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~ M state throughout the Union
l., Amerjran ingenuity Yankee
Nmg4nuity. at that-shown to inner
.5yautage thar in Nebraska, where
..,u..,nade vind1pills, constructed at
,I;,hr cost. do work of mill-made
machine. Tor Ihieh a much larger
.-ri.. : asked. New England and the
ufddIr States. says the New York
pr..ss might Just as well as not claim
..,,r. nf the credit for the inventive
,.s. and power Of adaptation which
hose Western farmers display, for the
f,rmrrs came from the East. or their
f,,brrs did, and the farmers Of the
W.,r haven't Il much harder row TO
nu. than the farmer of the rocky hills
f New England.
Tbps" Nebraska folk can take a
yoruout mower and few boards
wbjrl, have dropped off the pig sty and
make ont Of them a windmill that will
sn>ure them profit even if in the long.
clear summers the sky refuses TO give
down. he liDOI can De put III WHen
nothing more profitable is to be done
than praying for rain, and the ridicu-
Ions sum Of a dollar or so pays all the
money outlay necessary.
Erwin IIinckley Barbour, in a bull
etiu from the University Of Nebraska,
N I.incoll, tells of the Nebraska farm
pr's marvellous manner Of making the
means ft the end. Not only is water
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A SCALPER'S TICKET.

Its Time Was Expired and the Passen-
ger Was Elected.
Talking bout scalper's tickets" said
an old conductor, ''the queerest thing
l know in that line happened when l
was working for the Missouri Pacific,
back in the sos. My run was between
Kansas City and st. Louis, and one
morning as l was pulling out on my
east-bOund trip a fellow gave me an
old three-day excursion ticket that had
expired at least six months before. L
told him it was no good, and after con-
siderable growing he handed me some
small silver. That will carry me to
- he said, naming a little way
station, and between times I'll think
it over Very weli,' 1 replied, but 1
gave you notice right now that l won't
carry you foot further unless you put
up the money He made no answer
anu began FFSrefuI' 'sl---eudyfngr his IfcfzEt
When we got to the station 1 was by
his side. We'll, SIR l said, what do
you intend to do? 4 intend to ride on
this ticket he snarled. I've read it
over and it's perfectly good I'm not
going to argue any more about that,
said l.; you pay your fare quick or get
off, Not unless you're the best man.
said he, looking ugly. Well, l threw
him off, but it was a tough Job. He
fought like a wildcat and came near
licking both me and the brakeman. The
station where this happened was in
the heart of q wild moonshine district,
and the crowd that collected all sympa-
thized with the passenger. AS we pull
ed out they stoned the train. l expect
ed to hear from the fellow almost at
once, but I didn't, and the affair soon
passed out Of my mind.
"Six months later happened to be in
surprise 1 saw him coming out of the
managers private room. Who is that
manY 1 asked clerk. He laughed.
why, don't you know him? he said.
He's - and he named detective
who had lately worked UP the evidences
neighborhood of the station where our
row had occurred. Then l understood.
You see, he wanted some good excuse
for going into the settlement, and there
was no better role than that OF poor
man just elected from a train by
brutal conductor. He had his scalper's
ticket to show, he had just put up a
genuine fight and he claimed to be dead
broke. All that appealed to the natives,
and they took him in at once. The re-
suit was that he stayed there a month
and picked up all the evidence he want
ed. 1t was a shrewd scheme, but 1
still thin he mad. that scrap unneces-
sarily realistic. Orleans Times
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HOMEMADE WINDMILLS.


structed Turbine. While farmers NAV
be rather particular what material
they put into the higher cost machine
for those of the lower class no kind of
stuff lying around the barn Is too mean
to find some use Old lumber, lath.
shingles, split rails, old packing boxes.
barrel slaves. coffee sacks, tin from old
tin roofs, the gearing from old NOW
ers--there is scarcely an odd and end
that does not have use in the home
made mill.
For $3.70 W. w. Her of Hayelock
made a baby jumbo which pumps not
only water enough for his stock, but
supplies his boarding house with all the
water needed. 1t has four fans, each
three feet long and arms two and one
half feet long, and is mounted on a six
teen-fOot tower.
]. l.. Browns mill, which is on the
! Midway nurseries, near Kearney, is
one of low cost. Out of old grocery
boxes he made the fans and the box.
and the gaspipe axis cost him $1.5O.
What could such a mill as this do?
Well. it pumped enough to irrigate his
garden through killing season of
drought, and kept his strawberry patch
and his small fruit from death. Pretty
! good investment for $3.50 In fact.
| Brown has figured out that the profit
from that little mill during three pretty
tough times of drought exceeds that of
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by the thumb, first and second fingers
Gig. p, just as the pen is held In writ
ing, and is the working member of the
pair, moving freely up and down or in
any direction. A little practice will
enable one to manage the chopsticks
with ease. and to hold them lightly,
but so surely and firmly that they will
not wobble nor lose their hold of any
thing. At first one will find his chop
sticks making KS and crosses in the
air, flying out of his fingers and per-
forming strange and unexpected tricks
in his helpless right hand. A traveller
enjoys his meals at a Japanese tea
house, when he can pinch off a morsel
of fish with his chopsticks and dip 1t
in the cup Of soy, hold up n bit Of fowl
and nibble it, and do expert tricks with
the conveuient little sticks. Some
small boys and girls whom I have
known, have become so infatuated with
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CHOPSTiCKS.
How the Japanese and Chinese Eat
Their Food.


Their Food.
While a pair OF chOpsticks may seem
to us to be the clumsieSt of substitutes
for the knife and fork, the Chinese and
Japanese use them with such ease and
skill that they are magic wandS i'll their
fingers.
They cut their food with their dag
gers, and they eat with pitchforkS, }"
cried the Mortified Japanese who first
saw Europeans eating in such bar
barrie and revolving manner with the
knife and fork.
Light-ingered, deft, and initiative
as the Japanese and Chinese are, it
takes them as long to learn the proper
and graceful use of the knife and fork
as it requires for us to master the evO-
lutiOns and etiquette of the chopsticks.
1t is pretty sight. ut the beginning
of a japanese or Chinese feast, to see
the host help his guests to sweets, as
then is displayed the best and most
graceful play of the chOpsticks. One
can take a lesson, as the master of the
feast dainty lifts cakes or cOnfectiOns
and places them on the plate or paper
before each guest. The Chinese chop
sticks are longer than the japanese,
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round IN the Platte Valley, from Oma-
Nd 10 Denver, and in the lesser river
COURSES which branch out from this val
"y' Columbus. Grand Island, Kear-
nFF' ONrrton, COZad, Lexington, Goth
e"Ourg Ogallala and intermediate
""AS are centerS for these mills as
wen as Tor other kinds of water lfterS.
tDe Iavoritc form in Eastern Nebraska
% ule Jumbo, or the Go Devil" which
'a''er name probably is Il contraction
Ho-Like-the-Devil." In Central
.Du western Nebraska the prevailing
'Hpe Is called the Battleax Mill Roth
m, r,N''S d2 far more than pump water.
ueE run the grindstOne. the churn
Ne 'eed grinder. the corn shelter and
Uou saw and other farm machinery
=" 'llS Worl, is done by a machine that
'''' "oor included, from 81 to 81. or
,Se Tile lime is put in when there is
,ntHS else more pressing to be donn
Il 'Ae time were to be taken out of
,r' p'I 'ahl work the result hardly
Moa pay. While the average cost is
y, ,,1'eu '> low as $4 or 81. below which
minimum, 1t would seem scorool,-
nn4 naiu 60 he maximum that has haan
1' So' Iulo The construction of such m;ns
q, I.'llieS u" IS as much as $50. 4 mill
bo. 'N price Will have at least eiobt
600 ,'s power and will grind from oo0 70
'VU M, bushels of grain a day. -
60 a,e,s he ASDfaska homemade mill seems
70 classify Itself into six types, Beo;n' r9
nm tbero eon :. '4e az, lowest type and going
ppnp1 ep, a1efe re- Is the the Jumbo, the Merry.Go,
Round the Battle AK, the Holland ,IiU nU
tAe Mock Turbine and the Rennm
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the whole farm in three ordinary sea.

the whole farm in three ordinary sea-
sons.
The regulation jumbo mill is set per-
manently TO face the north or south
and thus catch the force of the prevail
ing winds. But when the winds blow
from another direction these mills
would be of no use, so this difficulty is
overcome by putting up UNIVERSAL
jumbos, which are set on a screw, and
which will turn with the wind in any
quarter. Sometimes, too, 1umbos are
set up in pairs, quartering the compass,
and with such an inexpensive machine
it Is easy to do this. The merrygo-
rounds look like huge side wheels of
steamers set horizontally on towers.
In the general class of turbine mills
are included the Holland mills, the bat
tleax mills, with two, four, six and
eight fans; the giant battleax, the mock
turbine--the fixed, revolving, with and
without rudders--and the reconstruct
eel turbines, which last named usually
are tnv -shen-made ones which have
been injured and are bought cheaply
ana repaired.
The battleax mill gets its name from
it's resemblance in the arms and IL
blade to the ak. Like the jumbo, it
ually is set in north and sOutt
ton, and as the prevailing
Nebrask:s- sas'n .frenAa these polia Tl
compass, it is seldom that til
cannot be used. The axis of
may be of wood, gaspipe, shal
an iron rod. The battleax mill b
Carroll, near Overton, cost $25I
than the average, because it has
ty-barrel tank connected with it. y
Grand Island, Diedrich Huennd
spent $14 ON q battleaX mill and tai
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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, JANUARY q. j

fan battleax mill, which has only one
like 1t in the whole State. Its cost was
$l1, and for this outlay it runs a corn
sheller and feed grinder and a grind
stone.
One of the most ingenious mills in the
whole State stands on a farm near
GOthenburg. 1t is made merely of a
wagon wheel attached by its axle to a
barn. To the spokes are fastened
blades. This cOntrivance pumps all the
water needed for the barn. Still an
other mill is a two-fan turbine, and is
made from an old mower Near Grand
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provided for irrigation, but stock is
supplied with water, ranchmen and
sheep herderS are benefited, dairy prod
uctS are increased and improved, and
the comfort of the village and rural
home is enhanced
Most Of the homemade mills are
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RESTING THE MUSCLES,
Why Man Stretches and Yaw

Why "a Man Stretches and Yawns
When He's Tired.
When man is tired he stretches his
arms and legs and yawns. Birds and
animals, so far as possible follow his
example, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Birds spread their feathers and also
yawn or cape. Fowls often do this.
Fish yawn; they open their mouths
slowly until they are round, the bones
Of the head seem to loosen and the
gills open.
Dogs are inveterate yawners and
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Lirhtning Kills FisIr.

The Pennsylvania Fish Commission
had beard tales that the brown trout
with which some of the streams OF the
State were stocked were particularly
susceptible to destruction from light
- so they began an investigation
Nnow announce that the stories
- ne habit of the brown
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The fans of the mill are fixed In the
driving parts of an old thresher, ana
the brake Is taken from an old wagon.
Near Graud Island, too, is mill put
up by farmer named Schroeder, who
''cd barrel slaves for the fans. A. q.
gley of verdon put up cheap battle
mill which does all the work OF saw
ing 3O-inch logs. Elmer Jasperson put
up on his farm, near Ashland, a two
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-27
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
Register Office,

Register Office,
WHEELING, December &c.
The past week has been marked with
very good business in the wholesale dis
trictS. The anticipated lull after the hol-
iday rush began to-day and was felt
everywhere. There are very few altera-
tons over last weeks quotations.
The following prices prevailed:
Produce.
Butter-Creamery, 35c; choice country.
24c; country, good. l3q15c; country. light.
10c; butterlne, l6GlSc.
Eggs-30c dozen; storage, 24c.
Navy Beans-Hand picked, S2.25 per bu.
Cheese-Prime Ohio factory. 1212dl3c;
New York, lac; L%imburger, 12c; SWEET
FoultTy~old live chickens ss.ooas.s per
dozen; chickens, hens. per pound, &c:
spring chickens. s. %q3 co per cozen; per
Ducks-Sw per dozen: geese, SOC
each.
Lard-Corntry. 5asc.
Old Rags-l2c per pound
Honey-In comb. 1712c pound.
Potatoes-New $1.50 per barrel.
Sweet Potatoes-s275 per barrel; Jersey
sweets, $500 per barrel.
Parsley-lOc per dozen punches.
Lettuce-Sl.O per buShel.
Onions-$1.0 per bushels; Spanish, Si.35
per crate.
g~adishes-25e per dozen.
Cabbage-New. N.00 per hundred
Apples-Fancys3.O0 per barrel.
Llmes-$-25 per crate.
BananaS-S1.00GI.I5 per bunch.
Nuts-Brazil. &C per pound: English Wal
nuts. 12c: peca2s. l2c: almonds. lie: fl
berts, l3c: Nalnuts. 4Qc Der bushe,.
Lemens-Fancy. $50; choice. $500.
Grapes-Catawbas, lac 5-lb basket.
Celery-Home, 3gG35c per dozen; Cal
tfornia, 91c dozen.
| Jersey Cranberries-S3M per crate.
oranges-California navels. 500 per box.
Hubbard Squash-1c per Id.
TurnipS-s1.5e per Dbl.
P~arsnips-S2.N per barrel.
Cranberrses-s7.D per barrel.
Pineapples-Florida. s3.75G4o0 per case:
Malagas. heavyweights. &.1GS6.o9.
Beets-T5c per bushel.
Carrots-15c per bushel.
| Onions-Green 2c dozen.
| Groceries.
] Syrup-Silver Drip syrup. 3-lb quart
| cans. 2 dozen in case. $1.00 doz-; Fancy
Drips. bbis.. &c. &c addition in half bar
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-27
REVIEW OF THE WOOL TRADE.

BOSTON, December 26.-The Ameri-
can Wool and Cotton Reporter will
say of the wool trade tomorrow:
The American Wool and Cotton Re-
porter, in its annual review of the
wool situation in the United States,
gives the stocks of wool in the coun-
try, exclusive Of manufacturers hold
ing5 as 1852, 247 ,389 pounds as compared
with 157, 1896, 879 pounds a year ago. The
stocks in the three principal markets
of the United States-Boston, New
York and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
1876, 500, 1889 pounds as compared with
113, 295, $40 pounds last year. The
stocks Of wool in Boston are 100, 019,-
0S4 pounds, as compared with 66,113,-
740 last year. This large increase in
stocks on hand is accounted for by the
comparatively limited demand for wool
this year, increased imports of foreign
woods and the fact that only a very
small percentage of this years clip has
as yet been disposed of to manufacture
ers. Woods have been held back TO an
unusually large extent this year in the
country and this i S especially true OF
the fleece woods sections east of the
Mississippi river.
The wool production of the country is
given as 2S1 ,452. 437 pounds. Imports
Of wool into Boston have been 5S,723,-
632 pounds. as compared with "a 1872, 491
pounds last year.
The sales OF wool in the Boston mar
ket since January lst amount TO 1885,
975.100 pounds, as compared with 347,-
1871 pounds last year. In other
words, the volume Of business has been
considerably less than half of that OF
last year.
The year 1900 will pass into history
as one of the quietest and most unsat-
isfactory periods ever experienced in
the wool trade. Depression has charac-
terized the situation both abroad and
at home.
A feature of the business OF the year
has been the increased substitution Of
cotton for wool and a preference for
the medium OF lower grades of wool as
distinguished from the fine grade.
As to the business of the past week,
it has presented but few features Of i'll
terest calling for special mention.
The demand has been as large IS was
expected in a holiday season and has
run principally to territories, IN
washed, feeces. and secured woods
The sales amount TO about two mil
lion and a half pounds and represent
quite a large number OF transactions.
Prices. while favoring the buyer, are
not sufficiently changed TO warrant
any general lowering of quotations.
a hopeful feeling peryades the trade
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-27
LIVE STOCA.

CHICAGO, December 26.-Cattle, re-
ceipts 5000; steers 10 to zoe lower.
Texans Toe lower. Butchers stock
steady to shade lower.
Natives, best on sale to-day three
carloads at s. 50; good to prime steers
So 25M6 10; poor TO medium S. 800
. 20; selected feeders about steady,
So 75Q4 So; mixed stockers steady to
slow, 81 50@3 70; COWS 81 50W4 20;
heiIers 81 6O04 so; canners about
steady, 81 1902 45; bulls SLOW, 81 o0Q
4 %; calves steady, 81 coos 80.
Texans, receipts 800; best On sale to-
day twelve carloads at S4 so; Texas fed
steers 81 0004 So; Texas grass steers
SO 1904 90; Texas bulls 81 1908 rs.
Hogs, receipts to-day 1000; to-mor-
row $4,000; estimated left over 5000;
opened strong, sc higher, closed weak.
Top $50; mixed and butchers 81 rs
@5 072; good to choice 81 S5@5 10;
rough heavy 81 1904 80; light 81 rs
@5 07a; bulk of sales 81 9U@5 02h.
Sheep, receipts 10000; sheep and
lambs mostly 10 to 15c higher. Good
to choice wethers SO 1904 rs; fair to
choice mixed So 1903 so; western
sheep So 1904 rs; Texas sheep 81 50
@3 rs; native lambs 81 25@5 rs;
western lambs S. 00G5 65.
EAST LIBERTY, Pa, December Co.
Cattle, steady; extra S5.40Q5.60; prime
$5.00@5.25; common S3.GO@3.75
Hogs, lower; light Workers and pigs
$520@5.25; mediums and good Workers
$5.1505.20; heavy hogs $5.0505.10;
roughs $3.5O@4.75
Sheep, steady; choice wethers 5000
40; common $1.5002.50; choice lambs
$5.25@5.50; common to good $500
$40.
Noo1 ool-oo &c SnG- IN
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DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK, December 26.-The
metal market was entirely nominal TO-
day in the absence Of adyiees from
abroad and trading, if there were any,
was confined to supplying immediate
requirements. Tin was formally quot
ed at $27. 00@2S 90; lead at $4.37h; lake
copper was dull at S17.00 for lake Su-
perior and 1880 for casting and electro
lytic. Spelter was dull and unchanged
at $4.S2h@4.S7h Pittsburg reports
showed a weak market there for Besse-
mel iron and offered at $500, the low
est figure for the year. Pig iron war
rants were quoted at s9.50010.50;
Northern foundry s15.0O015.50; South
ern foundry s14.50Q15.75, and soft
Southern $13.00@15.75.
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sex. dividend.
Mining Stocks.
PRODUCE.

CHICAGO, December 26.-Board OF
Trade markets were very dull as a
rule to-day. The prospects of a bear
ish government report tomorrow and
the absence of outside support de-
pressed wheat, May closing nc lower.
December corr closed 1c lower; jan
uary a shade higher and May I'M
changed. Oats crossed unchanged.
Provisions at the close were 2hW
71ac lower.
Wheat was profoundly and solemn
ly dull. There was scarcely enough
business to keep brokers awake and
nearly all of that was of a local
scalping order. The opening was firrn
on moderate worlds shipments and
for a time prices held fairly steady,
helped later by the visible increase of
only 1891, 00O bushels. Later tax
that the government report due IT,
morrow would be decidedly bearisn
together with the absence of good
shipping inquiry, caused weakness
and prices declined under ensuing
liquidation.
May sold between 73A@73asc and
72&c, closing Ac lower at 72AW
72Bc. New York reported 16 loads
taken for export. Seaboard clear
ances in wheat and -four for three
days were equal to 1,O44, 600 bushels.
Primary receipts three days. were
2,11S,00O bushels compared with l.
$50, 900 bushels for a like period a
year ago. Local receipts were 484
cars, "A Of contract grade. Minnea-
polls and Duluth reported 975 cars
against 1863 last week and 800 a year
ago. Worlds shipments were 6,41y,-
0U0 bushels.
Corn was fairly active early but ruled
dull thereafter. Heavy receipt, 1886
cars since last reported had a depress-
ing effect. December slumped sharply
on a few trades, but anuary and May
steadied on fair local support. May
sold between 35% @35B@ 36c and clos
ed unchanged at 35Ac. January be-
tween 36AQ355c, closing a shade
higher at 95B@36c, and December be-
tween 37hQ36hc, with the close lie
lower at $500.
Oats were at a S~tandstill. May sold
between 23R@@c and 1885 and closed
unchanged at 233sc. Receipts were
1876 cars.
Provisions started firm on light hog
receipts and higher prices at the yards.
Later prices eased off on liquidation
of December lard in which a squeeze
had been threatened. December lard
sold from 81 221a to Sc 95 and closed
at the bottom. January pork sold be-
tween s12 25Q12 12Aa, and closed TIC
lower at $12 1914; January lard be-
tween Sc S5@6 S713 and Sc 77h, closing
21a lower at Sc 77H2. and January ribs
between Sc 30@22h with the close sc
lower at IS 22h.
Estimated receipts tomorrow:
Wheat IT'S cars; corn $40 cars; oats
80 cars; hogs 28, 900 head.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
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Articles.

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour dull and unchanged.
Wheat, No. 3, 66G71c; No . 2 red
72h@76c.
: Corn No. 2 36ac; No. . yellow
$3.50.
Oats No. 2 2212c; No. 2 white 25kO
26c; No. 8 white PAX @25hc.
Rye No. 2 50h Oslo.
Fair to choice mailing 50951c.
Flaxseed No. 1 81 57k: No. 1
Northern 81 81.
Prime timothy seed 81 so.
Mess pork, per barrel Sill 12h@
II %.
Lard, per II pounds. S. S5@s 80.
Short RIDES sides, (loose) Sc ESQ
Is so.
Dry falted shoulders. (boxed) SAG
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that with the turn of the new year al
improved demand for wool will set in,
which will have the effect of lifting
the markets from its present condi-
tions of lethargy.
This feeling is naturally strength
cred somewhat by the continued en-
couraging advices received from
abroad.
The sales for the week in Boston
amounted to 2,16S, 700 pounds domes-
tic and 335 900 pounds foreign. max
ing a total of 2,503, 700 against a total
of 100000 for the previous week and
a total of 2,350,000 for the correspond
ing week last year. The sales since
January l, amount to 1925, 100
pounds against S47,1S3.776 pounds for
the corresponding time last year.