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DO per 2O-lb basket, 3OG50c; do per SIS
basket, 35G45; do Maryland yellows, per
basket. common, 2OG25c; do per basket.
good, 35G45e; do per basket, fancy, 5O@
Soc: do ordinary reds. per box, S0q40c; do
ordinary reds. per basket. 20@25c; do yell
lows, per box 4OQ50c; do fancy yellow,
per box, 75c4$1.C0; do Shocks, per box,
iOGS0c; do White Heath, per basket. 40G
soc; do fancy Heath's. per basket. 6OgS0c;
do White Heath. per box, 75cd$1.25; do
common pie fruit, per box 30@40c; do
common pie fruit. per basket, 15d 20c; to-
matoes, Anne Arundel. per peach basket,
30d35c; do per bushel. 50d soc.
Petatoes-Market steady. Native, per
bus box, 5O@55c; Mary land and Pennsyl-
vania primes, per bus, 55G 60c; seconds,
40m45e; New York primes, per bus. sea
62c; sweets, Eastern Shore yellow, S1.60G
LIS; Virginia white (y1ms), Dbl, S1.25:
choice reds. per Dbl, Sl.25.
Poultfy-Market weak. Old fowls, 10 IL
Gle per Ib; springers. 12e per lb; roos-
ters, 25G3Oc apiece; ducks, 9d11c per lb.
Sis To Baltimore and Return Via
II. 4 o.
Saturday and Sunday, September % and 2S.
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The question is, of course, does Tam
MANY now intend to carry out the second
part of this supposed pretty scheme? The
pessimists say no. They argue that the
public Is not let into the good things IN
any such fashion. 1t is darkly limited that
instead of a boom Brooklyn is TO tumble
this week many points further, to 10 or
even maybe to 40. 1t would be interest
ing to learn definitely and positively who
has been selling Brooklyn Rapid Transit
lately around so while the public has been
buying 1t is worth while remembering
that Tammany frequently makes money
on the short side of the market also.
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New York Cotton Market.
BALTIMORE PRICE CURRENT.
Wholesale Provision and Grain Mar
Iket Quotations in Full.

2 e following are yesterdays prices in
the Baltimore market for grain and pro-
visions:
Wheat-Stock in elevators, ,464. i51 bus.
Receipts Of Southern were somewhat freer
and with a good demand prices were
flr.aer, although subsequently the market
was easier. Sales on grade at nc for No,
9 RED and Toe for steamer rel. Sample
lots. as to quality and condition, brought
7&c. 74c, Use, and 76c.
Corn-Stock in elevators, 425.276 bus.
There was an absence of receipts or offer
ines of Southern, and the market ruled
dull at nominally steady prices. White,
47G4se, and yellow, 47G47 1-2c, both
afioat. Cob steady at s2.45 per Dbl for car
load lots, prime yellow on spot.
Western wheat opened firmer; October,
rs I-4d76 lie. Improved tone Of foreign
markets and the bulish sentiment in spec
ulative centres made very firm opening,
cash being 76 1-8c bid. Trade was very
slow and no quantity of wheat was for
sale, but prices were very steady. Private
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washington Sock Exchange.

Sales-Washington Gas. A, s5Ood III;
Capital Traction. 2Od101 IS, 40d1Ol IL
seller 60. 20G101 IL, 20G1Ol 3-S, Zog
nj ia. Washington Gas. 50G53, S7G5S is,
25652 IS: Mergenthaler Linotype, 1od179,
2OG17S 10. lOOG179-seller 30; Lanston
Monotype. sG12; American Graphophone
Company, com, 100@10 rs. After call
Mergenthaler Linotype, 5d17S IL.
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The break in prices has been largely
professionally manipulated one. The proof
OF this is plain in the fact that the large
investment interests are not selling out
their securities. For months during the
past summer extreme dizziness in the mar
ket has not caused these people to sell out
On the other hand, there has been invest
ment buying. During the past week this
buying for large interests has continued on
much larger scale. The professionals
taking advantage of the strike have pushed
down prices far enough to catch the small
holders of securities and these people have
been obliged 10 give up. In this fact lies
the chief hope of the friends of the market
1t is said by some of the best people in the
street that prices have been thus profess
sionally forced much below their actual
value, based on earnings and dividends and
on conservative estimate for the future
These people contend that investments
made now on the reactions are sure to
prove profitable shortly even if prices go
little lower while the strike is on. If
the strike ends satisfactorily they look for
quick, sharp, and decisive rally. The
short interest is very large and when it
covers it will give a big momentum to the
upward movement. Except on quick and
sharp breaks and for small profits it would
not seem advisable to buy stocks on small
margins until more is known of the strike
outlook.
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of the stock at so. there has been much
buying by the public. Many thousands of
shares have been taken below SO without
a doubt; some people say hundreds OF
thousands of shares
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-23

Fears expressed by many market people
at the beginning of the week that the coal
strike would cause a break in the market
haze been amply justified by the event.
There has been steady downward move
ment and at the close yesterday prices
were at the bottom for the week. and on
a lower level than for many weeks past
The bears made a determined attack on
the market at the beginning OF the week,
and the strike was a much more general
and threatening affair than had been pre-
dieted in the street. Small holders of Sc
curities were forced 10 liquidate, and many
speculative accounts Of larger proportions
in the speeialties were also squeezed into
selling out Ii is said that among others a
certain recent graduate to the stock ex-
change from the Consolidated Exchange,
a man who is usually bearish in the ex,
.reme. but who has lately been buying
stocks has been forced to liquidate with
heavy losses.
At the close yesterday professional SEN
tlment was extremely pearish, and there
was little apparent support II was said
that the bears will make another deter
mined attack tomorrow instead OF cover
ing, as has been expected, and that other
small holders Of securities and other pools
will=be forced to throw their stocks over
board. A lower level of prices was pre-
dieted for tomorrow, and perhaps for the
entire week. The bank statement, which
was a bad one, was used by these bears as
another argument, and the talk among
these people was of the probability O.
worse Developments in the strike situa.
ton before the opening of the market to-
morrow The course of the market in the
immediate future undoubtedly does depend
largely on the strike situation. The strike
has been so much more general than the
Operators told the world ID would be and
Il has grown so much wors9 every day that
it has had a destructive effect on conf
dence among SPECTATORS The profession
ais like TO know the worst al once, and in
this case ,hey are afraid that this worst
may DO much more unpleasant even than
the present situation. There is nothing
like deferred calamity to break the price
OF stocks. II there Is no betterment in the
outlook by tomorrow the bears are prob
ably right in saying that the downward
course OF prices viii continue. But on the
other hand IL the strike is settled by arbi-
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tration or otherwise early this week 1t can
not be doubted that there will be fine
reaction in prices, which might easily re-
solve itself into a boom.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-23

The bank statement yesterday was all
that had been expected of it. showing a
heavy loss of cash and not quite so heavy
a loss in surplus reserves, because of the
cutting down of loans. The figures of the
statement are as follows:
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Corrected dahl by w. b IIibbs Co., mem.
ber-> Of the New York Stock Exchange. 141g T
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Contrary to all expectations, there has
been little Tightening of money rates dur
ing the week. The highest rate for call
loans at any time has been per cent
and for the most part the rate has been
only / L. Wall Street does not remem-
Der a year in which funds for call loans
were so plentiful at this period. Another
expectation in some quarters has been
that there would be shipments of gold
during the week and this fear, too, IL it
could be called fear, has failed to be
realized. 1t now seems possible that all
the loans to Europe may be made without
the sending of dollar in gold to the other
side As a matter OF fact, these loans
had to be made to Europe 20 even up the
big trade balance in favor of America
without sending gold this way, thing
that Europe is in no position to do. The
position of the banks is still much better
than is usual at this time of the year, and
it is said by financial people that the
shipments TO the interior will be much
lighter this year than formerly. 1t would
seem fairly certain therefore that here
need be no fear of a stringent money
market, even though rates are advanced
somewhat
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-23

The anthracite coalers have been soft"
during the entire week and the hitumin-
Gus coalers have declined rather heavily
also in sympathy All of these securities
are selling at very moderate prices. In
some cases the level is extremely low
There will be heavy investment buying
of Reading first preferred, especially. be-
low so, no matter how the coal strike
develops, because people believe the stock
is worth much more than that price and
have the best of reasons for their faith.
Jersey Central and Pennsylvania also are
considered very attractive since their
break and will be more so II the tumble
extends further. II should be remem-
bered in considering the outlook for these
securities that the strike must be, at
worst, temporary affair. On the other
hand, the past year has seen the cement
ing of a close alliance of the coal rail-
ways that will mean millions of dollars
saved and more millions earned in the
future. The coal famine in Europe also
is factor of the utmost Importance.
1t is probable there will be much In
terest in the movements of Brooklyn
Rapid Transit during the coming week.
There are many that look for more or
less OF fireworks. The part that Tam
many has taken in this stock during the
past few days and the part which il in
tends TO take in the future have been
commented on in this column heretofore.
In brief, it has been whispered" all over
the country so that no one specula tiyely
inclined could fail TO hear, by any pos
sibility, that this stock was to be tum-
bled TO so and then doomed up to so or
even higher. This move it was said was
TO be made for the purpose of creating
an immense campaign fund for Tammany nv.
The stock has been allowed to go TO so
two or three times, and on each occasion
1t has not been allowed to go any lower.
On the strength OF this tip so widely
distributed, and of the apparent support
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Corrected daily by W. D. Hibbs & Co. mem
bers Of the New York Stock Exchange, 1919 F
Street
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-23
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Chicago Grain nnd Provision Market.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-23

The trade reports are that the strike
has caused some diminution in general
business instead of the betterment re-
corded in recent weeks. This fact sug-
gests forcibly what might be the conse-
quences of a prolonged and widespread
strike. 1t also makes the more significant
the rumors that a strike is imminent in
the steel trade, owing to the threats Of
the mills that wages will be cut on oc-
tober l because of lower prices and
smaller profits Looked at conservatively,
however, the general outlook is a very
bright one. The country is not in a de-
spondent mood. but rather very much the
reverse. Business is expected to improve,
The coal strike is bad, but the best
opinion regarding It seems to be that it
is not likely at the worst to retard pros
perity more than a month or two.
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The earnings of the railways of the
country are continued source of surprise
and qualification to even the most opti-
mistic. They show every week and every
month an increase over the phenomenal
year 1885, and this was not expected any
where. Nearly nine months of the twelve
have passed, and there is yet to be re-
corded a week in which the gross earn
ings have not increased materially. The
net earnings do not make quite so good
a showing, but, taken with the outlook,
they are certainly extremely satisfactory.
Ii is pointed out that during the coming
year the price of steel rails will be 25
per cent less than heretofore. This will
mean much for the net earnings accounts,
as immense amounts have been expended
by the railways during the past year in
rails. Lower prices for other steel prod
ucts mean that bridge and nearly all other
railway construction will be done at much
lower cost. When II is remembered that
the net earnings of the st. Paul, for in
stance. showed a small decrease last year
instead of an increase of millions of dol
lars, owing to the immense amount ex-
pended in betterments, it will be seen that
this item in the situation is most i'm
portant one. There is every reason to
believe that railway earnings will a. least
hold their own, which is equivalent TO
saying that they will be far in excess of
all dividend requirements on the present
basis and fully large enough to warrant
increases of dividends in a number of
cases. II is certain, therefore, that there
is no reason to fear lower prices for
railway securities on this score The
present prices give to purchasers from
to per cent interest on their investment
Pennsylvania aud New York Central
bought at the present level give per
cent on the investment and Atchison pre-
ferred gives nearly 12 per cent. A total
Of 81 railways which have reported their
gross earnings for the second week OF Sep
TENDER show Ss,569,02S, an increase of
1911 ,005, or i.53 per cent total of 81
lines show for the first week of the month
an increase of s324,S29 in gross earnings,
or 3.61 per cent
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
HAY-PAUNCEForE TREATY.
Unless Too Badly MangIed the Pres
ident VIII Submit 1t to the
British Government.

Washington, Dec. 15.-Unless
amended beyond any degree proposed
in the senate by the responsible
leaders, and resolved into such form
as to make it an absolute discour-
teous matter to be communicated, the
pending Hay-Pauncefote treaty will
be submitted to the British govern
ment by the president. The COM
munication viii be purely pro forma,
for the administration has not the
slightest idea that the convention will
be accepted by the British govern
ment. If this belief is well founded,
then the document will go into the
limbo of treaties failed of ratffca-
ton, its position comparing in some
degree with the Olney-Pauncefote ar
bitration treaty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
VOLUNTEERS COMING HOME
VIII Keep Faith With Out Soldier
Boys and Trust Congress for
More Troops.

Washington, Dec. 15.-The secretary
Of war has cabled instructions TO Maj
Gen.. Macarthur, at Manila, to begin
the work OF returning the volunteer
troops from the Philippines in order
to permit OF their discharge in this
country by the 30th of June next. This
action has been taken in anticipation
of the authorization by congress OF
the enlistment of regular regiments
to replace the recalled troops.
Plans for the organization of the
proposed new regiments have been
perfected at the war department, and
complete arrangements made for
their speedy recruitment and equip
nent. Action in this matter awaits
only the approval of congress.
1t is hoped by the secretary of war
and the military authorities that the
bill for the reorganization of the
army now before the senate will be-
come a law before congress takes d
recess for the holidays, on the 21si
inst. The officials make no secret OF
their great concern over the existing
situation, and say that the failure of
congress to take immediate action for
its relief undoubtedly will result in
considerable embarrassment to the
government and seriously retard the
execution of the administrations poll
CIV for the establishment of an eff
cient and stable government in the
G~rchipelaeo.
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day, with her consent or without IL.
For I ain goin' t. take no more
chancesi' Tom affirmed.
Luckily, Aunt Phoebe had not re-
turned when they reached the cabin,
and the story was poured gut to
Mrs. Moon alone. Her dislike for
Tom melted away before the idea OF
Clarissy's marrying Amos, OF whom
Phoebe had set her heart, and leav-
ing her to bear the brunt of that
damsel's rage.
Tell We what you do" she said,
finally. You n Tom git ready t
git married tomorrow night an jest
leave Amos t. me when he comesi"
Tom stood for a personal inter
view with Amos first, but he was
overruled. Just what Mrs. Moon said
to that worthy during the few min
utes' private talk they had no one
ever knew. She said it so conyinc-
ingly, however, that there was a
double wedding in the cabin that
Christmas night, and Aunt Phoebe
never knew that she was second
choice.-Eliza Armstrong, in Banner
of Gold.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
SAN FRANCISCO sToRMsWEpr.
One of the s~everest visftafions Ever
Experienced ON the Gold
Coast,

San Francisco, Dec. 14.-One of the
visited San Francisco broke over the
city at an early hour this morning,
and has ragged until noon in fitful
gusts. rain and wind sweeping over
the city with unusual violence, and be-
ing accompanied by thunder and
forked lightning, a rather unusual oc-
currence IN this part of the country.
At one time rain fell in such torrents
that many thought a cloud-burst was
imminent.
During the height of the storm sew
sral houses were overturned nv the
wind. and one Of the great receiving
tanks of the San Francisco GEES and
Electric Co. was struck by lightning,
the gas taking fire. No one hurt in
the explosion. but the tank was de-
nolished.
During the storm this city was en-
tirely cut off from telegraph con1mun-
ication with the rest of the world,
the telegraph companies losing every
wire out of San Francisco. The dam
age to telegraph wires is being re-
paired rapidly. but this evening only
partial service is being given. The
bulk of the damage TIC the wires was
caused by blowing down of about one
hundred poles or the Oakland side of
the bay. Some damage was done in
the mountains. but nothing definite
IAN he stated as to the extent. The
telephone company also lost many of
is long-distance wires.
So far no marine disasters of any
moment have been reported. On the
bay several boats capsized, but no one
was drowned, so far as known.
Reports from points short distances
from Sam Francisco tell OF much dam
age by storm. Buildings were blown
over or unroofed in many sections.
but no fatalities have so far been re-
ported.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
MIsCELLArEo Us MATTERS.

The majority of the worlds L.
makers are paid by the day.
Marriages between first cousins are
forbidden in II of the United States
Missouri viii have the largest dem.
ocratic delegation in the next con
gress of any state in the union.
Aaerican farming machinery is be.
ing imported into Cuba in large quan-
titles, and farming methods are be
ing rapidly changed to a mere rnede.n
system.
When the newly elected governors
Of the states have been all inaugu-
rated there viii be 26 republican. is
democratic and one silverite, the last
being Reinhold sadler, of Nevada.
The potato crop of the United
States Appropriated 100000 bush
els. or nearly 100000 bushels less
than last year. and a fairly good
yield compared with the ayerage of
the past ten years.
Ice racing on the Hudson is to re-
ceive unusual attention during the
coming season. One craft that has
Just been turned out viii be a marvel
in its way. 1t will carry 613 square
feet of canvas and viii yet be so
light that four men can easily lift and
handle it.
Cuba will be well represented al the
Pan-American exhibition at Buffalo.
Gen. Wood has asked for plans of a
building to be erected there. This
building viii be in the Cuban style.
and every effort viii be made = give
a fine display of the of the
island
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-12-20
DOING GOOD.
Earthly Life of Christ n Good One to
EsnuIate-The story of
Scrc0se.

To do good is the very salt of life
1t is what keeps the love IF life from
decaying or corrupting. We are told
of our Lord that "He went about
doing good" and we know that
though He was a man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief, He had in
Him a never-failing sourc of joy,
which from time to time broke forth
in enraptured utterances to His Fa-
Their and in blessing upon mankind.
Not the least of the sources of this
joy was the knowledge that He was
doing good day by day and sowing
seeds of happiness in the world which
would blossom and pear fruit in after
days. The selfish man who lives for
himself cannot enjoy life. He is
~miserable: but let him change and
think more of others than of himself
and what a difference! How well
Dickens puts this in his christmas
Carroll" At the beginning of the
story we have a portrait of Scrooge,
a tight-fsted man. hard as a grind
stone, sharp as a flint from which no
steel had ever struck out generous
fire. secret and self contained and
solitary as an oyster. Nobody ever
stopped him in the street to say. with
gladstone looks How are you?" No
beggar ~implored him for a t%riie: no
children asked him the time of day.
Rich enough he was. but dismal.
morose and melancholy. He had
never done good to anyone. He had
thought and lived only for himself:
but he is visited by three ghosts
the ghost of the past, the ghost of
the present and the ghost of
the future-and they teach him a
lesson and he becomes a good friend.
a good master and a good man, and
opens his heart and his purse to 9th
ers and, as a consequence, he begins
to love the life he once hated and to
see the good days he nee had no
faith in.-Rev. Arthur S. Brooks, NJ.
A, in Central Christian Advocate.