, with
sales of zoos casks, at the last call it was
unchanged, with further sales of 45
casks.
Rosin-There was no change in the gem
eral situation of the market. The demand
was fairly good at Saturdays closing
prices. At the Board of Trade at the
first call, the market was iDulletined firm
and unchanged, with sales of 1880 barrels.
At the close the market closed firm and
unchanged. with no further sales report
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SOUTH BOUND.

Lv Savannah 300 m, ar Jesup 4:i0 a m,
wick 7:45 a m, Jacksonville $50 a m. St. Aug
1915 a m, Sanford 1855 m. Suwanee s.52
Gainesville 1855 a m, Ocala 1:41 m, Tam
$40 m.
Through Pullman buffet sleeping car serv
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RICE.

Clean, per pound: Common, 2d2Ac;
fair, 21zG3c good, 3Aq312c; prime, 4g4Ac.
Rough-none.
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Charleston, S. c.. Aug. A-Turpentine
dull, nothing doing. ROsin firm, sales
nothing.
wilmington, Aug. 24.-Rosin firm;
strained, $1.S2lz; good. $1.S715. Spirits tur-
pentfne steady; machine, &c; irregular.
21c. Tar steady at $1O5 Crude turpen-
tine quiet hard, $1.2O; soft. $l.55; virgin,
$1.65.
New York, Aug 24.-Rosin quiet; strain
ed, $1.571kQ16O. Turpentine steady; 2414q
244c.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-03-07
Of bank stock and the charity OF ~.

Of hank stock and the charity OF ~.
friends. She died, however. in 1912,
just as she had got her petition prop
erly before Congress.
Blenncrhassctt Island IL now used as
a battle-ground In the summer time,
md Is kept planted In the ordinar,
crops. There is little left to mark the
site of the old mansion. The we'll
which is about six feet In diameter, was
so well stoned up when first built tia,
1t IL as good as new today, and the
water Is sweet and cool. AS last
touch of iconoclasn,, where the rounded
lawn once lay IL now a baseball dia
nOnd.-Albert Claypool White. In Sar
Francisco ArgOnaut.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-03-07
Tho Trolley In Persia.

The first electric RAILROAD In Persia
will be built IN Teheran to the summer
resorts, about ten miles to the north of
the city, where everybody lives during
the hot season. The summer on the Per-
sian plateau IL very hot and dry, and
1t IL only In the nelghbOrhOod Of the
mountains that Europeans can stand
the great heat. Were It not for that re-
sort they would have to leave Tehcran
for four months of the year. The new
road Is to be trolley road, and con-
cession for ninety years has been grant.
ed to a German contractor, who will
start the building of the road at once.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-03-07
"The wizard" and HIS war Talk

"The wizard" and HIS War Talk.
ApropOs Of war, Il Is to. he hoped that
the reported interview with Mr.. Edison
upon the subject OF electrically blowing
whole armies and navIes into atoms Is
ut least exaggerated, II not wholly a
product OF the festive season. Visions
OF the horrible Wholesale cxtermina.
ton possible by his alleged Internal In
vcntiOns-electrlc chains, dynamite
cannon. submarine torpetlOes. and the
like-bel0ng to the very nightmares Of
science, and call up grim and CHASTITY
pictures Of scenes such as a Wicrtz
might have dreamed for IN illustrated
"lnfernO." II Mr.. Edison really said
that, IN the case of q war between Eng.
land and America. lie would give his
whole time and energy to his country
In other words. to the production Of
those diabOlical inventlons-he OugAt
to be denounced rs the prime enemy OF
the human race. Could 1t be with
these devillsh inventions In his mind
that one Of the Vanderbilts declared
that month after declaration Of war
the whole seas would be Us bare OF
English vessels as the palm Of his
hand? War, at Its best. Is brutal. ana Il
disgrace to clvilization-fOr OF what
value IL our so.called culture II We can
only settle disputes by brute force
yet. when weapons We're primitive. II
gave opportunities for personal hero.
Ism. which cast some sort Of glamour
over the sickening and disgusting dc.
tails. But. conducted upon the Edi-
sonian lines, 1t would be sheer coward
~ massacre Wholesale murder, with
out tho falntest "extenuating circum-
Stances" ana an absolutely unQuali'
fed disgrace to humanity. ! only hope
that the Edison interview Ia about aa
reliable as other compliments Of the
seasOn."-I.ady's Pictorial.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-03-07
New Canning PrOccss,

A vacuum process OF canning fruits
In glass has been invented, which 1t Is
prophesied will doom forever the old
Fashioned and extremely obnoxious
tins. All the deleteriOus gases general.
ed In cooking TIE fruit, ana even the
air, are extracted by this new method,
80 that fermentation IL reduced to a
minimum. No solder IL used and each
lar 10 opened by making a puncture
with a penknife, after which the coveD
can be Nfted Off entirely.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-03-07
A Model Country.

In Iceland there are neither prisons.
soldiers. drunkenness nor police. Colon.
lied In S74. 1t soon after became indie.
pendent, and Its isolated position, far
away from the beaten track Of ocean
commerce, has preserved its population
from many of the vices which seem al
most inseparable from high state of
commercial prosperity and extensive
inteyeourse with the rest OF mankind.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-03-07
The Best of Everything for Chicago.
The Civic Federation
OF CHICAGO.
Telephone Main 2so2. 517 First National Bank Building
WILLIAM T. BAKER, President.
BERTHA HON0RE PALMER, President
J0tN J. Me0RATh President.
RALPH NJ. EASLEY, Secretary.
EDWARD DREYER, Treasurer.
The Civic Federation Aims to FocaIizs All the Forces New
laborlng to Advance tho Political, Municipal, Phian.
thropc, Industrial and Moral Interests Of Chicago.
Zach Wort Specialists
mttees Now Being 1t Work The Following Lses:

l.-POLITICAL.
The selection Of honest, capable men
TO govern the city. State and munlcl.
pal legislation for Chicago. Honest
elections. A general interest In the prl.
marles.
c.-MUNICIPAL
Clean streets and alleys-prompt re.
moval Of garbage - improved urban
trafac-less smoke-more water-h0n.
orable pollce-cheaper aud better &C.
commodations for the people Of Chica.
70 In all INSTRUMENTATION Of rail.
road tracks, etc.
B.-INDUSTRIAL..
Establishment Of Boards Of Conclll.