A WOMAN'3 mld I were lying in a field of clover, Of clover cool and soft, and soft and sweet, itb dusky clouds 1 deep skies hanging over, And rented silence it my head and feet. Just tor one hour to lip tlie leash of worry In eager haste from thoiifilit ' impatient neck, And wntch it coursing in Us heedless hurry Disdaining wisdom' whistle, duly' buck. All, it wero sweot where cioTcr clumps are nieetinz, And daisies liidine, an to hide nnd root: So sound except ruy own hvnrt's sternly healing, Rocking lUelf to sleep within my brenst. A DANGEROUS RIDE BY WILL rTAD come from the East to seek my fortune, In Colorado. After spending nearly two years In pros pecting In different parts of the State, I resolved to go to Los Vegan, Sew Mexico, and try to get u position ,n the railroad, as I always had a klnjr for that sort of work. Well, I only got as far as Trinidad, kvlien I found myself without a dollar n the -world, and of course I hud to ktop over and soe If I could not get oiuethlng to do. I went to the Sante Fe railroad sta- iou and applied for work, but fulled o pet any encouragement. Then I ent to the different trnluuii.-u and nadc diligent Inquiries, but none of Item knew of any Job that was open. A conductor, who was then running local freight on this line, promised 11 give mo a position as brakeman. If would remain In Trlnldud two taeeks. Ills bead braketnan was go ng to quit him, he Informed tne, and could have tho place If I chose to p.mulu there till the vacancy oo arred; but two days later he was re moved to another division of the road. ad I was loft without any prospect of aiploymeut lu Trinidad. I then resolved to go to Los Vegf.s t once, but, having no money to pay iy fare, I was at a loss to know what i) do. At last, however, I decided to d to the railroad station and endoav- ir to got some of the brakemcn on le freights o .let me ride. When 1 ' nrrlved at the station I lound that a Ions freight train had ist pulled up and was Maudlng on ae side track to wait the coming f the eastern-bound express. I first approached thn conductor, iiid, explaining my condition, asked la to carry lue over his division, but ! dismissed mc with the curt reply !t his train was a freight, train :.il he was forbidden to carry passen rs. Discouraged but not despairing, I '.'nt to the head brakeinan and 'tight to Induce him to allow me to le on one of the box cars. "Got any money'" he asked. "Not a cent," I replied, ' bill " "You'll have to Tc'ulk then," he said, id passed on. I tried the other brakeman with i;o result; then I began to feel prol- f blue: I walked up the truck nlong e side of the train, wishing that I 1 never seen the State of Colorado. Presently I slopped to admire a new liomotivo that was in thn train near centre. It was a beautiful piece f workmanship, fresh from the iops, and was being taken south for e Mexican Central. While I was standing there the iiia was uncoupled just back of the oomotlvo, and tho lower section eked down to another switch. A few minutes later the express Jit by and then the section that d been mil' back was brought on to main truck and went thundering Its way to ltuton. You see the "Ins had to bo pulled up this long ade lu sejtlons, then, and an engine s kept at the point to do the work. As soon as the train had disappeared 1 the slopo. I heard the bell ring, d then the other section began to ive forward. Not until that mo at, when the disagreeable sensa a of being left bcLTind took posses- '0 of mo, did I have the remotest 'i of attempting to steal a ride en it occurred to me that I might "ay lido on tho engine at. the rear 1 of tho train, iiud no one bo tho r; Du t I hesitated to do such a ''a. and should have given up tho had not the brakeman pointed to ' engine and hinted that ,lf I didn't ' backbone enough to get aboard 1 ride. 1 ousht to walk. P'lmg encouraged. I r.iu forward and I'ed aboard the moving engine. I crept Into the tender mid seat myself where I would oe hid from ' observation of any one who might 3 along the train. I knew that tho 'keuuin would shield me If he llll. hut I must not allow the coa 'or to discover my presence, "e tiulu was now moving faster 1 faster, uud tho clatter of the wig over a Joint In the rails told 1 'hut we were passing over tho 'leli and on to the ' main track. A soon struck tho long, alei i "o. and moved verv alnwiv. Tbero " level space, a quarter of u mile - Perhaps, just below the last 1,0 ot two miles. V( bud reneheil I, and were starting up the last '-. wuen tne engine stuck. '"'aid the loud, rapid nutliiin- of the "motive as tho wheels slipped cm "ack, nnd then the train gtadu ' ram to a standstill. ' I hen we " io move backward, and I know were banting on to the level rueo :ot n new siart. " ! train u,Vwj pretty fast down fade, and I i'jKut!v .,.,, 1hnt MaZim.or vas out of humor.' lu m ''T"1 t"" lHV4,1 1'' na d the down rjiule below If, when -'. brou-ht almost to numl- he tngujc K;,vc, a ,0M,, J9li:J1.f I WISH. Jut to lie thrrt, fil'd lriih the deeper breathing v That come of listening to a free bird'a ongl Our stalls require at timei thia full un sheathing All swords will nut if Seabtiardkept loo long. And I am tired! an tired of ricid duty. So tired of all my tired hands find to do! , I yenrn, I faint, for some of lifa'a froc twaiity, It loose benda with no straight strings running throuijh. Ay, laugh, if ln'.ijh you will, at my crudo pr.erh, Hut women sometime die of such a (treed, Die for the atrall joys held beyond their reach, And the assurance they bare all they need. Mary A. Townaend, in the Argonaut. L1SENBEE. then there came a rallllng of cars as It began to move forward again. Then I felt a violent jerk, I heard some thing break, and the engine on which I was riding stopped, while the train moved on up the track. Tho violent pull given by tho exas perated engineer had broken tits coup ling, nnd I was being left behind. I knew that the break would soon be discovered, and when the conductor should come back to Investigate tho accident, I would be found and put ofT the train. As soon as I realized this. I began to look hastily about me for some place In which to conceal myself. Happening to glance downward, I discovered the door leading down to the furnace Btaudlug open, and in a moment I hnd concealed myself in the fire box, closing the door behind me. Scarcely had I gained the shelter of that rather unusual hldiug place when I felt the engine begin to slowly move down the track. For a short time I thought uothing of this, and r.iomentarlly expected to hear the train back against It, but as th? mo ments went by and the sound ot the truin grew fainter und fainter, I came to the conclusion that the breaking loose of the engine had not been dls covered. I now resolved to crawl from my place of concealment, but as I at tempted to open the dour I found that It wus latched on the outside, and I was as securely fastened lu as If I had been locked In the strongest pris on. The engine was now gaining speed at every turn of the wheels, nnd would soon be rushing with frightful rapid ily down the steep Incline. With a feeling of horror I realized my awful peril, for I knew that In descending the ten-mile grade there was litile hope that the engine would stay upon the rails. I shouted at the top of my voice, hoping that some of the train men had returned to tho en gine, but only the sound of the swift ly rolling wheels came in answer to my call. There were several sharp curves ulong the route, and some Jt these were on the very verge of deep abysses, making the peril of my de- sera t so great that I was almost be aldo myself with terror. Glancing downward through tho grate I could see the road running like a great belt beneath me, while faster and faster rolled lite engine, sending up a cloud of dust that almost slilled mo. Tho engine now rocked violently from side to side, and every moment I expected it to leave the track. If I c.iuld only escape from my prison there might jet be time for me to jump and save myself. Once more I took hold of the lion door and shook it witli ull my might, hut It remained as solid as the walls of iron about me, I now despaired of escape, and, al most stupefied with the terror of my situation, I sat there nnd waited for whatever might happen. The speed was growing frightful, and every in stant I expected the engine to leap from the rails anil go crushing down Into one of the deep ravines that skirt ed the road. Suddenly I felt the engine lurch vio lently from side to side as it rounded a curve, then, to my joy, I saw that the furnaco door had been thrown open by the shock. With a cry of le l.ght I sprang through tho opcnlnj ami was soon standing in the cab. A single glance told mo ihat It would be worse thnn madness to lea) from that fast flying engine, which w now moving at a speed of fifty miles an hour. The high cliffs and patches oi cedars th.it skirled the road shot by mo lu a mingled streak of grtiy and green. Far down the track ahead I saw n gang of section men a' work. Tho next mluuto tho engine, which semed to have leaped the Intervening, space, shot by them like a flash. I only caught a brief glance of their aston Ished faces as they hurried back from the track, then they faded from flow fr.r behind. So bewildered and stupefied was I oy tho perils of tho situation In which I found myself that It was several mo ments beforo I recovered my presenco of mind sulllclently to realize the ne cosily of some Immediate action. I glanced hurriedly about me, my eyes falling on the polished levers, use less without steam. Then I caught sight of the brake on tho tender, and leaping forward, I grasped the lever and gavo It a vigorous turn. There was a sharp, hissing sound as the Iron brakes rame lu contact with the swift ly rolling wheels, nnd sparks of Are shot from each side of the tender, but there was no vlslblo slackening of tho speed of tho engine. Using all the force I couid command I set th brakes, uud then stood helplessly ther In tho tender while I was svlftly whirled down tho mountain road. Full four miles ahead 1 could now see the eily of Trinidad. I knew thn U would be Impossible fur mo to stuj: tua engine before I reached that place. but. I still hoped to fbock Its speed sufficiently to keep It from flying the tmek. This was my only hope. I could see long lines of ears on the aide tracks and a number of engines switching iibcnt the yards near the station, and I chuddercd as I thought of what would happen should the ninln track not bo clear when I reached the plnce. Only a few seconds now and I would be nt Trinidad. As one In a dream X again set the brakes n notch tighter, and then, grasping the bell cord, I rang the bell furiously. The engine seemed to be fairly lifted from the track as It swept round a curve aud went thun dering on Irs way. I rast a fleeting ftlnuce at the station close ahead. I only saw a confused mnss of buildings nnd cars; then I dashed by like a me teor. Then, as I (tallied a lovcl stretch of track tho engine began to slacken 1U speed, and presently came to a standstill nearly a mile below the ta Hon. I was saved! A mist galhered before my eyes, nnd I sunk down unconscious In the boltotn of the cab. When I regained my senses I found quite a crowd of people collected about me. nmong whom was the con ductor, who had returned with his train for the missing engine. When he asked me how I had come to be on the engine I told him that I was in tending to ride to Los Vegas, but did not mention the part the brakeman had playod In the matter. To my surprise he did not seem dis pleased nt me for my attempt to steal a ride, but complimented me on my nerve In slaying with the engine at the risk of my life, and putting on the brake as I did. I bad saved the com pany the loss of several thousand dol lars, he explained, for which he him self might have been blamed. "You give me more credit than I deserve," I replied. And then I ex plained how I had been shut up in the fire box till it was too late to leave the engine. He cast n surprised glance at me, aud then said: "Well, you certainly possess frank ness and truthfulness, which Is, after nil, more to your credit than tho per formance of a brave deed would have been. Come with mo to Los Vegas and I'll see what I can do for you." Ho took me with him to Los Vegas, where he obtained for me work as a brakeman, and six months ago I was promoted to the position I row hold. Waverley Maguslne. Kit; Mau Played Childhood Oame-a. Persons walking through Cliy Hall Park the other day stopped to gaze curiously at a hulking Italian laborer who sat on the curb of the plaza en gaged In nn odd pastime. lie was bo intent on what he was doing that he failed for u time to notice the atten tion ho was attracting. The big fellow was evidently wait ing for the loading of a wagon. He had selected a half dozen pebbles from a heap of earth whleh had been hoist ed out of the subway excavation and had udoptud one of the games of bis childhood to help hiin pass away tho time. He would arrange five of the peb bles in u row several Inches apart and would then toss tho sixth lu the nlr and swlfry picking up one of the stones from the curb deftly catch tho other In Its descent. It was much like the game of , jackstones, except that there were no "oncsys," "twosys" or "upsy-cateh," with which children of to-day vary the sport. The very incongruity of the picture made It attractive that great, strong chup amused by such a simple pas time. When nt last, looking up, be discov ered the little group of people looking nt him, he gathered up the pebbles, nnd, with a sheepish gesture, tossed them into the dirt pile. Then, ho walked away as if he had done some thing to bo ashamed of. New York Hail aud Express. A Quoatlcm uf inty. What is a man's duly toward a do; lost lu the mazes of city streets? Ono walked slowly past me the other morn ing, lifting an appealing eye in pa thetic groping after a. friendly glance. Thy streets were full of hurrying men, jet nobody had a word or nod j cheer hlni against the loss of his mas ter, lie walked past mo slowly, looked mo over with furtive turnings, but kept on his way, utTeeting not to be interested. Then he trotted back aud ranged alongsldo with hopeful lifting of soft brown eyes. I smiled aud the eyes took on a gleam, lie moved a step ueurer, atlll preserving a fair show of dignity. 1 stooped to pat bis bead, and then It was all up with him; away tlew dignity nnd lone some fear and he sut right down and whimpered and cried under the friend ly touch. It had all been so lonesome. Then he trotted along, confidingly trusting his new friend, hopeful and self-respecting once more, until wo reached tho F.levated stalrwuy. My road lay there, and his who knows? He had been betrayed and turned adrift again into tho hurrying street. Now what was my duty lu the mat ter? Should I havo passed hlin with out a word in tho first place? Tho Observer, In Harper's Weekly. Fair at Forty. It was Ealzac who discovered that the woman of thirty Is mure fascin ating than the girl of twenty. Now the I.udy'a Pictorial puts the senitb of feminine charm a decade later, de claring that the apple of discord Is due to tho woman of forty. It Is an Inter esting profession of faith and ono wonders whether the geueral accept ance of it by mankind has anything to do with that Increasing tendency to defer marriage till late lu life which modern philosophers have often no ticed aud sometimes deplored. If tho woman of forty la really the most charming woman It la only natural that bachelors should wish to remain bachelors until they are lit helpmates for her. Thoro Is, however, one re flection that should givo them pauses Howem- much more charming than the girl of. twenty tho woman of for ty may be, there remains a strong probability that she may not keep her charms so long. That fuct, also should certainly be borno in mind by Coelebs iu search of a wife. Loudon Pally lii'apkic , - - - - - PEASANT LIFE IN ITALY VtEN AND WOMEN LABOR IN FIELDS FROM DAWN TILL DARK. naday Kot a Day f Beit A Mtlla Maat oi Unlltlnys No Schooling- For Chll . drtn-Tlii Ilonae of tho raaaantry Fond of a Family From sunny Italy came the anarch ist who Hlew the Kmpreps Elizabeth, President Carnot, Prime Minister Canovas aud finally Humbert himself. In sunny Italy Is probably tho rank est growth of anarchy iuid socialism fn all Kuropo. And In tho sunny plains and valleys of northern Italy is what perhsp" 1" the worst condition of serfdom that exists In Europe to day. Here In the provinces that bord er en tha river Po Lombard, Vcne- tla and Kuollla the peasantry stagger tinder burdens to depressing and tin bending that It Is no wonder that the extract from this human press Is an archy and socialism. It Is in these provinces that tho ferment of social rsm has worked tho most. Here the peasants art) organized more or less completely Into (toclallsnc groups. .Whatever of worth there was in the old system of labor la thaw provinces disappeared twenty years ago when many of tho old nobles were forced to give up their landed estates because ot the fall In price of wheat and cat tle, due largely to American compe tition. With tho rulu of tho nobles name that of many ot the tennnt farmers and small proprietors, who were compelled to leave tho fertile and smiling country and go Into the towns for work, or else emigrate to America, there to begin life anew. The field laborers of Italy are divid ed Into two classes, the obbligall, who arc hired by the year, and the dlsob- bllgatl, who are employed by the day, The former class, of courso, are a lit tlo better off than the latter, for their contract ruus longor, and they can look further ahead. But In alther class the outlook la miserable enough. For not only doea tho peasant bind himself to work for his owner, but be binds hla whole family, with the pos sible exception of babes, who would be Included, except that they can pro duce nothing, and therefore are left In tho corners of tho fields. For this reason, that an employer can get the services of an entire family for the price of one man, an unmarried man, or the mau with a wife and no chil dren, is at a great disadvantage, for work for him is not to be had as long as there nre unemployed families at hand. Yet another hard feature of this system Is tliut the head of the family must stipulate. If he has un married daughters, that they shall not marry for the period of time which the contract has to run. A day's work In this part of sunny Italy Is from 4 In tho morning to 9 at night that Is, from the first flush of dawn to the Inst light to be had from the setting sun. There Is no Sunday in the calendar of tho Italian peasant. On tho day of tho week which all Christendom observes, as on other days, ho Is in the field at i o'clock In the morning, nnd between 7 aud 8 has bis breakfast; ho gets an hour nt midday and half an hour at S3 or t! o'clock, and then ho works on until he no longer can see. The women go Into the fields with the men. They hoo In the maize fields, feed the cuttle nnd cultivate the flax If tho children nre babes they can do nothing to tho great sorrow of the omployer, for they eat, if over so little. but do not produce. But when they get to be a few years old they are useful in looking after the pigs, etc., and as soon as possible they are sent to work with their parents. Tho situ atlon In the green fields of Italy is ubout us complete a refutation of the Malthusian theory as Its most ardent opponent could desire, for It Is the man with many children who sets tho most out of life as It Is lived in sunny Italy. .j,.., j, v, The wages of the peasant's family are partly in money and partly lu kind, and he has the privilege of rent free. In cash ho gets from $15 to $-H) a year; In kind ho get fourteen.bushels of mulae, seven bushels of wheat and from i.00 to 200 bundles of firewood. If he is In a vineyard section he re calves in addition 800 to U00 pounds of grapes, while in other sections he gets six to nine bushels of rye. Ho may get some rice, which he mixes with the millet to produce the indigestible bread which Is responsible for the dls ease called pellagra. Then he may havo the privilege of a little patch of ground on which he may ralso inulze, two-thirds of which goes to tho employer, und he may raise sun worms, too. So the average peasant's family of six persons may earn altogether from jjio to 5125 a year. Tho house of the Itulian peasaut usually contains several othur fatal lies. A lodging consists of a kitchen a bd room and two other small rooms, In tho older houses oiled paper an swers for a window, nnd the houses nre damp, moldy and smoky. Of courso the food of a fnmllv whoso united income is about six cents a tlay Is bound to bo rather ineuirer Polenta, which Is flour of malzo cooked in water. Is the main dish Breakfast consists of poleuta and n little cheese. For dinner there Is no. lentu, and bacon, soup, with perhaps fish from the brook, or eggs. At 5 o ciock polenta and cheeso in the meal and at supper polenta and a salnd of the cheapest vegetables. On Christmas and on Easter meat Is set on tne table sparingly. The firewood which tho peasants got is rarely sufficient to cook with iu the summer, and in the winter the fumilv take, refuge In the cow shed, where the employer, uudor pretense that hu provides a light In tho stables, lays cmim o a portion or the tlux spun by me women in tne barns. Of schooling for the children thero la none, except in the winter In tho villages. . Consequently, muny or these Italians who como to America in the hopes of uetteriug their condition can neituer read nor write their own luu guage. Great wonder it is if anything uooii can come out ot modern Italy. idw lorit 1'iess. Brazil produces 1GO.000 tons of ccf feo out of tho world's yeni-iy crop of ilOO.OOQ tons. Women In Austria nre never put In prison. A female criminal, no matter how ter.dhlo her record, Instead of being tsii L to Jail, is convoyed to ono of the convents devoted to thnt pur pose, and there she Is kept until the expiration of the term for which sho was sentenced. The body of an Indian was recently Discovered In an ancient dl.iueed cop per mine In Chile. It was in a statu of perfect preservation, owing to the antiseptic action of the copper salts. The style of the dress, ote.. Indicated that it had lain there probably since about the yenr 1000. One of the freaks of nature has re cently been discovered close to the Im mense tunnel that Is nearlng comple tion on th line of the Southern Pa cific running along tho boundary Una of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Home workmen employed by tho com pany discovered an Immense rock that to a perfect image of a man's head. Cnrious markings are left upon th victims of lightning. Often trees and shrubs to the minutest twig are out lined In purple upon the body.. For merly It was believed that this was due to some natural photographic pro cess. It Is now known to bo the vivid outlining of veins underneath the skin uue to the Instantaneous molecular charge In the blood. The effect Is In describably weird. Mortuary relics found in Mexico In dicate that human life was held ehenp there, nnd that tho sncredness of the dead was little regarded. Towers built of skulls and mortar have been found in the burial vaults of the an cient temples, and rooms decorated with symmetrical figures in skulls and liones. In one of these ghastly burial places more than 100,000 skulls were found. The most singular clrcumsiance about Arundel Castlo Is that Its owner by mere right of ownership Is Earl oi Arundel In the peerage of England. It is believed that there is no similar ex ample of a peerage held on such condi tions In the kingdom, for apparently there would be no legal obstacle, sup posing tho house of Howard fell on evil days and the castlo was ailienated to some millionaire, to provent the said millionaire taking his seat in the House of Lords as Earl of Aruudel. One of tho most curious spectacles ever seen in tho Emerald Isle took piaco at Limerick some years ago. A young lady named Heleu Brooks had, in consequence of her personal attrac tions, a large number of suitors, but she rejected all their addresses until t. length her afTeetions were fixed upon a man double her own ago. She, therefore. Invited mauy of the unsuc cessful suitors to attend her wedding, nnd to their credit be It said that tho majority took their defeat lu good part, and not only formed a procession to the church, but congratulated tho lucky bridegroom Into tho bargain.. FUUbonc and t'hia. "The queerest kind of cases which I am called upon to treat is thnt of per sons who Imagine they have swal lowed pins or fish bones," salda phy sician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. "You would bo surprised nt tho num ber of these patients. In some in stances a pin or a bono has been swal lowed, but lu the majority of cases the trouble is wholly imaginary. They complain of n sticking, pricking sensa tion in tho throat which they thluk is caused by somo obstruction. A few days ago n woman told me site had swallowed a small piece of wood. I examined her throat thoroughly, but saw nothing to justify her complaint. Upon questioning her sho told nie It happened a year and a half ago. She added that she often had her throat examined by various physicians, all of whom told her thero was nothing iu her throut, but she wouldn't believe them." Philadelphia Press. . Onr lMftgeat Gun. Some spectacular particulars avo given of the United States guu, which will preserve America's Inalienable right to possess the "biggest thing on earth." It will weigh 120 tons, will havo a length of forty-nine feet three Inches, and a djainetor fluo by degree nnd beautifully less varying from sixty inches to twenty-eight inches. It will bo able to fire Its flve-foot-four-Inch projectile un extreme distance of nearly twenty-one miles 20.078 miles is the exact figure and a projeetilo fired at the elevation required for this distance will uttulu a height of S0,51ti feet, "higher," says tho picturesque recorder, "than the combined eleva tions of Plko's Peak aud Mount Blaue." Thus the record distance tired by a Krupp 0.2-lueh gun on April 2N, 1802, when twelve and a half miles were covered and a height of 21,4."itl feet was attained, will bo completely surpassed. London Post. WaterlDR-l'ot For tho Uualna. Passengers on a Third nveuuo ele vated trulu on ono of tha recent hot days saw how one tenement hoaso mother kept her babies well nnd, per haps, comfortable. She watered them like plants. Thtre were two babies and they were sprawling on a piece of Htruw matting on the fire escape balcony. If they had clothes on that fact was not noticeable from tho car windows. As the train went by the mother was leaning out over tho tiro csenpi! giving her children a shower bath from nn old fashioned watering pot with a spray nozzle. New York Sun. A BflO.OOO Foarl. The most famous pearl discovered In Australia of late years is that known as the Southern Cross. It con sists of a cluster of nine pearls lu tha sliupo of a crucifix, and Is iilmost per fect In proportion. This freak of na ture, was picked up nt low wafer oa I he Laclpedo Islands by u beach comb, er named Clark; it t.'ita last i!d for 530.000. .. - - f COMMERCIAL REVIEW, Otacral Trad Condition. E. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Reviaw' of Trade" says: "Normal conditions, have bean ally restored au the diatri-l burton rA merchandise, the placing of aVlaved ordtn stimulating the few line that appeared to bait. Une of the moat gratifying features of the business sit uation is the pronounced preference for Vhc better grades of goods, clearly indi eating tlx improved Cnascial condition f consumers. "Steadiness in quotations of corn at the present high level is all that pro ducers cottld desire. Shipments from the Atlantic Coast for the week were 738,030 bashers, against 1,560,018 lest year and 3.954,477 two years ago. "Wheat is well sustained aud still set ter prices are promised by the heavy export movemtat, which from all Uawt ed States ports for fhe week reaoiied 5, 368,413 btts-hcis, flour included, atfainst 3-557.4&J last year and 4.605,363 in lSyo. Western receipts of 8,292.4.56 bushels exceed even the liberal shipments ia 1900 of 6,954.777 bushels. "Failures for the week numbered 337 in the United States against 204 last ytar, and 31 is Canada against iS last year." LA EST QUOTATIONS. Hour Best Pa tent. $4.60; HifA Grade Extra, $4.10; Minnesota bakers fa 0583. 10. Wheat Kew York, No. 2 red, 73a 73cj Philadelphia, No. 2 red, 7Ja73J4c; Baltimore, 73c. Corn New York, No. a, 64'c; rhM aderphin. Ko. a, 3a63c; Baltimore, No. a, 5.S58.4c. Oats New York, No. 2, 41c; Phila delphia, No. a white, 43042'; BaW aiore, No. a white, 3qJ4c. Hay No. 1 timothy, $16.50; No a timothy, $15.50416.00; No. 3 timothy, $i4.ooai45o. Green Fruits and Vegetables Apples Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virgia ia, per brl, fancy, $t.6oat.75. Beets Native, per 100 bunches $1.0031.50. Cab. bagc Native,, per 100 $i.5oa2.rx; do, Kew York State, per ton $n.ooaia.oo. Carrots Native, per bunch iasc Cauliflower Long Island, per crate or Wrl $3.503.00. Celery New York State, per lotn stalks 300500. Cora Sugr, per dozen, native 5a7C Cran berries Cape Cod, per brl $6.0096.50. Eggplants Native, per -basket 15a aoc; do, per too a$i.oo. Grapes New York, per 5-Ib basket, Concorde, 8a8j4c; do, per 5-lb basket, Niagaras loan. Lettuce Native, per bushel box 30123c. Lima beans Native, per busb el box 650700. Onions Maryland sad. Pennsylvania, yellow, per bu 8oR5e; do Ohio, yellow, per bu 80185. Ovster plants Nitiva, per bunch 3a3c. String beans Native, per bu, green 30140c. Peaches Eastern Shore, per box, yel lows, 75390c. Pears Eastern Shore, Sucliess. per basket 15120c; do. New York Bartletts, per brl, $3.001400. Pumpkins Native, each 3c. Tomo-' toes Eastern Shore, Maryland, per basket asasaic. Turnips Native, per bushel box 35840c. Potatoes White Native, per bushel box 7oa8oc; do, Maryland and Pennsyl vania, per bushel, No. I, 70175; do, sec onds, 45a6o; 6V, New York, per bu, prime a8o. Sweets Eastern Shore, Virginia, per brl, yellows, $1.5011.65; do, Anne Arundel, per brl, No. I $1.50 1.65. Yams Virginia, per brl, No. I a$i.oo. Provisions and Hog Products Bulk rib sides iojc; elear do 10; shoulders, g'A ; do, fat backs, 14 lbs and under ; 18 lbs and under g-4 ; do, bellies, IQ',4; do, mess strip H'A; do, ham butts 9; bacon clear rib sides n; clear nji; do, shoulders 10; sugar-cured breasts, small 13'A; do, 12 lbs and over, 13!; do, shoulders, bladecuts, Q'i; do, tlo, narrows, o'A; do, do, extra broad loja; do, do, California hams of4; hams, 10 lbs 13 to 13'A; do, 13 lbs and over 12$; do, 15 lbs and over is'A; do, skinned 13'A; do, beef, Western, canvassed and uncanvassed sets 14'4; do, do, tenders 16'A; mess pork $17.50; ham pork $17.50; lard, refined, 50-lb cans nc; do, do, half-barrels and new tubs ll'i. Lard, in tierces nc. Dairy Products Butter Elgin 23a 24c; separator, extras 22a23; ds, firsts, 2oa2t; do, gathered cream 20121; do, imitation I7ai9; ladle, extra 15217; la dles, first 14115; choice Western rolls 15116; fair to good 13114; half-pound creamery, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania 31323; do, rolls, 2-lb, do 20c. Eggs Western Maryland and Penn sylvania, per dozen in'jaigc; Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virginia, per dor en 18119; Virginia, per dozen i8'4a 19; West Virginia ai8; Western i8;4a 19; Southern I75ai8; guinea a ; icehouse, closely candled I7li7j4c. Job bing prices V2 to ic higher. Cheese New eheesc, large, 60 lbs 10! to I0'4c; do, flats, 37 lbs, 10!$ to lo'A; picnics, 23 lbs, loj to ir. Hides Heavy steers, association and alters, late kill, 60 lbs and up, close selection, iojiaiic; cows and light steers, o9j4. Live Stock. Chicago Cattle Good to prime steers $6.ooa6.45; stockers and feeders $-4.3534.30; cows $1.5034.75; heifers $2.00 4-75; canners $1.5002.30; bulls $1,758 t75; calves $3.0026.50. Hogs Mixed a ad ntchers' $6.7017.10; good to choice, heavy $6.8037.20; rough, heavy $6,408 6 75; light $6.4516.95. Sheep Good te choice wethers $3.6034.00; fair to choice mixed $3.3033 60; Western sheep $3.31 3.85; native lambs $3.ooa5.oo; Western lams $3.753475- East Liberty Cattle steady; choice $57516.00; prime $5.5085.70; good $5 ao 35.50.- Hogs Slow and lower; prime heavies $72537.30; assorted medium $7.aoa7.25 heavy Yorkers $7.1537. 2; light Yorkers $7.0007.10; grassers $6.o 07.00; pigs $6.5016.80; skip $4.7515.75; roughs $5.0036.90. Sheep steady; beat wethers $3.8034.00; culls and common $l.25a2.25; yearlings $2.5034.25; veal clves $7.0017.75. LABOR AND INDUSTRY Alaska has but twelve farms. Springfield, Mass., coal handlers won advance in wages. Denmark is said to be the best or ganized country in the world. Labor is so scarce at Hartford fitv Ind., that common labor exacted $1 50 a day. St. Paul mason tenders have wiih drawn from the Building Trades Coun cil. An ounce of gold was worth fiftcn ounces cf eilver in the year 1800. It woysd buy Iweoty-one ounces in 1900. Farm laborers of Indiana went out on a strike, atter forming a union for high er wages and shorter hours, and won. German experts have ascertained that railway rails deteriorate sooner in tun nels than elsewhere because of the ertect of injurious gases. , The workingmcn ot Kewanee. Id., are preparing to start a co-operative store with a capital of $.'5,000. There urn 500 shares of $5 each. Denver Typoffrauhical L'mon Ins in augm';''t'd eight-hour work-day, in bonk and job ullires. Tha scale re main the same. The r;'diu'n)n in hours was effected amicably. f.J.fA!. VJL-fr..'.i: U.HtSs. froaer Conrtrartloa Bait rnblle Help For hl WiVM. 'A paper was read before the Ind pendent Telephone Association of tn United Rtntes at IlufTalo not oog afro by 8. P. Sheer! n. Home of his Ideas ire calculated to provoke discussion, ind will not command universal aaw ent, but others are sensible and con rlnclnir. Mr. Sheerln favored plenty, f neat, heavy poles, none of them shorter than twenty-flve feet, and at least six Inches In diameter. Then ha would allow no grounded lines, bu have complete metallic circuits. Thai better the line the better the service aud If the genera! appearance was re- spectable he thonKht It would com mand better treat meat from small boys. The telephone, Mr. Sheerln In-, slsts, has a perfect right on the nlRhi way, since It Is built for communlcst tlon between residents of a town, ex actly as a road Is. Strong (round was taken In rritardl to trees. The speaker said: "A It was necessary to trim away the orig inal forests to make the roads so t would trim away the trees along tha aide of the road which belongs to tha telephone. Trees alons highway, near houses, can Just as well be set bftck twenty-five or thirty feet. Thejr huve no business ou the highway or overlapping the highway, when they; interfere with the uses ot the hlgh way." Whatever b. thought of this and other opinions expressed by Mr. Sheer ln. few will dissent from the follow ing doctrine. "Tho telephone which, after all, has only had Its development In the Inst six or seven years Is a greater boon to farmers than to anj other clans of people. The great draw backs of-country life are Its Isolation, Its meagre opportunities for social In tercourse, and Its still fewer oppor tunities for protection. When wo adit to these the disadvantages of betas out of touch with the market nud out of reach of the great news pulse oi. tho country, the sum of the country life's shortcomings Is complete. The tele phone changes all this. It comes aa a benefactor, exceeding all others In its possibilities and usefulness. No mau can fully estimate Its benefit to tho farmer. It brings his ear close to the market tickers of the world; brlngn the weather report to his door In tlma to protect bis crops and cattle, and travels what would be to him and hla horse weary mile In the ordinary transaction of his every day business.' Cats as OoTcratneut Offiolals. "Several years ago a letter contain ing a large sum of money disappeared from the New York postofBce," writes Hugh Nctherton, in the Ladles' Homa Journal, In telling of "Cabs That Draw Salaries." "A month after the disappearance a desk In one of the rooms was moved, and on tha floor was found a nest of young rata resting on a bed of macerated green backsall that was left of tho missing, letter. Uncle Sain tit last decided to employ a cat to protect the New York postotneo from rats nnd mice. The first appointee in the United States l!at and Mouse Catching Service wan a large, gray tabby. She secured the place through the recommendation ot her owner, who certified that she waa not only n good mousor, but also a friend of the Administration qualities which she at once exemplified by her .work. 1 "With Now York as an exnmple, other postotllces asked for cats, and to-day nearly every largo office In the United States has ils official mouser or. rat-killer, who receives from nine to twelve dollars a year. This income is expended under the supervision of tho postmasters for the purchase ot food. Milk is the chief item, for tha cats are supposed to provide them selves with meat." "" The Boy Art Critic. Yv'ise men say there Is nothing real ly new in this world, and perhaps the boy who pasted the following critic ism upon the drawing abilities of hla big sister was an unconscious plagiar ist, but anyway his verdict amused his sister so Liuch that she tells it occasionally, though the joke is on herself. Tho young woman has a fondness for executing those works of art which consist In the representation of dead game birds hanging by their heels from a nail ou a board, fish on a platter ready for the cook, nnd fruit grouped on a table around a wine glass. These gems she turned oft at the rate of about four a year, nud pre sented them to her friends for their dining room walls. She had Just com pleted a twin pair for a bride. Ono represented a mess of lobsters iu a uest of salad; the other a basket ef peaches, with down ou them like plush. Sho was ao pleased with both that she asked her brother If he did not think they were just splendid. It was evident that tho youthful critic liked one and not the other. After looking at them a minute or two he said: "Sis, you're a peach ou lobsters, but you're a lobster on peaches." Chi cago Tribune. An Inaoinplota ltaport. William Gillette, tho actor. uide himself iu summer as far away from crowds and newspaper personals ns possible. Often ho uses his time con structing a new work, which Nat Goodwin calls "the Gillotto play a thing that ucts Itself." One summer Gillette hired a yacht, and, as he tell the story. It was n craft without an equal. With a few friends ho set sail from New York and proceeded by way of the Sound upon a cruise. They kept close to shore, aud a week or Be efier they left New York were driftlug leisurely by a point of land at the eud of which sat a solemu Yankee Usblng. In a few hours the boat had passed the point, aud the Yankee aroused himself from his contemplation of'tlic water and asked, "Whoro tiro ye from?" New York," replied Glllelto. Willi a yachtsmiiu's prido. ; "ilow long: "Sluco August 1st," shotted tha yachtsmen again. Tti!) Yunkc returned to hla oontom plaUou, und tite yacht kept ou drifelnr but along lu the afternoon tin re c.iuie tt video over tue water, and H ..-d;cJ4 nVhut year?" Harper's WeoVy,
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