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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-30
NEW YORK FLOUR AND GRAIN, Dec 30

NEW YORK FLOUR AND GRAIN, Dec. 3d.
Flour, receipts "a, 1874 brls; sales. 6O0 dull and
sofa bakers s3.6o@85o; Minnesota patents.
s41o@4 80; :; winter stratghts, $4,000; winter
s.25. Wheat. receipts $4,000 bu: sales 1000
900 bu; weakness in northwest markets. easier
Liverpool cables and large Australian shipments
caused an opening decline but the market soon
rallied bull support, covering and R,oomhall
estimate TOR Lighter worlds shipments Monday;
nominal; No. 2 western. 75c. Corn. receipts 102,.
1928 bu; sales $4,000; firm covering Of Decem.
Der shorts; December. CSC. M
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-30

MIDWAY HORSE MARKET, Minnesota Trans
fer, st. Poul, Mimi, Dec. 30.-Barrettt & Tim
norman report: Today's closing Of the market
for the year 1905 marks the most prosperous
period In the history Of the business. and the
outlook for the coming year looks very bright:
Sales for the year have been enormous and at
good prices Receipts have been kept up to
high quality, and the closing today is the
strongest for any corresponding time. Values:
Drafters extra $1s5 @22o; drafters, choice, $155
@1S5; drafters, common to good. $l30@155;
choice. $13OQ145; farm mares, common to good,
$11O@1sO; drivers, extra, $15o@24o; drivers,
delivery. common to good, $1oo@13o.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-30
WHEAT MOVEMENT BY ROA1

WHEAT MOVEMENT BY ROADS, DEC 20.
Shipped-Cars-Mil Milwaukee, 70; Omaha 10; St.
Louis, IL; Great Northern. 100; Northern Pacific,
2o2; 500 Line, SO; Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cfc, z. .., -, ~
Shipped ars-Milwaukee, IS: st. Louis. s;
Wisconsin Central, s: Great Northern, III Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy, s: Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific, 4. =
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KANSAS CITY GRAIN. Dec. ao-c,oss.

KANSAS CITY GRAIN, Dec. 3O.-Close-
July. 7eMc: cash No. 2 card, 7s@s1 1%c: No. 5,
77@79hc; No. 2 red, ss@s9c; No. 8, saSS1c.
Corn lower; December, 1870; May, [Ss%c;
No. 2 white, 4Oc; No. 8, 4Oc Oats steadyi
No white, 81@31Ac; No. 2 mixed, BIC.
WINNIPEG GRAIN, Dec. ao.-Decembe1
wheat opened 74%c, closed 75c; January 75c
closed 75Ac; May, 79Ac, closed 791kc; July
SO$c, closed S01ac. Cash close: No, 1 north
ern, T51ac; No northern, 72a4c; No 8 north
ern, *IoAc; Ne: Shite oats. SIC: No barley,
cars; last year, 1o5. - .,t = ~ =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-30
HOGS FALL OFF
FOR One DIME
RANGING FROM $4.s5 TO s5.o5 AND
CLOSING LOWER.
Beef and Butcher Cattle in Strong De
mand, but Not Much of It IN
stockers and Feeders About Steady
--Sheep, Receipts Very Light and
Trade Moderate in Consequence
Lambs About Steady.

South st. Paul. Mimi. Dec. 3O.-Estimated
receipts at the Union stockyards today Cattle,
125: calves %; hogs, 5000; sheep. 75U; cars, 40.
The following table shows the receipts from
Jan. 1, 1905, TO date, Ms compared with the
same period in 1914:
Year. Cattle. Calves. Hogs. Sheep. Cars.
1905 .435,u;54 5o,.,Zi s5Z,4,4 SrI,oSS 3l.u4a
1904 .351, 1927 /37, 1894 s74,so1 7s2,905 2s,71s
Inc. sS,so7 1888 aa::. a+,7sa 2,S5o
The following table shows the receipts thus
far in December. as compared with the same
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-30
ACTIVE BONDS AND CURB STOCKS.

ACTIVE BONDS AND CURB STOCKS.
Quotations to close Dec 80.
American Tobacco As, S0A.
S SFSss;5a i: ST. IS 81 j. asked
Southern Paeinc Is. ssb bid. 81 ~ asked dsAso'
Sne P. aTs s 81 10 5 Did, ,ds 2S s ssksd
Erie convertibles, 1851.
Rock Island As, 1914.
R Beck Island n 81 5esa ssh bid 50 asked.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy joint Is, 1o14.
Baltimore & Ohio 31as. 95h bid, So asked.
United States Steel 6s, 96H, 96A. 96H, 96%,
Union Pacific convertibles 15o1a, 14eN.
Peoria & Eastern incomes, TN.
Northern Pacific Is, 1o5N.
Japanese lists, 99A. H.
JAPANESE AZ ' 49, 's sSs Ss s '0s'
Japanese second As, 90. ----
Greene Copper. 301. -~-- -st|
BOSTON MINING sToCPs, Dec. so.-closing
quota tions were as follows; Adventure, so
s5@s5h; Calumet & Hecla, 7o5Gf71o; Centen.
conper ooS 49, bsy
IN; Fin River 2h9S; CRANKY, eN@9M
G17anaRjuatH 5Ag4A Greene ,o Co., soA @s1
si asked 5F b5@tass s5ss S ;esas rs
asked: Parrot, 44@44k; Quincy, los@1os;
snsd eop pfsna 1854 S sR s9s5
Tamaraek, 11e@11s;, Teeumseh, 1oA al; IT
g H. United 4g g. 56
yerifne, isaGis9; Wyandot, 1E@1A N. G.,
As @4%; NJ. B.. S6% @s7a.
MIDWAY HORSE MARKET, Minnesota Trans
fer, St Poul. MINI; Dec so-Barre TT & lin I'm
for the year 1905 marks the most prosperous
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

the man has the Gamer ready to catch
him in the act. Say, but that bob cat
is a terror, and crosser than any ami
nal we got, except the hyenas. The
bob cat just walked around and snarled
and spit at the happy family through
the bars. and kept them awake all
night on the road, and the happy fam
lily held a sort of convention and l
could see by the way they all looked
at me that they were passing resolu-
tons inviting me to break UP the bob
cat business. The manager of the
menagerie told pa he wished the con-
founded bob cat would escape, cause
he was a blooming nuisance, so l
thought | would help get rid of the
beast. and save the show from dis
grace. So when we got to Oberlin l
thought that was a pious community
that could stand a wild bob cat, so l
put several sheets of sticky tanglefOot
fly paper in the bob cats cage and
opened the door of the cage, after the
crowd had gone into the main tent to
the big show, and the menagerie tent
was empty eXcnt the keepers. They
were all asleep under the wagons, and
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Now You Know.

Hunger, according to scientific au-
thority, is the sensation felt because OF
the contraction of the muscularis
either of the pylorus or possibly also
the entire stomach or OF the duo
denum. or of the contraction or the
muscularis of all these structures. II
the contraction is more intense 1t Is
felt as a painful hunger. Ii the con-
traction is slight, then the sensation
of the hunger is also OF a slight de-
gree: it is evanescent. Hunger is a
lesser degree of pain, and is produced
by the contraction of the muScularls.
This is the reason why hunger passes
away after a certain lapse OF time,
even if no food has been taken. IL
means simply that the muscularls pc
comes tired and contraction gives way
to relaxation. Absence of contraction,
the inability to contract; relaxation
distention-thesa being the opposite
the reverse of contraction-results ID
the opposite of appetite, a%norexia, pro-
vided. however, that such distentlon
is not caused by over-abundance OF
the irritating acid gases. Anorexla is
the sensory symptom Of distention OF
the stomach and upper portion OF the
intestine by nonirritating gases. ac-
companied by complete or partial re-
taxation of the %sphincter. This is the
condition we observe in chronic pylor-
tits. chronic gastritis, and chronic IN
fammatory conditions of the first por'
tion of the small intestine.
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chewed pas shirt until the hands
pulled pa away.
The bob cat escaped into the main
tent, just as the Japanese jugglers
were juggling in No. l ring, and the
elephants were standing on their heads
in No. 2 ring, and the flying trapeze
artists were jumping from n trapeze
to another, and the bob cat rushed
through the Japanese, and amongst the
elephants, with the fly paper all over
him, and the audience fairly yelled,
cause they thought it was a clown
dressed up to do some stunt, but the
Japanese left the ring in a panic, while
the elephants got down off their heads
and stood on their hind feet and cried
like children.
The audience saw that something
had happened that was serious and
they all rose to their feet and were
going off into a panic when pa and a
few brave men came and drove the
bob cat up a centerpole, away up above
the torches, and made speeches to the
audience, and quieted them down, and
the performance went on. But pa was
a sight, and the head circus man told
pa he would have to dress better, or
forever after hold his peace, and pa
said if any man could be more patient
than he was, with a bob cat on his
neck, a sacred COW walking on him,
and a camel trying to eat his whiskers
and shirt, they better hire that man.
But it was all fixed up and everybody
apologized to everybody, and the bob
cat went on up the center pole and out
on top of the canvas, and escaped
into Ohio, where it will probably be
holding Office before next fall.
Gee, but the giant is a coward.
When the bob cat began to run up the
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giants leg, and then up his back, and
then jumped from his shoulder onto
the fat lady. the giant turned pale and
cried, and the midget said to him:
20, you big stiff, why didn't you have
sand enough to hold the kitty till the
keeper came? I've a good mind to get
on a %stepladder and kick you" and
the cowardly giant cried again, and
said if the midget ever struck him he
would report him to the management.
Just then pa came along and asked
what the row was about, and when pa
found that the midget vas trying to
pick a quarrel with the giant. he took
the midget across his knee and gave
him a few spanks. and told him to quit
bullying the freaks. The midget got
up on a barrel and called his son, who
is bigger than pa, when l stepped in
between them and told the midget's
son if he struck my father | would
have his hearts blood, and he quailed,
and then | bullied the giant, who is a
coward, and now they are all afraid of
me.
| don't see how a big fellow like a
giant can be afraid of things smaller
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| So the balloon went on up with the
ladder and stove a hole in the cupola
of the town hall, and then sailed over
toward East Dayton, and descended in
Patterson's meadows, and they had to
| send the hook and ladder company
after it in order to GOV it.
Then there was his washing machine
to save DOR people from working too
| hard. He gave an exhibition of that in
the town hall. Dayton people never
derided Mr.. Petgreave. He was a low
able, absent-minded old man, and
think he must have had a certain
amount of magnetism about him, be-
cause whenever he announced in the
Dayton Independent that he was going
to give an exhibition OF a new inven-
| ton, he called out pretty much every
man. woman and child in the three
Daytons.
People knew that whatever might be
| at least work. And SO it was with his
washing machine.
Mrs. Tom Beverly allowed him to
wash the Beverly undergarments in
his exhibition trial. The machine was
| constructed on much the same plan as
the machines that have since come into
general use, only it was much bigger.
| The cylinder was as big as a hogshead,
and the motive power was Mr.. Pet
! greave's old white mare, Nance.
There were ten in the Beverly fam
lily: two parents, and the. rest chill
dren; and they had always found it
| hard to make both ends meet. 1t was
| really a kindly act in Mr.. Petgreave
to do their washing for them.
The clothes were put in, the soap
and the boiling water were added and
then the lid was put on and Mr.. Pet
greave chirruped to his horse and he
| began to walk the length of the room;
the ROPE to which he vas hitched be-
| gan to turn a windlass that was con
| nected by what he called multiple
| cogs" to the axle of the washing ma
| chine, and the cylinder revolved like
lightning.
I remember that the exhibition was
a complete success as far az the work
| was concerted. There were only two
| faults to be found with the machine;
most poor people could not afford to
buy a horse in order to run it-Mr. Pet
| greave admitted with a winning smile
that he had not thought of that, own
ing a horse himself-and the clothes
were reduced to fragments.
The Beverlys felt that they had con-
tributed to the cause of science, and
the Ladies' Aid society bought them
new undergarments, and the old ones,
| perfectly clean and consisting, when
dried, Of fragments not larger than a
half dollar, were exhibited in the win
| dow of Barton & Hadley's drug store.
| They were white as snow-those that
were not red, and there is no question
but that they were absolutely clean.
It is my humble opinion that some
one cribbed Mr.. Petgreave's idea and
modified it somewhat, for it was not 9
year after that before a clothes washer
that did not need a horse to run it and
that did not shred the clothes was on
| the New England market, and under
stand that the inventor made a fortune
out of it. But Mr.. Petgreave did not
care. He had enough to eat and
enough to wear and all out doors tc
: roam in when ha was not working II
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the animals had all curled down for a
mar, and the freaks were on their plat
form lolling around, waiting for the
main show to be out SO they could do
their stunts over again.
The bob cat got all his four feet in
the tanglefoot fly paper, then he
grabbed a sheet in his mouth and
rolled over in a few more sheets, and
when he was entirely harmless and
you couldn't tell what~he was, l opened
the door of the cage and he went out
like a rocket, and rolled over a few
times in the sawdust, and then jumped
on the platform with the freaks. run
over the fat woman, who was laying
back in a Morris chair, and left one
of the sheets of fly paper on her low
neck, and it stuck like a porous plas-
ter. She yelled that she had been
stabbed, and pa came along just as
the bob cat jumped Off the platform,
and struck pa on the back, and the cat
spit at pa. and pa fell over among the
sacred cattle and rolled under a COW
and got on his knees, when the ami
mails all began to roar, and pa craWled
behind a bale of hay, and a zebra
stepped on pas face, and pa yelled
ssHcy. Rube,' which is a grand hailing
sign of distress when circus men want
to fight, and about a hundred of the
canvasmen came running with tent
stakes to hit people with.
Pa crawled out from the bale OF hay,
which he had pulled over him, M the
hay stuck to the fly paper on pa, and
Q camel began to eat the hay. and he
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

than he is, and shy when a dog banks,
and be afraid some one is going to
smash him in the jaw, but pa says the
size of a man don't make any differ
ence, cause it is the heart that does
the business. A man may be big
enough and strong enough to tip over
a box car, loaded with pig iron, but
if his heart is one of these little ones
intended for a miser, with no pepper
sauce running from the heart to the
arteries and things, and a liver that
is white, and nerves that are trembly.
and M gall to speak of, why a big man
is liable to be walked all over by a
nervy little man who is .spunky, and
gets mad and froths at the mouth
I have been having great times with
the monkeys, and l guess the manager
will make me superintendent of mon
keys, cause they all seem to be stuck
on me, and will do anything I tell them
to. Pa says they think l am some new
kind Of a monkey, and they look up
to me. l lead out the big monkeys
that ride the goats and dogs, and have
a horse race in the ring, and fasten
them on the little animals, and when
they ride around the ring on the dogs
and goats and ponies, they keep look
ing at me as though they wanted my
approval.
There is one little monkey that
sleeps nearly all the time, and ]
played a trick on pa with it that like
to got me arrested and licked by a man
who was mad. A man and woman
with a baby in q little wagon were 60
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Mr.. Petgreave-
Inventor
BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS
tAuthor of Cheerful Americans etc.
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.


Mr.. Petgreave was an inventor, but
not of the Edison-Marconi-T Thompson
school. His inventions were never
quite practicable, and yet | doubt ii
any inventor eve experienced any
nor happiness than fell to the lot OF
Mr.. Petgreave. He lived in and with
his inventions, and when he had con-
structed a q day clock, whose winding
took an hour and a half, he was super
latively joyful, and called in n neigh
bors to rejoice with him.
And, to their credit be it said, the
neighbors did rejoice. Why. MIR. Eli
phalet Farnham Immediately ordered
a similar clock and made his son Gus
todian of it. He said it would be
something in the nature of a disciplln-
airy process for him to wind it. The
boy hated the idea. after he had wound
the clock once, and folks say he con-
structed a machine to do the winding
in five minutes; but l don't like to be-
lieve it, for Mr.. Petgreave had worked
something like a year on the construc-
ton of his clock, and it showed a want
of sympathy in a boy to try to improve
on the invention of an old man.
Then there was the balloon that Mr.
Petgreave invented for the purpose OF
making it easier for house painters to
raise their ladders. 1t was about as
big bodied as an elephant, and it cost
something like $50 to construct 1t.
When the day for it's exhibition came
it was hitched by a hook to the top
most rung of the biggest ladder in
town-one owned by the fire depart
ment, requiring two men to raise it or
dinarily.
The balloon did all that was expect
ed of it, and more. 1t took less than
an hour to fill the big silk bag, and
after that, so well had Mr.. Petgreave
understood it's capabilities, it did not
take a minute for the ladder to begin
to rise.
But Mr.. Petgreave had been so in
tent on raising the ladder hat he had
not reflected on the balloon. He should
have tied a rope to it in order to con-
troll it, but he had neglected to do so.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
RUMOR.

DR.. Glennon, of st. Louis, is the
youngest archbishop in the world. He
is 42 years old.
The Methodists of this country have
undertaken the task of raising $780,
900 for an Indian jubilee fund.
The Epworth league of Springfield
Qll.) district will support a mission
airy in Borneo, and is raising $1,000
for that purpose.
1t is considered probable that Most
Rev. Francis Bourne, archbishop of
Westminster, will be chosen as the
fifth cardinal to be appointed at the
next consistory in Rome.
The northern and southern Presby-
terrain churches in the United States
are uniting to establish a theological
school for the training of native Chi
nese ministers in Marking, China.
Rev. John Schaeffer, until quite re-
Gently a minister at Youngstown, o.,
has just celebrated at North Benton,
O., his one hundredth birthday. He
was born in Northumberland, county.
The Methodist church of Canada is
prosecuting it's missionary work with
great energy. The missionary num-
Der Of the Christian Guardian shows a
most encouraging condition of that
work in all parts of the church's great
field.
The organ of the Presbyterian
church in Japan, controlled and edited
by japanese, gives the Information
that the creed of the Japanese Presby-
terrain church is quite different from
that of the American church. 1t is
neither Calvinistic nor Arminian, but
apostolic.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
Mother Earth Shaking Herself.

Mother Earth appears to be going
through a series OF lively tremors. The
recent disastrous earthquakes in Italy
have been followed by a number of less
serious p~erturbations, while Cuba, ia
maica and other places on this side OF
the hemisphere are having a lively
shakeup. The connection which
seems to exist between these nantes
tations at widely different points is a
subject of great interest to students OF
seismology.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

GAS you know, I wrote you that mydoctor
said l must have an operation or l could not
live. l then wrote you, telling you my all
ments. l followed your advice and am en-
tirely well. l ear walk miles without an
ache or a pain, and 1 owe my life to you and
to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
| wish every suffering woman would read
this testimonial and realize the value of writ
ing to you and your remedy Mrs. Mary
Dimmick, seth and E. Capitol Streets, Ben
ming T. o., Washington, d. c.
When a medicine has been successful
in restoring to health SO many women
whose testimony is SO unquestionable,
you cannot well say, without trying it,
81 do not believe it will help me-" If
you are i'll, don't hesitate to get a bot
tie of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pink
ham, Lynn. Mass, for special advice
it is free and ALWAYS heluful.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
Mighty Poor Economy.

Nipkins-Why so blue, old boy?
Bliffkins-I tried to economic by
marrying my typewriter.
Good ideal"
mo, it wasn't. She refuses to dc
any more typewriting, demands two
servants to take car Of her, and in
sists that my next typewriter shall be
a man, although men want larger sal
aries.'-N. Y. Weekly.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

May 14.-This has been a week that
of resigning, though pa feels as though
he didn't want to break up the show
by going away right in the middle OF
the harvesting of shekels from the
country men. and l don't know what
would happen if pa and l should both
be taken sick at the ame time.
The boss of the menagerie got a new
animal by express from Colorado when
we were leaving Akron, O., and we
got it in one end of a cage occupied
by a happy family of rabbits, coons, a
spotted leopard and a hound dog and
a house cat. The new animal was a
bob cat. such as Roosevelt shoots when
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Washing Milk.

Bacon-How do you know your milk
nan gives you clean milk?
Egbert-Because Eve seen him wash
ing it at the pump.-Yonkers States
man.
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Philosophic

Wise-You really should be more
economical.
Gailey-Oh! I will be, some day.
Wise-T should a so. You'll have
to be some day.
Gailey-All right; if I have to
won't mind it so much.-Philadelphia
Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

eDoco for Secretary Of Interior.
1t appears that 4 lot of Pennsylvania
physicians want a doctor in the cab
met. How would a doctor do for tia
secretary of the interior?
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
Accounted For

Landlady-I think very highly Of
these eggs.
Starboard-Ah, heirlooms in your
tamily?-N. X. Sun.
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b STRAIGHT Tin

Talkative Observation-Disclosures! And
how is it, then, that you're not allowed
to take tips? Eli?
Waiter-Customers object, sir!
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
No Secret About It.

Reporter-Senator, what is the secret
of your hostility to reformers?
Senator Graphter-They're so blamed
superRuous. There's nothing that needs
reforming,-Chicago Tribune.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
Copyright by J. B. Bowles.)

The Bad Boy Puts Fly-Paper in the
Bob Cats Cage - The Bob Cat
Causes a Panic in the Main Tent
The Midget Quarrels with the
Giant-Pa Is Almost Arrested for
kidnapping and the Ostrich Swal-
lows His Diamond Stud.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

When a man decides that he will never
get married, it is a sign that he is mere
" acquiescing in a majority report rem
dered by a quorum of the other sex.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

Following we publish two let
terS from a woman who accep-
ted this invitation. Note the
result.
First letter.
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
"For eight years | nave suffered something
terrible every month with my periods. The
pains are excruciating and | can hardly stand
them. My doctor says l have ovarian and
womb trouble, and must go through an OPP
Grafton if | want to get well. | do not want
to submit to it if l can possibly help it.
Please tell me what to do. Ihope you can
relieve me. Mrs. Mary Dimmick, 59th and E.
Capitol SITS, Benning P.O., Washington, DC.
Second letter.
{ Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
AFTER following carefully your advice,
and taking Lydia J.. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, l am very anxious to send you
my testimonial, that others may know their
valueand what you have done for me.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

To Cure e Cold IN Une Day
Take LAXATIVE BRoMO Quinine ablet
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVES signatureis on each box. zoe