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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1890.
ON THE CAL1F0BNIA COAST
Hoosiers in the Golden Stato Who Have
Prospered in Busines3 and Politics.
They Are Talnable Citizans and nave the High
Esteem of All A Iind of Romance
The Discovery of Wra. Kissane.
James XL Woodard. better known by his
pen-uruno of "Jay hawker," who has been a
resident of California for more than live
years, is in the city for a few days, stopping
"at the Denison House. Mr. Woodard is one
of the most picturesque talkers now on
earth, was so considered previous to his
"removal to the Pacific coast, and his resi
dence in that glorious climate baa even
added to the fecundity of his imagination
and embellished his rhetoric.
A casual question from one of a group of
listeners in the hotel lobby, the other even
ing, brought forth a supply of information
concerning Indianians who are in the Gold
en State. 'The namo of cx-Secator New
ton Booth," said Mr. Woodard, "isnolonger
mentioned in connection with California
.politics. Ho is leading a quiet life in
Sacramento. John Morton, eldest son of
Indiana's great war Governor, Is in posses
sion of a government office and makes an
admirable official. He made an enviable
record as surveyor of the port of San Fran
cisco, and, contrary to the rule, there was
never at any time the slightest smirch or
suspicion connecting bira with smuggling-frauds.
He is looked upon
as. a model public officer. Mr.
Hendricks, brother of tho late
Maj. Abram Hendricks, and cousin of
Thomas A. Hendricks, is now Secretary of
State for California. Ho is also president
of the Indiana Society of California, a very
popular man a Democrat, of courseand
one of tLe brightest speech-makers in a
State that is noted for its irridescent ora
tory. Maj. George Bonebrake, who,
shaking the dust of I it in gtoa from his feet,
went to the coast sixteen' years ago, is
president of the Los Angeles National Bank,
ono of the wealthiest men in southern Cali
fornia, and ono of the most popular. He
could go to Congress from that district al
most for the asking, but he is a very mod
est man, generous to a fault, and always
engaged m pushing the claims of others.''
-1 suppose," suggested one of the listen
ers, "that owing to her large grape-growing
interests thero are no Prohibitionist in
California."
On the contrary, there is a very small,
neat and compact party bearing that name.
The leader is General Bidwell, of Chico.
owner of the largest cultivated farm in the
world. Years ago he dug up his wine
grapes and replaced them with raisin
grapes and fruits. He now has over 100,000
acres in cultivation. One of his most act
ive lieutenants in the Prohibition cohort is
Rer.E. K. Dille, an indianian, who at one
time preacbd at North Indianapolis.
He is now in charge of the
. First Methodist Church in Oakland,
and is the most eloquent and effective
preacher of any denomination on the
coast. A specially prominent Indianian is
Hon. EM. Gibson, formerly of Grant coun
ty, a one-legged Union soldier, who lost bis
limb at the battle of Chancellorsville. He
is now one of the Superior judges of Alex
ander county, at Oakland. He has been
Earticularly fortunato in office-holding,
aving been in office of one kind or anoth
er ever since the winter of lSC5-'e6, when
he was given a clerkship at Washington.
He always fully qualified himself for every
position he ever held, and has
always been faithful, efficient and
honest. When he applied for
his first position, a clerkship iu the Interior
Department at Washington, he was a green
, rountrV lad, and. f ally aware of his de
ficiencies. Judge Otte told him he had no
place to give him, but not to be harsh to a
one-legged soldier, held out the hope that
some months hence there would be a va
cancy. 'All right.1 said Gibson, Til start
ill now to learn the duties of the place, and
by that time I'll be qualified. Judge Otte
looked at this exhibition of persistence in
amazement, gasped enceor twice, and final
ly found breath to whisper: 'Show this
man a desk and put him on the pay-roll
California." resumed Mr. Woodard,
after a pause, "is the land of romance, and
every little while some strange and start
ling family history comes to light in that
land, in which what would hero be the
marvelous is tho most prosaic and common
place." "Do you know anything of the Kissane
case!" inquired the reporter.'
I am one of tho men who discovered
Kissane. 1 was a newsboy in Cincinnati,
and saw Kissane them at the time of his
triaLchxged with the burning of ' the
am boat -Martha Washington for
the insurance Just- before leaving
for California,'' in 1855, McConnick,
of the Enquirer, told me that I would find
lteuben Kissane in that State, that he was
a lawyer bearing tho namo of Keuben H.
Lloycf. I was also warned not to jarap on
him, because Lloyd was a mere boy at the
burning of the steamboat, and that his
change of name had been made to avoid
the notoriety rained by the Kissanes at tho
trial. I soon located Lloyd, and found him
to be one of the most reputable men in tho
State, a devoted son to his aged mother.
Some months after this discovery I was
one day sitting in tho cbanirtgne factory
of Arpad liarathazy, when a man
came in, between whom and General
Darr, who bad recently becomo a momber
of the firm, an introduction took place.
Darr was colonel of the Tenth Ohio Iiegi
meut. and as brave a man as ever stood in
shoe-leather. 1 noticed that he became
deathly pale as he shook hands with this
visitor a tall man of martial appearance,
who had been introduced as 'Colonel Kog
ers.' a wine-grower of Sonoma county. A8
Colonel Kogers left the room General Darr
came over to me, and. in a voice thick with
emotion, remarked, 1 believe that man is
Bill Kissane.' Though I had seen Kissane
when I was a bov 1 could not then
identify him. I, however, told the Gen
eral I con Id find out who Col. W. JC
Kogers, of Sonoma county, was. Now to
show how strangely things happen. In the
evening of that samo day 1 was in tho Pal-
see Hotl when Colonel Kogers entered, and
speaking to Jackson, a policeman stationed
in the court of the hotel, said ho wanted a
carriage to take him to his brother's.
'What' your brother's nanus!' asked Jack
son, Kissane.1 waa the reply. This was
an eld or brother, it seems, who had gone to
California before either of tho other two,
and here 1 had the family group together
with tho singular fact that is it would be
singular anywhere else than in California
of three brothers, each bearing a dirlorent
surname -Kogera, Lloyd, Kissane.
1 dispatched a messenger to General
Darr," continued the relator, "with the in
formation I had gained, and he immediate
ly came to the hotel. Darr. as you may re
call, for the matter was in all the papers at
great length, had a grievance against
William Kissaue, alias Kogers. He held
that Kissane had been tho cause of the
ruin of Darr s father in Cincinnati, and
alleged tbatit came about in this way:
Kissane had embezzled from bis employer,
and to conceal his embezzlement bad
set lire - to and burned down
tie pork-bouse in which he was
employed in a confidential capacity.
The destruction of the pork-tiouso carried
with it in tbetfaniea thu factory of Darr's
father, which joined it. aud toe old man
was mined and heart-broken. Colonel
lasers' record in California was in all
respects most exemplary, but Darr was
implacable and resolute to bring him to
Justice. He even visited Kogers at hia
home in Sonoma county and demanaed
that he pay him a large sum of money on
account of this alleged loss in Cincinnati
of so many years before. How those two
men ever met in that way and
separated without one or more lives
paying the forfeit is something that
Is wholly incomprehensible to thoso who
new them. Kogurs'a courage was nover
questioned. He had made a record as ono
cf those reckless men who followed Walk
er iu Nicaragae, of whom Joaquin MilUr
says:
'Stained with ererr vice,
Jius. none so dark as cowardice
Rogers (or KJrsane)." Mr. Woodard con
tinued, -bad been reported killed in Nica
ragua. He refused to pay a cent Darr's
Elocution of lioeers came to naught, and
he left California. The three Kissanes
ate still living thero and, much
respected. The Golden State has
many a ghost in tho shape of
active and prosperous business men who
disappeared from the 8ti.s perhaps two
score years ago, and whoso names are no
more heard among the names of the living.
There are other ghosts on the coast, dazed
and broken men. wrecks upon the shores of
misfortuno, waiting for the roll of waves
that will carry them out upon the ocean of
eternity."
ALL ABOUT "CYCLES.
A Rider Explains the Advantages of the "Or
dinary," the "Safety and the Tricycle.
Elizabeth Robin- Peanell, In St. Nicholas.
Of all cycles, the most delightfal is tho
ordinary tall bicycle. If I were u boy I
would ride nothing else. Thero is a certain
swing or life about it, a certain sympathy
between it and the rider not to be had in
any other machine. The height, too, of the
big wheel, above which the rider sits,
makes it seem almost as if he were riving
through the air; and in countries where
hedges and walls aro high much more of
tho landscapo can be seen from its high
perch than from the low seat of a 'safety"
or a tricycle. But then, on the tall bicycles
you most always take the risk of "headers."
The smallest stone or stick may send you
headlong into the dust or mud:. I do not
think 1 ever realized the treachery of
tho ordinary" until one day when a
rider I know came back from a ride to th$
littlo towns near Kome with his nose
patched.- up with postage-stamps. A tiny
twig had pitched him over on the hard
road and cut his nose badly. In the next
village he came to there was no court-
Elaster nor doctor to be had, and the vil
igers recommended the postorhce as the
most likely place to have his wounds at
tended to. Now. if that twig had been on
the streets of Kome. or within immediato
reach of court-plaster, you may make up
your mind he would have ridden over it as
easily as you please the bicycle waits un
til it has f ou all to it6elf, to break your
bones and cover yon with cnts. For long
tours there is another objection to it; it will
not carry comfortably even the very small
amount of baggage you will need. And
yet Mr. Stevens rode ono on his journey
round the world; and there are many men
and boys who would not give it up for any
safety cycle that could be invented.
Still the "ordinary" is not so much rid
den as it was a few years ago. Nowadays,
in England, you will see. ten ''safeties" to
one "ordinary." The "safety" is the little,
low bicycle with the two wheels of almost
the same size; and for the last year or two,
one kind has been made for girls to ride.
If you have been on a three-wheeled ma
chine only, and then try the "safety." as I
did last summer, you will wonder how you
ever were willing to work such a dead
er were willing to work such a dead
eight as a tricycle over good or indiiler
it roads. The "safety" is so light; it is a
weij
enl
single-track machine, so that on the worst
roads you can usually manage to hnd a
path; it is so low that if you do tumble
you will not hurt yourself (how often did I
roll over in the dust, just outside of Dieppe,
on my first trip, and jump up none the
worse for it!) and it will carry a respecta
bly large bag. All theso things, you will
seo, are greatly in its favor.
1 fancy I can hear some girl ask, "But
how can we ever mount itf " That was the
question I asked last summer when I mado
my first trial. But. fortunately for me, my
machine was a tandem, and there was some
one to hold-it steady while I got on. By
practice, however, girls can learn indeed,
many havej learned already to mount by
standing between the wheels, putting one
foot over the frame on to the descending
pedal, standing on this, which of course
starts tho machine, and then sitting on the
saddle and riding away. There is always
more or less difficulty about this a girl's
skirts are so in her way, and are likely to
catch; and yet, as soon as she is seated, she
mnstr keep on goinsr. Lately two or three
manufacturers in England have invented
what they call a safety attachment, a con
trivance by which the machine can bo
steadied and kept at a stand-still while the
rider mounts as easily as if it were a tri
cycle. I have experimented only on a tandem
safety, with n rider behind me to steer it
and put on the brake; but 1 have never en
joyed riding so much. Once you have
started the machine saems to carry you
along with no effort on your part; it is not
rigid like a tricycle, but swings and sways
with your evory motion.
But for all that, the tricycle has many
good points; it is safer than a "safety;" I
have chargod a fiock of sheep on one. and
the machiue did not even upset; it needs no
attachment to make it easy to mount; in a
crowded street you can bo brought to a
stand-still without having to jump off, as
you must from a "safety" or an "ordinary,"
and as I had to last summer, coming down
the crowded Hue de Kivoli, in Paris, when
all the omnibuses and carriages in front
came to a sudden halt. In a country lane,
if you wish to rest for awhile in a pretty,
shady spot, you can sit there quietly on
your tricycle. Nowadays tho tricycle is
made so light and compact that you can
ride almost as fast on it as on a "safety."
Indeed, some people say that on a tricycle
you make better time, in the end, simply
because you never have to dismount.
There aro so many cycle manufacturers
in England and America that hundreds of
machines are made which differ only in
certain small details. In making your
choice from among their number you must
be guided chiefly by your own special
wants, for if you go to a good maker you
will secure a good machine; it is merely
tho question of deciding which one suits
yon best.
After you have your machine, the next
thing yon must do is to learn to mount it
properly. Do be sure to learn this in the
beginning. If yon acquire tho habit of
mounting awkwardly you will never be rid
of it. Have you not sometimes wondered
to seo a rider of experience climb into his
saddle as if ho w ere attempting it for the
first time! In America riders pay more at
tention to this ttfan they do in England.
Americans, as a rule, though they may not
ride faster than Englishmen, ride better.
TO GET HONEST BEER.
Features of the Bill Introduced by Senator
IVoloott, of Colorado
Philadelphia Press,
The makers of honest batter achieved a
great triumph in the passage of tho act of
Congress subjecting spurious butter to spe
cial internal revenue taxes, and restricting
its sale to stamped and branded packages
which shall inform intended purchasers of
thoir true character. The makers of honest
beer want tho same protection from the
competition of adulterated beer. True,
their number is small, for the adulteration
of beer in this country is, unhappily, tho
rulu and not the exception. The consumers
of beer, however, have some title to consid
eration, and thoy are numbered by the mill
ions. They are drinking for the most part
at present a chemical mixturecheap but
unwholesome. Those who would make and
sell pure beer if they could are forced to
cheapeu their product by adulteration in
order to meet competition. They aak pro
tection from the fraud for themselves and
the public, and their plea deserves the
early and favorable attention of Congress:
Judgo White, of Pittsburg, was a great
deal abused for declaring obiter dictum,
that if the beer of this country was as good
and wholesome as that of Germany, ho
would not object to granting more licenses;
but since American beer was so generally
adulterated he did not think that' its sale
could bo too much restricted for the public
good. Tbereis no doubt that he character
ized tho ordinary American beer justly.
The adulterations and substitutes for
barley, malt and hops vary. iSotue of them
are more and some of them less harmful;
but. whether hnrtfnl or not, the beer mado
from them should not be allowed to mas-
.querade for what it is not. but like oleo
marpriiiD, it should be obliged to advertise
itRdt for just what it is.
The bill introduced into the Senate by
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, aims to ac
complish this verv thing. It does not pro
hibit tho use of glucose treated with sul
phuric acid in the manufacture of beer, or
say that it shall not be overcharged with
alcohol by having corn or rice substituted
for barley, but it says that bter manufact
ured out of such materials shall pay special
taxes and be known as adulterated. Any
. beverage by this bill intended to be sold as
lager-beer, m the making of which "glucoso,
starch, corn, rice, soda, bicarbonate of soda,
aloes or any other substitute for bops, or
any other substauce than hops, barley,
malt and water is used, shall be known as
adulterated lagor beer." Brewers of such
beer are required to pay a license tax of
$1,000. and both wholesale and retail deal
ers must pay a special licenso tax, while at
every stairo of the sale the brand "adulter
ated ' must appear on the package, barrel
or keg from which tho beer is drawn.
The penalties for violating the provisions
of this bill aro sutbcienily severo to secure
the observance of the law, with vigilant
United States reveauo officers . to enforce
them. Thero is no doubt that the public
health, general sobriety and order would be
Eroinoted by the passage of this act. Honest
vewers will find nothing in it to complain
of, while thoso who are making money by
adulterating beer are not entitled to any
consideration. The farmers are interested
in it. as its passago would greatly increase
the demand for barley and hops, while to
the cousumer of beer such a law, vigorously
enforced, would be an incalculable bless
ing, saving him from many a headache and
disordered stomach, and giving him a far
better and more palatable beer than he can
now often obtain any whero in this country.
The bill has been amended so that its pro
visions apply to ale and porter as well as
beer. It has, however, not advanced very
far in the Senate. It ought to be pushed
zealously, as Congress has not often before
it a more genuine reform measure than
this.
nOW TO PACK A TllUXK.
An Art That Is Very Little Understood, but
Is Useful to All Tourists.
Yonth's Companion.
Beforo starting upon a task that will re
quire a long time, and will demand much
thought and planning, the packer should
go from room to room, from closet to closet,
lroin bureau to bureau, aud select exactly
what she intends to take with her. This is
the only manner by which everything will
bo secured and nothing mislaid or loft be
hind. It is a good plan to do your packing in a
lower room, as it is much easier to bring
things down than to carry them up. ana
then it is not so bard to lift the trunk
when filled, nor so difficult to got it out of
the house. Nearly all staircases bear hon
orable scars that have been won in a battle
between trunk and porter.
When everything has been collected, and
the time of the jonrney draws nigh, the
trunk should be brought down, its interior
duated and all its broken straps, corners,
locks, etc., carefully mended. The heavy
articles, shoes, books, underwear, in short,
everything which will bear pressure, must
be placed in the bottom. Over those fold a
layer of newspapers or a soft old sheet.
In folding dresses, if tho trunk is too
short to admit of the skirt lyingfull length,
be sure and fold carefully over a little at
the top. AH strings attached to steels in
gowns should be untied. Tissue paper
should be placed between the folds of good
dresses, and also over passementerie or jet
trimming. This lessens the danger of
creasing, and keeps dust and lint from set
tling there.
Dress waists should be laid smoothly in
long shirt-boxes. All the collars, laces,
rucbings. ribbons and handkerchiefs ehould
be placed in pasteboard boxes and packed
with clothing on each side so as to keep
them steady.
Hats and bonnets are tho most difficult
to manage, unless there are special com
partments for them, and of these there are
never enough. They should bo wrapped,
each alone in tissue paper, and then cov
ered with stiff' brown paper, which should
be pinned firmly around them. They
should then be placed in boxes just largo
enough to hold them and packed in the
middle of the trunk, where they can be
held steady by the clothing around them.
Do not place your jewelry and money in
your trunk. A far better plan is to make a
stout bag of chamois skin, place your valu
ables in it, and fasten it securely inside
your dress waist or any other portion of
your attire most convenient. Above all.
do not place your valuables in a hand bag,
so that you will lay it down on the car
seat or hotel table, and leave it there to be
lost forever.
All garments that aro liable to crushing
should be placed at tho very top of the
uppermost compartments, and if they are
carefully laid, tney will be subjected to but
little pressure.
If you are going to a place remoto from
drug stores, or where the services of a phy
sician will be hard to secure, it will be best
to provide yourself with a few simple
remedies, lest you may sutler under some
emergency.
Some ot your favorite toilet soans will
take the place of the bad-smelling stuff so
often found in hotel toilet-rooms. The
bottles should be plainly labelled, firmly
corked, wrapped iirst in cotton-batting,
and then in paper, and placed in boxes.
Ink and shoe polish should never be packed
in a trunk. It is better to buy such things
when you arrive at your journey's end.
STANDARD OIL MILLIONAIRES.
Remarkably Lavish Expenditures Upon Their
Country Estates.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The volume of abuse which is daily
poured on the heads of tho directors of the
Standard Oil Company should be tempered
by a mild and gentle recognition of the
fact that when they die a few years hence
they will leave as a heritage to posterity a
series of the most beautiful country places
kuown to the now world. For some reason
or other the mania to own magnificent es
tates in the country has seized nil of the
members of the Staudard Oil Company. An
indication of tho lavish manner in which
they follow out the fad is furnished by the
information that Mr. Rockefeller's improved
system of clectrio lighting, at his place on
the Hudson, has been perfected at cost of
a little over $150,000. He can now,
by moving a small button in
his library, illuminate acres of bis
beautiful grounds at midnight if he
pleases. The wires are all carried under
the sod and out of sight and tho lights art
arranged iu a wonderfully artistic fashiou
in the trees and foliage. Such a fortune as
that expended in electricity and in lighting
a country place is unprecedented in history.
Even the new roof of Blenheim palace,
about which everybody in England has
been talking, cost less than $100,000. The
junior of the Rockefeller brothers has ad
ded the place formerly owned by Tweed, in
Greenwich, to his estate there. This placo
has been under active cultivation for so
many years that it boasts a beauty of turf
and llower that no amount of money could
buy. An instance of how the Standard oil
magnates build their country houses oc
curred in the case of one of their number,
Mr. Starbuck, who has just moved into a
superb house on the sound. He was cruising
along in his yacht one day when he saw
a lot of land near Bye which caught his
fancy. An astute agent went to work and
after awhile secured the titles of several
rather swampy farms. The swamps were
drained, landscape gardeners and sur
veyors went to work, and in less than a
year the plat was a magnificent stretch of
lawn planted at intervals with trees and
hedges. It was then what might be called
"improved laud." The trifling cost of theso
improvements was $S0,000. The house
which was subsequently erected ou tho
spot is now a model of beauty. The estab
lishments of Flagler, Clark, Bostwick,
Hughes, Paine and Wharton partially com
plete tho list of country nouses owned by
the Staudard Oil millionaires. It would be
interesting but dimcult to learn tho actual
value of the property. Some notion may
be had from the lact that Mr. Rockefeller
has expended considerably over $2,000,000
on his own place, and another man had
sunk a fortune there before he bought it in.
THE COLLEGE MAS IN BUSINESS.
Education Furnishes the All-Round Men
Able to Deal with Large Affflrs.
Christian Union.
That success, both of the inferior and tho
higher kind, is not wholly dependent on
training needs no demonstration in this
country, where so many men have achieved
both kinds of success, with no other aid
than their own energy, sagacity
and character; but it xuay be
questioned whether theso men would
not have added to their power if they had
had tho advantages of early and thorough
mentul training. The college-bred boy
does not get his start in business life so
early as the boy who gets his education
in the shop or store, but there nro ample
compensations for tho loss of a few years
of practical familiarity with business
affairs. That kind of knowledge is very
rapidly acquired, especially by one who
brings to the task a certain amount of
knowledge and a certain amount of train
ing. The business of the country tends
more and more to the concentration of in
terests, and the degree of sagacity and
management which would have succeeded
a half a century ago is entirely inadequate
to-day. Almost every branch of business
has not only expanded in scope, but be
come complicated iu its relations with
other branches of trade. Tho perseverance
and ecouomy which in former years would
have secured largo returns need, to day, to
be supplemented by broad views and clear
intelligence. At the head of our great
business institutions and commercial en
terprises are men who are required
to deal with questions which, iu
their range and importance, attain
almost the diguity of at) airs of state; and it
isa serious question whether the decline of
ability in public life is not duo largely to
1 the great scope offered by tho business life
of to-day. A statesman-like range of intel
ligence, the ability to manage men, and
grasp of largo and complicated relations
are characteristic of many of our foremost
business men of to-day; not a few
of them deserve the title of mer
chant princes. Now, this large ability and
comprehensiveness aro the very qualities
which can be developed by thorough train-;
ing. It is the all-around man who is
needed in business to-day, and it is the;
all-around man whom the colleges can
furnish. The word success mnst always be
interpreted in its larger significance, and,
when it is so interpreted, tho question
whether a man suffers any loss of
power in dealing with practical affairs be
cause of his education answers itself.
Training of any kind is simply invaluable
in tho competition of modern life. In tho
long run it is the trained man who gains
the prize. His trainiugmay have been so
cured in tho heat of tho race, but it is
better if it can bo secured before tho
race begins. It is the trained
man who gets the first opportunity, and
who is the last to lose his place when tho
necessity of curtailment and economy is
forced on business organizations. Every
faculty developed and focused adds just so
much to a man's working power, and the
boy who can enter life with a large equip
ment of knowledgo and a thorough
mental training has tho 6ame advantage
in the battle over his less fortunato
fellow that ho possesses who carries tho
latest perfection of rifle-making. If a boy
or girl can be given but one thing in life,
next to character that; thing ought to be
training. Nothing else gives such hold up
on the world; such command
of the conditions of independ
ence; such opportunities for the
highest success There are, undoubtedly,
modifications to be made iu the curriculum
of the American college; changes are con
stantly going . on in college methods; but
the training for which the college stands
will endure, because it fosters not only the
higher ends of life, but puts into a man's
hands the most finely tempered tools for
practical work.
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IN FAVOR OF CANNIBALS.
A Flea for. the Practice of Eating Unman
Flesh.
Blackwood's Magazine.
The word cannibal is associated in our
minds with scenes of the most debased sav
agery that the imagination can picture; of
men in habits and appearance a littlo
lower than tho brute; of orgies the result
of the most degrading religious supersti
tion. It is not until one has lived on terms
of friendship with cannibals that ono
realizes that the practice is not incompati
ble with an intelligence and moral quali
ties which command respect. And alter
all, if one can for a moment 'lay aside the
instinctive horror which tho idea calls up
and dispassionately consider the nat
ure of cannibalism, our repugnance to it
seems less logically grounded.
It is truo that it must generally entail
murder, but that is certainly not the rea
son for our loathing of it. It is something
deeper than this; and the distinction wo
draw between the llesh of men and of ani
mals is at first sight a little enrious. One
can imagine the inhabitants of another
planet, whose physical necessities did not
force them to eat llesh to take life in order
to live regarding us with much the same
kind of abhorrence with which we look on
cannibals. Most of our natural instincts
are based upon natural laws, which when
broken are suro to visit the breaker with
their penalties. The eating of unripe
fruit, of putrid meat and of poisonous mat
ter are some of these. 15ut.no penalty in
the shape of disease seems to be attached
to cannibalism.
What, then, are the motives that lead
men, apart from tho pressure of famine, to
practice cannibalism! Among certain
African tribes, and lately in Hayti, it has
been the outcome of a debased religious
superstition, or that extraordinary instinct,
common to all races, which leads men to
connect the highest religious enthusiasm
with tHe most horrible orgies that their
diseased imagination cau conceive. The
feeling that leads members of sects to bind
themselves together by tho celebration of
some unspeakable rite perhaps led to the
accusations laid against the Christians of
the second centnry and the Hungarian
Jews of the nineteenth. But in the fcjouth
seas, although the motive has been falsely
attributed to a craving for animal food, it
was generally the last act of triumph over
a fallen enemy. Thus Homer makes
Achilles, triumphing over the dying Hector,
wish ho could make mincemeat of his body
and devour it. Triumph could go no fur
ther than to slay and then to assimilate the
body of your foe; and the belief that by
thus making him a part of you you ac
quired his courage in battle is 6aid to have
led a chief of old Fiji to actually consume
himself the entire body of the man he had
killed by daily masting what remained of
it to prevent decomposition.
WHERE TO TUT POCKETS.
Napoleon the Great Used Those of His Aids-
de-Camp.
London Telegraph.
The present pocket, both for ladies and
gentlemen, is an extremely difficult feature
to make thoroughly well, both in dress-making
and in tailoring. There is a 6tory of an
English couturiere .who thought that sho
had all but perfected herself in the art of
dress-making, but who took a journey to
J A i. t- 1- I
raris in orncr to go inrougu a nuai course
of instruction in tho atelier of a celebrated
'robo artiste. Sho paid a handsome fee .for
a year's instruction, and, after signing arti
cles, she was put to what seemed to her the
frivolous task of inserting a pocket in a
dress. When sho had finished her task
"Madame" shook her head with kindly
gravity, and told her articled pupil that
the mystery of pocket-making had yet to
be learned. It is a fact that the devoted
student was kept for six whole months
toiling at pockets. At tho expiration of
that period she was permitted to try her
hand at sleeves, and sho returned to Eng
land a sadder but wiser seamstress,
destined, however, it is to bo hoped, to
blossom into a court dress-maker of the
grandest typo.
As with ladies' pockets so is it in degree
with thoso of gentlemen. Mankind desires
its trouser pockets, its coat, end overcoat,
and vest pockets, to bo conveniently
placed, easy of access and not given to
getting unsown. To bo perfect, they should
be entirely unobtrusive. The Emperor
Alexander I, of Kussia, when ho was in
Paris, was desirous of having bis netber
garments made by a famous "eulottier"
who had supplied rsapoleon with his buck
skins. "But the pockets?" said the Em
peror, when tho tailor had finished measur
ing. "I am sure," replied the 'ciilotticr,"
"that I;should not know whereto put
pockets, unless I cut them in your Majesty's
llesh." The Czar was more amused than
angered by the explanation. "But the
other one. Napoleon," ho pursued, "what
did he do for breeches pockets!' "His aids-de-camp
were his pockets;" replied, with
quiet diguity, the small-clothes artist.
Later breeches-makers may have thought
out 6ome means of maintaining symmetry
while providing pockets in buckskins or
cords; but, speaking broadly, the resources
of the tailor are taxed to the very utmost
in designing pockots which shall hold what
a gentleman requires without pushing
themselves into objectionable prominence.
There are a great many things that we are
bound to find room for in our pockets. Hap
pily, we are absolved from the necessity of
carrying revolvers beneath our garments;
but it frequently happens that a small sil
ver flask, holding some form of alcohol, oc
cupies a modest place in a traveler's pocket,
and, of course, lie must have due recepta
cles for his cigar case, his keys, his hand
kerchief, and, if ho be well stricken in tho
valeof years, his spectacles. It is only the
entirely competent and long-experienced
coat artist who knows how theso pockets
shall be placed, and what shall be their ex
act breadth ami depth. Thus, to tho prac
ticed sartorial eye. a breast pocket may
really appear "ridiculous." It may be the
eighth or an inch too high, too low, too nar
row or too broad. It may be too."fltraiht
in the forepart," or just a hair's breadth
too much askew for symmetry or for com
fort; but it is a pity that the estimable
artists in coats cannot settle their estima
ble little difference without bringing the
refinements of their craft into tho law
courts.
A Machine for Buttering Hread.
Philadelphia Rconl.
The latest and most unique invention is
a machine for buttering bread. It is used
in connection with a irreat patent bread
cutter, and is intended for use in prisons,
work-houses and other reformatory in&titu-
, tions. Thero in a cylindrical-shaped brush
which is fed with butter, and Jays a thin
layer on the bread as it comes from thw
cutter. The machine cau bo worked by
hand, steam or electricity, and has a capac
ity of cutting and buttering 750 loaves of
.bread an hour. The saving of butter aud
of brood, aud the decrease in tho quantity
ox crumus is aaia to do very largo.
BUSINESSOFTIIEPAST WEEK
t
State of Trade Throughout the Country
as Sho w n by R. G. Dun fc Co.'s Eeview.
Money JIarkct Relieved by Heavy Disburse
ments in Dividends and Interestllopefai
Accounts from the Interior Cities.
The leading money aiul produce excJiange
hat in (j affjounu-d from I hurst! ay evening until
Monday, the Journal is without its usual market
rcixtrts. -
DUN & COS WEEKLY REVIEW.
Large Disbursements of Money Good Pros
pects for a Drink Fall Trade.
NEW YORK, July 5.-Following is R. G.
Dun fc Co.'s weekly review of trade: With
the beginning of a now fiscal year we have
heavy disbursements and easier money,
better crop prospects, and a continuance of
larger trade for the season than has been
6een in any previous j ear. At this timo it
is to be admitted that there 6eems to be,
within the past week or two, a little moro
than ordinary hesitation or slacking of
trado at the arrival of mid-summer, and
confidence in the fnturo, as affected by leg
islation, is rather less strong than it was a
fortnight ago. Monetary apprehensions,
excited by exports of gold, have been al
layed bthe heavy disbursements in divi
dends and interest, said to be the largest1
ever mado at this season, and exclusive of
government payments, estimated at 74,
000,000. against SCl.OOO.OOO last year. For
eign advices and rates of exchange do not
at present indicate danger of any serious
drain from abroad, and the interior money
markets are all firmly supplied at usual
rates.
Failures have been fewer on the whole, and
liabilities of firms tailing slightly smaller
than in the first half of last year, but m some
important branches of trade the situation
is plainly rather less healthy than it seemed
six months or a yearago. Kail road earnings
thus far reported for June show a gain of
about lOperceut. over last year,but these also
show less gain for the latter than for the
first half of the month. This may be duo
in part to further cutting of rates, attempts
to adjust east-bound freight wars having
thus far failed, and tho strife between
Canadian lines and those nearest tho border
having grown moro bitter. Nothing has
occurred to make the prospects regarding
legislation more delinite. The demand for
raw wool is scanty, prices tending down
ward in spite of the smallness of stocks on
hand. The iron trade is moro steady, but
rather dull. The mileage of railroad built
this year is estimated at 1,000, against 1.4S0
for the first half of last year, and a total
of (5,000 miles for the year is expected,
but this does not go far toward providing
use for the greatly increased supply of pig
iron.SLeather is firm at all leading markets,
and activity in building renders lumber and
other materials in active demand.' Anthra
cite coal is a shade stronger.
Wheat was lc higher, tho visible sup
ply having rapidly diminished, but those
who claim that much less than 70,000,000
bushels of surplus has been brought over
to the new crop aro compelled to dispute
the correctness of the official and only in
formation of last year's yield. Corn has
been a shade stronger, but oats unchanged.
Pork products aro steady, and raw sugar a
shade lower, reported stocks in all coun
tries being 1,020,000 tons, against 007,000 a
year ago. Later reports from the South are
very favorable as to growing cotton, and in
Texas the estimated yield is the largest on
record. Coffee has grown steadier after
large liquidations, but the demaud for con
sumption is disappointing.
, In general the speculative markets have
been rather inactive, and the level of prices
for all commodities on July 1, though a
shade lower than a week ago or Jan. 1, is
fully 2 per cent, higher than at tbe same
date last year. The future of speculation
and of the money market now depends
largely upon the measure of activity de
veloped in movement of crops, and in the
branches of trade which lull crops stimu
late. Tho accounts from the interior cities are
most hopeful, though present quiet is
noted at Philadelphia, Boston, and. on ac
count of great heat, at St. Louis, Milwau
- kee and many other Western cities. Chi
caeo reports dry goods and clothing
larger than last year, with good fall orders
and satisfactory payments. Minneapolis
notes better prices for lumber and a better
demand for flour. Iron is dull at Clovoland
but groceries and hardware active. In all
tho reports received there is nowhere com
plaint of collections, and confidence in
large trade next fall is almost universal,
though it is recognized that an increasing
volume of business has not of late brought
a corresponding increase in profits.
The business failures occurring during
the past seven days, as reported, number
1W, as compared with 202 last : week. For
the corresponding weok of last year the
figures were 202.
The Associated Banks.
From the reports of the Associated Banks
for the week ending yesterday the follow
ing is taken:
Loans $G,121,150.1C
Deposits 10,063,448.50
Cash reserve 0,316,172.52
Loans, increase 134,740.05
Depostits, decrease 116,763.75
Deserve, decrease 1111,743.13
The banks hold $2,901,089.69 in excess of
the S3 13 per cent, rule required by the
clearing-house.
Weekly Statement of New York Dank.
NEW YORK, July 5. The weekly bank
statement nhows the following changes:
Reserve, decrease $2,796,000
Loans, increase 7.553.30O
Specie, increase 1 ,: 7, OOO
Legal tenders, decrease 1 .639,200
Deposits, increase 8,777,600
Circulation, increase 33,000
Tho banks now hold $3,S4G,9oO in excess of
the 25 per cent. rule.
NEW YORK, July 5.-Bar silver, $1.0 i4.
LONDON, July 5. Bar silver, 47 13-lCd per
ounce
tlVE STOCK.
Cattle Dull and Slow Hogs Opened Active
Sheep Quiet bnt Unchanged.
Indianapolis, July 5.
Cattle. Receipts, 750; shipmonts. 950.
There was a light supply and the market
very dull and slow sales, at hardly as good
prices as Wednesday.
Export grades $4.254.60
(Jood to choico shippers 3.75S4.10
Common to medium shippers 3.0033.50
Ftockers and feeders 2.115 a-3.50
Good lo choice heifers 3.2033.50
Common to medium heifers 2.25 n 2.90
Good to choice co vs 2.7533.00
Fair to medium cows 2.25 2.60
Common old cows 1.0092.0O
Veals, common to choice 3.00 3 4.00
Bulls, common to medium 1.50 2 2.20
Hulls, tood to choice 2.5033.05
Milkers 12.00230.00
Hogs. Receipts, 6,200; shipments. 2,055
Quality generally good. Market opened
active. Packers and shippers buying.
Lisnt ?3.75 33.85
Mixed 3.7033.75
Heavy and medium 3.7033.80
Heavy roughs 3.0033.25
Siiekp and Lamps. Receipts, 25; ship
ments, . But few on sale. Market
so
60
oo
y.5oas.5o
Lucks, per head.
2.0091.00
Elsewhere.
CHICAGO, July 5.-The Drovers' Jour
nal reports: Cattle Receipts, 3.000; ship
ments, . Tho market was quite steady.
lieeves, $4.50 4.S0; steers. $3.40)4.40; stock
ers and feeders, $2.20 U 3.50: cows, bulls and
mixed. SliUO: Texas cattle. S1.352SL25.
Hogs Keceipts, 8,500; shipments, 2,500.
The market was strong to 10c higher.
Mixed, $3.70 heavy, $3.703.95; light,
S3.70S4; skips, $33.40.
Sheep Receipts, 50C; shipments, .
The market was steady. Natives. $325;
Western, $3.004.80; Texaus. $34; lambs,
$56.10. .
BUFFALO. July 5. Cattle steady and
unchanged. Keceipts, 211 car-loads through
and 2 car-loads for sale.
Sheep and lambs in fair demand and
stronger on good quality. Keceipts. 'JJ car
loads . through and 9 car-loads for sale.
Sheep, choice to extra, 4.7525; good to
quiet at no material change in prices.
Good to choice. - $3.7534.
Fair to medium, 3.2533.
Common ' 2.5033.
choico. $1.5032)4.70; Lambs, choice to extra,
$0.757; good to choice. $0,402:6.70.
Hogs active, strong and hicher. Ke
ceipts. C3 car-loads thiough and 20 car-loads
for sale. Mediums, heavy and mixed. $4
4.05; heavy Yorkers, $44.05; pigs, c.'
3.00.
KANSAS CITY. J nly 5. Tho Live Stock
Indicator reports: Cattle Keceipts, S.iOO;
shipments, 1,770. The market was 10c high
er. Steers, $3.404.40; cowp. $13.45; stock
ersand feeders, $2.053.75; range steers, $2
122.83; range cows, $1.50S2.
Hogs Receipts, 6,560; shipments, 2,lo0.
The market was IS'SpHc higher. Bulk,
$3.52 lo'S 3L65; all grades. $3.453.fX).
Sheep Keceipts, 1,200; shipments, none.
The market was steady. Lambs. $2'?3; good
to choice muttons, $4.50S5.50; stockera and
feeders. $3.254.10.
ST. LOUIS. July 5. Cattle Receipts,
1.500; shipments, none. Market steady.
Good to laucv native steers, $i.tt)'4.60;
fair to goo'd native steers, $3.70?4.b0;
Btockers and feeders, $2.203.40; Toxans
ana Indians, g2.ics-3.40.
8.75: lieht. fair tnh.-Kt ft? n7r :i Sih
Sheep Receipts, 2,000; shipments, none.
Market steady. Fair to choice, $3.8024.00.
INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
Trade Rather Quiet with No Changes in
Values of Importance.
lNidAXAioLis, July 5.
About the only department in wnich there
was any trade to-day was with the com
mission men. As usual the day following a
holiday all other branches of trade wero
doing but little. In prices thero were no
important changes. Hides aud leather,
both East and West, are more active, and,
with this, prices are firmer. The iron and
hardware markets both rule firmer. In all
lines of hardware better prices have been
obtained this year than for some years
past, there having been less cutting prices
than usual. Ever3'thing in the dry-goods
line carries a strong tone. As to groceries
an impression prevails that sugars and cof
fees will go lower. The produce markets
present no now features. Lower prices for
poultry aud eggs next week may Lo looked
for. Home-grown cabbage abundant. Lem
ons arc very firm; 87 per box is wanted for
choice stock. Black and red raspberries
are in only moderate supply another
week will about close tho seasou with
raspberries. The provision market car
ries a steady tone and a good deal is doing
in a jobbing way. The seed men are doing
but little, but for months past they havo
been doing an unprecedented!' largo busi
ness. GRAIN.
There was littlo doing in the local grain
market to-day. Keceipts are light and prices
ruled easy at the following range:
Wrheat No. 2 red. 85c; No. 3 red. 78c;
rejected, 68c; unmerchantable, 50 00c;
July. 844C.
Corn No. 1 white. SCc; No. 2 white, S5c;
No. S white, Sl-SoSc, latter for one colon
No. 4 white, 33c; No. 2 yellow. 34L2c; No 3
yellow, 33c; No. 4 yellow, S2c; No. 2 mixed,
84c; No. 3 mixed, S3l No- 4 mixed, 31c;
mixed car, 34c; yellow, SGc; white, SGc
latter for one color.
Oats No. 2 white, S2itc: No. 3 white.
Sic; No. 2 mixed. Sic: rejected. 2;c.
Bran Local dealers are bidding $8. 759.
Hay Timothy, choice, $13; No. 1, $12.25;
No. 2, $7.50; No. 1 prairie, $0.75.
Indianapolis Jobbing Trade.
CANNED GOODS.
Peaches Standard 3-pound, $2.2522.50;
3-pound seconds, $1.031.75. Miscellaneous
Blackberries, 2-pound, 8000c; raspber
ries, 2-pound. 90c$l; pineapple, standard,
2- pound, $1.40'22.50; seconds, 2-pound, $1.10
1.20; cove oysters, 1-pound, full weight,
1.101.15; light, 70750; 2-pound, full. $2
2.10; light. 81.101.15: string beans. 85 05c;
Lima beans, $1,201X0; peas, marrowfat,
$1.2001.40; small, '81.5001.75; lobsters. $1.85
'a2; red cherries, 05001.10; strawberries,
$1.2001.30: salmon (IBs), $1.0002.50.
v COAL AND COKE.
Anthracite, $0.7507 ton; Jackson lump,
$4 ton; nut. $3.50; Brazil block, $3.50 4
ton; nut. $3; Pittsburg, $4 & ton; nut, $3.75;
Raymond and Winifrede, 4 ton; nut.
$3.75; Dugger lump, $3.25 ton; nut, $2.75;
Island City lump, $3.25 & ton; nut. $3;
Highland lump. ton; nut, $2.50; Pied
mont and Blossburg, $7 ton; Indianacan
nel, $5 y ton; gas-house coke, 13c bu, or
$3.25 f load; crushed coke, 14c v bu, or
$3.50 i load.
DRY GOODS.
Bleached Sheetings Black6tone AA,
734c; Ballon & Son. 7Lc; Chestnut Hill, 6c;
Cabot 4-4, 7L2C; Chapman X, 6ioc; Dwight
Star S, 9c; Fruit of the Loom, Oc; Lonsdale,
9c: Lin wood, 8c; Masonville,834c; New York
Mills, 1034c; Our Own, 534c; Pepperell 9-4.
22c; Pepperell 10-4. 24c; Hills, 8c: Hope. 74c;
Knight's Cambric, Sc: Lonsdale Cambric,
10c; Whitinsvillo, 33-inch, Cc; Wainsutta,
1034c.
Brown Sheetings Atlantic A, 74c;
Boott C, Cc; Agawam F, 5; Bedford R, 5c;
Augusta, 5Lc; Boott AL, 7c; Continental C,
634c; Dwight Star, 8c; Echo Lake, Oc;
Graniteville EE, Cc; Lawrence LL, 534c;
Pepperell E, 7ic; Pepperell K, Gc; pep
perell 9-4, 20c; Pepperell 10-4, 22c; Utica 9-4,
22c: Utica 10-4, 260; Utica C, 4L2C.
Grain Bags American, $17; Atlantic, $18;
Franklinville, $18.50; Lewistown, $17.50;
Cumberland, 817; Grocers. $18.50; Harmony,
$17; Ontario. $16.50; Stark A. $21.
Ginghams Amoskeag, 7c; Bates. 60;
Gloucester, GAic; Glasgow, Cc; Lancaster, 7c;
Kanelman'a, 7: Renfrew Madras. 80;
Cumberland. 0c; White.Cc; Bookfold.Oc.
Prime Cambrics Manvillo. 0c; S. S. &
Son, Cc; Masonville, Gc; Garner, Cc.
Prints American fancy. 6c: Allen's
fancy, Oc; Allen's dark, Cc: Allen's pink,
0c; Arnold's, Cc; Berlin solid colors, Cc;
Cocheco, Sjc; Conestoga. 6c; Dunnell's, Cc;
Eddystone, Cc; Hartel, Cc; Harmony, 434c;
Hamilton, Cc: Greenwich, 5c; Knicker
bocker, 5: Maliory pink, CLc; prices on
dress styles irregular; depends on pattern.
Tickings Amoskeag ACA, 12; Cones
toga BF, 14c; Conestoga extra. Kic:
Conestoga Gold Medal, 13 c; Conestoga
CCA. 12c; Conestoga AA, 10c; Conestoga X,
9c: Pearl River. 12c; Falls OBO. C2-incb,
12ioc: Methuen AA. 1220; Oakland A, 6Lc;
Swift River, Gc; York. S2-iuch. 12H:c; York,
SO-inch, lOiac.
drugs.
Alcohol, $2.2502.30; asafcrtida, 15020c;
alum. 405c; camphor. C0SC5c; cochineal,
50055c; chloroform, 50055c; copperas, brls,
8oc0$l; cream tartar, pure, 30035c; indigo,
SOS 81c; licorice, Calab., genuine, SOS 45c;
magnesia, carb., 2-oz, 25035c; morphine, P.
fe W.. p oz. 83.10; madder. 12014c; oil. cas
tor, y gal, $1.28 1.S2: oil. bergainot, $ lb,
$303.25; opium, $3.8003.90; quinine, P. &
W oz, 41040c; balsam copaiba, 750SOc;
6oap, Castile, Fr., 12-a16e; soda, bicarb., 4
00c; salts, Epsom, 405c; sulphur, flour,
4iCc; saltpeter. S02Oc: turpentine, 46048c;
glycerine, 22020c; iodide potass.. $2.N03;
bromide potass.. 40042c: chlorate potash,
25c; borax. 13015c; cinchonidia, 12015c;
carbolic acid, 450 50c.
Oils Linseed oil, raw, Clc y gal; boiled,
64c; coal oil, legal teat, 940 He; bank, 40c;
best straits, 50c; Labrador, 00c; West Vir
ginia lubricating, 20030c; miners', C5c
Lard oils. No. 1, 50055c: do., extra, Co 070c.
White Lead Pure, the
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
GOOSEDEHHIES $1.25 y drawer.
CabbageNow. $1.2501.50 4? brL
Kaspbekries Red. $101.25 per crate of
24 pints: black. $22.25 per crate of 24
quarts.
. Potatoes $303.25 ft br).
Apples Choice. $3.50 p brL
Onions Bermuda, $3 1? crate.
Potatoes 50 55c i bu;1.3O01.45 brl,
in shipping order.'
Wati:hmklox.s--S18013 1 100.
Tomatoes 75c0$l box.
FOREIGN JRUITS.
Raisins. California. London Layer, new.
$2.753 v box: California, loose, muscatel,
3- crown, 202.25 f box; Valencia, new, 100
fancy, $707.25. Oranges MessiuasA 6.
Figs, 12014c. Prunes Turkish, new, 7
0734C.
groceries.
Coffees Ordinary grades. 20021;
fair, 21120221ic; good. 22!02:c; prime.
2o2024l2c; strictly prime to choice. 240
25c; fancy green and yellow, 26027c; old
government Java, :i50Cc: ordinary Java.
SOli0:n5ic; imitation Java.2S3402yc. Roast
ed colli ecs, 1 lt packnge,25l4C: Banner, 2514c,
Lion. 25l4c; U a tea's Blended Java, 25iic;
Arbnckle's, 25Uc
Sugap.s Hard, 71h0814C; confectioners'
A. G3407c: oil A, 1512064: coilee A. iV0
6c; white extra C, t140C:Vc; extra C, 00
Cc: good yellows. G06le; fair yellows,
57m0Cc: common yellows. 5340578C.
Beans Choice hand-picked navy, $2,150
$2.20 y bu; medium hand-picked.$2.152.20.
Shot $1.4001.50 bag for drop.
Diueo Beef 11011.
Flouu Sacks No. 1 drab. J brl, $33 V
Hogs Receipts. 4,000; shipments, none.
Market 5c higher. Fair' to choico
heaw $3.6023.75: r..irkini? trades. S3.G52
12 1 I"', citron. 24025a 4 U5; currants. 7
70 lb; bananas, $1.2502.25 4 bunch;
Lemons Messina, choice, 7.50 &9 i box;
1.000; Lbrl,$17; lighter weight, $1 i 1,000
less.
Lkad CA'c for pressed bars.
Kick Louisiana, 52?c.
Sricr.s Pepper. Ks20c; allspice. 12S?15e:
cloves. 2G2S0c; cassia, 10iZ12c; nutmegs, tO
2S5c i IK
Woodi: N Dipiies rer 100, 1 It, 20c; 2 I5s.
25c. 3 Ifcs. COc; 5 lbs. 40c.
WKAITIXG-PAI'KK Light- weight, straw
Pc: So. 2, 520 CL:: print paper. No. 1, V7cj
No. 3. S. & C, 10 11c; No. 2, S S., 80'Jir;
No. 1. S. V C. 740tc.
TwiNE-Ilcmp, 120 ISc i ft; wool. S210cj
flax. 20 30c; paper, ISc; jute, 1215c; cot
ton, 10025c.
Molasses and SYnrrs New Orleans
molasses, fait to prime, 04...c: choice, 45 a
5.JC
c. bvrups, 2Sfro?c.
Salt In car lots. S7c; small lots. O0$1.
Wooden wauk No. L tubs. $Sft 8.25; No. 2
washboards, $1.5001.85, Iclothes-pins, 50 a
&5c i box.
leather, hides and tallow.
Leather Oak sole, 2si?3."c: hemlock
sole, 22ii28c; harness. Sd&tvc; skirting, f,
031c; black bridle, doz., $50055; fair
bridle, $00 07S1 doz.; city kip, $00680;
French kip. $50110: city calf-skins, COciJ
$1; French calf-skins, $10 1.S0.
Hides No. 1 (i. S. hides. Cc; No. 2 G. S.
hides, 4Vi5c; No. 1 green, 404H.C; No.
green, Sk1.
Sheepskins iOc0$l.
Tallow No. 1, 334c; No. 2. 314c
Gp.ease White. 3:ic; yellow, Sc; brown,
IIokse Hides $2.
NAILS AND HORSESnOES.
Steel cut nails, $2.25; wire nails, $2.53
rates; horseshoes, keg, $4.2"; mule-shoes,
keg, $5.25; horse nails, $405.
OIL CAKE.
Oil cake. $23 1 ton: oil meal. $23.
PROVISIONS.
Jobbing Prices Smoked meats Sugar
cured hams. Reliable brand, 10 lts average,
12c; 12 l$s average, llJ4c; 15 IT.s average,
10:Uc; 172 ItiS average, 10!4c; 20 lis average
and over, 10c: English-cured breakfast ba
con, light or medium, 10c; English-cured
shoulders, 12 lbs average, 70; sugar-cured
shoulders, 10 to 12 Ts averaee, 7c; sugar
cured shoulders, 14 to 10 lbs average, 0;4r,
California hams, 10012 Us average, Sc
cottage bams. Sl4C; boneless ham, 10c;
dried beef hams aud knuckle pieces,
selected, lie. Bacon Clear sides, iX) lti
average, G:ic; clear sides, 40045 IT.i
average, Cc; clear backs, medium aver
age, 6:4c; clear backs, 20 to 25 lbs aver
age, 6; clear bellies. 13 lbs average.
72C; clear bellies, 18 to 20 Its average, CLjc,
Dry salt and pickled meats Clear sides,
unsmoked, 610; clear backs, unsmoked,
Cc; clear bellies, unsmoked, 7c; bcaupork,
y brl. 200 tt,s, $14.50; bean pork. 4 Lj brl,
100 ItiS, $8; ham or rump pork, i brl, 200 lbs,
$11.50. Bologua Skin, largo or small. Cc;
cloth, largo or small, bc. Eard Pure win
ter leaf, kettle-rendered, in tierces, 7iic;
in tubs, 00 lbs net, 7x4c; iu one-half bar
rels, 75c; in 50-lb cans in 100-tb cases. 7;
iu 20-lb cans in 80-lb cases, 7c; m 10-lb cans
in CO-lb cases, 7a4c; prime leaf lard, in
tierces, 7c; prime leaf lard, in 20-lb buckets,
7i4C
PRODUCE.
Eggs Shippers paying 10c; selling from
store at 12c.
Poultry Hens, 0c p lb; young chickens,
3 to 4 lbs per pair, riVaiSc ly cocks. So
t lb; turkeys, choico fat hens, 8c; choico
young toms, Cc; ducks, fat. Cc; geese, choice
'full-feathered, $40 5 1 doz; geese, plucked
and poor, $304 t doz.
Butter Faucy creamery, 18020c; fait
creamery, 13015c; tine dairy, 8010c; good
country, 607c, according to the condition
in which it is received. Common stock
will bring but 304c i lb.
Wool Tub-washed and picked. 3O0S5c;
unwashed medium aud common grades, if
in good order, 18022c; hurry and ootted, 14
01Sc; Heece-washed, if light and in good
order, 28030c; hurry and unmerchantable,
according to their value.
Feathers Prime geese, 35c 1 lb; mixed
duck. 20c t lb.
Beeswax Dark, ISc; yellow, 20c
TINNERS' BUrrLIES.
Best brand charcoal tin, IO, 10x11. 11x20,
12x12, $6.5007.50. IX. 10x14, 14x20, and 12x12,
6S08.5O; IC, 14x20. rooting tin, $5.75; IC,
20x28, $11.50; block tin. in pigs. 25c: in bars,
27c. Iron 27 B iron, Sjc; C iron. 5Lc; gal
vanized, CO per cent, discount. Sheet zinc,
7c Copper bottoms. 20c Planished cop
per, 32c. Solder, 15010c.
SEEDS
Clover Red, choice, CO lb bu, $3.25 03.50;
prime. $303.25; English, choice, $3.2503.40;
white, choice, $0.5007; alsike, $0.7507.50;
alfalfa, choice, $0.7507.50. Timothy
Choice, 45 lb bu, $1.0001.75; strictly prime,
$1.5001.00. Blue-grass Fancy, 14 lb bu,
$1.1501.25; extra clean, SLC501.1O. Orch
ard grass Extra clean, 14 lb bu. P5c0$l.lO.
Red-top Choice, 14 lb bu. 5O08Cc; extra
clean. 450COc. English blue-grass 24 tt
bu. $2.4002.00. Acme lawn-grass 14 lb bu,
$1.0501.75. Tennessee-grown German mil
let, 7O0SOc; Northern-grown German millet.
05070c y bu; Hungarian, choico. C5075c )
bu. Buckwheat Japanese. $1.1001.25; sil
ver hull, 85c0$l; common, 75085c t bu.
TOE STATE'S EYE UrON THE 31.
The System of Surveillance In Europe That
Slakes Census-Taking Easj.
Kansas City Star.
"How do they take tho census in Eu
rope?" was asked of one of our cosmopoli-tau-adonted
citizens.
"Thoy don't take the census at all," was
the answer given with a quizzical smile.
'What! don't they ever lind out how
many people there are, and all tho rcut of
itr
"Yes, they used to do that in a fashion,
bnt people over there did not liko it; they
thought it was somo way of listing them so
as to slap a new tax upon them, and they
lied and dodged so much that the gov
ernments have quit the census business
now.
"Well, how do they know their popula
tion and all that, then! Or don't they know
those things!"
"Oh, yes, they always know them, in fact
they always havo tho census; that is an
other reason why they never take it. You
sometimes hear ot the censuses bcina taken
ill European countries, but, outside of Eng
land, it does not require any especial
amount of work, and nowhere docs it re
quire an army of enumerator to go around
and ask questions that peoplo will not
answer truthlully. Everywhere iu Europe
the census can bo taken in one day. and
without any extra a&sistauco to the usual
force of government ollicials and po
lice. It is all done through the in
stitution known by its French namo
l'etat civil, or 'the civil ranks.' Tho
briefest way to explain it is to ay that it
is a system of books and reports ktpt by
government othcers and police, by which
they can always know where everybody is
as long as he is within the country. The
entire absence of this system in tho United
States is one of tho things that most as
tonishes the foreigners that come to these
shores. It almost dumfounds them ta
lind out that a child cau bo born m a fara
iv and nobodv know anything about it un
loss by chance. As a traveling friend said
to me once when he heard of this indillor
encetothe whereabouts and even to the
existence of individuals: It makes me
shudder to think ot tho number
of littlo and big skeletons of hu
man beings that must be buried
iu the cellars under these rows ot
houses and in other out-of-the-way places,
with nobody knowing or caring who they
wero, or whose infants they were, or how
they came to die, or where they came from.
No wonder the regular police force in tho
United State is reduced to dependence
upon private detective corporations. That
was his impression, and I believe myself
that the European system of etat civil pre
vents moro crimes than the actual and vis
ible surveillance of their police forces. By
its operation all births, deaths, marriages
and other events are recorded. When a
man moves from ono house toanother. it
is recorded with the police within
twenty-four hours both where he
moves from and where he moves to.
If he makes a false report it can al
ways be found out by comparing tho
two reports. If a man moves into a house
as a tenant the duty of reporting U ou the
landlord: if he travels from one hotel to
another the duty is ou tho hotel-keeper. If
a new arrival is under suspicion the sus
picion can be immediately continued- ox
cleared awav by telegram or correspond
ence with the place where he stated hf
came from. By this means the police of a
large city always know who live in each
house, how old they are. what their occu
pation is. etc. You see how easy it is to
take a census this wav. It is just -like a
bank balancing its books every evening.
It does not prevent the president or the
cashier from skipping, but it is a good
safe-guard against mistakes and small pil
fcrings, and saves a great deal of work ia
the long run."
20 3c 4y n: light-weight rag. 23403c n;
heavy-weight straw. V'i a 2c j lb: heavy,
weight rag. 2 "4 03c i M: Manilla. Xo. 1. bVi
tubs, $70 7.25; No. '3 tubs, ?0a2; C-hoop
pails, $1.00ol.G5; 2-hoop pails. $1.4001.45;
double washboards. $2.2502.75; common