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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-08

corresponding week SIS, 16s,5s2 70; New, York
exchange, selling rate 75c premium, buying rate
premium buying rate par +; London 6o-day sight
docll,nentary exchange, 81 .s3 ".
LONDON. Jan. s.--Bullion amounting to s4o,-
from the Bank q England
sa Madrid
PARIS Jan. 9. - p. M Three per cent
rentes, 100 francs 22E centimes. Exchange on
marks, 45is pigs for checks. Discount rates
shen5 end three months hg ~ pss
balances, S, 1867 ,o7s. New York exchange. loc
premium. Foreign exchange sterling posted at
ST. PAUL, j an. s.-CIearings to-day 81 ,2s7.-
24o.31 for week, s., 2s3, 4o5.62; last year. So.
PHILADELPHIA Jan. s.clearings $50, oss,.
200; balances 50, 1O1,74e Money, 8 per cent.
E BALTIMORE. Jan. -Clearings 1898, 37s;
BosToS s. Jan Iaa so lo7 s72 bal
PARIS, Jan, s.--The weekly statement of the
Bank Of France shows the following changes:
Notes In circulation decreased 21,04OOOO francs,
treasury accounts current decreased g, $50 900
bills DISCOUNTED decreased S. $50, 900 francs sil.
yer. in hand decreased 3,o5o,ooo francs.
LONDON CLOSING QUOTATIONS. Jan. s..
Consols for money, 50 5,16; consols for account
| ferred, 1o41a; Baltimore s Ohio. lo41a; Canadian
Pacific, 40; Chesapeake & Ohio, 81; Chicago
Great Western. 20; Chicago, Milwaukee st
Paul. 1856; De Beers, 221a; Denver & Rio Grande
43!AA; Denver Rio G !ande preferred. 921a Erie
ferred, 53B Illinois Central. 1884,: Louisville &
Nashville, 1873; Missouri, Kansas 4 Texas, 297s
1 NeW York Nt,1 Central 1s7!s Norfolk & Western
& Western, 1875; Pennsylvania, 1879: Rant
Mines, 11%; Reading, s4A ), Reading first pre-
Southern Railway, 3oh Southern Railway pre-
ier. 91 Southern Pacific 6Sh; Union Pacific
Steel. 39M; United States Steel preferred, 81 y
W aD so&; Wabash preferred, 45sa:
as per cent. The rate Of ia discount in the opel
market for short bills is 3 5-16@3 Tic per cent
1 Tor three months bills Is 3& @3k per cent.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-08
Ten CENTS HIGHER
Hogs Advance on Light Receipts
and a Scarcity Of the More,
Desirable Kind.
Butcher Cattle Steady Bulls and
veals Firm Sheep Hold
ing Quiet.

South St Paul, Mimi, Jan. ESTIMATED re-
800; calves so; hogs. 100: sheep, 300: %.
The following table shows the receipts from
Jan: 1909 to date, as compared with the same
period In 1902:
Year. Cattle. Calves. Hogs Sheep. Horses. Cars.
1903. 1892 1852 N.7s5 6436 u 433
19O2.... I, 625 uf{ $50 2O,457 90 634 81 416
Dec.. 1419s Is
Official receipts for the past week are as fol-
lows:
Date. Cattle. Calves Hogs. Sheep. Horses. Cars.
Jan. t.. 12D g. 23OS &C Is 81
Jan. 2... 11S 1,371v $50 2:
Jan. 81. 152 50 5,4e7 LAS Sc
jan 5...s 400 Al 2.912 95S g.
Jan. 6...1. O56 4175 1854 17O5 :. 141
Jan. T.. 439 81 1888 2O2S -. - 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-08

New York reported sales Of 100, 900 bu oats to
Africa. Receivers. here say it is not easy to
puy III the country. They are holding for Pat
tens corner. III .ts@ 4.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
THE CAUSE OF SMALLPOX.
Boston Physician Claims to Have
Made Important Discovery.

Wd0C ttuRS'ea's
DR.. William T. Councilman, profes.
SCR of pathology in the Harvard Medi-
cal School, made a formal statement
last week to the Boston Society OF
Medical Science announcing the dis
covery of the cause of smallpox.
The cause has been determined to
be the protocol, the lowest form of
animal life.
The honor of making this discovery
is divided. DR.. Councilman, who made
the formal announcement, gave out
the following statement:
This announcement is the outcome
of an investigation conducted by Drs.
Councilman, George Burgess Magrath,
and Walter Remsen Brinckerhoff, with
the cooperation of the Boston board
of health, during the recent epidemic
of the disease in this city. 1t has been
determined that smallpox is caused by
q microorganism representative of the
lowest form of animal life. This fact
serves to relAte the disease with ma
laria, and to distinguish 1t from many
other infectious diseases, caused by
minute forms of vegetable life known
as bacteria"
DR.. Councilman did not give many
details, but said the work had been
going on since 1901. DR.. Brinckerhoff
of the city hospital staff lived among
smallpox patients in Boston harbor
for several weeks in habitation hard
~ worthy of being called shelter in
order to gather the material with
which DR.. Councilman pursued his In
vestigations.
He told how rabbits and monkeys
were experimental upon. Upon iroc
ulation or exposure to smallpox rab-
bits have disease similar to smallpox,
but it is not smallpox. The monkey,
however, representing higher form
of life, was affected much the same as
human being and had smallpox
practically III the same stages that
man suffers.
Dr.. Councilman told how research
in the field Of .bacteriology was first
exhausted without finding the cause
of the disease. Then, falling back on
anatomy, the research was continued,
and 1t was finally decided, after re-
peated experiments, that an organism,
the protozoa, was the cause of the dis
ease. A protozoa belongs to the ami
NAL kingdom, and so the field for
further investigation is pathological
rather than meteorological.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Feels YOUNGER and Stronger.


Festus, Mo-, May 4th.--Mr. January
S. Lilly, highly respected old gentle
man, aged rs, and whose home is in
Festus, says:
For many years was failing in
health. My kidneys were weak and
gave me TO end of trouble. had
pains in my back and hips so bad that
could not sit up straight without
bracing my back, and could not sit
only a few minutes in any one posi-
ton.
Il had to get up during every night
very frequently to relieve myself.
Our doctor said had Kidney and
Bladder Inflammation. have suffer-
ed for over five years in this way,
always worse at night.
Il could get no relief. and was get
ting worse till l used Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
after had used few boxes of
this remedy felt stronger and better
than have for years and years. My
pains all left me and can rest and
sleep.
Every old man or woman who
feels as felt should use Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and am sure they will not
be disappointed. They brought me
out wonderfully"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
A PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS.
Motion In the Heavens That Awaits
an Explanation.

an Explanation.
Two years ago a new star blazed
out in the constellation Perseus.
Such new stars are by no means rare,
but this was so great and varied in
brilliancy so rapidly that it was
specially noteworthy. Soon after the
outburst that made the star so
bright, it was found to be surrounded
by nebula, and this nebula spread
outward around the nucleus gradually
as seen by the naked eye, because of
the stars great distance, but really
with immense speed. In fact, 1t has
been calculated that this speed was so
great that it seems impossible that
the spread of the nebula could have
been due to the motion of ordinary
matter at all. 1t has been suggested
that the apparent motion was really
only progressive illumination Of the
nebulous matter by light from the ex-
ploded star. But Prof. Simon New.
comb calculates that even this will
not account for the motion, for it was
at least ten times that Of light We
have thus actually observed a motion
in the heavens that vastly exceeds
any otner that we have ever heard
Of, whether it be of projected matter
or of other waves. What it is, we can
not at present even conJecture.-Suc-
cess.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
PASTOR USES BITTER WORDS.
Connecticut Clergyman Speaks His
Mind to Congregation.
EE AZ7zEp N1Zzzz1N

SSduiSSeSdt SiS'SyHiou SPSoNS s'o
Mind to Congregation.
Rev. Alexander F. Irvine recently
preached his final sermon as pastor
of Pilgrim church, New Haven, Conn.
In the course of his address he made
a few biting remarks, these among
others: "A man in this pastorate may
degenerate and conform to type, he
may stay three or four years by aid Of
diplomacy and much grace or he may
go mad. Therefore an essential quail.
ification for this pastorate is a keen
sense of humor. Here we have the
anomaly of a church increasing in
membership by the hundreds and at
the same time itb business affairs CO.
ing to ruin, although managed by bust.
ness men who are successful and
wealthy. Their idea of church Is a
place to come to once week and
hear something that won't jar on their
sensitive nerves, and go home again.
The preacher is their hired man. He
may be brainy, but must not be toe
brainy; social, but not too social; re
ligious, but not too religious. He
must trim his sails to suit every
breeze"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
"Orders" the One Thing Wanted
"Oid Goreon Graham" Gives His Son Pierrepont Few
Pointers the Duties Of Drummer When the
Latter Starts Out on the Road for the First Time.

Jokes more than an eighth of cent
a pound on a tierce of lard. What
the house really sends you out for Is
orders.
OF course, you want to be nice and
mellow with the trade, but always re-
member that mellowness carried too
far becomes rottenness. You can buy
some fellows with cheap cigar and
some with a cheap compliment, but
there's no objection to giving man
what he likes, though | never knew
smoking to do anything good except a
ham, or fattery to help any one ex-
cept to make a fool of himself.
Real buyers amt interested in much
besides your goods and your prices.
Never run down your competitors
brand to them, and never let them
run down yours. Don't get on your
knees for business, but don't hold
your nose so high in the air that an
order can travel under it without your
seeing it. You'll meet good many
people on the road that you won't
like, but the house needs their bust
ness.
For your own satisfaction will say
right here that you may know you are
in fair way of becoming good
drummer by three things:
First-When you send us Orders.
Second-More Orders.
Third-Big Orders.
If you do this you won't have a
great deal of time to write long let
tiers, and we won't have great deal
of time to read them, for we will be
very, very busy here making and ship
ping the goods. We aren't specially
interested in orders that the other
fellow gets, or in knowing how it hap
pened after it has happened. If you
like life on the road you simply won't
let it happen. So just send us your.
address every day and your orders.
They will tell us all that we want to
know about "the situation. From
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant
to His Son." by George Horace Lori
mer. BY permission of Small, May
nard & Co., Publishers, Boston, Mass
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
wan Street Hard, on Clothes.

The best dressed men in New York
are the Wall streeters. There Is one
young member of the Stock Exchange
who is famous for his clothes. He has
wardrobe in his private office and
changes his suit three times a day
at 10, at noon and at o'clock. A
busy session on the floor will wreck
any suit. Most of the brokers wear an
old office coat in the shuttle and tur-
moil and there is scarcely an active
member but has an extra pair of trou-
sers to put on after the close Of bust
ness. Scores of little tailors in the
financial district make good living
pressing trousers at fifty cents pair
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Blackn1aH Levied by Turkish Officials
Bareaced Exoron Pracced by Governors Who Have the
Backing of the Palace Clique Unfortunate Property
Owners Have No Means of Redress

unfair increase, but all these petitions
were filed and never heard of again.
Seeing that the new tax lists will be
issued after March 13 on the basis OF
the new valuation, the city began to
get nervous about the matter. Careful
inquiry concerning the fate OF the
many petitions filed brought forth a
curt answer from the Vail that none OF
them would ever be heard of and that
all efforts to push them would be fruit
less. At the same time way of re-
lief was pointed out to all who wished
to avail themselves of it. Whoever
wished his property valuation to go
back to the old figure could have 1t
so at once by paying to the Vail and
his associates three times the amount
Of the. increase demanded. The time
being short and all hope of righteous
redress being denied, the people have
made haste to avail themselves of
this door of escape and the unholy
business Is at this moment in full
blast. We know one man, acting for
himself and few of his family, who
has paid over 1900 Turkish pounds
into the Wallis harris. or rather into
the hands of his accredited agent. 1t
is estimated that the Vail will pocket
in this transaction something like So
900 Turkish pounds, or, as some esti-
mate it, as much as 100000 pounds.
OF course 1t Is well known that he
must share this unrighteous gain with
his hackers at the palace. or he could
never venture to do such barefaced
ackmailing-London Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
IN CONVENTION.
Teachers Learn Something Not In
the Class Books.

the Class Books.
A number of young women attend
Ing a teachers convention at Okla
homa City some time ago learned a
valuable lesson in hygiehe through
sister teacher who says: About a
year ago had my first attack IT poor
health and 1t seemed terrible thing
to me for had always been so well
and strong. My stomach distressed
me terribly; it seemed like 1t was
raw, especially after breakfast. and
it would burn and hurt me so could
not rest. was soon convinced that
It was caused by coffee drinking and
at the request of friend I gave up
coffee and began to use Postum Cot
fee.
1.-The change In my condition was
something marvellous. had actually
given up teaching because doctors
were unable to help my stomach trou-
BILE but since quit coffee and used
Postum my troubles have disappear
ed and have gone to teaching. again.
Some time ago I attended a con-
vention at Oklahoma City and l de-
termined to have Postum ut my
clearinghouse where there were
eight other teachers. four Of them
suffering from coffee sickness. My
landlady did not make the Postum
right, but | showed her how and we
all found 1t delicious. We all drank
it the rest of the time we were there
and the young ladies In question felt
much better and declared that their
heads were much clearer for study
and their general health much inn
proved. l have their names IL you
care for them" Names furnished by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

Dear PierrepOnt: When I saw you
start of yesterday was just little
uneasy; for you looked SO blamed i'm
portant and chesty that am inclined
to think you will tell the first custom
er who says. he doesn't like our saul
sage that he knows what he can do
about it. Repartee makes reading
lively. but business dull. And what
the house particularly needs is more
orders.
Sausage Is the one subject of all
others that fellow in the packing
business ought to treat solemnly.
Half the people in the world take a
joke seriously from the start, and the
other half IL you repeat it often
enough. Only last week the head Of
our sausage department started to
put out tin-tag brand of frankfurts,
but made him take it off the mar
ket quicker than lightning, because
l knew that the first fool who saw the
tin-tag would ask If that was the H.
cense. And, though people would
grin a little at first, they'd begin to
/. look serious sitter while; and when
ever the butcher tried to sell them
our brand they'd imagine they heard
the bark, and ask for that real coun-
try sausage" at twice as much a
pound.
A real salesman is one-part talk
and nine-parts judgment; and he uses
the nine-parts of judgment to tell
when to use the one-part of talk,
Goods amt sold under Marques Of
Queensberry rules any more, and
you'll find that knowing how many
rounds the Old I'm can last against
the Boiler Maker won't really help
you to load up the junior partner with
our Corn-fed brand hams.
: A good many statesmen have an idea
that buyers are only interested in
baseball, funny stories, and Tom
Upton. and that business is side
line with them, but as matter of fact
mighty few men work up to the posi-
ton of buyer through giving up their
Office hours to listening to anecdotes.
never saw one that liked drummers
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Controversy over Clara Barton

A controversy has been started as to
whether Clara Barton's age is 70 or
S2 Her defenders, in reply to the
charges that she is too old to conduct
the affairs of the Red Cross, have said
that she was only 70. Indeed, books
containing biographical sketches of
Miss Barton confirm this, as they say
she was born in Oxford, Mass, in
1880. The suspended Washington
members of the Red Cross, known as
the minority" are reported to have
said they have an affidavit from the
town clerk Of East Oxford, Mass,
stating that Miss Barton was born
there in 1921, and is thus nine years
older than her friends assert.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

A correspondent writes from Beirut:
s'Those who watch events in Turkey
are familiar with the more brutal
methods of oppression and extortion,
but cannot always understand the
more polite methods of the corrupt
officials in the larger cities. The peo-
pie of Beirut, Syria, have just been
treated to an extortion Of blackmail
that is worthy of being recorded.
Some two years ago the Governor,
lRashid Pasha, man whose father
and grandfather before him were all
,favorites OF the Palace clique in Con-
and who has held his pres
,ent post SO long through the influence
,of that personification, of misrule, sue
ceeded in getting an imperial COM
mission to come down and make a new
valuation of all the property in the
city. This commission set about and
did its business in the approved Turk
ish way. Those who approached the
members in the proper way and with
enough gold in their hands succeeded
in keeping the taxable value of their
possessions at the old figures, while
those who did not do SO found the
values of their houses greatly in
creased. According to Turkish. law,
when man feels that he is being
rated too high, or higher than his
nearest neighbors, he can present a
petition asking for new survey of the
property in question and theoretically
obtain justice. AS matter of fact
hundreds did file their protests against
the unrighteous Determinations and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08


Miss Caroline Phelps Stoke, several
times millionaire ip her own right,
has endowed $4,000 scholarship in
domestic science at the Teachers col
lege in New York. A special competi-
tive course will. be established and
graduates of other colleges may enter
for the prize. Domestic science as
now laugh at Teachers college is an
affair of engrossing interest. 1t COM
prehends much Of the lore maidens
formerly acquired under a less scien-
tific If more motherly influence, sepa-
rates the wheat from the chaff, adds
the why's and wherefores mothers sell
dom bothered about and inculcates
the theory of food combinations.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
THE WAR IN SoMALiLAND.
Muilah Makes Effective Opposition to
British Advance.

The news which has been received
of the British advance in Somaliland
indicates that the little war Is not
without vicissitudes. According to in
formation derived from the intelli-
gence parties and spies, the Mullah
has now concentrated at Galadi. where
there is water and the grazing is good.
The Somali scouts continue to sustain
successfully the minor skirmishes
with the Mullahs patrols, the losses
in these engagements being mainly on
the side of the enemy. Spies have re-
ported considerable reduction Of
numbers in the Mullahs force, the
severity of his treatment having given
rise to much disaffection. His present
strength is estimated at less than
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

Z 81 am glad to be able to say that
the old-time feuds which used to pre-
vail lin my state have died out, and
that the, wholesale killings which &C.
companied them are nothing but un-
pleasant memories" remarked Capt
N. M. Hanson of Galveston, United
States marshal for the southern dis
trict of Texas, at the Riggs house.
ut was my fate to know some OF
the bad men who turned things up
side down in Southern Texas a quar-
ter of century ago. They are about
all dead, and mo successors can take
their place, for our people will never
again tolerate such disturbers of the
peace. One of the worst of the bad
men of that day was the notorious
John Wesley Hardin. 1t was his
boast that he had killed twenty-eight
men. For a long time he was the ter
ror of Gonzales county and of all the
surrounding country. He was an in
corrigible cattle and horse thief, and
a murderer who killed without re-
! morse.
Finally day OF reckoning came
and he was caught and sentenced to
"A twenty-five year term in the state
penitentiary at Huntsville. He wasn't
a model prisoner and had to be
>~>ouooo.oo.o-e.o,o~~
Ernie bitterly 1.-THE idiot! If he
would stop drinking my people would
let him call on me again"
Edith-"Does he drink like fish,"
Ernie-"No, like lobster"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

lines of white mar
BILE against the
gray columns near
the pulpit. 1t is a
statue of Mr.. Glad
stone. There was
no public cere-
mony of unwilling,
no public praise Of
the great states
m a n W h e n t h 9
monument to his
memory was set
up. There is not
even an inscrip-
ton on the blue
veined marble of
the pedestal, and
the statue shows
the man robed in
his gown as a d.
C. L. of Oxford
university. Mr..
Brock, R. A., has
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

tue and faithful likeness. He has
caught something of the magnificent
fire of the great statesman. Mr.. Glad
stone stands in characteristic atti-
tude; his right hand clutches his robe,
in his left he grasps sheaf of papers,
while his head is turned round sharp
ly to the right. The face is character
istic of one mood of the dead warrior;
it is the face of the political fighter,
battling for what he believes the cause
or justice.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Qualities for a Farmers wife.

Charles Thinert, fairly well-to-do
Long Island farmer, wants a wife.
but imposes certain conditions on can
didates for corner in his affections.
For instance, the lady must be y good
housekeeper not over 80 years of age.
He Is willing to buy his wife two
gowns every year, to cost not more
than 500 ep ch, with shoes. hats, etc.,
to correspond. The future Mrs.
Thinert must agree to forego high
heeled slippers, open-work stockings,
cigarettes and poodle dogs, the would
be bridegroom thinking such frivol-
ties are not suited to farmers wife.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Spur to MARRIAGE.

A remarkable social club called the
"Owls" has been formed at New
Brunswick, N. ]. Every year the
members names are placed In a hat,
and the first one drawn out has to
marry within year or treat the club
to banquet. The victims identity
is to be kept secret.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08
Street Merchants oruanlze.

The latest trade union to be form
ed In Sydney Australia, is one en-
bracing all manner of street mer-
chants. 1t is called an association Of
'newsvendors. street musicians, shoe
blacks. lace and stud-sellers, fruit
hawkers. fish-sellers. flower-sellers
and general street workers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

Replica Of st. Marks campaniIe.
There is In existence an exact re-
plica Of st. Marks Campanile. though
on smaller scale. 1t was built 1870
years ago by the Empress Catherine
II. at Narechta. in the province of
Iiostroma.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-05-08

The ADVANCE IN SomaIIIaho.
5000 spearmen, and from 1000 to
5000 horsemen, of whom the proper
ton armed with modern rifles is still
large He also possesses a Maxim
taken from the British at Erego. which
is known to be in working order. The
forces of the Mullah have won several
important victories, in some of which
the British native troops have been
badly cut up.