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Condition of the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-To-day's state
ment Of the Treasury balances in the general
fund. exclusive of the $3.50, 600, 900 gold in the
division Of redemption, shows: Available cash
balance. $17O. s23. .e2s; gold, $115, O67, ,s22.
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Potatoes, Onions and Vegetables.

Receipts of Potatoes were large again. being
1856 SKIS mostly from the river Receipts of
Onions were 1771 SKIS
Potatoes remain about the same There are
not enough river sweets coming in to quote.
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Weather Report.

Q2Cth Meridian-Pacihc Time.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 16-5 p m
The following are the seasonal rainfalls to
date as compared with those Of same date last
season and rainfalls in last twenty-four hours:
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NezU York Cotton Market.

NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-Cotton closed 497
points higher.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-The Cotton Exchange
will be closed on December % and 70 and
January 1.
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Provisions.
''7 The local market is quiet and unchanged

Chicago was lower on the day, the decline
being caused by the persistent selling of brok
ers.
The local market is quiet and unchanged
CURED MEATS-Bacon. I2c per Ib for
heavy, 12kc for light medium, 1870 for light.
I41bc for extra light and 15c for sugar-clITed.
Eastern sugaT1cured Hams ans dsc; California
Hams Mess 1 % @ Fsv 90 Pe2
prime Mess Pork SIS; extra clear, 500 5O62S:
Mess, SIS 50Q19: Smoked Beef. 131a@1 per
LARD-Tierces. quoted at SIC per lb for
compound and 1112c for pure; half barrels
pure. 11%c; 1O-lb tins l2Ac; 6-lb tins. 1850;
S-lb tins, R15c.
CoTToLENE- half-barrel. 10Hc; three
barrels. 1Oc; one tierce, 91sc; two tierces,
0Nc; five tierces. csc per lb.
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General Merchandise.

GRAIN BAGS-Calcutta Grain Bags. &c: To-
cal make. 15c less than Calcuttas: Wool Bags.
32Q35e; Fleece Twine Those
CoAL-Welllngton. so per ton; southheld
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San Francisco data: Maximum temperature
b3 minimum IS, mean IS.
following maximum and minimum tenn
r1erstures were reported from Eastern stations:
Boston. a. u; Cincinnati, 6, 2; Washington,
"a IA jacksonville "a, 81: Kansas City, Is,
10: New York 40 2S: Omaha, Il, zero; Du-
luth a -; Salt Lake City. 2s. 20: Chicago,
zero =: St Louis, TO- 6; Philadelphia. IS, Is
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Northern Wheat Market.

OREGON.
PORTLAND, Dec. 16.-wHEAT-walla
walla, $4,000; bluestem. 61c; valley, 6oc.
WASHINGTON.
TACOMA, Dec .-WHEAT-Quiet and un-
changed; bluestem, 60c; club, 59c.
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PoYtIdnPS Business.

PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 1e.-Clearings, s71o.-
973; balances, $50. .S39.
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market was easy; creameries 15624c; dairies
14d20c Cheese, 9A010Ac Eggs, firm;
fresh, 25@26c.
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STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE.
MONDAY. Dec. 1872 p. m.

UNITED STATES BONDS.
Bid. Ask. Bid. Ask.
Is quar- cp. .112%11S1s As or (new)139%140
As quar- reg Ill Is 1124s IS quar- coup. 1854
AISCE,I. j. a NIE,(lIrS BONDS
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PRODUCERS OIL EXCHANGE.
Morning Session.
MINING STOCKS.
Morning Session.

The following were the sales in the Pacific
Stock Exchange Yesterday:
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
RUSS HOUSE.

W H Weishar, Chicgc Miss J Thatcher Homo
! Buck, sulphur CreeklC G Thomas. Ohio
! Reemus. Nebraska II Barnshir. L Gatos
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WATER STOCKS
Contra Costa y rs Port Costa s3h es
GAS AND ELECTRIC.
Cent L & P. rs % Pac Light. 45
EQt G L Co. 33s Sacramento 40
Mutual = 81 S F G & E.. AK As
o G. L & H. 81 San Fran. 81 52&
Pac Gas Imp 40 Stl<tn G & z
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02
Dr. lyons
 PERFECT ' I' ooth Powder Used by people of refinement for over Q quarter Of 2. century.
VICTIM OF THE NAVY RING
Through Its Vaccinations Schley
 Will Die a Poor Man.

The shame and irony of the situation presented by the Schley affair has been thoroughly recognized by the country. and does not need to be enlarged upon. The Dreyfus scandal, about which we were so much concerned. was not d tithe so disgraceful as this-for Drey fus had not fought for his country and won a victory at q crucial juncture of her career The plot against Dreyfus of the French army ring was not a whit fouler than the plot of our own navy ring against Schley, and the ob- ject of it. instead of being admiral of long, blameless and distinguished service, was a mere unknown Jew cap tain. The French ring was cruel. cor rupt and perjured, but the American ring. in addition to this. hesitated not to cast it's venom on one of the most eminent and honorable men of the na- tion.
 This is now understood. agreed to and swallowed as best it may be. Whether the president will exert himself to pun ish the scoundrels is not yet known. but it is evident that no adequate or nearly adequate penalty can be innict- ed on them. These injuries cannot. in the nature Of things, be atoned for. One culprit shifts the blame to the next. and at any rate. there can be no compensa- llOll AoI illt siiiS AiSrtl NitlSitl III a HODlt mind by the cowardIy inuendoes of islander. Possibly the ignoble tool who was set on to voice the spite of those far above him in station may find hom- self out of a job for a while. but he will be cared for somehow-for such tools have dangerous tongues. Before long new matters of interest will come forward. and We shall forget about Schley and his vindication.
 Meanwhile. it appeers that, along with other things, he has lost all the money that his career in the national service had enabled him to earn. It was a pitiful sum, but it was all he had, and he has a family to think of. He is upward of so years old: he is on the retired list; he has no way of mak- ing a livelihood. and he has no money. What Is he to do?
 We are told that the conductors of numerous periodicals have written to him, asking him to contribute to their magazines or papers, and there is no doubt that in this way he might make contracts which would easily reimburse him for all he has lost. Were he to write d book. an autobiography. as one of his fellow officers recently did, there are many publishers who would pay him $5G,O00 for 1t. merely as an adver- tisement for themselves.
 But Schley is said to have declined these offers, and he was right in doing
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02

q selfish and ignoble spite against him. These persons could not prove their case: they only succeeded in proving be adequately punished. or probably punished at all. for what they have done and failed to do; they will not suffer. but Schley is the only sufferer.
 He not only had to undergo the nor tification of having his professional conduct and personal character ques- toned and vilified; but, because he dared to defy the slanderers, and prove them wantonIy false. he must submit to absolute poverty during the short re- mainder of his life. Were he a young man. he might enter into some indus trial employment. and work up, and make a living: but he is too old and broken for that.
 Shall public subscription be raised for him? No; it would be aims. Shall congress make a special appropriatio for him? One can imagine the debate over the question; but one can hardly imagine a sensitive gentleman like Schley surviving it. No; the serious feature about the sort of wrong that has been done Schley is. that it can never be made good to him; it is final and fatal. We can never lay to our souls the fiattering junction that We have given him compensation. Only one good thing can come out of it. and that improbably-that we nay learn to be more slow to islander in the future. Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia North American.
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02
IDEAS WORTH FORTUNES
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Given for Perforated Stamp Invention.

For the mere notion of the possibility of making .aerated water, thought out over pipe of tobacco, Harvey Browne obtained $50. .OOO in hard cash-the rec ord price ever given for an idea It was not a patent or an invention that he sold. but just the notion of forcing carbonic acid gas into water by pres sure. with rough suggestion of the way to do it. He is the father of all the soda water and other ''fiZzes" in the world. though he never made pint himself. .r..
 As d rule it takes weeks of thinking out, hard work and copfous diagrams to place" an invention; followed by long and expensive process to get d patent from the government. Harvey Browne merely took his idea to Payne. Nichols & Co. the big beer bottling firm. just as it stood in his head. and said he could aerate water perma- nently. The experts questioned him, and though they could have simply 'pirated the idea if they had chosen, offered him $25. 900 for his discovery. He asked for $50. 900. and got it. threatening otherwise to patent the idea straight
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02

later that his marvellous brain matched another such idea-a much more pro- saic one. It was the notion of a new sausage making machine, so good and simple that it seemed marvel that mo- body had hit on it before. He sold the idea, just as il stood in his head. to firm of Birmingham hardware makers, who gave him 5000 for IL.
 It was the financial difficulties he vas always in that caused the late Henry Stephens to sell outright his ideas just as his brain conceived them. They fetched cash down" on the nail, too, for he sold the bare notion of the Ste phenS' churn." now used in every cor ner of the world. which regulates its action, and makes butter produc ton Q swift and easy job Formerly the dairy maid would churn all day, and wonder why the butter would not come.'' Instead of going in for a pat ent and royalties, Stephens took his mo- ton to Lawrence 6 Gavin. the big agri- cultural implement makers, and, Of course they saw the advantages of it at once. Yet he only casually explained the idea as it lay in his head. and had not as much as a pencil sketch made out. He asked $10.00O for the idea. and 1t is greatly to the credit of the firm that he got it, for they might safely have taken advantage of him. He was a happy go-lucky, but brilliant genius. wont to forestall all his benefits: but he got his check for S10,OO0 and a position to superintend the making of the ohurns al $50 q week. He soon gave that up, however
 The hurry of the age largely helps to bring these cash down idea sales off and it was sheer terror of being fore stalled. as he admitted, that led Hunt ley Webb to sell his idea for the won derful "Facile" electric motor Ion the nail He rushed off with a few pen cil notes as soon as ever the notion was ripe in his head. and offered it for sale It was odd thing to do. but Webb was q nervous individual and the re marka ble simplicity and usefulness of the idea led him to fear somebody else would get in with it before him. If he had had q smart practical agent to work for him he might have been a millionaire. as it was. he died last year worth a handsome fortune. He took his notion to Hickman & Rouse and they bought the naked idea from him as it stood for S45.OOO thus nearly equaling Harvey Browne's record The whole affair-conception of the idea. working out, negotiations and sale-did not occupy twenty-four hours.-London Answers.
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02
FUNSTON IN DANGER.

Fred Funston is coming home. His friends may tremble because of the fact. He is about the only hero of the Spanish war there is left, but it is not to be expected that he will remain q hero long after landing. Somebody will accuse him of cowardice in that he cap tured Aguinaldo instead Of permitting the Filipinos to capture him, or be- cause he did not wade that river in stead of swimming it. With the fate of Dewey, Schley, Hobson. Shafter and others in mind. Funston would be cas- fly excusable if he masqueraded at San Francisco and sneaked unobserved back to Kansas.-Savannah News.
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02

When baby comes to the home it will bind the wife closer to the husband, or it will gradually tend to cut her of from his conpanship. A sickly mother loses in physical charm, and often in temper and disposition. A fretful child is a trial, even to loving parents. The use ot Dr. Perce's Favorite Prescription prepares the wife for motherhood. It strengthens the body, and induces a healthy condition of mind, free from anxiety or fear. It makes the babv's advent practically painless. The mother being healthy her child IS healthy. and healthy child is a happy child. joy to the parents, linking them together with new bond of affection
 There is no opium, cocaine or other narcotic in " "Favorite Prescription"
 uI read what your medicine has done for other peopic,p writes Mrs. Edwin H. Gardner of Beechwood, Norfolk Go. Mass. Box 7o -so thought would try it. and found it a blessing to me and family. I took your medicine a year when had ten pound girl. had the easiest time ever had with any of my three children. and have been very well ever since I took three bottles of Fsvorite Prescription three of Golden Medical Discovery and three viais Of Pellets Before I took your medicine I only weighed I3s pounds. and now I weigh IFS pounds"
 Dr.Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure sick headache
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02

Did you ever have a person tell you q lie and you knew he was not telling the. truth'ee Think of it the next time you start to tell a falsehood.
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02

A married man living near Atchison recently ran away with a girl, and She neighbors say the deserted wife is bet ter looking than the girl.
Arizona republican., 1901-12-02
A GOOD COUGH MEDICINE.

CFrom the Gazette. Toowoomba. Aus
 tralia)
 I find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is an excellent medicine. l have been suffering from a severe cough for the last two months, and it has effected a cure l have great pleasure in recom- mending it.-W. C. Wockner. This is the opinion of one of our oldest and most respected residents, and has been voluntarily given in good faith that others may try the remedy and be ben efited. as was MT. Wockner. This rem edy is sold by Elvey & Hulett.
 While you are standing up for one person there are probably five or six people sitting down on you.
 Book agents say that, consid aring the great grief over the death of Will liam Mckinley his life sells very slow.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23
Renukeltntea ,he Pee Ili,tsn

A well known East End doctor tells
a story of his experimenting days when
he was at college A girl whom he
knew and admired had a pet kitten
that in frisking around broke one of its
hind legs. The fair mistress was in de.
spair and In extremity asked her med
ical student admirer to try his skill on
the pet He consented and took his
fathers messenger boy. who was used
to the surgery, TO apply the anpsthetic,
The doctor made the amputation and
was sewing up the flap beautifully.
when the boy gave n yell and said the
cat was dead 1t had been chloroform-
ed to death.
The doctor knew that the demise Of
the pet would kill his hopes with the
mistress He had only one alternative,
artificial respiration, and seizing the
forepaws he set to work In ten min
utes he saw he was saved for the kit
ten began to breathe It was restored.
minus one Of its clawers, to the girl who
never knew how near it came to being
buried in the back garden. .-Pittsburg
DispatGh.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23
MOST PEOPLE LoPsIDED.
Differences Between the Legs, Eyes
and Ears of Men and Women.

Differences Between the Legs, Eyes
and Ears of Men and Women.
The two sides Of a persons face are
never alike. The eyes are out of line
in two cases out Of five, and one eye is
stronger than the other in seven per-
sons out of ten. The right ear is also.
as a rule, higher than the left.
Only one person In 10 has perfect
eyes, the largest percentage of defects
prevailing among fair haired people.
Short sight is more common in town
than among country folk, and of all
people the Germans have the largest
proportion of shortsighted persons.
The crystalline lens of the eye is the
one portion of the human body which
continues to Increase with the attain
ment of maturity.
The smallest interval Of sound can
be better distinguished with one ear
than with both. The nails of two
fingers never grow with the same ra-
pidlty, that Of the middle finger grow
Ing the fastest while that Of the thumb
grows the slowest.
In "a cases out of 100 the left leg
is shorter than the right. The bones
Of an average human male skeleton
weigh 20 pounds, those Of woman are
six pounds lighter.
That unruly member. the tongue Of
a woman, is also smaller than that of
a man, given a man and a woman of
equal size and weight. 1t may be mp
palllng to reflect, but 1t is nevertheless
true, that the muscles of the human
Jaw exert force of over 800 pounds.
The symmetry which is the sole In
teliigible ground for our idea of beauty,
the proportion between the upper and
lower half of the human body, exists
In nearly ail males, but is never found
In the female. American limbs are
more symmetrical than those Of any
other people. The rocking chair, ac-
cording to an English scientist, Is re-
sponsible for the exercise which in
creases the beauty of the lower limbs.
The push which the toes give to keep
the chair ln motion, repeated and re-
peated, makes the instep high. the calf
round and full, and 1t makes the ankle
delicate and slender.-Exchange
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23


Ben Webster, an English actor, told
a good story OF how he held his own
when Sir Henry Irving happened to be
absentminded. In the Lyons NAH"
there IS a touching scene between Le-
surques Dlayed by Irving and his
daughter julie, Of which Didier (Mr.
Ben Webster) is a perfectly silent wit
ness.
One night Sir Henry, instead Of max
ing his long speech, appealed in trem-
bling tones to Mr.. Webster: "Speak to
her, Didier; speak to herP' Dldler was
dumfounded. There was an awful
pause. Irving. quite unconscious of
his own mistake, frowned wrathfully
at the young actor, but Mr.. Webster,
equal to the occasion. gave way to q
burst OF tears and exclaimed, ~ can
not; you know cannot sDeakF and
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23

All Sadlevllle, KY, was curious to
learn the cause OF the vast improve
ment in the health of Mrs s. p. Whit
taker, who had for long time endured
untold suffering from a chronic bron-
chial trouble. Its all due to DR..
Kings New Discovery" writes her
husband. 1t completely cured her
and also cured our little grand-daugh-
ter of severe attack of wheoping
cough. 1t positively cures coughs,
la grippe, bronchitis, all throat and
lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles SOC
and s1.OO. Trial bottles free at all
druggists and dealers in medicines.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23

It was at Windsor castle that Queen
Victoria, then only a girl OF 20. did
what she described as 'the most nerv-
ous thing a woman was ever called on
to do"-when she summoned the young
Prince Albert OF Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to
a private interview and proposed" to
him. She had first met him when as n
boy Of II he came with his father to
England, and when, three years later,
he made no secret" Of his love for his
fair cousin mo one was surprised and
every one was delighted. d."-London Tit
Bits.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23
Yonr Paha

Shows the state of your feelings and
the state ofyour health as we'll. I'm
pure blood makes itself apparant in a
pale sallow complexion, pimples and
skin eruptions. II you are feeling
weak and worn out and do not have a
healthy appearance, you should try
Acker's Blood Elixir 1t cures all
blood diseases where cheap Sarsap-
arllla and so called purifiers fail; know
ing this we sell every bottle on posi-
tive guarantee Eagle drug mercan-
tile company.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23
DOGS ON THE STAGE.
Leapihs For the Villains Neok-A
Very Sensitive Animal.

0
Very Sensitive Animal.
-Four legged animals In drama are OF
course a very common sight today. Az
though they are often Of far more i'm
portance than the mere super, they
have an affinity to that class, for theirs
Is no speaking part, unless one counts
the bark Of a dog as such.
A little time ago the writer met an
actor who was taking the part OF n vii
lain In a play wherein q big mastin
selzes him at the back Of the neck just
as he (the villain was about TO murder
the heroine. "Nasty part that Of yours.
How do you manage to escape nightly
being bitten by that big brute Of a
dOg2" mot a nice part, It is true" he
answered, "but the dog is well trained.
He Is kept without food for few
hours before the show. A piece Of cook
ed liver Is tied to my neck. He is held
IN tho wings till the cue comes, then
he rushes on to me for his supper and
the curtain goes down on a very effect
i've tableau. don't object to the dog.
It's the liver"
The mention of stage dogs brings to
mind an amusing Incident that occur
red in well known theatrical agents
office last summer. In came a rough
looking little man wearing a check suit
that once used to speak out for ltself,
but was now silenced by the heavy
hand of time. The man was followed
by a dog Of attractive appearance. The
visitor said he did tramp act" as
sisted by the animal. Then they gave
an exhibition Of themselves and were
certainly above the average. "What are
your termsT the agent querled. "Ten
pounds a week" "I'll give you two"
The imitation tramp-but he was not
far from the real thing-looked with a
sad. reproachfu1 eye at the agent and
silently backed out OF the office, the
dog meekly following. However, within
n few seconds the man returned, quick
ly closing the door to exclude his part
ner, who clamored to get in. 'I'n take
IT," he said In a hurried whisper.
where's the contract7 I'm real broke,
so It's a clear case of push; but, for
heavens sake, don't mention the price
where the dog can hear you."-Cham-
bers' Journal.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23

Miguel, the nine year old son Of Gov
ernor Otero was bitten badly By a dog
the other day. He was playing near
the executive mansion when the dog
attacked him and bit him in the side
and through the arm, leaving several
ugly wounds. The dog was shot i'm
mediately. Doctor Sloan was called
and he cauteriEed the wounds. The
little boy was taken to Chicago by his
mother and family physician to be
treated at the Pasteur institute.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23

From frlghtful Disagreement Mrs.
Mamie Galleger, of La Grange, Ca,
applied Bucklen's Arpica Salse TO
great sores on her head and face, and
writes its quick cure exceeded all her
hopes. 1t works wonders In sores,
bruises, skin eruptions, cuts, burns,
scalds and piles. 25c. Cure guaran'
teen by all druggists and dealers 10
medicines.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23

The New Mexican says the Cochiti
Indians are suffering from their an
nual summer epidemic. The super
inteudent Of the Indian schools upon
a recent visit to the pueblo found
forty-four Indians down with disease,
six OF whom have died OF the trouble
which takes the form Of intermittent
fever, and 1t is feared that many more
will die. It is thought that impure
water is the cause OF the epidemic.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23
what A TaIe IL Tells.

II that mirror of yours shows a
wretched, sallow complexion, a juan
diced look, moth patches and blotches
on the skin, it's liver trouble; but DR..
Kings New Life pills regulate the
liver purify the blood, give clear skin,
rosy cheeks, rich complexion. Only
25c at all druggists and dealers in
medicines.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23

The laws of health require that the
bowels move once each day and one Of
the penalties for violating this law is
piles. Keep your bowels regular by
taking a dose of Chamberlain's stOm'
ach and liver tablets when necessary
and you will never have that severe
punishment inflicted upon you. Price
25 cents. For sale by all dealers in
medicines.