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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
F EIGNING OF DEATH
ANIMALS STRATEGY

The feigning Of death by certain sni-
fnalS for the purpose Of deceivinp their
enemies and thus securing immunity Is
one OF the greatest OF the many ev-f-
oences OF their intelligent ratioctnation
Ihls stimulation is not confined 10 any
particular family, order or species Of an
lhlai' but exists in many, from the very
lowest 10 the highest. It is found even
IN the vegetable kingdom, the we'll
known sensitive plant being 40 inter
eStng example The action of this plant
Is purely reflex, as can be proved by OBJ
servation and experiment. and is not.
therefore, a process Of intelligence.
An experimenter. writing in Wissen
fur Ale, says that he has seen the feiRn-
ing OF death in some Of the lowest ami
mails known TO science. Sometime ago.
while examining the inhabitants Of a
drop OF pond water under a high-pover
lens, he noticed several rhizopods busiIy
feeding on the minute buds OF an alEa.
These rhtsopods suddenly drew in their
halrhke filaria and sank TO the bottom.
20 all appearances dead. The cause was
round 10 be the presence Of a water
louise, an animal which feeds on these
anlmalculae- II likewise sank to the
potion, and, after looking at the rhizO-
pods. swan away, evidently regarding
theTn as dead and unfit for food.
This was not an accidental occurrence.
for the observer has seen the same won
derful performance twice since. Through
tie agency of what sense, he asks. did
these little creatures discover The ap-
pToach Of their enemys? Is il possible
that they and other microscopic animals
have eyes and ears so exceedingly small
that lenses Of the very highest power
cannot make them visible, OF are they
posseSsor5 Of senses utterly unknown to
and incapable of being appreciated by
m2n2 Science can neither affirm nor
deny either OF these Euppositions
Most animals are slain for food by
other animals. Most Of the carnivora
and insectivore prefer freshly killed food
to carrton. They will not touch tainted
meat when they can procure fresh.
Hence. when they come upon their prey
apparently dead. they will leave il alone
and go in search of other quarry. unless
they are very hungry. Tainted sub
stances are dangerous to get into the
stomach. Certain ptomaines render IL
sometimes very poisonous. Long years
OF experience have taught this fact TO
animals, and, therefore. most of them
let dead or seemingly dead creatures
alone
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
NEW YORK MONEY

NEW YORK. Dec 2S.-Money on call
was nominally Is per cent toda.. The
market was governed by the prepara-
tions for the year-end financing, when
much OF the 1886. 900 in January div
i'd lends and interest payments has TO
b. provided. The currency premium
ruled weaker. With few bids for large
lots. touching IL per cent Monday, /
Tuesday, Wednesday, holiday, ! Thurs
day, Il Friday.
Call loans were made at % and 6
per cent, averaging about &c Time
money during the week continued in
active, owing TO the dearth Of funds
Rates Is per cent for 30 days. Il 10 Is
per cent for 60 10 20 days. s to 10 per
cent FOR four months. s per. cent for six
months.
Mercantile paper was slightly i'm
proved IN 1Ons, but the Improvement
was rather III sentiment as 10 the In
ture than IN actual irs5Ss. which was
Hght ana confined u a few buyers.
Rates were quoted nomlnalIy. at S
to 10 per cent for all kinds.
Sterling experienced a violent decline
this week. demand rates falling from
$50 to 4S41t; cables. from $50 TO
ASH Fluctuations were wide and very
irregular, Mondays market showed a
decline Of cent; Tuesday a further
decline Of y to 1 cent; THURSDAY .
rally OF IA; yesterdays decline y,
= 70 IA and today a decline OF L 10 n
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
JOURNALISM AND LITERATURE.

Some pertinent words were spoken by
II. G. Wells at a recent dinner of tie
Institute of Journalists in London. He
denied that any just distinction can be
made between literature and journalism,
except that the one claims immortality
and the other does not. Some books
last longer than Others" he said. "and
some topics last for centuries and
centuries, but 1 do not believe that any
books last for all time
To this extent agreement may be had
with Mr.. Wells-the value of a book
cannot be judged merely according to
the time II continues to be read. The
first appeal of every author must be to
his own generation, comments a writer
in the London Daily News. and that
generation has as much right to Judge
whether he is worthy or unworthy as
any succeeding generation. If his con-
temporaries embrace him and posterity
denounces him, that he may well say,
is not because posterity is wiser, but
because Il lacks just that quality to
which he appealed in his contemporaries.
II he has profoundly affected one gen
GRAFTON alone then he has profoundly
affected the history of the race.-Ex-
change
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
POTATOES.

Il must have made some mistake. ."
muttered Mrs, logger, looking in the
oven OF her kitchen range saws the
Chicago Tribune Il was sure put six
potatoes in here to bake. but there
seems to be only five"
She counted them again, but with the
same result.
Then she looked at the cake she had
put in at the same time.
That's doing all right. anyway" she
said.
Belinda" said Mr.. logger. looking at
the slice Of cake that lay on the plate
before him. what the Sam Hill IS the
matter with this?''
you needn't eat II II you don't like
Il, TheOphilus. retorted Mrs logger
with spirit.
"Oh. I'll eat II. all right. but I'm won
dering what makes this Island Of white
in the middle of a sea of yellow"
tShe examined the slice Of cake. and a
triumphant smile illumined her face
II Just knew l had put six potatoes in
that oven yesterday" she exclaimed.
zone Of them fell down through the top
shelf"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
THE ECONOMICAL HOUSE.

We have to be awful economical
down at our house.. said the bow:
there's q big family"
Yes?' inquiringly.
IhatS so, for fair Ny biggest
brother is a bartender. and. OF course
has to wear a white coat: so ma buys
whole suit for him, says wearing the
overalls saves his pants. When they re
been washed a few times, of course
they don't look nice enough for a bar,
tender, so ma gets him new ones and
hands the other to Bill. Bill works In
meat market
Ell - -
Then dads a painter when the white
suit gets too dirty for BILL dad wears
II as long as he can 10 paint in. Course
In time they get pretty well caked UP
with paint, then ma uses them for kind
Ing the fire. and being soaked with
paint, they burn fine"
so that's the end OF them? Well.
you certainly do
No! Ma uses them again, along with
the wood ashes, to make soap Of"
You don't say"
YEP After that she pours the soap-
suds on the back garden. Best thing
in the world. she says, 10 make things
grow"-Puck.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
STUDY STOCK GAMBLING
SCHEME OF HEPBURN

Representative Hepburn. chairman OF
the House Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce. has gone 70
New York for a week. and while there
viii give attention TO stock gambling
which he IS trying 70 reach and pre-
vent by Federal legislation. He IS much
IN earnest on the need for legislation
10 prevent gambling in stocks. grain
and the Ike, and has been looking into
the methods Of the spectators in Wall
Street and elsewhere for some time.
He viii improve his opportunity whilo
in New York 20 lOck into the subject
further.
Colonel Hepburn plans 10 press this
proposed legislation after the holidays.
and viii have much support IN the
House for ~. though tho House leaders
are not frl-.-dly TO Il.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
NEW YORK BANK RETURN
SHOWS GREAT IMPROVEMENT

NEW YORK. Dec IA surprising
and highly satisfactory improvement in
New York's financial condition was
shown by this weeks bank statement.
the best since the beginning OF the r.
cent crisis.
The deficit had shrunk to so, 170. $50
from last weeks So. coo; loans de-
creased 81. 800; specie increased
g, 81. 200; legal tenders increased S3.067,-
300; deposits decreased IS. SOS. 500. and cir
c,iIatIon increased 81. on, 600
The proportion OF reserves to labili-
ties is now 81 per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
NEW YORK-STOCKS BONDS, AND WASHINGTON
New York Bond Mar Il

NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.-United States
Government bonds:
rs registered, 1880, 1O5d1Oo1z.
2's coupon. 1890. l0515alO6.
Ss registered, 1908. 1Ol1zG102I.
SIS coupon. 1908. 1Ollkd102H.
Ss small bonds. 10OIl.
as registered. 1925. 1l9d121.
As coupon. 1926 11Sd121.
Panama Canal 2's. registered. 10515G3l0l.
As Philippine As 1i0lz.
STOCK EXCHANGE BIND TRANsAC-
TONS.
Virginia oef. SIS. Brown Bros. GER
tifcates. o.
Imperial Japanese first series. 41h's,
ss5s
American Tobacco SIS. Sc
American Tobacco As. 591z.
Central Georgia consol SIS, 96.
Delaware and Hudson As, "a.
Distilling Sc. c SIS, 66H.
Erie consol AZ, S4iz.
New York Central. SIS, S912.
New York Central IA S. 314's. 7415
Norfolk and Western consoI as, oH.
Northern Pacific As. 100b.
Pennsylvania As. 1906 SS1L.
Pennsylvania S14's. 1912. SO1k.
Pennsylvania S1A's, 1915. s714.
Reading As, 937A
Southern Pacific collateral as, sly.
Southern Pacific refunding as. S.
Southern Railway As. 80
Union Pacific first as. 1909
Union Pacific convertible As, IS.
United States Steel s. F. SIS. S.
United States Steel registered. $40
United States Steel registered, S5jl
Total sales. Sl,575, 0O0
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
Dull, But Little Change.

The week has been also characterized
more or less by duIlness. For a time
in the opening there was some evening
up for the holiday, then on Thursday.
with New York Central plans uncertain
and Missouri Pacifics dividend paid In
stock, Distillers' dividend reduced and
some fresh commercial disturbances the
market broke to the low point. losing
the earlier gains.
Saturdays market IN the OPENING. bour
again showed excellent strength hint
much Of the advances were lost IN
proht-taking, which. as before sts+.,s
Is positive feature OF rises.
As compared with the clos1ng ,-,oou
OF week ago today. the changes go
by no means severe one wav or a.
other- Some stocks are lower. buf thor
are no radical changes In the list as
SHOWN by the following tables.
AS the market closed, the traders ,rd
brokers, who for the first time IN vasre
Jailed to do stunts and spend r,,,cr
money IN Christmas frolic. engaged in
noisy demonstrations and afterward pre-
dlcted that the turn was at hand. that
me market was slated for substantial
gains and that "the clouds had rolled
away"
The bulk Of the trade centered largely
~ the HIS, Union Pacific, Missouri pa
well u4u
A good bank statement. higher Lon
u0n ana investment buying was respon-
slole Tor the better feeling.
.l ne closing prices for the stocks
lows: as Ioi-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
LOW-CLASS FOOD.

They say that music is the food Of
love"
Then how would you classify rag
timer
"A9 hash. Louisville Courier-Journal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29

innate OF the amount generally agree
ing on a draft on repositories of some
S25, Co., coo for a starter-taken out with
as much reference to preventing dis
turbances as possible.
While conditions have been and are
just as stated. there is unquestlonably
better feeling among brokers and a
more hopeful Tendency
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
Washington Prices

Washington Gas as. S1OOG1OO
Capital Traction SIS. s5OOa11OA
Washington Railway and Electric Fs.
S1.OOO@74. H.OOOQq4
F1remen's Fire Insurance. 2561g5z
After caH-Potomac Electric 5's, s, OO0
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
Now Better.

The chances for renewed activity are
excellent There have been Indications
along this line for more than week.
On Thursday OF this week one of the
brokers announced his readiness to loan
cash on security collateral.
This was welcomed with a shout. as
bearing out the promise OF a public ad-
dress on Tuesday IN which better things
were prophesied.
Capital Traction shares are not quite
as strong as they have been for some
time, the latest sales being 1t 122 and
l2211. Some stock is being iiq' idated
that has been over the marlet for a
time. A feature OF the week has been
some little Inquiry for bank stocks
which is also encouraging.
Mergeathaler transactions have been
limited to q few odd lots, not enough
10 warrant the assumption OF the prices
as a fair evidence OF market values.
Mitchell Mining has been slow and
steady. Greene Cananea neglected.
Bonds have been in fair demand. The
closing bid and asked prices aside from
the Washington Railway shares show
little change for more than a E'ee'l.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
New York Stocks

Quotations furnished by Pest 8 F1aBg,
members OF New York Stock Exchange. 1881
+ st. nw.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
Rest of Market Slow.

The rest OF the market was slow. but
the promise OF better times is much
brighter for Washington than Il is for
New Work This city has gone through
the panic with never touch-save as
brokers Unanswered TO keep the I'D
clamped down tight on the Exchange
IT, order To prevent the market from
getting started on the tOboggan, and.
sources as against possible contlnCen-
cies.
Business continued as IL no one knew
anything OF the paniclSy thrOes gokng
on all over the country and securities
did not sag 10 any serious extent
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-29
WASHINGTON STOCKS
IN BETTER DEMAND
Interest CenterS in Wash
ington Railway Pre-
ferred Stock.
Capital Traction Interests
May Enter Directory OF.
Competitor.

Much interest centers In the annual
meeting Of the shareholders Of the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company TO be- held, January IS At
that meeting. so runs the story, in
terests friendly 10 the Capital Traction
Company, one Of the best managed and
most successful street railroad prop
critics Ia the country, will step into
the directory Of its local competitor.
That the financial interests Of the city
are opposed 10 any such movement is
by 20 means the case; on the con-
trary they look upon It as the best
thing that could happen for the bene-
mt Of the traction interests Of Wash
ington.
one OF the rumors that is nearly as
old as the year 1871 has 20 do with
the possible elevation of Secretary Loeb
10 the presidency Of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company. 1t
has been repeated time and again with
various changes and frequent ellmina-
dOns Of lie gentleman from consid-
Grafton in the capacity suggested.
Time alone will demonstrate whether
Mr.. Loeb is 70 sever his relations with
President Roosevelt in the immed ate
future
The rumor in connection with the en-
trance Of Capital Traction interests on
the Washington Railway COmpany'B
board is more promising Of results than
the change Of presidents.
Whatever the outcome OF the annual
meeting, the stock of the company has
received excellent support
L.
around Y and better. and then. at a
time when there was no buying OF
stocks. II dropped down in the low COS.
rallying slowly a few days ago 70 63,
and then 10 g. and with a quick jump
10 S. 10 66. and for a final 70 81 for
snail lot Comparatively little business
was transacted at the advance. although
several hundred shares sold on Friday.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-07
A Fishing Schooner.

T. A. Kinder, Esq, and Cap
tain Constance Laroche have pur-
chased the two masted schooner
Cleopatra from Jose Celaya, and
the craft will be used for public
excursions on Laguna Madre and
for trips to the Red and Black
Snapper Banks on the Gulf. 1t is
the intention of the new owners to
thoroughly reft the schooner and
put it is frst-class condition for
cruising over deep water. The in
terror fittings will be of high or
der and the berths just as good as
any found on the best of sea going
craft.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-07
SAN BENITO IS
DOING THINGS
Water Will Be Turned Into Cana
In Few Months.
Scope of Enterprise Greatly Enlarged BY
Purchase Of Additional Land-Ms.
chineTy Is Reecivcd-Pump Of
Double Capacity.

Water will probably be turned
into the San Benito canal by the
latter part of October or Novem-
Der. It had been hoped that the
canal would be completed by this
time, but the purchase of about
twenty-five thousand acres of land
in addition to that already owned
by the company has so greatly en-
larged the scope of the work, as to
necessarily postpone the compile
ton of the system.
President Alba Haywood of the
company, who spent yesterday in
town, Informed a HERALD reporter
that the original plans for the canal
have been enlarged to fully double
their original proportions. The ex-
tent of canal already completed is
already greatly in excess of that
originally planned, and the pump
| ing machinery which will be in
stalled is more than double the
capacity that it was at first intend
ed to use. The machinery, by the
way, is already delivered at San
Benito, including a seyenty-eight
inch pump. The site of the plant
has been changed, being about six
miles above the site FIRST selected.
There are now twenty-five miles
of canal completed, including the
main canal and laterals. The con-
struction of a drainage ditch is now
occupying the attention of the en-
gineers. For this work a tremen-
dous traction engine and steam
plow are employed, which are
marvels of speed and accuracy.
They are doing things at San
IBenito and doing them without any
fuss and feathers-doing things on
a grand scale, too. And in few
months more, when this great irri-
cation enterprise is finally inau-
gurated, Brownsville will realize
that, if she is to continue to be the
Queen City of the Rio Graude, she
must wake up and work on a big
scale for herself.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-07
MEXICAN CENTRAL
TO BROWNSVILLE
Engineers Now at Work Between
TampicO and MatamOrOs.
Effort viii B. Made 10 Have AatsmOro,
Branch Well Under Way Before Short
Limo From City of Mexico is
Completed to Tampico.

Tampico, Mex, Aug. ct has
been learned here that a corps of
Mexican Central engineers is at
work between here and Matamoros
surveying the route of a proposed
line to connect this port with the
border port, says the correspon-
dent of the San Antonio Express.
No information is ayailabls as to
the time when the Mexican Cen
trail proposes to commence con
struction on this line, but Mex
leo City official of the system said
that orders had gone out from the
Central management three weeks
ago for the line to be surveyed. 1t
is believed that an effort will be
made to have the Matamoros branch
we'll under way by the time the
Short Line from here to the ma
tional capital IS completed. With
the construction of these branches
there would be a straight coast line
connection between the City of
Mexico and Matamoros, which
would make Brownsville a vastly
more important point.
Construction on the Short Line
is proceeding rapidly and the work
that has already been done ranks
probably as the fastest construction
ever done in the Republic. Bell &
Sims, contractors of Mexico City,
who are building large portion OF
the line, have completed grading
into the high lands so that the
rainy season will now have practi-
cally no terrors. They now have
over 1000 men at work and thes
senior partner while in the city
said that everything is now being
done to bring the number up to
1000 men.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-07
THE DAILY HERALD.
WEpNEspAY, AUGUST !, l9O7
PERSONALS.

Mrs. Evertson went to the Point
yesterday.
]. c. James of New York is reg
istered at the Miller.
DR.. J. K. Combe and DR.. Dough
Eerty are at Point Isabel.
DR.. Taylor took a party ont to
Laguna Vista yesterday.
| Mrs. Wells returned to Point
Isabel Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Smith and family returned
from the coast yesterday.
/ o. c. Hillebrandt arrived here
from San Antonio last night.
F. B. Armstrong, R. B. Rentfro
and S. Dworman are at Point Isa-
bel.
George Krausse and Master
Krausse went to the coast yester-
day.
W. H. Mead came down to
Brownsville last night from Ly-
ford.
c. S. King of Houston came in
last night over the Brownsville
road.
Charles Hanson and Brother are
enjoying the gulf breezes at Padre
Island.
Floyd Layton and family en-
Ijoyed days outing at the Beach
yesterday.
Master Crixell, Phil Scanlon and
E. B. Gore came up from the
Seaside last night.
A. B. McRae, representing the
Chicago Portrait Co., arrived in
the city yesterday from Austin.
E. H. Bracket will leave fo1
Corpus Christi tomorrow morning:
where he will meet Mrs. Bracket.
Rev. w. c. c. Foster, pastor OF
the Presbyterian Church, is around
the city again today after spell
of dengue.
Howard Baldwin. representing
the International Business College,
arrived in the city yesterday from
San Antonio.
S. D. Hanna is in Corpu:
Christi spending a few weeks witt
his wife and enjoying the Epwortt
League Meetings.
W. A. Rutledge, wife and sol
left this morning over the Mexican
National for Saltillo, where they
will spend some time on pleasur,
bent. Mr.. Rutledge may return
about the last of August, but Mrs
Rutledge and her son will stay a
Ss1tillo some time longer.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-07
New Truck Growers. Association.


The truck growers in the viciri-
ty of Run have organized an as
ISOLATION to handle the truck of
the members in the neighborhood
of Run. The meeting organizing
the association was held Saturday,
and twenty farmers joined at that
meeting. The following gentlemen
were elected officers: President. A.
F. Hester; Vice-President, N. B.
Ventrees; Secretary ana Treasurer,
r. P. Boeye. The name of the
new association is The Lower Ric
Grande Valley Truck Growers, As
ISOLATION, and the headquarters are
at Run, Texas.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-07
Notice.

1 am now ready to pay Cameron
county warrants of the jury fund
up to registered number 10,0S7,
and all of the fourth class.
EDGAR L. HICKS,
County Treasurer, Cameron Co.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-08-07
For sac.

Full blooded Berkshire Hogs.
Apply to W. Y. Kennedy, Ray
mondxille. Texas. Jy 29-tf.
Washington telegraph., 1907-10-04

in this choice division mark the
most vigorous and productive
plants, showing short joints and
fruit limbs near the bottom. The
entire plant should be an ezeep-
.tional fruit producer. Seed should
he selected from eseanarek cot.
ton stalks, but the top bolls and
the bolls ON the ends of the limbs
should not go into this lotof seed;
they tend to make the cotton later.
The bolls selectedffor seed should
ibe picked by special field hands,
sent in advance ,of the regular
pickers. This seed cotton must be
stored in dry place and watched
,to avoid mixing.
Special care must be taken at
the gin, that the gin and floors are
free from all other cotton seed
before ginning. Store this seed
in dry place.