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The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-15
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GoycrnneEu Bonds.
IHE CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
Nncnt Rules Weaker. With Corn
Active on Room Trading

CHICAGO, Feb. 14.-Wheat ruled weak
er today, owing to the disappointing
cables from abroad and favorable weather
throughout the winter wheat belt. Longs
were free sellers, while shorts covered
on the break. Liverpool, after opening
higher, later lost the advance, and closed
unchanged from yesterday. Continental
markets were generally quiet. The Mod
ern Miller" says some complaints of dam
age TO crop are coming from the South
west, and reports of its poor condition
from Eastern sections, but these gen.
orally are unimportant. The general pros
poets for the season of the year are fav-
orable on a largely increased acreage.
Corn-There was fairly large trade in
corn today, but mostly of a local profess
sional character. The market ruled nerv-
Gus within a narrow range. There was
more or less selling by longs. while shorts
covered on the break. The market closed
quiet. Liverpool markets reported their
market as quiet. sd lower for the day,
affected chiefly by more favorable crop
news from the Argentine. Country offer
ings continue light, but cash demand was
rather quiet, although Kansas City re-
ported a better demand today.
Oats ruled quiet, closing easier, in sym
pathy with wheat and corn. There was
no special feature to the market. Coun-
try offerings were light; cash demand
quiet.
Provisions opened weak On lower hogs
and another heavy run. There was brisk
trade for a while, but later ruled ex-
tremely dull, and closed dull and easier.
and had little or no support. Ribs also
developed considerable weakness On sell
ing pressure for English packers.
The following are the quotations:
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THE COTTON MARKET.
March Rises on shorts Covering and
Later Reacts.

NEW YORK, Feb. 14-March cotton ad-
Vanced sharply on covering of shorts and
manipulation attributed to Philadelphia
interests, and other months made a mod
crate advance in sympathy. but later on
there was general reaction owing to
large lin sight" figures, lukewarm cables,
the large stock in Liverpool, and realizing
by local, Southern, and Wall Street
people.
The situation remains much the same
receipts are big. but bullish sentiment is
strong for all that. 1t is contended large
receipts mean large buying at the South.
The market closed steady, with quota
tons points higher to points lower, as
compared with yesterdays closing prices.
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DR.KOCH FOFERS
HIS SERVICES FREE,

To all who call now we will
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~ give our services free, our OILY
charge being for the Koch Tuber-
ROO cuine, whici; we will furnish at
VI - cost. Our Offices are in nearly
E& all the large cities, the Wash
NV ington office beng at 627 Street
E,CkHk northwest.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-15

Dr. Edward kocs. Prof Koch is the discoverer OF
the germs that produce consumption and of the
'Tuberculine' that destroys them The Koch In
halation Treatment is universally recognized AZ
the only cure for Consumption and Asthma.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-15

The Treasury's regular monthly state
ment for the country's foreign trade was
issued today, and ii showed an excess of
exports of merchandise for the month of
January of $4,000, 600, against s67. 600, 900
in the same month of last year. For the
seven months OF the current fiscal year
the excess of exports appears at s3z5,000,
900, as against s443.000,0o9 in the CORE
spending period OF 1901.
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February "a - MISS ETHEL BARRYMORE, in
CAPTAIN JINKS. OF THE HORSE MARINES"
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Mr.. wheeler Got Rid of His Rheu.
mutism.

During the winter OF 1898 I was so lame in
my joints, in fact all over my body. that could
hardly hobble around. when ! bought bottle
OF Chamberlain's Pain Balm. From the first ap..
plication ! began TO get well, and was cured
and have worked steadily all the year
Wheeler, No,thv-ood, N. Y. For sale ny Henry
Evans. Wholesale ana Retail and all druggists.
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Decline of British Stocks.

LONDON. Feb. 1.-THE Bankers Mag
azine." in an analysis OF S25 stocks, shows
the fall in capital value in two years
amounted to ESQ, O0e
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the WORKINGMAN AND CAPITAL.

The only chance he has of being liberated from
the tyranny of capital is to become a CAPITAL
IsT himself. and the way TO become capitalist
is to save money and put it into the PERPETUAL
BUILDING ASSOCIATION and begin receiving in
terest on his savings, and when he has enough,
buy or build home for himself and family.
Don't hesitate but begin at once. See our ad-
yertisement in this column.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05

down upon o miniature thunder
storm. But finally remembered
that II was the Fourth, and then
knew that the disturbed area upoI
which I saw so many little dartins
lights was st. Joe and its evening
display of Roman candles, rockets
and bombs. They all seemed very
trifling and pitiful to me then, ant
I remembered conceiving a genuine
contempt for SO small "a thing as q
pack or even box of firecrackers.
"Then I noticed that the breeze no
longer blew downward upon my bare
head. I watched the bag which had
been rotund and bullying, and saw
that it's sides were denied and fab
by. I found a package of cards ln
the basket, advertisements for the
ballconist, and throwing them out
saw that they sailed lazily upward.
"I'm falling!' I murmured, and for
the first time became conscious OF
the most terrible fear. My hair was
TdCucT lOuH, duo EJoou III Cho poi "
ly with terror and partly from the
upward draught through which
was descending more rapidly each
second. The moon peeped over the
eastern hills suddenly, and then
could see the earth again, luminous
in a pale green glow and apparently
soaring steadily toward me. Then
could see blotches of darker shad.
owy green, the river looked broader,
and now I could see the lake as II
coming up directly under me, silvery
blue. Then l heard a murmur as of
many distant voices which grew loud
err and louder. / heard cheers and
looked over for the last time. was
falling SO swiftly now that I prayed
and thought Of my mother by turns.
Then I covered my face with my
hands and waited for the crash.
"But suddenly the basket in which
I crouched stopped with a sudden
jerk, and then the big silken bag
came softly rustling down over me
felt another gentle bump, the
voices were ringing in my ears, an6
/ felt hundred hands pulling away
at the empty balloon. When I came
to / was in hammock on the porch
of the little hotel near the lake. /
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
.Now INV friends." thund cred Prof.

Snow, my friends" Numbered Prof.
winball, casting aside his robe and
sta nding forth respondent In the sum
light, "when l shout; Let go!' you
must all loose holds upon the ropes"
The volunteer assistants chorused:
"All right" Then there was q wait
while the professor looked after some
carrier pigeons that were to accom-
pany him in the ascent. Somebody
shouted: "Let go!" The restraining
ropes were dropped with one accord.
and the balloon, tenantless and like q
rayless planet, rose upward from the
ground,
Then the round, brown, freckled face
of a small boy peeped over the rim of
the basket. A woman screamed and
tainted, and Mickey Emmett. the small
boy of Elwood. Kan, went sailing to-
ward the zenith alone in slender
basket, swinging by four taut cords,
with the upward sweeping bulb OF yell
low silk lifting him beyond the sound
Of voices and into the measureless
space where the winds are free and the
world is but silver-striped ball OF
green and yellow.
"When looked over the edge Of that
basket" said Superintendent Emmett,
telling the story yesterday: II didn't
realize that was going up. For five
minutes or more 1t seemed to me that
the earth had suddenly dropped down.
ward into space. heard my mother
scream and was vaguely convinced that
she had felt the earth dropping under
her and was frightened. 1t didn't &C.
cur to me that ! was in danger. l
rather felt that I was lucky to be in
balloon at the very moment when the
world fell from it's place. specialized
upon what would happen when the
globe went crash against the moon,
and selfishly chuckled at the thought
that I, at least, wouldn't be in the
smash-up.
"The only breeze I felt seemed to
come straight down from above. I
dropped my cap out and 1t fell like a
pound Of lead. Then. for the first time.
I began to realize that was going up
and the earth was standing still, doing
business in the same old place. For
quarter of an hour the ground below
me looked like concave basin. The
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05

wasn't hurt in the least, and my
mother, laughing, crying and thank
ing God in her reverent old Irish way
was holding my hands. / had de
scended within a hundred yards OF
the place had started from and had
spent nearly three hours at great
altitude. OF course my mother was
wild with fear, but Prof. Winball
who knew his business, treasured heI
somewhat by his own certainty that
the absolute stiffness of the all
would insure my safe descent near
by. His only worry was that I'd fall
in the lake, and score of boats were
patrolling the waters watching fol
me. The balloon anchor was what
caused the first jolt as 1 swept down
ward, but it broke the force of the
fall and probably saved me from a
broken limb at least. No, / never
went near balloon again, but I'm
not sorry for the experience."-Chi'
cago Record-Herald.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05

horizon seemed like the high outer
rim, and below me, so far that the peo-
ple looked like small bugs, was the
bottom of the hollow dish. To the
west, like a yellow ribbon, winding
among green fields and forests and
squares of golden harvest field, the
Missouri river lay flashing in the sun.
Lake Contrary, sheet of water four
miles long, looked like the half-closed,
blue eve of woman. St.Joe, smokeless
and spangled with tin roofs and glass.
seemed almost beneath me, like a toy
village on a checkerboard, its hills flat
tened and its streets merely dotted
with crawling specks.
at must have been past six o'clock in
the evening when the balloon let go.
The sun was low, and yet before it set
beyond the Kansas plains the world no
longer looked fiat. just as the sun,
monstrous in size and brazen with the
dull color that you have seen at sun
set, struck the horizon, the world sud-
denly assumed the appearance of
PlODe. Inc lake UclOW uiC, NJ" AOOh-
ing like a silver dime, seemed like
the apex of the sphere, and then,
as the sun dropped below the
sky line, shadows crept about it.
I saw, like stars reflected in the
water, the city's lights shining
dimly below. Soon the globe, down
upon which I gazed with fascinating
interest, lost all color. The pale lights
seemed to be swimming round and
round. But yet my balloon, still in the
suns half light, was luminous with a
pale yellow glow.
"I became fascinated with the
sparks of light and streaks of fiery
red that then began to glimmer and
fash in tiny lines and arcs upon the
earth. Sometimes a muffied roar like
that of thunder and then the crack
of lesser noises would reach my ears.
and / began to fancy that was far
above the clouds and was looking
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
An OId-Time Terror.

Among ancient relics at present on exhi'
bition at Chicago, is sheet of papyrus
bearing complaint to chief Of police who
held Office Just 1902 years ago, that the
premises of the writer had been robbed.
Whether the work was done by porch
climber, duplicate key man, or an ordinary
hall sneak is not recorded, but the antique
document is suggestive that in some ways
q score of centuries has not greatly changed
the world. One can imagine that old-time
chief threatening his dusky Egyptian force
with the terrors of "shake-up. Buffalo
Courier.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
80 by JotN RFTERXo--

~" Wy July 4, 1872, he
wasa freckled-faced, barefooted school
boy in Elwood, Kan. He's division
superintendent on the Illinois Central
railroad now, and he writes his name
IN r. Emmett, Supt.," but in those
days he was known at the village
school az Mickey Emmett. Of course
Michael Robert Emmett would have
been more distingue and deferential,
but in those days he didn't 60 in much
for style, and with the memory of his
dead fathers fine Irish brogue yet
ringing in his ears, mickey" sounded
oil right.
Mickey's widowed mother "kept
cows" Nobody called her little estab-
fishment "dairy" except herself, but
she managed to exc out decent liv-
Eng for herself and Mickey, snd she
was proud of her ambition to give him
an education and prouder of the fact
that he always was first at his studies.
But when the glorious Fourth of 1872
drew near, Mickey made an eloquent
plea for some fireworks. He wanted
to show his patriotism. He had an am
bition to make as much noise as the
other boys. and his heart rebelled at
the suggestion that "t'was waste of
money" The widow promised him
dag.
"oi1l Civ yez q two-bit flag" said
abe, Fan take yez over t. the picnic at
Lake Contrary. They's t be bal
loon ASCENSION and free foir wurruks,
and It will cost us both only four-bits."
Mickey preferred to make bedlam in
his own yard, but the widow was bent
on the picnic, and the boy agreed to 60.
1t was the balloon that fascinated
the lad. He was no sooner on the pic
mic grounds than he sought out the
cord-netted bag of yellow, with its
wicker basket. its anchor and its gap-
ing mouth. When the great charcoal
fire was kindled and the pipe inserted
into the big balloon Mickey was the
busiest lad IN the neighborhood. His
good mother watched him and eau
toned him q hundred times, but he
lowered about the balloon like bee
ct an alfalfa blossom.
Finally, the aeronaut, Prof. Winball,
came forth with bath robe flowing
gracefully from his shoulders. His
spangled tights cleaned in the hot
sunlight, and he superintended the in
fiation of his balloon with the careless
confidence of a master. Mickey re-
4, doubled his efforts to help so great a
4 man. He helped to lift the sand bags
into the car, and as the yellow bulb,
like q monstrous orange, bobbed up
ward in its efforts to be free, the little
Irish boy was beside himself with de-
tight. He hoped into the basket a
dozen times. The professor smiled
beamingly upon him and asked:
"will you go up with me, little
mani"
Mickey glanced at his mother, who
shook her head fiercely, and then he
lodged away again into the crowd.
Fifty stout arms were now holding
the guy ropes which confined the bal
loon. The day was perfect. Not
breath Of wind disturbed the air. The
smoke from the little steamer in the
lake curled straight upward in
widening cone of gray. The trees were
motionless. No cloud specked the blue
sky, the water lay fat and shining like
q mirror in the sun.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
Law Rnten to the East

via the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railway.
To Chautauqua and return, July 4th and
18th. Sl4.O0 for the round trip.
Portland, Maine, and return, July 9th
to 9th, one fare for the round trip; return
init may be extended to Aug. 18th.
Providence, Rhode Island, and return,
July 1879, one fare for the round trip; re-
turn limit may be extended to August 18th.
Full information on application to G. +.
DAILY, Chief A. G. P. A., Chicago.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
A Good Thing for the Boys.

"Oh, yes, our boys always have a
nice time on the Fourth" he said,
with q chuckle that had in it all the
music of soapsuds gurgling out Of
bathtub. "You see my wife's old
maid aunt lives with US and she never
fails to have a fit when a firecracker
goes off under her chair."-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05

% graceful in its folds Of silk
The banner OF the free!
The Spirit born at Lexington.
That fought at Bunker Hill,
And stood through tears and greater STRIFE
Shall bear thee onward still.
Hurrah! Hurrah! the welkin rings
From rugged coast Of Maine!
From far Pac!fc's golden shore
Comes answer back again!
Brave sailor hands shall raise to-day
In pride on every sea
"Old Glory!" lit by fadeless stars
The banner of the free!
The blood Of gray and valiant sires.
Warm coursiEg through our veins.
Is quickened by the happy dawn
And thrilled by martial strains.
Our loyal anthems notes are heard
Alike In every shade,
Their echoes fill the signing pine
And cheer the everglade.
The plow-share in the furrow waits
To turn the fertile field.
Enwrought In peace from patriot steel
That ne'er to wrong would yield.
Unsolicited gun gives glad salute
Meath liberty's green tree,
While North and South together sing
The banner Of the free!
s-Henry Denver, In Springfield Cfass.) Re-
publican.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
Lively Times Ahead,

"Well," sighed the first, II must get
ready for day of hard work."
"Me, too" returned the second.
81 was referring to the Fourth OF
july" explained the first.
"Me, too" returned the second.
"Youl Why, what's your bust
ness?"
'I'm a fireman. And yours?"
"Tm an ambulance doctor."-Chi.
cago Evening Post.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05

"Folly," commented the large-waisted
philosopher, "when personifed, is feminine;
not because of her possession of the attri.
butes of femininity, but because she Is so
persistently pursued by man."-1ndianap-
oils News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
Exclusive.

Ping-Are Mrs. De Styles entertain
ments very exclusive?
Pong-Well, should say SO! She has just
made application to rave the conversation
of her guests copyrighted.-Baltmore Her.
MD
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05
Doubtful Recomm en- dalton.

Can you make me set of teeth that will
look natural?" asked the patient.
ter. ''the teeth I make are so natural that
they fairly ache. Chicago Daily News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-07-05

Our greatest glory is not in never fail
Ing, but in rising every time that We fall
Confucius.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-31
STATE PRESS.

That convict who was pardoned from
h Missouri penitentiary in order thar
he might be hanged must have thought
some very unpleasant things about the
governor Of missouri and the state par
doning system.-Charlotte News.
The high prices Of meat and meal
should convince the southern farmer
or the prime Importance OF raising his
W supplies. The farmer is always
best off when he fills his smokehouse
ard barn from his hogpen and his field
than when he does so from Chicago
Tarboro Southerner.
There is perhaps not a member OF
congress who does not know that a
large part of the pension appropriation
goes TO persons who are in no way en-
titled to it. yet each feels that he could
do nothing had he the desire. This evil
has reached such proportions that it
seems no party can afford to fight it
Durham Herald.
IT'S true that we haven't had race
riots, negro policemen, magistrates and
county officers negroes as they have
had in some counties, III all this re-
suited from populist-republican fusion.
and the very name, even the very smell
of it is corruption itself to US, and this
Is " n we wrtte ahOut it. Because the-
get decent respectable white men in Of
flee here and there is no Justification
whatever for their conduct in party
practices.-Clinton Democrat.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-31
Et can't fselD burt do YOU @Os
ESTERbR00K'S PENS
THE EsrERBRooK STEEL PEA %
9Hd 10 cents for y dNnf p~a 2I0hn 81 New York
As He Ordered.

Not long ago an anxious mother
brought her daughter TO see a famous
London physician. a ) Tit-Bits. The
girl was suffering from what some peo-
ole call general lowness." There was
nothing much the matter with her. but
she was pale and l~lstless. n did not
care about doing anything. even eating.
The doctor, after due ~consulta ton.
prescribed for her a glass OF claret three
times a Gay with her meals. The mother
was somewhat deaf but apparently
heard all he said. and bore on her
daughter. determined 10 carry out he
prescription TO the letter.
In two weeks she was back with the
girl. who was rosy checked. smiling
and the picture OF health.
The doctor naturally congratulated
himself on his skill. INC said cordially:
Il am glad to see your daughter Is 50
much better"
Thanks to you doctor exclaimed
the grateful mother. She has had Just
what YOU ordered. She has eaten car
rots three times n day. and sometimes
oftener-and once or twice she had them
u~llcooked: and now look at herr"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-31
~FEARFULLY COLD WEATHER.
Thermometer Far Below Zero-DrOp
of Fifty Degrees I'm Twenty-Four
Hours Fierce Snow Storm.

Chicago. January 27.-Chicago is
struggling under the bighting blasts OF
a cold wave that arrived last night, the
raging in the northwest. In the last
|twenty-four hours, the temperature has
fallen 46 degrees, having touched s de-
grees below zero at dawn. One death
from freezing is reported.
All the northwest is suffering from
the extremely cold weather which COW
ars all the upper lake region and the
region of the Mississippi valley with
zero temperatures. In the far north
western states the range of temperature
lis from 10 to "a degrees below zero.
Traffic has been generally impeded and
trains are reported late On all roads.
Tonight the wind which had blown
half a gale all day. died away. Tonight
Temperature was 4 below and falling
SLOWLY. Cold weather is promised for
Tomorrow and slowly moderating tenn
perature for Wednesday,.
The most YER conditions tonight
Iexisted in the lake Superior region
where the temperature ranged from $
below to II below and the wind blew a
gale.
The blizzard is also felt in the south
At Huntington, w. Va, t~wenty-foul
lhours of heavy rain has been followed
to-day by the fiercest snow storm Of the
the season., which prevails throughout
southwestern Virginia. Traffic IS delay.
ed on all railroads.
Freezing temperature is reported as
for south as Galveston, Texas. A droI
of nearly fifty degrees is reported a
Nashville and Memphis, Tenn. Louis
vile, KY. was visited by a severe slice
storm last night and the thermomete1
lat 3 o'clock today registered IL above
zero.