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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
sAILEI,

SIS Cumberland (Am.). Minot. Brazos
river points.
Ss Alamo (Am), Hix, New York.
SIS Cotchelc Ulr.). Rotterdam.
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ON sHIpBoARD NOT CLEARED.

Cotton on shipboard, not cleared, at CAL
weston, today;
FOR liverpool Bales.
I3y steamship pauiina. .........r..... 3,457
by steamship RITA. ...,......'...,,...... III
For Havre--
ny steamship Port Hunter. ............ 1000
For Hamburg
BY steamship Ielvetia ............... 100
For Brcmen--
BY steamship Fulwcll.. 1853
Fer Rotterdam
By steamship Cotehele. ................ 1000
For New York
nv Mallory line. ........................ 22S6
BY Lone Star line. Observation-Disclosures, 91
Total on ahiphonrd. ...................l0,62 go
Same day last year, ..36.0i0
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MARINE INTrLLIoENCn.
Port of Galveston, September 1.
ARRIVED.

SIS Orion tBr.). Brown, Liverpool
SIS Olinda (Br.), Hanson. Antwerp.
IS Aldersgate CBr). Hurland, Santos.
IS Miami (Am), Mcdonald. New York
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GALVESTON STATEMENT

Net rccc'ris OF cotton n. Galveston to-
day, fi92 bales: this season. 1868; Same
time last season, "A 235; gross receipts this
season, is. $50, came time last season, "A. 235.
total exports this seaeon, 73T6. same tirno
last season, $685.. stock this day. a3.525; this
day last year 7l,6t3,
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THE wool MARKET.

Prices paid by Houston Dealers
Twelve months. medium .-........W ala
Twelve months. fine............-... 010
Six months lac iess
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New York September 4.-Hides firm:
Galveston 1915: Buenos Ayres TO- nomi-
nal: Texas dry 12ikGl3: California II.
Leather firm: hemiock soc Buenos Ayres
1s-zQ30iz. Wool Arm; Texas 10QN.
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The following ar, the closing quotations
for cotton on :he spot today at the leading
markets, together with the closing of mid
cling yesterday. with today's sales.
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New Goods
in Car Lots

-. California Canned Goods, East
ern Canned Goods and other goods.
bought before the advance In prices
ana received on the cut rates OF
freight. We will interest any one
wanting 70 buy anything in our
H. D. Taylor
& Sons.
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GALVESTON RECEIPT.

iAIN lSSTpN RECEIPTS.
Receipts at Galveston today.
Grain BY International and Great
Northern, one car wheat: by Missouri
Kansas and Texas, sixty-two ears wheat.
by Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, four cars
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Daily Interior Movement.

Havre. September 4.-Spots quiet and
easy: futures steady.
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HIDES. TALLow AND nEEswA1.

Prices paid by Houston dealers
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DRIED FRUITS AND NUTS,

GRAIN AND HAY.
Carload lots job cars, from mills; deal
ers charge from store 5ml0c more per 100
lbs on bran, 2m3c per bushel on oats and
corn and l0@l5c per 100 lbs on hay.
BRAN-67ikc.
CHOPPED CORN-7oQ75c per 100 lbs.
l40c.
OATS-Texas. 23l5q2i12c.
WHEAT SCREkiN1 NGS-70c per bushel
HAY-Alfalla, sl0.5IQ HOO per ton; millet
$500: timothy, s13 50ii1l50, South Texas
prairie hay s50005,50.
COTTONSEED PRODUCTS-Meal and
cake. 81. O0a1S.0o per ton; bulls. 81. 90.
SORGHUM SEED-s5n90c per 100 lbs.
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COTTON.
Houston DniIy Statement.
Houston Railroad Receipts.


Closed quiet at decline of i-lsc; salt
esf
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Worlds Visible supply.

the worlds visible supply of cotton de
creased $1,000 bales this week, against ar
increase of 5000 for the same week OIL
last year The present supply is 1884. g.
bales less than on this date In 1896. The
following table gives the supply TO-DAY
and on this date in previous years:
1897. ........... 9S2.76l 1896 l. 367 3Sl
1895. .........22S9, $40 1891 i 9l3 6S,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12
To Break Up "A Sitting Hen.

1t is so natural for the hen to sit
after continuous laying until her egg
supply is temporarily exhausted that
we used when keeping hens to let
them have their own way generally
and bring off their broods. One of
the most beautiful sights in the farm
yard IS the mother hen watching her
little brood, calling them to favorite
morsel, or uttering the warning cry
which every little chick understands
when some strange object above her
gives the alarm. A piece of news
paper blown by the wind is to the
hens imagination a dangerous bird of
prey. While the hen is sitting, if she
is fed and watered twice a day she is
probably recovering her strength and
bringing forward another lot of eggs
quite as fast as she would be if run
ming at large. 1t really does the hen
good to raise her little family, and
with the Asiatic breeds we doubt
whether you will lose any eggs by it.
The trouble is that while the hen is
sitting she is usually partly starved,
and so it takes longer for her to re-
cover. If fed only wheat with plenty
OF pure water, and in separate dish the
curd of milk, Plymouth Rock hens
will often begin to lay eggs while kept
IN the coop with chicks too small to
care for themselves. Yet it is not
hard to prevent the hen from sitting
II you want to. Place the hen in a coop
where she can have no place to make
nest, and with young rooster from
another pen, if possible. After few
days OF this treatment, giving only
water and wheat grains, the hens may
be turned out and will soon go to lay
ing again. Cultiyator.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Fogs are said to have very bene-
fetal effect on the health of districts
where they are prevalent, as they are
great purifiers of the atmosphere, and
even the sulphur which makes the
London fog SO pungent and irritating
is credited with etfecting quite an ap-
preciable limitation OF prevalent in
fectious diseases. Professor Maur is
now of the opinion that smoke may be
turned into hygienic ally, and, under
some circumstances, be made capable
of preserving the public health to de-
gree little imagined. The dust col
lected fr ON the smoke of some Liege
furnaces, burning coal raised from the
neighboring mines, produces, when
dissolved in hydrochloric acid, So
luton from which considerable guam
titles of arsenic and several other me-
talfic salts may be precipitated. 1t is
now suspected that this breathing of
arsenic and other minerals in finely
divided state may account for the
singular immunity from epidemics en-
joyed by certain industrial districts,
such as that of st. Etienne, and medi-
cal authorities in those regions and
elsewhere are asked to throw upon
the subject what light they can. 1t is
suggested that the ventilating effect of
the numerous chimneys i'll iron max
ing and other industrial centers has
its due share in constantly driving off
the vitiated air and replacing it by
L.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Where the land is fresh and free
from the seeds of foul weeds, fall
turnip seed may be sown broadcast
from the first of July until the middle
OF August, depending ON the season,
and covered with light smoothing or
brush harrow. Prepare the land very
carefully and pulverize and compact
the seedbed thoroughly. New ground
the second year from sod gives best re-
suits. The soil is then rich in plant
food and in good tilth. A piece of
sod ground broken during the sum-
mer and seeded to wheat in the fall
makes an excellent turnip field the
following season, after the wheat has
been harvested. Ordinarily such land
will not produce sufficient number
OF weeds to interfere with the full de-
velopment of the turnips. Four or
five pounds of seed to the acre will
give about the right stand.
In sections of the country where
new land is not available. truck
patches from which early vegetables
have been removed will answer
admirably. Often wheat land is
plowed as soon as the gain has
been removed and seeded to
turnips. The ground must be rich.
Tor turnips are gross feeders, but soil
containing an excess of vegetable mat
ter will cause an excessive growth of
tops, to the detriment of root devel-
opment. A cool, moist climate is very
favorable to the growth of turnips and
for this reason the seed should be put
in late if the season is dry, then most
OF the growth will take place in fall
While broadcasting answers very
well on new land, the best results are
obtained only when sown in rows and
cultivated. Have the rows about two
feet apart and the plants anywhere
from six to twelve inches apart in the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Secretary Coburn, of the State De-
partment of Agriculture, has issued a
special report on the poultry and egg
industry of Kansas. The product for
1896 amounted to $3,6OS,s SIS, sum
..Sfiicient to pay all the State and city
taxes of the preceding year and leave
a surplus of $4,000. No field crops,
with the exception of wheat, corn, and
hay, equalled in value the poultry in
dustry. The yield from poultry was
ninety five per cent. greater than the
same years output of lead and zinc
mines of the State, and twenty-three
per cent. greater than the total paid
for teachers wages and school super
vision. In fact, the poultry came
within fourteen per cent. of paying
the entire cost of the public schools.
The poultry product was ten per cent.
greater in value than the potato crop,
and within twenty-three per cent of
the value of all the coal mined in the
State for the preceding year. The
average value of poultry and eggs sold
annually in the State for the past five
years was So, $685.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Nero, a dog owned by Wayne Bailey,
of Rutland, is said to be the largest
canine in the world, says the Vermont
Phoenix. He tipped the scales Friday
at 267 pounds. and would undoubtedly
have gone ten pounds better three
weeks ago.
Nero is q handsome half German
and half English mastiff, fawn brindle
in color, his huge head being of tri-
fie darker shade. He is as agile and
lively as cat. He makes q splendid
watch dog, but is kind and affection
ate animal.
Mr.. Bailey bought him at West Rut-
land when he was six months old; he
is now four years old. At the time of
purchase Nero weighed 162 pounds.
The animal stands up from the
ground thirty-fve inches and girths
fifty inches. The dogs neck is unusu-
ally large, measuring thirty inches, and
from tip to tip he measures six feet
five and one-half inches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Little Anita was an exceptionally
good girl when under the direct sur
veillance of her parents; but once out
of their sight she broke loose and
played all kinds of pranks. This was
source of much concern to her par
ents, and her father, desiring to cor
rect the habit, impressed upon her
mind that when she was out of human
sight all her acts were still observed
by God. The moral lesson seemed to
affect her, and shortly afterward, as
she was leaving the house alone, the
old dog Fido attempted to follow her.
This annoyed little Anita very much,
and, turning pettishly around, she
said to the devoted animal: "Fido,
you do home at once; it is bad enough
to have bod following me everywhere,
without having you following me,
too" "
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12
SlCK.RoOM HINTS.

For cramps or pains in the stomach
Try few drops of essence Of camphor.
For a nervous headache a cup of
moderately strong tea in which two or
three slices of lemon have been in
fused.
For tired feet put handful of COM
mon salt into four quarts of hot water
Place the feet in the water while it is
hot as it can be borne. Then rub the
feet dry with rough towel.
For making clear complexion stir
two teaspoonfuls of flowers of sulphur
into half pint of new milk. Let it
stand while, and then rub the face
over with it short time before wash
ing.
For binding up cuts and wounds
always use linen, not cotton, as the
tibres of cotton are fiat and apt to
irritate sore place, while those of
linen are perfectly rounded.
For badness try the following tonic:
Liquid ammonia, almond oil and
chloroform each one part; alcohol, five
parts; oil of lemons, one dram. Apply
freely and often after first thoroughly
brushing the hair. This is a mild
stimulant and perfectly safe.
For a nail-cleaning liquid use the
following lotion: Tartaric acid, one
dram; tincture OF myrrh, one dram;
eau de Cologne, two drains; distilled
water, three ounces. Dissolve the
acid in the water, mix the tincture of
myrrh and eau de Cologne and add to
the acid solution. Dip the nails in this
solution, wipe and polish with chamois
pad.-New York Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

President Mckinley Thursday passed
through the spot where he received
his first recognition as a public SER
want. When the splendid presidential
train on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
way reached Gauley Bridge, W. Va, =,
Mr.. Mckinley looked out the window
of his observation car and remarked:
"This place seems familiar to me.
1t was here that L joined General
Hayess brigade in December, 1864"
A member of the presidential party
happened to remember it was at Gau-
ley's Bridge that General Hayes wrote
in his diary December 10, 1864:
"Our new Second Lieutenant, Nc
Kinley, joined us to-day. He is q
gentlemanly and intelligent young of
ficer, and we all like him very much
Chicago Times Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

The trial of John Rhodes for
vagraney in the police court at Kansas
City, Mo-, the other day disclosed the
fact that he and his two sons had been
living in big hollow near the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul bridge
since last March Rhodes is a wagon
maker, fifty-two years old. Since he
went to Kansas City from Logansport,
Ind, year ago, he did no work, but
depended for existence on what his
two sons could beg. Being driven out
of hut last March, he moved into a
large hollow tree on the banks of the
Missouri River. There he would sleep,
while his sons were out begging food
and clothing Policeman Kennedy
arrested him for yagrancy. J. G.
Greenman, humane agent, took charge
of his sons and wants to find homes
for them. They are bright boys.
Their mother is dead.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

The reports from Manila that reach
Hongkong in private letters are not so
roseate as the Spanish official returns.
These private correspondents, who
have no motive for misrepresenting
facts, declare that the authorities are
making no material progress in sup
pressing the insurrection. The rebels
are getting more confident. and if they
only had a supply of good arms they
would not hesitate to attack Manila it.
self. The Spanish cause in the Philip
pines, as in Cuba, has been injured
seriously by the atrocious cruelties of
the officers and the wholesale execu-
tions of suspects.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Being gentle with horse will help
him to be gentle.
Keep the colt fat and he will make
an easy-going horse.
Sores on horses shoulders are large
ly the result of ill-ftting collars.
An excess of food weakens a work
ing animal and disables it from work.
If young teams are overloaded they
are apt to become discouraged or
vicious.
Take the horse to the harness shop
and see that collar fits him before
you buy it.
To very considerable extent the
most costly farming is that done with
poor teams.
The farmers will always be poor
who continue to raise $50 horses at an
expense of $780,
Blood, food, care and training are
the essentials necessary for producing
tirst-class horse.
There are few diseases to which
horses are subject but are easier pre-
vented than cured.
Good grooming does not only add
to the animals comfort, but to its
healthfulness as well.
The best farm horse is the one with
kind and tractable disposition, well
broken and serviceable.
Feedinp n littla vbeot bron with tba
other grain will help to make tho
horse's hair sleek and glossy.
The feed and care necessary to raise
poor horse costs as much in every
way as it does for one of the best.
A horse needs exercise every day
to keep his system properly regulated
and make his hair bright and sleek.
When the horse is brought in from
work he should be given a good drink;
if too warm to drink he is too warm to
eat.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

"The city of Melbourne" declares
the New York Times, sis one of the
greatest colonial centers in the world
and is so situated that it has had the
doubtful advantage of testing nearly
all the new-fangled notions of munich
pal ownership and paternal govern
ment generally. The result is not at
all encouraging. The population has
been declining rapidly since 1891,
when the census showed q total of
490, 900. The decrease for 1896 is Of
ticially stated at 3S4S souls, and for
the five and three-quarter years since
the census the net decline is put at
AZ, 4S6. This is condition which
might well appall any city, but it has
been made worse by extravagant
financing. The corporation indebted
ness of Melbourne and its suburbs is
now little less than S50,000,00O. The
annual interest upon this enormous
total by the time the Board of Works
has completed its extensive borrow
ings will amount to about 50, 125, 900,
though the population is not only fall
ing off so rapidly, but is also growing
poorer every year. Colonial authori-
ties still speak hopefully of the out
look, but the future seems depressing
to the foreign observer. The greater
part of the immense debt is due for
public improvements which have been
layishly distributed"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Mancher F. Glidewell has conveyed
to the Church of Christ, in Indian
npolis, Ind, valuable real estate, on
condition that the trustees never per-
init the introduction of an organ, choir
or musical instrument inside the
church walls, and that fairs, festivals
and all other gatherings not enumer-
ated in the New Testament be inter-
dicted. A failure to carry out these
restrictions forfeits the real estate to
the faction opposing any innovations
In church worship.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

For some time past British ento-
mologists, or bug g-hunters, have been
exercised over the determination of
certain insects in consequence of the
zeal of the collectors, who roam over
the country with butterfly nets. 1t
would be difficult to protect butterflies
and moths by Legislation, as has been
done for birds; so an association has
been formed under the auspices of the
chronological Society of London.
The members agree to leave rare in
sects alone for awhile and to do all in
their power to curb the sporting in
stinct in others. The insect collector
who abides by it will be more than
human, remarks London Graphic.
Imagine stamp collector agreeing
not to pick up rare specimen from
the roadside, yet a similar temptation
will be met and have to be resisted by
the insect collector.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

Owing to the cat being let out of
the bag too soon the MAP of Africa
by Treaty" by the librarian of the
British Foreign Office has just ap-
peared in second edition, the first
edition having been hastily suppressed,
as the boundaries marked indiscreetly
showed the boundaries England in
tended to demand in the near futlre
and not those generally acknowledged
TO belong to her
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

In compliance with IN order of the
Missouri State Board of Health in re-
gard to quarantine, all officers who
take prisoners to the penitentiary must
carry with them n certificate of health
signed by local physician and coun-
tersigned by the Secretary of the State
Board of Health, which certificate must
state that the prisoner has not been ex-
posed to any contagious disease for
thirty days prior to his transfer to the
penitentiary. This certificate must be
approved by the Secretary of the State
Board of Health at st. Louis.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12
REMARKABLE BONE GRATING.
Transplanting II Bone Five Inches Long
From Sheep to n Mans Leg.

Transpiantng Bone Five Inches Long
From "A Sheep to Mans Leg.
A bone five inches long, taken from
the leg of sheep, has been grated
successfully to the tibia large bone of
the leg) of human being by DR.. De
Witt &. Wilcox, Surgeon-in-C Charge at
the Lexington Heights Hospital, Buf-
falo, N. Y. There is no record in
medical literature of similar opera
tion of such magnitude.
F. FL. Moir, twenty-four years old,
was injured January by the explo-
sion of a gas-drum. The tibia was
badly shattered Ordinary methods
of healing failed, and then DR.. Wilcox
endeavored to save the limb.
The patient was placed under
chloroform. and the two ends of the
bone were cut off sufficiently distant
from the injured area to insure healthy
bone. This distance amounted to five
inches. The soft parts around the
seat of injury were well cleaned out
and put in a healthy condition.
While this work was being done
another operation was being conducted
In an adjoining room. Here healthy
live sheep, one year old, was chloro-
formed, section of bone removed
from its hind leg, thoroughly cleansed
and made to fit into the interval just
created in the mans leg. This was
sprung in with sufficient pressure to
insure it keeping its place perfectly.
The cavity was again well cleansed
and the skin sewed up closely. The
entire leg from the toes to the hip was
placed in plaster of-paris cast. The
progress of the patient since the oper-
alton has been most favorable.
When the bone was grated in there
was allowed to formed a clot of blood
completely enveloping this graft.
Under favorable conditions such a clot,
with bone for basis, or, in other
words, to feed upon, will in the course
Of time become bone itself, 1t first
organizes into fbrous tissue, then
gradually becomes bony
There is every evidence that this
clot is thus hardening from the fact
that in passing the finger over the
surface of the leg there cannot be fell
any marked depression between the
ends of the natural bone. Were this
clot not hardened a "soft interval"
would be quite distinct.
The repair between the ends OF the
bone is, therefore, due quite rs much
to the ''blood-clot" formation as to
graft; but the graft must make the
frame upon which this clot can form,
and this clot must also be fed with
bone cells from the ends of the
healthy bone and its coverings.
1t will be some weeks before the pa
tient will be allowed to use his leg for
walking, but there is every evidence
that the operation will prove sue
ess.-New York World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12
Efectrocuting Whales.

A Canadian sea captain has invented
an apparatus with which he thinks
whales can be killed by electric shock.
A harpoon is fixed at the end of long
metallic cable, properly insulated, and
which serves in place of the usual
rope. Through this cable an electric
current of 10000 volts is to be sent by
means of dynamo carried in the
whale boat. The inventor believes
that no whale would be able to with
stand the shock it would receive the
instant the harpoon entered its side.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-08-12

row. Give level culture, keep the
land free from weeds and stir the sur
face often.
Turnips are a valuable winter feed
for sheep aud cattle, particularly the
former. When fed to milk COWS give
Just after milking. Otherwise the
milk moy be given an unpleasant odor
and the butter an undesirable taint.
They must not be fed in excess to any
stock but when other succulent feeds
cannot be fed, turnips are invaluable.
American Agriculturist.