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RULES FOR SAFETY
IN cHSE OF FIRE
BY HUGH BONNER,
For as Years Chief of New York Fire Department.

Q MATTER how busy you may be, give this
article moments consideration.
1t advises you how to take care Of your
self when in danger from fire, and at a criti-
cal moment it may save your life. Your life
is worth something, is it notf And remem-
Der l would not presume to lay down these
rules were it not that ! have been a fireman
all my life.
Here they are:
Should you hear the cry Of FIRE." and
awaken to find your room filled with smoke,
KEEP COOL, KEEP COOL, KEEP
COOL.
Open the windows from the top.
Shut all doors.
Wet a. towel, stuff it in your mouth and
breathe through it instead Of through the
nose, so as not to inhale smoke.
If the room is thoroughly filled with
smoke keep close to the floor and crawl along
by the wall to the window. Stand there then
and get the benefit Of the outside air.
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Never TOO old to learn" 81 good maxim for the college graduate.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-25

vigorous supporting orders placed in the
market by the speculative parties which
have constituted themselves the guar
dams of the market soon checked the
downward swing of prices with which the
trading began. London was quite an
active seller at the higher level main
tanned here but this little selling was
we'll absorbed and pretty general re-
coveries effected within the first hour of
tradineI With the unfavorable effect
of the English news thus apparently
overcome, it is difficult to say how far
the normal condition of the market was
restored and the subsequent evidences
of weakness might be due to independent
causes Undoubtedly the considerable
liquidation in Amalgamated Copper and
Colorado Fuel had an unsettling effect
on the whole list. This selling clearly
was due to causes quite Independent of
the life or death of the King of England
Manoeuvers by professional bear party
We're added to other causes for the
weakness of these stocks. Apprehensions
of an unfavorable turn in the copper
trade helped the weakness of Amalga
mated and the International dissension
over dividend policy aggravated the
weakness of Colorado Fuel. These
stocks rallied smartly and were not
much affected by the final weakness of
the market Renewed apprehension of
the outcome of King Edwards illness
accompanied the late reaction, following
the favorable reports of the operation
which helped to rally the market, but a
more effective influence grew out of the
tendency of gold exports which seemed
to affect the market more seriously than
did the direct pressure of stock for sale.
1t is generally expected that gold will
go out by Thursdays steamer on Sat-
unrday of this week. The effect upon
the expanded credits in this market and
the narrow reserve resources is awaited
with some anxiety. The market closed
dull and heavy.
Some of the speculative bonds were
weak in sympathy with stocks, but
strength at other points made the mar
llct irregular. Total sales par value
IS, 375 900.
United States bonds were all unchanged
on the last call.
Total sales of stocks today were 506,
zoe shares, including: Atchison $4,000
Chicago and Great Western 1850,
Pennsylvania 1900, Reading 61,600, ST.
Paul 34,40O, Southern Pacific 1900,
Southern Railway 1900, Southern Pa
cifc 200, Union Pacific As, 100, A. c. p.
80, 225, Sugar $500, U. S. Steel 21,S00.
L. S. Steel preferred $500.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago, June 24-Markets on the
Beard of Trade were badly mixed today.
Whereas yesterday everything had an
upward trend, today each pit was at va
riance with the others. Manipulation
seemed to be to blame for the irregu-
larity of action and the nervousness of
traders. Every pit had quick turns,
row strong, now weak The gossip that
enc elevator had July wheat in control,
that the Gates crowd had July corn
ccrnered, that July oats were being
steadily advanced by manipulation and
that the packing house interests were
artificially booming provisions, made the
outsiders fight shy of the pits and left
most of the business to professionals.
After strained fluctuations July wheat
closed shade higher July corn Bc
higher, September corn u up and July
oats Ike higher. Provisions closed &c
lower TO TIC higher
Leading futures ranged as follows:
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STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, June 24-The official an
nouncement of the serious illness of the
King of England and the sudden decis-
ion to postpone the coronation indefinite
ly was an inevitable shock to the seeu-
rites market of the world. The New
York stock market, however. met the
shock with great equanimity and the
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Mex. Cen. 4's.,.. 84A
do LIST Inc. 31A
MINI. & St.L 4s1o5
NJ, K. q T. IS. 100
|" 2nd's...... SAY
N. {. G. lists. ..104B
do gen 3 1-2'.1o9
N J. G. gen. 5's..139
No. Pac. 4's......105
i" 3's........... rs
N. &. W.con. 4's.101A
Reading gen. 4s100S
st l. Mton SIS 116h
st. L. IS Fgen4's1o0
St.L. S'wes 49,. 99A
do 2's........ 81
S. A.&A.Pass as COX
So. Pac. 4s...... 92H
So. Railway 5's..123h
T, & p. lists. .119h
T., st. Law. AS. 80
Union Pac. as. .1o62s
do. cow. 4's.1o7
Wabash 1sts.....119h
=" ends ........111K
do. Deb. B. =. 76A
West Shore 4 s. .115h
w y l., E, 49,. 95
~ is. Cen. 4's.... 93B
Mobile & o. as. 90
G. of Ga. con SIS. -.
I" 1st incomes. -.
" I'd INCOMES IS
Con. lob. AS. ~. 6oB
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NAVAL STORES,

WILMINGTON, N c.. June 24.-Turpentine
nothing doing; receipts Sc Casks.
Rosin steady at S1l00Ll5; receipts 236.
Crude firm NJ o.. 4n01260; recelpIs 81 barrels.
Tar firm at 81 so; receipts 20.
SAVANNAH Ca. June 24.-Turpentine firm at
4s1&; receipts 1853; SAILS sos; exports 100.
Kosin firm; receipts 1867; sales GA; exports
l25.
quote: A, B, C, D, E, S1.25: F. IS; 6, 81 40;
Fl, Sl.70; I, a2.05; K, $3.50; M. % 05; N, $40;
w g, S345; w W, e360.
CHARLESTON, >. y, June 24.-TurpeptSne
steady at 461<; receipts -, sales 10; exports -.
Rosln firm; receipts -; sales 25O; exports
Quote A, B, c, D, E, 81. 25; II, NS5; G, q. 40;
e S1.65; l, 600; K $3.50: N, lbs; n, $3.50; VIC
e3.4o; w W, S3.65.
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New Orleans, June 24-Spot cotton was
very steady with a good demand. Quo
tations unchanged. The future market
was slightly under bull influence through
discouraging weather reports and the
liquidation of July. At the opening July
commenced to climb upward and gained
. points over yesterdays closing. Later
in the day there was a slight improve
ment in all months but before the mar
ket closed July lost four points, July
closing 5 points higher, August 8 and
the same on the winter months.
NEW ORLEANS, La, June 2i.-Cotton futures
IL.
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ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

The fifty general annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the North
Carolina Railroad Company will be held
at Greensboro, N. c., on the second
Thursday in July, 1902.
Stockholders can get tickets to attend
the meeting with their immediate
families by applying to the secretary at
Burlington N. C..
The transfer books of the company
will be closed on the 10th day of July,
1902, and remain closed till August 1st,
1902, at which time the semi annual dlvi-
dend of 315 per cent will be due and
payable. d. H. MCLEAN,
Secretary.
June 10th. 1902.
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rye dull; No. nearby, 6O06l.
Butter steaoy; fancy imitation 2002l; fancy
creamery 22022H; fancy ladle M; store packed.
Eggs firm; fresh l7MGDlS.
Cheese steady; large 100l0S medium la0l2A
small 10AOl0H.
Sugar hrm' fine and coarse graduated AK.
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BONDS

J.S,Ref. 2's reg. 107H
s. s. Ref. 2's cou 1o8@
U. SIS reg .....Io7K
" coup ........107A
U. s. new as reg las
-" comp 80. lbs
J. s. old AZ reg.1o9M
g coup ...,..11o7s
s. Sc reg. los
" coup. los
,tch'sn lien. A's.lO34
p" adj AZ. -. 1914
Halt. Il o. As. 1o2K
do 3 i-2's. 96H
do COW. 4's..lO6
Can. So. ends. 1923
G. of G. SIS. .....IOS5z
" 1st incomes. 81
G. IL o. Az 80. lOs 70
G. & A. 8 1-2's, :. 65B
c.. B & q. as. 961s
CM&StP gen 4's116B
G. & N. con rs. .136A
c., r. |. & p. 4's.1124
CCC&SLgen4's.1o1A
Chicago Ter. as. 90
Colo. So. as. :. o5B
D e.. Rio g. AS. .1O3h
E. prior lien 4's.101
Erie Gen AS. :. 80
F.W. &.D.C.1sts .l13B
Hook. V. 4 1-2's.11Oh
L. L. N. pni. - ..1O3H
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NEW YORK MONEY

Nxv YORK June 24.-l p. m.-Money on cal
stea1y at 2X0D3 per cent; closing offered al
2L per cent; last loan at -. per cent; ruling
rate . -. per cent. Prime mercantile paper
4HQu5 per cent. Sterling exchange hrm, with
mand and st 485A for 90 days Posted
rates 4eSH0te9 Commercial bills 4.s49sQ fesss
Gar silver %. Mexican dollars AN. Govern
ment bonds steady; State bonds inactive; hsi
road bonds Irregular
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NEW YORK COTTON.

New York. June 24.-The cotton mar
kct opened firm with prices unchanged
TO I'VE points higher and continued to
work steadily upward during the next
half hour on eager demand from shorts
and brisk foreign buying added to which
was some bull support and commission
mouse buying. The dominating infiu-
ehce on the opening was the cable news
which portrayed a firm market in Liv-
erpool. Reports of King Edwards ILL
ness and that the coronation has been
indefinitely postponed occasioned some
uneaslness among the bulls, but later
were oVertopped in point of influence by
Ire dry weather news from Texas and the
increased demand for spot cotton noted
III nearly all quarters. There was a
paftlal reaction later in the morning
under selling for profits by the more
tlmld longs, in part due to a further re-
action from the opening in the Liverpool
market and in part weakness in the
stock market. But the weekly govern
ment crop weather report which came
about at midday once more turned the
scale in the bulls favor and for the rest
CT the session the tendency was steadily
upward with prices closing about top
Shorts were nervous buyers throughout
the last hour with prominent Greek spot
cotton interests and the Wall street
contingent apparently the leading bid
Gers. The South was a moderate buyer
on the late advance and Europe too.
seemed to be absorbing fall months of
fcrings. The market was finally steady
with prices net 8 to II points higher
Total sales were estimated at 125, 900
bales.
NEW YORK. June 24.-Cotton futures opened
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Hoods Sarsaparilla cures radically
that is. it removes the roots of disease.
That's better than looping the branches.
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LII v ERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL
LIvERPe OIL June 24-4 P. M.-Spot cotton
fir demand; prices higher; American mid
unng far 5xd; good middling Sad; middling
sd; low middling 4 29-3sd; good ordin lry
25-32d, ordinary l7-32d.
The sales OF the day were 10, 900 bales, of which
1000 were 70. speculation and port and incluI-
ei $500 American Receipts 1900 bales, In clud-
ing 200 American.
tutures opened steady and closed quiet.
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STOCKS.
sEABOARD STOCKS AND BONDS.

BALTIMORE, June "a -Seaboard Air Line
common 25h; preferred 1905.
BoDds-4's s55s.
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NEW YosK, June 24.-Cotton futures opened
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

Spot cotton closed steady; mfddling uplands
e4 middlng gulf Oh: sales ba,es.
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Frank v. Danner

General Agent North Carolina and
Richmond. 92O East Main Street, Rich
mond. Va.
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STOCKS SUFFERED
ON LONDON NEWS
Vigorous Support Stopped the
Downward Trend.
WEAKNESS CAME LATER
This Seemed Due to Other and indie.
pendent Cause.
BRISK FOREIGN BUYING OF COTTON
Uneasiaess Over the King of EngIand's Con.
dilion Offset by Dry Weather Reports
and increased Demand For
ToStnr
This Seemed Due to Other and indie
pendent Cause.
BRISK FOREIGN BUYING OF COTTON
Cotton.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, June 24.-Prices of
bieached muslins have hpen reduced to-
Gay Il in leading tickets. Lonsdale 7Ac,
Fruit of the Loom 73sc. Print cloths
have sold at &c for regulars. There has
been no change in any other division of
the market of quotable character and
the general demand is quiet.
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FORT.
ONE. MID. RECEIrrs.

OTHER COTTON MARKETS.
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MORE WESTERN wICKEDyEss

It has been known for a long time
 that the course of empire was taking it's
 way westward, but it has been rather
 surprising to find, as we have found
 lately, that the course of municipal cor
 ruption has been in the same direction.
 The recent revelations of bribery, etc.,
 Ill St. Louis are not exceIled by any
 thing of the kind that has been revealed
 in New York or Philadelphia, and now | Minneapolis furnishes a story the like
 of which has not been told in any city
 Tn this country. The mayor of Min 1 neapolis is under indictment for offer ing a bribe, but even more serious l charges against him have been brought out during the trials. Testimony has
 been repeatedly given indicating that
 the mayor was the active head of a sys-
 tenn which gave protection to the gamb- ling dens of the city. It is known that
 one police official, on being informed
 that an indictment had been handed
 down against him, called up the mayor | on the telephone and said: "I got into this trying to shield you, and you have got to get me out of it." The testimony in the trial of the superintendent of police, a relative of the mayor, shows
 that not only protection, but active aid,
 was given the gamblers, the police un- dertaking the task of disposing of the | victim after he had been fieeced.
 Minneapolis is too fine a city to be so
 misused, and it is to be hoped that the efforts that are being made to purify 1t | will be successful.
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AG4IS ABOUT TO DIE.

Senator Vest of Missouri knows a thing or two about politics. and he isn't very hopeful about DemOcratic pros poets. 'If," he says, ''the Republicans can continue the high pressure of the boom which has given greater prices to our manufacturers and farmers and caused an amount of circulation of money in this country hitherto unpar- alleled, they will carry the next presi- dential election" Many Democrats are talking about getting a majority in the house in November, but Senator Vest isn't clear that that would do any good. He says: The Republicans will have the presidency and the senate by twen- ty majority, and our control of the house could defeat any objectionable legislation, but it must be remembered that the Republicans have already ef- fected all they desired, and they would certainly, after losing the house in Mo- vomber, rush a subsidy bill through that body in the short session. If We should carry the house and then finan- cial revulsion comes upon the country in 1904, or before that time, the Repub- licans would declare that this was the result of a Democratic victory in the popular branch of congress, while the possession of the house by the Demo- crats. as I have said, would amount to very little practically.
 Of course. The Democratic party has more lives than cat but it is about to lose another of them.
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AN CTIVE IDEA.

MT. Henry F. Craggs, of the we'll
 known shipbuilders of Middlesborough,
 England, comes forward with a novel
 but apparently feasible plan to add to
 the safety of ocean travel. His idea is
 to have ocean steam lifeboats where
 they are likely to be needed He calls
 it an International Blue Cross Ocean
 Life and Salvage Service" and proposes
 that it take, to some extent, the place
 of the Red Cross in the army. It is not
 intended to anchor the boats in fixed tations, as it would be manifestly im-
 possible to do so in soundings running to thousands of fathoms, but to have each cruise within fixed limits of lati- tude and longitude, and announce from time to time in the maritime journals and almanacs the particulars of the cruise of each, so that when a ship goes to sea it will know where the boats will be found at certain times. The main idea is to establish at stated intervals
 along the most frequented of the water highways steam lifeboats of a type es- pecially designed to withstand the stress of all weathers, and MT. Craggs says that he believes that, were it
 known to seamen that on a given date one of the lifeboats would be within
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distilled being dependent on the size Of the drop. The idea is beautiful, for it ascribes a heavenly birth to the lovely product
 From June to October all is busy on that western section of the Persian Gulf. No fewer than 30,000 fishermen and divers work the long shallow shores. A Bahrein boat is singular sight. It is a long, deep craft, holding from twenty to forty men, of whom about one-tbird will usually be divers, the rest oarsmen. Of the latter one is curiously named Fl Mussully, or The who prays," on account of some of his peculiar functions. He holds the diving ropes if another breaks off his duty to pray or to eat The sailors and divers live away on the water for three weeks at time, or even longer if their sup plies Of fresh water hold out or can be renewed at the nearest spot. They live chiefly on rice, dates, and fish caught daily and cooked over a little charcoal stove, generally by the 'one who prays" The diver is the victim of hard and cruel fate. His costume is scanty indeed, for he knows nothing of diving dresses of the scientific kind. His apparatus is a very simple outfit, yet it is curious, for it is peculiar to his avocation. Three objects only are in- cluded. The first is the stone with which he is weighted for the descent This is fastened to rope passing be- tween his toes. He can generally re- main under the surface for about two minutes when he must he DrOmDtly pulled up. He is always half dead, of- ten bleeds violently at the nose, and may be brought up in a condition of un- consciousness from which it is difficult to restore him. Every season the pearls need to be sought further out in the gulf, and, of course, the waters being deeper, the peril is greater Probably science will sooner or later devise some dress and apparatus which may obviate some of the fearful difficulties of this dread calling.
 The second item of the outfit is the "fitaam." or nostril-clasp, made of horn. Its purpose is to keep the water from entering the nose. The third Is the ''khabaat," or finger shield, long leather thimble which protects the fin gers during the process of picking up the shells. The pearl oysters are left on deck all night, and are opened in the morning with formidable knives, the ''miflaket," of which the blade meas ures six inches. The pearls vary in- mensely in size, in color, in weight, and in lustre. They are rising steadily in value. and Ame"ican ladies especially
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ANNUITIES

Prof. c. s. Grimes of Evanston, Ill.,, now o4 years of age, carried policy of ss,ooo for many years and when he reached theadyanced age of zone despaired of its ever becoming a claim. so he compromised with the company or, the basis of an annuity of s4roper year for the rest of his life. Durlng the past 24 years he has received his annual payments witt, regular ity and great equanimity of mipd and, having already drawn so. S4o. he has come to the conclusion that he has found the elixir af ll.e in an Annuity. >
 At age 70, SI,ooo tepasi.e1 in The Mutual Life Insurance co, of New York will yield an snnuIty of sIs4.77 for life.
 This great corporation is the most wealthy moneyed instisntion in the world and more than SIG, 900, GOO in claims has been paid in this state through the under. signed.
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A PEARL PARADISE.

Bahrein in the beautiful island which
 gives it's name to a little archipelago lying twenty miles off the Arabian coast, brought into prominent note of late through the stir about Koweit This last city is three hundred miles north of the Bahrein Isles, which lies in the
 lap of that bay formed by the jutting out of the great triangular projection called Katar. The Pearl paradise spreads all along that Arabian side Of the Persian Gulf for six hundred miles of the shore The ocean water is shall low for thirty miles from the coast, and thus a magnificent pearl-oyster bed is provided, in which five thousand boats all through the summer are roWed about by their Arab crews.
 Bahrein, properly so called. is an isl- and thirty miles long and ten wide, ly- ing directly north by south. All the
 northern half is exquisitely beautiful, for it is one great garden of pomegran- ate, citron lemon and quince trees, to- gether with magnificent date palms. In | the very center of the island is a long cluster of hills 400 feet in height, known as Jebel Kokhan C'Mountain of
 Smokey. Around this is barren table land. The fertility and beauty of the
 northern portions are easily accounted for. Hundreds of copious, warm, fresh- i water springs gush up.
 The islets of Moharrek. Sitrah and Nissan complete the group. These are 1 mere satellites of the larger members of the archipelago. The population of the | whole group numbers 10000, of whom | about 10000 inhabit that town of mat
 hut dwellings, Mohamah, which con-
 stitutes the capital It is situated on I the northern apex of the main island l All Bahrein lives on pearls. No sub- ] ject possesses any mundane interest fol , the islanders but pearls, pearls, pearls. | The Arabs know nothing of the scien- | tific doctrine that the pearl has its / genesis in some abnormal development caused by disease of the bivalve-fish | The native notion is much more poeti- | cal. If raindrop during the monsoons | finds it's way into the opened mouth of | an oyster. it is supposed that a gem
 ''of purest ray serene" is formed, the
 size of the resultant pearl which is thus
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BANK DEPoSIToR,s D UTY.

Depositors in banks everywhere will
 be interested in decision which has just been made by the Court of Ap-
 peals of the State of New York. The
 confidential clerk of a business con-
 cern who had been accredited to the
 Chemical National Bank as the firms representative, and who held position that appeared to warrant the fullest confidence, for two years manipulated checks, systematically raising them and appropriating the excess to his own
 use. When at length the disclosure of the fraud came, the firm sued the bank for what it had lost through the raised checks, passing it's claims for recovery
 on certain decisions made many years
 firms contention and the Chemical National Bank carried the case to the Court of Appeals, with the result that the decision was reversed. The higher l court held that the depOsitor, in failing to make an examination of his &C., counts and to compare returned checks ! with the stubs, when such ordinary precautions would have revealed the l fraud, showed such carelessness as to
 excuse the bank from responsibility in the matter
 Eternal vigilance is the price of more | things than liberty.