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The Indianapolis journal., 1902-04-28
at the Interstate Yards.

INTERSTATE STOCKYARDS, INDIAN
APOLIS. April 26.-Cattle-Receipts small;
shipments none. The cattle market has
been slow and draggy all week The in
quiry from local dealers has not been as
brisk il was last week, and prices are
l0425c lower than at the close a week
ago. the decline varying according to
weight and quality. The few offered to-
day sold promptly at steady prices. The
market closed quiet and steady at quota
tiOns:
Good to choice steers, $50 lbs and
upward .............'.. 49, w $3.50 SIS
Plain fat steers. 1850 lbs and up
ward ................................ 6.OOQ $50
steers ........................'....'. 6.Ooa $50
Plain fat 100 to i.Soo-Ib steers. $50 6.i5
Good TO choice 1000 TO 1,15O-lb
Plain fat 100 to 1,15O-lb steers. 4.75q $50
lbs .........e.....................'... 425a 4.75
lbs .........-....'................ -. 425@ 475
Medium feeding steers, 500 TO 900
IDS ...-..--.................. 3.l5n 4.l0
Common to good stockers ......... $3.50 4.50
Good 10 choice heifers. ............. 4.75n 5.15
Fair 10 medium heifers ............. 1850 4.S5
Common To light heiferS .......... 3.50lJ 4.20
Good TO choice COWS .............. 4.50G1 5.35
Fair to medium COWS ............... 3.25GI 4.35
Common old cows ............-.... l5OtI 300
Veal calves ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6.00d 100
Heavy calves Observation-Disclosures. 4.006I 6.25
Prime to fancy export bulls ..... 4.5Uu 4.75
Good to choice butcher bulls. 3.75d 4.25
Common to fair bulls .............. 2.75lI $50
Good to choice cows and calves .35. .OOdoO.OO
Common TO medium cows and
calves u. .OJIJ ~
Hogs-Receipts, 200: shipments small. Re
Ceipts this week have been a little larger
than they were last week. but the supply
was not sufficient 10 satisfy all demands.
There has been no Improvement in quality,
the supply running largely 10 light weights.
The average for the week has been 50l0c
under that of last week, but the advances
leave values at the close higher than they
have been before this year or last. Local
packers were the main factors in the week S
market, as the Eastern order business was
unusually light, due TO the high prices To-
caIly compared with other markets. To-
days market was steady. Top heavy hogs
81 All sold. The market closed quiet and
steady at quotations:
Good to choice heavies. s..............S 25lI7. 40
Good to choice medium grades. 7OOq7. %
Common 10 good lights ............. 6.70G7. 90
Light and heavy mixed ............ $3.50. 80
Light pigs and Skips ............... 5.0066 Is
Roughs ............................ 5.00a6O0
Sheep-Receipts none; shipments none.
The market is steady to strong on all
grades, with good, strong demand at quo
tations:
Spring lambs ........................$7 81 5061OO OC
Good to choice lambs. s............ 5756 65C
Common to medium lambs....... 400GD $50
Good To choice yearlingS ........ 1000 425
Good to choice sheep .......-.... 3.50lD 425
StOckers and feeding sheep 2.0OlD 300
Common TO medium sheep........ 2O00 3.25
Bucks, per 100 lbs .-................. 2.50D $50
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-04-28

No. s. &c: No 3, 395c: No. TO- 3.90c; No. II.
3.S5c: No. II. 3.S0c: No. Is. 3S0c. No. H. 3S0c.
standard A. f55c; confectiOners' a, 49Scs
powdered L. Sc: granulated. AI5c: cubes. &C.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-04-28
NEW YORK CLEARINGHOUSE BANKS.

STATEMENT OF ASSOCIATED BANKS OF THE CITY OF NEW
YORK WEEK ENDING APRIL
The New York publish the og totals
II o
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-04-28
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
Growth of the Surplus Reserve Con-
tinues to Be a Favorable Factor.

NEW YORK, April 26.-The statement Of
the associated banks for the week ended
to-day shows the following changes:
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-04-28
Local Banks and Trust Companies.
Local fractions and Industrials.
Chicago Stocks.

IGranger Farwell & Co.'s Wire.
The Indianapolis journal., 1902-04-28

Sheep-Receipts none; shipments none.
The market is steady to strong on all
grades. with good, strong demand at quo
tations:
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
NEW RECORD OF FIRST EDITIONS

From the Boston Herald.
 A new and amazing record has been es- tablished in first editions of popular novels. Up to last year the largest num- Der of copies ever printed for a first edi- tion in a single country was 50000-this number having been reached in the Amer ican first edition of 'The Mast er- Chris tian," and also, if memory serves, of "The Christian" while the English edition in each case was equally large. Last May the first edition of "The Helmet of Ma varre" was 100000 for America. The deter imitation to print this number of copies at once was, to say the least, hazardous; and, judging from the fact that nothing has been heard of a second edition, it does not seem to have been quite war ranted by the size of the advance orders or by the books immediate popularity. '"The Helmet of Navarro undoubtedly suffered from the much greater popularity of "The Crisis" which was published soon after "The Helmet appeared-also in a first edition of 100000 copies. In the case of the American historical novel, however, the huge first printing was abundantly justified. Something like four times as many copies were purchased by the booksellers within six months of its issue.
 But now comes Miss Johnston's "Au- drey." which has just finished it's run in the Atlantic Monthly. After much care ful consideration of various figures, the publishers have fixed the first edition at 125 900 copies for America, and the record thus established seems likely to stand. There seems no doubt that this enormous edition will be speedily taken up; in fact, this number of copies is actually demand ed to meet the immediate desire to pur- chase the book. Up to last Monday, ten days before the book will appear, the pub fishers had received advance orders for rising 97,000 copies. This is not an ac- cidental boom, or a forced one. There is nothing spacious about it. Audrey" has been widely read and critically examined during its serial publication, and It's quali- ties are fairly well known. Present ap- pearances indicate that it may perhaps prove the book of the year.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
New Russian Novelist.

"Gorli, the new novelist of Russia, is becoming famous; he Is more eccentric than Tolstoi, and has the additional dis tinction of being much less clean in his person as we'll as in his books" said a member of literary club.
 ''We may soon look to see Gorki ex- alted to the rank of a great Russian prophet, and his admirers will construct a system of philosophy and religion from his stories concerning drunkards and vag- abonds I have found his book of stories, which has just been published in an Eng glish translation, thoroughly detestable; but. then, have never been an admirer of Russian prophets. There is unquestion- able ability in his stories, but they are dreary and revolting, except to minds so constituted as to be able to admire pro- phecy mixed with dirt and lunacy. To me, Gorki seems the reduction ad absurdum of the Russian novelist. From the artist work of a genius like Turgenieff we have finally come down to Gorlxi the tramp. It is A comfort to think that the Russian novelist has now reached the lowest depth to which he can sink for it is incredible
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
BOWIE IS ALL RIGHT.

From the Talladega News Reporter.
 We have had enough of the episode about Congressman Bowies putting the incident in regard to the university land deal in the Congressional Directory. Il may have been bad taste, and had we been Its editor 1t would not have gone in. And yet it is a statement of fact that Is State history, and if its publication Is td damn MT. Bowie, why Is the long-delayed statement to be so much more effectual than his act which was indorsed by so many voters of the State? At his election in this district his part in that incident surely did not show up very fatal"
 Again, while in nearly every instance the papers referring to this fatal blum der" on the part of MT. Bowie express re- gret at it, are those regrets in sympathy with the hit or the whining? So far as we can judge, in nearly every instance they are by men and papers that were or are against the men and measures opposed by MT. Bowie.
 But what of this mole hill mountain? Why all this out-o of-the-district weeping over his "fatal' mistakes? Congressman Bowie can well withstand the weepers he has made. for in this district those who elected him are still of the opinion that s. J. Bowie is all right.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
President SchWab.

When a man attains the prominence in the business world that Charles M. Schwab president of the United States Steel Corporation, has achieved, the news papers seem disposed to discuss him as public character" said man in the lobby of the Morris last night
 "The President of the United States is hardly more conspicuous in the public prints than Schwab. The great captain of industry, as Schwab is called, has re- turned from his trip abroad and settled down to work but one of the weekly pa- pers, in it's last issue, devoted several columns to extracts from the religious press on the ethics of gambling, in con- nection with Schwab's little sport at Monte Carlo. The majority of the editors took the American Protestant church view of the question of gambling, and branded Schwab as a sinful man. be- cause he had indulged in roulette. Two of 1 the writers, however took a broader view and said that if Schwab did nothing worse than play at chance for past time, the country was safe
 But what I want to call attention to is the difference in the way of looking at gambling between the moral element in the United States and the moral element in Great Britain. In England Lord Rose bery, ex-prime minister and a candidate right now for the premiership, is an all round sport. He bets on the races and plays games of chance for big stakes, and yet he is looked upon as a good man and his constituency is made up largely, on England almost altogether, from the ranks of the n-conformists-Baptis Methodist and Congregationalists. In the United States the same church classes look with horror upon gambling. And our cousins across the sea stand be- fore the world as quite as moral in the abstract as our people. So long as Lord Rosebery lives an orderly. sober life the English public cares not what he does for his amusement along the lines of sports of the gambling sort. But in the case of Mr. Schwab, who is an American, and not in public life, he Is open to fierce criticism. .'
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
Duncan and Bullard,

What has Sheriff Burgin done to recapture Duncan and Bullard, the one
 a convicted murderer, and the other charged with robbery if not murder? Is he keeping detectives in hot pur- suit? Has he, in fact, done anything beyond the offer of a small reward, and the sending out of one officer to Gate City on the day of the escape?
 The size of the reward is wholly insufficient. It would no more than meet the expenses that would be in cured in trailing and catching two such criminals. It will not call in the aid of experienced detectives from. other cities.
 It should be remembered that these men escaped because the jail was left unguarded at night, and on that ac- count it is incumbent upon the sheriff, and upon him alone, to take the most active and the most efficient steps to recapture both Duncan and Bullard If he has not done so, he should at once get down to keen and untiring pursuit of the two men entrusted to his care His pay is ample and his duty plain.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
THE GREAT "MERGER."
n the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Attorney General Knox, by direction of President Roosevelt, announces this morn- ing that he is about to file a bill in equity to test the legality of the great railroad "merger" known as the Northern Securi- ties Company.
 The bill will ask that the combination of the Northern Pacific and Great North ern Railway systems be dissolved and the stocks of those roads restored to their original holders. MT. Knox says he has advised the President-who first asked his opinion-that the "merger" violates the Sherman antitrust act of 1S90 and that thereupon the President directed him to put his opinion to the test of a judicial decision.
 The supreme courts last word on this suit, which is to be begun probably in the Minnesota district court, will be a landmark judgment. Much more than the fate of the Northern Securities Com pany is involved in it. The whole ques- ton of where. if 1t exists at all, the line can be drawn and enforced against the organization of monopolies that restrain trade, suppress competition and control prices. will be raised in this suit. Presi- dent Roosevelt has again shown courage of no common sort in ordering it to be brought.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
SLEEP IN THEIR CLOTHES.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat
 Tt would surprise you to know that heavy per cent of the persons who travel on sleeping cars make no effort to dis robe before retiring said conductor who runs between New Orleans and Chi cago "They simly roll in with boots, spurs and all. They do not seem to know that a berth on a sleeping car is not diff ferent from a bed in a private home ex- cept in size. Some of them will pull off their coats and collars. Some of them will slip their shoes from their feet. There are many, of course, who are used to travelling and who go in for good nights sleep.
 With women it is different. You can never catch a woman so indifferent to comfort and cleanliness in this respect. She will pull her shoes off every time
The age-herald., 1902-02-25

Consumption bids fair hereafter to push production, and the world will hereafter expect to draw from an American crop of eleven million bales.
 The foreign and American spinners have already taken an excess of S2O,- 216 bales from the current crop, as compared with their takings of the corresponding period of last year, and the excess of the crop in sight is one half that amount. There is, therefore, no danger of lower prices, or an un. due accumulation of stocks. The fact is, the American stocks today are less by 2O8,4Ss bales than they were at this time one year ago.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
 Romeo and Juliet.
Proqress of Registration.

In Jefferson County about one negro is registered in every one hundred, and this proportion will doubtless pre- vail throughout the State This means at the outset a white electorate, and it means for a generation to come a controlling electorate made up of whites. The negro does not care this year to encounter the clause that calls for a knowledge of the duties and obligations of citizenship. Few of any color fully and comprehensively understand those duties and obliga- tions. A man must be both lawyer and a statesman to fully measure up to that standard, and the negroes are not tackling it this year.
 More negroes will be registered next year when the holding of $500 of prop erty or the ability to read and write will suffice, but even then the negroes will be but a small minority. It is already we'll settled that the electorate of the State is to be made up of whites and is to be of high quality
 There remains but one task now to carry out the promises and high pos abilities of the new constitution, and that consists in creating a public sen. timent that will squelch the ballot box experts that stand ready in every county of the State-not one excepted ito repeat the deviltries of the past. It is mistake to think that such things will not be attempted next No vember. They will be. Not one hon. est election has been held in this State in twenty-five years, and we cannot go at a bound from dishonest to hon. est elections. public sentiment must be created that will land at the coal mines the wizards of the ballot box. Every county needs for this purpose an Honest Election League, and g county that does not organize one will have dishonest elections. The new constitution offers all the safeguards that a constitution can offer, but the force of public sentiment is needed and this can best be created through organization.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
Lord Salisbury's Cynicism.

'Lord Salisbury, who has proved him. self to be one of the ablest of statesmen and one of the most virle prime min- isters England has ever had, will proba- bly be remembered as much for his cyni- cal view of things in general as for any other quality" said a lawyer who takes deep interest in British parsonage and politics
 This cynicism of the noble marquis is not, as many suppose, development of old age. Fifty years ago he had it in all most as great store. When he celebrated his seventy-second birthday recently some of the London papers reprinted ex- cerpts from his articles entitled 'Theor- 1 ies on Parliamentary Reform, contrib uted to the Oxford Essays in the fifties. The first article from Salisbury's pen that ever got into print is full of acidulous humor. Here are few sentences culled | from it:
 "In politics the old antithesis of prin- ciple and expediency is absolutely forgot ten expediency is the only principle to 1 which sincere allegiance is paid It Is convenient still to employ the great party names, and still to appeal to Conserva- tive and Liberal principles; but their per- feet vagueness has become a proverb.'
 AS Lord Salisbury has had more ec- clesiastical patronage to distribute than any other prime minister in the last century, it is interesting to learn what he thought of this when he was a young man in his twenties. In this same essay he says: It is within the precincts of the church itself that the English taste for anomalies and shams luxuriates in its most startling forms. They have a pe- culiar effect from the perfect freedom with which the name of the Deity is used to give completeness and finish to the performance. The young gentleman who has been brought up from his earliest infancy to look to the family living as his livelihood is solemnly asked by the bishop whether he believes himself to be moved by the Holy Ghost to undertake the office of administration which is to introduce him to its revenues, and as solemnly an- swers that he does With like engaging 1 simplicity the archbishop announces that he trusts that the Holy Ghost hath | called to the Work or the Dlsnoprlc a gen tleman whom it suits the political pur- poses of the prime minister of the day | to appoint to a seat in the House Of l Lords. And what Lord Salisbury con- sidered the most shameless instance of ecclesiastical profanity and even blas- | phemy' was the summoning of the chap ter by the dean and praying with solemn unction that the Deity would deign to 1 assist their choice with His inspiration when the result of their choice had all ready been announced in the newspapers several days ago. These are good illus trations of the child being the father Of the man."
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
TiIIman-McLaurin Scuffle.

About fifty years ago Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina at tackled Senator Sumner in the Senate chamber, but the Senate was not at that time in session. This attack was, however, the nearest approach to the disgraceful scramble of last Saturday that has ever occurred in the Senate.
 There was no occasion for the en- tire occurrence-no excuse for Sena- tor Tillmans assault in words. Sena- tor McLaurin had gone over, body, boots and brooches, to the Republican party. He had swallowed subsidies, Dingleyism and imperialism. He had become. in short, a Republican. More over, he had, so it has been stated, made arrangements to leave South Carolina for the purpose of practicing law in Washington Why, then, was it necessary to assail him as Senator Tillman did? There was no sense in the attack. MT. McLaurin has no con stituency behind him-no political flu ture in South Carolina. He was and is as dead as Hector, and Senator Till man had no excuse for attacking po- litically dead man.
 The scuffie that ensued was fully as disgraceful as a scuffle in the open Senate could well be, although it was not fight to the finish, the more's the pity. Both Senators are under arrest, and the Senate has ample power to punish them. A two-thirds vote could expel them. This cannot be had, for Senator Tillman has many friends, and Senator McLaurin is now backed by the Republicans. They will not be expelled, but it is said they will be kept on the waiting list week or two. They are in contempt of the Senate. They have violated it's all legged traditions with which it con siders itself well equipped. The keep ing of the peace, however, is not a tradition that is monopolized by the Senate. Other folk share it. There is really no reason why, after proper apologies have been made, the State of South Carolina should not require representation in the Senate. Practi- cally speaking it is the State of South Carolina that is held up, and it is a question how long a State should be kept in an unrepresented condition. If it may be kept in that condition a month, it may be kept a year, and thus a precedent may be set that would become very insidious in excit- ing periods. The new precedent should not involve more harm than possible good.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
Barbers Lose Money.

Some folks in town arc losing much good United States money on account of the rain.
 Take the barbers, for instance.
 According to computation, they. on an average, dropped $1 apirce yesterday.
 S'posin' there are 100 of these men beautifiers in Birmingham; then they all told missed $10O.
 Not alone yesterday, but as much on previous juicy-weather days.
 In speaking yesterday of the catas- trophe one barber said in part
 Take the dry goods houses-they can get theirs back outen the people when sunshine comes again. But we don't gel fair shake out of the box. Men just put off shaving for day or two and then we scrape off two growths for the price of one. What dyer think! This here fel- Ter Prince Hennery comin over here with a full beard!'
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
HE WOULD NOT DESCEND.
nm the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 An interesting story is current at the capitol over the postmastership of At lanta, a position made vacant by the re- cent death of Postmaster Smythe. The other day some of the prominent citizens of Atlanta held a conference and sug- gested that the name of ex-Governor Bullock be presented to the President. He was the governor of the State during the reconstruction period, and later cast his fortunes with the Georgia people, being held, despite his Republicanism, in high regard. Although once a man of wealth he has suffered reverses, and so it was believed that the office of postmaster would be acceptable to him. He had not, however, been consulted, and a commit tee was appointed to notify him. Gov ernor Bullock listened as the committee told him that his name was to be sug- gested to the President.
 "Gentleman," was his proud reply, 1T have had the honor of being the governor of the great State of Georgia. You will pardon me if do not care to descend to the office of postm raster of Atlanta
 And so ex-Governor Bullock's name has been taken off the list.
The age-herald., 1902-02-25
Cotton Cron Movement.

The crop of last year was 10, 100000 bales, and the movement to date this year exceeds 1t by about 100000. In the first twenty-one days of February 545,000 bales were brought into sight this year as against 5000 in the cor responding days of last year.
 The figures of the crop to date pretty exclusively show that the crop is to be as large as that of last year, and perhaps little larger, but prices are well maintained, because the re- uuirements of the world call for an American crop of eleven million bales The increase in exports since Septem. Der 1 has been 6S1 ,606 bales over the exports of last year in the like period This fact alone shows that every bale will be needed. The takings of Ameri. can spinners up to February 21 were 16S,830 bales beyond the takings of a like time in the previous year. These facts sufficiently show that the world needs an eleven-million-bale crop, and the present crop will not reach that round figure.
 The worlds requirements are in creasing rapidly, and now that China, including Manchuria, are to be opened to American trade and American cot tons, there is little danger of an ex- cessive crop of cotton in this country.