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Receipts of cattle thus far this week
are 33700 last week 42100 last year
18000 Mondays market was slow
but about steady for beef steers all
other grades strong to ten cents higher
On Tuesday trade off beef steers ruled
strong to ten cents higher cows and
heifers firm stockers and feeders steady
Receipts today were 9500 Beef steers
were active and firm cows and heifers
uneven but generally unchanged stock
ers and feeders weak with stock calves
nearly impossible to move at any price
especially ordinary grades The follow
ing table gives prices now ruling
Extra prime cornfed steers So 00 to 55 40
Good 4 40 to
Ordinary 3 60 to
Choice cornfed heifers 4 00 to
Good 3 25 to
Medium 2 50 to
Choice cornfed cows 3 25 to
Good 2 75 to
Medium 2 25 to
Canuers 1 50 to
Choice stags 3 75 to
Choice fed bulls 3 25 to
Good 2 50 to
Bologna bulls 1 75 to
Veal calves 5 00 to
Good to choice native or western
stockers 3 40 to
Fair 3 00 to
Common 2 40 to
Good to choice heavy native feeders 3 60 to
Fair 3 00 to
Good to choice heavy branded
Qiorned feeders 3 25 to
Fair 3 00 to
Common 2 50 to
Good to cloice stock heifers 2 50 to
iair 2 25 to
Good to choice stock calvessteers 3 75 to
Fair 3 00 to
Good to choice stock calves heifers 3 00 to
Fair 2 50 to
Choice wintered grass steers 4 00 to
Good 3 75 to
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Receipts of hogs thus far this week
are 31500 last week 37800 last year
30200 Mondays market opened strong
but closed weak to five cents lower
Tuesday was firm and today while
heavies sold steady to five cents higher
light weights had a weaker tendency
Bulk of sales were from S475 to 500
top 510
Receipts of sheep thus far this week
are 15200 last week 19600 last year
10800 Mondays market was steady
and active Tuesday steady for best
other ten to twenty cents lower and
today the market was dull at weak to
ten cents lower prices We quote
choice lambs 715 to 735 choice light
yearlings 625 to 640 choice heavy
yearlings 590 to 600 choice wethers
550 to 565choice ewes 500 to 515
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Is one feature of civiliza
tion which always follows the
flag around the world That Is
the spirit of Christmas Wher
ever the 25th of December finds an
American warship that place Is on
Santa Claus map though to get there
he may have to shed his furs and
change his reindeers for a team of por
poises The seafaring man is senti
mental to a degree and no one of his
fellow citizens celebrates the Yuletlde
with more enthusiasm than the man
behind the gun
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potatoes green peas cider mince pies
assorted cakes oranges apples ba
nanas nuts raisins candy coffee
cigurs and cigarettes
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navy yard to be sure but her rela
tives in the navy who passed the day
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harbor of some home port where prox
imity to shore Insures an abundance
of the usual accessories Christmas on
board a man-of-war Is not essentially
different from the holiday of the land
lubber It Is on the foreign stations
and especially those In tropic seas
that Jacky has to exercise his well
known Ingenuity to create a Christ
mas atmosphere On many a battle
ship and cruiser have bamboos done
duty as Christmas trees banana leaves
as holly and cacti as table decorations
Many a Chinese pheasant or other
heathen bird has masqueraded at the
Christmas dinner as a North American
turkey
The navys Christmas really begins
at noon Dec 24 After that hour dis
cipline is relaxed and all hands are
piped to the work of preparing for
the morrows festivities The sun must
not rise on masts or yardarms naked
of Christmas greens and all night the
cooks galley fires are hot a special
concession from the old man baking
pies and cakes innumerable
On Christmas morning the usual rou
tine is omitted During the forenoon
religious services are held on vessels
on which there are chaplains Other
wise the sailor man is left to his own
welcome an American warship to an
anchorage alongside on Christmas day
for they know what Yankee hospitality j
means Seldom does a crew of an i
American vessel on service beyond the
seas sit down to Its Christmas dinner
alone While he may not be so gen
erous as to call in the lame the halt
and the blind men from
more than one imperial battleship or
royal cruiser have occasion to
ber witn infinite regret the grub of the I
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After dinner general leave is grant-
ed and in home ports many of the sail-
ors go ashore to visit relatives and
friends Most of the men however
and on a foreign station practically all
remain on board for the sports to
which the afternoon is devoted Row-
ing is the most common feature of i
these contests and where two or more I
vessels are gathered together there are
highly exciting races for the champion
ship of the fleet On deck boxing
wrestling and fencing vie for favor
with sack races three legged races and
athletic games which involve quick
work in going aloft and getting down
again Frequently the programme
ends with a pie eating contest which
never loses popularity with either par-
devices until noon Then comes the ticipants or spectators With their
event of the day the Christmas din- hands tied behind them the pie eaters
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ner Uncle Sam feeds his seagoing
servants pretty well at all times but
at Christmas he spreads himself Be
sides the jackies generally have a few
gold pieces saved up to put on the
finishing touches and the committee on
comestibles is kept busy for days be
fore the festival hunting all kinds of
delicacies to their lairs The result is
a dinner which would make any mans
mouth water on sea or land One year
on the Texas for example the menu
of the forecastle Christmas feast con
sisted of oyster soup roast turkey
and cranberry sauce boiled cold
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kneel around a table a pie in front of
each face The man who can get away
with his pastry in the shortest time
using teeth and lips only wins a prize
of some sort while the losers have the
consolation of having had an extra
pie
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plea is usually effective
The distribution of Christmas mall
following the athletic programme
takes the place of the distribution of
gifts at home The farther from
Gods country the ship happens to
be the greater the Interest in this cere
mony Much of the mall may have
been posted by dear ones at home
many weeks before Christmas but the
letters and packages bear the inscrip
tion Not to be opened before Christ
mas and the officers see that the In
junction Is not disregarded Often the
seals of sacks known to contain Christ
mas mall are not broken until the time
comes for Its distribution that the re
cipient may derive the greater pleasure
from their treasures by enjoying them
In common
The officers have their dinner in the
evening The day has very likely been
a lonesome one in the wardroom for
if the ship is on a home station all the
ollicers who can get away and who
have families spend the day ashore
At night however they return bring
ing their sweethearts and wives with
them The naval regulations ordi
narily ignoring the very existenco of
women permits them to dine aboard
ship on Christmas day and few navy
women fail to take advantage of such
a privilege A good part of every offi
cers December pay is exhausted in
the interests of Yuletide cheer and no
guest has ever hesitated to pronounce
the wardrooms Christmas banquet an
unqualified success Still it sometimes
happens that the enlisted men have
a better dinner than their superiors
for the able seaman is an early bird
and where supplies are limited he may
corner the market before his officers
know what has happened The crew
of a man-of-war on the Asiatic sta
tion some years ago bought up all the
turkeys In Hongkong and Canton and
the officers of the ship would have been
put to It to find a substitute had not
the sailors taken pity on them and
given up some of their spoils
The days celebration ends with a
concert by the ships band or a min
strel show with sailors and marines
In burnt cork performing all manner
of stunts and cracking many an ex
cellent joke at the expense of the offi
cers who always take the jests in
good part International complications
furnish plenty of themes for clever
witticisms and sketches in which the
men often ehow much dramatic
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ity Last year the Panama incident
j was very creditably worked up on
one battleship This year the Russian
and the Jap will have to take their
turns as targets for the minstrels
merry quips
The Star Spangled Banner the
marine amen puts the official benedic
tion on the celebration and with
tans sounding in their ears officers
and men curl up in their bunks and
hammocks to dream of their maternal
grandmothers and the other specters
which plum pudding evokes
A Large Christmas Pie
One of the largest Christmas gifts
and altogether the largest pie on record
was one sent by the Earl of Lonsdale
to King George III of England The
pie weighed 57G pounds and it contain
ed 9 geese 2 ducks 4 fowls the kind
not stated In the records 0 pigeons G
wild ducks 3 teal 2 starlings 12 par
tridges 15 woodcock 2 guinea fowls 3
snipe G plover 3 water hens 1 wild
goose 1 curlew 40 yellow hammers lo
sparrows 15 chaffinches 2 larks 4
thrushes 12 fieldfares G blackbirds 20
rabbits 1 leg of veal 1 ham 3 bushels
of flour and 2S pounds of butter
In the language of the nursery rhyme
concerning the four and twenty black
birds baked in a pie wasnt that a
pretty dish to set before the king
Christmns Gifts of Radlnm
Last Christmas in London it was
quite the thing to give Christmas gifts
of radium Of course only an infinitesi
mal particle of the precious substance
was included in the present and even
then the gifts cost all the way from
10 to 50 An instrument called the
spinthariscope which consists of a
small case about the size of that con-
inins finger contained the
self confronted with a deputation of l
men representing those who have by
Infractions of discipline Incurred de
merit marks carrying a pail of slacked
lime and water and a whitewash
I rush mutely pleading that their sins
dium particle which was placed under
a small lens like a microscope By
taking the contrivance Into a darkened
room and looking through the eyepiece
one could see varying lights flashing
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