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The formal entry of the Japanese in
to Port Arthur, January 8, will be an
imposing sp«ctaole The Japanese
officers will be given a banquet in the
city hall January 10.
The reason for the surrender of the
fortress is evident from a visit to Wau
tai hill. The entire strength of the
position lay in the main line of the
outer defenses. n
The possession of YVantia gave the
beseigers the key to the forts east of
the city. The hills in the rear were
not fortified and afforded a full cover
for the assaulting forces.
MONTANA NOTES.
Deputy Sheriff D. J. Lenihan threat
ens to confiscate the jail in Little Chi
cago for rent of the ground upon
which it is situated.
As soon as the special agents and
deartment sleuths have concluded giv
ing their evidence before the Port
land, Ore, grand jury, they will be
dispatched to western Montana to in
vestigate the conditions, which it is
claimed by the secretary are even
worse than those existing in Oregon.
A wreck occurred Saturday on the
Great Northern railroad at Durham
on the Kalispel] division. All of the
coaches were derailed, but no persons
are reported injured. The cause is
"unknown,
Ji IT hi per, a sheep herder, employed
by Bleben & Grimes, recently shot
and killed another sheep herder, Theo
dore Qrimond, employed by Israel
Manard. The killing occ'Ted at a
sheep camp, some miles iroin Wolf
creek.
Clyde Turner, a well known young
.nan of Harlem, was shot and serious
ly wounded by Lorin Tolbert, his com
panion, while the two boys were play
ing duel. Turner, in a spirit of fun.
challenged Tolbert to a duel and the
latter, following the actions of his
playmate, quickly grabbed a revolver,
which he believed to be empty, and
snapped the trigger, the bullet pass
ing through Turner's chest.
Attorney General Donovan has made
a new move in the beef trust cases
by filing an information against the
agents of the Cudahy, Swift, Ham
mond and Armour packing companies
operating in Montana, charging them
with conspiracy in that they, as agents
for the concerns, fix the prices by
agreement of the products they han
dle. The men were arrested in Butte,
but were released on their own recog
nizance and will appear in court Jan
uary 9, at Helena.
Spokane Retail Markets.
Vegetables—Potatoes, 1%@2%c lb;
rutabagas, 3c lb; dry onions, 4@sc lv;
cabbage, 3@4c lb; celery, 2^@sc a
stalk; parsley, 3@sc bunch; new beets
3 bunches 10c; watercress, 6c bunch;
parsnips, 2@lic lb; cauliflower, 20®
35c head; green peppers, 12(^180 Id;
sweet potatoes,, 3y 2^bc lb; brussels
sprouts, 2 lbs 25c; wax beans, 20c lb;
artichokes, 15c each; chickory, 5c a
bunch; lettuce, 10@20c lb; cucumbers,
2 for 25c; tomatoes, 20c lb.
Poultry—Dressed chickens, 14@16c
lb; spring ducks, ISc lb; geese, lb©
18c lb; turkey, 25c lb.
Dairy Products —Butter, best cream
ery, 40c lb; common creamery, 30(g>
35c lb; best country, 25c lb; common
country, 15@20c lb; imported Swiss
cheese, 25(0>35c lb; American Swiss,
25c lb; cream brick cheese, 18®25c
lb; New York cheese, 20c lb; Wiscon
sin cheese, 15@18c lb.
Wholesale heed Prices.
Bran, $19 ton; bran and shorts, $20
ton; oats, $1.35 cwt; wheat, $1.45 cwt;
chopped corn, $l.t>o cwt; whole corn,
$1.50 cwt.; timothy hay, $17 ton; ai
falfa hay, $13 ton; oil meal, $1.85 cwt;
grain hay, $14 ton.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Vegetables and Fruits —Root vege
tables, 75c cwt; potatoes, 90c cwt; ap
ples, 50®$1 box; pears. $1 box; on
ions, $1.50 cwt; caboage, $1.25@>1.bU
cwt.
Poultry and Eggs—Chickens, 9c lb,
live weight, 10c dressed; geese and
ducks, 12c lb, live weight, 13c dressed;
turkeys, 18c lb, live weight, 20c dress
jd; eggs, $7.50@8 case.
Live Stock —Steers, $2.50@>2.85 cwt;
wethers, $2.50 cwt ;hogs, $5@5.25 cwt;
veal, $3@7 cwt.
Hay—Timothy, $15 ton; lfalfa, 111©
11.50 ton; oats, |1.10@1.20 cwt
Creamery Products, V. O. B. Spo
kane —First grade creamery butter fat,
per lb, 29^c.
Wheat Report.
Portland, Ore.—For export —Walla
Walla, 80c; bluestem, 85c. For milling
—Walla Walla, 83c; bluestem, 88c; val
ley, 87M-C. For eastern markets—Wai
la Walla. 85c; bluestem, 90c.
Tacoma. Wash.—Unchanged; blue
stem. 89c; club, 86c.
Very discouraging accounts are now
reaching Berlin of the difficulties en
countered by the troops operating
against the Hereros. There is no for
age for the horses, food for the men is
very scarce and the ravages of typhoid
fever continue.
Before jumping at conclusions find
out what is on the other Bide of the
burdl*.
—Cincinnati Post.
WOMAN'S LOVE.
0! sny not woman's love is bought
With vain and t mpty treasure;
0! say not ;\ woman's heart is caught
By every i.lle pleasure.
When first her gentle bosom knows
Loves Same, it wanders never;
Deep in her heart the passion, glows,
She loves, aud loves for ever!
0! any not woman's false as fair;
That like the bee sinl ranges;
Still seeking Sowers more sweet and rare,
Aw fickle fancy changes.
Ah. no! the love that first can warm
Will leave her bosom never;
No second passion e'er can charm;
She loves, and loves for ever!
— Chicago Tribune.
Noughts and Grosses.
WE began to play first on n
scrap of paper which I had
utilized to make a diagram of
the neighborhood to show her tlie rela
tive position of our respective homes:
that is to suy. of her home and the
little house which 1 had bought aud
furnished in the samewhat wild hope
that she might one day by becoming
Its mistress convert it into my home.
On that occasion she had treated tlie
diagram very tlappantly by guiding my
hand to make a nought In the area
which stood for my front garden, and
her mischievous look conveyed to me
that the cipher was meant to represent
the sum of my worldly goods.
Accordingly, I responded with great
Independence by making a big cross—
the symbol which I believe is popu
larly supposed to denote a kiss —on
cither side of the little square, which,
in my amateur drawing, stood for the
front door.
She resented this because she said 1
bad played out of turn. She thereupon
drew the correct figure for a game that
■he termed noughts and crosses and
instructed me how to play in accord
ance with rule. The figure was very
simple, merely two perpendicular
strokes crossed by two horizontal ones.
and there was no skill required, it
seemed. One merely put a nought or
a cross into one of the little space* and
did one's level best to get three in a
row, which counted one point. It w&a
a very childish pastime, and yet after
that day I found myself playing it
with her at every opportunity; and it
had at least the merit, like mediocre
music in a drawing room, of affording
cover for conversation.
"I don't think," she said one day, in
an Interval which I spent sharpening
her pencil, "that I'm exacting; but one
naturally expects something out of
life, either love or money, and you
can't give me either."
"At least," I said, In a low voice, "I
give you love."
"No; that's where you make the
mistake. You think that in loving me
you give me love. But you don't—not
an emotion even! Cross out love!"
"I shall do nothing of the kind," I
responded, indignantly.
"As for money," she pursued, "I
don't think, I don't really think that
£400 a year or so is the height of my
ambition. Put a nought for money."
"I decline," I said, "for I can at hast
look to the future with tolerable err
tainty."
"It's no good looking too far ahead,"
she said; "you must remember we've
got to live In the present."
"You're right," I *iid, mildly, "and
it'g not much consolation to me at the
present moment to reflect that you'll
crtHinly be sorry some day *vat you'v.
K-t such a chance slip."
TRIBULATIONS OF THE NUNKR.
she paused, looked bard at me, and
resumed.
"To put the matter in n nutshell, you
really have nothing to offer me. Noth
ing, thiit is to say, except marriage;
and I don't think that of itself sum
clently attractive."
"I might suggest," I ventured, "that
you are scarcely in a position to judge.
Now if you would allow me to play the
part of devoted husband to you for at
least a year, at the end of that time
you might really be able to give an
opinion on the subject."
She shook her head and put a nought
into the middle of a new diagram and
I responded belligerently with a cross*
underneath.
"As regards the money," I said, "you
can't expect me to make a fortune
without ever having an opportunity."
"That depends," she said, "upon
what you call opportunity."
"Well," I remarked. "I think Miss
Arnold gave me a pretty good oppor
tunity the night of the dance when I
sat out with her in the conservatory."
"Miss Arnold?" she asked quickly.
"What Miss Arnold? Do you mean
Jessie Arnold? Oh, I always said she
was a most atrocious flirt!"
"I don't know her Christian name,"
I said, vaguely. "1 called her 'dar
ling' and 1 don't suppose it's any Miss
Arnold-that you know."
"Jessie Arnold," she said solemnly,
"would be the last —mind, 1 say the
very last—girl to make a wife for a
poor man."
"Oh! no; the Miss Arnold I mean
told me she understood economic
housekeeping thoroughly."
"Jessie's mean," she said earnestly,
"and she'll never give you anything
but a cold luncheon. Her way of econ
omizing will he to starve you!"
"Whether one succumbs to starva
tion or a broken heart," I observed,
darkly, "it will be all the same a hun
dred years hence."
"And in the meantime you've always
got. the house," she said, thoughtful
ly.
"But, you know, 1 haven't much to
keep it on," I said, and I crooked my
forefinger and thumb to represent
nought— nothing.
"I suppose," she murmured "one
would sooner succumb to starvation
than a broken heart."
"Could you," I asked with a sudden
inspiration, "subsist on such Spartan
tare as bread and cheese and —cr —
crosses?"
"I think 1 could," she said, softly.
"if juu provided it." — Rlack and
White.
TOTE IS A GOOD WORD.
Southerners May Be IHntingulnhed by
the Use of It.
"Speaking of provincialisms, I no
lice that a New York paper has discov
ered that all Southerners can be easily
recognized because they use the Afri
can word "tote." said a man who
takes an interest in words In the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, "The paper
declares that Westerners say 'pace'
and Southerners Raj' 'tote.' Well, \v
could admit it without Mushing. 'Tote"
Is a good word. It describes the thing.
It is short. Straight-cat, stands well
in its boots and. in fine, meets all the
requirements of the situation. Even
the habit of 'toting' Is not a bad OIM
if you are careful about what you
'tote.' There is very little difference,
so we are told by men who are in po
sition to know, between the physical
energy required to 'tote' and to 'carry.'
Of course, if you 'tote' a thing Instead
of 'carrying' it there may be a differ
ence of several pounds in the weight,
but we have every reason for believing
the difference would not be great
"So far as known, though we are
<.ot unrti-ularly veil posted on the
legal kspect of tbe question, the lav
does not make any marked distinction
between the words 'tote' and 'carry.'
"We have read somewhere that it
has been held by some Judge or othor
that If a preponderance of proof shows
a man 'toted' a pistol, for Instance,
the necessary Inference would be thai
lie also 'carted' it. though we do UOI
recall at the moment exactly where w •
rend the announcement. So. too it has
been held that an Indictment that n
man 'did steal, take and "tote" away'
for his own use and with felonious in
tent, one ham, was good in both form
and substance, and was not quashable
because of the use of the word 'tote.'
'Tote' and 'carry' are for all practical
purposes understood to be synony
mous. Tack' is also a good word, but
a bit more confusing than the word
'tote' became and the same may be
said of the word 'carry'—lts duties
have increased since It came into use.
"We stand for the word 'tote,' not
because of any pride in Its origin, but
because It means what it says. •Tote'
is definite. And we make bold to say
that few words now in common us<>
have stuck with more tenacity to the
text than this same word. It doesn't
mean one thing to-day and another
thing to-morrow. It Is absolutely con
stant and always unambiguous. Since
we have permitted 'tote' to slip int.)
our vernacular, as n result of our proc
esses of assimilation in the matter of
speech, we will stand by It, though we
had hoped that Webster, who has
honored the word with a place in his
book, had gained a much wider circu
lation than he seems to have gained,
if we may form a Judgment on the
criticism in the New York paper."
HIS FORTUNE IN AN ORCHID.
Stewnrd of a Suuar Stcuniithip Hc
lievea He Huh Found I. out Hpecicn.
The steward of the sugar steamer
Abergeldie, which, after doubling the
Cape of Good Hope, has tied up at the
Arbuekle refinery, near the foot of
Pearl street, Brooklyn, believes he lias
a specimen of a long-lost valuable or
chid.
Through the taste of the steward for
orchids Captain Keith's dining room
became the attractive shelter of a rare
horticultural exhibit.
If the steward's surmise, based on
the description of the bloom which the
natives gave him, are correct, he ex
perls to become so wealthy that he
can buy up half the top priced orchids
in England and corner the market.
At Macassar, the chief port on the
Island of Celebes, the Abergeldie's
steward, 11. Dedeklnd, was presented
bj a Chinese clerk with an orchid
seedling, which he planted in gravel
within a COCOanut husk.
The Macassar seedling is developing
finely, and in five years wifl break
out, said the Chinaman, into white
blossoms, and may then be worth $600,
At Soumbaya a native came off
shore with palms, and the steward
asked him if he could fetch some or
chids. A few days later the native re
turned with some parasitic seedlings
growing out of moss on the rind of a
tree.
The collector had detached the bark
with moss and orchid. The Malay said
that he had collected the specimens
at the risk of his life, having robbed
the graveyard of a village near Soura
bajra to get the unpromising looking
roots.
From the description of the gorgeous
bloom to come. Dedekind believes it to
In. an orchid which accidentally arriv
ed in Kngland fifty years ago from an
unknown origin and was lost
I he Il**elpe.
"What's in a name?"
"Well, that depends. If It la a Rus
sian name there is usually 'sky' or
•vitch* iv It, at least-"—Detroit Free
Press.
I ©opulzJ^flgionc© . I
v r - «^r J
The Rounds emitted by telegraph and
telephone wring have been a subject
of study by P. Hock, who claims to
have mhde It possible to forecast local
weather conditions one or more days
ahead from the humming. Observa
tions are made at 11 a. m. and 6 p. m.
I In- snails MOM (if Hindi has bMI
located in tbe horn by some oimorv
• if*, l>ut ■Othorttles (init»> us good have
regarded this conclusion as Incorrect
M. Young, wbo lias been making tX«
perlmentl (o settle the mutter, now
elaltns to have proven that tlie snail's
nose is distributed over tbe entire
body.
The new motor forge of the United
States army is a vehicle 12% feel long,
driven by a 24 horsepower gasoline en
gine, and carrying oil for traveling 890
miles nt 10 to i- miles an hour. it Is
fitted with a small machine shop.
blacksmith's shop and saddler's shop,
while it carries spare parts likely to be
needed by a light battery on the march.
An auxiliary engine on one side ope
rates a dynamo, lathe and grindstone.
The deplorable summer waste of
child life, especially in crowded cities,
calls for scientific attention. A recent
medical writer claims that lite epi
demic diarrhea that proven so fatal
may be avoided by the following pre
cautions: (1) ('lean milk nipples.- (2)
Clean towns, with effective sewage re
moval, dust collection and disposal and
street watering. (3) . Clean homes.
with attention to food utensils, cover
Ing food from dust and Hies, and per
sonal habits, and (4) destruction or ex
clusion of flies.
The brief operations of the wireless
telegraph service undertaken for the
London Times at the seat of the Russo
Japanese war, and ended by the In
terference of the Japanese govern
ment, throw much Ugh! on the detec
tive powers of wireless telegraphy. In
this case the DePorest system was em
ployed. The land station was at Wel
haiwei, with a mast 170 feet high. The
mast on the telegraph ship was 00
feet high. Both Russian and Japa
nese messages were received by the
operator, who could easily recognize
the difference in the systems employ
ed. He could tell if a Russian ship
was at sea by listening to the an
swering messages from shore. Ho
could also tell whether the Japanese
messages were transmitted from a re
lay base, or whether the fleet itself
was at sea.
The question whether America 01
Europe has the swifter railroad trains
is one the answer to which varies frorr
time to time with the progress of
events. According to a comparison of
; schedules for this year, made by the
Scientific American, the English and
French trains are at present decidedly
ahead of our own. With the exception
of the Empire Stale Express, which
averages 54.5 miles an hour, and the
Twentieth Century Limited, 50 miles,
it appears that we have no trains run
ning long distances comparable in
speed with many in England and
France. There are SO French trains
scheduled to run at an average speed
I of {Mi miles an hour or more, and C's
; English trains that are equally fast.
! Our two fast trains, it is true, go long
, er distances and are much heavier, but
j they have proportionally larger en
gines.
HiiicMe with Comfort,
"Do you know the only Irishman
who ever committed suicide? asked
W. B. Pollard. "You know it is said
that Irishmen never commit suicide,
and when the argument, was advanced
in a crowd of that nationality he was
so unstrung that he .decided to show
his opponents that Irishmen do some*
times commit a rash act. He accord
ingly disappeared, and the man who
employed him started a search. When
he got to the barn he looked up toward
the rafters and saw his man hanging
with a rope around his waist.
'•'What Jin; you up to, I'ji tV" ho
Hiked.
" 'Oi'm banging iiu'sclf, bcgobs!' the
Irishman replied.
" 'Why don't yp«j put it around your
ne«'k f
•"Faith, 01 did, but CM couldn't
brnythe,' was the unsmiling reply of
the man from the Emerald Isle."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A «.ru«tit ioiim Protest.
A Philadelphia commercial traveler,
who was stranded in a Georgia village,
sat on the porch of the 190*1] Inn, pa>
tiently awaiting the announcement of
dinner. At noon, says the Philadelphia
Press, a darky appeared at the door
and rang a big hand bell.
Immediately the "coon" do*, which
had been asleep in the sunshine,
awoke, raised hU» now toward the sky
and howled loud and dolorously.
The darky stopped ringing the bell
and scowled at the dog.
"Yo* «het up!" he shouted. "Yo'
don' hafta eat did dinnar! 'Sides,
what's yo' mannahs, dawg?"
A great deal of the friendship oth
ers have for you in like the come-any>
time invitation.
