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Pensions for Veterans.

Certificates have been issued to the following
named Indianians:
or~iginal-Francls Mcneil. Brazil. S..
Additional-Henry Rolling. Bunaloville, IS.
Restoration and Increase-John Dorsett dead,
Francisco. S2.
MISUNDERSTANDING Driendoefner. ST. Henry.
So; William II. Hudson. BOonville. Si4: Samuel
Meters. National Military Home. Marion. sl2.
Isaiah Z. Richardson. Eureka, IS. Frank Para
quay, National Military Home. Marion. $40; Mar
tin v. 5. Funk, Harlan. 80; Boaz Murphy. Rose
Vile, s.; Jacob Eiginfritz. Warsaw. s.. Joseph
Schiilo, Hammond. s12. John : Van ArsdeI.
South Bend. $40. Henderson Brown. Indianapolis.
y. George w. Loucks. National Military Home.
Marion. IS. Thomas Ash. Loogootee. S24: Alvah
Taylor. Wabash. s.: David NJ. Hammond New
Albany. SH. Dickson Johnson. Upland. $40:
George Reisinger. Soldiers and Sailors Home
Tippecanoe. IS. Cassel +. Mccoy. South Bend.
SIS: Thomas Champion. Scott. $40: Asa Barton,
Vinyard. s..
Original Widows. etc.-Angeline D~orsett. Fran
cisco. s.. Lucinda +. Moss, Angola, IS: special.
accrued June g. minor OF Francis NJ. Brasket.
Anderson. Nf; Harriet +. Bales. Aollie. IS: Mary
A. crilley. Oakland City. IS; Julia A. .Haden.
Butterville. so.
Is. Aatay Lawrence. Fort Wayne. 81.
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Parallel Cases.
Leslie's Monthly.

Kipiing tells somewhere OF a lieutenant, who
steadies his men by lighting his pipe while the
Afghans are shooting from cover all about him.
in the history OF American industry, which
shows rather c~uriously how Anglo-Saxon leader
ship adapts itself 20 circumstances IL WAS in
the terrific log jam in Grand river. Michigan. in
1854. The men. under the leadership OF one John
barrier which alone held the logs In check.
After working through two ~sleepless nights and
the intervening day. in plain view OF death. the
men became demoralized. There came a time
when John saw that the limit OF their endurance
was reached.
Boys said he irrelevantly. Tets have q
smoke"
minutes pulled tobacco quietly into the air.
New" said John. knocking the ashes from
responded to . man.
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Rates on Loans and Exchange-Clear-
ings and Balances.

INDIANAPOLIS.-Commerci paper. 494h per
cent: time loans. sac per cent. Clearings. ST.
252. 999. -; balances. S147. s7S.45
NEW YORK.-Can money steady at 2a5 per
cent. last loan. 2; ruling rate. IA. Prime mer-
cantile paper. 4d4sz per cent. Sterling exchange
heavy; actual business in bankers bills. s4-sI1s
for demand. 81. S4izd4S4A for sixty days. posted
rates, 81. S5isTASS and S4.SSi9; commercial bills,
$4.S464.S4ia Clearings. S2S5. 765. 7s9; balances, SS.-
l9S. 797.
CHICAGO.-Posted exchange, si.S6 and A.SSi9.
New York exchange. csc premium. Clearings.
s26. 754. 272; balances. sl,si5,S5S
MISUNDERSTANDING. s25. s53. 705: balances. ST.
3lS. 755.
PHILADELPHIA.-Money 4 per cent. Clear
ings, $40. 302, 427; balances, s., Al, 775.
ST. LOUIs.-Money. 567 per cent. New York
exchange, par bid. 15c premium asked. Clear
ings. $s,S7S, Sal; balances, S126. s42.
BALTIMORE-Money, 5d7 per cent. Clear
ings. s., 275, 1876: balances, $685.. 048.
CINCINNATI-New York exchange. par.
Money, 3l5d6 per cent. Clearings. 81. 776, $50.
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Feather Duster Profits.
New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
The recent sale OF a large number OF East
Side tenements proved something % an eye-
opener 70 the brokers who put through the deal
concerning the financial resources OF the in
habitants Of that district. IL l. perhaps not
generally known that the owners OF hundreds
OF these tenements are East Side Jews. who live
upon the nrst floor. act as Janitors as well as
agent, and VINO carefully put aside the accu-
mulatlng rentals as a fund for the purchase Of
additional properties. one OF the brokers tn
terested IN the recent deal was approached the
other day by a p0or-looking man. who offered 10
buy a Rutgers-street house for $4,000 The
broker wanted spot cash. IT you are sure that
you can't carry this" he said 10 his visitor.
I'D advise you not 10 buy. l want clean money
for it-y0u kE0w-no mortgages" His visitor
said not a word. He drew a check-b0ok from
his pocket. wrote q check FOR $4,000. and asked
the broker 20 send II 10 the bank. IL WAS AZ
once dispatched and In a few moments came
back certified. This East Side capitalist VS. ana
Is . peddler Of feather busters.
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Oils.

OIL CITY. July 12.-credit balances. s.ss: GER
tihcates. no bids or offers. Runs, &c. $50 bris:
average. SO. 29 brls: shipments. Loo. 21 brls: av-
erage. SO. 23 brls.
WILMINGTON. July 12.-Spirits OF turpentins
steady at 1910 sac. Rosin firm at 95c6sl. Crude
turpentine steady at 81 to s.. Tar firm at 81. so.
MONTPELIER. July l2-Indiana and South
Lima crude petroleum. 74c: North Lima. 7sc.
CHARLESTON. July 12.-Spirits OF turpentins
firm at 3Szc. Rosin nrm and unchanged.
SAVANNAH. July l2-Splrits OF turpentins.
nothing doing. Rosin firm and unchanged.
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Money Rates Abroad.

LONDoN.-Money. 1G114 per cent. Open mar
ket discounts; Short bills az per cent :
soils for money. % 3-1s; for the account. 1914.
Spanish tours. 70ls. Bar gold, Us 9l2d an ounce.
Gold premiums: Madrid, 9.l5; Lisbon. 1915;
BCenos Ayres, 1870
PARIS.-Three per cent. rentes. 100f 57iac for
the account. Exchange on London. ST l7lsc for
checks. Spanish fours closed at lilo.
Notwithstanding on London, pom 39Iapf for
checks. Discount rates: Short and three months
bills, 3 per cent.
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Poultry.

NEW YORK. July l2-Poultry-Alive steady;
springers. GiSc: turkeys. Sc: fowls. lie. Dressed
firm; s%pringers. i7G2oc: turkeys. 7GSizc: fowls.
l0H10izc.
ST. LOUIS. July a-Poultry easy: chickens.
&c; springs. i1Gi2izc. turkeys. &C: young. l5c:
ducks. &C: springs. sac; geese. &C, springs.
LOUISVILLE. July i2.-Poultry-Hens. 71dsc:
spring chickens. l2ul3c. according TO size: tur-
keys. SC; ducks. s2G3.
CINCINNATI. July l2-Poultry quiet: chick
ems. Szal2c: turkeys. 5hG6c.
CHICAGO. July R.-Iced poultry steady: tur-
keys. Sc; chickens, siaQ9c.
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es ranged as follows:

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour steady.
No. 3 spring wheat. 66A d67c; No. ? red. STAG
sShc;, No, 2 corn. 5llze; No. 2 yellow 5lQSlhc;
white. 34IsdS6hc. No. ! faxseed. $3.50. Glover
seed, contract grade. $3.50. Prime timothy seed.
81. 20. Mess pork. per brl, $14. 40G As. Lard, per
100 lbs. sS.65aS. 20. Short-rib sides loosel. $500
$40. Dry-salted shoulders tboxed), S7.5Ou1.15.
Short-clear sides boxed. S.50qS.60 Whisky. on
basis of high wines. Sl.27.
Receipts-Flour. 10000 brls; wheat. $4,000 bu:
corn. 2l6, 900 bu; oats. 5000 bu; rye. 1000 bu;
barley. 1900 bu. Shipments-Flour. 10000 brls;
wheat. 361. 600 bu; corn. 12S. 600 bu; oats. 1S4. 600
bu; rye, 1900 bu; barley. 5000 bu.
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NEW YORK. July Trad was quiet. but
the market for evaporatsd apples continued
steady. Evaporated apples-State common TO
good. s1s95c; prime. 5h65&c. choice. sassc:
fancy, 6AG7c. California dried fruits were
steady and unchanged. Prunes. z.dsLc per 10.
as 20 size and quality. Apficots-Royal. sq12c:
Moor Park, 7sdl2c. Peaches-Peeled, ual2cs
uupeeled. 6QlOc.
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ky-Distiuers' finished goods steady on basis %
Si27. Sugar steady
LOUISVILLE. July I2-vheat-No. ? red and
l~ongberry. &c. No. 3 red and longberry. &C.
MILWAUKEE. July I2-Barley steady. No. 4
4ixc; sample. asa &C.
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Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS. July Colt firm. Sales.
Lsoo bales. Ordinary. SIC; good ordinary,
middling. SIC: middling fair. &C. nominal. Re-
ceipts. 1.2i7 bales: stock. %. 4s6 bales.
NEW YORK. July i2.-Cotton-Spot closed
quiet: middling uplands. s slice: middling gulf.
S IL l6c. Sales. l20 bales.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE demand In all de-
partments OF the market has been dull to-day.
Brown ~sheetings and drills are without change
in price. Bleached cottons continue firm, and
coarse colored cottors steady. Prints are steady.
with a Sigh. business. Ginghams firm. Linens
are firm. but the demand Is Indifferent. Bur-
iaps quiet and easy.
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Silver and Certificates.

NEW YoRK.-silver bars. 5sssc; Mexican dol
lars, 1870.
LoNDON.-Bar silver quiet at &c 15-lsd an
ounce.
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Drugs.

Alcohol. 81. 5562. 70; asafoetida, 4Oc; alum. 2ls9
form. 5saesc; copPeras. brls, soc; cream tartar.
Genuine sSST iOc; maSnesia. carb'' 2-oz' Scaasc:
morphine. p. & w. per OF. s2.2592. so: madden.
ltglsc; oil. caster. per gal Sll5@l2S; oil. be5-
& w, per o., 4lG46c. balsam copaiba, 55Q6Oc;
soap. CASTLE, FIR, 13ql6c: soda. bicarb.. has
salts. EPSON. 1lz44c: sulphur flour, 2% 65c; salt
peter. lO9l4c: Turpentine. 4lG45c: g~lycerine.
iodide potassium. s.. ; 80; bromide
potassium. 55a60c; chlorate potash, l5620c:
borax. 9Q12c; cinchonida. 4O445c; carSolic acid,
22nilc. cocaine. muir. 81. 55M6 Ia
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BANK
An Increase This Week Over a Year
Ago of fO.1 Per Cent

NEW YORK, July .l2-The following table.
compiled by Bradstreet. shows the bank clear
ings at the principal cities for the week ended
July II. with the percentage Of increase and
decrease. as compared with the corresponding
week last year:
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Deaths.

George W. Andrews. thlrty-six. 2is North
New Jersey street. tetanus.
Carl Nogel. seventy-nine. 1871 South West
street. %apOplexy.
Violet Feck. two months. ss West South
street. hereditary syphilis.
Emma J. Huebner. twenty-five. 65 Meek street.
tuberculosis.
Edward ". suess. twenty-four. ga wolcott
street. morphine poisoning.
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Leonora Bognoii and Lauretta Guilisno.
William g. Bennett and Etoya Watkins.
Lindsey G.. House and Matte n. Howard.
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III You Want to Buy or Sell
American Central Life ms. Stock,
Law Building Stock,
Indianapolis Fire ms. Stock,
Hec1a Consolidated Mining Stock,
Union Traction Stock or Bonds,
Indianapolis Street Ry. Securities,
Stock in any Local Bank or Trust Co.
Holt Ice and Cold Storage Stock,
Any other Local Stock or Bond--SEE
NEWTON TODD, Broker
2 INGALLS, BLOCK.
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Hogs-Receipts. 1900; shipments. LOO. There
was a comparatively large run on sale to-day.
The market was 713Gl0c higher than yesterday,
making a total advance in two days of l562oc.
Competition was brisk. especially for heavy hogs.
Hileemier Bros. paid $3.50 for selected butcher
$50 and another at s6.221. The bulk of the
business was from IS. 1905. 20. Light mixed sold
generally at Sc. l0G6 Is, with a few sales Of that
grade at $6.l7la. There were no sales below
81. 10. Business ruled active and a clearance was
made early. The closing was steady at quota
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Treasury Balances.

INSTRUMENTATION statement Of the
treasury balances in the general fund. exclusive
OF the $50. OOO. 900 gold reserve in the division Of
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Canned Goods.

Corn, 75c9sl25. P-eaches-Eastern standard.
BIB. s2d225: 3-lb seconds. SL.sOQ2; California
Standard 81 lO62 40: California seconds, 81 30Q2.
Observation-Disclosures 2-lb. S599Oc; rasp-
berries. BIB. sl25qL0; plneapples. standard.
lib. full weight. N.05al.1 10. light. s0Qs5c: string
beans. 3-lb. sOas5c; Lima beans. sl.20gl.25: peas.
STEERS, sI.s5q2: red cherries. svcq 81: rawberries.
s5ds0c; salmon. lib. aocq$2; BIB tomatoes. $50
9Oc
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INTERSTATE STOCKYARDS. INDIANAPO-
LIS. July 2.-Cattle-Receipts small; shipments
none. The supply was made up of butcher stock
of only common quality. All grades sold prompt
ly at steady prices. The closing was quiet at
quotations:
Good to choice steers. 1900 lbs and up
Wdru $o.g0U 0.oJ
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MONETARY.

United States old fours. coup. .l12
United States hves. .109
United States fves, I03
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81. 80. per Is bu; Blossburg. $50 per ton; Con-
nellsville coke. So per ton: foundry coke. S2N
per p bu. $3.50 per ton. Brazil block, % per ton.
smokeless coal. IS per ton: soft nut coal. 25c ton
less: coal delivered In bags. &c ton additional.
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Provisions.

Hams-Sugar cured. 10 lbs average, 12Tl2xc.
10 lbs average. l2h
Lard-Kettle rendered. lOc: pure lard. lOc.
Pork-Bean. clear. $40; rump. sl5.
Bacon-Clear sides. 90 TO o. lbs average. l0Kc.
80 to 40 lbs average. l0isc; 20 to 30 lbs average,
lc&c; clear bellies, % 10 80 lbs average, lOiSc. Is
TO % lbs average. l0%c; IA TO Is lbs average
Ike, clear backs. 20 to so lbs average. 10i4c; 2
TO ls lbs average. loAc; 6 to . lbs average. lOAc.
In dry salt iac less.
shoulders-lS lbs average. sAc: 10 to u lbs av-
erage. 94c.
Seeds.
Glover. choice. prime. s6a6.50: English. choice.
s6d6.5 80; alsike. choice. s7qS: alfalfa. choice.
s5G5. so: crimson or scarlet clover. s.. as. so: tim
othy. As lbs. prime. s.. 40: strictly prime.
bluegrass. "a lbs. so; German millet. 70dS0c
Western German millet. 7OGSoc; common millet.
81 2012. %; choice. $2.15G22 20; fancy Kentucky. "a
lbs. $40: extra clean. 60q75c; orchard grass. ex-
ira. SL.50ql75; red top, choice. SOcGsl.75: En-
gllsh. 65a1Oc.
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~
-Representatfve Sales of Steers

Hogs-Receipts. 5,O04: shipments. 2.IS5.
The receipts of hogs for hve days snow
an Increase of about 5000 over the same
time last week, and the receipts to-day
We're 1000 larger than a week ago. The
market opened with all buyers in the neld,
and, with a continued good demand Tor
shipping account. which encouraged COM
petition from packers. the bidding was
rather animated, and in sympathy with
reports from other places a good advance
in prices was offered. Buyers were posi-
bly, a little more particular as TO quality
than they have been for a few days, and
on account of this prices appeared a little
irregular, but most dealers claimed they
realized &c TO loo better prices than yes
terday. and the average was about nc
higher. The extreme range in prices was
from So to $3.50, and the bulk OF the sup
ply sold at ss.0714q6.O. Quotations:
Good to choice medium and
heavy
Mixed and heavy packing........ 6.00a6.22la
Good to choice light weights. 6.10Q6.15
Common TO fair light weights. 6.00u6.OlH
common to good pigs............. 52oI6W
Roughs 525qoso
Sheep-Receipts. 200; shipments. 1000.
comparatively liberal. the total thus far
this week, including through stock, show
ing an increase of over 5000 compared with
the same time last week. The receipts to-
day, including about 100 Angora goats
that were billed through, show an increase
of 1.SOO over last Friday. TIL supply OF
sneep on sale was larger than recently.
and the quality about like the average
demand from shippers and without much
trouble statesmen disposed of their con-
signmcnts at quotably steady prices, COM
pared with Yesterday. a few spring lambs
sold as high as $3.50. and a number at
$5.2o, but the bulk of the supply sold at
So, and other sales were reported as low
as $40. Yearling sheep, sold at s4a420.
and stockers to good old sheep were re-
ported at 81 1nI3.hD. Quotations.
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THE JoBBING TRADE.
Candies and Nuts.

CThe quotations given below are the selling
prices OF the wholesale dealers)
Candies and Nuts.
Candies-Stick. &c per 10. common mixed. &c:
Erocers' mixed. sac; Banner twist stick. Sc:
Banner cream mixed. l0Qilc. old-time mixed. Sc
Suts-Soft-shelled almonds. lSu20c. English
walnuts. l29i4c; Brazil nuts. i0c: niberts, l4ihc:
peanuts. roasted. 7gSc: mixed nuts. l2c.
Coal and Coke.
Anthracite. Sc 80; c. & o. Kanawha, 1850:
Pittsburg. -; Winlfrede. 81: Raymond. 81: Jack
son, 81. islaEd City lump. s.. so: lump coke. DC
per bu, Szz5 per Is ou. crushed coke. ioc per bu
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Produce. Fruit and Vegetables.

Pineapples-slq1.25 per doz.
North Carolina Cabbage-sL25 per crate: Ten
nessee. small crates. 5OG60c; Kentucky, $3.50 Der
crate.
Bananas-Per bunch. No. /. sL.75q2: No. 2. ,l.2s
GL50.
Oranges-Seedlings. 81.
Lemons-Messina, $50 to box. choice. 81 75: fam
cy. 1915.
New Potatoes-si per bu.
Louisiana Onions-$l per bu.
Honey-New white. lsc per ID: dark. lie
Cocoanuts-50c doz; per bag. so.
Radishes-i0c per doz punches.
Cucumbers-i0qiS c per doz.
Tomatoes-$l 50 per crate OF 4 baskets.
New Beets-17izc per doc punches.
Home Grown Reans-Si. 25 per bu.
Home Grown Peas-Sl per bu-
Caulihower-$l. so per doz.
New Apples-25G 4Jc per peck box.
Raspberries-s2 per crate.
Blackberries-S1.75 per crate.
Gooseberries-sl.25 per crate.
Dewberries-s1 75Q2 per crate.
C~herries-sldl25 per crate.
Currants-$1. 25 per crate "a ats.
Asparagus-Home grown. 15d20c per doz
punches.
Red Plums-2i-quart crate. slql25.
Watermelons-S25430 per 100.
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groceries.

Straight grades. s4d4. 20; patent flour, 81. 20d
As; spring wheat patents. s5.40g5.65.
Evening star., 1901-12-21

him he ought TO go TO Kansas, but he kept
on planting, and from a poor renter he be-
came a-comfortably situated man and has
since retired. Then the neishbors stopped
laughing and also planted sinfiowers, and
today the townships OF Bethlehem, Owen
and Washington have at least 1,0o0 acres
under cultivation. But Mcdonald got the
cream of the market, for now sunnower
seed is worth only from two and q half to
four cents a pound, according TO quality.
Still IL pays better than wheat or corn.
This commercial sunfiower bears only one
blossom, and that a very large one, some
times yielding a quarter peck OF seed. A
New York firm handles most OF the crop.
Clark county-and perhaps no other-also
raises spelt. a grain much like wheat but
with husk which takes special milling TO
remove. II makes a finer -four than wheat
more delicate In color, more delicious In
taste and more nourishing
Evening star., 1901-12-21
Chrfstmas Tree Fires,
From Good Housekeeping.

People cannot be too careful in guarding
against fire when trimming a Christmas
tree. There have been scores of Christmas
tree fatalities in homes and in Sunday
schools which little care might have pre-
vented. The present writer once set a tree
in blaze. consuming nearly half Of it,
t!nsel ornaments going with the green
branches. tiny candle had been wired
too high, and it took only a few minutes
of its brisk heat to char branch above it
and start flame. A thick pertiere was
torn from its pole and thrown over the
blaze. If 1t had not been at hand the light
window curtains in another minute would
have caught fire. Since that Christmas
our tree has always been placed in the CEN
ter of the room, and We have eschewed cot
ton wool, tissue paper angels and celluloid
ornaments. First of all, we wire each
candle securely in place at the furthest
end of branch which has nothing above
it, either fir tree or trimming. Then as the
tree is denuded we watch carefully the
fast-disappearing candles. Sometimes one
Of them, nearly burned down, will topple
over. or be merely a spark of flame, but
near to something inhammable and be a
menace,
Evening star., 1901-12-21
Candles.
From the london Globe.

From the london Globe.
So markedly is the candle going out of
use that the dictionary Of a few years
hence VIII probably have to supplement Its
definition with an illustration. In the glow
Of electric light gas and parafHine, We are
much disposed to pity our immediate fore
fathers who had to put up with candles.
Yet We retain a strange respect for the
candle In certain directions. When we
wish to pay the highest reverence We fall
back upon it. The death chamber Is
lighted with candies So is the church
altar. We cannot but be forced also to the
conclusion that higher ideas have been
brought ont and better matter written, by
candleltSht than have been, or probably
ever will be. by that of gas or electricity.
Shakespeare could not possibly have writ
ten all his plays by daylight. Indeed, it
is more than probable that the touch of
bohemianism in his compostfon-as in that
Of his watered-down literary descendants
of today-preferred night to day for turn
ing out its best work In. Hamlets solilo-
guy upon the existing value Of things,
Portals tribute to mercy, and the advice
Of Polonius to Laertes as to the best way
of conducting himself III life were probably
written between the sndffings of a candle.
In particular cam one fmag gine the decisive
snuffng and the cohtemptuous tossing
away of the scrap Of burnt wick at the
close of the passage alphabetically dis
posing of Caesars imperial clay
Evening star., 1901-12-21
In Our American Switzerland, With
Mountains of Iron and Coal.
new VERSUS old VEST VIRGINIA
A County Seat Fight That Reads
Like the Middle Ages.
PRIMITIVE DAYS PAST

Written for The Evening Star.
The year that is closing has registered
certain railroad and mining deals in West
Virginia that indicate the commencement
of a commercial and industrial revolution
in this hitherto undeyeloped state. Until
quite recently the greater part of this sec
tion of the country was as devoid of easy
communication with the outside world as
one of the most backward of the South
American republics. It's forests of valua-
BILE timber, its mineral resources. its graz
ing lands were Left in the hands of a strag-
Cling pOpula tion without capital or the am
bitiGn for conducting large enterprises.
Now. however. this primitive condition of
things seems to have run it's course. and
new West Virginia, vigorous. enterprising,
is taking the place of the old pioneer state.
with its simple traditions and customs. To-
day more capital is being invested here for
the development of natural resources than
In any ether state in the Union.
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