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Tells Why Creamery Men Have
Formed a Trust.
AGENTS TO EDUCATE FARMERS.
Topeka, March 23. The creamery
trust known as the Continental Cream
ery company, of Colorado, which has
absorbed a number of the big Kansas
creameries, is still gathering1 in from
one to three creameries a month. The
only large creamery in the state now
outside the combination is the Belle
Springs company, of Abilene. It has
' creameries at Abilene and Salina, and
about thirty skimming stations.
- The new trust has moved its head
quarters from Abilene to Topeka and
C H. Pattison, the manager, will make
this place his home.
"By the consolidation of the different
creameries of the state," said Mr. Pat
tison, "we can make a great saving in
expenses. For instance we can now
buy our packages in large enough
quantities that we save 5 cents on every
tub of butter, which will mean a saving
of 85,000 a year. Then we expect to
market our product direct without the
assistance of the commission men, and
this will be a saving of 5 per cent.
"Another feature which we could
not have carried out with separate
companies is the assistance of the
farmers to improve their dairy herds.
Wc have already sent out three field
agents just to educate the farmers in
the dairying industry, and we will
make: loans to farmers who wish to
purchase-dairy cows but who have not
the capital.
"To show the difference there is be
tween dairy herds which are run with
brains and those which are not: T. A.
Borman, formerly, editor of the Enter
prise Journal, has had a herd of four
teen cows during the past year .and
they. have netted him an average of 84
per cow during the year. We have
other patrons-who have probably made
not more than $15 per cow with the
some amount of effort. The difference
has been in the cows, and the. care .that
faaa been-given them.
Restricting: National Banks.
"Washington, March 23. A bill :re
ttricting national banks from making
loans to their -officers was favorably
acted, on by the .house committee on
banking and currency. 'The .measure
:has been urged by -the "Comptroller of
the currency. oirthe ground that many
.bank failures-were caused by ill-advised
'loans tp officials of the bank. The-ex-peeted
large increase .of small banks,
under the new financial law, is said to
be additional reason for the restriction
of loans to bank-officers. The bill pro
vides 'that no national banking asso
ciation shall make any loan to .its pres
ident, vice president, its cashier or any
of its directors, clerks, tellers, book
keepers, agents, -servants, or Jother per
sons in its employ until the proposition
'to make such loan-shall have been -submitted
in -writing :to .the hoard of
directors or to the.executive.committee
of such board and .approved by .a
:tnajorit3 At such meeting the person
making such application shall not be
present. The bill .also sproliibits the
overdrawing of accounts of .the hank
officers.
The Open Door Racket.
Washington, March 21. So far -as
the report that the empress dowager
has objected to the "open door" policy
is concerned, the diplomat who dis
cussed the Chinese situation agreed
with administration officials that she
has nothing whatever to do with the
matter.
"The 'open door' arrangement has
been concluded by the United States
with European powers, not with
China," he observed. "Consequently
the empress dowager can have nothing
to say about it. As a mark of friend
chip for your country, the European
powers agreed to respect, in the
spheres of influence they had ac
quired, the trade rights granted by
your treaties with the Chinese empire.
That is the 'open door' arrangement
which has been agreed to, and China
cannot object to it."
lioer Colonists For Nebraska.
Omaha, Neb., March 21. When the
present war in South Africa is ended,
as it is supposed it will, in the subju
cation of the Boers, the Burlington
officials anticipate that thousands of
the people of the Transvaal will be as
desirous of getting away from English
rule as they were when they went into
the African wilderness. ' There is no
place in Africa for them to go. and the
road is preparing to send agents to
that country to induce . them to come
to this country and settle in the unde
veloped parts of the state and engage
in stock raising or farming. They are
eSaS5?pt of securing several thousand?
efUiCM.
Increase of Circulation.
New York, March 20. A majority of
the national banks in New Ycrk have
already made application to increase
their circulation to the par value of
the bonds deposited by them at Wash
ington, and the necessary papers have
in most cases been forwarded to the
secretary of the treasury. It is esti
mated that the increase of circulation
will amount to at least $2,500,000.
Preemptions and Homesteads.
Washington, March 21. The house
committee on public lands has favor-
ably reported a bill abolishing the pay
ment of SI. 25 an acre on lands taken
up by settlement under the desert land
act. The .committee also reported
favorably a bill to refund 51.25 per acre
to perrons who have located under the
preemption or homestead laws and who
;have commuted their entries by cash
payments at $2.50 per acre where the
lands located were withia a unearned
railroad grant. " - -
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NATIONAL MEMORIAL PARK.
Six Thousand Acxt the' Place of Many
Historical Events.
Washington; March 22. Representa
tive Hay, of Virginia, has filed the re
port -of the house committee on military
-affairs -on the bill-establishing a nation
al memorial park -of 6,000 acres upon
the site of the battles , of Fredericks
burg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness
and Spolrtsylvania Court House. The
-report states that more men were here
-engaged than in any battle in the
-world, aggregating at least one-half
million, with losses of killed and
wounded on both sides amounting to
129,838. The intrenchments over the
entire field are said to be in a good
state of preservation.
At Fredericksburg is the home of the
mother of Washington, still intact, and
a monument erected by the Daughters
of the American Revolution. Here,
too, Captain John Smith anchored his
little bark and fought the Indians in
1G08, and within sight of the city were
born Washington, Monroe, Jefferson,
Madison, the Lees of both the revolu
tionary and civil wars, and Zachary
Taylor. The report adds that in Vir
ginia the civil war began and ended,
and not an acre of this soil, where more
men fell than on all the other battle
fields of the war, has yet been dedi
cated, as a national park.
Prinrlna; House Disaster.
Chicago, March 23. Thirty employes
of the Blakeley Printing company were
injured about 7 o'clock in the morning
by an elevator falling from the third
floor.
It is thought. none of the injured will
die, although several of them were
badly hurt. Patrol wagons, ambu
lances and other vehicles were called
and the injured men taken to either
their homes or hospitals.
The men had worked all night in the
printing shop and had crowded into
the elevator. The big elevator moved
slowly down the shaft till the third
floor was reached. Then the lift, filled
with its .mass of agonized victims,
crashed into the basement.
"First aid to the injured" work was
done in a 'neighboring building in
which the victims were taken, but it
was some time before a sufficient num
ber of ambulances were secured to re
move the injured to their homes or, in
the more serious cases , to the hospital.
The accident was caused by the
breaking of the engine in the basement.
Depositors Get -It All.
"Wichita, Kans., March 24. Judge
"Williams in the federal court here de
cided that the 52,000 proceeds of the
sale of the Cross Sunny Slope farm
involved in failure of .the First Nation
al bank of Emporia in 1808 should be
prorated among the local depositors
of the bank. William Martindale, of
Emporia, vice president of the bank,
attempted to divert this money to
special .creditors through a bill of sale
made in July, 1898. Receiver Albaugh
discovered a prior bill of sale to the
same property, made in March, 1898,
in favor of William Martindale, to pro
tect .the bank against the indebtedness
of C. S. Cross. Judge Williams held
that the title passed with the first bill
.of sale, :and that the local depositors
were entitled to the benefit of the
Cross property.
Not That Coeor D'Alene.
Spokane, Wash., March 2L The
-statement conveyed by a Washington
dispatch that there had been a renewal
of the trouble in the Coear D'Alene
mining district is erroneous and arose
from confusion of geographical names.
Coeur D'Alene city, where the shooting
occurred is seventy-five miles from the
mining district. It is at the foot of
Coeur D'Alene lake, while the mining
camps are on the headwaters of the
river of that name. Adjacent to the
town is Fort Sherman, a United States
military post garrisoned by a few sol
diers. The trouble there was an or
dinary drunken row.
Regulators In South Carolina.
Columbia, S. C. March 20. The sta
tion agent and other citizens of Nee
cees, Orangeburg county, telegraphed
the governor begging troops to protect
them from white regulators who had
twice visited the town, beat the peo
ple . white and black, and promised to
return and kill them. Work on farms
has been stopped and people driven
from their business. Tho governor
telegraphed the sheriff to ride across
the country with a posse till troops
could be sent. The cause of the law.
lessness is unknown.
Population of Manila.
Washington, March 20. The wai
department has received a report fron
the sanitary corps, which has beer
making a census of Manila. Jt place:
the population actually living in
houses within the police district at
150,000, The CJtjnese popation was
turned in at 8,o52. This is said to be
far out of the vi ay. It is estimated
that at least 50.000 Chinese live in the
city. .....
Grand Canal Completed.
City cf Mexico, March 20. Th
Grand Canal, part of the valley oi
Mexico drainage system, was inaugu
rated with much ceremony. The worl
of draining the valley is now complete
and it remains merely to construct thi
sewers of the city.
Trust Sustained By Court.
New York, March 20. Justice Rus
sell in the supreme court dismissed the
claimant in the action brought by the
John D. Park & Sons company, against
the National Wholesale Druggists as
sociation for an injunction restraining
the defendant from refusing to sell
the plaintiff corporation patent medi
cines, except on an agreement to main
tain the rates set by the defendants at
which the goods were to be retailed.
Russell says the complaint does not
present sufficient cause for action.
GOV. ItftrPROCW.
Absolute And Total Abolition Of
Human Slavery.
IN THE ISLAND OF GUAM.
Washington, March 21. Mail advices
from Captain Leary, Governor of
Guam, include his proclamation issued
before, and taking effect on Washing
ton's birthday: To the inhabitants of
Guam: In issuing this decree the gov
ernment desires and earnestly invokes
divine blessing and guidance in its
official action and in the daily pursuits
and occupations of the citizens of
Gvam.
By the cession of the Isle of Guam to
the United States of America, all of
the authority, power and responsibili
ties of sovereignty were transferred to
this government and in transforming
and organizing the new political power
the surest and speediest route to suc
cess, prosperity and happiness for the
inhabitants of this island is by benevo
lent assimilation to the fundamental
principles that constitute the basis of
American free government.
Honorable labor with just compensa
tion dignified by faithful consideration
of the multiple interests and welfare of
all concerned should insure prosperity
to this community; whereas, the exist
ing labor degrading system of human
bondage and unjust, indefinite servi
tude or peonage, permitted during the
late Spanish control in this island, is
in fact, a system of slavery, and as
such, is subversive -of igood government,
is an obstacle to progressive eiviliza
tion, a menace to popular liberty and a
violation of the sacred privileges guar
anteed by the constitution of the
United States.
Now, therefore, by virtue 'f the au
thority vested in me by his excellency,
the president of the United States, L,
Richard P. Leary, captain United
States navy, governor of the island of
Guam, do hereby announce and public
ly proclaim absolute prohibition and
total abolition of human slavery or
peonage in the island of Guam on and
after the 22nd day of February, A. D.,
1900, and all persons are hereby com
manded to comply with the require
ments of this proclamation. .
Territorial Salaries Kalsed.
Washington, November 23. An
amendment has been added to the ap
propriation bill to increase the execu
tive .and judicial appropriations for
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona.
-Oklahoma receives an appropriation of
$19,400, and the salary of the governor
is increased from $2,C00 to $3,000. The
total of the Oklahoma appropriation
for judicial and executive purposes,
will, if the measure carries, be $2,000
-more than that of Arizona, and $1,000
less than that of New Mexico. Among
the provisions of the bill is one re
specting the location of the territorial
capital. To this clause Senator Cullom
of Illinois, moved to add the words:
"Provided, further, that said legisla
tive assembly shall not make any ap
propriation or enter into any contract
for a permanent capitol building."
Delinquent Tax Accounts.
Topeka, March 20. "At the begin
ning of 1895," says State Auditor Cole,
"the delinquent tate tax due from the
counties was $145,350. January 1, 189
the total sum due the state was $242,
338. During 1899 there was paid on
this account $153,523, leaving a balance
of $89,815 which is still due. In 1895
there were but thirty-four counties in
the state which did not owe the state
delinquent taxes. Now fifty-six" coun
ties have paid up in full, and the ac
counts are now balanced.
The counties as a rule ore -making
prompt settlements and that part of
the state's business is now in better
shape than it has been for many years.
What "Webster Davis Thinks.
London, March 21. The Naples cor
respondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs
an interview he has had with Webster
Davis, United States assistant secre
tary of the interior. According to this,
Mr. Davis said:
"When I left Pretoria the Boers were
becoming desirous of peace. President
Kruger and General Joubert were the
strongest opponents of the peace party,
but they were becoming exceedingly
unpopular. I do not believe the Boers
will resist much longer."
Anti-Trust Law Sustained.
Washington, March 21. The supreme
court of the United States rendered an
opinion in the case of the Waters
Pierce Oil company against the state of
Texas, affirming the decision of the
court of civil appeals of the state of
Texas.
The case involved the constitution
ality of the anti-trust law of Texas,
which was sustained by this opinion.
The opinion tt"S hf'l om by -Justice
McK;jnai &ao reviewed the .ase.
Dissension Among Dutch.
London, March 20. A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph company
from Cape Town, says it has been de
cided to send only the Transvaalers to
St. Helena, the authorities finding it
difficult to prevent conflicts between
the Free Staters and the Transvaalers.
Colonel Schiol, who was captured in
Natal in the early part of the war, has
a special sentry at his door to prevent
him from suffering bodily violence.
Let Oat s Faith Healer.
Wichita, March 20. The' committee
in church conduct of the Southern
Kansas Methodist conference took de
cided action against faith healing, and
upon recommendation of Bishop Vin
cent expelled a Methodist minister
from their ranks.
The presiding elder read his letter to
the committee and recommended that
he be relieved from duty. Bishop Vin
cent concurred, and accordingly Rev.
Osborne's name was disconnected from
the Methodi6t church.
BESIDES EXPLORING PARTIES.
Have Three Hundred Surveyors Fxamln
' Ing Routes.'
New York, March 23. ;Three of the
of the ten commissioners who are ex
amining the routes for the Isthmian
canal have come home to-give informa
tion to committees of congress.
- General Haines, "tone of the commis
sioners gave out this while in the city:
"The present commission's report will
not only decide upon a practicable
route for an isthmian canal, but will
demonstrate conclusively that tho
route selected is the most feasible one
that could have been chosen. We have
at present about 300' surveyors in the)
field under the charge -of competent
engineers. They are going With tho
greatest care over the Nicaragua canal,
the Panama routes and all the other
routes suggested by any of the former
surveyors. Besides this, wc have a
number of exploring parties out, in the
hope of . discovering sites that have
been hitherto overlooked. Our object
is to do the work with such thorough
ness that our results cannot possibly
be questioned at any future time. We
have the reports of all previous surveys,
but we shall cover every mile of ground
through which we think it possible for
th e canal to run. The country is varied
and the work of the surveyors is diffi
cult, and progresses slowly, especially
in the section about Daricn. For this
reason it is impossible to set even an
approximate date for presenting our
formal report to the state department.
Unless congress especially requires one,'
we shall submit no preliminary report.
Until our work is done, therefore, it is
improper for any member of the com
mission to speak in regard to the merits
of the several routes proposed."
COMPEL SHIPPERS.TO UNLOAD.
Santa Fe Denies Legal Right of Sanitary
Commission to Act.
Topeka, March 21. The Santa Fe
company has questioned the right of
the Kansas live stock sanitary commis
sion to compel shippers to unload all
cattle -coming in from south of the lina
for the purposes of inspection at tht
state line. The commission has estab
lished a rule that all cattle coming in
from Texas after April 1 must be un
loaded and inspected. On one line of
the Jsauta Fe' the' inspection will be
made at Fort Worth. The Rock Island
inspection will also be made at that
point. But the Southern Kansas
branch of the Santa Fe has been fixed
at Kiowa. The Santa Fe claims that
the federal government rigidly inspects
all Texas cattle before they are allow
ed to come North and that the Kansas
inspection is absolutely unnecessary.
' The law provides that cattle cannot
be kept on a train longer than twenty
eight hours. If they ore kept longer
the shipper is liable to arrest. But the
law does not provide that cattle must
be unloaded ' at certain points. The
commission believes that under the
general law governing cattle inspec
tion it has the right 1o designate an
unloading station and compel stock
to be unloaded there for inspection.
However, in order to be certain about
the matter before going into eourt
with the railroad over the question the
commission has asked Attorney Gen
eral Godard for an opinion.
, Osage Council Objects.
Washington, March 21. Mr, Cock
rell has presented a remonstrance,
drawn up by the Osage council, against
the proposed S700 per capita payment
to the Osages provided for in the amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill
and referred to the committee on In
dian affairs. The remonstrance states
that the Osage Indians "do not desire
said big payment; that the majority of
them are incapable of handling such a
payment at this time, and if paid to
them it would be worse than wasted."
Trusts Do Not Scare There.
Washington, March 21. Consul Hal
sted, at Birmingham, England, reports
to the state department the formation
of a bleaching trust with a capitaliza
tion of $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 with
the avowed object of preventing indi
vidual concerns from indulging' " in
sharp practices, cutting prices, dis
count, etc. The consul calls attention
to the fact that the constantly recur
ring announcements that another
"trust" has been formed docs not cre
ate alarm in Great Britain.
To Make Reports of Accidents.
Washington, March 21. Mr. Cullon,
of Illinois has introduced in the senate
a bill requiring railroad companies to
make reports of all accidents occurring
on their lines to the interstate com
merce commission. The bill, as pro
posed by Mr. Cullom, is an amendment
to an act, approved March 2, 1893, to
promote the safety of employes by re
quiring common carriers engaged in
interstate commerce to equip their cars
wit tom?tic couplers and contin
uous brakes.
Police Prevent a Labor Riot.
Chicago, March 20. The presence of
strikers, sympathizers and spectators
numbering more than 1,000 in the
vicinity of the Western Electric com
pany's factory resulted in a riot call
being sent to the Desplaines street
police station. A wagon load of police
men hurried to the scene and prevent
ed, it is believed, a serious attack on
the non-union men employed by the
electric company.
Three Cent Fare Beaten.
. Detroit, Mich., March 21. Judge
Swan, in the United Stated district
court rendered a decision which denies
the validity of an ordinance passed
some months since by the city council,
requiring the street railway companies
to reduce rates of fare to 3 cents. The
court says there is nothing in the
charter of the city which authorizes
such an ordinance, and allows an in
junction to restrain the city from en
forcing it. He further said thai the
legislature had no such power. .-.
Fled From Voltes lavs Flow.
Details of the eruption of the Colima
rolcano on the Pacific coast of Mexico
state that an immense river of lava
ran over the side, of the volcano and
threatened to overwhelm three Indian
villages near its base. The Indian
braves fled to safety, leaving their wo
men and children to shift for them
selves. A company of Mexican troops
drove the Indians from the mine in
which they had hid and sent them back
to their homes to protect their families.
Gorman EtrprU.
German is the business language of
the Balkans. Russian diplomacy com
plains that Constantinople is becoming
as German as Berlin. Asia Minor Is
slowly, being converted into a German
colony: and now the Bagdad railway
will carry the same Influence .2.000
miles onward to the Persian gulf, plac
ing the greatest military power of the
world upon the most direct of all roads
to India. Even the old English scheme
of a Euphrates railway is at last in Ger
man hands. London Telegraph.
After a man once gets the hang of
(he thing it is just as easy to be true
ind honest as it is to be false and
wabbly.
Read the Advertisements.
You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get in the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most interesting study and
some excellent bargains. Our adver
tisers are reliable and send what they
advertise.
0 A friend in need is not intangible
ie is one you can touch.
Neglect of the hair brings baldness. T7m
Pakksb's Ha ib Balaam and save your hair.
Hut bkbcokss, me best cure for corns, iscta.
Stop and count 1,000,000 before begin
ning a conversation in an opera box.
Time never hangs heavy on the hands
f a boy with his first watch.
A Rook of Claolee Recipes
Sent free by Walter Baker A Co. Lid., Dorchester,
Haas. Mention tht paper.
A schoolboy's idea of a good teacher
s one wCo isn't as mean as the others.
A run on a theater enriches it, but a
run on a bank is somewhat different.
Mrs. Wlnslwws eoothlng Syrup.
rVjreblldren teething, softens the frnms, reduces In
lamination, allays pa: n.curea wind colic 23c a bottle.
Every time a man tries to show off
tomething is sure to go wrong.
Judging from the size of the gas bill
;he meter must make both ends meet.
The Best Proscription for Chills
nnd Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tastixkss
Chd,:, Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine In
a tasteless form. No cure no pay. Price, 50c
A butcher and a professor of lan
guages are both retailers of tongues.
Wine has drowned more men than
water.
9XO TO $15 A DAY
to agents snniethtna; new and wonderfully useful.
Address Hlllls Brothers. McFaU. Mo.
It's a pity that a man's stomach isn't
built to correspond with his appetite.
There is no vacation in the school of
experience.
I know that my life was saved by Piso's
Cure lor Consumption. John A. Miller.
Au Sable, Michigan, April 21, 1895.
There are not as good fish in the sea
as some anglers claim to have caught.
The faster a man's pace the sooner
old age overtakes him.
There Is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
Incurable. For a great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local .
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it inourable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease, and therefore requires consti
tutional treatment. Ball's Catarrh Cure, man-'
nfactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
teaspoonfuL It acts directly upon the blood
tnd mucous surfaces of the system. They oiler
ne hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
; F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
A tender feeling for the wife of an
other man isn't legal tender.
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Some men are in touch with their
neighbors for all they will stand.
AVfcgelable Pr eparalionfor As
similating the Food andBegula
ling the Stomachs an&Bowels of
Promotes DigcslioaCheerfuI
ness and RestContains neither
Opium.Morphine nor Mineral.
Kor Har c o tic .
WnAySnd.-MarwwaVins-
Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa
non.SourStonich.Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish
rvess and Loss OF SLEEP.
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TJacJe Sana's Reindeer Bard.
There are new about 3,500 deer be
longing to the. government in Alaska,
which are leased oat among the natives
near the missionary stations, tJ be
taken care of under the supervision of
government agents. The people who
take care of them are allowed to keep
the Increase, which is about 50 per cent
a year. Indianapolis News.
Belgium's Electoral Uw.
The electoral law of Belgium pro
Tides that every man between the ages
of 21 and 25 years who shall pay 1 per
year in taxes will be entitled to vote
one ballot; married men over $25
years of age will have two ballots each,
and if such married men shall own" real
estate or government bonds or savings
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bans deposits producing an income oi .
n n . , t, 1. . k.11.-a '
-U a fear Vuey wiu uae uun uauww
each.
Innovation at Obemmmercan.
The large iron theater now under
construction at Oberammergau for next
year's "Passion Play" is nearly finish
ed. The stage will be in the open air.
The auditorium will ba 143 feet long
and will accommodate 4,000 spectators.
There will bo an office established for
the purpose of assigning visitors suit
able lodgings, and the tedious two
hours' drive to the village from the
railway will be abolished, as well
equipped electric motor carriages will
take visitors from Oberau In half an
hour. Needless to say, the villagers
do not like these departures. They say
it will detract from the devotional at
titude which all visitors to the Pas
sionsspiel are supposed to assume.
Have So Use for Their Toes.
If shoes go on forever why should
not our toe3 grow together? We have
no use for them. We can't manage
them. About one man in 1,000 can pull
on his interossei muscles and spread
out his toes. . In the remaining 993 i
these muscles are as dead as fiber. They
haven't been used since the infant
stuck its toes in his mouth and crooned
a baby song without words. If we
wore mittens all the time the indi
vidual control of our fingers would be
lost. We eat so much soft food that
we have scarcely any need of teeth.
Gums would answer every purpose, as
mastication is performed by machinery
before we begin the meal. There are
over 200 distinct muscles in the human
body, of which the best of us keep
about 100 in prime condition by proper
use. New York Press.
Dutch Auction at Cape Town.
A Dutch auction at Cape Town is fre
quently exciting If a house is to be
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sovereigns for the man who first bids
5.000." Nobody bids. A pause, and
then "fifty golden sovereigns for the
man who first bids 4,900." This Is
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by no means follows that the house is
sold to this bidder. No, the auctioneer
Is then at it again. Say that 4,400 Is
the first bid. The auctioneer cries:
"There are 25 golden sovereigns for tho
first man who has the courage to bid
4,600." Perhaps no one has it Then
25 is offered for a 4,550 bid. If
there is eventually no bid above the
4,400 the man who made that bid Is
saddled with the house. Otherwise he
pockets his bonus and gets off free of
it all.
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