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AND MOBILE, lng
 oof NEW ORLEANS Inl ao4 II 6Nl and TEXES, MEXICO, UcAI Ioos CALIFORNIA and the WI

There Is no better location in the United States for Eastern "a and Mortnern emigranfs The productions or SSeorgiS Se and Alabama cannoun can,,ntrv in the world. Come and saon s.aon through NsW SsssSSed orfeans limited I, between New fork6 Mew Orleans Short 'ia I,ne the At most attrasty route to 9,cS travel in the South 1t passes sniVes and prospepons teeming v,liages Wiia ali the way from Atlanta to Mont. sgnmery. For rates Of fare or other infor- sSna ton write or call on GEO. P. ALLEN. T. P. A.
 D. P. o'RouRKE. Pass. 4zsa; Agent. ga
 r. B. EVANS. Cont Frt. Agent,
 W. TAYLOR. Gen. Agent.
 Montgomery, Ala.
 E. B. KIRBY. c. T A.
 GEO. c. SMITH.
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Markets BY Telegraph

rece pts. The re-discount movement fir m the south was heavy at this time last year, but up to the present there has been little call from that section. The movement from the interior is only normal. at this season. Perhaps some of the loan expan- sion represents purchases of sterling ex- change not included in the previous state ments, but now that money rates abroad have fallen this form of investment will not be as conspicuous as in the early part of the year. The month of May has been marked by some noteworthy changes in the bank totals. Loans have increased over $19 GOO; deposits $s7 0OO, 900; cash, s1S577.- 900 and surplus reserve $9,200,009.
 ' Dry Goods.
 New York. May 2S.-The week has shown very irregular results in the dry goods mar ket. None of these are completely sat isfactory. The market for novelties. es- peclally patriotic ones, has been lively. Print cloths quiet at 1 16-16, a perfectly nominal quotation. Cotton goods have been without feature with the exception of continued heavy demand for brown sheet ings and drills for export purposes.
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Articles Opening Highest Lowest r C.ol

Cash quotations: Flour steady: winter patents, s65O@67o; straights, $6.OO@62O; hard spring patents, $7.2O@7.40; bakers, 49Oa515; No. 2 spring wheat, $1.1591.20; No. spring wheat, $1.10@1.3O; No. 2 red s1.67; No. 2 corn, 325sc; No. 2 oats, 26D261zc; No. white 3OG3012c; No. white, 2SQ2S1ac; No. rye 4SQ50c; No. 9 barley, S7@45c; No. 1 flax seed, sl3O; prime timothy seed, s2.S5@ 29O; mess pork, $11.4s@11.5O; lard, $6.10@ 6121b; short ribs sides Qoose), $5. .75@6. 10; dry-salted shoulders (boxed), 5@514c; short clear sides (boxed), $s25@6S5; sugars. cut loaf, s5.SS; granulated, 5$.25; No. 2 yellow corn, 32ikc.
 ter market was firm; creamery, 12@16c; dairy. 11@13c; eggs. firm, fresh, 10c; cheese. unchanged.
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Daily Statement

New Orleans, May 2S.-Cotton quiet; sales 950 bales; ordinary 45s; good ordinary, D.; low mddling, 7-16; middling, 6 1-16; good mlddling, 62s middling fair, GA; receipts, 1,261 bales; stock, 176,94S.
 Consolidated statements: Net receipts, 4,- 0S9 bales; exports to France, 6,05O; to the continent. 13305 stock, 46S,679.
 Galvestor-FiFm; middling, 6; sales, 4S9 bales; receipts, 1S1; stock 25,17S
 Mobile-Quiet middling, 5 15-16; sales, 100 bales; receipts. 8; stock 12,534.
 Savannah-Steady; mlddllng, 6; sales, 56 bales; receipts. 22s: stock, 19,696.
 harleston-Nominal no quotations; stock 9,461 bales. aa
 Wilmington-Firm: mlddling, 6B; receipts 127 bales; stock, S,321
 Norfolk-Steady; middling, 6as; sales, S3 bales; receipts. 760; stock, 4O,151.
 Baltimore-Nominal; middling, 55s; re- ceipts, 621 bales; stock, 1372l
 Boston-Dull; middling, 6 9-16; receipts, 54S bales taa
 Philadelphia-Quiet; middling, 6 13-16; re- ceipts, 5S bales; stock, ii ,401. a
 Memphis-Steady; middling, 6: sales, ,0o0 bales receipts, SS; stock, 40,719. |
 Augusta-Steady; middling. 6A; sales, 251 bales; receipts, "A; stock, 52,925.
 Chicago Change
 Chicago, May 2S.-Lack of short inter est and promise of superabundant crops throughout the world caused a decided slump in wheat today. July closed 2i9Q31sc lower, and September 11kc.
 Corn was Hc higher and oats Ac lower. Lard and ribs Sc higher. Pork declined 71bc
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Fresh Bread and Candy made daily at c. w. @Cody's. 1920 to 1836 Third avenue.
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES Arrival and departure of all trains. from this city. Central time. In effect May l. at 1:00 p. m.
 L. & N.-North.
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NORTHERN ALABAMA RAlLhoAD COMPANY.
 rIME TABLE NO. 3-IN EFFECT Monday, January 4 ios'' at o;pv po ossonnsr ,,,. Passenger, ese-e--. xcant Daily except Sundays o1--1eye.
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were adverse to our fleet, but later on 1t was claimed that the Spanish fleet was sunk. Navy officials deny all rumors and state no engagement whatever occurred. The fall In interest rates both at home and abroad with plenty of money at all centers is legitimate point In favor of higher prices and broader investment. Ordinarily steady advances like those of the past two months would be attended by reactions of several points, and while we have looked for them they fail to materialize. Every thing closed at the highest price with sanguine feeling in a further advance.
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with those template emaking changes o
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The Iron Market.

Birmingham May 2s.-The following are fhe latest quotations on iron:
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY co.
 SCHEDULES
 Effective January B. 1898

No. 3 from Albany, Columbus. etc. II :35 am No. from Savannah, Macoh, Co.,
 lumbus, etc..... ...... ............ 5:50 pm Connection at Savannah with superb freight and passenger steamers of the Ocean Steamship company. from New York, Boston and the Eas.-
 For further information apply to
 s. Jacobs, Com'l Agent, Jack w. John- son, Union Ticket Agent, J. c. Halle, Gem eral Passenger Agent, B. H. Hinton. Traffic Manager.
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Paine. Murphy & Co.'S Stock Letter.

Birmingham, Ala, May showed some further reali holders, but the weakness as all offerings were quit commission houses and Il which showed the greates became much stronger on ment. Rumors for speulat flooding tha axchanges. T
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BlhMlNGttAM AM MINERAL.
 B'HAM MINERAL. NORTH.
 Arrive. Depart. sNo 42 Blocton Accom-. .... 40 pm .......- No. 40 Blocton Accom-. .... 10 50 am ........ No. A Oneonta Accom- .. .. ... 2:55 pm B'IIAM MINERAL, SOUTH.
 Arrive. Depart sNc. fl Blocton Accom- ..,.,,,,,... s 3b am No. 45 Oneonta Accom- ...... ..10:10 ,....,
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E. ". RUoKER, President. A. 2. JONES, Yiee-President
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DOUBLE DAILY SCHEDULE TO NEW ORLEANS AND DAILY SCHEDULE
 TO JACKSON. vICKSBURG AND .ri SHREVEPORT.

No. z Iariies Pullman Sleeping Cars Blr- mingham to Cincinnati and from B.Iming- ham to New York without change.
 No 4 carries Pullman Union Sleeping Car Rirmingham to Cincinnati and Pullman Sleeping Car Chattanooga to Louisville. J. M. Culp, Traffic Manager. Washington. Frank s. Cannon, General Manager c W. Wickcrsham, Superintendent Blr- mingham.
 w. A. Turk, G. P. A., Washington, D. c. C. A. Bensccter. A. G. P. A.. Chatta- R. M. Ellis, T. P. A.. Birmingham, Ala.
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Louisville & Nashville
 Railroad Co.

Arr1ve. Depart. sNo. Fast Line ''D'' .. :35 am II :55 pm sNo. Fast Mail. .12 25 am 12 33 pm NO. Decatur Accom-. .... ....4.l0 pm No. 10 Montgomery 30 pm ........
 L. AND N. SOUTH.
 Arrive. Depart. *No. 1 Limited :. :. ........ 7:43am S:03 am sNo. 3 Fast Line ''D"...... 8 40 pm 4 % pm No. Decatur Accom- |. .. S:55 am ....., No. Montgomery Ac .......... 5:50 am
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07

Some years ago company made an
overland trip through the west. The
guide was one Rattlesnake Pete AS
the party journeyed they became very
thirsty, for in certain parts of Arizona
water is scarce. All day long they jour
neyed, and animals and men were nigh
perishing, when, 10, it was as the guide
had foretold-they reached cooling
spring where the water gushed forth
from under great rock-but there was
a man there with rifle in his hands
and two pistols in his belt, and this
man said he owned the spring. His
price for water was 81 bucket So our
friends purchased water and drank and
gave to the animals. Rattlesnake Pete
remarked, as he went away, to the gen.
tleman who owned the water, "Any
man who jumps one of God Almighty's
springs would sell water to his father
in help
Some months after Rattlesnake Pete
went back that way with his friend
Alkali Smith, and the man at the
springs died, and Pete and his friend
buried him in the valley down below
the spring, and over the grave they
heaped pile of stones, and then they
set a stake in the center of the stones,
and on the stake are these words, "The
gent under these here stones thought
the spring was his'n, but he were mis-
taken ''-PhiliStine
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
A Study of Racine.

In Racine's tragedy men dominate
events They are what they make them
selves. But tragedy demands that pas
sion dominate will, and since his age
accepted more readily the dominance of
passion in women than in men his great
characters are nearly all women, and
they have certain family resemblance.
The maidens Iphigenie, Eryphile, Mon
ime, Junie-all resemble Hermione as
sisters, like, yet different, while against
the more experienced victims of passion
Athalie, Roxane Berenice, Phedre, An
dromaque, stand out in unique dignity.
These women appeal to Us with far
more tragic intensity than Joad Or Hip
polytus, Bajazet or Mithridates, Orestes
or Pyrrhus And thus, as Lanson gal
lantly observes, "from Racine dates the
empire of woman in literature, f." at least
in France.
1t was said that Racine did not in
vent tragic combinations, as did Cor
nellie, and that is true. Far from add
ing to tradition, he simplified it. He
sought no novel situations, but endeav-
ored to draw from natural ones their
full import, which was poetic invention
of a higher kind, and in this the rules
so aided him that, as we see from his
comments on the poetics of Aristotle,
they seemed to him dictated quite as
much by reason as by authority.
vance Review.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
Billy Mason as q Boy Joker,

Senator William E. Mason always
has been a joker. Evon when school
boy he never let chance pass without
having his fun at the expense Of some
one else.
When he was a public school pupil,
the boys knew as much about "crib-
bing" as they do now, and it was moth
ing new for them to conceal needed in
formation on their cuffs or inside their
watches.
One day when Willie Mason was tax
ing an examination the keen eyed teach
er observed him take out his watch ev-
cry minute or two. The pedagogue grew
suspicious. Finally he strobe slowly
down the aisle and stopped in front OF
Willie's desk.
"Let me see your WATCH" he COM
manded.
''All right, sir" was the meek reply.
The teacher opened the front lid. He
looked somewhat sheepish when he read
the single word, Cooled"
But he was shrewd man. He was
not to be thrown off the scent SO easily.
He opened the back lid Then he was
satisfied. There he read:
"Fooled again. New York Journal.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
North WaIp0Ie.

Annie, wife of w. j. King, died at her
home Thursday night. The funeral is to
take place Sunday from St. Peters church
at o'clock.
Anton Hecker OF Barre spent Sunday
with his family.
Misses L. E. Stearns and Katie Murphy
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Wood in Charlestown Saturday.
Miss Kate E. Buxton was absent from
her school Thursday and Friday on account
of illness.
Mrs. John Dove, who has been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Stack, returned to her
home in Windsor Saturday:
Mrs. Anton Hecker was in Windsor Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. George Reed last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank D. Shea of Brattle-
boro visited his uncle, John Carroll, Satur-
day. returning from their wedding tour,
Miss Lillian Greene of Windsor passed
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
M. M. Greene.
William Cronin spent few days last
week with his sister in Lowell.
John Carroll, who has been housed with
the grip for the past two weeks, resumed
bis duties Monday.
William Brickley, who has rented the
tenement owned by w. j. King, moved to
M. H. Murphy's house Thursday.
James Hennessey went to Rochester
Thursday, where he is to work, being sent
there by Mr.. Burbank.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07

"I don't know how me- and Sally
AIMS goin to fix it up" said the
troubled young farmer as he talked with
the justice of the peace.
Thought you said you and her was
engaged"
II did, but they was conditions. She
said if I'd git her brand new SEWN
machine so she could git ready fur the
weddin and do her own SEWN later on
she'd gree to marry me. Yesterday I
took them colts and druv to town,
bought the machine, paid fur it, loaded
it inter the wagon and started home
hapS.er'n a lord. Down by the depot an
engIHe begin lettin off steam, and afore
could tighten up on the reins l was
jerked BAG ards off the seat and them
colts went down the road like pair of
skeered pups. I follored fast's 1 could
and fur three miles there was nothin
but chips and screws and bits of steel
and needles and them there extrys what
go with sewin- machine.
cit was the completest wreck you
ever see, and nobody on earth could ever
put the thing together ag'in. I told
Sally Ann jist how it all kim about,
but she hauled me over the Goals fur
tryin to show off them colts, said that
a steady ole boss was better adapted for
haulin SIGH val 'ables and said mo ma
chine, no weddin. I'm clean busted
and looks to me like I'd lost her with
out she d wait year..
The old squire said nothing, but he
wrote note to Sally Ann saying that
it was strictly private and telling her
that Jim Walton was "settin down in
his office tallin bout margin that gal
frum the city what was visitin at the
Clovertops." The note was sent by a boy.
Half an hour later Sally Ann was hur-
rying across the fields, in her best
clothes, to the squire's, and she left
there Mrs. Walton. Detroit Free Press.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
COlored Journalism.

Here are three characteristic para
graphs from The Della Light House of
Greenville, Miss, conducted by colored
people:
"When these boys get to be men, be-
fore they marry girl they are going to
inquire about who the girls mother is,
and the girl will inquire who the boy S
father is, and then we will see less we'd
dings How is that, Professor Jordon?"
"When some people owe person a
bill, when they meet them, they look
off as though they did not see them.
Here, my good citizens, that's ugly,
and let US stop it. How is this, Phil
Williams?'
"Mrs. l. l.. Garrette gave our office a
call this week, also Messrs. Clark and
Mayfield. She left with us her best
wishes. Yes, Mrs. |. l.. Garrette is one
that the writer and all others that know
her keeps special seat reserved in the
private chamber of their heart for the
purpose of entertaining her any time.
Call again, Mrs. Garrette.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07

streets, where the house of Mrs. A. Arms
now stands. This was brick building and
was sold to the Catholic society for a
church after the present Congregations
church was erected. 1t was used by the
Catholics until their present elegant church
building was erected in about 1880. The
Congregational church when first built was
one Of the old fashioned square churches
so common in early days, with spire in
the center of the front. The old building
having become too small for the use of the
society in 1883 it was rebuilt and the seat
ing capacity increased so per cent, COM
modious vestry rooms and parlors being
| furnished.
The cost of these repairs was $500 be-
sides the organ, which was a gift of Hon.
William A. Russell OF Boston. The church
was rededicated Nov. l, 1888, Rev. DR.. j.
l.. Withrow of Boston preaching the dedi-
cation sermon. During the time the church
was not used the Methodist church gener
ously shared their building, the two chuych.
es alternating Sundays, but both churches
holding their Sunday schools, one upstairs
and the other in the vestry below.
The present membership of the Copgre.
gational church is between 200 and 800
The church seats 500 and its capacity is
now taxed to its utmost again, not being
able to furnish permanent sittings to all
who wish to take them this year, and al
ready there is talk of again enlargirg the
building. The church is seemingly pros
porous in all ways, and Mr.. Reds paste.
rate opens under very encouraging circum
stances.-L. S. Hayes in Brattleborc
Phoenix.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
The First Congregational Society.

The First Congregational society of Bel
lows Falls was organized July %, 1850,
the membership coming largely from the
church which had been previously organ
lied at Saxtons River. This society was
merged into the First Congregational
church of Bellows Falls, under which name
it became corporation under the new law
In 1889. Mr.. Reid makes the 18th pastor
since organization. Since Mr.. Carriers
pastorate closed in 1879 there have been
only two pastors, Rev. A. B. Dascomb
from 1879 to 1890, and Rev. j. Ellsworth
Fullerton from 1890 until his death last
October as the result of an accident. Since
then there has been no regular pastor until
MIR. Reid began bis pastorate April 1.
The first regular services Of this church
were held in the traditional hall over the
horse sheds in the wing of the American
House, which stood where the F. B. F.
Grocery company's store now stands, and
was burned in 1859 The congregation
moved later into the old schoolhouse that
stood at the corner of School and Cherry
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
Brandy Farmers.

The brandy farmers of Charente are a
distinct class. Every one of them, even
II he own no more than a patch of six
or seven acres, has his own still and
manufactures his own spirit. Most of
the stills which / saw We're mere shan
ties OF the most primitive type, like
highland bothies or the rude huts in
which Illicit "potheen' used to be. and
dare say even now is, manufactured
IN some wild parts of Ireland. When
the farmer commences making his
brandy, he continues working his stills
day and night until he has converted
all his wine into spirit, The brandy at
this stage is perfectly colorless and con-
talns the whole of the essential oil,
which has subsequently, to be removed
by drastic process of filtration This,
however, the farmer leaves to the mer-
chant to whom he brings his brandy for
sale.
Many of these brandy farmers are
very wealthy was told of one worth
elOO, 600, another 100000, a third
$50, 900 and a considerable number
with $50, 900 and $40, 600 apiece, sums
which figure out magniticently in francs,
but to look at them you would never
guess that they possess as many pence
as they have pounds, for, however rich
they may be, they still retain the dress
and style of peasants. They make no
attempt to ape the manners and fash
ions of those above them. Each genera
ton is content to live as it's predecessor
did-a frugal, Woodworking life, with
its occasional holidays and junketings,
and the exercise of that thrift which is
French PEASANTS highest pleasure.-
Chambers Journal
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The Philippine Islands.

The Philippine islands, 600 in number
and containing $4,000 square miles, lie in
the direct route between Asia and America
and are rich possession for any country.
Coffee and two kinds of cotton grow wild,
and whole woods of cinnamon flourish in
some parts. There are orange trees in the
open fields and wild bananas, palms, bread
fruit and betel-nut trees are indigenous to
the soil.
1t is an ideal place for lazy man and
the native inhabitants are tor the most part
ideally lazy, characteristic that has been
a powerful factor in retarding their prog
ress. When first visited by Magellan in
his voyage around the world the islands
we're inhabited by race of savages inferior
in every respect to the adjacent pagan na-
tons. The Spanish government took pos
session, by means of fleet sent from
Mexico and slowly absorbed island. after
island, but finding no rich manufactures or
mines did not trouble itself at first about
commerce, being satisfied with drawing a
fixed capitation tax from the natives. The
unappropriated land was freely distributed
to colonists and the result was an intermlx-
ture of the native and colonial population,
which contributed to raise the condition of
the former.
After the secession of Mexico in the sec
ond decade of this century and the conse-
quent loss to Spain of the Mexican sub
sidy, the central government found itself
obliged to relax somewhat the restraint on
the development of the Philippines. The
islands yield an annual revenue OF So, OOO,-
900, derived partly from customs, lotteries
and rallies and from government monopo-
lies, such as opium and cock-fghting and
the Chinese capitation tax. The import
and export trade is largely in the hands of
the British and German merchants, while
the retail trade is almost monopolized by
the Chinese.
Rice is the principal grain, but wheat in
troduced by the Spaniards, also thriyes.
Cocoa fourishes and the tobacco is
considered the best in Asia. The islands
export coffee, cotton, spices, sapan wood,
ebony, sulphur, tortoise shell, cordage,
cloth of native manufacture and very deli
cate and curious jewelers. work in gold and
silver. The United States has GA per cent
of the export trade of the Philippines, as
against sc per cent for Great Britain and
other countries.
A gazetteer published at Hong Kong,
shows that by the last census the popula-
ton of Manila was 160, 900 natives, 81 900
Chinese, 400 Spaniards and 25O Euro
peans other than Spaniards. The town is
made up of low buildings, as the people
are in constant dread of earthquakes. One
of these commissions killed 800 people and
the last one, in 1880, wrecked most of the
town. The city proper is within walls.
where the government buildings are
located. The residence and business por-
tons are in the suburbs. The Escotta is
the main business street and is lined with
European stores and bazaars. The Rosario
is lined with Chinese shops. There are
six daily papers, three banks, a mint,
chamber of commerce and complete electric
light and telephone plants. The Mexican
dollar is in general use.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
Inventive Genius of the Romano.

Virgil occasionally INDUCED in hui
NOR at the expense of his friend, Mae
cenas. He made at one time pilgrim
age to the oracle at Delphi, and ON his
return said to M8cenas, Il was awfully
bored while l was away" 500" said
M8cenas "And what was it that bored
you, amicus meus?' "The augurs, of
course" was Virgil's quick response.
This incident goes far to prove the in
ventive genius of the Greeks and Ro.
maus, since even at that early date au-
ours and gimlets had come into USE
Kansas City Star.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-07
Spring Underwear

Ladies Medium Weight Jersey Vests, long short Sleeves also
Knee price Extra people, price Jersey
Vests short sleeves, prices for 25 for for 3d.
Vests Spring
Underwear.