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Show NORTHWEST Tve State liank at Monte Vista, Colo., fw York i Fra:. c. suo. a private concern, has closed its doors. It is thought the depositors will be paid in full. A postoiliee has been established at C.ray Hocks, Laramie county, Wyo., and Ester E. Atehinson commissioned postmaster. Benjamin Ide W heeler, of Cornell, has been selected president of the University of Califorusa at a salary of a year. Iwo colored men named Crouch and Bentley of the Twentv-tiftinfantry, carved Private Ciay of the Twenty fourth infantry during a quarrel at Cheyenne. In San Francisco Bunker Hill day was observed by the firing of salutes at all the forts in the harbor and the flying of flags on residences and business houses $10,()0d h hile attempting to crawl through between some ears that were in motiou, Eddie Neiron, of Ilock Springs, Wyo., received injuries from which he died in a few hours. Charles Rathburn, the horseman, and 11. X. lorncook has just consummated a $20,000 wool sale of Wyoming wool to the Eiseman company of Boston. Manager Otto C. Floto of the orado Atheltic association confirms the announcement sent from Chicago that he has offered $20,000 for a fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and Kid well-know- Coy. A n collision between two freight trains occured near Winne-muecBoth Nevada, last week. were smashed engines beyond recog. ration. ' Fireman Merrill was severely hurt. States Senator Benjamin E. Harding is dead at his home in tage Grove, Ore. He was elected to the United States senate in 1802 to fill out the unexpired term of Senator E. D. Baker, deceased. Pinkerton detectives armed and in uniform have been ordered by tho chief of police to keep off the streets of Portland. The order is made under the state law passed by the last legislature, prohibiting armed bodies of armed men, or armed natrols, other than those appointed by law, from parading on the streets of this city. A 11 year-olhoy was drowned in the Spokane river last week, and a kodak enthusiast, who was taking a snapshot at the portion of the river including the cofferdam w lie re the accident occured, while focusing his instrument saw the boy's body pass across the picture on the sighting lens to the lie was the only ej tragedy. The 17th inst. was observed as a public holiday in Cheyenne, the occasion being the laying of the corner stone of the United States government building, the foundation of which has just been completed. The exercises were under the auspices of the grand lodge of masons of the state, the grand Governor Deforest master being head-en- d a, d d Richards. of Converse The commissioners county, Wyoming, have appointed Tom Cook to succeed Josiah Hazen, who lost his life June 5, iu the fight on Teapot creek, with the Union Pacific as sheriff of the county. A subscription is being taken up by friends of the late sheriff to raise funds to cancel a mortgage of $.'100 which covered his home at the time of his dieath. A Mason Valley, Nevada, boy while driving the cows home one night last week, was knocked down by the herd and was being trampled to death, when one old cow came to his assistance, and fought the rest of the herd, keeping them away from the lad until members of his family came to his assistance. In the language of the nursery poets, this cow will henceforth be dressed in the finest silk. ,T. Frank Davis, chief deputy in the office of D. M. Dunne, collector of internal revenue for the district of Oregon. Washington and Alaska, has been suspended pending the decision of the train-robber- s, at Washington, I). C. Davis is charged with various violations of the internal revenue laws during the administration of Henry Blackman. The estimated wool clip of Sweetwater county, Wyoming, for this year department Is 1,500,000 pounds. Of this 1,000,000 pounds have been shipped to eastern commission houses on consignment; about 350,000 pounds have been sold outright, and 160,000 is in progress of eiDg hauled from the shearing pens to the railroads. The average price which has been received on sales made en llj cents per outright have pound. HUMAN MARKET REPORT NOTES. a -, I ltd i .1- 2: i; i.KAD. New York Exehufue New York brokers 50 25 COPPML New York Exchange New York Broker f . is. 25 ft (tolS $ait Lak Mining Exchange. Following are the closing sale: STATURE. Carious Facta About It It Is Possible a to Add to the Height. I do cot think it is possible to add more than an inch or so to human stature, said a well-know- n !" CAMITlIti: SKETCHES. GOOD SHORT STORIES THE VETERANS. FOR physician in answer to a question of the writer This is one respect in which nature insists cm having her own way, and I am quite sure that under no conditions would it be possible to raise a race of giants. Nature is always at work cor- Admiral Dewey's Sword Description of Token Voted to lltni by Coni;ms Fast Year Knnsevrlt on the Right Kind of War's Awful sights. Army Otlh-crs The Hells of Shaiulon. I often think of those Shannon Bells, recting any tendency to extremes, Whose .sound so wild would in days of Name of Slocks. Bid, Asked though here and there someone eschildhood a and into notice her grows capes giant Lee. ... .60 1.10 Fling round my cradle their magic or dwindles into a dwarf. You might Anchor. spells; 50 think the tall parents would have taller On this ponder w here'er wandi r. And thus grow fonder, sweet, Cork, of children than themselves, hut a little th.ee; observation will prove that this is not With thy Bells of Shandon, that sound so grand on so. Nature always seems to be striving The pleasant waters of the Rlyer I.ee. to reach and maintain a medium height, so tha. as a rule tail parents I've heard lulls chiming full many a ilinie in. have shorter children than themselves, Tolling suhlme In cathedral shrine. taller and short parents raise children; While at a glib rate brass tongues would vibrate. the two extremes meeting in a few But all their music spoke naught like generations at the average height. thine; But something can certainly be done For memory dwelling on each proud swelling if the attempt be made early. PracOf thy belfry, knelling its bold notes behis does man all free. growing tically a fore he is eighteen nd a woman be- Made the Bells of Shandon sound far more grand on fore she is sixteen, although I have The pleasant waters of the River I.ee. cases man a has grown where known heard bells tolling Old Adrians perceptibly in stature until long past I've Mole" in. tt Irty. Their thunder rolling from the Vatican, After all, stature is largely a ques- And cymbals glorious swinging uproarious tion of length of legs. If you take In the gorgeous turrets of Notre Dame; three men, one of six feet, another of But thy sounds were sweeter than the dome of Deter five feet six inches and a third of five Flings oer the Tiber, pealing solemnfeet, there will be only the smallest difly. ference in the length of the body, and Oh! the Bells of Shandon sound far more In fact the short man may have the grand on The pleasant waters of the River Lee. longest body of the three. But the long man will have an advantage of ten There's a bell In Moscow, while on tower and kiosk inches in length of leg over the short In St. Sophia the Turkman gets. And loud in air calls men to prayer. man. From the tupering summit of lull minThe margin for growth In the legs is 66 per cent more than in the body. Such arets; empty phantom I freely grant them; But there's an anthem more dear to me. This means that the legs of an adult are five times as long as when he was 'Tis the Delis of Siiandon. that sound so grand on born, his body three times, and his The pleasant waters of the River Lee. head 'twice its original length. Admiral Dewey's Sword. It is thus, you see, very largely a The Sword of Bunker Hill" will we to and of the legs, question legs must look for any great increase In perhaps be eclipsed in history by the stature. As you may know, each leg sword that has been made for Admiral bone Is in early youth in three distinct Dewey, the victor of Manila Bay, says Miss Carolyn Wells in the May be. pieces, which later unite into one bone. Nicholas. This weapon, authorized If you could devise any means of preby in congress 1828, is now comventing this unison or delaying it for pleted, and in June, of decoration is wealth a few years, there is no question that to take a place among the jewworthy would although you destroy the pro- eled swords described in tho Arabian portion and symmetry of the body. Both blade and scabbard are Nights. Nothing checks growth more than of steel, but overlaid entirely with pure illness, and by avoiding It you help gold, and all other parts are of solid growth very substantially, especially in gold, exquisitely wrought. the very early years. I think you will The steel blade was made at the find that most men and women who United States arsenal at Springfield, are dwarfs have suffered from repeated and is finely tempered to the exact de illnesses in the first few years of their gree of flexibility required to make a lives, and have been, unable to make perfect sword blade. This blade, grace- ful iu shape and well balanced, is up the leaway. Anything which promotes health damascened with gold, on which is The gift promotes growth, and the only royal engraved this inscription: road to stature and symmetry is in the of the nation to Rear Admiral George direction of fresh air, nourishing food Dewey, U. S. N. in memory of the and judicious exercise. You see what1 victory nt Manila Bay, May 1, 1898. the emancipation of our daugmers had already done for their stature. In the Salt Fake City. old days, when girls were shut out Wheat 00 from almost every form of outdoor ft CTvt..$ Corn 15 "" ereise, it was unusual to see one high20 ('nicked corn five 00 er than five feet six inches. Now that 30 Barley Oats I 50 they cycle and swim, and play golf and Alialfa 50 tennis as unrestrainedly as their broth- Mixed hay 60 senting Capricornus, which is the 65 they shoot up like young saplings ,jiacap sjgn for December, the month Timothy 25 Straw, per hale to five feet nine inches, and even six jn Dieh. Dewey was born. On the t. ib Live Turkey Gobblers 10 I quite believe that in another jar 0f Live Turkey Hens 12 arms and Sword are the i.' .'.il 8 Chickens, hens generation the average height of worn-- 1 shield of our country, and below them Oid roosters fi 25 en will be quite two inches more than the arms of Vermont, the admirals na- Broilers, each Old duck 10 in the last generation. Freedom tive state, and its motto, Tame Geese II 4 00 Eggs, Until, per case in are enameled is curious to observe how the aver- and Unity. It These 25 Butter, creamery decmen with the of is further collar and the varies, Ranch butter height age colors, 12tf15 class to which they belong The wealthy orated with stars and oak leaves. The and professional classes are quite three grip or handle of the sword is covered Sail Francisco Grain, or snarl; skin, held in Cash wheat 10 llq inches to four inches taller than the with shagreen, December l i wire, and studded wi.h interand the gold by place classes, poor, working New wheat 1 08mi 8110 fi mediate stages are marked by the de- gold stars, while the guard represents Barley New beak a gree of prosperity of the class to which a flying eagle bearing in its wreath. laurel averso that while an a man belongs, LIVE STOCK. On the golden scabbard is the monoage factory worker is about five feet G. D., and below this U. S. N. Chicago. five inches, a skilled artisan will be gram and spray3 of rosmarinus, These letters five feet six inches; a laborer, five feet Choice steers. sea plant signifya which delicate is Medium grade seven inches; a tradesman, five feet are set Beef Mecrs and remembrance, ing fidelity eight inches; and a lawyer or doctor, with one hundred and fifty diamonds five feet nine inches. Cows and heifers of the first water. The sprays are inCalves Briefly, then, my advice is, if you terlaced in a series, with a star in the want your children to be tall that Is, center of each, and a row of swimming Texas leers Colorado wooled lambs. to attain their full natural growth-gu- ard dolphins on each side. The scabbard YeaiTngs against illness of all kinds, let is further ornamented with designs of them be in the fresh air and sunshine oak leaves and acorns and the ferrule, Kansas City. as much as possible, encourage every or lower end, is formed by two gold Native steers kind of open air exercise in modera- dolphins gracefully twined together. Texas steers Texas Cows The belt is of specially woven tion, with a course of gymnastics to Native cons and heifers with buckles, slide rings and make them straight and supple, feed them on plain and nourishing food, swivels all of gold and ornamented with oak leaves and acorns, while the and send them to bed early. tassel and trappings are much can do more science bullion Human nothing Omaha. than this to make them tall, although handsomer than those usually made, elevators may add a fraudulent inch being of chosen material and finished Texas steers. . with especial care. Cows and heif or two. Canners.... The whole flt3 in an oaken case lined blue velvet, on the cover of which with Arsenical Wall Paper Is a gold eagle and a shield inscribed The former popular fear of arsenical Rear Admiral George Dewey.U. S. N. wall paper appears to have quite subOn March 3, 1899, Dewey was made sided. However, several cases of al- admiral, an office first created for Denver. leged, poisoning by arsenical wall paand hitherto held only by .m pers having occurred in Ithaca, Dr. B. and by Porter. M. Chamot, of the chemical departStockers, freight paid to river,. The Right Kind of Officers. ment of Cornell university, undertook With all volunteer troops, and I am a series of analyses of wall papers of various colors and patterns, as a result inclined to think with regulars, too. In BEBEIPTS. of which he is said to have asserted time of trial, the best work can be got 14,000 Chicago Cattle : 14,000 Sheep that nearly all wall papers sold at the out of the men only if the officers en4.5U0 Kansas 4,000 present time contain arsenic, some of dure the same hardships and face the Sheep Omaha.. Cattle 2,500 same risks, says Theodore Roosevelt them In large quantities. 1,800 Sheep In Scribners. In my regiment, as In Denver Cattle 1,700 A 1 X 1 1 1 1 1 zo-er- s, col-fee- 1 ma-teii- Tit-Bit- s. Far-rag- City-Cat- tle Sheep 1,400 ut, the whole cavalry division, the propor-ti- on of loss in killed and wounded wa considerably greater among the officers than among the troopers, and this was exactly as it should be. Moreover, when we got down to hard pan, we all, officers and men, fared exactly alike as regards both shelter and food. This prevented any grumbling. When the troopers saw that the officers had notning but hardtack there was not a man in the regiment who would not have been ashamed to grumble at faring no worse, and when all alike slept out in the open, in the rear of the trendies, and when the men always saw the field officers up at night during the digging of the trenches, ana going the rounds of the outposts, they would not tolerate, in any of lueir number, either complaint or shirking work. When things got easier I put up my tent and lived a little apart, for it Is a mistake for an officer ever to grow too familiar with his men. no matter how good they are, and it is, of course, .e greatest possible mistake to seek popularity either by showing weakness or by mollycoddling the men. They will never respect a commander who does not enforce discipline, who does not know his duty, and who is not willing both himself to encounter and to make them encounter every species of danger and- hardship when necessary. The soldiers who do not feel this way are not worthy of the name and should be handled with iron severity until they become fighting men and not shams. -- War Awful Sights. One of the best letters and most intelligible narratives of the war with the Filipinos has been received by Mrs. C. It. Donohue of Portland, written by her brother, Charles It. Wyland, who is a member of company C, First Washington volunteers, and who wrote from Santa Ana, says the Portland Oregonian. Mr. Wyland gave up his situation on the Tacoma Ledger to join the volunteers, and was one of the battalion that presented such a soldierly appearance marching through Portland on their way to the front last summer. He says: We have had numerous battles with the enemy. At first we would march for miles after them in the blazing sun and fight them, hut there are so few troops here that we nad to stop, because we have to guard the city. So the natives think we are afraid of them and now attack us. In two weeks all the troops will be here, and then it will not take long to finish up the enemy. They must have lost over 5,000 killed, besides thousands wounded. This war is something terrible. Yon see sights you can hardly believe, and a life is hardly worth a thought. I have seen a shell from our artillery strike a bunch of Filipinos, and then they would go scattering through the air, legs, arms, heads, all disconnected. And such sights actually make our boys laugh and yell, That shot was a peach! A white man seems to forget that he is human. That t ost More Thau Course. The enormous wcauli devoted to higher education in America has become the wonder and the envy of learned Europe. Now that we are becoming a great armed power, a few comparisons between costs of armaments and education may be interesting. There are four hundred and thirteen universities and colleges in the United States. The richest of these is Girard College, whose endowments of $15,000,-00- 0 would pay for building and equipbattle-shipFour ping three other institutions of learning Columbia, Harvard, Cornell and the University of Chicago are endowed with more than the value of one battle-shi- p apiece. With extreme economy, the wealth of Columbia and Harvard might even be made to pay for two ships each. Three other institutions are bo rich that each of them could turn its enbattledowments into a second-clas- s cruiser. Nineteen ship or a more have funds equivalent to a d-class cruiser or a monitor apiece. The endowment of each of forty-twcruiser others would buy a third-clas- s or a gunboat. In one hundred and two cases there are investments sufficient for the purchase of a torpedo boat or destroyer. Thirty-fiv- e universities and colleges represent each the value of a ten or twelve inch gun and carriage. There others whose enare seventy-thre- e dowments, shoveled into the furnaces of the cruiser Columbia in the form of coal, would keep her going at full speed for from six hours to seven The productive funds of five weeks. of these institutions, all combined, would just pay for one Whitehead torpedo. The other one hundred and our have no endowments at all Gun first-cla- ss s. first-cla- first-cla- ss ss secon- o thirty-f- Threat or FroiuUe? This is too much! I won't bear it any longer! Tomorrow I shall return to my mother! He My dear s. Is that a threat or a promise? She Tit-Bit- A Useless Ethel Noodle Expense. They say it costs Percy voa 2,000 a year to live. Penelop Dour me!' Then what does he do It for? Tit-Bit- s. |