Negroes ar out at irming- d cight roes in tes ten posses- »s have belong- eign of erators n. ‘Sun- armed waiting he offi- 1orning serious started ce wom- \ negro in told n went battle 1 were forced ed and t. Re- d also. James n the °T man ted for His te man Little- nt and Burgin am for PPLY. Used ous to , intro- t since Indies 11 hab- n. its e has azil is e pro- oroduc- rnment ‘ourths osition market ountry nilarly, 1 mart tate of coffee e-third e orig- Labor rdered Whole- to res lement 1. Five tied up esford nk of 7. eed to yright 2s and elf as >d tha United licated 1, and f $43,- e de- state mbian presi- Pana- arines corted Jolum- cr the unded lished an at sts of t Ber- ny by public agita- mestic On un- omali- ngage- Tuliah. Angus nnded. irming sional >d the e that to the ds of gston, treaty nven- ns for >d un- a, op- fic in to a 1e re- las of ey, a terms de im from grees id by THCMAS A. EDISCN’'S HABITS. Not Allowed to Be So Absorbed in Work as Fcrmerly. ; An amusing story is told in Success of Thomas A. Ediscn’s first marriage. Shortly after the ceremony he was called away to his laboratory on an important experiment. He plunged into the work. At midnight one of his friends called to see him. ~He had-just accomplished the gbject of his labors and was preparing to quit work. “I guess I'd betier go home,” he said as he hurried into his coat and jammed his hat down on his head. “You know I was married today.” But the days of complete absorption in work have passed for him. The second Mrs. Edison has undertaken the task of keeping the inventor healthy. She will not permit him to neglect his meals or to work more than she thinks is good for him. She insists that he shall leave the labor- atory at a certain hour each night, and she undertakes to see personally that he does so. At times Mr. Edison objects, but in a very mild way, to this regime. Not long ago he was deeply engaged in a certain experi- ment, when Mrs. Edison called for him and insisted upon taking him home. ° After some resistznce he at last con- sented, saying, however, by way of a final protest as ha stepped into the carriage: “Billy (his pet name for Mrs. Edi- son), you're a nuizance.” Were it not, however, for the sav- ing influence which Mrs. Edison ex- ercises over her husbana it is doubt- ful if he would accomplish so much. UNIVERSITY WITHOUT A FIRE Primitive Conditions of Life That Pre- : vailed in Ezrly England. In 1200, chimneys were scarcely known in England, one only was al lowed in a religicas house, one in a manor, one in the great hall of the castle, or lord’s house; but in other houses they had ncching but what was called Rere Desse¢, where their food was dressed, whe:e they dined, and the smoke found its way out as it could. . In King Henry VIII's time the uni- versity at Oxford }.ad no fire allowed, for it is mentioned that after the stu- dents had supped. which took place at 8 o’clock, they vrent again to their studies till 9, and then in the win- ter, they having no fire, they were obliged to take a gcod run for half an hour to get heat in their feet before they went to bed. \ Hollinshed, contemporary with Eliz- abeth, describes the rudeness of the preceding generation in the arts of life. “There were,” says he, “very few chimneys even in capital towns, the fire, was ‘laid to the wall, and the smoke issued out at the roof, or door, or window. The houses were wattled and plastered over with clay, and all the furniture and utensils were of wood. : The people slept on straw pal- lets with a log of wood for a pillow.” Short is the triumph of evil, Long is the reign of right, The men who win by the aid of sin, The nation that rules by might, The party that lives by corruption, The trickster, the knave, the thief, May thrive for a time on the fruits of erime, . s But their seeming success is brief. : Sneer if vou will at honor; Make virtue a theme for jest; Scoff at the man who strives as he can "To seek and to do the best; Make goodness a butt for slander And offer excuse for vice; Proclaim the old lie, the corruptionist’s cry, That every man has his price. Yet know that the truth shall triumph, That evil shall find its doom; That the cause of right, tho’ subdued by might, Shall break from the strongest tomb; That wrong, tho’ it seems to triumph, Lasts only for a day, ‘While the cause of truth has eternal youth, And shall rule o’er the world for aye. —J. A. Edgerton in the Denver News. No Questions to Be Asked. When J. P. Morgan was traveling for pleasure through rural France on one occasion, he engaged a local pho- tographer to take and develop some views of interesting places. The pho- tographer, receiving nothing as a re- tainer, did not begin the work until he had consulted with the manager of . the hotel where Morgan was stopping in the neighborhood. Yes—the man: ager knew Morgan, and thought Mor: gan all right. ‘But, monsieur,” said the photog- rapher, “it is such a large order! Can I safely trust this American for 300 francs?” “Mon Dieu!—300 france!” ex- claimed the manager. “Trust him!— yes; for anything and everything un- der heaven he may take it into his head to dream of! He is pre-eminent. ly a reliable man!” Strain Is No Greater. The question has been raised whether if it should be practicable to attain to a speed of 100 miles or more an hour by rail, the engineer could stand the strain. It has been affirmed by a physician that such fearful go- ing would wear out his nerves in a little while. The question has been answered already by one experienced engineer before a meeting of scien- tists. Asked as to the probable ef- fects, in case of a common accident, of a speed of more than sixty miles an hour, he said: ‘A smash-up at sixty miles would make splinters of everything; at 100 miles the splinters might be finer but the destruction could not be more complete.” That is to say, when an engineer runs his engine at sixty miles he is under as severe a strain as he would be at any other speed. Let the seraph and the poet change places if you would judge thesa sing erg aright. THE MARAETS, PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. Wheat—No. 2 red $ 70 71 No. '2.. 56 57 Ww 6g 63 o. 2 yellow, shelled 63 69 Mixed e. 69 70 . 28 14 No. 3 white........ «220 3114 Flour—Winter patent..... .400 405 Fancy straight winters. . 3 90 4 00 Hay—-No. ltimothy............. 16 00 18 50 Clover No. 1. ................ 1200 1300 Feed—No I white mid. ton........ 21 00 2150 Brown middlings .1800 1850 Brap, bulx,....... »... L100 1750 Straw—Wheat we T50 8 00 Oat... 0 aa a, 7 50 8 00 Dairy Products. Butter—Elgin creamery............ 8 2% 2 Ohio creamery... ... . wo 24 Fancy country roll. 0 Cheese—Ohio, new... . 11° 1g New York, new : 13 Poultry, Etc. Hens—per b.viy.covnnnniinnn 8-13 14 Chickens—dressed ... ,...... iE 16 Eggs—Pa. und Ohio, fresh . Fruits and Vegetables. Green Beans—per bas $100 12 Potatoes—Fancy whit 50 55 Cabbage—per bbls... 50 60 Onions—per barrel . 2B 250 BALTIMORE. Flour— Winter Patent................8370 380 Wheat—No. 2 red..... LT 7014 Corn—mixed.. 52 51g DEES i. a 2 R24 Butter— Ohio creamery. . 24 2 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Winter Patent ...... $350 400 Wreat—No, 2red........ . 1344 73% Corn—No, 2 mixed. . 69 70 Oats—No. 2 white. ...... oi 37 37% Butter—Creamery, extra; 24 ug Eggs—Pennsylvania firsts.. 3 231g NEW YORK. Zlonr—Fatents............... ....83 8 4 00 Wheat—No. 2red 7078 1636 Corn—No. 2.......... we OBlg oy Oats—No, 2 White 56 7 Butter—Creamer 2 Rie Eggs —Stateand Pennsylvania... LIVE STOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. Cattle. Prime neavy, 1200to 1600 1bs.......$68 715 Prine. 1500 to 1400 ibs. ...... . 640° 5675 Medium, 1200 to 1300 lbs 570 6 15 Fat heffers....... . . =. 300 HOV Butcher, 900 to 1000 1bs. 8 90 4 60 Common to fair... .... :.. 5060 = 365 UXen, common to fat. ..........5. 200 400 Comnron togood fat bulls and cows 250 425 Milch cows, each.L... 0... 7 0 2500 3500 Extra milch cows, each............ 4000 5000 Hogs. Primeheavy hogs. ..........i..... 750 7 60 Prime medium weights....... $745 756 Best heavy yorkers and medium... 785 = 740 Good to choice packers............ 710 720 Good pigs and light yorkers. . 6 S80 700 igs, common togood...... 670 900 Common to fair......... 00 500 Ronghs................ . 600 715 Stags............... FF ~~ ¥ 5 00 600 Sheep. fXtra, medium wethiers ............ $330 400 Good to choice 350 375 leqiom .,.. 0. 0) 300 350 Common to fair 150 200 Lambs’clipped.. |. 0 al Bi 560 57 Lambs, good to choice, clipped. .. 500 550 Lambs, common to fair, clipped.. 300 450 Spring Lambs 260) 62 Yealextrg, TFL. an 8 00 Veal, good to choice. 5 50 Veal, common heavy 6.00 Veal, common to fair 500 REVIEW OF TRADE. Transportation Worst Feature—The Railroads Unable t Handle Busi- ness Coming to Them. R. H. Dun & Co.s Weekly Review of Trade says: Settlement of the coal strike removes the only serious hand- icap to industrial progress. Five months of restricted fuel production had begun to check the wheels at many manufacturing centers. Trans- portation is now the worst feature and threatens to continue disturbing. While the grain crops are being moved the suppy of rolling stock and motive power will prove insufficient, athough every eifort is made at the shops, lib- eral premiums being offered for early delivery. That the railways are well occupied is evidenced by earnings for the first week of October, 3.5 per cent. larger than last year and 10.9 per cent. above 1900. Inadequate supplies of fuel caused further banking of furnaces, but the effect of a decreased output of domestic: pig iron has been partially abroad. Practically no price can be named for immediate delivery of homes iron, and there is no dispgsition to make concessions on distant contracts owing to the abnormal coke situation. Fortunately there has been little inter- ruption at finishing mills, and the out- put of rails, structural material and kindred lines well maintained. Con- sumers not only find difficulty in se- curing steel from the mills,but encoun- ter further delay on the railways which are unable to handle freight promptly. Orders come forward freely for the heavier lines, numerous con- tracts being offered for steel rails for next year’s delivery, and the plans for building and bridges keep a lot of business in sight in beams, channels and angles. Plates for ship yards are also sought freely, prices tending up- wards on tank steel. Higher freight rates have checked imports of finished steel. Footwear shops are actively engaged, many producers having added to their long lists of orders, and while practically all the New England manu- facturers are assured full time to the end of the year, they are also taking orders for deliveries in March. Lea her is slightly weaker owing to the sharp fall in hides which has been acecentu- ated by the poorer quality now coming on the market. In cotton goods the feature was a purchase of about 250. 000 pieces of print cloths. While quo- tations were not altered the tone be- came decidedly firmer. In other divis- lons of the market buyers are only interested in meeting current . de- mands, future requirements being held back by evidences .of weakness in the raw material. Failures for the week numbered 206 in the United States against 229 last year and 24 in Cana- da compared with 31. Bradstreet’s says: ‘Wheat, includ- ing’ flour, exports for the week end- ing October 16 aggregate 5,240,688 bushels, against 5,645,779 last week, 5,636,073 in this week last year and 3,796,643 in 1900. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 78,371,180 bushels, against 95,103,917 last season and 55,302,165 in 1900. Corn exports ag- gregate 180,674 bushels, against 180 - 358 last week, 640,033. last Year and 2,886,993 in 1900, WHITE HOUSE CANES. Call for Souvenirs That Cannot Be Complied With. Colonel William H. Crook, the vet- eran disbursing officer of the White House, sometime ago arranged to give a few canes of historic value to his friends. When the interior of the Executive Mansion was being. torn to pieces by the contractors who are re- modeling the building, Colonel Crook obtained some of the flooring in the room used for so many years by pres- idents. He was especially careful in selecting portions of the flooring over which Lincoin had walked, sat and done business in the trying days of the country’s history. No man in Washington knew better the habits of President Lincoln around his office than Colonel Crook, whose first work at the White House was as bodyguard for the great war executive. Many a day and night Colonel Crook, who was then a policeman on the city police force, remained with and near to Pres- ident Lincoln. His mind is full of reminiscences of just how the famous President worked, what kind of a desk he used, how he handled himself, and other details of personal interest. On obtaining the flooring from the par- ticular spot he had selected Colonel Crook sent the timber to a wood work- man and had a dozen or so canes made for presentation to his friends, who appreciated most highly the gifts be- cause they were confident of their historic value. Mention of the canes was made in the Washington Star, with the consequence that during the last two months Colonel Crook has been unable to meet the demand, and he has been kept busy with a gratui- tous correspondence. Several female organizations of a benevolent and charitable nature in Washington have gathered hundreds of pieces of timber and almost every article from the wreck of the interior of the White House, and propose to convert them into small souvenirs to be sold here and elsewhere, the proceeds to be used by the organizations in their work. The relic hunting at leagth in- terferred so seriously that visitors to the grounds had to bg shut out, and the few who were admitted got in by a card from the superintendent in charge. Quaint Uses of Common Words. Crowd yas the old English name for fiddle or violin. Good-by is a con- traction of “God-be-with-you.”” Fash- ion was the old name for a certain disease of the horse. It is alluded to in “The Taming of the Shrew,” where Petruchio’s horse is said to be “in- fected with the fashions.” The com- plaint is a common one now, but not among horses. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any cage of Catarrh that cannct be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CagxExY & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him Jrrlecily honorable in all business transac- ions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. . West & Trusx Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Warping, KiNNAN & MArviN, Wholesale » _ Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. © Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act- ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, T5c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. . Hall’s Family Pills are the best. iu “ "An: ostrich lives about thirty years, and the average annual yield of a bird in cap- tivity is i two pounds to four pounds of feathers. ry . FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous- nessafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer. $2trial bottle and treatisefreo Dr.R. H. Kriyg, Ltd., 031 Arch 8t., Phila., Pa. The cook can generally be depended upon to stir things up. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething soften the gums, reduces inflamma- tion,allays pain cures wind colic. 25¢..a bottle American machinery, tools and sewing machines are used all over the world. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. BAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. The experience that makes a man poor- er should also make him wiser. Money refunded for each package of PurNaMm FaperLess Dyes if unsatisfac- tory. Repentance is too often embodied in the words: “What will people think?” Victoria's Boundary. A Professor Gregory, of the University of Melbourne, is delivering a series of lectures on the “Geography of Vie- toria.” In one of them he gave an in- stance of the happy-go-lucky fashion in which business was conducted in Downiag street in the olden days. Halt a century ago, wien the Port Phillip Province was detached from New South Wales and erected into a new colony under the name of Victoria, it was the intention of the imperial government of the day that the River Murrumbidgee should be the North- ern boundary. But the clerk in the Colonial office who copied out the en- abling document, never having heard of the river with the long aboriginal name, and being uncertain as to its proper -spelling, coolly substituted the River Murray in its stead. No- body noticed the change, but it made a vast difference to the new colony. Victoria would have been twice its present size if the original arrange- ment had been adhered to, and would have included the valuable pastoral provinces known as Riverina, which stretches from the Murray to the Mur- rumbidgee. Although Melbourne, the Victorian capital, has always done most of the trade with Riverina, the district continues to be officially ruled from Sydney. Mysophobia. The medical profession has con- ferred no small boon on many suffer- ers by inventing a Greek, or pseudo- Greek, term for their otherwise demo- cratic complaints. The last of these inventiong is recorded this week. The disease lig; fussiness and the medical name is mysophobia. The mysophobe is he who, when seated by his table, lifts his glass to see if it is fingered and if he detect a smudge uses his napkin to dispose of it. In short, my- sophobia is the exaggeration of that respect for cleanliness which con- vinced Svengali of the, madness of En- glishmen when he surprised the Laird in his matutinal tub. The lady in the play who seized on every one’s watch- chain and began rubbing it with cha- mos leather was a mysophobe, and the irritating man who begs your pardon and picks some miscroscopic piece of fluff from your sleeve is another. The servant, though most would benefit by inoculation with the disease, who in- sists on dusting papers is another, and \he diseaSe is widely prevalent among all housekeepers in the spring. It is nice to know at last just what to call it, but the medical press is more in- clined to suggest scientific names than remedies. SCIENCE BAFFLED THE BURGLAR. A Cyclometer Was the Means of Bringing Him to Justice. Science -sometimes baffles the bur glar. whose knowledge is not strictly up-to-date. = A thief who broke into a house the other day leisurely packed . Az PU 2 his plunder in a compact bundle, then added a, bicycle to the stolen articles and rode off. So far he had exhibited commendable - common sense, for it isn’t every. thief who is clever enough to steal the means of transporting his stealings to his own lair. But he had overlooked the fact that attached to the wheel was. a cyclometer which rez- istered the exact. distance ridden by the thief ‘on his journey home. When pursuing justice caug up with the burglar Le had disposed of all his plun- der except the wheel. The little cy- clometer’s record of distance traveled proved the case against the thief, for it registered the exact distance from the house to the thief’s quarters. Glaciers Getting Smaller. In Switzerland the studies of many years have determined the fact finally that the glaciers are not only steadily receding;but that their rate of reces- sion is; becoming greater each year. There are only a few glaciers that stiil grow. The Boveyre glacier in Canton ‘Wallis is the cnly one that has in- creased steadily since 1822. The fa- mous Rhone glacier has receded al- most 800 yards since 1876. American citizens of Polish birth and extraction are interesting them- selves in the project for the election in Vashington of a statue of Count Casi- mir Pulaski, the intrepid Lithuanian who served with distinction in the Rev- olutionary war. WwW “Why Syrup of Figs 5 the best family laxative It is pure. It is gentle. It is pleasant. It is efficacious. It is not expensive. It is good for children. It is excellent for ladies. It is convenient for business men. It is perfectly safe under all circumstances. It is used by millions of families the world over. produces. It stands highest, as a laxative, with physicians. 1 If you use it you have the best laxative the world GONGRESSMAN WILBER SAYS (To The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., of Columbus, 0.) Congressman D. F. Wilber, of Oneont a, N Eo ph PR ER \; 8 DF WILBER $ EFRON i YOR (3 . Y., writes: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen—‘‘Persuaded by a friend I have tried your remedy and IT have almost Tully recovered after the use of a few bottles. I am fully convinced that Peruna is all you claim for it, and 1 cheerfully recom- mend your medicine to all who are afflicted with catarrhal trouble,’ Pe-ru-na a Preventive and Cure for Colds. Mr. C. FP. Given, Sussex, N. B., Vice- President of the Pastime Boating Club, writes: / . “Whenever the cold weather sets in I have for years past been very sure to catch a severe cold, which was hard to throw off, and which would leave after-effects on my constitution the most of the win- ter. “Last winter I was advised to try Pe- runa, and within five days the cold was broken up, and in five days more I was a well man. I recommended it to several of my friends, and all speak the highest praise for it. There is nothing like Peruna for catarrhal afflictions. It is well nigh infallible as a cure, and 1 gladly endorse it.”’--C. F, Given. A Prominent Singer Saved From Loss of Voi Mr. Julian Weisslitz, 175 Seneca street, Buffalo, N. Y,,.is corresponding secretary of The Sangerlust, of New York; is the leading second bass of the Sangerlust, the David F. Wilber. largest German singing society of New York, and also the oldest. In 1899 The Sangerlust celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a large celebra- tion in New York City. The following is his testimony: “About two years ago I caught a severe cold while traveling, and which settled into catarrah of the bronchial tubes, and so affected my voice that I was obliged to cancel my engagements. In distress I was advised to try Peruna, and although I had never used a patent medicine before I sent for a bottle. “Words but illy describe my surprise to find that within a few days I was greatly relieved, and within three weeks I was en- tirely recovered. I am never without it now, and take an occasional dose when I feel run down.”—Julian Weisslitz. If you do not derive prompt and satisfac- tory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full state- ment of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. 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