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However, some of the more thought
full among them sent down for rein
forcements and consolation. 1T came
not in bottles. Ii was in the shape of
a long string of fellow sinners from
the Kaahumanu street den.
The first half Of the game went out
with great deal of oratorical fire.
works from the visiting rooters. The
spirit was hot, and action was quick.
The Business Men struggled long and
strenuously for their recently acQuir-
ed laurels. At the beginning of the
second part of the game the chances
of the Male Ilimas winning looked
much like five cents worth of cat
meat on a very warm day. AS the
game wore along to conclusion the
tables turned. Ben Clark, a wearer
of green and yellow hosiery, made
first-class plays. Fred Wright made
a few scientific passes which assisted
in putting the ball through the net
basket.
The Business Men finally succumo-
ed to the heavy onslaugnls of the ad-
versaries. They individually put up
gilt-edged game The official score
teams are well matched. The game
abounded in hot finishes. Intense
rivalry accompanied by the best of
feeling prevailed
When the scores announced shortly
before nine o'clock that the score
stood IA to IL in favor of the Male
Ilimas. the applause was deafening.
Everybody shook hands with every
body else, and exchanged glad smiles.
Here is the line up:
Business Men-Geo. Fuller. Frank
A,nerton, A. Cheek, A. Waterhouse,
A. T. Brock, G. Waterhouse and T.. B.
Clark.
Male Ilimas-Fred Wright. Ben
Clark. viii Wright. John Clark and
Robert King.
The game was looked after in de-
tail by these officials: Referee, A. ].
Coats; Umpire, Will King; Time
keeper. Geo. Clark: Scorer, j. NJ.
Moore.
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5 NEW coALlMo STATIONS. .
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From the Denver Republican
The Navy department ID awake to
the importance Of maintaining coating
stations IN di6ereofparts o. the world
where war ships may be supplied with
fuel. thus avoiding the necessity Of
purchasing from some other power
When war ships we're propelled by
wind, coaling stations we're of no use
and naval oficials and diplomasists
gave no attention to their acquisition
But the substitution Of steam has made
stations Of this kind essential to the
successful operation Of q great navy.
Crest Britain long ago entered upon
the policy Of acquiring them. and to
day II has stations Of that kind scat
tered all over the world There is
hardly a sea In which there is not
some British acquisition OF this char
acter.
Before we acquired the Philippines
we had no coaling station in the ORR
ent. Within the last few years we
have acquired the Hawaiian Islands,
Guam and the Philippines. at each OF
which coaIlng stalions can be main
tanned, and with them the United
States is fairly well equipped for OPP
erations in the Pacific. But We have
nothing in the Indian ocean, nothing
la the South Atlantic, and nothing on
the coast of either Europe or Africa.
Whether it Is practicable to obtain
concessions of this sort from European
powers is questionable, but unless we
secure our own fuel stations on the
eastern side of the AtianLc We may
some day be placed at great disad-
vantage in a war with European ma
ton.
There is an expense attached to the
maintenance o. such places out it goes
without saying hat a nation cannot
become a great naval power without
spending money. II it is wise to main
tain a large navy it is equally so to
acquire and maintain as many naval
stations as the uses of the navy may
require. The Navy Department will
be sustained by public sentiment in its
policy Of establishing supplies OF fuel
all over the world, and Congress need
fear no criticism in appropriating all
the money that this policy may call
for
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BATTLE OF SHILOH ANNIVERSARY
Continued from First Page.)

were sung with vim at intervals.
Comrade Dickey playing accompani-
ments on the piano. He played the
piano. in his time. for Grant and Sher-
man.
Just before breaking up the camp
fire an interesting diversion was
brought about Two Virginia freed
mems sons out in the street heard
the singing and. as they explained la
ter. thinking il was Salvation Army
rally reeonnoitreL until they were dis
covered in the corridor by the hall
door The darkies were cordially in
vited inside and after being given a
good ill of army grub they entertain
ed their hosts with several of the old
Jubilee songs. Their rendering Of
GLORY in Ny Soul" Swing Low
Sweet Chariot" etc. was a rare treat
The hat being passed around the an
gels entertained unawares were sent
on their way rejoicing with enough
silver TO triple-plate their wings.
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BUSINESS MEN GO
DOWN TO DEFEAT
THE MALE lllMAS WIN THE
CITY BASKET BALL
CHAMPIONSHIP.
Shouts Of Rejoicing Jar the Plate
Glass Fronts-Abounded in Quick
Action and Hot Finishes-score
~ 20 IL.

There were sounds OF prolonged and
tumultuous rejoicing in the neighbor-
hood of the Young Mems Christian
Association building yesterday even
ing They came not from the tinkling
cymbal, the bass drum, or the long
necked bassoon. Vociferous shouts
emanated from the headquarters on
Hotel street where peace and good
will are won't to prevail. They came in
such volumes that they bore strong
resemblance to the breaking up OF a
Democratic ward caucus when sue
cessful nominee manifests a willing
ness to buy" The noise clearly in
dicated victory. II came in volleys.
and with such force that the plate
glass fronts In the vicinity were per-
ceptibly Jared.
The Maile Ilimas and the Y. NJ. C..
A. Business Mems team met in dead
ly conflict on the basket ball field OF
battle. This caused all the disturb
ance. When the smoke of battle had
sufficiently cleared away at the close
OF the contest, the Male lima boys
were detected Juggling of the yictori-
Gus pennant. they having beaten the
Y. NJ. c. A. team by score OF II
TO II.
A half-doEen gay and sportiye
youngsters who nightly congregate
in the upper loft OF the wooden build
ing down on kaahumanu street. and
who when away from home wear bois
ferrous yellow and green ribbons upon
which are printed the mystic words
"Maile lima" formed the party of
the first part
An equal number of model young
men. who delve into long columns OF
figures and countinEroom lore by day.
and participate in Y. NJ. c. A. festivities
and athletics when not otherwise en-
gagged comprised the party Of the sec
ond part
Now the aforesaid young men wear
ing conversational ribbons had at some
time read In last years Thrum's Al
manac that the Y. NJ. c. A. Business
Mems team were pennant winners In
the line of basket ball An executive
session was called. A challenge soon
emanated from the dark recesses OF
the little side street near the post
Office. The def was accepted by the
Young Men" from Hotel street
Details for the game were
speedily arranged. The seconds were
chosen. The game between the cham
pions from two sides Of Fort street
was scheduled for the Y. NJ. c, A. gym
nasium-
Time was called promptly at 1850.
Referees. timekeepers and scorers
were In their places The Y. NJ. c. A
boys felt right at home. The Male
Ilimas were somewhat embarrassed. J
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From and After January l, 1901
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Shot At Short Range.

From the Boston Courier.
Mrs. .Fourthhusband-Is it really
true, as the papers intimate, that our
United States senators frequently
talk for the mere purpose of killing
time?
Mr.. Fourthhusband-No question of
it, my dear.
Mrs. F.-What a reprehensible prac-
tice, to be sure.
Mr.. F. mindful of the fate of his
predecessors)-V true, but there
are greater offenders; our local GENE
terry bears testimony to the existence
of more fatal takers than those whom
you accuse.
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6. p. pExlsoN.
69psrinesuoanI
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Facts Shatter Assertions.

From the InuIanapOHS JOuIH
Those unhappy Americans who have
been charging that Uncle Sam pays an
excessive price for armor plate may
be surprised to learn, on the author
ity Of the finance committee OF the
Reichstag. that the German govern
ment pays $50 ton more than the
United States.
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The local English football team
defeated that from H. B. N. s. Icarus
at Makiki yesterday Afternoon by .
score Of Z to O. The names Of the
players we're given in . previous issue.
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Do not leave home on a journey
without q bottle of Chamberlain's Co
lie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
It is almost certain to be needed and
cannot be procured while you are on
board the cars or steamship. 1t is
pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale
by Benson, Smith & Co., General
Agents for the Territory Of Hawaii.
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Another Pathological Discovery.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
And now a scientist has discovered
that the earth is pear shaped. 1t is
singular that none Of the people who
are perpetually scrambling over it
ever noticed that fact before.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

Steamers due and to sail for the
next two months are as follows:
DEPART
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ARRIVE.

A government transport from San
francisco. carrying mai. IS q
the Sth and 23d of each month.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-13

The commission man is everywhere
present. He is practically ubiquitous
and during his wakeful hours there is no
wider awake character than he. He is
diplomatic, affable, loquacious, enter
tanning, and he is never accused of not
knowing his business. 1t is reported
that one of them was once worsted in an
argument by man of another calling,
but the report is not well authenticated,
and is almost universally discredited.
His favorite literature is market reports,
though he will read how the wars are
progressing if he thinks the status has a
possible bearing on the grain market.
Commission men have been looked upon
by some in the past as a necessary evil
whose presence was tolerated rather
than welcomed but this view is an un-
Just one. AS a matter OF fact, the COM
missionmen have legitimate and useful
mission and their extinction would con-
stitute a serious blow to the shippers.
They are the connecting link between the
buyer and seller, producer and consumer,
and without them the chain could not
easily be repaired. The commission man
is, in the abstract, precisely like other
men-no better. no worse. But were he
inclined to be dishonest or fraudulent, he
could not carry out the inclination; and
the slightest attempt in that direction
would not only shut off his patronage,
but cause his expulsion from the Cham
Der OF Commerce. The very competition
of their business compels them, even
were there no other motive, to deal gen
erously with, and to guard the interests
OF their clients. The commission men
thoroughly understand every phrase of
the situation, and they can and do look
after the interests of the shipper much
better than he could were he on the
ground in person.
On the other hand, the shippers are
not in imminent danger. In these days
of railroads, telegraph and telephones,
the shipper knows as well as anyone else
what is going on. He reads in his paper,
every day, how many bushels of grain
were sold the day. before 10 Duluth,
Minneapolis, Chicago and Liverpool,
and the price paid per bushel. When he
receives an account of sale of car Of
wheat which has been sold for him by a
commission firm, he has only to look at
his newspaper or private advices to learn
what the market was on the day Of sale.
The certificate of inspection from the
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At the time Of year when the receipts are
heaviest, the switching crews work over.
time; and even then they are hardly able
to prevent congestion in some of the
yards. AS soon as the car is weighed,
the consignee procures state certificate
Of it's weight, and bills upon the pur-
chaser for the purchase money. If the
bill is presented before eleven O'Clock in
the forenoon, it is paid that day; other
wise it is paid the next day. On the
very day the bill is paid, the consignee,
after deducting freight charges, his com-
mission Zone cent per bushel), and the
amount previously advanced, mails a
check for the balance to the shipper
These rules are universal, and as infex-
ible as the laws Of nature.
HOW THE GRAIN is WEIGHED.
There are in Minneapolis sixty-one
mills and elevators where grain is
weighed by state weighers. There are,
on an average, fifty weighers, some Of
them doing duty at two or three mills,
when the latter are close together. In
some places there are track. scales, but in
most places, particularly at elevators,
the scales are located we'll toward the
tops of the structures. The grain is
shoveled from the car into the pit by a
steam shovel, and is then elevated in the
way generally understood to a large bin
above the scalehopper called garner"
When it is all elevated, an electric signal
is sent to the weigher, who then pulls
lever which causes the grain to fall from
the garner into the hopper. The weight
is then taken and entered in book, op-
posite the number of the car from which
it came. At the close oil the days work
the weights of the different cars are
drawn off on a blank and sent to the
office, where they are recorded and pre-
served. The scales are modern, and the
best that money can buy. The most of
them have an automatic registering at
tachment which registersin plain figures,
upon a card, the weight OF each draft.
II the weigher should, owing to darkness
or other cause, mistake the figures upon
the beam, the register would correct
him. Every precaution which the inge-
nuity of man can devise is used to pre-
vent error, and it would be almost i'm
possible to make one which would not
be atterward detected.
ADJUSTMENT OF SCALES.
A man who is an expert in the inspec-
ton and adjustment OF scales devotes his
whole time to keeping the scales in per-
feet working condition. Sometimes a
scale, which is very sensitive piece OF
machinery, becomes little too quick or
too slow, but the fact is at once detected.
In addition to the daily receipts from
the country, cars of grain from the dit
terent elevators in the city are being con.
tinually shifted to the mills or to other
elevators. When several cars, from as
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License to Sell Real Estate
TRUMAN MARTINS ESTATE.


STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate Court. held at st. Johnsbury,
within and for said District, on the Goth day
of Januay A. D. 1901.
George P. Blair, Executor of the last Will
and Testament of Truman Martin, late
of Peacham, in said District. deceased,
makes application to said Court for license to
sell the whole of the real estate of said de-
ceased, consisting of one acre of land, more
or less, with a dwelling house and out
buildings thereon, situated in Pea
cham aforesaid. Also one pew in the
Congregational Church in Peacham afore-
said, representing to said Court, that
1t would be beneficial to the Heirs.
devisees, legatees and all persons In
terested In the Estate of said deceased to sell
the whole of the Real Estate of said deceas-
ed as aforesaid, and convert the same into
money; and also brings herewith into
Court the consent and appreciation in writ
| ing to the granting of such license, of all the
| Heirs. devisees and legatees to said Estate
residing in the state.
Whereupon. it is ordered by said Court,
| that said application come under considera-
| ton and be heard at the Probate Office, in
| said St. Johnsbury, on the 18th day of Feb.
| A. d. 1901; and it is further ordered that all
persons interested be notified hereof. by pub
LEGATION of notice of this application and
| order thereon, three weeks successfully in the
| Caledonian printed at st. Johnsbury, before
said time of hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place, and il they see cause,
object thereto.
BY the Court.-Attest
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
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In the twilight of an evergreen thicket
sits great horned owl like hermit in
his cell in pious contemplation Of his own
holiness and the worlds wickedness.
Out in the fields you may find the white
robed brother OF this gray friar, pilgrim
from the far north brooding in the very
face of the sun, on some stack or outlying
barn, but he will not suffer you to come
so near to him. Marsh and channel are
scarcely distinguishable now but by the
white domes of the muskrats' winter
homes and here and there a sprawling
thicket or button bush, for the rank
growth of weeds is beaten fiat, and the
deep snow covers it and channel ice in
one unbroken sheet Rowland E.
Robinson.
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in contemplation at Duluth will in
crease the storage capacity there several
million bushels. Fully seve nty-tive per
cent of the grain received at Duluth is
loaded on vessels and shipped Eastward.
THE BEGINNING OF STATE SERVICE.
Previous to 1885. all grain received at
Minneapolis and Duluth to be sold was
inspected and weighed under the super
vision OF the Chamber OF Commerce OF
the respective cities. AS the membership
OF these organizations was composed al
most wholly of grain dealers, the feeling
naturally obtained among the dealers
that the grading and weighing was con
Quoted in the interest of the dealers, rath.
er than the shippers or producers, and
that feeling resulted in the enactment OF
law creating a state inspection and
weighing department, the control Of
which was assigned to the State Board
OF Railroad and Warehouse Commission
erS
The Minneapolis district has nine chief
inspectors, two assistant chiefs, four
clerks, fourteen track inspectors, ten help
ers, ten sealers and FIVE samplers. The
inspectors examine thoroughly and crit
lcally every car OF grain received, and fix
the grade on each car, which grade is
made the basis of sale. There is board
OF appeals to which tribunal every case
IS carried when it is thought the grade
gwen by the track inspector is unjust.
This board consists of three members
Minneapolis and Duluth each has a
board) and in order to keep it out Of pol
ltlcs, the law provides that the members
shall belong to different political parties.
TIE STANDARD RULES FOR MINNESOTA
GRADES
are as follows:
No. Hard Spring Wheat-must be
sound, bright and well cleaned, and must
be composed mostly of Hard Scotch Fife.
1T must also weigh not less than hlty-
eight pounds to the measured bushel.
No. 1 Northern Spring Wheat-must
be sound and we'll cleaned, and composed
OF the hard and soft varieties of spring
wheat. 1t must contain not less than
nifty per cent of the hard varieties, and
weigh not less than ffty.seven pounds to
the measured bushel.
No. 2 Northern Spring Wheat--must
De sound, reasonably clean, and of good
milling quality. 1t must also weigh not
less than fifty-six pounds to the measur'
ed bushel
Anything below mo. 2 Northern" is
graded mo. Northern" Rejected, y
Or mo Grade" as quality warrants.
THE INSPECTORS ARE EARLY AT WORK
armed with these rules, from which they
never knowingly swerve. Before the
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the same ground before traversed closes
the doors he has opened. and places
state seal upon them, entering in his
book the number of every seal so used.
AS soon as the inspectors work is tin-
ished in the yards, they hurry to the
Office of the chief deputy, where they
make reports of the cars inspected and
all the particulars belonging thereto,
which reports are posted for the inspec-
ton of all interested,
No sooner Go the inspectors leave the
cars than the
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SAMPLERS
appear on foot, or with horse, wagon or
bicycle, after samples. They remove, if
need be, the seals placed on the cars by
the state and after procuring a sample
from each car, as we'll as a copy OF the
card placed in the car by the inspector,
they close the doors. substituting {. OF
c., seals for the ones they removed, but
making a complete record of the trans
action. These samples are carried to the
! Chamber of Commerce, and each sample
is placed in tin basin. with a card CIV
ing the number of the car from which it
was taken, and the grade and shrinkage.
When the dealers arrive, they see spread
out before them sample OF every car OF
grain in the yards, and know each car
has been graded. Each commission
man has by this time opened and read
his mail, and every one knows how
many cars he must buy to fill his orders;
or il he is a consignee, how many and
what cars he has to sell.
Commercial activity soon reaches a
degree which is inspiring to the partlcl'
pants and interesting to the on-lookers
and continues until the scene closes.
| These transactions, although carried on
amidst confusion which to the NOVICE
would seem chaotic, are as simple ano
plain as the purchase and sale OF box
of matches or bar of soap at a grocery.
The astonishing feature is the large
amounts which are carried from one
side of the ledger to the other side IN so
short a time. Purchases and sales run
ming way up into the tens OF thousands
are sometimes made in less than MIN
ute.
By one O'Clock, often earlier, every car
of grain represented by samples has been
sold, and the scene of activity centers IN
the railroad yards. About three O'CLOCK
the railroad companies telephone the
different consignees to know where their
respective cars are to be delivered. The
consignee then stands at the phone with
list in hand, and gives the name OF the
mill or the elevator to which each car is
to be sent. From that time to PERIOD
sometimes we'll into the night, the
switch.engnes are an important factor
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HaVvSs ThiSe

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for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
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him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
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Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and
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75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists:
Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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amount for inspection and weighing.
Thus, for two-t thirds of mill per bushel,
the shipper has his grain inspected and
weighed by men who are not only thor
oughly competent, impartial and disin-
terested, but who are under bonds in the
sum of $4,000 each to perform their
duties honestly and faithfully. Even an
abstract view would seem to be sufficient
to convince a practical mind of the wis
dom and reasonableness OF the PROPOSE
ton.
THE COMMISSION MEN.
AS Minneapolis is the largest primary
grain market in the world, it might nat
urally be expected that there are many
men there who either deal in grain or
who act as agents for both buyers and