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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-18
PRODUCE.


Chicago. March IS.-Shorts were moder-
ately active bidders for wheat at the
opening Of the market today. which
caused initial advances Of hah 20 p.
Early in the day. however. an Of the
advance was lost and prices declined =
20 = on selling by pit traders and COM
mission houses. The principal selling
pressure was ON the July delivery The
bulge at the start was due to continued
light receipts In the northwest MAY
opened az ll6it, sold at u6as and then de-
Clned 10 llaei. July opened at lWi4 TO
r and after touching l04l4a =. dropped
back 20 lO3A
Bearish sentiment developed again in
the corn pit following slight hrmness
was due 10 the strength OF wheat and
to predictions Of wet weather IN the
corn belt May opened X 10 a higher at
6ik 90 p and sold on TO G5h
Oats followed the trend OF wheat and
corn opening firm and weakening later
May opened a shade 20 = % = higher at
alHls 90 $50 Z and sold OF 10 az.
Provisions held steady. notwithstaud-
Ing "a 5-ccnt decline in live hogs. Prices
at the start were 2ia higher to ~ Ul0
Wheat--The market was nervous the
last half of the session and prices moved
over range OF about i cent There
was considerable covering by shorts late
e. in che day ana the close was firm
at "a met gain OF asda 70 104s.
CONAN improved export inquiry
brought ont brisk demand By shorts
Date Foo the session and May advanced
May uu iRHNs at 66ihnA
Close. Wheat-May. LICK "a Is: July.
l0ita september. o9Qh; December, ss7s.
Corn March, Giia May. GGi5 81. July.
G.uif. September GjH December. $685.
o4ts-MaN oisi July, hh0 &; Sep
Pork-MaT 11cgl6iz6: July re7n
Lard-May. lol5i July io2. Septem-
Ribs-Mav os0qaaa: July aS. Sep
Hye-Cash. s0aa: May 50.
Barley dhulU
Timothy --Murch $3.50.
Cloycr-Marcn, $40.
SUGAR AND COFFEE.
Now York March S.-sugar-Raw firm.
fair rchuinE 1892. centrifugal. .96 test.
t"-. WuII sugar. Alli refined nrm.
crushed. '.h. powdered A95. grauulated.
Coffee STEADY No. Rio. psasi.. No. 4
ELABORATED FRUITS
Now York March l7-Eyaporatod ap-
piles shows poo fresh features Fancy are
quoted ut Sh H9i. choice. lhqla. prime.
tn6as common to fair 606
spot pruneF continue foo fair demand
60 uom p "A Hth for new crop California
Imt Wl lo N. ond 0os ana from 6h 40
ior oregon pruucs ranging from i0s ana
.Oa foo as and 3ls
Apucou are Quiet but firm. with
ca9,e,. quoted ai &t4lQ. extra choice.
Peaches are said to be- much armcr Oh
tnc cnlst md primary offerings aro light
Iho spot market wac duu C0icc. 5atM
Raslns ma unchanged Win iooss mus.
'hitI NullNI 900 lHHt choice Go fIncv
,c.dea. 'fHa.a seedleas. 3h4th. London
BUTTER AND EGGS
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-18
GOLD KING LISTED

The East Tintic Gold King Mining
company which was also added To- the
list this morning. is capitalized for
1000. 900 shares of stock. par value 8
cents. Out of the $4,000 shares of
treasury stock. $4,000 shares have been
sold There is bond of $3.50 on the
group Of 10 claims. due May 1, 1903
The company has Sl,5l4.O5 cash on
hand. on the property 300 feet OF shaft
work has been done. and work on
tunnel has just been commenced. The
ores contain silver lead, gold and cop
per Paul T. Brockmau Is president
ID. n Hughes is secretary and +. W
Bussard IS treasurer.
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u. a. Whitney a Sons Stock Broker.
1872 Atlas. Ben. lllL Rea 3OOf-Z.
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LIVESTOCK.


Chicago. March -Cattle-Receipts es-
umatcd at $500, market steady bceves,
4. tp07.lO; Texas steers 4.40Q6. 30; western
steers. fO0a5.40: stockers and feeders.
3.lo05. 35. COWS and heifers. 10000:
calves. 0OW SEQ
IIogs-Rcceipts estimated at 5000: mar
ket cents lower. light. $500 20. mixed.
q. iO0C.S0: heavy. 65ON6.s6. rough, $500
q. 90. good TO choice heavy G.60u6.S6; pigs,
6.lo06. 20. bulk of sales, G.6OW6.S0
Shcep-EeCeipts estimated az Ao0s
market steady; native 3.25Q5.10; western.
@. 50u5.g0. yearlings. 6.O0us.25: lambs ma
tive. $500 500, western. $500 7.9o.
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SHELTER IN TROUBLE.

Sensational Charges Made against
Manager of Pan Handle Plani.
Spokane, Washington, March lS-
According to an evening paper startl-
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KANSAS CITY

Kansas city March 1S-Cattle-Re-
ceiut-, 5000; slow. steady; native steers.
5.oou6.W; native cows and heifers, 2.15GD
G.o1. stoCkers and feeders. 5005 .a5. bulls.
hN4 Oh. calves, $40 100. western
steers. 4NNG50. western cows. 3S05.2i
Hugs-ReCcipts. 1900. 20 10 cents low
er. bulk of sales, 6.4046.75; heavy, $3.50
,1. packers and butchers. $500 6.75:
Light 6.2506.60; pigs. 5.O0n6 &c.
Shcop-Receipts. 5000: market steady:
muttous 4.15d6.00. lambs. G.50a 80:
rangs wethcrs, Aj0N 100, fed ewes, 3.J0a
500
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-18

South Omaha. March &-Cattle--Re-
ceipts $500. market steady western
steers, 2.J0W5.1, Texas steers, 3O0M5l0
range cows and hoifers. 2.Wm4.S. cam
ners. 2.O003.25; stockers and feeders. 800
n53o, calves 3.j007.50 bulls and stays,
2.Na4N.
Hogs Receipts ECO; market to 10
@ 45u6.jj. light. 6.1Ou660; pigs. f7jQ6O0;
bulk Of sales. 6.4OM6.G0
ShccD-ReCeipts. 5000; market 10 20 20
cents lower. vearlings. b.o0dG.S5; wethers.
5.o0U5.50, ewes. 4.4Oa5.45; lambs. SOC
40
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Nov york. March -Buttef-Fancv
HftdaH lu short supply ana nrm. oroarn-
0fr specials 0nmh official 6' ontl4s
inifd 40 frstH 2lu4a, held CONS
mon I0 special extra 81
lho..N lirW, unchanged.
tFF Flrmor. western hrHfa. 1915. arr-
UUdH. No.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-18

1IOENNG QUOTATIONS.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25
The Age of FriivoLity
By WILL BRADSHAW,

This is an age of mirth an age of the light and airy in everything The rugged frame of the old professor reluctantly admitted such was the condition of affairs.
 For 79 years of his young life he toiled like a poor day laborer, with a pick and shovel, beneath the burning sun of old Egypt and under the very nose of that wise old sphinx. He looked back on those wasted decades with a sigh and a tear. All the labor of his youth gone for naught What had become of the thousands of tab lets he yanked from the hot sands in his long career? What did all the effort amount to that was used in de ciphering a love letter. written on q brick, by an Egyptian domestic to her lover across the Nile in the seven teenth dynasty? He realized the an swer to the queries was: nothing. ' or what benefit was the knowledge he eXhumed to the fighty ones of the present day? And if any benefit did
 
 the living appreciated?
 In all his time he never happened on anything really astonish, ,Ag; any thing that would cause the average man to drop his evening paper and sit up with look of eager expectation
 With his stupendous knowledge of the olden days he has never given to the women and girls of our land the much sought secret of Cleopatra s beauty; what she ate for that lovely complexion, or what were the ingred- tents of her toilet preparations
 The old professor realized now, when far too late, that the things most likely to make the American peo- pie show a super-heated interest in Egyptology were still buried in the dim past.
 In this age of ours, when everything runs in lighter vein we cannot con scientously waste our valuable time boring over musty records and hiero- glyphics when they are not in the trend of thought we take the most in terest in.
 The serious thought, though sad it may seem to the old professor and pos sibly a few others, is gradually being eliminated We are getting into the gay life wkh a rapidity that all but awes. Man. woman and child is gradually evolving into a being with ;he same aspect for the serious a butterfly has on June morning We gre almost saturated in humor of every conceiy- able form. Newspapers, magazines and bill boards are all contributing to the pleasure oi the ropu ace.
 ln a very short time our entire
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

newspapers will be devoted to humor in all its forms. We will have all the facts of the world doings recorded in way to excite laughter from the most grumpy reader. It will cause no surprise to read an announcement that Willie Plum has been engaged at a fabulous sum by the Morning Hee flaw to write in humorous verse the story Of the great bank failure; while Percy Hill Arious is in New York handling the greatest murder mystery of the age in his most amusing style, for the Evening Lawfter exclusively.
 The theater is following rapidly the footsteps of the press. We have with in the past few years, installed in every town and village. a nickel show with vaudeville accompaniment for every J00 inhabitants. at least The tragedian and his naughty tragedienne are trampng through the agencies looking for engagements, only to be told to save themselves from penury
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

"A girl in her teens doesn't know her own mind, and cannot know the heart of the man she marries at that age" Such is the sage contribution of the dowager countess of Cardigan to a discussion now in progress in Lon don as to the ideal age for marriage. The text of the discussion was the dictum of a western girl, who broke her engagement on the ground that no woman should marry before she is 25" Certainly 10 woman and no man should marry before arriving at physical maturity. This is reached at different ages by different individuals. AS a rule it is a grave error for peo' pie in northern climates to marry be fore they are of legal age.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

Although the battleships Alabama, Maine, Kentucky and Kearsarge are comparatively new additions to the navy. they are all going out of con- mission for heavy repairs, which in the case of the Maine in particular will amount almost to reconstruction. In addition to work on her hull, the Maine will have to receive a new bat tery of boilers. The rapidity with which battleships become worn and obsolete is surprising to those who have been imagining that navies built of steel are good for many decades of service with little expense or repairs. The truth is that these big ships must be undergoing protective 'tinkering" all the time from the date of launch ing until that of final retirement.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25


 The new commissioner ). immigra- tion at Ellis Island is doing good ser vice to the immigrants, not only ty finding employment for many of them or directing them to eligible localities in which to settle with their families. but also by guarding them from the machinations of designing persons He has refused to admit to the sta tion or to Ellis Island the representa- tives of immigrant homes and employ ment bureaus which are obviously run for private gain and have in many in stances preyed upon the ignorance and the confidence of the new ar- rivals. This is good work by the com. missioner, and his vigilance should not be relaxed for the abuses which he has abolished for the moment would quickly spring up again if given the slightest chance.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

and put on song and dance, The soubrette and the chorus lady are the esteemed ones in the profession to- day We think more of a little comedian than we do of all the heavies on the boards. If a popular vote was taken the author of "Oh You Kid!" would win by a large majority over the makers of the wise old proverbs.
 How do stand as a thea rical pos sibility?' asked the old professor, showing an interest.
 "Well. I could book you solid Theo- philus if you were a pugilist, or cared to go on in bIackiace and monologue" :"
 (Copyrght, 1909. by W. G. Chapman}
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25
RUSSIAN iLLlTERACY.

There hardly could be a stronger condemnation of autocracy than the record of illiteracy of the Russian em- pire. Seyenty-five per cent. of the re- is compulsory. can neither read nor write. Newspapers are published, not for the masses, but for an educated minority. The principal paper in the capital of the empire has circulation of only 33,000 and others with an in ternational reputation have only about one-third that many subscribers. With these facts before us there is no room to wonder at the backwardness of the Russian empire and no one can fail to perceive why 1t has typified mere brute strength in the affairs of the world and was feared for that reason alone until the giant was laid prostrate by the intelligence of smaller and physically weaker nation. Were czar- dom the benevolent institution that it's benefciaries and advocates would have the world believe the people of Russia would not be sunk in such depths of ignorance as is shown by unimpeachable records. If Russia is to have the place among nations to which it's population and area entitle it vastly more money will have to be spent on schools.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25
GIRL FIGHTS TIDE ID SWIM NARROWS PLUCkY LITTLE MISS BATTLES FOUR HOURS TO CROSS
 . ....
 SWIFT CHANNEL.
START NEAR FORT HAMILTON
Still Eager to Keep on When Fathet Orders Off Strueele-Two Elder Sisters, More Experienced,
 Cross Safely.

New York.-A 12-year-old gr fought the tide and the currents four hours the other day in an attempt tG swim across the Narrows. She was within 100 yards of shore when her father, seeing that she could make no further headway, ordered that she be lifted into a boat. Even then she did not want to give up and was sure that she could make it if she were let alone.
 The girl is Beatrice Due. daughter of Alfred Due, a photo-engraver, liv ing at S404 Seventh avenue, Brooklyn.
 The oldest of the girls, Ethel, is IT years old and wears two gold medals won in swimming races. The second daughter, Vera, miss of Is, made her first appearance as an expert swim. mer along with the third daughter Beatrice. Ethel weighs about 124 pounds; Vera, 116 and Beatrice, just 98. The last named is five feet one inch in height.
 Ethel had done the Narrows last summer, so it was not new to her.
 Since the swim was in the nature of race among the three girls, handi- caps had been arranged by which Ethel gave Vera Is minutes and Beat rice 30 minutes. In three-mile prac- tice swim August s, the oldest had given the little one 40 minutes start and found that she could not catch her.
 The little one, therefore, took the water at just 5:47, the others follow ing at 15-minute intervals. The start was made from an old pier just below the fortification at Fort Hamilton. The smallest of the girls swan eas- fly through the Fort Hamilton reach off the strait and then. as she struck the strong tide of the channel, began to be carried up the bay. All the time, however, she was making progress to- wards the other shore. The tide had carried her as far north as Sixtieth street before 1t turned and started out with ner again. Her calculations had been about right. for her strength ap.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

there" said he with the confident there-you-are tone of man who has put forth an argument that is unassail- able.
 Sure enough admitted Gnash : "his card is there"
 "Th3n he must live here, all right. argued the man.
 q don't know whether he lives here all right or not But if his card is there he must occupy a suite here Looks like a safe bet. Want to write your own ticket?"
 The stranger stared at Gnash the way a man will when he's wondering what the joke Is
 Well, is he-is he in TOW he pur- sued. cranking up for a fresh start
 Tn what?" asked Gaash 6lankly
 "Why. is he in his room here? NheredJe suppose?"
 oh. haven't the slightest idea
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

Once in my James H. Halcyon days, when things of human intelligence appealed to me even less, my brother and I attempted to drown some hor- nets. At which time we learned a very interesting thing in natural his tory, viz, that hornets do not drown as readily as do sightless kittens with petrified necklaces on.
 We were fooling around an odd cor ner of the meadow where some big rocks made the scythe necessary as a Cleaner-up after the moving ma chine, when we discovered in an aban- doned and inverted calftrough a hor- nets nest about as large as an adult slop bucket.
 We were not chaperoned that day by any one who was in duty bound to keep us working, so a scientific ex- pertinent immediately suggested itself to my brother, who has since degener- ated into a physician and surgeon.
 "I'll drown en-" he announced, with the light of adventure and re- solve in his eyes,
 Not much, Mary Ann," I proudly responded in the slang of that re- mote moment.
 Watch me" was his comment.
 Setting the nail more firmly in the end of his one bed-ticking suspender, he lay down and crawled up to within six inches of the nest. The last three feet of his tourney OccuDied ten min utes owing to the proximity and evi- dent suspiciousness of the black-and- white garrison of the besieged cit adel.
 The affair had then reached the stage at which did not hesitate to take hand. So far as I could see, there was not much more danger, so
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25
Fool Questions
By FRED C. KELLY.

And these people that come to apartment houses with fool questions!
 Take the case of Gnash, for instance habitat, snug little suite on the top floor of an apartment house pro- viding all the discomforts of an or dinary house.
 Gnash hollered down the tube, but be one of those boneheads who won't answer you through tn tube, but wait for you to traipse down stairs and see what they want.
 Gnash went down The visitor was one of those exasperatingly meek, DO lite ones that fill a person with a rabid desire to be just the opposite.
 ''Is MT. Thompson in?" inquired the man.
 Thompson? I'm sure 1 haven't the faintest idea how much he's in, or whether he's in at all or not re- sponded Gnash sarcastically.
 "Mr Henry Thompson, l mean" ex- plained the man.
 "Uh huh" says Gnash; and still I cant tell you if he's in"
 Well. he lives here, doesn't he?"
 "Mebby he does. don't know. There are twelve different families here in the building. l don't know them. None of them are on my pay roll. I cant argue about whether Thompson lives here or not
 Then the stranger had an idea "Why, his cards over in that place
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25
Wouldn't Give Up.

parcntly, and there was every indica. ing the stunt she had set for herself,
 Meanwhile, the older girls, carried out of their course less than their sis ter, were swimming strongly toward Fort Wadsworth. They landed just below the fort, Ethel leaving the Wa ter at 727 and Vera at 8:15.
 The little one, as soon as she got in the channel, was annoyed by the oil from the shipping. Then she had to stop because of a steamship.
 Meanwhile she was being carried past the fort, which was her goal, by a tide against which she could not compete successfully She had drifted nearly mile below the for and was losing more ground all tho time, when the men in the boa accompanying her told her she had better give up. She refused. Her father then had her lifted into the boat She had been in the water ex. actly four hours.
 The other sisters wrapped in blankets, were waiting for the little one when she was rowed to shore
 None of the girls felt any ill effects from the swim. When they reached home and had dressed, Beatrice went out to sleep in a hammock and with the break caused by early dinner slept there most of the rest of the day. Late in the afternoon she woke up and suggested to her sisters the adyisability of going down to the shore and jumping in for little swir. --"just to cool oil" she said
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

the end containing the nest After marked with braggadocio carelessness that he believed he would rest bit
 Looking down into the pool, when the roiledness cleared away, I no- ticed that the water loosened the plug in the hornets vestibule. l neglected, somehow, to mention this to my brother, He had often chided me for nibbing in when it wasn't my business. I didn't want to disturb
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

Believe me, I don't make a practice of going about peoples rooms and keeping tab on their movements. Here's tip though: suppose you ring his bell, If you're after Thompson you'd have just as good a chance of getting him by ringing his bell as by ringing mine, don't you think?'
 But did ring his" spoke up the other one, triumphantly. And he didn't answer"
 Then you rang mine, second choice, eh? Oh, l see! You thought of
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25
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 GreQf Hzlr10riSfS Sezecffons from fbe eOrifings fbe Besr, KnosOn
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him anyway. I noticed, also, that the hornets were coming out in good sized procession their wings silvered by the adherring bubbles. observed, also, that they acted very strangely for drowned" hornets. The presence of the water did not make them even wobble as they walked steadily and purposefully along that trough-edge.
 Finally one hornet came free of the water Immediately he brushed the moisture from his eyes, twiddled his hind legs on his wings till they were dry, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and said, vengefully: "Ah Look who's here. There sits the son of a gun that tried to asphyx fate us, eh! Well, Mister Smarty, put this in your dudeen and whiff it- and this, and this, likewise these and those!"
 By that time the whole phalanx was busy
 Folks had said we boys would rise quickly when once we got out in the world, but none of us has ever risen with such meteor-like rapidity as did this scientifically-inclined brother of mine on this occasion I never saw such speed from a standing start in my. life He lit ten feet away. up- hill at that, and when he struck the ground every bit of him was running,
 went with him. Far be 1t from me to stay and see my brother hurt, or to stay so close as to associate with those who had purposely hurt him. My place was at his side, though I did not stay so close as to interfere with his going as rapidly as possible l paralleled his course, about hundred feet on his starboard side.
 He looked like a weeping wart. hog when he reached home, and to this day believe he suspects that l had seen the hornets coming and l hadn't told him,
 Copyright. 1909. by W. G. Chapman)
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

In Pittsburg a marriage license has just been issued to a woman Sl years old, mother of 12 children by previous marriage. One of her sons. 62 years old, testified that she was of legal age" Another of her habits, be sides marriage. is that of smoking a clay pipe.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

course, when he didn't answer his own bell that he might answer mine. Well, I'm sorry he disappointed you"
 Maybe he'll be back aft a while if he ain't in now suggested the stranger.
 Sure enough, Maybe he will, There's an idea for you to work on"
 What time do you suppose"
 But Gnash had slammed the door and hiked back upstairs, swearing to himself in a low, soft pedal tone
 The stranger walked away, mutter- ing something about the ignorance and cheekiness of the average apart ment house resident
 Copyright. 1909, by w. G. Chapman)
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25
CALIFORNIA 7
 FIc SYRUP Co. SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGiST one .ze only. regular price 50s per bottle.
Bio Berlin Philanthropy.

More than 5OO00 children were en, abled by the authorities of Berlin to spend this summer on land within easy reach of the city limits. They were assigned plots where they could play and cultivate gardens profitably with the help of their families and tha advice of public instructors. ,
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

King Alfonso has stopped the prac- iice of permitting men of means to buy immunity from army service for $500 apiece. which shows that the riots by his subjects have taught him some thing.
The log cabin Democrat., 1909-10-25

new airship is being constructed like a boat. This is very wise pre- caution, and it only remains to add to the next invention set of wheels so that it can run like an automobile Then it will be ready to conquer all the clements.