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The Washington times., 1904-08-22
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK. Aug. 22-Cables furnish
ed the chief support. They were special
" strong on nearby options. and quite
offset the effects OF a favorable weather
map The buying was Of a more or less
scattered nature, but seemed persistent
with a prominent local house as leader,
although some thought the latter was
making basis to sell on. W. p. Brown
is on the floor but is not a factor.
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WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET

Sales-Washington Gas certificates.
1e0dl21. 2O0d121
Washington Street Railway preferred,
1xQ66, 21zq70. 5Oq6SA, 5Ou6S14, 15d6SA, 20
ass. 5Od6S.
Riggs Fire Insurance IO0HS52.
Mergenthaler, 2G1S7. 301S7. 1OG1S61a. 10
d1S61z. 1OQ1S61s-
Lanston. 1oOa958 1OOQ9ss. 100q924. 156
ga 1O0G9z.
After Washington Street Railway
As 1,OO09S32s. / .0OOGS32k S.O00QS32s, 5.0O0lf
$50 !. O00QS32s. 10000 S3lz.
I,anston, 25d92t i5d97s.
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YOUNG LAWYER DROWNED.

CLEVELAND. Aug. 22-Vernon +
andrews. a young lawyer Of this city
was drowned last night at East Tawas.
Mich. where he was spending his vacs-
ton.
He was the only son OF joseph An
crews. president Of the old Phoenix
National Bank Of Medina. Ohio
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

James e. Burner. .. Overall. Va. and
Daisy p PrintZ. is. Luray. Va
William +. Deery, "A, and Eta L
Baker. IS.
G. w. Layne. %. and Marie L. Station,
.. both OF Richmond, Va
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PRUSSIAN CROP REPORT.

BERLIN. Aug. 1.-THE government
report OF the condition Of the crops I'm
Prussia on August l5 using ] as very
good, as good. middhng and bad
Is as follows: Winter wheat. Il. summer
wheat, 20; winter rye. 20, an1 summer
rye, 33
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CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.

Market opened steady, to points
higher. Noon. steady.
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LEAVES PROPERTY TO WIFE.

The Will of Admiral Edwin NJ Shep-
ard. L. S. y. dated May 4. 1856, was
today offered for probate. He leaves
his estate TO HIS wife Alice S Shepard,
who Is named executrix
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MANY LAID OFF.

CLINTON. Mass. Aug. 22.-One thou
sand hands have just been laid of by
the big Lancaster mills. because Of DULL
ness in cotton trade L IL estimated
that 400 factory employees are now IDLE.
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The formation Of the United States
Steel Corporation has made powerfully
for stability In the steel and iron bust
ness, but that company is far from hav-
ing a monopoly of it's field. and IL was
only a sound business move that IL
should promptly meet an aggressive sep
by one Of it's large rivals in the direc-
ton Of price cutting. Thus far the
only announced cuts have been in steel
and wire products, and none OF the yari-
Gus pools have been dissolvd. but the
air Of Wall Street is full Of ru--lors of
cuts in prices OF steel plates beams.
structural steel and rails. and IL is not
unlikely that before the trouble is over
there may be more or less general slash
ing OF rates
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

REPORTED by W. B. Hibbs h Co. lno
street Members New York Stock Exchange,
chicago Board Of Trade. and Washington Stock
Exchanged
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CHICAGO. Aug. 22.-The following
prices were quoted on the grain market
today:
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Swift & Co.'s Sales of Fresh Beef,

In Washington. DC for week ending August
sc averaged 90 no M cents per pound
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NEW YORK.

break Of a war in the steel industry last
week had its part in unsettling senti-
ment and tending to cause depression in
the stock market. In the latest boom
times in the steel industry the United
States Steel Corporation stood Dracti-
cally alone in the policy Of maintaining
prices and that is still the policy Of this
greatest Of corpora tions. in which are
combined scores Of concerns which as
independents would by this time have
been engaged in a destructive war of
competition
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MARSHALL HALL

Str. Charles SIacalester leaves at Il
a m. 2;3O p. m, and ESQ p. m: sum
Gays, II a; m, 2:S0 and $50 p. m In
dan Head trips every Thursday and
Friday and Saturday a $50 D. N.
Round trip fare. %
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MISCELLANEOUS

wnIh. Gas Co., ser. A. o. 1927. l01
wHEh Gas Co, ser. B. IS 19O4-27- lJ3
Warrington Gas cert. l2Jk
z. S. Elec. Light. Deb. Imp. 1900 1913
Z. s. Elec. Light Cert. indebt.-- 1913
Che. & Pot. Tel. CO. 5s.......... lO3x ]
Wash Market Co, 1st o.. 1892. lJS
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National Safe DN4Ooat Trust. $50
Washington Loan & Trust 1900 2Oj
American Security & Tr1s1. 1874
Union Trust & .to-ase. ........... IO7
Washington Savil-s Bank. ..-..... l0g
Home Savings Ba1............... IA
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GOVERNMENT BONDa
RAILROAD BONDS

Capital ractiOn r. r. 4s........ 10 -.
Net St. R. r.. 81, l925.....-.-.-. III lis
Net. r. r. Cert. indebtedness A. l05H 100
Net. r. r. Cert. indebtedness B. le3k les.
Columbia z r. C. 1914. III -.
Columbia R. r. I'd Hcr. So. i0l1 100
CITY Suburban 5s..........- lOJ -.
AnAcostia & Potomac 5s.........- 100
Wash. Street Railway 4s........-. sly So.
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RAILROAD STOCKS.
NATIONAL BANK 500

Sapital Traction Co. ..-......--- 10
Washington Street Railway Pr. OK
Washington Street Railway com. -
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04

to rise at the center as long as COM
preston continued
In a chapter on volcanoes the au-
thors advance a new theory to explain
the existence of volcanoes. According
to the old view, volcanoes were but
pipes leading down to a molten mass
within, or outlets for reservoirs of mol
ten matter. The new theory assigns
the outflow of deep-seated heat as the
cause of volcanoes.
by hypothesis" says the book, 1.-The
interior of the earth is composed of
various kinds of matter mixed as
they happened to fall in. Hence, as
temperature rises. the fusion points
of some of these constituents will be
reached before those of others. The
gases and volatile constituents in the
mixed material would naturally enter
largely into the lquefied portion. AS
the liquefied parts rose by fusing or
fiuxing their way, the pressure upon
them became less and less, and hence
the temperature necessary for lique-
fication gradually fell, leaving them a
constantly renewed margin of temper
allure available for melting their way
through the upper horizons. The in
dependence of the liquid threads that
worked their way to the surface"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04
SOUTH MUST SUPPLY
WORLDS COTTON NEEDS.
Cotton Men Say Every Available Acre Will Be
Used This Year

sThe present high price of cotton
and the general tide of prosperity that
it has brought to all sections of the
South" said Mr.. Gardner E. Dicken-
son yesterday. 'is the most certain in
fiuence toward the use of every avail
able acre of cotton land next year.
The only obstacle that confronts the
Southern planter is that of labor. With
favorable weather. and a sufficient
number of hands in the fields there is
every reason to believe that the new
crop will be the largest ever produced
in the South
THAT the worlds annual product will
have to reach higher figures than ever
before in order to meet the next years
normal increase in consumption is also
agreed on every hand.
Already" continued Mr.. Dickinson,
"England's King has thrown down the
gauntlet and in this speech from the
throne yesterday has urged the Guilt
walton of the staple in all parts of
his Kingdom, giving as his reason the
insufficiency of the supply of raw ma
tsrial.
India's cotton belt is already grid
ironed with railways. West Africa is
now being experimental on by the Brit
ish government, and a similar pro-
cess perhaps awaits the upper Nile
basin now.
THE recent developments in the cot
ton market" he said. have emphasiz-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04

ed many facts independently of the
magnitude of the seasons crop. 1T
is agreed on every hand that under
no circumstances can cotton enough
be produced this season to provide for
consumption equal to that o. a year
ago."
The revised Ellison estimate of the
season 1902-1903 figured out 10,S30, 900
bales of American cotton used in the
worlds manufacture of that season.
This was slightly more than the act
ual yield of the season, and much more
than any accredited estimate assigns
for the yield of the present season.
Whether the ginners report will show
9,5O0000 or 100000 bales is it admit
ted that not enough cotton was grown
this year to provide for, consumption
of the scale of a year ago.
Up to 1897 the largest amount of
cotton ever consumed by the manufac-
turing world was figured at II, 800 900
bales, which included all cotton grown
in the world. Last year the estimate
was 1885, 900 bales.
That the great American boom
which began with 1897 has been a
leading influence with the subsequent
production of cotton the figures clearly
indicate. Out of the 2,500,0 900 bales in
crease in the worlds annual use of cot
ton since the middle of that year 1,300.-
900 bales must be credited to the in
creased American consumption,
Mr.. Dickinson further said: 'sThe
world needs more cotton and an ever
increasing population demands it. and
the real increase of cotton supplies in
the near future will almost Certainly
come from the United States"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04
SAVANNAHS FUR TRADE INCREASING
Over SIS, 900 Worth of Furs Shipped From Here
Abroad Annually.

less, as the state pays a royalty of %
cents for each fox head shipped to CO.
lumbia.
Several years ago the Legislature
passed a law putting a bounty on the
fox's head in order to eXterminate, so
far as possible, the species.
Skunk furs of the variety contiguous
to this section, are not of much value,
as they are striped, and only solid
black skins are in demand for the ex-
port trade.
Squirrel and rabbit skins have no
commercial value.
Savannah is a growing market for
all of these furs.
In the last three years the price of
furs has been abnormally high, which
has discouraged buying both in Eng
land and America. Just now the mar
ket is from 10 to 25 per cent. off. The
prices of the leading skins sold here
are as follows: otter, $40 each; fox,
zoe to 75c; mink, 75c to $3.50; raccoon,
10c to 25c. Nearly all of these furs
sold here are shipped to London and
the continent.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04

means have another fair this year, but
il would be best to start planning Tor
Ii earlier, and TO correct certain err
rors which were unavoidably made.
Other merchants who were asked
seemed inclined to indorse the project
and were confident it could be made
a paying one in every sense OF the
word. Several plans were suggested
by which different ones thought the
fair could be made more OF sue
cess. and none wished to do or say
anything which might be construed as
intended to hurt the project.
Favor "A Circuit Plan.
Shortly after the close of the last fair
Mr.. A. J. Garfunkel stated that he be-
lieved that greater crowds could be
brought to the fair-if another was
held-if arrangements were made with
other cities to avoid conflicting dates
The plan suggested by Mr.. Gartunkel
was TO hold a meeting of the represen-
tatives of those towns which hold fairs
annually and arrange schedule OF
dates, so that there would not be two or
three fairs going on at the same time.
This would put them on a kind of cir
cult and avoid conflicts of all kinds.
This plan has met with the hearty
Endorsement of all TO whom it has been
presented, and many see in it the way
to overcome certain difficulties which
last year seemed insurmountable. When
the matter of holding another fair is
taken up by the directors of the Sa-
vannah Racing Association, the plans
will probably be formally presented by
one of their number
Another plan which has received
some support is to make an attempt to
bring the State Fair here this year, The
ma jority of the merchants seen appear
to be in favor of a local fair.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04
BULLETS MET IN MIDAIR.
One Missile Pierced the other with
Great Apparent Ease.

great Apparent Ense.
From the Newark, n. j., News.
While on duty at the butts at the
rifle range at Sea Girt a short time
ago Capt. Andrew B. Byram, a bat
TALON adjutant of the First Regiment,
picked up two bullets, one of which
had pierced the other and remained in
it, Capt. Byram says he has picked
up many freak results of the shooting
at the range, but never one as curious
as this. He gave it to Capt. Albert
c. Gasser, Mayor Doremus' private
secretary, who keeps it one his desk in
the City Hall to show to visitors.
The bullets were fired from Spring
field rifles, and, according to the the
DRY of Capt. Byram, met in midair.
Capt. Byram believed that one ball
must have been shot from the 500-yard
range straight at the target and the
other from a gun in the hands of
soldier practicing on the skirmish line,
the fire from which crossed that from
the 50O-yard range diagonally. Shot
from rifles at the same instant the two
bullets sped on, coming together in
the air. The force of one must have
been somewhat greater than the 9TH
er, he thinks, and this one pierced and
stuck in the slower-going piece of lead.
There must have been some queer
pranks when the contact was made,
Capt Byram thinks, and the two bull
let's, fused together, probably whirled
around in the air until their combined
force was spent.
Neither of the bullets reached the
target at which it was aimed, for Capt.
Byram picked them up in the sand
some distance short of the butts. They
had struck on a stone in falling, or per-
haps had darted downward forcibly
into the earth, which accounts for the
battered condition of the pierced bull
let.
One ball struck the other about in
the middle and a little above a line
passing through the long axis. 1t
pierced it completely, going a little
more than half way through and then
lodging. Persons familiar with the
Sea Girt range say they never remem-
Der seeing or hearing of such freak
there. Where such shooting is going
on and where lines of fire cross it is
not uncommon, it is said, to have bull
let's meet above the earth. But in
nearly all cases they are fused into
an irregular mass. one forming part
of the other, so that the two cannot
be distinguished.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04

Few people probably are aware that
the fur trade of Savannah approx
mates between $4,000 and 100000 an
nually and that it is increasing in mag
nitude.
The principal furs sold in this market
are raccoon, otter, mink and opossum.
The mink is caught in South Carolina
and Georgia. During December and
January the racoon is brought in. These
skins are shipped from Georgia, Ala
hama and Tennessee. The otter, which
is caught in the Savannah river and in
the rivers of Florida and South Caro-
lima, but Florida produces the finest
specimens.
The 'possum is caught almost any
where, while fox skins come priucl-
pally from Georgia, South Carolina and
Florida.
A peculiar feature of the South Car
DINA fox skins is that they are head
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04

interchangeable is in the possession
of Wilson A. Bentley of Jericho, VT.
Mr.. Bentley has been making special
study of snow crystals during twenty
years. He has photographed many
hundreds of them, and has now in his
collection more than 1000 photomicro-
graphs, no two of which are alike.
The forms vary according to the
wind, the hight of the clouds, the de-
gree of cold, the amount of water in
the air, etc. CRYSTALS formed in cold
weather or in high clouds are usually
columnar.
Those formed in moderate weather
and light winds or in low clouds are
apt to have frail branches and to be
of feathery type; mixed forms grow
partly in low and partly in high
clouds. High winds give broken
and irregular forms, and much mois-
ture the very granular crystals.
Heavy granular covered crystals are
peculiarly product of the lower or
intermediate cloud strata, and espe-
cially of moist snow storms. In intense
cold they are rare, while the columnar
and solid tubular then become COM
mon.
About four-fifths of the perfect
forms occur within the west and north
quadrants of great storms.
The most common forms outlined
within the nuclear or central portions
of the crystals are simple star Of
six rays, a solid hexaEon and a circle.
The subsequent additions assume a
bewlidering variety of shapes, each OF
which usually differs widely from the
one that preceded it and from the
primitive nuclear form at it's center.
By bearing in mind the fact that crys-
tails evolved within the upper clouds
tend toward solidity and the crystals
formed in lower clouds tend toward
open branches and feathery forms, 1t
is possible to trace the history and
travels of a great many of the crys-
tails.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04

my personal thanks for my complete
restoration. All through the winter
suffered with throat and lung trouble,
but recovered my entire health by the
use of your excellent remedy, Peru
na."-Rev. 2. Stubenvoll.
The following letter from a promi-
nent gentleman of Los Angeles is a
case in point:
MIR. ]. w. Fuller, President of the
jewelers. Association of Los Angeles,
Cal, has been in the business in that
city for seventeen years out of the
forty-five that he has been engaged in
business. Concerning his experience
with Peruna he says:
II was troubled with catarrh of the
head for many years. 1t affected my
sense of smell, hearing and sight. I
spent lots of money with doctors and
the use of local applications to re-
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attention was called to the wonder
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II must say that I met with most
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Peruna took hold of the complaint
and drove it entirely out of my sys-
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although we'll along toward the
allotted span of mans life 1 am pleas
ed as child over the results, and feel
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Fuller.
Such letters as the above are not
used for publication except by the
written permission of the writer.
A pamphlet filled with such letters
will be sent to any address free. This
book should he read by all who doubt
the durability of catarrh.
If you do not derive prompt and
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Address DIR. Hartman. President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04
NEW THEORY OF
EARTH'S ORIGIN.
Prof. Chamberlain, of Chicago, Re-
pudiates the Nebular Hypothesis.

Prof. Chamberlain, of Chicago, Re-
pudiates the NebuIar Hypothesis.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Chicago, Jan. 25.-New theories of
the origin, formation and growth of
the earth, of thermal distribution, and
of the formation and action of vol
canoes are advanced in a new book on
geology, written by Prof. Thomas c.
Chamberlain, head of the department
of geology at the University of Chi
cago, and Prof. Rollin D. Salisbury
of the same department.
DR.. Chamberlain repudiates what is
known as the "nebular hypothesis" of
the earth's origin and advances in it's
stead a new hypothesis, startlingly
different from the first, which might
be termed the "accretion hypothesis. :"
According to the nebular hypothesis,
the earth was once in a gaseous state,
passed thence into a liquid, and later,
cooling off. became solid.
According to the view held by Prof
Chamberlain the earth started a mere
speck in space, and was built up grad
ually by the infall of matter, bit by bit,
at such rate that though each little
mass became hot as q result of its fall.
1t cooled off before others fell on the
Same spot. Under this view the inter-
nal heat of the earth arose chiefly from
compression due to the earth's grav-
itV.
The incoming bodies must probably
be assumed to have fallen in promis-
cuous order, and hence to have been
Unfortunately mingled in the grow
ing earth. AS they became buried
deeper and deeper and their tempera-
lures and pressures were raised much
reconciliation, chemical and physical,
may be presumed to have followed.
The accretion hypothesis assumes
that the internal heat was gradually
developed from the center outward
as the earth grew and the internal
compression was progressively devel-
oped. The heat, therefore, continued
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-04
ROAD WORK FOR
COMING YEAR
BUDGET BEING PREPARED.
TWO IMPORTANT THOROUGHFARES
TO RECEIVE ATTENTION.

The Newly Acquired White Blum
Road, Now WyIIy Avenue, VIII BE
Widened, Strengthened and Put in
COnditiOn-The Finishing Touches
Will Also Be Put on LathrOp Ave-
nue. and to Complete This Work
1t Will Require Nearly the Entire
Time of the Chaingang-GOod
Roads scheme Heartily Endorsed.
In the annual budget, which will be
made up by the special committee
County Commissioners the allowance
to be set apart for road work during
the coming year will be confined, to the
paving of the recently acquired White
Bluff road called Wylly avenue, and
the surfacing of Lathrop avenue. II
is believed by the commissioners that
with this work to be looked after, and
the amount of repairing that will be
necessary on other roads, the chain
gang will have all the work it can do
The work to be done on Wylly aven-
lie will take nearly the entire time of
all the prisoners on the county gang
for twelve months. The avenue will
be thoroughly repaired, widened and
resurfaced. 1t will also be straight
ened and bitches dug along the
sides. This road is seven miles long,
and with fair weather it is estimat-
ed that it will take 300 working days
to put it in shape.
On Lathrop avenue there is much to
be done. This road is only partly
surfaced, and allowances will be made
in the budget for 1904 to complete
this work and put the avenue in good
condition.
The Good Roads Scheme.
Chairman Lathrop said yesterday
that he thought the scheme re-
Gently suggested at the meeting
an excellent one, and if all of the
adjoining counties could be persuaded
to take the matter up Chatham county
is ready to do her part.
In this county there would be very
little to do, as nearly all of our prin-
cipal roads leading, out of the county
are paved to within four miles of the
county line, and if the other counties
will agree to meet us in this matter
L nave but little doubt the other men,
bers of the board would be glad to
have the present roads extended to
meet those of the neighboring coun-
ties"
1t is hardly probable that the mat
ter will be taken up at the next meet
ing of the commissioners, which will be
held next Thursday, as there will be
many other matters to occupy the at
tention of the board.
One member of the board said
he did not think the matter could
be properly taken up unless there is
organized movement among the other
counties to complete their roads as
near the county lines as Chatham have
already done. IF the other counties
will show their good faith by com
pleting their roads within as near the
county lines. as we have DONE" said
the commissioner, 1--WE can then take
the matter up and go ahead and join
them.
1.-The Louisville and Augusta roads
are paved ten miles out of Savannah,
which is within four miles of the
county lines, and if Efingham will ex-
tend its part of the continuation of
these roads UP to the county line, suit
ably paved, we will join them. 1 be-
lieve, however, that this is a matter
that should first be handled by the
Chamber of Commerce.
The annual budget for 1904 will be
submitted to the grand jury during
the March session.