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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-06-26
MARKET REPORTS.
GRAM AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago, June %. 5.-Wheat-Foreign
markets are little irregular, but on
the whole fairly steady. The United
Kingdom reports the crop three
weeks late with rank growth and
weather backward Continental con
ditions are at least partially the
same here. Weather is more favor
able. Harvesting reports are not,
however, satisfactory. complaints of
disappointing yield are SO numerous
and variety of sources as TO make
it probable that final crop estimate
of winter wheat at least will be seri-
ously modified. In the spring wheat
territory nothing serions has yet
arisen. The feeling is still be IVY
Traders are loath TO accept the re-
ports of crop damage and the mar
ket is without good support and in
the absence of it drags. Under pres
ent conditions we do not feel like
advising short sales. We would
rather take the long side on breaks.
Total clearances 765, 900. Primary
receipts liz, ,000 Shipments 96, 900
Oorn-Weather is more favorable
and the demand poor. Farmers are
not selling freely and receipts are
only moderate although the price
drags feeling is not weak. The price
is not high and the outlook for next
crop does not promise large even
with favorable weather. The con-
tinued decline in wheat contributes
to its depression but we think the
money will go in the end to the bulls.
Oats dragged off in sympathy with
corn and wheat. Market is almost
featureless SO far as speculative
transactions are concerned. With
good weather for harvesting we
think oats will go lower.
Provisions-End of the week with
prices steady. Stocks are not large
and are well held. June is always a
month of dull demand 1t may rea-
sonably be expected to increase
soon. Outside trade has been sha-
ken out by yellow fever.
CHICAGO MARKET.
The herald., 1898-12-04
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD
Gallium Sells for $325O an Ounce.
Other High-Priced Metals

"The majority of people when asked to
name the most precious metals usually men,
tion gold as first, platinum as second and
silver as third said the proprietor of a
large assay and refining establishment in
New York to the writer recently. "lf
asked to name others some might add
nickel and few aluminium to the list Now
let us see how near the truth they would be.
Gold is worth about $3.50 per pound troy,
platinum $3.50 and silver about $l2. Nickel
is worth about 80 cents and pure aluminium
from 80 cents to So to the troy pound.
I'VE will now compare these prices with
those of the rarer and less well known met
ais. To take them in alphabetical order,
barium, the metal which Davy isolated
from its ore, baryta, in 1908, sells for $3.50 a
pound when it is sold at all, and calcium is
worth $500 a pound. Cirium is shade
higher; it's cost is $l6O an ounce, OF 1920
per pound. These begin to look like fabu-
lous prices, but they do not reach the high
est point chromium being 5000. Cobalt
falls to about half the price of silver, while
didymium, the metal isolated by Masander,
lis the same price as calcium. Then comes
gallium, which is worth $325O an ounce
With this metal the highest price is reached,
anu IL may Wei De cdl1eu tue TaTeSC ana
most precious ofmetals.
"Glucium is worth $3.50 per ounce in
Idium $3.50, iridium 1868 pound, janthan-
ium Sl75 and lithium $3.50 per ounce. Nj
dunn costs 1928 per ounce, osmium, palla-
dium, platinum, potassium and rhodium
bring, respectively, $G4O, $4OO, $3.50, $32
and $5l2 per pound. Strontum costs $l2S
an ounce. tantaum $l44, tilurium, 80, tor
ium $272, vanadium 1920, yttorium $l44
and zinconium $3.50 an ounce.
Thus we see that the commonly received
opinion as to what are the most precious
metals is quite erroneous Barium is more
than four times as valuable as gold, and
gallium more than 1872 times as costly,
while many OF the other metals mentioned
are twice and thrice as valuable Alumi-
mum, which cost $S and so pound in 1890,
is now produced as cheaply as are iron,
zinc, lead and copper. r."-Washington Star.
The herald., 1898-12-04
A New Play by Pierre Lott

The Paris correspondent of the London
Times gives the following account of "Ju-
dith Renaudin," tiveact play in prose by
Pierre Lott, which has just been produced
with considerable success in Paris at the
Theatre Antoine: "In this powerful drama
Pierre Lott depicts the indomitable faith
of the Protestants at Oleron and the sublime
charity of sanity priest who loves, blesses
and pardons. Amid the scenes Of barbarity
there is the pure love of Judith Renaudin
for the dragoon commissioned to carry out
massacres and forced conversions, but,
struck by her fidelity to the truths of the
gospel, he abjures the cruel creed of which
he is the instrument embraces Protestant
ism and embarks with other fugitives for
Holland. M. Antoine is admirable as the
priest; M. De Max is almost as good as Ju.
dth old Protestant father and NJ. Dal.
tour was deservedly applauded as Capt.
D'Estelan. Nine. Marie Laurent, whose
fine delivery and dramatic power are unaf-
fected by age, plays two roles-the grand
mother and the priests maid servant, both
with equal superiority, while Mile Mellot
acts the heroine with the infectious emotion
and mildness which won over the fierce ex-
ecutor of the barbarous edict"
The herald., 1898-12-04

Judge: Gilfoyle-Isn't Bingham embar
rassed by his debts?
Poindexter-No, but his creditors are.
The herald., 1898-12-04

the winding bandages are undone each morn
ing, and we are dusted-dab, dab with a de-
licious rice powder and puff nurse goes all
over us. Some of us, you know, have quite
contrary throats-we can't gulp down the
least mite Then nurse feeds us through
the nose with spoon or tube. l think it IS
very vulgar. Bob says it is not half the
trouble of eating in the usual way. You
have not got to open and shut your mouth
in order to keep alive. Dear me! | am
quite tired. | think that | have told you
everything except that my nurse is so kind.
She gives me milk in a spoon till my appetite
is quite satisfied. You see | am only seven
months. They will keep us here for
two months, and l shall then be a giant
baby, and able to crow in the human way,
just as the little babies do that | have heard
some of the ladies around my window gossip
Iabout. Now, nurse, please come along, do.
Lying here, looking at the ceiling, and
thinking what I've got to go through, can t
help wondering why | wasn't given my
choice OF being fat little pig that rolls
around in the mud all day and never gets
washed; or a chicken, that don't have any
teeth to cut or a parrot, that screeches all
day without any one scolding it,.
Girl visitors Ugh! One was here this
morning. You should have heard how she
could do nothing but gaze at her and Won
der how girl of her age could be such a
ninny. And instead of being ashamed of her.
self, she only pointed her finger at me and
continued to babble: 'Why, nurse, look at
The herald., 1898-12-04

so he just had a good think 'I'lI try to
help those interesting little people was his
idea. And after cudgeling his wits for a
long, long time, he made this silvery metal
cage in which we grow. At our age we hate
the cold air. Warm air is as good as food
to us. The air for the cage is not that of
the room--it comes in along pipe right from
out of doors. 1t then passes through alb
sorbent cotton, and by other pipes makes Its
way in to us. That worrying little wheel
up there in the corner ventlates our box
That round metal bottle that hangs beside
my nest is reservoir, and when the ther-
mometer in the room registers 90 degrees
something's happens, and the steam escapes.
In this way we are always so warm, and no
warmer. Now, look on the card that sticks
on the front-that's our story-when we
were born, and how old when born. And
those higgledy-piggledy sets of lines that run
up and down on it are our day by day diary
The herald., 1898-12-04
ines in North Carolina, Alabama and Texa

ings in North Carolina, Alabama and Texas,
to understand why nation with such an.
tipathies should assist "nigger revolution
against him. He sees in Cuban homes, in a
place of honor, the portrait of Maceo, man
of peculiar abilities, but black as any African.
and he hears white women make much OF
him. Yet this Maceo, he is well informed,
had no Othello graces or retinements; he is
convinced that in habits and inclinations he
was not unlike the men who are being
lynched in Alabama, Texas and North Caro-,
lima, and although Cubans assert that
Maceo would never enter the home OF a
white where there was a woman, unless in
vited," there is American testimony to the
effect that the Cuban hero was no respecter,
but rather a debaucher, of those who came
within his sphere OF infiuence.-New York
Evening Post
The herald., 1898-12-04
Had No Fears

"Ain't you afraid to undertake trip Of
500 miles with such team as that? Your
off horse will give out before you are hah
way there"
Don't you worry about that off horse.
He'll drop dead about the time we git to
Skedunk, and the good people thar will
raise purse and buy me a better one.
This hain't the fust time I've movad.
stranger. r."-Chicago Tribune.
The herald., 1898-12-04

England l had occasion to test the quality
of various eatables there, and the result
was that found they contained much
larger percentage of deleterious matter
than our own products possess.
For instance, bottled fruits are in Eng
land colored green by the addition of cop
per In the form of the sulphate blue
stone a knife blade immersed in the juice
of the fruit will rapidly become coated with
bright deposit of metallic copper. The
English have not adopted the simple and
harmless plan which the French have OF
giving an apparent green color to their pre-
| served fruits and olives by the use of bottles
made of green grass. Sauces, potted meats
and fish are constantly adulterated or col
ored by means of Armenian bile This is
done partly from custom, but chiefly to con-
ceal the dirty appearance of the pastes and
sauces. The British public will have its
anchovy sauce red The uncolored sauce is
unstable, though superior to the red
abomination, the filth being removed from
the former, while in the latter it is merely
concealed by the Armenian bile. Jams are
adulterated by the mixture of inferior
fruits. Marmalade frequently contains APP
Iple pulp or even turnips. Coloring matter
and artificial flavorings are freely used.
AN ingenious industry goes on largely
in London which is wholly unsupported by
the public Raspberries, oranges and other
fruit are purchased by the wholesale chm
lists and the juice extracted. Then the pulp
is bought at low price by the manufactur-
ers of cheap jams for favoring and placed
upon the market as fine new seasonItam'
or marmalade. Mustard is adulterated with
flour and tumeric; pepper with husks of
seeds and any kind of dust that comes
handy to the dishonest vender. So that the
business of the drug grinder offers Just as
much temptation to the adultcrator in
England as it does in America. ."-Washing-
ton Star.
The herald., 1898-12-04

they tell of weight, temperature, pulse and
respiration.
Here's nurse at last. She's got warm
blanket in her hand. Oh, dear mel she 5
dreadfully afraid Of our taking cold. It's
almost sure case if We tiny things do get a
chill. Watch when she slowly opens the
glass doors of our nest She nearly smotbers
us when she puts the blanket right over ON,
heads and shoulders. And that happens
every two hours in the day, and three hours
during the night. You know, when ban.
ket first touched me thought it would have
skinned me. Oh! oh! it makes me creep
The herald., 1898-12-04

to think how rough and coarse it felt. You
follow nurse. We get into that warm room
there. Dear, no; We may be little ducks,
but we are not strong enough to enjoy bath
that's later luxury in life. Our morning
toilet is dry wash We are bandaged up
as tightly and as neatly as if we were all
dead Pharoahs, and not American babies
very much alive. If we are quite strong
The herald., 1898-12-04
The Power of Electricity

An interesting experiment in burning
steel with electricity is to be tried in Gin
clnnatl IN an effort to remove a safety vault
that was built forty years ago. The vault
has long been in disuse and the room oc-
cupled by it is now wanted for other pur-
poses. The walls are constructed of layers
oi hard spring steel IN inches in thickness
Two operators will be placed in the vault,
each with carbon attached to feed wire
The men will wear heavy rubber gloves and
specially constructed goggles to protect
Their eyes from the intense light They will
pass the carbon over the walls of the vault
burning them in intersectng lines A some
what similar test of electricity was made in
Washington about two Years ago, when q
hole large enough to allow the passage of 2
man was burned through the walls of one
OF the large government vaults in twelve
minutes.-Buffalo Express
The herald., 1898-12-04
ADULTERATIoN OF FOOD
English Are Adopts, Especially Of
Sauces and Jams

From time to time one reads so much
in the newspapers concerning the adultera-
ton of American food" said an eminent
New York analytical chemist to the writer
yesterday, that the average consumer
might be tempted to believe that this is the
only country in which such fraud and de-
ception is practiced. But this is far from
being the truth, for during recent visit to
The herald., 1898-12-04
"The Nurse Said Way Weigh

nurse to attend to US first? "Procrastina-
ton is the thief of time''--tell nurse that.
That's nurse-her in the white apron ami
blue cap. Bother! there it is again-she
has taken that little Peter first. He's
eight months past. Very strong. When
he cries he don't whimper. His voice almost
makes the cage see-saw. Thank goodness
I'm not in the next nest.
| have no knowledge yet, you know; but |
have heard the director explain that our
glass cases are French. A certain professor
is man awful fond of the tiniest of tiny
babies In general they were always dying,
The herald., 1898-12-04

he had had a good look he turned to the
man who was with him and made this flat
terng comment on my appearance: Head
too big for its body. Wonder it don't drop
oil! Eyes weak and staring Seems to be
wondering what it's here for"
was certainly wondering what l was
here for To be called ''it' by man is hard
to swallow.
The herald., 1898-12-04

the little precious sugar pum 90 little
'tweetie, 'oos just to pity to live. B'ess
zoos dwight eyes"
The time we get our feelings hurt most,
though, is when the men visitors call on us,
and the nurse isn't around to hear them. A
bald-headed old fellow came in last evening
and looked at me with the air of man who
considered infants unnecessary evils. When
The herald., 1898-12-04
Thf INCUBATOR BABY
is RAISED IN INFANTILE PRO
TEST
Hatched by Mechanical Mother
Account of a Remarkable Arti-
fetal Existence

I'm the incubator baby! From that in
PRODUCTION let me proceed with my tale of
woe. There are seven of us, and my brother
and | are the youngest. Now oughtn't
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-11
DIRT AND MUCK FOUNDATION
RAD CONDITION OF THE FLOOR OF THE
FOURTEENTH REGIMENT ARMORY.

RESULT OF AN EXAMINATION MADE BY THE DE-
PARrMENT OF BUILDINGs-AN 1NvEsTI-
CATION LIKELY TO BE MADE.
The drillroom floor Of the 14th Regiment
arlnory is so badly sunken account OF In
sufficient foundations that It will cost more
than $4,000 TO repair It. The site was formerly
a marsh and the concrete under the floor has
given way The sinking Of the floor seems TO
have been known for some time by the armory
officials. but Deputy Commissioner Walton. OF
the Department OF buildings. Lighting and Sup
plies. was not informed until yesterday.
Mr. Walton directed f. Sherman White to
make an examination in order to prepare plans
and specifications for repairing the damage
Under Mr. Whites direction laborers removed
a portion OF the floor. and Mr. White began an
examination Of the soil underneath. He re-
ports that he found inferior quality OF con-
crete between the floor beams to a depth OF
some five inches; then came filling OF earth 70
a depth OF some ten feet. below which was
muck to the depth Of about four feet Mr.
White had a gaspipe driven down through the
SOIL and found hardpan after going through
thirteen feet OF muck. He has reconmended
that piles be driven about ten feet apart and
that these be capped ye b a pine on fon Of
these. He estimated that the cost or the work
would be about $4,000.
The building was erected between 1871 ana
1898 by commission which included among Its
members at different times David A. Body,
Charles A. Schieren Auditors Weber and Sutton
and other city officials, and Colonel Harry W
Michel Of the 18th Regiment. It occupies
plot OF ground 300 feet in width by o4l feet In
depth. The building first occupied by the
regiment on August q, 1895. The appropria-
ton was S65OOO0. The contractors were
Thomas B. Rutan. mason work; L. ". Seamans
K Sons carpenters; Henry Hawkes.. jr, plumb
ing work: Mllliken Brothers. iron work.
II Is likely that an official investigation will be
made Of the contracts and work on the building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-11

President James Hill ~ the Great Northern.
in an interview few days ago In The Spokes-
man Review" OF Spokane. WASH replied as fol
lows 10 questions 10 his controversy with Mr.
Morgan and his attitude toward Northern Pa
cihc stock
What is the truth of the reported break be-
tween yourself and ]. Pierpont Morgan
IT has not even the merit OF truth in It's founda-
ton. Some good stories have grain Of truth at
the bottom OF them bur this has not that. II is
false entirely. ,
III was asserted that YOU and your friends sold
your Northern Pacific stock with the intention of
breaking the market
1T was false. / do not know the name Of q man
who has sold Northern Pacific stock
you have sold yours have you noty
40 As ! SAID. | 10 not know the name ~ A
man who mas sold Northern Pacific stock
1T is reported in New-York that you are buying
Union Pacific"
That report is as false as the other.
Then neither you personally nor the Great
Northern as a corporation is buying Union Pa
cifc2'
Certainly not. The Great Northern corporation
T. not Duying the stock of any railroad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-11
WHITE PLAINS.

In the Supreme Court. before Justice j. o. Dyh-
man a decree of absolute divorce was granted 10
Eliza $ Horton from Ira y. Horton They lived
in Mount Kisco
George J. Stouter OF New-Rochele, has been ap-
-o;r..d Courtv Sealer OF Weights and Measures,
70 hold his Office during the pleasure OF the BOARD
novety social will be held by the Epworth
League in the parors Of the Memorial Me'houis'
Enisconal Church next Thursday evening .
\ marty Of sportsren from this village. CONSISTING
If George l.. Miller. J. Avery Nathans ana Charles
u sutton started on hunting eXpeiltlon 10 Hen
derson y. c. yesterday morning
tn open social VII he held at the rooms OF the
y0rug Mems Christian Association tomorrow even
I'M. There Will he musical programme pre-
sented and a game Of basketball
served in the recent with Spain on board the
L : s Yankee . member OF the New forK
Naval Reserve and died Key West, Will take
Tia-e az Kensico Cemetery this afternoon al 3
o'clock under the direction Of the LIST Battalion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-11
MESICAL INNOIATION.

From The Musical Courier.
The Pianola Is a musical innovation Its touch is
regulated 10y system OF compressed ar varying
from pressure az night as three-ourths OF an inch
10 blow OF fifteen inches covering all grades OF
human-nnge touch, from the feather touch Of "A
Joseny 10 the lions touch Of Rubinstein. Touch
being controlled thoroughly, II next gives
preston 20 every human musical emotion. from the
most llnguid and dreamy 10 the most violent and
ierOc.ous, through the control OF its pressure and
power and its methods OF expression.
The Panola Will make the piano a much more in
teresting instrument. and make IL accessible
hundreds OF thousands OF people who cannot use
II to-day enarging and simplifying its scope. IL
does affect the piano in the least. merely
ing in contact with II. as player does by touching
the keyboard and pedals.
At the present moment the Pianoa be seen
and heard playing Steinway and Chickcring grand
and upright pianos in the demonstrating rooms Of
the ftolian Company. at No u West Twenty third
81. The Pianola is on exhibition daily at No. IS
West Twenty third-st.. and visitors always
welcome free. colian recitas, at which the Panola
Is used. are given each Saturday afternoon at s
o'clock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-11
Gro. CLINT GO.
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NEAR BROADWAY.
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Mrs lane T Van Worst died suddenly on ''r r'.o
whna IN Babcock Place She was seVe''
,oore old and as had her custom l0l sum
,,n,e she LETT .he house. No. % Ashoui i
Cor a short walk she taken suddeAl! III ",'-
,sas carried into q neghboring house "here SIs
6,ed shs was born in New-York Cl'y. pu' and and
iivei T., YonLers for more than ioriy Neetis,conai
Va member OF he First Methodist ri' SSorst
Chvrch She leaves one son, seymour a. ~ Mrs
en6 ,u.o daughters Miss Harriet seyIou' ~. 20
IN NJ burgess The funeral VIII De p Vow
The last lecture in the course en- ii.ni,eran
IT. ou-h; and the New LIE, in the flrSt ~ Pa
ChurSh will bs delivered ms eVefiihs ~ We "The
6r Colemas Adams. Ills topic VII VIII "S Cburnh
Humanity of Cod" IT. -. johns tplsS .IP oreoch
fbGe morning Or. Charles 4 Brlsss M'.' - Center
,Tha Hrst stag" entCriainmcnt OF nte Il Rnat
series under the auspices or me a. fors Of
Gin was given last night in the ooWilhs any;
nc cluh In GlenwOOd There was i dIse 80
an,e After the entertainment reiresh"''"''
S annual meeting Of the YqpksTs SGf Se h I'D
the prevention Ct Cruelty 10 Chld'eN VII '1 u
az TN,ssdav evening at the home OF " u d.
Rslcb is president No. 1876 Warbur;on-SNt' =. ,ha
The usual services Will be heid .oau"SE ,on1ora a
vortere cburches In s.. Andrews Me Me "a
CS"rcb he Rev Dr. Cornelius b. Smlth OF -NeM
~ CIV viii preach: In the First feiofilleuu
Cbm~ob ,ha REV W ] CHAMBERLAIN. OF lnula w,
o4s a. %. in :, Nary's Catholic Church a SoleI,i
S,gh mas will he celebrated at O'CLOCK ATM IN
Rrann Of 81 Acncs's Church, New-AorA' Will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-11
SKATER TO REVIEW THE TWENTY THIRD

The 23d Regiment. y. G y Y will hold dress
parade in its armory In Bedford ave. Brooklyn to-
morrow evening. at SIS o'clock and the regiment
will be reviewed by Major General Shafter United
States Army whose staN Will include Lieutenant
Colonel j. D Miley. Major r H. Noble. Captain r.
II Pummer. Captain W. II. McKittrick and Cap
tain Stewart VI. Brice.
After the review there will be dancing the
main drill floor, and reception will be held for
General Shafter III. r. Masters, chairman of the
Social Committee Of the Union League Club has
invited a number Of members Of the club assist
the officers OF the 23d in welcoming General Shafter
The large assembly room OF the club will be thrown
open for the occasion, and the invited members Of
the club will opportunity 10 meet General
Shafter after the reception At the armory II is
expected that the reg!mental reception will take
place about 10 O'clock and the Union League re-
ceptou about II o'clock.