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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-02

Chicago, June 1.-Wheat showed renew
ed strength to-day mainly on drought.
July closed sd1c higher; July corn closed
&c. and July oats &c higher Provisions
closed unchanged to 212c up.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing
Wheat. No. p
June .....75 75h 747k 75ik
July .....74ssa747t 75h 745s 76ls
Sept .....72% T3lk 7%972% 7sM97Sls
Corn. No. -
June .....43h a 43k a
July 44l4d44SS 451sa45h AZ 45lh
Oats, No. p
July .....2S% 2SSs 2s% 2slkd2sSs
Sept. ..... 26ssda6% q 3sSd2S& o67sd27
Mess Pork per bbl-
July ....$l4 e2la $4 IS $l4 90 81 e5
Sept .... h75 l475 l47o l475
Lard. per 100 lbs
sept sept 80. 49,. SIS s." SIC So ~
Short Ribs. per 100 lbs
July zee. 7la 80 1874 100
Sept .... T& 7Hx 7S Hik
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
quiet; No. spring wheat. 7sMd73%c: No
red 7fhq7bAc; No. 2 corn. era 4S1tc: No
yellow, E2lsl543Ac; No. 2 oats, zNc No
white. 2sltGDz911e; No. 3 white, $4,000;
No rye 62i1c; good feeding barley. 900
&c; fair TO choice mating teQ6sc; No 1
nax SEED, u.77; No. i Northwestern NT2;
prime timothy sd. 5000 -; mess pork
par e~rTst rAso; lard, pr 100 poundA
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-02

savannah Almanac, 10Th Meridian
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

While the floor is drying, a great
polishing goes on in the street.
Quaint old brass lamps and candle
sticks, tobacco-boxes and ash-trays,
huge milk cans-all are FURNISHED
until, like golden mirrors, they reflect
the red-checked, White-capped faces
bent over them.
The lacquer-man is busy on Satur-
day. He goes from house to house
painting the bread-trays and honey
cake boxes with designs of gaudy
birds and wondrous leaves aid
flowers.
The street is in turmoil until noon,
when order is partially restored md
the scanty midday meal partaken Of.
In the afternoon washing is resumed.
The exteriors Of the cottages are
scrubbed from roof to pavement and
every trace of mould removed for IN
this low, wet air the green moss
gathers quickly. Then the brick
pavements are drenched and care
fully dried, and I have even see the
women slip off their sabots and tiptoe
to their doorways in their wooden
chaussons, so as not to soil the i'm.
maculate sidewalk.
Lastly, toward evening. the entire
village goes to the canal. and all the
sabots are washed and whitened with
pumicestone, spotless for the morrow.
On Saturday evening all the pickets
of the low black fences are decorated
with rows of dripping foot-gear, Gaze
fully graduated in size from the big
wooden shoes of the father down to
the tiny sabots of the youngest born.
Mary A. Peixotto in Scribner's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
A Narrow Escape.

A Sand Hog in red shirt and grimy
trousers sat down by me one after
noon on heap of boards midway be-
tween the Sand Hogs house and the
hospital" This pressure-worker
whose knees showed traces Of ''the
BENDS evidently had a story to tell.
ut was only the other day." he said.
II seen it, and how the man ever hap
pened to live, dunno. It was one of
these little caissons here we're putting
this big building on. He was one of
the superintendent young college
Teller that knows his job Well, ne
went down with u.s. There wuz four
in the gang, and one o. them, Tim
that Harp yer might see drinkin' cof-
fee now. They wuz rock there, and
the foreman told Tim to have a go at
it. He got his pick and swung it for
good crack. There was a tearin' an
rippin' and Tim dropped his pick. AS
he swung it the young Teller had
stepped out, and the pick had ripped
off every button from the blue jumper
he had on, without even scratchin'
him. ''-Leslie's Weekly.
All the Way From Sandwich Islands.
All the way from the Sandwich ISL
ands comes to us the following
prayer:
Let US all pray night and morning
That the cruel wars may cease;
That the nations now il mourning
May stop their wars and welcome
peace.
Let us all pray night and morning,
May your prayers never cease,
Till our Lord in loving kindness
Brings about the dawn Of peace.
Oh, that the money foolishly spent
BY this-so-called- Christian nation
Could all be used along the line
Of Humane Education!
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
The SPRING Awakening.

The little gray squirrel is rubbing his
eyes,
For his sleep was long and sound,
And the woodchuck peeps at the glow
ing skies
From his chamber underground.
Old Bruin is shambling from out his
den
With dazed and stupid air,
And song-birds are flying back again,
A message of spring to bear.
The butterfly crawls from its chrys-
ais,
B The beetles rouse from their nap,
And blossoms awake at the south
winds kiss
And the rain-drop's gentle tap.
From their icy letters the streamlets
leap,
The woodlands with music ring.
All things are awak' ming from winter
sleep,
To welcome the merry spring.
Alice Jean Cleator.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

car on siding They aWoke late the
next day to discover that the car was
partially filled with corn. 1t was rain
! ing cats and dogs outside, and so one
| of the tramps, producing greasy
pack of cards, proposed game OF
poker to al the time. They were
without chips, but substitute was
readily found by Smelling some OF the
corn and using the kernels thereof in
| lieu of the regulation white and blue
disks
''The corn was of three colors,' con-
tinued the senator, red, yellow and
white, and the knights of the road de-
cided to make the white kernels worth
$500, the yellow $500 and the red
81 900. The game being credit one,
each took a most generous supply of
chips. The hands were dealt and one
of the tramps, after surveying his
cards, nonchalantly drew out of his
pocket the stub of cigar which he
had picked up on his travels. Light
| ing it, he then airily announced that
his hand was worth $1,000,000. The
other, not to be outdone, also pro-
duced a 'steepee,' lit it, cooked it at
the proper angle in his mouth, and
then, preliminaries being successfully
accomplished saw the others bet and
raised him $1,OOO,0O0. No. 1, man
of nervous disposition, started as he
heard the raise, but he, too, was dead
game sport, and another $1,00O,00O fol
lowed the previous $2,000,00O into the
pot, and it was up to hobo No. to call
or raise as he saw fit. No. 2 surveyed
his companion leisurely and then his
hand I see that bet he announced
impressively, and raise it $1,0O0,OOO,-
00O' Take it. gasped No. l, as soon
as he got his breath, and then, in
semi-soliloquy, added, OATS what |
gets for playing poker with an educat-
ed lobster like you. What tell is
81, 900 900, 900 anyhow
Gentlemen concluded Senator
Hansbrough, what tell is $1,OOO,0OO,-
900, anyhow York Tribune.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
MRS. BEN WAITS PARROT.
How a Newspaper Man Restored to
Health an Iroquois.

Jacob A. Riis tells in the Century
the story of an old French-Canadian
widow in New York tenement-house,
whom he restored to health by getting
a parrot to share her room. I wrote
in my newspaper, he says, that Mrs.
Ben Wah was sick and needed a.
parrot, a green one with red tuft.
and that she must have it right away.
I told Of her lonely life, and of how,
on Christmas eve, years ago, / had
first met her at the door of the Charity
Organization society, laboring up the
stairs with big bundle done up in
blue cheese-cloth, which she left in the
Office with the message that it was for
those who were poorer than she.
They were opening it when I came in.
1t contained a lot of little garments
of blanket stuff, as they used to make
them for the papooses among her
people in the far north 1t was the
very next day that I found her in her
attic, penniless and without even the
comfort of her pipe. Like the widow
of old, she had cast her mite into the
treasury, even all she had.
All this told in my paper, and how
she whose whole life had been kind
ness to others was now in need-in
need of a companion to share her
lonely life, Of something with a voice,
which would not come in and go away
again, and leave her. And I begged
that any one who had a green parrot
with a red tuft would send it in at
once.
New York is a good town to live in.
1t has a heart. It no sooner knew
that Mrs. Ben Wah wanted a parrot
than it hustled about to supply one
at once. The morning mail brought
stacks of letters, with offers OF money
to buy parrot. They came from
lawyers, business men, and bank
presidents, men who pore over dry
ledgers and drive sharp bargains on
Change, and are never supposed to
give a thought to lonely widows pining
away in poor attics. While they were
being sorted came the parrot itself,
big and green, in stunning" cage.
1t was an amiable bird, despite it's
splendid get-up and cooked it's
crimson head to one side to have it
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

dollars, and there is one in England
that weighs much less than silver
dollar, but it is valued at six hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars.
The closest relative of the diamond
is smooth black substance called
graphite. In one form you handle it
every day, for graphite is used in
making lead-pencils. Gas-capbon is q
cousin Of the. diamond, and is obtain
Led, as you might imagine from the
name, in the process of making gas.
Only three things came from bitumin-
GUS coal-gas, coal-tar, and coke.
Gas-carbon is another name for coke.
Now, the diamond gives exquisite and
inimitable sparkles Of light, which
make it of great value as jewel;
but it gives only the pleasure Of
possession. It's soberhued cousin,
coke, affords broad beams of light,
making the path of night easy o
travel, and lessening the crime That
used to prevail in dimly lighted civ
streets. For from coke the long
black pencils, or ''carbons," used II
arc-Gghts ere made. First the coke
is ground to fine powder. Then it is
mixed with molasses and made into
a very thick dough. After being
rolled into long cylinders having
thickness about equal to the diameter
of a twenty-fve-cent piece, it is baked.
And night after night, in all seasons,
the power that we know as electricity
is at work in millions of pieces of
carbon all over our great country,
giving us light and comfort and
safety.
Yet can't say that this is the most
marvellous effect coming directly from
carbon. No doubt you know that
steel is certain form of iron, but,
like many older people, you don't
know exactly how it differs from ordi-
nary iron. Well, the difference is
that steel is iron containing a very
small proportion of carbon-from rs
per cent. to 1.5 per .cent.-and thus
the iron becomes very, very hard.
The surgeon, the carpenter, the en-
graver, and every one else who uses
edged tools would be in serious
plight if they had to depend on iron
alone With steel, however, a keen
edge can be secured. The railroads
in these days are almost all equipped
with steel rails, which last longer than
those of ordinary iron. All our Won
derful cruisers and battleships wear
outside cases of heavy steel plates.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

scratched through the bars, and held
up one claw, as it to shake hands.
How to get it to Mrs. Ben Wah's
without the shock killing her was the
problem that next presented itself.
Mrs. McCutcheon solved it by doing
the cage up carefully in newspapers
and taking it along herself All the
way down the bird passed muffied
coments on the Metropolitan railway
service and on it's captivity, to the
considerable embarrassment of its
keeper; but they reached the Beach
street tenement and Mrs. Ben Wah's
attic at last. There Mrs. McCutcheon
slowed it's carefully away in a
corner, while she busted herself about
her aged friend.
She was working slowly down
through an address which she had
designed to break the thing gently
and by degrees, when the parrot,
extending a feeler on it's own hook.
said "K-r-r-aa!" behind it's paper
screen. Mrs. Ben Wah sat up
straight and looked fixedly at the
corner. Seeing the big bundle there.
she went over and peered into it. She
caught quick breath and stared.
wide-eyed.
tsWhere did you get that bird?" she
demanded of Mrs McCutcheon faint
ly.
"Oh, that is Mr.. Riis's Bird" said
that lady, sparring for time; "a friend
gave to him"
Where you take him. Mrs. Ben
Wah gasped, her hand pressed against
her feeble old heart.
Her friend saw, and gave right up.
II am not going to take it any
where" she said. ST brought it for
you. This is to be it's home, and you
are to be it's mother, grandma and its
friend. You are to be always together
from now on-always, and have a
good time" With that she tore the
paper from the cage.
The parrot, after all, made the
speech Of the occasion FTe con-
sidered the garnet; the potato-feld on
the fire-escape, through which the sun
light came in, making a cheerful
streak on the floor; Mrs. Ben Wah and
her turban; and his late carrier; then
he climbed upon his stick, turned 4
somersault, and said ''Here we are" "
or words to that effect. Thereupon
he held his head over to be scratched
by Mrs. Ben Wah in token of COM
pact of friendship than and there
made.
JOY, after all, does not kill. Mrs.
Ben Wah wept long and silently big,
happy tears Of gratitude. Then she
wiped them away, and went about her
household cares as of old. The pre-
scription had worked. The next day
the notice" vanished from the wall Of
the room, where there were now two
voices for one.
I came back from Europe to find
my old friend with a lighter step and
a lighter heart than in many day
The parrot had learned to speak
Canadian French TO the extent of
demanding his crackers and water in
the lingo of the habitant. Whether
he will yet stretch his linguistic ac-
quiremens to the learning of Iron" Dis
I So u not say.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
Strona Men.

The Roman soldiers. who built such
wonderful roads and carried a weight
of armor and luggage that would
crush the average farmland, lived on
coarse brown bread and sour wine.
They were temperate in diet and regu-
lar and constant in exercise. The
Spanish peasant works every day and
dances half the night, yet eats only
his black bread, onion and water
melon. The Smyrna porter eats only
little fruit and sour olives, yet he
walks off with his load of one hun
dred pounds. The Coolie, fed on rice,
is more active and can endure more
than the negro, fed on fat meat
Scientific American.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
What is a Billion Dollars?

The greatest business combination
or financial combination of any kind,
governmental excepted, ever got to-
gether in the history of the world, is
the great steel combination which J.
Pierpont Morgan & Co. have just of
fcially announced to be an accom-
plished fact. A billion dollars of CAPT
tai! The human mind staggers when
it tries to think what it means. It
sum which the famous Fifty-first con-
gress appropriated and through that
appropriation gained the name of the
billion dollar congress.
The other evening at the Waldorf
Astoria John W. Gates of the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire company gave a
dinner to celebrate the successful ac-
complishment of this greatest Of all
great trade combinations. AS was to
be expected the conversation turned
upon the United States Steel corpora
ton. Millions and billions were con-
versationally juggled until the listen
er's head swan. Finally one man pro-
pounded a staggerer. "Could any one
present define what billion dollars
really meant?" There was pause,
and then Senator HI. G. Hansbrough
of South Dakota told the following
story, which apparently satisfactorily
answered the question:
"Out in my country said the sen.
ator, lone night two tramps looking
for place in which to spend the
night CHANGED across half empty box
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
A Lesson in Law.

'aThat's very we'll DONE" he said
when the sweet young thing who had
interested herself in the law sub
mitted the paper to him, "but you
have overlooked one thing
"What's that?" she asked.
"You do not say at the conclusion,
And further afiant saith not +"
"But I stop, don't l., she demanded.
ooh, yes"
.'And l put the signature in?"
eyes
well, I should think any one Of
sense could see that when afiant
quits talking he has stopped"
eyes, but
eff a person said, That's the end
every time he finished a statement
in conversation people would think he
was fool, wouldn't they?"
"Of course, but you see"
"eWhen you close a letter you don't
have to say, Here's the finish,' do
you?"
mo; but in law it's different"
''Well, if the judges are SO stupid
they've got to be told when the end is
reached, TIL just write Finis.' That's
prettier, anyway"
"But it won't do"
"Then you can keep your old law
books" she exclaimed petulantly.
"And you can keep your old judges.
Any one who can't see when the
writing stops and draw his own CON-
illusions from that hasn't sense
enough to do business with reason
ing being, aod won't W e any time
over him. So there, now!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
Saved by a Dog.

Box 5, Holyoke, Mass, called the
fire department at 11.05 Saturday
evening to a fire in the 213-story
Westinghouse at 40 Mosher street,
owned by j. H. Parfitt and occupied
by James Mullen and family. The
stove in the dining-room became over
heated and set fire to the woodwork,
making quite a little blaze and lots of
smoke. The mother and two children
were sleeping upstairs and would
doubtless have been suffocated by the
smoke, which was pouring up in large
quantities, but for the dog, who ran
upstairs from the dining-room and
Tapped their faces and woke them.
The dog, it will be hardly necessary to
add, is not for Springfield Re
publican.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

actual count, the bodies of over six
teen thousand young seals that had
been starved to death were found,
this being caused by the killing Of
the mother seals. 1t is a painful sub
ject, but unless the ladies can be in
duced to give up wearing seal-skins,
we know of no other way we can
reach the seal fishers except by the
humane education, which we are en-
deavoring to promote through our over
forty-five thousand Bands of Mercy"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
Biology.

The wise biologist talked
Oftissue and cell and bone;
And the mystery went from your life,
dear,
And the strangeness from my own.
But home with the stars we walked,
And saw your bosom swell,
And about you there in the moonlight
Some old enchantment fell
Yes, homeward under the stars,
Where the moonlight spread it's
gold,
l touched your hand and you turned,
dear,
The mystic being of old!
Arthur Stringer, in New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
The Killing of Seals.

A kind friend sends us an account
of the terrible cruelty inflicted in the
seal fisheries, and a picture from
Pearson's Magazine, illustrating that
cruelty. It is too painful to reprint
in Our Dumb Animals. From the state
ment it appears that in one season, by
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
cAReoN's WONDERFUL FAMILY.
Diamond but One of the Famous Of
spring.

Talking of Charcoal" in the st.
Nicholas, Ralph Benton tells Of ear
bon's wonderful family. The arisro-
crat of it is the diamond. I thought
you would look surprised at that re-
mark. Nevertheless, all of those
diamonds that you see in the jewelers.
window are pure carbon. They are
carbon crystallized-the most per-
manent of gems, for they can neithe"
be melted nor dissolved. The czar of
Russia has set in the end of MS
scepter a diamond that is said to be
worth three-quarters of a million
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
THE TIDY DUTCH.

Saturday is Cleaning Day with the
Good People in Holland.
But it was generally understood
hat our models would not pose IN
Saturday, that day being exclusively
devoted to house-cleaning within and
Without Early in the morning every
tick of furniture is carefully rubbed
md wiped and taken out of the house.
Then the women, with their skirts
tucked up, entirely flood the rooms
With bucket after bucket of water,
brought up from the canal by means
# the shoulder-yoke. With broom
nd brush they souse and scrub the
.ed-tiIed floor and finally pull up 4
,lug in one corner to let the water
low outlet us hope into the canal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

Where will I put this item about
the formation of a Servant Girls Pro-
tective Union?"
Let it go under the head of either
Foreign or Domestic
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

"You remembered Smith & Co.,
and I gave them credit. Now they've
failed"
Don't blame me. l merely said
they were q very old house. And
isn't it natural for very old house to
fall?"
Where's the chalk drawer?" asked
one of the drug clerks. Here's Gus
toner after borax"
"Pillbox has got it, filing an order
for magnesia"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10
Glory of a Summer Garden.

The gladiolus is to the summer gar
den what the geranium is to the win
ter garden. 1t is of the easiest pos
sible culture. 1t blooms with a GER
tainty which endears it to the heart Of
the woman. Plant the bulbs from the
first to the middle of May, in rich,
mellow SOIL Set them about six
inches below the surface, planting
from six to ten in a group.-Lalies'
Home Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

The perfect victory is to triumph
over ourselves.-Thomas attempts.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-06

Yarmouth beach? Then. of course. argue
people who cannot imagine that Dickens
invented anything. that boat must still DC
standing on the beach. Having thus made
UP their minds, they select some especial
house which in some distant way reminds
them of a boat, and insist that 1t is tie
original house of Peggotty. This alleged
Peggottys house is like the shop kept by
Sol ellis at the sign Of the Little Midship-
man. Whenever any dealer in instruments
puts UP outside of his London shop fig-
ure remotely suggesting midshipman his
shop is sure TO be pointed out as the orig.
iral shop kept by Sol ellis and Captain
Cutie There have been at least three OF
these genuine and original Little Midship-
man shops in different parts Of London
within my recollection, and / doubt If
Dickens ever saw any one of them. Peg
gotty's house is precisely authentic as a
Dickens relic the Little Midshipman
shops but for all that il Will probably be
bought by some lover of Dickens, and per-
haps Miss Marie Cprelli will constitute
herself the guardian of it-after she has
grown tired OF trying TO patronize Shak-
speare.