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New-York tribune., 1901-06-12
Raw State Gas 90

Bay State Gas co...
Bing Gas 1st mtg IS, 1898.
do stock k..--.---...---.
Buff c Gas 1st mtg IS. 1941
do stock. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
COium Gas Co 1st 5s. 1882
d @ & z Co 1st Con 5s. 1874.
do stock. INSTRUMENTATION.
Ft w Gas Co LIST IS. 1879 -
Grand Rapids G L Co 6s. 30,
10 1st IS, 1918. ....--...-,
Indianap Gas LIST 6s. 1920
Lafayette Gas lst IS. 1924.
L & W V Gas 1st 6s. 1879.
do stock OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Mad @ e F Co 1st 6s. 1925.
y E G & 9 1st mtg IS. 1926
do stock NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Ohio & I G LIST mtg IS. 1926
do 4 . c new. .-.-..-...-
Syracuse c. 1st mtg IS. 1886
do stock ....-.......-..-.
ST Joseph Gas 1st IS. 1891.
do stock ....--.---.- 1905
81 Paul Gas Con As. 1874 e.
do stock NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
West 6 Of Milwaukee 8 2 C
do ist IS, 1888 -..-----.-.
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OUTSIDE SECURITIES.

The outside securities market closed firm Da,i
ings were confined TO comparatively few stocks
but prices as a rule held nrm. There was a good
demand for American Duck common; L5OO shares
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Bklyn F Isl Con 5s. 1913.
do stock. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Hob F LIST mtg SIS. 1916. ...
" Y & E K Ferry Co stock.
do 1st mtg 5s. 1923. .---
NY & HF LIST gn mg IS. 1876
10th & 23d ST 1st mg IS. 1910
Union F Of n Y & b 5s. .-.
do stock.
NY & Nj F 1st mtg IS. 194S
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MONEY MARKET.-Money rates follow: Call
money. 2&63Ik per cent. ruling rate per cent
Time money. 3l7 per cent for sixty days, Sl2a4
per for three months. and Sat per cent for
four and six months railroad collateral. Com
mercal paper. 3l5G4a per cent for three. four and
six months for the best names. and above for
names not well known.
FOREIGN EXCTIANG GE.-Market firm. Actual
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FIRST WEEK EARNINGS.

Railroad earnings received yesterday for the first
week in June showed the following changes as
compared with the time year ago:
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THE FEDERAL TREASURY.

Washington. June 1.-THE condition Of the Treas
ury. divisions Of issue and redemption. the he
ginning OF business to-day. follows:
RESERVE FUND.
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Closing prices yesterday OF the principal active
securities ana net changes from MONDAY Hil@i
quotations Were:
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THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN BONDS.
GOVERNMENT BoNDs.-Market steady. Final
quotations follow:
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MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES.
ACTIVE STOCKS.

Furnished by C. F. rockingham. No. 20 Broad-st)
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EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE.

Port Of New-York- 1901. 1900 1873
Week 1903 761 S11. 1.690912 50 I3Ia9t
From January 239 953 SIS go $50 2nSS0Sl
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oonda s7s; United States Steel 5ls4: do preferred
l0lia.
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FAIR DEMAND FOR STOCKS
HEA VINES.S AT THE CLOSE.
MONEY

MoRH1HG MARKET sTRoNG-BoNDs AND
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Int. period. Bid Asked.
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SALES At THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS.

Actual lssles--I-C1osing- shares
1opsn High Low Fin. Bid. Ask. sold.
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Sex dividend.
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HONEY AND EXCHANGE.

Total sales ot bonds 81 ofo on
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Int period Bid. Asked.
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Furnished by R L. Day & Co.. No Nassau-st)
June 10 June IL 10 H.

asked
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BANK STOCKS.

reported by Clinton Gilbert. No. war-st1
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
IS IT A sUPEsRsTITIoNp Success of Alleged We'll Finders with
 Wands, Etc.
Fire and Water.

Fire and Water.
 A French scientific society is endeav- bring to ascertain the truth of the claims of water finders" and has asked nearly all of the technical soci- cites in this country to contribute tn- cidents coming under the observation of their members upon the subject of finding hidden supplies of water by means of twigs of hazel or other woods or by special devices, in which few persons outside of dwellers in the ru- ral districts have any faith. Still, what seems to be indisputable evidence as to water finding is apparently fur nished by architects, well-bOrers and manufacturers of well-boring and we'll lifting apparatus. as well as by few scientific investigators who have been brought to full stop when trying to assign a reason for effects which they have seen and cannot account for by any known theory.
 Many large and wealthy firms in this country employ these water finders, who are almost invariably men we'll up in geology and thoroughly understand ing surface indications of the lay of sub strata and the natural course Of subterranean streams, cisterns or pock- cts which water would naturally seek. One such man Is today employed by the largest of the compressor con cerns in this country, and another is junior partner in a firm which makes a patent air-lift for raising water from great depths. Both of them have oper- ated for years in all parts of this coun- try. as we'll as in the West Indies. and both are constantly employed. Of course. they do not tell their secrets to investigators.
 n.aA oP otVNA Hfo ny,k scme years ago by submitting to severe tests upon the suggestion of his skep- tical employers, which heard of his suc- cess and send for him to come to New York. He was taken down to one of the Sky-scraperS in process of erection and asked to find from the sidewalk the location of six waterpipes running into the building underground. Upon com pairing his marks with the plans. it was found that he had skipped one sup ply pipe. He then said: There is no water running through that pipe; can- not locate still water. It must be a stream creating friction or I cannot de- tee. it. could not find an under ground ocean if it was still And in vestigation was made. and, as he said the water had been shut off from the pipe which he missed.
 The man was then taken up the Hudson. where a well supply was to be established for a town of consider able size, and he walked over five or six miles of land before he chose a spo; upon which he said dozen or more wells could be driven and the re- quired supply secured. Then he drove stakes at points which he selected, and the party returned to the hotel, not en- tirely convinced. One skeptic remarked to another that evening: If this man does not work by view of surface fea- lures, he can do just as well in the dark. Let's give him surprise and take him out again toright"
 That night the surprise was sprung upon him. One of his employers told the water finder that another tract of land had been offered to the company, and asked him if he thought that he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
THE GREAT SPEED OF BIRDS.
Pigeons go 60 Miles an Hour and Sparrows as Fast for Short
 Distance.

Knowledge.
 The flight of a bird is usually so de- vious that its speed is not easy to de- termine, and when the journey is di- rectly from one point to another the uncertainty in the mind of an onlooker as to where the flight will end is a furtker intolerance to accurate obServa- ton. A bird in the open, again, flying across the plane of vision and far from a fixed point. requires the preconcep- tion of it's distance from us before yielding any data of its speed. The difficulty of the subject. indeed. must be urged as the most reasonable ex- cuse for the diversity of rate at which birds have been stated to fly, even by careful observers. The subject of flight Is a large one. on which the read CT cannot do better than consult the article in Professor Newton's Die tionary of Birds I do not propose to enter into it further than to mention some incidents l have seen in whcih teh ralative speeds of some common birds have, ben tested by the birds themselves, or they have provided man with a means to readily gauge their celerity for a few moments.
 The commonest test of such speed is the pigeon race but in this the direc- tion of the wind in relation to the birds may be considered the dominant influence. The questions of distance and familiarity with the course also arise. Independently of aid From the wind, forty miles an hour would seem to be about the full speed for a good pigeon flying long distance. l have had some experience in this matter, having timed" for a good many races of the Southern Counties Club years ago. 1 am speaking, of course, of flight at a moderate elevation. such as pigeons generally affect. With the data available, none would dream of saying that pigeon could fly at, say seventy miles an hour against moderate wind.
 With regard to wild birds generally, not having such sure data for guild ance. the imagination has been allowed fuller play, with the natural conSe- .quences.
 The swift (swalloW) affords a com mon illustration. The writer of an ar ticle in The Daily News thought that the swift could distance any falcon and attain a speed of 150 miles an hour. saw an adult male hobby falcon in the flesh shot on a swift which it had over taken in fair flight. A friend of Major Hawkins Fisher had seen a similar in- cident.
 One day. travelling by express train through a valley, I noticed that the trees proved the wind to be blowing gently in the direction of our travel. and I also observed that the swifts passing along the valley. even with" the wind. did not move so fast as the train. which was not exceeding the rate of some forty-five miles an hour. The birds seemed to be flying at their usual pace when feeding
 Another bird whose speed seems to be overestimated is the sparrow hawk. have seen 1t compared to a cannon ball in celerity: but the suggestion is absurd bird which arrives on the scene at full speed has a great advan- tage over others sedately feeding. so far as the chances of delivering an at tack are concerned, and this may be
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partly the reason why so many or the smaller birds rise on the wing when alarmed by the sight of hawk. 1t Is as though they considered that. gwen a fair start, they might disregard the enemy.
 ! The homing pigeon we know can be relied on to attain, under fairly easy conditions. a speed of sixty miles an hour or rseonsiderably more. The spar row, surely could never do anything like that. But. the fact is that LOT 6 short distance the sparrow IS well apie to- Keep lp with a good homer, ana even when flying behind and peioW or Mnd therefore in more disturpeo re zion of the air) to gain enough adoi- tionals hfohaentum to deliver an aidek. We know that the larger ana neaFier the birds tgiven fair wing spreao,, the greater its speed; but there IS no getting away from this fact or the sparrow evertaking the pigeon. I often saw this at Etroud, the pigeons eeine excellent honers of pedigree and repu- tation and the sparrow an old male that lived near them. l nave since seen the same performance enacted elsewhere. In each case 1t was clear that the pigeon did not relish the at- tack. but did its utmost to get out or the way.
 Tn February last I witnessed an oc- currence of even greater audaclty III sparrow. In spring the sparrow re- gards the jackdaw with almost as much fear as it views hawk. in fact' wltn much more than it sees the kestrei. This Is no doubt due, not to adult spar rows being attacked but to their young being SO often removed to supply the larder of the young jackdaws. The daw, ready enough to atatck an adult small bird upon occasion, never hesl- tates to seize young one If the chance offers. On the occasion In question l saw a sparrow carrying something large over house. It dropped the burden in the hollow of the roof and descended there. Along came a tack daw soaring about for food. as they do all day at Cheltenham. and down he went suddenly on the roof. returning at once with a nice piece of bread. which he ate on the chimney He then took wing, and at once the sparrow came after him. Away went the daw. and close behind followed the sparrow. making frequent pecks at him. Stranger still, the jackdaw was clearly seeking to avoid the attack, but vainly. The birds made three good circles. and in the third the daw was swerVing like a tin plate thrown from the hand, and close above the garden trees. The sparrow now gave 1t up, and descended into a roadside tree, while the jack daw went away I moved on and passed the sparrow, which was then chirping in that loud and continuous manner which seems to be the nearest approach to singing attained by the species. Possibly he was feeling proud of his victory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON,
An African Range Which Looks as
 Vast as the Alps.

The London-Telegrapho of recent date prints interesting extracts from book written by J. E. s. Moore, fellow Of the Royal Geographical Society. who has travelled extensively in Central Africa. Mir. Moore made partial ascent. of the Mountains of the Moon" which have been known through only by rumor. says The Telegraph. from a remote antiquity. Here Is his account of the striking panorama:
 Before us lay an extensive mountain range. which looked as vast and for midable and composed of as many diff ferent elemental peaks as does the Alps from some of the Italian plains of the South. From the spot where we stood one could see some 75 miles of the range and in this length there were at least four groups of distinct and individual snowy peaks.
 MT. Moore made a partial ascent of one of the higher peaks. Here, after traversing a glacier, he gained rocky ridge partly covered with permanent snow, at an estimated height of 14,000 feet, showing this to be the most i'm portant mountain mass in Africa
 From the northern end of Tangan- lika to the Albert NyanTa, says The Telegraph. MT Moore was travelling through a region which a few years ago was practically unknown. At first sight it is kind of trough traversing the great Central African upland, in which lie Lakes Kivu. Albert Edward Nyanza and AlbertNyanza, the Noun tains of the Moon extending from the second toward the third. The river from the southern end of the first is almost torrent which has cut deep into the mass of granite rock that slopes steeply down toward Tangan- yika.
 North of Kivu Is a second barrier formed by the discharges from numer- ous orifices. which has gradually ex- tended across the vally, till it has made a complete dam. Some of these vents are still active.
 Looking West toward Kirunga Cha Gupgo. MT. Moore writes, the great cone arose bare and brown over the green forest of the lower slopes, with a lacework of fine black lava streams descending from the crater's lip. From the crater itself huge masses of steam and smoke rose slowly and drifted away into the rain and mist. Farther to the west again there was another cone. rather lower. and not so steep, from the summit of which black smoke was issuing, and along the lower lava streams near the top where strings of fumeroles giving out brilliant white jets of steam.
 MT. Moore and hfs travelling com panion ascended the former, which is about 11.300 feet above sea level, though not without considerable labor in forcing their way through the for est and traversing the 'ough lava streams.
 As we neared the summit the ascent became almost percipitous, but we finally got on to the rim of the great cone. which we found to be composed of lava. and which broke away imme- diately before us into the vast abyss of the crater itself. The morning around us was clear and sunny, but the immense mouth of the volcano was full of steam and smoke. md looking into 1t we could see nothing but the frowning edges of a perpendicular de- scent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
A Good Runner.

Cleveland Plain Dealer:
 SAin't you most afraid to have John
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population there?

population there?
 Al think it is. replied Gen. Lee.
 Yet. in face of the advic of the great chieftain. Virginia was put under negro domination and Thad Stevens had his way there as well as in all the other Southern States. Negroes were organ. jed into secret political leagues and educated against the whites. Nothing was left undone to destroy all white in- uence over the negro. All things were done to break all ties betweeen whites and blacks and to sever the blacks from us and organize them into party unto themselves. separate and distinct from the whites
 Gen. Lee had not the faintest concep- ton of the future humiliations and op- pressions in store for his people and all the South when he was there before that committee. saying what all the South said. advising them what all the South advised.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
Approved by the People.

NtWVUn T1dI1IIUIlIZVF.
 Officers who are elected by the peo- pie should carry out the wishes of the people Officers who are of the people should look to the best interests of the people as expressed by their wishs Officers who are for the people should be the servants of the people. When officers discharge their duty to the people. it is needless to say they are approved by them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
Would Have No Trouble.

f1dFtIOrQ Hines.
 A young lady in Doublin, Ga, mar ried Chinese laundryman. The Blakely Reporter makes the remark that girl will do almost anything to keep away from the wash-tub. And The Times will add that in all proba- bilties the young lady immediately saw that in a hair pulling game she would have no trouble in getting hold on her hubby's little queue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01

go to war? You know these far shoot in guns will hit a man a mile an a half away every time"
 There ain't no bullet thatll catch John if he gets a mile and half start"
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Fixing for a Hot Time.


 When Mir Reynolds or any other man monkeys with us editors, especial ly, tries to put us counting crossties between our town and neighboring ones. he is fixing to receive a. reception that the interior of one of our blast furnaces would be an iceberg in comparison
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Entitled to Great Praise.
Daphne Standard.

Daphne Standard.
 The Montgomery Advertiser is cer- tainly entitled to great praise for the enterprise 1t has displayed in furnish ing a full report of the Conventions doings. The subscription list ought to make good showing, unless the people fail to appreciate such enterprise.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
o 4 4 @] 4 << \ Y \ < < Y Q < WITH ALABAMA EDITORS. '
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Has Its Drawbacks.

Huntsville Republican.
 Even the shirt waist has It's iraw- backs and one of them is apparent when sudden shower comes Up and vou have no umbrella with you
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
More Than Its Share.

Birmingham News.
 The Nashville American with a two, column editorial on the Sampson Schley controversy contributes more than its share to the prevailing hot spell.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-28
SUPPORT HOME INDUSTRIES.

Great Fails Leader: Why is it that
people always insist upon patrcniz.ng
travelling fakirs instead of recognizing
and helping home industries? The p2o
pie of Great Falls have in their midst
institutions and people representing all
classes of business and all professions.
These businesses and profess onS are
represented BY people who are thor
oughly competent. people who have spent
years of study in order that they might
qualify themselves for their positions,
and people Who pay licenses and taxes
in the state and in the county. who have
come here to stay, to raise families and
to help build up the city, the county and
the state; yet whenever a travelling in
diyidual comes around and promises big
th. ngs in circulars and advertisements,
the regular business people Of the city
are forgotten, and q rush is made TO
patroniza these others, who do nothin g
and pay nothing toward the support of
the city, Cr the county, on the state:
Who are not residents here. but who ara
here today and gone tomorrow, who
promise many things, but Very often
perform but few Of Them
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-28
THAT CIRCLE ON THE BALLOT

The Ir.er Mountain has heretofore ex
pressed IT'S belief that Represe rita tive
kEga"an's XII removing the circle from
the top of the ballot failed utterly to
cure the objections to the law as it now
Stands. Merely to do away with the
CIRCLE, leaving the law otherwise as it
now stands. accompishes nothing ex-
marking the ballot. In other respects
the ballot remains the same. There
should by AL means be an amendment
to the law prohibiting the duplication OF
names on the ballot. 1t has grown to
be a nuisance, and is productive of CON
fusion, besides making tremendous
amount of work for the canvassers.r In
the light of past experience we believe
that for the protection of all concerned
in the interest of employees whose en-
p,oyers may seek to coerce them, as well
as in the interest of parity and honesty
the Old form of ballot, putting each
mans name on the ticket but once anu
arranging the names alpha betacally. Ii
is true that under this system some in
telligence is required to cast a ballot
/ but this ought not to be an argument
against it under the conditions which
exist here in Montana; besides it IS fan
| the best arrangement of the ballot which
can be devised to prevent the espionag g.
of bosses and the purchase of votes Oh
election day Every man who is agains
| coercion of employees and against the
| Wholesale buying of votes, as we have
seen these things practiced right herr
! in Silver Bow county, should vote to g.
| back to the old arrangement of tn,
ballot. 1t is the only practical. safe
| guard in sight.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-28

the secretary thinks. a need in orr cur
rency ot an elastic element, 50 that
the volume OF currency will adapt itself
automatically 70 the varying activities
ol business. Gold supplies certain
amount Of elasticity. since it can b. inn
ported when wanted and exported when
IDLE. National bank notes also increase
70 certain extent when money is in
great demand and decrease with the
demand. But the volume Of such notes.
owing to the method of issue, changes
but tardily. In a recent interview See
rotary Gage has drawn attention TO the
Lowering bill as a measure likely. in his
opinion. to add to the elasticity of o,,r
currency This measure. if enactad
would permit the issue of a small
amount of bank notes not secured nv
bonds, but by guarantee fund and the
assets of the banks. The bond-secured
notes proposed by the Lowering bill
would be likely to retire more promptly,
but they would not be substituted for
the bond secured notes and they would
not be added rapidly.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-28
THE INCREASE IN MONEY.

The statistcian of the BaltimorS Sun
has figured out that during the past
year, the amount of money in circu1a-
ton has increased $19S, $780, 900, which is
from $25.9S to $2S.SS per capita of popu
lation. This is an astonishing increase
and is all the more gratifying because
it indicates that the charges made in
our currency have been improvements.
Gold has been added to the amount of
$50, O0O, 900 and national bank notes to the
amount of $1OO, 900, OO0 The latter in
crease involves no pressure upon, the
gold reserve, as a like increase of green
backs or silver dollars would have done.
Silver dollars have been coined to the
amount of $3O,OOO,OOO and subsidiary
coins to the amount of $S,00O00O, but
Sherman treasury notes have decreased
$o9, OO0, 900. The latter are more objec-
tionable than the silver dollars, as they
must be redeemed in gold on demand
The "Shermans" are virtually gold notes
issued against silver which is depreciat-
ed. The present volume of currency Is
large. In Secretary Cages opinion 4
would be redundant in case of stagna.
ton in business. There is accordingly