davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-29
Southern Exchange Grain Lette

CHICAGO. Sept 27.-Foreign markets were
quiet and about unchanged. Early cables from
Liverpool were Disappointing in respect OF
frmness. Our market in grain was greatly
depressed for lack Of foreign support. and the
trading was principally by scalpers and COM
mission houses for short turns. Prices re-
coded gradually until the close, which regis
tered good decline. September wheat was
about the only option IN the cereals that was
not the object OF severe pounding from this
class OF traders. Receipts are holding up
moderately we'll and the demand for spot
wheat and corn amounts to little or nothing
outside of the usual shipments to Chicago.
Exports to Great Britain have not shown any
increase. II is almost a safe prediction, how
ever, that we will witness q higher market for
December contract goods, both in wheat and
corn. There is already a large long interest
in these months. and we believe that a fur
Their rise will be fast forthcoming as soon as
the September contracts have been eliminated.
Provisions were almost demoralized Live
hog shipments and receipts are about normal.
Receipts today at Chicago II, 900, estimated for
Monday p. 900 head
to 50 lower
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-29
Southern Exchange Cotton Letter.

NEW YORK, Sept. G.-There were no
marked changes in the price of cotton
today. January opening to 3 points
above last nights close, 1t rose points
further a little later. The close was cas-
Ter at about yesterdays bids. There was
little or nothing in the market today. The
receipts continue exceptionally large for
this season of the year and the pessimists
are beginning to show a timorous hand.
There seems to be little disposition to
trade on either side of the market. Bears
are not taking on any new lines and alto
gether the market looks like a poor in
vestment at present-buying or selling.
Mr.. Prices bullish circulars and wire
correspondence is about the only gossip
that operators hear of in regard to the
crop prospects and those who are in closer
touch with the farmers generally are not
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-29
NEW YORK {

Following were the ruling quotations in the
cotton exchange today:
Tone, quiet middling. &c, steady.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-29
ATLANTA MARKETS


Cotton.
ATLANTA, Sept. H.-Middling cotton steady
at SIC.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-29

Total at all ports .56SfS 1878 %, 907 So $40
LIVER POOL COTvrnN
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-29

Coffee-Fancy, 1OQ1Ic; low grades, 7Q10c; Ar
buckle roasted, $40 so; Lion. 5000. Sugar-Cut
loaf. TIC; cubes. 67tc; powdered, 67tk granr
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-29

Hens, 35c, active; tries, large, AQ25c
mediums, $4,000; small, 14q15e; cocks, 20c
Euineas 1s620c: geese. full feathered. 35c;
ducks, puddle, zoe, Pekin ducks, 2719Q3Oc; tur'
keys, live, 9q10c.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26

music is wonderful I might even say
miraculous. Its domain Is between
thought and phenomena. Like a twilight
mediator it hovers between spirit and
matter, related to BOTH yet differing from
each. 1t is spirit but spirit subject TO
the measurement Of time; it is matter,
but matter that can dispense with space
we might almost say the existence cf
this musical club is wonderful and we
may truthfully say the people Of Fargo
nave done wonders for and with it. Mrs.
Burnham, the president, is gifted with a
sweet voice and a rare personal charm
and has an endless amount Of energy
and executive ability and apart from her
work in the musical club she is the di-
rector of a large church choir, which is
doing work of a high character under
her instructions.
The Arts and Crafts Club.
This is a new club in Fargo, having
been organized in November, 1901, and
while not strictly confined to women still
the ladies' are given credit for the great
est efforts in it's behalf
Almost Immediately after forming the
ASSOCIATION, the Arts and Craft club gave
an exhibition during the week commence
ing Dec of the work of its members
IN oil paintings miniatures, book plates,
china, typography, needlework, printing
wood carving, water colors and inlaid
work.
This was the most creditable exhibit
and proved that much may be accom-
pllShed by organized effort. So great
was the encouragement given the pro-
motors of the exhibit that the Arts and
Crafts club contemplate having another
in the early spring.
Ihe organization committee consisted
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
Far8oS Club Women and WOQeqS Gibbs

FARGO, N. D., Jan. %, 1902.-It is al
ways a delight to meet people who are
doing things that mean something and
that are worth while, and those who are
actively engaged in the affairs of the
world and properly interested in its adj
vancement. These are the people whose
courage upholds us, and whose faith up
lifts u.s. and who live this truth:
1.-The heavens are large. do not
notice the small Clouds
Among the club women of Fargo are
gathered the brightest, the wittiest, the
kindest and the most charitable, of all
women; here are the affectionate and
creatures of restful, artistic homes; the
private educators, and the well-rounced
characters that add so much to the
worlds betterment.
The women of Fargo who are interest
ed in study clubs are many, and to meet
them in their homes and discuss with
them their club work and interests is a
JOY such as seldom comes the way of the
newspaper correspondent.
Many wise people have decried the
study clubs. and many clever women
have recently abandoned all forms of
club life and work, yet this will not dis
courage those remaining in. the perma-
nent associations, because the majority
believe in united effort; and it is as true
in this new century as it was in the old,
that In union there is strength"
The WOman's Club at Fargo.
This is the Oldest and naturally the
most conservative of the womens clubs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
MRS. JANTTOR, TOO.

Said a society women recently: 1T
really did not know how perfectly absurd
the lacking Of the husbands title to the
wifes name appeared until one night last
week, when [ attended some kind of
charitable function arranged by the pu-
schools where my twelve-year-old daugh-
ter is enrolled. l was introduced right
and left as Mrs. Congressman Se-and-
So Now, it is bad enough to have some
one always saying Mrs. So-and-So. wife
of congressman, etc. My husband is a
repres entative, one of a number from
his state and not a single vote was cast
for me. At this function [ met Mrs
Senator Blank, Mrs. Judge S., Mrs
Gen. X, and a string of other titled
women. The climax was capped how
ever, by my young daughter, who
brought me a very pretty, personable
young girl whom she introduced as Miss
JanitOr z. Before I recovered from the
shock of this title an elderly woman ap-
peared on the scene, whom my daughter
Immediately presented as Mrs. Janitor'
Y.
Mrs. Janitor z. smiled a little as she
acknowledged the introduction, then re
marked in a perfectly self-possesseG
manner: My husband is the ianitor, not
1. Is it not odd how children ape the
manners of their elders?' Which was
something of a slap at me, though unin-
tended. But after all, if it is Mrs Gen.
eral,' why not Mrs. Janitor?' Nash
Vile Daily News
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26

both ends of the game would make more
money. Now there is a sewing machin
that came out in the first batch. I.
wouldn't sell today for old iron, but tEc
it was like one of the family. Throw l.,
out? Not on your life [ took that sew
ing machine in here with about ten yard
of instructions as TO its care. Absence
won't make the heart grow fonder, az
that woman will get hold of the red
thing in sewing machines some of thes q
days, and the result will be that we WI:
have to advertise that old rattle trap for
sale, and We won't get anything for
either"
Up on the second floor it is repetiticr
of the first. Coal Scuttles, flour sack
full of anything and everything, carpet
rolled up, tied up and thrown together
according to the habits of the owner
Tables waste paper baskets, pin cush
ions and hammocks are all seen at orc
glance, and a vast multitude of othCf-
things that only enter into the conscious
ness as a disorder blurr Church fixtures
buggy, harness, roll-top desks, bedding
all abound and mixed up as though the
all were through some gigantic hoppe
that was fed from everywhere, and en-
piled itself in the storage room.
When is our busy season? Away
In the winter time people are moving int Z
furnished flats, and want their furnitur
stored, and in the summer time Others
are moving out to the lakes or SUNNI ~
resorts, so that we are receiving stuff ali
the time. OF course there is always :"
lot going out, but as fast as 1t gocs
something else is on hand to take it
place. There is seldom a day passes bu
doesn't see some change made. It's an q
matter of taking the tags off and gel
ting the charges and putting new taS :
on. 1t doesn't make any difference to u
what we get as long as we get paid IL
its storage, and if we don't, we sell tie
stuff at auction the same as the expres
companies" and after taking look >
see that there was no smoldering fire
the storage man locked the door and be-
gan working at his welI-worn books.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
UEER THINGS IN FUR
NITURE STORAGE
, HOUSES. - -

no person of imaginative turn of
Mail the furniture storage houses of the
city are veritable museums with their
vast mass of articles that feat in day af-
ter day, around which fancy can weave
to infinity. Into them is cast Up the
fioatsom and 1etsam Of the rushing tide
of metropolitan life and if the Louis
Quinze chairs and the faded tapestries
could only tell of the cause that brought
them to these household asylums, there
would be many strangely weird tale.
A catalogue of all the articles that can
be seen in a short time in the storage
houses would include nearly every pur-
chasable object under the sun. The Iares
and penates of the rich and poor are
huddled SIDE by side in the dark rooms,
without even a mouse stirring inside The
rooms are large and built to hold as
much as possible, and are as a rule laid
out like a miniature city, with streets
and avenues. The piles of truck that
reach up TO the ceiling are like the tall
blocks and the vacant spaces suggest
unoccupfeG lots, but all is still and de-
serted.
The man in charge of the store room
is not the least sentimental about his
charge. With him it is purely matter
of dollars and cents and how much he
can crowd into a given space. His chief
concern appears to be lest some person
should smoke inside the storage rooms,
for, with all the 1sf-raf, there is much
of value stored there which money could
not replace, He is human, however, and
cannot help but note the strangeness OF
many of the articles that come under
his control, and the broad incongruity of
some of the devices that occupy his space
sometimes causes him to mediate briefly.
Lots of queer things make their way
in here he says, as he carefully de-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
Faded Reminders Of Past
Magnificence Packed Away
in the CaVern-Like Struc-
ture.

sample of every article manufactured for
seating purposes had a Representative
present. The dinged high chair stand.
along side of the straight backed inlpos-
ing article that once did service in som
lodge room and the homely but confort
able Boston rocker is telescoped, rCckcr1
upward on an old-fashioned comrnude.
Numerous boxes are to be seen on al
SIDES 1Iied with dishes and kitchen uten
Sis. Crowded into the hooks and Gran
MES are pictures that run the enti.
gamut of pictorial art and back agaii.
There are the cheap Autographs Of q &C.
IlSlous tone glngerly sharing two incht~
with print OF the Goldsmith Maid VIII
IS represented as eating up distance 81
the rate of mile in 2:1S. Enlarged d.
guerreotypes. of bewhiskered dandies CO
years gone by, with ludicrous hats an
eXtravagant neclzerchiefs repose aIonG
side of one of the RACES in black arc
White of today.
index to Owners Tastes.
Near an old style grand piano is Il
ChatterbOX, Swiss Family Robinson
Hoyle on Games, all telling of the di
Versllied tastes of the owner who is prob
ably under for the time being. In a IL
brary box with q glass door are a dOze :.
calfskins that mutely relate legal aspira
tons, either in the world or in COllegs
In still another are bound volumes Of til
Congressional Record, dating back in tn
eiSHtleS' Win tie LieFIldDie oiu uhWoI'-
appearance that shows low little the
were used.
'.What do people want to pay storag,
for such truck as that for? Well don,
know that either, only some of then
don't I've kind of figured it out tina
they start out to store the articles of rea
value and keep throwing in on
thing after another until they hav
a mass of good for nothing rubbish tn
costs them more to store than their en-
tire possessions are worth. If they WOul
only be sensible about storing thing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26

posts the complicated key in his pocket.
Of all the men employed he is the only
one that has access to the rooms where
goods are stored, and he realizes his re-
sponsibility when he allows stranger to
enter.
When the door swings open tAe first
impression is how in the world the GOODS
were even gotten in, and then folloWs the
companion thought, how can they ever get
them out. Every inch of floor space that
can be utilized has something on 1T.
the streets are barely large enough for a
man to squeeze along. and it would ap-
pear to be an engineering feat utterly i'm
possible to get a cook stove out from
the rear. Still it is done everv day. Inc
storage man has many problems to solve
for when the stove goes out. there is sure
to be a piano to be placed where the
stove was"
Lots of Queer Junk
Inside with the door closed and locked
the storage man becomes guide In the
catacombs where the household gods Of
many are hidden from sight. Lots Of
queer junk here;'' continues the guide as
he walks ahead critically examining
rickety looking pile of assorted chairs
that tell as plain as though placarded that
had done duty in a boarding house.
'FYou can talk about politics making
strange bedfellOWS, he continued. point
ing to an old assortment consisting of a
faded faro lay out, a doll baby carriage
and a folding bed. Those Lave never
been called for, and we haven't been able
to sell them. They've been here a long
time, and as nobody appeared to want
them they have gradually been brought
together
A pile of curtain poles with battered and
denied brass rings claimed the attention
of the guide, who was doubtless in his
way cogitating on the affinity Of utterly
useless articles.
where do all these things come from?
I'll have to pass you on. Some come in
our wagons from all parts of the city,
and some appear in rafting CIie-horS i.
express carts. People have to quit house
keeping or leave town. / guess many
of them have a sort Of a liking for their
furniture, and think they will store it
until better days come, and | reckon for
good many of them, that's neye". We
always have a lot of truck that we never
expect to get rid of, but that's patt Of
the business We have to take chance,
and sonnet times the most useless looking
object imaginable will be paid for rcsts-
laTly, while swell furniture is allowed &c
go by default"
One of the striking characteristics IS
the number of bedSteads that are 10 he
seen. and while they are not nearly so nu-
merous as the chairs they are always in
evidence. The chairs form an urbr.l ken
link back for many years, all sizes,
| makes and kinds, so that it looks as if a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26

ago, gradually changing its programmes
from the science of the human soul to
the creations of the human mind; they
are now studying Shakespeare, and es-
pecially Hamlet, and in this general cir
Gle the question is, to be. The club IS
nominally governed by the chairman,
who takes charge of the Programmes
and entertains literally during her
reign.
The New Era Club.
This club is in the State Federation and
has a membership limited to fifteen; 1T
is controlled by three officers of whom
Mrs. Babcock Is this year presiding Off
Ger, and meets weekly. This association
is in it's fourth year. and is exclusively
club for psychical research. Many inter-
eSting experiments are made in thought
transference and mental telepathy among
the members, and the club is a factor
for good in many ways Many of the
members have extensive private libraries
that are most profitably adding volumes
on psychology.
of course there are numerous social
clubs women belong to, and the Eastern
Star, the Maccabees, the Rebeccas, ana
Degree of Honor, and all the others; ana
Fargo is also represented in the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution-Mrs. e.
A. Lounsberry being the state regent OF
North Dakota.
The Fargo Musical Club.
Mrs. Grace Lincoln Durham is the
president of this club, and is doing good
work for it in every way. The Musical
club is one of the Oldest clubs of the city,
and is not limited as to its membership,
only so far as the qualifications for mem
bership must necessarily impose limita-
tons. 1t belongs to the State federation,
and has more of a constitution, more COM
mittees, and bylaws, and wise govern
ment, than need be expected of the musi-
eally inclined.
The club has six officers. besides an
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26

gle tax caused the members to give their
attention to the two questions about
equally. Mrs. de Lendrecie is a most
gifted woman, and has spoken upon equal
suffrage and the single tax all over the
Northwest winning many disciples She
is a valued member of the New Era club
and its ex-president.
The FOrtnightIy Club.
The Fortnightly club is a purely study
club, whose membership is limited to
twenty-five, with officers as follows: Mrs
r. M. Pollock, president; Mrs Amidon
first vice president; Mrs A G. Lewis
second vice president; Mrs. Moulton, Sec
rotary; Mrs. Perry, treasurer.
This club belongs to the State Fedora
ton and is one of the older clubs of the
city. The work this year is English his
tory and literature-the four Georges
varied with an occasional miscellaneous
programme embracing modern book re-
views, or current topics, discussion, ETC.
This club carried out most successfully
the varied programme idea for two years,
outlining the work a year in advance-as
is the custom among all study clubs The
club meets on alternate Mondays, and
has a good motto:
mo One Is Wise Alone"
The Fortnightly club has always been
most hospitable and in harmony with all
the other serious associations, and the
different study clubs of the city inter-
change courtesies in the way Of enter
tanning one another during each year.
This is a distinctive feature of the study
clubs having the largest memberships
The State Federation.
The State Federation of Clubs, organ
lied in 1897, and Immediately joined the
General Federation of Womens Clubs.
Mrs. Jeanne S. fuller was elected the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26
REV. SHAS. L. KL0SS. DID,. AND HIS CHURCH.

evolution of woman to economic indie
pendence. A woman has the same bill
of rights from the Creator as any man.
1t is not so clear why woman who is
fitted for companionship, wifehood and
home-making, should sit supinely and
wait for the ''heaven-sent mute, who
fails to turn up and propose Having
her independence and natural rights, all
recognized, will she insist on using them
or surrendering a few. AS a matter of fact
it is mostly fiction, this mans proposing,
anyway, and nine cases out of ten she
does the choosing, and only permits the
man to propose when she is ready
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26

of this city, and it was organized in 1884.
When the public library was established
in Fargo, the Woman's club contributed
literally to its call for books, and under
the care of Mrs. T. p. Clapp, librarian,
this club has a well selected library to
which has recently been added many
new volumes for reference, bearing
especially upon the Victorian age-which
period the club is this year studying.
The Womans club Joined the General
Federation of Clubs in the year 1890, and
was incorporated in the year 1895, but
has never joined the State Federation of
Clubs The members meet fortnightly.
and the club is governed by board of
directors as follows: Mrs. George Han
cock, president; Mrs. r. S. Tyler, first
vice president; Mrs. J. F. Dudley. second
vice president; Mrs. E. II. Smith, secre-
tatry; Mrs. H. Z. Magill, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. G. II Phelps, treasurer.
The membership of the Womans club
is limited to thirty, and death and
changes in residence have spared to this
club but one resident charter member,
yet there is a list of names always wait
ing to be enrolled where any drop of
strive to maintain its leadership among
the women's clubs Of Fargo.
The Round Table Club.
VI > L NJ NTIduI Is the DrSSlIGnt OF
this club, and is ably assisted. by the
other directors, as follows: Mrs Jen-
nings, first vice president; Mrs. Farm
ham, second vice president; Mrs. Young,
recording secretary: Mrs. Herbert, secre-
tary; Mrs. Holt, treasurer
The club has a membership limited to
twenty-five, and meets fortnightly 1t
is now in its fifth year. and has studied
English history and literature exhaustive
ly, commencing with the early centuries
and having now reached the more inter-
esting period of the nineteenth century
The programme for this years work is
most interesting, and its purpose is char
acterized by the initial quotation from
Shakespeare:
let all the ends thou aims't at be thy
country's, thy Gods, and truths
Contrasted with the more reserved and
conservative clubs, however admirable
their work, the Round Table appears to
excellent advantage, and it is certainly
a vital force in the community, because
wherever the questions of the day are in
telligcntly discussed~ there will ever be
an added impetus toward progression.
The Suffrage Club.
Mrs. Helen de Lendrecie was for sew
eral years the president of this associa-
ton, and her intense interest in the sim
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-26

A little more than a month ago, in a re-
port of a sermon delivered in the First
Congregational church, of Webster Grove,
Mo, fashionable suburb of st. Louis,
Rev. Charles L. K1oss, D. D., the pastor,
was made to say that he was in favor of
women taking the initiative in the mat
ter of proposals of marriage. To a cor
respondent of T h e o b e, DR.. Kloss
said he was Incorrectly reported, and,
as expressing his exact views on this
subject, dictated the following statement:
Il did not say that women should pro-
pose, or even think it advisable. I said,
however, that it was idle to stop the