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Dry Goods.

New York, September 29-Orders in the
dry goods market continue generally
small, but they are coming forward reg
ularly and often, so that business as a
whole is counted fair. The disposition to
hold back advance business is still noted
but this is Offset by the large spot bust
ness passing in some important houses.
Exports during September were better IN
the cotton goods division Cotton yarns
remain steady, with a fair call at low
prices Innings are fairly active, but
small purchases are the rule. Broadclos~s
in dress goods are in active demand with
agents and jobbers.
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Correspondence lnvlfed-COnyultation
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Question list sent free on request Of
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Terms liberal and confidence held In
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Sundays, a. m. to p. m.
A FEW OF MANY ENDORSEMENTS
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and experienced physicians and sur
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London Wool Market.

London, September ga large num-
Der of buyers attended the opening of
the fifth series of the 1908 wool auction
sales here today. Competition was ac-
tive. All fine grades ruled unchanged
from the July sales. Short and faulty
merinos and low cross breds sold in
buyers favor, cross breds declining 5
per cent. Slipped parcels also lost 5
per cent. Americans paid 10hd for
Victorian fine, combing greasy.
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Bonds.
Money on Call.

New York, September 2s.-Money on call
steady, 1A@1h per cent; ruling rate and
closing bid Ia per cent; offered at ia
per cent Time loans very dull and
steady 80 days, 21a@2a4 per cent; 80 days,
per cent; six months, 31s per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 1914 per cent;
sterling exchange steady, with actual bus
mess in bankers bills at $4.S5. 1904. So. 25
for 60-day bills, and at s4.86.S5 for de-
mand Commercial, bills, A.S4%@4 S43s.
Bar silver, 51%c. Mexican dollars 45c.
Government bonds and railroad bonds
steady.
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Boston Wool Market.

Boston, September 29.-The activity
in the local wool market continues with
good demand and firm prices. The do
nestle wool consumption Is reported
to be greater than year ago.
Domestic prices ranges as follows:
Domestic woods, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania fleeces Xxx, 800 33c; No. washed,
34@35c; fine unwashed, 21@22c; fine
understandable, 24@25c; half blood
combing, 26c three-eighths blood comb
ing, 26c; quarter blood combing, 25c;
Delaine washed, 34@35c; Delaine un-
wash ed, 26@27c.
Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri
Three eighths blood, 25@26c; quarter
blood, 23@24c.
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Coffee Market.

New York. September 29.-The market
for coffee futures opened steady at I'M
changed prices to an advance of points
in response to higher French cables, but
found very little support and later eased
off slightly, under scattering liquidation,
chiefly of the near months. The close
was quiet, net points lower to points
higher Sales we're reported Of 11,750 bags
including October at 5.6oc; December,
s. 55c; March and May, 5.45c! July, $500.
Spot coffee steady; Rio, No. z, exc;
Santos, No. H. S1zc; mild coffee dull; Cor
dova, 914@12Hc.
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Metal Market.

New York, September 29.-The London
tin market was lower today with spot
closing at e132 rs Sd and futures at 913a
lbs Cd. The local market was weak and
lower at SIS. STAGED 1212.
Copper was a shade lower at ESQ LIS Sd
for spot in the London market but fu-
lures were unchanged at EGO los. The To-
cal market was dull with lake quoted at
s13. 371k913. 621a; electrolytic. $13.1234q
Ia. s71h, and casting, S12 .8711@13 .121s.
Lead advanced to a13 rs Cd in London.
The local market, however, was easier
at 81 45@4.50.
Spelter was unchanged at a19 12s Cd in
London and at ATTN locally.
Iron was unchanged at Sos for stand
ard foundry but Sd lower at 51s Sd for
Cleveland warrants in London.
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closed steady. September, 5.O5d; Sep
tember-October. 4S7d; October November,
4.7ed; November-D December, 4.741Ad; De
cember-January, 47Sd; January-F ebruary
4. 721kd; February March. AID; March
April. AID; April-May, 4.7412d May
June, June-July, 4.75d; July-August
74Id.
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Raisins-Per package, 12Ac; per 20
p Peas@Per bushel, Buckeyes. 1925:
Soap--Octagon, $3.50; Lenox, $500;
Polo. s2.45; Ivory. small size -; iarge.
s5 ra5an Rlg R Reai sSs5 ray pay siSe'
Soda-Arm and Hammer brand 6o-lo
'a sfa'rcs6-BuIk. &c per lbi cellulOid
'- Ginsens-Per pound. ss.A9Q4 $50;
Flour-Fancy patents. se.50 Neiiis
King, $40; second patent. 1919.
Flour, Meal and Feedztufr.
Corrected daily by Tennessee Miu Cob
Flour-Fancy patents, Sc; Nellie King
SIS. second patent, $4.75
Meal-Satinette s71zc a bushel; s6-lb
ccorn-Kiln, dried. No. 2 mixed. s7Hse:
white clip, zoe; Texas. e5c:s
Pure wheat brand. ton. $26
Cotton seed feed meal s2s prime s2s.
Corn chops, so POUNDS, II 40.
Corn hearts, 100 pounds. $l.5O.
Halis@soib. c. s.. $1,000; 1OOlb, c. s..
Hay@Choice Timothy. s22; No, !.
Timothy, S1S; Johnson grass. "a;
clover. mixeo. SIS; choice green alfalfa.
$40.
Fruits and Produce.
Corrected daily by Douglas Bros)
Cabbage-virginia, per Id, &c.
onions-Yellow Danver, per ID, 2Ae
Turn1pS-RutaDaBdS per ~ Y
Irish Potatoes-Fancy Michigan
stock, bushel, s1.10.
Sweet Potatoes-Yams. per bushel.
Peaches-California, per crate, 81 S5.
Pears-California, per crate, 81 SO.
Plums-California, per crate, 81.
Grapes-California Muscat, per crate.
S2.25.
Grapes-Tokay, per crate. $3.50;
Concord Grapes-Fancy Michigan
stock, s-lb baskets, &c.
Concord Grages-Fancy Michigan
stock, Alb baskets, lie.
Cantaloupes-Fancy Colorado Rocky
Apples-Fancy New York stock. bar
rel, So
Apples-Choice Virginia. per barrel.
SO. so.
Limes-Per hundred, 81.
Pears-Cooking, per barrel, SO.
Lemons-Fancy imported, per box,
366s. So.
Lemons-Choice. verdelli. s6Os. box.
81 so.
Cranberries-Cape Cod. per box. $275.
Celery-Colorado, per crate, 81.
Garlic-Fancy imported per Id, 10e.
Cheese-Faney full cream, per lb, 16e
Peanuts-Choiee Virginia, per lb.
Peanuts-Chioce Virginia. per lb.
5hc.
Peas-California. blaekeye. per lb.
5hc.
Beans-Navy, per bushel. SO rs.
Beans-Red kidney, per lib, &c.
Beans-Lima. per lb. 61ac.
Eggs-Tennessee candled, per dozen,
24c.
Hens-Each, 500 S5c.
F'ryers-Each. 154 35c
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Liverpool Cotton Market.

Liverpool. September 2s.-Cotton quiet;
prices unchanged. American middling
fair, 5SSd good middlng, b52d; mddling.
5.s2d; low middling. 5.Osd; good ordinary,
44Sd; ordinary, 40Sd.
The sales of the day were 5000 bales
of which 800 were for speculation and
export and included 1900 American. Re-
ceipts 1000 including 1900 American.
Futures opened quiet and steady and
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New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans, September 29.-Cotton-
Spots were quiet and 1-16c lower on lack
of demand. Middling, 1-16c. Sales were
900 bales on the spot and 1850 to arrive.
Cotton futures opened quiet at an adj
vance of / to points over last night s
closing. Short covering in anticipation of
a bullish government report on Friday
caused small advances. but these were
soon lost on account of favorable weather
predictions. The market mostly pre-
served waiting attitude for the gov
eminent report and operations werS
small The closing was steady, 8 to 5
points under yesterdays close.
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Cotton Seed Oil.

New York, September 29.-Cotton seed
oil firm; prime crude, 3oc bid do yell
low, 30A@41c.
New Orleans, September 2s.-Cotton seed
oil, prime, 3Sc.
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stockers and feeders s2.sO@4.S0. western
steers $3.6095.00.
Hogs-Recepts 10000. Market steady to
IS lower. Bulk of sales s6.4oQ69O
Sheep-Receipts 1900 Market steady.
Muttons So 4003. 80, lambs 425@o.13.
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Treasury Statement.

Washington, September 2O.-Todays
statement of the treasury balances in the
general fund shows: Available cash bal
ance, SITS, 1003S6 gold coin and bullion,
s32, 293, 1853; gold certificates, $34,S52,515
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New Orleans Cotton Futures.

New Orleans, September 29.-Cotton-
Spots were quiet; low ordinary, 1850
nominal; ordinary. 5ssc nominal; good or
binary, Lie; low middling. 5-16c;
middling, 9 Lice; good middling, csc;
middling fair, 97sc; fair, 1011c nominal.
Sales 2250; receipts 1906: stocks, 1866
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New Orleans and Return 5000
Queen and Crescent Route
October 7th, 9th and 9th, limit
October Oath, 1908. We use
new station on Canal street in
New Orleans.
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Leading futures ranged as follows:

Cash quotations We're as folIoWs
Flour-Firm.
Wheat-No. spring, $100G1.01; No. 8,
96cQS1.05; No. 2 red, SO cQS1.O0A.
Corn--No. 2. 7SA@7ss4c; No. yellow
7914@7s12c.
Oats-No. white, 471kQ491ac.
Rye-No. 2, 76c.
Barley-Good feeding, 55c. fair to choice
mailing, 57@59c.
Flax Seed-No Northwestern, $122%.
Timothy Seed-Prime, $40.
Robs-Short ribs, sides Qoose), $9.75110.0O
short clear sides ,boxed), $10.25&10.6O.
Whiskey-Basis of high wines, slS7
On the produce exchange today the
butter market was firm Creameries, 2O&
26c; dairies. 18Q20c.
Eggs-Firm; at mark cases included
16@-3c; firsts &c; prime firsts, 2Sc.
Cheese-Strong, 121h@131sc.
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New York Cotton Futures.
Open. High. Low. Close
Daily Cotton Movement.

Galveston-Quiet; mfddling, 9asc; net
receipts, 1884; gross receipts. 1884;
sales 2150; stock, 1889; exports to
Great Britain, 1929; coastwise, 1916.
New Orleans-Quiet; middling, 1-16c;
net receipts, 1906; gross receipts, 49,
706; sales $3.50; stock, 1866; exports
to the continent, 1888.
Mobile-Steady; middling, &c; net re-
ceipts, 4130; gross receipts, 4130; sales,
AIS; stock, 1859
Savannah-Steady; middling, sc; net
receipts, 1880; gross receipts, 1890;
sales, 5115; stock, 101 .210; exports to
France, $3.50; to the continent, 800;
coastwise, 1914.
Charleston-Steady middling, &c; net
receipts, 2379; gross receipts, 2S79
stock 2924s; exports coastwise, 1929.
Wilmington-Quiet; middling, &c; net
receipts, 1904; gross receipts, 1904
stock, 19,957; exports to the continent
14,592.
Norfolk-Steady; middling, SIC; net
receipts, 1851; gross receipts, 1851
sales 1923; stock, 1877; exports coast
wise, 1927.
Baltimore-Nominal; middling, 9ssc
gross receipts, S75; stock, 1899.
New York-Quiet; middling, $500;
gross receipts, 1926; sales, 214; stock,
64,942; exports coastwise, 2944.
Boston-Quiet; middling, $500; gross
receipts, 2796; exports to Great Britain,
16,101.
lphia-Steady; middling. $3.50;
gross receipts, 1406; stock, 1915; ex-
ports to Great Britain, 500.
Burnswick-Stock, 1867.
Total today, at all ports: Net, S4,624;
exports to Great Britain, 1913; to
France, $3.50; to the continent, 20,475;
stock 4S8,0S0
Consolidated, at all ports: Net, 1885,,
1856; exports to Great Britain, 1929; to
France, 1929; to the continent, 66,462;
to Japan, 100.
Total since September 1, at all ports:
Net, S6S.652; exports to Great Britain.
| 161 ,036; to France, $3.50; to the conti-
nent, 244,604; to Japan. $50.
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Our home for rent and Fur
niture for sale. G. w. Burton,
2212 4th Ave.
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Interior Movement.

Houston-Quiet; middling, Csc; net
receipts, 2S,131 gross receipts, 2S,131
shipments, 23,471; sales 1856; stock
57,306.
Augusta-Quiet; middling, 91-16c
net receipts, 1854; gross receipts. 3T41
shipments, 1887; sales, 1915; stock, 81
PSI.
Memphis-Dull; middling, SIC: net
receipts, 3901 gross receipts, 1853
shipments, 1866; sales, 1850; stock, 3d.
372.
ST. Louis-Dull; middling. 9ssc; net
receipts, 1872; gross receipts, 1852; ship
ments, $40; stock, 1888.
Cincinnati-Net receipts, 1855. gross
receipts, $780, shipments, 1917, stock,
1859.
Louisville-Firm; middling, sac.
Little Rock-Steady; middling, &c; net
receipts, 1927; gross receipts, 1921;
shipments, 1913; stock. 1915.
Total today-Net receipts, 1880;
gross receipts, 3s,7S9; shipments, 1854;
sales, 32S1; stock, 147 ,211.
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LOCAL PROVISIONS.
New Cotton.

Meats.
Rib bellies. 9.42h a 10hc.
d. S. clear bellies, $3.50 10.55c.
D. s. extra short ribs, 9kc.
d. S. fat backs, $500.
Smoked clear bellies, II " &c; fancy, 13c.
Hams smoked. l3Q14hc; California
shc.
Bacon-Fancy, 21c; medium, tic.
Lard-Leaf. 10Ac; compound SIC.
Pork loins. lie: spare ribs. SC.
Ham butts, 10Mc; Boston butts, 10c.
Shoulders. &c.
Brains. sc: beef livers. &c.
90
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-03
A Silent Household.

James L. Williams, a hatmaker,
and his wife have occupied the same
house, taken their meals at the same
table together, and been in each 9TH
er's company almost continually for
five years without speaking a word
to each other.
Five years ago they Quarreled and
Williams made vow that he would
never again speak to his wife. He
has kept it religiously, and SO COM
pletely was their affection for each
other severed in the quarrel that the
wife has not once begged for a word
from her husband Their eldest
daughter, Alice, nineteen years oil,
took sides with her mother, and dur
ing the FIVE years she had never adj
dressed her father, although she is
a member of the household.
The couple have two young chill
dren and have carried on what COM
munication was necessary through
these. Even this means was used
only in cases of extreme necessity
New York World.
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New Orleans, La.-One of the
greatest channel making undertake
ings in the history of American river
improvement will be brought nearly
to completion when the jetties at the
mouth of the Southwest Pass of the
Mississippi River are finished. These
jetties, after some dredging between
them is completed. will give the
South one Of the deepest harbors in
the world by openings to the access
of the largest steamships adoat the
100 and 200 foot depths of the lower
Mississippi River.
The harbor thus made accessible
has navigable water connection with
at least a dozen States bordering the
Mississippi and its tributaries#the
Ohio, the Missouri, the Arkansas and
the Red rivers. About $4,000, 600 is
being spent on this improvement by
the United States Government, which
has the work in charge.
The new jetties were begun four
years ago. They are on O larger
scale and more substantial than the
famous jetties at the Mississippi's
South Pass, an outlet which for more
than thirty years has been tie rivers
commercial entrance. They are near
ly parallel walls, one about three
and the other about four miles long,
lying more than half mile apart
and built in the shoal water at the
juncture of the Pass with the Gulf
of Mexico. Their purpose is to con-
fine and thus accelerate the rivers
current across mud bar about three
miles broad, SO as to produce a chan
mel at least 1000 feet wide, with a
minimum depth of thfrty-five feet.
The swift current which they have
produced, aided by dredging. even
before their completion, has caused
a tremendous scour and has already
made fifty to eighty-five feet Of water
in some places, where at the begin
ming of the work the depth was only
little over mans head. To make
the uniform contract depth there is
still in several spots about ten feet
Of mud to be removed. It is expect
ed that tho high water due within q
few weeks will sweep the remaining.
mud deposits out to sea by the be-
ginning of next summer.
Probably few walls ever have been
constructed under greater difncul-I
ties than were these jettfes They
are made Of willow, scantling, stone
anu concrete. AltuOuSA Ill SUNNI
places they are not six feet deep.
and although their greatest depth is
barely fifteen feet, they have cost
$2,700.000. Every material entering
into their construction has been
brought from distances of one hum
dred to five hundred miles.
The jetties have no foundation,
but rely for stability upon their ex-
tremely broad bases, being from 100
to $50 feet wide at the bottom. In
contrast to this great width of base,
the concrete Gaping which forms
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-03
How The World Grows.

In little more than zoe years,
according to government figures, the
population of the world has grown
from 64O,000,000 to 1900, 200, 900,
an increase of $50 per cent. At the
end of SO many hundreds of cen
turtles, in other words, there were in
the world in 1900 only $4,000, goo
of persons, and 106 years, from 1900
to 1906, to this number had been
added O,000, 900.
The total commerce of the world
in 1900 was about one and a half
billions of dollars; in 1900 it was
more than twenty billions of dollars
Other figures show that in wealth
and the growth of various Industrial
agencies the increase has been far
swifter than that of population.
The overpopulation of the world
is not present menace to the think
ers of today, but the thinkers of a
period when there were less than
half as many people in the world as
there are now seriously debated the
imminence OF the catastrophe that
the overcrowding of the earth would
produce.-Boston Globe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-03
THE SOUTH HAS JUST FINISHED ONE OF THE GREATEST
CHANNEIrMAKING UNDERTAKINGS in HISTORY
New Jsttles Ready Big SipsLoWer Mississippi Gets
One of Worlds Deepest Harbors

the top of the jetties, and which is
the work receiving it's finishing
touches this week, is only few feet
wide The Gaping is a sea wall
four and one-haif feet high and is.
the only portion of the jetties not
submerged The wall weighs between
two and three tons to each linear
foot.
The submerged structure support
ing this mass of concrete is made
almost entirely of willow poles and
brush With the aid of frame works
of scantling the willows were formed
into so-called mattresses broad, fat
structures resembling bed mattresses
in form-each about two feet thick,
200 feet long and varying in width
from thirty-five to $50 feet. The
mattresses. were sunk one above the
other. with the widest at the bottom
ard those above uniformly diminish
ing in width as they approached the
surface. The topmost mattresses
were uniformly thirty-five feet wide,
and on a level with the surface of the
water Heavy broken stone was
spread evenly over the mattresses to
sink them, SO that layer OF stone
rests between each of these willow
SLTuCtUEGS. lac SKCdtCSb1 AunAUCA Va
supperimposed mattresses is i've.
The Mississippi has done some in
teresting work in addition to scour-
ing out a channel, for it has made
the mattresses practically indestruc-
tible to any normal agency of nature
In this region by burying them under
hundreds of tons of mud. These de-
posts follow closely the contour of
the jetties, in conjunction with which
they form new banks of the river.
The only change likely to occur in
the jetties is their gradual sinking,
until in time the concrete Gaping
entirely disappears. This sinking
already has occurred to the jetties
at South Pass.
In the course of many years new
bar may form by silt deposits in the
Gulf in the now deep water beyond
the mouth of the ietties, and then the
remedy will be the extension of the
jetties a short distance further. The
rate of bar extension during nearly
seventy-five years preceding the
starting of the jetties was between
$50 and $50 feet annually, and the
deposits responsible for this advance
were made when conditions, now
greatly changed, favored such acc-e-
tons.
part Of the $4,000. 900 allotted to
making the channel is being spent in
safeguards several miles above the
jetties to prevent any increase in the
flow of other large outlets from the
main river to the Gulf. This is being
accomplished byplacing stone covered
mattress stills on the river bottom
across the entrances to those outlets.
Several small bayous leading from
Southwest Pass to the Gulf will be
entirely closed up.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-03
BRITTLE FEET IN HORSES.

Charles A. Breese gives this use
full information in the Breeders Ga
zette: I have had mare going on
five years and always had trouble 20
keep shoes on her, as the shell OF
the foot would come off. Last year
in May, l had her shod and in three
weeks all four shoes were of and
there was no hoof left to put them
ON again. used her on the road for
heavy loads, but when the shoes
came off she could not be kept on
the road. She would steer for the
grass along the side. / was using
her one day on the farm, when an
old gentleman came to me. He motto.
ed her feet and said: "Get two parts
of oil of tar and one part of oil OF
balsam of fir; mix them together and
put on every other night where the
hair connects with the hoof and in
six weeks her feet will hold a shoe.
Sure enough they did. This spring !
have put it on twice week and the
shoes stay there.
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Ducks Slide On Ice.

Ezekiel Crawford, of Northport, l..
l., has a flock of Muscovy ducks
which quite accidentally have invent
ed new game. They were in the
habit of flying from the barn to the
duck pond upon Crawford's farm and
entering the water with rebound
ing splash.
When winter arrived and the pond
was coated with smooth ice the ducks
few from the barn as usual. Near
ing the surface of the pond they ex-
tended their feet and quit flying,
evidently expecting to splash into the
water. They did nothing of the kind.
Their feet slipped out from under
them and they sat down hard and
slid swiftly across the ice until they
bumped against the frozen shore.
..Quack, quack!'' said the ducks,
and hurried back to the barn to try
it again. The result was the same.
Again and again they are said to
have tried the stunt. Now it is said
they show signs Of Joy when, upon
retiring at night. they note evidences
of freezing before morning. New
York Times.