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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
MANCHESTER CLOTH MARKET.

MANCHESTER, September J.-Business
in the cloth market during the week de-
veloped steadier tone, owing to the in
creased inquiry, and was a shade better.
Trading, however was still below the
average. Lighter cloths continued in re-
quest from India at steadier prices and
more inquiry exists for China, but owing
to the manufacturers refusing to make
further concessions. business in the lat
ter direction was small. The chief sup
port to the market again came from Medi-
terranean and South American buyers.
while Japan again bought miscellaneous
descriptions
Yarns moved rather more freely at un-
changed prices. American qualities OF
lower grade attracted Increased attention
for the home trade and fine sorts as
we'll as egyptian grades We're quiet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
THE FOREIGN BANKS.

LONDON, September 3. Bullion
amounting to $4,000 was taken into the
Bank of England today and $4,000 was
withdrawn for shipment. 10000 going to
South America and the rest going to
Roumania.
BERLIN. september 5.-Exchange on
London. 20 marks 4OA pfennigs for
checks.
The rate Of discount for short bills is
2A per cent, and for three-month bills is
2H per cent.
PARIS, September 5.-Closing: Three
per cent rentes, SO francs 921H centimes
for the account.
Exchange on London, % francs 1871 GEN.
times for checks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
NEW YORK DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK, September 5.-The dry
goods market was quiet for the day.
Linens showed broader demand. Bur-
laps were weaker in price and slower in
demand Fine and fancy cottons for
spring use showed Improvement. The
jobbing market was steady for the day,
with a fair business reported for prompt
delivery. Cotton yarns were in better
request at low prices and there was q
little more doing in cotton yarns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
Liverpool Cotton Prices.

LIVERPOOL. September 5.-Closing:
Cotton-Spot quiet; prices unchanged;
American middling fair. 5.S1: good mid
ding, 5.45; middling. SOS; low middling.
sol; good ordinary. AL: ordinary, 4.Ol.
The sales Of the day were 5000 bales, of
which 200 were for speculation and ex-
port, and included 400 American Re-
ceipts. 2,OOO bales; no American. Futures
opened steady and closed quiet and
steady; September. ASH September-Oc-
tober, 4,701a; October-November, 1861 ::
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 4.631a: December
January, 46ll2; January-February. 1914;
February March, 463; March April,
4.6a1s; April-May, 465h; May-June, 4.68ks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06

ter the room over the top OF the door
Observation will demonstrate this Prob
ably the solution of the difficulty lies In
the attachment for screen doors devised
by a Kansas inventor, which is shown
here. This constitutes a foldable guard
which is attached to the top Of the screen
door and to the Intel of the door frame
When the door swings open the guard is
unfolded, effectually sealing the opening
thus made. The guard is composed of a
number of ribs connected by flexible tex
tile material. The construction is similar
to that of fan. When the door is shut
the guard collapses. the ribs being sup
ported within the Intel of the recess.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

NEW YORK. September 5.-Imports of
merchandise and dry goods at the port of
New York for the week ended August 20
were valued at $12,6sS.614 =
Imports of specie for the port of New
York for the week ending today were
So. DAG silver and 1905 O49 gold.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York for the week ending today were
$3.50, $50 silver and $500 gold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
New York Metal Market.

NEW YORK, September 5-Holiday
conditions prevailed in the local market
today. Tin was easy at % 5Oa29. Copper
is said to be somewhat unsettled in tone,
with lake quoted at 13JOa1375, electro
lytic at 13.371aa13.62h, and casting at
l3.12lsa13.371s. Lead dull, 4.55a4.6O, and
smelter quiet at 4.7Oa415. Iron quiet and
unchanged.
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THE LONDON MARKET.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, September 5.-Kaffir shares
were again the feature here today, the
boom continuing. American stocks were
lifeless. There was a higher tendency
to discounts at Paris
Paris exchange on London today was a
quarter centime higher at % francs, IN
centimes. Berlin rate quarter pfenning
higher at 20 marks 4OA pfennigs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
SCREEN DOOR ATTACHMENT.
Prevents Insects Passing Into Room
Over Upper Edge Of Door.

The problem OF preventing flies and
other insects from entering the house is
not entirely solved by using the screen
door. When shut the screen door I'M
doubtedly excludes these pests, but when
the door is opened to permit the passage
Of a person these intelligent insects en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
Financial News Letter
BY W. G. NICHOLAS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


NEW YORK. September :. 1908.
Wall street has been landed with the
goods this time, sure enough: There has
probably not been a time in years when
ownership of such large volume of stocks
and bonds rested in the financial district
of New York as now. Nearly $500. 0o0 600
more money is loaned by the banks and
trust companies on stock exchange col
lateral than four or five months ago.
Commission houses in four cases out of
five will say that they are carrying a
less amount than usual. The deduction
Is, therefore, plain that the holders must
be doing business direct with the lenders.
To be able to do this implies vast wealth
and financial responsibility and also actual
personal command 4. of the money. In
other words, the stocks are held by
groups or syndicates of very wealthy
men-the men who have been behind the
great bull campaign in the stock market
since the upturn began four months ago.
The popular superstition is that the stocks
have been distributed by the pools and
syndicates. but the bank situation does
not verify this theory. On the con-
trary. directly the reverse is shown to be
the case.
1t seems to be clear that the market
managers have been adding 10 their
on TIE way up instead OF
ducing them. Being in absolute control
of the money market they had no trouble
about funds to back the stupendous
manipulation BY open and concerted
discrimination against mercantile and in
dustrial paper they have increased the
funds available for stock speculation and
put the call rate down to l per cent For
the last three months they have been able
to borrow all the money they wanted at
to ia per cent. while merchants and
manufacturers find it hard work to get
even as much as extensions on Outstand-
ing paper much less any increase in ac
commOdationS. The rule has been that
they could find no new money at per
cent and an expression of Willingness to
pay more than that rate stamped the
applicant as unsafe. Quotations on
money have been very much lower than q
per cent for time money, but only the
favored ones were able to get the cash or
credit at any price
The low call rate has enabled the specu-
lative pools to make good. fat scalp on
their investments in dividend paying
stocks and current quotations show
large average paper profit on stocks
bought through the campaign When
the work of unloading begins there will
be a wide margin to plough through be-
fore the average cost price is reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06

The outside public is already taking ad-
vantage of the big advance to let go of its
stocks in greater or less amounts, and if
the volume of offerings from that source
gets much larger the great gamblers may
be obliged to seek safety in retreat. There
is limit even to their ability to float a
stock gambling campaign. The mere fact
that the banks are now lending more
money on stocks than would have bought
the stocks outright last winter is in it
self a fact to command the attention of
the responsible heads of these inStitu-
tions and possibly to compel a halt and a
calling in of loans. In at least one in
stance willy insiders Of the Standard Oil
persuasion have been able to work out
large quantities of sock. On a fla
gravity manipulated movement in Smelt-
ers the Standard Oil crowd decoyed the
public into the game and landed it with
hundreds of Thousands of shares at high
figures-stocE that was taken over under
compulsion during the panic season Of
last fall and winter. This SmsIters ideal
Is supposed to have been in charge, Of the
pious John D. Rockefeller, jr. If he really
had the handling Of it he shows that he
has learned something by experience.
Better work was done in this later Smell
tiers move than in the celebrated Leather
deal engineered by young Rockefeller TO
his discontinue and loss some years
ago. That, however, was his nlaiden" eff
fort. i0I-z9Np 20
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4 y
There has not been a summer in years
when business on the stock exchange
kept up as well as this year. Daily trans
actions have ranged from 100000 to 1900
600 shares. with some days running above
1880 600 shares and the average being ap-
proximately 10000 shares. -Jod ait
I'd AHHit
All the crops having passed through the
various vicissitudes into safety affords
the most tangible encouragement to the
There IS genuine substance in an agri
cultural output having money value of
at least 100000. Corn, wheat, cotton,
hay, cattle and all the other things that
grow on the farm and find their way into
the markets of the world represent Gre
ated new wealth on which there is a very
large margin of profit on production. The
farmers of the United States. particularly
those west of the Alleghenies and south
of the Ohio, have enjoyed twelve years
of unbroken prosperity and they are to-
day the wealthiest class in the world.
They have not been hurt to any extent
by the panic which has afflicted securi-
ties and the industrial and mercantile
lines. They have only felt the hard times
in a sort OF sentimental way and would
not know that there had been any de-
preston II they hadn't read it in the
newspapers. They are comfortable and
their future for at least another year is
assured. They have money to burn; and,
better yet. money in great chunks to in
vest in the commodities which make up
the necessities and Injuries Of life. 1t is
to them that merchants and manufac-
turers look for the initial market which
Is to bring about a restoration of good
times. Already they are feeling the i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06
Liked the Compost.

The main stem divided into several
branches and both continued to scramble
up the support, which was promptly sup
piemented by new arms for them Rather
suddenly a profusion Of small. creamy
flowers put out and soon developed into
httle berries. which prematurely ripened
and the vine began to decline. On exam
ming the contents OF the boxes the COM
post nao become a mass or long tibrous
rootletS that had crept into every avail
aoie nook ana niche In search of food
Inc other box contained. perhaps, one
tenth as many. but far less healthy in an
pearance and much shorter in length
rom the nearest point of the stem of
the vine to the edge of the compost was
nine inches. The shortest of the four
roots was ten and a half inches from the
stem OF the vine 10 the point of contact
with the compost. The longest was thir-
teen inches
These observations suggested a simple
experiment to ascertain. If possible more
certainly the means by which the plant
q -scovered the presence OF the compost
1 secured an empty box sixteen inches
square by six inches deep and divided it
into two compartments by diagonal par
tition. Both compartments were then
filled with mixture of sand and leaf
mold In one corner ! planted healthy
young vine OF robust habits. and in the
opposite diagonal corner / buried a cir
tu'di tih poA Ella IN diameter and
two inches deep. filed with rich compost
The lid of the tin box was closely fitted
and five small holes punctured in il
Over these were securely placed three
layers of thin cloth to prevent anything
passing in or out
Found the Food.
The vine was supplied with water and
such care as it needed and was permitted
TO grow without disturbance. In the
course of some seven weeks L discovered
three slender roots lying across the edge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06


Nobody yet disputes the responsibility
of leadership of the great bull campaign
in stocks. Everybody comedies that honor
to Mr.. Hartman in association with the
Standard Oil forces, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
and III. c. Prick. Except In Steel the
great house of ]. P. Morgan & Co. seems
to have played second fiddle to the Har-
riman-Standard Oil aggregation. The
Morgan outfit has been very energetic in
bulling steel issues. and sporadically one
or two other Morgan specialties. Mr..
Morgan has returned to the scene of ac-
ton. having tired of Europe and Euro
pean travel for the season. Whether he
will lend his influence to a further ad-
vance in prices remains to be seen. The
eminent financier is a hard-headed old
party and may conclude that prospective
prosperity has been discounted enough in
the prices that have already been made.
Certain 1t is that the business improve
ment upon which the campaign was orig
inally predicated has been disappointing.
With two months more of the presidential
campaign ahead of us and then certain
ty of tariff revision depending in degree
upon the November result, the conserva-
tive element is raising it's voice in pro-
test against further ballooning of quota
tons. and 1t Is barely possible that liqui-
dation and distribution of the colossal
speculative holdings now vested in Wall
street may be started ahead of schedule
time. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06

Just where and how a market is to be
found for the enormous mass of specula
tive stocks now being carried for the
pools and syndicates by the New York
banks and trust companies does not APP
pear to give the manipulators the slight
est concern. Admittedly. the public is
not in the market to anywhere near the
extent claimed a few weeks ago and if
commission houses and brokers had to
live ON the business they get from out
side clients half of them would starve to
death. There is no diminution in the
confidence felt by Wall street In the
election of Mr.. Taft and in the faith that
after such election there will be a grand
popular demonstration in the stock
market which will give the giant stock
gamblers a chance to unload and get
away with their profits. The result in
Vermont gives the market generals in
creased assurance that they have been
right in their political forecasts and that
everything is going well.> Thus far there
has been slight indication Of a Bryan
scare and 1t may be that the market will
work through the entire campaign with
out such demonstration. In many well
informed quarters the opinion is held
that prices are going to be well maintain
ed and even advanced somewhat above
current levels until November. That was
the tip given out month ago and the
market record since bears out the
prophecy down to date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06

The Etruscans, il they did not invent,
worked much in graduated gold jewelry.
The secret Of this art was lost till, as Mr..
CliffordSmith writes. Castellani hunted
for its survival through Italy, and at last
found a kind of hereditary caste Of art
lists in a village on the marches of UNI
bria. glance at the photograph Of
Greek jewelry shows that many de-
signs have been borrowed in our own
time. They are delicately beautiful. Little
use was made of precious stones, except
as the material of the gem engraver' 8
art, which is as old as the later Minoan
age. Enamel dates from the age Of
3ewelry of the barbaric invasiOns was
peculiarly massive. In 4S1 King Child
eric the founder Of the Merovingian
dynasty, was buried with his treasure in
Languedoc. and in 1853 the pickax of a
casual laborer broke into the grave. Like
Napoleon. Childeric was fond of golden
bees on his mantle. Three hundred of
these were discovered. The bees may
have been in the cloak of Mrs. Childeric
also buried. The popular explanation OF
Napoleon's bees (B for Bonaparte) does
not resist pathological analysis, as the
French word for bee begins with an A..
Whether Napoleon merely copied the ex-
ample set by Childeric or chose the bee
because he was chevalier d'industrie
know not. The bees of the Merovingian
were in the Bibliothetic Royale In 1881,
when the place was burgled. The invad-
ers. being closely pursued, threw the Mer-
ovingian regalia into the Seine. as Prince
Florestan Of Bohemia threw the rajah's
diamond. Unlike that gem. the regalia
was recovered. but not the ring. The
jewelry was inlaid with thin slices of
garnet or red glass.
Neither the ancients nor the people Of
the middle ages dealt in sparkling facet
cut diamonds. rubies and sapphires.
HI linn Of
stones were inserted in gold. decorated
often with enamel.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-30
BRIGHT TOBACCO OPENING.

Farmyille wrote new page In It's
business history on last TUESDAY
when the day was devoted To bright
tobacco on a large scale.
The theatre Of action was the star
Warehouse and Mr.. w. ii. Hubbard
the author and organizer Of the new
movement, was the inspiration oil the
occasion. The day was bright one
the crowd was a big one, buyers were
wide awake. aud altogether the queen
Of the winsome weed had a royal re-
ception.
Two hundred and sixty-nine piles
were offered and most of them were
sold at satisfactory prices, the highest
price being 1913 copper hundred
We can but believe that this Wa'
red-letter day in the history Of Farm
Vile, the beginning Of better things
the first thrill of new enterprise
FarmviIle's bright tobacco market
ought to he made as attractive To Inc
growers Of this particular quality o.
the weed as any in the state, an'
should command not only the patron
age of the farmers Of the contiguous
territory, but of those Of other com
munities. The convenience for hand
ling the product are here in as periec
form as can be found elsewhere, IN
cash is here to pay for it, while on
buyers are in closesr touch with IN
markets of the world, and stand read
To bid highest prices.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-30
GIRLS IN DEBATE.

We have often been present when
the boys engaged in animated discus
sion of some interesting subject, but
until last Saturday evening 1t had
never been our privilege TO look on
and listen while the girls crossed lances
ON the field of debate. The place was
the auditorium Of the normal the
question was, "Resolved that educa-
ton increases an individuals happi-
ness, " and the contestants were, az
firmative: Misses. Neidermaier and
Carter; negative: Misses Gentry ana
Jones.
From start to finish the battle was
warmly waged and grew in warmth
AS it progressed. Blows were given
and received continuously, and yet
with directness and power, and when
the Judges decided to give the honors
of the contest to the alternatives, there
was general approval Of the award
though il was conceded that in pres
ence of an audience of educators, and
Of those being educated it would b'
hard to say that education is not con
ducive to the highest form Of human
happiness.
Mrs. Kerlin enlivened and brighten
ed the hour by two piano recitals anC
made the keys say "good night 81
tenderly, with such eXpressiveempha
sis that each heart felt that it was be
ing spoken TO.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-30
With the BaptlStS.

Some wears before0his death, we heard
the late John A. Brosddus, DID, one
of the greatest preachers Of the age III
which ne lived, labored and loved, be-
fore an audience in the second Baptist
Church. of Richmond, then located on
Main street, Of that city, and can never
forget the power Of that quiet, modest,
humble servant of the Master who
swaved that vast audience at his own
sweet will" though he never lifted
his voice or raised his hands during
the delivery of. that sermon, rich II
spiritual truth, strong in argument
and redolent of purest eloquence.
On last Sunday evening 1t was ou
privilege to worship with the Baptist'
of Farmville, and to listen to anothe
quiet. but strong preacher Of righteous
ness. as he tenderly and efiectlvel!
told of the loving and helpful sympa
,hv of the Christ, of the High Pres
uwhich can be touched with the feel
ing of our infinity." The sermon
ended, and the doors of the churc
were thrown wide open, and lovin
invitation given to back sliders toentt
and to enter now.
The Sunday before we spent IN III
aMagic City" Of the mountains, an
there we listened to one Of the mobiles
sermons it has ever been our privilee
To hear. but after all Farmville 10 u
is the best and most favored place Il
spending Sunday.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-30
A VISIT To JAPAN.

While the American battle ships
were safely anchored in Japanese
harbor. and American officers and
seamen were being royalty entertained
on shore, Mrs. ). ID. Walton and her
society Of girls were chaperoning a
happy party Of Farmville folks to the
cherry crowned country.
The bazaar which was held at the
armory on last Friday evening was a
signal success, Notwithstanding that
the clouds gathered and the rain fell.
The booths had been artistically ar
ranged. the fancy articles were fash
toned by def fingers, the feast Of good
Things was 1T for gods, the maidens
in charge were cordial, graceful and
expert sellers, the crowd in attendance
was large. buyers were liberal, the
evening one Of genuine enjoyment
while results were satisfactory to the
earnest and unselfsh workers in
good cause.
The invitation closed with the fol
lowing;
"You'll have good time from be
ginning to end,
so come without fail-and eacl
bring friend
And surely no one went away DIS
Amounted. aud the good feature
that the earnest workers cleare
$4,000.