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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
Lead and Zinc.

New York. June 9.-Lead-Ffrmer; brok-
ers' price, s3.1212; exchange price, $S.27l@4
$3.50. Spelter-Firm; domestic, A.2Od4.30.
St. Louis, June 9.-Lead-Steady at $3.O71z
G3.10. Spelter-Quiet at $500.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10

One of the biggest lots of choice heavy
cattle on the market here for some time
was brought in yesterday by NJ. K. Mix.
Oberlin. kas. There were ~ steers In the
lot and they averaged 1887 pounds and
were sold " the Zeb F. Order Commits
sion Company at A.S5. the highest price OF
the day. Eastman got them for the export
trade.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
Cotton.

New Orleans. June 9.-COTTON-Futures
sales, 1850 bales: June. 7.27c nominal; July,
7.2SG7.29c; August. 6.97d6.9Sc; September,
6.6Id6.6Sc; November, 6.55q6.56c; December,
6.57d6.5Sc; January, 6.6Od6.62c; February,
6.63d6.65c; March, 6.66d6.6Sc.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10

Oklahoma and Southern Kansas are YER
liable garden spots this year. Z. l. Swa-
Zey, who came in yesterday from Gage, -.
r. saws he never saw finer crop prospects.
Grass is excellent and cattle are doing
well. and he estimates the number Of cat
tie grazing in Oklahoma as large as last
wear, Wheat promises an abundant yield
throughout the territory as far east as
Wellington, kas.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
Provisions.

There was a very good trade in cash stuff
in q jobbing way, but car LOT, trading was
light under the Influence of a bearish spec
ulative market.
We quote car lots:
GREEN MEATS-Shoulders, A.5Od4I5 per
cwt.: hams, $S.O0dS.S11%.
LARD-Cash. $40: June. $40.
|. SWEET PICKLED MEATS-Hams, $500
as g7Ib; shoulders. S~5O0d5.25.
DRY SALT MEATS-Shoulders, cash, AS5
$500 per cwt.: short ribs. sides, cash, S445
6f5O: long clear sides. $445G4.50; short clear
sides. S.65G4.O.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10

Receipts .. -. . . -. .3.Oss
Shipments O.. E. Dr.. :. ........... 7S
Drive-outs e. d. =.
There was a drop in the receipts yester-
day and all desirable lots found ready
sale and brought steady and firm prices.
Good muttons could have been sold if
here. The lower grades were also worked
of, but prices of such were weak.
REPRESENTATIVE SALES.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
GOOD CATTLE SELLING WELL IN
DER MODERATE OFFERINGS.
Hogs Active and Steady and Firm,
Both Packers md Shippers Buy
ing-NOt So Many sheep In
and Market Is Strong.

Western receipts the past "a hours:
X. c. Chi. St. l.. Oma.
Cattle .. ...... 500 5000 $500 300
Hogs ......1A0O 10000 $500 500
Sheep .. $50. 300 1900 1900 800
Same time last year:
Hogs E. .......14.700 1900 500 $500
Sheep %. ...... 1900 $4,000 800 200
New York. JUNE 9.-European cables
weights sheep. 1Id12Ikc: refrigerator beef,
Siyd9c per pound. Exports, $50 beeves; 4,94
quarters of beef.
CATTLE-Movement the past q hours:
Cattle. Calves.
RecelptS -. =. ................ 9,Vaz oft
DTiye-outs .... ASH 2,S
There was a very good market yesterday
and under moderate offerings all good kill
gCcG demand and steady and at times
firm. But rough and coarse were slow sale
and some thought weaker. the increased
receipts in the quarantine division now az
feCtIng the price of this class of cattle.
There were no fancy exporters in. though
several choice lots that sold at S4.S5. Ma
tive cows were in light supply and good
dry lot offerings were steady and firm, but
grassers were dulla and weak. Stockers and
demand fair to the extent of the supply.
Range cattle made up a good share OF
the receipts and fieshy and fat lots sold
very well, while coarse and rough were
weak to n shade lower. Mich cows In
fair demand and best firm. Common, Sl5I
Is; medium to fair, $22d21, and good to
choice, S30d40.
REPRESENTATIVE SALES.
DRESSED BEEF AND EXPORT STEERS
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
Government Bonds

As reported yesterday by Houston, Ftble
& Co., over their private New YORK wire:
Due. Int due. Bid. Ask.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
Yesterdays Chicago Market.

Furnished by the French Bros Commits
sion Company. room %. Board of Trade
building:
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HORSES AND MULEs-Movements the
mast u hours.

There was a steady market yesterday
and good horses and fat mules sold fairly,
but there was very little demand for COM
mon and medium stuff.
We nuOta-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
Coffee md Sugar.

2. 25a25hc. RICE-ordinary to good. ESQ
4Rc.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
Missouri. Kansas & Texas TTuStC0

KANSAS CITY. NO.
CAPITAL 81, S5O, 900
Surplus and Undivid ed Profits. Sl,15O,OOO.
Sc Wall street. New York city.
900 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, "a.
1f9 Washington street, Boston. Mass
SandthorQuia 2. Hamburg, Germany.
Singel 23S. Amsterdam, Holland
81 Lombard street, London, L. C., En-
gland.
Dorotheen-Str7sse 81, Berlin, Germany.
Is Rue du Louvre, Paris, France.
Arthur Z. Stilwell. President. Vice Presi-
dents: 1st, J. Med. TrImble; I'd, Z. L.
Martin: Cd, W. S. Taylor; 4th, Jacques L.
NOlthenius.
Arthur c. Robinson, Secretary: w. s.
Taylor, Treasurer; Frank B. wilcox, ASS
Treasurer: J. j. Cairnes, Asst Secretary'
=. S. Mosher. Asst Secretary; Trimbie q
Braley. General Attorneys.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10

No offerings, hence nc market. Prices
nominal. BY sample on track here at Kan
sas city: No. 2 2SG29c; No. 3. 25G2Tc.
ELOUR-The market is still slow, yet
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10

In store-Wheat, 1874 bushels; corn. ls3.-
II bushels; oats, 1G5.l Ia bushels; rye. 5,4SS
The herald., 1897-04-04

poor tinsel girdle slipping away from
him; the calm vicious, concentrated
'thumbs-doWn' intensity of the specta-
tors; what man, not directly reincar-
mated. according to the Buddhistic doe
trine, from a bloodthirsty Roman of the
bloodiest days of the empire could en-
dure all this? | maintain that no fin
ished man can strike any uan in the
face with his fist. unless in the very heat
and fury of passion, without grieving for
the man he strikes How, then, could
any man Of such average sensibility
take pleasure in witnessing such foul,
such a cruel, horrifying affair as prize
fighting? l have often read tales of
women, disguised in male attire, attend
ing these encounters. 1t is quite CON
ceivable, / suppose. just as the women
of Spain and Mexico attend bull fights.
All the same, such women are not fit TO
be the mothers of men or women. They
must possess hearts of singular callous-
ness. | could not meet such women with
out repugnance. When / was quite a
small boy / remember seeing two lum-
bermen engaged in a rough and tumble
fight. One of them finally got the other
down and stamped upon his face with
his heavy boots. To this present day |
dream of that black, beastly act and
awaken with a chill of nausea Prize
fighting perpetuates and fosters the
innate savagery of men. 1t fans the
primordial spark of brutality in their
blood and rouses it to flame L thor
oughly believe that it is the very worst,
the most dangerous spoke in the wheel
of Anglo-S Saxon progression. AS long
as it endures, it is a menace to advance
ment along the paths of peace. The
disarmament of the world should never
occur until prize fighting has ceased -
The herald., 1897-04-04

A Washington special to the onslna
World Herald says: Eastern news
papers are full of satirical allusions &c
ex-senator ingalls, latest occupation as
reporter of prize fights. 49,
MIR. ingalls, former associates IN tne
senate are greatly surprised that Ms
should have engaged in such business
especially as ingalls,, several years ago,
expressed his utter abhorrence OF the
brutal practice of prize fighting.
The Washington Post uncharitably
recalls an Interview with ingalls,, which
he wrote with his own hand. The Post
says;
For the delectation of New York
newspaper and it's readers, ex-United
States Senator John ]. ingalls, of Kan
sas is this morning sharpening his pen
ell for a description of the slugging
match. A Washington newspaper man
had an interview with Mr.. ingalls, at the
Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago in the
summer of 1891, during the course OF
which the subject of prize fighting came
UP.
Here is what Mr.. ingalls, said with re-
gard to pugilism, as it was written tor
the Chicago Inter Ocean:
Prize fighting, in my opinion, is bru-
tai. barbarous. 1t almost makes one
believe in Darwin's reversion TO ances-
trail types. A prize fight is pitifui q
pathetic exhibition. No full-heartsd
man could endure the sight of IA prize
fight His soul would revolt at the SUI
fering of one or both of the men. The
thud of piston-rod blows; the bruised
and blackened features; the pallor of
brute determination and the blood; the
eventual piteous, dazed expression on
the face of one of the men, seeing his
The herald., 1897-04-04

Even in the small house. where every
inch of space was needed, this was the
state room," whose doors and Win
dows were to be kept closed ana whose
portals were not to be passed, except on
especial occasions. Even when coal heat
ing. by hot air or steam, revolutionized
indoor life, when it was not necessary 70
shut inner doors for mere comfort, the
traditions of the parlor still survived.
Ii is scarcely a generation ago that ne
parlor was darkened day and night,
holding no attractions for members OF
the household. 1t cannot be truthfully
caid, even in this enlightened age, that
the word 'parlOr" has ceased altogeth-
er to be a fetish, a place of itself, Ia
boo.
The most crying fault in the American
house of moderate dimensions is still
that the parlor is made too formal, and
is not given the true home atmosphere.
A growing tendency to make the room
more a part and parcel of the house is
apparent, however-to throw II open to
purely family gatherings, and TO make it
reflect the individuality of the owners.
In the large and elegant house of the
extremely rich the parlor becomes the
drawing or reception room, given over to
ceremonial events. In this case il is MT
ting that all the resources of wealth
should be lavished upon the room, and
elaborate display Is pdrQoHdDle, Dul III
the homes of those who are in moderate
circumstances, nothing more instantly
reveals vulgar taste than the attempt
to differentiate the parlor from the rest
of the house by rich and ornate furnish
ing Silks and satins have no place
there, if the living rooms are given up to
cotton limitations and mattings. Every
thing should be tasteful and in exquis
ite order. for it may be open to the in
spection of an unexpected guest at any
moment 1t should not be a museum OF
unrelated treasures, nor should it bristle
with fragile bric-a-br 1t should pro-
claim a welcome to every one who en-
ters it, with easychairs. cosy hooks. suf
ficient natural light in the daytime, and
low and cheerful lamplight at night
From the architectural arrangement
of most detached houses the parlor is
rarely one of the best lighted rooms
nor is there need that it should be-nor
is it generally as well provided with ar
tifcial heat. For these reasons ii is a
mistake TO furnish in cold tones, such
as white and gold. Delightful as the
contemplation of such a room is, it is
not comfortable nor homelike, nor is it
worth the time and patience 1t requires
to preserve it in the midst of full
fledged nest of young Americans.
The herald., 1897-04-04
ALL IN FUN

Ethel-Do you enjoy wide acquain-
tance? Arab, ,ella-Except when / have
to sit next to him in the theater.-De-
troit Journal.
Her Size-Freddhs- you have
anything on your oysters! hitty ROOT
lights-Yes, l will take lNome game, lop-
siters, salad, ice cream au,a coHee'--Les-
lies Weekly.
A Boys Reason.-"I'm got,1g 10 pe
minister" said Tommy, forcibi.V. Why,
Tommy. dear?" asked his fatlie'. %
/ can talk in church." said Tou- my
Harpers Round Table
Papa" said the darling daughter OF
the household. 'how did you propose !.
mamma?" Don't ask me-" answered
the old man. II can't remember a thing
about it. Go and ask your mother. She
managed the whole affair. "-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Neat-Come. now. you've been milk
man. Is 1t true that they water their
milk? Bovis-Not that l know of.
never did; that's all / can say. 1 oc-
casionally MIXED the water l delivered
to my customers, but l never watered
the milk.-Boston Transcript
Valid.-An expectant hush fell upon
the assembled people. your honor and
gentlemen of the jury" the counsel for
the plaintiff hastened to reply. 1--WE
shall have no difficulty in proving that
the marriage ceremony was valid. We
can call a dozen witnesses to testify
that every woman who was present
cried through 1t all, from beginning to
end, Is it possible to conceive that wo-
men, fortified as they are by mysteri-
Gus and infallible intuition, would have
cried. were no marriage actually taking
place. as my learned brother argues ?"-
Detroit Journal.
The herald., 1897-04-04

The color scheme is the most import
ant part of furnishing; there should be
a certain warmth in coloring, and this
will rarely be found in gilt papers or
moquette carpets. If the rest of the
house be simply furnished the parloi
can still be elegant with mating and
rugs on the floor, rattan or bamboo fur
niture and muslin curtains. The only
important thing is to have the different
pieces of furniture in one room of SIM
liar style and effect and to have the
decorations correspond with the furni-
ture, so as to give a good general effect
the details are a matter of preference.
AS most houses are laid out, the parlor
has at least one long blank wall and
perhaps tWo-to make these attractive
is the supreme test of furnishing. A
few large pictures hung several feet
above the line of vision is the usual
treatment, and the result is depressing
to a degree. The wall should be COW
cred as fully as possible with pictures,
and plenty of small ones should be in
terspersed in order to give diversity and
informality. The mantels should be well
filled with objects of art, and none of
them should be trivial. Above all, there
should be plenty of books in the book
case-not ponderous gift books, blazing
whit gilt and stamped leather. but books
to read and books that are talked about.
1t should be remembered that there
are no better aids to furnishing any liv-
ing room than supply of prettily bound
books.
The accompanying plan provides a
parlor of attractive shape and size, that
lends itself TO the treatment indicated
above.
The woodwork is painted deep cream
and the walls coral; the floor Is stained
deep red brown or covered with "Old
rose" or dark copper" felt, which helps
to tighten or soften the effect of the
decorations, which can be overlaid with
rugs.
The general dimensions OF this de-
sign are; Wifti i'-rc''r-' l'h-rrv and
The herald., 1897-04-04

the swallowing of food by a boa. This
completed the snake commenced to
sN allow its victim.
II waited a few moments until the
rabbit had gotten fairly into the snakes
throat, and then l went after the boa.
seized it by the neck and tried 10 shove
il, head first. into the canvas bag. had
underestimated the powers of my adver
sary. / had supposed the snake would
be in such a state, owing to the meal it
was making. that there would be little
trouble in handling it. but before / knew
il / felt the snake folding around my
limbs In a marVelously short space Of
time the snake was about ne as far as
my abdomen. l clung TO its throat des
perately. realizing that if | once lost
my hold it would be like signing my
death warrant. l would be squeezed to
Jelly
1t is impossible for me to describe with
pen such frightful position. The
snake turned its head towards me and
Kissed in my face. darting out its fOrked
tongue as if il would pierce me with it.
1 expected to be slowly squeezed to
death, but to my surprise the folds did
not tighten, and then l. Lrealized that,
owing to the position OF the rabbit in
the snakes throat the pressure of my
hands thereon was having an effect. Be.
sides this, the snake was not seemingly
in the possession of its full powers. My
hands are rather muscular, and doubt
if that fact Will ever stand me in bet
ter stead. / squeezed the snakes throat
as vigorously as possible. and it kept up
a continual Kissing, glaring al me with
the most malevolent look it is possible
to imagine
This sort OF thing went on for a few
moments, and then / made up my mind
to try to break the snakes hold So
choked it with all the strength Of which
l was capable. To my joy, ] felt the
hold of the snake upon me relax, and
the coils Slipped down as they loosened.
| pushed the head and neck to the
ground. Still keeping one hand and my
knee thereon, | managed with the other
TO gain possession of the knife at my
belt With this | soon ended his snake
ships existence. 1t Writhed about TO
Il considerable extent and during its con-
tCrtions thrust the end of its tail under
meath the edge of one leg of my trousers.
Another movement of the tail split that
leg up to my Waistband. At last the
snake died and l took il back to Miami
THE snake is unlike any | ever saw
before. but am satisfied ii is a Brazilian
python. 1t is of a dull brown in color
with black spots. lis head is about foul.
inches long and three and half inches
wide. Taken altogether it is as ugly
customer as j ever encountered
WALTER RALSTON"
The snake is being prepared for pres
ervafion and before long will be one of
The herald., 1897-04-04

of Black Point Key that is known as
me Prairie, being that section of IT near
est the land. If could find the snake
there knew would have better fight
irg chance to attack it. Fortune seemed
with me this time, for l had barely
landed when found traces of the snake
l trailed it for half a mile, and at
last came within sight of It,
1t was a big one and no mistake, but
there did not seem any opportunity for
me to capture it alive or dead. 1realized
that it would be impossible to get it
alive, for though / could crowd a
pretty big snake into the canvas bag
carried, this one was altogether too large
for anything of that sort.
IT thought the situation over, and con-
cluded the only thing for me to do was
to watch and wait my chance. knew
I was fifteen miles from the nearest per-
son. and that might cry for help as loud
as I liked without the slightest proba-
bility of any response. This was about
o'clock in the afternoon. 1t seemed as
If it knew l was watching it, for it kept
as sharp an outlook as any snake ever
saw. l waited until darkness came. 1t
was impossible for me TO do anything at
night. Still / was afraid to go away,
lest the snake should disappear. and it
might be weeks before l would find 1t in
a place so favorable to capture.
so l got into my canvas bag ana re-
NAMED where l was. When daylight
came resumed my watch. but the snake
was as wary as ever The hours wore
away until it was nearly o'clock. i
had been watching the snake twenty
four hours. and in all that time had not
slept a wink, or eaten or drank any
thing Presently l saw the snake move
A short distance away was a rabbit, ana
almost as quickly as l can write this the
snake went after him and siezed him.
Then began the process preliminary to
The herald., 1897-04-04
vSSSSSS9SS$S$$$$$SSS$$S$S$
! sPRESENT DAY PARLOR! /!
DIFFERS FROM THE PAST

(This is the first In the series of ten illus- III
trated architectural article written ior ne
Sunday Herald by the Cooperative builu-
ing Plan association, architects, OF Ne"
York City)
The improvement in public taste IN
this country during the past teW year
is shown in few ways more striklngy
than in furnishing of the parlor. III .Iie
olden times, when houses were hea,eu
with difficulty by open fireplacee or ny
tie wood stoves, it became the custom III
winter time to shut off the portions ol
the house that were not needed for llVlhe
purposes, for economy of fuel. The par
lor was not necessary place Tor lamly
use, as the household generally gathered
for comfort in the kintchen or dining
room. Therefore the parlor was the
first room to be closed on the approach
of winter and the last to be opened on the
advent of summer. Perhaps the emu Oh
the atmosphere made more apparent tne
repressing influence of its formal lur-
nishing, and the parior grauuals
became entirely dissociated from any
idea of family functions.
The herald., 1897-04-04

Black Point Key and have never since
been heard of.
Prof. Ralston tells a narrowing story
sof his adventure with the snake, and IL
seems almost a miracle that he lived Ia
relate it. He watched the python with
, out food or sleep for twenty four hours
before the opportunity came which en-
abled him to master it with some pos
sibility of success. The professor has
prepared the following statement which
tells in graphic language exactly what
his fortunes and misfortunes were:
ITO the Editor:-I have been working
twenty-six years in the interest of
science. and in all that time never ex-
perenced an adventure so perilous as
the one that. befall me on Black Point
Key. l had heard of great snake be-
ing there before l came here, and made
up my mind that it must be a specimen
worth looking after. The story as 1t came
to me was that a ship containing speci-
mems from South America for a circus in
the United States had foundered off this
coast, and it was supposed that the
snake, which was really the king of
Black Point Key, had been part of the
cargo OF the ill-fated vessel.
"Black Point Key lies just off the
coast and at the edge of the Everglades
1t is low ridge topped by heavy
growth of pines. While an island now. IL
originally was a neck of land. The peo-
pie who lived on the adjacent keys were
In state of terror regarding the snake,
and in constant fear that it would leave
the key on which ii had been for so long.
pay them a visit, and possibly eat them
before they could do anything about it,
The length of the snake, they declared
was phenomenal and it is an actual
fact that number of men who said that
they had seen it were willing to make
affidavit that it was fully thirty-five
feet long and must at least weigh a
hundred pounds.
Il knew that no snake from Sou II
America could be of that size and so
farcied that there must be good deal
of exaggeration. l made up my mind
i would at least take look at the mon
ster IL could not capture it. and made
two trips to Black Point Key for the
purpose. l could not even catch a
glimpse of the snake, and not being de-
sirous of placing myself in such posi-
ton that it could catch me unawares
If it really proved to be as horrible as my
ffformants stated, l kept out of the un-
4derbrush and avoided places where 1t
could drop on me from trees.
II heard of the snake agin soon after
my second trip, and so decided to make
. third attempt l went to that PORTION
The herald., 1897-04-04
Cured

LOS ANGELES Cal, Jan. 2S, 1897
Prof. Joseph Fandrey, S21 South Broadway,
Los Angeles, CAL:
Dear Sir-I wish to write and thank you
for your wonderful cure of my case Of
rupture which you have been treating.
Since you pronounced me cured on jan
uary 1st and discarded my truss, I must
say that l do feel that l am absolutely
cured, for since have been going without
truss l feel as we'll as / ever did In my
life and have no signs Of any weakness.
| think your cure all the more remarka-
BILE, for when ruptured myself two Of the
best physicians said would never get over
1t without an operation. That was over
four years ago. and today am q well man.
and wish to say to those whom 1t may con-
cern, that when was tempted as last
resort to try your truss found 1t per-
lection discomfort.
l have tried a great many kinds of store
trusses and have found them all more or
less Instruments Of torture. so that felt
that in your truss l really found bless
ing 49,
[ earnestly request that all who wish will
call on me and shall be only too glad
to explain the advantages Of your truss
and treatment. So again let me thank you
for your cure; also for your kind care
while taking your treatment.
Yours respectfully.
ARTHUR M'DOUGALL.
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