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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
reduce Markets in the United States.

tain seasons to as many more throughout
the state may be gained from considera-
ton of few of the commodities handled
on the street.
nm In the one item. OF. potatoes the ST.
Paul commission business proves its
value to st. Paul and the state. The
Third street men buy annually about
$IOO;0OO worth of tubers. The shipments
cars cars with a total of from 100000 to
100000 bushels. For the past two
years the prices have ranged to an aver
age between S5 cents and 40 cents per
bushels.
Most of these potatoes are raised in
Minnesota, although the base of supply
must OF course depend on weather and
crop conditions, and st. Paul commission
PEELED to purchase potatoes for a New
Hampshire market in Portland, Or.
North Central Minnesota is the accepted
and largest supply area Mile Laos
Durne and Washington counties captur
ing the heavy end of the business. Only
one-eighth of the potatoes handled by
the ST Paul commission men are sold
in st. Paul. The major portion OF the
remainder goes into the South and West
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and the gulf
states taking most of the shipments.
Smaller shipments go to every state in
the Union and even to Alaska.
The South depends upon the ST. Paul
market for large quantity OF its seed
POt1lOcS. Iii quality tie h1lIlHeSOld pO-
tato has only one oompetitor-the Maine
tuber-and in January, February and
March the st. Paul men are busy trying
to supply the Texas, Missouri and Ar
kansas seed market.
Methods have kept apace with the
growth of the business in volume, and,
while thousands of car loads of potatoes
leave ST. Paul every year, very few are
bulk consignmentS. The potatoes are
sorted and packed in sacks OF even
weight diminishing the cost of final
handling and eXpeditng sales when the
big consignments are broken up. The
exceptional rail facilities enjoyed by St
Paul play prominent part in capturing
the potato business for the Third street
men. In fact. the advantages of con-
has resulted in out of town houses keep
ing men stationed here to handle their
shipments which are consigned to and
from st. Paul instead of to their main
houses.
Apples are one of the prize commodi-
ties of the St Paul commission business.
st. Paul is the distributing point for a
large territory and handles annually not
less than 1000 cars, while in season of
ample production like the present. the
total will far exceed the $50, 900 to 100000
barrel average. The ST. Paul apple trade
covers a territory extending from Chi
cago to and including the Dakotas, and
from Winnipeg to New Orleans. The To-
cal market consumes a fair percentage
of the importation, but the native prod
uct is steadily increasing and as steadily
usurping the Minnesota trade.
In proportion to it's population st. Paul
stands almost without avpeer among the
green fruit markets of the United States.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02

Few people either in or out of st. Paul
aside from those directly connected with
the business, realize the Importance and
magnitude of the local produce trade,
popularity known as the commission bus
mess.
The average citizen or business man
would at first, thought accept the state
ment that the aggregate of the st. Paul
commission mems business is about 49,
600, 900 annually with incredulity. Quite
naturally enough the produce commission
business has been pretty generally over
looked by st. Paul people, with the ex-
ception of the financial concerns, when
estimates of the city's wealth and the
volume of it's business are made.
Back on Third street, between Wabasha
and Robert streets, is one of the busiest
as we'll as one of the most important
centers of the citys business arteries
From early morning until night "hustle"
is the watchword in the commission dis
trict. And it Is not a single day or single
week watchword, but is in force the year
round. Excluding the banking and rail-
road districts there is not another section
of st. Paul of the same area doing as
much business.
st. Paul is one of the best green fruit
markets in the United States; one of the
principal butter and egg supply points for
the United States; among the principal
potato distributing points; one of the best
poultry sales markets in proportion to its
population in the United States, and all
this business goes through the produce
commission firms doing business on Third
street
A visit to Third street during the hours
between 6 a. m. and 6 p. m. is well worth
while The street is full of teams and
hurrying men. Store rooms, and cold
storage plants are filled to repletion that
to the uninitiated conveys the idea of a
glutted market On the sidewalk one
sees fruit, vegetables and live poultry
piled awning high on either side of aisles
just wide enough for the pedestrian to
dodge through. Half his attention is given
to protecting life and limb from barrels
and crates sliding on or off trucks and
slipping under lines of melons flying from
hand to hand along a line of perspiring
workmen intent only on keeping up with
the all pervading rush.
There are no frills in Third street. Step
ping inside any of the rather gloomy
storerooms the same mad pace is en-
countered Everything gives way to bust
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02

ness. Over in the Office the clerks, stem
ographers and telephone operators are at
work as If their very lives depended on
expedition, and, If possible, statesmen, de-
| partment managers and buyers are even
buster. -ssze-zs-sAas.f, ss..-sss.s--ss
1t Is hard for the layman to believe
that in all the apparent disorder there
is system, but there is 1t is not the
system of rule and rote, but a system
| of application; the situation fitted to
the needs of the moment. The prospective
purchaser or expectant seller has time to
| haggle. The commission man has not
but he is born trader. and, while he
comes to the meat of the situation with
an 'abruptness that is almost curt, he
is not in the habit OF permitting deals to
get away from him.
The st. Paul commission man is not
a curb dealer He has his exchange,
board of trade. clearing house and sup
ply auction mart. There are thirty three
concerns holding membership in the ST.
Paul Produce Exchange. They all do
business on Third street land almost
without exception have occupied the same
locations and handled the same but a
continually increasing trade for years.
Inc exchange, with offices in the Ger
mama Bank building, is ten years old.
II is primarily bureau of information
and cooperation. The secretary, l.. ]
mart does not furnish statistical in
formation OF local character to the
members, but he does maintain a care
ful watch of markets, crops, climatic and
weather conditions and the exchange af-
lords a medium for the interchange of
IDEAS and suggestions invaluable
us board OF trade adjunct is in fact a
produce clearing house, and does away
Win the old-time canVassing methods
Inc longs and shorts meet there daily and
the clearance or REIMBURSEMENT of supply
by sale and purchase is ordinarily ac-
compllsh within five or ten minutes
The 81; Paul fruit auction mart is the
pioneer institution of it kind in the
Northwest. 1t is the medium through
which st. Paul and its tributary terri
tory secures its California fruits. The
distribution of California fruits is in the
hands of a shippers association that, in
Gally touch with the markets of the
United States, SO distributes the ship
ments as to guard against Cutting one
market at the expense of others and
the shippers.
Its st. Paul shipments come to the
Fruit Auction company, composed OF To-
cal commission men. Every week day
morning at o'clock the sale of from
three to six loads is attended by all the
commission men handling fruit In an
hour 1t Is all over and the goods on their
way from the freight sheds under the
Robert street bridge to the Third street
warehouses or to out going trains.
A fairly comprehensive idea of the in
dustry which gives employment to over
300 persons in st. Paul and during GER
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
One Of the Most Important Produce

ness. Over in the office the clerks, stem
ographers and telephone operators are at
work as If their very lives depended on
expedition, and If possible, statesmen, de-
partment managers and buyers are even
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10
SPECIAL ASSE SSMtNT.

The tax u0onns for the collection OF
the specia! assessment upon the real
property i, gravelirc district No. ]
tor the = Csc OF graval.ng and curb
cg has o""n placed in my hands All
owners Of real property in said dis.
tlict are required to pay their assess
ments to me on or before the l5tl. day
of August, 1903. If such payment is
not made action will be commenced
a. the end Of that time fo: the collec,
ZION Of the said assessment. and 70:
gal penaltie. and costs Given un.
~ my hand this 15th dav oe July.
1903. R. ROBINSON. Collector.
Aug. Is.
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Boston Bean Parry The
Latest Home I:c01ic.

in retaining are counted by the hos
tess, who keeps score of each payers
success in that line. No beans drop
ped while running count anything to-
ward the game.
Two prizes are necessary here, one
for the most successful gentleman, and
mans hands are ordinarily SO much
Harger than those of a woman that It
would not be fair to put them in com
petition.
An empty bottle with long reck
is the piece de resistance in this fea-
ture of the fun The opening of the
bottle must be large enough to admit
of the entrance of bean and should
not be too much larger. Give each
man or glrl five beans, four white and
one red one. The sport consists in
dropping these into the bottle through
the na,1ow aperture at the top. Ae-
cording to the rules of the game, the
dropper may not lean over the bGttle
or try in any way to guide his bean
il to it. He must stand erect, holding
the arm straight out from the shoul
der pretty cut glass vase or bot
tie might reward the most skillful COM
petitor.
The trophies may or may not be
suggestive of beans, according to the
convenience Of the hostess. Here are
few of the articles that could be
chosen to carry out the beany idea of
the affair:
Stick pins with bean-shaped stones
:or heads; the popular neck chains
with oblong, rounded beans; pretty
silver or china dish for serving Bos-
,or beans; spoon for serving them;
a box of candy. the bonbons of which
resemble bean in shape.
OF course any hostess who finds a
s,.parate prize in each game too great
a drain upon her finances could sim
plify matters by giving point in
e.. ch game, the greatest number
points to carry off final prize.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10
WHAT is TIE TROUBLE WITH
SATURN?

1t is long time since anything ex-
citing has been heard from the planet
Saturn, but it has come at last. as
tronomers are turning their telescopes
upon the great ringed world with in
creasing interest. That huge. strange
planet is not so cold and dead as it
usually appears. Immense white
spots have broken out upon its sur
face. with evidence of some deep-seat-
ed disturbance affecting its globe
which is more than 10000 miles in
diameter.
Ordinarily Saturn might sit for
such a portrait of the old god whose
name it bears as the poet Keats has
drawn in his "Endymion":
Deed in the shady sadness of vale
Far sunken from the healthy breath
of morn.
Far from the fiery noon and ewes one
Sap gray-hared Saturn. quiet as
stone,
Still as the silence round ABOUT his
lair
Thus remote, shadowy with dls-
tance, quiet. gray and pale, the planet
Saturn ordinarily appears, his faint
moons attending him like moths in
the twilight gloom. After the first
exclamation evoked by the appear
ance of hts marvellous ring, the OBJ
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10
TAKE NOTICE.

All the subscribers for stock in
lhe Consumers Ice and Coal company
VIII meet at 8 p. m. Monday at the
Buff City club rooms, over the Pine
Bluff Mercantile company building
1or the purose of electing nine direc-
tors to serve the company and to
ADOPT the constitution and bylaws
ana 1or such other business as may
come before them.
THE COMMITTEE.
By G. H. Gammill. r.:
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ServiSs.

The parties washing the streets say
thar I will not sprinkle any more.
don't see how washing the streets will
interfere in any way with my sprink-
ling, as washing the streets once or
twice a week does not keep down the
dust, and l will expect by subscribers
to continue paying my collector.
SAM FRANKLIN.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10
NOTICE..

Bids will be received by the board
of public affairs of the city of Pine
Bluff, Ark. for immediate delivery
of 5S4,S0o No. l vitrified paving brick
Of quality as good as the Coffeyville
brick used in paving Chestnut street
IN the city Of Pine Bluff, Ark. These
bids will be opened on August 13, 1908
The board reserves the right to re-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10

Two New York girls entertaining a
Boston friend invented a bean party
In her honor, which could be initiated
by other girls in search of bright
idea, with Or without a guest from the
Hub. The frolic consisted of a num-
Der of games played with beans, all
of them being of the lively, active
sort which young people of any ages
would enjoy.
Dried beans, both red and white,
should be on hand before the game
begins---in generous quantities. Moth
ing else is necessary that cannot be
secured in any household at a mo-
ment'ss notice, with the exception of
the prizes and candy tongs.
For the first game. arrange two
small tables at the extreme ends OF
the room and move the parlor chairs
back against the wall. Place six
beans on one of the tables. and on
the other none. The player first to
begin is obliged to carry the beans
one by one to the other table, and
then also one by one back again. Each
person tries this in turn. he or she
who accomplishes it in the shortest
time winning the prize. The hostess
times each contestant by watch or
clock If two or more persons accom-
plish the feat in the same number OF
minutes and are ahead OF the rest Of
the company as to time, these two or
three decide the prize by drawing lots
for it.
For a second exciting game. attach
a short cord to the chandelier in the
center of the room and tie to the end
of the cord a small basket. The bas-
ket should be of build without a
cover. This game also is played by
turns. The player whose turn it is
leans, five of which are red and the
rest white He takes up his stand at
Che end of the room and the basket
is made to swing on the cord. The
player has three minutes in which to
toss his beans. Each white bean lodg-
eG in the basket counts one point.
Each red bean two points. The man
or girl winning most points receives
a pretty gift in appreciation of the
dexterity displayed.
Another suggestion: Secure from
the confectoner or tinsmith as many
of those tin bonbon tongs (such as
come in candy boXes) as you have
guests. They are very inexpensive.
especially if bought in quantity. Have
on hand also as many penny baskets
as there are to be players. Seat the
company around the dining table. IN
the center of which quantity of these
beans has been heaped, and give each
person PAIR Of tongs. At given
signal all begin to fill the baskets
with the beans. using the tongs for
picking them up. One bean only may
be picked up at a time The player
who is first to fill his basket Ca GER
tain number of beans should be decid-
ed upon for this wins the prize.
This new frolic is warranted to
amuse a second Diogenes-if the COM
pany should include so unhappy
mortal All the beans are placed IN
a large bowl-the cracked ice bowl
for the dimng-r room will be found con-
venient for the purpose. Each player
in turn dips into the bowl fills his
hand with the beans, and runs with
the handful thus obtained entirely
around the room. AT the end of his
progress the beans he has succeeded
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10
Haroun's lester,

haroun's Jester.
Ine Calf, Haroun, once said to hi.
lester:
i wish you would procure me u
nst OF all the fools in Bagdad..
mat would be difficult. oh, Com.
manoer OF the Faithful, but If you
aes're to know the wise men tha
catalogue may soon be completed"
Inc same jetser, Baheh;, was d;a
covered ON the Caliphl throne. 70,
which he was awarded : whiprine
Then said the jester:
oh' Commander OF t. faithful. I
sat IN this seat only b. uo hour
an9 have been whipped .vr dong .o
What do you deseyye. who Ait in Il
~verr day7"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10
OF A LINEN DUS-
TER AND A DRESS SUIT IN
THE OLD WORLD.


friend of mine a few years ago. re-
marked a traveller the other day.
Some society chap had informed
my friend that dress suit was indis-
pensable to a man over the water
and he had laid in one OF the best
He had become imbued with the idea
that no gentleman could sit down to
dinner in a foreign hotel or go into
g place of public amusement en- the
continent without being inerusted in
Z c1aw-aammer.
1T was our first trip abroad, bat |
nad observed the injunctions of an
experienced friend and carried no
mere baggage than | would require in
a two weeks journey in the States
the single business suit I had on and
the limited changes of linen that sug-
sest the laundry twice week.
My young friend was from Indiana
and wore over his travelling suit the
conventional long-tailed linen duster
of the Hoosier excurionist In a big
valise that weighed a ton, he had
provided against every conceivable
exigency that might happen to a man
in an uncivilized country: in a bulky
rectangular package reposed an ex-
ira suit of clothes and that dIess sui;
as it came from the hands of the Goth
am fabricator. and he was thus equal
" prepared fer the most effete social
conditions Of modern Europe. The
latter was done up in a stout brown
paper and REINFORCED By the ordinary
seaWl straps.
4 was to Join him on a certain day
at certain railway station in Paris
for the trip through Italy, both OF
us having done London and Italy
separately. We met punetually at the
hour the same as if the appointment
had been made only over night. in
stead Of a couple of months previously
in the west
We'll sir. the sensation my friend
made in that crowded Paris station
cc1ld never have been equaled by the
wild man CT Borneo. He was a tall
man and that linen duster swooped
down to w1cc1nin six inches Of the pave
ment. I'm dead certain that man in
his night shirt, which that garment
strongly suggested, would not have
attracted more attention. People star
ed at us, the women almost bursting
apparently staggered out of their
ordinary nonchaance | wouldn't have
noticed such an apparition perhaps.
in an American station but here it
fairly knocked the breath out of me-
Then in my pleasure at meeting my
friend. who was good fellow, | i'm
mediately forgot all about it.
When We struck the Italian from
tier and the custom-house officials
went through us | learned about the
dress suit for the first time Ny little
bag was chalked without much ex-
aminat tion, but the officials compelled
my friend to open his bundle and
shake out his dress suit for their ad-
miration. l saw that it had never been
worn. They also made him pull out
his fine linen-not so much, apparent
ly, with the suspicion that he was
smuggler as to afford them excuse for
contemplating on it's probable origin
Trey caused him to unbutton it un-
DER the pretext that it's ample folds
might conceal dutiable goods, but
really, believe, to see if he had his
clothes on beneath it
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10

server usually finds little to hold the
attention, and turns to the more ami
matci scenes presented by Saturn
nearest neighbor-ani NEUROLOGICAL
slcce essol-Jupiter.
But new there is change. Some
thing has happened to break the
leaGen monotony on the sixth planet
from the sun. Prof. Bernard OF the
Yerkes Observatory, was the first 10
observe it several weeks ago. and
more recently w. F. Denning, the Eng
lish astronomer has noticed the same
pi enomena.
At first though, may seem a mat
ter of no consequence that white spots
have appeared on the face of Saturn,
but little reflection must satisfy any
one that this is thing we'll worth at
tending to. Saturn, different as it is
from the earth on which we dwell, is
aevert': less q member, and most
important member, of the system or
planets to which cur globe belongs.
The fact can not be too strongly I'M
pressed upon the mind that all OF the
members of this system of worlds are
intimately related to one another in
their origin. their nature and thelr
ultimate destiny By one single
catastrophe, affecting the sun, they
could all be destroyed By the study
of their various features and the
changes that they undergo, light has
already been thrown and in the fu-
trre more light will be thrown, upon
the history. past and prospective, OF
the rocky bail under our feet.
Disturbances great enough to pro-
duce effects plainly visible at a dis
tance Of more than eight hundred mil
lion miles can be called truly gigan-
tic. The planet that suffers from
them must be profoundly affected. If
we could believe that it is an in
habited world we might infer that
here was a disaster of Incompatible
and almost unimaginable magnitude.
But because everything seems to
indicate that Saturn is not a solid.
rocky globe like the earth. but rather
a fluid world, we must not conclude
that what occurs upon it is unimpor-
tant to us. Even if we should as
sumo that out of the eight planets OF
the solar system only one. the earth,
has become or ever will become, the
abode of intelligent life-an assump-
ton that I, personally, am far from
making-yet the other seven Would
still bear to our one some such re.a-
ticn pc the lower orders of animals
bear to man. and so the study OF their
peculiarities would help us understand
the evolution of the earth.
There is another reason why the
white spots suddenly broken out on
Saturn should interest every intelll-
gent person. Similar phenomena have,
on rare occasions, before been seen
there. and it has been thought that
thew may be connected with some gen.
eral cause, affecting, in one way or
another. the whole solar system. In
this view these marks possess a symp-
tomato value. possibly connected Win
the mysteries of solar radiation. and
through Ahem. with variations in the
influence of the sun upon the earth
and its fellow planets.-Garrett r.
Serviss
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10

]ect any and all bids. Address all
bids to R. NJ. Galbraith, secretary. H.
King White, mayor and chairman Of
board Of public affairs. 2s4
August 5, 1903.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-10

Although nature llfa's|
takes, she might ha.'
her work a little by NV.
inous end of the nreD' q
ness end OF the mosD'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-11-12
CHAIN OF SUGGESTION.
Idea to Offer the PertinaciOus
Customer.

"a man up in my country had a melan-
cholly experience declared Senator
Frye, of Maine. This man determined to
get shave every other day and to let
every barber cut his hair who suggested
it. AT the end of a week three different
BARRIERS had intimated that the hair need
ed trimming and were told to go ahead
and trim As the hair was now beyond
the trimming stage, the fourth barber )
advice, that clipping would be beneficial,
was accepted. Now thought the man,
the next barbar will be satisfied that
when | say shave | mean shave and
nothing more. Yet when the fifth barber
mentioned 'singeing he permitted his close
ly-cropped hair to be singed. The sixth
night was on a Saturday. He went to still
another barber, now satisfied that when
he said shave no barber would have the
temerity to hint at an attempt to reduce
the length of his hair.
Did you ever try DR.. Comeup's hair
restorer:' questioned the barber as he took
up bottle.
The Indians had a quicker way of get
ting at a mans scalp than these BARRIERS,
commented Senator Chandler.
YES" said the Maine statesman, "but
we are living under modern, not ancient
barbarism.'