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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18
IIsCELLANEOUs STOCKS.
MARKET NOTES.

Cincinnati--Price Current SAYS: It
has been favorable week for the corn
crop and the position is further i'm
proved.
The declaration of per cent on Ches-
apeake and Ohio met expectations. Its
significance hes first in the fact that the
company is regarded by the manage
ment as having reached the point where
portion of the surplus can be given to
stockholders.
The room thought it saw indications
of organized support to these stocks.
and traders in consequence were in
clined to take the long side through
list.
The break in Sugar was thought to
have been made to assist covering in
other stocks. Pools are believed to be
working in Louisville and Nashville.
Southern Pacific, Tennessee Coal and
Iron, the Tobacco stocks and Atchison
preferred.
The Arnold mill has resumed stamp
ing; repairs proved more expensive
than expected.
George e. Armstrong of Clark, Ward
& Co.. has purchased the Boston Stock
Exchange membership of c. H. Heath
for about $4,000, and has been elected
member of the exchange. On or
about Sept. the firm of Clark, Ward &
Co. will dissolve and be succeeded bv
George e. Armstrong & Co. of Boston
and New York, and Ward, Armstrong
& Co. of London.
Boston curb prices: Fortuna, 45@40c;
Little Tiger 90c; Boston Consolidated.
10; Gas and Coke, 291b030; ditto IS, 5S15
bid; Helveit, 10 bid; Elm River, 1919;
Amalgamated, 81; Bay State Gas, ITO.
New York curb prices: Air Power,
63Q7 Amsterdam Gas, 321s; preferred,
5S1a; Bay State Gas, 2A District of
America, 201s preferred, 59@B; Stand
ard OIL 465@6s, ex-dividend
The Bank of Bngland's weekly state
ment shows the following changes: To-
tai reserve, increase 2951, 900; circula-
ton, decrease &272,000; bullion, in
crease 967S,939; other securities, de-
crease 9466, 600; other deposits, in
crease, 100000.
Application has been made by the
American Steel and Wire Company to
list It's securities upon the New York
stock exchange
The New York Air Brake COMPANY
offers stockholders 81, 250, 900 Of treasury
stock at par, each stockholder having
the right to subscribe until Sept. IL for
such number of shares as will be equal
70 one-quarter Of his holdings or any
less part thereof
The action of the Alton directors in
declaring a So dividend was undoubt-
edly due partly to the desire of the
management to maintain the standing
Of the bonds Of the company as legal
savings bank investments under terms
Of the laws governing such institutions
in many of the different states. The
present payment is believed to repre-
sent two quarterly distributions of ~
per cent each, rather than the previous
fa nf ~ ar 9fa
cording to legal advice, the present ac-
ton will establish the new issue of
bonds of the company as a legal invest
ment for savings banks
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18
THE COTTON MARKET.

New York. Aug. II. = Cotton futures
closed steady. August, 5.53; September,
5.54; October, 5.73; November, SIT; De,
cember, 5.83; January, 5S7; FEBRUARY
sci; March, 5.94; April, 5.97; May, sol !;
June, Cos.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18
FINE ENTERTAINMENT.
Sutton Audience Treated to Rare Pro-
gram by Granqers.

Sutton, Aug. 17.-One of the finest
musical entertainments which the town
has had for many years was given in
Memorial hall, last evening, under the
auspices of the grange. The committee
included Mrs. Sumner Wallace. John
E. Clifford and Mrs. Frank Slayton.
Those who assisted were Miss Saran
Corbett, violinist, of Rutland Square
Baptist church, Boston; Miss LuelIa
Corbett, H. NJ. Goddard tenor;
Mrs. H. M. Goddard, soprano, of the
Second Congregational church, Mill
bury and Miss Annie Randall Bright
man of Bridgewater, a graduate of the
Emerson school of oratory.
The audience was appreciative. and
all the selections were we'll received
Mr.. and Mrs. Goddard were encored
but did not respond. Miss Brightman
rendered dialect pieces exceedingly
well and kept the audience amused
throughout with her humorous pieces.
Miss Sarah Corbett won the admira-
ton of all by her delicacy of touch and
expression, and proved herself a young
lady Of remarkable ability. She was
encored after each number She and
her sister go abroad soon to complete
their studies.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18

The following quotations were made
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18
THE MARKET ELSEWHERE.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE stock mar
ket showed greatly increased activity
and strength today. The strength was
more general than it has recently been,
but the heaviest demand was still con-
fined to a small number of stocks. The
majority of the industrial stocks were
hstless and heavy This was notably
the case with the Iron and Steel stocks,
except for Tennessee coal, which re-
gained two points of its decline. The
bears We're disposed to continue the
contest early in the day, and handled
the Tobacco stocks and Sugar rather
severely, but even in these the bear
campaign showed convincing evidence
of exhaustion before the day was over.
Sugar ruled above last nights level
during the later part of the day, and
closed with net gain Of / ga Amer
lean Tobacco recovered its earlier
losses and Brooklyn Rapid Transit,
though rather feverish at times, was
higher all day. The southern group and
the southern and Central Pacific stocks
continued to be the centre Of strength,
with some additions to the former
group over those which moved up-
wards yesterday. Louisville was the
leader of the group, and rose nearly
three points, its close being a small
Iractlon DeloW tnat, southern railway
preferred continued strong, but Ches-
apeake and Ohio Jagged.
The Baltimore 81 Ohio stocks came
vigorously forward into the movement
the common rising an extreme three
points, and the preferred IL with
subsequent fractional reaction Norfolk
& Western preferred and Mobile &
Ohio also shared in the strength. The
buying OF Southern Pacific was very
large, and evidently by powerful con-
certed movement. The stock rose 2 IL
and Central Pacific gained two points
There was an isolated movement in the
Pittsburg c. c. & st. Louis stocks, the
preferred rising eight points to par
with subsequent reaction Of H.
and the common rising ! "a and los
ing the fraction.
The grangers, Atchison preferred and
Pennsylvania were conspicuous,
Northwestern gaining 2174. The leading
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18
INSURANCE.

WORCESTER COUNTY ms. AGENCY.
Clark's block, 492 Main Street. Worcester.
Mass.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18
TREASURY sTATEMENT.

Washington, Aug II. = Todays state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $273, 1885,
A6S2,475 United States notes in the
treasury, S15,92S,S22; treasury notes of
1890 S49,911; total receipts this day, 81, :
year, $74, 7s5, 522; total expenditures this this
day, $22O5,00O; do. this month $31, APO 600;
do. this year, $50, 9S1, 09O; deposits in ma,
tional banks $7,9S9.2l4 silver bullion,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
Man Makes Black Horses White.

Here's man who can color your
horse to suit, and do it almost while
you wait. He can literally make black
white-in horses. He is George F..
Richings,a a professional horse painter,
who says that there are great possibil,
lities in his method of changing q
horse's color. How he discovered th e
process, he describes as follows:
~ was treating a horse for sore,
and found the lotion had run into the
hair and quickly changed its color. I
started experiments and have con-
tinued them ever since. / frequently
bought old crowbaits for SO or SO to
experiment on their hides, and finally
succeeded in getting the required Q
suits.
81 can make chestnut horse in
twenty-four hours, no matter what the
color of the animal brought to me. To
make black or brown horse requires
from six to ten days"
"Have you ever tried to make q
white horse out of black one?"
"Oh, yes frequently; but it is an
experiment attended with danger to
the horse. The lotions have ten
dency to weaken the skin and are APP
piled with danger to the more tender
portions of the horse, more especially
about the tendons. New xerb
World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
Maine Gum Gatherers.

Some of the druggists in eastern
Maine have made contracts for spruce
gum aggregating several thousands of
dollars, and some have outfitted gum
hunters and sent them away into the
woods, as hackers send men into the
Klondike. Year by year the gum pick
ers are obliged to go further into the
woods. The quality of the gum must
be kept up. Most of the Maine gum
is sent away to the city market that
demands for consumption by the
society girls in their boudoirs the
round red Jumps that CLEAN with inner
fires like the bloodstone. This sort
of gum is sold readily by the Maine
wholesalers at 81. so per pound. Be-
tween you and me, the metropolitan
prices for this tip-top gum are so allur-
ing to the Maine sellers that the pro-
vincials do not get it unless we go out
into the wildwoods and dig it for our
selves. The only peculiarly favored
mortals in this respect are the Maine
girls who have best fellows in the
woods.
Compared with his expenses, the
wages of the gum pickers are almost
Klondike prices. A few bushels of
beans and some -four furnish him his
winters food. Frequently he gets
gum in one day that will net him $40
in the market. But the gum picker
isn't apt to be very energetic chap
He makes short days and goes fishing
ana gaming about half the time. He
doesn't leave the side of his cozy
campfire when storm is on. And at
the end of the season, when he comes
out in the spring with ispack of gum
on his back, it will be found that he
has made but little more than days
wages. Lewiston (Me.) Journal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

William Carney, an engineer at the
Richmond Rolling Mills, Richmond,
Ind, met his death the other day by
falling against large gear wheel,
which tore off one of his legs. He
was alone in the engine room and
knew that possibly no one would en-
ter it for hours. Realizing that dis
aster would result if the fire under
the boilers were left burning, he
dragged his mutilated body fifty feet
to the boiler room and turned off the
natural gas which was used as fuel,
and then lapsed into unconsicousness.
Twenty minutes later the machinery
stopped, caused by lack of steam,
and the employees rushed to the engine
room to ascertain the reason and found
the engineer dying. Such deeds
strengthen faith in our fellowman,
and while such brave men live we
should have no fear for the future.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
WORSE THAN TOBACCO,


Some Deadly Substitutes Which Are
Smoked in Rural England
Tobacco is not the only weed that
is smoked in Britain-not by q long
way-says writer in the English
weekly, Answers. There is no need
to go to the far East to ferret out
weird and poisonous smoking habits;
they lie all around us.
In Somerset and the southwest
counties great many persons smoke
concoctlon called "sundew." 1t is
not new fad, but has been in use for
3OO years there. Sundew is q mixture
OF sun-dried beet leaves, parsley and
peppermint-a very little of the latter.
1t IS not a very harmful mixture,
though it conduces to considerable
drowsiness, and is anything but good
for the teeth. You may notice in the
western counties good many per-
sons with brown or blackened teeth; it
is the result of sundew smoking.
The stuff is not pleasant to a stranger,
for it is very hot and choky and takes
a great deal of getting used to.
Sundew is often homemade, and
most Of the country people are ex-
perts at making it. They set apart a
week IN July for the sundew harvest,
and 1t is always dried and mixed by
women. However, there are three
regular sundew factories in Somerset,
where bushels of the mixture are
turned out. 1t can be bought for
from twopence to threepence per
ounce, according to quality.
Gong little further north-to
Worcestershire and mid Wales-you
Will strike much worse habit. The
people there-town and country alike
are much given to smoking
"glissop." Glissop is sort of drv
mash of hemlock leaves the young
shoots that grow in spring-burdoc
and ground chick beans. This can
also be bought at some shops, though
most of it is homemade. When
bought it fetches fourpence an ounce.
This stuff is smoked in short wooden
pipes with very small bowls, and is
really disastrous in its effects. Like
sundew, it needs practice to get used
to, but is much pleasanter to the
Pai"'o eHan 1Ha1 compounu. ltS nfSt
effect on a smoker is loss of memory,
and this increases till the smoker,
after six months of the habit, is quite
untitled for any profession that re-
quires much thought. The eyesight
soon becomes affected by constant and
excessive indulgence in the habit,
which takes hold of man like NOR
phomania and is almost incurable.
Even small children may be seen
smoking glissop, though but for the
shape of the pipe employed stranger
would not know that they were not
smoking tobacco, unless he were very
close. The smell of the smoke, how
ever, induces tickling in the nostrils
and sort of giddiness which is quite
unmistakable.
Tobacco is far less injurious, even
when indulged in to excess, than this
poisonous compound. Although it is
dearer than ordinary "shag" tobacco,
the poorest people who are addicted to
it always get it instead. They say
they cannot taste or smell even the
strongest tobacco any more than if it
were mist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
AS TRUE AS GOSPEL.
The best of living is living for the

The best of living is living for the
best.
Some men have a regular Sunday
morning attack of homesickness when
the church bells ring.
There is not much lifting-power in
the testimony of the church member
who does not pay his debts.
Know thyself," said the Psalmist;
but he never said anything about
knowing thy neighbor's affairs.
We know that the unseen world Is
ruled by the same laws which rule
us here. In that world we may ex-
pect discipline, but we need fear no
evil.
Resignation is not a passive and
unaspiring content with life and the
world as they are, but 1t is faithful
acceptance of Gods sovereignty, and
Gods purpose, and Gods method.
Many life has been injured by the
constant expectation of death. 1t Is
life we have to do with, not death.
The best preparation for the night is
to work, while the day lasts, dill
gently.
There is nothing purer than honesty,
nothing sweeter than charity, nothing
warmer than love, nothing richer than
wisdom, nothing brighter than virtue.
nothing more steadfast than faith.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The Mexico dog has no hair. The
hot climate makes such covering su-
perfluous.
Experiments to reproduce dead
mems features from their skulls are
being made in Germany.
No human head was impressed on
coins until after the death of Alexan-
der the Great All images before that
time were of deities.
Greek and Roman doors invariably
open outward; person passing out
of the house was therefore obliged to
knock on the door before opening it,
to avoid collision with n passerby.
The Tyrol had an extraordinary mild
autumn. On November Is flowers
were blooming, and ripe Strawberries
were picked, some at an elevation of
5000 feet. There were alpine roses
in bloom and plenty of June bugs !
In the archives of the Due de la
Tremouille have been found the min
ute books of the Sorbonne, the eccle-
siastical court, from 1905 to 1888, the
period of the strongest struggle against
Professionalism in France. They are
now in the Paris National library.
Golf was popular game in Scotland
in 1857. By an edict of James ",
issued in 1471, the games of golf and
football were prohibited in that coun-
try; that monarch opposed his own
edict by engaging liz the former game
himself, and was considered crack
PLAYER,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
A BALLAD OF OLD SKATES.

Good skatingP Welli Four months OF It!
(The winter months then got their duesD
And many night saw bontires lit
Upon the Iceland barbecuesl
At six, with heel-plates in my shoes,
Ny best boast was that could don,
With all their clumsy straps and screws,
The old-time skates that buckled onl
Young man ,ithe modern skates a "champ''
And "just perfection" you declare;
But I'll be bound the clever clamp
Does not increase the sport a hair.
Pm in the forties now my share
Embonpont; but, by Helicon!
II could skate [ still would wear
The old-time skates that buckled oni
edward w. Barnard, in Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

To New Orleans or to Jacksonville via the
Queen 8, Crescent Limited trains from Gin
Florida-Queen & Crescent Two Fast Vesti-
buled trains daily Cincinnati to Jacksonville
queen d Crescent Route and Southern Ry.
Indies. Asheville- Only Through Car Line is
via Queen & Crescent Route and Southern
R'y from Cincinnati. Cafe and observation
ears. Excellent service on superb through
trains. Queen & Crescent Route from Gin
cinnati South.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

I see host OF little men
Troop by from school Mt half-past three,
And presently troop back again,
Skates on their arms, in highest glee.
The cleaning blades throw back to me
A shaft of sunlight and are gone;
And then, as in dream, l see
The old-time skates that buckled oni
They all come back-the good old waysI-
The legend that to boy and mar
The cars showed on proptious days
Good skating on Branch Broolp 1t ran.
From that hour Boreas began
His reign till disenthroned anon,
There were no dearer treasures than
The old-time skates that buckled oni
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

In the report of Isaac b. Brown,
superintendent of the PENNSYLVANIA
Bureau of Railroads, made year age,
some comment was made regarding
the bicycle as q competitor of the
street railway. Observations made on
Third street in the city of Harrisburg,
with view of showing the number of
persons riding wheels and the number
riding In the cars, were given. 1t was
found of the COTS persons who passed
given point between seven in the
morning and six in the evening, dur
ing two days in the month of October,
1862 rode in cars aud 4116 on BICYCLES,
or 67.7 per cent. on bicycles and 32. 3
per cent. in the cars. A comparison
OF the figures obtained this year with
those of last year is therefore of con-
siderable interest. This year the num-
Der counted at the same point in the
same length of time was 5819, of
whom the number in the cars was
2370 and on wheels 3449, or SO. per
cent on wheels and 40. Z in cars. The
conclusion drawn by Mr. Brown is
that the bicycle is not so keen a com
petitor of the street-cars as it was year
ago. Another conclusion drawn is Of
interest. OF the 5S19 persons count.
ed this year 1470 passed between the
hours of 70 noon and 2 D. m., OF
whom 1926 were on wheels and 442 in
cars, or 70 per cent. on wheels and &c
per cent. in the cars. These figures
show very clearly that the clerk anG
the laborer in going to and from theil
work use the wheel quite generally
But the figures bearing on the use o
the wheel during other hours of tn,
day indicate that fewer persons ar,
using the wheel as sort of pleas
ure. This Harrisburg condition ma,
be purely local one, but Mr.. Brow
draws the general conclusion that tn,
wheel has reached the highest point o
competition with the street railway.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

ST. JACOBS UIL cures Rheumatism.
ST. JACOBS on cures Neuralgia.
ST. JACOBS On cures Lumbago.
ST. JACOBS on cures Sclatica.
ST. JACOBS On. cures Sprains.
ST. JAcoRs OIL cures Bruises.
ST. JACOBS On cures Soreness.
ST. JACOBS OIL cures Stiffness.
ST.. JACOBS OIL cures Backache.
ST. JACOBS OIL cures Muscular Aches.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
Grows Stubboru.

Any complaint becomes chronic by neg
iect, and rheumatism grows stubborn by
not using st. Jacobs OIL. which is Its sure
cure and conquers the pain promptly.
Every sufferer should use 1t,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

Manila has already had an illustra-
ton of the difference between the
American and Spanish way of doing
things. Two hundred men were for
merly employed in the postoffice at
that place, and the office was kept
open only every other day. Now
twenty Americans do all the work, and
the office is kept open every day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

There are two islands IN New Zea-
land set apart for the preservation Of
It's remarkable wild birds and other
animals. All hunting and trapping is
forbidden thereon
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

Next to New York, the largest city
in the United States in point of area
is New Orleans.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
To euro Constipation Forever.
i, take Cascarets Candy Cathartic l0c or 25c

Blood flows through the bones of
very young children almost as freely
as through the veins.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

The births in Buffalo last year num-
bered 1885, as compared with 9,146 in
1897, and S,414 in 1896.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

In 1900 New York City got its
water out OF wells.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

GORGE QUIRK
had no time to
w as tie. That
fact could be
easily discerned
from the hur-
ried, inpatient
step with which
he strobe along.
Had anyon II e
taken the trou-
BILE to follow the
Noteworthy oeD-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09
TyYENTY-FOuR unuRS

Light-haired people, it is said, as
rule live longer than dark haired.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

To date the United States has is
sued 616,441 patents
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-03-09

No-To-B Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weah
men strong, blood pure. 5Oc, 81. All druggisea'
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1899-10-03
UPPER LoNGTOWN AFFAIRS.

The famers are getting along nicely
With their work. II present favorable
weather condition. continue We will
witrc:s the a!m)st Gf n)t) singular
spectacle Of the entire crop being har-
vested ers he last Of October. The
cotton crop VII b. vor. short in eur
indeed great dea! shorter
than ge expected. Il is very foS'u-
nate for Us that prices are advancing
somewhat. The advance in price WI!
probably compensate for the loss IL
Weld. Farmers should beware, how
ever, and not let the present advance
in prices encourage them to plant an
other large crop. Let us strive to
make everything we can al home;
diversified farming, we believe, is tho
most profitable. Therefore let US
commence NOW, in the beginning, by
sowing wheat and oats. Don't let last
years light wheat crop discourage US,
but Jet chr mo;too be, "More hog and
hcminy and less cotton"
The upper Longtown school opeled
on Monday with an enrolment OF
twenty. The school is under the efii-
cicnt management Of Miss Bessie
Lylcs, os Blair's. Miss Lyles is board
irg at Mr. Jas. e. Stewards.
The :owsr school opened some time
siucc Miss Williams has charge ef 1t
a.sin this year. About thirty.soTen
scholars have Deen enrolled. Miss
Williams is boarding at MIR. n. 4,
Peay's.
There have betn several sCciables in
Lcngtown recently. One at Mr. \. 81
Peay's, Que It Mr.. T. G. Raines', aud
enc at Mrs. JacksoA's. All were We:
attended and pleasant time reported
Cade; i. Z. Reeves has retar1ed 70
u:euson 10 rceumc his studies
Miss MsGv l.. Harrison, OF Ridge
way, is visiting relatives here.
Miss Lena Reeves has returned to
Winthrop to resume her studies.
September 80, 80 E Il. D.