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WILL Join IN FIGHT
Civil Service Employees Dis
cuss High Prices.
CASH DEALING Is FAVORED
Resolution Looking to Organization
Also Adopted.
DIR, SIMON DELIVERS ADDRESS
Urges Hearers to Arouse Interest in
Matter and Then Present Facts
by Effective Methods.
CASH DEALING Is FAVORED
DIR, SIMON DELIVERS ADDRESS

After specializing for more than two
hours as to the cause OF high prices and
the best means Of coping with them, 1OO
or more persons who had answered the
call for a meeting of civil service en-
ployes in the hall of the Public Library
last night adopted resolutions looking to
organization, cooperation and the pat
ronage Of cash stores. or those which
will give due recognition in the form of
reduced prices for the necessaries Of life.
The meeting was called to order by w.
D. Mckenzie of the War Department,
who stated its object and what 1t was
hoped to accomplish. He introduced as
the first speaker DR.. Abram Simon, who
gave practical talk along the lines map
ped out. DR.. Simon told his hearers that
three things seemed to him to be neces-
sary. The first was to arouse a general
interest. or esprit de corps, among them
selves; the second to ascertain what they
wanted and the third was to present the
facts by proper and effective methods.
Blames the Tariff.
Jackson H. Ralston, who followed. gave
an address in which he attributed higt
prices to the tariff, monopoly and taxes
The increase Of prices in the necessarie.
Of life to those who had fixed salaries, hi
argued, was "a serious matter. The price
OF labor, he said, went up, so to speak
by the stairway, while the price of living
took the more rapid route of the elevator
The tariff, he argued, raised the price o.
foodstuffs and compelled people to veal
poorer clothes. We have the tariff, HI
said, in order that we may all grow ricf
by taxing each other. The producer mus
not only pay the cost of production, bu
his industry and enterprise are taxed tt
the uttermOst, and the consumer has t.
pay it in the end. Rents. he said, rise
with the growth of the population an6
the increased price of land. We boast Of
our growing population and the increas
ing value of real estate, but both art
operating to the undoing of the man with
the fixed salary.
We punish the men whose industry
helps us to advance. Mr.. Ralston said
more than we do those who break the
moral law. When we tax houses we
lessen the tax that would otherwise rest
on monopoly, the greatest Of which is
land ownership. The only value land
should have. he said. is its value for use
Monopoly is the essence Of high prices
After referring to the monopoly Of the
streets by corporations who pay nothing
and which are permitted to charge the
people for the very property they have
monopolized. and taking a thrust at the
monopolization Of the coal rights in pub
lie lands. Mr.. Halston closed by advising
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WOULD MAKE PEARY ADMIRAL
Resolution acknowledgements
tive Moore Also Votes Thanks.

The promotion of Civil Engineer Rob-
ert E. Peary to the grade OF rear ad-
miral in the corps of civil engineers of
the navy and the presentation of a vote
of thanks to him by Congress is provided
for in joint resolution introduced in the
House today by Representative j. Hamp-
ton Moore of Pennsylvania.
The resolution also provides for a vote
of thanks to the men who accompanied
Peary on his recent expedition to the
arctic regions.
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Two Post Offices Robbed.

STEPHENS. Ga, February 16.-The
post Office here and the one at Maxey,
near here were robbed Monday night.
The safes in both Offices were blown open
with nitroglycerin. About 500 In cur
rency was secured by the yeggmen here.
and $50 in money and 500 in stamps at
Maxey. There 10 no clue to the identity
of the robbers.
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that taxes be abolished and revenue
raised solely on monopolies, especially the
greatest of all monopolies, land.
Due to Abundance Of Gold.

willet NJ. Hays. assistant secretary of
agriculture. did not quite agree with Mr..
Ralston.' He said the greater abundance
of gold and the consequent expansion OF
the circulating medium had quite as much
to do with high prices as anything else.
This is why fixed incomes have rela-
lively smaller purchasing power.
The farmer IS producing more today
than ever before. and SO is the manu-
facturer, and both swap with larger
volume of the circulating medium. The
school system, too, is more or less TO
blame. 1t has been teaching us. he said,
to want more-more products, larger
houses, better clothes and much more in
the way of personal service. We are not
content now to go to market or the store
for what we want. 1t must be sent home
to US That costs money. The gold OF
the country and the currency based on
and in the meantime the man with the
fixed salary will find prices going higher
all the time.
Mr.. Hays then took up the subject OF
cooperation, which had produced good
results in the creameries Of Minnesota,
the fruit industry of California and In
the raising of products in the counties
of Virginia east of Chesapeake bay. In
the northwest, he said, there are hum
dred cooperative stores run for the bene-
fit of farmers. We need to live more
simply, he said. Our incomes are shrink
ing. We must de something, and CO.
operation offers good promise. The vital
thing he said, in the cooperative store
is to have an outside auditing body. And
then, too, he said, we want cheaper car
fare for school children.
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LONDON MARKET.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, February 16.-There was a
cheerfulness In most of the departments
Of the stock exchange in the late deal
ings today. Gilt-edged issues were harder
and home rails and foreign securities
maintained their early strength. In the
foreign department. however, Greek
stocks were weak, owing to some anxiety
over the situation in Athens. Bullish
conditions prevailed in the mining issues
Copper stocks were heavy, owing to the
unfavorable fortnightly statistics. Amer
lean railway shares rose to their best
prices, but the dealings lacked briskness.
De Beers ended with q net gain of lie,
at 1916 The continental bourses were
steady.
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Favors Government Loans.

Charles NeSbit, who was expected to
speak, could not be present. Mr.. Mcken-
zie. chairman of the evening, took his
will drive people from the cities to the
country, he said. and the government
ought to assist them by a loan system
which would enable them to take up and
cultivate outlying lands. Mr.. Mckenzie
referred with some bitterness to Presi-
dent Roosevelts oredr forbiddfng gov
aries. 1t was not a practical remedy.
he said, for high prices. He referred TO
the work Of the Anti-Food-T League
and doubted its efficacy. You can't keep
in a fighting mood he said, ION an emp
ty stomach
Mr.. Mckenzie said the recent failure Of
the cooperative store in the District had
been due to faulty management, buying
en- credit and lack of patronage by those
who made its existence possible. The
real trouble, he said, was lack OF patron
age. He outlined a plan for the resumr-
ton OF the store. The credit system in
Washington stores, he said, was In a
measure responsible for high prices.
There are no two scales OF prices. The
cash purchaser must pay the same as
the credit purchaser, and In the end
must make up what the latter fails to
pay for Adopt a cash basis of purchase
and reductions for cash will induce those
to pay cash who have heretofore bought
on credit, said Mr.. Mckenzie. The jobber
who can pay cash has q big advantage
in buying, and he can give some of the
advantage to the consumer, who Will
pay cash In return. He was in favor OF
a cash-buyers' organization on CO.
operative plan, for q readjustment OF
salaries and a satisfactory retirement
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, February 16.-Closing-
Spot in fair demand prices unchanged
to points lower. American middling.
fair. s.54: good middling, s.o4: middling
sos; low middling. 79s; good ordinary,
~; ordinary, 7.4I. The sales of the day
We're 10000 bales, OF which 100 were for
speculation and export and included q. 200
American. No receipts. Futures opened
quiet and steady. and closed easy. Feb
ruary, Isl; February March. Cn5.
March-April. IT'S: April May. 1854:
May-June. 7.73t; June-JuIy, 76SIS. July.
August. s-6S1e; August-September,7 32l5.
September-October, 692k: October-No,
vember. 673is: November December. s65:
December-January, 6-63: January-Febru.
airy, 6.62; February-March, 6.62
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Resolutions Adopted.

After general discussion. resolutions in
PRODUCED by C. II. Greenhouse were adopt
ed. They set forth that it was the sense
Of the meeting that the civil service en-
ployes and their friends unite in an organ
ization on measures for their public well
fare. and favored cash dealings with
stores that would give fair recognition
to the united patronage.
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The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington; New York; London
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

There was some inquiry at today's meet
ing Of the stock exchange for the per
cent bonds of the gas company, and evil
IDENTIFY orders to fill at the bid price, but
no concessions were made by those oner-
ing them, so that no trading took place.
The preferred stock of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company was the
principal security. dealt in. The trading
case In recent days. The range of prices
paid for Quotation lots Of twenty-five
shares each was from S112 to SIA.
At the close the stock was offered at
S71a, with the bid half point less.
The announcement was made at the
meeting today of the election to member
ship IL Sidney L. Harrison.
A uniform system of quotations for the
street railway stocks listed on the ex-
change was put in force today through
the action of the governing committee.
Hereafter a quotation lot will be twenty
five shares instead of twenty, as In the
case of the Capital Traction Company s
stock and fifty in the case Of the WASH
ington Railway and Electric Company
preferred and common stock.
The stocks of the Mitchell Mining Com
pany and of the Fidelity Storage Com
pany were dropped from the list, while
the additional stock, amounting to $15,UOO.
issued by the Franklin Fire Insurance
Company, and the 100000 issued by the
Lincoln National Bank were placed on the
list.
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Bluejacket Dies of Smallpox.

SEATTLE, Wash. February 16-One of
the smallpox patients from the United
States cruiser Washington died early to-
day and was buried at Port Townsend.
The other four patients in the isolation
hospital are said to be i'm critical con-
dition. The cruiser will be fumigated and
detained the regulation period. All MEN,
bers of the crew have been vaccinated.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call. 12 O'Clock noon-Washing
ton Gas As, 81 600 at 100.
Capital Traction, at 1874.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd., 10 at S1ta
10 at S7h, 10 at S7h. % at S7%, at S7A,
% at s7A, at s7A, at SIN, Is at SIN, =
at S71a.
Mergenthaler Linotype, l at 215la.
Commercial National Bank, 10 at 1S1.
United States Trust, at ZIG. 10 at 118, IL
at 116. ,
Union Trust, 10 at 1872, 10 at 1872
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]. r. Gill died at his home, near Gar
risonville. in Stafford county. Va. after
an illness of four days Of inflammatory
rheumatism, which affected his heart
Mr.. Gill was sixty-five years old. and is
survived by widow and six children
He was a Confederate veteran and a
prominent citizen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-16

LONDON. February 16.-Jehn Macallan
Swan, r.. A., died here yesterday.
4 John Macallan Swan was born in 1s45
and studied painting at the Worcester
School of Art and in Paris under Ge-
rome. Bastien-Lepage and Dagnan-Bou-
veret, and sculpture under Fiemiet. He
was a noted animal painter and won
many medals for his works.
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Reduces Duty on Wheat.

LAREDO. Tex, February 16.-Because
of shortage of wheat in Mexico the
rate Of duty has been reduced by the
Mexican government from 3 cents to !
cent kilometer.
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Fluctuations Generally Narrow.

Although Reading was not the whole
of the days market, it was almost so. In
asmuch as the rest of the days business
was largely given over to similar spe-
cialty movements, but on a very much
smaller scale, the standard issues being
characterized by relative inactivity and
narrow fluctuations.
Consolidated Gas, which sold ex-divi-
dend, promptly proceeded to disappoint
expectations by rising vigorously; Brook
lyn Union Gas at the same time scoring
an abrupt gain of half dozen points on
a very limited amount of buying. Sub
stantia1 increases were made by People,
Gas, Virginia Carolina Chemical, Amer
lean Cotton Oil and American Car and
Foundry, among industrials. while among
the strongest of the railroad stocks were
Colorado Southern, Missouri, Kansas and
Texas. Missouri Pacific and Texas Pa
cffic-
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, February 18.-Closing
Wheat-Spot. dull; No. 2. red western.
winter. no stock; futures. quiet; March,
IS 2Ad: May, IS Nd: July. Is lid.
Corn-Spot, new American mixed. quiet
IS ED; old American mixed. steady. bs
SID; futures, quiet; March, 5s esd.
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FOREIGN BANKS.

LONDON. February 16 - Bullion
amounting to G47.OOO was taken into the
Bank of England on balance today.
PARIS, February 16.-Closing: Three
per cent rentes, % francs, 95 centimes for
the account.
Exchange on London, % francs Is CEN
times for checks.
BERLIN. February 16-Exchange on
London, 20 marks 46 pfennigs for checks.
Money, 2 per cent.
Private rate OF discount, 3 per cent
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NEW YORK CURB PRICES.

Quotations furnished by f. +. Hutton. & Co.,
members New York Stock Exchange: Edw. Floy
Cayerly, manager 1901 + street northwest
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READINGS BIG GAIN
Remarkable Advances in Mar
ket Generally Inactive.
SHORT INTEREST IN HOLE
Rise Evidently at the Expense Of
Reckless Bears.
MARKET AS A RULE NARROW
Several Industrials and a Few Rail-
roads, However, Show Sub
stantial Increases.
SHORT INTEREST IN HOLE
MARKET AS A RULE NARROW
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, February ia few
stocks monopolized todays market. Chief
among these was Reading, which piled
a remarkable advance on top of the
strong recovery which it had been maxi
ing from the depressed quotations
reached at the bottom of the decline last
week. The borrowing demand for the
stock lately has indicated the existence
of an unweildly short interest. and the
assumption is that the further rise today
was accomplished at the expense of
these reckless bears.
No doubt, also. Reading has been sold
for liquidating account. and the anxiety
of the sellers to recover their stock was
intensified by its vigorous upward move
ment. AS far as superficial indications
went. its course today owed its initiative
to the operations of some of the more
daring room traders, who had, as the
whole stock market community has had.
every reason to believe that If oversell-
ing had characterized the market in any
particular issue 1T was in this.
The move in Reading was again &C.
complained by a further advance in
Reading second preferred, a circum-
stance which might possibly indicate that
the course of the common stock deserves
4 more important explanation than tech
nical conditions alone would furnish.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, February 16.-Flour firm.
with a moderate demand; receipts. 25.54O
barrels. Rye dull; No. western. Ssa
I. o. b. New York, nominal. Wheat-Good
commission house buying on southwest
damage reports. smaller northwest re-
ceipts, covering of shorts and light offer
ings resulted In an advance OF nearly
cent in wheat this morning. May, 1.aAa
LII; July. 111asa1.114s receipts, 4SU
bushels. Corn-Receipts. $3.50 barrels
Beef firm. Pork firm; short clears. 24.toa
27.OO.
Lard-Easy: middle west, Il S5a12.95.
Raw sugar-Firm; Muscovado, 50 test.
3G4; centrifugal, 96 test, 4.14: molasses
sugar, 50 test. $50. Refined quiet;
crushed, 5.85; granulated, SIS; powdered,
5.25.
Petroleum-Steady: refined barrels, 1.9O.
Coffee-Spot steady; No. Z RIO 81; No.
Santos. 91sa9A
Enthusiastically; New Orleans open
kettle, 32a42
Butter-Firm on top grades: receipts.
ais firkins. Creamery specials, 80: ex-
tras, .; third to f1rsts. 25a28; state dairy.
common to finest. 23a2S; process. first to
special, 2412a261s: western factory. 21ha25
western imitation creamery. 24a25.
Cheese-Firm, unchanged; receipts, 572
boxes.
Eggs-steady. unchanged; receipts. r.
435 cases.
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r silver steady. % 15-18d per ounce.

Money. 1a1A per cent.
The rate Of discount In the open market FOL
short bills is 2 3-16 per cent.
The rate OF discount in the open market fol-
three-month bills Is 3-l6 per cent.
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CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, February 16.-Prices in the
wheat pit rallied sharply in the early
trading after a rather weak opening. May
travelled up from Lips to 1.13N, and
rested at nearly the high point in the
first hour. Bearish conditions abroad
were ignored and scanty offerings, coupled
with a recurrence Of the crop damage re-
ports prevalent Of late, helped along the
bullish sentiment. The advance In the
futures was from Nc to NC. Opening fig
ures for May were 1.123s to 1.12esa1. 12A,
Aahc lower to hc higher.
Corn at the outset showed symptoms OF
strength, opening from q shade lower to
NC higher, and adding from Nc to nc to
the initial prices in the first hour, steady
ing on the higher levels. Buying orders
were frequent in the pit, and counterbal-
anced the bearish effect OF large arrivals
and rapidly accommodating stocks. Open
ing figures for May were 61hc to 67ssa
67%c, a shade lower to Nc higher.
A good demand in the oats pit changed
a weak start to a Arm market In the
first hour, May going forward from 479s
to 40, the other futures making similar
progress. Opening figures for May were
479s. a shade lower than the finish yes
terday.
Fairly good commission buying, sup
ported by the present high prices for
live hogs, made itself felt in the provision
Dit, although the start was weaker than
I has been of late. Pork opened 2h
over TO 21s higher. lard about the same
and ribs unchanged to 21a higher, and in
he first hour prices gained generally DC.
Opening figures for the May pro lucts
were: Pork. 23.32h; lard, ,12.52h, and
ribs - liz to 1920,
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Treasury Statement.

The condition Of the Treasury at the beginning
Of business today was as follows:
TRUST FUNDS
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BALTIMORE.
niAaL - Ehn CfaR

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, February 16.-Wheat-
Dull: spot contract. 1859; spot No: red
western, 1.27: May. 1.2Oss; steamer NO.
. red, 1.19A; receipts. 2413 bushels.
Southern on grade, 1.19Aa1.26
Corn-Firm: spot contract. 6SAa6SB;
February, 6SAa6Sh; March. 693s60sb; May
721sa724s: steamer mixed, 61A; receipts,
l37, 1881 bushels.
Oats-Steady: No. white. 531za5t: No.
white. 521sa5311k; No. 2 mixed. 52a52Asi
receipts, 9,757 bushels.
Rye-Quiet; No. western domestic,
S5a9O; receipts, 724 bushels.
Hay-Steady. unchanged.
Grain freights-Steady, unchanged.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-23
Children Cry
 FOR FlETCHER'S c A s TT Q RIA
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE

Lake Superior drains S5O0o square miles of land. The cultivated hyacinth is a. native l of Persia and Asia Minor. | A single cocoon frequently will y1eIo 1 more than two miles of silk. l Seven eigths of the beef consumed in Great Britain is home produced. 1 Cameras especially devised for talk novelty.
 The work of compiling a magnetic survey of Africa has been practically 1 Every day the railroads of New York move S5 per cent. of the population of i the city
 Wireless telegraph apparatus is used l in Spain to detect the approach of i thunder storms.
 The worlds production of corn has reached the enormous figure of 9o,o0O'- l 900 tons a year.
 Moving picture shows at present form the most sought for amusement by all classes in Siam. 1 Only about one of every thousand married couples lives to celebrate the 1 golden wedding anniversary.
 News paper is made by machinery at i the rate of from 150 to 400 feet a min ute according to width and quality.
 The first American flag ever made in the United States of An1erican-na made bunting recently was sold at auction in London. Oklahoma has the greatest Indian population of any of the States. The last time they were counted there were III. .370 of them.
 The busiest hour in the day in the telephone service is between 10 and Il a. m and the busiest day in the year is the one before Christmas. Certain pupils in the Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind are be- ing taught ma ssage to enable them to earn livelihoods.
 An alternating current of electricity rI1nges back and forth through the ffIament of an tncandescent lamp 120 times a second.
 The water supply of the city of Bel grade is so radioactive that scientists are Investigating the source in a. hunt for radiurn.
 Berlin used snow blow, noun nted on a six-ton 2-horse-power automobile truck, to dig through its drifted streets the past winter.
 production of gold last year places the figures at more than $457. .560, 900. the greatest ever known.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-23
ECZEMA CURED pIexion Cleared Overnight

New York.-Thousands are taking advantage of the gener- ouS offer made by The Wood worth Co.,, 1161 Broadway, New York City, requesting an exper- mental package of Lemola, the new skin discovery. which is mailed free of charge to all who write for it. It alone is suff1- c1ont to clear the complexion over night and rid the face of pimples in a few hours.
 Those who have tried LEM OLA will find that the soc box on sale in Bridgeport at all drug stores is sufficient to cure the worst form of Ec- zema where the parts affected are not too large. On the first application of Lemola the itch- ing will stop. It has cured thou sands afflicted With Eczema. Teeters, Rashes, Iechings. Irri- tations. Acme, ScaGngS and Crusting of skin. scalps of in- fants. children and adults It is good for the preservation and puri1cation of the skin, scalp. ton of the clogging of the pores the usual cause of pirnples, blackheads, redness and rough ness and also the treatment of burns. scalds. wounds. sores. chappings as well as the toilette and nursery.
 It contains no grease and be- ing fesh-colored the presence of Lemo1a on the face or hands is not perceptfble.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-23
SOUND JUDGMENT.

Next to sound judgment diamonds and pearls are the rarest things to be met with.
 Sound judgment is displayed by those aboHt to purchase such nice things as diamonds and pearls by seeking the best which in the end is the cheapest As seventy-ive per cent. and over are imperfect, you owe 1t to yourselves to call upon The Davis & Hawley Go. who offer the opportunity to see and obtain the hest.