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QUEER CURES IN GERMANY.
Superstitions Prevailing Today-Dea'
Mans Healing Touch.

Some one has been making an investi-
CATION as to the survival of medical SUI
perstitons in Germany and his discoV-
cries have been reported in the Nord-
deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. All sorts
of outlandish ideas and practices were
found in active prevalence in the marsh
lands of the Weser, north of Bremen
haven and in the I.uneburg Heath, a
barren region between the Elbe ana
Aller
In both of these districts the touch of a
corpse's hand is still regarded as cura-
tive of many local ills. In the Weser-
marsch the practice is to steal secretly
into the room where the dead person is
laid out and with the dead hand stroke
the afflicted part. In the LuneDurS
Heath the application is especially used
as a cure for warts and for cramps III
the stomach.
Less grewsome is the remedy for hernia
still applied in the marsh country. on
the night of st. John the Baptist's day.
June "a, the patient must be dragged
through the split of cleft ash tree.
Three men bearing the first name or
John must perform the operation, and it
must be conducted in dead silence.
Some of the cures depend, on the con-
trary, upon verbal formulas For NC
cough the sufferer must cross little
wooden footbridge over stream-an easy
matter in the marshlands with their many
drainage bitches. AS he crosses he must
repeat the nursery rhyme:
Snik-op un Tx gungen ODER dat steg
Snik-op fult herin un TX gung veg.
This bit of dialectic German may be
translated:
Hiccough and / went over the bridge.
l went on, Hiccough fell in the ditch.
For erysipelas a fire is lighted and a
pinch of ashes from 1t Is rubbed on skin
to the accompaniment of saying to the
effect that the ashes and the sore Went
over the Red sea together. the ash came
back, but the sore never again. Numer-
Gus other sayings supposed to have the
force of charms, usually when uttered
simultaneously with some action, are
quoted The hamburger, for instance.
who has warts makes the sign of the
cross on the warts while gazing at the
crescent moon, saying, What | see, that
| win: what I wash. that disappears
1t rhymes in the German dialect.
Sometimes the formula is not spoken.
The Wesermarsch folk have a saying
which they write on a slip of paper
when any one has fever; then they burn
the paper The Luneburgers have no for
mula, but they. write the name, year of
birth and birthplace of the sick person
in a lonely place three night running.
Other remedies for fever consist in swal-
lowing spiders or dust filed from a church
bell.
When tooth comes out the loser must
throw 1t backward over his head. Hair
combings must not be thrown out OF the
window because the birds might get them
and fly away with them. In that case
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by an unusual protracted Indian sum
mer, following in the wake OF pad
weather. which ended one month ago
As result of this change in the weather
conditions all of the damage lnillcted ny
the storms and by the freeze IN the
northern half of the belt in early October.
has been more than recovered, advices
from the interior being to the effect that
farmers, in certain localities, especially n
the Mississippi valley, are picking TWO
crops, instead of one, which Is also SAID
to be the case in Texas and other districts
of the southwest. The market is now al
most as low as it was before the trade
was scared out of its wits by the rams,
storms and cold wave in early part of last
month
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position that borrowing is going on also
to take up securities closed out In Londois
at the last settlement, and which have
been arriving in New York this week. The
loan account of tn. New York banks
had not up to last week reflected am
effect from this transfer of borrowings
from London to this market. The large
reduction IN loans OF the New York banks
shown By the two bank statements pie
ceding that of today has been The SUB
jeet of puzzled conjecture for that rea-
son. 1t has been assumed that loans were
taken over by the trust companies ana
private bankers on d large scale llom the
clearing house banks, and also tn loans
to take up the arriving securities from
London had not yet been recorded in
New York accounts In the one case TAG
inference would be that no actual con-
traction had been effected in local eredlCs
and in the other case that the require
ment for new loans had been postponed
but not avoided
On the side of the domestic interior dc.
mand for currency to move the crops, It
is believed the movement from New y on
has not yet ceased, but there is evidence
that the demand has relaxed as shown by
the rise in New York exchange at Chl-
cago to par. Hopes are entertained mat
the turn in the movement of currercy
which usually occurs during tue late fail
is at hand. A resumption of this move
ment is to be counted on later in the
year. The Tightening of the money MAJ
ket has been in evidence .ot only in the
call money for the satisfaction Of iu.
mediate needs, but has extended in q
marked degree to the time loan markets
Loans for periods up to four months
have commanded premium which made
the rate equivalent to I per cent, and II
is reported that some very large loap7
have been secured for six months on
high grade collateral at the per cent
rate.
All trade and Industrial reports coa-
tinue to show the high pressure of ac-
tivity at which the country's business IS
running. Scarcity Of material for produce
ton including a practical famine in the
iron market, ear shortages and freight
blockades are the conclusive items OF
the evidence. AS q result of these condi-
tons increasing attention Is given to the
swelling expense account in the conduct
of productive industry. The recent i'll
crease announced by the Pennsylvania II
the wages of employees and the widespread
demands made ON other railway systems
all over the country indicate that the
tendency is general abe reduced proper
| ton of increases o. net earnings com
| pared with gross Increases reported by
| railroads is another item of the demon
strative character, Heavy additional capl
| tai OUTLAWS to accommodate growing de
nands for consumption are also the or
| der of the day. The financial community
| takes note as well of the progress o
| measures for the restraint and regula
ton of the activities of capital and cor
! porations. Incidents which bring TIL:
! tendency into prominence exercise a per
Stt~ai int On CT urlEa of ~.
/ tivty.
Bonds were dull and heavy. Unite,
States IS and the lew As have advance,
| u ner cent ON call during the week.
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Ware G. LeIand,s Market Letter.

AS If adding insult to injury, spinners'
takings for the week. 246,000 against 305-
0OO last year, was as much of surprise
to shorts as 1t was to longs, who had
conceded larger acceptances for the week
than for the same week last year. These
dyspeptic takings lowered the basis of ac-
ceptances to the level of IL SO, 900 bales.
whereas the trade is figuring on the
world taking l2.5OO,0O0 bales for consump-
ton.
This is a peculiar situation and the
question naturally arises to what will be-
come of the market, in the event of the
crop being over 1900 900 bales, especially
since the worlds visible supply is now
within $1,000 bales of being as large as it
was at this date in 1904, 2S50,O0O bales OF
American against 100000 when prices de-
clined to about 63s cents in this market.
more particularly since estimates of the
crop are now being placed at from 1900
OOC to 140000O0 bales. some we'll informed
people placing the minimum size of the
crop at larger than the record of two
years ago, which was about 1875 900
bales.
This change in sentiment and in re-
vision Of figures has been brought about
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Naval Stores.

savannah November 10.-Turpentine
firm at 66l4c; sales. 1863; receipts, 5f7;
shipments, 4544. Rosin firm; sales, 10lS;
receipts, 22S0; shipments, $3.50: stock 81, 4Si.
Quote: A. B, c. $685.; ID, "a; e. 81 O5; +.
A.15; G, A2O; H. $i.35; /, 81. As: X. 475:
NJ, $5.25: N. $40; window glass, Sc 25;
water white, Sc 80.
Charleston, November 10.-Rosin and
turpentne, nothing doing
New Orleans, November 10.-Naval
stores: Pitch, $3.50; pine tar. IS. 5O coal
tar, $3.50 Rosin firm. Quote: A, b, c,
s3.95; d, 81; L, si.05; +. Sl.15; G, Si.2O: II,
A.35; l, A,45; X. S.75 NJ. 50. 25; N. S575;
window glass, S6.2o; water white, Sc. SO.
Turpentine firm at 6id66c.
Wilmington, November 10.-Spirits OF
turpentine. nothing doing; receipts, S
casks. Rosin, nothing doing; receipts
81. Tar firm at $3.50; receipts. s. Crude
turpentine firmsat 1875; $3.50 and s4.50are-
cepts, 81.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

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Bonds,
Money! on Call,

New York, November 10.-Money on call
nominal; no loans; time loans very strong !;
sixty days, 7@S per cent; ninety days,
7d71k per cent; six months, 6hQ6H per
cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 6@61a per cent;
sterling exchange firm, with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at 1885 for demand
and at $50. so for slxty-day bills: posted
rates. 4S1l5 and 4S6is; commercial bills.
4S0a4S04. Bar silver, 71Ss Mexican dol
lars. So Government bonds steady; rail-
road bonds easy.
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Coffee Market.

New York. November l0--Coffee, spot
Rio, quiet; No. invoice, ia mild steady:
Cordova. Ss4@12.
Futures opened quiet at unehang 4
prices to an advance of points in keep
ing with steady cables. 1t eased off
shortly after the opening and prices.
during the middle session were about s
points lower Toward the close, there was
support from large trade interests, how
ever and the market was finally steady.
ret unchanged to 3 points higher, Sales
81 $50 bags, including December 6.15; Feb
ruary, $50; March, e.40@5. Il; May. 655du
$50; July, go; September 6.S5a69O
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Live Stock Market.

Chicago, November 10-Cattle esli-
mated receipts 500; market eteady. ,3eeves,
So. 40MI25; cows and heifers. sl.i0a5 p
calves $5.O0@I75; stockers and feeders,
81 coal 40
Hog receipts, estimated, 5000. Market
strong to DC higher Mixed and butchers
S6.O0d6.50 good heavy, $6S9@6.50; rough
heavy, S5.S5qiG5; light. $5.5Jn6.S1la; pigs
S.. 65d6,15; bulk of sales. $6O5@6i0
Sheep receipts, estimated $500 Market
slow; sheep, sa1O5.50; yearlings, s.. 900
$40; lambs, Si25d7.50.
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had on hand, and from that time on II
her wedding day the course of her true
love ran smooth. Men who have found
1t most convenient to propose by means
of letters invariably declare that when
writing on blue paper they were rejected
With all those facts to uphold their SUI
perstition, you will have to be mighty
careful in your handling of lovers
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The j. A. Macmillan Company, Inc.
Mines Stocks Goldfe1d,

stitious horror of paper of that tint. One
girl confided to me the other day that
three broken engagements in which sne
had figured could be traced directly to
blue paper. There seemed grave danger
of fourth prematrimonial rupture but
fortunately she discovered in the nick
of time what her hoodoo was. 1t was
blue paper She destroyed the supply she
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Cotton Seed Oil.

New York, November 10.-Cotton seed
oil irregular. Prime crude f. o. b. mills,
27@27Iac; do yellow 3912Q4Oc. Petroleum
steady; refined New York 1850: Philadel-
phia and Baltimore. $745; do in bulk,
4.35. Rosin firm; strained, common to
good, s4.25. Turpentine firm at 69d69Iac.
Memphis. November 10.-0otton seed oil:
Prime crude, 29c.
New Orleans, November 10.-Cotton seed
OIL Prime, &c. crude, Csc.
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Treasury Statement.

Washington, November 10.-Today's
treasury balances, exclusive of the goo
reserve, show: Available cash balance
S22S, SOl, li2; gold coin and bullion, $114,S25,.
147.
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Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour-Steady; winter patents, $4,000
8 49, straights, So 1903 80; spring patents.
50 .S0d3.90; straights SO. 25@3 80: bakers,
50. 37@D2.70.
Wheat-No 3 spring, 77@slc No. g. 72@
roc; No. red 717s47Sc.
Corn-No. ., 441ac; No. yellow SIC
Oats-No. ., 34lsc; No. white, $500
371ac; No. white. 3Ss4@36Ac.
Rye-No. 2, Gle.
Barley-Fair to choice mailing, Ed5Oc
Flax Seed-No. l, 81 90: No. l northwest
ern, $l1712.
Timothy Seed-Prime, $4.15@4.25.
Clover-Contract grades, $l3.25
Short Ribs Sides-Loose $SGfS. 80
Mess Porl1-Per barrel, SIG. %.
Lard-Per 100 pounds, S9.2712.
Short Clear Sdes-Boxed, $s.371aqsS 80.
On the produce exchange today the but
ter market was steady; creameries, 1900
25lac; dairies, 1S1aM2Sc
Eggs-steady; at mark cases included.
2l@2Sc; trsts, 24c; prime frsts, 25lsc; ex-
tras, CSC.
Cheese-Steady, 1212@13Ac
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Clearing and Exchanq,

Memphis, November 10.-Clearngs ST.
224, S39; balances, $129,962.
New Orleans, November 10.-Clearngs,
s3.S6l ,167 New York exchange 75c discount
Commercial paper, Gas per cent.
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Metal Market,

New York, November l0-The metal
markets were quiet today IN the absence
of cables, but prices were MAINTAINED
Spot tin was quoted at 42.371a to 4262ia
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Chicago Change.

Chicago, November 10.-The local wheat
market was held steady today by the
continuance of small receipts in the
northwest. At the close wheat for De-
cember delivery was off &c. Corn was
down sc. Oats were a shade higher. Pro-
visions were a shade to 21ac lower.
The leading futures were as follows:
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From the New York Press.
.tOne thing you will have to learn" the
stationer explained to his new assistant,
lis never to offer blue letter paper to
anybody in love- All lovers have a super
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Lake copper was firm. 21.75M22.oo; electro
, lytic, 2150@22OO; casting, 21.25@2l. 10. Lead,
unchanged at 575dDj.95, and spelter at 6.25
@635. Iron was quiet, but firm.
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Blue Paper and Love.

the person who was separated from them
would speedily become bald.
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The Mohawks Wealth Production

The Hayes Monnette lease on the Mo-
hawk has already produced -. s3,5OO,OOO
has already produced .,.,......, 100000
The Francis Mohawk lease on the Mo
hawk has already produced .., 100000
already produced ...,......... 100000
The Curtis lease on the Mohawk has
already produced ............ 100000
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Sales. High. Low. Close.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-16

| They tccre cheerful as 0rtgs oUer 1t.
demonstrated how dazzlingly brilliant
the latter could be on a dark, clear
night by showing them the fine light on
the Lizard.
But in hazy weather the oil WINS
he said, with the proper pride Of every
! man in his own engine. Fishermen
sailing into Penzance along q course
equidistant from the two points tell
me that II they can see anything at all
on foggy night they invariably catch
a dull yellow radiance from the rock,
while the Lizard is invisible. The oil
has more penetrative power. It's chem
ical combination is nearer the mean of
natures resources"
At the proper time he banished them
to the kitchen to prepare dinner, a
feast diverted from the hour of noon
by the chances Of the day. He adopted
every expedient to keep them busy, to
tire them physically and mentally, to
render them so exhausted that they
would sleep in blissful calm through
the ordeal to come.
AS he could not leave the lamp, and
they refused to eat apart from him.
the dinner, in three courses, was a
GREATNESS affair. Going up and down
i've flights Of stairs with soup, joint
and pudding, while one carried the
tray and the other swung a hand Ian
tern In front, required time and exer-
ton. They were cheerful as grigs
over it.
Enid, whose turn it was to bring up
the plates Of tapioca, pleaded guilty to
slight sensation of nervousness.
II could not help remembering" she
said, what an awful lot Of dark iron
steps there were beneath me. I felt
as If something were creeping up
quickly behind to grab me by the
ankles"
"You should go up and down three
times in the dark" was Brands recipe.
when you quilted the door level for
the third ascent you would cease to
worry about impossible grabs"
Constance looked at her watch.
"Only O'clock! What long day it
has been?' she commented.
you must go to bed early. Sleep in
my room. You will soon forget where
you are. Each of the hunks is CON-
Portable. Now l will leave you in
charge of the lamp while go and lock
up"
They laughed. 1t sounded so home
like.
ANY fear Of burglars?' cried Enid.
Eyes; most expert cracksmen-wind
and rain and-sleet," he added quietly.
II must fasten all the storm shutters
and make everything snug Don't stir
until l wake you in the morning"
Poor old dadw sighed Constance.
what a vigilv'
He was making new entries in the
weather report when she remarked
thoughtfully:
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liable index. Here to be of gentle
birth and breeding-not bad credentials
even In the court Of King Demos-con-
fers Brahmanical rank, no matter what
the personal fortunes of the individual.
Brand, 1t is true, did not belong to a
Cornish county family, but there were
those who conned him shrewdly. They
regarded him as well meaning crank,
yet the edict went forth that his daugh-
tiers were to be received" and received
they were, with pleasure and admira-
ton, by all save such startled elderly
mammals as Lady Margaret Stanhope,
who expected her good looking son to
contract marriage which would re-
store the failing fortunes of the house.
All unconscious of the thoughts fit
ting through his brain, for Brand was
busy trimming spare lamp, the two
girls amused themselves by learning
the semaphore alphabet from a little
handbook which he found for them.
When the night fell, dark and lower
ing, the lamp was lighted. They had
never before seen an eight wicked con-
NCutllC Lie SHOTc llSllU-
houses with which they were acuuaint-
ed were illuminated by electricity or
on the catoptric principle, wherein 4
large number of small Argand lamps,
with reflectors, are grouped together.
TO interest them, to keep their eyes
and ears away from the low water
orgy Of the reef, he explained to them
the capillary action of the oil. Al
though they had learned these things in
school, they had not realized the ex-
actness of the statement that oil does
not burn, but must first be converted
into gas by the application of heat.
On the Gulf Rock there were nearly
5000 gallons of COLA oil stored in the
tanks beneath, COLA being used in
preference to paraffin because it was
safer, and there was no storage accom-
mediation apart from the lighthouse.
Requiring much greater heat than
oil to produce inflammable gas,
the COLA had to be forced by heavy
pressure in the cistern right up to the
edge Of the wicks and made to flow
evenly over the rims of the burner.
else the fierce flame would eat the met
nj disks as well.
He read them little lecture on the
rival claims of gas and electricity and
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-16

Tered and whistled and chanted its
yay past the lantern in varying tones.
t sang, it piped, it beloved, it play
ID on giant reeds and crashed with
ymbals. NoW-he looked ut the clock,
lfter midnight-there was a sustained
icreech in the voice Of the tempest
| which he did not remember having
heard before. At last the explanation
iawned on him. The hurricane was
| here, q few feet away, shut off from
him by mere sheets of glass. The
lighthouse thrust its tall shaft into
his merciless tornado with grim stead
'astness, and around its smooth con-
melody which seemed to surge up from
he broad base and was flung off into
he darkness by the outer sweep Of the
.ornice.
The wind was travelling seventy
eighty, mayhap a hundred miles an
hour. Not during all his service nor
n earlier travels through distant lands
had he ever witnessed q storm of such
Jury. He thought he heard something
crack overhead. He looked aloft, but
all seemed WELL Not until next day
lid he discover that the wind vane had
been carried away, wrought iron
shank nearly two inches thick having
snapped like a piece of worsted at the
place where the tempest had found a
fault.
He tried to look out into the heart
Of the gale. The air was full of fly
ing foam, but the sea was beaten fiat.
If the growing monster beneath tried
to fling a defiant crest at the tornado
the whole mass of water, many tons in
weight, was instantly torn from the
surface and flung into nothingness.
Some of these Adventures, forced up
by the reef, hit the lighthouse with
greater force than many a cannon ball
fred in battles which have made his
tory. Time after time the splendid
structure WINGED beneath the blow.
If Stephen Brand were ever fated to
know fear he was face to face with the
ugly phantom then. The granite, col
umn would not yield, but it was quite
within the bounds Of possibility that
the entire lantern might be carried
away and he with 1t.
He thought, with a catching of his
breath, of the two girls In the tiny
room beneath For one fleeting instant
his mortal eyes gazed into the unseen.
But the call of duty restored him. The
excessive draft affected the lamp.
Its ardor must be checked. With a
steady hand he readjusted the little
brass screws-they were so superbly
Indifferent to all this pandemonium-
just little brass screws, doing their
work and needing naught beside. Sud-
denly there came to him the trium-
plant knowledge that the pure white
beam of the light was hewing its path
through the savage assailant without
as calmly and fearlessly as it lit up
the ocean wilds on q midsummer night
of moonlight and soft zephyrs.
THANK God for thatp' he murmured
aloud. How can n man die better
than at his post?"
The ring of iron beneath caught his
ears. He turned from the lamp. Con-
stance appeared, pale, with shining
eyes. She carried the lantern. Behind
her crept Enid, who had been crying.
She strove now to check her tears.
as this sort of thing normal, or
special performance arranged for our
beneftT said his daughter, with fine
at smile.
ooh, dad, am so frightened! cried
Enid. "Why does 1t howl so?"
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CHAPTER VI.

n T says good deal for Stephen
iii Brands courage that he was
iii able to laugh just then, but II
u is fine thing for man in a
moment of supremest danger to be
called on to comfort weeping woman.
The next minute might be their l"et