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. * qT ] p $8.60 January. Lard improved 24c to 5c, i ty cloeing $4.274 Novem ber; $4.274 Deeember $4.40 January. Short ribs closed $445 UED EVER\ AFTERNOON | November; $4.45 December; $4.47) FIC® oF January. The Cxaminer Publishing Company | ,,7°,.5: Bache & Co., Chicago, wires: | ‘ ' I rovisious opened shade stronger. Receip's RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION hogs were 5,00) less than expected. | IN ADVANCE) Local operator bought Decemper pork @ne Year 1.00 and lard. Com ission houses sold. ‘} be i SI\ Months oo | market cloees dull, but firm. 2, 00] "The feature "of the Liverpool provision market was tle weak. a st paid to any part of Canada or U ness in Pork, and pr res declined Jas 7 Ts oa jd Pork closed 48s 94; lard 22-; 9d: | 1E WEEKLY EXAMINER s nin: lamin hese i, fut "9g. ‘ha , “ very Friday morning. It is made up . os aa ’ rf ong et er which has appeared Daily | © ° short cut I'guit, 353 6 . . a firstclasss newspapercontaining | ta 5 ~ on —— © ee In this prov Messrs. Rattenbury — # Br ers ba e I I ne ed a good many THS DAILY EXAMINER | prices eccngrissrz cen November, at] pr ces ranging fron 5 Cte, er wound Lo “ 24; but owing tothe fal] ‘* ae market NOVEMBER 12, 1897 "| they are not now offering more than 44 cts. - ’ | Oats.—In Toronto oats are reported to be THE MARKETS. quoted at 224 cents per bushel, though nD ; | the farmers’ market they sell as high in . E.—— 4 De Montreal Star reports that | price as 26 cents. In Charlottetown dealers at Cw ansvillie on Saturday theffa torymeD | are offering 26 cts ver bushel. though in show. @ disposition to bow to the imevil | Summerside they have been selling an 27 ab soi after more OF lesa negotiation, cts and 28 eta. The unfavorable wither of cout i to part with over 3,000 cheese I the past week prevented heavy operations. to known Mor trea! ebipper for the | Potatoes —There is nothing new to note med sum Of i7 fol rec. At | in the potato market, if we vex vept a bad Trog saiemen were not oO yie ding, break at Halifax, where too many Sc la ¢ to induce business. At London schooners have eone The price iu this 7 15-1 and 8c was bid with effect | ¢ ty remains at 25 cts per Seialivnd pearly 1700 boxes changing hand a‘ those . : figere-. Onaspot today the bargaining as to th French cheese first arrived is the fea'ur ; at time of writing no actual sale has ude, but enough has been done toshow that the tone of the market is still weak. Chie e shipments from Mcntreal sine May i-t were 1,925,933 pkgs, compared with !,594,768 for same period last year. Of the -ituation in liverpool, G. B. Messrs.

Hodgson Bros., in their circular of the 30th u'!, write:“There has been a little more esquiry, but following the easier market: cabled, prices have heen reduce i here, and ia view of the consider- able stock, holders are free sellers. We quote to day finest colored and White States and Canadian, fall make, 44s to 45s; earlier made ripe goods are offering from 38s so 428, and medium and low qualities from vs t 393 perewt.” Sales in this Proviie are not now being made, so far as we can learn. ,Our factorymea are apparently holding for a favorable turn in the market,

Butter—No improvement is shown in the batter market. Montreal! shippers will not pay over 18 for finest creamery, and salesmen will not let go for less than 18, ctw 184c. At the outside figure a fair business with the heme trade is in progress, and of dairy batter « number of jobbing sales are being made atlictoléc. The shipments of bu'te: from Montreal last week aggregated 5751 packages. For the corresponding week la-t year they were 2820. The ship- ments from the opening of navigation to date now foot up 205,657 packages. For the corresponding period last year they were 147.101 packages.

Egg~—In Montreal the demand for has ls ely been only in emal! lots to fill actual wants, consequently the market was qtict and about steady. We quote: —New laid, 5c to 154; choice candied, 12c to 13¢;and culls, 10¢ to 104c per

dozen in round lots’ The price in Charicttetown remains at 12)cts per dozen,

Pork asp Hocs.—The Montreal Gazette report+ that # fair jobbing trade continues to be d ne in provisions, and the market is mcderately active, with no change in values. We quote as follows:—Canadian

wk, $15 te $16 per barrel; pure Canadian tard, iu pails, at 74 c to 8c; and compound refined at Shc to 5jc per lb.; hams, 12c to l4c; bacon, 12c to 13c per Ib.

Iu Cricago pork advanced 5c to The,

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EXCELSIOR,

A Manufacture of Wood That Has Many Uses and Is Sold In Great Quantities.

The material known as excelsior is not refuse, nor is it made of shavings: it is an article of regular manufacture. Ex- celsior is of American invention, and it was first made in this country 35 or 40 years ago. The present output amounts to thousands of tons annually, and the use of it is all the time increasing.

Excelsior is made in many parts of the country, almost always in mills that are tn close proximity to the forests from which the supplies of wood are taken, A eonsiderable amount of excelsior is made in conjunction with other manufactures; for example, it is not unusual to set up a few excelsior machines in a lumber mill, but there is at least one concern in the United States that makes nothing but ex- celsior and hasat a number of different Points mills devoted solely to the produc- tion of these curling fibers of wood.

Basswood and poplar are the woods used in the production. The logs are sawed into lengths of 18 inches, which is the length of a fiber of excelsior. These blocks are split into: halves and the wood is prop- erly seasoned. Excelsior is made of dif- ferent degrees of coarseness and fineness of fiber. In the manufacture a series of knife points run down the face of the block, cutting into the wood in parallel lines that are spaced according to the width of the fiber to be made. A following knife slices off the whole face of the block thus scored. The fibers curl and commingle as the knife sets them free. An excelsior machine makes 200 to 800 strokes a minute, every stroke cutting off a tier of fibers across the face of the block. The usual commercial package of excelsior is a bale weighing about 250 pounds. As wholesale excelsior sells at $16 to $40 a ton.

Excelsior is extensively used for packing purposes and in the manufacture of bed- ding and in various other upholstery uses. It is also largely used for filtering pur- poses, and it has various other uses. Ex- celsior is now manufactured in Germany and France, where it is called wood wool. The wood used in the manufacture in those countries is brought from Norway and Sweden, and the maufactured product costs more there than it does here.

American excelsior is exported to vari- ous foreign countries. The export demand has not been great, but it is now increas- ing.—New York Sun.

BOOKMAKER’S “RUNNER,” He Gets a Good Salary, but Earns Fvery

Cent of It.

Few men apparently earn their salaries easier and with more pleasure than the bookmaker’s runners, and in reality few men have to work harder and more consct- entiously for their daily bread than do these same runners. Unless you are fa- miliar with the methods of the runner you will not be able to distinguish him from any of the other frenzied, wild eyed men who people the betting ring of a metropol- ita race track on a race day.

If you know him, however, you will see that he moves through the fighting mob that surges through the ring just before a big race with greater ease and far more speed than the other madmen do, and that when he ‘‘gets headed’’ for a book he manages to reach it before you have had time to call the man who stepped on your toe one of the bad names you have pre-

That is the runner’s business, to squirm and wriggle and twist his way through the crowd up to the man he believes is making a plunge on some horse. He finds out what horse the man is playing, what odds he is getting and just how ‘‘swell’”’ a bet he is making; then he wriggles and twists his way back to his employer, tells him just what he has learned and then starts out again.

The bookmaker, in the meantime, if he thinks he is to get a play from the same man, drops his odds and waits for him. Before the betting on the race is half over the runner has visited all of the 40 or 50 stands and has returned to his employer with information concerning each horse, the extent to which it is being played, the

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money that is being sent in on the race.

It requires a quick brain, a good eye and amazing ability to scramble through a crowd to perform this work in the brief time between the opening and the clos- ing betting, and the men who can do it succesfully easily earn the $10 a day that is paid to them. Persons who have mar- veled at the uniformity in the prices offered against a horse will cease to marvel after they have watched a bookmaker’s runner squirm his way through the ring a couple ef timgs.—New York Press.

DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, NOVEMBER 12 1897

THE NEW YORKER.

An Account of the Most Powerful Float- ing Fire Engine In the World.

In the series of articles on New York’s fire department by Charles T. Hill in St. Nicholas there is one devoted to ‘‘ Floating Fire Engines.’’ Indescribing New York’s fleet of fireboats Mr. Hill says:

Foremost among these vessels stands the fireboat New Yorker, officially known as Engine Company No. 57, as she is without dcubt the most powerful fireboat afloat. The New Yorkers berth is at the Battery, where she lies beside a tasteful building

er i by the fire department as a hous- ing for her crew or company. This build- ing is fitted up with all the requirements ef an engine house—bunkroom up stairs, sliding poles to make a quick descent to

the ground floor, and a complete set of telegraph instruments to inform the com- pany of all alarms throughout the city.

She lies with steam up, at all times ready

to respond in an instant to any alarm, whether it be by telegraph or a cry for as- sistance from a burning boat in midriver. |

She will dash up the river to attack a burning pier or warehouse or down the bay to meet an incoming steamship with its cargo afire with the same activity. Her powerful pumps make her almost in- vincible in any kind of marine fire, and she is also a valuable assistant to the land forces.

As she lies at her berth by the Battery she attracts a great deal of attention from all new arrivals in the harbor, and on ac- count of her formidable appearance she is usually put down as some newfangled torpedo throwing addition to our navy, for with the rows of brass headed hose con- nections along the side of the deckhouse and the vicious looking stand pipes, or ‘monitor nozzles,’’ as they are called,

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mounted fore and aft, she certainly has a defiant and businesslike appearance.

In build she looks like a rather hand- some tug. She is 125 feet long, 26 feet wide and draws about 13 fect of water, She is built of steel and iron throughout making her thoroughly fireproof, even the top of the wheelhouse and cabin being made of a kind of cement as hard as stone. There is little woodwork about her to ig nite, and she is thus enabled to approacl very close to a flre and deliver her power ful streams at short range. She has two very large boilers and four sets (eight in all) of vertical, double acting steam pumps end one accitional small direct acting puinp.

A GOOD STORY OF CLAY.

Fle Was Very Confident of Election as President In 1844.

‘*There never was a more disappointed candidate for the. presidency than Mr. Clay was in 1844,"’ says one who knew him, ‘‘for he fully expected to tenant the White House from 1845 to 1849.” He was then on his third run for the presidency, and had long been the idol of his party. In his first run, against Jackson and John Quincy Adams, in 1824, he reeeived less than 50,000 votes; in his second, against Jackson, in 1832, over 500,000, and in his third run he received in a total popular vote of 2,600,000 votes within 40,000 of a majority over Mr. Polk. Thus he had much ground for hope, and his friends, both here and throughout the country, were certain of his election. In fact, that being the day for news by slew mail, it was a week before his defeat was acknow!l- edged, and several times was the victory (?) celebrated by the burning of bonfires. I was then employed as a messenger boy in the old Intelligencer office, and by that means I came to know Mr. Clay, frequent- ly being sent by Mr. Gales and Mr. Seaton with messages to him. Sometimes I found him at the capitol, but generally at his rooms in the building at the northwest corner of Eighth street and Market space, the site now occupied by Mr. William H. Hoeke. At his rooms he was friendly with me and seemed pleased with the manner in which I performed my duties.

‘One day he said: ‘My lad, when I be- come president, I will do something for you. I want you to come to see me at the White House,’

‘“Why, Mr. Clay,’ I responded, ‘how will I get to see you when your doors are

guarded?’ enough,’ remarked Mr. Clay,

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picking up a card, on which he wrote: ‘Admit Mr. ——. H. Clay.’ Handing it to me, he said: ‘Take care of it, and it will pass you. Be sure to come.’

‘I fully expected to have occasion to use it, but, like Mr. Clay and thousands of others, I was disappointed. I have had { the card for over half a century and have treasured it as an evidence of Mr. Clay’s good intentions.’’—Washington Star.

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“Home life cements the love of hushand and wife : other modes of living often Jooxen the tie,” writes Edward W. Bok in the November Ladies Home Journal. ‘Nor does the question of exrense excuse the not having of one’s own home. A home is not, of necessity, a palace. The humblest cottage is a million times better than the most luxurious hotel ever planned by the hands of man. In the one happiness is probable; in the other it is just possible. We can talk all we choose about married happinese; that it, after all, rests soleiy between two people, and that it makes no difference where they live. Thatis very good as a theory. But thousands of in- stances prove the contrary; that the theory Happiness

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BURGLAR a WANTED. |

To the Burglar who entered our office and broke the Handle of Safe we extend 3n invitation to call again, promising him a free entry into the safe, and thereby sa¥ ing him the use of the Stillsom wreuch. We will not insure his easy exit, but will be om band with an ambulance and undertaker. :

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