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New-York tribune., 1908-08-28
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MONEY MARKET--Money call opened ct L
per highest. II. cent; lowest. - per cent
last loan per cent: closing. fQli4 per cent; ruling
rate l per cent Time money was in slightly bet
ter demand il being readily obtanable- Rates.
per sixty days. 2l7d2a& cent for ninety
DAYS 3 per cent for four months. 31:G3lz per cent
for FIVE months and 3isT= per cent for six months
Mercantile paper came into the market rather slow
ly present business conditions not warrantins 4
heavy demand. The demand was fair. Rates, 3@<d
Al. per for sixty ninety DAYS indOrsed bills
receivable AZ per cent for choice four and SIX
months single names and per cent for others
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.-The foreign exchange
nnar-t opened strong an advance OF 10 points 10
z.sse0T -s61. for cables. 4-s6G4 S605 for demand
sterling and 4SifaG 4S412 for sixtyday bills Short
francs were quoted at 5.16fs less 1-32 and short
reichsnarks At o. 3-16 plus 1-S2. There rather
active bidding for exchange by brokers to cover
short contracts. After selling up to 4-S5O5 for de-
mand sterling. the foreign exchange market broke
sharply in the afternoon. losing the entire early
gain. Rates fell back about % points from the
highest. Gables quoted f.S6d S605, de-
mand sterling at AS5S0G4 $3.50 and sixty-day bills
s4i. 4-Si35 Short francs 5.17I- plus 132
and short reichsmarks % 3-16 plus 1-s4 In addi-
zion TO the hasty covering Of short contracts the
early rise partially Influenced by the belief
that the foods in the South would stop the cotton
movement When it realized however that
Texas is about the only from which cotton
has begun to move Vet. and that the floods had
not occurred al thai section this theory punct
-eS
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ldend.
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.-Call money in
London A01 per cent; open market discount rate
for short bills II. per cent; long bills. ~ per
Berlin discount rate. pa per cent. Paris discount
rate Il, per cent. Paris exchange ON London. %
francs 1917 centmes. Berlin exchange on London.
20 marks 40Ia pfennigs. Bar gold. I7s 10I1d.
FOREIGN SECURITIES.-British consols
money 86Ia per cent for the account. S6Ia. French
rentes, francs 50 centimes
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Bankers posted - s were as follows:

DOMESTIC EXCHANCiE-Roston. SC discount:
Chicago, 25c discount San Francisco. sight TIC
premium. telegraph Ice premium: New Orleans.
commercial SOC discount, bank 81 premium; Charles
ton buying par, selling 1-10 premium.
BANK CLEARINGS-New York. exchanges s235,-
1o45l5. balances S10791o54 Chicago. exchanges S35
5s 124, balances 81 sl3 757 Boston. exchanges SIS
351.on, balances a3s9.syS Philadelphia, exchanges
So, ,34f ,251. balances 81 .3o3,755
SILVER MARKET.-Bar silver size. Mexican
silver dollars, t5c Bar silver in London closed
% 13-I6d; advance I'D.
GOLD PREMICM.-In Madrid. 11s0; Lisbon Is
MEXICAN EXCHANGE.-Mexican exchange on
New York is quoted at 2.ol2.
GOVERNMENT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. receipts
reported from Washington. s,2s6G4S; internal reve
receipts s61. $50: miscellaneous receipts, s7.5s7
Receipts for the day 81 .ss7; expenditures. 24S0
c Receipts for the month to date, $40, i320cO ex-
penditures, si4o21,6O0: excess OF expenditures g.,
Is. Receipts for the fiscal TO date, $S2eGl
so; expenditures, s2 SS3 OF expenditures
IS. .z57 es7.
SCB-TREASCRY--The Sub Treasury was debtor
to the Clearing House sz,S4i ,3s5.
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London Aug. p. p. m.-The market for Ameri-
securities strong and more active than
recently reported There a fair demand for
the Hartman issues and active buying OF
Ontario & Western private sale 1t Is under
stood that large block of the ontario stock has
changed hands price slightly above the mar
l.t oSt Int tafI
New-York tribune., 1908-08-28
INACTIVE STOCKS.

The following the last actual sales and the
closing quota tions for stocks In which there
ansactions yesterday the New York Stock
Exchange:
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ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY
80 CHURCH STREET.


New York. Angus. 10th 1aoa
To holders Of
NEW YORk AND ERIE RAILROAD CoNPAyv
SECOND MORTGAGE Sc BONDS.
NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD Coxpx~v
THIRD MORTGAGE xI47s BONDS.
ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY FIRST CONSOLE.
DATED MORTGAGE 79s BONDS.
NEW YORK. LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN Rar-
ROAD COMPANY FIRST CONSOLIDATED MORT.
GAGE 10 BONDS.
NEW YORK PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO RAu-
ROAD COMPANY PRIOR LIEN 411es BONDS:
Referring to Jun. H. 1905 n -,
holders of the Bonds under the First Consol.d,,,1
Mortgage OF the Erie Railroad Company ana in o-,.,
notified that your coupons falling due sEPTyMpr,
L. 1908. will be purchased par cash by Z
Morgan Co upon presentation surrender ,h.r...
N before AUGUST 81. 1905. their Office No ,,
Wall Street. New York
BY order of the Board OF Director,
ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY
BY 2 d UNDERWOOD Presid.s,
% Wall Street. New York August 10th 1aos
Referring TO the above notice Of the Erie Raro.S
Company. prepared AT ANY TINE Up ro
AND INCLUDING AUGUST 3IST. 1903. to purcha,.
q par In cash all coupons falling du. SFPTFyiBFR
1st. 1908. from the bonds Therein mentioned
J. p MORGAN a Co
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IOWA CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY.

Coupons due September ], 1905. from First and Re
funding Four Per Bonds Of this COMPANY
will be paid date Presentation al
Mercantile Trust Company 100 BroadwaE New York
F II. DAVIS. Treasurer
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GOVERNMENT BONDS.

The following shows yesterdays closing quota
tions for government bonds. compared with
Wednesdays:
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The Minneapolis r st. Louis Raj
Diuidend Notices.
,MERICAS CHICIE CoMPANY,

AMERICAN CHICLE COMPANY.
New York. August %. 1903
The monthly dividend Of ONE PER CENT 40 and an
extra dividend OF ONE PER CENT tle[) the
stock Of company has this day been declared. pay
SepteInbe- 2lst all common stockholders
Of record at 3 p. September 18TH 1905
Common transfer books will close ct m Sep
September 22d. 10 a m
HENRY RoWI.EY. Treasurer
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Financial Meetings..

The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company
CLOSING OF BOOKS
a special meeting OF the Stockholders OF The Den
Rio Grande Railroad Company having been
called Thursday. September TO- 1905. at Denver.
Colorado NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that the
Transfer Books for transfer stock OF the
pany will with close OF business Satur-
day. 2Sth OF August 1905, and reopen on the
day the Of final adjournment Of said
stockholders. not earlier than the
1ith day of September. 1908
Bv order of the Board OF Directors,
The Denver and Rio Grnnde Railroad Company.
E T JEFFERY. President.
STEPHEN LITTLE. Secretary
The Minneapolis 4 St Louis Railroad Co.
Notice hereby given that pursuant TO the bylaws
OF the company. the annual meeting Of the stock
holders Of The Minneapolis 4 ST Louis Railroad Co.
Of Minnesota and lows will be held at the office of
company the city OF Minneapolis Minnesota.
TUESDAY. October s. 1905 at IL o'clock noon. for
electing directors and the transaction
OF such other business may legally come before
the meeting
The transfer books of the company will be closed
from IL o'clock September 5, 1908, until 10
o'clock A NJ October q, 1905
a c DOAN. EDWIN EAN1Ef
President
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PHILADELPHIA STOCKS.

FURNISHED by Charles d. Barney Co. No. 2o Broad
street, New York. and No l22 South 18th st. Phiia-
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NEW YORK CITY BONDS.
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD.

ioupon or registered.
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T M as Sffa E
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't nlisted
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BOSTON STOCKS.

Furnished by r. L. Day q Co. No. 81 Wall street,
Aug 20 Aug "a Aug 2e. Aug q
n f. Albany .2lD 2ls lCal Eecia N ;-n
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I7s, 430 Total sales.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08

limbs for nearly eight years. In the
early morning after the Scientists visit
which had been paid in the evening
the patient made her sister get up,
light the gas and help her out of bed,
saying she felt sure she could walk
She arose and walked around the bed.
Their great joy may be imagined.
The healing was so rapid that in two
or three days she was able to go out,
walking about the town.
1t has been said to me: you gave
up a great deal for Christian Science?"
Mrs Eddy gives the correct answer to
this. She says: There are various
methods of healing diseases which are
not included in the commonly accepted
systems, but there is only one which
should be presented to the whole world
and that is the Christian Science which
Jesus preached and practiced and left
to us as his rich legacy" C'Science
and Health p. 344.) To me the giving
up has been all gain, 1t has been re-
ceiving, not giving up at all; 1t has
brought newness of life. Christian
Science is bringing more love and joy
into my home and into my work. 1t Is
uncovering in my own consciousness
the nature of self-love, laying bare the
"old man with his deeds and so en-
abling me to reach out for the new
man" and to realize something of the
beauty of holiness and the practical
bility of its attainment.-Busy Mans
Magazine
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
Quaint and Curious

The great ocean railway linking
Floridas mainland with Key West and
bringing Cuba 100 miles nearer the
United States is nearing completion.
The undertaking is doubtless the most
remarkable piece of railway building
now under construction. The distance
from Miami, the Florida terminal, to
Key West is 1876 miles. OF this dis
lance 1O4 miles will be constructed on
land; counting, of course, the coral
formation of the keys as land The
rest of the route, which will connect
the string of keys, will be constructed
over swamp and water. of which about
twenty-five miles may be considered
swamp and twenty-five miles open
water. On the entire route fifty keys
must be crossed. Some of these are OF
considerable size; that is, they have
an area of several square miles, but
the larger number can be measured in
square yards The distances apart
vary considerably and the depth of
water between varies from a depth of
thirty inches to thirty feet, the ave-
rage being about six and one-half feet.
Included in the 156 miles will be six
miles of concrete viaduct and some
eighty miles of embankment, which
rises about thirty-one feet above the
water, this height being considered
ample to protect the track from the ac-
tion of the storms.
Mr.. Chiozza Money discovers that
out of about 100000 persons who died
in the year 1906-07 in Great Britain,
S2,121 left property worth 1929, 1884 900,
while the rest either died bankrupt or
left nothing to attract the notice of
Somerset House. The list is, he points
out, almost entirely a list of losers"
in life's material race.
But of the winners he finds that al
most two-thirds died leaving on an
average only 5000 $4,000 out of the
gigantic total of nearly 9300,000000.
Another 10000 of them left estates not
exceeding the value of $1,000 apiece. so
that practically all the property left
in an average year is left by only
81 900 persons out of 100000"
y
Nearly $4,000 900 coins made of alum
inium have just been struck from the
Royal Mint for circulation in Uganda
and the Nigerian protectorates. Each
coin bears the value either of one cent
or of two mills, and is perforated in
the center, like Chinese coins, in order
to permit the natives to string them
together. The advantage of alumni
ium as a coin is due to it's light weight
and the fact that IL is the pest noH-
germ bearing metal known.
Il
Islam is a challenge to Christianity
from the very fact that in India alone
there are far more Moslems coz, 45S,077,
according to the last census), under
British rule than there are protesting
Christians (53,000,000) in the whole
British empire. Islam is still spread
ing It's progress in Africa is at once
India
the yearly increase in the number of
its professors is but slow, it is still
unchecked.
-
A single bee collects only teaspoon
full of honey during season.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
Foreign

The Scientific American says: "The
Germans have produced a powder
which is said to give no bareback what
ever, even in guns of the largest cali
Der The composition of the powder is
not known, but it is supposed to con-
sist of nitroglycerine nitrocellulose
and vaSeline The prevention of the
bareback, however, is believed to be
due to the incorporation in the powder
of small amount of ssome chemical
which has proved to be thoroughly eff
fectlve. Next to the problem of gun
erosion, this is the most serious of
those which confront the artillery ex
pert Apart from the actual loss of
life, which in our own navy has reached
the proportions of calamity, it is GER
tain that the existence of this menace
must produce a certain amount OF
nervousness at the very time of all
others when the gunner should have
his eye and hand in perfect control"
8
The French military authorities pride
themselves greatly upon their success
in having kept from foreign powers the
secret of the brake mechanism and re-
coil system of their field guns. The
mechanism is now ten years old, and is
the most important feature in the
much discussed weapon. because it in
firing, the gun recoiling on its mount
ings and returning automatically to the
first position. The Deutchess Offizier-
blatt, which has been giving its read
ers some notes on the gun, remarked
that it was strange nothing had been
divulged in Germany as to this import
tant feature of it, while the guns of
other countries were known completely
to the authorities. At the present time
n. ~ a.
duced to mere conjecture as to the de-
tails of the system adopted by the
French. 1t had been stated that the
French guns recoiled by air pressure.
but the German paper could feel no
certainty upon this point
Chilean government official report
shows there have been 1854 copper
claims worked in Chile at different
times, of which only 74S were worked
during the last year. Many of these
mines are rich in copper, but with the
high phice of labor and the poor trans
portation facilities few, If any, can be
made to pay at the present low price
of copper.
Sweden has ordered a submarine in
italy of 1870 tons displacement 1t is to
be completed by the end of next sum-
S.
In the course of recent siege exercises
at Chatham, England, by British troops
It was shown that with the use OF
searchlight balloon can be brought
unseen, to within 300 to 800 yards of the
enemy's works, provided searchlights
are kept on the enemy. 1t, however,
seemed doubtful whether balloon
would serve any useful purpose SO close
to a position, as an ascent could only
be made if the ground close to the de-
tense works was In the hands of the.
besiegers.
The governor of practically every
state in Brazil in his annual message
the last year has spoken of the need OF
modern methods of agriculture and
modern agricultural machinery. Amer
lean success in agriculture and manu-
facture appeals to Brazilians almost as
success in another state or thelr own
country. SO strongly do they feel the
similarity of American and Brazilian
conditions.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08

Next to the coming of the battleship fleet
the charter revision commission holds the
public eye and heart. and the surprising in
terest developed in the people, as a whole.
on this pressing and weiuhty problem gives
promise of constancy till the work is done
and approved
That readers might have some indca-
ton of the trend of opinion ON what should
be included in the charter, and why, The
Herald invited DR.. John r. Haynes, a promi-
nent and well and favoraby known member
of the commission, to write a sketch of his
personal views on the subject, and the fol-
lowing excellent article is the result:
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
Mem and Things

Looking over some proofs of an Illus
trated work dealing with German con-
temporary history, the kaiser encoun-
tered a paragraph that made him stop
the presses. A page was ordered killed
and replaced by another Incorporating
his majestys correction.
The offending paragraph set forth
that the late Catholic bishop of China
had acquired Kiaotchau for Germany.
The emperor cut it out, and on the
margin wrote the following corrections:
Incorrect. 1t was I who selected
Kiaotchau, having previously caused
an investigation of the bays of Sam
sab and Weihaiwei, both of which
proved Inadequate for our purposes.
After studying baron Won Rich
thofen's work on China, together with
the map, I decided on the Port Kiaot-
chau, since its hinterland is most prom
Using. WILLIAM, /. r.
"A violinist," said M. Ysaye, "can
love as many fiddles as a sultan can
love wives, and more. | should like a
violin harem-a regular seraglio or
fiddles-Strads, Guadagninis, Guar
nerius or two few Amatis and even
few Gaglianos." Once, early in his
career he was passionately attracted
by an alleged Guadagnini in pawn
brokers' window in Hamburg. Buying
IL was out of the question, and the
pawnbroker, after much persuasion,
only consented to lay aside the instru-
ment for a while Even then possess
sion seemed remote until Ysaye, meet
ing a demonstrating friend, actually
fired him with so much enthusiasm for
fiddles that he consented to leave bag
of stones with the pawnbroker as Sc
curity for the instrument. In TINS
way" said Ysaye, II was married to
my first love among the fiddles, my
beautiful Guadagnini."
The greatest number of dolls owned
by a single person is the property OF
King Edward VII, who has made
wonderful collection of all those pos
sessed by his mother The dolls are
stored in Buckingham palace. The
king enjoys revising his collection be-
cause nearly all the specimens We're
dressed by his mother. This year at
Christmas he gave some of them to his
grandchildren.
Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader of the
German reichstag, has informed the
American Socialist party that his visit
to the United States must be indefin-
itely postponed, because the state or
his health will not permit him to take
on any additional work. He had
planned to deliver series of addresses
In the principal cities.
50
Lieutenant Frank p. Lahm says that
it will not be long before America is
fully abreast of the European powers
in respect to military airships. Lieu
tenant Lahm recently returned from
an exhaustive trip of investigation into
the dirigible balloon equipments in the
British, French and German armies.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
W0177en'S Work

Mrs. Clara Barton, though she has
completed her eighty-sixth year, is still
in fine health and spirits. Her home is
six miles from Washington. on bluff
overlooking the Potomac river. 1t can
be reached from Georgetown by an
electric car, which stops at a station
called Red Cross by the trolley man
ayers, though the work done under
this name Is now performed at the
war department in the national capt.
tai. Miss Barton was never a nurse
during the Civil war, as has often been
supposed, but her labors were equally
merciful in their way. MY work, "
she says, "has always been to get sup
plies to people who needed them. 1t
has been work which has taught me
the value of things. In almost any
war, in flood, fire, earth
quake, pestilence-it is not money so
much as things that the sufferers need.
They want food, clothing, shelter med
icine. To bring these things to people
has been my work" The efforts in the
direction indicated were pursued by
Miss Barton through both our own
war for the preservation of the union
of states and during the Franco-Prus-
sian war; and she has also carried re-
lief to the victims of the Johnstown
flood, the Sea islands disaster and the
Galveston tidal wave calamity, and to
numerous sufferers from less extensive
catastrophes.
Womanly and simple in her tastes as
is the empress of Germany, she has a
number of hobbies. She prizes her
stable next to everything except her
husband and children. In it she keeps
her own steeds and the horses belong
ing to her suite. She is exacting as to
their training. They must be taught
to stand fire, to hear drums and mill
tary music 1t is not enough that a
horse has to be thoroughbred
A man anxious to present her with
handsome horse sent her the animal
and a letter telling all about his pedi-
gree After the horse had been trained
some weeks she returned him to the
owner with these words: HE is a
handsome looking animal. / am, there
fore, sorry to return him. But he is
too shy of guns and martial music"
When the empress mounts a horse
the more spirited she finds him the
better she enjoys it. She is fond of
her cuirassier uniform, worn on all
great occasions when mounted on a
horse.
She is also an enthusiastic collector
of photographs. She has a large col
lection of her own work. Those priced
most are the sporting scenes. portraits
of her favorite horses and the pets of
her children.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
Reason for Their Existence

A single bee collects only a teaspool
full of honey during a season.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
The Green Sailor

Mark Twain was talking about play
that had failed.
mo wonder it failed" he said. Its
author was c greenhorn. He knew no
more of stagecraft than young Tom
bowling of Harvard knew OF sailorins
when he shipped before the mast.
"Greenhorn Tom, you know, being
told to go aloft one dark, wet night.
started up the rigging with lantern
and an umbrella. New York Times
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08

In splicing a wire rope experience has
shown that the efficiency of splice de-
ponds on it's length the larger the rope
the loner the splice required. In ordinary
splicing of %-inch rope, the length of
the splice should not be less than 20 feet,
for a 1-inch rope II should be 80 feet,
end for rope over 1-S-inches in diam
eter it should be 40 feet.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08
Minimize the officials

The number of city officials should oe
minimized and the council have solely
legislative power.
The board of public works, also,
should be retained.
The foregoing are, in my opinion,
some of the essential, basic features OF
a good city charter, but there are very
many details to be decided upon only
after careful study and elaboration.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08

Mrs. Crimsonbeab-I see by this paper
that there are $4,000 bills in circulation.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-So believe.
1T can't see the use OF them?"
well they don't go quite so fast when
you break one as $40 bill'-Yonkers
Statesman