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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-16
THE FLOUR MARKET
II Prices Adyanced--Heavy Domes-

All Prices Adyanced-HeaVy DOmes-
tic Sales.
Millers have advanced prices 10c a barrel
all around. Demand this morning was good
and sales were large. The inquiry came al
most entirely from domestic buyers and
there no foreign business of Importance.
AS now quoted the market is firm. The
movement ont is little lighter
Shipments for the day, 34,093 brls.
FIRST patents are quoted $'.9uM4; second
patents, $3.SG03,90; first clears, So; second
clears. $2.25.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-16
Milwaukee Grain.

Milwaukee. April 16.-Flour. sc up Wheat.
higher; close: No. northern, 75G751zc;- No.
2 northern, 74@741ac; May 74Ac. Rye, firm
er: No. L. 5S@5SHc. Barley, higher; No. 2,
6Sk@6sc; sample, 6o@67c. Oats, steady No.
2 white, 45A@451ac. Corn. May, 61Ac.
Wheat-Puts, 73c; calls, 1850. r. g; s
Corn-Puts, Gle; calls, 63c. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-16
st. Louis Grain,

St. Louis, April 16:-Wheat-Lower; No. 2
red, cash, elevator, 79Ac; May, 7eAc; July,
727lc; No. ? hard, 741a@7s1kc. Corn-Lower;
No. 2, cash, C37ac; May, 63Bc; July, 627sc;
September, 62Mc; September, 61hc Oats
Lower; No. 2, cash, 44hc; May, 45c; July, 35c;
September, 301ac; No. 2 white, 461sc..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-16
New York Bonds.

Total sales, 1,76S,7OO shares.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28
UNCLE SAM AS A BEE tanner.

Uncle Sam is trying to tame the
ferocious bee now. He is breeding bees
that IL is hoped will prove more gem
tie than the busy but irritable bee
that is native to America.
He has been importing some fine
breeding queen bees from Italy and
Cypria and Austria, and has sent them
to bee growers, or apiculturists, as
they call themselves, throughout the
country. The Cyprian queen bees have
already done much to make the COM
mon black bee ashamed of itself, IL
that buzzing busybody can feel
shame. For last year in Southern CAL
ifornia the Cyprian bees gathered a
fine crop of flower nectar and produced
a very good amount OF honey. while
the black bees did nothing at all.
Cross-breeding between the import
ed and the domestic bee has developed
the fact that the foreign bees are much
more gentle than the domestic. Al
though Uncle Sam does not carry his
fatherly care for his people so far as
to study how to protect them against
bee stings, he is very glad indeed to
discover a way to breed an amiabIe
and sweet tempered bee. for some of
the best American honey gatherers are
so vindictive and sour in temper that
they often spoil their honey entirely
and many times go on strike until their
anger cools off.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

panion. "see! There is dog in the
river"
sicinius gazed intently out over the
water.
There are two dogs" he said. But
they are not dogs"
Il see four now" said the first boy.
They are little galleys,' said Sici-
MUS. 1--WE will throw stones at them
until we drive them ashore"
About a quarter of a mile down
the stream the boys gathered in their
prizes. They were not galleys, as
Sicinius had called them. They were
curiously embossed copper cylinders,
and after some difficulty the boys suc-
ceeded in opening them.
Out of each copper cylinder came
thick blush cloud which rapidly dis
appeared like so much smoke. 1t was,
however curious and very wonderful
smoke and it's effect upon the boys
was Immediately apparent.
Sicinius squared his shoulders and
drew a deep breath.
"I intend to be a great soldier" he
said. And how we'll he kept his word
was afterward proved when he shook
the foundations of Rome.
Il intend to be a great scholar"
said his companion, looking far out
over the landscape with dreamy eyes.
Before he was thirty he had become
one of the great philosophers of his
age.
When the seer heard what the boys
had determined he smiled and con-
tnued his solitary walk.
II have given them character and
the power to know their duty" he
said. Let them do what they will
with the gifts"
This is the legend told concerning
the old Roman game of "Fatum."
which is the ancestor of the modern
game of Bring Your Boat Ashore"
contain the gifts of the seer to the
players of the game. Two of the cans
contain the power to distinguish duty.
and two OF the cans contain character
which enables one to perform duty:
The black square known as the
mark" is simply a convenience to in
dicate the position of the four cans.
The heavy black line is the shore.
Twelve feet from the shore line draw
and is connected with the custom Of
making new and good resolutions on
New Years day.
Figure 1 of he diagram shows four
tin cans grouped about small black
square. To the left of the tin cans is
heavy black line. The four tin cans
a circle on the ground three and one
half feet in diameter. The object of
the game is to stand within the CIT
Gle and throw stones in such way
that they will knock the cans over the
line.
Look at Figure of the diagram. Each
one of the black circles A, B, c and
D represents one of the cans. E repre-
sents the mark c represents the can
nearest the player.
Now, two of the cans, and A, hold
one gift and two of the cans, and d,
hold the other gift. 1t is the object of
the player to get different gifts, not
two gifts of the same kind.
To do away with any chance of dis
agreement in counting up, it is well TO
have the cans marked with one. two,
three and four holes (see Figure A.
By this means they can easily be told
apart.
We will suppose that two boys are
ready to play the game. The short
line has been drawn, the circle mace
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

AS he was falling II dawned on him
that the dJinn had kept his word. He
must be the possessor of an automo-
bile, but the reason that he could not
see 1t was because 1t was invisible.
He could feel 1t all right, as his fore
head and shins were bearing evidence.
He rose cautiously to his feet, and
began to feel for the vehicle, and
there 1t was complete; but whether
moved by electricity or oil or steam
he did not know.
But 1t does not take bright boy of
twelve very long to find out how any
old thing works. and in five minutes
Harry had discovered that II was an
electric motor of very simple mechan-
ism. And In five minutes had learned
! how to run 1t and how to steer Il, and
he took an initial run along the lonely
road that runs north from the clay
pit to where the Garfield road inter-
sects.
He met no person, but he did meet
dog, water spaniel that belonged
to pretty much everyone in town. he
was so friendly. The dog ran yeIping
with terror as soon as ne saw Harry
hve feet UP in the air and moving
rapidly forward.
Harry wondered what had frighten-
, ed the dog. but he discovered very
soon, for now, feeling that he knew
how to manage the machine, he turn
ed into the Garfield road and ran
along at some ten miles an hour.
Silas Woodbury. was hauling a load
Of blue stone up the avenue, and Har-
ry did not soon forget the look of
fright that came over his features
when he saw a small boy rushing
through the air at him. To be sure.
Harry steered the vehicle to the right
and avoided collision. but he also
caused a runaway Woodbury's horses
were accustomed to visible autor1o-
biles, but the spectacle of a boy in a.
sitting posture with his hand held rig
idly in front OF him, kiting along five
feet above the ground smoothly and
swiftly, was more than they could
stand, and they ran up Turner Hill
with their heavy load as IL they had
been running loose in their pasture.
Fortunately. Silas controlled them
before any damage was done, but af-
ter he had brought them to a trem-
bling standstill he went to see a doc
tor, surprising that his brain was at
fected.
AS for Harry. he thought OF nothing
but his delight at owning such a con-
veyance. and he determined to go
home at once and take his mother out
for ride.
AS he came In sight OF the house
he saw her sitting on the piazza, and
he put on a little extra squirt OF speed,
yelling TO her with Joy and exultatio
as he did so.
do not believe that there was any
thing the matter with the steering
gear. ! think that Harry merely got
ratified, but whatever the cause. Mrs.
Mum looked 40 when she heard he
yell ana saw her boy flying through
the air; first IN a sitting posture, but
just a. he came within four feet Of
the telegraph pole he assumed a hori-
lontal position, face downward and
landed IN the woodblDe that shades the
piazza.
For an instant there was a grinding
sound ~ front of the house. and the
telegraph pole frembled like an aspen.
aud then broke short on. A. the same
time there was she sound ~ che Whlr-
rms ~ an automobile. and then the
stone wall On the other aide ~ he
read seemed 20 have beeq hard be
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

back to the next hole. etc, until all
the holes up to the smallest part of
the curve and all the knots have been
used up.
Then from the holes In the top of
the curve similar lines should be run
down TO the v shaped juncture of the
main stick and the thong which binds
the bent end to it.
But unlike the lines which form the
network of a tennis racket, the lines
for a ''Hi-ali" bat must be run loose,
SO that there is a sag of about four
inches in the widest part of the bat,
the cross lines gradually Tightening to-
ward the ends. OF course the up and
down lines should also be looser in the
middle than at the sides.
1t will be seen that the racket is not
difficult one to make.
The only other things required are
the court-an empty barn may very
well serve for this-and a four-ounce
solid rubber ball.
There may be two, four, six or even
eight players If the place is very large.
they divide evenly into two sides.
The play is to keep the ball in mo-
ton without letting it strike the floor,
passing ii from bats to walls and back
again on the rebound.
Each side has one-half of the floor
space and the ball becomes the other
sides property the moment 1t crosses
the line on the rebound or the moment
1t is permitted to touch the floor.
The game is really very exciting and
one requiring quick eye, unerring
stroke and great skill.
The manner of keeping the score is
obviously backwards. Every time
your opponent permits the ball to
strike the floor 1t scores one against
him. Every time he permits II to pass
into your territory it scores ten against
him.
The score may be anything you
please, 100 being the best figure for
beginners. Another plan is to place
a time limit on the game and count
that side winner which scores most
points against its opponents during
that time.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

In a place called Jaygarh, somewhere
on the coast of India.
Harry took il home with him. and
wnen he walked into his mothers bed
room with his cap on and the Iamr
IN his hand. she said two things
where's your cap, Harry?" and ooh
where did you get that dirty thing 4
DO throw it away. Your coat is all
smutted up from it."
Throw it away?" said Harry. toss
ing his cap upon the bed. I'm going
to make a stove out of 1t to use in
OUR ovens"
Harry lived in a little suburban
town where the boys found endless
amusement in making ovens in a CLAW
ban at which they cooked sweet pota
tees, burned their fingers and their
trousers and otherwise enjoyed them
selves. They also made clay images
and fired them in the ovens and then.
IKE as not, fired them away, after the
fashion of boys.
Harry deposited his school books in
the wrong place, and snatching up his
cap, he rushed off to the clay bank.
None of the other boys was there
so ne sat down on heap of clay and
began to do what Mrs. Dempsey had
never done-that is. to polish the lamp.
He had no rag handy, but he used
something just as good--his coat
sleeve.
Three times he rubbed the dusky
brass globe, and then he dropped il
with cry of terror; for curling out
OF the top was a thin stream of green
ish smoke, that twirled and twisted
and rapidly grew larger. until It was
twenty feet high, when it suddenly as
sumed the size and shape of a giant.
"a h
ne never had seen one before, and at
first he decided not to believe it. But
what's the use of having eyes If you
don't believe them? Harry's eyea
never had gone back on him, and so
ne trusted them and started to run
away from this spirit that his rubbing
had evoked
But in roaring voice the smoke
wrath said: Don't run away. Ameri-
can boy. / am the slave of the lamp.
1t is not the lamp of Aladdin, but ii
was made by the same wizard. For
years I have not been called Now ]
am here. Wish quickly for the thing
you most desire"
l wonder why it is that when fairies
or djinns give people wishes they al
most always wish for some FOOLS h
little thing first 1t was 80 with
Harry The apple tree in his fathers
yard was loaded with ripe apples, and
he could get all he wished Just for the
picking, but the foolish fellow said:
Il wish had an apple" and in an
instant he held one in his hand, not
one whit better than those on his ia
theirs tree.
The dim burst into a smoky laugh
Il could have given you a bad penny
just as easily Why didn't you ask for
L.
too, for / can only stay three minutes,
and more than two have passed"
Have you ever tried to think quick
ly on compulsion? How much do ten
apples and five plums and six cherries
and seven bananas and four pears and
fifty-two grapes make? Answer quicki
You can't answer quickly when the
teacher fires it at you like that Per-
haps you say there is no answer, but
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

mark" '"e
The first player throws his stone
s ana knocks G and D over the line.
rms IS good play, for both kinds of
giIts nave been knocked ashore. The
play VIII count him twenty.
IL is counted in this way. One can
OF any kind over the line counts five.
Two cans of the same kind counts ten.
Two cans of different kinds count
twenty. Three cans count fifty. -Four
cans count one hundred
Each can is set one and one-half
feet from the mark. This allows
plenty of space for the stone to roll
over the shore line without hitting
anything and before player has done
little practicing that is what will hap
pen pretty often.
can which is merely knocked down.
put not over the line. counts nothing.
After the first player has taken his
turn the second player throws his
stone at the cans which remain
standing-not the ones which have been
knocked over. If there are no cans
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28
TALES OF THE
UGLY BRASS LAMP
By CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
Author of Yankee Entertainments, etc.
Copyright, 1902, by Charles BatteIl LOOMS.

Mrs. Dempsey was downright SLOW
emily. Her business was washing
clothes, but she drew the line al
clothes, and never thought of scrub
bling her floor or polishing her pots
and pans and other utensils. That is
probably why her ugly brass lamp
looked so dingy, and one day when 1t
was accidentally knocked off the ta-
BILE and set fire to the house, Mrs.
Dempsey flung it through the open
window, and the blazing comet that
descended to the street below gave
the alarm of fire.
The fire cleaned out her place pretty
thoroughly; in fact. so thoroughly that
it burned up not only the dirt. but
about everything else that the poor
woman had. But the chief loss. if she
had but known it. was the loss of the
lamp.
That battered piece of furniture
burned for a while in the street and
then, as if worn out by its exertions.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

other over the line as shown in Fig
ure 3.
Figure shows the ideal shot for
which players are always striving.
The double dotted line shows the
course of the stone. The stone strikes
C and drives 1t into D, carrying them
both over the line. After striking G
the stone chances to A and then to B.
The greater the force with which a
stone is thrown the more likely is 1t
to make a good count.
The diagram shows the best method
of holding the stone. If few pre-
lininary steps are taken before the
stone is delivered a great deal of
power can be developed. Look at
Figure 9.
Place the left foot at B and the right
foot at A. Advance the right foot to
c. then the left foot to D and the
right foot to B. If this is done rapidly
the stone may be thrown as though
hurled from a catapult.
A more simple, though not quite so
effective, way is shown in Figure 3.
Place the left foot at 3 and the right
foot at A. Swing the right foot to
and throw. After the cans have
been set up eight times the player hav-
ing the greatest score wins. The score
NAV range from nothing to 800.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

or whatever you choose to call them
ra-ya).
The smaller end of the half sapline
should not be so small that it will
bend easily, because after IL is bent
1t must still be very firm.
AFTER the bark has been peeled OFF
ana both sides are smoothed, each
halt sapling's end must be soaked in
water until it becomes pliable enough
TO bend without breaking. Then this
end should be benz over-the fat side
IN, OF course-until the bent end
curves in half circle so that il is
just six inches from the main stem
or the stick. In other words. until
the stick is in the form of a capital
letter J.
Through the bent end a hole must
be bored very carefully, so that the
sapling will not split. Through this
hole a strong cord. or. better yet, a
strong leather thong with single knots
tled in 1t at intervals of one and one
quarter inches, should be passed. The
thong must be carried down to a point
two and one-half feet from the larger
or handle end of the half sapling.
There two very small notches may
be made so that the knots will not
SLIP but they must be no larger than
is absolutely necessary or they will
weaken the wood at that point. Where
these notches are the cord or thong
should be bound securely. Thus the
curve in the stick is preserved.
When all these things have been
done the frame work of the strange
racket is completed
Beginning three inches from the
point where the thong is tied, holes
are carefully bored all about the
wooden frame to one and one half
inches from the end of the curvature
Through these holes strong Irvine
| C'stone mason's line" is the best)
should be woven just as the net is
| made in a tennis racket. Pass the
Irvine from the wooden frame to the
knots in the leather thong, then up
to the next knot and back to the next
holes then up to the next knot and
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28
THE YEAR THAT NEVER CAME.
Continued from Page 24.)


iy as they could. When he had
mounted the steps of the town hall,
he turned and told them that at the
stroke of midnight he would unbe-
witch the sun.
boys gathered with their tin horns.
and crackers. and watchmens' rattles,
and the brass band chose it's loudest
tune, and the bass drummer tried his
muscle, and the grocers uncle loaded
the brass cannon to the muzzle.- and
got a coal to light the fuse. Everyone
was ready to begin some sort of noise
as soon as the hands of the great
clock in the tower of the town hall
pointed to twelve. and every eye
gazed on the hands.
AS for Gustaf. he climbed the lad
der in the tower of the town hall,
and minute before twelve he
grasped the crank that moves the
hands of the great clock.
When the first stroke of the twelve
sounded the terrible racket began.
The boys blew their horns. and fired
the.s crackers. and whir1ed their rat
ties and the band began to play. and
the grocer's uncle fired his cannon,
and everyone entered, but before
they could cheer twice Gustaf turned
the crank and 1t was one o'clock, and
before they could say Happy IL was
tow o'clock, and before they could
say New Year" Gustaf turned the
crank twelve times. and II was twelve
o'ciock Of the next day OK the New Year.
And that Is how IL happened that
Gustaf was made keeper OF the great
clock In the tower OF the town hall.
and how he took the spell OF the
sun, for he regulated the great clock
and after that II was always day in
the daytime. and everybody was very
glad except the small boys who had
been cheated out Of the beginning Of
the New Year.
And 10 repay the small boys for
their disappointment the Mayer Issued
proclamation that there should Be
two Fourghs ~ July that year. Ana
that y Why, y you ask anyone n
~ July 81 the hFrf 81 February. ia
Niu teli tou u vas "a ths yser fhas
never began
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

law in the United States), 1t is the
most popular sport in Spain. There is
a large court in every important
Spanish city. In Havana, Cuba, there
is also large court and while Ma
ior General Leonard Wood of the
United States army was Governor
General of that island he became
very enthusiastic over the game.
AS in American baseball, the pub
lie games are played by professional
PLAYERS, who command high salary
lust as the baseball players do In
America: ana these professional
games are played in great courts
which cost great deal OF money to
build.
In Spain, however, the boys have
a. way OF playing j'ai-slai which is not
more expensive than baseball is 20
boys IN the United States. And this
IL the way they DO A.
First they take sapiing about six
feet long which has been split IN two
lenethwise and from which the bark
mas been peeled. This must be of
some wood which viii bend a good
deal without breaking. IN the United
states hickory would be . good Wo0d,
one sspiinR. effer u mas been splif,
Wdli furnish material for the frame
wofk ~ two nets, Or bats, or scoops,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28
"BRING YOUR
BOATS ASHORE"
A NEW YEARS GAME.
BY ]. CARTER BEARD.
A NEW YEARS GAME.
BY ]. CARTER BEARD.

One December in the fourth GEN.
fury. two Roman boys were sitting on
the bank of little tributary of the
Tiber. They were. disconsolate; for
the great Constantine, Emperor of
Rome. had become Christian and for
hidden the people to celebrate Satur-
MALTA, the pagan festival lasting
from Dec. 81 to Jan. 1.
An old Roman seer heard the COM
plant of the boys. and decided to do
them kindness. Walking up the
bank of the stream until he was sew
eral hundred yards above the point
where the boys lolled on the bank,
he cast four strange objects out into
the stream and waited.
The elder of the two boys was the
first to see one of the strange objects.
He thought it to be some small ami
NAL.
"Sicinius," he cried to his COM
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

a vicious pitch and it landed plumb
in the forehead of Dick Sturges, who
had come up to the ovens at that mo-
ment.
Who yer hittin'?" said Dick saw
agely, for the apple had been delivered
with all the strength of the pitcher of
the Garfield nine.
A fight would have been unavoid-
able, for Dick was a spunky chap ana
never let an insult go unavenged, but
Harry said: IT wasn't firin at you,''
and leaning over he picked up the
lamp and once more gave IL three
rubs.
The temperance of the giant was
the signal for Dick TO disappear. He
>was not afraid of any boy that ever
lived, and he had fully intended to
make Harry smart for his freshness;
but apparitions like the one before
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

1.-THE old fraud" said he. HE isn't
any kind of genie"
He took a step forward. intending
to hurl the lamp after the appleton
he was a quick tempered buy-but as
he stepped forward his head came in
contact with something hard and he
started back with cry of pain.
That you, Dick?" he called, think
ing that Dick was throwing stones al
him from the other side of the bank
But no one answered, so he turned
and walked a few steps to the right
and then turned again to pick up the
lamp, and this time he tripped over
something and went headlong.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

him were good things to get away
from, and he took to his heels before
Harry could explain matters.
The giant spoke. This Is my last
appearance for a month. cannot
leave Asia more than twice a month.
Quick, what do you want?"
Now even while he was finging the
apple away Harry had thought OF an
invisible automobile. and he blurted
out the words 10 quickly that they
tumbied all over each other.
II want an aDvisible iptomobile."
"What2" said the dim, angrily. n
there IL anything a dJlDn hates IL ~
- be tTined with.
u want an invisible au-to-mo-
bile" said Harry a. distinctly ~ he
could. ana with D queer smile the giant
eaid ~ n yours" and once more
rushed behind cloud some seven
miles away and was no more neep
Harry looked around him and saw
nothing, There VAS ~ automobile.