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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16
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NEW YORK, Dec 15.-FLoUR-Moder-
ately active and held l0c. higher; winter
patents $3GJ03.1j.
RYE FLOtk-Firm.
BCCKWHEAT FLOUR-Quiet.
c00RNMEAINFimer, yellow western.
7G07Tc.
ltYE-Steady.
BARLEY Easy; feeding. 4lH@4lhc.;
mailing. 52aJSi2c.
BARLEY MALT-Steady.
WHEAT-Spot firm, No. . red. '15sc.
Options opened steady, and after "a weak
session under foreign and local snort sell
ing turned very strong. In The afternoon
trade was active on heavy covering, big
clearances, bullish Argentine news ana
prospects of a large visible supply de-
crease. The close was strong at hnNc.
net advance; March. l4i2c.; May closed
atis 715.c.. December c1Osed at 12isc.
CORN-Spot firm: No. p ilssc. Options
opened steady; sold off with wheat, but
rallied finally on covering and strong
cables. closed strong. lsc. net higher;
May closed al 4Oc.; December. 3J$lc.
OATS-Spot nrmer; No. .. &c. Options
BEEF-steady.
CUT MEATS-Quiet; picked bellies,
s. 2jd6.
d PoRK"Firm' mess. sS.75a025; short
clear SO 20. family Sl0Hll
BUTTER-Ncry firm, western creamery,
15G2lc: factory. 12Nl4i2c.; Elgins. 2lc.'
imitation creamery, l34lIc.; State dairy
5N1Sc
CHEESE-Fir large white. 1OhmlOl2c.
EGGS-Firm:; state and Pennsylvania,
2GG27c; western fresh, 2Gc.; southern
2202jc. .-.,
POTATOES Steady: Jerseys tla13Iis:
New York. 81. 25li1 so: Long Island. 81 23Q
-. sweets, Jerseys. S12Ja2.2j; southern,
4O675c.
COTTON-SEED OII-Steady.
PFTROLEUM-Firm.
ROSIN-Stea ..
TURPENTINE-F at 41Aai2c.
RlCE-Firm. $1,000
CABBAGE-Steady: per loo. 81 .j0H3
COFFEE Options opened barely steady
AT unchanged prices 10 > points decline
under disappointing Havre and Hamburg
cables and European selling recovered on
frnness and small receipts at Rio ana
Santos. continued strong attitude OF SPOT
holders and liberal warehouse deliveries
in this country: again turned easier un-
der lower closing Havre cables. closed
steady. 3G5 points lower; sales. lfo7O
bags. including December. 500. Spot-
Rio firm and higher: No. invoice. GAc.;
No. : iobbing. nc; mild firm; CordoVa'
7%015c. o-,~,
SUGAR-Raw steady: fair refining. @>0
Q 15-fGr.: centrifugal. 90 test 4SHt 1-lic;
molasses sugar, 33s03 11-l6c. Refined
cfoadior.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16
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EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY
The Greatest Christmas Store
Richmond Has Ever Seen,
Ladies' Desks.

Ladies have become systematic
correspondents. They're as particu,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16

The former Postmaster General Of Pre-
sden. McKinleys administration has
written for the Youths Companion an
article describing the discouraging DIM
culties and appalling dangers met by
Uncle Sans carriers on remote postal
routes. one OF which. In Alaska, 10 nine
hundred miles long.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16
NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGTON. y. c.. Dec 15.-SPIR-
ITS OF TURPENTINE-F at 3oc.; re-
ROsIN-Firm at 9sl4c Gs1o2lk; receipts.
414 barrels.
CRUDE TURPENTINE-Firm at $3.50
G23O. receipts. 81 barrels.
TAR-FEm at S1.lO; receipts, sii bar
rels.
CHARLESTON, S. c.. Dec. 1j.-TUR-
PENTINE-Firm at SIC. asked; sales.
ROsIN-ouiet and unchanged; sales.
none.
SAVANNAH. GA, Dec. 15.-SPIRITS
OF TTIRPENTINE-Close firm at 39l5c.
bid: sales. 440 casks at nc. lower; re-
ceipts Si3 casks.
2. 700 barrels; receipts. 40J4 barrels.
TOBACCO EXCHANGE
Richmond. Va, Dec 10, 1903.
Sales OF uen lark loose tobacco on tho
Richmond Cva) breaks to-day: Stonewall
Warehouse sold o POS pounds Crenshaw's
Warehouse sold 81 ,125 pounds-highest
price. s10.75; ;shockoe Warehouse sold
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
December 10. 1s9
PORT OF RICHMOND. DEC. II. 1898.
ARRIVED.

PORT OF RICHMOND DEC. II, 1895.
ARRIVED.
Steamer Yemassee. O'Neil. Philadel-
phia. merchandise and passengers, Clyde
Line.
Steamer Pocahontas. Graves merchan-
disc and passengers. Virginia Navigation
Company. Norfolk
SAILED.
Barge Violet. Mahoney. Baltimore via
Scotland. lumber.
PORT NEWPORT NEWS, DEC. 10, 1898.
ARRIVED.
Schooner Florence. New York.
Steamer Westyah Galveston.
Steamer Ramleh. Galveston.
Steamer RappahannOck Liverpool.
Steamer AppOmattox, London.
SAILED.
Barge KnickerbOcker, Boston.
Schooner perery Birdsall. Providence.
Schooner j r. Manning. Providence.
steamer Jamaica. Port Antonio.
Steamer Manningtrv. Manchester
Steamer Westyah. HaVre.
Steamer Ramleh, Liverpool.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16

Messrs. Jno. +. Jacob & Co. tobacco
commission merchants No. 1l3 south
Twelfth street. Richmond. Va. make the
following comments FOR the week on to-
baccO.
sun-Cured CNew)-Receipts not so heavy
this week, due 10 very cold weather: good
10 prime stock continues In demand and
damaged stock has 10 be sold at low
prices.
Brights-In better demand this week.
quotations unchanged.
Dark 1Old)-Little or nothing doing;
very dull: receipts and offerings very
light.
INew)-Fair receipts but lighter than
last week: market continues active for
AN good 10 fine stock al fun quotations.
while common and damaged stock is I'm
moderate demand only, and prices low.
And quote prices current as follows.
c.r-N- 1.r-rI,I TOD Arrn NIrNr
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.

Quotations are for bonds maturing in
not less fhan ten years.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16

The Governing Committee Of the New
York Stock Exchange has decided 70 close
the exchange on the Saturdays before and
the Mondays following Christmas and
New Years Day The decision was made
in response 10 "a petition from members
Of the exchange
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16
THE TIMES: RICHMOND. VA FRIDAY. DECEMBER 49, 1898

~ 90 rounds-highest price, 1925. Total,
az Gao pounds-highest price. sl275.
Crenshaw's Warehouse sold yesterday
the following crops:
= harris. Hanover county. rs
pounds at siO.7j. 23o pounds at S15.15: T..
NJ. Harris. Hanover county. 22J pounds at
Si4Jo: A. Anderson, Louisa county, 40
pounds al Sl525: NJ. l. Moran, King Will
liam county, 40 pounds az Sif2j. and
40 pounds at 1925; Fox & Pollard, King
William county, one lot at SGD.
Messrs. Frazer Il Tompkins sold to-day
at Shockoe warehouse the fine Powhatan
county dark stemming crop OF l.. w
Reams at Sl2. 10. and Jack GiIham's dark
stemming crop NJ SlZyO.
Good breaks of new dark loose tobacco
at an of the warehouses for tomorrow
Friday, December 10. 1898.
Private sales repOrtva TO the secretary
sf the Richmond Tobacco Trade to-day
were light
The tobacco inspector reports to-day:
Inspectins-Bright . hogsheads. Rein
spectiOns-Bright. IL hOgsheads.
Shockoe. Seabrook's. Meals. Allegheny
Old Dominion and Crenshaws tobacco
warehouses report to-day: Receipts, 80
packages: deliveries, II packages.
United States internal revenue collec-
lions on tobaccos for the city Of Rich
mond. Va. to-day: Cigars and cigarettes
sG9Gl.74; plug tobacco. S2,iiG92. Total,
50 4Os CO.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-16
RICHMOND STOCK MARKET
richmond d. De'. H. io'o'
COW CTrDTrRfTfEg RIA Asked
CIV sECURITIEs.

North Carolina As. c.. 1910. log go.
North Carolina 6's. c.. 1919. 40 49,.
Va. SIS. new, C.. and T.. 1892. 81
Va. Century. %. c. and r.. SIX -
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
MONKEYS AT FOOTBALL.
They Also Play Cricket, But Not Ac-
cOrhInH to nuIe.

Travellers in South Africa have noted
the fact that where monkeys congre-
gate in large numbers they also in
duIge in games of certain kind. Two
of these games seem to resemble cricket
and football.
The cricket is of a primitive order
About n dozen monkeys stand in a
circle, or whatever is akin to the simian
idea of n circle. Two of them advance
from different extremities of the cir
Gle and stop about Is yards apart, fac
ing each other. The monkey at the
southern end of the circle has cocoa
nut in his hand. He is the bowler.
The monkey at the other end does
not, as you might suppose, WELD a
full cane bat. His business is to dodge
the cocoanut which the bowler aims at
his head. The delivery of the ball is
tremendously fast, full pitched and
fraught with dire results if it touches
the spot" When it does happen to
touch the spot-that is, any part of the
monkeys body-that monkey is very
much out and doesn't even stop to
dispute the question.
| AHOlHeT IlOnkey tdheS Ills place vi w
he, too, receives his dismissal. 1t was
presumed by the travellers that the
game was finished when a majority OF
monkeys lay nursing their wounds un.
der the friendly shade of a neighbor.
ing palm.
The football is of more advanced
type. 1t is also played with a cocoa
nut. The game, if anything, is un.
doubtedly the 'socker" game, and Is
played with the feet. OF course there
is no goal nor any tactics to speak Of
the object of each animal being to KEEP
the ball to himself as much as possible
Still the competition to get the bal
makes it resemble a real game of foot
err and the deXterity exhibited by
these peculiar amateurs is surprising
and wonderful.
In an evil moment some ambitious
monkey may elect to play the Rugby
game by snatching up the ball and
making off. but the game then develops
into war, in which life is sometimes the
prize.
No mention is made of referee, but
if there is one about, like wise and
provident monkey. he is probably up a
tree.-Brooklyn Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29

morning last February two gold rings
were missing from the dressing table
of DIR. Bretherton's mother. The won
der of the disappearance wa:
increased some weeks later when
pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses were
missing from the top of DIR. Brother.
toms own bureau. AS other valuables
were lying around in the other rooms, it
wasnot tsuspected that burglars had been
at work, but there was general dis
charge of servants the following month
when pair of pearl opera glasses and a
diamond bracelet disappeared from the
same spot in Mrs. Bretherton's room.
Other articles disappeared. The real
thief was discovered one midnight when
Jack, in stealing an alarm clock, hap
pened to release the spring. and conse-
quently awoke his master. Then Jacks
box was searched, a1d under the rags
were found the many valuable articles
that had been missing. A court was
held, Jack was decided to be an in
durable criminal, and condemned 10
death.-N. Y. World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
Improvement in Tomatoes.

There is great difference in the quail
ty of tomatoes both as regards smooth
ness and solidity. When first intro
duced, tomatoes were simply skinny
bags of water and seeds, having very
little pulp and not much besides their
flavor to recommend them. They were
also very rough, with hollows where
the sun did not thoroughly ripen them.
H. is no wonder that people were slow
in learning to like them. But as the
demand has increased most of the
roughness of the old-time tomato has
been bred out of it. While the flavor
remains the same, there is much more
pulp or flesh inside and less of water
snd seeds than used to be the case, and
it does not all cook away as it used
to do,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
Best Route to Klondike.

The quickest and cheapest route is via
st. Paul or Minneapolis, the Northern Pa
cific Railway, Taiya (Dyea) and Chilkoot
Rail & Tramway, or via Skagway and wagon
road to summit of White Pass. The lines
over these Passes we are assured will be in
operation in February, 1898, by which time
the worst storms will be over and the snow
packed down fit for travelling.
The ice goes out of the upper Yukon basin
lakes May 18th to June lst or simultaneously
with the opening of the Stikeen River 300
miles south, but you can reach the Salmon,
Pelly, Stewart and Klondike country from
three weeks to a month earlier by properly
equipping your party and shedding your out
fits, Lake Lindeman to open river at foot of
Lake LIE Berge, l60 miles, thus avoiding pos
sible portages at Miles Canon and White
Horse Rapid.
Send two cents postage to Chas S. Fee,
st. Paul, Mimi, for latest illustrated Alaska
map. The Northern Pacific is the only rail
way running its trains (all equipped with
Dining Cars, Standard, Tourist and free Col
onist sleepers) through to Tacoma, Seattle
and Portland.
As the pioneer line in Alaska passenger
traffic, the Northern Pacific will give the
latest authentic information as to reliable
routes of travel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
Reflections of a bachelor.

AT 80 marriage is the wine of life; at 40
it's the morning after.
A man is quiet when he is dead; woman
is dead when she's quiet.
Every woman is a mirror of her bosom
friend to her husband and mirror of her
husband to her bosom friend.
The first sign that woman is beginning to
feel her age is when she hunts up all the baby
pictures of her children.
Half woman's pleasure in buying pret-
ty pair of stockings cheap is spoiled because
she can never be perfectly sure they won t
crock.
When you see a girls eyes look as if she
had been crying she has generally met with
some great grief, or else she has Just had her
bath and couldn't find her silk starching
bag.-N. Y. Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
Regularity In Milking.

Regularity in time of milking is nee
essary. The dairy COW is a good time
keeper, and knows very well when milk
ing time comes. If she is neglected and
allowed to go far beyond the regular
time, she begins to worry and loss fol-
lows. There are some cows that GER
tain mixers can never get clean. They
milk out all that flows readily, strip
around once or twice, and call her fin
ished. With some cows this will do,
but with Others the miller must reach
well up on the udder, and work it with
sort of kneading process. A little
manipulation of this sort will cause
the whole quantity to flow in to the
teats, whereas without it there will be
from a gill to pint of the richest milk
left in the udder every time, which
means prematurely dry COW.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29

A good story of feline fidelity comes
from Rohrback, in Lorraine. Pussy is
in the habit of taking daily constitu-
tional with her master. Quite recently
a business call demanded journey by
rail, necessitating a five days absence
from home. Pussy saw her master off
by taking pathetic leave of him at the
station. On his return pussy awaited
him on the platform. The station mas
Ter said she had not left the premises.
and that she had appeared on the plat
form on the arrival of each train day
and night. On his alighting pussy
purred her welcome with an exhibition
of caresses quite touching to behold
London Modern Society.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
FARM AND GARDEN.
TOLL ROADS MUST GO.
They Are Completely out of Harmony
with the Times.


with the Times.
There are localities in which toll
roads exist and are fairly well kept,
and where the other roads are exceed
ingly poor. BY comparison, at least,
the toll roads are excellent. In such
cases the wheelmen are apt to deprecate
agitation looking to the abolition of toll
roads, fearing that everything would
sink to the level of the average, un-
cared-for country road. They prefer
to retain the existing toll roads, with
their many Objectionable features, to
letting them go and taking the chances
on other roads improved and properly
cared for.
This is perfectly natural. Cycling de-
pends so much on the character of the
roadways that we cannot afford to let
any fairly good roads become deterior'
ated, and some correspondents tell us
that where turnpike companies have
given up their charters, the roads have
been allowed to go to ruin. Such COM
dition of affairs is all wrong, and in
dicates failure of the people to realize
their own interests and a lack OF pro-
gressivenessint in thisvery important direc-
ton. Does it not indicate, too, that
wheelmen have not agitated the road
question long enough and thoroughly
enough to arouse popular sentiment
and get public opinion formed intelh-
gently on the subject?
AS soon as the Importance of having
good highways is once appreciated, and
the people become sensible of the neces-
sity for concerted action, and the CO.
| operation of the state, when they get
out of their ruts and outgrow the notion
that good roads would be only of local
value, and unite in suitable Legislation
for their promotion, they will realize
how completely toll roads have had
their day, passed their sphere of use
fulness, and how out of harmony they
are with the times.
The usefulness of toll roads in a limit.
ed number of localities constitutes nc
argument for nurturing an institution
which was born under very different
conditions from those which now pre-
vail, and which, after failing to move
with the rapid progression of the times
has fallen into a decline, and in many
places refuses either to meet the re.
quirements of the times or vacate in fa
vor of the public. On the contrary
1t imposes greater responsibility upor
the wheelmen of such sections, as pio
neers in the good roads movement, t.
carry on an agitation that will result il
the improvement of the country roads
and success in this direction will even
tuallV wine out of existence fhe tol
roads, through the changes that will re
suit from the construction of moderI
tighways.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
R8R21f9
BIRDS LIKE TO PLAY.
Nome Go So Far as to Build Regular
Amusement HILLS.

Birds are usually merry creatures,
but the birds that build playhouses for
their own enjoyment must be of a
peculiarly sportive nature. few
years ago a gentleman who was hunt
ing in the wilds of New Guinea made
acquaintance with these birds and their
playhouses- He found himself in front
of n neatly built cabin about a foot
and a half high, in the midst of mead
ow of rich green mosses studded with
flowers. The cabin was much better
made than the huts of the natives.
A fat piece of ground, on which grew
q small tree about the size of a light
walking stick, had been chosen, and
uTon it the cabin was erected, with the
little tree for its center post. Stems
OF an air-plant which would live and
grow after they had been built into the
structure formed the walls and roof,
and fluttered their tiny leaves about the
doorway that led to the garden, where
bright flowers and gayly colored ber-
ries and the feathers of beautiful birds
lay scattered about.
Ii was not until afterward that the
intruder learned that designers or the
tiny playhouse and pleasure-grounds
were little birds.
First cousins to the gardenerbirds
says Mr.. j. Carter Beard in Popular
Science News, are the bower-birds OF
Australia. These birds build bowers in
which they meet to dance and frolic.
The walls are strongly formed of twigs
AID small branches woven together,
and the whole structure is covered with
a layer of beautiful grasses.
The playhouses are further orna-
mented inside and out with shells, shin
ing pebbles, gay scraps, little bones,
and skulls of wild birds bleached white
together with the green and gold and
scarlet feathers of parrots.
After the male birds have built the
arbors they leave their little mates to
decorate them, which they do with
great zest, often flying miles 10 find
some glittering object that suits their
taste. When all is completed the birds
repair to the bower to enjoy them
selves as if in n ballroom, bowing and
dancing, turning about and chasing
each other up and down in whirl ot
eportive delight.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29
Had Too Much variety.

A young Kentuckian spent very Pc
culiar night recently. Up TO midnight
he was enjoying himself at ball. Then
he started for home, and going across
n farm lot TO shorten the distance,
walked over an unused well that was
covered with decayed boards. Down he
went, 80 feet, into water up to his waist,
and there he stayed until morning,
when his cries brought assistance. He
says now that he never had so much
variety in one night before, but he
prefers monotony hereafter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29

the search for gold, and has diverted the
attention of many others. But in order
to get there it is necessary that man
should be possessed of the best of health
strong powers of endurance and consider.
able means. He leaves his wife and his fam.
lily for considerable period, and the hard
ships he has to endure are all unknown to
him.
-, Canada has other gold fields, though.
they are the fields that produce her golden
grain. This year the crop of Manitoba, ly.
ing north of North Dakota, yielded q, 600.
600 bushels of wheat alone. The current
price averages 76 cents which, as local
paper puts it, "makes the product in gold
this year, for wheat alone, equal to a value
Of ,$l5,96o,OOO." Twenty thousand farmers
dld this, or an average to each producer of
about $79S.
But these same farmers are not living by
wheat alone. This is only one source of rev
enue to them out of many. They have also
beef, butter, potatoes, oats, barley and poul.
try to sell, and sometimes other things, so
that 1t may be fairly estimated that their in
comes will average at least 81 900 per farmer
Thus Manitoba fields have yielded this year
tully $20,000,000 in gold, divided among 90
600 actual producers, and general popula
ton of about 200, 000."
After counting the cost Of stamp mills, ex
penses of men, etc, rich as is the Klondike
such vast wealth as is being taken out of the
soil in raising wheat in this one province
cannot possibly be secured in any mining
district. OF course mining development as
sists agricultural development, and that j.
why the Government of Canada feels so mucl
assurance in predicting prosperity to all whC
take up farms in Canada. Western Canad;
| to-day Promises more than any other known
| field that is open to immigration. Farms o
| 100 acres, capable of producing the best No
/ hard wheat, yielding thirty to forty bush
els to the acre, are given away free. Rail
ways, markets, schools, churches-all ar
| convenient. The Canadian form of govern
ment is one of the most liberal known, and
hearty welcome is given to settlers of all ma
tionalities. Already there are many settler
| gone in from the states, and the report
string information as to free homestead laws
low transportation rates. etc, will hav
pamphlets, etc, sent free on application t.
the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, o
to any agent of the Government or to M. V
McInness, Canadian Govt Agent, No.
| Merrill Block, Detroit, Mich.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-01-29

been placed in position. 1t is best to
make the poles or rails of some good
timber. Use enough of these to make
the fence or gate sufficiently high.
These swing around on the rods as the
water forces them apart. When the
water recedes these can be agail4 placed
in position, and there is no loss of fence
material. The ends are laid on each
other, as in building up rail fence
Albert Shewmaker, in Orange Judd
Farmer.