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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-16

Market steady. Native muttons. 0.lJd3B Is;
sales chiefly at S.zsn55e; southern. $50
80; Westerns. S0S:5o: fed Mexican year
lings. s.. 4063.65: lambs.
BALTIMORE. March 1l-Flour dull and
unchanged. Receipts. 6,fS bris- Wheat duh:
spot and month. 1iz4n&c: May, e2Anez@c.
sTss 80 - o Gorn so stsasv. sS ~ae. month
and April. 3skfs45<c: MAY. 3fik024&c- Re-
ceipts. Ass bu: shipments. 1,n5 bu. South
ern white and yellow corn 5fzn1yc- oats
steady; No. 2 white Western. 26it1Hc. Re-
ceipts. 12.0o bu. Rye steady. No 2 Western.
t6Q47c. Receipts. 757 bp Hay quiet and un-
changed. Grain freights STEADY and IN
changed. Sugar strong; graduated. 41oc.
Butter. eggs and cheese nrm and I'M
changed.
EAST BUFFALO. March H--cattle-.Re.
ceipts very light. only about IS head. all
told. There was a light local demand and
about all the offerings were taken oy the
Hogs-ReceiDts. IS carloads. The market
was slow: Workers. fair TO choice. 30:
roughs. common TO good, S2f0US.1S; pigs.
common to fair. A15d4.2a.
Sheep and L~ambs-Receipts. 20 carloads
The market was fairly active: lambs.
choice TO prime. si75n4so; culls and COM
mons, $3-5014.1A
KANSAS CITY. March 1+-cattlNRe-
ceipts. ao: shipments, l,oo. Market steady.
Texas steers. 2.6ouS.50; Texas cows, "a
go; beef steers. SQ4-S; native COWS. slsS
Hoes~Receipfs. 5000: shipments, 500. Mar
ket firm; bulk of sales al S.75QS.S; heav-
les. @55@s.S; packers: S7sgs:S: mixess
Gs.S: pigs S.25@S7o'
Sheep-Receipfs. 500: shipments. go. Mar
ket steady. Lambs. $4q4.o; muttons. so
$40.
EAST LIBERTY, March l.-Catle-The
! market was steady and unchanged.
HogsAThe market was dull and lower.
| Medium grades, S430q435; best Workers.
A2d430: heavy hogs. A.l09420: roughs. $50
3.z5.
-Sheep-Demand light and unchanged
LOUISVILLE, March H.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts light. The market was unchanged
Hogs-Receipts liberal. The market was
unchanged.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts light The
market was unchanged
CINCINNATI, March 14-Cattle steady
at Sc. 50d4.1O. Receipts, 100: shipments, 100.
Hogs active at $3.65a4.l0. Receipts, 100:
shipments. 900.
Sheep steady at s2d3.75. Receipts. 800:
shipments none. Lambs steady at $3-75d4e0-
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AT NEW YORK.


GtuI1nE Prices In az the sea-
boards Commercial Metropolis.
NEW YORK, March H.-Flour-Receipts,
II, 700 blu; exports. 21.4OO bu. Market fairly
steady with Improvement in wheat. Minnie
sofa patents, s.. 45Q3 go; Minnesota bakers,
s.. 1908. 20; winter patents. S.5140o. Rye
flour dull; superfine, s2.6OQ2.75. Buckwheat
flour quiet at s1.S. B~uckwheat steady at
4Ol4lc. Corn meal active; yellow Western
coarse, 75c. Rye dull. -Bar.ey dull; mailing,
43@5Oc; feeding, 3S@Ec. Barley malt steady;
Western, 47@55c.
wheat-Receipts, 900 blu: exports, $500 blu.
Spots quiet; No. 1 hard quiet at 75sc. OPP
tons opened steadier on covering, declined
under weak cables, favorable weather West
and large Argentine shipments. but rallied
sharply Just at the close on renewed COW
ering, and closed Aq%c net higher. No. 2
red. March. n1sq71Rc, closed at 1Bc: May,
69% q c.osed at l0kc.
Spots nominal; No. 2, 3SQ3Shc. Options
generally firm all day on prospects of a
lighter movement and closed 11sc higher.
March closed at CSC; May. S5lkasossc. closed
at 35asc.
Oats-Receipts. lie, 200 blu; exports. 5000
bu. Spot market dull; No. 2, 25lsc. Options
quiet and steady. closed unchanged. March
closed at 25%c, May closed at Csc.
Hay steady. Hops weak; State, common
to choice, 1894 crop. 2kQf1xc: 1895 crop. 3dsc:
IdcllC COdSt, CioPs @Tx41S, 1910 cTOp,
34Sc.
Hides steady; Galveston, lie; Buenos
Ayres dry. Ice; Texas dry, &c: California,
14c. Leather steady; hemlock sole. Buenos
Ayres light to heavy, zoe; acid, 2lqz5c.
Beef steady; family, $1Oq12; beef hams,
$15. city extra India mess. so.
Cut meats firm; picked bellies, 4AM5Lc:
pickled hams, Sl2M9c. Lard firm: Western
steam closed at 5.6Oc: May, 5.75c, nominal.
Pork dull and easy; mess, $104l0.50; short
clear, $11.50q12.50.
Rice Arm domestic, fair to extra, 3la6ec:
Japan, 3AG41sc. Molasses firm; New Or
leans open kettle, good to choice, 29N37c.
Cotton-seed oil quiet, but about steady:
prime crude. 21c: butter grades, Csc; prime
summer yellow, 21c.
C~offeeSOptions opened steady at a edcline
of 5 points; ruled rather weak under local
pressure and no speculative support.
The steadiness of spot coffee checked sell
ing somewhat; closed easy. at a net decline
of 1O115 points. Sales, $500 bags; March,
BLOC; May, 12.60d12. 75c. Spot coffee-Rio
| steady; No. Z, 13a4c. Mild steady; Cordova.
16Z Sales none. Rio-Dull; No. z, &c.
$3.50; exchange, SGD. Receipts, 1000 bags:
cleared for the United States, $500 bags;
for Europe, LOCO bags; stock. 10S, 900 bags.
Warehouse deliveries from New York yes
| terday, 6,0S1 bags; New York stock to-day,
177. 137 bags; United States stock. 200, EOS
bags; afioat for the United States, 253.C0O
bags; total visible for the United States.
4G2, 305 bags, against A4.C59 bags last year.
Sugar-Raw firm: fair refining. 3Ac; CEN
trifugal, So test. 4sc. Refined sugar firm;
standard A, &c; cut loaf. sac; granu.at-
ed. SAC.
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Staple groceries rule steady and not since
Feb. q, until Saturday. had there been a
change in any article In this line, sugars
a week ago. Apples are % cents higher per
barrel and oranges % cents per box higher.
Poultry during the week advanced 1ec,
while eggs went on 2 cents per dozen on
large receipts. The hide market is tame
at unchanged prices. The seed market is
active. clover a shade higher and timothy
a shade lower. The hide market is weak
at unchanged prices. Cod weather checked
trade with dry goods houses. Two weeks
have passed since there was any. change
In prices In this market. Druggists are
busy and prices firm on most articles
The local grain market was more active
through the week than In the first week
of the month. still the number Of transac-
tions is by no means as numerous as one
would look for at the present time. Deal
ers and shippers keep close to the shore
day. Wheat is the only cereal which is
lower than a week ago. Track bids yester-
day ruled as follows:
wagon wheat, Csc.
Corn-No. 1 white, 2Sikc: No. 2 white. 2s1zc:
No. 9 white mixed, 2sl1c; No. 2 yellow, 2Sc;
No. 3 yellow. Csc; No; 2 mixed 2Sc; NO. 3
Oats-No. 2 white. 231zc; No. 8 mixed, 2Ac3
No: 2 mixed. 21c; No. 3 mixed. ac.
Hay-No. 1 timothy. 81. 50u13.50; No. :,
s1.50q12-50; No. l prairie, $9Ql0.
Poultry and other Produce.
prices paid by shippers.)
Poultry-Hens. 61zc: springs, ehc; cocks.
Sc; turkeys, hens. 10c: old hens, &c; toms, sc;
old toms, &c; ducks. Sc; geese, &c.
Butter5Choice country, Sd10c.
Eggs-Shippers paying Sc for fresh stock.
Honey-16q1Sc per Id.
B~eeswax-9c for yellow; 15c for dark.
ol-Me washed, 14c; fine merino,
unwashed, loo: tub-washed, 2042Sc; bury
and understandable, &c less.
Feathers-Prime geese, 2Oq32c per ID: mixed
duck, ac per 10.
HIDES. TALLOW, ETC
Green-salted Hides-No. 1, &c; No.. 2, SIC;
No. / calf. &c: No. 2 calf, 512c.
Green Hides-No. 1, &c; No. 2, Sc; No. i calf,
size; No. 2 calf, &c.
Grease-white-3lkc yellow. 2Ac; brown,
2Ac.
Iallow-No. 2. SIC; No. ., 2%c.
Bones-Dry. $12Ql3 per ton.
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WHEAT MARKET FIRM
WEAKNESS OF FRIDAY OVERCOME
AND AN ADVANCE SCORED.
Corn aud Oats Weak, the Latter Fall
ing On-Euying I'm Provisions
Sent Prices Upward.

CHICAGO. March H-Wheat. although
dull. was firm to-day and gained sc over the
closing price yesterday. Corn and oats. be-
sides being inactive, were rather weak and
especially the latter, which lost A6%c on the
day. Some buying of pork on a dull market
gave provisions a hoist and added 171zc to
pork, Csc to lard and Zoe to ribs.
Yesterdays respondent feeling in the
wheat pit abated over night and May opened
at from nc to &c above the previous days
close. The shorts, however, were not in
clined to cover on the first advance, and on
the exhaustion of early buying orders, the
market weakened. On the reaction May de-
clined to 625sc. The Liverpool market showed
only a very moderate amount of sympathy
with the bears here, inasmuch as yester-
days break Of 1&c per bu at Chicago brought
a quotation Of only I'D per Genital decline at
Liverpool. The Argentine shipments for the
week exhibited slight premonitory symptoms
of an impending collapse. The quantity ex-
ported was 100000 blu for the week. and. ac-
cording to recent advices from there, each
succeeding week for some time to come
should show a gradual decrease in the ex-
ports. The Minneapolis and Duluth receipts
were SAL cars. against 4O4 a week ago. and S27
carloads on the corresponding day of the
year before. The general expectation re-
garding Mondays visible supply statement
Is that it will show only 100000 bushels or
10000 bu decrease. The market became firm
again in the last session on the cessation of
selling. May rose again to 6Shc. and was
bringing that as the market closed.
Corn gave nc fresh sign Of returning ami
nation. The price of May kept within the
range of 295s@29zc and 297sc. The closing
price was 29%c. with sellers at that. Some
few selling orders for May were received
from New York.
For a Saturday the oats market more
than did justice to itself. A good business
was transacted and some heavy lines
changed hands. Demand was good and feel
ing firm. Prices at the close were a shade
higher than yesterdays final quotations.
May opened at from 20%c to 20AQ202sc, sold
at 20Ac and closed at 2044 Some no.
600 blu of No. 2 white, clipped, were sold
for export to-day.
became stronger as the session progressed.
The buying of pork by John Cudahy was
the chief feature. May pork. which closed
yesterday at 1856, opened at 1910 to-day,
and after selling sparingly at S9.67l5 the
Cudahy brokers bought enough to advance
the price to $685.. and it closed at 50. S21e.
Lard and ribs went up In sympathy with
pork, the former closing with a net gain for
the day Of Csc and the latter with a gain
Of .10c.
The estimated receipts for Monday are
Wheat, 40 cars; corn, 500 cars; oats, ga
cars; hogs, $4,000.
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TRADE IN
Quotations at st. LOuis. Baltimore,
Cicfnnati and other Places.

ST. LOUIS. March H.-Wheat dull; flu
lures advanced at the opening on "A sharp
demand. but relapsed later and there was
considerable selling: the market did not
stay down, advancing again and closing
AG%c higher than yesterday; spot lower;
No. 2 red, cash., 6S19c elevator. 7l@72I8c
track; No. 2 hard, 59Ac; May. 60k9604c:
July, 6cl2c. Corn dull. with no material
change in price until late In the day, when
the speculative market became stronger
spot lower. No. 2 mixed. cash. 25h626i4c;
May, 26%c: July. 273sQ2c. Oats-Futures
strong. but with few sellers; spot grades
ls7sd2Oc; July. 19Ac. Rye dull: No. 2. 3sc.
Barley steady. Corn meal. s1.S5dl- 40 Bran
Flaxseed quiet at 4zc. Timothy seed, $50
$50. Hay strong, with an upward tendency
for choice; low grades dull and depressed:
prairie, $40u-50; timothy. 6.5Q13 this side.
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Elsewhere.

CHICAGO, March A-Catt.e-Prices for
heavy beeves were in some instances 10c
lower, but the general market closed 10u2Oc
higher than a week ago. Good heavy
beeyes have met with an active export de-
mand, but will be Disseminated against as
soon as the weather becomes warmer. Tex
ans have been active, and. as not more than
5000 have arrived this week, prices have adj
vanced sharply. Good receipts are expected
here next week, as a result of the better
prices.
pected next week, and IL Is thought that
for good packing hogs. With receipts to-day
of about 1900 hogs. the supply was taken at
stronger prices, sales ranging at 2.80u4.12.
the bulk going for about 81. Prices were
about &c lower than a week ago.
Sheep-The few on sale to-day were easily
disposed of at firm prices. common 10 choice
sheep being salable at rs. Lambs sell
at SS.50d4.6213. principally at 81 and over.
ST. LOUIS, March 1l.-Cattle-Recelpts.
400; shipments, 100. With very light sup
ply the trading was correspondingly small.
but prices were strong. Export steers quot
able at A.3O44-65; shipping steers. S.65u4.3:
dressed beef and butcher steers. S.sCui-2 %;
steers under 1000 pounds. &2.Son3.60: stock
ers and feeders. x2.2543.70; COWS and heifers.
$26s.65; bills, mostly $202.65; Gamers. $50
mZG: calves, "a so; chiefly. SQs Texas
cattle. grass steers, $2.6oN3.20: fed. 2A6
$50; bulk Of sales at T.S@ssS; COWS and
Hoes-Receipts. 400: shipments. 100. Mar
ket steady TO strong. Heavy. 2.7504: mixed.
x.6O63. So: light. 50 &n4.6.
Sheep-Receiots, 3q2w shipments none.
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lures ranged as follows:

> Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
steady. No. 2 spring wheat, 619sQ621sc; No.
8 spring wheat. &c; No. 2 red, 65h@655sc;
No.. 2 corn. 2Shzc; No. 2 yellow. NAc; No. 2
I9Ikd20%c; No. 2 rye. 36c; No. 2 barley, ESQ
CSC; No. 9 nominal; No 4 nominal; No, 1
mess pork, $s.65d9.7O lard. 5.35G5. S71sc;
short-rib sides Qoose). 5.15a5 Zoe: dry-salted
shoulders Cboxed). 4%@4Ac;. short-clear sides
(boxed), 5ssG51kc: whisky, distillers' finished
goods, s1.22: sugars. cut loaf. 5.S7c: granu-
lated. 5.25c; standard A, 5.12c.
Receipts-Flour, 4,647 brls: wheat, $4,000
1904 bu; barley. 140,671 bu. Shipments
Flour, 3.02S bu; wheat, 9S,0S4 bu; corn, 1921
bu: oats, 2S2. 026 bu; rye, 1,40l bu; barley,
24.518 bu.
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The applications OF the following name
Indianians have been granted:

The appI1catlons OF tHe loIIU"IHB nfmee
Indianians have been granted:
Original-Winiam Richardson.
vile; Charles II. Korce, Plymouth; Calvin
r. Ogle, Indianapolis.
AdditionaIeJohn j. Tanner, Newton
Restoration and Additional-Orson Nelson
(deceased), South Bend
I-ncrease-George w. Gibson. Crothersville:
William Houston, Gosport; George w. WAL
lace, Folsomville; Armstrong Hull, Indian
apolis: John Fritz. Noblesville: Andrew Son.
day, New Corydon: John S~ambaugh. Hunt
ington; William Gugle. Royal Center: Rob
ert Thomas, Coal Creek; Frederick OFT, Lau-
rel: William l. Schwartz. Midtown.
Reissue-John w. Collins. Carmel. Henry
u. Rigon, Duniapsyille-
Origina. Widows. etc.-ADn NJ. Lucas.
bloomington: Ellen Williamson. Dlnyilie:
minor OF James Sherwood, Plymouth
Observation-Disclosures Hayden.
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LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
Disappointing Week In Trade, with
Stendy Nalues I'm Most Lines.

Trade during the second week OF March
could hardly be more disappointing. The
increased activity in trade the first week
OF the month Jed wholesale ami commission
men TO believe that the hard place was
over and that spring trade had set in finely.
But five days OF winter weather set BUSH
ness back. In prices the fluctuations were
few. The fact Is that prices on most ar
ticies are now so low that II there were
any change. as was the case In provisions,
IL would be In the nature OF an advance.
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REAL-EsTATE TRANSFERS.
seven Transfers, with a Total Con
alteration Of $5.6O5.

Instruments filed for record in the r
corder's office OF Marion county, Indian
for the twenty-four hours ending at 5 p n
March IA, 1896, as furnished by Thee. Stei
abstracter of titles. corner OF Market a.
Pennsylvania streets, Indianapolis. Sui
229. first office floor. The Lemcke. Tel
phone 1760:
Jesse n. Roberts to George Il. KEEP
fer and wife. lot IS. in Johnson's
second addition, Castleton...-....--
William II. Wuttsie ct al, execu-
tors. TO Mary NJ Haines. lot %. in .
keystone -
Harvey Wright 10 William Coleman,
lot "a. in Harlan. Jones & Arden's
Casper Hess 10 Louis V. Reinhart, lot
lis, In Yeiser. guardians. addition J.;
Nettie ID. Bergundthal TO Benjamin
NJ. Gregory. lots .. 53, II. %, "A.
Is and 102. In Harlan. Jones * Ar
den's addition
Ellen W. Crout TO George w. Wall
tiers, part OF lot q. in Hanna
heirs addition ..--..-...---....
John S. Fleming TO Charles w
Nickel, lot 60. in F1eming's fourth
North Park addition .-...........-
Transfers, q; consideration......... S.,
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A Mohnmmedan Prayer.
Boston Transcript.

BUSIUH IfduScIIpt.
No wonder there are horrors In Armenia
when IL is the daily duty OF the Mohamme-
dams TO offer up such prayers as this against
the infidels:
o Allah! make their children orphans.
and defle their abodes. Cause their feet
to slip: give them and their families. their
households and their women, their chill
dren and their relations by marriage. their
brothers and their friends. their posses
sions and their race, their wealth and their
lands as booty to the MCslems, y Lord
OF ali creaturcst"
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At Chicago-Clearings. SIS, 39e, 1O6. Money
rates firm at sal per cent. for call and COM
mercial paper. Bankers Qondon) sterling.
Sass and AS1. New York exchange. 4oc dis
count.
At notwithstanding. $685. 66: balances,
&7.S sos. New York exchange selling at $50
premium
At New DEMONSTRATING, s1,6l2, $50.
AT New York-Clearings, $50. SCI. 720; bal
ances, s.. 224.2 go.
AT Observation-Disclosures. s1s.I IL. 49s: balances.
81 ,300.0i3.
At Philadelphia-Clearings. S. 0i, 12s: bal
ances. 81 .375. 1854.
AT Misunderstanding. g. go. 223: balances.
S2S5. S7l.
At misunderstanding, s.. $50, $50: money.
G. per cent. New York exchange, sc
premium.
AT 81. Louis-Clearings. 1880, so: balances.
1858. 07. Money. 6HS per cent. New York ex-
change. &c premium bid. soc premium asked.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, March H-Weather condi-
tions were of a character to make the de-
mand for winter goods increase. AS usual
to the close of the week there was a lessened
demand in the jobbing departments,
though it is certain to be resumed with the
opening of the coming week. The outlook
gives evidence of Improvement; printing
cloths dull. with sales for the week at $1,000
pieces Ga square at 2llzc, and $1,000 pieces
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Metals.

NEw YORK, March 14.-Pig iron weak;
Southern, sl1.25Q13.z5; Northern. s11. 5O91s. 50.
Copper steady; brokers. 10Ac. Lead steady;
brokers, &c. Tin plates weak.
ST. LOUIS, March 14.-Lead quiet and
steady at 2.S21zc asked and 2.S0c bid, though
for chemical hard, 2.85c bid.
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Eugene Arnouil and Nay Moore.
William Bowen and Stella Naud.in
xenophere Ratclinf and Martha Sims.
Henry c. McQuiniin and Ange r. Wood
ard.
Isaac Eldridge and Made. Wright.
Bert Il. Foust and Georgia May King
John Thomas Pugh and Bertha May
Trease.
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LIVE STOCK.
Cattle Quiet at Steady Priccs-Littlc
Doing I'm Hogs for Want Of tSock.

INDIANAPOLIS.t March 14.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts light; shipments light. There were but
few on sale, and the market was quiet at
steady prices.
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OUTSIDERS ARE SHY
PROFESSIONALS HAVE MANIPULA-
TED STOCKS FOR A WEEK.
New York Bank Statement Indicates
q Firmer Money Market-LocaI
Business Unsatisfactory.

AT New York yesterday money on call
was easy at sz per cent; fast loan, 81:
closed at 3h.
Prime mercantile paper. 5Qs per cent.
Sterling exchange steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at A.s7z94.sS for
demand and s4ss4q4.s7 for sixty days;
posted rates. s4.s7ls@4ss and sl.SS.Q4.Se;
commercial bills. 4.s.
Bar silver, ss7sc. Mexican dollars. 5tsc.
AT London bar silver closed at 81 9-16d per
ounce.
The exports OF specie from the port OF
New York for the week amounted to sl2,5O0
in gold and s1.0l5. 244 in silver. The imports
were: Gold. s42. ss5; silver. SOS. 7os; dry goods,
E,S7, $50; general merchandise. $6,55S,271.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-02

Eastern, 80, 160 tons. Tonnage: Penn
sylyania, 10000 tons; Great Eastern,
22500 tons.
What the Pennsylvania cost isn't GER
tain; but the Great Eastern cost, when
launched in 1858, S3,650,O00. The Penn
sylyania will have quadruple expansion
engines, propeller shaft go feet long
5000 indicated horse power, giving an
average speed of II knots an hour. The
Great Eastern had paddle wheels and
n screw propeller with separate engine
and boilers for each, and on her maiden
trip in June. 1860, made 141a knots an
hour, though her average was 11.23
knots. The Pennsylvania can carry
200 first-class, $50 second-class and
1000 steerage passengers. The Ham
burg-American line is building at Ham
burg a sister ship to the Pennsylvania.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-12-02
WIND IN THE MOON.


We had slept with our horses grazing all
through clustering day;
Boots and saddles had sounded, we walt
ed for horse and away;
The sun was down and over the grass dew
had begun TO fall,
And shril across the dusking world we
heard the whip-poor-will call.
We knew what the moon was doing, the
= leering moon in the east,
Calling, calling the master winds, turing
them as TO a feast,
Poisoning them in her halo ring till the
widest gust grew tame,
And the stars were blown all out OF the
sky. like pickering candle flame,
An eldritch moon, all gibbons, gray, IN
haze of heat and dew,
Although it was June we shivered there
as loud the bugle blew;
Foot home in stirrup hand on hilt, we
Numbered down the glade
And up the hill, where the brave blue
coats stood massed to check our
raid.
We rode but a scant five hundred; they
waited a thousand there,
Yet we laughed as though twas the view
0ullOD Ut lHc II ulhpNN =
blare;
Trot! Gallop! Charge! Twas a ringing
run, with the dogs of death In cry
Under the leering gibbous moon, aslaht
in the windy sky.
Never a check when the gun fire broke
as lightning from u cloud;
Never stay when screaming shell
through front and rear rank plowed.
On, up, over the bristling slope, wedge
of fire and steel,
We cleft way through the tough blue
ranks till we saw the captain reel
Then we broke and the leering gibbous
moon unleashed the winds of heaven.
In writing riot they leaped to earth, the
peace of night was riven
Riven, smtten of lightning's sword and
the thunder's hammer clang,
As the riotous winds a Marseilaise of
wreck and ruin sang.
With crash of forest and sweep of grass
the storm chant rose and fell.
The earth was thrashed with a fail of
cloud. afame like the mouth of hell,
And we, who had fought so wild fight,
bare breast against bare blade,
Fell, gray or blue, into kneeling ranks,
locked hands and as wildly prayed,
We had fought like men for honor, we
prayed like men for life.
Nor friend nor foe, but brothers all, there
on the field of strife;
Perhaps God heard, the storm was hush
ed, the moon rode high and white,
And a ruf1ing wind blew from the south,
soft as it blows tonight.
New York Sun.