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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-21

talk of extra dividend declarations at
the end of the year.
Sugar opened up q PER cent on the ac-
ton of the treasury. department looking
to the imposition of countervailing du-
ties. but the full improvement was not
maintained.
Chicago Gas was steady at an adj
vance of Y per cent. The undertone of
the market was strong. The bears at
tempted to depress the market, and sue
ceeded in effecting declines of about 1
per cent in Sugar and Chicago Gas dur
ing the latter part of the session. The
failure of the bear raid was followed
by another strong upward movement
but later the bears got some hold and
soon put the market about 1 per cent.
Consolidated Gas, on the other hand,
broke 2 per cent; however. the general
list was well maintained, and the close
was strong, with considerable gain for
the day.
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II. II SMITH & co.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Liverpool Oct. 20.-4 p. m.-Cotton
spot fair demand, prices steady. Amer
lean middlng, $3.50. The sales of the
day were 10000 bales, of which 500 were
for speculation and export and included
S.4O0 bales American. Receipts, $4,000
bales, including 3O.4OO American.
Futures opened steady with a fair de-
mand and closed easy. American mid
dfing l.. M. c., October, 1908 BOD buy
ers; October and November, 22@S 2Sd
buyers November and December, god
buyers; December and January, 1870
god buyers; January and February,
8 1908 20d buyers; February and March,
8 god buyers; March and April, Gid sell
ers; April and May, 8 22d sellers; May
and June, 3 2Sd sellers; June and July,
8 1908 24d buyers; July and August.
3.24@3.25d buyers.
0r,Hyr1r,Ar rS0nr,pN MA % HrTc
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Markets by. telegraph.

grain and provisions markets during the
morning was succeeded by strength
later on and small advances wera chron-
icled all around.
Wheat was helped by a renewal of the
continental demand for wheat, Decem-
Dor closing ssc higher. Their was a
slight disposition to play for a reaction
in corn and &c advance was the re-
suit. Oats closed h@Ac higher. Pro-
visions closed at small advances for pork
and ribs with lard substantially I'M
changed.
Leading futures rangeu as ronows:
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QUEEN & CRESCENT ROUTE.
Shortest and Quickest Line New Or.
ieans-Solid Vestibule Trains.

Shortest and Quickest Line New Or
leans-Solid Vestibule Trains.
The Alabama Great Southern Railroad
with it's connections. formerly the Queen
& Crescent Route. is the shortest and
quickest line from Birmingham to New
Orleans. A solid vestibule train leaves
Birming ham at 1925 night, arriving New
Orleans 11:45 next morning. This train
carries Pullman's handsomest dra wing
room Buffet Sleeping Cars, day coaches,
baggage and express cars through with
out change.
The evening train leaving Birmingham
at p. M, carries elegant Pullman Union
Sleeping Cars from Birmingham to
New Orleans without change, arriving at
New Orleans at $50 next morning, maxi
ing connection with Southern Pacific for
the west.
For comfort and speed, travel via the
Queen & Crescent Route.
G.. M. BILLHEIMER,
Travelling Passenger Agent Alabama
Great Southern Railway. No. North
Twentieth ST. Telephone 846.
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rates. etc, call on, or write to 8. Jacobs,
commercial Agent, Jack w. Johnson, u.
Theo. d. Kline, General Superintendent
J. C. Halle, General Passenger Agent.
Savannah. Ga
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Cotton Letter.

New York, Oct. 2O-The downward
tendency of the cotton market was re-
sumed today. Liverpool was very dis
appointing. That market opened un-
changed and afterwards lost one and
one-half sixty-fourths, when 1t had
been expected to advance somewhat.
Manchester advices were also unfayor-
able. Our market opened to points
below last nights figures. After the
opening heavy Liverpool selling result
ed in future weakness. 1t was not all
one way, however. for New Orleans sent
liberal buying orders and the demand
from other sources was fair; receipts
were again large; the south was offer
ing more freely, and the general senti-
ment was bearish. January opened at
$40, declined to sos, ffuctuated between
this figure and 500 and closed at sos to
500, with the tone of the market steady.
Unless Liverpool should be encouraging
tomorrow, the market will probably be
lower. RIORDAN & CO.
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II. II. SMITH & CO., Brokers
(MoRRIs BUILDING)
STOCKS, COTTON, GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
mEr 1Dn0Mn ooo

Private Wires to New York, Chicago and
New Orleans.
We do not bucket or carry any trades.
but place all business. We take ten share
trades of stock, twenty bales cotton, 1000
bushels of grain and fifty tierces lard and
fifty barrels pork. We accept deposit of
per cent. upon all trades and carry them
subject to rules of stock and cotton ex-
change and board of trade.
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CaSh QuotatIonS; Fioulr SttHuy, NV
2, spring wheat, S41s@ss1zc; No spring
wheat, 7SiA@S5lsc;. No. red. 91Ac; No.
2 corn, 2442c; No. 2 oats, Isle; No. 2
white. 220221sc; No. 9 white, 2oAQ21Ac;
No. 2 rys, 461hc; No. 2 barley, nomenal;
No. 8, 27@42c; No. 4. 251k@s7c; No. fax
seed S1.O1h@1 .o415; prime timothy seed,
$2.65; mess pork, s7.75@7S0; fard, $4,000
4.321s; short rib sides, $4.40@4.75; dry
sailed shoulders, 4%@5: short clear
sides, s5@5h; whisky, $1.22; sugars, cut
loaf, unchanged.
No. yellow corn, 241ac cheese, quiet,
S@S1Ac; eggs, firm, fr=sh 141ac.
On the produce exchange today the
butter market was steady; creameries,
15@22c; dairies. 12@19e.
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Chicago Live Stock

Chicago, Oct. 2O.-The small proportion
of fat cattle that were choice enough to
sell above $4S5 sold at about steady
prices today, but other grades were on an
average 1Oc per 100 pounds lower with
slow sales. Sales WIRE on basis OF
$4,000 for the poorest native dressed
beef steers up to 81 9O@5.35 for choice to
prime shipping. cattle with the bulk of
the transactions at $4.50@510. A sale
was made of 81 choice 1,511 pounds steers
at $51O, a few prime feeders up to $3.50,
while common stockers for $3@S.50. A
few choice heifers brought satisfactory
prices but butchers and Gamers stuff
sold somewhat lower in most instances.
Calvss were lower than last week vita
sales largely at $4,000, and few choice
lots at $6.25@6.50. Texas cattle sold
pretty well if good and prime heifers
were worth $370. Western feeders sold
actively at $36O@4.1O and a few sold as
high as $3.50.
Desirable droves of hogs moved off sat
isfactorily as a whole, but there were
a great many common packing hogs
that were hard to dispose of even at con-
cessions. Heavy packers sold at $3.50
$3.50 and hsavy shipping hogs sold at
$3.6O@3.95. Mixed mediums and butch
ers weights sold at $4,000 and light
weights sold at $S.55Q4. Pigs sales were
largely at $9.5O@390.
Trade in sheep and lambs was more
active than yesterday and prices Wer7
much stronger for desirable lots. Ma.
tive sheep were saleable at $2.5OQS for
the poorest up to $4.25@4.50 for the best
and sheep from the ranges of the tar
west sold at S2.90@4.25, lambs sold .aic-
lively at $3.75@5.80 for poor to Prime
fiocks with sales largely at $475Q5.5O.ai=
Receipts-Cattle, $4,000; hogs, $4,000;
sheep, 1000.
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Financial

New York, Oct. 20.--Evenfng Posts
London financial caiblegrami
The stock markets were idle today,
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No. carries Pullman Sleeping Cars Bir-
mingham to Cincinnati and from Birming-
ham to New York without change.
No. carries Pullman Union Sleeping Car
birmingham to Cincinnati and Pullman
Sleeping Car Chattanooga to Louisville.
d. C.
Frank s. Cannon, General Manager
Washington, ID. C.
G. w. Wickersham. Superintendent, Biz
mingham.
C. A. Benscoter A. G. p. A., Chatta-
nooga.
c. M. BilIheimer, T. P. A. Birmingham.
Ala.
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New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans, Oct. 2o.-Cotton futures
easy; sales. 1920. October, 5.75 bid;
November, 5.76Q5.7S; December, 576@
5.77; January, 5.7S05.7s; February. $500
5.S4; March, 5.SS@5.SsI April. 5.sS05.94:
May, 5.9SQ5.99.
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Stock Letter

New York, Oct. 2O.-The bulls con-
trolled the market in the early dealings,
and in consequence under their opera
tions prices exhibited fractional gains.
despite the decline in London. Further
Improvements were recorded later. es-
pecially In. the Vanderbilt properties,
which displayed decided strength on
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-21

Trains Nos. 81 and S. carry Pullman ycstt-
bule sleepers between ST. Louis and jack
sonville and Montgomery and Port Tampa.
Trains Nos. 80 and &c carry Pullman yestf-
bule sleepers between Cincinnati and jack
sonville.
Free reclining chair cars between Mont
gomery and savannah on trains 81 and 6S;
D. M, connects az Port tampa with Plant
Steamship line for Key West and Havana.
Any information regarding routes, rates
and Schedules will be furnished upon appli-
r. L. TODD, d. p. A.,
Montgomery, Ala.
b. w. WRENN, p. Il. NJ,
Savannah, Ga.
H. c. McFADDEN. A. G.. p. A.,
Savannah. Ga.
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lively at $375@5.S0 for poor to Prime
fiocks with sales largely at $475@5.5O.as :
Receipts-Cattle, $4,000; hogs $4,000
sheep, 1900.
Urv Goods.
New York Oct. 2O.-The situation in
dry goods is practically unchanged. I'm
favorable weather conditions which have
heretofore been a drag on the market are
giving promise of change and the buying
from southern states, where the yellow
fever panic has had stultifying effect
on the trade, begins to be heavy again.
The distribution in various sections of
the country is still reported rather slim.
Wooden goods are still a strong feature
of the market, sales for next year being
more of a factor day by day. Cotton
goods are generally less active. In
staple cottons, brown goods, in both
sheetings and drills are still quiet and
without feature Export goods are some
what better, although there Is little lib
erality displayed by export buyers.
Prints In both staple and fancy lines
show no change and are pretty gener-
ally bought in conservative lots.
St. Louis.
st. Louis, Oct. 2O.-Flour lower; pat
ents, $47O@475; straight, &.4Oq4.5o;
clear, $410@4.25; medium. sS.25@S.5S.
Wheat spot higher; No. 2 red cash ele-
yator. 95c bid; track, 95@96c; No. hard
cash. SIC; December, 96AQ96Ac; May,
95@95Bc.
Corn spot stronger; No. 2 cash, 29%c;
December, 29@291sc; May, 27as@271Ao.
IL No oh
1870 bid track, 1S1kc; No. white, 20h
@21c; December. 1870 bid; May, 21c
bid.
Bran, sacked east track saleable, 4S@
SOC.
Butter firm; creamery, 16@2Shc; dairy,
11@16c.
Eggs firm, 1Sc.
Whiskey, $1.20.
Pork unchanged; standard mess job
bling, $S.25.
Lard unchanged; prime steam, 1920;
choice, $4.271a.
Bacon; boxed lots, extra short clear
and ribs, s5.75; shorts, $500.
Dry salt meats; boxed shoulders, $3.50;
extra short clear, 1925; ribs, $5371s;
shorts, $3.50.
Inc Iron Market.
Birmingham, Oct 2O.-The following
are the latest quotations on iron:
Open silver grey. So.
Close silver grey, No. foundry and
No. soft, SITS
No. Q foundry and No. soft, $7.25.
No. foundry 81
No foundry, grey forge and mottled,
$6.75.
White, $3.50.
Cotton Letter. .
New York. Oct. 20.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady Wednesday, prices
generally however, showing reduction
of to points in response to the less
favorable accounts from English CEN
tiers than had been anticipated. An
easier feeling was later developed under
local and foreign selling and indica-
lions of decided weakness in Liverpool.
Prices in the local market receded fur
Their to the extent of 8 to 4 points and
the market became irregular. The only
support accorded the market was the
covering by less confident shorts, who
feared repetition of Tuesdays sharp
turn and some buying by we'll known
brokers. Spot cotton was quiet and
dull and heavier, with middling uplands
at 6 3-16 and gulf at 7-16.
H. H. SMITH & co.
Stock Letter
New York, Oct 2O.-The bulls con-
trolled the market in the early dealings,
and in consequence under their opera
tions prices exhibited fractional gains,
despite the decline in London. Further
improvements were recorded later, es-
pecially In the. Vanderbilt properties,
which displayed decided strength on
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The Iron Market.
Birmingham, Oct 20-The following
are the latest quotations on iron:
Open silver grey. So.
Close silver grey, No. 1 foundry and
No soft, SITS.
No. foundry and No. 2 soft, $7.25.
No. foundry, 81
No foundry, grey forge and mottled,
$6.75.
White $3.50.
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Articles Opening Highest Lowest Closing
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Chicago Change
Chicago, Oct 2o.-Weakness In the
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GENERAL COTTON MARKETS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-15
The Farmer aud the Tariff.

The new tariff has raised the price of sugar
trust stock. Has it raised the price of anything
the farmer as to sell abilene Monitor; Pop.
There you go again, old grumbler,
trying to find something to worry
about. Your own troubles seem to
have affected your judgment and you
see everything as through a glass
darkly. Open your eyes and look at
things as they are. The farmer has
been pretty we'll cared for in the tariff
bill. Here are some of the duties
that have been laid to keep out for
eign competition and which are doing
it:
Cattle, if less than one year old, g
per head; all other cattle if valued at
not more than Sl4 per head, 1915 per
head; if valued at more than $14 per
head, 272 per centum ad valorem.
Swine, $3.50 per head.
Horses and mules valued at $3.50 or
less per head, $50 per head; if valued
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-15
Ordinance No. $50.
lPublished October Is. 1sg7.l

An ordinance to license Advertising Street
Parades or Professions.
BE IT Ordained by the Mayor and Council
men of the city of lola.
SECTION 1. 1t shall be uRlawful hereafter for
any person or persons to make parade OF pro-
cessiOu in or along or through the streets and
avenues of said city for the purpose OF adverts-
ing any concert circus or show. or any other
business without first having taken out Ii.
cense to do so
SEC. 2 The Clerk is authorized to issue IL
eense 10 any person or persons to make any such
parade or procession on the payment of SS3.OO.
Sac. 8. Any person or persons taking out
license to exhibit any circus or show or open
air concert on the payment of the amount pro-
vided by ordinance for such show circus or
concert or other business shall have the right
to make any such parade or profession without
csst.
SEC. 4. Any person OF persons violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and on con-
viciiOn shall be fined in a sum of not less than
ffIy dollars and not more than one hundred dol
lars for each Offense-
SEC. s. This ordinance shall be in full force
and effect from and after its publication once in
the lola REGISTER.
Approved Oct Z, 1897,
A. L. TAYLOR,
(SEATN Attest: Mayor
". A. CowAN, Clerk.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-15
Resembles Romance.
K Star.

| h. &. Star.
The reports from all over Kansas
printed in the Star yesterday, show
ing the marvellous profits made by
wheat raisers this year, might have
been taken for romance had they no
been backed by facts and figures
Thousands and thousands of farmers
/ have made enough this season to pay
/ for their farms, and other thousands
who owned their land, free from debt
have been able to put enough money
in the bank to carry them through
several years of crop failures, if they
should have the misfortune TO run
into a series of bad years.
The wheat raisers of Kansas have
made as much out of this years crop
as they could have saved from several
years of average crops, at average
prices. The increase of 81 million
dollars in the deposits of Kansas City
banks in the past month is due very
largely to the profits of the wheat
crop in Kansas. Most of that money
belongs to individual Kansas farmers,
deposited by them in Kansas banks,
and seht here to find employment be-
cause the Kansas bankers are unable
to obtain borrowers for it in their own
localities. This great sum of money.
of course, is only part of what the
farmers have put away. Nearly all
the banks in Kansas have in their
vaults more cash than they have pos
sessed before in many years, in most
cases more than they ever had before.
Yet, not over a quarter of the wheat
crop has been sold. Money will con-
tinue to flow into Kansas for many
months to pay for the wheat crop,
and in the absence of sufficient de-
mand for it out there it will come to
Kansas City, and will even go farther
East, to find borrowers. 1t will be
years before Kansas will have &C.
casion to borrow money from capital
lists outside of the State. Only few
months ago the cry was going up that
Eastern money loaners would not care
to risk their money in investments in
Kansas. Now there is such plethora
of capital in that State that it is flow
ing out to seek investment elsewhere.
Was there ever anything like such
udden transformation in the material
wealth of any number of people, any
where?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-15
A COMPARISON.
RelatfSe Merits of Plymouth Rocks and
Silver WyanGottes.

Relative Merits of Plymouth Rocks and
Silver WyanGottes.
A Missouri poultryman says in The
Breeders Gazette:
have for years made speciality of
two breeds-Barred Plymouth Rocks
and Silver Wyandottes-a,4,i for the first
time in my life have been able to give
to each breed enough attention to get a
pretty thorough idea as to their good
and bad features.
1t is not my aim TO advertise my own
stock. Those two breeds are so well
known and so extensively bred by the
country people that few words can
hurt no one and may do some good. Now
as to maturity, up to two months old
the males of the two varieties We're so
near alike that it was necessary to put
them on the scales to detect any differ
ence. The few ounces difference was in
favor Of the Plymouth Rocks, three
Plymouth Rock cockerels weighing 81
pounds at weeks old, while three Wyan-
dottes weighed pounds and 12 ounces.
In the females the Plymouth Rocks
were away ahead, three of them weigh
ing 5 pounds and ounces, while the
Wyandottes weighed but 8 pounds and
Z ounces. Both had the same care and
were Matched at the same time and by the
same hens. Now a word in regard to
parents. Both the Wyandottes and
Plymouth Rocks were from stock up to
and in most cases over standard weight,
so there was no advantage to either side
so far as this is concerned. As broiIer,
if only the males of the two breeds are
to be used, there is virtually no differ
ence in the two breeds, but if the fe-
males are to be used then the Plymouth
Rocks are decidedly the best At matu-
rity the two breeds will come to standard
weight so near together that there is
little or no difference.
AS to their laying the Wyandottes lay
trifle smaller egg than the Plymouth
Rocks, and they will not vary in eggs
in pen of ten hens if the same care is
given to both breeds. The standard
weight of the Wyandottes is almost a
pound under the Plymouth Rocks, still
it takes as long to mature one as the
other; so if live weight as hens is any
particular advantage then the Plymouth
Rocks have the advantage again. But
the Wyandottes, like the black horse in
the race, come to the front with age, as
a Wyandotte hen will keep putting on
weight until she is or years old and
Is always tender and easy to cook, while
Plymouth Rock hen will get to a
standstin at 2 years of age and after
that time is but poor eating, to say the
least. As winter layers they are both
good, and it is doubtful if there are two
better breeds in the standard in this par.
tieular.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-15
when DOCTORS differ
WHO SHALL DECIDE ?
History Of a Woman who Could not Walk for
Six Years,
From tae Ralladtum, Ricamond, 1,d.

medicine a fair trial, so they kept on pre-.
scribing it.
" took no other at the time, so that if any
good were to come we would know what lad
brought it about Pretty soon a change was
noticed. My muscles became more flexible.
and / suffered much less. At the end of three
months | found | could move my limbs. could
lift myself up, and was no longer helpless. l
kept on and still refrained from every other
sort of medicine.
In one year from the time began the
use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People could walk, something all the doc
tors had decided never could do again.
At first having been helpless for so long
L could not trust myself to walk on the
street, as | felt afraid. Soon, however. |
grew more confident, and walked every
where as well as ever, and have been doing
so ever since. [ took the pills for two years,
as L was afraid to stop until | was sure the
cure was complete. Before l took them I
was wreck, and now my general health is
very good"
Miss Osborne was repeatedly questioned as
to her opinion of what cured her, and she has
often declared it to have been DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People, as she had been
growing steadily worse until she had began
using them, and as she used no other medi-
cine after taking the pills.
Druggists in Richmond now have a large
sale of these pills, and it is frequent occur
renee to have a customer ask for the medi-
cine that cured Miss Osborne.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are sold in boxes never in loose form by the
dozen or hundred, and the public are eau
toned against numerous limitations sold in
this shape) at 80 cents box or six boxes for
$3.50 and may be had of all druggists or
direct by mail from DR.. Williams Medicine
Company. Schenectady. NY.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-15
SOME POLITICAL STRAWS
Caught on the Fly, That Tend tOShOW
Which way the Wind is Blowing.
No Time for Croakers.

K C. Star.
1t is worse than a waste of time 70
any man to attempt, tor political pur
poses, TO belittle the growing prosper
ity of the United States, or to attemp
to explain it away by attributing it t.
trivial and temporary causes. III,
fact that prosperity ia here and tina
nearly every person in the land is en-
joying its benefits counts for more
than all the theories that can bC
elaborated.
For the past four years the pessi
mist has had the facts on his side and
it has been uphill work for political
orators to undertake to show the PEG.
pie how prosperity was to come ba k
without radical change in the money
system, or a revolution of some sort OIL
ether. But the prosperity has come
now, without any such change, and ii
has come TO stay. Pessimism is no
longer safe foundation for political
party. Gloomy prophecies will make
very little impression on prosperous
people. 1t is a time for good cheer
among all classes and all political
parties, and the man who doesn't
want to be laughed at would better
not attempt to make anyone believe
that the country is now merely enjoy
ing a temporary halt on its way down
to the devil.
There have been four years of de-
preston, of business losses, of small
profits, of enforced and costly debt
paying. That period is ATTAIN end.
There are to be years of good times
now, of wealth accumulation, of in
creasing profits, of security for invest
ments, of relief from tine strain and
worry of having things go the wrong
way,
The pessimist and the agitator has
had his season. 1t is past now. His
voice may occasionally be heard, but
it will be drowned by the hum of in
dustry. The prophet of good times
is entitled to the platform now. His
is the voice which the people want to
hear.