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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1895)
the yamsrsa obegoniah; frtda.t, jaisttary. 11. 1895. THEMSffiESS WORLD LATEST QUOTATIONS IX THE LOCAL .PRODUCE MARKETS. The, Wheat Trade Reports by Tele- ffraph;-General Frodnce and Financial Advices. Tradias In most produce lines continues fairly active. Stocks of vegetables are light, as re ceipt -are promptly disposed of. A large lot of Ca.iforala. truck will arrive by steamer tonight. Pries are steady. There is not much inquiry for tropical fruit, but quotations are main tained by light receipts. A car of Rose brand cranges came up yesterday. Owlnj: to frost in Florida. California oranges are expected to ad tanne soon, and one dealer predicts they will te selling for $4 or $4 SO per box. Poultry re ceipts are quite heavy, and prices are tending lower The turkey market is dead. Eggs are arriving mare freely, and quotations are -weak. Eastern dropped to 23c yesterday. Meat prices, especially for cattle, are looking up. An ad vaae 1B predicted In the near future, as roost grass cattle 'are gene, and dealers have to go to the yards Xor supplies. Piwisioas and grocer ies showed no change yesterday. Bank Statements. Following were the bank clearances of the leading cities of the Northwest yesterday: Exchanges. Balances. Portland $173,440 $31,727 Ta-jma . "70.1CS 10,113 Seattle ........ C4.6GG 10,571 THE GRAIN' MARKETS. Prices Paid for Wheat at Home and Abroad. The local market is quite steady, with per haps a little Improvement in the tone of prices. Transactions are on a moderate scale. Re ce.pts are large, and there is more wheat here tow than ships. Exporters yesterday quoted "Walla WaJla wheat at 70c per .cental, and Val ley at 774C76c Nothing is doing at present In the freight market. Iron ships cannot be se cured below Xs !d to 35s. At Chicago. CHICAGO, Jan. 10. The market for wheat started witli a Jump. The Cincinnati Price Cur rent said that the quantity of wheat in farm ers' hands was from 50,000,000 to 00,000.000 bushels smaller than at the corresponding time lust year, and the figures ascribed to Thoman, p jir.'inK to a diametrically opposite condition of affaire, were at once relegated to the oblivion cf an exploded fake. May, which closed at 57c jesterday. rose to &S6ttSc at the opening, and there seemed to be little disposition on the rart of the shorts to increase their lines at the aixance. Some covering of shorts helped to glte spirit to the opening jump. The receipts were again small smaller than ever. The total of the primary market receipts were only 139,000 bushels. A piece of bullish news reported rivers In Argentina overflowing their bankfr from excessive rains. May closed at 5!'X63Sc: Jan uary at M&c. At New York. "" NBWYOB.K, Jan. 10. Flour Firm; moderate demand Wheat Receipts. 19,500 bushels; exports, 25o, C9G bushels; sales, 2,409.000 bushels: futures. 32,000 bushels. Spot market, quiet; firmer with options; Ne. 2 red, store and elevator, C2c; afloat, 634c: f. o. b G3jWMc; ungraded red, 58 CiCor. No. 1 'Northern, "l'tc. Options were fairly active, firm and Q)nC higher on foreign buying, bullish Western news, higher West and local covering. May was most active. Closing prices. No. 2 red, January. Cl"4c; February. C2V: March, U2c; May. C3c: June. C3c; July. 02c Liverpool Spot Market. LIVERPOOL. Jan. 10. Wheat Spot, steady; demand poor; No. 2 red winter. 4s 9Vid; No. 2 red spring. 5s 5d; No. 1 hard Manitoba, 5s 5d; No. 1 California. 5s 2d. Futures opened easy, with near positions Id lower, but reacted and closed steady and unchanged from yesterday's dose; business about equally distributed; Jan vary. 4b4s 9W. February. Js 10d; March, 4s I M. April. 4s lid; May. 4s lld; June. 4s H'iJ. Corn Spot, quiet; American mixed, new, 4s S3 Futures opened quiet at unchanged prices, but later advanced, and closed firm, with near months lfifSd higher, and distant months Id higher. January and March. 4s -W; April, 4s .1, May and June, 4s 3d. Fliur Steady: demand moderate; St. Louis fancy winter, 5s Ud. Beerbohni's Grain Report. LIVERPOOL. Jan. 10. Wheat Steady; car goes off count, firm; on passage, steadier: Eng lish country markets, turn dearer; flour In Paris, easy. LOCAL QUOTATIONS. Prices Current in tbe Prodace Mar ket Ycstcrdny. Flour Portland. Salem. Cascadla and Day ton are quoted at $2 40 per barrel: Gold Drop. $2 03. Snowflakc. $2 IK; Benton county, $2 40; graham, ?2 1SIT2 40; superfine. $2. Oats Good white are quoted at 25'2Cc per bushel; milling, 27620c; gray, 23Q27c Rolled oats are quoted as follow: Bags, $3 75 0; barrels, (06 25; cases. $3 75. Barley Feed barley, C3 $ G5c per cental; brewing, SOtfWc per cental, according to the quality. MlllstufCs Bran, $13 50: middlings. $13 50; chop feed, $15917; middlings, none In market; chicken wheat. 75c per cental. Hay Good. $9gl0 per ton. Butter Firm; fancy creamery Is quoted at 25CJ27V. fancy dairy. 20e22&c; fair to good, 13(?17c; common, lSUc. Cheeso Oregon, fair, 8010c per pound: fancy, 1Cj12V; Yeung America. 910c; Swiss, Im ported, 5062c; domestic It 815c I atoes Quotations wholly nominal. Onions Good Oregon. 7590c per cental. Poultry Chickens. $2 50C per dor.; ducks, firm at $4 50; geese, $0 50j?7: turkeys, live, BJt wanted; dressed, choice. lS6114c per pound. Fresh fruit Good Oregon apples bring 75c $1 f0 per box; Jersey cranberries, S14; pears. $1 '1 15 per box; persimmons, $1 251 35 per box. Egs Oregon, plentiful and weak at 25c per C2.n, Eastern, 28c Tnplcal fruit California lemons, $1J?3; Sicily. $6 , 6 50; 'bananas. $2 50 3 50; California r.aels. $33 50 per box; pineapples. Hon o'u'u. t33'50; sugar-loaf, $3. Figs California black, boxes, quoted at $1 25; sacks. 45c; Cal ifornia white. 10-pound boxes. $1 10l 15; 25 pounJ boxes, $2 50; sacks. GgSc: Turkish, boxes, UfflGe. fancy, large. 2021c; bags. 10c Oregon vegetables Cabbage. iyc per pound; tyjash. G5c per dosen. California vegetables Brussels, sprouts, $1 23 01 40 per 30-peand box; Firing beans. 12ffl3c rtr pound; sreen peas. ISISc per pound; artl tv Vs. $1 2ft per dosen; oauMtloner. 75000c per . zi.n, sweet potatoes, $2 per cental: cucumbers. 75 per doeert; asparagus, ISc per pound: garlic Ijc per pound, lettuce. 25c per dosen, $1 per beat Nut Al mends, soft shell, 12014c per pound; paper shell. 10917c; new crop California wal ruts. soft shell. 12c; standard walnuts, 1049 1; Ohio cbeetnuts. new crop. 1415c: pecans. lSlGc. Brazils. 12013c; filberts. MQ15c: pca r.u'8. raw. fancy. 507c; roasted. 10c; hickory nuts. tjrlOc; ooooanuts. 90c per dozen. V ool Valley. S01Oc. according to quality; Vnipqua. 700c; fall clip. SCc; Eastern Oregon, Hops Choice. 7c: medium. 40Gc: poor. 2f 3c. Provisions Eastern hams, medium, quoted at Ptll2fcc per pound; hams, picnics. 10011c; l-eakfat bacon. 12013c; short dear sides, 100 II dry salt sides, l01Oc; dried beef hams. lCl-Jf. lard, compound. In tins, SUfKJUc; pure. In tins 7011 He. pigs' feet. SOs. $350; 40s. $2 -.). kits. $1 25. i Tbe Merchandise Market. Salmon Columbia river. No. 1 tails, $1 259 1 CO, No. 2 tails. $2 2502 50; fancy. No. L Cats. $1 7501 i: Alaska. No. 1 talis. $1 20 1 CD, No. 2 taMs. $1 Q9S- 23. Coal Steady; domestic, $5 50 per ton; for eign. $S 50011. Beans Small white. No. 1, SHc per pound; butter. SWc; bayou, 3c; Lima. 5c Sugar D. c. C, 4Hc; extra C. 4;c: dry gran., TA.e. cube, crtisbed and powdered, CV,c por pound, Ve per pound dtsoount on all grades f jt prompt cash: half-barrels. ,c more than ba-reiB. maple sugar, 1501Uc per pound. Oordase Manilla rope. lH-lnch. Is quoted at 0V. and sisal. OVkO pr pound. Coffee Oosta Rlea. 22023Kc; Rio. 2oS22c; Balrador. 21021He: Mocha. 26U?2Sc: Padang Jax-a. 31c; lalerabang Java. 20 2Sc: La hat Jx 8025e: Arbuckle's Mokoska and Lion. $22 30 per IW-poaad case; Cabimbia. $21 SO per lijO pound case. Tbe Meat Market. E.-f-GroM, top steers. $2 702 GO: fair te good steers. $202 25; cow. $?f? 25; tssed beef, 46S.pr pownd. Mutton Grose, best siieep. others. $29 2 10; ewes, $t 501 E3; lambs, $2: dressed mut ton, AQVnfil lambs. 4VsC per pound. Veal Dressed, small. 56c: large, 3g4c per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $3 6053 73: light and feeders. $3 50; dressed, 4c per pound. SEW YORK STOCK MARKET. Speculation "Was Qniet and Louses LIffbt. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Speculation at the stock exchange was quiet again today. At the opening the market was very irregular, the railroads being weak and the industrials strong. The heaviness of railroad Issues was due to the poor statement of St. Paul for the first week of January, and tbe belief that -there Is very little prospect for any improvement in traffic receipts in the immediate future. The decline in the stocks at this time ranged from U to per cent. In tbe meantime the Industrials were gradually moving up, under the leadership of Sugar and Chicago Gas. The last named rose m per cent to 78. Sugar, on good buying, 5 to to 90. and General Electric to 35. In the afternoon prices declined Vt- per cent. Sugar. Chicago Gas, Cordage preferred, the grangers, Missouri Pacific, New Jersey Central and Dela ware &. Hudson scoring the greatest losses. The sellingunovement was due to a belief that about S3.000.000 in gold will be shipped to Paris Sat urday. Already $1,000,000 has been withdrawn from the local subtreasury. In the final deal ings the grangers. Chicago Gas and Sugar were taken In hand and advanced to about the best figures of the day. The market closed firm. The net changes show losses of to Si per cent, Missouri Pacific leading. Money on call, easy at V& per cent; closed at 15 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 2'Jig'4 per cent; sterling exchange, strong, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4 8S4 S9 for demand, and $4 S7i4 S3 for CO days; posted rates. $4 SS&Q S9: commercial bills. $1 SG&; silver certificates, 59Tic bid. Government bonds, firm; state bonds, dull; railroad bonds, heavy. Petroleum Steady: Pennsylvania oil Eales, none; February option sales, none; closed at 99c bid. The total sales of stocks today were 123,151 shares, includlngr American Sugar..29.500'Northwestcrn ... 3,300 Burlington 3.100,Rock Island 5,700 Chicago Gas 27,700 St. Paul 10.000 General Electric. 4.100,SUer bullion cer.10,000 New Jersey Cent. 2,400jWestern Union .. 2,300 BONDS, Bonds closed at New Tort yesterday as fol lows: U. S. 5s. reg 117 lErle 2ds C3 do 5s. coup 117&1 do Cs 101 do 4s. reg 113 ;G. IL &. S. A 6s.. 9S do 4s. coup 113 t do 7s ii do 2s, reg 1)7 Pacific 6s of '05. .100 Ala., class A 102 do B 105 H. A T. Cent. 5s... 103 M. X. T. 1st 4s... S0 do 2d 4s 47i Mut. Union C3 109 N. J. C. gen. 5s...lll Nor. Pacific lsts...ll3 do C 9214 ao currency .... in La. new cons., 4s. 92 Missouri Cs 10 Nor. Car. Gs 125 do 2ds S9V3 Northwest cons 43 do S. F. deb. 5s.. 109 do 4s 100 Rio Gr. West, lsts CS S. Car. non-fund.. 1'St. Paul cons.. 7S..125 Tcnn. new set Cs..l00 1 do C & P. W. 5s.Hl do old Cs GO St. Louis & I. M. Va. Centuries .... 505m gen. 5s .......... 79 do def 11 St. Louis & S. F. Atchison 4s ." C3U! gen. Gs 102 do 2d A 17Tex. Pacific lsts... 80U Canada South. 2dsl06 do 2ds 24 C P. lsts of '05..10Q U. P. lsts of '9S...104 Den. & K. G. 7s113t; do 4s SO West Shore 4s 10G"4 STOCKS. The clcslng quotations for stocks on the New Tone Stock Exchange yesterday were as fol lows: Atchison -IJiiNorthwestern 93 Adams Express ..140 4 do pref 143 Alt. & Ter. II 35 N. Y. Central 9S4 do pref 103 IN. Y. & N. Eng... 321i Am. Express ....111 jOntario & Western 15 Bait. & Ohio C2'Oregon Imp 11 Canada Pacific ... 5Cjsi Oregon Nav 10 Canada Southern.. 50 IO. S. L. & U. N... 5i Centra! Pacific ... 13 Pacific Mall 21 Chs. & Ohio 17 Peoria. Dec & Ev. 3 Chicago & Alton..l4G iPIttsburg 157 Chi.. Bur. & Q... 71 iPullman Palace ..154 Chicago Gas 77 Reading 14 Con. Gas 130 iRlch. Ter 15 C C C & St. L... 38 I do pref 20 Col. Coal & Iron... GR!o Gr. West. 1CH Cot. OH Cert 23 l do pref 43 Del. & Hudson....l28mRock Island Gl Del.. Lack. & W.. lGiSt. Paul 5G D. & R. G! pref... 33' do pref 110 Dlst. & C. F. Co... 10 St. Paul & 0 32?i t;rie 10 1 do prer 110 do pref 21 Southern Pacific... 18 Ft. Wayne 157 ISugar Refinery ... 00 Or. North, pref. ..103 ITenn. Coal & Iron. 14 Chi. & E. I. pref.. 90 iTexas Pacific........ !Hi Hocking Valley ... 17 T. & O. C pref.... 73 111. Central.. ... 82 lUnlon Pacific 11 St. Paul & Dul 20. iNational Linseed . IS Kan. & Tex. pref.. 22V4 I'. S. Express 43 Lake E. & West.. 15iiWab., St. L. & P.. G do pref 71 do pref 14-14 Lake Shore 136 IWclls-Fargo Ex. ..103 Lead Trust 3GSJWestern Union ... 871J Louis. &. Nash 53 (Wheeling & L. E.. 10 Louis. & New Alb. G I do pref 39 Man. Con 104fc!Mlnn. & St. Louis. 2S Mem. & Charle3.. 10 .Den. & Rio Gr 104 Mich. Central .... 93 (General Electric... 35 Missouri Pacific .. 234Col. Fuel & Iron... 25 Mobile & Ohio.... 1C do pref 70 Nash. & Chat C5 H. & T. Cent 2 Nat. Cordage G-1T.. A. A & N. M. 1 do pref. 10 T.. St. L. & K. C 1 New Jer. Central. 90! do pref G Nor. & W. pref... IS So. R. R. 10 North Am. Co 3V do pref 3."V-t Northern Pacific. 3TiAm. Tobacco USfe do pref 17 t do pref 10S U. P.. D. & Gulf.. 3 I Mlnintr Stocks. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 10. The official clos ing quotations for mining stocks today were as follows: Alta $0 4SIJustlce $0 23 Alpha Con lOIKentuck Con Andes Belcher Belle Isle Best & Belcher. Bullion , Bulwer Con Caledonia Challenge Con... 40,Lady Wash. Con.. 0 GllMexIcan 1 00 riMono 30 1 lOlMU Diablo 10 Occidental Con. SiOphlr 9 Overman 10 2 03 21 33 53 4 GO r. G3 5 GO OliPotosl Chollar 4S'Savage Confidence MJ'Seorpton Con. Cal. & Va... 3 UOlSlerra Nevada Con. Imperial 1 Silver Hill ... Crown Point GH'Unlon Con.... Gould & Curry.... 45IUtah Con Hale & Norcross.. 1 KJiYellow Jacket NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Mining stocks today closed a3 follows: Bulwer $0O0OntarIo $S 50 Chollar 40.Ophlr 1 45 Crown Point COlPlymouth 23 Con. Cal. & Va... 3 43 Quicksilver 1 50 Deadwood 40) do pref 10 00 Gould & Curry 3G!Slerra Nevada ... 45 Hale & Norcross.. 90 Standard 1 90 Homestake 1G 00 Union Con 55 Mexican S5Yellow Jacket .... 37 Bullion and Excbnnere. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 10. Following are tho bank rates for bulllcn and exchange In this market: Drafts on sight. New York, per $100. 10c: do telegraphic 12c; sterling bills on Lon don. GO-day bank. $4 SS; &o sight. $4 S9; do commercial, $4 S5; silver bars, per ounce, 5959c; Mexican dollars. 3101c LONDON. Jan. 10. Bar silver. 27tfd consols. 1044; bullion out of Bank of England, 110,000; Bank of England discount rate, 2 per cent. SAX FRANCISCO TRADE. Prices and Comment From tbe Bay City Markets. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 10. Flour Net cash prices for family extras, $3 403 50 per barrel; bakers extras, $3 30QZ 40; superftne. $2 30 2 70 per barrel. Wheat Trade continues slow, the market lacking vim. while prices are rather easy than otherwise. No. 1 shipping wheat Is quotable at S7c per cental, as top figures, with SS'hc for choice; milling wheat. 9297c Quotations for Walla Walla wheat are given at 7307040 for fair average quality. S0S3c for blue-stem, and 70g72c for damp. Barley There Is nothing new of Interest In this cereal. Buyers are still holding back, and the movement keeps slow. Feed, fair to good, 7S!40SOc: choice. Sl"4SS2c; brewing, 90083c per cental. Oats The recent lowering of the asking figures has not materially increased the demand. Milling quoted at $101 12 per cental; Sur prise. $1 0501 13: fancy feed, O7c01 02; good to choice, S7$TfJ5" poor to fair. SO0S5c; black. $1 1501 CO; red. $1 12fcffl 17; gray. 92Uc$l. Hops Quotable at 5Sc Potatoes There Is a good demand at steady prices. Volunteer new potatoes are quoted at l02c per pound; Early Rose. 30010c; River Reds. 30053c: Burbanks. 35059c; Oregon Burbanks. 5O0S5c; Salinas Burbanks, 75c0$l; sweets. 50075c per cental. Onions The receipts were large today, being nearly 1200 sacks. Quotable at 5O0G3c per cen tal. Wool Fall Free Northern. 7Sc; Northern defective. 507c; Southern and San Joaquin, light and free 5gCc; do. defective. 304c Call board transactions: Wheat Steady; May. OTSc bM. Barley Steady; January. 7Sc; May. SSc bid. Produce receipts were: Flour, sacks. 7S10; Oregon. 500; wheat, centals. 1G31; Oregon, 22. 037; barley, centals. 9392; Oregon. 5231; oats, Oregen. centals. 5093; rye. Oregon, sacks, 192; beans, sacks. 7G3; potatoes, sacks, 2137. OTHER MARKETS. I CHICAGO. Jan. 10. The receipts of cattle were much less than expected. Trade was dull during the mornings but the demand became quite sharp later. Common to extra dressed beef and shipping steers were In demand at $3 405 C3; cows and heifers were salable any where from $1 5001 75 for Inferior, to $2 35g4 for good useful cattle. Good cattle generally sold about 5010c higher than yesterday. Hogs opened 0310c higher. Lots averaging from 170 to 200 pounds generally sold from $3 7504 23, and heavier weights at $4 5034 60. Prime heavy were quoted at $4 7034 75, and choice assorted light at $4 23. The close was weaker. There were about 12,000 sheep and lambs here today. That was a moderate supply, and the demand was quite sufficient to absorb it. Prices were steady. Poor to choice sheep, $203 75; lambs, $2 504 50. Receipts Cattle. 11.000; calves, 300; hogs. 42,000; sheep, 12,000. OMAHA, Jan. 10. Cattle Receipts. 1700. The market was very active; prices were generally stronger on decent beef grades, as the demand was brisk from all quarters. Cow stuff was in red-hot demand, and all grades were readily salable at 1013c advance Veal calves and bulls, stags and rough stock generally ruled a shade firmer. Stockers and feeders were brisker. Cows, $33 73; feeders, $3 2333 50; bulls, $2 03. Groceries, Etc., in tbe East. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. Hops Dull. Wool Ouiet. Pig iron Quiet; Scotch. $10020; American, $9 5013. Tin Weak; straits, $13 23013 33. Spelter Dull; domestic, $3 25. Lead Strong; ' exchange price, $3 073 10. Copper Easy; ex change price, $9 90. Coffee Options closed firm at 10030 points net advance. Closing: January, $14; October, $13 75; December, $13 63013 70. Spot coffee Rio, steady: No. 7, 15015Sc; mild, steady. Sugar Refined and raw, quiet. . CHICAGO, Jan. 10. The provision market was dull and without special feature. May pork touched $12 10. and closed at $11 S2. as against $11 93 yesterday. Lard closed at a de cline of 7c for the day, and ribs at a loss of 5c Hops at London. LONDON, Jan. 10. Hops Pacifies, 2 15s. OAKLEY'S SPLENDID LIST Upwards of Ttvo Tbonsand Horses Entered for tbe Slake Races. CINCINNATI, Jan. 10. Tha entries for the stakes of the Cincinnati Jockey Club (Oakley), which closed January 1, are now completed, and far exceed In quality and number the expectations of its most san guine members, and is a well-deserved compliment to the liberality and enter prise of this new association, which at once steps into the front rank of rac ing organizations. The total number of entries is 2118 an average of 123 to each stake which is probably the greatest showing ever made by any racing asso ciation in the West. Among the horses entered are such celebrities as Dr. Has brouck, Ramapo, Henry of Navarre, But terflies, Dr. Rice, Lamplighter, Sport, Ajax, Rubicon, L.lssak, To Tamblen, Cash Day, Huron, Ida Pickwick, Diggs, "Walt zer, Keenan, Hessle, The Commoner, Halma, Handsome, Prince of Monaco, Counter Tenor, Belasco, Rey El Santa Anita, Sister Mary, Lazzaone, Vassal, Manchester, Gotham and Nicollnl. The "Winners Yesterday. At San Francisco yesterday the fourth race was declared off, and the first race was split to make the usual five events. Favortles won the first and second, and outsiders took the resL These were the results on the several tracks: At San Francisco. Five and a half fur langs, selling. Bridal Veil, In 1:11V; five furlongs, Three Forks, in 1:10; seven fur longs, selling, Chartreuse, in 1:41; five furlongs, selling, Faro, in 1:11; five and a half furlongs, The Judge, in 1:19. At New Orleans. Five furlongs. May Queen, in l:10t4; five furlongs. Lester, in 1:12; five furlongs, imp. Trevelyan, in 1:U4: six furlongs? Adah L., in 1:25?4; six furlongs, Charlie B., In 1:27. At Madison. Eleven-sixteenths of a mile, Harry M., in 1:124; nine-sixteenths of a mile, Paddy Flynn, in 057; fifteen sixteenths of a mile. Jordan, In l-38?4; thirteen-sixteenths of a mile, Tip. in l-23; fifteen-sixteenths of a mile, Gabe Riley, In 1:3?4. The Madison Square Snles. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The second day's sale of trotting stock at Madison Square Garden attracted a large crowd. The principal sales were: Hilda Wilkes, b. m., foaled 18S4, by Guy Wilkes - Woodford Queen; to Carl S. Burr, jr $5,S00 Hilda S., br. f.. foaled 1S91, by Stam-boul-Hinds Wilkes; to John Crome 3,800 Haviland, b. c., foaled 1832, by Havi-land-Hinds Wilkes; to Daniel Ma loney 1,630 Prince Haviland. br. c, foaled 1891, by Haviland-Young Daisy; to Swan & Stone 1,735 ABOUT THE BOXERS. Leeds Anxlons to Fight Before a. Ta coma Crowd. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Horace Leeds has authorized his backers to arrange a match for him with the Western lightweight, George F. Green, to fight before the Vic tor Athletic Club, of Tacoma, Wash. This club recently offered a purse of $2700 for a match between Green and Jack McAullffe, and as the latter is suffering from a dis abled arm, X.eeds is anxious to take his place. Craip: Anxlons for a Matcli. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. A special cable received today from the National Sport ing Club, of London, offers 500 for a match between Joe Choynski and the "Coffee Cooler," or Dan Creedon and the "Cooler." OTHER KINDS OF SPORT. Some Baseball 3Totcs. Pitcher Fanning, who played with Ta coma, and Secondbaseman Werrick, who was with Portland, have signed with Min neapolis. Breckinridge will play firstbase and manage Johnstown, in the New York State League. Work, who managed Tacoma's last pro fessional club, will manage Galveston in the Texas League. "Billy" Earle is the player relied upon by Mineapolis to fill "Buster" Burrell's shoes. Abbey and Cartwright will again be with Washington. Alnmlnnm Violins. Aluminum violins are Instruments re markable more for their loudness than for richness of tone. Nevertheless, they are likely to become Immensely popular in orchestral music, and they do not pro duce those secondary tones discordant with primary ones that seem to mark the amateur bow-scraper for their own. The plates are riveted, not soldered. A Crusade Aprainst "Ungodliness." Because some of the pupils in the public schools at Ansonia, Conn., refused to par ticipate in the Lord's prayer recitation, the school board has decreed that in fu ture all religious training in the schools shall be abolished. This has stirred up the wrath of the devout members of the community and the Congregational min ister has headed a crusade against what be calls the ungodliness of modern edu cation. HOTEL ARRIVALS. THE PORTLAND. C Toohey, S F B W Emmons, Se- E Nlcodemus. Le- attle land. Or. C H Carey, city A D Morrison and J W Maxwell, In- wife. Idaho Falls I dianapolis M H Fay, S F HE Whaley, St PI Geo S Palmer, Spo-i J G Day. Cascades kane (Fred Bausman, Se- F P Atkins. St Paul; attle L H Beason. Oma. S C Kirk, S F C G Fennell. X Y S R Davidson, city E McNeill, city J T Hayes. S F J C Epperly, city Rainier Grand Hotel. Seattle. Opened October 23. American plan rates $3 to $5. DeL Harbaugn, Prop. Occidental hotel. Seattle, removed to ThlrdandCherrysts. A.A.Seacrave. ororj. TO CONTEST THE BOND FRIENDS OF DEFAULTER TAYLOR ARE ON THE ALERT. It Is TbouBbt the- Plan Is to Fores Sontb Dakota to. Compromise "With tbe Bondsmen. PIERRE, S. D.. Jar! 10. Deputy Treas urer Burrington today received from New York a letter written by missing State Treasurer Taylor, dated. January 6, inclos ing certificates of deposit In different state banks to the amount of $S000. There was no explanation. The attorney-general has brought suit on Taylor's bond, -it is understood the bond will be contested. Ex-Governor Mel lette, who justified for $50,000, wires that he will be here tonight to straighten the shortage. As his property, however, is only 10 per cent of the defalcation, the state officials do not place much reliance on it. It is believed Taylor is in hiding in the East. It is known he had, when he left here, fully a quarter of a million cash, and he could have drawn in New York $100,000. It is believed he has certain con federates, who are keeping him advised of the proceedings. A strong attempt is being made here to throw doubt on the validity of the bond, and it is suspected that the plan is to force the state into a compromise with the bondsmen for a mod erate sum, and then, when a settlement is completed and Taylor is promised im munity, he will make good the losses of his bondsmen. All sorts of rumors have been set afloat" here by Taylor's friends to prevent rigid prosecution. It is said the shortage was due to the liberality with which he supported various banks during the panic, and received securities on which he realized nothing. The state officials arej making efforts to raise sufficient cash to keep the various state institutions running, and a per emptory call for taxes is expected to pro duce enough to tide over the difficulty for some time, but the state auditor feels pos itive that South Dakota must default on the bond interest in January- Meanwhile every effort is being made to apprehend Taylor. The facts in the possession of the state officials, which make them reasonably certain that Taylor and certain confed erates deliberately went to work to "hold the state up," are that the state is in a hard place financially., If not a cent had been lost, there would have been a deficit on the first day of next July of fully 5100,000, due to over-appropriations by the last legislature, and to slow payment of taxes on account of the short crops. How to extricate the commonwealth has been the subject commanding the most earnest thought and anxiety of the state officers. The appropriations are so large that the state can hardly bring the expenditures within the revenues. There were due January 5, $220,000 worth of funding war rants, held by Eastern persons. The leg islature Is in session and an immediate call was to have been made on the treas ury for at least $300,000. Of course the treasurer knew all this. It is believed by the authorities that, realizing that he would be short $100,000, when the transfer was to be made on the Sth, he consulted some of his friends and backers, and they decided the best thing to do was to seize all money In the treasury and put it in" a place of hiding, where It could be reached when desired. Then, when the default was discovered the state would be found bankrupt. Were it to sue on the bond of the treasurer, two years or more would elapse before any money would be recovered and, during that time, the credit of South Dakota would sink low. The parties to the plan concluded, rather than let this come to pass, the state officers would do almost anything within reason. Then the plan .was to come forward through an agent and propose to paybackto the state the $250,000 which the treasurer had carried off, on condition that the bondsmen would be released, and that Taylor should be relieved from further prosecution. It is impossible to give details of the evidence on which this supposition Is based, but it is regarded as conclusive. It is now known that several people were aware of the condition some time before the de falcation took place. The house and senate today passed a joint resolution offering $2000 for the ar rest and delivery of Defaulting Treasurer W. W. Taylor. He is about five feet, eight inches high, weighs 200 pounds, has brown hair, a small mustache, blue or gray eyes and a florid complexion. "What n. Friend Thinks. CHICAGO, Jan. 10. W. I. McMasters, secretary of the Western Homestead & Irrigation Company, with offices in this city, said today that he had seen William Walter Taylor, the missing treasurer of South Dakota, when Taylor was in Chi cago, January 1. Mr. McMasters added: "At that time he turned all of his as sets over to his bondsmen. I am sure he will be more than able to meet the de ficiency left in the state treasury. He has assets for double the amount required, but, on account of the shrinkage in val ues, will not be able to realize on them at once. The state will not lose a dollar. I am sure Mr. Taylor has none of the money with him, and, for that matter, that he got very little originally. Persons whose names I do not care to mention received most of the money. I have been aware of the state of Taylor's affairs for 10 weeks. When I left Redfield, in 1890, I resigned as cashier of the First Nation al bank of Redfield, of which Mr. Taylor was president. We were closely associ ated in business and, from the fact that we were friends, he wrote to me concern ing the state of affairs before he left Pierre. "Mr. Taylor called at my office during the last two weeks and I think he called again when I was not there. In the last three months Taylor has made strenuous efforts to realize on assets of real estate and first mortgages, to the amount of nearly $500,000. These assets have been turned over to his bondsmen, and the state will not lose a cent. Mr. Taylor has never speculated, except in a legitimate manner. The shortage amounts to up wards of $300,000, $100,000 of which can be traced to the failure of the Chemical National bank, of this city, and other banks In which he had deposited state funds. I do not know where Taylor is now and do not know how Jong he remained In Chicago. He Is not far away, and the only reason he left Pierre was to give his bondsmen an opportunity to realize on his assets and arrange matters." Taylor's Bank. REDFIELD. S. D., Jan. 10. Bank Ex aminer Zimmerman is busy with the books of the First National bank. He says It will take a week to learn the ex act status of the business. The opinion is favorable to allowing the bank to re organize and reopen for business. Rumors have been rife today- that Taylor had ac complices with him here to facilitate his work. If he went to New York, it is sur mised he has sailed for an unknown port. He has a brother-in-law, who commands a ship sailing from that city. The North western Mortgage Trust Company, of which Taylor was president, is certainly defunct. TWICE LYNCHED AXD YET ALIVE. Four Masked Men Attempt to Put an End to a Talkative Fellow. ELK CITY, W. Va., Jan. 10. The sensa tional contest at the statehouse over the river is not attracting more attention than the story of John Mourning, twice lynched, still alive, but close to death's door. Four years ago, in the night, un known parties broke into the house of Si mon Wallace, in this place, and brutally murdered Wallace and his mother. There was no positive clew to the murderer, but some suspected JohnjMournlng, a talka tive, idle, but not vicious fellow. He was arrested because of iome' wild talk, but released. A few weeks later four masked men went to his cabin, dragged him from his bed, and hanged him to a tree in bis yard. His wife managed to release him ju3t in time. Afterwards he recovered, but the masked men were never identified. A few days ago another party of four masked men dragged Mourning out of his bed, stripped him of his clothing,, and hanged him to a rafter in the barn. He was dragged up and down, but protested his innocence. He was finally left hang ing until unconscious, when he was cut down and left on the floor for dead. His wife found him in the morning, his legs frozen to his knees. He is' so badly in jured that it is feared he will die. It is the popular theory that the masked men are the real murderers, and fear Mourn ing knows something, and they want him out of the way. OTHER CRIME SEWS, Overrun by Tramps. SANTA ROSA, Cal., Jan. 10. Officers gathered in 13 tramps last night, and the city jail is not large enough to accommo date the number of vagabonds arrested here lately. The 13 tramps were taken to the corporation limits this morning by the police force and ordered to leave the county on pain of being arrested again and put to hard work. Until the high water caused by the heavy rains, the tramps had headquarters in the willows on Santa Rosa creek. Since the rains set in, they have been flocking into town and people have been very much annoyed by their importunities for help. There is some talk of organizing a vigilance com mittee, as it is feared something serious may happen if it is not done. Marshal Stodman says, however, that his force is amply sufficient to restrain the lawless element. Thus far only petty offenses have been committed. Bloodhounds on Tbelr Trail. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan. 10. Rev. A. E. Henshaw, aged 30, a Methodist min ister, living at Belleville, Ind., and his young wife, were fatally assaulted by burglars early this morning. The wife, awakened by burglars, jumped out of bed and grappled one of the men. She was dragged to a porch, where the burglars shot her through the head. The noise awakened Mr. Henshaw, who grappled the other thief as he was going out of the back door. The two men fought clear into the middle of the road, where the burglar overpowered the preacher, and, after shooting him through the hip, stabbed him no less than 20 times with a dirk knife. There is great excitement, and crowds are scouring the country in search of the robbers. Bloodhounds have been sent to the scene. A Cnse of Tar and Feathers. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 10. A young farmer named R. O. Taigolp, living in Perry county, has been paying atten tions to Miss Maggie O'Neil, the 16-year-old daughter of a well-to-do farmer. Mr. O'Neil, being a Catholic, objected to Tai golp, who is a Protestant, and told the latter to stay away. Taigolp, In spite of the prohibition, Sunday last called oh the girl, reaching his home about U o'clock. Twenty minutes later there was a knock on the front door, and when Taigolp opened It four masked men entered and tied his hands and legs. They proceeded to tar and feather him. After they had accomplished their object, they escaped from the house. Taigolp is determined to have the matter investigated, and he has placed the case In the hands of the prose cuting attorney of the district. - Have Escaped From the Indian Police CAPE TOWN, Jan. 10. Frank Tarbo, alias Taylor, at one time leader of the notorious Johnny Irving gang of New York, and William Carroll Woodward, alias Hon. Lionel Musgrave, arrested some time ago In London, charged with partici pating in a fight with cutlasses, and who subsequently forfeited their bail and were arrested in this colony, have es caped from the custody of the Cape police, and are supposed to, have gone tq Kimber ley. ' San Francisco Attorney in Trouble. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10. The grand jury lias indicted C. P. Robinson, a well known attorney, for embezzlement and perjury. The complaining witness Is Miss Clarice Bernard, who charges Robinson with embezzling over $U,000 from her mother's estate, and rendering a false account. Bound and Gaprprcd tho "Watchman. MARTIN'S FERRY, O., Jan. 10. Seven masked men blew open the safe of the Belmont brewery early this morning and secured $200. They left the nlghtwatch man bound and gagged, and he was not discovered until morning. THE VALUE OF A HOBBY. Study Held to Be tbe Best That Can .Be Decided Upon. The beauty books advise women to cul tivate a hobby. They say that a person with a hobby keeps bright eyes, rosy cheeks, and an expression of animation which in themselves constitute beauty far beyond the period at which the hobby less women lose their attractions. The best sort of hobby the one which will keep women young longest and will afford them the most enjoyment during the time is an Intellectual one, says an English writer. In this advanced day and gene ration most women have sought enough knowledge of various branches of learn ing to be able to choose one in which they will be honestly Interested. The imper sonal nature of study Is something which should recommend it. If one studies French or literature, or dives into the forgotten poets, or makes a study of some period of history, she is doing somtehing which takes her mind com pletely away from herself, her own wor ries, pleasures, friends, foes and lovers. This is in itself a blessing and a beauti fier. Nothing produces wrinkles and the signs of care and age so quickly as thought of one's self, and, conversely, nothing wards off these evils so effective ly as thoughts of other things. Study Is a better hobby than the collect ing mania. Possessions soon become al most part of one's self. The woman who has collected China is in constant dread of her maid's clumsiness. She who has a collection of lace worries over her wash erwoman. Fire and thieves enter into the calculations of all collectors. But she who stores her mind rather than her cab inets is not increasing her anxieties. In addition to the good effect of the mere exercise of study, there are more practical results. The woman who studies most knows the most. Knowledge has a way of molding the features and Im parting new graces to the expression. Knowledge makes women better talk ers, better listeners, better hostesses and guests. In every way the study hobby pays. She who leaves off her 20-mlnute facial massage and her half-hour face steaming and devotes the time instead to study will find that even from the vain and frivolous beauty point of view study is an excellent thing. Laxity in tbe Army. Assistant Adjutant-General Michael V. Sheridan makes reference in his annual report to a growing laxity of discipline, especially in the matter of uniforms and salutes. He speaks of soldiera passing him without saluting and of others being in the presence of inspecting officers with blouse unbuttoned and otherwise defi cient in uniform. During drills and on official occasions pfficers saluted their superiors, but in many cases the salute was a mere apolopy, the hand being brought up only half way to the cap vizor. The laxity in saluting General Sheridan attributes to older or superior officers overlooking slights of this kind. General Sheridan observes that in Euro pean armies officers and soldiers are scrupulously attentive to observances of mlltary courtesy. Chickerins" Pianos. Wiley B. Allien Co. THE DISIAl SWAMP I VIRGINIA'S GREAT MORASS A MYS TERY TO SCIENTISTS. A Paradise for Hunters, an Inspira tion to Artists and a. Terror to tbe Superstitious. The great unexplored swamp which ex tends for 40 miles along the coast of Vir ginia and North Carolina, says the Balti more Herald, varies in width from a few hundred yards to 25 miles. It is the para dise of hunters, a mystery to the scien tists, an inspiration to tbe artists and a terror to the superstitious. About five miles from the village of Suffolk, where the Dismal Swamp begins, Is Lake Drummond, named, some say, for a hunter who was lost in the swamp in the too ardent pursuit of a wounded stag, that led to the discovery of this beautiful sheet of water. Others say it is named for Sir William Drummond, of North Carolina. This lake is an almost perfect oval. It is seven miles long and five miles wide. The water is dark, almost black, but perfectly transparent, reflect ing every object with startling distinct ness. When held in a glass vessel it looks like pure, strong coffee. This color is caused by he exudations from the cy press and juniper trees, which form a thick forest throughout the swamp. Gorgeously colored wild flowers grow in profusion in the rich, dark soil. The trees are gar landed with festoons of gray moss from the topmost boughs to the water's edge. The yellow jessamine, a brilliant and most fragrant, but poisonous, wild flower, wreaths its perfumed blossoms over this drapery of moss. The scarlet trumpet shaped flower of the poison oak vies with the yellow jessamine in the abundance of bloom and wealth of coloring. The approach to Lake Drummond is by a rude canal, three miles of which is a straight waterway into the lake. This forms an avenue, bordered by cypress trees, which rise erect out of the water 130 to 150 feet in height, and as symmetri cal in shape as the masts of a ship. The boughs, densely draped with moss, form an arch over this canal, which in mid summer is so thick a sunbeam can scarce ly pierce it. The lake is surrounded by the same tall, erect cypress trees, inter spersed with monster junipers or white cedars. The reflection of these straight, lofty, sentinel-like trees In the clear, black water Is peculiar. The most unac countable thing about the Dismal Swamp is it is higher than the firm outlying country and increases in altitude toward the interior, where it is 12 feet higher than the surrounding land. This elevation of this morass has been accounted for on the hypothesis that where Lake Drum mond now Is was the crater of an extinct volcano, and was fathomless. This the ory has exploded; the lake is 15 feet in depth, and every characteristic of the soil disproves the idea that its substratum is volcanic. Sir Charles X.yell and other sciendsts of the past and present have found lay ers of spongy decaying vegetable matter over the better known portions of the morass. Lord Lyell made an especial study of the great dismal. His descrip tion of it and his conjecture as to the fu ture coal deposits which a coming gene ration might find here are of great sci entific value. Five rivers find their sources in this swamp. Two canals now penetrate parts of it. The tow paths are logs of wood, on which the man who pulls the canoe walks. These logs of wood In warm weather are literally covered with terrapin, water moccasin, copper head snakes, lizards and other reptiles, which makes walking over them some times dangerous. Brawny negro men usually pull these canoes and lumber rafts, and findgood excuse to take plenty of whisky along as an antidote for the inevitable snake-bite. The raison d'etre of these canals is the value of the cypress shingles, which are sold in immense quan tities along the shores of the swamp. Another singular feature of the great dis mal Is the growth known as cypress knees. These are cone-shaped excrescencs from the roots of the cypress trees, and look like miniature pyramids rising up from the slimy booze. In 1723 Colonel Byrd, of Westover, Va., made a survey of the Dismal Swamp at the request of the proprietary governor, who was anxious to induce George III to have it drained. Colonel Byrd's report was favorable, and was forwarded to Eng land with a strong petition from a num ber of Virginia planters, who promised to bear all the expenses of the drainage If his majesty would give them the land free of taxes. A copy of Colonel Byrd's report is now in the library of congress. He left his party in the swamp; what be came of them he never told. Colonel Byrd got out, however. Extracts from his manuscripts are interesting: "March 13, 1728. Early this morning the chaplain repaired to us with the men we had left at Mr. Wilson's. We had sent for them the evening before to return those who had the labor oar from Cora tuck inlet. But, greatly to our surprise, they petitioned us not to be relieved, hoping to gain immortal reputation by being the first of mankind that ventured through the great Dismal. Our day's work ended within a quarter of a mile of the Dismal Swamp, when the ground began to be already full of sunken holes and slashes. "It is hardly credible how little the bor dering inhabitants are acquainted with this mighty swamp, notwithstanding they had lived their whole lives within smell of it. Yet, as great strangers as they are to it, they pretended to be very exact in their account of its dimensions, and were positive that it would not be over seven or eight miles wide, but knew no more of the matter than stargazers know of the distance of fixed stars. At the same time they were simple enough to tell our men of lions, panthers and alligators they were to encounter in that dreadful place. In short, we saw plainly that no knowledge of this terra incognita was to be got but from our experience. For that reason we resolved to make preparations to enter the next morning. We allotted each one of the surveyors 12 men to attend in this painful enterprise." The "entarprise" proved too much for Colonel Byrd and his party. After terrible experiences with wild beasts, quagmires and snakes, they abandoned the swamp. "There are many weird traditions con nected with the Great Dismal. One of the most uncanny is of a phantom ship, said to be a merchantman captured by Captain KIdd, the pirate. This ship was disman tled, robbed, its crew murdered, and then towed up one of the rivers flowing from Lake Drummond to the sea. The ship, covered with phosphorus, stands near the lake. The ghosts of the crew still man it, and on moonlight nights the hunter who sees it hears a banshee wall, which means disaster, sickness or death to him. One of the most re man tic traditions is of an Indian warrior, who loved the favor ite daughter of his chief. The father looked higher for the maiden, but the lovers ran off to the shores of Lake Drummond, built a wigwam beneath the cypresses and lived so happily together until they were both very old that the Great Spirit allowed them to revisit the earth every full moon and ride on the lake in a boat drawn by white swans. Thi3 Indian myth bears an analogy to Lohen grin, one of the most romantic of the Rhinegold legsnds, the only Instance of this kind I recall among the traditions of the American aborigines. Another story is of an Indian lover who was driven In sane by the death of his affianced bride. This was related to Thomas Moore when he was in this country, and by him em balmed In verse. The Indian warrior fled to the lake of "he Dismal Swamp and dis appeared forever, excepting at midnight, when he, too, crosses the lake with hl3 sweetheart in a white canoe. Many peo ple who live near believe Lake Drum mond to be the rendezvous for numerous other ghosts which are supposed to haunt the swamp. This supposition arose from, the number of lgnes fatui which are really seen every night in almost every part of the Dismal Swamp. The negroes are especially afraid of thls extensive bog, and partly for this reason tho place abounds with opossums, coons, rabbits, squirrels, birds, all sorts of small game, with an occasional deer or bear. It is useless to tell them the flit ting, mysterious lights they see at night are burning gases which arise from the fens and marshes. They would not be lieve it. I have tried to convince them of this, and the result was a pitying reproof of my skepticism. They have all heard the story of the Indian hunter and his lady love, who was supposed to cross Lake Drummond at midnight in a "white canoe," and the myriads of the wlll-o'-the-wisps, who escort them. The "white canoe" they claim to have seen at mid night on the bosom of the dark lake, was, perhaps, a flock of white swan birds, which, with wild ducks and turkeys and marsh hens, are found in great numbers in this locality. I recall a picture of the Dismal Swamp I once enjoyed. It was midsummer, and I was riding through a part of it skirting Lake Drummond. A glowing sunset was fading into a "hot, moonless twilight; no breeze stirred the gossamer tendrils of the graceful moss or dark, glistening leaves of the cypress trees. The black water was as silent and motionless as If a magician's spell rested where the crested ripples should have been. Its lusterless surface reflected a few stars, which shone out of the murky liquid with as sinister and uncertain a gleam as if every one was a baneful and ill-omened Algol. The air was heavy with the odors of the jessamine, the mimosa, the magno lia and the aroma of the countless shrubs which grew in profusion in the rich soil. It seemed like a vast cathedral In which restless spirits of evil might worship. The incenso from censers swung from unseen hands bore a perfume too heavy for the nostrils of healthy mortals. As the sun light fades the red glow in the West did not suggest the "dim religious" that one loves to associate with stately churches, whose satined memorial windows temper and soften the glare of the garish day or mellow and refine the ardent tones of the afternoon sun. The twilight deepened through the aisles of the forest; the mas sive trunks of the cypress and juniper trees look like columns of tan-colored marble, arched with a dome of dark foli age, frescoed with a delicate tracery of pale-gray moss, through which not a star or fleck of blue sky shone. Down these dusky aisles balls of fire would flash and fade as if the will-o'-the-wlsp had employed a band of Impish aco lytes to light hundreds of uncertain tapers on countless movable altars; decaying trees covered with gleaming phosphorus either stood erect or bent prostrate alone and down these mysterious vistas like goblin priests or spirits of white-robed Carmelite nuns celebrating a vesper ser vice In this weird minster of exquisite workmanship. The lake, with its starry reflections, was like a tessellated floor of black marble; the groined arches bore the fairy-like tracery of the silver moss over a thick canopy of green leaves. No sound came from the reedy marshes, no whisper from the motionless trees, no song from the drowsy birds, no ripples from the wave less water. Silence was supreme for mo ments, until the ear caught a far-off monotone like the note of a bass pedal of a mighty organ at a great distance, and recognized the roar of the ocean's surf breaking on the first of a chain of rocky reefs which culminates in the thunders and terrors of storm-tossed and wreck strewn Hatteras. It was fitting music for this unique temple of nature. The softer diapason of singing birds and whispering leaves, of noisy brooks and rustling reeds, would have been out of place In this vast shadowed ampitheater, where some circe or king of the Ghomes might have assem bled their followers and celebrated their sinister orgies. Or, where the spirits of the unsepulchred dead who have been wrecked off the treacherous coast since earth's seismic throes gave birth to the hidden sand dunes and monster boulders might hold a nightly carnival. I suddenly realized that I did not blamd the negroes so much for their supersti tion. I gave my horse the rein, because; he seemed to be as willing as I was at that hour of the evening to run away from the haunted lake of the Dismal Swamp. Poor Pennsylvania. San Francisco Call. The first state in the Union in respect to wealth and population has had presi dents In proportion to her greatness and something more; the second has had but one president and he had but one term, and the third has had presidents in con siderable excess of her rank among states. This inequality of distribution may be attributed to the fact that New York and Ohio have never taken a decided stand with either party, while Pennsylvania has since 1S60 been counted as certain for the republican candidate. Being certain: for the republicans it was held not to be entitled to consideration by republicans, and the apparent impossibility of winning it over to the democrats has denied it the forlorn hope of leadership in that party. In close contests presidential candidates are selected with especial regard to their supposed ability to carry their own state, and it is consequently a matter of some importance that the state shall not only be a large one, but one whose electoral vote is in doubt. There are two or three presidential aspirants from Pennsylvania at present who think that in 1896 the re publicans can afford to disregard the fact that Pennsylvania will vote the republi can ticket, no matter from which state the candidate may be selected. Some Census Curiosities. According to the last census the excess; of men over women in the United States is nearly 2,000,000. The states in which; there are more women than men are Con necticut, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia. The District of Columbia has H.000 more women than men. The largest negro population is in Georgia, 853,000, and the smallest In North Dakota, 59C. The blood is the source of health. Keep it pure by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. The Rims is largely an "outdoor" product. Fresh air and exercise usually pro duee sound appetite and sound sleep. Sickly chil dren obtain great benefit from of cod-liver oil with Hypo phosphites, a fat-food rapid of assimilation and almost as palatable as milk. d Oio