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The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
Wheat Will STAY High.

The following 10 relation to the wheat
situation is an extract from the complete
monthly report of John hyde, the
statistician of the Agricultural Depart
ment.
High prices for wheat have for several
weeks past been bringing out supplies
quite freely, and increased supplies have,
in turn, reacted upon prices, causing
some decline from the higest figures of
August. The general tenor of the infor-
nation CLEANED from all available
sources is not, however, of a character to
warrant the producers point of view, of
any material cheapening Of wheat I'm.
til another season is in sight, with a
prospect of ampler stocks.
With an annual average European
product of over 1,428, 900 900 bushels
during the six years from 1891 to 1896,
inclusive, we exported an average of
166. 373. S72 bushels a year. This year
the European crop, according to Broom,
halls "Corn Trade News" will in round
numbers, amount to !, 1923, 900, 900 Win
chester bushels less than the average Of
the six years in question. If we make
the COMPARISON with the figures given by
Beerbohm for 1897, the deficiency in the
European crop is still greater, the figures
in millions of bushels being: Average
for 1891 96, 1923; crop of 1897, 1916.
Difference, 113.
That is according to Beerbohm's esti-
mate of this years crop, there is a de-
ficiency of 113. 900. 900 bushels in
European countries as compared with
their average product for the six years
19s1-96-an average which includes the
exceptionally small crop of 1891. To
make up this deficiency, little help is to
be expected from India, Argentina or
Australasia for months to come, and in
so far as Europe will nave to import a
larger quantity than usual she will have
to draw it mainly from North America,
and especially from the United States,
the Canadian contribution being rela.
lively small.
If the Argentine crop shall escape the
ravages of locusts, 1t seems likely to turn
out unusually we'll. and from January,
1898, when the bulk of the crop will be
harvested in Argentine. that country
may nave more or less wheat to export,
as the latest mail advices represent ths
crop as being in fine condition and the
weather highly favorable. There are,
however, many chances of serious dam.
age during the next three or four months.
But leaving out of view the fact that
the burden of supply for Europe will fall
more largely than usual upon the United
States, it is evident that there would, in
any case, be a demand for a larger
surplus than is to be exp ected out of this
years crop.
If to our average annual export for the
six years 1s92.97 We add a European
shortage of $4,000, 900 bushels, figured
out by Broomhall, we get a total of
265, 1873, S72 bushels, and, in SO far as we
fall short of supplying that quantity,
Europe, as compared with an average
year, must suffer a scarcity in her bread
supply, except in 80 far as she can avert
it by drawing on the stocks that may
remain out of previous crops.
The worlds reserves have, however.
been reduced, in consequence of the short
wheat crop of last year, and q deficiency
in some of the other important food crops
wheat market.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Referring to the woman suffrage con-
stitutional amendment the New ark News
says: "The law of New Jersey which
was set aside and which this consti.
tutional amendment aims to replace, gave
general satisfaction. Few complaints
were made in regard to it. A large nun
Der of those who gave most attention to
it's practical workings and results are
enthusiastic In their support of the
amendment. Their ground is that it is a
good thing for the women and a good
thing for the cause of public education
that the sex should have the right to vote
for those who are to administer a trust in
which they are vitality interested. Com
mon sense supports this appeal. 1t comes
with equal force to those who would
extend female suffrage and to those who,
favoring this proposition, have no in
elination to go any further along that line.
The intelligent interest of women ought
to be enlisted in the work of the public
schools. Women fitted for the position
ought to be members of school boards
both in the districts and in the cities"
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

at the specia al election to be held on
Tuesday, Sept. 28th, for the adoption of
the proposed Constitutional amendments
relating to gambling and lotteries, ap-
pointments to office, and woman suffrage
in the election of members of Boards of
Education, the polls will opeu at 6 O'Clock
in the morning and close 7 o'clock in the
evening. No official envelopes are re-
quired, but each voter must be furnished
with one official ballot by a member of
the board of registry and election, must
retire to a booth to prepare his ballot,
and must then deliver it folded to a mem.
Der of the board. The procedure at this
election will be the same, as far as prac
ticab.e, as it is at the general elections.
Official ballots only are to be used. Un-
official ballots will not be counted except
where official ballots have not been de-
iivered or the supply has been destroyed,
stolen or exhausted. Any voter may
obtain a supply of official ballots before
election day from the Secretary of State
by paying the cost of printing them. In
~canvassing the ballots, each ballot is
counted as a vote for each proposed
amendment not cancelled with ink or
pencil, and against each proposed amend
ment that is SO cancelled.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
BLACK C
A Story of the Early Days of the Con.
Eellsvil1e Coal Region.

A Story of the Early Days of the Con-
Eellsville Coal Region.
A writH in Forest and Stream says
that Elias Blank, one of the early set
tiers of what is now the great Connells-
vile coal region, in western Pennsylva-
mia, was among the first Americans to
burn soft coal. How the thing came
about is thus described:
One night Mr.. Blank was aroused by
a rapping at his door. Opening it, he
admitted a famous Indian fighter, Lewis
Whetzell, and a companion, Jonathan
Gates, commonly known as "Long
Arms"
Friend Lewis" said Blank, "where
v thee and our friend been and
where bound?"
Il want to get out of here at once,''
said Whetzell, land Long Arms is of
the same opinion. This country's be-
witched, and Long Arms and 1 are
nearly scared to DEATH"
Friend Lewis, thee must not tell
such stories to me-" said old Elias.
"Thee knows I am thy friend, and l
have saved thee when a price was on
thy head. l know thou art a man of
courage, and friend Jonathan Gates,
whom some call Long Arms, fears
nothing Oh earth, and I'm fearful moth
ing anywhere else, and yet thou tellest
me that he and thee are scared even al
most unto death. Shame on thee SO to
declare before thy friend, who loves We
both as he were thy fatherl"
mo, no, Elias" said Whetzell, drop
ping into the Quaker speech. 81 tell
thee no lie. We are scared. Yesterday
afternoon we were in hiding about a
mile from Dunkard creek, and in the
evening we built a fire under the bank
very carefully, and We got some black
rocks to prop up a little kettle and put
them beside the fire rather than in it,
and the black rocks took fire and burned
fiercely, with a filthy smoke and a
bright light, and Long Arms said the
devil would come if we staid, and we
grabbed our kettle and poured out the
water and made our way here, leaving
the black rocks to burn"
Elias Blank was much interested. He
did not tell Whetzell what the black
rocks were, but he found out exactly
where the men had made their fire, and
when they went away he gave them
each a new Ezra Engle rifle, a knife
and a tomahawk, with four pounds of
powder and a supply of lead.
Then he hunted up their camping
ground, found the ''black rocks and
opened a coal bank into one of the river
hills, and this coal bank is still in ex-
istence in a 10 foot vein of coal that is
absolutely free from slate and burns
like pitch.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
CUBE ROOT MAD EASY.
How ANY Bright Scholar May Learn to
Tell 1t Offhand

How Any Bright Scholar May Learn to
Tell 1t OGhand.
To find the cube root of any given
number of figures offhand seems an al
most imT -Ssible feat, but yet it is sim
pie enousn when one knows how to do
lt-so simple, indeed, that any bright
boy can learn to do it in a few weeks.
First he must know exactly what a
cube is-namely, that it is the result
of multiplying one number by itself
and then multiplying the product by the
original number. Thus, 8 multiplied
by 8 equals 8, and 9 multiplied by 8,
the original number, produces 81, which
consequently is the cube of 8. The cube
root of q is the original number, 8,
and to find the cube root is the reverse
of finding the cube. The would be adept
at this art should first study carefully
the following figures:
lxlx1= 2x2xas 8xsxsAa
4 4x4xa= IS sxsxsZ5is sxsxsE9s
A close study of these figures shows
that 2 multiplied in this manner by it.
self results in s, that s multiplied by
itself has Q as a final figure, that 8 null
tiplied by itself has Z as a final figure,
that z multiplied by itself has 8 as a
inalt figure, and that 4, 5, 6 and 9 null
tiplied by themselves have their origi-
nal figures as finals. Hence the "artist''
knows that any sun given to him the
final figure of which is s must have Q
as a cube root; that if the final figure
be 8, the cube root must be 8, and so
ON.
For example, give him the figures
"a, 0S8, and he can at once tell that 40
is the cube root, for the reason that "a
4 as a cube root, as the cube of 4 is
GA, while the cube Of 5 is 1875, much
more than "a, and 088 has Q as a cube
root.
Or give him a more difficult problem,
as, for example, the figures 324, 1863.
Then he will see at a glance that 1924 is
more than 216, which is the cube of 6,
but is less than 843, the cube Of z.
Therefore the cube root of these three
figures is 6. In like manner the final
figure of 800 being 9, it follows that the
cube root of these three figures is 8, and
thus the cube root of the six figures has
been shown to be 60.
Any one can test this method for
himself, and a little practice is all that
is needed to make one as deft in such
jugglery of figures as the best eight
ming calculator.
OF course a skilled arithmetician
could easily frame problems that could
not be solved in this offhand fashion,
but such difficult tests are seldom offered
by public audiences, and, as a rule, the
ARTISTS" are easily able to answer all
the questions asked of them.-New
York Herald.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Sheridan once had occasion to call at
a hairdresser's to order a wig. On be-
ing measured, the barber, who was a
liberal soul, invited the orator to take
some refreshment in an inner room.
Here he RECALLED him with a bottle of
port and showed SC much hospitality
that Sheridan's heart was touched.
When they rose from the table and
were about separating, the latter, look
ing the barber full in the face, said,
"On rejecting, 1 don't intend that You
shall make my wig"
Astonished and with a blank visage,
the other exclaimed: Good heavens,
Mr.. Sheridanl How can 1 have dis
pleased your"
why, look you," said Sheridan,
"you are an honest fellow, and, l re-
peat it, you shan't make my wig, for I
never intended to pay for it. I'll go to
another less worthy son of the craft"
Liverpool Mercury.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Sig. Sautelle's ci rcus visited Belvi-
dere last Tuesday and proved to be on 9
of the biggest and best shows that has
visited this town in a number of years,
says the Warren Journal. The per
formanoes were clean and conducted 10
q snappy and business like way, and were
interesting from the time the big parade
started until the call over'' was an
nounced in the concert. Sig. Sautelle has
gathered together many leading artists
who gave all of the latest and most novel
and daring acts, the trapeza performers,
tumblers and bare back riders being
worthy of especial mention. Two of the
most enjoyable features we're the per-
formances of the handsome trained ponies
and the exhibition given by the dogs,
who seemed endowed with human intelli
gence as they were exhibited by Sig.
Sautells in person. The entire show is
owned by Sautelle and no bummers,
gamblers or disreputable people are
allowed around. Tuesday was pay day
with the show and onr business men re-
ceived from the performers a fair share
of the $500 distributed by Sig. Sautelle.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

The Elizabeth Journal tells who are
opposed to the race track Constitutional
amendment. After reciting the several
owners of the six great race tracks 10 the
State, who hays IL 900 900 invested in
them, the Journal says: "The trolley COM
panies and the steam railroad com-
panies that run their roads to these race
tracks are opposed to this amendment.
This is not to say that all the officers,
director and stockholders in these COM
panies are personally gamblers or in
favor of gambling. But they want to
make money by carrying people, and it
pays just as we'll to carry gamblers to
the race tracks as it does to carry moral
people to church. In fact it pays better.
From a business and financial point Of
view, they are opposed to the amend
ment which prohibits gambling, be-
cause the race track owners will not open
the tracks for the sole purpose of i'm
proving the breed of horses." The
gamblers themselves will work against
the amendment. This includes not only
the professional gamblers, who are com
paratively few in number. but those who
secretly and surreptitiously desire to
gamble. Every city, county or legisla
tive official who is at heart a corruption
ist, and who is secretly willing to be cor
rupted and to take race track money for
franchises or for votes favorable to the
race tracks, will oppose the amendment,
If he can do SO without being noticed"
And much more of the same sort, which
will cause the friends of the amend
ment to rally to its support at the polls
On tie Ssh.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
GEM SCULPTURE,
something About the Making of Canoes
and Intaglios, |

Something About the Making of Canoes
and IntagliOs.
Gem sculpture, or 1ithoglyptics, is
an art Of great antiquity, having been
practiced by the B~abyIonians, the Egyp-
tlans, the Hebrews and the Greeks.
Afterward it sank into decadence, but
in the fifteenth century was revived in
Italy. 1t is an art that calls for great
elegance of taste and much skill, for on
a small stone, generally precious, de-
signs are represented either in raised
work, as canoes, Or by being cut below
the surface, as ~intaglios
To canoes the term minute soulp-
ture" is indeed applicable, for since
the days of Greek art celebrated statues
have been copied in this way. The first
intaglios were the scarabs, or beetle
shaped signets, worn in rings by the
Egyptians from a very remote period.
One side of the stone was shaped like a
beetle, the other side was fiat, and the
name of the king or wearer was cut in
to it, A hole was then drilled in the
stone from end to end, and through it a
strong wire was passed to hold it in
position in a ring. The fiat or seal side
was always worn next to the finger, but
when used as a seal it was turned.
In the art of gem sculpture the
Greeks excelled all predecessors. The
Etruscans, contemporary with the
Greeks, also attained excellence in gem
cutting, and it is said that ION these
early gems of Etruscan or Greek origin
may be read as in a book the forms of
their religion and the subjects of y
lar interest in politics, song and fable
for centuries.
Under Augustus gem sculpture flour
ished among the Romans, many of them
possessing canoes and intaglios of great
value, and cabinets of costly gems be-
came numerous. 1t is said that Caesar
sent six cabinets of rare gems to the
temple of Venus.
There are many fine cameos and in
taglios in the British museum. Among
the finest of them accessible to the pub
lie are the Cupid and Goose intaglio,
the Dying Amazon" the Laughing
Fawp, :" "Bacchus'' on red jasper, and
the Julius Caesar" of Dioscurides. In
modern times gem sculpture has reached
a high state of perfection and beauty.
Philadelphia Times.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
Acids and the Teeth.

1t is a dentists word that acids are
quite as injurious al sweets to the teeth,
unless their traces are promptly remov-
ed. Oranges or apples eaten at night
need the brush as certainly as do candy
and other sweets. If persons would be
careful, too, what is taken before a
teeth filling appointment, those with
sensitive teeth will find some mitiga-
ton to their suffering. Acids that set
the teeth on edge are particularly to be
avoided.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
An Appeal.


The following appeal, which is signed
by many people in u own section of
the State, whom we recognize as having
the best interest of the States welfare at
heart, should claim the honest suppdrt of
all voters. Among these names: Robert
Gwynne. Jr., Rev W. V. Louderbough,
M. P. Grey, Jane Grey, l.. o. Acton, E.
IL. Acton, G. Fl. Sinnickson, Sarah M,
sinnickson, of Salem; VIM. Fl. Eldridge,
Norman Grey, Louise B. s. Grey,
of Woodbury..
Beside these we notice the names of
Judge E. A. Armstrong, Camden;
Charles j. Baxter, superintendent for
the State Of New Jersey. Plainfield; Mrs.
Emma Bourne. President New Jersey W.
G. T. u, Newark; Mrs. Isabella Fl.
Demarest, Corresponding Secretary New
Jersey w. O. T. u; Cecilia Gaines,
President Nav Jersey Federation of
Woman's Clubs: Isabel Craven, Vice
President New Jersey Federation of
Woman's Clubs, Salem; Aaron M.
Powell, the philanthropist, Plainfeld;
Anna Rice Powell, Plainfeld.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
Creamridge. 9-4.'97.


We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Props.
Toledo. o.
We the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm,
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o. WALDINe, KINNAN & MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Price
75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Testimonials free.
HALLS Family Pills are the best.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Up to August 31st, according to the
official records of the Bureau of Stats
tics, the net increase of exports from this
country from January l last, as com
pared with the corresponding eight
months of last year, was s22, 735, 669. If
this rate of increase should be main
tanned, the record breaking figures of ex-
ports for the last calendar year would be
largely surpassed in 1897. There is an
urgent demand for American breadstuffs
from all quarters, the increase in this
item of export for eight months being
over 500, 600, 900.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill.
lousness, Indigestion, Headache.
Easy to take. easy to operate. 25c.
Oz ~ 90 % and naxoI

EhAE Ht k0ubOUs september
"a, IS, 20, 80, and October L.
The great Inter State Fair at Trenton
grows more extensive and important
each recurring year, and the exhibition
to be held on September 81, %, go, 80,
and October 1 promises to be unusually
comprehensive an attractive. Every
department. will be replete with interest
irg and instructive displays. The blooded
stock exhibit will be particularly fine,
and the daily programme of races contains
the speediest GLASSES o~btainable. Circus
acts of rare merit and daring, and
vaudeville entertainments of all kinds will
be presented.
The large purses offered in the manifold
exhibits and contests insure unusual
efforts in the endeavor to prove superior
ity in the various departments.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
as is its yearly custom, will sell excursion
tickets on this occasion at greatly reduced
rates from stations within a wide radius,
and special trains over the New York,
Belvidere and Amboy Divisions will be
run through to the grounds, The tracks of
this company run direct to the Fair
Grounds, thus avoiding street-car trans
fer, and are the only ones within three
miles. The management of the Fair has
put forth extraordinary efforts to make
this years exhibition the greatest eyer
given.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Mrs. Meyer-What g the trouble, Mrs.
Schulz? You are in bad humor this
morning.
Mrs. Schulz-You see, my husband
staid at the club every night last week
until after midnight. Last night l sat
up, determined to give him a curtain
lecture, when he got in late. And what
do you think? The fool came home at
o O'Clock. Blatter.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Quiet has been at least partially re-
stored in the coal mines after the terrible
encounter at Hazleton between the sher-
ifs posse and the strikers, in which five
of the latter were killed. Negotiations
are in progress for a settlement of the
difficulties, and it is not likely that there
will be any further trouble, though the
strikers are reported still sullen and
uneasv.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

When Lincoln's turn m to have a
new state named after him, by all
means let u scholars insist upon Lin
colnia. If the bad linguistic taste which
dictated the naming of the state of
Washington had prevailed among our
forbears, we should now have a Virgin,
a George and a North and South Caro-
line instead of a Virginia.. a Georgia
two Carolinas. st. Paul Pioneer
Press,
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

The Republican State Executive Com
mittee, at a meeting held in Newark this
week, dicided to issue an address to the
people, recommending a favorable vote
upon the constitutional amendments. 1t
should rally the pee pie generally 10 their
support
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

The New York San says the Pbiladel-
phia Record, which kicked over the traces
last fall on Bryan and free silver, ''has
rejoined the Democratic party by the
door known as State issues" What if
somebody should turn the key in that
door before 1900?
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
a Moon Man or a SIM Man. Which

one winter morning, in London, 1 was
askeo 10 look at an object in the sky and
Tell whether it was the sun or the moon.
AS 1t was then nine O'Clock, l concluded
IL was the sun, but the confusion of the
eye that mirrored that copper colored
OBJECT glooming out from the fog, is an
exact parallel to the confusion that arises
In the mind of man, and 30 involves hin
In fogs of ignorance and prejudice that
you can not tell whether he is a sun man
or a moon man and he seems unable to
realize that any beam of truth that
reaches his brain must penetrate a fog of
temperament 80 thick that he can not, by
any means, fairly judge either its direc-
ton or its quality.
FRANCES f.. WITIApD
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Stop drugging yourself with quack
nostrums or "cureS " Get a we'll known
pharmaceutical remedy that will do the
work. Catarrh and Cold iu the head
will not cause suffering if Ely's Cream
Balm is used. Druggist will supply 100.
trial size or 500. full size. We mail it.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St., N. Y.
City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr.. of Great Falls,
Mont, recommended Ely's Cream Balm
to me. l can emphasize his statement,
sit is a positive cure for catarrh if used
as directed. Rev. Francis W. Poole,
Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena.
Mont.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
Educate You Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartie. cure constipation forever.
I0c. 25c. II c. G. Q. fail, druggists refund money.


for those who go to-day and get a package
of GRAIN-o. 1t takes the place of coffee
at about II the cost and can be given to the
children as well as the adult with great ben
eft. 1t is mad of pure grains and looks
and tastes like the finest grades Of Java
coffee. A cup of Grain-O is better for the
system than a tonic. What coffee breaks
down Grain-O builds up. Ask your grocer
for Grain-O. l5c. and 25c.
The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you
tried the new food drink called Grain-O7
1t is delicious and nourishing and takes the
place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give
the children the more health you distribute
through their system. Gratn-O is made of
pure grains, and tastes like choice coffee but
costs about u as much. All grocers sell it.
15c. and Csc.