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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-10
Visible Grain Supply.

NEW YORK. Feb Especial cable and tele-
graphic dispatches 10 Efadstreet, covering the
principal points of accumulation. indicate the
following changes in available supplies last Sat-
u.day, az compared with the previous Saturday.
Wheat, United states and Canada east OF the
Rockies, decrease. 1891 900 bu: afioat for and
in Europe. increase 1,Sl2O coo bu total ,lecreas.,
in worlds available supply. $4,000 bu. Corn. in
crease. 1888. 900 bu Oats. decrease t72 COO bu
The more important decreases in available wheat
stocks last week, not Included in the official
visible supply statement ia 900 bI AT Cieye-
land; 1000 bu at Milwaukee private elevators:
80 eco blu in Northwestern interior elevators. and
1900 bu at Pittsbufg. Corresponding fncrea eos
include 1000 bu at Fort William Ont: % 100 h,
in various Manitoba storage points, and so 600 bu
a New Orleans. 49, -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-10
LIVE STOCK.
Cattle Scarce and WealS-Hcgs
Shade HiEher-Shcep Steady.

INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 9.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, SEQ; shipments light. The market
ruled fairly active at barely steady prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-10

Hogs-Receipts, 5000; shipments. 500. The
market opened slow and packers were bear
ish, but later there was a fairly active
feeling, with prices q shade higher than
yesterday. All sold, the closing being quiet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-10
Nails and HOrseshOes.

S.SCa2 rates; from mill. S1.15 rates. HorseshOes.
per keg. $50; mule shoes, per keg, $40; horse
nails. ;4q5 per box. Barb wire. galvanized 81;
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
BACKBONE.
of the ark, he was in the biggest kind Of majority
&C. H. Mead.
National Temperance Convention.

The eleventh annual convention Of the National
Temperance Society held at Saratoga, August 10
and 49,
Among the points upon which the convention de-
cared itself heartily agreed the paramount
responsibility of the church, which is advised to
only unfermented wine at communion and to refrain
from completely with the liquor evil by allowing it's
members to make gain out Of the traffic; the deusion
Of license high low; prohibition, state and nation
al legislative and constitutional, the ideal toward
which we continually to strive; the election to
office of those only who favor the suppression of
the drink traffic; withdrawal of support from all
political parties that sustain the evil; and permits
sion to women to use her power to the utmost poll
tically well as in other ways 1t condemned alco
hol unnecessary and harmful in the healing Of dis
ease, and the of intoxcants social occasions
and in the preparation of food declared for the
abolition of the internal system; protested
against the sale of rum Ellis Island; and asked
that Congress allow national legislation to oppose
the effort of any district however SMALL to protect
itself from the liquor evil by prohbitory law.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
Antidote to s.the Saloon.

A building, to cost $4,000, is being erected in
the city of Yonkers N Y for the express purpose of
fighting the saloons
1t is in the heart of the business part of the CITY,
1t is 100 feet long and 40 feet Deep and has seven
full stories. In the basement the Kitchen lava
tory, baths bowling alleys, and blliard-room The
first floor contains the Inn Office free reading, smok
ing and lunch rooms and the Office of the Penny
Provident Fund
The second floor is devoted to gymnasium with
shower and needle baths and two cass-rooms Most
of the third floor is taken up with assembly hall
which with gallery will seat 500 persons. The
is to be elegantly decorated and fitted with first
class curtain stage The remainder of this floor and
of the floor above are to be used for cass-rooms
The fifth floor belongs to the boys. It has gym
asium with baths and lockers reading-room and
CAMERON. Upon the upper floor are the janitor's
apartments.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
How to "Run' Wall-POcket.

A. W. @. T. U. traveller makes the following sug-
gestions regar ding temperance wall-pockets:
Keep them supplied with fresh matter. Mark ar
tices of special Importance. Attach plainly printed
card, stating that the contents may be taken away
Out of old papers, cut and tastefully arrange on
Cardboard good suggestive articles in prose- short
stories and choice poems. Picture books scrap
book collections may be donated to these for the
entertainment of many mothers and wee ones jour
neying These might be fastened by strong cord of
good length to the paper-holder.
Appoint to fill, dust sort and solicit for
the wallpocket and change this committee every
month.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
The BalIot-Box a Sacred Weapon.

1t is just clearly my duty to seek and save the
lost with clean ballot that proposes to the
of their destruction-the open saloon-as it is
to seek and save the lost with a sermon from the
pulpit prayer testimony in the pew. If with
my sermon prayer testimony seek to spread
salvation among men, and then give my ballot in
support of the politics that uphods the saloon and
thereby help to spread damnation among the very
same that in the sanctuary I have sought to
save, I not the faithful disciple that the Master
would have to be.-Q. l.. Morrow
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
They Vote as they Pray.
W. s. G. MASON.

G.
1t is said that people don't vote as they pray;
IT'S SANDER upon their good
They get down in the dust when they offer their
And in voting they do just the same.
1t is said that people don't vote they pray;
The charge is unjust and untrue
They shut up their eyes whenever they pray,
And in voting they shut them up too
1t is said that people don't vote they pray;
But, in truth they have always been noted
For invoking the Spirit to guide them each day,
And for spirits they always have voted.
Don't say any more, "They vote as they pray;
Thus bring reproach on their fame
Their prayer Is an insult to God and to man,
And their vote is exactly the same
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
We Shall Win.

Don't measure the anti-saloon sentiment in Amer
lea, brother voter by the Prohibition vote Of to-day.
Our vote is the nucleus of the crystalizng power
that will bury the demon of destruction in the grave
which many in various ways are digging. Be
happy with u.s. We see the end of the abominable
legalized liquor traffic. Sentiment is growing the
grave is getting deeper and the day for the burial
is drawing God will weld the anti-saloon
sentiment of this nation together-weld it at the bal
lot box Be faithful brothers, for the hour of tri
umph for the right is coming Be happy, hopeful,
jealous and thankful. Many agencies and
unseen are helping u.s. and best of all, behind the
shadow stands the Master caring for His own. Pc
nnsua Press.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
Don't Be a Shirk.

If you believe in prohibition help to fight for it.
Don't leave the battle all to others. That we have
hard fight to make there can be no doubt. The
whisky power is organized, aggressive and deter
mined. They spare neither time nor money to carry
everything in their favor, and can't expect to
succeed in our opposition unless organize and
willing to spend some of our time and money in
tending the good work Of prohibition. We appeal
every friend and well wisher of prohibition to rally
to it's support with might and main, with money and
bran-scatter prohibition literature, do all in your
power to overthrow the power Of King Alcohol, SO
that peace and prosperity may reign in land and
the cause of Christ may prosper.-Watchman.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
More than One Donkey.

Any revenue derived from the saloon is necessarily
derived from the people, as the saloon creates no
wealth and taxes always paid by those who
create wealth. The effort to~reeve the tax payers
by laying the burden the saloon is like the plan
of the man who riding to mill donkey, with
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
Resolutions Instead of Votes.
JOHN G. WOOLLEY.

If Adams having signed the Declaration, had by
voice and pen and prayer wrought for the freedom
of the colonies, but by his ballot filled the public
Offices with Tories and creatures of King George
the ground that public sentiment was not strong
enough for actual operative liberty, that men could
not be made loyal by law, and therefore it
sary to have the American Union differed by British
subjects in the pay of the King of England he could
have escaped the name Of traitor only by being
branded "foo'
Now apply like reasoning to the church to-day She
is pledged to fight the saloon to DEATH and yet she
offers practically, the pusillanimous loyalty of a
LocalOption vote, in full settlement of her pledge
performance as paltry and silly it would be
for this to attempt to wipe out it's public
debt by paying one of it's bonds and repudiating all
the rest.
She declares that the saloon her deadiest enemy
but votes to hold it's fate impertinent among living
issues.
She resolves year that the liquor traffic can
be licensed and votes as regularly so that it
may be licensed. By sin? Certainly. Whose the
excise commissioners? Yes. And the mayors :?
Yes. And the city councils? Yes. And the legis-
lature's? Yes. And the governors? Yes And
the Congresses? Yes And the Presidents? Yes
And the party in powers? Yes.
And since for saloon purposes the two great parties
are essentially one and since the whole is equal to
the Of all it's parts the whole black crime is at
the door of the party. And since party is not a
person, natural legal it is not sinner, but SIM
Yet it contains the voting church bodily preachers
and people, all but say 100000, in total of 7OOO-
O00-more or less.
Has this reasoning escaped the notice of the
church? Not at all. She has dealt with it in ex-
press terms. Listen mo political party is entitled
to expect ought it to receive the vote Of Chris
tan long it stands committed to the Ii
cense policy refuses to put itself upon record in
open hostility to the saloon" Which, interpreted
by the voting muscle, is: mo political party is
titled to expect ought it to receive the vote Of
a reasonable Christian if it stands committed
to the policy of prohibition and refuses to put itself
at the service of the saloon order to defeat the
worst of the probable winners in any given election
So in the conservation meeting she says: For me
to live is Christ" But on the general election day
she says: For Christ to live in politics is death
to the party. Away with him! Long live Barab-
bas!
A double-minded church is unstable in all her
ways.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01

a sack of corn across the saddle. To relieve the
donkey of the weight of the corn he got off, put the
sack his shoulders and then mounted the donkey
New Era.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01

l would treat the sale Of intoxicating drinks like
any other crime-lke gambling like the sale Of lot
terry tickets obscene books like anything that
works such 1 would prohibit 1T. H. Seelye
D. D.
Majorities are not always right. What if you were
in the majority at the time of the flood? I would
rather have gone into the ark as monkey than to
have stayed out as man. When old Noah got out
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-09-01
W6Il Toward 4 Hundr

Have up to date entered the race, men and women,
boys and girls.
This is offer: A beautiful, fully warranted,
ladies' or gents 1897 bicycle, the OCEAN SWIFT
price $o5.OO, for only 200 subscriptions to BACK
BONE, at Is cents each
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
Possible Origin of "DolIy."

The word "d'oyly" is used constant.
ly, and yet few know the quaint story
of its origin. In the time of William
the Norman, Robert d'Oyley was one
of his followers, and valuable lands at
Hook Norton, in Oxfordshire, were
granted him upon curious condition.
The London American says that each
year, at the feast of st. Michael, he was
to "make tender Of q linen tablecloth
worth 3 English shillings." AS they
went to royalty, the ladies of the D'Oy-
ley family took great pride in embroid-
ering the "quitrent cloths" as they
were termed, and, in consequence, an
art needlework collection Of great
beauty was accumulated by these annual
tributes. They did service for state &C.
casions in William the Norman's house
hold, and, very naturally, were called
the "D'Oyley linen. "-Oxford Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
FactA About Dust.

or all other factors, perhaps dust has
its considerable part in the process Of
nature, for microscopic atmosphere does
not always consist of the coarse notes
which may be sometimes seen in the
path of sunbeam. There is much that
is wonderful and mysterious concealed
in the existence of dust, for even in the
pure air, at an elevation of 1000 feet.
it has been ascertained that there are
about "a, 900 dust particles per cubic
inch, but in room in a crowded city
they would amount to no less than 80.
600, 900 particles per cubic inch. 1t will
be, therefore, easy to understand how
important an influence this invisible
dust must exercise over the health con.
ditions of highly sensitive organism.
Although their chemical analysis is
difficult the more exact elements Of
these dust particles can be scientifically
determined. These minute atoms are at
first microscopic, but become visible and
are ever increased by contact with the
surrounding land and water. Perhaps,
however, that which concerns atmos.
pheric hygiene most is the living organ.
isms contained among the dust particles,
or bacteria, as we call them. National
Board Of Health Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
A Tough Wolf.

was thinking the forest held no
wolves when an enormous one came
"louping" along in an open space
straight to my neigbbor, stationed 80
yards to my left. When well within
shot, he fired both barrels. "Well, that
fellow is duffer," thought I, as the
brute, unframed, merely changed his
course and came along parallel with me
at 30 yards distance. When he was
abreast Of me. fired, but, alas for my
conceit, he did not even swerve foot,
but continued on, yet am sure nearly
every pellet Of both barrels struck him.
He was finally killed, but not till he
had received the charges of dozen
guns.
The amount of shot which wolves
will carry away is wonderful. A tough
old wolf will sometimes receive the fire
of the whole line of sportsmen and es-
cape, yet single lucky shot may bring
one down at 60 yards. l should explain
that wolves in these drives prefer to
trust to the chance Of bad shots and
their own thick skins rather than to the
hounds aud beaters' sticks, for when
fired at they do not double back, but in
variably make for the sides of the wood,
thus receiving the fire of the line. When
the beaters came up to us, we had an
other long, cold wait, while they went
round and entered the wood at the net
ted end. This drive produced no result
in wolves. -Blackwood's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
Not to he Resisted

some years ago, at session of the
legislature OF Kentucky, an effort to re-.
peal the law Offering bounty ON foxes,
scalps was made, but was defeated NV
the appeal of member from a NOM.
tainous and sparsely settled region.
do the gentlemen want to denr;ve
my constituents and me of the benef,,s
OF nearing the gospel preachedp" he de.
manded, with Indignation in his tone
and overspreading his rugged connta
nance. I'VE are all Methodists mn NV
way and our preachers won't come
without we can give 'em chickens 7
know. We can't raise chickens unless
'ne foxes are killed by somebody. that's
sure, and there amt anybody that can
auord to spend their time hunting foxes
and get nothing to pay for it. '
So gentlemen, if you repeal tb;s
law, you'll be depriving my constituents
Oh ,'r the benefit of hearing the gospel
mep' wy ~ iooks 10
inns reasoning was too much for tbo
legislature, and for the time be;na tho
law was not repealed. Con-
panion. Oom-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
The Knife He Wanted.

The Worcester Gazette tells this story
on the authority of John Il. Russell,
whose father was manufacturer of
cutlery: Having occasion to travel on
the Mississippi river occasionally, the
latter became very well acquainted with
the captain of one of the steamers One
day the captain asked Mr.. Russell if he
would make knife for him. "Why,
yes; what kind of knife?'' was the an
swer. Il want good stout handle with
spring in it, so the blade won't give, {"
explained the captain. "I'd a little
rather have the blade ground on both
edges. And I don't want one of those
crosspieces, or guards, or whatever they
call them. want a knife can stick
into man and twist it and when l
pull it out 1t won't catch on his blamed
galluses."
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04

The income of Athens from fines ~,
pears TO have been considerable ana
have constituted singular and nerr,S
nent feature of the fiscal policy of tbo
state. The method of assessment NAV ~
best illustrated by examples. Tins 70
duly authorized officials did not bo,s
certain assemblages, according 10 rn,o
or properly conduct the appointed hnsi
ness they each had TO nav GOO
drachmas $4,000. If an orator condnct0S
himself indecorously in "a public Assem-
bly,, he could be fined 30 drachmas fSIN,
for each offense, which might be raiso5
TO higher sum at the pleasure Of tba
people. A woman conducting bersols
improperly in the streets paid a simiIa.
penalty. If woman went to Eleus;s il
carriage, she subjected herself to a 6na
of a talent ($1, 1907.
In the case of wealthy or notable no,
sons fines for omissions or commission.
in respect to conduct were made mnch
greater, and so more productive of row
enue, and there were very few NOTABLE
or wealthy citizens of Athens who, nm.
der the rule Of demagogues and through
specious accusations of offenses against
the state or the gods, escaped the nav.
ment of heavy fines, the experiences Of
Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, De-
mosthenes, Pericles, Cleon and Timo.
theus being cases in point. Every person
who failed to pay fine owing to the
state was reckoned as a public debtor
and was subject to imprisonment and
practical denial Of citizenship Mil.
tiades, the victor at Marathon, for ex.
ample, having been cast into prison
(where he afterward died) through an
inability to pay a fine assessed against
him of 80 talents. -Appleton's Science
Monthly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
Sound Waves.

We are told by those who have made
such matters life study that sound is
the effect produced upon the drum of
the ear by any shock or impulse which
causes vibration of the air. This being
the case, it is plain that the sound pro-
duced by thousand voices would not
be more altisonant or far sounding than
one single impu1siEe yell because each
would set its own waves to vibrating.
To further illustrate this point we
will take bells as an example. Often in
the city q dozen church bells are being
rung at one time. Either one of these,
we will say, can be heard at distance
of five miles. This we will admit needs
no proof, but who is insane enough to
argue that the IL bells can be heard IL
times as far as the one bell? If they
could so be heard, the combined sound
of the - could be heard at distance Of
60 miles! Yet it is just as reasonable
that the sound of a dozen or q thousand
bells would mix" and trend the firlna-
ment" as one gigantic whole as it is
to believe that thousand men could
give vent to yell that could be heard
to greater distance than single stem
torian scream.
Ten thousand men might drown the
sound of bell or steam whistle as far
as their immediate vicinity was con-
cerned, yet the bell or whistle would be
heard far beyond where no sound of
voices could penetrate.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
African Horrors.

The greatest cause OF horrors in west
Africa is undoubtedly the BELIEF III
witchcraft 1t is not, as one sees oiten
stated, regarded as being the only cause
of men dying; there are two other gen.
orally accepted death causes, when 1
will not describe here, but witchcraft is
certainly regarded as being the cause OF
death in 70 per cent Of cases. federation
means indifference, l believe, with all
men, and the west African is not IN
different on this subject. III you put
yourself in his place l think you Will
own il is difficult TO be so, when you
believe you have found out, and got hold
Of, by-to your mind-infallible means
of detection, a person who has been
placing a live crocodile or catawumpus
of some kind into your own or re-
spectacle fellow citizens inside, SO as
to eat up valuable viscera.
will not go into the subject OF Afri-
can cruelty any farther than to state the
reason for killing prisoners OF war
which goes on now i'll nonslaveholdlng
tribes. This is the direct result OF the
suppression of the slave trade. 1t is
practically impossible, in the present
condition of their culture, for them to
keep quantity of vigorous men in their
midst, for they have no prison to keep
them in, nor have they any more food
than will suffice to feed their own tribe,
and it would be exceedingly impolitic
to let loose again men who had given
evidence of a desire to kill you and
yours. National Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
Antiquity of Soap.

Soap is not a modern invention. Il is
twice mentioned in the Bible, first in
jeremiah and again in Malachi History
tells us that more than 1000 years ago
the Gauls manufactured it by combining
beech tree ashes with goats fat.
"A few years ago soap boilers shop
was discovered in Pompeii, having been
buried beneath the terrible rain of ashes
that fell upon that city in 70 A. ID. The
soap found in the shop had not lost all
OF its efficacy, although it had been bur-
led 800 years AT the time that Pom
peii was destroyed the soapmaking bust.
mess was carried on in several Of the
Italian cities.
Pliny the elder speaks of soap, and
says that because its price was so high
many substitutes were used, among
them kind of glutinous earth and fine
sand mixed in the juice of certain plants
that made lather.
AS early as 700 A. ID. there were
many soap factories in both Italy and
Spain, and about 750 A. ID. the Pheni'
clans introduced the business into
France, the first factories Seing estab'
lished at Marseilles
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-04
An Example of Impure Air.

A large jar or stone pot smaller at the
top than the bottom, or covered so as to
leave only small opening, may have a
rubber tube dropped into it, through
which the experimenter may expel his
breath for some seconds. After continu-
ing this for short time, a lighted taper
may be carefully lowered into the jar.
The flame will begin to waver and die
down, and will shortly expire, finding
not sufficient vitality in the air to sup
port it. When one compares the size Of
the stone pot with that Of the ordinary
room, and realizes that exhaled breath
is insufficient to support the flame of q
candle. it is not difficult to understand
why children and delicate people pine
away and die on account Of impure at
mosphere. New York Ledger.