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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-14
GET THEIR MAIL EARLIER NOW.
The New Distribution fervice Goes
Into EGcct-How 1t Works.

The new service Of distribution of the
early morning mail went into effect yes
terday The men did their work splen-
didly and there were very few mistakes
As a result Of the new arrangements,
the mail for the sub-stations was de-
livered two hours earlier than usual; the
bank mail was boxed at o'clock, instead
of g:45; all the box mail was up at s:40
saving twenty minutes, and the carriers
left the office half an hour carrier IMAM
usual.
The advantage Of the new system, It
will be seen, is all in favor Of the banks
business concerns and box-holders. 1t
will make very little difference to the
street delivery. Messrs. Glenn and Nalen-
tine. the two postal clerks, returned 10
Washington on the 7:10 o'clock train last
night.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-14

Richmond Va, october Is. 1881
Quotations: Wheat--Longberry, S0Q34c. !;
mixed, S9a94c.; shortberry, sSQ9ic.; No 2
red. SIC. Corn-White Virginia, bag lots,
35aS6c.; No. 2 white. S5qS5 he; No.
mixed, 34G34 lie. Oats-No 2 mixed, 24g
q l-2c No. 3 mixed. q 1-2a3 BIC; win
ter seed. soQSic. Rye-No. 2, 53q53 lie.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-14
NEW YORK pROpUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK, october 13.-Fiour Re-
celpts. 12.1S barrels; exports. ..Sl3 bar
rels: safes. II. go packages; market more
active, closing steadier, with wheat.
Rye Flour-Quiet.
Buckwheat Flour-Quiet at N.a5fH.S.
Buckwheat-Dull at 4o4ilc., track.
cornmeal-Quiet.
Rye--Steady: No. 2 10.
Bariey-Dull: feeding. B4c.
Barley Mait-Dull.
Whsst-Rsceipts, Ss.7.6 bushels; exports.
ts6,066 bushels: sales. $4,000 bushels ~
lures. 10000 bushels spot. Spot firm; No.
Q red, e6 5-Sc. anoat; No. 2 northern, New
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-14
The Cullen Residence so,d.

The residence No. AZ east Grace street,
so long occupied by the late DIR. Cullen.
was sold by public auction yesterday az
ternoon. The price brought was $500.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-14
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.

Quotations ara fos bonds maturing In not
less than ten years.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-14
Opening. Highest. Lowest.


LARD-Per 100 lbs
Dec. s425 si.2o 1925
January...... ABS 440 ABS 440
SHORT RIBs-Per 100 lbs.
October -. 52Js s4.6.16 s4.5eIa sl.62t.
December. 4.42A An 4.40 4.47H
January. 4421s 4.52E i.42ta 452r
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
barely steady. No. yellow corn, Is $50
2sc. No. 2 spring wheat, So 3-Sc. No.
spring wheat, S9lt96c.; No. 2 red, 81 3-Sft
50 S-sc No. 2 corn, rs 1-4d26 3-Sc. No.
oats. IS 3-4liS Use; No. 2 white, (. o. b.,
q 3-4c No. rye, Acc. No. 2 barley, nomi-
nal: No. 8, (. o. b., 29Q4Oc.; No: 4. I. o. b..
2ia37c. No. l fiaxseed, slasl.O3. Prime
timothy seed, $500 Mess pork, per barrel
N&QsZlO Lard. per 100 pounds, A.z.
saned shoulders boxed, si75as5; short
clear sides (boxed). sf.H 1895. Whiskey
dstillers' finished goods, per gallon, VIZ
Sugar, cut-loaf, unchanged. Butter STEADY;
creamery, 15G2l lie. dairy. l2al9c. Cheese
quiet at SQs 1-2c. Eggs Arm; fresh. Ia l-zc
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO. October 13.-The demand for
cattle to-day showed no Improvement,
and trade was again slow, prices ruling
weak 10 l0c. lower Native beer steers
were salable at $3.754A.50 for poor 70
fairly good dressed beef cattle, up 10
A75QS.l0 for good TO prime shipping ana
I
bringing $i50li$5.l0. Strictly choice corn
fed cattle were not offered very freely,
and fat steers 10 light and medium were
sold 10 the best advantage. Stockers and
feeders were in fair demand, prices rang
ing from 50 TO $500. Butchers and can
ners' stun showed no marked improve
ment Calves were dull. Helfers and bulls,
western rangers. sold rather freely, feed
ers bringing s65USl5.
Prices for hogs declined 5q10c. per 100
mounds, packers refusing TO buy except
at lower figures than were paid yesterday.
Packers and shippers bought rather free
ly at reduced prices. Common heavy pack
ing sold at Mi0ms5. choice lght-weights
bringing s4G. The average quality was
poor.
smaller receipts OF sheep and lambs. IN
connection with better demand. made
prices higher and sales to-day were 100
25c. per 100 pounds above the figures OF
last week. Native sheep were wanted at
s2q$250 for poorest, 10 $3.50 to 800 for
best focks, and western rangers sold al
| So s0Qx3so few going for 81 259N Lambs
sold actively at $5.75qD.5o. few selling
as high as 8.75.
Receipts: Cattle, 1900 head; hogs, 5000
head: sheep. 1900 head
ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS. MO-. October ls.-Ficur-
Unchanged.
Whcat-spot steady: No. rcd cash. eie-
vator "a lie: bid: track. &gssc: No; 2
hard. cash, sc; December. 81 s-4Qss 7-sc.;
coin-spot higher; No. cash. s i-a9
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
POPULAR SCIENCE,

Some butterflies have as many as
10000 distinct eyes.
An electric omnibus, which goes
four miles in half an hour, is now run
ming in the streets of London.
Artificial rubber is being sought by
Mr.. Berthelot, the French chemist,
who predicts that his product will be
better and cheaper than the natural
gum of Para.
The Japanese Government now
issues every day three weather charts,
which include observations in China
and the Lin-Kiu Islands, enabling
captains to ascertain the movements
of storms several days in advance.
Acute rheumatism is regarded by
Dr. Jaccoud as of bacterial origin, and
he looks upon the case of child born
with rheumatism while its mother
was suffering from a severe attack as
evidence of the infectious character of
the disease.
At the recent medical congress in
Berlin, the tuberculin treatment for
consumption was hotly attacked.
Professor Liebreich, who vies with
Koch as q scientist, maintained that
phthisis occurred without the presence
of tubercle bacilli, and believed these
germs were only parasites that thrived
when there was predisposition to dis
ease. Liebrecht held that the chief
thing is to increase the vital power of
the cellular tissues by sanitary living,
proper food and exercise.
The location of the stations for the
proposed earthquake survey of the
world is now an important problem.
The use of existing astronomical OBJ
servations has advantages, but Pro-
fessor G. Grablovitz points out that
most of the active volcanoes are situ-
ated near three great circles, and
suggests that the earthquake stations
should be established near the six
points of intersection of these circles
and at twelve other points symmetri-
cally placed on the circles.
From the physiological point of
view d.. Leon Muenier finds man
may be omnivorous, vegetarian or car
niverous, according to climate and the
necessities of the case. An exclu-
sively animal diet, however, is injuri-
ous. Mans organization would adapt
itself more readily to an exclusively
vegetable diet, but there must be some
meat also for the most useful work.
Exclusive vegetarianism is the regime
of invalids, very effective in certain
diseases or morbid conditions. Well
persons can get along with it, but
without great advantage.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Although charcoal has no fertilizing
properties in itself, it is an excellent
thing to apply to gardens, to manure
heaps, and, indeed, to all rich ground.
1t is indestructible, though its light
ness causes it to be easily washed from
the soil, when it will be broken into
very fine particles, and deposited in
the black mud of bitches and ponds.
This is very rich, because the charcoal
is an excellent absorbent of ammonia
from the air which it readily gives to
the roots of plants. Hence though the
charcoal be not itself fertile it is an ex-
cellent gatherer OF fertility. In fresh
charcoal there is slight trace of sui
phur, which makes it repellant to in
sects. A mixture of sulphur and char
coal is the best means of repelling Gu
cumber and squash bugs when it has
been busted on the vines Boston
Cultiyator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Until they are nearly half grown,
young turkeys are very sensitive to
the wet. They should be kept in tho
coop until the dew has dried off the
grass, and especially if they run with
n turkey hen. The common domestic
hen is u much better mother for the
young turks than is the turkey hen
The latter is too early riser in the
morning, as it finds while the air is
cold and the grass is wet with dew
that the insects it is looking for are
torpid and easily caught. But while
the turkey hen is running through the
grass her draggled brood are chirping
farther and farther behind until their
chirp can no longer be heard. After
the birds are half grown, the wider
range that the turkey hen takes makes
what chicks she succeeds in raising
larger and thriftier than those that the
common hen has cared for, though
both were Matched about the same
time. The turkeys should be fed be-
fore being allowed to wander in the
morning. That will keep them busy
until the dew has dried,from the grass,
and will prevent the hen turkey from
wandering too far.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The rapidity with which the Klondyke ex-
citIuent has spread over the country is aston
ishing. 1t is but three weeks since the first of
the treasure-laden ships reached port yet tho
interest already extends from ocean to ocean.
These klondyke discoveries are from all ac-
counts among the most wonderful in the his
tory of mining; and certain it is that there has
been no such opportunity for quickly acquir-
ing fortune since the early days of alifor-
mia. But the danger is that numbers of COM
panies and expeditions will be organized by
enthusiastic but inexperienced persons who
Will lose their own money and that of their
associates in ventures of which they have had
no previous knowledge or experience. There.
fore, thoss who cannot go to the gold-felds
must be careful to associate themselves with
people who have had experience in mining
and prospecting.
1t is well known that Colorado Springs
people have had very large and successful
experience in such operations. Among the
Alaska companies formed in that city, the
most prominent is The Alaska Klondyke Gold
was organized and its operations most care
fully planned by the leading banking and
brokerage house of Colorado Springs. This
company's expedition is already in Alaska
of its superior equipment, strong financial re-
sources and other special facilities which the
forethought of the management has provided,
should reach its destination and begin oper-
ations far in advance of the general rush.
This company is capitalized for 100000
shares of a par val ue of one dollar each; and
a block of its stock is now offered for short
time at fifteen cents per share In this con-
nection notice is given that on Sept. 18th the
price will be advanced TO twenty-five cents
Being full-paid and worcestershire, this stock
is forever free from any possibility of assess
ment. Orders for the stock, accompanied by
remittance covering the amount, should be
sent TO VIM. p. Bonbright 6e Co., Colorado
Springs, Col. the financial agents of the COM
pany, who are desiTOus also of entering into
arrangements for the sale of stock with re-
sponslble agents throughout Che country.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Seeding Thin Patches.

AS haying progresses every farmer
will notice thin patches where the
grass might be good deal better. On
a small scale it is an excellent idea to
SOW on the seed as though the ground
were plowed and follow with O good
dressing of manure from the cattle
barn, and in two or three days or q
week even follow with q good heavy
white birch brush and you will be sur
prised at the increase in the hay crop
the following year. This plan, if well
carried out under favorable conditions,
will prove fully as successful as the
more expensive method of plowing and
reseeding. Do not conjure up the
idea that there is no time now for this
kind of work. Plan for it and do an
unusual amount of thinking on behalf
of the old farm and it will be genu-
inc surprise to note the result. A. A.
Southwick, of Massachusetts,, in Amer
lean Agriculturist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

The power and influence of thought
in elevating ideals and eradicating
evil propensities opens up a field of
almost infinite possibilities for educa-
tors, and those who have charge of re-
formatories and penal institutions.
Music is another subtle remedial
agent, which is now being success
fully employed by the most advanced
physicians. "Of all agents able to
soothe nervously strained and vague
ly conscious mind" says DIR. Henrik
G. Peterson, in one of his scholarly
papers on "Hypno-Suggestion, "mu-
sical harmonies stand assuredly fore
most"
DIR. Peterson quotes from an arti-
Gle in medical magazine of England,
giving the results of society known
as the Guild of St. Cecilia, in reliev-
ing suffering and curing disease. Ac-
cording to this paper, in one hospital
the proper music 500 he'd to sleep fifty
per cent. of the inmates. In another,
the temperature of seven out of ten pa
tients was lowered and became almost
normal whenever suitable music was
performed. The experiments proved
that music exercises potent influence
on the nervous system, the digestion
and the circulation. The New Time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Where shallow cultivation has been
practiced during the earlier stages of
growth, and dry weather prevails, it
is ruinous to change to deep culture
at the later workings We once saw
this tried on potatoes in dry season.
The first workings had been frequent,
with sweeps running about two inches
deep. As the season advanced the
ground became quite hard below the
depth of cultivation. Early in July it
was cultivated deep with double shovel
in order to ''loosen up the ground"
Up to this time the crop was fairly
promising; but now the plants wilted
at once, and, though rain fell, they
never recovered, the crop being almost
an entire failure. Agricultural Epito.
mist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

What the ascetics and the monks,
the orders of modern and ancient
churches alike, are to us the ''fakirs"
are to the Hindu population. Given
any festival or any shrine of note, and
somewhere about you are sure to come
upon them in force, singly and by
companions. In one city, sitting round
the sacred ''popul" tree, I counted
some twenty or thirty. Naked, but
not ashamed, with their hair and
boards long and entangled, showing
by the dust and dirt that cover them
their intense self-forgetfulness and
humiliation, they are always ready to
attract your attention and beg your
aims. Never to take the eyes off o
single object of worship for years to-
gether on small barrow is no mean
feat, but to lean upon ones arm until
it shrivels for want of use is an exam
pie of endurance and insensibility that
would be admirable enough in another
form, and that would certainly have
moved the early Christians to fervro
of admiration. Though not equal to
ohoAi, oho hu5oullhiHS GILL SuOW Iuu-
atics of considerable strain of piety
ON the same lines. In the famous Ali
Musjid, through the Khaiber Pass, ]
saw, in the midst of an admiring crowd
of soldiers and tribesmen, holy man
of exceptional celebrity. The only
thing the ''mulla" had on was high,
sugar-loaf hat, made of leopard-skin,
which would be an insufficient cover.
ing in our treacherous climate, and
seemed unsuited to the frontier cold.
He was evidentlyin state of religious
exaltation, for he screamed and howled
continuously for days together. To
satisfy his spiritual cravings the by
standers kept plying him with tobacco,
which he put in his long pipe.-Lon-
don Telegraph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Bandaged the Wrong Leg,

A prominent young couple of
Phoenix were riding their bicycles
leisurely along West Washington
street recently when Chinese vegeta-
BILE peddler came along at lively gait
and upset the bicycle of the gentleman
and fractured his left leg. His lady
friend and companion, who is q re-.
markably talented girl, did not cry or
ring her hands in helplessness, but,
breaking limbs from u neighboring
tree, she made several splints. Then
she tore up white skirt for bandages
and hailing passing buggy, she aided
in lifting her injured friend into it
and had him driven to the office of DIR.
Helm.
The doctor helped the man into his
Office. Then he proceeded to make an
examination of his injuries. "Who
bandaged this leg so neatly?" asked
the doctor. The girl blushingly re-
piled it was her work. ''Well, "quoth
the doctor, as an amused smile covered
his face, sit is beautifully done, but
find you have made slight mistake.
You have got the bandages on the
wrong leg" And the laugh that fol,
lowed this announcement was Joined
in by the victim. Arizona Gazette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
B. and o. improvements.

The work of strengthening the track and re-
ducing the grade at Tabbs Station on the sec
ond division of the b. and o. was completed
Monday afternoon, and the first train TO use
the new line was No One, the New York and
st. Louis flyer A heavy grade and three bad
curves have been eliminated by this work. A
mile east, at Meyers Hole, a similar improve
ment has been in progress for months, and il
will be completed and ready for trains next
Sunday. Several reverse curves and a nasty
and dangerous dip are done away with ut this
point. Near Myers Hole, at Tablers, the
alignment of the track is being materially
changed, and as in the other two improve.
ments, bad grades and sharp, annoying curves
are being removed. This part of the work
will be done in sixty days and then a series of
very dangerous places will have been entirely
removed, This work in its entirety means
the hauling OF several additional cars in each
freight train, besides reducing the danger of
derailments to almost nothing. The second
division. running from Cumberland To Bruins
wick, will soon be in a first-class condition and
more cheaply operated than ever.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A bar of lead cooled to point about
300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero,
according to the experiments of M.
Pictet, gives out, when struck, pure
musical tone. Solidified mercury, at
the same temperature, is also resonant,
whilea coil OF magnesium wire vibrates
like steel spring.
A new method of preserving meats.
from which much is expected, consists
in immersion in thirty per cent.
solution of salt through which q con-
tinuous current of electricity is being
passed. The curing is completed in
from ten to twenty hours, when the
meat is taken out and dried.
Gold leaves so thin that 25O, 900
measure only an inch in thickness are
produced in the Swan process by
placing thin sheets of polished copper
in an electrolytic gold plating solution
only until a continuous gold film has
formed, then dissolving away the
copper in solution of ferric chloride.
Liquefied carbonic acid is now pro-
duced so cheaply that it's use for mo-
tive power for such purposes as driv-
ing light carriages is often considered.
A difficulty encountered is the great
absorption of heat and consequent loss
of efficiency through the refrigeration
of the engine, as the liquid expands
and returns to the gaseous state.
When the fashlight of a submarine
camera was burned recently in the
Mediterranean, crowds of fish, with
their wide-staring eyes, were instantly
pictured on the sensitive plate. Pho
tographs of submarine forests are
startingly novel. Seaweed makes an
altogether different appearance when
seen in its natural element from that
which it presents when seen floating
on the surface or driven up on the
beach.
A new nickeliron alloy, reported by
DR.. Charles Guilaume, of Naufchatei.
to the International Committee of
Weights and Measures, shows less ex-
pansion and contraction under the in
tiuence of temperature than any other
metallic substance known. 1t consists
of thirty-six per cent. of nickel and
sixtyfour of iron, and the expansion
is but one-tenth of that of platinum.
1t is expected to prove of considerable
value for measuring apparatus exposed
to sudden changes of temperature.
Railway tracks are found to be not
absolutely stationary, but to be moved
slightly, especially on steep descents,
through the Influenza of the traffic
over them. Austrian and French en-
gineers report that the left hand rail,
seen in the direction of running,
moves forward more than the right
one, while Egyptian engineers have
an opposite experience. One explain
alton is that the cranks on the right
side lead on European locomotives,
and those on the left side on the loco
motives of Egypt.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Oldest German Newspaper

The Magdeburg Gazette, probably
the oldest newspaper in Germany, last
month celebrated its 250th anniver-
sary. 1t is still conducted by represen-
tatives Of the Faber family, which
founded it in 1647, just at the close of
the Thirty Years War. The present
heads of the venerable journalistic dy-
nasty are the two brothers, Robert and
Alexander Faber, perpetuatlng a line
almost a century and a half older than
that which rules over the London
Times, the greatest if not the Oldest Of
newspapers. Magdeburg took ON the
decorations of holiday in honor of its
venerable Gazette, which well deserv.
ed them,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09
Hitting Power of the Ocean.

Landsmen who are slow to realize
the tremendous force of the sea had an
object lesson in New York City the
other day, when five large tanks, built
to contain 100, 1000 pounds of soap, but
temporarily flied with water, and
situated on the foult th floor of large
building on West Fifty-third street,
New York, collapsed and completely
wrecked the whole structure, killing
three men and doing large amount
of damage. The tanks were each
fifteen feet high and about thirteen
feet in diameter, and contained 161,-
703 pounds of water, but the floors and
supporting beams proved altogether
inadequate to stand the strain. A
wave of the dimensions of one of these
tanks is not at all unusual at sea, and
when such wave breaks on a vessels
deck the force of the blow can only be
estimated by the amount of damage it
does in spite of the elasticity of the
water beneath the vessel to ease her in
receiving the shock. When the city
firemen state that stream from hose
under fifty pounds pressure will cut
through ANY ordinary brick wall, the
force Of the sea in gale may be,
perhaps, better imagined. Home
journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-09

Brillat-Savarin long ago stated that
the great Frenchmen Button and Vol.
taire drank enormous quantities Of
coffee, to their deadly hurt; and he
declared that a person might take two
bottles of wine day without injury
during long life, but that by a similar
indulgence in coffee he would become
an idiot or die of consumption. The
inordinate use Of tea and coffee is now
well-known, and is admitted, even by
temperance physicians, to be more dan.
gerous than that of alcohol. DR.. AL.
fred Crespi, in the Health News, has
just been adding his testimony to that
Of others.-London Caterer