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THE COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK. April 25-The cotton
market opened firm at an advance of tc
II points on better cables than due and
reports Of severe storms in the south. AT
first there was some hesitation, but the
market showed a pretty good undertone
on covering. and during the middle OF the
morning sold about 10 to IL points net
higher on the active months, with offer.
ings light and business quiet. New Or
leans paid little attention to storm news,
selling Off after a high opening. but local
bears showed a tendency to go cautiously
for over the week end.
Futures opened firm: May. 6.36: July
S56: August. 651-54: October. s.57; No
vember, S57: December, $50; January.
S.61: March. S68.
Futures closed steady. Closing bids
April, $50: May. s.35; June, s.41: July
$50: August. 8.45: September. S.42; Oc-
tober, S.4S: November, S.48; December
S.51; January, ISL: March, s.54.
Spot closed quiet; middling uplands
Liverpool Cotton Prices.
LIVERPOOL. April Disclosing: Cot
ton-Spot. in limited demand. prices un'
changed: American middling fair, 593
good middling. 5.57: middling. 5.S1; low
middling. 497; good ordinary. 4.53: ordi-
nary, Alb. The sales Of the day were
5000 bales. of which 300 were for specula-
ton and export, and included 4, 100 Ameri-
can. Futures opened quiet and steady
and closed steady: American middling, g.
&C., April. 4.S8h: April-May. 4.S3; May
June. 4.S3h; June-July. 4.s3: July-Au-
gust, 482; August-September, 4.76h; Sep
ber-october. ATOM: october-Novem-
December January, 4.62h; January-Feb-
ruary, 4.62.
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WRITE US TODAY.

ress in the market Of the past few months
the trading has been within narrow limits
and confined to what are commonly spok-
en- Of as the moro active securities. 1t Is
thought that the bond list offers chances
for Investment which ought to be appre-
ciated by investors and also when gen.
eral business improves that the typeset-
ting machine stocks and the copper
stocks will come In for. a share Of atten-
ton,
It is not thought there will be much
change in regard to bank and trust COM
pany stock lists and the fire insurance
stocks It appears that only occasional
interest Is aroused in regard to the securi-
ties, but II anything could be done that
would give them a perennial place among
the active traders on the list all the
brokers would feel happier.
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NEW YORK IMPORTS.

NEW YORK. April 25.-Imports OF
and dry goods at the port of
New York for the week ending April Is
were valued at $12.925. 49,.
Imports of specie at the port of New
York for the week ending today were
$50, 100 silver and So. 103 gold.
Exports Of specie from the port Of New
York for the week ending today were
$9O7 ,96S silver and $6.56 .335 gold.
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New York Dry Goods Market.

NEW YORK. April 25.-The dry goods
market was very quiet today and selling
agents awaited a return of normal de-
mand. Fine cottons are in light call.
save in special lines of printed fabrics.
Heavy cottons are dull Linens are quiet,
save in special constructions of dress and
linens. Burlaps are steady
Print cloths are easier and in slight call
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Money at so
LOANED ON D. o. REIL ESTATE.
Heiskell & McLeran.
nof0.tf ilO8 b IT.

siders. and that the public at large is con-
mulcted-likewise MIXED.
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1t is hoped the business in the stock
market will broaden out In its scope; at
least that Is the hope Of the brokers and
others interested In this line Of activity.
During the revival 50 to speak. In prog
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New York Broker suspends.

NEW YORK, April 25.-The suspension
of John Seedman. member of the Con-
solidated Stock Exchange, was announced
on the door Of the exchange today.
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Weeks End Marked by Con-
tinued Rise of Leaders.
MARKET LACKED BREADTH
Union Pacific Set the Pace for High
Prices.
HIGHEST SINCE LAST AUGUST
Covering of Shorts an Important
Factor-Profit-Tak a Notable
= Feature.

NEW YORK. April 25.-There were con-
siderable additions to the weeks rise In
prices of stocks In today's market. The
further advance was somewhat uneven
and the market was lacking in breadth
Dealings were largely congested in spe-
cial stocks. and these also showed the
principal strength. Union Pacific was
the prominent example. and rose to
price higher than has been touched since
early in August of last year. Other stocks
touched high prices for the present year.
st. Paul and the Hill stocks showed clos
= est sympathy with the movement in Union
Pacific. while eastern trunk line stocks
and the industrials were Quieter. Some
of the Southern railway stocks were
slightly affected by the reports Of heavy
damage by storms in the south.
Further extensive covering Of short con-
tracts by the outstanding bear interest
was an important factor in the market,
that interest taking fright at the contin-
ued rise In prices and the failure that
overcame a prominent bear house yester-
day. Profit taking was freely pursued by
holders who had the benefit of the weeks
considerable rise in prices, and this con-
duced to the uneven and at times 1rregu-
< lar movement Of prices
= The success of the Pennsylvania bond
sale continued to exercise beneficial in
.oversubscriptions to the half Of the loan
allotted to London, as we'll as to the New
: FORK portion, kept up the favorable I'M
preston made by the incident.
ar An evidence Of the especially attractive
character of the new bond was the SELL
Ing of other investment securities in Lon
= don to provide resources for taking up
!; subscriptions to 1t. The weekly reviews
, of the mercantile agencies recognized the
= Improvement in the commercial tone
caused by the good crop prospects. the
-seasonable weather and the reflected in
: Ifuence Of the better financial situation.
Under Profit-Taking influence.
Traders attached sentimental signiti-
canoe to the persistent advance in the
ssprice of Standard Oil in the outside mar
ket. United States Steel ruled a small
; fraction below the closing price OF yes
terday throughout The market closed
!: under the influence Of profit-taking.
The cash gain reported In the bank
Z; reachins over s1O.0oo.OOO in the aver
cages and 100000 in the actual
condition Friday night. This is in spite
: of the weeks outgo of S.. 500, 600 in gold.
- Loans of the banks contracted. but the
increase of trust company loans was
greater than the decrease by the banks.
This was the only reflection Of arrange
.ments for participation in the Pennsyl-
Vania bond subscriptions. The percentage
1fof legal reserve to deposit liabilities of all
: the banks and trust companies now stands
at 31.5O.
: Bonds were firm. Total sales, par val
ue. So. $4,000.
United States bonds were unchanged
ION call for the week.
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-
Not one commission house in ten in the
Wall street district is paying running
expenses. They are bitterly complaining
about dull times and saying to them
selves that nothing like 1t was ever seen
before. All Of which is nonsense. Dull
times are periodically occurrences. and to
those who are inclined to take this view
Of the outlook attention is invited to the
fact that good times have always followed
lean times as regularly as the day fol-
lows night. The most cautious man in
all the world, who was at one time asked
IL he thought the sun would rise tomor-
row morning, replied: 1T always has riz
every morning since I was born" Pros
perfty in America always has returned.
although there have been years at a
stretch of serious depression 1t must be
remembered that there are 100000
people in the United States who have to
eat. wear clothes and live. They con-
sumo mighty big mass OF production in
the course of a year and keep many
wheels going to keep alive.
-
The regrouping Of the banking interests
as indicated by the announcement of
names behind the Pennsylvania loan
arouses comment. II would appear that
the Rothschilds. who for fifty years or
more have used the house of Belmont for
to deal direct. The Belmont house has
been hard hit on some of its recent deal
ings. notably in fractions, and will doubt
less be less conspicuous in the future.
So
There is still mystery attaching to the
whereabouts Of the great mass of that
40O.000.O00 pounds Of copper shipped
abroad since last October. A studied at
tempt is made to have it appear that the
bulk of this metal has gone into con-
sumption In Germany. France and Great
Britain, but this theory is obviously a
deceit. Now where is that copper. who is
carrying 1t, and how? Has it been bought
abroad or merely shipped abroad, ware
housed and money borrowed on it? If
the latter. who has made the advances
and down to what point did the loans
carry? II money has been borrowed on
the undigested stock of metal down to
10 cents a pound the investment would
represent about $4O.O00OOO. That undi-
gested mass may come into sight again
one of these days most unpleasantly.
Meantime American production is in
creasing and the copper metal market
shows symptoms OF further backtrack-
ing on the down side.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call. IL o'clock noon-Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone IS, $1,000 at 103.
81 900 at 1O3, 900 at 103.
Capital Traction, 10 at 119Z.
washington Gas. Is at 66h. Is at 66A, 10 at
66A. ~
Union Trust, 10 at 111h, 10 at Ill.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 25.-Wheat-
No. i Northern. 11Oa111; No. North
ern. 10sa1O0: July. 69h bid.
Rye-No. I. SOas0h
Hsrley-No. 2, 81; sample. Sass.
corn-No. 9. cash. 6oa6S; May Ssh
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Financial News Letter
BY W. @. NICHOLAS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 20 Inc Staf.
NEW YORK, April 25.-Men in Wall
street Of the greatest experience and
ripest Judgment almost unanimously con-
fess themselves to be very much perplexed
over the market situation. The tale Of
the tape gives no clue to what is going
on in the background beyond the fact
that strong interests are sustaining prices
and that they are apparently more inter-
ested in holding stocks about where they
are than in engineering for a material
rise. Doubtless this moderation on their
part Is due to justifable apprehension that
II they were to attempt to shove prices
up they would get lot OF real stock.
bears on the other hand confess dis
couragement and admit that operations
for the last month or two have resulted
In almost unvaryf1g losses. One of the
best traders in Wall street, a man who
has amassed millions In the game and
who has been in 1t for moro than thirty
years. said to the writer that he felt like
a fool whenever he took q trade on the
short side. He said that on his judy
ment alone based on business conditions
bearish. but that every time he under
took to do anything on that side he
either had to content himself with a minor
scalp Or take q good-sized loss. The
market being narrow and the big interests
having absolute control Of the call money
supplies 1t is an easy matter to mark up
prices on the short interest whenever one
develops that Is worth while trimming.
Meanwhile the public is becoming accus-
toned to the current range of quotations.
which marks a recovery Of about one third
from the low levels reached during the
agony OF the October panic. In some
few cases the recovery is almost half, but
the average is nearer a third. The pre-
vailing range OF prices may not be un-
reasonable. everything considered. and to
rightly measure the extent OF legitimate
advance from the period Of extreme de-
preston.
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United States Steel issues. the Harri-
man stocks. Reading and Pennsylvania
have been made the backbone Of the
market. and the supporting efforts of the
great leaders seem to be largely concern
trated to these quarters. Advantage has
been taken OF the times to work up into
line many of the minor issues that have
been neglected. These things are various
ly characterized as 'cats and dogs.
strange and curious stocks ''resurrect-
ed ones and the like. 1t might be in
vidious to distinguish this odds and ends
collection by names. It takes in lot
of truck that has been almost innocuous
for months. being unstable and there
fore seldom offered. The movement in
these things is looked on as something
of joke, and to represent nothing except
the activity Of inconsequential elements.
The strength OF United States Steel
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-02
rhackerav and the cabman.


Thackeray loved to relate jokes on
himself. aud one he especially enjoyed
was about a Reading hackman. The
author was unacquainted with the
town. and the moment he emerged
from the railway station he told a
hackney coachman to drive him to the
nearest hotel The driver closed the
door tremendously. mounted his box,
and they started In half a minute the
cab was at standstill. and Thackeray
saw the cabman at the door. bowling
10 him to come out He did so without
a word and found that he was at the
portico of the station hotel, which he
had failed to see was not dozen yards
off,
But he handed the man shilling
and was entering the hotel, rather
pleased with his own sang froid when
he was amazed to see the cabman TAX
ing off his coat and offering to fight
him for the other sixpence." 1t ap-
pears that on that day resolution Of
the Reading town council had come
into operation empowering hackney
coachmen to charge IS pence for any
distance within the township. This
was its first fruits! 1t is unnecessary
to add that the cabman got his money
and Thackeray a good story to tell at
the clubs.
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A lion comes at its enemy at full
speed. galloping low. and dashes a
man standing upright to the ground by
the full impact of its body. Major In
verarity states that the claws and
teeth entering the flesh do. not hurt as
much as you would think" but that
the squeeze given by the jaws on the
bone is really painful. When knocked
over he was still keenly conscious and
felt none of the dreamy sensations ex
perienced by Livingstone.
Major Swaine. struck down by a
lioness going full gallop, was uncon-
scious for some minutes and did not
know what had happened till he found
himself standing up after the accident
Il felt no pain" he writes, mot, | be-
lieve owing to any special interposi-
ton of Providence. but simply that the
shock and loss of blood made me in
capable of feeling it. There was no
pain for few days till it was brought
on by the swelling of my arm on the
twelve days ride to the coast-"-Lon-
don Spectator.
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@. writes that the size of a hat Is
calculated on a curious principle. 1t
is the length plus the breadth divided
by 2. Thus head 81 inches long and
81 inches broad would require a hat
size of 141a divided by 2, which is IA
-Gladstone's size.
Your correspondent O. is perfectly
right in his description of the curious
way in which the size of d hat Is OBJ
tanned, writes G., but his sample d.
mansions are slightly misleading. Such
an ''oval" as Sa4 inches by 81 inches
would scarcely be met with twice in
a lifetime The normal difference be-
tween the length and width technical
ly called the ''oval'') is invariably
through the gamut of sizes ~ inches.
Thus an ordinary 6% hat would meas
ure IA inches long and inches wide
and ~ -four sizes bigger 8 inches
long and 615 inches wide. The longest
head l have measured in many thou
sands was 8ss by rs, which is the
equivalent of a 2$ inch oval. Needless
to say, the inside of the hat was the
shape of a canalboat. = Manchester
Guardian.
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1t Did Not Work.

Mrs. Billings was installing the new
cook, maiden from Finland, to whom
the kitchen contrivances of America
were new and wonderful This, Ina, ;"
said the lady, indicating a perforated
wooden board that hung against the
kitchen wall, 'fs the order list See, it
says butter, eggs, sugar, coffee, tea.
molasses'- everything that we need to
eat. Whenever we are out of any OF
these things all you need to do is to
place one of these little pegs IN the
hole opposite the name and the things
will be ordered"
Mrs. Billings is not a methodical
housekeeper. There we're several con-
secutive days when she completely for
got the existence of the order list in
the kitchen, but Ina labored with 1t
faithfully.
"Meesis," pleaded Ina, after strug-
Cling with the order board for three
days, 81 tank dose board must be out
Of order push dose peg In yust so
far as | can, but noting will come-no
egg. no butter, no nottings. YOUTHS
COMPANION
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-02

Mr.. Newrich. the dust contractor,
having made fortune. part of which
he had invested in house property In
the east of London, wished to rise, like
a phenix, from his ashes into some
sort of society. His golden key, ap-
piled to the Golfers Of an impecunious
aristocrat. opened the way.
His new friend, among other things.
advised him that visiting cards were
a necessity. and. as guide to drawing
one up ready for the printer. handed
him one of his own. which read.
Harold De We're, Iona House. Ports
mouth Square. W."
Two days later, as De We're was sit
ting in his dressing room at breakfast,
a servant brought In on a salver a
visiting card bearing the following:
"Ephraim Newrich. Own % Houses,
London, E."-Philadelphia Ledger.
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HER
BIRTHDAY
GIFT.
BY oroy AHkson.
Copyrighted. 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.

The rarely used doorbell rang out an
unexpected rusty summons. and Mrs.
Jordan. engaged in putting the break
fast biscuits into the oven. iA;ed the
pan In her excitement until the care
fully cut forms slid down to one end
of the pan, an avalanche of dough.
Marietta, go answer that DeIl" She
thought Marietta had me- noticed the
episode Of the biscuits, and she would
not for worlds have the girl think
there was a vulnerable spot to her
stoicism or that she owned to curiosi-
ty 'If it's a woman, don't let her In,
for there amt a woman round here
that hasn't sense enough to know bet
tern to call before breakfast"
Marietta. without waiting for the end
of the monologue. had opened the door.
Heres package for you" said the
man from the station, grinning and
pointing to the small boy on the door
step. hes labeled to Mrs. Jordan"
The girl stared at the small figure III
establishment I'm Ned and I'm a
birthday present to grandma and I'm
hungry" he said. with no recognition
of the need of pauses or punctuation.
raising very blue eyes to meet hers
earnestly.
81 guess he'll have to come in," said
the girl In bewilderment. II don't
know anything about him, but may
be Aunt Ann does"
Mrs Jordan. waiting in the kitchen
door. gave a gasp Of terror when she
saw the small face under the leather
sailor cap. "Bobbie" she whispered
family.
mo: I'm not named Bobbie. I'm
Neddie. grandma" The small hands
chung around her waist Papa said
you would love me and be awfully
glad to see me-"
She sat down by the kitchen table
o-5 +o1Ir @la oI,sIJ ~, ha,s lon ruoc
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"soa rhe odd lady has reIented at

"So7 The old lady has relented at
last. has she?"
81 don't think it's that" the girl an
swered softly Il think Cousin Robert
is-dead. She seemed wonderfully af-
fected and more gentle than l have
ever known her.
"Mariettap Mrs. Jordan's voice
called from the dining room. as that
John Terry? Tell him to come in and
have breakfast with US. It's awfuIly
lucky to have man caller on your
birthday. Pm forty-nine years young"
she added, with a laugh that held a
sob. "And I'm going to start in the fif
ties right. You might as well let John
come on in. I'll bet he'll spend most
of the year with you anyhow"
Terry. laughing. took the girls arm
and led her to the dining room.
"Shes going to be married. and I'm
going to carry her train for her, grand
MAJ said the child excitedly.
Gall right. Bobbie; come. sit in this
chair by grandma, and let those peo-
pie that are so much in love with each
other sit by each other"
The child climbed into the chair and
looked at her reproachfully. al should
think If was your own little boy you
wouldn't forget my name" he said.
"Yes. Bobbie. dear-I mean Neddie."
she said. "bow your head now while
John asks blessing on my birthday
oiffD
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Playbills and
Sentiment.
BY Carl Williams.



The janitor's little girl murmured a
word Of thanks for the penny bestowed
upon her and scampered back down
stairs, while Elizabeth returned to the
parlor with the mail which the child
had just brought
1t was comfortable little city apart
ment, and only the typewriter table In
one corner betrayed the fact that 1t
was a work as well as a play ROOM
Through an s"ch an absurdly small
dining room with the table laid for
one proclaimed 1t to be the home of a
bachelor girl. though Elizabeth Bel
knap's dainty femininity gave no sug-
gestion of spinsterhood either from
choice or circumstance.
The coffee percolator steamed on the
table unheeded while she ran through
her letters-a check for story. two
manuscripts. a paper and thin. fat
package bearing foreign stamp.
Elizabeth frowned over one letter,
smiled over another, patted the check
lovingly as she thrust it into the draw
er of her tiny desk and ripped the COW
ering from the package. Out fell a
playbill, a glaring thing Of red and
blue letters on yellow paper, bearing
the list of artists appearing at Ro-
man music hall.
One Of the names was marked with
an inky cross. and In defiance of postal
regulations Nell Stanwood bad written
on the margin: "Do you remember we
saw her at the theater the night be-
fore sailed? It's a small world. after
ALL"
Elizabeth smiled at the remem-
brance Four other girls and herself
had given Nell going away party
the night before the latter sailed to
study in italy. They had wound up
the evening at vaudeville theater.
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A rsmperanca Tattoo.

Kim Kyong Syop is big, strapping
fellow, energetic in body and jealous
in spirit. who Is engaged in selling the
Scriptures in Korea.
Five years ago he was worshiping
evil spirits. says a missionary who
sends home the story to the British
and Foreign Bible society. For three
years he sacrificed COW to them each
year When Kim became a Christian
he cleared out of his house and prem
tses twenty-seven devils nests made
Of paper and old rags.
On the ball of each thumb Kim has
/ black spot, and the missionary asked
him If they were tattooed
YES" said Kim 81 did that when
vowed to give up strong drink. so
that If ever again l raised a glass Of
liquor to my mouth in either hand
should see that spot and remember my
VOW London Culver