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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing. Hopkins & COmpany's Review
of Trade.

""""'hg' Hopkins COmpany's Review
of Trade.
There was large and rapid advance
In the prices of wheat during the past
week with prospects of higher range
OF prices the rest of the year. Spot
wheat is difficult to get, even at pre-
MUM and the demand is pressing for
old wheat; 1,945, 900 bushels have been
taken in Chicago this week for prompt
and future shipment on foreign orders
the bulk of which was taken at the
advance early in the week.
This general advance is more the out
come of the hand-tO-mouth cOnsump-
ton of twelve months overtaking the
small stocks both here and in Europe,
as we have pointed out time and again,
than of short European crops now being
reaped. Prosperity is coming, in the
fact that tho European consumer is pay
ing the American farmer better price
than the majority of spectators put
upon the wheat. The actual value OF
the new crop is 20 cents higher than
the professional short seller made it in
June, when they We're selling Septem-
Der freely at SO = cents, and the farmer
is to be congra ulated that this advance
comes before the grain leaves his hands.
And so long as the legitimate demand
Keeps the spot wheat ut premium, no
combination or monopoly can profitably
depress the futures, as the experiences
OF the past six months have proved
So, for the near future, it will be safe
to buy wheat on each decline, as the
speculative market is broadening and
outside buying increasing, and will in
crease as the state of the country i'm
proves.
Although the sensational press tried
to show local manipulation in July de-
livery, Chicago is still the lowest mar
ket in the country, with spot wheat
this week 10 cents over the highest
price in July, and we would have seen
much higher price during this month
had not holders of wheat been fright
ened in June by sensational rumors of
large receipts; now the cash demand far
exceeds, in proportion. the speculative
demand. As in the May and July de-
liveries, the September speculative
price is steadily advancing to the price
of the spot wheat, which, as in those
months, will finally fix the value in the
latter end of this month.
We are now having large receipts of
wheat from an ample crop of fine quail
ity-this week 5,343, 400 bushels at the
nine primary markets, compared with
3211 $50 huS halS for tha Sa,na lact war
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

San Francisco, Aug. 10. - Act'ng
Collector Thomas has retceived a rul-
Ing from Secretary Gage, of the treas
ury, relating to the distillation OF GER
tain fruits. particularly in California.
Last MAY the Tenny Fruit Packing
Company, of Fresno, ditilled some hg
brandy. but the treasury department.
has decided that the distillation OF hgs
is illegal. The brandy in question
will be released, but hereafter the law
ill ho strictly enforced.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
Cigarette Making stops.

New York, Aug. 16.-Twenty-fve
hundred men and women who made to-
bacco cigarettes are out of work be-
cause of the failure of the internal rev.
enue department in Washington to
supply the deputy collectors in this
CITY with the new 81 revenue stamps,
nrovided for in the new tariff.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
Bets Innocence.

Bet Flint, humble friend of DR..
johnson, was taken up on charge of
stealing a counterpane She was tried
at the Old Bailey, and Chief Justice
W!lles, who had kindness for her sex,
summed up favorably, and she was ac-
quilted. After which Bet said, with
gay and satisfied air: Now that the
q petticoat of 1t"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

Wleans, Aug. 16.-A new gold
n. ueen discovered, but this one
tropics. Reports have come
Ivy IVY lately that big finds of gold
4. ~ made in Nicaragua. and
I.s rum that section have been
u gold dust in proof of it.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
ResienatiOn Of Weyler.

New York, Aug. 16.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana. via hey
West, says: II have learned on what
seems to be the best authority that
Captain General Weyler has sent his
res;pnation to Madrid. This report is
generally believed TO be true.
"There is no doubt that the resigna-
ton of Weyler is due to the assassina'
t;or If Canoyas del Castillo"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

Neb., Aug. l6.-Willie and
Tel' aged 4 and 10 years re-
sy' were drowned in the Blue
1 nay They fell from a narrow
~ were carried over a milldam
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
Tn. President Will Attend.

Columbus, o., Aug. l6.-President
Mckinley has accepted an invitation
TO attend the Ohio fair at Columbus,
opening August 81.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

An Unfortunate Phrase.
Politician always hold up Ameri-
can Industries.
Sinnick-For how much?-Puck.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
'Per Mill Destroyed.

i ld.se'' Conn.,, Aug. rs. The
h,salas paper mill, in auckland,
~ 'llis morning. Loss, $780,.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
Seattle Markets.

Butter-Fancy native creamery,
brick, l8c; ranch, 1O@12c.
Cheese Native Washington, 100
lie; California, 91ac.
Eggs-Fresh ranch, zoe.
Poultry-Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 1O@1lc; spring chickens, 81
@3.5O; ducks, ~. 50@3.75.
Wheat-Feed wheat, $2S per ton.
Oats-Choice, per ton, 1928.
Corn-Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, *22 per ton.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $21.
Fresh Meats--Choice dressed beef,
steers, &c; COWS, SIC; mutton sheep,
&c; pork, &c; veal, small, 6.
Fresh Fish-Halibut, 41ac; salmon,
40 &C; salmon trout, ia 10c; founders
and sole, 3@4; ling cod, 4@5; rock
cod, &c; smelt, az @4c.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

The small British torpedo boat Tur-
bina attained a speed of 80 knots an
hour near Spithead, England.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
Portland Mark cts.


Wheat-Walla Walla, Sic; Val
ley, SAC per bushel.
Flour-Best grades, 81. 10; graham,
$3.50 superiine. *2.25 per barrel.
Oats-Choce white, 3S a 4Oc; choice
gray, 36 a SOC per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $17.5O@l8;
brewing, $18@19 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, *l4 per ton;
middlings, $751; shorts, $3.50.
Hay-Timothy, $l2@ IL. so; clover,
$lO@l1; California wheat, 500
IL; do oat, $ll; Oregon wild hay, 500
10 per ton.
Eggs-l11a a l2c per dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 35@ 4Oc;
fair to good, SOC; dairy, 25@3Oc per
roll.
Cheese - Oregon, 111sc; Young
America, l21sc; California, ga 1Oc per
pound.
Poultry-Chiokens, mixed, $1,000
$50 per dozen; broilers, $l.5O@2.75;
geese, 1904; ducks, 81. 5O@3 per dozen;
turkeys, live, 1O@11c per pound.
Potatoes. Oregon Burbanks. $50
45c per sack; new potatoes, SOC per
sack; sweets, $l.90@2.25 per GENITAL.
Onions-California, new, red. $l.25;
yellow, $3.50 per GENITAL.
Hops-l0@111ac per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 4@6c.
Wool-Valley, 14@15c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 100 l2c; mohair, zoe
per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 214 @21ac; dressed mutton,
4 &c; spring lambs, ~ per pound.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, "a; light
and feeders, $2.50@3; dressed, 500
4.25 per 100 pounds
Beef-Gross, top steers, ~. rs q 8;
cows 1925; dressed beef, 4@ &c per
pound.
Veal-Large, 3@31ac; small, AZ
per pound.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

The Bank of England employs about
LOO men, and has salary list, In
GLIDING pensions, of about tooo'ooo
per snnum-
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19

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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19


it? Anne, to hide among the canyons
till the posse had returned to its Tulare
home? Or Henry Smith, to make an
end of me and flee? Truly, the ranch
monotony was broken at last. Solemn
ly the clock licked. slowly the hands
went round, an hour passed. A move
ment in the adjoining room, and liter
ally my blood ran cold. That had hith-
erto seemed mere figure Of speech.
The sound ceased. and still l watched
the nursery door At last, when my
brain would have turned with more,
heard sound which. faint at first,
grew louder and louder.
''Oh, heaven" l cried, "the blood
hounds! and fell senseless to the
ground.
Slowly returned to consciousness, my
gaze fell on Cedric. the La Huerta sher-
if. and Anne-Anne anxiously apply
ing restoratives!
Take him away" gasped; che will
murder us"
you are raving!" cried Cedric; that
Is Anne"
mo; Smith, the murderer The blood
hounds tracked him to the very door"
Here Hiram Waite thought fit to in
terpose.
Guess can straighten out this kink,
Mrs. Allandale. You did hear the
hounds; they're up at the barn now.
Your husband. he heard at La Huerta
we was beatin' up this part of the coun-
try, so he lit out for home, thinkin'
you'd be scared. We caught our man
hldin' by the 'Dobe hill, and the Tulare
boys took him back to town. Your hus-
band and me was tired, so we made
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
Important to all HOrseOwners.

A very simple application of clay for
the preservation of horses feet has
been used for some months by the sub
scriber in the city of Albany. 1t has
been so complete a success that it has
country, but as yet description of
same has never been given to the
public.
A box is made of inch boards, very
strong. The box should be about six
inches deep inside and little narrower
than the breadth of the stall in which it
is placed, and in length about one.half
the length of the stall. In this is
placed, filling it up almost to the brim,
small pieces of blue clay. Thoroughly
shower this clay with water several
times day until well mixed and hoe it
in the same manner that mortar is
hoed, 30 as to make the entire mass
uniformly soft. The entire body of the
clay thus wet should be a little more
soft than mortar used in building.
Daily water and hoe the soft clay 30 as
to preserve its consistency. The horse
is made to stand with his fore feet in
this mass for two or three hours day.
The box is 80 large that the horse can
not step out in any direction. The
softness of the material enables it to
form around the entire surface of the
feet coming little higher than the cor
onet of the feet. The moisture and
the effect of the clay absorbed by the
entire feet, particularly along the line
of the coronet, stimulates in remark
able and natural way the growth, re-
moving all fever or any results from
conclusion experienced by horses in
being driven over hard roads or streets
of stone.
The entire expense OF this plan can
not exceed one dollar, and any one who
gives it fair and thorough test, it is
predicted, will never use any foot oint-
ments or pursue any plan different for
the restoration and growth of his horses
feet.-Country Gentleman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
Milk Production.

The want Of to-day is a great reduction
in the cost price of producing milk 1t is
costing too much for the price received.
The thief who stole the five dollars and
by his shrewdness was enabled to hold
on to a dollar and half of it, remarked
that that was called thrift; but it is
not thrift for the owner to feed COW
five dollars worth of food as an invest
ment and only get three dollars and a
half back; and yet this is what is TAX
ing place with fully one.third of the
cows in the United States. There is
more to this matter than this showing,
says the Country Gentleman. All over
the dairy territory, where dairying has
been the rule for seventy-hve years or
even more there has been depletion
of the soil going on that has in dollars
been quite as much as interest and de-
probation of the land in value. Di-
rector Dawley, at the New York insti-
tutes last winter, showed that on the
older farm pasture lands as much as
two hundred and fifty dollars worth of
potash alone had been cropped off in
grass since the settlement of the land :,
and only in rare instances had any at
tempt been made to restore even this
part of the less of removed fertility.
Can any plan of farming be made
profitable that does not in some way
maintain at least the fertility, and does
not have a better cow than is now
shown to be the average, fed at much
smaller cost than now?
Put in this light, COW that gives
three thousand three hundred pounds
of milk in a year, eats practically
as much, and to keep her milk to
its normal flow requires as much pro-
tein food as does COW that gives half
more milk. If the cost of the first COW
is equal to the value of her milk, 1000
to 1000 pounds additional milk given
by the second COW would be in round
numbers all profit. If by the intelli-
gence of the dairyman this ration can
can be reduced in cost, 80 that instead
of $50, which is now regarded as ap-
proximately the cost of the yearly keep
of COW, the cost, with ensilage, peas,
bran and millet, be reduced to 800 or
S25, there would be more substantial
dividend made of the outlay of little
dairy intelligence. Milk is costing too
much, and every poor COW, and every
ton of hay feed, and Indifferent care
adds to its cost. Market prices of but
ter and cheese are not based upon what
milk costs to make. The last is the
farmers oblem.-Milk Reporter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
Live Stock Market.

Sheep and lambs-In lots, 50 to 8 each
extra, SO % to 4 rs, or from 2 to 4fc per lib /;
spring lambs, to 54c; veal calves 3 to sc.
Mich Cows AND SPRINGERs.- There was
a good supply and the market was steady.
Prices were $50 to As and $50 to 68 for
fancy.
BEEF CATTLE.-Supply of cattle fair
Western were Of good quality and held
steady. The demand was thought to show
some Improvement.
Prices of market beef: A few choice,
5000 to 6 $50; extra, 1925 to 5.75; first quail
ity, $4.75 to 800; second quality, 81 to $50;
third quality, $3.50 to $50.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The market holds
about steady with free arrivals from Can
ada. The demand will increase now as the
season advances Sheep sold at 2 to BIC
and lambs at to 5lc per pound.
Prices of hides, tallow and skins Bright
on hides, 7 to TIC per Id; tallow, &c; coun-
try hides, 6 to 61c per lb; tallow to tic
per lb; pelts, sheared skins, 15c to S1.0O
EACH calfskins, SOC to S1.20 each; dairy
skins, 80 to 40c each.
Prices of store cattle: Working oxen per
pair, $50 to 1870; farrow cows, $12 to %;
fancy cows, $50 to 70; milch cows and
calves, $40 to As; yearlings, IS to 49, two
year-olds, $12 to %; three-year-olds, $40 to
80; western fat swine, live, 4 to 4Ac; north
ern dressed hogs, 5sc per lb.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
MICHIGAN.
KENTUCKY AND INDIANA
Current Comment.

OATs.-There is limited demand noted
from day to day, with the market showing
quite steady prices.
GGs.-Receipts of fresh stock have been
light this week, and there was further adj
vance in prices following our last weekly
report.
CHEEsE.-Receipts for export, !, 1853 boxes.
Trade has been rather quiet, but prices
have been ruling a shade frmer than last
week, and the market closes with a steady
and fairly firm tone.
BUTTER.-The advance in fresh creamery
noted in our last weekly report turned a
large proportion of buyers to the refrigera-
tors for supplies and the market for fresh
goods has shown increases.
FLoUR.-The market shows an easier
tone compared with last week. in sympathy
with the break in wheat. Buyers will only
operate as they are forced to have supplies
although at the close the tone looked bet
ter.
LUMBER.-With the opening OF September
there is naturally much better feeling in
lumber. 1t is time for dealers to begin to
show interest in the market. 1t is expe cted
that August would be quiet month, and it
has been beyond question.
BEANs.- Receipts have increased consid-
erably OF late while demand has been only
moderate. Some sales Of choice morrow
pea and mediums have been made at 81 %,
puu IL 10 ah cAbicmo price anu very 0dTu 10
make, except in small way.
CoRN.-The market has shown quite firm
prices during the week. with the close
stronger. For steamer yellow on track
billed through about 40a TO Al cents is the
price, with other grades ranging down as to
quality and color. The spot demand con-
! tinues slow.
| PoTAToKs.-There have been free arrivals
from Aroostock county and York State this
week, but the stock has been generally poor
and in bad order. First sales were 50 to 50
cents, but prices have been steadily drop
| ping, and at the close there is dragging
trade at 90 to 60 cents as to quality and con-
dition. Long Island and Jersey stock has
been in moderate supply and steady de-
mand with little change in prices.
WooL.-The volume of business, still
large for any ordinary year, is slackening
somewhat There is rather more of a ten
dency to realize profits, and we'll there may
be with such an advance as has AIKEN place
since the first of January. We are now
nearly at the importing point of wool. We
stated last week that it was probable that
American purchases would be feature of
the September London auctions. We are
now able to state that orders to pun chase
have actually been sent from this city to
London. The confidence of the trade is
further expressed by the fact that dealers
are still specializing and purchasing from
each other in this market
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
AGRICULTURAL.
The Wave of Prosperity.

Who could have imagined one short
year ago that by wonderful dispersal
ton of providence every country would
be short of food grains except the
United States and Canada, and that this
country would have an abundance to
export2 But it now seems certain that
this is the case, and that every kind of
farm product is going to be higher. 1t
is the Western wheat grower especially
who will be benefited, and this will be
an incalculable blessing. The New
England Homestead in discussing dollar
wheat and other farm products as high
proportionally says: "Should anything
like the above figures be realized, more
than half of all the mortgages on all
the farms in all the United States can
be paid off this year" In fact it seems
as though farmers generally might get
onto their feet again and keep there.
The lessons of the past hard times in
saving ought not to be lost upon them.
If they get the means of getting out of
debt they should both get out and keep
out.
Those who have potatoes to sell will
probably get good price as they are a
short crop the world over Butter and
wool are coming up, but not anything
like wheat. And the farmers who do
not grow wheat, but have to buy flour
will not appreciate the boom in that
grain. But the wave of prosperity will
doubtless help many if not most of the
farmers. Fat cattle are bringing better
prices, and this will relieve the press
ure on dairying, and may lead to set
tied improvement in the price of but
ter. The laws against counterfeit but
ter and cheese are doing their work,
and less and less of those goods are
being made and sold Wool is tending
upward, and so with very few excep-
tions the long looked for better times
seem 10 be at hand. One of the best
things about prosperity is that it will
prevent the terrible despair which led
to populism. If men can only get good
wages again, if farmers can get good
prices for their products, it will save a
vast amount of want, misery and pow
erty. At present, manufactured goods
seem to be as low as ever, so that a dol
lar at the store goes good ways.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
Opportunity Not Yet Dead.

Twenty years ago Jerome II. Ray
mond was newsboy in the streets of
Chicago. To-day he is the chosen
president of the University of West
Virginia, having been selected out of
seventeen applicants. He was in
dorsed by the faculty of the North
western, Chicago, Johns Hopkins,
Wisconsin, Princeton, Harvard and
Yale Universities. He is, at twenty
nine, the youngest college president in
the country.
How did he do it?
His capital was brains and indomit-
able obstacles. He had no gold mines,
no rich relatives, no funds except those
he earned. In poverty at nine he sold
papers to help his mother. He became
a stenographer, and while he worked
he studied, paid his own way through a
university, and, at the age of twenty
seven, two years ago, was offered and
accepted the chair of sociology in the
University of Wisconsin at $4,000 a
year.
That's all. He did not play much.
He probably spent little time investi-
eating the proper styles in summer
shirts, discussing the merits of Bob
Fitzsimmons or standing on street cor
ners listlessly watching the flood of
humanity drift by
The pessimistic soul has shed tears
because to-day there was no opportuni-
ties for the plowboy, the rail-splitter or
the canal driver. 1t is false. The
career of Raymond proves it; the ca
reer of hundreds of others gives such
philosophy of despair the lie. The
dead Canovas, mourned by royalty and
aristocracy, the most deepseated and
exclusive of Europe, was the son of a
Malaga washer-woman.
Opportunity is not dead, nor is it
dormant. but sleeping souls and tear
blinded pessimists cannot see it. Presi-
dent Raymond, open eyed, racing with
time, never lost sight of it.-Buffalo
News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
A Plea for Old Hens.

1t is possible that it is better to kill
off hens over one or two years old, as
many people advocate, but l do not
think so. If they are wanted for the
table, why, of course, the sooner they
are killed after they are one year old
the better, but if for the production of
eggs, keep them almost any length of
time. After considerable experience
with chickens, came to the conclu-
sion that there was more profit in SELL
ing the eggs than in raising chickens
for the market, 30 1 gave up the latter
branch OF the business entirely, and
for the last two or three years l have
not had chicken on my place.
l have in my flock of thirty-five
hens not one which is less than ten
years old, and / do not believe I am
wrong in affirming that each and every
one is paying we'll for her board and
lodging. Last year my clear profit on
the eggs they laid, besides uncounted
dozens used in family of seven peo-
pie, was about 500.
As to treatment, feed mixed grain,
corn, oats and buckwheat-with plenty
of coal ashes and any other kinds of
grit available, to assist in digestion. i
always take the chill off the water in
winter time. Boiled potatoes and tur-
nips chopped with meat scraps and a lit
tie meal mixed in are always greatly rel
ished for change. During the win
ter season they should have corn at
night. l am not working on a large
scale, but l am fully paid for all my
labor.
have known hens to lay well-that
is, the year around, with only the nat
ural intermissions - when they were
long past the age at which they are
supposed to reach their majority, and,
indeed, until they died Of old age.
Therefore, let those who wish to keep
a flock of hens simply for the egg prod
uct, without the bother of chickens, do
80, and not consider it imperitively
necessary to kill off and renew them
every season in order to make fair
proft.-Mary S. Potter, in New Eng
land Homestead.