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ed the depression elsewhere. Metropolis
Street Railway rallied to above Tuesday
close and Sugar recovered point. II
market then became easier and duller
Bonds were irregular
A drive against Amalgamated Copp'
carried it below Tuesdays prices. Thel
Sa. Louis Southwestern preferred, Roc
Island, Manhattan and Smelling. Nasf
vile. Chattanooga and ST. Louis lost
ferred point Many leading active STOCK
were well below Tuesdays prices.
The market dropped const antly on ligr
offerings and the morning advances in tn
southwestern stocks were largely reduced
large sales dropping it over points t
below 131. St. Paul, Rock Island, South
ern Pacific. New Jersey Central and Eth
second preferred also showed net losses Q
a point or more. Lackawanna advanced
points.
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Chicago Livestock Market

Chicago Feb. 13-CATTLE-Receip
5000 head, including 200 head of Texans
Market steady. Good to prime steers. $3.50
and feeders, $2.50G4.70; cows. 81. 25G5.25;
heifers, $2.25d5. rs; Gamers, $125d2.2 Us; bulls
$2.25@4.s0; calves, $2.00G7.50; Texas fed
steers, $4.25d5.75.
HOGS-Receipts today, $4,000. head; esti-
mated tomorrow 10000 head; left over, g.
S2S head. Market for heavy, steady: light
SC lower. Mixed and butchers, Sc. 90d6-40;
good to choice heavy, $6.300f6. AS; rough
heavy, s595G6.2o; light, s5.70G5.S0; bulk or
sales. IS. 90d620
SHEEP-Receipts, IA 600 head. Sheep and
lambs steady. Good to choice wethers,
4.75@5. Is; fair to choice mixed. 50. Soa4 so:
western sheep, $4.25G5.S5; native lambs,
So. T5d66 s.; western lambs, IS. 25d6.65
Official receipts and shipments yester-
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts ...... ....... 20. 052 56,z 14,OI9
Shipments ...... ...... 4.377 1854 339
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Kansas CITY Livestocs

Kansas City Feb. 13-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts, 1000 head, including 1000 head of
Texans. Market steady. Native steers.
S4S5Q6. %; Texas and Indian steers, $4.156'
$40; Texas cows. 81. 75Gt4-50; native cows
and heifers. So. 00d5.25: stocl1ers and feed
ers. S350Q4.75; bulls, s.. 0oQ45o; calves, $4.50
1850.
HOGS-Receipts, 5000 head. Market
for best steady: common a shade lower
Bulk of sales. $550M6.40; heavy, S63506.50;
Packers, S6.001t6 40; medium, S590it6.30:
light, S5.40q6.10; workers., $5.S0Q6.0O; pigs,
SHEEP-Receipts $500 head Market
firm. Muttons. S4.00@520: lambs, $500
6.35: western wethers, $465Q5.45 ewes, $3.50
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Market GOSSIP.

Furnished by A. G. Goodwin, Commits
sion Merchant, sol Kansas aven1e.l
Liverpool opening cables: Wheat, "a
higher; corn, I'D higher -
Second Liverpool cables: Wheat, 30
higher; corn, I'D lower than the opening
Chicago grain receipts Wheat, Is cars
corn, ~ cars: oats. 63 cars
Price Current: Snow covering favorable
to wheat. No material change. Generalll
fair TO good, but poor in Ohio river valley
Interior movements light.
Kansas City grain receipts: Wheat, u
cars; corn, SO cars; oats 81 cars.
Kansas City grain shipments: Wheat
"A cars; corn, 1872 cars; oats. 80 cars.
Kansas City: Estimated grain receipts
for tomorrow: Wheat, u cars; corn, 10.
cars; oats, IL cars.
Closing Liverpool cables: Wheat. I'D
bles.
Kansas City: May wheat-Puts. 76et
calls, TIC: curb, 761sc May corn-Putsi
6214c; calls. CSC: curb, 62lkc.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Mrs. Laura s. Montgomery. wife of
John c. Montgomery, died at their home
in Covena. Cal, January 20. at the age
of 60 years. Mrs. Montgomery was for
ten years at the corner of Fifteenth
and Mulvane streets, and leaves large
circle of friends here.
Mrs. Linnie Saunders, of $40 Lake
street, died last night at 2:30 of lung
trouble. at the age of AZ years. The
funeral viii be held at the house at 10
o'clock Friday morning.
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TRAIN RAN ON GROUND.
Kept Going After Leaving Rails
Until 1t Went Into Ditch.

Cleveland, o.. Feb. 1s.-The Erie
roads vestibuled passenger train was
wrecked about 40 miles from this city.
The whole train left the track and ran
on for twenty car lengths, finally top
ping over into a ditch. Twenty-One
persons were injured. but none were
killed.
The cause of the wreck is said to
have been spreading rails. Most of the
injured We're in the coach next to the
last. The rear coach was the private
car of Joseph Ramsey, president of the
Wabash railroad. His car did not top
pie over but the car in front did. Mr..
Ramsay was not hurt.
George Thomas of Cleveland received
what are feared to be fatal injuries;
brain conclusion.
Robert Blickensderfer. general man
ager of the Wabash railway, St. Louis,
was cut about the mouth and his body
bruised
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kansas City Produce.

Kansas City. Feb. 1s.-Close-wHEAT-
Receipts, "a cars. May, T615c; July 1880.
Cash: No. hard, 76c; No. hard 75c !:
No. 2 red, SSc; No. red, SIC; No. spring,
731h07324c
CoRN-May, 62lbc; Sept, 6Os4c. Cash:
No. 2 mixed, 61G6112c; No. 2 white, &c;
No. white, 66ue61kc.
OATS-No. 2 white, 471zc
RYE-No. 2 60li61c.
HAY--Choice timothy, $3.50; choice prai-
BUTTER-Creamery, 2Oa2ic; dairy. fan
EGGS-Fresh, 2s1kaAc.
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HOGS.
HEAVY-$5 956615
LIGHTS. 30d5S0.
ROUGH-$5. S06l595
PIGS-S4 20G5.10.
CATTLE.
STEERS-$3.7 5d475
COWS-$3. 00a4.0O.
HEIFERS-$3 256I4- Is
VEAL CALVES.
HEAVY-$3. O0GI3. So
LIGHT-$4.O0Q4.5O
GRAIN.
NO. WHEAT-72c.
NO. WHITE CORN-65c-
MIXED CORN-64c.
OATS-50c.
BUTTER-1Sc.
EGGs22c.
PRAIRIE HAY-By the car, $900Q12.50:
by the ton, $10.O0G1400.
-sALFALFA-By the car. s12Ooa1s.OO; by
the ton, S12.o0Q13.00.
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WAY THE WIND BLOWS.
POpulists Will Probably Vote to
Unite With Democrats.

The indications at present are that
the Populist conference next week will
decide to support the Democratic ticket
but will maintain its state organiza ton
in the way of state committee This
will be done for two reasons. First, it
will head off any dissatisfied element
of the party from reorganizfng ana
claiming to be the real POpuliSt party
line Democrats good. At least these are
the argun ents set forth by some of the
politicians who are favoring the
scheme.
John Curran. the secretary of the
Populist committee, claims that a state
convention will have to be called, no
matter what action the conference
takes, even if it decides to go out of
business entirely. If the sentiment
should be overwhelmingly in favor of
going into the Democratic party,
though. many Populists do not see tie
necessity for holding another state con-
vention. 1t is possible that this will 1e
the last state convention the Populists,
a party, will ever hold
One plan that may be pursued, how
ever, in order to head off any middle
of-the-road faction that might be in
clined to make trouble, will be to main
tain the state committee and then call
a state convention a short time before
the election and endorse the Demo-
cratic ticket. This plan, it is claimed.
would shut off the dissatisfied element
that wants to keep free of the Demo-
Gratis from nominatin a ticket and get
ting it on the official ballot as the Peo-
pies party ticket. There is no such
danger anyway because the new cleo
ton law prohibits a party name of two
words, so the ticket would have to go
under the heading "Populist," and it
would probably have to secure a place
on the official ballot by petition.
Barnes-So you are going upon the
stage? Expect to become great actor
one of these days, 1 suppose?"
Howes-Expect nothing. I want to
learn to write they do upon the
stage when they have letter to write.
Jiminil Stenography is nothing to it
Boston Transcript.
City Ticket Office
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New York MONEY Market.

New York. Feb. 3.-Noon-MONEY-
Money on call nominally at 2Ad2R per
cent; prime mercantile paper. 4d4& per
cent; sterling exchange steady, with ac.
tual business in bankers bills at &.S71saf
4.S72s for demand and at 81. S412 "a S4S4 for 81
days; posted rates, $4.S51zq4.SS; commercial
bills. 81. S324 d4S4%
S1LVER-Bar silver, 551sc: Mexican dol
lars. 1880.
BONDS Government bonds steady. To-
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Topeka Hide Market.

Topeka. Feb. b.
Prices paid IN Topeka this week. Bstsed
on Boston quotations
GREEN SALT CURED NO. like.
GREEN SALT CURED NO. 2-61Rc
NO. l TALLOW-5c.
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Sugar Market.

New York, Feb 13-SUGAR-Raw
steady. Fair refining, SIC; centrifugal, sc
test. 35sc: molasses sugar, 27sc. Refined
steady. Crushed, $5.25; powdered, Sass
graduated. S4-75.
COFFEE steady No. Z Rio, 5sGc
MOLASSES-F'irm
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Cotton Market.

New York, Feb. 1S.--COTTON-Spot cot
ton closed steady and 1-16c higher. Mid
ding upiands, sac; middling gulf, sc.
Sales, 100 bales.
Galveston, Feb. 1S.-COTTON-Firm at
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Charles Harris. a cabinet maker at
the Santa Fe shops, was Frustrated at
his work today and was taken home.
George Chase, 4 machiniSt helper at
the Santa Fe shops, was sca1ded today
by steam from engine. He is ser
iOusIy burned.
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Wool Market.

st. Louis, Feb 13-WOOI-Steady. Ter
ritory and western mediums, 16415c; fine,
12q17c; coarse, 12Q16c.
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Range of Prices on Stock.

FURNISHED by the ISemper Grain COM
pany. 104 Board of Trade. Kansas City.
Mo-, through their Topeka office, at ITO
West Sixth street. Phone 1885,
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Range of Prices

FURNISHED by the Kemper Grain COM
pany, 104 Board of Trade, Kansas City,
Mo-. through their Topeka office, at 10
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Open High Low Close Tue t1i
Kansas City Gram.

Furnished by A. G. Goodwin, Commits
sion Merchant, COL Kansas avenue.l
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City Ticket Office


Union Pacific R. T.. 5e5 Kansas ave.
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WHEAT

| Kansas City, Feb. b.
Open High Low Close Tues
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Topeka Markets

49, Topeka. Feb. L.
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FURNISHED by A. G.. Goodwin, Commits
sion Merchant, Sol Kansas avenue.1
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-31
A CHRISTMAS WEDDING.
Two of Mayesville's Popular Young Peo-
pie United al Ryman's Altar.

Mayesyiile, Dec. Pa pretty
home wedding was the marriage TO-
night Of Mr.. Clarence D. Cooper and
Miss Bessie Thomas at the home OF
the bride, the Rev. j. E. Stevenson
officiating. The bride is one of Mayes-
ville's fairest daughters and tie groom
one Of our prosperous merchants. The
couples in attendance were: Mr.. Al
lison Thomas and Miss Alice Cooper,
Mr.. NJ. G. Mayes and Miss Daisy
Bradley, Mr.. Hampton Thomas and
Miss Lima Shaw, and Mr.. II. W.
Cooper and Miss Lily Shaw. The
bride was attired in tan colored silk,
the bridesmaids in white organdie
over Nile green, while the gentlemen
wore the conventional suit Of black.
The parlors were beautifully decorated
with garlands of smilax and ever
green's, the marriage scene presenting
very pretty picture. A delightful
supper was served after the ceremony.
The newly-married couple have the
best wishes of The Item reporter.
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January Eyerybody's Magazine.

The feature of the January Every
body" is new Arabian Nights"
story found recently by DR.. Seyboid,
of the University of Tubingep among
the Arabic manuscripts of the late
Consul Wetzstin Of Damascus. Mrs.
Bessie Van Worst describes her ex-
perience in factories in Chicago, being
the last article of the series of "The
Woman that Tolls" Juliet Wilbor
Tompkins contributes a most interest
ing study of tThe Personality of Helen
Gould. /" In Tragedies of Steam
boat Histories, G. W. Ogden tells
some dramatic stories of life on the
Mississippi. Mrs. Dazzledick's at
Home" the third Of the "Unemploy-
ed Rich'' series, describes the typical
New York society woman on the
search for sensational entertainment.
There is vivid account of the person
atty Of Andrew Jackson and the scene
at Calhoun's supper party at 'The
Indian Queen in Washington. in
" Great Days in Great Careers, by Al
fred Henry Lewis. David Graham
Phillips describes How Roosevelt be-
came President. - There are number
Of good vital short stories Of real in
terest.
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Mr. 7. ]. DuBose's Barn Burned.

Tuesday night, Dec. %, about
o'clock the barn Of Mr.. T. J. DuBose,
in the Mechanicsville neighborhood,
was destroyed by fire. The build
ing contained about 400 bush
els of corn, $1,000 pounds of
fodder, 1900 pounds of cot
ton seed, 40 bushels of peas, one young
mule, and eight bales Of cotton, all of
which was toally destroyed. Eleven
bales of cotton were saved. The loss
amounts to between S700 and $500, on
which there is no insurance. The fire
is supposed to have been of incepdiary
origin. 1t is very hard blow to
Mr.. DuRose, as he was burned out
two years ago. and was just recover
ing from that loss.
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Kelly, Hudson, Youmans.

The lawyers in the Lee county case
have presented their modest bills fo1
payment. The commissioners tried
their best to get Judge Hudson tc
name his fee, but he put them off,
only asking for a retainer of 1925
which the commissioners borrowed
and paid cash. In addition to this they
have sent in their bills as follows: B.
Frank Kelly, $500; j. II. Hudson,
$500, and {. F. Youmans, s700. and
they have been paid in full. Comment
is unnecessary; the battle has been
fought and won and as Gen. Lee said
once, ''He wished all his critics had
come to him before the battle and
told him how to plan it." One thing,
the people of Lee county will not soon
forget this lesson.-Lee County Vim
dieator.
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Il. Lewis Thanks.

Mr. Editor-Please A low me space
in your Paper to thank the Mellow
hearted Techers and Scholors for
there Great Present that they made
their old Janitor. Many thanks to them
All and my many Compliments to
their Parents for Aiding their children
to Give their old Janitor. they will
think of the old Adeage that Christ
mas only Come once A Year and Eyry
Poor Negro must Have His Share,
and I Have been living in the City Of
Sumter Every Since 1873 and Have
made 9 years and 4 months of that
time As Janitore of the Graded
School and Have Been A Round the
Country A Great deal But / find No
Place like Sumter. I Believe that
God Has Chosen this City for one off
His Best Citys of this Age as He Did
the City of Bethlehem of Judea in
Days Past and Gone Bee cause He
loved David he Place Him in that
City and We All Know that David
Wassthe APPEL of God Eye So He look
ed upon. the City Of Sumter to Day
With the SamessEyes and the Children
through the kind techers of Each
Grade Re warded me A Hansome littel
Purse with An Amounte to the Some
Of s2.46 which fill me with much Joy
and the Kind and Noble Supt Mr. S.
II. Edmonds and techers Of course
kept up there Old Rule By Giving
There Gifts Each the sum of 25 to 30
cents Each and it Shows that theye all
likes me and love them All if Not l
Wood Not try SO Hard to Please them
All, thogh Some times ] wood that l
was 6or mems SO thatI might bee
Able to Serve more Orders But |
Am thankful to Saye that the Lord
is Helping All of US mighty Well for
the a Mounte of work that we Have
with So many Children, but let US All
Toll on with Good Chere for God has A
good Rewarde for the Faithful and
Just and Has His Rewarde for the on
Just and Slothfulle and So with that |
will Close, Saying Merry Christmas
to All of my Trends And A Happy
New Year Yors troly II. Lewis
l2-26-2 Sumter S G
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Master s Sale.

BY VIRTUE of a decree of the
Court of Common Pleas for Sumter
County, in the State of South Caro-
lima, in the case of Rebecca Il. Noise
against W. B. Nelson as administrator
of the estate of Samuel E. Nelson,
deceased, and in his own right,
Charlotte Thompson Nelson, Sarah R.
Nelson, V. Guy Nelson, Carrie G.
Nelson, Emma J. Nelson and Charlotte
r. Nelson, Jr., [ will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder, at the
Court House in the City of Sumter,
in said County and State, on sale day
in January 1903, being the fifth day Of
said month, during the usual hours of
sale, the following described real
estate, to wit: All that tract of land
in Sumter County in said State con-
tanning forty acres, more or less, be-
ing part Of the estate of Mrs Sarah
E. Nelson, and bounded north by
lands Of Mary S. Nelson, and by
Martha Richardson's lands: East by
lands of W. S. jackson: South by
lands Of estate of Mrs Sarah R. Nell
son, and West by lands of J. NJ. Nell
son, all of which will more fully
appear by reference to plat Of said
land made and certified by H. D.
Noise, G. E. dated November 18th,
1897.
Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay
for papers.
H. FRANK WILSON,
Master for Sumter County.
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LOST IN HOTELS.
eueer Thzngs That AbseRtn,inded
Guests Forget to Take Away.

Gueer Things That AbseRtn,inde6
Guests Forget to Take Away.
Every hotel in New York. has store
room for articIes LEFT behind by guests.
It is one Of tie important departments
Of the establishment ard often earns
the gratitude Of travellers whose un-
fortunate habit of forgetting leads
them to lock for things that are miss
ing. In hotels a hook is Kept in which
are jotted down descriptions OF arti-
eles forgotten. When a hotel does a
large transient business. if is frequent
" with G1iitt.iic:iify that lost articles are
arranged for Identification.
The integrity Of servants mEst be
relied upon to q large extent The
chambcrnaid takes immediate posses
sion Of a room Upon the guests Ge-
parture. She p clss up anything that
appears 10 have beea left uniatentio1-
ally. a i.cte describing tie article and
giving the name Of tha g,lest. the room
number ard the tine of .6e.areesT'' is
taken to the, clerk The prcpa.-fy IS
turned over to the housa.seeper AID BY
her to the ..lcst" department.
Said the clerk cf one fashionable lo-
tel: 4 remem!ser 4 singular case Of a
man who didn't respond at once to
the ball Boy's call for al early train.
The result was that when he did get
up be had to run. From the station
We got cali on the telephone:
.EIilsE.: to my rocm.' he shouted.
and On the table you'll find very val
liable package It's my eyes. Send
them 70 the station
"Sare e2oagA, re found two glass
eyes on the dressing table, in plush
case. One was for daily use and the
other fer az emergency. Guests often
foreet their false teeth, but that was
the only case ever knew of man
leaving his eyes
Rings and pins are often found on
the washseand. Valuable pins are
found everywhere. the window cur
tains being favorite depository.
Watches and revolvers hoh ,at from
under pillows. Of coursc when the
owners address is known and any
thing valuable is left he is notified
and the article sent to him. If not
called for in few months. the forgot
ten article usually becomes the per-
quisite Of employees. = New York
Times.
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PRIMITIVE PUMPS.
The Mechanism Tsed In Ancient
Egypt and In China.

The MeckaEisDa Used In Ancient
Egypt and In China.
A representative piece of mechanism
occurs frequently on the sculptures of
early Egypt. II has The appearance of
and is generally believed to be that of
a portable pump. The hydraulic screw
is also attributed to this people, but
their main reliance seems always to
have been the shadoof, seen every
where along the banks Of the Nile, an
invention so simple and SO well adapt
ed to their needs that it remains today
substantially the same at it has been
through all the centuries since history
began.
The same may be said regarding the
chain pump in China, an invention the
origin of which antedates the Christian
era. This simple machine, which seems
never to have been improved upon, is
in such common use that every agricul-
tyiral laborer is in possession of one.
Where irrigation is conducted on lar
ger scale the chain pump is made pro-
portionately larger and moved by a
very simple tread wheel. and still lar
ger ones are operated by yoking buff
falo or other animal to suitable driy-
ing machine.
The application of steam to raising
water is of uncertain origin. Long be
fore the Christian era certain applica-
tions Of FIRE to vessels containing wa
ter. by which effects were produced
calculated to astonish ignorant wor-
Slippers. were practiced by the priests
of Egypt. Greece and Rome, but their
knowledge seems never to have been
turned into any channel of secular use
fitness
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,ouipped mills being closed.

equipped mills being closed.
One farmer planted $1,000 worth OF
trees in Of an acre and sold them
the next year for ss, s,050. Elsewhere
, the trees upon two acres brought
$1,000, those upon fifteen acres
brought s32. 500, and those upon ten
acres brought S33, OO0 The sales in a
single week in Pennsylvania exceeded
$500, 900, and often the same tree was
sold several times at advancing prices.
A newspaper of the period said:
Friday, the Alabama took to
Baltimore $4,000 mulberry switches,
the value of which at the lowest cal
culation, based on actual sales through
out the country, cannot be less than
S45, 900. The number Of eyes on these
switches is Fascertained by carefully
counting them, to be 2,254, 600, which
Would be considered cheap at 2 to 2112
cents a piece. The whole was raised
on fifteen acres of land that would be
considered well sold at $40 an acre in
ordinary situations
In 1889, Just before the people came
to their senses, nurseryman sent an
agent to France to purchase several
millions of young trees. He carried
$50, ZOO in cash as a first payment.
When the trees arrived, the inevitable
crash Lad come, and the nurseryman
failed for SO large an amount that he
could never reckon up his Indebtedness.
His trees were offered in vain at dol
lar a hundred for pea bush.
After the crash some large holders
sought to unload without loss. They
chartered an unseaworthy vessel,
loaded her with trees and sent the car
go heavily insured via New Orleans to
Indiana. To their great chagfin the
vessel reached New Orleans safely and
the trees were transferred to river
boats at great expense and hurried on
to their destination. When finally
they arrived no one would take them
as a gift.
When. the fever was over and the
people realized that their capital stock
was suddenly worthless, a deep reaction
set in. They pulled up all the null
berry trees in rage and burned them
as brushwood. The numerous com
panies which had invested their capital
in them succumbed almost without ex-
ception. In lS41 only one survived
and that perished four years later. In
1874 a violent storm following gen
eral blight destroyed most of the re-
naming Morus multicaulis trees and
even the more hardy white mulberry
variety. This was the finishing blow
and thus silk culture in America
practically ceased to exist. No indus
try ever, in this country, received such
crushing stroke.
From that day to the present, seri-
culture has at times been spasmodical-
" undertaken on small scale in many
States, but the total output has been
almost infnitesimally small. The
Secretary Of Agriculture is now en-
deavoring to revive American sericul-
ture BY governmental aid. Scientific
American.