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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-03-18
NOTES ON THE
O MARKET
Status of the Trade Given By
the DrOver.-.StOck-
man

~ ldI SdILle hdIhel Tuleu active
at fully steady prices and the same
was true of COW stuff and stockers
and feeders. Hogs sold a little easier
than yesterday, from $50 to 81. 20.
the bulk at $685. a s7.O5. The sheep
market was steady-lambs lower.
Cows and Mixed Stock-The uncer-
tainty in regard to the number of cat
tie that would show up on late trains
had a tendency to make the market a
little slow at the opening, but when
it developed that all classes of buy
ers and urgent orders the trade be-
came quite brisk and prices were fully
steady with yesterday all around. The
choice fat heifery stock sold I'D to
81 90 and poor canning stock down
to s1.75, but the fair to good butcher
and beef grades went very largely at
SO. OO@3.75.
Cattle-There was a very fair run
of cattle today, but the late arrival
o. a good share of the receipts kept
dealers guessing as to the size of the
supply. Up to noon $50 cars, 5000
head were reported in, making 10, 900
cattle for the three days, or 5000 less
than last week, but nearly 1000 more
than a year ago.
Beef Steers-The general market
was much the same as on yesterday
active and strong for all desirable
offerings and fully steady for any
thing that the dressed beef men could
use. All the packers were good free
buyers and although the late arrivals
Of a good share of the offerings delay
ed trade somewhat, the movement
was reasonably brisk throughout and
the early arrivals were all disposed
of in very good season. There was
the usual scarcity of good choice
beeves, but the fair to good 1,2O0 to
! ,400-fb beevse sold readily at 81. 40
q 40, with the common to fair
warmed up and part fat grades at
S3.75 q 4.3O.
Sheep-The following are the days
quotations: Good to choice Mexican
yearlings, $3.50 a Go good to choice
western yearlings, S.. so a $40; fair
to good yearlings, 1925 a $50; good
to choice wethers. So q SIS; fair
good wethers, $500 q $40; good
to choice native ewes, AIS q 5.25;
good to choice western ewes, $4.75
% 5.25; fair to good ewes, 3.75 q
4.I0, common ewes, So.OO " t.Ov,
good to choice Colorado lambs, Sc. so
80; good to choice native lambs,
SC 40 a 100; good to choice western
Sc. 40 a 6.55; fair to good
lambs, s5.7 Is a $40; stock and feed
ing lambs, 81. so a 5.25; Gull lambs,
SO. 90 a $50; feeding ~yearlings, $4.0 90
a $50; good to choice old feeding
ewes, $500 q 800; old Gull feeding
ewes, 81 90 q $50; stock or breed
ing ewes, SO. 90 q 400; culls and tail
end sheep, 100 q 200.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-03-18
Mysterious Circumstances

One was pale and sallow and the
other fresh and rosy. She who is
blushing with health uses DR.. Kings
New Life Pills to maintain 1t. By
gently arousing the lazy organs they
compel good digestion and head off
at Brown Bros.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-03-18

Cleveland says that he is willing to
advise the party. Grover has been
in that mood for some years, but his
party appear to have retained other
counsel.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
THE NEWEST
AMERICAN
DUCHESS

This fine and interesting photograph
Of Miss May Goelet, the new Duchess
Of Roxburghe, shows the greatest heir
ess IN the world wearing most Of her
jewels ana those Of her mother.
Miss GOelet is here IN fancy dress
y Cleopatra, In which character she
attended Mrs. Adalr's famous ball In
London last spring. /. was the most
splendid fancy dress bah ever given,
and especially so I'm the matter Of Jew
els. The Countess OF Warwick was
there as Queen Semlramls, Lady Jan
dolph Churchill as a Byzantine EN-
press, and the Princess Hatzfeldt as
Queen Esther with stockingless feet
and jewels on her toes.
But among all these society leaders
none wore such valuable jewels as
Miss Goelet Her headdress was a
mass Of pearls diamonds and rubles
blazing with colored light Ropes Of
pearls hung down on each side Of her
face. Her neck was encircled with
many necklaces and her arms were
laden with bracelets. The Oriental
headdress was admirably suited to
her dark type Of beauty. The value
Of her jewels was not less than $500
900, but that is a trlhe, for she is the
possessor of $30,OOO,OOO worth of New
York real estate
Miss Goelet has been brought up in
the British aristocracy. Her aunt,
Lady Herbert, is married to the broth
er Of the Earl Of Pembroke, head OF
one of the mot ancient families in
England. Her marriage to the Duke
of Roxburghe, the only eligible Duke
in the United Kingdom, viii place her
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

suits from the present acreage. 1t is
not by any artificial culture he would
bring about these apparently gigantic
results He promises and demon
strates that will be realized if the
farmer does the simple thing of put
ting a hundred live kernels in every
thirty hills.
His plan requires only the sorting
by hand of seed corn into lots of uni
form size and the filing of the plates
in corn planters in such a way as to
drop the required number of grains
in each hill.
The Iowa Corn Growers Association
has been formed by farmers who be-
lleve in Professor Holden's theory. w.
c. Whiting, of Whiting, Iowa. in charge
Of the Agricultural Division of the
Iowa Commission for the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, has personally
presented to Ames College and the
Corn Growers Association a trophy
valued at $3.50 which viii be awarded
annually for seventy-Gve years for the
best results in corn growing according
to Professor Holden's theory. The
trophy is entirely unique, representing
an ear Of corn eighteen inches long,
the husks of silver and ear of gold,
standing on an ebony case. Upon the
base are four scrolls in silver, deco
rated by tiny golden ears Of corn. IN
on which will be Inscriptions of the
names of the winners Of the object
for which the cup was given.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

years ago, but this summer he equalled
his record on the track at Shippan
Point Stamford, Conn. Moreover, he
accomplished this feat without any
previous preparation and those who
know him well believe he can do con-
siderably better than this figure.
The big fellow has the kindest tenn
per in the world and his owner Miss
A. A, Marks, of Sound Beach, Conn,
can hitch him up and drive him any
where. She declares that he can draw
q ton at a three-minute gait on a good
road. SO gentle is he that little chill
dren are allowed to play about him
in his stall, and he seems to be as
fond Of them as a big mastiff dog
Horsemen who have seen King Alar
have expressed great interest in him
as a rare specimen of what one type of
American horse should be-large, pow
erful, and speedy r0adsters.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
HOT OR COLD.

Device Which Answers For Two Pur-
poses.
The blow hot, blow cold paradox of
the First Reader" finds its parallel
in the ventilated food cover illustrated
herewith. This is designed to keep
butter cream, milk, meat, jellies, ETC.,
in cool and perfect condition through
out the warmest weather, or, on the
contrary, is equally valuable for keep
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
Riding the Horseshoe. +"

Riding the horseshoe" Is a most cu-
rious custom that prevails at the coal
mlnt' located at Whltwell Tennessee.
The entrance 10 the mines Is at the
top Of the mounialn-One OF the many
parallel ranges Of the Cumberlands-
and the miners I've either on a bench
Of the mountain, halfway down, or in
the town Of Whitwell at the foot.
The track on which the coal Is car
ried to the railroad running through
Whltwel Is a steep incline two ANA a
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

ing foods warm until served In the
first case the cover is filled with iced
water, and in the second it is filed
with hot water. Where a refrigerator
is available, and even in refrigerators,
the food cover can be used to assist in
keeping jellies and pastry cold and
firm Where meals have to be kept
waiting for irregular diners, as in a
clearinghouse, etc, the heat-retain-
ing features Of the cover are also val
liable.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
TIE BIGGEST FAST HORSE

Size and speed are not commonly as
socioted indeed. one Is apt 30 preclude
the other a large horse. for exam
pie, Is not expected to develop much
speed. An the more remarkable.
therefore, Is King Altar. reputed TO be
the fastest big horse. or the biggest
fast horse IN the world King Alar Is
seventeen hands high and weighs 1850
pounds. but Notwithstanding his size.
made n trottlng record Of 2.20 when ne
was four years old. That was nine
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
METHOD OF SLIDING DOWN THE RAIL.

rail, and acting as a brake, the little
muleshOe grasplng that same rail- his
arms widespread, dipping up or down,
TO balance him, like a buzzard, swing
ing and dipping in the air, the Tennes-
see miner shoots down that two miles
and half of steep incline at the rate
of a mile a minute.
A singing as of kissing wires pre-
eedes the miners, and they whiz past
the observer, one after the other in
quick succession. If a man gains too
East on the one before him, pressure
of the brake-his feet-slackens his
speed.
1t dizzies one to watch them, and to
think what might happen. Two or three
have been killed but hundreds daily
ride the horseshoe"
Those who live on the plateau stop
there; the level ground slackens their
speed and their brake is all sufficient;
but so great momentum has been
gained that those who wish to go on
glide over this level space, of perhaps
200 yards, to the second stage of the
incline below
Who invented this ingenious contriy-
ance we do not know, but so far as
we have been able to discover, it is
| in use nowhere else.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

nalf miles in length, and the miners
go up in the empty coal cars to their
work In the mine; but to each mans
belt is hooked his horseshoe" on
which he descends to his home again.
More properly it is a muleshoe, being
longer than wide. At the toe a notch
is cut which fits on the rail. On the
shoe is riveted a small square board
the miners seat
Sitting, then, on this tiny seat, his feet
straight out before him, the hollow of
a foot sliding down either side of the
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

as great Convenience, Is attendant
upon the uso Of the hand searchlight
illustrated, which is being marketed
by a New York firm 1t is nothing
more nor less than an incandescent
light enclosed in a glass bulb. the cur
rent being supplied by the dry batter
les or accumulators used for sparkling
tie motor. The lamp is supplied with
sufficiently long wires 10 enable it to
be carried to any part of the engine
that may need examination. A hard
wood tube incloses the lamp, aud
scre'v cap protects the bulb when not
in zee.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

1t is said that low tension electric
currents. say under 100 volts, are more
deadly than those having ten times
the voltage. DR.. BertelH and PROBES
sor Provost have made the remarkable
discovery that hlgh-tenslon currents
are capable of restoring the action of
heart that has been arrested hy n
lOw-tensiOn current.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
SAFETY LAMP.

The Inconvenience, not to say dan
ger, Of using unprotected light about
gasoline or steam vehicles, says Au-
tomobile Topics, has been frequently
dwelt upon. 1t is a real danger, as
experience has proved more than once
Absolute immunity from this, as well
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

these words Professor p. G.. Holden.
of the Ames Agricultural College, Of
Iowa, summarizes the campaign in
stituted by himself and the Iowa Corn
Growers Association.
1t is not increased acreage that Pro.
fessor Holden wants; it is better re-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

at the very top of British society, and
her vast fortune will make her a bril-
liant hostess at Floors Castle, a great
place, which has been neglected as
much as Blenheim was.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18

1t is estimated that a half a million
New Workers are awaAe and busy.
legitimately or otherwise, all night
One-third of the college graduates
now are women.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-12-18
CORN GROWERS TROPHY.
Handsome Prize Offered For the Best
Results IN Increasing Crop.

"Let every farmer IN the seven great
corn States give few winter evenings
and 4SOOOO,OO0 bushels will be added
TO the annual crop Of the corn belt" In
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07

when they had to grind their corn
meal by hand, tanned leather for
shoes by hand, and used fax brakes
to manufacture material for cloth
ing.
He says in those early days wild
game of all kinds was plentiful, and
that his father had often killed as
high as ten deer at once, and loaded
their carcasses on wagon and
hauled them to Lexington to sell
them, taking back load of goods
in eturn.-Columbus (Ind. Daily
Times.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07
Prosperous Year.

Bradstreet's annual review of
business conditions show that the
year has been prosperous despite
strikes, tight money and only one
half of the usual volume of specu-
lative transactions in Wall street.
According to the review, the chief
feature of the year has been the
enormous expansion of the home
market.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07

cit may be easy to fall"-every
body says it is.-but the hardest
work ever saw man do was from
the moment he slipped on the pave
ment until he lay prone upon the
ground and looked around with a
foolish grin to see if anybody was
looking.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07

who formerly resided here, but now
resides in Battle Creek, Mich. Her
husband died January 10, eighteen
years age.
John A. Wills, Kay county, Okla
homa. who is one of the .-s s:s.:s...sso
men, and largest farmers and stock
raisers and dealers in this new state.
Narcisus, married to James Reid,
at Paris, Illinois, and moved to
Kansas City, Mo-, where MIR. Reid
died, the widow still living there.
George Wills died when three
years of age, 45 years ago at the old
family home in Kentucky.
The wife and mother died at Gym
thisna, KY, in 1869, while Mr.. and
Mrs. Wills were living temporarily
with their son, James, just after
the close Of the rebellion.
Mr.. Wills was again married, five
years later, to Catherine Spencer
August 81, 1873, in Wolfe county,
KY, near the old family home. To
this union was born two children.
Mollie Wills, who married Jas.
T. Wills, of Terre Haute, where
they now reside.
Henry g. Wills, aged %, who is
unmarried and still lives with his
venerable parents.
Nimrod Wells has been engaged
all his life, generally in farming
and for 13 years held the office Of
county assessor and tax collector.
He has always been a Democrat,
his first presidential vote being for
Jas. X. Polk, and he has voted for
every democratic candidate since
and for Bryan twice.
During the rebellion things grew
so hot in his section that his faith
er's family and his had to move i'm
to Virginia taking with them 13
slaves, where he and such of his
boys as were old enough went into
the Confederate army. He was
given a position in the commissary
department under old General Ger
70 Gordo Williams and Humphrey
Marshal and was with the regiment
when it surrended toCol. True at Mt.
Sterling, KY, September 20, 1865.
All of his sons were in the Con.
federate army, as well as himself.
His grandfather, VIM. Wills, was
a pioneer native of Halifax, Court
house, Virginia, and fought under
General Jackson in the battle of
New Orleans, and his sword which
he carried to the possession of
James, and then to the grandson,
Nimrod, the subject of the sketch,
who still has it. 1t has been a GUS
tom handed down from the grand
father to son and grandson to fire.
quently keep this sword in rever-
ence by laying it under their pill
lows when sleeping, and ct the
death Of both the father and son
the sword lay under their pillows
when summoned to their long
home, and SO it will be with the
subject of this sketch, after which
this historic heirloom will fall to
the possession of Major P. E.
Wills, the eldest child. Another
Oid family relic is a hickory cane,
also carried by VIM. Wills when
under General Jackson. but now in
the possession of Ed. Wills.
Mr.. Wills has seven living grand
children and one great-grandchild,
Gordon Wills Reap, little son of
Mr.. and Mrs. X. D. H. Reap, of
this city.
Mr. Wills is an entertaining talk
CT and has fund OF reminiscent
stories of early day pioneer life,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07

/
and not so long ago, when eloquence
and high spun theories were con.
sidered the supreme qualifications
and chief requisites Of statesman.
Today efficiency and industry
guided bv wisdom end cc.s-sc::::
sense is the sure and certain road
to political success. The star of
academic craftsmanship is fading
from the National view, just as the
learned rhetoric of the demagogue
has given place to business meth
DDS in affairs of state. Some of the
old-time partisans deplore the
change, while men of action who
are in tune with the spirit of the
times recognize it as the logic of
events and result OF the natural
laws of evolution. Blind partl-
san speeches, even though coucbed
in fascinating diction command
but little attention and less respect.
There are still few of the Roscoe
Conklings and Caleb Cushings left
in both branches of Congress but
their power is diminished and their
influence greatly minimized
The real characters who govern
and control affairs are what may
be termed the "draft horses" of
both the Senate and the House.
Take for instance Allison, Aldridge,
Hale and Frye in the Senate, not
one of whom has ever been &C
cused Of playing to the galleries."
or INDUCING in classical essays for
the edifcatlon of the public; yet,
under a Republican Administra-
tion no legislation could pass the
Senate without their sanction. x
the Senate were Democratic the
same class of men, with different
political views, would still control.
In the House of Representatives
such men as Payne, Dalzell, Joe
Cannon and their type rule the
roost. If one of these ever
laid claim to oratorical powers they
have never manifested it during
their long careers in public life.
Few men of unusual eloquence.
and with tendency toward word
painting and phrase making, re-
main long in public life. This
class of men do not as a rule take
kindly to the labor and hard work
of the committee room, and their
temperament is not productive of
the type of man who is a constant
attendant at the sessions of Con-
gress, watching closely the de-
tails of legislation. Hence, they
accomplish but little of practical
good for either their constituents
or their country. They are like the
comets that illuminate the empy
raeum of eloquence, and dazzle the
benighted for a short space Of time.
Some of the strongest men in
public life are not the product of
the colleges, but have acquired
their wisdom and ability in the
great school of necessity, and the
university of experience. Rrain
and Drawn, industry and intelli-
gence, economic wisdom combined
with broad comprehension of our
Nations necessities, and a just con-
sideration for the rights of the
people as distinguished from the
privileges of the classes, are now
and will continue to be the ele-
ments of character that designate
the statesmen from tic politician politician
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1903-01-07
DO YOU WANT
THE BEST :?
House in Mt. Sterling,
or Farm in County 2

If 50, write see me- for have deter
mined to go to Seattle
CITY HOME new brick 8 rooms besides hall gbstI1
room Gully equpped and furnace; stable washhouse coaL
house. garden and beautiful shade No better house
city Located Clay St. three blocks Court House
Farm 2 l-2 Miles from City,
On Paris pike contains about los acres nearly
good improvements, we'll watered and fenced.
Good for Tobacco. Gardening, OF any Product
Known to this county Must be to be appreciated
Parties wanting either BOTH better act at once
for mean business. Address
aAs A. w. SUTTON, Mt. Sterling. KY
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
The Dimensions OF whale.

Captain Davis, one of the most ia
nous of the oldtime American whal
ers, gives these as the dimensions of u
right. whale yielding go barrels of Oil:
"The blubber of such whale" he
says, 'is half a yard thick. and if put
together in strip would be sixty-siN
feet long and twenty-seven feet wide
The upper jaw would make room
nine feet high and twenty feet long
The lips and throat of the brute, with
the supporting jawbones, will weigh as
much as twenty-five oxen of 1000
pounds each. The tongue alone will
often weigh as much as ten oxen.
"The spread Of the lips is thirty feet
He can take in fifty barrels of water at
each mouthful. When feeding a whale
as big as that Sits track of sea n
quarter of mile long and fifteen feet
wide in one run. Then he raises his
head, forces his mighty tongue into the
cavity of his whalebone sieve and
drives the water out with immense
force.
"The tail of right whale is twenty.
five feet broad and six feet deep, and
the point of junction with the body is
about four feet in diameter. In it lie
tendons as big around as mans leg.
1.-THE greatest blood vessels are more
than n foot in diameter. The blood
that Is forced through them by heart
as big as n hogshead runs in torrents
heated to 104 degrees.
"The respiratory canal is more than a
foot in diameter. The rush of air
through it is as noisy rs the exhaust
pipe of thousand horse power steam
engine, and when the fatal wound is
given a cataract of clotted blood is
spattered over the hunters, so hot and
nauseating that the crew of whale
boat often becomes helplessly sick."-
Washington Star.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-07-11
The Pitcairn Islanders.

The schooner John Palmer, Captain
Delano, now at Honolulu. stopped at
Pitcairn Island on her way there from
Australia, and received lot of fresh
fruit and provisions from the descend.
ants of the mutineers of the Bounty,
and gave them in return some news Of
the outside world that was most CRATE
full to them.
1.-THE islanders are well and happy"
were all well and happy on the 18th of
January, when touched there. l laid
the ship close into the island, where
there is a first-class anchorage ON the
northwest side, and they brought us off
fruit and vegetables and fresh foods
of all kinds. did not see the Gov
ernor Of the island. He was away on a
visit to Mangarva, one of the Pemo-
tus, to get the mail for the islanders.
They have bought little sloop lately
and they run down TO Mangariva often
to get their mail and mail letters to the
outside world. 1t is ninety miles away,
about, but they think little of that. In
fact, that sloop is to the Pitcairn ISL
anders something like what the cable
Is to Honolulu folks.
"There are $50 people on the island
now in the ratio Of about three women
to one man, and they all seem in the
best of health and spirits. Miss Young
is still a kind Of queen among them.
They all follow her lead in everything.
and her school is in fiourishing condi-
tion."-San Francisco Bulletin.