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TAKING PROFITS
ON LONG WHEAT

CHICAGO. Ill. Jan. 26.-Longs in
wheat with profits We're on the selling
side OF The market and prices closed
i4uhc lower. the bulls refusing 10 abb
serb the supply thrown overheard. Corn
was unchanged 20 isc higher and oats
were unchanged to 80 lower. Pro-
visions gained 5d10c for the day Cash
grain transactions We're -, 900 bushels
wheat, 20l.UI0 bushels corn. and 1900
bushels oats at Chicago. The seaboard
reported loads wheat, "a loads corn.
and no oats.
Primary receipts wheat 95S 0ll bush
els. and corn $4,000 bushels. against
$4,000 and 53o0oo bushels, respectively,
year ago.
Clearances for the day. a. 900 bushels
wheat. 1900 bushels corn, and 200
bushels oats.
The following prices ruled on the
Board OF Trade today
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ELECTRIC RAIL WAYS
POPULAR IN THE SOUTH

BALTIMORE, Jan. 26.-The Manufac-
turers' Record says: There are nov,
about nifty electric interurban railway
plans IN various stages OF progress in
the South. some 10 be completed within
the next few months. The latter include
the Washington, Annapolis and BaIti-
more Electric Railway, forty miles
Charleston and SumnerviIle Electric
Railway twenty-five miles; Fairmont
and Clarksburg Traction Company.
twenty-five miles; Richmond and Chesa-
peake Bay Electric Railway, fifteen
miles, besides extensions Of other
roads"
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FAILURES NUMBER LESS;
LIABILITIES GREATER

Commercial failures last week in the
United States, as reported by r. G. Dun
* Co, are 2N against SS4 the CORE
spending week last year. Failures in
Canada number seventeen, against
forty last year OF failures last week
m the United States. 104 were in the
East, no South, ii West, and % in the
racine states, and 10l report liabilities
or 5000 or more. Liabilities of COM
merclal failures reported for January
10 date are s, 502 .67S compared with IS
4lo.o02 a year ago.
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ARGENTlNE'S CORN GRIP
EXPECTED TO BE SHORT

The probability is the Argentine corn
crop VIII be short this yea. Estimates
recently cabled from Rosario state that
If the drought continues there viii be
so, 900, 900 bushels, or 1000 900 tons less
than last year. This viii Favor a rise in
ocean freight rates.
Exports from Argentine from Novem-
Der !. 1856, 10 January z. 1907. were q, -
f0S,0 600 bushels compared with IL 7SAGs0 IN
the same period Of the precedips year.
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FINANCIAL GOSSIP.

The sixty savings banks of New
Hampshire had deposits OF S55.945.655 on
December 81. 1896. an increase Of 5000. o.
ia during the year
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One Of the curb brokers suggested
that IL would be a good thing for the
department stores To give away with
every dollar purchase stock certificates
Of some Of the companies listed" on
me curb They would be cheaper than
trading stamps and just as handsome
Tor decorative purposes.
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NEWS OF THE STOCKS, BOND AND FINANCIAL MARKETS.
THE WASHINGTON MARKET

Saturday. January 20:
Following are the sales and quotations
OF tOday's market:
Washington Railway common. bOa4O14.
50040ls
Mitchell Mining. lO0d5%.
7t.lt;-.,s 's'..-'e Insurance, 25G3B.
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NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET.
BANK STATEMENT.

Surplus of the banks is Sl5562. 500
against $lO.S29. $50 last year. and Sc g79. $50
two years ago.
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n. Y. STOCK MARKET

Quotations furnished by Charles c. Gates
q Co. Munsey Building; Members New York
stock Exchanged
SATURDAY Ianuavtg Fri
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NEW YORK CURB STOCKS.

Iouutati0ns furnished b. Charles C. Gates
& Co.. MuHsey Buildiagi Members New Yorz
stock EXCHANGED
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The Navy Department OF the United
states Government win use in the fiscal
year ending next June over 1000 90
pounds of copper. as compared with ap-
pruNimately 5.500.O00 pounds in the last
fiscal year. The Increase is due 70 en-
larged operations at the Navy Yard in
Washington, d. c.
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PRICE CHANGES OF WEEK.

The following table. furnished 10y
Griffin. Halstead * Co. brokers, -3H F
street, members Of Washington Stock
Exchange. shows the opening. highest,
lowest. and last sales on The Exchange
last week. Prices are for quotation lots
only:
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The London Express prints conspicu-
olsly in a recent issue comparisons OF
the wealth or the United States and
other countries 1t cites the estimate
that the wealth of Great Britain is
increasing al the rate OF 100000 week
Is, while that of the United States is
Increasing at the rate Of 100000 daily
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Western railroads have aereed 10
grant increased wages 70 engineers az
gregaung between $4,000 and s5.0o0. e5o
d year The Increase VIII affect between
i''eoJ ard aJ,oco engineers on an the rail-
roads west OF Chicago 10 the Pacific
coast north 10 the Canadian border. and
south TO the Gulf OF Mexico.
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Total stocks last week, 1851 shares.
Total bonds last week, s.. 000.
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Interests Of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company figure ON gross Drorirz
Oh between St,5oOOvJ and 100000 in the
current calendar year. II is estimated
lhat from now on earnings will reveal
an increase of $4,000 month. The in
come over the last several months has
neen larger than at any time since the
company was organized.
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The total miles OF track OF al straat
railroads. statements for which are
given IN Poor s Manual for 1895. aggre-
safe Sl.6Js-03 miles, of which 3O67al7
miles are located in the United States,
ana $3.50 miles in the Dominion OF Can
ada, The share capital of the railways
In the United States is 81, $50, 800. SS4 and
their bonded debt $3.50. Og1, 49l, while die
share capital of the Canadian roads is
Sil,Oo5 a5l, and their bonded debt s25 .
2sai0U3, making the total Capitalization
OF an street railways in the United
states and Canada $500. 800, pa.
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A membership in the New York Cotton
Exchange sold for 81, zoo within tbs
week. The previous sale. during the
closing days Of the old year. was mad
a. sl4,5o0. on August c, 1896. a sale was
made al $1,000 and in the early parr
OF that year there were sales as bieb
as $1,000 Near the close Of 1905 a rec
ord OF S23.50J was made.
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DoGFIsH OUTLET.
Said to Be as Good as the Best Lob
ster Ever Eaten.

Said to Be as Good as the Best Lob
ster Ever Eaten.
Dogfish ought to be good to eat, as it
Is well known that they feed on soleS,
plaice and founders. The naturalist
hailing from the north Kent marshes
with whom / collaborated in various
books said that in his boyhood they
were much used by the fishing folk and
that they were; excellent eating, mid
die outlet being considered by many
to be as good as the best lobster ever
eaten. As a boy he never tired Of hear
ing the f1shermen's yarns about how
the great savage creatures snapped
and fought when they were captured.
Lying in the bottom of the boats, they
Iashed about and bit at the men and
at each other. The larger ones would
fix on the mems sea boots as they
moved about or hang on to their oil
skin fishing coats like bulldogs. A
bite from one was no joke.
Dogfish abounded at certain seasons
in some parts of the fishing grounds;
other parts they avoided. Sometimes
the men would go out only TO catch
dOgfiSh just TO reduce their numbers
little They caught great numbers of
them and sold them somewhere farther
down the coast, keeping back just
few for themselves and their neigh
bors. You could get a monster for a
couple of shillings.
Couch, the naturalist, says he has
known 10000 of the picked dogfsh to
be taken at one cast Of the seine. Rob
ert Chalmers quoted as follows from
the journal of Spalding, the town
clerk of Aberdeen: 1852. From the
beginning of this year MP to June there
was a scarcity of whitefsh along the
east coast to the hurt and hunger of
the poor and beggaring of the fisher
men. 1t was reported that when the
fishers had laid their lines and taken
fishes abundantly there came one
beast called the seadog to the linesand
ate and destroyed the hall bodies and
left nothing on the lines but the heads.
The like scarcity of fishes to continue
so long has scarcely been seen in Scot
land, while all other meats were also
very dear.'-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-01
SOUTHERNERS
WELL ADAPTED
Civil Service Commissioner
McIlhenny Discusses
Their Fitness

John McIlhenny of Louisiana, ex,
Rough Rider and the new civil servic
Rough Rider and the new civil service
commissioner, talks interestingly of
his recent trip through the South.
where he went for the purpose Of
investigating people in the service.
There are, throughout the SOUL.
he says, many men of high literary
attachments and of learning and abili-
ty; the type of the college professor
to whom the fierce struggles o. COM
mercial life are Tepugnant Men OF
this class would be most valuable TO
the overnment in many capacities,
and government employment would be
congenial to them. The benefit would
be mutual There are young men,
also. of this same type, wAo could
come to Washington, and serve the
government, while studying in profeS-
sional schools
Among the great part of the South
ernerS the impression prevails that
the civil service is not for them, that
they can have no par in the clerical
administrative work of the nation. Il
is not in the least difficult to under
stand why this impression persists.
This belief was once a fact, and not
so long ago. 1t is a conviction based
which it was evident to everybody
that a Southerner was the last man
who Ould hope TO get a federal posi-
ton. Politics not only entered the
question, but permeated IT. There
were Southerners, though, who held
offices under the government, but
these were not of the class which
have been trying to interest in the
service. And it was largely because
persons of a character or which little
need be said-though much could be
said-succeeded In obtaining and
holding, desirable offices that desira-
bic citizens aimee to the conclusion
that all avenues We're not losed against
merit and responsibility.
Mr.. McIlhenny said the Southern.
ers of the higher class which = e wish.
ed to influence held aloOf from such
things as civil service examination,
feeling that civil service reform was
a farce. Sc said:
1T was my endeayor TO impress
upon the people that the conditions
which they had come to regard as Uu.
had changed forever, that
no longer werethey without the pale
Of the government, but that they were
a part of it; and the attitude OF Pres
ldent Roosevelt had put the civil ser
vice upon plane where performance
equaled promise, and tina this state
Of affairs had become so firmly fixed
during his administration that the
country would never allow anofh""
president to go back to the abuses Of
The spoils system.
Under the civil service rules each
Of the Southern StateA Is entitle -
is quota of servants, and the people
Of the South must be convinced tn.t
hose positions belon gto them SucE
posts must, Of course, be fled, AM
when Southerners do not come ,2E-
ward to take them, others must %
chosen"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-01
Castles In the Air.

DR.. John Wilkins wrote a work in
the reign of Charles II. to show the
possibility of making a voyage to the
moon. The Duchess of Newcastle,
who was likewise notorious for her
vagrant speculatiOns, said to him,
Doctor, where am I to bait at in the
upward journeyT' ''My lady" replied
the doctor, ''of all the people in the
world, 1 have never expected that
question from you, who have built so
many castles in the air that you might
lie every night at one of your own"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-01
Rainbows That Can Chance Sex

In many parts of the world it is the
general belief that the rainbow has
the power to change sex. This queer
belief obtains in such widely separated
districts as South Africa and Norway
and China and Australia. The Zulus
have long folklore story Of the young
man who was changed into a wrinkled
old woman by touching the many hued
arch. The Scandinavian peasants have
a similar story. and in Greece they say
that anybody who runs against the end
Of the rainbow will have his or her sex
instantly. changed. In France and In
dia to pass under the rainbow has a
similar effect.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-01
A FAMOUS DUELlST.
This French Fighter Was Gallant as
Well as Courageous.


The Marquis de Angle-Beaumanoir
was in his younger days famous as a
duelist- One evening, meeting his cous-
in, the Marquis du Hallays, in the
foyer of the Opera, he walked up to
him and in the course of conversation
remarked:
isn't it odd, my dear fellow. that
quarrelsome as you and I are, we
should never have fought with one
another?'
That's true" replied Du HaIlays,
but that can always be remedied."
And on the strength of that the two
cousins met in moral combat on the
following morning, the encounter re-
sulting in the Marquis de PAngle- Beau
MANOR having his right hand pierced
by his adversary's rapier. which. while
it rendered a continuance of the fight
impossible, left the other hand free to
grasp that of his cousin in undimin-
1Shed friendship moment afterward.
On another occasion when he was
about to fight Il duel in which he was
entirely In the right and his adversary
in the wrong he suddenly discovered
that his opponent was a perfect novice
in swordSmanshlp and that he would
therefore have him completely at his
mercy. So he strobe up to him and in
the presence Of twenty or thirty per-
sons presented the most courteous and
full apology. Almost dumfounded, the
latter inquired why the marquis as
sumed such an extraordinary course.
Because" he returned, at would real
~ be too unfortunate if I were to fight
with a mazette (greenhorn)." And with
that he made a low bow and then
turned his back upon him.
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NSOnIlnucO from lrSG PaQe.)
rather than that of the scholarly and
jOicingly and b0aStfully prOstituted
themselves to a debased devil-WOrship,
and call upon the world to admire the
result. l have no space in which to
deal with the social system generally;
at the top a CHASTITY and repulsiye i'm
itatiOn of what these poor idiots think
is the tone of good society in London;
at the bottom, misery, vice, degrade
ton, dirt and loathsomeness so shock
ing that it passes all description"
Back of Il All.
1t is an interesting fact that the
Academy is now edited by Lord Alfred
Douglas, second son of the Marquis OF
Queensberry, author of the famous
rules" known TO all followers OF the
prize ring. Lord Alfred is said to en-
terrain a cordial hatred of Americans
because Of the cool treatment accord
ed him when he visited the United
States several years ago, because OF
his numerous escapades and imGnorali.
ties. Lord Alfred first came into in
ternational prominence in connection
with the famous case of Oscar Wide,
in which he was involved.
1t is generally believed that Lord
Douglas inspired Machen's article and
that it is the hatred of the noble.
gifted journalist, that is given express
sion While the harshness of the lam
guage employed, appearing in journal
of the high standing of The Academy.
created something of sensation. few
take it seriously, while Americans in
London only look upon it as a good
Joke.
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A Special Article Which Is
to Be Voted on Separ-
ately from Rest
ON THE RESULT DEPENDS THE
QUESTION WHETHER PRO-
POSED NEW STATE WILL BE A
DRY ONE BY FUNDAMENTAL
LAW-REV. MR.. BAKER SEES
VERY MUCH OF INTEREST.
Guthrie. Okla, Aug. %.


Editor, Pensacola Journal
The Journal reached me today and
made me glad, especially in the fact
that you will vote on prohibition on
October 1. l sincerely hope that the
result will satisfy the good women.
PrOhibi ton seems to be the live ques-
ton out here also. On September II,
Oklahoma votes On the adoption of q
constitution by which, if it is adopted,
the territory becomes state There
is a prohibition clause, which rs voted
upon separately from the other arti-
cleS OF the constitution, but which, If
adopted, becomes part of the cOnStitu-
ton. There seems to he more inter
est over this prohibition arUicle than
there is over the adoption of all the
rest of the constitution. The Repub-
lcanS are against 10th.
Secretary Taft was in Oklahoma
City last Saturday, helping the G. o.
p as much as he could. He advised
them to vote down the constitution
as well as the prohibition article, but
the consensus Of opinion is that both
will be adopted. w. J. Bryan is to re-
ply to Secretary Taft in Oklahoma
City on September 4.
GOlF1cS Is the business OF the terri
tory at present. Governor France has
a furlOugh for thirty days for CAIN
paigning purposes and the secretary
of the territory is acting governor for
the time. On August % the Democrats
in this county held their primary, and
on the oath the Republicans held their
primary for the Guthrie distri-t. Both
parties now have full tickets in the
field, and both expect to elect the men
they have nominated. The Republi-
cans claim 600 majority in the dis
trict, but they have nominated a col
ored man for one of the supervisors,
and that gives the Democrats special
hope that they can defeat the whole
On the 26th, yesterday, the city held
o the Goth, yesterday, the city held
an election for various improvement
one of which was to bond fhe
city for $4,000. They called il the
bond election. There are soma kick
ers, but the bonds carried, ten to one.
So they are to have many improve
nents, among them an extension OF
water mains, and a provision for a
more abundant supply of water.
This is a delightful city, full of bust
ness, and as near up to date in every
way as you could expect a western
cfty to be.
l expect to be in DeFuniak by next
Thursday. b. w. BAKER
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ANOTHER NEGRO
BOY IS ARRESTED

Following the arrest early YESTERDAY
of George Alfred, col"reH.
charged with robbing the cash drawer
in the bakery of John johnson, ta#
tain Daw later took into custody
boy named Augustine Dupont, VINO
was also employed by Mr.. Johnson
II is alleged that the two boys en-
tered into a scheme 10 rob the cash
drawer each night of small sums OF
money one remaining outside the
huiJding To watch, while the other
would open the shutters and enter the
salesroOm, where the money was kept
Both were given hearing before Re-
corder Johnson yesterday morning ana
turned over to the county authorities
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Told The Truth

what did Burroughs say when You
made him that loanH
He said he would be under obliga-
lions TO me for the rest of his life
We'll, I expect he will"
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CHILDREN OFFERED
IN MARKET PLACE
Special to The Journal,

London. AUg. S1.-A ROM dispatch
brings a story of an attempt to sen
children in the market at Avelino. \
peasant and his wife brought two of
their children, twins, four months
old, and in open market offered to sell
them for sac each. The babies were
plump and healthy, and were bought
pb a man who was later arrested, as
were also the sellers.
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SAMSON.
Special to The journal.

Samson, Ala, Aug. 31.-Mrs. Leila
Deason and Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Her
ringtOn, of Pensacola. Fla, were Wis
fling relatives here for the past two
weeks.
Mrs j. J. Gilmore, OF Samson, and
her children and grandchildren, met
and had their photographs taken.
There were eleven of her children and
forty-four grandchildren.
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Continued from First Paqe.)
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Be 1olerant-

Do not think Of knocking out an
other persons brains because he differs
In opinion from you. 1t would be as
rational to knock yourself on the head
because you differ from yourself ten
years ago.-Horace Mann.
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Not So Wonderful.

do You think they'll ever run autos
on two wheels:"
Sure. That's the way Willie Chug-
gers always turns a corner."-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
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100 RIDE TICKET
BOOKS DISC0N-
TINUED

Commencing with September list,
we will discontinue the sale Of the
one4hundred-ride $3.50 ticket books,
the above being replaced by s1.0O
books, good on all lines, which can
be purchased from the general office
and Dummy Station, Pensacola, and
the freight and ticket depot at War
rington.
JOHN w. LEADLEY,
Manager, Pensacola Electric Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
goARpERS WANTED.

ROOM with board summer rates. 2eo9 Sixth ave. 6-U-oOt
 FOR hrst-class table board and clean and airy rooms, call at once at Mrs. Cowan, ofO1 eth avenue 1-3t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-22
NEW RULE ON WAIVERS.
Southern League Directors DisalloW
 Two Protests.

Memphis, Tenn, July 21.-The directors of the Southern league meeting here in formal session today disallowed the pro- tests of the local club in decisions of the umpire in games between Memphis and Montgomery and New Orleans and adopted new rule as to waivers on play CTS.
 With the amendment adopted, a club now claiming a player on whom waiver has been asked can secure the player by paying the price within three days of original date of waiver.
 Games forfeited respectively by New Or leans and Nashville clubs to Memphis and Montgomery engaged the attention of the directors, but were continued after rep resentatives of the New Orleans and Nashville clubs declared they had not been notified in time to fully prepare their sides of the controversy.
 Protest made by Manager Finn of Lit tie Rock against the decision of an um- pire in one of the last games played with Nashville was heard. but decision was postponed until August 12. when the directors will meet here again