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The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14
NOTES OF MARKET
Extreme Weakness of Missouri Pacific and Western Union
 Discouraging.
s. P. AND U. P. DIVIDENDS
Announcement Followed by Rise.
 Profit Taking and Finally, Loss.

The stock market was strong during the first half of yesterday morning, with general advances at the start, some of the gains at that time being l-2 to 3-4 point. Delaware and Hudson was more than a point higher. and it rose five points in all during the morn ing. The Hartman stocks were the leaders during the morning, with buy ing of these issues based on the as sumption that the regular quarterly dividends would be declared by Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Union and the Hill stocks advanced more than two points each
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14
Stockholders Increase.

If the army of unemployed" is larger to-day than it ever has been in the history of the country. so is the army of stockholders The Pennsyl- vania system announced yesterday that it's stock is held by 77.000 peopl". This is an increase of 16,370 in the last year. With the gains made by inc Southern Pacific and the Amalga- mated Copper the new holders of shares in these three concerns alone have increased 4o, 900 since 1906.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

The extreme weakness in Missouri Pacific and Western Union was very discouraging to all holders of Gould shares. It seemed to foreshadow fur ther payments of dividends in stock. When Missouri Pacific. in December, announced scrip dividend It was sell ing around 55. To-day it was down to S5, the lowest price since 1899, when it touched 39. In 1902 it sold 125 1-2. Wes- tern Union went down under 50 selling at less than half the price paid for it seven years ago.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

Shortly after midday it was an ncunced that the usual quarterly div idend of 1 1-2 per cent. had been de- clared on Southern Pacific, and in half an hour afterwards the usual Union Pacific dividend of f-2 per cent was announced. Both of these stocks ral- lied only slightly after the news came out. On the contrary, a slight spurt followed by profit taking in both of them, and soon they had lost much of the days rise.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

January outdid December in the matter of exports of domestic prod ucts. The total of $t2S,000,000 is the largest on record, and compares with s110,000,00 a year ago. Of this amount S10f, 100000 is supplied by breadstuffs and cotton. If the present outward movement of these two prod ucts should continue throughout the year they would mount up to a value of S1,250.000, 1000.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14
CLOSING PRICES.

Reported over private wires of Prince & Whitely. members of the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Reported over private wires ct Prince & whitely. members of the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges New York office. h2 Broadway and Is Center street New Haven
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

wall street manifested great disap- nointment that stocks went off after tbe declaration of the regular 'Harri- man dividends" Most persons were at loss to explain it. Various req sons were produced on the stock eX- change Vail street Prefessed to he apprebensive that President Roosevelt ,,,iu send another message to congress dealing with the labor proelem' anu
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

The Gould shares are admitted to have been for g long time past almost entirely without organized support It has been very clear that the so-called Gould interests were not actively en- gagged in supporting operations. which fact has made shore sellers more courageous. The breaks in Western Union and Missouri Pacific yesterday had a demoralizing effect on the gen eral market. Nothing new appeared to account for the decline, but great deal was heard about poor earnings The dividend policy of both compan- les at the present time would seem to be distinctly in doubt
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

The short interest found the market rather bare of stocks yesterday when they started in to take up some of their commitments. It was buying ordinary gains throughout the active list, In the first hour probably 125,- GOO shaes of short stock were uncov- cred. This was mostly in Reading, Union Pacific, Steel common, Pennsyl- vania and Northern Pacific.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

On moderate transactions the whole list made substantial gains from the opening. Shelters gained I F, Atchi- son 1-2 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 7S St Paul IA, Northwest 1 1-2, Della ware and Hudson 3-4, General E,lec- tric ?, Great Northern 5-S Manhat- tan l 1-2, Great Northern Ore certifi- cates 1-2, 500 Line ?, New York Central l 1-2, Northern Pacific ? IS, the remainder of the list showing gains Of 1-4 to SS. Western Union made a new low at 49, but recovered United States Rubber second preferred fell Il l-4 from the last previous sale Tran sections to 10:30 were 110,627 shares and to Il o'clock 1S5.62O shares.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

BOSION STOCK MARKET Reported over privats wires O! Horn blower & Weeka mcmDers or .he New York and BestoD Stock EN- changes. New HaveE office. 27 Center street.
 Boston, Feb. 13.
 TT. AL. Did Sl,nd
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14

With selling pressure centered on American Smelling in the last half hour stocks were very weak and closed at the lowest prices of the day. Amer ican Smelling in the last few minutes sold at 56 34, or 7-S below the early high price The Hartman stocks shar- cd in the weakness and were heavily sold, regardless of the maintenance of the dividends. It was reported that several large capitalists identified with the American Smelling company were getting out of their stock to-day. The bottom price to-day, 56 9-4, was i 1-2 points below the bottom touched in the October panic
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14
,oc, erocx EXCAVATIONS.

Corrected daily by Kimberly. Root x Co.,, Investment Brokers, l3S orange
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-31
Pay As You Enter

Soon shall we see the suburban shop.
per, with many parcels and un brells, all
clipping out Of her arme, while she, wild.
eyed, hunts for her purse.
She h :uts for it in three coat pockets
and in her handbag, then starts OH an
other hunt for spectacles, for without
these she cannot differentiate a nickel
from quarter.
Meantime, behind her the re waite, III
the car vestibule and on the etepe, with
closed umbrellas, and with curses loud
and deep, wrathtul throng.
They, cannot seek resting place till
che, the suburban shopper, snds those
spectaclea, till che finds aud different ii
stes and oelects and pave over the nickel.
Behind these, agaiu, under open um
brellas, with feet i'll the mud, see 9
long row Of wretohed mortals.
They are Irrtated, vexed, annoyed
angry, exasperated.
They have the exact fare ready, but
they oopnot step lively, nor board the
car, until the suburban shopper finds
her spectacles and her nickel.
Behold il the street a congestion OF
vehicles, OF cars, cabs. automobiles,
carts, delivery wagons, all unaLle to
proceed.
They are stopped, stayed, delayed, ar.
rested, impeded, checked, frustrated.
All wait for the car, which waits for
its passengers, who, in their turn, wait
for the suburban passenger failing to
have the exact fare roady.--M. @. in
New York Times.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-31
H0w's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case Of Cotarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
We, the undersigned, have known f
j. Cheney for the last Is years. and be.
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus.
mess transactions. and financially able
TO carry out any obligations made by his
firm. WALDING, KINNAN a. MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. e.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken intern
ally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Testi-
leonials sent free. Price. 75c per bottle
Sold by all druggists.
Take Halle Family Pills Tor comet patio
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-31
Not His Fault

"Please, ma'am," said the unlaunder ed
hobo, @won!d youse kindly gimme or
dime T. git surntbin' T. eat wid?"
al would il was cure You would use
it for that purpose" replied the kind
hear vd lady, shut that red nose Of ours
looksvery suspicious - ..
me piriortuDe. an not mo fault,
ma'an,' explained the beggsr. "De
cheap soaas us pore folks has - use ls
ortuI hard On de mplexehun, ma'am. "
chicago Move.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-31
DIssectlnq a Violin,

Not one person in a hundred has
the slightest notion Of how many parts
or pieces there are In a violin. Here
is list Of them: Back, 2 pieces;
belly, Q; coins and blocks, 6; sides, S;
side-linings, IL; bar, 4; purfiings, "a;
neck, 1; finger.board, L; nut, 1 bridge,
1; string for tail.board, 1; guard for
string, 1; sound.post, /; strings, A.;
pegs, 4; total, SO pieces. Three kinds
OF wood are used--maple, pine and
ebony. Maple Is used for the back,
the neck, the side-pieces and the
bridge. Pine ia used for the belly, the
bar, the coins and blocks, the side
Innings and the sound.post. Ebony is
used for the finger.board, the tail.
board. the nut, the guard for string
Of tail-board, the pegs and the button.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-31

Harry. W,semsn, son OF G. B. Wise.
man, formerly resident Of this county,
has been taken from the Miners Union
hospital, says the Blair Press, to the
jail OF Esmeralda county to answer Tor
the murder OF Dave Wright, socretar,
OF the Liua Miners Union. Several
months ago, Wiseman was shot through
the neck in saloon duel at Ida. He
has practically recovered from his
wound and must now face the charge of
murder His father was formerly clerk
OF this county.
great deal of interest is conferred
these days ON what was reported to be
coal mine about three or four miles
east OF the Naples ranch in Pine valley
ON the q. & P. Railway. Experts, it is
stated, after having made a thorough
examination Of the property, developed
the fact that inetead ut a. coal mine a
very large deposit OF asphaltum was in
evidence. Development work is being
rushed and it is thought ere long the
owners viii have something definite to
advise regarding the mine.-Sentinel &
Chester Gillette, who murdered Miss
Grace Brown in the Adirondack noun
tains, New York, on July II, 1906, was
electrocuted at the Auburn prison yes
terday morning. lie went TO his doom
without tiIDcbinG and was pronounced
dead within two minutes after the
current was turned. Gillette made a
confession OF his guilt to the ministers
who attended him. After his death, the
ministers made a statement in which
they said that they did not deem it wise
to make detailed statement, but no
legal mistake was made IN Gillette's
electrocutioL.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-31
New Nobility.

-Four peers, II baronets and SO
knights were created by the king of
Great Britain on his last birthday.
Nominally the king did 1t, in reality
the liberal ministry did It, the birth.
day honors" being one OF the per
quisites Of office.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-03-31
Notice.

ALI persons indebted to noe are re-
quesied to call at the Henderson Bank
and settle their accounts. All my
accounts are at the bank.
w. N. HARRAH,
Paso Robles, Cslifor MIA, March | 1903.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23

ranks Of the American-Standard-
trotter and the Morgan families, and
now that the United States Government
has started a stud in Colorado for the
production of carriage horses it should not
be but few years until the type and
quality is much improved. Iowa and the
West is well equipped with foundation
stock upon which to build up magnifi-
cent type of carriage horses. 1t is now up
to farmers and breeders to make study
of the class and quality of horses that
the new class, contemplates and to devote
some time and energy to aid in building
up breed of superior carriage horses II
this country that will command profit
able prices year in and year out.-Ameri
can Horseman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1908.
MarrIng the Hig hways,

We are very glad to see that a bill has
been introduced repeating Sec. 3977, re-
lating TO cutting brush on highways.
This section reads:
"The selectmen OF town shall cause
all trees and brush, except shade or fruit
trees that are especially set out or mark
ed by the AUDITING land owners, to be
cut and removed in the months of Aug
ust and September, within the limits of
the highways, except where the highway
passes through abutting timber lands in
which case brush shall be cut and re-
moved for a space of ten feet from the
centre line of such highway, and all over.
hanging branches that obstruct travel
thereon shall be cut and removed. The
selectmen shall, at least ten days before
the cutting of such trees and brush,
notify the abutting land owners, who
shall mark shade or fruit trees which
they desire to remain uncut"
AS Gov. Proctor says in his message
the law has been so administered in some
sections of the State as to work genuine
harm to our highways and materially
mar their beauty.
Vermont has long been noted for the
beauty of her scenery, in preserving
which we cannot be too careful. 1t is in
deed one of the most valuable assets o
the State, and nowhere is the marrint
of it more quickly noticed than alont
our highways, for we come more closel,
in contact with them than with any 9th
er part.
The Washington Post well says
among the greatest charms of Wash
ington are the superb trees that stand II
many of the yards around her residences
To destroy them would be almost sac
rilege. 1t is the foliage and the privat
grounds about city, not less than it
buildings, that make it a beautiful city
Instead of having fewer front yards cor
tanning fine old shade trees, Washingto
ought to have more of them"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
The American Carriage Horse.

The new class of American Carriage
Horses opened last year for the first time
by the Iowa state fair made a grand
showing at the fair this year There
were eleven divisions and fifty seven en-
tries in all. The class of horses showed
great improvement over last year and
the numbers entered also showed in.
creased interest in the new class The
horse department of the Iowa state fair
which has been Under the direction of
Prof. C. F. Curtiss, of Ames, for the
past three years, was the first to take up
the new class the American Carriage
Horse-which has proven very popular
and promises to grow in favor with farm
ers and breeders. Mr. George M. Rommell,
chief of the bureau of animal industry at
Washington, d. c, OBLIGATED as Judge in
this department. He was favorably i'm.
pressed with the quality of the horses ex-
hibited in the new class and stated that
the same interest is taken in this class in
other states that have adopted the new
class. The entries came mostly from the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
BRIDPORT,

Miss Anna Cahill of Boston is the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Barnet.
The Ladies Society of the Congrega-
tional church will give supper at the
vestry Thursday evening. November
A Mr.. Landus is the new blacksmith
at David Wisselrs.
George Sellers has gone to Canada to
visit his father, who is critically i'll.
Mrs. G. f. Palmer recently visited her
sister, Mrs. Billings, of New Haven.
Mrs. Emma Warren of Middlebury is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Holdredge.
Rev. Henry Lamb attended the great
missionary meeting at Brooklyn.
Warren Holdredge went to Boston on
the excursion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Wissell are the
parents of a son.
John Grosvenor has returned to Ore
gon.
F. E. Pratt, who does not improve in
health, has returned to his old home
here, accompanied by his wife.
Mrs. E. G. Blaisdell is with the DR.. at
Montpelier
On "Neighbors' Night" October 10,
the local Grange furnished the supper
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
KILLED BY AUTO.
A Seven-Year-OId Beverly Boy
Struck by Charles m. Amory's
Machine.

The necessity of going slow in cities
and villages is well illustrated in the fol-
lowing sad death;
Beverly, Sept. 23,-Donald Gilmartin,
the 7-year-old son of Daniel Gilmartin, OF
High street, died at the Beverly Hospital
tonight of injuries sustained by being
struck by an automobile driven by
Charles NJ. Amory of Boston, IA summer
resident at Beverly Cove Amory was
driving the machine through Haskell
street just as school was dismissed and
the child ran across in front.
In endeavoring to avoid the accident
the car was driven onto the sidewalk and
narrowly escaped a collision with IA tree.
After the accident Amory picked up the
lad and carried him TO the hospital and
then went to the police station and gave
himself up. He was released under
$4,000 bonds.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
No More Moral igations.'

What would Quay or Brice, Whitney
or Hanna have thought of a national
committee that made public its campaign
contributions either before or after cleo
ton? The old regime has passed. There
is new order of things.
No Matthew Stanley Quay will again
fry the fat out of the protected industries
in order to control Presidential election
by buying voters in blocks of five.
No Calvin S. Brice or William G.
Whitney will again put the Democratic
party up at auction in Wall street.
No Mark Hanna will again bleed the
banks and the corporations for $4,000,
900 corruption fund to "save the national
honor"
No President of the United States will
again have occasion to appoint his chief
corporation inquisitor chief collector of
campaign tribute.
No President of the United States will
again send an Edward H. Hartman
away from the White House to raise a
| CdlupdiBl lullu vi pSoo,VOO tidu Vuih lie
$50, 900 votes in New York"
Quayism, Briceism, Whitneyism, Han
nasm, Cortelyouism are all done for.
The Democratic National Committee
yesterday made public its campaign con
trbutions. After election the Repub
lican Committee will make swurr
statement of all receipts and expendi
lures, according to the laws of New
York. No corporation may contribut,
to either of these funds without incur
ring prison penalties for its guilty Off
Gals. Before the next Presidential cleo
ton Congress will have passed a nationa
publicity law and probably a corrupt
practices law as well. What Pratt Gale,
/ the moral obligation" will have becom
statutory crime.
, The World, which has advocated cam
paign-fund publicity and a Federal col
rupt practices act for the last twenty fiv
years, congratulates the American peopl
on the virtual assurance of great poliI
ical reform. In so far as Mr.. Bryan an
Mr.. Taft have assisted in fastening til
day of honest publicity both have rer
dered service of inestimable importanc
to their fellow-countrymen.-The Worlc
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
The Mature of Matter.

Shortly after the opening of the
twentieth century much was heard
about the composite nature of the atom.
The latter, instead of being indivisble, is
believed by number of experts to be a
collection of tiny, negatively electrified
particles so small that thousand would
be needed to equal the bulk of hydrogen
atom. Professor j. j. Thomson of Cam
bridge (who is no kinsman Of the NGlas-
gov scholar, has been Conspicuous adj
vocate of this theory. One of the first
men whose opinion was worth consider
ing who admitted its Scredibility was
Lord Kelvin, though he was careful not
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
According to We ster."

The Century Dictionary contains about
225, 900 words, the Standard has over
100000. In its third edition, published
in 1864, Webster's Dictionary offered
about ia, 900 words, an increase of sew
eral thousands over the editions of 1928
and 1S47. For the speakers who COM
memorate today the 150th anniversary of
Noah Websters birth language pre-
sents itself marvellously expanded and
enriched.
Webster was born on farm in the
edge of Hartford, and it is in Connecticut
that his memory receives most general
tribute today. His famous spelling-book
was compiled, however, at Goshen, in
this state, and he left newspaper mon
ument in New York City through the
foundation in 1893 of the Minerva, a
daily, afterward the Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Ill fortune at the practice of law,
which he proposed to follow on his grad
uation from Yale, turned Noah Webster
10 the teachers profession. Through the
preparation of his speller, of other text
books and of small school lexicon, he
arose to the task of compiling the great
dictionary to which his name attaches
even in its latest revised editions and
which is his chief memorial. The times
called for the work. Johnson's Diction.
airy was the existing standard and had
by no means been revised up to date.
Since the'original Webster's Dictionary
appeared many words have gained new
meanings and many have come into new
spellngs. AS to the actual multiplica
ton of words, comparison doubtless
would show that its largest single source
is in the birth of technical terms to ex
press the new meanings of science, in
vention and industry. The body of the
great language is unchanged. "Accord
to Webster" is still living tribute.
World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-23
AS VIEWED IN MONTREAL.
A Sermon on Autom obilists Whose
Point is not Confined to Canada.

Manslaughter by automobile must
henceforth be treated as a crime. This
does not mean only that men who act
ually commit the crime shall be pun
ished as they deserve, but the men who
attempt to commit the crime, or who
take the risk of committing the crime,
shall be punished precisely as men would
be who attempted or risked manslaughter
by any other means.
The community recognizes that the
automobile is dangerous instrument
We fix rate of speed above which it
shall not be drawn on the city streets.
That rate is eight miles on hour. Now
who does not know that automobiles are
constantly driven through the streets of
this city at a rate far in excess Of this le-
gal limit? An automobile moving no
faster than eight miles an hour would be
something of curiosity. People would
wonder In what way it was out of order.
Yet the community declares it's belief
that to drive a motor Car faster than
eight miles an hour is to put other people
in peril. In peril of what? OF death by
manslaughter.
This means that the drivers of automo-
biles constantly take the risk of commit
ting manslaughter, and our police stand
by and smilingly watch them do it. We
have law against it; but our police do
not pretend to enforce it. If they saw a
man cheerfully firing a revolver down
the middle of a street, they would quick
ly arrest him. That is sport in which
only the police themselves can indulge.
But he can drive heavy and powerful
motor car down crowded thoroughfare
and around sharp corners at a rate which
puts people in peril quite as much at
stray revolver shots; and the police never
think of interfering.
Now this free license to commit man
slaughter must be revoked. 1t is a poor
satisfaction to punish the criminal after
the victim has been buried. 1t is even a
poor satisfaction when the victim goes
no further towards the cemetery than {
hospital cot. We must prevent crime
when we can and this species of crime
we can prevent by enforcing the laws
against excessive speed. This crime il
not committed in dark corners and at un
expected moments. 1t comes as resu
of conditions which exist on the public
streets in broad daylight under the eye
of all of us, including the police. 1t can
not be committed unless we allow thu
conditions to exist beforehand MOntrea
! Star