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Receipts of cattle thus far this week
are 32300 last week 41100 last year
20000 Mondays market was strong to
10c higher Tuesday slow and barely
steady for beef steers with cow3 and
heifers steady to strong and stockers and
feeders 10 to 15c higher Trade in beef
steers today was slow and prices were
quoted anywhere from steady to 15c
lower Other grades held unchanged
The following table gives prices now
ruling
Extra prime corufed steers S5 25 to Sa SO
Good 4 7 to 5 25
Ordinary 4 00 to 4 75
Choice cornfed heifers 4 50 to 5 00
Good 3 50 to 4 00
Medium 2 75 to 3 25
Choice cornfed cows 3 50 to 4 00
Good 3 00 to 3 50
Medium 2 50 to 3 00
Canuors 1 50 to 2 25
Choice stags 3 75 to 4 00
Choice fed bulls 3 50 to 4 00
Good 2 75 to 3 23
Uologna hulls 2 25 to 2 50
Veal calves 5 50 to 7 25
Good to choice nativo or western
stockers 3 75 to t 25
bair 3 40 to 3 75
Common 3 00 to 3 40
Good to choice hoavy native feeders 3 75 to 4 30
Fair 3 25 to 3 75
Good to choice hoavy branded
horned feeders 3 25 to 3 75
Fair 3 00 to 3 25
Common 2 50 to 3 00
Good to choice stock heifers 2 75 to 3 00
Fair 2 25 to 2 75
Good to choice stock calvessteers 3 75 to 4 50
Fair 3 25 to 3 75
Good to choice stock calves heifers 3 25 to 4 00
Fair 2 75 to 3 25
Receipts of hogs thus far this week
are 326C0 last week 37200 last year
439C0 Mondays market was strong to
oc higher Tuesday steady aDd today
steady to 5c lower with bulk of sales
from 5 37i to 545 top 547-
Receipts of sheep thus far this week
are 19900 last week 35500 last year
28600 Mondays market was steady to
10c higher Tuesday steady to 10c higher
and today unchanged We quote choice
lambs 8725 to 735 choice yearlings 6 25
to 6 50 choice wethers 565 to 575
choice ewes 525 -
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SPOILED HIS DINNER
WHY GENERAL CLARK ONCE REFUSED
TO EAT WITH VEST
Sad rilerht ot the Old MinNourl Fleet
er Under the Skillful and Merellcww
Baiting of the Artful and Tantalis
ing1 Senator
Among the most prominent story tell
ers in Missouri annals were General
John B Clark of Wilson creek fame
nnd the matchless George Graham
Vest The writer remembers a story
Senator Vest used to tell about General
Clark that is worth while
Vest and Clark were seated at a ta
ble in a popular restaurant in Wash
ington chatting about Missouri and
Missourians while the waiter was out
preparing their order for dinner Ou
this particular occasion Vest was
doing most of the listenipg while
General Clark In his peculiar scrapy
piping voice was discoursing upon the
merits and demerits principally de
merits of Missouri political leaders
Those who knew General Clark well
during his lifetime undoubtedly re
member with what extravagance the
general coukl praise and laud those he
had a liking for at the moment and
with what grim humor he could satir
ize and ridicule the foibles and weak
nesses of those he happened to dislike
It was these dispositions on the part of
the general that caused him to get into
trouble at this time
Although Vest was listening atten
tively and respectfully to the generals
conversation assisting him on with his
story with a grunt of approval now
and then even offering suggestions a3
occasion would permit yet all the
while the senator was casting his eyes
to the dally paper spread out upon the
table near him The general encour
aged by Vests grunts and suggestions
was working himself up to a striking
climax in a ludicrous story about a
Missouri politician whom the general
for the moment had concluded ho didnt
like when he was abruptly Interrupted
by Senator Vests speaking as if he
had just discovered something in the
paper he had been glancing at
By the way general said Vest do
you know one Captain we
will call him Captain John Smith for
the purpose of this story down in
Missouri
Yes snapped the general showing
some irritation at having his story in
terrupted risrht in the very flower of its
growth certainly I know him and a
dirtier coward never walked the face
of the earth than this same Captain
John Smith
This little fling at Captain Smith was
a left handed stroke at Vest for inter
rupting his Clarks story as Vest had
planned and expected it would be
However the general showed a dispo
sition to let ft all go at this and at
tempted to resume his fractured story
about the Missouri politician
As I was saying
Well Vest interrupted again not
pretending to notice that the general
had attempted to resume his story I
dont know anything about the fellow
being a coward In fact I know noth
ing about him But I knew you did
and I thought I would get you to tell
me something about him
Of course I know him Vest the
general responded pitching his scrapy
voice in a little higher key and I have
already said enough about him to cause
any genuine Missourian to lose interest
in him There is nothing to him I tell
you except a yellow streak from the
crown of his head to the sole of his
feet a forked streak Know him Why
I know him like a book Hes a cow
ard I tell you and thats enough for
any Missourian to know about any
body Why I tell you that fellow is
afraid to go out in the cornfield where
they are gathering corn because the
popping of the breaking cornstalks
sounds so much like a gunshot that it
frightens him nearly to death Dont
talk to me Vest about Captain John
Smith I know him
I didnt know him general Vest in
nocently responded but since you
have given such a graphic description
of his character I feel that I know him
better Nevertheless general the fel
low seems to write a right good arti
cle
Humph snorted the - Moral in dis
gust Id like to know what that fel
low could be writing abjut Nobody
would believe a word ho could say
Hes a coward I tell you I know for
Ive had him In command under me
and Ive seen him flicker time and
again Nobody will ever believe a word
a coward will say but what is the fel
low trying to write about Vest
The Battle of Wilson Creek the
senator replied as he picked up the
paper and prepared to read the story
to the general The senator knew he
had the general at the verge of the
precipice and that It was time to top
ple him over and right well did he do
It
The battle of Wilson creek was Gen
eral Clarks theme on any and all oc
casions and as soon as Senator Vest
mentioned that as being Captain
Smiths subject the general was all at
tention In a moment
The senator began the story at the
beginning and read it clean through
for the generals benefit occasionally
glancing over the edge of the paper out
of the corner of his eye to observe the
effect it was having on the general
The senator was soon rewarded for the
general soon began to twist and wrig
gle uneasily in his seat In other
words the general was over the preci
pice He knew it nnd was working his
brain for all it was worth for a hold to
recover
The senator chuckled quietly to him
self as he read on Presently be came
THE CODE OF HONOR
Sncllii an It AViis In France In the
Time of Hlchclica
The passion for dueling which had
cost France it was said between
7000 and 8000 lives during the twenty
years- of Henry IV s reign was at its
height when his sou came to the
throne The council of Trent in 1543
had solemnly condemned the practice
of single combat impartially includ
ing principals seconds and spectators
In its penalty of excommunication In
1602 an edict of Henry pronounced the
damnable custom of dueling intro
duced by the corruption of the cen
tury to be the cause of so many pite
ous accidents to the extreme regret
and displeasure of the king and to the
irreparable damage of the state that
we should count ourselves unworthy
to hold the scepter If we delayed to
repress the enormity of this crime
A whole series of edicts followed to
the same effect but it was easier to
make edicts than to enforce them
Degradation imprisonment confisca
tion of property loss of civil rights
and death were the penalties attached
to the infringement of the laws against
dueling and still the practice pre
vailed In 162G Richelieu published a
milder form of prohibition The first
offense was no longer capital a third
only of the offenders property was to
be confiscated and the judges were
permitted to recognize extenuating cir
cumstances
A few months later the Comte de
Bouteville thought lit to test the min
isters patience in this direction The
Place Royale had long been a favorite
dueling ground and De Bouteville
traveled from Brussels to fight his
twenty second duel here in the heart
of Paris in deliberate defiance of the
kings authority The result was not
encouraging Montmorency though he
was the count went with his second
to the scaffold and the marked de
crease from that time in the number
of duels may be attributed either to
the moderation used in framing the
law or to the inexorable resolution
with which it was enforced Macmil
lans Magazine
RUSSIAN PROVERBS
Roguery is the last of trades
Without cheating no trading
Every fox praises his own tail
A debt is adorned by payment
A good beginning is half the work
Every little frog -is great in his own
bog
Trust in God but do not stumble
yourself
Go after two wolves and you will not
catch even one
If God doesnt forsake us the pigs
will not take us
The deeper you hide anything the
sooner you find It
Be praised not for your ancestors
but for your virtues
Send a pig to dinner and he will put
his feet on the table
Dr Holmes Revenge
When The Last Leaf was publish
ed by Oliver Wendell Holmes a critic
attacked It savagely and cruelly Dr
Holmes though Importuned by friends
did nothing in revenge He waited for
time to avenge him which time did
liberally The critic fell upon evil
days and ended his existence with sui
cide The only morceau of personal
revenge which the good doctor allowed
himself was to cut out the paragraph
about his enemys career and paste
it In his scrapbook on the same page
which contained the original criticism
and the announcements of the succes
sive editions of the poem This was a
mild revenge but even this was un
worthy of Dr Holmes
Seemed to Have Hi in Cornered
The teacher was discoursing to the
class on the wonders of nature Take
the familiar illustration of the sting of
a wasp he said as compared with
the finest needle When examined
through a microscope the sting is still
sharp smooth and polished while the
needle appears blunt and rough
It is so with everything The works
of nature are infinitely superior to
those of art Try how we may we
cannot iniprove on nature
It isnt so with my eyes teacher
said a little girl in the class
Why how is that Nellie he asked
Cause nature made me cross eyed
she said and the doctors fixed my
eyes all right
Brazen Thefts
During the South African war an im
mense stone monument was removed
at Cape Town during the night and no
one knows to this day by whom or why j
It was taken Some years ago in broad 1
daylight a clever and bold gang of
thieves carried off a valuable fountain
fourteen feet high from Uxbridge with
out exciting the suspicions of any one
and quite recently an omnibus was
calmly removed horses and all while
standing unguarded outside a public
house in London and has never been
seen or heard of since It would seem
indeed that it is often far easier to
steal a big thing than a little one
London Telegraph
Placing Him
Young man began the dignified
gentleman in black dress have you
fully considered the future Have you
made provisions for the hereafter Is
it not time
Pardon me one moment please but
are you a minister or a life Insurance
u gent Milwaukee Sentinel
Safer
Patience Its a very bad sign to tum
ble upstairs Patrice Even so Id
rather do that than tumble downstairs -
Yonkers Statesman
RUNNING THE GANTLET
This Punishment IViim Once UncO For
Military Ulvcliillnc
The following extracts give informa
tion concerning the punishment of
running the gantlet
In running the gantlope the regi
ment was formed six deep and tho
ranks opened and faced inward Each
man being furnished with a switch tho
offender naked to the waist was led
through the ranks preceded by a ser
geant the point of whose reversed hal
bert was presented to his breast to pre
vent his running too fast As he thus
passed through the ranks every soldier
gave him a stroke Groses Military
Antiquities volume 2 page 10S
But the oldest notice I have seen is
given in Monro His Expedition With
the Worthy Scots Regiment called
Mackeyes Regiment Levied In Au
gust 1152G Etc London Printed by
William Jones In Red Crosse Streete
1637
Other slight punishments we en
joyne for slight faults put In execu
tion by their camarades as the loupe
garthe running the gantlet Swedish
gantulopp to run through a hedgo
made by soldiers when a souldier isi
stripped naked above tho waste and is
made to runne a furlong betwixt 200
souldiers ranged alike opposite to oth
ers leaving a space in the midst for
the souldier to runne through whero
his camarades whip him with small
rods ordained and cut for the purpose
by the Gavilliger provost marshal
and all to keepe good order and disci
pline London Notes and Queries
WEDDING SPEECHES
Some That IVere Not In the Usnul
Conventional Style
A wedding in New York at which the
bridesmaids were representative of six
nationalities and each felicitated the
bride in the language of her own coun
try was an odd affair but probably not
so well received as the speech of a
young Englishman who was called up
on to propose the toast The Brides
maids Apprised of his ordeal in ad
vance he had devised an escape and
with the single statement that silence
was golden he brought from his pocket
a set of gold bangles which he bestow
ed upon the attendants of the bride
At a wedding feast at Dol in Nor
mandy the demand for a speech result
ed in the production of a guitar upon
which the speaker accompanied himself
while he chanted the praises of tho
bride Had he stopped there all would
have been well but he changed to a
praise of his store and the guests
threw him out of the house
Doubtless a similar fate should have
befallen the sharpshooter who wrote
the name of the bride upon the wall
with pistol bullets to the serious dam
age of the wall paper Almost as odd
was the performance of a German mu
sic hall performer who when called
upon for entertainment mounted tho
table upon his hands and balanced him
self upon glasses cups and other fur
nishings
Funny Blunders
A famous sculpture group recently
exhibited in Glasgow represents Adam
and Eve after they had left Eden
Eve in despair lies at Adams feet
Through a mistake an intelligent at
tendant placarded it with this descrip
tion Motherless At the same exhi
bition was a sleeping nymph by a well
known sculptor which by another mis
take appeared in the catalogue as Mrs
greatly to the horror of Glasgow
A Sunday school boy recently gave
this account of the prophet Elijah
Elijah the prophet was carried intc
heaven by a whirlwind and the chil
dren std up and cried Go up thou
baldhead Go up thou baldhead And
before he went up he divided the Red
sea
He Sow the Joke
One day says an American I
walked into a bookshop in the Strand
and asked for nares Walks In Lon
don In America the book is sold in
one thick volume The clerk brought
it in two Oh I said as I looked at
them you part your Hare in the
middle do you I sir lie said with
a bewildered look Oh no sir I saw
he didnt see the joke so I didnt ex
plain but bought the books and went i
away A week later I went to the same
shop As soon as the clerk saw me he
rushed from the back of the shop
laughing vociferously Good he shout
ed Capital Part your Hare in the
middle Thats capital sir capital
London Tit Bits
Loves Grammar
I wish I dared to ask you some
thing Miss Helen said Percy with
trembling voice and wabbling chin
Why dcut you dare to ask it the
maiden said demurely
Because I can see No in your
eyes
In both of them
Y yes
Well dont you dont you know
two negatives are equivalent to an
now dare you sir Take your arm
from around my waist instantly
But he didnt
A Question
Youll let me come to your wedding
dear of course
Well I cant promise My people
are so enraged at my choice that I
hardly know whether I shall be allow
ed to go myself
A Dyer
He Do you think blonds have more
admirers than brunettes She I dont
know You might ask Miss Turner
She has had experience in both capaci
ties New Yorker
If we are not willing to work and
suffer for the sake of our love we have
not the artist soul within us
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