MOSEY AND STOCKS, o Complexion of the Bank Statement rejnnnin? to Change. 10TRER INFLUENCES IMPROVING. A Short Week in local Securities and Few Big Features. THE LATEST SEWS FROM ALL SOUECES Saturday; Oct 22. The money markets, both domestic and foreign, were firmer this week, the most im portant development being the advance in the Bank ot England's minimum rate of discount from 2 to 3 per cent. Kates for money in the open London market were also higher, indicating increased activity in general business and that in case of stringency at home little or no relief need be hoped for from abroad. But better, conditions developed here, which were re flected in to-day's New York bank state ment, which showed the following changes: Itcerve. Increase tr.TS3.CT5 Lpans. decrease i 7.191,100 Specie, decrease I,' 151 COD I.eK'1 tender. Increase MM, 100 Deposits decrease 7,217.900 Ciixulatlon, increase 39.700 The banks now hold 52,332,425 in excess of the requirements of the 23 per cent rale, as. against 12,391,000 at the same time last year. The United States Treasury also strength ened its position. It has nol been long since gold exports were still iu progress long after their discontinuance had been confidently and repeatedly predicted. Un usual and unseasonable shipments, ap parently inconsistent with the conditions by which they are ordinarily governed, had reduced the Treasury gold fund to a lower point than in more than a dozen "year, and the percentage of gold received by the Government through the revenues was correspond. ngly small. There was little attempt to conceal the anxiety felt in official and financial circles as to the possi ble consequences of this continued drain. The danger of such a depletion of tne gold lurid as would cause anxiety or distrust has now entirely disappeared for the present, and there is nothing in tlic condition or the Treasury that cau-es tlie slightest appre hcnsiotfor doubt as to the adequicy ot its resouices for the requirements of the imme diate future: w htle the cold fund lias in creased by $12 003,003 within a few -weeks and thcTreasuij is not at present endeavoring to rutthei replenish its stck. This chanue, savs the .eir Tm b .Btifcftn. is due to the conditions at home and abioad that are usual iu the autumn when our axucultunil products begin to move from the farm to domestic and foreign markets. It is greater and moie rapid than had been expected, however. In the same decree that uuMnes conditions are moie tnvomuie than had been suppo-ed by tlioc who underesti mated the beneficial and continuing influ ences of last years haivots. or overesti mated the diiturnlng influences of the political campaign bv the deliciency of tins yrai's crop indicated by the edily reports. The fact is that within u few weeks of the election the country is so lully einraged in the business :-cti ities based on Msc ye.tr' abundant haiests and so well contented with the outlook for another jear that theie is nothing in the financial situation that causes prevent anxiety, and little even in the economic issues of the campaign that evmts -uch a distuibiug influence as in other l'icsldeiital jears. nut had gold ex poits continued or the Goi ernment gold holdings deelincd to the point of the estab lished $100,003,000 reserve, or had public ex penditures exceeded the revenues and thieateiicd a deficit, it would not have been possible toavoid financial aziration, and tho silver question would have been forced into prominence despite the conservatism ot the political platforms and candidates. Local Securities. Sn far as the market for local securities was concerned the past week covered only four da3"s, the Kxchauge being closed yes terdaj and to-day and business practically suspended, nut the volume of trading for the four daj s was about as large as that of the six days of last week, the records being 2,755 shares ot stock, $2 030 bouds and $4J3 worth or sci ip this week and 2,700 shares strck, $:$,030 bonds and $320 worth of sciip last week. The most prominent character istic of the market was weakness, but it can not be said that the list suffeied anv ma terial declines despite a lack or supoort and a disposition to hammer some of the leading shaies. The comparative ap athy witnessed was ascribed to the warming up of na loual politics, and the fact that it was Columbus week, for which reason very little interest was manifested in the market m e by the small professional clement w lio generally operated on the selling s-ide. The changes of the week in the leading shares were mostlj declines, the closing quotations tit Ihursdar. compared with those of last Saturday, showing the following results: Advances Luster Mining Company, 1J; Allegheny Heating Company, 6. l)rr mes lMiilauelphia Company, ; Pleas ant allcy Railway, K: Pittsburg and Castle Shannon Railroad, s: Union Switch nnd M.rnal, if Westiiiehmie Alt brake, & Un denrtound Cable, Jf: P. & B. Traction, &; P., A. & M. Traction, i. The Tractions. As affecting streot railway shares the most important event of the week was tho special meetinof the s'ockholdersor the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester Traction Com pany, held Thursday, ar wbUli the capital stock of the company was increased from $3,000,000 to $5 0J0,0j3 lor the purpose of ab soibiug the Pleasant Valley Traction and the Allegheny Tiaction Company (the old Transveise) and extending the Pittsburg 1-op over Maikct street. Fourth avenue and Wood street, etc As stated at the time, only 1 $00 shares of Mock were voted ngifinst the increase, which practically insures tho success of the scheme to consolidate the Xorthside roads into one n stem, as the great bulk of tho Pheasant Valley stock has assented to the proposition. The remaining steps neces-ary to-complete the deal will be taken by tho directors of the tno companie-, them-h it is josiblo the at toracj oi the Plea-ant Valley Company may ndvl'e that the stocklio dcrs be called to gether to formally ratily a lease of the road lot 9Mcais, whlrli. is the manner In which it will "be cobbled Tiy itshal. Umterthe consolidation the old hoard or P. A. & M. directors will stand and the four to be added to inaLe tho n mnbei nine, will be elected, according to cossip current to-day, lmin Jles-rs. Henry, Graham, Hunter, Ober, Orier and Stone. If the latter is Selected so licitor, which is likely, he will not bea mem ber of tho bond. As neretototv stated. Pres ident 1) ilzell, of the P., A. ,V M., is slated lor Piesidcnt ot the combine, Air. Henry lor Ue"eral Manager, Mr. Keeper for Secretary and Ml. Kaiu-ey or 1 leastncr. The new cirnbino will have a capital of $5,000,000, w hicli fs largei than that ot -tlie Citizens and $500,000 smaller than tnat of the PitisbTrg-Duquesiie swtem. Itsliondedin debtedne s w ill be $2,750,000, larger than the Citizens and about the same as the Pitts biirg-Ouquesne. Rut the aggiegato earnings of the two 2orthside rouls urc greater than those of either the Citizens or tho ritlslmr Duque-ne. It has been pretty clearly demonstrated of late that the dallv li-ceipts ot tho P. A. & M. and P. V. are $iiC0, the lormer furnishing the bUgest end ot tho return"". This means yearly gross earnings ol $912,500. It is contended that thee syntptns, under one management, can and will be operated for SO per cent per arnum, or $(5G,250, leaving tne same amount lor interest, dividends and wear and tear. Tumr interest on the bonds will require $137,503 and lopavG percent on tho stock win tequiie $300,000 n total of $375j0, winch, subtracted from $450,200, leaves $1S 750 to bo devoted to maintaining the physical condi tion of the system. U lion the s stem if In perfect running order the rapid transit facilities afforded JCorthsiders will lie inore satisiactOry than ever.assome of the loutos will be shortened. Tnerc will be nine distinct routes the Union line, Rebecca street,-Western avenue, Itellcvue. East sttect, Troy Hill. Perrysville, Spring Garden avenue and the Allegheny lier line, and fully 100 cars will be in ser vice. Pleasant Valley railway was steady to stiong during tho.wcek. wltn the demand excellent throughout. Sales of small lots oc cnrre'l io-daynt25, and there seemed to be general iiiquuy loi odd lots in o as to even up in order to trado properly for P., A. & M. stock. P. V. stockholders get r. stock divi dend in the propoitiou ot lto7, mid then they tiade their holdingsJor Manchester stock in the proportion ot 1 toi All the street railway shares were inclined to weakness, with the exceptions o"f Pleas ant Valley and Pittsuurg, but the declines Xero barren of special significance. It was stated to-day tliat the September iaininjrs of the Citizens' Traction Company w eie $55,250, and that ap to tho :1st of this month they were $31,700. It was also state I that the October earnings of the P. & B. were running at the rate or $40,000 for the month. Gas Shares. With the exception of Philadelphia Com pany and Wheeling Gas the natural gas group was strong. Philadelphia, weak ened on manipulation as much as anythlng clse and Wheeling Gas on the decline in the price o oil. There were continued reports ot bad results afield by some of tho leading producers of iras. but the Philadelphia Com pany officials contended they had been a great deal more fortunate in the fields this year than last, and there was no doubt they would have all the gas their household consumers would need this winter. The ad vance in the price of gas was used as a club by the bears, but they did not accomplish much. The most trustworthy opinion on Philadelphia Company stock is to the effect that the advance will prove a Terr strong bull factor, provided the first cold snap demonstrates that the company has an ample supply of gas. Industrials. Trading In this group, like all others, was moderate, but, with the exoeption of a softening tendency in AVostlnghouse Air brake and Westlnghouse Electric, it pre sented a firmer front than the ethers. Union Switch and Signal, Underground Cable and United States Glass, both common and pre ferred, were prominently strong, and all the talk current was of a very bullish char acter. Luster Mining Company moved up sharply nndor a little demand for irsido account, and at the close it looked like going higher. A Broker's Opinions. A. J. Lawrence writes to the clientage of A. J. Lawrence & Co. as follows: "The Columbian celebration was an Inter ruption to stock trading, bnt it was also a revelation. If such widespread interest is taken in the prelude to the World's Fair, what may we expect or the Fair itself.whlch will attract the attention or thousands or foreign visitors, as well as the millions at home? The idea is suggested that the ac tivity in business, which has been noted the nut two weeks, is due to the probable in crease Ih the demand for products which- will spring out or our great event, x or in stance, the commercial agencies report that the textile and boot ard shoe trades were never mo. e active than at present; mills are running night and day, nnd at o still uentna with their ordeis. And why? because the millions that will attend the fair will buy more clothing and dressgoodsand footwear. And the iron and sieel trade and the work of building and repairing and making ex tensions are all showing gratitylng improve ment, because Taw materials must be car ried to the mills and finished products dis tributed to the 65.003,000 people who, all over ourbroad and prosperous land, piopose to go pleasuring for six months of the next vcar.Xon all this industrial activity requires money and lots of It to carry It on, and the surplus which is at the command of stock traders and speculators is temporarily with drawn. In Pittsburg, especially, the mer chant and the manutacturer always have the preicrence at the banker's discount win dow, and In the East, where a vast amount or securities is carried on call money, the speculator is frequently lorced to liquidate his holdings. Again, when business activitv calls for the nse of increased capital, it oiten occurs that stock and bond invest ments made during dull periods like last summer are marketed as the readiost meth od of obtaining funds. Consequently brokers do not encourage free trading while these conditions pieVail, and we think that this has something to do w 1th the hesitation in our market for the present pionth. "To paraphrase an expression found in the old-time almanacs, however, we may say, "about this time look for a change in the market.' We know that some influential traders in Philadelphia . Company, the tractions, Air Brake, Switch and Signal and Electric who made some Tory hand some profits, the past summer, are closely watching the course or affairs ready to go in again and reap the profits which we feel assured will oe made on the long sido be t een election day and New Tear's. About the first of the year the banks should again be piling up money, which will bo available for the stock market, and those who woupl take advantage of the comlngadvance must be teady to anticipate it. In this connection we believe the street railwavs -will present the most promising field, and on any further decline, we believe these shares are a good purchase. "As to the gas stocks, while the aivance in rates, which goes into effect on Novem ber 1, will greatly increase net revenues, we feel that tlie contradictory reports concern ing the supply or gas make purchases at these prices highly speculative." Tips From TVall Street. A gentleman who is thoroiishlv familiar with Atchison matters expresses the opin ion that there has been a very considerable, liquidation in the stock during the past two weeks in a quiet way. But it has all been taken by strong people, and it is, really in a better position now for an advance than ever. i A great problem confronts7 the Western Union Telegraph Company, although noth ing is heard at the present time upon West ern Union save talk of the forthcoming stock dividend, says the Boston News Bu reau. This gi eat problem is nothing less than the rewiring or its-pole linos with cop per wires. With only an iron wire system, throughout the country the Western Union will be in no position to talk renewal ot a contact with American Bell Telephono Company when the famous telephone-telegraph contract expires n few years hence, while the Bell Telephone Company will by that time have iu" its telephone system a telegraph svstem standing at no cost. Mr. James Scllman, of Messrs, J. & W. Seligman & Co., is quoted as saying that New York aniLNew England stock will have another big rise prcsentlv. Mr. Seligman is not in the habit ol making rash predictions, and if ho made the statement abovequoted, he has very good reasons for doing so. Wall 6lrrel Rewsj EarningKorthe Western Union last week were $231,000, ait increase of $3,000. The com pany ha paid $1,500,000 for its Chicago build ing in addition to otiier acquisitions, all ot whichliavc been taken from'the net earn ings. On Wednesday next the distribution of the scrip dividend will take place, which will not be less than 10 per cmt A'ternoi. One of theLordon correspondents of Wat son & Gibson, writing under date or October 8, sa s: "'Conditions appear to have changed within the last fortnight, and we now looic forward with confidence to a renewal of btisinessgenerally. Within monetary circles apprehension litis calmed down, and. with the advent of a rise in value ot all South American securities, with which the Baring crisis was identified, speculators have bognn to turn their attention to neglected stocks, among which American bonds and shares aie prominent. The public has lately shown a little inclination to buy stocks such us Louisville, Milwaukee (st. Paul), Dcnvers and Atchison bonds, but there still exists the latent fear that persistence in the silver purchases must eventually cause trouble on a our side if not an absolute crisis. Could these apprehensions be allayed, we have no doubt that the American market would become once moie a favorite medium lor speculation." Financial Notes. S. S. Plnkerton sold a small lot of Pleasant Valley to II. M. Long to-day at 25. Mr. Long reported the sale of 20 shares or Fidel ity Title and Trust Company at 12L A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., says: Tho Howland Paper Company was incorporated t-day with a capital ot $1,000,00.), to manu facture paper, wood pulp and paper bags. TlioNeu lork slock and consolidated ex changes were both closed to-day, but the banks, sub-treasury and custom houses wero open for business as usual. It can be authoritatively stated that tho patent on the incandescent lamp, granted to Thomas A. Edison, expires with the British Satent November 10, 1SJ3. It thoiefore has nt IS months to run. The,prospenty of this country is phenom enal, and the growth of manufacturing, transportation and merchandising business within the past decade Is staggering to a bear. This swelling tldo or growth and in crease keeps steadily on through all vicissi tudes, all scares and all administrations. Mulhull. the British statistician, says that the annual increase of wealth in the United States equals one-third oi that of the entire world. Indeed, every time the sun rises in thrs countrvit day of active accumulation beams, and evory time the sun sets the coun try is richer by i-everal millions inall the visible forms of wealth. Walton fc Gitson. It has been intimated that an important meeting ot the directois or tho Westlng house Electric and Manufacturing Company was neld In New York Wednesday, but up to date nothing definite regarding it has leaked out. Tho earnings of the Buffalo, Eooliester Pittsburg for the second week of October w ere $72 SS3, an increase of $0,444. Foreign Financial. I.o:tD3:r, Oct. 21 Amount or bullion with drawn from the Bank of England on balance to-day, ' X20.00-1. Paiiis, Oct. 22. Three per cent rentes, 90f 25 centimes for the account. , LofDOit, Oct. S2. Close: Consols, money, 96 13-16: do account, 90 13-16; New York.Penn sWvanhi nnd Ohio, firsts, 32j; Cxnadlan Pa cific, fSJg: Erie, 27; do seconds, 09t: Illinois Central, 102 Mexican ordinary, J2; St. Paul common, 81: New York Central, 113; Pennsylvania, 57k: Reading, 29; Mexican Central new U, 71f . Bar siUor, 89 7-161. Money, 1 percent. Rate of discount In open market tor botu short and tbreo-rnontus' bills, ZQ'-)i per cent. THE $6,500 AN ACRE Fald for a Tract in the Squirrel H1U District Another Tract In the Twenty-Second "Ward Brings S3,000 an Acre Becord of the Week and Total Sales. Saturday, Oct 22. Two important transactions have jnst been consummated. AV. C. Stewart sold for Theo dore B. Hoatetter, through Beed B. Covle & Co., fife acres of land fronting on Shady lane (Squirrel Hill district), a distance of 600 feet, for 532,500, or f6,500 per acre. The purchaser will plot the property at once. The other deal closed was also the sale of of an acreage tract in the Twenty-second ward. Black & Balrd sold the propertv, nine acres of-vacant land, for George N. Monroe for $27,000, or $3,000 per acre. The property is situated between.Edgerton and Forbes avenues.1 A portion or the ground fronts on Forbes avenue a distance of about 200 feet. Notes of Gossip. John K. Ewlng & Co. are about concluding negotiations for the sale or an old landmark in Allegheny. "When tho deal is completed and made public it will cause no little sur prise among speculators and the older resi dents. The consideration is about $25,000, and it is expected that thp deal will be com pleted In a few days. It was reported to-day that the construc tion bravery line brldze to span the large ravine known as Spruce's Run, at Ben Avon, will be commenced shortly. An Improve ment such as tnis would certainly benefit propel ty owners and residents iu I tula vicinity.and wonld make the drive from Alle gheny "city to .DIxmont a level and much shorter one. Arery flattering nnd exceedingly largo sum has been received by Hon. Thomas M. Marshall for that portion of his property which fronts on Perrysville avenue, Alle gheny. Mr. Marshall declines to sell his property under any circumstances. In creased activity in realty situated along Perrysville avenne is reported. Building Permits. A permit was taken out to-day by Messrs. Heeren Bros. & Co. for a seven-story brick and stone business house on Penn avenue, between Eighth street and Maddock's alley. The building will have a frontage of 50 feet on Penn aveune by 150 feet in depth and the depth or the foundation walls will bo 13 feet. The estimated cost Is $120,000. Messrs. Moeser& Wilson are the architects. Other permits Issued were: Dawson Callery, five two-story frame dwellings. White, street, between Webster avenue and Thirty-third street: cost, $6,500 for nil Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a one story brick electric light plant above Union station, cost $4,500. Pittsburg Society of the Church of the Advent, a one-story fiame chuicti, Halllngtord avenne nnd Neville street, cost $2,800. Charles Lanz,a three-storv brick dwelling, Carson street between Thirtv-third street and City Line, cost $2,600. Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, a two-story rrame dwelling, Seven teenth street, cost $2,500. Reports From the Brokers. W. A. Lincoln sold for M. G. McConnell a choice lot on Pacific avenue, having a frontage of 70 feet and a depth or 133 feet to a 20-root alley, for $1,900 cash, to Eugene F. Smith, who will improve the same in the near future with a handsome residence. Beed B. Coyie & Co. sold for the Fidelity Title nnd Trust Company two lots, Nos. 229 and 230, In the Watson 'place plan, Alle gheny, Irontlng 100 feet on Natchez street by 125 26 leet to Modoo street, lor $1,400; also sold two .more lots in the nigh land place plan, Nos. 21 and 22. fronting 83 feet on Paciflo street by 127 feet deep, for $2,500 cash. . Black Balrd sold to Lonls Sckert lot No. 9 in the L. F. Falck plan. Eleventh ward, Allegbcnv. fronting 40 feet on Davis avenne, comer of Kansas alley, by 120 leet in depth, lor $1,000. Samuel.W. Black & Co. sold a -lot 40x120 feet on Parrali street. Oakland, near Ter race street, in the Sylvan Teriace plan, for $2,500. Baxter, Thompson & Co. sold for John K. Ewlng & Co. and Mrs. M. lirior the property on the northwest corner of 'Franklin and Congress streets, consisting of two three story brick houses, with a lot about 26x50 feet, for $5,150 cash. The purchaser bought for an investment. John K. Ewlng A Co. sold to D. M. Marsh all, lot No. SJ, fronting on Grant avenue, Allegheny, in the Frederick G. Rohrkaste plan, situated in the Tenth wara,AIlesheny, for $250. James W. Drape & Co. report the sale of a house or eight a-oouis and three lots, 72x100 feet, on Howe street. East End, for $8,800. Also sold collateral Interest in a farm and a suburban residence of $ll,Oao, and a lot at Mansfield ror$500. " Moore & Kelly sold through Peter Shields for Hemy Loxterman a' modern eight roomed trame house with lot 25x90 feet, lo cated on the westerlyside of Achilles street, for $3,600 to Miss Alary Wallace; also sold lots 37, 10 and 51, in A. it. Wilson's Creedmore Slace plan, for $3,600; also sold for Mrs. Mary ielhecker to Prof. It. F. Thnma, a lot, cor ner of Denmston avenue and Howe street, for $4.0u0. rikivington, Pedder & Co. old through the agency of Davies & Van Gorder too J. . Rlggs, of Rochester, N.'Y., to- Georgo B. Kelly, 18 acres or land in Sterrett township, adjoining the eastern borough line of Wil klnsburg. tho terms of which are being with held for the present. Messrs. Piper & Clark sold for J. B. Ilynd mati his property fronting 50 feet on Bryant street, near Highland avenue, lor $2,600 cash; aiso soiu ior n. u. u imams to air. jsianten berger. lot No. 23 in the Williams plan, 10x100 feet, for $1,400. A. Z. Byers & Co. sold for the Ridgevlew Land Company to J. Howard Stephenson lot No. 11 in their Grande Foinie plan, Eleventh ward, Allegheny, having a front age of 50 feet on Westminster street, and extending through 120 feet to a 20-root alley, for $1,200., George Sohmidt sold three more lots on Puebla street, in his Eureka place man, Oak land, to S. P. Thompson, for $1,350 on easy tei mi. M. F. Hippln 4 Co. sold to David C. Ftitz, for $3,550, or $95 per front foot, it lot 90x181 leet on the south side or Wallingrord street, Twentieth wnrd. A fine residence will be erected thereon. The Burreil and Kensington Improvement Companies report the following sale ot lots at Kensington: James Balrd, Homestead, Pa, lot 90, block 6, lor $825 cash; August Wieland, Pittsburg, 10 feet south lot 26 and 15 feet north lot 26, block 5, for $1,150 cash: Frederick Wieland, Pittsburg, lot 19, block 7, lor $50; John Stovonson, New Kensing ton, Pa., lot 13, block 27, for $877 cash; J. N. Dean and J. R. Ackeman, Homestead, Pa., lots 15 and 16, block 27, for $1,600; Calvin C. Dean. Fayetio Springs, Pa., lot 17. block 27. tor $750 cash: John N. Weddlo, Braddnck, lots 26J nnd 266. block 26. $1,989; Martin Rose. New Kensington, lot 378. block 25, $646 73 cash; Henrietta Bailev, Allegheny, lot 379, block 25, $616 75 cash; John N. Kritschguuiii, Brady's Bend, Pa., lots 811 and 812, block 23, $1,160. . Tho Week's Becord. The review or the business transacted during the past six days iu the realty mar ket shows thata week or activity in thisline has just closed. Properties both large and small have been changing hands at a very rapid rate, bup acreage was still in the front,' though valuable residence properties also found a prominent plnco in the week's transactions. Tho sale of acreage tracts was not confined to any particular locality, as has been the case for some weeks past, as properties In tnis line situated in entirely new districts havo changed ownership, and Allans of lots In several new sections within a short distance of the city will be the re sult. The following summary shows a.decrease in leal estate transfers both in number and amount of money involved, and, while a large decrease in the number or building permits issued Is shown, equally as large an increase in the estimated cast Is witnessed. Mortgages increased both lu number and amount, while B. & L. A. mortgages, mort gage payments. Judgments and executions decreased in numbers, but increased somo what in amounts. Following is the record, compared with that or the preceding week: Week end'gj Week end'g Oct. 15. RKKB. Real estate transfers.... Building permits Mortgages Purcuabe money mort- cures B.ALA mortgages.. Mortgage payments Judgments 'Executions vsct. . 159 M 1UI 3 48 IS 118 3! $64(1,793 231,8.10 $71S,547 267, 7K) ia..'T6 78. Ml) 214.783 160.724 63.SJ6 ,311 132, .138 77.782 209,713 86.800 16,192 MONETARY. The local market wes firm and moderately active, all woek at SS per oent, with- the bulk of business confined to mercantile and manufacturing interests. Eastern exchange and currency traded at par as a rule. New York, Oct. 22. Prime mercantile pnper56. Sterling exchange was steady, .with actual business at $1 83 for bankers' 60-day bills and $4 86 lor demand. The Imports of specie at the poi tor New York during the week amounted to $443,783, of which $252,530 was.gold and $191458 silver. Clearing House Figures. Pittsburg Zxeouces to-day few. M PITTSBURG DISPATCH. Balances to-day. ,.. 164,56184 Same day last week: Exchanges $2,524.967 70 Balances 422,487 03 The records of the past two weeks com pare as follows: Exchanges this week (5 days) $14,65att 97 Balances this week (5 days) 2,340.833 21 Exchanges last week 14.750,221 7S Balances last week 2,810,617 65 For the week of 1891 corresponding- with this week the exohanges were $15 621 690 43. Total exchanges to dato. 189-2. $613,706, 419 57: same time last vear, $5 19,951,778 02; gain tills year to date, $63.7M,641 37. New York, Oct 22 Clearings. $14S,9SLU3: balances, $5,754,267. For the week Clearings (five days'). $076,007,978; balances, $31,349 850. BOSTON, Oct. 21 Clearings. $20,622,502;. bal ances, $1,883,44. Monev, S per ceut. Ex- cnanxe on Aew lorar, lie aisconnc to par. For the week Clearings, $90,697,302; bal ances, $9,630,555. For same week last vear Clearings, $95,631,963; balances, $11.1!7,3S3. Philadelphia, Oct. 22. Bank clearings to day, $16 816,243; balances, $2,164 551. For tho week, bank clearings were $78,593,236; bal ances, $10,673,571. Baltimore. Oct. 32. Bank clearings this day. $3 097,244: balances, $1,637,571. St. Louis," Oct. 22. Bank clearings to-day, $4,703,685; balances, $441,586. Clearings this week, $22,091,013; balances, $1,651,1193. Clear ings corresponding week last year, $23,303, 672: balances, $2,221,912. Clearings last week, $.6,903,283; balances, $2,445,114. Chicago, Oct. 22, Bank clearings to-day, $15,951,670: for the week, $93,105,057. For the corresponding week last year, $95,960,087. Money strong at 56 per cent. New lork exchange quiet at 40 to 25c discount, ster-, ling dull; CO-day bills $1 81: demand, $4 86. NO WELLS REPORTED. There Are None Now in the McDonald Field Making Twenty Barrels an Hour Production Still Going Down Wells Due and Drilling In Two States. For the first time in over 14 months there are no wells in the McDonald field which are making 20 barrels an honr. For several days the only well which has been reported as doing that much was the People's Gas Company's No. 155 on the Dixon farm, south of Willow Grove, and it has been putting .'out potroleum from the Gordon snad. This well was dropped from the list yesterday. The daily production of this wonderful field fell to 19,003 bavels, which it has touched only once before since it passed that point on its way to the 83,009 barrels a day mark, which was lenchcd about a year ago. Thero are now no wells coming in which can possibly revive it although some or the old ones may be stirred up bv glycer ine sufficiently to bring it up a few hundred barrels a day. When it fell below 23,000 barrels a month or two ago the Gordon, or third sand, came to the rescue, and the Meise pool was opened up. It brought forth some good well, nnd for a time they rejuvenated the declmln -field. The wells on the strip north of McDonald boiough, and lying between the Walker nnd farm, have proven almost absolute lailurcs. When big wells were drilled in on each of these farms, which are over two miles apai t, the operators at once concluded that they wcie 'at either end of a rich streak, nnd within a couple or weeks, eight or ten wells were under way on the inter vening iarr8. Theso liu-o so far been small wells, nnd those around tbo bl ones have been light, and now the unlucky operators have come to the conclusion that the big Walker well df FItzglbbons & Cc and the ltojal Gas Company's gusher on the Mark Rohb farm wei e located over isolated pool'. With these showing light there are none now drilling which can be expected to add very materiallv to the output of.tho field. McDonald and West Virginia. Jennings, GufTey & Murphy expect to drill in thefr No. 1, on tle Joe Robb, to-morrow morning. Their No. 5, on tho Matthews farm, was drilling at 2,003 feet yesterday. The Peoplo's Gas Company tried to get a squib into its No. 153, on the McMurray prop erty, near Gregg Station, where the rig was burned Thursday. Tho shot which they were Irving to put off when the rig took Are is still in the hole, and they now believe that the hole is bridged about 83 feot above the bottom. S. S. Wilson stated yesterday that he was just on ton of the Big Injun sand on tho Wilson 4 Ruff tract in Wnyne county. West Virginia, lie has gone through 500 leet of limestone and is down over 1,C00 leet. The well is shut down on account or the cable being too short. He has 16,003 acres leased in the county, I he biggest part or it being from the Guyandotte Coal Company. .The well is located"- about 40 miles cast of Huntingdon and 50 miles fiom Catlettsbarg. Eight or ten miles south . or it i the Warfield gnsser, which has made a big lot of oil. It is still a big .gasser, but on account of the sparcely settled countiy around it is almost value less. Wayne county Is the most southwest erly county in West Vitglnia. .Tho South Penn Oil Company has started to drill several of its wells at Mannlngton to the fifth sand, at a depth or 2,800 feet, where A. J. Montgomery A Co., or Washing ton, got a big oil well on the Straight larm. The latter i now plugged by a cave in in the slute between the Big Injun and.the filth. The Ganges. The production or McDonald was 19,000 yesterday, 500 less than the day before. The estimated production was 19,000: stock in field, 46,000. Tue runs from the SIstersville field were 12,310 ban els on Thursday and on Friday 15,825 ban els. , Buns and Shipments Thursday. The Thursday runs of the National Tran sit Company wore 35,466: shipments, 7,199; Southwest runs from McDonald were 11,376; outside or McDonald, 7,261; total, 18,627. Buckeye Pipe Line runs from the Macks burg fleld.nnt in; shipments, not in. Buckeye runs of Lima oil, not in; shipments, not in; Eureka Pipe Line runs, 1,636; shipments, none. Southern Pipe Line shipments 30,867: New York Transit shipments, ZS.'XG. Tho Western and Atlantic lines ran 3,270 ban els Thursday; shipments, 1,545. The runs of tho W. I- Mellon lines on Thursday were 5,869: receipts from other Hues, 726; total leceipts, 6,395: shipments, 4,218. Rnns and Shipments Friday. The National Trauslt runs were not in; shipments, 33 971: runs or the South west, Pa., lines from McDonald, 17,151; outsldo ot Mo Donald, 5,875; total, 23029. The lu'ns of Macksbui'4 and Lima Oil were not in. Eureka Pipe Lino rntis, 1,690; Southern Pipe Line shipments, 25.1; New York Transit shipments were 25 9J6. The runs of the Woj tern and Atlantic lines on Friday weie, 4,267; shipments. 1,651 Tidewater runs and shipuients'lor Thurs day and Fliday were not In. HEAVINESS IN GRAIN And Buoyancy In Provisions the Features on the Chicago Board of Trade Wheat Re ceipts Enormous Receipts of Hogs Light anf Prices Somewhat Higher, i CnicAoo, Oct. 21 Heaviness in grain and buoyancy lni provision tells the tale or to day's markets. .Wheat is JQlo lower and cornKJ6- . The wheat receipts were a depressing weight, the arrival here for three days foot ing up 1,026 cars and there were nearly 3,003 cars In the Northwest. . A leported failure of a large concern in Paris made trade here nervous and helped to weaken prices, al though it did not appear to have much ef fect on the. market, which would naturally be most affected lr the failure had been im portant. Corn was weak and lower on the dullness In trade, the big lecelptsfor three days and in sympathy with the weakness in wheat. There was not much demand and the offer lugs were free. The tendency" to decline was slightly counteracted by the firmness of provisions. Initial trades were at about th e final fiziues of Wednesday and gradually sagged off Jc. Oats were quiet and lower on the bile ar rivals for three davs and the weakness in other pits. The close was at JSc under Wednesday night's figures. Hog products were easy early but soon turned strong and sold higher. The re ceipts of hogs were light and piices at the yards higher. At best figures the gnins over the close AVedncsday wero 15c for pork and lOo tor lard, while ribs wore pushed up 33o for October and 10O to 203 for other months. Plentv of boat room was offered, bnt the demand was light. Bates held steady at 2Vc ror wheat and 2c for corn to Buffalo. Cash quotations were us follows: Flour weak: prices 525o lower than ouo week hack: No. 2 sprint wheat, 74Jf74c: No. 3 spring wheat. 6063c; No. 2 i eu. 71 kHKo. No. 2 corn, lOJic. No. 2 oats, 28c; No. 2 white, 29c: No. 3 white, 2930c. No. 2 rye, 54c No. 2 barley, 6062c; No. 3, f. cu. b., 87c No. 1 flaxseed, $1 u" Prime timothv seed, $1 GO. Mess pork, per bbl, $12 15 12 20. Lard, per Iff) lbs, $9 80. Short rlu sides (loose), $7 75010 80. Dry salted shoul ders (boxed). $7 457 50. Short- clear sides (boxed), $3 20SS 25. Whisky, distillers' fin ished goods, per gal, $1 15. Sugars, cut loaf unohangedi granulated unchanged) standard A tinohanucd. No. earn, Wo, flecelpw Flour, 4,090 barrels wheat, Mt SUNDAY, OCTOBER 000 bushels; com, 501,000 bushels; oats, 574 TOO bushels; rve, 34 000 bushels; hai-Iey. 171,000 bushels. Shipments Flour, CO 009 barrels; wheat. 9S8.000 bushels: corn, 449,000 bushels; oats, 90,000 bnshela; rye, 11,000 bushels; bar lev. 68,000 bushels. On the Produce Exchange to-day the bnt ter market was higher; creamery, 2027c; dairy, 1824c Eggs firm at 2020c. . Range of the leading futures, fumls'ied by John M. Oakley & Co., bankers and brokers. No. 43 Sixth street: Open- High- Low- CIos- filoie ARTICLES. lng. est. est. Jng. Oct.19 Wheat. October $ $ ?, t 7I 72H December. 74)4 74? 73M 7M. 74'$ -May J.... .79Ji 79 78J 7Ki 79H CORN, October '.... 401i .401S 404 40', 4IJ November. 42)4 4 4IH , 4I 424 December , 42 42 W, 4Uf 42 May ISh 45 45 45 45J Oats. . October 28i 28S 28K Is 285. November :Bi 2H -29 -- "DSs December. son Wi 311 so' 30 'May ZS 34H Z3) S)J4 321 Pork. October. 12 12 II S3 Novemher-. 11 no z 17 11 90 12 17 11 90 January 13 3) 13 3.5 13 15 13 32 13 10 I.AIiD. October 867 880 867 880 8711 November 707 8 05 7S7 805 7 95 Jannarr -7 50 7 57 7 45 7 57 7 45 miokt Ribs. October in SO 10 85 10 50 10 8 10 50 November 780 780 780 780 7 83 January 6 82 6 90 6 82 an 6 82 Car receipts for to-day Wheat, 1,017; corn. 1,001; ?ats, 401. Estimates for to-morrow Wheat, 370; corn, S3J; oats, 190. Is. New York Metal Market. New Yoitx, Oct. 22. Pig lion qnlet and steady: American, $13 00I5 50. Copper steadv; lake, $11 65 11 80. Lend dull: do mestic, $3 804 CO. Tin easy; straits, $20 75. NOTES AND QUERIES. The Constitution on Points Suggested by the Political Situation -When a Man Is of Age The Scotch Jury Bits of Cart ons Information. The peculiar political situation this year leads to many questions about what will happen if the presidental electors fail to give a majority to any one man. She Con stitution reads: Tho President or tho Senate shall, in tho piesence of the Senate and IIouso of Kepio sentatlves, open nil the certificates, (sent in from the several States), and the votes slrall then be counted, the person having the greatest number or votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a ma jority of tho whole number or electors ap pointed; and if no person havo no such ma jority, then from the peisons having tho highest numbers, not exceeding thiec, on the list of those voted for as Pi esldent, the House of Representatives shall choose im mediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President the vote shall be taken by States, tho representation from each State h"ving one vote. A quorum for this purpose shall consist or a member or members from two-thirds or the States, aud a majority or all tho States shall be neces sary to a choice. And if the House of Repre sentatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them before the 4th day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the case of tho death or other constitutional disability of the President. Applying this law to the case in hand, Mr. Cleveland'Mr. Harrison, and probably Mr.. "Weaver would be the eligibles from whom the House would be compelled to choose a President, and, as a matter of course, Mr. Cleveland would be elected. Fallowing close upon the direction as to the choice of President by the House, comes this: The person having the greatest number of votes electoral votes 'as Vice President shall be tho Vice Piesidcnt, lr such number bea majority of the whole number or elec tors appointed; and If no person havo u ma jority, then from the two highest liitmbcis on the list the Senate shall cliooso the Vice Piesident; a quorum for the purpose shall consist ot tno-thlrds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority or the' whole numDor shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the Office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice Piesident or the United States. In accordance with this constitutional provision, in theevent.of no election by the people this year, the Senate"would undoubt edly elect Whitelaw Reid Vice President. A correspondent asks it the Senate could choose a Vice President from the same State Irom which the House has ,chosen a Presi dent. 'The House ot Representatives chooses the President irom the persons "having the highest numbers not exceeding three on die list of those voted for as President;" and the Senate chooses the Vice President from the two highest names of those voted for as Vice. President. 'J.nat would seem to allow the Senate to choose a Vice President Irom the same State as the President; but the first clause of the XII amendment to the Con stitution says that no elector shall vote for candidates ior President and Vice President irom the same State; aud the last clause says that a person constitutionally ineligi ble to the office of President shall not be eligible to that of Vice President. The in tention of the makers clearly was that the two men should not be citizens ot the same Stale; and it is barely possible that the Supreme Court 6f the United States would restrict the Senate's choice, and compel it to select a Vice President irom another State than the President. Why i a person "of age" when he is 21 years old? , R. H. He is of lull age, able to do everything for himself, that is, to contract and legally act for himself. Theperiod of full age is obviously based on the old idea of a climac teric, a period of 7 years in which, it was believed, the body was entirely renewed. Thus at the end of the third climacteric the person was fitted ior the duties of life, nnd became 'of age to undertake them. The 21st year is not invariably that at the end of which a person attains his majority. The Romans did not consider youths of age un til tney were 5 years old;- on the otiier band, many persons, especially Kings and Queens, have been declared of age when much younger than 21. In France 21 is the age ot'majority; in many parts of Germany 24 is the age. In this country 21 is the age for males in all the States; some of the States declare women ot age when they are 18 years old. In Scotland between his" 14th and 21st years a youth may do a good many things legally which he could not do in England; but even there he, is not of full age until he is 21. A strange and inconsistent point of the law is that a person is ot age immediately after midnight on the morning of the day preceding his 21st birthday; that is, a person 21 years old on November 0 may vote on November 8. That is due to the rule of law that "the law does not consider small things;" so that a part of a thing is consid ered, under some circumstances, as equal to the whole thing; a thing that happens on a certain day is considered as happening at any time of that day, and therefore at the earliest moment as well as at the latest; and if at the earliest moment of one day, as pos sible at the latest moment of the preceding day, and so at the earliest moment of that day. Of course, if the law went on consist ently, a person could be 21 years old on the very day be was born; but the law stops shqrt on the morning ot the day before his 21st birthday. What Is the ordinary revenno of the United States, from customs and internal revonue, and what the ordinary expendi ture? G. G. From customs, the United States received in 1891 $219,600,000, a decrease of 510,000, 000 since 1890; in the same year internal revenue collections provided 5145,686,000, an increase of $3,000,000, and the total rev enue amounted to $392,612,447. The total ordiqary expenditures for 1891 were $365,- 773,905, leaving a surplus of over f2G,000 000. In the receipts are included $27,000, 000 f "sales of-publio land-and other-miscellaneous items." The Postoffiee Depart ment has not paid expenses since 1883; the Treasury, which handles both customs and internal revenue receipts, is the onlr other department to pay its own way. The In terior Department pays out too much In- ntsiiona. and tut BUte, War, Xavy, Agricultural tad Law Departments art not 23. 1892, nd never have been good investments in the way ot returning actual cash onthe money spent in maintaining them. What caused the war between the United States and France: how Jong did It last, nnd what was the principal battle? !' The arrogance of the French Government In 1794 John Jay had signed in London on behalf of the United States what has since been known in this country -as, "Jay's Treaty" between' this country and Great Britain. It bound the United States not to interfere against Great Britain on bohalf of France; it provided for extradition in certain' cases, and ior other things; so that France conceived herself aggrieved by it. In 1798, the French Directory, triumphant in Europe, demanded the abrogation of Jay's treaty, and tne smpathy of the United States, it not their absolute assistance. President Adams tried to maintain peace, but in vain; and on July 9, 1798, Congress declared intercourse with France at an end. The"tre'aties with France were declared at an end; our men-oi-war were authorized to attack French vessels, and to prey on French commerce. "Washington was called from Mt Vernou to take command of our army, with the rank ot Lieutenant GeueraL The war never amounted to much; aiew in significant sea-fights oaanrred; and as soon as Napoleon became the First Consul, peace was. again made between the two countries. 'Ihe principal efiect of the "war" was to give us a Lieutenant General, and in time to do away with the Federalists. How many men are there In a Scotch J nry? JDoes a majoritv decide the questions suo mltted to a Jury? Mol. On a Scotch jury trying a criminal case there are 15 men, five chosen irom the special jury list, ten from the general list. A majority of the jury decides the questions before it; and the verdict may be "guilty," "not guilty," or "not proven." This last verdict is exclusively a Scotch institution. In civil cases trial by jury became extinct several ceutaries ago, but was revived in 1315: 12 men sit on such a jury, and the verdict must be reached by unanimous vote. What is the distance between the earth nnd liars when their opposition and their conjunction is grcatost? Isvistoe. The earth and Mars are not in opposition and conjunction; the sun and Man are, how ever. "When Mars is in opposition to the sun near his perihelion, he is about 33,800, 000 miles irom the earth; when in opposi tion near aphelion, he is about 61,800,000 of miles distant. Perihelion is the point when a planet is nearest the sun, aphelion. when It is most distant- Did Voltaire ever partake of the sacra ment of the Eucharist? J. K. S. Yes. on several occasions.- "While at Ferney he "conformed occasionally;" in February, 1778, soon after hi return to Paris, he was taken ill and sent for a priest, to whom he confessed. He recovered then, however, to die unsbriven a few months later. Which is considered the finest street in the United States? Keystoxe. Of course every person thinks the finest street in his own particular town is the finest in the country: but impartial foreign opinion seems to point at Euclid avenue, Cleveland, as perhaps the finest street in the country. Our own Fifth avenne for some distance is undoubtedly handsomer than Euclid avenue, but taken for their en tire lengths Pittsburg must yield to Cleve land. When were chartered. the national banks re JI. V. B. The national banks were chartered by virtue of the acts of February, 1863, and June, 1864, and were to last 20 years. The national bank extension act was passed in 1882, and extended the life ot the national banks lor 20 years longer. Can a school teacher who has been as sessed, paid taxes nnd been registered ac cording to law vote under the Baker oallot la : likewise a minister? P. U. Certainly. Every male person, native born or naturalized, who has been a resident "of the State one year and of-his voting dis trict tno months is entitled to a vote. LATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Northern Mexico has a coal famine. England is luvinir wintry weather. Tonquin pirates are still troublesome. The storms in Sardinia are still doing im mense damage. JIr. Stephen, the husband murderer of Koine, Ga., has been Indicted, but has fled. Seven ncproes wero drowned nt Elliott's Feiry, Tex., Friday. The lope ferry broke. Quebec people are raklns np the almost forcutien crimes committed by MolU Cream in ttut city. The last session or the Quaker's confer ence expressed approval or the Christian Endeavor movement. Kalser.Willielm pardoned 400 women con victs yoiterday in commemoration of the birth of his daughter. Diphtheria has killed ISO residents of Secetres, Tex., in one week. Bad drainage caused the epidemic The latest news from China savs that S3 bodies have been recovered irom the wreck of the steamship Bokhara. A dispute with the Typozraphical Union has compelled evory newspaper in Victoria, B. C, to suspend public ition. John T. Ash, a well-known farmer near East Liverpool, bus disappeared, ills friends lelleo ho has beon murdered. 'William Ellwood, a prominent miner and labor leader of North Wheeling, was Kineu ycsicruay uy a jail oi coal. An alleged Victor Hugo manuscript, de scribing a spiritualistic seance, his been made public iu P.irls. It is dated 1331. Tlie str'ke on the Gulf nnd Santa Ye Uallroad is in process of settlement, aud the telegrapners have xonu hack to work. A flood on the Yellow river has swept 11 towps nway. The water lose so cradunlly that most of the people had time to escape. Emma Morgan, nearLotiirt. O., shot and Instantly Killed her lover, Harry Jones, Tliursday itlzht. They quarreled over a man named Kichaids, whom Jones claimed she favored. Anexpiess nnd a freight train collided on the Chicago and Erie Railroad near Leiter station, O., Friday night. Engineer Fredericks una family injured. The Height train disobeyed orders. Count Atsumorl Tokngawn, of Japan, has been the victim ot u swindle, which native papers allege has cost the Count $12,000. A lawyer and two other natives have been arrested. A Canadian report says that Captain Deleveron, of the Russian crni-er Se.ibiakn, who has beenmafclnc seizures ot sealers, has been pronounced insane by the Governor ol Bering Island, and discharged irom the Busui.in navy. The French Line of steamers which abandoned Havre for Cherbourg, when the cholera brok" out at the former port, has changed to its nld-tlmo port nxain. La Bonrsctne, which sailed yeterd.iv, will eo to Havre instead or Cliorbonrg, and all tho other .steamers nt the lino will in inture uo the same. Thcio was such a Jam at the regular prayerv 't-tinsofa Presbyterian Chmcii in Louisv. lo Wednesday evening that tho regular attendants were amazed. Tlio stiangei. camo to attend a wcJillmr, for which tn y had lcccHed e igraved invita tions. - announcement was muda fioin the pulpi. that the inviiatloui went a hoax. At a cri fcrence held yesterday, in the presence oi tho Massachusetts State Board or Arbitral. on, between representatives of tho Boston Clothing Contractors' Associa tion and tin Indopaudent United Garment Woikers' A. relation, of Boston, it wai mutually n-.iied to settle the differences between their organizations, work to be re sumed Octolei 24. The lospita. ship Albert, sent out Dy the London niU-ioi to deep sea flihermen to afford leligiou and medical assistance to the flshormeu oi Labrador, arrived nt St. Job us, X. F jifterd.iy. She open; throe months coasting 1 100 miles, visiting all im portant harbors, 1 olding sot-vices Ik id dis tributing literaimc. Uur surgeon treated 1,100 patients gratis. After four week of council the Cherokee Commission li.i- finished its nezotlatlon with the Comanche, Klow.i and Apache tribes and effected an agieement. Tno proposition provides that theso Indians take allotments'" or 1C0 act es each, relinquish the residue of the reservation to the Uorcmmens to be at tnclied to Oklahoma and opened to white rettlomeut. In Indians suall rteatra 9,090,000. MR. BOWp IS LOYE. His Good We Excite3 His Ire bj Re calling Tbeir Courtship. DIDST KELISH THE COLD FACTS. The Arizona Kicker Man Gets Held Up on Hi Way to See His Lore. ELETATIXO AIT OLD G1I1ZZLI EEAE rWHITTEIT TOR THK PIRPATCH.I "Ah! But this is nice!" exclaimed Mr. Bowser as he kicked off his shoes and fell into the big rocking chair the other even ing. "You may talk as much as yon will, Mrs. Bowser, but there's no place like borne. I pity men who have no homes." "I am glad yon like to spend your even ings at home," she replied. "Yes, this is nice!" mnsingly continued Mr. Bowser as he spread out his feet and rubbed his hands. "I feel in the mood for a regular old fashioned visit to-night Husband aud wife should never grow old to each other. I think they ought to sit down now and then and sort of renew their courtship." "I think so, too, and I know it would be better for both." "I was reading an article in a newspaper the other day which said that a honeymoon founded on love should never end. I think ours was founded on love." "Yes," replied Mrs. Bowser, "I think It was. Don't jou remember how you used to say you would willingly jump over Ni asara Falls for me. Curing the last three months of" He Got Enough Very Quickly. "Do you mean to say that I oyer made use of any such tomfool expression as that?" demanded Mr. Bowser, suddenly roused to a state oi activity. "Certainly, dear. For the last three months of our courtship you came over to the house three times a day, and vou said-;' "Mrs. Bowser, what are you talking about?" he shouted as he rose np with a beautitul blush on his cheeks. "I might have called two or three times a. week in answer to your urgent requests,but don't try to make out that I had no more sense than a pumpkin!" ."I remember one evening in particular," she said, as if to herself. "There was a lull, moon, and the sky was without a cloud. We sat on the piazza, and you insisted on holding my hand." "Not much, Mrs. Bowser! It's a heap more likely that you wanted me to hold it! Yes, I remember now vou put up a job so. that I was obliged to hold it!" "As you were holding my hand you won dered it there were' lovers in the moon, and you said that I was the silvery orb to light your pathway through the years to come." "Silvery nonsense! Lovers in the moon! Are yon trying to make out that I didn't know enough to. get under a wagon shed when it rained? It was a put up job on me all the way through, and you ought to be glad to keep still about it." 'Worse and Slore of It. "Another evening," she went on, never minding him, "we were strolling in the garden. You had been quiet for a long, long time. I asked you what yon were thinking of, and yon put your arm around me and said you realized how unworthy you were, but you would make every effort to render ray lite happy. I saw tears iu your eyes." "Mrs. Bowser, are yon talking to me?" he demanded as he bobbed up again. "Certainly, dear." "And you mean to say that I passed any auch'remark as that!" "Of course." "Jfever! Never! Never! Unworthy of vou! The idea! Tears in mv eyes! You'd .better consult a doctor about the top of your head! Like other young men under similar circumstances. I might have been a little flat, but I never acted the part of au idiot!" "Speaking about honeymoons," said Mrs. Bowser as she looked Into vacancy, "don't you remember the evening mother came out on the'piazza and found you kneeling at mv leet?" "Never! Never! I'd have seen von and all your relations in Texas before I'd have made such a fool of mvself!" "It was the night 'that old Mr. Pritch ard's horse backed off the bridge and killed him." "I never heard of old Mr. Pritchard or old Mr. Pritchard's old horse or old bridge!" On Ills Knees, Hunting a Nickel. "It was about au hour before we got word of the accident," quietly continued Mr.. Bowser. "We sat on the piazza listening to the wbipponrwills. You kept sighing. By aud by you knelt at my feet, took one ot my hands in both of yours and said that our honeymoon should last forever. When mother come out and caught you, you pre tended to bo looking all round lor a lost nickel. Don't you remember?" "Mrs. B-B-Biiwser!" gasped Mr. Bowser, "I at down here to pend a pleasant even ing!" 'Ye. dear." "In the bosom of my family!" "Yes." "I Telt a tenderness for you, bnt but" "It uas so good of you." "But you have nializned and insulted me, aud turned this room into a regular barroom! You have called me a fool, an idiot, a cabbage lie.i'l and an ass! You have made out that I didn't know putty irom strawberries! I now see how it comes about that husbands are driven from home, and how they become villains and criminals! This is my last evening at home! To-morrow night I" ' ' "Why, Mr. Bowse., we were talking about love and calling up old recollections." Driven From the lfome Fireside. "To-morrow night, Mrs. Bowser, I go to my club, next night to the lodge, the night alter to the prize fight, and I finally bring up in a saloon. It's not my iault. I am driven irom home nialiciouly and design edly driven from my own fireside, and you must take the consequences. Good night, Mrs. Bowser! I realize noiv why honey moous end why husbands grow cold and careless why the divorce courts are over whelmed with applications on the part ot husbands!" " And as he stalked stiffly off to bis den and banged the door after him Mrs. Bowser remembered the evening he had accidentally pinched her finger in the gate and was so worked up over it that he talked of suicide; also the occasion when she was bitten by a mosquito and he declared he would devote the rest ot his life to annihilating the pests and loving her. AS ZVE5IHQ 0? ADVSHITJSE. The Kloker Editor Forgete Bis Gun ad Twt bj tor iba Ormlgfat, la th Ar.tona Kkktr of this wttk I find Mrs. Bomer, TPiaf Are Yon Talking AboU? 19 the following' interesting editorial under the headingj "A Horse On TJs:" The editor of the Kicker (who Is ourselX) Is no relic of the Driit period. Neither la the mayor of this town (who is nlso ounelf) a fugitive from an Eastern idiot asylnm. Oar cotempo- TTir Complied. rary Is cackling and the boys around town aro grinning over our little adventure of last Saturday nllit, but wo fall to sea where we made a 'ool of ourself. At 8 o'clock we leiOonr office to call at the adobe of Widow Spooner. We may as well admit that we nre sparking the widow with a view to matrimony, and have reached the head of her procession of admirers. In changing; our clothes wo forgot our gun, and were Inst half way through the cut at Murray Hill when somebodv Jumped out of the darkness nnd ordered us to throw up our hands. We compiled. We didn't wait to discover" the source of the Mississippi river nr figure on the popular voto for tho Presi dency, but up went our hands then and there. We recognized the voice as a bari tone belonging to French Joe, the cowboy, and wn also had tho advantage- of Knowing that Joseph always shoots plumb center and without wasting valuable time. Wo think our seeming desire not to detain Josoph lunger than necessary counted lu our favor. At Mayor or the town wo have driven him Into the suburbs on four or five different occasions. Once we raked bia head with a bullet, and onco we split his left ear. Naturally enough be sighed for re venue. When Joseph saw that he had the drop on ns he ejected aliva on our Chicago plug hat. Later on, Ior hU special amusement, we knelt down and sang a song. When he ordered us to eat grass, wo felt that we were lucky in not h.ivlui' to eat sand. It is no nse denying that Joseph toyed with us and had heaps of fun at our expense He is a humor ous cuss and ho did a great deal of liughing. He wanted im excuso to bore half a dozen holes in our anatomy, but we didn't furnish hint one. He kept ns pretty busy lor about an hour nnd then gave ns a vacation. It Is needless to add that we accepted his kind offer and put hair a mile between ns as speedily a possible. There may be something to laugh at, but we don't see it. When a man gets the drop on ns that ends It for the time being. We propose to do all tho crawling be demands. Joseph had us dead to rights, and we feel that we did the right thing in the right place. It will be our turn next, however. Wo are running a great family newspaper, attending to onr duties as Mayor and looking for Joseph at thosama time. We shall find him within a few days. TVe are no sport, but we'vo got S200 to wager, even up, that we plant French Joe in our private graveyard within the next ten davs, unless bo dies of heart failure or leaves the country. IHE BEAE WAS OSLIQEU A Little Circus for Him Provided at the Expense of the Camp. "While we were working on the Elkhorn tunnel grizzly bears were an everyday sight To the right of the mouth of the tunnel was a shallow.ravine and 000 feet away from us and in tne bottom pf the ravine was a big gum tree. ThaT "tree was a grindstone for the grizzlies to sharpen tneir clawxon. A big fellow would lumber up the ravine and ' go for that tree with four or five ot us look ing full at him. He'd rear up aud claw with first one foot and then the other, aud the way he'd make the wood fly was as tonishing. Every time he clawed he'd grunt, and after working away for a quarter of an hour he'd sit up ou end and look so good u at a redly at us that no one would shoot at him. One day some chaps came along to light up the drift with electricity, and as soon as the boss of the gang saw a bear at work on the tree he remarked that he'd show us some fun. "We chipped in for a keg of blasting powder, and one afternoon he went down and buried it at the foot of the tree nnd run his wire. Next morning we went over to the tunnel to find an old socker of a grizzly clawing that tree. Slap! bang! da-.nl rake!'went the claws of old Fphraim, as he worked away, and for a time he kept the air full of bark aud splinters. "Boys," said the electrician after awhile. "keep your jyes on that bear! You are going to see more fun to the square toot than was ever heard of in America be fore!" Ho went over to the power house and tnrned on the current and exploded the blast. What we saw was a cush of flame, a cloud of smoke and a big grizzly bear sail ing skyhigh. and clawing the air as he sailed. "What we heard 'was a thundering report and a great splintering and shiver in?, aud the big .tree finally toppled and fell. We lost sight of the bear in the cloud, and no one saw him when he came down. All ot a sudden, however, we beheld him seated on the edge of the great hole scooped out by the blast. Tlie powder and dirt had made a black bear of him. and splinters of wood were sticking into his fur until he looked like a porcupine. But the "old man" was still in the ring. Hs licked his right rnre .paw and growled. Then he licked his lett one and sort o chuckled. Then he looked up at us, with s cock to his right eye, uttered a "woof!" and ambled off down the ravine as playful ns a kitten. He just thought we had been giving a circus tor his benefit, and he was much obliged! M. QuAXtf Tlie Hoosier Poet to Lecture. James "Whitcomb Kiley, the Barns of America, as he has often been called, will appear before an audience for their amuse ment at Carnegie Hall. Tuesday evening. Mr. Kiley. has already won the hearts of Pittsburgers on his previous visits here by his true portrayal of character, and will doubtless be welcomed by a large audience, as he deserves. SICK HEADACHE-CartCT,5 Lmie Ur p- sick irEADAcnE-C3rter.4L,ttIoLlTerPlUfc SICK HEADACnE-Cart.,LlttloLlTerpKU SICK HJiUACHE-ct,,L,ttleLlTerPttIJ. lej-MocwTsn UKOKEHS FINANCIAL. ESTABLISHED 1881. John M. Oakley & Co.,- BANEEKS AND BBOKEBS. x', 45 SIXTH ST. Direct private wlro to New Yorlc and Chl' cago. Member Xew York, Chicago and Pits burg Exchanges. Local securitlo-t bought and sold for casi or carried on liberal margins. Investments made at our discretion anil tilvldendi paid quarterly. Interest paid or. balance (since 183)" Alouey to lean fin call. K Information books on all markets mailed' on application. iej Whitney & Stephenson 57 Fourth Avcnua, JUM5 J I ' r ? .-" -W.. jfr7J?.,( Fi T"iiittM
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