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relief of Lucknow, but he was months in reaching the beleaguered post.
 The present war with Spain is not likely to bsomemorabfe for rapid forced marches. contingency which would make them nec- essary seems hardly possible, and besides. the climatic and topographic conditions in Cuba are not favorable. But there is one feature in this war which does mark a de- parture in military history, and that is the rapldity with which troops have been moved to points of concentration. The whole drama of mobilization has seemed to drag, but when it is analysed, no delay is observed in the matter of transporting the troops. On the contrary, great distances have been covered by large bodies of men In hours where formerly days and weeks were requMed.
 March Would Have Been Eight Months
 Take an instance which occurred two weeks ago. One thousand men were order- ed from Fort McPherson, Atlanta to the Philippines They were to go to San Fran cisco to take transports there. The over land journey was 5000 miles. To march that distance would take eight months. That idea would not have been entertained had there been no other means of crossing the continent than on foot, because It would have saved time to have loaded them on
 
 around Cape Horn. What did occur? The troops were loaded on special trains and sent by way of New Orleans to San Fran cisco, where they arrived on the fifth day. Fifteen thousand men were moved from Chickamauga to Tampa in twenty-seven hours from the time they got on the trains. The distance is six hundred miles in round figures. That movement was made on eight hours notice. Twelve thousand men we're t1,a fn In a hn11f thirty hours.
 The facilities of the railroads have been fully equal to the governments emergency orders. From first to last the roads have handled 100000 troops, regulars and volun- teers. The Central, Southern, Plant Sys- tenn, Georgia Southern and Florida Louis- vile and Nashville and the Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis have moved three- fourths of the number without a serious accident. Whatever delay there has been in mobilization resulted from causes other than lack of Transportation facilities. When the large movement was made from Chick amauga to Tampa, 300 passenger coaches, 150 freight cars and 65 engines were re- quired, and there had to be a separate crew for every train. The secrecy maintained by the army oficfals in regard to moving the troops compels> the railway managers to be always prepared to concentrate a large number of cars at given point on a few hours notice This makes the transporta- ton expensive to the companies
 The government allows only thirty to thlrty-ffve men ln a coach Every man must have seat to himself, so that he can make himself comfortab1e This re- quires twice as many cars as would other-' wise be necessary.
 InconSeniences in Late War
 In the war between the states the men were loaded on freight cars. Many rode on top of box cars. Rough boards were nailed across coal cars and the soldiers sat crowd ed on these seats under the hot sun, in rain
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"A NEXM kLoNDIF<E TN THE PACIFIC
WEALTH OF GOLD AWAITING THE HAND OF THE DEVELOPt

feet and the vessels showing their white sails in the harbor few yards away.
 So attractive have the Philippine Islands been to sailors that for years captains of sailing vessels and steamers have guarded against desertlon when at the Philippines. Sailors would willingly buy their freedom and leave the ship, if only they might be allowed to remain in this beautiful and rich country.
 Their experienced eyes can see the gold even in the sand, and they hear, as soon as they touch the shore, many stories of the minerals that have Been brought from the interior. Every planter coming with his cargo to the vessels brings colored stones in his pocket, which were either precious or semi-precious stones. Rubies were plentiful among the precious stones, and hyacinths among the semi-precious ones. Either of these were valuable enough to make 1t worth while to collect them.
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and storm, without protection, and rode in this manner for hundreds of miles. It was a three days trip from Savannah to Rich mond. T move troops from Atlanta to Montgomery consumed a day and half the night.
 In this war the horses and mules get better accommodations, Tor they ride in ventilated stable cars with feed and water at their heads. The commissioned off, cers travel in Pullmans, they can sleep as soundly at night as though they were in barracks These superior accommodate tions have compelled the railroads to fur nish double the amount of equipment they would use if they were handling the same number of people on excursion.
 The government has spared no expense to have the movemnts mad in the short est possible time and with the least dis comfort to the soldiers. In the next war, privates will expect buffet cars. Last year when 35,000 Christian Endeavorers went to San Francisco they travelled two in a seat. Visitors to the great reunions of the confederate veterans and tn Grand Army go in crowded cars and on regular trains so far as they hold out. All of Uncle Sam's army movements are made on special trains. He pays two cents a mile for each man, but the roads have to run twice as many cars as would ordinarily be required, an dthe trains come back empty as to Je
 empty. It costs just about as much to run a passenger train empty as to handle 1t full of passengers This knocks big hole in the receipts. As the trains go half loaded, and only one way at that the rate realized really amounts to only half a cent a mile.
 These military spacious average about thirty miles an hour. They have the right of way over everything except the mail trains.
 Napoleon would have been month fr, Tampa.
 Have Made Little Profit
 There is a general impression that the railroads have made great amount of money out of the government. In the first place there are only few railroads which have shared in the traffic. One or two north and south lines and one or two east and west lines hay had nearly all of 1t. This was because the government patfon- ized the most direct routes. Uncle Samuel makes the roads bid and some of them in their. eagerness for the distinction of car rying the soldiers offered to do 1t for cost. He may be stuck now and then in buy ing an auxiliary cruiser. but he knows how to deal with the transportation companies on land, and they do not get much out of him on a trade of that kind. Besides he has a contract with several roads by which they are bound to carry passengers or freight for him at just half what they charge other people. These lines are known as the land grant rQaads Ths 2thsr roads 1y to meet that competition. Uncle Safh c6nies out tolerably well fin the long run.
 All the southern railroad managers say that general business has fallen off since the war started. Everybody Is waiting to see how long the war will continue before investing in new enterprise or extending old ones Building is almost at stand still The demand for lumber is light and the great saw mills are reported to be r,.n- ming on short time while some ha.r,e shut
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HYDRAULIC MINING.

Almost every kind of mining can be done In these charming islands. The mountains in the center give rise Ito many streams, which flow almost to the coast. These fre- duently bring down heavy nuggets, show ing that there Is a fine chance up above for hydraulic mining. Mines can be worked to great advantage, and within the next three months n umerous capitalists will go there with their engineers and their machinery to get the gold out of the rocks.
 Gold can be banned on the level along the shores of the streams, and there are few places where the sand does not pan the color of gold. In fact ther very ground has a reddish tinge, and there are tracts which plainly show color
 The life of a mouataineer in Uncle Sams now gold fields will differ so from that in Alaska that a miner who has mined In one place will be almost unfit fer duty in the
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been, a gold mi nc for the planters of the Philippine Islands. They raise the nuts to great size, and the word philippine" fa- miliar 10 all lovers of almonds, is thought to have originated from the nuts that grow there. Their shells are so large that two nuts nestle in each shell.
 It would seem that as if, with all this richness of food, the islands were sufflcient- ly endowed without the addition of other products, but, through all the soil, there runs this trace of gold which crops up along the mountains and on cei,tain rivers, until it shows Itself in an almost perfect gold formation.
 Visitors who dig there have frequently come away lad en with nuggets in an im- perfect state. There were neither engineers nor assayers to separate the gold, and It and America. But, with the addition of a lattle machinery from the United States, the gold can be separated and large amounts of the precious ore can be shipped directly to this country.
 In report recently issued by the govern- ment the exact quantities of gold, as nearly as is now known, were set forth, and the figures were greater than those of any oth- CT gold-bearfng country in the world.
 So a new Klondil1es has been opened up, and thousands of disappointed miners who t1 4u,a had neither the means nor transportation can now take the cheaper lines to the Philippine Islands, and arrive there with pick and pail ready to dig a fortune out of the soil of Uncle Sam's new Pacific possess sion. C. s. RUSSELL.
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The Philippine Islands promise to be the greatest Klondfke ever discovered
 The word KlondiSe, which originated only one shdrt year ago, has come to be a syno- pym for great wealth. "Ixfondike'' is no longer confined to a region. On the con- trary, 1t means any country in which gold or vast quantities of minerals are found.
 The Philippines is a ggeater Klondike than Alaska'-yes, greater than Alaska and South Africa, could these two be combined as one country.
 The Philippine Islands are rich in gold, rich in rubies and precious stones, and well supplied with coal and all useful minerals. They are a Klondike of stones and min erals as well of gold.
 We have so associated the getting of gold with hardships that it is difficult to believe that any country exists in which gold can be mined without serious privation. In Alaska there is loss of life, and each mug get that is brought stands for just so much human suffering. But in the Philip pines it is always pleasant and, in spite of the heat of summer, man can live out there the year round and enjoy himself. &. MANI1A's GOLD.
 Gold fin the Philippine Islands can be ob tained in any one of several ways. The gold regions in that of the Philippine Islands in which Manila is situated open up about mile back of Cavite, and extends over a very wide district through which many streams of waiter run. At one place a gold streak containing rich pan ore ex- tends towatd the coast and ends only one hundred miles from the anchorage of sea- going vessels. There are no other gold fields in the w .orld that do this. There are no rivers to be travelled, no mountains with difficult methods of transportation, there are no long stretches of country-just the land and sea, with the ore lying at your
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down altogether. There are no shipments Of cross ties to amount to anything and
 in certain sections this is an important in- dustry. The interior merchants in the south report that purchases by their customers
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other. In the Philippines man win need fibre and crash clothing closely resembling that of our soldiers and sailors at Manila. The coolest thinnest kind of wash goods are necessary, and a special shoe which has no weight to it. The tools with which a miner in the Philippines works can be as intricate and expensive as his purse will allow, for there Is every facility for trans portaton. Steamers stop at the Philippines all the year round, and man can go to the islands in December as well as in August.
 A MINERS FOOD.
 The food upon which a miner lives in these new regions differs from that in the Klondfke, where berries never grow. In the Klondlke he is glad to get fresh meat once every month, and he relies on pork and canned goods, with an occasional streak of big game, such as venison But in the Philippines a miner can carry on his entrancing employment and fare at the same time upon the richest finest foods that come out of the earth. Every variety of nut grows at his door.
 The Philippines are rich in oceans, rich in almonds, and absolutely prodigal In what Is known here as Brazilian nuts English walnuts grow there upon immense shade trees, and the common walnut is so numer- ous that 1t Is cut down and used for fuel when fuel is desired The fruits that grow there are fas too numerous to mention. All the staples, such as bananas, oranges and cocoanuts, are plentiful, while the fine fruits, such rich grapes, pomegranates and figs, are easily grown. There are be- sides many perlshable tropical fruits and bdfries which are found there and there only. South Africa has them, and so in- deed has one portion of Cuba, but the Flhil- ipplnes grow them in much greater quan- tfty.
 The raising of almonds is, and has always
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Many of the managers fear that when tho war is over business will be dull for them for a time, because it will take months for conditions to return to their normal state
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are very light and on credit. Collections are very slow.
 The movement of troops and supplies for the army is interstate. The local or pure- ly intra-state business has diminished.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-28
OTHER GRAIN MARKETS.

GRAIN GOSSIP-Gossip by private
wire to C. H. F. Smith & Co, St Paul, mem
Chicago board of trade-New York-Taking
hfteen loads No red just placed for Liver
pool.--Broomhall says: Danubian wheat
crop now acknowledged 20 per cent under
average. Best authorities anticipate only
moderate shipments this season. Area of
wheat sown this autumn probably not SO
Isrge as a year ago.-Price Current: Pre-
yailing conditions are similar to the preced-
ing week, further interferences to handling
grain from moisture, particularly corn
Packing 800 goo, against $4,000 last year 80
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27.-Wheat lower, No 2
elevator, Csc: track, 7OG71c; May, Zee; No. 2
red cash elevator. CSC; track, 70671c; Decem-
Der, 701sc; No. 2 hard, 8S06Shc. Corn, high
er; No. cash. BE- December, 31Ac; May,
t SltsgSdsse. Oats, firm; No, cash, Csc;
2 white, 27AQ2Sc. Rye, higher, slice. Flax,
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct 27.-Flour steady.
northern, 671Ac. Oats, steady 25A26alc. Rye,
47c; sample, 3sG46c. 9'''N' w. N'
LIVERPOOL. Oct, 7..Wheat steady. I'D
10d; December. IS 95sd; March, IS Sd.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 27.-Wheat, steady;
No 2, 64c; No. 611k@6214c; No. red, CSC
5711@601ac. Corn steady; No. 2 mixed 3OA
@301ac; No. 2 white, 32c; No. 8, 31c. Oats.
steady. No. white, &C. Rye, No. 2 SOC.
NEW YORK, Oct. H.-Flour-Receipts, 3D.
$50 bbls; exports, 24,042 bbls. Barley, steady
and quiet. Wheat-Receipts, 6O,125 blu; ex-
ports, 1851 blu. Spot, easy; No. red, TIC,
f.. o. b.. atoat; options closed at A0Ac de-
cline with bears renewing their attacks Sales
included No. 2 red May, 725s@7311c; closed
12Bc. Corn-Receipts, 81, 700 blu; exports, 49,
Aq3sc net higher. May $685. 1850; closed,
3913c. Oats-Receipts, 226,2OO bu; exports, %
245 blu. Spot steady; No. 2, 29Ac; options,
dull nominal
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-28
ST. PAUL MAN SELECTED.
p. n. L. HardenberGh Made Presi-
dent of SaddIery Dealers.

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 27.lThe ma
tional convention of wholesale sad
dlery dealers today adopted resolutions
for uniform numbers indicating the
measurement Of horse collars, request
Ing congress to put hides on the free
list, and to buy no goods manufactured
In penal institutions The association
the past year spent $4,000 to dispose
Of plant at Joliet, III, and they are
now after the plant working under con,
tracts IN the Maine penitentiary
The following officers were elected
President, P. r. L. Hardenbergh, ST.
Paul; vice president, Rudolph Rossurn.
Minneapolis; secretary, J. B. Denver.
st. Louis; treasurer, Albert Kuhlmey
Chicago; executive commission. ]. s,
Medary, La Crosse, Wis; P. Burns. ST.
Louis; Elmer Fisher, Minneapolis; IT.
Z. Seller, Buffalo; J. H Bishop. WAN
dotte, Mich.
The presidents of all the state asso-
Citations are also vice presidents of the
national association. The convention
adjourned to meet at Boston july II
1899 o' -
Several cities received votes for tina
next convention, Cleveland receiving
81, While Boston received 38. The annual
banquet was held tonight.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-28

49, Western range lambs, S. 65 and feeders
81 S5Q sos. Receipts-Cattle, Il, 900; hogs, 49,
co., Sio sheep 1900 head
espts S GlF 1sd 4S Se 51s sspmen Rs
lS6; market steady. Sales II beeves, av. ], 1913
lbs. S4.S5; 40 beeves, av. 1,275 lbs, $50; 10
westerns dIo av. 11a6 lbs, $S.S5; Is Westerns rs
cows. av, $50 lbs So 40; Is stock heifers. av.
676 lbs, 1886; 20 stock heifers av. 200 lbs,
$3.50; 2 bulls. av. 1910 Lbs. $2.75; bulls. ay.
l;OSI lbs $2:s5; bulls. av: 1,01o lbs. IS; Is
stockers and feeders,a ay. $40 lbs, $4.05; 16
calves, aV. ESQ lbs, $4.50 70 calves av. 24S
lbs, 40; o. yearlings, av. 522 lbs, $S.75; q
yearlings, av. 7S5 lbs, $4:15. Hogs-Receipts,
500; Wednesday, $3.50; shipments, 90; market
DC lower; selling S.. 3O935 So bulk, $34O
KANSAS CITY. Oct. 7.-Cattle-Receipts,
y .st best steady; others, 6G1Oc lower Ma
Texas cows, 81. 35@3.O5; native cows and
1elters' $2.25Q425 stockers and feeders, $3.75
g4.SO; bulls, $2.25Q3.75. Hogs-Recepts. IL
wv 01: weak to DC lower. Bulk of sales, % 400
500; heavy $S;45q3.6o; packers, sS.4OgS %
mixed. $3.50 3.52a; light, So. 40@3. 5212; York
ers, $S6OGg3 523h; pigs SO. 30Q3.45 Sheep-Re-
celpts, 30 1000 . Firm. Lambs, $45O@5.SO; NUT
ST: LOUIS, Oct. 27.-Cattle- Receipts, 5000.
STEADY to lOc lower; stockers and feeders.
$l5q4.25; cows and heifers $2Q4,5O; Texas
ana lndlan steers, 2.75Q4.25; cows and heif-
- N-SO'1V' IlOSS-hecelpLS, i,oOu Mal he'
5qlOc lower. Workers, $3.4OQ $780, packers,
SS;40QS.6O; butchers S3.6O637O. Sheep-Re-
eelpts, $500. Firm. Muttons, $494.75; lambs,
SOUTH OMAHA, Oct. N.-Cattle- Receipts
$500 Dull and lower. Native beef steers,
$S.3Oq5.4O; Western beef steers, $3.S0@4.75
cows and heifers, $S@3.SO stockers and feed
Hogs-Recelpts, 1900, 5@51Oc lower; heavy,
S. 1903. 571s; mixed, $3.45@3 471a; light, $3.479
QS55; bulk Of sales, SO. 45@3.471k. Sheep-Re-
ceipts, 5000 Steady. Native muttons. SAC
40; lambs 81 hO6h 30
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-28

FOREIGN BANK sTATEMENTs-Paris
Oct N.-The weekly statement of the Bank
OF FRANCE shows the following changes as
compared with the previous account: Notes
IN circulation decreased 49, 900 francs, treas
ury notes current increased 81, GOO francs
gold in hand decreased 900 francs; bills
discounted increased sc, 200 900 francs silver
In hand increased % 900 francs
London. Oct N.-The weekly statement OF
the Bank of England shows the following
changes as compared with the previous &C
count: Total reserves increased f606 COO cir.
c c decreased f142, 0O0 bullion increased
t44f,ooi, o;her securities increased fl 1874 900
other deposits increased f1124,OO, public de-
posts decreased 100000, notes reserve in
creased t632. coo, government securities de.
creased f905, eco. The proportion of the Bank
0 3ed Englands % III liabilities to reserve which las
Bank of England's rate of discount remains
unchanged at per cent
o, FOREIGN FINANCIAL-New York, Oct
Z.-The Evening POSTS London cabiegram
says: Inc cheerful tone in the stock mar
kets here at the close yesterday was main.
tanned today. The rise was most marked
IN Americans and in Kaffirs, the former
closing quietly at the best chiefly on Nav
Y rk support. The one small failure on the
settlement today is of no Significance. but
the recovery in prices is timely, as there are
some weak spots"
WALL STREET GOSsIP-New York stock
gossip, reported by H. Holbert & Son, bank
ers and brokers. 341 Robert street National
German-American Bank building St. Paul:
NSC " ldSS wire US. FOfGlgn sales In
market today were very small The market
opened strong and under influence of better
political feeling abroad and at home con
tinued to show remarkable strength, the buy
ing during the morning having been of a
very good order. The grangers, led by St
Paul, were buoyant, the facts noted above
combined with the large increase of earn
ings, being given in justification of the
strength shown. There is still very large
short interest in Sugar. and as liquidation
from the inside has apparently ceased a
small bull pool formed In the stock and work
ed the market up on the shorts Late in the
day Sugar broke. and il was said that the bull
pool mentioned sold their stock. prominent
broker was offering the stock down on seller
60 contracts, but did not sell any. The closing
was firm with feeling bullish.''
NEW YORK MONEY-New York, Oct IL
Money on call steady at 1902 per cent; last
loan. Ia per cent. Mercantile paper, $40
AZ. Sterling exchange heavy, with actual
business in bankers bills at $4.S5AQ4S51a for
demand, and al s48214@4S21h for sixty days
Posted rates, 81 SSh and $486h@4.S7 Com
n1erc,al bills, $48tA. Silver certificates,
6012c. Bar silver, 60S4c. Mexican dollars,
47Hc.
TREASURY STATEMENT w ashington
Oct. 27.-The condition of the treasury today
shows: Available cash balance $500 S53 1856;
gold reserve, $241, 1884, 736.