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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
WHY WHEAT is UP.
BECAUSE OF REDUCED SUPPLY AND
INCREASED DEMAND.

Statistics Of Exports Explain the Rapid
Rise-Not mt All Due to a "GoIdbug
Conspiracy"
In 1891 the wheat harvests of Europe
were extraordinarily bad, and as our
orop was the largest we ever harvested
we had an enormous export. But since
then our exports have been steadily di-
minishing. from 225. 600. 900 bushels in
1912 to 1876, 900, 900 bushels in 1856.
During this period of decreased demand
for our wheat the Argentine Republic
came to the front as an exporter. and
the price of wheat naturally enough
tended downward. Beerbohm, one of
the highest authorities upon the wheat
market, computes that the worlds wheat
crop averaged 262, 900, 900 quarters, of
eight bushels, for the four years 1886,
279, 900, 900 for the four years 1887-90
and 804, 900, 900 quarters for the four
years 1914. The estimated increase in
the demand for wheat for food is 2, 600,
900 quarters year. and in eight years
the supply increased not 10000, 900
quarters, but $4,000, 900 quarters. That
the price should fall was inevitable.
But the worlds available supply Of
wheat on July 1, according to Brad
streets, was 90, 900, 900 bushels less than
it was one year before, and the worlds
crop for this year is estimated by the
Liverpool Corn Trade News at 80, 000,-
900 bushels less than last year. This
makes the supply 115, 600, 600 bushels
less than the supply year ago. The es.
innate of this years crop is 90, 900, 900
bushels less than the average crop for
the four years 1914 The normal in
crease Of demand due to increase of pop
ulation since the middle or average
point in that four year period would be
about So, 600, 900 bushels. The condi-
tions are very favorable, therefore, for
an advance in price. This advance, due
to the buying of American grain for
Europe, began very slowly. AS the pur-
chases increased the price rose faster.
When American wheat was shipped to
Australia and India, both Of which are
accustomed to export wheat, the price
jumped suddenly. Vessel room for out
going wheat was we'll engaged early in
the season, and only when it became
evident that Europe had got to buy all
we could sell and had already engaged
the ships to carry it to her did the price
here rise rapidly.
The following are the lowest and
highest quotations on the New York
Produce Exchange for cash wheat, No.
q rod.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

the
ful After fitted with
suddenly active
highly the unmanagea
killed children finally
captured and smashed to pieces Its makers had neglected supply with
q
Fankenstein by well meaning
bmetalls A. Walker
bmetalts of their Fnkenstein Mr.
others 'ntenatonal
bmeal that they foohardy attempt of this
establish without aid other
The free silver monster however got their control 1t has already
closed mills
onehalf Of
Nov will sveries themselves
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
Their Favorite Word.

Bryan--Oertainly, ] said once, that
was not Democrat, but
Altgeld-Oh, yes. there is a gold
clause in those leases, but
Sewall--It is true insist on gold in
my contracts, but
Teller-Yes, / do own silver Minis
somewhere in Colorado. but
Sibley--Of course, ] own q silver
mine,too I'have neEanvden RbditS shut
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

The Bryan free coinage party wishes
to destroy our present money system. It
wishes TO replace il withua standard
money Of silver dollars where every
dollar would be worth only the silver 1t
enthusiastically. 80 cents. Do VOC
prefc- our present dollar worth 100
cents or q silver standard dollar worth
only 80 centsf
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

has in savings hanks would shrink to 80
cents under free coinage. Likewise with
the dollar which he gets for his labor or
which he receives from Uncle Sam as
pension. His insurance dollar would be-
have in the same way. The machine
may be all right for silver mine owners,
but should not be monkeyed with by
wage carriers
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
Work of the GoIdhnrs.

1t appears by the latest accounts from
the silverite headquarters that the gold
bugs have not only artificialrS raised
tho price of wheat, but have produced
the drought in India as well as the di-
minished harvest in Argentina Phil.
adelphia Record.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

If the government can create value
simply by stamping bit of metal, it
ought to have made us all independent
ly wealthy long ago by stamping the
entire visible supply of sheet iron into
dollars.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
Dollar Wheat.

dollar wheat before Christmas
the cry in Chicago now, and betws
speculation and legitimate demand
may turn out to have been prophet
But the ante hristmas present VIII
the country 'mosH wAnts,Sis the dol
that shall,alwdyafh sslstg dsasswhes
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
Do You Want 10 Cent Bread9

Circulars addressed ''To the Mistr,
Of the House" have been sent out
thousands by the Wage Farmers Pat
otto league. They are headed, sd
Your Market Basket Hold Too Much
and this is an extract:
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
The Rrynn Slot Machine.

This drawing shows the machine as
it exists in Bryan's mind. In practice it
would be found that the wage Garner
who has put in dollar would take out
only 80 cents. The dollars which he now
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

What do you think about itp Do your
lars buy too much now2 Do you want to
q certain doubling Of prices for the sake o.
chance Of a small incresae in wagesp Thin
over, and when you have made up your m
see that you use all your influence to m
votes for the party of honest money, and wa
that viii fill the market basket
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
III Bryan Is Elected.

re- Our children will be learning tai
like the following now used in Mexi
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

Value I'm.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30

Now compare these rising prices with
the steadily increasing exports for three
months and three weeks:
The record-union., 1896-05-17
PERSON AL MENTION.

The river had receded to % feet yes
terday.
B. Filming Of Forest Hill is in town
on short stay.
r. H. Cowles of Wadsworth, New, is
in the city on business.
E. Tad Schaw has returned from an
extended trip through Nevada
Five carloads of wine and two Of hops
went East from here yesterday.
Ex-Deputy Attorney General W. H.
Layson was in Sacramento yesterday.
Justice Davis of the Police Court is
suffering from a severe attack Of bron-
chitis and was seriously ill yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Hughes (nee FlinD of
Salem, Or, is here on q visit to her
mother, Mrs. T. B. Flint of Oak Lawn
Miss Mabel Johnson is visiting Miss
Lulu A. Nichols at the residence of her
aunt, Mrs. Washington Van Harmon,
at Glen Manor, Columbia, Pa.
J. D. Sivills, representing Lindley &
Co., has returned from Calaveras and
Tuolumne Counties, and reports the
mining districts as in very fiourishing
condition.
The record-union., 1896-05-17
EXCURSION TO FOLSOM.
The Electric Companies Will Show
San Franciscans the Great Power.

The Sacramento Electric Power and
Light Company and the General Elec-
trio Company of New York have plan
ned an excursion from San Francisco
to Folsom, to take place on next We'd
nesday, the Goth inst, that means much
for Sacramento and will bring our city
into notice with many who have here
tofore given us but little thought
The object of the excursion is that
the guests invited may have an oppor-
tunity to fully inspect the long distance
water power electric transmission plant
and many will doubtless embrace the
opportunity so kindly afforded them to
see the wonderful servant that has been
harnessed for the aggrandizement of
our fair city and to note the opportu-
nifty for substantial progress and pros
perWy it has afforded us.
The two companies named have been
benefactors, not only to us, but to the
State and the whole country, by cour-
ageouSly bending their energies and
risking their money to demonstrate the
perfect feasibility of the transmission
of electricity to long distances and the
opportunity of thus developing the re-
sources of different localities.
The train will leave San Francisco at
a. m. and will return to that city on
the same evening
The record-union., 1896-05-17
A School for Monkeys.

Their has just been founded at Cal
cutta an institution for the education of
monkeys. A young monkey is taken
and before him is placed a set of blocks
ON which are painted in capitals the let
ters of the alphabet. These blocks are,
in fact, exactly similar to those which
children play with in every civilized
country in the world, and they are used
in precisely the same way as if the
monkey were a young specimen of the
human race.
There is one professor for each
monkey, and the monkey is taught by
means of the blocks to spell certain
words. If the word is fruit" for ex-
ample, the monkey, after having been
taught to arrange the blocks so as to
spell the word quickly and without
error, receives a bit of fruit as his re-
ward. The same exercise is repeated
with other words, and it is hoped that
in time the Simians will learn how to
read and spell and understand English
if they cannot speak it
Only young animals are taken. There
is no danger of this queer school lack
ing for scholars, for there are thou
sands of monkeys to be found in that
part of India where Calcutta is situated.
An effort will also be made, it is said,
to educate these beasts so that they
may become fairly efficient domestic
servants. The school is so young as
yet, however, that what it will accom-
plish is entirely a matter of speculation.
its professors" are enthusiastic about
their novel work and seem to think
that a new field of usefulness will be
opened up for these chattering little
beasts-Paris Journal des Debats.
The record-union., 1896-05-17
Hints to Housekeepers.

Simmered together, rice flour and
water make a good cement.
Make your knife cases of flannel,
stitching 1t into compartments.
Add a little gum arabic to boiled
starch, which will give 1t a luster.
Ripe tomatoes Will remove ink and
other stains from the hands.
n pinch of salt added to the white of
eggs will make them beat up quicker
and lighter
If a small piece of bread is put upon
the point of the knife while peeling and
cutting onions, it will prevent the tears
| from flowing.
To make marking ink, take one dram
of nitrate of silver. one of gum arabic,
ore ounce of rain or distilled water,
and mix until dissolved.
y tiny piece of bicarbonate Of soda
mixed with tomatoes that are TO be
cooked with milk or cream will, If added
first, prevent the milk from curdiing.
Tincture of myrrn is one of the best
things to use as a mouth wash. 1t
hardens the gums, leaves a clean taste
in the mouth and pleasant odor ON
the breath.
Scratches ON vanished wood may
often be removed by laying coarse
cloth saturated with hnseed oil over
them, allowing it to remain a while:
polish with a dry flannel
Place an oyster she'll in the teakettle
and it Will collect the hard matter that
it liable to form on the inside of the
kettle. The shells should be washed
with brush before using. Remove
the shells every few weeks, and replace
with fresh ones if the water is very
hard.
a little salt rubbed on the cups will
remove tea stains. Salt put into white
wash will make it stick better. Use
salt and water to clean willow furni-
ture, applying it with brush, and rub
bing dry. Ginghams or cambrics rinsed
in salt water will hold their color and
lcok brighter
People who really enjoy their cup of
coffee say that sugar should always be
put in the cup first, then the coffee
poured over it. Too much boiling ruins
the taste of any quality of coffee. An
! excellent cup of coffee can be made with
cold water. As soon as it comes to a
boil take directly from the hottest pOr-
ton of the stove.
Linens that have been stained by tea
or coffee may be cleansed by moistening
the spots with water, and holding them
over the fumes of a small piece of burn
| ing sulphur or few sulphur matches.
| Wash Immediately with water in which
| a little ammonia or soda has been dis
! solved. Stains that nothing else will
| remove are often taken out by the vapor
arising from burning sulphur, but the
material must be washed thoroughly
| at once.
| To mend a broken plaster cast, paint
| the broken surface over two or three
times with very thick shellac varnish,
and after each application burn the
alcohol over the flame When the shell
lac is soft, press the parts together and
tie in place until cold. The article will
be as strong as it was before being
broken.
The record-union., 1896-05-17
SHALL WE HAVE BALL?
Manager Blake of the California
Baseball League Looking Around.

A. S. Blake, lessee and manager of
the new baseball grounds in San Fran
CISCO, and also manager of the Califor-
MA Baseball League, is in the CITY for
the purpose of finding out whether suffi-
Client lnducement can be offered for the
revival of the national game here
Where 1t fourished SO a few years ago.
He has arranged with the San Jose
people to give them good baseball, and
mas leased the grounds there for a term
OF years. There will be but four teams
In the league, and three of them are
already taken by San Francisco. Oak
land and San Jose. The inducements
offered to Mr.. Blake will determine
whether Sacramento or Stockton shall
capture the remaining place. as over
lures have been made from the latter
city.
Mr.. Blake expects, if Sacramento
JOINS the league, to have games here
bi-weekly, on Saturday and Sunday
afternoons, and in that case Sacrament
tans will have chance to see such ball
as they used to, as a first-class team
could no doubt be got together here.
The record-union., 1896-05-17

ion, he had started a newspaper and set
up as a statesman. He gives employ
ment to a great many people-carriage
makers, horse dealers, trainers, host
lers, Jockeys, sporting reporters and
writer's on society. These last are large
ly dependent on Mr.. Hobart as the
Providence who supplies them with
their daily bread. so prolific of social
items is he. So the press has reason to
offer its heartfelt and respectful con-
gratulations to Mr. Hobart on his mar
riage with a nice girl OF course, until
the honeymoon is over there will be
really nothing worth while to record in
the social life Of California.
It was supposed that Professor How
ison held a chair Of philosophy at the
State University, but it appears that he
has a cure of souls over there. Any
way, at a meeting of the Presbyterian
ministers in this city on Monday last he
responded vehemently to an article en-
titled rs Berkeley Orthodox" which
had been printed in the "Occident.
the Presbyterian organ. The Professor
then announced his belief in a personal
God, the responsibility of man and
tdlfly VI Tie SOul. SdlSCHiSCo ~
the Rev. DR.. Mackenzie, Professor
Howison devoutly admitted that he
recognized sin as "a factor in human
personality" and salvation to be fac
tor in the divine personality. Whether
or not Professor Howison was then
given absolution is not made known,
but the fears of the orthodox as to the
character of the philosophy taught at
the State University ought, assuredly,
to be laid at rest. Howison was once
a clergyman himself, so was President
Kellogg. and piety is quite fashionable
among the faculty Yet the churches
are never easy, for the facts of physl-
cal science and profane history are
taught, and the gravest apprehensions
constantly find expression in the pull
pit. But as the people of California and
not the churches support the university
the brethren will have to stand it. With
Professor Howison on duty they ough1
to be tolerably well satisfied.
ARTHUR McEWEN.
The record-union., 1896-05-17
house and possessions were destroyed

house and possessions were destroyed
by fire while at the meeting.
Alexis, the town in which the session
was held. may be Of passing interest to
the reader, as viewed by Californian
on the scene of operations. The writer
is now resident of Dayton. o. Alexis
lies in the green rolling country of Illi-
nois, 1S0 miles southwest of Chicago a
ride of seven hours on the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad. This
thriving, productive country is noted
for it supply of live stock to the mar
kets of Chicago and ST. Louis. Cereals,
corn and hedge are grown in quantity
and quality The fences are mostly
hedge. 1t is an oddity to a visitor
Manufacturing has some prominence
Milling is extensive and pottery is i'm
mense. The people are of the hospitable,
economical, practical turn of mind,
showing due prominence of eptitude for
agriculture, horse-culture and religion
Comfort, thrift, stability and happiness
distinguish them. They do not live on
BOOM" Eggs are Sc, oats are 14c per
bushel. corn pc per bushel, wages SIG
to S23 per month. Ministers ride on the
railroads for halffare. W. G. F.
The record-union., 1896-05-17
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES.
All the City Schools to Participate in
Them.
Members of the Grand Army Will
Deliver Patriotic Addresses to
the Pupils,

A joint meeting of members of the
Grand Army and City School Directors
was held last night to perfect arrange
ments for the celebrating of Memorial
Day by the pupils of the public schools.
| Director Win ]. Davis reported that
he had written to Judge Buckles of
Sclano requesting that he act as one
OF the orators for the occasion, but had
received no reply
| superintendent Erlewine reported
that he had visited the Pavilion and
found that the seating capacity in the
| lnciosure set up for the purpose of
| holding conventions would seat only
about 900 persons, while the pupils of
the public schools numbered 300 1t
would be impossible to assemble the
pupils there, to say nothing about their
parents and friends.
| lie suggested that the pupils of the
| city High School and the three Gram
| mar Schools assemble at the Pavilion.
| and that the members of the Grand
Army provide two speakers to enter
tam them, and that speaker be chosen
| from the ranks of the veterans to visit
each Of the eight primary schools in the
| city.
| Joseph w. Johnson and Miss Weeks.
Principals of two of the city Grammar
| Schools, indorsed Mr. Erlewine's sug-
gestion.
General 7. w. Sheehan thought that
| the members of the G.. A r. were will
| ing to leave all matters of arrange
ment to the school board.
Mr. Erlewine had ascertained that the
expense of placing the Pavilion in
| nr0nPr
would amount to about $50, and Mr..
Davis, for the school board, assumed
the responsibility for the payment OF
the amount
| TO facilitate matters General Sheehan
| moved that the pupils of the High
| school and the three Grammar Schools
assemble at the Pavilion at = O'Clock.
May 18th and that two speakers be Sc
lected for the occasion, and that the
| pupils Of each of the eight primary
schools assemble at 10 o'clock a. m. of
the same day at their respective school
houses, and a speaker be selected to
speak at each school, to be ACCOMPANIED
| by a squad of his comrades in uniform.
Ihe motion prevailed, and after com
| pairing notes the veterans appointed
speakers for the Pavilion and the sew
eral schools as follows:
At the Pavilion-L. T. Hatfield and
| Colonel West
| Union Primary, Seventh and G streets
Captain E. L. Hawk.
! JEFFERSON Primary, Sixteenth and N
| streets-M. d. Bronson.
Lincoln Primary, Fourth and @ streets
George w. Ficks
| Capital Primary, Tenth and O streets
Frank Miller.
washington Primary, Thirteenth and
q streets-Colonel H. j. Tobias
MarshaH Primary, Twenty seventh
and j streets-J. S. Jones.
fremont Primary, Twenty-fourth and
N streets-J. S. Estabrook.
orphan Asylum Primary, Nineteenth
and l. streets-J. H johnson
The record-union., 1896-05-17
FILED AN ANSWER.
DR.. Parkinson's Reply in the "Occi.
dental Medical Times" Suit.

DR.. James H. Parkinson has filed a
demurrer and answer IN the suit of DR..
G.. c. Simmons against him for an ac-
counting of the affairs of the "Occi-
dental Medical Times
The answer is a voluminous one, COW
ering thirteen typewriter pages, and
affirms that by agreement of the own
ers any profits that might ensue from the
publication of the journal should be ap-
piled for its enlargement and improve
ment. The journal, however. it ayers,
has not only not been profitable, but has
contracted debts, and the defendant
who is editor, has not only not been
paid for his services as such, but has
raid an assistant out Of his own pocket.
The answer also states that as Drs.
Huntington, w. A. Briggs, w. E. Briggs
are also interested in the paper, which
was started purely in the interest of
medical science and not for profit, they
should have been included in the suit
In accordance with the agreement the
paper has been from time to time en-
larged, as it's success has warranted,
and therefore there have been no profits
to divide.
The record-union., 1896-05-17
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
SYLT.ARTTS
IS F., No. 49S.-Department One
Filed Nav 13 1S960

w T., mo. f3o.-Department One
Filed May 13, 1866
Andrew ]. Clunie, petitioner; John D.
Slebe, Assessor, respondent. Applica-
tlon for writ of mandate to compel re-
spondent ia reassess property of the
Market-street Railway Company Writ
denied.
Sections 364S and 3649 of the Polit-
lcal Code do not apply to case like the
spondent to reassess property of the
corporation was assessed by the re-
spondent for the fiscal year, in the alb
sence of a qualifying clause, this must
be held to include all Of it's property.
The allegation that the amount at
which it was assessed was caused by
the willful Misrepresentation of its
value by the officers and agents of the
corporation is not equivalent to a
charge that the corporation or any of
its officers or agents made any mis-
representation of the property itself
The statute does not require or even
authorize the owner of property to
make any representation to the AS
SCISSOR of its value, and it is not to be
assumed that the Legislature intended
that the owner should be visited with
a penalty for Misrepresentation in
reference to matter upon which it
had not authorized or required him to
make any representation whatever.
There is no provision of the statute
requiring an owner to place any value
on his property. The Assessor is chosen
by the people for the express purpose
CT exercising that function.
The assessment of property for the
purposes of taxation is function of
the Executive Government. To deter
mine whether there has been any mis-
representation of the value of the
The record-union., 1896-05-17
BRIEF NOTES.

A man from the wild and woolly pre-
cincts Of San Francisco named Che
dossi was buncoed out of $50 yesterday
by the old lock game.
The Knights and Ladies Of Honor
will hold their convention here soon
and the State Grange will meet here in
September, SO that we are not yet
through with conventions.
1t was stated yesterday that on j
street, near Twelfth, a lot Of reckless
bicyclists ran over a woman who was
riding bicycle, and knocked her sense:
less. 1t was not learned who she was
or the names of the reckless riders.
The record-union., 1896-05-17
School Land Patents.

Governor Budd has signed the follow
ing land patents for school lands: Mer-
ced Gold Mining Company. Tuolumne
County, 635 acres; E. McGurch, San
Diego County, 800 acres; Francis A.
Howard, Amador County, 120 acres;
George A. De PREF, Santa Clara Coun-
ty, 32O acres; Charles E. Gaskell, San
Diego County, 80 acres; George D. Ed
wards, Santa Clara County, 240 acres;
Philip Bartle, Santa Clara County, 800
acres; Robert T. Morrow, Santa Clara
County, 123 acres; David Adler, San
Louis Obispo County, 100 acres; Jas
per Harrel, Tulare County, 80 acres;
Robert Ashurst, San Benito County, 10
acres.