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Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-10
I gsSe, futures !. 1Es quiet January, Is 'Sd'
CHICAGO GRAIN AND Provisions
Features of the Trading and closing
Prices ON Board of Trade.

Prices ON Board of Trade.
CHICAGO Dec. s.-small receipts in the
northwest had strengthening influence
today on the wheat market. AZ the close
May delivery was up &c. Corn, oats and
PROVISIONS were practically unchanged.
=, hrm tone prevailed in the wheat mar.
ket throughout the day. The feature Of
trading was covering by shorts but busi-
ness was not large. One of the main
factors In the situation was the continued
receipts Of small shipments of wheat at
Minneapolis and Duluth and the consequent
nrm tone of the northwestern market. An
other factor was comparative hrmness OF
the wheat market at Liverpool. where
prices showed only a slight decline not
withstanding the slump OF yesterday In the
local market The close was firm, opened
sc TO &c higher at sS5tdss2.c, sold between
81Aasossc and s9fIs9hc, and closed at SS7tc.
Siea AZ, nc OF wheat and -four were equal
20 l2l,Vo bushels. Primary receipts were
$3.50 bushels against sf7 600 bushels year
ago Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago re-
ported receipts OF 545 cars against 446 cars
last week and 799 cars a year ago.
sentiment In the corn pit was inclined to
De bearish, covering by shorts preventing
conditions for the movement OF the new
crop were the chief source Of weakness.
Trading was exceedingly quiet for the
greater part of the day. The market
closed steady. May opened unchanged to
hc lower at 445Q45c, sold up to 45lka452sc.
az cars with . cars of contract grade.
Fair demand by commission houses caused
by light acceptances from the country inn
parted hrm undertone to the oats mar.
ket. Trading was active with cash interests
the principal sellers. May opened I'M
changed 70 shade lower at S24sd329io to
ENC, sold between 32@c and 327kc and
closed at 32esq32%c. The local receipts were
1872 cars.
Provisions were quiet but firm. A feature
OF trading was good demand for Decem-
per and January lard. Shorts were the
chiet buyers. The small amount of local
STOCKS caused the demand. At the close
May pork was up a trile at Sl3.55d13.571R
Lard and ribs were each up 2i6c at s742
and S.221kd7.25.
Estimated receipts for Monday: Wheat
u cars; corn, 400 cars; oats, 179 cars; hogs,
5000 head
The leading futures ranged as follows:
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oils and RosIn.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-OIIl-COttonseed
hrm; prime crude nominal: prime yellow
29hQ29Ac. Petroleum, steady. refined New
York, SEQ; Philadelphia and Baltimore.
SID; prime, In bulk, A.e5. Turpentine,
quiet 4Q64ikc.
RosIN-Quiet; strained, common TO good.
OIL CITY Pa, Dec. 9.-OlL~-Credit bal
age, 1854 bbls. Runs, n. l28 bills; average.
81. $50 bbls. Lima shipments, 5T426 bbis :
average, 7OlA bbls Lima runs. 0.Sls bbls. /:
average, 1859 bbls.
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sugar and NIoIns.e..

NEW YORK, Dec. g. - SUGAR - Raw
strong; fair refining, 1-l6G3lkc; centrifiIRai
20 test 3ssc; molasses sugar, 2l3-lGTizssc
:, &c; No. 2, S.s5c; No. 10, $500: No. ii, ss5c
NO. u. 2SOc; No. 13 375c; No. IA 355c.
eonfectloners' A, 4.Sc: mould A. 5O5c; cut
loaf, 5.4Oc; crushed 5.40c: powdered 800 =.
granulated, 400; cubes. A. 5c.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec 9.--SuGAR-Firm.
open kettle, 3u3hc; open kettle centrifugal
3bQ3 7-l6c; centrifugal whites, S5kGilc. vel
low, Shd3&c; seconds, 2Gf3ltc.
MOLASSES - Open kettle, 2OQ3Oc; CEN
trifugal, Sq20c. Syrup, 2Od2Gc
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NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-MONEY-on call
nominal; no loans; time loans firm; sixty
and ninety days, per cent and commits
sions: 6 months, per cent.
PRIME MERCANTILE PAPER - 5ikd6
per cent
STERLING EXCHANGE - Strong, with
actual business In bankers bills at A@6OR
Asses for demand and at S.S25O for sixty
"a S6lt; commercial bills, S4S2d4 S2h
SILVER - Bar, 61sc; Mexican dollars,
ieikc.
BONDS - Government. steady; railroad.
irregular.
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stock I'm Sight.
Gomez Market.

NEW YORK. Dec. 9-COFFEE-The
market for coffee futures opened Irregular
az unchanged prices TO decline OF points.
Trading was quiet at first. but there was a
ton and the market toward the close was
weak and unsettled In spite OF fairly steady
European cables. The close was irregular
at a decline OF 29dS points. Sales were re-
ported OF s2,75O bags, including December
az 5.40c. March at 6sO,d8. 60c. April at g &c,
May at 645g6.75c, July at e7596S5c. Septem-
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ST. LOUIS, No, Dec. 9.-CATvTI,E Ere
ceipts, 600 head. including 300 Texans. Mar
ket steady; native shipping and export
steers A50q5. 50: dressed beef and butcher
steers, $Sl0q6.25; steers under 1000 lbs
81. 60q315; stockers and feeders, $2O06Is 10 /:
cows and heifers, S200G4.40; Gamers 81 rs
Texas and Indian steers, 81 2Od3'75: cows
and heifers, S20OdS.OO
HOGS-Receipts, $500 head Market &c
lower; pigs and lights. $45OGI495i packers.
s460q5.O5; butchers and best heavies 81. 81
Q5.05.
No sheep on sale
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81. Joseph Live stool. M.rk.,.

ST. JOSEPH. Dec. 9.-cATTLE-Reeeipt
l62 head; market steady to lOc higher; cows
and heifers, lOql5c higher; stockers and
feeders, steady to strong.
HoGS-Reeeipts, 1881 head market &c
lower; top, $505
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts, none;
lambs, strong; sheep, steady
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SIOUX CITY, Dec. s.-(SpeciaI TeleRran.)
CATTLE - Receipts, 300 head; market
steady; beeves, S350e155O; COWS, bulls and
mixed, S30OG3.45; stockers and feeders 81 rs
$3.50; calves ard yearlings, S2.50da25
HOGS-Receipts. 5000 head; market weak
selling at $4.7O6l4S5. bulk OF sales, 81. 1904 ~
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. 81. LoaIs GeneraI Marl. ed.

ST. LOUISE Dec. 9.-WREAT-FutuTe
higher; cash weak. No. ned. cash, eleva-
tor, 9lGl93c; track, 94lkM95lsct Deceh.ber, SSci
May, S7%c; No. hard. S4dS6lhc,
CORN--Futures firm; cash lower; No. 2
cash, 42Ikc; track, 43Ad44c; December, 42c;
May, sc.
OATS Firm; No. . cash. s2c; track. sSc
December, aAc; May, S2bqS2ho; No. :
white, Ssikc,
FIOUR-Stead red winter patents,
S4s0Q4.50; extra fancy and straight $390d
4,25; clear, $2.65q3.70,
sEED-Steady: timothy $2.5Oa2.6O; prime.
ESQ
Steady $3.50
BRAN-Firm; sacked, east track, 15QI6c
HAY-Steady; timothy, &OOql5.OO; prairie,
/ IRON COTTON TIES-s9c.
BAGGING--9ilc.
HEMP TWlNE-11zc.
PROVISIONS-Ste jobbng, sl4o0
Lard, higher: prime steamed, steady, $62Ils.
Dry salt meats, steady; boxed extra shorts,
F75; clear ribs, 500; short clear SS.25.
Bacon steady; boxed extra shorts $50;
clear ribs, SS75; short clear. $500.
POULTRY-Steady; chickens, she;
springs. l0lkQ1lhc; turkeys lshc; ducks,
i0ike, geese, 74dSc.
BUTTER- STEADY creamery, 2i995ci
dairy. HG2lc.
MT gltf ~ Nnr a ud
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PeorIa Grain AInrke,.

PEORIA. H.. Dec s-CORN-Fasv. No
yellow Sc No, s. 4Sc; No, 4 42e; no
I white, 30ik6uAc. 49,
wHIsKy-on the basis OF $50 for nm
ished goods
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sILYER-Bar. steady. % l1-l6d per ounce.
MONEY-lh per cent.
The rate 81 discount In the open market
for short bills is per cent; for three
months bills, per cent.
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Articles Open high Low. close Yes'y
EMO. 2. told. thew.

FLOUR-Dull prices 1Oc lower; winter
patents, $S.S5G4.10; straights, SS.65d3 80;
spring patents, S3.Bd410; straights, g. coz
$50; bakers, s.. 256I3.1O.
WHEAT-No. spring s5dSs1hc; No. 3,
S2gS7c; No. 2 red, SSdSS1hc.
CORN-No 2, 47c; No. yellow 47c
OATS-No 2, 31d3lMc No. 2 white, $50
SSikc; No. white, 311kd32hc.
RYE-No. 2, SIC.
BARLEY-Good feeding, 37h6Ssc; fair
to choice mating, 42d50c.
SEEDS-No. l flax, CSC: No. / northwest
ern, A.O1h. Glover, contract grade, $4,000
IL. 25. Timothy, prime 1895.
PROVISIONING pork, per bbl., $40. 25
d13.371z. Lard. per 100 lbs. $7.7OGI7. 72Ih
Short ribs sides Qoose), $6.S71kd7. 121k; short
clear sides (boxed), $7.121ka725 %.
Following were the receipts and ship
ments of flour and grain.
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Der at 6.s0a7 csc. October at 7.0oa7lOc and
November at 6.S6c. Spot, easy; No. Rio,
invoice, S 1-l6c
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LfverpooI OHM Market.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. s.-WHEAT-Spot
steady; No, red. western winter Is I'd /;
futures quiet: December, IS Iltsd; March
Is llIsd; May, 6s lOisd
coRN-spot. quiet; American mixed, A.
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Treanurr stnfement-

WASHINGTON, Dec s.-Today's state
ment OF the treasury balance In the gen
eral fund. exclusive Of the $50 10000 GOLD
reserve. shows; Available cash balance,
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
WARRANTY DEEDS.

WARRANTY DEEDS.
Maude' Mogge to II. A. Turkey, W 117h
feet lot 60, Hartman's add. ............$
II. a. Turkey to W. l.. Parish, lot /,
block 20, Halcyon Heights. ........... 1W
Mary e. Tatman to Harry Marowitz,
lot 3, McCandlish place. .,............. LOCO
II. p. Deuel. and wife to S. @. Johnson,
T. V. Smiths add. ............,....,,... 1.2O
r. V. Lewis and wife to Joanna Ochil-
tree and husband, lot II, block 3,
Sherwood's subdiv ........,......,...... 1000
Samuel Dresher to A. V. Dresher,
Al feet of So feet of sublot / of lot
TO- Johnson's add ...,........,........... 1900
w. A. Graham TO c. f. Gard, jr., lot
IT, block s, Plainview add. ............. 700
Agnes Willihun to James Bozdeck,
30 feet lot l. block 2, Credit Foncier
Omaha National bank to Catherine p.
Wallace, strip adjoining lot 4,
block ls7, Omaha Northumberland. 800
QUIT CLAIM DEEDS.
Henry Rohlf and wife to p. l.. Smith,
lot 5, block 2, Swift place ............ 800
DEEDS.
r. o. Fink, treasurer to Charles
Stringfellow, lots l and 2. block 1,
sub-block 30, Albrights Choice
NtaAes) ............-
Sheriff to Omaha National bank, a
strip. adjoining lot t. block 1S7,
Omaha .'....'...'...'....'......... 100
Total amount of transfers. @,751
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S1s7, sil5s0 gold coin and bullion, So. Oa7 s2l;
gold certificates, S5s,O2s,2io.
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no.ton stocI..ard nond.

BOSTON, Dec. 9.-Call loans, sac per
cent; time loans, per cent. Official quo
tations on stocks and bonds were as fol-
lows:
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Artieles.l open. High. Low. Close. Yes'y

Minneapolis Cash Prices-Wheat; No. /
hard S5hc; No. 1 northern. SAC; 10 arrive,
S5lkc; No. northern. Sslzc; TO arrive. S2lte
No. northern. SOQSlc: No. l durum. 73c
No. durum, nc. Corn: No. 3 yellow,
white, 294soia No. 3, 2shG&Ac Barley,
S5iAd47e. Rye, 6eA965&c.' Flax, se4sc
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'Indicates Sunday. ..Indicates holiday.

EST bhDA1T 3 SHIPMENTS.
The following list shows the number of
cars OF feeders shipped to the county
yesterday and their points Of destination:
- CATTLE Cars.
J. N. McPherlin, Oakland, lar. I..,.., i
Harry, Hillon, Malvern, Ia.-U., P.......... /
J.; Moist, futan-U. P........................ ]
y; ID. Collins, Portsmouth, Ia.-Mil. /
Thomas Baker, Adaza, Ia.-Mn. .......... /
Henry Coins, Rhode, la. C............, /
Ben Roch' Minden, lac. W.............
- SHEEP- DID.
y, Co0k, Nahoo-C. P.................,.....
John Ialns, Lexington--u. P........,. /
The Official number of cars NJ ntnrl.
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On the Produce exchange today the but
ter market was steady; creameries, 17dl
2Slkc; diaries, 17G20c. Eggs, firm; at mark,
cases included. 20@24c; f1rsts, 24c; prime
nrsts, 2Sc; extras, SOC. Cheese, easier; III
@13c.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET
Cattle and Hogs steady-Sheep and
Lambs Strong.

Lambs Strong.
CHICAGO, Dec 9.-CATTLE-Receipts
400 head; market steady; beeves So 2OQ6 so;
S56OQ7.75; good to prime steers, S. 206I6. so;
poor to medium. $320q5.15; stockers and
HoGs-Receipts, 2s,O6O head; estimated
Monday, $1,000 head market steady; mixed
and butchers, $470q5.0O; good heavy, As5
96.021s; rough heavy, $4650D4S0;; light $40
$500
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts, 1900
head; market strong; sheep. $. 4Oq5.6O;
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HOGS ARE GENERALLY FIVE CENTS LOWER
Run of sheep for the week OnIyMOd-
derate. with the Good Fat Kinds
steady and others Lower
Feeders steady.
-, SOUTH OMAHA. Dec. .. 1905.

RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR TO DATE.
Inc following table shows the receipts
OF cattle, hogs and sheep at South Omaha
years
60, 1906. 1904 Inc. Dec.
cattle .......... SIS Se5O4s 76.54O 80.
Sneep ....,... !, 931, S6S 1,6s62S6 25l,5S2
Inc Following table shows the average
pIiSe OF hogs at South Omaha for the last
several days, with comparisons:
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Minneapolis Grain Market.

MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 9.-FLOUR-First
patents 81. 61fi4.IO; second patents, 81. 4Od
$50; frst clears, ss65q3.75; second clears.
s.. 45Ge55.
BRAN-In bulk, $3.50.
Superior quotations for Minneapolis de-
livery. The range Of prices. reported
by +. ID. Day a. CO., llO-li1 Board OF Trade
building, was:
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Kansas City Grain and Prorislonn.

KANSAS CITY. Dec. o. - WHEAT =
STEADY c Peesmber soc; May He; july
SIC; No. red, 91lkq92c; No. g. S7Q91c.
CORN = Lower; December 40ssc May.
No. white. F%@42c; No. 8, 411kGp41Stc.
OATS-Steady; No. white, 311e932c; No.
mixed, 301k@33c.
HAY-F1rm; choice timothy, $1.50q11 10;
choice prairie $9.500975.
RYE-Steady, 63a64c.
EGGS-Steady; Missouri and Kansas No.
2. whitewood cases included 24c; case count
22lzc; cases returned, 1ko less.
BUTTER-Steady; creamery, &c.
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London CIosInE stock..

LONDON, Dec. 9.-Closing quotations on
the Stock exchange were as follows:
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CarIot Receipts.
Forward From Oman,

Wneat '''.'...............,,..,,.. 2
((oIn
O"ts
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Omaha Cash Sales.
WHEAT-No 4, car, 76c.
Omaha Cash Price,

WHEAT-No. 2 hard, sOhasSc; No. q
spring. .7saSOc No 8 spring. 75d7sc w.
CORNING. g. 39ika40c; No. 4. 9SG4sS1kc;
No. yellow, 4Oc; No. 3 white 40c.
RYE~No. 3, 6lqs2c; No. 2, eSae4c.
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Total receipts

The disposition of the days receipts was
as follows, each buyer purchasing the num-
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Question was acute in households of a certain
type in the days when Mrs. Carlyle expended
her brilliant wits in chroniclng small beer
Her letters TEEN with the trouble she had
with her servants; but considering the conditions
she imposed upon them, and the wholly inadequate
remuneration of eight or ten pounds year which
she offered them, the wonder is not that she had
many bad specimens of servant -gir1hood to
contend against, but that she ever had good one
at all.
Servants have been, in truth, long suffering
cass-all honor to them for it!but they have begun
to realize like the rest of u.s. that it is folly to resign
themselves to evils which mig ht easily be prevented.
Only girls of low order of intelligence be
expected to submit to the CALLING bondage which
is imposed upon them in domestic service. Women
seem to think that the flesh and blood of the young
workers upon whom the whole comfort of their
lives depends is of different nature from their
own. Only servant" and good enough for
servant" are by means obsolete phrases; and the
girl who has cheerfully toiled, often beyond her
strength, the ivelong day has to sleep at night
lumpy mattress, not overclean, amid surroundings
anything but calculated to refresh her. The dear,
delightful dog" downstairs, the darling-num-
mys own pet" differently lodged. An intelli-
gent foreman, experimenting the removal of fur
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d y S q II a h G II q N q
Author of The Heavenly Twins" Etc.

able servants is the attitude of brutal coster-
monger toward an exhausted donkey, their language
corresponding, and their tongues taking the place
of the stick Tongue threshers, their victims call
them.
Even to many estimable the maid how
ever long and well she may have served them, is
never this sister" until they commit her to
the earth and have no fear of her ever rising up
again to make any demand upon them. And yet
the demands of valuable servant in return for
years of conscientious devotion SO pathetically
small and few l have known common politeness,
kindly consideration, a smile of appreciation,
word of thanks to suffice for years. And no one is
quicker to understand reader to synpathize, more
prone to make allowance for the shortcomings of
her mistress, than good maid.
That servants not what they should be is in
many cases only too true but that mistresses also
in just many cases not what they should be,
is equally true. No doubt there is great deal of
bad material for domestic service in the market just
now, material out of which the best mstresses could
make nothing toerable; but that has always been
the case and for the same reason. The Servant
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NF all our misery-makng propensities, one
| J of the worst is the ordinary attitude
of the ordinary mistress of a house
hold toward her servants, those dear, good, kind,
unselfsh friends who stand by SO loyalty in sick
ness and trouble, who spend their strength to make
life pleasant for u.s. placing our interests often
before their own, and upon whose unseish devotion
all the comfort and we-being of our homes depends
We hear of the Servant Question continually from
the mistresss point of view, but the same question
from the point of view of the servant-the Mistress
Question, in fact-has not, that | know Of ever
been very fairly discussed yet any observant per-
might easily discover that there is fine field
for inquiry to explore on that side of the bject
Women are glad enough to take advantage of any
social change which makes for the improvement
of their own position-particuary do they welcome
the greater liberty and respect which few
devoted women have won for them-but they
would fain keep these privileges to themselves
They expect the stranger within their gates, the
maid servant, to be content to remain where she
was IN feudal times; indeed, the treatment of
wants by many mistresses is still feudal-not in
the matter of cutting, perhaps; there are penalties
Tor cutting nowadays; the modern equivalent of
the fashionable is language. There are
women of position whose attitude toward respect
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happierl Then he says: Where your? and
she kind O. Jared him by sayin: I'm in purgatory.
| reckon that fetched the interview to sudden end
But Puffer didn't seem to feel that way about
calm up Jane Lamson, her that had been his
first l was purity sure in my own mind that
knew just what he wanted to talk to her about
For years an years he has believed that he
O the heirs to great estate in England worth
millions and millions. It's the great Robson
estate, and his mother Robson. He's had
letters from lawyers who they could estab-
1sh his claim, and | reckon he has spent a good
hundred dollars altogether, and the more he spends
the he is that he's got millions in his grasp I
made up my mind long ago that it all a piece
O humbuggery. That estate in England way O.
feeCin money out O greenhorns is old as the hills
an only Anticipated folks are ready to jump at a
bait O that sort. | sure that Puffcr wanted
to consult his first about that estate. He'd been
talkin' lot about it of late, and had even limited
that he might take the savins of fifteen years and
go to England hisse1f to look after his interests and
perfect his rights hissef He just as sure that
estate there he that he was Twin. So
| says to Madam Antonio:
Did you call up Puffer's first for him?'
No. but l mean to- says she.
Now she OWN a good-sized wash bill
and couple o dollars for pie and doughnuts, and
her bus'n had been bad of late, and | knowed
she behind in her rent and would be
movin' on So l says right out to her:
Lookee here Madam Antona-a1though you
you and understands each other very we'll by
this time. You know that | know that your Won
derful powers all bosh, you won't hurt your
reputation with me none by faln in with what
| mean to propose, for you amt got no reppyta-
ton to lose along that line | want you to go
ahead and give Puffer his private settin' in your
cabinet, only l want it to be instid O you in
the cabinet
Oh, my' says she.
It's what want says l. You an Runnin'
Water and Little Evy and Whisperin' Wind and
Queen Catharine and all the others that's been in
the cabinet of late kin just keep out for once and
let me have chance. l give you my word that
I'll never breathe word of it to anyone while you
here, and I'll call my account gin you square,
You wouldn't give away to Mr., Puffer,
would your says she.
He's the last person I'd ever tell says |.
Well the upshot of it all that she agreed
to it all Puffer was to have his settin' with her
that very night at eight o'clock. Now l reckon it
would of tickled you to of at eight o'clock
that night settin' in that cabinet in one O them
long, loose, flown white robes I'd washed and done
up with my hands. | was there when Puffer
come into the room. A minute or two later Madam
Antonio put out all the lights but just candle in
fer corner and it shed dim, ghostly light. Then
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all she done was to squat down back O. the curtains
behind it. Puffer had had his orders to take his
place in front o the cabinet, and when the little
curtain in front o the opening, which about
ten inches square, pushed back it would be
sign that his first in there and ready to have
a little confab with him. Ever hear anything so
silly in ali the born days of your life?"
| never did
Nor l. After minute or two | pushed back
the curtain and there | was with my face whitened
with flour and long white veil wrapped around
my head something like turban and faln around
my shoulders. l set on.a high stool well back from
the front and the least mite o light shone in The
minute Puffer put his face UP to the openin' in the
cabinet l says in ghostly whisper that I'd been
practsin' all day:
q Hiram Puffer, my husband!'
" Are you my wife, asst he.
We'll | mighty sayin': You bet l
ami but l thought it wouldn't sound very spiritooal
so just says: l am, and had to clap my hand
over my mouth to keep from gigglin. Then l says:
g l your wife l always near you,
Hiram. | watch over you every day
You know of course, that THAT II am
married again? says he.
do, Hiram, and you have good wife, good,
good wife. You know that, don't you Hiram?
Yes says he, she's all right; but l dunno as
it would do to tell her So
No, says |, it wouldn't. And she don't tell
you how much she RELY thinks of YOU. But.
Hiram, you will do well to take her advice in most
things. The fact is, Hiram, she is good deal
smarter than you We see things in the speerit
world palmer than you earthly mortals see EN-
and since have become a speerit l know far more
than you, Hiram
We'll, if didn't hear that little mischief squatted
down behind the curtains giggle at this, and what
does she do but reach into the cabinet under the
curtains and pinch my ankle. l give her little
kick and purceeded on:
Hiram says l. you done well when you
married the Widder Peters. You done better
than she did, but you can make yourself worthy
of her if you try. thought you might like to know
that l approve of your second marriage. Your
wife is very unusual woman
:" know it, says he; but what | want to talk
to you about is business matter. Can you tell
me if l am ever likely to get anything from the
Robson estates in Engand?'
:" Not a red cent?! says in real harsh whisper
: One thing have come from the speerit world for
is to tell you not to spend another cent on that
thing. You being tricked. There amt
Robson estate in England. 1t is all humbug.
Don't you ever forget that have said So
We'll, he give kind of little groan, and says:
You sure janet?
Kin spirit lie? says I reproachfully. If