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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-24
PROVISIONS

CHICAGO PROVISIONS, Dec. 24.-Provisions
We're firm on buying by shorts and commission
steady prices at the yards were an early bull
fas fastos ap,h May pork opened 7hc higher. at
and ribs were up &c at So. 81 y. % zs :.
Close; Pork-January, $12o5; May, s12.421s
Lard-January. $3.50: May, $500. Ribs-Janu.
airy, $6.25; May, $6.52@ @6.55.
NEW YORK PROVISIONS, Dec. 24.-Beef-
Slulet. Pork-Stendter; mess, $13 32JM137j
Lard-Firm; prime western steam, s7.10 :
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PURCHASES FOR EXPORT

English MiIlers Buy; Canadian Northwest
Wheat at Winnipeg.
Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, Dec. 24.-Wheat EXPORT
ers are selling Canadian wheat at Winni-
peg at 1917 cents to British millers
This wheat is to go all rail to ST. Johns.
1.800 miles. before it reaches the seaboard.
All rail shipments to st. Johns have al
ready commenced.
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MIscELLANEoUs

NEW YORK SUGAR AND COFFEE. Dec 81
--Sugar-Raw. nominal; fair refining, 31-16m
37sc; centrifugal 81 test, 3016c; nlolaases
sugar, 13-l6@2Bc: refined. quiet; crushed
5.O5c; powdered. 4.;J5c: granula ted 4 45c
Coffee-Firm; No. Rio, &c. Molasses-Firm !:
New Orleans, 316l3Sc. - =
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THE FLOUR MARKET
FAIR GENERAL DEMAND CONTINUES
PRICES HOLD FIRM.

The market is without important change,
Int the tendency is frmer. Millers would have
advanced prices today in line with higher cash
:" heat but for the fact that there have been
recent advances in millstuffs. The tone, how
ever. | sstrong and should any further rise
occur in wheat. -four prices will likely follow
promptly.
Shipments, 44.4S7 barrels.
First patents quotable a 81. .45@455: sec
ond patents, S4.3O0i 44O; first clears. $4,000
30; second clears, $2.3OGL2.40.
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Railroads entering the yards reported receipts
for the day Ly loads as follows: Chicago Great
Western, !; Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha. Il; Great North
ern, 8 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 1; North
ern Pacific Z: total. 81.
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the: great bulk Of the business. however, being
done sat $780, and some Of 1t at $40. CicugO
notes that the lower grades like gray forge and
mSttisd have not not yet pa,.icpated In the fnll
Superior Is doing u fair business! at the old
prices. Probably the largest transaction of the
week has been the purchase of about 10000
tons Of pig iron, chiefly of Virginia make, by a
pipe foundry. &. . - g.t 5aa HI a >,
: In the rail trade the tnly new development
is the movement to get together all the makers
Of light rails s,yith the object of bringing these
J In, the sheet trade prices continue to crumble
SLOWLY. =
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THE DAYS RESULTS
CLOSING CASH PRICES

441sc to 441s @44Ac, and held around 44nc
Local receipts We're 2oe cars, with Of contract
The same interest that is long in wheat wa
SUPPOSED to be buying corn, and this caused n
ssttfong sta tone. May closed ss@1sc higher, at
:, Close: Corn-Dece1nber, 1kc; January. 41szc:
sna May ef441Sc; July. 1875 @44c; September
Cash Cash corn No. 2 .4sc; No. 8, 42,Aa4ac.
pat pats We're We're also Influenced by the strength in
Mneat. " but small receipts and good Shipping
some demand from commission houses which
Mas ns supplied on mainly by scalpers. After open
81 @ 1ac' ~ Nay advanced to s7ssc Local receipts
Close: =. OatsLDecember, 3414c; January, 34Nc;
*Gash Gas OATS: No 2, 35c No. 8, 341bc.
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GENERAL PRODUCE
Eggs,
Thursday, Dec. 24.-Butter, easy,

h9as4 Iasarsdf fs9s R;e oxsl vs steady Eggs
res EXTRA isc; dairies, Irsts i7c: seconds
extras, isc;% % %renoVsted firsts i5c roll and pr,nt
fancy, tic; choice, 14@15c; fair to good "a
EG Gs-New laid, case count, current receipts,
| cases included, 23c;- candled loss of, per doz,
2sc; country held, cases included, 1sc; dtrties,
per case. So. 10; April storage, car lots charges
:CHEEsE-Twin or fats fancy, lie; twins or
flats, choice, 91Ac;. twins Or hais: fair 10 good,
he 4oHng 9y nAn3 Americas fancy lSlse: brick e6
Seek rs; asisies: al ee No. D'GrA: la& iss' ~.
lie; turkeys, thin, smalk 7@sc: Chickens hens,
large &c; chickens, roosters, &c; springs. 7c;
iS ssfss 1n Fss talfeys
fai :bsfts Ssss s51Hv. Old
springs, fair to good 6a7 7c; hens, fancy, large,
1c; fai: to good, and small &c; old ROSTERS and
seSS @ sGss; Esg!sn Stock, tAi iaSe &c less s 'an .
fancy, 5@8c; lambs yearlings,. fancy, 36la @7c;
milk lambs, pelts of, 11k@sc; hogs, light, S,ac:
FIsH-crappies, medium to large, Sc; small,
eoae2c mixed, per eii car lots sacked, sack es9@' Soc
ONlONs-Per, bu, 4O@Eoc.
RABBITS Cot tvn,~.--, uoz,. $l@1.25; jacks,
PIGEONs-Live, per doz, ST. dead, per doz,
I5c - - =. - ',=',s- - e-'
DRIED PEAS Fancy yellow, per. b,l 81 80;
BEANsa9uotatens = @! include sacks Fancy navy.
picked. 81; medium, fair ST. 25 medium mixed
and dirty. 45M7Oc; brown fancy, $2.5u: brown.
fair to good $1.5Ol1 go; Lima, California, per
4 Jonaihans, per brl $500; Kings; PEI
s3G1$ $5 choice cookinH brl, ss75@s; Kassets,
| .oRASG GEs-Floridns all sizes, ss25: Califor-
MIA navels :126s to 25ps, $3.50; California navels,
'Sf * 5iSs s2i fancy as to size
choice. $:..50M4. 4.5O. !
SWEET OJlAToEs-Illinois. per brl ss.5 80;
CRANBERRIEs-.-Late Howes. per .brl.:. SO:
$2z5 " Wisconsin ,;sns Eei = and Bugle So Wisconsin
:. CALlEoRNIA CAL. F. saI FRUITS Winter Nellis,
gas; per keg; .s4.5oof5:5o.
HON Ef.New, fancy white; III sections. 1L,:
choice white lib sections, 12@13c; amber SC;
g0ldenrod 12c; extracted white, Iii bui ieIs "a,
&c; i sStraeted e;st rae ID amber, am Tc
plant. per doz, s25O; radlshes per Goz buncheas',
Celery s rssy 9sS
SQUASH, per doz 81: pa rsrips. per bu 75c; cucum.
bers o1 per dsz green onions shalots
$3; beets. per bu 40Gl0c; caulifower per crate,
50, .; parsley per doz, 73c@$1. .f..s..
NEW YORK PRODUCE, Dec 24-Butter-
REGENTS 3,s46 packages; quiet: extra. crea.:,
cry, 23s; trta,ierS common to choice, 150 &c:
! Ia dot irr S{s< I,o1.A
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LONDON CLOSING STOCKS,

8 LUNUUN CLUsING STUCKS, Dec. 24.--COn-
sols for money, ss;, consols for account, ssMc;
Anaconda. 6h; Atchison, 10: Atchison preferred,
y5A Baltimore 4 Ohio, sval; Canadian Pacific,
zl22M; Chesapeake a. Ohio, SAY; Chicago Great
!4s; DeBeers, 2J%; Denver & Rio Grande 21b |;
Denver Rio Grand preferred. 74R Erie. 3Qss !;
81; Illinois Central. 1874; Louisville & Nashville
llOA; Missouri Kansas s Texas. 1S; New York
Central l23k; Norfolk 4 Western. SO; Norfolk
.29s: pennsylvania 81; Rand Mines. 9N Read
ing, 23% Heading first preferred 4OA: Reudlng
second preferred. 81: Southern Railway, 21k;
Southern Halfway preferred. sOh; Southern Pa
cine 49h Union Pacific, slA: Union Pacific
preferred 90; United States Steel, Ills; United
states Steel preferred, 81; Wabash 2oAs: Wa
bash preferred 3S.
t3d3A per cent The rate OF discount in tie
s. open market. for short bills Is 3A per cent
for three months bills Is 35s per cent
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-24

/: KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK Dec. a4.-Cat
tle-Receipts, 1000; including $50 Texans; mar
ket steady: native steers. $3.5oM4 go; southern
steers, $2.50@S.60; southern cows. $l.5U@2. 65
native cows and heifers, s.. .25@3.S5: stockers
and feeders. f$363.
2 Hogs Receipts. 5000; market steady heavy
s. .40@4:6o packers, +, $4.35@4.5O; pigs and
lights, $4.25@4.02h. -.
L Sheep-Receipts, 10, 600; market steady: sheep
$2:25@L4.15; lambs, $3.6515. so.
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ST. LOUIS LIVE STOCK. Dec. 24-Cattle-Re
strong and higher; beef steers $3.75@5.4O: stock
ers and feeders. $215@3. go: :@.cows and beifers.
S2.25@5; Texas, steers, $2.4O@4.1O.:
:Hogs-keceipts, 2.500; market steady to
strong; pigs and lights. $430d4.45; packers.
$4:40@4:60; butchers and best heavy, S4.4oM
40 -:-,;z 80 = =
Il Sheep-Receipts.= 200: market strong; sheep.
S3.20@4 lambs, $4.25@5.5O..
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK, Dec. c4-Cattle-Re-
ceipts 5000; strong; good to-. prime. ,$5G5 so;
$1.75@4 cows. $1.50@4; ,heifers. $264.75; can
ners, $1:5o@2.40;: bulls, $2M4.2 .25; calves $2@
: Hogs-Receipts to-day, $4,000; Saturday. Is.
900; steady to easy: mixed and butchers. 81 400
4.7a; good to choice heavy. 81. 55@4.65: rough
sales. 81. .40M4. So. -
.shsep-Reeeipts, 5000; sheep, steady; lambs,
to choice mixed. s2.75@3.5o; western sheep.
$31Q@4; native lambs, $4G5.75; western lambs,
1856. a..
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BEST ON SALE
NOT VERY GOOD
HOGS STILL RUN LARGELY TO
THE COMMON KINDS.
Cattle Receipts Light and Prices Gem
orally Firm-Veal Calves in De-
nand and CSC Higher - Sheep
Trade Quiet and Nothing Good in
killing Stock on Sale.

South st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 24-Estimated re-
ceipts at the Union stockyards to-day: Cattle,
100; calves, 25 hogs, 1,sOo; sheep, 1900. Cars
33.
! The following table shows the receipts from
JAN. L. 1903, to date, as compared with the same
period in 1902:
Year Cattle. Calves. Hogs. Sheep Cars.
1903. -. 25S.9O3 III 74O165 S68.372 "a, 632
1902. 264 ,S75 4O.412 6493S0 800, ,4OS 2,395
me-. ....... 2,305 9O.7S5 26s,964 2,327
Dec... 5.972 ...... ....... ....... .....
The following table shows the receipts thus
far In December as compared with the same
period in 1902:
Year, Cattle. Calves. Hogs. Sheep Cars.
19O3.... 9.247 1856 91.SsS 56.O75 1851
1902. :. 9,777 LIPS S5.9O3 37.207 1.61S
Inc... 80. 22S $685. 1S,S6S 233
Dec..... $50 ...... ......
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SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK, Dec 24-Cat-
600: market active and stronger;
ma tive steers So cows and heifers. So. 60
sa M3:a5: a western steers. S3@3.75: Texas steers.
S2oOM3.6O: range cows. and heifers, So. 3O0l3 30:
stoekers and feeders. s.. .5o@3.3o.
f5oEs--Feceipts- 200:
heavy. S4.47ls as 455:t pigs. s3.500l4.25.
Shcep--Rcceipts, 600; market steady; shepc
s2.25@4.25; lambs. $4.7565.50
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.dnesday. Dec. %
. Totals : ............

fr1ceS a good &c nlgher. receipts ilght. Aver
age quality shows Improvement over yesterdays,
but the best on sale. We're not good as yester-
DAYS TOP. Frices range $4.10 to $40: bulk.
S4.23@4.35: common mixed Guotable from $4.1O
@4 so 'l.'' - - .'o'' .S'' '
Hogs-s2. 1917 lbs. s.. .25; es. 100 lbs. $4.ao; r.
$3.50: 4: 1ss lbs, $4.25; 73, III lbs, s4.2o; IS,
6 Pigs and Underweights-7 121 lbs. 1913: 6.
Stays and Boars-1, $50 lbs, So. so: /, 430 lbs
So. .25: 1. 46O lbs, 81.
CATTLE-Receipts very light. Offerings Of
Luteher stuff include nothing good. Prices
generally firm at the weeks advance of 1oc.
Veal calves IN better demand. and quoted 25c
higher. Ste cker and feeder trade very dull at
steady prices. Sales:
Butcher. Steers 1 1,o4o bls $40
Butcher Cows and Heifers-1, 1,o1o lbs, So. 10:
Cutters and Gamers ,oos, lbs, s2e5; 2,
Butcher Bulls, i, 40 lbs, 81. GO; L.. 200
Veal Calves 115 lbs, s4.25; 2, 1c5 lbs
ga % lbs. $1.es e s4s tsefb lbs $50 IDS o.
Nile Mileh &c, Cows and sprineers-1 cow; $13.
Offerings largely feeding stuff. Nothing good
in the killing line on sale. No change in
prices :; r:@i
killing. Sheep and Lambs 80 lambs, IS lbs
$2.25; 10 Gull ewes, 101 lbs, $1.75.
q Stockers and Feeders-13 stock lambs. 81 lbs
Among the shippers. on the market were
Wheeler Watkins Co., Batayia;J. Tingvall. River
Falls. Wis.,: O.>M. johnson, Valley City. n. d.. !;
=: Daniel i "a, Little Falls; Q: J. Guam Star
cord; G.. Mold, Nelson, Wis: a. Burg st. Peter;
Z. Loomis Garden City: G.. w. Dodge. .Madela; !;
T. II. Brown, Granite Falls.
~ -.
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SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK, Dec >.

SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK, Dec. a4.-Re-
ceipts-Cattle. 300: hogs 1000
Hogs STEADY. Sales. 81. $50 lbs. $780, G..
ESQ lbs. st3a: CO. 800 lbs $3.50
Cattle-Stcckers. steady: killers. strong Sales:
10 beeves. 100 lbs. $3.15: s. 1.240 lbs S4.I5:
IS cows. 500 lbs, 1925: 0. 500 lbs. So :,
.0in lbs $40: s stockers. $50 lbs 81. 30: 9.
900. lbs - Is: l0,-94O lbs. $40: yenrings,
$50 - lbs, $2.25; 8. 63O lbs. $2.I5; 8. $40 lbs,
1920.
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PUTS AND CALLS.
Two O'Clock report:
Puts-May wheat, s2B@s2Ac.
Calls-May wheat, s3h0ls39sc.
Curb-May wheat, S2A MS2kc.
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MIDWAY HORSE MARKET, Minnesota Trans
fer. st. Paul. Minn.. Dec. 24.-Barrctt & Zim-
norman report country inquiries for farm horses
numerous: Sc! eraI sales of prime heavy horses
We're! made Duluth logging concerns sought the
hest kind of horses. Values: Drafters extra.
$3.50 225; drafters. choice. $14OM1s5; drafters.
common to good. S125@140; farm mares. extra,
$l45Gd l6sr: farm mares. choice. S1304i l45 farm
mares. common to good S1OOM13O.
NEW YORK LEAD AND COPPER. Dec. u.
lead ana Cofper-Guiet and unchanged.
PEORIA WHISKY, Dec o4.-Whisky on the
basis OF I.2I for finished goods.
ST. LOUIS LEAD. Dec. 24-Lead, firm.
44.17lac. Spelter. higher, 4.75c.
2 NEW YORK OIL, Dec. 24-Petroleum-
Firm; refined, all ports, $9.45M9.5o.
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RIGHT UP-To-DATE.
Philadelphia Ledger.

Jenkins-Have YOU typewriter at your
office? S.
Jfnks-Yes. indeed ..-T
Jenkins-WEat style?
Jinks-Oh. the very latest. You should see
the new fall gown she's wearing these days.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-24

CHICAGO SEED AND COARSE GRAIN Dec.
124.-Rye-December, 53c; May, soc. Flax&
Cash northwestern, 81; southwestern 93c; De.
eeeem9er' ee ea9 o3c; May, 9skc.: Timothy-December
December, $11.25. Barley-Cash. 35@ 5Sc1
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DAILY WHEAT MoYEMENr DEC a.

The following are the receipts and shipments
at the principal primary. wheat market: -
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-; LIVERPOOL GRAIN Dec. 24.-Closing:
IS IS 80; futures steady; December, 6s Id; March
Us 4tad; June, is Sgd Corn-Spot steady:
american mixed: 4s I'd; futures quiet January
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HIDES, PELTs. TALLow. WOOL.

HIDES PELTs. TALLoW. WOOL.
Green salted heavy. steer hides. =. J. sn ~
Green salted COW hides :. . .i7n eL
Green salted light hides =. :. ~ i SM
Green satcd bull hides .:......:.........s71 6-
Green salted veal kip ......:....:.....9 ~
Green safted branded, &c per lib less than
free of brands. -. = ss.-
Green ssltedl horse or mule hides.
Green salted horse or mule hides,
G,ceh salted horse or mule hides $. c,'o l''
small -: 10 i 90
Dry flint Mo1tana. ,l Oregon, Washington :
Montana bulls and fallen hides..... 10 &.
Dry flint Minnesota. Dakota, WIscon-
sin and similar 3. .......... ..111a 10 !.
Green salted pelts. large to, small 81
Dry e;'.ii flint calf skins Mga
Dry dint. territorial pelts,. per lib. 10 ali
Ta1low. in cakes Observation-Disclosures
Iallow, In. barreIs 80, ::
Wool, medium, unwashed ...........18 .s. @17
Wool, fine, unwashed ..............12 G19 :
Eeat,scrs. goose ......................4O @45
re Tsathers. cnirhen ............' a 81
Feathers turkey .1................... 2st a g
Dry ginseng root, per lb ss.oo@6 es
Green. for planting. per lb...... 1.15@ III
Seneca root, per ID ................., .65I 81
IseesWax. yellow .-.................. .2S
beesWaS' ' oars. eark p
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Sorn-December, SIC; May, 50%c.

.tso[;,.. LUIS GRA1N, Dec. 24.-Close: Wheat,
9reap Nfoo: red cash. elevator, nominal
July, 7oAc; No. hard, 751! @77c. Corn hirh.
eRl sR; NO. NJ 2 cash; ;> 4sAc; tack, 44c; December,
43Ac; May, z2A q 42Bc: July, 42tsc Oats
higher: No: 2 cash, 3G%c: track 3BK@37Hc:
December, 36Ac; May 3SNc: No 9 ,whife s.c
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-28
LAND of THE FREE.
EngIand's Claim to That Distinction
as Good as That of Any
other Country.

1t is a fair question nowadays If Eng
erty. believe it is the present fashion
in America to admit it, says President
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, in Atlantic.
Some estimate in terms of the domestic
problem, though England has one, too.
But our household mechanism is more
complicated and more brittle than the
English, and the American housewife
is bowling into slavery beneath the
cooks and buffers, and city families are
fast being driven into hotels and board
ing-houses. Others estimate In terms
of other slaveries. One is the slavery to
publicity England has spared more
refugees for privacy. The garden wall
more frequently rebuffs the street, and
the homes that count even the telephone
a noxious intrusion of the outer world
are more the rule than the exception.
Again thereJis the slavery to some
thing we call opinion, but which is not
really the opinion of the great public
SO much as congeries of various sets
of opinions publicly set forth, each un-
der the guarantee of some organization
or institution. Public opinion has in
deed of late years yielded so largely to
the organizational form that it becomes
difficult to discover what public opinion
really is. Every proposal for reform OF
for standing pat, every phase of view
or plan of procedure, must have ito
organization with pages of officers and
honorary councillors. One by one the
subjects concerning which public mai.
may with immunity from organizations
al attack freely express himself are
withdrawn from the open field and
lodged behind entrenchments. The re
suit is, naturally, that for the tactful
statesman-an and tact has of late years
been forced high above para CHIEF
stock in trade has become the cautious
list of taboos. / pray you, my promis-
ing young man, embroil yourself not in
the days of thy youth with those various
combinations of initial letters which
are nowadays the powers that be; so
speaks the voice Of carnal wisdom. This
is undoubtedly land of freedom and
free speech, but freedom of speech
means that one is at perfect libert
to express such Of his convictions as he
dares to.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-28
LEPERs In BURMAH.
Fine Work Is Being Done for the
Victims of the Dread Dis
ease There.

In Burmah one grows callous at the
several and CHASTITY sights, as one sees
leprosy in all its worst forms stalk.
ing rampant through the streets and
thoroughfares. Ascending the steps
of a pagoda you rub shoulders with
the victims; in the markets, on the
streets you jostle against them, and
yet you do not seem to feet the repug-
nance a stranger not used to such
sights would feel says the London
Graphic.
Even we, with long experience OF
Burmah, find much that is new and in
teresting in the golden city, once the
phant and the golden throne. But
there is one sight, one institution, one
enduring memorial, for which we are
not indie ebted to the past. The MA
nav Yaman," the Royal Garden, where
St. Johns Leper asylum is situated,
is the home of many miserable crea-
lures to whom even parental doors are
closed it is the home of the afflicted
and the despised. the home of hideous
sights and repulsive objects. Almost
all the countries of Europe are allied
in the work of mercy carried on at
this institution; priests and nursing
sisters, who have given up home and
friends to minister to these most mis-
cradle of creatures, are Joined in their
labor of love.
visit to the aSylum CONVEYS a les
son of self-denial that strikes one
speechless. How dreadfully, meanly,
selfish one feelsl 1t excites emotions
that cannot be agined-they must
be felt. To us, to whom it has not
been given to understand such love,
the devotion that immolates life on
the altar of self-imposed duty seems
madness. What buoys us up in our
most difficult tasks and our hardest
struggles, the hope of success, is de-
MED to the worker in the cause of the
unclean leper. What hope is there of
cure following the patient labors
of the devoted attendant? What gain,
what prcfit, does he acquire? Some
such Thought must assuredly pass
through thu minds of the unfortunate
patients, for\ naught else can account
for the smilA of doglike love and af-
fection that Areaks over and transfg-
ures for a mo1Rent their otherwise dis
figured and hideous countenances as
they look upoA the calm features of
their self-appoAnted attendants.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-28
The son,aii.

A military correspondent gives a
good description of the Somali who as
fighting man is not first class,
though he is fond of drill and proud
of his uniform. But he is by nature
decidedly effeminate; his toilet is a
constant source of anxiety to himself,
and the pains he will take to curl his
crisp black hair by the application Of
various substances to his head is in
credible. He is fond of finery. of lux
urious and indolent habits. and keeps
up an incessant fire of chatter. He is
grasping, and in the matter of food is
greedy. Timid in the presence of the
European, he is easily excited, and
quickly loses his head. Dancing is one
of his chief pastimes, accompanied by
the loud clapping of hands and con-
tinuous and monotonous wall, which
no doubt does duty for a song Somah
women never dance, and scarcely even
smile; they are completely cowed by
the men, who treat them in most cases
unkindly, if not actually cruelty. The
Somali is most punctilious in the per-
formance of his religious rites; but he
seems hypocritical to degree. e.-Lon-
don News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-28

There were three wifebeaters sem
fenced in Mercer special sessions ves-
terday, and they were all let off with
fines, in one case of $50 and in the
other two the costs. The prisoners
doubtless found Judge Heisley in a
lenient mood. 1t is about time that
an example was made of some of these
brutes. Three of them in a single
day looks little like an epidemic. =
Trenton Times.
We used to have several of this sort
among certain class of our popula-
tion, too, but Recorder Pickersgill,
who detests a wife beater more than
any other sort of prisoner, made an
example of one or To of them and
the offense has not been repeated so
often. All such men are towards and
a good taste of the powers of the law
soon settles them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-28
MANY BOOKS FOR THE BLIND.
The United States Is Doing Much to
Provide the SightIess with
Helpful Literature.

'T went into the free library the 9TH
er day." said the Observant Citizen, in
the Philadelphia Press, "and wandered
into the department for the blind l
was amazed to find the number of
works it contained, and some investiga-
ton gave me lot of very interesting
information.
II find that there are about 100000
blind persons in the United States and
that the printing of books for them has
reached such proportions that bill
was introduced into congress a few
months ago providing that these works
shall go free through the mails.
More than that, learn that the gov
ernment has already made an attempt
to help this class by annually giving the
interest on $250,OOO to the American
printing house for the blind at Louis
vile, KY | have seen a statement. by
Mr.. Boutell, of Illinois, in which he
says that this yearly sum of $4,000 is
used for printing these books and dis
tributing them among thirty-two pub
lie and five private schools for the
blind. The principals of these schools
form committee which decides what
works shall be published.
"A dictionary makes IS volumes and
costs $50; BiDle IL volumes for 81,
and an English grammar sells for $40.
+ Il find also tlat there are three week
lies and one monthly paper for the
blind"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-28
QUEER FREAK OF NATURE.
Dxm Tree Growing Out of the Trunk
81 . Huge Poplar Found I'm
Indiana.

A freak Of nature has been found by
workmen who were cutting timber a
short time ago on large tract near
Benham. Ind The tract belongs to
Isaac r. King and the freak is the inter-
growth OF two kinds of timber, says a
local report.
A young. thrifty poplar tree, some Is
inches In diameter. has, as viewed from
. short distance. apparently what is an
elm limb of nearly half its own girth
growing from the trunk about eight feet
from the ground. A careful examina-
ton Of the base Of the tree reveals elm
roots and the body of the elm springs
directly from the body of the poplar.
A slight ridge i'll the poplar trunk,
which winds from the elm roots to the
point from which the elm leaves it,
shows how much more vigorous its
growth has been than that of its COM
panion tree and for some feet the pop
lar has completely swallowed the elm.
About 20 feet higher the two seem to
have become attached again and in
time may form another combine. The
poplar has attained height of about
100 feet and the elm is somewhat short
er. Just how 1t is possible for the elm
tree to thrive, in spite of the fact that
it has been encased by the poplar for
many years, is not clear