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BUTTER Receipts yesterday. sso21 lbs;
diaries. hrsts 12c; dairies, seconds, lie; packing
EGGS Receipts yesterday, SOC cases; fresh,
at mark, as received, cases included, 13l4c;
fresh. at mark, shipping eases included, as re-
s E? 80 e do so Checks ss
CHEESE Twin or flats. fancy, 7@ohc; twins
or flats, choice, 4@6c; twins or fats, fair to
good a@4c Young Americas fancy Ne BRICK
pultost, &C.: Swiss: No: / block, i5e; swiss 10.
/, 12c.
LIVE PouLTRY-;Turkeys 1o@11c; hens.
ers, i and under, 1ddoz, $1,000. -
9fte
R Pns Re a ~ lob uihea hHss &C. srse
pies, 5000; pike, 5@6c
cABBA 1G5Eg..SNey, large crates $3.50; small
PoTAToEsE&h car lots, sacked per bu,
mixed car lots 9oc@S1 small lots
S$1$S FSiss, $s7s a.. ~ :
e Al. s15S srsssa fancy $50; medium
picked, 81; medium, fair, s1;25 medium, mixed
Fair to good S. Lima oS California p per- t. &C.
ORANGES Vaiencias,, ali sizes s.; Med
5TSetz all Sizes $780, St. iehaels
LEMONS = California, fancy, to size, 1910;
sTRA WBERRfE s-24-qt case, s1.75 1e-qt
PiNEAPfLEsP sfoE doa $15 e5se Per crate,
dsnsy Hes s ssss1sas 1S
gotaen nt I've; extracted white, in cans, &c;
eh Ws c SaesF TR s black box
Sl:5 cherries white, box $l25; apricots per
GoosEBERR1Es- 24-qt case, 1925; 1e-qt
PEAcHEs s1x-basket crate, $3.50.
WATERMEI.oNs- Each, 3o@s5c -
BAN IA y = lunches 1903. 49, large
4 NEW vEGETABLEs- doz, soc
beans bea string bu box wa b.
doz punches. soc; cucumbers, doz 75c caui
flower, crate, 81 %; egg plant, dc, doz s1@125
4oc; onions, doz punches, 15c; parsley, doz: SOC
pieplant, 100 lbs, 81; green peas, bu, $1.75@2
radishes round doz punches 15@2oe; spinach
9oc; garlic, lb, 13@15c.
| NEW YORK PRODUCE, June 24-Butter, re
mon to to extra, is@lsAe; state dairy ard CON
ceipts, 1880 pkgs; state full cream, small whit
and colored, choice, SIC; fair to good, SIC
large white and colored choice, Sc; fair to good
Egg nd drresular receipts
I 2o@21c: hrsts, II " @1sc: western, 171h@lsc
prime, tic; southern, 14@16c.
CHICAGO PRODUCE, June 24.-Butter-
Steady: creameries. 1aK@17Mc; diaries 11h9
ice. Eggs-Steady at mark cases included. i
114hc. Cheese-Steady: daisies tx @sc
4 twins, 1A@7hc; Young Americas, ~ @sc
Toe: springs, 15@22c. Potatoes-New, steady
Texas Triumphs. $1@1.1o: early Ohios. $1.1C
Veal-Steady: so tod 60 Id weights 506c; 6
to Is ID weights, e9615c 80 to 125 lib Weights
6bM7c.
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9o@93; Tecunseh. % @3o; Trinity, 3A GA;
Z; S.: Oh, iodeio5s Utah, ssK efsei Z Victoria,
WEandotte. 550075.
LONDON CLOSING STOCKS, June 24--consols
for money, go 1-16 consols for account so1@;
feared f,s 5 psi baltimore ohio Canadian "a
Great Western. IA; Chicago, Milwaukee & St,
Paul l45g; De Beers, ls;s; Denver Rio
q; Erie 24A; Erie arst preferred, 5g3a Erie
vile & Nashville, 11ald; Missouri, Kansas s
Texas ~ ~: New York Central 119k; Norfolk
y Western, 57A; Norfolk & Western preferred.
So; Ontario s Western. 2t19: Pennsylvania, 5ss
arst preferred, 4lss Reading second / preferred,
3s1a; Southern Railway, 21A Southern Rail
way preferred, S7h: Southern Pacific, 1875
Union Pacific, 9oas Union Pacific preferred. So
United States Steel. 1o1s United States Steel
preferred, 5iIR;; Wabnsh. 1871; Wabash pre-
feried, SO; Spanish As. SGB.
Bar silver, quiet, 25Ad per outce
Money, / n M2h per cent.
The rate of discount in the open market fol
short bills is 2A per cent. The rate Of dis
count in the open market for three months bills
is 2 116M2A per cent.
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PROVISIONS

CHICAGO PROVISIONS, June 24-Provisions
were firm on a good demand from packers The
market was largely dominated by the hog situa-
ton receipts Of hogs being lighter and prices
a gain Of Toe at $3.50 and sold up to $1s.s2A
September lard was up TIC at $7.25. Ribs were
5@71ac higher at $775.
Close: Pork-July. 1910: September s1a.4o.
I,ard-July. $7.071h @1O: September $I.27h:
October. $7.321A. Rihs-July, $7.621h: Septem-
Der, $7s21s October, s7s5.
NEW YORK PROVISIONS, June A.-Beef,
steady. Pork, firm Lard, dull; prime western
steam 81 So
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MISCELLANEOUS

NEW YORK COTTON, June 24.-The' cotton
market opened steady at an advance of points
to decline Of points, the old crop being indu-
enccd by covering on steady cables, while the
selling. The weather map, while not unfavor-
able. was hardly as good as recently, showing
rather too much is reported from Texas and the
market after the call, Influenced by this and the
continued tirnness of Liverpool turned more
active and firrner with the south an active buyer
of both old and new crop positions. July and
August advanced to net gain Of 22@25 points
while the new crop positions were net 10 to IL
points higher. The most pressing demand seemed
filed toward the end Of the first hour. and the
market sased OF few points from the best st
points higher. Spot cotton quiet; middling up
lands, 11.O5c; mtddling gulf. 11.30c.
Cotton-Spot closed steady. 10 points higher.
Middling uplands, 11.O5c midding gulf, II Doc.
Sales G52 bales. Ea$-s
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SHOWS CROP SUMMARY
FAVORABLE PROSPECTS FOR ALL IT

FAVORABLE PROSPECTS FOR ALL THE
GRAINS.
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, June A.-Snow's crop report says:
June brought almost perfect weather conditions
for small grains. Moisture and moderate TEN.
peratures favored vigorous stalk growth and
strong head development, and harvest is at
hand with every prospect for a better acre yield
of winter wheat than seemed possible earlier in
the season. The few reports already received
indicate. a harvest condition probably somewhat
higher than June /.
Spring wheat conditions are practically per
feet.
The condition of oats Is fully maintained and
promises full average yield, altho the straw is
trife short.
Corn is small and rather backward on accoun,
of hot forcing weather, but the stand is al
good as usual, color satisfactory, fields gener
ALLY clean and well worked. and the plant vigor
ously rooted. The first condition report Is likely
to be rather lower than usual. because of the
smallness Of the. plant, but favorable July
weather will entirely cure this. The only
ground for reasonable apprehension lies in the
possibility of the crop coming generally into tas
sci little late when hot weather might natu
rally be expected.
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A GOOD OPENING
And FIRM CLOSE
HOGS ADVANCE Sc EARLY AND
81 HOLD IT.
No Changes of Importance in the
Cattle Market, Prices Holding
About Steady Sheep Receipts
Light, Mutton Grades Easier.

South st. Paul June 24.-Estimated receipts
at the Union Stock Yards today: Cattle, 400;
calves, 100; hogs, $500; sheep 25o; horses, So;
The following table shows the receipts. from
Jan. 1. 1904, to date, as compared with the
same period in 1903:
Year. Cattle. Calves. Hogs. Sheep. Cars:
l904..... 76,O49 19,459 SOC, 1886 PSI 1871 1o, 3d7
1903. ..... $3.50 26,9S3 3SS,S22 1S1,55 9,139
Decrease G,5io 1924 49,. .,... -.
Inc following table shows the receipts thus fal
in June as compared with the same period
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THE FLOUR MARKET

SITUATION STILL WITHOUT IMPORTANT
CHANGE.
Nothing new of special Importance Is noted
IN the flour trade. There is fair demand report
ed and business Is satisfactory the whole.
Prices firm quoted
Shipments 1881 brs.
First patents quotoble at $495@5.o5; sec
ond patents, 81 S5I4 95; first clears, 3400l
R50; second clears $2.4O.
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Railroads entering the yards reported receipts
for the day by loads follows: Chicago Great
Western, &; Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, II;
Minneapolis s St Louis, 8; Chicago, st. Paul,
N Minn He polls = Omaha, s.; Great Northern 10;
Island g. Pacific 2; total, 60.
Disposition Of stock Ihursday. June %:
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WABASH PASSES INTEREST PAYMENT.
New York. June 24.--Owi9g to heavy operat-
ments during the last six months it has been
decided by the directors Of the Wabash railway
the company's debenture a bonds. There are
only So, 900 Of the bonds outstanding. prac
tically ali of which are held by the Gould and
Sage interests. The payment has not been
passed at any period since 1903.
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was very quiet but firm. Opening: July,
sSKc Sec October d.4cnd 7%s Closing june
s5Hc; No. 2 northern, ss15c; No. northern,
79Ac; No 4, 1850; No. feed, 59c No Q feed,
| 5Oc. Receipts, q cars: year ago 1875 cars
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ST, LOUIS LIVE gToCK. lime 24-Cattl

ST. LOUIS LIVE STOCK, June 24.-Cattle-
steady; beef steers, 81 &C. 5 stockers and feed
ers, 1904; COWS and hefers $2.25@5.40; Texas
1915.
Hogs Receipts, $500; market 5@1oc high.
@5.2O; butchers and best heavy, $5.15@5.4O.
Sheep-Receipts: 1900; market lower for
lambs sheep steady; natives, $4@4.50: lambs, So
ct; Texans, $4M4. so.
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OMAHA LIVE STOCK, June 24--cattle-Re.
ceipts, 25o; market shade, stronger :, Beef Be-
4.75; : stockels and feeders, s2.5o@4.1o.
Hogs-Receipts 5000; market. 5@10c higher.
Heavy, $515Ql5.25; pigs, $4.50@5.
Sheep-Receipts 90O market, steady to
strong. Sheep, $3@5.15; lambs, $5.25@6.75.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK, June A.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts 1000; steady; good to prime steers, $3.50
@65o; poor to medium, $4.5O@5 5 40; stockers and
$2G5 So; Gamers, $1.5o@25o; bulls, s2@4.25;
calves, $2;5o@6; Texas-fed steers, 50. 6o@54o.o
600; 5@1Oc higher; mixed and butchers, $5.2o@
$40; good to choice heavy, $5.35@5.45; rough
heavy, $2.15@5.35; light, $5.lO@5.35; bulk Of
sheep-Reeeipts, 5000; sheep and lambs,
steady; good to choice, $4.75@5:25; fair to
4.75; western lambs, $4@5; spring lambs, $4.5(
ar.
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BOSTON MINING STOCKS, June Closing
prices in yesterdays market: Adventure. Ia
~; Allouez. on CT IL, Areadian; 4o@5o; ATLANTIC,
o@455: Centennial. 20M 020A Consolidated
Mercer. 25@26; Cope. l Range consolidated 4sH
47G47ih Dominion Steel Is asA ]: ElI RIVER,
1@7k; Isle Roya1e: as; Mass, 4MIK: May.
@4iK Montreal L Boston, 45a5o; Granny so
3H Gnana1,lato, Is @1sss Old Colony; SO 55;
Parrot, a5@s51s Phoenix. l4@1 Quincy.
sl@s3: Rhode Island, S ! asked; Santa Fe. In
IA n Shannon Copper Co., 5h @5A; Tamaraek,
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OTHER GRAIN MARKETS

DULUTH GRAIN, June 4.-Duluth showed
less advance today in July than other markets.
advancing NC to 921ac- to the close. September
was up a little more. and all the market was
strong. despite crop prospects, which so far as
local reports show could not be much improved.
July wheat closed at $3.50, September, 1850
under. Flax was dull and strong, unchanged to
1ac lower. -@.. s.-5
Receipts Wheat SO cars; fax, 20; barley, s.;
oats, 3. Shtpments-Wh heat, 35,61S bu; barley,
8, ISL; rye, 25,9S8.
Close: Wheat cash. No. northern, 92asc;
No: 2 northern, 9oAc; July. 92ac; September,
$1.1OA; October, Sill; oats, 4Oc; rye, 55c
NEW YORK GRAIN AND FLOUR, June "a
Flour-Receipts. 12,212 brls: sales. 1000 brls;
ma firm but quiet. Wheat-Receipts, So,
100 bu; sales, 10000 bu; opened higher on good
Liverpool cables, rains in the west and light
Argentine and India shipments. Later. realizing
SSs% 1916 seRtembe5 "a 51ds@s4 51e
ReseD roc and R3
less. Receipts, 64,5oo bu. oats-Nominal; re-
LIVERPOOL GRAIN, June 24.-wheat spot,
easy; No: ! California, 6s Sd; futures, steady
July. IS sgd; September IS 41sd; December,
nominal Corn, spot, easy; American mixed,
lures, steady; July, As 37sd; September, As 2ssd
| CHICAGO SEED AND COARSE GRAIN. June
24-Rye-June, &c. July, Coo; September 55c
Eaax-s 8 ~ nsorthwest 81 o9 southwest
$1o75. Bsr ricsa s4 dl5Sc. oioVer-'une
r.
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MONEY REPORTS

PARIS, June 24.-Three per cent rentes, e7f
S21kc for the account
s BERLIN, June 24-Icxchange on London, 20
marks 4O1s pigs for checks. Discount rates:
short bills, ~ three months bills, sas per
cent.
firm at 25 13-16d per ounce
y MINNEAPOLIS June 2.-Bank clearings to-
day, $206D, 63s. so. New York exchange: Sell
ing rate, 81 premium; buying rate. 5oc premium.
Chicago exchange: Selling rate T5c premium;
sight documentary exchange $4.s4
ST; PAUL. June y244.yEBank5 clearings today,
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SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK, June 24.-Receipts
Cattle, 100; hogs, 1900.
Hogs-steady.. Sales: go, ,2ao lbs, SIS; So,
2eo lbs; $40, 10, 300 lbs, s5.15.
So; beeyes, i.21o lbs, s5.25; beeves, 1.as0
lbs, $3.50; 4 cows and hetfers, 800 lbs, ss.25;
cow, l., 40 lbs, $3.S5; cows and heifers, POO
lbs, So; stockers, 72O lbs, $3.15; stocker 800
lbs, 1915; stockers, /, 14O lbs, s4.1o; Z year
lings, 4SO lbs. So; 2 yearlings, 500 lbs, $685.;
yearlings 600 lbs So. IS.
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NEW YORK SUGAR AND COFFEE, June "a
Sugar, raw strong; fair refining. 3 7-16c; cen
trifugal 96-test, 3 15-16c; molasses sugar
3 3-16c; refined firm; crushed, $3.50; powdered
5.O5c; granulated. 4.95c.
Coffee, quiet; No. Z Rio, &c.
Afolasses,s quiet; New Orleans, 81 @37c.
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KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK, June 24-Cattle
Receipts 1,50, including 700 southerns; market
steady and active; beef steers, $4.25@6 40;
southern steers $275@5.5o so; southern cows, 81. so
~; native cows and heifers, $2@5.5o; stock
ers and feeders, $2.75@4.75.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; market 5@1oc higher
heavy, s5.15@5.271A; packers, $5.o5@5.25; pigs
and lights, $4.35@5.1O
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; market steady; sheep
S.. 50Q5.3 80; lambs. $5@6S0.
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sday. June %:

Opening prices mostly SC higher. Closing
range $3.50 to $500; hulk IS to $50: Light.
from nesa g and good 10
mixed ~ Ss medium and heayyweights from 500 to
Is, 2S3 lbs, $5.15; 81, ls6 lbs, $50; 10 25o
= SaG = S59s g. 81 S g. lbs: a75
ySsss;SssE; ssssh b: g? l'' 5+Es
cAfTLE-Reeeipts light; Beef and butcher
| poor. Bulls and veal calves unchanged. Stock.
ers and feeders quiet with yesterdays decline.
suteher cows and M 81 i2o ID lbs g.
o ss5 ss an g. sse u.s. So u.s. $685.
lbs Bi Sss buii so D 1881 bs 2e lbs $3.50
4. 125 lbs, $3.50.
stess a, and + Feeding $50 Ds
Stock Cows and Heifers-1, $50 lbs, s2.1o; s
rs Stg IS s e Feeding Bulls 1905 lbs, 81;
Mich Cows and springers-2 cows and calf
se2; 2 cows and : calves, $50; i COW, sa2; COW
sHEEP-Receipts light. Mutton grades quiet
yesterday Lambs in good demand at steady
killing Sheep and Lambs-21 lambs, go lbs
1918; 10 ewes. 1O7 lbs, 81 so; 81 ewes, 112 lbs
Maps; ewes, 10e lbs, $40; bucks, 1875 lbs
81. so.
stockers and Feeders ewes, 7e lbs, 1925.
I Among the shippers on the market were: G.
| A. Lee, Medford NJ. II. Gibbons, Mantorville
H. Hagemister, Rosemount; Dan Blanchard
enbr " Miar sys Mnnsotd & Giyn9 Rms o
SELL Fargo, n. D.; L. V. Garner, Forsyth, Mont.
G. A. Mcconnell, Belle PLANE; W.. G. Dodge
AIadela Sandman Il NJ, Glencoe; John Walter
Norwood; w. T. Ward. Pennington; W. W
Reeve, Milbank J. K. Nellemoe, Mime Falls
Aneta; N. D.; E. johnson, Cokato; E. S. scri
Der, Brandon.
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CHICAGO PRODUCE June 24.-Butter-
Steady: creameries. laN@l7Mc; diaries, ,1llh@
| lee. Eggs.steady at mark, eases included IA "A
twins 1AM7Mc; Young Americas, ~ @sc.
Poultry.Alve, steady turkeys, 1oc; chickens
Texas Triumphs. $1@1:1o; early ohios: $1.1o:
VealE-3Ssteady; so tod 60 IL weights 5@oc;, IS
| III -. :
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GENERAL PRODUCE

Official quotations of the Minneapolis
Produce Exchange, corrected IN to IL M,
friday, June 24.-Butter, steady. Eggs.
weak. Poultry, dull. Veal, fr,ner.
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PEORIA WHISKY, June 24.-Whisl
,asis Of $1.2S for finished goods.

NEW YORK OIL, June 24.-Petroleum, easy
refined all ports, $7.90@7.95.
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PUTS AND CALLS.
CASH SALES REPORTED TODAY.

2:3o o'clock report
Puts--July wheat, 92Bc. ~ .t=
Calls-July wheat 93hc.
Curb-July wheat, 93c
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NEW YORK METAL June 24.-Lead and cop
per quiet and unchanged.
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Total sales, 22S, 400 shares.
*Ex-dividend.
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111w ~ 11s0DUG1s, Ju1e @4'==butteF, re-
mon to extra, 13@1SAc; state dairy and com
mon to extra, 13@17c. Cheese, irregular; re-
eepts 1850 pkgs; state de full cream small white
large white and colored. choice. Sc; fair to good,
7@7Aac. Eggs, irregular; receipts, 9,479; state,
Pennsylvania and nearby fancy selected white,
2O@21c: frsts, III S@1sc; western, 17A@1sc;
prime, tic; southern, 14@16c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-04

figures are manipulated to illustrate q
series of little stories told in Jamaican dia-
lect by Miss Coleman Smith, who sits on
the floor. In the glow of the candles and
the flicker of the freight. and with the
bright orange costume as a background, the
scene is curiously barbaric as the story
teller bonds over the primitive stage.
After the first story or two the dialect Is
easy to understand, and the audience fol-
lows the adventures of such characters as
the witch. whose name is 'Recandadunda-
drumunday," and the terrible being, An
nancy, the spider man, at whose name the
little Jamaican children shiver, or they
laugh at the quaint sayings Of "Gingy
Fly" the blue-bottle.
The Jamaican folk lore stories were told
to Miss Coleman Smith when she visited
Jamaica at the age of thirteen. The ma
tives will not tell these to "grown-ups"
for fear of being laughed at but the girl
remembered them, even to the quaint dia-
lect and the little incidental ballads which
are a feature of her entertainment. The fig-
ures were painted and designed by herself,
and the whole entertainment breathes orig
inality and strangeness.
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DECLINE OF PROFANITY.
Gentle Slang Has Supplanted Cuss
Words of Old.

FROM the savannah News.
Many purists bewail the prevalence of
slang in the spoken language of the
period. Has it never occurred to them that
in the vast majority of instances slang is
relatively soft and harmless, that it is
seldom profane, and that what common
speech has suffered from interjections of
slang and cant phrases has been more than
countera cted by the disuse of hard old
Anglo-Saxon swear words? Thus the Ian
guage is really the gamer. and usage is
making much of the slang good English.
Take any good dictionary lately from the
press, and it will be found to contain liter
ally hundreds of words that were consid
cred slang and not to be spoken in polite
conversation a dozen, or twenty-five or fifty
years ago. Likewise, take any standard
novel of three, four or five generations ago,
which reflects the customs and people of its
period, and it will be found that some of
the leading characters in it were given to
politely damning various parts of them
selves and about everything else on the
slightest provocation, in any company
whatsoever.
In the days of Sheridan 1t was consd-
cred good form for the gallant gentleman
to consign himself to perdition, piecemeal
or as whole, while paying tribute to the
charms OF the ladies with whom he was
conversfng. The rotund and benevolent
Mr.. Pickwick himself was not averse to
charming society. Thackeray, in person
and in his novels let drop swear words oc-
casionally that would not now be tolerated
In gentleman's parlor. There was a
famous and brilliant lawyer of Charleston,
who fourished not long before the outbreak
of the civil war, who swore plausibly ar
tistically and easily in polite company and
told risque stories in the most select
circles; and he was accounted among the
most delightful company to be found within
the broad expanse of the country. In the
good old days. of long ago it was re-
garded as gentlerans privilege to swear
and If his oaths were nicely chosen no Of
tense was felt. 1t is not so now. Not that
profanity is obsolete, but it is pretty nearly
SO In polite society. 1t principally in
duiged in by uncultured persons or by the
tpsy. Occasionally the gentleman may let
slip an oath, under provocation, but in such
instances he is careful to note that there is
no woman within earshot. The ID at
the dinner table or in the drawing room is
unknown in these modern and better days
Men have higher and finer respect for
women, for themselves and for the lam
guage than in former times.
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EAT COLD MINCE PIE.
This Delicacy Said to Be a Favorite
Luncheon Dish With Men.

From the Knoxville Sentinel
A young woman who is in an office in
which there are a number of men saws
that 1t is a constant surprise to her to
see what these brain workers eat for
luncheon. The firm she is with is one of
those WHICH was burned out, and So as
the lunch room which the clerks once
frequented was burned also, these young
fellows now patronize the basket which
an itinerant colored man and his clean
and portly wife bring to the new quar-
ters.
The young woman says that one of the
most capable of the firms employees
lunches thoughtfully off a cold mince pie
and ice water. while he sorts his mail
She says he complains of headache ever
and anon, but he never thinks of at
tributing 1T to his diet; instead, he says
he thinks he is getting what one esti-
mable old lady used to call the la
grippe"
The other men. the girl says, are partial
to hot gingerbread, and when they can't
get that they will take cheese sandwich
reluctantly. The colored man has a can
of hot coffee with him, but in this build
ing it has no patrons, for the clerks agree
that hot coffee is bad for a fellow" even
while they drink freely at the water
cooler and nibble the piping-hot ginger
bread.
Il wouldn't have believed it If I hadn't
seen 1T with my own eyes," said the girl
to friend. Il always thought men
lunched of of porterhouse beefsteak and
sweetbreads and macaroni and sensible
things, and as ate my modest beef sand
witch and drank my cup of chocolate I
would picture to myself my friends of
the opposite sex living on the fat of the
land. If l had known about the cold
mince pie and the hot gingerbread 1
wouldn't have been astonished that some
of our men are thin and some are de-
spondent Such a diet is enough to give
the strongest person the polly wobbles
forevermore. And then they say women
eat silly things.