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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS

NEW YORK COTTON, July 2-The cotton
market opened steady at decline of 2 points
tod an advance Of 2 points, which was better
than due on the cables. offerings were com.
paratively light and the market held steady i'm
mediately following the call. Some Of the local
shorts bought in preparation tor the bureau re.
port tomorrow. Prices were l point higher to
points lower In the middle OF the morning
with July relatively steady.
The market eased of toward midday and al
noon was BOA points net lower ON old crop
months and COS points lower new crop
under scattering liquidation and favorable CROP
reports. Spot cotton guisti middling uplands,
1O75c; middling gulf, lie.
Cotton futures opened steady; July, 1O.2Sc
August, 1o.31c; September, 1o.8Sc bid; October
10.31c; December, 10. 8eci January, 10.8sc; Feb
ruary. 1039c: March, 10.47c.
Spot cotton closed steady; mtddling uplands
1880; middlins gulf, 11.65c. Sales, eo,2o(
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GOSSIP OF THE MARKETS

Frederick G. Aldrich of Chicago, well known
on change here, became partner In the firm
- verhoefr from Miimine ''st. Louis asking for
be large. We begin to feel g. quite bearish:'
wheat. e. 49,
Liverpool close: Wheat unchanged to Md
lower. Corn Nd higher.
wheat market, is easily 3@4c cheaper than ours.
Jackson says I think it even bet that
May corn will sell at 45c. -yt
lions Of wheat
SIS, 900. $50. -
general heavy rains.
Budapest Nc lower.
Duluth 1s the only important market where
July wheat Is, at premium.
Armour sold little September wheat thru
brokers.
Bartlett Frazier selling little wheat, but not
much.
Corn weak on the rains which has caused
Illinois state report: Corn area decrease per
cent? condition. 49, same as last year: winter
wheat condition. Of; spring fheat; "a; oats. SO:
market keeps weakening on them. It's well to
remember that the winter wheat movement has
not commenced yet.
Piper, from Chicago-Heavy thunderstorms all
thru Nebraska Sunday and Sunday, night; heavy
rains in western Iowa and northern Kansas;
cooler MI along the line; few light showers in
Oklahoma. hs 80
Chicago toFLewis-Renewed liquidation at new
low figure for wheat, and crowd playing in an
| ticipation Standardization of the Comstock line
thought earlier.s "a ~
| a cable tos Kneeiand. Clement & Curtis from
/ their Argentine correspondent says: Wheat
4 Shipments will be light. Owing to rain up
country produce Is coming forward very slowly.
| Rainfall general and will do much good.
/. New Spanish drlties to be enforced I'M
mediatelys They are unchanged on wheat 40
per cent ndpance on Hour, about 85 per cent
| lower on corn and 10 per cent lower other
New Yofks to Lewis-There is great bull
i tip on Sn1elterss and II the market don't break
/ l believe III win make good.
/ St. Louis wired: There has been no wheat
delivered here The carriers appear to have
taken of their July hedges and replaced by
Omaha wired ! /. Movement Of corn very light. .
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MONEY REPORTS

LONDON. July 2.--Gold bars IT'S esd: Amer
lean eagles, 7es 4%d.. -.
marks AK pigs for checks Discount rates:
Short bills, per cent; three months bills, SH
per cent. ,--.-.. s.. a.
NEW YORK. July 2.-Call money loaned a,
per cent the Etock Exchange this after.
noon. Opening at per cent, It rose quickly
MINNEAPOLIS, July. Bank clearings to-
day, $806e.3 6e.s7; New York exchange, selling
rate, zoe premium; buying rate, Toe discount
Chicago exchange. selling rate, 1Oc premium
buying rate, zoe discount. London e0-day sight
documentary exchange, s4s1X. Local money
firm at Noe per cent for selected paper.
PARIS, July 2.-Close-Three per cent rentes
96f TIC for the account. Exchange on Lon
don, 25f 16hc for checks
ST. PAUL, July Bank clearings today
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ACTIVE BONDS AND CURB STOCKS

ACTIVE BONDS AND CURB STOCKS.
New York quotations to l:15 pm:
Japanese lists, 99% @99%.
Japanese Eds, .9Sk geo.
Japanese ANS, 94A M04A.
Japanese second AVS, 93@93A.
United States Steel 5s, 98h, 98x, 96h
96%, $685. 96%, 96sa, 96h.
J. r. As, S2M
A. T. As, IS, TIN, 77K, 77N.
A. T.. 6s, 111@111h.
Rock Island Is, 9Oh.
Rock Island 4s, 7bh. r ~ ;. --...--
Chicago, Burlington B Quincy, 9TH @9S.
Tin Can, 6h ass. s. '.., .. ..
Tin Can preferred, 54@55. r-
CRANKY, 10% @11h. -
Atchison Is. 1o2@lo2A:- ,.... -
United Copper, 68h @64A.
Boston Copper, 2MD2
North Butte, S5% @S5M. t..':
East Butte, on @1O. ..ar
Utah Copper, 55h 92e r...... ~
Baltimore & Ohio 3hs, 95 bid. e,---.
Baltimore & Ohio As 1O3K.
Oregon Short Line Is, e5@g951.
Union Pacific 49, 1O3@1O3k.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 81.
Northern Pacific as, 103%. -" 90.
Reading As, 98x @lOO.
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OTHER GRAIN MARKETS

DULUTH GRAIN, July e.-whsat was dull
It to Tas sg Juy opened Snshanssd at
osa lie e o up to 2et sS so aaa
foreigners continue to advance their bids and
are ar buying 4 literally s7esy day IVY opened %e
at I14h. September advanced 1Aac and ret
80. Oats fell &c. Grain In store at Duluth
10: ! 1orthesn sS2, so; NJ. aosthera; 80;
ses tots, s.ss4 5A; aserssse during yee
Gecn se3ss sS p Pss
decrease so, 643. ~ = >
Olose-Wheat to arrive. No. northern. 81 Nc
No. northern, 300; on track, No. northern,
5er 500; DseemSer Ssc; N: duiu nep; Ssc;
On Mo tr. aar ~ FsT to rFZs 114 aS
$I;{%o sts6s:s 5sts e as ssRssn See;
ley, 4l@4sc. Cars inspected: Wheat, 81; last
year. 10; oats, 80; rye, /; barley, 1s; dax, e5;
sssn s51S; 90 CATS IS oss; barley: $685. rye,
oats, e5.eso; barley, 8o.oo0i fax, 1892.
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THE FLOUR MARKET

STILL a WAITING ToNE-PRIoEs MAY BE
REDUCED,
Despite the further decline in wheat no -four
business OF Importance was heard Of neither was
the -four list changed altho it seemed likely
quotations would be REDUCED later In the day.
ance altho closer to working basis. Statesmen
say that buyers act as tho they will come in only
on a material decline. = ~. :,
Shipments, ID $3.50 barrels. = t. -. r. ~
First patents are quotable at S43514.46: sec
ond patents, S4.20@4.30 first clears, $3.5O@
$780, second clears. $24O@255. 5
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-02

When Edouard de Reszke comes to this coun-
try next fail to sing he will begin again to
make his fortune, 1t Is said Most of the
money that he made here has been lost, 80 the
basso fnds himself, near the end Of his career,
compelled to start over again.
Among the letters received By Prince Won
Buelow during, HIS recent illness was one from
a veterinary urging him to take the contents
of a bottle which accompanied 1t. The medi-
cine's efficacy had been fully tested, he wrote,
on horses suffering from sunstroke.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-02
ARIZONA nnpprps

The market for the unlisted stocks is quiet
altho there are more buyers than sellers In the
market: but to effect transactions stocks have
to be offered down at bargain counter prices
per company have decided to give the stock
holders nutil Aug. 10 to deposit their stocks for
sion Of time will be appreciated by great
many who for one reason or another were unable
TO send their certificates to the trustees by
June 20.
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LIVERPOOL COTTON. JULY 2.-spot cotton ir

LIVERPOOL COTTON, July Spot cotton In
lean middling fair, e.a2di middling, e.10d; low
middling; 5s2d; good ordinary, $50 ordinary,
552d. The sales Of the day were 5000 bales
of which 500 were for speculation and export.
and included 1000 American Receipts, 300
bales. Futures opened steady and closed very
July sand August 6.7eQ5.77d; August and Sep.
TENDER, s6.69d; September and October, 5.60d;
December, 5.54d; December and January, g. 64d
January and February, 5.56d; February and
March. 56e@5.67d; March and April. $3.50;
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DAILY WHEAT MOVEMENT.
RECEIPTS AND sHIPME

RECEIPTS AND eHIPMENTH, JUNE 80.
Received-Wheat, 297 cars. 2ee, 30 bu; corn,
1e,74o bu; oats, 124, 800 bu; barley, Al 200 bu;
millstuns Is tons: hay, 10o tons; CARROTS, 400
shipped-wheat, 20 cars. 40. 500 bui corn,
16, 800 bu; oats, 65, 740 bu; barley, 19,84o bu;
fax 1S $50 bu: dour( ID. $50 brls; millstufs, 612
tons; linseed oil. s17.77o lbs; oil cake, 874'7so
lhs car1ofs AO8 ~. ,!.$......t.
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RAILROADS entering the yards reported receipts
for the day by loads as follows: Chicago Great
Western /; Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, 10;
Minneapolis & st. Louis, /; Chicago, st. fauI
Minneapolis Omaha, 10; Great Northern, Il;
500 line o; Northern Pacific, II; total. II.
Disposition Of stock Saturday, June 30:
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CHICAGO SEED AND sooARsE GRAINS,
July Rye, cash, July, zoe; September. 62c.
Flax. cash northwestern, 81. 1 21a southwestern
$1.09; September, 81. Timothy, September,
$4.25. Glover. cash, Sill. Barley, cash, 42@53c.
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ST. LOUIS GRAIN, July 2.-olose-Wheat,
lower; No. 2 red. cash. elevator, 7sc for new;
t tE1k 7sN @sohc FER nsy; September. TAO
17Me; Decenabsr 7s&ci No. 2 hard, 7s@s3c
SIC, nominal; track, bSM 664c; September,
5o%c; December, 4sAc. Oats, lower; No. q
cash. 9sc, Nominal; track. 8Sh @3SNc; Septem-
Der. 8oH @85Mc: December. 86Ac; No. white,
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|s Slaughter had an Argentine cable reporting
heavy rains general and drought ended. 80
Peoria, III Commencing to rain here. 49, AZ.
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CHICAGO pRopucE Iulr q.

NEW YORK PRODUCE, July 2.-Eggs, 1ehc;
checks 9@l12c; receipts II 998 cases; market
steady. Butter, creamery. 2O1ac; imitation, 1sc;
ladies' 16@1e1ac; receipts, 1923 pkgs: extra rem
ovated, 1s@1Shc; renovated. 17@171hc; market
steady.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-02

LIVERPOOL GRAIN, July 2.-Close: Wheat,
spot, nominal; futures, steady; July, IS 0Md;
September. 6s 7hd December, 6s Ind. Corn.
lures. quiet; July, As SID; September, Is IND:
Hops IN London. Pacific Coastl steady, $50
5s@&8 los. 3iHRs q
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LIVERPOOL. GRAM, JULY 2.-Followtnr ar,

L1VEHPU0L GRAIN, July 2.-F0lloWing are
Liverpool: Flour, Sc, 900 sacks; wheat, 1921 900
centals; corn. 4e6,000 centals; bacon. 1890
boxes; hams, ], 500 boxes. shoulders, 900 boxes
butter, 3.400 cwt; lard; 8, 400 tierces Of prime
western steam and 2,4so tons Of other kinds;
cheese, Al, 800 boxes.
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runway HORSE MARKET, MI

MIDWAY HUHSE MAHhET, Mlnnesuta IrHns'
fer, st. Paul, July 2.-Barrett & Zimmerman
report the market for the first day of the month
is showing up good. receipts are lighter. but
the demand is good for heavy horses Mules are
commencing to come in better than last month.
Retail trade is very quiet. Prices: Drafters,
extra 5000 to S225; drafters, choice, S175 to
1920; drafters, common to good, $50 TO S1I5;
farm mares, extra. 1925 to $780, farm mares,
choice. $1l6 to $125; farm mares, common to
good $s5 to S110 delivery choice S165 TO $50;
delivery, common to good, $3.50 to Sle5; drivers,
$135 to $500; mules, according to size, $40 to
S225
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NEW YORK SUGAR AND COFFEE, July O.
Sugar, raw, firm; fair refining, 3Mc; centrifugal
SO test, 34s @3 21-32c;- molasses sugar, 2%c; re-
fined, steady; crushed, o.4oc; powdered, 4.soc;
granulated, 4.7Oc. Coffee, steady; No. Bio,
7Hc. Molasses, steady; New Orleans, 30@3Sc
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ST. LOUIS LIVESTOCK, July 2.-Cattle-Re-
natives higher. Texans lower; beef steers. $3.50
@5.s5: stockers and feeders. $26o94. Is; cows
and heifers, $2@5.25. Hogs-Receipts. 5000;
market steady; pigs and lights. $8.8o@87o 10;
butchers and best heavy. S6.60@6.75. Sheep
Receipts, $500; market steady; natives, S3@6:
lambs $46S. 49,
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PUTS AND CALLS,
STATE GRAIN INSPECTION JUNE 80

2 PM report:
.Puts-September wheat. 1850.
Calls-Saptcmber wheat, 1910.
Curb-September wheat, SOC.
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NEW YORK FLOUR AND GRAIN, July a.

NEW YORK FLOUR AND GRAIN, July a.
Flour, receipts, 1884 brls; Sales 1900 brls;
quiet, steady. Wheat. receipts, 6e.50o bu sales,
100000 bu- The forenoon wheat market was
steady but rather quiet, being Influenced by
rains in the winter and spring wheat belts,
light Russian shipments and covering July,
81 7.16@s7Hc; September, 8! s-1e@s7hc; De-
Csc, nominal, o b New York. Corn, receipts,
2o2,1o0 bu: no sales; market was without
transactions -
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THE DAYS REPORTS
CLOSING CASH PRICES


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No
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NEW YORK PROVISIONS, July Beef,
steady. Lard, firm; prime western, $3.50
$50, nominal. a:+
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PROVISIONS

NEW YORK OIL. July a-Petroleum steady;
refined. all ports, s7.16@t SOC. !; Z, ~
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Total sales. 1,197, 600.
Money, 6 per cent; opened at 6. high 8. low
5A, last loan 6, closed at car, ruling rate 6. :
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CHICAGO PROVISIONS, July 2.-There was
almost nothing doing in the provisions market
today, but prices were steady in sympathy with
the live hog market. September pork was 21ac
higher, at $1677m. Lard was unchanged at
$s.07h. Ribs were tb@7Mc higher. at 1925
Close--Pork, July, 81 .1z&; September, $12.9O.
kaFa July sspateRSee e. Ribs July
CHICAGO PRODUCE, July 2.-cheese steady,
11@11Ae; twins, 1oA@11c; Young Americas,
chickens; loRc; springs. l59ise: Potatoes,
trmer. 60@T5c. Veal steady; 50 to 60 lbs,
eashc; 60 to Is lbs, 7@7hc; s. to 10 lbs,
SWS@c. E,.:s 49,
?. Butter steady; creameries, 1B@2ac; diaries,
,1412 @1Sc. Eggs, steady; at mark, cases III
Guided, 12@15c.
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CHICAGO LIVESTOCK, July 2.-Cattle-Re-
| ceipts q 900; market 1O@15c higher; beeves,
$4lO@e15; cows and heiters, 81 8o@5 20; stock
ers and feeders, $2.4oG4.5o; Texans, s3.5o@4 30;
calves, $4.75@6.25 Hogs-Receipts $4,000;
steady; estimated tomorrow, 10000; mixed and
butchers, se.45@6 So; good heavy, s6.7o@e.so;
rough heavy, $635@e.65; light. $6.45@ Q. s2h
pigs IS. 1896. so; bulk OF sales, 81. 1046. 80.
| Sheep-Reoeipts 1000; market steady; sheep,
81. e0Q6. 10; lambs, s5.60@7.15.
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KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK, July 2-Cattls-
Receipts, $4,000, including 1000 southerns; mar
S4.25dle southern steers, $3.tb@6; southern
COWS, $2@s.5o; native cows and heifers. SEA
$a6@4 calves. S2.5o@6.5o; western ted steers,
$3.76@6.40; western fed COWS. 250@4 AS. Hogs
Receipts, 1000; market steady; bulk Of sales,
@6e7ls pigs and lights. 50. 6o@e.eo. sheep
Receipts, 5000; market steady; muttons, $50
$50; lambs. 1905: range wethers, so96.bo; fed
ewes A.76@6.S5.
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OMAHA LIVESTOCK, July 2.-Cattls-Re
ceipts 1900; market strong to 10c higher; ma
M snd astss
ass az "e steeIers and feeders. s. SOFA; calves
$2.75@b.7b; bulls and stays, s2.s5G4.4o Hog:
Receipts. e.oo0i market steady; heavy, sS;41 Y
$3.50; mixed, $6.45@8.47K; light, $540Y6 90
pigs, S. 6O@6.25; bulk Of sales, $8.454e.5o
SheepeReceipts, 1900; market steady; yearl
ings. s576Gs.25;. wethers. s5.5o@615; ewes
$566: lambs. $6.5001S.
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Apropos Of the San Francisco disaster the
London Daily News published, In two or three
instalments, Pepys' account fthe great IRE
of London, which happened recently enough Tin
16ee) to have live interest for London news
paper readers.
The children's hospital, Bristol, England. has
three dogs which collect for Il. They have been
Malta, with only 10 square miles. has 1878
people.
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Winter wheat, car mixed No. 2. ....... .
Screenings, car, per ton ............... s.
Screenings part car, per ton ............ 8.
Mustard seed. part car, per, ton .........t7.
Speltz, / car, per oTVt .................. .
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-05-31
NEW SHORT STORIES
colonel zeb,s Mlstake.

Having an appointment the other
day In the press gallery Of the house
Of representatives with a newspaper
man from my state, sauntered to the.
big building on the hill and proceeded
to that section of the house sacred to
the reporters" said former Attorney
General Zeb Vance Waller Of North
Carolina.
1T occurred to me as I crossed the
portals that the gallery wore a strange
ly deserted look. 1t was the first time
l had ever been there, and 1 felt some
what like an interloper, but l remem-
bered that Tom Pence, my reportoriaI
friend, had told me to cast aside my
Tar Heel bashfulness and boldly enter.
So although | failed to note the pres
ence of a single human being, kept
right on and, marching down to the
reporters seats, took chair, thinking
somebody would come along presently
who would enlighten me as to Pence.
''Fhe floor Of the house was almost as
deserted as where / sat, and, taking it
for granted that the solons had ad-
journed, l lighted perfecto and began
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TO HONOR THE FLAG
June IA to be Celebrated as
'FIag Day" in all Parts Of
the United States
CELEBRATIONS ARE PLANNED

Patriotic societies and school chill
dren in Kenosha have begun to make
active preparations for celebration
of Flag day, which is to be held on
June A. This will be the 129 ami
versary of the adoption of the flag,
and the American Flag association
has sent out the call asking that the
day be celebrated with fitting cere-
monies in every school house in the
land.
The request of the association as
received in Kenosha is as follows:
''The American Flag association IN
accordance with its custom Of the
past nine years, respectfully reminds
you that Thursday, June IA, 1906, will
be the 10th anniversary of the adop-
ton of the stars and stripes as the
flag of the United States. During
recent years, flag day has come to be
recognized more as a national aani-
versary; and we earnestly request
your cooperation in securing the
widest possible observance this year.
Mayors of cities are requested to order
flags to be displayed upon all munich
pal buildings, and by formal procla-
nation to invite their fellow citizens
to do the same upon private buildings.
Editors are requested to make ed
itorial announcement, and to publish
articles upon the subject of the flag;
and to request the public to display
the national colors on June IA, 1905.
| School officers and teachers are re-
quested to arrange for patriotic ex-
ercises cele brating the day, and teach
the story of the flag and what it rep
resents, and have the young people
pledge their fealty and loyalty to It.
American patriotic societies are urged
to assist in stirring up enthusiasm by
public appeals through local mediums,
and to arrange observance of the an
niversary. All American citizens are
earnestly invited to join in the public
recognition of the birthday of the en-
blem of our nationality.
Con the fourteenth day of June,
TIT, congress enacted what the flag
of the thirteen United States should
be, and April +, 1918, further enacted
that GA the admission of new state
into the union, one star be added to
the union of the flag; and there are
now forty-five stars on the flag. The
flag has become the symbol of great
nation, and has been carried to the
utmost parts of the earth, proclaim
| ing human liberty. Americans can
not fail Of feeling of pride and salts
faction nor restrain the swelling of
patriotism in the breast, when we
contrast the meaning Of ours and
other flags. We earnestly exhort our
citizens to join in making flag day an
event, and it's celebration in 1906, a
great one. Let us from one end of
our land to the other, fling the stars
and stripes to the breeze on June IA,
1906. May it greet the rising and
salute the setting sun, and float all
day long from every church, school
building, public and private, and
from every home however humble,
throughout the entire land"
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to ruminate over incidents that had
occurred in that historic chamber. Only
four or five persons were visible from
my perch.
Between pufs of smoke kept Won
dering what in the thunder kept Pence,
and just as 1 was on the point of va
moosing a blue coated individual took
me firmly by the shoulder and asked
me if I didn't know it was against the
rules to be smoking up there. He was
polite, but positive I told him didn't
want to break any rules, but 1 didn't
know it was wrong to smoke when
the house was not in session.
" Thunder and lightningY said the
bluecoat. Don't you see that a meln-
Der is making a speech? Would he be
doing that if the house had adjournedY
This was a revelation, and, begging
pardon, I hurried out of the gallery.
| wondered afterward what the states
man could have been discussing, and
when I learned he was advocating the
cutting down of southern representa-
ton in congress | thought his subject
might have had something to do with
the slimness Of his audience" Wash
ington Post.