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Dry Goodd.

New York, November 1.-The movement of merchandise was large from the dry goods district during the day. More de- mand was reported for ginghams in con- sequence of the recent advance in Ian casters. Staple prints are in larger re- quest.
 The carpet openings for the spring sea-
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Metal Market.

New York. November 1.-The local market for standard copper was quiet but firm today with spot, November and December closing at $1250@12.75; January. s12.50@12S0; February, $12.75 @13. The London market closed easy with spot quoted at f57 5s and futures at f58 Bs Cd. Sales there included 300 tons spot and 1000 tone futures. Locally no business was reported. Local dealers quote lake copper at $12.87h @13; electrolytic, $1260@12.75; casting. $12.37h 012.621k. Tin was steady with a sale of five tons for De- cember delivery at $30.65 on the New York metal exchange. Closing prices follow: Spot and November, $30.5O@ s0.75; December, 30.60 O 30.58; January, So.65 Q 30.9c; February. $30@70@31. The London tin market was higher but closed easy at a reaction from the top with spot quoted at f139 and futures at f140 17s Cd. Lead was quiet with spot quoted at $4.32h @4.40 New York and $4.20@4.271a East St. Louis. The Lon dan market was higher at f1s, Is 3d. Spelter was unchanged at $6.40@ 6.55 for spot at New York. $6.2O@6.271s East St. Louis. The London market was also unchanged at f23 5s. The English iron market was higher al 51s 4hd for Cleveland warrants. Local ly the market was unchanged. No. 1 foundry, northern, $19019.5 No. 2 $18.50@19; No. l, southern. and No. southern soft, $19.25019.76.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
 BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

This bank extends to its patrons every accommodation warranted their business balances and responsibility and it's officers would be pleased have personal interview correspondence with those desiring to open count or to establish additional banking relations.
 Depostary of the United States and State of Alabama
 Capital S1 100000 Surplus and Profits, $800000.
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Berth Ia Convicted.

Chicago, November 1-George B. Kerth, alleged to have been one of a coterie of business directory swindlers members of which are on trial here, was found guilty after a separate trial today.
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St. Louis Market.

St. Louis, November 1.-Wheat: Lower: track No red cash, s1.21@1 .241a; No. ? hard, sl l.o51sq1 .091s; December, $1.o5&; May, s1.057s.
 Corn: Lower; track No. 2 cash, Gle: No 9 white, 62@63c; December, 575s@ 57%c May 6O5sc.
 Oats: Steady track No. cash, 4Oc; No white, 52G421sc; December, 39ssc; May, 47c.
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UNION STATION
Effective September P. 1sos Louisville and Nashville RaiIro,a
Birmingham Mineral Railroad.

Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic, Arrive from IDepart to-- Brunswick .11.45 emI Brunswick 4.1o nnr Trains marked thus @ run daily excent Sunday.
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T.ocnI Cottou Mnrket..
Meats.

Meats.
 (Corrected by Morris & Co.) Lard, 13%c; compound, 10Ac. Clear bellies, 13@13Ac. Rib bellies, 12% @1shc. D. S. short ribs 125sc. T.. S. fat backs, 12c. Smoked clear bellies, 15c; fancy 16c Hams. smoked. 16Ac; California. Bacon, fancy, 24c; medium, 21c. Pork loins, 16c; spare ribs, 10c. Ham butts, 1hhc;, Boston butts. 13t tsc. Flour and Feedstufrs. fCorracted by Tennessee Mill Col Nellie King flour. per barrel $625. lBolted satinette meal. per 96-lb. sack. $1.60.
 No. corn. per bushel, Sic. White oats, per bushel, 55c. Pure wh eat shorts, S31. Pure wheat bran, S27. 10O-lb. c. s. hulIs, per ton, $t1. Prime c. s. meal, per ton. s31 Feed c. S. meal, per ton, $28 No. timothy hay, per ton, y20. Green alfalfa, per ton, SPA. S0-lb corn chops, per sack, s1.35. Flour in wood 15c higher. Ceralfa mixed feed, s35 ton.
 Fruit and Produce.
 (Corrected by Douglass Bros.) Q$75; Florida, per box. s2.5o ' ''''' Pineapples-Florida. $3.50. Lemons-Imported. per box. $4@4.5o. Lines ItT nunureQ, sue. Bananas--Per bunch 75cQS1,5O Pineapples-Florida, $2.76 New Irish Potatoes-Per bu. 75@85. Sweet Potatoes-New crop, per bar rel, $2Q2.25.
 Cabbage-New crop, Virginia, per pound, 1hc.
 onions-Fancy Red Globe. per h.. Pc.
 Navy Beans-Per bu. $3. Lima Beans-Per lb. 6c. Eggs-Candled, 25Q27c. California peaches, box, $1. California pears, box, $3.50. California pluns, $2. Tokay grapes, $2. Apples-Fancy northern, 50 per bar rel; oh oice cooking, sS@3.50. Cocoanuts. per sack, $4.50. Concord grapes, lb bskts, 14c. Concord grapes. lb bskts, 25c. Cranberries, per box, $2.75. Spanish onions, per crate, S1.65. Celery, Col, per crate, $3.75. Celery, Col. per dozen, 75c.
 Poultry. Hens, 30@35c; large flyers, 25@ 35c. medium flyers, 1sQ25c; broilers, 12h @ 015c; ducks. 20Q25c; geese. S5Q 4oc; guineas, 26c.
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son were largely attended and buying was free.
 Dress goods showed an improvement in the tone.
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Live Stock Market.

St. Louis, November 1.-Cattle:, Receipts, 9OO0 including 46O0 Texans market, 1Oc lower: export steers. $6.76QD7. 50; butcher steers, $5. 26G6. 40; steers under 1000 pounds, $4Q5. .25; stockers, $3.60Q5. .35 cows and heifers. B 1907; canners, $2.2 .25@2 .50; bulls. $.H5@4; Texas and Indian steers, s. 500 6. 4O; cows and heifers, $2.2bQl4.25.
 Hogs: Receipts. 1000; market. strong; pigs, S5.2507 30; packers, q. .40dr. 70; butch CTS, $7.75G7. 90.
 Sheep; Receipts. 1000; market, strong; lambs, $5.75@7; .culls and bucks g 2.50Q 4.75; stockers, &. 25Q4.
 Kansas City, November 1.-Cattle: Re-
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Total sales the day, e44,4OO shares
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GREENSBORO HOTEL
 GREENsBORO. ALA. Under new management. Thorouchl, renovated. Special attention given travelling men. Large sample rooMA
 RATES e1.0O PER DAY. c. w. WHEELER, Prom
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The Alabama Only rst-Class Hotel in the
 City. MRS. J. H. CHIsOLM, Proprietress
 Alexander City. Ala.

WHEELER'S HOTEL
 EUTAWs ALA. Electric lights ana oefls in each room. Artesian water. Long, distance Telephone service Hot and Cold Watos Baths
 M. ZOE WHEELER, Prop
 Rates e2ae Per Day.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-19

matte brother. Imagine, then, Poe's
capacity for suffering.
When he erred you may be certain
that he received his punishment to the
full, in the misery of remorse. So do
We all for every mistake we make. The
scales of existence are balanced pretty
equally.
We receive full measure for what we
give, whether good or bad. That is
why it pays to be good and to do good
for others; because it comes back to us
and makes us happy.
Abraham Lincoln, whose centennial
we will also celebrate" in a few weeks,
knew this we'll.
OF the pig-in-the-puddle incident he
declared that if he HADN'T helped the
pig he'd have been unhappy for the rest
of the day, and thai it was really done
to insure his own peace of mind.
Edgar Allan Poe received full measure
of suffering while he lived for the err
rGrs he made through the weaknesses
that were too strong for him. 1t is
not for us to criticize, nor even to be
smugly thankful hat we are not such
as he" For in the scales of his life
his u%ndoubted genius far outweighed
the things for which the SNUG ones
cannot forgive him.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-19
A PLAN 10 EATEN The STATE PURSE.

Governor Forts plan of bridging the big gap in the States finances may be
summed u in a few words. The municipalities must pay the piper. The State
amount it expended twenty years ago. and tvce as much as it ex-
pended eight years ago. Governor Fort thinks that there can be no
appreciable reduction of this rate of expenditure, n he car see only one
wax u of the dimcuhy-increased income to necessarily permit Of still larger
expenditures He can discover n o new sorcc Of revenue His recommendation
suggests the story of the cannbal chief and the missionary. The cannibal chief
as a act of rare cemency, told the missionary that he could have his choice;
he could be prepared for dinner either roasted or boiled But dom want to
be cooked an eaten" "a the piamhve plea in response The Governor would
take the necessary increase OF revenue vi Of the muncpalt taxpayer, either by
a direct State tax or by appropnatng for tho state more hn half a million of
the present railroad tax income If he municipalities The contribution Of Essex
county to this grab would be about 100000 and Newark would suffer a losso of
from $4,000 tic $4,000 in her. annual income to be made Up by increased taxation.
"A direct State tax would necesstate a complete revolution in the system of
state taxation would compel the assessment and tax of all railroad property
locally It is evident at nee that that alternative will not receive an considera-
ton whatever, so the proposition car be reduced to the plan of repeating the act
of 1906 allowing to the municipalities thu railroad main stem taxes, except me
half Of / per cent retained r" the State. The subject opens u a wide field of
controversy.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-19
HIGHLY LAUDED
BY A MERCHANT PRINCE
John Wand1naker fraiS- 5 Thrift Of fatheriand'S Sons in Remark
able Speech Into Phonograph--S inews Of Country
his chin.
I

HE following vas among the things spoken inoa phonograph by the
Hon John wanamaker and delivered as hi presidents ANNUAL address
u att the recent meeting OF the Pennsylvania German Society at Lancaster:
among the chievemnt of the early German settlers let us not the first
Bible in a European tongue, original hymn-books and devotional literature, toe
numerous to enumerate. Ht.
"Franknns criticism of the early German colonsts only servesto show that
een a great mind nay essentially err in reading other minds Franklin com
that the early Germans would notle learn English; hat they m home
to their Fatherland TO. so many books. Yet German books and German ltera-
tme hav been welded, along with those of other tongues, into the great Ameri-
"a literature an learning of today. Perhaps friend Benjamin Ws a little
afraid of what might become of his W printing business and we can excuse
his warped judgment in this me instance.
"But 1 need not tell you what you all know, how thu Germans have grown
their very ives into this wonderful American nation, from the very day when
the first German % come to America Peter mui, OF Vessel first set foot
o. American soil, in 1926 to the two days before yesterday. when the great body
of COMMUNICATIONS largely helped to save the country from the hands of the
theorists and voted to send to Washington a nan large enough in mind. as well
as in body, to fill the presidential chair which another mn who attends a Ger
man Reformed church atth capta1 is soon to vacate after seven years of in
cessant, honest endeavor for the good of his people.
Count To1stoy stopped at the roadside ice AM asked a farmer who was
blowing: Friend, what would you do today if you knew positively 20 would
die tomorrow The farmer replied: 7 would keep IN blowing
81 would keep o. blowing! How inspiring and helpful those words! 1 have
always half'su suspected that it was a German who uttered them, a German who
had slipped into Russia, for car almost hear he same words falling from the
lips of a German Mennonite or bunker, living along the Conestoga or Cocanco
just as yu hear these words rom M lips $50 miles away rom whereI actually
m at this vey moment. =
And now let m e add just this: The German in America, as in the Father
land, stands prominently fr three things: % Faith in God; C9 faith in the
home; CD faith in education.
This is the trinity that makes nations great. I heed not 20 into details The
is sef-evtdent. Whatever problems are before us in America today
or will face us In he culture must be solved through the cooperation of these
three orces-the church, the home, the schoo These adorse inter into business,
into tn professons-into our very lives"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-19
We Owe Poe Much, He Owes Nothing,
Let the Mahgned Bard Rest in Peace
Many of His Critics Would Sink
Lower to Write as Well
as He.

A man and himself fight many bat
ties. alone by themselves, and if the
himself wins out who can say how
hard the maj tried, and why he failed?
Not an outsider, surely.
We shouldn't find it hard to forgive
a man anything who gave us such
poems as he. Where. for instance, can
o find more rhythmic music than is
bound up in the stanzas of "Annabel
Lee?"
ANNABEL LEE
By Edgar A. Poe.
1t was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may
know
BY the name OF Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other
thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
She was a child and I was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But We loved with a love that was more
than love
| and my Annabel Lee
With a love that the winged seraphs in
heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea.
A wind blew out OF a cloud. chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee:
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre,
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Ies!-that was the reason (as all men know,
In this Kingdom by the sea-
That the wind came out of the cloud by
night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than
the love
OF those who were older than We
OF many far wiser than We
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea.
Can ever discover my soul from the soul
OF the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing
me dreams
OF the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but / feel the
bright eyes
OF the beautiful Annabel Lee.
And so all the night-tide I lie down by the
side
OF my darling-my d~arling-my life and my
In her sepulchre there by the sea-
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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Sherman was marching to the sea.
"And STILL he unused, 81 much pre-
fer the mountains!'
But taking into consideration that
the former phrase was more euphone-.
Gus for school children, he continued
marching.
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When He Sinned lie Suffered
and His Sufferings In
spired Him.

There's SO much good in the worst
of us,
And so much a in the best of us,
That 1t hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of u.s."
cIXTY years has Edgar Allan Poe
. been in his grave, and still
~wrangling over him and his works,
his life and his loves, his dreams and
his lapses, his wonderful brain and the
strength of his weaknesses, are those
who burn little lamps before the affairs
of their own intellectual powers and
consider themselves of the
high places, from which they may
smugly look down and pass judgment,
not only upon their contemporaries, but
upon those who are dead.
The arrow that flies from the bow of
self-righteousness has a poisoned sting
all its own, and the grave of Poe and
the grounds round it are covered
thickly with just such. Surely it is time
to let him rest in peace. He owes the
world nothing, now, and the world owes
him much. Let him alone.
THE Bells that ring into his Head
ears are the voices of those who
understand him." who say with wise
mods of their placidly creased faces
thai 'he did this because of that"
The wrote that because of this" and
"'he meant such and such when he
wrote so and So" II this great man
could rise from his grave and once
more grasp his pen he would give us
a work that would rival in fury and
sorrow and regret and sullen rage
against mankind all of his published
compositions rolled into one, and that
would make his critics cringe and
tumble completely from their loved
high places
The sentitive power of Edgar Allan
Poe was developed in a great degree.
His understanding of emotions and the
workings of minds was marvellous.
These facts reveal themselves in al
most everything that bears his name.
Everyone knows that the person of
sensibility feels more thar his phleg-
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-19
WIT CHIPS.

The more a girl smiles the less she
means 1t.
Marriage is the hurdle between ro-
nance Inc reality.
A happy medium ought to make good
at a spiritual seance.
Less than a pint of whiskey may
make a peck of trouble.
What men admire In women is the
traits not found in themselves.
If your ideas are not worth two cents,
write them on a postal card.
Every time a man picks UP a little
experience he drops a few dollars.
Fortune knocks once at every mans
door, but misfortune camps on his front
step.
You can rely upon the friends you
buy-if you have enough money to keep
them bought.
Many a man has lost his life in trying
to collect the living he thought the
world owed him.
A mar never realizes how silly his
love letters are until he hears some of
them read in court.
1t is said that necessity knows no law,
but if she is the mother of invention
she should acquaint herself with the
patent laws.
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures is a fine
thing. Now, / am always being car
ried away by enthusiasm.
Miss CONSTITUENCIES, but the trouble
Is 1t doesn't carry you far enough.
Our sale of indigestion tablets are
falling off rapidly said the proprietor
of the patent medicine establishment.
1--WE must do something to counterfeit
it."
why not start a factory for the
manufacture of chatting dishes" sug-
gested the advertising expert.
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in TROLLEY

Shove not, that we be not showed.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE.

. His o'erfraught bosom and his !
! haunted brain 3
Gave cur their music and then Z
ceased to be- ]
! A strange, a weird, a melan- 3
choly strain. j
! Like the low moaning of the Z
distant sea; e
] And when death harshly set his !
spirit free I
l From frcnzied days and perjury :
. ard blight, j
. At least was tender mercy's kind I
! decree 6
. Shrining his name in memory's J
! living light :
" With thoughts that gid the !.
! day and charm the lingering i
: night. !
! He was the voice of beauty and ]
of woe, 3
! Passion and mysery and the 3
. dead unknown: 1
! Pure as the mountains of perpet- :
! ual snow, !
! Cold as the icy winds that !
! round them moan, 5
!. Dark as the wherein !
I earth's thunders groan. J
! Wild as the tempests of the Up :
. per sky. !
! Sweet as the faint. far-off celes- I
I tial one 5
!. OF angel whispers, f%luttering !
I from on high, I
1 Ard telider as loves tear, when 8
l youth and beauty die. :
! William Winter. Z
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SAME Old TWC-4hD.SiX PENCE.
controversy.

1t may be taken for granted. since the reappontment of Dr. George B
Wight al State commissioners of charities an corrections that tho plan proposed
by the State Dependency and Crimes Commission, Endorsed by the Governor, Of
the organization # a single department, with a single head, TO take charge of
all III charitable and correctional Institutions of the state, has been abandoned
Duties hatw would be incumbent or such d commissioner could not be performed
by al aged nan whose CHIEF recommendation vast that he had served forty years
in the ministry and was supGannuated. The belief was generally entertained
that a man in the vfgor OF life n experienced in such work would receivet the
appointment and be the State commissioner under the plan of tn Dependency
and Crimes Commission 1t is remarkable that the only practical recommended
ton that was evolved nut of all the great expense of the special commissaJ last
year should have com to gref at the very inception of the Legislative session
1t is tt b. tn same old two-and- sxpence.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-19
STACKS AT GLEN GARDNER.

When the recommendation ws made that the State use its South Jersey
pfne barrens for the erection Of shacks to accommodate tuberculosis cases THE
STAR pointed ut its inutnty and suggested that the land owned by the State
at Glen Gardner ws admirably suited for the purpose. If more ad there is
needed IT al be bought at cheap prices A bill in the Legislature embodies the
suggestion by THE STAR, and it calls or a n appropriation of $4,000 If the
state ia going II spenda n extra money this year it couldn't put it to better
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DAILY SHORT STORY.
Chauffeur.
A whirr.
A cur.
A blur.
The End.
OUT OF

Girl swallows 100 pins and will live.
This is an item for a pointed Para
graph column. Irregretably, we have
none such.
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INTERNATIONAL COURTSHIP.

Monsieur, may I come up tonight,
To see mam'selle and court herr"
"You kin come up tonight, my lord
But don't go near my daughter!"
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a dyspeptic is o ma who feels a
profound hatred for the people who are
enjoying themselves.
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NOTE.
VACATION TROUBLES.

It is not warm today.
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TWO BREAKS

D00F0F pfO"hs q ItB |SIIUIIlg Min
nurses.-News note.
And the rule of proprlety, too.
THE HAIRLESS HEIR.
weekly keadIne lesson No. sss.,
Oh! see the Alps!
That is not the Alps, nor Spruce
street. That Is a head.
A head of what?
It is ahead of his face.
Why does the head shine so7
For two easons:
(a) Because it has no hair.
fb) Because it belongs to a polished
gentleman.
Then the head is bald?
Decidedly. The hair has slipped to
his chin.
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CONCERNING CHARITY.
He got treated Wight, didn't he?
A RATHER.

Snake wraps itself round light wires
in Bronx zoo and is Observation-Disclosures
item.
Got ratified, evidently.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-07
Kalamazoo S f astest
Race Goes to The Eel
By III. T. WHITE
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

KALAMAZOO Mich. Aug. 6.-That
wonderful hoppled PAGER, The Eel.
showed today that he is on edge right
now by pacing the fastest race ever
decided over the Kalamazoo track, his
two heats being 1908. 2:o2%. Each
mile was a desperate battle all the
way, the Canadian horses opponent in
the opening round being Hedgewood
Boy. while in the second mile, after
being carried to the half mile pole by
the Illinois stallion, he was tackled by
Citation, Which brought him home the
best she knew how
1t was a race worth going miles to
see and lay between the trio named,
the other starter, Aileen Wilson, never
being in the hunt. The Eel, favorite in
the betting, went out in front as soon
as the word was given, with Hedge
wood Boy right after him. The first
quarter in :301z showed the mile was
to be fast one, and down the back
stretch the gray stallion had all he
could do to keep his nose in front of
the chestnut. The time of the first
half was :01, and they We're head and
head. There was no change around
the upper turn, and after the three
quarters had been passed in 1882 Will
son began a hard drive on Hedgewood
Boy. But he never got even an inch in
front of The Eel, and although the last
quarter was done in 81, making the
mile 2:03. the result was never in Sc
rious doubt Citation was a fair third
and Aileen Wilson far back.
In the second heat Hedgewood Boy
broke and The Eel got long lead. CT
tation, however, put up a good fight all
the way down the home stretch, but