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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1897-07-30
XVIII

LA travers6e qui await common
c6 avec un vent de plus en- plus IA
vorable, ne devsit continuer dams
les meme conditions, au grand de.
superintendent du general.
Lafayette await hate d'arriver en-
Am6rique. Dams toutes les Iettres
que lui await 6o1ites Washington,
le g6n6ral1ssime american lie pres.
salt de revenir. Cette persistence
de l'illustre homme de guerre de
r6olamer la collaboration du mar
quls 6tait des plus fatteuses pour
ramour propre du ieune ct bouil-
liant general. II lui tardait dan
noncer &c yive voix q Washington,
combien la chose quill defendant
await trouv6 de sympathies en-
France.
Aussi vit-il avec une mauvaise
humeur croissante le calme plat sc
prolonger, au point que les bait
ments 6taient CONNIE eDglu6s
dams la mer.
Chaque jour il abordait M. lie
Virelay par oette question invaria-'
Element la meme:
-Qu'aurez-vous pour aujour-
d'hui, commandant.
ct M. de Vjrelay r6pondait tou-
jours sur le meme ton qa'il await
adopt6 depuis lie commencement
des Gaines:
-J'augure que 10 m'ennuie ct quill
ne faudrait pas qu'une esoadre an
gla1se nous arrival en- &c moment,
q port6e de canon.
Puts il s]outa1t en- haussant les
6paules:
MATS il ma pas de danger que
.j'aie sembIable chance! II ny q,
parbleu, pas plus de vent pour
eux que pour moi; ct CO nest pas
quand les volles pendent le long
des mats CONNIE des serviettes que
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1897-07-30

Les fausses tendresses de la
mere 6veillent chez l'enfant les
caprices avant la volont6 ct les fai-
blesses du pere accoutume son
anne a comyter plus sur la fables
SO de lhomme que sur So force.
II ne peut y avoir d'amiti6 sans
ve1tus.
Les babillards sont les larrons
du temps.
Un bienfa1t recu est la plus sa-
cree de toutes les dettes.
Cost dams la tempete que le pi-
lote fait preuve de son habilet6.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1897-07-30

tiers, qul, pronEant de GO que IL
vent 6tait tomb6, etaient mont6s d
bord du lougre, M. de Virelay dit
tout a coup q Roger:
Figure z-vous, chevalier, que
]'ai I'm pressentiment qul s'achar
ne en- moi.
I'm bon pressentiment, sans
doutep fit M. de Vaudrey quelque
peu impressloAn6.
Excellent, q mon point de
vue!
-Faitss. nous en- part, COM
mandant, 81 tou1efois il ny a pas
d'ind,scr4tion a vous lie demander.
Pas la moindre, ohevalier,
d'autant quill s'sgit de vous.
DE moi? All! vrsiment, vous
allez EXETER ma curio5it6. CON-
mandant!
-Voyons lie pressentiment en-
question! fit le gen6rel de Lafa-
yette, intervenant.
Eth bien, messieurs, common
Ga M. de Virelay, j'al lie pressenti'
ment que le chevaller de Vaudrey
fera ses premieres armes q bord
de ce lougre.
-Ca nest pas vraisemb]ablel
rioana Lafayette.
-Vraisemblable on non, on ne
me sortira pas de la tete que M
de Vaudrey debutera du meme
coup, dams la car:i4re militaire ct
dams la carriere maritime.
-Qaoi gull arrive, comman.
dant, vous me verrez toujours pref
q aocomplir mon devoir.
Et il 6tait pref, On efet. Sa de.
termination ets1t prise depdis lie
jour OF, s'6tant pr6sent6 devant lie
general Lafayette pour obtenir IN
grade dams I'm petit corps exp6di-
tionnalre, c5lui-oi s'6tsit contente
de lui dire:
-Vous Save z, chevalier, q quels
dangers vous aller vous exposer
-Je sails, general, que je serais
heureux de combattre sous yos
ordres!
Lair r6solu de Roger avait ia.
vorablement impressionn6 le jeu.
ne general, 81 6nerglque lui-meme'
-Pour la osmpagne que nous
menons la-bas, ohevalier, reprit-i],
IL nous faut des hommes decides
supporter de rudes fatjgues q exc
outer Oh ron doit s'attendre q rem
cont1er, q l'lmproviste, l'enneml,
soft qa'i! SO pr6sente en- arm6e re-
guliere CONNIE les Anglais, soft
que CONNIE lndiens, IL apparaisse
subitement CONNIE une voice dol.
seaux de proie qui Sc leveraient
du milieu des grandes herbes on
s'6lanoeraient du fond de torets
vierges.
Boyer n'avait pas paru le moins
du monde 6branl6 par lie tableau
s%aisissant que lui faisait le gene
raj. Celui-ci continue:
-C'est une v6ritable guerre
Discrimination que nous avons
enterprise Ia, ct qui devra s'ache.
yer par lie tr1omphe d66nitif de la
cause 81 juste pour Iaquelle les
Americans luttent depuis des an
Noes avec une perseverance ct une
volont6 in6branlables,
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1897-07-30
XIX

Al bout de quelques instants
les voiles s'agit6rent, rampant
contre les mats aveo force; puts
les cordages orierent sous la ten
sion des voiles qul COMMENCEMENT
3 prendre lie vent....
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
w THE WORLD.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.--War, famine
and misfortune have combined in Eu-
rope to give the American farmer such
a market for his wheat as he has not
enjoyed for so long that he has for
gotten when it was. Dollar wheat is
not only an established fact, but there
is every prospect of the cereal reaching
the SIPS figure The mortgages which
have been sapping the Western and
Eastern farmers of their life blood are
doomed. The crop of the United States
is estimated at, in round numbers, $780,,
100000 bushels. This means 100000
600 for the farmers.
The easiest answer to the question,
Where is this wheat going?" is found
in the word, everywhere" Ships are
now on the ocean bound to almost
every port in the civilized world where
ships land and take on cargoes. Wheat
is wanted all over the world, for the
very simple reason that the demand
for bread exists in the same proper
ton. The crop in India, which has
really been the factor that has hereto
fore operated in the direction of low
prices for American wheat, is cipher
this year. The yield will be compare
lively nothing, for just now and for
some time past India has been the hot
bed of rebellion, and in the face of
what will probably be one of the great
est conflicts the world has ever known
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
The Nations rs. Of tbs Earth Is |.
Must This Year Look to
America for Bread.

United States and South Africa every
year. This fall there will be more.
The grain elevators in New York are
totally unable to hold the vast
amounts of wheat which are wanted
for transship:nent abroad. Even those
unwieldy affairs known as floating
elevators, which float about the har-
Dor and the East and North rivers,
have all been called into an unusual
field of usefulness. They are filled ana
refilled. The only times when they are
empty are when they are returning
from some vessel whose hold has peen
filled with their contents. NO one IN
New York ever remembers anything
like it. The ships are insufficient In
point of numbers to carry out OF the
harbor all the cargoes of grain that
are wanted elsewhere. This is the
harvest time of the tramp steamer or
sailing vessel. 1t is no longer doubtful
as to whether or no cargo can De Sc
cured, but the question is which ship
pers will pay the highest price.
To mention the individual places
where American wheat is going TINS
year would be to recapitulate the map
of the world The wheat crop of the
world is short and therefore the United
States must make up that shortage as
best it can, and incidentally proht I'M
mensely. 1t is declared by financlers
that in the movement of the wheat
crop New York city banks alone Will
be called upon to furnish $l50, O00,OOO
This is comparatively but drop in the
bucket Great fortunes have been
made by the spectators, of course, but
the farmer gets the best Of it in the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
LIVED AMID LEAVES.
California Couple Who Passed Their
HONEYMOON in q Tree.

On the property of George I. Marsh, on
Corte MADEIRA avenue, in Mill valley, Cali
fornia, which is laid out on the plan or a
japanese village, there is house built high
up in one of the tall redwood trees, and the
only means of effecting an entrance is by
climbing up rope ladder The house is
built around the trunk of the tree, winch
passes directly through the center of the
strange abode. The roof is formed on the
branches of the redwood tree bent downward,
and the interior of the structure is nicely
furnished. There is kitchen, pantry and
large living room, and a Veranda, wnere,
far above the earth, one can sit and ENJOY
natures beauties without interruption.
Here in this strange and peculiar construc-
ton Mr.. and Mrs. o. n. jennings Oh o San
I Francisco, spent their honeymoon. They
would climb up the rope ladder distance or
twenty feet and reach their abode; then
they would draw the ladder up and cut OH
communication. When the ladder is up 1t is
impossible to reach the entrance, and one
must stand below and shout until he is
hoarse for the steps to be let down. FROM
the veranda the scene spread before one is
typical of Japan. The Japanese gardens OF
Mr.. Marsn's residence spread to right and
left with their strange little streamlets and
houses fashioned by the skilltul hands or
oriental workmen.
The Young couple occupied their romantic
dwelling until the day after the Fourth. On
that day a garden party for the beneht Oh
the firemen killed in the recent conhagratlon
that destroyed the Standard cracker factory
grounds, and the young couple, rather than
be discovered by the visiting hundreds that
gathered vacated the house IN the Tree anu
left for San Francisco.
Mr.. Jennings is young writer whose
writings have graced the pages of various
Eastern publications. Early in life he sought
new fields to conquer, and, with longing
eyes toward the West left his Eastern home
and crossed the plains to the metropolis on
the Pacific coast. Here among his wander
ings he came across a pretty face that he
vowed he loved and would some day call his
own. Difficulties confronted MIN. mat ms
love was reciprocated there was no doubt
After all the arrangements were completed
they quietly slipped away and were ere, welded 1iecl
Then followed the honeymoon in Mill valley,
about which the people of that section are
daily discussing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings declared they were
charmed with their life up in the redwood
tree. and added that the pleasure which
might have been felt if they had taken an
expensive sightseeing trip could not De com
nared to the happiness they enjoyed in their
short existence in the canyon.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
MARKET SUMMARY.

CHICAGO, Sept. u.-Everything traded in
on the board of trade today was weak, with
the exception Of oats, and heavy declines re-
suited. Statistical news in wheat favored
the bears for once, and they took advantage
of that fact with a vengeance, pounding the
price down to a point 17sc below yesterdays
close. Corn declined nc for the same rea-
son. Oats declined 1Ac. Provisions suffered
from another large dose of yellow fever
scare; pork declined zoe, lard soc and ribs
121ac. No matter what the complexion of a
government crop report may be, the wheat
market is almost invariably weak after its
announcement. Today's market was no ex-
ception. Wheat started at a decline of 40
&c, and, with the exception of two three
short spasms of strength the market was
decidedly off color all day. The government
estimate, 464, OO0, 900, was rather small in
itself, but the trade generally believed in
a yield O,0oO, 900 blu larger than that. The
weeks clearances from both coasts were
equal, in wheat and -four, to 5,461,506 bu,
against 6,26S, 900 the corresponding week of
1896 Chicago received today 265 cars against
ia year ago. Only 20 cars of today's re-
ceipts were contract, compared with 70 car
loads of the regular grade in the days re-
ceipts a year ago. Minneapolis and Duluth
got 759 cars, against $50 Saturday last, and
1,166 cars year ago. The total clearances
of wheat and flour from Atlantic ports for
the day amounted to the liberal total of
500, 900 blu, but that did not further interfere
with the weakness with which the market
had meantime become badly afflicted. De-
cember opend at from size down to 97Ac,
and, after fuctuating for a short time around
the lower edge of the opening range it
gradually increased in heaviness until about
half an hour from the end of the session,
when it had got down to 96c. The weakest
phase of the market was in the last ten
minutes of the session, by which time the
general crowd had gained the courage of
their convictions, and no longer feared to
sell the wheat they considered much too
high. They battered the price of December
down to 9512c, even to $3.50 for some of it,
but, not wishing to go home short, some
buying of that sort caused a recovery to
$3.50 at the close.
Corn was radically weak. Receipts were
| 1,l29 cars. Weekly clearances were heavy
| 1862, 000 but bulls had in mind large yisi-
| Bile increase Monday, and refused to be com
| forted. Liverpool was 5s@1d lower Deem
] Der opened as@5sc lower, at 3212G32Ac and
1 declined to 3f7Sc, where it closed TAX
| ing into consideration the weakness in corn
| December ranged from 21Ac to 2O7sc, closing
at 2lc asked. The yellow fever scare struck
| the provision market with renewed violence
| Huge quantities of lard especially were
! dumped on the market At the close July
pork was zoe lower at $S.27h, July lard zoe
at $4.TR. Estimated receipts for Monday:
Wheat $50 cars; corn, 1,500 cars; oats 44O
cars; hogs, $4,000 head.
! The leading futures ranged as follows.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
ST. PAUL GRAIN.

Quotations of hay, grain, feed, etc, fur
n:shed by Griggs Bros. commission mer-
chants:
Wheat-The market was dull Saturday. and
prices lower. No. northern, s71kQ99c; No:
northern, 94@97c The above prices are for
new wheat: old wheat commands premium
of from sole per blu for corresponding grades.
Corn-No. 8 yellow, 29@29Rc; No. 3, 27@
2S14c.
oats-No. white. 21@21Ac; No, 8. 1870
201ac. Is
Barley-25@2se.
seed-Timothy, $4,000. 40; red clover. $3.50
@4.20; flax, $1.e2@103.
Flour-Patent, per Dbl, ~$5. 2o@5. 49, straight,
s4 = bakers} s41O@4'4O; rye -four $4,000
Ground Feed and Milstuffs-No. feed,
$11.5o@12; coarse eofnmeal $11@11.25; bran,
bulk, $685. shorts, $9,5O@10.
Hay-Market holding steady, with good de-
mand for best qualities; other grades dull.
Choice to fancy upland. $696,5o; fair to good good
AS; timothy good to cho.ce s750@S. Straw
lower. Dat. $3.25@3.50. Rye, $4,000.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
SHIPPING A CHERRY ORCHARD.
Picturesque Scene Witnessed at One
of the Largest in California.

Probably there is no better known and GER
tainly there are few larger ranches in the
state of California than that owned by the
Meek estate, says the San FRANCISCO wave:
II is situated a little way outside the city OF
Oakland and it covers a huge tract OF land
between San Lorenzo and Haywards. 1t is
spread over 1900 acres of some OF the hnest
fruit bearing country On the PACING coast.
A thousand acres is in fruit, for the most
part cherries. The ranch is owned and con-
trolled by the Meek brothers and their Sis
tiers. how skilltuiy may be known from the
fact that in spite of hard times and de-
pressed market there has never been year
when it has not paid literally. full crop
of cherries from this wonderful orchard will
bring its owners anywhere from $4,000 to $780,
600. Just now the seasons cherry picking is
going on at a great rate, and little army
of pickers are toiling from tree to tree, strip
ping the branches like swarm OF locusts
The sight is picturesque, for the pickers
come by families and live in the cherry or
chard in a small village of tents. At the
height Of the season nearly 15O pickers are
EMPLOYED They are of all ages and both
sexes, as the work is of such a nature that
1t can be performed as well by women as by
men, as well by a ten-year-old girl as by a
grown man. The pickers are, of course,
boarded at the expense of the ranch, and
besides are paid from rs cents to 81 per day,
so that wife and two or three children can
make as much money during the few weeks
Of the picking season as the head of the house
can earn during the entire year.
After the picking the cherries are taken over
to the packing house and handled at once.
The ripper cherries are sorted out and put upon
local markets, while the more backward are
shipped East The force Of packers can dis
pose of APO boxes per day. Two thousand
boxes go to the car load and must be hurried
to their destination as speedily as possioie
for there is no fruit that loses its hayor
quicker by overkeeping than the cherry. For
the same reason the boxes must be rapidly
marketed. for they will not keep many hours
in the heat of an Eastern summer There
are plenty of difficulties in the way OF get
ting the California cherry upon the dining
tables of the Eastern consumer but with ordi-
nary care and a fair season the prices OBJ
tainable are not bad. In Chicago ten-pound
bring 81 if properly handled, while in New
York. though the Eastern local market comes
into competition the same quality will some
times sell for IL cents pound.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
ROOST OF BLACkBIRDS.
The Indiana Congress Opens at
Anderson


ANDERSON, Ind, Sept. 11.-Indiana
blackbirds are holding their annual re-
union in the groves just east of Butler
university at Irvington. Here, year
after year. is exhibited one of the most
peculiar traits of birds About the
middle of September, for the last ten
years, blackbirds have swarmed there
by the thousands, centralizing in the
groves about a mile east of the uni
VerSity buildings. The number in
creases from thousands to tens of
thousands and to hundreds of thou
sands, until the trees on which they
alight are black. Their weight often
breaks giant limbs.
This annual reunion has become
quite study Of the university.
The precision with which the birds re-
turn about the same time every year
and settle in the same trees is wonder
full. They have changed their roosts
but little during the last ten years and
they seem to possess instincts which
are fine as to time and place. They
are divided into families and each
family has a leadership of it's own.
During the day they fly in all direc-
tons in family groups, but return to
the trees in the evening. They hold
forth three or four days in high car
nival and at last begin to leave with
military precision, most of them going
South. Hardly a blackbird is seen in
the vicinity of Irvington for year, but
when the middle of September arrives
there is another grand congregation
and reunion. Their cries may be heard
a great distance when they all get set
tied down This year an attempt was
made to dislodge them. Shotguns were
used and hundreds of birds were killed,
but they held their ground. Roman
candles and fireworks were also
brought into play, but they had little
effect upon the fears of the birds. This
is the only known roost in Indiana and
it is probably the most remarkable one
in the country
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
INFLATED WITH BEER.
Frank Barry Has to he Tied to Pre-
vent Floating Off,

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 11-Frank Barry
drank thirty-two bottles of Weiss beer
while playing cards for the drinks last
night. He drank all there was in stock
and called for more.
The more he drank the bigger he
grew and lighter he became.
BY 8 o'clock this morning he could
not walk without bouncing about like
rubber ball. His feet would not stay
on the floor and he became a human
balloon. About daylight he was so big
and airy that he had to be strapped
down to the floor of the saloon.
AT the dispensary Dr. Kearney was
afraid to take the inflated man from
the ambulance, as the risk Of losing
him in the upper atmosphere was too
great. So he climbed into the ambu-
lance, felt his pulse. asked some ques-
lions and told the driver to take him to
the city hospital
The gas was pumped out anu carry
now remains on earth, just like his fei-
low mortals.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-13
NEW YORK STOCKS.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE general tone
of the market for stocks strong today,
and there was no heavy pressure OF realz-
ing sales. But there was more or less weak
ness at different points scattered through the
list. The Northern Pacific issues were heavy
on the continued bad showing of earnings
the fourth week in August showing de-
crease. This showing is in marked contrast
to the average increases which are shown
by other railroads, almost without exception
Some of the roads in the Southern group
were unfavorably affected by fear that the
yellow fever quarantine would interfere with
their traffic, and also by the government
bureaus report of the unfavorable condi-
ton of the cotton crop. The effect was
noticeable in Southern preferred and Mobile
C Ohio. Missouri Pacific was under more
or less pressure Of profit taking. The coal
ers were also weak, the Reading issues beng
under pressure to marked degree. the
hulk of today's trading was centered in the
grangers and X. & t, and these were
Western and Northwest, which closed at
fractional decline after having risen a point
net. K. G. T. preferred closed at a net ad-
vance of 11h. All of these stocks closed frac-
tionaliy below the best but at net advances.
The results in the list generally were some
what mixed. Outside gas stocks especially
Bay State Gas, were weak, and local gas
stocks were strong. Brooklyn Union Gas
gained points. Consolidated Gas advanced
at one time 2 points, but closed at frac-
tional decline Manhattan ranged freely over
points and lost fraction net. Toledo q
Ohio Central rose over points, and Pull
man points. A feature of the day was the
sharp recovery of silver of I'D to 25lad d, in
London and lie to 55c in New York This
was due to the decision of the Bank OF Eng
land authorities to hold one-fifth of the
banks reserve in silver. Today's price is
two pence above the lowest in London and
31ac above the lowest in New York.
The total sales of stocks today were 23S,
705 shares, including: AtehisGn preferred,
7 600: Burlington II, GAO; Louisville Il Nash4
vile, 6400; Manhattan, $500; Missouri Pa
cifc 9,235; Missouri Kansas & Texas pre-
ferred, II, 500; Northern Pacific preferred,
$3.50; Northwestern, 300; Reading, 1875;
Rock Island 1880; St. Paul, 1880; st. Paul
& Omaha, 1850; Southern Railway preferred,
$780, Union Pacific 11,520; Wabash preferred,
3,45O; Bay State Gas, 800; Lead, 5000; Sugar
preferred, 3345; Western Union, $3.50; Chi
cago Great Western, 4,600
The following were the fluctuations of the
leading railway and industrial shares fur
nished by C. H. F. Smith & Co.. members
New York stock exchange and Chicago board
of trade: