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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, '190(7.
1 TALK ABOUT LONGFELLOW: M DR. ROLFE
(Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton )
THE OREGON! AN"S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED Bj PROF. SEYMOUR EATON
LITERARY TALKS
AND REMINISCENCES
ET PROFESSOR "WILLIAM X
331.
(Concluded.)
ROLFB.
Colonel Higginson, In the book I have
quoted, tells how, one Summer day in
passing Cralgie House, he fell In with
a young man who was eager to learn the
whereabouts of that chestnut tree. Thej
Colonel says: j
"I explained to him that the tree . - . I
had now vanished altogether, but offered (
to show Jilm where It once was. and
where the blacksmith shop of JJcxter
Pratt had stood. "Walking down the street
with him, I won his conridence by tell-,
ing him that I was one o the Cam-
Tjridgc-bred boys who had 'looked in at t
the open door"; that the blacksmith's
wife. Rowena Pratt, had been my nurse, '
and that I had In later life heard her
daughter sing. He told me in return that
lie was a young Irishman, arrived in this
country but the day before; that the first
poetry he had ever learned by heart at
echool was 'The "Village Blacksmith,' and
that he had resolved that his first act
on reaching Boston should be to visit the
chestnut tree. 'This. I said to myself,
"is fame. "
The tree, though no longer to "be seen
on Brattle street, flourishes in immortal
green in the poem, and the spot where
it stood will continue to be pointed out
from generation to generation; but, cu
riously enough, the name of the black
smith came near being lost. Within a
year there was a lively discussion in a
Boston newspaper whether the man was
Pratt, or another smith I forget his
name who was the tenant of the shop
about the same time. It will be seen
that Colonel Higglnson's book (published
elpce the discussion appeared settles the
question, which, if I remember right, wat
not satisfactorily decided in the news
paper. If the name of the villace smith had
been utterly lost, his memory would
nevertheless live ln the poet's verse.
There is no record of the name of the"
"Highland Girl" whom Wordsworth saw
near tho little waterfall at Jnversnaid.
Nothing is known of her history before
or after she caught the poet's eye, as tie
was rambling with his sister on the shores
of Loch Lomond. But the poem has made
"the waterfall famous, though otherwise
one would scarcely notice it when he
lands at Inversnaid to take the coach for
Loch Katrine and the Trossachs. Xow
every tourist wants at least to get a
glimpse of it while the coaches are load
ing, or climbs the short pathway beside it
while they crawl up the long, steep as
tent of the highway, and joins them at
the top of the hill; and he carries away
'with -him, as the poet did, the vision
of that lovely peasant girl, nameless, but
enshrined forever in English verse:
"For I, mcthlnks, till I grow old.
As fRlr before me shall behold
As I do now the cabin small,
The lake, the ba. the waterfall.
And thee, the spirit of them alii"
Forty years after "The Village Black
smith" was written the poet, on his "2d
birthday (February 27, 3879), was pre
sented by the children of Cambridge with
a chair made from; the wood of the
chestnut tree. The glf,t was appropriately
acknowledged by a poem addressed to the
children, which he had printed on a sheet
and used to give to each child who vis
ited him and sat in the chair, as many of
them did. Here the single lino given to
the tree ln tho original poem Is expand
ed into several stanzas:
"Well I remember it 4n all its prime.
When in the Summer time
The affluent foliage of Its branches mads
A cavern of cool shade.
"There by the blacksmith's forge beside the
.street.
Its blopfoms, white and sweet,
33nt!eed the bees, until it seemed alive
And murmured like a lilvo.
"'And when the winds of Autumn, with a
shout,
Tosned its great arm about.
The shlnlnjr chestnuts, bursting from the
sheath.
Dropped to the ground beneath.
1 see again, as one In vision ees.
The blossoms and the bees.
And hear the children's aoIccs shout and call.
And the brtmn chestnuts tall.
"And thus, dear children, have ye made for
me
This daj a Jubilee,
And to my mere than threescore years and ten
Brought back my youth again.
"Only 3 our love nnd your remembrance could
Give life to this dead wood.
And make these branches, leafless now so long.
Blossom again in song."
Longfellow was fond of Charlos River,
as sen in the distance from his house,
and bought a tract of several acres on
tho other side of Brattle street that the
view might not be cut off if the land
should be built upon. After his death
this land was bought by a public sub
scription and converted into a pleasant
park as n. memorial of the poet.
In the poem "To the River Charles,"
after referring to sundry reasons for lov
ing it, he says:
"More than this th name reminds me
Of three friends, all true nnd tried;
And that name, like magic, binds jne
Closer, closer to thy aide."
The three friends are not identified In
the biography by his brother, who does
not happen to comment on this particular
room: but they are known to have been
Charlos Sumner, Charles Folsom and
Charles Amory.
Jjowell Ms also celebrated the Charles
River In more than one of his poems;
ns In "An Indian Summer Reverie"
(where 15 Spenserian stanzas aro given
to a description of the stream and the
marches bordering it "dear marshes"
as seen from Spring to "Winter); "An In
vitation" (where again it is dwelt upon
lovingly and llngerlngly); and "Under the
"Willows," where he says:
"the sliding Charles,
Bltie toward the net, and bluer and more
blue,
Living and lustrous as a woman's eyei
Look once and look no more, with southward
curve
Ran crinkling sunnlcess, like Helen's hair
Glimpsed In Cesium, insubstantial gold."
And so on to the end of the poem. I
must not take space for the entire pas
sage. The "Willows" are near the river and
not far from Klmwood, marking the
courso of a streamlet, now filled up or
covered up, which flowed Into the Charles.
XiOweU describes them as
"six, a -willow Pleiades,
The seventh fallen, that lean along the brink
"Where the steep upland dips into the marsh.
Their roots, like molten metal cooled in flow.
Inc.
EUffennd In colls and ruanelrlewn the back."
These trees, a few years ago. were like
ly to be destroyed, as the ground was
wanted for house lots; but the nrotests
against the vandalism saved them from'
tho late that earlier had befallen tho
chestnut tree More rocently three of
xntsai nave oecn included la tho park
waica as Being maao on the river bank.
The Charles also flows under the ugly
old bridge that suggested Longfellow's
poem ""The. Bridee." -After having- been
partially rebuilt several times, with no
material Improvement in Its architecture.
It is now nndergoiag demolition and will
be replaced by & more sightly structure.
Nobody la disposed to protest against thci
destruction of this -bridge with wooden
piers &s against the felling of the chest
nut tree and tha willows. It was not
old enough to bo venerable or to have
any nisionc interest, and Its ugliness
was not picturesque. The poet was not
tempurf to cescribo It ecepi to tho firj
words I have quoted, and his reflections
as he "stood on the bridge at midnight"
,nre such as might have occurred to him
en any other bridge at the same place.
The chestnut tree was by no means a
fine specimen of Its species, but the poem
Unking It -with a story of humble village
life gave It an Interest at once human
i nnd nontiraL
The willows were pictur
es3Ue jn their old age, but that would
not arc saved them If a poet had not
joved thcm and described them, and thus
eatrrinrd their memory with his own.
Jewell, by the way, refers to the bridge
jn njs 0(je on the death of Agassiz, but it
jg onjy the river and its surroundings on
which he dwells. He alludes to a "home
-K-ard -walk" with his friend
..Acros the bridge, where on the dimpling tide
rbt Jonr nA streamers from the windows
slide.
or the d!:n western moon
Rocks hr skiers Image on the broad lagoon,
And Boston shows a soft Venetian side
In that Arcadian light when roof and tree.
Hard prose by daylight drenm in Italy."
I wanted to refer to other local aim-
,n71K ln th- verses of X,ontrfeIIow. Lowell
and Holmes, and to sundry other matters
LOWELL'S STUDY, ELMWOOD.
connected with their personality, but al
ready I have exceeded the space allowed
me, and must close this random talk
for such only it Is.
Cambridge, Mass.
WEALTH IN RAILROAD TIES
How
Eastern Mnltnomnli Is Dally
Adding to Her Profits.
The tie business in the eastern portion
of Multnomah County is assuming great
proportions, and this year will be nearly
double what It was last year. There Is
no end to the market for all that can
be sawed or hewed out. These ties are
delivered at Troutdale. B. S. Bramhall,
wVlfv tnMlfn ntitru1 CA AV) vlkc toct on i"
and flumed them dtfwn the Sandy, stated
yesterday he had disposed of his saw-
mill Interests to his son, J. Bramhall, i
and that the latter had secured a con-
tract to supply the O. R. & N. witn 100,- ,
090 railway ties, double What the mill sup-
irf.tf
plied last year. These Will be flumed ' Mr & Mrs J M Morse, I Berkeley, Col
down the Sandy River to Troutdale. I op'0,Jai,in w . I K, MSEI11fny.N T
nv. i. .m .... , cnn.. in i C N Jefferson, BostontF Abendroth, city
Two other mills on the Sandy will also . s H BisseU Minnpis j R Winchester. N T
saw out ties, besides a large number j f H Osgood, Seattle
will bo hewed out. Columbia River Scenery.
Cummins & Coles have their sawmill Regrulntor Line steamers, from Oak
on the Sandy all ready to begin opera- street dock dally, except Sunday, 7 o'clock
tlon, and It is probably one of the best A. M. The Dalles, Hood River, Ca
equlpped mills ln this vicinity for the ' cade Locks and return. Call on, or 'fone
euttlni? of ties and lumber. Thev have Agent for furthor Information.
short flume that carries the sawdust
from the mill and dumps It ln a gulch,
where a fire Is kept burning. There Is
another chuto from the mill that carries
the slabs away and dumps them Into the
gulch about 75 feet below, where they
are burned. This seems a wanton de
struction of fuel, but the main object
is to get rid of it and out of the way.
The new mill Is 30x100 feet, and two
stories high. The lower story is taken
up -with the machinery. All the ."paco
near the engine Is kept clear. W. G.
Calvin Is engineer. The upper story Is
10 feet high. Here the saws are located.
The lower saw Is 52 inches ln size, and
tho upper 4S Inches, and the cut-off saw
35 inches. There Is a flume for convey
ing tics to the Sandy, which Is 1276 feet
long, and rests on trestle work. It is
one foot square and Its greatest height
from tho ground Is 5 feet. The ties are
put into the flume at the mill where
there is a constant stream of water run
ning, which drives them downward and
shoots them like an endless stream into
the river, where there is now accumu
lated 12,000 tics. This flume will carry
0000 tics every 10 hours. The mill em
ploys 10 men. and their wages are $1 75
per day. T. Ingram is tho sawyer. The
logging is done under the charge ot
Charles Hamlin, who has a contract to
keep the mill supplied with logs. The
average output of ties per day is 700,
or a total of 10.300 per month, which
bring at Troutdale, where they are sold,
nearly 23 cents each. The total sum for
one month's output is nearly $3000. The
company has a contract to supply the
O. R, & Is, with 100,000 ties. It also has
a contract to furnish the Portland water
committer 320.000 feet of lumber, which
Is to be delivered at the Sandy River
bridge at 17 per 1000. The company also
has a contract to deliver to the bridge
for the committee 200 piles, with an aver
age length of S3 feet, for which the com
mittee pays 5 cents a foot The mill is
located in 300 acres of timber land, which
will take about 3 years to cut off. There
Is already quite a settlement gathered
about the mill.
J. Brown, formerly of the Southern
Pacific carshops. Is puttlnir up a mill
near the mouth of Cedar Creek, and
when he has It completed he will saw
out cdar lumber. On the whole the saw
mill business Is fairly booming in East
ern Multnomah County. The cash Income
from the sale of railway ties is very
large annually.
"Will Build a Onrge.
Edward McKay, who has a large sea
going tugboat nearing completion on
East Water street, near the Stephens
residence, for C. H. Wheeler, has com
menced building a steam barge, 170 -feet
in length, 56 feet beam, and 10 feot depth
of hold, for the same party. The barge
Is to run ln connection with the new
tug. from Tillamook to Astoria In the
lumber trade.
Demented Man Cannes Excitement.
A young man. who has been staving
In the East Side Hotel building, on Union
avenue and East Stark street, caused a
crowd to gather yesterday afternoon by
his peculiar actions. He came down from
the building and, leaning up against a
post, went to sleep. Presently he was
surrounded by a crowd, which continued
to grow like a snowball, until the side
walk was blockaded. Still he slept on.
A doctor was called, who opened his
mouth and looked down. He saw noth
ing startling, not even a dragon. Tho
young man slept on awhile, oblivious to
the excitement that was surging around
him. Finally he awoke and went up
stairs, remaining a few minutes, and
then came down, leaned up against an
other post and went to sleep. By this
timo me crowd, was larger than ever.
gcroua, no one seemed to care to ap
proacb. Finally two men went up to
him and asked him what was the matter.
He muttered something about being
drowsy. The crowd now gathered closer
around. He really seemed in a dazed
condition. Another physician came along.
He remarked that the man was sick.
Someone remarked "smallpox." The
crowd fell back in horror. As he had
been acting very peculiarly for several
days. It was thought best to notify the
police, and this was ddne. He would
not give his name. He i3 evidently de
mented. Repairing; a Warehouse.
The old warehouse, Just south of the
steel bridge, on the Southern Pacific
switching grounds, is being repaired. On
the river side the annex has already
been repaired by a roof, and now work
has been commenced on a new roof for
the main building. This warehouse Is
one of the oldest on the East Side.
East Side Note.
Sirs. M. E. Stratton, living at 453 East
Ankeny street, has returned from tho
coast.
W. H. Moshef and family, who live at
6S East Tenth street, have returned from
Seaside. -
Mr. and Mrs. E. Miller, who have been
to the coast, returned yesterday to 482
East Ankeny street.
B. W. Dennis and family, who live at
701 East Ankeny street, have returned
home. They have been at Seaside.
Mr. Wasserman and family, who have
been at the coast, have returned to their
home, at 325 Grand avenue north.
Dr. Wise, room 614. The Dekum.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
THE PORTLAND.
Sam Kunstadter, Chgo
R F Voight, San Fr
F S Horner, wf & ch.
Carl Greenhood, Mis
soula Geo A Labbe, Seattle
Ed Bussev, Omaha
I Tftcoma
w J casey &. tvr, b jt
J T Lighter, Astoria
Mra J W Fuller, city
Mildred Fuller, city
Frank V Lleb, Seattle
Frank J Connolly. S F
Edgar H Scott. Chgo
R J Dempsey, Chgo
Aug St George, Chgo
jW r Kellenbach, Lew-
lston, lda.no
Thomas Reeves, San F
G H Morris 4 wf, 8 F
Frank Schowleck, N Y
Geo Mason & wife, Los
Angeles
Harvey Lindley & wf,
Los Angeles
Lloyd Lombard, do
Henry Hechtman, S F
Mrs Hjde, San Fran
Miss Hendrlx, Miss
G H Carrier, Elmlra
Geo B Lelghton, St L
E B Lyon. Minn '
W H Groat, San Fran
Louts Lachmund, city
B F Scott, do
Geo K Burton, San Ft
Augustus Ehle, Chgo
W S Durkee. N Y
C A Foster, Lowell
T O HUbourn, Chicago
A Rothschild, Cinclnn
W S Hook & wf, Lo3
Angeles
B S Hook, Los Angeles
Willie Hook, do
jMcMlchae? Chgo
h B Hopkins, 'n Y
Geo Uhler, Phlla
s Tl-eband. San Fr
g Saw NT
G B Angulst
c E LaldUw. Jr. K IiM C Klttredge & wife,
THE PERKINS.
J G Meagher. Seattle
Wm Gulon, La Grande!
N C Judd, Palmer
W B Kurti, Welser
C P Hemlnger, San F
Chas J Price, Astoria
Mrs Price, Astoria
P Joseph, San Fran
W J Adams, SIHertoi
J H Klocknor, do
Wm Kreelg, do
McKlnley Mitchell,
Gervals, Or
Mrs J F Fletcher, "Vano
Miss Nellie Skelton. Mt
Vernon
C H Springer. Olympla
S Chapman, Sumpter
Chao O'Brien, Seattle
Mrs Chas O'Brien, do
H C Bundy, Mlnnpls
W E Frazler, Albany
H C Staton. Hood Rlv
C A Valentine. Hood R
J C Younr, St Louis
John O'Leary, Seattle
W H Vessey, N Yak
Mrs Vessey, N Yakima
C W saull. Baker Cj
Martin L Flis. city
Jno H Hennessy, Chgo
Michael McCarthy, NT
O James, castle Rk
P D Jordan, city
H S Wilson, Dalles
Mrs Wilson, Dalles
A L Sampe. Seattle
Mrs Sampe, Seattle
Mrs H W Sherwood,
Red Cloud, Minn
Mrs B Oppenhelmer,
Muskago, I T
T B Smith. Spokane
Mrs G V Whltehouse,
Walla Walla
E B Tongue, HUlsboro
H E Volkenanc, Bak C
A Thomson. Prlnevllle
Master Whltehouse,
Mrs Thomson, do
Bernard BIsslnger,
Philadelphia
Bruce Brier. Seattle
E M Rosenthal, city
A Christiansen, city
Miss M G Morrow,
Seattle
Miss A M Morrow, do
A H Morrow, Seattle
Emll Sakala, Astoria
Mary Peterson, do
Walla Walla
L W "Van Home, Ash
land. Or
N L McWllllams, Ash
land. Or
Fred H Miller. Nome
Alfred Anzs, Chicago
Mrs Anre, Chicago
Mrs Lo.d, The Dalles
H P Journey, N Y
H Putnam. N Y
Mrs Irene Strong,
Palermo, Cal.
Wm L Harney, S F
Carl Peterson, do
J D Eaton, Wash
.auss iaton, ao
P Donavan, San Fran
Lee M Travis, Eugene
C G Marrlon, Redding
G E Perlnger & fy.
Pendleton
G E Powell. San Fran
E M Runyon. Duluth
F Foster. Seattle
Mrs E Nichols & 2 ch,
Seattle
W S Bassendate, Tfc-
coma
D W Smith, Kansas C
J R Martlndale, Al
bany. Or
Mrs Martlndale. Albny,
Mrs E C Weissmlller,
Mrs Bassendate. do
Baker City
W J Connors, B C
THE IMPERIAL
W. Knowles, Manager.
C.
H C Miller. Denver
W H. FauerBon. city
A Beavers. Seattle
J S Cooper. JIndepdee
C A Foster, Hoppnor
Mrs Foster, Heppner
Emma Welch, Keppni
Miss King. Coeur d?AJ
Chas. F Fleming, San
Jose, Cal
Mrs Anna Watther.Cal
Edna Burn, Cal . .
Clara Harris, Ogden '
Miss C B Cady, Seattl
Miss R C Mitchell, do
H M Peirce, MUsoula
Mrs Peirce, do
Master Pelrco, do
H C Roberts, Peoria
E "W Parks. Tacoma
Mrs Geo Ruch, Dalles
i. .a. Long, HUlsboro
Miss Ruch, The DoJlesT T Porter,. S F
Miss I Ruch. Dalles
L H Cameron. MIlw
W J Reed. Oakland
N N Craig. S F
Chas Ringllng. Chgo
Mrs Ringllng. Chgo
Chas Andress. Chgo
Frank Leekenby, city
Lenna Smith. WInlocb
Sadie Smith. Wlnlock
Lime Langhorn, Che
halls Mrs A Drysdale, Pen
dleton Miss Day. Spokane
C R Thomson, Astoria
Mrs Thomson. Astoria
John C Young, Bakr C
VT H Wilson. Dalies
S Chapman, Sumpter
D I Ashbury. McMIn
O G Barlow, HUlsboro
h c smith, Astoria
II Trunwlth. Astoria
Mrs Ashbury, McMInn
F I Dunbar. Salem
B E Kennedy, renaitn
Mr5 Dunbar, Salem
Mrs Kennedy. PendltnjC S Moore, Salem
Mrs R C Miller, do
Mrs Moore. Salem
Richard A Wood, Ft
Stevens, Or
Mrs A N Gilbert. Salom
aiiss Agnes Gilbert, do
Hotel Drunswick. Seattle.
European: first class. Rates, 75c and up. Oni
block from depot. Restaurant next door.
Tacoma Hotel, Tacoma.
American plan Rates, $3 and up.
Donnelly Hotel, Tacoma.
European plan. Rates. 60c and up.
Five Generations! Meet.
ICorth Yamhill Record.
Mother, daughter, granddaughter, great-
granddaughter and two great-great grand
sons under one roof such was the happy
reunion of five generations at the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Bedwell, ln
North Yamhill, during the past week.
Mcs. Sarah Perkins, of this place, rep
resented the first generation; Mrs. Eliz
abeth Bedwell, her daughter, the second;
Mrs. Rena Skeens, daughter of Mrs.
Sarah Richards, who is a daughter of
Mrs. Sarah Perkins, the third generation:
Mrs. Alice McGaffy, daughter of Mrs.
Skeens, the fourth, and Ray and Wesley
McGaffy, sons of Mrs. Alice McGaffy.
representing the fifth generation. Grand
ma Perkins is well advanced in the fifth
score of years, and quite vigorous. The
meeting was a particularly pleasant one
lor the dear old grandmother, who bids
fair to reach the century mark in life.
NO BACKWARD MOVEMENT
TRADE SITUATION SATISFACTORY,
CONSIDERING SEASON.
Iron Market Better Balanced Than
at Any Time In Two MontHs
Orders lor Material,
NEW YORK, Aug. 24. R. G. Dun &
Cb's weekly review of trade will say:
The skr Is not cloudless; but there has
been no backward movement of business
this week. The chief drawback of the
week has been the Intense heat ln some
sections of the West, which was more
efficient ln retarding business than the
lower temperature East, which is stimu
lating It. Crop advices continue as cheer
ful as at any time lately, and the labor
situation shows no Important changes In
working forces. Prices are steady, b.ut
there is talk of a decline, perhaps ?10 per
ton, ln steel rails shortly, to a basis at
which it is believed the railroads will
be willing to place orders for the en
suing years" supplies. More good news
comes from the great iron centers, where
bridge and boatbullders and makers of
agricultural Implements, stoves and cast
iron pipe are all eager to secure finished
or partially finished material. Prices are
sustained, and in a few cases move up
ward. Iron, generally, is already a solid
and better balanced market than for two
months past. Reduction in output of pig
Is having the desired effect at most
Northern points, though at the South
stocks are still heavy and complaint is
heard of prohibitive freight rates to the
seabord. Large export business is wait
ing, and foreign buying of finished ma
terial continues large.
Production of coke has been decreased
to 14.3.9S0 tons weekly In the Connells
vllle region.
Another sharp decline has taken the
price of tin to COVfec, but copper Is firm.
Wheat declined still further on Satur
day, touching the- lowest price since early
ln June and making the fall 15 from
the top point of the season, about two
months ago. Vigorous marketing by
farmers shows their willingness to sell
at current prices, recelp'ts at primary
markets during three weeks amounting
to 19,Seo,900 bushels against 10,633,051 last
year. Dally figures of exports continue
light, although there is much talk of
purchases for foreign account. Prices
recovered from the lowest point, traders
on the short side taking profits freely.
Corn is steady, but a drop last week
makes the -present price only four cents
above that of 1899.
Sales of wool at the three chief East
ern markets have increased, to 5,062,500
pounds, against 4,231,800 ln the week pre
"vious. Today's wool was active In Bos
ton and territory grades are all firmly
held, though prices are nominally un
changed. There is no pressure to sell,
some dealers shipping East with instruc
tions to hold until after election.
Factories aro still working only part
time ln the Eastern boot and shoe dis
tricts, and it is evident that earlier esti
mates of accumulated stocks were much
too small. There Is more activity in the
hide market and prices are sustained
by strong foreign quotations, activity in
Chicago by California tanners, and favor
able purchases for harness.
Iron Market Improving.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. Bradstreefs to
morrow will say:
Contrary trade currents still give an ap
pearance of Irregularity to the entire sit
uation, but good and unfavorable influ
ences conspire to bring about a sort of
balance which accords well with the
weather conditions and the particular
season of the year. It clearing returns
are to be regarded, the tide of trade
was about at its ebb last week, but It Is
well known that clearings rarely, except
in times of speculative excitement, re
flect present conditions.
In the iron trade the corner has ap
parently been turned for the better and
there is a perceptible improvement ln the
Jobbing demand at leading Western mar
kets. Prices, too, are steady, the few
decreases which are noted being largely
due to Improved crop conditions, particu
larly of, corn and cotton. Despite the re
ports which have pictured the corn crop
as heavily shortened by the hot winds,
the reports to Bradstreet's from Nebraska,
Kansas and St. Louis, are, as a whole,
quite encouraging. The lowered price of
cotton Is largely due to the arrival of
needed rains in the South Atlantic
States. . '
Wheat, Including flour shipments, for the
week aggregate 2,295,168 bushels, against
3,113,641 bushels last week; 3,343,825 bushels
in the corresponding week of 1899; 3,665,476
bushels ln 1898; 5,149,653 bushels ln 1897,
and 3.281.S54 bushels ln 1896. From July 1
to date this season exports are 23,696.448
bushels against 29,508,894 bushels last sea
son and 65,906,552 bushels ln 1893-99.
Business failures in the United States
as reported to 'BradBtreet aggregate 155
for the week, as against 16S last week,
154 ln thla week a year ago, 172 in 1898, 210
ln 1897 and were about half what they
were ln this week four years ago. Cana
dian failures for the week number 29 as
against 24 last week, 23 ln this -week a year
ago, 27 In 1898, 39 in 1897 and 31 ln 1896.
STOCKS LIFELESS.
Financial Interests Awaiting a Re
newal of General Activity.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24. Bradstreefs
financial review tomorrow will say:
Pronounced dullness still prevails In the
stock market, the total transactions at
the New York Stock Exchange on sev
eral days this week falling to below 100,000
shares. The public Is entirely out of the
market and the large financial interests
are apparently waiting for a revival of
general activity. Some Investment pur
chases are apparently ln progress from
time to time ln the dividend-paying part
of the railroad-share list and there has
also been more or less manipulation of a
few stocks. It is, however, a long time
since the market has been so lifeless or
so devoid of features.
The London market is to all appearance
as dull, if not duller, than our own. The
large increase of the Bank of England's
gold reserve, amounting to 4,400,000, rep
resenting the shipments from New York
on account of the war loan subscrip
tions, has eased London money markets
to such an extent that there is no longer
any reason to apprehend further with
drawals of gold from the country. The
money market has been relloved from this
danger and at the same time helped
by the large disbursements the New
York Subtreasury has made on account of
the redemption of the old 2 per cent bonds.
Easy money, however, has little effect ln
view of the total absence of speculative
interest.
The crop news was on the whole fa
vorable despite the prevalence of droughts 1
ln the extreme West. Little effect was
produced by the greater activity of Iron
and steel trades though the Industrials
as a class were firmer. The general list
was on the whole steady and bear sell
ing by. the traders did not bring out any
stocks. The only real activity was In a
few manipulated Issues.
COMMISSION OIV GRAIE.
Basis of Trading Agreed Upon by
Xew Yorlc Produce Exchange.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24. After prepara
tions covering three months, a special
committee, composed of brokers, grain
receivers and exporters members of the
New York Produce Exchange have
agreed upon a basis of trading to enforce
minimum rates of commission and brok
erage on grain. The agreement chiefly
provides that for the sale of consigned
grain half a cent per bushel shall be
charged on wheat, corn, oats and feed
barley. One cent per bushel shall be
charged on buckwheat, rye and malting
barley.
One-half of these rates of commission
ehall be charged whero the consignment
is handled for the account of any mem
ber or firm, one of whose general part
ners is a member, or corporation, one of
whose executive officer is a member of
the following regularly organized ex
changes: Board of Trade, Chicago: Mer
chants' Exchange, St. Louis; Board of
Trade, Duluth: Chamber of Commerce,
Boston; Commercial Exchange, Philadel
phia; Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore;
Board of Trade. New Orleans; Chamber
of Commerce, San Francisco: Board of
Trade, Montreal, and Board of Trade.
Toronto.
NEW TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Chicago Board of Trade's System to
Distribute Quotations.
CHICAGO, Aug. 24. Arrangements for
the formation of the Exchange Telegrapn
Company, with which the Chicago Board
of Trade will displace the Western Union
and Postal Companies in the distribution
of market quotations among outside ex
changes, have been drawn up and are
ready to be submitted to the exchanges
which will become shareholders.
At a meeting of the Board of Trade
Committee, it practically was decided to
go ahead with the formation of the new
company. As projected, the Exchange
Telegraph Company will extend its lines
from Chicago to 27 cities.
At present the only quotations going
out from the Chicago board are sent by
members to branches or customers or are
stolen quotations.
The president of the Board of Trade
yesterday issued a circular letter to out
side exchanges, In which he said quota
tions were cut off because It was neces
sary to suppress bucket-shops, which, he
declared, threaten the life of all legiti
mate trade.
Bank Clearings.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24. The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the
bank clearings at the principal cities for
the week ended August 23, -with the per
centages of Increase and decrease, as
compared with the corresponding week
last year:
Inc. Dec.
New York $ 721,487,0 .... 27.2
Bos'on 9J.424.003 .... 17.1
Chicago 119 ,tt.,0O) 16.1
Ph'laaephla '.6,6.90,0 4.2
St. Louis S9,S37.0j 5.2 ....
Pittsburg C0.801.COO 37.2
Baltimore 14.424.CO0 23.2
San Francisco .... IS.501,000 14.1
Cincinnati 14.150,000 2Q.4
Kansas City 15.0 3,000 8.0
New Orleans 5.618.0CO 11.8
Minneapolis ....... 9,95.',000 13.3 ....
Detroit 7,873,1,00 10.6
Cleveland 9,932,00-3 16.2
Louisville 6,498 000 .... 10.0
Providence" 5,012,OjO .... 20.7
Milwaukee 5.26S.000 1.8
St. Paul 4.O74.000
Buffalo 4,4 5,003 4.9 ....
Omaha- 5,f5S,0 0 7.6
Indianapolis 5,77b,000 1.5 ....
Columbus, 0 4.833 000 5.8
Savannah 3.0AOOO 53.5 ....
Denver 3.979,000 33.4
Hartford 1,843 000 .... 7.3
Richmond 3,055,000
Memphis 1,613.000 37.6 ....
Washington 1,654.030 1.1
Peoria 2,019,000 18.9
Rochester 1,417.000 .... 52.3
New Haven ....... 1,119,000 .... 15.1
Worcester 1,162,000 .... 1.1
Atlanta l.lSO.COO 16.3 ....
Salt Lake City.... 1,944 000 .... 2.1
Sprlngfleld, Mass.. 9S2.C00 .... 21.3
Fort Worth 1,378.000 .... 21.4
Portland. Me 935,000 .... 54.1
Portland, Or. .... 1,90,0:0 18.4 ....
St. Joseph 3,ofl0"0 12.4
Los Angeles 2,(95 000 23.6
Norfolk S92..03 6.7 ....
Syracuse SS6.C03
Des Moines 9S9.0C0 .... 30.0
Nashville 919.000 .... 14;3
Wilmington, Del.. S44.030 16.4
Fall River 564,000 .... 15.1
Scranton 1,037.000 6.0
Grand Rapids 1,110,003 8.0 ....
Augusta, Ga 713 0 0 29.8 ....
Lowell 433,000 .... 20.8
Dayton, 0 93S.000 6.0 ....
Seattle 2.12S003 1.2 ....
Tacoma 1,0000 0 3.4
Spokane f53,000 .... 21.4
Sioux Cltv 995.000 .... 8.7
New Bedford 3S5.0C0 10.5
Knoxville, Tenn.. ?S8.0C0 25.6
Topeka 969,000 87.0 ....
Birmingham 734,000 21.5
Wichita 521.0C0 4.5
Blnghamton 397 003 3S.9 ....
Lexington. Ky.... 281000 .... 21.9
Jacksonville, Fla. 1S0,0:0 3.5
Kalamazoo 373,000 21.8 ....
Akron . 439,000 M.9 ....
Chattanooga ...I. 360,000 25.4
Rockford, 111 270 C03 ...
Canton. 0 221.000 , .... 7.1
Sprlngfleld 349.C00 .... 71.0
Fargo, N. D 193.000 .... 24.7
S'oux FalK S. D. .OOO 2.4 ....
Hastings, Neb. .. 137.0CO 17.0
Fremont, Neb. ... 103 090 29.7 ....
Davenport 782.CC0 6.9 ....
Toledo 203,i01 .... 6.5
Galveston 3,941 TOO .... 19.9
Houston 4' ?V3
Evansvllle 734.000 .... 12.2
Macon 446.000 15.2 ....
Little Rock 3fl,000 54.0 ....
Springfield, 111 303 000 .... 17.6
Youngstown. 261 0C0 17.0 ....
Helena 579,030 .... 20JJ
Totals. 'U. S n.268.520.000 .... 17.5
Outside N. Y 547,032.000 3.0 ....
Dominion of Canada
Montreal ? 12003 .... 10.1
Toronto 8,2i0 000 7.4
Winnipeg 2164 000 23.5
Halifaxf. 1,552.000 32.3 ....
Hamilton 6S2.000 4.6 ....
St. John. N. B.... 697.000
"Vancouver ;Xxx ,
Victoria 689,000 L1
Totals J 27,685,000 .... 4.4
Bnslness Emnnrrassments.
NEW YORK. Aug. 24. Supreme Court
Justice Sewell today declared Insolvent
the Mercantile Co-operative Bank of New
York City. The assets of the bank No
vember 27, 1899, were stated -to be $381,994,
and Its liabilities $1,25S55L
oa-nt ivrrwro Tex.. Ausr. 24. Albert
Maverick today filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. Liabilities, $110.000.
Hnfnn Choate's Handwritlnff.
Youth's Companion.
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of the scholar sometimes does little
credit to his learning. Ingenious but
Illogical schoolboys have generalized
from such insufficient premises that the
worse their writing the brighter' their
chances of becoming learned men. From
the parental point of view the argu
ment seems radically unsound, but that
the premise is sometimes true is beyond
question. Miss Caroline Tlcknor tells
an amusing story of Rufus Choate.
Her grandfather, George Tlcknor, tho
historian of Spanish literature, was
once called as a witness ln a case in
which Mr. Choate was engaged as
counsel. Sitting beside the eminent
lawyer, during the progress of the trial,
he was attracted by Mr. Choate's notes
of the evidence.
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Remarkably Lotr Deatb. List.
Salem Journal.
The heated term this Summer from the
middle of July to the middle of August
has been remarkably free from casual
ties. There have been many prostrations,
hut few deaths, ln even such exposed
and fatalistic localities as Chicago. Con
sidering that the tornado period was aug
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acceptance speech of 17,000 word3, nearly
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has been phenomenally insignificant.
Solid-shotted arraignment of Imperialism,
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tarism, made the air redhot with the
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paign. Yet no more were killed than in
a Filipino battle.
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