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The Washington herald., 1907-11-16
LOCAL FINANCIAL GOSSIP.

transactions yesterday on the Wash
ington Stock Exchange were $500 In
Washington Railway and Electric 4 per
cent bonds. and I.52l shares Of stock. 1900
OF which were Mitchell Mining The
bonds sold between z SIS and HI. and
the stock of the mining company at S-S.
a big drop from about the same volume
OF sales the previous day
Ten shares of Capital Traction sold at
l24 rs, five of Washington Railway and
Electric preferred at g. and six shares
OF Mergenthaler at Is3 and 100 L.
1t was announced yesterday by the
local committee assembling the shares OF
the Mitchell Mining Company in this city,
that It lacked the number Of shares de-
sired, and that its Office on F street
would be kept open, at least until next
Tuesday. for the purpose Of receiving the
shares Of those who care 10 join in the
movement of reorganization.
A letter was read on the stock ex-
change yesterday from the secretary OF
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company, that the usual dividend on the
preferred stock Of the company would be
paid on December 1. aud requesting the
holders Of the trust certificates 10 ex-
change them for stock certificates, before
the closing OF the books about Novem-
Der 90
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NEW YORK PRODUCE.

New York Nov. B.-SUCAR-The market for rag
sugar dull and nominal with centrifugal -
test az 10; Musc0YaQO. Sc test. AZ $50 and mo
lasscs sugar. 50 test. al 2s5 The London market
for best sugar ruled steady. with business quiet
and NoVerbcr I'D lower. al s. AID and DeceInser
az Is SID. Rehned sugar Was quiet and unchanged
NAVAL STORES-Ihe market fer spirits turpsn-
tine higher. with machine made baTrfls quoted
ar a. asked here and at SAVANNA; the market was
steady. at f2H 10 g. Kosin was dun and lower,
with common b good strained quoted a; 30. Tar
held STEADY bot luet. al SO % SIS for Oh barTels
BUT1 Ek-RcCcipts. 3635 packages Fresh butter
Of fancy quality Is tightly offered that on stock
u this description the marict Is firm. Medium and
under grades dull and nted weak. hut quota
lions are as last reported. Extras. under the new
rule. must range from soasl points Process butter
IS quiet blt firm Creamery special "a. creamery
extras. 81: creamery hrsts, zaZ77Ei state dairy,
tubs. fresh. fair TO choice, 2ia27
EGGS-IiccsIpIs. 49, cases. S;oIage eggs are
barely steady: offerings q al kinds heavy.
Fresh gathered extus Ea3i: Westem fresh gathered.
fTsts 5la5Z. freshgathered. dirties. country
candled. l7al8
FLOUR-Firm. moderate inquiry. Spring patents.
55aeU; spring clean 5.olaj o. winter strligCts
lj45 %. winter clears s5da17o, Kansas. N SACKS
patents, 5Es55o; straishts, i-Da5D; eiears, i.S5a
AS
RYE FLoUR-s,eady: light supply. We quote
CORNAIEAL-Flm modernte inquiry. Kiln-dried
for export 75a3 s.: coarse meal in bags. LSsAl4o.
BUcKwHEAT tLOUR-Fim: small supply.
Choice. 5I0438
HAY-IrregiIar inactive trade. Receipts. $50
tons Prime timothy. Lbs. No !. 10: No ? 10;
No g. 6aL00
STRAW-Aloderate business s,eady. Long rye
.5a50
BEEF STEADY: supply light Family. Hsal50:
packet. l200al250
PoRE-,Iodsrsts dealings Ness. ls75als5o; fam
iy. l9.50a1 o.
TALLOW-Weaker. City in hogheads 81
LAkD-Easier Prime Western. I'D. city. SIS:
Te1ned. ointment 955; South American. les. re-
fined. Brazilian Eels 10 cts stearne, 81 cleo
steariue. nominal. New York. siaa9; Chicago, 81
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

QuotI:ions furnished By Miller Co. members
Of the New York Stock Exchange and tine Chicago
Board Ct Trade 1895 + street northwest
Chicago. Nov. l5.-Wheat was heavy almost from
the start. Quotations were nervous and choupy
fluctuations were the ulle Weakness ia stocks dis
couTagcd new buying in grain. and support Of this
SOFT seemed constantly Necessary Selling pressure
vas limited during the early hours. traders had
been made cautions b- yesterdays final bulge
Gradually the larger local bear Spectators gained
ground There selling fer Eastern and foreign
account and considerable for the Northwest. The
only support early By the same principal who
has supported the market during the past three or
four days. Later in the day this element were
sellers. Estimated tomorrow. Il cars.
Like wheat. corn advanced from the nervous
choppy stage in which trading was light %
heavy condition. during which values slumped
sharply ana he ,raie expanded considerably De
mapd for cash corn was somewhat better to-day
Eastern stocks were low and buyers took hold
little better Cash corn was y 20 I cent lower
Foreign markets were lower. despite light ship
mcnIS from Argentine Estimated tomorrow us
cars.
Oats were but a faint reflection Of the other
grains and sold lower under light trade Cash
cats slow IN the staple market, but firm al
about yesterdays closing. Estimated tomorrow.
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New York nov. 5.-WHEAT-Weakcr; fair de
mand. No l Northern Duluth, 70 arrive, LIS; No. 2
red T. O. b.. L04; No hard. I. O. b.. lO7is: No
! macarOni L0S. T. Q. b.; No macaroni.' LO3i4
No. ! Manitoba III E. O. b.. No. 2 Manitoba Is
{. b. Exporters took 10 loads partly outports and
interior RumoCsd a cargo Of hard winter for
odessa. bu; nSt confirmed.
CoRN-sWeaker; quiet trade. No. 2 elevator. &C !,
Ne. p o. b. 6sis. for late November; No yellow.
{. o, b.. 66i1; No. white. 67H f O. b.. for late
November. Exporters took loads.
RYE-Steady: fair inquiry No ?, on, T. o. b..
Two loads for export
OATS-Steady: Hgsa business Elevator prices
No. white, 524s; No white, 523.; No. 2 mixed S.
MILL FEED-Wesk; quiet Spring bran. loo-Ih
sacks. TO arrive, lake ard rail 25l0 mddlings 2i6l
city bran. eco. in bulk; Western red dog. Bio to
arrive.
New York. Nov i5.-LOwer price levels in all
sraia markets to-day especially wheat which broke
sharply. as offerings were heavy. prompted partly by
CiscJursging cables but mainly by unsatisfactory
financial adviccs. Export trade in com is slow
The prices for futures follow:
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BALTIMORE GRAIN PRICES.

Baltimore NOV. E-FoIoNing are the Official
prices for to-day:
wHEAT-Stock IN elevators. EoE2 bushels.
Saies=Car rejected. track. q car No. red West
crn. spot. fresh. Lc5S 5o0 December. LOsis Set
Ting prizes. No red Western. 1855, for con-
tract. SPOT. LoA; No. 3 red. a9s. steamer Nc .
TED. "a steamer No 2 red Western. g. Westcm
spO;, November, L02A December, L0i Contract
closed easier, spo;, November. lW1, December.
L0.A Jaruary LON May L6-
FBOUR-Nintsr extra. 595as.I5; do. clear. f25a
Li0. do straight. 455afso; do. patent. s5a5 90
spring clear i5oa479. do. straight 5-30e5 a. do,
patent. J55a5 s.. Clty AIls best Patent. 6es DO.
hish-sraie Istent. s45 DO. straight. SIS do.
choice family. 49,
CORN-StCcs in elevators. 5Z7.5b bushels Track
yellow clrp- domesic delivery. at 65sas pr busbel
lor carots prime on SPOT Contract. year. g.,
sellers Sales "a. steamer yellow. track 6s..
settling prclE Flr No white So. mixed 6S'a
new. tsi steamer mixed. old. 551s. new. 5s NJ.
s. IS. The Hanse- fcr Western closed dun. SPA.
November. Ga65'1 year. sl'2; J4nuar, 5c- Feb
ulary. co.
OATS-Stock In elevators. lss SIS bushels: ship
mcn;s from elcvat0z T759 bushels White, No 2
heavy. al-S55 do No p lght 90 medium. 5isa5s
CO.. Ne. s. heavy 55a53i4 No 3. medium 52a52i.
do. No. 3 light 5Ia5lis; do. Ne. Z. light TO
heavy. 5a5l. mixed. No. . 52a5-is; CO.. No. 3
5isa5l: do, No g. isai9
RYE-stock IL elevators. 10 Isl bushels. ship
ments from elevators I.2T bushels. NJ 3 West
eTu nc sold az S6as1 a busLel.
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Chicago. Nov l5.-CATTLE- Receipts. ZOO head;
estimated Tor tomorrow 20 head Market s,ronr
Iiime beeses, Asa6.25: poor 10 medium. 3.3las Is
stoekeis and feeders. 32ll5: cows and heifers n
Ls5i esunsrs. l25az.i0; Texans, L90a4S WeStcrne
1lGaaS 'l''
HOGS-Receipts, 300 head; estimated for S,h,r-
day. Hoo head Market opened Ice lower: re-
gained, Light, t99aS-D; roughs 4sna5.lO: mixed.
5-0oa55o; heavy, 5.I5a545; pigs 40oa5 TO-
sHEEP-Receipts. 1000 head: estimated for 70
morrow. ZOO head. Market steady 10 strong Ma
tive sheep 200s5-5; Western sheep 225a5 TO- native
lambs, 375a6.G5; Western lambs a75asa
New York, Nov. Is. CATTL E-ReeeIpts. 1917
head. Steers active: medium and god l0sl5 b4rler-
an grades firm; bulls l0c higher: medium and eooI
COWS higher; bologna COWS steady: ali sold STEERS
A15a6s5; siags and oxen. 5c5a540; bulls. 2oDa3 3
COWS. LOlaAS Fat heife1s Ai5a4D.
calves - Receipts. 800 head. Market STEADY.
Neals 65las9; no prime offered cIls $50: grass
ers, SO; Western calves. 450a5.0 Dressed calves
STEADY oiydressed Teals, s.als country dressed ga
l2l4; dressed grasser5. 6isa7Is
SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts 3 so head Mar
ket &c lower for both sheep and lambs. Sheen. 3D
ASA eulis 800: lambs. 6ola7.50; culls, L5Oas.N.
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COTTON MARKET.

Quotations Furnished by Miller & Co. members Of
The New York stock and Cotton exchanges and tie
New Orleans Cotton Exchange. l23 street north
west
NeW York. Nov 5.-The market was weak and
demorallzed late N the day. a r,sllr q unsettled
condition IN Wall street Cotton vas mole freely
offered and big cloud hangs over the market Ia
the shape ~ laEse part n the crop yet % De mar
keted which Is held back either forced d. willingly
With receipts ll5oV0 bale behind last year 70 date
the situation would be ampantly b1llish but il is
30 well known that the discrepancy due 20 causes
beyond the control a. the owners u cotton that
nobody pretends 20 contribute the small figures u
shortage IN the course Of time the held back ct
ton must be marketed and the price must give way.
Trade reports to-day were pessiaistc Fsu River
Boston. Providence. and Philadelphia sending re-
ports % waning trade and CuTiailment by uaanufac-
turers. The market Nppoars 81 De destined to
lower level IN spite q attempts hy professionals %
hold u or whether Southern holders stand firm or
yield
Liverpool is due to 81 lower il the mornins-
The Washington herald., 1907-11-16
LOCAL ATTORNEY IN SUIT.
AIonEO Carman Brings Action TO Re.
cover a Commission.

Trial is underway in the Supreme
Court of New York before Justice
Newburger and a jury Of the suit brought
by Alonzo Carman, Washington attorney.
TO recover ~ per cent commission on the
$4,000 contract for the construction Of
the Norfolk dry dock in 1903. John c.
Rogers and Frank L Sylvester. who held
the contract, are the defendants.
Carman says his connection in Wash
ington, particularly his intimacy with
Rear Admiral Endicott and other mem
bers of the Navy Department. allowed him
to get information that enabled Rogers
and Sylvester to put in lower and closer
BID than any of the other contractors.
The defendants deny Carman performed
any such services for them or that they
owe him anything.
The Washington herald., 1907-11-16
NEW YORK MONEY.

lew York. Nov. 1.-Money opened on call at
stock exchange az z per cent; highest IS:
rest, 5; closing, s. Most Of the loans were al
per cent. Time money showed some improve
NJ IN conditions. although trade was stiu very
hted. Rates were quoted at 10 per cent for
y 10 ninety da,s. per cent for six months.
latter quotation being more or less nominal
rcantile paper was taken in limited volume By
buyers The institutions which are usually
rchasers were quite generally still out Of the
rket- Rates we're nomiually quoted at ~ 10 10
cent
sterling strong to-day. with = cent advance in
nand rate 20 above 4.57. The strength q the
.rket was due 10 active demand for remittance
to-day'S gold engagements and 20 London's sales
stocks Rates for actual business closed Sixty
". i7sa47g; demand. is100aIS1jJ: cables. sas5a
500. Commercial bills we're 476i-a47s. The sud-
q cotton bills was good
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BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET

Baltimore. Nov. l5.-FOOWing are The prices
quoted ar the principal commission houses:
BUTTER-CIeamery. fancy per b. 23a29; insita-
ton. Za2j Maryland and Pennsylvania rolls Igag
stCTe-packcd- Ohio. Hsa2)ss; do, West Virginia pa
.; MARYLAND Virginia. and Pennsylvania. )20iza2Il4
LIVE POULTRH-old hens, heavy per H.. ia
EA: young l3al3.s; rOcsters. each 25a33: dhlcss,
paddle, large. pr ID. l0all; do. small. ball. Go
nluscOyy and monsrel. IL turkeys, young ~ lbs
and ever. i3isal6 do. Old l3isal6
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WASHINGTON CATTLE MARKET.

CATTLE-ExtTa. Ter cEt-. GOaal55: butcher. 5z5a
-. commln. l5oa2to
HoGS-Per cat, gross. 5Z5a5.sO. ordinary, sea
40
SHEEP-Clippsd. 4ooai51; common. 80
LAAIBS-SpriuE choice. 7isaS medium :.
CALNES-PrIne. pr H.. sasis; medium u
grass. fa8iz.
COWs-P-ime. fresh. each lo.Ooa5O.00. common.
p. 0oa5o.0l. Old and d.. s0aal6o1
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MORE GOLD FROM EUROPE.
arrangements to Date Amount TO
Over $4,000. 600.

New York, Nov. l5.-Lazard FreTes to-
day engaged S5.5G0OO0 additional gold for
import. making their total engagements to
date on the present movement SIS. 1856. 600
Heidelbach, lckslheimer < Co. to-day
engaged $4,000 additional gold for import
making their total enga gements on the
present movement S1l.O35,00O.
The total engagements on the present
movement TO date are now So 1850
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AdmIraIs Brother pend.

Seneca Falls. n. Y. Nov. I5.-Jacob
Crowninshield. aged seventy. brother of
Rear Admiral A. S. Crowninshield was
found dead in his apartments here to-
day
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WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET.

Sales Regular call. Il O'Clock noon
Washington Railway and Electric Is, $500 at III
si.0e at T7h.
Capital Traction, 10 at l2i5s-
Washington Railway end Electric preferred 5 at s.
Mergenthalcr. at 1873. 1874.
Mitchell Mining, 100 at =. 100 at \. 100 at T.
500 az \
After call-NItchen Mining 200 at p.
Washington Railway and Electric Is, 500 at 77A.
s., 600 at ~
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Quotations furnished By Post & Flag. members
OF the New York Stock Exchange. Benz Woodruff.
manager. 1881 street northwest
sales TO noon. .289,722 shares
Total sales. .oss,IOO shares
Call moneys High, lot low, 3; close, ).
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Quotations are furnished by Irving Il harrington
. Co.. members OF the New York Produce Exchange.
Frank c. hingsland, manager, Hibbs Buildjng
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BOSTON STOCKS.

quotations are furnished ny Z. r. Chapman 4
d. members New York Stock Exchange c. Bowie
ipmaa ma,iagcr, 1901 street northwest.
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CURB MARKET.

uotations are furnished by z. R. Chapman &
members New York Stock Exchange. g. Bowie
pman. manager, 1901 + street northwest.
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DRIVE LED BY BEARS
Sagging Tendency in Stocks
Due to Spectators.
MONEY IN PLENTY OFFERED
Underlying Conditions I'm the Market
More Favorable than at Amy Time
for Weeks in Spite of Lower Prices
Following MRnipuIatiOns-BrOk
Look for Lower Premium Rate.

New York, Nov 1.-THE slowly sag
cling tendencies in the security market
that have been in evidence throughout
the greater part of the present week
eliminated to-day in a considerable de-
cline in prices. for which responsibility
was almost universally laid by conpe-
tent critics. both on and OFF the floor OF
the stock exchange, to a more vigorous
and widespread onslaught upon the mar
ket by spectators for the fall than any
that has occurred since the first OF the
month.
These operators used 10 the greatest ex-
tent possible whatever influence favor
able 10 their purpose they could extract
from the deplorable personal tragedy Of
yesterday, although it was entirely plain
to-day TO every sensible person that this
event bore absolutely no relation TO the
current affairs of any financial institu-
ton or to the financial situation gen.
orally
There was. OF course, a certain degree
Of genuine liquidation IN the market to-
day. The individuals TO whom were
turned over the per cent collateral trust
bonds Of the United States Steel Cor
poration in return for Tennessee Coal and
Iron stock are unquestionably converting
these bonds, or a certain proportion Of
them, into cash as rapidly as they can in
order TO take up their loans with the in
stitUtions that advanced money on the
security Of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
shares This. however, was the only sig
nal instance Of the pressure of actual
holdings Of stocks for sale.
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Money Offers Continue.

The substantial underlying develop
ments affecting the stock market to-day
ere more favorable than they have been
a long time. There was what looked
Se the beginning of a general breaking
pwn in the premiums on currency. The
ferings Of cash so as 10 obtain the
eniums poured into money brokers to-
~ in a rushing volume. while the will
gness 10 pay these premiums on the
IT Of Western banks and others steadily
clined. Indeed, there were not wanting
day bank officials who ventured the
ediction that within two weeks all trace
premium on currency viii disappear.
There were many guesses to-day re-
riding the probable character OF to-mor-
VS. bank statement The opinion may
yentured that the statement will show
considerable but not a very large ad-
ion 10 the bank surplus reserve.
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MINING STOCKS.

.ial sales, S.2l5OoO. against S2l7S.OOO yesterda,
i-.V01 week ago. and Sl62s.GO0 4 year ago.
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LIVE STOCK MARKET

Sells cents pr share.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

ehiseed out of 'em. But there was no way out.
 Why, certainly, mother I'll go-glad to-, said I as hearty as I could make it, and then again l caught that significant exchange of glances between the boy and his mother, just as If they'd achieved some kind of a victory or other.
 Well the boy executed his usual dis appearance soon after dinner, and then. allowing me to burn up just one cigar my wife began to hustle and hustle me around and presently we were on our way to the May services. l had to grin n bit sheepishly as we drew nigh the portal.
 Fine work for you. little lady said I to the boys mother. Do you know how many years It's been since l attend ed May evening services?'
 " Please don't tell me- said she. T don't want to hear 1t. And don't ever say anything like that before the chill dren. You know how they notice these chance rewards. And with that we were inside the cool, fragrant church and on our way to the pew.
 Well, we'll what long stretch of years that fragrance took me back across the mingled fragrance of roses and drift Ing incense. Noticed 1t the minute l set foot within the church-hrst, the smell of the roses that were heaped up on the main altar and on the side altar and then. as we got inside the other aroma of the incense. I declare that those two fused fragrances, and they go mighty well to- gether If you've eyer noticed-just clean picked me up and set me back on the road n good thirty years. and a good bit of that road right hard going at that.
 '"rhe wife and I sat down In the pew. and I was listening to some of the old familiar May evening music, full of dim "reminiscences, when the mother gave me a slight nuuge.
 q turned and looked at her, and her eyes were shining mighty bright sure enough. And she was noddlng in the di- rectlon of the altar. I thought that she meant that she wanted me to stop looking around at the decorations and things and to pay attention to what was going on at the altar and so I followed her gaze.
 "Wel, then I understood the meaning of that put up job between the boy and his mother.
 For there was the boy on the altar in surplice and cassock. at the right hand of the priest at that. I understood all right.
 When I turned to her again her eyes were still shining away like as If they'd but. when 1t comes to that. l couldn't see her very well myself, for it all come a-romping back to me in an instant that she looked just exactly. for all the world. like my own little mother had looked, away back wonder over the craggy path
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Old-Fashioned Southerner.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harpers Weekly.
 Senator Pettus has also died, and now the successor chosen by the dem- ocratic primaries will take his seat just as the successor of Senator Mor- gan took his. It Is pathetic loss to the Senate, that of these venerable public servants, who resembled one another so much, and who were so highly respected by the men around them, many of whom were so unlike them. MT. Pettus was older than MT. Morgan, and they were both lawyers and citizens of Selma, Ala. There MT. Pettus was a little more than MT. Mor- gan in his profession and in his pros- perity, for he had attended to his own business for many of the loNg years which Mr Morgan had devoted to the business of the country. But when he went to Washington he was respect fully observant of MT. Morgan and leaned uJon his large experience. He knew John Morgan very well, and he knew that he could perfectly trust him. He accepted his advice In his new sphere of action implicitly because of his faith in ais old friend and profes- sional brother. His predecessor was MT Pugh who was ruined politically by a mistake that he made about Mr. Pettus' influence in the state of Ala bama. MT. Pettus wanted MT. Pugh's Influence to be judge, but Pugh said that Pettus was too old, and Pettus did not like the allusion to his age. So he said that he might be too old for a judge, but he was not too old for a Senator, and he turned Mr Pugh out and took his place. That he was not too old to be a Senator Mir Beveridge once discovered when MT. Pettus de- 1ivered speech on his youthful sub ject while both sides of the chamber shook with laughter at the old mans wit and the young mans discontinue. He made an interesting figure in the Senate, but he did not take place that was so relatively important as that which he held at the bar. He thought pretty high thoughts, but ho lacked a knowledge of detail. He had, indeed, become a Senator too late to learn the trade as John Morgan knew 1t. But he was Q good old-fashioned southern Senator, who gave to the country what he had of strength and talent, and had no thought of using public time ar the opportunities of public place for his own good. He did use his old friends poverty to aid in the enactment of public law. John Morgan had served the country for period of a generation and was no bet ter off when he died than when he was first elected, and his pay did not enable him to live as he ought. Why was not such a servant worthy of a better reward? This was Pettus' ar- gument for an increase of the salary of Senator. Perhaps the standards of these old men are being upheld. Let us hope so; but at any rate there is no harm done in alluding to them.