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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-09
COTTON MARKET.

New York, July S-Cotton-Spot quiet;
middling uplands, SIC; middling gulf SIC.
Sales &c bales.
Galveston. July s.-Cotton-Firm. Mid
ding 15-16c
Liverpool, July S.-Cotton-spot good
business done; prices 1-16d lower. AneTi-
can niddllng ID
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-09
RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS.

on the CProdUcs Exchange. today. n
market closed as follows,
BUtter-Market steady Creamery. IL
Ike. dairies. I61sElsc
Cheese-Sfeacy. ifdIe2tc
E.gE-FsTm Fresh Is
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-09


Kansas City.
Kansas City. July H-Wheat- July Sc.
September S7is zIs7i.c, cash. No hard old
72F7e1sc No. , hard, old 7a-sq 7lisc. new
7el5 &c: Nc. 4 old nc; new sSc, rejected
hard new SSGSsC. No. red. Cid -7ac' new
lie No. red. new 6slsc
Ccrn-Juiy sc: September 59-4c. cash.
No mixed. Sc: No white. ssc; No.
white S7izc.
Oats-No- white. SC
Rye-No . sc
Hay-Cholce timothy seel2 =, choice
prairie Ss1zl0
Butter-Crsanery sc. fancy dairy. Isc-
Egg-FTesh. 1+c-
Receipts Of wheat @ days * cars
St Louis.
s. Louis July S-Ft at-I.cEer- on.
rcd elevator 7Ic; track 72f775szc, July =.
September 7a@.c; December SIC. No. 2
hard SO
Corn-I.ows-. Nc . cash 81. track sc.
July sc, September $40; December 81
Oats-Lower. No. cash - track 500
ss.c. July *. September So; No. 2
white -.
ra,-a--s~- So
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-09
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.
open. High I Low. I Close.

Chicago.
Chicago, July S.-The leading futures
ranged as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
EARLY TRAINING FOR BOYS.
Choice of Career Should be Put Off
Till Late

A to early choice in the school
period is more to be feared than lie
lay. There is more wrong in it to the
boys future. AS long as the work
done is recognizably good and no dis
sipation of energy is cultivated the
final choice may be left open for the
college period at least. In my own
experience a general course of study
carefully selected for boys has in the
end added force to their true career"
The restlessness of the business COM
munity over the college boy is, l
imagine, due to the fact that the boy
fails to energize at all rather than to
g. failure on his part to energize N
some one direction
Merchants ask for the habit Of
mind suited to work-not only to work
persistently in one direction, but to
change it's direction quickly, to meet
emergencies and this power of the
mind comes from the exercise of many
faculties, and not one alone. So Of all
trades and professions in their higher
range 1t is no waste of time for the
embryo artist to learn the multiplica-
ton table, nor for the actor to possess
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
NOTES..

Gasoline as cure for stomach
worms in sheep is considered very sat
isfactory. One tablespoonful Of COM
mon gasoline is emulsifed in OF. OF
flaxseed tea This is given as
drench to each lamb. Out Of 1000
animals treated in some Ohio expert
ments, only one was lost.
Chicks should be fed on oatmeal
flake, Johnnie cake, all kinds Of cracked
grain, and boiled milk and water
when they want it. In cold weather
the water should be warm.
Where chickens are Matched very
late large drygoods box with the
top covered by poultry netting, makes
an excellent home. Cover the bot
tom with straw, and on sunny days set
them where the warm rays can beat
down through the netting. At night
shove the box into the stable to keep
the little biddies warm
The pullets kept for winter layers
should be well fed and brought to ma
turity as rapidly as possible, and they
will begin laying in Oct If they are
well cared for they will lay steadily all
winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09

now, after a decline from $50 to no.
very recent newspaper report declares
its property has been seized by the
sheriff. The Christian Commonwealth,
composed like the Ruskin of well-edu-
Gated Americans, is in the hands of
receiver. It's newspaper says: Those
who attempt an application of the law
Of love to economic problems find
themselves surrounded by every until
tored crankism adrift. Neither the
needy poor nor the bloated plutocrat
will tax love as severely as the ego
tistical and narrow-minded crank"
1t mnst be admitted, however, in the
face of these experiences, that sue
cessful cooperation, however unlikely
is not utterly impossible. The Oneida
Community, at first religious society,
after a stormy experience with their
neighbors through practicing free life,
adopted family life in 1880, abandoned
communism and formed a joint stock
company. In 1857 the community
wealth was $4,000; the 1900 the CAPT
tai Of the Oneida Company, Limited,
was 100000 and it's surplus s150,247
with PIG stockholders. Though no
longer strictly a Community" the
Oneida Company is undoubtedly a sue
cessful cooperative experiment, en-
ploying in it's factories all stockholders
that desire to labor, but it is success
full partly because it carries on bust
in 10 o.
poratiOn. The Woman's Common
wealth, little group of women with
advanced IDEAS" is still in existence
at Mount Pleasant in the District of
Columbia. Twenty-four celibates live
together tremendously. How long the
community will last it is impossible,
of course, to say, but thus far it has
proved successful. But the brignL par
ticular example Of 4 fourishing coop
erative community, the only one that
stands out as a satisfactory embodi-
ment of the cooperative idea, is the
Amana Society, inhabiting seven vii
lagos twenty miles west of Iowa City,
in Iowa. This alone has fulfilled the
hopes of it's founders. Originally per-
secuted Pietists from Hiesse. the
Amanites to the number of 500 founded
Ebenezer Community in New York in
1913; in 1852, when they moved to
their 26,000-acre tract in Iowa, they
numbered 1900 and now 1900 of them
carry on the farms, factories, shops
and stores of the Amana villages in
happiness and comfort. They hold all
property in common; they eat at COM
mon tables. Each has an annual al
lowance for clothes. Each does his
share of the labor necessary to make
the community prosperous. Their per
capita of wealth is less than that Of
Iowa county, but the system of COM
mon ownership secures equality Of
distribution. Though not rich, then,
the community has grown steadily and
gives every promise of continuance.
The explanation of it's success lies in
the preservation of the original relig
ious enthusiasm.
The communistic movement, how
ever. with this exception, indicates that
human nature is not adopted to COM
munity life; the invigorating shock of
competition is, after ALL what wealthy
Americans most keenly desire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09

himself of the rules of grammar with
insight, nor for the man of science to
get acquainted with the lessons OF
history.
Respect for justice and reverence
for what is right and true are two
necessary aims in the home training
Intelligent discussion of all tradition
as to what is right and true is. it
seems to me, an important feature Of
home training. If gently stated and
wisely explained most tradition will
justify itself or find acceptance after
some constitutional amendment. 1t Is
true that discussion is often incon-
venient but when questions are
seriously raised in the home circle
they should be seriously treated
-Profssor Morse in Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
NEW WORKS. PAWNSHOPS.
Data About Hypothecated Goods Filed
at Police Headquarters.

New York Time-Perhaps the per
son who happens to be temporarily
hard up"-and who isn't sometimes?
even Senator Hanna had to borrow
cents car fare the other day because
he didn't happen to have any money
with him-and who goes into a pawn
shop, glides into one of the stalls, and
"soaks' his watch for a day, or, per
haps, two, fancies that nobody will
know anything about it. The person
will be wrong. There has been a
great deal more to it than that. His
to the police headquarters and reg
istered there, together with the num-
Der of his watch, and all this will be
in record in black and white, not only
for the present generation but for pos
terity.
Incidentally it will probably sur
prise the general reader to learn how
many watches are pawned in New
York in the course of year. AS a
matter Of record, there are consider
duly HUI tHdh I,OOV,oVO "otSuCo Ch-
tered in pawn at the various licensed
shops in this city in the course of a
twelvemonth. Of course, these are
not 100000 different watches, for a
good many of them are realized upon
and taken out several times. The
number pawned, too, varies from
month to month, but on an average
there are quite fully 100000 different
entries monthly for pawned watches
reported to police headquarters, and
there filed away for future reference.
The reason for the entry Of the
watches, with their numbers and the
names and actresses of their owners,
is that a means may be provided for
the tracing and recovery Of articles
that have been either stolen from or
lost by their original owners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
THE HEN WHO FAILED.
4 Fable on the Enlargement of the
Feminine Sphere.


Once upon a time there was a lit
tie brown Hen who had lived happily
for many years in a Barnyard, where
she Clucked and Clacked and minded
her Nest, and was generally uselL
and agreeable member of Society.
At last, however, she grew discon-
tented with her narrow Domestic
Sphere, and determined to go out
into the Wide. Wide World to seek her
fortune.
81 opine," she said to herself, that
il is Wicked for a Creature of my In
candescent Intellect to bury her Tai
ents in making Mere Home, and that
there is no use in Wife wasting her
Oratory on a Husband who will not
even Encore the Performance when
there are Lecture Lyceums spelling
for Orators.
Neither has it gotten Past me that
the BOOSTERS have a line on Life that
we Hens have missed, and that in the
General Division of Things they got
the Loot and we got Most of the
Labor I also apprehend that it is
much less Fatiguing to Stand on a
Fence and Grow over your Family
than it is to Scratch for it, and
should like to Tackle that side of the
Job for awhile.
ct is true that | have known a good
many Hens who have gone out in
search of Careers who have found a
Cold Frost instead, but l am next to
the fact that the Reason they Failed
was because they were too Feminine
so it is up to me to understudy the
Lords of Creation and to display a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
COMMUNISM FOUND WANTING.
Historical Sketch of Cooperative So
ceties in the United States.

Historical Sketch of Cooperative So
cieties in the United States.
A recent bulletin of the department
Ct labor; prepared by the Rev. AleXan-
der Kent, is a document more fascinat-
ing than half the historical romances,
for it is a historical sketch of co-opera-
tive communities in the United States.
L shows what happens when the ad-
vocates of social regeneration go by
themselves and practice what they
preach" The report is a record of
melancholy failures. Of 45 cooperative
communities marking the Owen and
Fourier movements early in the cen
tury, with an average life Of two years
each, not one remains; of the II com
munlstiC societies recorded in 1875 but
two and a fragment still eXist-with
but one really successful; and of the
twenty inaugurated in the last decade
none give promise of life.
The Shakers, with communities in
nine ates-fundamentally church
rather than cooperative society
numbered in 1876, after nearly a cen
fury of existence, 2,415. Last year
they numbered 1900, a decrease of so
per cent. in 25 years. Financially pros,
porous. charitable, Industrious, moral
they are gradually dying out through
the detection of their few children
most of whom leave the community
and through their failure to attract re
cruits. In all probability Shakerism
will soon dye peaceful death. Other
societies founded similarly. by reli
gious enthusiasts from abroad, have
already persisted violently. The Zoal
societies came from Germany at the
beginning of the last century and set
tied near Pittsburg, later moving t
Ohio. There, after the death of tbs
leader and the consequent decline II
religious enthusiasm, the new genera
ton. first suing unsuccessfuliy in thu
courts, secured finally a division b.
agreement of the common property
The Harmony socitey, with almost tn
same eXperience-early struggles, har'
won success and then agitation 70
division-haS so far starved off dissC
| luton, but is reduced to little clos
corporation of nine elderly people TIL
| Icarian, like many another, faile
} through lack of agreement. With
most fantastic history of inauguratio
. through the efforts of periodical jou,
. nal. of badly managed enterprises, {
e hard work and fierce dissension, tn
-,
d Gus life in Tennessee and Georgia unit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
THE "MASTER CLOCK"
An Important Timepiece in the Naval
Observatory at Washington


In the course of an article in st
Nicholas on How We Set Our
Watches by a Star, W. S. Harwood
tells about the master clock at Wash
ington.
The great clock N the naval OBJ
servatory is called the master clock.
By means of the repeating
the time is repeated over eighteen
different circuits to the various parts
OF the country. New York city au-
tomatically repeats the time to all
points east and north; Chicago and
Cincinnati repeat to all points west
and southwest; Richmond, Augusta
and Atlanta to all points south. If
you should happen to be in some
large Telegraph Office at the moment
the time signal is being sent out, it is
likely you would see the operators at
their keys take out their watches a
few seconds before the time is due
open them, put a tiny piece of tissue
paper twisted into a thread between
the spokes of one Of the little wheels
in their watches, holding back the
movement to the instant the signal
is given, then releasing the wheel so
that the watch shall fall into the
exact beat Of the master clock in
Washington.
Of course the same care must be
taken whether the operators are to
connect their instruments with time
ball is an interesting feature of the
service. It is a round ball large
enough to be seen from the street
where, supported by its appliances, it
rests on the top of some building. II
is attached by wire to the circuit from
Washington in such a manner that, at
the instant the master clock in Wash.
ington ticks the stroke of twelve, the
delicately poised ball will fall, re
leased by the same beat of the clock
that announces the time to the rest of
the country. Any one who watches
one of these time-balls just before
the stroke Of twelve, timepiece in
hand, may easily determine whether
his watch is slow, fast, or on time.
Through the east these time-baiis
are dropped every day at noon, save
on Sundays, at New York City, Bos,
ton, Newport (Rhode Island), Woods
HOll (Massachusetts), Philadelphia.
Baltimore, Washington, Hampton
Roads, Savannah, and Fortress Mon.
roe. The trick of the Master Clock
that drops these time-balls also re
leases others, some of them many
hundreds, indeed thousands, of miles
away. For instance, by cable ar
rangement, a time-ball is dropped
every day in the city of Havana, and
another in San Francisco, three thous
and miles distance. So Incompetent
sibly swift is the speed of the electric
current that, if the repeating-instru
ments and the wires are in perfect
condition, there is no appreciate
difference in the time of the dropping
of the ball in New York City and the
dropping of the ball in San Francisco
each one released by the same trick
of the master clock in the naval OBJ
servatory in Washington.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
Death Proved Fatal.

"The death of Ii Hung Chang has
been reported SO often l didn't be-
lieve it this time until the news had
been confirmed" remarked the OBJ
servant boarder.
ooh this time death proved fatal"
declared the cross-eyed boarder.-
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
BEAT THE BANK
AT MONTE CARLO.

System Invented by Close Observer
Melted the Users a Little Fortune.
In spite of all the natural skepticism
which the very word System" usually
eVokes, old frequenters of Monte Carlo
still recall fact well known to them,
though unfamiliar TO the general pub
lie.
In 1882 sturdy, resolute Yorkshire
man, who hailed from Bradford, the
city of spinning mills, did actually
break the bank, or, at least, did actu-
ally win considerable fortune with
his system.
It's working, or, rather, the prelimi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09

"WaS he wounded seriously"
asked the reporter, hurrying TO the
scene of the ARRAY.
''He was" briefly answered the
policeman. did yez think it was In
fun
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
SOME eooD-NATURED FUN.

Do you think that the devil is worse
than those who talk about him?
Well, sub, hit ponds pom who dofn'
de talkin-Atlanta Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09
Took One Chance.

"Does he ever gamble ?"
well. he married"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09

which the lettuce has been cooked one
gill of good cream, and cook slowly for
five minutes. Mix half tablespoon
full of -four, and blend to smooth
paste. Remove the saucepan from the
stove, and add this mixture to the
stock already in it, stirring so as to
mix well. Strain, and serve in a hot
Acknowledgements Bazaar.
One Cause of Poor Teeth.
At the annual meeting of the British
Dental association, says the London
Chronicle, Thomas G. Reed read a pa
per on Some Chemical Changes in the
Mouth During the Mastication Of
Bread Composed Of Roller Flour" and
contended that the increase in dental
cases during the last forty years was
due to roller milling having largely re
placed stone milling, and argued that
modern bread itself directly caused
the destruction of tooth tissue, as
there was a greater amount Of acid
generated in the mouth during the
masticatiOn of bread composed of roll
milled. 1t appeared that wherever the
roller mill was in operation carious
teeth were found instead of the sound
ones of the days Of the stone mill.
1t was found on testing for acid that
the roller flour bread bolus was much
more acid than the other. Hugh Can
dy. chemist to the London hospital,
having tested both kinds of bread, re-
ported that he found in the case Of the
bread composed Of stone-milled -four
that the aCidity remained stationary,
whereas in the case of bread com
peared to promote an increase Of 45
per cent. in the acidity. Dentistry,
said Mr.. Reed, was a liberal profess
sion, and besides correcting the raw
ages of dental carries, it was their duty
to endeavor to prevent dental carries
occurring
Three Partisan Fads.
First comes the dentelle on filet, or
| the lace with a square mesh. It is
made in widths Of three or four inches,
and after being dipped into solution
of ochre or safran is largely used for
the adornment of blouses and cos
tunes. The Breton peasants use 1t
| for their "coiffes," much stiffened
with starch, so as to remain white and
clean for many weeks, and is also
greatly used upon the broad collars SO
infinitely plated of the finest linen.
The second fac also halls from Brit
! tany. This is a hat which threatens
to become common. considering how
popular it has suddenly become. It is
known as the petit Breton 1t re-
sen}bles the sailor shape worn by lit
tie English sailor boys, having q
broad, slightly upturned brim and no
trimming save the simple band Of
black velvet, with long, overlapping
ends, which characterize the .headgear
OF the Breton peasant.
The third fad is the growing taste
for large bows or rosettes of black
silk or velvet on the skirts and bodices
of light-toned gowns. This fashion
has become so popular that fashiona
bic dressmakers are now making mod
els of light-cOlored dresses-in lace
muslin or gauZe-upon which large
| Louis XIV. bows of black and velvet
are encrusted at random over skirt
and corsage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09

The boer monument at Burghers-
drop was destroyed by unknown per-
sons.
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-12-25
The Unfortunate
Maker of aBreaks {"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

A break" In the ever-cbanginr yer.
nacular of social parlance. signifies
some unfortunate chance remark that
either refers TO or suggests some sub
lect best TO be avoided. Everyone knows
how often such breaks" as they are
called, occur, and how there seems to
be some perverse fate that makes one
go out of ones way TO talk Of topics
that must necessarily suggest the one
forbidden II there is. anyone at the
table, for instance. who has some per-
sonal defect, the imp of perversity Will
probably cause the most tender-hearted
person present TO drag that particular
misfortune into the conversation by al
luding TO some one who is similarly af-
hicted. Or If there is some family skel-
eton which must not be spoken of, it
Will always be brought forward by
proxy.
Il am the most unfortunate individ-
ual In the world about such things"
complained a-young man recently. ut
is simply impossible for me to steer
clear of any unpleasant topic. 1t is
like lodestone to me, and am drawn
In Its direction whether l will or not.
The other day went with a house par
ty to the Ms, who are all abnor-
mally fat. Now, Bill l said to myself.
remember not one word about corpu-
lency! But in spite of all my efforts l
managed to drag in the subject several
times. To my horror, heard myself
mention Barnum's fat woman to Mrs
M, speak of some ones death from
fatty degeneration of the heart when
conversing with Mr.. M, talk ad-
miringly of Miss .Slender's figure to
Miss M, and allude to the disadvan-
tage of carrying weight to young M,
who nearly broke his heart at college
because he grew too heavy TO compete
in the games. There was a perfect fa-
talfty about 1t, and am sure they must
have thought did it all on purpose"
1T was worse with me-" laughed the
young woman to whom he was speak
Ing. Il went to stay with some people
whose prominent family trait was re-
markably large nose. Like you, l re-
solved beforehand never to mention the
defect but the prohibitive word SO
preyed on my mind that, on one dread
full, verto-be-forgotten day, l said to
my host at the table, Please give me
some-nose" intended to ask for salt,
but the awful word got ahead of 1t and
slipped out of my mouth quite clear and
distinct. 1 was too much Mortified to
pass 1t off, and grew red as a peony,
feeling ready to cry, but Mr.. A
burst out laughing. I know exactly
how 1t happened, dear child he said,
and you mustn't mind it bit New
York Tribune.
Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-12-25
Affinities Never Sudden.

There is more of ideal love and mar
riage in the world than it is the fash
ion to believe. Affinities are not so
rare. But they are made, not born.
After all, what are affinities? People
between whom attraction is developed
to a maximum. who think and feel and
act In entire sympathy. 1t is improb-
able that two people could meet and
discover such bond Of perfect SYM
pathy. Such a condition would be too
good and great to gain without a
struggle. No two people have the same
training and education, the same en-
vironment, the same conditions for the
formation Of character and inclination.
We must make our affinities.-C -Cosmo-
politan.