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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-10-19
SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Oct. 1S.-Cattle receipts
.acfa .l.i.. rna. -
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK

Hogs-Receipts, 1000; Monday. ass; market
lower; selling So. 95Gl4 25; bulk of sales a.
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Curb on December wheat ............70 5s-A 70%
Puts December wheat ........... 7OA 7Oh
Calls on December wheat .707s. H. 707s-71 Il 1-16
Curb on December corn .............No trading
Puts on December corn ................... 31S
Calls on December corn ................ 31sh
cash quotations were follows Flour easy
No spring wheat, 70G71c; No spring wheat,
63@70c; No. 2 red 71I71lac No. 2 corn, $3.50
&c; No yellow corn, s2a32Ac; No. oats. 22A
@22asc: No: white. 25G2512c; No. white. 241s
@25c; No. rye, soc; No. barley, 39045c; No.
fax seed. northwestern, 81 3O@1. 80: prime timothy
seed, S2.35; mess pork per Dbl, $7.S5I7.so; lard,
per 100 lbs s.. 25@5 80; short ribs sides Qoose).
81 S5G5. %; dry sailed shoulders (boxed), 666sc;
short clear sides (boxed) $5.50I5. so; whisky dis
tillers' finished goods, per gal, $1.23; clover,
contract grade, 1918.
Receipts-Flour 49, 900 bbls; wheat $780, 300 bu;
corn, 475 200 bu oats, 5O4. 900 bu; 1900 bu;
ba riley, 1856 900 bu
shipments-Flour 5000 bbls: wheat. H. 500 bu:
corn. 200 blu; oats, 1854 900 bu; rye, 2.400 bu;
barley, 29, 400 bu.
On the produce exchange yesterday the butter
market was easy; creameries, 15@23c; dairies,
13ls@1sc. Eggs steady; fresh, 161ac. Cheese
strong: creams, nA@12Hc.
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POTATOES-The market shows no increase
OF stock locally. Farmers are not bringing in
any amount OF stock to speak of. Difficulty is
found in getting cars at loading points which
also helps to retard business
At foauing stations taking same freight rates
Minneapolis and to points south quoted 15D
18c: local market. 25@2Sc In small way.
SWEET POTATOES-Are in fair demand and
market easy. ,fo.a
JERSEYS bbl .... q 90
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+ CHICAGO, Oct. R-The fax seed market was
Wild Tuesday because of an extraordinary de-
mand from shorts, and these in turn spurred
up by the actual cash demand for flax seed
and its products. It would appear that
our prediction of $1.40 for. fax was no idle
dream. Receipts here 80 cars, 81 cars
at Duluth, and 43 cars at Minneapolis. The
official close reported by the Waare Commits
sion company is follows: Cash fax at $780,
October at SIPS, and December at s26 per bu.
Cash timothy seed closed at 81 40, and clover
seed at $7.75@7. so per 100 pounds. Minneapolis
flax seed quoted at $1.20 per bushel
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Is firm. Most of the stock
Cndrawn birds are wanted
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DRESSED MEATS-A few veal are coming
but no particular demand is felt from any quar-
ter. Butchers report a light inquiry and trade
Is hardly equal to arrivals. Mutton is rather
easy no demand of much account. A few are
coming and little hard to get rid Of.
Market quotable below:
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OF honest folk. But you always were i'm
pertinent. That was the reason, IL you
remember, why was obliged to spoil my
knife against your ribs"
The stranger gazed steadily into Sandro's
eyes, but he made no sound. Just then the
door opened the breadth of a hand, and the
scared face of Antonio was visible through
the opening. He had ventured back to see
II Sandro was still alive, and If SO.
whether he was as badly frightened as the
rest of the gondoliers had been. Sandro
saw and read the meaning in Antonio's
face. and seized the opportunity to show
his utter fearlessness of ghosts.
See here, Nardo,' he exclaimed, IT will
do anything that man can do to please
you tonight. What would you like to have
me do? Say the word, and 1 am at your
service
The stranger rose up, and, moving
toward the door from which the terrified
Antonio had already vanished, beckoned
slowly to Sandro to follow him.
Certainly" said Sandro. Perhaps you
have forgotten that it is still raining dogs
but no matter. little rain will not hurt
US. Lead the way and Twill follow-that
Is. If my legs will let me. for the wine has
loosened the joints of them till they are
like the legs of the beggar Campo SAINT
Angelo, who. we all know. has no legs
whatever" ~ f-I1 >NfS
There is no doubt but that Sandro had
drunk too much wine and that his brain az
well as his legs was affected by It. Still
his courage was undiminished and he was
ready to follow the ghost to purgatory or
anywhere else. AS the two passed into the
Gale and turned to the left, directing their
steps toward where q gOndOla was moorod
Sandro saw a group of his late dinner COM
panions gathered at corner, at what they
to be safe distance from the
ghost. He called to them: Goodbye till
we meet again! am going to dine in
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-10
THE wArCHMAN AND soUTHRoN, MAY 10, 1899.

be wrencbed from me to take its place
forever and ever by the side of that
ghastly phantasm9 Shall I return to
my old lost allegiance in the next world
or shall / meet Agnes loathing her and
poond to her slde through all eternity Z
Shall we two hover over the scene ct
our lives till the end of timer AS the
day of my death draws nearer the in
tense horror that all living flesh feels
toward escaped spirits from beyond the
grave grows more and more powerful.
It is an awful thing to go down quick
among the dead with scarcely one-half
of your life completed 1t is thousand
times more awful to wait as I do in
your midst for know not what un-
imaginable terror Pity me at least on
the score of my s'delusion, I" for I know
you will never believe what / have
written here Yet as surely as ever
man was done to death by the powers
of darkness I am that man.
In justice, too, pity her. For as sure
ly as eyer woman was killed by man /
killed Mrs. Washington. And the last
portion of my punishment is even now
upon me.
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TRAINS GOING NORTH.
sDailv. tDaily except Sunday.

*Daily. fDaily except Sunday.
No. So runs through to Columbia via Gen.
trail r. R. of S. C..
Trains Nos. 7s and 80 run via Wi!son and
syetteville-Short Line-apd make close
connection for Ell points North.
Trains on c. l. D. R. R. leave Florence
daily except Sunday 9 so 70, arrive Darling
ton lol5am, Hsr,svilla IS a m, Cberaw
II 80 m, Wadesboro Q rs n. Leave
Florence daily except Sunday I IS IA, az.
rive Darlington 20 p Ed, Bennettsrile II
pm, Gibson 9 IS N. Leave Florence
Sunday only 9 80 m. arrive Darlington
10 05 N
Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 90
N, Bennettsville 90 N, arrive Darling
,on 90 ~, leave Darlington SO m, ar.
rive Florence els q m. Leave Wadesboro
daily except Sunday co p N, Cheraw 4 As
%, Hsrtsville 90 N, Darlington 6 80
10, arrive Florence 90 p 10. Leave Dar.
liugton Sunday only 8 so u 10, arrive Flor
ence Is N.
J. R. KENLEY, JNO. f. DIVINE,
Ges'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't
TN EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
H.M. EMERSON. Gen'l Pass Agent
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adopted.

James Bryce, the author of 'Ihe
American Commonwealth has writ
ten for an American paper an e1plana-
tion why France should hate England.
The reasons may be summed up as fol-
lows: In territorial extension and the
development of trade England has got
in ahead of France regularly. She is
not only maritime power. but she
doubles her power ostentatiously. She
has staid in Egypt without leave and
proposes to stay in the rest Of Africa.
To 60 to war with England would be
ruinous for France, simply because she
cannot compete with England on the
ocean, and war would cut off her best
customer. A consciousness Of all this
gives rise to feeling of bitterness,
which is only modified by the repressing
influence of Russia and the annoying
conviction that trouble with England
would forever prevent her from regain
ing from Germany the provinces she has
already lost.
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PRICES REDUCED.
SUMTER, S. c., May 5. 1899.

SUMTER, 5. u, May 5, 1893.
The following jast received from Overmau
Wheel Company
"Owiog to tie great and increasing de-
nand for medium priced bicycle, and the
fact that napy of our riders are demanding
a Victor Spin Roller ChaioleSs, we have de
cided to REDUCE THE PRICE of the VIC
TOR and VICTOR CHAIN BICYCLES to
$4,000 ou and sfter this date"
We have few of these on hand, and now
is the time for You 20 get bargain.
Cleveands range FROM S35 to SIS.
All the above are the dnest wheels that ca q
possibly be surned oar, and you will bear US
out IN this once you become one of our riders.
Happy ridigg meaus happy mount, and a
happy mount meaus your riding obe of our
wheels 1.-THE repairrnen dent Know them. I"
Ifyou are thinking of buying, let us know
and we will show you q few facts.
If you want any of the above wheels at the
charming prices mentioned, you better come
at once. as We only have few left
Respectfully,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-10

The Russian secret military service
is the best in Europe. As an evidence
of this there is good story connected
with the Toulon explosion. tseems
that the Toulon disaster was part of a
diabolical scheme which comprised also
the gunpowder magazine at St. Peters
burg. Both magazines were to be blown
up on the same day, but the day before
the disaster at Toulon the Russian min
lister received dispatch in cipher
warning him of the attempt. He was
in bed at the time, but be got up i'm
mediately and drove to the powder
magazine, where he had the officials,
guards and workmen alarmed. After
the closest inspection of everything,
he had them all called together and ad-
dressed them as follows: 'The inspec-
ton has proved highly satisfactory l
am perfectly well pleased with you and
the arrangement, and as a token Of
good will I give all of you, even the
guards, three days holiday. You can
90 in an hour" Within that hour
other guards were telegraphed for. and
two companies of sappers arrived. The
next morning news of the Toulon dis
aster came. out there was no disaster
at the Russian magazine.
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The women find their own severest
critics among their own sex. One of the
sharpest of them complains that at the
session of the Daughters of the Revolu-
ton she was disagreeably affected by
listening to the voices heard in debate
and was shocked at the loud, strident
and discordant tones emitted by women
who were praised every day in the pa
pers for their magnificent gowns. And
another adds to this the information
that woman cannot preserve the best
qualities of her voice and become de-
batter There are many women who
read and recite and lecture and declaim
without screaming, but she never heard
woman debate who did not get on a
high key and become disagreeable.
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:. Sudden Death In Cities.

Mar in his modern cities trades away
tie little discomforts Of life for the
large possibilities Of sudden death. he
hypothecates his security for his passing
comfort. He lives on mine of enor-
NOUS extent and of tremendous hidden
energies. His promenade is over elec-
trical currents and gas mains and enor-
NOUS boilers. His showiest hotels are
often built as one builds fre-with
combustibles laid crosswise and igniting
currents running through it in all di-
rections. He is hurled by lightning to
his business, hoisted to his Office by en-
ginery and flung back again to his home
by hurtling systems of conveyance. He
lives and moves continually with his
ear cooked for the alarm bell of the car
or the FIRE engine. But he saves time
and takes the chances. He is we'll aware
that his fellows are crushed and burned
to death every year, but he goes on lay
ing down more wires, turning on more
steam and adding another story to his
buildings If he forgets himself for
second, he is gone After that the am
bulance and the coroner are on the
jump. In the midst of these comforts
fire is the enemy that the dweller IN
the city seems to fear the least, and it
is in the city as we now construct it
that fire is the mcst terrible and the
swiftest agent to take advantage of our
slightest negligence. In any other place
than the city the escape from burn
ing building is comparatively easy, even
when that building is of wood In the
city it is often impossible. The moment
a structure like the Windsor hotel takes
fire the great problem is not how to put
the fire out. but how to get the people
out. But such fact does not affect ho-
tel life The people who escape from
the burning hotel generally take refuge
in another of the same kind. In fact.
city life breeds kind Of carelessness or
Nnthinking bravado peculiar to itself
The community expects to be shocked
at intervals, but it RECEIVERS Immediate
ly and goes on its accustomed course,
taking the chances.
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The Browning Love Letters.

No book of the year has produced so
Aide an interest and SO earnest dis
,ussion as the Glove Letters of Mr..
md Mrs. Browning" At first it was
thought that the publication of these
private epistles was in some way a
breach of the propriety that usually
regulates the private affairs Of even
well known personages. One could not
readily think of love letters being writ
ten for the public, and therefore one in
stinctively felt that they should have
been preserved from public curiosity by
the family. But the reading cf the let
tiers entirely removes this feeling. They
are found to be the purest and noblest
expression Of a high order of affection,
and it is doubtful if ever before the
private utterances Of two lovers so
clearly vindicated in print their own
publication The high order of intellec-
tuality in the writer's is not of so much
consequence as the superior quality of
the affection. Very few love letters in
deed can stand the test of publicity.
Those of Abelard and Heloise would
doubtless excite laughter, if not nausea,
and if Juliet wrote any letters to Romeo
they would not bear inspection. But in
the Browning epistles one almost sus-
poets that the writer's continually lived
under the poetic stress of a possible
printer. What is still more remarka BILE
is that the book has to great extent
reversed the estimate of the relative
qualities of the two writer's 1t is now
seen that Mrs. Browning is in many
respects superior to her husband, not
alone as a letter writer, but as an art
list. What she says flows with easy
clarity from & large, sweet soul But
Browning's feelings, on the other hand,
often founder and strain and seem to
be in a conflict with words
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Must BE BARRIERS and Musicians.

There is barber shop in an up town
avenue in New York where music goes
with every shave. Never barber is hired
there who cannot twinkle the sweet
mandolin or PUNK the dreamy guitar.
The gentleman who can play on no in
strument but the razor and the shears
has no welcome in this tonsorial parlor,
for the boss barber is musical and loves
to minglc celestial strains with the tor
ture of the barber chair. Whenever a
chair is vacant, the attendant genius
sits him down and performs on his fa-
vorite instrument.
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Had Not Forgotten It.

The ward neeler, with whom the am
bilious politician had been in consulta-
ton an hour or more, shook his head
slowly.
ssI don't know how it will turn out, "
be said. "But I'll do the best can for
you. How about the siquor question 2"
"I was about to ask it, replied the
ambitious politician. ''What'll you
2"-Chicago Tribune.
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The erection Of an absolutely fire.
proof building to be used as a residence
is yet great desideratum. The prob
lem is not beyond the solving CT me-
chanical engineering, though it is
doubtful. if such a building will ever
be erected until combustible material
is entirely discarded in the fitting. The
real emergency is matter of super
vision rather than of construction.
There are a great many more wooden
buildings in the country than there are
of iron and stone, and it is matter Of
fact that less life is lost in the burning
of these combustible buildings than in
those which make pretense Of being
6reproof. The testimony of experts is
that fire such as that which occurred
at the Windsor hotel would never have
obtained such destructive headway had
the precautions been ample and the
supervision adequate The story that
the fire originated in a window curtain
is not for one moment believed by any
body who has any practical experience
with fires, but in less than 10 minutes
the inmates Of the entire Establishment
were in panic, and the building was
doomed It is not at all a difficult feat
to erect building with precautionary
means of shutting off fire at its start
by freproof partitions either of asbestus
or of metal. But there is not at this
moment crowded hotel in New York
where such precautions have been
adopted.
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Unexpected.

The tramp had been very impertinent
and dictatorial until the hired man IN
expectedly made his appearance and in
quired, care you lookin fur scrapT"
His manner changed entirely, and at
once ne answered, eyes, sir, that's
what I'm lookin fur-a scrap O. cold
turkey er cold ham CT anything that
happens to be handy. Washington
Star
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The cars disarmament conference
which is to meet in May has ;rred up
the war correspondents, the lIgazines
and the novelists of blood and thunder.
Mr.. Weyman, Conan Doyle, Stephen
Crane and even Rudyard Kipling, who
have for some time been aware that the
pen is not mightier than the sword un-
less it has the sword behind it, stand
aghast at the prospect of universal
peace. It would not be strange to see a
congress of authors assemble somewhere
to oppose the abolition of war.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-10

A Salvation Army captain has been
nominated by the citizens of Wichita,
Kan. for mayor by the Democrats. He
has put forth circular in which he
says that if elected there will be a $40
fine for every girl wearing boomers
and every policeman shall carry Bible
instead of a club He doesn' say any
thing about turning the other cheek
also when COWBOYS paint the town re
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DENTAL NOTICE.

Turing MY ABSENCE from the city,
~ Mr.. N. G. OsrEEN, JR., will have charge
OF my Office and will attend 10 any dental
work coming to the Office.
The public and my patrons, especially, will
therefore take notice that the ofice will no,
be closed during my absence.
Respectfully,
May 3 e. ALVA SOLONONS.
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The Infinity of Space.

"Among the photographs you have
seen," said Sir Robert Ball, @there are
stars so far distant from this earth that
if the glad tidings of that first Christ
mas 1900 years ago had been dispatch
ed then by an electric current which
could speed seven times round our globe
between every two ticks Of the clock
they would not yet have received them. {"
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Took the Sam -.

Lawyer-You say that You were in
the saloon at the time Of the assault re-
ferred to in the complaint:
Witness--I was, sir.
Lawyer-Did you take cognizance Of
the barkeeper at the time9
Witness-I don know what he called
it, but I took what the rest did.-Bos-
ton Courier
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~Daily. fDaily except Sunday.
No So runs through to Charleston, S. c.,
via Central R. R., arriving Manning Al ?
m, Lanes S. N, Charleston 8 0G m.
Trains on Conway Branch leave Chadbonrl
5 IS p N, arrive Conway 7.40 p N, return
ing leave Conway 80 N, arrive Chao.
borru II 20 am, leave Chsdbourn l1s0 n,
arrive Hub 1925 p u, returning ieave Hob
800 N, arrive Cbadbourn 35 N, Daily
except Sunday.
J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager.
T. u. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
8. u. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass Agent.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-10

Every body is arxiors to hear something
more from City Council on the matter of
paving Main Street When will the good
work begin?
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EorethOuEht.

Amanda, said the husband of the
soon to be widowed young wife, "my
last request is that you will not let any
body know there is large insurance
on my life. l want you to live in un-
disturbed enjoyment of it for few
years at least. Chicago Tribune.
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Good Use For Th en-

She (singing softly)-"Would that l
had the wings of a bird.
He-What earthly use would they be
to you, my dear!
She-I was just planning the trim
ming for my spring hat.-Detroit Free
Press.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-10

You cannot accomplish any work or
business unless you feel we'll. If you feel
"Used Up--Tired Out" take Dr.. ". A.
Simmons Liver Medicine
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Humilia,ing Examinations by physicians
are avoided BY use Of Simmons Squaw Wire
Wine or Tablets which cares SO out of every
100 cases of Female Disorders.
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Simmons Scnaw Vine Wine or Tablets
softeo, rels1 and expand muscles involved,
Decreasing Labor Pains and Shortening La
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Where Nlen Haye the Adxnntage.

Where Men Have the Advantage.
Interesting Lady Patient-Doctor,
what do you do when you burn your
mouth with hot coffee?
DR.. Fingerfee = Swear. - koxbury
Gazette
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iDaily except Sunday.
Trains 80 and 35 carry through Pulimac
Palace Buffet Sleeping cars bet ween New
York and Macon via Augusta.
T. u EMERSON, q. N. EMERSON,
Traffic Manager. Gen'l Pass. Ags.
J. r. KENLY, Gep'l Manager.
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TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

No. 81 runs through from Charleston via
Central R. r leaving Charleston a. u.
Lanes "a 70. Manning 8 09 N
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Aug. 27.-Heatherlegh has been inde-
satigable in his attendance on me, and
only yesterday told me that ought to
send in an application for sick leave.
An application to escape the company
of pbantoml A request that the gov
ernment would graciously permit me to
get rid of FIVE ghosts and an airy rick
shaw by going to England Heather
legh's proposition moved me TO almost
hysterical laughter l told him that
should await the end quietly at Simla,
and am sure that the end is not far
off Believe me that l dread its advent
more than any word can say. and | tor
ture myself nightly with a thousand
speculations as to the manner of my
death
Shall die in my bed decently aod as
an English gentleman should die, or in
one last walk on the mall will my soul