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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31
Totals -. Sc

Comparative receipts:
Total for today (estlmated) ............3,5 500
"a WEEK ago .......'....-..Z. 440
"A year ago ,ss-y. SS2
Quotations: Good to choice light. $50
@4-60; mixed and butchers, 81. 45@4. GO;
good to prime heavy. 81. 1904 So; common
to fair heavy, 81. 25@4. 40; rough packers,
s.. l5@4 90; bears, $1.75@2.5o pigs and
Market opened fully steady but closed
weak weak to a shade lower. Receipts were
choice. Prices paid ranged from 81 % for
common heavy to $i:6O for choice light
No rough packers weighed separate.
Representative sales:
Light, Mixed and Butchers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31
SHEEP.

Comparative Receipts:
Total foE-.today ESTIMATED. .........1 $50
"A year ago -............. go
Quotations: Good to choice butcher
lambs, $1,000. IS; fair to good, s4.4G654. 45:
good to cfoice fat wethers So 5O13 70;
fair to good, s3-2598 30; fat ewes, $3.256
$50: good to- choice fat and feeding
lambs 50. 75@4.60: fair to goods SO. 25Q3 10
feeding wethers, So 2503 70; stock and
feelings ewes, s2,S5@3;; thin sheep, s2@S;
buck LAMBS. s2-7593; killing bucks, $2Q2.50
Receipts light, but offerings. were heavy,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31

The following table shows the roads
over which Mondays receipts came in,
and the, number. ofsloads hauled by each:
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep. Mixed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31

Mich Cow Exchange-Market fairly
active, with bulk of good to choice cows
selling around $35 and $40 Common ant
mails sell a Gamer prices.
Representative sales:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-31
STOCK QUOTATIONS

Furnished by Charles H. f. Smith &
Co., members of, the New York Stock ex-
change, Pioneer Press building, who have
direct wires to Chicago and New York.
Closing prices are bid:
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
Where Rain II q Novelty.

The Chilean provinces of Atacama, Ia
rapaca and Tocna are in the rainless re-
gion, or desert country west of the An
des, and are entirely devoid Of vegeta-
ton. The winds in all of this region are
from the east and in passing over the Gle
waited perpetual SHOWS of the Andes are
stripped of their moisture and arrive on
the coast perfectly dry.
The last rain, slight shower which
fell in Antofagasta, in Atacama province,
was the first rain which had fallen in 1G
years. The last rain which fell in lqui
que, in Taracama province, was the first
in "a years. With both of these showers
a notable phenomenon occurred. The bare
hills back Of these cities assumed green
tint from 4 little plant which sprang up
almost in night.
The query is, From where did this plant
come? The whole of the coast presents a
most dismal and discouraging appearance
from the sea-, but the climate is healthy
being especially adapted to pulmonary
and throat troubles from its extreme dry
ness and freedom from germs. The heat
is modified by a local sea breeze. and the
sea bathing is most inyigorating, us the
water is cold
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
THE HOLE IN THE GROUND.
One OF Natures Wonders THAT Hay
De Seer III TcXga

One OF Natures wonder. THAT Nay
De Seer In Texas.
In the Peach creek ncighborhood is Il
place known as the Hole In the Ground,
which is the only place in Texas, as far
as known. where the wind blows up and
down, a regular gale. The hole is on the
cattle ranch belonging to Claus Baum
gartner and close to the creek between
high, wooded bluffs. Peach creek is re-
ally a bayou, its waters level with the
sea and running only during frcshets
caused by excessive rains. High south
or north winds are the only ones to ruff
fie its usually placid surface.
But it does not matter how placid the
waters of Peach creek may be, how
straight and unbcnding the trees on the
bluffs may stand OF how lazily the clouds
drift through the air, there is always a
gale at the Hole In the Ground. 1t blows
and roars and whistles and shrieks as
only a raging hurricane can do in its mad
career. The hole is costly affair to the
man who owns it. The low ground ON
which 1t is situated is the only place
where his cattle can get water at the
creek.
1t would be all right if a fence could
be maintained around the hole, but that
cannot be done. Every time the wind
veers to the east everything above ground
between the bluffs is sucked into it,
swapping the stoutest fenceposts like
pipestems and snatching coils of barbed
wire like they were tiimsy gossamers. AT
such times horses, cattle and sheep that
happen to be on the fiat are doomed.
Strong horses, caught in the eddy of the
mysterious wind, are as helpless as flies
in gale. They plunge and leap and
struggle for a minute, then they are
pressed down, whrled around q few
times and go down never to be seen
again.
The hole itself is about 300 feet across
the top, with slanting sides. No one has
ever dared to go close enough to be able
to look down into it and see what the
bottom is like. The sounds of the wind
vary from a hoarse roar to keen whis-
thing noise. The prevailing winds, except
nn east wind, do not seem to affect it in
any way, for i'll calm and storm, rain and
shine, night and day, winter and summer,
1t puffs and sucks and whirls and eddies
to suit itself.
Twice in the memory Of man Peach
creek has overhowcd its banks high
enough to run into the hole. The water
then rose to a depth of four feet on the
fiat where the hole is situated. For a
minute or so the water would pour down
with q gurgling noise, then the earth
around seemed to hump itself for a mo-
nent, and the next there would be an ex-
plosivc sound, when it would come up
again in solid column 100 feet high.
When this column broke, the waves rush
ed against the adjacent bluffs and were
whipped into foam. This was repeated
every minute or two until the water in
the creek went back again within its
banks. After the water had rcccded and
the hole had resumed its usual labor of
sucking and putting wind once more, the
ground around was literally covered with
the bones of dead animals ON which it
had gorgcd itself for many years before.
st. Louis Embellishments.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
THE FORCE OF HABIT.
Showing How Completely One Habit
May Supplant Another.

"Habit is a curious thing" said Mr..
Jogglcton, "but the completeness with
which one habit can be supplanted by
another seems more curious still.
Il had a chair that l had used for
years and which, as l was firmly con-
WINGED, was by long odds the most COM
Portable chair ever made. After break
fast, when l read the paper, l used to sit
in that chair, and after dinner ut night l
settled down into it. with n cigar, in
peace and happiness and Thought there
never was chair that combined so many
good points as to height and pitch Of seat
and slope of back and all that. l had
never seen chair that suited me SO well.
but one day this chair was tipped
over or something or other happened to
it, | don't know what, but something 80
serious that it was put out of commission.
With our usual conservative slownesS we
put off from day to day and from week to
week getting that chair repaired, and, us
a matter Of fact, it was two or three
years before we had it fixed up and
brought into use again. Meanwhile had
singled out another chair which l came
commonly to occupy. This didn't begin
to be Mt first so comfortable as the old
one had been, but gradually its objection
able points disappeared, and I'm blessed
if it didn't begin to develop good points
that | had never suspected in it, and |
came Mt last to look upon it as very
comfortable sort Of chair indeed. But at
last the old chair-the good old chair
was fixed up again and brought back into
use, and the day it appeared looked for
ward to settling down in it at night with
all the old time comfort.
"But when, with all those pleasant an
ticipations, l came to sit in it again did
not find the pleasure that had expected.
1t was too high or too low or the seat
sloped too much or something. l don't
know what. 1t wasn't as it used to be
to me. tried it once or twice more after
that and then gave it up and went back
to the new chair. My new habit had be-
come firmly fixed. / liked the new chair
better, and now as settled down in it its
good points were at once emphasized and
softencd and rounded into completeness,
and accepted 1t In full as the chair Of
satisfying comfort and wondered as ]
looked across at the other what / ever
could have seen in it to make me like it
so much.
'Such is the force of habit."-New
York Sun.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
Finger Nails.

The pace of growth of finger nails va
ries very much, not only ut different ages,
but in different individuals of the same
age. Influenced by many external and
internal conditions, the pace also varies
in the same person from time to time.
A few observations will be Submitted to
the notice of the reader as to the growth
of finger nails in men at different ages.
At q years the nail was replaced in
1876 days, at 81 years in $50 days, at 81
years in So days, ut So years in ITO days.
at 81 years in IA days. 1t is curious
that in this growth the swiftest grower
was a tubcrculous subject who had
sharp attack of blood splitting during the
observation. Sea air is said TO quicken
the growth of the nails; profound grief
has been credited with the power of de-
stroying them.
A valuable point of diagnosis is afford
ed by the growth of the finger nail. In
distinguishing between true paralysis of
centric origin and the various pseudo
paralysis of hysteria which sometimes SO
closely simulate organic disease, it is
we'll to remember that the growth of the
nail is modified by most of the centric
LESSONS, while its development is not at
fected by hysteria.-Medical Record.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
PRINTERS INK ROLLERS.
Not Until About 1880 Were The
Made of Glue and MoIasses.

Not Until About 1880 Were They
Made of Glue and Molasses.
AS long ago as the year 1041, so histo
~ tells us, Chinese blacksmith, Pr
Ching by name, made paste of gluti
nous earth upon which he engraved sep
arate characters. These he baked, max
ing movable type of earthcnware.
Even to this day in China the impress
sion is made by linking the type with Q
brush. A thin absorbent paper Is then
laid upon the face of the type and press
ed lightly with a dry brush. We have
now the first way by which ink was
transmitted to type.
This way of taking an impression con-
tinued until about 14T4, when pelt balls
were introduced. II In perfect" order,
these would do good work. They were
made in the following way:
A piece of strong grain pelt or skin
was selected. and from this the grease
had to be entirely removed. 1t was then
soaked IA or 10 hours and afterward
"curricd" by drawing it across n post
until every particle of dampness had
gone. Then long treading by the feet
followed.
Wool was wrapped under the skin, and
the pelt was tightly placed over, but the
great difficulty of getting it in order and
the uncleunlincss of the operation led to
the introduction about 1907 by Mr.. Max.
well Of Philadelphia of the dressed sheep
skins, or Skin rollers" as they were
called. But they, too, were abandoned,
being found too heavy for the hand.
About 1915 Mr.. Fanshaw Of New York
introduced an improved roller made by
wrapping n blanket some eight times
around a piece of wood 312 inches in d.
ameter, turned true, and with an iron
spindle on each end. The skin was then
tightly wound around the blanket and
afterward nailed to the wooden end.
1t was in 1917, by the merest chance,
in one of the potteries in Staffordshre,
and moiasses first saw the light. This
composition was used in the potteries for
what are commonly called "dabbers.
Mr.. b. Foster of Weybridgc, England
was the first printer to apply this compo'
sition to lciterpress printing, but even he
did not understand its great usefulness
lie merely spread it when in a liquid
state upon n piece of canvas and then
made ball Of it. This is the only way
in which it differed from the pelt ball.
The inventions of printing machinery
were not quite so slow, however. About
1880 the composition was used as q coat
ing on wooden cylinders, and here we
have the first application for printing
presses worthy the name of "rollcr, y
without which printing machinery could
! never have reached the state of perfec'
ton it has reached todaX.-Inland Pript
CT, -
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
The Actress Make Up.

"If an actress features are irregular,
she has to treat them specifically" writes
Franklin Fylcs in The Ladies' Home
Journal. IF her nose is pug or a
turn up, she draws a white line down its
center to the very tip end. On each side
Of this line she lays on n light, blush
gray tint. The effect of that is to
lengthen the nose when the full face is
seen. OF course the illusion is lost when
the profile is presented. If the cheeks
are too plump, the lower halves of them
are darkencd. An imitation Of youthful
ness is helped by making the color very
light Just below the eyes. If the check
bones are high and the checks hollow
below them, the former are whitened
and the latter REDEEMED. When an ac-
tress is called upon to make up for q
character part which means preparing
herself to represent an old or eccentric
woman, her methods are much the same
that men use under the same circum-
stances. Few young women on the stage
like to look old. Stage managers have
to struggle to make them conceal their
youth even when the characters require
it. They are apt to lose years as soon
as his vigilance is relaxed"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
THE BABY AND THE SOLDIERS.

Rough and ready the troopers ride
Great bearded men. with swords by eide;
They have ridden long, they have ridden hard,
They are travel stained and battle Scared
The hard ground shakes with their martial tramp
And coarse is the laugh Of the men in camp.
They reach the spot where the mother stands,
With baby capPing its little hands,
Laughing aloud at the gallant sight
vi the mounted soldiers fresh from the fight
The captain laughs out, I'm give you this,
A handful of gold, your baby 10 hiss
Smiles the mother, "a kiss can't be sold,
But gladly hc'I! Kiss soldier bold"
lie lifts baby with manly grace
And covers with kisses lis smiling face,
Its rosy checks and its dimplcd clllrils
And it crows with delight in the soldiers arm9
mot all for captain" the soldiers call,
THE baby, We know, has one for ALL"
To the soldiers breasts the baby is pressed
BY the strong rough men and by turns caressed,
And louder it laughs, and mother fair
Smiles with mute joy as the kisses they share.
Just such kiss" cries one trooper grim,
when left my boy gave to him.
And just such a kiss on the parting day
gave to my girl as asleep she lay
Such were the words OF the soldiers brave,
And their eyes were moist tine kiss they gaTe.
Boston Transcript.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
A Delicate Girl,

A young man spent Sunday with his
best girl over on Pipe creek somewhere
and noticed she did not eat much for
dinner or supper. lie asked her with
kind smile if she was sick, and she re-
piled by saying she seldom ate much at
any time.
On Monday morning he met the girls
little brother going to school and asked
him how his sister was. The little boy
told him that "she was just awful sick,
that mamma told her that she had eaten
too much pumpkin pic, cold cabbage and
fat baccn lust night after you went
home"
The young man asked if n doctor had
been called.
The boy said: mo. Sis is afraid to
send for DIR. Aplin for fear he would find
out what made her so sick and tell it to
her friends. "-AIinncap polls (Aan) Mes
senger.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20

A traveller recently returned from ia
pan tells that in that quaint country
trained insects are kept in cages as sing
ing birds"
Firefiics and crickcts are often found.
but an especial favorite is the singing
frog. A rare one belongs to lady of the
Japanese court. 1t is highly accomplish
cd, as it has been in training for seven
years. 1t sings beautifully and will do so
even In the presence of strangers. In the
winter it hibernatcs. During its long
sleep its bed is jar full OF tiny stones.
Over the jar is fitted covering of straw
rope as protection against cold. These
frogs are delicate creatures and are very
sensitive. They show great affection to
those who treat them kindly.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20

The l"tc DIR. Spark. the Leeds corpora
ton or;,ini>t. vs::s often engaged for re-
citals and Openings of organs in the
east riding, aHd his blower followed him
about with devotion which would have
been patlicti" if ii had 10: nrvn so anus
ing Th" blower would generally be first
at the church. 50 that he might be sure
Of displacin= the ordinary man. and
when Spark arrived Ec would remark
with the greatest san&fraiI: ITS all
right. doctor, Ina here; and there's sure
to be good performance between u.s.
Longmai.' S.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
Money Saved Feeding Babies,

"a Larned woman whose husband
hires the family washing done is reported
TO be the most economical woman in
Kansas" says Austin Neal. ''When she
feeds the baby, she puts an apron on
over it's dress, then n bib over the apron,
a clean rag around the baby's neck over
the bib, and then holds one hand under
the baby's chin while she feeds it with
the other. By practice of this sort Of
economy she has enabled her husband to
save $4,000 in the last seven years.
Kansas City Journal
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
AN ADVANCE IN TIMBER.
The Owner Had Reason For Putin
lin the Price

1t was a very peaceful and pleasant
morning in June when / got Oil my horse
at the Pine Mountain company's new
saw and Stave mill TO ride up to Sam
Hats farm to talk timber. He owned
one convenient little tract with some
stave timber. ON it. and l wanted to get
hold of it. Sam also had wife who had
u temper that might have been sInoothrd
out if We could have run her through the
planning mill, but nothing short oi that
would have had any effect upon It, Eff
teen years of it had shriveled and stunt
ed Sam till he looked like n cucumber
after long drought. He lived about
two miles from the mill. and when |
reached his house he was sitting ON the
fence in front.
How are you?" l said by way of sal
utGtion.
Glow d'y, colonel?" he responded
"I'm ruther poly. How do you find yer
self?"
ooh, I'm oil right. came up to see
you about that timber. Do you want to
sell it?''
Il reckon do. I'm willin to sell most
anything got"
well, well give you $3.50 tree for
20 trees"
"'Tain't enough, colonel"
"We'll cut and deliver it ourselves, and
two and hnlf's plenty for it,
"Wcll, you'll have to see the old wom-
an"
"Where is she"
':In the house thar" chucking his
thumb over his shoulder.
"All right. Go in and tell her to come
out"
"Ef do, colonel" he said, not offering
to move, them trees is goin to cost you
$3.50 apiece"
What do you mean?" asked, aston
ished at this wild proposition. Two and
q half tree is all they are worth"
Il reckon hit is. colonel, and that is all
I'm askin fer the trees. but the extry
dollar is fer wear and tear on me cf l go
in to see the old woman. | cum out Nv
thar jist afore you rid up, and I'll be dad
burned eff I'll try hit ag'in fer no dollar'n
Il half trees that ever growed."
He was proof against all persuasion.
and | rode away to come again another
day when the lady was in Il happier
Washington Star.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
Growth OF Pity.

No one formerly locked on with any
pity or even horror ut punishmcnts which
are now found too dreadful for descrip-
ton. Men were broken on the wheel.
were burned ut the stake, were racked.
were cut up alive. No one seems TO have
felt any pity for their agonies. Men were
put into nuisomc prisons, where, with
bad air and insufficient food, they died I'M
noticed and unpiticd. 1t is very different
now. Human hearts are more tender
Chicago News.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
A SONNET.

30 soft your words were when you went away,
So smooth your brow the while you said goodby,
So deep the tranquil candor Of your eye,
So calm the peace that like halo lay
Around your head. Had you wish to stay
A little longer with US n sigh
The while the death mist and the grave drew
nigh,
To mourn the feetness of your shortened day2
Had earth no Joys wherewith to tempt you,
SWEET
Was life so heavy with its weight Of woe
That, in the turmoil Of the market street,
You should be weary the sun was sow7
Was earth SO sad it could not stay your feet
Or heaven SO fair that you fain to go?
Chambers Journal.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
aIstI;etic Policemen.

many little things about which the police
of American cities would not concern
themselves in n thousand years. Three
courts decided that if the Berlin police
judged any particular color scheme of Il
house to be improper or too gaudy or in
bad taste otherwise they could order the
painter to change it.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
Tic Agls and lptelllgeqeer.
IL Published EVery Friday.
FINNEY & DASHIELL.
TERMs.-sI.OO A Year in adyauc,

Transient Aduerttsenpents.-On Square, 3
insertions or less 81 so. Each subsequent in
sertion 25 cents. Longer advertisements in
the same proportion. A space equal to six
lines makes a square. Figure work double
price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications
will be inserted at 10 cents per line.
Yearly Advertisements at SneciaI Rata.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20
Fractional.

"Where the wife is the better half,
what is the husband?"
"Perhaps he is what is meant by the
submerged tenth!-petroit journal, -!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20

The first postofiice was opened in Paris
in 1G42. in England in 1851, in America
N NO.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20

1t is believed that in China there is 20
tines as much coal us in all Europe. :,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-04-20

Don't waste your money on inferior ferti.
lizers because the price is a little lower. Get
the best fro;u the Miller Fertilizer Company
Jog s. Gay street, Baltimore. They are relia,
Bile and you can depend upon getting GOOD
return for your money.