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them, some of the skins being worth al
most their weight in gold.
Then there are dry goods stores and no
tion stores and toy stores all in this same
bazaar. The toy bazaars sell babies in
swaddling clothes and little ladies in the
costume Of the country. They sell all sorts
of toys, domestic and imported, and there
would be a good market here for the ma
chine toys of the United States.
In other parts of the bazaar are basket
stores, hardware stores and stores selling
gents furnishing goods, including dickeys
or imitation shirts Some OF the stores have
even dickey vests which reach only to the
height Of the chest being merely white
belt when the coat is off, but when on like
q full white dress vest.
Our commercial travellers will have to sell
to the Russian merchants, and in order to
deal well they ought to speak Russian or
at least German. They ought to know
something of the merchant class and how
they do business. They must be careful
not to offend them, and it will pay them to
study their customs before they begin to
trade.
The merchants as a rule are proud of
their business. They are essentially Rus
sian and they do not put on foreign airs.
The most of them wear long coats and
high-topped boots, into which they stuff
their pantaloons. They usually part their
hair in the middle and cut it off around the
neck, so that it forms a sort of brush as it
hangs down from the crown. They are
shrewd traders and go on the principle that
everything is fair in trade. Some of them
are very rich and a rule the richer a
man is the poorer he dresses and the less
style he puts on outside Of his own home.
The most of the merchants are religious.
Every store of this big bazaar has a
cred picture over the door with a little
candle burning under it, Sometimes Sle
picture is no bigger than a playing card
and sometimes even as small as a postage
stamp, but it is always there. The pro-
prietor and his clerks each say a prayer
and cross themselves as they open the
store, and they all say prayers before they
leave.
I spent one night at the great bazaar
watching the closing of the different stores.
1t was 9 o'clock, the usual closing hour
but in this latitude as light as at o'clock
in the United States AS 1 looked the
clerks came out and began to put up the
shutters. They closed the whole front OF
each store. leaving a crack for the clerks
and proprietor to come out.
Before departing the merchant and his
clerks crossed themselves. They crossed
themselves and prayed when they stood
outside, and then watched one OF the men
pull the great doors together and turn
the ponderous keys in the half dozen differ
ent locks. Then the merchant took a
string and tied it about the iron work SO
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soil the globe. but 1t is not half culti-
waited. The better farmers introducing
our agricultural machinery and year by
year the crops increase.
But Russia in Europe is less than one
fourth OF the Russian empire. 1t has more
than 100000 square miles of land in Asia,
the most of 1t in great blocks, including
vast tracts which will raise wheat, cotton,
dairy products and everything under the
sun. The land contains minerals of all
kinds, and ii is on the whole the greatest
undeveloped property in the world today.
Altogether tho Russian empire contains
more than one-siXth of all the land on the
earth's surface, about two and one-half
times as much as is owned by the United
States.
This vast extent Of country is thinly pop
ulated. 1t will probably support 100 men
where 1t now supports one, but neverthe-
less, it has a vast population. The czar
rules almost $780, 1900 people, or just about
one-tweifth of the population of the globe.
That means II you could put all the peo-
pie on this big. round earth into one place
ono in every dozen would be a Russian.
These people are not like the savages OF
Central Africa, who have but few wants.
More than 100000 of them are white
have II. The peasantry OF Russia are very
l'Oor. but when they get rich they scatter
their money around more extravagantly
than any other people on earth. They want
the best and will pay big prices for It. The
great market of the future will be in their
increased wealth and increased wants. AS
II is now, the average Russian is not worth
one-lfth much as the average Ameri-
can. There are vast territories where the
earnings of the inhabitants are not more
than II cents a day, and altogether the
foreign trade is now worth only IS or Sc
per person.
The people live upon almost nothing, a
few cents day supplying them with their
black bread and cabbage soup, and their
clothes being the cheapest of the cheap.
Most Of these Russians are farmers but
there are 1900 600 who are now working in
the factories, and there are at least 1000.
600 who carry on village industries in ad-
dition to tlling the soil. But all this
shall describe as l go over the country
In this letter 1 want to tell you some
thing about st. Petersburg and how II
does business. l was here ten years ago
but since that time an almost new capital
has sprung up on the banks of the Neva.
st. Petersburg is the same center of poll
tics and society as II was then, but il is
now great manufacturing center and Il
does an enormous business with all parts
Of the world. In riding out into the coun.
try on the railroads you go for miles oast
towns built among somkestacks. There are
iron works. machine works and mills Of al
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OF the American INVASION.
went across North Germany to stettin on
the oder and there got German steamer
which took me over the Baltic to Kron-
stadt and landed mo in st. Petersburg.
The trip cost $l5 and lasted three days.
Our ship was so heavily laden with Ger
man goods for Russia that we could not
move about upon the deck, and the cabins
were so filled with commercial drummers
that we had to sleep three in a room.
Everything about the steamer was Ger
man. The beds were too short and the
bedding was shorter. 1t is cold on the
Baltic at this time of year, and the fat
feather tick which was my only covering
reached but to my chest. When l covered
my neck l had an attack of cold feet,
and If / saved my feet 1 was in danger
of bronchitis. The food was German. We
had coffee and bread and butter at
o'clock in tho morning, pork chops or veal
outlets or hamburger steak along about
10, a dinner at and supper al T. There
was plenty of light and dark beer with eacn
meal, and cheese of all kinds, from
schwelzer to limburger.
i talked with the German drnmmers as
TO their trade with Russia. They claim
that they have the foreign trade of the
whole empire with the exception of agri-
cultural machinery in their inside vest
pocket. and as far ! can judge at this
early writing they are not far from cor
rect. 1 find Germans everywhere. They
have their stores In every city and their
agents Oh every road. They do so much
OF the business that German is generally
understood by the larger merchants. There
are more than 49, 900 of them in st. Peters
burg alone. to about 1900 French, 1000 Eng
llsh and less than fifty Americans.
We are sending a few million dollars
worth OF goods here every year, but our
exporters have not begun to tap the trade.
The most OF the American goods are han
died by Germans or sold through German
agents, and we do not seem to realize the
possibilities of its trade. 1t is already
one Of the greatest markets of the world,
and in the future 1t will be hundred times
greater.
Have you ever thought of the size OF
Russian You know It is big, but do you
know how big 1t is? From the top of Rus
sla In Europe to the bottom is about as
far as from New York to Salt Lake City
and across It from west to east is almost
as far as from New York to Denver, II
comprises about two-thirds OF the Euro
pean continent. and It is about two-thirds
as large as the United States without
Alaska or our outlying colonies. A large
part Of the country has eomg n the bes
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:. PETERSBURG, May H.-(Spe-
cial Correspondence of The Bee)
Il have come from Berlin to st.
Petersburg as an advance scout
of the American invasion. j
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-21
STOCKS AND RONDS.

New York, Oct. 20.-Wall Streets hugh
ly colored Imagination as is the case al
most invariably took an extreme view
of the harmful possibilities of Mondays
events in Baltimore. Finding this to
be the case today the operators who
sold stocks with undue freedom on Mon
day bought them back today. The de-
crease in the volume of dealings indicates
that not all of the stocks sold on Mon
day were rebought today. Prices moved
easily upward, however, and retrieved tho
great or part of yesterdays losses. Wheth
er there was more cause for yesterdays
perturl alton than was indicated by tho
sequel today may never be known but
the acuteness of the fears felt yesterday
were considerably dissipated from the
outset Of the market and confidence grew
Pretty steadily throughout the day. There
was q small setback during the final
hour. but this was apparently due 10
nothing more than the normal proft-tak-
ing by room traders invited by 80 consid :
crabie an advance. The market rallied
again and closed very firm and but little
below the best.
1t became known Immediately in Wal
Street before the opening that all OF the
Baltimore institutions had opened the +
doors this morning and that only slight
evidences of fear were being shown by
their depositors. Such as was shown
was reported later as being 1ssipatel
and opinions were quoted even that the
receivership in at least one Of yesterday (,
Instances had been unduly precipitated.
It cannot be said that the character OF
| today's buying carried every great con
viction as to its substantial quality, as
most of II was attributed to professional
operators either for purposes of covering
Short accounts or for manipulating prices
against the short interests. Nevertheless
| the considerable advance N prices failed
to develop any new pressure to sell stocks
and was effective also in imprcssing the
shorts with the deslrablllty of COVERING
their short contracts. in contrast with the
recent air of confidence of the bear party
in persistentlv selling the market on
all occasional rallies. The feeling
amongst the bears was that the failures
at Baltimore had uncovered the west
spots in the situation and the fact thai
today brought no extension of the trou
BILE gave the impression that the worsi
of the, strain was over, which would dem
| onstrate sufficient strength in the situa
| ton to withstand any longer demand
| that might follow. There was little i
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the news of the day to affect prices Su-
gar's special strength was due to the call
ing of an extra session of Congress with
the sole purpose of perfecting the Cuban
reciprocity measure,
The bond market was firm and mod.
crate investment demand was reported
Total sales of bonds (par value) were ST.
AT 900.
United States bonds were unchanged
on the last call.
Total sales of stocks today. were $685.
400, including Atchison $3.50; Baltimore
and Ohio $780, Canadian Pacific $3.50
Erie 1926; Louisville and Nashville l.
550 Norfolk and Western $500; Pennsyl-
vania $4,000; Reading $1,000; st. Paul H.
7G0; Southern Pacific 17,110; Southern
Railway 4,190: Southern Railway preferred
1000; Union Pacific $4,000; Copper 81, $40;
Smelling 1870; Sugar 1890; Brooklyn
Transit 1855; Tennessee oCal 1850; U. S.
Steel 20, 500; U. s. Steel preferred 55,905.
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Sale ofCity Property
Telephones 79

by virtue OF authority given in a decree
of Wake Superior Court per w. NJ. Russ,
Clerk, IN the special proceeding entitled
W. A. Myatt, administrator OF Amanda
Miller, deceased, against Bette Harris
and others, | will offer for sale at public
auction at the court house door OF Wake
county, on Saturday, the 14th day OF
November 1903, at IL o'clock M, certa Il
real estate situate in the city OF Raleigh,
said county of Wake, and more July de-
scribed as follows:
First. The lot of land known as the
Hampton lot, on which four houses are
located, bounded on the north by a. j.
Vincent's lot, on the east and south by
the Training School property OF Sh9W
University, and on the west by Blount
street
Second. Those lots Known as the stan
back and Pennington lots, on which tour
houses are located, bounded on the north
by the lands of Mrs. jeff tlsher ana
Mrs. Ed. Marlboro and others, on the eas5
by Blount street, on the south by the
lot OF w. w. Lyon, and on the east DY
the lot and property OF julius Lewis.
The lots will be offered for sale IN such
way that purchasers will have opportu-
nifty to buy small lot with one house,
o. large lot with all four houses. Plots
and sizes of lots can be seen by applylns
to the undersigned at his store IN Raj
eigh, N. G. The terms of sale are one
half cash and the balance IN SIX months
from day of sale. with interest from Gay
OF sale till paid, title to be reserved until
all the purchase money is PAID
| This October IA, 1908.
w. A. WYATT,
ls- 3Od Administrator.
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PRICES OF STOCKS
co EASILY UPWARD
Greater Part ofPrevlous Days
Losses Retrieved.
THEN A SMALL SET BACK
This Was Caused by the Taking Of Pref OF
the Adyanc .---co.ton Closes Net Tw.n'y
to twenty-five Points
Higher.
(By the Associated press

New York, Oct. 20.-No material in
crease is noted in the volume of bust
ness accomplished in dry goods yet the
Improvement noted during the last tive
or three days shows signs of continuance
Buyers are still operating cautiously, but
here and there operations of considerable
magnitude are reported for spring.
NEW YORK COTTON.
New York, Oct 20-The cotton markej
opened firm at unchanged prices to ar
advance of 2 points on better cables than
expected and covering in anticipation o.
bulliSh weekly weather bureau report
at midday. AT first trading was very
quiet demand being checked by the heavy
movement and better weather but the
buying became more general later as the
estimated receipts for tomorrow's lead
ing points came in, showing decreased
volume. The better tone in financial cir
cies as reflected in the stock market and
the absence of further complication IN
connection with the Baltimore troubles
also encouraged buying and with only a
temporary setback of or points around
midday the market worked steadily up
ward. The close was firm about the best
of the session of net 90 to Is points hign-
Il
The weekly report from New Orleans
proved quite as bulish as expected, but
excrted no immediate effect on the mark
ct, the advances being due chiefly to the
smaller prospective movement.
The weather map reflected generally
clear weather with frost in only a couple
OF unimportant localities, and the fore
cas-: was for still more favorable ten.
peratures. The decline of Is points in
the LIVERPOOL spot market was explained
by the bulls on the ground that spct prices
there have for some time been above
5heir normal parity with futures and
-,e fair demand reported at the lower
level naturally had bullish influence
on local sentiment.
NEW YORK, Oct. '2o-Cotton spot closed
quiet: 10 points higher, middling upland, csc
gulf 1905: sales DIG bales.
Futures opened firm and closed
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Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Cash quotations were asfollows:

('aSn quotations were aS.fOilOWS:
Flour steady; winter patents, $500; straights
s}5O93.9O: bakers S2.60d2.4O clears s3.S5@3.50
spring snncials $40; spring patents 5000. 40
VIII Eat. No; 2 spring, -; No 3. 79gS2; No.
"A; oats, No 2. 49, No. 2 whfte....; No. 3 white
$685. rye, No. 2, 81; good feeding bar
ley, 40043; fair TO choice mailing, 47@5i flax
prime timothy seed, 800 mess pork per Dbl
ll.G0@llI2; lard per l0Ob., 6.S5@6.35; short
ribs sides (lQosel, 7.50a7.75; dry sailed shout
(hoxedD 725d7.-5; whiszey, basis of high
grade wines, l25; clover contract gradc,9. 1916
NEW YORK PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK, Oct. Flour firm; winter
patents sS.90@4.3o; Minnesota patents $4,000
Rye flour-frm fair to good s3.9O@330
choice to fancy S2;90@32'
Buckwheat flour-dull; S1.90612.l5.
Comm aal firm; yellow western Sl.l0.
Rye-firm; No. western 6ll.
Barley--steady; feeding g; mailing GO.
Wheat-trm, No. :, S5>s; May, &ts; Sep
Corn Corn,sp SPOT firm: No. 3. s.; May, IS: Sep
tember. 525x: November. -; December sos
BB eef-fiTm family mil so. io0lleo mess 5000
$50; beef hams 2l.5o6e2i.0O; packet l0.50@ll.
Cut meats--irregular; picked bellies 9l99ll
picked shoulders 1906; picked hams, ll@l2.
firm; continent TBS; compound 7ls@74.
Pork--easy; family l9.o0@l9.50; short clear
IA 5ld l60U, mess ID. l0td3l4.0U.
Tallow-dull; city per package ~, country
1903.
Rosin-firm; strained common TO good 2.35@i0
Turpentine-frm, $4,000
Rice-steady; domestic, fair to extra, F4961 (,
Japan 434@5I.
Moasses- Steady New Orleans, open kettle,
good to choice, 3l@42.
Coffee-spot, Rio firm, No. invoice "a,
mild firm, cordOya Toll.
Sugar-raw, firm; fair refining 3 %; molaS-
ses 80, refined, quiet.
Butter-firm; extra creamery 2I1a state dairy
l5920.
Cheese-steady: state full cream small col
ored l214 white fill made, l2A.
Eggs-firm; state and Pennsylvania OPS.
Potatoes-Long Island l.75@2.25 new South
ern, l.250l.57, Jersey sweets 200G2.50.
Peanuts-steady; fancy hand-picked, 1906,
domestic 3d4l3.
Cabbage-steady; domestic per 100 1896.
Freight to Liverpool 20s
Cotton seed oil was dull but steady; prime
crude f. o. b. mills 2Se120, prime summer yell
low 391a0..., off summer yellow 81, prime white
46: prime winter yellow AZ, prime meal N.OO@
27.50 nominal.
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 20-Flour quiet; winter
patents Si.l0@4.4o, spring satents S4.65@500.
Wheat-steady; S41aG2s, Southern wheat by
Corn-stady; spot 4s34 99s, Southern white
corn 50G5 y
Rye quiet; No. ,, 5S0M.
Butter-tirfn; fancy imitation T@iS, fancy
creamery DQp2l.
Eggs-steady; fresh 2iG'.
Cheese-firm; ll1s, large ii %@llT.
Sugar--strong; fine and coarse graduated
50l1a.
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FoR.BRYAN EVEN IN DEATH.
Mr. Norris Had 4 sked That silver Verse
bs Put on Tombstone.
(Special To New York World

Especial to New York World)
Mexico, Mo, Oct. 2O.-Probably the
queerest inscription ever seen on tomb
stone is one on a monument over a grave
in Bethel Cemetery, in Montgomery coun-
ty II reads:
Kind friends have left behind,
Cast your votes for Jennings Bryan.
H. P. Hudson, who has the distinction
of being the author of the inscription, was
in Mexico last week and told how it hap
pened.
Henry Norris, at whose grave the
monument stands" he said, was one of
the strongest silver men in the country.
Before he died he said that if nothing
but a board were erected over his grave
he wanted a silver verse upon it, l am
the tombstone maker at Montgomery and
was requested TO act, with Mrs. Judge
oliver and Bud Harrison, in thinking up
an appropriate verse.
THE above came into my mind, and I
said it over to the other members of the
committee, and they said it was great.
So | chiseled it on"
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

New Orleans, La, Oct. 20.-Cotton in
good demand; the supply is limited and
buyers and sellers are apart, but factors
refuse to sell unless they obtain full board
prices. Sales 1900 bales, including 1850
to arrive Quotations advanced 1Sc. Flu
lures at the opening were l to 3 points
above yesterdays closing figures. The
market during the morning was nervous
and the fluctuations wide and rapid but
the trend of prices was upward, the bullish
sentiment being strengthened by the i'm
provement in Liverpool and more favorable
conditions in New York. At the close the
list showed net gains of 90 to % points.
%Eu, npruASc Oct o0-Coffop f1tureS
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NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGToN, Oct. 2o-Turpentine firm;
56la: receipts Is casks.
Rosn--ffrnl al 2l6 receipts Isl bbls.
Tar-frm, 1.S0; receipts III bbls
Crude--frm, 2.2503.80@3.S0 receipts 81 bar
rels.
CHARLESTON, Oct. -Turpentine nom.
inal 5554, receipts ....., sales -, exports -.
Quote A, b, c, 205;D, 2,l5 f. 225; +. 3 10; G, 2I5
II ,2.60 l. 3.I5; X, 3.S5; NJ $50; n, SO; VIC, 405
WV, LBS.
SAVANNAH, Oct. 20-Turpentne firm
Rosin firm; receipts 5,3Sl sales 2739 exports
96l.
Quote A, b, G, 2l5;D, 225; e, 2s5; +, $50; q
255; Il, 20; $40; K, 40; Nj, AS n, 4.30; VIC
4.40; WV. 40.
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MOUNTAIN PRODUCE.
How and Where to Buy


Get close to the producer; pay as few
commissions or dealers profits as possi-
BILE 1 am in one of the largest markets
for country produce and / buy direct from
planters wagons; 1 make a speciality of
supplying hotels boarding houses and pri-
vate families with mountain butter,
chickens eggs, cabbage, apples, Irish
potatoes, buckwheat flour, onions, cram
berries, chestnuts, etc, ETC. Write for
quotations. / can give reference in Raj
eigh or Mt. Airy. If in hurry for ship
ments send EXPRESS check or postoffce
order for amount you wish to invest. It
saves exchange on small checks and in
sures prompt shipmen@ Mention how you
wish goods shipped, whether freight or
express.
IVAN c. MOORE.
900 A ,.fl,
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uncertainty in the minds of traders as
to the outcome of the financial troubles
in the East. but closing prices were about
where they left off yesterday with Deem
Der up 1-Sc; December corn was shade
higher. but oats were down LIS to lie,
while January provisions closed from 10
TO II lie higher.
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oT4ss ,urToN MARKETS.
NEW YORK MONEY.

NEW YORK. Oct. 20, p. Money on call
easy at i299s12; closing 2t6 time money
easy On days, ~: 80 days iL@ six months
o>gqo; ? inc mercantile paper 51aa6; sterling
butts at 4S5.55G8 $780, for demand and at iSs RI
Tor ~ day bills, posted rates 4S3@4S6l5,::
commenced ' bills 49,, har silver 6l5s, Mexican
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S. A. L. STOCKS AND BONDS.

BALTIMORE, Oct, 20-Seaboard Air Line
common, l2A@ll preferred 2054@2l%.
Bonds-f's 07Js "a
Atlantic Coast Line common l0l@ll0; pref
erred :. =. No sales.
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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2o-Cotton future
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. Oct. %, n. m.--Foiton spot
mod business prices 106lS points lowe !;
Aperican middling fair, 6.9s: euo4 md,.lIg.
8 gs; lnIddling, $50; low middling eS; gond
ordinary, 5.sS: ordinary, SIS. The sales of he
dav were SCc0 bales. of which lf1p we're for
peculation and exp ,rt and Irclud ID $500 a :" :
cen. Receipts 100 bales, including .7S
Arrncriran
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Prosecute vlolators Vigorously
(Kinston Free Press.)

E. F. Butts, of Greene county, was be
fore United States Commissioner A. j
Loftin this morning for retailing liquor
without license in Greene county, and in
default of 5000 bond required of him for
his appearance at the Federal Court, was
committed to Jail. The evidence against
Butts was pretty strong His defense
that he was merely dividing some liquor
that he had bought with others was dis
credited and he is thought to have beer
guilty of running blind tigrr over in
Greene.
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A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES
Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Portrudine
Piles. Your druggist will refund mon
ey if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cur,
you, in to IA days SOC.
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AI Entnres nnened easy and closed stead
RALEIGH COTTON MARKET

Receipts Yesterday :. . rs bales
Price 80 3-S to 9 9-16
Receipts same date last year % bales
Price cents
REGENTS this week :. ... POI bales
Receipts same week last year III bales
The cotton market is steady here with
indications of an advance. The local de-
mand is said to be an important factor in
holding up the market.
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Burlington, n. c., Oct 20.--The instaIla
tion of the electric light plant has be-
gun here. The cost will be $4,000.