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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
UNDERSTANDINGS SALES
SHIPPERS AND NOTES.

George 3. Workman Of Lyons was a
shipper of medium weight hogs which
sold at the top OF the day.
Steiner & Blair OF Lyons were consign-
Urs of mediums which sold at the top car
price.
The daily comparisons were as follows:
Yesterday, tops. $3.47ts; bulk, s3.42la1
3.47Iz; average weight, 229; receipts. 254.
For the day before. tops s3.52is; bulk.
ce!pts. Gil. For Saturday of the week
before, tops, $50: bulk. 50. 4GG3.5O; aver
age weight, go; receipts, $40.
The average weight OF car hogs for the
past week was 22S pounds. The tops for
the week were $780, which was on
Wednesday. and the low point was yes
terday, $3.41Is.
The Dold business yesterday was a
slight lull from the rush Of the rest OF
the week The car shipments were bet
ter than usual for Saturday and showed
up we'll, but the jobbing trade and ex
press trade. while very fair, was not so
strong as for the preceding days Of the
week. and neither was IL expected. Yes
terday however was about the heaviest
day this seasin in point of getting ready
for the next weeks shipments. About
800 coo pounds of various cuts were hung
in the smoke houses 10 be ready for Mon
day and IueSday shipments. his repre-
sents about II car loads Of meat, and in
addition are several more cars OF the
several specialties and staple cuts which
in all will make up a total Of about TWEEN
~ cars ready TO go out the first two
days Of the week. All the forces were
busy yesterday getting this stock in read
iress for shipment and the week closed
with a record which has never before
been approached in the history OF the
local house.
Superintendent ". r. Duaney OF the
stock yards. was present all day yester-
day, and all the interests there were glad
TO hear from him that the condition OF
his son. Dr. John Dulaney. was all that
could be expected. Though still weak.
the young man now bids fair TO soon
reach complete recovery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
CiTYIN BRIEF.

Mr Marie OF Cheney was in tie city
yesterday.
Mis- GA Humphrey Is visiting friends
in Eureka
c. o AISsr: L al Aulvars constructing
a rev building there.
= NJ Lyman and family are visiting
relatives i Decatur. IL
Nrs- A FzhGesicck is visiting relatives
tbs week Il Naiyz1e-
Miss Alice Heleer;. q lines & CO. vii
vssit hs- aunt Ella IN Denver this Sun
ueT.
Miss KATE Sigsrson. accompanies; 5Y her
mother. Iet, Friday norz.as 70. Pratt
Kan
Ar. a-1 Mrs. G. Cay aad family are
now occupying he residence a; So North
Topeka
Ma Nay PaElips and daRsAser. q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25

There was no cattle maret yesterday.
as the few small deals were not sufficient
to establish quotabie 8Gfet There was
good demand for the s4Feral grades
Of cattle. but there were str4 few offered
TO be Of interest.
The repairs which fortH1 dags have
been going on In the niReFnery OF the
Doid plant are about eeinNeted ana on
Monday the firm viii agsn be on the
Both lard and ribs yesterday closed up
21z cents. the former at 500. and the
latter at 40.
Mr.. George Schad. Of the accounting
force in the offices Of the bold Packing
company, returned yesterday from a tour
which resulted in his winning a bride.
AL the Office, as well as his many friends
in the city, extend the best wishes and
warmest congratulations 10 him. All
know that Mrs. Schad has got a prize IN
the person Of popular and GENIAL young
man, and all are convinced Glt the usual
good Judgment OF George mas asserted
itself in this so important affair.
Mr.. 3. F. Cornelius, one OF the large
stock dealers OF Butler county, was at
the yards yesterday looking after cattle
and arranging 70 buy a good line Of
stock Of MS desired class.
Brother McCarty. the lynx-eyed day
Waterman and custodian at the Dold
plant, yesterday won new honors by cap
turing a mole in his native haunts. The
Bermuda grass plat about the fountain
at the south enhance OF the main court.
and the wsll-cared-for flower beds are the
special pride of Mac" and no one dares
tTespass on this sacred spot. Yesterday
he detected a tunnel in his soil which in
dictated the work OF a ground mole, and
the vigilant son Of Erin set out on u
campaign to gether him in. He finally
killed him with a hose nozzle. and in a
lone triumphant march proceeded to the
offices holding his prize in his hand. He
was all elated with the capture and smiled
beningnIy down on Manager Fred DoId
and all the staff. feeling he had done
something which should live IN the his
tory of the house
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25

Berlin. June 24.-On the bourse today
home FUNDS were frmer. Spanish fours
Were in demand al the opening. but the
advance was not maintained American
securities were firm and Canadian Pa
cities recovered sharply. Local shares
were strong. Mines were active. owing
20 reports that the iron works were nego-
riatinS with the coal syndicate 20 estab-
liSh the price Of coal on the basis Of
1SeS.
Paris June 24-Bdsiness on tlls bourse
today was hesiiating. owing TO spprehen-
s!ons regarding the fate Of the cabinet.
Rsrtes were heavy. RIO TintOs and De
Beers were dun and Kaffirs were weak
but finished better on light Coatango
rates in London
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
COFFEE AND SUGAR MARKETS

New York. June A.-Coffee-Options
opened steady. unchanged; ruled spirit
less in view OF conflicting foreign market
news, unimportant statistical changes and
lack of interest in outside speculative
circles; closed barely steady, unchanged
to points lower sales. H.Soo bags, includ-
ing July. 4.s5c: October. 4.9oc; November.
4.S5c; December. 5.90d5.S sc; January 5.35c.
Spot-Rio. dull and easy; No. invoice,
&C.: jobbing. 6lzc. Mild, quiet. Cordova,
Sd12c.
Sugar-Raw. steadler; fair refining. a.;
centrifugal. IS test, 4Ssc; molasses sugar.
&c Refined steady.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
DRY GOODS MARKETS

New York. June A.-The weak closes
with a dull demand on the spot for all
lines Of cottons. but fair business again
through the mails. Dark nIncy calicoes
are not in as full demand as previously
this week. but are very well situated and
firm. Brown cOcttons unchanged. Bleach
ed dull but firm IN medium and fine
grades. Denims irregular. Jobbing trade
here duh. but special cleaning-up sales
next week expected 70 make matters
much more lively. American cotton yarns
dull and barely steady. Worsted yarns
firm and in good request.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
New York Bauk statement

New York. June 4.-The bank state
neat shows the following changes: Sur
plus reserve decrease 81 80 ce; loans. IN
crease $3.50; specie. decrease S5.I54 so:
legal tender decrease $S{2.3lo: deposits. in
crease. 1-2st sln: circulation. decrease $50.
The banks now hold s. 80 in excess
OF the legal requirements.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
New Works Exports and Imports

New York. June z-The imports OF
dry goods and general merchandise az the
port az New York mis- week were valued
Al S-5I Ia. The exports for -he week
Of god were s. ~ - ard % silver So. =
So Imports Il sod were S-.Sis. and q
ssrx-a- srr+ ~
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-25
METAL MARKET.
Foreign STOCK. ana Money.

| New York. June a.-The brokers price
! for lead IS s4.25 and for copper $500. No
/ metal
The age-herald., 1899-11-14

ond display of meteors will occur on the evening of November 23 or 24, because at that time the earth wdn be swinging through or near the tail of Bielas lost comet.
 But there are doubts in the case. The astronomers are not cocksure as to which side of the world will see tine most meteors whether Europe or America win have front seats in the heavenly display. They are inclined to think America will, as of course, she should but it should not be for gotten that America had the pick of posi- tions in 1SSS when there were meteors enough to scare the cows. In 1866 or 1867 the spectacle was at no point very striking. Whether it will be so Wednesday night or Thursday morning is to some extent proo- lematieal, but the men of science are in elined to think it will be we'll to have at least sandals ready against an emergency. The star shower of 1883 may be repeated, and if it should be no one will want ito miss it.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
THE ONLY D.ilY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Division of the Samoan Group.

The three great Teutonic nations have agreed upon a division of the islands of the Samoan group that is both sensible and satisfactory In the first 1t abolishes tri- partite rule in Samoa-rule that has never been productive of satisfactory results-a rule that has produced jealousies and in- trigues, breeding at last armed trouble. The tripartite episode in Samoa is a warn- ing to all statesmen in the future against any such policy.
 Each of the three countries is very happy over the result arrived at. Germany's en- .peror crows .ong and loud over 1t. Germany retains the island of Upolu, which contains the capital, Apia. It is a large island and the most populous of the group, but the harbor is not good. The German element in Apia is in the ascendency and it is meet and right that to Germany the town and the island should be transferred. Two thirds of the lesser islands undoubtedly go with it.
 Great Britain takes, 1t is said, the Tonga islands in the South Pacific and it is as- stunned that she takes, too, freedom of ae- tion in the Transvaal, and possibly some new trade rights in oceancia. Particulars in these respects are at present withheld. England is, however, well satisfied with her understanding with Germany, on which the new treaty is based, and under which she withdraws altogether from Samoa.
 And so is the United States for this which is Pango Pango bay. We could not give up the bay with an euphoneous name. It has long been coveted. It is, in fact, the finest harbor in the archipelago. The island, too, possesses an advantage in the fact that there are not many people on it that by a transfer would become Ameri- can citizens. It is not very large nor very populous, but its strong point is a harbor. Welcome Pango Pango. It is the latest American arrival.
 No one will be apt to object to the new treaty and its proposed division of islands. All on the other hand will agree that it is an easy way out of muddle and be glad that Ambassador White and Secretary Hay triple scheme could be abolished.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
STARS TO FALL NEXT WEEK


 Professor J. K Rees told about falling stars and the meteoric display expected next week in an illustrated lecture last night before the New York Academy of Science, at 12 West Thirty-first street
 The stereopticon illustrations were made from drawings of famous astronomers, which were based upon observations made from time to time since 1926.
 Tt is calculated" said Professor Rees. "that the meteoric exhibition next week Will be the greatest since 1883. and will far out shine that of 1866. About every thirty-three years the same astronomical phenomena are observable, and it will be strange if New Workers do not have the spectacle Vouchsafed to them some night next week.
 Tt may be, however, that here the mete- DTS will fall in the day time, and, in that event there will be little to be seen The German astronomers have sent an expedi- tion to India especially to observe the forth coming display, showing that they calculate that Europe and the United States will this year be deprived of a nocturnal fall of stars.
 Still said the lecturer in consolatory way, ''if the fall occurs here in the day. time, we will see a fairly good exhibition next year.
 He went on to demonstrate that in about every thirty-t three and quarter years the earth in it's revolutions around the sun ran into swarms of meteors. These are parti- cles of comets that have disintegrated by repeated explosions. In 1893 and in 1866 some of the meteors, or falling stars" were as bright as the full moon, and if the conditions next week are favorable equally brilliant heavenly displays may be visible. The observer, the professor suggested, should look up in the northeast about mid night Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Should the heavens furnish no un- usual spectacle then, about o'clock on the morning of November IS ought to repay their vigils. Vari-colored meteors are promised to shoot through space and an aerial panorama such as may not be visible for at least another thirty-three years is confidently expected.
 In Boston, in 1883, 24O0o0 falling stars were computed to have been visible in the eight hours duration of the phenomenon About the same number were seen in the same time in Europe in 1866. Sometimes the dropping stars explode, ricochetting in ec- centric lines and making a fiery prism of the heavens. These meteors travel at the rate of twenty-six to forty-four miles second, and each is visible for a second or two, and often for only fraction of sec ond. When they get within the earth's at- mosphere, the heat becomes so great that they are consumed, or as 1t were, evapor- ated. No falling star in these showers, de- clared the professor, had ever reached the earth's surface.
 Dr. Elkin, professor of astronomy at Yale, has made elaborate preparations to photo- graph the expected phenomena. At Harv- ard, too, and at most of the other univer- sities exclusive preparations have been made. The federal government has placed the astronomical apparatus at West Point at the service of Columbia university, and many photographers in New York have of- fered their cameras to the uniyersty's ob- servers.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
Educational Proqress in the State

Let us,' says the Prattville Progress, talk in our teachers institutes and around our fresides for our common schools, the schools of the masses of the people, the schools which today are doing more to bring light and sunshine into our homes and an advanced civilization into our midst and a greater love for our country than all other forces combined"
 The talk that the Progress suggests should take the form of agitation for def1- mite steps in promotion of public education. First of all should be gained the sight of local taxation. Not compulsory education, community desiring them. Instead of for bidding taxation for school purposes, other states invite and promote it. Alabama is in this respect very backward and very un- wise and very undemocratic. The right of local taxation is simply self-government in a very important and praisewort1hy direc tion. The right to bond or to go into debt is not sought, but the right in each com- HuHlty to JdA ltSelI TOT SCHOOL purposes IS desired. No other state would deny such a right. It is right granted in this state in special cases. It should be granted to all through a constitutional amendment Good public schools are impossible without it. The state is now doing all it can reasonably be asked to do and if more is to be done it must come through local taxation in com- munities desiring it. In that way the un- just, unwise, vicious and discreditable tax of pay" teachers can be abolished, and in no other way can it be. In that way free public schools can be introduced where only pay schools now exist In that way illit- eracy can be reduced. Pay schools will never do that. They will not even attempt it, for they are conducted on the patronage basis.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
WastefuI Coke MakinQ.

It was not until 1875 that coke became the established fuel for iron-making purposes. Before that time charcoal and anthracite coal and bitumnous coal were used in the furnaces. About 1875 all iron-masters be- came convinced that soft coal changed into coke was the best fuel for smelting pur- poses that could be found. Coke has ever since held first place as pig iron smelting fuel, and it's production is every year rap idly extending. In the Connellsville dis trict alone the shipments of coke from Jan- uary to July aggregated 24S,619 cars, con- taining 4,792, 139 tons. This product, shipped in the first six months of this year, was worth fully 900 at the ovens, and al- most as much more money was gained from it for the railroads that handled it.
 Nearly all of this coke,' says the Con- nellsville Courier, lis produced in primitive beehive ovens" The number in operation is ls146 in the Connellsville district alone. ''These ovens belch forth, night and day, clouds of black smoke carrying off valuable volatile chemical substances which could Tll pc saved Dy the use or tne' modern Dy- product coke process-a European discovery extensively employed in France and Ger many and introduced successfully to some extent in this country
 The Philadelphia Record discusses this subject at length, and it arrives at the con- clusion that "the time will surely come when the latter method will be employed exclusively, and then the coke-maker will discover that the distillates which were formerly wasted are his most valuable product. Then the coke will become a by product
 Anyone who watches, even cursorily, the Dy-product plant at Ensley will become convinced that the bee-hves are crude and wasteful. The very smoke that tsints the air of Birmingham is wanting at the En- sley plant. It is caught, and the tar and ammonia and sulphur with which it is laden is taken from it, leaving gas that is valuable for heating or lighting purposes. The gas is not fully utilized at Ensey at present, but perhaps it will be. The wasted products at Connelsville almost stagger the nind and they are wasted products, not because there is anything tentative in the new process, but because the plants of bee-hives are comparatively inexpensive.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
STATE FAIR EDITION

From the Pine Belt News.
 The newspapers of Birmingham are cred- itable to the city-one morning daily and two evening papers, besides a number of weeklies. Last Sunday The Age-Herald is- sued a special State fair edition of forty pages, giving a splendid account of the marvellous growth, development and prog ress of the city during the past few years. This edition ecipsed all past efforts in Al abama journalism. The Age-fIerald also announces that it will be published every day in the year. Editor Barrett is a hust- ter. If there were more country editors ill the state with his energy, progressiveness and talent, journalism in Alabama would be a more dignified profession and would occupy a loftier plane.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14

the Corner. the former home of many other associations, some dead, some alive. Here the Fighting Fellowcrafts few to flinders. The Marylanders number about 200, and there are some prominent names in the list of members. Rear Admiral Sehley and Governor Lloyd Lowndes are the only honoraries. There are the Cockeys, the Ginnas, the Gadds, the Cloggs and Coards, the Gunbys and Glucks, the Gorrells and Guards, the Kisses and Hobbses, the Leggs and Littigs the Marchants and Middle ditehes, the Romans and Shopes, the sims and Stumps, the Tulls and Wetzels, the Sizers and Zachariases.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
TOmorroW's MeteOric Shower.

The astronomers are agreed that on ing the earth will again cross the orbit of the meteoric star family. The earth's orbit crosses the other orbit once, say the scent- and so they have named a date for gorge ous display of meteors, but they have said nothing at all about the end of the world. The latter point is left to the crack brained. and the gullible generally. Possibly a sec
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
From the Montgomery Journal.

From the Montgomery Journal.
 The Birmingham AgeHera1d will here after be published on Monday and every cay in the year, including holidays, accord ing to its announcement made today. The Journal congratulates The Age-IIerald on Its purpose to issue seven papers in the week. and it claims the distinction of being the only seven-day paper in the state. The Journal for years published seven papers week. and for over a year was the only paper in the state that did come out seven days in tLae week. It announced at the time of of discontinuance of its Sunday issue thad it was only temporary
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Engaged people ought to be made to do all of their kissing over telephone
 Adam didn't have to make up to Eve. When he wanted her to do a thing, he hit her.
 If 1t was indoors and there weren't any men looking on, every woman would sit down on the floor to tie the lace of her shoe.
 Even he who does not believe in scatter ing flowers on the graves of the dead would be saddened by the thought that no one would scatter flowers on his.
 The kind of woman who would make a happy home isn't tine one who tells you you can smoke if you want to and doesn't put anything out that you dare to put the ashes in.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
Prosperity in Dale

Editor Joe Adams, of the Ozark Star, writes:
 We heard prominent business man say v-sterday that this sea son is the first time in his business career of many years he was able to pay up all debts and was feeling comfortable and easy. The same party said the day before he had made an $50 collection that had been standing for four or hve years.
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
The MenacIng Comet
From the Fortnightly Review.

rTOH Ctle fOrlnlSnlly Review.
 In view of the interest awakened in the subject of a possible rencontre between the earth and Tempel's comet, it may be we'll to consider how far Professor Falb is jus- tifed in making his much-talzed- of pre- diction, namely, that on November 13, 1899. the comet will come into collision with our planet. In lecture delivered subsequently, in Berlin he explained that his prophecy was to be regarded merely as an announce- mert of the fact that on the date mentions ed, between the hours of and 8 in the morning. Temples comet will be due at 0 point in the earth's annual path where the earth also will arrive at the same time, hench he predicted the collision. He feels pretty sure, though, that the material of which the comet is composed is so light that the inhabitants of this world may may confidently expect to come out of the Journey scatheless; unless indeed, the comets atmosphere should prove to be or a noxious character and overwhelm us with a torrent of carbonic gas.
 From the Greenwich observatory, how ever. comes the reassuring intelligence that ''the period of this comet is not known with sufficient accuracy to justify such Fatb's) an announcement" that "the best determi. nations of the period do not indicate a col- lision." Calcula ton indicates the midle of March as the time of its nearest approach to the sun-the perihelion. Of Temples comet nothing of general interest is known beyond the fact of its being closely asso- ciated w5th a stream of meteors known aa the Leonids. eI
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
'Lasses in Blob

The Centreville Press prints this cheerful agricultural note:
 The farmers of Bibb county are improv- ing their farms, raising better farm prod ucts, cattle, hogs and horses. This sort of thing will count in the future. Two far mers brought us in sample of their mo- lasses and we have never tasted better from any Louisiana product. For the last few years all the syrup consumed by the people was raised in the adjoining fields. It is un- adulterated and we know it is pure syrup
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
Great is Birmingham

The Wetumpka Eimore Dispatch rises to remark:
 The coal and ore products of the Birming- ham district are worth more than the cot ton crop of Alabama. Just think of 1t, and its increasing possibilities, with a fine quail ity of steel that will soon be made DO YOU think it unreasonable, then, that its litnlits will be extended until Bessemer and East Lake will Joe included-points that are clow nearly twenty miles apart?
The age-herald., 1899-11-14
Jess in Marshall

Coon Rollings, of Marshall county, is eyi- dentlv A Stallings man. The Guntersvile Democrat says:
 Coon Rulings. of North, was in towa last Friday and told the Democrat of the ad- vent at his house of bouncing baby strL whom he C.as named Jesse S'salhngs. He says "For the next governor of Alabama