The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-19

LAh6ESC 6AAAAH IN 1AG W event. Every clerk must within a month after the end of each year give an ac- count of his work to his employer and he Is responsible for all damage premed- itated or brought about by carelessness during his service. This includes book keepers, correspondents, salesmen and workmen.
 Cpsn-Air Markets.
 A vast deal of Russian business is done by peddiers. who carry the goods from village to village in wagons and trade There are many peddlers with packs on their backs both in the cities and coun- try and there are open-air markets in the cities every Sunday where these peddlers congregate, selling all sorts of things. have attended some in St. Petersburg and I find large ones here in Moscow. M
 The Sunday market in Moscow begins early and closes about 2 o'clock. It is held in a wide street not far from some of the chief churches and extends along this street for about a mile. The street, with the exception of the car track, is filled with tents and sheds and tables upon which the wares are spread. Some mer- chants lay their stock on the ground
 I visited this market the other day. There must have been something like a thousand merchants, each selling his own kind of wares. There were hundreds of boot and shoe stores. The goods were homemade and most of them cheap. They were hung from racks or placed on low tables. The shoe merchants were long-coated, high-booted men with caps. They tried the shoes on their customers out in the broiling sun and then dickered with them as to the price.
 Women Haberdashers.
 The most of the mems furnishing goods were sold by women. I saw them sell mems caps, shirts, coats and even trous- CTS. Women walked about with great loads of trousers on their shoulders and on their arms begging the peasants to buy. The cap peddlers carried their wares in four-bushel baskets. They had brushes and kept brushing the caps to call the attention of the crowd. The purchasers tried on the wares without the aid of a mirror, the only question being that of fit, for the same kind of cap is used all over Russia.
 --bout the only thing did not see in this market were corsets and underwear. Only the ladies of Russia wear corsets, and these markets are patronized chiefly by the peasants, whose women have waists of goodly proportions. unaffected by pressure. As to underwear. the poorer Russians do not use 1t. Many of them sleep in the same clothes that they wear in the daytime and some keep a suit on until it falls to pieces.
 Pictures for Signs.
 One of the queer features of Russian business is the use of pictures for letters in making sign boards. A large percent age of the people cannot read or write. but all can understand pictures. Every store has on it's walls facing the street paint ings representing the goods sold within. If it is a shoe store. the wall will be covered with painted boots and shoes: if a bakery, there will be loaves of bread. and if a butcher, all sorts of joints and meats, sausages, etc. The usual barber sign has a man shaving a customer. and a dentist a representation of one pulling a tooth. The dairy signs are cows with milk maids at work, and the tea signs are gaudy Chinamen slipping tea. You can see pictures of graphophones and sewing machines on the walls of some of the stores. and the American bi- cycle and automobile are shown forth in the same way.
 The windows are filled with samples of the merchandise sold within, and some kinds of goods are hung outside during the daytime There is little business done after dark, but the light lasts so long in the summer that 1t is full day until long after p. m.
 Russian Stocks.
 The Russians are babies as stock specu- Iators. They have just begun to monkey with the buzz saw and are afraid of it's teeth. They are conservative and prefer to put their money into the imperial saw ings bank or government bonds They have at present about $40O. .OOO0O0 so in- vested, and without they can make 20. 90 or 70 per cent per annum outside they will not subscribe, They are afraid of new institutions, and no American need ex- pect to come here and start an enterprise based on Russian capital. He must fur nish enough to make the bu mess pay. and he then may be able to sell his stock.
 In the MoscoW Exchange
 I visited the Moscow stock exchange the other day. There were about 800 brokers present, but the crowd looked more like one of farmers than of bankers and brok- CTS. The most of the men wore caps and long overcoats. Many of them were merchants, a few were Chinese. one was Persian and several were Americans The trading was slow and there was more gossiping than selling.
 The stock companies here are operated with foreign capital The French have invested most, next the Belgians. then the Germans and then the English, The Americans are far in the rear. The French and Belgians are operating chiefly in southern Russia. the Germans more in Poland and the territory opposite the German frontier. while the English have their money pretty well scattered The total number of stock companies is l'74. and the share capital is little more than Sl.OOO0OO,oOO
 Mines and Factories.
 The companies cover all branches Of in- dustry. Twenty-eight of them have iron mines of about thirty million dollars and among these Is the first foreign joint stock company of the empire. This was organ ized bv an Englishman named Youth with a capital of one million five hundred