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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-20

viii keep pace with the normal growth
of the service aside from the rural free
delivery. The decision of congress to
beneficial in almost all respects, raises
the expenditures of the service to a
point where a deficit in postal revenues
seems certain for some time to come
The increase in the postal receipts.
which during the month of September
showed for the 80 largest cities an aver
age gain of nearly 20 per cent, is in some
instances explained as due to local causes
as, for instance at cities where large
manufacturing establishments are located.
Postmasters at several such places, re-
porting receipts showing gains Of over %
per cent. explain that large quantities Of
stamps were sold during the month to
manufacturers who placed in The mali
great quantity of advertising matter.
An analysis of the postal receipts for
September discloses that the highest per-
centages are shown at offices where the
actual increases have not averaged more
than $4,000. Dayton reports increase Of
56.S per cent. the largest increase being
$4,000. Des Moines and Toledo SHOW gains
of over 80 per cent the amounts being re-
spectively $685. and S10s 54. Springfield,
Peoria. Ill: st. Joseph, Mo: Hartford,
Conn. Los Angeles. Cal, with percentage
gains of % to almost 10 per cent. give ac-
tuaI increases of Sc, 600 and less.
Chicago, with increase of St54. 264. or
POI per cent and New York, with a. gain
of s193. rs, or 219 per cent, are at the head
of the column. In both cities the in
creased receipts are explained by postal
officials as due to the reasons given above.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-20
THE STOYEPIPE HAT.
A Survival in New York Streets of
Today.

One morning last week man walked
on one of the crowded ferryboats crossing
to Manhattan, wearing a silk hat, and
Immediately became a conspicuous object,
regarded by everybody There was nothing
in the hat to attract such general atten-
ton. 1t was of modern, modish shape,
well kept and brushed. Nor was there
anything in the mans dress otherwise out
of the common. 1t was simply because he
was the only one on this crowded boat
wearing a silk hat and because a silk hat
has become an uncommon variety of
headgear, especially in the morning. 1t
goes with the saying that the man was
elderly A young man with a silk hat be
fore o'clock in the afternoon is an eccen-
trio.
The round derby hat wrought a revol'l-
ton in the matter of headgear. The pre-
vailing hat quarter of a century ago
or was it more years ago-was the silk
hat. Everybody wore one on all occasions
and at all times. The volunteer fire de-
partment was in existence at that time,
and a peculiar type, straight up and down
and straight across, was almost the in
sigma of the volunteer firemen, as much
as the soap lock that curled up under the
brim on both temples. Frank Chanfrdu
immortalized and preserved the type for
all times in Nose in "A Glance at New
York" To the day of his death, only a
few years ago, "Al'' Dorian, the oyster
man of Fulton market. and an old fire
wore that type of hat. But 1t was not
the volunteer fireman alone who wore a
silk hat. The man who drove the Broad
way omnibus, who took your fares in the
street cars, who cut your steak in the
butchers shop. who drove the truck along
the street-all wore a silk hat, which in
those days was -affectionately termed "a
stovepipe,' "a chimney pot" "a tile or
"a cady''-why cady?
Was it because some halter of the
name of Cady won renown for his hats
and made them the type of elegance to the
degree of giving his name to the articles
as the tailoring firm of benjamin of Lon
don did to overcoats? It is more likely,
however, that it came from "Cadi," a
judge of the orient, who wore on the trib-
unal insignia of his office covering of
similar shape. The town was fond of
oriental plays in those days and in them
a Cadi was an inevitable character How
ever, the stovepipe is so infrequent an
article of dress now that its appearance
before o'clock in the afternoon over a
coat that is not frock makes the wearer
as conspicuous as if he We're clothed in
scarlet. 1t was the little round derby
that dethroned it. Yet even to this day it
gives an air of distinction to the wearer.
and. as a matter of fact, the crowd in
stinctively gives it's respect to the man
who sports one.-Brooklyn Eagle
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New Bedford were in the heyday OF
their glory, reeking with oil and amass-
ing more capital than they knew what
to do with But now a change has
come First there was a substitution
of Portuguese sailors for the native
material, and then the sailing vessels
dropped out one by one. their places
being taken by steamers armed with all
the latest scientific appliances, such as
harpoon guns. bombs. etc. which re-
duced the dangers and discomforts of
whaling TO the minimum.
The beau iiful West Indian islands
were once the haunts of the whalers,
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Kansas City. Oct. 20.
Open High Low Close Sat
Chica - Livestock Market.

Chicago. Oct 2O.-CATTLE-Recei to-
westerns Market steady 70 15e lower and
slow Good to prime steers ST-25Qs.50:
poor to medium. 50 10000: stockers and
81. 25G5O0; Gamers 81. 40a2 $50; bulls. g. Glt
4.59: calves, s3.75d7.25; Texas led steers,
s.. 00d500: western steers, g. 75G6.75.
HOGS-Rsceipts today. 5000 head; esti-
mated Tuesday, 5000 head; left over FROM
Saturday, .460 head. Market 10d15c
higher Mixed and butchers $6.75d7.sD;
good to choice heavy, $7.O5l7. %: roug h
heavy, S6-50d7-00; light, Se600725; bulk of
sales. S6-90I7 10.
SHEEP Receipts today, 10000 head.
Sheep and lambs slow and lower. Good to
choice wethers, $4,000 80; fair to choice
mixed, 81. 50n340; western sheep. 81. 60d3. 20:
native lambs, s3.50G5.50; western lambs,
So. 30.
OFFICIAL receipts and shipments Saturday;
Receipts ...... ........ 1,17S Hips 1419
Shipments 7SS 81 1886
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terly the whale has retired farther and
farther within his arctic Businesses,
diving under the pack ice at the ap-
proach of his enemies and keeping pur-
suers always in uncomfortable situa-
tons 1t was only a few years ago
that the United States government had
to go to the rescue of the unlucky
whalers imprisoned by ice and threat
ened with starvation at Point Barrow
in the Arctic And, by the irony Of fate
some of the vessels that left their bones
to bleach there were among those that
had made the enormous estcheAof 1899
So it has been turn about and. turn
about with the whalers for many
years. The men who have made for
tunes have generally been those who
stayed at home and 'whalea" the whal-
ers. and so probably it will always be,
until finally the huge cetaceans return
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points Of view, that determined to
write a book, taking a love story as a
central theme. Mr. F'rohman released
me from my agreement for the play and
the book was written. That is how it
ing prcauced simultaneously in England
and America, although the book has
been in the hands of the public for more
than a year.
I spent four winters in Rome. rent
ing a house in the Trinita de- Monti.
1t may interest you to hear that Donna
Roms's studio. as shown at His Majes-
tvs in the second act OF the play. is to
Some extent a reproduction of one of
our rooms in Rome
t.And your plans for the future, Mr..
Game? When are we to expect another
novel?"
Sufficient unto the day"
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Kansas City Livestock.

Kansas City, Oct. o.-CATTLE-Receip
today, 10000 hoad, including $50 head of
Texans. Market steady to 10c lower Ma
tive steers $4O0G7.7O: Texas and Indian
steers, So. 75G4.20; Texas cows. 81. 756tS. O5;
native COWS and heifers, $1551i5.00; stock
ers and feeders. 81. 10000; bulls, $20Od3.25;
calves, s.. 500590
lxet 1OG15c lower Bulk of sales. $3.50
zoe: heavy. $6.90d710; packers. $6.92leu
1929; medium, $695d7.07l5 light, $3.50
100: workers.. $6.95M700; pigs, $50GQ6.95.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 1000 head.
Market steady to weak. Muttons, SO ,9slp
4.10; lambs, So. 5Gq5.25; range weJhers, Sc. 60
as. 90: ewes $3.GCM3S5.
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AIAI the reply to the fond
" father on the New
England coast when he
would inquire what to
do with his boy, too big to go to school
and not old enough to go into business
for himself. And What's the matter
with whaling?" the old barnacle backs
are asking now but in a different way
Something is the matter with it. that's
certain, for it seems to have gone to
the dogs" so far as remunerative re-
turns go. The profits have been dwin-
ding year by year until they are now
hardly worth considering, the whalers
ruefully admit.
Compare the last eason's catch as re-
ported from New Bedford via San Fran
cisco with the catches of some of the
lucky seasons that have preceded it,
and we shall find some cause for fore
bodings. By the last accounts the total
catch in the arctics amounts to less
than thirty-nine whales. the best vessel
getting only twelve while a few years
ago the higher number was not consid-
cred large for one ship. And this catch
includes not only the season just
closed. but what were left over from
last autumn. 1t is called the smallest
catch for years and was obtained by
the greatest outlay of material
Any way they fix it, the whalers al
ways seem to be playing in hard
luck for if they get small catch, of
course their rewards are small; if they
make a large one, the prices of oil and
whalebone run down to almost nothing
in consequence. Take, for instance, the
phenomenal year of 1898 when the
hammer catch of the decade was made.
There were nearly twenty vessels of the
arctic fleet that landed none at all. and
yet the others more than made up for
their loss by their enormous hauls. 1t
seemed as though nearly all the whales
IN the Arctic ocean rose up right along
ride and permitted themselves to be
-iaarpooned or bombed to death. Gener-
ally the whales make off for the pack
ice and hide themselves securely out of
sight as soon as they hear the wilir of
the propellers. To encourage the I'M
fortunate whalers who have made next
TO nothing this year it may be recalled
that one steamer of the 1898 fleet
brought to port the large number of
sixty-four whales, another eighteen, an
ether seventeen. another forty-seven.
atill another nineteen. and so on. roll
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ST. louis Livestock Markes.

st. Louis. Oct 2c.-CATTLElR ceipts to-
cay STeV neaa, eluq fdl 6gV ne3 3o OF IeI
lower for Tdxars Beef steers, S4 00a7. 40:
stockers and feeders, IS. 004450; cows and
Texas cows and heifers. $23503.35.
HOGS-Rsceip today. 5000 head Mar
ket 1Gu15c lower Pigs and lights, So IS Z
$50
SHEEP-Receipts today, 2.e00 head.
Market steady. Natives, $3.55Q400; lambs
$4.50a5.6 5; Texans s3.15d3s0.
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River Steamer Burns.

Grand Tower, H., Oct 2o.-The steam
er City of Sheffield burned here at mid
night and is a. total less. She was on
her way to Paducah for repairs and
stopped here for tire night. There We're
no passengers or freight on board. The
crew were saved
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Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago. III, Oct 2Q-BUTTER-DIarl
steady Creamery, 1e14d2S&c; dairy, 15n
PIC
EGGS Market steady. Loss off, cases
returned 21lzc
CHEESF-Market steady Twins, 1899
11%c.
ICED .POULTRY-Marlxet steady. Tur-
keys, 12@13c; chickens, 10d111ec-
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Fire Underground.

Rome. Oct. 2N-A dangerous fire broke
out last night from some unknown cause
in the underground chambers of the col
lege of the propa ganda. The firemen had
two hours hard work in subduing the con
fagration: Cardinal Gotti, project of the
propaganda, whose apartments are in
distant part of the building. did not know
of the danger until the flames were ex-
finCIiShed
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TO ALLAY FEAR.
New Contracts to Be Issued on Rus
sell Sage Loans.

sell Sage Loans.
New York, Oct. 2O.-It is said arrange
ments are being made TO issue new con
tracts on all loans issued by Russell Sage.
The borrowers will find inserted in the
Sage contract a slight change stating that
in case of nis death there will be no
change of contract and guaranteeing ordi-
nary protection to the borrower. Friends
of Mr.. Sage say that the insertion of this
provision does not mean that he is in dan
ger of death as result of his recent in
disposition. but that the precaution has
been taken il order to allay the fear of
his many clients 1t was deemed prudent
to take this course in view of the numer-
Gus raids that have been made on the
stock market by the circulation of can
ards regarding Mr. SAGE
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New York Oct 2o-Noon-NdONEY-
Money on call easy. at 6 Per cent; prime
mercantile paper. per cent; sterling ex-
change steady. with actual business in
BANKERS bills at $4S61s d4.S6M fof demand
and at 81. S36I4. S3Iz for 90 days; posted rates.
$4.S4 and $4.S7; commercial bills, $462iAfe
4.S2sz.
SILvER-Bar silver. 5O9sc; Mexican dol
BONDS Government bonds steady. To
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Rangs Of Prices on Stock.

Furnished by ]. E. GaI. Commissions.
Grain. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks
Office 10 West Sixth street Telephone
1885, Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock company, Kansas City. Mol
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feet consisted of over 700 sail, witt
an aggregate of 231 900 tons. The
catch of 1916 was worth $21. 000 600. in
1854 it was about 81, 900, 900. and twenty
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small. and the Santa F'e advertising de-
partn1ent is. considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of having a big lot manufactured for free
distribution, as advertisements.
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if an organ is not used it shall become
atrophied and finally disappear, the
whales became deprived of their legs
when they found it too hard to use
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New York, Oct 20.-SUGAR-Raw firm.
Fair refining 3 11-16c: centrifugal, sc test,
9-16M3ssc; nnolasses sugar, 274c: Refined
firm. Crushed, IS. lis; powdered, s475;gran-
ulated, Says.
OFFEE-Market quiet No. Rio. SIC.
MOLASSES-Market firm New Or
leans. 30Q4Oc.
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Cotton Marke...


New York. Oct 2o.-COTTON-Sp cot
ton closed quiet at $S.70aS.95 per 100 lbs.
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Topeka Markes.

FURNISHED by w. o. Anderson & Co..
210 Kansas ave-)
ORANG ES-Mexican. $3.50
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 800 size So 5074 On.
Messina, $50 size. $3.5Od400 5000 NV
GRAPES-New York S-lb basket. 2sc.
California Tocay grapes, ST. rs per 4-basket
crate.
per ID; and running from s1-75q2.25 per
APPLES Native. $4,000 per bu.; s.. 6oa
PEARS-Colorado Bartlett. s.5 ner
box; 8eure Hardy. 81. 75n200 i,er box; ma.
tive Kansas grown. So. 75a4 81 per bbi'
QUINCES-$2. per box
TABLE POTATOES-Kaw Valley pr
per bu.; Minnesota Burbanks SOC. Mir
SWEET POTATOESN40c per b,, o0e-
VEGETABLES.
Home grown cabbage. soc per 100 lbs
tomatoes, 40c per 4 blu. basket dry onions
60c per bu. Spanish onions $50 per Gratis:
wax beans 75c per IL gu. basket
can; extra select, Soc per can: STANDARD.
25c per can; bulk, per gallon Il al
CELERY-Mi Michigan. blue ribbon. ZIG
dozen red s5, ribbon, 40c rer dozen.
EGGs-Candled, loss off, he; case
BTJTTER-C I4lzc.
POULTRY-Hens. 7cslb ROSTERS 15a
each: ducks and geese. &c H.: turkeya. ia
&c fb.; live spring chickens. 71Sc is. ~
PRAIRIE HAY1Bv y car. ooo7 n,
PRAIRIE FAY-By ton (baIed1 - IS "a
PRAIRIE. HAY (ioose) &c 6ois9i6 Z;
Alfalfa hay is very scarce and in good
Straw $500 per ton ana very scarce.
Topeka Hide Market.
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Kansas City Grain.

FURNISHED by ]. E. Gall Commissions.
Grain Provisions Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth street Telephone
zS6- Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock company, Kansas City. Mol
Kansas CITY. oct. 20.
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Range OF Pr1css.

Furnished by ]. E. Gall. Commissions
Grain. Provisions Cotton and Stocks.
Office 40 West Sixth street. Telephone
4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and
Stock company. Kansas City. Mol
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St Louis, Oct 20-WOOL-Marlxet firm
Territory and western mediums, 16TlSc:
fine, 12a1615c; coarse, 12I15c.
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Chicago. Oct. %.
LOW Close Sal
Market Gossip.

Market Gossip.
FURNISHED by A. C. Goodwin. Commission
Broker, Stocks, Bonds. Grain and Pro
visions. Rooms 5 and 6. Columbian build
ing. Independent telephone 1881
Receipts of grain at Chicago today:
Wheat. 157 cars; graded. 1. Corn. 275 cars;
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kansas CITY Proauce Marke..

Kansas City, Oct 2a-Close-wHEAT-
Receipts today. 225 cars Quotations
Dec, SIC: May, 6s7Sc. Cash: No. , hard
7OG71c; No. 9 hard. 6715@e9e; Nc. red, e71z
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A MODERN wHALER.

to the terrestrial. mode of life. from
which, some of the scientists say, they
departed in the ages long ago. The
whale is not a fish at all. but warm
blooded, air breathing animal which,
they saw. has descended from an ances-
tor that once upon a time had four legs
and lived upon dry land. According TO
the law of nature. which provides that
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TIE c. WAY.

them and made use of their tails in
stead. According to the scientific at
uralists, they left the land. took to the
water and have since lived in the sea-
Whaling was going on in this country
more than 200 years ago. and about
fifty years ago the American whaling
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some species of the eetaceans being
found onfshore and almost within the
harbors. Then the whalers lived high
and slept in the garnet" even If they
did not make great wages. for sailing
in West Indian waters was nearly al
ways idyllic. The Inhabitants of the
islands were hospitable and kind to the
visiting tars from Yankeeland. But lat
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nv WHAT'S the matter with
SO Va "a whaling?" used to be
AM/ the reply to the fond
" father on the New
England coast when he
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Topeka Hide Market

Topeka Hide Market.
Prices paid in Topeka this zgeek based or
Boston quotations: -
GREEN SALT CURED NO. 1... sts,
GREEN SALT CURED NO. 2......7I[t
W. 1Al-LoW ...........................ks za
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-26
WHO COME TO THIS
BIG TOWN OF OURS,
People Who Travel in Trains Back
and Forth.
THESE VISITORS TO AMER1CUs.
Are Among the Recent Arrivals Here
Read the List Below and See
IF Your Own Name Is Written
There.

W. j Nisbet registered from Macon
yesterday among the arrivals at the
Windsor Hotel
s. P. Nicely, of Barnesyille, was IN
Americas yesterday morning, coming
down on business.
E. B. Clements and Will G. Wooten
were among Buena Vista representa-
tives here yesterday
Col, A. L. Hull, we'll known citi-
zen of Athens, was among the visitors
In Americas yesterday
Tom Moore registered from Cedar
town yesterday among the several ar
rivals at the Allen House.
Miss Annie Dixon left for Elaville
yesterday after a visit of week here,
the guest of Miss Ethel Baisden.
Miss. Annie Sanford, OF Kentucky,
and Mrs. Jose Andonegui, wife of the
celebrated Spanish violinist, are at
Lu0 w IuUSOEs
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fl. McGee left
yesterday for Macon, their former
home, where they will spend some
time with relatives.
Mrs. Lee Jones, of Albany, has been
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frank
Sheffield, for several days at her resi-
dence on Taylor street.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Lanier, of West
Point, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Lanier at their home on Lee
street, ARRIVING here last night,
Mrs. Snowden and sister, Mrs Kin
ney, who have been the guests of their
aunt, Mrs. +. ID. Hollis, left yesterday
for Pelham upon a visit of week tc
Mrs. Judson L. Hand.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-26
THE PITH AND POINT
OF WHAT is SAID
By People of Americas in Various
Walks.
TALKED WHILE THEY TRADED.
A Roundup Of The News and Gossip
of Day Here in Americas - a
Bunch of Little Tales Whacked off
Quite Short.

Hudson's drugstore is prepared Ito
serve the finest drinks as usual. Our
new fountain has been ordered and will
arrive shortly.
Church street is the next wanting
grading and granite curbing. In time
many of our beautiful streets will be
thus improved,
Query Adderton is Ill with typhoid
fever at his home on McGarrah street,
though the attack is not considered a
very serious one.
Every bootblack in town murdered
George Wilson's great whlstling song
yesterday. But then George predict
ed that they would.
This council is not like it's rredeces-
sors. musioally inclined. and will sell
the band instruments bought by Esome
other body of soIons.
A soliciting committee was abroad
yesterday securing subscriptions to-
wards the building fund for the new
Methodist Church here.
The McMath building on Forsyth
street IS beng renovated. The floor
is being raised considerably and the
interior otherwise improved.
Even onions; plain, pungent onions,
are scarce in Americas, only one store
having them yesterday They can be
raised here, 500 bushels per acre.
The street force was kept busy yes.
terday repairing damage done the
streets by recent heavy rains, and in
cleaning the pavements about town,
Soufa's beautiful opera Gel Captain
will be the next attraction in Ameri-
Gus, coming in all it's gorgeous mag
nifcence next Wednesday night, 9th,
February, like January, will not
witness the launching of a single in
dustrial enterprise here IN Americus
Will the aame be said of Decem Der ?
Council sti refuses to pay Chief
Wheeler and Officers Cobb and AL
hrit'on their salaries for January.
Bat in she meantim1 the coppers won k
along.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-26
Keller In SIX Hours,

Distressing Kidnev I'D Bladder
Disease relieved in by ''New
Great South Americ ney Cure. F."
It is great surprise on account of it's
exceeding promptness in relieving pain
in bladder, kidneys and back, in male
or female. Relieves retention of water
almost Immediately, If you want
quick relief and cure this is the reme-
dY. Sold by E. J. Eldridge, druggist,
Americus, Ga.