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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
lLs4 LADAA's MOCK MARK q
Largely a Repetition of the Previous
 Days.

New York, Aug 24 In the main, to- days stock market was largely a rep itition of the previous days Pretty much the same stocks were used as market leaders, and for the greater part of the day the same degree of ir- regularity prevailed The movement took in number of specialtles not es- pecially prominent in the recent activ- ity, such as National Lead and Inter- national Pump, but a fresh upward movement in the Paeifics, the Harri- man issues, was again the most prom inent feature. These stocks, together with United States Steel common, which early distinguished itself by scoring new high record for the movement, the Hill issues, Amalgamat- ed Copper, Atchison, St. Paul and Reading comprised the bulk of the. business. In fact, sales of Steel and Copper overshadowed all else in the first hour. Fears of furry in call loans, which opened at 5 per cent, seemed to vanish in the early after noon, when prices were at their high est, Forecasts showing bank losses for the week approximating s9,O0O, 900 were received with apparent indlffer- ence, in spite of the low state of re- serves and surplus Those who had { looked for some measure of financial relief from Washington must have had their hopes rudely dashed by the pro- 1 nouncement of the secretary of the treasury that present conditions call for no government assistance.
 The market gathered fresh impetus in the last hour, wehn call money fell 1-2 per cent. in spite of the popular belief that the bank reserves, on the | known movements of money, would probably show a deficit tomorrow. The sale of small block of of Amer I ican Express stock at 260 the highest | price in four years, was a feature of | the special group. The market grew dull in the late trading, with no mark ed tendency in either direction. The closing was very active and strong
 American securities held well in Lon don, where the general markets seem ed undisturbed over the probable changes in the cabinet. London was not a factor here, though that mar ket probably participated in the late
 buying of the Pacifcs, Time money was firmer in more limited supply, a half per cent commission again going with most ninety day and four months loans, while for over year aecommoda-
 tions the rate was equivalent to per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
NOT IN DIR SET. !"

On the ground, apparently, that her fellow-pupils were not of sufficiently good social standing, Miss Dorothy Rodway, the daughter of a court dress maker, was withdrawn from the Park field Ladies College, High Barnet
 The sequel was a claim by the pro- prietress of the school, Miss Russell, in the Bloomsbury Country Court, yester- day, against Mrs. Rodway, the court dressmaker for 819. Of this sum e16 12s Sd, was for fees at the college for the term ending August, 1906, in liu of notice, for the broad and tuition of Miss Rodway, while the balance was for singing lessons and sundries for the previous term.
 Why do you resist payment?' asked Judge Bacon of Mrs Rodway. When you sent your daughter to school, you knew the rule about notice.'
 'Well" was the reply, q com plained to Miss Russell about the com mon girls there were in her chool, and sh said she was obliged to take them or somebody else would"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
United state, government Bonds.

LOCAL STOCK QUOTATIONS. Furnished by Kimberly. Root & Day Bankers and Brokers, iSa orange Street,
 Bnnk Stocks.
 Par Rid AsIte1
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
RATTLESNAKE DOORYARD AND
 HIGHWAY.

Thomaston, Aug. 23.-A few days ago the family of Roderick Garfield were greatly excited over the appear anee of rattlesnake only a few feet from the door of their home. They barreled the snake, which had five rat ties. It was the first rattler seen about the premises in over 30 years.
 Monday, just before I o'clock, as the workmen living in Reynolds Bridge were coming into town on their bicy- cles, John Mclaughlin, who was lead ing, suddenly came upon a rattler cross ing the road. All hands came to a sudden halt-and the snake had the right of way going through the fence into tall grass, where it circled itself, raised it's head above the grass and got read for business. George Hotch- kiss shot its head off
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
Closing Prices.

The following are the closing prIcea reported by Prince & Whttely. Bankers and Brokers. 26 Broadway, New York. and IS Center street. New Haven:
 Bid Asked
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
Chicago Market.
Cotton Market.

Reported by Dick Bros. & Co.,, mem. bers of New York Stock and Cotton Fx- changes. Branch office No. SS Center street.
 New York Aue o4
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25

 Adams Express As. 1947.. 102h l03 Boston Elec. 6s, 100S .. 103 Branford L. & W. Bs. 1927. TOT .. Inter Silver deb 6s, 1933.. 90 92
 dc 1st 6s. 1941. .. lO7A 10SA Middletown, S.65, 1909 .... 100 .. N H. Gas cons As, 1910-1g ITS 1S0b N II Water con As, 1910~15 166k .. N. II. City Park 4s....... t9s ., N. H. City Park Sms.,.... 100 .. N H. Sewer As. 19l4..... 103 .. NH City Bridge 3hs... .. 101 N. L. Gas & F. 1st 5s, 1927 l05 1o7h New Milford Wa. P. l9S2...:: 105M 5. s N E a' Tel. i' 5s. isi8....... s... ~. 1sc Swift & Co, 5s, 1914...... 101h 1O2h United III, 4s, 1s40.... !. 9sts 
 'Ex-div.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
RniIrOad Stoeka.

Par. Bid. Asked Boston & Albany E.. 100 PATE 24Sa B. & N. Y. A. L. pfd.. 100 IA Conn. By. & Light. 100 41 Danbury & Bethel. 25 13h H. S Conn West.... 100 50 51 N. London Northern. 100 2lS .. N. Y, N. II. & H...... 100 l951a 197h West Shore ........ 70 S2h Q.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
STOCK MARKET FEATURES
BULLS TAKE HOLD AND RUN UP
 U, F. AND s. P,

Both to New High Records, and Close the Market at It's Best-GOOd Under tone All Day Despite Liquidation and Fear of Bad Bank Statement To-day --The Days Gossip.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-25
MesceIlancOus StOckA
 Far. RId- Aak

Berkshire St. 5s. 1922 ..... 105 107 Bridgeport Trac 5s, ls29.. 107 Bristol Tramway 4ks, 1945. 100 .. Conn. Ry.& It. 41As' 196l..1Oo 1o1 Cons, Ky. As, 1955'.''..,. 96% 97A Cons. Ky As. 1856, guar. 100 101% Cons. Ky deb, 1880. :. S9 D. & N. 5s. 1925, ,.......s. 110 N & N. 4s. 1955.....",. .. 105 .s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Higher Education in Packingtown.

Upton Sinclair in Success Magazine"
 The school statistics of Chicago for the year previous show-takng the twenty ninth and thirtieth wards as typical of the stockyards people-a total Packing town population of 1O5OOO, with 15,295 children between the ages of six and ff- teen attending public schools, 5213 attend ing other schools, and 1555 not attending school at all. From my general knowl- edge of the way the law is eyaded in Chicago, I am inclined to believe that this latter figure represents, say, one- third of the total. And, of course, during the present wave of immigration, the population is growing much faster than the statistics can keep up with it. I found, upon investigation last spring 0906), that in one parochial school (Pol- ish) there were 1000 children and only twelve teachers! In the German Cath ollie school, there were 1200 children and eighteen teachers and in the German Lutheran school, 800 children and only six teachers How much "higher educa- tion' the Paclingtown population gets may be judged from the fact that, cording to the city census there were d90D. in the twenty ninth and thirtieth wards previously mentioned, 545 children fifteen years of age or over, and under twenty-one, attending public schools. 319 attending other schools, and 9457 not at tending any school,
 The conditions in the parochial schools are simply q part of the system which prevails everywhere in Chicago-that of letting things take their own course. The children who go to a school with ninety pupils to one teacher might about as well be turned out into the streets and allowed to take care of themselves. And of course. that is done with them in summer. l remember my first Saturday in PackinStowu. my perpleNity over the enormous number of children I found in the streets. l was hardly 10 be per suaded that there was not a school some where near, and that these children were not out at recess: I could not believe that so many could be the normal out put of one single tenement block
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
BLUFFED THE SERGEANT.
Resourceful Policeman Got Reward
 Instead of Punishment.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 ''In the good old days before we had to report from signal boxes,' said a Hobo ken policeman, Eve were able to get in out of the wet and lay off in comfortable hunks until it was time to sneak out to meet the sergeant on his rounds. One rainy night Mike, my side partner, and were stretched on boards in coffin fac tory in the meadow section, having quiet smoke, when we heard the tattoo of a nightstick on the sidewalk just outside the office door,
 Whist, it's the old man! Mike gasped. He's on to us. We're in for ten days pay unless we sarcumyent him.
 ''The thought struck me that circumvent was a pretty big word for Mike to use on such a ticklsh occasion but didn't twt him about his English. We buckled on our belts in a hurry, grabbed our hel- mets and escaped by the back way.
 "We ran around a block, and Mike stopped short with a chuckle in front of a stable owned by a Hoboken man who was . afterward elected to a city office. He swung his stick thoughtfully and said:
 His nibs thinks we're in that coffin factory, and he's shure he's goin' to get us. He's got another think. Watch me. I've got an idee.'
 'USlnR 01S nBntSllck TOT d Mlhe forced open the stable door and went in. He struck a match, walked the length of the stalls and slapped his hand across the flank of the meanest-loolxing skate in the bunch.
 "'Ye'll de for me purposes he said con- 1idential like to an old bay with a chopped off tail. Come along with me-
 Five minutes later we were heading for the foot of the hill, Mike leading the horse by the halter, and your humble pub lie servant bringing up the rear, every once in a while fetching the nag Il clip with my club to stir him up bit. As We turned into the street leading to the cof- fin factory, we could hear the sergeant pounding on tine pavement for all he was worth. We knew from his raps that he was getting nervous.
 Come on, ye old brutee! growled Mike. jerking the halter savagely. Sorry to give ye so much exercise on such a nasty night, but we need yer service in the interests of our reputations.
 When we swung around the factory corner We saw the sergeant standing on his toes peeking into the office window. He turned a very wet and surprised face toward us.
 "'Where have you officers been, with me a rapping here for fifteen minutes, and what have ye got there? he exclaimed.
 It's pony, to be sure said Mike and it was stolen from IS stable We gave the thieves a chase to the foot of the hill but they got away. They let go of the nag when they seen us coming
 ''The sergeant looked as if somebody had hit him in the soft part of his neck with the hard side of a brick. and said:
 !" Take him to police headquarters and make out a report. Notify the owner and tell him to lock up his stable to prevent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

he has pulled out more hairs than he can grow in year; and so he gets bald
 ''The poor man keeps his hair simply by not combing it. He pays no attention to it and the roots stay in. They are not made ill by hard brushing and hard usage. We teach our patrons this, and the result is that they treat the delicate little hair roots with much more care.
 I've make our men patrons pay much attention to small things. We make them study the color of their eyes and the color of their skin.
 We have a blue-eyed man who comes in here. He has nice pink skin, which we treat regularly. But it is his eyes that are the best. They are a lovely china blue.
 We advise this man to wear china blue neckties to bring out the spots in his eyes and We lecture him upon the subject of blue shirts. We urge that all his appointments should be blue if pos sible. And we tell him to carry a blue handkerchief
 We advise men to study their com plexions The deep olive skinned man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

used, as it takes off the enamel. We ad- wise plenty of tooth powder. A man can't use too much dentifrices. He ought to keep his washstand stocked with all sorts of washes for the mouth and teeth
 We tell man to indulge in saehet powders and perfumes. Most men will laugh at you. But the knowing ones will invest in bottle of sachet powder and put 1t where it will do the most good
 We advise men to vary their hair dressing. This is strange advice to a man who parts his hair the same way year after year, all his lifetime Yet he will find that the hair keeps thicker if he changes the parting, and that he really looks better, for he does not look the same all the time.
 ',rhe kind of man a woman likes is one who has a very nice looking neck-one not wrinkled. He has no double chin.
 We have class in massage in which we teach the men how to massage their own threats and chins, and very apt pupils they are. But the majority of men are either tired or little lazy, and they prefer to have it done for them."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

looks very handsome in brown. He should wear brown or navy blue. But the fair skinned man looks best in gray or in black.
 'These are good things for a man to know. One color costs little more than another and it makes a great difference in a mans looks.
 We advise men to bleach their hands Dull. dark, angry looking hands are never attractive. We tell them to keep a cut lemon upon the washstand and to use it.
 "The hands can generally stand the raw juice of lemon. The acid is then washed off and the hands rinsed clean and very little glycerine and rosewater rubbed in. If this makes them feel sticky a little alcohol can be rubbed into the hands or they can be washed in good soap and water.
 We tell men how to keep the teeth white in spite of everything. Once a week they are to use a little powdered pumice stone upon soft brush. The pumice is to make the teth shine.
 ''But only very little bit of it can be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
TRAVELS OF A FAKE STORY
From the Washington Post,

From the Washington Post,
 A REPORTER on a Louisville news
 A paper wrote a few weeks ago a harmless fake story and his paper printed it the next day. It told of d Kentucky man who had been asleep for twelve years.
 Since that time the pleasant bit of fic- tion has been earning bread and butter for people all over North America. Thus we read several days after the thing was published:
 "A man in Kentucky has been asleep for twelve years. When he wakes up he should De assured of a permanent job ,as juryman."
 Chicago made this up. In fact most iof the Chicago papers commented in one way or another upon the somnoence of lthe Kentuckian.
 The St. Joseph (Mo) paragraph man handles it thus:
 Down in Kentucky a mans been asleep twelve years. Won't he be mighty glad to find out all his debts are out l1awed?"
 Somebody in Denver has evidently had experience in Kentucky. because the next time the newspaper waif shows up it is in Denver paper thus disguised:
 "A veteran Kentucky citizen has been sleeping twelve years. Probably only snoozing off a real, old-time Kentucky Jag"
 A spirit of envy may have inspired the next text on the subject. It comes from a New Orleans paper this way:
 "A Kentucky man has been buried in a sound sleep for the last twelve years. Most likely he started in to read one of Marse Henry Watterson's editorials
 Hot on the heels of this unkind cut comes the deliberate insult of a Detroit newspaper:
 See that Kentucky man has been asleep for twelve years. Don't blame
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

him. That's about all there is to do nowadays if you have to live in Ken tucky''
 There is probably some allusion to local conditions in this paragraph from St. Louis
 "A Kentuckian of some standing has been asleep for the last twelve years. In all likelihood the gentleman Is dead, and some of those highly efficient ambulance surgeons have made one of their usual hurried diagnoses of his case"
 Still hurrying on it's way the scrap of intelligence slips into a Columbus, Ohio, el-serial room, where the man takes it and hurls it back in this shape:
 There's a man in Kentucky who's been asleep for twelve years. As long as he keeps his eyes shut and lies still it's all right He's a blame sight honester than a lot of other Kentuckians who have been walking around sound asleep for twice twelve years"
 One might be inclined to wonder sus- pciously about the habits of the Harris burg man who fixed it up this way:
 We learn with interest that Ken lucky man has been asleep for twelve years. He probably came in at 3 a m., too muddled to make excuses to his wife, and now he's simply sidestepping the morning-after explanations"
 When the Cincinnati writer starts in we see how far a man dare reach after a pun:
 "That Kentucky chap who has been quietly sleping for the last twelve years must have filled himself full of still whisky"
 Pitsburg shows it still manages to keep an eye on literary affairs:
 "A Kentucky man went to sleep twelve years ago and he's asleep yet. This shows us the terrible effects of reading one of Henry James, novels"
 The handling of the theme in Cleveland shows a tendency to get gay with the police The paper says:
 "A man in Kentucky has been asleep for twelve years. This naturally brings up the pertinent query, Why isn't he on our police force?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
"Ye Mauna Dram.n

From SKetCh.
 Patient (who has been overdoing iO- Well, tell me, doctor, how mony whuslIes may I talk durin' the day?
 Doctor-Weel, ye maun be regular. Tax one afore yer breakfast, anither after; anither at l. another at 2; anither afore your lunch, and ane after; ane at 4, ane at 5, ane at G. ane before yer dinner, ane wit, an another after; ane at g, ane at 10, an syne ane when yeer in yer bed But mind. ye mauna keep on dram, dram. mon a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Defining a Chemist.
,om the London Express.

FT0m tHe LUIluUH ENpTtSS.
 A good story comes from Swedish cor- respondent. It seems that Berzelius, the great Swedish chemist made most of his experiments in the kitchen, with his cook as his only assistant.
 What is your master?" asked one of his neighbors
 ''Oh. he is only chemist"
 What is that? What does he do?"
 "Oh he has something in a big bottle: then he pours it into smaller one, and then again into quite a tiny bottle"
 And then what happens?" "Then l throw it away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

the horse thieves from carrying off the rest of his stock
 I've obeyed orders, and then went back to the factory, where We had a good snooze until relieving time. In the morn ing the owner of the nag was so tickled over our good work in rescung his horse from the clutches of desperate thieves that he gave me and Mike five-dollar bill apiece"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
WORKER HUSTLED
 WAY ID CONGRESS Harry B, Wolf Began Life As a
 NewSboy IS TWENTY-SlX YEARS OLD Took to Building Fires and Then Be- came Criminal Lawyer In BaIti- more-Youngest Member of
 Congress Hutsler.
IS TWENTY-SIX YEARS OLD

Baltimore-The youngest member of the next Congress will be Harry B. Wolf of the Third Maryland district. He is tall, smooth faced, with raven black hair and taste for flowing neckties and baggy trousers. He is just 26-One year beyond the Constitutional minimum.
 Wolf was born in what is known as Old Town, and his parents were orthodox Jews. He had a few years of schooling and then he set out as newsboy. He proved to be a hustler. He had many regular customers.
 One day during a winter storm he hap pened into the office of one of his GUS toners and found the customer on his hands and knees, trying to build fire in the office stove. Wolf, like the fami- liar hero of the story books, offered to build the fire and was rewarded with 15 cents. This started him in new line Before the winter was over he was fire builder in ordinary to two-thirds of Courtland street.
 Later another story book experience came to him. To the lawyer whose pain ful frigidity he had first relieved he ex- pressed a desire to read The lawyer gave him a couple of books. He read them and asked for more The lawyer sent him to the Enoch Pratt Library, and he read. One day his friend cross-cx- amined him.
 "What do you want to make of your self?' he asked.
 Wolf said he didn't quite know.
 How would you like to be lawyer?" demanded his friend.
 Wolf fairly leaped for joy.
 You're a pretty bright boy continued the legal person. q need a boy here in my office. Suppose you come around Monday morning and see how you like it. I'll give you whatever you are mak- ing now and a dollar more."
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
DESPERATE FROM COLD.
North Dakota and Minnesota Want MI
iitia Called Out.

Minneapolis.-W the cold wave
signal flying, the coal shortage in the
Northwest becomes not only Gauss
of severe suffering, but an absolute
menace to human life.
This is the second chapter in the his
tory of the railroads failure to handle
the 1906 traffic in the territory tribu
tary to Minneapolis.
The Glenburn, North Dakota, Com
cercial Club will appeal to the gov,
ernors of North Dakota and Minnesota
to employ state military forces IN NOV
ing coal trains. Farmers are burning
their outbuildings for fuel.
Glenburn has invited people from its
its territory who will be without fuel
to come and camp in the village school
Eveleth, Minnesota, faces darkness
and suffering through deprivation o,
coal, and apprehensive reports have
come from numerous other places.
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
Denver Postoffice Site.

Washington. Knox Taylor, su-
pervising architect of the Treasury De-
partment, who was sent to Denver by
the secretary of the treasury to ex.
anime the sites offered for proposed
public building, on Monday submitted
his report and recommendation to As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury Ed
wards, who has direct charge of the
selection of pubic building sites.
Under the rules of the department
neither Mr.. Taylor nor Mr.. Edwards
would give any Information as to the
purport Of Taylor's report or recon-
mendations. Assistant Secretary Ed
wards stated that question of selection
would remain open for thirty days,
during which time his Office would re-
ceive and consider any representa-
tions or recommendations made to it
by people of Denver interested in the
selection, either verbally or by cores
pondence.
Supervising Architect Taylor stated
that sixteen sites had been offered,
ranging in price from $500.000 down to
100000.
The Dolores star., 1906-12-21
Fort Collins and Laramie Line.

Fort Collins.-The Denver, Laramie
& Northwestern Railroad Company has
filed certificate with the county clerk
naming Henry Apple as its business
agent in Colorado, giving his residence
as Denver. This company has pur-
chased and paid for the right of way
for a railroad for almost the entire dis
tance between Fort Collins and Lara
mie, Wyoming, and its officials state
that construction will be started on the
line as soon as the frost is out of the
ground in the spring and that cars will
be running between the two points be-
fore the winter of 1907.
The surveyed line of this road bears
|northwesterely from Fort Collins, pass.
ing through Park station, Virginia
Dale and thence on to Laramie. The
company expects to build through to
Denver soon after completing the road
between Laramie and Fort Collins. A
contract for cutting and delivering s.
0OO, 900 ties for the road was let in Lar.
annie last week.