Oregon union., November 12, 1897, Image 4

A FROLIO AT THE FORD.
Geography wai horrible; the sweat we
called it that
Bespoke a common misery when Billy sig
naled Pat,
Two stubby, grimy fingers uplifting on the
Thereat a wink significant distorted Pat
rick's eje. ..
Then Billy tnrned to Cummins, and Har
vey, and Depew,
To each In turn displaying the mystic fin
gers two,
And lastly condescended, while the others
winked in glee,
To show the mystic symbol to the least of
ail to me.
O ecstasy transcending whate'er the fu
ture stored,
When Billy bade me Join him for a frolic
at the ford!
The hours till noon slunk by as If they
knew we wished them past;
It seemed as though they'd never go
they did, of course, at last
And O, how cool the water was, and O,
how sweet the joy
That filled and thrilled the bosom of each
sweaty little boy.
When he had hung his trousers on the
nearest handy bough
And shut his lips and held his nose and
dove to "show y how."
We ducked and splashed and wrestled, we
. floated, raced and tread.
And Billy flopped his feet aloft whiis
standing on his head; . '
Depew had brought up bottom from the
center of the pool,
When Harvey said he .reckoned it was
time to go to school.
"Gee whiz!" says Billy, "first to quit.
An as I live! my breeches are twisted in
a knot!"
Each rushed ashore and scurried to where
his garments hung,
Then sudden imprecations arose from
every tongue.
While we had wooed the cooling stream,
some envious sneak had gone
And tied our shirts and trousers so we
couldn't get 'em on.
"We're late," says Billy. "Then," says
Pat, "just take your time to dress;
We'll fix it so' s to wander in at afternoon
recess.
An each o' y' must gather a bunch o'
purty flowers
An give 'em t' the teacher er she'll keep
y' after hours.".
The teacher worked for slender pay, so
far as money went;
She prayed and played and pardoned and
seemed to be content,
But when a boy that loved her contrived
to let her know,"
She looked as if her gratitude was going
to overflow.
I guess that she no matter what.
When we b!x boys marched in,
Each one of us a-grinning from eyebrows
down to chin,
And stopped in turn before her desk and
laid our flowers down.
We saw two tears start sudden in the
middle of her frown.
As I, the last and least of all, went by,
with hair askew,
She stooped and said: "1 love you, boys,
no matter what you do."
"These flowers," whispered Harvey, "are
not so bad a plan."
"She's Bolid gold," said Billy; "she ought
t' been a man!" ,
A TRIBUTE OF SONG.
HERE la no place
on earth where
utter helplessness
comes out so strong
ly, where the cere
monies in human
use fall so power
less before the maj
esty of the occa
sion, as at a funeral;
It need not be that
one's heart shall be
Interested. The ob-
t i iir sequies of a stran
rfi . f f eer. conducted with
all the pomp and
vanity of church and states with the
melancholy rolling drum of the military
funeral, or the gorgeousness of the Ma
sonic regalia apron all are alike inade
quate and unavailing.
But once in my life have I witnessed
a ceremony that was as grand and im
pressive as the silent, awful occasion
that was ever given to the dead.
I will tell you of a funeral which lin
gers In my memory as the grandest,
most solemn, and befitting ceremony
that was ever given to the dead.
It was rumored many years ago that
a poor widowed woman, leading a hard
life of unending labor, was called to
part with the one thing dear to her
her only child. Mother and daughter
had toiled together for fifteen years,
and the only bit of sunshine falling
Into their dark lives was that shed by
their living companionship. But the
girl had always been sickly. Under the
heart-broken mother's eyes she had
faded and wasted away with consump
tion, and at last the day came when the
wan face failed to answer with its
ghastly smile the anxious, tear-blinded
eyes of the mother.
The poor young creature was dead.
For many months the pair had been
supported by the elder woman's sew
ing, and It was in the character of em
ployer I had become acquainted with
Mrs. Cramp and her story. By an occa
sional visit to the awful "heights of an
East Side tenement where they lived,
by a few books and with some comfort
ing words, I had won the love of the
dying girl. Her grateful thoughts turn
ed In her last hours to the small num
ber of friends she possessed, and she
besought her mother to notify me of
the day of her funeral and ask me to
attend.
The summons reached me upon one
of the wildest days preceding Christ
mas. A sleet that was not rain and a
.rain that was not snow came pelting
from all points of the compass. A wind
-tbat -walled In the chimney and howled
In the street told how truly dreadful
for outdoor purposes was the weather
of the day. I piled the glowing grates;
I drew closer the curtains and shut out
the gloom of the December afternoon;
I turned on the gns and sat down de
voutly thankful that I had cut all con
nection with the witched weather
when an installment of it burst in on me
In the shape of Parepa Rosa. She was
Euphrosyne Parepa at that time, and
the operatic Idol of the city. Muffled
with tippets, flecked wtth snow, glow
ing with tlie short encounter she had
had wtth the elements rushing up the
steps from her carriage, she threw her
self Into an easy chair and proclaimed
the horrors of the outer world to b b
yond description.
And even as we congratulated our
selves on the prospect of a delightful
day together there came the summons
for me to go to the humble funeral of
the poor sewing woman's daughter. I
turned the little tear-blotted note over
and groaned.
"This is terrible," said I; "It's just
the one errand that could take me out
to-day; but I must go." And then I
told Parepa the circumstances and
speculated on the length of time I
should be gone, and suggested means
of amusement In my absence.
"But I shall go with you," said the
great, good-hearted creature. v
"Your throat, and old Bateman, and
your concert to-night!" I pleaded.
"If I get another 'froggy note In my
voice it won't matter much; I'm hoarse
as a raven now," she returned.
So she rewound her throat with the
long, white comforter, pulled on her
worsted gloves, and off In the storm
we went together. We climbed flight
after flight of narrow, dark stairs to
the top floor, where the widow dwelt In
a miserable little room not more than
a dozen feet square. The canvas-back
hearse, peculiar to the $25 funeral,
stood in the street below, and the aw
ful cherry-stained box with Its ruffle
of glazed white muslin stood on uncov
ered trestles in the center of the room
above.
There was the mother, speechless In
her grief, before that box a group of
hard-working, kindly Hearted neigh
bors sitting about. It was useless to
say the poor woman was prepared for
the Inevitable end it was cold comfort
to speak to her of the daughter's re
lease from pain and suffering. The be
reft creature, in her utter loneliness,
was thinking of herself and the awful
fate of the approaching moment when
that box and its precious burden would
be taken away and leave her wholly
alone. So, therefore, with a sympathiz
ing grasp of the poor, worn, bony hand,
we sat silently down to "attend the
funeral."
The undertaker's man, with a screw
driver in his band, jumped about in the
passage to keep warm. The creaky
boots of the minister belonging to the
$25 funeral were heard on the stairs.
There was a catarrhal conversation
held outside between them as to the
enormity of the weather, and, probably,
the bad taste of the deceased In select
ing such a bad time to die was dis
cussed. Then the minister came In with
a pious sniff and stood revealed, a reg
ular Stigglns as to get-up a dry, self
sufficient man, Icier than the day and
colder than the storm.
He deposited hlB hat and black gloves
and wet umbrella on the poor little bed
in the corner; he slapped his hand vig
orously together; he took himself in
well-merited fashion by the ears and
pulled them Into glowing sensation,
and after thawing out for a moment
plunged into business.
He rattled merrily through some se
lected sentences from the Bible. He
gave us a prayer that sounded like peas
In a dried bladder, and he came to
amen with a Jerk that brought me up
like a patent snaffle. He pulled on his
old gloves and grabbed his rusty hat,
and with his umbrella dripping Inky
tears over the well-scrubbed floor he
offered a set form of condolence to the
broken-hearted mother. He told her
of her sin In rebelling against the de
cree of Providence. He assured her
that nothing could bring the dead back.
He Inveighed against the folly of the
world In general, and this poor woman
In particular; and then he made a hor
rible blunder, and showed he didn't
know even the sex of the dead, by say
ing: "He cannot come to you, but you
must go to him." . -
This was a settler for Parepa and
myself. We looked at the departing
minister In blank astonishment.
The door swung wide, we saw the
screw-driver waving In the air as the
undertaker's man held converse with
the clergyman. A hush fell on every
body gathered In the little room. Not
one word had been uttered of consola
tion, of solemn import, or befitting the
occasion. It was the emptiest, hollow
est, most unsatisfactory moment I
ever remember.
Then Parepa arose, her cloak falling
about her noble figure like mourning
drapery. She stood beside that miser
able cherry wood box. She looked a
moment on the pinched, wasted, ashy
face upturned toward her from within
it. She laid her soft, white hand on the
discolored forehead of the dead girl, and
she lifted up that matchless voice in
the beautiful melody:
"Angels ever bright and fair, .
Take me, oh, take her, to your care."
The screw-driver paused In describ
ing an airy circle; the wet umbrella
stood pointing down the stairs; the two
men with astonished faces were fore
most in a crowd that instantly filled the
passage. The noble voice swelled to
ward heaven, and If ever the choir of
paradise paused to listen to earth's
music It was when Parepa sang so
gloriously beside that poor dead girl.
No words can describe its effect on
those gathered there. The sad mourner
sank on her knees, and with clasped
hands and streaming eyes the little
band stood reverently about her.
No queen ever went to her grave ac
companied by a grander ceremony. To
this day Parepa's glorious tribute of
song rings with solemn melody in my
memory as the only real, Impressive
funeral service I ever heard.
Trolley Cars in Siam.
They are up to date in Slam. They
run electric trams in Bangkok and the
king Is one of the largest shareholders.
For some years the dwellers In Bang
kok were content with the lowly horse
as a traction power for their trams,
but the company promoter and the elec
tric engineer found their way to enter
prising Siam, and now an electric tram
way finds its silent way through the
streets of Bangkok. It runs from the
lower end of the town to the royal pal
ace, a distance of six miles. The shares
return a handsome dividend, as much
as 18 per cent, has been paid, but the
average return is 10 or 12 per cent. No
wonder his Majesty has handsome jew
els and takes summer trips to the con
tinent. Pall Mall Gazette.
Clever Swindling Scheme.
Belgium swindlers have been pasr"n
thin transparent paper over the post
age stamps they put on letters. The
paper took the postmarks, leaving the
stamps beneath uncancelled.
BABIES IN INCUBATORS.
flow the Yonnffatera Are Made to
Grow by 8cienco.
The Victorian Era Exhibition, now
open in London, does not possess an
exhibit of greater scientific interest
than that of the infant incubator, and,
from a popular point of view, judged
merely as a sideshow, this Invention
has proved immensely attractive In
fact, It Is one of the most paying con
cerns at Earl's Court, medical men vy
ing with the general public in their 1
miratlon for this new contrivance for
saving life. The necessity for such a
thing Is shown by the fact that where
as in 1886 the number of deaths regis
tered in Great Britain as being due to
premature birth amounted to 1,930, the
figure rose for last year to 2,534. It is
also well known that a large numb-r of
deaths which are attributed to various
diseases are due, indirectly, to prema
ture birth.
The two most Important considera
tions In saving the lives of prematurely
born or very weakly Infants are, of
course, warmth and air, and these fac
tors are amply provided for in the neat
white metal contrivances which are
now to be seen. Somewhat similar in
ventions have been In use for some
time at the Charity Hospital, Berlin,
and the Paris Maternity Hospital and
the Post-Graduate Hospital, New York.
The first "couveuses" used In Paris In
1880 were a great improvement upon
the old-fashioned style of wrapping the
Infants in wadding or In a sheepskin
with the wool adhering; but they still
left much to be desired. Inasmuch as
they had to be freshly warmed three or
four times a day, and consequently re
quired unceasing and vigilant attend
ance. .
The latest Incubator Is the Invention
of Paul Altmann, and Is now being ex
ploited In England for the first time.
Its great merit is that it works auto
matically, thus dispensing with the ne
cessity for Incessant watchfulness; In
deed, the machines themselves need no
watching, and the Infants have only to
be moved in order to be fed, a circum
stance which they generally announce
In the customary manner, and washed.
The temperature Is maintained by
means of a thermostat, which works
automatically. By an ingenious sys
tem of levers communication Is at once
established between the Inside of the
incubator and the boiler outside, which
is heated by an oil lamp, gas or elec
tricity, so that, should the temperature
vary eer so slightly, it is Increased or
decreased as occasion may require.
Next to the warmth for the little pa
tient comes the question of air, and this
is provided from the outside through a
pipe which conducts it to the incubator,
where it passes through a washing, fil
tering and warming process before
passing inside. On the top of the incu
bator there is a chimney so constructed
that it can only form an outlet for im
pure air. As a means of providing
warmth of the necessary degree and
absolutely pure air, this Invention is
perfect, and to make all things equal
there is a staff of experienced nurses
who sleep on the premises.
Facts About Postage Stamps.
In this day and age we moisten a
stamp and affix It to our letters and
give It no further thought, accepting
the stamp as a matter-of-course con
venience, and many persons would be
wondrouely surprised if they were to
be told that their grandparents never
saw a postage stamp.
Henry Shaw, the father of "Josh Bil
lings," purchased the first two'stamps
ever sold in the United States on Aug.
6, 1847. He bought one eah of the
five-cent stamp and the ten-cent stamp,
these two denominations being the
only ones put out at that time. The
ten-cent stamp he gave to Governor
Brlggs and kept the five-cent one for
himself. v
Of the first stamps ever Issued Wash
ington's portrait was on the ten-cent
and Franklin's on the other. Since
that time the various issues of the Uni
ted States stamps would furnish a
unique portrait gallery, showing the
faces of forty-eight noted Americans.
Washington appears on twenty-five is
sues, while Lincoln's picture is on ev
ery issue since 1866, except the Colum
bian series.
In 1875 a law was passed prohibiting,
the use of the portraits of living men
on the United States stamps, thus plac
ing living men in the same position that
women occupied, whether dead or
alive, for no woman's portrait has ever
graced a stamp belonging to the Uni
ted States, postal or revenue.
Of the two hundred and fifty stamps
which have been issued the values
have ranged from one cent to five
thousand dollars. Five dollars Is the
highest value among postage stamps,
but newspaper stamps reach the hundred-dollar
mark, while a revenue
stamp may represent five thousand dol
lars. Stamps were put on the-market in
August, 1847, but were so little used
that the government had to pass a law
enforcing prepayment of postage,
which went Into effect in 1855. Before
this action was taken scarcely one let
ter in a dozen was found with a stamp
affixed. To-day the ppstofflces of the
country sell four billion stamps (count
ing postal cards, stamped envelopes
and stamps of all kinds), valued at
seventy -five million dollars, during a
single year.
How Work Alters Features.
Every occupation more or less leaves
Its Imprint on the face of the work
era, and In the student, too, we hear of
the "pale cast of thought." But some
work positively disfigures the workers,
and alters the features so much as to
render them unrecognizable In many
cases. Thewhlte-lead workers are
singularly u;. figured, but they do not
satisfy the inquiry so much as the
glassblowers. The exertion of blowing
glass by the bottle makers Is attended
with lamentable results to the workers.
The task of blowing often results, not
merely In distending checks, causing
them to become baggy, and when at
rest to hang down loosely, but also In
cases the cheeks have been known to
give way under the continuous strain,
and positively break Into unsightly
gashes, which become llfe-dlsflgure-ments.
Pension for a Horse.
The Board of Fire Commissioners has
decided that the big bay horse Jerry,
, which has faithfully served the city
I In the fire department for seventeen
years, and Is now 23 years old, shall be
given his time for the remainder of his
days and be a pensioner on the city.
The horse and his mate were purchased
by the city In the days of the volunteer
fire department to draw ladder truck
No. 1, and for several years they did
this work, which is now considered a
pretty heavy Job for the three horses
attached to the truck. When the paid
department was organized Jerry be
came a member of It, and he has dis
charged his duties faithfully ever since.
He is now entitled to be considered
"aged," having served longer than the
usual span of life allotted to horses,
and the commissioners do not feel in
clined to sell him for a trifle to some
one who will perhaps starve and abuse
him and render the rest of his life un
comfortable; so they have decided that
he is to have free hay and oats at the
expense of the city as long as he lives.
Portland Oregonian. . "
AN ORGAN THAT COST S60.000.
Mr. Searlea, Who Married Mra. Mark
Hopkins, Bought it.
E. F. Searles, the millionaire, who
now lives at Methuen, Mass., is de
voted to organ music, and has just
bought what is believed to be the great
est organ in America. Mr. Searles mar
ried the immensely wealthy widow of.
Mark Hopkins, of California.
The organ belonged to the Boston,
Music Hall, and originally cost $60,000.
The price Mr. Searles paid for It was
$1,500. He will erect a building er
Ijeclally for it at Methuen.
The great organ was built many
years ago by popular subscription. 1 '
specifications were as follows: 1,
manual (great), 25 stops, 1,930 pipes; 2,
manual (swell), 18 stops, 1,172 pipes;
8, manual (choir), 15 stops, 928 pipes; 4,
manual (solo), 11 stops, 754 pipes; ped
al, 20 stops, 690 pipes; total, 89 stops,
6,474 pipes.
It stood seventy feet high, was foi-ty-seven
feet wide, eighteen feet deep,
and weighed seventy tons. ' Two 'great
central towers stood forward fifteen
feet, and were composed of several
great thirty-two-foot pipes of tin. The
woodwork Is all of black walnut, richly
carved. The pipes, including the me
chanical accessories, numbered 6,500.
The organ was placed In Music Hall In
1863.
The order for building the colossal
Instrument was placed in 1853 with the
firm of Walcker, at Ludwigsburg, In
Germany. Its purchase and comple
tion were matters In which the pride
of all music-loving Boston was centered
for- years. The sum which it was or
iginally proposed to spend was $25,000.
The directors of the Music Hall appro
priated $10,000, and the rest was raised
by popular subscription. In spite of
the war the work went on steadily and
the organ came over in a specially char
tered ship, which succeeded In dodging
the Confederate privateers. Before It
was finally put together It cost over
$00,000. The first public recital given
on it was a popular event of the first
magnitude, and for years the organ
was one of the wonders of Boston.
No man in the world probably pos
sesses a greater organ for his personal
enjoyment than Mr. Searles. He has
attained the height of his ambition.
Character in Hats.
Notice how a man wears his head
gear, and you s can make ' a pretty
shrewd guess as to his character. If
the hat Is perfectly straight and nicely
adjusted to his head, you are safe in
believing that he has a corresponding
straightforwardness of character. If
a hat slopes at the back, its wearer has
good brain power; tilted habitually for
ward, It indicates preponderance : of
the materia! nature. The man who
places his hat on one side is Belf-asser-tive,
and has his vices. Men who wear
hats too large for them are of a philo
sophic turn of mind, and wrapped up In
their own thoughts. Men who go to
the opposite extreme are mincing, af
fected individuals with, as a rule, an
Inordinate love of dress and any
amount of self-esteem. The man who
throws his hat on his head any how is
a careless, happy-go-lucky, indolent
character. He generally has his hands
In his pockets, and you can see any
number of his genus lounging at the
street corners.
Explained His Success.
Henry Miller, the well-known ranch
er, was busily engaged In counting a
big herd of cattle as they were driven
by him, when an acquaintance ap
proached him with the greeting:
"Hello, Henry!"
Miller kept on counting, nor daring to
even turn his head for fear of losing
his count.
"Hello, Henry," repeated his ac
quaintance, thinking he had not been
heard.
Still Miller kept on with his count.
"Say, Miller, you needn't be so stuck
up because you are worth a few dol
lars," remarked his friend, angrily. "I
knew you when you were peddling
sausages on the street." ,
. The rancher had just completed his
count, and, turning to his acquaint
ance, said:
"Yes, by tam, und If I don't have got
any more sense as you I be selling
sausages yet." San Francisco Post.
One in a Hundred Mi lion.
Traveling on American railways la
attended with little risk, according to
the tables compiled by the Railroad Ga
zette. One passenger was killed In
1896 for every hundred million miles
traveled, and but for two or three se
rious accidents the showing would have
been more favorable. The passenger
fatalities of 1890 were greatly In ex
cess of those in 1895. Last year there
were one hundred and twenty-eight
deaths, largely due to negligence in op
erating, while in 1895 only thirty-eight
lives of passengers were lost There
was an Increase in the. number of fa
talities among employes. Three hun
dred and eighteen were killed in 1896
and three hundred and two in 1895, but
as the train mileage went up from
834,200,000 to 840,000,000 in 1896 the
death rate was practically unchanged.
The tables provethat, notwithstanding
the killing of passengers in carload
lots, it Is safer to ride on trains than
to handle them.
Candid.
Lady (interviewing housemaid) Why
did you leave your last place?
Housemaid Because the master kiss
ed me, mum.
Lady And you didn't l.ke it, eh? .
Housemaid Oh, I didnt mind- It
mum, but the mistress didn't like it!
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Office of Downing, Hopkins & Co., Chicago
Board of Trado Brokers, 711-714 Chamber of Com
merce Buildiug. Portland, Oregon.
Facts established sooner or later con
trol wheat values. Speculation may
temporarily advance or depress values,
but in the end the laws of supply and
demand are sure to assert themselves
and control values. It has been a self
evident proposition for several weeks
past that conditions warranted higher
values. Speculative influences have
repeatedly driven prices downward, bui
the market has rebounded with the
buoyancy of a cork upon the water.
The news announcements of the week
have been uniformly favorable to high
er values. Crop advices at home indi
cate less than an average acreage seeded
to winter wheat, owing to. the pro
tracted drought, which has been broken
only in certain sections of the winter
wheat belt. Receipts at primary points
are falling off and promise from this on
to prove smaller than last year. Ex
port clearances continue large, 6,991,
000 bushels for the week, which is
largely in excess of our exportable sur
plus weekly. The export demand shows
no signs of diminution. On the con
trary, it is urgent and increasing, the
last few days of the week having re
sulted in very large sales for export.
Foreign advices continue extremely
bullish. The reports of our own con
suls in Europe more than confirm the
maximum estimates of European im
port requirements. Advices from Lon
don assert that Mediterranean ports are
outbidding England for Russian wheat.
The French chamber of deputies has
been petitioned to reduce the import
duty on wheat, and some action in this
direction will probably be taken sooner
or later, although not necessarily at
present, Russian advices, although al
ways unreliable and largely mythical,
are extremely bullish and must neces
sarily have some foundation on fact.
The Argentine crop is still an unknown
quantity. Reports are conflicting.
Dronght conditions have prevailed.
Locusts have caused some damage, and
in the absence of reliable reports it can
not be assumed that the crop will be a
large one in yield. Local speculative
conditions are extremely favorable for
higher values. Stocks on contract grain
are very small, practically exhausted,
and there is no immediate prospect of
their being replenished. We can dis
cover nothing in the situation at home
or abroad warranting any declines in
values, and would regard any decline as
but temporary, unwarranted, and
therefore a good speculative opportun
ity to buy wheat, the final outcome of
which we aniticipate to be muoh higher
prices. - ' -
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7980c; 'Val
ley and Bluestem, 8183c per bushel.
Four Best grades, $4.00; graham,
$3.70; superfine, $2.40. per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 34 35c; ohoice
gray, 82 33c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $19 20; brew
ing, $20 per ton. -
Millstiffa Bran, $14 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50.
Hay Timothy, $1312.50; clover,
$10 11; California " wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per
ton.
Eggs 22 Q per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 45 50c;
fair to good, 85 40c; dairy, 25 35c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, llo; Young
America, 12c; California, 910o
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50
3.00 per doezn; broilers, $2.003.50;
geese, $4.00 5. 00: ducks, $3.00 3. 50
per dozen; turkeys, live, 9 10c per
pound.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 85 40c
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental.
Onions Oregon, liew, red, 90c; yel
low, 80o per cental.
Hops 8 15c per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 67o.
Wool Valley, 1416c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 7 12o; . mohair, 20
22o per pound.
Mutton Gross, best feheep, wethers
and ewes, $2.50 2. 60; dressed mutton,
5c; spring lambs, 5c per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50;
lightand feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
$5. 50 6. 00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 3. 00;
cows, $2.25; dressed beef, 45cper
pound.
Veal Large, 4J5o; small, 54
Be per pound. '
Seattle Market.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick. 2425c; ranoh, 1618c.
Cheese Native Washington, 10
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Eggs Fresh ranch, 28c.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
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Wheat Feed wheat, $25 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $20.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
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Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
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Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
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San Francisco Market.
Wool Nevada 11 12c; Oregon, 12
14c; Northern 14 16c per pound.
Hops 1014c per pound.
Millstuffs Middlings, $2022; Cal
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Onions New red. 7080c; do new
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Cheese Fancy mild, new, 12c; fair
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Eggs Store, 1826c; ranch, 87
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Potatoes New, in boxes,' 85 80c.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencias,
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