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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-01
CHICAGO Livestock.

chicago, MdrCn i.
Cattle Estimated receipts for today
5000: market steady; good to prime
steers, 5.OO@5.75; poor to medium, $50
OATS; stockers and feeders. 2.50@4.10;
cows, 100000; heifers. 2.00@ $50:
Gamers. 1.50@2.40: bulls. 2.00@4.00.s
calves, 3.50@6.75; Texas fed steers,
400@475.
Hngs-Estsmated receipts for today
10000: market steady to lower; mixed
and butchers, 5.15@5.50: good to choice
heavy, 5.55@5.60; rough heavy, $500
5.45; light, 4.s5@5.so; bulk OF sales.
5.25@5.45.
Sheep Estimates receipts for to-day
10000: market steady; lambs steady;
good to choice wethers. 4.25@475; fair
to, choice mixed, 350M4.25; western
sheep, 2.4o@5.o0; native lambs, 4.50G
500; western lambs, 4.50Q6.o0.
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Peoria Grain.
MinneapoIis Grain,

Peoria, March l.
Corn-Steady; No. 3, IL.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-01

Representative Hog Sales.
A few representative hog sales were
made Al follQNA:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-01

Cattle Sales.
A few Of the cattle sales were made
~ follnua. ~
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New York Exchange.
Chicago, March New York ex-
change 10@20 discount.
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February's Hog Average.
The average weight Of hogs received
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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
OLDEST LIVING THING.
n Cypress Tv~c In Mexico Over 100,


n Cypress Tv~c Iva Mexico Over 5000
Years OF Age.
A statement recently made that there
are yews I'm England that are the old
est living things ON this exrth is not
correct, says the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat.
These yews areold, very, very old there
Is no doubt about that. Some OF them
were stalwart trees even before Caesar
landed on those shores. There is one
now standing in the churchyard MT
Fertingal, in Perthshire, which Ocean
dole nearly n century ago proved to the
satisfaction of botanistS to be over
twenty-five centuries old, and another
at Hedsor, i'm Buclas, which is 3.24O
years old. How Decandole arrived at
an apparently correct estimate of the
enormous age of these living trees is a
simple thing. and the principle is doubt
less well known today to all. The
yew, like most other trees. adds one
line (about one-tentb of an inchl to its
circumference each year. He proved
this after an Investigation extending
over several years, and we know now.
fNN SNcAs i0bSl, hiitN MS deductions
were correct. The old yew ut Hedsor
has trunk twenty-scven feet i'm d.
ameter, proving Its great age. and II is
In dourishing, healthy condition now,
like its brother at Portugal.
Their years are few. though. compar-
ell with those OF the trees | had in
nilnd when l made by first assertion
that the statement printed about them
in scientific journal was incorrect.
In one chapter OF his writings Hum
boldt refers To Il gigantic baobab tree
in central Africa as the oldest organ
ic monument in the world This tree
has trunk twenty-nine feet In diam
eter, and Adapson. by n series OF care
ful measurements. demonstrated con-
clusiVely that 1t had lived for no less
than $3.50 years.
Still IL Is not tho oldest organic mon
ument in tie world. rs Humboldt de-
clared, for now Mexican scientists have
proved that huge cypress tree. stand
ing In Chapultepec. with II trunk 1IS
feet and 10 inches in circumference. is
older than folder. too, By more than II
thousand yearS-for il has been shown
as conclCSiNely as these things can be
shown that its age is about G.260 years.
To become impressed with wonder over
this, one has only TO dwell on that du-
ration for u little while in thought.
Yet 1t is not SO remarkable when one
stops for n moment 10 remember that.
given favorable conditions for its
growth and substance TIE average tree
will never die of old age-its death IL
merely an accident. other younger
ana more vigorous trees may spring up
near ii, and perhaps rob its roots OF
their proper nourishmcnt: insects may
Kill Ii. floods or winds may sweep II
away, or It's roots may come i'm con-
tact with rock aud become so gnarled
and twisted because they have not
room TO expand In their growth that
they literally throttle the avenues Of
It's sustcnauce; but these are accidents.
III such things do not happen tree
may live on for century after century.
still robust. still fiourishing. shcltcr;ny
with its wide spreading branches the
men and women OF age after age
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
A SPYS CLOSE CALL.
Hescued From Impending Death bx
Clever NewsDnuer uus.

rescued From ImDc ding Death bx n
SieNer Newspaper Ruse.
On the battlefield OF Antietam Mr..
Mcclure met General William ]. Palm.
er, then a captain, and strongly urged
MN not TO continue his movements as
u spy after Lee had crossed into Vir.
ginia, but the gallant young soldier
gave no promise as TO what he would
De likely to do, and the very first night
AFTER Lee crossed the Potomac he was
again In Lees camp and brought back
important information to General Nc
ClelIan.
again he returned and entered the
confederate lines. and when he did not
report after week it was assumed
That he had been captured and would
probably be executed as n spv he
had been captured, was tried and con-
uenlhed as spy and sentenced to be
executed. but he was saved by a clever
newspaper device determined upon
alter conference In PHILADELPHIA be-
tween PRESIDENT J. Edgar Thomson OF
the pennsylvania railroad, Colonel Scott
ana Mr.. Mcclure. Thomson took speciaI
interest in Palmer, as he had been his
secretary. and was much attached to
him.
~ was decided that Washington dis
patches should he prepared for all of
the Philadelphia morning papers an
nouncing the arrival at the capital of
captain William ]. Palmer, stating in
what particular lines OF the enemy he
had operated, and adding that he had
Drought much important information
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
USING SALT WITH FOOD.
Common Habit OF Mankind Snid to
De Without Good Rcnsnn

Common Habit OF Mankind Snid to
he Without Good Reason.
This is no new question. but appar-
emily it is not settled yet. In an OK
haustlve discussion OF IL ia the Revue
Scientihque NJ. Rene I.aufer concludes
that. while IL is absolutely necessary
10 the animal organism. enough of II
Tor our needs is contained naturally In
our ordinary articles OF food. so that
the addition OF IL as condiment Is
supernuous. Tales of disease caused
by lack OF salt he dismisses as un.
trustworthy. Says Mr.. Laufer:
"Thc desire for salt is certainly uni
versal. 1t seems 10 have been used
everywhere at all times and in all civ
ilizations. The same salt seasons to-
day the miserable portion Of the SUI
danese negro and the choice dishes OF
European tables. The need of salt Is
not limited 10 man. Many animals
seek IL with avldity. So general pre-
objection, so imperious n desire should
not be regarded as u simple incident.
that is certain. But do they CORE
spond TO an unavoidable necessity?
us IL not curious that the chloride of
sodium should be the only salt that we
take from nature TO add TO those con-
tanned In our food itself? Other min
eral substances play a much more i'm
portant part In the constitution OF the
tissues-the salts of lime and the phos-
phate OF soda, for instance When we
use these by themselves IL is as medi-
cineS.
The taste for salt Is not Innate or
instructive. IL II acquired. The moth
ers milk contains very little salt Cows
milk has at least four times as much.
but even with this amount. the adult
who should live on milk aIone-say
three quarts day-would take more
chiorides than he needs"
Nj. Laufer discredits all tales OF Ill
ness from the discontinuance OF salt.
The French soldiers who were said 10
have suffered from the lack of salt In
the siege OF Metz did SO, he says, simply
because they required it to hide the
taste of the spoiled meat that they
We're forced TO eat. The story OF the
Russian serfs, who are reported 10
nave fallen i'll when deprived OF salt
by their lords. bears on ats face. NJ.
Lhuier thinks, marks OF its falsity
Among the chief morbid symptoms
said to follow from the lack of salt is
edema or swelling. but the writer
shows that nowadays q Diet without
salt Is prescribed for this trouble and
mas been effective in curing IT, In the
same way he disposes TO his satisfac-
lion or all the different Ills said to
arise when one is deprived OF salt.
FINALLY, he calculates the amount OF
salt necessary to carry on the proc !
esses of organic animal life and the
amount lost by exertLon and comes TO
the following conclusion:
Our food, provided 1t constitutes |
proper regimen in the physiologie
sense of the word. contains within it. |
self, and with no necessity of adding
10 TX from outside, sufficient salt for |
our needs."-iiterary Digest.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
Two Babe. EuuaI On. p.r.o,


British law has just arrived at the
queer decision that one baby has no
existence, but that two babies together
make "a person"
n London cab driver sued q woman
before Judge Plowden. q well known
stipendiary magistrate. for the small
sum or siNpence He had driven her
ana her baby and demanded the six
pence on the ground that the baby was
an extra person" within the meaning
OF the Hackney carriage act and must
be paid for as such.
THAT Is not So" said Judge Plow-
den. According TO the hackney car
rage act. as | construe 1t, it takes two
Children to make one person"
Then in future / shall charge three
pence apiece" retorted the cabman.
mo. you can't do that" declared the
Judge. I'm the eyes OF the law one
child has no existence in this matter.
but IL there are two children they make
one person, and you can charge yom
sixpence."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
Golf Balls and CabIes

The use of gutta percha for subma-
rine cables and golf balls makes con-
slant drains on the supply OF this ma
terial, and substitutes are being con-
stantly sought after. In constructing a
cable the gutta percha is employed to
insuiate the conducting wire from the
exterior metal sheath, and. though late
~ rubber has been employed for this
purpose on some shorter lines. vet for
long ocean lines the gutta percha is con.
sldered essential. Recently the German
telegraph department has made a thor
ough test OF some cables into whose
construction an artificial gutta percha
enters. This material Is the invention
or Adolf Gentzsch OF Vienna and is a
mixture of india rubber and q palm
wax whose melting point is the same as
that of the rubber. The electrical prop-
critics OF the compound are equal TO
those OF gutta percha. and the specifica-
tons OF the contract with the German
government were more than satisfied I'm
actual tests. The cost or the artificial
gutta percha cables is aboct 35 per cent
less than the ordinary cable.-Harper's
Weekly
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
The Lord High Con.,.h,.

The lord high constable OF England
was an official OF high rank I'm. olden
times. The name Is contraction OF
comes stabuli, count OF the stable, or.
as we should now say, master OF the
horse. His functions were partly mill
tary, partly judicial and partly civil.
1t became hereditary office to the
Stanords. by one OF whom, the Duke
or buckingham, II was forfeited In 1871
Tor high treason, and has never been
revived. save for special occasions, such
as o coronation. This office still exists
In Scotland and is reserved for the
earls OF Enroll. The present constable
or the Tower, OF Dover. Windsor. and
other places Is a remnant. OF the old Of
fee. and the term police constable in
dicates that the chief duty WINS to keep
the peace.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
ODD FACTS ABOUT COLOR.
one OF Them II That There Is No
Food That Is Blue.


Food That Is Blue.
DID you ever notice that there f. no
blue food? We eat things green. red.
yellow and violet; flesh, fish or plants
In all the colors of the rainbow except
blue.
many deadly poisons are blue In col
or, such as bluestone or the deadly
nightshade flower. The color stands I'm
our slang for everything miserable and
depressing.
But this is only one OF a thousand
queer facts about colors.
Heat bar of ron and the particles
or the metal are set In motion. shak-
ing violently one against another.
Presently the surrounding ether Ia set
In motion In large, slow waves through
the air, like the waves OF the sea, until
they break upon our skin and give us
the sensation Of heat. As the iron gets
hotter other waves are set In motion In
immense numbers. travelling at more
IMAM lightning speed, AID these break
upon the eye. giving us the sensation
OF red light.
Inc redhot iron. getting still more
heated, throws out other sets of WAVES
stin smaller and more rapid-orange.
yellow, green. blue, indigo, violet, all
the colors of the rainbow. The eye
cannot tell one from another; the whole
bundle OF rays mixed up gives us an
impression of white. That is the glow
from white hot iron. and such Is the
light from the still greater brightness
or the sun. Sunlight is a bundle of
rays OF light-red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo and violet all mixed
together. The mixture of all colors is
white light The absence of all color
Is utter darkness.-New York Journal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
WHAT THEY READ.

Hogarth was fond OF joke books and
farces and enjoyed them immoderately.
Mario. the great tenor, read nythine
he could obtain relating to sports or
hunting.
Papa Haydn liked stories. and he
said. THE more love there is in them
the better"
George Ill, for many years of his
life, read nothing but his Bible and
prayer book.
Swift made n special study of the
Latin satirsts and initiated their STYLE
and language
Da Ninci read Pindar and Thought
him the noblest poet who ever wrote
in any language
Heine seldom read anything but
poetry, but he read that with the most
scrupulous attention.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
THERMOMETERS.
The Bulbs, the Tubes aud the Mark
Inv Of the DEGREES.

Ing of the Degrees.
There are many different uses for
thermometers and as many different
styles as uses. They range from the
Tiny half inch tubes attached to Christ
mas calendars to the enormous twelve
loot instruments used I'm experimental
work by meteorologists.
Perhaps the most difficult part NJ
tbe manufacture of thermometers is
that of fitting the tube with a bulb of
exactly the right capacity. The size
OF the latter must have an exact rela-
lion to that of the former. IL IL Is too
large for the bore the mercury or col
ored alcohol, whichever Is used. will
not rise high enough in the tube: IL
100 small. 1t will rise too high. In the
httie clinical thermometer on whose
story the physician depends SO often
Tor his decision the bore Is SO fine that
human hair can hardly be Inserted.
AS these thermometers must be reg
ulated to record infinitely the tempera-
ture, the person on whose Judgment
depends the size OF the bulb to be at
'ached must be a highly skilled work
man. The men who do this part of the
work have TO be highly paid.
Ihe marking OF the degrees on the
hollow tube is the step next I'm i'm
portance In the making OF the little
curse and blessing. The process is SO
simple that one can prove the accuracy
or thermometer for ones self by
the same method. The freezing point
is secured by immersing the bulb In n
Oox or melting Ice and the boiling
point by attaching 1t to a steam pine
OF immersing 1t In boiling water.
scratches are made on the tube at
the points reached by the mer-
curry under these two tests, and the
space between is then marked Off
into 100 spaces for q centigrade Their
mometer and $50 for u Fahrenheit IA.
strument. the marking beginning I'm
the nrst instance at zero and I'm the
second Mt ~. This makes the boiling
point In one case 100 and I'm the other
III degrees Thermometers are ant
TO deteriorate In value rs they age.
owing TO contraction OF the glass OF
the bulb. The amount of the error can
be determined by immersing the bulb
In melting Ice and making n mark for
tue new freezing point. To insure the
accuracy OF thermometers the manu-
facturers usually store them for a year.
testing them from time to time.-New
York Tribune
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09

You are ready enough to point your
satire Mt other peoples faults. p Queen
less once said to Clod. one of the court
testers, but you never say a word
about mine" "Ah." exclaimed Clod,
why should waste time In remind
Ing your majesty OF your faults, seeing
that they are In everybody's mouthr'
Patch. one OF Henry Wills fools,
once sought permission to demand an
egg from every husband who was ais
satisfied with his Wife No sooner had
the king granted his request than
Patch proceeded to demand the first
egg from him. saying. your grace be-
longs 10 the class of husbands on
whom ] am entitled to make levy"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
A IacfuI InrHnfinn

At sportsman's show I'm New York
one OF the novelties shown was a
portable wireless telegraph apparatus
which could be carried In n hunters
pack, says the New York Mail. 1t at
tracted much attention from the visit.
ors.
"That thar is shorely a great thing
said an old Maine guide. Suppose
here's a dude hunter got lost. What
does he do? He climbs n tall tree. fixes
the maJigger. and let's go.
"tClick, clackety clack. click-rm lost
in the woods
"'Clack, dashety dash, dot. click
Were be yep
'Clackety clack. dash, click-I dun
no. Ii did | wouldn't be lost
"Then all they got to do is 10 send
out a search party and find him. That's
shore great invention"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09

An English writer thus describes an
American novelist: Henry James has
q big. intellectual head, his features
are well chiseled, his expression keen
and searching. He is close shaven and
reminds me OF French able 1 met IN
Paris. His walk is still remarkably
rapid and resolute; his voice is clear
and resonant. Though some people I'm
Rye consider him shy and nervous, /
found him interesting. outspoken. sound,
sane, logical, trenchant, and his man.
ner is kindly. He is, perhaps, more
on the side OF reason than sentiment.
Greater sympathy with humanity, its
weakness and absurdities would give
him even truer insight but his tone Is
his value and his identity. He is O
fiux OF moods-"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09

Queen Anne OF England and her nus
band George, prince OF Denmark, had
great similarity OF taste. Che two sub
jects that interested them most were
horses and dinner. A Jacobite aliusion
to these pardonable weaknesses runs
thus.
There's Mary the daughter. there's yynIv
the cheater.
There's Geordie the drinker. there's Annie
the eater.
That King George III. OF England was
not popular with his subjects Is evident
from The following episram. which was
published in London on the death of
Queen Caroline:
D cruel death! Why hast thou been I'M
kind
To take our queen and leave our king be-
hindu
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09

mat could not be given TO the public
at that time. These dispatches ap-
peared next morning in all the Phila-
ueiphia papers, prominently displayed.
ana or course reached the southern
INES within forty weight hours.
The result was that Captain Palmer's
Identity was never established I'm Rich.
mond. and his execution was thus srs-
pended. In little while when some
prisoners had been exchanged. there
was vacancy made In the list of the
exchanged men by death. Palmer's
friends had him take the place and
name OF the dead soldier. and he thus
escaped and returned to the service.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
Japanese Myths.

Japanese believe In more mythical
creatures than any other people on the
globe. civilized or savage. Among these
are serpents 800 feet long and large
enough to swallow an elephant. foxes
With eight legs, monkeys with four
cars and fishes with ten heads attached
TO one body. They also believe In the
existence OF crane which, after 1t has
lived for COO years. has no need OF any
sustenance except water.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
Unnecessary Delay.

"Was papa really mady' asked the
girl.
mad? Well, 1 should sayr' replied
her lover. II came to the point right
away and told him we intended 10 lie
married in the fall"
And what did he sayT'
"Hc said: What! Why not at oncer -
Philadelphia Press.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
Taueyrand'. sharp Tongue.

When Nine. de Stael published her
celebrated novel. "Delphine," she was
supposed to have painted herself IN the
person Of the heroine, and NJ. Talley-
rand In that OF an elderly lady. who is
one Of the principal characters. They
tell me-" said he. the first time he met
her, that we are both of us In your
novel IN the disguise OF women
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-09
The DInerence.

Little Rodney-Papa. what is the
difference between climate and wealth
err? Mr.. Wayout (of Dismalhurst-on-
the-Blink)--Climate. my son. is what
a locality has when you are buying a
home there, and weather is what 1t has
afterward.--Puck.