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coTToN sEEp PRopucrs.

T. O. n. mill, Texas interior points. &C.
cordlng TO location Per gallon
Prime crude oil, loose. 24izd ~
Prime summer yellow oil. IS n 20
Tinters, per pound ...... 2 a "a
Per ton.
Hulls. hailed ...s.... IS On
Prime cotton seed meal $50 90 M2i 90
Prime cot.o on Eeed cake ~ rs N20 30
Quotations On prime COTTON seed meal
and prime cotton seed cake are for deny-
cry az Galyeston.
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HOUSTON WHOLESALE PRICES.

STABLE Commodities.
1,hsse quotations are revised daily and
a, II eorrertness can be relied upon. The
, u1scss arc those ruling In Houston whole
saie markets.
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Houston Daily Statement.


Gross receipts thus far this week. 100
cross receipts 323 days this season . 400. SS9
Gross receipts 325 days 1S00.19O0 745. 682
Gross receipts 32I daNs lS0S.lSan. o 4R2 2NS
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Following are the safes of stocks and
closing prices for the New York stock mar.
ket Closing
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New York Futures.
Liverpool Futures.

The leading values ranged as followsi
Juiv .......4 2S- Dos Nov-Dec ...,.4 lab
July Aug. a 2sh Dec-Jan ...."4 l4b
Aug Sept. A 25-26s Jan Feb ...."4 LAP
sept. No. A, 25-2bs Feb Mar ....,4 l4-loo
Oct lib Mar-Apr ....,4 lo-l0s
Oct Nov. - 13h
. asked; selling; b bid value,
Stock at United States Ports.
Stock this day Observation-Disclosures. $40, TO-
Stock this day last week .......,.. 4,b,lpo
Stoct This day last wear. 42l0
Excess this season ..............22 9. 952
United States Exports.
This week Last year.
EXPORTS TO Great Britain ls22s 6,OS4
Exports TO France ...... s2lS
Exports to Continent $50. .2420S 3,IIb
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DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.

Quinine, 450I47c per ounce bottle; NOR
phlne. $24oa2.G0 per ounce; cocaine, S6.25
per ounce: borax. SIC per pound in 100
castor oil. Sl.20 per gallon In j-galon
packages epson salts, s3.7o per hundred
In barrels; alcohol, S2.70@3.00 per gallon
sulphur $26J per iUO IN barrels; alum
2lkc per pound In barrels; saltpeter, &c per
pound in barrels; tamphor. zoe; wood ALEC
hol. 800: gum opium, $3.50; powdered
opium, S4.55 earbollc acid I0d42e per
pound In bottles: calcium carbide, s. 20
per hundred, delivered Texas common rail-.
way points.
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st. Louis Grain and Provisions.

decline in corn aud under reports of show
ers In the Northwest.
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The leading futures ranged as follow

IAEn QWUIHIIVlo WIZ NJ E'7''7'''F
WbestNNo. 3 spring 66Ge91a; No red
7lh@Tik. .u. pz1,
OATS IA ; 3Ssid30: No. white 39l5d
40l,: No 8 white 39iad4o.
Rye-No. > 56A. ,.s.o
Borlev-Fair 70 choice mailing $4,000.
Timothy seed--Prime 5.25.
Mess pork-.Per barrel 1880 400
Terd1per 100 pounds S67hds. 20.
short ribs sides loosel-1 sSds, % eo,l
shsrt clear sides tboxed)-S. 35dS.4o.
WbiskyMBasIs Of high wines, per gallon
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rRrIrs

APPLES.TeIas, per peck. soa4Oc. CAN.
bbls So. rs "N's'
=, CANTELoUPES--Te per crate, 75ca
~, 70; colorado Rockfords, 81 SOdl rs
EMuNS-Messinas. 81. Ol57B 90
oRANG ES-Ialencia 1ates. So So Medl.
terranean sweets, So rs
paper rinds, st Michaels, 81. 25
PEACHES--FRn Alhertas four. basket
crates, S5cdSl 90; Ahnshel hoxes 50d60r:
fancy clings' 4.basket crates, 75ds5c; peoss,
PEARS Bartlett, So. O065.3 rs.
PINEAPpLES,- Grated, per dozen 81 OOG1
%; per crate, 81 .50a15y00.
PLUMS--Per peck, wild Goose. 35d45c;
Kelsey, 4od5oci California, Somoni Sl.T5
a. 20. Suisse
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Cargill 4 Richardson OF Houston report
the range Of prices for the eadIng stocks
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Net Reeeipts at United States Ports.
BUTTER AND EGGS.

.ce. 1.alT So oa2. 4a3
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few Orleans July 90 Liverpool cables:
farket feels the influence Of drouth doing
fm, Reported market well liquidated
chances are in favor market lmprov.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
LITERARY Law MAKERS.
Many Valuable and Interesting Books
Written BY Members Of Parliament

Many Valuable and Interesting Books
Written by Members of Parliament
Writing IN Casselfs Magazine ON
MThe Novelist as M. r., Mr.. Whyte
Edgar says: There are few who
know, and fewer still who are at the
pains to realize, how vast has been the
contribution to the fund Of English
literature, even in the present genera
tion, by members Of the two houses
Of parliament. Their soutput" to
borrow commercial expression
equally applicable nowadays to coal
and books, to brains and textile fab
rics would not only fiji d library Of
imposing dimensions, but d library
embracing every walk Of modern IN
telleetual activity. Science would
here be represented by Lord Kelvin,
Lord AYebury (Sir John Iubbockl,
the late Lord Playfair, and the late
duke Of Argyle; philosophical criti-
cism by Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Balfour
and Mr. Haldane; literary criticism,
biography and historical analysis by
Lord RoseberY, Mr.. Morley and Mr.
Bryce; sismso and aologies'' BY u
group Of earnest writers ranging from
Mr.. Courtney, the late Prof. tThorold
Rogers and The late Mr.. Faweett to
Sir Henry Howorth; travel and ad-
venture in a host of attractive garbs
by kinglake and Iayard, Lord Duff
ferin and Lord Curzon, Of Kedleston,
Sir il. M. Stanley and Sir Richard
Temple, the late earl Of Pembroke
and the present earl of Dunraven;
military science by Sir Edward Ham
ley, Sir George Chesney, and that ad-
mirable crichton Of Scottish Judges,
Lord Kingsburgh; and bellies lettres,
poetry, bantering essays, whimsical
conceits and wit deftly interviewer
with wisdom by Mr.Rirrell, Sir George
Theyelyan, Sir Herbert Maxwell,
Owen Meredith 7 Mockton Mines,
Lord Brahorirne, Mr. Justice Darling
and Mr.. George Wyndham No one,
surely, can begrudge the epithet lit
erary to the legislative chambers
that have enriched our bookshelyes
with Eothen,' aJuyentus Mundi,v y
e Problems Of the Far East, .Ros-
sqau, a Defense Of Philosophic
Doubt, The Holy Roman Empire
Through the Dark Continent and
"0biter Dieta 10 name only few,
taken almost at random.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
DENSITY OF POPULATION.
United States Not Leader in This
Respect.

- * 3 : = &
Ask anyone which is the most
thickly populated country in the
world, and hundred to one you will
receive an incorrect answer. For this
reason the figures just published by
the Reiehsanzeiger are of timely in
terest.
According to it Egypt stands in
the front rank, containing as it does
29o persons to every square kilometer,
which is equal to fye-eighths Of
a square mile. Nextcomes Belgium,
with s26 persons, and then come the
Netherlands, with 154;; Great Britain
and Ireland, with 128; Japan, with
III, and Italy, with 10 inhabitants
to every square kilometer Germany,
with 81, is seventh in the list and it is
followed BY Austria, with 81; Switz-
erland, with rs; France, with rs;
Denmark with 60; Hungary, with 5s,
.SerVia, with so: Roumania, with Al;
Greece, with 38; Spain, with 3G, and
Bulgaria, with 35 inhabitants to every
square kllometer.
Then comes a considerable gap,
Sweden, with Il inhabitants, being
the next country, after which follows
the United States, with ten; Norway,
with seven; Russia, with six; Mexico,
with six; Chill, with four, and the Ar
gentine Republic, with two inhab-
=itaats to every square kilometer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
THIS AND THAT.

England owns more than half OF
the steamers in the world.
Harvard university has sent an
astronomical expedition to Jamaica
| to obtain a Photographic atlas Of the
moon, with the aid Of d telescope 135
feet long.
The report Of the directors Of the
Scotland Burial Reform and Crema-
tion society for 1900 proves that the
number Of cremations Shows a steady
increase every year.
One French journalist proposes to
exclude all accounts Of duels and the
names Of dlselists participating there
in from the newspapers on the
grounds that if no notice were taken
tof them most duelists would be will
ing to let their honor proteetitself.
A New York police commissioner
declared the other day that it was
easier to hang a man for murderthere
than to dismiss policeman. Last
year, he said, "the board had to pay
out $130,0 900 in back salaries TO men
who had been reinstated by the
courts.
The Girard national bank, of Phil
adelphia, claims to have two clerks
Of champion speed in counting cash.
One Of them has the record Of having
counted 1000 Bland silver dollars in
one and one-half minutes. Theother
has counted in So seconds 100 one
dollar bills.
After the abandonment Of Britain
by the Romans, the roads fellinto dis
use, and bride paths formed the only
means of communication. Not until
the sixteenth year Of Charles IT., that
is, 1876, was any systematic effort
made to improve The roads Of Eng-
land.
According to a report read to the
Michigan State Dairymen's associa-
tion by President Fred M. Warner,
people ii the southern counties Of
that state are crowded into the cities
because nowadays there is no profit
in farming. Twenty-eight Of these
counties have lost 40, 900 rural popu-
lation IN the past ten years.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
ENCOURAGING A CRITIC.
Wanted-A Candid Opinion if II Is
Favorable One.

A shrewd observer says that most
people ask for and few really desire
candid opinion.
Il wish you'd come out to my
house and see Correggio that /
bought in Italy last summer, Z said a
collector more noted for zeal than
discernment, to a friend and con-
noisseur.
Its head, perfect beauty
just fragment of some great pic
ture, he proceeded.
i should like to see it, said the
.connoisselr.
I want your candid opinion oft,
that's what I want, continued the
collector. I'D like to know exactly
what you think Of it. A man had the
insolenee.totell me the other day that
he didn't believesit was an origiinalt
Il another man says that, I'm afraid
my temper will get the upper hand
of me, and / shall knock him down.
Now you come out as soon as You can,
and give me your unbiased opinion. :"
Baptist Union.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
INTERPOLATION In MEMORY.
Slight Variation in Things Very Similar
Have to Be Counted Upon.

The expert violinist who has feel
ing for correct intonation, who has
a @good ear" in common parlance,
has to adapt his lingering to each
strange instrument-aye, and to each
fresh string; for the intervals are
never mathematically true, and vary
with each fiddle and with each string.
The pianist, says the Contemporary
Review, has to graduate differently
the minute variations Of touch to the
varying resistance and resonance Of
each instrument. A billiard player
may have learned something of the
laws Of reflection Of moving bodies,
and possibly have a hazy glimmer Of
the subjects Of friction and spin and
imperfect elasticity, though these in
yolye such high mathematical pow
ers for conscious solution that it is
doubtful whether any champion has
mastered them. But even had he
done so, he would require for their
to each table, each ball,
each cue. preliminary investigation
into their several Constants; and
given all these, such problems are not
to be worked out in the limited time
an expert spends between two sue
cessive strokes of break. Nor could
he thereby, after trying few strokes
on new table, allow, at once, as he
does, for its ..fastness, resilieney, and
truth, different from any he has
known
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
WOMEN'S MANUFACTURES.
One of the Interesting Exhibits at the
Buffalo Exposition

olNoIU GApOSllluA. s#sF
One Of the many novel and interest
ing features Of the Pan-American ex-
position at Buffalo next summer will
be an extensive exhibit of Women's S
manufactures. The general public
little realize the extent and i'm
portance Of this class Of industries.
1t has been made apparent to the
board Of women managers Of the ex-
position, however, by the numerous
applications from prospective e1hib-
itors.
One woman makes rugs and has
built up quite an industry. She
keeps a large number Of wives and
daughters Of New England farmers
busy with her work, Another manu-
faetures artistic jewel settings, an
other exquisite things IN pottery, an
other carved and decorative leather
goods, etc. In fact, the Women's
manufactures are 50 many that it
would require much space to enumer-
ate them all.
Tire committee on applied arts Of
the board Of women managers has ar
ranged to establish ii the manufac-
tures and liberal arts building a com
lnodious booth in which articles man
llfaetured by women may be exhibit
ed at a nominal cost to the exhib-
itors, and arrangements will be made
under which orders may be taken fof
articles like those displayed.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
NY GRANpcHlLp.

My grandchild's made of leather,
And has a chine head;
The parts are sewed together
With strong, unyielding thread.
Shed stand some beautifying,
AS anyone can see,
But there is no denying
My grandchild worries me.
If l would go out walking,
And take my child along,
She interrupts me, talking,
To tell me something's wrong.
"Oh, dear, I've left my dolly;
l must go back!" she cries.
To argues worse than folly,
So back again she flies.
Perchance I may be reading
Some chilGren's fairy tale;
think my words she's needing,
When comes this woeful wall:
Now, stop! My dolly's crying!
Whatever shall I do?
Poor thing! There's no use trying
To listen now to you"
And when / think she's sleeping,
$ ] find that she, instead,
Is down the hallway, creeping
To put her doll to bed.
And SO her course erratic
Will e'er distressing be-
A nuisance most emphatic
My grandchild is to me.
Chicago Evening Post.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
INTENSELY INTERESTED.
Indifference of Cinnamon TO Chinese Crisis
Only Affected.


Only Affected.
taThe New Orleans Chinese colony
las taken the deepest interest in the
situation in the far east, said gem
tlenan who has been identified with
city mission work and who is well ae-
quainted with the principal residents
Of the local Chinatown. In talking
with them, however, one would sup
pose that exactly the reverse was the
case. At the outset Of the trouble at.
Peking every Chinaman in the city
assumed an air of stolid Indifference,
which has been sustained ever. since,
and their vacant stare whenever the.
subject is mentioned would convince
the average observer that they felt
no more interest in the outcome than
they did in the man in the moon. As
a matter Of fact, This attitudehas been
assumed solely for the benefit Of the
white foreign devils, and IS the result.
of an order that was sent out from
the headquarters of the associated
companies, or aTongs, at San Fran
cisco, directly after the first alarming
cablegrams were printed in the pa
pers. Practically all the Chinese in
New Orleans, continued the speaker,
ARE members of one Of three power
ful native societies OF. companies that
have administrative Offices in Frisco
and branches all over the United
States. Whenever any big question
Of policy arises, the different com
panies generally get together and
send out joint proclamation, and in
this instance they lost no time in ad-
vlsing all natives to profess absolute
ignorance and Indifference to the
Boxer situation. The message came
in the shape Of small red poster,
which was Immediately hung up in
one of the principal Chinese shops,
and, from that time on, the whole col
ony was ready with CLASSY stare
whenever Peking was referred to. To
one who understood the inside facts
it was very amusing, and more than
onceI have had difficulty in keaniupa 4
straight face when wel1-meaning yis-
itors at the mission have tried to-
pump the scholars about the trouble
in the orient. What troubleg they
would ask, blankly. Why, there has
been lots Of fghting-heaps Of peo-
pie killedp the visitor would exclaim,
ezcitedly. Tightin' people KILL
the Chinaman would echo; Z dunno;
may be so,' and with that he would
turn indifferently to his Sunday
school lesson, leaving the questioner
dumfounded at his apathy. At the
same time the chances were tentoone
that this apparently stolid oriental
had just come from the back room of
some store or other rendezvous, where
he had been pouring eagerly over
news letter sent out by his own par
tieular company and purporting TO
give the exact facts Of the situation
up todate. Iought to explain, by the
way, that the whole colony depends
altogether on these letters or cireu-
lars for their information from
abroad. They read the local papers,
and some of them can read English
quite readily, but they don't trust the
foreign devils when it comes to war
news. | can't say that I blame them
particularly. The circulars come in
at intervals of a few weeks and are
accepted as official. IN. O. Times
Democrat.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
THE CURIOUS WATER SPIDER.
Carries Bubbles of Air to Its Little
Submarine Nest.

i ~ 4
A certain kind Of spider is capable
Of forming bubble, taking it down
through the water, and discharging it
into its nest, so that the eggs and
later on the young are kept dry and
are supplied with air.
Although the water spider lives on
land, where it needs plenty Of air to
breathe, it is really hatched under the
water and spends a great deal Of its
time there beneath the surface. It's
body is covered with hair, which holds
the air like drops Of water, and when
The body is charged with these air
particles the spider dives down under
thesHffaee, forming a bubbleWhiehi It
holds between the hind legs and car
ries with it. 1t is only in this man
ner that it can furnish air for the in
terror Of its nest, keeping it dry until
the eggs are hatched.
First, says the New York Sun, the
mother spider builds her nest. This
is placed some distance down in the.
water, and is sort Of cell spun in the
shape Of an egg, having an opening on
the under side. When this is COM
pleted, she rises to the surface and
there charges her body thoroughly
with air. Then once more she dives
under the surface, the water forming
a bubble which gradually sWells out
from the body. This she skillfully
holds between her furry hind legs
firmly, and yet gently, SO that it won't
break and escape.
Swimming to the nest, she dis
charges the bubble in it. This, of
course, crowds out some Of the water,
leaving the top filled with air As
the nest is large, requiring a great
deal of air, the spider makes another
and yet another trip, until the whole.
interior is free from moisture. By
this ample process she keeps the eggs
dry, and furnishes air for the young
until they are large enough 70 swim
out and get it for themselves.
But as much as this spider lives un-
der water, it is always dry No mat
. : 4
ter how long it may have been swim
ming around under the surface, the.
moment it comes to the top there is
no trace Of moisture in it. The rea-
son Of this IS that the air particles
that cling to its hair keep off the
water and prevent it from soaking
through the skin. Another strange
thing about It is that it canswim with
great speed in spite of its balloonlike
burden.
The best way to watch the water
spider is to place one in vessel filled
with water, and containing some
water plant There it will quickly
spin its web, and If fed on flies and
bugs, lead its aquatic existence.
The eggs Of this spider are laid in q
cocoon, shaped something like the
topof a round dish. generally con
tains a hundred OF more eggs.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
Deaths il Paris.

OF the 4e,9sS deaths which oc-
cured ii Paris for the year 1899, no
less than 12,314 hence about one
fourth, were due to consumption;
37.2 per cent. of these persons died
between the ages OF one and 90, co.,
per cent. between those Of 20 and 40.
Hence two-thirds Of all victims of this
disease were claimed by death in the
prime Of their life.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
Coal in Nordland.

In the '3os a fisherman discovered
the presence of coal in tie island Of
andre, Nordland, but the discovery
was treated with Indifference, and
only a few years 60 capitalists under
took to Investigate the coal fields in
a thorough and systematic manner.
The result of this examination, which
was recently concluded, is very en-
couraging, as it is understood that
the coal il Of the very best description
and that the supply is alIaost meg
haustible.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
THE TEHUELCHES.
Facts Concerning the Race of Giant.
in Southern Patagonia.

As a people, though not the race
of giants they were commonly report
ed to be by most early writers, says
the National Geographic Magazine,
the Tehuelches are, nevertheless, de-
cidedly above the average size. Of
the 300 Tehuelches living between
the Santa Cruz river and the Strait
Of Magellan, 1 should place the av.
erage height Of the men at not less
than five feet II inches, with an ay-
erage weight Of 1l5 pounds, while
the fully grown women (those above
"a years Of age) I should estimate at
five feet seven inches, and of an aver
age weight of but little, i. any, short
|of that Of the men. This lack of dis
parity between the physical develop
ment Of the sexes is paral1eled also in
their mental development. It is
noteworthy, and is due very largely
to the division Of labor among them.
The labor necessary for the support
OF the family is more equally divided
between husband and wife among
the Tehuelches than is common with
the Indian tribes of North America.
These Indians are muscular and
well proportioned. There is a ten
dency to obesity rather than angular
.ity. Conscious Of their physical
strength, like most persons Of great
physique even among the more civ
ilized nations, they exhibit kindly
manner and gentle disposition Ac-
customed to the free life Of the plains,
and living in the midst Of an abund-
anee Of those animals that for CEN
turies have supplied all their simple
wants, they display that homely hos
pitality SO characteristic Of well-fed
and Well-clothed savage and semi
civilized people in sparsely settled
countries. The frank, open counte-
nances Of the Tehuelche at once allays
any uneasiness and establishes feel
ing Of confidence in the mind Of the
solitary traveller who, in the course Of
his lonely Wanderings throughout
Patagonia may, by chance or neces-
sity, be thrown among them.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
Crossing the Baltic by Balloon.

A Berlin balloon has made the first
crossing Of the Baltic sea. DR.. Ber-
son and Lieut.. Hildebrandt ascended
recently to take observations stimuli
taneously with other aeronauts in
otaer parts Of Europe. The wind took
them over Stralsund when they deeid-
ed to risk the passage across the sea.
They were blown across to Tellehorg
on the Swedish coast in three hours
and d quarter, and came down
straight n q village Of the province Of
Smaaland, in the interior of. Sweden.
About the Same Thing.
If there. were no lies there would be
NO gossips Chicago Daily News.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-04-06
SoIicitous Maidens.

When a young man has a hole in
his glove all the girls in town are very
solieitous, which makes their fathers,
who have lln1nended holes in their
clothes, marvel. Atehison Globe.