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The age-herald., 1902-02-27

Write without fear as without fee, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
 Dr. Pierce's offer of free consultation by letter is not to be classed with the spurious offers of free medical advice made by men or women who are not physicians and cannot legally practise medicine. Such advice is not only worth less, but may be dangerous.
 In little over thirty years, Dr. R.gV. Pierce, chief consulting physician to the Inva1ids Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., assisted by his staff of nearly score of physicians, has treated and cured hundreds of thousands of weak and sick women.
 The offer of Dr. Pierce puts at the free service of women, not merely medical advice, but the advice of a successful specialist in the treatment and cure oi diseases peculiar to women.
 Sometimes a dealer tempted by the little more profit paid by less meritorious preparations, will offer substitute foi "Favorite Prescription claiming it to be "just as good" If is not wise or safe to trife with unknown medicines. Insist on "Favorite Prescription the medicine which has won the confidence of women by its almost countless cures.
 GIVEN TO YOUNG WOMEN.
 Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, an invaluable guide to health, is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only.
 VI think that your Adviser is fin, book,D writes Miss Flora I. Greer, of 10, Howe St., Akron, Ohio, cand book tha every one should own. If more girl would read 1t instead of trashy novel there would be healthier women ana children than there are to-day.s
 Send 3I one-cent stamps for the cloth bound volume or only q stamps for ths book in paper-covers. Address Dr. R V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. x.
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Daily Statement.

cSalveston-St eady; middling 7-16c, sales 1900, receipts 5921, stock 151,664.
 Mobile-Quiet; middling 3-16c, sales 1250, receipts 35, stock 25,427
 Savannah-Steady; mlddling SAc. re- ceipts 2245. stock 47,307
 Charleston-Quiet; middling SAo, re- ceipts 382 stock SS3S
 Wilmingtor-Quiet; middling 5-16c, re- ceipts 676, stock 19.013.
 Norfolk-Dull; middling 7-16c receipts 900, stock 44,540.
 Baltimore-Nomina1; middling SAC cstock 1o52s.
 Boston-Quiet; middling sac, receipts 2949
 Philadelphia-Quiet; middling 9c. stock 51s7
 St. Louis-Firm: middling SAC, sales 16o, stock 51,221.
 Memphis-Quiet; middling skc, sales 215O, receipts 2745. shipments 3560, stock 87, ,190.
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New York Cotton Futures.
Dry Goods Market.

New York, February 26-An average amount of business was reported today in the general run of cotton goods in this market. Prices were very firm for all staple lines and there were few oppor- .tunities in fancies for buyers to secure off-price lists. Print cloths were firm. Mems wear woolen fabrics were quiet but without change in prices. Staple dress goods were firm.
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Judge Moves Put Out.

Washington, February 26,-President Roosevelt acting upon the recommenda- ton of Attorney General Knox has dis missed Arthur B. Moves, Judge of the sec- ond district of Alaska.
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Treasury Statement.

Washington February 26.-Today' treasury balance, inclusive of the gold reserve, shows available cash balances $73, ,675, 4O3; gold, $SS, ,245, 1S6.
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SOUTHERN SPOT
 MARKETS FIRM Futures Opened Steady With
 Prices Facilitating
RUSH FOR MARCH OPTIONS
Report That Prominent Philadelphia Concern "Was Stopping All Mo- tloes" Partly Responsible for
 Large Show of Strength.

New York, February 26.-The cotton points lower or about as due on the news in hand. The Liverpool cables lacked special feature. Port receipts piled up ominously and the interior movement, too was liberal. Rumors that some 50,- 900 March notices had been put in cir eulation also rendered to make the room contingent very cautious. But soon after the opening a rush to buy March options stimulated demand for the latter months as well. and prices advanced very rapid ly. As against s55 on call, March climbed to s.85 before a halt was called. The May option advanced to s51 and July to $50, these prices subsequently proving to be the top for the day.
 Reports that a prominent Philadelphia concern Twas stopping all notices' and claims that southern spot markets were holding firm were largely responsible for the sudden show of strength. Liverpool quickly stiffened up to conform with the firmhess here and Europe sent a goodly number of buying orders to their repre- sentatfves on this side. While there was some slight reaction in the market later in the day, under fitful room selling for profits the general ruling of the market was firm with the close steady and net to ponits higher. Wall street and commission houses were prominent buy CTS of the May and July contracts, while room bulls picked up stray lots of Au- gust and October.
 Reports from spinning centers and the dry goods districts were very reassur- ing. Total export c1earances were quite double the total port receipts for the day.
 New York, February 26.-Cotton quiet; middlng S%; net receipts 675; gross re- eeipts 13S sales 530; stock 122,165; exports Great Britain 91S9; continent PAS. Total today: Net receipts 22, 7o1; exports Great Britain 21, ,427; continent A320; stock 75S,91.
 Consolidated: Net receipts 101, 4bi ex- ports Great Britain 5S757; France sS39; continent 49,370.
 Total since September 1; Net receipts 6,4O6e e72; exports Great Britain ,487,S14; France 617,956; continent 1,9s0,sS9
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IMPORTANT TO WOMEN.

Dr. Pierce invites sick and ailing women to con- suit him by letter free oi charge. All correspond lence is regarded as sacred and the written condolences of women are guarded by the same strict professional privacy observed in per sonal consultation with women at the Invalids' Ho- tel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. r., to which in- stitution Dr. Pierce is chief consulting physician.
 Women in general and young women in particular express their appreciation of the privilege offered by this free consultation by letter with Dr. Pierce, not only because his profes- sional advice is suppliment- ed by his wise fatherly counsel, but because it af- lords them way of escape from the indelicate ques- tionings, the offensive ex- aminations and obnoxious local treatments, which of fend the delicate sensibili- ties of modest women.
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OTTO MARX & co. BANKERS AND BROKERS. Money Loaned on Real Estate at 5 and
 Per Cent.
 2028 First Avenue.
Iser's financial cablegram
POPS First Avenue.

cial Advertisers financial cablegram says:
 The stock market gives evidence of re- turning to it's former lethgaric condi- tion, although respectable bull account in South African shares still exists! The ouietness was assisted by the Victor Hugo centeniary holiday in Paris. The mar ket opened firm, but relapsed Tn the after noon on military mishaps in South Afri- cans. Americans were firm, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and United States Steel being the favorites. There was a frac- tional reaction in the street. Rio tintos sold at 465s.
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COTTON, STOCKS AND GRAIN.

All purchases ana sales are made dirsc, pn the exchange Tor which the order T. yiven.
 Correspondents-J. H. Parker & co r ". Lee Co.,. Purnell, Hagaman a co New York; Fairchild & Hobson. Nsw Or' Ioans; Ware & Leland. Chicago. Reference-First National Bank of r,r- mingham First National Bank of Ron,e
 TELEPHONE NO. 1115. epecial attention given to orders ov.r telephone and orders sent from out of ths tty.
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Cotton Letter.

Lee & Co.'S Cotton Letter to H. D. Goth
 ran & Go.
 New York, February 26-The 5000o or 6O,0O0 March notices in circulation today had very little influence on prices. as cotton was apparently taken by those in control of the March position. With this uncertainty out of the way good deal of short cotton in May and July was brought in and this carried both options
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clearinua and Exchanaes.

New York, February 26.-Clearings, S215, ,O42, ,S12; balance, $9,622352.
 Baltimore, February 26.-Clearings, $S- 314,170; balance, $441, 4Se
 Philadelphia. February 2e.-Clearings. SIS, 47O, ,0O2; balance. $2,2l6,555.
 Boston, February 26.-Clearings, SA,- 666, 1S9; balance, g, 200SS5.
 Chicago, February 26-Clearings, $29.- 614, 927; balance, $2,5S3,346; posted ex- change, $4S6 for sixty days and s4SSa on demand; New York exchange BOG dis count.
 Chicago 'chan5s.
 Chicago, February 26.-Widely varying opinions as to crop conditions and rapid changes in sentiment influenced nervously the active grain markets today. Early in the session all pits were weak and event. ually became oversold. Recent current damages reports firmed the markets and May wheat closed $ higher; May corn % up and May oats %@1c higher. Provi- sions closed a depressing day 10 to 35c lower.
 The leading futures ranged as follows:
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Only a limited numper Of maps left subscribers should avail themselvef of this opportunity to secure a house hold. office and school room neeesaitv-
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live Stock Markets.

Chicago. February 26.-Cattle receipts l55O0; including 300 Texans; active and 10 to 15c higher; good to prime steers $6. 60 @7.35; poor to medium $4 O0@650; stock CTS and feeders $2. 2.5O6D4. 75 calves g soc 500; Texas fed steers s4.60G7, ,5O.
 Hogs: Receipts 44OOO 5c lower than average yesterday mixed and butchers, So.soq6. S0 good to choice, heavy e.1bd 6.S5; light. $5.6O@5 95.
 Sheep: Receipts 10000; sheep shade low CT; lambs 10 to 25c lower; good to choice wethers s4. 75Q5.25; fair to choice mixed 8. s044.6O; western sheep and yearIinss $4. 25Q6.OO; native lambs, s5.75@6 50; west ern lambs s5. 25Q6.50
 Cincinnati, February 26.-Hogs quiet. lower, s5.5oQ6.SO; cattle steady $2. 25d6 .85: sheep strong. H.75q5.5o; lambs, firm $4. 75Q6.50.
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DIR. Y. E HOLLOWAY,
Physician and Surgeon.

Three-fourths oH tho persons who come to me to get cured of Sphyilis. Gonorrhoea, Gleet,
 Structure. L O g { Manhood and other private diseases have tried 10 get well by uslT s oth- CT means. Why not
 come as soon As you ind that you are cmieted2 It
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Birmingham City Bonds. Birmingham city bonds can be bought on 8 41h or 47s per cent basis.
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N E. BARKER President; H. WooDWAR Vice Presiden w. q G. HARDING, BARR, Cashier; cRAW Cashier DiREcToRsW Jemison, N. jackson D. Ne A. Ramsay E. Tut~ier, F. Harding, Walker w. H. Hassinger j.. H. 6arr. The officers this
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Cotton Seed oil.

Memphis, February 26.-Cotton seed oil car lots per gallon, prime crude 35c; off crude 331kc; prime summer yellow 3Sc: choice cooking summer yellow less than car load lots per gallon 42c; meal and cake prime s22 % off y$20 .00@22. 50. ise.-..-.
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES

In Effect January 6 at 12:01 A. M. Arrival and departure of all trains at Union Passenger Station. Birmingham. Ala.
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BIRMINGHAM MINERAL-North.
A. G. S.-North.

A. G. S.-North.
 Arrive. Depart -No. 2. Fast Mail, N. O.. 5:4o aml C:45 am sNo. 4, Pan-An. Special. 6:45 pm s:60 pm 'No. G. Meridian Accom-. 12:25 pml 4:40 pm
 South.
 Arrive. Depart sNo. 1, from Cincinnati. l10:05 pmI10:10 pm sNo. 3, Pan-Am. Special. i 9:55 aml10:00 am "No. 5, Chattan'go Acm.. l12 :45 py1I 4:s0 pm
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osTEoPATHY.
IT. c. MORRIS,
 Osteopathlst.

Graduate under pr. A. T. Still founder
 of the Science. Kirksville Mo.) Rooms 5o2 and sO4 Jefferson Co. Bank
 Bldg, cor 2d ave. and 21st st.. Blr- iningham Ala; take elevator on 2d ave. Examination at office free.
 Phone: Bell 199. Hours: to 12. to D. m Literature furnished on application.
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New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans. February 26.-The demand for spot cotton has improved somewhat, the sales today being 5000 bales from fac tors tables and 800 to arrive. Quotations unchanged. In the future market much better feeling existed. After opening at about yesterdays closing there was an early advance of six points. The bullish tone came principally in the character of a reflection of events In the New York m arket The advance here held steady to the close which was net six points up on all positions.
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COTHRAN & GO.

Members of Chicago Board of Trade an, New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Rooms l and Alabama National Rs,r
 Building. Private leased wires to New York. Nev orleans and Chicago.
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L. & N-North.

Arrive. Depart 'No. 2 Fast Mail, N. o.. Il :59 am 1922 pm "'No. 4, Fast Mall, N. o.. 9:12 pm s:20 pm No 8, Decat UT Accom-. .........l 3:15 pm No 10, MontG' m Accom-. FOO pm ..........
 South.
 Arrive Depart. sNo. l. Fast Mail, Cin.... S:25 am 3:33 am No. 2, Decatur Accom-. >. :O0 am sNo. g. Fast Mail, Cin. 3.45 pm 4:05 pm No. g, to Montgomery =. ......... 6:15 am
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THE LOCAL MARKETS
Local Cotton Market.
Local Iron Market.

Local Clocks and Bonds. Corrected Daily by Caldwell 6 Ward. Bankers, 2015 First Avenue. Tele-
 phone 753 (See Card.)
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New York. February 2e.--Cotton seed oil dull and weak. Prime crude nominal yellow, 41Q12c. Petroleum steady. Resin fixm. Turpentine firm 4414Q44a4c
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Naval Stores.

Savannah, February 26.-Turpentine steady 42c; receipts 1855; sales 100; exports 1O5. Resin firm; receipts 1898; sales sO45; exports 1675. Quote: A. B, c, D. rA.3of F. $40; G, s1. 471s; H. s1.521a; l. sl.75; K. $2. .s5; M, g. .75; N, s3.25; W. c, sS. 60: w. W, sS5.
 Charleston, Februaf Turpentine firm 411hc; sales 25 m; sales 200 barrels; B. go.
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New Orleans, February 26.-Cotton easy, sales 1892. Sales 999. Ordinary 13-16; good ordinary 1-16; good middling 9-16; middling fair 9 5-16; receipts 7763; stock 32S, ,474.
 New Orleans, February 26-Cotton fu- lures steady; February S.1e@S18; March 81sG8.1s; April 8.25QS.25; May S.3l@s.S S2; June s.36@S.3 3S; July S.41@8.42; August S29 QS.30; September 7S5q787
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Bonds.

Financial. New York, February 26.-The Commer-
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WILKES BOOTHS OIL WELL.
Coincidence Between Its Destruction and Lincolns
Assassination.
tuIinn7Iutni

About the close Of the year 1864,
said an old time NenangO county CPa)
oil operator, when the Prather boys
were securing about the oil country
trying to raise money to buy the Holm
den property at Pithole, before oil had
been found at that afterward famous
and rich but short-lived petroleum CEN
ter, John Wilkes Booth was at Mead
Vile one day, waiting for a train east
ward on the Atlantic d Great Western
railroad. now the Erie. lie was In the
Office Of the McHenry house one OF
the Prather boys was there talking up
the prospects OF oil OF PithOlc.
Booth became Interested. He began
to tall, with Prather He stood by
window and as he talked scYatched his
fun name (John Wilkes Booth) on one
Of the panes of the window with the
diamond In q ring he wore. The sigma
ture was written on the glass in heroic
characters. The upshot OF Booths talk
with Prather was that he invested Slj,-
600 in Pithole property
I'm the following April the drill
struck the oil vein on this property
and the famous Homestead Well began
spoutng 500 barrels Of oil day Pit
be even richer IN oil than he PratherH
had prophesied. and teoming city had
sprung up IN the wilderness ike magic,
The Prather boys had bought the Holm
den well for Si0l000 and sold II for
more than S9.60O000. The Homestead
well, in which Bnoth had his $1,000 in
testment. was only one Of q dozen
equally large spouting wells grouped az
alf a.. IA, a 4 t.l
the smallest traction " ownership II 4
Pitholc well was q fortune.
THE night that President Lincoln
was shot a thunderstorm, something
unusual at That time OF year gathered
over Pithole. There was but one lash
Of lightning and one clap of thunder.
This was not regarded with any signl-
ficance az Pithole at the time, but sub
sequent revelations clothed Il with
significance that awed the superstitlous
and startled those who were not
'"The tldings that the war was over
had reached the oil regions. and the
American flag was flying from the top
Of every derrick. The one thunderbot
Of that storm at Pithole struck the zig
of the Homestead wei and set II on fire.
When, next day, the news OF the as
sassination OF Lincoln by Booth came
TO Pitholc that city was overhung by
dense pail Of black smoke from the
burning Homestead well. As FAR away
as oil City the omInous black pillar
was seen hanging against the sky over
PithOlc.
THE fact that the assassin Booth
owned part OF the Homestead well at
once occurred to all at Pithole and
when il was learned that the bolt had
descended upon II at the hour and min
ute that Booth had fred the cowardly
shot that martyred the president the
coincidence seemed 50 significant that
every effort that had been making to eX-
tlnguish the fire at the wen and stop the
great waste of wealth every lap of the
flames was adding TO ceased on the mo-
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furnished taking the traveller from
bis home in Europe or the United
Hates. and returning him there after
Is tour at fixed price He could thus
how to cent what his trip was
cost The tips. which now amount
J about IS per cent of ones expenses,
build be cut off, and the increase in
tmfort would be enormous.
This the gist OF Consul Frankenthals
opposition, Since then | have looked
krther into the matter. and can give
~ some facts as TO the vast sum
vtzerland Is making out of the
Brelgners.
FORTUNES IN SWISS HOTELS.
&The hotel business in this country is
bormOus, Switzerland Ia just twice the
b. Of Massachusetts,. but its hotels
Do boarding houses are crowded into a
Bmpas of less than,half its area. New
theless It has 1900 hotels and II is es-
nated that there is Sl20,00O,O00 in
sted In the business. The hotels now
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hood. Others arc comic, and some are
fancifuNy artistic. Some especially
those OF France and Germany are in
decent, and Of ouch a character that
they would not pass through our mails.
but others ore as beautiful az chromos
and suitable for framing. The cards
sell from one 10 ten cents Some are
in sets and others single Such cards
are now made In every country, ana
you can buy German English, French
and Italian cards almost cveTyWher.
The most Of the cards have little more
than a place for the stamp and address
upon them. the other side being given
mp 10 picture. with only rOpm for one
or two lines in writing The card
saves the trouble Of writing letters to
your friends and at the same time
enables you to show that you remem-
Der them.
A SOURCE or GOVERNMENTAL
REVENUE.
have said that the business Is a big
one. Ii brings the government Of swift
zcrland more than % half million doll
lars year in extra stamps. The coun-
try uses about 100000 postal cards for
the foreign malls. This, at two cents
apiece, brings IN an annual revenue of
$4,000 and the cards sell for at leas
that much more The people here use
more postal cards in proportion TO their
number than any other nation Of Eu-
rope.
a GOVERNMENT As EXPRESS
COMPANY AND BANKER.
Switzerland has as good a postal scl
vice as YOU win find anywhere. II has
about 1900 postollces and about 1000
letter boxes. and 90 delivers mail to
the very tops Of the Alps The postal
service does many thIngs that our OIL
cials would not think of doing II acts
as banker and express company Tor
he people. y 'yili ccl.ar; your bills 20.
you and bring the money. to the house,
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nd Lincoln's

ment, and the spot was Stunned by all
but the others Interested IN the well.
who at last succeeded In getting control
over the flames.
THE moment the news of the assas-
slnation reached Meadyille indignant
guests at the McHenry house, Mead
Vile would have shattered to frag-
ments the window wherein Booth had
inscribed his name a. few months be-
fore, but the proprietor of the hotel
succeeded In saving It, as he had a
thrifty eye to It's future value. He re-
moved the offensive pane from tho win
dow, and subsequently sold n for a
good price to a Philadelphia. who, |
believe, presented II 10 the Pennsyl-
vania Historical society. "-Chicago Tri-
bune.
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Special Correspondence of The Desra Ncs by Frank Carpenter

X Iuzern.- heard c striking Amerl-
can invasion proposition the other day.
Is enunciator was Adolph Franken-
ma our consul at Berne. He made 1t
II lest. but IL might lead to matters OF
earnest. II IL that our trust magnates
should monopolise Swtzezrland for
money-makng purposes. Frankenthal
says they could turn the country into
q sight seeing park and drain the peck
ets Of tho worlds travelling public.
qhey could buy tho water powers and
thus concentrate It's Industries, and by
the addition OF electricity multiply their
output a hundrcd-fold
A GREAT TOURIST TRUST,
3]ndeed, the tourist business might
ensily be controlled by trust, and with
q this enormous hotel industry, which
nov annually brings IN many millions.
All that would be necessary would be
ID buy the best Of the hotels which
control the most beautiful Views, and
f6en to organize system by which
al and -dliod coupon tickets could be
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goods OF any store In Jwitzerland and
the postman viii bring you the pack
age and send back the money, Farm
crs forward their butter and chickens
through the mails. and | know Of wo
American cousuls who thus order live
turkeys. chickens and ducks. Consul
Lieberlnecht of Zurich got his last
years Thanksgiving turkey from AUS
tria through the mails and sent back
the money in the same way, and Con-
sui Frankeuthal gets all his fowls
from the lower Danube. They are
shipped through the postotilce and the
postmen bring the live fowls to his
door and returns the money to the
Hungarian farmers who raise them.
II this could be- done by our postoffces
what an opening II would give to the
American farmer IN the direct sale OF
his products to the consumers
FRANK G.. CARPENTER,
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fore they can go Such cards are
found IN all the department stores at
reduced prices. and boys and men ped
die them about the streets. In Geneva
1 saw a woman pushing a cart which
was loaded with such cards, and while
eating my dinner al restaurants out
side the hotel frequently have a man
drop down a package Of cards on the
table telling me to look them over ana
see If don't want to buy,
These cards have half-tone engray-
ings of the public buildings and views
of the vicinity. Some bear the coat Of
arms of the town, az in Bernc, where
the bear is the mascot for everything.
Some beautifully colored, represent the
types and costumes Of the nelghbor-
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'Gke in about S8OOOo,OOo a year, and a
large percentage Of this is profit. About
half Of them are open all the year
round, and during the summer all are
crowded. Travellers to the number Of
almost lhree millions swarm into swift
zcrland ron all parts OF the world
They wander about from hotel TO hotel
and from one view 10 another, dropping
their money at every turn. Indeed, the
receipts Of the hotels during the good
years are taoYe than the receipts Of the
government, and their army Of employ
es Is larger than our Standing army was
at the beginning OF the Spanish Ameri-
can war. There are about $4,000 men
and women employed in them, and of
these u 600 arc females.