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8 I—■e_*—_"*~p_-____j3___3_3H__3__________B__Bß___i *--*■■*****- ********r^^-——————■—■—^p— — M %\ mmmmammmu \ p" ■ 1 *— ■ iM^^^B__B__B_____HßHß-___B_Kl The Original Worcestershire Sy^k I |(f^C" I BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. . . _»m Xfe_^ _■__■ It is highly approved for the de- signature Is on every bottle. licious flavor which it imparts to 'y" _?£$ '» ' t Soups, Fish, Game, Meats, Salads, c&^jf&jjz+se* Welsh Rarebits, etc. johnduncans sons.Agents, n.y. I values on Decline SENTIMENT ON STOCK EXCHANGE HAS LOST ITS I LUSH CHARACTER CONSERVATISM SAFE COURSE Unexpected Events Have . Had De pressing Effect on Markets In Wall Street—Monetary m Outlook Better. .Henry Clews In his weekly letter writes as follows concerning "conditions In Wall street: Values on the stock exchange continue to exhibit a dee-lining tendency. Senti ment has gradually lost its bullish char acter, and the extravagant expectations of three months ago are giving way to more rational opinions and actions. The present course of the market is no doubt very distasteful to those whose over sanguine dispositions have led them to unwise commitments on the long side. . A good many reasons can be presented for this prolonged reaction, such as the con dition of the money market, the injury to the corn crop, labor agitations, and the shocks to confidence arising from the Northern Pacific deal, President Mc- Kinley's death, as well as other unex pected events. All of these have had their share in checking the boom of 1901, and everyone knows that the reaction would have been more rapid and severe but for the resistance of big interests which have used their tremendous com bined powers to check anything ap proaching panic. Natural forces, how ever, will in the end exert their sway, and back of the influences on prices just refered to, it is plain that public opinion regarding the market has been very decidely moulded by the fact that prices were; unreasonably high from the investment standpoint; also by a "sus picion that the top wave of prosperity had been touched and that hereafter trade and industry must be expected to settle down to more normal conditions. Conservative men were justly appre hensive that, unless the pace was slack ened, we should run into speculative, and business excesses that would produce disastrous reactions. Deprived of the support of the investment and conserva tive classes, the market lost its beat foundation and easily succumbed to tem porary influences and shocks. This turn in the condition of affairs happened to come at a time when the large rail road interests were carrying on the process of consolidation, which had been practically completed in the . industrial world. These plans have, in the lan guage of the street, been "held up;" not so much that conditions really pre vent their final consummation as that policy dictates their postponement until more favorable opportunities are - offered the speculation incidental to sdeh move ments. - When the stock market is found to have touched bottom and the outlook improves, we may look for a resump tion of these negotiations, and not be fore. .' 7 ' . In many respects it is fortunate that the market has been in control of strong hands. Losses have_been gradual arid more widely scattered than had the de cline been unrestrained and the market left to the tender mercies of the bears The extent of the decline is perhaps greater than realized—from 15 to 30 points on many of the active stocks. Compared with the highest prices made last spring, the declines which have j taken place are as follows: Atchison 15| do Ist pfd 16 Bait. & Ohio 14 M., K. & T. pfd...16 B. R. T 28Mo. Pacific ........30 C. & 0 T.N T. Y. Central.... 14 C, M. & St. P....28 Nor. & Western... 4 C. & N.-W 12 Pennsylvania .....17 _ R. I. & p 35 Reading .. 8 D. & H 20 So. Pacific ........ 7 D.. L. & W .......24JUnion Pacific 37 Erie 51 • In the face of such declines, and con sidering the concentration of holdings, bear attacks upon railroad securities are likely to be made with some caution. It remains to be seen whether the railroad section of the market has fully discount ed the injury to corn and any possible trade reaction or not. It is well to re member that Wall street is in the habit of anticipating such movements, so that when the results appear the effects are practically nil. One of the most important considera tions just now is the course of the in dustrials. In August and September we witnessed a series of annual reports of an unfavorable nature. Reduced earn ings have followed lower prices for prod ucts, and it is very evident that the era of abnormal industrial profits is on the ———■—^—— —-—^— —__________^^^. g___B_a______s______i__s____s____^__M I The only Company interested in The only Company interested in | i bringing Crude Oil to the North and fl West for fuel purposes. H IDo Want j j Cheap Fuel ? 1 UNITED STATES FUEL OIL CO, I ' 144-146 Endicott Building, - H H St. Paul,Minn. f.\ U R Stock 7 cents per share. 7No 1 . H less than 100 shares issued. || li . All off the market soon. - H fl You know about the company | ■HM_H__H____________ MB J wane. New competition -is also slowly but surely making the burden of over capitalization felt. The" developments In Amalgamated . Copper acted decisively against the entire market. 7. Fortunately the United States Steel corporation took the public into its. confidence and made an excellent showing •as to earnings, which removed an important element of doubt. The management deserve com mendation for their courage as well as. sagacity. TA-policy of secretivenc.s such as is followed by most of the industrials inevitably provokes distrust; and invest ors and speculators will do well to leave those alone that fail to give reliable In-* formation, as to earnings ,7 and general financial condition. It is almost unnec essary to say that the Industrials are es pecially exposed to trade fluctuations, and that their course will be largely Influenc ed by general business. The latter is still in good condition," arid' the outlook ,is.for a good fall and winter trade; nev ertheless, .the industrials are a weak fu ture, and will still bear watching. Those that avoid publicity regarding their af fairs will probably be sharply discriminat ed against. . " . • ■•-.•■•■• ---. At this time of unsettled values it is well to draw- the line 'between, railroad shares and those of the industrials in estimating intrinsic worth, as it must be remembered that the former are most ly connected with corporations that were pessimistically,, hence drastically, reor ganized, while the latter were mostly op timistically organized, and many of them may have to be pessimistically' reorgan ized.. Then the railroads and industrials will be on a common footing.. : - The. monetary outlook is J somewhat clearer, as proved by Secretary Gage's -discontinuing the purchase of bonds. Very soon the outward drain for* crop purposes will cease, and the influx of currency will begin. Gold imports are being delayed, partly^, owing to Europe's necessity for retaining the precious met al, but at - the-moment-, the money: mar ket is free of anxieties. . The immediate future of -the stock mar ket is indefinite. No bull movement is yet in sight, and bearish* sentiment* seems to predominate, in spite of the act tuat the big interests seem opposed to all pro nounced declines.- The . situation . there fore offers excellent trading opportuni ties; good stocks being a purchase on all sharp declines, and "equally good sales on all pronounced rallies. Conserv atism is still the only safe course. ; CORNELL WAS WARNED MAJ. FOOTE CAUTIONED CAPTAIN DAY BEFORE MASSACRE . ." A - - rf " Intense Feeling: Throughout « Army Because.-1 Authors *■ of Massacre Were Paeificos— 7; ance Increased. *-• ..: j MANILA, " Oct. 6.Ma*. Morris Foote, of the Ninth United States infantry, who has returned here from the island of Sa mar, was' in Balinga the day before the disaster 'to Company .C. He says that Capt. Connell had been fully warned and had taken what he (Maj. ; Foote) consid ered every necessary precaution. In formation that a plot - was brewing among the Filipinos came to Maj. Foote through a priest, who said it was the plan .of the populace at North Balinga and Basay, to attack the garrisons and 7 Basay garrison was to be 'attacked from a cockpit in the rear of the barracks. Or ders were immediately given to demol ish; the cockpit 'and k extra guards were | stationed.' ' ' •-.•:- There is intense feeling throughout the army - because of the massacre, which would -not be the case to any ex tent had 7it 'been the work of ordinary insurgents. The ..latter might have been expected to commit such; an outrage. Feeling is particularly intense in* military circles, because the authors of the mas sacre were paeificos, most of whom had taken the oath of allegiance and many of them, including the president, of Bal angiga, were actually holding office. - - Some "of" the after effects.are already shown. at many points, -particularly at Baulan and Cutucan, in the provinces of. Batangas and Manila, where disaffection is manifesting itself, although it is not likely to be allowed to go far.- On the . other . hand the officers and troops at all the garrisons throughout the archipelago feel that '. the disaster con veys a lesson to themselves of the neces sity for increased vigilance. —1 — ■ — MEETING OF MINE WORKERS. Will Organize to Secure Higher "Wages and Better Conditions. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,. Oct. 6.—An of ficial call was issued from the national headquarters of the United Mine Work ers of American -today for a convention of representatives of organized and un organized miners of Virginia and West Virginia, to be held at Huntington, W. Va., Oct. 31, for the purpose of devising "some plan by which the miners and operators of the two states may be brought into closer relation with each other and the interests of the _______ cared for along business lines that may secure for them higher wages and better conditions of employment.'' The call is the outcome of the meeting at Parkersburg,* W. Va., a week ago. • -■'.. : — —. "*** — ——'-'« Fair Was a Success. ELBOW LAKE, Minn.. Oct. 6.—(Spe •cial.)—Grant county's eighth annual fair was a great success this year. The weather was good, the attendance large; and the exhibits were the best in the history of the association. Dr. Curryer, . of Mankato; Prof. White, of St. Paul, and J. Adam Bede, * congressman-at large, delivered addresses both afternoons and evenings. The ball game Wednes day between Ashby and Elbow Lake was won by the latter, the score being 10 to 7. The game. Thursday between g an all county team and Elbow Lake resulted in a victory for the former; ten innings had to be played; the score was 4. to 3. The county commissioners will be asked to buy the fanr grounds, and the improve ments hereafter will be of a substantial character." ... - - ... " The brick work on the new Bank of* Elbow Lake building will be finished to day. It is t!he finest building .in the county. . - V- The synod * Lutheran" parsonage is nearly ready for occupancy. . This con gregation expects to erect a church build ing in the near future. Harvesting "With Automobiles. Success. 7,' The cost of harvesting wheat on the Pacific coast has been so lessened by the use sof - automobiles that ..' a greater amount of grain can be produced at the same -.actual - expense . than in the Ar gentine Republic, where labor costs only a fraction of a dollar a day. The large automobile traction 7 engines, now used in California, are of -' fifty horse power, and .; are provided with- driving ; wheels I sixty: inches:in diameter. 7 They do the plowing,' planting ' and 7 harvesting, 7*] in their proper seasons. One traction en | gine performs "- the triple work of "plow ing, harrowing and planting, in. one oper -1 atlon. ' THE ST/ PAUL, Gi,0815, MONDAY, OCTOBER.. 7, 1901. LONDON STOCK FELL COPPER SCARE AND ADVERSE WAR REPORTS CAUSE SLIGHT DECLINE |I|*_S7 •■..•■•-■ : ■ QUIET WEEK ON EXCHANGE Anticipated Raise in American Rail 7. 'ways Failed to Materialise— Steel Trust Dvidend Cause* Satisfaction. LONDON, Oct. 6.—A certain tightness in money, not quite anticipated, the aft er effects of the copper scare, and-the adverse 7. reports regarding the | war :in South Africa, all tended to create a slight decline which marked the . stock, exchange last week. y Public interest also continued extremely small, and the mar- * kets were pretty much left to themselves. ■ Although some gold is still expected to go to New York, foreign demands have thus far been comparatively" unimportant. ' Arrivals from the Cape and other points were fully able to make up the drain. Consols were fractionally. lower. South Africans all.suffered on the reverses7re-, ; ported by Lord Kitchener. 7 ; Americans suffered from .lack of Interest. The Steel trust dividend jcontinues to create un bounded ' satisfaction, '. but without . any: resulting appreciation ": in ' quotations.; American railways were rather j expected to pick up simultaneously I with the an nouncement of the steel dividend and with the collapse of , the copper scare, but these expectations failed of reali zation, owing to rumors that the Stand-! ard Oil interest was bearing the market and that disagreements still 7existed* among the leading financiers in America. Nevertheless the financial writers see' no adverse signs either in money, stocks or business-prospects <in Great Britain and America, except in so. far as the war in South Africa is concerned, and this" has become such a normal nightmare"to the stock exchange that even perpetual reverses would not be likely to affect the financial outlook. CLOTH MARKET UNCERTAIN. Manchester Reports Sharp Advance in Cotton. " MANCHESTER, Oct. The sharp, ad-* vance in cotton resulting from the ad verse report of the American bureau last week was followed by a great reduction in the amount of the estimates and the consequent advance checked orders for future delivery, although it . brought out pending business. Fresh undertakings at the prices required are not-expected until the outlook has been reconsidered. '-7 Some quarters * are reluctant to accept the pessimistic report unquestioningly, al though it is admitted that should the re port prove correct,. the present course of the market ; would be largely justified. There was much quick-buying executed for China, and to a less extent for Cal cutta during the last'fortnight, .nd con sequently many merchants are in a posi tion to watch the market;. As cotton ad vances the position of the spinner is more unsatisfactory. Had the market con tinued j steady there were indications of further business, especially with China, but the present excitement interferes with operations. ..... The future of the cloth market through out is uncertain. Yarns improved. Cotton conditions in fluenced buyers somewhat to do more business where they meet easy sellers. <•"■ ! ! """* r—' .7 IT TAKES NERVE. -■-'.' Running: Trains Over the Mountain Roads Is Risky Work. "One of the greatest difficulties of the real mountain roads, like the Colorado Midland, the Rio Grande Western and the Denver & Rio Grande, is in getting engi neers, 7 said Charles A. Davidson . city passenger agent of the Rio Grande West ern road, . this morning. ' Mr. Davidson is. familiar with all the- intermountain reads, where the trains have to all but fly to ' reach some of ' their. destinations. 'One . might. suppose that all roads would look alike to the experienced engi neer, but they, don't. -Along some of the' prairie roads an engineer can take a run on any new track almost as well as on one he has traveled for years; • and knows with his eyes shut. -But here in the West it is different. Down in Colorado, where, are some of the greatest - monuments to: tho railroad builder that- have ever; been erected, an engineer has to travel ;over the roads • sometimes for weeks with old experienced 7 engineers, who • - know -". ' th . track, before-he will be trusted with a tiain. It : isn't a question of - engineering • ability; merely one of experience. "It is enough to take a fellow's nerve to sweep around . some of those • mountain curves and passes for the first time. Some .good men never take more than their first" ride. - I "have§ seen " engineers ] come ' from the. East, men of gilt-edge character arid ability, • who '■'- lost their nerve with- the first trip up, I and- took the: first train for a flatter country. -Dizzy reverse curves, trestles that seem to totter in the wind, precipices that seem to yawn for a 7 fel-, low's life, and. grades that are a revela tion of horror' to the • newcomer, crowd in bewildering confusion on the- view, and unless a fellow is as solid as an ox, or nervy as the davil, he is apt to lose his head. - - .- ■••.-*. '"-. "You would "'. be \ surprised ;at the num ber of young engineers who are on the mountain roads.' For one thing a .man does not last there as he does on a less picturesque, . mere prosaic run. It takes, youth and strength and courage in order to stand: it all. The companies are the most appreciative in the world, for J they realize how hard it is to get a good man, and they treat a good man right royally. But even this does not attract a surplus of the right sort..; "The principal dangers are in the heavy grades and in 7 the sharp.curves, though landslides are ." far from -unknown. One must know his train and his road like a book to get through with his life, on the Marshall j Pass, "... for instance, - where you seem %to plunge headlong down i the mighty hill. A rock on the track, a brok en wheel, a runaway car, or a failure of the brakes to work, would end in a smash-up that would startle the whole country. The hill might be a glare of ice or frost; it might be wet or snowy, and if you set the air brake too hard, so as to start the wheels to sliding, down the hill you go like a gigantic toboggan, with death and destruction at the end of the ride. The -management of the 3 air brakes, and. knowing where the curves and dangerous places are, is the greatest part of an engineer's education in the mountains. "■.-•-■ "For my own part, knowing the dan gers as I do, I feel nervous after riding 100 miles over, the widest parts of the' roads,- even as , a passenger. I rode through the Royal George on the engine a few weeks ago, 7 and was glad when the ride was over. -It makes a fellow feel trembly-like to think what might * be, though .the worst rarely -happens. Such: is the care taken in equipment and in ' getting: the best men . that the j mountain roads have as small a proportion of loss-: es as the dead-level roads:of .the plains. But it takes a man-of nerve to pilot a train through some of the wilder, regions ".'." Ay freight train is the worst,' in that it is much heavier than a passenger, and is expected"' to make almost the same time. All 7 the -heavy-stock -trains going East,; twenty-five to thirty cars, make passenger schedule.• A freight is so loose ly coupled. as to be very unmanageable at critical points. ; The stock trains are the i terror of the ; engine-drivers and all the tminmen.;-. ■ -'".-■ -:- *:- -,-.- - .-: ■'." ■-■Ay- ..•■■ "A '" fellow i isn't : necessarily a coward when he throws .up his job as-engineerl over the ■';. mountain % roads, after seeing what the dangers are. Not one passen ger in 10,000 would assume. the same dan ger. The - position . calls . for absolutely - steady' nerve, : and. one who feels that Ihe is likely to get ;: rattled is 7 dangerous i. to, himself, to the ; company and to all who ride behind him. A man must think and act like lightning in the face of so many dangers that he must be sure of his abil ity -: to stand the strain. No . one - stays any great number of years. It is beyond, one's power to 7do so, : and be safe. A man, may be brave i and willing and " all' that, but.these are not enough. He must be sure - and 7 proof -against ■■■■ stampede. 'Such a man is worth everything to the companies, .: and they '.treat I him like |M prince."— Inter Mountain.* - • = -> --•■-. RELAPSE ON BOERSE ' ■ -.--'.*-.- ■■■-■: j^ .y ,v .--- -r; ...ir.'^.y,-y. ;■. THE WEEK ENDED. WITH HEAVY ••■ 'AfJJ . FALL 7 IN ; INDUS- 7M "M TRIALS ■■"./'* "7."• TONE OF PBESS IS DESPONDENT Revived 7 Tendency : to - Invest : Not Taken as a "Wholly 7 Favorable • in American Railways ■ *.. --'. in .Better ; Demand" Ay ■y..BERLIN^- Oct) 6.—The i first half ,of last week brought ih-7 moderate £ recovery 'in values, for no sufficient cause was offered' in the /reports of '; the industrial centers. The result was partly explain ed .. by the jfact. that many holders had' sold out beforathc monthly 7 settlement fearing dear money and low- quotations—:; and had then repurchased, causing an ar tificial demand which SS frightened the shorts into \ covering. During; the j latter part of the week the boerse j relapsed into its former pessimistic mood. 7 Yesterday's fall in industrials .was quite heavy. ; In addition to the rumor regarding the finan cial difficulties of the Dortmund Union Iron company, j which it is ■ reported Herr Krupp is about to buy, j and ■ rumors j that the company ,is about to reduce its cap ital,- the boerse - was depressed over the disappointing dividends ;of various 7 in- : dustrial-combinations i just formed. The Westphallan Steel works, at Bochum, and the \ Schoenherr Loom * factory; -at em nitz, passed their dividends. .-,' The, former . paid 17 per cent and the latter 15 per [cent dividends last year. >; J, .JA-,^, .The decline 'in prices also . depressed values. '-y Some of the principal kinds of iron-have fallen 5 marks per tori, on the Dusseldorf boerse since Sept.' 5, and the cheaper qualities have fallen 1 mark per . ton.' •;::-' 7 •-•-."-' :-:7 ■:■ ■:-' ;*..*'-' 7'•■.•::' •." The Cologne Yolks Zeitung asserts that the coke . syndicate has 7 already.; decided to reduce, prices in 1902 to 15 and possibly 14 7 marks, and also that ■ the great f iron men say 'they must reduce .to 11 .or 10 as otherwise the coke syndicate will have to reduce the output to one-half. The foregoing conditions )'. were . partly counteracted by the Harpenter Coal divi dend, ' which proved to be 12 per cent, as against , 11 for the corresponding pre vious dividend. •.-Generally speaking the finances jof the week were somewhat - higher. Neverthe less -the boerse and the 7 financial press regard the 'situation despondently. . 7' "Whoever 'seizes : the ' present moment to invest," says the Frankfurter Zeitung, "must reckon .on the 7 probability that such purchases 7 under . existing . circum stances may bring more' or less loss." The Vossische : Zeitung also utters .; a word of warning against drawing favora ble conclusions from the revived ten dency to investi American .railways were in better demand, . as were also Cana dians. Bank stocks - gained *: a point -or two during theiiweek and ocean transpor tation shares also: improved. 7 The public is now buying these securities. '---...'-■■ "■- The Vossiehe' Zeitung -asserts that , a price agreement was signed yesterday by the principal zinc producers; in Eu- . rope. .7 ''-'7.7: "MM -M;.... '"';-: — '" **■__ "... DANGEROUS SIGNS IN RCOSVELT. % Columbus (Ohio) Press. ;-"* / - A « sad and tearful sj wail comes from the -Hanna organ, pitched in the civil' service key, as follows:.-: • President.. Roosevelt 7is on record, as saying that in making appointments he will only select the .-.most capable men, and that in doing so he . will hear the : views of the Democratic -congressmen in the districts . which \ they represent. He also says that if he finds an official who' is not doing his duty he ; will chop off his official head. President Roosevelt has . Fred—lt's a cinch for us. I'm teaching your father to "play poker Carry—How are you getting on? ■• •-- " ■;;;'. Fred—Great;. He asked me last night if we couldn't live with him after, we were married. •: - ■ .-= -. •' .- •;■- - ._ . ' . : • reform, and it -is evident -he.: still has faith in it In the management of the affairs of the government. J.7A.A777- ■■- 7 Consult Democratic congressmen in the matter of federal-appointments? : Chop off; the ... heads S of; incompetent barnacles ;in the service? \ This is high.''treason to the glorious code of "government". devis-: ed * by Hanna, Piatt and 7 Quay. -'Already we I can -.see a cold • chill* coursing down the spines of the faithful. They; have 'caught ia j high-mettled, independent Tar tar .; in Roosevelt. j J\ They £j can; see - the dangerous symptoms cropping out at this early.7 day, and .'there are ' two whole 1 months ;'- or 7* the | malady : to develop in •the 7 White >j house Z occupant before the medicine men ''can j hold \ a consultation in congress - and > agree upon - some " heroic treatment. : ; 7. -_*_ ii * ; -^, l 7.Th* Healthiest Race. . %I^_M Chicago Record-Herald. M -'. The. Swedish! census shows the lowest death rate } ever recorded by- a civilized nation. During the last 7 decade the rate has: been 16.49- per thousand. The nation that- comes i nearest': to this -is Norway, with 16.9. Then comes.Great Britain, with 18.8. T-A Thus the i Scadlnavians '7. are the • healthiest in the world. .; * One , hundred; years" ago T the death rate -in Norway and ' Sweden was 26.22. ." .-•-'■,. Tho enormous revolution that has come , in . sanitary : improvements, | even _ among the highest classes, is | shown by the fact 'that the average of members of the Swe dish t academy j- 100 '•■ years " ago '■■- was forty ; five, 7 while now it ■ is.sixty-six.. - ; Something Tangible,. Brooklyn Eagle.■ .' ,*t? Dusnap—Do you think there ; is any thin* In Christian Science?.:..-- '.••-". Bertwhistle—Well, j- there '-. seems.to ..b e. a good living in it for Mrs.; Eddy. *:v 7; a.--j ENORMOUS DEATH RATE RAPID DECLINE OF NATIVE POPU LATION IN ALEUTIAN ISLANDS Nearly One-Third of the Inhabitants 7 Died in One Remark -.'. able Mortality From _2«i«_a Menile*. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—The rapid de cline of. the 7 native population of the Aleutian ". chain; of islands '- is told in a report just received by the marine hos pital service from F. JMThornbury,: its assistant surgeon at Dutch Harbor, Alas ka. The report -says that formerly there were 120 villages on the islands with a 1 native population variously estimated at from .1,560 to ,2,560.. Now in the same dis trict | there are ; only ten villages and 1,000 inhabitants, exclusive of whites, of whom - 300 • are Creoles (mixed breeds and with Russians and other nationalities) and 700 Aleutes. 7 ,;-.' 7 ;. The report says: "Last year Unalaska : had 3.3 inhabi tants, . 116 or nearly one-third ot whom. died According to •. data I ob tained from the Russian priest of the Greek Catholic church. Rev. B. P. Kash ereroff, who has the only mortality rec ords kept in the village, there being no health officer or even physician, ; thirty deaths were ascribed to 'cold,' ■'■ twenty four to consumption, thirty-three -to measles and seven to old age; five were drowned. .7 "The remarkable mortality from mea sles among the natives in Alaska during the 7 past year appears ascribable largely to the bad sanitary environments and lack of precaution against exposure. "On the -Kuskokwim and in other sec tions on the mainland, from one-half to two-thirds |of the natives died and many were left uriburied in the . mud houses where they lived, surviving members im mediately deserted .theYhuts, which con tain .from. two. three dozen natives living regardless of family relations. * "As many as half a dozen dead bodies have been seen by prospecters in a single hovel and numerous dead bodies were seen lying about on the ground partly eaten [by foxes. "There are numerous instances of whole villages being deserted, the few surviving j natives having a superstition about stay ing where so many of their number had died." MAIL DELIVERY BY SOAP BOX. City Folks See a Rural Innovation-; in Practice. ;. j ",. New Yorkers who spent their vacations in the New England states and in out of-the-way places in Sullivan, Datchess and other counties of. this state, met the rural free mail delivery system establish ed a v few months ago by the *r-*»3tofficc department, and they had a lot of fun getting their mail '■ from the crude boxes which ;the. farmers had nailed to trees for it, says the New York Sun. By the' new system any person living near the route of the mail carrier, and not with in ". the corporate limits of any town or within eighty rods of a postoffice, who de sires his mail deposited in a box ;on the 7 route of the carrier, is* permitted to pro vide 7 a suitable box on the' . roadside, where it can be reached conveniently by . the' carrier, and . his letters will be left in" the box. ' . .'7-7 ; The first thing that amused the average New Yorker was the variety of queer things that were used as mail depositories. Usually the depository set up by the farmer was either a soap box or a cigar box' But "in peaces far away from civili zation hollowed-out logs were used, arid there were cases of tin tomato cans tack ed to trees for the reception -of mail. Several farmers used wooden ' buckets, and a few utilized old washtubs. ";' Sometimes the mail receptacles • were nailed to trees, but there were instances of their being anchored at the roadside. EASY. with heavy stones. In 7 that case there were times - when the fluffy city. girl thrust ■;; her i hand into the mail box and encountered a snake instead of a love let ter. And the boxes were equally con venient for hoptoads, bees, butterflies and birds. '- But the city I girl found I the" mall carrier to be an accommodating official. On occasion 7he would even wait for her to write a letter. There was 7 a mail carrier whose route included Woodbourne, Sullivan county. He was eightyfive. years old, but more than six feet in height and straight as a pine " tree. 7He wore .a goatee and might. have been mistaken for a picture of Uncle ': Sam come ■to life. • A city girl ■ran from her - boarding house . half a mile up.-. the road, and ; stopping" him one ~ day, said: .■■■*■■' 7 "Oh. Mr. Brown," she said, "did you find that letter j I ; left In the box for my friend in New York?" ■ "I .- reckon I did, Miss." "You didn't miss it?" "I didn't, Miss; I have it yere."::. - . y "Well," continued the city girl, "I for got to write ;in something aboutj the tlsh me 7 and ■my sister caught. Do you mind. giving" me the letter so that ' I can .add: about the - fish in a postscript? 1 7 know, • Mr. Brown, that you can wait.a lew minutes." 7 \ .7 "I " reckon . I kin," replied the" postman, "but 1 I can't wait too long. 1 haven't got; more'n - fifteen ;. minutes, 'cause the mall leaves} yere • in three-quarters of a hour.' * Then the postman sat down on the roadside and waited 7 until the city girl had gone back to the farm housei and had 7written an "■:; entirely 7; new letter, after' spoiling a dozen J sheets . of 'foolscap.' When she came . back he thanked her' for hurrying. .7*7 7 ''f.-J-'J- Soon after this a farmer drove up to a • :7AA/H V 7 NOT ; US_=MM7*^_; '" ij GAS HEATERS! !mVv %j These cool mornings and evenings and avoid * •!' ;! starting your furnaces? We sell them for '■']'> \ A '^'A *tp___r # 50 Connected. > ![:m ■ "' *^»-f^ - <3p^*»3'*w Connected. •;, I Best Line to St- Louis ' -Best Line to St. Louis The finest train in the world leaves St. J Paul daily at 8:05 p. m. for St. Louis. L h ;fevM: .Through combination open end com- j partment sleep. and reclining chair car. | -*- I TlrirOf nffif-fIQ^ <0° ROBERT »T. {Hots! Ryan), ST. PAUL B Ilb RBI UIHUOb 414 NICOLLET AYE., MINNEAPOLIS . I B_-_B__i_i •jiiii_--_-WW i __i-j_iu_^ ■■•nj.-rirJ soap box nailed to a tree at the roadside, climbed down from his wagon: and pro duced from the improvised mail box a bunch of letters and newspapers. He examined them one by. one, scrutinizing the imprint on the corner of each en velope,.: and talking to himself in this manner: . ... ''Hello! Paradise Villa, by gosh! Davis has only got an old \ farm house over there. . He hasn't enough room for his own folks. 1 wonder .what paper he ad vertises in. -1; advertised in three papers and only got three answers. He can't accommodate no city folks.-By gosh here's .-" another: : Redville Lake hotel! Well, I swan! How in thunder did SI Tyler think of that • name? City tolks'll think he has the hull county to hisself Boating and fishing? "Well, that must mean the duck pond over the hill. "Here's another. Atlanticville Ore and Copper Mining company. What does these city folks think? Jim Thompson ain't got no money ter revest in them 'ere mining schemes; he'll be lucky ter pay his mortgage this fall. What's this Dayton, Ohio? I wonder who Hiram Cooper is 'quainted with out there it can't be his wife's folks; they live in Cincinnati. 'Taint no cousin of Hiram's 'cause he never writ out there to my knowledge.-' - - f "Conklin's hotel! Charley called his place the Seaview last year, but 'tweren't anywhere near, any seaview place. What' I know that writin'. That's from that 'ere King woman. We did everythin' on earth .? or her last year, an' Mandy cer tainly did care 'for her when sac were sick. Now she'll go over to Smith's place, and they hain't got a chicken in the gol darn barn! That's the way with these city folks; when they ain't bunco steering some un they are being bunco steered. Wonder what's doin' down hi York? Here's the Sun. Must be some thin*- or Bert Williams wouldn't 'scribe for no city .paper. Guess I'll open her up." . - As the old farmer opened up the pa per addressed to his neighbor several others drove up. When half a dozen had gathered and greeted each other the farmer with the paper proceeded to read Its contents, while the others crowded about him and adjusting their spectacles leaned over his shoulder j and "rubber , necked." By and by. the man with the paper read aloud a piece about the bun coing of Farmer Josh Baxter, of McGon-. nigle's Junction, by a tenderloin stranger, who called himself "Mr. Croker." \ ■ "What, do you think of that, Abner?" asked the man who had been reading. MWallM said the farmer addressed as Abner. "I reckon that ere bunco fellow were the same 'chap as is holdin' my money. He agreed to hold it while I went in a crowd at the Dewey parade, and I let him hold it cause he said he were one of them great detectives that were there to protect money from thieves. But I couldn't find him when I were ready to come up home." Then a general discussion followed. Finally when the farmers had read some other newspapers that had not been ad dressed to them they tied pieces of cord to keep the wrappers in place, picked out their own mail and went home. All the farmers vote that the rural mail service is a success. The city .v,,Ks say that for rurality it Is the "real thing.". ■ '■'■ .«_ : FRENCH IDEA OF NEW YORK. It has been said that a man must go away from home to get the news, In its issue of Sept. 6, 1901, Le Matin, a Paris newspaper of large circulation, prints a •report which will be news indeed to New Yorkers. Following is a translation: "These Americans are decidedly insati able." While we are "still using steam en gines for our railways they have long ago tasted of the benefits of electrical traction, and now they are commencing to abandon electricity - for compressed air. ■: ■ "The New York line of Manhattan uses now, to the exclusion of all other modes, 7 compressed . air engines, and -it: appears that the results are so mar s__d_d l oi^u.nv-su.j^ em v*-**.} snoia.. proclaim steam as a thing of the past and electricity old-fashioned. "The air iis compressed .in what the American calls a 'power station,* some thing like a gas factory. It Is compressed until it attains an expansive power, of 1,500 to. 2,000 : kilos per square centimeter that it occupies. It is then transferred oft board the locomotive, where it is stored in a large steel tank, which 're-. places the boiler. There it is further-^ more compressed by the use of reduc tion valves, and, reaching a certain ; pres sure, it. gets heated.. It is then ready for use. ."In brief, to listen to the American, It is the locomotive long dreamed of."— Y. . Commercial Advertiser. m Creepy. 7/ Philadelphia Press. - Tess—Did he really propose to you? Jess—Yes," and it actually made me shiver. Mf .'■ Tess—Why so? : Jess—He asked me if "I would care to share his lot," and he looked so funeraal I thought he referred to one in the cem etery. , . m "■'..... . His One Chance. Philadelphia Press. _ "Goodness! I do hope our. young min ister won't marry that Miss Strong mind." - _ ;'*r*-^ "I didn't think you took so much inter est in his as to care very much.". "I'm thinking of myself, that's all. If he marries her, he'll never have a chance to talk except from the pulpit, and then we'll suffer." ..M --• " ■ ■" ■ - - -7 FUNERAL NOTICE. ATTENTION. KNIGHTS OF- PYTHIAS —You are requested to report at K. P. hall, corner of Sixth and Robert streets, at 1:30 p. m. today. Monday, Oct. 7th, 1- to ■; conduct -'. the '- funeral of . Brother F. F. . Putnam, .of Fargo Lodge No 2. Carriages from K. P. hall. Brother Knights, our. last duty to our sojourning brother. E. H. Milham, rep '77resenting Fargo Lodge No. 2. j Cheap Rates to California In the through tourist cars. Consult Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. Agants. ■ ANNOUNCEMENTS.* THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE I stockholders of the Great Northern Railway Company, for the election of three directors to serve for the term of three years and for the transaction of such other business as may come be fore it, will be held at the office of the company in St. Paul, Minnesota on Thursday. October ICth, 19jl, at 12 o'clock noon. St. Paul, Minn.. September 28th. 1331. EDWARD T. NICHOLS. Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE stockholders of the Saint Paul. Minne apolis & Manitoba Railway Company, for the election of a Board of Directors " and transaction of. such other bus ness : as may come before it. will be held -at the office of the company In St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday. October 10th, 1901, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. St. Paul. Minn., September 2.-th. 1901. EDWARD SAWYER. Secretary. __ DEATHS. SEIDENKRANZ— In St. Paul. Saturday, Oct. 5, aged twenty-four years, Frank- Seidenkranz..son of the late Albert and Mrs. Celia Seidenkranz. Funeral from family residence, 415 Carroll street, Tuesday, at 2 p. m. JORDAN— St. Joseph's hospital, Sat urday, Oct. 5, Matthew Jordan, aged fifty years. Funeral from residence, 431 Whitall st., at 8:30 a. m. Tuesday, Oct. - S. Services at St. Patrick's church at 9 o'clock. .. - AMUSEMENTS. TONIGHT and Glance of week Matinees " Wednesday and Saturday. OTIS SKINNER in FRANCES6A DA RIMINI. FC.ANCE3CA. played by MARCIA VAN DRESSER: PAOLO. played by AUBREY BOUCICAULT.; PEPE. played by WILLIAM NOR RIS, and LANCIOTTO. played by Mr. SKINNER. Next week— OF THE CRO3S. PR A Nil! " Suwanee River." UnflllU Suwanee River." A PLEASING 5 MATINEE WEDNESDAY. PLAY OF < Next week — Ward & SOUTHERN j Yoke. in "Th. 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