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nan is sur' u n rri2o. those max .ng tho highest
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lhrr' vi. DE the claun pions' match for two
mcIHS a i,yolv r match and a competition for
honorary members.
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SILVER WARE.

Quadrupie-plsted t-pieoe Tea Set. consist
ing Of teapot. sugar bowl. Roli-l ned spoon
holder and cream pitcher. Furnished I'm
ish. futed design. regular value. 50 as.
special ..... 50 as
Cuadruple-plated A. ID Coffee Set, Colof ial
styles. coffee pot. goldlin"d sugar bowl
and reamer. set complete with ray reEu-
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Quldruple-plate Nut or B,rry Bowl. bur-
dished finish. g ld-lined nuted design.
be ded edge. regular price. las: sre
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NOTICES OF real. ESTATE AUCTION
SALES

10 occur are printed a day in advance IN THE
SIN ms wi meet ne Of your requirements
II Iou are Interested in A.eal Estate.-Adp.
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Special for Monday Only.

Quadrurle-rllted Ronbcn Baskets. pierced
silver. highly Furnished. regular value 81 IS:
special At. ~ .Os
Quairuple-p plated Napkin Rings. beautifully
engraved. regular valua. Asc.: special. 2sc
QIadruple-plat Children's Mugs. burnished
finish. gold lined. floral border. regular vulue.
75c.: special. ..... ....... ........ $50
Quadrup!e-plate Hair Receivers. Furnished
finish. beaded edge. regular value. $50
special. ............. ...... 90. ESQ
Rich Cut Glas. Salt and Pepper Shakers. extra
heavy repou,ss tops. regular value. si.Oo;
special 10. each
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
OUR POSiTIONIN CHINA.
Our Claim to Equal Facilities will
Other Nations Is Assured.

Our Claim to Equal Facilities with
Other Nations Is Assured.
The diplomatic history of the United
States affords no better example of
successful endeavor to secure by mutu-
al consent an evident right than that
offered by the recent correspondence
carried on under the Presidents direc-
ton for maintaining the open door"
of trade in China. The establishment
of spheres Of influence in that ancient
Empire by European States, supported
by the control of important seaports,
has seemed to many to forebode the
practical partition of that country
among foreign powers and the effect
i've appropriation of commercial privi-
ieges in China TO the exclusion Of all
not able or willing to claim portion
for themselves. BY timely series Of
diplomatic notes Secretary Hay has OBJ
,ained assurances from the Govern
menLs of Germany, Great Britain. Italy,
Japan and Russia, by which they
pledge themselves not to interfere with
the perfect freedom of trade in those
portions of China where their influence
may prevail. The unobstructed en-
joyment of the privileges of trade is
thus secured to American manufactur-
ers and merchants by the free consent
of the powers.
Perhaps the most important fruit Of
this unprecedented negotiation may
prove to be that all the powers. feel
ing the assurance of unrestricted COM
merce, may be disposed to accentuate
to less degree, or even abandon, that
policy of commercial annexation which
has apparently been promoted by the
absence of such just and reasonable
understanding. The American claim
to unrestricted facilities of trade in
China is not a special favor asked and
granted. or demanding reciprocity. II
is based on treaty rights which prom
Use equal rights to Americans with the
citizens or subj ects of the most IA
vored nations. The recognition of these
rights has been obtained at mo-
ment when they were apparently abou;
to be ignored,
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
TRADE OF OUR ISLANDS.
Increased with the United states Last
Year to Old Records.


Exports from the United States to
Cuba. Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian,
Philippine, and Samoan islands,
amounted, in round numbers to $45,-
100000 in the fiscal year 1900, and
were more than three times as much as
in 1896 and more than twice as much
as in any year Of our commerce with
those islands except in the years 1892,
1893, and 1894, when reciprocity great
ly increased our exports to Cuba and
Porto Rico. To Cuba the total for the
fiscal year was, in round figures, $685.
100000 against 81 $4,000 in 1896, and
$24 ,157 900 in the great reciprocity
year 1898. To Porto Rico the exports
OF the year were, in round terms, ST.
100000. against an average of $2,750,-
600 in the reciprocity years of 1892,
1898. and 1894. To the Hawaiian Is
lands the total for the year was about
$15,000,0O0, or five times as much as
in 1898, nearly four times as much as
in 1896, and more than double the to-
tai for 1898. To the Philippines the
total for 1900 was about $2,500,000, or
more than in the entire fifteen years
since 1885, the date at which the first
record of our exports to the Philip
pines was made by the Treasury Blu
reau Of Statistics. To the Samoan Is
lands the exports of the year were
about $125000 or nearly as much as
in all the years since 1896, at which
date the official records Of our exports
to those islands began.
The total imports into the United
States from Cuba for the full year
show a total of $31 900 000 against $15,-
100000 in 1898 and S18,500,000 in 1897
though they still are less than one
years 1892, 1893 and 1894, when our
imports from that island averaged
over SIS 100000 per annum. From Por-
to Rico the imports of the year are
but $3.50, 900, which is less than the
total for any preceding year since
1880, and is due to the destruction by
last years tornado of the crops which
supply Porto Rico's chief articles of ex-
port. From the Hawaiian Islands the
imports for the full fiscal year are ST.
100000, or double the average annual
importation for the period prior to
1896, and twenty per cent higher than
in any preceding year. From the
Philippines, despite the war conditions
which reduce producing and exporting
power, the imports are larger than in
any year since 1894.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
ACRICULTURISTS.
Some Tp-to-INGto Hints About Gull
tivation Of tho Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures vItiouIturs and
Eloriculture.
Tile Drainag =.

CONDENSED from Farmers Review STEM
| ographic Report of Wisconsin Roundup
| Institute.)
N. z. Becker spoke on tile drainage
In part he said:
The changes in the soil caused by
draining are manifold Plants are not
so easily killed by severe frosts in
winter, because the ground is left more
dry and porous. 1t allows cultivation
earlier in the spring, and all through
the year after heavy rains. 1t causes
the soil to sooner obtain certain
warmth in such "A degree that on simi
lar kinds Of soil location from two
to three hundred miles southwark
would not be better. 1t keeps the soil
more porous and mellow, because It
will never be fully saturated with
water, which would cause it to bake
like brick If very dry weather fol-
lows heavy rains.
1t gives more effect to manure and
therefore insures better crops, and a
greater variety of plants and cereals
may be raised on so drained lands
On my own farm the first drain was
laid in 1887, and many more since that
time. The first ones were laid, Of
course, where we thought they would
be most beneficial. Every year ever
since they have proved to be SO
Where in wet seasons nothing would
grow but weeds, the very best crops
have been raised ever since.
On mos; every farm there are de-
pressions and little wales, where in the
first days of seeding time in the spring
the ground is too wet; after they are
drained they are much drier in the
spring than those parts that lie muca
higher. Marshland, with a layer OF
peat to a depth of three feet or more
should not be drained. If the water
is tapped off from such ground, hard
ly anything but weeds and a poor
crop of grass will grow. Keep all the
water in such land-but the surface
should not be covered by water-for
big crop of even poor marsh hay is
more valuable than a small crop of
hay of still poorer quality.
Land with a subsoil OK gravel re.
quires no draining, but L bave seen
sandy land drained to good advantage
In clay soil, black muck and such,
draining proves most beneficial. In
the eastern part of the county live
in (OZaukee) the subsoil is red clay,
which is almost impervoius to water.
1t finds no way out and therefore the
ground at times is fully saturated with
water, and on such soil draining
proves to be of great Importance ana
value.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
BUFFALO-GRAsg

dry regions. The plants form a soft
sod, covered by two or three inches
Of soft, cushion-like foliage The plant
spreads by runners or PROSTATE stems.
which creep along the ground, roofing
at intervals. The seeds are produced
In little hard clusters near the ground
among the leaves. The plant grows
readily from the seed. 1t cures natur-
ally and furnishes sustenance for stock
upon the range. There is no doubt
that at an earlier period buffalo grass
extended much farther east than at
present. When the prairies were
tramped by countless herds of buffalo.
all the grasses except this and grama-
grass were prevented from establish
ing themselves upon the uplands.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
1mrrorlnr stamina of Hogs.

Prof. Shaw: Why should II be
looked upon as an impossible thing to
secure stamina the best and breeding
and feeding qualities the best? There
is no inherent antagonism between
these. 1t Is when either is carried to
an extreme that the other differs.
Even in the corn belt Berkshires can
be given the highest order of stamina.
Gymnasiums have been established
throughout our country to improve
the stamina or our people. 1t is i'm
proving and it will further improve.
And when the breeders of Berkshires
establish gymnasiums for their favor
ties on every farm where Berkshires
are bred, the stamina of Berkshires
will gradually rise, and faster than the
ground beneath the mangrove forests
by the sea. The materials to be used
in building these gymnasiums will in
clude large pastures, heterogeneous and
succulent foods, well ventilated styes.
and the eternal rejection of ali
but the strongest to be used in breed
ing. The future of the Berkshire
therefore is entirely in the hands OF
Berkshire breeders. A limitless domain
lies before them. It rests with them
TO say to what extent IL shall be &C.
cupied.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
Less failures Than Ever.

"Fewest Failrues for Eighteen
Years" is the headline on Bradstreet's
record for the first half of this year.
That non-partisan business journal
says:
"The number of failures reported for
the first six months of the calendar
year 1900 is the smallest noted for
eighteen years past Compared with a
year ago, the falling off in number is
3 8 per cent, while compared with 1898
the decrease is % per cent, and even
larger decreases are noted when com
parsons are made with the first half
of the years 1897 and 1896. This year,
in fact for the first time in eighteen
years, the six months failures have
fallen below 5000 in number.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

900 lbs of prunes. Careful men who
are engaged in the fruit business esti-
mate that the state will produce this
year 125,000.000 lbs. There are 7.00G.-
900 lbs. of prunes still on hand of last
years crop. The Cured Fruit Asso-
citation is endeavoring to get control
of so per cent of the acreage. The
officers believe If this is obtained the
whole surplus can be marketed at not
less than 3 cents a pound. 1t is
thought that the surplus can be placed
in foreign markets at small differen-.
tails. At the headquarters of the as
ISOLATION it was stated that some acre
age was coming in, but the association.
was still much short of the necessary
percentage.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

Scientific research has just destroyed
an interesting piece of ancient history
For centuries Pharsala, in Southern
Thessaly, has been regarded as the
scene of the famous defeat of Pompey,
which gave the dominion of the world
into the hands of Caesar. According,
"Joursal d'Athenes," Capt. Dousmais,
of the Greek Engineers, after an ex-
haustive study OF the ancient battle
fields of Thessaly, afIirms that beyond
question the battle between Pompey
and Caesar was not fought at Phar-
sala, but near the modern Karditza,
which is about so miles to the north
west.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

A Chicago physician has invented
for himself a house which he claims
to be absolutely noise-proof, that is
protected thoroughly against the in
trusion of street dins, which persist in
spite of the existence of an anti-noise
ordinance. He has stuffed all the
cracks about the doors a31 windows
with strips Of rubber, and in order to
admit the air has perforated these
with zigzag holes. The sound waves
are said to die out by repeated refec-
tions in the crooked passages.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

Sig. Constantine Macs, the Italian
srchaeologist, says that 5000 bronze
tables, constituting the records OF
Rome from its foundation to the time
Of Vespasian, are buried in the marsh
at Ostia, near Rome, having been car
Ifed to Ostia after being rescued from
the fire which devoured the capital in
the year 60 OF the Christian era. Sig.
Macs suggests that the marsh should
be completely drained in order to re-
cover this historic treasure.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

the south on the leaves of Indian corn,
sassafras, black locust, false indigo,
wild blackberry. 1t also feeds on
leaves of the willow, currant, cotton,
clover, elm, hopvine, balsam poplar
balm of Gilead, dogwood and choke
cherry. The eggs are top-shaped, at
tached by the smaller end, in patches
of about 30, on the underside of leaves
The caterpillars in the western states
begin to hatch about the end of June
getting their growth in two months,
after moulting five times. The spines
are poisonous to the fingers, and the
caterpillar cannot be handled without
causing some pain and irritation. A
government report describes this cat
erpillar as sometimes feeding late in
summer on the maple, large green
ish, thick caterpillar with fascicles OF
irritant, radiating, sharp spines over
the body spinning a thin silken CO.
coon among the leaves. and transform
ing the following May or June into a
large, stout-bodied mo,h the males are
yellow with very large eye-like spot
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
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Exports to Porto Rico in May have
more than doubled as compared with
the preceding May. and imports from
the island are nearly doubled. Elk
ports to the island from the United
States in May, 1899, were $S05,564. and
in May. 1900, were $696,479. The i'm
ports into the United States from the
island in May, 1899. were s647.179 and
in May, 1900, s1,1OS,S67. The May COM
merce with Porto Rico SHOWS a much
greater increase than is the case with
any OF the other islands. With Cuba
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

-Four hundred elk teeth were sold
in Spokane, Wash, the other day for
$1,000. The demands of the members
of the Order of Elks and the growing
scarcity have increased the value of
the teeth. Fourteen years ago Mon
tana man paid only $50 for an Indian
headdress than contained 500 elk
teeth. Last year similar head-dress
containing only $50 teeth sold for
5000.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

Overhead trolley system not only
damages underground pipes, but it
also Injuries trees. Wherever a cable
touches a branch it rapidly decays and
the tree eventually dies. Serious COM
plants of this nature are made at Bay
Ridge, N. Y.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

Coils p. Huntington, now that he
has bought out his associates in the
Southern Pacific railroad, is sole own
er OF a system embracing ferries,
terminals, river and ocean steamboat
lines and 1900 miles of railroad, rep
resenting $3.50 100000 of securities and
annual earnings gross Of $60,0O0,000.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

tie commerce of May differed little
from that of May. 1899, and this was
also the case with the Hawaiian is
lands; while in the Philippine islands
the imports show no increase, though
the exports show a remarkable gain.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

The managers of Glasgow's Exhibi-
ton of next year will have big job
distributing the space without hurting
international susceptibilities. The APP
plications for floor-space are already
10000 feet beyond the accommoda-
ton.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
HnnaIO GTnaH.

A Kansas report says: This is the
common short grass of the uplands
throughout the central and western
regions Of Kansas and more or less in
many parts of eastern Kansas. The
leaves are short and curly, and the
zge has a characteristic gray color
rather common in plants adapted to
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

The production of speltsr increased
more than so per cent between 1894
and 1898. In the Galena-Joplin district
the value of the product was $1,000, 900
more in 1898 than in 1897. This was
due to President McRinley's policy of
opening the mills.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
]. A. MENzIEs, Publisher.

AT Annapolis, Nd, the women VINO
pay taxes appeared for the first time as
voters a few weeks ago. OF the 679
votes cast only twenty-five were by
women,
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

wouldn't you rather sell corn at 40
cents in Chicago than at 2Sh cents?
The former was last months price.
The latter and the lower figure was the
Democratic price In June, 1896.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
Tho 10 CatcrpIIIaP.

The insect that we here illustrate is
one of those known as Maple Cater
pillars. The insect appears to be wide
ly distributed being found feeding on
the sugar naples in the north and In
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

When prosperity and philanthropy
go hand in hand, the progress of o
country Is beyond question. Germany
is advancing In business way. Her
trade operations show increasing ca.
pacity for planning and fuller scope
in performance. But with the devel-
opment in material things is noted an
increase in gifts for the benefit of
schools, libraries, charitable institu-
tions and other objects. The provision
of corporations and private manufac-
turers in aid of employees is a further
token of a keener sense of RESPONSE
bility for the proper use of wealth.
The world abounds with articles
marked, Made in Germany Let not
the world forget the good deeds which
may be labeled-"Done in Germany"
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

The Republican majority in Oregon
was over 1000. and it was piled up
against complete fusion. What will It
be in the other States?
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

The writer of a short story in the
Century Magazine has invented two
phrases that may find a permanent
place in political slang. Party plat
forms do not always express the real
sentiments or the intentions of those
who subscribe to them. 1t is easier
TO promise than to perform the prom.
Use. This writer speaks of weasel
word" as one that sucks the meaning
out of another which is beside 1t, just
as a weasel sucks an egg. leaving only
the shell. "Weaseling," he says, is
highly expedient because one class of
voters will like the weasel. and the
other the word that has been weaseled
the egg. The other phrase is The
stained glass plank" CHANGING through
the window at one point dog looks
yellow, while at another he is green,
and not until the window is thrown
open can you actually see what the
dog is like. OF course windows are
not made of 'planks" which one can
look throughput let that pass.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
........ ...... $46,917, 1886

lOtal ...s...''s'' $3.50 |iV'"A' i-"'
Another and broader way of looking
at it than the mere study of articles
imported is to see the total commerce
which the various nations have with
their colonies, and the relation which
their colonial commerce has to that OF
other parts of the world. A recent
London letter to the Philadelphia In
quirer has the following:
The world has been very wide-awake
lately to the fact that the colonies OF
the British Empire have been of vast
service and Importance to England in
facing the surprise party which has
been substituted for the picnic to Pre-
toria" which was expected to take
place in South Africa. 1t will, now
ever. amaze a large number of the
mercantile public, even though they
be we'll posted in trade statistics, to
learn what an enormously valuable
asset in England's trade is the colo
NAL business. Without going into
detail. and assuming for the present
that the total of their interchange
may be represented by round numbers,
say 1000. the shares of the several
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
Prrnoa ln CnlifornIa.

A report from San Jose says that nc
cording to the best figures obtainable,
California produced last year Ito, 00O,-
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

French colonies show a rapid in
crease in the proportion of their i'm
portations which they take from the
governing country. An elaborate re-
port on the colonies of France. their
government, finances, and commerce,
has been published by the treasury
bureau of statistics. 1t shows that the
total value of imports into French
colonies, exclusive of Algeria and
Tunis, amounted in 1898 to $47.741, 416.
the imports from France and French
colonies alone being 22,S53,921.
The following table shows the value
of imports of French colonies during
the year 1896, by principal articles:
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
horticultural Observations.

Reports from large buyers OF fruit
are to the effect that very few fruit men
pick, pack or sort their fruit properly.
When fruit is to be shipped long dis
tances to market it is very necessary
that only the best fruit be sent. as the
cost of transporting poor fruit is as
great as the good fruit. This becomes
a leading principle when fruit is
shipped across the Canadian border
and has to pay duty. If IL is not first
class fruit the Canadian buyers do not
find profit in the transaction, and are
not likely to again seek the American
producer.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03
COLONIAL TRADE.
BRITISH COMMERCIAL RETURNS
SHOW INCREASE.

Afford n Steady Market for Products of
the Parent Country with
the United stntes-Articles That France
Supplies to Her Possessions
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

Like many other fruits, the Kieffer
pear has its fast friends and its I'M
compromising enemies. The conflicts
over it remind one of those that have
taken place over the Ben Davis apple.
But the Kieffer is very valuable pear
for several reasons. 1t is good in
quality when it is rightly handled;
that is, allowed to properly ripen. 1t
is a deceptive fruit, and looks ripe be-
fore it has attained that point in its
existence. 1t must be allowed to lie
for some time after it is picked, some
times for weeks, before its flavor Is
developed. Then it becomes a good
fruit for all purposes.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-03

The new Fruit Growers Association
of California is making an attempt to
do away with some of the obstacles
that have always been in the path OF
the fruit producers. About 70 per cent
of the fruit grown in the state is I'M
der the control of the association. All
the growing, packing and selling are
to be done in the most approved ways.
Members are not to pack or crate their
fruit. The men that do this work are
experts. If the association holds to-
gether, it will doubtless compel the
other fruit growers in the state to
pack their fruit better. as otherwise
the association would take the entire
field, at least so far as desirable mar
kets are concerned.