-It
'5V
December Sells Today to $1.11,
May to [email protected]% and
September to $1.13.
A Pour-Dey Decline'of 93/8c In De
cember, 9V4c in May and
14c in September.
Some Go Short over Sunday, Ex-
pecting Big Receipts Here
on Monday.
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, Sept. 17
Wheat prices weie shot to pieces today right
from the start Jo sooner had trading begun
than a fusilade of selling orders came upon
the pit By 10 September wheat was down
to $115, against 51 2. eailv in the -week, De
cember was $1 12V. against $120 ft, and May,
1.13V,, against $1 21V, Foui successive dnvs
Of bear rniukets co*t the bulls 12c in bepteni
ber and just 8c in Mav lhis looked like
enoigh, for the time at least Theie was no
evidence of anj heavy short co^erirg on the
decline, but that some bid short lines have
been put out since the weakness begun can
carcely be doubted The time was ripe for a
heavv drive and the bears have nude a good
thing of oppoitnnm tSome thought a lallv due
for today, but instead \i little sDowiug of wheat
gave the fouith day of weakness The north
west ran ahead of a jeii ago foi the first dav
in some time Minneapolis and Duluth getting
620 caFS against 4S2 while Chicago had 70
against 68 The southwebt offeied no greater
encouragement to the oulls Kansas Ctty getting
220,000 bu against 1W000 and St Louis 164
000 bu, against 10b 000 lliis scared ninny
holders They *ook it to mtau that the wheat
has begun to come that fiom now on it will
pile in and that the tirst bi' piice bieaking
trill come in on Mcnda1
Som were inclined rutn
tand short over Sunday on thi3 uunch and
hould it fall to come out should the receipts
be light or the weather turn bad theie might
ievelope in the pit a scromble for what that
Would put a new complexion on tho market For
the day howevei the decline was not jet over,*,
and befoie the maiket closed September had
old to ifl 13 December to $1 11 and May to
$1 124.(iTi 12V making losses from the week's
high point of lie on .Sempemher, d%c on Decem
ber and 9i4(^0%c on Via
The weathei to come is likelv to be verv show
ery over a wide extent of territon Isothing
fa in Bight to indicate frost damage to corn
Today coin was off Ma down to 49%c in Chi
cago against a lecent piice well above 33c
This corn weakness affected wheit mateiiallv
Minneapolis wheat stocks fell off by 335,388
bu for the week leaving a total of 1 589 050 bu
The forecast is an Intelesting one ort
and South DakotaShowers coolei and partly
cloudy Minnesota Iowa Missouri and Nebraska
Showers and cooler KansasFair and cooler
IllinoisCloudy and showers IndianaFair
tonight, showers and cooler Sunday Indications
re for showers and cooler weather over the
trans Mississippi district tonight and extending
over central valleys and western lake region to
morrow There is an extensive area of low
barometer extending from Minnesota and North
Dakota to Texas Little precipitation as yet,
but rains are now beginning In extreme north
west There has been a general rise in temper
atures east of the Rockies
THE FLOUR MARKET
BUSINESS NOT SO GOOD TODAYPRICES ON
DECLINE.
Flour trade repoits were far less favorable
today millers stating that the wheit decline has
operated to again demoralize trade Many who
bought flour higher up are disappointed and
those who waited for a break are the more
Inclined to wait now bejieving that further de
cline is to follow This makes it hard to sell
flour
Tirst patents are quoted $6 20(3)6 30 second
patents, $0Q,b 10 first cleajs, $5 30@5 40, wood,
second clears $3 10@4 20 in Minneapolis
in wood
THE CASH TRADE
GOOD DEMAND BUT PRICES EASY IN
SOME LINES.
FLAXAn active marloet but a little lower
range of prices Good demand for No. 1 seed
to arrive
Minneapolis recce!ved 35 cars against 27 a
year ago and shipped 12 Duluth received 12
cars
Closing prices Minneapolis cash $1.34% to
arrive $1 24i, September, $1 24%
0\TS\o 3 white closed at 30%c. Receipts,
180 cars shipments, 21 cars
CORNNo 3 yellow closed at 54c. Receipts,
6 cars, shipments none
MILLSTDFFSBran in bulk $15 75@16,
shorts $17 50(g.l8, middlings, $19 50@20, red
dog, $22 50 all in Minneapolis, in 100 1b
sacks $1 50 per ton additional, in 200 lb sacks,
$1 per ton additional Shipments, 1,183 tons
FLDD AND MEALCoarse cornmeal and
cracked corn in sacks, sacks extra $20@20 25,
No 1 ground feed 2 3 corn and 1 3 oats 80 lb
sacks sacks extra $21fg2125 No 2 ground
feed, coin and oats, 80 lb sacks sacks ex
.tra, $21 50@21 75, No 3 ground feed, 1 3 corn
and 2 3 oats, 75 lb sacOss, sacks extra, $22
82 25
BARLEYFeed grades are quoted at 85@42c
tnaltlng grades 42@40c Receipts, 59 cars,
Shipments, 53 cais
RYEClosing figures for No, 2 rye, 78%o{ re
ceipts, 13 cms, shipments, 1 catr
HAYMarket is firmer on all grades, upland
being especially strong strong hay is very
scarce, the bulk of receipts are either wt.t,
hot or musty due to the late rains Choice tim
othy $9 50(^10 No 1 timothv, $99 50 No 2
timothv $8@8 50 No 3 timothy $6 50@7, up
land choice $8@8 50, No 1 upland, $7 50@8
midland, $7@7 50 rye straw, .$5 50@6, wheat
nd oats straw, $3 50@4 50, receipts, 204 tons.
CASH SALES REPORTED TODAY.
No 1 northern wheat 5 cars $117
No 1 noithfirn wheat, 1 car 116
No 1 noithien wheat, 1 car 117%
No. 1 northern wheat, 6 cars 117%
No 1 northern, 4 000 bu to arrive 118
No 1 northern., 3 000 bu to arrive 1.17%
No. 1 northern 2 0000 bu to arrive .116%
No lnorthern 2 000 bu to arrive 16%
No 1 noithetn 2 OOO bu to arri-ve 117
No. 2 northern wheat, 2 cars 114
No 2 northern wheat, 5 cars lis
No. 2 northern wheat, 4 cars 113%
No 2 northern wheat, 1 car 11274
No 2 northern wheat 3 cars 114%
No 2 northern S00 bu to arrive 113
No 2 noithern^ 3 000 bu to airlve 114%
No. 2 northern 1 000 bu tcrarrive 1 14%
No 2 northern, 160 Obu to airlve 114^
No 2 northern, 3 500 bu to arrive 113%
No 2 northern 2 400 bu to arrive 1 12%
_._
3 wheat., 1 car
No 8 wheat, 2 cars
No. 3 wheat, 1 cai old
No. 3 wheat, 1 car smutty
No 3 wheat, 1 car
No. 8 heat 1 car
No. 3 beat 6 cars
No 3 wheat, 2 cai*
No 3 wheat, 2 cars ij... 1 10%
No. 3 wheat, 2 cars 1 07
sNo 4 wheat 1 car 100%
No. 4 wheat, 1 car 106
No. 4 wheat 1 car 1 08
No. 4 wheat, 4 cars 1 00
No. 4 wheat, 2 cars 1 05
No 4 wheat 1 car 1 07
No 4 wheat 1 car .4. 98
No 4 wheat 1 400 bu to airlve by sample 1 02
Rejected wheat 2 cars 95
Rejected wheat, 9 cars 80
Rejected wheat 2 cars, test 43 lbs 66
Rejected heat, 1 car smutty 1 00
Rejected wheat 2 cais 84
Rejected wheat 1 cai 68
Relected wheat 2 cats .81
Rejected wheat, 3 cars 70
Rejected wheat, 3 cars .78
Rejected wheat 1 car 00
Rejected wheat 2 cars .75
Relected weat, 1 cai 85
Rejected wheat 1 car .90
No gi ade wheat 2 cars 70
No grade wheat 1 car .75
No 2 rye 2 cars
No 3 rye, 4 cars
No 3 rve 1 car
No 2 white oats 1 car
No 3 white oats. 1 car
No S white oats, 13 cars
No 4 white oats. 4 cars
No 4 white ats, 6 cars
No 3 oats. 5 cai.s
No grade oats, 1 car
No ffrade oats, 1 car
No grade oats 1 ca'"
No 3 barle\, 1 car
No 4 barley, 1 car
Ko 4 barley, 1 car
No. 4 barley, 1 cai
No 4 barlev, 1 ^ar
tfaturHay Evenlngr*^****-^
WHEAT PRICES ALL SHOT TO PIECES THIS WEEK
2 jrye, 73%o barley, 85o to 49a
RANGE OF WHEAT PRICE IN MINNEAPOLIS
ii
'l?%Lrry%^ JIJJLPS* Tl^cLf
No 1 feed barley, 1 oar 40
No. 1 feed barley 2 cars 39
No 1 feed barley, 2 cars 38
No 1 feed barlev, 1 car 38%
No 1 feed barley, 1 car 42
No 1 feed barley, 1 car 43
No 2 feed barley, 1 car 38
No 2 feed barley, 1 car, oaty 84
No 1 flax 5 cars 124%
No 1 flax, 6 cars 124%
No 1 flax, 1 car 14%
No 1 flax, 1 car, to arrive 1 24
No 1 flax, 5 800 bu, to arrive 124%
No. 1 flax, 4 000 bu, to arrive... 124
No 1 flax, 1,000 bu to arrive 123%
Winter Wheat.
No 8 1 car
No. 8, 1 car
No 8, 1 car
Macaroni Wheat.
No 2, 1 car
No 3 1 car, fancy
No 2 1000 bu, to arrive
Totals 1,589,056
Decrease 338 888
Corn 7,531
Oats 2,251,228
Barley 399,428
Rve 38,566
Flax 58,002
A
.74 .78
72%
.31%
30% 30%
.30%
.30
30%
29 28%
.47%
46% .42 .41
38
1.05
104 1.10
97
96
94
GRAIN IN REGULAR ELEVATORS.
Week Ending
Wheat Sept 17 Sept 10
No 1 northern 724 087 956 731
No 2 northern 22 895 18,058
Rejected 8 501 45,288
Special bin 833 578 905 943
No grade 929
1,922,444
7,531
1,296,609
224,909
56,064
81,629
DAILY WHEAT MOVEMENT, SEPT 16.
The following aie the receipts and shipments
at the principal primary wheat markets
Receipts
Bushels
New York 22 000
Philadelphia 12,888
Baltimore 16,027
Toledo 10,000
Detroit
lx
1102 111 1 09
109
84
111 110%
Shipments,
Bushels
4,940
14,050
750
120 000
9 956
18 602
6 000
10 879
42,780
203,400
14 680
St Louis 164,000
Boston Chicago 83 000
Milwaukee 32 580
Duluth 74 532
Minneapolis 288 360
Kansas City 252 000
STATE GRAIN INSPECTION, SEPE. 16.
Inspected InWheatOarsGreat Northern
No 1 northern, 27, No 2 northern, 7. No. 8,
6, No 4, 4, rejected, 21, no grade, 4
Chicago, Milwaukee & St PaulNo 1 north
ern 16, No 2 northern 13, No. 3, 23. No.
4, 24, rejected, 29, no grade 8
Minneapolis & St Louis^No 1 northern, 21
No 2 northern 6, No 3, 4 No 4, 8, rejected,
1, no giade 1.
Soo LineNo 1 northern, 2. No 2 northern,
12, No 3 5, No 4, 1, rejected 2, no grade, 1
Northern PacificNo 1 northern, 1. No. 2
northern, 1, No 8 3, No 4 2, rejected, 3
Chicago St Paul, Minneapolis & OmahaNo.
1 northern, 2, No 2 northern, 10, No 8, 10
No 4, 5, rejected, 10, no grade. 2
TotalNo 1 northern, 69, No 2 northern, 48
No 3, 51, No 4, 39, rejected, 66, no grade, 11
Other GrainsCarsNo macaroni wheat. 1
No 2 macaroni wheat, 2. No 3 winter wheat,
41, rejected winter wheat 2, no grade winter
wheat 2, No 3 yellow corn 2, No 8 corn, 2
No 4 corn, 1, No 2 white oats, 11, No 3 white
oats, 60. No 4 white oats, 54. No 8oat s, 21,
no grade oats, 9, No 2 rve, 3, No. 3 rye, 7
no grade rye, 8, No 8 barley, 1 No 4 barley,
54, No I feed barley, 33, No 2 feed barley, 3,
no grade barley, 4, No 1 flax, 46, rejected
flax, 1.
Cars Inspected OutNo 1 noithern
Cn
Grain Commission, 47 Chamber of Commoroe Building.
SUiP US YOUR OATS AMD BAMCY.
The Cheyto pagoda Burmah is built
on a huge rocking stone poised on an
other at a height of 2,000 feet.
Close. Close. Close.
Open. High. Low Today. Yesterday. Year Ago.
Sept.. $117 $117 $1.13 $113 $117 $.8 3
Deo... 114 114% 111 l.U 115% .78%@78%
May.. 1.15% 1.15% 1.13%% 1.12%@% 1.16%%
Minneapolis Oats
Sept -30 .30
Deo -81 -31
May.. .33 .33
THE DAY'S REPORTS
I December Wheat May Wheat
Close. Close. Close. Close.
Today. Yesterday. Today. Yesterday.
Minneapolis $1.11 $115 $112%% $1.16%%
Chicago [email protected]% 113%% [email protected]% 114%@1.15
Duluth 1-12% 1-13% 1.14 1.16%
St Louis 1-12% 115% 11 4 117%%
Kansas Ctty 99% 1.02%% 101% 104%%
New York 1.13% 116% 113% 1.16%
CLOSING 0ASH PRICES
On TrackNo. 1 hard, $1.16% No 1 northern, $114% No 1 northern to arrive,
$114%, N 2 northern, $110%, N 2 northern to arrive, $110%, N 3 wheat,
$104% @1 07% N 1 flax, $1 24% No 8 white oats, 30%o, No 3 yellow corn, 54o No
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CHICAGO GRAIN
ADDITIONAL OPENING OF DECLINE ON
WHEAT PIT.
Chicago, Sept 17 An additional decline of 2c
a bushel occurred in wheat prices here today on
heavy profit taking by tired holders There
was also considerable selling by commission
houses on stop loss orders A number of in
fluences entered into the situation to bring
about the heavy selling pressure. Among the
most prominent were lower Liverpool cables
increased receipts in the northwest, and liberal
shipments from Australia Warmer weather also
was a bear factor At the opening December was
off %@%c to %@%c, at $1 12% to $118. The
market lacked any special support, and with
fiet offerings, prices quickly declined Decem
ber selling off to $1 11% May opened %@%c to
%@%c lower, at $1 14% to $114% and before
the decline was checked the piice had dropped
to $1 12% Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago
reptrted receipts of 709 cars, against 332 cars
last week and 550 cars a year ago
The only support manifested during the day
was buying by shorts. Offerings, however were
much in excess of the damand, and consequent
ly, prices continued to decline Just before the
close the December option told at $1 09, and
May at $111 Final figures on December weie
at $1 09@109%, a net loss of 4%c. May
closed at $111@111%, a loss of 3%c
Cash WheatNo 2 red, $114, No 8 red,
$110@1 12, No 2 hard winter, $110, No 8
hard winter, $1 02@1 09, No 1 northern spring
$118, No 2 northern spring, $1 16, No 3
spring, $105@111
Close WheatSeptember, $1 07, old, $1J
December, $109@109% May, $111@111%
Excellent maturing weather caused weakness
in corn prices, declining %c or more on selling
by local longs Lower cables furnished bears
an additional selling motive Deoember opened
%@%c lower, at 50%@50%c, and held around
50% Local receipts were 524 cars, with 84 of
contract grade
The break in wheat caused additional selling
later in the day, the market becoming still
weaker The low point on December was
reached at 50c The close was at 50%c, a net
IOSB of %c for the day
Cash CornNo. 2, 51%@51%o No. 8, 51
51%c
Close CornSeptember, 51e: Deoember.
60%c, May, 49%c
An easier tone prevailed in the oats market
in sympathy with the weakness of other grains
There was no heavy selling offerings being read
ily taken by shorts. December opened %c to
%@%c lower at 32%@32%c to 32%c and held
within the opening range Local receipts were
173 cars.
Cash oats- No 2, 81%c. No 3. 31c.
Close September, 31%c, December, 82%c,
May, 35c.
CHICAGO COARSE GRAIN AND SEEDS,
Sept. 17.Rye, September, 74c, December, 76c
May, 79u Flax, northwestern $124%,
southwestern $116, September, $116, Decem-
iTa**1,1,9
11
ToothycasSeptember $2 90 October
$2 86 March $3, Januarv $2 90 Clover, Sep
tember, $11 65 Barley, cash, 7@56c
LIVERPOOLnnlnal GRAINS Se~pt 17 Closing
""R0*-
futures, dull, September,
7s 4%d, December, 7s 7%d Corn, spot, easy,
American mixed, 4s 7d, futures, quiet, Septem
ber, 4s 5%d, December. 4s 5%d
NEW YORK GRAIN AND FLOtTR, Sept 17
I lour, receipts, 10,886 brls. sales, 1,000 barely
steady and dull Wheat receipts 22,000 bu,
sales, 2,200,000r bu broke under warmer weather
news lowe cables anhd wasDecemberl weak al
2ii2T/?iUtrni^English
several liquidation. December
weat
$114%@115% May, 14% @116% Corn
receipts, 1 200I bu sales, 5,000, duff and easy
R7^er
3 d$1 JT
it
,f
wheat,, 2 northern wheat 57 No 8 wheat 17
4 whoat, 1, rejected wheat, 13, no grade
No
No wheat, 10, No 3 white oats, 2, No 8 oats, 1
no grade oats 5, No 8 barley 1, No 4 barley,
4, No 2 rye, 2, no grade rye 2, No. 1 flax, 1.
26 Oats 151,000 bu.^ market nominal
PUTS AND CALLS.
2 30 o'clock report
PutsDecember wheat, $1 08%
CallsDecember wheat, $114%
CurbDecember wheat, $111%
In the June number of the National
Re/lew (English) a physician advocates
the exercise of skipping rope as a means
of maintaining or regaining the health He
points out that this childish pastime not
only exercises all the muscles, but that
It can be practiced most conveniently
everywhere.
This year's lavender crop in England
is one of the most abundant for years.
Fifty specialists are studying the data
brought back by the Gauss Antarctic
expedition.
NEW YORK PE0DU0E, Sept 17.Butter,
firm, receipts, 4,815 lbs official prices un
changed Cheese, stead}, unchanged, ieceipts,
2,570 lbs, weekly sports, 191b lbs Eggs,
firm, unchanged, receipts, 7,295.
CHICAGO PBOtHTOE, Sept 17Butter,
steady to firm, creameiies, 14@18%c, dairies,
12^@16c. Eggs, firm, at mark, cases included,
1714c Cheese,. firm, daisies,, 8%@9c, twins, 14
8@i%c weak, turkeys, 12c, chickens, 10c, springs, 11Vic.
Potatoes, steady, red and white stock, 37@40c.
Veal, easy, 50 to 60 1b weights, 6@8%c, 65 to
75 lb weights, 6%@7^c, 80 to 125 lb weights,
7@8c
PROVISIONS
CHICAGO PROVISIONS. Sept 17.Trading
in provisions was extremely quiet, the marks!
holding steady at yesterday's closing quota
tions
Close: Pork September, $10 67%, October,
$10 70, November, $10 10, December, $10 80,
January, $12 67%a LaidSeptember, $6,85, Oc-
toberV,
$6987%@6J 90, November $6 92%: Da-en}-
5
lary,
62%
$(.17%. KibsSeptember, $7 07%, October,
$7.12% Januarj, $6 60@6 62%, May, $6 80.
NEW YOKK PROVISIONS, Sept 17 Beef,
steady Pork, quiet Lard, easy, prime west
ern, $7.50
MISCELLANEOUS
NEW TOR KCOTTON, Sept 17.The cotton
market opened quiet but steady at a decline of
8@4 points on generally favorable weather No
one seemed disposed to sell aggressively foi
over Sunday and thee market, while continuing
quiet ruled generally steady during the first
hour, with prices recovering to about last night's
final figures Trading was almost entirely local
and professional in character.
Cotton futures opened steady, September,
10 47c, October, -10 35c, November, 10 35c, De
cember, 10 38c, January, 10 40c, March, 10 48c,
April 10 51c, May, 10 74c
Cotton futures closed quiet September, 10 48c,
October, 10 34c, November 10 34c, Decembei,
10 88c,January, 10 40c, February 10 44c, March.
10 49c, April 10 IJc, May, 10 54c
SpoLauiet, iVdJiiag uplands, 10 90o, middling
gulf, l)...15c Sales none
NEW YORK SUGAR AND COFFEE, Sept. 17
Sugar, raw, firm fair refining 8%c, cen
trifugal 96 test, 4 5 16c, molasses sugar, 8%c,
refined, steady, crushed, 5 95c, powdeied, 5 85c,
granulated 5 25c Coffee steady, No 7 Rio
8%c. Molasses, steady, New Orleans, 31@37c.
World Markets==Grain, Securities^igoq.^**1,17
NEW YORK OIL, Sept 17 Petroleum, quiet,
refined, all porta-, 7,80@7 85c
PEORIA WHISKY, Sept 17 Whiaky on the
basis of $128
NEW YORK METAL, SeptT H.Copper and
lead quiet and unchanged
MONEY REPORTS
ST. PAUL, Sept. 17.Bank clearings today.
$853 574 27
LONDON, Sept 17.Today is a holiday on
the Stock Exchange Bar silver, steady at
26%d per ounce Money, 1@1% per cent Dis
count rates Short bills 2%@2 5 16 per cent
three months' bills, 2 5 16@2% per cent
BERLIN, Sept. 17The weekly statement of
the Impel ial Bank of Germany shows the fol
lowing changes Cash on hand increase 5 020,
000 marks, treasury notes increase 860,000
marks, other secmities Increase 1136JiOJJO
marks, notes in circulation, increase 4,960,000
marks.
ST. LOTUS GRAIN, Sept 17Close Wheat,
lower No 2 red, cash elevator, $111% track,
$116, December $111%, May, $118%, No
hard, $1 09 Corn lower No 2 cash 61c,
track, 53c, December 47c May, 47%@47%c
Oats, lower, No 2 cash, 81%c, track 82y2c,
December, S2yAc, May 34%c, No. 2 white, 34c
HIS CHARACTER.
Tid-Bits
An Irishman was charged with a petty
offense
"Have you anyone \n court who will
vouch for your good character?" queried
the judge
"Yes, sorr, there is the chief constable,
yonder," answered Pat
The chief constable was amazed.
"Why, your honor, don'Kt" even, know the
man," protested he.
a
"Now, sorr," broke In Patj I have
lived In the borough for nearly twenty
years, and If the chief constable doesn't
know me yet, isn't that a character for
ye?"
TAKE8 THE MONEY.
Detroit Free Press.
"May not be new, but I just heard It,"
said the man at the head of the table.
"Give is to us
"Man from California said that they
raised cabbages out there as big as a
washtub. Ma from Missouri said that
they didn't brag much on cabbage, but
he had been in Kansas City and had seen
three polioeman sleep on one beat."
SOME OMISSIONS.
Philadelphia Bulletin
"Does he advertise all the oomforts of
home?" inquired Mr. Tiredout.
"No replied Mrs Tiredout, "the ad
vertisement simply says, 'No mothers-in
law, cross cooks, or crying babies
"We'll go, asserted Mr. Thedout, em
phatically
HARD CASE.
Town Topics.
CrawfordWhy, old man what makes
you look so blue
0
CrabshawMy wife went to get her life
Insured.
CrawfordAnd they refused her?
CrabshawNo, said she was good for
onothei forty years.
AN ARTISTIC PRINCIPLE.
Washington Evening Star.
"Mr Bliggins talks a gieat deal about
himself, doesn't he?"
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. "He is
evidently one of the people who believe
that the most trifling topic may be made
interesting if pioperly handled"
SHE OBJECTS.
Chicago News.
The modern Romeo was beside himself.
"Woman," he shouted, hoarsely, "re-
fuse me and I will follow you to the ends
of the earth'"
"Is that so'" she responded, sweetly.
"Well, I' not going on a polar expedi-
tion."
AND THE STRIKE GOES ON.
Chicago Tribune
First Calumet MosquitoYou look
bored What's the matter?
Second Calumet MosquitoI'm dis
gusted with the meat strike. Every man
I've sampled today tastes of fish.
THOUGHT SO.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
PatronHave you na any experience
at haircutting?
BarberYes, sir. I used to clip ze
poodle Francais
THE EXCEPTION.
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
FanneThey don't have prize fights in
Cincinnati, do they?
NokkerOnly when the New York
baseball club is here.
A LIFE SAVER.
Brooklyn Eagle
Mrs. Fuddleston looked up from her
newspaper and said
"This article says that France claims
to have the oldest man now living in
the world
"That is entirely probable," said
Fuddleston. "Sh ought to have
"But I didn't suppose the French were
a long-lived people They have a repu
tation for a short life and a merry one
Is there anything in the climate there
to favor longevity?"
"N-n-n o, not in the climate But they
have the French duel over there, you
know, and that induces long life
Soriie Japanese historians aver that
Genghis Khan, the Asiatic conqueror in
the thirteenth century, was a Japanese
by birtn.
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. September
_%_
Young Americas, 9@9Vic Poultry, live,
#7 02%@ 7 05 May
ST. PAUL IS MAIN
POINT OF ATTACK
LOSS OF ONE POINT SENDS MAR-
KET DOWN ONE-HALF.
Active Selling of Grangers and Pacifies
Causes Abandonment of the Rise in
Other DirectionsAttempt to Bally
Fails.
New York, Sept. 17.Opening prices in the
stock market today showed irregular changes
from last night Members of the Pennsylvania
group, Southern Railway and some of the
western stocks were slightly lower There
were heavy dealings in United States Steel and
Reading at advances of a half The Toledo,
St Louis and Western stocks, Lackawanna and
Denver & Rio Grande preferied were up 1 to 1^4.
Active selling of the grangers and Pacifies
caused an abandonment of the rise in other
directions and the market weakened St Paul
was the main point of attack and by the time
it lost a point the general market averaged
about half as much lower Reading and United
States Steel preferred reacted to Ya below last
night and United States Steel common fell be
low 18 Other changes included losses of a
point in Smelting preferred and International
Paper and similar gains by North-Western and
Westinghouse Electiic
A number of cheap specialties weie a feature
with advances of 1 to 2 points These included
the Detioit Southern stocks, Peoria & Eastern,
Long Island Cleveland, & St Louis pre
ferred, Standard Rope and its 6 per cent bonds
An attempt was made to rally the maiket after
the appeurance of the disappointing bank state
ment but it was only to affoid a basis for
selling Prices ran off rapidly all around Read"
ing lost l}j St Paul 114 and practically all
the prominent leaders about a point There
were small fractional rallies but the closing
was heavj.
BOSTONs MINING STOCK, Sept 17.Closing
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WINNIPEG GRAIN, Sept 17 It wis a quiet
declining market Opening October $108%
December $1 May, $1 04 Close September,
$102%, October $101%, Decmbei $1, May,
$1 0=5%, cash No 1 northern, $1 02y3, No 2
northern, 99%c, No 8 northern, 93y N 4
82c, No 1 feed 55c, No 2 feed 49c2,cputs,o$1,,
calls, $1.03 Receipts, 9 cars, year ago, 91.discovered
f!l
maiket Adventure 2%(@
12%@1Z, Arcadia 1 asked, A
eterda
2
A .Jl
oue
??ldf
2 5,^
bld Atlanta 13@13% Calumet &.
Hecla, 510@ol5, Centennial 27@27% Con Mer
cer, 28Cll30 Copper Range Con 58%@-9, Daly
West, 14@14%, Dominion Coal, 59@61 Do
minion
11@11e%Rovalem18(3)18%,
la5&U?'Steel
mn
El River, 2%fe3,
8%@9 Isl Mass
3%@3%, Mayflower. 12ftil2-}4, Michigan, 6%
7 Mohawk, 46@46%, Granby 2%#3, Guana
juato, Old Colony, 1 asked,
SlIn-!2?!1%@1%e
15@13% Osceol a 80@80% Phoenix, Ol.d 15/!@1
Do-
Shanno Cop Co
Quincy, 91 bid, Rhode Island, 1
A
i^2# Swlfg
103@103% Tamarack lli
@120.,, Tecumseh, 20@80 United Cop Co 6@8,
19 %^20, Ltah, 40@40'fe, Victo-
ria, 4%@4%, Wmolia 9(g}9%, Wolverine, 87
89, Wyandot, 7C@80
NEW YORK BAN AVERAGES.
New York, Sept 17The statement of av
erages of the dealing house banks of this city
for theh week shows Loans, $1,140 596 800, in
crease $10,472 600, deposits, $1 224 206 600, in
crease $1,497,200, chculation, $40,107,300, in
crease $41 500, legal tenders, $78 382,600, de
crease $120,400, specie, $257,022 200, decrease
$8,340,400, reserve, $335,404,800, decrease
$8 460,800, reserve required, $306,051,650, in
crease $624,300, surplus, $29,353150, decrease
$9 085,100, ex United States deposits, $35,903,-
850, decrerase $9,074,000
SWAMP TRIBE
Can Hardly Walk and Members Spend
LIvet in the Wate r.
New York Su
A tribe that can hardly walk has been
in New Guinea. So unused are
these people to walking on the solid
ground that their feet bleed when they
try to go any distance Thev were dis
covered by Sir Francis Winter recently.
The tribe Is that of the Ahgaiambos,
anfl since time immemorial they have
lived in swamp s, their houses being
perched on bamboo noles and elevated
about twelve feet above the mud and
water.
As a result, since there Is no solid
ground anywhere near them, generation
after generation of these people have de
pended entirely on canoeing and swim
ming They are such good swimmers that
they can glide over and between the half
submerged reeds like water snakes, and it
is as natural for an Ahgaiambo to slip
into the water to go next door as it is for
a woman in th*s country to throw a
shawl over her head and call on a neigh
bor
They never leave their swamps, but re
ma in hidden in th em from the time they
are born until they die They are as shy
as the crocodiles and reptiles that dwell
there
This life has changed their bodies so
that they look unlike any other human
beings in the world A thev never walk
their legs have become small and flabby,
and their feet are so soft that blood flows
from the cracking skin as soon as they
are called on to tread on hard ground.
Sir Francis Winter describes these be
ings as follows, In a report to the
Australian government
"The men would be of good stature if
their bodies, from their hips down, were
In proportion to the upper part. They
have good chests, thick necks and power
ful arms But from the hips down they
were shrunken creatures, looking more
like apes when viewed from the sid^ than
like human beings
"Their feet are short and broad, and
wonderfully thin, with weak toes Thev
aie so feeble that they look almost as if
they lacked joints
"The feet of all the people whom I saw
rested on the floor when they stood or
sat In a way that reminded one irresisti
bly of wooden feet because they were so
helpless and clumsy
AN ACROBATIC POLICEMAN
Rides After Auto Scorcher and Leaps
Into His Machine.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Stewart Brown, a wealthy automo
bilist from Gotham, found the lower
Merlon roads too tempting to resist
scorching, and he was taken before
Squire Brook and fined $10 and costs,
no t, however, before obliging Officer
Shay to do a little acrobatic -woik.
When Officers Shay and King or
dered Brown to stop, he slowed up,
but showed no signs of stopping The
two police were on horseback When
Brown continued to go on Shay
spurred his horse ahead of the auto
mobile, then, springing off, he leaped
into the auto.
Officer King rode up and took
charge of Shay's horse, while the lat
ter stayed in the, auto and compelled
his prisoner to go to Squire Brook's.
A the squire's office the New York
did not conceal his anger, but he
paid the fine.
Officers King and Shay also arrested
Cadwalader Washburn Kelsey of
Chestnut Hill on a charge of scorch
ing Mr. Kelsey had a very impor
tant engagement, and as he gave the
officers his card and promised upon
his "honor as a gentleman" to appear
before Squire Brook and pay his fine,
he was permitted to go on
A PHASE EPLAINED.
Washington Evening Star
"Father" said the small boy, "what
do they mean when they say that people
operate on margins in the stock mar-
ket?"
"My son, was the answer, "i gener
ally means that they are being kept on
the ragged edge
A botanical clock, a very pretty flower,
has been discovered in the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec I the morning it is white,
at noon it is red and at night blue, and
the changes of color are so regular that
the time of da can be told from the tint
of the flower
There are 994 mutual telephone systems
of rural chaiacter, with 89,316 instruments
and 70,915 miles of single wire. I addi
tion to these the commercial companies
operate 15,598 rural lines, with 138,426
miles of single wire and 121 905 telephones.
There are also 4,985 independent faimers'
lines, with 49,965 miles of single wire and
55,747 instruments.
REALIZING
RHODES' DREAM
RAILROAD BUKLDING GOING ON
IN AFRICA.
The Cape-to-Cairo Road Has Recently
Advanced Another Stage in Its His-
toryFrom a Commercial Point of
View, Many of the New African
Roads Are a Good Deal of a Bluff.
New York Mall.
Wednesday, amid great public enthusi
asm, the first thru train for Victoria Falls
over the Cape-to-Cairo railway took its
departure from Cape Town It arrival
will complete another stage in the march
of Cecil Rhodes' sublime Idea of a com
mercial empire under the British flag In
Central Africa Th magnificent cataract
of the Zambesi is not in itself a point of
great commercial importance, but it has
for fnany years impressed the world
imagination much as Niagara did when it
was merely a great natural wonder in a
pathless wilderness An the fact that it
is now possible to ride to it on a standard
gage railway in a Pullman car will also
strike the sense of the world's millions in
a way that the completion of the line to
BUluwayo of the Wankie coal mines could
not.
Cecil Rhodes himself raised the capital
upon which the line has been completed
from Buluwayo to Zambesi, and he had
provided the funds for its construction
thence thru northeastern Rhodesia to the
southern tip of La ke Tanganyiki. This
means nearly a thousand miles more of
railway building thru a wild country,
which, however, offers no great engineer
ing obstacles When that point is reached.
Cape Colony will have rail communication
with the very heart of darkest Africa,
as East Africa already has by way of the
Uganda railway to La ke Victoria Nyanza.
Already southern Rhodesia is more or
less criss-crossed with railway lines I is
possible to go direct by rail from Cape
Town to Reira, on the Portuguese coast,
by way of Buluwayoa distance of 2 000
miles Branch lines extend to Gwanda,
Wankie and other mining points, and one
was opened not long ago to Matoppos,
where Rhodes was buried I Is all, com
mercially speaking, a magnificent piece of
bluff, for the financial returns are as yet
slight I is nevertheless a legitimate pa rt
of the "empire builder's" magnificent
dream Doubtless it will all come true,
if time Is given it But the conditions
regulating the Cape-to-Cairo project are
far from realizing those which essentially
governed our Pacific railroad buildingthe
condition, namely, of running "from a good
country, thru a good country, to a good
country Even the golden Transvaal halts
In its development, while Rhodesia re
mai ns with but a handful of whites in an
ocean of wild blacks.
PITY IS FELT
FOB THE CZAR
HIS NERVOUS STATE IS SHOWN
BY THE BIOGRAPH.
A Pathetic Representation of the Caar
Is Shown in UondonNervous
Movements Shown at the Blessing
of the Officers Departing for theEMBERS
War.
LondonNight after night a pathetlo
representation of the czar of all the Rus
sias is shown on the biograph at the
Palace theater.
One can look right into the czar's face
can gaze closely into his sad eyes. One
can almost follow the train of thought
that prompts his various motions
Fir st one sees this little, tired czar at
the blessing of officers departing for the
war.
Priests in gorgeous vestments perform
the rites with graceful movements, and
the long-limbed officers come striding up
easily and carelessly
But the little czar shifts from one leg
to the other, glances at the toes of his
boots, attends anxiously to the set of his
sword, as th he had never hung one at
his side before, or hurriedly smooths his
mustache
Now and again he thrusts one of his
white-gloved fingers into his left eye, and
then looks at his glove as th in search
of a piece of dust
And, strange to say this last nervous
movement of his is repeated on every
occasion, and in e\ery set of circum
stances in which one sees him
is drinking the health of a depart
ing regiment, and he shifts from leg to
leg as he stands beside the table on which
is set out the wine Again he glances
appiehensively over his shoulder, again
he sees to the set of his sword, again
he smooths his mustache, and again he
sticks his finger into his eye and looks
for the extracted grit.
takes the glass of wine, raises it
and looks Into it gravely, as th death
might lurk there Then, with a sudden
movement, he straightens up and drains
It to the dregs
A moment later he is again shuffling
aimlessly around the table
Next the little black-bearded man in
the tight tunic and baggy trousers is re
ceiving the returning heroes of the Variag
And again he shuffles about in his big,
high, wrinkled boots
Later he reviews troops of all arms on
the great square of St Petersbmg
This time he sits on a calm and stately
charger but his nervous movements in
the saddle are as noticeable as when he
is on foot
Then he vanishes, and he has not smiled
once Th audience has watched quietly,
there has not been a suspicion of ap
plause
From the grand strains of the Russian
national hvmn the orchestra changes its
notes into a jingling air Th light of the
biograph shines out again and the gallerv
cheers as Japanese sailors at drill leap
on the screen
A woman leans forward to pick up her
progiam, and as she does so she murmurs
"Poor little czar'"
A MODERNIST.
(.Washington Evening Star
"Why," asked the teacher, "did Nebu
chadnezzar eat grass?"
And after a silence the small boy from
Chicago made answer "Maybe there
was a beef strike in Babylon
MINNEAPOLIS MA H*
dwards-O
ood
Co
MAIN OFFICE
Fifth and Robert St*.,
ST. PAUL, MINN.
(ntCOKPOX&TBD)
DEALERS IN 1
Stocks, Grain, Provision*
Bought and sold for cash or carried on reasonably
marg-ins, upon which there will be a charge of %o&
grain, ]i on stocks and Vfc on flax.
Write for our market letter.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS IN CAR LOTS
Ship Your Grain To Us
BEST FACILITIE S. PROMFT RsTmuca,
LIBBRAI, ADVANCES.
DULUTH WINNIPEG,
110 and 111 Chamber of Commeroe SU Onu
anty Loan bldg, Minneapolis.
WATSON & CO.,
BROKERS IN
GRAEN, PROVISIONS,
STOCKS AND BONDS.
Members N. Y. Stook Exohango
New York OfficeM Broad Street
Chicago Correspondentr-J. H. Wrens A Oct
Private wire Chicago end New York.
TelephonesN. W. Main 601,
Capital $l(OOQr000
Surplus and Profit* $400,009
Deposits $9,000,000
Letters of credit issued against ths
deposit of cash or approred collaterals.
Frein Exchange bought and said.
P.WHALLON.
GEO. P. CASE.
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NSW.Main lit
T'C. 184.
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Private Wire to New York and Ohloago*
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fil6 1st A
Van Dusen
Harrington Co.
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NEW CHAMBER OP COMMERCE.
SOI Board of Ttatfe
Daltith.
Win. Dalrymple,
Wm. Dalrymple Co., Sflttf
GRAIN COMMISSION
Receiving a specialty. Advances made to ffanura*
Shippers and Elevator Companies.
A, J. GUMMINQ3
GRAIN COMMISSION
PROVISIONSSTOCKSBONDS.
PRIVATE WIRES
Office: Main Floor Diayatoh BuUdaag,
ST PAUL.
Member Minneapolis Chamber of
Commeroe.
REMARKABLE.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Paxtons had decided that If It was
a boy they would name him Mark.
But, you see, "it was twins.
That all right," said the doctor.
"Now you can name th em Mark and Re
mark
AN ODD SIGN.
Philadelphia Press.
The occupants of a store recently
moved their business a short distance
down the same street, hanging up In the
window of the premises they had Just
vacated the following notice
"Have moved to a better place below."
HALLET & GO
Grain Commission
112 Chamber of Comaercs, Minneapolis
MARFIELD-
GRIFFITHS CO.
GRAIN COMMISSION
MinneapolU
puluth
lobinsoR
ssun. Branch HouseaSt Panl Mnnkato. Aberdeen. S Dt
WOODWARD & CO.
-SSSS" GRAIN COMMISSION
BRANCHESChicago aa& Mflwankee.
MilwaukeeoChicag
Jobbors in
Fruits, Vogatam
ales, Produce
DrledFrults and
Cannon Qoodmm
Liberal advances made on
large consignments. Or
ders filled promptly for
everything in our tine.
BSTABUSHBO
1870.
Order* for fatoxe delivarv executed in all tumir'tK