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TIT K INDIANAPOLIS JOUKXAL. SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1002. to Fire or the burglar is liable to visit your home at any time. Our SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES afford sure protection against both. COLUMBIA NATIONAL BANK J t ' i'- m" THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS cattle averi: scarce, with a quiet and steady maiikkt. IIo Active nnd Almut Five Cents lliKher Shcrp CJulet nnd Stfmly Condltion of Other MnrkeU. UNION STOCKYARDS. INDIANAPO LIS. Jan. 25. Cattle Receipts, 123; ship ments small. The marketing of cattle this week has been of smaller volume, the total showing a decrease of over 1,000 compared with last week, but an Increase of fully 1.000 compared with the same week a year ago and 200 compared with the Corre sponding week two years ago. Thus far this year the receipts are nearly 6,3 ) larg er than the same period last year. Tnc trade this week has been unusally quiet, especially In the steer line. The demand has been considerably below normal, which caused a suspension in the marketing of certain grades, particularly the good ex port cattle, and It has been diflicult to as certain tho true position in prices. How ever, the best information is that values are at least 25c lower than last week, which makes the decline of fully 50c in prices since the high time two weeks ago. Steady prices for the better grades of feed ing cattle were reasonably well maintained, but a falling off In the demand for less de Firable grades and Increased supplies con tributed to lower prices for that class. Throughout the week there has been a very satisfactory market for fat femafe cattle and steady to strong prices have ruled. The marketing of top kinds was not as liberal as last week and consequently there was not as many sales at extreme prices, but the average was at least steady. Some of the principal buyers for calves were out of the market, which caused a decline of 25"5C0c In prices. At the close of the week all of the fat cattle had been sold, but several loads of common to me dium feeders remained In the pens unsold. Extreme prices paid this week were $3.50 for steers, $5.25 for heifers, $5 for cows, $1.50 for bulls and $7.25 for calves. There were very few fresh arrivals to-day and as usual under such conditions the market was quiet at quotably unchanged prices. Representative sales will indicate the class of stock on the market. Quotations: Good to choice steers, 1.250 lbs and upward $3.00 6.50 Plain fat steers, 1.2O0 lbs and upward 5.5C3 6.00 Good to choice 1.200 to 1,300-lb steers 5.25 5.75 Plain fat 1,200 to 1,300-lb steers.... 5.00 5.50 Good to choice l.OoO to 1,150-lb steers . 5.001J 5.25 riain fat 1.000 to 1,150-lb steers.... 4.251 5.00 Choice feeding steers. 1,000 to 1.100 lbs 4.25 4.50 Good feeding steers, 000 to 1.100 lbs 3.75J 4.13 Medium feeding steers, 800 to 900 lbs 3.2T)f? 3.C3 Common to good stockers ZXHYti 4.oq Good to choice heifers 4.Mt 5.00 Fair to medium heifers Z.Yv 3.SÖ Common light heifers 2.75-V C.40 Good to choice cows l i 4.Ö0 Fair to medium cows 3.CKt 3.65 Common old cows 1.25 2.75 Veal calves 5.00'a- 6.75 Heavy calves.. Z.iw'i 6.00 Prime to fancy expor: bulls 3.75 4.25 Good to choice butcher bull3 3aYiC 3.W) Common to fair bulls 2.00 ft 2.75 Good to choice cows and calves... 35.00'a 50.00 Common to medium cows and , calves 20.00630.00 Hogs Receipts, 2.500; shir.ments. -600. The receipts of hogs this week exhibit a de crease of about 5.000 compared with last week and the same week a year ago, and an Increase of 4.500 over the corresponding week two years ago. Thus far this year the receipts are a little over 6.000 smaller than the same period last year. For the week ending yesterdav local packers pur chased a total of 1)0.377. against 22.814 the preceding week and 20.500 the same week a year ago. During the same period the shipments were 10.213. against 11.125 the preceding week and lO.S'St the corresponding week a year ago. The fluctuation in nriees this week has been frequent and of more than ordinary extent. The irreuular and uncertain competition was responsible for uneven values on the same day that is, at times the market opened hither and cio?,ed lower, and vice versa. Therefore the trade has probably been more unsat isfactory to salesmen than It would have been had there been a steady movement In value?. The week opened with a gain of WilOc In prices, but the following two - days there was a loss of 204i23c. Later. with moderate receipts, there was anotVr uoward movement, and at the extreme close of the week the average was probably not to exceed be lower than the opening of the week, which was the high time and fully steady compared with the average at the clore of last week. Generally there has been no complaint of the quality, but choice heavy hogs were not as plentiful as list week. A shrinkage In receipts, following a ciccnne in prices, ieaus one to believe that the country is determined to keep prices In a high position, while there. Is no doubt that buyers are Just as determined to t.u.-h values .to a lower level at every oppor tunity. The receipts of hogs to-day were quite small, even for a Saturday market but the quality was as good as the average heretofore this week, fully an equal pro portion of the supply being hogs that would average upward of 2X) pounds. The mar- Ket opened witn only a moderate demand from shippers, and their orders were nrin- i-ipauy lur iigm wcignis. l ne supply be ing only about large enough to meet the requirements of packers, the bidding w.i therefore reasonably strong, and from the start, xne market was ralrly active, with most of the sales 5o higher than vesterdv' average, it did not take long to exhaust the early arrivals, and those that came in late sold promptly at opening prices. Sales ranged rrom to l.j.. and a large pro portion of the supply sold above $'. Quo tations: Mixed and heavy packing MWirr Good to choice light weights 5 10 Common to fair lUht weights 5.75'i'!s5 Common to good pigs 5.0 5 73 Roughs 5.2511 C.10 Sheep Receipts small; shipments none rr i i . . , , um nii.'it'.iM1 oi nooui sou sneen nnu iamos mis ween over last, l.ioo over the same week a year ago and 2.2o0 over the corresponding werk two years neo. Thus far this year the receipts are nearly 3.5"0 larger than tho same period last year. The market this week has been generally sat- isractory. out mere nas been a silent re duction made in prices compared with last week. The supplies have just been large enough to meet th? requirements of all bu ers. and with the quality hardly as satis factory as last week, and less favorable reports from other place?, the decline in prices was Justified. There has been prob- apiy th! cnange in prices or the best lambs. wniie medium grades were generally con sidered 25c lower and sheep were anv where from le to 2-"c lower, according to quality. Mappers nave been th leading buyers, as usual, but the demand from local butchers has been of about the usual Importance. During the wk lambs sold as high as $5.". yearling sheep $l.r,5 and old iheep SI. There were very few freh arrivals to-day. the quality was not verv s.itl factory and buyers were not Inclined to pay steady prices, but finally did. and a good clearance was made. Lambs were reported at $3.jj'i..10 and sheep at $ 1 t- r t Quotations: Go-! to choice lambs J..'"'? .". Common to medium lambs 4.''.i.o Good to choice yearlimr 4.0(k,'i4.3 Good to choice she 3.1V'j3.75 Common to medium fhe.p 2 . loo Ftockers an-1 feeding sheep 2.k -.m) Uucks. per V) lbs 2.5sj3.j Trnatartlnn at the InterMnte Yardn INTERSTATE STOCKYARDS, INDIAN- Al'OLIS. Jan. 25. Cattle Receipts light; hlpments none. The week ends with prices slightly lower than a week ago. The de cline has been general, no one grade suf fering more than the others. Thtre his been no decrease in the demand and the market generally Is very satisfactory. As u..ual the bet call is for fair to best kinds of butcher stock, and all such i3 promptly snapped up by local dealers. The veal market is about steady, with only mod crate supplies. The best sell at $06.50. The few offered to-day commanded prices steady at yesterday's figures. The market closed quiet and steady at quotations: Good to choice steers, 1.350 lbs and upward $5.W? 6.50 Plain fat steers. 1.350 lbs and up ward 5.50g 6.00 Good to choice steers, 1,200 to 1,300 lbs 5.20 5.75 Plain fat steers. 1,200 to 1.300 lbs 4.751? 5.25 Good to choice steers, 1,000 to 1,150 lbs 4.00ft 3.10 Plain fat steers, 1.000 to 1,150 lbs 4.00''? 4.6) Choice feeding steers, l.onQ to 1,100 lbs 3.75 4.25 Good feeding steers, IKW to 1,100 lbs 3. 25'? 3.75 Medium feeding steers. SOO to 9C0 lbs 2.75? 3.25 Common to good stockers 2.Yi 3.50 Good to choice heifers 4.00Ti 4.75 Fair to medium helfera Z.'Zi"i 3 75 Common to liht heifers 2.5 3 Good to choice cows Z.lMi 4 25 Fair to medium cows 2.75'a 3.50 Common old cows 1.5"'' 2 PO Veal calves AJm 6.50 Prime to fancy export bulls 'i."'i 4.25 Good to choice butcher bulls 3.00U 3.75 Common to fair bulls :.. 2.00 2.75 Good to choice cows and calves 30.00'&ö0.00 Common to medium cows and calves 15.0'g30.00 Hogs Receipts. 600; shipments, 500. An other general advance of 5c to 10c Is noted. The market throughout the week was very unsettled with very frequent fluctuations. The tendency was not constant either way and as a result the week closed with prices Just about the same as at this time last week. There has been no decided change In the market during the past six weeks, the best heavy hogs selling within lCc of $G.50 during all that time. The mar ket to-day was active and strong, with shippers the principal bus'ers. There were not as many good hogs sold to-day as yesterday. The best mixed loads sold at $.45; choice heavy hogs were quoted at $G.50fi5.G0. with the best light grades going at $i6.20. Ail were soon sold, the mar ket closing strong at quotations: Good to choice heavies $C. 456.60 Good to choice medium grades ... 6.10fi.35 Common to good lights 5. 75" 6.20 Light and heavy mixed 5.S5;W6.45 Pigs. 110 lbs and up 5.255.) Light pigs and skips 5.00'a5.75 Roughs 5.00fi5.90 Sheep Receipts small, shipments none. There were no changes from 3resterday's quotations. The conditions remain much the same as for some time past. The de mand greatly exceeds the supply. Trading ruled quiet with offerings of only ordinary quality. All were sold and the market closed quiet at quotations: Good to choice lambs $5.50'ti5.S5 Common, to medium lambs 4.Xt5.0O Good to choice yearlings 4.001i4.50 Good to choice sheep 3.504.25 Common to medium sheep 2.t0ft3.25 Stoekers and feeding sheep 2.(l0;ti3.00 Rucks, per 103 lbs 2.50&3.00 EUenbert, NEW YORK. Jan. 23. Beeve RecclDt. 625: all consigned direct, no sales reported. Dressed beef steady; city dressed native sides, 64c to 10c per pound. Cables last received quoted American steers at lllSVic dressed weight: refrigerator beef. lO'qlO'-ic per pound. Exports to-day in clude 1.635 beeves anl 5.9.'i) quarters of beef. Calves Receipts. 17. About 100 head on sale, mainly Western calves, which were reported not sold. Market quoted steady; ew Jersey veals sold at $"i8.20 per 1Ö0 pounds; city dressed veals. 13c per pound. Sheep and Iambs Receipts, 4.145; 154 cars on sale. Market uncommonly dull; only 13 cars reported sold up to a late hour mainly lambs sol 1 at a slight further decline from yesterday. A few sheep for slaughterers sold at $3.00; a few head for export at $4.75; lamls at fSitti.lO; dressed mutton, 6'a8c: dresued lambs. S' 10c per pound. Hoks Receipts, partly estimated, 2.24. One car on sale, not sold up to late hour. The mar ket quoted nominally steady. KANSAS CITY. Jan. 25. Cattle Receipts. 40. Market compared with a week ai?o steady to lCc higher; to-day's quotations nominal. Choice ex port and dressed beef Bteers, $j.S5'u'6.75; fair to t;ood. $jtz5.75: stoekers and feeders, $3.504.73; Western fd steers. t.Zii -J.20; Texas and Indian steers. $4.2(J 5.50; buIH, $2.50i 4.25; native cows, $173g5: heifers, $3.5033.25; canners. $212.63; bull. $2.S.XJ4.50: calves. $4fi6.25. Receipts for wek, 30..X); last week. 33..N0U. Hogs Receipts. 3,500. Market strong. Top, $.50; bulk of sales. $3.6506.35; heavy, J5.40'a6.M; mixed packers, $56.50; pigs. J4.C5'5 5.2Ö. Re ceipts for week. 75.500; last wek, 79,4'). heep Receipts. 200. Market compared with week steady; to-day's quotations nominal. West tern lambs. $.j.50'a4; Western wethers. $4.r.KT;; yearlings, $55.50: ewes. $4'5"4.30; culls. $2(3; feeder lambs. $4.50i 5. 30. Receipts, for week. 13, 200; last week. 11,700. CHICAGO. Jan. 25 Cattle Receipts. 200. Mar ket steady. Good to prim nominal at $t.50?7.2., poor to medium. $45; stockerg and feeders. $2.25 r4.B0: cows. $lt?4.60: heifers. $225f?.S; canners, $lt?2.25: bulls. $2.25if4.30; calves. $2.506.25; Texas fed steers, $4'56. Hogs Receipts, to-day. 17.000; Monday, 37.000; left over. 5.0o0. Market steady; close wok. Mixed and butchers, Vt.Wjt.4Q; good to choice heavy, $.3og6.0; rough heavy, $55.25; light, $5. 30$ 6: bulk of sales. $5.&0tt$.30. Shep Receipts, 2.0O. Sheep steady: lambs steady. Good to choice wethers, $4.S03; fair to choice mixed, $3.73tf4.50r Western fed sheep. $1 5.2: native lambs. $3.505.85; Western fed lambj. SfiS.SS. official yesterday: Receipts Cattle, 3.222; hoss, 24.974; sheep. 9.963. Shipments Cattle, 2.71$; hoirs. 3,635; sheep, 1,033. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 25. Cattle Receipts. 400. in cluding 130 Texans. Maiket dull and steady. Na tive shipping snd export steers. Söa.'iTt; dressed beef and butcher steers, $46; steers under l.uv) lbs. $2.6ö'y..65; stoekers and feeders, f 4.50; cows and heifers. $2'j.; canners. ?2f2.85; bulls. $J.3ü'f?4: Texas and Indian steers, $3'y5.35; cows and heifers, $3.3ö'y3.7f1. Hoes Receipts. 3,100. Market strong. Pigs and lights, $5.S5'3'6; packers. $3.906.10; butchers, $8.106.35. Sheep Receipts. 300. Market steady. Native muttons. $3.25r4.73; lambs. tnfj.2h; culls and bucks. $2.3054.30; stockers. $1.3Cü2.25. 'SOUTH OMAHA. Jan. 23. Cattle Receipts. 2-A Market dull and unchanged. Native steers. Sili 6.15; cows and helfrs. $3'a4.83; Western steers. $:t.S0ö5.40: Texas steers. $3.7ip4.40: canners. $1.75 r2.S5; stoekers and feeders. $:.)"34.B0, calves. $4 07: bulls. stas, etc.. 82.234. 50. Hns Receipts. S.000. Market 3c higher. Heavy, J'J.'.S.iO; mixed. $6.05ii6.2ü: lifht. $5.70;t 6.1i: plfs. J4.503'5.50: bulk of sales. $6.0.6.25. Sheep Receipts, 600. Market steady. Fed mut tons. $.405.10; Westerns. $3.80tf4.35; ewes. $3.5"a: 4.1": common and stoekers, $2.7531.25; lambs, J4.503e. KAST BUFFALO. Jan. 23 Cattle Receipts, llsht. Market outlook steady to firm for all rrades; veals lower. Tops. Sj S.50; others, $5.50 Ö7"5. Hoffs Receipts. S.200. Market active nn.l tren eiallv 5c to lo higher. Best heavy, $i?.3.VhK.W); mixed packers. Sti. 4"i7 8: i : pl. $5.6.'i5.7u; rounhs. $5.4-y.T3.75; stairs. $4t4..Vt. Sheep and lambs Receipts. .(VO. Market slow. Mixed sheep, tops. JI.10fH.33; wethers, $4.3tf4 75; yearllnc, $.5't;.': culls to go.I, $2 4; top lambs. $5.tfi J 5. Ski; culls to good, J3.50i?5.Sj. LOUISVILLE. Jan. 23. Cattle steady. Choice to prime shipping steers. $3. 35 'g 3.75; medium to rood khlppin steers. $4.5'53; choice butcher steers. $4.4)ij4.75; medium to good butchers, $3 73 25: choice veals. $5'd5.5ö. Hos ftrong and Renerally 3s higher. Rest heavit, 10.4"; mediums. $6; lights, i.'.M' Ph to 12-J-lb pl;s. $5.35ii5.4': SJ to 1Ü0 lb. $4.9.15.25; 5) to SO h. $4.6'a 4.:); roughs, $4. "V.,7 .',.3'(. Sheep and lambs strong and higher on choice grades. liest sheep felling at $23.50; extra lambs, $3'.f5.25; others steady. CINCINNATI. Jan. 23.-Hoks active and higher at $4.75-46.43. Cattle steady at $2.253. S3. Sheep steady at $24. Lambs steady at $4.25 5 5.65. Lumber Heuler AmIkii. BOSTON". Jan. 23.-The Arey. Maddock & Locke Company, leather dealers, of which Ceorpe F. Maddock is president, has as signed for the benefit of creditors to S. K. Hamilton. At this time it im impossiblo to ascertain the financial condition of the con cern, as President Maddock is ill at his home. In the leather district it in estimated that the liabilities will reach $15ö0. The company was incorporated in Maine with a capital cf $15d.f0. The concern controlled the Hegis tannery at Saco. Me. Tin Cnn Works I)lnin t led. YOUNGSTOWN. O.. Jan. 2T.. The ma chinery of the local plant of the American Can Company is btlng di!mantled prepara tory to shipment to Chicago. The reason given for removal is that the plant Is too far from the market. The u!ant her- was one of the most important of the combine. 1'ntrlek Trinl Adjourned Till .Monday. Ni:V YOUK. Jan. 23. There was no ses sion to-day of Recorder Goff's court In which Albert T. Patrick 1 being tried. The trial will be resumed Monday. TRADE IN GOOD VOLUME L'MSCAL lUSINKSS CONDITIONS FOR A MIDWINTER MONTH. Traveling Salesmen Hrlng In Good Orders nnd 11111 Are AVell lnld Lighter Arrivals of Grain. Trade has been unusually good during the entire month. In most lines quiet times are anticipated, but more business has been clone than in any January of many years, if not in the history of the Indianapolis wholesale houses. The dry goods houses, the druggists, the leather dealers, the con fectioners and iron and steel handlers all speak of their business as being excellent for winter months, and on Commission row much more has been done in the aggregate than is usual, so favorable most of the time ha3 been the weather for shipping fruits and vegetables. Prices, as a rule, are not as strong as a week ago. Stocks of fruits and vegetables are larger than had been expected. Especially Is this true of vegetables, as Irish potatoes are In ample supply to meet all requirements and for eign potatoes are supplying Eastern mar kets to a large extent, but prices are well held at high figures as compared with for mer years. The produce markets are In strong tone except in eggs, which are com ing In more freely and prices have weak ened somewhat. liens and chickens are in good request at prices quoted, and choice butter is a fast mover. Cheese Is In good request with prices unchanged. In groceries there Is a good deal of activity, the condition of the country roads admit ting of getting goods to places off the railroads without the usual trouble in win ter months. Prices on all groceries rule fairly steady except on sugars, which are somewhat unsettled. Traveling salesmen who came In Friday and Saturday report conditions very favorable for an early and large pprlng trade. Financial condi tions of retail merchants, as a rule, are good and their bills are being paid by their customers with more than ordinary prompt ness. This, In turn, helps the retail mer chant to keep his bills with wholesale houses well met. Indianapolis Grain Market. The week closed with all cereals weaker in price than Its beginning and with the weaker tone to price, receipts are decreas ing. All arrivals, however, were readily taken at the foiling range of prices on the track, as reported by the secretary of the Board of Trade: Wheat weak; No. 2 red, 87VaC track; No. 2 red. b6c on milling freight; No. 3 red, 83lifi&5c track; S6Vc track; wagon, SSc. Corn weak; No. 1 white, 63c; No. 2 white, 63c; No. 3 white, 63c; No. 4 white, otSlc; No. 2 white mixed, ClUc; No. 3 white mixed, 61ic; No. 4 white mixed, blWii'Mc; No. 2 yellow, 61;c; No. 3 yellow, tdVic; No. 4 yellow, 57H'5ftV2c; No. 2 mixed. 61;c; No. 3 mixed, 61Uc; No. 4 mixed, 57Uj5yt4c; "ear, 63c. Oats weak; No. 2 white, 48S'49VzC; No. 3 white, 4U'rt'44c; No. 2 mixed, 471-'5F 4Sc; No. 3 mixed. 47-ö:47Vic. Hay weaker; No. 1 timothy, f 11.50312; No. 2 timothy, $10-010.50. Inspections Wheat: No. 2 red, 2 cars. Corn: No. 3 white, 3 cars; No. 3 white mixed, 1; No. 3 yellow, 2; No. 3 mixed, 2; total, 8 cars. Oats: No. 2 white, 1 car. Hay: No. 1 timothy, 1 car. WAGON MARKET. Offerings on the wagon market, as usual on Saturday, were not as large as on pre ceding days of the week. Prices ruled weak on corn and oats, but little selling at the best quotations, while hay was a free seller and most of it at the highest fig ures. The wagon weighmaster reported the range of price for the day as follows: Corn r.sTj72c per bu. Oats ISSjdOc per bu. Hav Timothy, choice. $12313; mixed. $10 11; clover, JijlO per ton, according to quality. Sheaf Oats $10(gl2 per ton. Straw $61f7 per ton, according to quality. Ponltry nnd Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.) Young turkeys, 10 to 12 pounds. Sc per lb; hens. 7c; cocks. 3c; young chickens, 7c; ducks, 6c; get'-e $10 per dozen. Cheese New York full creams. 13c; domestic Swiss. 17c; brick. lc; limburger, 13c. Rutter Choice roll, Hül2VaO per lb; poor. No. 2, Sy-lOc. KRgH 20c per doz. Reefwax 3c for yellow, 25c for dark. Feathers Prime geese, 3oc per lb; prime dark, 20c per lb. ... Wool Merchantable medium, Ißc; burry and unmerchantable. 35c less; coarse grades, 15c; fine merino, 13(Ul5c; tub washed. 25g2Sc. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides-No. 1, Sc; No. 2, VAc; No. 1 calf. 10',c; No. 2 calf, Slic. Urease White. 4c; yellow. 3l,3c; brown. 2io. Tallow No. 1, 4',2c; No. 2, 4c. 9 THE JOHHIXG TIIADG. (The quotations given below are the selllnf prices of the wholeeale dealers.) Candle and Nats. Candies Stick, 7c per lb; common mixed. 7c; grocra' mixed. 6ac; Banner twist tick. Sc; Lianner cream mixed. 10'tillc; old-time mixed, 8c. Nuts-Soft-ihelknl almonds, 18:Mc; English walnuts. l-'JHc; Rrazll nuts 10c; filberts. 14Vc; peanuts, roasted, 7$zäc; mixed nuts. 12c. Canned Good's. 'rushed' coke. 13c per bu; $3.25 per ton! b' xtra. eround floor or iinmnH i J. lar- bags, :kjc per ton extra second floor or car ried in cellar; fiom wapon. .oc per ton extra, by T-heelbarrow, chute or basket. u DruRs. Alcohol. $2.622.70; asafoetlda 40c; alum. 4c. Smphor. W'rf.uc; cochineal, öyc; chloro r , -J-ic; copperas, brl. Sue; cream tartar form, t,lia-o. tsuc: ii.-rtri irtar. ölii-.i'fcon-s mournings. 4'ao; Simpson's iJerlin ohds. 3l.c; impson s oll flnish, öc; American l"'sc- Cordis 14'J. H4c; Cordis T, lll,c; Cordis AC F.' 114c; Hamilton awnlnffs. 9c; Kimono fancy. 17c, Lenox rancy, lsc; Methuen AA. loc; Dukland Ar', fc; Portsmouth, llc; Susquehan na. 12 'ho. Shetuoket HU. Co; Slietuoket F, 6'i,c; siv;ft Kiver. ilc. I iir. sham- Anioskeap staple, Sc; Amoskea 1 drs.. 7c; Hans. 3'2c; Iancaster. älic; Lancaster dre.xs. iUtrs. Toil du Nord. 8c. Craln Ham Anu'.-krag. $15.30; American. $16.50: Harmony, $i3.3j; biark. $10. Flonr. Straight grades, $1.&"3 4.73; patent flour, $4.503 4.75; spring wheat. $3. 0 3.75. lirocerles. CoftVe (lood. 10;il2c: prime. 12ßl4c: strictly rrtnit, J4u !; fancy Kfn and yUlow. l.Su'22o; J, 'j32c. Rousted Old Government Java, Corn. S5cß$1.25. Feache Eastern, standard 2-lb $1.7542; -lb seconds. $l.4ui.60; California Standard. $W4u: California second,, JS' Miscellaneous-Blackberries. 2-lb. 85üWc; rasjl berrle-. 3-lb. l.2-l.-u; p neapples, standard 2db, $1.3L'al.J); choice J.'y.Mu; cove oyster"' l-lb. full weight. c'.jSlc; light 6u6;,c; strine Lans. 3-lb. $1.10; Lima beans. 1 ..2,1.25; ias marrowfats, icH$l; early June. $1.1 i.15 . bs; sters. 1.S5&2; strawerries. SöU-'oe; salmon, l-lb, 9je&$2, 3-lb tomatoes, Ji.sj öi 1.40. , . ,, . Conl nnd Coke. Anthracite (all sizes), $7.25 per ton; Dlossbure $3 smokeless. $4..; Jackson $4.2.,; Kanawha lt.25; I'lttsburg. f I 23; lUymond. $1.2;; Wlnifrede! $4 23 LuhrinK. !: Hocklug Valley, e,. ltrA block. $3.Sö; Greene county. $3.25: Indiana lump 1 "5- slack smokeless, $J.2o; slack Jackson r Sö: slack Pittsburg. $2.50; slack West Vi?l glnla. $2.30; la,;k Indiana. $2; Connellsville coke. ?.. . lurni. coke. HC VT DU. S. 7a ti- - L"nulne. 3.VU40C; magnesia carb.. 2-oz. fc Vr.hine 1. ' ier oz' $-":''ii2.6i, niaMöIV castor, per gal. 1l.Uu1.23 " ?u""' ilmot,' per lb. $3; opium. 4J.3o:iX7o; q.Unir.e. , 1 V . per oz. 34'utoc; balsam, copabja. i.Vy'V o, Va-til. Fr., Hitlbc; soda, bicarb. 2U,i..t S &om. l,tHc; ulphur ; flour 2;: filer. Wile; turpen lne 4,oc; glycenne wt M- iodide potassium. f2.4oif2.uO; bromide potas't :,um O3'U.0c; chlorate iHtasn l5'Q2i.C; borax Jic'cÄonida, MriZc; carbolic acid. siW cocalne. mux., j.--- Dry t;oods. o-' l'abody. 3'2c; l'cpperell. y-4, l,o; IVppeVVlV 2U; Androscugsiu. a-4. lyC; Androscoggin. 1 iVwn Shertlngs Atlantic A, 6c; Argyle. 5',c i' tt C Head- 6: -'lü ton CCC "constitution. 4u-lnch. t',c; Carlisle. 40-inch ?'1 : uw" ht star. 7c; Ureal rails E. 3c; ff. v;nV J äc; HUI Fine. 7c; Ind.an llad. i!c Ptip:riil K. ic; l'epperell. l-4. P,c; Androp L-n l -4 l'C; AndrcscoKgm. 10-4. De. CT-rnt--Allen dre.s style. 5c; Allen Tit. 4V,c; xZn lobe. 5c; American ir.üio. 4',c; Ar Jvl.l long cloth Ii. .40; Arnold LLC. 6xc; Cocheco fancy, c; Hamilton fancy. 5,.; Mern: . . .i'J5 and liurple. ol2c; l'aclflc fancv . fchuanss, j"c; iiatK wane, it, gres. 4c. Uid-i r.lhd Cambrics Edwatvl. 3c; Warren. 34c- Slater, 3sc; tienese. Jc. Ti.-kluts Amuskeag ACA, lu'sc: Conestoira TIP. CL-Öc: f.nest Mocha and Jaa. 2S i""c; Java bl-nd, 22c; Fancy blend. ISc; Jolden lien 1. I.e. l'ackase cofleeCity prices: Arlo-a. l'..c; Lion. Ö.73c ; Jersey. 10.23c ; Caracas. :.73c; Dutch Java blend. 12.3c; Dill worth's. 10.23c; Mad Touch. l'.73c; Oate's blended Java, l"c; Jav-O-Can (1 friction top tins in basket). 11.3'.c; Climax Java blnd. 10.2.C. tusrar City prices: Crjtal dominoes. 5-lb car tons, 7.27c; Eale tarlf-ts. 3.7c; cut joaf 5.6.c; jowderd. 3.2".c; XXXX powoen-l, 3.32c; stand ard granulated. 5.y7c; lir.e granulated, 3.'7c; ex tra nne rrar.ulated. 3.17c; granul;.ttd, 3-lb ba??. S.i2c; granulated. 2-lb bajs, 3.22 ; cube?. 5.4:c; mold A. 5.52c: confectioners' A, 4.v7c: 1 Columbia A, 4.72c; 2 Windsor A. 4. 7c: 3 Kidpewood A. 4.f.7c; 4 Phoenix A. 4.62c: 5 Empire A, 4.57c; 6 Ideal golden Ex. C. 4.32c; 7 Y!r..or Ex. C. 4.42c; a.HldKewood Ex. C. 4.22c; 9 yellow Ex. C. 4-.c; 11 yellow C. 4.22c; 11 yelk tv. 4,17c; 12 yellow, 4.12c; 13 yellow, 4.07c; 14 yellow, 4.07c; 13 yellow, 4.fi7c: 1 yellow, 4.02c. Salt In car lots. 9"c3$l; small lots. Sl'TH-lO. Fplees Pepper. 177 lc; allspice, lS'Slsc; cloves, ISc; cassia, 13''ilc; nutmegs. J'.'c pr Ib. Beans-Prime marrow, bu. J2.73u3: prime pea or navy, bu, $',:2.10: prime- red kidney, bu, f2.75t 3; Lima beans, ib, b':':7c. Molasses and vrups New Orleans molasses, fair to prime. 2S'u"25-c; choice. 2b (i 42c; syrups, 22 4i2c. Itlce Louisiana. VjCc; Carolina, WSSKc Shot 1.65'ff 1.70 per bag for drop. Lead 6'i-fi 7c for pressed bars. Wood Dishes No. 1. per !,"). J2TI2.30; No. 2, $2.5012.73; No. 3. $2..V"Li3; No. 5, J3'.i3.2.V Twine Hemp, 12'jlic per lb; wool, iJOc: flax, 2j'!i?,0c: paper. 25c; jute. 12gi5c; cottcn. 1 $1250. Woodenware No. 1 tubs, JCiG.50; No. 2 tubs. J"Ti3.5i; No. 3 tubs. J 1 -y 4.50; 3-hoop pall?. $1-60: 2-hry.p pails. $1.40tfl.3i); double washboards. $ 01.75; common washboards, $1.50-1.75; clothes pins, 60t3c per box. Iron and Steel. Bar iron, 2.50c: horseshoe bar. 2.73173c; nail rod, 7c; plow slabs. 4.50c; American cast steel, 3llc; tire steel, 3g3'ic; spring steel, 4Vi'a3c. Leather. Oak sole. 33370 ; hemlock sole. 27330; har ness, 243400; fklrtlng, 2C14CC; single strap, 41 45c; city kip. 601iS5c: French kip. 90C$1.2O; city calfskin, lOcQ$1.10; French calfskin. $1.2u:l.S5. Xuils3 and Horseshoes). Steel cut nails. $2.63; wire nails, from store, $2.63 rates; from mill. $2.65 rates. Horseshoes, per keg, $4; mule shoes, per keg, $1.50; horse nails, J4&5 per box. Barb wire, galvanized. SJ.23; painted, 93.10. Oils. Linseed, raw, 64c per gal; linseed oil, boiled, C5c per gal; coal oil, legal test, 8JfHc. Provisions. Hams Sugar-cured, 15 lbs average, 12gi2c; 12 lbs average, llc. Lard Kettle rendered, llic; pure lard, 11c. Paeon Clear sides, 5'i to 00 lbs average, 10?ic; 30 to 40 lbs average, loTsc; 2J to 30 lbs average, 11c; clear bellies. 25 to 30 lbs average. 10ic; 18 to 22 lbs average, 11c;" 14 to 16 lbs average. HVc; clear tacks, 24 to 30 lbs average, löv2c; 12 to 16 lbs average. 10'ic; 6 to 9 lbs average. vjc. In drr palt less. Shoulders IS to 2D lbs average, 9ic; 16 lbs av erage, 10c; 10 to 12 lbs average, 10c. Produce, Fruits nnd Vegetables. Malaga Grapes Heavy weights, per brl. Cranberries $2.25-32.50 per bu; $6. "ö'S 7. 50; per brl. Bananas Per bunch, No. 1, $1.7362; No. 2, $L25 61-5'J. Oranges California Navel, $2.75; Florida, $2.75 per box. Lemons Messina, CGO to box, choice, $3.50; fancy, $4; California lemons, $3 per box. Potatoes 831 KOc per bu. Onions $1.40 per bu; Spanish. $1.75 per crate. Honey White, 17 per lb; dark, 15c. Cauliflower $1.50 per doz. Apples Cooking apples, $3.60 per brl; eat ing apples, $4 per brl; fancy, $1.5055; Een Davis, $0.75. Sweet Potatoes Kentucky, $3.25 per brl; Illi nois, $3.75; Eastern Jersey, $4. Figs New California. $1 for 10-lb box. Cabbage Danish, $1.23 per brl; $1 per 100 lbs. Carrots $2.25 per brl. Turnips $11.25 per brl. Parsnips $2.25'j 2.5u per brl. Lettuce H'i'tf 15 per lb. Celery Michigan, 2540c per bunch; California celery, 50'(i6'.'e per doz. Shellbark Hickory Nuts $1.50 per bu; black walnuts. 55c. fc?hallotts (Southern green onions) 40c per doz bunches. Persian Dates 60-lb boxes, 4,2'S3c per lb. Cocoanuts 60c per doz. Cider-$4.75 per brl; $2.75 per half brl. Rabbits 75c per doz for drawn. Seeds. - Seed clover, prime, $6S?G.50; English clover, $06.50; Alsike, $7fl8; Alfalfa, choice, $6Ca6.23; Crimson clover, $4.5ö'ö3. Timothy, rrime, $3.10 j 3.15. Fancy Kentucky bluegrass, $1.25yi.40; ex tra clean. 60370c. Orchard grass, $1.401.75. Red top, 80c$1.75. English bluegrass, $2.25:3. TIME CONSUMED IX HOLIDAYS. Special Dates "Which Are Honored In Various States. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "In the agKreate the p.ple of the United States spend about one. month every year in the observance of legal holidays," said an observant citizen, "and yet we are constantly talking about how we rush things in this age. Of course, these ob servances are not uniform, for many of them are peculiar to certain States, and are made legal holidays by special legistlative enactment, and are commemorative of some event in tho State's history. "Here in Loui?iana, for Instance, we have Jan. 8, which is the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans. There Is Jan. li, which is set aside as a lejfal holiday in Florida, Georgia, NTorth Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia in honor of the birth day of Robert E. Lee. In Connecticut. Illi nois. Minnesota, New Jersej-, New York, North Dakota. Pennsylvania and Wash ington Feb. 12 is observed in honor of Lincoln's birthday. Feb. 22. Washington's birthday, is a legal holiday in all the States except Mississippi. Texas cele brates March 2. which Is the date of the State's Independence. April 6 is Confed erate memorial day in Louisiana, and April 29 Is set aside in Texas In honor of the bat tle of Jacinto. April 26 is Confederate me morial day in Alabama, Florida and Geor Bia, while May 10 is get aside for this pur pose in the two Carolinas. The second Friday In May is Confederate day in Ten nessee. In North Carolina May 20 is set aside in commemoration of the signing of the Mecklenburg declaration of Independ ence. May SO Is Decoration day In all the States and Territories except Alabama. Ar kansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, the two Caro lina. Texas and Virginia. In Florida and Georgia June 3. Jefferson Davis's birthday, is a legal holiday. Then there is the Fourth of July. July 24 is Pioneers' day in Utah. In Vermont Bennington battle day is observed Aug. 16. Sept. 2 is Labor day In certain States. S.pt. 9 Is admis sion day in California, Nov. 1 All Saints' day in Louisiana, the geyeral election day in November; Thanksgiving day, Nov. 2s; Labor day, Nov. 23. in the parish of Or leans; Christmas, Dec. 25, and so on. "It is a curious fact that there are no statutory holidays in either Mississippi or Nevada, but by common consent the usual holidays are observed. So, after all, we have somewhat of sentiment left in this country and do not hurry so much as we think at times, and It Is a good thing, too, for we have time to reflect on these daj's of rest and we profit by It in many ways." IIAVEVG FtX AVIT1I VS. Xevr York Editor Tnlks Abont nn In dianapolis Scientist. Rochester Post-Express. The world of thought has again been lighted up by a son of science. Once more from the lusty West pours the effulgence of superior mentality. Hoston hides her Statehouse dome in shame and New Haven shrinks behind a dark blue cloud. The waves of glory obscure Morningside heights and the Smithsonian Institution looks like a ton of coal. The orb of day will soon cease to rise off the coast of Massachusetts and transfer itself to the banks of the Mis sissippi. The savant from Dr. Harper's in stitution at Chicago prophesied that we would soon De naught but Indians tucks his head in the tepee of the primeval past. He has a rival. Hark to the whisper of tho surcharged zephyr breathing stertorously : "Indianapolis, Dec. 20. 'Strange men. far cimerent rrom those now living, will walk the earth in centuries to come. They will be a race of brainy, four-toed giants,' says Henry L. Hruner. head of the biology de partment or Hutier University." After this wild shriek Professor Hruner, head of the department of biology In But ler University, takes a deep breath and utters winged wonda of Cumaean imuort. Before startled silence resumes her perch he depicts a race of human beings that makes a father of a family tremble with anxiety. "Four-toed." -chesty" (nut neces sarily ueverian). "young at 100," no bald heads," "brainy." with eraniums like bal loons, all these float in the smoke clouds as the professor warms to the pipe. All honor to Professor Pruner! What would we have done without hirn? The be lief that we were predestined to wear the moccasin and train the scalD-lock was firm ly fixed In our minds, for by this time who dares to question the infallibility of the West in science's domain? We do not want to le Indians. We'd rather be "four-toid. brainy giants." Thus have we been saved from a sad fate. Of course, few of the nresent creneration v.-ill live to see the dawn of this Saturnal ian ae. Even Professor Primer's massv intellect will probably have crumbled into oblivion, 'brainy"' as it is. But let us tim- :aiy suggest that in the meantime the au thoritles of Butler University keep the de partment of biology as far awav as possible from the department of English. A leader In scientific thoii2ht and research has no need for any such association. Everything ne pays or does caa be fully expressed by brainy." NATURE . SANCTUARIES PLAN TO ESTAIILISII A HIT OP AVILII ESS I. EVEIIY TOW.XSIIIP. Place "Where All Harmless Animals nnd Vegetable Life Slight Find .Heftige Its Benefits. J. W. Lloyd in Recreation. I should like to interest all naturalists, game preservers, natural history societies, village improvement clubs and the like In the work of establishing nature sanctu aries; that Is, places where, as far as may be, all animal, vegetable and mineral na ture would be left free, wild and un changed. Now that the League cf American Sports men, the Audubon societies and others are working for bird and game protection as never before; since forestry is a profession and the preservation of forests is attract ing national attention; now that books on nature are multiplying and growing so popular as to be found In almost every home, and that Yellowstone Park is ac tually such a sanctuary, the time seems ripe for this movement. What I have to propose Is this: That every township in the United States buy and set apart a piece of land, however small, and dedicate it to nature; a place where no wild animal shall ever be mo lested, tree cut, flower picked or stone le moved. If you have at all the soul of a naturalist, think of being able to reach, within an hour's walk, a place where the wild birds and beasts are so unafraid, yet natural, that they fearlessly go -on with all the usual processes of their lives as indiffer ently as if you were a tree or a grazing ox. Think of a place where the tree lies where it falls; where no texts or odious adver tisements are painted on the rocks, no initials carved on the trees, no flowers pulkd roots and all, no "improvements" made! What a place for the lover of wild nature, of study for the student, of rest ror the weary! Think what such an un touched spot would look like at the end of a century! In almost every township In the United States there is some bit of wild waste land, practically valueless for agriculture, that could be bought for a small sum and turned into a sanctuary. The more, barren, hilly, rocky, rugged or swampy, the bet ter. Often the more utterly valueless such a place is, agriculturally or commercial ly, the more picturesque It Is to the ar tistic eye, the more fitting in every way for the uses of a nature park. It would be an advantage, however, if In the spot chosen there should be a great variety of surface, soil and condition, swamp and hill, stream and pond, wet and dry, clay and sand, slope and level, evergreen and de ciduous forest. WOULD NEED LITTLE CARE. In most of the forest States little would be necessary except to inclose such an area and leave it to nature. In the prairie State It would, no doubt, sometimes be necessary practically to create the sanctu ary by planting trees and introducing the animals. The need of a place of the kind is tenfold greater in the prairie than in the forest lands, for many children in the open regions have never even seen a wild grove. To cultivate the son tnorougniy at lirst. and make one thick, broadcast sow ing of mixed tree seeds and nuts, would probably be all the work ever necessary, even there, except fencing and buying a few animals. How vastly superior such a place would be to a formal park, with fancy pagodas, concrete walks, arranged shrubbery and signs of "Keep off the grass!" How su perior to a menagerie of prisoned brutes, or a museum of stuffed victims, to an actual student of nature! "Wild Animals I Have Known" might then be the boast of every schoolboy. The sanctuary should belong to the com munity, although, of course, there is noth ing to prevent rich men from having pri vate ones on their own estates. The land could either be presented to the township by benevolent citizens, or bought by the community, collectively, and held as pub lic property. The more everybody is In terested In its possession and maintenance, the more its ends are likely to be sub served. While the Ideal of such a place Is that of absolute wildness and undisturbed na ture, there would probably not be many places where such an ideal could be quite consistently carried out. Probably in all places animals actually dangerous to hu man life would have to be excluded. Rat tlesnakes and copperheads would certainly be condemned, though it Is to be hoped that all other snakes would be spared. Weasels would probably have to be checked or extirpated, not only because so wantonly murderous to poultry, but because they might be equally so to birds, rabbits, squir rels, etc., thus defeating the very ends of the sanctuary; and unlimited otters might soon exterminate the rish In a small lake. Obviously, in a small preserve, the balance of life could not be preserved as in a great wilderness. Army worms, gypsy moths, and their ilk. could not be given benefits of sanctuary, and most farmers would require that coyotes, foxes and such "varmints" be refused. Along this line a sort of com promise would be necessary, and perhaps the only way to effectively meet the diffi culty would be to place each sanctuary in charge of a forester, or keeper. This fores ter should not be a rough coarse specimen, a police guardian merely, but a man of gentle character, fond of animals and wild life, sympathetic to the artistic possibilities of the primitive and sufficiently educated by observation and study to name and ex plain to visitors the various animals, flow ers, rocks and trees they might be curious about. He should be firm and vigilant, but a gentleman. Necessarily he should be a good shot and a skilled trapper, able to re move undesired animals without frighten ing the others. Such a keeper would be an absolute necessity to prevent poaching, intrusion of dogs, cats, stone throwing boys, flower thieves, bark thieves, rock painters and the like vandals, lie could be domiciled in a little house of logs or stones in the middle of his domain, a house made as much like its wild surroundings as possible. PLACE FOR A NATURALIST. The position of forester would be an ideal one for a naturalist, especially If his tastes were literary or his health delicate. To this man's judgment could be safely left the task of keeping a wise balance of life in his little world, preventing any one species from extirpating another or. be coming a nuisance to the public. He might properly be required to keep a Journal of observations on the weather, the habits of animals, etc., which would be valuable as a book of reference. His value as an experienced teacher to visitors and stu dents should be great, too. The sanctuary should be open to all well behaved visitors, at all hours; but these should not b allowed to take into the park dogs, firearms, axes, traps, or other In struments likely to violate the sanctuary. They should not be allowed to deface or in jure, or make frightening noises, remove anything, or to leave lunch baskets, boxes, paper, bottles or such rubbish. Perhaps the best way to secure these ends would be to require each would-be visitor to get permission from the forester, giving prom ise to respect in all things the objects of the sanctuary. To save repetition, the for ester could have thern sign name and ad dress in a book, under a printed pledge, and then give each a badge to be worn conspicuously whenever in the sanctuary; permission and badge to be recalled from anyone guilty of violation. In one Important respect the letter of the sanctuary might be broken in the interest of its spirit. Those who have observed nature, or read Wilson Flagg, know that all small birds and quadrupeds prefer a jungle, or tangled thicket, uch as coun try roadsides show, to a great forest to breed in. Yet. if left to Itself, the sanc tuary would In the course of half a cen tury have only majestic trees, with little underbrush or cover for the shy and timid nesters To obviate this, I would advise thnt a strip of perhaps two rods' wiJth. about the borders of the sanctuary, be made into and kept a thicket. This could be easily done by partly severing the trunks of the larger trees every five years or so, nnd bending down and pleachlnsr the tops. The admission of light would cause an immediate jungle-like growth of weeds, briars, sprouts anl vims, mingling with the plashed tops, till nearly or quite impas sable to man and the larger animals. This would quickly become the "chosen and true home of most of the smaller creatures ii; the Banctuary. especially the birds. In the breeding season It would swarm with life and ring with music. Possibly, for the shyer birds, one or more such Jungles might be profitably made In the interior. Most of the minor plants and wild flowers would thrive better in these thickets, too. 1839 THE Fletcher National Bank CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $i9ooo9ooo With ample capital, wide facilities and strong con nections, offers its services to all who contemplate opening new accounts but not at the cost of legiti mate or profitable banking. S. J. FLETCHER. Pres. CHAS. LATHAM, Cashier. S. A. FLETCHER, Ass t Cash. than under the great trees; and where only a small sanctuary could be afforded U might be better to make the greater part or It of this character. THE BORDERING THICKET. This surrounding jungle hedge would serve several other ends, also. It would attract birds, rabbits, etc., from the outside world, repel pursuing dogs, help to keep out horses, cows and such grazing beasts, and keep out the vision of the outer civil ization from the nature-seeker wandering within. In stony countries the farmers living about the sanctuary would esteem it a - privilege to be allowed to throw the stones from the clearing of their lands into this hedge, and might be encouraged to do s.o. as these stone heaps would be Ideal castles of refuge for woodchucks, rabbits, chipmunks, red squirrels, mice, snakes and such small fry. Birds and small mammals might be en couraged, if necessary, by judicious doles of grain, nuts and seeds, especially if the water supply were lacking, In times of terrible cold or after severe winter storms. It would be well, too, to surround the sanctuary with a close wire fence to ex clude dogs and grazing animals. Animals once resident in the neighbor hood, but now extinct, or practically so. might be reintroduced, as raccoon3, wood chucks, wild turkeys, and a few deer would be a beautiful feature. The many advantages of such a sanctu ary are so evident that they hardlj' need pointing out. Nevertheless, 1 will mention two or three. As a means of discouraging the wanton cruelty of children and developing a sym pathetic love for the lower animals and interest in their life and habits It could not be excelled. To an animal artist or photog rapher it would be a paradise. As a place of refuge and refreshment for brains over wrought and souls saddened by the con flict, artificiality and shams of modern life it would be worth inestimably more than its cost. There is no sanitarium like pure nature. FACTS ABOUT TREES. Why a Certain Companionship Exists Among Them Sadden Changes. Farmers' Bulletin. In almost every region certain kinds of trees are found together. This is due to a similarity of preferences in regard to soil, heat, moisture and light. Two trees adapt ed to the same conditions will thrive best In the same situation. The white ash and black walnut are good examples. Having similar preferences, they have almost Iden tical ranges and are very generally associ ated. There Is also another reason why trees accompany one another. A tree may so lnlluence Its surroundings as to make them favorable to another tree, where otherwise they would be unfavorable. As an example of such Influence, the chestnut on sterile, pandy plains in portions of New England forms a much-branched tree, which shades the ground and keeps it moist and cool. Such conditions are favorable to the germination of the white pine In that region; consequently it is found coming up abundantly beneath the chestnut, but not so abundantly on the open, unprotected ground. A change In the surroundings of a tree always modifies Its habit of growth. If the change Is toward more favorable surround ings the result Is eeen In increased vigor, rate of gTowth and size; if toward un favorable surroundings, the reverse will be true. The stately tulip tree of the central Eastern States is said to be a mere shrub in Florida. The reason is that there it is out of its range of adaptation. The white elm, which grows with tall and vase-like form in New England, in the semi-arid parts of Kansas and Oklahoma is low and spreading like an apple tree. Nor is form the only variable character. On the West ern elm the leaves are fewer in number, smaller, thicker and much rougher than on the New England tree. In other parts of the tree there are differences of the same kind, though they are not so noticeable as those In the form and foliage. These varia tions have resulted from the differences In soli and climatic conditions to which the tree has been subjected. The difference in form between two trees of the same kind in different localities has come about through gradual divergence of characteristics. To a certain degree changes of this kind can be brought about in practice. When a gradual change is made In the surroundings of a tree a corre sponding change takes place In the tree itself. Thus if stock of the New England elm be slowly moved westward through many generations, it will gradually change in form and other characteristics to be like the western tree; and it must be as sumed that this change Is necessary to enable it to live under its new conditions. Sudden'changes In the surroundings of a tree frequently cause its death, because it cannot quickly change Itself to meet the requirements of its new conditions. The New England elm moved at once to the semi-arid West is likely to die, because it is not adapted to the conditions of soil, light, heat and moisture of that region. In the prairie marshes of northern Indiana there are occasional knolls which once sup ported thrifty oaks of moisture-lo ing kinds. Now that the marshes have been drained the drying out of the soil has caused the oaks to die. The change was too sudden. Suddenness and intensity of change often account for the failure of trees to thrive when moved away from the region to which they were adapted. This is also why Eastern trees so often die when moved to the West. This Is why nursery stock grown near by can be more safely planted than that grown in a distant re gion. It is a practical matter, and should be generally understood. THE DOCTOR AXD THE COOK. Their Relations Should lie Closer- Chemical Effects of Dishes. The Lancet. Of the arts which may be reckoned an cillary to that of medicine there is none probably which is so neg.ected by practi tioners of medicine as that of cooking. Most medical men regard the kitchen as beneath their notice and would scout the idea that any special training In the ma terials and its methods might be of service to their professional powers and useful ness. Such an attitude of mind is as un warranted as we believe It to be lnjudious. Not oniy are there very many substances which are common to the kitchen and to the dispensary, a knowledge of which, therefore, is Justified by their presence in one if it does not Indicate an acquaintance with the other, but. moreover, rigidly ie garded, the kitchen and .the cook play al most as important a part in attaining the aims of the medical man as do the druj gist and the dispensary. It la obviously of the greatest importance that if a physician orders a medicine he should be able to tell that it is duly dis pensed. A similar argument may certainly be applied to the products 01 the kitchen No medical man would Ignore the impor tance or diet ootn in neaun unu in disease. and the cook may well be regarded as a chief oflicer in trie service of preventive medfclne. We do not hold the belief of an old wri ter quoted in Dr. W. T. Fernie's "Kitchen Physic." who says that "the practitioner 5i.is only to direct such food as may contain the particles that his patient may stand In need of. For example, are the kidneys dis eased? Then let him prescribe stews and broths made of ox-deer and sheep's kid neys. Asthmas require dishes prepared from the lungs of sheep. de-r, calves' n art ar.d lambs. Are the intestines diseased? Then he should order tripe, boiled, fried or frieasseed. hen this practice nas become general we shall bo able to remove errv tiisease Incident to the human body by the assistance of the cook only. Unfortunate ly, the art of therapeutics is no such sim ple affair as this. The recently proved value of the thyroid gland, however, in the treatment of myxoedema, to take only one striking instance, Bhould lead us to take it rzx: 1002 close Interest in the help that substances which may be most suitably prepared In the kitchen are able to afford us In the treatment of disease, and not to regard the kitchen simply as a place from which the provision of healthy food for healthy per sons is all that can be desired or obtained. There Is a fund of Interest and of Infor mation In the old accounts of the various properties and powers with which writers from the earliest times invested different articles of diet. Thus. Pliny, tells us that "Cato thinks that after eating hare sleep is induced, but the common people suppose that after such food the body Is more lively and gay for nine days; this may be only an idle rumor, but. still, for so widespread a belief there must be some foundation." Whether there is any true foundation for such a belief or not an investigation into tiie exact chemical properties of flesh of various animals and into such articles of diet, for Instance, as shell-Ash. which are known to have peculiar effects upon cer tain people, would not only be of great In terest, but might lead to results of great therapeutic value. Such chemical work as this Is a most fitting direction in which to turn some of the efforts of clinical laboratories puih as are sure in the future to be more and more extensively employed in connection with all large general hospitals. There are many widespread beliefs and theories with regard to the effects of different foodstuffs In health and disease. Exact knowledge on s-ieh points is scanty. We cannot doubt that in attempting to enlarge and to de fine it, direct or Indirect results of Im portance and utility would bo obtained. Why, for instance, are tomatoes in the popular mind so widely associated with the spread of cancer? We have no grounds whatever for believing the Idea to have any reasonable foundation. Yet how much do we know f the special constituents of the tomato? Has It any therapeutic prop erties? Is it, as a matter of fact, particu larly prevalent where cancer is especially common? Such questions and their solu tion are a natural adjunct to intelligent medical Interest In the kitchen, and we have mentioned merely the crudest and most obvious of the many problems, thera peutic and pathological, that the kitchen suggests to us If we honor It with our at tention. There Is another point of view from which the cook may be brought to the aid of the practical physician. Supposing that experi ment were to show that drugs which now are used only In formally prescribed mix tures or pills were capable of Introduction Into the more welcome output of the do mestic kitchen how grateful an assistance might we obtain. It is often difficult when a medicine has to be taken frequently and over long periods of time to be sure that the patient does not grow careless or for getful. If, however, instead of taking his draught before, or his pill after, his daily meals, that draught or that pill were, with out altering the taste of the dish and with out losing its own efficacy, combined with the patient's dinner Instead of preceding or following It, we can Imagine a far more certain acceptance on his part, and the physician's orders would be more consist ently carried out by connivance on the part of the cook than they are with the co-operation of the chemist. Such a relegation of the dispenser's duties to the hands of the chef can only be achieved by familiar ity on the part of the medical man with the work of both his subordinates. With the work of one he Is. perhaps, fairly cogniz ant: with that of the other we strongly recommend him to become more intimately acquainted. DR. COXAX DOYLE. "Where nnd Hott II Lives, and Ills Latest Literary Venture. London Daily Mail. In the intervals of cricket matches, golf and foot ball. Dr. Conan Doyle lives and works at a house picturesquely situated at the top of Hindhead, a house which, bein a Scotsman, he likes to remember is almost as high as Arthur's Seat at Edin burgh. For the last few months Dr. Doyle has been busy with the revised edition of "The Great Boer War" and In collecting materials for writing his categorical reply to the charges made both by foreign and English pro-Boers against our soldiers and statesmen In connection with events- la South Africa. Dr. Doyle has examined every peclflo charge, and has ben able, from various sources of information, to gather sufficient evidence, in his opinion, to completely meet each one. His pamphlet will consist of some fio.OoO words, and neither the autho, nor the publishers. Messrs. Smith-Elder, propose to make any profit from its issue. It will be sold to the trade at the bare cost of production, 1. e.. about Z1 pence a copy, and the retail price being sixpence, the margin of profit will be sullicient to make it worth the while of the bookseller to push Its sale. Every public man and every newspaper In the country will receive a ropy. Dr. Doyle has arranged for its translation Into five European languages, and it is hi in tention to send a copy to every deputy, statesman and newspaper editor. He has given the American rights to the McCIure Company, on the condition that they do the same tiling in the t'nited States. It U hoped in this way that the English reply to the charges of brutality will reach cue hands of every responsible person who has repeated or believed them. Dr. Conan Doyle has written twenty-two novels. He is purposing shortly to Issue a complete edition, having out all work bo considers Immature, which will reduce tho number to fifteen volumes. He commenced story writing when he was eighteen, and continued contributing to magazines of the caliber of the Cornhill and Temple Bar for ten years, working all the time at the profession of medicine. Most of this ;irly work appeared anonymously, and Dr. Doyle remembers that the late George Augustus Sala. referring to a story of his that Mr. James Payne had printed in Corn hill, said that, although the author's name was not attached to it, the practiced novel reader would at once recognize th hand of Robert Louis Ste venson. His first book was "A Studv in StarJet," and this was followed by "Ml '-ah Clarke." one of the earlb st of the long s ri s of his torical novels that have b- n turned out in lertnt years, and "The Firm of Girdle stone." Sherlock Holmes, as most people know, was suggested to Dr. Doyle by Dr. Joseph IN !1. under whom the n tiit stud ied in Edinburgh, and who had acquired an extraordinary deductive power. When the great detective of fiction whs hilled by Ins creator be received a lettr from an indignant old lady, comrmming, "You Least." but the early adventures, on,, of which is now leln told in a monthly mag azine, will doubtless be a. I led to from time to tim. In slx-shillir.g form. "The White Com pany." an admirable novel of adventure, written simily and naturally, has had the greatest suects.- of Dr. Doyle's novels, though l.'A'fo copbs of the Mx-i-iiny edi tion of "Sherlocic Holmes'' were soid in al most record time, and the numbers were not increased, in order not to militate acain.t the sale in more c-xin-n.dve form. The- two books in which the :iuthor h.is put most of his "senlial self are "A Duct" and "The Stark Munro U tnrs." the latter and "Round the Red Lamp" i.eirr the only n:e.l!il stories he lias yet written. Beside? novel. Ir. Conan Doyle has writ tn two plays. "Hals." produced in lvj at the Garrick. anl "A Story of Walul... ' -,hlch i a rt ular item in Sir Henry Irving's repertory, anl one volume of po n:s. Dr. Conan Doyle was born in li'.. and In a tall, heavily-built man. w1i..m- optn-air life is eidncd In his face. H ni ty. per haps, be best described as typirab'y British, an 1 hi point of lew may be 'g.ith. Ted from his rcrnaik tl.it "literature to b le.iüy virile most brathe the spirit of th5 nation in whose language it Is written." Ilefore devoting himif entlieh.- to writing Dr. Doyle had be n a .;r.l !--tor, a mil itnry doctor, a general practitioner in both town and country, an 1 f WI'v,polr-ttreet peeialist. Like Mr. K. T. Üulien. he has also Mrvid on a whaler. Beirr asked In a recent conversation about hi future work, he sal !. "I hope to goodness no ideas will occur to ii. for months to come, Lut they probably will."