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ELECTS TO TAKE DOVER.
James w. Orme's Widow Files Formal
Notice In Court TODAY.

In the matter Of the estate Of James w.
Orme, deceased, who was vice president Of
the Washington Gas Light Company. his
Widow. Mrs Ella Orme. this afternoon, in
the Probate Court, formally elected to tata
her legal share of the estate In lieu of the
requests made to her In the will of her hus-
band.
Under the will Mrs. Orme was given a
life interest in the family home, the use Of
the horses and carriages an income az
$3,O00 q year and the cash in bank that ba-
longed to the testator.
The personal estate OF Mr. Or1ne is VAL
ued, according to q return made to the Pro-
bate Court, at about $50. 600 The real as
tate Is said to be worth more than 500 on
By law Mrs. Orme Is entitled to one-fhiri
q the personal estate and to one-third OF
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The World Of
Finance and rade
THE COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, January 19.-The cotton
market opened steady at unchanged prices
to an advance OF four points, better re-
sponse to the higher cables being prevented
by heavy realizing. which sent prices on.
following the call. to about u.77 for March,
or four points net lower.
The selling on scale down seemed to
reduce the offerings, and toward the end OF
the first hour the market rallied on bull
support and covering with prices working
some 3a4 points net higher. Liverpool
cables reported good spot demand at an
advance OF nine points, and early adytces
from the south were bullfsh as to the spot
position.
Futures opened barely steady. January,
H.60; February, 11.S5; April, Hiss; May,
u-S2; July, 1877: August, 11.76; September.
11.05 bid; October, 1891.
ihe market at midday was quiet, but
steady, with prices about 3 points off from
the best. or practically unchanged as COM
pared with yesterday. Spot cotton quiet;
1850
Estimated receipts at the ports today.
22.00O bales. against 27.O39 last week, and
f,27 last year. For the week. 135. 900
bales. against 161, S74 last week, and I25.-
911 last year. Today's receipts at New Or
leans, 1862 bales. against $500 last year.
and at Houston, $50 bales, against 3, S37
last year.
Today's Cotton Summary.
Quotations furnished by Atwood Violet & Co..
members New York and New Orleans cotton ex.
changes Washington Office. 713 14th ct. NV.
NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE
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Liverpool Prices.

LIVERPOOL. January 19-Cotton-Spot,
good business done; prices nine points
higher; American middling fair, $50; good
middling. Gas; middling. $50; low middling,
ei4; good ordinary, 5.96; ordinary. $50.
The sales of the day were 10000 bales, OF
which 900 were for speculation and export,
and included S.70O American. Receipts,
$4,000 bales. including 4,3OO American
Futures opened firm and closed steady;
American mfddling, 6. o. c.. January, %;
January and February, $50; February and
March. 6.21: March and April 1928; April
and May, 6.26; May and June. CPS: June
and July. 500; July and August, $50;
August and September. 6.23: September
and October 595: October and November.
SIS; November and December. $50
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Ask Receiver for Chicago Grain Firm

CHICAGO. January 19-Appiication was
made this morning In the United States dis
trict court for a receiver for the property
of George s. McReynoids. the head of the
large grain firm of McReynolds & Co..
which suspended yesterday. The applica-
ton. which Is for the personal property Of
McReynolds only, was made in an inyotun-
tary bankruptcy petition filed by
three of the creditors OF Mercy
nolds, whose claims aggregate more
than 81 800. The petition alleges that Mr..
Reynolds committed an act OF bankruptcy
by transferring his property to the firm
of PringIe. Fitch & Rankin. The court took
the matter under advisement.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call, IL O'Clock noon-U. s. regis,
tered IS, $500 at 102h.
Capital Traction 4s $500 at 107.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. As, 81 900 at S7&
81 600 at 87A, 81, 600 at S7H
Capital Traction 20 at 149, 10 at 149.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd., s at 80, at
90, 8 at 90, so at s9as, 80 at S9k.
Washington Rwy. and Elec COM, 10 at 43. 20
at 42Y; at q, 20 at 42H; 100 at 42E. 100 at
42h. 100 at 42ta, 100 at 42h. 900 at 42H, 80
at 42h. 100 at 42Ka 100 at 42is. 100 at 421s, 100
At a2x h, 100 at "A 100 at 421a; 100 at AZ
at 42ss, 100 at 42N, 100 at 427s, so at 42gs
Traders National Bank, at 100. s at 1872.
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone, at IS,
% at "a.
Southern Public Service Corp, at 115.
Lsnston Monotype, 100 at IA, 20 at 141s.
American Graphophone pfd, 100 at 8.
Greene Copper. 20 at 29as, 20 at 29H 20 at 29as.
10 at 28ss. 10 at 29ss, 40 at 29A. 100 at 29jI,
500 at 29H.
Mitchell Mining, 100 at 1917, 100 at 1914, 100
at 1871. 100 at 1874.
After educational City Bank 5 at 49,
Mitchell Mining. 100 at 49,.
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THE BALTIMORE MARKET
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SpecIaI DIspatch 10 The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md. January 19-WHEAT-Weak:
airy, s6Aas6h; March, s74as7z; May sss.as9;
steamer No. red. 79Ha79A; receipts, 26, $50
bushels; southern grade. 7934as5X
CoRN-Steady; spot, 491aa49x; January 495a
a9s February 4stsa4ea.; March, 4sTsa5O. May,
oOA; July, SIN; steamer mixed 4SiSa4Sl: re.
ceipts. 274 $50 bushels; EXPORTS IS ia bushels
southern white corn. 42a50; southern yellow corn
41Aa48h. wan
oATS-Easier; No. 2 white. 37aa3s; No. white.
36t4aS7 No. mixed. 36a361a; receipts, MS
bushels. $3.50
RYE-Steady; No. 2 western, 73 export 7ea77
Domestic receipts, 9,1S3 bushels; exports, AZ 851
bushels. -'oo'
HAY-Quiet, unchanged
GRAIN FREIGHTS-Steady unchanged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19

George s. erosion. retired merchant of
Frederick. Md. died there Wednesday night
OF general debility. He would have been
niHety-one years old February g. and was
Fredericks oldest resident He was born
in Utica, Frederick county
Andrew L. Eaton. president OF the Cres-
;ent Belt Fastener Company, with offices
n New York. committed suicide in the
Vanderbilt Hotel in that city yesterday by
aking poison
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19
Trial Of the Charleston.

Orders have been given at the Navy De-
partment for the final trial of the protected
cruiser Charleston on Monday next. That
vessel is in Hampton roads, having Just re-
turned from visit to Charleston. The
eight hours.
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THE GRAIN MARKETS.

CHICAGO. January 49, - Reports were
that the weather in Argentina was favor
able for the movement of the new wheat
crop. sent May off to s77sasS here today.
Small local receipts and continued good de-
mand advanced May corn to 45lAa45K to
45H.
On proht-taking by small holders May
oats eased off to 32a32ls to 32h.
May provisions opened easy, pork at
l4.17hs; lard at 7.65; ribs at 7.6Oa7 62h.
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Grain and Provisions Summary.
Liverpool Prices.

LIVERPOOL, January 19.-wheat: Spot
steady; No red. western winter, 6s. I'd:
futures quiet; March. Is. Nd; May, &c. 1O1kd.
Corn: Spot quiet; American mixed. new. As
3D.; American mixed, old, Is. Sgd; futures
steady; January, As 21ad; March, As. Sd. ::
May. As. 3aid.
70 los. a f3 los.
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Today's Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today for
redemption 81. 33s $50; government receipts
from internal revenue $7S3, $50: customs.
1854 1888; miscellaneous, $50, 225; expenda-
lures 81 $50 COO
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Outside Routine News.
New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs & Co.. banl ers
and brokers. 1419 street. members New
York stock exchange Washington stock
exchange and Chicago board of trade.
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FINANCIAL.

REPORT OF THE WASHINGTON LOAN AND
TRUST COMPANY to the comptroller Of the cur
rency for the year ending December 81, 1906, as
required by section 16 of the act OF Congress
approved October /, 1880.
Capital 81 900, 600 90
surplus .'..............'.''' ooo'M eVo ~
nnaivlded pronts '....'....'..'..... 'o,osa =.
Deposits. December 81 1905 -. sass. 4G II
Gross earnings !, for year ending De- 90. 80, ;.
Expenses including amount set aside
Net earnings, 1905 ................. 1870 OF
We John Joy Edson President; John A. Hamil-
Bailey and John B. Larner, Directors, Of the
Washington Loan and Trust Company. do solemniy
that the foregoing report Is true to the best
0N' 5No. Joy EDISON, President.
JOHN A. HAMILTON. Secretary.
c efn = B. sT BAILEY,
JOHN B. LARNER,
District of Columbia, Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
Seal 'A' ALFRED B. DENT, Notary Public.
A. M sHEs T MnrSoSi Z " Nh NoYss
4; $: WoHTA5sGroN, WM "a !, MEARNs;
JNo. R. CARaioDY, AUGUSTUS CRANE, Jr..
B. H. WARNER, LOUIS p. SHOEMAKER,
1t Directors
SOUTHERN COFFEE AND SPICE COMPANY.
We the e.. undersigned the Pre-. President and ma
this under and IN of G
provisions of Section 617 of the Code of Law for the
District of Columbia. under which code the said
company is Incorporated.
Authorized capital. $3.50 900 90
Capital paid in. Observation-Disclosures. 81 400 90
Amount of existing debts. .............. 1916 IS
Witness hands this 18th day of January, A D.
1905.
(Signed) FRANK A. BURTON, President.
(Signed) J. F. SMELL,
(Signed.1 GEORGE LEBRECHT, Trustees.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. SIS:
Frank A. Burton, being duly sworn, according
to law, deposes and says that he Is the President
of the above named corpora ton; that he has read
the foregoing its annual report, and knows the
contents thereof, and that the same Is true to the
best knowledge, information and belief of de-
ponent
FRANK A. BURTON
Sworn to before this 18th day of January,
1906. (Slgned} JOHN L. FLETCHER.
1t Notary Public, D. G.
STATEMENT OF EMPIRE SAFETY TREAD co.
We the president and majority of the board
of trustees Of the Empire Safety Tread Company
of the District of Columbia do hereby certify that
$250, 600, and has been paid, and there are no
debts Of said company.
GEORGE H. ROBERTS, Jr., President.
GEORGE H. ROBERTS, Jr.,
F. II. NEWCOMB,
WILLIAM A. STROUT,
I, WILLIAM l.. EXTANCE, Secretary of the
Empire Safety Tread Company Of the District of
In the above certificate true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
WM. L. EXTANCE.
Subscribed and to before me this 18th
(Seal.) CHARLES II. MURCH,
1t' Notary Public for the State of New York.
LIBRARY HOTEL COMPANY. INOORPORATED
1900 as slf,2saes: and its expenditures
$ll,437:l7. W. +, CRAFTS. President. B. B.
IF
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FOREIGN BANK BUSINESS.

LONDON. January 19.-Buliion amount
Ing to 915.000 was taken into the Bank of
England today, and 10000 was with
drawn. OF which 10000 was for shipment
TO South Africa and 10000 for shipment
to South America
BERLIN, January 19.-Exchange on Lon
don. 20 marks 1914 pfennigs for checks.
Discount rates-Short and three months
bills, 81 per cent.
PARIS, January 10. = Three per cent
rentes, 9S francs 95 centimes for the ac-
count. Exchange on London, % francs is
confines for checks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19

Bar silver, steady. 30t4d per ounce
Money. 3taa4 per cent
The rate Of discount In the open market for short
The rate of discount In the omen market for tbraa
months bills Ia 3%a3k per cent law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19

LIBRARY HOTEL COMPANY. INCORPORATED
1908, hereby reports Its cash receipts to Jan. 49,
1905 as SIT 26425 and its expenditures
S11, 437l7 w, r. CRAFTS, President B. B.
BASSErTE Secretary. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-19

According to statements made at the of
flee of the Tennessee Coal Company the
offer to retire the preferred stock being but
a renewal of the offer made In 1900, pro-
vides for a reduction of 81 per cent on &C
count of back dividends paid in that year.
SO that, on the basis of 100 for the common
stock, the preferred has a value an ex-
change Of about $40 share. This would
seem hardly likely to attract holders of a
stock entitled to s per cent cumulation
dividends and preferred not only as to diyi-
dends but as to assets.
The further statement is made that the
preferred stocks voting power is precisely
the same as that Of the common This
statement would accurately describe the sit
uation. even II the charter provided for
instance, that two-thirds vote of each
class of stock was necessary, say. to an
thorize new issue Of securities, but II Is
easy to see what a tremendous power this
would place in the hands Of the preferred
stockholders. II ds tntimated that the vot-
ing power of Tennessee Coal preferred is
something OF this kind
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. January 19--Another indi-
cation Of a normal easing in money condi-
tons abroad Is afforded by the action OF the
Imperial Bank Of Sweden. which has re-
duced its minimum rate of discount to S per
cent from 51z per cent. The last previous
change made by the bank In It's rate Of dis
count was on December q Last. when 1t
was raised to 5ax per cent from per cent:
on September q last It was advanced to
per cent from ~ per cent; on February 9
last the rate was reduced u Of / per cent
to AZ per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
A Great Curse.

"Oone of the curses of this age said
a druggist last night, lis the dope habit.
You would be surprised to know how
many fiends there are. The worst of the
thing is the habit grows on them rapidly.
These dope fellows begin by buying the
stuff once week After awhile they come
oftener than once a week.
II know boy about 20 years of age who
the dope does for them, this boy had
worked up to a good position and was a
very nice young fellow Now he has
lost his place and the last time he was
in the store, just the other day, ! caught
him stealing a bottle of patent medicine
one of the 'bracers.' And there is an old
woman who is one of our best customers
in that line-she is the saddest picture
you ever saw. It's the fatal exhilaratlon
of the thing that makes il so insidious
Whisky. they say paints landscapes on the
brain of man, but dope is the artist that
paints the moving pictures, and in colors
that would tax the repertoire of a box Of
diamond dyes That is in the beginning
A little later on there are no pictures,
only the click of the machine when the
lights are dying out. The man who fools
with dope Is not only on the road but he
is on the express train to wreck and
ruin"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
An Interesting Race.

THE absorbing topic in political circles
Just now is the race for Congress In the
Sixth district in which Capt Richmond
Pearson Hobson is seeking to succeed Col
John IL. Bankhead'' said a man who is
in close touch with the situation.
''The time for the primary In the race
for governor is yet too far away to at
tract much attention, and In no other part
of the state is there political fight OF
any magnitude. Therefore the people are
watching with interest the race in the
Sixth.
There is an impression outside the
district that Bankhead is going to have
an easier time getting elected this year
than he did two years ago. Whether or
not this is true, | am not in position to
say, but can truthfully state that in
the district there is no such feeling of
confidence. The manner in which the
Bankhead cohorts are at work shows
that they are by no means over confident
of the victory, although they talk as if
the matter was already settled.
1.-THE Hobson men are also talking VIC
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
NEW KIND OF INSURANCE.

From the Atlantic.
But the Amalgamated Book Insurance
company does not end its usefulness
there, shall issue a guarantee policy
to protect the policy holder against dull
poor and trashy books. Every morning
credit sheet will be sent to all hold
ers of this policy and on It will be listed
all the books issued the day previous.
including the magazines. Opposite each
book will be its rating, as 3D." "BB,"
" 'B12" and so on. and each policy
holder will have sheet giving the key
to the ratings
The ratings will be prepared by the
most conscientious corps of critics avail
able. As the Amalgamated Book Insur-
anee company will receive no advertising
from publishers. the ratings will be just
and true
II you read in the daily papers that
Green Fire" the new novel from the
pen of Silas o. Dummy. Is beyond all
question the best book of the year, If not,
indeed, of the past ten centuries you
can turn TO the credit sheet.
Green Fire. a novel, by Silas O..
Dummy. PG47X,'' 1t says. You look at
the key. and find that "PGfX' means
Dull, trashy, weakly sentimental, not
and valuable time.
For magazines the quotations will des-
ignate whether the matter contained runs
to Exposure" Ladies Fashions"
Cuff" or Good Reading"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
THE woRKHoUsE BROTHERHOOD
with the Procession in Everybody's
Ma1azine for Nav

with the Procession" in Everybodys
Magazine for May.
In a Cleveland apartment house live
twenty-three graduates OF the workhouse
They are working for themselves. and not
the city, now. They are trying to support
one another in the resolve TO lead better
lives and be useful and decent members
of the community. Whatever they have
been, they are now working manfully
Their brotherhoon is run on the cooper
alive plan The members pay its expense.
The plan is excellent. There should be
more of such brotherhoods: and not too
much public attention should be turned
toward them. There is a certain offensive,
plying patromizing air on the part of
the 'unco- guid'' toward the unfortunate
and the found-out criminal. One of the
rules of the Cleveland house seems to us
more than a little unreasonable. Every
member must promise not only TO be a
total abstainer, but not to use tobacco.
right, II these man have an aversion to
tobacco If the rule is thrust upon them
by excellent outside philanthropists, IT Is
all wrong. Tobacco is not a hanging mat
ter. 1t makes a great many persons more
and contented, especially after
a good days work. A man trying to re-
form ought not TO be made to feel that
1.-The devil has all the good tunes" and
that he may so to the devil If he won't
give up his pipe. Make the crook straight.
If you can; but don't insist upon making
him better than many better citizens are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
SkYSCRAPER TESTED.

From the New York Herald.
The first test of the San Francisco sky
seraper came in October, 1891 right after
the Chronicle building was finished. One
night, while the force was busy getting
out the paper" there came a series of
shocks that severely tried the steel-riv-
eted joints of the Orders. At the street
level the shocks were plainly felt but up
in the top stories it was awesome One
of the men who was caught in it thus de-
soribes his sensations:
1.-THE first feeling was one of being in
a small boat on a long Pacific swell; the
building rocked like the swing of a pen
dulum. There were four of five of these
oscillations. At the very first | was over
come with nausea. Had l been at sea for
twenty-four hours all the time accumulat-
ing a growing attack of seasickness I
could not have been more Ill than l was
at that moment All the working rooms
opened into a cracked corridor, which fol-
lowed the general contour of the cracked
building. For this there was a general
rush. | was one of the first to reach
the door, but one look outside only in
creased my fright and my nausea. That
cracked hallway appeared to be wriggling
around like a serpent | drew back into
the room and then it was all over The
building gave one shiver and stood still.
The next day 1t was computed that the
building had oscillated with sweep of
about three feet"
During that earthquake stone fronts
were cracked. but no buildings collapsed.
The steel framed "skyscraper" was gen
orally regarded as quake proof and the
Chronicle was followed by scores of bigger
and higher structures.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
A NATURAL MISTAKE.

Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree" in
Everybodys Magazine for May.
Oliver Herford once entered a doubt
ful-looking restaurant in small New
York town and ordered a lamb chop. At
ter long delay the waiter returned, bear
ing a plate on which reposed a dab of
mashed potatoes and a much overdoue
chop of mcroscopical proportions with a
remarkably long and slender rib attached
This the walter set down before him and
then hurried away
See here called HEREFORD. II ordered
chop.
'Yessir,' replied the man, there It is"
All, so 1t it, replied HEREFORD, peering
at 1t closely. Il thought it was a crack
in the plate"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-23
MAXIM eoRkVs DIslLLusIoN.

From the New York Times.
An ancient sage said that he would
rather live in a community In which moth
which everything is lawful Maxim Cork
comes from a country in which nothing Is
lawful. 1t has seemed to him that he
came TO country in which everything
is lawful He has discovered his terrible
mistake a mistake ruinous TO his hopes
of serving effectively the cause which
he has crossed the Atlantic to promote.
This is not a government, he discovers,
under which everything is lawful 1t is
a government of laws, of laws which are
in the last analysis conformed to and in
splred by public opinion. But there are
acts and practices not perhaps condemned
by law, but under the ban of public opin-
ion acts automatically, decisively, and
with no appeal. He has placed himself
under that ban. Society has promptly
avenged Itself upon him for social Of
Tense. No policeman or soldier was in
voked to visit upon him the penalties Of
this unwritten law. The law executed It.
self, through a number of agents of whom
no one had any other motive than his
personal interest. And he finds himself.
as a result, relying upon the private hos
pitality of residents of New York who
are less scrupulous than their neighbors.
He is In fact undergoing the punishment
of precisely that government by public
opinion which he has come to this country
for the purpose of helping to establish in
his own,