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The advocate., 1896-02-26
Kansas CITY Prndnrn.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. "a utter-Creamery
extra separator, l7h0lsc; Hrsts, 100; dairy,
fancy, l5c; fair, lSC; store packed, fresh, 100
100; OF packing stock, 70; country roll, fancy,
1910; choice, lilo.
Eggs-Strictly fresh, 9hc per doz.
Poultry-Hens, $40; springs 7h08C; roOst-
ers, l5c; young, l7ko; turkeys, hens, 1907 COB
blers, 90; ducks, SIC; geese, fat, 5M06hO;
pigeons, 90O0Sl.OO per doz
Fruits--Apples, fancy, S2OO@26O per Dbl:
choice, g. DD2.G5; common to good, SlOOOl.60
per Dbl
The advocate., 1896-02-26
Chicago Live Stock.


CHICAGO, Feb. A-Cattle-Receipts 10,5OO;
market strong to 100 higher; fair to best
beeVes, G25004,65; stockers and feeders, g. 75Q
2SO mixed COWS and bulls, 81. 40Q36O; Texas
&O0Oa40
Hogs-Receipts, 96,OOO market to iOc lower;
light, S3950425; rough packing, S3s5G39O;
mixed and butchers, 50 95042O; heavy pack
ing and shipping, So 9504.2O; pigs, SS2O04I5.
Sheep-Receipts, 10000; market steady; ma
tive, 626O0375; western. S325026O; Texas
&2S0020O; lambs, SS.5O0475.
Sc Louis Live Stock.
So. LOUIS, Feb. Observation-Disclosures, 5000;
market 10 to 15c higher; native steers, $500
40; Texas steers, G26O038O
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; market &c lower
light S29O0G Is heavy, SSSO941O; mixed, 1870
0A00.
Sheep Receipts, 1900; market higher.
Chicago Grain and Provision.
The advocate., 1896-02-26
sc. Louis Grain,

ST. LOUIS, Feb. A-Receipts, three days,
wheat $1,000 blu ; last year, Z, $50 bu.; corn, 215.
600 bu.; last year, 10000 bu.; oats, $4,000 bu;
shipments, wheat, 10000 bu.: corn, l784ll bu.
Closing prices: Wheat-Cash, 7lo; February,
6i1c; May, 64x0641Gc; July, 62S06Sc. Corn
Cash, 2656D27&c; February, 26hC; May 97c
July, 2Shc. oats-Cash, 100 bid; February, 100,
June, 2O&o; July, 10%c.
The advocate., 1896-02-26
Kansas City Grain.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 4.-The demand for
wheat continues very slow here. Prices were
nominally about 10 higher, but there was MOI
demand for all offerings at that advance, though
some Of the elevator men were buying
Receipts Of wheat here for two days, 81 cars;
q year ago, 20 cars.
Sales were as follows on track: Hard No. 2,
cars, CSC, 3 cars oi1c, 2 cars 60; No 3, 1 car
600, cars SIC, car 5O1Sc, car 47nc; No 4,
car go, car 45hc, car 40, car 40, car
4S1SO, car A2ko; rejected, nominally 5000;
no grade, nominally $1,000 Soft, No red. 1
OaR 10; No. red, car 700; No. red, 1 car
90, car so, I ear 0Oo; rejected, pomi-
ANY bAAseA sRFtlg, No 3 q aAzS SlsS Ne
The advocate., 1896-02-26
MARKET REPORTS.
WanBag Cltv live NtOok.

KANSAS City, Feb. "a -Cattle--ReceiptS
since Saturday, 5,462; calves, "a: shipped Satur-
day, 1854 cattle; no calves The market was
steady TO strong The following are repre-
sentative sales:
The advocate., 1896-02-26

Sne0p - RecelpCs Since Saturday, 1894;
shipped Saturday, none. The market was
generally steady. The following are repre-
sentative sales
&9 y. M 80. Is @2Ol252. ........... SO S375
BIO N. M l..... 93 325l2l0 Col ew. =. 90 rvs
Horses-Receipts since Saturday, S7l; shipped
Saturday, las. The auction sale was opened
this morning with q moderate attendance and
Q good supply Of horses to offer The trade
was rather slow Not nearly all the buyers are
back to the city yet Prices ruled about
steady.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09
Suggestions for Fruit Growers.

DIR. b. II. Warren, state economic
geologist, estimate that not less than
$4,000, 900 a year is lost to the cult
waited crops in this state by insects.
He says the growing ofplums in Penn
sylvania Is practically a thing of the
past, owing to the ravages ofthe rough
and brown coated curcuio and the
black-knot, fungus disease.
Among the numerous voracious
and troublesome insect pests which
abound throughout this state," added
Warren, "there is one known as the
bag or basket worm, which promises
to be cause of much trouble next
summer to the fruit and ornamental
trees in many sections of the state"
"These bag worms can easily be
gotten rid of and much injury to fruit
crops and shade trees be prevented,
if the owners of trees will take the
trouble to pull the pendant bags of
during the winter, when they are so
conspicuous. and burn them. The
black knot is playing hob with the
plum and cherry trees in many parts
of the state. The proper way of deal
ing with this enemy of the fruit tree i:
to cut off the excrescences or knots
and burn them. When removed from
the tree they should never be thrown
on the ground"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09
Bill to Regulate the Use of the Uniform
Flag in Army and Navy.

In the Senate last week Mr.. Sher-
man introduced a bill to regulate the
use OF uniform flag in the army and
navy, its proportions and the location
of the stars in the blue field. The flag
proposed is to be used on and after
July 4, 1900. The arrangement of
the stars is as follows: Three in each
corner and a central star, around
which shall be entwined a sufficient
number of stars so that the total num-
Der in the blue field will represent the
total number of states. The bill sets
out that the twelve stars in the four
corners and the one in the centre
represent the thirteen original states
according to their geographical loca-
tion on the map, assuming the top OF
the field to be the north, and the other
states are represented in the circle OF
states in the order in which they were
admitted into the Union, placing the
Oldest states nearest the centre. The
idea carried out in this bill is that OF
Mr.. Alonzo Mather, of Chicago.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09
Hicks April Weather.

Hicks Struck the nail on the head
last month and as a consequence
Hicks stock has gone ADJOINING. 1t
is therefore worth while to know what
the weather wise prophet predicts for
April. The month will come in
growing warmer, followed about the
9th by rain and hail to the southwark,
turning to sleet and snow in many
sections northward, and cold wave
for the time oi the year, will come in
from the northwest, extending from
the 9th and 10th. As we approach
the 18th it will grow quite warm.
Another very cold wave, attended by
frost, will come with high barometer
from the I4th to the 10th. On and
touching the 18th and 18th tempera-
ture will raise and barometer fall, and
heavy and general storms of rain and
hail prevail. A wave of high barome.
tic pressure will spread over the
country about the 18th, Frost in
many places will result. From the
2and to 27th markod storm conditions
will predominant. There will be
warm weather during the latter part
of the month.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

What the Shakers of Mount Leba-
non know more about than anybody
else, is the use of herbs and how to be
healthy.
They have studied the power OF
food. They nearly all live to ripe
old age.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial is
prepared by the Shakers from herbs
and plants with special tonic power
over the stomach.
1t helps the stomach digest its food,
and digested food is the strength
maker
Strong muscles, strong body, strong
brain, all come from properly digest
ed food.
A sick stomach can be cured and
digestion made easy by Shaker Di-
gestive Cordial.
1t cures the nausea, loss of appetite,
pain in the stomach, headache, giddi-
ness, weakness and all the other symp-
toms of indigestion, certainly and
permanently.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottle 10
cents.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09
Beware Of 0intmeDts for Catarrh that
contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense OF smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering il
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used excepl
on prescriptions from reputable phy.
slclans, as the damage they will do
is ten fold to the good you can pos.
sibly derive from them. Halls Ca.
tarrh Cure, manufactured by f. 7.
Cheney q Co., Toledo, o., contains
no mercury, and is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. 1t is taken in
ternally, and made in Toledo, Ohio,
by f. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonial.
free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. pei
bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09
Tires Must all be Four Inches.
Gen. Mccormick Shows How Farmers Nav
Get Rebate on Highway Tax.

Attorney General Mccormick gave
the department of agriculture an
opinion last week on the act passed
by the last legislature to encourage
the use of wide tires upon wagons on
the public highways. The opinion is
IN answer to question from Secretary
Edge us to whether farmer residing
near large city, who has placed wide
tires upon all his farm wagons except
a covered wagon which he uses for
hauling market products to the city
market, can claim the reduction of
the road tax under the law so long as
his one wagon has narrow tire.
The attorney general says the evi-
dent purpose of this legislation was to
prevent as far as possible the use of
narrow tires and wagons upon which
heavy loads were carried and to en-
courage the use of wide tires to that
end, that the roads should be injured
as little as possible. He is of the
opinion, however, that farmer who
uses a draft wagon carrying 1000
pounds or more, has them equipped
with four-inch tires and uses no wagon
with a narrower tire purpose of carry
ing 1900 pounds or more, brings him
self within the provisions of this act
and is entitled to the rebate of one
fourth of the assessed highway tax.
If farmer had a covered wagon
which ne uses for hauling market pro-
ducts to the city markets, presumably
with a tire narrower than four inches,
loads that wagon with 1000 pounds
or more, General Mccormick holds,
he is not entitled to the rebate of the
tax, even although all his other wagons
are equipped with the tires of the
required widths. The four inch tire
must be used on all wagons of the
person claiming the rebate that have
carried 1900 pounds or more.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

ference Of representatives of the re-
publican and democratic Senators
and was brought about because the
republicans did not want to agree to
the demands made by the populists
Tor voting with them to elect the
Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms nomi-
mated by them early in the session.
nor the democrats to make a deal
with the populsts to vote against
them. Under the new arrangement
the democratic Secretary and Ser
geant-at-Arms will be retained, and
each Senator, regardless of politics.
Will be given his pro rata share of the
minor positions.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09
NpEADVNlT
Ks 7 RAILROAD SNST.--i.5
In erect May, I2, 1895.
TRAINS LEAVE BLooMsBURG

For New York, Philadelphia, Reading Pott3
Vile, Tamaqua, weekdays II .55 q. m.
For Nilliamsport, weekdays s, 7.35 q. M, 3.25 p
m.
For Dauvilie and Milton, weekdays, 7.s5 a. M
3.15.
For Catawissa weekdays 7s5, li.55 o. M, te. 90
500 6,3', p. IN.
For Rupert weekdays7.35, ii.55 a. M, 1920, s.2,
800, 6.33, r. m.
For baltimore, Washington and the West via
y. o. V. K, through trains leave Reading Ter
mlnal, Philadelphia, 3.2), 755, it.26 q. M, 3.46
I.2., y, m. SUNDAYS 800 7 50 tt.96 n. m ,
&46, q, p. m, Additional trains from % and
Chestnut street station, weekdays, LBS, 5gi,
3 ~ p m. sundays, 1.3,, s23 p. m.
TRAINS FOR BLUUMsBURG
Leave New York via Philadelphia 500 q
m, and via Easton 40 a. m,
Leave Philadelphia lI.0O q. m,
Leave Reading l1.50 H. m.
Leave Pottsville 1890 2. m.
Leave Tamaqua /. so a. m,
Leave williainsport weekdays 1910 n, L. 30 D.
no.
Leave Catawlssa weekdays, 700, $40 a. m. 1.sO,
3.27, 5.l5.
Leave rupert, weekdays, 7Os. s.g7. a. M, 1sOe
1.57, 1886, G.23.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

The breath of chronic catarrh
patient is often so offensive that he
becomes an object Of disgust. After a
time liberation sets in, the spongy
bones are attacked, and frequently
destroyed. A constant source of dis
comfort is the dripping of the puru-
lent secretions into the throat some
times producing inveterate bronchitis,
which has been the exciting cause OF
pulmonary disease. The brilliant
results by its use for years past proper
ly designate Ely's Cream Balm as by
far the best and only cure,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

The county commissioners of
Luzerne County have decided to have
the proposed site for a new court
house definitely fixed, and with that
end in view have appealed the de-
cision of Judge Searles on the Public
Square site to the Supreme Court, as
stated. The matter will also be taken
before the next grand jury and if that
body recommends the purchase of a
new site and the court approves it,
and if the Supreme Court also sustains
the opinion of Judge Searles, the COM
missioners will have the choice of
building or purchasing site. The
Supreme Court convenes in April and
it is expected that the question of a
site will be settled by June.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

In a recent lecture Colonel Carroll
d. Wright, United States commission
er of labor, said that the Southern
States are forty-three times as rich in
mineral wealth as England. The
fact that England is now importing
pig iron from Alabama shows that
the natural advantages of the south
are beginning to tell
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

The Annual Meeting of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association held in the Associations Building,
Broadway Duane St. New York City, Wednesday, Jan
uary 22nd and attended by large and representative
gathering of policy holders who listened with keen interest to
the masterly Annual Report of President Burnham.
Many policy holders evidently regarded this favorable
opportunity face face the chief executive officer
of the Association President Frederick A. Burnham, the
whose grasp of life Insurance. whose keen executive ability and
strong individuality have enabled him take up the work laid
down in death by the founder of the institution the late Ed
ward Harper and make Of the administration of his office of
President echo copy of that of his predecessor but
piece Of finished work. characteristic of of independent
views and worthy follow the work which had carried the
Association position attained in the length Of
time by any life insurance organization in the world 1t is
indeed that great institution like this passes without
check its prosperity through change the executive che
for is indeed that chief like the late Mr. Harper finds
so able successor as President Burnham.
The record of the year 1895 speaks for ITSELF and shows the
following gratifying results
The GROSS ASSETS have increased during the year
from $5 $50 1859 to $5,661, ,7O7,82.
The NET SURPLUS over liabilities shows NET GAIN
for the year of 943 and amounts to $3582 5O932
The INCOME from all sources shows gain for the year
of $631 ,541 81 and amounts to $5,575, SO.
DEATH CLAIMS to the amount of $4 84,O7492 were
paid during the year, increase the previous year Of
$101356091
The BUSINESS IN FORCE shows gain for the year
of $15,293 265 and now amounts to S3OS,659,371.
Counting three hundred working days in the year the
daily average income for 1895 S1S5S427 the daily
payments for death claims $365225, and the daily
gain in business in force within fraction of $4,000
fi FUED Assoc FLY @ a the O
". ID. AWD WIG, Slpt.,
5s Downing Block, ERIE, PA.
~ ION
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

A lot of new judgment exemption
notes, with attorneys commission,
and waving everything, just printed
at this Office. Sold single, or in
books of IS and 50. #.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09

NS@-NGH write Mrs. Blnkham Tor
advice during the last few months.
Think what volume of experience
she has to draw froml No physician
living ever treated so many cases of
female ills, and from this vast expert
ence surely it is more than possible
she has gained the very knowledge
that will help your case.
She is glad to have you write or cell
upon her. You will find her woman
full of sympathy, with great desire to
assist those who are sick. If her mcdi-
cine is not what you need, she viii
frankly tell you SO, and there are ninc
chances out OF ten that she will tell
you exactly what 90 do for relief. She
asks nothing in return except yo-r
good will, and her advice has relieved
thousands.
Surely, any ailing woman, rich or
poor, is very foolish il she does not
take advantage of this generous offer
Of assistance.
Never in the history OF medicine has
the demand for one particular remedy
for female diseases e1ualled that at
tanned by Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, and never in the
history of Mrs. Pinkhsm's wonderful
Compound has the demand for it been
so great as it is to-day.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-09
FoRATLANTIC CITY.

Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street wharf
and South street wharf for Atlantic CITY.
WEKE-DAYs-Express, 300, a. M, saturday
only, 3.00l 400, 300, y. m. Accommodation, D.,
500 a. M, 4.30, $50 p. m.
SuNDAY--Express. Q 90, 1000 o. m 4, Accommc-
datlon, 90 o. m. ana 4.45 p. m.
Returning. leave Atlantic City, depot, corner
Atlantic ana Arkansas Avenues.
WEEK-DAYs-Express, 7s5, 900. a. m. 3 80
300, p. m. Accommodation, $50, S.l5 a. m. 4.s2
u. m.
sunday--Express 400, $50, SEQ p. m. Ac-
conmoiatlou, 7l5 q. rn., A. p. M.
Parlor cars on all Express trains.
!, A. SWEIGARD. G. @. HANCOCK,
Genl superintendent Gen1 Pass. 4 ct
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-11-13
ODD Things a bout Water.

Water is made up of two different ele-
ments-hydrogen and oxygen. 1t has
in its composition two measures of hy-
drogen for every one of oxygen it con-
tains; but, as the latter is so much heav-
Ter than the former, nine pounds of
water is found to contain eight pounds
of oxygen and only one of hydrogen.
The way in which the composition of
water is proven is by means of the vol
taic electric battery, combined with other
apparatus, designed especially for the
purpose.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-11-13
curiosities of visien

The limit of normal vision or healthy
sight, unassisted by instruments of any
kind, in a perfectly clear atmosphere
and where there are no distractions
whatever, Is as follows:
At height Of feet. the range of dis
lance Is IS , miles
At height of 10 feet the range of
distance is SOL miles.
At height OF 90 feet the range of
normal vision is 8 s. miles.
At height of 100 feet the range of
distance is 1872 miles.
At height Of 500 feet it is exactly
% miles.
At a height OF 900 feet the range of
distance Is AIS miles
At heigat of 5000 feet the range of
distance is q miles exactly.
1t follows from this that man of or
binary height may be seen on level
ground at a distance of three miles,
every thing being favorable.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-11-13
LITTLE CURIOUS NOTES.

The cemeteries of the city of London
cover over 1000 acres of ground.
Harder, the great authority on fish,
says that every square mile of the sea
is inhabited by 100000 inny Great
ures.
The crown worn on state occasions
by William. emperor of Germany,
weighs exactly three pounds.
While Dr. Kane was on his second
expedition he and mis- men lived nine
days in temperature ranging from o.
to 90 degrees below zero.
The body of dead Chinaman is
often kept by his relatives or friends for
three or four years before it is buried.
The first horses in this country were
brought here iu the year 1878. In 1890
there were I4,os6,75o of them in the
United States.
More than one-half of the persons in
this country who commit murder are
men and women under 80 years of age.
The "hying eagle" cent pieces of 1886,
United States coinage, are worth hav-
ing. They sell at from s. to SIS each
depending on the condition of the coin.
The Kennebec river is said TO pour
greater volume of water into the ocean
than any other river on the Atlantic or
Gulf coast between st. John and the |
mouth of the Mississippi.
1t is now claimed by historians that
The oldest town within the limits of the
United States Is Yaleta. on the Rio
Srande river, in Texas.
The frog cannot breathe with its
mouth ofen, Its breathing apparatus be-
ng so arranged as to exclude air at all
lines except when the nostrils alone
re working.
The country home at Clover Bend
lawrence county, Ark, of Miss French,
he authoress.and magazine contributor,
Tidely known as "Octave Thanet," was {
urned. A large and complete library
Tas destroyed. al
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-11-13
How Eagles Ply

An eagle circling in the air maintains
his wings steadily motioniess. but he
spreads his tail as wide as possible and
works II like the quarter revolution of
screw. The reactionAry force which he
thus displaees drives him forward, and,
by exerting more force Of pressure with
one side of his tail than with the other
he diverts his course either to the right
or the left. The change In the birds
position Is attended with short, quick
motions. as the point of one wing is
stretched forward, while that of the
other Is turned back correspondingly
These short, convulsive movements
OF the tail escaped the observa-
tions of the ornithologisiss until quite
recently, and the factsof them not being
noted caused many exhaustive articles
to be written on the "Mystery of the |
Eagles Flight" Stein der Weisen, the |
Austrian naturalist, appears to have
been the first to notice the rudderlike
motions OF the eagles tail. He says:)
these motions OF the tail would pro-
badly have escaped me also but for the
fact that / had so often observed the
peculiar construction of the side tail
feathers" II is interesting to the natu-
rallsts and the laymen alike to know
that "the mystery of the eagles flight"
has at last been explained.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-11-13
A Plant Growing IN His Brain.

One of the most remarkable cases in
the ANIMALS of surgery is that of Angus
tus Colcannon, who Twas near Sodom,
Indiana. In 1892 young Colcannon be-
came suddenly insane, and the attend
ing physician yentured the opinion that
the cause was some foreign substance in
the brain A doctor Lakewood pro-
posed trephinning, which was done in
the presence of three associates. To the
surprise of all, when a portion of the
skull had been removed, plant nearly
an inch long, of thread-like structure
and long, fibrous roots, was found grow
ing in the brain. Two years before Col
cannon had fallen from a wagon and
injured his head. The only way of ac-
counting for the presence of the plant is
by saying that some seed was driven
the skull at that time.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-11-13

Bombay, Nov. S.-The Earl of Elgin
Viceroy of India, speaking at a banquet
on the famine outlook, said that recent
news from the Punjab and the north
west provinces was somewhat reassur-
ing. The fact that the Punjab had not
yet felt the need of relief work showed
the distress was not yet acute. The
measures adopted in the northwest pro
vinces had encouraged the people, who
were facing the situation creditably and