The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-21

test which the bookmakers organiza- tion is making to discover whether the courts will u0hold the new law. Mean while the man of assured responsible ity is still able to make wagers with the bookies on the credit system by tracks. all payments being made "in Connecticut as' the gamblers say. which means usually the back room of some Broadway cafe.
 This system, of course. yields no revenue to the race-tracixs and as bets will be accepted only from men whose sporting proclivities and financial sta bility are known, 1t bars the great army of "pikers'' with their two and five-dollar bets from whom a large part of the bookmakers' income was drawn. Whether the s2p0,000 which was estt- mates to change hands daily at the tracks about New York will now re- main in the pockets of It's owners re- mains to be seen.
 For the first time in its history the United States is to become an import CT of corn if a ship now on her way to New York from Buenos Ayres reaches port without accident
 The hringing of corn grown on the banks of the Rio Plata into the great est corn growing country in the world is not due to any fear of failure of tue AIktcIlCdu CIOPs LOA NAAC 6ONC report indicates that the corn belt will grow It's usual 2,000.00o.000 bushels or more. It is attributed solely to the high price of the cereal which has been costing purchasers here 80 cents a bushel or more, including freight charges.
 The Argentine corn is to be deliv- cred in New York at n 1-2 cents a bushel which means a saving of nearly s2.0oo on the first shipment of 10000 bushels, which Is soon to be delivered to the Corn Products Company, more popularly known as the glucose trust" This price is exclusive of the 15 cents a busheI tariff which Uncle Sam charges on corn raised in for eign countries. This would make 1t unprofitabIe to import corn if 1t were to be consumed in America.
 The glucose manufacturers propose, however, to ship abroad the products manufactured from the South Ameri- can corn. and hope in this way to se- cuer the return of all but about 10 per cent of the amount paid in duties.
 If the experiment works successful ly. 1t is probable that additional ship ments will be ordered for use in the export trade of the glucose trust and the remarkable spectacle of corn being shipped into the country where corn in king of all crops is likely to con- Ilnuo uutll pTlC6S Idll, poSStOly the new crop Is gathered.
 That the public sales of pictures by professional art collectors and dealers in New York are crowded by forged paintings, alleged "old masters" and spurious works falsely attributed to famous modern artists. is the asser- ton made in the July number of Ap- pleton's Magazine by Robert W. Cham harn fhA unvAl{Rf vvhO q hfnasAlf an artist of ability.
 As an example of the reckiessness with which the palming off of made-to -order masterpieces Is carried on he tells of attending a sale at which a very fashionable and wealthy woman purchased at a high price a portrait of Lord x by the great artist Mir. Chambers suppresses names, blissfully unconscious of the fact that Lord x died when the great z was four years old. The novelist compares this to the exhibition In a public museum of the brush and comb of Charles the Bald and forty volumes of the works of William the silent.
 Mr Chambers holds. however, that the real responsibility for these art frauds rests with the large class Of buyers, blessed with too much money and too little appreciation of art it. self, who purchase signatures affixed 10 CduNASSeS hnOWtoOSS Wu6~ ther the latter are good or bad. Tn the Appleton article he also takes a fling at the professional critics and asserts that the average art columns of the newspapers and magazines are filled with "twaddle" instead of giving in. formation of real value to the public.
 Good Queen Anne of England whose name Is chiefly remembered now through the fact that 1t Is applied to 8 certain style of architecture was re- sponsible for a clash of authority here this week that threatened at one time to develop into a genuine battle
 The estimable lady herself. having been dead for the better part of two centuries, had no direct hand in the affair. It all came about because of a grant that she made to one of her subjects in 1703, when New York was a British colony, of the land-largely mixed with water-lying in the East
 
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