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The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Political Evolution.

Santiago Chile, Nov. 20.-The political
evolution has brought the Conservative
cabinet, formed yesterday in succession
to the ministry which resigned Novcm-
Der 49, is presided over by Don Elias
Fernandez Albano. Senior DoCingo
Amunatesui IS the minister of foreign
affairs, and Senor Ricardo Cruzat is the
minister of finance
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Absorbs Fire Brick Plant.

Pittsburg. Pa. Nov 2O.-The Harbi-
son-WalHer Refractories company has
closed negotiations for the absorption Of
the Portsmouth, Kentucky Fire Brick
company, at Portsmouth. o. The price
paid for the plant was. it is said, close
to 81, 900 900. This is the plant the COM
pany desired to purchase TO complete the
original plans of the corporation when it
was organized. and for which an in
crease in the capital stock from $25 300
900 to $27, 900, 900 was made a few days
ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
waco-Fort Worth Line Open.

Fort Worth. Tex, Nov. 2O.-The In
ternational & Great Northern railroad
yesterday laid the last rail on it's 100
mile extension from Waco, Tex, to this
city. The first train entered the CITY
over the new line last night. The ex-
tension is considered the most imnort-
ant piece of railroad completed in Tex
as during the present year
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
st. Louis Livestock Market.

St. Louis Mo. Nov 20.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts today, 1000 head. including 1900 head
of Texans. Market steady for natives and
lower for Texans. Beef steers. $.4oG6. 40:
stockers and feeders. s.. 2.S0d4.35: cows and
heifers, S225@475: Texas steers, 81 9cd4.
Texas cows and heifers. $200d3.2 &c.
HOGS-Receipts TODAY, 5000 head. Mar
ket steady. Pigs and lights s6 1O6S. 20:
packers, $6.15n6.30: butchers, SIS. .25G6. So
SHEEP-Receipts today, l,500 head
Market steady. Natives, 50. .40Q3o0; lambs
S4.5065.45.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Ch1capn Produce Market.

Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 2e.-BUTTER-Mar
firm. Creamery, 1SI27c; dairy, 1SG 23c.
EGGS-Market firm Loss off, cases re-
turned. 23c
CHEESE-Market steady Twins, 11e0
11Ac; Daisies and Young Americas, liz
G12c-
ICED DFOULTRY-Marketf firm. Turkeys,
11d1Sc; chickens, 9Q111zc.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
New Cabinet Formed.

Belgrade, Servia, Nov 2o.-Gen Mark
owls has formed a new cabinet The ma
iority of the ministers are Moderate
Radicals and three O. thern are liiili-
tary men. namely, the pr .mieI, the min
lister of war and the minister of foreign
affairs. The latter is Lieut.. Col. Futon
eco
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
SUGAR and cof1ee Marke.-

New York Nov 20.-SUGAR-Raw firm
Fair refining. 3Ac: centrifugal. s6 test,
3azc; molasses sugar Sc. Refined sugar
firm Crushed, s.. .25; powdered, 81. IS; gran
ulated. SA.65
COFFEE Market quiet. No. Rio,
2-1ec.
MOLASsES- Market about steady. New
Orleans 30140c-
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Cotton Market

l5-l6c-
New York Nov. 2o-COTTON-Spot cot
ton closed Cutet. 70 points higher Mid
ding uplands. $3.50 per Icl lbs; rfiiddling
gulf, SS.75 per 100 lbs. Sales today, 100
bales.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
New York Money Market.

New York; Nov. 2o.-Noon-MoNEy-
Money on eau easy. ils as Per cent. PRIME prime
exchange steady. with actual business in
bankers bills at s4.ST for demand and at
$4 S3lE04S 1874 for 60 days: posted rates,
$4.S41k@4s So and s4.Ss; commercial bills,
81. 822x a S3l
SILVER-Bar silver. 49c; Mexican dol
lars, 39c.
BONDS Government bonds steady. To-
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Range OF Prices.

FURNISHED by ]. E. Gall Commissions,
Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office ITO West Sixth street. Telephone
4s6- Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock company. Kansas City. Mol
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20

FURNISHED by j. e. Gall. Commissions.
Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone
4s6. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock company. Kansas City. Mol
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Market Gossin-

FURNISHED by the A. G. Goodwin Commls
sion company, Commission Merchants
Room No. s. Columbian building. Inde-
pendent telephone 1881
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Wool MarkaA

ST Louis. Mo-. Nov 20-WOOI-Marlet
steady. Territory and western mediums
16Q1S1ac; fine, 12d17c; coarse 12u151kc.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Chicago. Nov. 20.
Grain Letter.

FURNISHED by the A G. Goodwin Commits
sion company, Commission Merchants
and receivers and shippers of grain.
Room No. 6. Columbian building. Inde-
pendent telephone 1881
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20

DIR. Hughes lecture tonight. THE
Evolution of Woman. at First NJ. Z.
church. Tickets 25c.
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Kansas City Grain

FURNISHED by J. E. Gall. Commissions.
Grain. Provisions. Cotton ana Stocks.
office 40 West Sixth street. Telephone
4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock company. Kansas City. Mol
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Another Boost for Sugar.

New York, Nov. 20.-All grades of re-
fined sugars were advanced 10 points
todav
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Topeka Marka...

FURNISHED by w. Q. Anderson e 20
21J Kansas avenue.l -
RANGES-Mexican $375
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, s60 size $s.751
GRAPES-New York. pony basket =.
tawba, 21@22c; California Toca~ grapes-
81 75Gl1.s5 per aba sket crate; Malaga.
BANANAS-Aiari1et lower lie heinz st:szs1,.
per ib,; and running from sl.i5a225 psr
APPLEs-Quotation per barrel: Joy,a
thsns, So -soa4 4eo; Ramboes. Sc. 25as.5o: 10
man Beauty, e 90 e & Sc; -Winesaps Sloea
pins. S1.75425o; Jeneton. 81. 5sSs 51Ss0uri 1u iG-
Imperial, 81 .00at3OO fAorh
PEARs-California Winter Nellis. 1n
TABLE PoTAToEs-Kaw vaII,.v %.
per bu.; Nit Mlnnssota sso Surnanks. SOC Min
VEGETABi.i1S.
lbs; Wisconsin Holland, soc per leo Rgr Ihs i0O
ONlONS1DIy. y. 6Oc per br-: Spanish
0'V'plS Wax Be BEANse7sasoc rs dss per u nm
OYSTERS-New York count 4cc ner
ean; can extra select ;. S5c per car: standapd.
81 80: bulk. extra select. s165 DIR ps5asn' Sd5non'
LERY-California blue ribbone e1sor, Soc ner
s CRANBERRiEsm ri Ro 'Ve AND per Gszen 6sz
@9-5O per Dbl: Cape Cod, 500 per Bill.
late Howe, $9.50d1000 per Dbl ODi''
HICKORY NUTS-$2.O0 per IN
COCOANUTS-$4.2 per sack: Soc nsr
dozen. W. per
BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY NS'-o oV-
EGGS-Candled loss off. 1Sc; case co,,n+
BUTTER-Country, 15c.
POULTRY-Hen MS, 7c lb.: roosters -
each; ducks and geese. 4c lb.: turkeys. So
h.. live spring chickens, &c lib = ~
PRAIRIE HAY-By car. ,sooo1,.
PRAIRIE HAY Goose) :; as s9S %
ALFALFA HAY-By load, per ton. I e. ~ ~
kALFALFA k,.4g II II HAY-Baled. per ..si2 %
~
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20
Topeka Hide Market.

,,-,. .,z = Topeka, Nov. %.
OH Boston quotations: N- naseu
GREEN SALT CURED NO. e..
GREEN SALT CURED No 3.--.-'s 81 81
NO. TALLOW ..............'' = =. '---- q - =
The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-20

Kansas CITY, NOV 70.
Open High Low Close Ye
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
THE SETTING OF STANDARDS
Delicate Work Conducted by ImpOr-
tant Instrument In the Village OF
CharIOttenburg, Germany.

In Charlottenbur a village only a
half hours drive from the German
emperor's palace in Berlin, is located
the reichsanstalt, the German institu-
ton for maintaining weights and
measures. The delicate experiments
performed in the reichsanstalt re-
quire buildings of great solidity, so
the foundations are sunk so,deep that
scarcely an earthquake could shake
them. And an equable temperature
is so important that there are sew
eral thicknesses of walls. The reich
sanstalt has existed 10 years. 1t is
endowed by the German government
and Is without parallel in the matter
of equipment, apparatus and expert
Investigators, says Pearson's Maya
zine. The cost of the experimental
departments to :. government is
$1SO,OOO yearly. Among the impor-
tant instruments upon which the
reichsanstalt has set its seal of per-
lection are physicians thermometers,
electric lamps, the exact strength of
one candle power (the standard can
die is now minute electric lamp,
tuning forks, the measurements of
all kinds of electric currents and va
riety of delicate scales.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
AN IMPERIAL PLAYGROUND.
Where the Sons of the Kaiser Enjoy
Athletics After Their
Studies.

Those of the German emperor's sons
who are now completing their mill
tary education at the fine old acad-
envy of Ploen lead exactly the same
lives as do the other cadets-indeed, if
anything, they are treated in more
Spartan manner, for William ii. wish
es his soldier sons to be models rather
than comrades to their fellow officers.
Of late years great deal of attention
has been paid at Ploen to the athletic
training of those who are to lead the
twentieth century German army, and
the playground is practically gym
nasium. 1t is whispered that at least
one old general, who greatly distin-
guished himself in the Franco-Prus-
sian war, does not believe In these
new methods; he is fond of pointing
out that, 40 and so years ago, the Ger
man military cadet was student first
and an athlete afterward. However,
the kaiser, always on the lookout for
new ideas, much admires the British
public school system; accordingly all
his sons have been brought up to take
far more outdoor exercise than is
usual with German youths of high de-
gree.-London Sketch.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
MORE SUN DIALS WANTED.
There is n Renewed Demand for
Them, and Some Bring High
Prices.

"We are now called upon for more
sun dials than ever" said a maker Of
optical instruments, states the New
York Sun, "five times as many, in fact,
for the sun dial has come into favor.
''Sun dials are made most commonly
of slate or of marble; sometimes Of
granite. The gnomon, whose shadow
cast upon the dial, indicates the hour,
is of bronze.
"The dial is set upon a pedestal of
stone, or of terra Gotta, or sometimes
of masonry. And sometimes support
that will serve this purpose well may
be come upon already carved; or some
quaint object is brought into this use.
Zone sun dial now in place has for
pedestal the newell post from the mar
BILE staircase of the Stewart house at
Fifth avenue and Thirty-ffth street in
this city. We are making now dial
whose support will be an old capstan.
"We are now fashjoning for an an
cient sun dial brought from abroad to
1OPldSO INC vi SiHoi, lung eihOO iOSe
from it, gnomon that will be in keep
ing with the dial in character and de-
sign and of like age with it, at least in
appearance.
'Sun dials, complete as to the DIAL
but exclusive of the supporting ped
estal, cost, according to the material
and the labor devoted to them, from
about $40 to $780,"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
ENGLISH NAVAL DISCIPLINE.
Displayed by Superior
Officers.

The commander of a battleship in
the Mediterranean squadron the 9TH
er day saw reason to suspect that
mourning band worn by one of the
midshipmen was too broad. He took
the MILDLY into his cabin, measured
the mourning band himself, found
that it was something like a quarter
of an inch too wide, and punished the
young gentleman by stopping a weeks
leave. A few weeks later, says a
writer in London Truth, the eagle eye
of this same officer detected micro
seopic portion of civilian waistcoat
protruding below the monkey jacket
of one of his officers. The officer was
wearing the waistcoat for the sake of
warmth, the weather being chilly at
the time. The commander, having
harangued him for some minutes on
the error of his ways, made the officer
remove his monkey jacket and walk
up and down the battery and the quar-
terdecll in that condition, and then
sent him below, to the no small amuse-
ment of all the members of the ships
company, who were looking on at the
time. This way of treating an officer
hardly seems to me conducive to the
maintenance of discipline. At the
same time, it must be o great source
of satisfaction to all of us that the
ships by means of which Britannia
rules the waves are commanded by
men with such remarkable powers Of
vision and such a remarkable grasp
of the minor delails on which the eff
cheney Of fleet depend.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
WATERS WHO SPECULATE.
DnbbIc I'm stocks aud Bccome Unft
for the Performances of
Their Duties.

Stories of the successful specam-
ton Of walters in popular resorts on
Sips received from the patrons IRE
often true; but there is the other
side-that of losses, says New York
exchange Said Philippe, at Deimon-
ico's:
"If one of our walters constantly
speculates on tips loss and failure
are Certain to come sooner or later
AS in the case of Beau Brummels
neckties, one never hears of the UNI
successful, and their losses. 1t gen
orally happens that waiter is sue
aessful at first If he puts the money
he makes into real estate he pros
pers; but let him continue to specu-
late and he generally loses his all.
have had some good winnings, but
prefer investment in real estate.
Stock speculation really distracts a
waiter and he cannot properly at
tend to business. AS soon as we find
waiter getting too engrossed in
speculation we discharge him. as he
cannot keep away from the ticker,
and confuses his orders. One poor
fellow nearly went crazy here last
winter in consequence Of his stock
speculations. He would forget his or
ders and call for 'one Western Union
when he should have said 'onc steak
underdone,' and so on, until we had
to discharge him. I do not know
what has become of him, but expect
TO hear he has landed in the insane
asylum on the island"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
TRAGEDY OF A LOCOMOTIVE.
IneIorIous Endine of the Proud Ca
reer OF Chicago worlds
Fair Wonder.

Engine No. 900, so the types have
told, draws a daily milk train on the
New York|Central railroad. Therein
lies the tragedy of a locomotive.
Eight years ago this same 800 was
a pet exhibit in the machinery depart
ment of the worlds fair at Chicago. II
was the monarch of the rails, the
holder of a worlds record, the subject
of great newspaper headlines and the
inspiration of editorials on attainable
speed. In May, 1898, without breath
ing hard, No. 999 did nine-mile squirt
on a level track at the rate of 102 miles
an hour. On the same trip and many
times afterward the great locomotive
drew the Empire State express dur
ing a long run at sustained speed OF
more than a mile a minute. 1t was
photographed in its'great feat by the
biograph process, and to this day on
countless moving picture screens
breathless music hall crowds may see
its counterfeit presentment approach
and vanish in calcium glare, says
the New York World.
And now 909 draws milk trainl
Having travelled "the pace that kills
it has gone to the rest cure. Over
trained, like human athlete, the ex
champion of the steel highway must
henceforth "live softly" all it's days
But what a churning it would give
the fresh Orange county cream il
some day old 900 should suddenly
awake, as did the old deacon's famou;
trotter, to a revived sense of its for
mer prowess!
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
PIGEONS THE PEST OF VIENNA
Have Multiplied from n Few Pairs in
One Hundred Years Beyond
All Control.

The few pairs of pigeons brought 100
years ago from Venice to Vienna have
multiplied to such an amazing extent
as to have become public pest. There
is great difficulty in exterminating
these pretty creatures, as, besides the
danger involved to the public in shoot
ing them, many of the birds would per-
haps only be wounded. The town
council has, therefore, resolved that as
many as possible shall be caught alive,
killed and given to poor families, and
that for some years fresh eggs in equal
numbers shall be distracted from the
nests.
The birds, which are great favorites
with the cabmen and porters, are fed
as regularly as the horses, clouds of
pigeons descending at the first throw
of corn. Hundreds of birds await an
eccentric woman who appears every
day in the town park in summer and
winter with food for them. In the
winter she brings warm linseed meal
and other food, and they descend at
her call. She is closely yelled and'her
name is unknown. The habitues of the
park have dubbed her the Baroness"
She wept upon being told by park
keeper that the pigeons were to be
caught and killed, says the New York
Mail and Express, and great dissatis-
faction is also expressed by the cab
men.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
FRUIT is A GOOD MEDICINE,
Authorities Say That Disease II Both
Prevented and Cured by Free
Indulgence.

It has not been a secret of the med
zeal profession that the eating of fresh
fruits is one of the most healthful of
habits. AS cure it is both simple and
agreeable.
Fruits are divided into five classes
the astringent, the mealy, the oily,
the acid and sweet. Each has an es-
pecial value.
The grape is the king cure of all
fruits. and is recommended particu-
larly to the consumptive, the anaemic
and the dyspeptic; also for geut and all
liver complaints.
The prescription in each case is very
simple, varying of course according to
the complaint. To begin with, the pa
tient consumes from half to a pound
and half of grapes daily, increasing
gradually to nine or ten pounds. This
diet is to be continued until the pa
tents health shows general improve
ment.
To the sweet fruits special hygienic
virtue is ascribed, particularly to the
plum, as a remedy in articular rheuma-
tism or preventive to govt.
The acid class, which includes rasp-
berries, Strawberries, peaches, apples
gooseberries, cherries, lemons and
oranges, stands at the head of the list
All these fruits are prescribed for
stomach troubles.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
KANSAS TORN APART.
Big Enough for Cows to
Fall In.

The attention of the Kansas state
board of agriculture has been called to
occurrences which are mystifying the
alfalfa farmers of Jewell and Republic
counties. 1t is reported that great
cracks and sink holes are appearing in
the alfalfa fields there, says Topeka
correspondent of the New York Sun.
The cracks are sometimes rods in
length, from two to six feet in depth,
and from one to ten feet wide. They
appear only in alfalfa fields, and the
farmers have never before seen any
thing like them.
They do not come gradually, but
suddenly. 1t is becoming dangerous to
drive a team across alfalfa fields be-
cause the ground may suddenly sink
beneath it.
Some section hands were working on
a railroad track few days ago near
an alfalfa field on the farm of Edward
Randall, not far from Jewell City. They
heard cow low but there was no cow
in sight. The sound seemed to come
from under the ground.
They made a search and discovered
the cow in an alfalfa sink hole, several
feet below the surface. The COW was so
weak that she could not stand after
she had been dug out.
The alfalfa plants have very long
roots. One theory is that these roots
loosen the ground so that it is washed
away by an underfow.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
A TITLED LoNGSHoREMAN.
The Sad story of New York LaboreI
Who Has interviewed Hair
of EurOpe's Kings.

"There is no city in the world with so
many foreigners as New York, " writes
Rev. David NJ. Steele in an article on
"The Other Side of the Town" in
Ladies' Home Journal "Nor is there
any class of persons in the city among
whom there are so many queer cases.
1 met man in the Bowery one cold,
wet, winter night selling shoe laces.
He looked so hungry that l took him
to a restaurant, where, after | had
given him something to eat, he gave
me his confidence. He talked five lam
guages-Italian, Spanish, German,
French and Arabic-with equal fuency,
but did not know a word of English.
"But who was he? A man of 35, well
educated, well connected and well bred.
For five years after graduating he
taught Sanskrit in a great university,
and for the five years following acted
as the foreign diplomatic correspond
emit of Berlin daily. He had in per-
son interviewed half the crowned
monarchs of Europe, and when this
work grew commonplace, he enlisted
in the secret information service of the
German army. Sent on a mission into
Russia, he committed a most serious
blunder, and he suddenly found him
self wanted by two armies at one time
to be shot as a spy. His father cursed
him, his patrons deserted and his
friends derided him. He escaped with
his life in time to flee the country. To-
day this son of Russian count is roll
ing salt barrels on a New York dock"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
HOW THE MISTLETOE COMES
Seeds stick to the Birds Bills, and
They Wipe Them or on the
Tree Branches.

The story of how the mistletoe gets
On the trees is most interesting one.
Covering the mistletoe twigs are
pearly white berries. These come in
the winter season, when food is COM
paratively scarce, and hence some of
our birds eat them freely. Now when
a robin eats a cherry he swallows sim
ply the meat and flips the stone away,
saws Prof. S. c. Schmucker, in Ladies
Home Journal. The seed of the mis-
tletoe the bird cannot flip. 1t is sticky
and holds to his bill. His only re-
source is to wipe it off, and he does so,
leaving it sticking to the branches of
the tree on which ne is sitting at the
time. This seed sprouts after a time,
and not finding earth-which indeed
its ancestral habit has made it cease
wanting-it sinks its roots into the
bark of the tree and hunts there for
the pipes that carry the sap. Now the
sap in the bark is the very richest in
the tree, far richer than that in the
wood, and the mistletoe gets from its
host the choicest OF food. With a
strange foresight it does not throw
its leaves away, as do most parasites,
but keeps them to use in winter, when
the tree is, leafess.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-16
RICHEST TOWN GROWS RICHER
Distinction Increases It's
Valuation.

Brookline, a suburb of Boston,
Mass, the richest town in the world, is
more than S5,0O0,OOO richer this year
than last, according to the computa-
ton of the towns treasurer. There
is a gain in the valuation of the as
SCISSORS. The rate of taxation is low
er. There is gain in the valuation of
personal estate of more than So, 900, 900,
and more, than 100000 in reality.
There are more inhabitants and gain
in the number of assessed polls.
The total valuation this year is $685.
$50, ZOO, against $77,952, 800 last year.
The personal estate is valued at $780,
$1,000, against $23, 499,sOO in 1900.
This very large gain is attributed to
the fact that Brookline has such excep-
tional attractions for residential pur-
poses. The real estate is valued at
$56, 1909, 700, as against $54 ,453,1 100, the
figures last year. The gain in realities
is largely on land values, chiefly be-
cause of the many recent improve
ments and the extension of railway
facilities.
Buildings in the town are valued at
So, 2O3, 6OO, against $22,441, 500 last
year, and the land valuation is put at
$33, 10000, last years figures being
$32,O11, 600.