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CHICAGO, August 19.
-. - ~ z..s - -

CASH quotations were as ToIloWs:
Flour strong; winter patents SS.5Oa3.60;
do straights S3l0a3.s0; do clear -; spring
specials $40; hard spring pat, S3.40a3.70i soft
$sS0aS.l0; bakers Y2.20a2.60. Wheat-No. 2
spring $780,; No. spring 69D72 IL; No. 2 red
73Aa74. Corn-No. 2, 32M. Oats mo. z, 81 liza
2IA; No. 2, white 2SA@23N; No. 3 white ma
~ l-2. Rye--No 2, "a. Bariey--No. 2, 3l@
S8; No. Flax seed---No. /, l06. Prime Timothy
seed S2.40a2.45. Mess pork, per bbl., .60a
1886. Lard, per 100 lbs, S.. II 1-2a525 Short rib
sides, loose, S4.95a5.25; dry-salted shoulders,
boxed, 5%65%. Short clear sides, boxed.
S555a5,66 Whiskev Al a.
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BALTIMORE.
eALrIMoRR, Md, Aug. 19.--Fiour quiet; '

eALrIMoRR, Md, Aug. 19.--Fiour quiet; west
ern super S2.1502.25.
Wheat frmer; No. red, spot and August
u I-2a72h; september 1874 a73 10; October 74Aa
rs; December FIX asked; steamer No. red -;
Southern wheat by sample 6ja7i; do. on
grade
Corn ffrmer; mixed, spot and August $500
36I; September and October 3. l-2a86M; No
yember or December, new or old, 830S3k
January 33G33k; steamer mixed -; Southern
white 4Oai0 IL; do. yellow
Oats firm; No. 2. white western, old 260
&c -; No. mixed 80 l-2a30.
Rye firm; No. nearby re l-2ab3; No.
western
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STOCKS OPEN STRONG
UPWARD MOVEMENT. ATTRACTS
MANY BUYING ORDERS.
A RATHER Puzz ING BANK STATEMENT
Increased Earnings of Practically all the Rail
roads Help on the Toward Movement
Bonds Less Active During
the Week

New York, August 19.-Market closes
qnieter so far as demand goes, but the
weeks business in both cotton and wool
en- goods has been large Tone good
throughout. No further advances re-
ported, but gains of earlier days this
week being readily secured Print
cloths firmer in regulars and strong
in wide odds. Cotton yarns In good de-
mand and advancing.
COTTON.
New York. Aug. 19.-The market for
cotton futures opened quiet and steady
with prices unchanged TO two points
lower after which there was very little
change. Trading was restricted almost
exclusively to the professional element,
which was ayerse to assuming new OBJ
hgatrons in the absence of influential
news. or backing from outside quarters.
The Liverpool cables Were somewhat dis
appointing. but not sufficiently so to
bring out long cotton. The crop accounts
and weather information failed to reveal
any marked changes i'm the situation
throughout the belt over night Weekly
reports from New England cotton centers
report healthy conditions in all depart
ments. Like news was received from
Manchester and continental points re-
garding the cloth markets Of Europe.
The market for futures closed quiet
and steady with prices net ! to points
higher
Estimated receipts at the ports today
1000 bales. against 2,5S2 bales last week
and 1.415 last year. This week $4,000
bales against 1890 bales last week and
20.212 bales last year. The days re-
ceipts at New Orleans 542 bales. against
50 last year and at Houston 1888 bales
against 361 bales last year.
NEW YORK.
New York. Aug. 10 - Cotton futures opened
,aE n 80
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sS; No. Flax seed--No. /, 1906 Prime Timothy
seed $2.4oa245. Mess pork, per bbl:,, s76Qa
s35. Lard, per 100 lbs, S. II 1-2a525. Short rib
boxed, 5%55S. Short clear sides, boxed.
s5.5Sa566. Whiskey s1.26.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK, August l9-Flour quiet but
firner winter patents S3.60a3 80; do. straight
S3.3a0a.sO; Minnesota patents = 80; do
bakers S2.9Oa3I0; winter extras s2.40a2.s0; do.
low grades S2.30a2 49,
Rye -four firm; good to fair s2.SOas1O; choice
to fancy ~.
Corn meal firm; yellow western ,a78; city n.
Rye firm; No. 2, western 60; State s..
BARLEY steady; feeding s7l-2a3s; mating 4s
Barley malt nominal; western F5a63.
Wheat, SPOT strong; No. REQ 20; nDtionE,
May s25s; September 772S; December sos.
Corn, SPOT strong; No. 2. Al; optioos, Au ust
IS 1-2; September SO; December -
oaUs, SPOT firm; No.. 2, 20 l-2a27: options quiet.
Beef steady; family S9600ll.0O; extra mess
So; beef hams s27t0; packet S9.2ia$l000i city
extra India mess s14.o0al5.G0.
Cut meats steady; picked bellies CAT Id;
picked shoulders 6; picked hams lOal0 ID.
Lard firm; western steamed $3.50; CITY s. 10:
August $3.50; refined steady; to the continent
pork steady; mesa ss.75a9.5O; short clear
H0.2501l.75; family sI1 .00U12.OO.
Butter firm; western creamery 17a2l;
Cheese, firm; large white Ok; do colored %
a91-2.
Eggs Arm; State and Pennsylvania lob;
western, ungradRd l2al5; southern
Potatoes quiet; fair to prime Sl.h00175;
common 50a75; fancy s2.o0a2.25; southern sweets
SI.50a2.50.
Peanuts firm; fancy hand-picked 5 1-2a6 Ia;
other domestic 1-2a5.
Cabbages steady; Long Island S3aSl per 100.
Freights TO Liverpool weak; cotton by steam
2 l-2a2A; do. grain =.
Tallow steady; city -: country 81faST.
Cotton seed oil steady; prime crude 2ll-2;
crude 0 mills l7alSi prime summer yellow pa
20 H.; OFF summer yellow % 1-2i butter grades
30a3l; prime winter yellow sOa32; prime white
70 IL.
Petroleum, firm; refined New York, 1880;
Philadelphia and Baltimore 1915: do in bulk
s5.G1
Rosin steady; strained, common to good
SI.30al.32 IL.
Turpentine quiet at 52a52 ~.
Rice firm; fair to extra 42<a7 1-2; Japan
4ha5 IL.
Molasses firm; New Orleans, open kettle.
good to choice, S2a36.
Coffee--Options spot Rio duh and nominal;
No invoice 81 No. jobbing Ga; mild quiet;
Cordeya l-2all.
sugar. raw held higher and firm; fair refining
4; centrifugal 95-test, 9-16 molassfs sugar ga;
refined firm; mould A 5%; standard 81;
confeetinners' NO. 10, -; cut loaf So;
crushef graduated I-2; cabes 81.
Muskmelons, Hackensacg, Nutm per bar
rel 9GGS 90; Monmouth county, per BARREL
GasI 90; do Jennie Lind 60ai.la; Hackeesack
seed, per barrel, 4 iazt; SoSth Jersey Gem and
Jennie Line, per Dbl, 50a .00 do average 4O0
60; do Maryland, Rocky Ford Seed, per
crate, inf rior, 23a40; do Emerald Gem, per
crate 6oa5O; do two basket carrier, sUa50 do Vir-
gmia and North Carolina, per barre -.
Watermelons, per car load, $75a150; per 100,
EaSIs.
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New York. Aug. 10 Cotton futures opened
uiet and steady.
LIVERPOOL.

Spot cotton closed quiet; middlin0 upland
9 3-l6; middl ng gulf 7-.6; sales Is bales.
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RALEIGH STOCK MARKET.

Corrected daily by Grimes & Vass.
RALEIGH, N. O., August 10.
R0NRG
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SpeciaIties:


Specific blood poison
ing, nervous disease,
kidney and urinary
difficulties, stricture,
pimples, piles, rheu-
matism, skin and
blood diseases OF all
forms, catarrh and
diseases of women.
Address or call on
DR.. Hathaway
& Co..
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RAPE AND TURNIPS.
Not as Valuable for Green MnnurinR
Ms LeEuminOus Crops, Nor
Quite as Profitable,

Rape and turnips are entirely depend
ent upon the soil for their nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash, therefore
they do not increase the amount of any
of these substances in the soil if
plowed under. They will, however, in
crease the amount of vegetable matter
or humus in the soil, but other crops
will do this more cheaply. Leguminous
crops, such as clover, cow peas, ETC.,
obtain considerable amount of nj
trogen from the air, therefore they not
only increase the humus of the soil but
increase the supply of nitrogen as well.
Rape and turnips, says writer in
Rural New Yorker, require soil which
is fairly fertile in order to do their best,
and soil which will grow rape and
turnips successfully will also grow lc-
guminous crops. From these three
statements it will be seen that rape
and turnips are not suitable for green
manuring; at any rate they are not so
valuable Tor this purpose as leguminous
crops. I do not know of any good
farmer who uses rape or turnips for
green manure. They are highly es-
teemed as stock food and they should be
used for this purpose only. Some crops
will grow on extremely poor soils which
will not grow leguminous crops and
by blowing under such crops the phys
ical condition Of the soil may be so inn
proved as to enable the soil to produce
leguminous crops, notably clover. which
is liable to perish from drought on soils
poor in humus. Rye and buckwheat are
good examples of crops that will grow
on poor soils, and they are sometimes
used as the forerunners of clover to
prepare the soil physically. Rape and
turnips, however, will not grow sat
isfactorily on poor soils, hence there is
no excuse or reason for using them as
green manures.
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Each Breed Has ADVANTAGES.

1t is doubtful if anyone can correctly
select the ''best breeds" of fowls with
out having the same claim made just as
earnestly for dozen other breeds
Some breeds may have certain advan
tages, but it will also have it's disadvan.
tages. Each breed may be said to have
only one dominant talent. What il
gains in one direction it may lose in an.
other. After all, there would not be ter
eggs different in a year between the best
and the most inferior (if they could be
discovered), with all conditions alike
The man who will claim any one breed
as the best issues direct challenge tt
all other breeders.-american Garden
ing. ..-
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! AUTUMN SONG.

The stubble fields are growing brown
The leaves are falling, falling,
And in the edges of the wood,
The quails are calling, calling;
The oak is scarlet on the hills
In autumn's dreary weather,
And bonires of the golden-rod
Light up leaf-besprinkled sod
Where asters, hazy as the skies,
n. To low, still winds lift dreamful eyes,
81 And russell ferns are whispering low
To all the fading things that grow
In Wayside hooks together.
The ripened nuts are dropping down
In slow and tuneful patter,
And all through woodlands ways we hear
Brisk squirrels chirp and chatter
They watch their harvest as it falls, *,
While plaintively the plover
Among the stubble seeks to find
Something that summer left behind,
And bluebirds. from their empty nest.
Make little flights to east and west,
And seem to sing of falling leaf,
And summer. with reign too brief,
Among the dry brown clover.
The flowers of happy summer days
Are dead by roadside hedges.
Save some belated daisy blooms
Along the meadows edges.
Oh, sad, sweet ason of the year,
In springs bright balmy weather.
When larks come back to build and sing,
And high in heaven the bluebird's wing
Is flashing in the sun, as he
Drops down ripping melody,
With all sweet things that disappear
At this still twilight of the year
Come back again together?
-Eben E. Reaford, in Golden Days.
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forward and spoke a few words to his

forward and spoke a few words to his
engineer. You can't get back to civ
ilization a minute too soon, Steve he
said. Jerk her through the woods 70.
all she'll stand
"It was just nightfall when they
pulled away from the lonely station
and plunged into the gloom of the for
ests of hemlock, pine and tamarack
that lay before them for $50 miles.
Johnny Hall started at once to collect
his fares. lie appeared at the rear end
OF the last coach with his punch in his
right hand, his lantern hanging from
his left arm and one burly brakeman
alongside of him.
"There was one husky woodchopper
in the last seat. Fares, please said
Johnny
"'Fares be darned,' said the passen-
ger.
"The other passengers continued
their conversations or gazed uncon-
cernedly through the windows into the
black night.
"'Pay your fare or get thrown off the
train said the conductor, in even
tones.
Like gladiator waiting for the
word, the unruly passenger prepared to
spring upon his victim. He half rose
from his seat, when something hap
pened. The pliers which the conduc-
tor carried in his right hand sudden
~ met the passenger between the eyes
and he tumbled to the floor. 1t was
blow for blow, and Johnny Hall knew
better than to let his antagonist get
in the first one.
"'Cover 'em, Bill he said, and the
big brakeman instantly whipped out
two murderous looking colts and turned
them on the astonished occupants of
the car. Nobody stirred viii =, he sung
out: Anybody that tries to leave this
car is dead man. Keep your Seats
All kept their seats, and everybody paid
his fare, too. No one had any arguments
that could stand up against the muzzles
of two loaded guns, and once having
paid they wanted to see everyone else
pay, too, so they made no Interior
ence.
"In the second car no one knew what
had happened in the first. But the mo-
ment the two men stepped inside and
the door slammed behind them, the
eyes of everyone there caught sight of
the two revolvers. In the twinkling of
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Combs in Cold We0thep-

Every winter damages the birds more
or less by injuring the combs. When
comb is frosted it turns black and often
the points decay and fall off. 1t is very
painful, and results in loss of eggs, as
the birds will not lay until the comb is
thoroughly healed. The wattles also
freeze, especially when wet, as is the
case with birds that drink from an open
vessel. The best remedy for frosted
combs is to keep the birds free from
draughts and anoint the combs with a
few drops of glycerin and crude petro-
leum mixed. To prevent the difficulty,
if necessary, cut off the combs and wat
ties with sharp knife or shears, dip
the head in alum water and put the
birds in dry, warm place. Should the
weather be warm rub the cut surface
with crude petroleum as protection
against f1ies.-American Gardening.
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How to Begin Farming,

The beginner on farm usually esti
mates the cost of the farm as the larg
est expenditure, but the farm is an in
cumbrance if the owner las not suffi
cient capital to derive the most from
the land. There is heavy outlay to b.
considered for buildings, horses, cat
tie, wagons, machinery, implements
seeds and labor. The cost for the frs,
year may exceed the value of the farm
itself. 1t is better to begin with g
small farm where the capital is limited
than to undertake too much and lose al
by going into debt.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-11-16
to accommodate hot-bed sash, and

to accommodate hot-bed sash, and
would need three of them. The parti-
tons should divide the house into four
equal parts, scratching pen and a
roosting and nest room on each side.
Place the water, ground bone and
grit in the roosting or nest room and
do all of the feeding in the scratching
room, and also keep the dust bath in
this room right under the glass so that
the sun will shine in it and keep it dry
and warm. For cheapness and dura-
bility would cover the roof with Ne
ponset roofing and paint it we'll; board
up the sides and ends and batten the
cracks.
This style of a house is the most
roomy and convenient of any know
of, and almost any farmer can build
one. To start one, draw your plans,
first, to scale and see how your lum-
Der will cut to advantage. Hang cab
bage or other vegetables in the roost
room so that the fowls can pick it from
the roost board and the floor, and fall
of once in awhile for exercise. The
plans are plain and self-explanatory.-
E. E. Page, in Ohio Farmer.
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A LITTLE NONSENSE.

The Father-"Young man, think I
heard you issing my daughter in the
parlor short while ago." The Young
Man-"Ob, then you are not as deaf as
people tliiuk you are, after all?"-
Yonkers Statesman.
"If were postmaster general" he
said, etfusively, II would put your pic
ture on every stamp" ''Oh! prefer
being kissed only by one man." she an
swered. And then they began on the
second hundred.-Answers.
Appropriate.-"This Gates Ajar' de-
sign is handsome one," said the tomb
stone man. ut is just what want"
said the widow. ''He never shut a door
in all our married life without being
told. "-Indianapolis journal.
In the Museum.-.'I tell you," said the
giant, who had been relating dis
agreeable experience, lit made me feel
small" ''Why," remarked the dwarf,
in tone which indicated surprise, II
like to feel mall!"-Puck.
Tommy's Mother-"Why is it, Tom
my, that you are always fighting with
Willie Simpkins? never heard of you
quarreling with any of the other boys
in the neighborhood." Tommy-"He's
tn on'y one kin lick" -Indianapolis
State Journal.
The Worst of It. = Mrs. Pepper
'Well, what did you marry me for,
then?" Mr.. PAS 1 family remem-
Der, Mrs. Pepper, it was for better OF
for worse and I've come to the con-
clusion that it couldn't have been any
worse -Philadelphia Bulletin.
IF you had followed my advice" he
said, lit wouldn't have happened" 81
did follow your advice" she answered.
''You did," Eyes, I did, "Then of
course you got into trouble" he assert
ed. you're always so contrary that I
have to tell you the wrong thing to do
in order to get you to do the right
thing. Why can't you be consistent"
Chicago Post. "
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THE STREETS OF PEKING.
Wonders of the Great Capital OF
China-A Permanent Tartar
Encampment.

Picking is the most Incredible, i'm
possible, anomalous and surprising
place in the world; the most splendid,
spectacular, picturesque and interest
ing city in China; central Asian city
of the far past; fortified capital of the
thirteenth century handed down in
tact.
Picking is the capital of all China,
yet what interests and piques one most,
gives Picking its own individual char,
acter, and distinguishes it from the
other cities of the empire, are the
things that are not Chinese, the con-
trasts and the contradictions. Picking
is by first intention permanent Tar
tar encampment, a fortified garrison of
nomad bannermen surrounding Pal
ching, the northern palace of the con-
quering khan of khans. The Tartar uler
of four hundred millions of subject Chi
nese is closely surrounded by his faith
full Manchu clansmen from beyond the
great wall, who scorn and hate and
more than any outer enemy; who
have thrown themselves into the arms
of Russia through the fear of the Chi
nese; who have bargained that Russia
shall send soldiers to their aid when
needed; who have held back and turned
back the wheels of progress, with a
certain prescience that the new or
der would relegate them to poverty
and extinction. Every Manchu is
borne on the rolls as Zimmerman,
and receives his stipend, even if he
never bends bow or hurls stone
in military drill. But the Manchu
bannermen are no longer the fierce
warriors their ancestors were, nor
their khan even a hardy huntsman
like the early Manchu emperors.
There had been three cities there be-
fore Kublai Khan did his stately
pleasure-dome Decree" and
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round
to make the splendid capital Marco
Polo first described. The plan, the
palaces, the walls, all date from Mon
gol times, the thirteenth century. The
same quaint military customs of the
middle ages are observed. The SOL
diers are drilled in archery and quoits,
and the nine city gates are changed to
at sunset, shutting Chinese subjects
out in separate city by themselves,
as if their conquest were just accom-
plished.-Eliza II. Scidmore, in Cen
tury,
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IVORY IN COLD STORAGE.
Natures Stores of Tusl<s of the Nam.
moth Replenish the Worlds
Supply.

A new development in the ivory trade
is reported. With the opening up of
central Africa the elephant will have
to go, and with it the African ivory
supply. It seems strange subversion
of popular association of ideas in con-
nection with the ivory market that the
supply of the near future will be de-
rived, as travellers now maintain, not
from tropical lands, but from the
frozen regions of the far north. It is
stated that the amount of ivory that is
hidden in the ice fields of the polar re-
gions defes estimate. The rapid de-
crease in the herds of elephants in
Africa has turned the search of mer-
chants into other directions, and the
industry is concentrating itself on spe-
cial explorations for the finding of the
remains of mammoths. Reports are
constantly coming in of finds of frozen
carcasses of these huge beasts, valuable
for the mass of ivory in their tusks, in
the tundras of the north, mainly in ST.
IBERIA. How the giant animals were able
- exist in the climate that has per-
seTved their remains by freezing, or
koW they Glanced to be overwhelmed,
~ problems not yet solved by science.
Mammoth ivory, however, is not by any
eans modern discovery. 1t was
loWn to the ancients, and for cen
- e has been used as an article of
1nkfce and manufacture. Eighty
- go the record of one years sales
Z N.Y. II the Yakutsk market exceed
~ pounds, and the annual sales
eixy from 1925 to 1881 averaged
sounds. In 1910 it was esti-
~ he annual output of ST.
11y reached 10000 pounds,
et least 100 individual
~ = 1875 it was estimat-
= Ioedenskjold that the
6rGY mA1leets had been en-
Innfns Of fully 10000
~ since the Goa
80 Z. Nesald.
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FARM POULTRY HOUSE.
with Scratching Pen, Large
Enough for Fifty Hens.

A subscriber at Sidney, O., asks for
plan for house.that will accommodate
50 hens, with scratching pen at
tached. He says it must be cheap as
we'll as convenient. I present the plan
Of a house that think will be suitable.
The scratching pen is under the same
roof and is separated by only wire or
lath partition, shown at a. In this pen
all feeding should be done. The size of
the house is 16x2O feet and nine feet at
the highest point of the roof. The front
slope of the roof should be six feet long
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A Fair Average Hatch,

No doubt some desire to know what a
"fair hatch" is, and in answer to in
quiries in regard to what may be ex-
pected we will say that seven chicks
from 10 eggs is considered fair hatch
No breeder can guarantee his eggs to
hatch, as that is beyond his knowledge.
The best he can do is to send eggs from
strong, vigorous birds. Much of the
difficulty is with the buyers, who sup
pose because hen sits well the eggs
must hatch, when in fact some hens do
not create sufficient heat from their
bodies for that purpose.-Farmers' Re-
view.
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The Gain of n Chick.

The question of how much will chick
gain is an interesting one, says Poultry
West. The following is about correct:
The eggs weigh two ounces; the newly
Matched chick weighs ~ ounces; al
one week old, two ounces; three weeks
old, 6A ounces; four weeks old, ter
ounces; five weeks old, II ounces; six
weeks old, 1919 ounces: seven weeks
old, 1914 ounces; nine weeks old, 81
ounces; ten weeks old, Sc ounces; II
weeks old, Al ounces.
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Bonedust fo- Young Stock

Trials of feeding bonedust to young
stock have been made in France. Four
ounces daily fed to calf gave an in
crease of 80 pounds in "a days beyond
the previous "a days increase on the
same ration. Thus 5h pounds ground
bone made overweight increase of 80
pounds. The bonedust is said to pro-
mote assimilation of the food, tending
to the formation of flesh.
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YARD AND STABLE SWEEPER.
a .crosspiece, as suggested. A handle is
then put in when the device is ready fol-
business, the brooms being pushed
from the user, who can thus do whole.
sale piece of work, and do it in very
clearly fashion, too.-N. Y. Tribune.