SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1908.
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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The Daily Market Report
PORTLAND, Dec. 10. The wtek
ittl wiiii the poultry tnurkct on the
whole in better sbupe than or more
than a month putt. Hem end chick
en were In god demand today, and
at prlcei approximately 2 ccnti
holier than the quotation! at the
firm of the week, while ducki alto
were afirly active at the quotatlona
that have ruled all the week. For
B'eie and, turkeys there ,hai been
but little Inquiry thia week, but for
tunately (or the market, little atock
in thne lines came in. r
There will be little if any poultry
of any kind to carry over to next
werk, and the outlook ia for good
market for the remainder of the
month. No ihlpmcnta of turkeyi for
the Chrlntmie trade are expected for
t week or more, but in all probabil
ity there will be enough for the de
mand for it ia known that a dumber
of the turkey producer! of the Valley
at Thanksgiving time held back soma
of their birds for the later holiday
trade. Storage Hocks in the city
will laso be drawn upon to some
extent
WHOLESALE PRICES. "
Oram, Flour, Kay, Etc.
Wbeat-fTrack prices: Club, 89c;
blue-stem, 95c; turkey red, 92c; red
Russian, 87c ; Valley, 91c
Flour Patents. $4.80; straights,
13.95(34 20; exports, 3.70; Valley,
$445; 11 sack graham. H0; whole
wheat. 1465; rye, $5 50.
Barley-Feed, J26.50; rolled, $28
$25.50; brewing, $27.,
Oats No. 1 white, $31; gray, $33.
Hay Track prlcea: Timothy
Willamette Valley, fancy, $15; d.
ordinary. $12; Eastern Oregon, mix
ed. $16.50; dp, fancy, $17.50; alfalfa,
$U.5012; clover, $12.
Mitlstufft-Bran, $26 50; middlings,
$33; shorts, country, $31; shorts,
city, $30;ehop, $22.
Meat and Provisions.
Dressed Meats-Hogs, fancy 7 5
7ic ordinary 66ic large 5c; veal,
extra 819c ordinary 67c heavy
Sc; mutton, fancy 67e.
Bacon-Breakfast, 152Hc, pic
nice 10c, cottage roll Ulc; regular
abort dears, smoked 13c, do un
smoked 12c; clear bellies, unimoked
14c, do amoked 15c; shoutdere, He.
Haraa-10-12 lbs., 15c; 14-16 lbs,
15c: 18-20 Ibe.. ISc
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' Commercial Printers
They Do Everything in
Line at
Lard Kettle leaf, 10s, I4c do Sa,
14Jc; do 50-lb. tins, 13)c; steam ren
dered, 10, 13c; do 5s, 13ic; com
pound, 81c
Butter, Egg and Poultry.
Cheese Full cream twins, 15c; full
cream triplet!, 15c; Young America,
16c; cream brick, 1820c; Swiss
block, 1820c; Limburger, 1820c.
Poultry-Mixed chickens UQUl:;
fancy hens, 12c; roosters,, old 8c,
broilers and fryers, 1212ic; dressed
poultry, 1c lb. higher; ducks, I4lSc;
geese, OffllOc; turkeys, live, 17Q18c;
dressed, 206522c.
Butter Extraa, J637c fancy, 33
34c; choice, 30c; atore, 18fJ20c.
Eggs Extra Oregons, 40 cents;
Eastern, 28 32c
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoei Buying prices, 8085c;
per hundred; aweeta, $2 per hundred.
Fresh Fruita-Orangea, $2.503;
lemons, $45; grapes, $1.251.6S per
crate; pears, 7Sc$1.2S per box;
quinces, $1,25 per box" cranberries,
J1212.S0 per barrel; bananas, 55sc
per pound.
Onions Buying . prlcea, 9095e,
per hundred.
Apples Best Oregqn, 1.25t.50;
common, 75c$l box.
Vegetables Turnips, $125 per
sack; beets, $125; parsnips, $1 25;
cabbabe, $1.50; head lettuce, 50$1
doien; cucumbers, hothouse, $125
1.40 crate; celery, 7585c doien;
artichokes, 75c doaen; beans, 121c
oound: eggplant, $150 crate; toma
toes, $11.50 crate; squash, 1 cent
per pound; peppers, $1.75 per box;
cauliflower, 75c$l per doaen.
Oyster. Clams and" Fish,
Ovsters Shoalwater Bay, per gal
lon 1225: oer sack $4.50; Toke Point,
$1.60 per 100; Olympias (120 lbs.),
$6: Olympian, oer gallon, $iZ5.
Fish-Halibut. 7c Ib.J black cod, 7
8c; black baas. 20c; atrlped bass.
18c; herring, 51c; flounders, 6c;
catfish, 9c; shrimp, 12Jc; perch, 6c;
sturgeon, 121c; sea trout, 15c; torn
cod, 8c; salmon, fresh, 8c; ailver
amelt, 6c lb.
Canned Salmon Columbia river,
Mb. tails, $2; 2-lb. tals, $3; fancy,
l ib. flats, $2.15; l-lb. flats, $125;
fancy, Mb. ovals. $2.75; Alaska tails,
pink 95c, red $140; nominal, 2s, tatla,
$2.10.
Clams Little neck, per box, $2.50;
raior clams, $2 per box; crabs, $1
$1.50 doaen.
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the Lowest Prices lor
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JOBBERS' QUOTATIONS.
. Sugar, Coffee, Etc
Sugar (sack basis) D. C, $6.05;
beet, $5.85; Golden C, $5.45; extra C,
$5.55; powdered, $6.15; fruit or berry
sugar, $6.05; boxes, 55c cwt advance
over sack basis (less l-4c if paid for
In 1! days).
- Turpentine In cases, 63c; In wood
barrela, 61k; in iron barrels, 59ic; in
10-caie lota, 62c
Lead Strictly pur white lead, in
ton lots, 71c; 500-lb. lots, 8c less; leas
than 500c lbs., 81c; red lead and lith
arge, ic higher than white.
Rice Imperial Japan, No. I, $6.35;
Southern Japan, $5.756; broken, 41c
head; fancy, $7775
Coffee Mocha, 2428c; Java, fancy
25S)28e; Java, good,' 2024c; Java,
ordinary, 1720c; Costa Rica, fancy,
1820c: Costa Rica, good, 16 18c;
ArbacVk, lie JO cwt; Uon, $15.75
cwt; Colombia eoflee, lie lb.; Sal
vador,' 111 14k
Salt-Bate - 75-?s, bale, $225;
Kits of oajs, bale, $223; bales of
404a. bale. $225: bade of 15-lOa,
bale, $225; begs, 50, fine, ton; $15;
bags' Six; gtLBioe Liverpool ton, $17;
baca. 50c i -ground $13.50; 100s, ton,
$1300: H S. V. P, 20 l ib. cartona.
$2.25,' R. S, V. P, 3-lb. cartons. $125;
Liverpool, lump, per ton, $20.
Ralaina Loose muscatels. 3-crown,
7 cents; 4-crown, 7ic; bleached,
eedlesa Sultanas. '9ic(2)12ci un
bleached aeedleas Sultanas, 61 cents;
London layers, 3-crown, whole boxes
of 20 j ounds, $2.00; Z-crown, Sl.75.
Nuts Walnuts, 11S17c pound;
filberts. 1 : Brazils. 16c: pecans, 14
20c; hickory. 10c; Virginia row pea
nuts, 8 cents; chestnuts, Ital
ian 10c Ohio 25c; eocoanuts, doien,
90c$l; pina nuts, 1012c pound.
Dried Fruits Applies, 8k per lb;
peaches, 1012e; peara, ' llll4c;
Italian prunes, S6c; California figs,
white, in sacks, 7k per pound; black,
67c; bricks, 75c225 per box;
Smyrna, 16ij17ic per pound; dates,
Persian, 617e pound.
Hopa, Wool. Hides, Etc
Hops New Oregon, 781c lb.;
1907, 214c; 1906. Hllc
WooH-Vslley, medium, 14151c;
lb.: coarse, 12213c; Eastern Oregon,
m6c aa to shrinkage
Hidea-Dry hides, No. 1, 141c lb.;
dry kip, No. 1. 131c lb.; dry salted,
one-third less: dry calf, 151c lb.;
salted ateers, 718c lb.; salted cows,
61c lb.; ataga and bulls, 41c lb.; kip,
61c lb.; calf. He lb ; green atock, lc
leas: sheepskins, shearlings, 102Sc;
short wool, 3040c; medium and
long wool, according to quality, SO
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90c; dry horses, 50c$lJ0; dry colt,
25c; angora, 80c$l; goat, common,
1020c .
Mohair Choice" 1810c lb.
Oregon Graperoot Per 100 lbs.
$35.
Cascara Sagrada (chittim bark)
56c per lb.
OUa, Lead, Etc
Linseed Oil Raw. 5-barrel lota,
54c; 1-barrel lots, 55c; in case, 61c;
boiled, 5-barrel lots, 56c; 1-barrel
lots, 57c; in cases, 63c
Gasoline Union and Red Crown,
bbls., 151c; cases, 221c Motor, bbls.,
161c: cases, 231c 86 degrees, bbls.,
30c; cases, 371c Engine Distillate,
bbls, 9c; csea, 16c ,
THE STORAGE WAREHOUSE.
h 8h.da 8om. 8 Id. Lights Upon Ufa
and Morale.
For a few daxzllng side lights upon
life and morals apply to the storage
warehouse. You can find almost any
thing there from baby alligators to
blocks of ice cream and from Teddy
bears to sauerkraut So yon won't be
amased at what the Institution has
most recently divulged. Here yon bare
the story:
Mrs. Q. repaired to the storage ware
house to extract her soup spoons,
though It may have been aunta or un
cles or popcorn or guinea pigs. At any
rate, her property declined to come out
It had been tucked ia by Mr. Q. Only
Mr. Q. might tempt it forth. Mrs. Q.
protested. She wanted her catnip or
theology or safety rasor, or whatever
It was, and made representations with
great emphasis. She moved upon the
management. She stormed and wept
After long wrangling the warehouse
decided It would yield up the college
Ice or was It the piano V-lf Mrs. Q.
would swear she waa still married to
Mr. Q. and would send him a written
statement (he was. In Quebec, and I
lost track of him owing to bewilder
ment produced by merely thinking of a
storage warehouse) and make him re
turn the statement, countersigned,, to
the management This, then, Is how
Mrs. Q. regained possession of her golf
links or prayer book or sugar tongs.
Well, my It was sugar tongs, though
golf links would be likelier.
Pressed for an explanation, the ware
house remarked: "Have to be careful,
you know divorces, separations, af
finities, you know. Minute such things
start up there's a race to the storngo
place. Game Is for each to snatch out
everything first Becomes embarrass-
ingP Boston Transcript.
MIXED THE SIGNS.'
8arasat and the Sandwloh . Men In
Edinburgh.
To advertise Snrqsate's Performances
The Astoria Furniture Co.
is the one place in Astoria
that is teeming with Christ
mas suggestions. Tell us
you wants and we will
supply them.
Astoria Furniture Co.
559-565 Commercial Street.
A. Beharrell H ; JVC. Carrington
In Eainourgn eignt sanawica men were
sent out, each of whom bore in front '
and behind him one letter of the great
musician's name. They started all
right, but after a time removed the
boards from tbelr shoulders to have a
rest
On resuming their labors each man
shouldered the board nearest him and
fell in behind the man who had for
merly marched before him. "
When the leader, who bore the Initial
"S," turned around to see If his men
were ready, what he saw was "Sata
resa." He knew enough to realize that
something was wrong, but how to
right it was more than he could tell.
After changing a man here and there
he got It "Starasea." But still it didn't
seem correct
By this time the poor fellow was in
a terrible state. If any of " their em
ployers" people were on the outlook
and could see them, their day's wage
would be stopped! He tried again and
yet again, but It was no use.
And a moment later a man bearing
the letter "S" before and behind was
seen running toward the music ball to
copy down the name from one of the
posters there. And along the right
side of Princeton street there walked
toward -the appointed rendezvous at
the Mound three men who bore the
strange device "A A K," while opposite
them there paced along the left side
gutter four others, who, if to advertise
means to attract attention, succeeded
well, for.every one who passed looked
around in wonderjng amazement as to
what "Rats', meant Edinburgh Dis
patch. Toe Muoh For the Ferret
An old buck rabbit Is not to be light
ly tackled by weasel, stoat or even
ferret On the sanded floor of a small
public house a ferret of long experi
ence was matched with an old lop
eared buck, the property of the land
lord. The ferret made straight for the
rabbit's throat, but the latter was in
the . air before master ferret eonld
reach him and, leaping clean over the
ferret's head, let out with those power
ful hind legs of his a kick which
hurled the ferret bodily against the
wainscot Twice the ferret returned
to the attack, and twice he inissed his
grip and went hurtling through the
air. The third repulse was enough for
him. He knew he was beaten and
could not be persuaded to Btand up for
a fourth round. Pearson's Weekly,
Brilliant Fish Hues.
Like birds, many fishes assume their
brlgtiost hue when they wish to at
tract the opposite sex of their species.
Tho colors of the male common pike
bocome-exceedingly Intense, brilliant
and irldesc-eut In the breeding season,
Tho eel also pats ca nrs tatesrsa silvery
hue at the Lrecdtog fee which is very
noticeable r.r.d r.t oae time caused nat
uralists to ("UUnr.v.lJh It as n distinct
npeeles. T'-J ::!j'.os of t'.ii tpneh. roach
and perch a '.jo shot." a narked Increase
lu brilliancy !'( ;i:e l iv"ii)ct reason.
..FREDERICK AMD VOLTAIRE.
Stormy Relations of th Miserly King
and the Lavish Author.
The world knows .plenty about the ;
elements of streugth In the characters
of great men, but less about tbelr
' weaknesses. Here Is a story that
shows the other side of the natures of
Frederick the Great and Voltaire: '
Frederick the Great had a leaning
toward literature. He wrote poems.
plays and booklets that In bis opin
ion, possessed rare merit So it
seemed fitting to him thai great liter
ary men should fraternize, and he sent
an invitation to Voltaire to be his
guest Accompanying the invitation
jwas a sum of money to defray the
great Frenchman's traveling expenses
to the Prussian capital.
; Let it be explained at this point that
Frederick waS extremely penurious
'and that Voltaire was not only ex
I travagant but had many of the char
acteristlcs of what we would now coll
a grafter. It should also be under
stood that Frederick despised graft
I ing, and Voltaire . abhorred miserli
ness.
V Voltaire accepted the Invitation and
then had an afterthought Why not
take a favorite niece with hlmj So
he wrote to the king that if he would
send an extra thousand louls he would
bring the girl, 'J
"Sir." replied the king. ."1 did not
ask the young lady to do me the honor
of visiting me. and I shall send noth
ing to pay ner expenseB."
"The old miser!" said Voltaire to a
friend. "He has tubs of money In his
treasury, yet will not grant ma this
wish."
However, Voltaire went to Berlin, but
. each found that be hated the other too
much to make their friendship perma
nent
The king once gave Voltaire ft pack'
age of poems to revise.
"See," said Voltajre to a German no
bleman, "what a quantity of dirty
linen Frederick has sent me to washl"
The king thought his guest was too
free with the chocolate and sugar and
gave orders that be be put on a re
stricted dally allowance.
, Voltaire retaliated by gathering all
the wax candles he could find In the
halls and storing them in tds.trunk.
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VICTOR OR AN EDISON
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noon cne royal palace became 'too hot
for him, and he began to pack up.
Then Frederick missed his package of
poems. At once he scented ft plot Vol
taire Intended to take the verses back
home with him and palm them off as
his own. Lord Macaulay has said that
the poems were so bad that he was
convinced Voltaire would not for half
of Frederick's kingdom have consent
ed to father them. But the king
thought differently, being the author
of the poems.
So the Prussian monarch had Vol
taire thrown Into Jail at Frankfort and
kept him locked up for twelve days.
Sixteen hundred- dollars that was
found In his pocket was taken away
from him. The king In the days of
their friendship had given Voltaire a
life pension of $3,200 a year, and the
money that was confiscated was . a
semiannual installment
- Thus ended their friendship. Scrap
Book. .
Mental Arithmetfv.
Two' years ago 1 asked Aunt Jane to
visit us for a fortnight and she has
not gone home yet"
"It's a Messing." t ...
What's a blessing?
"That you didn't invito her for ft
month." Harper's Weekly.
' Uncovered.
Horace I can't understand yon gMa.
Now, you hate Mabel, and yet you just
kissed her. Hetty I know, but just sea
how the freckles show where I Sifised
the powder off. London Tatler.
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