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To Sell "Short"

That's the way we feel about wheat. We'd
have to be pretty "full'' TO sell IL ''short' at
present prices II the farmer cannot afford 70
sell his crop at these figures, because II costs
him more than present prices % raise IL and pay
freight TO Chicago. their yOU can't AFFORD 20 20
short OF it. Now, if IL is too low 10 sell, %
ought 20 be low enough 10 buy Corn, on the
other hand. is plenty high enough. and on any
further ralIy-say, around 40c-sell some short
and you viii make money H. There are q
good many stocks that would rather sell than
buy, and if YOU would Ike 10 know which one,
send for il.
81 Wall St, heW ferk
It
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NINE. WALTON. intuitioual palmist; private read
ings. % cents describes friends; gives date
Of marriage; class in pllmiStTy now forming. Go
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New York stock Mnrkes.

Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs & Co..
members Of the New York Exchange, 1419
+ Street.
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The gross earnings Of the st. Paul for
the third week OF March show an Increase
OF SIS 500. The increase since July l has
been $3.50, 61S. The grangers made new
high prices for the movement but were
not so active as other groups. Rock Island
went as high as 112 SIS and closed at
III Ia. St. Paul went up to -23 ga, and
Burlington 10 12S 1-2. The AtchisOn Sc
curities were the best Of the group and
both sold higher than ever before. the
common at p is and the preferred at
20 "a
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-03-24

There IS again much bullish gossip re-
garding Missouri Pacific and the stock Is
advancing in a way that suggests develop
ments Of a favorable nature. II sold as
high as 40 this morning
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Washington Mortgage Loan Co.,
60 F Street NV.

MONEY TO LOAN At 81. sz. &. and Al per
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SAUNDERS CO, l407 + St NV. iyItf-em
MONEY loaned Ealariec people and retaii meT-
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MONEY TO LOAN on APPROVED COLIIT-
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Rooms 40 aud a, Metzerott Building. ITO Il
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cLAIRvOYANT-
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PROF. LEO,

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The Pacifcs were buOyant Northern
Pacific, common. and Union Pacific, COM
mon, both made new high price records
and closed higher than they have ever sold
before. Union Pacific touched 90 SIS and
Northern Pacific 81 IL. Southern Pacific
failed to respond 10 the buoyancy OF the
others Of the group.
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Wabash and Texas Pacific we're among
the low priced securities taken up today
each making a good net gain and closing
practically at the top.
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The traction securities we're neglected
and their net movements were unimpor-
tant. Sugar was strong, though the net
gain for the day was not large There
were numerous bear tips that the stock
was TO begin a 40-pcint decline immedi-
ately and there was some short selling as a
result. but no symptoms OF the movement
showed themselves
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-03-24
YALE'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE.

The Law school Nine to Play Here
April II.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 24.-Man-
ager Hine, Of the Yale Law School baseball
nine, today announced the following
Easter-trip schedule for his team: ApriI
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LADIES who desire q Monthly Regulator that
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isfactory way. The former this morning
went to 14O and the latter TO 137, both the
highest prices in some time. Gossip re-
garding tFese securities has most TO do
with the alliance between the Vanderbilt
and Pennsylvania interests. II is said
that all the disclosures regarding this al
lance are not made yet by any means.
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THE RICHEST MEX N THE WORLD ARE
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27

charge against her. entered Mr.. Har-
per's Office in company with her up-
der clerk, she found the cashier and
the fioorwalker with Mr.. Harper.
"Miss Fairchild," said Mr.. Harper,
"you are accused of purloinins valu.
able piece. OF lace from the counter.
Have you anything to say?"
Mary was stunned for moment, but,
conscious OF her innocence, soon
found voice to say, with simple digni.
ty, that there must be some mis-.
take"
"'This young woman missed the
lase and called Mr.. Bray, who found
it in your magazine portfolio. How
did it get there?" asked Mr. Harper.
81 am sure I do not know" replied
Mary, with great sinking Of heart.
1t seemed as if a dark abyss yawned
before her.
"You do not know, Miss Fairchild,
but I do" said Mr.. Harper, rising
and confronting the cashier, and the
young lace clerk, sternly.
Given if did not know that you
were innocent, I would never have
believed You guilty. But, fortunate.
ly, / walked home few nights ago,
behind two of my employees, and over
heard them plotting this thing to
bring disgrace upon you. Mr.. Null
len," he said, turning to tho cashier,
"and you, Miss Clark" speaking tc
the frightened lace clerk, "are now
dismissed from my employ"
They walked out in silence followed
by the foorwalker, and Mary ana
Mr.. Harper were lett alone.
Mary had borne herself with sc
much dignity through the trial thai
the president could not conceal his
admiration. He asked himself if sic
were not the woman to install as
mistress of his handsome home, ano
it did not take him long to make his
decision. Mary, for her part, sud
denly realized that Mr.. Harper was a
bachelor, good looking and still on
the sunny side Of life, and blush OF
embarrassment. rose to her cheeks
When it was time for Miss Fairchild
to make her next semi-annual Eastern
trip she went, not as the lace pur'
chaser, but as the wife of Mr.. Har
per. who accompanied her. And the
first request that Mary, who could not
bear to think of any one being un'
happy on her account, made of he,
husband, was that he take back tue
lace clerk and the cashier into his
employ. And it being her first re-
quest, Mr.. Harper could not refuse,
and Mary's cup Of happiness was full
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27

The officer is. as we all know, armed
with sword. Tn public naturally
always looks upon the sword rs in
separable from the officer. It has
always, from time immemorial, been
alike the weapon OF o.lense as we'll as
OF defense. II is besides the badge
of rani, of the officer. In days gone
by the sword was doubtless very
useful eapon OF offense as also of
defense, but now it is universally
recognized that an officer would rely
more on his revolver than on his
sword.
If we are to carry ont the assimila-
ton of the officer and the private, l
see nothing for it but TO discard the
sword when pro ;eeding of field SER
vice. This is suggestion which will
probably stagger not only public
opinion, but possibly also large per-
centage of officers themselves. But
l know for fact that there are many
officers in India who are of this way
of thinking men who have done
much campaigning.
Yes; the sword belonging to the
infantry officer should be left behind
when he proceeds on active service.
The time has come to be thoroughly
practical in our equipment for field
service, and all so-callel smartntss
should give way to what is really
sensible and practi al. The question
naturally arises, what will You arm
the officer with? 70 carry ont the
general scheme Of sanitation, l
would reply, arm him with carbine.
The Martini Metford for prefe ence,
with magazine attached. - Black
1,o1
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"Fightin- Charley"

Lord Charles Refesford says that
when he was MILDLY in the Tribune,
1500-ton frigate. he learned "a tire.
mendous lot-ta tailoring, sailmaking,
and so on. I've cut out aud made no
end of Jumpers and trousers, The says,
land could sew a hundred yards of
canvas tomorrow, if necessary. "
Then he can stoke a steamer, mend q
boat, make chair or table, and break
in a fiery, untamed horse. to say
nothing of fiery, untamed elephants.
When he was in the Galatea, under
Prince Alfred tnow Duke of SAKE Co
burg and Gothal, an elephant was
brought home which only Lord Charles
could manage. He taught the hinge
animal tricks, making it stand on its
hind legs, or lift one leg at command.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27
HOW ELECTRICITY KILLS.
The Action of the Current on the Heart,
Lungs and Nerves.


Although with the increasing use
of electricity for power, lighting and
chemical purposes the world sees in
creased precaution accident, there are
occasional exceptions to the general
rule of safety, and the question how
Il powerful electric current acts on a
human being, is therefore matter of
vital interest.
DIR. r. H. Cunningham, who has
given this subject good deal of study
within the last five years, recounts in
the Electrical World experiments
which he has made on some of the
lower animals. Ihese tests lead him
to believe that the first and most i'm
mediate effect of II powerful shock is
to interrupt the heart beat 1t does
so by impairing the automatic tendency
of the muscles to contract rythmically
anu in unison. An effect known to
physologists as "fibrillation" is pro-
ducel. That is to say, the separate
flores of muscle that should act to-
aether fail to harmonic, and thus
neut aliZe one another. One result
of this Quasi-ra alysis is that the
cells at the chief nervous centres,
where sense and will reside,
lose the hourishment which the
blood supplies and on which
they rely for life. Thus robbed. they
rapidly die. Furthermore, the ele,-
trio current often checks respiration.
If ,hs volume is small and the poten-
tial Tor electric pressurel light, this
effect is only family observed. But
stranger currents, especially if pro-
longed, interrupt Lreathing more pos
itively, and thus lead to asphyxia.
Commissions are frequently an attend
ant symptom.
The revival of an animal that had
seemingly been killed was efle cted by
Dr. Cunningham in the following
manner: He aimed to restore the
activity OF the heart by two agencies;
he injected into the arteries what is
called "defbrinated" blood, and at
the same time gently stimulated the
organ with electricity. So much la
boratory preparation would be re-
quired to repeat this procedure in the
case of man that it could hardly be
employed effectively in cases of pure
accident, unless the necessary means
were close at hand, in consequence OF
unusual forethought. 1t is doubtful
whether central light or power sta
ton will ever lie equipped with these
facilities for restoring injured men,
and it would probably take too long
to carry one who had received an APP
parently fatal dose of electricity to the
nearest doctor.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27
Tho Gem Pits of Kimberley.

The vast diamond pits at Kimber-
ley are in the largest and most valu-
able of the craters. The largest OF
these pits is probably the greatest
hole ever dug by man. 1t is 500 feet
deep and has an area of thirteen
acres. Numbers of diagonal shafts
lead from the surface to the bottom of
the pit, and up and down these shafts
are passing continually tram-cars.
The business of these cars is to carry
the blue ground up to the "Aoors, -
where it is dumped and left to soften
in the sun and rain, for the blue
ground is almost as hard rs sand
stone when taken out. BY the COM
bined effect of water and sunlight it
gradually softens.
The floors are nothing more than
great tracts of land that have been
cleared of vegetation and have been
then rolled to make them rs hard and
smooth as possible. Each of these
floors is 600 acres in extent. After
one of them has been covered to q
depth OF foot with blue ground,
which has lain long enough to be
fairly soft, natives with harrows are
set to work breaking up tho soil.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27
HE oUTADMIRALED DEWEY.
Ruse by Which II Young Reporter Got
the Deed Interview.

Ruse by Which Young Reporter Got
the Deed Interview.
The interview with Admiral Dewey
af er he had decided the house to his
wife was obtained by William w.
Smith, an indianapolis boy, now a
Washington correspondent.
Young Smith, the day after the
deed had been transferred, had been
three times Mt the Dewey door and
had failed to get in. The Associated
Press man and the newspaper folks
had put in most of the day ringing the
bell with the same lack of success.
When night came young Smith con-
cluded he would make one more eff
fort. He atti,ed himself in full even
ing dress and went to the admiral's
door in cab. To the servant who
answered his ring he presented card
with no newspaper address upon it.
'The admiral is out, "said the we'll
drilled servant.
"Is he really out. or is he out to
some persons he does not wish to see?
Please hand this card to the admiral.
ho S"iN Wuo accompanied ~ tAPs
and the servant was gracious. The
admiral was informed that Il gentle.
man in evening dress, who had come
in his own carriage, was at the door
The admiral looked at the card.
"Smith, Smith," said the hero of
Manila, obviously, trying to marshal
the regiment of Smiths whom he had
met during lifetime. Every we'll, "
he said at last. "Show the gentleman
in."
Young Mr.. Smith, having secured
admission, was cautious and polite.
He approached the subject of the
deed with great diplomacy. The adj
miral, smooth as had been young
Smiths advance, met it with roar.
Mr.. Smith recoiled, but still firm of
purpose, again, and with even greater
caution, opened the subject. He sue
ceeded at last in getting the interview,
which bore fruit by bringing to Mr..
Smith material advance in his salary.
'This story" said the Indianapolis
relative of the successful interviewer,
'has never before been published. -
indianapolis News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27
NO POCKETS IN A STROUD.


OF ye who bow at Mammon's shrine,
Whose hearts with greed are growing
cold,
Who turn your backs on things divine
And worship but the god Of gold.
What will 1t profit you when death
Lays low the head so kingly proud
And robs the wasted form Of breath?
There are no pockets in shroud.
Your thoughts by day. your dreams by
night,
Are but Of grasping golden gain.
-FOUR guide is but the beacon light
OF riches burning in your brain.
You cast all nobler aims behind
And struggle as madding crowd
To clutch the dollars, but you'll find
There are no pockets In shroud.
Ye usurers who grind tho poor
Beneath cold, relentless heel.
Who overshadow many door
With cloud OF misery, and feel
No sympathy to see them lie
Beneath the hand Of sorrow cowed,
Remember when you come to dio
There are no pockets In STROUD.
What Is the profit to the man
Whose lifet to Mammon has boon given?
A bridge of gold can never span
The gulf between the earth and heaven
What will it be to him to find
The wealth with which he is endowed
At deaths gate must be left behind?
There are no pockets in stroud.
This life is but span; to-day
We're here; tomorrow we are gone,
Have faded from the earth away
Into eternity's strange dawn!
Yet in the hungry greed for gains
Too many at the gold shrine bowed,
Forget that when the life-spark wanes
There are no pockets in shroud.
Denver Post.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27
MIMIC SUEZ CANAL.
1t Are Mimic ships, aud the whole
Constitutes the Time Table.

1t Are Mimic Ships, aud the whole
Constitutes the Time Table.
There is striking similarity be-
tween the method of keeping track Of
ships in the SueZ canal and making
up time table for them and mapping
out trains on railroad and preparing
railroad time table. Sometimes
there are 30 or 40 ships in the canal at
one time. At a desk in an upper
chamber at Terreplein sits the man
who controls the movements of the
vessels.
Against the wall at one side of the
room is narrow shelf or platform,
along which runs groove. At inter-
walls this trough or groove has deep
recesses, and at two places these re.
cesses are of larger size. This
trough or groove represents the canal.
The recesses are the sidings. The
larger intervals are the Great Bitter
lake and Lake Timsoh. When yes-
sci is about to enter the canal at, say,
the Suez end, small toy boat or
model, three inches long, is placed in
the trough to represent her. A group
of these model ships, each furnished
with flag, stands ready beside the
model canal About 40 have the Eng
lish flag, ten or dozen the French
flag, and so on with other nationalities.
AS the steamer comes up and her
name is known it is written on paper
and place on the toy boat.
The whole number Of ships in the
canal at any moment can be seen at Il
glance; and, as the telegraphic signals
give notice, the toy boats are moved
along OF placed in siding or shown
traversing one OF the lakes at full
speed. Signals are sent from the Of
flee to the various "gares," prescrib-
ing the siding at which each ship
must stop to let another meet and
pass it. The official who is on duty
keeps the models moving as he re-
ceives notice, taking care, when per-
haps two ships, going in opposite di-
rections, are both nearing the same
siding, to give timely warning to the
pilots i'll charge by means of the signal
balls and flags at each station under
h s control fl ON the Office, and to direct
which OF the two is to stop and which
to proceed.
The fees which vessels pay for pass
ing through the canal often are enor-
nous. Some of the large liners of
the Peninsular aud Oriental, or the
Orient service, pay $4,000 in making a
single transit. For every passenger
half napoleon, or 50, is charged.
Three-fourths of the ships that go
through the canal are English.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27

On the highest ground of long,
low hill, distant al out one mile to the
westward of the little town of Bodega
in western Sonoma county, Cal. there
stands tall, somewhat decrepit red
wood flagstaff. This ancient looking
pole is about 60 feet in height, says
the San Francisco Bulletin, is bent
with age AMI exposure and is slowly
decaying. That plain, warped old
redwood fagpole is the patriarch OF
all fagpoles not only in California, but
ON the entire Pacific slope. For it
was the first erected to fly the banner
of the Union when California aud all
other territory in the same latitude,
from the Pacific to the Ro kies, were
taken possession of by the United
States,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27
His Trousers Material.

He was proud little fellow, as lie
strutted around in new pair OF
trousers that his mother lad made for
him, and very important he looked as
lie squared himself in front of his
best friend, the corner groceryman,
and said: 81 bet you can't guess what
my trousers are made OFF"
"Of broadcloth?" asked the gro
ceryman.
"Nope," replied tho little fellow.
"Of corduroy, then?" ventured the
groceryman.
'Nope.'
"Of jeans?'
"Nope."
"Well, what are they made Of,
them"
Ofpapa's old Ones" triumphantly
answered the little fellow. Memphis
Scimitar.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27

Flying squirrels are not infrequent-
ly met with in Michigan. This SPUR.
rel is provided with membrane run
ming between the fore and hind leg on
each side OF the body, and by means
of these it sails down from tall tree
across considerable distance, to the
branches of another.
In the wild portions of the middle
aud northern part of the state he who
passes through the woods at night
can sometimes see pair of blazing
eyes that look down on him from the
limb of tree. 1t is the wildcat, q
fierce and powerful animal larger than
the ordinary cat and smaller than the
lynx in size. 1t is of stouter, stronger,
thicker build than the cat and has but
a short tail. Its fur is grayish, slight
ly notified, with dark streak down
the back and lighter color underneath.
When cornered it will fight like n
tiger and many a dog has been worsted
by its prowess.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-01-27

A carrier on his way to Hinckley
overlook poor woman carrying q
baby. She was very tired, and asked
him if he would give her lift.
eyes, missus," said he, IF you
won't talk rubbish to the baby"
The woman promised not to do SO,
and got in. They had not proceeded
far when the baby began to cry.
Flush, my little ducky. wucky,"
said the mother, '.you're going to
Hinckley- Pinckley to see your uncley-
punkley."
"Now you can get out and walkey-
palkey," said the carrier. london
Weekly Telegraph.