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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18

cent with the asking rate at 5 IL per
cent
Durins the upward movement Of
prices the Coalers continued conspic-
uous and the high-priced members uf
the group made new high record
prices. Beyond the general prosperity
in that industry there was no news
to explain the movement which was
attributed largely to speculative opera
tons The meeting being held in this
city of organizations in the stock trade
to the advance in the prices of differ
ent lines of finished products gave a
firm tone to the steel industrials The
Republic Steel stocks were helped in
addition by gossip regarding the proc
able dividend action at tomorroW's
meeting. The announcement of the
entry of United States Steel and Cen
eral Electric interests into the Ameli-
can Locomotive directorate was taken
to explain the previous advance in that
stock. The days net movement was
inconclusive and the closing tone was
heavy and at small losses as a rnle.
Bonds were Irregular. Total sales
(par valued $3,0G0,000.
II. S. rs and the new As, registered,
declined is and the new As, coupons,
advanced is per cent on call
Total sales 554,S00 shares. includ-
ing Copper 67,800; Cotton Oil 100; A.
c.. L.. 300 c. and O., 1900; Erie Ia
200; M. X and Texas. 24,200; n. and
w, 800: Pennsylvania 25,800 Read
ing $4,000; Southern Railway $500;
do. preferred 200; Tennessee Coal soc;
Union Pacific 44,300; Steel 10000;
Carolina Chemical Co., 200;
do preferred 100; oss-Sheffeld Steel
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
New Orleans Cotton.

New Orleans. Oct. 17.-Spot cotton
opened firm and closed easy. but Lot
duOtably lower. Sales We're Z.90o
bales including $50 to arrive. Quo
tations unchanged.
Middling ga. The future market
was quiet and steady. At the open
ing prices were about A points up
Buying orders for a time were suFii-
GENTLY numerous to carry prices up
3 to 10 points above the opening.
Later in the session. without any ap-
narent cause other than bear liquida-
ton. prices gradually eased off TO
within a point or two of last even
ing's finals. In the trading December
opened 4 points UP at 9.64. sold up 20
9.72, declined to 951 and finally adj
vanced to $50. The market closed
steady. net points to points down
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18

New York. Oct. H-Money on call firm, 414@ S14
-. lowe t.. g., ruling rate ....... clos
ing AZ. offered at 42t time loans firm. GO and
80 days54G0 q. six months 4A05, prime mer-
cantle paper AGO. erling excange firm with
actual business in bankers bills at 486. 250 80
for demand and at 482 40a 482 as for co day bills
posted rates 483Gl1a and 4SG0@. commercial
bills 1870 q bar silver 621s, Mexican dollars
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
AN EIGHT TO NINE
POINTS ADVANCE
Followed by Weakness
After the Crop Report.
NO DAMAGE BY FROST
Increased Supply Of Loanable Funds
Started Professional Operators
to Buying Stocks. Call Loan Rate
Rose and Stocks We're
Sold.
(By the Associated Press. }

New York. Oct. 1.-THE attitude
of buyers in the dry goods market
today continued TO be one of increas-
ed conservatism and yet there was
general firmneSs on all lines brought
about largely by the fact that so few
goods were available for early deiiv-
cry. Buyers differed in their views
about future buying, but all admitted
the difficulty of securing goods today.
New York Cotton.
New York Oct. 1.-THE cotton
market rallied several points during
the early session, but weakened i'm the
afternoon and sold at new low level
for the season. There was a slight
rally toward the close on covering,
with the final tone very steady, at an
advance of points to decline as
compared with yesterday. Sales Were.
estimated at 100000 bales.
The opening was steady at an Q L
vance of to points in response 10
higher cables. The weather map
showed very favorable conditions
through the Delta, and the market at
first worked off or points TO 'irm
up again and for the end of the first
half hour on active covering and some
fresh buying promoted by the small
er estimates for tomorrOWs receipts
at Houston. predictions for rain f1.-
lowed by lower tempera lures in :he
Northwestern belt and reports Of
buying for the account of spot houses
After selling up to a net advance Oi
about 8 to 3 points. the market weak
ened following the weekly crop re-
port, which without reading beariSa-
ly reported no damage from frost ana
In the afternoon December sold at
1852 and January at 9.62 or to y
points net lower. Covering by carly
sellers was responsible for the rally
of or ; points toward the close
Southern spot markets were Lilo
lower To Lice higher.
Receipts at the ports today. 65.S4
bales. against 1850 last week and
91,94O last year. For the week (esti-
mated) $4,000 bales, against 347062
last week. and 391. 400 last year. fo-
days receipts at New Orleans G,493
bales. against 26,630 last year, md
at Houston, 30,O96 bales, against
1898 last year.
New York. Oct 17-Spot closed quiet 10
points decline.
Mddng uplands 9.Ss; middling gulf 10. nc: sales
- bales Cotton futures opened steacy and
closed very steady.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
Naval Stores.

Wilmington. Oct. 17.-Turpentne firm, G714,
receipts Is casks.
Rosin steady receipts 129 bbls
Tar firm. 1870, receipts 43.
Crude steady, 425fG4. 7S0t75, receipts 113.
Charleston, Oct. 17.-Turpentne and rosin
nothing doing.
Savannah Oct 17-Turpentine steady. &c.
sales ll25 receipts5i9. shipments 179.
Rosin firm sales, 2025. receipts 2347 ship
mentS 1926.
A. b. c, 40; D. 4.i0; E,445 f. 40: G, AIS; H.
4s0 LASS; X, S.Oo< M. Sio N $50; VIC. S4S;
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
S. A. Il. Stocks and Bonds.
New oYrk Money.

Baltimoree, Oct. rs. A. L. common
do preferred ..,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
Won Big Success in St. Louis.

Along the visitors to the State Fair
is Mr.. Jesse Battle. of st. Louis. 4
member of the firm of Battle & Co.,
chemists, who have made big money
and reputation in ST. Louis. Twenty
five years ago Mr.. Battle and his
brothers kept a drug store in Wilson,
and moved to St Louis. where they
have achieved high success. MIR. Bat
tie is a true Tar-hee! and his friends
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
Sale of Two Fine Mules.

BY virtue of authority of a mort
gage from J. D. Norris, recorded in
book 1913 at page ZOO in the office of
the Register Of Deeds for Wake coun-
ty, we will, on Monday, October %.
1905, at IL M, in front of the court
house door in Raleigh, North Carolina,
sell to the highest bidder for cash,
one gray horse mule about eight years
old, and one brown horse mule, about
six years old.
For further information concerning
these mules call at our office.
WATSON & LAMBERT,
Attorneys.
10-4-tds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18
Grain and Provisions.

Chicago. oct. 17.-Revived reports
cf partial grain famine in Russia
were mainly responsible today for
strength i'm the wheat market here
AT the close wheat for December de-
livery was up "a to 7-Sc. Corn
shows a gain of lie Oats are up
Lac. to 3-Sc. Provisions are 2 IL to
Z l-2c. lower.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-18

/ Ours are the largest green houses
in the Sollh. All phones 149. j. l..
O'Quinn & Co, Raleigh.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
Destructive Swiss AvaIanches.

An avalanche which recently occur
red near the town of Davos, in Swift
zerland, came down from height of
nearly 5000 feet, and entirely closed
one of the rural roads leading to the
city. In order to restore a passage it
was necessary to cut tunnel through
the hard snow. To what extent and
of what magnitude such avalanches
occur in Switzerland may be imagined
from the fact that about two months
ago slide took place from the gla-
ciers which was estimated to contain
over 100000 cubic feet of snow. In
many instances small villages have
been entirely buried under these
masses.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
Farmers Buying Big Motor Cars.

Chicago, Feb. 7.-Farmers of the
northwest have been converted to the
automobile. Those who cursed it
formerly and urged legislation against
it have now recognized its real worth
and have become it's friends. The
farmer is beginning to discard his
carriage, and from now on he may be
seen riding to town in his automobile.
This fact has been the surprise of
the automobile show in Chicago.
Farmers from the northwest are buy
ing more than from those of any other
section, because they are more pros
porous there than elsewhere. They
are spending their superfuous cash
for automobiles. The manufacturers
of automobiles, the dealers, the sales
men, the newspapers and the public
have noticed this new turn in affairs,
and it is causing much comment here
during the exhibition.
The Tribune says: Farmers are
spending their money on what they
have in the past regarded as a luxury
but which they find has it's utilitarian
side. Roads in the western and north
western states are generally good, and
farmers no longer look on the auto
mobile as an experiment"
1.-THE Journal says: Farmers and
ranchmen look upon the machines,
not in the light of luxuries now. The
country buyer asks for machine
that can climb hills and go from 70
to 100 miles without stopping"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
Earliest Form Of Firemakino.

The rubbing of sticks of dry wood
together in order to create fire among
all peoples has been the earliest form
of iremaking The striking of iron
pyrites specimens against flint was a
later evolution. leading to the modern
flint and steel. There is no record OF
any peoples having USED the principle
of spontaneous combustion in the pro.
duction of fire. though it is certain
that in many geographical sections of
the world this phenomenon was OBJ
servable.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

"a few days ago received a terrible
cut from rusty shovel, lacerating the
third finger on the left hand to the
bone. used Greene's Infallible
Liniment, as urged by friend. The
pain left me in few minutes after an
application of the Liniment. l re-
sumed work in three days, perfectly
cured. Signed VIM. L. Stenson, 1916
Emerald Ave-, Chicago, ILL.," We
sell and guarantee this great liniment
for burns, bruises, wounds, etc.
]. B. Perkins.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

A daily paper for $1.O0 a year is
something the public has long desired.
The Chicago Daily Review, delight
full family daily, giving all important
news, market reports and many
interesting departments for men,
women and children, is sent to sub
scribers for 81 year, rs cents for 6
months, so cents for months.
Subscribe today, address, The Chicago
Review Co., 399 Coca-Cola Building,
Chicago, Illinois. 29-12t
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
II Babies Could Vote

the maker of Greene's Cough Cure
would some day be President, because
this Great Remedy has saved children
of all ages much suffering disease,
and in many instances, death.
"Pure, Safe, Sure" are words of truth
as applied to Greene's Cough Cure.
Mothers should keep it on hand, be-
cause colds come unannounced and
need immediate attention. 1t is posi-
lively guaranteed to give satisfaction.
j. B. Perkins.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

A man came in this week and
stopped his paper because he did
not like the ''style of the Herald"
If any other of our readers do not
like our style Just mention it and
we will change it. We keep a
great variety of styles constantly
on hand, warranted to match any
political complexion and to fit any
hobby.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
The Ideal HOLIDAY

To be allowed to live On the SIM
plest fare and read all day would be
a real holiday to many of us; to re-
ceive no letters, read no papers, en-
ter on no discussions, have no plans
to make, no times to keep, no trains
to catch. to get up, go to bed, talk, or
keep silence just as and when we
choose, would be paradise to others
Of us could We but have such a holi-
DO 80 Pictorial.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
Wheat Growers Interested

w. E. Metzger of the Cadillac COM
pany, Detroit, says: "There is an
active demand for motor cars by farm
ers in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and
Nebraska. The wheat planters are
beginning to get into the automobile
band wagon, as are the cattlemen of
the southwest. minneapolis Jour-
nal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
Peach Stones for Fuel.

In California it is found that peach
stones burn as well as the best coal
and give out more heat in proportion
to weight. Large quantities of the
stones taken out of the fruit that is
timed or dried are collected or sold.
Apricots stones also burn, but not so
we'll as peach, and do not command so
high a price.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
Comments on the Wildcat.

Comments on the Wildcat.
A wildcat was caught in a trap In
Rosshire, Scotland, recently, and is
to be carefully stuffed and preserved.
The Westminster Gazette says a wild
cat is beautifully remarked" and
adds that 1T is more dangerous for
game or man than the fox
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
EXPENDITURES.
No. s.,

NO D..
Notwithstanding the lavish ex
penditure of government funds
there are new fields that ought to
be entered involving the expendi-
ture of large sums of money.
There should be public building
erected in every city where the
rent paid for the housing of public
business will pay fair interest on
the investment. Every utility
expenditure that will yield in
public benefit fair rate of interest
on the amount invested is an
economical expenditure. There
exists within the boundaries of the
United States and still part of
the public domain, immense areas
of arid, semi-arid, and swamp lands,
much of the former susceptible of
reclamation by irrigation and the
latter by drainage. There is no
question but what a systematic re-
clamation of these lands should be
continued by the general govern
ment. No farmer would hesitate
to reclaim piece of waste land if
the value of the land when re-
claimed would equal the cost of
reclamation, and the government
ought to continue in this work
until every acre of swamp and arid
land now in the possession of the
government susceptible of reclama-
ton at a fairly reasonable cost, is
made fit for the habitation of man.
A hundred million year for ten
years would accomplish this result.
The lands thus reclaimed would
support twenty million people.
At the rate of per capita tax now
paid they would contribute one
hundred million annually to the
revenues of the government and
the lands and water rights if
properly disposed of would more
than repay the original expenditure.
1t costs approximately seven
hundred and fifty million dollars
annually to run this government.
This amount and more is raised
without unduly expressing the
people. This amount could be
increased largely by a judicious
and moderate income tax that
would burden no one. One hundred
and fifty million might be saved by
the judicious practice of economy
and none of the departments be
crippled. One hundred millions
of this could be used in retaining
public domain and fifty million in
the erection of needed public
buildings and this expenditure
distributed among the masses of
people, as it naturally would be,
would give business in every part
of the nation such an impetus as
alone would almost pay the ex-
penses of the government for
making the improvements.
The running expenses of the
government should be kept at the
lowest possible point consistent
with good service and fair pay.
Utility expenditures should be
made whenever the public benefit
from the same will pay fair rate
of interest on the investment, when
this can be done without increasing
the public debt.
Every just obligation should be
promptly paid and every unmeri-
torious claim promptly repudiated.
Ne gratuitles should be bestowed
except to the specially deserving
and in cases of national calamity.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

We received two communications
this week requesting'us to ''knock'
certain parties. If anyone desires
to do any "knocking" through the
Herald they must sign the COM
munication. All the unsigned
knocks are charged to the editor
and he has to sit up nights explain
ing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

Kansas blazed the way for slave
emancipation marking the trail
with the blood of her best and
bravest. She is now blazing the
way for the emancipation of the
people from the grip of the
Standard Oil Trust. Kansas may
be a state Of cranks but you must
have a crank to turn the machine
of reform.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
Meat of Giraffe Popular

African epicures consider tho
tongue of young giraffe a great deli.
cacy. The meat of the animal is said
to taste somewhat like veal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

rtas appropriate Monumens.
A German pencil-maker. recently de-
ceased, has over his grave a gigantic
stone representation Of half a. lead
pencil set as a tombstone. It is Of
red sandstone, with a core Of graphite
8 inches in diameter
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

We noticed that congress has
progressed some since we left that
body. About the best it could do
when we were there was for the
members to call each other liars,
thieves and boodlers, now they are
charging each other with homicide.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

A New Jersey girl tainted away
when q man tried to kiss her. We
wonder what would have happened
If he. had succeeded in the attempt.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

A robin was seen last week. It.
was seen on the southern coast of
Florida.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16
PASSES.

telegraph, express, telephone and
similar passes issued to public
officials by corporations and
companies. We. want it distinctly
understood that we are not a purist
| in this matter. We have no desire
to pose as reformer. Our wife
has. not said anything about any
tsymptom of wings sprouting on
our shoulders. We have probably
travelled as many miles, sent as
many messages and shipped as
much express on passes as any man
in this part of the country. We
never tried to obtain cheap notoriety
by ostentatiously returning pass
Of any kind and widely advertising
the fact for the benefit of the pub
lie. As long as passes are issued
and they are sent to us we will use
them. We are frank to state,
however, that the issuance of such
passes is absolutely indefensible
from any point of view. That
they are intended to influence the
action of the receivers is evidenced
by the fact that they are not issued
to any parties except those who
possess the power of comforting
favors of some kind on the issuers,
and when the receivers no longer
possess such power they don't get
any more passes.
Pass issuing is one of the most
insidious forms of bribery. The
bride is not large enough to be in
sulting but it is sufficiently valuable
to be exceedingly attractive and
the implied compliment in receiv-
ing one is higher priced than the
monetary value. We never really
thought we amounted to much till
we began receiving passes then we
commenced TO consider ourselves
one of the great and influential men
of the land. To say that our pub
lie men are not Influenced bv passes
is to say our public officials are
low-down penny-grabbers that will
accept valuable favors without
reciprocating if opportunity pre-
sents itself.
The public pays for these passes
and there is no good reason why
the public should pay for sending
a public officials messages, express
or his railroad fare than it should
pay for his wife's shoes and child
ren's dresses.
A judge with pass in his pocket
has no more business to try a case
in which the interests of the pass
issuer are involved than he would
have to try case in which our
interests were involved, with a gold
eagle that we had presented him
in his pocket.
A legislator with his pockets
filled with passes, has no more
right to legislate on matters in
which the interests of the pass
issuers are involved than he would
have the right to legislate on
matters in which our interests were
involved after he had accepted a
present of. mink skin coat for
himself and a diamond sunburst
for his wife, from us.
All public and seml-public cor
porations should be prohibited by
law from issuing passes to any save
their regular employees, and they
should be required to file a list of
all passes issued with the Secretary
of State, for public inspection and
state the reasons why they were
issued. We believe corporations
and public officials alike would
welcome such legislation. Let it
ba passed.
In this pass matter ''we speak
as one with authority and not as a
scribe" We know what we are
talking about.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

A we'll written advertisement is
personal inv itation for every
person who reads it to come and
trade with you. People seldom
fail to respond to a personal invita-
ton.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

If the party who predicted an
opon winter will call at this office
he will be kindly welcomed-with
an ak.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

Letters have been pouring into
the Herald Office anent our article
on President Roosevelt. They are
not all complimentary.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

We are in the banana belt all
right but just now the bananas are
away on a vacation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

No one has thought of citing the
United States senate as an example
of the benifcent results of long
terms of office.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

We have hopes that the weather
will moderate soon. Our foreman
actually cracked joke Wednesday
morning.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

The legislature seem to be put
ting in their time with great
.rapidity.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-02-16

The article, "Trees That Have q
History" written by Mrs. Martha
l.. Schneider, the brilliant literary
and club woman of Washington.
D. g., is but the forerunner of a
series of articles, social, personal
and gossipy about noted personages.
events and places in that the mos,
interesting city in the world. W.
think these articles will prove one
of the most interesting features
of our paper, as there is nothing
like them in any other paper.