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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
Today's Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today for
redemption, SGT, 1913; government receipts
from internal revenue. s299,340: customs.
$1,o93,070; miscellaneous, $6O,957; expendi-
lures, 81, 800, 600. -s..... 5.S ~ !. IS a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
Baltimore Markets.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Nd. October 1O-FLoUR-ste
unchanged; receipts 1854 barrels; exports $50
barrels.
WHEAT-Easier; spot, contract, S3jaaS3A; spot
No. red western. s5Aas5h; October, s3I5aS34;
December, s51aas5Sa; January, S61s; steamer No 2
red, 16MaI6ls; receipts, II, 0O3 Bushels southern
by sample, 62aS2; southern grade, TSAaS5.
CORN-Easier; pot, 57Aa57h; October 57Aa
5Ih; veal 5oa5oA; January, 4SAa49la: February
mixed, 55a551a; receipts, 81, 451 bushels southern
white corn 5Sa6O; southern yellow corn, 59a62
OATS---ktrm; No white, 33tSa34; No. mixed
32a321a. receipts, 81 ,SS4 bushels.
R1k-S3zm; No western. 69a69H export 71a72
domestic; receipts. 27 1886 bushels,
HAY-Steady. unchanged.
GRAIN FRElGHTS-Birm, unchanged,
BUTTER-Steady; fancy imitation l9a2O: fancy
creamery 22a22a; fancy ladle, 1sa19; store
packed, 15al6.
EGGS-Steady, 81.
CHEESE-steady; large. 1914; medium, 1914;
small, 10. F-iis g ,-I.-s.a - ]''
SUGAR-Steady; coarse graduated, 500; fine
o.oo. 81 #aJHGAsr "friu.It49.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, October follower prices for
wheat at Liverpool today sent December
wheat here down to S5SaS5B. .-. ..,...,.
On a sharp advance at Liverpool Deem
Der corn sold UP to 444sa44A. =
Liberal local receipts depressed Decem-
Der oats to 2S1a.
After December wheat had touched S5M
the market experienced a considerable re-
action. The government report showing q
condition of 80 for spring wheat was main
ly responsible for the weakness On gen
eral selling December declined to S5IhaA
A partial rally occurred on covering by
shorts. The market closed about steady,
with December off shade, at S5H
The issuance of the government report
had a weakening effect on corn values
Under selling due to this cause December
eased on to 44%s- The close was easy, with
December off Aassc, at 44S
e-Wheat-December, s54s: May, s6as;
July. S39s. Corn-October, 515s;, December,
44As: old, 451s; May, 43a. Oats-October,
2sA; December. 2sA; May, 30ss; July. 291s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
CITY MARKET REPORT

.en quietly other stock dull and moving slowly.
west Virginia. aisaa: T.nnss:.s, II; North Caro-
lima 49,; q storage. 1920. =.
much s.ns e. siss1 s:ssas
grades dun. Packing stock plenty. but market
:seonds Is Psese.. fsney o "a. to soes
western factory. nr:t.s ID; seconds. Ie. Dairy.
sa s. It s@: :.
western factory. new. choice H. fair to good. ios
LIVE si PouI raIv anal, amour. of choice
srsiyins and demand good ether stock fairly
koo:ssi- pes r.. Ducks. old. per IT, 0; ,oans
per X y, ,S.1 10y. Gees per NJ Tu.ss,s TOMS
Ct .
heavy from western points. consequently the
Old fes on raRss eo,cs
thin hs s 10 ,
small: pei r., 4; Hens, choice. per +. i hoos:
fes nsT d. o. Duck. ola ps, h. TO- young per
II. 1--we srocSd:t.s an sa.ss an. nd, lambs .s.
ss Is ger s.s: s ss; p: se%$ss = vt
sheep clipped soSsaO st' L.n sl spring. choice.
rs sss Tss,S. B. T. ''' common, ,..
IN ample good supply ss5 ass s
e ene fairly active and We Ssss:
p Sa. Rsf an. md Nd Per sss1s
Ii S es1 ss2 Ds s''s eas ss
Plant per do., 100: Peas, per basket. 1.s5.
aREES fkUirs1s Uqa of fancy eating sp.
pies light. and the market firm, with good de-
fuI and dun "'S Choice Ss ' ps.ehes i fsis as;
sas sE% vn Ra
ander. choice and fancy: s.S6a4.e Graysnstcln;
fancy s.ooas.so: Holland Pippin, choice and fancy,
50a2 %; York Pippn. choice and fancy, 25oa255
nearby varieties, ' per A Dbl. i5oaa Peaches.
western este Nd fancy per veeishths bs h. basket e
5oasa Fears ss2o pei Baret' per sla
300 Peaches, per sbssket carrier. 1.2sa2 90;
Per box. 500. Pinssppies, Florida. per crate.
3 soaso Damson; per lb t3e Ms 70 hu, saa,s
Oranges. Jamaica Dbl. 600; california. box, $50.
Malaga Grapes. keg. 5.OOa6.o0 Ounces, BUSH.
DRIED FRUITs.-Receipts moderate. all stock
arriving rHEssr being promptly nmly, placed -
WoS ASp for fur. on No.
ss nss fss Il ss 81
wool, burry, per b., 27a2s; Hides green. per ib.
AZ NJ la.s SnsssyisRa green s ssss
Local so; Dry Calfskins. 13a16.
GRAIN.-Wheat, choice, 8OaS2; fair to good, 70a
70: ordinary, 50a65. Corn, shelied. white, 5sa5o;
yellow, 5sa5a; mixed. Sass: ear, 0Oa3 Is. Oats,
western, white No. 2. 30a4O; mixed, 3Ia38.
MILL FEED.-Bran. western. per ton. s5Oa
1900; Middlings, white. per ton, 1s.0oa22 90;
brown. 10 o0a20.00
SEED. -Todays market steady. Clovers, prime,
12.ooa13.oo; strictly prime. IL Scala 60 Alsyke
10 soals,ss Alfalfa. prime. lssosizoSi choice
"A coal !; 90. Timothy, prime, 1TSal 50; choice:
/ .S5a1 80. Kentucky Blue Grass h., 12a15; red
top, per lb.. 9a10; orchard grass per H.. 15a1s.
Rye, per bu., 75aS0. Wheat, per bu. 90al.25.
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The World Of
Finance and Trade
NEW YORK COTTON
SITUATION NOT RE
LEVIED BY ANY MOVEMENTS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 1O.-The unsettled
situation In the cotton market was not re-
heved this morning by anything that gave
the market a positive character. either on
one side or the other. Sentiment in any
direction appeared weak and the element
Of uncertainty continued to prevail. Yes
terdays sudden break was evidence OF
what the unsettled conditions might pro-
duce at any moment, and no one seemed
sure Of a clear course ahead.
During the early bidding the market was
extremely feverish and sensitive, but prices
were firm, but they moved raggedly and
nervously. indicating clearly the unsettled
sentiment behind them.
The market opened 7 to IL points up,
which was not full response to the cables
which were much better than due Under
short covering the market then advanced
but not so much as was expected after yes
terday's sharp break. Money traders
thought reaction was due, but there was
too much selling pressure to permit full
recovery. It looked to many as II there
was still a good-sized long interest out
which proposed to continue further liqui-
dation. The market also did not respond
with the vigor- that might, have been ex-
pected to the weather conditions.
Killing frosts were reported In Wyoming
and Colorado, and the probability of cold
weather working south into Texas from
these places Is always strong. and has sell
dom before failed TO have sentimental eff
feet on the marker. Added to this, rains
prevailed IN the gulf and Atlantic states.
Many private wire predictions of frost in
the northern cotton regions were received
during the. day.
Covering In part seemed to be the chief
source Of the markets support, and what
there was for long account appeared to be
done with view to a temporary turn
rather than long pull. This demand did
not look to be very dangerous. however.
Trading was not in large volume. the gem
eral uncertainty apparently acting as a
damper. December opened 7 points up at
or cents, and sold up to 9.S5 cents, and
then reacted to the neighborhood of open
ing price
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Washington Stock Exchange

Ii deb deb 50 goo at do41a 1850 f04h 81, 900
Norfolk and Wash. Steamboat S. $500 at I1OS
Capital Traction, IS at 1884, 2 at 146N. =
Washington Gas % at 61M. % at 81 Is at 81,
% at 6o1s. rs at 6oS. 23 at 6O% 25 at sOk 25
at coy, % at COS, rs at 801a q at 8o1s 2s at
eolf: 20 at sou; 25 at eoE rs at soas. 25 at 6o1s
Lanston Monotype. 10 at 1915 100 at 15Z
After call-Capital Traction As. $500 at IOsA
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd, at % at
go, 50 at s2N, so at 92a4. so at 92g. 80 at o2E
80 at 92$s 80 at s29s, 50 at 92A. 80 at 82A, 81
at by BY 90 at S2H, 100 at e2&: 100 at. 82s, 50
93A. WIZ -" at
CO.'S. WIZ 81 at
Washington Rwy. and E1ec com. so at 42H
American National Bank, 8 at 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

The attendance at today's meeting Of the
stock exchange was not quite up to the
level of that which Is usual at this season
Of the year. which no doubt may be ac-
counted for by the fact that the bankers
convention is in session. number OF the
brokers who are quite regular at the daily
meeting are engaged In committees work
In connection with the gathering OF the
national body OF bankers. They were miss
ed. but the business went on. and while at
the opening It seemed that there would not
be much done. still the record at the close
showed good trading. especially In the pre-
ferred stock OF the Washington Railway
and Electric Company and in gas stock.
-~ gay~sNs-
There were some Indications at the be-
ginning of the trading IN gas that the same
bag that was opened few days ago was
again ready for another outpouring, but
that proved to be mistaken surmise. Al
together some 500 shares were sold. but It
came mostly from other sources The range
Of prices was from 61h to eos. s,4
In anticipat ton Of further lowering in
the figures as It was seen. that the stock
was selling on a sliding scale downward.
the bidding began to be animated for 100
bids soon reached 500 and more shares. end,
in fact, one bid was for that amount alone.
80 that 1t would have been possible TO
have disposed of thousand shares at that
price.
The bid for 100 shares rose to 6OM. but
toward the close there was no stock offered
for sale less than COX. and then the bid
was cor After the call one lot went for
COS.
Nothing was done during the call in the
preferred stock of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company except to record the
md fhn In ri
which were somewhat below the figures Of
yesterdays closing
After call the trading began to be quite
active and before 1t was over some thirteen
hundred shares had changed hands on a
range Of from 92E to 93K The sale OF quo
tation lots at. SO and 93h was one Of the
features OF the trading toward the close,
as they represent the higher range which
the stock fell from some days ago.
The bulk of the selling was at 92E
There was some caution shown In making
the bids when the common stock was called,
but finally a beginning was made at a safe
distance from yesterdays closing prices,
but before 1t was closed, although there
was no trading. both the bid and the asking
prices were better than was the case at the
close yesterday. The lowest offering Of
the stock was at 43, and the best bid was
43%. After call, one f1fty-share lot sold
for 427s. and the stock was still for sale at
that price.
A better bid was made for the common
stock of the Graphophone company as 1t
rose to s. with the asking price one-eighth
in advance. For the preferred stock 93s
was bid and 9a4 was asked
Only an eighth separated the buyer and
seller in Greene Copper, but nothing was
done. The bid was g. and the asking price
an eighth higher.
Today's Government Receipts.
National hank Dotea reeeIyad today for
redemption. S617, 1893; government receipts
from internal revenue. S299, 340 customs,
$1,o93.070; miscellaneous, $6O957; expendi-
f1,res 900 on 80
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New York Stock Exchange.

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs &c Co. bankers
and brokers. 1419 F street, members New
York stock exchange, Washington stock
exchange and Chicago board of trade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10

Lee Higginson & Co. of Boston announce
that the have bought from the Richmond
Washington Company a new issue Of 81 OOO,-
600 guaranteed collateral trust 4-per-cent
gold bonds, series B. due June /. 1943 These
bonds are guaranteed. principal and inter-
est, Jointly and severally, by Endorsement
on each bond by the Pennsylvania railroad,
Atlantic Coast Line railroad Southern rail-
way. Chesapeake and Ohio railway, Sea-
board Air Line railway and the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Companies. The total
authorized issue, under the mortgage is
$11 100000 and the amount now outstanding
So. 100000. The bonds will be offered for
sale by Lee. Higginson & Co. and Clark
Dodge &Co.
report from Sharon, Pa, says that all
previous records were broken at the OPEN
hearth department of the Carnegie Steel
Company for twenty-four hours ending Fri
day morning, when ,627 tons of steel were
turned out in twenty-nine heats. The best
previous record for the same number of
heats was ,625 tons.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

are bigger Jnan any Barnum ever man
aged; certainly he never exhibited such
hair-raising athletic feats But after
all. Barnum was Barnum. He was per-
son, while to the average auditor of to-
day the circus is an institution. When
Barnum saw his own show everybody
knew him. Five thousand children
grinned appreciatively at him. He got
points from them. too.
Which part did you like best?'
once heard him ask middle-siZed boy,
after the show.
''Oh, the trained goat!' the boy re-
sponded, with fervor.
Barnum grinned in his turn. The
trained goat and it's trainer cost him
only SIS q week. To sit in the press box
with Barnum was a constant education.
The circus shows every April in Mad
ison Square Garden. 1t is the best show
town in the world, rot even excepting
London, though London success may
be better advertising. But five weeks
OF so performances in building holding
$4,000 people make good start for a
season. There is always following
week in Brooklyn under canvas to get
things going smoothly for the terrific
strain Of the one-night stands.
This year we have the circus and the
hippodrome at the same time Each will
help the other. 1t will be sort OF fad to
see both and compare. Both are fash
ionable. The high-priced boxes, fea-
ture Of the show much less conspicuous
on tour. are always well taken.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

some actually counted the words and
words in length.
Now practically all magazines pay in
round numbers, so much for story,
whether the writer is beginner or not;
and for well-known writer's five cents a
word, for really popular writer's ten
cents word are the next step in the
financial scale A writer like Richard
Harding Davis gets 40 cents word and
the record price for work of any length
is the sc cents a word paid to Conan
Doyle for The Return of Sherlock
Holmes AS an investment it was worth
the money, for the American. Canadian.
Australian, British and translation
copyright and for both serial and book
publication. More than $100.OO0 has been
made by the copyright percentage of
popular novel, where the author prefers
that arrangement. The recent payment
of dollar word for short fragment
OF posthumous novel by Disraei was
quite another case, of course.
Well, why not? Supreme success in
the literary art seems sometimes luck.
but in such cases as Mrs. Wards and
Mark Twain's it comes of a most un-
usual combination of born aptitude and
long training. That it's rewards should
approach those of corporation lawyers
is no more than reasonable. And no
writer of to-day reaps more splendid re-
wards, the purchasing power of money
considered, than did Scott or Byron.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

by once reporting a political conven-
ton for both a morning and an after
noon paper, doing $4,000 words of long
hand in single day. l have myself
written rather trashy bit OF fiction.
10000 words, in one day. But really
writing anything that may be called lit
erature is different matter. 1t takes
Mrs. Ward. as it took George Eliot be-
fore her. two years to write book. AL
lowing for Sundays and holidays. that
would not be more than aee words Gay,
say page of not very finely written
foolscap. F. Marion Crawford can write
story. and a good one. in two months
but in the long periods of rest before
writing he thinks out the plot and treat
ment so thoroughly that the pen does
the smallest part of the work. | do not
know on either side of the water a
writer Of the first rank who does not
take infinite pains.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

way mas been IN New YORK Tor the WIN
ter, and will soon publish new volume
which was omitted from his recent auto
biography in the unnecessary fear Of
making that book too long for the aver
age reader. His tall form, his fine fea-
lures, and his name Of gray hair make a
conspicuous figure wherever he ap-
pears; he and Mark Twain are the two
most eminent literary men now in the
vicinity, though Mr.. Clemens is little
seen, owing to the recent death of his
wife, which has greatly stricken him.
Mr.. Conway writes his work out very
carefully, and then turns it over to q
typer1ter. who furnishes him with a
clean copy with the lines spaced we'll
apart for interlineation Then he crosses
out, adds, changes, corrects, interpol
ates. Then the typewriter again copies
the manuscript in fair pages; again the
revising process is completed, and again
q fair copy is made. Any fair penman
can write book if that were all, in
ten days. know star reporter" who
permanently ruined his handwriting
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13
Writers in Earnest.

RITERS are quite
as apt as lawyers to
leave money maxi
ing for what they
conceive to be pub
lie service. The
publishers had to
plead with Conan
Doyle a long time
before they-got him
to the point Of
resurrecting Sher-
lock Holmes. He
preferred to write
unheeded 5treatises
on the reform of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

The Paw of Writers.

ND they can we'll
afford to do SO. A
great change has
come over the lit
erary market in 20
years. In 1885 the
standard rate for
copy il the best
magazines was one
cent per word for
unknown writer's;
two or three cents
made good pay for
anyone. S o m e
magazines paid in
"rOund nrnhprS.'
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

Scripture Authority The graves were
openei, and many bodies of the saints
which Slept arose, and came cut Of the
graves after His resurrection. and went
into :he holy city. and appeared unto
many Matt 27:J2 90.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

the British army. So Mark Twain In
these days seldom moves his pen except
where his heart is touched. So Rider
Haggard, who made such success with
"She" and King Solomon's Mines" has
come to this country to make report to
the British government upon the Saliva
ton Army and other experiments in
farm colonies. A big, slow-spoken man
is Haggard, thoroughly in earnest,
member of parliament, like Sir Gilbert
Parker. For years Haggard has not
touched a novel; his earlier: earnings
suffice his needs, and he devotes himself
to the splendid dream, in which Ruskin
green England from the grimy,
Notwithstanding towns that now
swallow up her people.
We shall soon need enthusiasts of thas
sort in this country. Read Miss Brandt's
report upon consumption. There are
sections Of New York where the death
rate from consumption is above so per
10000 living. There are death warrens
in the Chinese quarter where the yellow
men stif1e in close rooms, more crowded
than any other race, and pay for it in dis
ease. Next come the native Indians,
next the negroes-the descendants Of
the field hands of the south and the
hunters of the forests. Then, and far be-
low the colored races in frequency of
death by phthisis, come the white peo-
pies, beginning with the Irish and end
ing with the Poles, who are least of all
affected.
Back to the land!" is cry that may
yet be raised in New York with as much
reason as in the black country" Of
Merry England
OWEN LANGDON
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13
Plausible.

Nov, then" she demanded the next
morning, what's your excuse for COM
ing home in that condition last night?"
WELL he explained, at was Lyons
fault You see. he SGT to telling me about
his war experiences and so many of the
statements he made had to be taken with
grain of salt that after awhile got
thirsty. "-Philadelphia Press,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

opening They have cheerfully well
coined as advertisements the attempts
of the police to prevent working on Sun
day inside the huge building.
You can call the hippodrome fairly
large, permanent circus, or you may call
it "Earth's Most Stupendous Theater' -
think the proprietors would prefer the
latter; and as they have paid out $780,
600 for the choice, and as it is strictly
true, they ought to have their way. To
be precise, the place holds 5000 people,
and as the stage is 200 feet wide and
curves well out in front, while the seats
are we'll arranged. the farthest auditor
has good view of the stage, which
isn't true of some of the smaller thea
ters
The circus makes great point of dis
playing loop the gap feats more COM
plicated than ever before The hippo
drome is prepared to flood the forepart
of the stage space in few minutes time
for water feats. Electric cranes do the
lifting and moving. They need their
strength; the movable stage is made
strong enough to bear the weight of
eight elephants acting as chauffeurs of
eight automobiles containing several
times eight chorus girls. Animal feats
will be foremost in interest in the hip
podrome, which is about three times as
big as the permanent circus in either
London or Paris. Only of course it
isn't exactly a circus
And the GO regular theaters of New
York, not to count those of the suburbs,
will go right on just the same, hardly
affected by the competition More than
100000 people are in the Gotham thea
tiers every night OF the season.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13
An the-Year-Round Circus,

& DUN
dy are two young
ish men who have
made a fortune in
amusement enter
prises by never
waiting until next
month or next year
to do things. All
New York has been
interested in the
d e S p e + a t e at
tempts they have
made to get their
hippod r Q m e Fl n
ished for the grand
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13
M. D. Conway in New York.

WISH that some of
the young writer's
W h 0 occasionally
ask me how they
can sell to the best
magazines t b e
stories they have
dashed off, could
listen to the vet
eran Moncure D.
Conway describ-
ing the process
which has turned
out the finest book
Of "reminiscences Of
the wear Mr. Con-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13

/ w AS afternoon
on that first Easter
day. The sun. as
though in SYM
pathy with the new
joy which h a d
come TO the earth,
was shining forth
in his strength.
The notes of the
birds were gladder.
and the fragrance
and beauty of foil
age and flower was,
never more rich or
full. All nature.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13
CIRCUS AND SPRING
SOME REGRETS ON GOOD OLD
DAYS WITH BARNUM.
i1EPPODROME IN NEW YORK
This Season Sawdust Folk Again to
Fore-Veteran Writers and Their
Methods-Literature Finan-
cial Returns.

HY, truly, one OF
the disadvantages
Of being young is
that you can't have
K n o W n Barnuln.
When circus time
comes round with
e a C b succeeding
April, the memory
Of that good bald
head, that expan-
sive smile, that
kindly presence, is
alive with me. l
don't doubt that
the new circuSeS
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13
Simple Signals.

Caller-Wny are you waving your
handkerchief so wildly?
Murilla-Since papa has forbidden
Jack to the house, we have arranged q
code of signals.
Caller-What is it?
Murilla-When he waves his hand
kerchief five times, that means DO you
love me?" and when | wave frantically
in reply it means: Eyes, darling. The
Royal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-05-13
A Comnlete Record

What is that little book your wife
writes in every EVENING"" asks the WIS.,
itor.
THAT" asks her husband. ooh, that
is her new diary"
"But she seems to put down nothing
except names of articles and figures to
follow them"
"Of course. It's really her expense
book. but all she does is to go shopping"
Judge.