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The San Francisco call., 1904-08-05
MEN anamMAa1ERS IN
THE E0REIs lie WORLD
MONEI

GARDEN. LONDON, July 22.-When
the Duchess OF Manchester's present
chauffeur was before a magistrate a
few days ago for furious driving his
fair employer put on her most inno-
cent face and protested that she did
not encourage her drivers in their
wild escapades. Those who know her
best will not take her protestations
seriously, for she is known to all her
friends and to almost every profess
sional motor driver in England as one
who is absolutely reckless about trav-
cling at a high rate of speed. AL
though she has not yet obtained her
qualification certificate from her mo-
tor school the Duchess is not afraid
to take her car in hand on a quiet
country road and dash wildly along,
disregarding the presence of the pa
trolling policeman. She is known
among the fashionable motoring fra
ternity as the 'scorcher" and the driv-
er who is not able to get the most out
Of his car has no business in her es-
tablishment. She pays the highest
wages and must have the best man.
When her driver gets fined she pays
up and recOmpenses him for the dam
age he suffers through having his Ii
cense "indorsed." Her statement be-
fore the magistrate that she has been
obliged to discharge several drivers
on account of the propensity for furi-
GUS driving is not literally correct.
The drivers leave after they have
been fined TO protect themselves be-
cause a second or third Endorsement
on their license may mean its absolute
withdrawal by the police authorities
and then its erstwhile holder would
be obliged to seek some other occupa-
ton. Discussing the subject with the
writer, one of her late drivers said,
we do not run the risk of getting
fined for the fun of the thing. A IA
vorite saying of her Grace is that she
has not discarded horses to drive
along by a slower method Motors
are made to run, not to crawl she
shouted wrathfully to me one day as
was driving along Piccadilly endeav-
oring to negotiate some heavy traffic.
She is the most impatient woman that
1 have ever driven. II she wants to
be IN a certain place at a certain time
she expects you to do impossibilities;
she would actually provoke you to
run over the housetops. 1 would not
drive her again for $4,000 a year"
1t is only when the Duchess is ac-
companied by the Duke that she will
have a car driven at a moderate
speed. As readers probably know. the
Duke suffers from a weak heart and
does not take kindly to travelling at
top speed in a motor car.
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favorable for reliable and adequats
steamboat service. 1t IS never serious
ly affected by low water and there Is
no important natural obstacle to tho
constant use OF the river by vessels
OF sufficient size and power to meet
the needs Of traffic for generations TO
come, provided that the "sudd." the
remarkable masses OF vegetation
which sometimes clog and bridge the
channel Of the Nile, is kept broken
and cut up, a matter Of comparatively
small difficulty or expense. Bus
whether by river and railroad or
wholly by rail, there win probably bo
complete line Of modern steam COM
munication between Cape Town and
the Nile delta before many years.
British pride Is enlisted In the project.
as well as British commercial spirit,
and more than half the work Is done
already.
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What They Accomplished.

A certain clergyman reports the fol-
lowing incident as occurring just in
side the entrance to one of the largest
and most popular New York churches
during a crowded service.
1t was during the reading Of a
prayer and the entire congregation
was kneeling. A man of rough ap-
pearance, evidently unused to the
ecclesiastical surroundings. strolled
through the open doors and stared IN
apparent wonderment at the silent and
kneeling congregation. He looked a
moment, then turning to the sexton,
who stood near by, remarked briefly:
"Well, this beats the DEVIL"
The sexton turned a serene eye on
him.
THAT is the intention" re replied
Harper's Weekly.
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Mathematical Wonders.

Infant musical prodigies are intel
ligible and even natural, compared
with infant mathematical prodigies.
How account for the intuitive faculty
by which Sme children. unable to
read, write or cipher, can answer in
simultaneously the most complicated
arithmetical problem? Zerah Col
burn, e. g, at six could neither write
nor cipher, and yet could answer. an
parently by intuition and unhcsitat-
ingly, all kinds of arithmetical ques-
tons. At eight he came on show
from the United States to London and
answered in a moment and accurate
ly such questions as: How many min
utes are there in forty-eight years %
The child not only answered it at once
and correctly, but instantly added the
number of seconds contained in that
period. BY what mental process he
arrived at these answers he could not
explain.
Here again is a question which
George Bidder, the son of a Devon
shire laborer, answered at the age of
II, in one minute. It was put to him
in the London Stock Exchange: "If
the pendulum of a clock vibrates the
distance of nine inches and three
quarters in a second of time, how
many inches will it vibrate in the
course Of seven years fourteen days
two hours one minute and fifty-six
seconds, each year of 365 days, five
hours forty-eight minutes and effty-
five seconds?"
Within the minute the boy had an
swered correctly: 2,165, In
miles, 34,17S miles 475 yards two feet
and three-ouarters of an inch.
But the classical case of this kind
was that investigated by committee
of such scientists as NJ. Arago, NJ. Lii
bri and n. LacroiX at Paris. They ex-
amined Vito Mangiamele, the son of
a Sicilian peasant, IL years of age,
putting to him such questions as:
Find the cube root of 3,796,416''-
which the boy did within half a min
ute. Find the tenth root of 1892
475, 5,249'-which he did within three
minutes. Then came this poser:
What number has the following pro-
portions-that, If its cube is added to
five times its square. and then AZ
times the number and the number 40
be subtracted from the result the re-
mainder is zero?" M. Arago repeated
this question, but while he was finish
ing the last word the boy replied cor
rectly, The number is five"
Two things strike you about this
extraordinary congenital faculty-its
mysteriousness and its uselessness. In
exemplification of the two take the
case of Jedediah Buxton. He also
worked out almost instantaneousIy the
most complex problems, but he could
give no account Of the mental process
by which he solved them. This process
was SO far from being correlated with
intellect, or even intelligence, that
when Jedediah went to hear a great
preacher or went to see Garrick in
Richard ILL.," his sole interest in the
sermon or the play was the counting
up Of the number of words uttered by
the preacher or by the actors.-T. P.'s
Weekly.
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Not Possible.

When Senator Newlands Of Nevada
was debating his resolution to annex
Cuba he exclaimed dramatically:
This argument furnishes every kind
Of fuel that eloquence needs"
He sent down for the transcript of his
speech. The young typewriter who took
the dictation of the stenographer from
the phonograph had made it;
This argument furnishes every kind
of food that elephants need"
Il doubt" said Senator Hale, when
he heard it, IF even elephants could
digest it,
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ing break the hold of enthusiasts and theorists
the public mind.
Too many millions to be spent irrigation to
permit it to be made the vehicle of deception and the
of loss and disappointment Eastern people who
to get land in the irrigated districts wise
in the artificial of water They have been intoxi-
Gated by the hamboyant rhetoric used in certain per-
sonal publications in Chicago They often conceive
that any kind of land and any quantity of brought
together will produce Eden in a brief time.
1t is necessary undeceive them. Therefore as
sert that nowhere in the arid region has miners inch
of water served of land More than that
deny that is capable of that duty in any irrigated
region earth. 1t would hardly much as
heavy dew Our correspondent, who evidently agrees
with us, will therefore that both of the
mind and working to the same purpose.
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An effort, fortunately unsuccessful, made the
other day by hunters murder of the game war
dens of Mendocino County. While the intended victim
may be congratulated his escape his experience NAV
viewed in the light of refreshing innovation in the
methods of California huntsmen. There is partial COM
pensaon in the fact that somebody who shoots you be-
lieved you to be man, deer, when he fired This
vcaous sacrifice of innocent for stray deer is be-
coming nonotonous.
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THE DUTY OF WATER.
coming monotonous.

CORRESPONDENT seems to have carelessly
~ read Irrigation Fancies" We were ex-
pressly repudiating the opinion of of those
engaged in Federal irrigation, that miners inch will
500 acres of land If is intended to store water
the theory that inch is capable of such duty we
said and repeat that loss and bitter disappointment
will result There in editorial and II
was simply advance publication of the very state
ments made by correspondent. We were endeavor-
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WASHINGTON LETTERS - The
Carnegie Institution of Washington. D.
c., is considering proposition Of pre-
pairing an exhaustive list Of the letters
and other papers Of George Washing
ton. In letter to Colonel A. S. Hub
bard, secretary OF the California His
toricaI Society, this city. the institution
asks, Are there any letters OF which
you know in the libraries or in the
hands of private persons in your vicin-
ity?" Do any of the readers of this de-
partment know of any Washington let
tiers or documents?
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Four daring highwayme- held up a train on the out
skirts of Chicago the other night and robbed the pas
sengers of every dollar that destined for
of the ST. Louis Exposition in sightseeing. This is
clearly instance where the concessionaires of the
great fair may look upon the exploit of the marauders
as violation of professional ethics and unjustifabe
invasion of field pre-empted by law the ticket
takers of "The Pike"
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The republic of Panama with the spirit of nationality
bubblng within her. has filed formal and dgnifed pro-
test against the Interpretation that have made of
canal treaty The baby nation is harboring opinion
that in trade privileges have gobbed everything in
sight Let us hope that Uncle Sam will be able to ex-
trcate himself from the difficulty without resort to
force. The republic of Panama is hardly big enough
spank.
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The people of San Francisco have last received the
word of regularly authorized municipal officials that our
theaters absolutely safe from the hazard of fire and
of panic This delayed long enough for
us to presume that it made with deberation
hope that sound Judgment is also involved and
that must not rest faith of life and limb upon
promise not wisely given
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-05

The famed New Jersey mosquito has reasserted its
claim to premiership in the realm of insect devtry An
unfortunate man, domicled in the State found the
other day lowering between life and death result of
attack of these little demons of infected
phere 1t certainly about time look upon the
New Jersey mosquito and his celebrated pantaloons
no Joke
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rising wheat market has set the local Dit on the
very edge Of almost hysterca excitement and fortunes
is said being and lost in day. Soon we
will the inevitable reaction the collapse after the
fever and then in the crumbing of fortunes made bv
gamblers will be regaled with the customary moral
deductions from speculative wealth winning and its train
of evils.
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Special information supplied daily 20
business houses and public men BY the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's -. 23O Gals
nornta street Telephone Main 1042,
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General Chaffee has finished his inspection of the
military Notifications in and around San Francisco and
expected that result of this personal nves9a
ton and observation of the distinguished soldier urgent
recommendation will be made for increased appropria
tons from Congress- This we'll With the iudicious
expenditure of money the Preside be made one of
the beautiful national parks in America as it IS
now of the most formidaby fortified reservations
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Townsend's California Glace fruits In
artistic fre-etched hikes. IT'S Market st
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-05

GEOGRAPHIC VILLA NJ. c., San
Leandro, Cal An Geographic will.
which is one written wholly by the
testator, may be, but-does not require
to be witnessed by any one. 1t has
been held that such a will. written
on a sheet Of paper on which was
printed only the words and figures
San Francisco. ...-....1S9.. was in
valid. for the reason that on the face
of the paper there was something that
was not In the handwriting Of the tes-
tator.
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Good specs. eyeglasses. 15c-5Oc- 70 4th
ST.. front of Keys Gel oyster House.
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AnSyUers to Queries.

CREDITED TO CABLE-Subscribe
City. "A man who can play delight
fully on the guitar and keep a knife
in his boot would make an excellent
poker player is credited to Cable, the
Well-knOwn writer
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BATTLESHIPS- v. B.. City. The
cost Of battleships to the United States
Government ranges all the way from
$2,647.95O to $4.412.0OO. Twenty
three battleships of the United States
navy have cost the Government IN the
aggregate, as per contract price. S7S.-
1880, or an average Of within
fraction of $3,40S,SS0 each.
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The Flying Duchess.
SPECIAL core.ponden-e.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-28
GRAIN TRADE GOSSIP
3roomhall cables: Rains all four provinces

Broomhail cables: Rains all four provinces
in Argentine.
this wheat, market acts tired and it has reached
9 noint where the crowd has Valentine on the
defensive all the time, and this at time when
he seems anxious to sell: ! don't believe it
ting in stop orders at small loss One might
get licked two or three times ut this, but once
losses Think this applies to corn and se oats t@a as
well. Markets all need help to-day, and don't
appear to be getting it.
Verhoef from NIilmine: The direct Odessa
cepts light. We doubt if there viii be any sbarn
break here Argentine reports quite heavy rains
army were shipped from San Francisco yesterday
for the orient The meat was packed in spe.
cially built casks which arrived In South Omaha
of packing began and was hurried with all posi-.
BILE speed, and the first trainload. consisting Of
twenty five cars, left South Omaha Monday,
Coffee and cotton were again on the boom to.
day. July cotton sold to 1920, and May to
~ 4oc new high points s.l5,A Coffee se11 to s.s5e
coffee.
bags No. Z spot coffee in New York to-day and
Antwerp close: Wheat unchanged.
London close: Wheat lad lower to 4sd higher;
To-day's chicago Inspection shows 40 cars
Charles =. Lewis, from Chicago: The Great
Westerns 5-cent cut in Kansas City Minneapolis
wheat very materially.
Broomhall estimates Argentine shipments at
1000, 900 bu wheat and 500, 900 bu corn.
C1earances: Wheat and -four 81 900 bu; corn
142, 900. bu; oats, 49, 900 bu.
Liverpool close: Wheat, A@ssd lower;
Paris s. close: wheat closed aa1 centims
lower. - -
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DAILY WHEAT MOVEMENT.
The following IRE the receipts and shipments
the principal primary wheat markets:
CHICAGO GRAIN
WHEAT PRICES BREAK-CoRN AND OATS
DECLINE IN SYMPATHY

Chicago. Jan. 2s.-Local traders were inclined
to play Tor break in wheat prices to-day. Lib
ieral selling from this quarter caused an easier
tone in the market. :, There was considerable
commission house selling of May ut the
start and opening prices were Is nc lower to a
shade s higher, at s9A @s91Ac., After touching
soc. the price was bid up by the principal long
interest until it had reached s9a4c. At this
figure the pit crowd turned active sellers. which
resulted In gradual decline again to the low
point. The July option also showed weakness,
a. q after opening shade to @Ac higher, ut
apois. Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of
S04 cars, against 1856 cars last week and All
year ago.
The sentiment became more bullish as the ses-
sion advanced. A better demand from commits
sion houses and local traders for both May and
July deliveries developed with consequent
gain in prices The bull factors were the
strength of the cash article at Minneapolis and
confiruaat ton of reports Of rain in Argentina
War news also exerted some influence. At 9OAc
for May the market ran against a lot of Ions
wheat and there was a quick decline of &c
July July held firm and closed 1s@%c higher at
gain of A@ssc, at S9Ic.
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MARKET WAS
IRREGULAR
BEARS, HOWEVER, HAD ALL THE
BEST OF THE TRADING.
Volume Of Business Was Light in First
Hour, the List Showing Mixed Gains
and Losses Then Came a Rally,
but Selling Was Renewed Before 1t
Had Made Much Headway.

New York, Jan. 2s.-The opening stock
market showed great irregularity within
narrow limits and on moderate volume
of trading. Different members of the
Iron and steel industrials moved In con-
trary directions. United States Steel pre-
ferred, Southern Pacific and Wabash pre-
ferred declined "a. Pressed Steel Car
rose X and Realty preferred a point
Stocks were sold freely and genral
losses ran from y, to n while Sugar.
Coal, Consolidated Gas and Baltimore &
Ohio suffered from l to l1s Atchison and
Illinois Central offered good resistance,
rising large fraction and Realty pre-
ferred went a fraction higher. The mar
ket was steadier in tone at II o'clock and
became dull at the rally Nashville, Chat
tanooga & ST. Louis and Wabash preferred
advanced two points.
Selling was renewed before the rally had
made any Roadway and the Changers, Pa
cities, Coalers,. Louisville & Nashville, Wa
bash preferred, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and
Car preferred and Brooklyn Transit
showed losses Of a point or more. Pressure
relaxed in a dull period of trading which
followed but the market showed little rail-
lying power. Bonds were heavy at noon.
The inability of the bull leaders to
force the rally encouraged more agrees
sive selling by the traders, and prices
yielded to lower level all around. ST.
Paul and Sugar extended their losses TO
11s and Baltimore & Ohio and United
States Steel to 2. Amalgamated and Mis-
souri, Pacific, which had received some
measure of support later, also ran off
point.
Rallies and reactions alternated In a
small way. Selling was concentrated at
intervals against important market lead
ers such as st. Paul, Pennsylvania, Rock
Island, Sugar, Amalgamated and United
States Steel preferred. The low prices in
dicated losses quite generally of point
or more and approaches in some half-doz-
en- fa.vorites. Some less important stocks
averaged down between and 2. General
Electric declined 4.
Stock quotations reported for The Journal by
Watson l. Co., brokers, Chamber Of Commerce,
Minneapolis:
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Prices Sc to 10c lower. Receipts fairly moder-
81 ho tan broass g One
range $4:45 to s4e5' Bulk. s.. Is to $3.50; light
ana MIXED X hogs of common quality are quotable
G asd x 5oa aes eoae
ewes and heavy hogs from 81; 50 to s4.e5.
b. ?s IS Is e. s1 19s SIS s4 Is;
lOi s sDa "a 1Ss lbs Is 2oe lbs
Stays and Boars-l. 40 lbs. 1925.
trade anet st TR and
yesterday, advances. Bulls and veal calves
STEADY: Mich &c COWS almost unstable Good
stfsaE Light d1. st ssa
Cutters and Canne:s-3, 1850 lbs, S225: l.,
10 1929 lbs, sails; 8. $40 lbs, ST 90; 3. $40 lbs
sso 5si sl:' 81 y Ss sss5 s17S
3 e E: y i T: ii: 10 81 lbs:
s2sh saa gssa's: stsfE is: ss g? ss sss
and r sea ss Rss I1s 5G lSs $
s4s; ~ COW and calf, $2l COW and ae calf,
epSssa f SssS lot sss trade
p qn Rens dReep and lambs quiet with
choice wethers Of local feeding at 81 and feed
lot yearling wethers at 81 LOO. Sales:
s, k u r Sheep and Lambs lambs, 50 lbs.
So; 212 western yearling wethers, IS lbs. s. 30:
5%S western r, wethers. 107 lbs, 81. go :
Nsewsah, Hutchinson J. S. Green, Red Wing:
W; Chapel, Cleveland; T. Boerner, Prescott,
Wls;; 6. Mold. Nelson, Wis.,: Il. ]. Mathieson.
little Falls J. Schafer, Sank Rapids: r. H
Kempton, Merton; NJ. T. Regan, Prior Lake; c.
Zones a, West Concord; $. Gibbons, Mantorville;
HH4e siy Brothers, Goodhue; Rea Brothers, Big
1 pacl Mont; 9. 3. Welty, Audubon: o. A.
Berg Battle Lake; N. S. Johnson, Battle Lake;
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THE CASH TRADE
FIRMNEss IN ALL COARSE GRAINS AND
GOOD DEMAND.

GOOD DEMAND.
FLAX-Prices firm around S1.14 for No. 1
seed and M the market very active Rejected sold
Closing prices: Minneapols---Cash, $1131a
to arrive, $l.13h; January, $1.12h; May, $1.l5
minneapolis received 20 cars, against 10 a
year ago, and shipped Z. Duluth received 40
cars.
CORN-Receipts, cars; shipments, cars.
No. yellow closed at 3S2Ic.
g oATS-No white closed at 3sc. Receipts,
81, cars; shipments 80 cars.
,gMILLSTUFFS Bran In bulk, $14.25Gl15;
shorts. $14.75@15; middlings, $16.75@17; red
dog, $40 25@1850; all f. o.. b. in Minneapolis;
in 100-lb sacks, $3.50 per ton additional; in
2o0-lb sacks, 81 per ton additional. Shipments,
1,095 tons.
p FEED AND NEAL-Coarse corn meal and
cracked corn in sacks sacks extra, $15Gl15.25;
No. ground feed % corn and 1-3 oats sO-lb
sacks. sacks extra, $16@16.25; No. 2 ground
feed y corn and "a oats, 75-lb sacks, sacks
extra, $17M17 20; No. 8 ground feed, 1-3 corn
and % oats, 75-lb sacks, sacks extra, $1S0l
1925. 'o
RYE-Receipts. 13 cars; shipments, cars
No. 2 closed at 57Ac. - -
BARLEY-Feed grades are quoted at s6@5oc;
mailing grades 5O@55c. Receipts, p SarN
shipments, "a cars.
HAI-Timothy. choice, $9.5o@10.5o: timothy
No. l, $9@9.5O; timothy, No. e ST 5OMS 50:
timothy, low grade, $6@7; clover, $6@7 so; up.
land, choice, $S.50@9; upland, No. /, 75O0O
$50: upland. No. 2, $65O@7 so; midland Sc. 50
M750; slough, S5.5O@6.5O; straw, rye, A.5O0l
6; straw, wheat and oat, $4@4.5 Receipts
227 tons.
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LONDON CLOSING STOCKS, Jan.

LONDON CLOSING STOCKS, Jan. 2s.-Con-
Anacends, ssl Atehison rex: Atehison ,' pre- re.
as;ss PA H aSes. Canadian
GREAT western ohcsgo Mwsnee chleego
Paul, 151; DeBeers, 90; Denver & Rio Grande,
S3!!s; Denver q Rio Grande preferred, 1917;
Erie SECOND preferred, 491a; illinois Central, ex
dy.. aSo; louisville Nashville, ex. div, 1l1A;
G missouri s Kansas & Texas, 1sM; New York
folk Western preferred, SO; Ontario & West
esn A RsnnsKyysnis e. Rand Mines
Reading second preferred. BIZ; Southern Rail-
%ayy 2&: Southern Railway preferred 81;
PACING preferred, 80: United States Steel, liz;
United States Steel preferred, 58N Wabash, q;
Wabash preferred, ii ~ - ~. -
Money No sass per The rate OF discoSnt IN
the open market for short bills is 2H13 per
cent; Tor three months bills is 8 per cent. Z