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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
KAISER INVITES AMERICANS.
Generals Corbin, Young and Wood
May Attend Maneuvers.

Washington. May 26.-It is stated or
authority that Generals Corbin. Young and
Wood have been formally invited by En-
peror William to attend. as his persop1,
guests. the German military maneuvers
next fall. The three Generals will accept.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
New York Curb Market.

SPECIAL.
New York, Nav 26.-The curb market to-day
orened with good steadiness. but dealings were
quiet throuGhout the day Total transactions
were estimated at about "a. 90 shares.
San Francisco Traction issues were strong and
in good demand. About ] 200 shares Of the corr-
mon sold at 251ad25S and later back to 25k-.
Something over 5000 shares OF the preferred cold
at s3A up to esI and later back to 67L and late
l0siA q l0sN a1o3I. and later at 1921 for about
s3.Gep worth. About 1000 shares of Northern Sc
lean common sold at 1:ss and 500 shares OF the
preferred sold at $50 1854. Standard Oil sold at
under a hundred shares being dealt in.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
Eggs.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

New York. May 2S.-Egss-Receipts to-day
2e3l cases. The sales on the exchange reflected
the firm condition OF the market on fine goods
Busiress on the street showed a good move ment
in what might se termed the extremes of the
are called medium qualities, or such stock as re-
ceiVtrs think should bring l6lsc dragged heavily.
Quotations on storage-packcd are in line with
the business under buyers inspection Of sample
the local holdings of April goods. South stock
was well taken up. as were also dirtie. and
checks. Quotations. 81 - Western.
storage packed. 1sc- Western and Southwestern
storasc-packcd, IIi1T1sc: Western and Southwest
ern. best l6iLT1Ic: do. choice I6116isc; Southern
prime 15c: fresh gathered seconds 15c; do. dirtI.s
hiHc. checks I3lbc: cuIls 1oc.
PHILADELPHIA, May 26--Eges firm: good deman1:
fresh neaE-hv lie: do. Western 17,5c: do. South
Chicago. May 2s.-Egg firm: fresh 14NTi5Kc
Kansas City, Mo-. May 2s.-Egss STEADY: new
No. 2 whitewood cases 1910 loss of. cases re-
turned 13c.
Butter and Cheese.
New York. May Standardization 10, 7l
pkss.: frmer, State dairy 18iaQ22c; creamery
state sg22e; creamery. initiation. 1ss@e2hc:
cseeses-Receipts 1.5ss pkss; weak: decidedly
small. new state full cream eolored choke lohc;
fancy small do. white l0%c.
Chicago, May 4.-Butter-Steady creamertes
Isg2.1sc: dairies 17h9lsc. Cheese-Heavy 1lk@
Pkiladelphis. May a.-Butter nrm; good de-
mand: extra Western creamery 1hc: do. nearby
prints &c. Cheese easier: New York full creams
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
Crops Are All Promising.

Hardin. ILL.,, May 2s.-Recent rains insure
good crops in this county, both of wheat
and corn. Persons best posted say the
apple crop will be largely in excess Of that
of last year.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

LECTURE on "sT

Reverend Father L. A. Lambert, apostolic
missionary. will deliver a lecture on "Spir-
itism'' in the St. James Catholic Church. at
No. 1858 Tamm avenue. THURSDAY night, for
the benefit of the st. James School, which
is In course Of construction. An admission
fee will be charged. Father Lambert prom.
Uses to explain many Of the mysteries OF
'.spiritism."
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

The following shows the opening. highest. low
est and c.OsihS quotations on the New York
Sl"Sh EAC.ianse YESTERDAY. Corrected daily inr
Inc i.ep4nIic BY fla.cIS, Ero. * Co, bonds and
stocks. NO. IA North rourli stIeei:
Stocks. Sales Omen High Low Clos
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

way, member of Cracker Bakers Union No.
176. was arrested yesterday afternoon near
the bakery of the Union Biscuit Company.
corner Of Sixth and Carr streets, for dis.
tributing boycott circulars to passers-by.
The union has differences with the com
pany, Taggert said. and he was detailed Ia
give out the circulars.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

Wall Street Gossip.

Reported by the New York Commercial .Adver-
tiser through Francis, Bro. & CO., No. PA North
Fourth street:
London's transactions in this market to-day
were without significance. Arb!trage houses sold
5,on shares and bought 5000 shares. mostly
Union Pacific.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
New York stock quotations.

OF stock to Jacob Field. Manipulation by The
INSIDE clique CAUSED the early rise In Fuller
lunstruCtiUn common.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
st. Louis Money Market.

Transactions at the banks were large and there
was a heavy line Of deposits. The local anil
outside demand for call and time loans was bris X.
hut funds were plentiful and discount rates were
steady between AZ and 81 per cent.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

RECEPTION TO pastoral recep-
fion will be accorded the Reverend Martin
i Curl. pastor OF the Fry Memorial Church.,
THURSDAY evening In the church pariors.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

American Car and Foundry common was bought
by HOLSTER & Babcock and other commission
houses. while the buying Of preferred lately IS
understood to have been for account of D. o.
Mills and other capitalists. induced by the COM
rany's earnings. Pressed Steel Car issues rose
On pool operations and scattering buying by room
traders. Tennessee Coal reacted on proft-takiny
by traders and rallied on continued absorption
of stock by nrorninent banking interests. Colorado
Fuel was weak in carly dealings on selling Nv
Gates's brokers.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
Bonds.

New York. May 2e.-Government bonds:
United States refunding q, registered........1osS
United states refundtng Is, coupon."......10SH
United States Is. los :
United States new As. registered. 1851
United States new As, coupon. ,.......l36a
United States old Is. registered. ............uo
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

Yesterdays Clearing house statement showed
clearings IS. 404. SIS: balances S726, s33. compatei
with ciearings ss.4sl 49,. balances sss9, 14s. Satur-
day.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

The active strong feature to-day was Canadian
Pacific. The early buying was said to be 70,
Montreal account. followed by other commission
houses and by room traders generally. Londofr
high level. Some OF the firms whose burning. 30
points lower. started the present upward move
ment. stated that they based their opinions on
earnings and paid no attention to rumors Of
Norgan-HiIl buying.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
Second Call.

5000 Atch 4s...... 1891 HOO Y Gas &
1000 B & o 4s.... 1922 Elec Isl. 81
loo C & A 3ss... Sii5 1000 y = 3s..... 13L
1900 Con lob As. 81 HOOD n & W ext
400 G w deb Is .....I35HaI
of 1909. .......101L TJ6 y a " New
11.0D Colo Midland River 6s... .1351L
SIS ..-:.. IS 1900 Nat Stch IS. 1861.
1000 c B Q As 5000 y Y o & W
e57sG96 As ............l OsX
1000 C r I & + 5000 p c c St l.
4s -..."....I2 as $3.50. 97lz
700 can con lists i1,0O0 Pa 3izs eff.
l06tT,s 30 per ct pd. 1875
2Vp Z o 41s..l0 y $1,000 Rdg 1st......lN
IS. 900 Cen Pac lists. 1929 1900 r G W Ist. InII,
tgS Colo SO 4s... s2ss Zoo st l. & S "
lI.00 bet so Is. STz LIST ...--...... 96iS
5000 Ft " & r G 26. 00l st l. NJ Is. iiGIa
lists ......... 90 1000 Seaboard IS
1900 g B & 102F. Gio3
3 49,. 23A 100. 600 Third Ave As.
1000 X C So 3s.. 80 l01kaL
5000 Lac Gas 5~s..10Sfs LOCO T P & W As. 92lZ
5000 Mex gen As: rs, Gc0 L p cow As
S2AGis 1)iAsais
5000 Met Elev lst.l13A Sc. 900 Wab LIST IS.
1000 Met st r r l20I, az
5s ...".....13 1000 Wab 81 5s...il2
5000 NJ p con 5s. l22's 0.Go0 Wis Cen As. 9it
1000 \ Y Cen St 20.G0 Wab deb b.
L 4.1 naA -lI. n =
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
LEE LINE STEAMERS.

To Memphis. SS.OO-Houno Tftps 011.OO
Including Meals and Berth.
For Chester. Grand Tower. Cape Gtrardeau.
Cairo. Memphis and all way landings.. taking
freight for all way landings through to New
Orleans and landings on Arkansas River to Pine
Bluff.
REEFS LEE. Tuesday. NAV q. S .. m
PETERS LEE. Friday. May 20. s p m.
From wharfboat. foot Of Olive St
Phones: Main 1905: Kinlocn A 15s.
W. E. Albitz. Com. Agt.: D. II. Connors. Gen.
Agt
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

A bull pool gave out numerous bull tips on
American Mailing common and preferred last
week and followed It to-day by manipulated al
vances in both the common and the prefer-~i.
Insiders stated that there We're no new Develop
ments In B. r. T. and the room credited strength
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

ABSOLUTE SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS
CAPITAL, SURPLUS. PROFITS AND DOUBLE IABHI1Y OF STOCKHOLDERS. S3700O00
ACCOUNTS OF INDIVIDUALS MERCHANTS MANUFACTURERS. BANKS. BANKERS AND
CORPORATIONS SOLICITED UPON FAVORABLE TERMS PERSONAL INTERVIEWS
AND CORRESPONDENCE INVITED LETTERS OF RED ISSUED
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27
BOND SALES IN NEW YORK,

New York. May 2s.-Saes Of bonds were made
here to-day as 70 lows:
First Cull.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

ST. LOUIS & rENNs Ssss RIVER PACKET co
,T For Chester Wit,enbeEE arand To~.
t and all points on Ohio Cumberland
shD STEAMER CITY OF CLIFTON
Will leave wharfboat. foot of Pine St, Wednes-
NAs' 10 :" JNo. E. MAssENGALE. Agent
Phone Main AGA and Kinloch ALA
COLUMBIA PACKET COMPANY.
The only regular Ste. 6enevisvA B. MARI ana
Chester packet
STEAMER COLUMBIA.
Leaves every Tuesday. Thursday and SATURDAY.
at 4 .. m. from Diamond 10 wharfboa1-
HUNTER BEN General Agent.
Phone Main ll7A
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United States cid IS.
United States IS. registered. lj3i.
United States IS. coupon. 1851
STOCKS AND BONDS IN BOSTON.

Boston; Mass. May 2s-CIosing quotations on
money bonds. stocks and mining shares:
Money.
Call loans 4 q 5 per cent. time loans. 4i1G5.
Bonds.
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River and Business.

River Forecast.
The river at ST. Louis will rise.
River and Business.
Harbor gauges yesterday marked I5.5 feet. in
dicating a swell OF Is foot in the last IS hours.
There were heavy receipts by river yesterday.
but offerings were only moderate.
Weather bright and cool
IT, n.~s- NN,a
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

DIRECTORS:
JAS w. BELL
C. o. CARPENTER.
NATHAN COLE.
SAM'L NJ. DODD.
w. T.
JNO. A. HOLMES.
T. H. M~cKITTRICK.
JNo. MCPHERSON.
H. C. PIERCE.
E. C. SIMMONS.
W. H. THOMPSON.
]. C. VAN BLARCOM.
CHAS. G.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

". H.
President
J. C. VAN
Vice President.
JNo.
I'd Vice President.
8. F. EDWARDS,
Cashier.
C. L. MERRILL.
Assistant Cashier.
". B. CowEN.
Assistant Cashier.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

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Mining Shares.
New York Mining Stocks.

ing sharea.
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RIVER NEWS.
Rise and Fail of the River.

For As hours, ending at I a. m:
st. Louis. Monday. May Is. 1902.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

River Forecast.
I 81. Louis will rise.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-27

The s dney will reach St. Louis this mornin
from Keokuk, and will receive until 4 O'Clock tC
morrow afternoon for points as far upstream q
Burlington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
vote for the New Constitution.

No matter what is said or printed or dine in this campaign, the fact re- mains that it's one dominant note is the new constitution. It turns upon that, and the voter upon Monday is to decide whether that constitution is to be carried out by it's known friends, or whether it is to be pecked to pieces and dwarfed in general legislation by its known enemies.
 There are few prominent men in any county who are supporting Gov ernor Johnston who dp not at every opportunity attack the new constitu- tion. It is assailed by Joseph F. Johnston himself, and his supporters criticise and condemn 1t without limit or reason. Some of the Johnstonite stumpers cannot find words strong enough to express their dislike for 1t. The utterances of all of them are pitched in one key.
 The voter will, therefore, either in- vite constitutional unrest, constitu- tional changes and hampering and in sufficient general laws when he votes for Joseph r. Johnston, or else by voting for William D. Jelks he will say there shall be peace and fair trial of the best constitution the state has had since the war This is the choice and the issue, and the real essence of the contest, and all the words in the world cannot change 1t.
 Joseph F. Johnston proposes to reach the United States senate by assailing the new constitution, and if he is elected governor he will en- deayor to render the new organic law obnoxious in one way or another. He will endeavor to dictate legislation that will cripple it in order to win votes, and he will overthrow it alto overthrow it altogether if such action will serve his purposes.
 The new constitution is therefore to be voted up or down on Monday, as any listener to a Johnston stumper can readily see. Whoever wants to return to old methods should vote for Governor Johnston. Whoever wants peace under a constitution that has 1 thus far frustrated all it's enemies, should vote for William D. Jelks. This is the issue, and the democratic voter of Monday is to decide it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
GENESIS OF THE PIANO
 AND THE GRAND ORGAN

From the New York Evening Post.
 Washington, August 1s.-The piano is an invention about 200 years old. Like most other inventions 1t is an evolution; it comes from the psaltry or harp by way of the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the pianoforte-or piano e forte" which Is soft and loud" It was on the harpsichord that Beethoven. Mozart, Handel and the eminent composers of that day expressed their compositions This instrument was like harp en- closed in a box, with a mechanical device by which the manipulation of a key board plucked the wires. The resulting tone has been described as "a scratch with sound at the end of It."
 The inventor of the piano was Floren- tine, one cristofori who lived about 1700 He conceived the Idea of having the wires struck with @ rebounding hammer. instead of being scraped or plucked. A soft blow made the soft tone and a hard one a louder tone; hence the name. The soft pedal and damper was the invention of an Englishman named Broadwood; an Irishman conceived the Idea of building 1t upright" and Jonas Chlckering of Boston worked out lot of details and made the plano more like what it is to- day.
 John Jacob Astor brought the first piano to the United States. This was in 17S4. He had a lot of difficulty in keeping the wires from rusting during the ocean voyage, and when they got HnY.a t1,a .1-G1,. made the woodwork shrink and crack. This led to the making of pianos in the United States.
 Philadelphia is the cradle of the Ameri- can piano. The year before the Declara- tion of Independence, John Behrent built a plano in that city. Ten years later New York started the industry. and now leads the world as piano-manufacturing center. great business depression in Eu- rope in 1925 drove a lot of piano-makers to this country, and resulted in a won- dcrful stimulus to the business here.
 The iron frame on which the wires of piano are strung susta,ns a tension of thirty tons. The invention of this frame was what made Steinway and his instru- +ASAAeS' A1S NOihtQ anu 5lCQleQ TOT SIX years in all the principal foundries of Europe. Previous to his invention, twelve tons had been about the limit of the frame tension.
 4 complete revolution in the style of pianos has taken place in this country since 1S66 Up to that time nearly all were square pianos; now 97 per cent are up- rights. Until 1876 there were two schools or plano building" One was the Bosto on, and the other the New York school. Each had It's own theories as to frame and action, and ciung to them with obstinacy.
 In Chicago the piano industry Is the growth of twenty years. During the last decade that city has forged to the front, and 1t now ranks second to New York, with an output valued at s5,So2,71s. New York's Is a little more than double that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22

But in California, Massachusetts, Nary land and New York tfere has been a falling off of the amount of product dur ing the last ten years. The returns of the last census show that the total value of the pianos made in this country in 1900 was ss5. .42S225. their number being 171, ,13s
 To a barber Is credited the invention of the organ. Two hundred years before Christ one Ctesibius. the proprietor of hair-cutter's shop in Alexandria, while waiting for custom, thought of a scheme by which a row of levers could be used to open and shut the valves of a series of pipes. Before this some one had made a ''pan-pipe." which was no more than a series of tubes of unequal length fasten- ed side by side, and attached to wind chest in which the operator blew. The pipes were closed with the fingers, one be- ing left open at a time to emit the sound Ctesibius's lever scheme did away with the lingering and made it possible to in- crease the size and number of the pipes. The Alexandria barber fixed the levers into the shape of rude keyboard. and
 
 features of the modern organ, namely the pipes, the wind-chest and the keys. It was S7O years after this that organs began to be used in churches Then the development began, at first chiefly in size. It is recalled that one instrument used in Winchester Cathedral in 951 had twen- ty-six pairs of bellows and required sev- enty men to fill it with wind. During all this time the keyboard remained prac- tically the same-a row of not more than sixteen great levers sometimes five or six inches wide, played by being struck with the cienched fist. The organist was known as an organ striker or "organorum pulsator." And it would be said that he played with delicate fist" It was not until the fourteenth century that the idea occurred to somebody to reduce the size of the keys so they might be played with the fingers. They increased the number of octaves to three, and then to four. with corresponding increases in the size and number of the pipes.
 The first organ built in the United States was erected by John Clark In 174s for the Episcopal church at Salen, Mass. In 1905 William H. Goodrich of Boston be- gan the building of organs that were a credit to the country. Boston still leads the industry, with Chicago close sec ond.
 The reed organ is different from other organs in that the sound is made by the vibration of a tongue of thin metal or wood inserted in the mouth of the pipe This variation Is a distinctly American invention and Chicago is the home of the industry. The reed organ began as the accordion and developed into the melo- deon, then into it's present shape.
 There are 129 organ factories in the United States with capital of $5OO0 900, employing 40O0 wage-earners and turning out an aggregate product each year valued at about $5, 600,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
CHILDREN AND SLANG.
University President Says Slang Aids
 in Fluency.

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 Boys and girls need slang, It's good for them. Let them use 1t. It keeps them from becoming tongue-bound. If a youngster tells you of 'huch' or a straight tip, or a pipe don't correct him and give him stiff substitute. He has found the right word"
 Five hundred prime schoolma ans and masters gasped with astonishment when these words were spoken by Prof. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark univer- sity, in an open lecture to the summer school at the University of Chicago Mon day. He is considered one of the foremost educators in America. Nearly all the summer students are teachers. They stopped taking notes and waited for the speaker to explain himself.
 Slang aids the young man or young woman of IA to 19 years of age to ac- quire fluency," asserted President Hall When the emotional side of a boy or girl is being developed during adole- scence, midway between the period when speech comes slowly and they lack the power of expression and the time when they begin again to express themselves moro freely and easily, the use of slang is essential and ought to be allowed free play"
 Young men and women during the period of adolescence have greater pow CTS of perception, according to Presi- dent Clark, but what they gain in per- captive power they lose in the ability to express what they see and feel. A new world opens before them, and they have no words with which to express them selves. It Is at this time, he said, that slang is of most use. It helps growing boys and girls because it provides them with an easy means of expression, and at the same time a very emphatic means
 Parents, teachers and ministers are charged by the speaker with, paying too little attention to the child at this period. How a nation treats adolescence" he said, lis the best proof of It's civilization. The use of slang at this time by the boy and girl is natural Let them use slang. It Is valuable to them"
 Many of President Clark's listeners recalled the fact that the use of slang is not unknown, even in the college class room. Prof. Oliver T. Thatcher Is one of those instructors at the university who find that they can impress facts upon the minds of their students by using slang-lacts that would otherwise fall from the lips of the teacher unob- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-22
Pythian SanitarIum.

'T was in hopes the supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias would see its way clear to establish sanitarium at Hot Springs, Ark, but the proposition was voted down on the ground that the con- stitution did not give the supreme body the right to tax members for such a purpose" said a Birmingham Pythian.
 ''The sanltarian project has been before the supreme lodge for many years, and I think steps will be taken now to raise the necessary money by subscrip- ton. In this age of philanthrophy it should pot be a difficult matter to col lect hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand dollars from a half million members"