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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-04

INTERSTATE STOCKYARDS, INDIAN
APOLIS. Sept. 3.-Cattle-Receipts light;
shipments none. The customary Monday
supply was here to-day, consisting mostly
of butcher stuff. In harmony with outside
markets, which were weak and sharply
lower. weak feeling prevailed here The
closing was quiet and indications favor a
steady market for the near future. Quota
tons:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-04

as TO what the result will be. the only
matter of vital interest being as to the size
OF the majority of the Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-04
vicious Theory.
Baltimore American

Baltimore American.
To defeat a safe President because dan
gerous one can do no harm Is the most
vicious theory Of political conduct ever adj
vauced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-04

Sheep-Receipts none; shipments none.
In the absence of any fresh receipts the
general market can be quoted steady, es-
pecially on the best kinds. The demand
exceeds the supply and the outlook for this
week is fair. Quotations:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-04

Hogs-Receipts. 300; shipments. 16O. The
quality was only fair, being made up
wholly of light and mixed grades, with
an absence of strictly old corn-fed hogs.
On account of reports of heavy receipts
and decline in prices in the leading mar
kets this market opened rather quiet at
a shade lower, with most sales at $5.35 for
mixed grades, while select lights, 40 to
40 lbs average, brought $40. Trade was
very quiet and closed steady at the de-
cline, with all sold. Quotations:
Good to choice lights and pigs. IS 371kG5. 421k
Fair to good lights. ..........-.. 535 $50
Good to choice and medium
heavy ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5321zd5.S5
Mixed and heavy packing. $50 ass
Roughs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. AS @4.90
Sheep-Receipts none; shipments none.
In the absence of any fresh receipts the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-04

Sheep-Receipts, $50; shipments. fair.
Prices were about steady with Saturday,
or possibly shade lower. There is a con-
tinued demand for choice lambs. with none
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
FURNITURE OF A BUNCO MAN.
Had a Cork Safe that was a Wonderful
Piece of Work.

did you ever hear Of cork safeT'
latest thing i'm chilled steel and burg.
lar-bafiiing time locks.
"As far as l am aware" he con
tinued, when everybody had chorused
n negative, ''only one of them was ever
built. 1t was made by an ingenious
Dutch mechanic for Il one-time famous
confidence man named DR.. Braggs,
who operated in Denver, Salt Lake and
Frisco. The safe was a folding af-
fair, made of paper on n backing of
sheet cork, and when it was opened up
it was six feet high and looked eX-
actly like the real thing. AS it was
always placed in a corner, 1t had only
two sides, but every visible detail was
complete-combinati knob, hinges,
lettering, bolt-heads and all. When
folded it could be carried in an ordi-
nary dress-suit case Baggs used the
thing in n fake lottery office, which
was of itself marvel of trick furnish
ing.
when the victim entered the place it
looked like an ordinary business es-
adjustment, with desks, railing, maps
on the walls, safe in the corner, and
several clerks ut work on the books.
The instant he left, roll-top desk was
opened up into bed. The railing was
folded together and slipped into a clos
ct, a table was transformed into n
washstand, a cabinet turned into bu-
reau, the safe was put away in its
case, the curtains were pulled down,
and the room was to all appearances a
simple sleeping apartment. BY that
means the poor dupe was never able to
find the place where he had been bun
coed. saw Baggss Odd cork safe
when 1 was last in San Francisco. 1t
is now owned by cigar dealer, who
bought 1t as curio and, while it Is
pretty badly battered, one can still see
plainly that it was a wonderful piece
of mechanical work. Orleans
Times Democrat.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
Invention of the Sled.

DR.. Karutz, an original scholar of
Lubbock, has just completed some val
liable Investigations relauve to the in
vention Of sled. After long study he
comes to the conclusion that primitive
man probably arrived at the idea of
the sled from seeing trees slip and
slide down the mountains.
In MADEIRA, for instance, where there
Is never any snow, sleds drawn by
oxen are used just as they are in the
Philippines. 1t Is development from
the idea of man dragging burden
along the ground, when it was too
heavy for him to lift up and carry it.
He ut first hitched his dog to the deer
that he had just killed, and both
dragged it toward the cave or hut in
which they lived. When he saw the
logs slide down the mountain side the
idea of using smooth logs that would
slide over the ground easily when
drawn by himself or one of his ami
mails was the next step in the develop
ment of the sled.
Primitive peoples like the Malays of
the Philippines and the unprogressive
peasants of MADEIRA still use the sleds
invented by their ancestors thousands
of years ago.-Washington Post.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
The Greedy Sea Chill.

In the wire-fronted coops of down
town market there is quite menagerie,
comprising a beautiful pair Of gray
fox squirrels, blue jays, pheasants,
rabbits, young fox and pair of big,
dingy colored sea gulls. Most people
have seen the gulls, which frequent
the harbor here at this season, and
make themselves mt home on bridge
draws and the roofs of the houses or
steamers, chase and fight each other
for possession of scraps thrown over
from steamboats,, but IL any one wants
to see what vicious, determined Great.
ures these birds are, let him throw q
smelt into the cage where this pair of
gulls Is kept. They seize the fish like
n flash and hold on like pair of bull.
dogs, each striving to wrest 1t from
the other, while both express by ac-
tions that they will die before they let
go. Throw in another smelt, and be.
fore one can say Jack Robinson both
fish have been swallowed, and each of
the gulls has turned and is ready to
snatch the fish from the other, IL the
latter has been slow in getting ii out
of sight.-Portland Oregonian.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
LARGEST Theatre in America.

The Degollada Theatre, the front of
which was damaged by the recent
earthquake in Guadalajara, is proba.
bly, the most costly and certainly the
most modern of the city's great build.
ings. and 1t Is accorded the distinction
Of being the largest exclusively the
atrical structure on the continent. Its
cornerstone was laid i'm 1856 and, al.
though mt the present day 1t is not en-
tirel.r completed, some $3,00O,OOO have
been expended in its construction. II
Is fom stories in height and covers an
area of ,1,127 square feet. The inter.
Tor plan Is modelled after the great
Partisan play houses, the boxes being
arranged In tiers about three sides of
the auditorium, while the fourth Is en-.
tirely taken up by the stage, which has
a length Of 1856 feet by IS in depth.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
Clan Allegiance in America,

In some parts of the United States,
notably the central counties of Perm
sylvania, where the Scots and Scotch
Irish settlers dominated, the tide of
clan allegiance has been wont to run
pretty strong. Young women belong
ing to the Cameron, Stewart, Mac
pherson families and others of equally
obvious origin, used proudly to wear
their own tartans made up into con
yentional frocks. Sometimes the set.
as the pattern of the plaid is called.
was rather extensive and gorgeous. hut
so much the more credit tn the dam
sells loyalty. She was willing to sick
the matter Of the merely becoming in
fealty to her hereditary traditions.
When these people made their first trip
abroad, a journey to Scotland was n
pious duty. There they invariably re-
newed acquaintance with their family
tree and they always brought back a
stock OF tartans which might last
them until the next visit. 1t was not
at all uncommon to have their beloved
tartan woven in silk which they order
ed by the piece and relics of which are
still boarded as family treasures. Down
comfortables covered with this silken
tartan We're not Mt all unusual. 1t was
In response to a similar instinct that
Charles III. wore knots of ribbons
.plaided In the Stewart tartan on his
wedding day.-New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
Public Honesty in New York City,

The feature of New York life that
appeals most forcibly to a stranger is
said TO be the honesty of the general
public in little things. such as paying
car fares and bills ut restaurants. In
no other city perhaps Is the public
trusted so far by restaurants. There
are big places downtown where the
crush of patrons at the noon hour is
so great that it would be physical
impossibility to wait on the diners and
keep tab on what they eat. There
fore the restaurant man makes NO at
tempt TO do so. He sets the food out
where the patrons can help themselves.
Tags over each article tell what the
customer Is expected to pay and he
eats, and pays what he pleases. His
statement of bill is never questioned.
The proprietor knows at the end Of
each day whether he has been cheated
any. Occasionally there is trifling
loss but it Is not enough to pay the
wages of n clerk. Now and then
boy is caught in the act of gorging him
self with pie and pudding at the rate
of ten cents day, but persistent Of
tenders are watched until there is NO
possible doubt as to their guilt and
then they are openly reprimanded in
the hearing of hundreds, and the Of
Tense is not repeated.-New York Mail
and Express.
Germany's army is to have, shortly,
Il number of automobiles that are to be
used not only for the transportation of
the baggage, provisions and ammuni-
ton, but also for the rapid transporta-
ton Of detachments of soldiers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
TWO THOUSAND MILES BY WAGON.
A Family Trip that Cured q Kansas Man
Of Serious Lung Disease.

Il. Il. Farnsworth Is living example
of what a man In the last stage of con-
sumption can do to save his own life,
and mt the same time he Is walking
advertisement Of the beneficial effects
of the rare air of the western plateaus.
He Is now In FL Paso with his family,
after having come 2,114 miles across
the country I'm wagon. With his wife
and his father he is living for n few
days in the wagon they nave fitted up,
on Oregon street, Just north OF the
Southern Pacific track.
I'VE left Winfield. KAN said Mr..
FarnswOrth, ION the 10Th day of last
March, when | was so weak that
could not throw the harness on the
horses. We came on to the West, in
our wagon, living in 1t, sleeping in II
ut night, and travelling during the day.
When we came to an agreeable place
we would stop for n few days, and
then we would resume the journey with
the horses refreshed. Most of the sum-
mer was spent in the mountains, hunt
ing and fishing, and from there we
went to Utah and came down through
Central New Mexico to El Paso. We have
the same horses with which we started,
and our wagon is in good shape. We
have had many experiences, but moth
ing has resulted seriously for us, and
the net result is that we are here in
good shape. and l have practically re-
gained my health
The wagon i'm which the trip was
made is a marvel of ingenious arrange
ment. 1t is the size of an ordinary
ranged SO that it can be thrown back
on hinges. disclosing a well arranged
clothes chest The remainder of the
wagon body is enclosed in a frame
about six feet high, projecting over the
sides and covered with painted canvas.
By various ingenious arrangements the
interior is so fitted up as to hold the
beds for the party, tables and chairs
and Il sheet-metal stove. The bed can
be folded back against the wall; the
stove can hardly be noticed because of
the way it is fixed in the side of tho
NdSOI, tHc W utn hOt III tHt'
can be folded down along the side.
Lockers under and on the side of the
wagon provide places for storing food,
tools, ropes and the like. The average
time made on the trip has been TWEEN
ty-five miles day of travel.
From here the party will go up the
Tuarosa, and then across to Roswell
in the Pecos Valley, returning to their
home in Kansas after having consumed
about year on the trip.
The method is certainly a sensible
and, as it has proved, an effective one
for regaining health, and Mr.. Farms
worth returns to his home practically
well, whereas there would probably be
lot of people walking slowly behind
him If he had remained in Kansas dur
ing the winter.
The party have gathered numerous
ore specimens and have sent many
pounds of them home. One fine speci-
men Of copper ore was found near Las
Cruces, and this they still have with
them. The total cost of the trip SO far
for the three has been only about
81 ,000.-El Paso (Tex.) Herald.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
A Remarkable Centenarian.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wilmot, Of Kirkby,
Laythorpe, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, cele-
brated her Tooth birthday on Monday.
She has living two children, ten grand
children and thirteen great-grandchil-
dren, and four generations dwell under
one roof. During the winter of 1893
Mrs. Wilmot had congestion Of the
lungs. and was not expected to recov-
err. She has almost the sprightliness
of q girl; she rises at O, retires at 10,
knits, sews, reads, and does household
work, including carrying buckets. Her
complexion is rosy and unwrinkled,
and she looks ready for another CEN
fury of wear and tear.-London Chron-
icle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

PhIIIpplse Llas Passes Iate Our Posses
sles--y Miles Of New Road.

Fred Steward, OF Butler, Ind, Is now
In charge OF train on the Manila 4
Dagupan Railway. This railroad IL
owned by the United States Govern
ment and Is the first one to pass under
government control. The line was Sc
cured along with the Philippines, and
the United States not only il the abso
lutte owner, but is building branch lines
in order to improve the usefulness OF
well as opening one of the most fertile
and thickly populated valleys of the
islands. The main line of the road ex
tending from Manila to Dagupan Is 135
miles and traverses a country OF vast
agricultural resources, giving two
coast outlets for the products of the in.
terror.
The average elevation OF the line Is
four feet above the general level Of the
country. 1t is ballasted with gravel
and has a road bed affording strong re-
sistance to the heaviest rainfall of that
tropical country. The line has. sixty
bridges with upright steel tubes filled
with concrete acting as supports. while
the bridges are of iron and steel. The
locomotives were built In England, and
being of less than ten ton capacity, are
source of wonder to the American
soldiers who are now operating the
line. The coaches are divided into
three compartments, each capable of
holding eight persons. and cane chairs
are provided for the passengers who
travel first class, while other classes,
and thcy are several, must put up with
stiff wooden benches. The freight cars
are nearly all known as goods care
and are very small and dumpy, such as
are used in this country as gravel cars,
although only about one-half in length.
The goods cars are loaded by ma
tives, who receive 80 cents, Mexican,
per day, and they invariably suspend
operations at 4 o'clock p. m, regardless
of perishable freight or other demands
of the patrons of the road for better
service. The passenger trains are
operated by n higher class of employees
and better accommodations are given.
The forces of AgulnaldO have In
many places torn up the road, destroy
ed the bridges by dynamite, and moved
the rolling stock toward the northern
terminus of the road. They wrought
such havoc i'm the line that the United
States government was forced to ship
additional equipment for repairs, and
upon the suggestion of the corps of
engineers sufficient material was
shipped in transport from San Fran
cisco late in 1899 for the construction
Of branch line twenty-five miles in
length. This part of the line is nearly
completed and affords General Otis
army n means of crossing the swamps
leading to the east.
The line has never been able to sup
ply the demands upon it, and has
proven a profitable investment, regard
less of the Spanish guaranty of 8 per
cent on the capital invested. The line
was to have passed to the Spanish
government in ninety-nine years in
payment Of the rightofway, and that
part of the contract comes to Uncle
Sam, together with a railroad that was
so completely demoraliZed that we
were compelled to practically rebuild
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

knows nothing Of artillery or cavalry,
and vice versa. That could be RENE
died by instituting war college-not
a temporary affair, but a great school
In which high officers would be COM
PEELED to learn about all branches.
This, and the establishment of gen
eral stan. both of which are advocated
by Secretary Root, would do much to
place the army on its proper footing"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
Hard IN Beat This Record.

Ann Mason has worked for Mrs. NJ.
L. Holland for twenty-one years. She
cooked the first meal DR.. Holland and
his bride ate when they went to house.
keeping. and has cooked every one
since. Mrs. Holland insists that her
servant-girl story beats the record
Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

The cost of educating pupil in the
public schools of Chicago in 1877
amounted to $9.41. 1t has been
steadily increasing each year until
the record of 1898 showed cost per
pupil of 1884.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

By Alice Katherine Fallows.

"Athwart the silence of our dreams,
Their memories fall like iitful dreams
From some dim pickering star
That hangs afar.
And then the presents glare and fret,
Shut swiftly In between. but yet
Hid In its transient skies,
The tireless eyes
OF endless years look, nor forget"
-Ainslee's. Magazine.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

What must be the reflections of DR..
jameson when he thinks that he once
tried to conquer the Beers with 800
men
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

At the recent meeting of the Mich
igan association in Washington just
ice Brown expressed the hope that he
might live long enough to have the
privilege of writing opinions in APP
peals sent up to the Unit ed States
Supreme court from the federal courts
of Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil
ippine islands.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

The Boston Journal puts it in this
way: Congressman. eject Roberts
will return to his families.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

The Earl of Rosebery has been initi-
ated as an honorary member of the
Ancient Order OF Forcsters.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

The Gear has revoked the law which
since 1866 has forbidden Poles to ac-
quire real estate except by inheritance.
They will still be restricted, however,
both in Polcud and Western Russia,
to sixty-fve acres for one family.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

America sells nearly three times as
much as she buys; Germany buys over
$3.50, 600, 900 worth more every year
than she sells, while Great Britain
last year actually bought twice as
much as she sold.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New York City is at last fully alive
TO the dangers which menace its CON-
mercial supremacy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

Horrid men have long been prone
to pass disparaging remarks on an
alleged prevalence of cold feet among
the gentler sex. Now Prof. Hutchin-
son, of the Royal Society, has been
prodding under the surface of this
matter, and he finds that If this allie
CATION of terminal GOODNESS be true it
can have a scientific explanation in
the fact that women are large con-
sumers of tea. Tea drinking he finds
tends to contract the arteries and to
reduce the circulation to the extrem-
tiles; aud practical tests convinced
him that to the same cause is often
due the clammy sweetness of the feet
suffered by many people.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

The man who sings his own praise
Is always q soloist.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

The action of Germany and France
some years ago in exclusion of our
hog products led to the exclusion of
articles by other European countries
which had no strong economic reason
for excluding them, but which We're
honestly alarmed at the representa-
tons of French and German official
scientists regarding diseases OF our
cattle and microbes in our fruit. I'M
mediately after Germany excluded
our fruit on the ground of the San
Jose scale Switzerland followed her
example. The declaration recently
of German scientists that no danger
whatever is to be apprehended from
this source has led Switzer and to re-
lax her exclusion and our fresh and
dried fruits are to be admitted, sub
ject, of course, to inspection. But
he inspection will be for the purpose
of ascertaining if there is really any
danger and not for the purpose of in
directly excluding our products.
Americans have been extremely
patient under charges of the unwhole-
someness of their food products which
had really no foundation beyond the
desire of interests parties to escape
their competition.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

Cairo, Egypt, has n citizen who !.
said to weigh $40 pc-cds.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

1t will necessarily take great
many years to demonstrate to the lay
mind whether the rejection of the
Holland submarine torpedo boat was
great economy or great oversight.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

Japanese experiments have con-
vinced the authorities there that the
rat is an active spreader of the plague
and the main factor in the dissemina-
ton If its germs in Oriental cities
A crusade against the animal is there
fore decreed, and the health depart
ments of Kobe, Osaki, Yokohama and
other Japanese cities, as well as Hong
Kong and Shanghai, are distributing
thousands of traps among the people,
with orders to kill and burn all the
rats they can catch. The animal may
be one agent in the dissemination of
the. pestilence, but its progress, his
torical and current, sh ws that there
are others, requiring other correctives
than rat-traps, useful as these may in
some cases be found to be.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

For some reason which is not easily
assigned, the condition of convict-
fails to interest the benevolent so
much as it ought. All sorts and con-
ditions of men are carefully looked
after by charitable societies and in
divid1als, but it is almost impossible
to bring any effective influence to
bear on prison reform.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01

The simplest way to get warm after
exposure to cold, says writer in a
health journal, is to take a long
breath with the mouth firmly shut.
Repeat this several times until you
begin to feel the heat returning. 1t
requires very short time to do this.
The long breath quickens the pulse,
and thus causes the blood to circulate
faster. The blood flows into all parts
of the veins and arteries and gives
out Q great deal of heat. It is stated
that this method of deep breathing
prevents colds and great many 9th sr
ailments if begun in time.