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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-18
New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans. March 1.-THE demand
for spots was good but the offerings linn
tied. Most of the cotton on factors la
bles was covered. Sales 225O bales, includ-
ing 400 to arrive and 800 Z. 0. b. Quota
tons advanced liz; middlng, 10ss
Futures opened steady at an advance OF
4 TO points on favorable Liverpool. Tn
der bull support the market became firm
and the trend of prices was distinctly
upward and continued to improve to the
end of the half day session. The market
closed firm within a point Of the top,
the list from March to August, inclusive,
showing net gains of u to 10 points.
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Coffee Market.

New York, March 17.-Spot Rio steady;
No. invoice, SIC; mild steady; Cordova.
9A@12Ac.
The market for coffee futures opened
steady at an advance of to 10 points in
response TO higher cables and covering
by European shorts. Brazilian markets
were steady. receipts a. Brazilian ports
light, warehouse deliveries liberal, and
while there WAS some selling by local
longs, the market ruled generally steady
and closed steady at q net advance of
to 10 points. Sales, 1425O bags. including
May, 6.S5a6sO: August. lis; September,
7.25; December $50; February, leo.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-18
Cotton Seed Oil

New Orleans March 17-Cotton seed oil.
steady; prime refined in barresl, &c; prime
crude loose, 26c.
Memphis. Tenn, March Cotton seed
oil: Prime crude. 25ise: prime summer
yellow, SEC; prime meal s2425d2450;.
prime cake, $500.
New York, March 17.-~Gotion seed oil,
firm: prime crude f. o. b. mills. 25c do.
yellow, 3l&m324. Petroleum, steady re-
fined New York. $3.50; Philadelphia and
Baltimore, $780, do. in bulk. 1876. Rosin,
quiet; strained, common to good, sl.106D
Alb. Turpentine. quiet. 72d721ac.
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Interior Movement.

Houston-Steady; middling lO94c: net re-
ceipts 1904; gross receipts 1904 shipments
1854; sales BOG; stock 61,926
Augusta-Steady; middling 10Ac; net re-
celpts 302 gross receipts 3O2; shipments
21S: sales 447: stock 1857.
Memphis-Steady; middling 10 13-16c net
receipts 5S4; gross receipts 597; shipments
3107; sales 1000: stock s73SS.
St Louis-Steady; net receipts 1873; gross
receipts 2s77; shipments 3S9; stock 43,451.
Cincinnati-Net receipts 574; gross re-
ceipts 574; shipments ia; sales 800; stock
1863
Lousville--F Firm, middllng lie.
Total today--Net receipts 5152 gross re-
ceipts S25s; shipments 5522; sales 1917; stock
276.971.
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Feed Stuff.

Corn-No. 2 mixed. Sac; white, CSC.
Oats-No. mixed, 43c; No. white aoc;
white clip, 47e.
Pure wheat bran. so or 100, szs.
Cotton seed feed meal. s26; prime, $3.50.
Corn chops $l.10.
Corn hearts, $1.15.
Shorts. 100 pounds. s24
Hulls-sO-lb c. s., 50 ton; s0-lb. c. s.. i0c
sack; 100-lb. c. s., 50 ton; 100-lb. c. s., 4oc
sack; 10 lb sack hulls, Csc.
Hay-choice timothy, $500: No. timo-
thy. $3.50; Johnson grass, Sl4; clover MIX
$3.50.
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Dry Goods.

New York, March 1.-THE tone of the
dry goods market was stronger at the
close of the week than on Monday and
Tuesday. Jute and linen products show
a drmer tone. Coarse drills and domes--
tics were easier on forward business in
first hands.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-18
Money on Call.

New York. March 17.-Money on call
nominal; no loans Time loans steady;
sixty and ninety days 5N per cent; six
months 5m5D4 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper closed oa5Ia per
cent. sterling exchange steady. at s4S5.75
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Chicago, March 17.-Posslbility of a de-
crease in exports from Argentina because
of the strike of dock laborers strength
ened the local wheat market today. At
the close wheat for May delivery was up
Vac. Corn was up KsGac. oats were
down I443sc Provisions were 5@10c
higher.
The Leading futures ranpad as fnllnws.
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Metal Market.

New York, March 1.-THE metal mar
kets showed the usual Saturday mac
ton with prices generally unchanged
Spot tin is quoted at $50. 5OQ36.5 50. Copper
is firm in tone with lake quoted at $3.50
G1S.75; electrolytie, SIS. 25Q1s so. casting,
slS0f1s.2 %. Lead quiet and unchanged at
IS 1906. 40; spelter. s6.2Od6.3O. Iron was
quiet at recent prices.
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New Orleans Cotton Futures.

New Orleans, March 17.-Cotton closed
firm; sales, $50. Ordinary, ~; good or
binary, lie; low middling. 8 15-l6; mid
ding 1885; good mldding. l1s; middling
fair. ia. Receipts, 1896; stock, 267 ,s29.
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for demand at sAs26o for slxty-day bills;
posted rates, $500 and $4S61a014S7.
Commercial bills, s4S2a4s2I4. Bar silver,
Coo; Mexican dollars, Soc.
Government bonds strong; railroad
bonds steady
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clearlnus and Exohanu e.

New Orleans, March 17.-Clearings, So
61S,3S7; New York exchange, 81 per $1,000
premium; commercial, par
Memphis, March 17.-Clearances, S3S, 931;
balances, $91, 595
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Bonds.
Treasury Statement.

Washington. March 17.-Today's treas
tirv balances exclusive, of the gold reserve,
shows: Available cash balance. sl54 7Os
si2; gold. s7s.120G 97-
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seahoard Air Line


Baltimore. March dashboard Air Line
and preftrred nothing doing.
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RAILWAY SCHEDULES

Showing the arrival and departure OR
passenger trains at the Union station, Birs
mingham:
lEffnntI1tn Irnhr,1 NJ. L tnna
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Total sales for the day, 1920
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
TONS OF GOLD TREASURE.
Vast Store of Wealth Emptied From
New World Into Old.

1t has never been told how vast was
the treasure that was emptied from the
new world into the old in the glorious
days of the Spanish dominion. We can
only judge of how great 1t was by col
lateral evidence. The booties of Cortes
and Pizarro are famous in annals of
new world history. In them we have
read how the soldiers of the former
carried away only Il small part of the
treasures looted at Mexico yet were so
loaded down with stolen gold that
when they fell from the causeway into
the lake in the memorable retreat from
Mexico they sank and drowned as
weighted with plummets Of lead; also
we read how PiZarro eXacted as a trib-
ute for the liberation of the Inca Alta
hulpa gold that filed to the depth Of
several feet a room seventeen feet wide
by twenty-five, feet long and that was
valued at 100000 pesos dor, the
equivalent of nearly $15,500 of our
money.
When Drake sailed the south sea in
the Golden Hind upon his piratical
voyage of crcumnavigation in the
years 1577-79 and when he captured the
Nuestra Sonora della Concepcion-sur-
named the Cacafue or Spittire-of Cape
San Francisco it took three days to
transfer the treasure from the cap
tured ship to his own. In that single
haul there was realized purchase"
as 1t was called. of over twenty-six
tons of silver, besides eighty pounds Of
virgin gold. thirteen chests of pieces of
eight containing over $1,000,O00 in
money and an enormous amount of
jewels and plate.
Upon the evidence of John Drake we
read that when the Golden Hind laid
her course for England, by way Of the
Cape of Good Hope, she was so heavily
"ballasted" with pure silver that she
rode exceeding deep in the water."-
Harpers Magazine
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
Filling n Full Bottle.

At race course the other day
sharper wagered f5 he could put more
water into black bottle than any per-
son present. An individual present at
once filled the bottle with water and
passed it to the sharper, saying:
"There; l think she's as full as she
can get. If you can crowd any more
water into her, mister, go ahead"
Without saying a word the sharper
corled the bottle tightly. Then he
turned it upside down, and in the
large hollow which is found at the bot
tom of most bottles he poured about a
gill of water. "I'll trouble you to hand
over the money" he said to the stake
holder when he had done the trick.
He received the stakes and coolly
walked off-London Mail.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
A FEARFUL PEST.
The FerociOus Mosquitoes That
swarm In Scandinavia

The FerOcious Mosquitoes That
swarm In Scandinavia
Hunters find the mosquitoes a terri
bic pest in parts of northern Scandina-
via. One writes "The warmth of the
sun is rousing our deadly enemies, the
mosquitoes, into active warfare. At
tackled as we are by few score of
viciously piping skirmishers from the
mighty host, we have before advancing
to look to the joints of our harness and
don our gauntlets; then in descending
the long slope toward our bivouac the
scores of the foe are gradually multi
piled to hundreds, the hundreds to
thousands, the thousands to myriads,
till we are at length enveloped in
dense cloud of winged fiends. The
horses are distressing sight. From
nose to tail, from hoof to withers, their
unfortunate bodies are covered with
what might be taken at Il casual glance
for gray blanket clothing, but which is
really textile mass of secthing insect
life, so closely set that you could not
anywhere put the point Of your finger
on the bare hide.
For such small creatures mosquitoes
exhibit an astonishing amount of char
acter and diabolical intelligence. They
dash through smoke. creep under veil
or wristband like ferret into a rabbit
hole and when they can neither dash
nor creep will bide their time with the
cunning of a red Indian. We wore
stout dogskin gloves, articles with
which they could have had no previous
acquaintance, and yet they would fol-
low each other by hundreds in single
file up and down the seams, trying ev-
cry stitch, in the hope of detecting
flaw"
And the same writer concludes: "The
problem presents itself, Why are these
vermin so horribly bloodthirsty and so
perfectly formed for sucking blood? 1t
is one of the great mysteries of nature
On. the uninhabited stretches of Fin
mark they must as rule exist on veg
etable diet, the chances of blood so
rarely occur"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Every mother is trained nurse,
with the two uniinportant exceptions
of the uniform and the wages.
There isn't any greater waste of time
than that spent in worrying because
others are not doing thclr duty.
A man may think he Is boss of his
own home, but after his wife has been
sick once or twice he finds it is the
doctor.
There are great many ways of be-
coming unpopular, but one of the
surest is to rush in where angels fear
to tread
When a man comes nome and asks
If mother is home" what he really
wants to know is if she is in the kitch-
en- cooking
If there is whipped cream on any old
thing on the table Girl Is Gpt to think
that the requirements for dainty"
luncheon have all been met.--Atchison
Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
BREAD SUPERSTlTIONS.
Peculiar Ones still Prevail In Rural
France.

There are some curious superstitions
about baking bread in the course of re-
ligious seasons which seem so easy to
prove fallacious that one has difficulty
In understanding why they are still be-
lievad. One would think that some
day mistake would occur and the
discovery be made that there was no
force in them Probably, owing to the
constitution Of the believers, the fail
sre Of the expected result would be
ascribed to some supernatural cause
rather than the real one, and the be-
lief would be continued. Most of these
supersHtions are found in France, the
greatest bread eating country ON the
globe.
For instance, in upper Brittany
bread baked on Good Friday, 1t is de-
clared, becomes black. In Charante it
is held that he who eats Of bread
baked on All Souls day will become
diseased The flames will burst out of
the oven in ones face il bread is
baked ON the feast of st. Nicholas, say
the good people at Aube, so it is not
done. In Burgundy the people believe
that If bread is baked in the course of
Rogation week all bread baked during
the remainder of the year will turn
moldy. The inhabitants of the Black
mountains believe the same thing. The
Sicilians refuse to bake on Good Fri
day, because they fear that in some
manner they will burn the Saviour.
The beliefs which other Europeans
used to have in early times demon
strate how illogical is all this supersti-
ton These used to think that bread
baked ON Good Friday would not grow
moldy, and the hot cross bun was in
cluded in this belief Some one has
shrewdly suggested that the spice pre-
served them. A piece of bread baked
on this holy day, perhaps because of
its holy character. was supposed to
have miraculous powers If preserved.
The house containing it would not
catch fire. 1t was useful for prevent
ing whooping cough and If fed to cat
tie Ill Of certain diseases would cure
them. The natural deduction from all
this is that in one country bread baked
on a certain day will work i'll and that
baked in another on the same day will
work good, which means that bread
baked on that day is about the same as
bread baked on any other.-New York
Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
The Chameleon.

The American chameleon, a small liz
ard, inhabits various parts of the south
ern United States. The little animal
has the remarkable habit of quickly
and completely changing its colors,
varying from brown to yellow and pale
green. Its food consists of insects.
The little animal is perfectly harmless
to higher forms of life, is often kept
as pet and has been worn attached
to chain as on ornament. The toes
are provided with adhesive pads, which
enable the lizard to run upon smooth,
vertical surfaces.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
India Rubber Tree Fruit.

The fruit Of the india rubber tree Is
somewhat similar to that Of the Rici-
nus communis the castor oil plant,
though somewhat larger. The seeds
have not disagreeable taste and yield
purplisb oil. 1t is fairly good sub
stitute for linseed oil, though 1t dries
less rapidly. Mixed with copal blue
and turpentine, it makes good var
nish. The oil may be also used in the
manufacture of soaps and lithographic
inks. The seeds are somewhat like
tiny chestnuts, although darker in col
br The Indian girls are fond of wear
Ing bracelets and necklets made of
them.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28

The fastest recorded use Of the duck
ing stool in England the designations
cucking and ducking were, Of course,
synonymous in the days of Queen Eliza
BETH was in 1909. 1t was at Leomin-
ster, when woman named Jenny
Pipes, alias Jane Corran, was paraded
through the town on the ducking stool
and ducked in the water near Kenwa
ter bridge by order of the magistrates.
In 1917 another woman, called Sarah
Leake. was wheeled round the place in
the same chair, but not ducked, as,
fortunately for her, the water was too
low. The instrument of punishment in
question has not been used since them
London Notes and Queries.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
A WONDERFUL PROOF.
The Burning Glass ns n DemOnstra.
tor of the SUMS Heat.

"The suns heat is so great
But an intelligent young woman in
terrupted the scientist impatiently.
after ALL" she said, "it is guessworlS,
this talk about the excessive heat of
the sun. You can't prove any of your
claims"
He was disgusted.
II can't" he cried. "Why, it Is the
easiest thing in the world to prove that
the sun is hot enough to melt iron,
granite, the hardest substances known,
into liquid, into steam"
How would you make such proof?'
she asked incredulously.
with the burning glass;" said he.
"a burning glass is slightly rounded.
Thus it bends into focus-it concen-
trates upon one small point-a number
of sun rays. The tiniest burning glass,
catching only few rays, will light a
fire, set off gun or bore red hole in
your hand"
eyes"
''The solar heat which the burning
glass collects for us Is the tiniest frac-
tion of the suns actual heat. We can
prove this by focusing with our glass
rays from powerful lamp or great
fire. We get small, bright spot. lit
tie heat but this heat is nothing to
compare with the heat of the lamp it.
self.
$50, knowing, now, that the solar
heat which the burning glass gives to
us is but a fraction of the heat of the
sun, we take burning glass a yard in
diameter--such glasses have been made
for the sole purpose of convincing skep-
tcal persons like yourself-and this
glass concentrates many hundreds of
sun rays for us, and 1t gives us a heat
greater than we can obtain in any fur
mace, a heat that will melt rock into
vapor."
The scientist smiled trumphantly.
There Is your proof" he said. "The
burning glass will only collect a tiny
portion of burning objects heat. and
the tiny portion of the suns heat that
1t gives us is yet sufficient to change in
jiffy block of granite into puff of
am."-Exchange.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
r .IBEL IN DIVORCE.

Della Fish VS.. Thomas Fish.
No. 1856, November Term, 1905. Pluries Sub
poena in Divorce.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, IS:
The Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania.
To THOMAS FISH, Greeting:
Wecommand you, as twice before you were
commanded, that all matter of business and
excuses being set aside, you be and appear
In your proper person before our judge at
BrOokville, at our Court OF Common Pleas,
there to be held on the second Monday OF
April next, to show cause, IL any you have,
why your wife, Della Fish, should not be di-
vorced from the bonds of matrimony which
she hath contracted with you, the said
Thomas Fish agreeable to the Petition and
Libel exhibited against you before our said
Court, and this you shall In no case omit at
your peril.
Witness the Hon. John w. Reed President
OF our said Court at Brookville, the Sth day
of January, A. D. 1906
Allowed by the Court.
CYRUS II. BLOOD, Prothonotary.
; 20 THOMAS FISH, Greeting:
You are hereby notified to appear before
the Honorable Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, at Brookville, Pa, on .he second Mon
day Of April next, to answer as set forth In
the above subpoena.
GRANT SCHEAFNOCKER,
March 9th, 1906. Sheriff.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28

The first planting of cotton seed in
the colonies was in the Carolinas in the
year 1921, when seeds were planted as
an experiment in garden. Winthrop
says that in 1913 ''mcn fell to the
manufacture of cotton. whereof we
have great stores from Barbados" In
1876 it was cultivated in the gardens
along Chesapeake bay, especially in the
vicinity of Baltimore, and at the open
ing of the Revolution it was a garden
plant in New Jersey and New York,
but its real value seems to have been
almost unknown to the planters until
about 1850.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28

Jackals and hyenas are very fond Of
crocodile eggs. The former is the more
successful poacher of the two. Ma
tives of central Africa say that the
jaclkal has sixteen eyes, with one Of
which he watches the eggs and with
the fifteen others he looks out for the
crocodile. The hyena. on the other
hand, being very greedy. has all his
eyes on the eggs and so often falls
victim to the watchful crocodile in mo-
tionless hiding. The natives say, too,
that the crocodile sometimes knocks
its prey off the bank or off the canoe
with its tail and then seizes it with its
wide open jaws.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
Lonfer. as rrouble Makers.

Did you ever consider how much
trouble and turmoil in the world is
stirred up by loafers? Do 1t and you
will be surprised. Investigate careful
ly and you will find that nine of the
ten fuses and quarrels that you know
Of In your town or neighborhood were
started by loafers who had no bust.
ness of their own to attend to and so
got busy with other peoples affairs
Burlington Republican.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
THE MOONSTROKE.
A Sailors Experience After n Night
Nap on Deck In the Tropics.

Nap on Deck In the Tropics.
People laugh at moonstrokes," said
a sailor. "They call them shellbacks'
superstition. | once had moonstroke,
though, and | tell you it was no laugh
ing matter.
"In full moon one night in the trop-
ics | fell asleep on deck. The moon
shone directly on me. l lay in a white
pool of moonlight. SO three hours
went by.
"Then, when they woke me, felt
like a man in dream. My mouth
hung open, as it does when l sleep,
and couldn't close it, and my head
lay over on the side, and I couldn't
straighten it up.
"Nor could understand what people
said to me, nor could l obey orders.
Voices I'd hear far away, but they
seemed meaningless, unpleasant. l
was very drowsy. All l wanted was
sleep.
"They worked on me for two days,
rubbing me down with cold water and
dosing me with castor oil, before they
brought me round. And always after
that | have been careful never to sleep
where the moons rays could get at me-
My moonstroke happened eight years
ago, but still at every full moon l am
stupid and drowsy, my head droops
little to one side, and my mouth tends
to hang open.
"There's many sailor has been
moonstruck, but this accident never
befalls lanGSnen. Landsmen, you see,
never sleep out Of doors."-New York
Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
The World n. We Look at It.

When we look at the world. in a mar
row way, how small it seems! When
we look at it in mean way, how mean
it is! When we look at it selfishly,
how selfish it is! But when we look at
it with a broad, generous and helpful
spirit, what beautiful world it Is,
and what wonderful people we find In
it!--Boston Christian Register.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28

What interested me most in my
iravels," salt. Hem eel. was the num-
my of Il queen | saw in Egypt"
Wonderful eAt" asked his friend.
Yes, it's wonf csful how they could
make woman G.y up and stay that
Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28

The essence of all fine breeding is the
gift OF Cancellation. A man who pos
sesses every other title to our respect
except that of courtesy is in danger of
forfeiting them all. y rude manner
renders its owner always liable to af-
front. He is never without dignity
who avoids woun1ing the dignity of
others.-Lord Lytton.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
Tie Rno.n NJ the Ton.

"All the lower Ec $ are taken" said
the ticket seize" You'll have to take
nm upper berth"
"Of course" g:umbled the professor.
There's always room at the top
Chicago Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
The Serious Part.

Friend - You appear to think that
your responsibility is greater than that
Of the proprietor. Drug Clcrk-It is.
Friend-How do you figure that out?
Drug Clerk-If make a mistake lose
my job.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-03-28
His Point of View.

Nurse-See. Charlie. the stork has
brought you nice little brother. Char
lie-Yes. that's the wayl Just as I'm
getting on in the world competition be-
gins "fliegende Blatter.