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when a sharp drive was made at prices
which carried Union Pacific a; low as
L15z but there was a very prompt rally
from the low point and the Improvement
held well throughout the rest of the
day Most Of the buying came from the
short covering but there also appeared
to be some good absorption of stocks.
Yesterday, The market was dlscQIraging
Jas it seemed that with the tightn6ss of
money prevailing throughout the coun-
try and the shock TO confidence caused by
the sensational extremes TO which cor
.porate marrying has been carried, there
was very little disposition on any ones
part to buy stocks, and the bears had the
field all to themselves.
Under present conditions it does not
take long, however, to get too much
company on the short side, and this OF
II self brings about covering and better
prices. The bargain hunter is also
not altogether negligible quantity. even
At present, and prices have reached such
low level that, despite the unfavorable
/ factors in the situation. many people
feel that with the wonderful progress
and Industry of the country the s!ua-
ton has been pretty well discounted. and
that many good stocks are intrinsicaily
cheap. The better sentiment to-day was
also helped by conservative statement
put out by the Assistant Attorney Cen
cral in Washington. for the immediate
future ii looks as If 1t would be well
to be cautious in the market. and that
rallies VIII not go TO any great length"
There was no bid for a quotation lot on
Washington Gas and there was but one
small sale. Capital Traction held fairly
steady at 100.
E. w. Crew. Of Henry CIews & Co.-"Is
IS evident the deep feeling Of unrest Is
quite as pronounced abroad as at home.
English cpnsols have made a new low
record, declining TO 81 Is Under the cir
cumstances, it is a foregone conclusion
that there viii be no change in the Bank
OF England rate for some time to come.
One thing is quite certain, no help can be
expected from the other side The heavy
| weight professionals, who were sellers
Yesterday and this morning. are the chief
I buyers this afternoon. While still believ-
ing that new low records viii be made
Tor some stocks they realize that the
decline this week was severe, and, there
fore, the market is entitled to some re,
coVery. Outside os short covering, there
Is nothing 20 put the market UP. and il
VIII be realized that buying Of that sort
IS not Of the substantial kind "
At a meeting Of the board Of directors
Of the National City Bank yesterday At
Jorney Wilton J. Lambert was elected a
director 10 MI vacancy.
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JUSTICE BARNARD.
United states vs., Edward Leon Thompson, Tiolat-
ing section 500 code; bill of exceptions fled Attor-
ney. Leo Simmons.
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MINING STOCKS.

Quotations are furnished by Irving X. Harrington
X Co, members Of the New York Produce tx
change. 59u Bond Building
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Trust Company Surplus Increased.

At the regular meeting Of the board OF
directors, held on the 7th instant. the
surplus OF the Washington Loan and
Trust Company was increased $4,000,
making the present surplus 5000 earned.
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Circuit Court No. L.
Criminal Court No. 1.

Lounsbury ct al rs. Dobbins; fat on sci IA
Plaintiffs attorney, ". W. Stewart
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CURB MARKET.

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Co.. members New York stock Exchange. G. Bowie
ChiEman manager, I3JI F street northwest.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.

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MONEY AT . PER CENT

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Benjamin Woodruff, of Post &, Flagg-
'The market acted to-day much better
than might have been expected from the
trading yesterday More or Jess liquida-
.tion developed soon after the opening,
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There was no bid for a quotation lot on
Washington Gas. and there was but one
small sale. Capital Traction held fairly
steady at 100.
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The foil
In our
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
freed by a Tigress.
From the Madras Mail


1 was patroling the jungle paths be-
tween two OF my chowkies. accompanied
by my jemadar. and on approaching an
exceptionally thick patch We were star
tied by hearing tiger roar almost at
our feet. 1 coughed pretty loudly to let
him know that we were near. but judging
by the growls he was disposed to dis
pute the right OF way.
AS we were una-l7lsd. swift retreat was
the only way to escape the danger. l
soon found a tree. up which l Skinned"
till some twenty feet from the ground,
but on looking round for my 1emadar l
found he was making frantic efforts to
climb one. but slipped to the bottom
after each endeavor. So called him to
my perch. and had just hauled him up
when a fine tigress emerged from the
jungle. followed by two small cubs.
She passed under our tree and sauntered
into the thicket but reappeaCed a few
minutes later without tie cubs. and re-
manned watching US for some time. ap-
to claw us Off our pe7cEes. After some
embarrassing moments productive OF the
bluest OF funks she disappeared. and my
jena6a-. who had been dumb while the
interview lasted, found his voice and gave
tongue in the most agonizing yells to the
rest OF our party. who were close behind,
to come to our assistance.
No one. however, appeared. and II Is
well they did not, as the tigress would
oily have attacked them After re-
manning In the tree for an hour or so we
descended and saw no more OF our unwel-
come visitor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
The First Skyscraper.
Sew Broadway Magazine.

6rom the New Broadway Magazine.
1t is little more than Eighteen years
since Bradford LIE Gilbert erected the first
4sky-scraper at 80 Broadway, New
York 1t was an eleven-story building
One day, when 1t was still in the skele-
ton stage, he decided to climb up through
the network of steel pillars and Orders
while a gale of wind was blowing. lie
wished to ma Ike some tests of the effect
OF the storm on the skeleton. TIE people
watching him from\ the sidewalk said
he took his life in his hand. They ex-
fall. burying the hapless inventor in the
ruins.
LIE Gilbert returned to earth un.iurt-
a victor who had given the world new
fds1 tast was to revol4tionize the Ameri-
since eea skyscrabers have become
almost atSmmonplact Higher and higher
they have Soared-el5ven, fourteen, eight
cen, twenty, Twenty-Five. forty-one or
mere f6t0rteS-piling wonder on wonder
transforming Wall, Nassau and Pine
streets INTO narrow canyons between cliffs
q steel and stone and making Trinity
Church. the finest building in the city
hail century ego, mere foothill of the
great skyscraper range.
Then oafsfe the new idea, Just carried
to success, which made men doubt il
there were any limits to the height of the
skyscraper. The tower of the Singer
Buildiag, at 147 broadway, began to scar
into the air. piling story upon story,
Until there were forty-seven in ALL and
the lantern that crowned he steel skele-
ton was fastened in place 612 feet above
the sidewalk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Morality of the Novel.
From the London Telegraph.


1t is common knowledge with every
one who reads books that during the last
generation the English novel has stead
lily claimed the greater freedom. Sub
jects are now dealt with at which the
d-victorians would have hid their
faces. There is a realistic treatment
and a frankness of language concerning
matters OF sex which the first three
quarters of the nineteenth century would
not tolerate. Let 1t be remembered that
we have not advanced. We have gone
back.
1t is not new art. but old, which has no
passion, frank naturalism in style. be-
and Smollett as to our own. This is not
TO say it is bad Thackeray deliber-
ately regretted the eighteenth-century
freedom. Since the time of Fielding, he
complained, no Writdr had been per-
mtted to the fullness OF his power to por-
tray man. We have now come again to
q time where there are 10 limitations
Those who for their sins have to main
tain a careful survey of the constant
stream of ephemeral novels are we'll aware
of the growth of d class which, not to
mince words, must be called the sa1acious.
Each season now sees number of books
FOR which the most kindly critic in the
world can find no raison d'etre but their
improperly Absurd in plot, wooden in
character and ignorant in style their
sensual descriptions provide them a pop
ularity.
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BY THE CUT OF HIS COAT.
Thus One May Know Strangers
Nationality.
From the Tailor and Cutter


A mans dress invariably proclaims who
and what he is; it IS an index to his char
acter, his tastes. and his nationality; and
without making a too abstruse study it is
possible to indicate those featur-s which
proclaim the nationality of the wearer.
OF course, there is an aristocracy of the
nations which is difficult to distinguish
except by some popularity of face or fig
ure. Their clothing is refined and tasteful
and leads one to believe that their gar
ments are London made, as they are free
from those glazing peculiarites which
characterize the products of other coun-
tries.
The Americans garments are generally
quite two sizes too large for him, the COL
lar of his coat is exceedingly narrow, and
the shoulders and back excessively wide.
His trousers pegtops finished with raised
seams. His favorite garment are the
lounge and Chesterfield, and these are
Often finished in some extraordinary way
which he fancies TO be original.
The Frenchman is dressy, his gar
ments are close fitting, and decidedly
'waisty." He favors the frock and the
morning coat, which he has finished with
as much characterization as ossible. Silk
facing. braided edges and fantastic
flaps are all characteristic o. his dress
while he pays a good deal of attention to
his hat tie. and. cuffs
The German is in many instances a
modified American. He likes plenty of
ROOM especially about the chest, which
part of his anatomy he delights to make
much of; consequently there is often a
seam up the front of his coat from the
waist. In cut his garments are angular,
and in style he favors the morning coat
and lounge. There is a lack of personal
ity about his attire, and one can invG~r-
ably detect the result of his military
training in the uniformity of his gar
mentS.
The Spaniard is a modified form of tie
and neat. If the weather is suitable he
,iiscards a vest. and his jackets are close
dtting and finished with a low roll. Cen
orally speaking. there is less peculiarly
to note about the Spaniard's dress than
with many others. ....---
The Austrian and Hungarian participate
in the characteristics OF the German, but
are more tasteful in the cut and flnisl
| suggesting skillful blending of French
| and German notions. On the other hand,
the Italian type is a Germanized French
style, so that You get more of The artis-
tic finish of the French in their clothing
than. you find in the Austrian or Hun
garian.
! The Norwegian and Dane are seldom
distinguisnable from the Englishrnan as
| tar as their clothes are conc 1rned, except il
| be in q preciseness that is apt to sug-
I gest stiffness in place of that ease and
| grace which mark the English garments.
| The Colonial is invariably attfred in
utilit aEian garh, a tweed lounge suit in
a modified English style, cut for comfort
| and made up for strength. He has no
| desire for show. and cares litLle for dec
| orations, So that he is rarely seen in a
| frock or morning coat.
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A White Mountain Guide.
From the New York Sun.


In a sketch Of Benjamin F. Osgood.
the famous White mountain guide. whose
death at Bath. Me-. is reported, we note
white. man to climb Mount Washington
In winter. Osgood made the ascent on
December Z, 1853. Now. as 1t is char
acterstlc of Indians to shun mountain
heights from feeling of awe which they
rarely overcome, it is quite likely that
Osgood was the first man to climb to the
rocky summit of Washington In the win
ter season.
That the thing was not done before
1853 by white man will SURPRISE some
people, for New Hampshire al that time
contained perhaps only 100000 inhabi-
tants less than 1t has now; but the fact
is our mountain districts In the eastern
states were terra !ncognita little more
than fifty years ago, with the qualifica-
ton that here and there a backwoods-
man could boast of having climbed the
more accessible peaks. Even as late as
the sixties the higher Adirondacks were
trailless wilderness: If any one doubts
this statement let him read the graphic
reports of Verplanck Colvin, the state
surveyor. who began to explore and map
the hill country of the north woods in
1866. and unquestionably made many first
ascents, some, we believe, in the early
seventies.
The truth is the interest of our people
in the Presidential range of New Hamp-
shire and the group of Adirondack peaks
in Essex county in this state Is of COM
paratively recent date. In the White
mountains Osgood was guide for a gen.
Grafton and made a good living out of
the occupation. No one with stout
pair of legs and eye sharp enough to
see an overgrown trail needs a guide in
the White mountains today, and every
year the Appalachians repeat Osgood's
feat of climbing Washington in the win
| ter SHOWS.
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FEATHERMAKER's DEVICES.
Builds UP Plumage Of All Sizes and
Colors for Hats.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
There is an unprecedented demand for
wings and feathers this winter. and. with
few exceptions. every hat Is decorated
with plumes, which futter in the slightest
breeze. Composite plurnes are tho most
fashionable. and wings are of such re-
marl1a Bile size and hue that II IS obvious
that no bird could have supplied the plum
age. In consequence the ingenuity OF
Paris, Vienna and London manufacturing
has been taxed to the utmost to meet the
need.
1t will interest those who have humand-
tartan scruples to know that the gayeSe
plumage nowadays comes from the hum
BILE barnyard, the poulterer's shop and
sportsmen's guns. The feathery products
from these sources are dyed TO magnif-
cent colors conjured into the vast cree
tons that decorate the newest shapes and
are softened to the needs of the picture
hat.
I'VE have agents all over the world
said q feathermaker, who buy up poul-
try and game feathers and send them to
the great centers. where they are distrtb-
uted for manufacture. Here is an excel
lent instance-these military feathers.
that are the most fashionable, are con-
tributed by the farmyard chanticleer.
They are dyed to almost every color and
then mounted by hand.
"This''-and the manufacturer held UP
some exquisite plumage-'"is handmade
entirely and is from the neck feathers OF
the duck. Turkey feathers are used the
same way and dyed the required color.
Pheasant tails are preferred in their nat
ural color. while other game plumage
is made entirely by hand on mounts, each
feather being attached by adhesive gum
Sometimes, indeed. plumage from six OFF
ferent birds is used to secure desired
effect
Here again." and a beautiful huttertng
ather was shown somewhat resembling
seaweed This is made from the least
valuable parts of the ostrich feather,
twisted and mounted.
Many devices are used, too, to secure
unique color effects. This''-and a rare
feather was lifted for dnspection-''has
had the color extracted, whine these
and a vivid box of plumes was opened
SHOW the latest triumph in artistic dye
ing.
"There is no need for cruelty or exter-
mination. The birds that grace our Ia
bes can supply the plumage, the dyer
the necessary color and the nimble fin
gers of English and French workgirls
will weave them into deft shapes.
while ladies demand exotic plumage
the manufacturers must supply It. 1t Is
| impossible to initiate the natural beau
ties of the osprey or the bird of paradise
or of any of the exquisite little birds that
come from purely tropical climates.
Birds. however. are not fashionable this
year, but stock must always be kept IN
hand.
"The popularity Of the ostrich feather
grows each season, and there is no cruel
ty used in securing this plumage. The
output from the South African farms this
year is enormous, upward of million
plumes being exported. These are now
iIspd in their natural state, as well as
curled and are of course. dyed nearly
| every color.
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WHEN A PYTHON KILLS.
Painless Death Without Terror
Snakes Vulnerable Point.

From the L ieiu
When I was youngster in India a
friend gave me an Indian python. 1t was
tame TO handle, but it was a duh, unin-
teresting thing, and we used to leave it
undisturbed' in its resting place, an old
beer chest, with bars at the top. 1t was
over ten feet or eleven feet long, so it WIS
never extended. 1t used laZily to change
its position but seemed to prefer COM
plete rest, even when wakeful. We used
To give 1t six live rats of a Sunday. When
not having been fed for a week it would
he moving about, but was never quick
and lively. - ..-...--.., ~ .
one rat at a tine was put into the cage
and never seemed scared or disturbed, but
lust moved about in the open places and
sometim even on the snake The latter
for a time took no notice, then it would
wake up and slowly work itself into
position with more motion particularly in
the head and neck for about two feet.
The auicknesS with which it then struck
and seized its prey was wonderful; in less
than moment the rat was tackled into q
fold and squeezed tight, being instantly
killed without any apparent fear or an
ticipation of death. 1t was far more
merciful and natural than steel trap.
After waiting several minutes before
changing the position to feed. the python
would slowly move and get the dead rat
straight end on. relax its grip and grad
ually swallow the prey. until 1t came to
the first kink at the end of the first fold,
when the position had to be changed to
pass the rat further down. the same
process being repeated with each rat,
getting slower at each mouthful until ii
had swallowed five. 1t never ate the
sixth which was the perquisite of an ex-
pectant terrier and had a more painful
end. 1t was plain to see how many rats
had been ,wallowed by the bulges in Its
length. 1t would be torpid till Friday
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MILLIONS FOR .THEATERs.
The Enormous Theatrical Industry
of New York City.
New Broadway Magazine.

From the New Broadway Magazine.
There is a theatergoing crowd in New
York which numbers one hundred thou
sand people nightly. If We take into con-
sideratlon all sorts and conditions OF thea
tiers. this number is probably n low esti-
mate; for there are nnumerable foreign
playhouses, obscure stock companies and
unnoticed but prosperous vaudeville and
burlesque shows which steadily attract
their own custom in the metropolis. There
are about forty theaters of ffrst-class
standing now running In New York city
Box Office receipts at both the "legiti-
mate and the vaudeville houses, taken
the year round, will amount to something
in the neighborhood of six million dollars
per annum. Perhaps even this is a low
estimate. OF all kinds. there are five
thousand actors playing in New York city
perhaps six thousand. Some of these
actors draw salaries as high s., 500
week for season of twenty weeks. Some
of the showS-such as The Man of the
Hour''-take in 5000 a week each for a
season of fifty-two weeks straight.
All these oddly associated facts bring
up an interesting train of thought. They
dimy reveal why New York is the tbeat-
rical center of this continent: why actors
from every state in the Union flock to
the metropolis TO hunt work; why the
dramatic writers of the whole world are
anxious to obtain a New York hearing.
" ny All TIE p.dlllS VI Ine WnOlc
country. so employed. are building thea
ters and designing costumes and writing
music here in this main city. Ii is a 81
gantic industry, if we view the array of
figures and the facts back of them. There
seems to be no end of production. a hun
dred thousand brains are busy about the
New York stage, thinking out devices.
studying gestures. experimenting with
electrical effects, painting scenes. re-
hearsing tones and voices-going through
ali the little endless duties of reproducing
humanity for humanity to gaze at and en-
Joy. 1t is a wonderful energy lavished
upon a transient affair; all the more Won
derful because 1t is so fatally transient.
II the reader gains some idea of the
enormey of this enterprise from what has
been said here the foregoing paragraphs
will not have been written in vain. The
opening of Belasco's new theater. the
Stuyvesant, at any time a notable event
in the history of the American stage,
brings home to the American public a
sense of the immensely of the native the
atrical industry-and as far as New York
Is concerned this growing and spreading
is ali the more emphasized by the fact
that within the next two years at least
four more legitimate playhouses will be
built.
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NILE COTTON.
What Irrigation Has Done for the
Crops Of Egypt.

Charles ". Pepper. IN scr!bner's.
Economists who study the Increased pro-
ductivity Of the earth which is secured
through irrigation. when they come to
Egypt will ponder on the cotton Yield
In its fullest sense that Is what future
Egyptian irrigation means. The show
ing of the cotton yield of the Nile re-
gicns in values presents a remarkable
series of ascending figures. In 1906 the
increase In the value Of the crop over
the previous year was 5000. 600 Ovef
cropping, boil weevil and unfavora Bile
conditions of the season from which Egypt
Is no more exempt than other cotton
growing regions. have been balanced by
bringing increased areas under cutiva-
O00.0DO pounds in the crop of 1891, as
compared with 1897 was obtained the
production for those years, decade apart
being CHILDHOOD pounds and $1,000 600
pounds. respectively. The area under
cotton in 1897 was slightly in excess of
100000 acres and the average yield
per acre was 44o pounds. In lower Egypt
20 per cent of the cultivated area or
1,2oOUo acres is under cultivation and
all of this section through having peren-
NAL irrigation Is cotton bearing. So. by
means OF the Assouan dam, the engineers
have assured the pernanency of this
source of Egypts wealth, since cotton
can be grown on the same lands two
years out OF five.
We may conclude that In cotton Egypt
hes permanent world market, and for
that reason this staple will be cultivated
f-cm the time of Joseph and his captive
brethren to the epoch of Lord Croner
and the British pIo-consuls Is one from
corn to cotton.