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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-04
LIVERPOOL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, Feb. 4.-The cotton
market here today opened sixteen points
higher than the close yesterday after
noon. During the forenoon neavy sell
ing overwhelmed the market, causing
a break OF over forty points The
fluctuations were rapid and severe, In
some Instances losing ten or more
points at a single transaction. IT Is be-
lieved that American bull cliQues arc
again attempting TO unload their hold
ingS
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WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET

Sales-Washngton Street Railway as
lOOOd76lk 1.0OoGI6iz 1900 761f. 1.0O0q76ss.
I.0HOMT6zs. 1,000d762s.
Washington Loan and Trust, l0qZlS.
Union Trust 5d105A-
Mergenthaler, l0d1l9 10pll9. l0dl 10, 10
a175. l0aI75, 10d175. 1O0175, I0d175, l0Q175.
After caII-Washington Gas certif-
Gates SO0d1I4. 140N1l4.
washington Street Railway As. loOO4
76ss ] 0OOn76Sa. ] 0O0n763s
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LEGAL NOTICES.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA, HOLDING A PRO
BATE COURT. ESTATE OF, AMAN-
DA SMITH, DECEASED. No. 1l9OZ
administration.
Application having been made 10 the
Supreme Court OF the District OF Column
bia, holding a Probate Court. for letters
of administration on said estate, by
Margaret Johnson. it is ordered this 81
day of February. A. ID. Eo4 that notice
be md hereby is given &C Albert Dean,
Mary jackson. Georgia. Tansnors,
alias Tansinore. alias Tar smore. and 70
all others concerned. 10 tppear IN said
court on FRIDAY. TIE TIL DAY OF
MARCH. a. D. 1904. at "a O'CLOCK, A
NJ, TO show cause yhy such appllca-
ton should not be granted: Provided
this notice be published IN the Wash
ington Law Reporter AID The Evening
Times. once in each OF three success
sive weeks before the ie-urn day here
in mentioned-the first publication to be
not less than thirty days before said re-
turn day.
WRIGHT. Justice
(Seal)
Attest: LOJIS A. DENT,
Register OF Wills ioi the District OF
Columbia ClsrH Of the Probate
Court
ANDREW Y. BRADLEY. Attorney.
fe41l
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The demonstration of che bear ele-
ment against the Metropolitan Street
Railway securities is attributed TO the
theory that MIR. Whitney's death win
cause liquidation of his holdings In that
company This is indeed silly reason
for the sale OF the stock but Wall
Street is noted for its peculiar argU>
ments and vagaries.
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SbecuIato1y Hold Stock Market IN Check
From Fear Of U1z1a0orab9 Developments
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

REPORTED by w. p. Hibbs & Co.. 14ls
F Street: Members New York Stock Ex-
change. Chicago Board OF Trade. Wash
ington Stock EXchane"
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SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA. HOLDING A PRO
BATE COURT. No. u,7U, Admin
istration.
This is TO give notice that the sub
scriber. OF the District Of Columbia has
obtained from the Probate Court OF the
District of Columbia letters OF admin
istration on the estate OF Joseph Allen.
late OF the District of Columbia. de-
ceased. All persons having claims
against the deceased are hereby warned
TO exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof. legally authenticated, to the
subscriber, on or before the 2Oth DAY
OF JANUARY. A. D. 1905; otherwise
they may by law be excluded from all
benefit OF said estate
Given under my hand this 2Oth day OK
January. 1904. IRWIN B. LINTON,
1407 + st nm
Attest:
(Seal.) JOHN r. ROUZER,
Deputy Register of Wills for the Dis
trict OF Columbia; Clerk or the Pro-
bate Court.
IRWIN y. LINTON Attorney.
ian. z8-fFt
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SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA. HOLDING A PRO
BATE COURT. ESTATE OF CHAR
LOTSrE A. MARTIN, DECEASED
No. 1920 Administration.
Application having been made TO the
Supreme Court OF the District Of Column
bia. holding a Probate Court. for pro-
bate OF the last Will and testament Of
said deceased, and for letters testa-
mentary on said estate. by James Edgar
Smith Il is ordered this 80 day OF Feb
ruary. A D., 1904. that notice be and
hereby is given TO William s. Buch-
ley. and TO all others concerned. TO ap-
pear in said court on MONDAY, THE
7TH DAY OF MARCH. A ID. 1904. at 10
O'CLOCK. A. M, TO show cause why
such application should not be granted:
Provided this notice be published in the
Washington Law Reporter" and The
Washington Times once in each or three
successive weeks before the return day
herein mentioned-the first publication
to be not less than thirty days before
said return day.
WRIGHT Justice
CSsal)
Attest: LOUIS A DENT,
Register OF Wills for the District OF
Columbia. Clerk of the Probate
Court
]. ALTHEUS JOHNSON. Attorney.
fe4. Ills
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CHICAGO GRAIN MARKEr.

Especial 10 The Washington Times.)
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-The following
prices were quoted on the Grain Mar
ket today.
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
The following prices were quoted on
he New York cotton exchange today:

Market opened weak AZ 10 SO points
over on Oldest; Is to 20 points lower on
new crop months.
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Speculation has run wild III staple
products, and interests identified with
these markets announce that securities
must eventually be benefited from the
movements in cotton, wheat, coffee, and
nrox-isions in general People who
know ANYTHING about the stock market
know that the manipulation that has
rlarked the course Of the commodity
markets viii not encourage conndenSe
IN Wall Street or in cir cles outside the
street.
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TREASURY STATEMENT

National bank notes received for re-
compton yesterday amounted to Ss42L
S3V Government receipts and expen-
ditures were: Internal revenue. 1881. 677
customs. 81 ,O5T, 1852; miscellaneous S95
726; expenditures. s. 1896 600
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CURRENT NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF INTEREST TO INVESTORS


There have been some pretty clear in
dications in the last two days that the
leaders of the great upward movement
in cotton who have been ostenslDly, at
least, acting in harmony with eaCh
other. are endeaVOTing TO transfer tnelE
staples 10 the hands of the pubic, II
not. indeed to those of each other IL
at least calls for congratdlaton that
Wall Street is fully alive. TO the general
menace which the affair presents.
a number of pools. big and little,
whose operations were cut short by the
abrupt collapse of the bull party's dem
onstration, are occupied in making ex-
plana tons TO their followers. II seems
surprising that so many persons should
have got hung up with stocks in so
short a time. MSst of the pools referred
to were formed with the object or ma n
Ing very modest turns in railroad and
no constant market Tr1t makes II all
the worse for those who are hung up
with them
1t must be difficult for an outsider TO
understand the Wall Street attitude
toward the Gates crowd, whose opera
lions for the advance a fortnight ago
swelled the market 10 volume OF
million shares a day and created COM
missions where there were none before
and have been none since Brokers
themselves have been surprised at the
extreme skepticism with which their
clients regarded the operations OF the
Western contingent. II seems that only
a very small proportion Of the semi-pro>
fessiOnal public took them at all seri-
ing known it Is more interesting ques>
ton than before. who got all the
stocks on the rise. and have those who
got them been able TO distribute them!
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FINANCIkE.

46fh ISSUE OF STOCK
OPEN FOR sUBsc RIPTI0N
AND FIRST PAYMENT
ASSETS. 81. ~. 29l. IS.
Subscriptions for the 10th issue Of
steck and first payment thereon Will
De received daily from a. m. 20 4:30
p m. at the Office Of the Association
SHARES. $3.50 EACH
Pamphlets explaining the object and advan-
tages Of the Association and other information
furnished upon application at the Office
EQUITABLE
COOPERATIVE
BUILDING
ASSOCIATION,
EQUITABLE BUILDING, zoos F ST. y ".
John Joy Edson President.
Ellis Spear. Vice President.
Geo. W casilear. "a vice President
Prank P. Reside. Secretary.
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According to- the best informed people
in the banking community the present
year will he one OF ease in the money
market this idea being based on the
current position of bank holdings, on
the favorable foreigl trade balance, on
the probable lighter demand from mer-
camille sources, or the expected quiet
year in the stock market, and on the
additions TO the supply OF money In the
country through domestic and Klondike
gold production.
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SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST STOCKS.

National Safe Deposit & Trust. log loo
Washington Loan & Trust 2lZa zl5j
American Security & Trust----.--- ise -E
Washington safe Deposit. ........ ~
Union Trust Storage ............ 100 10
Washington Savings Bank l0th lts
Home Swings Bank ............... l30 =.
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The high prices in commodities are
not due to an urgent demand for con-
sumption. and without such a demand
the upward move in quotations cannot
help being harmful to the general sit
uation. This phase Of the situation is
beginning TO be reflected In the STOCK
market. and IL may Yet be an unfaNor-
able influence i'm the financial world.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.
RAILROAD BONDS.
MISCELLANEOUS BONDS.

1IotEI.L-AlH7ONss DD-ND1-
Wash Gas Co., SER A, Us l902-z7- JOG
Wash Gas Co.. ser. b. 6s l90i-2l. 100 ...-
L. s. Elec Light Deb. Imp. 1902. lyt 80.
u. s Flee. Light. Cert Indebt-... l03
Ches. & Pot. Tel. Co. 6s...-....-. lV4 1Oo
Wash Market Co., lst SIS, lS92--- lOy
Masonic Hall Assn 6's, G, l90e---- lVO lUo
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RAILROAD STOCKS.
NATIONAL BANK stool

Capital Traction .--.--------------- llSA l2es
Washington Street Railway pr. 40h 10
Washington Street Railway conn., -
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-19

We put the mushrooms in hot butter, mum, an me
gold chain, an me hat pin, an the ring | got frum soap
wrappers, thin things go to me sisters, Molly, Minnie
the brists an the mushrooms in gravy now, an let
EN- Simmer-an' | hope yell tell the lady on the thurd
floor to sind off that Maggie creature. She put pizen
in me food, | know ut, an now | can't cook the luncheon
for yez. whin yer goin' to have company; an there
amt nuthin in the wurruld | wouldn't do fur We, mum,
We been so kind to me an give me that gran green
velvet waist an all.
An | don't want to die, mum, when yer havin' a
luncheon: but l got to. Oh, it's in me eye, nowl
Yis, mum, | would loike to die in me bed, and not
clutter up, dyin' round in the kitchen. All right,
mum. I'm goin
l couldn't help telling the story at the lunch, and
made The hit of my life.
Indeed, Mary was a constant source of inspiration
and amusement-she was an integral part of the
winter and the fiat. | threatened daily to put her in
print-"The Published Works of Mary" or some
simple title like that-and | may succumb to the
temptation yet. Mother complained that she was
an innocent but accomplished liar; but | held out to
the end that she was the stuff of which great roman
ticists were made. She could romance by the hour
with the ease of an Addison, the charm of a Barry,
and the originality of a ~Kipling-Irished. She was,
in short, a real character, was little Mary, who made
her simple, happy way through flats and life, singing
at her work. Truly, that is an epitaph that the best
of us might envyl
1.-THE third installment of THE ~lat-Dwelers' will appear
in The Sunday Magazine of June 20.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-06-19
BY COwles

asked herself, and then aloud: Tell him l am engaged,
Emily; that | am sorry, but l can't see him. You
may say that | am dressing to go out"
An right, Miss Laura; but he has took off his coat,
and has set down just as he was expecting to spend
the evenin."
"Oh, dear, how strangel suppose he has forgotten
all about the party. He hasn't asked anyone to go
in my place. and even the date has escaped him. The
thought of this tender fidelity to her so touched
Laura that he called softly to the maid, who was
Just starting downstairs: Say that I'll be down soon,
and never mind about the rest of the message, Emily"
When he sees me in this light gown, he will re-
member, she unused, and in a few moments she
foated into the parlor in her pretty, soft draperies,
a vision of modern. fluffy loneliness.
Wisner arose, and she noticed as she greeted him
that he wore evening dress. She recalled that he
was always more punctilious about dress than many
of the other men that she knew. After a few SEN
fences of extremely desultory conversation, Laura
remarked in a rather strained voice that she was
softness of her bespangled chiffon frock, and his eyes
obediently followed hers.
It's very pretty indeed!' was ali that he said.
Thank you, ." returned Laura. Couldn't the man
take a hint: 1t had never occurred to her before
that his ~plaCidity vergcd upon stupidity.
You know that this IS the night of the Castlemar
cotillion?' she ventured tentatively.
Friday So it is. I'm glad it's such a fine evening
Yes it is pleasant dancing on a hot night mean
a cold day-or evening, rather" Lauras face burned
would be when Howard Page, or whoever her escort
was, should arrive, if Horace did not have wit enough
to leave.
Il hope you will enjoy it" Horace remarked, as he
carelessly turned the pages of a periodical.
Il don't know mean | expect to. There, |
heard a carriage! 1t must be"
Beg pardon. An article in this magazine caught
my attention. | didn't hear what you said"
Never mind. 1t was nothing answered Laura,
with scant politeness. There, some one had come
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is talking?" for it was a telephone invitation.
Il fancy know that laugh, she replied a little
teasingly.
"Oh, all right then, if you do. he said. and hung
up his phone, just as she was about to ask him whether
the party was to be fu!l-dress or an informal affair
How provoklng!' she murmured. We'll, | can
call him up later; or no, III wear my blue chiffon.
That's correct for almost any occasion.
When the poStman made his afternoon round he
left a letter addressed in a handwriting that had
become familiar during the last few months.
Why in the world is Horace writing to me?' she
asked herself as she turned the envelop in her hand,
trying to guess its contents before opening. He
must have written before he telephoned this morning"
My dear Miss Bird, - it read: The Castlemar Club
is giving a cotillion Friday evening, and l am hoping
that ] may have the pleasure of taking you. All of
our crowd will be there, and l am only fearful that
as l received my notification late someone may have
already asked you; in which case l shall be very much
disappointed
well, l declared" gasped Laura. Il would have
given my solemn word that it was Horace Wisner who
called me up this morning. If it wasn't he, who could
it have been?" She sank into the cushions of the
couch on which she had flung herself, and re-read the
letter from beginning to end.
For once l would forego my popularity, she
thought, when a few minutes later she prepared to
answer the note. The qualification at receiving two
invitations doesn't compensate for the horrible uncer-
tainty. l heartily hope it ism t Howard Pagel 1t
can't be. The fates could not be so cruel as to pro-
vide me with a cotillion partner half a head beneath
my height. Yet if it wasn't Horace's laugh, it must
have been Towards. Their voices are something
alike. Why didn't Horace write sooner? His excuse
about the lateness of his notice of the party is a little
fimsy. He probably asked some other girl first.
If l am second choice I'm glad that l have a previous
engagement"
She penned a politely formal note declining Horace's
invitation, and after finishing it tore it open to add a
postscript to the effect that she was sorry that she
was already engaged for the event, and that she hoped
she would see him there anyway. Then she sent her
little sister out to the corner mail-box, and began to
wonder once more who it was that had asked her to
go-an occupation that filed most of her idle moments
for the following few DAYS.
She was just consoling herself on Friday evening
with the reflection that the agony of doubt would
soon be over, when the maid brought her a card.
MI. Horace Wisner," she read. How awkward
of him to comel What can he mean by it?" she
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like this. On, how do You do, Mr.. NlSneT! why
don't you people start?'
I'm quite ready, if Miss Bird is"
But he-my escort hasn't come; how can II"
Laura was eXasperated to an almost fearful stage.
Why are you here, Tom?' she asked Grossly. Il
thought you were out at the varsity grinding"
Why, there are no recitations tomorrow. Don't
you know that this is Friday night"
Yes, of course, Friday night, the evening of the
Castlemar cotillion, - assented Horace sweetly.
Well, aren t you folks going:' persisted the ire
pressibe Tom.
lust as Miss Bird says. I'm at her service"
You know that l can't go with you. l wrote to
you that | was going with some one else"
But | could not believe it; and there is no one
else here. l have a carriage. Why not go with me
after ALL
Laura's eyes snapped. Il don't know what reason
YOU have to doubt my word, or 10 assume that l would
go with YOU after having accepted another invitation.
l am in the habit OF keeping my engagements
Who are you going with, Laura? | thought Of
course that you and Wisner were going together. Who
IS the man, and where is he?"
Tom. l wish you would keep quiet, and not ask
silly questions
But who are you going with?'
Il don t know! Now are you satisfied, Tom Bird?'
Her question was answered by a roar of laughter.
Football playing had developed her cousins lungs.
Come, Miss Bird, l am the happy man. said
Horace as soon as he could make himself heard above
Toms explosive mirth.
Il should like to go with you; but don't you see7
Can't you understand"
why. you promised over the telephone to go
with me-"
Laura gave him a long, searching look. IN
never believe you again, Horace Wisnerl" she declared
Indignantly.
Il am the one who has been deceived. You told
me that you would go and that you knew my laugh
And you wrote me that letter! You are not a
bit nice"
Come. we shall be late. Let us start"
Il I'M not going, Laura said firmly, as she began
tearing off her long, white gloves.
Il guess l had better let them fight it out alone"
thought Tom. He passed unnoticed from the room,
and a few minutes later, when he heard the heavy hall
door close. he went back into the drawing-room to
ask Laura all about it. The light was turned low,
and the room was empty.
by Jove, she went after ALL" He whistled thought
fully. Il wonder which one the joke was onl"
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u ARROWS

BY Cora Lapham Hazard
We mostly shoot IL arrows in the air;
So dull our sight, we cannot
See to aim
More likely they to find heart of the oak
Than ones that rest in culver,
All the same.
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I lie had invited her to go to a party
on Friday evening. She had
accepted; and then he asked
with a chucklc: DO YOU know who
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Time ~ -" Inn ""
lots now. Don't cut the stims
off thin mushrooms, We peel EN- close-an' av course,
| don't want to waste a good lot on mesilf. Any OIL
lot ul do for me- don't want TO use me good lot.
An me clothes go to me sister Maggie in Dubuque,
Iowy, all but the green velvet waist We gave me, mum,
an that goes to Patrick Sheehan. me beau, fur remim-
brance. He always loiked me in that waist. Now
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over the wire. The struggle was long, and Mary was
worsted. She returned, still in tears.
"Shure, mum, me sisther says loike We do, that
they'll say I'm runnin' away. She SEE | got to
sthay. I'd loike to hear thin sayin' it once to me
face!" she muttered, and descended again to the
laundry, leaving mother and me thanking our stars
for me sisther" who sided with us.
The boycott that followed was most amusing In
the morning when the clans gathered to get the mail,
the former belle was greeted with: "Ye ugly little
mud-hen, haven't We gone yit?" and The top av
the mornin' to yez7nit!" But Mary bore 1t bravely,
if not in silence, and like all great crises it passed and
was forgotten, and the old friendly rela-
tions were renewed, with all but Maggie.
on the third floor" who played an absent
role in the most amusing incident that ever
happened in a kitchen. u
Mother had planned a little luncheon for X
a few. friends. The day was set and all -
arrangements made. 1t was to be a simple
affair, and we depended especially upon an
entree of chicken breasts and mushrooms
a dish in which Mary eXcelled. The appointed
day arrived, together with the extra maid to serve, when
Mary was stricken with unaccountable pains, pre-
monitory of rheumatism or the grip. Mother could
not persuade her to go to bed; she would sit, done up
in a knot, in one corner of the kitchen and direct the
composition of that entrGe And all the time mother
followed her directions in mixing it, while Mary
INDUCED in a running monologue, about like
this:
"Ohl The pains are all over me! It's pizened I've
been, l know utl That Maggie on the thurd floor,
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in! Now she would know her fate!
Laura" exclaimed her cousin Tom,
bursting into the room, Its inhuman
to keep a driver waiting a cold night
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for JUNE 10. 1904

she's put Pizen
in me food.
Now, mum, We
cut up the chick
en- brists foine.
Oh, Ohm a
dead a |
= know ut, an
" not a will to
me a e.
w Aw, mum,
u would yez
write me broth
er Moike Harri-
han, an say. |
bought a lot in
Calvary fOive
We airs ago, to
bury mither in,
but she died in
C~aliforny an |
couldn't afford
to bring the
corpse here, so |
kept the lot. 1t
W uz-O me
FOOT 1t W u
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-12

in something L don't thrust q lot or
piaythings at her and dangle a little
bird on Zsring G=tn she becomes
dizzy looking at il. 1 study her tenn
permanent rs carefully as q manager
would that OF new star. note what
poses she can take best and what sort
Of picture she would make Perhaps 1
leave a few toys hanging about the
place and. in her wanderings. she
comes upon these =
Then introduce her to the camera
That is the beauty OF the child model
Unlike the grown-u0 young person she
is never camera struck. She always
finds an interest IN the big. black in
strument and stands a little in awe
OF IL But she is not at all aware that
any attitude she may take can posi-
bly, have an effect upon it Usually =
child models usefulness ceases the mo-
ment she learns that she Is pretty and
that she IS being reproduced upon q
photographic plate After that she
loses the dramatic instinct and be-
comes seIf-conscious. stir and uninter-
esting< The baby ight dies out OF her