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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
DISCOUNT RATE REDUCED.
Bank Of England Governors MAKE
fne.Half Per Cent Cut.

LONDON, February 1O.-The directors
Of the Bank of England at their weekly
meeting today reduced the minimum rate
of discount from So to per cent.
This action was taken in view OF the
rapid fall In open market discount rates
since the beginning of the week, and the
plentiful supply of money, great deal
Of which is unplaceable.
The weekly statement of the Bank of
England shows the following changes:
Total reserve increased A2I,OO0.
Circu alton decreased fS5o,OOO
Bullion decreased ts4, 400.
Other securities decreased 91.OO5,0Oo.
Other deposits Increased t1,01u,Oo0.
Public deposits decreased t2. A,U0O
Notes reserve increased 4e2,OOU
Government securities increased f3,OOO.
The proportion of the banks reserve to
liability this week is 51.7O per cent. Last
week it was 30 46 per cent.
Bullion amounting to fb1 600 was taken
into the Bank Of England on balance to-
day.
BERLIN, February 1O-The rate of dis
count of the Imperial Bank OF der.na..y
was reduced from AZ to 4 per cent today.
Exchange on London, 20 marks Us
pfenn gs for checks.
Money, per cent.
Private discount rate. az per cent.
PARIS, February 10. - Closing: Three
per cent rentes, 90 francs 95 centimes 70
the account: exchange on London. %
francs Is confines for checks.
The weekly s-a.ement OF the Bank of
France shows the following Changes:
Notes in circulation decreased 10000
600 francs.
Treasury deposits increased 2.55OOOO
francs.
General deposits decreased 2ss75, 600
francs.
Gold in hand increased 4,S75.0O0 francs.
Silver in hand decreased 2,35O, 600
francs.
b lis discounted decreased go $50 900
francs.
Advances increased 100000 francs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
STOCK LISTS HEAVY
Market Not Up|ifted by Lower
Rates for Money.
BAD NEWS FROM RAILROADS
Reported Cancellation of Orders Has
Depressing Effect.
DIVIDENDS A BRIGHT SPOT
Though Discounted on Street, Their
Declaration Reassuring Feature.
Selling Lowers Prices.
BAD NEWS FROM RAILROADS
DIVIDENDS A BRIGHT SPOT


Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February N.-Easily the
leading financial event OF the day was
the simultaneous reduction of official dis
count rates in London to s per cent and
III Berlin to per cen. There is nothing
abnormal in these quotations. On the
contrary, they signify the return of the
money market to conditions more or less
normal at this season of the year, after
4 rather abnormal period
The effect CT the reduction ON foreign
security markets was immedi ately favor
able, but it must be said that it was not
reflected here. In fact, the Wall street
stock market at the M nent does not re-
fleet money conditions or pre- spects at all.
The collective Wall rect mind is en-
gagged with endeavoring to determine the
bearing OF other matters upon the posi-
ton and prospects of Sc ur4 ties. Later III
the year, perhaps, the ease of money ma,
turn out to be Or to have been more of a
factor in stock market movements than
now appears. but at the moment the
money market, in SO far as il engage
rnunity at all, is thought to show the
signs of a general industrial and bust
ness Iet-up.
That this lull or reaction is a conse-
quence of the violent Sto k market decline
can hardly he doubted. despite the wes--
ern outgiving to the effect hat the coun-
try as whole is going ahead regardless
OF Wall stree developments.
For that matter, If the testimony of
competent observers is needed the west
itself is not wholly irresponsible to east
ern events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
Causes of tuberculosis.
From the Medical Record.
CO %nl

From the MeuIcdI ReCOtu
Walter Sands Mills takes up the ques-
ton Of tuberculosis as disease that does
not attack healthy lungs in persons not
predisposed, and is often recovered FROM
as is shown by autopsies. The causes
that predispose to 1t aside from heredity
are whatever reduces the vital force and
resistance. The greatest ravages Of the
disease occur In the prime Of life. when
all the energies are In use for the strug-
gle for existence. Domestic service pre-
dispoSeS women more than any other
cause: inhalation Of mineral and metallic
dust, breathing devitalized air. other lung
diseases, traumatism to the lungs, bad
habits of living and unhygienic work.
shops all predispose to It. Prevention
of the disease consists in keeping up
the vitality of children and protecting
them against infection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
LONDON MARKET.
Special cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. February 10.-American rail-
way shares at the close showed some re-
action in sympathy with the New York
recessions. The continental bourses left
OFF firm. Consols evidenced a hating dis
position and domestic issues We're easier.
Foreign securities had a cheekered APP
pearance. and rubber issues were shaded
from the best figures. An increase of
316 in the number of natives woI king
in the Rand mines in January strength
ened kaffirs. Grand Trunks also made
good showing in advance of the divi-
%end declaration. Rio Tintos at n were
!. lower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, February 1O.-CFoslns
SPOT good business done: prices 10 points
higher: American middling fair. $50
cod naiddling, s.32; middling. s14; 10"
niddlinx. s.O4: good ordinary. 7.7S; ordi'
nary 7.53. The sales of the day were
600 bales, of which 1000 were fol
suecula.ion and export, and included H.
90 American.
Receipts, 10000 bales, including ESQ
American. Futures opened firm and
closed quiet. February, 1913: E,ebruary
March. 7.g2; March-April. 1.92; April
Nav 7aO: May-June 7.sS: June-Juiy
Isl; July-August. 10: August-Septem-
her. !. 461a; September October. 7@: DC
tober November. 6.s2; November Deem
Der. 6.72; Overwhelmingly, 61o; Janu'
airy February. $50; February March
669.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, February 10.-Flour steady,
with a moderate inquiry. Receipts, 21,s52
barrels
Rye dull. No. . western, S9i4 nominal
t. o. b. New York.
Wheat-Better Liverpool cables than
expected: lighter foreign offerings, smaller
northwest receipts, covering of shorts and
commission house buying resulted In an
advance of z this morning. May, 1.1sAa
1.1sA; July, 1.oossa1.U9@s. Receipts, 49,
200 bushels.
Corn-Receipts, $3.50 bushels.
Beef-F'irm.
Pork-Firm.
Lard-Steady; middle west, 12.55a1 90.
Raw sugar quiet: muscovado $50 test),
3.61 centrifugal (96 test, All: molasses
sugar go test, 1856; refined. steady;
crushed, 5.S5; granulated, 5.15: powdered,
5.25.
Petroleum-Steady: refined, barrel, 100.
Coffee-Spot steady: No. I Rio, s 11-16a
Sa; No. Santos, 9a9is.
Enthusiastically; New Orleans, open
kettle, 32a42.
Butter-Steadier; receipts. 1926 pack
ages. State dairy, common to finest.
24a27; process, first to special, 25a2612
western. factory, 22a231a; western. iml
tation creamery, 24a2512
Cheese-Firm, unchanged: receipts 1906
packages.
Egg-Steady, unchanged; receipts.
9691 boxes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call, II o'clock noon-Wash
ton Rwy. and Elec As 5000 at 81.
Potomac Electric Cons. 5r. 1000 at 10l1.
1873
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd.. 10 at s7A.
Mergenthaler Linotype. at 2l5, at Els.
10 at 215, at 215
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank, 10
at 155.
Graphophone pfd.. 10 at so.
After call-Graphopaone pfd., 10 at 50. 10
n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, February 1O.-Wheat prac-
tically recovered its loss of yesterday in
the opening trades today and quickly
added from nc to sc to the initial gain.
Light offerings and scattered buying
from commission houses and shorts gave
impetus to the advance. May travelled
from 1.10A to 1.1u7sa1.11 in the first
hour, steadying with the other futures
at close to the high levels. Opening
figures were from shade to zee higher,
with May at 1.1O14 to LOS.
Covering by shorts gave an upward
trend to the early trading In the corn
pit, opening figures being unchanged to
Nc higher The strength of the wheat
pit was felt In corn and helped alone
an advance in the first hour of from
u to sc. Prices steadied on the upper
register May moving up from 65a to
66es a661a. Opening figures for May were
i5Ma68, unchanged from the previous
cioSe.
Oats also showed firmness induced by
the strength of the other grains, and
opened from a shade to Nc higher. In
the first hour prices held within narrow
limits. May advancing from 46S to 465s,
steadying at the top. Opening figures for
May were 46ss to 461s
Provisions, after an easy start, with
most of the futures declining from 21a to
supplemented by the grain strength, and
advanced from ) to 12lac, May pork going
up from 22.42h to % 30. In the first
hour prices steadied at the advanced fig
ures. Opening prices for the May prod
ucts were: Pork, % 42h, unchanged;
lard, 1920, sc lower and ribs, 11.S5 to
l1.S21s, 21 to &c lower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
Decrease in Copper Stocks.

NEW YORK, February 10.-A decrease
of 43.3O2.772 pounds in copper stocks on
hand February l, as compared with Jan
uary l. Is shown by the monthly report of
the Copper Producers Association made
public here today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
BALTIMORE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Wheat-Firmer; spot contract, 1241a
IL ~; spot No. . red western, 1.25; May,
1.1S7s; steamer No. red, 1.17s.: receipts,
5,797 bushels; southern on grade, LIN
ALLY.
Corn-Firmer; spot contract, 6SAa6SA;
February. 6S4a6Sss: March. 69lsae3n
May, 71Ba72; steamer mixed, 66h a66ss
receipts, S9,175 bushels; exports, FOG, IA
bushels.
Oats-Steady; No. white 531aa54: No
2 white. 521aa53; No. 2 mixed, 52a52h1a
receipts, 6.O61 bushels.
Rye-Firm; No. western, domestic
s5a9O; receipts, LIT bushels
Hay-Firm, unchanged.
Grain freights firm, unchanged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
Treasury Statement.

Tue condition OF the TreasIfy AT the beginning
Of business today was follows:
TRUST FUNDS.
Gold coin ................... 1854 OF, seo
Silver dollars. Observation-Disclosures. 4S4619 o o
Silver dollars Of 1890. ............. 3,S74OcO
Silver certificates outstanding 4S4 Gle 600
GENERAL FUND.
Standard silver dollars in general fund. $500 S3s
Current liabilities. Observation-Disclosures. 1903 14O 434
Working balance in Treasury Offices 2l,3392 PA
the Q. ................. 3s,o52s
Subsidiary silver coin. .....-..... % 4O7 At.
Minor coin. Observation-Disclosures. 1,137,64l
Total balance in general fund Sl,l49,O45
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. February 1O.-Closing
Wheat-Spot dull; No. red western
winter, no stock. Futures firm; March.
IS 1tsd; May, Is 11ssd; July, Is lloyd.
Corn-Spot steady; new American mixed
IS 6lad: old American mixed, IS sgd.
FUTURES quiet; March, IS gid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
Nothing New.

From the Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Congratulations! hear one Of your
daughters Is engaged. Which one Is it?''
Get QUIT It's only Bessie again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
Regular Dividends Declared.

During the day the regular dividends
on the stocks of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroad were declared
and while nobody expected increases at
this time, the actual declaration served as
a reminder of the very solvent condition
in which the leading railroad systems of
the country find themselves today. II
the year 1910 is not characterized by any
such dividend expansion as made 1909 not
able, there is at least no reason to eX-
pect that during the balance of the year
any material reductions VII be made.
The stock market pursued rather
classical course, following such vigor-
Gus rally as took place yesterday. 1t was
strong in the early dealings at substan-
tial fractional advances, which were sub
seuuently increased until around the
middle OF the day, when. temporarily at
least the weight of trade $ profit-taking
sales plus the supply of stocks which had
been taken earlier in the week for sup
porting purposes. together with the per-
siStent bearish sales of part Of the pro-
feSsional element, proved too much for
the Market buying power. Prices all
around fell point or more from the
high figures which had been reached, and
the list developed IN extensive irregu-
Iarity The dealings. however, were not
IN large volume and the market as a
whole was a difficult one from which to
make deductions.
Money conditions showed no material
change. except in the increase of the
cash loss by the banks TO the Subtreas-
uYv TO 81, $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington; New York; London.
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

Mergenthaler was not as plentiful at
the meeting of the Stock Exchange to-
day as has been the case for the past
day or so. The transactions made were
on a higher level and at the close the bid
was o15
A slight advance was made in the bid
for gas stock. while the bid for the Wash
ington Railway preferred advanced to
S7as One of the 4 per cent railway
bonds sold for 81.
Some trading was done in Graphophone
preferred stock at 30, which is over
level than has been current recently for
this stock. Yesterday the bid for the
stock was 3Oh, while today at the close
the bid was 2y1s and the asking price 90
j. William Henry of Lewis Johnson &
Co., who has been connected with that
house for the past twenty-five years. was
today elected a member of the board OF
directors Of the American National Bank
At meeting yesterday Of the board Of
directors of the Washington Loan and
Trust Company 1t was voted to place
$4,000 to the surplus, making that fund
$o5O,OUO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10

Bar silver quiet. q ll-l0d per ounce.
Money. Mah per cent.
The rate OF discount In the open market fol
short bills is ~ per cent.
The rate OF discount In the open market 70,
three month bills is ~ per cent.
sEy-diy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
Orders Are Cancelled.

The president of the Chicago Mil
waukee and St. Paul railway was quoted
today as saying that cancellation of
orders had begun TO be feature of the
western business situation. The Chicago
advices of the day included intelligence
of similar purport. especially in relation
to the sudden check which had appeared
i'll railroad expenditures not only for i'm
provement, but for maintenance. AT such
a time the vote of the railroad switch
men in Chicago to strike for increased
wages seems rather untimely.
On the other hand, there is large val
ume of current general business, as is
clearly shown by the loaded car move
ment on the New YORK Central system
during the first six days of this month.
The movement on all the Central lines
in this period was the largest for any six
showed an increase of $1,000 loaded cars
over the corresponding period in 1907,
wher the previous record was made
The report of the Copper Producers AS
ISOLATION for January, WI Oh was puD-
ii he'd today. was as further testimo y
TO very recent industrial activity. Febru-
airy l total copper stocks in the country
showed a decrease of more than 43,OO.-
90 pounds from the stocks reported jan
uary 1, production decreasing more than
], $4,000 pounds and domestic deliveries
increasing more than S,630,O00 pounds.
The bulk of the depict on of stocks was
attributable, however, to an increase of
22OT5 100 pounds in exports VIII N may
he regarded as q mere shifting or sup
plies. 1t should also be remembered that
it is characteristic of the copper metal
industry to show its greatest act1vit es
some time after the maximum has been
ma Sal in other lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-10
new YORK CURB PRICES.

Quotations furnished by E. +. Hutton Co.,
members New York Stock Exchange; Edw. Floy
CaverIy. manager. 1901 street northwest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-22

lions are entertained of the eventual
finding of important tin-producing de-
posits somewhere in the neighbor-
hood
Although the Broken Hill Proprie-
tary is the greatest of the Barrier
mines, with an output larger than all
the others combined, still the Broken
Hill Central, producing 100000
ounces of silver annually and great
quantities of lead and zinc, is some
thing of a mine, too; and numerous
others justify their existence by pay
ing dividends with unfailing regular
ity. But when Broken Hill is spoken
of, ones thoughts naturally revert to
the Broken Hill Proprietary, which for
years has held its place as the great
est silver producer in the world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-22
The Kind Caddie,

''Once in game,'' said the golfer,
81 had the good fortune to be six
holes up on my opponent by the time
the eighth hole was reached. At the
eighth green something went wrong
with our reckoning of the strokes and
l claimed that 1 had won that hole,
too, while my opponent claimed that
it was halved. After mild dispute I
yielded.
But as l moved on with my caddie
/ couldn't help grumbling:
well, you know, Joseph. 1 gave
in; butt still think I won that hole
after ALL
1.-THE boy. with a frown, turned
shocked and reproving eyes on me.
Disguised with my greed for holes, he
whispered hurriedly, SO that my op-
ponent should not oyerhear:
"'Shut up, can't you? Do We want
to break the mans heart? p"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-22
A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See that Coffee was
Doing the Mischief.

A lady tells of a bad case of coffee
poisoning and tells it in way so SIM
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve it.
81 had neuralgia headaches for IL
agony. When 1 first began to have
them 1 weighed 40 pounds, but they
brought me down to 10. went
to many doctors and they gave me
only temporary relief. So / suffered
on, till one day a woman doctor told
me to use Postum. She said looked
like was coffee poisoned.
$50 1 began to drink Postum and
gained Is pounds in the first few
weeks and continued to gain, but not
SO fast as at first. My headaches be-
gan to leave me after 1 had used
Postum about two weeks - long
enough to get the coffee poison out of
my system.
Since l began to use Postum I can
gladly say that 1 never know what
neuralgia headache is like any more,
and it was nothing but Postum that
made me we'll Before used Postum
1 never went out alone; 1 would get
bewi1dered and would not know which,
way to turn. Now I go alone and my
head is as clear as bell. Ny brain
and nerves are stronger than they
have been for years.
Read the little book, @The Road to
Wellyille, in pkgs. There's Reason
Ever read the above letter. = new
are genuine, true, and full of humnn
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-22
4 BURNING ERUPTION FROM
HEAD TO FEET

Four years ago I suffered severely
with a terrible eczema, being mass
of sores from head to feet and for six
weeks confined to my bed. During
that time l suffered continual tor
ture from itching and burning. After
being given up by my doctor was ad-
ylsed to try Cuticura Remedies. After
the first bath with Cuticura Soap and
application of Cuticura Ointment en-
Joyed the first good sleep during my
entire illness. 1 also used Cuticura
Resolvent and the treatment was con-
hnued for about three weeks. At the
end of that time l was able to be
about the house, entirely cured, and
have felt no i'll effects since. / would
advise any person suffering from any
form of skin trouble to try the Cuti-
cura Remedies as 1 know what they
did for me. Mrs. Edward Nenning,
1112 Salina ST., WATERFOWL, N. Y,
Apr IL 1909"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-22
IDEA ALWAYS TO SAVE TIME
American Business Man Moves Rap
idly Because He Has His Work
Systematized.

The high stimulation of will power
in America has had the effect of quick
ening the general pace of life to a rate
that always astonishes and some
times annoys the European visitor.
The movement of things and people is
rapid, incessant, bewildering. There
is a EIshing tide in the streets, -ner-
vous tension in the air. Business is
transacted with swift dispatch and
close attention. The preliminary COM
pliments and courtesies are elm
mated Whether you want to buy a
paper of pins or thousand shares of
stocks, it is done quickly.
The American moves rapidly, but
if you should infer from this that he
is always in hurry you would make
mistake. His fundamental philoso-
ply is that you must be quick some
times if you do not wish to be hur-
ried always. You must condense, you
must eliminate, you must save time on
the little things in order that you may
have more time for the larger things.
He systematizes his correspondence,
his Office work, all the details of his
business, not for the sake of system.
but for the sake of getting through
with his work.
In his Office hangs printed motto:
This is my busy day" He does not
arrive at the railway station Is min
utes before the departure of his train.
because he has something else that
he would rather do with those Is
minutes. He does not like to spend
an hour in the barber shop, because
he wishes to get out to his country
club in good time for game of golf
and a shower bath afterward. He
likes to have full life, in which one
| thing connects with another promptly
and neatly, without unnecessary inter
walls His characteristic attitude is
not that of a man in hurry, but that
of a man concentrated on the thing In
hand to save time.-Dr. Henry Van
Dyke, in American Magazine
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-22
HONOR ROW
Mccormick Families in Dispute
Concerning Inventor.
Cyrus n. Mccormick. Not the orisi-
nator of Great Farm Machine, Says
Woman in Jefferson Says
He Was

Chfcago--The unwilling of the por-
trait of Cyrus H. Mccormick in the
Farmers Hall of Fame in Memorial
hall of the College of Agriculture of
the University of Illinois at Urbana
aroused controversy as to whether the
late inventor or his father, Robert Nc
Gormick, is entitled to the honor of
having invented the reaper.
Seemingly the controversy is being
waged among different branches of the
Mccormick family itself.
That the distinction ascribed by his
tory to Cyrus H. Mccormick was dis
puted, apparently within the family,
came to the surface when a letter
dated at New York and signed "Kath-
crime Mccormick was printed on the
editorial page of Chicago newspaper
published by one of the McCormicks.
1t asserted Robert Mccormick invent
ed the reaper.
The claim of Cyrus H Mccormick is
stanchly defended by his direct de-
scendants in Chicago. At his resi-
dence, SO East Huron street, Cyrus H.
Mccormick, son of the inventor of
that name, and president of the Inter
national Harvester Company, secuted
the suggestion contained in the letter
of katherine Mccormick
THE claim that Cyrus Mccormick
did not invent the reaper is too absurd
to discuss said Mr.. Mccormick. My
father did invent the reaper, but it
seems quite unnecessary for me to
make such a statement, for it is an his
torical fact Robert Mccormick, his
father, tried to invent reaper, but
failed. He made few experiments,
but they did not result in the produc-
ton of a practical machine. 1t was
Cyrus Mccormick who worked out the
idea
Mr.. Mccormick said he had read the