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steers l.ioa4.5o; stoekers and feeders i'eo@ s
SsS: Western feed steers 4:5oa5.s5 KS
siesrs soG4 20; calves i.00a6.75. There WIS
a very poor demand fer hog and ices ae
nscre,s Z s96a X rrfxed q s0d3. So: butchers
Il ssafs 90: lights s.sCdss5; pigs s.s6aJ.Is,.
Despite liberal offerings OF sheen prizes nard-
ened under a good general demand; sac y
wcotsd Colorado lambs 5.a0n6.25; 10 Ell
lambs s.25d5. IS. Recsipts-Cattle 1900 I;
hoRs On COO shcsu 1900.
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New York. MAY l0.-There has been an
improved demand for stable cotton go,ds To-.
day. but business is checked bv Sc rci,y Of
ready supplies, particularly In heavy brown
sheetings and drills prices tending inward !.
bleached cottons in fair demand Plaids and
other coarse col0rod cottons quiet bu pri es
steaGy. Prints stronE with fair sales. ping-
hams also strong. Print cloths unchanged 1t
% for regulars with moderate sales, Wi e
gray goods In demand. silks are a m VITA
demand quiet
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BuTrER AND EGGS.

CHICAGO MAY l0.-Buuer market ste,dv.
creamery l2ul6is: daTiss lQdU FTrs
steady: fresh ilS. Cheese weak; creams ioiS
all.
New York May i0.-Eggs- Receipts n sss
packages, firm; state AMI Pennsylvania. Id:
Western lSUlSAs southern i2alS
Kansas CITY. MAY 10 Butter steady,
CENTS heavy; fresh, Missouri and Kansas
stock. In new cases, cases included, II cases
returned 10ia.
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HOUSTON.
HOUSTON
Saunders & HotohSis. live stock eommlss,os
merchants. M fOllOWs:


Galveston. May i0.--The A. P. Normal
follows: "'
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SUGAR.

New York May 1o,--susar-Raw and re-
fined steady.
New Orleans, May l0.--Sugar strong; opsn
kettle sssdtA open kestle centrifugal 5i.R
"a c.en,rifusal yellews i36t]k; seconds 81
AS. Molatses quiet; centrifugal 69l6.
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Total 80. 5.Is0. o0O gs.5a5. o0o.

Arkansas Louisiana, Tennessee. North
Carolina, South Carolina include slight cor
rectious.
To enable you to compare the condition
with the zane time last year we quote from
our report at this period last season;
Our late advices from THE South point 10
the effect that the preparations for the Bew
cron are fairly well advanced. more nartlcu-
larry in, South Texas. Alabama. South Caro-
INA and the southern counties and parishes
river bottom lands Of the mississippi val Y
planting is far ahead of last season" Final
" tpage 81. we remarked 1.-THE future course
Of the market Will depend materially on the
rrcspects OF the coming crop, which so Tar
premises tavorahly -
with the exception Of slight fluctuations
iuenced chiefly by the volume of daily re-
ceipts. our market has been practically I'M
mood. The bull element in New York has
been partially liuuidated. and the differences
between Liverpool and New York widened,
with every appearance Of doing SO still moro.
The. certified stock has increased, and Is
likely TO continue doing SO but all is arti-
fcia. and will not in the end affect the le~
Ultimate value OF the article"
The above remarks appeared ruder this
heading in our last months circular letter,
and IL seems to us that we can d. no better
than repeat them on the present occasion
when we wrote to YOU last. and n egery
other respect things occurred as we predicted
The cotton report for the month OF May
i.dicates merely the belief OF the corre-
spcndcnoe on May 1, as to the intentions OF
the planters regarding the acreage TO be
planted. and the estimates being liable TO
modification on the strength of the tendency
toward an enlargement or reduction OF acre
age In every cotton growing state the indi-
cations on the lst instant pointed 70 re-
duced acreage. with corresponding de-
crease OF the sale of fertilizers. and an in
creased acreage In the various TODD crops
The probable reduction by States is as fol-
lows: In Mississippi and Inian Territory
8 per cent. Alabama s, Texas O. Arkansas 10
South Carolina H. Louisiana Il. Georgia 49,
Is. No estimate OF the total reduction will
be published until next month when ths
fral report on planting will be compared
with the revised acreage figures for last year
The bureau report as given above was a
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cIiIcAGo.

oatila ofersd tsdhy served q de,eioa 4 pn,i
indenencent feesirg unol ~ psr az rl,vsre
end tho market rulad SLOW at 4 - line 81 Z
stsers s.i6dS,55: medium t,eoft 50: beef
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GALVESTON srArEMENr


re-, iork' MY 10 Mouey ON cali sxf. pc,
ptpsr n! Isan S,s per cent; rrins me camille
wesL nhfs Der cent starl NJ eschl
switn actual business In hsnlers' +, Ia
s'eo%UA.ssh for demand ana x.Sx for
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Grain and Provision. Elsewhere.

Kansas City MAY 20. -Whelt-Dull; July
66 cash dun hard about steady; soft slight
~ lower; No 2 herd 6S: No. 2ie 75q7s No,
spring 65n6s, Corn-Futures about ste ldy
July Boss September 3lh, ca'b. mixed.
steady, No . mixed 32la No white %. oats
about unchaneed No. mxei 279a No .
white 20. Rvn, No, 2 "a. Hly-Ti = othp
weaker prairie hrncr; choice limo ny 9.0r6
$50; choice prairie, 7.75dS.25. Rec ipts
Wheat 1900; corn 1850, oats 1000. Ship
ments-Wheat IL 500: corn 2o.s00; oats 5000.
New orleans, May 10.--Hog products-Pork,
standard mess 9.00G9,2j; lard. refined. tierce,
so pure lard so; boxed meats, dry salt
shoulders 80, sides 5.12i2; bacon, clear RIB
sides 5.15 hams, choice sugar cured S%G9Ja,
Rice steady; ordinary 10 good 3@4%. Flour,
grain and feedstuifs steady. Flour-Extra
fancy 606S.70 patents 4,001i 10 Corn meul
1871 aTlS. Bran 7Sd7i. Hay Primo 70 .00T
IA 90: choice l5.00dl550 Corn--No. 2 sacked
white 43is; mixed 42la; yellow 43ia. oats-No.
sacked "a.
New York May Observation-Disclosures 81 $50.
exports lis 200; spot dull; No. 9 red SSSs spot
o afoat and 1885 elevator; No. red Sc to
rrrive options closed easy at Adkc net de-
cline; MAY 7S,s; July 1875 September 1875
December 70, Leather firm Wool steady
Cotton seed oil dull Pig iron warrants quiet
hut firm, NORMALLY HOO Lake copper dull
io.00 Tin dull and lower. % 50a25. 49, Lead
lnhaneed, 4.i0G4.i5. Spelter unchanged, 6.75
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sixty days; posted rates 4.s5hdiEs
ilS7l@@4 $50. Commercial bills III !;
cer,itics ties 612G62h. Bar silver slI /
can dollars iSA. Government and na
bonds strong. State bonds inactive.
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COFFEE.

New Orleans, May 1O-Coffee quir; d
dinary to fair, 6a4Gl7is.
New York, May 10.-Coffee-OpHcri 4
dull. net unchanged to 5 points Iowa
kic quiet, mid quiet.
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ST LOUIS.

st. Louis. Nav -Cattle-Recaipts $500;
Including i700 Texans; market artiva ID
steady; fair TO choice native sshlpping a q
IA. dressed teef and butcher steers i,0ou
5.i0. steers undsr 1000 pounds 3.9oiA.Io;
stockers and feeders 3.10di, 60; COWS and
he fers 22504.75 carners 2.0CM2S 80; eLas
, 5004 .25 RECEIPTS 94jO market
steadr 10 90 lower; B'-s. light 3.75d3 70;
hackers 3 75d3. So butchers $50. sheep IKE
4 foG5 10. eulls and bucks i5Od4 .95; lambs
& G05S m
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Kaufman. Texas May 10.-There are report
e. several cases OF blackleg among the cattle
IN tho upper part Of the county; and much
fear Is felt by stockmen that it will spread.
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Futures opened steady; at noon steady;
closed barely steady. Highest for August SOS
low 5.Sa high for October 5,eS, low 500. Fol.
lowing are the quotations;
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KANSAS CITY.

Kansas City. Nay O.-Catte-Reteipts $50
ratiyes aud $50 Texans: bss, grades ste1ey;
active. common stock slow. shade lower
heavy rative steers iabn5.25: medium ste 5
1884 so. Iisht steers 5O6ei 90; st ckaTs NJ d
eee d~rs a oof4 80. butch cow and h If s
. 6SSft An. ranre,s ,S5d3. 90; Western ers
4. OOSii Is: Texans 4.OOa4.G0. Hogs-Reeclp $
40; fairly active. steady to D. low
heaviss 3.70d3 S5 lights isds.65: pigs H.so
"a "a sheep-Rscelnts $3.50 active; abou
" higher srring lambs 7.COns.00: WOO
lambs 8. 25d5. So: clipped lambs ts5go .
yeerlings 5.O0d5 as. helftrs 1905 90; clipped
we; hers 0)a5 90 ewes 1000 .0l; stoc ters
and feeders 3 25d50O; culs 95Oft3.2o
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Futures opened quiet at noon quiet;
closed quiet and steady Highest for July $40
low 5.7o high Tor October 56S, low 5.6i Fol
lowing are the quotations:
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Hat document. as far as any eject upon the
market was concerned. IL caused ccnside a :
bic unfavorabie comment lnasmuca as IL
gave Texas decrease OF 0 per cent. fudian
Territory 5 and Oklahoma. a next door neigh
Dor. u.s. Liverpool did fine spot business
ngaip TODAY. 10000 bales being sold. but de-
markets ruled dun and easy under fine
weather and lack OF support Liverpool
sold the winter Receirts continue liberal ard
crop accounts favorable. The market look J
like II might drag lower. New York clos d
70 lower. New orleans to lower. Spots
cargill Richardson say Of today's market:
Cotton Seed OIL.
The Williams a Flash company Of New York
says in its circular OF the 9Th; The lard mar
ket has continued 10 decline until at the close
this article has reached the lowest prices
quoted for some time--in fact, 1t is today
fully cent per pound lower than it was a few
months ago. The weakness and decline in
this article has naturally not helped cotton oil
and In the pressure to sell small dock lots
the prio. has naturally been affected, until
prime summer yellow has been offered from
the dock at Z54c and off oil at 25c: but even
at this decline II Is finding only a jobbing de-
mand. Fortunately for the market, the larger
holders are not pressing their holdings for
sale, and outside OF these dock consignments
there is no great pressure to sell any impor-
tsnt quantity. hut in the present dun state
Of the market these dock lots ara more than
sufncient to meet the demand.
The foreign markets remain unchanged.
Trey continue TO use up their stocks on hand
and show no interest In this market. oven at
the slight decline which has taken place. The
future, OF course. depends entirely on the
course OF the lard market and the dlspogl-
ton Of the principal holders of oil. SO far
tic latter. while not buying az the moment,
show no anxiety to market their stocks and
seem content to wait until such time as buy
els Will meet their Ideas. OF course II they
maintain this policy, while the market may
remain dull, no great change in prices can
take place.
Prime crude oil Is almost unsaleable This
is natural, as the warm weather causes buyers
to fear the quality. therefore it is only sale
able as of oil or on sample. and as the de-.
rand for off refined is so poor ii Is difficult.
az above stated. to sell crude.
me market closes dull with prime summer
yellow at 2594d26c; good of summer yellow
Csc, both { o. b. here; prime crude. In bar
rcls. 2llad22c; off crude, 19l5d2oc, barrels
here; prime crude at the mills in the Allan
TIC States lsc; of crude loose i6d17c.
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COTTON ON sHIPRoAPn

For aasyre-ss Middleham Castle. 47es.
For hamburg-ss Moonstone 30
STIR line. 1875. ''ne' ol-s' Lone
Total on shipboard 1857 hales
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WIRE Am NAILs

naNahiked Glldden Soo; Waukegan 50 60.
Nails 81 y base Advances for common over
edse: %. zoe; Sd, 45c I'D and sd. soc; Sd. aoc
Sd, loo, l0d and led, Sc. Quotations are for
less than car lots. -
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Denton, Texas May 9-W. R. Alwell last
night shipped eight cars OF cattle and four
cars Of sheen to the Chicago market
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houston's groas receipts 81 cotton by tho
varicus railroads cuterinE the city were a.
follows: Bales
Houston and Texas Central. ............. 3d..
International and Great Northern .... 222
Galveston. Harrisburg and San Antonio ..
Texas and New Orleans. 49,
Houston Easi and West Texas........... ....
Gulf Colorado ana Santa Pc, ........ 81
san Antonio and Arkansas Pass ...... 10
Missouri, KanFas and Texas, ,.......,... $50
Total Observation-Disclosures. COS
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6e07i No. red 7i676
Crn-No. ? 32ls No ? yellow So
oats-No, 26d26h No , white 2gB130:
No 3 white 2Sha29h
Rye-No. 59iS
BaIley-No 35dil
Flax seed-No / 0S. new ! TO-
Timothy seed--Frme as
Mess pork-Per barrel 8 SOFAS 81
Lard-Per 10 pounds 4.92I5dfos.
Snort ribs-S.dss loose 4.25d4.I0.
Dry salted shoulders Boxed 4Ad4lb.
Short clear sides-Boxed 4.sa64 90
Wits ky-Per gal. %.
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Vessels in Port,
STEAMSHIPS,
SCHOONER
GALVESTON COTroN = irt...,I

NY International and Great Northern rail
WAY, 81 bales; Galveston Houston and Hai-
GO serson. 800; Missouri. Kansas and Texas
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CANNED FRuIrs AVE- vEGErAp1.rs.

CANNED FKUITs-Apples, 5-lb S0WSic
60 2-lb extra 81 ated 81. sOQi IS; 9Th standard
slictG sl.20; pears, 2-lb standard SOC: black.
eetries. GLIB standard csc, pie fruits. 2-lb, as
light weight $500; pie peaches S-lb S5c.
CANNED VEGETABI4ES-Tom s-lt
fun weight S5d9oc, e-lb full weight 6SpT0c
okra and tomatoes, lib Doe: Lima beans 2-lh
ttll weight goc; string beans, lib fun weight
&c; NJ. stringless beans. 2-lb, fun weight
81 30; red kidney beans. 2-lb full weight Sac
narrowfat peas, 2-lb full weight S5c; early
'une peas, fancy 2-lb weight $40; Ameri-
can petit pos peas. fancy. 2-lp full weight
Il COOL 10. asparagus, California, 2k-!b 81 90;
corn, Auburn Cream, s. ID full weight 81 100
] l5i A No, !, s-lb fun weight 81. o5qIl TO- Blue
Ridge, 2-lb S0GlS5c.
CALIFORNIA FRUIT-Extra standard 2tS.
u peaches. lemon cling 81. 100. 20: yellow
Crawford S65nl.S5: black cncrrts 81. IS; apri.
cots, l.65ql.7o; Bartlett pears 81 65Qi70 as
sorted 81, 45al. So standard 2ls-lb peaches yell
low Crawford 81 5Od1l So; apf;cots l,4Odfi. AZ
bartlett pears Sl4bfp1.5
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HoUsToN nANK cLEAR1NGs.

4 = yIIuNlnI are the clearanrqs m the Not,s,o-
.oi ne week thus far ana for the corr.
,sssa a TINE last year together with the ir
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Jew foIk' s. Louis and New Orleans, buy
rn MI ~ soc discount to par. selling 4 pre-
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BEANS-Navy sq3Hc; Bayou $40; Ens
lsa tried use; pnks 3lkc Limas So, black
buTTER-Blue Star l9ci dairy loo; Elgir
creamery zoe, Elan dairy bricks ice: oleonar.
Earlhe, solids l0c, prints lie; special Blue
star Ice; Texas country butter &C.
CABBAGE-3lsdic per ID.
CHEEsE-New York fuIi cream i9c. wis.
eo1sin full cream 13d14c; Young America
lialihe. Western skim lie; fancy rolls full
cteam lsc Longfelows l3c
EGGS-Texas. 71sc per dozen
kRAuT- 1916 in half bbis.
oNloNS--Per ID, 2dr21s-.
FEPpER-Chile I5G11c per lb; black Singa,
pore l3iSc
PoTAToEs-New Irish, 81 25d150 per bu.
PoULTRY-Hens 81 5000 co. flyers SO 50d
200; broilers 20OI25o Turkeys. hens 90
cordins to size and quality. Ducks s.. Goa
80. Geese 81 .00A2 80. fun fenthered
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

Port Of Galveston. May 10.
CLEARED.
IS Nuece5, Risk. New York
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Fig. 5-9otloqp, t5rse cushion shot. Hit-
 ling iozyer cushion t7Viee.
 it makes no difference how many offers Ives makes to play Schaefer 5000 points to 5000, there will always be a decided obstacle in the way of these men meet ing for what would be the greatest en- gagement on the green table. That is the ina biIity of Ives to master the dis ease that is consuming his vitality, and which is causing his physicians much worry. This is more serious than the little biIliardist will admit. The time has come when the public wishes 10 see the great ones play and copy less after the typewriter methods of the main lights of the pugilistie world. If Ives and Sehaefer cannot be brought to- gether either for a match divided be tween Chicago and New York or for an engagement entirely in Gotham, then those who would keep public interest at the highest notch should see that George F. Slosson and Jacob Schaefer played for supremacy.
 Gray Tom," as T. J. Gallagher Is called. is still one of the best of the shortstops. But Gallagher has some pronounced ideas about the wisdom of the big players remaining "passive"- with the exception of the exhibitions each day in the academy-when they should be playing great matches to in crease the interest in billiards. Gal laghersays ysthat the big men of billiards are being paid salaries to play on the tables of certain table and billiard supply makers and that as long as this policy obtains, the public will not see
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The Fnte of New York.

The fate of New York is to be made ridiculous by fools.
 The trustees of the Metropolitan mu- scum of art have refused to accept a picture by the late Theodore Robinson, though bought and paid for by the So- ciety of American Artists.
 These trustees have apparently net a regret for the laughabIe frauds that have been perpetrated on the museum under the name of "old masters" But it is an offense to be an American and pretend to paint pictures, for of course you can't do it.
 One of Robinson's pictures is to be in the Philadelphia museum, bought for the purpose; but Philadelphia is differ ent.
 Sir or madam, don't study art, being an American, until it is no longer con sidered ridiculous to admire an Ameri- can picture; and when you are in New York and feel like laughing, ge to the Metropolitan museum and look at the dingy old fakes and modern frauds that the trustees of that amazing collection think too good for a modern American picture to associate with
 It's funnier than a comic opera; for about five minutes. And fortunately there is nothing 10 prevent you from going away in five minutes to the mod eFn collections of foreign work, which, thanks to the Hberality of our rich men, are very good indeed.
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Fig. 4.-Scbaeferss celebrated force fol-
 to79, tbree cushion shot.

Fig. 4.-Scbaeferzs celebrated force fol-
 tog0, t5ree cushion shot.
 so that the natural angle was destroyed so as to bring the ball inside the last object ball. Going 10 the next cushion the ball angled off completing the bil- Hard.
 Not to be out done by Carter Sehaefer found the balls ready for one of his celebrated reverse shots. The cue ball was sent on a slight angle from the first object ball to the cushion which it left 10 describe an almost inexplicable compound curve to the second cushion. So exactly delicate was the '.Wizard's" calculation of twist that the ball curved just enough to put it in the way of mall- ing natural angle for completing the billiard. Immediately after ScEaefer drew the applause of critics by making one of his follow "ricochet" shots. In this the cue ball follows the object ball to the cushion for peculiar angle which sends it 10 the third cushion for the completion of the shot
 Figure l shows how Carter made difficult shot by driving the object ball 10 prevent an almost certain 6iss-off. If "Get-the-Money-C Garter" as the ex- pert is called by many lovers of the game, were to spend two hours trying these shots. there is little doubt that he would have an enthusiastic and cheer ing throng of spectators. Plans are being considered by a promoter of bil- liards for what he is pleased 10 call "an evening with the billiardists." One of the chief attractions in this proposed programme would be three cushion matches and exhibitions of difficult shots.
 Another shot that would be the pride of the ordinary player were he able to master it is shown in Fig. 2, drawn by Sehaefer. He made it recently in a con- test where the point was required to win. It will be seen that the cue ball receives the requisite twist in it's travels 10 the first object ball to describe the studied angle to the first cushion. The course of the ivory from the point of contact is apparently at variance to all ordinary laws of angles. But there ap- pears to be a secondary force within the sphere that causes it to complete the billiard. When 1t isconsidered that this shot is made down in the corner of the table in what the ordinary player would call very small bit of space, the exquisiteness of the execution dawns on the student of the cue.
 Carter is nothing, if at times he does not indulge in a few pyroteehnieaI shots. Fig. shows one of his three cushion efforts that may appear to be easy. A comprehensive knowledge of angles and the amount of force re- quired to travel the distance with the English imparted is what the expert must have to 10 this kind of work
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the serious obstacles in the way of the construction of the canal by the Amer ican government.
 The biographers of Sir Henry Bull wer, at that time English ambassador to the United States, in speaking of hls connection with this agreement, say of the treaty:
 "If it did no other good, it unques- tionably, for the time being, allayed the jealousies which so often before then had sprung up between the two coun- tries in regard to the British right of protection on the Mosquito coast and in the Bay of Honduras"
 Such is undoubtedly the case, and while to-day the American people would probably welcome it's abroga- tion, it has in the past served a good purpose, even if not an unintended one.
 While the treaty provided that either government might lend encouragement to any private company desirous of constructing the canal so long as the government itself acquired no terri tory or built no fortifcations, capital ists became shy of the project for some years. The war of the rebellion and disturbances in the Central American states also helped to retard progress on the great undertaking
 Te maratime powers of the world felt that the canal project was solved when Ferdinand De Lesseps took hold of it, and the great Panama ditch was begun. He organized a gigantic com pany in France without directly seek ing government aid, into which all classes poured their money. A charter was procured from the Columbian gov ernment, millions of dollars expended and wasted in unavailable machinery, hundreds of high-priced officials. pa latial homes for the directors. etc. More than $200, ,000 was expended in this way before the deluded French lost faith in the projectors and refused to contribute further. When the af- fairs of the company were aired by a French court of inquiry the heretofore untarnished reputations of such great Frenchmen as De Lesseps and his sons, NM. Eiffel and many others were blighted.
 Work on this canal is now being pushed by new French company, but competent engineers say they are working in the face of insurmountable obstacles. The greatest of these ob- stacles are the controlling of the Charges river, the inflow of mud at the mouth of the canal on the Pacific side. and the landslides in the great Culebra cut. If these obstacles are ever over come it will be at an expenditure of S2oo,oo0,ooo or more, while the greatest estimated cost of the Nicaraguan canal is but s125,00o,00o.