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FLOUR AND MILLsTUFFs.

Quotations show no variation.
 FLoUR-Family Extras. $5 759s Se; Bakers' Extras. s5 5O@5 60 per bbl
 MILLSTUFFS-Prices in sacks arc as fol- lows. usual discount to the trade: Granam Flour, B per 100 lbs; Rye Flour, s2 75 per 100: Ea E,ce Flour $; Cornmeal s2 50; a extra cream Hominy $3 25@3 50: Buckwheat Flour, $4g4 26; Cracked Wheat, $s 75; FaIina, s4 7o: Whoae ae wheat Flour. B 25; Rolled Oats (oarrels), 70 So @6 20; in sacks, s5 6006: Pearl Barley. $4 75; Split Peas. $4 25; Green Peas, $4 50 per 100 lbs.
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DEc1puous AND CITRUS FRUITS.

The market continues overstocked with small Cherries. Strawberries still low and in free supply.
 Citrus fruits are abundant and easy. DECIDUOUS FRUITS
 Receipts were 1004 chests of Strawberries and 331 boxes of Cherries
 Strawberries, $2 50a4 per chest for large and 8 25q4 for small berries in baskets, and S4 5OQ for loose.
 Small white Cherries, 2595oc per box; red 35G75o; black, 75cGs1 40
 Gooseberries, 25935c per drawer.
 Blackberries, 121ac per basket.
 Apples, 40050c per box for common, 75c@s1 for good to choice and $1 25D1 50 for fancy.
 CITRUS FRUITS-Navel Oranges S1 5O92 25; Seedlings, 40c61$1; Lemons, 50cGs1 for common and s1 25@2 25 for good to choice; Mexican Limes s3 50d4 50; California Lines, in small boxes. 50d60c; Bananas. s1 25Q2 per bunch Pineapples. s3@4 per dozen.
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milers.
 The trade in Corn was not much more active than usual but it sympathzed with Wheat The days advance was 1c in May ana Bc in July.
 %c higher and July Ac higher.
 Provisions had the Liverpool market to con. tend with in addition to heavy receipts of hogs and under the double load prices were sustained with difficulty. At the close July pork Sc lower for the day and lard ana ribs each 21c higher.
 The leading futures ranged follows:
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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.

Jacob H. and Dora Neustadter to Sigmund Greenebaum, lot on NE corner of Van Ness av- enue and Lombard street. E 109 by 1876; also lot on SEE corner of Chestnut street and Van Ness avenue, 1876 by E 10s; also lot on SEE corner of Van Ness avenue and Fran line of Twenty-seventh avenue. 265 of Point Lobos avenue, 70 by W 120: also lot on SEE corner of Point Lobos and Tenth avenues. E
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POULTRY AND GAME.

The week closed with a good dea4 of stock on hand. and there will be the usual amount of Eastern this week.
 POULTRY-Live Turkeys. uG12c for Cob blers and u912c for Hens; Geese. per pair. old and s5G6 for young; Boosters. young. s7 5oGS 30; Boosters. old, 8 5o94; Fryers. s6@ SO; Broilers. s4 5og5 & 50 for large, s2 5o94 for and s1 25 for old.
 GAME-Nominal.
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LONDON WOOL SALES.

LONDON. May 7.-The offerings at the Wool auction sales to-day amounted to .3s4 bales. Competition was active and prices generally firm. Fine Tasmanian greasy sold at top prices to the home trade and good Queensland greasy brought rates equal to the March sales Dur ing the week 54 800 bales were sold.
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AN INCREASE IN LOANS.

NEW YORK, May 7.-The Financier says: For the first time since the destruction of the battleship Maine the loans of the New York clearing house banks show an increase. It be- came evident the week progressed that deal ings in mercantile paper were on more liberal scale but the increase in the loan item prob ably represents for the most part borrowings incident to the revival on the Stock Exchange. While the increase was less than S1, 900, 900. It must be interpreted a favorable sign. At this time, when the turning point seems to have been reached. 1t is interesting to note that the falling off in the loans in New York than s75 900 OoO A considerable part of this sum, however, represents the liquidation of accumulated sterling bills incident to the heavy gold imports
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WESTERN WHEAT MARKET.

PORTLAND, May 7.-WHEAT-Walla Walla, eec: valley, esc: bluestem, s1 per bushel.
 WASHINGTON. TACOMA, May 7.-WHEAT-No. club, sSc: No. i bluestem, $1 02.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED.


 Saturday May r. stmr Columbia, Goodall, 55al hours from Portland, via Astoria 3sA hours. Stmr City of Puebla, Jepsen 5s hours from stmr City of Topeka. Thompson, "A hours Stmr Leelanaw, storrs, e5 days from Balti- more, via Sand Point 2s days. Ship Two Brothers, Wilson, days from De- schr Monterey. Beck. IS hours from New schr corinthian. North. IS hours from Bow Schr Joseph Russ. Peterson, s days from schr Neptune. Estvold. 22 hours from Usal Schr Twilight, Hansen, days from Grays schr Marion. Generaux. days from Ever schr Eppinger. colstrup. 20 hours from schr Nettie sundbors. Johnson, 10 hours from schr Lyman Foster. Killman. days from stmr Valencia, Humphreys. Seattle; Pacific stmr orizaba, Parsons Eureka: Goodall. PeI4 & Co., stmr Columbia, Goodall. Astoria; R 6 N -Fr bark Alice. Gosse. London; W Mo schr Honolulu. Thonagel, Port Townsend; Balfour Guthrie & Go. schr Uranus, Stengeland, codfishing; c Jor- genson.
 Saturday. May [. stmr Geo Loomis. Bridgett Ventura Townsend. Br stmr Venus McGregor. Yokohama and Hongkong
 Stmr Pomona, Debney. San Diego. Stmr Arcata, Reed, Coos Bay. Stmr Valencia, Humphrey, Seattle. Bark Kate Davenport. Reynolds. Stmr Pomona, Debney. San Diego schr Mary Winkelman. Benneche. Port Townsend.
 Schr s Danielson, Hansen. Schr Ocean Spra- Ostlin. Schr Jennie Stella, Krebs. Grays Harbor. Schr Defender. Hellingsen, Grays Harbor.
 RETURNED.
 .r. Saturday May ':
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s2:s by s 100; also all interest in lot on NV corner of Silliman and Yale streets 396:6, NV 6:1l, 2s4, 400, E 24o, block 1s2. Uni versity Homestead; also lot on SW corner of Thirty-second avenue and street. 475 by W 240; also property in outside counties, quitciaim deed; s10.
 Amelia V. R. Pixley to Amelia M Burnell lot on N line of Green street. 50 W of Fillmore, W 30 by N 1876; gift.
 John l. Sabin to Pearl Ladd Sabin lot on N line of Pine street, 1l9:S of Pierce. E 2T:2ls by N 1876; gift.
 Henry and Eliza Stern to Rosalia Greenbaum lot on line of California street. 3f:3 W of Baker, W 25 by 100; s10.
 Michael T. Carroll to Christina Carroll lot on line of Turk street. 1876 E of Lyon, E 244 by s 137:6; gift.
 Mary E. Ritchie. lot line of Frederick street. 300 of Stanyan, E 25 by 137:6 sl0
 George A. and John T. Aabel to Sarah M Farley (wife of Elliott, lot line of Elf teenth street, AS W of Shotwell. W "A by N "A s10.
 John and Magdalena Frerichs to Giuseppe and Rosalia Canclla lot W line of Bannan place. 77:6 of Union; also 77S w of Dupont s 4G by W 60: s1O.
 Lee Book Mo and Lee Linn Sing Cby Lee Poy. attorney) to Lee Chong. lot on NV corner of Dupont and Clay streets. N 57 by " S5 quitcaim deed: s10
 Jacob and Lima Heyman (by Oscar Heyman attorney) to Maurice Arnold, lot S17, gift map 2; Sl0
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POTATOES, ONIONS AND VEGETABLES.

Los Angeles String Beans brought 396c per lb. Green Peppers 15c and Tomatoes $1 250 50 per box.
 Onions continue to decline. Vegetables show no particular change.
 POTATOES-Early Rose. 15@35c River Reds, 4oqo0c; River Burbanks 40Q60c per sack; Ore gon Burbanks, 50@75c; Petaluma Burbanks. 50 Q6oc per sack; new Potatoes. 192c per ID.
 ON1ONS-Australian $3d3 50; new, s5c@y1 per ctl.
 VEGETABLES-Receip were I'll boxes As- paragus 349 boxes Rhubarb and 53s sacks Peas
 Esparagus, g for extra large, sl 5oa1 75 per box for No l, 75cQS1 25 for small; Rhu- barb. 5O965c per box for small to good and 76@ s5c for extra choce; Green Peas, $191 25 per sack: Garden Peas, 20 per 10; String Beans from Vacavile. 5G1oc; Horse Beans, 5o@75c per sack; Summer Squash, s1 25 per box; Dried Peppers, 6G7c per ID; Dried Okra, 1211c; Cab bage. 65@75c per ctl: Carrots. 3o@p50c per sack; Cucumbers, 25cGs1 per dozen; Mexican Toma- toes, $1 25G1 75 per box.
 PERFORATED VEGETABLES
 Potatoes sliced, raw, 12c per lb in lots of 25 lbs; sliced desiccated, 16@1sc; granulated raw, 13c; Onions, soc; Carrots. old 13c; new. 1sc: Cabbage. BOG; Sweet Potatoes, BOG: Turnips, 25c; String Beans, BOG; Tomatoes, 500.
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BOSTON.

BOSTON. May 7.-Atchison 12A; Bell Tele- phone 26O: Burlington. ss; Mexican Central. =; Oregon Short Line, 30; San Diego, -.
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BEANS AND SEEDS.

contest seems to be developing between buyers and holders of Beans One side says they are firm. the other says they are weak. When one or the other wins the situation prices will get settled. At present they are irregular and nominal.
 BEANs-Bayos. g soQ3: Small Whites. g o5 92 15; Large Whites, s292 o5; Pinks s2 65@ 2 76: Reds g 75; Blackeye. s3 50q3 75; Buffers $l 6601 75; Ltmas, 8 15; Pea, S1 S592; Red. Kid neys. s2 6002 65 per ctl.
 sEEDS-Brown Mustard, g 25@s 50 per ctl; seea a au & m 1oqy o Fisa ss Rs eanaaT a 2%c; Hemp, 2A@3c: Timothy. 695Ac.
 DRIED PEAS-Niles. q 75@2; Green. q s0@ 25 per ctl
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market was steady; creameries, 1a916c; dairies, 12014c Eggs steady; fresh 10c. Cheese, dull and unchanged.
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EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.

NEW YORK. May 7.-Exports of specie for the week aggregated s7s1.oH in silver bars and coin and s5oOo in gold. The imports of specie this week were g, ,916.s4s in gold and s29 210 in silver.
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GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

BAGS-Calcutta Grain Bags. nominal; Wool Bags. nominal; San Quentin. $6 30.
 COA-Wellington. g per ton; New Welling-
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COMMERCIAL WORLD.
SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS.

SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS Silver frmer. Another jump in Wheat Barle- hrrner Other Cereals unchanged. Flour as before Hay weak and dull. Beans unsettled. Onions lower again. Vegetables stead Butter doing better. Eggs unchanged. Poultry very dull. Cherries and Berries weak Citrus Fruits quiet. Prunes very firm. Fair demand for Provisions. Wool Hops and Hides unchanged. Beef and Mutton weaker. Bank Clearings gain again.
 BANK CLEARINGS. Local Bank Clearings last week were SIS, 127, s5s against SIS, 072 for the same week las year
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Morning Session.

60 Hutchinson s P Co.................... AS 50 100 Giant Powder Con .................... 4S 50 55 Spring Valley Water .................. 99 371 s1000 Spring Valley 6s Bonds. Ills 75 $2000 do do ........................ .116 co
 INVESTMENT BOARD.
 Morning Session. 100 Hawaiian & Co................... 22 % 50 Oceanic Steamship Co................ 52 %
 MINING STOCKS. Following the sales in the San Fran cisco Stock Board yesterday:
 Morning Session. 15o Alta Is 100 Justice ......... os 100 Belcher ......... Il 800 Potosi ......... 2f 200 Gould & Curry. g 100 Sierra Nevada 69 200 Hale & Norcrs. 5l
 Following were the sales in the Pacific c+o,L
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STEAMERS TO sAII.

THE TIME BALL Branch Photographic Office. U. s. N, Mer- chants Exchange, San Francisco, May T. 1898.
 The time ball Telegraph Hill was dropped exactly at noon to-day-i. e.. at noon of the 120th meridian. or exactly p. m., Greenwich time. J. T. MCMILLAN
 Assistant in Charea
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OCEAN TRAVEL
Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

Steamers leave Broadway g wharf. San Francisco. HksM$A For Alaskan ports, 10 a. m.s \ E1A May l. S. Il, 16 21, 26. 31, June II f& N1EHA 5. transfer at Seattle. II #&AZ4s% NE For Alaskan ports from Il MA AT4#8s Folsom-street wharf), 10 a. na.s I A May 1s., June 5. 26. July II.
 k& August 4, 25, transfer at Port
 land, Or
 For Victoria, Vancouver CB. O., Port Towns end Seattle Tacoma, Everett, Anacortes and New Whatcom (Wash.), 10 a. m., May |, s, Il, Is. q, 26, 31, June D. and every nth day thereafter connecting at Seattle with this con- pany's steamers for Alaska and G. N. Ky, at Tacoma with N. F. Ky, at Vancouver with C. P. Ky.
 May ?, 8. 14 20. 26 June 1, and every sixth For santa Cruz. Monterey, San Simeon. Cayucos, Port Harford (San Luis Obispol' Cayiota, Santa Barbara, Ventura. Hueneme. San Pedro East San Pedro Los Angeles) and Newport, a. n.. May l, ,. g, 13, IL, 1, 20, 2s, June 2 and every fourth day thereafter For San Diego, stopping only at Port Har- ford cSan Luis Obispo). Santa Barbara Port Los Angeles and Redondo Clos Ange!es), Il a. m, May 8, 2. Il. 15. 1s 23, 27. 3l, June 4. and every fourth day thereafter.
 For Ensenada, Magdalena Bay, San Jose del .Cabo Mazatlan, Altata, La Paz, Santa Rosa Iia and Cuaymas (Mex.), 10 a m., May 12, June To- and 2d of each month thereafter. For further information obtain folder. The company reserves the right to change without previous notice steamers sailing dates ard hours of sailing.
 TICKET OFFICE+ New Montgomery street (Palace HoteH.
 10 Market st, San Francisco.
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FOR SAN JOSE. LOS eAToS and SANTA CRUZ

<iIvlso leaves Pier daily (Sundays exeepte9( at 10 a. m.; Alviso daily Saturdays rr1csptedl at ?. m. Freight and passengers. are petween San Francisco and Alyiso, soc: First street. San Jose.
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SUN. MOON AND TIDE.

United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
 Times and Heights of High and Low
 Waters at Fort Point. Entrance to San
 Francisco Bay: Published by official thority of the Superintendent.
 NOTE.-The high and low waters occur at the city front CMission-street whar0 about twenty-five minutes later than at Fort Point; the height of tide is the same at both places.
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Builders, Contracts.

Marie c. Kratz (owner) with H. R. schmuck- ert (contractor and architect). all work for a two-story and basement frame building on W line of Bartlett street, l35 of Twenty third, S 35 by " 120: s3750.
 Mrs. Rose Sarks (owner) with Fred Miller (contractor) architect David C. Coleman al- terations and additions to a two-story frame building on E line of Bryant avenue, POS s of Twenty third street. B by 100; s1S2S.
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SAN FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET

Beef and Mutton are weaker. as the dry weather is sending in large shipments from the country. No other changes.
 Wholesale rates for dressed stock from slaughterers are as follows:
 BEEF-First quality, Sc; second quality. 51ac: third quality. 4@5c per lb
 VEAL-Large. 4@5c; small. 5Q6c per lb. MUTTON-Wethers Sc; Ewes. 7Q7lsc per lb. LAMB-Spring s@S1sc per ID.
 PORK-Live Hogs, 3Ac for large and 4c for medium: stock Hogs. 2Q21ac; dressed Hogs. 511Q6Mc
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MAY-lS9S.
Sunday, May 8

NOTE.-In the above exposition of the tides the early morning tides are given In the left hand column and the successive tides of the day in the order of occurrence to time. The second time column gives the second tide of the day. the third time column the third tide
 and the last right hand column gives the last tide of the day, except when there are but three tides. as sometimes occurs The heights given additions to the soundings the United States Coast Survey charts except when minus sign @ precedes the height. and then the number given Is subtracted from the depth given by the charts. The plane of reference Is the mean of the lower low waters.
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PoRTLAND's BUSINESS.

PORTLAND. May f-Exchanges, s212, s3 balances, $31,3 ,373
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HIDES, TALLow. WOOL AND HOPS.

about 1c under the quotations. Heavy salted steers, 1Oc; medium s1s@sc: light. SMc; Cow hides, s1s@sc; stags, 5c; salted Kip. Sc; Cali. lac dry Kip and Veal 16@16lkc; dry Calf 1sg1sc; euls. 1s@l7c; Goatskins. ao9371sc each; Kids, 5@1oc: Deerskins. good summer 2693oc sheariings.. 2o@25c each; short wool, 4Oq6oc each; medium. 6ogs0c; long wool. socQS1 20 each.
 TALLOw-No 1 rendered, 39ssc per lb; No z 2d2Hc; refined. Sc; Grease. 2c.
 WOOL-Fall clip-San Joaquin, defective 70 ec: Southern Mountain. s@1lc: free Northern 12@13c; Northern, defective, sQ11c per lb.
 HoPS-lS97 crop. 10G14c per h.
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INVESTMENT BOARD.
MINING STOCKS.
Morning Session.

Following were the sales in the Pacific Stoc Board yesterday:
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BANK CLEARINGs

Local Bank Clearings last week were SIS, 127.- s56, against SIS, ,s6S, ,072 for the same week last
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24

IDENTIFY expect large proportion of their
least, to have a bearing on the conflict with
Spain The subject is SO inviting that the
writer's will make the most of the material.
The romantic associations with Spain and
the Spaniards. the picturesqueness OF Cuba
and the Philippines, the almost untouched
features of American naval life, the con-
trasts between Americans and Cubans--all
are elements that tempt the fiction writer
The dramatic features of the war. too,
are already so many that they might well
inspire the highest flights in prose or verse.
But, after ALL it may be questioned
whether expectations of great literature
will be fulfilled. Literature as a trade is
very WELL but those who work at it must
have something more than technical skill
if they succeed in the best sense 1t is
mere trade product that will fill the maya
zines for the most part. There will be de-
scriptions of the islands and the peoples in
whose affairs this country has become con-
cerned; there will be historical and bio
graphical sketches and innumerable poems
and stories, all of Cuban or Spanish
flavor, and all written to order because the
magazine editors and book publishers fancy
that the public is hungering for such things.
But the editors and publishers are in danger
of making a fatal mistake. BY the time
the war is over the public will be well in
formed concerning it and everything con-
nected with it through the newspapers. 1t
is a tickle public, easily wearled and there
is probability that it's taste for the Span
ish and Cuban flavor in it's reading matter
will have palled by the time the last battle
is fought, or, at least, by the time the new
governments are established. Unless what
is written is touched by the fire of literary
genius, its local color or its romantic Incl
dents will not carry it through-will not
make it literature. War may supply the
materials for writer's; it does not neces-
sarily produce the writer's. The civil war
did not, although the subsequent prosperity
gave great stimulus to literature as a trade.
The greatest literature of the country has
been produced during long continued periods
of profound peace. The dramatist and poet
of power seem to need far perspective.
The great drama and novel and poem cele
brating our civil war are yet to be written.
Henry Newbolt, the new English poet. finds
a theme in the act of an English admiral
dead hundred years. Literature that will
live may come of the Cuban war. and soon.
but it will be because the producers thereof
were born to their work, not made by the
events they describe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24

Winston Churchill, who wrote the yarn
by Order of the Admiral for the July
Century, is son Of Lord Randolph
A memorial to be given to Mrs Gaskell
at Knutsford, the village which she i'm
mortalized as Crawford, and in wives and
Daughters" as Hollingford.
Mr.. Grant Aliens novels may leave some
thing to desire, but according to a writer
in the New York Times his guide books are
all that the most exacting tourist could
wish. He has just published a guide book to
Venice and it is the first and only one that
ever came near satisfying any one who
thoroughly knew and loved Venice.
Mr.. w. L. Aldens London letter says:
Mr.. Moore's Evelyn Innes'' has been re-
ceived by the press with the respect due to
ambitious and carefully written book,
but the general verdict seems to be that it
is rather lacking in interest 1t might be
mentioned that Ulick Dean, one of the two
heroes of the story, is a portrait of Mr.. w.
B. Yates, to whom with another writer the
book is dedicated. There are people who
find the interest Of a novel greatly enhanced
II they can Identify any of the characters
with people whom they know, or of whom
they have heard / can't imagine why, but
this is undoubtedly the case, and there are
hundreds of readers who will find Evelyn
InneS" much more interesting now that
they know that Ulick Dean is w. B. Yates
than they would have found it without that
Notwithstanding the dearth of newspaper
paragraphs anent her biography, most
American readers know the author of zone
Summer" as Nine. Won Teuffel, and realize
that, while she is a loyal New England
woman, her home has been for many years
in Germany The London correspondent of
the New York Times says of her: For
nearly a score of years Blanche Willis How
ard has not only held a secure position in
American literature, but has enjoyed that
very rare privilege of pleasing both the
critics and the public. Yet, to accomplish
this she has not conspired with the press
agent or the interviewer; she has been
neither the Queens favorite novelist nor
the prophet of new Utopia. In fact, she
has lived, during the greater part of the
time. quite remotely, in Europe. and her
books have appeared from time to time
with no flourish of trumpets. without so
much as a photograph of the author. In
spite of which she is, perhaps, with the
single exception of Mr.. Henry James, the
only American novelist who has found a
long exile and firm hold upon the Ameri-
can public at all compatible"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24
A SUMMER PROBLEM.

The sending of American soldiers to trop-
ical regions and the matter of their equip
ment have drawn an attention, never before
given in this country. to the subject of suit
able hot-weather clothing. Our troops have
gone to Cuba and the Philippines wearing
the same heavy flannel uniforms that would
have been issued to them had their desti-
nation been Alaska, and great has been the
sympathy expressed for them in all parts
of the land. 1t is a proper and natural feel
ing, and it is much to be regretted that the
in clothing suitable to the torrid regions to
which it was going, but the making of
hundred thousand cotton uniforms, to say
nothing of the weaving of the CLOTH. was
not task that could be accomplished in
the few weeks between the call for volun-
teers and the time of their sailing-at least
not by the slow-moving government pro-
cesses. AS rapidly as possible the light
weight uniforms will be furnished to the
men in the field and they will be made COM
Portable, but if those troops had remained
in this country, and especially if they had
not been moved from the States where they
enlisted. there would have been no thought
of sympathy for them because of their
clothing; yet 1t is doubtful if they suffer
more at Santiago or Manila than they would
have done in this climate in June. July and
August. Certainly the temperature at Jack
sonville, Tampa, Washington and Chicka-
manga is little. If any, higher than in In
diana, as the daily weather reports prove,
and in some respects is more endurable,
being modified in all places named either
by sea or mountain. Summer in the central
United States may be fairly said to last four
months. and is tropical in its intensity. In
many regions where the rays of the sun are
so fervid that the Inhabitants fancy them
selves greatly oppressed by heat the nights
comparatively cool. In Indiana and adj
joining States the nights are like unto the
days: the air at midnight quivers with heat.
and at 5 o'clock in the morning the ther-
mometer registers but half a dozen degrees
less than when the sun went down. The
restless sleeper rises unrefreshed arid goes
out into the furnace-like atmosphere to drag
ligtlsssly through his daily tasks. It Is the